Private enterprise and war a postwar debate
A 12 month view shows liberalizing of censorship and credit to private enterprise for wartime success. The piece argues a shift away from planned economy toward sustaining private initiative with Truman committee support. It notes Republican gains and Roosevelt’s uncertain re election prospects amid national political ambiguity. Red Cross drive stickers and a Lent sermon on governing the subconscious mind appear as side items.
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Washington
Truman Committee
Cedar Rapids Seeks Steps to Ease War Manpower Squeeze
City and regional officials, led by George Haskell and C H Bruns, discuss methods to ease Cedar Rapids labor shortages. Proposals include more women workers, migrant labor trailers, employment ceilings, training programs, and use of US Employment Service referrals to curb hiring. Group 2 rating hoped to avoid Group 1 as farmers return to fields.
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Cedar Rapids
War Manpower Commission
George Haskell
Iowa War Manpower
C. H. Bruns
Des Moines
H. J. Eberhart
Haskell
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids Area
United States Employment Service
Mustering Out Pay Readied For Cedar Rapids WWII Vets
Special to The Gazette reports estimated mustering-out pay for Cedar Rapids area World War II veterans discharged from the armed forces. James L. Monnahan, national commander of the Disabled American Veterans, cites a $145,000 total based on a survey by the DAV national service department. He warns veterans to secure copies of their discharge papers and keep them safe to avoid loss in mail or mishandling.
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Chicago
Cedar Rapids
James L. Monnahan
St. Paul
Momnahan
Unclear OCR Index Mentions in News Page
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered names and sections such as Comics Deaths Movies Radio Sports State and Women’s Features. Names like David Eawrones Paul Mallon Drew Pearson Walter Winchell appear with uncertain attributions.
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Index Marquis Cts
Dakswe
Bees
David Eawrones
Paul Mallon
Marion
Aioe Aae
Mewes
Drew Pearson
Atoning
Seeeee
Walter Winchell
Allied losses rise in Cassino area as Italian front reports 40 000 enemy casualties
Allied headquarters in Naples reported 9,000 German casualties in and around Cassino since late January, lifting total German losses in Italy for that period to about 40,000. The communique also noted 1,500 Germans captured, plus hits on beachhead positions and various enemy targets across the Garigliano and Cassino fronts amid daylong fighting and air operations.
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Allied
Naples
Fifth Army
Cassino
Italy
Carroceto
Eighth Army
Tollo
Ateleta
Santo Steffano
Rome
Troops Targeted by MacArthur Smear Articles
Sen. Vandenberg accused the war department of circulating prejudicial pieces to troops through the army war college service. He cited an American Mercury profile titled General MacArthur Fact and Legend as part of a batch banned for political content. The library bulletin described the piece as an objective appraisal of MacArthur as presidential timber.
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Washington
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Senate
War Department
Army War College
General MacArthur
Vandenberg
American Mercury Magazine
Army War College Library
Library Bulletin
MacArthur
John McCarten
Pearl Harbor
Gazette Applies For FM Station
The Gazette company reactivated an FM radio station application with the FCC as a postwar project. The wartime pause limited new stations, and most applications await hostilities end to permit construction. FM promises reduced static and a regional service area as radio evolves after the war.
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Federal Communications Commission
The
Gazette Company
FCC
Holcomb Named to South African Post
President Roosevelt nominated Gen. Thomas Holcomb to be United States minister to the Union of South Africa. The recently retired Marine Corps commandant will replace Lincoln MacVeagh, now ambassador to the exiled Greek and Yugoslav governments in Cairo.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas Holcomb
Marine ‘Corps
United States
Finland Holds Ground in Peace Talks With Russia
London AP reports Finland will not accept two Russian demands to pull troops to the 1940 border and intern German troops. Finnish notes show willingness to concede other terms, while warning that compliance could trigger Finnish pro-German backlash and German actions. Berlin insists military force may be needed to drive Nazis from Finland, and Stockholm says Russia asked Finland to supply workers for rebuilding Leningrad and cede Petsamo and nickel mines.
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London
Finland
Stockholm
Moscow
Berlin
Italy
The
Daily Mail
Stockhholm
Russia
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Petsamo
Nelson Asks Curbs On War Born Firms
Washington AP Government controls of war born companies to withhold them from civilian goods production were urged Thursday by War Production Chief Donald M Nelson as peacetime plant return plans are set.
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Nelson
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Goon Gun Demonstrated as New Mortar in World War II
Washington reports a 42 inch mortar named goon gun added to U S Army arsenals. First used in Sicily, it operates in major theaters shipping 24 pound shells two and a half miles in 60 seconds. It fires white phosphorus shells to blind defenses and forms non lethal fog. Weighing under 300 pounds the weapon can be carried in parts by the crew into difficult terrain.
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Washington
War Department
Sicily
Italy
Absent Voter Ballots Available for School Election
The Cedar Rounds board of education announces absentee ballots for the school board election are available at 346 Second Avenue SW. Secretary Ed Lundquist says voters may vote in person or by mail, with mail ballots due by Saturday for those away on Monday.
90 000 Welsh Coal Miners Now Striking
The Welsh coal strike expanded to 90 000 idle miners, about 90 percent of the field, with 165 mines idle due to the wage dispute. The Swansea anthracite district joined the walkouts as editors warned Britain faces fuel shortages amid wartime transport risks. A conference with Full Minister Gwilym Lloyd George promised possible allowances, but miners largely ignored calls to return to work pending further government action.
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London
Gwilym Lloyd George
Lloyd George
South Wales
Europe
South Wales ‘Miners’ Council
Marines Strike Willaumez Peninsula in New Britain
Marines landing on the western shore of the Willaumez peninsula push inland toward Talasea and an airfield as they battered through pillboxes and mortar fire. Maj. Gen. William H. Rupertus’s First Marine Division scaled the northern coast amid tough resistance, with the beach-head described as the hottest since Tarawa.
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U. S
Willaumez Peninsula
New Britain
Talasea
Rabaul
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Cape Gloucester
First Marine Division
William H. Rupertus
Southwest Pacific
Rein Bay
New Guinea
Col
Oliver P. Smith
Berkeley
Calif
Marine Division of Plans and
Washington, D. C
Aas
Tarawa
W. H. Barba
Kinston
N. C
Warmer Friday Forecast for Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect a warmer Friday after a 4 below zero start. Tonight remains cold with a low near zero. Snow and high winds eased. main highways are open though some one way traffic remains in effect. Local highs reached 20 degrees Wednesday afternoon. humidity around 15 percent.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Spencer
Chambers
Labor Groups Exceed Red Cross Quotas in Linn County Drive
Labor groups in Linn County report strong Red Cross support as two plants exceed their one day quotas. LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing posts 4352.02 on a 4000 target, with Iowa Manufacturing Cherry Burrell Wilson and Universal Engineering nearing goals. County chairman James W. Bell credits labor for boosting war fund drive and notes broad participation amid awareness of Red Cross aid to servicemen.
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Red Cross
Linn County
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Turner Company
James W. Bell
Iowa Manufacturing
Cherry-Burrell, Wilson and Company
Universal Engineering
Bell
LaPlant-Choate
Forrest Clemens
John Petrusch
Grant Longenbaugh
The
Mustaches Grow During China Blitzers Leave Pause
Officers of the China Blitzers under Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault announced the unit will grow a mustache until ordered home for leave. The pledge was made by all men in the group at Headquarters Fourteenth Air Force.
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Fourteenth Air Force
Claireesl. Chennault
White paint spill blocks Cedar Rapids street cleanup
Cedar Rapids street department crews cleared a spill on Twelfth Avenue and Third Street SE after two 52 gallon barrels of white paint toppled from a passing vehicle. The white liquid coated the roadway but no injuries were reported.
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Cedar Rapids
Streets
Twelfth Avenue
Third Street
Berlin Blitz Hit Twice In Three Days By Allied Bombers
Major General James H. Doolittle led heavy bombers of the Eighth Air Force against Berlin for the second straight day. United States Ninth and American fighters shielded the bombers as 850 to 1,000 aircraft attacked with 1,680 tons of bombs reported on the city. Germany admitted damage but claimed most Allied planes were downed, while Swedish reports cited extensive fires and ruined Erkner district factories.
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Europe
British Press Association
Germany
North
Africa
Italy
Central
Pacific
Berlin
London
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
United States
Ninth Air Forces
R.af
Ninth Air Force
U. S
Hitler
Visf Ballbearing
Erkner
High Command
Stockholm Morgentidningen
Bern
Stockholm
Amer
Basil Cardew
Lord Beaver
Brook
Daily Express
The
Daily Mail
News-Chronicle
Cabinet Authorizes Takeover of South Coast Coal Mines
Canberra reports the Australian cabinet authorized the government to seize several south coast coal mines amid ongoing industrial unrest, signaling a decisive state intervention to end disputes and secure coal supplies.
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Canberra
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Republican Party
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GOP
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White House
L. L. Dunnington
Iowa City
C. R. Labor
C. R
M’arthur Smear
Gazette
Cedar Raunds News
Holcomb
Nickel Mines
Willaumez
Ralph C. Teatsorth
Cedar Rapids News
Iowa Highway Patrol
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