Massive Allied raid hits Japanese naval arsenal network
Four hundred fifty B 29s attacked Japan's last large naval arsenal and five big aircraft factories with 8000 tons of demolition bombs. Targets included Osaka Hiro Kure and Mitsubishi Kawasaki plants near Nagoya Kobe and Tamashima. Japanese claim heavy bomber losses noted.
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Leif Erickson Buam
Japan
Osaka
Hiro
Kure
Mitsubishi
Kawasaki Aircraft
Kagamigahara
Nagoya
Kawaii
Ashi Aircraft
Himeji
Kawasaki Aircraft Plant
Ashashi
Kobe
Mitsubishi-Mishima Aircraft
Tamashima
Fin Squaare Mallee
General Ike Returns to Abilene Amid Simple Welcome
Abilene Kansas June 22 General Dwight D Eisenhower is home with family after a world tour, shunning pomp for a quiet greeting. He names reception committee members personally as thousands line the parade route and crowd Liberty Memorial to hear him recall his growth with the city.
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Kansas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene
Eisenhower Park
Kas
Tke
Wight D. Eisenhower
Bill
Bud
Liberty Memorial
Eisenhower
Ike
Connally And Vandenberg Prepare Full Report On New Peace Charter
United States Senate will receive a full report from Senators Connally and Vandenberg on the San Francisco peace charter next week. American delegates express confidence in ratification, but debate likely to begin in early July after conference records and interpretive statements are released. The two senators plan to depart after President Truman speaks, as talks head toward a Berlin July meeting.
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Connally
Vandenberg
United Nations Today
Associated Press
PWT
John M. Hightower
San Francisco
United States Senate
United Nations
Senate
Truman
Berlin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chinese Attack on Liuchow Air Field Near Liuchow
Chinese troops attacked the former American air field on the southern outskirts of Liuchow, held abandoned seven months, and inflicted casualties on Japanese forces. A Chinese army spokesman said Japanese troops had withdrawn to Weilin, leaving 1,000 to 2,000 behind. Liuchow was reported nearly invested and a near-term occupation predicted, with varying unconfirmed reports of the airfield’s destruction and ongoing Chinese advances toward Ishah and Tatang.
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Liuchow
Chungking
Wweilin
Robert B. McClue
Kunming
McClure
Ishah
Tatang
Pinsiang
House defeats bid to end wartime rice and OPA extension
In Washington June 22 the House rejected an amendment by Rev. Hoffman to strike out the enacting clause of the OPA extension bill. He urged cutting OPA's head off and starting over. The voice vote showed strong opposition with only a few voices in support.
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Bulletin
Washington
House
Hoffman
R.mich
OPA
Big Four to discuss war crimes trial plan next week
The British foreign office announced that the big four powers would open discussions early next week on plans for the trial of Germany and war criminals. An American source said the United States plans a mass trial before winter and would press ahead alone if needed. The plan centers on drafting a list of major war criminals and outlining the court procedure, with the United States holding custody of many arch criminals and relying on the Kellogg Briand pact to support mass conspiracy charges.
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U. S
United States
Gestapo
West Virginia Marine survives Sugarloaf hill firefight
Pvt Eat] Cornette of Powellton West Virginia was believed dead on Sugarloaf hill but told how in five minutes of intense combat he killed four Japanese including an officer, was wounded by a grenade, then killed eight more. He crawled back to his machinegun, and Lt George E Murphey of South Bend Indiana carried him to aid before a mortar killed the officer and corpsman. State Marine page 2.
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Harold T. Bolan
Marine Corps
Okinawa
West Virginia
Sugarloaf Hill
Pie
Pfc
Eat
Curnette
George E. Murphey
South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame
Cornette
State Marine
Glass Workers Strike Spreads to Eight States
A CIO federation strike by 15,000 glass workers halted furnaces in eight states after unions authorized action following contract talks collapse. Plants in Charleston and Clarksburg West Virginia Idle, with Libbey-Owens Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass units affected. More plants idled, forging 44 half mile trainloads of output to markets if run.
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Fairmont
Monongah
Baltimoe and Ohio Railroad
Yesteray
Columbus
International Union
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
Creighton
Ford City
Crystal City
Mount Vernon
Henrietta
Dela
Clarksburg
W. Va
Libbey
Ottawa
Shreveport
Charleston
W, Va
Atlantic City
N. J
West Virginia
CIO Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sands Workers Union
Closeq
Peace vs Preparedness in a postwar world
J M Roberts argues that peace needs trained reserves and civilian defense, while Russia continues military schooling. Eisenhower backs peacetime training as Patton's generation is urged to prepare. At San Francisco leaders unite for a U N era, yet nations have not outlawed war. The piece notes UN flaws and the promise of universal security.
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J. M. Roberts, Jr
Btars and Stripes
Paris
Patton
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Europe
San Francisco
United Nations
Pcce
Survey Of Educational System In West Virginia Scheduled First Of July
Charleston June 22. A survey of West Virginia's educational system will begin July 1 as part of the 1945 revamp of the school program. House Speaker John Amos and Senate President Arnold Vickers announced the interim education committee co chairs. Professor George D. Strayer of Columbia University Teachers College was hired to conduct the survey.
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Charleston
West Virginia
House
John Amos
Senate
Arnold Vickers
George D. Strayer
Columbia University
Teachers College
Okinawa base readied for invasion of Japan
Army and Navy units push mop up against Japanese holdouts on Okinawa as the island becomes a forward staging base for a projected invasion of Kyushu. U.S. officials warn of imminent invasion threats, with Marines and infantrymen clearing hills and reporting heavy enemy casualties amid ongoing cleanup work.
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Robbin Coons Grum
Annihila
Okinawa
Japan
Tokyo
Kantaro Suzuki
Kyushu
Inawa
Pacific Fleet
Forward
Bobibér
China
Chester W. Nimitz
Helfquarters
Mikado
Final Battle of Luzon Campaign Foreshadowed by Guerrillas
Manila dispatch reports Filipino guerrillas in the Cagayan valley pressing the Japanese retreat from the 2d Ohio division. An estimated 30,000 in the valley face risks as they defend Aparri and Tuguegarao, while Allied operations including a Borneo landing and a river crossing by guerrillas expand the Luzon campaign efforts.
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Spencer
Davis
Manila
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Guerrilas
2D Ohio Infantry
Tuguegarao
Aparri
Garo
Tuguebareo
Borneo
Prise Seria
Eysone
I Ps
Cagayan Province
Brillant
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