Senate OKs UN Charter Ratification with No Dissent
The Senate foreign relations committee approved the United Nations Charter without dissent or reservations by a 20 to 0 vote after five days of hearings. The charter, signed by 50 nations at San Francisco, will be formally reported next Monday and debated on the Senate floor starting July 23, potentially lasting two weeks. Three members were absent during the vote.
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Bretton Woods World Banking Plan
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France
China
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Alabama
James M. Long
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British Commonwealth
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European Control Council
Berlin
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Frankfurt
USFET
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H. Lee
SHAEF
Force Only Key For Victory
Undersecretary of War Patterson said Japan will surrender only to force, describing a hard war and battlefield choices. He warned that Japanese troops fight to the end, highlighting improved defense and new weapons as the war moves to Manchuria and China.
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Robert P. Patterson
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Okinawa
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Weather and Pacific bombardment news blend in June report
Weather from the U S Weather Bureau covers Amarillo and West Texas with scattered thundershowers and partly cloudy skies through Saturday. In a separate dispatch, U S Pacific Fleet ships bombarded Honshu and other Japanese targets, with Nimitz and Halsey commanding the action including battleships and cruisers.
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State Department Fiddles as Byrnes Roams
Washington July 13 A wide spread phrase reflects uncertainty among State Department staff awaiting the return of James F Byrnes as secretary The quip says the department fiddles while Byrnes roams highlighting morale and direction questions during transition
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State Department
Berlin
James F. Byrnes
William H. Leahy
Hearing Today for Worker On Bomb-Mailing Charge
U S Commissioner W E Estes announced a preliminary hearing for Maurice Knapp a 34 year old war plant worker charged with willfully placing an infernal machine in the mails at Beaumont Knapp was held under 3000 bond at a yesterday hearing No formal plea has been entered Knapp was arrested yesterday in connection with mailing a homemade bomb to a young woman at Beaumont by U S postal inspector George T Heaberg
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Maurice Knapp
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Associated Press
George T. Heaberg
Farm Advisers Retained by Agriculture Department
Three Texans from the Wickard and Jones era stay on as advisers under Secretary Clinton Anderson. Grover Hill Amarillo remains an indefinite consultant on department reforms while Wilson Cowen Clifton and Ashley Sellers Abilene serve briefly as advisers. Cowen returns to the Court of Claims. Sellers plans to enter private law practice in Washington around Sept. 1.
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Clinton P. Anderson
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Dalhart
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Cowen
Court of Claims
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WFA
Hollywood Moves to Old Tascosa Rodeo Set
The scene shows the Courthouse as the Boys Ranch main unit with a small topless grandstand for a Boys Ranch rodeo in the corral. A regulation barn with hay loft stalls and drive through doors sits nearby, while painted box cars and adobe barns double as club calf structures for the movie.
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Marine photographer pilots belly tank mission over Okinawa
Marine First Lieutenant David D. Duncan rode in a P-38 belly tank to photograph combat from the air. He and pilot Major Edward H. Taylor conducted ten dives over Japanese targets in Southern Okinawa, firing jellied-gas bombs as Corsairs attacked below. Duncan captured 100 pictures from beneath the plexiglass nose.
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Miami
Fla
Edward H. Taylor
Normandy Arms
Austin
Second Marine Air Wing Corsairs
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Duncan
Congress To Get Quick Report on Big 3 Talks
President Truman plans to report to Congress after Potsdam talks with Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill in a bid to lay groundwork for a permanent European peace. He aims for no secret commitments and will outline cooperation for postwar rehabilitation and rapid Japanese war conclusion. The aboard Augusta dispatch notes battle planning and near term sessions in Europe.
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Potsdam
Germany
Antwerp
Belgium
War Department overran Pan American highway project costs
The War Department originally estimated the Pan-American highway would cost 14 million 714 thousand dollars but final spending reached 42 million 715 thousand dollars and the project was left unfinished.
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War Department
France Hangs Five in War Crimes Trial for Normandy killings
In Rennes on July 13, the first war crimes trial in France sentenced two German officers and three enlisted men to death for murdering French civilians during the Normandy campaign. A sixth defendant received 20 years at hard labor.
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France
Sugar shortages threaten fall civilian supplies across the nation
U S officials warn civilian sugar allotments for July-September may drop 25 percent and total 1944 final quarter supply could fall short by about 3 million tons. Regions east of the Mississippi face tighter access, while imported cane reliance worsens limits on the West Coast.
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