Byrnes Named Secretary of State in Truman Pick
President Truman selects F. Byrnes of North Carolina as secretary of state with swift Senate confirmation anticipated. The former senator and war mobilizer would be next in line for the presidency under the succession law if confirmed. Byrnes is backed by many administration allies as the White House moves toward key postwar diplomacy.
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Berlin
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Harrison Roosevelt
Edward R. Stettinius
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Uniet Nations Organization
Red Prisoners Riot at Fort Dix Delayed Repatriation
About 150 Russians held at Fort Dix riot in protest of repatriation under the Yalta exchange plan. Three prisoners reportedly died by suicide and several others injured as a convoy to Camp Shanks and the Monticello navy transport was halted and orders countermanded. American guards and a crowd of 300 watched from 100 yards as the prisoners remained in trucks. The incident followed transfer from Dix to Camp Shanks and involved hospital stays for some detainees.
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Fort Dix
N. d
War Department
Washington
Mae George R. Paul
U. S
Dix
Camp Shanks
Shanks
Russia
Monticello
Soner
Ambuthe
Poles Flee Occupied Zones as Zones Readjusted in Germany
Polish refugees in Wildflocken Bamberg and Coburg numbered about 40,000 as American authorities increased Bavaria bread rations. British American and French troops prepare to shift to final occupation boundaries, with Berlin adjustments likely by July 4.
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Bavaria
Jones Daniel
Rocky Mount
Wildflocken
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Coburg
United States
Paris
Russia
Germany
Supreme Headquarters
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Berlin
Luebeck
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Thuringia
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Allied Expeditionary Force
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AEF
Government Heads Should Not Travel Together
Washington June 30 Senator Fulbright expresses disapproval of the idea that the president and the secretary of state ride together by plane or ship. He notes the secretary of state is next in line for the presidency and comments during a discussion on a presidential succession bill passed by the House. Senator Lucas opposes the plan but urges prompt action on the full issue.
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Senate
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Southern Democrats Block FEPC Funding in House Action
In Washington on June 30 Southern Democrats in the House shouted objections and blocked a Senate compromise to finance the Fair Employment Practices Committee for a year. The stalled $752.4 billion war agencies bill leaves FEPC unfunded at midnight while other agencies receive a temporary funding patch. The Senate had agreed to $250,000 for FEPC next year, far short of the $446,200 originally requested, ending a four day funding wrangle that also touched labor, security, and price-control measures.
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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War Production Board
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Roosevelt
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D-Mont
Appropriations Committee
War Department
Truman
Kansas City
Obor
Federal Security
U. S. Employment Service
Churchill vows resignation if Labour wins July election
Prime Minister Churchill warned that a Labour victory in the July 5 election would force him to quit the government. He argued a Labour win would spark factional strife and threaten Britain's global influence, urging voters to support his candidates to ensure national leadership.
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Churchill
Labor Party
Labor
Britain
Major Earthquake Reported In Pacific
California Institute of Technology reported a major earthquake on its seismograph at 10 35 26 last night. The epicenter was about 1400 miles south of Pasadena and believed to lie in the Pacific Ocean. In Mexico City a long lasting shock was recorded at Tacubaya, with center NW of the city and west of the Pacific.
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California Institute of Technology
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Pacific Ocean
Mexico City
National University
Lower Eee
Pacific
Cabinet reshuffle elevates Hannegan and Clark to top posts
President Truman announces a broad cabinet shakeup with James Byrnes slated as secretary of state. Clinton Anderson becomes agriculture secretary, Lewis Schwellenbach takes labor, Robert Hannegan leads post office, and a new justice chief assumes the role amid war food policy changes.
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Justice
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Clinton P. Anderson
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Mexico
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Agriculure
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Federal District Court
Frances Perkins
Roosevelt
Robert E. Hannegan
St. Louis
Ainal Democratic
Post Department
Frank Wal- Cuts
Texas
Department of Justice
Francis Biddle
Gay West
Southwest
Anderson
Agriculture Post
War Food Administration
Agriculture Department
Congress
Schwellenbach
Spokane, Wash
State Senators Leave Decision On Meets To Assembly In NC
North Carolina state senators wrapped up a weeklong session in Hendersonville by voting to let the general assembly decide whether future summer meetings should be held by the senate. A second resolution thanked Hendersonville residents for hospitality. The gathering, held at no cost to the state, featured a banquet and a sight seeing tour of a Brevard cigarette plant. They will reconvene in October in Statesville for an address by Kent Truman. the date will be set by the president.
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North Carolina
General Assembly
Senate
John R. Cunningham
Davidson College
Ecasta Cigarette Ny
Brevard
Pon
Statesville
Kent Truman
Truman Will Not Attend Governors Conference
President Truman informed Mackinac Island governors that official duties prevent him from attending and addressing the four day conference. The gathering gathers chiefs of state from over 40 states to discuss reconversion postwar and wartime leadership, with three potential 1948 Republican nominees and top Army Navy leaders among speakers.
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D. Harold Oliver
Mackinac Island
Truman
Governors Conference
Straits of Mackinac
Army
Navy
New
Poland's western boundary outlined at socialist congress
Premier Edward Osubka Morawski told the socialist party congress that Poland's new western boundary would lie on the Oder river and the Baltic Sea. The Warsaw radio reported this as the first official disclosure of the frontier's partial shape. Delineation remains undecided and the southern unitary is still unsettled.
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Edward Osubka-Morawski
Warsaw
Socialist Party
Poland
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Baltic Sea
Warsaw Radio
New
Remier
American naval push into Okhotsk alarms Tokyo
The first U S fleet penetration into the Sea of Okhotsk signals a northern reach toward Japan, with foggy northern Pacific conditions aiding amphibious plans. Analysts view it as a step in tightening a blockade around Japan and probing ship lines from Korea toward the Sea of Japan.
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Associated Press
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Tokyo
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Okinawa
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Sea of Japan
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Yellow Sea
Korea
British Notes On Pacific War Strengths And Moves
British war observer General Sewell reports Japanese forces in Borneo reduced to about 30,000, spread thin across vast terrain. Australian troops have killed about 10,000 in Melanesia since taking over from Americans. He says American submarines and planes monitor Korea China traffic, while British and Australian raids target Sumatra airfields and rolling stock.
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Sewell
Melanesia
Burma
Singapore
Indian Leader Proposes Direct Talks with Gandhi
Mohammed Ali Jinnah urged Gandhi to drop Lord Wavell’s national government idea and push direct talks between Congress and the Moslem League. The move follows Wavell’s conference adjournment to July 14 to work on a governing council with Moslem representation. Jinnah tied the plan to guarantees for independence of Pakistan dominated regions.
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Preston Glover Simla
India
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Moslem League
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Lord Wavell
Congress Party
Jinnah
Australians Fight Japanese in Borneo and Luzon Reports
Allied air and naval actions target Balikpapan and surrounding oil zones as 4 US sea forces shell the area. MacArthur reports 230 tons of bombs on Balikpapan and adjacent airfields while Australian and US units push toward northern Luzon and clear Japanese remnants. Formosa facilities and Chinese fronts also suffer air strikes as Liuchow falls to Chinese forces.
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Tokyo Radio
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Likpapan
Douglas MacArthur
Delixpepen
Borneo
Miri
Luzon
Gayan
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Formosa
Shanghai
Canton
China
Canton River
Indo-China
Liuchow
U. S. 14Th Air Force Base
Storm Kills Greensboro Resident and Wrecks Buildings
A Greensboro man, Edmund L. O'Shea, 40, was killed by lightning as storms swept North Carolina injuring another resident in Charlotte and causing widespread property damage. In Charlotte a grandstand collapsed at Highland Park injuring 17 year old Harry Spain slightly while trees fell and poles toppled disrupting lines. Durham and Raleigh reported record heat as storms cooled towns with heavy rain and gusty winds across the state.
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North Carolina
Edmund L. O’shea
W. W. Harvey
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Highland Park
Harry Spain
Concord
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