Big Three Set Time and Place for Secret Peace Meeting
President Truman announced a secret Big Three meeting on a course to secure a just and durable peace. Hopkins and Davies planned the time and place after talks in Moscow and London, with Poland, the United Nations conference at San Francisco, and unity among Allies central to progress.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Hopkins
Josef Stalin
Poland
Stalin
Winston Churchill
Teheran
Yalta
Roosevelt
Moscow
Davies
London
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
San Francisco
World Security Organization
Russia
Warsaw
James F. Byrnes
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
Britain
Government of Unity
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
House
Peace Draft Foes Gather
The AFL and National Grange led opposition to a permanent peacetime draft. CIO, United Auto Workers, and National Farmers Union prepared similar statements for the House Post-War Military Policy Committee. Major labor groups and two farm groups aligned with church and education leaders.
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Washington
U.2
House
American Federation of Labor
National Grange
Congress of Industrial Organizations
United Automobile Workers (Cio
National Farmers Union
Okinawa Victory Near as Last Japanese Line Falls
United Press reports end in sight on Okinawa as 10th Army breaches the final line on Yaeju Dake Plateau. Marines and Army units seize the summit, suppressing banzai charges with flamethrowers and artillery barrages.
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Pearl Harbor
Okinawa
Ato Yaeju-Dake
96Th Army
Seventh Army
United Press
E. G. Valens
10Th Army
Reds refused to let Russians seize western Czechoslovakia strip
U S occupation forces in Germany refused Russian troops access to a border corridor in western Czechoslovakia. American forces moved to hold the Chemnitz region as Russians gained about 320 square miles behind them. The dispute followed Eisenhower SHAEF orders to maintain American control of the sector. General Patton’s Third Army had previously occupied the corridor.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
U.S
Czechoslovakia
U. S. Third Army
Twelfth Army Group
U.S. Ninth Army
Chemnitz
Mulde
12Th Army Group
Wstern
Red Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Headquarters
United States
George S. Patton
Third Army
Col Tharp Is Alive Says Reports From Prison Camp
A roundabout report claims Col Blucher Tharp of the 131st Field Artillery, once missing from Java, is alive in a Japanese prison camp in February. His wife, Mrs. Tharp of Tyler, received word from the provost marshal general that an enemy propaganda broadcast quoted Sgt. Frank Fujita Jr. saying Tharp was alive in a Formosa camp last February. Unconfirmed rumors also place American prisoners near Okinawa moved to the Japanese mainland.
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Col
Blucher Tharp
131St Field Artillery
Java
Tharp
Tyler
Washington
Frank Fujita, Jr
Colonel Tharp
Taiwan
Formosa
Okinawa
Strike Threatens Shipyards Tie Up Across Region
A labor dispute sparked picketing at a Houston shipyard and threatened work stoppages from Charleston to Brownsville as the Eighth Regional War Labor Board ordered Brown Shipbuilding and Magnolia Airco Gas Products to cease picketing and work stoppage.
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Dallas
Houston
Charleston
S. C
Brownsville
Tex
Regional War Labor Board
Eighth Regional War Labor Board
Brown Shipbuilding Corporation
Magnolia Airco Gas Products Company
Houston Metal Trades Council
AFL
Brown Shipbuilding
Magnolia Airco
Herman Brown
Shipyard Corporation
WLB
Clifford W. Potter
J. T. Davis
Triplets Born at St Anthony's in Amarillo
Mrs. C. T. Hanson of Dumas delivered two daughters and a boy at St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo late last night. The boy died six hours after birth while the two daughters remained in an incubator. The birth follows a prior 1945 triplets at Northwest Texas Hospital where all three died.
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Amarillo
C. T. Hanson
Dumas
St. Anthony's Hospital
Northwest Texas Hospital
Hanson
Cactus Ordnance Plant
Italian Ambassador Presents Credentials at Kremlin
Italian Ambassador Pietro Juaroni presented his credentials in Moscow signaling full recognition of Italy by Russia at the Kremlin ceremony.
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Moscow
Pietro Juaroni
Kremlin
Italy
Russia
Photographs W Live Forever Autry Studio
The brief item notes Autry Studio at 116 East 4th offering photographs that capture moments to last forever. Contact Phong at 2-1922 for services.
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Autry
Phong
Simpson Knighted in Britain by King George
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson commander of the American Ninth Army was vested today by King George with the insignia of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Simpson hails from Weatherford Texas.
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London
U.P
William H. Simpson
Ninth Army
King George
General Simpsons
Weatherford
Tex
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook With Warmer Temps
Partly cloudy today and Thursday with fair conditions tonight. Warmer this afternoon and tonight. little temperature change Thursday. West Texas and New Mexico areas fair this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Southeast winds bring higher highs from 80s to near 100 in the southeast. 24 hour high 78 low 52.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Stettinius To Stay In State Department Post
President Truman says no change planned in the State Department secretaryship, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., despite repeated questions. He notes Stettinius will accompany him to the anticipated Churchill Stalin meeting within 30 to 40 days.
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Washington
Truman
State Department
Edward R. Stettinius. Jr
Stettinius
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Amarillo Bond Buyers Pacing National Didie
Potter County residents have bought 1,451,263 dollars in Series E war bonds or more than 63 percent of their 2,300,000 quota. The national average is 59.4 percent of 4,000,000,000. Total individual sales reach 754 percent of 7,000,000,000. Amarillo has exceeded 68 percent of its 6,380,000 overall quota. Saturday 10am Children's Cartoon Bond Show at the Paramount Theater. Jack King says the theater will be filled with youthful supporters of the Seventh War Loan. The Victory Bond Flight contest by Globe News and Interstate Theaters grows in popularity with 12 contestants.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Paramount Theater
Jack King
The
Paramount
Globe News
Interstate Theaters
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Joseph F. Davies
Hopkins and Davies
Mr. Truman
United Nations
Joseph C. Grew
U. S
U.S. Army
Josef Schoner
Hitler
Heinz Petry
Western Front
Munchen Gladbach
Braunschweig
Lewis G. Hines
Albert S. Goss
Grange
New York
Norman Thomas
Maury Maverick
War Plants Corp
Thomas
First Marine Division
Leathernecks
Hanagusuku
Brunei
Borneo
Philippines
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Bagabag
Japan
Kozu
Tokyo
Honshu
Kantaro Suzuki
Diet
Nippon Times
Radio Tokyo
Brunei Town
Little Muara
Brunei Bay
Labuan
Col. Tharp
Russell Stationery Co
E. A. Regal Co, Real Estate and Loans
T. O. Tramell
Brown and Root Construction Company
Ordnance Plant
Frey
Penn Shipyards, Inc
Beaumont
Potter
Teamsters Union
R. R. Clark
Clark
Todd Galveston
G. C. Rickert
International Union
Gen. Simpson
John Maynard Lbr. Co
General Patton
Episcopal Church of Our Saviour
San Gabriel
Cal
Bond Buyers
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