Australian forces seize Balikpapan oil complex in Borneo drive
Australian troops push through Balikpapan Bay to secure the port and docks after a five day invasion that captured Sepinggang and Manggar air fields. Casualties were reported at 214 killed, 420 wounded, and 22 missing with heavy enemy resistance noted at Pandansari refinery and Sambodja oil fields.
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Manila, Jr
Borneo
Balikpapan
Lambdia
Samarinda
Associated Press
Russell Brines
Sepinggang
Manggar
Balikpapan Bay
Penadjam Point
Pandansari
Sambodja
Penadjam
Manggar Airfield
Samerbodia
Berlin Big Three Meet Could Shape Postwar Peace
The forthcoming Berlin talks among America, Russia and Britain loom as the crucial postwar hurdle. Unity among the big three is seen as key to durable peace, with Polish questions and other postwar issues likely to be settled there. The leaders may speak candidly, testing mutual trust beyond military necessity.
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Russia
Britain
Berlin
Teheran
Yalta
Hitler the Hun
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Presii Truman
Messrs Truman
Stalin
Churchill
Cneaen
Retroactive Tax Relief Bill Is Beaten in Senate Fight
The Senate faced a heavy workload as tax revision bills were debated to aid reconversion. The House approved a business aid measure 245 to 91, while the Senate rejected a plan to cut excess profits taxes retroactively by 235 million dollars. The bill would raise the excess profits exemption from 10 000 to 25 000 for next January 1, reducing next year payments by about 169 million dollars. Proponents say no tax-rate changes on individuals or corporations and claim the revisions improve business cash flow, though opponents argue it mainly benefits firms with war profits.
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Washington
Senate
House
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Finance Committee
United Nations
First House
Inc. Se
Nents
Geiger Sees Easy Invasion Path for U.S. Marines
Lt Gen Roy S Geiger arriving in Honolulu as new Pacific marine commander said the Japanese home islands are open for invasion and U S forces can move in anytime with no trouble. He claimed victory rests on invasion and mocked Japan as fighters lacking stamina and brains. He cited industrialists as potential peace drivers if they gain control.
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Honolulu
United States
Pacific
Roy S. Geiger
Okinawa
Third Amphibious Corps
Holland M. Smith
Geiger
Soldier with most children draws $300 monthly
Corporal Chester J. Barrett, stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Spencer Lake Maine, is named the soldier with the most children. He has 12 children with wife Mrs Barrett who receives $50 for her, $30 for the first child and $20 for each additional child totaling $300 monthly. The Barretts live at 11% Curtis Avenue Concord New Hampshire. The 33 year old wife and family include five boys and seven girls with ages from 15 year old Chester Jr to twins Thomas Eugene and Kathleen Elizabeth born May 17 last year.
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Washington
War Department
Chester J. Barrett
Barrett
Spencer Lake
Maine
Washington Silence On De Gaulle Visit Invitation
French announcement says Gen Charles de Gaulle accepted an invitation to visit President Truman in August. White House and State Department refused comment on the news.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
Truman
White House
State Department
France
Gaffney Deputy Recovers Van Carrying Grenades In Storm
Deputy Sheriff J S Vess and fellow deputies stopped a large van at Thickety about seven miles from Gaffney and arrested the driver for drunkenness. Vess drove the van to Gaffney through a heavy rainstorm despite the conditions.
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Gaffney
Ss. C
J. S. Vess
Vess
Steel Mill Walkout Terminated
A 24 hour stoppage at South Chicago works of Carnegie Illinois Steel ended last night allowing 13 000 steelworkers to return to war jobs. The CIO United Steel Workers at Republic Steel in Cleveland ended a five day strike, voting to return to work Monday.
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Chicago
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Cio-United Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
Cleveland
Youth Confesses to Killing Waitress in Detroit Case
A 19 year old youth Leo Pascarella arrested in Saginaw confessed to strangling Marie Beavers Berridge a 22 year old waitress who spurned his attentions. The body was found June 29 under a boarding house bed with a handkerchief gag. The killing occurred three days earlier.
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Detroit
Saginaw
Mich
Marie Beavers Berridge
Frank C. Schemanske
Schemanske
Leo Pascarella
Chinese Troops Extend Advance Beyond Pingsiang
Chinese high command reports recapture of Pingjiang and a push 11 miles beyond to the South Guard pass near the Indo China frontier. Fighting rages at Chennankwan as forces widen the rupture in the trans continental corridor toward Liuchow and Chungtu.
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Pingsiang
Indo-China
Chennankwan
South Guard Pass
Pingjiang
China
Liuchow
Tungchaunchen
Chungtu
Liuchow-Kweilin
Burlington Mills calls redemptions on preferred stock
Burlington Mills Corp. announces redemption of all outstanding 5 percent cumulative preferred stock on August 6 at $108.50 per share plus accrued dividends of $1.83 per share.
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New York
Burlington Mills Corp
Drastic Changes In Pullman Travel As Result Of Redeployment Of Soldiers
Mounting complaints over troops redeployed riding day coaches on long transcontinental trips may trigger further civilian rail travel restrictions. An ODT spokesman warned action could follow if the order to shift sleeping cars from civilian to military use is not enough. The sleeping car service for civilian travel between cities 450 miles apart will end at noon July 15. The previous week ODT cut civilian train reservations from 30 to 5 days to speed troop movement from Europe. Soldiers complained of long day coach journeys while German and Italian prisoners rode Pullmans. Army officials said German prisoners were psychiatric patients en route to a New York hospital and Italian prisoners in Pullman cars are sick or disabled awaiting repatriation. Col. J. Monroe Johnson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, commented.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Nver
Europe
Pacific
War Department
New York
Pullman
Army
Col. J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense
Patch to Train Men For Duty in Pacific
Lt Gen Alexander M Patch Jr assigned to command the 4th Army at Fort Sam Houston Texas He will oversee about a thousand troops for duty in the Pacific where he fought on Guadalcanal after leading the 7th Army through southern France and into Germany
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Washington
Alexander M. Patch, Jr
7Th
France
Germany
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
War Department
Patch
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Man who touched no water dies at 80 in Lancaster
LANCASTER PA July 7 Joseph Lurie 7 who claimed he had not tasted water for 63 years died today. Lurie's family said the water he drank in 1882 upon his arrival from Russia made him ill. Since then he chose beer with occasional milk tea or coffee. His survivors drink water.
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Lancaster
Joseph Lurie
Lurie
Russia
Charter Gets Right Of Way In Committee
Washington July 7 Senator Connally says no senate business will delay the foreign relations committee hearings on the United Nations charter. He insists the charter take absolute priority as four other unfinished items loom including funds for the fair employment practice committee, Bretton Woods legislation, postwar airport bill, and a corporation tax bill. He pledged morning and afternoon sessions until a prima facie case for ratification is made.
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Washington
Senate
Foreign Relation Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Bretton Woods
Wagner
D-Ny
McCarran
D-Nev
House
Vinson to head Treasury as Morgenthau departs
Washington dispatch reports Judge Fred M. Vinson chosen to succeed Henry Morgenthau Jr. as secretary of the treasury. The decision prompts questions who will lead war mobilization and reconversion, with Truman weighing options after Vinson takes office following the Big Three Germany meeting.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Vinson
Tually
Treasury
War Mobilization Office
Truman
Congress
Walter George
Georgia
Fifth Army to Break Up in Italy and Return to U.S.
Caserta Italy July 7 The veteran Fifth Army is to be broken up with five of seven divisions and both regimental combat teams to be sent back to America by February. The 85th (Custer) division will lead the move, starting in August as the first all selectee division to be deactivated. The 34th division will redeploy to the United States and serve in tactical reserve for possible Pacific duty. The 88th division remains assigned to guarding duties.
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Caserta
Italy
Fifth Army
Salerno
America
85Th
Custer
U. S
United States
Sailor Prepares For 2nd Wedding With Sweetheart
Sailor David B. Levi of Asheville North Carolina, on 48 hour leave, was en route to Miami after marrying his childhood sweetheart Rachel G. Pettitt of Pauline South Carolina by agreement at a notary public since a license was not available. The Dade court refused to record the ceremony, and Levi departed for his base.
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Miami
Fla
David B. Levi
Asheville
N. C
Rachel G. Pettitt
Pauline
S. C
Dade
Levi
Pilots Return To Tell About Successes
Guam dispatch reports massive B 29 raids on Japan with 126 square miles of industrial targets burned including aluminum centers and oil refineries. Recon photos show five more square miles burned in five cities. Additional oil refinery damage followed as Mustangs attacked Tokyo Kyushu airfields with light opposition.
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Japan
21 Bomber Command
Kure
Himeji
Jumamoto
Ube
Honshu
Kochi
Shikoku
Maruzen
Kofu
Tok City
Tokyo
Akashi
Kawasaki Aircraft Company
Shimizu
Swivel-Chair Gentlemen Attack Army Spending
Representative Engel of Michigan blasted the war department for wasteful army spending and unvetted projects. He estimated that since 1941 Congress has provided over 192 billion dollars, with more than 150 billion spent on unreconciled items and 21 billion recently approved for the current year.
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Engel
R-Mich
Congressional Record
War Department
Eisenhower
Bradley
Clark
MacArthur
Congress
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