British intervene in sevant dispute in Levant crisis
Britain presses General de Gaulle to withdraw French troops from Damascus and across Syria to end bloodshed in the Levant. Eden cites high casualties and fires in Damascus, while a tripartite mission is proposed in London as US and British officials seek a peaceful resolution.
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ANDON
Amy Eden
London
de Gaulle
Rae
Eden
Commons
Paris
Britain
Im Pariah
United States
Damascus
U. S
Jefferson Cafféry
Syria
Cairo
Jerusalem
Deraa
Levant
Joseph C. Grew
Washington
Yanks Helped Quell Uprisings in Algeria
A delayed Casablanca dispatch to Stars and Stripes says American planes helped move Moroccan troops to suppress Arab uprisings in Algeria after V-E Day. It reports French bombers, aided by US-supplied aircraft, conducted over 300 sorties, with Arabs killed or wounded numbering more than 10,000 between May 8 and the time of the dispatch, amid censorship and inaccessibility of the Constantine area.
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ROME
Casablanca
Stars and Stripes
Algeria
Jack Foisie
United States
Foisie
Eight Deaths Occur in Ohio Over Holiday
Ohio reported eight Memorial Day fatalities across four traffic drownings and one electrocution. Kerry Doner, 45, from South Bend, was killed near Toledo when his transport truck was struck by a train. Ralph Ketchem, 35, died in an auto truck collision near Elyria. John Smith, Leesburg, injured fatally in a motorcycle crash near Hillsboro. Teens included Robert Conway, 16, drowning in the Olentangy River. Russell Smith, 16, drowning after a boat capsized near Akron. Dallas Back, 17, drowning in the Great Miami River near Hamilton.
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Columbus UG
Ohio
Kerry Doner
South Bend
Ind
Toledo
Ralph J. Ketchem
Elyria
John §. Smith
Leesburg
Highland County
Postwar Crime to Come From Camp Followers
Columbus reports State Welfare Director Frazier Reams says camp followers of war will drive a postwar crime wave. He notes youths too young to fight absorb wartime ideology, creating real danger of a reverberating crime surge.
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Columbus
Upi
Frazier Reams
Reams
War Crimes Commission Opens Three Day Session in London
Representatives from 16 United Nations meet behind closed doors to inaugurate a three day session of the war crimes commission. The aim is to prepare for speedy trials of Nazi war criminals. The U S delegation is led by Lt Col Joseph Hodgson.
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Commission On War Crimes
London
United Nations
U.S
Ied
Joseph Hodgson
Boost in Red Point Values for Canned Goods and Meat
The OPA announced increases to red point values for No 2 cans of tomatoes and spinach, plus changes to meat items, for the new ration period from Sunday through June 30. Fat backs plate bacon rise to eight points per pound, spinach No 2 cans up to 30 points, and tomato juice and vegetable juice combos trimmed from ten to six points per two cans.
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Washington
Opa
Rez
Ular
Chiang Turns Premier Job Over to Soong
Chiang Kai Shek resigns as Premier and names Acting Premier T V Soong while retaining president and generalissimo roles. The move aims to bolster central government during Allied pressure on Japan and may signal a joint war effort with the Communists against the invader.
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Chiang
Soong
Chungking
Chiang Kai- Shek
T. V. Soong
China
Japan
Asia
Seong
Kuomintang
Jaide
Merz Funeral Services To Be Held Friday
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock in Hillsboro Highland County for Mrs. Gertrude Mae Merz age 69 who died Tuesday at her home in New Plymouth. Rev. J. P. Daab will be in charge of services with burial at Elk Cemetery. She is survived by her husband Laurens, four children Minnie Walker Hildreth Straus Blaine and George. The Merz family were former Nelsonville residents.
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M'Arthur
Hillsboro
Church of Christ
United States
Gertrude Mae Merz
Bureau of Human Nutrition
New Home Economics
U.S. de Plymouth
J. P. Daab
Elk Cemetery
W. W. Tinker
Laurens
William
Minnie Walker
Hildreth Straus
Detroit
Blaine
George
Merz
Nelsonville
Mrs Truman’s First Christening Flops at Carding Ceremony
Washington report notes Mrs Harry S Truman's public appearance as first lady had humor as champagne bottles failed to break on the hospital planes. Nine swings dented the aluminum nose of the army ship during the enemy navy ceremony. Officials said no one instructed her to swing bottles against sharp wheel wells and the bottles were not scored to break.
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Mrs. Truman
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Middle East Crisis Rocks Peace Table
Bloody fighting in Syria tests the good neighbor policy at the United Nations peace conference in San Francisco. Stettinius urges monitoring by Washington as Arab delegates protest French policy in Syria and Lebanon. France cites security, investments, and plans against Japan as reasons for troops, while Britain and the United States push for restraint.
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San Francisco
Syria
United Nations
Levant
Stettinius
Lebanon
Eproyvest French
United States
Stellinius
State Department
Washington
Britain
Middle East
France
Japan
Almost All Disabled Veterans Employable Declared
CHICAGO 2 Millard W Rice national service director of the Disabled American Veterans says 90 percent of returning wartime armed services veterans are employable.
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Chicago
Millard W. Rice
National Service
The
Disabled American Veterans
Okinawa Fight Deepens as Kamikaze Tactics Rise
U S forces press on Okinawa Shuri Castle as Japanese suicide attacks repel to damage ships and halt advance. General Chiang Kai-shek relinquishes premiership to focus on military affairs in China while U S units push toward Shuri Town and coast, cutting off retreating Japanese.
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Aspousas
Japan
Imperial Navy
Nippon
Shuri Castle
Okinawa
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Philippines
New Guinea
Burma
Okihara
U.S
Shuri
First Marine
Tenth Army
Record Employment in Ohio Factory Seen After War
Ohio factory employment is projected to rise to about 1,005,000 postwar, a NAM survey shows. Of 172 manufacturers employing roughly 10 percent of the state’s workers, 265,000 more jobs are expected after reconversion, with 84 percent planning big increases.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Japan
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Association
Use Eisenhower's Car to Trap Enemy Agents
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE reports Lt Gen Walter Bedett Smith stating General Eisenhower's automobile was used to trap enemy agents believed assigned to assassinate the supreme commander during the Ardennes offensive. The plan aimed to capture a German group led by Lt Col Otto Skorzeny, Gestapo aide to Heinrich Himmler, though not for Eisenhower's personal safety.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Walter Bedett Smith
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Eisenhower
Ardennes
Otto Skorzeny
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Bomb Carrying Balloons Released From Japan
A government official said Japan has launched bomb carrying balloons from the home islands. The silken five layer balloons, thirty five feet in diameter, are controlled by an automatic ballast dropping device and carried to war plants where speeches are made to stir workers before launch toward the United States.
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Washington
Japan
America
United States
Kamikaze Tops Japs Strategy in Navy Shakeup
A Tokyo radio commentator said the recent Japanese naval high command shakeup aims to ready all branches for special attack tactics. Kusuo Oyai claimed Japan will employ suicide strikes as U S ships in Okinawa waters faced attacks, with admirals reassigned to focus on these operations.
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Forestal
Pacific Coast
Ankliue
Tokyo
Kusuo Oya
Japan
Adm
Bernard Rawlings
Pacific
Sakishima Islands
Okinawa
South China
Ishan
Liuchow
U. S
Tado-China
Yungning
Nanning
China
Twuéon
Cagayan Valley
24Th
List
Mindanao Island
San Francisco
Naval High Command
Imperial Navy
Nippon
Kusuo Oyai
Kamikaze Air Corps
Oya
CAP Board Considers Air Routes Applications
CAP Board reviews 23 air route applications from All American Aviation Inc filed for 12 states and the District of Columbia. The company operates mail pickups with no passenger service and seeks routes across several Southeastern states. Lt. Col. Edgar Morris reports a plan to shift removal of nine fells in Europe to German POWs after V Day.
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Greensboro
N. C
All American Aviation, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Board
Southeastern State Airlines
District of Columbia
Ohio
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Alistois
Inana
Paris
Edgar Morris
Columbia
S.C
Europe
Production cutbacks and reconversion may ease food strain
Washington reports that war production cuts and reconversion could ease the U.S. food shortage by year end. Agriculture Department economists note reduced military output and weaker consumer demand may redirect funds to nonfood items. The return of soldiers to private life could further lower overall food consumption.
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Washington
Europe
Agriculture Department
House Committee Demands Army Explanations
The House Military Committee urged a full War Department explanation of policies affecting soldiers and airmen discharged for nerve exhaustion from combat. The request aims to clarify how such cases are treated and the standards governing discharges.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Thomason
War Department
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