End of Car Curbs Seen By January
Washington AP WPB foresees end of passenger car rationing by January and weighs a multi million dollar plant expansion to raise capacity. Henry P Nelson says decision on the proposal will come in a few weeks as materials loosen.
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Washington
War Production Board
Automobile Industry
Henry P. Nelson
WPB
Automotive Reconversion
Automobile Industry Advisory Committee
Nelson
Bertram Farm Wife Dies After Self Inflicted Wounding
Mrs. Geesey, 57, Bertram farm wife, died at 11 50 p m Wednesday after a self inflicted gunshot wound from a 22 caliber Winchester rifle in the milk house on the Geesey farm three and a half miles south of Bertram. Sheriff Whittemore said the bullet entered her right temple and lodged in the head. Neighbor John McClelland found her unconscious with her husband during haying on the farm. She had been in ill health and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1912. She and George Geesey were married in 1918 and she leaves a daughter and three grandchildren, plus a sister and a brother. The body is at Moon chapel pending arrangements.
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George Fis
Bertram Farm
Geesey
St. Luke’sospital
Geesey Arm
Bertram
Palisades Road
Whittemore
Whittemore Said Mrs. Geeseypparently Shot Herself About 6:10 .m. Mrs. Geesey
John McClelland
Aken
Greenille
Mich
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Frank Ilies
James Anerson
Washington, D. C
Charles Church
Minnepolis
Moon Chapel
Georgian Will Head Un American Probe
The House on Thursday named Rep. John Wood of Georgia as chairman of the committee on un American activities. He succeeds Rep. Edward Hart of New Jersey, who resigned from the post.
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Washington
John Wood
D-Ga
Edward Hart
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Okinawa Truce Tale: Japanese Garrison Chooses Silence
On a Ryukyu island, Maj. Watanabe rejects surrender while agreeing not to attack nonmilitary visitors. U.S. Lt. Osborn and Lt. Morton plant flags, negotiate with Watanabe, and later Clark’s team oversee talks. The scene ends with a tearful farewell as orders shift and a fragile peace gesture unfolds.
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Ryukyus
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Watanabe
United States 10Th Army
The
Navy
Japan
D. L. Osborn
United States
Ar‘rived
New Yorkers Bid On Day-Old Metropolitan Newspapers
Commuters and visitors near New York bid to buy day-old Metropolitan papers as strikebound papers linger. A Little Silver stand refused $1 offers for a day-old Times, while Asbury Park sold a well-thumbed copy for $1 and trains yielded 50 cent day-old papers.
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New ‘York
INS
New York’ News
Hitler Threats Exile and Siberia Mentioned by Czech Ministers
Six former Czech cabinet members in the German occupied protectorate testified at a treason hearing that Hitler threatened to execute every tenth Czech and deport the rest to Siberia after Heydrich’s death. They named ministers Bienert Krejci Hruby Kamenicky Halus and Kliment as participants and said the puppet leaders bear responsibility. The people’s court may impose death sentences, date not set.
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Bohemia and
Moravia
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Heydrich
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Emil Hacha
Richard Bienert
Yaroslav Kreijci
Hruby
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Ka~menicky
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Halfus
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Justice
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It Was Warmer in Cedar Rapids on Thursday
Cedar Rapids saw a warm day with temperatures rising to 80 at 2:30 p.m. and 77 by 7 p.m. Overnight lows around 60 with no precipitation. The state high reached 83 at Fort Dodge while Iowa City Dubuque and Mason City reported 56. Traces of rain were noted in spots.
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Chambers
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Iowa City
Dubuque
Mason_ City
High Points Spell Family Strife for Many G L s
Thousands of Allied soldiers in occupied Germany face domestic turmoil over war point classifications. Wives fear divorce as husbands with 85 to 127 points anticipate delayed homecomings. Officers warn rumors of imminent returns are unreliable and that reassignments affect homes and futures.
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Occupied Germany
Mrs Kadgihn 75 Dies in Iowa City After Cedar Rapids Life
Mrs Henry Kadgihn a Cedar Rapids resident for over 50 years died at her Iowa City home after a lingering illness. Born June 25 1870 in Bloomington Il she was a member of Peoples Church Cedar Rapids. Surviving husband a son Leo two grandchildren Mrs Sam Koster and Henry Kadgihn another grandson Capt Robert Kadgihn with Merrill's Marauders was killed in Burma. Elder Henry Kadgihn ran a Cedar Rapids photo studio 1890 to 1930 now operated in Iowa City with son Leo. Services in Iowa City Friday at 2 p.m.
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Iowa City
Bloomington
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Sam Koster
Robert Kadgihn
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Burma
Paris
Soviet Rules Will Prevail In All Berlin
Berlin authorities announce that all Soviet regulations stay in force until special notice. Allied handovers shift 12 of 20 boroughs to American and British control. American, British and Soviet directives guide with minimal changes. Counter intelligence screens Soviet appointees for Nazis. none found so far.
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Kommandator
Red
United States
Parley Begins Early in Week Aboard Cruiser Augusta
The Big Three meeting is expected to start Monday or Tuesday as President Truman stays in hourly contact with Third Fleet operations off Japan. The Augusta nears the British Isles amid clouds and rain with a British escort ship meeting the party before its projected arrival in northern Europe.
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Truman
Third Fleet
Japan
British Isles
Europe
Newport News
Italian War Orphan Returns Home From German Camp
In Boston a 9 year old Italian boy Natale Kisic Piavallo, an orphan and former prisoner in Schwerin after allegedly killing a Nazi officer, arrived on a navy transport. Immigration officials debated his fate as he waited amid tears and hopes of legal adoptive parents among his comrades.
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Boston
Natale Kisic Piavallo
121St Infantry
Schwerin
Germany
Navy
General Bliss
Natale
Oveta Hobby Resigns as WACs Director
Washington AP reports Col. Oveta Culp Hobby resigns Thursday from directing the Women’s Army Corps. Col. Westray Battle Boyce, 43, of Rocky Mount North Carolina, succeeds Hobby.
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Washington
Oveta Culp Hobby
Women’s Army Corps
Col
Westray Battle Boyce
Rocky Mount
N.C
Hobby
3000 Tons Of Bombs Hit Four Japanese Cities
The B 29 raids from Uwajima to Utsunomiya unleashed over 3 000 tons of incendiaries and demolition bombs on four Japanese cities and a Tokyo bay oil center before dawn Guam time. Allied invasion plans were discussed in Nipponese reports as Tokyo warned of island air bases to back invasions of the Malay peninsula or Sumatra.
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Shikoku
Uwa-jima
Utsunomiya
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Chester W. Nimitz
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Ryukyus
Ichiro Sokutomi
Dean
Eisenhower Returns to Continent After Liberating Campaign
General Eisenhower flies back to Europe amid the liberation effort. He returns to resume leadership as the drive toward final defeat of Nazi forces proceeds, with the Allied campaign entering its concluding phase.
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Continent
Paris
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