Okinawa Mass Death and Surrenders Reported In Battle Update
AP from Guam notes intensified fighting on Okinawa with U S forces gaining ground as more than 90 000 killed and over 4 000 mass surrenders recorded. Nimitz confirms Japanese losses include sunk ships and damaged units while six divisions reduce pockets of resistance and civilians flee toward American lines.
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Seif Erickson
Guam
Okinawa
Nippon
Chester W. Nimitz
Tenth Army
United States
10Th Army
Lemuel Shepherd, Jr
Sixth Marine Division
Mabuni
Archibald V. Arnold
Aragachi
Medeera
Makabe
James L. Bradley
96Th
Coal output slips from year ago by seven percent
The National Coal Association reports U S bituminous coal production for the week ended June 16 at 11,850,000 net tons, down from 12,173,000 a year earlier. Year to date output through June 16 stands about 273,717,000 tons, 22,174,000 tons or 7.5 percent below 1944 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
National Coal Association
Chinese Forces Pound Liuchow Rail City Airfield
Chinese troops attacked Liuchow in five columns hitting the rail city and its air field. Reports say Liuchow may fall within hours as the hub city burns and the air base on the southern outskirts is hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Liuchow
Robert B. McClure
Kumming
14Th Air Force
Sgt Spurrier Returns Home After European War Heroic Run
Bluefield honors Staff Sgt. Junior J. Spurrier who arrived by train from Roanoke after serving in Europe where he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor the Distinguished Service Cross Purple Heart Croix de Guerre and a top wartime reputation as the One Man Army. Plans for a July Fourth homecoming include a parade a GI orchestra and a gala at the West Virginia Hotel with speakers Sen Chapman Revercomb Congressman John Kee and Col. John C. Bickle among dignitaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort George G. Meade
Princeton Avenue
Spurrier
Achain
France
G. I
Matt
One Man Army
Boston
Mass
Fort Meade
Silver Springs
Washington, D. C
West Virginia
Chapman Revercomb
Matz
John Kee
Bluefield
John C. Bickle
Charleston
Army
Fifth Service Command
Ratification Of Pact Predicted By Senate Panel
San Francisco June 22 Chairman Connally of the senate foreign relations committee predicted the senate will ratify the new United Nations charter with a comfortable edge over the two thirds. He said bipartisan support is likely as partisan politics should end at the water's edge. British action assurances came from the UK delegation. Final senate vote is expected no sooner than eight weeks, with hearings around mid July and a month of debate to follow. Connally and Vandenberg will report to Washington on return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
United Kingdom
Washington
Sen. Vandenberg
Mich
OPA Head Learns About Meat Shortage From Personal Farm Tale
Washington on June 22 OPA Price Administrator Chester Bowles described a meat shortage as he spoke to Virginia cattlemen. He said he keeps about 300 chickens three hogs and a cow and recounted his daughter’s question about when the calf would be eaten noting a shift in the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chester Bowles
Virginia
Bowles
Nearly 75 000 Workers Idle In U S Plants
The Associated Press reports nearly 75 000 workers idle in labor disputes across the United States. Fresh stoppages include 8 700 in aircraft, chemical, rubber and artillery fuse industries. Other actions involve Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Monsanto, Carter Carburetor, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Chicago
Chicago International Harvester Company
Monsanto
Ill
Monsanto Chemical Company
St Louis
CIO United Automobile Workers Union
Eau Claire
Wis
Gillette
U. S. Rubber Company
CIO United Rubbed Workers Union
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Libbey-Owens- Ford
CIO Glass Workers Union
AFL
Superforts Blast Japanese Arsenal in Major Strikes
Allied B 29s blasted a large Japanese arsenal and multiple aircraft plants in daylight raids over Honshu and surrounding areas. Four planes missing, while Tokyo claimed 26 of 450 shot down. Facilities hit included Kure naval plant and Mitsubishi Kawasaki plants near Nagoya Kobe area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Nippon
Tokyo
Honshu
Washington
20Th Airforce
Kure
Japan
Mitsubishi
Kawasaki
Kagamigahara
Nagoya
Kawanishi
Himeji
Akashi
Kobe
Mitsubishi- Mishima
Tamashima
Twenty-first
Bomber Command
Osake
Store Boasts Full Line Of Shortages
Portland retailer promotes its three Columbia Market stores claiming a wide array of shortages in the era. The ad highlights scarce potatoes and margarine, but brags of prime beef pork veal lamb and other goods. The copy jokes about butter points and mentions a lack of experienced help, stressing they can still handle business.
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Portland
Columbia
Northeastern Governors Call For Food Aid At Conference
Governors from 13 states met in New York for a food conference led by Thomas E. Dewey and Raymond Baldwin. They described widespread hunger, urged government relief, and pressed reviews of army and navy demand on food, OPA poultry rules, and price ceilings.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Dewey
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
New England
Mortimer R. Proctor
Vermont
Morris A. Hildreth
Maine
Herbert R. O’conor
Maryland
Walter W. Bacon
Delaware
O'Connor
Army
Charles M. Dale
New Hampshire
Baldwin
Collective Trial of War Criminals Urged
London report states Justice Robert Jackson urged a blanket collective trial for Nazi leaders and terror groups before a four power military tribunal. He said the plan aims to finalize guilt in a single proceedings, with representation from the United States Russia Britain and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
United States
Jackson
U. S
Russia
France
Britain
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Joachim Ribbentrop
Gestapo
Eisenhower Homecoming Draws Abilene Roar Of Cheers
In Abilene Kansas General Dwight D Eisenhower arrives to a roaring welcome after victory in Europe. He avoids politics saying he remains a soldier in federal service and will return to civilian life after duty. He plans to return to Europe in July and resume command duties and governance roles.
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Abilene, Kas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
America
Europe
Topeka
Kansas City
Abilene
State Tops All-Time 7th War Loan Quota
Charleston reports West Virginia surpassing the 7th war loan goal by reaching 87.6 million dollars in total sales, 106 percent of the 83 million quota. War Finance Chairman A. C. Spurr notes strong corporate and individual investor activity, with corporation sales at 237 percent of their 19 million quota and individuals at 66 percent of 64 million. He forecasts continued focus on series E bonds and all securities to individuals.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
War Finance
A. C. Spurr
Spurr
Eles
Corpora Cons
Goa
Ike Gets Mixed Up In His Salutes
General Eisenhower in Abilene Kansas mis-saluted a passing boy scout contingent. He first gave a military salute, then switched to a boy scout salute and asked Charles Harger how to perform the three finger salute. After confirmation, Ike snapped to attention.
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Abilene
Kans
Eisenhower
Charles Harger
Harger
Ike
Lashmeet Tragedy: Husband Kills Wife Then Himself
Oswell Basham, 29, shot and killed his 19 year old wife Frances at their Lashmeet home and then killed himself. Witnessed by his mother Rusha Basham, the shooting occurred after the couple returned from work at Sagamore and Princeton stores. Police name murder suicide. motive stated as family trouble. Frances Karnes Basham, formerly of Princeton, was married since 1943.
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Lashmeet
Oswell
Basham
Frances
W. E. DeMoss
Princeton
Rusha Basham
Sagamore
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Murphy
DeMoss
Burr Harrison
Perry L. Dye
Constantable
Carl Christian
Justice of the Peace
Dale Bailey
Frank Gibson
Matoaka
Frances Karnes
Everett Karnes
Prince
Cache Of Hungarian Treasures Unearthed In Salzburg Area
American soldiers of the 82nd Rainbow Division uncovered a cache worth $75,000,000 near Mattsee in Austria, including the Holy Hand of St Stephen. The relic, once in Budapest, was found with diamond and ruby regalia in a Catholic priest’s home. Officials also detained fascist collaborators, including Madame Szalasi and Capt. Ernst von Bombossemn.
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Rosenheim
Germany
Mattsee
Salzburg
St. Stephen
Hungary
U. S. 82Nd Division
Rainbow
Budapest
Silvester II
Ferenc Szalasi
Ernst von Bombossemn
Aparri Falls To Americans In Luzon Campaign
U S sixth Army infantry and artillery units with Ignorot guerrillas captured Aparri the last Japanese escape port in Luzon. The advance trapped about 20 000 Japanese in the Cagayan valley as Tuguegarao fell earlier to guerrillas led by Col Russell W Volckmann. In the push toward Ilagan San Juan and nearby towns, American forces destroyed dozens of Japanese tanks and inflicted heavy losses.
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Manila
Aparri
Luzon
U. S. Sixth Army
Douglas MacArthur
North Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Cagayan Province
Tuguegarao
Sixth Army
Gagayan
Dugo
Russell W. Volckmann
Tugueegarao
U. S. 37Th Infantry Division
F Tilagan
San Juan
Ohio National Guard
Ilagan
U. S. 25Th Infantry Division
Charles L. Mullins
Pingkian
U. S. Sixth Infantry Division
Bagabag
Pingjan
38Th Infantry Division
102Nd
Marikina
Anthracite Mines Restored To Owners
The government returned 356 coal properties to private ownership after seizing them when tribes threatened output. A new miners wage contract was approved and production is urged to recover nearly 3.5 million tons lost due to strikes. Ickes warned shortages could drop domestic grade output by as much as 12 million tons in 1945 46.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Solid Fuels Administration
Solid Fuels
Ickes
Poles Reach Accord On Government Set-up
The Moscow radio reports an agreement among Polish groups on forming a national unity government. Participants included Bierut, president of the Warsaw government, and Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, peasant party leader and former head of the London government in exile, with talks aiming to reorganize provincial government.
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London
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Warsaw
Boleslaw Bierut
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Peasant Party
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Okinawa Isle
Junior J. Spurrier
Orlis Hope
Lile Lee
Marjorie Lou Edith
Coal Association
Sgt. Spurrier
Max Matz
James E. Mann
OPA Head
THE
Associated Press
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Co. V. Wheeler
CIO
United Rubber Workers
George W. Taylor
National War Labor Board
Conner Avenue
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Troit
Harold R. Wood
United Automobile Workers
Abilene, Kansas
Roarsits
War Department
Elbe
Victorius
War Stimson
Truman
Control Commission
Pacific
Oswell S. Basham
Lashmeet Man
Aparri Falls
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