Grand Jury Indicts Briggs for Forgery and Mail Fraud
Federal grand jury charges George N. Briggs, aide to Interior Secretary Ickes, with forging Harry Hopkins's name to a White House letter and with mail fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses. Hopkins and others exonerated. Briggs faces up to 53 years and $8000 in fines if convicted.
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George N. Briggs
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
Harry L. Hopkins
White House
Briggs
Edward C. Eicher
Federal District Court For
District of Columbia
Hopkins
Frank Phillips
Oklahoma
Umphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Lee
Wendell Willkie
Sparks
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Ohio
Phillips
Messenger
Dallas
Ictment
Mutiny Rumor Shakes Bulgaria's Army
London dispatch reports sporadic rebellions in the Bulgarian army over several days and possible widening to a general mutiny. The BBC cited an Ankara correspondent saying a general code of mutiny circulated and authorities failed to curb it.
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London
Ankara
British Broadcasting Corporation
Britain to donate one percent of national income to UNRRA
London reports that Great Britain will contribute one percent of its national income to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Chancellor of the Exchequer John Anderson said the move would help feed occupied territories as advancing Allied armies push forward.
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London
Great Britain
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
John Anderson
Caterpillar Found in An Iowa January Strangeness
Mrs. Cora Woerderhoff of 2031 Furlington Street WSW picked up a caterpillar on the street Tuesday. Bees mosquitoes and butterflies are also noted as unusual for the frigid Iowa January.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Cora Woerderhoff
Furlington Street
Wsw
Senator Frederick Van Nuys Dies at 69 in Virginia
Indiana senator and longtime judiciary committee chair Frederick Van Nuys died suddenly at his Vienna Virginia home at age 69. He had scheduled a judiciary hearing day on liquor industry probes and may have suffered influenza after a cold.
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Washington
Frederick van Nuys
D-Ind
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Vienna
van Nuys
Judiciary
Floyd J. Mattice
Liquor Investigating Committee
Mattice
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Indian Affairs Committee
Executive Department
Cedar Rapids Food Prices Jump Across 1941 43
Special to The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa saw retail food costs in December 1943 rise 8.2 percent from a year earlier and 45.7 percent from January 1941. Meats edged up 0.5 percent with round steak up 1.9 percent pork chops up 0.8 while bacon declined 1.6 percent. Dairy fell 0.2 percent with butter down 0.8 and eggs down 1.2 percent. Fruits and vegetables gained 2 percent led by cabbage up 18.4 percent and spinach down 21.9 percent.
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Kansas City
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U. S. Department of Labor
Bureau
Private Five Years Ago a Colonel Now
Wilson R. Wood of Chico Texas enlisted as a buck private five years ago and was promoted Tuesday to full colonel at age 25. As a lieutenant colonel he has commanded a group of B 26 Marauder medium bombers and will continue to lead them on frequent sweeps over occupied France.
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London
Wilson R. Wood
Chico
Texas
Wood
France
Allies Hammer French Coast In Third Straight Day of Bombing
Allied air forces unleash a third straight day of bombardment on the French invasion coast while Radio Berlin claims Anglo American bombers flew over Berlin in pre dawn raids. Observers note widespread bomber activity across the Dover Straits as U S Eighth Air Force hits western Germany. Major Gerald Johnson leads a Thunderbolt sweep over Germany claiming six German fighters down in a low altitude dogfight.
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London
Radio Berlin
Channel
Straits of Dover
France
Berlin
British Air Ministry
Radio
R.A.F
Reich
Paris
Basel
Switzerland
Germany
United States
Eighth Air Force
The
Gerald Johnson
Owenton
Two Cedar Rapids Flyers Reported Missing in Action Over Germany
Second Lts. George A. Hannon Jr. and Francis E. Wilson, both with Cedar Rapids ties, are missing in action since Jan 11 after a major air battle over Germany in which 700+ bombers and fighters took part. Hannon, 27, navigator aboard a Flying Fortress, formerly Cedar Rapids resident, wife Dorothy Snouffer, has received commendations and medals. Wilson, 25, Fortress pilot, Des Moines native with Navy service prior to the Army Air Corps, earned an Air Medal recently and has ties to Minneapolis wife and Cedar Rapids family.
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Cedar Rapids
George A. Hannon, Jr
Francis E. “Bud” Wilson
Germany
War Department
Eighth Air Force
Hannon
George A. Hannon
Minneapolis
Mine
Dorothy “J. Snouffer
B Avenue
Immaculate Conception
Coe College
Matherfield
Sacramento
Calif
Snouffer
A. J. Snouffer
England
Ira Eaker
Winston Churchill
Wai
Lt. Wilson
K. C. Rollins
Tenth Street
North High School
Des Moines
Navy
Navy Air Corps
Army Air Corps
Albany
Navy lists 182 casualties including Tarawa wounded Marine
Navy department reports 182 casualties from navy marine corps and coast guard with Marine Pfc George A Garden Jr 19 wounded in action at Tarawa He is son of Mr and Mrs George A Garden of 1415 Center Point Rd NE now in a San Diego naval hospital His wife lives at 511 26th St SE Garden a former Iowa Manufacturing employee and Franklin school graduate landed overseas in September after enlisting January 30 1943.
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Navy Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
George A. Garden
Tarawa
Pfc
Garden
Center Point Road
Naval Hospital
San Diego
Calif
Twenty-sixth Street
Franklin School
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Solons Predict Brief Session In Des Moines
Des Moines lawmakers arriving for a special session expect a short session focused on voting by absentee ballot for Iowa residents overseas. Lt. Gov. Blue and Speaker Burma were en route as of publication, while Sen. Devere Watson signaled push for income tax repeal despite caucus rules.
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Des Moines
Statehouse
Robert D. Blue
Henry W. Burma
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Devere Watson
Council Bluffs
Watson
Argentina Expected to Cut Axis Ties
Diplomats in Montevideo said Argentina would likely formally break relations with the Axis on Tuesday. The move was tied to the discovery of a pro Axis espionage ring and the arrest of an Argentine consul by British authorities in Trinidad. Officials noted Secretary Hull said nothing about Argentina in relation to the Bolivian coup, as Buenos Aires had warned the U S ambassador of its plan.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Trinidad
Hull
United States
Western Hemisphere withholds recognition of Bolivian regime
The United States and nine Western Hemisphere nations refuse to recognize Bolivia's revolutionary rulers. The move aims to disrupt Axis influence and pressure Argentina, with Ambassador Boal ordered home and Bolivia's future fate under close watch by regional powers.
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Washington
South America
United States
Bolivia
Germany
Argentina
State Department
Pierre de L. Boal
Uruguay
Cuba
Venezuela
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Guatemala
Peru
Panama
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Britain backs US stance on Bolivia coup
Britain and the United States refuse recognition of Bolivia's new government. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said the coup may have been aided by German agents and that Britain is in step with Washington on recognition and economic measures.
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London
Britain
United States
Bolivia
Anthony Eden
Commons
Eden
Nazi Fire Along Rapido Worst I've Seen In Three Campaigns
U S Colonel describes the Rapido fight as the bloodiest of three Italian campaigns. American troops failed to establish a bridgehead across the swollen river, facing mined banks and crossfire while retreating under heavy German fire.
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Rapido
U.S
Rapido Front
Italy
Charles Denholm
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Dee
Bond drive in Linn county reaches 20 percent of goal
The Linn county war bond drive totals 1 756 213 50 toward a two million dollar target leaving 80 percent still to raise before Feb 15. Cedar Rapids outside pledges contribute 638 623 50 and 581 for the city. New Series E sales in Cedar Rapids bring 469 393 to date. Mrs. Clymer reports 84 297 50 from about 15 families and cites support from Frank Mulherin and D C Mulherin. Roy Fruehauf plans a Hampshire sow sale to aid bond efforts.
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Linn
Cedar Rappe
Cedar Rapids
Ralph M. Clymer
Second Avenue SE
Citizens
D. C
Beach-head Allies Push Inland From Nettuno Anzio Front
Allied troops drive 12 miles inland from Nettuno Anzio beachhead with reinforcements pouring in and Anzio taken. American patrols contest Cassino front while German counterattacks lessen. Italians French and British report heavy fighting along Gustav line and Garigliano area as bombers strike rail yards and supply routes.
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Algiers
Nettuno-Anzio
Cassino
Rome
Albert Kesselring
Sant’ Elia
Tyrrhenian Sea
Nettuno
Anzio
Rapido
Sor Angelo
Gustav Line
Garigliano
Minturno
Castelforte
Alphonse-Fierreduin
Mt. Croce
Eighth Army
Washburn Named New Commander of Navy Preflight School
Capt. Ed ward D. Washburn was appointed to succeed the late Capt. David C. Hanrahan as commander of the Navy Preflight School at Iowa City. Washburn, currently at the western sea frontier, previously commanded the battleship California and held senior Navy posts including chief of naval operations staff. Comdr. Harvey Harman has been acting commandant.
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Iowa City
Edward D. Washburn
David C. Hanrahan
Navy
Thomas E. Martin
R-Ia
Washburn
Western Sea Frontier
Hanrahan
Harvey Harman
Rep. Martin
Washington
California
Naval Operations
Naval Academy
Maine
Minnesota
Battle Fleet
Newport
R. 1
War Production Board says no newsprint stockpile planned
Washington AP Arthur R. Treanor head of the printing and publishing division told a House subcommittee there is no intention to create a stockpile of newsprint. The briefing concerns newsprint supplies and government handling.
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Washington (Ap
War Production Board
Arthur R. Treanor
House
Women's Features Preview in Today's Index
Tom Treanor highlights in depth features on women’s topics in today’s index. The piece previews columns and trends shaping the section with节 diverse voices and notable placements.
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Tom Treanor
Allied forces push to Nettuno amid fear of German counterattacks
General Henry Maitland Wilson said Allied troops were racing to build up the Nettuno area in Italy as authorities warned of potential German counter-attacks. The fight was described as possibly fierce like Salerno.
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Italy
Henry Maitland Wilson
Nettuno
Salerno
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