Marion honors Flying Tiger Bill Reed with homecoming tribute
Ten thousand celebrate Bill Reed day in Marion as Reed arrives hours after schedule. The Flying Tiger hero from China greets fans at Marion park and war bond rally, recalling a first trip to New York and a near-miss in Chicago. Reed praises trained volunteers and notes his 13 Jap planes down.
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Dorothy Dougherty
Bill Reed
Marion
China
Cedar Rapids
Marion Park
Iowa Highway Patrol
Union Station
Cedar
Bever Park
Marion Country Club
New York
Grand Central Station
Chicago
Liberty Chapel
A. V.G Battlers
Burma
Reed
Rangoon
Tiger Hero
Gilbert Rathburn
Sioux Falls
S. D
Joseph Dumbalton
Louis Ross
Marion Chamber of Commerce
War costs and rationing shift public senses in 1943
The piece notes how Roosevelt's $100 billion annual war cost estimate was largely ignored, reflecting a numb public mindset. It argues upcoming tax payments in January will force recognition of government spending and living standards under war strain. It discusses manpower policy linking personnel cuts to industrial needs and stresses skilled workers for an effective war machine.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
Hay
Army
Navy
Army Bomber With 10 Aboard Missing Over Mountains
Davis-Monthan field announced a B-24 bomber carrying ten crew members disappeared for over 24 hours after leaving Omaha at 11 37 p m Thursday. The aircraft, ten aboard including eight officers and two enlisted men, was returning to Tucson from a routine navigational training flight over the Rocky Mountains in southeastern Colorado or northern New Mexico.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis-Monthan Field
Japs Reinforced in Solomon Islands Press Heavy Fight
U S navy reports American airmen in the Solomons have shot down at least 20 more enemy planes as Japanese forces reinforce Guadalcanal and press attacks with ships planes and landing parties. The toll rises to at least 143 enemy planes confirmed shot down.
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Washington
Navy
Solomons
U. S
Southwest Pacific
Guadalcanal
Guerrillas Extend Operations Across Five Southeast European Lands
Reports from London say guerrilla bands in Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Romania have stepped up raids and sabotage against Axis lines. Coordinated with Yugoslav leader Draja Mihailovic, the campaigns aim to pin down 1.5 million Axis troops and force German reinforcements from the eastern front. Undetermined successes noted, with regular Axis strongholds attacked and foreign volunteers aiding Greek resistance.
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London
Poland
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Romania
Draja Mikhailovitch
Hitler
Russia
Rumania
Ion Minulescu
Teen Age Pair Held For Car Theft In Iowa City Case
Cedar Rapids police re arrested a Chicago couple Milton Schuelke 17 and Shirley Wright 15 after a five day car theft spree ending in Iowa City. They admitted stealing a car from Mike Nolan and abandoning it north of Vinton. Their trip traced Chicago Michigan and Indiana ending in Town City. They face robbery charges with notes of a mother’s juvenile officer role and the girl’s repeated departures from home.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Mike Nolan
Twenty-first Avenue
Vinton
Chicago
Michigan
Indiana
Town City
Milton Carl Schuelke
Shirley Wright
Cricket Lake
Antioch
Mich
Far from Iowa He Day Dreams About Sweet Corn Time
Louis R Dick Baker from Australia writes his grandparents in Marion about daydreams of home foods raspberries sweet corn cherries water melons. He is attached to a U S S bomber squadron stationed in Australia and enlisted two years ago. Baker is the son of Mrs Ruth Spencer of Cedar Rapids and has relatives in Marion.
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Louis R
Dick” Baker
Australia
Baker
U. S&s
C. W Point
Fifth Avenue
Marion
Ruth Spencer
Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Sees Ideal Temperature Readings
The Cedar Rapids temperature reached 78 degrees at 4 p.m. Saturday, 12 degrees below Friday's high. The evening drop kept the red line at Chambers Ins down to 72 by 7 p.m, and the 11:30 p.m. reading was a steady 60 degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Mercury
Train that Brings Reed Home Takes 74 to Army
Flying Tiger Bill Reed, celebrated hero, appeared at the Union station sendoff as 74 draft board No. 1 selectees boarded a train to Camp Dodge. A crowd of 1,500 cheered amid music by the Moose Cadets as Reed slipped away with family and friends.
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Tiger Bill Reed
Marion
Bill Reed
Union Station
Draft Board No. 1
China
Camp Dodge
Moose Cavaliers
Reed
United Service
Nazi Assaults Closer to Stalingrad In Heavy Fighting
Moscow dispatch reports German forces likely near one million men with 1 000 planes and tanks pressing toward Stalingrad. Soviet lines report heavy Axis losses and retreats as Red Army fights to break encirclement at Lenin grad while defending Volkhov front. five days of combat show Axis casualties over 6 000.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
High Command
Fedor von Bocks
Red Army
Volkhov
Leningrad
Steel City
von Bock
Texas Girl Chosen 1942 Miss America Crown
Jo Carrot Dennison an 18 year old from Tyler Texas won the 1942 Miss America title at Atlantic City New Jersey. She captured the bathing beauty crown ahead of finalists Bette Brunk of Chicago Patricia Aline Hill of Detroit Madeline Layton of Maywood and Lucille Lambert of Hollywood.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Texas
Jo- Carrot Dennison
Tyler
Rosemary Laplance
Los Angeles
United States
Chicago
Bette Brunk
Michigan
Patricia Aline Hill
Detroit
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Madeline Elizabeth Layton
Maywood
California
Lucille Lambert
Hollywood
Roosevelt Urged to Arbitration in India by Lord Strabolgi
Lord Strabolgi a Labour peer in the House of Lords urged inviting President Roosevelt to arbitrate the Indian question in a speech delivered Saturday in London. He argued for U.S. mediation to resolve the dispute between Britain and Indian leaders.
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London
INL
Roosevelt
Lord Strabolgi
House of Lords
Voluntary Gas Rationing Asked for Unrationed Areas
Washington AP Price Administrator Leon Henderson urged motorists in unrationed regions to adopt the same mileage limits as the 17 eastern states until nationwide coupon books are ready. He cited tire savings and urged honest self classification among drivers to support the war effort.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Baruch Rubber Committee
Henderson
OPA
Roosevelt
Allies Hit Buna in Heavy Pacific Air Attacks
Allied heavy and medium bombers escorted by fighters pummeled Buna eastern New Guinea with 26 tons of bombs and over 28 000 cannon rounds. In four bombing runs and seven strafing passes, at least 17 Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground and in dispersal bays while anti air positions were silenced. In the Owen Stanley range the Japanese push to Port Moresby showed little new action, with Allied forces holding line about 40 miles from their base.
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MacArthur
Australia
Pacific
Buna
New Guinea
Fue
Port Moresby
Owen Stanley
Gillette Panel Urges Override of Roosevelt Rubber Veto
A Senate agriculture subcommittee led by Sen. Guy M. Gillette criticized the Baruch rubber report and threatened to override Roosevelt’s veto of farm rubber legislation if farm bloc demands aren’t met. The panel urged broader farm input in the program and rejected Baruch’s limited concessions while backing a rubber administrator.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Roosevelt
Guy M Gillette
D-Ia
Senate
Charles L. McNary
Ore
George A. Norris
Bernard M. Baruch
Gillette Senate
Nelson
Baruch Committee
Patterson asserts over 600000 U S troops overseas
U S Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson told a Muskegon crowd during a Michigan war production tour that more than 600,000 American fighting men are overseas and that the force will be doubled continuously to the limit of manpower. He spoke after visiting Henry Ford's Willow Run bomber plant and dedicating a $5,000,000 system of access highways to the factory.
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Muskegon
Mich
Robert P. Patterson
Michigan
America
Patterson
Western Michigan
Gov
Murray D
van Wagoner
Henry Ford
Willow Run
Stetson Jr. Sworn as Marine Corps Major
John B. Stetson Jr., 57, former ambassador to Poland, was sworn in as a major in the Marine Corps. The ceremony occurred Saturday in Philadelphia, marking a return to active service for the diplomat.
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Philadelphia
John B. Stetson, Jr
Poland
Marine Corps
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