Three Yanda Children Die in Marion Trailer Fire
A trailer home at Marion burned early Sunday killing Robert Allen Yanda eight Marilyn Mae Yanda six and Joyce Dephene Yanda eleven. Their mother Thora Yanda thirty one was critically burned and the father William Yanda thirty three escaped with minor burns. The fire began about 3 am from a possible oil stove in the children's compartment. No inquest will be held. The family had lived in the trailer near a school for five months while Yanda worked as a dragline operator. Services for the children will be held in Toledo and they will be buried there.
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Gazette
William Vanda
Marion
Joyce
Robert Allen
Marilyn Mae
Yanda
St. Luke's Hospital
Lowe Construction Company
Thora Yanda
William Yanda
Glenn Wallace
Vanda
Toledo
Wallace
Henderson Funeral
Sealed Windows to Help Fort Gunners
London reports sealed windows will allow fortress waist gunners to fire on Germans from behind. Protective shatterproof panes enable operation of the guns without sacrificing maneuverability despite gale and 50 to 60 degree below zero conditions.
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London
Stimson To Radio On Labor Draft Tuesday
Secretary of War Stimson will discuss the labor draft proposal in a 5 to 5 15 p.m. Central War time radio address from Washington. The talk will be broadcast nationwide over the NBC network, the War Department announced.
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Washington
War Stimson
NBC
War Department
Bond drive in Linn county shows slow start
The five day Cedar Rapids bond sale total reached 1.12 million dollars with Saturday investments at 112 241 bringing series E to 401 102 and Linn county goal at 8 5 million. W D Bayless reports 425 000 pledged in house to house campaign as precinct leaders exceed third drive, with final totals expected to surpass 500 000.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Citizens Service Corps
W. D. Bayless
Navy
Frank W. Pfaff
Park Avenue SE
H. C. Ring
Bever Avenue
Gerald Phillips
Everett C. Fisher
Meadowbrook Drive
Ring
Million Dollar Army Depot Fire at Fort Wayne
At Fort Wayne a large storage building burned taking 100 tons of automotive spare parts worth several million dollars. No injuries or ammunition danger reported as the blaze spread to a second building. Officers estimate the loss at five percent of post equipment and note unusual multicolored flames from metal components.
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Detroit
Mns
Fort Wayne
AFL Re-Admits Lewis on 1936 Terms Only for UMW
AFL executive council rejected John L. Lewis readmission terms and offered to restore UMW status as of 1936 with jurisdiction limited to coal in the mining industry. A committee was ordered to meet again if Lewis accepts the conditions, while the chemical workers issue remains unsettled amid broader jurisdiction questions.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
AFL
William Green
Green
District 50
AFL Progressive Mine Workers of America
Springville School Safe Cracked and Looted
Thieves broke into the Springville school over the weekend, taking 125 dollars from a safe and a small amount from a desk in the superintendent’s office. The break was found Monday morning, Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon investigated, and entry was gained via a window in the girls’ restroom. They knocked the dial off the safe but could not open it, then used tools from the manual training department to breach the safe wall.
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the Gazette
Springville
Larry Condon
Linn County
Manual Training Department
Working Lad Quizzed Over Work Law Violation
Joseph Erceg a 12 year old student at St Ludmila's stood in police court on a Monday with his mother by his side. Police charged Lincoln bowling alleys manager John Scolaro with violating child labor law while Joseph explained he worked nights to help his ailing father and money short family.
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Joseph
Lincoln
Harry S. Johnson
John Scolaro
Justice of the Peace
Howard R. Churchill
John Dr
Marine Corps
St. Ludmila’s
Navy Launches New Carrier U S S Hancock at Quincy
The U S S Hancock, the navy's latest mighty aircraft carrier, slid down the ways in Quincy Massachusetts on Monday marking a major milestone for naval power.
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Quincy, Mass
Navy
U.S.S. Hancock
Snow and Slick Roads Report Cedar Rapids and Vicinity
Snow reported west of Cedar Rapids and slick highways on routes 30 and 20 per the Automobile Club. Winter weather forecast calls for rain, colder temperatures, and strong winds. Readings ranged from 28 to 49 degrees across the state with Cedar Rapids at 36 at 2:30 p.m.
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Cedar Rapids
Highway 30
Cedar Rapids Automobile Club
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
The
Automobile Club
Iowa
Chambers Inskeep
Mercury
Fort Dodge
Davenport
Cedar
Rapids
Moore-McCormack Indicted Over Delayed Red Materials
The Moore-McCormack Lines and three officers face U S indictments in Seattle for allegedly negotiating wharfage rebates with the Port of Seattle to delay forwarding vital lend lease war materials to Russia. The government says the firm acting for Amtorg Trading Corp refused Portland terminals, causing rail congestion and designating Seattle as the exclusive port.
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Seattle
Moore- McCormack Lines, Inc
Russia
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Portland
Ore
Moore-McCormack
Re‘bates
Soviets Tighten Grip on Leningrad Rail Network
Soviet forces seized the twin rail junctions of Pushkin and Paviovsk south of Leningrad, moving to control a key network feeding Moscow. Red Army advanced along the Volkhov River, threatening the Chudovo Tosno line as German retreats continued.
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London
Pushkin
Paviovsk
Leningrad
Russia
Moscow
Volkhov
Red Army
Chudovo
Tosno
Pustinka
Mga
White Russia
Pripet
Simonovichi
Mozyr
Berlin
Petsamo
Kerch
Crimea
Germany Hit By American Big Bombers
United States heavy bombers with Thunderbolts Lightnings Mustangs and Spitfires resumed raids on northern and western Germany. Marauders and R A F escort struck Pas de Calais and Maupertus in Cherbourg area with about 300 tons of bombs. Four German planes were shot down and one American bomber and one fighter were missing.
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London
United States
Reich
Germany
United States Army
French Channel
R.A.F
The
Pas de Calais
Air Ministry
Maupertus
Cherbourg
Gilze Rijen
Holland
Nettuno
Littoria
Berlin
South not represented in Proposers of Fourth Term
Washington, UP, reports say the Democratic national committee’s resolutions committee lacked Southern representation as it proposed a fourth term for President Roosevelt. The six men and one woman favored fourth term, with heavy weight on Chicago and Jersey City bosses, Pennsylvania backers, and Rhode Island senator Green chairing. The absence raises friction between old-guard Democrats and New Dealers amid party machine influence.
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Democratic National Committee
Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt
National Committee
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Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Joseph F. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Guffey
Emma Guffey Miller
David L. Lawrence
Theodore F. Green
Rhode Island
Hague
Rep
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
Congress
Kelly
Illinois
Democratic
Keen Johnson
Kentucky
Dement
O. S. Warden
Montana
Fir
Nazi Fascist Exodus From Caesars City
Madrid reports said thousands of Fascists and Germans were leaving Rome as Allied forces landed nearby. Citizens welcomed the Liberators while flag sewing and church prayers marked the mood, with 6,000 republican Fascists reported fleeing north amid bombed transport routes.
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Madrid
Rome
Eternal City
Compromise on Vets Pay Sets $300 Maximum
Congressional conferees agreed on a muster ing-out pay bill with a sliding scale for armed services members. The deal guarantees $300 to all who served overseas, easing veteran pay limits.
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Washington
Armed Services
Pravda Says Nazi Efforts To Split Allies Failed
Pravda reports the last Nazi hope to sow discord among the Allies has failed a week after rumors of German peace negotiations with high British personalities were published.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Soviet Rebuff on Hull Effort Affects Poland Exile Ties
Berlin radio quoted Tidningen that the Soviet government declined Secretary Hull's offer to help restore relations between Russia and the Polish government in exile, influencing postwar diplomacy in Europe.
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New York
Berlin
Stockholm
Tidningen
Hull
Russia
British envoy Kerr rushes back to Moscow in frontier dispute
London dispatch says Sir Archibald Clark Kerr the British ambassador to Russia speeds home to Moscow after less than a week of planned leave due to developments in the Soviet Polish frontier dispute. He conferred with Prime Minister Churchill Foreign Secretary Eden Polish leaders Mikolajczyk and Romer.
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London
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Russia
Moscow
Kerr
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Tadeus Romer
Ike's Scottie Telek Impounded By British Dog Catchers
Telek the Scottie, carried with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to Britain, was ordered quarantined for six months by canine health authorities to prevent potential disease from entering the country. The dog was flown from North Africa to England as Eisenhower prepared to lead Western invasion forces in Europe.
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London
Gen
Eisenhower
Scottie Telek
Telek
Britain
North Africa
England
Europe
Navy urges wider use of V Mail for overseas troops
The Navy cautioned that unless greater use is made of V-mail to service men and women it may become necessary to discontinue carrying other personal mail over seas by air. It said overseas operations are taxing air transportation facilities severely.
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Washington
The
Navy
Allies Again Gain Ground Below Rome
Allied reports say American and British forces drive four miles inland near Cassino and reach the Gari rivulet as they close on Rome. German counterattacks push back the Rapido crossing while Nettuno falls and the Appian Way comes under Allied fire. The race to secure coastal routes and inland roads continues with heavy air and sea support.
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Algiers
Rome
Appian Way
Pontine
Tenth
Cassino
Rapido River
Fifth Army
Allied
Rapido
Nettuno
Anzio
Salerno
Via Casilina
Wilson Says Bulk of Landings Completed
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, commander in the Mediterranean, said the Allies have landed the bulk of assault forces for the new beach head south of Rome. He noted the landings are finished as quickly as possible to press further blows by the enemy.
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Algiers
Henry Maitland Wilson
Mediterranean
Rome
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