Size of Army Dispute May Be Put Up to Truman to Decide
Washington reports a clash over the war army size for a one front war against Japan. Senators Johnson and Taft criticize demobilization pace while Pepper and Thomas back Secretary of War Sumsah retaining about 7,000,000 in uniform. Leaders argue the commander in chief and Army General Staff should decide.
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Truman
Washington
Japan
Capitol Hill
Johnson
Cale
Taft
Ohio
War Department
Pepper
D-Fla
Thomas
Utah
Military Committee
Sumsah
War and Navy Departments
Senate
Colorado
Army General Staff
Tait
More Clothing for Children to Appear in Stores Shortly
Washington reports that a surge of low cost children’s garments is due next month under the War Production Board program. Production targets 43,000,000 essential items by September, focusing on infants and small children to meet birth rate needs. Standards for yardage and workmanship accompany the effort.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPBE
Mars Lost in Crash Landing In Chesapeake
A 212 ton Hawaii Mars flying boat crash landed in Chesapeake Bay at Rock Hall Maryland injuring one crew member. The Navy ordered 20 aircraft from Glenn Martin Co. Production halts and a wage dispute with Local 674 of the Automobile Workers union accompany the accident. A strike began Friday with 400 workers protesting layoffs.
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Rock Hall
Hawaii
Wright
Nautical Corporation
Unit-!mediately
Automobile Workers
CIG
Trol
Cleveland
Charg
William E. Coney
Navy Flyer
Martin
James McNamara
Coujuhe
Hejates
Water Union
William Strieder
Hamilton County Sheriffs
C. Taylor Handman
Wright Plant
Court To Rule On Jobs Issue
The Federal District court is asked to decide if returning serviceman Nicholas Fano can regain his old position, which would displace a more senior worker. Timken Roller Bearing Co of Canton sues CIO United Steelworkers over reassigning veterans under union contracts and selective service rules.
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Cleveland
Federal District Court
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Canton
Cio-United Steely ‘Orkers
Nicholas Fano
Fano
Huntington Bridge May Be Freed by New Law
Huntington bridge on the Ohio River could be freed from tolls in 1947 under a new law allowing federal share in state bridge purchases. Road Commissioner Ernest L. Bailey stated no action until the Legislature allocates funds for the state share.
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Huntington Bridge
Charleston
W. Va
Ohio River
Huntington
West Virginia
Ernest L. Bailey
Bailey
Ohio Girl Burned as Hula Skirt Flares
CHILLICOTHE Constanre Hafer seven daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Hafer was burned seriously Sunday when her grass hula skirt caught fire as she played at a resort outing.
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Chillicothe
Constanre Hafer
Albert Hafer
Famine Fears voiced in Bengal amid monsoon shortfall
In Calcutta officials warn of possible famine as Bengal faced low rainfall. Opposition leaders in the Bengal assembly say the monsoon failed to replenish crops and that the next three weeks will determine if yields meet needs after 31.5 million died of hunger in 1943.
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Calcutta
Bengal
Bengal Assembly
Young Mother Is Held In Death of Infant
Akron dispatch reports Mrs. Gladys Lopez, 25, of Copley, is charged with first degree murder in the death of her two year old son. Deputy Sheriff Sam Keene says she confessed to shooting the child, then slashing her wrists and taking poison.
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London
Paris
Rene Pleven
France
Wintex
Pleven
United States
Akron
Gladys
Lopez
Copley
Sam Keene
Loyalty of Petain Attested by French Diplomat
Pierre Merillon, former Madrid envoy, telegraphed from Paris that Marshal Petain shows perfect patriotism and loyalty to France. The telegram was read amid Petain’s treason trial proceedings at the San Francisco Conference.
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Paris
Marshal Petain
San Francisco
France
Pierre Merillon
Madrid
Petain
Storm Did It Washington Hornet Hit By Typhoon Damage
The Navy reports the aircraft carrier Hornet suffered deck damage from a 120 knot gale on June 5 while near Okinawa. She sailed to Hunters Point San Francisco for repairs after returning through the Golden Gate on July 7. Hornet claims include sinking or damaging 1,270,000 tons of enemy shipping and 1,410 enemy planes, with 668 planes shot down and 742 destroyed on the ground.
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Washington
Navy
Hunter's Point
San Franciscon Bay
Golden Gate
Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Takanabe
Soerataja
Java
Borneo
Kweilin
China
Carthage
Kanhsien
Lidice
Little Boy with Scissors Dies in Home Accident
In Waukegan Illinois 3 year old Tommy Hovey asked for scissors to cut flowers. His mother Mrs Elmer Hovey warned him to be careful. A short time later she found him on the back steps with a fatal neck wound. He died thirty minutes after at a hospital.
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Waukegan, III
Tommy ‘Hovey
Elmer Hovey
Tommy
Ohio Plants Get Boosted Refrigerator Quotas
War Production Board announced increases for four Ohio factories including Westinghouse Electric Corp Springfield and Mansfield plants. Total refrigerator quota for the rest of this year and early 1946 set at 1,555,000 units as industry resumes consumer production despite sheet steel shortages.
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Washington
Ohio
War Production Board
WPB
Ghio
Springfield
Mansfield
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Mrs. Gillilan Former Athens Teacher Dies
Funeral services for Kitty Hoisington Gillilan were held in Columbus. A native of Ames Townsmp Athens County, she taught in Athens city schools years ago and later lived in Columbus. Widow of Dr. E. E. Gillilan, she is survived by daughter Mrs. Jay Bowser of Columbus and two grandsons in military service. Edith Ellis of near Athens is a niece.
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Kitty Hoisington Gillilan
Ames
Athens County
Columbus
Gillilan
Athens City
Gillan
E. E. Gillilan
Amesville
Jay Bowser
Train Derailment Shakes Kirwan Group En Route Seward
Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown was aboard a three car train carrying lawmakers to Seward when it derailed. Minor injuries reported and investigation opened.
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Ancruraue
Alaska
Michael J. Kirwan
Youngstown
Seward
Cleveland War Workers To Go on Short Week
The War Manpower Commission granted 41 hour schedules for all employees at Jack and Heintz Inc plant, cutting from 55 hours. The Hamburg radio reported Schieura refinery near Han never resumed production after bombing, with firms rebuilding and shifting to shorter work weeks.
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Cleveland War Workers
London
Hamburg
Schieura
Han
Cleveland
William S. Tuck
Jahco “Associates
iManpower Commission
Fire Bombs of Yanks Destroy Big Plant Area
GUAM reports Tokyo radio claims B 29 raids on smaller cities aimed to massacre civilians. Japanese efforts focus on Toyama aluminum hub. China endures ground actions while Pacific fronts push toward remaining Japanese forces in New Guinea.
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Guam
Tokyo Radio
Toyama
Poe Sea
China
Philippines
New Guinea
Burma
Foe of World Court Dies at Capital Today
Washington report on the death of Hiram W. Johnson 79 a veteran California Republican who first joined Congress in 1916 and helped block the League of Nations covenant and the world court while influential in state reforms and progressive policies.
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Washington
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Senate
Leslie W. Biffle
Congress
Wilson
United States
World Court
Johnson
Truman's Ship Nearing Port on East Coast
President Truman neared the United States east coast aboard the USS Augusta returning from Potsdam. The ship held 26 knots for much of the journey and will dock at an eastern port early in the week before Truman continues to Washington by train.
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Augusta
President Truman
United States
Mr. Truman
Washington
Atomic Bombs Bring War to Close in Japan
Washington AP reports the United States Army Air Force released an atomic bomb with power surpassing 20 000 tons of TNT. President Truman calls it harnessing the basic power of the universe and notes 65 000 workers in secret bomb plants with $2 billion spent. Massive incendiary raids followed on Nishinomiya Imabari Maeashi Saga and Ube as Tokyo warns civilians to flee. Tokyo and Osaka areas faced continued air attacks with P-51 Mustangs and B 29 formations targeting industrial cities including Toyama Maebashi and Honshu coastal sites.
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Washington
United States Army Air Force
Nishinomiya
Imabari
Maeashi
Saga
Ube
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
Japan
Huntly
Spaatz
Toyama
Honshu
Japan Sea
U.S. Strategic Air Forces
Guam
Tenshu
Osaka
Takasaki
Shi- Ihukawa
Maebashi
Tokyo Radio
Wakasa Bay
Harimra Sea
Osaka Bay
Sea of Japan
Strategic Air Forces
Eilies
Nishianmisa
Ninpon
Maehishi
Tokyo Saga
Horehi Island
Imbati
War Labor Board finds Ohio firms violated wage caps
Vice Chairman O W L Coffin of the War Labor Board announced findings against three Ohio companies for paying wages beyond plant ceilings. In Marietta Remington Raii paid excessive wages in 46 jobs, totaling $35,000, with no prior approval. A separate drowning report notes 14 year old Harry Crysel, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Crysel, drowned in a water filled gravel pit.
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Cleveland
La7
O.W.L. Coffin
Regional War Labor Board Today
Ohio
Remington Raii
Ind
Marietta
Hamilton
Harry Crysel
Paul Crysel
Stalin Opens Potsdam Door to Mediterranean Rise for Russia
Washington dispatch reports Stalin at Potsdam signaled potential Soviet emergence as a Mediterranean power. Italy’s Pantelleria and a proposed international trusteeship for the Adriatic are central, with Moscow pushing for access to German shipping and expansion of the Red fleet alongside a plan for a chain of international bases in the region.
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Washington
W.jas
Mediterranean
Potsdam
Council of Foreign Ministers
Italy
Pantelleria
Malta
Russia
Treste
Adriatic
Stalin
Atom Bomb Now Falling Upon Japan
Six Japanese war centers were hit by 680 Superfortresses and Mustang fighters in a second strike in five days. Airmen reported at least four targets reduced to ashes as the vastly overwhelming attack extended from Tokyo toward Kyushu and left Japan unable to respond effectively.
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Guam
Imperial Palace
Tokyo
Kyushu
Japan
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