OPA price expert visits Cedar Rapids as grocers meet
Joe Roman o the OPA price specialist sits in the Cedar Rapids rationing office to answer dealers questions about price regulations. He says the program relies on local panel reports and consumer complaints, not hidden investigations. Seventy five stores out of 167 showed some violation, with 28 new and 56 ongoing issues. He defends publishing names only after hearings and final penalties, and urges better public confidence to improve compliance and protect both consumers and small businesses.
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Joe Romano
OPA
Cedar Raunds
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Cedar Rapids
Bureau of Labor Statistics
CPA
Americas Guarantee Frontiers Pact Unites Twenty Republics
Twenty American republics unify under the Act of Chapultepec to defend the hemisphere and pledge mutual protection during war, aiming for a lasting treaty. The act, praised as a Monroe Doctrine in modern form, binds nations to a regional security approach while awaiting UN decisions in San Francisco.
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Chapultepec
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Buenos Aires
Tom Connally
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United States
World Security“Organization
United Nations
San Francisco
Nazis Mass Subs In North Waters
London dispatch reports a surge of long range U boats massed in Norwegian waters for a final push against Allied shipping. Some 300 submarines and numerous warships are based in Norway with reinforced coastal stations. German command may unleash the entire fleet if the current experimental operation succeeds.
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Atlantic
Norway
Germany
Buzz Bombs Hit Britain by Day for First Time in Weeks
London reports German V bomb attacks directed at Britain in daylight on Saturday the first such daylight raid since autumn. RAF fighters attacked launch sites in the Netherlands while raiding forces strafed transport and bomb plants in the affected zone. The daylight raids followed a prior night offensive announced by the air ministry.
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England
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Woman Pedestrian Struck by Auto on First Street
Mrs. Gladys Lyile of 901 Fifth Street SW was in St Luke's Hospital at midnight after being struck by a car driven by W. C. Phautz of 140 Sixteenth Avenue SW in front of Kingston Hall on First Street SW. Police said she was crossing west when the southbound vehicle hit her. doctors believed a broken collar bone.
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St. Luke's Hospital
W. C. Phautz
Sixteenth Avenue
Kingston Hall
First Street
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Phautz
AFL Seeks 11 Percent Wage Rise From F R
AFL members of the War Labor board urged President Roosevelt to raise wages by about 11 percent challenging the public members report that a break in the Little Steel formula was not advisable. They cited a 19 percent wage rise and 30 percent cost of living increases to justify correcting the wage to living cost balance. George Meany Matthew Woll Robert J Watt and James A Brownlow presented the argument and criticized the stabilization program for failing to curb price growth.
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AFL
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Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor
George Meany
Matthew Woll
Robert J. Watt
James A. Brownlow
Union Leaders Order Chrysler Walkout Ended
Union heads agreed to resume production Monday after a week long Detroit strikers walkout. Chrysler officials accepted terms including no reprisals and arbitration on production rate disputes. CIO local No 3 President Mike Novak said a 7:30 p.m. meeting would mobilize the men to return to work.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Mike Novak
CIO
United Automobile Workers Local No. 3
Hurley Arrives to Report on China's War Effort
Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley arrived in Washington from Chungking to brief President Roosevelt on steps to bolster China's role in the war against Japan.
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Girl Reporter on Iwo Amidst Jap Mortar Fire
Barbara Finch, first woman on Iwo Jima, reports landing on Motoyama Airfield No. 1 aboard the first hospital supply plane. She describes mercy mission duties, medical tents, and marine reception amid mortar fire as Japanese positions threaten the airfield.
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Barbara’ Finch
Iwo Jima
Reuters
Motoyama Airfield
Japan
Operators Yield Point on Miners Royalty Demand
Washington United Mine Workers demand for a 10 cents a ton royalty has merit and could be considered. Operators say if the plan funds a medical care and insurance program for miners they would insist on managing the fund themselves. Charles ONeill of Altoona Pennsylvania, president of the Central Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association, voiced the concession during wage hour talks as we seek a new contract to replace the current agreement expiring March 31.
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United Mine ‘Workers
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Altoona
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Cedar Rapids War Casualty Totals Report
Summary of casualty figures for Linn County noting Cedar Rapids area totals including 28 killed in action 3 killed in training 25 missing in action 1 died in service and 8 prisoners. Other categories list 121 killed in action 21 killed in training 32 died in service 65 missing in action and 0.5 prisoners.
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Cedar Rapids
Ation
MacArthur Radio Appearance Planned For Sunday
NBC announced that General MacArthur would be heard from Corregidor on the Army hour program Sunday between 2 30 and 3 30 p m Eastern War Time. The broadcast will feature MacArthur delivering remarks to a national radio audience.
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Corregidor
Iowa Vanquishes Illinois Takes Big Ten Title
The University of Iowa basketball team captured the Big Ten crown by beating Illinois 43 to 37 in Iowa City. The Hawks’ only earlier blemish this season was a 43 to 42 loss at Champaign.
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B-29 Armada Strikes Tokyo in Large daylight Raid
Washington reports a very large task force of B 29 Super fortresses possibly over 200 planes struck Tokyo for the fifth time on Saturday night targeting urban and industrial areas. The Japanese agency said about 150 bombers took part and fires were reported in several districts as Tokyo and Yokohama area industries faced waves of bombing from Maj Gen Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command.
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Jap Planes Drop Water to Troops Trapped on Iwo Jima
Marines pressed a 700 yard advance on Iwo Jima's northeast coast as artillery, naval guns, and carrier aircraft pounded the island. Japanese defenders were split from the northern end as planes dropped water to thirsting troops. casualty estimates ran high with up to three quarters of the 20,000 garrison killed or wounded.
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Iwo Jima
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Sinatra Draft Reclassification Investigated by Jersey City Board
Jersey City local board chair Ira W. Caldwell placed Frank Sinatra in 2-A-F after Washington notification of disqualification for the second time due to a punctured eardrum. New Jersey draft headquarters will probe whether the 29 year old singer qualifies for 2-A-F and decide at Monday night’s meeting if the classification remains.
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Paul E. Schwehm
New Jersey Selective Service Administration
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Sinatra
Hudson County
Ira W. Caldwell
Washington
Caldwell
Race to Gain Bridges Over Rhine Intact
Allied forces push into Germany as three German armies flee across the Rhine. The First Parachute army and 15th army have been destroyed as fighting forces. Americans near Cologne and Bonn press a two-front advance toward Wesel and Duisburg while warning Germans there is no security east of the Rhine.
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Eisenhower
Four Townships Surpass Red Cross War Fund Goal
Linn county rural townships Fairfax College Linn and Franklin Mt Vernon exceed their Red Cross war fund quotas. Co chairs MecClary and Pickford report strong rural effort with reports praised as satisfactory. First payment toward the 135000 goal reached 15000 through volunteer auditors with rural returns due by Wednesday.
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Rollo Pickford
Fairfax
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Linn
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