Sneak Raid Warning in March 1941 Pearl Harbor Probe
Testimony shows Captain Zacharias warned Admiral Kimmel in March 1941 that Japan would likely launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on a weekend, possibly Sunday morning, aiming to destroy four battleships. He cited corroboration by Vice Admiral Smith and outlined defensive sea area proposals and merchant lane inspections.
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Washington
E. M. Zacharias
Naval Intelligence
Husband E. Kimmel
Japan
United States
Pearl Harbor
Kimmel
Zacharias
Pacific Fleet
W. W. Smith
Smith
Salt Lake City
New Mexico
San Francisco
Kichisaburo Nomura
Youth Sentenced On Breaking and Entering Charge
Donald D. Sheronick an 18 year old of 219 Seventh street NE Cedar Rapids pled guilty to breaking and entering and was sentenced by Judge J E Heiserman to one year in county jail and a $1 fine with costs with the sentence suspended Crissman the county attorney urged suspension Sheronick was arrested a week earlier arraigned last Wednesday and given until Monday to obtain an attorney Crissman said he stole four radios and other equipment from a Cedar Rapids radio shop on Jan 19 and noted the youth had good references from his father who appeared in court a liquor book altered birth date was found on the youth
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Cedar Rapids
J. E. Heiserman
Donald D. Sheronick
Seventh Street
Sheronick
Heiserman
William W. Crissman
Crissman
Blaze Sweeps Hangar at Tinker Field Kills Eight
Eight people died and 38 were injured as flames swept the main hangar at Tinker Field in Oklahoma City. Fire crews clawed through debris, identifying the victims later as workers cleared away wreckage pieces.
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Oklahoma City
Tinker Field
Milkman Hero Helps In Kansas City Apartment Fire Tragedy
Kansas City fire killed 19 and damaged the Winona apartments after mice chewed matches in a closet. Fire Director Francis Wornall praised extraordinary bravery including a milkman who steered a delivery truck to aid and calm evacuees, and a tenant who leaped 30 feet to save a baby. The Red Cross aided survivors. The building housed 70 people.
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Kansas City
INS
Francis Wornall
Winona Apartments
Wornall
American Red Cross
Local action urged to curb night club construction
Washington AP reports civilian production chief J D Small urged curb on use of scarce building materials for night clubs juke joints and roadside stands. He called on communities to attack the national housing emergency with local measures to slow construction.
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Washington
J. D. Small
Small
Fagin Like Figure Charged In Cedar Rapids Theft Plot
A Cedar Rapids scheme involving a father Lewis Adams 70 and two boys ages 11 and 13 saw shoplifting across downtown stores. Adams pled not guilty blaming his son, bond set at 2000, and a jail stay pending further action.
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Cedar Rapids
Lewis Adams
Third Avenue SW
Chester Bennett Hong Kong hero spurned safety for espionage
Hal Boyle recounts Chester Bennett, famed American in Hong Kong during World War II. He refused repatriation to stay and aid British and Chinese agents, relaying shipping data and smuggling money into Stanley camp to feed internees. He collaborated with Marcus Da Silva to move funds via promissory notes, bribing merchants and hiding cash in lard cans.
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China
Stanley Camp
Anti Sone
Bennett
Ginger” Hyde
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Chester
Stanley
Marcus
da Silva
Russia Challenges Iranians Appeal at UN Council
London AP reports Russia questioned the validity of Iran’s appeal to the United Nations Security Council after Iran accused the Soviet Union of meddling in Iranian affairs. Soviet foreign affairs chief Vishinsky told the council Iran’s charges lack sufficient grounds and come from a government no longer in power as Iran’s new premier Ahmed Qavam took office in Tehran replacing Ibraham Hakimi.
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London
Russia
Iran
United Nations Security Council
Soviet Union
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Lice-Commisser
Il-Member Council
Ahmed Qavam
Tehran
Ibrahim Hakimi
Steel Peace Within Week Is Predicted
A White House official forecast a steel strike ending within a week amid growing signs that a settlement bloc is ascendant over a fight stance. The report notes wage talks at Ford Chrysler and RCA contracts, while CIO UAW and packing workers move toward resumed activity and arbitration averts wider strikes.
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Washington
Ford
Chrysler
White House
Step Asked Of Truman By Tydings
Senator Tydings urged President Truman to call a world disarmament conference to avert an atomic world war. He questioned the UN’s ability to control atomic weapons while noting global powers rearm, and supported civilian-led policy on an atomic energy commission with strong international control.
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Truman
Tydings
Washington
D-Md
Senate
United Nations Action
United Nations Organization
Davies
Sen. McMahon
D-Conn
Thousands of WWII Suits Hoarded in Factories
The Evening Sun reports a clothing crisis in Baltimore Philadelphia and New York with thousands of suits held in manufacturers warehouses. Estimates range from 400 000 to 750 000 as firms delay releases awaiting higher prices and OPA ceilings.
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Baltimore
Evening Sun
Philadelphia
New York
The
Sun
the Sun
OPA
Meat Supply Lagging After Government Seizure
About 270000 AFL and CIO packinghouse workers returned to federal service as the Agriculture Department ran 134 strike bound plants. Officials warned normal meat supplies would not reappear for nearly a week with slaughtering in Chicago resuming late Monday. Cattle must hang 36 to 48 hours before processing and overshipment should be avoided.
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Chicago
AFL
CIO
Agriculture Department
Gayle G. Armstrong
Iowa packinghouse strike winds down as workers plan return
Associated Press reports that most of Iowa's 15,000 striking packinghouse workers planned to return to work Monday. Yet CIO United Packinghouse Workers leaders and others stressed the strike remains on. Workers voted to return per CIO national wage policy committee, with plants to run under government management.
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United Construction Workers
United Mine Workers
Kentucky
Virginia
Radio Corporation of America
United Electrical Workers
RCA
Camden
N.J
CIO
General Electric
Westinghouse
General Motors
Potomac
Associated Press
Iowa
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
National
Coasting Fatality Claims 11-Year-Old Don Bowers
Donald Edward Bowers 11 of Toddville died in a Cedar Rapids hospital from a basal skull fracture after a coasting accident Sunday. He was transported by Rolland Golt and died Monday morning. No charges against Earl Van Alst. Survived by parents Meryl and [last name], two sisters, a brother. Services planned Wednesday at Free Methodist Church Toddville. Burial Dunkard cemetery. Beatty chapel to host viewing through noon Wednesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Edward Bowers
Meryl Bowers
Toddville
Rolland Golt
Earl van Alst
Iowa City
Joan
Janet
Junior
Free Methodist Church
Dunkard
Beatty Chapel
14 Graf Spee Crewmen Escape From Internment Camp
Buenos Aires AP Santa Fe police said 14 former Graf Spee crewmen escaped from a camp at Villa de Guadalupe where they were interned with 66 others. Several more escaped two weeks earlier from a camp in Mendoza province and remain at large. The Graf Spee was sunk at the mouth of the Plata river in December 1939 after a running fight with three British cruisers.
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Buenos Aires
Santa Fe
Admiral Spee
Villa de Guadalupe
Graf Spee
Mendoza
Plata River
G I s To Disband Protest Committee
Manila AP reports a three week protest group formed by GIs to speed demobilization will be disbanded after achieving its aims. Chairman Sgt Lawrence Spitz notes hearings with War Secretary Patterson and the Mead committee, plus a Pacific sub committee on demobilization, and urges troops not to be used in internal Philippine affairs.
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G. I. Committee
United States
Philip
Actor Brian Aherne wed Mrs Eleanor De Liagre Labrot
Nyack New York AP reports actor Brian Aherne and socialite Eleanor De Liagre Labrot were married on Sunday in Nyack New York. The couple tied the knot amid family and friends. The ceremony marked Aherne's first marriage since rising to stardom.
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Nyack
N. Y
Brian Aherne
Eleanor de Liagre Labrot
New York
Soicialite
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