Broken Rail Halted Chicago Bound Train near Cedar Rapids
A rail split in four places caused seven cars of the North Western's Chicago bound Los Angeles Challenger to derail eight miles east of Cedar Rapids near Bertram at 5:05 a.m. Saturday. More than 500 aboard were uninjured, thanks to automatic speed control reducing travel to 17 mph before the curve. The wreck halted seven cars at the break while four stayed upright. Passengers calmed quickly. crew praised the system which likely prevented a disaster. Trains rerouted via the Milwaukee road while repairs proceed, with hopes to resume North Western service by night.
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Los Angeles
Cedar Rapids
Bertram
Harry Teahen
Clinton
Chicago
Milwaukee Road
Tama
W. D. Nix
Claude Fenton
Harley Manley
Fenton
Wesley B.clinkstale
Dixon
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Rotation plan on furloughs from abroad
The War Department adopts a troop rotation policy aiming to bring home by mid 1944 all soldiers in Alaska and the Caribbean with two years of overseas service. North Africa will see monthly returns for those with over 18 months overseas. Pacific theaters expect spring 1944 improvements enabling a system to return some troops. Air crew overseas rotation is established and functioning.
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Washington
War Department
Alaska
Caribbean
United States
Reynolds
D-N.c
Senate Military Affairs Committee
North Africa
South
Southwest Pacific
Len Connally
Texas
Senate
General Staff
Army
Nazi Blockade Runner Is Sent to Bottom
Brazilian and United States fleets sank a German surface blockade runner in the South Atlantic. Patrols located the vessel carrying war supplies to Germany from Japan after an intensive search by Brazilian and U S units and their aviation forces.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Agencia Nacional
Recife
United States
South Atlantic
C. E. Blaine
Germany
Japan
United Eles
Falls 18 Feet in Elevator Shaft Triggers $8,284 Suit
Harold Domer seeks 8284.15 in a district court personal injury suit against F. S. Mitvalsky R. J. Mitvalsky and Jerome Kirch ner doing business as F S Mitvalsky and company. Domer, employed by Iowa Electric Light and Power, fell August 28 1942 from the first floor to a cement basement after an elevator shaft gate failed to indicate floor level in a dark area of the Mitvalsky building at 425 Second Street SE.
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Cedar Rounds News
Harold Domer
F. S. Mitvalsky
R. J. Mitvalsky
Jerome Kirchner
F. S. Mitvalsky and Company
Second Street
SE. Domer
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Doner
Yanks Shatter Reich Chemical City
Britain’s Mosquito bombers raid Germany for the seventh straight night hitting Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Swedish reports say Ludwigshafen was flattened by fire from blockbusters and incendiaries after a daylight American strike, with German claims of heavy losses for the week.
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London
Britain
Germany
Western Reich
Ludwigshafen
Stockholm
Morgen Tidningen
I. G. Farben
Mannheim
United States
Reich
Army Paper Urges Uniform Soldier Voting Law
Stars and Stripes argues for a uniform federal voting law for soldiers. The Naples edition notes soldiers favor voting in US elections, criticizing state-by-state rules as too slow and complex for front-line troops. The piece calls Congress to act to preserve citizenship rights for service members abroad.
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Algiers
Stars and Stripes
United States
Congress
Varga
Naples
Republicans Do Not Plan Shortened Wartime Campaign
Republican National Committee chairman Harrison Spangler says the wartime campaign will not be shortened as Democrats run theirs. The RNC will set a June date for the national convention and avoid delaying it to August or September to prevent harming soldier voting. Willkie says he has no objection to Chicago as a convention site and warns against the Tribune’s influence on the party.
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Chicago
Harrison Spangler
Republican National Committee
Republican Party
Wendell Willkie
New York
Willkie
Chicago Tribune
Coldest Iowa temperatures dip to 15 below at Decorah
Cedar Rapids area sees 7 below as state records frigid air. Skies clear with slow warming forecast. Tonight a low of 2 below. Sunday mostly partly cloudy and warmer. Other readings include 13 below at Spencer 12 at Estherville and 3 at Iowa City.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Decorah
Warren Will Enter California Primary
Gov Earl Warren agrees to allow his name to be used as a Republican candidate at California’s state primary in May. The move follows a request from the California Republican organization readers.
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Sacramento
Earl Warren
California
Republican Organization
War Prisoners Recaptured After Train Escape
Four Nazi prisoners of war who escaped from a military guard aboard a westbound Santa Fe train were captured by Kansas highway patrolmen late Friday.
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Kansas City, Mo
INS
Kansas Highway
Yanks Capture San Vittore After House by House Fight
American infantry closed the last German defenses in San Vittore Italy in a brutal street to street battle. The village is theirs after heavy resistance with 85 Germans surrendering or killed. American gunners used 37 mm anti tank guns to drive the last pockets from the eastern stronghold as Lt Louis Hauser coordinated messages.
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Reynolds Packard
San Vittore
Italy
San Vikttore
Stalingrad
Robert Thompson
Appleton, Minn
William Skeane
Sioux City
Louis Hauser
Philadelphia
Hauser
Mrs Herbert Hoover Dies of Heart Attack at 68
Former First Lady Lou Henry Hoover died at Waldorf Towers in New York after an acute heart attack at about 7 pm on Friday. Her death leaves sons Allan Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. and follows a life marked by white house hosting, Girl Scouts work, and years abroad with her husband’s diplomatic duties.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Ralph H Boots
West Branch Ta
Hooser
White House
Girl Scouts
Soviets Capture Kirovograd in Dnieper Offensive
Gen Ivan Konyev’s Army of the Second Ukrainian Front reported capturing Kirovograd, a key rail town on the Ingul, after a four day drive that widened a 75 mile front. Stalin hailed the victory as an important outflanking maneuver that encircled German defenses and disrupted the Odessa Warsaw escape lines.
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London
Ivan Ss. Konev
Second Ukrainian Front
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Stalin
Ingul
Cherkas
Krivor Rog
Konev
Moscow
Berlin
Ukraine
Poland
Kone
Nikola
Kiev
Znamenka
Bug River
Vatutins
Old
Izvestia
Bug
Dniester
Bessarabia
Don
Kirovograd-Novo Ukrainka
Odessa-Warsaw
Vatutin
Rzischev
U S Submarines Sink Ten Japanese Vessels
United States submarines sunk 10 Japanese ships including eight freighters a transport and a large tanker in the Pacific and Far East. The Navy reported the totals since the war began reach 396 ships sunk 36 probably sunk and 114 damaged for a total of 546 hit.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pacific
Far Eastern
1943 Plane Output Nearly Double 42
United States plane production for December raised the 1943 total to 85 946 military planes of all types, against 47 873 produced in 1942. Separate report notes WPB plans to revise order M 126 removing iron and steel bans on many items, with likely release of about 300 of the least essential from metal-use restrictions.
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Washington
United States
WPB
Major Unions End Jurisdictional Dispute Agreement
The United Automobile Workers and the International Association of Machinists agreed to end their jurisdictional disputes for the duration. UAW executive board members disclosed Saturday.
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Chicago
United Automobile Workers
CIO
International Association of Machinists
AFL
UAW
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