Roll-Back of Meat Prices Delayed Amid Opposition
The Office of Price Administration postponed the planned 10 percent price roll back for meat butter and coffee beyond June 1 due to congressional hostility to subsidies and the challenge of launching a $425 million program. Critics question its necessity as office of War Mobilization reviews options. President Roosevelt had urged controlling prices to held lines.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Mobilization
Prentiss M. Brown
Roosevelt
Brown
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Davis warns against broad food subsidy use in inflation fight
In a Senate committee hearing Food Administrator Chester C. Davis cautioned that general reliance on subsidy payments is dangerous and should not be a chief weapon against inflation. He said subsidies won’t permanently curb inflation and urged promotion of protein substitutes and milk solids while avoiding meat price cuts. Senator Bushfield revealed a bill to ban cod subsidies without congressional authorization.
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Washington
Senate
Chester C. Davis
Smith
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Agriculture
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Cedar Rapids Memorial Day Parade Set for 2 P.M. Sunday
Cedar Rapids residents will hold their Memorial day observance Sunday with a parade forming on the Second avenue bridge at 2 p.m. moving toward Oak Hill cemetery for a 3 p.m. program. E A Johnson will speak at the cemetery. Col. John Ehlert will marshal. Arrangements by Andrew Coleman of the American Legion. Navy Mothers and Women's Relief Corps provide services at 1:30 p.m. on the bridge. Parade routes run east to Tenth Street or Mt Vernon Avenue to the cemetery. cemetery gates close to autos from 1:30 p.m. until services end.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue Bridge
Oak Hill Cemetery
E. A. Johnson
John Ehlert
R.O.T.C
Coe College
Andrew Coleman
American Legion
Regent Submarine Overdue and Presumed Lost
The 1 475 ton submarine Regent is overdue and presumed lost after commissioning in 1930. It normally carried 50 men. The admiralty announced the status on Saturday in London.
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London
Regent
Admiralty
Ridge Taken Yanks Bottle Up Attu Japs On Attu Island
United States forces captured Fish Hook ridge on Attu island, trapping the main Japanese force in a small 3 to 4 square mile area. troops scaled 60 degree ridges under heavy fire to reach positions above the cloud line. A torpedo bomber attack hit Munda in the Solomons with multiple explosions and fires observed.
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Washington
United States
Fish Hook Ridge
Attu Island
Navy
Attu
Chichagof Harbor
Chichagof Valley
Holtz Bay Pass
Cape Khlebnikof
Lake Cories
Pacific
Munda
Solomons
Cedar Rapids Sees 88 Degree Day Sets Year High
Forecast calls for continued warmth in Cedar Rapids with Saturday showers and storms and cooler air by Sunday morning. Strong winds and scattered squalls expected, while humidity remains high. A new year temperature record reached 88 degrees at 2:30 pm, surpassing yesterday's 87.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Iowa
Child Who Got 200 Blood Offers Dies
Tommy James a 22 year old from Chicago who received more than 200 blood donor offers from 13 states died Friday night from a streptococcus viridans infection.
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Chicago
Tommy James
Flood Waters in General Retreat
Floods recede as the Mississippi peaks at Cape Girardeau and breaches at McClure evacuate the town. Illinois and Indiana rivers fall slowly while farm land remains inundated and thousands stay homeless amid recovery efforts and deferrals for draft farm labor.
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International News Service
Mississippi
Midwest
Cape Girardeau
McClure
Ill
Illinois
Beardstown
Indiana
Actress Estelle Taylor Weds Paul Small
Los Angeles report that film actress Estelle Taylor, former wife of Jack Dempsey, was married Friday to Paul Small, a theatrical producer and agent.
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Los Angeles
Estelle Taylor
Jack Dempsey
Paul Small
Plethora of Braid at Wave Spar Ceremony
Cedar Rapids hosts a Waves and Spars ceremony with 23 recruits joining the Navy program amid a large crowd. Capt Edmund S Root and officers address the audience urging total national effort in farming production factory work and war mobilization as the largest naval display in the city unfolds.
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Chicago
Iowa
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Navy
Coast Guard
Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum
Root
Wave
Ensign Ruth Bryan
Sixth Street
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
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Wave Midshipmen
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Cedar Rapids
Marian Lemon
First Avenue
The
Waves
Anna Woods
Avenue NE
Marie Kelly
Iowa City
Jane Blythe
Williamsburg
Capt. Root
Uncle Sam
British Destroy 6 Axis Gunboats in English Channel Air Attack
British Fleet Air Arm Albacore planes with the RAF fighter command attacked 12 gunboats off the Cherbourg peninsula Friday night. Six gunboats were destroyed and three damaged in two bombing runs led by Lieut. Comdr. G. Douglas.
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London
Fleet Air Arm
English Channel
Cherbourg
Royal Air Force Fighter Command
G. Douglas
Douglas
R.A.F
Dover Strait
Britain
Essen
Rosa Lynch Receives M Award for 11 Children
Mrs Rosa Lynch of Lake Lure North Carolina is named today's M award recipient. She has eleven children: May Maude Mary Mandy Minnie Mamie Millie Milton Miller Manning and Martin.
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Lake Lure
N. C
Rosa Lynch
May
Maude
Mary
Mandy
Minnie
Mamie
Millie
Milton
Miller
Manning
Martin
All Is Ready For Invasion Says London Dispatch
The London News Chronicle reports Allied invasion of Europe is imminent with warships in strategic positions and a second front prepared. Mussolini meets Fascist leaders to defend Sicily and Sardinia while Italian fortifications and air defenses are strengthened ahead of a major Allied operation.
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London News Chronicle
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Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Italy
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Daily Telegraph
News-Chronicle
Norwegian
Baltic
Herman Goering
Essener National Zeitung
North Africa
NBC
Germany
Allies Hammer 3 Jap Airdromes on New Guinea Coast
Allied flyers attacked the northeast New Guinea coast using 19 tons of bombs, setting 16 fires and grounding planes at Boram Dagua and Wewak. Bombers faced storms but damaged seven ground searchlights and caused no Allied losses.
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Allied
Australia
New Guinea
Boram
Dagua
Wewak
Millingimbi
Darwin
Attu Holtz Bay Battle Aided by 210 Exhausted Yanks
Two hundred ten U S troops without food for three days and with frozen feet attacked the Japanese at Holtz bay on Attu May 11 to dislodge them from dug in trenches. Captain William H Willoughby led the Seventh Scouts through 8 to 20 foot snow in zero weather despite heavy counter attacks.
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Holtz Bay
Eugene Burns
Holtz Bay Battleground
William H. Willoughby
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Willoughby
Ventura
Calif
United States
Henry J. Stender
Denison
Iowa
Holtz
William O. Eareckson
Collins
Robert E. Engley
Stafford Springs
Conn
Ouihn
Allies Bomb Western France and Italian targets in major daylight raids
American and British bombers pound Axis air fields and port facilities across western France and Italy. In North Africa 100 B 17s strike Leghorn with fires in refineries and docks while Liberators attack Foggia near Naples. Fortresses report direct hits on hangars and oil storage, with heavy losses on both sides and substantial damage to Leghorn shipyards and rail yards.
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France
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North Africa
Italy
Leghorn
Rome
Cairo
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Naples
Livorno
Adriatic
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Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Castelvetrano
Augusia
Desert Air Force
Ansaldo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rommel Reported Broken in Health
A Cairo dispatch to the London News Chronicle says Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is broken in health and spirit and no longer fit to command. He cannot walk without a cane due to a tropical disease from Africa, causing painful swelling in joints and limbs. The report cites captured Axis generals.
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INL
Erwin Rommel
Cairo
London News Chronicle
Rommel
Africa
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