Power Blows Outlined at Potsdam Conference
President Truman aboard the USS Augusta said no secret agreements were made at the Potsdam talks with Stalin and Attlee. Anglo American chiefs discussed reallocation of areas in the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia and using other Allied forces to defeat Japan and liberate occupied territories. Mountbatten may gain a larger command area to direct operations from the Solomons to near the Philippines. The first postwar council is planned in London by September 1 with US Britain USSR China and France invited.
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JU. S. S. Augusta
Truman
Japan
Potsdam
United States
Washington
Augusta
London
Attlee
Russia
Southwest Pacific
Southeast Asia
Louis Mountbatten
General MacArthur
Australia
Solomon Islands
Dutch East Indies
Mounthbatten
Solomons
Philippine Islands
Malay States
Singapore
Berlin
Pacific
Chiefs of Staff
Europe
Stalin
James F. Byrnes
Samuel I. Rosenman
Rosenman
White House
Britain
China
France
Invasion Fear Grows as U S Warships Strike
Allied air units under General MacArthur report heavy Allied air and sea operations against Japan in 1945. The 20th Air Force mined enemy ports, shrinking Japan's food and material intake. FEAF and Seventh Fleet sorties damaged ships, while American forces press bombardment near Formosa and Indo-China.
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Associated Press
General MacArthur
U. S. Far East
Seventh Fleet
Japan
20Th Air
FEAF
Meac-Arthur
13Th Air Force
Takao
Formosa
Indo-China
Singapore
Netherlands East Indies
Manokwari
New Gamea
Tokyo
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
20Th Air Force
Korea
Empire Islands
Nippon
AAP
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Yamauri Hochi
Okinawa
United States
Nimitz
Fleet Air Wing 18
Sagami Gulf
South
Spaatz
Strategic Air Forces In the
Pacific
Manila
MacArthur
Kenney
Far East
French Peers Fail To Stop Defense Of Laval Trial
In a four hour session amid a tense courtroom the man accused of using Petain as a foil while taking orders from Hitler as Vichy premier vowed to defend himself and to accuse. He disclosed a 1935 secret military alliance.
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Laval
Petain
Hitler
Vichy
France
Mongibeaux
Italy
Germany
Fort Worth Corporal James E. Newman Dies After Home Return
Corporal James E. Newman, 25, died at his Fort Worth home after a long battle with tuberculosis and aftereffects from a Japanese POW camp. He had endured capture at Bataan, the March of Death, three years in Japanese imprisonment, and fading health before returning home July 2 aboard an Army plane.
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Fort Worth
James E. Newman
Newman
Bataan
Philippines
New Guinea
New Mexico
Bruns General Hospital
O. F. Newman
Corporal Newman
White House
Seven of Nineteen New British Ministers Once Miners
London Aug 3 Nineteen new ministers seven of them former miners, a former taxi driver, a former Baptist lay preacher and others joined Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labour cabinet. The group adds 25 total ministers. eight posts remain. James Lewson a former miner becomes secretary of state for war. Albert Victor Alexander becomes first lord of the admiralty. Viscount Stansgate named air secretary. A 54 year old red haired Even Wilkinson becomes education minister, the second woman in cabinet.
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London
Clement Attlee
Labor
Labor Party
Crora
Attlee
Lst
James Lewson
Albert Victor Alexander
Admiralty
Viscount Stansgate
Japan
Even Wilkinson
Britain
Mrs J E Kinney of Miami Dies After Long Illness
Mrs J E Kinney of Miami died early Friday in a Pampa hospital after a long illness at age 66. She was born in 1879 in Stevens County and was a daughter of S G Carter pioneer of Roberts County. Survivors include two daughters two sons two brothers one sister and ten grandchildren. Funeral services planned for Sunday in the Miami Methodist Church with Rev C A Holcomb officiating.
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J. E. Kinney
Miami
Pampa
Kinney
S.G. Carter
Roberts County
Stevens County
McKeetie
Rena Carter
Kidd Key College
Sherman
Amario
Hugh Carter
Higgins
W. C. Coffee
Amarillo
Miami Methodist Church
Rev. C. A. Holcomb
Cattle Quota Raised for Class 2 Slaughterers
The CPA increases base quota to 100 percent for class 2 non federally inspected slaughterers for periods from Aug 1, up 15 percent from July 1. Calves 75 percent, sheep and lambs 119 percent, hogs 30 percent. Quotas tied to meat slaughter in 1944 and ration points. rise due to reduced Army beef set-asides.
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Washington
CPA
Demand for Swift War Trials Grows Near
London reports a four power agreement for mass trials of German war criminals within days. Justice Robert H. Jackson’s demand speeds action, with Britain France Russia and the US pushing toward a joint international tribunal. Plans point to Nürnberg for arraignments and a September 1 start, subject to translation work and defining aggressive war.
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London
Germany
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Big Three
Jackson
Nuernberg
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas
The Weather Bureau reports fair conditions in Amarillo and vicinity with warm temperatures through Saturday night. West Texas is partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, New Mexico partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers. Highs reach 90 to 100 elsewhere, with mountains near 0. Temperatures and sun data are provided for the previous day, including sunrise at 6 59 a m and sunset at 8 47 p m.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
NGO
End of Rationing For Shoes Seen
A War Production Board official forecast the end of shoe rationing early in 1946 or sooner if the war ends earlier. If Japan surrenders before V J Day, rationing could end shortly after. The decision hinges on reduced military demand and already planned cuts.
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Washington
War Production Board
Japan
Flaming fuel ignites clothes at city filling station
E. E. Cox, 44, suffered burns on both arms chest and thighs when gasoline sprayed over him as a car backfired at a Sixteenth and Polk filling station. Attendants said his condition was serious but not critical. Cox, an attendant at the station, was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital by Griggs ambulance. he and his wife live at 913 West Seventh.
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Mr. Cox
Sixteenth and Polk
Griggs
Mrs. Cox
West Seventh
GE Resumes Refrigerator Production in Erie Factory
General Electric in Erie Pennsylvania restarted production of electrical refrigerators on an assembly line after three years idle. The first of 95000 units allowed by the government for 1945 rolled off the line signaling a restart of appliance manufacturing during wartime.
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Erie
General Electric Company
Japan Aide Peace Plan Reported From January
In Germany a former German ambassador said Japan planned to form a new government under Baron Kantaro Suzuki to seek understanding with the United States and Britain. Suzuki became premier April 7 and faced a surrender ultimatum seen as unlikely to succeed, with Suzuki said to be a puppet of militarists. Von Dircksen noted Suzuki's links to Tsuneo Matsudaira, a behind the scenes influence on Emperor Hirohito, and warned of assassination risks. He now lives in Bavaria.
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U.S. Third Army
Germany
Herbert von Dircksen
Tokyo
London
Japan
Baron Kantaro Suzuki
United States
Great Britain
Suzuki
Ofice
von Dircksen
Szuki
Berlin
Tsuneo Matsudaira
Hirohito
Matsudaira
Washington
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Baldwin
Ethiopia
Austria
Rom
Trump
Oat Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Miaenier von Ribbentrop
Rudolf Hess
U. 8S
Weather Bureau
E. E. Cox
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