MacArthur declares Philippines recaptured as Japan’s defeat looms
General MacArthur proclaims all Philippine islands won back after 250 days of fighting. He says 115,600 square miles are now bases for future campaigns and that roughly 420,000 Japanese were killed or wounded, with tens of thousands more believed to survive in guerrilla pockets across Mindanao and Luzon.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
16Th
Imperial Division
Bataan
MacArthur
British Isles
Germany
East Asia
Far East
Japan
East Indies
Philippines
Navy
Mindanao
Luzon
91 Year Dispute over Menominee Swamp Land Ends
Washington reports a 91 year dispute among the United States Wisconsin and the Menominee Indians is terminated. Commissioner William A. Brophy notes the 1854 treaty granted 33 870 acres of swamp land to the tribe while Sept 28 1850 swamp acts placed swamps in state control. Wisconsin receives a $1 590 854 50 check from the U S treasury.
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Washington
United States
Wisconsin
William A. Y
Indian Affairs
Brophy
U. S. Treasury
Bombing Japan Presses On As Signal Losses Grow
The World Today notes intensified aerial bombardment of Japan with potential to cripple home islands before invasion. Tokyo claims fortifications girdle Nippon, while 4.9 million killed or displaced in major cities. Lemay says B 29s have knocked out vast war production.
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Japan
Nippon
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Osaka
Yokohama
Nagoya
Kobe
Curtis Lemay
Lof
21St Bomber Command
Okinawa
Germany
Reich
Fourth Takes 139 Lives In United States
The United States recorded 139 deaths during the Fourth of July holiday period with most fatalities from traffic accidents and water incidents. Hundreds were injured by fireworks but no additional deaths were reported. The figure compares with 439 deaths in 1944 and 298 in 1943 for similar three day spans.
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Associated Press
Ile
WPB Liberalizes Its Control On Furniture Making
The War Production Board liberalized furniture manufacture controls and ended restrictions on auto maintenance equipment. Metal use is freed except for steel. wood and other materials stay restricted. WPB cites wood scarcity as limiting furniture output and notes general priority for battery testers jacks spark plug cleaners and clutch rebuilding gear.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Move To End Strike Nears A Showdown
The 20 day strike by 16 700 CIO United Rubber Workers at Goodyear in Akron appears headed for a final confrontation. Government seizure of the plants looms as William H Davis economic stabilizer handles the case after the War Labor Board's directives were ignored.
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Associated Press
Cio-United Rubber
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
William H. Davis
Truman
War Labor Board
Davis
WLB
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Goodyear
Australian Minister Dies In 61st Year
Canberra reports Prime Minister John Curtin died at age 60 after a long illness from a heart ailment with lung complications. The Labor Party may choose a successor next Thursday from Deputy PM Francis M. Forde, Treasurer Joseph B. Chifley, or External Affairs Minister Herbert V. Evatt, with Forde serving as acting premier until the selection.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Parliamentary
Labor Party
Francis M. Forde
Joseph B. Chifley
Herbert V. Evatt
San Francisco
Forde
Eight Pardons Issued By Governor Cherry
Eight prisoners granted paroles by Governor Cherry include a second degree murder case. Names and sentences span Moore Pitt Vance Davidson Edgecombe Union counties with offenses from murder contempt to robbery and drunken operation.
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Cherry
Raleigh
Henry James McKenzie
Moore County
Joe Richard Price
Pitt
Lindwood May
Thomas Alston
Vance
Glenn Workman
Davidson
Edward Minton
Edgecombe
Kenneth K. Redwing
Union
Lonnie Savage
United States and Britain to recognize Polish government in Warsaw
Washington and London likely to announce recognition of the new Polish government of national unity in Warsaw later today. The State Department and White House offered no comment as both capitals prepared a simultaneous statement. Previously both governments had recognized the Polish government-in-exile in London.
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Washington
United States
National Unity
Warsaw
State Department
White House
London
Five U S Infantry Divisions Ready for Pacific redeployment
Paris July 5 Five of nine American divisions earmarked for transfer from Europe to the Pacific are either on the high seas or have reached the United States. The 2nd 5th 44th and 87th divisions are ready or en route while the 4th is arriving in the U S and the 8th is at sea with future status undecided. The list notes statuses of First through Ninth Infantry Divisions including occupation details and assembly areas.
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Paris
Pacific
High Seas
ETO
America
European
USA
Supreme Headquarters
Etousa
Ansbach
Germany
Salzburg
Austria
United States
Ingolstadt
Peacetime Universal Military Training Endorsed
The House postwar military policy committee endorsed universal military training in peacetime and urged legislation to enact the program this session. Sixteen of twenty-two members approved. Rep Bradley of Pennsylvania opposed it and five non signers were not disclosed by Chairman Woodrum of Virginia.
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Washington
House
Congress
Bradley
D-Pa
Woodrum
D-Va
Marshall
King
Navy
Martin
Harry F. Kel
North Carolina Tops Revenue Records In 1944 45 Total
Raleigh reports North Carolina closed the fiscal year ending June 30 with 116 871 645 51 in revenue from its general fund and other sources. The 1944 45 collections rose 5 05 percent over 1943 44 and exceeded pre war 1940 41 figures, with the general fund at 82 517 812 54 and highway fund at 34 353 832 97. The report names key sources and divisions including the income tax branch with 37 345 675 72 and motor vehicle and gasoline taxes aiding the highway fund.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Edwin Gill
World War II Casualties Rise to 1 036 937
The past week added 6 258 casualties, bringing total armed forces losses to 1 036 937. Navy listed 125 540 and army 911 397 from names reported through June 29. Okinawa campaign casualties reached 44 198 for the U S and 117 624 for Japan through late June.
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Washington
Navy
Army
War Department
Ndersecretary of War
Patterson
Okinawa
Horses Hitting Tables In Boston and New York
Kansas packing manager J L Hagens of Hill Packing says horse meat is rising in demand as beef shortages push consumers to buy horse meat. He notes shipments of four to five carloads daily to Boston and New York and millions of one pound packs. He dismisses a shortage claim and cites Kansas City consuming about two million pounds yearly.
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Boston
New York
Topeka
Kas
Hortses
J. L. Hagens
Hill Packing Company
Hagens
Hagen
Kansas City
Hill's
Trade Program Extended For Trio Of Years
President Truman signed a three year extension of the reciprocal trade program expanding executive power to cut tariffs. The act allows reductions up to 75 percent below Hawley Smoot levels and up to 50 percent under rates as of January 1 1945. Officials say the measure aims to approximate Woodrow Wilson era Underwood tariff levels on an average basis.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
State Department
Spaatz Assigned to Pacific Role in New Air Forces
Washington July 5 General Carl A Spaatz who directed strategic bombing of Germany was named supervising general for the Pacific in the new U S army air force. He will report to General of the Army H H Arnold with two main air forces headed by Lt Gen James Doolittle and Maj Gen Curtis E Lemay.
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Washington
Carl A. Spaatz
Germany
Pacific
Spaatz
War Department
Robert P. Patterson
U. S. Army Air Force
H. H. Arnold
Governors Take Hand in Food Controversy at Conference
Nation's governors at the 37th annual meeting pledged nonpartisan cooperation to ease dinner table shortages and called on Washington agencies to speed a food solution. They backed postwar universal military training and discussed demobilization figures while supporting Jewish immigration and UN headquarters in the United States.
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Mackinack Island
OPA
Washington
Army
Navy
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Herbert B. Maw
Utah
San Francisco
United Nations Organization
Nagasaki Also Target Of 300 Yank Fighters
San Francisco July 5 300 American fighters and bombers from Iwo Jima and Okinawa joined a twin air strike on Tokyo air fields and Nagasaki port, with 100 Mustangs from Iwo Jima aiding. A July Fourth B 29 raid burned four mainland cities and damaged airfields.
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San Francisco
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Tokyo
Nagasaki
Radio Tokyo
Omura
Hyushu Island
Japan
Communications Commission
Guam
Yellow Sea
Army
Navy
Marine
Nippon
U. S. Seventh Army Air Force
Winston-Salem Man Drowns In High Rock Lake
Thomasville report: Frank Robert Finley, 29, of Winston-Salem, drowned Wednesday afternoon on High Rock Lake while examining his boat. Passengers said he fell after mistaking a stump contact and never surfaced. Rescue squads searched into the night and again the next morning. body not recovered. Finley, born Oct 3 1915, worked for Firestone in Winston-Salem. survived by wife Clara Lawson, parents, three sisters, and four brothers.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Frank Robert Finley
West End Boulevard
Winston- Salem
High Rock Lake
Davidson County
Raymond Bowers
Finley
Ed Vaughn
East 23Rd Street
Winston-Salem
I. B. Swaim
Pole Road
June Nicholson
Bowers
Healing Springs
Lexington
Mr. Finley
F. M. Finley
Sadie White Finley
Firestone Tire and Abber Company
Clara Lawson
J. H. Metz
Welch
W. Va
C. G. Edwards
Effie McAllister
P. M
Miami, Fla
C. M
Palm Branch
8. C
T. R
T. M. Finley
Mocksville
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John W. O’daniel
Sam Rayburn
Ie Shima
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