Stimson Says Mail Delays From Ballot Bill Hurt Troops
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson argues the soldier vote bill would disrupt mail service and lower morale for troops overseas. He warned a priority delivery clause could impede war communications and that ballots add bulk that displaces mail in limited air space. The issue faces House consideration and Senate action on federal ballot supervision.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
House Elections Committee
Stimson
Eugene Worley
Texas
House
Senate
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Worley
House Committee
B 25 Flight Encounters Heavy Flak and Combat Loss
The crew describes a bombing run over Rome with enemy fighters in pursuit and heavy flak. Bombardier Donald McCormick reports success as the tail gunner is mortally wounded. Rocco Lotito and others aid him as medics arrive. The crew returns toward home, delivering the wounded and reporting the gunner's death.
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Messerschmitts
Rome
Harwood Beebe
Spartanburg
S. C
Beebe
Donald McCormick
Brookfield
Ill
McCormick
Robert Olson
Waterloo
Rocco Lotito
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lotiie
Lotito
OPA Pressed to Ease Vegetable Rationing
Washington AP reports that commercial canners urge the Office of Price Administration to remove vegetables from the ration list or sharply cut point values due to a drop in canned vegetable sales as households rely on home canned varieties.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Nazi Inner Defense Line in North Africa
Stockholm report says Germans are preparing defense lines farther from the coast in North Africa due to Allied air raids. Evacuations reached towns with populations up to 15 000 residents as civilians fled coastal areas.
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North Africa
Stockholm
Zurich
Dagens Nyheter
France
Hitler reshuffles high command to meet invasion
London reports Hitler has completed his anti invasion reshuffle appointing Erwin Rommel as inspector general for Europe defense and assigning Guderian Galland and von Runstedt to key roles. The Daily Express says other generals are moved to areas behind retreating Russian forces with a shadow railway supply plan for rapid mobilization ahead of the invasion.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Europe
Britain
Western
Hitler
Daily Express
Rommel
Heinz Guderian
Adolf Galland
Karl von Runstedt
Fritz von Mannstein
Russia
the Express
Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
Eduard Dietl
Express
Finland
Germany
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Norway
Hermann von Hannecken
Denmark
Georg von Kuechler
Fromm
Christensen
Holland
Dollman
Wife of Soldier Found Dead in Cedar Falls
The wife of Pfc. Donald R. Blubach, 28, of Colorado Springs, serving on the medical staff at Iowa State Teachers College, was found shot through the heart in a Cedar Falls gravel pit. The coroner ruled death a self-inflicted act.
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Cedar Falls
Donald R. Blubach
Colorado Springs
Colo
80Th College Training Detachment
Iowa State Teachers College
Sidney Smith
Herdeath
Camouflaged Yanks Reported Executed As Spies in Jungle
The Army and Navy Register cites rumors that American snipers wearing camouflage suits are summarily executed as spies when captured by Japanese forces. It notes international law defines spying by clandestine action and false pretenses, suggesting jungle camouflage can blur lines between soldier and spy.
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Washington
Army and Navy Register
the Register
Stokowski Voices Support for Jazz And Pop Music
Conductor Leopold Stokowski admitted admiring boogie-woogie and Frank Sinatra while arguing popular music helps youths. He rejected taking sides in the jazz classical music clash, contrasting with Artur Rodzinski who denounced jazz as degeneracy.
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NEW York
Leopold Stokowski
Frank Sinatra
Artur Redzinski
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Sinatra
Stokowski
Hollywood
Diamonds in Hotel Room Boxes Around Murder Probe
Coroner A L Brodie opened hotel safe boxes containing three diamond bracelets and a brooch in a hotel room used for news cameras. Mrs Williams and Mrs Goodbody described a “well dressed, middle aged woman” killer. Evidence includes Williams’ key outside her door and a baffling hospital remark about shooting blanks.
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Tokyo
A. L. Brodie
Rayburn and Wallace Defend Postwar Policy Track
Rayburn criticized critics and urged retaining Roosevelt era reforms after the war. He highlighted wartime production gains and argued American leadership has proven worthy of trust, while emphasizing the New Deal’s unfinished strength.
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Rayburn
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
America
Surcharges on Phone Calls End Feb 15
Washington AP reports the FCC will eliminate all surcharges on interstate long distance calls from hotels apartments clubs and similar places by February 15. Hotels now collect at least 1.7 million dollars annually in such surcharges and under new tariffs users will pay no more than standard rates at public pay stations.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Cedar Rapids Moose Lodge 304 Meets Monday Evening
Cedar Rapids Loyal Order of Moose lodge 304 will hold its meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in the Moose hall. An advertisement promotes a Bungalow Cooking School on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
Bungalow Cooking School
Address mix up reported after arrest disturbance
Charles A. Willette was arrested Thursday night for drunkenness and disturbing the peace. He gave 516 Sixth Avenue SE as his address, but police and The Gazette were later told Saturday by John Paul, who resides there, that the address was incorrect.
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Sixth Avenue SE
Charles A. Willette
Police Department
Gazette
John Paul
Horak Noted in Quill and Scroll Editorial Contest
Norbert Horak of 1700 Hamilton Street SW won honorable mention in a national high school journalism editorial contest held at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism in Evanston Illinois. The award, sponsored by Miss Vera B. Jeffries, recognizes outstanding student work across the year.
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Norbert Horak
Hamilton Street
Quill and Scroll
Northwestern University
Medill School of Journalism
Evanston
Horak
Who
Vera B. Jeffries
Journal
Rome landings stun Nazis as Allied drive nears city
Allied forces secured beachheads below Rome with minimal resistance and launched a coordinated inland push to sever routes to the German Tenth army. Heavy air and naval support accompanied the operation, while German defenses and expected counterattacks loomed as reserves moved toward the Po valley.
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Fifth Army
Tenth Army
Rome
Arezzo
Peruggia
Terni
Pontecorvo
Terracina
Allied airbase progress over Frosinone beachhead Italy
Kenneth Dixon reports from an Allied airbase in Italy about a late Saturday air view of the western central coastline. Bombers glide over Frosinone to disrupt road six toward Rome while landing craft enter the American beachhead and German resistance appears limited.
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Rome
Italy
Frosinone
Cassino
Twelfth Air Support Command
Ida Grove Farmer Charged with Murder in Poison Death
Ida Grove farmer Lorenzen was charged with first degree murder after he allegedly poisoned his wife last October. He confessed to an affair with a Sioux City woman and investigators recovered the bottle of strychnine used in the murder plot.
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Ida Grove
Ray G. Walter
Walter
Lorenzen
Eleanor
Sioux City
Ida County
C. Yousling
T. A. Thompson
Max H. Studer
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Arrasmith
Five Japanese Marshalls pounded as U S bombers strike
American forces hit five Japanese held Marshalls without interception in a 16th straight day of raids. Low-flying Mitchells struck Mili atoll for the 12th time this month while Dauntless dive bombers damaged shore facilities on Jaluit and Tuomiet islands. Roi and Kwajalein faced heavy attacks. no American losses.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Mili Atoll
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Tmiet
Emidj
Imieji
Jaluit Atoll
Mili
Jaluit
Gilbert Islands
Roi
Kwajalein
Kwajalein Atoll
Deaths Barr Services For Mrs. R D Barr Waterloo
Services for Mrs. R D Barr 43 former Franklin high teacher Cedar Rapids were to be held at 2 p m Monday in Waterloo with burial in the city She was the former Ann Lindemann and died Friday evening in Waterloo.
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Barr Services
R. D. Barr
Waterloo
Franklin High School
Cedar Rapids
Barr
Ann Lindemann
Charles Bezdeny Rites Planned in Cedar Rapids Area
Funeral services for Charles L. Bezdeny are set for 3 p.m. today at Janeba funeral chapel with Rev. Milo Filipi and Rev. J. S. Lilley officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel until noon today. He died Friday at his parents’ home east of Cedar Rapids.
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Bezdeny
Charles L. Bezdeny
Janeba
Milo Filipi
J. S. Lilley
New Hampton
Cedar Memorial Park
Mr. Bezdeny
Cedar Rapids
Services for Peter F. Schissel
The funeral for Peter F. Schissel of 3 A avenue NW will be held at St Patrick's Church Monday at 9 30 a m with Rev D J Lenihan officiating. Burial is in Mt Calvary Cemetery. Rosary will be recited Sunday at 8 p m at the mass chapel. Friends may call.
Service Members Honored and Transferred Across U S Forces
The article lists multiple service members and family notices across the country. Orville M. Fitzgerald, Bermuda, promoted to petty officer second class. Herman Nebiker Jr. promoted to corporal at Treasure Island. Richard L. Reeder on furlough from Ft. Monmouth to Camp Stewart. L. W. Valliere on furlough from Camp Carson. Lt. L. L. Siegel cited by British Army. John E. Schaller at Walter Reed for observation. William F. Vomacka stationed at Fort Knox after enlisting January 3. Jess F. Fauchier arrived in Sardinia. George Brousard transferred to Fort Sam Houston. Jim E. Nichols teaching at Buckley Field. Kenneth Bierkamp arrives in England. Edward and Milroy Skorepa on furloughs. Robert L. Anderson on leave. stationed at Camp Hill. Charles Krizek Jr. transferred to Fort Jackson. Warren MacGregor leaves for Indianola Gap. Robert McGregor returns to Camp Peary. Vernon Rompot transferred to Baerfield. Virgil H. McKasson assigned to squadron in Fresno. John David Stark on furlough. Harry Lewis on leave at Little Creek. Lumir Mack and brother Eddie visiting. Lumir to Brooklyn Navy Yard. Eddie at Camp Peary Seabees. Fred Condon completes basics. to Aloefield. Ward J. Long visiting Fort Bliss.
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William F. Vomacka
Fort Knox
Twenty-seventh Street
Vomacka
F. Vomacka
Twelfth Avenue
Tech
Jess F. Fauchier
Sardinia
J. H. Fauchier
Center Point Road
George Brousard
Camp Plauche
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Second Avenue
Grace Brousard
Jim E. Nichols
P. E. Hibnes, Jr
Hibnes
G Avenue
Mis Air Corps
Buckley Field
Colo
Edward Skorepa
Hobbs Airfield
N. M
Milroy Skorepa
Fort Dix N. J
Jerry Skorepa
Robert L. Anderson
Fifth Avenue
Robert Anderson
First Avenue
Anderson
Camp Hill
Louise Gearhart
First Avenue SE
Thelma Gardner
Second Avenue SE
Carpenter
Robert McGregor
Camp Peary
Cedar Rapids
Cpl
Vernon L. Rompot
A. Rompot
Twelfth Avenue SE
Maxonfield
N. C
Baerfield
Fort Wayne
Ind
Vernon, Jr
Pfe
Virgil H. McKasson
Fresno
Calif
Indianogelie
Sixth Avenue
New London
John David Stark
San Luis Obispo
Frederick F. Stark
1630 Avenue
Theodore Anderson
C Avenue
Seaman
Harry Lewis
Little Creek
Fourth Avenue
C Street
Harold Bradley
Lincoln
Neb
Lumir F. Mack
Eddie Mack
Wendl Mack
Eighth Street
Lumir
Atlantic
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Eddie
the Seabees
Williamsburg
Fred C. Condon
Garden City
Kan
Aloefield
Victoria
Fred D. Condon
Bever Avenue
Ward J. Long
Ft. Bliss
A. F. Long
Fourteenth Street
Capt. Long
Allis-Chalmer Tractor School
Springfield
Grass Fires Reported On Saturday Afternoon
Cedar Rapids fire department responded to six grass fires on Saturday afternoon. Alarms were reported at 1 10 p m in a vacant lot on Fourteenth avenue SW between Eighth and Ninth streets. Other blazes occurred at 2 17 p m on Thirty four Street NE between Oakland and Carlisle and 2 18 p m in Van Vechten park. Later fires were at 2 31 p m in a back yard at 1919 Johnson avenue NW and 3 42 p m at Iowa avenue and Memorial drive SE. A final fire sparked at 4 17 p m along the Milwaukee right of way at E avenue and Twenty seventh street SE.
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Cedar Rapids
Fourteenth Avenue
Eighth and
Ninth Streets
Thirty-fourth Street
Oakland
Carlisle
van Vechten Park
Johnson Avenue NW
Iowa Avenue
Memorial Drive
E Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
Milwaukee
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Jean Small
Wallace
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Naples
Liri
Salerno
Sant’ Elia
Tyrrhenian Sea
Pontine
Kenneth Dixon
U. S
Marshalls
Orville M. Fitzgerald
Bermuda
Charles
Herman Nebiker, Jr
Herman Nebiker
Mt. Vernon Road SE
Marines
Treasure Island
San Francisco
Richard L. Reeder
Stanley Reeder
Thirty-third Street
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Camp Stewart
L. W. Valliere
J. W. Valliere
Nineteenth Avenue
Camp Carson
L. L. Siegel
J. D. Siegel
Avenue NE
British Camp
Pvt
John E. Schaller
John R. Schaller
Southland Street
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
Kenneth Bierkamp
England
L. M. Bierkamp
Fifth Avenue SE
Frank W. Barta
Jay W. Hesser
Barta
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