Governors Take In Growing Food Wrangle
Governors at Mackinac Island discuss growing food and price controls as a key campaign issue. They pledge cooperation to ease dinner table shortages while urging swift action from Washington on meat supply and the OPA. Governors Martin of Pennsylvania becomes chair, with new exec members Kelly, Arax, and McGrath named. A call to Truman seeks mid July action on wartime food policy.
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Gerdsen
Tek
OPA
Bel Jes
Washington
Army
Navy
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Herbert B. Maw
Utah
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Ieland
Truman
Tur
Noli
Nine American Divisions Heading From Europe
Paris AP reports five of nine American divisions slated for transfer from Europe are partially at sea or has reached home. Divisions on the move include the 13th Armored and the 97th and 104th Infantry. ready or nearly ready are the Second Fifth 44th and 87th Infantry. The 4th Division is arriving in America and the 8th is at sea, not yet set for the Pacific.
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Paris
United States
ETO
America
13Th Armored
Pacific
Dothan Cars Checked For $5 Auto Stamp
Revenue agents checked Dothan automobiles for compliance with the use tax stamp law. Cars without a displayed stamp were cited and must be answered within ten days. Citations can be answered in person or by mail, but must be complete.
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Dothan
Internal Revenue
Tornado Claims Six in Nebraska Near Rising City
A tornado swept a five mile path north and west of Rising City Nebraska killing six people and injuring many others. The disaster left several victims unidentified with injuries reported at nearby Columbus Nebraska hospital.
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Nebraska
Rising City
Neb
SiaNhoea
Columbus
Australian Prime Minister Curtin Dies at 60 in Canberra
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin died at 60 after a long heart ailment with lung complications. Deputy Prime Minister Francie M. Forde will act and is expected to be named Labor Party leader next Thursday. Parliament mourned as tributes poured in for the war leader who had guided Australia through early World War II.
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Canberra
Australia
API
John Curtin
Labor Party
Francie M. Forde
Creasuer Joseph 5. Chifley
Herbert V. Evatt
San Francisco
Forde
Curtin
Roosevelt
America
MacArthur Lock
Stock-Ami Bar ‘Rel
Generel MacArthur
John
Doug” MacArthur
Black man held for safety after slaying white girl
Police say a 22 year old Black man named Peter Paul Hall confessed to raping and drowning Ethel Luck, an 18 year old white cotton mill worker, on her 18th birthday in Eufaula. He led officers to the body in a creek and was jailed at Kilby Prison for safety.
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Supaula
Ala
H. L. McCullocs
Peter Paul Hall
Kilby
Montgomery
Ethel Luck
Hall
Eufaula
McCullohs
Balt
Balikpapan Port Falls to Allied Forces Invasion
Australian infantry drive through Balikpapan in Borneo as Allied forces close on the major oil port. Japanese lines reportedly hold, while Allied engineers land in Baliukpapan Bay and begin reconstructing airstrips. Casualty estimates run into the low hundreds with a bold drive toward Manggar.
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Bussell Baines
Balikpapan
Borneo
Australan
Wegal
Barneo
Shotcly
Radio Tokyo
Baliukpapan Bay
Balikpapan Bay
Sepinggang
Manggar
House Committee Endorses Peacetime Draft Plan
The House Post-War Military Policy Committee endorsed universal peacetime military training. The plan would require able-bodied males to complete one year of training between ages 17 and 21, with service in reserve unless a national emergency is declared.
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Washington
House
Congress
Rep
Bradley
D-Pa
Woodrum
House Miliary Committee
Quiet Fourth of July In Dothan Sees Few Incidents
The Fourth of July in Dothan was unusually quiet with no highway accidents and traffic below normal. Sheriff's office logged low activity while police handled seven cases from holtering to drunkenness and disorderly conduct as stores largely stayed closed.
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Dothan
Gulf
Florida
Eye
Sheriffa Office
Ealing
Japanese Fliers Ignore American Fight Challenge
Approximately 300 American planes launched Fourth of July strikes against Japan with firebombs and an hour long radio challenge over Tokyo airfields. Fires lit four cities as B29s and later Mustangs attacked installations across Japan, destroying eight planes on the ground and damaging 24.
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AL Dopring
Guam
Japan
Tokyo
Yellow Sea
Army
Navy
Marine
Nippon
U. S
Seventh Army Air Force
Iwo Jima
Mustangs Strike Tokyo Area In Latest Iwo Jima Raid
Nearly 100 Mustang fighters from captured Iwo Jima joined strikes on airfields north and east of Tokyo. The raid, reported by Radio Tokyo via FCC broadcast, followed a similar attack 24 hours earlier as B-28s escorted the fighters.
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San Francisco
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Nippon Aircraft
Truman Signs Tariff Cut Extension Measure
President Truman signed a three year extension of the reciprocal trade program granting broad executive power to cut tariffs in agreements with other nations. The act allows tariff reductions up to five percent under 1945 rules, and enables a return toward levels seen under the Wilson Underwood tariff, with potential cuts up to 75 percent from Hawley Smoot rates under prior law.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
State Department
Reds Turn Over Berlin U S Zone To Bradley
In Berlin ceremony Maj Gen Niko N Barinov formally timed the American occupation zone over to Gen Omar N Bradley. The American flag rose beside the Soviet flag over Adolph Hitler barracks as a 48 gun salute sounded and the Stars and Stripes went up in the square. The site recalls the Gestapo purges of Hitler's enemies eleven years earlier.
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Berlin
Nikolai N. Barinov
Omar N. Bradley
Adalf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
FEPC Fight Spurs Major War Agency Funding Cuts
In a House action, 54 million plus in 10 War Agencies funds were struck from a 752 million War Agencies bill amid FEPC funding battles. Eliminated items include Information Office 18 million, National War Labor Board 512 million, Defense Transportation 7 million, Economic Stabilization 196 thousand, Scientific Research 70 million, Inter-American Affairs 14 million, War Production Board 25 million, War Shipping Administration 367 million, OSS 20 million, Petroleum administration for War 968 thousand. FEPC supporters Marcantonio Norton and Celler led the moves. Senate fate uncertain with FEPC funds previously pegged at 280 thousand.
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William F. Aebogast
Washington
FEPC
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Ofice of War Information
National War Labor Board
Office of Defense Trans
Office of Economic Stabilization
Office of Scientific Research
Office of Inter-American Affairs
War Production Board
War Shipping Administration
Office of Strategic Services
Petroleum Administration
War Relocation Authority
Alen
War Plants Corporation
Wat
Senate
House
Marcantonio
Alp-Ny
Norton
D-Nj
Celler
D-Ny
Uncertainty Cloaks Franco Churchill Meeting
In London a published report said Prime Minister Churchill would meet Generalissimo Franco before the Potsdam summit as Allied leaders Truman Stalin and Churchill plan to discuss Europe’s postwar issues. Some diplomats doubt the Franco meeting while talks on Italian colonies Poland and Germany’s future continue amid Berlin plans.
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London
Churchill
Generaliasimo Franco
Spain
Potidara
Foreign Office
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Hemumdhiit
Potedam
Berlin
Chateau de Bordaberry
Hendaye
Bordeaux
Bee Three
Taly
World Security League
Warsaw
Potsdam
Minster Churchill
Stalin
Germany
Newsmen Barred From Big Three Sessions
Washington AP report states newsmen will not cover actual sessions of the forthcoming Big Three conference in the Berlin area. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said coverage will be via official communiques and provided no date for the meeting between Truman Churchill and Stalin.
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Washington
White House
Berlin
Charles G Ross
Truman
Minis Iter Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Europe
U. S. Sub Trigger Presumed Lost
The Navy says the submarine Trigger with 60 to 85 crew is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. The announcement notes it is among U S submarines active in war, with four previously announced missing, two destroyed to avoid capture, and 39 overdue or presumed lost.
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Washington
Ita
Navy
Spaatz to Lead Pacific Bombing Campaign in War
General Carl A. Spaatz, who commanded strategic bombing of Germany, will head the new U S air bombing effort in the Pacific reporting to General H H Arnold. Patterson announced creation of the Army Air Force in the Pacific with two main air forces under Doolittle and Lemay. The B 29 force aims at major Japanese industrial targets as the war expands.
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Washington
Carl A. Spaatz
Germany
Pacific
Spaatz
War Department
Hebert P. Patterson
U.S. Army Air Force
H. H. Arnold
Bth Air Force
James Doolittle
20Th
Curtis F. Lemay
Patterson
World War II casualties rise by week totals
The War Department reports total U S military casualties at 1 036 037 with Navy 325 440 and Army 911 370 through June 2 In Okinawa the campaign shows 44 198 American casualties and 117 624 Japanese casualties through June 28 Killed wounded and missing figures are broken down across theaters with 92 080 prisoners either exchanged or under military control.
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Wallington
Navy
Army
War Department
Patterson
Okinawa
Britain Votes Today On Free Enterprise Versus Socialism
Britain votes today in a general election pitting free enterprise against socialism. Prime Minister Church leads the Conservatives urging economic freedom while Clement Attlee’s Labour calls for nationalization of key industries. Results due July 26 with soldier vote counted.
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Britain
London
Europe
Church
Labor
Clement Atlee
Commonwealth of Great Britain
Churchi
House of Commons
Laborite Daily Herald
Private loans linked to Elliott Roosevelt loss says official
New York insurance executive David G. Baird described $120,000 in loans to Elliott Roosevelt as private and personal investments. He said the loans carried an option to buy network stock at offering price, but the ventures failed. Baird recovered about $30,000 of a $70,000 loan. Maxwell Bilofsky recovered ~$20,600 of an $8,000 loan. lenders did not buy stock.
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Montclair
N. J
David G. Baird
New York
Elliott Roosevelt
Baud
Maxwell
M. Bilofsky
Roosevelt
Nazi Scientific Starvation Station Found By Americans
A Nazi scientific starvation station was uncovered in Bavaria by American Military Government officials. Four German doctors and three hospital attendants were arrested at Kaufbeuren area, southeast of Munich. A nurse testified to killing 211 children for which she received an ornament. The station, veiled as a sanatorium, was one of two dozen Nazi laboratories for starvation and drug experiments across Bavaria and Austria. those who died were cremated. The Kaufbeuren site housed 1578 people on June 9, and a branch at Irsee had 448.
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A. I. Goldberg
Munich
Bavaria
AMG
Kaufbeuren
Nurae
Austria
Marvin Linick
New York City
Loyal Murphy
Memphis
Kaufheuren
Irsee
MacArthur: Islands Secured and Japan Defeated
General MacArthur announced from Manila that all Philippine Islands have been won back in the war, with 315,800 square miles being built into bases for future operations. After 20 days of fighting, American forces routed 35 Japanese divisions, inflicted heavy losses, and disrupted Japan’s imperial strategy as the Allied drive nears Tokyo.
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Spence Davis
Manila
Philippine Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Brgtish Islands
Tokyo
Bataan
MacArthur
British Isles
Germany
Asia
Far East
Japan
Navy Seizes Goodyear Plants as Strike Ends Navy
President Truman ordered government operation of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plants in Akron Ohio after a 19 day strike by over 16 000 workers. The Navy was to move in and hire staff use company management and take actions to restore production within 60 days.
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Washington
Truman
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Akron
Ohio
Navy
Goodyear
Secretary of the Navy
Tomorrow Last Day For Registration For Veterans
Service men home on leave and discharged veterans are urged to register as new voters today. Tomorrow closes registration books, marking the last chance until next October. The Board of Registrars has been in session since Monday and 39 applications have been filed to be placed on the qualified voters list. Veterans are exempt from poll tax due to military service.
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Board of Registrars
World War II Briefs From Pacific To China Fronts
The dispatch notes General MacArthur’s Philippines return in a 250 day campaign with 4,000 U S casualties and 450,000 Japanese losses, plus China and American air force actions. It reports 14th Air Force oilers striking Japanese lines from Yellow River to Indo China, destroying trains and a major bridge on the Peiping Hankow railway. It also notes two U S Navy destroyers lost near Oelanwa.
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Associated Press
Borneo
Balikpapan
Dutch Borneo
Philippines
MacArthur
U. S
China
14Th Air Force
Yellow River
Indo-China
Peiping-Hankow
U. S. Navy
Oelanwa
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