Two Marion youths held after two week crime spree
Earl W. Burns and Lyle Wells, both in their late teens, were jailed in Linn County after a two week spree of bootlegging auto theft and break ins stretching from Cedar Rapids to Dubuque and Illinois. They confessed to multiple thefts and faced larceny charges as authorities awaited further counts.
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Marion
Earl W. Burns
Lyle Wells
Linn County
Wellman
H. M. Putnam
Washington County
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Illinois
O. K. Drive In
Marion Boulevard
Aed
Noice
Public Spending and War Time Conventions
Harry Boyd argues the legislature should measure new spending by long term benefits and taxpayer burden rather than current treasury balances. He warns against windfall funds driving nonrecurring projects and supports Byrnes war convention curbs while acknowledging national meetings can aid wartime understanding.
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Byrnes
Yanes
Government weighs tightening essential jobs list in wartime
Washington reports the government may trim the essential activities list while expanding critical munitions roles to force draft-age workers into key plants. Selective Service urged employers to secure occupational deferments for all 4-F employees and laws were proposed to require immediate induction if workers left essential jobs without board consent.
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Washington
Selective Service
Draft Board
Roosevelt
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Bailey
Senate
Army, Navy, Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
War Food Administration
Congress
Administration
Collins to Build Hangar at Cedar Rapids Airport
Collins Radio plans to construct a hangar an auxiliary lab and test buildings at the Cedar Rapids airport via a 99 year conveyance with a $528.80 yearly rent. Five acres are leased to the company under civil aviation restrictions with property revert provisions if breached. Construction target set for January 1 1946 and the plan requires seven day objection period before final passage.
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Collins Radio Company
Cedar Rapids
Hines
Cranberry Boggs Debuts in The Gazette Comic Strip
Cranberry Boggs introduces a family comic featuring Cranbury Boggs Granny Boggs Candy Kane and Cap n Gramps Boggs. The family navigates humorous entanglements with adventure and suspense as readers meet them on the comic page.
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the Gazette
Cranberry
Cranberry Boggs
Cranbury
Granny Boggs
Candy Kane
Cap'n’ Gramps Boggs
Japs Make New Landing in China
Japanese forces landed fresh troops on the coast of northeast Fukien province to counter potential American beachheads in China. They landed December 26 and moved inland, seizing Siapu about 70 miles northeast of Foochow. A Chinese counterattack on January 3 forced the enemy to retreat east. The move is part of broader efforts to gird against U S landings along the China coast.
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China
Indo-China
Hankow
Philippines
Luzon
Paluan
Mindoro Island
Manila
Sixth Army
Mindoro
Marinduque
Union Organizer Upheld by Court
The Texas law requiring paid labor union organizers to register before soliciting members was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in a 5 4 decision. R J Thomas CIO vice president and UAW president challenged the statute after contempt of court for not registering and obtaining a card.
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Washington
Texas
Secretary of State
Supreme Court
Rutledge
Justice Roberts
Stone
Reed
Frankfurter
R. J. Thomas
Detroit
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Tokyo Says Yanks Still Near Luzon Invasion Bombardment
Tokyo reports one of four American invasion armadas bombarding Lingayen gulf north of Manila for a third day with 400 to 450 vessels bound for Luzon. Japanese dispatches claim battleships and 70 to 80 landing craft near the coast as forces prepare a possible landing.
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Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Luzon
Philippines
Lingayen Gulf
Manila
San Fernando
Damortis
Third Fleet
Formosa
Okinawa
15 Missing in Hotel Fire at Lima Ohio
The Red Cross reported 15 people missing after a hotel fire in Lima Ohio. The fire caused two confirmed deaths and authorities cautioned some of the missing may have escaped the blaze.
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Lima
Ohio
Lima, Ohio
The
Red Cross
Admiral Ingram Warns of Buzz Bomb Attacks on East Coast
Navy chief Admiral Jonas H. Ingram warned that New York City or Washington could be struck by buzz bombs within 30 to 60 days. He outlined attack modes surface ships submarines or long range planes and said fires pose the main danger while large buildings would likely not be seriously damaged. He urged calm and described defensive measures centered on naval protection and coastal fortifications.
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Jonas H. Ingram
Atlantic Fleet
New York City
Washington
Great Britain
McCoy
Ingram
New York
Atlantic
Yanks Destroy 49 Planes at Hankow
CHUNGKING INS reports Gen. Claire Chennaults 14th United States Air Force fighter group destroyed forty nine Japanese aircraft at Hankow airdrome in central China during a Sunday attack.
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Chungking
Ins
Claire Chennault
14Th
United States Air Force
Hankow
China
Missing in action Pvt Marvin Murphy 19 in Germany
Missing in action since December 18 in Germany is Pvt Marvin Bud Murphy 19 infantryman son of Mr and Mrs Clare Murphy of 1646 Sixth Street NW He attended Roosevelt High School and barber college before training at Camp Roberts California He has two uncles serving Pvt Dale Reynolds at Fort Meade Md and Pvt C A Reynolds in Italy and a great uncle Lt Clayton D Murphy in the Navy.
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Pvt
Marvin
Bud” Murphy
Clare Murphy
Sixth Street
Germany
War Department
Roosevelt
Murphy
Barber College
Camp Roberts
Calif
Dale Reynolds
Fort Meade
C. A Reynolds
Italy
Clayton D. Murphy
Navy
Geesaman Missing in Action in Germany
The War Department notified brothers Leo Geesaman and Alvin Geesaman that their brother Pfc. Elwood D. Geesaman 36 of an anti tank unit in the U S Third Army has been missing in action in Germany since December 22. Geesaman was with Morris Sanford company before enlisting in April 1942 and has been overseas since March of last year.
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Elwood D. Geessiman
Third Army
Germany
War Department
Leo Geesaman
Center Point Road
Alvin
First Avenue
Pic
Geesaman
Morris Sanford Company
Cold Wave Grips Cedar Rapids With 10 Below Forecast
Cedar Rapids and vicinity brace for a cold wave Monday afternoon and night with temperatures about 10 degrees below zero Tuesday morning. Light snow Monday, clearing Monday night, then fair and continuing cold Tuesday. Strong winds diminish Monday night as roads become hazardous from sleet. statewide forecasts show frigid conditions spreading across the Midwest from central Canada.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Canada
Midwest
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Ohio
Sioux City
Spencer
Winter Road Reports From State Highway Commission
The state highway commission issued mid morning reports across regions. Central area reports snow and slick, northeast two inches with hazardous conditions, northwest packed snow and low visibility, southwest icy and hazardous, southeast light snow with variable visibility, roads near Ottumwa slick, Fort Madison and Burlington experiencing freezing rain and slick conditions, West Liberty noting icy switches.
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State Highway Commission
Ottumwa
Fort, Madison
Burlington
West Liberty
Inquiry closes on New Year’s Eve train wreck near Ogden
The inquiry into the Ogden area New Year’s Eve train wreck was concluded late Sunday. Details of findings or causes were not immediately released.
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Ogden, Utah
INS
Here
First Army and Third Army Advance in Belgian Bulge Blizzard
In the worst winter blizzard yet, the American First and Third armies pushed forward, narrowing the Belgian bulge to under ten miles. Hodges’s First Army seized five villages and 15 miles of the St. Vith La Roche highway, while Patton’s Third Army advanced another mile north of Bastogne. German diversions toward Strasbourg appeared weaker as Allied counterattacks hit armor north of the Rhine city. The Colmar pocket near Strasbourg was reinforced by the Germans, while Allied air and ground forces pressed a multi-front effort to trap German forces and protect remaining routes into the bulge. Censorship noted about 600 German soldiers in the area and continuing German efforts north of Strasbourg and along the Meuse crossing at Venlo.
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Paris
First
Third
von Rundstedt
Courtney H. Hodges
St. Vith-La Roche
Bulge
Houffalize
Strasbourg
Rhine
Colmar
Maginot
Wissembourg
Belgian Bulge
Ardennes
Alsace
Witternheim
Friesenheim
Rhine-Rhone Canal
Meuse
Venlo
Supreme Headquarters
Antwerp
Geertruidenberg
Eisenhower
Saverne Pass
Belgium
George S. Patton
Bastogne
la Roche
Ambleve
Stavelot
Belgium-Luxembourg
Weenaee Te Marqui Comics Deaths and State News
Fragmentary OCR lists names and topics including David Lawrence Paul Mallon Marion and Walter Winchell. Mentions movies radio sports and state sections with several unreadable items. Provides no coherent event or outcome to summarize.
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Te Marqui
David Lawrenc
Paul Mallon
Marion
Drew Pearson
Walter Winchell
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Joliet
Four Roses
Paul Jones
Seagram's
Three Feathers
Calvert
Putnam
Ques
Acfne
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Sir Miles Dempsey
Second Army
Courtney Hodges
First Army
Montgomery
William Simpson
Ninth Army
H. D. B. Crerar
Harry Boyd
Des Moines
Treasury
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Govt
Sen. Bailey
DN. C
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Jack Illian
Don Hines
Department of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Admiral Lees
Marvin Murphy
Geesaman Missing
Patton
Iday
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