Loss of Asia Conceded by Jap Leaders
New Delhi AP dispatch reports Japanese forces withdraw across Southern Asia, signaling a likely Allied advance this fall and winter. The Hengyang Corridor closing in China suggests garrisons in French Indochina could not escape, while Burma sees scattered units retreating eastward toward Thailand and Borneo comes under intense Australian and American assault.
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Preston Grover
NEW Delhi
Asia
Hengyang
China
Burma
Thailand
Borneo
Japan Defeated Seen By U S Admiral In 1945 Outlook
Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey predicted a Japanese defeat by next summer with American invasion forces free to land anywhere. He cited Southeast Asia Command assigning reconquest of Sumatra Malaya and Singapore. Chinese forces reported capture of Tayu in Kiangsi Province cutting Japanese links to Kunching and Indochina. Balikpapan and Pandansari district fighting in Borneo showed Allied advances as Australian troops engaged near Manggar Airfield.
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San Francisco
Japan
Adm
Daniel E. Barbey
Seventh
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Sumatra
Malaya
Singapore
Lec
Tayu
Wolfrare
Kiangsi
Canton
U. S
Kanhsien
Kukong
Hankow
Kuo Chi-Caih
Indo-China
South China
Liuchow Peninsula
Balikpapan Bay
Southeast Borneo
Balikpapan
MacArthur
Manila
Pandansari
Seventh Division
Manggar
French to vote on constitution in general election
Paris reports that France will ballot on October 14 to decide whether to discard the 1875 constitution and end the Third Republic. General de Gaulle’s council of ministers set the election and limited the tenure of the provisional government.
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Paris
France
General de Gaulle
Council of Ministers
Two Welders Die in Cincinnati Tank Trailer Explosion
In Cincinnati two welders, Stanley G. Frondort 26 and John D. Clancy 35, partners in a welding business, were killed while repairing a tank trailer when fumes ignited by an acetylene torch flame. Police identified the victims and noted the fatal accident occurred at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
James Finan Saiqi
Stanley G. Frondort
John D. Clancy
Federal Labor Board Calls in Ohio's Strikers
The War Labor Board intervened in two Ohio labor disputes involving about 23,000 workers in Akron and Toledo. Eight leaders from the 16,500 CIO United Rubber Workers at Firestone plants in Akron face potential consequences for a 10 day strike, while 6,500 CIO United Automobile Workers in Toledo could be ordered to end a five day walkout at Spicer Manufacturing. The actions stem from protests over worker discharges and are tied to board orders and eligibility issues.
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Columbus
War Labor Board
Ohio
Akron
Ron
Breaking Deadlock Over FEPC Measure Urged in Congress
Washington House leaders press a record vote to break a month old FEPC stalemate. An afternoon session was set to consider a $752 million war agencies supply bill blocked by a Senate funded $250,000 for the Fair Employment Practice Committee. In other news, 818 European Jews were shipped from German camps to Haifa via UNRRA and SHQ arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
FEPC
House Appropriations Committee
Jari Spose
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Break in Marion kidnapping case seen
Marion AP report says authorities expect a break in the disappearance of seven day old Jean Eileen Creviston. Police Chief William Marks notes the father Tech Sergeant John L Crevis ton is not responsible. Creviston questioned with officials after returning to Lockbourne Army Air Base. A diaper was found on a 400 acre tract as 42 bicycle patrols searched near a west side home.
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Marion
Jean Eileen Creviston
Marion Society
Mwwilalcu Iuay
Gus Buull
Marks
Tech
John L. Creviston
Eighth Air Force
Creviston
Lockbourne Army Air Base
Columbus
Army
Fostoria
Jean Eileen
Cribe
Marion City Hospital
West Side
City Hospital
Five German Prisoners Hanged at Kansas Prison
Five German prisoners of war from Rommel's Afrika Korps were executed at the U S Disciplinary Barracks Ft Leavenworth in a first in U S military history. Convicted January 25 1944 for the murder of Johannes Kunze at Tonkawa Oklahoma. Executions conducted in German uniforms.
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Kansas Prison
Robert Otex
Leavenworth
Kas
Ap)s
U.S
United States
Camp Gruber
Okla
Johannes Kunze
Tonkawa
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Walter Beyer
Berthold Seidel
Hans Demme
Hans Schomer
Willi Scholz
Kunze Wass
Slaim
Beyer
Shoe Supplies To Be Greater For Civilian Use
The Sole Leather Bureau of the Tanners Council of America estimates a monthly rise of about 3,000,000 pairs of civilian shoes with leather soles and uppers after army cutbacks. The bureau ties the gain to reduced army shoe requirements and anticipates a looser rationing outlook, with army purchases cut about 4.34 percent on August 81 and lend lease shipments of military footwear also trimmed.
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New York
The
Tanners Council of America
New Drives On To Open Black Markets
Washington IPI says new government crackdowns on food black markets loom from three directions. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson will join forces with OPA to close gaps. the House Food Investigating Committee vows to expose illicit operations. Anderson seeks to equalize meat distribution and extend poultry procurement beyond Delaware Maryland and Virginia to ease eastern state burdens.
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Washington
IPI
Clinton P. Anderson
OPA
House Food Investigating Committee
Anderson
Chester Bowles
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Warns Japs To Quit Before Wrangle Opens
Washington based Office of War Information broadcasts an argument by David Lawrence urging unconditional surrender before the Far East situation is complicated by other powers. Lawrence, Washington publisher and columnist, replies to a Tokyo broadcast by Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the last Japanese ambassador to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of War Information Today
Japan
David Lawrence
Far East
Lawrence
Kichisaburo Nomura
United States
Rescue of Yanks to be attempted at Greenland outpost
Coast Guard cutter to attempt evacuation of 11 American soldiers trapped at Skjoledungen outpost in Greenland this month. They have been supplied by air since January 8 after a massive snowslide buried stores and all but one building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narsarssuak
Greenland
Eugene Rice
Greenland Base Command
Coast Guard
Skjoledungen
Idaho Governor Gossett Visits Ohio After Mackinac Trip
Idaho Governor Charles Gossett, a Highland County native who left Hillsboro last night after a weekend visit with friends and relatives, stopped in Ohio following attendance at a governors conference on Mackinac Island. He lived in Highland County until age 18 and spent time in the area during the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Charles Gossett
Idaho
Highland County
Gossett
Mackinac Island
West Virginia Youth Held in Horse Theft
EAST LIVERPOOL A Chester West Virginia youth Forrest W Baker faced grand jury action on horse theft after a municipal court arraignment. Bond was set at 1500 dollars for stealing a saddle horse. nearby Sheffield death of Rev Bertha Jingling Harris aged 78 ordained minister who preached in 39 states.
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East Liverpool
Forrest W. Baker
Chester
W. Va
Lorain
Bertha Jingling Harris
U.S
Sheffield
Air Force of Japs Struck In New Blow
Allied air forces led a large carrier backed strike on Tokyo area targets and western Japan, aiming to cripple air power and fuel supplies. U S planes hit Nagoya Osaka area and Kyushu with B 29s, fighters, and rockets while more than 1 000 aircraft attacked Tokyo airfields and industrial sites.
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Guam
Japan
Tokyo
Adm
John 5
McCain
Nagoya-Osaka
Kyushu
Yokkaichi
Osaka
Sendai
Admiral Halsey
21St Bomber Command
Marianas
Kyo Aanea S
Iwo Juma
Osaka- Kobe
Okinawa
Nippon Sangyo Keizai
Wanayama
Gifu
Saka
Atsube
Tokkaichi
Fifth Air Force
Formosa
Associated Press
Spencer Davis
Manila
Army Forces of the Pacific
Wakayang
O. S. Army Air Forces
Grpan
Better Treatment of Prisoners Is Reported
An American flyer Wesley Warner says improvements in Japanese prisoner treatment began last February amid wartime reporting on Manila atrocities. The convoy pilot from the 10th Air Force notes a shift reflecting Japanese realization of possible defeat. Jerome Negius, Clark County prosecutor, seeks new trial after bribery conviction tied to a Rambling house operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wesley Warner
10Th
Air Force Liberator
Manila
Springfield
A ‘Negius
Clark County
Jas
Overseas Duty Arranged for All Army Men
The Army fixes May 1 as the deadline to fulfill President Truman’s pledge for overseas sea duty. A War Department order directs ground and air forces to assign all qualified officers and men who have not yet had six months abroad, prioritizing under 36s, as veterans return. Exemptions cover families with two or more missing, prisoners, or killed members.
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Washington
Army
Truman
Congress
GET Seas
War Department
Strikers Shut Off Gas Supply in WV and KY
William Wonsettler of the CIO Oil and Gas Workers Union announced a strike entering effect early today. Limited Fuel Gas Company shut off supplies in some areas and halted pumping plants in West Virginia and Kentucky at midnight. Huntington and Ashland areas were fully cut off while Southern West Virginia and parts of Ohio retain limited flow.
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Charleston
W. Va
William Wonsettler
CIO Oil and Gas Workers Union
Limited Fuel Gas Company
Wansettler
West Virginia
Kentucky
Huntington
Ashland
Ohio
Charge Waste of Meat By Seamen at Norfolk
Norfolk dealers allege ships entering Hampton Roads dump thousands of pounds of meat overboard to stock fresh meat in port. A steamship firm manager denies the claim as L J Smith wick, a local meat dealer, speaks out.
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Norfolk
L. J. Smithwick
Hampton Roads
Parts of Both Legs Arms Lost by Kentucky Soldier
Battle Creek Mich The first and only war casualty at Percy Jones General Hospital is Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel of Corbin Kentucky who lost both legs above the knees and his left arm above the elbow on Okinawa June 2 after stepping on a Japanese land mine. Despite efforts his forearm was amputated and he hopes to walk on artificial limbs and use new arms. He expects to celebrate his 27th birthday August 3 and their third wedding anniversary August 12.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Percy Jones General Hospital
Frederic Hensel
Corbin
Okinawa
Jewell Hensel
Hensel
Bastion
Halsey Leads Massive Pacific Air Raid on Tokyo
Admiral William F. Bull Halsey returns to the Western Pacific with the Third Fleet for a thousand-plane raid on Tokyo. About 2,000 American planes swept over Japan in the heaviest air strike of the Pacific war, unseen opposition reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halsey
Tokyo
Pacific
Guam
William F
Bull) Halsey
Western Pacific
Japan
Allied Carrier Fleet Launches Major Surprise Assault on Tokyo
The Third Fleet under Vice Admiral McCain launched a dawn surprise strike on Tokyo after a weekend of relentless raids on Japan. Admiral Nimitz announced the operation naming key admirals and ships as 1,000 planes prepared to strike from four carriers and supporting vessels.
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Mikado
Adm
John S. McCain
Third Fleet
Tokyo
Nimitz
Atttack
Jagrar
Tokyo Airfields Wrecked Norman Paige
American Broadcasting Company reports from a battleship off Tokyo describe widespread damage as hundreds of aircraft strike a web of about 80 Tokyo area airfields and other targets over a 2400 square mile area. Domei News Agency notes 800 carrier planes in waves while Japanese defenses mount a strong response. Commanders include Halsey McCain Sprague and Nimitz lists Lexington Essex Independence San Jacinto Indiana Massachusetts South Dakota Iowa and cruisers Chicago San Juan Springfield Atlanta with 14 destroyers.
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Norman Paige
American Broadcasting Company
Tokyo
Paige
Domei
Halsey
McCain
Nimitz
Adm
T. L. Sprague
Lima
Lexington
Essex
Independence
San Jacinto
Indiana
Massachusetts
South Dakota
Iowa
Chicago
San Juan
Springfield
Atlanta
Six Perish in Severe Storm in Lehigh Valley
Phillipsburg reports at least six dead after an electrical storm sweeps the Lehigh Valley last night. Four unidentified victims die as houses collapse amid rising Delaware River waters and a landslide. One death each in Bethlehem and Allentown. Over 25 Girl Scouts stranded at a camp near Easton. Crops destroyed and several war plants forced to shut down.
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Phillipsburg
Lehigh Valley
Delaware River
Bethlehem
Allentown
Easton
Britain asked to help in Pacific war by American leader
In House remarks Allen D. Trey of Lab urged Truman and the American people to press Britain to fulfill promises to aid in the Japanese war. He claimed no British foot soldier has yet landed in the Pacific theater and demanded Britain do her part.
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Washington
Trey
Allen D-Lab
The
House Today
Truman
Great Britain
Allen
Britain
Big Wheat Harvest From Tecumseh Project Seen In 1946
A six year harvest program begun in 1940 by Perry Hayden aims for a 5097 bushel crop on July 21, with a Dynamic Kernels plan predicting a 100000 bushel harvest in 1946. The scheme replants each year's yield, reserving a 10 percent tithe to the Tecumseh Friends Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh, Mich
Perry Hayden
Tecumseh Friends
Columbus Men Fined In Gas Coupon Case
In Columbus a group of men connected to a gasoline ration coupon theft were jailed and fined in federal court. Samuel Pratt, 61, received a four month sentence and a $1,090 fine. Russell Fou, 38, was sentenced to four months and fined $500. The stamps were recovered from a city garbage incinerator after being stolen and burned.
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Columbus
Tan Calumet
Mell G. Andersand
Samuel Pratt
Jal
Russell Fou
Brothers killed in Piketon auto train collision
Carl Carson aged 66 and his brother Samuel Carson aged 73, both of Piketon, were killed yesterday in a collision between a car and a train near Piketon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waverly
Carl Carson
Samuel Carson
Piketon
Fight Taps Copenhagen GP War Volunteers Tie to Jagan
The Newspaper Extrabladet reports at least 3 000 Tranish volunteers head east to fight Jagan, signaling a major mobilization in the conflict and underscoring international volunteer involvement in the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Extrabladet
Jagan
Congress Approves Commission for Treaty Greene Ville Anniversary
The House and Senate passed legislation creating a commission to arrange a celebration for the 15th anniversary of the Treaty of Greene Ville. Negotiated at Fort Greene Ville, Ohio, the treaty with General Anthony Wayne opened western expansion for the colonists.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treaty of Greene Ville
White House
Anthony Wayne
Fort Greene Ville
Ohio
Greenville
Three Ohioans Help To Take Enemy Officers Near Davao
Three Ohioans in the 24th Division near Davao Philippines joined an infantry squad that mowed down two Japanese army officers and three Imperial Navy officers, all decorated. The squad, including Sei. Alexander Ristich of McDonald, Wrumhull County, bagged the party on a trail north of Davao. Ristich said the squad needed only a colonel of the Japanese Navy to complete the score.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davao
Phu
Imperial Navy
Sei
Alexander Ristich
McDonald
Wrumhull County
Ristich
Jap Naevies
Floating hotels declared surplus to wartime needs
Several former servicemen wing quarters labeled surplus include three floating hotels with electric refrigerators showers and other amenities. One vessel sits at Paint Pleasant West Virginia another near Cincinnati. Government sale plans aim to dispose of the assets for reuse.
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Paint Pleasant
W.va
Cineinnmnaty
Soldier admits impulse to shoot Germans at Utah POW camp
Fort Douglas reports Pvt. Clear anes Vo Bertuccit of New Orleans confessed to firing on eight German prisoners at the Sabina Utah War prisoner camp. The incident left twenty others wounded and Bertuccit was confined in a mental ward under guard at the hospital.
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Clarence V. Bertucci
New Orleans
Salina
Utah
Fort Douglas
Ielde
Rediner
Angers
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Haifa
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UNRRA
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Ingol
Chungking
Norg Kong
Mar
Hina
Shonghei
Kimangst
Etarakan
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Chine
Wen
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