U S Troops Push Inland in Luzon Drive Near Urbiztondo Bayambang
American patrols advance about 20 miles inland on Luzon front near Urbiztondo and Bayambang as tanks may enter central plains toward Clark field. Air and naval bombardment supported the push with fighter planes destroying enemy barges near Vigan and targeting installations at Rosario.
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MacArthur
HDQ
Luzon
Luzon Island
Urbiztondo
Bayambang
Agno River
Walter Krueger
Sixth
Central Plains
Clark Field
Manila
Pacific
Vigan
Lingayen Gulf
Seventh U. S. Fleet
Rosario
The
Gulf
Heartwarming war stories and civic duty notes
The piece highlights small acts of kindness by Red Cross workers aiding a wounded son’s family and reflects on wartime cooperation. It also contemplates labor relations, predicting a move toward industrial harmony under Frances Perkins and pondering the public role of unions. A Cedar Rapids reader notices daytime street lights serve a routine safety check, revealing local efficiency and taxpayer value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
West Coast
Cedar Rapids
Britain Rejects Plan to Try War Leaders
The Sunday Express reports Britain’s foreign office rejected the UN war crimes court’s plan to try Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini and aides in London. The government favored political handling like Napoleon’s exile over criminal prosecution. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden allegedly conveyed the stance in a letter to Sir Cecil Hurst.
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London
Sunday Express
Foreign Office
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Adolf Hitler
The
Express
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Napoleon
Anthony Eden
Cecil Hurst
Commission
British Ships Join Pacific Battle
Reported actions in the Pacific describe US Navy carrier planes led by Admiral William F. Halsey sinking 25 enemy vessels and crippling 13 more as a broad campaign around the Philippines expands with a British Eastern Fleet task force joining the effort.
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Pearl Harbor
Ins
Saigon Harbor
Third Fleet
Luzon
William F. Halsey
Tokyo
Philippines
Halsey
South China Sea
Singapore
Allied Landing on Burma West Coast Opens Myebon Peninsular Drive
Allied troops of the 15th Indian corps landed on the Myebon peninsula on the Burma west coast 382 miles southeast of Akyab, after a naval and air bombardment. Japanese artillery and machine-gun fire damaged the invasion force but could not prevent a bridge-head from being established.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kandy
Ceylon
15Th Indian Corps
Myebon
Akyab
Burma
Kelly to Address Iowa Democrats Dinner in Des Moines
Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly will address Iowa Democrats at a Feb 20 dinner in Des Moines. Democratic state chairman Jake More said the group hopes to sell more than 1,000 tickets.
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Des Moines
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Iowa
Food Point Charts For Meats Fats Fish And Dairy
OPA publishes consumer point charts for meats fats fish and dairy products and for processed foods on page 6 section 3 of the social section Cut them out and save them for reference The Gazette had engravings made of the charts as a public service The Linn county food panel reports concern over new values and urges housewives and grocers to use the charts while shopping
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OPA
Gazette
Linn County Food Panel
Tax Office Open Until 9 Monday For Late Filers
Cedar Rapids readers are reminded that the United States collector of internal revenue in Cedar Rapids will stay open until 9 p.m. Monday to accommodate last minute filers of 1944 income tax estimates. About 1,000 people visit daily, with many payroll reports also filed though their deadline is March 15. Filers using withholding receipts must ensure full names and addresses on the blanks and note that taxes will be computed in Des Moines. Payments are due within 30 days of the tax statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
United States Collector of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Office
Des Moines
Collector of Internal Revenue
Beer Essential, WLB Rules Union Strike Not Essential
The War Labor Board ruled beer essential and ordered an end to a jurisdictional strike by the AFL Teamsters at three St. Paul breweries Yoerg Schmidt and Hamm. It warned the matter could be referred to the President.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Teamsters’ Union
AFL
St. Paul
Yoerg, Schmidt and Hamm _ breweries
WLB
Clinton M. Hester
Joseph A. Padway
William H. Davis
Sters
National Labor Relations Board
Independent Brewing Workers Union
Morrison Eats Bishop's Food On Luzon Isle
A war reporter in Luzon recounts visiting Dagupan and dining at a Filipino bishop's home with five Americans including Sgt Morrison and editors from United Press and Associated Press. The evening featured nipa wine and piano tunes as homesickness grows among the crew.
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Morrison
Bishop
Luzon
Beltran
Paul Morrison
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Seabee
Jack Russell
California
Glendale
Calif
Frances McCarthy
United Press
Frank Filan
Associated Press
Msgr
Gregorio Gaerlan
Jaiie Flor de Guzman
Carmen
Cedar Rapids War Casualty Totals
War casualty totals for Cedar Rapids and Linn County show 102 killed in action, 20 killed in training, 29 died in service, 53 missing in action, and 154 prisoners. Linn County figures include 22 killed in action, two killed in training, 16 missing in action, one died in service, and seven prisoners.
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Stauis
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Allies Drive To Wipe Out Nazi Salient
Allied armies opened a supreme offensive to erase the Ardennes bulge, gaining miles across the base and forcing German panzer units to scramble toward rear routes. Patton’s Third Army closed toward a junction with First Army as heavy air and ground assaults push Nazi columns into retreat.
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Paris
Ardennes Salient
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
Bulge
Houtffalize
George S. Patton
First
Houffalize
Champion
Mouffalize
Third Army
Houffalize Gantlet
L. S. Hobbs
30Th U. S
Malmedy
Stavelot
30Th
Sixth Division
35Th Division
Bras
Bastogne
Tarchamps
Berlin
Patton
Witness Delivers Clue in Michigan Slaying of Senator Hooper
Jackson AP reports a witness saw Hooper slumped in his car with a man at the left front door as a maroon car blocked the highway. He observed a second man enter the maroon vehicle and drive off, sparking renewed chase in Michigan’s major graft investigation.
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Leland W. Carr
Lansing
Springport
Hooper
Nazi Supply Convoy Blasted Off Norway
British home fleet units attacked a German supply convoy of seven or eight ships off the Norwegian coast south of Stavanger. Three or four ships including a large tanker were sunk or heavily damaged. the rest were set ablaze or driven ashore. Rear Admiral R. R. McGrigor led two cruisers two escort carriers and three destroyers, returning unharmed.
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London
Stavanger
Admiralty
R. R. McGrigor
Pfc Kenneth F Willits Reported Missing in Germany
Pfc Kenneth F Willits has been reported missing in Germany since December 21. His wife Dorothea Freeman of 1012 Eleventh Avenue SE and their three children were notified by war department message. He was the son of Irene Willits of 621 Eighth Avenue SE Pic and was employed by Wilson and Company before entering service February 4, 1944. He trained at Camp Wolters Texas Camp McCoy Wisconsin and Camp Atterbury Indiana before being sent overseas last October.
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Kenneth F. Willits
Germany
War Department
Dorothea Freeman
Eleventh Avenue SE
Irene Willits
Eighth Avenue SE
Pic
Willits
Wilson and Company
Camp Wolters
Texas
Camp McCoy
Wis
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Soviet Winter Offensive Push Deep into German Front
Berlin reports the Red Army launched a major winter offensive across a 37 mile front in southern Poland breaking through toward Krakow and Silesia. Stalin claimed a decisive barrage and massed guns as 2.5 million troops moved, with attacks from east and west threatening the Reich.
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Berlin
Josef Stalin
Lublin
Krakow
Poland
London
Fremier-Merehal
Stalin
Red Army
Germany
Vistula
German
Silesia
Nida
Reich
Chmielnik-Busko
Pasturka
German Silesia
Pinczow
Zagose
Wislica
Brzostkow
Nowy Korczyn
German East Prussia
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Budapest
Hungary
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Arbiztondo
Agno
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Pozorrubio
Aguilar
Santa Barbara
Mapandan
Acme Telephoto
U. S
Theodore Herbert
Marquette
Mich
Luxembourg
Harry Boyd Ome
Debarkation
Red Cross
Frances
Perkins
Madam Perkins
Marz
War Mobilizer
Byrnes
Earle Nichols
Light Company
Britain
Kelly
Democrats
Beer Essential
Howard Handleman
Dagupan
P. I
Mangarden
America
Frustuoso
Sgt. Morrison
M. H. Morrison
Second Avenue SE
New Guinea
Cockatoo
G.l’s
Miles
Bornholm
East
Matienburg
Amenstein
Portetabins
Erman Y
Pregue
Michigan
Norway
Pfc. K. F. Willits
Cedar Rapids News
Kielce
Warsaw
Sandomierz
Vistula River
Moscow
Schlossberg
East Prussia
Rip Nazi Communications
Szydlow
Stopnica
Chmielnik
Busko
Skrzelczyce
Vital Junction
Sunday Index
Drew Pearson
William L. Shirer
GI Gazette Building Financial
State Farm
Marlon Moyles
Walter Winchell
Wenany
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