Indict German War Crimes Group for Human Experiments
London dispatch reports the United Nations War Crimes Commission weighing indictments against leading German physicians and scientists for Nazi human vivisection killings of slave workers and political prisoners. Investigators plan tours of Germany with Allied support to pursue charges against Rust Himmler Goering and others.
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London
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tokyo Reports Great Fleet Steaming Out of Marianas
Tokyo reports a large Japanese fleet steaming from the Marianas as Allied forces press the Pacific war. The bulletin echoes dire warnings of renewed naval activity and potential carrier and battleship movements in the theater.
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Tokyo
Marianas
Dr Robert Ley seeks execution as life loses meaning
In a German prison camp interview, former Nazi labor front leader Dr Robert Ley told American captors to shoot him, denying any change in loyalty to Hitler. He claimed “80,000,000 Germans” cannot be killed and defended Nazi policies toward Jews and workers while recounting his capture near Cologne and the fate of his family. He also warned of continued Nazi resistance.
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Otto Zkorzeny
Benito Mussolini
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Max Schmeling
Crete
Leni Reifenstahl
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
U. S. Army Group
Germany
U.P
Robert Ley
Hitler
Ley
15Th Corps
Berlin
Fuehrer
Labor Front
Cologne
Austria
01St Airborne Division
City Planning Group To Meet At City Hall Tonight
A reorganized city government unit will begin work tonight. The planning and zoning commission will convene at 8 o clock in the city hall to appoint a chairman and a secretary and the new members will take the oath of office.
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City Planning and Zoning Commission
Razor blades purchase ends with surprise generosity
At a dime store a man buys three packs of razor blades for 30 cents. The clerk notes the price as ten cents each and a B-29 engine sound distracts. He replies with a generous gesture, telling her to keep the change.
Legislature Advances Eleemosynary Budget Bill in Conference
Austin May 18 The House adopts a free conference committee report on a 15500000 eleemosynary appropriation marking half the work for final approval of the first major bill in the current biennium. The Senate is in weekend adjournment and cannot review the report until next week.
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Austin
House
Senate
Theory Hitler Had a Double Is Discredited
Southern Germany May 18 The principal secretary Gerhardt Herrgesell denies the long standing claim that Adolf Hitler used a double during the final years of World War II. He states those stories are false and asserts Hitler never had or used a double.
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Hitler
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Gerhardt Herrgesell
Fuehrer
Okinawa Campaign Presses Toward Shuri and Naha
After 48 days of brutal fighting the Sixth Marine Division presses toward Naha and its airfield while First Marine Division and others widen a bridgehead near Shuri. The assault follows heavy B 29 bombing that crippled fuel depots and storage centers, with no reported Allied losses.
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Naha
Shuri
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Sixth Marine
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Shell
Asato
Leathernecks
Pedro A. del Valle
Sugar Loaf Hill
Takimotoji
Wana
Fortress Shuri
Andrew D. Bruce
7Ith
Ishimmi
B 29 Raid Hits Major Honshu Oil Storage
Allied forces struck southeastern Honshu with more than 400 B 29 bombers on May 10. Reconnaissance photos show 85 to 90 percent destruction of the empire s largest oil storage areas.
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Japan
Army
Navy
Honshu
Steel gates and fencing materials offered by Coe Lumber
Coe Lumber at 11th and Lincoln lists steel gates corrugated iron barbed wire hog wire and cedar posts as fencing supplies.
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Coe ‘Lumber
11Th and
Lincoln
War Bond appeal from Gen Omar Bradley for Seventh War Loan
General Bradley Twelfth Army Group commands a Belgium based appeal urging citizens to buy extra War Bonds. He says the victory volunteer speaks for every soldier and news of personal participation in the Seventh War Loan is the best news from home.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Twelfth Army Group
Belgium
Trapping Japanese Forces on Luzon and Mindanao Tightens
Allied forces press on major Japanese garrisons in the Philippines with Wing's 43rd Division closing near Ipo Dam in central Luzon and Brush and Martin narrowing the Sayre highway gap in Mindanao. A third trap near captured Davao squeezes another enemy force as 45th Division advances.
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Mindanao
Philippines
Leonard F. Wing
Ipo Dam
Manila
Rapp Brush
Clarence Martin
Sayre
R. B. Woodruff
Davao
Chinese hold forces withdraw after Foochow street fighting
Chinese high command reports withdrawal from Foochow after intense street fighting with Japanese reinforcements from Lienkong and Mamoi. Tokyo claims over 400 Japanese casualties, while in Hunan province near Shanmen and Kaosha Japanese units reportedly suffer about 1,000 losses.
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East China Coast
Foochow
Lienkong
Mamoi
Hunan
Shanmen
Kaosha
Paoching
Pacific
Russo Japanese Rumors Fly Over War Prospects
Paris reports from British diplomatic circles say Russia may join the war by issuing an ultimatum to Japan demanding surrender terms and Japanese abandonment of conquests. Sakhalin residents vow stronger defensive military growth while Red Star notes a 20 day meeting of company commanders training with new tactics and signaling methods.
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Paris
Russia
Japan
Moscow
Sakhalin Island
Stalin
Sakhalin
Red Star
Transbaikal
Siberia
Lake Baikal
Manchuria
Truman Offers to Relinquish Part of German Occupation Zone
President Truman told French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault that the United States is willing to relinquish part of the American zone in Germany. He said details have been conveyed and are being formalized and expressed a wish to meet General Charles de Gaulle.
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Washington
Truman
United States
France
Germany
Georges Bidault
Charlies de Gaulle
British cruiser Curacao sinks after collision with Queen Mary
London reports the HMS Curacao sank in the Atlantic on October 1, 1942 after a collision with the liner Queen Mary while 15,000 American troops were carried toward Scotland. The loss was 338 officers and men, one of the war’s worst British naval disasters.
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London
Atlantic
Admiralty
Cunard
United States
Scotland
Ordered Deported Former Bund Leader Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn a former German-American Bund leader was ordered deported to Germany as an undesirable alien. The Board of Immigration Appeals issued the order while Kuhn, a Munich native, was imprisoned in Dannemora New York for a 1939 conviction on larceny and forgery connected to Bund funds. He will be placed on a boat as directed by military authorities after being paroled.
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Washington
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
Germany
Justice Department
Board of Immigration Appeals
Munich
Dannemora
New York
Kuhn
Crystal City
Tex
Parliament member bricks 200 in 58 minutes in House of Commons
Sir Harry Selley 73, a parliament member, laid 200 bricks in 58 minutes in the House of Commons ward to argue that government targets for bricklayers of 200 to 300 daily are absurdly small. The event was documented in London on May 18. The report notes the involvement of Russell Stationery Co. and its contact details.
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London
Harry Selley
House of Commons
Woman asks grocer about ration points for son’s army release
A sober faced east side woman, Mrs. W. E. Hawley, Route 2, entered a grocery store with ration books and asked the grocer if she had enough points to get her son out of the Army. The incident was witnessed by the caller.
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W. E. Hawley
Route 2
Pack of Bull Terriers Destroyed After Fatal Attack
In Miami on May 18 an entire group of more than 25 bull pit terriers were ordered destroyed after nine dogs fatally attacked a 39 year old woman. The nine were shot at the Miami Humane Society kennels, with others killed at the owner Joe Munn’s home as requested. An autopsy was planned to check for clothing fragments in the dogs’ stomachs.
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Miami
Fla
Greater Miami
Justice of the Peace
Henry L. Oppenborn
Contempt Cited For PM Reporter Albert Deutsch
The House Veterans committee voted 13 to 5 to cite Albert Deutsch for contempt for refusing to reveal sources for a PM series critical of the Veterans Administration. Deutsch argued he follows professional ethics and stood by press freedom despite Rankin's oath remark.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Veterans Administration
Albert Deutsch
Rankin
Mississippi
Deutsch
Unanimity or War at United Nations Confab
At the United Nations conference Britain and other Big Five powers resist veto reform. The debate in the security council procedure committee opened with New Zealand Australia and The Netherlands pressing for change while Sir Alexander Cadogan defended maintaining Big Five unanimity to avoid world war.
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San Francisco
Great Britain
World Organization
Britain
Security Council
Yalta
Graats
Conference Committee On Security Council
New Zealand
Australia
Netherlands
Weather Outlook Signals Cooler Night and Mild Change
The Weather Bureau forecasts a cooler night with a 10 to 15 degree drop and partly cloudy sky. A gradual change is expected by Tuesday or Wednesday with no rain in sight, keeping farmers hopeful despite recent unsettled conditions.
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Weather Bureau
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy with little temperature change today and tonight. Winds up to 35 mph. Saturday cooler with strong winds. West Texas partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday. Panhandle cooler Saturday with fresh to strong winds. New Mexico fair with little change. 20 to 30 mph winds this afternoon. Low tonight 50 to 60 degrees. high Saturday 80 to 90.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Jon
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