Dewey May Win Congressional Support Over Roosevelt
The piece argues that Dewey’s odds to win congressional cooperation exceed Roosevelt’s, stressing the need for a president to work with both parties to forge a peacetime economy and world‑peace accords. It cites Roosevelt’s slights toward Congress and the Senate revolt against his leadership as evidence that party alignment alone cannot secure cooperation.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Dewey
Man Fatally Struck by Truck and Car in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids resident Donald E. Wells 37, a nickel plater and welder for Cherry Burrell, died after a 2 a.m. crash at First avenue and Twenty seventh street East. Wells suffered a skull fracture and died at St Luke's hospital. Police linked a truck driven by Benton Jones and a car driven by Edwin Tubbs to the accident, with witnesses sought for a possible eastbound car strike. Wells leaves a wife Carmaleta and three children, among other relatives. services set for Tuesday at Brady mortuary.
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Fifth Street
Cherry-Burrell
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Twenty - Seventh Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Benton Jones
Second Avenue
Edwin Tubbs
H Avenue
Wells
Jones
Twenty-seventh Street
Paralta
Carmaleta Kirkpatrick
Marion
Ronald Lee
Robert Eugene
Jo Elda Marie
Asa Fay
Clifford Wells
Harold Mengler
Elgin
Ill
CIO
Brady Mortuary
F. L. Hin- Shaw
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Car Rolls Over. Driver Escapes In Center Point
Robert L. Wood, a Center Point sailor on leave, narrowly escaped injury when his car ran off Center Point road and 6th Avenue NE, struck a curb and toppled into a gas station, tearing out three pumps. He pleaded guilty to failing to keep his vehicle under control and paid a $5 fine.
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Center Point
Center Point Road
Avenue NE
Allies Launch Burma Drives
British and Chinese forces begin parallel offensives in Burma. Chinese troops push 57 miles south from Myitkyina to reopen routes to China and occupy Myothit, 24 miles north of Bhamo. Mountbatten says the Thirty sixth division advances 26 miles from the Myitkyina Mandalay Rangoon railway as Allied forces clear 2,000 square miles in two weeks of prep.
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Myothit
Bhamo
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Katha
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Rangoon
Traffic deaths dip 10 percent in September
Chicago report from the National Safety Council shows a 10 percent decline in traffic fatalities in September this year versus September 1943.
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National Safety Council
Russians Skip Air Parley Amid Balkan Cooperation
Washington reports Moscow will not attend the Chicago aviation conference opening Wednesday, citing invited nations Switzerland Portugal and Spain as hostile to the Soviet Union. American officials say the plan remains unchanged and Soviet aviation experts will be considered as talks proceed. The move signals a Soviet stance toward Spain and Switzerland after years of pro Fascist policy and nonrecognition respectively, with Portugal grouped with Spain.
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Churchill
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Chicago
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Spain
Soviet Union
Clash over Soldier Voting in New York Special Session
In Albany a battle over absentee ballot deadlines emerged as Gov Dewey urged extending the voter deadline to November 6. The Democratic minority sought November 30 while the current rule requires ballots to reach the war ballot commission by November 3. The session also approved a two hour extension of polling hours for November 7 without debate.
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Thomas FE. Dewey
War Ballot Commission
Dewey
Rotary Club Straw Vote Sends Dewey Leading Cedar Rapids
The Gazette reports a 78 to 6 straw vote at Cedar Rapids Rotary Club luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel. Members and guests cast ballots in the first of several presidential candidate straw polls this week.
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Yanks Win Bulk of Leyte Liberation
MacArthur announced American forces control about two thirds of Leyte within ten days of invasion. They freed roughly 1.5 million Filipinos on Leyte and Samar and opened churches across liberated areas. American progress pushes toward Ormoc as resistance in the Leyte valley is crushed.
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Samar
Luzon
Sea Battle Blasted 58 Jap Ships
American carrier planes damaged two Japanese cruisers and an oil tanker and sank at least 90 aircraft over Luzon in the Philippines. Submarines and China-based bombers pressed to hunt the crippled fleet, with Nimitz declaring Japan decisively defeated as losses mounted and carriers, battleships, and cruisers were sunk or crippled.
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New York AG Orders Probe of Literacy Certificate Fraud
New York state attorney general announced an investigation into a report by the state election frauds bureau alleging wholesale frauds in issuance of literacy certificates in New York City. Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein directed his assistant William B. Herlands to report findings promptly for possible legal action.
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New York City
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Lawrence Jedlicka Killed in Action in Italy Oct 8
Tech Sgt Lawrence L Jedlicka 24 infantryman was killed in action in Italy Oct 8 per War Department notice to his wife Dorothy S Jedlicka. A Roosevelt high school graduate and former Star Laundry employee, he served in Camp Barkeley Texas New Orleans and Africa before Italy. Survived by wife parents and four grandparents all of Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids Man Killed in Action Russell E Sheppard
Relatives informed Monday of the death in action of Pfc Russell E Sheppard 25 Eighth Air Force crewman stationed in England He was son of E P Sheppard Manchester and brother of Floyd FD Sheppard Cedar Rapids. He married Lillian in 1943 and had a prior life incident in 1940 near Cedar Rapids involving a serum treatment after an accident.
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Russell E. Sheppard
Eighth Air Force
England
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Manchester
Floyd
F D. Sheppard
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Old Mill Ice Cream Company
Lillian
Crete
Neb
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Waterloo
Des Moines
Manchester High School
Roosevelt Not Likely to Pay Visit to Ohio
President Roosevelt likely ends campaign with Boston speech. White House indicated Ohio appearance unlikely as Early signaled Boston address on Saturday may close his fourth term bid. Advisers cited a CBS train poll favoring Roosevelt with 37 of 39 backing re election and a Sunday stop in Charleston West Virginia.
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Early
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W. Va
Allied forces storm Roosendaal in southwest Holland push
Allied thrusts broke into Roosendaal as part of a broader push across southwest Holland. British Canadian American and Polish troops under Montgomery press the German pocket toward the Maas with 40,000 troops in retreat and key transport routes at risk.
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British Capture Kozane After Sharp Greek Skirmish
British forces seized Kozane 58 miles southwest of Salonika following an early clash with retreating Germans in northern Greece. Allied headquarters announced the action as part of the operations near Salonika.
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Salonika
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