Truman Urges Prompt Ratification of United Nations Charter
President Truman urged the Senate to ratify the United Nations Charter as the sole path to enduring peace. He stressed U S leadership, referenced the Fulbright and Connally resolutions, and called for action to prevent future wars promote justice and uphold human rights worldwide. He warned the world watches and insists on prompt ratification.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Capitol
San Francisco
United Nations Conference
House
U.S
United States
Boy’s Camera Turns Into Bombsight Lenses Theft Clue
A 10-year-old shoeshine boy misidentified a camera he bought for 30 cents and led police to three of four Sperry bombsight lenses stolen from a truck last month. A man about 30 was seen discarding the lenses in a trash barrel. two teen youths reportedly bought them for 30 cents each. The thefts and the fourth lens whereabouts remain unresolved.
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Cleveland
Township Quota Sales Totals Reported for 7th Loan
The ledger lists township sales figures with Athens and Athens City leading totals. It shows individual townships such as Ames, Bern, Carthage, Dover, Rome, Troy, and York with varying amounts, culminating in a grand total of 1 016 000 00 and 788 990 94 in two columns and a percent of 77.6. The data reflects loan quota performance across municipalities.
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Alexander
Ames
Athens
Bern
Canaan
Carthage
Dover
See
Rome
Trimble
Troy
Waterloo
York
Athens City
Nelsonville
Governors Open 37th Conference With State-Centered Postwar Focus
Parley opened at Mackinac Island as Gov. Herbert D Maw of Utah, chairing the Governors Conference, argued the public opposes federal regulation after war and favors state-led reconversion with federal support. A UN Charter report by Comdr Harald E Stassen is set for tonight.
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Mackinac Island
Herbert D. Maw
Utah
Maw
Comdr
Harald £. Stassen
Minnesota
San Francisco
Ohio Legion Convention Cancelled for 1945
The Ohio American Legion announces no state convention this year marking the first cancellation in the group's history. The executive committee says the 1945 meeting is off due to a ban on conventions and will conduct elections and business in separate post and district meetings.
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Columbus
American Legion
Legion
Ohio Department
Destroyer Ingraham Survives Kamikaze Attack Off Okinawa
The destroyer Ingraham escaped a kamikaze strike north of Okinawa in May returning to Hunter's Point in San Francisco under her own power. She earned a marked reputation for action, aiding Morrison in battle and fending off seven suicide planes with six shot down.
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Okinawa
San Francisco
China Sea
Morrison
John D. Ingraham
Brink
USNR
San Diego
Calif
ASM
Hunter's Point
22Th Naval District
Oper
Ingrahams
Reich To Be Decentralized By Americans
American occupation leaders mapped a plan to decentralize Germany into several Lander as they move toward Berlin ahead of the Big Three meeting. The Second Armored Division led the advance with the 82nd Airborne to follow, taking control of regional German agencies in each district.
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Paris
Germany
U. S
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Frankfurt
Russia
Britain
France
United States
Western Reich
82Nd Airborne
Spectators riot at Negro ball game in Columbus stadium
A melee among hundreds of Black spectators at Red Bird Stadium during a Cincinnati Clowns versus Chicago American Giants game left one man shot and two deputies injured. Twelve deputies and 20 Columbus police responded. seven Black spectators were taken into custody.
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Columbus
Cincinnati Clowns
Chicago American Giants
Red Bird Stadium
Logan Livingston
Tokyo Reports Women Flying U S Aircraft
Tokyo radio claimed three American aircraft piloted by women were shot down over Kweilin China. The broadcast said the women wore outfits possibly designed by Walt Disney and noted their aerial technique was inferior, leading to their defeat by Japanese flak.
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London
Tokyo
Kweilin
China
Walt Disney
San Francisco
Nine Killed as B-29 Crashes in Severe Storm Near Mayfield KY
Brooklyn native A Elias survived a B 29 crash that killed nine crew members during a routine training flight 14 miles northeast of Mayfield Kentucky. Elias described a violent electrical storm and a loud explosion before the bomber disintegrated. He parachuted to safety with minor injuries as Col Frank Kirkland Field assessed no onboard fire.
British Sink Jap Cruiser Under American Control
The Navy reports a Haguro class Japanese cruiser sunk off Japan by a British submarine under U.S. command in the Southwest Pacific. U.S. submarines also report sinking 10 enemy vessels in Far Eastern waters. The Haguro cruiser carried 692 crew and 10 eight inch guns. total Japanese ships sunk by U.S. subs reach 1,163.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
U.S
Far
United States
Slayer of Girl Becomes Ohio Case in Murder Probe
Detroit police traced the murder of 25 year old Ethel Beavers to Ohio. Beavers, from Lat ham Ohio, was the estranged wife of Donald Berridge of Columbus. Det Harry O Brine said investigators sought Berridge and a tall dark man reported as her last visitor at the lodging house.
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Detroit
Ethel Beavers
Ohio
Nolice
Columbus
Harry O'Brine
Latham
Pike County
Donald Berridge
Berridge
Miss Beavers
Landlay
Byrnes Senate Approval Awaited Today for Secretary Nomination
Washington reports expect Senate approval today of James F Byrnes as secretary of state. The move would bring President Truman five cabinet officers of his choosing, with Byrnes poised to succeed Edward B Welch Jr after oath of office taken by prior appointees. Columbus column mentions a separate escape incident involving eleven boys aged 9 to 18 from a detention home.
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Washington
Senate
James F. Byrnes
Truman
Byrnes
Edward B. Jr
Tian
Columbus
Sees Closing Of Many Ohio Restaurants
Robert B. Williams of the Ohio Restaurant Association predicts about one fifth of state restaurants will close in two to three weeks due to food shortages. He cites OPA ration rules as the main cause and notes hotels and restaurants are cut to about half a housewife's food points.
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Columbus
Robert B. Williams
iOhio Restaurant Association
Williams
OPA
Approval of Draft Bill for Universal Military Training
A tentative House Postwar Military Committee report urges swift approval of the broad principle of peacetime universal military training for youths. The panel expects formal approval Thursday with limited dissent, arguing timely adoption signals U S strength and support for Dumbarton Oaks ideals and world security efforts.
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Washington
House
United Nations
Former Ohio Editor and Congressman Dies in Accident
Washington police report that Thomas Brooks Fletcher, 77, a former Ohio representative and editor of The Alliance Daily Leader and The Marian Daily Tribune, died after accidentally asphyxiating when a gas stove jet was left open while he fell from a ladder changing a light bulb at his apartment.
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Washington
Thomas Brooks Fletcher
Ohio
Congress
Fletcher
Alliance Daily Leader
Marian Daily Tribune
Couple Burn to Death When Auto Overturns in Ohio
Hamilton Ohio and Middletown residents Raleigh De Bolt 48 and Marguerite Master 49 were killed when their car overturned near midnight four miles north of Hamilton on Route 4. Coroner said the wreckage caught fire after a warning flare ignited it during repairs at the site.
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Hamilton
Raleigh de Bolt
Ohio
Marguerite Master
Middletown
Here
Edward Cooke
Route 4
Boat Upsets and Youth Drowns in Buckeye Lake
Columbus teen Robert Pratt, 17, drowned when a boat overturned in Buckeye Lake as high waves tipped the craft. Companions were rescued by conservation officers who searched for Pratt, who could not swim. Sheriff William McElroy reported the incident occurred yesterday.
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Newark
Robert Pratt
Columbus
Buckera Lake
William McElroy
Pratt
More Akron Tire Makers Join Strike
About 33 600 CIO United Rubber Workers in the tire industry idle as pickets patrol Firestone plants and Goodyear divisions continue a 16 day strike. Goodyear workers vote to extend the strike despite a War Labor Board threat to rescind action.
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AKRON
Cio-United Rubber
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Goodyear
War Labor Board
Labor Strikes Idle Thousands as Goodyear Firestone Tie Up Plants
Nationwide stoppages leave about 44 912 idle with 4 000 workers ready to resume as Goodyear and Firestone face hard bargaining. Union leaders blame management for inflexibility while draft orders cut deferments for striking workers and aim to keep key operations offline.
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Washington
Texas Company
Truman Signs OPA Measure
President Truman signed a bill extending price and stabilization controls for one year to avert a fiscal year end crisis. The action preserves OPA powers during reconversion and inflation concerns while new agriculture secretary Anderson gains veto authority over food pricing orders amid a conference committee review.
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Washington
Truman
Kansas City
OPA
Iruman
Clinton
Anderson
Senate House Conference Committee
Tangier International Status Restored To Former Authority
A State Department statement says Tangier, seized by Spain in 1999, will regain its former international status. Britain the United States and France will coordinate plans and inform Spain about steps to restore the status.
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Washington
Strategi
Jack Heintz Plants To Close for Vacations
Cleveland firm Jack and Heintz Inc. will suspend production for two weeks this month affecting about 8,100 workers. The decision aims to permit essential repairs and painting by skeleton crews after prior continuous operation since the war began.
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Jack Heintz
Cleveland
P— Jack and Heintz, Inc
Foreshing Precisions
Associates
Reconversion Program Shifts Into High Gear
The government speeds reconversion with scarce consumer goods to follow. Most long missing appliances will arrive months later with displays of demonstrator models. Officials foresee refrigerators by mid 1946 and other essentials phased in from late 1945 to 1946, as the War Production Board frees metal and scraps priorities for civilian needs.
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Washington
War Production Board
Fifalers
Fred M. Vinson
Congress
Japan Hit by Heaviest Air Blow of War
Australian veterans led by General MacArthur's forces landed at Balikpapan in Borneo after a detailed naval and air assault. About 600 Allied aircraft operations set multiple Japanese cities ablaze and forced a major advance on Balikpapan as Australian troops pushed inland through fortified defenses.
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Japan
Honshu
Kyushu
Kumamoto
Kyushi
Kure
Naval Base
Associated Press
MacArthur
Borneo
Balikapapan
Balikpapan
Balikypapanm
Avin
Superioris
Tokyo
Shimane
Moji
China
Formosa
Okinawa
Joseph W. Stilwell
Ness Corman
Tenth Army
Atiericott
Elite West Pacific
Allies Inch Toward Luzon as Japanese Losses Rise
Manila reports Allied advances reduce Japanese strength in the Philippines with total Japanese losses near 419,094 including 9,774 prisoners. MacArthur says Allies now dominate the Southwest Pacific after landings near Balikpapan Brunei Bay and northeast Borneo as air and naval assaults continue.
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Manila
Amerlcuis
Filipins
Hamilton Man Victim Of Own Burglar Trap
A Hamilton man was wounded when a burglar trap rigged by the homeowner injured him as he entered his house yesterday. Calvin Hat lacher was struck by the mechanism and sustained wounds to both legs.
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Hamilton
Hamiton
Calvin Hatlacher
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