Governor Hickenlooper Opposes Third Term Amendment
In a direct reply to prominent national figures, Iowa Governor Hickenlooper asserts opposition to a third or fourth presidential term and pledges support for an anti third-term constitutional amendment. He argues the presidency should not be a perpetual office regardless of party and urges timely action.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Iowa
Hickenlooper
U. S. Senate
Develo
Hannegan
Roosevelt
Allied Air Forces Hit Berlin and Brunswick in Renewed Blitz
U S heavy bombers and fighters attacked Berlin and Brunswick in a renewed assault after a brief weather lull. About 750 bombers and 750 fighters, plus RAF planes, targeted supply hubs and rail yards as German defenses fought back with intensified anti aircraft fire.
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Reich
Berlin
R.A.F
Osnabruck
Britain
Waves and Spars Recruit as Wacs Observe Anniversary
Col Oveta Culp Hobby explains why released service men should not be assigned to civilian jobs instead of more women in the armed forces. Red Cross urges drowning season safety: choose lifeguarded spots, swim with others, wait after meals, ease into cold water, and avoid prolonged time in the water.
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WACS
Col
Oveta Culp Hobby
Armed Services
Col. Hobby
Red Cross
Welles Engaged by Treasury for Fifth War Loan Drive
The treasury department has engaged Orson Welles as a consulting expert for the Fifth War Loan drive. He is developing a radio show to promote the campaign and is described as an able young man with unusual ideas. The piece notes caution about revealing plans to the public in advance.
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Egree Welles
Treasury Department
Welles
Hitler
Two Union Votes Cast by Cedar Rapids Renderers Staff
Two production employees at Cedar Rapids Renderers Otis Tower SE voted Friday for local 170 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America as bargaining agent. The election was supervised by a National Labor Relations Board representative from Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Otis Tower SE
AFL
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
E. F. Hopton
National Labor Relations Board
Minneapolis
Tokyo Raiders Boost Allied Pressure On Soerabaja Base
Tokyo radio reported Soerabaja in the Netherlands East Indies was raided twice by Allied bombers on May 17 and 18. The broadcast indicated naval and air task forces from India, in cooperation with U S Pacific forces, are conducting a bold sweep against Japan.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Soerabaja
Japan
Netherlands East Indies
India
Birthday Bomber Crash Claims Ten Lives
Pfc. Felix Saldana age 19 of Cedar Rapids died on his birthday when a four engined bomber crashed near New Underwood South Dakota. Nine other airmen were killed. Saldana served since 1943, survived by parents and siblings, with funeral plans in Cedar Rapids. Co pilot Lt. Donald Hale of Villisca Iowa among the deceased.
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Felix Saldana
Merced Saldana
C Avenue NE
New Underwood
Rapid City
S. C
Saldana
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Army Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Texas
S. D
Frances Saldana
Louis Martinez
Monahan
Raymond Rivera
Navy
Peter Perez
Army
Associated Press
Rapid City Air Field
Donald Hale
Villisca
One Death in 15775 Evacuated by Air in WWII
The Office of War Information reports that Army Air Forces medical services evacuated 173 527 American sick wounded and injured personnel in 1943 with only eleven deaths in flight. An average of one death per 15 775 patients evacuated.
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Washington
INS
Office of War Information
Army Air Forces Medical Services
A.A.F
Mediterranean
South Pacific
47 British Captives Shot After Escapes From Dresden Camp
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed that 47 RAF officers were shot by Germans after a mass break from a garrison camp near Dresden on Mars 25. Seventy six officers took part in the break. fifteen were captured alive and 14 at large. Some were shot resisting arrest or during a renewed escape attempt. Eden expressed shock and asked Switzerland to secure a full German report. The dead included veterans of the Battle of Britain. Americans were not known to be involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anthony Eden
RAF
Dresden
Eden
House of Commons
Switzerland
Air Ministry
Air Dominion
RCAF
England
Allies Pierce Burma Citadel
Allied troops pressed into the outskirts of Myitkyina as Japanese escape routes were cut off. Remnants of the 18th Japanese Division, once Singapore’s captors, reportedly retreated under heavy American and Chinese assault while air reinforcements arrived at a southern airdrome. Strong Japanese counterattacks hit Chinese columns near Yunnan with ongoing fighting in Loyang, Henan.
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Southeast Asia Headquarters
Myitkyina
Singapore
Independent Unions Gain Limited Voice in WLB Rules
The War Labor Board adopted a program giving independent unions limited representation in WLB procedures while denying unaffiliated unions a place among WLB labor members. The Mechanics Educational Society of America led strikes in Ohio and Michigan plants last winter in a bid for greater leverage. A spokesman called the decision “the same old run-around.”
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Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
Mechanics Educational Society of America
MESA
Ohio
Michigan
Paratrooper Blodgett Survives Hama Raid Unhurt
Sgt. David C. Blodgett 19 parachuted to safety from a burning bomber during a Hamm Germany mission after it was hit by flak. Lt. Simon W. Manning reports Blodgett jumped at 22 000 feet and opened his chute at 10 000 feet. he is unhurt and presumed to return home soon.
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J. C. Blodgett
Sixteenth Street SE
David C. Blodgett
Blodgett
Germany
Simon W. Manning
Manning
Hamm
David
Dairy Inspector Files Improper License Charge
M Klempf of Milwaukee opened an egg breaking and freezing plant at Ridgeway. He was arrested by Sheriff George Harms on a charge of operating an unlicensed plant after a state dairy and food inspector filed the charge. He posted $860 bond and was released.
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Decorah
M. Klempf
Milwaukee
Ridgeway
George Harms
Winneshiek County
B. W. Patsy
Liberty
Skies Clear After Inch and a Quarter Rain
Western and central Iowa storm damage noted as inch and a quarter fell on Cedar Rapids with statewide totals led by Ames at 4.33 inches Fort Dodge 3.22 and Des Moines 1.80. Cedar Rapids expected more precipitation tonight amid mild temperatures and winds.
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Tornatoes
Nort* Stern
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Ames
Cushing
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Boone
Webster City
Marshalltown
Cherokee
Des Moines
Chambers
Clarinda
Decorah
Russians Capture Important Height in Southeast Stanislawow
The Russians announced the seizure of a height of able importance southeast of Stanislawow in old Poland. They also reported 600 German casualties in abortive counter attacks during the lower Dnestr campaign northwest of Tiraspol, per a Soviet supplement from Moscow.
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London
England
Stanislawow
Old Poland
Dnestr
Tiraspol
Moscow
Carpathians
Senator Ball Nominates Stassen for President at GOP Convention
Senator Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota announces his support for Harold Stassen as the Republican presidential nominee. Ball, a naval lieutenant commander and 1940 senator, enters the national convention as a key backer.
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Joseph H. Ball
R-Mim
Senate
Stassen
Republican Nationalonvention
Yanks Seize Wakde Air Base in New Guinea Drive
Allied headquarters announced the seizure of Wakde air base, 125 miles west of Hollandia, as American forces landed at Toem and Insoemanai in a series of leap frog operations along the Dutch New Guinea coast. MacArthur said the base will provide crucial air coverage for further offensives, with light casualties and strong enemy resistance near Wakde.
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Southwest Pacific
Wakde
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Wakde Island
Insoemanai Island
Toem
New Guinea
United States Army
Palau Islands
Insoemanai Islands
Insoemanai
Wakde-Toem
Hollandia- Aitape
Forrestal Takes Oath as Navy Secretary
James V. Forrestal Friday took the oath as secretary of the navy in a ceremony nationwide coverage notes his new role guiding the service amid postwar readjustments.
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Washington (Ap
James V. Forrestal Friday
Secretary of the Navy
Sewell Avery Sues Marshall Field for One Million Libel
Sewell L. Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward, sues Marshall Field publisher of the Chicago Sun for 1,000,000 alleging libel. The suit cites Sun articles by Reynolds and Gridley accusing Avery over government actions to protect Ward property. Field comments that the public deserves to know why the government acted.
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Sewell Avery
Million
Marshall Field
Chicago
Sewell L. Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Chicago Sun
Field
Avery
Thomas F. Reynolds
Charles O. Gridley
Sun
Washington
Montgomery Ward
Thirteen Marines Die In Plane Crash Near Cherry Point
A Navy patrol plane crashed about six miles southeast of Cherry Point early Friday killing thirteen Marines. Names of the dead were withheld at this time.
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Norfolk, Va
United States Marine Civil Air Station
Cherry Point
House Passes G I Bill Raises loan and education benefits
The House approved the six and a half billion dollar G I Bill by 387 to 0 with amendments raising the maximum veteran loan to 2500 dollars and limiting four year schooling to entrants under 25. It adds government guarantees for up to 50 percent of loans and authorizes new veterans hospitals and expanded educational subsidies including 500 dollars tuition per year and monthly stipends.
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Washington
INS
House
Veterans’ Committee
Armed Services
Veterans
Disorderly Hitler Line Retreat in Central Front
Allied forces break into the Hitler line at its center near Sant Oliva on a 25 mile front as French troops and US tanks push to a key Appian Way junction. Germans retreat from Gustav defenses suffering equipment losses while Fifth and Eighth armies push past Cassino toward Piedimonte and Itri with Monticelli and Sant Oliva as focal points.
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Allied
Naples
United States
Sant’ Oliva
Pico
Liri
Appian Way
Itri
Pontecorvo
Red Oliva
Eighth Army
Cassino
Piedimonte
Rome
Fifth Army
Monte Faggero
Stri-Pico Road
Monticelli
Esperii
Hitler Line
Cassinoion
Mark W. Clark
Formia
Gaeta Point
Gaeta
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