Hollandia Clashes Cost U S 28 Dead 95 Wounded
Allied reports detail Hollandia operations in the Southwest Pacific with 28 U S deaths and 95 wounded in 17 days. Rear Admiral Barbey warns future battles may be tougher as U S forces press in toward the Philippines.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Hollandia
Daniel E. Barbey
Seventh Amphibious Force
Philippines
Barbey
Portland
Ore
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Bougainville Bay
New Britain
Cape Hoskins
Rabaul
Mokmer
Biak Island
Enemgy
Comat
Iowa Soldiers Wounded In Mediterranean Area Named
The War Department announced five Iowa soldiers wounded in action in the Mediterranean. Named are S/Sgt. George J. Machacek of Marion, his father Frank Machacek, and T/4 Jasper R. Pennington of Solon, with Mrs. Levi Pennington listed as his mother.
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Washington
War Department
Iowa
Mediterranean
George J. Machacek
Marion
Frank Machacek
Jasper R. Pennington
Solon
Levi Pennington
Des Moines Detectives Break Up Theft Ring
Des Moines police say four youths confessed to participating in about 20 thefts and robberies since last September, ending a local theft ring.
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Des Moines
INS
Mercy hospital nurses home drive names leaders for $150000
Joseph W. Markey of Penick and Ford named general chairman of a campaign to raise 150000 for Mercy hospital nurses home. Ray Mills of Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance named vice chairman. June 12 to 22 drive with headquarters in Merchants National Bank building.
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Joseph W. Markey
Penick and Ford
Mercy Hospital
Sister Mary Mercy
Ray Mills
Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company
Merchants National Bank
Sister Mercy
Youth Arrested for Sport Coats Theft and Gas Theft
James Ackland twenty of 716 Eighth Avenue SE was arrested at his home Monday by Detective Albert Wilson in connection with last Friday’s theft of three sport coats from Dean Lemon of the same address. Ackland confessed. Police also logged two gasoline theft reports: eight gallons siphoned from Charles Jones’s car on Sunday night at 2005 Park Avenue SE and five gallons drained from Charles Pudil’s car at 1117 Eighth Street NW. Louis Rimrodt reported a stolen tire and wheel from his car at 815 Division Street SE, valued at eleven dollars. Mrs. James Hodgson reported the loss of a purse valued at fifty to sixty dollars and a six hundred dollar Chicago university fellowship document while shopping Monday at 516 Twenty-third Street SE.
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James Ackland
Eighth Avenue SE
Albert Wilson
Dean Lemon
Ackland
Charles Jones
Park Avenue SE
Charles Pudil
Eighth Street
Louis Rimrodt
Division Street
Rimrodt
James Hodgson
Twenty-third Street
Chicago University
Fire at Burlington Destroys Riley Brothers Plant
A blaze at the Riley Brothers Oil plant in Burlington caused extensive damage to the blending plant and laboratory after a kettle holding 300 gallons of varnish boiled over against a stove pipe. The fire started Monday and was localized to the plant areas.
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Burlington
Riley Brothers Oil Company
Time of Invasion Day Church Rites Notified
The Gazette reports Cedar Rapids churches will hold prayer services on the invasion day evening. Arrangements by the Inter-Service Club Council with local pastors outline tentative opening times and individual plans.
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Watch Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Inter- Service Club Council
Europe
Ministerial Association
Hitler of May 40 and Non Study in Contrasts
Supreme Allied reporters recall Hitler four years after a Berlin opera night in May 1940. The piece contrasts his lavish prewar image with Berchtesgaden retreat as Allied plans for D Day loom. Goebbels propaganda, Nazi prestige, and the failing Atlantic Wall are noted amid renewed fear of invasion.
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Hitler
Supreme
Allied Headquarters
England
INS
Adolf Hitler
State Opera House
Berlin
Richard Wagner
Royal Box
London
Covent Garden
France
English Channel
Unter den Linden
Compiegne
Europe
Paris
Berchtesgaden
Berchitesgaden
Goebbels
Germany
Wehrmacht
West
Goering
Atlantic Wall
Maginot Line
Renderers Vote Friday On Link With AFL Union
An election will be held Friday at the Cedar Rapids Renderers Otis Tower SE to determine if production employees shall be represented for collective bargaining by Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America AFL local 170. Time is 1 30 to 2 pm. Eligible voters are production employees on payroll period ended April 15. The election is in charge of the National Labor Relations board.
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Cedar Rapids Renderers
Otis Tower SE
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
AFL
National Labor Relations Card
Bowles Warns Government Must Back Postwar Recovery
Chester Bowles, head of the Office of Price Administration, warned at Yale's Lamont lecture that postwar collapse must be prevented. He said government guarantees should be broad and bold to sustain high industrial and farm activity, or the nation risks repeating history of reconversion turmoil.
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New Haven
Roosevelt’s Three Point Plan for Postwar Economy
The speaker urged government action with three aims including protecting price and wage levels, ensuring export potential after the war, and prepping a shelf of public works at federal, state, and local levels to be deployed as needed.
Still collect kitchen fats despite meat point changes
Washington AP reports that housewives can still be paid in red points and cash for saving kitchen fats even after point values were removed from all meats except beef steaks and roasts. The OPA stressed the ongoing need for fats and oils.
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Washington
OPA
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Pierre J. Huss
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der Fuehrer
S. S. Huskies
Folger S Coffee
Armstrong's
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Petes
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