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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1945
Page
13
Georgia Senator George urges revision of the G I Bill to remove age limits, raise loan guarantees, and expand educational benefits. He argues for stronger government support, broader training, and faster reintegration of World War II veterans into the civilian economy to enrich national life.
Report describes a body found in the Fuehrer’s subterranean bunker as answering to Hitler’s description. It notes all were badly burned from flame-throwers used by Red Army troops to clear the underground command post where Hitler and top Nazis made their final stand.
Tokyo radio cites renewed air raids on Kobe and Kyushu as Allied air forces strike Formosa Borneo and Shanghai bases. MacArthur's forces push through Luzon near Cagayan valley while Chinese troops advance along the Chinese coast toward Yuhuan and Liuchow. Naval aircraft sink seven ships and damage five as the coast blockade tightens.
Reports from London Berlin indicate preliminary talks on Allied control of Germany and administration of Austria while Vienna troops shift to Russian-held status. Tass maps propose four occupation zones for Greater Berlin and a rotating central council command, with British claims to Kiel Hamburg area and American troop movement to their zones.
President Truman urged action on the Fair Employment Practices Committee in a letter calling racial discrimination un-American. The 12 member House Rules Committee adjourned with no decision, planning to reconvene to determine whether to clear FEPC legislation for House debate. Sabath chairs the panel, and a discharge petition seeks a floor vote, though it has only 8 of the 218 signatures needed.
Antiqed War Bonds figures show individual purchases near half the $64 million target, with state totals at $31.3 million or 49 percent. State quota for Series E bonds stands at $34.9 million, while E bond sales total $15.9 million, 48 percent of the $34 million target. Doddridge County named “county of today” for boosting E bond gains, moving from seventh to second in state ranking, as Boone Wyoming Lincoln Roane Mineral Barbour Marion and Preston counties follow.
Thieves smashed a Valley Hell Dairy store glass on Washington Street and Ruffner Avenue to steal a small safe valued around 47 dollars. A F Houseman garage car, a 1942 Buick sedan with license 90-18S, was taken from 1012 Virginia Street after breaking the front door glass. Three boys entered the Lee hotel lobby to steal 7 dollars from a cash drawer. A suit valued at 340, twelve shirts at 24, and two war bonds were stolen from O Gwinn's car at Kanawha Boulevard parking lot. A suit and trousers were stolen from E BTargurt's Glenville car, and women Evelyn Edens reported missing fender skirts from her car on Roane Street.
The U S marshal’s office in Louisville received a telegram from Attorney General Francis Biddie announcing the death sentence of kidnapper Thoma H Robinson Jr was commuted to life imprisonment. Robinson abducted Mrs Alice Sneed Stoll in 1934 and was to die in the electric chair at the Kentucky state penitentiary.
The six defendants face charges of conspiring to violate a section on unauthorized possession or transmission of national defense information. The documents were classified from restricted to top secret, per the announcement. They will appear before U S commissioners in Washington and New York.
Roget was recalled yet retains the confidence of French authorities for actions in Syria. A London broadcast says British reports overstated Damascus damage and a French general who surveyed the town called the damage insignificant.
The session stretched for three and a half hours before a decision to refer the broader issue to a security council function committee. A delegate complained of time-wasting while another suggested a four day recess to go to a beach. Danish delegates entered deliberations as Erik Hunfeldt noted Sweden's agreement with Britain and the United States.
On the anniversary of the invasion of France, talks stalled as no Big Five veto agreement emerged. Conference committees failed to move forward while plans to supply arms and ammunition to the Danish underground faced resistance, amid neutrality concerns and wartime anxieties.
A fragment describes Sweden’s role as supplier to the continent, noting Husteidt’s account that Sadan claimed neutrality to both Al- Ilex and Germany, while being aligned with Hellas and the United Nations in the conflict.
A Soviet official stated Maj Gen E F Koenig commander of the US base in the UK was unavailable for comment. He claimed a US police colonel Lefferty assured that all violations of camp maintenance provisions could be eliminated immediately and admitted prior information about the camps had not been given to the Soviet representative.
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