Plans Develop for Parley of the Big Three
London dispatch reports Mikolajczyk and Polish leaders flying to Moscow to press Warsaw reorganization, while Britain reportedly rejects France's five power middle east talks. The Big Three summit is planned in Berlin before July 26 with Truman Stalin and Churchill, timing linked to Britain’s election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex H. Singleton
London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Moscow
Saffer
Warsaw
Britain
France
Middle East
Berlin
Mikolajczyk
Peasant Party
Jan Stancz
Poland
Paris
United States
Alfred Duff Cooper
George Biiault
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Church
Downing Street
Churchill
Brendan Bracken
Bracken
Harold Laski
Labor Party
Clement Attee
Sase
Forrestal backs youth training plan amid debate
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal urged a peacetime military training program to prepare youths for potential global conflicts. He argued the plan would answer critics by testing it, while Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey urged enactment. Forrestal warned that opponents ask who the training is for and labeled any potential aggressor as the target.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James Forrestal
Nester WL Nimitz
William F. Halsey
Con &Ress
Women to Vote in Yugoslav Elections First Time
Report from Moscow notes Yugoslavia orders general elections this Saturday allowing women to vote for the first time and all soldiers to cast ballots regardless of age. The change is expected to mobilize many young Partisans. Also reported is a war cost of 3.7 million, with pre-war population around 13 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ye_assav
Moscow
Kea Star Sid
Yugoslavia
Mwe
Yugnstayie
Doo
Ono
Seaman Peel Heads Home To Daughters Bedside
Seaman Richard Peel, after a weeklong Pacific search, flies toward Waterloo to reach his daughter Diana 8, hospitalized with leukemia. His wife Mrs Pell received a Red Cross telegram Friday night and plans to join him as their child’s condition has shown rare improvement.
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Seaman Peel
Waterloo
Richard Peel
Pacific War Theater
Diana
Pell
Red Cross
San Francisco
Weekend forecast amid heavy rain flood damage
A storm dumped 2.35 inches Friday causing sewer overflows and widespread flooding. Rivers rose across Nebraska and Iowa with Blair and Siona City showing varying levels while Omaha and Mercy Hospital faced weather related disruptions. High water threatened crops and livestock in Beemer and West Point as relief began Saturday.
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Missouri
Blair
Siona City
Yankton
Nebraska City
Clyde McLaughlan
General Twenty-Fifth Avenue
Aly
McLaughlan
Washington Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Omaha
Keokuk
Burlington
Decoran
Sacs City
Atlante
Onawa
Caroll
Ames
Weather Bureau
Sterling
Nebraska
West Point
Beemer
Cholera Epidemic Grips Chungking as Hospitals Strain
Chungking faced a spreading cholera outbreak with authorities racing to curb it. Three hospitals reported around 200 cases in recent days amid ongoing efforts to control transmission.
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Chungking
Big Five veto clash in United Nations charter talks
In San Francisco the big power bloc battles a veto over future amendments to a world security charter. Key nations including Belgium Mexico Colombia and France push for or against a right to veto while Australia New Zealand and the United States seek compromise as conference committees struggle to finish work before Truman’s upcoming UN address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hydotn M. Hightower
San Francisco
Truman
Britain
France
Australia
General Assembly of
United Nations
Russia
Henri Rolin
Belgium
Manuel Tello
Foreign Affairs of
Mexico
Alberto Lieras Camargo
Columbia
Molin
Prilst
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
Canada
Brazil
South Africa
Hamilton Fish Armstrong
United States
General Assembly
Itv
FBI Agent Kills Kidnapper in Chicago Standoff
Sgt Alpert Petit said federal agent B Scot Rearden shot and killed Russell Stamper after Stamper abducted him in the 2400 block of Grenshaw Street. Stamper forced a getaway in a stolen car. Rearden was wounded but died later at hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alpert. Petit
Russell Mervin Stamper
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stamper
Petite
B. Scot Rearden
Grenshaw Street
Rearden
Ware
Meatless and Butterless Days Proposed for Iowa Restaurants
The Iowa Restaurant Association recommends two meatless days per week and two butterless meals daily across the state starting next week. Des Moines operators earlier voted to make Wednesdays and Fridays meatless with butterless meals at noon and evening. The measures aim to ease a point shortage caused by new OPA regulations threatening basic point allotments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Restaurant Association
R. R. McDougall
Waterloo
OPA
Wanle Pape
Taxation Relief Plan Aims to Speed Reconversion Funds
Washington authorities outline a plan to rush through a tax revision package to free about $5.0 billion for postwar reconversion. Key figures include Chairman Doughton and Rep Knutson. The measure speeds rebates and credits to industry, with no general rate cuts, and targets expedited refunds and enhanced exemptions to lift corporate cash balances.
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Francis LeMay
Washington
Congress
Doughton
D-N. C
Horse Ways and Means
Momay
Knutson
Rming
House
Coughton
Genate-House Post
War Tax Committee
Treasury Department
Nazi Subs Forced Closure of Eastern Ports in WWII
U S Navy reports mines planted by German submarines forced several eastern ports to close to traffic during 1942 and 1943. New York Norfolk Baltimore Jacksonville Charleston and Wilmington faced brief shutdowns while mines were cleared. Mines also swept from near the Panama Canal at Colon and Port Castries. Chesapeake Bay entrances closed twice. four ships damaged or sunk before the first closure.
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Washington
Navy
New York
Norfolk
Newport News
Baltimore
Panams Canal
Colon
Port Castries
Santa Lucis
British West Indies
Chespeake Bay
Mies
Parrols
Fate of 13 000 Americans Captured in Philippines Remains Unknown
Manila dispatch reports only 1,447 of more than 18 400 American army and navy personnel captured by the Japanese on Bataan and Corregidor have been accounted for. Official reports list 3 260 captured on the rock as dead. Most of the unaccounted are believed held in prison camps in Japan, China, and Formosa. Aglut of fragmentary records shows many who appeared missing had actually surrendered.
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Spencer Davis
Manila
Bataan
Corregidor
Dolgiss MacArthur
the Rock
Japan
China
Formosa
Adjutant General's Office
Army Forces of the Pacific
Camp
O'Donnel
Bor
Yokohama
Mukden
Bulbid
Bilibid
Philippines
Orient
Cabanauland
Santo Tomas
Lee Banos
Ribbentrop Captured and Questioned at Allied HQ
German ex-foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was reported under questioning at General Eisenhower's Frankfurter on the Main headquarters. Belgian and British guards described his capture in Hamburg, noting envelopes with long handwritten letters to Montgomery and Churchill. Officials said no interviews or photos would be allowed at this time to avoid affecting the trial.
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Daniel de Lace
Montgomery
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Gen
Hisenhower
Frankfurter-on-the-Main
Supreme Command
Reich
London
Hitler
Britain
Poland
Ribbentrop
Lueneberst
Europe
Hamburg
Herr Riese
Liriel B. Adam
Paisley
Scotland
Churchill
Tote Prime Minster
Supreme Headquarters
Frankfurt
Signal Corps
Weather Outlook for Council Bluffs and Nebraska Regions
Weather Bureau bulletin shows partly cloudy conditions in Council Bluffs and vicinity with no significant temperature change. High Saturday near 68, low around 55, with cooler east portion Saturday night. Nebraska fair weather through Sunday, slightly warmer west, highs 55 to 85 across regions, rising temps in west and central areas. Hourly readings report temperatures in the 50s to low 60s, humidity around 90 percent, wind around 14 mph. Total precipitation 7.01 inches with excess 5.27 inches.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Seizure Orders Expand Government Control of Chicago Trucks
Military police moved into Chicago to enforce wartime control of the trucking industry. About 1,700 lines were placed under government orders as drivers from two unions weighed a strike after wage and hour disputes. Seizure follows a prior walkout that halted Midwest freight, with unions split on participation and a wage policy review by the War Labor Board ongoing.
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Chicago
Camp Custer
Mich
Camp Skokie
Grant Park
Snop
Bliss T. Longnecker
Office of Defense Transportation
Mnes
Washington
ODT
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
Independent Truck Drivers
Truman
Midwest
Independent Union
I. B. T. Loca
7. BT
Independent
War
WLB
Amelie Rives Dies at Age in Virginia
Amelie Rives, author and once known as Princess Troubetzkey, died Friday night in a Virginia marking home where she had stayed through winter and spring. A famed romantic fiction writer in the 1890s, she long used the pen name Amelie Rives.
Stanton Honored by State College
Stanton receives an honorary Doctor of Agriculture degree from Town state college for oat breeding work with USDA since 1922. He led investigations across 10 states, releasing over 60 oat varieties in five years, contributing to higher farmer income and aided by the Clinton oats strain now under release with improved yield and lodging resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanton
Towa Agricultural Experiment Startion
Boone
Marion
Iowa State Station
Packers to Reopen in Spite of Losses
Sioux City packing plants Meyer, City Wholesale, Raskin, and Sioux City Parkin g will reopen Monday after a four week shutdown caused by government slaughter restrictions. Operators cite losses per head averaging $2.25 in May and $8 in June under subsidy plans. They resumed to serve merchants and consumers and will run as long as possible awaiting relief.
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Sioux Civy
District Office of Price Administration
AAA
Chamber of Commerce
Out
Meyer Packing Company
The
City Wholesale Meat Packing Company
Raskin Packing Company
Sioux City Parking Company
Eisenhower Heads Home From Europe After Hero’s Reception
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower began a flight to the United States with planned stops in Bermuda and brief layovers, heading to Washington on Sunday and New York on Tuesday for a hero’s welcome before arriving in his Kansas home in Abilene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Eisenhower
United States
Washington
New York
Kansas
Abilene
Bermuda
U S Fleets Again Active in the Pacific
Allied movements reported from Tokyo show three distant fleet actions threatening Borneo and Truk while increased U S naval activity around Okinawa signals possible attacks on the Japanese homeland. American forces push on Okinawa as Buckner predicts the end of the ground fight within a week.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Borneo
Truk Island
Okinawa
Japan
Dutch Indies
Pacific
Carrice
Balikpapan
Barneo
Tokyo
Pvmk
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
7Th Army
Truk
Caroline Islands
Additim
Shanghai
United States
Kyushu
6Th
Tiain
Yura Ait
1St Marines
Buckner
Oakinawa
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State College
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United States Stth
Cagayan Valley
Luzon Island
Philip, Pines
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