Two Thousand American Planes Hit Jap Homeland War News
Two thousand carrier planes and Superforts bombed Japan as Pacific fleet reports a two day toll of 374 vessels and 129 locomotives destroyed or damaged. Naval bombardment of Hitachi area continues with heavy shelling on war industries. The Third Fleet actions include strategic air and sea attacks and claims of significant enemy losses.
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Associated Press
Japan
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Admiral Nimitz
Hitachi
Honshu
Towa
Nimitz
Tokyo
Europe
Manila
MacArthur
Thina
Third Fleet
Truman and Stalin Meet Before Potsdam Parley
Premier Stalin and President Truman confer with top aides at Potsdam lunch ahead of the Big Three talks. Molotov and Pavlov join the discussion as Land heads to Germany and Stimson Arnold join the conference scene. They plan to cover postwar issues from occupation to reconstruction and pacific affairs.
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Potsdam
Stalin
Truman
Little White House
Guberalissimo
Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Fruman
V. N. Pavlov
Pavlov
Molotov
Byrnes
Edison
William D. Leahy
Lad
Germany
Emory S. Land
U. S. Maritime Commission
United States
Henry L. Stimson
Henry H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Adm
Wiliam D. Leahy
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
Churchill
Berlin
Truck Tire Plant Expansions Cancelled in Ohio
The War Production Board announced 21 plant expansion projects for truck tire tubes, cancelled due to reduced demand from the armed forces. Ohio plants affected include Master Tire and Rubber Co Findlay Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co Dayton General Tire and Rubber Co Akron Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co Mansfield and Seiberling Rubber Co Barberton.
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Washington
War Production Board
Ohio
Master Tire and Rubber Co
Findlay
Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co
Dayton
General Tire and Rubber Co
Akron
Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co
Mansfield
Seiberling Rubber Co
Barberton
Truman's Guard for Conference Increases
Fifteen veterans from the 713th Military Police Battalion with the Second Armored Division join secret service agents as personal bodyguards for President Truman at the Forsdam Big Three conference. They are ordered to keep the President in sight from outdoors until he returns indoors. Police chase three escapees from Three Flee Farm Low-Been prison farm trusties who fled yesterday.
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Potsdam
713Th Military Police Battalion
Second Armored Division
Secret Service
Truman
Forsdam
Flee Farm
London
Union Pickets Demand Meat In Toledo Protest
Pickets marched before the District Office of Price Administration in Toledo to press for meat relief. Local 12 CIO United Auto Workers and president Melvin Schultz led a plan for all CIO locals to join, also opposing central board gasoline rationing for not providing 24 hour service to war workers.
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Toledo
District Office of Price Administration
Cio-United Automobile Workers
Melvin Schultz
CIO
Navy Plane Taxi 200 Miles on Rescue Flight
A Navy Dumbo twin engine seaplane taxied over 200 miles to Okinawa carrying six rescued Army airmen. It marked the longest taxiing flight by an amphibious seaplane. The crew was retrieved from a Mitchell bomber named Truck Lick after antiaircraft fire hit their aircraft over a Kyushu island airfield.
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Okinawa
Kyushu
Explosions Rock Berlin and Potsdam Amid Big Three Visit
Three blasts shook Berlin and Potsdam in the Soviet zone early today, rattling windows near the areas housing President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill during the Big Three conferences. Japanese and Korean POWs donated 4520.60 to the International Red Cross. Daniel Lowndale will dock in New York with 360 US troops from Europe.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Truman
Churchill
RED Cross
Saipan
Marianas
International Red Cross
New York
Daniel Lownadale
United States
Europe
Wiill
Labor unrest expands idle ranks across industries
Fresh labor disputes end a brief hiring revival as 12,464 more workers join idle rolls, boosting total to 39,123. Walkouts hit 5 industries and key sites including Pennsylvania Shipyards Beaumont Texas and Warren telephone operations. Also reports of coal mine strikes in Illinois Kentucky Pennsylvania and San Francisco shipyard repair disruptions. A Cleveland War Labor Board meeting seeks a temporary return-to-work agreement for Warren operators and Packard GM workers in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Greene County fair rules limit attendance and exhibits to county borders.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Beaumont
Tex
Metal Trades Council
AFL
San Francisco
A. P. Bartholomew
AFL Bay City Metal Trades Council
Springfield
Ill
John Marchiando
Progressive Mine Workers
Kentucky
Joseph
Finch and Company Distilleries
Schenley
Alley
W. Va
Republic Steel Company
Chicago
War Labor Board
Cleveland
Warren Telephone Co
Warren
WLE
Newton Falls
Ci0
Packard Electric Division
General Motors Corp
WLB
Ohio Group Will Replant Strip-Mine Scarred Area
A newly formed Ohio Reclamation Association plans rapid reforestation of strip mine lands. Alan R. Davidson of North American Coal Corp elected president. The group aims to produce timber for deep mining and restore land value near coal operations in Ohio. Charles McIntire to supervise plantings. offices to be in St. Clairsville.
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Ohio Group
Columbus
Ohio Reclamation Association
Alan R. Davidson
North American Coal Corporation
Cadiz
Ohio Reclamation Committee
Davidson
Ohio
R. L. Ireland
Hanna Coal &Co
United States
Charles McIntire
US Forestry Service
St. Clairsville
Food shortages endure says Frank federal official
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson warned Americans that food shortages will persist through 1943 and into next year. He cited limited production gains, ongoing distribution efforts to curb black markets, and the need to reduce military and relief demands while seeking additional supplies in South America. Milk was the lone bright spot amid continuing deficits in meals fats oils sugar condensed milk canned goods and many crops.
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Washington
Anderson
Derson
South America
Truman names Snyder as assistant president of war mobilization
President Truman nominates John W. Snyder a 49 year old banker from Arkansas and Missouri as director of war mobilization and reconversion to oversee civilian participation and the transition to peacetime. Snyder, a RFC official and former Defense Plant Corporation leader, will supervise government agencies and issue decrees on mobilization.
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Washington
John W. Snyder
Arkansas
Missouri
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Senate
Vinson
Treasury
Snyder
Anyder
RFC
Defense Plant Corporation
Baby Arrives in Family Coupe at Hospital Door
Mrs. Charles Wright of Wilmington welcomed a baby daughter at Mt. Carmel Hospital entrance last night. A twin daughter followed 39 minutes later in the delivery room. Both newborns and mother were reported in excellent condition.
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Columbus
Charles Wright
Wilmington
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Grange Master of Ohio Seeks Sugar Increase
Columbus report says Joseph W. Fichter master of the Ohio State Grange appealed to OPA Administrator Chester Bowles for an immediate rise in home canning sugar allotments. He warned fruit was being wasted due to insufficient canning sugar, urging action to avert losses.
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Columbus
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State, Grange
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chester Bowles
Fichter
Meat Stamp Monopolist Is Held to Grand Jury
CLEVELAND John R. Coxey of Massillon age 32 bound over to federal grand jury on a charge of possession and sale of 35000 meat ration stamps. Coxey released under 1500 bond by acting U S commissioner F A Horn. KILLED BY TRUCK YOUNGSTOWN Teddy four year old son of fire Capt Homer Whittenberger was killed yesterday by delivery truck.
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Cleveland
John R. Coxey
Massillon
Coxey
U.S
F. A. Horn
Youngstown —I
Teddy
Homer Whittenberger
Under Fire Bid Seeks Vacancy of Carter Glass Seat
John Locke Green of Arlington county, treasurer, threatens to seek to declare vacant the Virginia Senate seat held by 87 year old Carter Glass. Green says Glass has not answered a Senate roll call in over three years due to illness.
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Senate
Carter Glass
Virginia
John Locke Green
Arlington
Green
Glass
Infant Victim Of Beating by Grandmother
The two year old Sandra Lee McCann died after injuries from a spanking by her grandmother Anne Duffey. The child’s father Pvt Lawrence McCann was killed in Italy in 1943. Mother Roberta Dufficy McCann was hospitalized for shock. Grandmother Duffey was jailed on murder charges. Autopsy found a broken neck and cerebral hemorrhage.
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Medina
John Duffiey
Sandra Lee McCann
Sandra
Pvt
Lawrence McCann
Italy
Roberta Dufficy McCann
Anne JE. Duffey
Fred Jack
World's Largest Plane Exhibited In Sections Hercules
In Culver City California the Hercules, the world’s largest airplane, was previewed in sections. Built at the Howard Hughes plant, the massive craft cost over 20 million dollars, weighs 425000 pounds, spans 320 feet, hull 220 feet long, 30 feet high, 25 feet wide, with eight engines of 3000 horsepower. Base line capacity 14000 gallons. Sponsor U S Defense Plant Corporation.
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Culver City
Calif
Howard Hughes
U. S. Defense Plant Corporation
65 000 Needed For Western Railroad Jobs
Washington urgent call as seven western railroads seek 65 000 workers immediately to move men and supplies to the Pacific. War Manpower Commission allows qualified workers in 22 occupations to be referred without availability certificates. President Truman urged citizens to fill vacant posts. railroads estimate about 100 000 total jobs across western lines must be filled to keep rail service efficient.
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Washington
Pacific
Lisganiadeed
Truman
Association of American Railroads
Fire Destroys Lake Steamer at Point Edward
The 360 foot Great Lakes passenger liner Hamonic carrying 255 passengers was destroyed by fire. Many injured and burned, but officials say no lives lost. all aboard reportedly scrambled to safety as fire from the 1,000 foot long freight docks at Point Edward spread to the vessel with docks leveled. American and Canadian firefighters battled flames ashore and aboard.
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Sarnia
Strikers Return to Work at East Ohio Mines
In Bellaire 48 miners returned to work at Welch mines after a walkout sparked by the firing of three miners for participating in a prior stoppage. Union officials say the earlier strike protested working Memorial Day without overtime pay. mine officials note no Ohio mines paid extra for the holiday.
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Bellaire
Welch
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Young Canton Mother Files Divorce Action
A 16 year old mother Mrs Chester W Salsbury of Alliance filed for divorce from Chester W Salsbury of Indianapolis in common pleas court. Her mother Mrs Clara Early sues for extreme cruelty, seeking alimony and custody of a nine month old son. Catholic Party cabinet resignations announced in Belgium amid government turmoil over the throne.
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Canton
Chester W. Salsbury
Alliance
Indianapolis
Ind
Common Pleas Court
Clara Early
Ebrussels
Leoptlii VII
Veterans Arrive Manila After Pacific War Voyage
Four thousand nine hundred seventy five veterans from Africa Sicily and Italy land at Manila docks after a month long voyage from Italy. They populate the Fifth Army services from railway work to ordnance, bridge repair, and destroyers to picket craft amid reports of sunk freighters and damaged ships. Sixty plus aircraft failed to return and some ships taken by Japanese carrier attacks during harsh weather.
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Manila
Pacific War Zone
Europe
Italy
Africa
Sicily
Healy
Fifth Army
Japan
Wipponese
Kakkaido Island
Honshu
Mighty Allied Air Raid Strikes Tokyo Network
Allied forces under Admiral Halsey launched a major dawn assault against Tokyo area air bases and industrial centers on Honshu and Kyushu. Bomber and fighter units damaged or destroyed dozens of targets, with Japanese resistance subdued as Nagoya and Iwo Jima clashes produced heavy losses for Nippon.
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Sea Armala
Japan
Tokyo
Admiral Halsey
Hirohito
Halsey
Mikado's
Honshu
Hiratsuka
Asenal
Numazu
Armaments
Kumania
Oila
Kyushu
Nagoya
Hong Kong
China
Propaganda leaflets drop as Asia battles widen across front
War report details massive propaganda drops against Japan while Chinese forces push into Mon cay and Kawei jin area. Japanese supply lines disrupted. Luichow and Hainan communications cut. Australian patrols push through Borneo toward Sambodja oil field as Tokyo warns of Makassar Strait invasion. Manila reports 2000 Luzon natives massacred in reprisal.
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Superferts
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Moncay
Gulf of Tonking
Hanoi
Kweilin
South China U. S
Kaweijin
Luichow
Hainan Island
Tinpak
Borneo
Prizgl Sambodja
Tokyo
Dutch East Indies
Radio Tokyo
Makassar Strait
Celches
King Ternate Island
Philippines
Luzon
Dynamite Laden Truck Recovered on Cleveland Streets
A truck carrying dynamite was left on a West Side street corner for five days while the driver tried to reconcile with his wife. Police, alerted, guarded the vehicle until a relief driver appeared, preventing a potential disaster near Waterville. In another item, a conspiracy trial opens in Battle Creek as four Detroit men face charges in the Warren G Hooper case.
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Cleveland
Hercules Fonder
Waterville
Inday
Wiley Wast
Battle Creek
Mich
Detroit
Warren G. Hooper
Senate panel seeks restrictions on Bretton Woods plan
Senate minority group moves to limit the Bretton Woods framework with amendments. Thomas proposes a gold coin and silver use for the fund, aiming at a $6.9 billion subscription and currency stabilization, while Taft and Millikan push delaying tactics amid White House talks.
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Senate
Waashington
UPI
Bretton Woods
Thomas
D-Okla
Murdock
Utah
Treasury
White House
Bewarican
Taft
Oho
Millikan
Colorado
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Greene County
Frank
Grange Master of
Leipzig
Baillie-Grohman
Kid Harbor
Baille-Grohman
England
Western Railroad
East Ohio
Young Canton
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