Voters urged to balance war needs and local drives
Cedar Rapids readers are urged to vote yes or no in tomorrow’s poll while authorities form a coordinating committee to prioritize wartime fundraising. The piece notes motorists’ reckless deliveries and argues for directing public effort to essential campaigns and retaining good teachers amid wage pressures. It also cites a humorous Heifetz anecdote on cultural priorities.
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Cedar Rapids
Coordinating Committee
Roosevelt Approves War Time Delay in Anti-Trust Prosecutions
President Roosevelt approved a plan to defer federal anti-trust actions that could interfere with war production. The plan, submitted March 20 by Attorney General Biddle War Secretary Stimson Navy Secretary Knox and AAG Arnoll, aims to speed guns tanks planes and ships while preserving ultimate investigation of violations.
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Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Francis Biddle
Henry L. Stimson
Navy
Frank Knox
Thurman W. Arnoll
Justice Department
Arnold
Stephen T. Early
Henry A. Wallace
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
John W. McCormack
Mass
Hatton W. Sumners
House Judiciary Committee
Frederick van Nuys
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Biddle
Knox
Stimson
Voters to Elect Mayor and Council in Cedar Rapids Monday
Cedar Rapids precincts prepare for city election with Ed Stefan and Charles Kosek in a tight park commissioner race. Wes Benesh faces R L Whelan for safety commissioner while incumbents Hahn Williams Burgus Johnson face limited opposition.
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Ed Stefan
Charles Kosek
R. L Whelan
Wes Benesh
Benesh
Whelan
Frank Hahn
Dave Williams
Wes Robovsky
Fred Minor
Williams
L. D. Burgus
Harry Johnson
Motorist Otto Anderson Convicted of DUI in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids jury of twelve deliberated nearly twenty four hours before finding Otto Anderson of 1537 Thirty fourth Street SE guilty of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Judge J E Heiserman will sentence him April 6. defense may file motions by then. Anderson was arrested September 22 after his car struck an auto light testing lane on Third Street near Twelfth Avenue SE.
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Otto Anderson
Thirtyfourth Street
J. E. Heiserman
Thomas L. Crabbe
Heiserman
Anderson
Highway Patrol
Third Street
Twelfth Avenue SE
John F Bradley Injured in Night Car Collision
John F. Bradley about 50 suffered a fracture of the left leg when struck by an automobile at the corner of First Avenue and Fourteenth Street E during midnight Saturday. He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke's hospital. Driver's name not immediately learned.
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John F. Bradley
A Avenue
First Avenue
Fourteenth Street E
St. Luke's Hospital
Bradley
Draft board chief of Linn County explains coordination and calls
Huntington, chairman of Linn County Selective Service Board No. 1, says the system has not ironed out all kinks yet with ongoing questions and new daily changes. He notes some family men are already in the exemption group, and draft evasion is not as widespread as believed.
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East Side
Linn
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Linn County Selective Service Board
Fifth Avenue SE
Springfield, Ohio
War relief appeals coordination committee formed
Mayor Frank K Hahn announced a war appeal coordinating committee with business labor and industry representatives to study city cooperation in war relief and financing campaigns. Van Vechten Shaffer chairs the group meeting Monday at 4 pm at the Chamber of Commerce to review campaigns including war bonds USO Community Chest Red Cross and other relief appeals.
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Frank K. Hahn
Business
Labor
van Vechten Shaffer
Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Blodgett
Hahn
Ed C. Lowe
Howard A. Horan
Henry Haegg
Sumner D. Quarton
Jess A. Kitterman
Harry Boyd
Ed Hach
Charles Kriz
Keith W. Churchill
Red Cross
Boston Terrier Trade for Lady's Bicycle Ad
An Atlanta Journal advertisement offers a six month old pedigreed female Boston terrier in trade for a lady's bicycle. The brief notice poses a quirky exchange in a city paper.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Journal
Boston
Hitler's Terror Technique Against U S Outlined
Washington an Office of Facts and Figures pamphlet titled Divide and Conquer details Nazi propaganda methods aimed at weakening United States resolve. It lists fifteen objectives claiming bias, disunity, and fear are exploited to undermine Allies and bolster Axis goals.
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Washington
INS
United States
Office of Facts and Figures
Hitler
Belgium
Pacific
Stalin
Europe
Germany
Helmsman dies at wheel saving shipmates on torpedoed merchantman
Survivors of a medium sized American merchantman told how their helmsman Oscar G. Campbell of Nor mangee Texas died at the wheel as flames swept the bridge after a torpedo damaged the ship off the Atlantic coast. The master Capt. A M Johansen of Brooklyn also died. Eleven of 33 crew listed missing. Twenty two survivors landed at Morehead City and then at Norfolk.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
Oscar G. Campbell
Normangee
Texas
A. M. Johansen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Morehead City
N. C
Navy
Naval Operating Base
Paul Myers
Beaumont
Campbell
Trappd
Myers
Johansen
Livermore Charged With Drunken Driving After Signal Crash
Ralph E. Livermore of Palo was charged with driving while intoxicated after his car crashed into a traffic signal at Second avenue and First street SW around 11:30 p.m. M L Gladwin of 1517 Twelfth avenue SE, a passenger, suffered a head cut and was taken to St Luke's hospital. Livermore was held in jail.
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Cedar Rapids
Ralph E. Livermore
Palo
Second Avenue
First Street
L. Gladwin
Twelfth Avenue
Livermore
St. Luke's Hospital
Spivermore
Allies Launch Broad Offense Across Fronts in World War II
Allied forces pressed attacks from the French coast to Pacific islands as Soviet and Chinese units advanced on multiple fronts. British commandos struck the St Nazaire submarine base while U S and Filipino troops raided Luzon and Mindanao. Japanese efforts faltered at Corregidor and Port Moresby as Mormansk operations backed Arctic supply lines.
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International
United Nations
France
Australia
Pacific
Russia
Black Sea
St. Nazaire
Loire River
Bay of Biscay
Jonathan M Wainwright
Luzon
Mindanao
Philippines
Sea of Timor
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Port Moresby
Darwin
Toungoo
Burma
Chungking
Moscow
Red Army
Murmansk
Red Navy
Arctic
Britain
United States
Two More US Merchant Ships Torpedoed
The Navy says two medium size United States merchant vessels were torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. No additional details were released by the Navy.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Atlantic
Bulgaria Joins Axis War Effort Against Russia Reportedly
Ankara reports Bulgaria is sending troops to fight with the Axis in Russia and calls to overturn King Boris as a German pawn. Rumors say Russia threatens Bulgaria and aims at the Balkans. A conference in Berlin involving Boris, Hitler, and Papen is cited as influencing the move.
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Ankara
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
Boris
Balkans
Dardanelles
Sofia
Marodni Westi
Bolshevists
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Franz von Papen
Walther von Brauchitsch
Greece
Sicily
Dodecanese Islands
34 Survivors Safe But Messboy Seeks Second Sea Berth
William Wright a 16 year old English mess boy arrived in New York with 33 other survivors from a torpedoed Norwegian motor tanker. The ship was torpedoed March 9 in Atlantic waters. Three lifeboats carrying 34 men were rescued by a U S destroyer after three days at sea. The remaining seven crew were saved by a ship bound for Trinidad.
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New York
INS
Coney Island
William Wright
Liverpool
Atlantic
U. S
Trinidad
Cold snap continues in Cedar Rapids with subfreezing readings
The March cold wave kept Cedar Rapids under freezing as night temperatures dipped to 27 degrees at 9 30 p m and may fall further before dawn. Daytime high reached 31 degrees amid snow flurries, with a low of 22 degrees at 8 a m and 28 degrees twelve hours later.
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Cedar Rapids
British Use Destroyer As Giant Bomb
A British commando raid on St Nazaire destroyed the main dock gate with an explosive loaded American destroyer renamed Campbeltown. The operation aimed to ruin the only continental West Coast dock capable of fitting the 35 000 ton Tirpitz, with additional paratroop actions terrorizing Nazi installations and sea lanes.
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London
St. Nazaire
Germany
Europe
Buchanan
Campbeltown
Army
Navy
Air Force
Zeebrugge
Campbell Town
Atlantic
Britain
U. S
Vichy
Loire River
London Sunday Dispatch
St. Nazaire Dock
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Erenseere Walter, Winchell
Bob Estabrook
Arthur Huntington
C.R
Cedar Ranlds News
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William L. Umstead
Corregidor Fortress
Manila Bay
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Indian Ocean
Andaman Islands
India
Calcutta
Madras
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River Loire
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Messboy
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