Roosevelt Era Comments on Leadership and Policy
A complex op ed passage discusses the 1944 presidential race and candidates Dewey and Bricker, noting Roosevelt and Hoover are not on the ballot. It critiques rationing, price controls, and supply demand balance while questioning how to reset postwar policy. It also cites a Massachusetts schoolmaster urging stricter discipline as juvenile delinquency concerns rise.
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Roosevelt
Reyer
Justipias
Harding
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Dewey
Bricker
OPA
Chester Bowles
Massachusetts
Berlin says Doughboys near Reich junction and Tito nears Moscow
Red flying columns skirt the Transylvanian Alps after marching through Bucharest toward Serbia as Tito's Partisans battle the common enemy. Malinovsky’s armoured scouts move within 120 miles of the Yugoslav Romanian frontier while a Sov Yugoslav junction forms. Wehrmacht claims gains along the Olt and Danube as Bucharest endures a display of Soviet strength and a western push toward Warsaw tightens the northern front.
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Bucharest
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Marshal Tito
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Carpathians
Gulf of Finland
Romania
Ploesti
Olt
Sibiu
Transylvania
Carabia
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Krivitsky
Black Sea
Constanta
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Tolukhin
Danube
Malinovsky
Warsaw
Norris Condition Described as Very Critical
McCook Nebraska doctors report former Senator George W Norris in very critical condition Friday. Physicians say his strength is steadily waning as he declines further.
Verdun Fallen to Patton Army in a Day
World War II dispatch reports Lt Gen George Patton's Third Army seizing Verdun in 24 hours, achieving what four years of Kaiser's forces had not. From Reims eastward, armored columns cut a 45 mile path through the Hindenburg line to the Meuse crossing, with swift German resistance and no American fatalities in the Argonne sector. The victory, celebrated by Verdun's citizens, signals a rapid advance toward Belgium and potential breach of the Siegfried Line.
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Bucharest
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Alexder Krivitsky
Ploesti
Montgomery
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Belgium
Meuse
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Verdun
INS
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United States
Henri Philippe Petain
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Patton
Hindenburg Line
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Third Army
Germany
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Paxton
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G.I
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Loyal
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Monongahela
Marshal Petain
John J. Pershing
Argonne Forest
Argonne
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Dieppe
Amiens
Hebuterne
Berlin
Rhineland
United Press
Robert Miller
Paris
Miller
Cedar Rapids Weekend Forecast Promises Warm Crests
Cedar Rapids and vicinity foresees a fair weekend with rising temperatures. This afternoon should be fair and warm, skies clear and cool tonight, and Saturday warmer. By 2:30 p.m. today Cedar Rapids read 82 degrees with 35 percent humidity as readings track across eastern Iowa.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chambers
Council Bluffs
Creston
Onawa
Duchess of Windsor in excellent condition after appendectomy
The Duchess of Windsor was reported in excellent condition Friday at Roosevelt hospital following an appendectomy performed Thursday. The news comes from the Associated Press via INS.
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New York
Ins
Duchess of Windsor
Roosevelt Hospital
Haste Slow Renewal Rules Hit Linn County Board
Ferne Gater reports Linn county war price and ration board chief clerk A T Pleune says incomplete A gasoline renewal applications will be returned for correction. Workers will review, note errors, and resend. War department asks applicants to push ahead. Ration board staff suspended perfection for speed with Sept 1 renewals and a growing backlog. Continuous on page 2 column 7.
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Ferne Gater
A. T. Pleune
Linn County War Price and Ration Board
War Department
Nazi Collapse Presses North From Rhone Valley
Rome dispatches report German Nineteenth Army evacuating Lyon as American forces close from four sides in the Rhone valley. British and American lines push toward Nice and the Italian border while French units mop up pockets along Pont Saint Esprit and Valbonne. Ratoneau and Pomergues garrisons surrender off Marseille as Third Army advances toward Germany.
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Rhone
France
Valence
Alexander M. Patch
le Bourg du Pease
Germany
Nimes
Narbonne
Mediterranean
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Beziers
Nice
Pont St. Esprit
Bourg St Andhol
Vallon
Barjac
Ratsonneau
Pomergues
Marseille
Salary Increases Denied City Employes by Council
City council rejected salary hike requests for City Treasurer Walter Miller City Auditor R E Norman City Clerk Maude Krebs and staff and City Dairy Inspector A R Menary All four had argued for higher pay citing comparable salaries and cost of living increases Burgus noted Miller and Norman already got a 12 percent boost with last year’s general 10 percent rise Krebs received no raise due to in area vital statistics duties Menary’s request was postponed pending future consideration and timing remains undetermined.
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Walter Miller
R. E. Norman
Maude Krebs
A. R. Menary
L. D. Burgus
Miller
Norman
Burgus
Krebs
F. K. Hahn
Menary
Hahn
Allied Forces Break German Lines From Sedan To Verdun
American First and Third armies drive across the Meuse toward Verdun and Lorraine, meeting light German resistance as Canadian troops reportedly seize Dieppe. Advancing through the Ardennes toward the Rhineland, U S forces reach Belgium’s border north of Sedan while Patton’s Third Army pushes from Reims to Verdun with minimal casualties.
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HDQ
Belgium
Ardennes Forest
Sedan
United States Third Army
Verdun
Berlin
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
Rhineland
Ardennes ‘Gap
Lorraine
Dieppe
Channel
Maginot Line
Meuse
United Nations
Algiers
First Army
1100 U S Flyers Freed in Romania After Armistice
1100 American airmen held as prisoners of war in two camps near Brasov and Bucharest were liberated within hours of King Mihai’s armistice proclamation. Travelers among them described humane treatment and relief as Soviet troops entered Bucharest. News notes their capture during the Ploesti raids and the hospital wing bombings by German forces prior to August 24.
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Bucharest
Mihai
Ploesti
Brasov
Pope Pius XI declares end of war spirit on Vatican radio
Pope Pius XI spoke on Vatican City radio Friday night saying the fifth anniversary of the war marks the dying out of the spirit of injustice. He forecast a barbaric world ending and a new world of humanity and Christianity to be created.
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London
Pius XI
Vatican City
Von Kluge Reported to Die by His Own Action
New York Allied troops captured a German war correspondent who said Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge committed death by his own hand, quoted by London radio Friday from an unidentified correspondent.
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New York
Gunther von Kluge
London Radio
How Far to Berlin by the Associated Press
Distances to Berlin listed from major fronts in World War II reportage. Russian front 322 miles from eastern War saw suburbs, Northern France 410 miles from Sedan, Southern France 602 miles from Grenoble, Italian front 590 miles from Pesaro.
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France
Sedan
Grenoble
Pesaro
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