Public Opinion Opposes Wagner Murray Dingell Health Plan
Polls by Opinion Research Corp for the National Physicians Committee show most Americans oppose government controlled medical care and prefer private options. Voters favor easier payment methods, with calls for private enterprise solutions and cooperation among doctors, industry, and insurers to avoid a political shift undermining free enterprise.
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Opinion Research Corporation
National Physicians Committee
Wagner-Murray
Air war shakeup and raids hit Germany and France
British Lancasters hit the Marignane factory near Marseille as Allied air power keeps up the round the clock raids. Berlin and central Germany targets faced heavy blows from the American Eighth and other forces, with reports of German air command reorganizing and Hermann Goering’s reduced role amid mounting Allied losses and factories targeted.
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Britain
Germany
France
Marignane
Marseille
Air Ministry
R.A.F
Berlin
Eighth Air Force
Reich
Hannover
London Daily Mail
Air Command
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Goering
Private initiative and smarter ideas to curb social reformers
A column argues private efforts are the only antidote to half baked reform plans and urges smarter ideas tailored to each problem. It notes a New York drive to enlist 4800 housewives as price wardens and comments on Senate budget and agency curtailment efforts. The piece reflects on robins and a mild Iowa winter with local weather musing.
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BODY
Food Green
New York City
Price
New York
Nazis Say Allies Land Off Balkans
London reports Berlin says British and American commandos under Capt Randolph Churchill landed on Lissa island off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia. The broadcast named a British general with the name Churchill, likely the prime minister's son, but no confirmation followed. The force, about 1500, may be meant to secure the island as a supply base for Tito bands and to enable raids along the Dalmatian coast. Lissa lies about 30 miles from Split and 120 miles east of Italy.
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Randolph Churchill
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Dalmatian
Yugoslavia
Berlin
Churchill
Marshal Tito
Tito
Nea
Europe
Lissa
Adriatic
Split
Italy
Servicemen May Accept Nominations
Washington AP report states the army and navy will allow regular service members to accept nomination for public office if tendered, with no active campaigning. Other service members may run without nomination, provided duties are not interfered with and elected individuals do not serve while on active duty. Separation is required for members who join Congress.
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Navy
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House
Gillette Declares Candidacy to Seek Re election
Washington AP Guy M. Gillette of Iowa announces in a telegram he will seek reelection to the Senate. He had said he planned retirement but 24,000 Iowa Democrats urged him to run, stressing party unity and leadership during a critical period.
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Washington
Guy M. Gillette
D-Ia
Jake More
Gillette
Senate
Iowa
Germans Admit Loss of West Ukraine Bulwark
London AP reports Premier Stalin announced the capture of Uman, a key German base in western Ukraine, as Russian offensives across the southern front widened. Moscow claimed gains at Staro Konstantinov and Tarnopol, with Zhukov threatening Proskurov and fears for Nikolaev and Kherson amid Push toward Odessa.
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London
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Uman
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Old Poland
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Staro-Konstantinov
Tarnopol
Black Sea
Kherson
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Krivoi Rog
Ingullets River
Novi Bug
Grozhany
Kazanka
Malinovsky
Maiinovsky
Odessa
Proskurov
Gregory K. Zhukov
Tallinn
Estonia
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Reval
Narva
Red Cross drive beat goal in Cedar Rapids retail team
Cedar Rapids progress in the Red Cross war fund drive rose as Retail D Team led by captain J E Cameron posted an incomplete total of 458.59 on a 328 quota. County effort aims to raise 147000 by March 14 while weather slowed some areas and industrial workers pushed toward 73000 in Cedar Rapids as the largest quota.
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Red Cross
Granby
Cedar Rapids
Bell
Fun Unit Antics Cause Death in Theater Aisle
In St Louis the traveling unit of Ol Son and Johnson's Sons o Fun caused a death when 39 year old C Everest Fahrner collapsed from a heart attack while dancing with a chorus girl in the theater aisle. His wife sat nearby laughing at his actions.
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ST. Louis
Olson and Johnson
C. Everest Fahrner
Finland Calls Hitler Telegram Over Narva Setback
STOCKHOLM UP Finnish Field Marshal Carl Mannerheim, commander in chief, reportedly telegraphed Adolf Hitler that Narva's fall would make the German Finnish military position untenable. Finnish leaders had resigned themselves to a grim situation caused by the Soviet Baltic advance, but the telegram marks a formal record to Hitler as German commander in chief.
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Carl Mannerheim
Adolf Hitler
Narva
Finland
Baltic States
Hitler
Two Killed As Training Plane Falls
Two officers died when a government Aeronca trainer plunged 600 feet after a midair collision near Cedar Rapids. Flight Instructor William Clark 35 and student Pete L. Thomas 19 were killed. Instructor Merle Peterson and student Robert Empoerr Escape with injuries as another trainer landed safely. The crash occurred during routine figure eights at about 4 30 p m on a Jo seph Kil berger farm. Clark had 1200 hours and Peterson 1300 hours. Thomas had two hours of instruction and played halfback for Tulsa University in the Sugar Bowl. Charlson was unhurt. Continued on page 2 col 3.
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Cedar Rapids
Pete L. Thomas
Enid
Okla
Aeronca
B Avenue NE
Army Aircrew
Oklo
Coe College
Joseph M. Kilberger
Clark
Occu
Merle Peterson
Alburnett
Robert Em Poerr
Ehoto
M. Charlson
Forest City
Peterson
Hunterfield
Charlson
Jim Wathan
Thomas
Tulsa University
New Orleans
Notes Exchanged by Wacs Tied to Nazi Prisoner Escape
Camp HaleColo Eight more American soldiers linked to the escape of two German war prisoners Erhard Schwichtenberg and Heinrich Kikilius Col John Chase camp commander says five WAC members traded notes with Nazis Four WACs Frances H Bundorf Florence C Pechon Marguerite L Franklin confessed and were sentenced to four to six months confinement Pilot Paul A Kiseman Leonhard Kissman and Siering admit roles with others toons Nazi escape case. Six WACs faces court martial for related charges. one investigated for trafficking with prisoners.
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San Diego
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Chase
Erhard Schwictenberg
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Maple
Anto Texas
Paul A. Kiseman
Erie
Eric B. ‘Hetelling
Mountain Lakes
N. J
Friedrich W. Siering
Chicago
Leonhard
Kissman
Siering
Hotelling
Guido Gundish
Milwaukee
Wacs
Frances H Bundorf
Birmingham
Ala
Florence C. Pechon
New Orleans
Marguerete L. Franklin
Oakland
Two Cedar Rapids Soldiers Listed as Missing in Action
Two Cedar Rapids men are listed as missing in action. Second Lt. Jack Kazebeer, 27, in Italy, and Lt. (j.g.) James Warren Farley, a fighter pilot in the Southwest Pacific. Kazebeer entered service Feb. 27, 1941, fought in North Africa and Tunisia, and his wife and three children live in California. Farley moved to Cedar Rapids with his parents in 1943. he trained at Glenview and San Ace Christi, Texas, earning his wings in September.
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Army
Navy
Jack Kazebeer
E. D. Kazebeer
Fifth Street
Italy
J.g
James Warren Farley
Claude E. Farley
Allison Hotel
Southwest Pacific
War Department
Kazebeer
National
North Africa
Tunisia
California
Farley
Des Moines
Rock Island Railroad
St. Ambrose College
Davenport
Glenview Naval Air Station
San Ace Christi
Texas
Cuban Gin Shipment Held See Postponed Return
A Portland AP report states 10 606 cases of Cuban gin were detained by customs and likely sent back due to missing three drops of j oil per bottle, the key flavor requirement for authenticity.
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Portland, Ore
Shift Linked To Matter of Italian Fleet
AP report states over a dozen British and American warships plus a fraction of other naval craft may be assigned to Russia during the war, with the Italian fleet remaining in the Mediterranean under Allied direction. The plan calls for transferring British American units to Russia while retaining the Italian fleet, and later possibly using Russian ships on northern supply routes to Murmansk.
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Black Sea
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Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Britain
United Nations
Turkey
Admits Hoax Call To Impress Girl
In Chicago 15 year old Stanley Ed win admitted making a false distress call to the Great Lakes naval training station to impress his girlfriend Gilda Lucas 18. He impersonated Col Jones of the Civil Air Patrol to spark a coast guard search. Police traced the hoax to her home after CAP reported there was no Col Jones.
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Stanley Edwin
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Col. Jones
Civil Air Patrol
Gilda Lucas
Erwin
CAP
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