Big Powers Assured of Full Control
Reportedly the big powers have lined up enough votes in the United Nations Conference to block changes to their absolute control of world peace machinery. The veto power remaining for the Big Five could shape the fate of the proposed world organization as committees rush to finish work for public discussion next week.
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San Francisco
Stettinius
Truman
New League
World Organization
Security Council
United States
Idea
Russia
Yalta
Britain
France
China
Earl of Halifax
Andrie Gromyko
T. V. Soong
United Nations Organization
Great Superiority in Men and Guns Aimed at Japan
Under Secretary of War Patterson announced massed manpower and equipment against Japan. He cited the arrival of General Courtney Hodges and the reassignment of Hodges’ First Army to the Pacific as evidence of current and future U.S. operations.
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Washington
Patterson
Japan
U. S
Courtney Hodges
Hodges
First Army
Pacific
Europe
Courtney H. Hodges
Atlana
U. S. First Army
New York
France
Rhine
Germany
Denies Army Munitions Stockpiling for Postwar
Washington under secretary Patterson denied the Army is stockpiling munitions for the postwar era. Production cuts of 25 percent have already been made since March with more cuts expected. In Middletown a gasoline truck and 6,000 gallons of fuel burned after a tire blew, destroying the vehicle. In Piqua, Linda Shane, three, died when a grave marker fell on her during a cemetery incident.
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Washington
Patterson
Middletown
Mason
Linda Shane
Stace Shane
Auto industry plans 200000 cars this year
DETROIT AP reports War Production Board authorizes 200000 passenger cars this year with materials from free markets and no priority. Expect few new cars before Oct 1. Nelson says WPB may lift to 2 million by year end. rationing may end by Jan 1. first cars go to essential users.
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Detroit
America
War Production Board
UID
Bamsey
Henry P. Nelson
WPB
Nelson
Eighth Air Force to Bring Home 40000 Personnel Soon
U S Eighth Air Force headquarters said forty thousand air and ground crew from nineteen England bases will be flown home within thirty to sixty days. About twenty thousand more will follow by water. Leaves and furloughs will be granted as soon as possible after arrival. Some remaining forces may go directly to the Pacific.
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London
U. S
Eighth Air Force
England
United States
Pacific
Alcohol Situation Shows Improvement
Washington report notes improving alcohol situation with distillers released from remaining controls during July. This will add more than 50 million gallons of beverage spirits for warehousing and free existing stocks for retail shelves.
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Washington
Pirate Submarines Still At Large In Atlantic
Allied navies hunt 12 to 15 German pirate submarines in the Atlantic. unofficial counts show about 250 Nazi subs at various Allied ports. Navy men fear fanatical commanders may still direct attacks, keeping Atlantic shipping at risk until all are found. Strong convoy escorts remain for crossings both ways.
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London
Atlantic
Nazis planned wholesale sterilization claim reported
DETTLESAU Germany Dr Carl Taubak a Czechoslovak saboteur told Fourth Infantry Division officers that the Nazis planned wholesale sterilization of non German eastern Europeans by use of an extract from a Brazilian plant.
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Dettlesau
Germany
Carl Taubak
Fourth
Churchill Mapping His Fighting Campaign Tour
Prime Minister Churchill pursued a hard hitting personal tour across Britain as the political split widened between his dominant Conservative Party and the challenging Labour movement. U S district judge Druffel sentenced Harry L Grindmeier, 51, to year and a day for Theft of a letter containing 13.35.
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Churchill
London
LPI
Britain
Cincinnati
U. S
John H. Druffel
Harry L. Grindmeier
Hamilton
German War Prisoners Are Earning Their Keep at Yank Camps in France
In the Rangy sector near Reims France German POWs labor under American guards on hard jobs while receiving salvaged food and modest barracks. Officers praise the arrangement noting Russians Poles and others formerly used as slave labor now serve under U S protection. French observers critique German retreat and observe POWs at work as locals watch with detached irony.
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France
Reims
United States
U. S. Army
Ger
U. S
Pete
PWS
Bert
Okinawa Front News: Japanese Counterlanding Claims and Tokyo Raid
Allied forces push across Okinawa with infantry taking hill positions near Yomabaru and Naha while Sixth Division Marines seize bridges under fire. U.S. air actions include 60 Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima, B-29s striking Tokyo, and an unconfirmed Japanese claim of airborne counterlandings on American airfields.
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Okinkawa
China
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Toyama
Honshu
Kanmon Strait
Okinawa
U. S
Nimitz Pretousx
Seventh Infantry
Yomabaru
Sixth Division
Naha
Shuri
Pacific
Major political test looms for Lausche on school bill
In Columbus Gov. Lausche reels at a House calendar move for a Senate approved Daniels Cramer plan to fund schools with 111 million for the biennium. He threatens a veto stating the amount is unreasonable though the administration proposed 104.22 million. The fight centers on school finance amid a powerful lobby and a defeated companion bill by Rep. Dan Yoder to shift financing more to the state.
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Lausche
House of Representatives
Daniels Cramer
Dan S. Yoder
Wayne
Daniels-Cramer
School Foundation
Himmler Dies by Poison as War Crimes Death
Allied officials report Heinrich Himmler, the top German war criminal, killed himself Wednesday night with poisoned glass while under guard after being captured near Hamburg. He died after an attempted interview with the camp commander. he wore a patchy disguise and forged papers.
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Second Army
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmiler
Himmler
Trom
Hamburg
Hitzinger
Public Institutions To Get Fire Protection
The Senate approved an emergency measure to allow public institutions to contract with villages and municipalities for fire protection. Welfare Director Frazier Reams cited a dangerous situation from state institutions lacking adequate protection, noting Massillon State among those mentioned.
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Columbus
GPI
Senate
Frazier Reams
Massillon
Red Communist Revival Seen Amid Policy Shift in New York
Earl Browder foresees a new period of sharpened struggles as Communists pivot from alliance with capitalism to a renewed activism. The group, having dissolved as a party a year earlier, now operates as the Communist Political Association focused on education. Browder hints at possible renewed political activity and a return to their revolutionary stance through a scathing tract by a leading French Communist.
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New York
Earl Browder
Communist Political Association
Browder
Efficor
The
Daily Worker
Trench
French Break With Spain Is Demanded
The French Foreign Affairs Committee urged the De Gaulle government to break relations with Spain, extradite Pierre Lava, and seek Allied plans to oust Generalissimo Franco. In other notes, mild to cold wet weather delays in the Midwest threaten a record winter wheat crop with expected bumper yields. in Corry Pennsylvania many grain markets report closings due to meat shortages. and a separate item notes a U.S. department report on German munitions neutralization in Western Europe. A Columbus measure imposes a $5 deer hunting fee, replacing the prior $1 license.
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Paris
French Foreign Affairs Committee
de Gaulle
Spain
Pierre Lava
Generalissimo Franco
Chicago
Middle West
Corry
Associated
This
Pennsylvania
More Tax Evasion Probe Seeks 5000 More Agents
Secretary Morgenthau urged Budget Bureau and Congress to fund 5000 additional Treasury field agents amid a rising tax evasion inquiry. Current agent count is 1500 as he cites shocking cases. He cites a New York restaurant operator who disclosed 2,200,000 in gross income over three years. He refused to name the owner but vowed prosecution if a dishonest case is proven.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Budget Bureau
Congress
Treasury
New York City
Plan Further Out in Sugar Curbs Industrial Sugar Supply
A Congressional food investigator said the OPA plans a drastic curtailment of industrial sugar, cutting manufacturers to half or less of their 1944 supply in quarterly allotments. The investigation notes civilian use exceeded initial reserves and questions if household sugar will be affected.
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Washington
UFI
Congressional
OPA
Cleveland meat packing houses propose closing next week
Officials of 12 Cleveland meat packing houses, reporting planned closures through next week, will meet today for further discussion. District Office of Price Administration officials said the shut-downs would not have a considerable effect on the local retail meat situation.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Meat Packing Houses
District Office of Price Administration
Tokyo Broadcast Declares War Has Only Begun
Tokyo radio warned peace proposals could be possible through Russia but asserted the war is just beginning. Reports detail Allied advances across Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines, plus Chinese offensives toward Indo China, and Japanese reinforcements in Foochow and Wewak as crews survey casualties and prisoner counts.
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London
Tokyo Radio
Japan
Russia
MacArthur
Mindanao
Philippines
Impalaiao
35Th Army
Davao
Yanns
Ipo Dam
Manila
Luzon Island
Indo-China
Hwaiyuanchen
Liuchow
Pacching
Shaoyang
Foochow
Wewak
New Guinea
Amasfi
Ryukyus
Ogey
Philippine
PPS West Pacific Command
World War II Casualties Rise By Week Figures
The Army reports 886,525 losses and the Navy 109,564, totaling 996,089 casualties since the war began. An increase of 9,875 from last week. Army breakdown shows killed 181,739 wounded 530,506 prisoners 96,78. Navy figures list killed 42,807 wounded 52,005 missing 10,505 prisoners 4,247.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Smith Appointed to State Highway Post
LOGAN Staff Special Sam Smith today received notice of his appointment as Hocking County superintendent of maintenance for the State Highway Department. He succeeds Lewis Price whose resignation became effective May 15.
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Logan
Sam Smith
Hocking County
State Highway Department
Smith
Marietta
Lewis Price
Relaxation of Building Restrictions Imminent
George A. Moore, Cleveland WPB district manager, stated the War Production Board will soon announce a slight relaxation of building restrictions. The current requirement for all house construction over 200 dollars will be raised early next week but not to the extent some contractors had hoped.
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Cleveland
George A. Moore
War Production Board
WPB
Moore
Return Wing Project to Curtiss-Wright Plant
Dayton men Joseph Parisi and Ralph Schear pleaded guilty to operating a numbers racket in Detroit. They were fined 12500 each and P Davey, general manager, sentenced to 90 days in jail. The wing project for SB2C Curtiss Helldiver bombers will be moved back to Curtiss-Wright’s Columbus plant, risking 1509 workers.
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Columbus
Curtiss-Wrght
Springfield
Joseph/Corporation
Parisi
Ralph Schear
Chrysler Corp
Detroit
J! Dayton
Davey
Begin Consideration of State Budget Bill
Columbus Ohio. The Senate finance committee planned to start review of a 391,499,9689 dollar appropriations bill, with at least three weeks expected before it reaches the Senate floor. Another finance bill would allocate 18 million yearly sales tax to sub-divisions, a prior version cut to 12 million matching present allocations before House passage.
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Solumbus
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Forecast Improvement In Poultry Situation
Ohio State University poultry chief Prof Everett L Cahan says the tight poultry situation should improve. He notes April hatchings rose 1362 from last year and predicts about 1.5 billion chicks by midsummer. The B F Goodrich plant in Akron will close the first week of July for equipment overhaul with most workers on paid vacations.
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Columbus
Ohio
Everett L. Cahan
Ohio State University
Department of Poultry Husbandry
Akron
B. F. Goodrich Co
Hitler's Secret War Plans Revealed in Notes
Berchtesgaden reports claim Hitler outlined in notes a future war against the Allies. He argued for immediate universal military service, German sovereignty restored, and rapid annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia to crush Poland, asserting preemption in peacetime.
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Hitler
Berchtesgaden
jMi
Adolf Hitler
Ford
Rhineland
Jast Dee
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Germany
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Pirate
Frank J.nium
Heinrich Himmler
Vuvanance Department
Rock
Miles
Imperial Palace
Machida
Konosaki
Nagewa
Okohama
Precision Instrument
Shinagawa RR
Kokusan Machinery Co
Mitsubishi Aircraft
Kayzbo
Iba
Anegasaki
Shinagawa
Cleveland Meat Packing ‘Houses
Rokyo Radio
Sion
Curtiss - Wright Plant
Dayton
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