Landon Sees Truman Pact Aiming At Bipartisan Foreign Policy
Alf Landon met with President Truman in Kansas City to hear a plan for a bipartisan permanent foreign policy, uniting parties beyond domestic disputes. He praised the approach, voiced support for UN Charter ratification, and cited farm and food supply concerns, OPA issues, and flood control as discussed points.
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Acme
Landon
Truman
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Muehlebach
Kansas City
Mr. Truman
Kansas City, Mo
G.O.P
Herbert Hoover
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
United Press
Kansan
United Nations
United Foreign Policy
Missouri Valley Authority
Court Denies Oxman Appeal On Sentence
Cedar Rapids report states Maxwell P. Oxman known as Mr Oz of the John Factor swindle case fails to vacate a 10 year federal prison term. The circuit court affirmed Judge Bell's 10 year sentence and $2,500 fine, with Oxman denied chance to appear in person.
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Cedar Rapids
Maxwell P. Oxman
Ft. Leavenworth
Kaw
John
Jake the Barber
Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Robert C. Bell
Oxman
Bessie Engle
Circuit Court
Bell
St. Paul
George C. Scott
Sioux City
Factor
United States
Linn County Bond Drive Nearing Goal Short by $552,515
Await final day as auction results trickle in. Linn county reports 71 days past, one day left to hit a $3,490,000 E bond quota with $2,937,485 sold. Unofficial auction totals around $200,000 maturity value, rough Friday sales at $616,979 including $49,256 in Series E bonds.
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Linn County
B’nai B’rith Young Men’s Bureau
Hearings Set On Frisco Pact By Senate Panel
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin hearings on the United Nations charter Monday, July 9, with rules to limit testimony. Chairman Connally announced the plan after President Truman will submit the charter for ratification Monday. A five member subcommittee drafted the hearing rules.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
D-Texas
Truman
State Department
Commission
San Francisco
Connally and Sons
George
D-Ga
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Green
D-R.j
Austin
R-Vt
OPA Life Extension Clears House Before Midnight
The House approved extending price controls for a year and expanding food powers for the new secretary of agriculture. The vote was 255 to 94 and the bill heads to President Truman for signature before midnight to avoid an OPA lapse. Republicans failed to retain court review of OPA orders or give the agriculture secretary broader override powers over presidential orders.
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Washington
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Truman
Kansas City
Rep. Anderson
D-N. M
Senate House
Continued Showers Predicted: Weather Dims Picnic Plans
Cedar Rapids forecasters warn of considerable cloudiness tonight and Sunday with thunderstorms and light showers. Rains spread statewide, with Keokuk reporting .79 inch, Cedar Rapids .45, Iowa City .26, Des Moines .18, Burlington .13. Hail damaged Adel courthouse tiles and windows as Clinton records unofficial rainfall of 2.60 inches. Temperatures: highs near 83 Friday, lows around 55 to 66 this period.
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Cedar Rapids
Keokuk
Iowa City
Des Moines
Burlington
Clinton
Chambers
Fort Dodge
Norway 21. American Ski Paratroopers Invasion Tale
OSLO reports twenty one U S ski paratroopers, half Norwegian born, launched an early war mission from Scotland on March 24. After a perilous drop, Maj William Colby and 16 men reached Norway and then destroyed a rail bridge near a church town, eluding German troops.
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Oslo
Flatbush
Points West
Brooklyn
Dodgertown
Norway
Scotland
William Colby
St. Paul
Minn
United States Office of Strategic Services
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Western Front
Colby
France
Invaded by Ski Chutists Turned Tide in Norway
American commandos in Norway eluded German patrols as they split forces to blow a key rail line near Steinkjer. After weeks of forced marches and scarce rations they learned of the German surrender and marched triumphantly through the town as 4,000 German troops watched.
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Colby
Norway
Wilds
Steinkjer
Final Allied Plan for Reich Zones in Berlin
Paris dispatch reports SHAEF announces that American British and French troops will enter Berlin to assume control of their zones starting Sunday. Allied forces will begin withdrawing from areas now held but inside the Russian permanent zone as reorganization aims to finish by Wednesday.
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Paris
Supreme Headquarters
Berlin
SHAEF
Germany
Revival of Nazi Party Rumored in Germany
Paris report cites Le Pays dispatch quoting Mayor Konrad Adenauer claiming the Nazi party is being revived in central Germany. He cites increased Nazi activity in Thuringia including Erfurt Weimar Gotha and the Hartz mountains where secret meetings were once held.
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Paris
INS
le Pays
Cologne
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Thuringia
Erfurt
Weimar
Gothe
Hartz Mountains
Mississippi AG Aide Receives Two-Cent Tax Refund
Jackson Mississippi James T Kendall assistant attorney general received a two cent income tax refund check with an attached note saying the refund is his to do with as he pleases.
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Jackson, Miss
James T. Kendall
Mississippi
Liuchow Recaptured By Chinese Forces In China War
Chinese high command announced Chinese troops recaptured Liuchow the former US 14th air force base after bitter fighting. The center was reported in flames and the Japanese had held Liuchow since November as Kweilin near threats rose from Chinese forces advancing within 10 to 18 miles. The recapture closes the Liuchow corridor and marks first rail line in the region to revert to Chinese control. A separate notice said Chungchingfu on the Kwangsi frontier near Caobang was also retaken last Sunday.
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Chungeking
High Command
Liuchow
United States
14Th Air Force Base
Kwangsi Province
14Th Air Force
Kweilin
Japan
China
Yungning
Nanning
Southeast Asia
Pingjiang
Indo-China Frontier
Kweichow- Kwangsi
Hunan - Kwangsi
Hengyang
Hongkong-Hankow
Hongkong
Canton
Chungchingfu
Devers to Head Ground Forces in Place of Stilwell
Gen. Jacob L. Devers will command army ground forces replacing Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell who now leads the 10th Army on Okinawa. Devers, a York Pa native, previously headed the Sixth Army Group in Europe and served as deputy supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean. He is currently in the United States.
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Washington
Jacob L. Devers
Joseph W. Stilwell
War Department
Stilwell
10Th Army
Okinawa
Simon Bolivaruckner
iDever
York
Sixth Army
Germany
Devers
United States
Might Have Wiped Out World
London UPI reports Herbert Agar warned that within six months Germany could have split the atom and risked destroying the world. He cited scientists placing the date as August 6 and feared humanity might soon learn to annihilate itself.
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Agar
London
Herbert Agar
Death of Emil Hacha Amid Czech Traitor List
London AP reports the Czech Slovak Information Bureau said Dr. Emil Hacha former Czech president died in Prague after heading the list of accused traitors under German occupation. The announcement comes as wartime records note his role during the occupation.
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London
Czechoslovak Information Bureau
Emil Hacha
Republic
It Ae
Prague
Five Day Limit Implemented on Passenger Train Reservations
The Office of Defense Transportation imposed a five day limit on passenger train reservations effective at midnight Friday. The move replaces the 30 day advance rule to maximize scarce civilian space amid high military demand. It aims to ease space for mobilized soldiers and affects Pullman and chair car reservations.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
J. Monroe Johnson
Centenarian groom seeks honeymoon amid mailbox flood
In Racine Wisconsin 101 year old James Augustus Cooper and his 62 year old bride Julia Westpater face a flood of lonely hearts letters after their three week marriage with requests for suitors and autographs. A widow from Little Falls Minnesota and another from Brighton describe themselves seeking elderly bachelors. Cooper jokes about matching up suitors while Mrs. Cooper notes the pile of letters and plans for a quiet home.
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Racine
Wis
James Augustus Cooper
Cooper
Julia Westpater
Little Falls
Minn
Pop
Newcomb Barco
Ocala
Fila
Wisconsin
Appleton
Plot Against Govt Probe Ordered by House Committee
Washington AP acting chair Rankin announces House Committee on Un-American Activities will investigate a "dangerous plot to overthrow the government." Reports place group headquarters in Hollywood with actors and producers involved. The probe may dispatch investigators to Hollywood to uncover subversive propaganda in movies.
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Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Yaan Rankin
D-Miss
Rankin
Hollywood
Calif
United States
Invasion Buildup Near Okinawa Islands North of Japan
American forces reconnoiter Okinoerabu island in the Amami group 40 miles north of Okinawa as part of an invasion route toward Japan. Radio Tokyo reported destroyers and minesweepers near the coast with a cruiser, while B 29s swept Honshu ports Niigata and Sakata and attacked Kandamatsu refinery. Navy Liberators supported strikes around Katsuura harbor and southern shikoku ships.
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Guam
Tokyo
Okinoerabu
Okinawa
Japan
United States
Amami
Radio Tokyo
Pacific Fleet
Kume Island
Ryukyu Island
Honshu
Manchuria
Niigata
Sakata
Nippon Oil Company
Kandamatsu
Katsuura Harbor
Shikoku
Kume
China
Kyushu
Chester W. Nimitz
Ryukyus
Amami Islands
Sakishimas
Russian-Born Prisoners Riot at Fort Dix
A detachment of Russian-born ex-prisoners, to be sent to the Soviet Union, rioted at Fort Dix New Jersey. They barricaded in barracks, charged guards with knives and improvised weapons, and three died by self injury. Eight prisoners were wounded and three American guards injured. Guards used tear gas and firearms to quell the uprising during the planned exchange under Yalta terms. Crude nooses were found, suggesting mass suicide plans if deportation occurred.
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Fort DIX
N. J
Soviet Union
U. S
Army
Russia
Yalta
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