United Nations Veto Debate Looms as Big Five Clash
In San Francisco AP reports the United States presses for no veto on open discussion in the World Security Council while Moscow Britain China and France resist. Charter reform seeks veto limits on selecting a secretary general and on world court judge elections amid tense talks on trusteeships and defense pacts.
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United States
World Security Council
Russia
Britain
China
France
United Nations
Aly
Guillermo
Albert L. Warner
Moscow
The
World Organization
Assembly
Plans for blazing attack barrier met invaders in 1940s
London reports British information chief reveals wartime plan to flood the Channel with fire along England's beaches to deter invasion fears. The disclosure came at a press conference outlining defense concepts that would have confronted Nazi forces.
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London
Amy German
Britain
Zey Lloyd
Channel
England
Extra coal delivery charge revoked after one-ton limit
Washington OPA rules that the extra 25 cent per ton premium for coal deliveries is no longer allowed. The one-ton restriction has been rescinded and the price revocation takes effect June 9. Akron obituary notes Clyde N Webb, 43, died after being knocked to the sidewalk. police hold a 31-year-old man for questioning.
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Washington
OPA
Akron
Clyde
Churchill to State British Syria Policy in Commons
London AP report cites Daily Mail that Prime Minister Churchill will address the House of Commons this week to define the British government stance on Syria. Dispatches from Damascus describe a critical Levantine situation with British protection of French barracks and mounting tensions amid De Gaulle’s international conference idea. British agents alleged by London press to foment anti France sentiment as French troops and civilians evacuate Syrian towns under armored guard.
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The
Daily Mail
Churchill
House of Commons
Syria
Damascus
Charles de Gaulle
de Guaulle
France
Kuneitra
Damase
Hama
Deraa
Soileida
Lebanon
Record June Cold Grips Great Lakes Region
Observers say warmer break will be slow as cold air remains over the Great Lakes causing slow temperature rises. Chicago hit a new all time June low of 36 degrees while Milwaukee and Des Moines set record June lows of 39 and 38 respectively. Cold weather stretches across the northern U S from the Ohio Valley to New England with extreme readings near 60 and 4.
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Great Lakes
Chicago
Milwaukee
Des Moines
Ohio Valley
New England
Ohio WCTU Plans Campaign to Add Ten Thousand Members
Miss Mary B. Ervin, state president, announced that the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union will launch a drive on June 12 to enroll 10,000 new members statewide. The campaign also aims to enlist 5,000 children in its temperance program and 5,000 infants as White Ribbon recruits.
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Columbus
Ohio Women's" Christian Temperance Union
Mary B.'. Ervin
Ervin
Veterans to get surplus goods first for ex servicemen
Veterans planning to obtain surplus war goods will have first crack at items. The Small War Plants Corporation regional offices will handle requests, buy items from government agencies, declare them surplus, and resell to veterans with SWPC priority. DROWNS IN LAKE ERIE CLEVELAND Harry B. Eberly, 36, drowned near Lakeside Yacht Club after falling from a boat yesterday.
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Washington
SWPC
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Harry B. Eberly
Lakeside Yacht Club
Vaccination of All Dogs Urged To Check Rabies
Ohio health director Dr. Roger E. Heering urges anti rabies vaccination for all dogs to curb a recent outbreak. Two deaths this year and rising cases prompt education and dog control. Lawmakers consider tags and certificates with fines up to fifty dollars. Cleveland weighs similar rules amid rabid dogs.
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Columbus
Roger E. Heering
Ohio
Heering
Health Department
George G. Shurtz
Newcom Republican
Satellli
Cleveland
Harold
Knapp
Nazi War Prisoners Compared to WPA Workers
Paris dispatch notes that much work in American camps is performed by German prisoners. The report describes their bitter stance and says they perform an honest day’s labor under strict supervision, while WPA involvement is criticized as extensive.
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WPA
Paris
Nation's Hog Supply Drops Amid War-Weary World
The Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations reports a nine percent decline in the world hog population last year, with the U S drop near 30 percent in 1944 due to feed shortages and reduced government hog price guarantees. Continental Europe’s decline is smaller, but overall meat supplies tighten as war persists.
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Washington
Canada
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Europe
Pope Pius XI Salutes Allied Rome Liberation
Pope Pius XI met U S senators and Army Navy officers at the Vatican on Sunday praising the Allies for liberating Rome a year earlier. He thanked for sparing the citys cultural and art treasures. Miss Elizabeth Hamilton Miami Universitys first dean of women retires this month with an honorary doctor of laws degree after four decades of service.
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Pius XI
U. S
Army
Navy
Rome
Oxford
Elizabeth Hamilton
Miami University
Cadet Dwight Riley Graduates No. 1 In West Point Class
Cadet Dwight Riley of Athens, slated to graduate tomorrow as top of a large West Point class, will be commissioned in the engineers. He is a graduate of Athens School, and his sister Beth Riley plans to attend the graduation exercises.
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AL Riley
Athens
Ffom
U. S
Academy
West Point
Tory
Orps’ of Engineers
Athens School
Beth Riley
Food quota urged to halt raids on public supplies
Washington Congress member Anderson proposes rigid three month food allotments for Army overseas and civilian use. He urges OPA and agencies to enforce fixed quotas to prevent overuse as House Food Committee starts hearings into scarce dairy products, notably butter.
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Washington
Anderson
House‘ Food
Army
Secretary of Agriculture
Truman
OPA
Angerson
House Food Committee
Balloon bombs to attack U S warned by Japanese agency
Japanese Comei News Agency quoted Lt Col Shozo Nakajima predicting near term U S balloon raids. It said pilotless balloons released since March 16 will eventually carry death defying pilots, enabling direct attacks from Japan on the American mainland.
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San Francisco
United States
Comei
Shozo Nakajima
Nipponese Armed Services
Nakajima
U. S. Army
America
Singapore
Japan
Battle of Hatteras joins the Atlantic war tale
Miami report recounts Allied defense against German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico and off Cape Hatteras. It notes 482 casualties from submarine attacks, two probable sub sinkings, two ships damaged, and a 177 day battle causing 27 ships sunk and large tonnage.
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Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
Gulf
Florida
Gulf Sea Frontier
North Carolina
United Nations
Battle of Hatteras
Pearl’ Harbor
U.S
City of Atlanta
Navy
Barb Sub Sinks Many Ships In Bold Pacific Attack
The U S S Barb fires a daring surface assault on a Japanese convoy at anchor and sinks numerous enemy vessels. Commander Eugene B Fluckey earns the Medal of Honor as Treasury aims to mail about 20 million in income tax refunds, hoping completion by September.
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Washington
U.S.S. Barb
Navy
Ohost
Forrestal
The
Treasury
Comdr
Eugene B
Tito Ready To Fight For Carinthia Claim
Marshal Tito spoke in a Belgrade radio broadcast vowing to fight for Carinthia in Austria as belonging to Yugoslavia. He asserted the region should be within Yugoslav control and defended the claim amid wartime tensions.
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Tito
Carinthia
London
Marshal Tito
Belgrade Radio
Austria
Yugoslavia
Ner
Sub is scuttled Lisbom near Leixoes in Portugal
Reports say a German submarine was scuttled by its commander two miles north of Leixoes in northern Portugal at dawn Sunday.
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Lisbom
Lisbon
Leixoes
Portugal
First Army makes historic homefront redeployment
New York port pier saw 1 453 officers and men of the U S First Army depart the Normandy to Germany path to redeploy to the Pacific marking the unit’s first complete return home for transfer. Ohio State University will graduate 700 in its 68th commencement on June 8. Charles B Hazlett of Akron named head of the Ohio Junior Chamber.
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New, York
U. S. First Army
Normandy
Germany
Pacific
Monticello
New York Harbor
OSU
Columbus
Ohio State University
Ohio Chamber
Charles B. Hazlett
Akron
Ohio Junior Chamber of Commerce
Indicted New York bandleader accused of draft dodging
Teddy Powell a New York based dance band leader and author of Boots and Saddies has been indicted by a federal grand jury on draft evasion charges. The FBI says he bribed draft board clerk John F Wilson who killed himself last year after indictment in a separate bribery case tied to evasion.
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Teddy Powell
New York
FBI
John F. Wilson
Draft Board
Wilson
Skeletons Found at Davao Prison by US 24th Division
Delayed report from Davao Mindanao notes the US 24th Division discovering bodies in a Japanese abandon prison colony. About 150 skeletons and mummified remains line hospital beds porches and overgrown walks. Some identified as Filipinos, many officially listed as Americans, suspected victims of withdrawal and neglect during Japanese retreat to mountain positions.
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U. S
Davao
Mindanag
P. L. Tune
Mishap Victim Will Be Buried in Gallia County
Funeral services for Milton Starr Jr. a 17 year old victim of a motorcycle crash near Columbus will be held in Mercerville Gallia County. In a separate wreck Carl James Bussart 42 of Columbus died near Lancaster car and a truck driven by Harley Cargo Logan R D 1 collided on Route 33 Cargo uninjured.
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Milton Starr, Jr
Here
Mercerville
Gallia County
Carl James Bussart
Lrancaster
Harley Cargo
Logan R.D.1
Bradley Spaatz Lead Parade in Philadelphia Rally
Philadelphia prepares for a thunderous welcome as Generals Omar Bradley and Carl Spaatz arrive with 59 officers and men to lead a victory parade through downtown and hold a rally at Independence Hall. An Ohioan corporal and a resident of Indiana were killed in a Saturday Indianapolis automobile accident near McCordsville.
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Philadelphia
Omar N. Bradley
Carl A. Spaatz
Independence Hall
Ohioan
Indianapolis
Ind
Alcorp
D. C. Adams
Canton
Deimer Ruth McGill
Indianaapolis
McCordsvile
Portsmouth Flier Reunited With Wife After War Report
Portsmouth veteran Lt. W. Goad, once listed dead, returns home with his wife Helen who married Navy Ensign Robert A. MacDowell after the War Department’s death notice. Goad survived 18 months as a POW near Rangoon, recalls brutal confinement, scarce rations, and a final rescue by British forces in 1945.
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Harold W. Goad
Navy
War Department
Army Flyer
Rangoon
Helen
Long Beach
Calif
Ens
Robert
A. MacDowell
Goad
Good
Burma
Guad
Draft Issue in Time of Peace Debated in Congress
Congress opens peacetime draft hearings as the Postwar Military Policy Committee weighs compulsory military training to build a reserve. War and Navy Departments back it, American Legion largely supports it. opposition from educational and religious groups argues it harms democracy and youths’ personal lives.
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Congress
House
House Military Committee
War and Navy Departments
American Legion
Bombers to be stored after returning from Europe
The Associated Press reports a vast Pacific air war, with 1,000 B 29 raids planned on Japan and balloon bombs by Japanese pilots. Allied advances push through Okinawa mud as U S and Chinese forces seize strategic bases. Halsey condemns Kamikaze tactics while promising to strike Nipponese naval power. Mindanao fighting continues as U S bombers head to storage at Willow Run, with replacements Readied for Luzon.
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Tokyo
Washington
Japan
United States
Okinnawa
U. S. Lair
China
Okinawa
Chinen Peninsula
Nakagusuku Bay
U.S
U. S
Okinawan
South China
Chiang Kai-Shek
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Liuschow
Shayang
Paoching
U. S. Army Intelligence Division
Adm
William F. Halsey
Halsey
7Th Infantry Division
Davao
Mindanao
Apo
Dayton
Starr
Europe
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Willow Run
Detroit
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Wright Outfit
D6th Divi
Sion
Luzon
Rot
Beighiler
Bej
Cagay
Liuchow
Chungking
Claire L. Chennault
Hunan
Chihkiang
War Veteran Dies of Memorial Day Injury
John Ricketts, 65, a veteran of the Spanish American War, died yesterday from injuries after being thrown from a horse during a Memorial Day parade in Newark. He served in the Spanish American War and was a longtime resident of the city.
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John Ricketts
Yeperade
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