RAF Bombs Marignane Factory In France
London AP reports Britain's Lancasters bombed the large Marignane factory near Marseille late Thursday night. The raid maintains round the clock Allied pressure after Berlin bombing by the US Eighth Air Force. A German air command shakeup may follow the heavy Berlin losses, with Goering rumored to cede influence to younger specialists.
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Public opinion on Wagner Murray Dingell bill and private plans urged
Opinion Research Corp finds most Americans oppose government run medical care and favor private payment plans. The piece argues for private enterprise as the path to affordable care and urges medical groups and industry to promote workable private options. It notes a New York plan to recruit 4800 price wardens and critiques wholesale price snooping. It also covers Senate action on agency oversight and concludes with a robin sighting and mild Iowa winter remarks.
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Nazis Say Allies Land Off Balkans
London reports Allied commandos led by Capt Randolph Churchill have landed on Lissa island off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia. Berlin radio says the force totals about 1,500 with Tito followers possibly aboard. The move aims to secure the island as a base and guard supplies for Tito bands. Lissa lies 30 miles from Split and 120 miles east of Italy.
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Service Members May Accept Nominations for Public Office
President Roosevelt announced that regular army and navy personnel may accept nominations for public office if not active in campaigning. Other service members may run without nomination but must not interfere with duties. Eligible servicemen may be discharged to serve as president or in public office, with mandatory separation if elected to Congress.
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Gillette Says He Will Seek Reelection in Senate
Washington AP reports Senator Guy M. Gillette of Iowa announced Friday he would seek reelection. In a telegram to Democratic state chairman Jake More, Gillette said he had considered retirement but noted 24,000 Iowa Democrats urged him to continue in senate service. The message urged him to yield to the demand and become a candidate due to current conditions and party support.
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Germans Admit Loss of West Ukraine Bulwark
London AP reports Premier Stalin announced the capture of Uman a key German base in western Ukraine. The German radio later claimed Nazis abandoned Uman, a railhead between Vinnitsa and Kirovograd, near the Bug river, as Russian offensives surged in southern Ukraine.
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Retail D Team in Red Cross Drive Exceeds Its Goal
Cedar Rapids reports show Retail D Team in mercantile division, led by J. E. Cameron, totaling 458.50 on a 328 quota as of Thursday. Linn county cap James W. Bell says county drive aims for 147000 by March 14. weather slows some areas while progress grows elsewhere. Industrial workers push toward 73000 Cedar Rapids quota as the largest single goal.
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Fun Unit's Antics Cause His Death
ST. LOUIS UP The hectic stunts of the traveling unit for Olsson and Johnsons Sons o Fun proved too much for C Everest Fahrner 39 who died Thursday night of a heart attack while dancing with one of the chorus girls in the theater aisle His wife was seated nearby laughing at his antics.
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Finnish Bid to Nazis to Leave Finland
Stockholm dispatch reports Field Marshal Carl Mannerheim, Finland’s commander in chief, telegrammed Adolf Hitler that Narva’s fall would render the German Finnish military position untenable. Finnish leaders had long conceded the Baltic advance would doom the military situation, but the telegram marks a formal repudiation to Hitler as German commander.
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Training Plane Crash Kills Two Instructors
Flight Instructor William Clark 35 of 2423 B avenue NE and Aircrew student Pete L. Thomas 19 of Enid Oklahoma died when a mid air collision between two Aeronca trainer planes caused a 600 foot plunge into a frozen cornfield ten miles southwest of Cedar Rapids. Aircraft commander Merle Peterson 21 of Alburnett and student Robert Tory Charlson 19 Forest City survived with injuries. The crash, during routine figure eight training, followed 40,000 hours of Aircrew flying since 1948. Clark had 1,200 hours, Peterson 1,300. Thomas had two hours of instruction.
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Irvin S. Cobb dies at 67 in New York Hotel
Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, 67, died Friday at his Hotel Sheraton apartment after three months of illness from complications including dropsy. Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Cobb rose to fame as a prolific writer, actor, and after-dinner speaker, with the Judge Priest character defining much of his work. Survived by his widow and daughter Elizabeth, also a writer.
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Notes Exchanged By Wacs Ties Nazi Prisoners Escape
Camp Hale Colo. eight more American soldiers linked to the escape of German war prisoners Erhard Schwictenberg and Heinrich Kikilius. WACs Frances Bundorf Florence Pechon and Marguerete Franklin pled guilty to secret notes with the prisoners. Maple and four others named by Col. Chase admit part in the plot while Hotelling denies. S/Sgt Guido Gundish confined on separate trafficking charges. further trials planned.
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Two Cedar Rapids Men Listed Missing in Action
Two Cedar Rapids men, one in the army and one in the navy, were listed as missing in action. Second Lt. Jack Hazebeer, 27, of 121 Fifth Street NE, Italy, has been missing since February 5 after serving in North Africa, Tunisia, and Italy. Lt. James Warren Farley, fighter pilot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Farley, linked to Allison hotel and Cedar Rapids, earned wings in Texas after training in Davenport and Glenview, with parents moving to Cedar Rapids in 1943.
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Cuban gin shipment held for missing juniper oil drops
A Portland AP report says 10,000 cases of Cuban gin were detained by customs and likely returned. The bottles lacked the required three drops of juniper oil to meet authentic flavor standards.
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Shift Linked To Matter of Italian Fleet
Washington AP reports a plan under study to transfer British and American naval units to Russia for the war while the Italian fleet stays in the Mediterranean. The aim is to use a like equivalent amount of Allied ships for Russia via Mediterranean dispositions, with most transferred ships likely of American origin.
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Admits Hoax Call To Impress Girl
CHICAGO (UP) Stanley Ed win, 15, Negro, confessed at the county juvenile home that he placed the hoax telephone call to the Great Lakes naval training station. He pretended to be Col. Jones of the Civil Air Patrol to impress his girlfriend, Gilda Lucas, 18. Police traced the call to her home after CAP reported no such officer, prompting Coast Guard and search crew to scour for a distressed tanker in near zero weather.
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