Governor orders impartial inquiry into Ana mesa reformatory break
The Gazette supports a thorough, independent investigation of the New Year’s Day escape at the Ana mesa state reformatory. The governor aims to sift all facts and rumors with trained investigators, not to assign blame, to improve prisoner security and protect citizens. The piece notes a related House committee move on a federal soldier voting law, arguing it mainly centers on principle rather than practical impact.
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Gazette
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Des Moines
Board of Control
States Fight for Ballot Control in Wartime Votes
Washington and Iowa clash over who should run soldier and civilian absentee ballots as Congress rejects a federal uniform ballot. The House elections committee votes 7 to 5 against a nationwide measure, signaling state responsibility amid a sprawling wartime budget and debates on federal power.
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Washington
House Elections Committee
Worley
Texas
House
Rankin
Senate
Death of Cedar Rapids political figure Cr. D Huston noted
The obituary recalls Cr. D Huston a leading Cedar Rapids political force since the turn of the century and highlights his active role in city affairs and state politics. The piece reflects on his tenure as mayor a turbulent period and his willingness to speak openly on public matters. He is remembered as a good man.
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Cr. D. Huston
Cedar Rapids
Huston
Gazette
Partisans Yield Capital to Nazis
London reports Yugoslav Partisans abandoned Jajce their provisional capital as German forces threaten to envelop large units of Marshal Josip Brozovich's army. Reinforcements move up amid renewed German pressure across northern fields. fighting also rages in Slovenia and Herzegovina with a Partisan defense near Stolac repulsing a German attack and a lead mine at 800 tons monthly in Yugoslavia cited.
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London
Jajce
Josip Brozovich
Stolac
Dubrovnik
German shepherd Chips wins first DSC for dog action
Chips the German shepherd, who joined the army in 1942, receives the Distinguished Service Cross for attacking a Sicilian machine gun nest and forcing enemy soldiers to surrender. He also earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart after being wounded.
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New York
Chips
Sicily
Edward J. Wren
Pleasantville
N. Y
Liberty Ship Frank Cuhel Launched From Richmond Yard
The Liberty ship Frank Cuhel was launched in Richmond California with champagne blessed by Miss Ermengarde Cuhel of Cedar Rapids Iowa. The ship honors Frank Cuhel Mutual Broadcasting war correspondent killed near Lisbon in the Yankee clipper crash.
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Richmond
Calif
Frank Cuhel
Mutual Broadcasting Company
Ermengarde Cuhel
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Portugal
Cuhel
San Francisco
Art Primm
J. L. Campbell
Piedmont
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
M. G. Vanderwende
Permanent Metals Corporation
Cahel
Henry J. Kaiser
University of Iowa
Dutch East Indies
Mutual
Australia
United States
North Africa
Halt Minnesota U Classes After Maintenance Strike
Civilian classes at the University of Minnesota were discontinued indefinitely Friday as 500 maintenance workers walked out to demand a collective bargaining agreement with the board of regents.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Board of Regents
Jesse Jones Struck By Car in Houston
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones was hit by a car on December 23 in Houston. He sustained a broken leg and influenza and has been confined to a downtown hotel apartment while recovering. Officials say he is improving and expected to return to Washington soon.
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Houston, Texas
Llp
Jesse Jones
Houston
Jones
Washington
Where Are Yanks Series to Start in Gazette on Sunday
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will launch a 12 part feature series titled Where Are the Yanks prepared by the National Geographic Society. It uses maps to show where U S armed forces are stationed worldwide with the first article on the Solomons and a master world map of arrival dates and language regions. Teachers students and families are urged to clip and preserve the maps for locating future regions.
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Cedar Rapids
United States
National Geographic Society
Washington
The
Gazette
Solomons
Fiji
Gilbert Islands
Iceland
Aleutian Islands
Australia
Iran
North Africa
Italy
Cence
Two State Officials Arrive to Probe Men’s Reformary
R. W. Nebergall head of the state bureau of criminal investigation and William F. McFarlin assistant attorney general were due in Anamosa to start a full inquiry into the men’s reformary. Gov. Hickenlooper ordered the investigation Thursday.
Iowa governor orders probe including radio system at Anamosa
Gov. Bourke B. Hickenlooper directs Chief R. W. Nebrergall of the state bureau of criminal investigation to include the state police radio in the Anamosa reformatory inquiry. The move follows reports the radio broadcast the arrest of two escaped prisoners hours after Grinnell police captured them.
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Des Moines
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
R. W. Nebergall
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Anamosa Reformatory
Hickenlooper
Grinnell
Reformatory inquiry underway under Warden Foss Davis
Nebergall said preliminary work on the investigation is underway in Des Moines with two department men assigned. He declined to identify the investigators, citing policy. He added there will be no open inquisition at the reformatory.
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Nebergall
Des Moines
Reds Take 2 Key Points in White Russia
Soviet forces report gains in White Russia as Mozyr and Kalinkovichi fall to the Red army. RoKossovsky’s White Russian army advances toward Pinsk while Vatutin’s First Ukrainian army storms Turovichi Korets and Brykov near Sarny, driving on rail lines and supply routes.
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Reds
Russia
London
Mozyr
Kalinkovichi
White Russia
Zhiobin-Berdichev
Moscow
Kalirkovichi
Pripet
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Pinsk
Moscow- Warsaw
Nikolai Vatutin
Tutovichi
Sarny
Old Poland
Kiev-Warsaw
Korets
Novograd Volynski
Brykov
Vatutin
Kovel
Vinnitsa
Bug River
Odessa-Warsaw
Dnieper
Buz
Neirov
Yanks Bomb Three Italian Airfields Near Rome
Allied leaders announced heavy air strikes against German air bases south of Rome as American and French ground forces pressed toward Cassino. Fortresses and other bombers hit Centocelle Ciampino and Guidonia airfields, shooting down several fighters while suffering minor losses.
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Algiers
Luftwaffe
Italy
Rome
Cassino
Yugoslav
Centocelle
Ciampino
Guidonia
Perugia
Adriatic
Sibenik
Allies Strike French Coast in Daylight Assault
Allied air forces pressed a large daylight attack on the French coast near Calais and Pas de Calais, with medium bombers and fighter escorts joining the raid. British Mosquito bombers raided western Germany, while U S Army Air Forces reported record losses in the Schweinfurt raid and credited heavy fighting over the Reich with substantial German losses.
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London
Germany
Calais
Pas de Calais
Ruhr
Rhineland
Reich
United States Army
Schweinfurt
Eighth Air Force
Bielefeld
Meppen
Dortmund-Ems Canal
Emden
Hunter
Muenster
Army
Doughboys Honor Fallen Pals At Cervaro Front
With the Fifth Army at Cervaro Italy Doughboys pause to cover faces of fallen comrades after repelling a German counter attack. Lt Col Lawrence Powers led the assault and First Sgt William J Owen assumed command after officers fell. Private Donald Gunther herded captured Nazis as they pressed the push toward Rome.
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Cassino
France
Calliatina
Adriatic
New Zealand
Ortona
Cervaro
Fifth Army
Fifth
Rome
San Pietro
San Vittore
Cerraro
Lawrence Powers
Powers
Flushing
N. Y
Hermann Goering
Donald Gunther
Milwaukee
William J. Owen
Centerville
Blind Cadet Lands Plane Safely Over Radio Guidance
Aviation Cadet R D Seale twenty three from Taft California lost sight at the controls of a one man trainer and landed the plane safely Thursday with calm radio guidance from Lt Col C W Thaxton of the army field control tower. Physicians said he could see again but remains grounded for observation.
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Thaxton
Seale
Scale
Beatrix Potter Dies in England at Sawrey
New York AP reports Beatrix Potter creator of Peter Rabbit and other nursery tales died December 22 at Sawrey England. The Herald Tribune notes Potter's worldwide fame and lasting influence on children's literature.
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New York
Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit
Sawrey
England
the Herald Tribune
Tax Collections Report on Local Escapees
Amber business places collected six cents in state taxes from Billy Leo McCluskey and Stanley Brodinski, two men from a reformatory escape, moments before their capture near here. They bought two packs of cigarettes, two rolls and nine candy bars, paying four cents on cigarettes and two cents on rolls and candy bars.
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AMBER
Billy Leo McCluskey
Stanley Brodinski
Men’s Reformatory
Here
New Year Prison Escapees Recaptured in Hours
Four trusties fled the Grinnell area from a prison farm unit. Two were recaptured within 17 hours and the other pair within 26 hours. The last escapee was caught within 31 hours. Officers from Laurel and Grinnell tracked the group after an automobile theft clue led to a stakeout at a filling station.
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Marshalltown
Grinnell
Glenn Bell
Larsen and Roop
Highway 6
Faught
Spooner
Laurel
Fugs
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Tama
Tama County
Harvey H. Spooner
Storm Lake
Pene Vista
Billy Leo McClaskey
Kansas City
Oe County
Blue Island
Ill
Johnson County
Reformatory
Lonesome NO More
Joseph E. Selby
Philadelphia
Selby
Minnesota
Jack Illian
Looper
Foss Davis
Yanks
Mitchells
Via Casilina
French
Reynolds Packard
Owen
William Young
Raymond Clapper
Pedca
David Lawrence
Paul Mallon
Brodinski
Crinnell
Ralph Larsen
Fred Roop
Missouri
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