House Turns Attention to School Bill
COLUMBUS AP The House of Representatives keeps an extra day to act on the Daniels program School Bill expected to pass despite Gov Lausche veto The Senate overrode the veto last Wednesday and the House needs two affirmative votes for final passage of 221000000 for schools in the current biennium The bill includes funding for welfare institutions university building expansion and state park projects A separate postwar building program totals 73231448 from a 92000000 surplus for veterans and civilians jobs The Senate will end its session June 28 return July 6 and July 19 to adjourn sine die Minor parties would need 10000 signatures from 45 counties to get on the ballot
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Frank J. Lausche
Senate
House
George P. Grusenmeyer
Montgomery
L. C. Washburn
Summit
Ohio State University
Michael J. O'Brien
Cuyahoga
O'Brien
Cleveland
Canton
Dayton
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Ohio
Carl D. Sheppard
R Summit
Expansion Plans Revealed By Electric Company
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric announces multi million dollar expansion. Projects cover 16 counties south to the Ohio River, including a Big Walnut to Floodwood high voltage line, new Floodwood dam, rural service extensions, and major boiler upgrades at Big Walnut and Picway plants. Delivery of new buses and overhead work to enable operation follow.
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Nouth
Ohio River
Big Walnut
Columbus
Floodwood
Nelsonville
Hocking River
Picway
Office of Defense Transportation
Small Nations Seek Revision Of Peace Plan
In San Francisco a UN conference votes today on revising the world security charter within five to ten years. Small nations oppose the Big Five veto tied to council action and threaten to pull out if revisions are blocked. Big Five acknowledge possible amendments but fear time limits could force a premature conference during crucial league proceedings.
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San Francisco
United Nations Conference
Security Council
Investigation of Loan To Roosevelt Is Urged
Rep. Knutson announces plan to bring Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt and John Hart Fort before the House Ways and Means Committee for a complete explanation of reports that Hartford loaned the late President's son 200000 dollars, recovered 4000, and listed a 196000 bad debt on the 1942 tax return.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Knutson
R-Minn
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartfort
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hartford
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
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 their strength and production on a stenographer s diet He would study miners diet during a routine inspection trip in West Virginia Work stoppages have occurred in southern West Virginia mines as miners argued the Office of Price Administration had not allowed sufficient red meat and seasoning for beans and potatoes
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Charleston
W.va
John Lb. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
West Virginia
Office of Price Administration
Pittsburgh prepares grand welcome for returning servicemen
Pittsburgh plans a gala celebration for three generals and 37 officers and enlisted men arriving June 25 from Germany. The group, residents of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, will be flown in, Mayor Cornelius Scully announced. A freight train collision in Cincinnati killed Arthur Hicks, 50, a conductor, who was crushed under a box car yesterday.
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Pittsburgh
Germany
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Cornelius Scully
Cincinnati
Arthur Hicks
Aege
600 Gallons of Gas Lost in Truck Mishap in Columbus
A tank truck sideswiped an automobile in Columbus last night causing about 600 gallons of gasoline to flood the street. The Newark driver, R. iChrysler, blamed the crash on the bright lights of an approaching car, police said.
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Columbus
R.| iChrysler
Newark
War Production Board Allows Return to Fancier Shoes
The War Production Board approved a shift back to more elaborate feminine footwear. Two tone spectators reptile shoes and paired heels may resume production as limits on fancy stitching lacing overlays and gillie ties are lifted. Feather shortages remain a constraint, but no major feather-saving measures are removed.
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Wasbuivuiuiv
War Production Board
WPB
Mines Returned to Owners by Ickes
Solia Ickes announces return of 260 bituminous coal mines to private owners after strike related wage disputes. Mines are in Pennsylvania Ohio Tennessee Virginia Kentucky West Virginia Illinois Indiana and Alabama.
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Washington
Solia Fieis
Ickes
Governmee
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia
Iinois
Indiana
Alabama
Probe Ordered Over Food Shortage in Philippines
Rep. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio's 8th district says an investigation is ordered into reports of an Army food shortage in the Philippines where the 37th Division fights. Brown cites Gen. George Marshall who advised him of the inquiry after letters from soldiers' families described no fresh meat for months.
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Philippines
Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Blanchester
Republican
Ohio
Brown
George Marshall
Marshall
Father and Son Drown in Lake White Canoe Accident
William Harris 36 and his son Jimmy 5 of Columbus drowned when their motor canoe capsized on Lake White last night. Mrs Harris and daughter Sandra 7 were rescued. another child in boat survived.
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William Harrris
Jimmy
Columbus
Lake White
Harris
Sandra
Von Ribbentrop Taken Prisoner at Hamburg
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in Hamburg as he slept, ending Europe’s longest postwar manhunt. He had hidden since April 30, was carrying a poison to use if trapped, and his arrest followed a British-led pursuit across western Germany. He faced possible trials in multiple nations.
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Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Europe
Alexander
von Ribbentrop
Ames
Athens
Canaan
Carthage
Lodi
Rome
Troy
Hitler
Waterles
York
Imerathens City
Belsonville
Ger
Gent
Wld
Ribbentrop
Lueneberg
Field Marshal
Anthony Eden
Vincent Churchill
Britain
France
England
Government Housing Units Liquidated Across Programs
The government is winding down the subsistence homestead program begun in 1933-34. Of 31 non farm projects, 18 have been disposed of, with many houses sold to residents. Eight projects remain to be liquidated, and three government plants were sold at substantial losses. Greenbelt Maryland, Green Dale Wisconsin, and Green Hills Ohio will be held until private builders finish nearby areas. The Federal Security Agency is selling over 160 farm subsistence homesteads under congressional direction.
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Washington
Federal Public Housing Authority
iThey
Greenbelt
Greendale
Wis
Green Hills
Ohio
Federal Security Agency
Congress
Plane crash kills seventeen naval personnel near Vicksburg
A bic transport plane exploded and crashed about 16 miles northeast of Vicksburg Miss killing seventeen people including seven teen naval personnel and two WAVES. A Navy lieutenant was seriously injured as witnesses said the craft disappeared after a 5000 foot climb and a fall of several thousand feet before the blast. Wreckage and bodies were scattered across a wide area.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Here
Owen W. Baldwin
Jackson Funeral Home
Baldwin
Youths With One Eye To Be Used by Army
Columbus selective service headquarters announces draft boards to send men aged 18 to 26 who are blind in one eye for preinduction examinations. If the sight in one eye is satisfactory, the registrant will be labeled qualified or assigned to military duties the Army deems suitable.
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Columbus
Ohin Selective Service
Total Destruction of Japan By Unprecedented Air Raids Promised By General Arnold
General Arnold pledges total destruction of Japan through unprecedented air raids. Allied reports say Japanese forces on Okinawa crack, retreat from Borneo, and quit two key fronts while delaying actions continue in the Philippines. US leaders foresee Japan surrender within 90 days or a long war of attrition.
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Japan
Arnold
Associated Press
Okinawa
Borneo
Philippines
Washington
2 Million Tons a Year Bombing Target Promised by Arnold
Gen H H Arnold, commander of U S Army Air Forces, vowed Japan will face massive air power, predicting 2,000,000 tons of bombs annually by July 1. He cited today’s Osaka firebombing by 520 B-29s and noted a 4500-ton Tokyo raid on May 24 as context for the plan. Maj Gen Curtis LeMay of the 21st Bomber Command accompanied him.
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Japan
H. H. Arnold
U.S. Army Air Forces
Arnold
Osaka
China
Tokyo
Nagoya
Yokoshama
Kobe
Curtis TE. LeMay
21St Bomber Command
LeMay
George C. Kenney
U. S. Far Eastern Air Forces
Germany
James TJ Doolittle
Highth Air Force
Peace Training Urges Universal Military Framing in Peace
Eisenhower tells House committee that fairness to the country and personal survival in war demand universal military framing in peacetime. From Okinawa war reports note Japanese will to fight broken as hundreds surrender and Allied forces advance in multiple theaters including Okinawa, Borneo, and Luzon. Regional housing agency approves 20 family dwellings for sale at 7000 and 15 homes with 860 monthly rent in Cambridge.
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Eisenhower
House
Europe
Woodrum
D-Va
Tannon
D.mo
House Appropriations Committee
Okinawa
Associated Press
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96Th
Yaeju
Seventh Infantry
Jakaza
Marine Corsa
Foochow
Wenchow
Shanghai
Borneo
Brunei
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Batavia Radio
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South Borneo
Philippines
U.S. 37Th Infantry Division
Manila
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Coltaua
National Housing Agency
Cambridge
Gandhi steps aside as eight Congress prisoners freed
Bombay dispatch reports Mohandas Gandhi freeing eight imprisoned Congress Working Committee members. He says he will step aside to let them drive independence talks. Field Marshal Wavell announces liberation. conference set for June 25 in Lima on Britain's revised offer of more Indian executive posts. Kalam Azad, named as president, was reportedly omitted but released.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Congress Working Committee
Lord Wavell
Lima
Britain
Owo
Executive Council
Gandhi
Wavell
Congress Party
Leacher
Maulana
Abdul Kalam Azad
Congress
Simla
Kalam Azad
Dyaks Attack Japanese in Borneo Fighting Near Brunei Town
Primitive Dyaks of Borneo reportedly aided the Australian invasion by attacking Japanese forces outside Brunei Town. Natives described wearing battle regalia and killing 14 Japanese in the last two days with poison-dart blowers swords and spears.
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Brunei Bay
Borneo
Na‘ives
Brunei
Hoday
5 048 Are Added to Combat Casualty List
Washington report shows total war casualties at 1 917 097 with 5 048 added in the last week. Secretary of War Stimson notes Army names through June 7 total 899 952 and reflect fighting into early May. Navy casualties reach 197 145, supplementing the Army total.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Stimson
Valers
Industrial Sugar Quota Cuts For July September Quarter
Washington AP reports the Office of Price Administration slashes industrial sugar allotments to roughly 37 to 14 percent under year-ago levels for the July to September quarter. Most industrial users face maximum cuts, with ice cream and beverage makers reduced to 50 percent of their 1945 base use, bakers and cereals to 60 percent, and pharmaceuticals to 110 percent. Overissuance for home canning and lower world sugar output cited as causes of the ongoing shortage.
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Washington
OPA
Bowles
Superhighway Plan Discussed by Great Lakes Group
In Knoxville Tennessee the Great Lakes Cincinnati Charleston Super-Military Highway Association discussed financing a transcontinental route from the Great Lakes to Charleston. Members favor a congressional bill to create a nationwide bond-financed system supervised by a federal commission. The road would be tolled until bond retirement.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Great Lakes
Charleston
D.C
Great ‘Lakes
Cincinnati
Aliten
Fyia
Navy to Replace Kapok Life Jackets with Fiber Glass
The Navy announced a contract with Owens Corning Fiber Glass Corp of Toledo Ohio to supply large quantities of fiber glass for life jackets. Deliveries begin January 1 1946 as kapok from Java runs out due to Japanese conquest of that region.
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Washington
Navy Department
Owens- Corning Fiber Glass Corporation
Fojedto
Ohio
Java
Fathers See An Airborne Invasion Demonstration
At Fort Benning Georgia, about four dozen fathers and guests toured an airborne invasion demonstration during a four day, expenses paid visit. They were invited by Army officials and included fathers of 11 soldiers and a WAC stationed there.
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FT. Benning
Iat
WAC
Eisenhower praises unity of D Day force
General Eisenhower told reporters the Allied invasion succeeded only because air sea and ground forces fought as a single unified force. LeMay Arnold and Kenney outlined heavy bombing plans, targets, and transfers to shift power from Europe to Japan, aiming to crush industrial centers.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Europe
Europa
Osaka
Kobe
Yokohama
Kawasaki
Nagoys
LeMay
Tokyo
Ten Year Parliament Ends Tenure In Bitter Campaign
Britain ends its ten year Parliament, the longest postwar session, as a caretaker government under Prime Minister Churchill prepares to govern until the July 25 election results are announced. The world watches the result as a barometer of postwar trends via the United Nations.
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London
United Nations
Britain
Churchill
Carrier Saratoga Crippled In Early Iwo Jima Fight
The Navy reports the carrier Saratoga sustained severe damage in the early Iwo Jima battle yet was repaired and back at action. Seven direct bomb hits caused 315 casualties including 123 killed or missing, with 192 wounded. The ship listed but maintained speed, and heroic actions aboard helped contain the fire.
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UPI
Navy
Saratoga
Iwoo Jima
Tan Jima
Tokyo
Sara
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Imwa Jima
Sata
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