Roosevelt accuses Republicans of seeking political gain over war duty
President Roosevelt, in Philadelphia and Camden, blasts the Republican party and Gov. Dewey for opposing postwar peace cooperation. He defends his wartime record, especially production, and accuses GOP politicians of withholding support to influence the outcome if a Democratic or Republican victory occurs.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Camden
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Congress
Shibe Park
Hitler
Poland
House of Representatives
Army Air Corps
Hirohito
Roosevelt Speech at Soldier Field Warns on Politics
President Roosevelt speaks from Soldier Field Chicago at 8 p.m. over NBC and stations WH0 and KXEL on Navy Day. He denounces politics over national security, defends wartime mobilization, and notes Allied naval progress, stressing no long demobilization delay after victory. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6.)
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Roosevelt
Soldierfield
Chicago
NBC and
the Blue
WHO
KXEL
Allies Drive to Cut Off 40 000 Nazis in Holland
Allied front dispatches report the collapse of the German line in southwest Holland as British Canadian forces push toward the Maas bridges to trap as many as 40,000 Nazis. Bergen op Zoom fell to Canadian armor and infantry, Tilburg and Breda are under Allied attack, Roosendaal and Meijel show German pressure, while Aachen St Vith and Rambervillers sectors see light fighting and limited gains.
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Holland
HDQ
AEF
Maas
Meuse
Bergen Op Zoom
Roosiendaal
Breda
Til‘burg
Hertogenbosch
Walther von Model
Moerdijk Jand
Geertruidenberg
Antwerp
Vlissingen
Flushing
Walcheren
Schelde
Tilburg
Associated Press
William F. Boni
Beveland Island
Northsouth
Beveland
Roosendaal
Breda-Tilburg
Loon Op Zand
Oosterhout
Venlo
Meijel
Roermond-Weert
United States First Army
Aachen
St. Vith
Sixth Army Group
Rambervillers
Housseras
Epinal
Vosges Mountains
Bruyeres
le Thillot
Pvt. Paul Boots Dies of Wounds in France
Pvt. Paul R. Boots aged 19 died October 5 from wounds suffered July 26 in France. He was shot through the back, received the Purple Heart August 12, and is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Herbert L Boots Route 3 Cedar Rapids and seven siblings. A McKinley high school alumnus he had served two and a half years overseas with the Thirty-fourth division stationed at Camp Claiborne Louisiana prior to deployment.
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Cedar Rapids
Paul R. Boots
France
Herbert L. Boots
Route 3
Boots
Pvt
McKinley High School
Camp Claiborne, la
Unofficial Jap Warship Losses Rise in Pacific Battle
The unofficial toll from the Leyte operations places Japanese ships sunk or damaged at about 40 to 45 across four days. Reports cite five battleships likely wrecked, 10 sunk, 14 to 16 probably sunk, and 16 damaged, with three merchantmen thought sunk in the South China Sea. Allied commanders Halsey and Kinkaid assessed reconnaissance data while Lib erators may have sunk another destroyer and damaged a tanker and cargo vessel.
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Pearl Harbor
Philippines
South China Sea
Chungking
William F. Halsey, Jr
Third Fleet
Thomas C. Kinkaid
Seventh Fleet
Tokyo
London
Leyte
Formosa
Ralph Teatforth
United Press
Kinkaid
Jesse Barret Oldersdorf
Teatforth
Surigao Straits
Dewey hits farm policy exploiting political profit
Syracuse address by Governor Dewey accuses the Roosevelt administration of exploiting farm programs for political gain. He pledges a Republican victory would stabilize prices, end political control, and raise farm prosperity through a strong, market oriented farm program. Dewey criticizes New Deal scarcity theories and argues national food security requires stable agriculture and well fed citizens. The speech, delivered to over three thousand at Syracuse Central High School, emphasizes freedom from internal policy battles and a constructive program.
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N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Syracuse Central High School
New York
New Deal
Dewey
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Burlington
Congress
Soil Conservation Service
United States
Yankees Rout Nipponese of Death March
MacArthur's invasion forces push through Samar and Leyte as Japanese units collapse. Filipino guerrillas aid the advance toward Manila, with Catbalogan captured and Baragol reported seized. American losses 518 killed 139 missing 1503 wounded. Japanese casualties exceed 14,000. PT boats destroy 10 barges and two freighters in Ormoc Bay.
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HDQ
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Samar Island
Manila
Leyte
Samar
Luzon
Catbalogan
Franklin C. Sibert
Tacloban
Sergio Osimena
Bataan
Frederick A. Irving
Palo
Santa Fe
Pastrana
Baragol
Arnold
Dulag
Abuyog
Barugo Tal
Archibald V. Arnold
James L. Bradley
Burauen
Dagami
Shiro Makino
Leyte Valley
Pt’s
Ormoc Bay
Doctor's Office Becomes Emergency Baby Ward
ST. LOUIS report on Dr. Harry Rich turning his office into an emergency maternity ward. An expectant mother waited for birth while twins, eight pounds each, arrived in his office on Wednesday. Rich claimed hospitals refused service men’s wives for the $50 federal maternity allotment, and planned to use all space available.
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ST. Louis
Harry Rich
Evelyn McIntire
Rich
Lucille Novack
New Guinea
Dr. Rich
Brookman Held Insane After Speedy Hearing
LeRoy Brookman aged 49 of 1036 Fifth Avenue SE was declared insane by the Linn county insanity commission and committed to Independence state hospital after a rapid hearing. He is under $5,000 bail in the shooting of Harry H Apgar at the Milner hotel Tuesday night.
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LeRoy Brookman
Fifth Avenue SE
State Hospital For the
Independence
Linn County
Brookman
Harry H Apgar
Milner Hotel
R S Milner
Linn County Insanity Commission
R. K. Keech
Arthur Axmear
Willis
Pete Whittemore
Apgar
Whittemore
Mercy Hospital
Frank Yersch
Eugene Noble Listed Dead After World War II Loss
Seaman Eugene Noble, aged 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Noble of 821 B avenue NE, is officially listed as dead by the secretary of the navy. He had been missing since October 9, 1943, when his destroyer U S S Buck was torpedoed and sunk south of Capri in the Tyrrhenian Sea. He is survived by three brothers Billy, Jerome, and Wallace, and three sisters Kathryn McLaughlin, Lois Ann, and Patty Mae. Lt. David T. Hedges, son of Horace G. Hedges, survived the Buck.
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Cedar Rapids
Eugene Noble
Seaman
Samuel P. Noble
Avenue NE
Secretary of the Navy
Seaman Noble
U. S. S. Buck
Capri
Tyrrhenian Sea
Noble
Billy
Jerome
Wallace
Kathryn McLaughlin
New York
Lois Annn
Patty Mae
David T. Hedges
Horace
G. Hedges
Death by own action identified Harry Donahue
The body of 67 year old Harry Donahue found two miles above Conrad's Beach was identified by coroner Dr. T Frank Hersch as Donahue. Carbolic acid was used in the death, traced to a bottle signed Harry Jones matching Donahue's Victoria hotel registration. The body rests at Teahen funeral home as authorities seek relatives in Wisconsin.
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Conrad‘s Beach
Harry Donahue
T Frank Hersch
Linn County
Donahue
Cedar Rapids
Larry Condon
Hersch
Condon
Harry Jones
Victoria Hotel
Teahen Funeral Home
Wisconsin
Hodges Gets New Pacific Assignment
Lt. Comdr. Arthur Hodges U S N former Cedar Rapids resident inspector of naval material for two years is reassigned to the Pacific as executive officer of the U S S Dixie. He departs Cedar Rapids Tuesday after serving aboard the Hornet during the Doolittle raid. His promotion to lieutenant commander occurred last April. His wife and son will remain at 47 Mt Vernon Road SE Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Arthur Hodges
U. S.N
Pacific
U.S.S Dixie
Comdr. Hodges
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Forty-seventh
Mt. Vernon Road
Torrential Rains Halt Italian Front Drives Toward Bologna
Torrential rains bogged down operations on the Italian front Saturday halting the Fifth and Eighth army drives from the south and east toward Bologna. American Fifth Army forces under heavy pressure from German units were stalled about eight miles south of Bologna while the Eighth Army stood at the outskirts of Forlì, thirty seven miles east of Bologna.
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Rome
Bologna
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Forli
Bulgaria Accepts Armistice Terms
Moscow radio reports Bulgaria has accepted Allied armistice terms, a development announced by the Bulgarian delegation and carried by London based AP dispatches.
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Bulgaria
London
Moscow
Recall of Stilwell reshapes Far East command in war
Gen Joseph W. Stilwell is recalled from his China Burma India theater post to Washington and slated for a new, undisclosed assignment. The move splits the theater into two commands with Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer to lead China Saar, and Lt. Gen. Sultan to command the newly formed India Burma theater. Stilwell, 61, began his career at West Point in 1904 and earned the nickname Vinegar Joe.
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Washington
Joseph W. Stilwell
Far East
Chiang
China-Indian Burma
Stilwell
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia Command
United States
China
A. C. Wedemeyer
Generalissimo
Wedemeyer
Mountbatten
India-Burma
Daniel I. Sultan
China-Burma-India
Vinegar Joe
West Point
Willard Jeffress Electrocuted on a Ship in Pacific
Navy notice reports Willard Jeffress fireman first class, 28, electrocuted aboard a South Pacific ship. He buried on a Pacific island. Survived by wife Mildred, two children Bobbie and Suzanne, parents, two sisters, and grandmothers in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Enlisted Jan 1944, trained at Farragut, Idaho, went overseas May 1944. Previously with Collins Radio, where wife works.
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Cedar Rapids
Willard Jeffress
South Pacific
Navy Department
Mildred Jeffress
Sixteenth Street
Pacific
Bobbie
Suzanne
William Jeffress
Des Moines
Jeffress
Farragut
Idaho
Collins Radio Company
Last Day to Register to Vote in General Election
Last day to register to vote in the November 7 general election. Deadline tonight at 8 o clock. You must be registered to vote for the next President. Registration office is on the third floor of City Hall.
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United States
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