Fires Sweep Kobe After B-29 Raid
Allied air and sea operations reported heavy bombardment and advances across Asia as B-29 firebombing hit Kobe. Shuttle operations in Okinawa pushed Marines toward Naha Airfield with rapid gains on Mindanao and along the South China coast. Chinese forces claimed a new offensive near Foochow and Liu-show as American forces tightened around Okinawa.
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Kobe
Okinawa
China
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Oroku
Naha
South China
Chungiking
Foochow
East China
Liushow
Philippines
Mindanao
Naha Harbor
Japs Unveil New High Speed Plane
Aboard Vice Admiral McCain's carrier off the Ryukyu Islands, American carrier pilots report aggressive Japanese opposition with a new high performance fighter. Marines and Army divisions push from muddy reeds toward the southern coast and junction with the Seventh Infantry, as the Seventh advances along the southeast coast and strengthens control over the Chinen Peninsula.
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Adm
McCain
Ryukyu Islands
Bhetter
Kyushu
Istana
John
6Th Army
Seventh Infantry
Seventh
Chinen
U.S
Tenth
Okinawa
Oroku Peninsula
Naha
Showdown With Russia Depends On Truman
AP report from San Francisco notes Secretary of State Stettinius seeks a Truman decision on if the United States should press for a showdown with Russia over free discussion in the world security council. Stettinius faces sharp internal U.S. divisions as Premier Stalin is urged to revisit the Big Five statement at the United Nations Conference.
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San Francisco
Stettinius
Truman
United States
Russia
Security ‘Council
Stalin
Council
Army veterans aid Burma campaign via secret China routes
Report states trained and equipped veterans flow from the army to central China. They secretly support a Chinese offensive against Japan by supplying arid trained personnel and equipment along inland routes.
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Burma
China
Japan
Churchill signals veto clash at UN amid unity on other issues
Britain pressed Stalin on veto at the UN conference while US officials urged a strong stand against Russian opposition. Stettinius warned a fight could be led by Truman, with a Russian news conference possible in days. Five Arab states planned to vote together against the veto if Gaulle’s government remains in France.
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United States
Stettinius
State Department
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
Egypt
Yris
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
the Gaulle
France
Twenty Two Ships Damaged in Iceberg Encounter
A Lloyds list reports that twenty two ships were damaged after a convoy met icebergs in dense fog in the North Atlantic on May 27.
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London
Lloyds List
North Atlantic
Township Quota Sales Box Score Summary
A fragmented box score lists township sales figures with totals for Alexander Ames Athens Carthage Dover Rome Troy Waterloo York Athens City Nelsonville and others, summing to 1 016 000 00. The data includes multiple place names and dollar amounts, indicating a regional sales tally.
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Alexander
Ames
Athens
Renae
Bérn
Canuean
Carthage
Dover
Doseeos
Rome Sece
Trimbie
Troy
Waterloo
York
Athens City
Nelsonville
Blast Destroys Bremen AMG Headquarters in Germany
Reported blasts destroyed the four story Bremen AMG headquarters once used by Nazi SS units and later inspected for booby traps. U S and German casualties include Americans hospitalized and several killed or missing. Delayed action bomb theory noted by Maj Kennedy.
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Germany
Bremen
Terday
Recov
Cer
Maj
E. Russell Kennedy, Jr
Washington, D. C
Icans
Senate tests veto fate of Daniels-Cramer school bill
Stage is set today for an attempted override of Governor Lausche's first veto. Senate leaders anticipate a test of strength on the vetoed four year statute of limitations for delinquent sales tax remittances. House concurrence on minor amendments would send the bill to the governor, who has signaled another veto over what he calls an unreasonable gain and backs a recommended 104,220,000.
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Frank J. Lausche
Daniels-Cramer
Frank
Whittemore
R-Summit
Senate
House
Representatives
Lausche
Wives of Soldiers Overseas Urged to Accompany Husbands
Three Ohio lawmakers Mrs. Golda Edmonston of Columbus Mrs. Opal Mundy of Toledo and Mrs. Bertha Huston of Napoleon introduced a House resolution urging the President Congress and military leaders to consider allowing wives of servicemen to join their husbands in Europe if feasible.
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Columbus
Ohio
Europe
Golda
M. Edmonston
Opal J. Mundy
Toledo
Bertha M. Huston
Napoleon
House of Representatives
Congress
Army
Navy
Italian War Criminal Sentenced to Death in Rome
Pietro Koch, who fled with the Germans when the Allies entered Rome, was condemned to death today by the High Court of Justice as a major war criminal responsible for torturing patriots in the Via Tasso horror chambers. He will be shot in the back as a traitor.
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Rome
Pietro Koch
High Court of Justice
Via Tasso
Emergency Sugar May Be Issued This Year
Cleveland up region administrator Birkett L Williams says sugar will be issued on an emergency basis for the remainder of the season in Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia. Williams reported that 12 OPA district chiefs in the five states would meet with local ration boards and report back to Cleveland next Monday to outline a definite program for the remainder of the season.
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Cleviland
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
West
Virginia
Birkett L. Williams
Office of Price Administration
Williams
OPA
Cleveland
Lausche Asked to Name Suspected Road Contractors
In Columbus Roland C Jaley executive secretary of the Ohio Good Roads Federation urged Governor Lausche to reveal the names of road contractors he says have been indicted for bid collusion on highway work. He claimed it would be impossible to find collusion in the current or Bricker administrations if facts exist.
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Columbus
Roland .c. Jaley
Ohio Good Roads Federation
Frank 3. Lausche
John Bricker
Caley
Fragmentary OCR notes on native totem linesmen terms
Fragmented text references a white man puzzled by Oxinawa native and a Marine. Mentions a low man squatting on the ground near a totem bole and linesmen keeping feather neck communications on lines working. Content is uncertain and incomplete.
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Iines
Davey Backs School Bill Pushes Ohio funding plan
Former Gov Martin L Davey urged Governor Lausche to sign the Daniels Cramer bill providing 111 008 000 for Ohio schools, aligning with House and Senate approval while noting a 10 mill tax limitation reduces local school revenues and stressing state obligation to fund the gap. He cites wartime cost increases as context.
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Kent
Man bound over in fatal shooting of wife
James Murphy 24 of Indiantown Gap Pa charged with the fatal shooting of his wife in Youngstown on Thursday was bound over to another grand jury yesterday.
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Youngstown
James Murphy
Indiantown Gap
War Pushes Synthetic Rubber Use in Tires
Akron report notes eighty five percent of current tires use synthetic rubber and aircraft tires rely on it. James J Newsman of B. F. Goodrich says postwar era may combine both rubbers, with natural rubber in the carcass and synthetic in the tread, shaping future tire construction.
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Akron
James J. Newsman
B. F. Goodrich Co
Goodrich
Mrs Myrtle Holm Smith Elected President of First Church
Mrs Myrtle Holm Smith of Waban was elected president of the Mother Church at the annual meeting of the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston today succeeding Paul Stark Seeley.
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Boston
Myrtle Holm Smith of
Waban
First Church of Christ Scientist
Paul Stark Seeley
Boundaries Restored to 1937 Lines Across Germany
Allied Powers announced Germany’s frontiers would be rolled back to December 31 1937, creating four occupation zones for the Soviet Union United Kingdom United States and France plus a Greater Berlin area under inter Allied control. The plan disarms Germany forfeits ships planes war factories and assets and orders surrender of Nazi leaders implicated in war crimes. President Truman seeks 11.41 million dollars for rivers harbors and flood control including Portsmouth New Boston and Cincinnati.
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Washington
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Russia
Hitler
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
London
Paris
Soviet Union
Berlin
State Department
Eisenhower
Frankfurt-on-Main
Greater Berlin
Control Council
Truman
Congress
Portsmouth-New Boston
Cincinnati
Ohio
Two Destroyers Lost in Japanese Air Attacks Near Okinawa
Recent Japanese raids around Okinawa sank the destroyers Morrison and Luce, each with crew over 200. Admiral Nimitz confirmed a heavy loss while noting an enemy air attack that downed 45 Nipponese planes. Japanese coast raids reached Kobe, causing major damage to docks, shipyards, rail centers, and steel mills. Concurrently, Chinese reports say Japanese forces pulled back toward Canton as U.S. divisions advanced in the Southern Philippines and Luzon fronts.
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Okinawa
Morrison
Luce
Nimitz
Kobe
Japan
Kobei Steel Mills
Yokohama
Tokyo
Canton
China
Siapu
Foochow
U. S
Philippines
Davao
Gla Village
Luzon
Cold Weather to Persist Through Week in Chicago Area
Forecasters in Chicago warned there is no immediate relief from the mass of cold air that moved in from Hudson Bay last week. Warm air is not expected to completely displace the cool masses before Saturday. Frost conditions appeared in Wisconsin Michigan northeastern Minnesota and extreme northern Illinois and Indiana.
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Chicago
Hudson Bay
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Iinois
Indiana
Churchill Opens Fight With Labour Party
Prime Minister Winston Churchill attacked the Socialist program of Labour opponents calling it abhorrent to British ideas of freedom. The press viewed this as a sign the election campaign will be fierce with Churchill saying socialism is intertwined with totalitarianism and would require a political police. A separate notice warns of a looming Hillsboro water shortage similar to last year. Sportsmen across 40 Northeastern Ohio counties vote to ask the state conservation department to permit hunting white-tailed deer.
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Churchill
London
Kent
Ohio
State Conservation Department
Soldier Polio Victim Returns From Panama Flight
A smiling Ohio corporal, Charles G. Moeller of Cincinnati, 22, arrived in Indianapolis after a 22 hour flight from the Panama Canal Zone carrying a portable iron lung. He contracted infantile paralysis in February and will be treated at Billings General Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison.
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Indianapolis
Ohio
Panama Canal Zone
Charles G. Moeller
Incinnati
Army Air Transport Command
Billings General Hospital
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Here
Cuyahoga County Will Get Supply of Meat
Cleveland reports that meat quotas for Cuyahoga County may rise if the per person weekly supply falls below 12 pounds. Mayor Burke said Birkett Williams of the Office of Price Administration promised increases if a current survey shows the county under the minimum.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Thomas A. Burke
Birkett L. Williams
Price ‘Administration
American Legion Pushes Peacetime Draft Plan Enactment
The American Legion urges immediate enactment of a peacetime draft as the most economical means to bolster national security. John Thomas Taylor testified before the House Postwar Military Policy Committee, arguing a year of military training at 18 would foster self reliance leadership and community responsibility, while not resembling European compulsory service.
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American Legion
Washington
John Thomas Taylor
the Legion
America
Taylor
House
Europe
Taylor Lsted
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