Pearl Harbor Salvage Story Shows Bold Navy Effort
Three and a half years after the Pearl Harbor attack, the salvage of battleships like California Oklahoma West Virginia Nevada Maryland Tennessee and the remaining ships is detailed. Adm Gillette expanded dry docks and a 17000 ton floating dock while civilians worked to clear, unwater, and repair vessels amid lethal gas, oil slicks, and dangerous conditions, producing many ships back to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul ¥. Cochrane
Groton
Coan
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Adm. Gillette
Feet
San Pedro
Calif
Continental Navy Yards
Capital Ship
Amamarine Railway
Congress
Gillette
New Orleans
Californian
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Arizona
Utan
Nevada
Ford Island
Maryland
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Utah
Lie’ H Yard
Navy
California
Ilebr
Salvage Tin and Paper Drive Ends Month
Salvage tin and paper collection will be held here the last of this month. Boy Scouts will handle the month end pick up with a request for households and firms to prepare scrap. Residents should wash cans, remove labels, cut both ends and place inside before flattening to save shipping space. Waste paper should be tied in secure bundles within manageable size.
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Boy Scouts
Central Depot
Central Fire Station
Oue
Pacific
Edda Mussolini Ciano Saves Diary Amid War Peril
The Chicago Daily News reports Edda Mussolini Ciano risked her life to shield her husband Count Ciano diary from the Gestapo and smuggle it out of Italy. At the Swiss frontier an old pregnant looking woman, later identified as Edda, hid five notebooks under her dress.
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Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Edda Mussolini Ciano
Wwcian
Gestapo
Count Ciano
Mussolini
Italy
The
Daily News
Berne
Switzerland
Ciano
Swisis
Novanzano
Tessin
Edda Ciano
Rome
Chigi
Edda
Ramiola
Parna
Verona
Lago di Garda
Eda
Himmler
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
Weather summary for Count Bluffs and region
Partly cloudy conditions Sunday with no major temperature change. Towa partly cloudy and warmer in the west. Nebraska generally fair Sunday, continuing cool with highs 65 to 75. Observed data show high 72 and low 55 in past 24 hours, total precipitation 0.17 inches and excess 4.27 inches.
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U. S
Baresi
Count Bluffs
Towa
Nebraska
Admiral Notes Use Of Water To Drench Air Steps After Landing
The admiral stated that water was discharged to tanks on shore and then used to drench down newly constructed air steps, a practice he called beneficial and noteworthy in the context of the operation.
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Saii
Bond sales lag in Pottawattamie County under seventh war loan
Pottawattamie County East and West struggle to meet E bond quotas, with total county sales near 80 thousand short of the target as farmers urged to participate. East gains show modest results while West trails. national and state totals also lag, signaling a broad need for increased bond purchases.
Three More Iowa Counties Pass Their Quotas
DES MOINES Iowa counties Pocahontas Mitchell and Gruney have surpassed their series E bond quotas for the seventh war loan campaign, the Iowa war finance committee reported Saturday. Through Friday Audubon reached 116.6 percent, Pocahontas 107.4 Mitchell 1039 and Grandy 1028. Twenty seven of the 98 counties had exceeded the state average of 624 percent.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Pocahontas
Mitchell
Gruney
Iowa War Finance Committee
Audubon
Grandy
Wasp
Jail Inmate Charlean Rutledge Slashes Wrists In Cell
Charlean Rutledge a 22 year old county jail inmate was found in her cell Saturday evening with both wrists slit. A trusted officer found her after seeing blood at the cell door. She used a broken water glass to cut herself after breaking it on bars. She was taken to Mercy hospital for treatment and is said to be recovering. Rutledge had been arrested on bad check charges and waived to district court while held in the county jail pending grand jury action. She came to Council Bluffs recently and worked as a cafe waitress, listing 37 Fifth Avenue as address and Clarion Iowa as her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlean Rutledge
Jim Denser
Jensen
Mercy Hospital
Sacred
President to Receive Honorary Degree at Georgetown
President Truman will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Georgetown University at Sunday commencement exercises. Senator Chavez designated to receive the degree on his behalf. Chavez, a New Mexico senator and Georgetown Law School alumnus, is cited as the graduate.
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Washington
Clarify Line of President's Successors
Washington lawmakers push bills to fix presidential succession after a trilateral leaders conference near Berlin. Kefauver's proposal would place the secretary of state next in line after the president and vice president, with cabinet officers following in defined order until Congress can elect a president.
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Howard Flieger
Washington
Truman
Edward R. Stettinius
White House
Berlin
Stettinius
Congress
House
Kefauver
D.fenn
Secretary of State
Secretaries of the Treasury
Navy
Interior
Agricultnce
Commerce
Labor
House of Representatives
Representative Monroney
Baye Wasle
Increase Points on Cooking Fats in Ration Plan
Washington announces a new two point hike in lard, shortening, and salad oils, effective Sunday at 12:01 a.m. The shift lifts these fats to 12 points per pound as shortages widen. Butter and margarine values remain unchanged.
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Washington
UPA
OPA
Ike's Chauffer Comes for Discharge
Sgt. Michael J. McKeogh, 20 year old orderly and chauffeur for Gen. Eisenhower since 1941, heads home to be discharged after 215 points. Married to Pearlie Har Stave, with a baby due in September, he will report to Fort Dix, N J, after celebrations for the supreme commander wrap up in Washington and New York.
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Charles Kiley
Stars and Stripes
Paris
Michael J
Mickey" McKeogh
Gen
Eisenhower
Doss
McKeogh
United States
Supreme Commander
Washington
New York
West Point
Kansas City
Abilene
Kans
Mickey
Corona
L. A
Fort Dix
Army
Eisenhhower
Pearlie Har- Stave
WAC
Algiers
London
Normandy
Versailles
Secret Service Men Enter Army at New Cumberland Center
Nine handpicked Secret Service men who once guarded President Franklin D. Roosevelt began army life at New Cumberland reception center on Saturday. They were moved from the White House presidential guard detail and ordered to active Army duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamhisburg
Secret Service
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Cumberland
White House
Soil erosion threatens Pettawattamie County bridges
County engineer Darrell Blake warns erosion along creeks has damaged 172 bridges, with 50 in severe need of repair. The postwar surfacing program may shift to bridge work as channels shift and banks wash away. Soil conservation urged. farmers urged to contour land, build dams, and aid erosion control to reduce future bridge losses.
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Pettawattamile
Darrell Ai Blake
Aree
State Highway Commission
Big Silver
Mud Creek
Graybill Creek
Walnut Creek
East Nishnabotna
West Nishnabotya
Pony Creek
Pigeon Creek
Boyer Creek
Blake
Sar
Roosevelt Sought Peace Allegedly Aided by Hohenzollern Messenger
The Hohenzollern prince Franz Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern claims he served as a confidential messenger for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 to avert a world war. He alleges Roosevelt, worried by the international crisis, sought to meet Hitler Mussolini and Chamberlain in the Azores to discuss peace. Roosevelt’s aides and Mrs. Roosevelt deny knowledge of such a message. The prince, a former Ford employee in Detroit, and now 37, lives with his wife Grand Duchess Ksyls and two children in a modest home, after a life shaped by World War I lineage.
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Benito Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Azores
Washington
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Hyde Fark
N. Y
Ford Company
Detroit
New York
Ploce
Friedrich Wilhelm
Kyrs
Kaiser
Japs Claim Bombers Are Now on Bases
Tokyo reports American medium bombers from Europe reach the Philippines for redeployment against Japan. An aerial picket line from Shanghai to Singapore envisions broad reach over Formosa, Indo China, and the Southeast Asian coast. Redeployment includes up to 40 percent of RAF personnel and equipment joining the campaign, with future bases around Rangoon and Sumatra aiding operations toward Singapore.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Tokyo
Europe
Philippines
Japan
Atlantic
Pacific
Shanghai
Singapore
Okinawa
East China Sea
Gen. MacArthur
Formosa
Indo China
Horneo
MacArthur
Bordeo
Asiatic
China
London
Royal Air Force
RAF
Bay of Bengal
Burma
Sumatra
Rangoon
Thailand
Andaman Islands
Mountbattana
Malay Peninsula
Mountbatten
Malacca Strait
Malacca Passage
South China Sea
Polish Leaders to Moscow Meeting Opened by Rival Poles
Polish leaders Stanislaw Afiko lajczyk and Jan Stanszyk arrived in Moscow for a conference that could form a new Polish government and bridge divides among the big three. Dispatches from Britain describe the arrival shortly before six p.m. as the talks began.
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Alex Singleton
London
Stanislaw Afikolajczyk
Poland
Moscow
Tyg
Britain
Jan Stanszyk
Schedule of OPA Meetings for Eastern Nebraska and Iowa Slaughterers
Loren N. Milla announced a series of six OPA meetings for eastern Nebraska and Iowa slaughterers. Slaughter Control Officer H B J Meyer and Food Price Chief Paul A Dale will lead on permits costs and keeping reports. Meetings cover June 21 22 and 25 with listed counties in Nebraska and Iowa.
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OPA
Loren N. Milla
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
H. B. J. Meyer
Paul A. Dale
Amilla
Atlantic
Cass
Auduboon
Shelby
Montgomery
Page and
Taylor
Auburn
Neb—Otor
Johnson
Nemaha
Pawnee
Richardson
Fretoont County
Otaha
Douglas Sarpy
Harrison, Pottawsdamie and Mills
Generals Back Peace Draft for Universal Peacetime Service
Washington witnesses led by Navy Secretary Forrestal urged peace time preparedness and universal training. Generals Marshall and Vandegrift, Admiral King, Fitch, Jacobs, and Lt. Gen. Walker argued for a peacetime draft or large standing force with minimal exemptions. Navy endorsements from Nimite and Halsey supported the case. The service chiefs proposed one year of continuous training for most males age 17 to 20 to defend the nation at low cost and little disruption.
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Washington
Congress
Armed Services
House
Navy
James V. Forrestal
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
A. A. Vandegrift
Aubrey W. Fitch
Randall Jacobs
Ira Wakter
Army Air Forces
Avia
Woodrum
Chester W. Nimite
William F. Halsey
Army
Nimitz Defends Okinawa Tactics at Press Conference
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said at a Guam press briefing that Lt. Gen. Simon Buckner's decisions were his own but received concurrence. He argued that landings on different beaches would have caused heavy casualties and supply problems, and he criticized David Lawrence's June 4 column as misinformed.
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Guam
David Lawrence
Okinawa
Chester W. Nimitz
Simon B. Buckner
Nimitz
Lawrence
United States
Aussies on Move Again in Borneo
Australian forces advance southwest along Borneo’s coast toward the Sarawak oil center of Tuotong while claiming gains near Brunei Bay. MacArthur notes unconfirmed Tokyo reports of a looming Balikpapan strike as Nipponese air activity and shore defenses are attacked by Allied planes and torpedo boats. The 9th Division expands its advance from Brunei Bay as martial law looms and Labuan airfield falls to Allied action.
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Ukan Schidler
Manila
Borneo
Brunei
Sarawak
Rats
Tobruk
Brunnel Bay
British North Borneo
Melbourne
Tuotong
Planes Blast at Ryukyus Again
Military reports from Meet headquarters indicate air strikes by U S forces north of Okinawa in the Amami islands as Tokyo radio warned of a new invasion plan. Admiral Nimitz says army and marine fighters from Okinawa and carrier aircraft from Halsey’s Third Fleet pounded airfields barracks radio stations and harbor works.
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Ryukyus
Guam
Okinawa
Amami Group of Islands
Meet
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Tactical Air Force
Okin Hawa
William F. Halsey
U. S. 3Rd Fleet
Amami
Kyushu
Hansan
Koreas
Yellow Rch
Korea
Asiatic
Fleet Airwing
Shikoan
Marinera of
The
Came Wing
Yellow Sea
Waate
Old Employes in Service Run Connolly's Store
Tea Connolly the local druggist took a day this week while five servicemen on leave from the merchant marine waited on trade. The men Lt Robert L Van Horne Ensign Harry Hamilton Pat Kealy Albert Hansen and Dick Kennedy are among Connollys 60 former workers now in the armed forces. He counts his store as a clearing house for news from home and considers starting a newspaper to send to them.
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Tea Connolly
Merchant Marine
Robert L. van Horne
Harry Hamilton
Pat Kealy
Albert Hansen
Dick Kennedy
Connolly
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Ae Wasle
Ross
Fottawattamie
Joel
Western Auto Supply
International Harvester Company
Sovony Vancum
Singer Sewing Machin Company
Ike
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