Air Might Hits Foe On Wide Homeland Front
Allied air forces conducted a broad assault on Japanese targets across Honshu and surrounding areas. Navy carrier planes and Army B 29s and P 51 Mustangs struck Ka no ya Nagoya Kagamigahara and Sakishima targets, destroying aircraft, crippling ground installations, and hitting supply depots with high explosives and rockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton W. Faron
Guam
Japan
Navy
Army
Adm
William F. (Bull) Halsey, Jr
Third Feet
Kanoya Naval Air Base
Kyus
Kagamigahara
Nagoya
Honshu Island
Naruo
Akashi
Bombardment of Japanese War Plants by 150–200 Fortresses
Between 150 and 200 Super fortresses struck five Japanese industrial plants in raids on key war targets. About 100 Island-based Mustangs escorted the bomber flights, hitting Hitachi’s Chiba plant, Nakamura’s Tomioka facility, and an army air depot west of Tokyo in the Tokyo region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Tokyo
Hitach Aircraft Company
Chiba
Japan Aircraft Company
Tomioka Ee
Yokoama
Air raids strike Japanese targets as Mustangs engage
Mustang pilots claim five Japanese planes destroyed on the ground while damaged planes were counted at ten. Three Mustangs fell, one pilot was rescued. Tokyo radio notes severe home island homelessness from raids. Between 100 and 150 B 29s bomb Nagoya Naruo and Akashi in Japan's industrial heart without escort.
Fighting Jap Women Found on Okinawa
Okinawa reports describe Japanese women in uniform infiltrating American lines at night. General John Hodge notes multiple sightings of women throwing grenades and several killed in the 96th division area near Naha. Observers suspect some may be nurses or artillery spotters attempting covert actions.
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Okinawa
Smee
Pacific
John Hodge
U. S. 24Th Army Corps
96Th Infantry Division
Naha
Hodge
Inductions Suspended During Holiday Period
West Virginians called for induction and pre induction exams will be suspended July 2 3 and 4 for Independence Day. State headquarters and local draft boards will stay open, according to Selective Service Director Carleton C. Pierce.
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Charleston
W. Va
Star Selective Service
Carleton C. Pierce
Japan Diet Shifts Power To Suzuki War Cabinet
The Japanese Diet agreed to hand over virtually all powers to a wartime cabinet led by Premier Kantaro Suzuki. Emperor Hirohito called on citizens to fulfill the holy war and empowered the cabinet to issue orders without parliamentary approval in transport, communications, food, taxes, and rehabilitation as Japan prepares for intensified conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzuki
Hirohito Girechde
Eee Diet
Sat
War Cabinet
Kantaro Suzuki
Bembravides
Tokyo
Domei Agency
Japan
Hirohito
Diet
Britain
District Bituminous Production Estimate
The two districts produced 3,587,000 tons in the week ended May 26, down from 3,785,000 tons a year earlier. Cumulative output since April 1 reached 26,145,090 tons, versus 29,850,000 tons in 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solid Fuels Administration
Accord Puts Lid On Troubled Situation
An Anglo American and Yugoslav pact limits the dispute over Venezia Giulia and Trieste pending a peace conference. The agreement keeps Anglo American control of railways and roads to Austria and imposes a temporary military administration for the mixed Italian Yugoslav Venezia Giulia area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Austria
Carinthia
Tito
Yugoslavia
Venezia Giulia
Trieste
Chinese Troops Reach Indo-French Frontier
Chinese forces advancing from southeast China have reached the Indo-Chinese frontier and push into Southeast Asia along an 85 mile front. Gen Chang Fah Kwei units captured Chungchingfu and Szelo as remnants flee toward Caobang.apanese forces retreat toward Indo China from the Korea corridor as Nguyen troops widen a breach along the Lungchow highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
South China
Indo-China
Southeast Asia
Chang Fah-Kwei
Chungchingfu
Caobang
Hanoi
Korea
Szelo
Mingkian
Chungchingu
Japan
Big Five Push Veto Plan At United Nations Conference
At the UN conference in San Francisco the Big Five pursue a veto voting formula for the security council while agreeing the veto right is essential. Committees race to finalize the voting plan and a June 20 adjournment deadline nears as talks on charter sections proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Big Five
United Nations
World Organization
International Court of Justice
Council For International Cooperation
General Assembly
Security Council
Russia
China
France
Britain
United States
World League
Auto Licenses Not Extended in West Virginia
Charleston West Virginia June 9 an official says auto license applications are processed as rapidly as possible with extra staff aiding the work. Tag applications are arriving at roughly the same rate as the past three wartime years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Automobile Alyancer
Tokyo Reports Another Allied Island Invasion
Manila dispatch reports Allied lines on Labuan island near Borneo after Japanese claims. MacArthur’s communique notes heavy air raids on Labuan and Brunei bay area for the eighth straight day, with 13th Air Force bombs, naval bombardment, and raids on Ranau Jesselton Sandakan Kudat and Keningau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Hampson
Manila
Labuan
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Brunei Bay
MacArthur
U. S. Army Air Force
East Indies
13Th Air Force
Deta
RAAF
Brunei
Ina
Ranau
Jesselton
Sandakan
Kudat
Keningau
Pados River
Philippines
Tokyo
Lebuan
Tarakan Island
Auseas
Tarakan
President Accepts Bard's Resignation Shake-up in Navy Headship
President Truman accepts Ralph A. Bard resignation as under secretary of the navy and elevates Artemus L. Gates from assistant secretary for air to succeed him. John L. Sullivan becomes assistant secretary of the air, replacing Gates. Nominations will be sent to the Senate Monday, with possible further changes hinted for Secretary Forrestal. Bard first offered to resign on November 6 and again May 23, seeking relief by V E day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Navy Department
Truman
Ralph A. Bard
Chicago
Artemus L. Gates
Air
John L. Sullivan
Manchester
N. H
the Treasury
Gates
Sullivan
Senate
Charles G. Ross
Forrestal
Roosevelt
Bard
Bluefield Voters Set Tuesday Primary for City Board
Bluefield residents head to polls Tuesday to nominate ten candidates for the five member city board of directors and to select Democratic and Republican city executive committee members. Polls open 7 30 a m to 8 30 p m with fifteen candidates on the board ballot and party committee candidates in five wards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Board of Directors
City Board of Directors
Fiveman Board of Directors
Democratic Executive Committee
Republican Cou
Eleanor Shupe
Memorial School
Pinnacle Service Station
Fortune In Jewels Seen As Motive In Slaying
New York June 9 1928 text says jewels including a $23000 diamond and emerald bracelet may have motivated the murder of textile executive Albert E Langford. Widow Marion Langford wore the bracelet publicly and other valuables were in her hotel apartment. Police surveil jewel thieves and possible blackmail as a motive while questioning artists who received gifts from Mrs Langford. A $10000 reward was promised for the case resolver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Grimes Langford
New York
Criminal Courts
Albert
Marguery
Albert E. Lang- Wear
Marion Langford
Park Avenue
Ward Acts To Stay Mandate Amid Supreme Court Appeal
Ward and company announced plans to seek a stay of the appellate mandate as they press a U S Supreme Court review of the government seizure of properties in seven cities. The U S circuit court of appeals upheld the seizure 2 to 1 yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
U. S. Supreme Court
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ward
High Court
Supreme Court
United States
J. Albert Woll
Evan A. Evans
Otto Kerner
Roosevelt
Philip L. Sullivan
Will M. Sparks
Appellate Court
Sullivan
Ward's
Lewel L. Avery
War Labor Board
Avery
Hitler Marries Eva Braun and May Escape From Berlin
Berlin reports state Adolf Hitler wed Eva Braun two days before Berlin fell and could have fled by air. Marshal Zhukov said no definitive Hitler body found, suggesting he might be somewhere in Europe perhaps with Franco. Goebbels believed dead. Goebbels and wife killed themselves as the city collapsed.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Gregory K. Zhukov
Hitler
Zhukov
Ber
Europe
Spain
Franco
Bevarin
Reich
Fuehrer
Marshal Zhukov
Fuhrer
Joseph W. Grigg, Jr
Allied Control Council
Fred
Martin Bormann
Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Bezarin
Propaganda Ministry
Infantry Show Here Tuesday in Bluefield
The Here’s Your Infantry show, featuring more than 80 combat veterans and a 29 piece band, arrives in Bluefield to aid the War Finance drive and demonstrate infantry tactics against a Japanese pillbox. Public parking on Commerce Street will be restricted during the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Bluefield
Commerce Street
Clyde J. Stephens
Mercer County War Finance Committee
Mem
William Earl Bradley Missing Over Kuriles
Corporal William Earl Bradley a radio operator on a B 25 is reported missing over northern Kuriles. Parents Mr and Mrs Bradley of Walton ON were notified by telegram from the War Department. Bradley is a Beaver high school graduate who entered service July 2 1943. He trained at Fort Knox Kentucky Louise Falls North Dakota and Yuma Arizona and was sent overseas in December 1944.
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Rps
William Earl Bradley
Kuriles
Walton ON
War Department
Corporal Bradley
Beaver High School
Fort Knox
Louix Falls
8. D
Yuma
Ariz
GIs Reward Boyle with Soldier’s Human Recognition
Hal Boyle of the Associated Press, a Pulitzer winner, said the finest reward for a war correspondent is the GI’s approval. He recalled a soldier presenting a crumpled clipping sent by his mother, thanking him for a story that helped him feel human again.
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Boyle
New York
Hal Boyle
Associated Press
Boyle Gata
Cbe
Nal
Mercer Bond Sales Increase in Seventh War Loan Region 5
Mercer county earnings in the Seventh War Loan show bonds totaling $1 420 797 75 with E bonds at $534 102 75 about one third of the county quota. McDowell county reports 54 percent of its E bond quota at $644 261 and Wyoming county 53 6 percent at $107 359. Region 5 is chaired by FE G Otey of Bluefield with Stea and Mrs E W Harris active in Mercer efforts. The weeklong drive included a rally at Mdtoaka and an Infantry show in Bluefield anticipated to boost sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County
Hugh Ike Shott
Mercer County War Finance Committee
McDowell County
State War Finance Committee
McDowell
Wyoming County
FE. G. Otey
Bluefield
Clyde J. Stea
E. W. Harris
Mdtoaka
Aoenetay
Net Tightens On Okinawa Pocket As Marines Press
U S Marines advance on Okinawa as Maj Gen Shepherd and Maj Gen Del Valle close in on the Oroku pocket. Japanese forces entrenched on the Yaeju Dake escarpment face heavy bombardment from sea air and land. Hill 95 near Hanagusuku seen as key to breaching the east flank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leif Erickson
Guam
10Th Army
Okinawa
Oroku Peninsula
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr
Sixth Marine
Nahe Harbor
Pedro A. del Valle
Yaeju-Dake
First Marine Division
Oroku
Itoman
Archibald W. Arnold
Seventh Infantry
Hanagusuku
Sixth Marines
Seventh
War Prisoners To Be Assigned As Laborers
Expeditionary Force in Paris reports United States armies hold 2 852 000 prisoners in Europe with 696 000 to be kept as laborers. Col Robert J Gilldige says 696000 will be moved to France for labor. nine months to reduce total to 600000 using undecided methods. German prisoners may remove land mines under Geneva convention rules.
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Paris
United States
Europe
Robert J. Gilldige
France
Gill
Britain
Supreme Headquarters Allied
Bituminous Coal Production Drops
The National Coal Association reports weekly output for the week ended June 2 at 11,190 tons, down from 11,652,000 tons a year earlier due to Memorial Day. For the January 1 to June 2 period, mines total about 250,160,000 tons, 7.8 percent below the 271,366,000 in 1944.
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Washington
National Coal Association
Association
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Canton
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U. 37Th Infantry Division
Coe Valley
Luzon
Solano
Bagabag Highway
Terry L. Brown
J. B. Wooldridge, Jr
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George Greenacre
John Hetzel
James A. Stevenson
E. H. Tucker
A. Harry West
Clarence E. Clark
M. Postlethwaite
Langford
By Eddy Gilmore
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Mercer
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