Churchill Resigns To Clear Way For First Election In Ten Years
Prime Minister Churchill resigns ending the wartime coalition and paving the way for Britain's first general election in a decade. He will form a temporary caretaker government at the king's request to serve until the election likely on July 5. Labor ministers resign as required. Churchill may lead a brief caretaker Commons return with a new cabinet expected to include senior figures.
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Churchill
Great Britain
George VI
Labor
Commons
British Press Association
John Anderson
James Griggs
Andrew
Duncan
Lord Leathers
Britain
Germany
George
Treasury
Ministry of Information
Winston
Defense
Labor Party
Dunkerque
Blackpool
Clement Attlee
Japan
Ion Churchill
Iain
Truman to Address UN Conference in San Francisco
President Truman will travel to San Francisco in early June to address the final plenary session of the United Nations World Organization Conference. Secretary of State Stettinius announced after consultations with the president, noting a wide range of subjects on world affairs. Other political developments include Churchill resigning as prime minister and the coalition government facing an election, with labor factions debating timing and strategy for postwar Britain.
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Washington
Truman
San Francisco
Stettinius
Older men deferred as useful work policy announced
Washington AP reports Selective Service will grant indefinite deferments for men over 29 in work deemed useful by local boards, easing renewals. Draft call to drop about 20 percent to 90,000 with reviewing 4-F and limited registrants aged 18 to 25. Army officer predicts many 18-year-olds will enter draft by fall while Navy expands with younger enlistments.
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Washington
Selective Service
Youngeasco
Army
Navy
Mrs Anna Shorr rites set for Saturday in Logan
Funeral services for Mrs Anna Jane Shorr 85 former Logan resident who died at her Columbus home will be at St John’s Catholic Church Logan Saturday at 9 am. Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery by Roberts Funeral Service. Surviving are husband George in critical condition and children Edward Weston Charles Joseph John Mrs John McGonagle Mrs Mike McBride Florence. brother Joe Flum sister Louis.
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Anna Jane Shorr
Columbus
St. John's Catholic Church
Oak Grove Cemetery
Roberts
Shorr
George Shorr
Edward
Weston
W.va
Charles
Detroit
Joseph
John
John McGonagle
Newark
Mike McBride
Lancaster
Florence Shorr
Home
Joe Flum
Louis
The
Good Sisters Czavent
Flood Control District Directors Reappointed in Ohio
Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. Clifford in Columbus moved to ready the Selota Sandusky Conservancy District for postwar flood control. He reappointed E. F. Bearce, Joseph Vanmeter, and A. J. Alman to terms expiring 1947, 1549, and 1946 respectively. The district spans from Lake Erie to the Ohio River and includes Vinton County, created in 1935 but never funded.
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Columbus
Common Pleas
Joseph M. Clifford
Selota-Sandusky Conservancy
E.F. Bearce
Chillicothe
Joseph Vanmeter
A. J. Alman
Tiffin
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Ohio
Vinton County
Army Engineers
Ohio fruit crop forecast shows sharpest drop in years
Ohio's fruit yields are expected to be the smallest in years with 13 percent of normal grape harvest and as low as half of typical peach and apple crops. Late frost and freezes damaged orchards across the state, with Lake Erie counties facing near total failure, according to H C Ramsower of the Ohio State University Extension Service.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Service
H. C. Ramsower
Lake Erie
Average family living costs rise 0.4 percent in April
The National Industrial Conference Board reports that living costs for the average family of wage earners increased 0.4 percent from March to April in the United States. Food costs rose 0.7 percent, clothing 0.3 percent, and sundries 0.1 percent, with living costs 15 percent higher than a year earlier.
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New York
United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Yank Transfer Accelerated by Aid to Europe
The Truman administration said civilian needs in liberated Europe would receive priority in food fuel production and exports across four agencies without harming the war effort or the domestic economy. A War Production Board official pledged relief goods would be given necessary priority, noting only small shipments would be needed. Leo Crowley told Congress that France Belgium and Holland were supplying ports warehouses and labor under reverse land lease to aid Allied war operations.
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Washington
Europe
Truman
War Production Board
Leo T. Crowley
Congress
France
Belgium
Holland
Pacific
Yanks Break Okinawa Eastern Line In Big Advance
American infantry pierced the eastern anchor of the Okinawa defenses seizing Yonabaru Bay area after a surprise attack. Reports note gains in China fronts Philippines Burma and Southwest Pacific as redeployment plans for Allied forces unfold.
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Philippine
Yonabaru Bay
China
Philippines
Burma
Pacific Islands
Ath Dyon
Nonaharu
Sall
Archibald V. Arnold
CIO Calls for 20 Percent Wage Increase
CIO President Philip Murray told President Truman that the Congress of Industrial Organizations seeks a 20 percent rise in prevailing basic wage rates to restore prewar relationships among wages prices and productivity per man hour. The request includes 17 cents an hour for steel and other workers as part of reconversion efforts.
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Washington
CIO
Truman
Philip Murray
Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Office of War Mobilization
Mur-ray
Ohio Man Among First Over New Air Route
Casablanca May 1 The first group of American troops to be flown home over the new air ferry via the Mediterranean arrives from Italy comprising 80 men from the Fifth Army veterans. Civilians emerged from underground shelters near Shuri Okinawa as a six week underground life ended. Ray F Rubenstall of Gallipolis Ohio is named among the returning veterans. Ohio Farm Bureau rejects compulsory training for 18 year olds by a vote of 1 121 to 3 260 against.
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Mediterranean
U. S. Fifth Army
Okinawa
Alps
Pisa
Italy
Ray F. Rubenstall
Niel Wells
Yes- Ave
Gallipolis
Fife UN
Columbus
Ohio Farm
Yenabaru
Chinen Peninsula
Yonabara Bay
Nakagusuku Bay
Chinene
Shuri
Keystone Central Fortress
First Marine
Big Five in Dispute Over Veto Powers
United Nations Conference faces a last minute split over veto power. British diplomats urge renunciation of veto in international disputes. Some US delegates lean toward Britain but Russians may reject. Small nations could outvote Big Five in committees, risking concessions. Senate ratification questions a world league charter.
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San Francisco
United States
United States Senate
Government allows transfer of June slaughter quotas
Washington reports OPA will permit non federally inspected commercial slaughterers to continue limited operations after hitting May quotas. Emergency action allows Class 2 slaughterers to transfer up to twenty percent of their May quotas for each livestock species. June quotas must be reduced accordingly.
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Washington
OPA
Government Seizes Chicago Trucking Facilities
A presidential order to seize Chicago trucking facilities was awaited as Army troops arrived to take over and run lines for vital war materials and perishable foods amid a strike.
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Chicago
Japs Use Bomb Bearing Balloons Against West Coast
Washington AP reports Japan launches unmanned paper balloons over the Pacific, carrying bombs. Bombs are 33 feet wide, drifting widely with limited impact so far. Army and Navy say risks are tiny and no major damage occurred as fires have started in some sightings.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Enid
North America
Army
Navy
State Medical Body Seeks Insurance Operation Approval
The Ohio State Medical Association asked the secretary of state for permission to operate a medical surgical and obstetrical expense insurance company. Dr L H Sehriver of Cincinnati said collaboration with Ohio Blue Cross will allow prepaid coverage for certain medical expenses and hospital protection.
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Coluimbus
Ohio State Medical Association
Secretary of State
L. H. Sehriver
Cincinnati
Ohio Blue Cross Organization
Hospital Service Association
Meat Shortage Hits Egg Reserves
Meat hungry Americans are depleting substitutes as survey shows government supplies of butter cheese evaporated milk and eggs for fall and winter are not meeting demand. Europe faces hunger risk and Britain trims bacon rations while U S dairy output shifts to aid milk and cream. Egg and meat shortages threaten the civilian diet with tighter per capita supplies and local calls for meatless days.
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Associated Press
Europe
Ger
Warren F. Draper
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Britain
J. J. Lieweliin
Cleveland
Thomas A. Burke
New York City
New England
OPA
Nazi Government Leaders Held as POW in Flensburg
Supreme Headquarters announced that all acting German government members and members of the German High Command in Flensburg have been captured as prisoners of war. The report details Allied advances in Okinawa and the Philippines, including tank offensives on Luzon and Mindanao, and notes air and naval actions across the theater.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Faris
Flensburg
Voters Change Columbus Primary Date in Special Election
Columbus voters approved a charter amendment by five to one to move municipal primary election from September 18 to August 14. The change lets armed services members have more time to vote absentee ballots for city candidates and return them before the November elections.
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