Fair wages and wartime costs press Cedar Rapids payrolls
The piece argues city payrolls will rise after the war and tax pressures may surge. It suggests gradual budget increases to avoid shocking taxpayers and warns against excessive wage gaps between city workers and other costs. It also covers Allied surrender policy and Axis satellite terms, urging clear statements on postwar terms and unconditional surrender.
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Cedar Rapids
Hull
London
Germany
Japan
Jon Washington
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Romania
Bulgaria
Finny
Yanks Hit Five Nazi Oil Plants
London reports a major Allied daylight raid targeting five Nazi oil plants at Merseburg Lutzendorf Bohlen Zeitz and Brux in Czechoslovakia. U.S. Eighth Air Force and RAF sorties totaled thousands of bombs with heavy fighter opposition and several losses on both sides.
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Allies issue ultimatum to Axis satellites over Germany
Washington dispatch reports the United States Britain and the Soviet Union demand Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland decide now whether to withdraw from the war. The three powers warn continued collaboration with Germany will bring harsher terms and inevitable defeat for the satellites.
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Finland
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Soviet Union
Drive Set Off By Shattering Gun Barrage
Allied forces of the Fifth and Eighth armies launched a major assault against the Gustav line from Cassino to the sea. American British Polish and French troops led a night barrage near Monte Cassino while infantry attacked to drive through well fortified positions along Highway 6 and the Rapido and Gari rivers. British Indian and Polish units joined the push as Gen. Sir Harold Alexander directed the operation with air and naval support backing the assault.
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Naples
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Reynolds Packard
Mark W. Clark
Tyrrhenian Sea
Liri
Gari
Gustav Line
Douglas Amazon
Harold Alexander
Oliver Leese
We Will Destroy Reich Armies Clark Addresses Fifth Army
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark told Fifth Army troops they would destroy German armies and press on to decisive victories. He noted heavy losses for the enemy, more than 13,000 prisoners taken, and framed the attack as a renewed offensive after a lull in Italy.
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Mark W. Clark
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Wartime Transportation Shortfalls in Wartime Economy
Report from the fishing fronts notes abundant fish in Iowa streams this year yet gasoline rationing threatens their presence by season's end. Analysts fault transportation planners for failing to shift nonstream traffic to accessible routes, a lapse not seen before.
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Iowa
Deferment for Men 30 Plus in Essential Industry Expanded
Washington reports a blanket indefinite deferment for all men 30 and over in essential industry. Necessary men aged 26 to 29 receive civilian status for the time being, with six months as a possible horizon. Major Gen. Hershey says policy may adjust with war needs and that boards should defer or dismiss calls accordingly.
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Selective Service
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Stalin for Free Worship Priest Says Stalin Supports Conscience
A Springfield Massachusetts priest, Stanislaus Orlemanski, quotes Josef Stalin as advocating freedom of conscience and worship. He says cooperation with Pope Pius XII is possible against church coercion. The priest collected state department approval to study Poland and Moscow invited him as a private citizen, not a diplomat or church representative.
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Lesinski accuses Soviet visitors of aiming to influence U S policy
Rep John Lesinski of Michigan charges Rev Stanislaus Orlemanski and Prof Oscar Lange with violating the U S penal code. He asks Attorney General Biddle to prosecute, asserting they have had verbal and written contact with a foreign government to sway U S policy.
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Oscar Lange
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Dies Withdraws From Re election Bid
Beaumont Texas AP Rep Martin Dies a Democrat from Texas says he will not run for another term in Congress He cites ill health and a wish to return to private business Dies has served fourteen years in Congress and chairs the House Committee on Un American Activities.
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Congress
House Committee On UN
Nazis Driven Far from Coast
London dispatch reports Allied air bombardment has pushed German forces back 30 to 50 miles from many sectors of the French invasion coast. Airmen say front-line airfields and most anti aircraft guns cover a vast area, though some concrete pillboxes remain and many forts likely felled by bombs.
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Europe
Planes Wipe Out Jap Nest Near Imphal
Allied air forces bombed Ningthoukhong near Imphal to strike 1,000 Japanese troops in a jungle village. The two day assault, the largest single target airstrike in the India Burma campaign, supported British ground forces pushing toward Kohima and cutting Japanese supply roads from the Burma frontier.
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Imphal
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Imphal- Tidding
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Refuse to Indict In Loop Slaying
CHICAGO AP The county grand jury Friday was reported to have declined to indict Edmund O'Dea 30 Chicago after an investigation of the fatal shooting May 3 of Louis Heller 42 a New Yorker living here during a quarrel on State street in the loop police said O'Dea admitted the shooting but contended he did so in self defense witnesses were to have corroborated his contention before the grand jury
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Edmund O'Dea
Louis Heller
State Street
Loop
O’dea
California Hotel Fire Claiming Fifteen Lives
OROVILLE CALIF AP As many as fifteen persons may have died in the fire that destroyed a hotel here Friday.
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Oroville
Calif
FBI Nabs No 1 Con Man Who Tricked C R Men
Cedar Rapids News reports a 52 year old con man known as Jack K Meredith was captured by the FBI in Indianapolis after opering under 1100 aliases. His scheme spanned many states and used forged credentials to ingratiate with officials and cash small checks. He first surfaced in Cedar Rapids on May 25 1937 after escaping Nevada prison and impersonating officials to target Collins Radio and others.
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Montgomery Ward
Mr. All
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Hammond
FBI
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E. H. Hill
Eitias Etenananiene
Meredith
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E. E. Kuhnel
Washington
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Nevada
W. S. Harris
M. H. Collins
Collins Radio Company
Harris
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Nevada Pardon and Parole Board
Ruling on Ward's Backs Govt Plea
In Chicago Federal Judge William H. Holly granted the governments request to dismiss the Montgomery Ward case without prejudice. Ward's counsel had urged dismissal with prejudice to block re filing of the injunction case.
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Chicago
William H. Holly Friday
Montgomery Ward
Prejradice
Death of British author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch known as Q
FOWEY England AP reports Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch age 80 best known as Q has died on Friday. The noted author and literary figure who influenced readers across generations passed away in his Cornwall home.
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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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