De Luce Wins Pulitzer Prize in 1943 honors
Daniel De Luce AP war correspondent won the $500 Pulitzer prize for telegraphic reporting in international affairs. Ernie Pyle and two news photographers also won, with special citations to Byron Price and the New York Times for public service. Awards covered journalism, letters, and music, with traveling scholarships to Columbia journalism grads to be announced later.
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NEW York
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Ernie Pyle
Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance
Frank Filan
Tawara Island
Earle L. Bunker
Omaha
Neb
World Herald
Byron Price
Office of Censorship
New York Times
Times
Kansas City
Henry J. Haskell
Clifford K. Berryman
Washington
D. C
Evening Star
Dewey L. Fleming
Baltimore Sun
Paul Schoenstein
New York Journal American
Martin Flavin
Harper and Brothers
Merle Curti
Leonardo
Samuel F B. Morse
Carleton Mabee
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Columbia School of Journalism
Patrol clashes and Allied air raids across central Italy
Allied communique reports fierce patrol fighting along the Rome front with German skirmishers pushing near the Anzio beachhead and Cerreto Alto. Allied bombers pound ports and rail lines in central and northern Italy while air forces claim several enemy planes shot down and over 1,300 sorties flown.
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Naples
Rome
Italy
Fifth Army
Anzio
Aprilia
Cerreto Alto
Littoria
Anzio Harbor
Garigliano River
Tremonsu
Cassino
Adriatic
Tollo
Ortona
R.A.F
Genoa
Spezia
Livorno
Leghorn
Alessandria
Metkovic
Yugoslavia
Ploca
Optimists Honor Linn Corn Yield Contest Winners
Winners in the Linn county 10acre corn yield contest for 1943 were announced at a Cedar Rapids Optimist club meeting at the Roosevelt hotel. Top yields exceeded 100 bushels per acre with names including Vislisel Bader Levasseur Mallie and Dice receiving medals from Karl Kainz. Speaker D D Offringa, Linn county agent, reflected on citizenship and wartime events.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Optimist Club
Roosevelt Hotel
George Vislisel
Arnold Bader
Springville
Louie Levasseur
Alburnett
John W Benton
Raymond Maliie
Mt. Vernon
Vernon E. Dice
Fairfax
Vislsel
Bader
Levasseur
Mallie
Karl Kainz
D. D. Offringa
Holland
Offringa
United States
City Hall Notes Elect Earl Nichols to Electrical Board
City council approved Earl Nichols for a three year term on the electrical board of examiners ending May 1, 1947. Navy Mothers club received a tag day sale permit for July 1. Yellow Cab curbing request referred to city engineer. Olga Cambridge and W. H. Workman granted beverage permits Class C and Class B respectively.
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Earl Nichols
Electrical Board of Examiners
Navy Mothers Club
Yellow Cab Company
Fourth Avenue SE
Olga Cambridge
Johnson Avenue NW
W. H. Workman
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Move for Flag Salute Dropped by American Legion
The American Legion executive committee adopted a ten million dollar endowment for Americanism education and dropped a proposed constitutional amendment to require school children to salute the flag. No action on a subversive aliens amendment. Committee praised Hearst for GI Bill support and backed efforts to reduce juvenile delinquency.
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Washington
INS
American Legion Executive Committee
Americanism Commission
Legion
William Randolph Hearst
War Policy Debates Shape Postwar Draft and Naturalization
A committee discussed aliens in the armed forces before Sept 1 1943, strengthening naturalization education, and a national labor draft. It endorsed drafting all dollars labor materials property and supplies for the war effort.
Knox Joins U S Military Dead at National Cemetery
Frank Knox was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with honors. Military officials and UN envoys attended as volleys echoed over the grave. Prime Minister Churchill sent a message praising Knox's service to Roosevelt’s administration. Mrs Knox and Cabinet members gathered at the service while President Roosevelt was away.
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Washington
Frank Knox
Arlington National Cemetery
United Nations
Navy
Marines
Fred Buschmeyer
Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church
Churchill
Roosevelt
Knox
John Boettiger
Mississippi Flood Crest Reaches Major River Cities
The Mississippi flood crest advanced past Chester toward Cape Girardeau and Cairo as rain drenched nearly two million acres. The U S Weather Bureau expected rain to end Tuesday night with little change in levels, though drainage would slow. St Louis saw a drop after a 39.11 foot high Sunday night.
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ST Louis
Chester
Cape Girardeau
Cairo
United States Weather Bureau
Mississippi
St. Louis
Johnston's Plan of Reconversion to peacetime economy
Eric A. Johnston, head of the U S Chamber of Commerce, urged Congress to adopt a 10 point program to guide industry back to peacetime operation. The plan calls for favorable business policies, prompt settlement of wartime contracts, surplus plant disposition, controlled inflation, and coordinated public and private investments to sustain postwar employment.
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Washington
Eric A. Johnston
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Congress
House Committee
Johnston
Special
House Committee On
Four graphic films shown on war effort aid at Paramount
Four graphic films depicting front line warfare were screened Monday morning at the Paramount for a Cedar Rapids audience invited by the commanding general of the Seventh. The event highlighted how American industry supports the war effort.
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Paramount
Cedar Rapids
War Industry film series shown to workers by Chamber
Under Chamber of Commerce auspices a film program available to any war industry for worker showings featured titles such as The Case of the Tremendous Trifle The Earthmovers Film Communique 5 and Life Line The Case of the Tremendous Trifle explored the story behind a notable case.
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Chamber of Commerce
World War II film notes and aircraft losses summarized
The passage notes a Schweinfurt raid with 60 heavy bombers lost and Germany halved in war industry capacity. It discusses planning required to cripple German industry and effective approaches. It also reviews "The Earthmovers" on armed forces work power, "Film Communique 5" showing Tarawa action, and "Life Line" about wounded soldiers and the medical corps.
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Schweinfurt
Germany
Signal Corps
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