Truman To Close World Meet Today
President Truman flies to San Francisco for a final United Nations conference session and final signing of the world charter. Senator Arthur Vandenberg pledges support, calling the charter a sound basis for organized peace, with delegates from around the world awaiting the signings and the conference’s closing remarks.
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Truman
Arthur Vanden
R.-Mich
Senate
Vandenberg
San Francisco
Truman Welcomed by Frisco Crowds on UN Visit
President Truman arrives in San Francisco to close the United Nations conference amid mass cheering. Police estimate 250000 people, with 100000 along Market Street, as ticker tape and confetti flew. He meets delegates at the Fairmont, greets wounded at a hospital, and plans to return to Washington to seek Senate ratification.
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Mr. Truman
Market Street
Truman
San Francisco
Hamilton Field
Fairmont Hotel
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the Air Fore
Royal E. Ingersoll
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
West Coast
Portland
Ore
Olympia
Wash
Rebarkation Hospital
Tropical Storm Heads Up Coast of Carolinas
The latest tropical storm neared the Carolina coast bringing dangerous winds and threat to shipping. Center was off shore about 60 miles southeast of Cape Fear moving northeast, with hurricane warnings from Cape Fear to Cape Hatteras and gale conditions inland to Virginia.
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Wilmington
N. C
South Carolina
North Carolina
Miami
Pla
Cape Fear
Cape Hatteras
Tidewater
Virginia “Apes
Atlantic City
Ean Island
D. C
Atlantic
Mattoon Restaurants Close as War Shortages Hit
Mattoon officials report most of the citys 12 major eating places closed with several more expected to shutter by July 1. Owners cite meat and potato shortages, red point limits, and staff shortages as the cause. Mayor George W. Smith urges reopenings and a council discussion with restaurateurs.
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Mattoon
Ens
Husky Steel
Rotary, Kiwanis
You Businessmen’s Club
George W. Smith
State Faces Shortfall in War Bond Sale For WV
West Virginia faces a potential miss of its Seventh War Loan quota. A. C. Spurr reported totals at $21,501,568 in E bonds and $44,343,761 in all securities to individuals, with overall sales at $97,364,332 toward an $83,000,000 record. The next days bring further risk as 12 2% and 2% treasury bonds leave the market.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
A. C. Spurr
Spurr
Treasury
Aerial Blows Hit Borneo Formosa and East Indies
General MacArthur reported a wave of air strikes across Borneo Formosa and the East Indies. Allied bombers destroyed coastal vessels near Pontianak damaged others and hit Balikpapan Tabanio airfield and fuel dumps. Formosa oil refinery Toshien barracks were set ablaze and ships and oil storage near Nanking were attacked.
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Borneo
Formosa
East Indies
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Pontianak
Balikpapan
Tabanio
Celebes
Malang
Java
Toshien
Hong Kong
Canton
Nanking
Yangtze River
Suny
Australian Forces Report Heavier Pacific Toll Through June
General headquarters announced Australian and allied forces have added 1,128 enemy dead and 33 captured in New Guinea Bougainville and New Britain since January 1, raising totals to 9,725 dead and 226 prisoners. Bougainville saw 4,810 Japanese dead and 80 captured, New Guinea 4,743 killed and 144 captured. In early June Australian diggers killed 647 and captured 14 on Bougainville and wiped out 481 in New Guinea while taking 19 prisoners.
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New Guinea
Bougainville
New Britain
Douglas.MacArthur
New Zealand
Wipping
Four Japanese air assaults hit Okinawa base on Tuesday
Guam reports four small Japanese aerial assaults targeting the Okinawa ground installation, the first attack since the island was secured last Thursday, indicating a renewed threat in the region.
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Guam
Okinawa
Big Air Fleet Strikes Japanese War Industry Plants
American B-29s carpeted Japan’s industrial targets in daylight bombing led by Iwo based Mustangs. The April 21 mission hit ten factories including Nagoya and Osaka areas, dropping over 3,000 tons of high explosives in a bid to cripple war production.
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Guam
Nagoya
Osaka
Kgifu
Akashi
Kobe
Seventh Army Fighter Command
Japan
Nippon
Kyushu Island
Okinawa
Chigusa
Japs Told To Commit Death By Own Action Before Prisoner
In a June dispatch from San Francisco Japanese volunteers were ordered to die by their own hands rather than be captured. The Domei agency said Allied landings were checked at Balikpapan and Okinawa fell. Tokyo warned defense would be harder.
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San Francisco
Japanese People's Volunteer Corps
Hirohito
Domei
FCC
Balikpapan
Borneo
Fund For OPA Faces Big Cut
Washington reports the House Appropriations Committee recommended 174 5 million dollars for the Office of Price Administration for the new fiscal year while vowing to press deeper cuts. The panel approved a 125 thousand dollar liquidation fund for the Fair Employment Practices Committee and moved to extend the OPA one more year as part of a 3.134 billion dollar deficiency supply bill.
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Office of Price Administration
House Appropriations Committee
OPA
House
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Russia
Europe
Leo T. Crowley
Siberia
U.S
Far East
Soviet Union
Crowley
Japan
Manchuria
Congress
Thousands Of Workers Still Idle In Plants
The article reports on widespread strikes and idle workers across the United States, led by the Chicago truck drivers and AFL CIO unions. It notes progress in Chicago with drivers returning to work, while Detroit and Akron continue labor actions over war labor wage awards. Several plants and industries are affected, including auto and manufacturing sectors, with government intervention and pending settlements cited.
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Chicago
AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters
War Labor Board
Detroit
Afl-Cio
Daniel W. Tracy
Washington
AFL
CIO
Packard Motor Car Company
Budd Wheel Company
Chrysler Tron
Ford Motor Company
Rouge River
Hudson Motor Car Co
Aeronautical Products Corp
Akron
United Rubber Workers
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
WLB
Elkhart
Ind
William Sinon
Northern Indiana Brass Company
Verne Grif
Ernie Pyle Troopship Launched at Kaiser Yard
The troopship Ernie Pyle was launched at the Kaiser yard in Vancouver Washington named for war correspondent Ernie Pyle famed for his GI column. Babette Johnson niece of a 1944 Pulitzer winner christened the C-4 vessel last April.
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Vancouver
Wash
Ernie Pyle
Babette Johnson
Kaiser Yard
Boundary Dispute Resolved as House Approves Virginia DC Pact
The House approved a measure ending a century of uncertainty over the southwest Potomac boundary. The bill fixes the mean high water mark as the line while giving federal jurisdiction over the airport future liquor sales regulated by Virginia under an amendment. The dispute dates to 1846 when Congress ceded land back to Virginia and now covers the airport the Pentagon Arlington Cemetery Fort Myer and other sites.
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Senate
Potomac River
Congress
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Commonwealth of Virginia
Smith
D-Va
Virginia
District of Columbia
George Washington
Pentagon Building
Arlington Cemetery
Fort Myer
Vienna Awaits Anglo American Occupation Move
Vienna, battered and hungry, awaits joint occupation by American and British forces with Russians in control fading. Crowds cheer flags on an American correspondent’s jeep as radio reports link Vienna to Anglo American zones within weeks. The city endures scarce food, a thriving black market, and a provisional Russian backed government while Viennese recall Nazi ruin and cling to music as hope.
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Vienna
Rome
Austria
Social Democrat
Karl Renner
Viennese
St. Stephan’s
St. Stephan’'s
Karlsplatz
Trial set for Ward in Bluefield on selective service charge
Haywood D. Ward of Bluefield faces a trial in U S district court for violation of the selective service act Indicted for refusing induction on February 7, 1945 Proceedings show prior sentences and pleas involving defendants from McDowell and Mercer counties including Cline Shrewsbury Jennings Bullins and Henry with multiple liquor tax act and probation violations and pleas entered or sentences imposed on various dates The Beckley term is noted for Henry s trial in July
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Haywood D. Ward
Bluefield
U. S. District Court For
Southern District of
West Virginia
Ward
Monroe Cline
Isaban
McDowell County
Chillicothe
Ohio
Cline
Opie B. Jennings
Lacy Shrewsbury
William Pranklin Bullins
Odd
Beckley
Henry
U. S. Army
Winfield Scott Rogers
Mary Rogers
Hazel Crews
Mercer County
Succession Bill Proposes Speaker Next After President
Washington June 25 A bill introduced by Chairman Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee would place the house speaker next in the presidential line of succession after the vice president. The measure sets Senate president pro tem then secretary of state and cabinet officers in line, with Speaker Rayburn as successor to Truman. The act would allow filling the unexpired term of the president pending a general election.
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Washington
House
Sumners
D-Tex
House Judiciary Committee
Senate
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Harry S. Truman
Search On For German Assets
The State Department outlines a plan to clamp global controls on German economic aims. Assistant secretary William L. Clayton testifies that Germans hide capital abroad and push ghost industries to regain world dominance. Germany’s spearheads in Latin America are being uprooted, with hundreds already eliminated or in process, sparking debate on future policy and Latin American resilience.
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Washington
State Department
William L. Clayton
Senate
Department
United Nations
Clayton
Latin America
Germany
United States
Kilgore
D-Wva
Leo T. Crowley
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
Dance Band Leader Begins Prison Term in Draft Evasion Case
Washington band leader Ev erett Malcolm Washie Bratcher is to start a four year sentence for draft evasion. He will report to a U S deputy marshal in Alexandria and be taken to the Peters burg federal reformatory. The court found he used benzedrine to raise his blood pressure to avoid service and he faces a fine as part of the sentence. Bratcher appealed to the Supreme Court but was denied a new trial last week.
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Washington
Everett Malcolm
Washie” Bratcher
Bratcher
Washington Hotel
Marshall
Alexandria
Federal Reformatory
Petersburg
U. S. District Court
Supreme Court
Allied Forces Tighten Grip in Luzon Cagayan Valley Campaign
General MacArthur announced airborne and guerrilla units pushed 6 miles north and 11 miles south toward Tuguegarao, trapping about 20 000 Japanese in the Cagayan valley. The 37th Infantry and 11th Airborne divisions, with guerrillas, seized Aparri airfield and destroyed enemy positions as air and ground forces close in.
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U. S. 37Th Infantry Division
11Th Airborne Division
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Aparri
Fee
Has
Cagayan
Tuguegarao
Robert S. Beightler
Buckeye
Cagayan River
Sixth Army
Philippines
MacArthur
Bluefield Soldier Among West Virginia Men Set for Army Release
Camp Atterbury Indiana announces a group of West Virginia soldiers with 85 or more points is being processed for release from service. Names listed include T Howard Bartram Williamson Sgt James R Gaylor St Albans Pvt Lester H Wright Fairmont Sgt Francis F Higgins Parkersburg and others from Bluefield Huntington Mabscott Martinsburg Cliff. The release applies to enlisted men with 40 or more points including Ralph V Myers Joseph H McDermott Jr Luther Rogers J Tripledt Abdul McClure R C Haun John H Minter Shirley H Watkins Carl E Route 2 Koiner Beckley Archie Hards Maxwell Addy and Curtis H Walker.
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Camp Atterbury
Ind
Camp Atterbury Separation Center
West Virginia
T . Howard Bartram
Williamson
James R. Gaylor
St. Albans
Lester H. Wright
Fairmont
Francis F. Higgins
Parkersburg
Wayne E. Brumfield
Main St
Huntington
Ishma
John H. Minter
Shirley H. Watkins
Paden City
Carl E
Clarksburg
T W. Koiner
Beckley
A. Forman
Waldeck
Clarksboro
Archie 5Ards
Sg 1
Green
Maxwell Addy
Alderson
Curtis H. Walker
Gilbor
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