Rubber saving tips clash with wartime rationing reality
The editorial critiques rubber and gasoline conservation efforts, noting motorists cut mileage, aluminum supply issues, and tank trucks transporting gas while rail cars idle. It urges simpler, practical steps and highlights a local push to renegotiate medical relief contracts as war strains change needs. It also questions ongoing wartime fundraisers and urges organizations to trim activities to support the war effort.
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Coralville
Attacks on Sevastopol Intensified in Crimea War
Associated Press reports German forces stormed deeper into Sevastopol as Soviet dispatches claim 2,500 Nazi dead in Tuesday fighting. Red Star notes infantry penetration toward two heights while battle rages on the city approaches. Soviet shellfire disperses a Nazi regiment. two dozen German tanks and 26 planes damaged. Berlin says Sevastopol garrison fights for every foot amid five days of siege. Soviet information bureau highlights gains on the Leningrad front and losses for the enemy on Kalinin and other fronts.
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Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Crimea
Red Star
Berlin
Soviet Information Bureau
Crimean
Asis
Hitler
Leningrad
Information Bureau
Kalinin
Germans to be Happier for Defeat of Hitler
AP correspondent Louis P. Lochner, former Berlin bureau chief, said Germans will be happier after Hitler's defeat. In a radio talk, he noted Germans pray for deliverance from the un-German regime and urged Americans that Hitler is not an infallible genius.
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New York
Hitler
Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
Lochner
United States
Mexico to Pledge Adherence to Allies on Sunday
Washington AP Mexico will formally pledge adherence to the United Nations cause at a White House Flag Day ceremony Sunday. President Roosevelt will host UN representatives in the East Room. Mexican ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera will assent to the UN declaration, either by letter or signing, Mexico becoming the twenty seventh country to sign the declaration promulgated January 1.
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Washington
Mexico
United Nations
White House
Roosevelt
East Room
Francisco Castillo Najera
Twenty Die in British Raid on Taranto
British planes attacked Taranto Tuesday night starting fires and blasting three houses. Twenty persons were killed and 74 injured in the raid, an official admission on Wednesday said.
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Rome
INS
Taranto
Rubber Collection Will Decide If Nation Faces Gas Rationing
President Roosevelt announced a voluntary nationwide scrap rubber drive to gauge if sufficient reclaimable material exists to avoid broad gas rationing. He warned there would be no new tires for civilians and urged conservation, noting results would determine wartime tire policy. The Senate considered rubber allocation to support tire recapping, with officials saying 20 million cars could operate if rubber supplies meet estimates.
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U.S
Washington
Poinsettias
Rooseevelt
Roosevelt
Senate
Ellender
Dla
Senate Banking Committee
Five Months of Breath-Relief by Jay Friends
In Jay Oklahoma AP report Mason Williams a 49 year old schoolteacher survives five months by artificial respiration in relay shifts with friends. Dr Frank Veroni notes ALS with nerve degeneration first paralyzing hands shoulders then breathing and swallowing. Williams cannot speak or swallow without aid and weighs 87 pounds. Despite slim hope his supporters vow to continue until death.
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Jay. Okla
Mason Williams
Frank Veroni
Jay
Williams
Veroni
War Production Hit By Strike in East
Roebling Wire Products faces a sitdown strike by 600 workers at its open hearth mill. Company officials warn closure of all Roebling factories within a week to 10 days and idle labor exceeding 6,000. The walkout began after wage demands failed, violating a contract that bars work stoppages until grievances are presented.
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Roebling
N. J
Roebling Wire Products Corporation
John A. Roebling
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Lashio Raid by American Bombers Reported
Washington dispatch says Major Gen. Lewis H. Brereton reported to the war department that American bombers hit Lashio Burma on June 3. The raid grounded planes and damaged railway equipment and supplies. four planes were lost on the return flight due to extremely adverse weather.
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Washington
INS
Lewis H. Brereton
War Department
Lashio
Burma
Goodrich synthetic rubber demo wows Senate panel
A B F Goodrich executive wowed a senate agriculture subcommittee by shaping liquid ameripol latex into a ball in ten seconds and bouncing it on the floor. He said synthetic tires cost about 20 cents a pound and tested casings showed about 90 percent durability versus natural rubber. Plants planned in Kentucky and Texas should be ready by June 1. He described a tire with 55 percent synthetic content driven 24,127 miles and still usable.
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Washington
B. F. Goodrich
K. D. Smith
Akron
Ohio
McNary
R-Ore
Smith
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Goodrich
Kentucky
Texas
Lupino’s Father Stanley Lupino Dies in London
London confirms the death of Stanley Lupino, 48, noted stage comedian and Ida Lupino’s father, who passed away on Tuesday. The entertainer leaves a legacy in British theater and early screen prominence through his daughter.
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London
Stanley Lupino
Ida Lupino
Justice Murphy to take army post for four months training
Associate Justice Frank Murphy to leave the Supreme Court temporarily to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He will take the oath at the War Department, then proceed to Fort Benning Georgia for four months of field training and six weeks in the infantry advanced school attached to Gen. George C. Marshall’s office. He will not resign and expects to return after the duration.
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Murphy
United States
Allied air assault sinks 13 Japanese planes near Lae Salamaua
American Australian air crews report 13 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged in the largest Allied air strike in weeks on New Guinea invasion bases. Japanese Zeros fought back fiercely, eight shot down, two probably lost, three damaged. MacArthur announces raid on Ermera Timor and a submarine gunfire attack off southeastern Australia.
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Melbourne
Australia
Lae
Salamaua
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Ermera
Timor
Petain Convinced Axis Cannot Win Says Vichy Reports
Washington AP reports two years after Dunkirk Marshal Petain is convinced the Axis cannot win. Laval holds a contrary view and Admiral Darlan shares a similar opinion. German pressure and threats to collaborators influence actions while French uprising remains unlikely before Allied landings and demonstrated control.
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Washington
Dunkirk
Petain
Vichy
France
Germany
Pierre Laval
Laval
Europe
England
Russia
Jean Darlan
Japanese claim on Aleutians faces U.S. Navy doubt
The U S Navy said no inhabited Aleutian areas have been disturbed by Japanese landings and there is no information of Japanese on Alaska. Observers doubt any occupation would threaten mainland North America, noting the islands’ rugged terrain and limited air or naval use. Japanese radio claimed western Aleutians were seized, while a Tokyo naval press chief said forces had occupied western islands, citing Midway battles as a context.
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Berlin
Midway Island
Uncle Sam
U. S. Navy
Washington
Navy
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Aleutians
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Unalaska
Dutch Harbor
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Midway
Coral Sea
North America
Asia
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Kodiak
United States
Tokio
Hideo Miraide
Imperial Headquarters
All Men in Czech Village Executed Near Klando
AP reports Prague radio said German forces shot all men in a Czech village near Klando on suspicion of aiding Heydrich slavers. Women were deported to a camp and children sent to educational centers before the village was razed and erased from records.
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London
Prague Radio
Klando
Reinhard Heydrich
Salvage Revenue Boosts War Fund Total to $44,400
The Linn county salvage committee voted a $350 allotment from salvage materials sales toward the United War Fund, boosting the total to 44400. Henry Haegg, new civilian defense director, outlined reorganizing efforts at a Tuesday meeting. Elmer Wickham presented the check to campaign-office manager Mrs Alice Kirwin as the drive aims for a $50000 goal.
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Cedar Rapids
United War Fund
Linn County
Henry Haegg
Elmer Wickham
Alice Kirwin
Time for Uprising Radio Calls Germans to Rise
London dispatch reports a secret European Revolution radio station urged German listeners to revolt against the Nazi regime. The broadcast proclaimed that the hour has come and asserted that Hitler must and will be crushed this year.
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London
European Revolution
Hitler
Sugar rationing violator sentenced in Mankato
William Tanley, a Mankato bottling works operator, pled guilty to two sugar rationing violations. He received a six month prison term and a $2,100 fine, with concurrent sentences and fines for failing to reveal 22 tons of sugar and for fraudulent applications to buy more than 20 tons in May and June. The judge said the case tested a federal statute, not patriotism.
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Mankato
Sullivan
Argentina protests to Axis over torpedoing of Victoria
Buenos Aires officials accuse Germany and Italy of aggression after the Argentine tanker Victoria was torpedoed off Cape Hatteras without warning in American waters. The ship was sunk last April but reached port with U S naval patrol assistance.
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Buenos Aires
Germany
Italy
Cape Hatteras
U. S
U-Boat Sinks U.S. Ship Off Pacific Coast
A merchant ship was torpedoed off Neah Bay Washington near the northwest tip of the state. Forty six crew plus Army guards were aboard. two crewmen were seriously injured and one died in a lifeboat. Survivors were rescued by vessels off Oregon and Washington after drifting in heavy seas.
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Pacific
United States
Bone D-Wash
Washington D DC
Neah Bay
Washington
Dutch Harbor
Alewnan Islands
Pearl Harbor
West
California
Montebello
Goleta
Calif
Alaska
Midway
Bune
Vern Wickert
San Francisco
Steve Malone
Seattle
Stephen Chance
Negron
Cook
Virginia 1
Astoria
Ore
British Merchant Vessel Torpedoed in Atlantic
The navy announced a medium-sized British merchant vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Survivors have been landed at east coast ports.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
Government weighs spacing war bonds to curb postwar inflation
Dr. Carter Goodrich, head of the International Labor Office, said in New Brunswick New Jersey on Wednesday that the government might need to space out cashing of war bonds to prevent inflation after the war. The remark reflects concerns about demand surge and price stability as wartime funding ends.
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New Brunswick
Carter Goodrich
International Labor Office
Bund Leader Indicted in Hartford Case on Espionage Conspiracy
Five men including Wilhelm Kunze national Bund leader and Count Anastas A Vonsiatsky face federal indictments for conspiring to violate the national espionage act. The charges cover transmitting U S defense information to Germany and Japan, detailing army numbers, personnel, equipment, and naval bases. Also named are Rev Kurt Molzahn, Dr Wolfgang Ebell, and Dr Otto Wilkumett.
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Hartford, Conn
INS
Wilhelm Kunze
Bund
Anastase A Vonsiatsky
All-Russia
Fascist Party
Hartford
Germany
Japan
Kunze
Vonsiditsky
Kurt Molzahn
Philadelphia
Wolfgang Ebell
EL Paso
Texas
Otto Wilkumett
Chicago
Anis
United States
Vonsiatsky
Rain Expected With Showers In Cedar Rapids
Weather forecast for Cedar Rapids calls for occasional showers and thunderstorms late Wednesday and Thursday forenoon with little temperature change. The day was hot and humid with a 80 degree high around 2 PM and 73 percent humidity, easing to 67 degrees after overnight showers.
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Cedar Rapids
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