Hopkins and Ickes Exonerate After Forged Letter Case
A federal grand jury indicted George N. Briggs, aide to Interior Secretary Ickes, on forgery mail fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses. Hopkins, Phillips, Umphrey Lee, and Ickes were exonerated. Briggs allegedly forged Hopkins signature on a White House letter about Wendell Willkie, used the document to obtain $125 from C Nelson Sparks, and mailed eight letters in furtherance of the scheme.
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Washington
INS
George N. Briggs
Interior Ickes
Harry L. Hopkins
White House
Briggs
Edward C. Eicher
Federal District Court
District of Columbia
Hopkins
Frank Phillips
Oklahoma
Umphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Iokes
Lee
Wendell Willkie
Sparks
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Ohio
Phillips
Ickes
Messenger
Dallas
Mutiny Rumor Shakes Bulgaria's Army
London AP reports Ankara broadcasts say small scale rebellions have rocked the Bulgarian army in recent days and may grow into a general mutiny. The BBC circulated a report from an Ankara correspondent that a general code of mutiny has circulated with authorities not stopping it.
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London
Ankara
British Broadcasting Corporation
One Percent British Income for UNRRA
Great Britain will contribute to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration an amount equal to 1 percent of national income, said Sir John Anderson. He told the Commons there would likely be additional expenditures for feeding occupied territories while armies advance.
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London
Great Britain
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
John Anderson
Exchequer
Commons
Caterpillar Appears in Unseasonably Warm Iowa Day
Mrs. Cora Woer derhoff of 2031 Burlington Street SW found an actual caterpillar on a Tuesday amid bees mosquitoes and butterflies in January, a season when such creatures are normally absent from the frigid Iowa air.
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Genar Rapids
Iowa
Cora Woerderhoff
Burlington Street
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana Dead at 69
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, 69, longtime chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, died suddenly at his Vienna Virginia home. He had planned a judiciary subcommittee hearing on liquor issues the day he passed. He served since 1932 and held roles on foreign relations Indian affairs and executive expenditures committees. He opposed many administration policies and favored a balanced budget.
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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
Senate, Foreign Relations Committee
Indian Affairs Committee
Executive Department
Allies Keep On Blasting Axis Coast
Allied air forces pounded the French invasion coast for a third day as RAF and US bombers hit northern France and German targets. Radio Berlin claimed raids on Berlin and Basel sparked alerts, while a daylight attack on Germany involved Fortresses Liberators Thunderbolts and Mustangs with significant losses on both sides. Major Gerald Johnson led a Thunderbolt flight that Downed six Focke-Wulf 190s in a mid-air 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
Dames
Gerald Johnson
Owenton
Two C R Flyers Missing After Great Air Battle
Cedar Rapids reports missing in action since Jan 11 are Lt George A Hannon Jr navigator of a Flying Fortress and Lt Francis E Bud Wilson Fortress pilot. Both men have strong ties to Cedar Rapids and Des Moines area families. The January 11 air battle over Germany involved more than 700 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with 64 planes lost, German claims described as the war’s greatest air battle.
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Cedar Rapids
George A. Hannon, Jr
Francis E. “Bud” Wilson
Germany
War Department
Eighth Air Force
Lt. Hannon
George A. Hannon
Minneapolis
Snouffer
A. J. Snouffer
England
Ira Eaker
Winston Churchill
Lt. Wilson
K.C. Rollins
Cedar Rapids Food Prices Rise 45 Percent Since 1941
Special to The Gazette from Kansas City reports Cedar Rapids retail food costs in December 1943 were 8.2 percent above December 1942 and 45.7 percent higher than January 1941. Meats rose 0.5 percent, pork chops 8 percent, bacon fell 1.6 percent. dairy fell 0.2 percent. eggs down 1.2 percent. Fruits and vegetables up 2 percent overall with carrots up 6 percent and cabbage up 18.4 percent while spinach dropped 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 at 25
London AP reports Wilson R Wood of Chico Texas enlisted as a buck private five years ago and was promoted Tuesday to full colonel at age 25. He has commanded a group of B 26 Marauder bombers as lieutenant colonel and will lead them on frequent sweeps over occupied France.
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London
Wilson ‘R. Wood
Chico
Texas
Wood
France
Navy lists 182 casualties including Tarawa wounded Marine
Navy department reports 182 casualties across the navy, marine corps, and coast guard. Marine Pfc. George A. Garden Jr., 19, wounded in action at Tarawa, is hospitalised in San Diego. Garden, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Garden, married, and a Franklin school graduate, enlisted Jan. 30, 1943 and was deployed September.
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Navy Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
George A. Garden, Jr
Tarawa
Pfc
Garden
George A. Garden
Center Point Road
Naval Hospital
San Diego
Calif
Twenty-sixth Street
Franklin School
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Solons Predict Brief Session Opens Des Moines Special
Iowa legislators arriving for the Des Moines special session expect a short meeting focused on absentee voting. Gov Bourke Hickenlooper invoked the session to enable overseas citizens to vote. Senator Devere Watson signals intent to press 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 tie in Buenos Aires
Diplomats report a planned Argentine move to sever relations with the Axis countries based on an alleged pro Axis espionage ring and the Trinidad consular arrests. The United States and nine Western Hemisphere nations refuse to recognize Bolivia's revolutionary rulers signaling broader anti Axis mobilization.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Trinidad
Hull
United States
Britain and U S refuse to recognize Bolivia coup
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced in Parliament that Britain would not recognize Bolivia's new government. He said the coup was aided by German agents and that Britain is in step with the United States on recognition and economic action.
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Washington
South America
United States
Bolivia
Germany
Argentina
State Department
Pierre de L. Boal
London
Britain
Anthony Eden
Commons
Eden
Fire on Rapido Front Proves Worst Yet in Three Campaigns
U S Colonel and officers describe the Rapido clash as among the bloodiest Italian campaign actions. German crossfire ripped through defenses, machines guns and mortars halted the assault, and a crippled bridge-head forced a retreat across the swollen river with American troops starving for ammunition. The Cassino area remains a focal point as Allied units withdraw under heavy fire.
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Graham Rovey
Rapido Front
Italy
Rapido
Wes
Charles Denholm
Poughkeepsie
Weold
Cassino
Andrew Price
Fort Worth
Texas
Bond drive nears $2 million in Linn County
Cedar Rapids district totals show $1,756,213.50 raised toward a $2,000,000 county quota as of Tuesday, about 80 percent of the goal still needed by February 15. Monday's receipts reached $638,623.50 with Cedar Rapids city pledges of $581,535 and county outside Cedar Rapids contributing the rest. New Series E bond sales in Cedar Rapids reached $68,291 for a class total of $469,393.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapie
Cedar Rapids
Ralph M. Clymer
Second Avenue SE
Citizens Service Corps
William Stewart
First Avenue NE
Seventh Precinct
Gary Gohmann
Third Avenue SE
Clymer
Frank Mulherin
Route 1
Cpl
Newman Mulherin
California
Mulherin
D. C Mulherin
Ellis Boulevard
Allied push inland as Cassino battles rage in Italy
Allied troops push 12 miles inland from Nettuno and Anzio beachheads as German counter-attacks intensify along the Cassino front. American patrols reclaim Rapido bridges while French and British units hold the Gustav line. Berlin claims Velletri destroyed near Rome amid invasion pressure.
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Algiers
Nettuno-Anzio
Cassino
Rome
Morocco
Littoria
Pontine Marshes
Nettuno
Littorio
Mratisa
Sofia
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Italy
Henry Maitland Wilson
Salerno
Washburn named Hanrahan’s successor as navy preflight head
Capt Ed ward D Washburn of the western sea frontier is appointed to replace the late Capt David C Hanrahan as commander of the navy Preflight school at Iowa City Rep Thomas E Martin said Washburn commanded the California from 1938 to 1939 and has served in the chief of naval operations office since.
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Iowa City
Edward D. Washburn
David C. Hanrahan
Navy
Thomas E. Martin
R-la
Washburn
Western Sea Frontier
Hanrahan
Harvey Harman
Rep
Martin
Washington
California
Naval Operations
Naval Academy
Maine
Minnesota
Battle Fleet
Newport
R. IL
WPB Says No Newsprint Stockpile Planned
Washington AP The War Production Board will not create a newsprint stockpile. Arthur R. Treanor director of the printing and publishing division testified Tuesday before a House subcommittee investigating newsprint supplies.
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Washington (Ap
War Production Board
Arthur R. Treanor
House
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