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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1944
Page
17
A Polish girl held at Ravensbruck details head shaving, striped clothing, inadequate bedding, damp blankets, and severe cold. She recalls 12,000 inmates, including Polish, French, Russian, Jewish, and Belgian prisoners, plus German women, and notes meager meals lacking meat or fat.
The account recalls freezing potatoes unfit for use, blackened when cooked, and a camp storehouse with a pervasive odor. Prisoners endured hunger with peels eaten, thin soup, and black bread while performing hard labor. Food, cold, and clothing were harsh, yet other Nazi-chosen conditions proved harsher.
Washington report from the Pacific front states Japanese casualties in the Palau and Marianas total 63 388 killed and 3 267 captured. The communique also notes another figure brought to 126 the number of something not fully shown.
Communique shows Sun raid on Manila area by Jap planes destroyed. Army troops and marines in Palau and Marianas continue to clear remnant forces. Casualties through Nov 13 include Saipan: 26,277 killed, 2,068 captured. Saipan? and other islands: 17,238 killed, 0 captured. Guam: 6,893 killed, 0 captured. Angaur and Peleliu: 12,980 killed, 420 captured.
In Washington AP report Senator Clark of Missouri called Majority Leader Barkley’s flood control amendment cheap catering sparking a sharp exchange. Barkley defended the measure as a technical move to keep doors open for future federal agencies in flood control.
The article praises Phillips 66 as a major 100 octane aviation gasoline producer and wartime supplier of butadiene for synthetic rubber. It argues postwar engines will need higher compression, smaller lighter designs, and Phillips will soon offer vastly improved fuels as a result of peacetime research and security-cleared discoveries.
Clark argued the proposed Missouri Valley Authority amendment is unnecessary and criticized by Senator Barkley. He claimed Barkley cites editorials from St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Star-Times as support. The dialogue centers on editorial influence shaping the amendment debate.
A Missouri Valley Authority discussion appears in editorials as a husband wife team, with the wife also an editorial writer, flying over the Tennessee Valley Authority in a government plane and returning to write pieces. The Star Times later took eleven up.
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