Tokyo Fire Raids Destroy Large City Areas, LeMay Says
The 71st Bomber Command reports Tokyo reduced to ashes across more than 51 square miles including around the Imperial Palace after six fire raids. Nearly 500 B 29s engaged Yokohama in a massive daylight assault delivering 3,200 tons of bombs.
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Tokyo
LeMay
71St Bomber Command
Guam
Yokohama
Curtis BE. LeMay
21St Bomber Command
Nippon
Imperial Palate
Japan
Palace Grounds
Tokyo Bay
Russia Calls Thousands of Boys for Military Training
In a peacetime mobilization, General Pronin announced a muster for 15 and 16 year olds, with 17-year-olds advancing to specialist exams. Red Army garrisons and Siberian schools will join early June exercises, drawing on Second World War experience. The effort aims to harden youth in a peaceful era and deepen defense awareness.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Thousa
Pronin
Young Communist League
Red Star
Red Army
Siberia
Siberian
Tomsling
U. S
Henry Wallace
House Passes Billion Dollar Subsidy Program
The House approved and sent to the Senate a one year extension of a 1.503 billion dollar subsidy program covering meat butter flour petroleum and strategic metals. The measure would have expired June 30.
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House
Washington
Senate
District OPA Chief Resigns Amid Ohio Scrutiny
In Columbus, State Auditor Joseph Ferguson denounces Republican appointees at the Ohio Price Administration, accusing sabotage of the OPA. Ferguson blasts officials including Willard Campbell and presidential secretary Bricker while Democrats defend the OPA staff.
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Columbus
Audir
Joseph “T. Ferguson
Ohio Price Administration
Willard D. ‘Campbell
OPA
Ohio
Celtela Oie
Ferguson
Keep District Intact For Blood Control Aid
The Stroto Sandusky conservancy district will be kept intact to aid postwar flood control projects. Attorney W Ditton announced following a meeting of directors. The district comprises 17 counties spanning from the Ohio River to Lake Erie.
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Columbus
Stroto Sandusky Conservancy
Seventh War Loan Drive Hits 38 Percent of Quota
The Mighty 7th War Loan Drive reached 38 percent of its individual bond quota and 39.3 percent of the Series E quota. Treasury reports indicate $82,663,000,000 in total sales, with $1,594,000,000 in E bonds. The drive runs from May 14 to June 39. Also notes fliers killed near Hutchinson, Kansas, and a 200-minute Yugoslav minister conference with President Truman in Washington.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Ohio Pauses To Honor Soldiers Across Wars
Columbus Ohio marks another day of remembrance for war dead with parades honoring veterans from four conflicts. Data show dwindling numbers from Civil War Spanish American and both World Wars as the Grand Army of the Republic lists only a handful on its rolls with an estimated 723 Civil War veterans remaining in Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Grant
Lee
Grand Army of the Repub
Tulsa announcer Jay Wesley killed in Rolla traffic crash
Jay Wesley a 34 year old radio announcer from Tulsa Oklahoma connected with the Bob Hope radio show was struck and killed by an automobile in Rolla Missouri last night.
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Jelyhason City
Jay Wesley
Tulsa
Okla
Bob Hope
Rolla
Churchill picks Maxwel l Fyfe as chief Nazi war crimes prosecutor
London Prime Minister Churchill named Attorney General Sir David Maxwell Fyfe Britain's chief prosecutor for Nazi war crimes. He said trials should not begin until arrangements and methods are agreed by the Allied powers, with Justice Robert H. Jackson and others to join the prosecution board, and Goering's case awaited further approval.
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London
Churchill
Britain
House‘ of Commons
Hermann Goering
Justice Jackson
France Needs 150000 Tractors To Rebuild Economy
Henri Grandjeans, head of the French Agriculture Ministry machinery division, said France will need at least 150000 tractors to restore its agricultural economy and 13000 orders have already been placed in the United States.
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New York
France
United States
Henri Grandjeans
Agricultural Machinery
Ministry of Agriculture
Norwegian ports reopen for normal shipping surge
Norwegian ports are now open following a naval authorities announcement. Allied expeditionary forces maintain operations as normal shipping resumes after recent restrictions.
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Oujkems Ohapyua I Leks
Iforce
Legion seeks to simplify GI Bill loan provisions
The American Legion backed a drive to slash red tape in GI Bill loan provisions. Through legislative director John Thomas Taylor the group urged changes to the law and to VA interpretations, aligning with a Congress campaign to simplify readjustment aid for ex servicemen. It seeks loan liberalization, faster eligibility certificates, and expanded small business loans for working capital and inventories.
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Washington
American Legion
John Thomas Taylor
Legion
Veterane Administration
Congress
Archagse
Busi- Inter
The
Hill
Veteran's Administration
Ohio House Passes Daniels Cramer School Bill 105 to 20
The Ohio House of Representatives approved the Daniels Cramer school finance bill by a 105 to 20 vote. The $111 million measure, for the 1945-46 biennium, would raise state funds distributed to local districts based on average daily attendance, exceeding the governor’s recommendation by $7 million and facing possible veto pressure from Gov. Lausche. The bill now goes to the Senate for concurrence in minor amendments.
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Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Senate
Frank J.lausche
House
Lausche
Ohio Education Association
Daniels-Cramer
World League Charter Delayed by Red Opposition
The Big Five pressed to finish the United Nations Conference on a world league charter while delays emerged. Russia urged changes on trusteeships and self-determination objectives, France sought broader defense action language, and Britain reported Russia favoring independence aims. June 6 remained unofficial adjournment target as key committees lagged. Delegation chiefs from France, China, Russia and Britain met with Secretary Stettinius to set a timetable.
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SAN Francisco
Big Five
Russia
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
France
China
Britain
Stettinius
Plan Erection Of Additional Vet Facilities
Brig. Gen. Frank I. Hines of the Veterans Administration asked the Federal Board of Hospitalization to approve 72 community construction programs for veterans facilities. The plan adds 26,772 beds to be available through December 1947, boosting total veteran hospital beds to 123,002 and domestic beds by 39, but falls short of the 300,000 beds eventual demand.
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Washington
Frank I. Hines
Veterans Administration
Federal Board of Hospitalization
Hines
Mrs Elaine Roe Williams Dies Suddenly
Mrs Elaine Roe Williams daughter of A B Roe of 30 Elmwood Ave died Tuesday morning in a Baltimore hospital after a sudden illness. She and her five year old son Robert Burns Williams had just returned to Baltimore from a visit here. Her husband Lieut William H Williams Merchant Marine was recently transferred to Baltimore from New London Conn. Family notified here. father brother in law and sister left for Baltimore Monday. she died before arrival. Funeral arrangements in Athens to be completed on the family’s return Wednesday.
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Elaine Roe Williams
A. B. Roe
Elmwood de
Baltimore
Mas. Williams
Robert ~Burns “Williams
William H. Williams
Merchant Marine
New London
Conx
Wiliams’ Iilness
H. G. Kennard
John A. Nichols
Tommy Shoots Lord Haw Haw in LUENEBURG
LUENEBURG Germany police reported Lord Haw Haw William Joyce in critical condition after being shot in the thigh by a British soldier near Flensburg while resisting capture. Joyce, captured with his wife, faces possible treason trial in England and reportedly became a German citizen, though not confirmed.
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Germany
Lord Haw Haw
Flensburg
Tommy
Ten
William Joyce
Associated Press
London
Jloyce
Jrreason
England
Lieutenant in Navy plane crashes into Groton home
Lieutenant William J. McCartney of Toledo Ohio crashed a Navy plane into the home of Philbert L. Bergeron in Groton Connecticut. He escaped safely, returned to assess damage, met Bergeron’s daughter Cecelia, and plans to wed in July in Groton.
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Wiliam J. mcCartney
Toledo
Fove
McCartney
Philbert L. Bergeron
Groton
Conn
Bergeron
Cecelia
Presbyterian protest over U S envoy to Vatican
The Presbyterian Church in the United States protested Truman's maintenance of a U S envoy at the Vatican and urged recalling Myron Taylor, named by Roosevelt as a personal representative in Vatican City, from Montreat North Carolina.
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Montreat
N. C
Presbyterian Church
U. S
Vatican
Truman
Myron Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican City
Advocates Governing Persian Oil Fields
Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment speaker Harold H. Burton urged a global body to govern Persian oil fields to avert a third world war and to prevent any one nation from gaining control of the oil supply and world domination.
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Martins Ferry
Harold H. Burton
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Infantry Divisions To Be Retrained En Route
The Army announced the 96th Division will be retrained at Cargruber Oklo and the 97th Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina as they return from Europe en route to the Pacific. They are scheduled to sail for this country in June.
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Washington
Army
Cara Gruber
Oklo
Fort Bragg
N. C
Europe
Pacific
Congressmen in Fight Over $2,500 Allowance
Rep Ta ker of New York, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, emerged with a cut upper lip after a clash with Chairman Cannon in the committee office. The dispute centered on legislation granting house members a $2,500 annual expense allowance.
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Washington
Rep. Taker
New York
House Appropriations Committee
Cannon
D-Mo
New Yorker
House
Controls on Output of Columbus Wright Plant Kitchenware Removed
In Washington and New York reports, controls on the production of aluminum ware and kitchen utensils were lifted yesterday, allowing higher output as war contracts wind down. Curtiss-Wright Corp. said army cutback schedules would close plants in St. Louis and Louisville by July, while Columbus Ohio plant production remains unchanged.
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Columbus Wright Plant
Washington
New York
G. W. Vaughan
Curtiss-_ Wright Corporation
St. Louis
Louisville
Columbus
Ohio
Okinawa fighting as Marines push toward Shuri
U S artillery shells Okinawa as Maj Gen Pedro Del Valle’s First Marine Division seizes Wana Ridge near Shuri Castle but retires before Japanese counterattacks. Sixth Division Marines control two thirds of Naha while Brig Gen William T Clement says the city marks the largest Marine siege in corps history. Chinese forces widen a 120 mile break in Japan's Southeast Asia lifeline, advancing toward the French Indo China border as air forces hammer Japanese lines. Wawa Dam on the Marikina River near Manila is reported captured, boosting U S control of key water supplies. additional bombings hit Forsoma, Indo China coast rail facilities, and Borneo targets.
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Shuri Fortress
Pedro del Valle
Wana Ridge
Shuri Castle
Naha
Asato
William T. Clement
Richmond
Japan
Southeast Asia
South China
Indo-China
Hawai
U. S. Idth
Chang Fah-Kwei
Shulo
Yungning
Nanning
Chungking
Burma
Malaya
Thailand
Wawa
Marikina
Ma~ Waila
MacArthur
381Th
Mahila
Ipa
Formosa
Borneo
Tarakan
U S Denies Deliberate Sinking Of Relief Ship Awa Maru
In a published exchange of notes, the United States rejected Japan's claim that the Awa Maru was sunk deliberately while delivering relief to Allied prisoners. The U S version says the unlighted ship was off course by 40 miles, a court martial will examine the submarine commander, and retaliation against Allied prisoners would trigger severe consequences. The note also expresses regret over the loss of life and notes limited survivor pickup. Blair C. Reitzling observed a severe electrical storm while on the phone amid the event.
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Diet
Greater East Asia
United States
Ginza
Fifth Avenue
Canal
Japan
Nippon Sangya Keizai
Tokiyo
Tuen
Tokyo
FCC
Okinawa
Nippon Island
Washington
State Department
Straits of
Formosa
U.S
Asia
Jack and Heintz workers asked to tender resignations
Jack and Heintz Inc urged about 4,300 temporary associates to resign, with regular staff spared. President William S. Jack said not all resignations would be accepted immediately, aiming to weather postwar cutbacks. He noted doctors lawyers and others who joined during the war may be affected, while reconversion protections and continued 40 hour payrolls were promised for temporary staff. The firm had been famous for wartime perks including vacation cottages and free benefits.
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Jack & Heintz, Inc
William S.bill Fack
Jack
JAHCO
Pex
Paradise
Gulf of Mexico
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