Irish Stand Complicates Invasion Plan
Ireland's refusal to break with the axis complicates Britain's invasion plans as Washington weighs France policy and De Valera's response. Roosevelt warned Dublin two years ago not to stay isolated, while notes to De Valera stress risks to Ireland and Allied war effort. Also reports repatriated Americans aboard the Gripsholm expect to dock around March 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ireland
Britain
Iriah
Ailisd
Dublin
Germany
Charles de Gaulle
France
Roosevelt
Europe
de Valera
de Lavera
British Isles
Gray
United Nations
United States
Shire
Eamon de Valera
Eire
United Kingdom
Gripsholm
State Department
Jersey City
N. J
Wayne Kisher
Gilden
Alice Spelbarg
Sioux City
Detroit CIO Dairy Workers Strike Shuts Milks Up
In Detroit the CIO United Dairy Workers Local 83 walked out over overtime pay demands, halting about 90 percent of deliveries for a war-time week end. A meeting to resume service failed as strikers booed back-to-work calls. National War Labor Board telegrams urged an immediate return to duties. No violence, hospitals and institutions still received milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
CIO
United Dairy Workers Local 83
National War Labor Board
Confus
War Labor Board
William H.davis
National
WLB
Washington
Russell L. Ballard
Local 33
Roy Scoggins
International
UDW
Ballard
Carl F. Burger
Detroit Milk Dealers Association
American Federation of Labor Unions
Maide
WLE
National Board
City to Vote on School Board Elections
City residents vote from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to elect two directors and a treasurer for the school board. Candidates include George Woods Harry C. Voss and incumbents Thomas McMillen Christine Ericksen Hill, with Covert T. Brown running for treasurer. Polling places cover Pierce Washington Abraham Lincoln Bloomer McMillen Thomas Jefferson Longfellow Avenue B and Benjamin Franklin schools. Save Your Tin Can.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pells
Atter|tors
George Woods
Harry C. Voss
Thomas McMillen
Christine Ericksen-Hill
Covert T. Brown
City
Lmits
Pierce School
Washington School
Abraham Lincoln High School
Fourth Ward
Bloomer School
Fifth Ward
McMillen School
Thomas Jefferson High School
Longfellow School
Avenue B
Benjamin Frankklin School
Russians Gain On Wide Front In Eastern Offensive
Soviet lines push across a 500 mile front in western Ukraine and southern Poland as three armies seize 280 villages and towns. First Ukrainian Army fights in Tarnopol. Second Army advances near Uman and captures a German air base. Third Army moves toward Kirovograd. German radio claims a remarkable success.
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Ukraine
Rumania
Sower
Tarnopol
Poland
Uman
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Bereslav
Kherson
War salvage collection dates and fats recycling notice
There is no paper collection this week. The salvage collection occurs on the third Thursday for pickup on the third Friday. If your block’s commando misses the day, contact your district school principal. Take waste cooking fats to the grocery store. dealers pay four cents per pound plus two meat ration stamps per pound.
Pope to Speak From St Peter's On Rome War News
Roving dispatches claim Pope Pius XI will address the world from the loggia of St. Peter's on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of his coronation. Vatican officials reportedly seek to spare Rome from further destruction as German assurances surface and Rome prepares for a radio blessing to follow a pontifical mass at Lateran. Weather forecasts for Council Bluffs and Nebraska report colder temperatures, gusty winds, and light snow flurries through the period.
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Pius XI
St. Peter's
Italy
Holy Father
Rome
Vatican
Geneva
A la Suisse
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Holy See
Lateran
St. Peter’s
Vatican Radio
Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Bombing Week Continues as Americans Strike Germany and France
American heavy bombers blasted Muenster in western Germany and Pas-de-Calais in France on Saturday, with RAF night flights pressing attacks despite snow and anti aircraft fire. Four fighters missing. no bomber losses reported. Fortresses, Liberators, Thunderbolts, Lightnings and Mustangs supported the effort as precision targets were hit in Clermont-Ferrand Ossun Chateaurox and Laricumarte. The week marks a peak in Allied bombing with both sides employing intensified night raids and advanced navigation methods.
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London
Muenster
Germany
Pas-de-Calais
France
Paris
Luxembourg
Frankfurt
Britain
Netherlands
Pas-de- Calais
Thunderbolt
Iit
Walter Megan
Waterbury, Conn
Europe
RAF
Continental
Berlin
Leipsig
Schweinfurt
Glenwood Seeks Veterans Hospital Effort Grows
Glenwood chapter of the American War Dads begins action to obtain a veterans hospital for the city. Claude Sparks, chairman, calls for support from southwest Iowa towns including Carson, Tabor, Sidney, Griswold, Atlantic, Harlan and Underwood to back the project. Letters to congressmen Maj Gen Handy and Thomas Martin have not yet received replies.
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Glenwood
Hosital
Claude Sparks
Iowa
Sparks
Carson, Tabor
Sidney
Griswold
Atlantic
Harlan
Underwood
Thomas T. Handy
Selection Committee
Thomas Martin
Soldier Col Rockwell Details Hard War Life
Memphis Army hospital patient Lt. Col. Lloyd H. Rockwell recalls a tough soldier’s life. On 30 day convalescent furlough to 482 Houston Ave with wife and daughters Judy and Jere, he reflects years of African and Italian campaigns, machine gun and shrapnel wounds, and rare home visits since shore duty with the 168th infantry and Gen. Clark’s headquarters. He details training in Ireland England and Scotland, selection for the 84th division, and a British mission to learn to say we are Americans in French.
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Lloyd H. Rockwell
Judy
Jere
Suzie
Lloyd H
Diddy) Rockwell
Memphis, Tenn
Army Hospital
Rockwell
Houston Avenue
City Engineer's Office
168Th Infantry
Neen
Ireland
England
Scotland
Clark
Seek Ex soldier in Fatal Clubbing
WHITESBURG KY The fatal clubbing of Pearl Bowling a 60 year old rural mail carrier who was battered while alive was announced by Sheriff Gilbert Polly who said a murder and robbery warrant has been issued for John Banks 35 a man recently discharged from the army Witnesses saw Banks beat Bowling rob his mail pouch and leave him for dead after covering him with earth and leaves Bowling died after being taken to a nearby home Banks rode with the mailman to Bullcreek on the way to deliver a casualty letter and an estimated 920 in value was stolen"}
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitesburg
Gilbert Polly
Pearl Bowling
Bull Creek
Polly
John Banks
Bowling
Desd
Cornettaville
War Department
Banks
Nend
Former Greenfield Man Heads Lutheran Welfare Society
George Westhy of Des Moines has been chosen executive secretary of the Lutheran Welfare Society of Town, succeeding Claude Lindquist who resigns for a Chicago post. Westhy, former Greenfield schools superintendent and three years as assistant supervisor of the Town Merit System, will assume office April 1. The society now has five Lutheran bands supporting its work with offices in Council Bluffs Fort Dodge Mason City and Sioux City in addition to Des Moines.
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Society
Council Bluffs
Fort, Dodge
Mason City
Sioux City
Des Moines
Japs Pull Troops Out of Rabaul
Associated Press report notes Japan begins withdrawing troops from bombed Rabaul to reinforce central New Britain against American advances. Describes unescorted bombers causing damage, Tokyo radio claiming grim conditions, PT boats shelling Madang, and a single ground action on Bougainville where Japanese forces were repulsed with 100 killed.
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Leonard Millimen
Associated Press
Japan
Rabaul
New Britain
Tokyo Radio
Madang
Two Killed in Oil Plant Explosion
A Sur Ou company high octane gasoline plant exploded Saturday night in Mamuus Muuk area, killing two workers and injuring two more, one seriously. The blaze burned for nearly an hour as flames rose 200 feet, seen from miles away and a crowd of 6000 gathered under police guard. An estimated 109 million gallons of high octane gasoline are stored in four major refineries around Marcus Hook.
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Mamuus Muuk. Ra, Pt
Sur Ou! Company
Philadelphia
Marcus Hook
Rites Monday for Red Oak Baby Virginia Rediger
Funeral services are planned for Monday for Mary Virginia Rediger week-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Rediger who died Saturday Here the infant weighed 14 pounds and had been kept in an iron lung since birth Burial will be at Mitford Nebraska
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Oak
Mary Virginia Rediger
Hirs
Jack Rediger
Sur| Save
Mitford
Neb
Ramirez Forced Out by Army
Montevideo Uruguay report reveals General Pedro Pablo Ramirez says high ranking Argentine officers compelled his resignation on Feb 25. He cites rumors of war with the axis and US pressure as causes, and says officers rejected his explanations in two meetings.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Pedro Pablo Ramirez
Argentina
Edelmiro J. Farrell
Ramirez
Buenos Aires
Axis
United States
Farrell
Len
Germany
Japan
Bamirez
New Meat Stamp Points Validate Purchase Rules
Washington announces a new set of 10 point red stamps for meats and fats in ration book four become valid Sunday. The previously loaned coupons AS BS and CB will be good through May 20. Three new meat stamps will be valid every second Sunday and five 10 point blue stamps for processed foods will be validated the first of each month.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Florence and Toulon Hit by Bombers
Allied air forces blasted Toulon on France’s southern coast with heavy bombers targeting submarines and port facilities. Florence was struck for the first time this war, hitting railway yards and factories while Padua faced massive air battles. London and Rome reports note minimal damage to culture and significant destruction of strategic targets.
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Edward Kennedy
Naples
Italy
Toulon
France
Florence
Alan
Padua
Venice
Tke
Touloni
Thunderbolt
Clark
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Allied Air Force
CBS
Tuscany
Cafe Is City Man balancing factor in rationing
Welter F. Straub national director of the food rationing division argues restaurants balance rationing for city dwellers who cannot produce food. He says those who raise or process their own food eat more, while city residents deserve compensatory relief to offset costs.
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Cafe
Chicago
Welter F. Straub
Office of Price Administration
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FDR
Holy Father's
Glenwood Seeking Veterans Hospital
Yee
Col. Rockwell
National Guard
Coun cl Bluffs
Tony Gieser
Neola
Dave Smith
Kentucky
Greenfield Man Heads Lutheran Group
U. S
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