Allied unity grows as Big Three inch toward postwar settlement
The piece notes easing tensions among Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin with calmer rhetoric and united aims on Atlantic Charter principles. It cautions that propaganda may exaggerate the Russian advance, urges careful map study, and discusses Iowa’s agricultural deferment impact on manpower and food supplies. It also mocks Japanese radio use of B 29 engine sounds to frighten civilians.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Japan
Allied Pushes Halts Nazis Near Strasbourg Frontline
American First Army advanced up to two miles forcing German positions back along the Ardennes sector while Patton's Third Army struck the Sure river hinge driving Nazis toward the Siegfried line. In the south, Germans overran three towns near Strasbourg as British Second Army moved into Germany near Sittard.
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Paris
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Ardennes Salient
George S. Patton
Third
Luxembourg
Strasbourg
Maginot Line
Hagenau Forest
Gambsheim
Hagenau Road
Alexander M. Patch
Bitche
Marshal Karl von Rundstedt
Wiltz River
Courtney H.hodges
St. Vith
United States First Infantry Division
Schoppen
30Th Infantry
Recht
Second Army
Germany
Hongen
The
Reich
Sittard
Roermond-Sittard
Marvin Murphy Killed in Action in Germany
Cedar Rapids youth Pvt. Marvin Bud Murphy 19 son of Clare and Mrs Murphy of 1646 Sixth St NW was killed in Germany on December 18. He had been listed as missing last week. A Roosevelt graduate he trained at Camp Roberts California. Survived by parents a sister Ethella brothers Eugene Dennis a grandmother Eldora Murphy two aunts uncles and cousins with other relatives living at 1646 Sixth Street NW.
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Marvin
Bud” Murphy
Clare Murphy
Sixth Street
Germany
War Department
Roosevelt
Camp Roberts
Calif
Dale Reynolds
C. A. Reynolds
Clayton L. Murphy
Navy
Ethella
Eugene
Dennis
Eldora Murphy
1646
Americans Seal Off Japs Northeast of Beach-head
American troops in Luzon sealed off Japanese forces entrenched in the mountains around Baguio as Manila drive resumes. Urdaneta and Rosario areas saw heavy fighting with tankette counterattacks repulsed. American forces pushed along Lingayen gulf coast toward Agoo and continued consolidating Paniqui with supplies and transports moving forward.
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Beach-head
MacArthur
HDQ
Luzon
Eel
Baguio
Lingayen Gulf
Rosario
Gulf
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Urdaneta
Pozorrubio
Insae
Agoo
Damortis
Paniqui
Tarlac
Moncada
Camiling
Lingayen
Commons Backs Churchill in 340 to 7 Vote
In London the Commons defeated a bid to censure Prime Minister Churchill by 340 to 7 over interventionist policy in liberated lands. Eden pledged a rapid, joint political mechanism for intl problems ahead of the big three conferences. Aneurin Bevan attacked Churchill, accusing him of distorting facts and secret commitments influencing Greece.
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London
Churchill
Liberated Lands
House of Commons
Commonwealth Party
Richard Acland
House
Acland
Eden
Commons
Britain
Aneurin Bevan
Bevan
Burrough Named Naval Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces
London AP reports Admiral Sir Harold M. Burrough has been appointed naval commander of Allied expeditionary forces under General Eisenhower, succeeding the late Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. Burrough previously led the Allied naval forces at the Goeteborg? no, Algiers landing in November 1942.
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London
Harold M. Burrough
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bertram Ramsay
Burrough
Algiers
Yarnell predicts four more years of war with Japan
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, aging 69, in Newport Rhode Island home, says another four years of war with Japan are likely, with U S casualties possibly between 1 000 000 and 2 000 000. He supports island hopping, stresses Philippines and China goals, and warns of possible German rocket bombing from submarines. He estimates total U S war cost at 400 to 500 billion dollars.
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New Bedford
Mass
Japan
Harry E. Yarnell
New Bedford Standard-Times
Newport
R. I
United States
Asiatic
Pacific
Yarnell
Independence
Philippines
China
Manila Bay
Germany
Cedar Rapids Woman Dies In Oklahoma City Hit and Run
Mrs. George Haddad 27 of Cedar Rapids was killed Thursday in Oklahoma City when struck by a hit and run driver while visiting a sister. Sister-in-law Mrs. Andrew Skouby was critically injured. her husband escaped harm. Police seek the driver as Haddad's husband and family await word on services in Winfield Kansas.
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Cedar Rapids
George Haddad
Seventh Street
Oklahoma City
Okla
Andrew Skouby
Skouby
Wesley Hospital
Haddad
B-29s Strike Kobe Osaka Area In Major Honshu Raid
Washington reports a substantial B 29 attack on Honshu targeting Osaka Kobe and Hamamatsu with good results. All planes returned, fighter opposition light and anti aircraft fire moderate. Tokyo broadcast 80 bombers participated and warned of intensified future raids.
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Washington
Kawasaki Aircraft
War Department
Kobe- Osaka
Japan
Honshu Island
Marianas
Honshu
William F. Halsey
Tokyo
Osaka-Kobe
Hamamatsu
Osaka
Kobe
Oil Company Owner Finnigan Dies of Heart Attack
Galen D. Finnigan 50 of Cedar Rapids was found dead from a heart attack at St Luke’s hospital after collapse at home. He chaired the Super Service Oil Co and Iowa State Petroleum association director. Survived by wife Emma, son Lt. R. Dean Finnigan, and three sisters. Services pending arrival of his son from California.
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Galen D. Finnigan
Thirty-third Street
Super Service Oil Company
Tenth Street
St. Luke's Hospital
F. W. Mulson
Martelle
Mechanicsville
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Petroleum Association
Emma S. Dennis
Finnigan
R. Dean Finnigan
Marine Air Corps
el Centro
Calif
Ren D. Finnigan
Allen D. Jackson
John L. Petersen
Lisbon
Leland Hoyman
Fort Dodge
Hanford Post
American Legion
Signal Corps
148Th Telegraph Battalion
The
Elks
California
Turner Chapel
Himmler Reportedly Loses Command on Berlin Front
The United Press reports Heinrich Himmler has been removed from command of the German home front army by Hitler. A Stockholm Tidningen dispatch says Hitler repealed a July decree placing Himmler in command of all army detachments inside Germany, lifting supervision to the German high command. The Swedish paper notes Himmler planned the western front counter-offensive, stating his position is now less dominating than at its end.
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Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Stockholm
Hitler
Himmler
Germany
Western
Rescue of five men in life raft 1000 miles off California coast
Lt. Col. Earle D Johnson disclosed details of a dramatic rescue by a medium bomber crew near Long Beach. The raft carried four Army men including Lt. Robert A. Titus of Marion Ta and an Australian airlines official after their two engine transport ditched at sea. Captain Richard Le Blond led the rescue with Lt. Alfred Kelph plotting the search area. Titus, 29, previously was shot down over Europe and interned in Switzerland before returning to service.
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Long Beach
Calif
INS
California
Earle D Johnson
Army Air Forces
Robert A. Titus
Marion
Australian Airlines
Alfred Kelph
Richard le Blond
Sixth
Hollywood
Robert Titus
Howard M. Titus
Mariana
Europe
Switzerland
United States
University of Iowa
Iowa City
John E. Titus
Southwest Pacific
Stettinius to Join Big 3 Parley and Ministers
Secretary of State Stettinius said he will accompany President Roosevelt to the upcoming Big Three meeting. He will also attend the American foreign ministers’ meeting in Mexico City, now slated to begin February 15, possibly February 21. He dodged timing questions citing security concerns.
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Washington
LLP
Stettinius
Roosevelt
Mexico City
Gazette Receives Norman Rockwell Painting in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Gazette received from Curtis Publishing a Norman Rockwell original of the Cleveland school voting place as it appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. The framed painting will hang in the news room with election board officials and voters pictured. It was insured for 800 dollars during transit.
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The
Gazette Today
Curtis Publishing Company
Norman Rockwell
Cleveland School
Cedar Rapids
Saturday Evening Post
Gazette
Election Board
Gazette News
Dora Jane Hamblin
Red Cross
South Pacific
Red Army sweeps East Prussia and poland advance reported
Stalin announced major Soviet offensives across Poland with Cherniakhovsky’s Third White Russian army breaking into East Prussia. Krakow fell to Konev’s forces as First Ukrainian troops advanced on Lodz and Silesia. Fourth Ukrainian army entered Carpathian border, pushing 50 miles.Berlin and Moscow hailed a collapse of the German front in Poland and projected an imminent battle on German soil.
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London
Stalin
Red Army
Krakow
Sland
Carpathian
Poland
Moscow
Ivan Cherniakovsky
East Prussia
Cherniakhovsky
Schlossberg
Insterburg
Kraupischken
Lodz
Germany
Silesian
Ivan S. Konev
Berlin
Silesia
Breslau
Carpathians
Niemen River
Hitler
Reich
Czestochowa
Ernest von Hammer
DNB
Pvt Merle J Miller Killed in France
Pvt Merle J Miller 28 formerly a junior cost accountant at the Iowa Engineering Co was killed in action January 6 in France his family previously lived at 1719 Washington Ave SE and now reside with his mother in Prairie du Chien Wis he was a member of Immaculate Conception parish.
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Merle J. Miller
Iowa Engineering Company
France
B. A. Wayland
Washington Avenue
Miller
Prairie. du Chien
Wis
Immaculate. Conception Parish
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