Major Powers Will Meet To Settle Issues
Beyrouth AP The French agreed to cease fire in Syria after talks between British Ninth Army officers and the French commander in the Levant General Humbolt. Churchill had urged withdrawal to barracks and the talks were to set terms with Britain and the United States to attend a tripartite conference. Syria faced heavy casualties but Damascus remained uneasy under smoke as the plan moved toward quick conference coordination.
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Syria
Levant
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Bernard C. Paget
Dar “Mascus
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Paris
UAP
Frank O'Brien
Damascus
Japan
Britain
Eden
John G. Winant
United States
Force of 600 Superforts And Fighters Hits Japan's Greatest War Plant Area
Allied air power strikes renewed against Osaka and Yokohama with more than 450 Superfortresses and 150 Mustang fighters dropping incendiaries in heavy daylight raids. The blasts followed rapid advances on Okinawa with five American divisions closing in on Shuri and trapping remaining Japanese forces. Chinese and Southeast Asian fronts reported tempo changes as Chiang Kai-shek vowed a grand counter offensives while Japan halted northward withdrawals temporarily.
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Japan
TUE
Associated Press
Osaka
Nippon
Yokohama
Okinawa
China
Shuri
Chungking
South China
Indo-China
Truman Sends Friendly Letter to Jack Garner
Washington report says President Truman wrote a friendly letter to former Vice President John N. Garner some time ago. The White House did not disclose whether any government appointment or boost was offered.
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Washington
Truman
John N. Garner
White House
Carer
Treasury Launches Tax Evasion Hunt Nationwide
The Treasury Department ordered all financial institutions to file reports of unusual currency transactions. Secretary Morgenthau announced at a news conference the action aims to stamp out tax evasion across the country.
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Treasury
Washington
Morgenthau
Production Board to authorize 4 million radio tubes monthly
The War Production Board disclosed a plan to authorize civilian production of four million radio tubes each month for public use. The tubes would be used for replacements and meet consumer demand.
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M Washigton
Wari Production Board
Protest Meat Shortage In Production Areas
Ohio grocers meat dealers and restaurant men protested continuing meat shortages and telegraphed Gov. Lausche urging the Office of Price Administration to designate war production centers as critical areas.
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Dayton
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
OPA Cracks Down On Misuse Of Sugar For Home Canning
The Office of Price Administration announces strict enforcement against sugar misuses in home canning. Chester Bowles says sugar supplies cover home canning needs, but fraud will be punished. Applicants must sign a pledge to use sugar only for home canning and report canned quantities to the local rationing board.
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OPA
Washington
Renee Ima
Chester Bowles
Bowles
CP4
SS Woman With No Uniform Described Inmate Brutality At Belsen
The report profiles Hilde Lobauer known as the SS woman with no uniform after her capture by U S Forces. Once a political prisoner at the Belsen camp she rose to command a compound due to cruelty. Bowles orders local boards to suspend home canning ration certificates until the season starts and to cap 1945 allocations at 70 percent of last year with a 15 pound per person limit.
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Hilde Lobauer
Tere
U. S
Belsen
Bowles
Jap Balloon Kills Mother and Five Children
Under-Secretary of War Paterson disclosed a mother and five of her children were killed by a bomb from a long-range Japanese balloon. He cited the incident to stress precautions, noting the six died in a western state during a fishing trip when a child disturbed an unexploded bomb. No property damage was reported.
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Washington
Paterson
Patterson
Riot Follows Barracks Fire at Fort Benjamin Harrison
The Indianapolis Star reports a fire destroyed nine buildings in the Fort Benjamin Harrison disciplinary barracks area. Rioting followed with at least five prisoners shot, according to the paper. Lt. D B Ehrhart said guards fired warning shots to restrain prisoners. few casualties reported. Prisoners face court martial. An unidentified officer, likely a colonel, was attacked with bricks by inmates.
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Indianapolis
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis Star
D. B. Ehrhart
Army Soea Aer Yinel
Argentina Enacts War Move Censorship Cited
The New York Times reports via Arnaldo Cortesi that after declaring war on Germany and Japan and signing the Mexico City Conference acts the Argentine government curtailed remaining freedoms. Cortesi notes censorship blocks truth and remarks on recent events unseen in his 17 years of experience.
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New York Times
Buenos Aires
Arnaldo Cortesi
Germany
Japan
Mexico City
Cortesi
Italy
Gallia Man Receives Legion of Merit Award
Col. George E. Bush of Gallipolis receives the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in outstanding service. He serves in the Infantry and is listed in Manila UPI dispatches.
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Manila
UPI
Legion of Merit
George E. Bush
Gallipolis
Infantry
Accidental gun shot kills Gallipolis youth
Arnold Spurlock, 27, son of Mr and Mrs Iman Spurlock of Bulaville, was killed yesterday by an accidental discharge of a gun. The state health department said measles serum will soon be distributed to all Ohio local health departments to prevent and modify measles.
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GallipOlis
Arnold Spurlock
Iman Spurlock
Bulaville
Columbus
State
iHealth Department
Ohio
Newark Minister Held For Harboring Deserter
Newark officers arrested Rev Frank Lucckeydoo and his son in law Augustus P Warner on charges of harboring a deserter tied to the search for Pvt Franklin H Luckeydoo missing from Camp Stewart Ga since September. Sheriff William McElroy said a Warner property search found no soldier. Both pleaded innocent before U S Commissioner William L Weber in Zanesville and were held on $2000 bail.
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Wei
Frank Lucckeydoo
Augustus P. Warner
de Serter
Franklin H. Luckeydoo
Camp Stewart
William McElroy
Warner
U. S
William L. Weber
Zanesville
Fined for Possession of Uninspected Meat
Hamilton-8 Green Madden a 45 year old grocer was fined 250 dollars in municipal court and sentenced to 180 days in Butler County Jail on his guilty plea for possessing uninspected meat. Judge Elmer Davidson suspended all but 30 days after health authorities said Madden cooperated in locating a meat piece sold.
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Green Madden
Butler County
Elmer Davidson
Madden
U. S. Combat Casualties Surpass Million Mark
United States WW2 combat casualties exceed one million with Army losses at 890,019 killed 43,534 wounded 54,498 missing 10,709 and prisoners 4,345. Navy casualties total 112,868, bringing overall toll to 1,002,887. Report notes specific divisions and theaters including North Africa Sicily Italy France and Normandy.
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Washington
Patterson
Navy
London
Lord Wright
United Nations
Patterson Irials
Binet
United Nations talks raise hopes for early windup
Delegates press for forceful leadership by big powers to accelerate a new league charter. U.S. seeks quick agreement with Britain Russia China and France on key issues as Stettinius prepares to meet delegation chiefs. Moscow reaction to a veto statement awaits. Meanwhile 10,000 more liberated American POWs return by Sunday night boosting total to 37,571.
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John M. Hightower
San Francisco
United States
Stettinius
Moscow
World Security Council
Washington
Patterson
Europe
Department
Berlin
Austria
U. S
Lbe
Germany
Eisenhower
Woman Succumbs After Fumigation of Home
Coroner reports Mrs. Lillian H. Bohn, 69, died of poisoning after home fumigation. Her husband John, 59, was overcome entering the home. Alabama lawmakers consider sterilization of inmates in state hospitals. question whether to expel erring Teague members and treaties for security council calls.
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Columbus
John. B. Gravis
Maz
Lillian H. Bohn
John
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Aged man found after three days missing near Sharpsburg
Morris Thompson aged 79 disappeared from his son in law and daughter’s home near Sharpsburg Tuesday evening and was found this morning on a farm about three miles away. Sheriff George Bateman said he had eaten nothing during the disappearance but appeared unharmed. About 30 local men searched Wednesday and Thursday. Scout leaders coordinated searches with Troop 72 from Glouster and Athens Boy Scouts.
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Morris Thompson
Fred Laurence
Mt. Carmel Ridge
Sharpsburg
George Bateman
Bateman
Thompson
George Fee
Athens
Ralph Hines
Glouster
David Byers
Kenneth Boyer
Gary Hughes
James Cotterann
Billie Brown
Charles Zimmer
Donald Goldsberry
Richard Jones
Max Morris
Duke researchers locate tobacco aroma source on leaf hairs
In Durham Duke University researchers identify tiny living hairs on tobacco leaf surfaces as the source of aroma. The finding details a three minute mechanism behind producing the elusive tobacco quality, suggesting new breeding approaches to enhanced aromas.
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Duke University
Durham
N. C
Duke
Resident of Pomeroy Dies in Helzer Hospital
Walter T. White, 59, of Pomeroy, dies at Helzer Hospital. Survived by wife Lucy Jane and children Freda Ebersbackh, Walter William White, Ed White, Alta Devol, Eva McKenzie, and 13 grandchildren. Services Sunday at Bradford Church at 2 PM. burial in Bradford Cemetery. Army releases noted by Under Secretary Patterson.
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Walter T. White
Helzer Hospital
Lucy Jane
Freda Ebersbackh
Walter William White
Ed White
Alta Devol
Toledo
Eva McKenzie
Gallipolis
Bradford Church
Bradford
Carrier Hancock record of battle in Pacific ten months
Pacific Fleet announces the Essex class carrier Hancock sank nine Japanese warships and 32 merchant vessels and shot down 211 planes in its first ten months of action. It struck through Japanese waters from Toko to Indo China and helped take two heavily defended cities. Nipponese counterattacks were repelled in the Philippines and New Guinea as Allied forces form the British 12th Army to operate from Rangoon, aiming toward Thailand and Singapore.
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Moon
Hancock
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Bodinsley
Toko
Indo-China
Philipepines
New Guinea
South- East Asia Front
Comemand
Rangoon
Burma
Thailand
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
War Industry Blasts as Allied Forces Report Major WWII Metrics
Wartime updates indicate 9,602 killed or missing and 25,514 wounded in U S forces. The 13th Air Force intensified assaults on Borneo while Tarakan operation nears completion. B-29s bomb Osaka amid heavy smoke and fierce AA fire. Eighth Air Force and Fifth Fleet actions cited. Okinawa fighting nears end as Marines isolate Shuri and Naha mop-up continues with 61,519 Japanese killed and 1,333 captured or wounded. Major strategic shifts include air force redeployments and intensified Japanese airstrikes in retaliation.
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U.S. 13Th Air Force
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Tarakan
Patterson
Japan
Germany
Okinawa
Tenth Army
Rising Sun
Shuri Town
Radio Tokyo
Amercans
Sharkey
Sixth Division
Naha
Simashing
Labor Trouble Cuts Output in Ohio and Kentucky
Labor troubles halted production across three Ohio cities and disrupted transport in the Greater Cincinnati area. In Youngstown maintenance workers at the Brier Hill plant refused to return despite a War Labor Board order, while aerospace and steel parts faced stoppages and transport shifted to walking, rides, or taxis.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Youngstown
Akron
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Brier Hill
War Labor Board
Black Market Egg Sales Investigated by OPA
Columbus OPA district price executive Henry P Howe announced a determined drive to clean up black market egg wholesalers. Investigators are scrutinizing the egg situation amid meat shortages as they prepare findings for court action. Wholesale demand has drawn new buyers to the trade and even coal trucks tour the countryside buying eggs at exorbitant prices. Retail stores will be checked for price and selling compliance starting June 45. Wholesalers will meet again at the district office June dl.
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Columbus
Henry P. Howe
OPA
Howe
Dstrict
Mowe
Gay St
Aphid Swarms Attacking Ohio Gardens
Aphids swarm tomato and potato plants across Ohio gardens. Professor T H Parks of Ohio State University Entomology Department reports the issue and urges nightly garden checks. County agents offer guidance and information to farmers and home gardeners on control methods.
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Columbus
Ohio
T. H. Parks
Ohio State University
Parks
Victory
Portsmouth Man Aboard Jap Attacked Destroyer Zellars
WILMINGTON informed that PLc B. W. Jones of Portsmouth Ohio was aboard the destroyer Zellars when it was damaged off Okinawa by a Japanese suicide bomber. The ship suffered a 30 foot hole in its superstructure. 34 were killed, 36 wounded, and two reported missing. The report notes the ship docked with the casualty list and mentions related production policy by the War Production Board.
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Wilmington
PLC
B. W. Jones
Portsmouth
Zellars
Okinawa
U S Exports of Meat May Be Suspended
Washington reports the United States may suspend meat shipments to lend lease countries in the July to September quarter due to severe shortages. Official sources say third quarter allocations omit lend lease supplies. Up to 50.9 million pounds may still be allotted to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for foreign relief.
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Washington
United States
War Food Administration
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
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