Australians Advance Toward Seria Oil Fields in Borneo
Australian Ninth Division troops push within 40 miles of the Seria oil fields on Borneo, facing light resistance as U S Seventh Fleet and Allied air bombardment pressure Japanese forces. Australian forces seize Brocketon Labuan airfield and Victoria town while advancing toward Tambalai airstrip amid hot, contested ground operations.
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Labuan
Victoria
Brunei
Protectorate
Tambalai
London's Highest Honor For General Eisenhower
General Eisenhower receives London's honorary freedom as Prime Minister Churchill hails him as a commander capable of uniting nations and stirring people. From a balcony draped in red he pledges allied resolve to defeat Nazis and Japan, while acknowledging the sacrifice of his followers.
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China
Japan
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House expected to kill price control amendment
Washington reports that the House is expected to strike an amendment tying price control extension to a cost plus price for farmers. Senator Wagner, handling the bill in the Senate, said the House will take care of it. The vote on the amendment carried 36 to 31 amid shifting loyalties.
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Wagner
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Senate
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Wherry
Rnebr
House Banking Currency Committee
A. Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
D-Okla
Taft
Rohio
World Today analyzes postwar occupancy and US leadership
The column notes a shift in American attitudes as Soviet and British zones dominate Germany. It argues the occupiers will shape policy and that America bears a large rehabilitative burden across Europe, including Italy, while the status of Silesia remains uncertain under Polish-Russian control.
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Germany
America
Italy
Europe
Supreme Court backs states on intercity passenger rates
The Supreme Court, in a 5 4 ruling by Justice Black, overruled the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to set higher intra state coach fares. North Carolina Tennessee Alabama and Kentucky challenged ICC authorizations after lower courts allowed up to 2.2 cents per mile for intra state railroad service, despite state rate of 1.65 cents.
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Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
North Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Justice Black
Justice Department
OPA
Economic Stabilization
ICC
N. C
Main Japanese force encircled as Okinawa battle rages
Gut-wrenching dispatches report an American landing on Okinawa’s southern beaches encircling the main Japanese force. U S Tenth Army drives an all-out offensive toward the cave strongholds at Yaesu-Dake while Japanese forces resist with phosphorous shells. General Buckner asserts Japanese surrender attempts fail and the campaign nears its end with hundreds of enemy killed sealing dozens of caves.
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Okinawa
Askyo Radio
U. S. 10Th Army
Buckner
Central
Western Pacific
Yaeju-Dake
Bac
James L. Bradley
96Th Pdar
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Bath Regiment
Hoey Sees Peace From Frisco Meeting
Greensboro sees a world peace treaty forming at the San Francisco conference says Senator Clyde R. Hoey. He predicts the measure will pass the U S Senate and gain wide support from 45 participating nations. The treaty would empower a security council with allied bodies to restrain outlaw nations with force if needed.
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San Francisco
Clyde R. Hoey
Carolinas Institute of International Relations
U. S. Senate
Security Council
Hoey
Rehearing Sought In Williams Hendricks Divorce Case
Assistant Attorney General Hughes Rhodes said the North Carolina attorney general's office accepted service for a petition seeking a rehearing before the US Supreme Court in the Williams Shaver Hendricks divorce case. The petition asks the court to reconsider oral argument, not grant a new trial.
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Hughes Rhodes
Attorney General's Office
United States Supreme Court
O. B. Williams
Lily Shaver Hendricks
Rhodes
W. H. Strickland
Lenoir
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Nevada
Yank Supers Strengthen Blockade
American superforts reinforced the blockade on enemy shipping with two reported mine sowing raids in home waters. Radio Tokyo claimed B-24 Liberators joined attacks on the empire and B-29s reportedly devastated large areas of six major cities as 40 and then 30 planes conducted mine raids near Kushu and Wakasa Bay off Honshu.
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Empire
21St Bomber Command
Japan
Kushu
Wakasa Bay
Honshu Island
Tokyo
Petain Completes Outline for Treason Defense
Paris reports Marshal Petain has finished the preliminary outline of his defense against treason charges. He will argue he saved France for liberation, while State Prosecutor Andre Mornei seeks the death sentence with possible sparing. The trial, in which Petain will defend himself, is set to begin June 28 despite his deafness and steady, soldierly bearing.
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Paris
Petain
Andre Mornei
Mata Hari
Vote On Veto Hoped For Immediate Action
In San Francisco on June 12 the United Nations debate shifted from discussion to vote as Evatt and Connally urged moving toward a veto voting formula. The plan would require U S Russia Britain China and France to concur before a veto could be applied.
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United Nations
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Tom Connally
Een Toored
United States
Russia
Britain
China
France
World Security Council
Fred Tate Sr Dies After Ill Health in High Point
Fred N. Print Sr., 77, a longtime leader in High Point's religious civic and industrial life, died at his home this afternoon after a period of illness. He had spent 15 years with the railroad before founding Continental Furniture in 1901 and serving as its president throughout his life.
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Fred N. Print Sr
High Point
Mr. Tate
Fred Tate
Continental Furniture Company
Soviet American Affairs To Be Aired Tomorrow
President Truman will discuss the Russian American relations at a news conference tomorrow at 10:30 AM. Harry S. Hopkins arrives in Washington amid reports of Stalin’s compromise offer on the Polish government issue. White House aides caution no news on Hopkins-Stalin talks expected today.
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Truman
White House
Harry S. Hopkins
Moscow
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Hopkins
Charles G. Ross
Hopkin
Marshal Stalin
Japanese Diet Shaped Law By Self-Imposed Limits
The Associated Press reports that the Japanese diet carved its governance path by self-imposed limits and procedural constraints. The piece notes how lawmakers used internal rules to steer policy and maintain control within a fragile political framework.
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Associated Press
Churchill Reveals Talks With Vichy
Prime Minister Churchill disclosed in the Commons that Britain conducted secret negotiations with the Vichy government in 1940. He said Vichy was under German duress and could not assure the French fleet’s status, noting messages via neutral capitals in autumn 1940 to urge passive resistance.
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London
Churchill
Britain
Vichy
Marshal Petain
France
Truman urges 15 percent raise for Congress salaries
President Truman formally recommends an immediate 15 percent hike in congressional salaries and a later move to at least 15000 a year once wage controls end. He proposes raising both senators and representatives to a level reflecting the job, with gradual increases starting from 10000 to 11500.
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Washington
Truman
McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate
Rayburn
House
Road Town Captured By Chinese Forces
CHUNGKING June 12 The Chinese central news agency says Chinese forces seized the coastal highway town of Pinoyang located 135 miles north of Foochow and 25 miles south of Wenchow as Japanese troops withdrew toward Wenchow. The report also notes a Chinese retreat near the Indo China border from Chungchingfu after a Japanese counterattack from Cao Bang.
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Chinese Central News New
Pinoyang
Foochow
Wenchow
China
Indo-China
Chungchingfu
Caobang
Perkins May Be Principal In Labor Struggle
Washington June 12 The Quebec meeting of the International Labour Organization may spark a power struggle over the directorship with Frances Perkins a central figure as she plans to visit sessions opening June 21. Labor leaders close to the ILO machinery foresee her trip as more than a swan song as U S secretary of labor.
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Washington
Quebec
International Labor Organization
Frances Perkins
ILO
Veterans Hospital Violence Probed by VFW and Others
The VFW reports sickening physical violence at Northport neuropsychiatric hospital and urges an undercover probe. the DAV and American Legion find general good conditions in most veterans hospitals though shortages and management criticisms persist. The Northport findings involve patient beatings and mistreatment and complaints from families.
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Washington
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans Hospital
Northport
N. C
House Veterans Committee
Veterans Administration
Veterans
N. Y
DAV
Veterans Committee
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Veterans Organization
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