Chinese Forces Reclaim Air Bases as Kanhsien Drive Presses On
Chinese high command reports recapture of Sincheng air base in Sikang province and progress toward another former U S air base at Kanhsien. Nanking also retaken near Hsien as Chinese troops press toward Wuchow and Cant on while Japanese counter and Canton lines shift in Kiangsi and Kwangsi theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Sincheng
Ogsi Province
Kanhsien
Canton
High Command
Nanking
Hsien
Claire L. Chennault
Suichwan
Iyme 3
Nanning
Liuchow
Tanchung
Kwangsi Province
Kweilin
Chungtu
Liuchow-Kweilin
Opposition press at hearing on United Nations charter
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Chairman Connally predicted defeat for restrictive amendments. Agnes Waters of Washington shouted for an American revolution before being escorted out. Other witnesses charged the charter would create empire rule and prompted fears of a global police force. Ely Culbertson urged a world armament limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
D-Tex
Agnes Waters
Washington, D. C
Foreign Relations Committee
Jeve
Wheeler
Ont
Liquidating Fund For FEPC Recommended
The House appropriations committee recommended an allotment to liquidate the Fair Employment Practice Committee. The vote was by voice, with southern members not unanimous. Backers oppose liquid liquidation terms and demand funds be earmarked for liquidation only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Fair Employment Practice Committee
House
Roosevelt
FEPC
Fepc Sai
Senate
Nantes
Seventh War Loan Sets Record Financing Milestone
Final figures from Secretary Morgenthau show the seventh war loan at 26.313 billion dollars, the largest financing operation of any war. E-bond sales fell short of the 4 billion quota, but overall public participation reached 99.4 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
WPB Considers Early End to Complex Materials Plan
WPB may abandon its CMP by October 1 placing industry under a simple priority system three months ahead of the current year end. The move aims to protect war production with steel copper and aluminum allocations to essential users. J A Krug signals need for assurances that vital metal needs will be met before approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
WPB
Steel
J. A. Krug
Steel Division
Steel Industry
Barbarism Charged To America By Jap Admiral
New York dispatch from Iwo Jima reports a Japanese rear admiral penned a cave letter praising past actions and denouncing Western powers. He claims Nippon sought to free Eastern nations from punitive bonds and condemns Anglo Saxons and colored races, while warning of barbarism and urging retaliation. The letter ends with disparaging remarks about Hitler.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
Iwo Jima
Pearl Harbor
Nippon
Herald Tribune
Emmet Crozier
East Asia
Hitler
ICC Bans Transport of Show Animals by Rail and Motor Car
The Office of Defense Transportation ordered a ban on transporting horses and show animals by rail and contract motor carriers to speed troop and war material movement. The Interstate Commerce Commission issued the order at DDT Director J. Monroe Johnson's request. The ban takes effect 6 p.m. today and runs until 12:01 a.m. July 1, 1946, with circus animals excluded and ordinary livestock shipments exempt. Private car use in freight requires ICC affidavits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
DDT
J. Monroe Johnson
ICC
Johnson
Revised Bill Of Rights For Vets Awaits Approval
Washington July 11 A revised GI bill of rights with a servicemen bonus provision discarded awaits final approval today from the house veterans committee. It alters loan education and job provisions of the original measure to address difficulties in its first year. The committee voted to strike Rankin’s $1040 veteran bonus plan aimed at those with 90 days of service, a move Rankin says does not end the proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Veterans Committee
Rankin
Mississippi Democrat
Anderson to detail food shortages promise
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson urged public understanding of shortages and said he would report if shortages stem from nature or official negligence. He dismissed the idea officials should shield the public from the truth and prepared a speech for the Advertising Federation event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Australians Hold Vital Spots Around Harbor
Manila dispatch reports Australians by a shore to shore movement in southeast Borneo captured Balikpapan Bay area including harbor access and refinery. Seventh division push north of the bay near Mt Tochampar and Manggar airfield encounters Japanese resistance while advancing along highway five, gaining ground past improvised blocks of burning oil.
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Manila
Borneo
Balikpapan Bay
Balikpapan
Mt. Tochampar
Manggar Airfield
Highway Five
Deaf mute boxer helps police with double murder tale
In Peabody Massachusetts a deaf mute boxer entered police HQ and wrote a message that his wife Katherine 22 and infant Carolyn 22 months were killed. David Herblit 26 was jailed on murder charges after bodies were found at his home and a hammer used in the killings was recovered. The boxer later provided a written confession during questioning.
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Peabody
Mass
Boxer
William J. Callahan
David Herblit
J. W. P. Murphy
James Murphy
Katherine
Carolyn
Murphy
Callahan
Infant
Herblit
The
Agriculture Board Plans Inspection Tour of NC Farms
Fourteen members of the state board of agriculture will lead an extended Raleigh tour July 23 to 27 visiting tobacco and Piedmont stations in Oxford Statesville Transou Waynesville and the Great Smokies then July 31 to August 3 continuing to Rocky Mount Plath Williard and the Pungo river area.
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Raleigh
State Board of Agriculture
North Carolina
Agriacne Department
Toay
Oxford Tobacco Experiment Station
Piedmont
Statesville
Upper Mountain
Transou
Ashe County
Mountain Experiment Station
Waynesville
Great Smokies
Upper Coastal Plain
Rocky Mount
Tidewater
Plath
Pungo River
Beaufort County
Coastal Plain
Williard
Truck Driver Held In Death Of Tar Heel
Weldon W. Stokes a 29 year old truck driver was held on 2500 bond on manslaughter charges connected to the death of Sgt. Harry Pope of Valdese North Carolina. Pope stationed at Drew Field was struck by the truck under investigation. Pope leaves a widow Lorenz Pope and his mother Mrs. Mattie G Pope.
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Tampa
Fla
Weldon W. Stokes
Harry Pope
Valdese
N. C
Rutherford College, N. C
Mattie G. Pope
Sugar Shortage Warned By U S Sugar Official
Jay W. Morgan vice president of United States Sugar Corp says the sugar shortage is just starting with the real pinch due in late summer and fall. He denies government warehouse storage rumors and cites weather in Cuba Porto Rico and the U S as causes while noting Hawaii production is constrained by military needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clewiston
Fila
United States Sugar Corporation
Jay W. Morgan
Unconditional Surrender Debate and German Outlook
The article questions whether unconditional surrender is necessary for Japan and cites Admiral Nomura's hint that terms could be eased at higher costs for Allies. It contrasts German postwar reactions with Japan's war culture, arguing militarism is deeply rooted in Nippon and that unconditional surrender helped finish the war against militarism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Nippon
Kichisaburo Nomura
Nomura
Hitler
Germany
Frost Hits U S As Temperatures Drop Below Normal
The Associated Press reports a nationwide cold snap with readings about 15 degrees below normal. Forecasters expect moderation by tomorrow as jackets and heaters go to work across the country.
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Associated Press
Frost
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Grandmother Held In Death Of Little Girl
In Media Pennsylvania grandmother Anne E Duffey 44 was held without bail on murder charges in the death of 2 year old Sandra Lee McCann. Assistant District Attorney William Toal said the child was struck after being bathed and beaten to behave. He described extensive bruising across the body. The coroner’s report followed a routine call.
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Media
Sandra Lee McCann
Italy
William Toal
Anne E. Duffiey
Sandra
Toal
Margaret H. Ward
Polish General Remains Loyal To Exiled Regime
In London the Polish armed forces abroad report Gen Klemens Rudnicki commander of the First Polish armored division issued an order of the day reaffirming loyalty to the Polish exile regime led by President Raczkiewicz. He said they will return to Poland with arms in hand. The exile administration, once recognized by Britain and the United States, faced withdrawal of recognition after endorsing the Guerra Crimea charter and the provisional government in Warsaw.
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London
Klemens Rudnicki
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
Rudnicki
Poland
Rackiewicz
Britain
United States
Provisional Government of National Unity
Warsaw
Invasion Talk Amid Tokyo Carrier Assault Reports
Guam July 11 Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Tokyo radio discussed future American invasion. Early fragmentary reports describe a Tuesday 1,000 carrier assault on Tokyo with 154 enemy planes down. Enemy air presence was limited, and Tokyo radio speculated on an invasion and recalled prior carrier landings on Iwo Jima.
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Guam
Chester W. NI
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Tokyo says U S carrier task force raided Japan and home island patrol
Tokyo broadcast via P Tokyo radio claims the American carrier task force conducted raids against airfields in Kyushu and near the capital while asserting few damages and claiming many planes shot down. US forces reportedly withdrew from some operations but remain offshore near homeland.
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San Francisco
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Tokyo
Cmy
Federal Communications Commission
Io 6
Kyushu
Nimitz Outlines Ryukyus Power and Allied Air Actions
Admiral Nimitz described growing American strength in the Ryukyus and said Douglas MacArthur would command all army planes while his own marine and navy air units would continue the blockade of Japan. He cited limited air action in Tuesday morning reports with two of 154 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged.
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Nimitz
Ryukyus
Douglas MacArthur
S and A
Japan
U. S
Batterin
Pacific
Record troop movement sets westbound travel milestone
New York officials report a major transatlantic troop movement with 35 000 troops aboard eight ships led by Queen Mary and West Point. The Queen Mary, Queen Ma, and other transports carry Canadian reinforcements and American units including Maj Gen Frank L Culin Jr. and the 345th 347th regiments. Additional ships James Parke Andrew Hamilton John Stevens Thomas Pa and Alfred Moore carry thousands more troops.
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New York
Europe
West Point
United States
Pacific
West Poin
America
Frank L. Culin, Jr
T Division
John Ericsson
James Parke
Andrew Hamilton
John Stevens
Thomas Pa
Alfred Moore
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Eugene Donald Millikin
Colorado
Yanks
William F. Halsey, Jr
John S. McCain
Gerald S. Bogan
Charles P. Gerry
Anderson
Anchorage
Iwo Jima Island
Army Air Forces
21St Bomber Command
Berlin
Daniel de Lucé
MacArthur
Ryukyus Planes
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