Okinawa News Hot Spot As Silence Signals Change In Campaign
Unexplained American silence on Okinawa hints at an end to major ground fighting. Domei reports fierce fighting and Japanese claims of ground advances while Nimitz omits ground action in his communique. Tokyo calls for national mobilization as Japanese press cites new underground warfare and air raids on home cities.
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Chinese troops occupy Liuchow near Wuchow report
Reports from American sources say Chinese troops occupied Liuchow a rail junction in Kwangsi near a former U.S. air base. An unconfirmed report placed spearheads 10 miles from the West River inland of Wuchow, 120 miles west of Canton as Japan funnels forces through the region.
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Site of next Big Three meeting hinted in London
London reports say a site for the next Big Three parley may already be chosen as Chancellor Sir John Anderson says there is no chance the meeting will be in London. Eisenhower and Montgomery left Berlin early after a brief session with allied delegates as Austria concerns rise.
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John Anderson
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Allied Control Council
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Supreme Court Rules In Three North Carolina Capital Cases
Raleigh June 6 The state supreme court finished the spring term with no error in two capital cases and granted a new trial in a third. John Isaac of Cabarrus County gets a new trial while Clarence Lord of Cabarrus and Henry French of Montgomery are affirmed. Other opinions include Harper vs Harper Guilford Wickham vs Harper Ilford and Insurance companies of Guilford remanded.
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Catawba County
Clarence Lord
Cabarrus County
Henry French
Montgomery County
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Guilford
Wickham
Ilford
Guilford County
Missionaries Beheaded by Japanese Captain in Philippines Massacre
American Baptist missionaries were slain at Hopevale in Panay on December 20, 1943, by Japanese Captain Kyoyi Watanabe and troops. Eleven Americans died, including six women, with three small boys killed by bayonets. Witness Paterno Enano reported the executions after fleeing to join Filipino guerrillas.
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Valley of Hope
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Enano
Central Philippine College
Covell
Watanabe
Deferments Of 60 000 Men To Be Changed
Washington officials estimate that 60 000 currently irre placeable industrial workers aged 26 through 29 will lose their draft deferments by fall. They expect at least a 17 percent cut in the 350 000 key men now occupationally deferred as munitions cutbacks and lower urgency reduce supporting activities. Names were withheld while survey work continues.
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Inter-Agency
Selective Service
Cheaper Aerial Travel To Cut Resort Costs
E S Ridley vice president Colonial Airlines testifies at the Civil Aeronautics Board hearing in Greensboro that cheaper air travel will lower resort costs. He says travel costs must reach the great majority and that accessible recreational centers at moderate prices are needed. He notes vacations in the southeast have been hard to reach and expensive and predicts greater demand for resorts and air travel when rates fall.
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Truman Orders Ickes To Seize Two Oil Plants
President Truman directs Secretary Ickes to seize and operate the Humber Oil and Refining plants at Ingleside Texas due to a labor disturbance. He says the facilities are essential to war production and that occupation is threatened, ordering federal agencies to cooperate with Ickes as wartime petroleum administrator.
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Humber Oil and Refining Company
Ingleside
Texas
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Selective Service System
Justice Department
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Tokyo Moves to Rebuild War-Ravaged Areas Nationwide
Tokyo creates a reconstruction division led by Yoji Minobe with 15 advisers and 26 engineers to rebuild wrecked cities and clear war damages. The effort centers on Tokyo Osaka Yokohama Kobe, aiming for underground shelters and rapid repairs after heavy B 29 raids. Kobe faces renewed air attacks with eight B 29s lost.
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Japan
D-Day Anniversary Marked by Allied Forces
Paris June 6 1945 Allied troops observed the first anniversary of the Normandy landings with simple ceremonies as General Eisenhower designated June 6 a holiday for soldiers. Veterans honored those who died while securing a foothold in Hitler's Europe without large formal events.
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Brazil Declares War on Japan in World War II Move
RIO DE JANEIRO June 6. Brazil declared war on Japan to day and broke diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan on January 28, 1942. Brazil had declared war on Germany and Italy on August 22, 1942.
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Russians Claim Hitler Body Found in Berlin Ruins
A Russian military source says a body found in Berlin’s underground fortress beneath the Reichschancellery is almost certainly Adolf Hitler. Four corpses, all burned by flamethrowers, were examined by Russian doctors who compare teeth and features to Hitler, delaying final confirmation while uncertainty remains.
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Army Transport Missing in Africa with WACs Aboard
An army transport plane carrying 18 WACs and a three man crew went missing on a May 30 flight from Accra to Roberts Field Liberia. The search extended over the Ivory Coast area as Air and sea craft scoured the route between British West Africa and Liberia.
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Africa
War Department
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British West Africa
Roberts Field
Liberia
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Draft Law Seen As Regimentation Of The Mind
A. J. Brumbaugh of the American Council on Education warned the House committee that peacetime conscription could regiment the mind. He said opposition from higher education stems from fear universal military training would mentaly regiment youths as well as bodies.
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A. J. Brumbaugh
American Council On Education
House
Mountains To Be Last Stand Of Japanese
Mindanao forces facing a possible final stand in the mountains between the Sayre highway and Davao as the 24th and 31st divisions press a squeeze play on retreating Japanese. In Luzon, the Buckeye division nears Bayombong on highway five after seizing a key road.
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Mindanao
Sayre Highway
Davao
Associated Press
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Eighth Army
24Th
R. B. Woodruff
31St
Clarence Martin
Luzon
Philippines
Robert S. Beightler
Buckeye
37Th
Bayombong
Highway Five
Nations Move to Prevent Big Five Split at UN
At the United Nations conference in San Francisco and Moscow urgent talks seek to avert a permanent Big Five veto split. Stalin is pressed to allow discussion, while Harry Hopkins and Secretary Stettinius press for a unified stance before Stalin issues new instructions.
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Moscow
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Ward Security Council
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Harry Hopkins
Stettinius
United States
Andrei Gromyko
Anderson Maps Plan To Help Farm Profits
Washington June 6 Clinton P Anderson food chief designate may call upon the army and foreign food claimants to join in guaranteeing farm profits The plan aims to remove future price fears to boost all out food production He told a House food investigating committee that WFA now holds funds for price guarantees but insufficient to prevent a price drop if demand falls The army would be obligated to buy food at promised minimum prices even if military needs are smaller than expected
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Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Secretary of Agriculture
War Food
House Food Investigating Committee
WFA
City Residents Must Solve Farm Labor Problem
Raleigh report says towns and cities must supply extra labor for July tobacco harvest due to a large crop. North Carolina tobacco acreage is forecast to rise four percent to 713,500 acres from 689,000 last year, with last year’s tobacco crop valued at 326,619,000 dollars.
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Raleigh
Fred Sloan
State Agriculture Department
Sloan
North Carolina
Agriculture Department
Allied plan shapes German control machinery limits
The pro announced framework for Germany centers on administration setup rather than methods of reestablishing a nation. It confirms occupation boundaries as of 1937 and states there will be no annexation, while Polish settlers move into evacuated areas such as Silesia and prepare to assume local government roles in the new administration.
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Reich
Britain
United States
Greater Berlin
Silesia
Lublin
Book Found With Names After Park Avenue Murder
A book of names and monetary amounts was found at Mrs Albert E Langford’s Park Avenue home after her husband was shot to death. Police scrutinize the list as they question Evelyn Nesbit and other acquaintances of Marion Langford, seeking clues to the slaying.
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Albert E. Langford
Evelyn Nesbit
Stanford White
Harry K Thaw
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