War talk and politics mix in a broad commentary
A columnist vents on wartime ethics and leadership, criticizing public explanations of military actions while praising veterans and questioning social security and free enterprise. He expresses skepticism about politicians guiding doctors and notes wage and income shifts during 1943. The piece laments mothers and wives talking about servicemen and mocks fashion trends for men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Wagner
Len’ Wagner
Justi
Clear Chaplin of Paternity Count Blood Tests Nullify
United States Attorney said three doctors ruled Chaplin could not be the father of Joan Barry's baby. The decision ends Barry's paternity suit and halts weekly payments, but federal Mann Act and civil rights conspiracy indictments remain. Chaplin and co-defendants face arraignment. judge to decide on trial viability.
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Hollywood
United States
Charles Carr
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
Miss Barry
John Irwin
Beverly Hills
Chaplin
L. Andrews
Roy Hammick
Newton Evans
Russell Starr
Lloyd Wright
Irwin
J. F. T. O’connor
Abbey Gone Yanks Shell Foes on Hill
Allied bombardment of Monastery hill opens breaches in Cassino fortress as US artillery targets the abbey after aerial destruction. German forces retain Carroceto while fierce house to house fighting continues in Cassino and surrounding streets near the beach-head. Substantial air and naval strikes pound German positions as Rome suburbs face rail yard raids.
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Algiers
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Carroccio
Anzio
United States
Monte Cassino Abbey
Key Hill
Cisterna
Carroceto
Aprilia
Campoleone
Rome
Trastevere
Tiburtina
Paris
Castel Gandolfo
Eighth Army
Policeman Grilled In Hotel Slaying
CHICAGO police held Adolph Valanis for further questioning in the Drake hotel suite slaying of Adele Born Williams on January 19. Valanis, brother of a Drake clerk and former suspect, underwent two lie detector tests with some answers deemed unsatisfactory by John L. Sullivan, chief of detectives.
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Chicago
Adolph Valanis
Adele Born Williams
Drake
Valanis
Ellen Bennett
John L. Sullivan
Notable Index Entries and Column Observations
A compact column list highlights Names and pages across features. Includes Raymond Clapper Marquis Childs AP Courthouse Deaths and sports notes with Drew Pearson Marion and Sumner Welles, indicating a broad index of sections and key contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Clapper
Marquis Childs
David Lawrence
Another Inch of Snow Forecast Warmer Tonight
Cedar Rapids reports an additional snowfall with a forecast warmer pattern within 24 hours from Des Moines. Light flurries are expected in parts of Iowa while Cedar Rapids records 31 degrees and 60 percent humidity at 2 30 p m. Shippers are advised of nightly lows around 20 to 28 degrees depending on area. The statewide 124 hour temperature span ranged from 2 to 26 degrees with Cedar Rapids at 16 this morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Chambers
Spencer
Davenport
Hiccup Victim Appeals to Roosevelt for Medical Leave
A 21 year old New Yorker Anna Mayer appeals to President Roosevelt to grant a military leave of absence to Captain Lester Samuels of the Army Medical Corps so he can perform a delicate operation to end her 43 day hiccup siege. Her weight has fallen from 115 to 81 pounds. The physician previously saved her life during a 42 day hiccup siege two years ago at Van Wyck hospital Jamaica New York.
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New York
Roosevelt
Anna Mayer
Lester Samuels
Army Medical Corps
Fort Leonard Wood
van Wyck Hospital
Jamaica
N.Y
Stilwell warns troops on poisoned liquor smuggling
Lt Gen Joseph W Stilwell's China headquarters cautioned American forces Tuesday about poisoned liquor allegedly smuggled by Japanese agents into China. The warning stressed vigilance against tainted alcohol and urged soldiers to report any suspicious cases promptly.
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Kunming
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Beach head Allies Winning Second Round at Anzio
Gen Sir Harold Alexander declares Allied forces winning the second round of the Anzio beach-head battle after a tour of the front. He says first round a successful surprise landing, warns Germans have lost the battle though not swiftly, and forecasts a third round to build forces for a strong push. Morale and confidence rise as German pressure fades.
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Anzio
Italy
Harold Alexander
Beach-Head
Alexander
Kesselring
Albert Kesselring
Rome
Dunkerque
Salerno
Alamein
Linn County Drive Tops Ten Million
Late investments push Linn County over its $8.5 million goal in the national war loan drive. Cedar Rapids sales reached $1,127,181 with $93,466 in Series E bonds, raising the unofficial county total for the campaign that began Jan 18 to $10,052,704.
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Linn County
George Hearn
Cedar Rapids
War bond drive tops $1.87 million with LaPlant Choate leading
Series E sales reached 1 870 782 50 as organizers aim for 2 967 000. LaPlant Choate invested 500 000 in war bonds and retail stores push for the balance. Notables include Nola Berger and George Gohman with top store sales, Emma Hagenstein reports 5650 25 from BPW, Mt Mercy college carnival adds 107 85, Cedar Rapids banked county credits and Rock Island lines allocate 1 625 million. Continued on Page 2.
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Hearn
LaPlant-Choate Company
Mt. Mercy College
E. G. Kucera
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Iowa
Japs Parade Captured Yanks in China Tours
Japanese forces in occupied China parade captured American airmen through cities on regular tours, exploiting the display to ridicule the crew. War correspondents with Chennault's unit are barred from reporting individual scores against crews in or near enemy territory to avoid aiding the enemy. Newsreels and papers show flyers publicly paraded, handcuffed and blindfolded as locals watch.
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Fourteenth Air Force
China
Chennault
United States Army Air
Wallace to Request Furloughs for 34th Division
Vice President Wallace will ask army officers to bring home members of the 34th division under a rotation policy. Mrs. Frances Donovan said he would deliver the petition from relatives to army headquarters. Minnesota and Iowa natives describe no rest between battles, insufficient food, and poor sanitation.
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Minneapolis
Wallace
Washington
34Th Division
Frances Donovan
Army
34Th
Minnesota
Iowa
Allies seize Green Islands to end Solomons battle
Allied and New Zealand troops struck the Green Islands at dawn, seizing the Nissan group near Bougainville with 22 000 Japanese soldiers encircled. The operation used naval and air cover, trapped garrisons, and created an air base 120 miles from Rabaul as the Solomons campaign concludes.
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Southwest Pacific
Green Islands
Bougainville
Rooke Island
New Guinea
New Britain
Solomons
Theodore S. Wilkinson
Frank Trremaine
William F. Halsey
New Zealand
Harold E. Barrowclough
Atoll
United States
Tremaine
LST
Nissan Group
Solomons Archipelago
Rabaul
New Georgia
Choiseul
Shortland
Buka_ islands
MacArthur warns against overconfidence in Pacific gains
General Douglas MacArthur said the conquest of Japan’s outlying Pacific islands is no longer decisive and warned the Allies must defeat the Japanese army on land before victory. He stressed that short cuts do not exist and victory requires coordinated ground, naval, and air power.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Pacific
MacArthur
Manchuria
Korea
China
Southwest
Germany
Argentina Faces Axis Break Crisis After Coup
In Montevideo AP reports a bloodless coup by Argentine nationalists who opposed breaking with the Axis forced the foreign minister and two officials to resign and challenged President Pedro Ramirez. Army officers seized the foreign ministry while pro Axis saboteur signs surfaced, including a rebranded pro Nazi paper El Federal, signaling a deep political crisis.
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Montevideo
Axis
Ramirez
Pedro Ramirez
Foreign Ministry
Gustavo Martines Zuviria
Justice
Buenos Aires
Interior
Luis Perlinger
Alberto Gilbert
Germany
Enrique Gonzalez
Oscar Ibarri Garcia
Gonzalez
Argentina
Axis One
Pampero
el Federal
Argentine Envoy Presents Credentials and Hints Wheat Gift
Adrian o Escobar new Argentine ambassador to the United States presented credentials to President Roosevelt. He announced a gift of eight million bushels of wheat to the food pool for relief of Europeans freed from Axis domination. He said Argentina would make further gifts as surplus crops are acquired and that relations with the Axis powers were severed due to their actions opposing Argentina's noble sentiments.
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Washington
INS
Adriano Escobar
United States
Roosevelt
Escobar
Reds Kill 33,000 In Pocket Battle
Moscow dispatches say Russian forces halted a German rescue spearhead northwest of Zvenigorodka and reduced the Cherkasy pocket to 35 square miles. German losses topped 33,000 in two weeks, with near 800 tanks destroyed as Govorov reports advances toward the Baltic approaches.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Zvenigorodka
Cherkasy
London
Estonia
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Pskov
Baltic
RAF Drops Heaviest Night Raid On Berlin In Battle History
London reports the RAF sent more than 1,000 planes in a night assault on Berlin with over 2,800 tons of bombs and incendiaries. The Frankfort on Oder target received 300 tons as part of the broad offensive. many crews, including Canadians and Australians, describe a red-glowing sky and heavy fire.
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London
Berlin
Frankfort-on-Oder
Air Ministry
Radio
Oder
Frankfort
Hanover
C. K. Fudge
Fudge
R.A.F
British Withdrawn Into Burma Pocket Near Maungdaw
NEW DELHI UP dispatch says British forces, nearly encircled by Japanese in the Arakan jungles of western Burma, have pulled back further into a narrow pocket in the Maungdaw area, a communique disclosed Wednesday.
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New Delhi
Arakan
Burma
Maungdaw
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