Truman Presides as Big Three Meet In Potsdam
President Truman assumes the role of presiding officer for the Potsdam conference. He meets separately with Churchill and Stalin, with Byrnes present on the Stalin visit. The first joint communique notes preparation by the foreign secretaries and possible repeated closed meetings.
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Potsdam
Truman
Churchill
Stalin
James F. Byrnes
Japan
Europe
Pacific
U. S
Berlin
United Kingdom
United States of America
Soviet Union
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Joe Stalin
Josef Stalin
Presideny
Winston Churchill
Jobs for Discharged Officers Catalogued
The US Employment Service, facing the challenge of placing discharged officers after the war, is compiling a list of more than 400 executive and supervisory positions that may be available in Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Franco Signals Return of Spain to Monarchy
Generalissimo Francisco Franco declared he acts as head of government while awaiting a monarchic restoration. He offered Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, the throne as a path to a national syndicalist state. Also reported: Jesse R. Walters, 69, died at home in Hamden. Marie Lashley, 16, drowned while bathing in the Muskingum River at Zanesville.
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Madrid
Generalissimo
Francisco Franco
Salange
Franco
Don Juan
Alfonso XIII
Hamden Mcarthur
Jesse R. Walters
Hamden
Zanesville
Marie Lashley
Muskingum River
Greater Power Is Likely for Schwellenbach
Washington reports indicate Secretary of Labor nominee Schwellenbach could gain sweeping authority, with 30 union leaders urging him to place all federal labor agencies under his department excluding the National Mediation Board. He plans talks with agency heads and will test Congress on sentiment while preserving the War Labor Board and National Labor Relations Board powers. Potential study includes absorbing the Fair Employment Practice committee and labor divisions of War and Navy Departments.
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Washington
Lewis B.J
Schwellenbach
Totidde
Organized Labor
National Mediation Board
Hitler in Antarctica Again Rumor Surfaces
A fresh report claims Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun reside in Antarctica supported by a French radio relay citing La Critica. Argentine foreign minister Cesar Ameghino dismissed the rumor, and authorities say there is no truth to Hitler and Braun reaching Argentina or Queen Maude Island aboard U-530.
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Cesar Ameghingo
Hitler
Bnife
Argentina
Brazzaville
Antarctic
la Critica
Eva Braun
Queen Maude Island
Premature Baby Gains Pound in First Month
Portland report on Richard Allen Lee a one month old premature infant now weighing 2 pounds 3 ounces. Born weighing 1 pound 9 ounces doctors gave slim survival odds. He progressed from an oxygen tent to an incubator and is now receiving care with prenatal birthday planned two months early.
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Portland
Ore
Richard Allen Lee
Dickey
Shas
Rubber stockpiles dwindle as war shortages loom
Washington reports that John L. Collyer, former rubber program director, warns of a natural rubber shortage next year. He urges military action to secure new sources, noting 1945 end stockpile near 66,000 tons, below Baruch’s 100,000 ton minimum, while predicting 25 million tires produced in 1945 and 20 million essential replacements.
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Washington
John L. Collyer
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Baruch Committee
Collyer
Canadian Troops to Train in Kentucky Camp Breckinridge
Ottawa reports Canadian infantry members forming part of a 70 000 strong volunteer force for the Pacific will begin serious training September 1 at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky. They will use American equipment and prepare for deployment.
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Ottawa
Pacific
Camp Breckinridge
Miners Back to Work as OPA Plan Announced
The Associated Press reports the end of the No Meat No Work strike by about 10,000 coal miners and foundry workers in Southern Illinois after AFL and United Mine Workers ordered returns. Across the nation 35,000 others remained idle while ships, shipyards, and other industries faced walkouts. An OPA plan to provide extra meat and food for hard physical labor is due to be announced soon, with details to follow in August.
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OPA
Ilinois
AFL
Progressive Mine Workers
United Mine Workers
Washington
General Engineering and Drydock Company
Alameda
Calif
Tve
War Labor Board
Pennsylvania
Beaumont
Tex
New York City
MCA
Phelps ‘Dodge Corp
Fort Wayne
Int
Jersey City
N. J
Hudson County Boulevard
WLB
WLBE
Jhours
Pure Oil Company
Toledo
Hoosier Ordnance Plant
Charlestown
Ind
General Machinery Corporation
Hamilton
Tampa
Fla
Warren
Ohio
Ironton
H. R. McDerjmott
WPB
Deyton Madleable I Iron Company
2 000 Workers To Be Dropped by Jack Heintz
Cleveland report states Jay Sotearig W and 8,600 Jack & Heintz Inc employees will be laid off Friday due to cutbacks and war contract terminations. President William S. Jack said 2,000 associates to be discharged from the six JAHCO plants will be drawn from hires of 1944 and 1945.
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Jack Heintz
Cleveland
Jay Sotearig W
Jack & Heintz, Inc
William S. Jack
JAHCO
Wellston Firm Is Defendant in Price Admin Cases
The Columbus District Office of Price Administration filed treble damages and injunction actions in federal court against Orey and Howard Argabright of Wellston and S. L. Miller Auto Sales of Bellefontaine. The Argabrights were accused of selling 530.45 tons of bituminous coal at 598.89 above the OPA ceiling, seeking treble damages of 296.67 and an injunction. Miller Auto Sales was charged with selling a 1941 car for 1,133, or 77.25 above the legal maximum, with treble damages of 231.75 sought.
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Columbus
Columbus District Office of Price Administration
Feeral
Wellston
Bellefontaine
Orey
Howard Argabright
Route 3
Jackson County
Imine
Vinton County
OPA
John ‘Vandervoort
5. L. Miller
S. L. Miller Auto Sales
Beliefontaine
William Eicherman
Huntsville
State Health Department Plans Tuberculosis War
The Ohio Health Department started a new program to combat tuberculosis. Materials to locate and register all cases were mailed to county and city health authorities in preparation for a statewide survey of the disease.
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Columbus
Ohio Health Department
World Bank Approval Expected in Senate Fight
Washington leaders pressed a final Senate vote on the Bretton Woods plan. They anticipated passage but faced a stiff fight over proposed amendments. Senator Wagner warned of limited opposition, citing a $3.106 billion World Bank and an $8.8 billion currency stabilization fund.
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Washington
Bretton Woods
Senate
Wagner
Banking Committee
World Bank
Engineer Victim of Enemy Agent in Chicago Fatality
Officials of Wright Aeronautical Corp presume murder by an enemy agent in Chicago. Arthur Joseph Sikora, 235, chief plant engineer at Wright, died after leaping from a 20th floor room. He had left Cincinnati Monday with plans for winding up 829 engine production.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Chicago
Arthur Joseph Sikora
Varley Youne
Lockland
Sikora
Young
Sikorn
Wright
Curtiss Wright Corporation
Patterson
Bus crash kills infant on Norfolk to Richmond route
In Richmond Virginia a Greyhound bus from Norfolk plunged into Gillies Creek when a bridge collapsed. Of 45 aboard, a single infant was killed while 44 others survived and were evacuated. Chief E H Organ reported 37 people were atop the submerged wreck when responders arrived.
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Richmond
Greyhound
Norfolk
Gillies Creek
E. H. Organ
Organ
Governor signs bill to form nine member veterans commission
In Columbus Governor Latsehe signed a bill creating a nine member commission to collect data on a postwar program for veterans. The panel will study welfare education and employment plans for returned service members and report findings to state officials.
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Columbus
Hill
Latsehe
Allied air and naval blitz targets near Tokyo intensify
Allied carrier strikes and naval bombardments hit military defenses and war industries within 80 miles of Tokyo for a second day. Tokyo stations report waves of 4,500 aircraft from U.S. and British fleets pounding airdromes and cities along Honshu’s northeast and east coasts, with night fighters and Liberators striking industrial coast areas.
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Tokyo
U. S
Honshu
Hokkaido
Associated Press
London
U.S
Japan
Navy
British Bombers May Join Pacific Raids Against Japan
British heavy bombers could operate under USSTRATAF in the Pacific, expanding to ten Allied air groups in raids on the Japanese homeland. Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles discussed with Sir Hugh Lisyd the possible assignment of a British force to TSASTAP. Allied fleet units near Japan pounded factories with over 22 000 tons of steel.
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Siers
Pacific
Barney M. Giles
U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces
Usastaf
Hugh Lisyd
Tsastap
Gites’ Office
George V
Japs Use Night Bombardment Amid Geopolitical Rumors
Allied forces reported heavy shelling from Hitachi to Mito with a Japanese response promising to preserve strength until a knockout blow. Japanese coastal targets included Yokosuka Naval Station as land and carrier planes expanded strikes. Inland, Chinese forces advanced toward Kweilin while Northern Philippines pockets resisted with improvised weaponry against U S Sixth Army.
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James Lindsley
Hitachi
Kanagan
Tokyo
Chiba
Ocean
Saitama
Yochigi
Ibaragi
Mito
Japan
Kamaishi
Philippines
Amoy
Swatow
Hong Kong
China
Kweilin
U. S
U. S. Sixth Army
Old Battleship Survives Hits in Okinawa Fight
The veteran battleship Nevada, a two war survivor, took a kamikaze strike before dawn on March 27 and five battery hits during a mission to obliterate enemy installations on Okinawa. Sixty casualties occurred, including ten enlisted men and one officer killed, with thirty seriously injured. The ship returned to action within four hours.
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Washington
Nevaia
Haming
Okinawa
Navy
Nevada
24 Hour Dial Watch Planned for Civilian Market
Cincinnati based Gruen Watch Company will release a 24 hour dial watch for civilian use around October 1. President Benjamin A. Katz notes military users are familiar with the 24 hour system and likely to adopt it upon returning home.
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Cincinnati
Gruen Watch Company
Benjamin A. Katz
Ickes Seeks Action on Cabinet Resignation
Harold Ickes, veteran of Roosevelt and Truman administrations, requests clarification of his status as a cabinet member. He would become the seventh cabinet officer to depart under President Truman if the designation on his desk is accepted.
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Washington
Harold Ickes
Dean
Truman
Iekes
Roosevelt
Arizial
Br ‘Truman
Army Gets First Call On All Railroad Coaches
Washington reports military services now have first claim on nearly all passenger rolling stock. All passenger coaches baggage and express cars parlor and club cars lounge and diner cars go into a pool for armed forces use. Only sleeping cars are exempt. Further curtailment of civilian sleeper service expected.
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Army
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Military Services
Evihans
Rvvhan
Congressman Dirksen Demands UNRRA Investigation
Representative Dirksen called for a congressional probe into UNRRA. He questioned why British Intelligence was examining UNRRA and why the agency employs over two thousand Washington staff at salaries from 35,000 to 318,000.
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Washington
Dirksen
R-Li
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Fairfield County Infant Walks Into Train's Path
A 23 month old child wandered from Pleasantville parents to the path of a southbound New York Central train. The baby sustained multiple fractures before rescue. Fairfield County coroner Dr. Richard Smith confirmed the tragic accident occurred during the dinner period as the child chased a whistle.
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Lancaster
Vernon Skidmore
Pleasantville
Vernon
Richard Smith
Fairfield County
Lhe Hey
New York Central
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