Supreme Court splits over AP monopoly ruling in press freedom case
Majority upholds lower court on AP not a monopoly while ordering by law changes to bylaws seen as Sherman Act violation. Five separate opinions reflect broad disagreement. Ruling keeps AP membership decisions under district court supervision, highlighting tensions between press freedom and policy controls.
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U. S. Supreme Court
New Deal
Associated Press
High Court
District Court
Tius
Supreme Court
Okinawa Nears End as Buckner Is Killed in Battle
UPI report from Guam says Tenth Army closed to within two miles of Okinawa's southern tip as Admiral Nimitz announced complete conquest was imminent. Buckner was killed during a key advance on the Nagasuku Makabe road while Marines and Army units broke through to clean up the island's western sector.
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Guam
Tenth Army
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Okinawa
Chester W. Nimitz
Nagasuku- Makabe
96Th
Yaeju “Lost World
Madeera Village
Seventh Division
Buckner
Nimitz
Bucknety
Foy S. Geiger
Ryukyus
10Th Army
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Solomons
Nagasuku
Makabe
Truman proposes new line of succession to presidency
President Truman urges Congress to amend the 1886 succession law to elevate the speaker of the house next in line if both the president and vice president are unable to serve. He notes risk during a European mission and discusses potential political and constitutional implications of determining presidential disability.
Border clash heats as Polish army enters Teschen
Tension on the Czech Polish border rose after a Polish army contingent led by Marshal Rola-Zymierski arrived in Teschen. The city near the Czechoslovak frontier has shifted control since World War I and again after Munich, with Prague denying plans to annex all of Silesia.
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United Press
Teschen
Silesian
Lublin
Rola- Zymierski
Warsaw
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Silesia
Death Sentencing in Absentia for French Collaborator Deat
A Paris court sentenced Marcel Deat to death in absentia for collaboration with Germany. Deat, a notorious figure, sent millions of French workers to Germany, fled to Germany during liberation, and has not been heard from since.
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United Press
Marcel Deat
Paris
Deat
Germany
France
Buckner Buried with Honors Near Okinawa Front
Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr slain by Japanese shell while at the front was buried with full military honors in the Seventh Infantry Division cemetery about 20 miles from the fighting. The service at 9 am included a Taps bugle, near Hagushi beach where he led his men ashore on Easter Sunday.
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E. G
Valens
Okinawa
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Buckner
Seventh Infantry Division
Hagu~shi Beach
Buckner Kin of Buckner Killed on Okinawa
Cousin of Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr a lieutenant colonel on Gov Blue's staff and a VFW service officer. He served 13 months overseas with the 60th Engineers in World War I and has three sons in this war. His grandfather and the general's father were brothers.
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Arthur S. Buckner
Avenue
Gov. Blue
Simon Bolivar Buckner
U. S. Tenth Army
Okinawa
Arthur
Arthur Buckner
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Company C
60Th Engineers
Buckner Dies in Battle at Tokyo Front as Geiger Assumes Command
General Buckner is killed by a Japanese shell while observing the Eighth Marine regiment’s front. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger takes command, and Buckner’s last moments are detailed with medics tending him and colleagues recalling his leadership. Buckner’s death marks the first American army commander killed in action in this war.
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Buckner
Tokyo
Roy ‘S. Geiger
Marines
Eighth Marine Regiment
Clarence B. Wallace
Arlington
Eighth Regiment
Maj
William Chamberlain
Chicago
Wallace
Chamberlain
J.g
Fred C. Wallace
Navy
Oakland
L. J. McNair
Normandy
Millard F. Harmon
Ike urges normal treatment for returning veterans
In Washington General Eisenhower urged Americans to treat returning veterans as normal people not to psychoanalyze them. He said simply pat them on the back and acknowledge their service.
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Washington
Eisenhower
All America
Eisenhower Hailed by Six Million in New York
Gen. Eisenhower receives a hero’s welcome in New York as police estimate six million people line streets and parks. He arrives at LaGuardia at 10 10 am, salutes ring out, and he urges strength and tolerance while stressing peace needs readiness and unity.
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New York
Eisenhower
John O’connell
City Hall
Washington
LaGuardia Field
Europe
City Hall Park
New York City
Gen
Ike
Lower Broadway
Fifth Avenue
23Rd Street
Edward S. Murray Honored for Typhus Work in Near East
Lt. Col. Edward S. Murrray of Cedar Rapids Iowa received the United States Typhus Commission medal for typhus control work in Turkey Egypt and Yugoslavia. The citation praises his leadership in organizing and applying programs and his contribution to typhus science amid dangerous conditions.
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Washington
War Department
Edward S. Murray
Cedar Rapids
United States of America
Turkey
Egypt
Yugoslavia
Typhus Commission
Yanks Discover Vast Nazi Gold Hoard Near Regensburg
Paris AP reports American 12th troops corps found securities gold and jewelry valued at over 5.9 billion dollars hidden by Germans in Regensburg. The cache included Bavaria and Austria national wealth, in vaults of the Regensburg Reichsbank, more valuable than the April 7 Merken Salt mine find of 200 tons of gold.
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Paris
12Th Troops Corps
Regensburg
Regensburg Reichsbank
Bavaria
Austria
Merken
Leopold Declines Abdication Returns to Belgian Throne
King Leopold of the Belgians rejected abdication and announced he would reassume his constitutional prerogatives. He intends to return to Belgium to resume the throne after years in German hands and host the American army день. His government resigned in protest, and his family remains at Villa Strobl under American protection.
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Salzburg
Austria
Leopold
Gatien Viscount du Parc
Belgium
106Th
15Th Corps
United States
Seventh Army
Achille von Acker
du Parc
Pearl Harbor
Villa Strobl
Japs Begin Quitting Isle Off Indo China
Japanese troops have begun evacuating the strategic island of Hainan off the Indo China coast, according to reliable sources. The move signals a retreat as fighting shifts.
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Indo-China
Nanning
South China
Hainan
Indo/China
Truman Hops Off for West Coast in C-54
President Truman departs on a 11hour non stop flight for a West Coast trip ending with a San Francisco United Nations security conference closing session. He stops in Olympia to meet Gov. Wallgren then heads to San Francisco with Eisenhower greeting him at the ramp.
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Washington
Truman
San Francisco
Olympia
Wash
Mon C. Wallgren
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York
Kansas City
Eisenhower
Ike
Col
Harry Vaughan
James Hardman, Jr
Matthew J. Connelly
Charles G. Ross
J. Leonard Reinsch
Superforts Bomb Three Jap Cities
About 450 B 29s in pre dawn Guam time bombed Shizuoka Toyohashi on Honshu and Fukuoka on Kyushu in a raid targeting three Japanese industrial cities. The strike occurred as part of ongoing air offensives against Japan.
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Guam
Ins
Shizuoka
Toyohashi
Honshu
Fukuoka
Kyushu
June Is Bustin Out All Over In Cedar Rapids Weather
Cedar Rapids forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with no notable temperature change. Tuesday measured 72 degrees at 2 30 p m with a 46 degree overnight low. Monday highs reached 72 and the state high was 76 at Sioux City and Council Bluffs. Only a light shower was reported at Estherville.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Chambers
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Estherville
Odyssey of Destroyer Lamson Returns with Torpedoes Jammed
Washington AP reports the destroyer Lamson, home a third of the world, with torpedo tubes jammed and live torpedoes likely to explode. A freak ship movement, likely, could have doomed the crew. A Japanese plane hit Samson in Ormoc Bay during the Philippines invasion, bending torpedo tubes and damaging the bridge and superstructure.
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Washington
Lamson
Navy
Ormoc Bay
Philippines
Truman Proposal Skips Vice President in Presidential Succession
President Truman urged Congress to place the Speaker of the House next in line for the presidency in case of vacancy, with the Speaker to serve until the next election or a special election. The plan would move up from the cabinet line and preserve the four year electoral cycle.
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Washington
Truman
House
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Senate Restores Tariff Cut Authority in Trade Bill
The Senate voted 47 to 33 to restore presidential power to cut tariff rates up to 50 percent under the reciprocal trade bill. Sen. Wilson joined the minority while Sen. Hickenlooper was paired with the minority. The House previously approved the rate-cut authority in extending the program for three years.
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Washington
Sen. Wilson
R-Ia
Sen. Hickenlooper
House
Senate Finance Committee
Plant Seizure Ordered at Diamond Alkali Works
President Truman directed the secretary of war to seize and operate the Diamond Alkali plant in Painesville Ohio where about 2 000 workers have been on strike.
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Truman
Secretary of War
Diamond Alkali Company
Painesville
Ohio
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