Roll-Back of Meat Prices Is Postponed
Washington officials report the Office of Price Administration postponed the 10 percent roll back of meat butter and coffee prices beyond June 1. Opponents in Congress object to subsidies as a stabilizing tool and seek alternative funding. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown vows to regain ground amid doubts on the program’s future.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Mobilization
Prentiss M. Brown
Roosevelt
Brown
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Davis Warns Subsidies Not a Fix for Inflation
Food Administrator Chester C. Davis told a Senate agriculture subcommittee that broad subsidy payments to curb prices would be dangerous and not a permanent tool against inflation. He urged promoting protein substitutes and milk solids while limiting butter focus as better policy. Senator Bushfield said a bill to require congressional authorization for subsidies was submitted.
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Washington
Senate
Chester C. Davis
Smith
Dsc
Agriculture
Davis
Bushfield
Cedar Rapids Memorial Day Parade Set For 2 P.M. Sunday
Cedar Rapids residents are reminded that the Memorial day observance will start Sunday at 2 p.m. The parade forms on the Second avenue bridge, moves toward Oak Hill cemetery for a 3 p.m. program led by speaker E A Johnson. Col John F Ehlert will marshal, with Andrew Coleman directing. Navy mothers and Women's Relief Corps hold 1:30 p.m. services on the bridge before the march.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue Bridge
Oak Hill Cemetery
E. A. Johnson
John F. Ehlert
R.O.T.C
Coe College
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Regent submarine overdue and presumed lost after voyage
London reports the 1,475 ton submarine Regent is overdue and presumed lost. Commissioned in 1930, the vessel normally carried 50 men, and an admiralty announcement on Saturday confirmed the concern.
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London
Regent
Admiralty
Ridge Taken Yanks Bottle Up Attu Jap Stronghold
United States troops captured Fish Hook ridge on Attu island, a key Japanese strong point now contained in a three to four square mile area. American forces scaled 60 degree ridges under fire as weather limited air support. other activity was limited to a torpedo bomber attack on Munda in the Solomons.
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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 Year High as Heat Bursts In
Cedar Rapids basks in sticky heat with a new yearly high of 88 degrees after peaking at 87 earlier in the day. Clouds threaten showers and cooler air for tonight and Sunday with fresh to strong winds and scattered squalls expected across the region.
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Mercury
C.R
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Iowa
Child Who Got 200 Blood Offers Dies
Tommy James aged 14 died Friday night from a streptococcal infection after receiving more than 200 blood donor offers from across 13 states.
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Chicago
Tommy James
Flood Waters in General Retreat
Floodwaters recede as the Mississippi peaks at 42.4 feet at Cape Girardeau and begins to fall after breaching McClure Illinois. The Illinois River drops to 29 feet at Beardstown with 4200 evacuees still displaced. Indiana grants 30 day deferments for farm labor to aid agricultural rehabilitation.
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International
Mississippi
Midwest
Cape Girardeau
McClure
Jll
Illinois
Beardstown
Ill
Indiana
Actress Estelle Taylor Weds Paul Small in Los Angeles
Estelle Taylor former wife of boxing champion Jack Dempsey married Friday in Los Angeles 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
A Cedar Rapids crowd witnessed 23 Waves and Spars recruits sworn in at a colorful memorial ceremony in the Coliseum. Navy officers led the event with Capt Edmund Root and others amid speeches stressing total national effort and civilian contributions to victory.
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Gazette
Hamblin
Edmund S. Root
Chicago
Iowa
U. S. Navy
Navy
Coast Guard
Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum
Root
Memoral
Cedar Rapids
Anna Woods
Avenue NE
Marie Kelly
Iowa City
Jane Blythe
Williamsburg
Capt Root
Uncle Sam
British Destroy 6 Axis Gunboats
British fleet air arm Albacore planes with RAF fighters destroyed six Axis gunboats and damaged three more in the English Channel near the Cherbourg peninsula Friday night. Commander G Douglas led the attack, saying two boats burned after the first strike and all were hit again in a second bombing run as blasts lifted the boats off the water.
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London
Fleet Air Arm
English Channel
Cherbourg
Royal Air Force Fighter Command
Lime
Comdr G Douglas
Douglas
RAF
Dover Strait
French
Lake Lure To Day M Award Goes To Rosa Lynch
Mrs Rosa Lynch receives the daily M award in Lake Lure North Carolina. She has eleven children named May Maude Mary Mandy Minnie Mamie Millie Milton Miller Manning and Martin.
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Lake Lure
Rosa Lynch
May
Maude
Mary
Mandy
Minnie
Mamie
Millie
Milton
Miller
Manning
Martin
All Is Ready for Invasion Says Dispatch
The London News Chronicle reports every detail for an Allied invasion of Europe. British warships occupy strategic positions and a second front opening is imminent, with invasion barges, troop ships, and a massive Mediterranean convoy referenced by multiple sources.
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London
London News
Europe
Tunisian
Sieny
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Aly
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Sicily
Daily Telegraph
News-Chronicle
Norwegian
Baltic
Heman Goermas
Essener National Zeitung
Oly van Thes
North Africa
Mediteranean
NBC
Tonedon
Catpie Tal
Italy
Germany
Allied Bombers Strike Western France and Italy in Daylight
Allied and American forces attacked targets across western France and Italy from North Africa and the Mediterranean. Flying Fortresses bombed Leghorn and Naples area targets, destroying refineries and shipyards. Liberators hit Foggia and nearby bases, while British and American bombers struck Sicily and Pantelleria. The operations damaged shipyards, refineries, and storage facilities with limited losses to Allied crews.
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London
France
Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Italy
Leghorn
Rome
Castro
Ameren
Fogaia
Atr
Naples
Trans
Leginan
Livorna
Fopsia
United States
Cairo
Sicily
Sardinoa
Pantelleria
Castelvellana
Srey
Mitchells
Pawar
Acosta Seal
Desert
Allies Hit New Guinea Airfields With Heavy Bombs
Allied aircraft conducted night and dawn raids on the northeast New Guinea coast and Boram Dagua and Wewak airfields. Bombers dropped 19 tons, setting fires and destroying seven ground searchlights amid anti aircraft fire. Japanese losses included at least three bombers shot down by Spitfires, with two Allies planes lost.
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Galeagreo Crno
Allerd
Australia
New Guinea
Khean
Boram
Dagua
Wewak
Millingimbi
Darwin
Attu battle: 210 Yanks press Holtz Bay advance
Two hundred ten soldiers without food for three days and with frozen feet climbed Attu snowdrifts to hit Japanese positions at Holtz bay. Capt. Willoughby led the Seventh scouts in a dawn landing and a grueling, two day assault through 8 to 20 foot drifts, with heavy casualties, until the enemy was dislodged from dug in trenches.
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Attu
Holtz Bay
Lugene Burns
Holtz Bay Battleground
William H. Willoughby
Willoughby
Ventura
Calif
United States
Henry J. Stender
William O. Eareckson
Eleventh Air Force
Holtz
Lucky
David Klein
Army Medical Corps
Hollis
N. Y
Holtz Bayr
Collins
Robert E. Engley
Stafford Springs
Conn
Engley
Rommel Reported Broken in Health and Spirit
Cairo dispatch to the London News Chronicle says Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is broken in health and unable to walk without a cane after a tropical disease in Africa. Captured Axis generals provided the information to Cairo.
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INL
Erwin Rommel
Cairo
London News Chronicle
Rommel
Africa
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Serner
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