Winter Storm Buries Cedar Rapids With Six Inches of Snow
A March snowstorm swept Cedar Rapids and much of Iowa dropping six inches in the city and up to six and a half in Ames. Des Moines logged six inches while other towns saw lighter accumulations. Roads were slick with heavy plows working, and officials warned travelers to avoid unnecessary trips as temperatures fell from 45 to 32 degrees by night.
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Mother Sentenced For Killing Baby in Chicago
Mrs Mildred Merker aged 22 was sentenced to two to four years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of her 2 year old daughter Claire. Judge Francis Allegretti fixed the penalty following the infant's death on January 3 as Merker told investigators the child made her nervous. Defense counsel argued the defendant was insane at the time of the incident.
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Francis B. Allegretti
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Unreadable Newspaper Snippet Highlights Columns and Features
Fragmentary OCR shows sections for Deaths, Movies, Radio, Sports, and Women’s Features. Names like David Lawrence and Marion appear amid scattered headings and program notes. The text is too damaged to extract a coherent event or story.
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Index Marquis Wk Comics
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Drew Pearson
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Walter Winchell
Missing U S Ace Beckham Falls In Europe In Action
Major Walter C Beckham 27 top U S ace in European theater listed as missing after a P 47 Thunderbolt battle. He logged 18 victories and earned the Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. His wingmate Lt George Perpente reported Beckham strafed a field then tried to bail out as ground fire hit his aircraft.
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Walter C Beckham
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Fla
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George Perpente
New Brunswick
N. J
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Perpente
U S Leery of Farrell Government in Argentina
Washington AP United States Ambassador Norman Armour will refrain from entering official relations with the Farrell regime in Argentina pending developments Acting Secretary of State Stettinius announced. He said the government believes Argentinian groups opposed to the defense of the western hemisphere policy were active in Ramirez retirement and Farrell’s succession to the presidency.
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Pedro Ramirez
U S Corporal's Symphony Debuts With Boston Symphony
Boston audiences heard Samuel Barber's Second Symphony, dedicated to the army air forces, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. The 34 year old West Chester native, stationed at Stewart Field, attended and was cheered as the work premiered. The piece, inspired by aerial radio beam navigation, was commissioned by the army air forces and will be broadcast worldwide by OWI before future performances in New York.
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Jean Barber
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Texas
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OWI
London
Moscow
German POW escapees captured near Indianola amid heavy snow
Two German prisoners of war who escaped from the Indianola camp were captured Friday night within three miles of the camp. They had sheltered in a snowbound area to protect themselves from the blizzard.
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Allies Repel German Beachhead Attacks Near Rome
Allied headquarters say three small German assaults against the beachhead below Rome were repulsed as weather limited ground operations. German forces used multiple divisions in the offensive, while Allied air power struck northern Italy and Rome rail yards, destroying locomotives and damaging storage depots.
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Ostiense
Fifth Army
F R Roosevelt begins twelfth year in White House
Washington AP notes Franklin D Roosevelt marks his 12th year as president, facing major domestic and international challenges. He is described as physically fit after influenza, with a Congress that bucked his tax veto and ongoing war efforts abroad. The piece considers whether he will seek a fourth term and reflects on shifts toward conservatism in his leadership and policy.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Ross T. McIntire
Navy
Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Twelve vie in Cedar Rapids city primaries
With filing closed, 12 candidates seek municipal offices for March 14 as City Clerk Maude Krebs reports 1 023 new registrations and 1 070 address changes. Incumbents Hahn Meek Williams Schreckengast Benesh Kopp Stefan Wagner Burgus seek mayor public improvements public safety parks and finance posts.
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Randolph Scott Weds Hollywood Actress Marie Pat Stillman
Actor Randolph Scott aged 45 married Hollywood actress Marie Pat Stillman age 25 on Friday, according to UPI. The ceremony took place in a discreet ceremony, with brief notes confirming the union.
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Randolph Scott
Marie Pat
Stillman
Spain To Get U S Oil Shipment
The Philadelphia Record reports a quarter-million gallons of high grade Pennsylvania lubricating oil shipped from an east coast port to Spain within days. The paper cites a spokesman saying the embargo applies only to bulk oil and that packaged oil with department approval may be shipped.
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The
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Pennsylvania
Spain
State Department
Washington
Senate votes to cite F D R aide Jonathan Daniels for contempt
A Senate subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend that Jonathan Daniels, administrator to the President, be brought before the Senate bar to explain why he should not be judged in contempt for refusing to testify on efforts to resign the Rural Electrification administrator Harry Slattery. Daniels cites confidential ties with Roosevelt and faces a potential historic test of legislative versus executive powers.
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Reds Smash Into Pskov from East
Soviet forces pushed into the outskirts of Pskov from the east and north near Narva, widening a foothold on the Narva river and driving German troops back. Moscow said Berlin acknowledged Russian gains, with heavy fighting and ongoing German counterattacks.
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Berlin
Ten-year-old John Cutler dies in accidental gun injury
John Cutler age 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Cutler, 2520 Bever avenue SE, died at 1 pm Saturday after a rifle firing a bullet into his abdomen. He and his younger brother were playing with a 22 caliber rifle in the bedroom. the weapon was kept loaded in a closet. Dr Frank Hersch, Linn county coroner, said the bullet passed through the stomach into the descending aorta and the boy bled to death. The weapon reportedly required assembling by the boys. The body lies at the Turner funeral home.
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Harry O. Cutler
Bever Avenue
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St. Lukes Hospital
Frank Hersch
Linn County
Hersch
John
Donald
Turner Funeral Home
Court Vetoes Lepke's Plea in Last-Minute Move
The U S Supreme Court rejected a late writ of certiorari to review denial of a habeas corpus petition for Lew (Lepke) Buch he, the former head of Murder Inc, leaving him to face execution in Sing Sing's electric chair at 11 pm Saturday unless Gov Dewey grants a reprieve.
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Supreme Court
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Lepke
High Tribunal
New York
Jackson
Murphy
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Sing Sing_ prison
Thomas E. Dewey
Turks Say Allies Delinquent on War Aids
Ankara based Turkish sources say at Cairo conference Turkey demanded 500 tanks and 300 planes as sole condition for entering the war and that failure to deliver them is why Turkey is not yet fighting.
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Quads' Dad Vows He'll Stick with Their Mother
William Thompson Jr a 26 year old Pittsburgher publicly announced he is the father of Norah Carpenter's quadruplets in London. He said he and Norah are not married but will work to support the children and their mother. He learned one baby MacDonald weighed three pounds had died Friday. He applied for dependent allowances and offered to share his pay.
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William Thompson, Jr
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MacDonald
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U. S. Army
Norah
Norah Carpenter
Heanor
Derbyshire
Allies Keep Up No-Stop Air Assault Over Berlin
American heavy bombers attacked targets in eastern Germany with a Berlin district strike reported. Escorts and flak pounded the sky amid record penetrating daylight raids, while Luftwaffe defenses and claim of no Berlin bomb fell surfaced.
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