Japs' Last Ditch Defenses Breached On Okinawa
Simultaneous American pre dawn attacks on Yaeju Plateau split the Japanese line on Okinawa. Marines etched heavy losses as 187 from a single company were killed or wounded in 36 hours of brutal cliff fighting. Japanese charges featured satchel charges and women in disguise. Tokyo signaled a near end as homeland defense fears rose.
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Okinawa
Yaeju
Tokyo
Mikado
Japan
Jcademy
Nippon Times
Ohio Gov to veto Daniels-Cramer School Bill
Columbus AP Gov Lausche sent his veto on the Daniels-Cramer school subsidy bill amid expectations it could be overridden. Senate and House leaders predicted a veto override attempt soon. The bill would have raised state school funding and salaries, with Lausche warning of multi-year costs and wider government expenses if enacted.
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Columbus
Tank J. Lauschhe
Virgil ¥. Cramer
Fth
Albert L. Daniels Chighland
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Don
Jusche
Ohio
Lausche
Dismissed Inspectors Seeking Reinstatement In Ohio Vote
Seven inspectors petition Franklin County court to force reinstatement after their dismissal from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles measure. Atty. Gen. Hugh S. Jenkins predicts a likely court order to reinstate, while Perry T. Ford faces a close 60 to 55 vote with 69 favorable to reinstate. Separately, price suits target 20 coal dealers in six counties to file ceiling prices with the OPA district office.
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Columbus
Perry T. Ford
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
W. S. Paxson
Fayette
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Ford
Hugh S. Jenkins
Cleveland
OPA
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 for 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 absent. Simultaneously small nations rally behind a proposal for another veto crack about ten years hence.
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San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Loan to FDR's Son Revealed By A P Head
New York reports show Caruthers Ewing of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co says a loan of 200000 to Elliott Roosevelt was settled for 4000 after three years. John Hartford, A and P president, confirms the tale as substantially correct.
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New York
Caruthers Ewing
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartford
Hartford
Westbrook Pegler
King Features
Roosevelt
Pegler
Ewing
Danville
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Texas
Big Three Meet Date Fixed for Moscow Conference
President Truman announced that a Big Three meeting is set in Moscow this Friday though time and place were not disclosed. He said aims include a unified Polish government on a broad base and noted veto powers among the five major powers. The Australian amendment passed after hours of debate as the Security Council reform issue loomed.
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Washington
Truman
Alay
Moscow
Tay Lamb Scheduled To Hospital Tables
Tay Lamb runs over red points in a report from the Animal League with the little fellow gamboled. if no proof of méship emerges, it will be furnished to hospital or charity.
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Tay Lamb
Animalive League
Peer & Hospital
7TH LOAN BOX SCORE 7TH LOAN BOX SCORE
Rich Borneo oil fields fired by fleeing Japs as Australian Ninth Division advances in Borneo on two fronts. The report tracks units, losses, and fuel and oil figures with notes on Seria storage tanks and Labuan harbour, citing Lieutenant General R L Morshead’s forecast and press warnings of a tougher campaign ahead.
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Borneo
James Hutcheson
Brunei Bay
R. L. Morshead
Ihe
Fernas
Serna
Labuan
Janese
Southerners Battle Anti Poll Tax Measure
Washington is the stage for a Senate filibuster as Southern Democrats resist fair employment legislation and an abolition of poll taxes. The House had approved the measure 251 to 105, but southern opposition threatens passage in federal elections. In Columbus, Ohio, Paul A. Grate of Alliance was elected department commander of the Sons of Union Veterans, a great nephew of John Grate who was a prior Ohio GAR commander.
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Washington
Senate
House
Grate
Columbus
Ohio Department of the Sons of Union Veterans
Paul A. Grate
Alliance
John Grate
Ohio
Truman Presses Swift Senate Action on UN Charter
President Truman urged ratification of the United Nations peace charter before the congressional recess. Officials say he told leaders action should follow the San Francisco Conference drafts and warned delay could empower anti participation sentiment. Senator Burton praised the Dumbarton Oaks progress and called the charter well within Senate policy.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Congress
Congressional
San Francisco
Burton
Ohio
Dumbarton Oaks
Predictions of Civilian Travel Cuts for War Reorganization
Washington AP predicts August reductions in civilian rail travel to free half the Pullman cars and 10 to 12 percent of coaches for military use through March 1936. J Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation warns many will need a No 2 airplane priority. Diverted rail cars will form troop movements averaging 303000 men daily as Pacific redeployment accelerates. War Production Board places freight car manufacturing on urgency list with third band manpower priority.
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J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Johnson
Pacific
War Production Board
House Passes Mediem Small Business Bill
The House completed passage of a Mechem bill to create a 15 member female business commission to encourage such enterprises and report recommendations by Jan 15 1947. Also approved was a Mount Vernon sanitarium plan for tuberculosis patients and salary increases for elective county officials with an emergency clause.
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Columbus
House
C. Stanley Mechem
Ralph A. Win J
Carte. Medina
Winester
National Bank Battle Looms In Midwest Finance Drive
A seven year fight by midwestern banks to break eastern dominance in corporate financing moves to industrial financing. Otis Co of Cleveland and Halsey Stuart Co of Chicago lead a syndicate that has forced competitive bidding since 1928 for rail, telecomm, and utility issues and will push the same method into industrial financing, with underwriters sharing in the profits.
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Cleveland
Otis & Co
Halsey Stuart &Co
Chicago
New Airfields in China To Be Used by Yanks
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault of the U.S. 14th Air Force announced new American airfields will be installed in China to aid upcoming battles against Japan. He said the force would exploit the Japanese withdrawal from southeast China to put the airfields into operation quickly.
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China
Kunming
Claire Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Chennault
14Th Air Force
We Flew Without Guns character tied to marriage
Former Gerry Ewing once a pin up girl became the wife of author Capt Genovese of Los Angeles. She was linked to a civilian Hump era flyer who won her photo for his pin up collection, then married her three weeks after returning to America.
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Gerry Ewing
Gen Genovese
Los Angeles
India
China
America
Court reveals adoptions of Tegal babies
In Columbus four wives of servicemen had illegitimate children placed for adoption by Franklin County Probate Court without their husbands’ knowledge. Judge C. P. McClelland said testimony showed the fathers could not be the husbands. The court prioritized child welfare, deeming the children fatherless and not requiring notice to husbands.
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Columbus
UPI
Franklin County
C. P. McClelland
Ohio State Journal Today
Army
Stars and Stripes
California
House of Representatives
Legislative Assembly
Aluminum To Be Released For Civilian Goods
A War Production Board spokesman said aluminum freed by military cutbacks will be released to civilian goods manufacturers within the next day or two, accelerating to two weeks ahead of schedule. More than 100 million pounds a quarter may be released, possibly up to 300 million pounds, exceeding prewar civilian consumption.
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Washington
Wat
Lone Yank Cracks Japs Shuri Line On Okinawa
Clarence Craft of Santa Ana California earned praise for single handedly wiping out a Japanese pocket in 10 to 18 minutes using a Garand rifle grenades and a demolition charge. His actions helped break the Shuri defense line as U S forces intensified operations on Okinawa. News from the 10th Army describes daring night assaults on cliff faces and heavy counterattacks from cave defenses with remarks from Col George F Unimacht about forthcoming surprises. Ten enemy planes were downed.
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Okinawa
Clarence KE
Craft
Santa Ana
Calif
U. S. 10Th Army
Honolulu
George F. Unimacht
Okinawa Battles and Far East War Developments Reported
A compressed wartime update notes U S forces countering Japanese defense at Naha Harbor and Okinawa with air and sea actions. Reports speak of ships sunk, ground advances in Luzon and Borneo, and Japanese cabinet moves to seize control of transport and communications as Allied air raids continue. Paris dispatches mention a Moscow trip rumor regarding Soviet mediation, while southern Japan experiences ongoing aerial interceptors.
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Naha Harbor
Fleet Air Wing 18
Okinawa
Sixth Marine Division
Oroka
Tokyo Bay
Peninsula
Honshu Island
U. S
Cagayan
Luzon
Pines
Jing
Bougainville Island
Solomons
War Ministry
Japan
Pacific
Aussies
Muara
Labuan
Brunei Bay
Borneo
Brunei
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Claire Chennault
China
Ishan
Hoyan
Canton
Paris
Domei
Fumimaro Emonoye
Moscow
America
Britain
WPB Studies Request for More Paper
The Wat Production Board discussed a newspaper industry recommendation for larger July to September newsprint allotments. A WPB spokesman called the proposed increase slight and partly tied to reduced federal paper demand. Rumors say a one-degree relaxation may cut curtailments to 3 6 9 15 and 35 percent for small to large papers.
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Washington
Wat Production Board
WPB
Senate Asked To Probe Newsprint Shortage
Washington senators Butler and Willis introduced a resolution urging a Senate inquiry into the newsprint shortage. Butler argued that government paper use rose eight and a half times in four years while private publishers face greater production hardships.
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Washington
Senate
Butler
R-Neb
Willis
R-Ind
Nazi Spirit Still Alive In Occupied Germany
Berlin reports describe lingering Nazi sentiment in occupied Germany with street propaganda, arson by Hitler Youth, and shootings of Russian officers. An American observer recalls a youthful German’s hostile, wary talk and a cryptic warning of a future confrontation with the Russians.
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Occupied
Germany
Eddie Gilmorn
Berlin
Hitler
Eggs vanish from Cleveland groceries report
Cleveland housewives say many neighborhood stores are short on eggs. War Food Administration agent Fred Nightingale notes 58,307 crates of eggs on hand now, down from 134,376 crates a year ago. In Middletown, a new bridge over the Great Miami River at an estimated cost of 31,000 will be built, according to the city commission.
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NM Oegen
Fred&. Nightingale
War Food Administration
Middletown
Miami
Insane Woman Witnesses Valid Credibility Ruling
Ohio Supreme Court affirms that a person of unsound mind may be a credible witness. The ruling upholds Francis Wildman’s conviction for a statutory offense against an insane woman. Two insane sisters testified for the prosecution, and the court said competence rests on understanding oath and relevance.
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Columbus
Trumbull
Ohio Supreme Court
Francis Wildman
Wildman
Supreme Court
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