Carrier Planes Rampage Over to Japan
Allied air strikes from Adm. Halsey’s third fleet hit Kyushu targets including Kanoya naval air station and Osaka munitions centers. Tokyo claimed about 200 carrier planes attacked in waves while B-29s mined Nippon’s Inland Sea and heavy anti aircraft fire limited fighter opposition. The raids mark a renewed major air assault on southern Japan with McCain commanding the carrier force.
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Guam
U. S
Adm
William F. Halsey
Java
Tokyo
Kanoya Naval Air Station
Kyusmu Island
Pacific Fleet
20Th Air Force
Washington
Marianas
Kyushu
State Lags In at Bond Sale in West Virginia
West Virginia struggles to meet the bond quota as the state war finance headquarters report bond sales stagnating at 51 percent of the $64 million target. A. C. Spurr warns of a critical point needing extraordinary effort while McDowell county rises to fourth in inter county comparisons behind Braxton, Doddridge and Boone.
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Charleston
AV. Va
West Virginia
State War Finance Headquarters
A. C. Spurr
Spurr
Germany
McDowell County
McDowell
Braxton, Doddridge and Boon
Individual war bond drive nears one fifth of quota
Washington reports individual purchases totaling 4.845 billion dollars, 9.2 percent of a 7 billion quota. E bonds amount to 2.226 billion dollars, 56 percent of the E bond target. Treasury laments slow spontaneous buying as the drive runs May 14 to June 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
T. R. Gamble
War Finance Division
Raids Hit Nagoya Naruo Akashi In Honshu Air Strikes
Allied B-29 formations attacked Nagoya Naruo and Akashi on Saturday in a three way raid on Honshu. The operation marked the first all high explosive air raid since May 19 and followed previous strikes on Osaka Kobe and Tokyo.
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Guam
Nagoya
Naruo
Akashi
Honshu
Hamamatsu
Osaka
Tokyo Radio
Kobe
Orient
Tokyo
Nove
Yokahama
Japan adopts drastic economic controls amid war mobilization
San Francisco reports Japan imposes strict controls to boost aircraft and munitions production. Premier Kantaro Suzuki and leaders advocate imperial decree governance without diet approval. Shrine prayers and totalitarian backing cited as part of the drive. American carrier planes strike southern Japan air bases later in the week.
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San Francisco
Japan
Kantaro Suzuki
America
Britain
Domei
Diet
Federal Communications Commission
Suzuki
Meiji
Yasukuni
Jiro Minami
Totalitaria
Political Association of Japan
Adm
William F. Halsey
Third Fleet
U. S
Yanks Push On Last Jap Stand On North Luzon
American forces advance northeast from Bayombong in the Maga river valley toward the Cagayan valley as the 37th infantry division presses along Highway No 5 with strong air support. Mindanao operations report a 1 mile advance near Tagakpan as the 24th division drives Japanese positions back into the mountains.
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North
Luzon
Manila
37Th
Bayombong
Maga River
Cagayan
Robert S. Beightler
Bambang
Magat River
Sopano
38Th
Fifth Air Force
Phiippines
Mindanao
Taloma River
Tagakpan
Davaogull
Ula
Two Girls Cleared In Death Of Babe
In Philadelphia a juvenile court cleared Irene Jones and her sister Janet of criminal intent in taking three month old Thomas V Ripley Jr from his coach to play house with him and leaving him in a vacant lot where he died from a broken neck. Judge Charles L Brown ordered them held in detention until a home is found and abduction and carriage theft charges were held in abeyance. A psychiatrist said Irene was essentially normal while Janet was retarded. Their mother Bonnie Stanley collapsed and could not testify about ages from court records.
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Philadelphia
Charles L. Brown
Irene Jones
Janet
Thomas V. Ripley, Jr
Donald Davidson
Irene
Bonnie Stanley
Skippers Describe Losses From Kamikaze Attacks Off Okinawa
Washington June 8 The skippers of two American destroyers the Morrison and the Luce described at a news conference how their ships were sunk within minutes of each other by Japanese suicide planes off Okinawa Commander James R Hansen of the Morrison and Captain J W Waterhouse of the Luce reported 163 dead and 108 wounded on the Morrison with 71 survivors and 149 dead or missing on the Luce with 40 wounded, as attackers over a 15 mile area struck in rapid succession including multiple "death by own action" assaults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morrison
Luce
Okinawa
Comdr
James R. Hansen
J. W. Waterhouse
Comdr. Hansen
Hill Drive
Los Angeles
Calif
Waterhouse
Echo Point
Wheeling
W. Va
Hansen
Cognes
Ann
Big Five Study Veto Plan at United Nations Conference
The United States Britain France Russia and China defend a veto at the UN on a take-it-or-leave-it basis to shape a peace enforcement security council. Russia shifts to allow veto non interference in free discussions. Cuba’s Dr Guillermo Bell denounces the accord as unacceptable without compromise on veto rights.
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San Francisco
United States
Russia
Britain
China
France
Security Council
World Organization
League
Cuba
Guillermo Bell
Truman’s Tariff Cut Power Narrowly Defeated in Committee
In Washington on June 8 the Senate finance committee rejected President Truman’s bid to cut tariff rates as part of a three year extension of the reciprocal trade law, with 10 voting to delete the provision and 9 to retain it. The full bill passed the committee by voice vote and faces a floor showdown next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Senate Finance Committee
George
LaFollette
House
Cordell Hull
Senate
Joseph C. Grew
Court Upholds U S Seizure Of Ward Property
Chicago reports the U S circuit court of appeals declares wartime seizure of Montgomery Ward properties legal. It upheld government action in a labor dispute, while one judge dissented citing lack of constitutional basis. The decision cites production work by Ward's employees and salespeople supporting war needs.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Roosevelt
Will M. Sparks
Ward
Ward's
Circuit Court of Appeals
Sec
Supreme Court of the United States
L. Avery
War Labor Board
Homecoming twist as Gatley reads war telegrams
In Philadelphia on June 8 Pfc. Thomas J. Gatley returns from Italy and reads a stream of war department telegrams his wife received starting March 1944. The messages chronicle delays and misdirections indicating wounded, captured, killed, not captured but killed, not killed but captured, not died but freed, and finally liberated.
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Philadelphia
Thomas J. Gatley
War Department
Gatley
Combat Casualties Pass One Million Mark
World War II casualties reached 1,012,049 with 895,834 Army losses across all theaters through V E day. The weekly rise of 9,162 adds 230,173 killed 613,611 wounded 57,452 missing and 110,813 held as prisoners. Navy totals 116,215 with 3,347 in weekly rise amid Pacific combat.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Stimson
Army
Ater
Germany
Fire Destroys Military Supplies at Camp Knight
A six alarm blaze at Camp Knight in Oakland destroyed tons of military food bound for the Pacific theater. 15 Oakland units helped halt spread, walls kept sections apart, and several soldiers aided firefighters. Negro stevedores reportedly saved substantial food by carrying boxes and lifts. army officials deny munitions storage. An army board will investigate the cause and extent of the damage.
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Oakland
Calif
Pacific War Area
Camp Knight
Army
Army Board of Inquiry
Yanks Tighten Vice On Trapped Jap Holdouts
Mrs. Langford offers a $10 000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her husband Albert E Langford killer. Police seek details as widow disputes rumors of gambling and night club ties while public grief unfolds.
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Mrs. Langford
New York
Albert E. Langford
Informa
House Reduces War Agency Funding in 1946 Budget Fight
Republicans triumph in trimming 17 million dollars from the Office of War Information in the 1946 appropriation. The 138 to 128 House vote leaves OWI with 18 million unless the Senate restores the cut, as GOP efforts to curb CES WRA and Office of Inter American Affairs stall in the broader 752.8 million wartime funding bill.
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Washington
Reublicans
Office of War Information
OWI
Senate
House
Office of Economic Stabilization
Office of Inter- American Affairs
War Relocation Authority
CES
WRA
Appropriations Committee
Taber
Marcantonio
OWT
Production resumes at Fayette County mine ending week-long strike
Scotia Coal and Coke at Brooklyn Fayette county ends a week-old stoppage involving about 250 miners. United Mine Workers district 29 leader J Titler said the walkout appeared sparked by a single grievance over a wet working place. Terms of reopening not disclosed. The mine yields about 1,000 tons daily.
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Beckley
W. Va
Scotia Coal and Coke Company
Brooklyn
Fayette County
J. Titler
United Mine Workers District 29
Rescuers Fight To Free Crash Trip From Shangri La Valley
Rescue workers battle to free survivors of an army C 47 crash in a remote jungle valley in Dutch New Guinea. Lt John B McCollum WAC Sgt Kenneth Decker and two others were injured. 20 crew members lay deceased near the wreck. Filipino para troopers reached survivors May 25 and by June 1 had them in a valley camp after a grueling trek through wild terrain.
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Shangri-La’ Valley
WAC
Margaret Hastings
Owego
N. Y
John B. McCollum
Trenton
Kenneth W. Decker
Kelso
Wash
Come
Cecil B. Walters
Americans Press Advance on Okinawa Front
American forces push on Okinawa splitting Japanese garrisons into a 3 square mile pocket and pressing toward the Yeasu-Dake escarpment. Marine divisions drive along the Oroku peninsula as ground, air and naval bombardments target fortified positions in southern Okinawa.
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Guam
Okinawa
Yaeju-Dake
10Th Army
Chester W. Nimitz
Nawa
Oroku Peninsula
Yeasu-Dake
Bradley Declares German Commanders Outmaneuvered
General Omar Bradley told reporters that German officers were outsmarted and their forces beaten by the American army, praised for training and equipment. He traced the Allied push from France through the Rhine to the Elbe and noted his pending duties winding up in Europe before taking veterans affairs post.
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Washington
Omar Bradley
12Th Army Corps
Stimson
Missouri
West
France
Rhine
Elbe
Truman
Europe
Agreement Near on Trieste Talks Between Tito Allies
An informant says an agreement with Marshal Tito and the Allies on Trieste and northern Italy is close. A settlement could be signed in Belgrade within several days, though terms are not disclosed. Yugoslav and British forces remain in the area.
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Rome
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Trieste
Eee
Exce
Belgrade
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