House Turns Attention to School Bill In Ohio Legislature
Columbus AP report details the Ohio House taking up the Daniels Kramer School Bill amid expected passage despite Governor Sausche veto. Senate overrode last week, House needs 82 votes for final passage of 111 million dollars for schools. a postwar building program, highway funding, and flood reimbursements are debated along with smaller amendments. Senate schedules early summer adjournment and tentative returns, while a party ballot access reform bill advances.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Frank J. Sausche
Senate
House
George P. Grusenmeyer
Montgomery
L. C. Washburn
Summit
Ohio River
Ohio
Carl D. Sheppard
R Summit
Investigation of Loan to Roosevelt Urged by Knutson
Rep Knutson of Minnesota plans to move that Brig Gen Elliott Roosevelt and John Hart Fort be summoned before the Ways and Means Committee. He seeks a complete explanation of reports that Hartford loaned the president’s son 200000 dollars, recovered 4000, and listed 196000 as a bad debt for tax deduction.
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Washington
Knutson
R-Minn
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartfort
Hose Ways and Means Committee
Hartford
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Expansion Plans by Electric Company Revealed
Officials outlined 16 county improvements extending south to the Ohio River including a new high voltage line from Big Walnut near Columbus to Fredwood near Nelsonville at 270000. Other projects add a dam at Floodwood River for 75000 and rural service extensions at 225000 plus line upgrades 751000. A new Big Walnut boiler and coal handling plant estimated at 1409000, with Picway plant boiler at 1080000 nearing completion. Additional 98000 for minor plant improvements. Ordered 65 trolleybuses for 600000 and negotiating 35 motorbuses for 350000 with delivery 14 to 18 months. Overhead construction 450000 to ready new vehicles.
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Big Walnut
Picway
Office of Defense Transportation
Jits
Small Nations Seek Revision Of Peace Plan
San Francisco report says several small nations press for changes to the world security charter at the United Nations Conference. They oppose veto power in the Security Council and threaten withdrawal if three conditions aren’t met. The Big Five acknowledge possible revisions may occur, but seek a time limit and a conference to review charter reforms.
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San Francisco
Security Council
Lewis Studies Miners Diet in West Virginia
Charleston West Virginia John L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers of America said miners cannot keep up strength and production on a stenographer s diet He would look into the coal miners diet on a routine inspection trip in West Virginia Work stoppages have occurred in southern West Virginia mines as miners said the Office of Price Administration had not permitted enough red meat and seasoning for beans and potatoes
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Charleston
W.va
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of América
West Virginia
Office of Price Administration
Pittsburgh to Stage Celebration for Vets
Pittsburgh plans a gala celebration for three generals and 37 other officers and enlisted men arriving June 25 from Germany. The servicemen, from Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia, will be flown in, said Mayor Cornelius Scully. Arthur Hicks, 50, a freight train conductor, was killed yesterday when he fell under a box car in Cincinnati.
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Pittsburgh
Germany
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Cornelius Scully
Cincinnati
Arthur Hicks
Gas Leak After Tank Truck Crash in Columbus
About 600 gallons of gasoline flooded a street last night after a tank truck sideswiped an automobile. O. R. Chrysler of Newark, driver of the tank truck, blamed the crash on the bright lights of an approaching car, police said.
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Columbus
O. R.' Chrysler
Newark
War Production Board Approves Fancier Shoes Return
The War Production Board authorized a shift back to fancier women’s footwear, predicting more plentiful supplies of two tone spectators and reptile shoes, huaraches, and decorative styles. The ban on shoes with fancy stitching lacing overlays and gillie ties was also lifted to conserve materials.
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War Production Board
WPB
Mines Returned to Private Owners by Ickes
Washington Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes announced the return of 260 bituminous coal mines to private owners after strikebound wage disputes. Mines located in Pennsylvania Ohio Tennessee Virginia Kentucky West Virginia Illinois Indiana and Alabama were included in the action.
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Ickes
Washington
Solid Fuels
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ilinois
Indiana
Alabama
Probe Ordered Over Army Food Shortage in Philippines
Rep Clar ence J Brown of Blanchester Ohio Republican said an investigation is ordered into reports of a food shortage for soldiers in the Philippines where the 27th Division fights Gen George Marshall advised him of the probe He wrote Marshall after letters from soldiers families said no fresh meat had been received for months.
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Philippines
Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Republican
Ohio
Brown
George Marshall
Marshall
Father and son drown when canoe capsizes in Lake White
William Hartis, 35, and his son Jimmy, 5, of Columbus, drowned when their motor canoe capsized on Lake White last night. Mrs. Hartis and daughter Sandra, 7, were rescued.
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William Hartis
Jimmy
Columbus
Lake White
Von Ribbentrop Taken Prisoner at Hamburg
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in Hamburg as he slept, ending the chase by Allied investigators. The former diplomat, last major Nazi leader at large, carried letters to Montgomery, Eden, and Churchill. He faced possible trial for war crimes after surrendering willingly.
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Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Europe
Alexander
von Ribbentrop
Ames
Athens
Canaan
Carthage
Can Dover
Tae
Lodi
Rome
Troy
Hitler
Waterloo
York
Nelsonville
Taining
Platt
Ribbentrop
Lueneberg
Field Marshal Montgomery
Anthony Eden
Vincent Churchill
Britain
France
Joachim von, Ribbentrop
England
Government Housing Units Liquidated by Federal Projects
The government is winding down its low income housing program. Eighteen of thirty-two non farm projects created since 1933-34 have been sold. Most houses in five more are now owned by residents, with liquidation planned for the rest. Three of seven government industrial plants have been sold, totaling about a 50 percent loss. Three Greenbelt area projects remain government held. The Federal Security Agency is also disposing of over 100 farm subsistence homesteads under Congressional direction.
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Washington
Federal Public Housing Authority
Greenbelt
Greendale
Wis
Green Hills
Ohio
Federal Security Agency
Congress
seventeen killed in plane crash near Vicksburg
In Mississippi near Vicksburg a large transport plane exploded and crashed killing seventeen naval personnel, among them two WAVES, with a Navy lieutenant seriously injured. Eye witnesses described the aircraft as climbing and dipping before the crash, then exploding and scattering wreckage and bodies over a wide area.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Here
Owen W. Baldwin
Jackson Funeral Home
Baldwin
Draft boards to examine youths with one eye for service
Ohio selective service headquarters announces draft boards will send 18 to 26 year old men who are blind in one eye for preinduction examinations. If sight in the affected eye is satisfactory, the registrant will be labeled qualified for such duties as the Army may determine.
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Army
Columbus
Ohio Selecttive Service
Destruction of Japan Promised by General Arnold
Japanese ground forces on Okinawa retreating with stiff resistance still in the Philippines. American leaders in Washington expect Japan to surrender within 90 days or the war will stretch into a long attritional period. Representative remarks frame the forecast.
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Fly
Associated Press
Okinawa
Borneo
China
Philippines
Washington
Japan
Rep
Destruction Promise From Gen Arnold On Japan Bombing
Gen H H Arnold declared air forces will reach 2 000 000 tons of bombs a year by July 1 to obliterate Japan. He warned Japan will live in a terrible place as 520 B 29s raided Osaka with 3 000 tons of fire bombs and noted Tokyo Nagoya Yokohama Kobe and Osaka as key targets. Ma j Gen Curtis LeMay accompanied Arnold on the visit.
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Guam
Japan
H. H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Arnold
Osaka
China
Tokyo
Nagoya
Yokoshama
Kobe
Curtis FE. LeMay
21St Bomber Command
LeMay
Peace Training Held Essential Urges Universal Military Draft
General Eisenhower told House leaders that fairness to the country and survival in war require universal military training in peacetime. From Okinawa reports describe Japanese willingness to fight fading as 64 Marines and others advance against Japean positions. Australians near Brunei and the Philippines drive toward Manila while housing units near Cambridge receive approval for sale or rent.
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Eisenhower
House Committee
Europe
Woodrum
D-Ma
Gannon
D.mo
House Appropriations Committee
Okinawa
Associated Press
al Cooking
96Th
Yaeju
Seventh Infantry
Nakaza
Marine Corsair
Devil Dogs
China
Wenchow
Foochow
Shanghai
Borneo
Brunei
Timbalai
Batavia Radio
North Borneo
South Borneo
Philippines
U.S. 37Th Infantry Division
Manila
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Gandhi Turns Fight Over To Ex-Prisoners
Gandhi relinquishes leadership to eight freed Congress Working Committee members as Field Marshal Lord Wavell announces their release. Simla talks set for June 25 on India self government with two extra Indian executive posts. Kalam Azad not invited, but released from restraint. effort viewed as oversight in Bombay.
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Bombay
Mohandas K Gendhi
Congress Working Committee
Congress Party
Maulana
Abdul Kalam Azad
Congress
Simla
Kalam Azad
Industrial sugar quota cuts announced for July to September
The OPA ordered steep cuts in industrial sugar allotments for the July through September quarter to match scarce supplies. Most industrial users face reductions to 50 percent of their 1941 base, with bakers and cereals at 60 percent and pharmaceuticals at 110 percent. Overissuance for home canning and lower world sugar production cited as causes.
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Washington
OPA
Bakers
Bowles
Borneo Natives Attack Jap Troops In Support Of Invasion
Report from Brunei Bay describes Dyaks in Brunei Town furnishing details of attacks on Japanese forces. Natives clad in combat regalia allegedly used poison-dart blowers swords and spears to kill fourteen Japanese over the past two days as part of support for the Australian Liberation effort on Borneo.
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Brunei Bay
Borneo
Brunei
5 048 Added to Combat Casualty List
War department figures show Army and Navy casualties rising to 1 017 097 with 5 948 new losses in the week. Secretary Stimson reports Army deaths total 899 952 based on names received through June 7 reflecting fighting through mid May. Navy casualties total 117 143.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Secretary of War
Stimson
Eisenhower lauds unity of Allied invasion force
A press conference quote from General Eisenhower credits the D-Day success to a unified air sea and ground force. General LeMay and General Arnold discuss wartime bombing results on Japanese cities Osaka and Tokyo, while Knoxville plans a Great Lakes to Charleston superhighway funded by bonds and run as a toll road.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Europe
Gsaka
Osaka
Kobe
Yokohama
Kawasaki
Nagoya
LeMay
Tokyo
Knoxville
Tenn
Great Lakes
Charleston
S.C
Congress
Howard J. Douglass
Middlesboro
Navy to Use Fiber Glass for Life Jacket Filler
The Navy announced a contract with Owens Corning Fiber Glass Corp of Toledo Ohio for large quantities of fiber to fill life jackets. Deliveries begin January 1 1946 as kapok supplies from Java dwindle after the Japanese occupation.
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Washington
Navy Department
Owens- Corning Fiber Glass Corporation
Toledo
Ohio
Java
Airborne invasion shown for fathers at Fort Benning
FY, BENNING Ga. Fathers and guests, selected from among the fathers of 11 soldiers and a WAC, toured Fort Benning over Father’s Day weekend. They arrived for a four day, expenses paid visit and watched an airborne invasion demonstration.
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Benning
Ft. Benning
WAC
Air power plan hints at Japan destruction by air
The speaker cites thousand small targets in Japan and cheap backyard planes as part of a destruction program to defeat Japan. He discusses transferring 42,000 planes from Europe to the Pacific and using every land mass for maximum striking power, mentioning Gen. James T. Doolittle and the Highth Air Force.
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Japan
Germany
James T. Doolittle
Highth Air Force
Ten-Year Parliament Ends Tenure In Britain
London observers mark the end of a unique ten year Parliament as Britain prepares for a July 5 election. The caretaker government under Prime Minister Churchill will run the country until the July 25 results are known, signaling postwar trends within the United Nations.
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London
United Nations
Britain
Churchill
Saratoga Suffered Heavy Damage at Iwo Jima Fight
Navy reports the carrier Saratoga took severe early damage during the Iwo Jima battle with seven direct bomb hits. Despite fires and flooding, the ship survived, was repaired, and returned to action. Casualties reached 123 killed or missing, 192 wounded. two follow-on strikes caused further damage before control was reestablished.
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Navy
Saratoga
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Saray
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Towa Jima
Hoembh
Car
Carier
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