Ohio Liquor Permits Debate Tests Ban Lift
Ohio State Liquor Control Board weighs lifting a two year ban on new liquor permits after a hearing. Opponents argue sufficient outlets exist and warn of hardship for legitimate business. veterans notes influence the decision. Representatives from Buckeye Liquor Dealers, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Ohio Brewers Association and Black community spokesmen spoke at the session.
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Columbus
State Liquor Control Board
Norman C. Parr
Buckeyee Liquor Dealers Association
Ohio
Women's Christian Temperance Union
John Marshall
Cleveland
Ohio Brewers Association
Lima
Canton
Springfield
Laborites Score 2-1 Victory Attlee Is New Prime Minister
Britain swung left in the July 5 general election, with Labour led by Clement Attlee winning 344 of 640 Commons seats as Churchill’s Conservatives trailed. Attlee expected to form a new government over Japan and postwar reconstruction, with many Tory stalwarts defeated.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Labor Party
Clement R. Attlee
Japan
Commons
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
George VI
Attlee
Wesmeneee
Germany
Potsdam
Labor
Alsone
George Isaacs
M.P
Con
Erect
Japan signals possible peace terms amid war trauma
Tokyo radio broadcast urges the United States to soften unconditional surrender terms, suggesting openness to peace if liberal America changes its stance. Observers note the appeal follows Japan's heavy losses from recent raids and carrier assaults, with hints military leaders would consider ending the war if in line with a less punitive approach.
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Tokyo Radio
United States
Tokyo
Japan
Okinawa
China
Admiral Halsey
America
Pacific
Guam
Ohio War Labor Board Orders Ends to Three Walkouts
The War Labor Board ordered bus drivers at Warren Transportation Co. in Warren to end a five day strike and return to normal operations. It also ordered 680 workers at Dayton Malleable Iron Co. in Ironton back to work after a 14 day dispute over jurisdiction. A fifth stoppage at Pharis Tire and Rubber Co. Newark saw tire production halted for the fifth time since last November after workers were disciplined for lunchroom seating.
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War Labor Board
Warren Transportation Co
Warren
Dayton
Santa Fe Sets War Record in Longest Naval Tour
The light cruiser Santa Fe completed a 221000 mile frontline tour, the war’s longest for a major naval unit. It endured 42 air strikes 12 shore bombardments and four surface actions over 25 months sinking seven Japanese ships and downing as many enemy planes without major damage or loss of crew. Now back in the firing line after repairs.
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Washington
Santa Fe
Navy
Lack of Freight Cars Threatens Wheat Crop
Ohio farmers grain dealers and millers face a bottleneck as freight cars to move wheat to 14 terminals are scarce. W W Cummings secretary of the Ohio Grain Mill and Feed Dealers Association says the immediate fix is for farmers to hold wheat in their own bins.
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Columbus
Ohio
W. W. Cummings
Ohio Grain, Mill, and Feed Dealers’ Association
Veterans Embrace Sleep Shift Train for Travel
About 585 Texas veterans of the 44th and 2nd Divisions arrived at Fort Sam Houston aboard the first sleep shift train. They praised the rotating Pullmans and chair cars as a good idea after earlier trips in crowded coaches with overcrowded seats. The test run aimed to reduce fatigue and grime from long troop movements.
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San Antonio
Tex
UPI
Texas
Fort Sam Houston
New Ration Stamps Become Valid Aug 1
Washington announces five more red stamps and five more blue stamps in ration hook No 4 will become valid Aug 1. Each stamp is good for 10 points and remain valid through Nov 30. Red stamps F1 G1 H1 J1 Ki. blue stamps P1 Q1 Ri $1 T1. Other stamps A2 through B2 and blue X2 end July 31. Hospital drive starts in Cleveland for 9 525 dollars to fund four new hospitals and 13 expansions.
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Washington
OPA
Reported Death Attempt Proves Groundless in Gallipolis
A published report claiming Mrs. Raymond Sheline of Gallipolis attempted death by her own action is unfounded. No patient by that name appeared at Holzer Hospital, and name confusion among families likely caused the error. Parole board chair Sherwood reappointed by Gov Lauache in Columbus.
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Gallipolis
Raymond Sheline
Holzer Hospital
Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Ohio
Frank J. Lauache
Truman Clamps Down On Traveling Solons
In Washington a White House directive requires European-bound congressmen to pay their own travel costs unless trips were formally authorized by resolution. Speaker Sam Rayburn acknowledged receipt of the president’s notice detailing the new policy.
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Washington
White House
Sam Rayburn
D- Tex
Truman
Truman Views U S Troops During Potsdam Trip
President Truman visited Frankfurt to observe American troops during a break in the Big Three talks in Potsdam. He planned a nationwide radio address on returning to Washington as the conference continued with discussions on Japan. In London, Mountbatten's participation in the Potsdam meetings was disclosed.
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Potsdam
Truman
Frankfurt
Washington
London
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia Command
Miner Release Bill Shelved Until Autumn
Senator Kilgore of West Virginia doubts summer action on a resolution urging the Army to release 30 000 miners in the bituminous fields. Undersecretary Patterson argues it would disrupt the discharge point system and set a precedent for other workers. The Senate defers to UN Charter debates and plans a recess to October. Kilgore says he will push again after the House returns in the fall.
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Washington
Kilgore
W. Va
Patterson
Senate
House
Attlee to succeed Churchill as Britain’s prime minister
The July election in England results in Clement Attlee taking over as prime minister and as chief British negotiator among the Big Three at Potsdam. Attlee had been with Winston Churchill at the Big Three sessions to date.
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Moment R. Attlee
Labor Party
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Potsdam
England
Atlee
Churchill
War Production Board favors easing steel controls to relieve bottleneck
The advisory committee of the War Production Board urged easing steel controls now to speed consumer goods and increase sheet and strip steel production by report to 25 percent. In Sandusky, Delbert A. Comstock landed a plane on Cedar Point Beach, circling twice to the alarm of bathers before landing. he was then roughed by a few onlookers.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPE
Cleveland
Cedar Point Beach
Delbert A. Comstock
Ameherst
Lorain County
Edward J. Smith
Cedar Point
Comstock
Gas Ration Stamp Crackdown Reduces Black Market
Cleveland regional Office of Price Administration says careful screening of gasoline ration stamps and prosecutions of dealers have nearly wiped out the counterfeit gas stamp black market. Circulation of stolen coupons remains the main problem, with 385 000 bogus stamps detected in October 1944, down to 4 285 found in June this year. Arrival of the First Battalion of the Sixth Ohio State Guard Infantry Regiment to Camp Perry is expected from Camp Zaleski.
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Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
Birkett L. Williams
Williams
Camp Zaleski
Clinton
Ohio State Guard Infantry Regiment
Camp Perry
New Contract Signed By Ohio Firm And Union
Barberton union and Babcock Wilcox Co representatives signed a one year contract for 3,000 hourly workers at the plant yesterday. A union official calls the agreement a new era in labor relations and the company says it was reached without recourse to the National War Labor Board, leaving no unsettled issues for the national board.
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Barberton
Babcock & Wilcox Co
National War Labor Board
National Board
Allied planes to strike Japan in massive air offensive
General George C. Kenney announced from Manila that at least 10,000 Allied aircraft would attack Japan and territories held by the enemy. He warned the Japanese they cannot stop the onslaught.
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Japan
New York
Manila
George C. Kenney
Ohio septogenarian learns to fly
Richard Albert Warren of South Russell, Ohio, long active as constable, township trustee and mayor for 18 years, believes he is Ohio's oldest student flier at 76. He says he has taken flying lessons over the past decade and continues pursuing lessons despite his age.
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Chardon
Richard Albert Warren
South Russell
Ohio
Ler
Warren
Plea for Leniency As Fliers Rout 20 Warships in Day
Allied air and naval bombardment devastates Japanese defenses with twenty warships and two tenders sinking or silenced in a single day. British scouts move toward Singapore as Chinese troops retake a former U.S. air base in China. Doolittle asserts Japan may become a nomadic nation unless the war ends. Tokyo broadcasts claim leaders would halt war if surrender terms soften.
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Ated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Singapore
China
Doolittle
Poepertort
Okinawa
Amercan Jain
U.S. 14Th Air Force
Wolfram
Shangking
U. S
Yangsa
Kweilin
Ining
Lingkiangyu
Indo-China
Luzon
Philippines
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Bataan
Borneo
Samarinda
Stalin's Peace Bid Reported at Potsdam and Allied Bombardment
Newsweek notes Stalin carried a Japanese peace offer to Truman at Potsdam. Japan would cede Manchuria to the Soviet Union in exchange for non intervention and withdrawal from Korea and Formosa, while no occupation of the sacred islands. Allied forces led by Admiral Halsey intensified attacks, with 1,200 planes damaging much of the Imperial fleet and sinking twenty merchant ships. The Inland Sea toll hit key naval bases like Kure, as carrier and land based aircraft expanded operations toward Tokyo Bay.
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Russia
Stalin
Truman
Newsweek Magazine
Japan
Manchuria
Soviet Union
Interven
Korea
Formosa
Admiral Halsey
Kure
Nimitg
Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
Kyushu Island
Mippon
Foe Reports New Invasion From Tokyo Broadcast
Allied forces face a potential invasion split from Rangoon toward Singapore amid claims of a 500 strong amphibious landing on Phuket Island. Tokyo broadcast says ships bombarded the coast but were repelled as battles unfold in China and the Philippines with shifting gains and encirclements.
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Rangoon
Singapore
Tokyo
Puket Island
Malay Peninsula
China
Cincinnati Bookies Victims of Sharpies
Police arrested four men tied to Cincinnati area bookmaking gangs using Modern designs. They took bets by race data from an accomplice at Trace track via short wave radio and watched races with binoculars from a hillside. One operator reportedly netted 2810 in a day.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Area
Patrick Hayes
Trace Track
Hayes
Ohio Steel Industries Need 2 000 Workers
In Mahoning Valley Ohio industrial officials say 2000 workers are needed as steel plants face power shortages and shutdowns. The call comes amid wartime labor pressures and broader manpower demands affecting production.
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Ohio Steel Industries
Berlin
Berli
Youngstown
Inidie
Mahoning Valley
Unter den Linden
An- War Manpower Commission
WMC
Point reductions in beef lamb and veal orders announced
The OPA reports a definite improvement in meat supply and distribution with reduced red point values for nearly all beef, lamb and veal cuts starting Sunday. Output for August rationing is forecast 95 percent higher than July, driven largely by lower military purchases.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
WMC Recruits Workers For Panama Canal Zone
The Cleveland Office of the War Manpower Commission was directed to recruit machinists foremen painters pipe fitters plumbers riggers chippwrights refrigeration machinists boilermakers and blacksmiths and other ship repair craftsmen for work along the Panama Canal.
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Cleveland
Canal Zone
the War Manpower Commission
Panama Canal
Attempts To Speed Up Marshal Petain's Trial in Paris
Prosecutor André Mornet sought to accelerate Marshal Petain's trial by pressing to hear four witnesses today. Edouard Daladier spent much of yesterday’s testimony attributing France’s 1949 defeat to military errors and alleged fifth column activity.
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Paris
André Mornet
Ated
Marshal Petain
Edouard Daladier
Fifth l Column
France
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