Truman reshuffles cabinet adding Schnenbach and Anderson
President Truman announced a fourway cabinet reshuffle to modernize the roster. Lewis Schwellenbach becomes attorney general and Tom C. Anderson is named agriculture secretary, replacing Wickard and Perkins departs. Frank Walker and Hannegan join as new postmaster general and agriculture secretary respectively, signaling a liberal tilt with no anticipated further shifts.
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Washington
Truman
Agriculture
Labor
Robert E. Hannegan
Frank C. Walker
Texas
Tom C. Clark
Dallas
Francis Biddle
Frances Perkins
Lewis B. Schnellenbach
Washington State
Clinton P. Anderson
Special House
Schywellenbach
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
Tration
Aessei
U. S. Court of Claims Bench
Morgenthau
Miss Perkins
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Roosevelt
Senate
Anderson
Agriculture Post
Wickard
REA
Schwellenbach
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
William Green
Labor Post
Railroad Brotherhood
Green
Rep
New Mexico
Claude A. Wickard
ANEA
Dr Hans Fuchs Named Reichs Highest Official
An aged German Catholic, once labeled a traitor by the Nazis, becomes Oberpresident of the Rhein province Military District and calls for Germans to relearn brotherly love as he rises to the Reich’s top civil post in occupied Germany.
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Germany
Reich
Rheinprovinz
Hans Fuchs
Truman Sends Emissaries to Settle Major Issues
White House announced that President Truman dispatched two trusted emissaries to London and Moscow to pursue preliminary talks for a broad postwar settlement involving a United Nations framework. Joseph E. Davies heads to Moscow for talks with Churchill, while Barry is en route, with Truman also planning a San Francisco UN Conference closing address and a possible meeting with Stalin.
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Washington
Truman
London
Moscow
Bio - United Nations
Barry
Roosevelt
Joseph E. Davies
Russia
Churchill
White House
San Francisco
Stalin
More Than Million To Be Released in 1945
The Army plans to discharge roughly 1.3 million officers and enlisted personnel this year under the point system. Officers are slated to leave at about one for every nine enlisted men, with credits given for service combat and Parenthood.
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Washington
Army
Mrs Albert Hill Dies Wednesday at Letart
Mrs. Albert Hill 65 died at her Letart Falls home. A Meth- odist Church member, funeral Saturday at two with burial in Letart Cemetery. Survived by husband and children St Clair Hill Violet Grimm J M Hill Albert D Hill Julian Hill Margery Roush Harry Hill Clifford Hill John Hill Dale Hill Doris Hill of Letart. Joe Hill East Liverpool. Dallas Hill with U S Army in Italy.
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Pomeroy
Albert Hill
Letart Falls
Letart
St. Clair Hill
Violet Grimm
J. M. Hill
Albert D
T Hill
Julian Hill
Margery
R Roush
Harry Hill
Clifford Hill
John Hill
Dale Hill
Doris
I Hill
Joe Hill
East
Liverpool
Dallas Hill
U.S. Army
Italy
Broadening Of Security Plan Urged For Postwar Health Coverage
Washington AP reports a sweeping social security plan proposed by Senator Wagner and Representative Dingell aims to broaden health insurance, extend coverage to 15 million more people, and nationalize unemployment protection. The plan increases both employer and employee contributions, creates a permanent U S Employment Service, funds hospital and rural health centers, and preserves existing plans while expanding benefits.
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Washington
Congress
Wagner
N.Y
Dingell
Mich
Senate
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Social Security Board
Secret gas pipelines under channel supply Allied forces
London officials disclosed that twenty hidden pipelines under the English Channel have supplied most gasoline for Allied forces in Europe. The three inch pipes have pumped about 1,000,000 gallons daily since last autumn to destinations including Frankfurt.
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London
Hitherton
English Channel
Europe
Pacific
British
Ministry of Fuel and Power
Frankfurt
the Main
Germany
Fighting Continues in Three French Colonies
Paris reports bloodshed across Indo China Algeria and Syria Lebanon as French troops engage in action in Indo China and Algeria. In Syria Lebanon authorities protest French reinforcements and vow to resist any infringement of sovereignty.
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Paris
France
Indo-China
Alegeria
Syria-Lebanon
Germany begins long reconstruction era and screening of prisoners
Five American Red Cross women join Okinawa relief efforts as Allied authorities screen German prisoners for disarmament while planning removal of Nazi leaders. The report notes Germany’s fragmentation under Allied zones and the absence of a unified political life.
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Paris
Germany
Ardent
Eisenhower
Jz Vesti
Reich
Okinawa
Red Cross
Karll
Flensburg
Doenitz
Gasoline Ration Increases 50 Percent for A Drivers
The government raises basic A ration by 50 percent effective June 22, boosting A coupons from four to six gallons and allowing about three gallons weekly per driver. B ration ceiling rises to 650 miles monthly nationwide with Midwest at 475, with eligibility for increases via local ration boards starting June 11.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Midwest
OPA
Petroleum Administration For War
Chester Bowles
Hopkins Seeks Solution to Russia Deadlock at UN Conference
In San Francisco, Hopkins travels to Stalin’s Kremlin to bridge the gulf with Western allies and advance the Dumbarton Oaks plan. Delegates stress that a viable postwar world depends on early peace measures and a democratic Poland per Yalta. An international security council concept progresses in technical committees.
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Truman
Harry Hopkins
Stalin
Kremlin
Germany
Poland
Hopkins
Russia
United States
Britain
Technical
World Organization
Security Council
Apple Authority To Aid Growers
Ohio House approved a plan to create a five member Apple Authority to assist growers in marketing apples. The bill imposes a per bushel tax on excess market volumes and requires advertising stamps on containers. Rep. John Kerr sponsored the measure as part of a broader slate of highway and hunting related bills moving to the Senate.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Apple
Ohio
John M. Kerr
Columbiana
House
Senate
Highway Department
D. A. Liggitt
Logan
C. Stanley Mechem
Athlens
State Health Department
OPA Urges Cut in Point Values Amid Egg Shortage
In Cleveland the district Office of Price Administration labor advisory committee votes unanimously to propose lowering butter and oleomargarine point values and removing canned milk points. In Youngstown a looming egg shortage prompts Army orders for 6 million cases. Columbiana Poultry Association plants in Columbiana and Garrettsville asked to set aside 60 percent of output for the government for 10 weeks, supplying 600 cases weekly.
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Cleveland
Price Admini
jStration
OPA
Youngstown
Columbiana Poultry Association
Columbiana
Garrettsville
Westinghouse Cancels $11 Million War Contracts
New York report states Westinghouse Electric Corp cancelled war contracts totaling about 11 million dollars in the first two weeks of May. Chairman A. W. Robertson disclosed the action as the company reviewed its wartime commitments.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric Corp
A. W. Robertson
Settlement of Trieste Issue Near in Near East Europe
Trieste dispute edges toward settlement as Allied and Yugoslav authorities negotiate over narrow Yugoslav reservations. Tito accepts core Allied principles including administration by the Allied Military Government. Key issues remain on Yugoslav army presence, control through the liberation council, and a Yugoslav military representative in the Governing body.
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Trieste
Eighth
Marshal Tito
Adriatic
Council of Liberation
Start Production Today On White Glove Fuel
Philadelphia reports a new plant opening to manufacture a coal product named white glove packaged fuel. The product consists of six three inch cubes wrapped in orange paper and claimed to be so clean it can be handled with white gloves.
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Philadelphia
Superforts Drop 4 500 Tons of Incendiary Bombs In Early Morning Attack
American carrier planes renewed attacks on Japanese air bases in Southern Japan as 180 carrier aircraft swarmed Kyushu Island bombed areas. Tokyo reported 4 500 tons of fire bombs fell on Tokyo, equaling 2 000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators. Strong air support aided ground advances in the Southern Philippines and on the Northern Philippine fronts with pressure toward two U S air bases in China.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Kyushu Island
Mikado
Nippon
Radio Tokyo
Philippines
Philippine
U. S
China
Europe
Pacific
Okinawa
10Th Army
Shuri
Naha
Yonabaru
77Th
96Th
Seventh Division
Nakagusuku Bay
Mindanao
Dist
40Th
Amer
Jap Railyards Destroyed In Massive Allied Raid
Maj. Luther A. Moses reports direct hits on Shinagawa and Nippori lines, with 27 Superforts downed and 30 damaged. Tokyo flames rise over Imperial Palace grounds as far as Kawasaki Palace. Okinawa battle tightens around Shuri with heavy fighting near Naha Yonabaru. Mindanao nears junction with 40th and Americal Divisions. Luzon forces deploy improvised siege weapons.
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Shinagawa
Japan
Nippori
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Kawasaki Palace
Nine Million Spent for 1944 Fishing Licenses
Interior Secretary Ickes announced in the fish and wildlife service report for the year ended June 30, 1944 that nine million nine hundred fifty seven thousand two hundred ninety nine dollars were spent on fishing licenses. Ohio sold 587,429 licenses generating 253,236 dollars.
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Washington
Interior
Ickes
Fish and Wildlife Service
Ohio
Truck Drivers Return Under U S Supervision
CHICAGO Six thousand five hundred independent truck drivers began a mass return to work under federal supervision after a week long strike that partially paralyzed movement of war goods and food in the Midwest. OLDEST CITIZEN DEAD HILLSBORO M A Garrett 98 Civil war veteran died yesterday. FIRE DAMAGE IS 100000 Springfield A fire at Capper House Furnishings Co downtown Springfield yesterday caused about 100000 in damage.
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Chicago
Midwest
Hillsboro
M. A. Garrett
Highland County
Springfield
Capper House Furnishings Co
New Adviser to President Clark Named for U S Attorney General
Dallas Tex attorney Tom C Clark present assistant attorney general is named by President Truman to be U S Attorney General succeeding Francis Biddle. Confirmation and transition to the post mark a significant shift in the administration as Clark takes over the helm in Washington.
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Tom C. Clark
Dallas
Tex
Truman
U. S
Francis Biddie
NEA
New Version of Hitler Fate Revealed by Russian Report
Paris reports a Russian intelligence brief to Allied HQ states Adolf Hitler, partly paralyzed and in pain, was killed by a doctor who allegedly overdosed him. The doctor, named Prof. Morel by the Russians, accompanies news that Julius Streicher was captured on a Bavarian farm by the 101st Airborne Division as he disguisedly claimed to be an eccentric artist.
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Paris
Hitler
Supreme Headquarters
Fuehrer
Morel
Julius Streicher
101St Airborne Division
der Steurmer
Reorganization Bill Faces House Rejection
COLUMBUS The revised measure to reorganize the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources failed in the House conservation committee. The 11-to-4 vote ousted the bill after Rep Otis L. Johnson urged action, with sponsors including Rep L. P. Mooney and Rep Robert L. Movullon.
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Columbus
State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
House Conservation Committee
Otis L. Johnson
Mercer
L. P. Mooney
R-Hocking
Robert L. Movullon
D-Crawford
Lausche Probes Real Estate Purchase Details
Gov Frank J Lausche says he has asked Helen Rickett secretary of the Ohio Racing Commission to provide details of her reported purchase of a $65 apartment building in Shaker Heights a Cleveland suburb. He began looking into the transaction after a Cleveland paper published an account and will not discuss further pending a check.
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Columbus
VPI
Frank J Lausche
Helen Rickett
Ohio Racing Commission
Shaker Heights
Cleveland
Churchill Begins Filling New Cabinet Positions
London reports Churchill moves to form a caretaker government after dissolving the coalition. Press commentators expect most cabinet posts filled by week end as Commons resumes next Tuesday. Kilied by freight car in Youngstown, Nichi Niro, 46, a steelworker, dies after slipping into freight car path.
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Churchill
London
Miister Churchill
Britain
Lanfion
Commons
Youngstown
Nici | Niro
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