Weather notes and local incidents in Cedar Rapids area
Cedar Rapids area forecast notes little change with scattered thundershowers expected Friday night and Saturday morning. A brief electrical storm Friday brought 0.2 inch rainfall and cooled to 68 degrees. 76 degrees by afternoon. Also reports: G A Shumeck, 50, dies at 1261 First Ave SE. oil burner motor fire at 4341 Longwood Dr NE. lightning strike at 1508 Fifteenth Ave SE damages radio and cord.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Longwood Drive
Still Alarm, Co No
Fifteenth Avenue SE
Local births reported in Cedar Rapids area
Mercy hospital announces a son for Mr and Mrs Francis Dickson of Cedar Rapids on June 18. Other births include a son to Mr and Mrs Wilfred Cooley and a son to Mr and Mrs Leon Wickham both in Cedar Rapids on June 18, a daughter to Mr and Mrs Basil Harris on June 18, and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Thomas Green on June 19. St Luke's notes a daughter for Mr and Mrs Lloyd Husted on June 18.
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Mercy Hospital
Francis Dickson
Second Avenue
Wilfred Cooley
Second Street
Leon Wickham
Sixth Avenue
Basil Harris
Eighth Street
Thomas Green
Seventeenth Street
St. Luke’s
Lloyd Husted
Dawley Street
Vote to Relieve Service Men of Financial Worry
The House approved legislation to suspend civil processes like foreclosures on service members. It guarantees private life insurance premium payments up to 10 000 and allows three years after release to cover premiums. It relieves service men from lease liabilities and caps pre service interest at six percent.
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Washington
House
Senate
Sailors recall Lexington rescue and Coral Sea bravery
Melsha recounts orderly abandon ship and safe evacuation of wounded aboard the Lexington. A young veteran lost belongings in the Coral Sea but received new clothes and gear on landing in San Diego. He praises crew and ship, noting bunks and cigars prepared for returning survivors.
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Hiven
Melsha
Lexington
Navy
Coral Sea
San Diego
Official Declares U S Must Buy Non Vital Tires
Washington AP report quotes Wen dell Lund director of WPR labor productions division urging government purchase and allocation of tires on non essential private cars to war workers. He says 100 percent of new rubber should go to military needs and voluntary conservation is insufficient. Elliot E Simpson accuses the big four rubber firms of influencing agencies to favor army needs and cites rubber heel patents and WPB priorities.
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Washington (Ap
Wendell Lund
WPR
Labor Productions Division
House Committee On Defense
Elliot E. Simpson
New York
House
Big Four
Senate Agriculture
Simpson
B F Goodrich Company
WPB
Goodrich
United States Rubber
Firestone
Goodyear
British claim destruction of Ostend race track battery
A Belgian government source said a Belgian escapee reported that a battery of heavy German naval guns at Ostend race track was destroyed by shellfire from British ships and that the crews were killed.
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London
Belgium
Ostend
Butler Marines Survivor of Lexington Battle at Sea
Private Butler recalls the Lexington carrier battle off Japan as torpedo planes and dive bombers attacked. He describes fires, shattered communications, and the loss of his best friend, with 92 percent of survivors reaching port as the crew abandoned ship and were rescued by destroyers.
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Lexington
Butler
United States
Chicago
South Sea
Kansas City
Lidice Massacre Reverberates Across Britain and Czechoslovakia
The Heydrich assassination provoked a brutal reprisal in Lidice with all males over 17 killed, about 120 women sent to concentration camps, and 200 children placed in reform schools. The village was burned, 100 buildings razed, livestock moved to German towns, and the name erased from records. Czech leaders vow to punish Nazi leaders after the war as Prague issues official statements.
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Ludice
Geetipo
Vilese
Lidice
Britain
Hitler Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Prague
Heavily Publicized Nazi Reprisals After Heydrich Wounding
Reported details describe Czech nationals seized after an attack on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague May 27. The Nazis claim assailants were dropped by parachute from British planes and that Czech collaborators were killed in custody or shot during arrest. Heydrich dies June 4 as reprisal executions rise.
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Prague
Soviets Say Nazi Offensive Power Wanes at Sevastopol
Moscow reports indicate heavy German losses and stalemate as Nazi thrusts against Sevastopol stall. Soviet communiques claim 1,000+ Germans killed on Kharkov front and several towns on Kalinin front retaken.
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Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Sevastopol
Crimean
Kharkov
Kalinin
Axis claims decisive Sevastopol breakthrough
Berlin reports from German broadcasts that the axis forces have pierced enemy defenses at Sevastopol and reached the Severnaya bight opposite the town. The northern fortress portion, except one coastal fort, has fallen after twelve days of heavy fighting, with the capture of the last fort imminent.
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Berlin
Sevastopol
High Command
Severnija Bight
Train Collision In California Yermo Yields 17 Injuries
Two sections of Union Pacifics Challenger tourist train collided in Yermo California rail yard injuring at least 17 people none requiring hospitalization according to AP reports.
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Los Angeles
Union Pacific
Yermo
Calif
Army Airmen Describe Coral Sea First Blows
Allied airmen recount four days of battle in the Coral Sea delivering the first blows that sank 15 Japanese ships and set more than 20 afire. They attacked in relays from distant bases, with aerial missiles replacing fleet broadsides for the first time, as Captain John Roberts identified the main Japanese fleet ahead of the patrol.
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Allied, Headquarters
Australia
Coral Sea
Harry Spieth
Portland
Ore
Maurice Hargan
Joplin
Ohio
Willis B. Campbell
Chicago
John Roberts
Beebe
Ark
Roberts
Spieth
Forecast American Air Force in China To Be Strong Unit
The United States air force in China may be one of the Pacific’s most powerful combined offensive and defensive units. Officials say it will support limited Chinese offensives while providing balance of firepower to halt Japanese drives. Bomber crews from India will be augmented by 10 to 15 percent of AVG Flying Tigers from Burma, who on July 4 will be returned to the U.S. Army. Some AVG flyers will return to the United States on leave.
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Chungking
United States
China
Pacific
India
Flying Tigers
Burma
United States Army
AVG
Rubber plant blocked by WPB official warned of high approval fee
Harold Simms of Fort Worth testified before a Senate committee that his rubber reclaiming company was blocked from building a plant after War Production Board official Dr. Harry Rogers demanded a $50,000 fee for an engineer to approve plans. Simms said WPB blocked new machinery stocks and forced the project to use used equipment in a near-complete building.
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Washington
INS
Harold Simms
Fort Worth
Texas
Senate
Harry S Rogers
War Production Board
Thomas
D-Okla
Simms
Rogers
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
WPB
British Bomb Rail Junction in France
British planes heavily bombed the Chaulnes sur Oise railroad junction about 70 miles north of Paris Thursday night damaging switches and sheds.
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France
London
Chaulnes-sur- Oise
Paris
Travel Restrictions and Shifts in Domestic Transport
Government notes travel should be limited to essential needs with citizens urged to avoid trips for pleasure. Domestic passenger traffic on rail and bus systems rises about 50 percent year over year as troop movements grow and business travel increases. Four observances urge deferring meetings conventions and tours to reduce strain on public transportation.
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ODT
Travel advice urges cautious summer plans and staggered vacations
Officials urge delaying nonessential travel and fairs to protect public health and economy. They advise postponing state and county fairs due to tire shortages and emphasize vacations only for public health and morale, recommending businesses stagger employee time off.
State fair decision hinges on Iowa fair groups vote
Lloyd B. Cunningham secretary of the Iowa State fair board said the fair will be held this year unless public opinion is against it. He spoke at a joint meeting of the Northeastern and Central Iowa Fair Managers associations and noted plans could depend on their Friday vote on county fairs. George W. Huntley president of the Dairy Cattle Congress echoed that the show’s fate may depend on the associations’ action.
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Waterloo
Lloyd B. Cunningham
Iowa State Far Board
Cunningham
Iowa
Reds Flag Action of Turkish Court
Moscow reports an Ankara court conviction of four men including two Russians for plotting to kill German ambassador Franz von Papen. Soviet outlets call it a provocative frameup aimed at sabotaging Soviet Turkish ties and blame Nazis for the manipulation. Pravda and Tass warn of possible serious Soviet dissatisfaction.
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Moscow
Sowet
Ankara
Franz von Papen
Communist Party
Pravda
Russia
Soviet Union
Tass
Americans Claim B-24 Bombers Landed in Turkey By Accident
The Anatolian news agency reported that American B-24 bombers that struck Romanian targets landed in Turkey by accident, denying German accusations that they deliberately crossed Turkish territory and violated neutrality. The German broadcasts had pushed for Turkish resentment over similar charges.
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Ankara
Turkey
Anaatolian
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