Berlin talks shape postwar world diplomacy
Washington report outlines President Truman meeting with Churchill and Stalin era aims at Berlin to coordinate postwar peace. It stresses Big Three unity, confidence in creating an International Commission, and handling borders, alignments, and territorial controls as they move from war to peace.
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Russia
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Tehran
Yalta
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Vinson to create group to boost postwar building
Washington AP Fred M Vinson plans to form a new inter governmental body within the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion to guide postwar construction. The aim is to raise annual output from four to fifteen billion dollars, coordinate private building with public works and stabilize employment by adjusting government building programs to private demand.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Roup
Vinson
Registrars to Meet More Often in Houston County
Governor Sparks approves a bill requiring state registrar boards to convene on the first and third Mondays monthly. The law takes effect immediately with Houston County’s board to meet at the courthouse to adjust registrations for veterans and armed forces members residing in Houston County.
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Auncey Sparks
Houston County Board of Registrars
County Board of Registran
Houston
Rentp
Compromise Allocates 250000 for FEPC Current Year
Congress edges toward passing the war agencies bill after a compromise funds the Fair Employment Practice Committee at 250000 for current operations. The deal ends a months long stalemate, though liquidation is planned without a set deadline, and FEPC supporters accept reduced funding. Senate and House conferees hailed the agreement as acceptable despite funding less than requested.
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Washington
Fair Employment Practice Committee
White House
Appropriations Committee
FEPC
Senate
House
Senate House
Farmers Asked to Fight Tax Diversion Amendment
Agriculture Commissioner Joe Poole urged farmers at the Pickens County Farmers Rally to defeat Gov Chauncey Sparks income tax diversion amendment. He recalled promises that revenue would lower ad valorem taxes after the 1992 floating debt retired and urged keepers of their word by farmers. The proposal would place tax money under the lawmaker with no strings attached.
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Joe Poole
Chauncey Sparks
Poole
Pickens County
SHAEF to Dissolve Midnight Tonight
Allied Expeditionary Force headed by General Eisenhower will be dissolved at 12:01 tonight, returning control to national authorities. American British and French forces under the Supreme Commander will revert to their own nations as the Allied structure shifts.
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Pains
Eisenhower
BHAEF
Alvers
Americana
Taft Attacks Bretton Woods Bank Proposal
Senator Taft denounces the 8.6 billion international bank under Bretton Woods as profligate lending and urges postponement of Senate action. He proposes direct U.S. loans of 5 to 6 billion to rehabilitate storm-affected nations, arguing Bretton Woods is not the UN Charter’s economic counterpart. Barkley pushes House plan forward for Monday consideration.
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Washington
Taft
International Bank
Bretton Woods
United States
Way
Bretton Wood
Ohioan
Cattle Quarantine Enforced in Houston County Test
Acting State Veterinarian LS McAdory announced a countywide Bangs disease testing quarantine in Houston County to cooperate with federal and state authorities. All cattle will be tested. if infection rates stay under thresholds the county may be declared modified Bangs disease free. Six veterinarians and assistants started testing this week for about two months.
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Houston
LS. McAdory
Saxom P. Peyner
Board of Revenue
McAdory
Houston County
Court Disposes of Minor Cases in Circuit Court
The Circuit Court settled petty cases yesterday as defendants pled guilty to vagrancy and public drunkenness and received sentences and fines. J. Vani drew four months, James F. Seeborn four months, William Varm months. Seaborn on a second public drunkenness charge appealed from Common Pleas. Guilty plea led to a five dollar fine. Hilton Pitts appealed a lower court conviction for public drunkenness.
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Court of Common Pleas
J. ©. Vani
James FH. Seeborn
William Varm
Seaborn
Common Preaa
Meaded
Hilton Pitts
Grein
Committee Hopes To End Charter Hearing Friday
Washington AP reports Democratic Leader Barkley notes likely unanimous Senate ratification of the United Nations Charter as the Foreign Relations Committee continues four days of testimony. Senator Hill urges a unanimous vote despite reservations and opposition attempts. CIO President Philip Murray and NEA head Dr William Carr among supporters slated to testify today.
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Washington
United Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Hal
Alabama
Hill
Senate
Philip Murray
CIO
William Carr
National Education Association
Ozark Woman Bonded in Threatening Letter Case
An Ozark woman, Nervie Medley alias Mrs. J J Moore, was jailed on federal charges for sending two letters from the Ozark post office to Camp Rucker. The letters threatened to beat a Brundidge woman and alleged romance with the other woman’s husband. FBI agent R J Abbaticchio Jr said the letters involved were to the Station Hospital at Camp Rucker and to the Brundidge woman. The defendant waived grand jury action and was bound over on a $3000 bond after a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner J W Daughtry.
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Ozark
U. S. Court At
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Brundidge
Camp Rucker
R. J. Abbaticchio, Jr
FBI
Alabama
Nervie Medley
J. J. Moore
Abbaticchio
Troy
Marguerite H. Dunnavant
Medley
U. S
George N. Bayzer
J.W. Daughtry
Navy Losses Boost U S Casualty List
Navy casualties surged adding 12 167 to overall war losses. Total U S casualties reached 1 040 104 with Navy at 133 386 and Army listed separately. Army totals show killed 193 508 wounded 567 614 missing 37 323 and prisoners 127 213. Navy figures: killed 49 657 wounded 68 165 missing 11 454 prisoners 4 110.
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Washington
Navy
Army
Chifley Named Australian Chief
Joseph Benedict Chifley, former locomotive engineer and son of a blacksmith, chosen by the Australian Labor Party as its leader to succeed the late John Curtin. He led caucus balloting over Deputy Prime Minister Forde and Norman John Oswald Makin, with Forde named deputy leader.
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Canberra
Australia
Labor Party
Joseph Benedict Chifley
Cuffey
Labor
John Curtin
Forde
Norman John Oswald Makin
Deaden
More Than 500 B O s Used In New Raid
An air fleet of 500 to 550 Superfortresses dropped 3005 tons of incendiaries and bombs before dawn on 49 miles of Honshu and Shikoku, targeting four caves and industrial centers from Uwajima to Tsuruga. The raid hit Nippon Oil, Standart Vacuum, Sun Petroleum, and Mitsui depots, marking the 49th incendiary mission and expanding city targets to 38.
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Guam
Tsanshue
Shikoku
Shreidera
Uwajima
Utsununtys
Guanes
Tokyo Plain
Ichihumaya
Nagoya
Gifu
Tsuruga
Hause Island
Honshu
Kawanshi
Tokyo Bay
Tthe Nippon Oil Company
Standart Vacuum Oil Company
Alalng
J Sun Petroleum Company
Mitsui
Kawasaki Petroleum Center
Tara
Imminent Allied Invasion Forecast By Tokyo Press
Tokyo reports amid criticism of the Mikado government predict Allied landings to seize island air bases for a broader invasion of Japan. MainichiForesees planes from Vice Admiral McCain's Task Force 48 returning repeatedly, while Okinawa air operations continue to neutralize bases on Kyushu. Deserters from the defense front seek safe harbor as raids intensify.
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Associated. Press
Mikedo
Tokyo
Japan
Malay Peninsula
Sumatra
Mainichi
John
McCain
Okinawa
Kyushu
Sugar Shortages Blamed On Faked Coupons And Ring
AP reports sugar shortages in the southeast tied to faked coupons and a bootleg sugar ring. OPA Attorney Jamice L. Flemister said 286 firms were suspended for illegal sugar deals as counterfeit coupons representing about 2,000,000 pounds were found. Moonshiners supplied sugar, with a ring blamed for activities in Georgia and nearby cities.
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Atlanta
Southeast
Gays Jamice L. Flameister
OPA
Tert
Ral Ageria
Flemister
Geornia
New Orleans
Tampe
Jarksonville
St. Petersburg
Col Hobby Resigns as Head of WACs
Washington AP reports Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby resigned today as director of the Women's Army Corps. The surprise announcement came at a New conference by Undersecretary of War Patterson Cal. Hobby goes on leave immediately and will go inactive on September 4. General Wesirsy Boffle Boyer, 43, of Rocky Mount North Carolina, succeeds Hobby as director.
Japanese Digging In Along Sittang River Bend Area
Calcutta AP reports heavy rain did not halt Japanese digging along the Sittang River bend in Burma from Nyaugkashe to Myitkyo. Japanese occupied Nyiaungkasne abandoned by British, air strikes killed enemy troops and damaged jungle huts, with British artillery near Tounro0 and nine villages west of the bend cleared.
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Sittang River
Burma
Nyautgkashe
Pegu
Myitkyo
Pegu-Sittang
Southeast Ata
Nyiaungkasne
River Bend
Toun
Inter Allied Command Takes Over In Berlin
The Inter Allied Kommandant in Berlin announced that Soviet regulations would stay in force with no changes for now. Red Army authorities handed over control of 12 Berlin boroughs to American and British officials hours earlier. The Russian fire pattern persisted as British and American authorities differ from past German setups. Soviet authorized gendarmes remained active, while American truck convoys began feeding 756,000 Berliners in the U.S. sector with food from Western Germany and the British took responsibility for 600 Ki.
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Berlin
Red Army
America
Germany
Communist Party
U. S
Chinese Battle Toward Yungfu Amid Rail Route Push
Chinese forces advance north along the Hunan Kwangsi rail line toward Yungfu, claiming recapture of Lau chai as they push beyond Liuchow. Meanwhile Japanese troops seize Tinpak on the South China coast, edging eastward from Malluk but halted by Chinese resistance and guerrillas.
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Tinpak
South China
Cunto
Wwehway
Malluk
Livtchow
Paratroopers Drown Seven Missing In Gulf Jump
At Gull Island off Carrabelle Florida an Army paratrooper training jump went tragically wrong. Three paratroopers drowned and seven are missing after splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near the Island. Search units from Pensacola and nearby fields joined Camp Gordon Johnston crews.
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Fla
Dog Island
Fort Benning
Gulf of Mexico
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Carrabelle
Benning
Crash Bosta
Pensacola
Navy Breaks Up Jap Troop Convoy
Japanese attempts to move two troop laden convoys from Shanghai toward home defenses were thwarted by U S naval air power. No transports crossed the Yellow Sea or Korean waters. one ship bore resemblance to the Contessa De Savoi as it burned under air attack near Teingtao with limited damage from fighter rockets and dives.
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Shanghai
Hipater
U. S
Dale Price
Contessa de Savoia
Lisyds
Contessa de Savoi
Venice
Ale
Thunderbolt
Yellow Sea
Korea
Japan
Teingtao
New Shoe Stamp Valid August 1
The Office of Price Administration announced a new Airplane Stamp No. 4 in Ration Book No. 3 that becomes valid August 1. Airplane Stamp No. 2 remains valid indefinitely and the new issue will be the first to replace Stamp No. 1 issued earlier in rationing.
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Washington,ap
Office of Price Administration
Aussies Dutch Move On Rich Borneo Oil Field
Australian infantry and Dutch forces press on in Borneo near Balikpapan advancing toward Smash Stone ridge. Air support by P-2A fighters and Mitchell bombers paves the way while Japanese defenses along Sepinggang Ket River and Manggar area receive naval and mortar fire.
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Borneo
Balikpapan
13Th Army Airforce
Sepinggeng Siefield
Russell Brines
la Janonees
Roon
World War II Briefs From Across Asia
AP reports Tokyo air patrols off Honshu while U S Third Fleet eyes a new threat. In Borneo, US forces punch three miles north of Balikpapan. Tinpak and Sincheng fall to Japanese advances near Canton. Burma operations see Japanese actions along the Sittan front. overall war news remains tense.
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Japan
Tokyo Radio Xaid
Sincheng
Burma
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