Officials Admit Dining At House on R Street Move
WALMINGTON AP Officials acknowledge dining at the four story House on R Street Northwest but deny discussing war contracts. Knox Nelson and Jeffers issued statements denying participation while other cited guests name Archduke Otto and Bridges. The house at 2101 R Street figures in a House committee probe into war contracts.
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R Street
Walmington
Knox
L. H. Lee
S. Army
Ordnance
WPB
Nelson
Rubber
Jeffers
Austin
R-Vt
General Campbell
Evening Star
Washington
House Committee
Campbell
Archduke von Hapsburg
Scapane Felix
Bridges
R-N.h
Rep. Morrison
Dla
John Monroe
Roosevelt
West Point
Monroe
Archduke Otto
Northwest
House
Eula Smith
Weather hurts Allies at Darwin amid heavy Japanese raids
MacArthur’s headquarters reported a Sunday Darwin raid showed Japan can strike from distant bases with long range air power. Spitfires defending Darwin damaged or shot down 13 enemy planes while weather curtailed Allied attacks elsewhere, with three pilots missing at sea and four Japanese aircraft destroyed at Timor.
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MacArthur
Australia
Darwin
Japan
Harold Guard
Guard
Koepang
Timor
Britain
G O P Postwar Talks Willkie Visit Coincide
Chicago reporters noted possible coincidence between postwar policy talks and Willkie's Eastward departure after saying he did not know the meeting was in session. Deneen A. Watson, attorney and Postwar Policy Group chair, commented on the association’s plans.
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G.O.P
Willkie
Chicago
Whett
War Policy Association
Republican Party
East
Deneen A. Watson
Postwar Policy Group
The
Associ
Isolationist Republicans Propose Four Point Postwar Platform
A conference of about 100 delegates from Indiana Illinois Iowa Nebraska the Dakotas Missouri Minnesota Kansas pledges no presidential endorsement and votes against penalties for isolationist lawmakers before Pearl Harbor. The four point plan calls for victory and unconditional surrender, unity of the United Nations, conversion to peacetime production with fair postwar opportunity, and a United Nations council to oversee postwar peace.
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Kie
Wates
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Dakotas
Missouri
Minnesota
Kan
Republican Party
Pearl Harbor
Policy Association
United Nations
Council of Nations
CIO Chief Alleges Government Broke Price Pledge
In San Francisco Philip Murray head of the CIO told 1,200 CIO delegates that Congress violated its pledge on price control. He urged rolling back retail prices to the September 1942 level to stabilize wages and prices.
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San Francisco
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Congress
United States
Common Justice
1942 Hen Birds and Animals Meat Supply Report
In 1942 hens birds and animals used by sportsmen provided about 253 million sanies of usable meat.
Franklin Teacher Enters Red Cross Overseas Service
Harold Templeman Franklin high school physical education instructor received a leave of absence to join the American Red Cross as an assistant field director. He leaves for Washington for training after eight years in Cedar Rapids schools. His wife Mrs Templeman and daughter Mary Esther will remain. Also N D Bowers will leave for Seabees duty. Teaching contracts were approved for Ida Marie Schroeder Mildred Hutchins and Dorothy M Raymond.
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Board of Education
Harold Templeman
Franklin High School
American Red Cross
Templeman
University of Wyoming
Cedar Rapids
Washington, D. C
Mary Esther
N. D. Bowers
Wilson School
Seabees
Ida Marie Schroeder
Boone
Mildred Hutchins
Central Ey
Dorothy M. Raymond
Wapello
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Culver Motors
Second Avenue SE
McLaughlin Pontiac Co
S. Cedar Street
Monticello
Murray
Franklin
Red Cross Overseas Service
M. Feder & Sons
F Avenue
Quiltey Hysein Fu
SAVE
Plaid
Pennsylvania Oil
Obebs
Montgomery Ward
Second Street
DIAL
Brandon
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