Rationing notes and birth reports in Daily Record
Rationing details list meat yellow and blue stamps with validity through March 20 and May 20, gasoline coupons through March 21 with varying gallon values, sugar and fuel oil stamps, and an airplane stamp. Disturbing the peace case against Leo McNamara Ely and Charles Leggett Anamosa with $25 fines. Family births at St Luke's Mercy and local marriage licenses and divorces noted. Rubbish fire report at Theron Pike residence and police call.
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Leo McNamara
Ely
Charles Leggett
Anamosa
Bombers Hammer Cassino as Allied Assault Rages
Reporter James E. Roper describes waves of Allied bombers striking Cassino while German defenders hold the town. He counts 520 aircraft in a three and a half hour bombardment aimed at highways and fortifications as Lt. Gen. Mark Clark and Maj. Gen. John Cannon observe from nearby.
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Cassino
Rome
Mark Clark
John K. Cannon
Bob Crosby Classified 1-A Prefers Marine Corps Service
Hollywood band leader and singer Bob Crosby said on Tuesday he has been classified 1-A in the draft and would prefer to serve in the Marine Corps if accepted.
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Hollywood
Bob Crosby
Marine Corps
City Primary Vote Table Highlights Winners
In the city primary voters chose Hahn over Meek for Mayor 2688 to 1014. Burgus unopposed for Finance Commissioner with 3076 votes. Benesh leads Safety Commissioner race with 2044. Martin 880. Kopp 761. Williams leads Public Improvements with 2667. Schreckengast 519. Walter 440. Stefan leads Parks Commissioner with 2113. Stastny 915. Wagner 656. Winners advance to March 27 city election.
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C. W. Meek
Frank K. Hahn
Wes Benesh
Gilbert Martin
Edward A. Kopp
Benesh
Martin
Ed Stefan
Leonard
Stastny
Arthur A. Wagner
Stefan
City Considers Federal Funds for Street Improvements
The city would match one third of federal funds, $96,000 annually, for three years to finance street projects. If the city takes full share it could receive over one million dollars in improvements at a net cost of $288,000. Projects must involve primary road extensions to qualify. Plans will be drawn and submitted to the highway commission for study, with administration by the commission and federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coykendall
Highway Commission
Commission
Agricultural Experts Urge Soil Resources For War Effort
Agricultural experts say the farmers' war effort relies heavily on the nation's soil resources. They emphasize maximizing crop production and soil stability to sustain wartime needs.
London Faces Fierce Night Blitz Echoing 1940 Attacks
London endured a violent pre midnight air raid with 150 to 200 German planes dropping incendiaries and high explosives. Fires raged in two major districts while rescue workers searched smoking ruins for the dead and injured as American troops aided in firefighting and rescue efforts.
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London
East Anglia
England
Germany
Berlin
Counterfeit Gasoline Coupons Reported by OPA
Washington AP The gasoline enforcement chief Shad Polier says 15 percent of C coupons are counterfeit, eight percent of B coupons and one percent of A coupons. He notes 245 black market arrests in 60 days and warns rationing hinges on public aid.
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Washington
OPA
Shad Polier
Polier
Congress
California
Middle Atlantic
Milwaukee
Chicago
San Francisco
Union
Bowles: No Price Rise in 11 Months
AP reports Price Administrator Chester Bowles testified before Congress that consumer costs have stayed flat for 11 months. He urged extending the price control act with minimal changes to curb wartime inflation and maintain a sound price structure, noting some faults but praising overall effectiveness.
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Bowles
Washington
Chester Bowles
Congress
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Army Urges Thorough Psychiatric Screening for Combat Duty
Two army psychiatrists report from the South Pacific that more thorough psychiatric examinations are needed before soldiers are assigned to combat. They found 38 percent of the 146 men who broke down had prior mental illness and 52 percent had a family history. 9 percent were wounded, none severely enough to evacuate. They urge readily available psychiatric consulting to prevent casualties.
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Washington
South Pacific War Theater
Warren T. Brown
Merrill Moore
Club notices due Thursday eight a.m. weekly deadline
All clubs lodge church social notices for Sundays Gazette must reach The Gazette office by Thursday eight a.m. Each week all organizations wishing notices in the Sunday paper must submit by the deadline during this wartime period.
Bowles Defends War Time Price Controls Before Senate
Bowles testified to the senate banking committee that OPA price controls limited living cost rise to 26 percent after 53 months since August 1939, less than half the 65 percent rise after 53 months of World War I. He credited subsidies for helping keep costs stable and acknowledged not every price could be perfectly set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Banking Committee
OPA
Bowles
Gas coupon cut threatens Midwest food production
Rep. A L Miller warned Price Administrator Bowles that reducing A gasoline coupon values in the Midwest would cripple the food production program. He argued longer travel distances in Nebraska make it impossible to apply East Coast patterns to Western farming without serious complications.
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Washington
A. L. Miller
R-Neb
Chester Bowles
Midwest
Miller
Bowles
Atlantic Seaboard
Nebraska
Wewak Bombed by Allied Planes in Pacific War
Allied planes dropped 210 tons of bombs on Wewak New Guinea as Gen MacArthur reports 65 Japanese planes shot down in three days. The drive around New Guinea tightens as reinforcements from Hollandia are diverted and Bougainville sees heavy fighting with 1000 enemy troops killed in three days.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Admiralty Islands
Bougainville
New Britain
Linga Linga
Eleanorary
Army and Navy Air Strikes Hit Seven Japanese Bases
Army and navy airmen have struck seven Japanese bases in the Marshall and Caroline islands in a continuation of the drive to pulverize enemy defenses in the central Pacific, the navy announced Tuesday.
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Washington
Navy
Marshall and
Caroline Islands
Pa Ge
Tuesay
Haines Accepts Election as Fifth Bishop of Iowa
The Very Rev. Elwood Lindsay Haines dean of Christ Cathedral Louisville Kentucky accepted election as the fifth bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Iowa. He told Davenport s Leo J Cappen and Mason City s Rev C B Whitehead by telephone that he would likely attend the Davenport diocesan convention in May and be consecrated in Louisville afterward.
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Davenport
Elwood Lindsay Haines
Christ Cathedral
Louisville
Episcopal Diocese of
Iowa
Leo J. Cappen
C. B. Whitehead
Mason City
Haines
Reds close ring around Nazi forces in southern Ukraine
Soviet communique reports Red troops breaking Nazi lines near Nikolaev and Kherson, with 10 000 Germans killed and 4 000 captured. The harbor at Nikolaev is closed, leaving Odessa as the main southern port, while forces push north to cross the Bug river near Gaisin and advance toward the Romanian frontier.
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Moscow
Red
Ukraine
Black Sea
Nikolaev
Odessa
Russia
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Bereznegovat-Snigerevka
Kherson
Nikolaev Harbor
Shirokaya Balka
Bug River
Kiselevka
Chekhovichi
Gaisin
Vinnitsa
Senate GOP Ratifies Officers and Names Steering Board
Washington Republican senators unanimously ratified their current officer slate and formed a steering committee led by Sen. Taft of Ohio. Sen. White of Maine remains acting leader. Sen. Vandenberg of Michigan named conference chairman. Others include Wherry, Burton, Danaher, Bridges, Brooks, Bushfield, and Millikin.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Senator White
Maine
Charles McNary
Oregon
Sen
Vandenberg
Michigan
Sen. Wherry
Nebraska
Sen. Burton
Congress
Republican Party
White
Wherry
Taft
Danaher
Connecticut
Bridges
New Hampshire
Brooks
Illinois
Bushfield
South Dakota
Millikin
Colorado
Townsend clubs plan meetings and events this week
City briefs list several Townsend groups scheduling meetings and activities. Auxiliary of club No 2 meets Friday at 2 pm with Mrs Ella Fisher. Townsend Victory club No 2 hosts a benefit card party Friday at 8 pm in the Glow room. Fillmore school hosts dads night Thursday at 7 pm. Mt Hermon lodge plans third degree Thursday evening. Club No 7 meets Thursday at 7 30 pm with dancing and social hour. Service club gathers Thursday at 6 30 pm for supper at Jane Boyd Community House, reservations via 2 8032. Mrs Richard Patek leaves Tuesday for several weeks with husband at Farragut Idaho naval station.
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Townsend
Ella Fisher
Center Point Road
Townsend Victory Club No. 2
Gas Company
Richard Patek
Nineteenth Street SE
Farragut, Idaho, Naval Training Station
Townsend Club No. 7
F Avenue NW
Service Club
Jane Boyd
Davenport WPB Rep to Visit Cedar Rapids Chamber
A WPB representative will meet Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce officials for conferences from 9 30 a m to 4 p m Thursday. Those seeking appointments should call the chamber at 5135. Cartr idge explodes injuring Mrs Hogan of 121 Twentieth Street NE while she emptied waste paper into a furnace. She was treated at Mercy hospital for a facial cut.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids
John Hogan
Twentieth Street
Mercy Hospital
Wilson student joins Quill and Scroll society
Maria V. Holub of 1610 K Street SW has been accepted for membership in the Quill and Scroll international honorary society for high school journalists. She is a 12A student at Wilson and serves as a columnist for the Wilsonian, literary editor of the school annual, and member of the Aristotelian chapter of the National Honor Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria V. Holub
Joseph. J. Holub
K Street
Quill and Scroll
International Honorary Society For
Wilson
Wilsonian
Aristotelian Chapter
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R. E. Wilson
Seventh Avenue
George Hartman
Hawthorne Drive
Joe Russell
Bever Avenue
John Temeyer
A Avenue NW
Theron Pike
Fifth Street
St. Luke’s
Dean Feigh
Marion
Arnold Huedepohl
Homestead
Joseph Marchesem
Third Avenue SE
Miles Locher
Mercy
Lloyd Hatfield
Shellsburg
Abraham Mashman
Second Avenue SE
Andrew Taylor
Sixth Street Road
Joseph M. Shima
Lorel Deane Jones
Tipton
Donald C. Winger
Walford
Jeanne Vorel
Fairfax
Harold J. Gage
Julia Gage
Maxine E. Fox
Carl S. J. Fox
Fury
James E. Roper
Marines
F. K. Hahn
Hahn
Meek
L. D. Burgus
David L. Williams
Ben L. Schreckengast
William Walter
Williams and Schreckengast
Army
Frank Carey
G.O.P
City Briefs
Fillmore School
First United Presbyterian
Mt. Hermon
A. F
A. M
Masonic Hall
Mademoiselle
Glenwear
Olson
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