Mass Court Martial for War Criminals
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said a master trial for Nazi leaders including Goering Ribbentrop and Hess could occur this summer before a multinational military tribunal. He outlined a single-group trial with judges from Britain Russia France and the United States and expected a speedy proceeding with 35 to 300 defendants, appeals limited to history. The plan would indict leaders under a conspiracy to wage illegal war and allow defense by their own countrymen. Exile plans and postwar punishments were also discussed.
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London
Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rudolph Hess
Jackson
Britain
France
Russia
United States
Death Takes Mrs Hockings at 73 in Oelwein
Mrs Ora Hockings, 73, of 820 South Frederick, died at Mercy hospital yesterday afternoon. Survived by two daughters Mrs Harry Potter and Mrs Blanche Thompson and son Earl Blaiscell, all of Oelwein. Body lies in state at Hintz Funeral Home. Services Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Church of Christ. Rev D K Pugh to officiate. Burial in Wonderlawn Cemetery.
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Ora Hockings
South Frederick
Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
Harry Potter
Blanche Thompson
Earl Blaiscell
Hintz
Church of Christ
D. K. Pugh
Wondlawn
Spaveo Rathive
Thomas McGeheran of Clermont dies at 93
Clermont special report funeral services were held at St Peter's church for Thomas McGeheran 93 who died Tuesday at Rockwell Hospital. He was the last of a pioneer family with eight brothers and three sisters and is buried in the Catholic cemetery east of Clermont.
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Clermont
St Peter's Church
Thomas McGeheran
Rockwell Hospital
Michael McGeheran
Congress Rejects Six Month OPA Price Control Extension
The House voted 177 to 126 to defeat a Republican bid to renew the price control act for only six months. Democrats warned the short renewal would spur black markets and reduce civilian goods, while Speaker Sam Rayburn opposed the amendment as confusing and destructive. A Hoover recommendation urged transferring OPA meat and fat control to agriculture.
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Washington
Congress
OPA
Sam Rayburn
Walter H. Judd
Minn
House
Harold Knutson
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Department of Agriculture
Unions Decry New Labor Bill As Straitjacket for Labor
The American Federation of Labor the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the United Mine Workers condemned a proposed B2 labor relations bill. They say it would amend the Wagner Act overturn major labor protections and weaponize compulsory arbitration under a tightened Labor Board and War Labor Board framework.
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Washington
Organized Labor Today
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Or
United Mine Workers United
Wasner Labor Relations Act
National Labor Relations Board
War Labor Board
Labor Department
Conciliation Service
Senate
Carl A. Hatch
N. M
Harold H. Burton
Joseph H. Ball
Minn
Hatch
Ball
Burton
NMW
Worker Injured by Falling Wrench at Wardell Building
Lynn Levey of this city is hospitalized at Mercy with head injuries after a dropped wrench struck him yesterday afternoon at the Wardell building site. He failed to hear the warning call and stood in the fall line. Several stitches were needed and X-ray results were not available at press time.
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Lynn Levey
Mercy Hospital
New Wardell
Sinatra Sings for GIs Meets Pope in Rome
Frank Sinatra received an audience with Pope Pius XII who expressed interest in his singing career and blessed him with a rosary for his wife and two children. The singer, moved by the visit, described seeing St Peters as a dream and toured the Vatican with awe. He later performed at a G L rest center where Mussolini price presided and drew strong applause from spectators.
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Rome
Pius
Frank Sinatra
Sinatra
St. Peters
G. L
Benito Mussolini Price
Anc
Suffocation Victim Recovers After Gas Plant Mishap
Alvin Bratten, a boilermaker at Central States Gas Co, is recovering at Mercy Hospital after a suffocation incident while repairing a boiler at the gas plant around 8 pm yesterday. His condition is listed as good. assistant Skelly Kramer was unharmed, and Mayor Gunderson helped carry Bratten to safety as firefighters used an inhalator.
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Alvin Bratten
Mercy Hospital
Central States Gas Co
Bratten
C.G.W
Skelly Kramer
M. F. Gunders
Church Protests Ban on Objectors
The Upper Iowa Conference of the Methodist Church protested a Supreme Court decision seen as depriving a conscientious objector of the right to practice law in Illinois. The conference, with about 7,000 members, urges church influence toward justice and freedom and reports oversubscribed fundraising quotas in its Crusade for Christ. The Waterlog district led with $69,378, surpassing its quota by over 11,000.
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Mount Vernon
Upper Iowa
The
Methodist Church
United States Supreme Court
Ilinois
Crusade For Christ
Grive
OPA Sues Sumner and Manchester Men in Price Violations
OPA officials filed suits against ten Iowa men including Sumner and Manchester residents for exceeding meat price ceilings. The charges allege violation of ceiling price regulations in purchasing cattle for slaughter. The cases span four functions with one Class 2 slaughter involved.
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OPA
Iowa Fi
Quandt
Sumner
Clarence Or
Manchester
Pledges Speedy Defeat of Japs
Army chief Gen George C Marshall told a closed House hearing the war aim is a swift victory over Japan with overwhelming force. The Appropriations Committee approved 38.5 million dollars for the War Department next year, with warnings against optimistic judgments and notes on total forces to be used in the Pacific.
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Okinawa
Seventh Division
U. S. Tenth Army
Joseph W. Stilwell
Simon B. Buckner, Jr
Stilwell
Buckner
U. S. Army Forces of the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
International Soundphoto
Washington
George C. Maryshell
Germent
Barshall
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Marshall
Pacific
Japan
Tarst
Leehey to Receive BA Degree as V-12 Student
James Leen Oxford Ohio graduates tomorrow with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Leehey entered the Navy after high school in 1923 and has since served at the Naval V-12 school. He will join the hospital staff after a short leave in his city. He is a son of Mrs Monica Leehey and the late Dr F P Leehey and has a brother Lt Pat Leehey in the fleet.
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James Leen
Oxford
Ohio
Leehey
Navy
Ef High
Naval
V-112
Monica Leehey
F_ P_ Leehey
Pat Leehey
One Way to Stretch Those Meat Stamps
SHENANDOAH UP After a farmer reports a 600 pound heifer missing only hide and head officials investigate. Stanley Carlson of Essex farm alerts police about the theft claim.
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Shenandoah
Seattle
Stanley Carlson
Senators Map Charter Fight In U S Senate
Senate campaign for the United Nations charter opens as Sen Tom Connally and Sen Arthur H Vandenberg plan to push for ratification. Debate is set to begin after committee records are assembled, with a conference report due in about two weeks.
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San Francisco
U. S
United Nations
Tom Connally
Tex
Arthur H. ¥Andesburg
R. Bmich
Ly Bagz
Tgn
Senate
Uxo
Truman
United Nations Ca ‘Ence
U.S. del SantenoBin
League of Nations
League
Washington
United States
Security Council
Stari
Big Five
Connally-Vandenberg
Leonard Steffen 15 Dies at Fayette
Leonard Steffen a 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs F F Steffen of near Fayette died suddenly at his home this morning He completed his sophomore year at Fayette High School last month Funeral arrangements are pending He is survived by his parents five brothers La Verne in New Guinea and Lawrence at home Mrs La Verne Steffen resides in Celina
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Leonard Steffen
F_ F_ Steffen
Fayette
Fayette High School
la Verne
New Guinea
Lawrence Oo
la Verne Steffen
Celwein
Roy Aubrey of Sumner Dies in 1902 obituary
Roy Aubrey of Sumner dies aged about 27 or 29 after marrying Mona Wismer on December 29 1920. He leaves a son Maurice Lee and a granddaughter, plus parents and a brother Claude. A brother Paul preceded him in death. He worked as a bookkeeper and dartsman at Brayton Chevrolet for 10 years and was a Sumner School alum and Eklund Business College graduate. Funeral plans await word from his son serving in Italy with the U S Army.
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Sumner
Roy Ann Allen
Sum
Mona Wismer
Maurice Lee
Paul
Claude
Summer
Aubrey
Brayton Chevrolet Co
Eklund Business College
Waterloo
U. S. Army
Italy
Baruch calls for destruction of German heavy industry
Former adviser Bernard Baruch told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Germany’s heavy industry must be destroyed to break its dominance in Europe. He urged sweeping measures including dismantling Junkers estates, relocating plants, strict controls on German trade, and a future Europe with Germany as a peaceful, equal partner. He warned that any milder plan would fail to secure lasting peace and proposed a framework for U.S. diplomacy and European reconstruction.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
Germany
Europe
Baruch
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Junkers
United States of Europe
Hitler
Russia
Nubdlic
United States
Tere
Ted States
Occan
Zion
Six From Here Among Inductees in Fayette Draft
Six men from this community were among Fayette county draftees who left for induction yesterday. The inductees are Lyle Kirkpatrick Theodore Wesmer James Peters Clarence Erickson Elmer Brickman of Oelwein and Clair Fink of Fairbank.
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Fayette County
Lyle Kirkpatrick
Theodore Wesmer
James Peters
Clarence Erickson
Elmer Brickman
Oelwein
Clair Fink
Fairbank
Okinawa Cost U Forces Over 40 000 Pearl Harbor Up Raid
Allied reports describe a third raid this week on the Japanese home islands with six targets staged. U S and Philippine action included advances in Luzon and Borneo with heavy air and ground operations. Casualties on Okinawa were tallied as tens of thousands, while Japanese and Allied losses mounted. A refinery in Lutong was destroyed and Indian prisoners found starved and injured.
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Pearl Harbor
Kure’ Paral
Sena
Honshu
Sakashima Islands
Okinawa
Tokyo
7Th Division
Giul
Borneo
Lutong
Brunei Bay
Seria Ang Miri
Abilene Welcomes Ike with Parade
Abilene Kansas hosts a hometown parade for Dwight D Eisenhower known as IKE's Day. The general, returning from wartime leadership, rides a two mile long procession with tractors, trucks and wheat while locals including Abilene High School football players from 1910 cheer and wave. Nearby floats celebrate town history and notable figures.
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Abilene
Kan
Dwight D
Ke” Xone
Europa
Ike
Bill Hickok
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Gestapo
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Reich
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Pope
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U. S. S. Hazelwood
Senators
Son
Lille Rosenblum
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pvt
Samuel Rosen Dum
Rosenblum
Purple Heart
ETO. (International
Roy Aubrey
Loeal News Desk
China
Liuchow
U.S. 14Th Air Force
Luzon
Philippines
Gagayan
Tuguegerao
Cagayan Province
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