Soviet Writer Accuses U.S. Fascist Bloc of Aiding Nazis
Georgiyev of Izvestia denounces an American group he says backs German fascism to block anti Nazi efforts. He names Charles E. Coughlin Gerald L. Smith William Randolph Hearst Col Robert R McCormick and Senators Wiley Taft as members along with Catholic priests and business figures. He also attacks Henry Luce and Clare Boothe Luce for pro fascist comments and calls U.S. reactionaries a vocal minority opposing national interests.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Georgiyev
Charles E. Coughlin
Gerald L. K. Smith
William Randolph Hearst
Robert R. McCormick
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Henry R. Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
Connecticut
Luce
Life Magazine
Goebbels
U.S.S.R
Europe
United States
Daily Record Rationing Updates and Local Notices
The June 18 1945 issue lists monthly red and blue stamp validity dates for meat foods and sugar with new start dates for several stamp series. It also covers gasoline mileage rules fines for offenses and births from various families, plus fire incidents in Cedar Rapids with times and locations.
Two Iowans Named to Eisenhower Delegation
The War Department released 53 army and navy officers and one enlisted man who will accompany General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Washington for a Monday reception. Among the Iowans are Major Edward E. Beaty of Ames and Lt. Col. George Garton of Des Moines, both slated for the journey to New York City Tuesday for a celebration. Col. Garton serves with the 391st Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the Third Armored Division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Army and Navy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York City
Edward E. Beaty
Air Corps
Ames
George Garton
Field Artillery
Des Moines
Garton
Gambling Returns to Des Moines Area Night Clubs
Gambling resumed at two Polk county night clubs near Des Moines the Mainliner and Club 100 after a six week pause following the shooting of Ralph Blackburn former Club 100 staff. Blackburn reportedly left town to Texas and no charges were filed. Operators Rich Kennelly and Pete Rand reportedly bought an interest in Club 100.
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Des Moines
INS
Polk County
Mainliner
Club 100
Ralph Blackburn
Blackburn
Texas
Rich Kennelly
Pete Rand
Peacetime military draft backed by Nimitz and Halsey
Secretary Forrestal urged Congress to adopt peacetime military training to bolster the world security organization. Admirals Nimitz and Halsey sent letters endorsing the draft plan, warning against signing any peace with Japan until a strong deterrent is maintained.
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Washington
Secretary of
Navy
Forrestal
Congress
World Security Organization
San Francisco
Pacific Combat Zone
Chester W. Nimitz
William F. (Bulli) Halsey
Halsey
Japan
Nimitz
Warsaw
Berlin
Manila
Tokyo
Abel Achment
Jevislavons
Wergerhat
Perry O
Sioux City Packers Reopen After Week Close
Four small Sioux City area packing plants will reopen Monday after being shut down for a week. Operators cited government slaughter restrictions causing losses and reached the decision after talks with OPA officials AAA representatives Chamber of Commerce and city officials. They said they resumed operations out of responsibility to meat buyers and local consumers.
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Sioux City
OPA
AAA
Chamber of Commerce
Two Fined for Failure to Have Cars Under Control
Judge Harry S. Johnson fined Lester Delaney of 320 Twelfth Street SE five dollars and costs after a guilty plea in a collision with John O Deen of 513 Seventh Avenue SE at Second Avenue and Twelfth Street SE. J. E. Smith of Route 2 was fined two dollars and costs after his car rear ended a truck stalled on Twelfth Avenue SE. The incidents involved vehicles headed east when the stalled truck, operated by William J. Miller of 1032 Eleventh Avenue SE, obstructed the roadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard E. Dumpprope
E Avenue
Lester M. Delaney
Twelfth Street
Fach
John E. Smith
O. M. Bundy
Washington Avenue
Clyde. C. Burgess
Fourth Street
Donald C. Balard
B Avenue NW
Harry S. Johnson
Contol
Lester Delaney
Twelfth Street SE
John O’deen
Seventh Avenue SE
Second Avenue
J. E. Smith
Twelfth Avenue SE
William J. Miller
Eleventh Avenue SE
Deaths Mrs J and McNaughton Cedar Rapids widow dies at 86
Harriet Estella McNaughton 86 widow of James R. McNaughton died at 8 45 p m Friday at the home of her daughters in Cedar Rapids following a sudden illness. She was born April 9 1859 in Boone county and came to Cedar Rapids in 1913. She belonged to Central Park Presbyterian Church. Services set for 2 p m Tuesday at Turner chapel with burial in Boone.
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Harriet Estella McNaughton
James R. McNaughton
Cedar Rapids
Mose Privett
Olive Helm
E Avenue
McNaughton
Boone County
Fort Dodge
Zenorsville
Emma Boggs
Hynes
Calif
Death of David Andrew Noah in Glendale California
Word has been received of the death of David Andrew Noah at his daughter Hazel Banks home in Glendale California on May 30. He was born March 10 1863 in Monroe county Iowa and married Harriet M Gilbert August 7 1885 at Chariton. He was employed by the National Oats company here before retirement. He is survived by two brothers F M Cox Ottumwa and W T Noah of Des Moines and two grandchildren in Glendale. Cremation occurred and ashes will be taken to Turner chapel for memorial services Monday at a time to be announced.
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David Andrew Noah
Hazel Banks
Glendale
Calif
Ottumwa
W. T. Noah T
Des Moines
Turner Chapel
Obituary Notices for Mrs Iva Elliott and Vincent T Nolan
Services for Mrs. Iva Opal Elliott at Janeba funeral home with Rev. Grant F Anderson, burial in Shiloh cemetery. Vincent T Nolan, 47, a World War I veteran and longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died in Tucson after a lingering illness. survivors include a sister Julia and brothers William Michel and Raymond. Funeral arrangements pending at Monahan funeral home in Cedar Rapids.
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Iva Opal Elliott
Eighth Street
Janeba
Grant F. Anderson
Shiloh
Vincent T. Nolan
Cedar Rapids
Tucson
Ariz
van Horne
Julia Nolan
William
Boston
Mass
Michel
Raymond
Monahan
Death notice for Nora M. Whitney in Cedar Rapids area
R D Whitney of 421 C avenue NW receives word that his mother Nora M Whitney died in Princeton New Jersey on Friday evening. She had lived in Cedar Rapids for 32 years and previously resided at 1047 Seventeenth Street NE.
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Nora M. Whitney
R. D. Whitney
C Avenue NW
Princeton
N. J
Seventeenth Street
Navy ace departs for Ottumwa field flight instruction
Lt. Robert F. Edmondson a former University of Iowa law student now a highly decorated aviator with the Navy is serving as flight instructor at the Ottumwa field. Since his 1941 commission he earned the Navy Cross Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star and Air Medals through battles at Santa Cruz Guadalcanal Truk Palau Hollandia Saipan Guam Iwo Jima and the Philippines.
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Santa Cruz
Guadalcanal
Truk
Palau
Hollandia
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Iwo Jima
Philippines
OPA Plans Triad of Reconversion Pricing Steps
Hartford and Chester Bowles announce a three point OPA reconversion pricing plan aimed at speed and flexibility. The program includes industry wide pricing for firms unable to meet old ceilings, targeted price adjustments for high cost firms, and streamlined ceilings for small firms under $200,000 annual sales.
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Hartford, Conn
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Bok Sie
Osaka Under Air Assault as Fire Rages in Target City
AP dispatch reports heavy U S air raids on Osaka with 520 Superfortresses dropping 3000 tons of incendiaries. Maj Gen Curtis LeMay says further strikes may be unnecessary as Yokohama Kobe Osaka Tokyo and Nagoya are described as largely toward destruction of industrial targets. One bomber failed to return.
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Guam
Osaka
Japan
Curtis le May
21St Bomber Command
Gen. H. H. Arnold
le May
Yokohama
Kobe
Tokyo
Wagoya
Iowa employment trend downward in May report
Iowa employment fell 1.7 percent in May per the state labor bureau survey of 426 firms. Payrolls dropped 2.8 percent from April, with total employment 5.1 percent below May 1944. The decline followed April’s 1.2 percent drop after March’s 1.9 percent gain.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Bureau of Labor
Senate Sets 30 Minute Debate on Tariff Bill
The senate agreed to limit debate on the tariff reduction bill and will reconvene Monday under a rule capping speeches at 30 minutes for each senator while the 50 percent tariff cuts provision remains under consideration.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Japs Perfect Harakiri Tactics for 20th Century War
New York dispatch describes Japanese suicide air attacks, noting baku bomber planes with tiny cockpits and torpedo noses, designed to crash and explode on US ships. It cites incidents near Buna and Okinawa, remarks on puzzled US commanders, and warns these death by own action bombers pose a grave menace to Allied vessels.
Eisenhower says invasion réussir only through united Allied arms
Gen. Eisenhower told a press conference that Allied victory in Europe came because air sea and ground forces acted as one. He noted many officers doubted an invasion was possible and stressed unity across arms was essential through to V E day. He discussed tactics and postwar plans with reporters.
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Hd.q
A.E.F
Eisenhower
Europe
Marshal von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Eifel
Germany
Patton
Saar
Alexander M. Patch
Hitler
North Africa
Normandy
Germa
Karl Doenitz
Reims
Russia
Hisenhower
Allied Control Council
Control Council
United States
Berlin
Truman Plans Frisco Talk as UN Charter Looms
President Truman intends to speak in Frisco next Saturday to adjourn the United Nations conference though completion of the charter remains unlikely. Seven of twelve technical committees have finished, with key disputes over membership and veto power. White House aides say Truman will travel from Olympia to San Francisco and return to Washington if the schedule holds.
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San Francisco
Truman
Australia
New Zealand
Security Council
Washington
White House
Charles Ross
Olympia
Wash
Mon C. Wallgren
Missouri
Independence
Kansas City
Obituary notices from Iowa towns list multiple deaths
Funeral services were held for several area residents including Mrs Louisa C Norman 91 in Marengo Mrs Norman died Tuesday in Stillwater Minnesota Burial was beside her husband in the IOOF cemetery Other notices list Mrs William Bechtel 71 at Zion Reformed Church Edgewood W Deville Sevey 81 and family survivors Bert Gast 82 formerly of Rossville Nora Springs and more along with survivorship details in Decorah Waukon and Waps Springs area families including multiple spouses children and siblings across Allamakee and neighboring counties
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Marengo
Louisa C. Norman
Brown Funeral Home
Norman
Stillwater
Minn
Waukon
William Bechtel
Zion Reformed Church
Karl
Karl, Survive. Edgewooud—Services For W. Deville Sevéy
Mis
Lie Weyarit
Andrette
Chicago
Juul
Anna
Sever
John P. Alstad
Decorah
Carsten Alstad
Cokato
Bert Gast
Rossville
Wora Springs
Earl Mosier
Nora Springs
Walter
Ita Gast
Allamakee County
John Gast
Sanborn
Henry Erve
Osage
Alden Adams
McIntyre
Joseph Wachter
Harpers Ferry
Matilda Gasto
Rock Falls
Dubuque Prison Escapee Recaptured Near Cresco
Bruce Kippe, 24, of Dubuque, one of three inmates who escaped from an Anamosa prison farm, was recaptured Friday at Cresco. The other two escapees eluded authorities, driving a stolen car previously used near Decorah and later seen headed south through Ridgeway. Kippe was serving 25 years for rape.
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Dubuque
Bruce Kippe
Anamosa
Cresco
Leo J. Marin
Howard County
Decorah
Blaine Mitts
Packwood,Ja
Gilbert Kelly
Keokuk
Ridgeway
Kippe
Back in Pison Bruce Kippe Returned to Reformatory
Bruce Kippe was returned to the reformatory Friday night from Cresco by Warden Foss Davis and another prison staff member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Bruce_ Kippe
Cresco
Foss Davis
His Car in Ditch Driver Fined for DUI
Walter Schmidt, 40, drove into a ditch near here and was unhurt. A farmer called Sheriff George C. Murphy who arrived and arrested Schmidt. On Friday he paid a $150 fine for driving while intoxicated.
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Walter Schmidt
Schmidt
George C. Murphy
Erickson Acquitted on All Impeachment Charges
Oscar E. Erickson former North Dakota insurance commissioner was acquitted by the state senate on all ten impeachment charges. The charges included gossip bound tort on re insurance bought for state departments under his supervision and misappropriating funds in the era age of re insurance.
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Bismarck
N. D
Oscar E. Erickson
North Dakota
State Senate
Erickson
Poet Edger A Guest The Poet of the People
Edger A Guest The poet of the people speaks on practical advice and skill as a price of progress. The verse urges effort over fashion tyranny and warns that peace comes through effort and learning, not law or idle rebellion.
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Edger A
The
Poet of the People
Cedar Rapids Soldiers Awarded Purple Heart and Bronze Star
Cpl Boy L Clouse 21 of a tank battalion in the Pacific receives the Purple Heart for wounds on northern Luzon in late May. His wife lives at 912 A Ave NW and he has been overseas 13 months. Tech 5 Sherman E McNabb 30 with an infantry service company in the European Theater earns the Purple Heart for wounds in action. His wife and four children live at 1510 Fourth St NW. he is the grandson of H D McNabb and son of Mrs Bess Bur lingham.
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Cpl
Boy L. Clouse
Pacific
Luzon
A Avenue
Dale Clouse
Eleventh Street
Cpl. Clouse
Wilson and Company
Sherman E. McNabb
Infantry
Fourth Street NW
Bessie Burlingham
H. D. McNabb
B Avenue NE
Military Leave and Reassignments Across United States Bases
A compilation of service members and their families details leave, deployments, and returns. Includes Petty Officer Marvin L. Melsha at Roosevelt Base San Pedro with wife Marie Nosek, Sgt. Charles E. Carson on Pacific duty on leave in Iowa, Lt. Paul A. Cooper promoted to lieutenant, and other service members on furlough or awaiting assignments in England, Charleston, Miami, and the South Pacific.
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Marvin L. Melsha
Alvin J. Melsha
Fifteenth Street
Roosevelt Base
San Pedro
Calif
Marie Anna Nosek
Melsha
Lexington
Charles E. Carson
Marine Corps
Pacific
S. T. Ross
Sixth Avenue
George Carson
Ninth Street
Paul A. Cooper
J. J. Schmickle
Alburnett
Robert Cooper
Fruitland Boulevard
William Wayne McDowell
Robert la Fontaine
la Fontaine
Josephine Wandel
Twenty-Sixth Street
South Pacific
West Coast
Lake Okoboji
Spirit Lake
Sixteenth Avenue
Shultz
Great Lakes
Max A. Ramsey
Harold Ramsey
Springville
Athens
Navy Air Corps
James D. Graham
N. J. Graham
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
William O. Classen
Norma
Six Oil Companies Seek Tax Refunds
Six nationally operating oil firms asked the Iowa Tax Commission to refund about 50000 in 1940 chain store taxes. The request cites a 1941 Supreme Court ruling and a 1945 law allowing refunds where payments were in error or there was no liability. Firms named include Standard Oil of Indiana Socony Vacuum Skelly Mid Continent Petroleum Shell and Cities Service.
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Des Moines
State Tax Commission
Commission
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Socony-Vacuum
Skelly
Mid-Continent Petroleum
Shell and
Cities Service
Iowa Supreme Court
Phillips Petroleum Company
Drowning Victim Recovered in Guttenberg Rescue
Garrison Becker of Meder ville Guttenberg was found Friday after three men reported drowned in the Mississippi Sunday night. Verle Minger and John Rolker, also of Guttenberg, remained missing with search efforts set to resume Saturday.
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Guttenberg
Garrison Becker
Mederville
Mississippi
Verle Minger
John Rolker
Luzon Forces Break Japanese Hold In Cagayan Valley
American troops lift off from the mountains and advance into the Cagayan valley towns of Santiago and Echague in sweeping gains. Beightler’s 37th division breaks Japanese resistance in the Caraballo mountains, with over 1,200 Japanese killed across Luzon amid guerilla actions and elusive enemy headquarters.
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Manila
Caraballo
Santiago
Echague
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Sierra Madre
Baguio
United proposes Cedar Rapids air service expansion
United Air Lines filed a brief with the Civil Aeronautics Board seeking to add Cedar Rapids Waterloo Rockford Dubuque and Sioux City as stops on its transcontinental route by detouring flights. The plan promises reduced travel times to Chicago Des Moines Omaha and the Pacific coast with 211 passenger Mainliners and cabin service.
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Cedar Rapids
United Air Lines
United
Civil Aeronautics Board
F. Merritt Ruhlai
Charles J. Frederick
Washington, D. C
Waterloo
Rockford
Dubuque
Sioux City
Chicago
Omaha
Des Moines
Pacific Coast
War Food Administration bans corn sales for alcohol and export
The War Food Administration prohibits all corn purchases for beverage and industrial alcohol and for export. Distillers may not buy grain or use existing corn unless contracted before June 1 or on hand prior. The aim is to free essential corn for feeds and industrial use amid feed shortages and plant demands.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
WEA
War Production Board
Iowa
Missouri
Florida
Bond Leaders Plan to Boost Lagging E Bond Sales
Linn county war bond leaders met Saturday to spark ideas for raising the E bond quota in the seventh war loan drive. By June 30 we haven’t given up, said Chairman George Hearn as reports show Linn and about half of Iowa’s 99 counties lagging. State Chairman W. L. Clark noted counties ahead due to strong farmer support and urged lagging counties to buy bonds in the next two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn
George Hearn
Iowa
W. L. Clark
Des Moines
Seventh War Loan Bond Sales Reach $5.62 Billion
National update from Washington shows individuals purchasing war bonds reaching 5.623 billion dollars by Saturday toward a 7 billion quota. E bond sales lag about 286 million, with total E bonds at 2.546 billion, about 63.7 percent of the 4 billion target.
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Washington
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