War weariness and political notes from Linn County
War front fatigue worries leaders as inflation of desertion risks grows. A Dewey Bricker bid is analyzed with optimism and caution. A letter from Decorah criticizes U S employment policy while naming Otto F Hanzlik as Republican county auditor candidate. county convention misadventures noted.
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Otto F. Hanzlik
Linn County
Republican Convention
Hanzlik
Old American Trust and Savings Bank
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
Allies Repel Nazi Thrusts In Caen Area
Allied forces push to complete Cherbourg peninsula mopping up 5 000 German prisoners in 48 hours while British and American troops renew pressure near Caen. Rommel reportedly arrives at the front as front lines flex for decisive tank battles. German losses mount with 167 tanks destroyed since D day.
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Caen
Cap DE LA Hague
Cherbourg
HDQ
Britain
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Odon River
Esquay
Odon
Cheux
Grainville-Sur-Odon
Esq
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
Mueller
Kiehl
Peninsula
Cherbourg Peninsular
U. S
Roosevelt urges world economy growth at Bretton Woods
President Roosevelt appealed for a dynamic and soundly expanding world economy to lift standards of all nations at the United Nations monetary and financial conference in Bretton Woods New Hampshire. He urged abolition of artificial trade barriers to free world commerce and help economic health worldwide. Secretary Morgenthau warned that economic aggression leads to war and urged international cooperation.
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Bretton Woods
N.H
Roosevelt
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference
Warren Kelchner
Henry Morgenthau
the Treasury
Morgenthau
Nazis Bomb Southern England With Robot Aerial Attacks
London reports describe a 16 night blitz by German robot bombs striking southern England. Parliament debates government reporting, raid alert changes, and ways to ease civilian anxiety as Prime Minister Churchill weighs a brief public statement.
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London
England
Alfred Denville
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Herbert S. Morrison
Oliver Locker-Lampson Handsworth
Three Red Armies Join In Fight to Take Minsk
Soviet dispatches report three of four Russian armies converging to attack Minsk as Red forces advance up to 20 miles on the flanks. Borisov fell after heavy street fighting with reported Nazi casualties and prisoners taken.
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Minsk
London
Borisov
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Russia
Ristosie
Warsaw
Bern
Bogomyl
Pleshchenitsy
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Slutsk
Kopyl
Krasnaya Sloboda
Gresk
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Orsha
Berezina
Warren Carney Missing in Action in France
Pfc. Warren Carney 26, para troops, reported missing in action in France since D-day June 6. He is the son of Beatrice Narber and Thomas Carney, husband of Beatrice, with three children in Hannibal Missouri. He enlisted two years ago, previously worked for Tuckers Auto Salvage and attended McKinley high school.
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Warren Carney
France
Zola Melsha
Third Street
Carney
Beatrice Narber
Bellingham
Wash
Thomas Carney
Iowa City
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Beatrice
Warren
Thomas
Hannibal
McKinley High School
Tuckers’ Auto Salvage
Pfc
Pvt
Thomas E. Carney
Camp Pickett
Aleutians
Blacklist Grows to 152 Finnish Firms in Wartime Action
The United States adds 68 more Finnish companies to its blacklist, bringing total to 152. The action marks the firms as cogs in the German war machine, reflecting Washington's ongoing wartime measures.
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Washington
INS
State Department
Finland
United States
Japs Launch Offensive North of Canton
Japanese forces push north from the Canton area in a bid to link with drives on the Canton Hankow railway. Reports say a coastal landing near Foochow may indicate a wider push to disrupt Allied air bases and threaten Hengyang. Chinese high command vows to hold, but battle rages in Hengyang.
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Chungking
Canton
Canton-Hankow
Hunan
Fukien
Foochow
China
Hengyang
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Saipan Fight Deepens as U S Forces Press Central Ridge
Allied units push through central Saipan with pockets wiped out and Mt Tapotchau contested. Carrier planes raid Rota and Dbuildings on Formosa while Operations against Kurile islands continue with minimal Japanese air opposition.
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Pearl Harbor
Saipan Island
Rota
Chester W. Nimitz
Isely Field
Saipan
Tinian Island
Marianas Island
Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Mt. Tapotchau
Rembert James
Garapan
U. S
Blast at Ken and Ferns tavern destroys road house in Tiffin
Explosion at 4 30 p m Saturday wrecked Ken and Ferns a road house and tavern in Tiffin. Kenneth Ingram owner taken to Iowa City hospital with shock Alvy Potter present uninjured P R Ford owner adjoining property not hurt Gas pump serviced by gas truck possibly sparked by static. Oxford fire department responded but could not save the Ingram property. Tiffin lies seven miles northwest of Iowa City.
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Tiffin
Ken and Fern’s
Kenneth Ingram
Iowa City
Alvy Potter
P. R. Ford
Jackson Named Chairman of Democrat Convention
Senator Samuel D. Jackson of Indiana was chosen as permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention to be held in Chicago July 19. The announcement came as Robert E. Hannegan left for Chicago to finalize convention plans for nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt for another term. Jackson, then running for Indiana governor, was nominated by the national committee’s executive panel for the post, with full committee approval expected in Chicago on July 17.
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Washington
Samuel D. Jackson
Indiana
Chicago
Roosevelt
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Jackson
Senate
National Committee
Riots in Copenhagen as German forces crack down
Copenhagen erupts in all night street battles as German troops deploy tanks and artillery. Reports say up to scores dead and hundreds wounded with 300 000 to 400 000 workers involved in a general strike protesting the curfew and Schalburg regime. Hostages feared as Gestapo arrests swell and Swedish routes are shut. flags fly in defiance and casualties mount per BBC NBC and Svenska Dagbladet.
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Stockholm
Copenhagen
Gestapo
Malmoe
Ling
Schalburg Corps
Christian
Sorgenfri Castle
Svenska Dagbladet
NBC
Sweden
Denmark
Ernest L. Wilson Killed in Action in France
Ernest L. Wilson 26 was killed June 13 in France. Mrs. Carolyn Wilson of 1573 First Avenue SE was notified by the War Department. He served since April 1942, trained at Camp Barkeley Texas, and went to England last April. Surviving are his wife, parents Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wilson, three brothers and a sister.
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Ernest L. Wilson
France
Carolyn Wilson
First Avenue
War Department
Wilson
Camp Barkeley
Texas
England
Wilson Packing Plant
H. C. Wilson
First Street
Three U S Divisions Fighting on Saipan
The Second and Fourth Marine divisions and the Army's 27th Infantry division comprise the main components of the expeditionary forces fighting on Saipan in the Marianas, as reported by the Navy. The Second Marine Division had relieved the first on Guadalcanal and led the Tarawa assault, while the Fourth Marine Division fought in the Marshalls.
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Washington
Army
Saipan
Marianas Islands
Navy
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Gilberts
Marshall Islands
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U. S. Seventh Corps
M. Paul Reynaud
Harry Boyd
Europe
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Church
Commons
Vernon Bartlett
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Morrison
Cedar Rapids News
Sunday Index
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