Colorful Burma Return Ceremony Marks British Reentry
June 28 1945 report describes a rain soaked parade in Rangoon with British and Indian troops, American air support, and Burmese crowds celebrating Britain’s reclaimed presence. Japs remain nearby as observers note symbolism and the flag transfer ending with Mountbatten.
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Rangoon
U. S. Army Air Force
Burama
Mountbatten
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von Atty
Mariehaul
Marshall
Alan Brooke
Britain
Frances Perkins bids farewell to Labor Department
Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, retires after 16 years as Labor Secretary. She thanked 1,600 employees in a farewell in Washington, revealing plans for a Maine vacation and a private hat. Lewis B. Schwellenbach named her successor. workers presented gifts including a war bond, luggage, and a typewriter.
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Harold W. Wara
Washington
Frances Perkins
Labor Department
White House
Ike” Hoover
Roosevelt
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Washington State
Ite
Maine
Paul Wilson
Miss Perkins
Laborend
Denmark tests automatic firing squad for executions
Copenhagen reports the Danish justice department trialing a mechanical firing device that fires a volley at a button press. The article notes Allied air raids and future use in recapturing Singapore and surrounding regions, while Burma returns to British control and daily life reopens.
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Denmark
Copenhagen
Bundsmen Face U S Internment as Court Ruling Issued
Justice Department said 13 of 24 German American Bund leaders face internment under alien enemy controls and release orders by the Supreme Court. The move follows a June Supreme Court action affecting federal penitentiaries and the Bund organization amid wartime controls.
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Justice Department
Bund
Supreme Court
Bundsmmen
Aes
Denaturalized Fugitives Released Under Court Mandate
The Justice Department says 16 individuals convicted of conspiracy to violate the draft law were released by week’s end under a Supreme Court mandate reversing their convictions. Three were not citizens, the other 13 denaturalized, and they will be interned under alien enemy control upon release from federal penitentiaries.
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Supreme Court
Justice Department
Medley Sentenced to Death for Poker Party Slaying
Joseph D Medley an escaped convict was sentenced to die in the electric chair on November 30 for the murder of Nancy Boyer 45 a divorcee following an all night poker party in her apartment in March Justice T Alan Goldsborough imposed the sentence in Washington. At Biggs Field El Paso Tex First Sgt James Finlay Santa Monica Calif is listed amid wartime notes on the seventh War Loan drive with a bond buying contest result.
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Washington
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Nancy Boyer
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T. Alan Goldsborough
Biggs Field
el Peso
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James Finlay
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