War talk and restaurant woes mix in wartime notes
Military experts warn it may take a year or two more to crush Japan as fought resistance on Okinawa shows. Public sentiment, restaurant owners, and OPA cuts for July and August spark protests about rationing, lend-lease food ships, and the need for open explanation from officials. A university study then suggests army jeeps could help farms.
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Desines
Metro
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
OPA
Europe
Byron Price
Ghiss
University of Hingis Fr of Agriculture
Shawl
Hugh School
Big Three to Meet in Berlin Vicinity
520 B-29 Superfortresses blasted Osaka and surrounding areas as part of a planned 12 month campaign to drop about 2,000,000 tons of bombs on Japanese industry. General Arnold announced aims to destroy factories and oil supplies, with 1,300,000 tons from Air Force command and 700,000 from Eighth Air Force and Far Eastern forces.
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Japan
Osaka
Amagasaki
Radio Tokyo
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Germany
21St Bomber Command
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
George C Kenney
Arnold
Attlee Confirms Berlin as Big Three Conference Site
LONDON. The Big Three will meet in Berlin as Churchill and Clement Attlee exchange letters. Attlee accepts and says he will accompany Churchill to the meeting with Truman and Stalin, stressing unity on foreign policy and a public advantage in presenting it to the world.
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London
Berlin
Churchill
Clement Attlee
Attlee
Calition
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Osaka raid pilots report weather as main obstacle
GUAM INS B 29 pilots who took part in the raid on Osaka Friday said heavy cloud cover was the main obstacle. Fighter opposition was non existent and flak was light. Lt Joseph Lee of New York said they could barely see their hands. Sgt. Eugene J. O'Brien of Wabash Indiana added they fought the weather halfway to the target and back.
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Guam
INS
Osaka
Joseph Lee
New York
Eugene J. O’brien
Wabash
Ind
Sara Returns to Action After Iwo Jima Ordeal
The U S S Saratoga nicknamed Sara was severely damaged off Iwo Jima on February 21 with seven direct hits from Japanese bombs and suicide planes. Despite 315 casualties and prior torpedo attacks, the ship was repaired in Puget Sound Navy Yard and set a speed record, continuing air support for Marines at Iwo Jima. The crew’s heroic actions saved the carrier after crashes and exploded bombs. Continued on Page 8.
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Iwo Jima
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Bremerton
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Pearl Harbor
Ryuzyu
Solomons
Tokyo
Little Island
Solon to Ask Elliott be Called for House Quiz
Washington AP Rep Knutson proposes summoning Brig Gen Elliott Roosevelt and John Hartford before the House Ways and Means Committee for a full explanation of a 260000 loan Hartford, president of Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co, made to the late President's son. Debate centers on a 196000 bad debt deduction and related tax records from 1942. Hartford's attorney says the loan funded a Texas radio network and was settled for 4000. Roosevelt has not commented.
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Knutson
R-Minn
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartford
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hartford
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Doughton
D-N.c
Internal Revenue Bureau
Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau
Coughton
Roosevelt
Gen. Roosevelt
Patman Chain
Texas
Fort Worth
Atttorney
R. K. Hanger
16 Die in Rail Crash in East
WILLIAMSPORT PA Two crewmen and at least 14 passengers were killed when a westbound Washington Buffalo passenger train hit a derailed ore train near Milton. Engineer R C Stratton and Fireman N E Graeff, both of Sunbury, died. Six passenger cars derailed. others remained on track. Several dozen injured were hospitalized in Sunbury Danville and Milton.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
R. C. Stratton
N.E Graeff
Sunbury
Eight NY Central workers killed in railroad incident
Eight members of a New York Central railroad section gang died Friday when struck by a Chicago to New York Water Level train just east of the Amsterdam station. The accident occurred as the crew worked on the line near Amsterdam, Albany County, New York.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
New York
Boettiger and Anna Quit Hearst Paper
Seattle Post-Intelligencer appoints a new publisher after Lt. Col. John Boettiger resigns amid irreconcilable differences with owner William Randolph Hearst. Boettiger's wife Anna Roosevelt also resigns as associate editor.
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Seattle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
William Randolph Hearst
Boettiger
Anna Roosevelt
Say Fags Will Ease If You Buy Normally
Cedar Rapids wholesalers say cigaret shortages will ease in about 30 days if smokers stop hoarding and buy as needed. They cite a June 4 price increase and note uneven distribution while warning allotments may not be permanent. Authorities say supply is near normal, but demand remains high.
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Cedar Rapids
Truman orders seizure of Scranton Transit for labor unrest
President Truman directed the Office of Defense Transportation to seize and operate Scranton Transit in Scranton Pennsylvania due to labor disturbances, asserting federal control to maintain city transport and public order.
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Washington
Truman
Office of Defense Transportation
Scranton Transit Company
Ranton
Senators Probe Graft Charge in Army Road Job
The Senate War Investigating Committee pressed the War Department for answers on alleged graft in the Latin American highway project and asked the Justice Department to explain a two year FBI delay. Details described extravagant rentals, overcharges, and use of government property for a hacienda, with bids criticizing lack of a recapture clause and potential misuses across Alaska, Pearl Harbor, and Panama Canal contracts.
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Senate War Investigating Committee
War Department
Justice Department
FBI
Sarca Friendly
Latin America
Mead
Senate
Sen. Robertson
Rwvo
Capitol Hill
United States
Leven
Army
Pearl Harbor
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
War Investigating Committee
Laugrily
Robertson
Los Angeles
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Johnson
Dcoro
Lewis
Picked Up By British In Hamburg
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in Hamburg as he slept in a boarding house. British agents tailed him across western Germany and arrested his sister after secret overnight confirmation. He carried a poison capsule strapped to his groin and used the alias Riese while in hiding.
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HDQ
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Europe
Ribbentrop
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
Riese
Wne
Berlin
Field Marshal Montgomery
Anthony Eden
Vincent Churchill
Ribben[trop
Heinrich Himmler
See Jap Surrender in 90 Days of Long War
Washington AP Rep Cannon said American military authorities believe Japan may surrender within 90 days. If not, the United States faces a frontal assault or isolating their positions, starving them out, bombing them until slowly but surely with limited American losses. Attrition may win the war.
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Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
Japan
United States
Hope for Families To Join Servicemen In Europe
The War Department promised on Friday that families and fiancées of servicemen in occupied Europe will be permitted to visit them when conditions permit, expanding support for soldiers and their households amid continuing hostilities.
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War Department
Europe
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