Eisenhower Homecoming Marred by Minor Injury Parade
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower limped from a fall on a Topeka platform but rejoined the Abilene homecoming parade after a brief halt. He rode at the front, receiving honors from central Kansas as he spoke of moral leadership and food production for the world.
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Zan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wee
Topeks
Purple Heart
Teenhower
Gee
Abi- Jene
Dickinson County
Kansas
Eisenhower
Eisenhower Park
Kansas City
Midwest
Eisenhower kin welcome hometown hero in Abilene
Abilene Kansas celebrates the homecoming of Gen Dwight Eisenhower with his family's presence in Kansas City. Claude R Wickard becomes Rural Electrification head replacing Clinton Anderson. Shirley Temple graduates from Westlake High School and announces engagement to a young army sergeant.
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Ida EI Hower
Shirley Temple
Ida Eisenhower
America
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Red Cross
Abilene
Kan
Eisenhower
Ike
Kansas City
Claude R. Wickard
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Rural Electrification
Senate
Clinton Anderson
New Mexico
Westlake High School For Girls
Westwood
Los Angeles
Shirley
Strikes Hit U S Auto Towns Brighten Labor Turmoil
Associated Press reports swelling idle workers beyond 70 000 as Detroit sees 8500 leave Briggs Aircraft for meat shortage protests. Chicago area slaughterhouses close and 635 renderers strike. WLB delays wage settlements at CLO packing. In San Clair Wisconsin 2000 idle at Gillette Tire plant due to tube department stoppage.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Aircraft Plex
Automobile
CLO Packing House
WLB
San Claire
Wis
Gillette Tire
U. S. Rubber Company
Farms Grow Bigger as Fewer Farms Remain in 1945 Census
The 1945 census of agriculture shows larger average farm size across 300 counties, with a 10 percent rise since 1940 and total farm acreage up 8 percent while the number of farms drops from 499,876 to 485,449. The shift toward bigger farms is strongest in western states.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Optimistic drive for Atlantic veterans hospital site in Iowa
City leaders in Atlantic discuss locating a 250 to 300 bed veterans tuberculosis hospital on a scenic 40 acre tract. The drive led by Attorney John Budd aims to donate land if needed, with plans for gas water telecoms and staff of about 200. Refs to committed organizers and site requirements emerge from a meeting at the city hall.
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Atlanchampes
Western
Hell
Cass County
John Budd
Atlantic Chamber of Commerce
P. N. McDermott
George Haw
Harry Jordan
Wiliam Knudsen
Veterana Administration
Des Moines
Atlantic
Iowa
Veterans Administration
Veterans
Plana
Contributions to Fund Coming In for Park Improvements
Report shows donations toward Sunnyside park improvements received from Neiby Furniture Company Charles Neiby Malone Seed Co Whitney Loan Trust Atlantic State Bank The Vogue Olsens Grocery Hansen & Company Family Shoe Store Dick Bedl Cook's Rexall Store and F C Saomiseh Each giver contributed ten dollars or more indicating broad community support for the softball park project.
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Company M
Atlantic State Guard
Sunnyside Park
Atlantic State Bank
the Vogue
Olsens’ Grocery
Hansen & Company
Family Shoe Store
Dick Bedl
Cook's Rexall
F. C. Saomiseh
Midwest firm eggs deemed unfit for use hold placed
Des Moines June 12 AP The state department of agriculture announced a hold order on 4 000 cans of frozen liquid eggs consigned to Central Service Cold Storage Co by Mid Egg Co of Atlanta Tests show many cans fail standards for human foods Ray Sours head of the food and dairy division said A 1 800 value is placed on the eggs
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Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
Central Service Cold Storage Co
Mid- Egg Co
Atlanta
Ray Sours
Department
Food and Dairy Division
Sours
Eee
Czech confiscation decree targets German held farms and firms
President Benes announced seizure of all farms and corporations in Czechoslovakia owned by Germans Hungarians and traitors and Nazi collaborators of any nationality The measure countersigned by the government aims to remove influences behind betrayal in 1938 It covers about 270000 small farms mainly in the Sudeten area involving roughly 1 5 million people including owners and their families
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Prague
Benes
Crac
Czechoslovakia
Julius Dures
Sudeten
U S 95th Infantry Embarks for Home as Others Arrive for Redeploy
The U S 95th Infantry Division is ordered to embark at Le Havre for shipment home. Second and Fifth divisions arrive near Reims for redeployment to the United States. The 44th 87th infantry and 18th armored divisions join for July shipment. All groups, including the 95th, are slated for Pacific duty after furloughs and reforming in the U S. Additional units at redeployment camps include the 209th 541st 292nd and 577th field artillery battalions.
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Paris
U. S
95Th
le Havre
Assembly Area Command
Reims
United States
Baruch Urges Breakup of German War Power in Europe
Bernard Baruch told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that the United Nations should destroy Germany's war potential industry by industry and use a German settlement as a basis for a broad peace with Russia. He warned of a new cave age of bomb shelters if the plan fails and called for universal military training and a strong American foreign economic policy to protect free enterprise. He also proposed a European reconstruction council and urged policies to strengthen Russia while reducing its military costs.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations
Germany
Europe
Senate
Russia
San Francisco
Baruch
Supreme European Reconstruction Council
War departments bill seeks victory by overwhelming force
Washington reports a 88,500,286,951 war department supply bill with Army plans to use 1,000 B 29s daily in the Pacific and drop 2,796,000 tons of bombs in the year starting July 1. General Marshall and General Arnold testified the offensives will be intensified with maximum power to shorten the war.
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Washington
War Department
House
Japan
George C. Marshall
H. H. Arnold
Far East
Marshall
Europe
Pacific
Tokyo
Robert Wells Killed in Okinawa
Extra- Mr. and Mrs. Royal Wells received word their son Pfc. Robert Wells was killed in battle at Okinawa. Born Elk Horn July 10, 1924, he lived in Exira after graduating in 1941. He enlisted Jan. 10, 1948, spent a furlough in April, then went to Fort Ord before overseas duty. He is survived by his parents a brother Donald and two sisters Evelyn and Mary Ann.
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Royal Wells
Pfc
Robert Wells
Okinawa
Robert
Elk Horn
Exira High School
Fort Ord
Cal
Donald
Evelyn
Mary Ann
Sinatra Meets Pope at Vatican During Italian Tour
Pope Pius XII welcomed Frank Sinatra in Vatican City on June 22. Sinatra said the Pope asked if he is a tenor or baritone and expressed surprise at the Papal awareness. Sinatra begins a Italy tour after singing for thousands of troops in Rome.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Frank Sinatra
Sinatra
Vatican
Italy
Rome
Geiger Named Pacific Fleet Marine Force Commander
Lt Gen Roy S. Geiger was announced as commanding general of the Pacific fleet marine force. He succeeds Lt Gen Holland M. Smith, who will head training and placement in San Diego. Geiger, 60, veteran of 38 years, takes over after the death of Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and follows the famed Howlin Mad Smith.
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Washington
Roy
Geiger
Pacific Fleet Marine Force
Nava
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Holland M. Smith
A. A. Vandegrift
Marine Corps
Gen. Smith
Marine Training and Placement Command
San Diego
Calif
Charles F. B. Price
Third Amphibious Corps
Pacific
Howlin’ Mad” Smith
Bf Marine
Council Deadlock Over Atlantic Mayor Succession
The Atlantic City council failed to choose a successor to late Mayor Joseph Burnell, voting 38 to 3 for Dick Jessen and Harry Beers. Willard Roeske, a former mayoral bidder, attended as a candidate. The session opened with granting cigarette permits to Lee's, Dick & Janie's, Calumet Café, and Safeway Stores.
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Joseph Burnell
Dick Jessen
Harry Beers
Atlantic
Willard Roeske
Burnea
Lee’s
Dick & Janie’s
Calumet Cafe
Safeway
Wickard Confirmed for 10 Year Rural Electrification Post
Washington June 22 Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard won senate confirmation to a 10 year term as Rural Electrification administrator by a 56 to 6 vote Wickard succeeds Harry Slattery who resigned last Dec 1 Rep Clinton P Anderson of New Mexico will take over Wickard's cabinet post
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
Senate
Wickard
Harry Slattery
Clinton P. Anderson
Dem
New Mexico
Back in States Soldier Homeward Bound on Furlough
Mrs. Frank Brehmer of 1005 Walnut street received a wire from her son Sgt. Donald J. Brehmer who had been in a German prison camp stating he is now at Camp Patrick Henry Virginia and will be home on furlough soon.
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States
Frank Brehmer
Walnut Street
Donald J. Brehmer
Camp Patrick Henry
Plan Mass Trial War Crsinals Plan Mass Trial War
The British foreign office said Big Four will open talks next week on how to prosecute major war criminals in a mass trial before winter. The United States seeks rapid agreement on a court and procedures to try Nazi leaders, industrialists, and Gestapo figures under a blanket conspiracy charge. Justice Jackson leads the U S effort to avoid indefinite postponement.
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London
Foreign Office
Germany
United States
U. S
Gestapo
Milwaukee Road to add 80 diesel locomotives this year
Milwaukee Road will acquire 80 additional diesel electric locomotives with delivery beginning in July and all units in service by October. Trustee H. A. Scandrett announced the plan to speed handling of the line’s heaviest loads, including five 5400 h p freight locomotives for service between Chicago Kansas City Omaha Sioux Falls S D and St Paul Minneapolis.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Road
H. A. Schandrett
Scandrett
H. P
Kansas City
Omaha
Sioux Falls
S. D
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Leaders of Lebanon and Syria Agree on Independence Policy
In a joint statement issued in Damascus on June 22 the Lebanese and Syrian governments announced a common policy to pursue independence from France and to defend their sovereignty in the future against any outside power.
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Damascus
France
Superforts Strike Japan In New Pacific Campaign
Allied air forces intensify raids across Japan. B 29s hit Kobe Nagoya area destroying several aircraft plants and cities, while Okinawa supports potential invasions. Japanese defenses crumble with mass surrenders as guerrilla actions and landings disrupt northern Luzon and western coast positions.
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Benent
Philippine
Cagayan Valley
U. S
Asia
East China
U.S
Liuchow
China
London
Hiro
Osaka
Kobe-Nagoya
Kamamigahara
Akashi
Tamashima
Himeji
Shisuoaka
Yokkaichi
Toyohashi
Hatamatesu
Japan
Pacific Fleet
Okinawa
Amre
Russel W. Volckmaen
Luzon
Tugengarao
Kantaro Susuki
Pan American Announces 88-Hour Round-The-World Flight
Pan American Airways Atlantic division announced an 88 hour round-the-world trip on its commercial passenger planes. The postwar jet resumption was noted with a total cost of 6700 dollars. The news originates from New York on June 22.
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New York
Pan American Airways
Atlantic
Gasoline Ration Increase Widens Nationwide
Washington reports a 50 percent boost in "A" gasoline rations effective countrywide. Motorists with new A-16 coupons may buy six tons with a stamp instead of previous limits, easing fuel access amid wartime controls.
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Washington
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