Government programs and tax plans dominate the day
The day’s news features the President’s social security proposal aimed at broad impact, a worsening Russia war, and the House Ways and Means Committee's opposition to pay-as-you-go taxes. The Truman committee criticizes the war effort amid a flurry of significant developments, signaling ongoing postwar policy debates and a busy political week.
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Russia
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman Committee
War War Fund Debate and Local Control Support
The Truman committee praises its wartime oversight while noting delays in reports and corrections. A Wednesday Iowa meeting examined the proposed National War Fund to coordinate war relief appeals, with local fears of regimentation voiced but support for preserving local control. The piece also extends tribute to the Army Navy E for the LaPlant Choate company and Cedar Rapids workers for their wartime contributions.
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Truman Committee
Tesat
National War Fund
Iowa
Washington
Army-Navy
LaPlant-Choate Company
Solons Plan For Postwar Study Of Own
Congress signals a postwar planning push with Senator George proposing a nine member panel and a $50 000 staff appropriation to study transition from war to peace. The National Resources Planning Board report urges full employment and broader social guarantees, plus private public partnerships in key industries and railroad consolidation.
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George
D-Ga
National Resources Planning Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Army Navy E Award Given to LaPlant Choate Unit
Brig. Gen. Stuart C. Godfrey awarded the Army Navy E pennant to the LaPlant Choate company in a brief ceremony. He praised American industry for outproducing the Axis and stressed labor management teamwork as key to victory. The event drew military and manufacturing leaders who applauded the recognition of U.S. government efforts.
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Stuart C. Godfrey
Army- Navy
LaPlant- Choate
Hitler
Army Air Forces
United States
LaPlant-Choate Company
Gazette-Reynolds
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
Keith Churchill
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers
C/O) union
Roy E. Choate
LaPlant-Choa'e
Cedar Rapids Office Denies Tax Payment Extension
The Cedar Rapids internal revenue office warns taxpayers must pay at least one fourth of 1942 federal income tax by March 15 to avoid delinquency. They say no instructions exist to extend the first quarter deadline and suggest mailing returns to Des Moines with money orders or checks to avoid lines. Payments may be sent without cash in person.
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Internal Revenue Office
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Delayed Navy Preflight Ceremony At Coe College
The event started four thirty in the afternoon after the general arrived ninety minutes late due to a Chicago grounding and a minor auto incident in Sterling Illinois. The Coe college military band performed during the delay and the flag decorated shipyard building was filled to near capacity for the brief ceremony.
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Chicago
Sterling
Ill
Coe College
David C. Hanrahan
Navy
University of Iowa
Roy E. Choate
Standley Assumes Personal Responsibility for Remarks
Under secretary Sumner Welles said William H. Standley had assumed personal responsibility for his Moscow remarks on American aid to Russia. Standley stated he spoke in his personal capacity and not for the U S government, a detail matching press versions.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
William H. Standley
State Department
No Unwarranted Entry of Private Dwellings
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown vows not to allow home searches under OPA rules except in flagrant cases. He cites racketeers posing as officials attempting to intimidate households to seize canned foods and mentions a city report of an official entering a home without permission. Brown emphasizes inviolability of homes and warrants for searches.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
13 Ships Sunk from Allied Convoy
The Berlin radio broadcast a German communique claiming 13 Allied ships totaling 73,000 tons were sunk by U boats from a convoy from North America to Britain. The tally rose to 36 vessels announced in the last 24 hours, though there was no Allied confirmation.
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Berlin
North America
Britain
Ship Survivors Saved After 83 Days On Raft
Basil Izzi and four other men survived 83 days at sea after abandoning ship. They used their toes as bait to lure sharks into a rope noose, then killed the shark for food. Facing thirst and dwindling supplies, they endured with improvised water collection and careful rations until rescue.
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Washington
Basil D. Izzi
South Atlantic
George Eee
Hamberton
Tizy
Dacinr
den Gous
Soviet Push Toward Smolensk Gains Ground
Soviet headquarters say Red armies captured at least 44 towns and villages on the central front and moved within 80 miles of Smolensk near Hitler’s erstwhile base. Nazis defend Vyazma, while Kharkov fighting continues with heavy losses reported on both sides.
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Adolf Hitler
Smolensk
o/ Bely
Vyazma
Moscow
Bely
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Hitler
Berlin
Ukraine
Russia
Tches
Three More Cedar Rapids Soldiers Missing in North Africa
The War Department notified relatives that Corporal Riley N. Crawford Private Merle W. Eppers and Corporal Paul J. Stewart are missing in action in North Africa since February 17. Crawford, a Cedar Rapids resident for eight years, attended Washington High School and worked for Inter-Ocean Reinsurance before induction. Eppers, 23, joined the National Guard in 1940 and served in Ireland before Africa. Stewart, 31, worked at Iowa Manufacturing and served at Claiborne and Northern Ireland.
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Cedar Rapids
North Africa
War Department
Corp
Crawford
Ghent
Army
Washington High School
Inter- Ocean Reinsurance Company
Camp Claiborne
Fort Dix
N. J
Northern Ireland
Africa
Joe Crawford
Rockford
Eppers
National Guard
Ireland
Wilson High School
Niagara Company
William Krigga
Eighteenthee
Milo Jordan
Eighteenth Avenue
Stewart
Claiborne
Iowa Manufacturing Company
American casualties in Tunisia total 2242 for Feb 14 20
Allied reports from North Africa detail 2242 American casualties in Tunisia during Feb 14 to 20, with 59 prisoners taken. Stimson noted American losses were heavier than British and French, and over 100 enemy tanks were captured or destroyed. Axis forces remained mobile while Leclerc and Giraud French columns linked in a flank move near Mareth line.
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Washington
Tunisia
Stimson
Leclerc
Lake Chad
Equatorial Africa
Henri Giraud
French Guerrillas Blast Train Killing 250 Germans
London dispatch says French guerrillas derailed a speeding German troop train at Chagny in east central France killing more than 250 Nazis and wounding hundreds. The raid occurred Thursday according to a special message.
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London
Chagny
France
16 Percent Boost In Coffee Ration
Washington reports a 16 percent rise in the coffee ration to start March 22. Stamp No 26 in war ration book No 1 will allow one pound of coffee for five weeks from March 22 to April 25, with the t ration remaining one pound for the six weeks ending March 2. The increase reflects OPA policy to relax restrictions when feasible.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Office of Price Administration
Allied occupy Metlaoui and press toward Gafsa in Tunisia
Allied forces seized Metlaoui a rail and road hub 25 miles from Gafsa as they push to sever the Axis Tunisian corridor. In Sedjenane sector, the British Eighth Army faced another enemy attack while heavy bombardment and air strikes targeted El Aouina and La Marsa airfields.
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North Africa
Metlaoui
Gafsa
Sedjenane
Tunisia
Chott Djerid
Salt Lake
Royal Navy
Dunkirk
el Aquino
la Marsa
Tunis
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Associated Press
Sandor & Klein
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Riley N. Crawford
Charles W. Crawford
Shellsburg
Riley Crawford
A Avenue
Pfc
Merle W. Eppers
A. R. Eppers
Paul J. Stewart
William Stewart
Eighth Avenue
Allied Headquarters
Kesar Rhilane
Mareth Line
Erwin Rommel
Maknassy
Gulf of Gabes
Eighth Army
Montgomery
John Kieran
Paul Mallon Ee Eee
Henry McLemore
Walter Winchell
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