Okinawa Battle Breaches Japs Defenses In Surprise Pre-Dawn Attack
Pre dawn American assaults on Yaeju Plateau flank the Japanese line on Okinawa. First Division Marines seize western ridge while Seventh Division infantry hold eastern anchor. Heavy field artillery batter caves as 10,000 to 15,000 Japanese dig in atop the plateau amid fierce night fighting. Marine casualties mount with 137 killed or wounded in 36 hours.
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Okinawa
Associated Press
Yaeju
Seventh Division
Chor
Tokyo
Japan
Nippon Times
Shuri
Clarence B. Craft
Santa Ana
Calif
Craft
U. S. 10Th Army
Honolulu
George F. Unemacht
Ohio Senate moves to override Lausche veto on school bill
Ohio Governor Lausche vetoed the Daniels Cramer School Bill saying it would cost about 132 million for two years and raise state government costs by at least 40 million. Senators Virgil Cramer and Albert Danielson signaled an immediate override, with House leaders predicting the veto would be sustained.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Daniela Cramer
Ohio Senate
Virgil E. Cramer
Albert L. Danielson
Highland
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Lausche
Vgz
Daniels- Cramer
Youngstown
Tiffin
Ohio
Mhouse
Australian Amendment to Veto Legislation Is Beaten
SAN FRANCISCO AP defeat of an Australian amendment cleared the way for approval in a United Nations Conference committee of the Big Five demand for total veto control of proposed machinery for world security. The amendment would have removed the veto from steps to settle international disputes peacefully and limited it to use of force. It was voted down 20 to 10 with fifteen abstentions and five absences. Simultaneously small nations rallied behind a proposal to be promised another crack at the veto about ten years hence.
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San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Loan to FDR's Son Revealed by AP Head
A&P general counsel Caruthers Ewing says a 200000 dollar loan to Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt from A&P president John Hartford was settled for 4000. Hartford called Pegler's syndicated column account substantially correct and said the debt was resolved three years later at the request of the Roosevelt family through Jesse Jones. Elliott Roosevelt, then 29, used the loan to support Texas radio interests as A&P weighed concerns about potential embarrassment to the president.
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New York
Caruthers’ Ewing
Atlantic-and Pacific Tea. Co
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartford
Hartford
Westbrook Pegler
King Features
Roosevelt
Pegler
Ewing
Danville
Elliott
Peglett
Cordiny
Big Three Meet Date Fixed For Moscow Talks
President Truman announced the Big Three meeting is set but time and place will be revealed on arrival. He cited hopes for a unified Polish government and discussed a veto formula requiring unanimous consent by Russia France United States China and Britain for Security Council actions. The group opposed any exemption for its own disputes.
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Washington
Truman
Moscow
Russia
France
United States
China
Britain
Security Council
The
World Organization
Stray Lamb Found Near Public Square to Go to Hospital
A stray lamb found near Public Square in Cleveland caused material stoppage and drew attention from the Animal Protective League. The animal will be housed at a hospital or charitable institution unless ownership is proven.
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Cleveland
Animalotective League
Japanese bombard Seria oil fields in Borneo invasion flare
Allied reports describe Japanese forces firing West Borneo’s Seria oil fields and surrounding storage tanks before their advance on the island. Australian Ninth Division advances face rivers swamps and mountains as Lt General Morshead warns the real fighting is ahead and booby traps hint at planned Japanese withdrawal.
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James Hutcheson
Samei Bay
Borneo
Tast
Fernes
Seria
Labuan
Brunei Bay
Ninth Division
R. L. Morshead
Southerners Battle Anti Poll Tax Measure in Senate Fight
In Washington Southern Democrats, bypassing fair employment practices legislation, planned a filibuster to thwart House approved action to abolish poll taxes for federal elections. The House had voted 251 to 105 to outlaw poll taxes, prompting southern senators to vow fierce resistance. In Columbus Ohio the Sons of Union Veterans elected Paul A. Grate of Alliance as department commander, a great nephew of John Grate who was chosen Ohio GAR commander this week.
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Washington
Senate
House
Columbus
Ohio ‘Department of the Sons of Union Veterans
Pail A. Grate
Alliance
John Grate
Ohio Gar
Truman Urges Quick Senate Action on UN Charter
President Truman pressed for swift Senate ratification of the United Nations peace charter after the San Francisco Conference drafts, warning delay could aid opponents and effectively rule out a summer adjournment. Senator Burton praised progress on Dumbarton Oaks proposals as well within policy.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Congress
Congressional
San Francisco
Burton
Ohio
Dumbarton Oaks
Predictions of Civilian Travel Cuts for War Effort
Washington AP reports civilian travel to shrink in August as half the Pullman cars and 10 to 12 percent of railroad coaches are withdrawn through March 1946 for military use. Air travel also tightens with No 2 airplane priority. Johnson cites troop movements, Pacific redeployment, and freight car industry urgency alongside grain storage strains.
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J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Johnson
Pacific
War Production Board
House Passes Mechem Small Business Bill in Ohio
COLUMBUS Fi The House yesterday completed passage of a bill by Sen C Stanley Mechem to create a 15 member small business commission and report recommendations by January 15 Mount Vernon sanatorium for tubercular care was also approved by the House as the Senate backed salary increases for elective county officials The measure carries an emergency clause making it effective upon passage and gubernatorial signing with estimated a 16 percent rise in salaries and an extra 385000 cost when all rose in 1949, benefiting mainly smaller counties.
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Columbus
House
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
Senate
Mount Vernon
Ralph A. Winter
Medina
Winter
National Bank Battle Looms
A syndicate led by Otis & J. C. of Cleveland and Halsey Stuart & Co. of Chicago plans to extend the rail and utility bidding model to industrial finance. The move aims to shift from private negotiations to competitive bidding, promising rich underwriting fees if industrials follow.
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Cleveland
Otis &J.c
Halsey Stuart & Co
Chicago
New Airfields in China To Be Used by Yanks
Maj. Gen. Claire Chenault announces new American airfields will be installed in China to support battles against Japan. He says the 14th Air Force will rapidly activate additional fields as the Japanese withdraw from southeast China, maximizing airpower opportunities.
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China
Kunming
Chiba
Claire Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Chennault
14Th Air Force
Court Reveals Adoptions of Illegal Babies
In Columbus Franklin County Probate Court Judge C P McCleland says at least four wives of servicemen bore illegitimate children and had them adopted without their absent husbands knowledge or consent The Ohio State Journal quotes him noting he approved four adoptions after testimony convinced him the husbands could not be the fathers The Stars and Stripes criticized a California House bill permitting such adoptions without notifying husbands The judge adds the court must look to the child welfare and that the children were fatherless in the eyes of the law, so notice to husbands was unnecessary
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Columbus
Franklin County
C. P. McCleland
Ohio State Journal Today
Army
Stars and Stripes
California
House of Representatives
Legislative Assembly
Aluminum Released for Civilian Goods by War Board
A War Production Board spokesman said aluminum freed by military cutbacks will be released for civilian goods within the next day or two. The action, two weeks ahead of schedule, will free more than 100 million pounds, a quarter for cookware, with total possibly reaching 300 million pounds, surpassing prewar consumption.
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Washington
War Production Board
Ten Enemy Planes Downed In Pacific War Update
Allied air units claimed destruction of ten enemy planes and damage to several ships near Okinawa and Honshu. Reports indicate Japanese attempts with flamethrower tanks and renewed air raids, while American forces advance in Luzon and Borneo. Paris rumors placed Emone’s envoy to Moscow seeking Soviet mediation, but officials doubt the claim.
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Naha Harbor
Fleet Air Wing 18
Okinawa
Sixth Marine Division
Orokai
Tokyo Bay
Peninsula
Honshu
U.S
Cagayan
Luzon
Piness
Bougainville Island
Solomons
War Ministry
Pacific
Aussies
Muara
Labuan
Brunei Bay
Borneo
Pushloa
Brunei
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Claire Chennault
China
Chinese High Command
Ishan
Hoyan
Canton
Paris
Domei
Fumimaro Emonoye
Moscow
America
Britain
WPB considers small relaxation in newsprint curtailment
The War Production Board studied a newspaper industry request for larger July to September newsprint allotments. A WPB spokesman called the proposed increase slight, citing reduced government paper demands. Some sources noted a possible one degree easing, lowering curtailments from 4 8 12 20 and 24 percent to 3 3 9 15 and 18 percent for different paper sizes.
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Washington
War Production Board Today
WPB
Senate Asked To Probe Newsprint Shortage
Senators Butte and Willis introduced a resolution urging a Senate inquiry into the newsprint shortage. In a speech Butler argued government paper use rose eight and a half times in four years while private publishers faced growing cuts and hardship.
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Washington
T?i
Senate
Butte
R-Neb
Willis
R-Ind
Butler
Nazi Spirit Still Alive In Occupied Germany
Berlin dispatch reports that Nazism persists among locals, with youths openly spreading propaganda and attempting to sow distrust. Homes are set afire by Hitler Youth and Russian officers are targets of snipers. A fragmentary sighting notes a German youth attacking a passerby near the town hall, illustrating ongoing hostility.
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Occupied
Germany
Eddie Gilmore
Berlin
Hitler
Sabo
Northes J Town Hall
Eggs vanish from Cleveland grocers amid wartime chatter
In Cleveland housewives report eggs missing from stores as War Food Administrator Fred S. Nightingale notes crates on hand and contrasts current stock with last year. A Red Army officer and a German youth appear, echoing wartime phrases as locals discuss Russians and war.
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Cleveland
Moscow
Fred S. Nightingale
Food Administration
Tvat
Red Army
Se Tong
Insane Woman Testimony Upheld as Credible Witness
Ohio Supreme Court affirms Trumbull County ruling that a person of unsound mind may be a credible witness. The conviction of Francis Widman for a statutory offense against an insane woman is upheld as two insane sisters testified as prosecuting witnesses. The court said a person of unsound mind is competent to state matters relevant to the issue and understands the oath.
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Columbus
Bridge to span Great Miar River in Middletown
Middletown city commission announced last night a new bridge will be built over the Great Miar River at an estimated cost of 1.9 million dollars. The project aims to improve traffic flow and connect the east and west sides of the city.
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Middletown
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