Allied Drive Into Northern Borneo and Polish Peace Talks
Allied forces under Gen Douglas Mac Arthur push into northern Borneo aiming to seize oil rich ports and airfields as part of a broader Pacific campaign while the Big Three prepare for a Moscow peace conference on Poland with Harry Hopkins and Joseph Davies easing tensions. The piece notes U.S. pressure on Japanese positions, Polish exile tensions, and a predicted bumper agricultural year led by Kansas and national grain forecasts amid wartime logistics strains.
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Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
Indies
Malaya
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Harry Hopkins
Joseph E. Davies
Truman
Moscow
London
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Mr. Truman
Reds
Poland
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
USDA
Poliomyelitis cases ahead of last year in mid May
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reports poliomyelitis activity is about 50 percent higher than a year ago. By mid May this year 642 new cases were recorded, compared with 424 in the same period in 1944.
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National Foundation For
Sunny Side Up Promoted For G I Joe Menus Overseas
The article notes a shift to real eggs in the shell for overseas G I Joe mess. It cites previous use of powdered and canned eggs and explains shell eggs reduce shipping space and avoid fragility and cooling challenges in transit.
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G.I. Joe
Senate approves cost plus profit for farm prices
The senate passes a one year extension of OPA with a cost plus profit clause for farm prices despite Truman opposition. The provision, drawn by Senators Wherry and Shipstead, makes it unlawful to set prices below all costs plus a reasonable profit, risking shifts from the parity formula.
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Senate
Harry S. Truman
Wherry
Shipstead
Truman
Sugar Supplies Tighten As 1945 Allocations Set
The War Food Administration fixed rigid July to September quotas for government and civilian use while noting sugar distribution from January to May 1945 rose to 2,955,906 short tons versus 2,747,543 last year. By June 2 raw sugar stocks stood at 275,746 tons and beet inventories at 374,052 tons, down from last year’s 442,234 and 465,222 respectively.
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War Food Administration
Home Front
Bombs Take Heavy Toll in Tokyo Raids See Huge Deaths
Col Alfred F Klaberer of the U S 21st bomber force in the Marianas estimated 500 000 to 1 500 000 Japanese killed in B 29 raids on Tokyo. He cited Yokohama as largely obliterated and noted the high death rate from fire bomb injuries needing multiple medics.
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U. S
Marianas
Alfred F. Klaberer
Tokyo
Yokohama
Klaberer
United Nations Move to Form International Peace Force
In San Francisco Joseph Paul Boncour framed the conference as building the keystone of a peace structure as plans advance for a first international army navy and air force. The force would draw on about one third of the current U S military, with global regional sub committees and free passage rights for all UN members in hostilities. Unanimous Big Five approval and a majority of the 11 member Security Council required.
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Joseph Paul Boncour
United Nations
San Francisco
U. S
Britain
Russia
China
France
Security Council of
Shipyards Face Peacetime Labor Drain Delays Vessels
Shipyards on both coasts lose about 600 workers monthly as wartime crews depart for peace time jobs. The Brooklyn yard requires 5,000 more workers to handle repairs and the carrier Reprisal is five months behind schedule while Oriskany nears half completion. About 3,000,000 man days are needed for the Franklin D. Roosevelt super carrier repair.
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Navy
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Oriskany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
West Coast
West
Brooklyn
Veterans rehome war dogs as hospital mascots and pets
War dogs deemed unsuitable for combat are assigned to army convalescent hospitals as pets and mascots for recuperating patients. If a hospitalized veteran forms an attachment, he may gain ownership and take the dog home upon discharge.
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Army
Plan for Nazi war criminals trials at international tribunal
Washington Digest by Baukhage outlines the Moscow declaration and U S role in prosecuting Nazi bigwigs before an international military tribunal. Justice Jackson leads the American effort with a team including Donovan Dean and Alderman, aiming for swift, just trials and no staged spectacle. Also cited are rising postwar incomes and savings amid wartime fiscal data.
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Moscow
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
United States
International Military Tribunal
Supreme Court of the United States
Robert H. Jackson
United Kingdom
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Judea
Palestine
Pontius Pilate
Pentagon
Washington
Hamlet
Justice Jackson
Supreme Court
Europe
War Department
Navy Department
Office of Strategic Services
Jackson
Fry
William Donovan
OSS
Sydney Alderman
Southern Railway
Francis Shea
Naval
James Donovan
Gordon Dean
Donovan
Dean
Department of Justice
Navy
Pontius Pilates
Camp in New Jersey Seized from Bund Sold for Boys’ Use
Government sells the camp in New Jersey seized from the German American Bund for conversion into a boys camp. Recent queries from German businessmen asked how to apply for loans to rebuild their town. Field Marshal Mannerheim congratulates Stalin on victory. Stalin replies. BBC claims truthfulness aids wartime morale, hinting Goebbels may be mistaken.
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Bund
Mannerheim
Russia
Stalin
Germany
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