New Agriculture Secretary Proposes Immediate Step To End Food Shortage
The new agriculture secretary designate Clinton Anderson proposes civilian food experts assist in rapid plantings to relieve shortages as Bowles orders fair meat distribution nationwide. He cites ongoing world sugar shortages and expansion of production to ease domestic drain. The moves follow improved midwestern crop prospects and a week of better weather.
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United States
Clinton P. Anderson
DNM
Truman
Anderson
Pacific
China Coast
Ibutors
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Truman Urges Nation to Conserve Food in War Effort
President Truman calls on Americans to produce, preserve and conserve food as a real contribution to victory and peace. He stresses the Fourth Year of War demands every ounce, detailing supply lines feeding soldiers in Europe and the need to cooperate with other nations to aid liberated peoples and rebuild.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Battle of Hatteras costs ships and lives in long U boat war
A 177 day campaign off Cape Hatteras cost the United Nations 27 ships totaling 109 785 tons and possibly thousands of lives. The City of Atlanta was first sunk after Pearl Harbor, followed by the vast Empire Gem explosion and a March with 13 ships destroyed. Nightly flames lit the sky above the graveyard of the Atlantic.
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Battle of Hatteras
Elizabeth City
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
Hatteras
Palmer Midgett
Atlantic
Atlanta
Hore
Empire Gem
Sailor Disguised As Woman For 10 Months Arrested
A sailor named Raymond Russell Clark was arrested in Wheeling West Virginia on a desertion charge after ten months masquerading as a woman. He kept house cooked sewed while his wife and mother worked and faced arrest at his home from a federal agent acting on a tip.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George Gonter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Raymond Russell Clark
Little Creek
Naval Station
Gonter
Clark
Nazis Hidden In Argentina Says Tass Report
Tass quoted a Montevideo message claiming three prominent Hitlerites were granted asylum in Argentina and protected by officials. The three named are Richard Schroeder, Walter Wilkening, and Wilhelm Schrenbenbach, with ties to Ley, Himmler, and the Gestapo. They reportedly contacted Count Carl Von Luxburg and were taken to Misiones.
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New York
Tass
FCC Today
Montevideo
Argentina
Richard Schroeder
Robert Ley
Walter Wilkening
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Wilhelm Schrenbenbach
France
Carl von Luxburg
Argentine
Misiones
De Gaulle Talks Conference Over Levant Dispute
French leader says Syrians and Lebanese refuse to negotiate while demanding concessions. He proposes a four power conference including Russia to address the entire Arab world and asserts France will not submit the Middle East issue to a France Britain United States trilateral meeting.
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de Gaulle
Russia
Levant
Germany
Middle East
France
Britain
United States
Churchill
Eisenhower to Return to U S June 18 Visit Plans
General Dwight D. Eisenhower will return to the United States for a visit arriving in Washington June 18. Potential stops include New York June 19 Kansas City June 21 and Abilene Kansas June 21 with a homecoming parade in Abilene and a reunion at his mother's home.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
War Department
New York
Kansas City
Abilene
Kansas
Laguardia
Gen
Eisenhower
West Point
Kas
Theeneral
H. F. Strowig
Europe
Fair Grounds
D. J. Eisenhower
Convicts Shot During Jessups Prison Riot
At Jessups Maryland six officers and sixteen inmates were wounded as state troopers and prison guards quelled a prison riot during the evening meal. Inmates armed with bottles and utensils damaged windows and demanded control, while troopers fired riot guns and military police reinforced the scene.
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Jessups
House of Correction
Henemies
Hugh N. Kavanagh
Fort George G. Meade
Baltimore City
War Bond Drive Shows E Bond Progress and Shortfall
War Finance Director Ted R. Gamble said the E-bond goal of 4 billion dollars is in a touch and go position as sales reach 1.87 billion. Total individual purchases amount to 3.393 billion, about 48 percent of the seven trillion target, with volunteers urged to keep up drive tempo to meet the quota.
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Washington
Ted R. Gamble
Gamble
Hannegan Endorses Truman as FDR's Chosen Heir
National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan declares at Raleigh that Franklin D. Roosevelt backed Harry S. Truman as his vice presidential running mate to keep the party and nation united during wartime. He cites Roosevelt's confidence in Truman to finish the job and unite the people.
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Raleigh
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Chicago
Robert E. Hannegan
Hannegan
Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Truman
America
D-Day Anniversary Looms As Allied Plans Face Japan
The article notes the first anniversary of D-Day and outlines how the United States plans to mobilize greater force in the Pacific, with Britain increasing its Orient deployment. It mentions Levant tensions, Franco-Syrian clashes, and questions about Russian policy toward Japan as President Truman outlines a blueprint for the war’s final phase.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Europe
Japan
Germany
Normandy
United States
Pacific
Britain
Orient
Levant
Middle East
Truman
France
Truman outlines four point plan to pin down Japan
The article restates President Truman's wartime strategy to maintain total Allied effort against Japan until surrender. It lists four key actions: pin down piecemeal destruction, concentrate overwhelming power on targets, use massed firepower to reduce casualties, and apply relentless pressure to prevent rest or regrouping. The piece notes naval and air attrition campaigns and severing sea links to China as underway.
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Mr. Truman
Congress
Pacific
Germany
Atlantic
China
Sisters Charged in Abduction and Carriage Theft Case
In Philadelphia two sisters Irene Jones 15 and Janet 11 were charged with abduction and theft of a carriage after authorities say they took three month old Thomas V Ripley Jr from his coach and abandoned him in a vacant lot where he later died of a broken neck. Police quoted the girls claiming they did not know how to care for a baby.
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Philadelphia
Thomas V. Ripley, Jr
Irene Jones
Janet
Ervin Mack
Irene
Barbara Ripley
Ripley
Bonnie Stanley
Diamond Thief Ends Life After Jewel Heist
A young man who stole 13 000 dollars in jewels from a Fort Lauderdale shop killed himself when cornered on a hotel third floor. Police traced him to a New York City hotel registration under S Russell and found an army discharge and GI bill records. A note and the loot were recovered from his pockets.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
New York City
C. H. Locklas
Locklas
Miami Beach
S. Russell
Central Park
South
Santo Edward Russo
University of Miami
G.I
Richard Addison
Carrier Craft Strike Kyushu and Okinawa Operations
Admiral Halsey resumes command as carrier aircraft hit five Kyushu airfields while U S forces push on Okinawa with heavy artillery and Marine and Army units advancing from Shuri toward Chinen peninsula. Mindanao landings aim to envelop Japanese garrisons as air and naval strikes continue.
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Ray Cronin
Associated Press
Far Western Pacific
William F. Halsey
John S. McCain
Kyushu
Jeet
Chester W. Nimity
Halsey
McCain
Fifth Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Marc A. Mitscher
Okinawa
U. S
10Th Army
96Th
Chan
Shueri
Tera
First Marine
Naha-Yonabara
7Th Infantry
Shuri
7Th
Ogusuku
Shinzato Town
Chinen Peninsula
Far West Pacific
Japan
Nippon
China
Philippines
Hankow-Hongkong
Asia
Erican Doughboys
Mindanao
Tokyo
Nazi Admits Clubbing of Yank Airman
In Ahrweiler Germany testimony closed in a trial of three German civilians charged with killing an American airman last August. Peter Kohn sobbed as he recounted the air raid aftermath in Speicher and said he struck the flyer with a three foot club on the arm or shoulder. He admitted possibly striking him after he fell and losing control.
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Ahrweiler
Germany
Peter Kohn
Speicher
Ore
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