German industry in flux as Allies limit Krupp revival
Paris June 16 Allied control officers report German industry, once vast, is nearly shut down as they study safe restart options. Krupp and I G Farben face special commissions due to size and risk. Production resumes only if needed by allied armies or to sustain basic civilian life.
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Paris
Agnes
Krupp Works, Steel and Munitions Manufacturing Organization
Germany
Leonard T. Gerow
U. S. 15Th Army
Saar and
Rhine Valley
Ruhr
Krupp
I. G. Farben-industrie
15Th Army
Gerow
Besi
Allied Control Council
Government Seizes 1700 Truck Lines In Second Move
In Chicago on June 16 the Office of Defense Transportation took control of about 1700 truck lines to blunt a second strike by union drivers. Army troops were rumored to be moving in as a precaution while the seizure follows an earlier action that disrupted about 1100 lines 24 days prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kago
Office of Defense Transportation
Military police seize Chicago trucking industry to avert strike
In Chicago on June 16, military police from Camp Custer and nearby Camp Skokie encamped in Grant Park to enforce government control of the trucking industry. Hundreds of MPs mobilized as drivers reportedly stayed off routes awaiting protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Camp Custer
Mich
Camp Skokie
Grant Park
Loop
Wages Row Sparks Vote On Midwest Truck Strike
In Washington a small percentage of about 4,000 union truck drivers voted 805 to 128 to strike amid a wage and hours dispute. The Smith Connally act bans strikes by workers in federally controlled firms. Teamsters AFL said members would not strike. independent drivers called off their walkout after President Truman seized control. The stoppage had halted goods movement across the Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
Independent Truck Drivers
Truman
Midwest
Former Polish Premier flies to Moscow for talks
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk former Polish premier flew to Moscow to discuss reorganizing the Warsaw government. He was joined by Jan Janczyk labor minister and Jan Drokochowski foreign affairs expert. A Big Three conference in Berlin is planned before July 26 with Molotov and the U S and British ambassadors invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Moscow
Warsaw
Britain
France
Middle East
Berlin
Mikolajczyk
Area Party
Jan Janczyk
Eisenhower Heads Home After World War II Duty
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower departed for the United States with plans for stops in Bermuda for rest and a welcome in Washington New York and his Kansas hometown Abilene. He is due in Washington today and New York Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Eisenhower
United States
Washington
New York
Kansas
Abilene
Bermuda
Washington Pentee
Tuesay
Poland says reign of terrorism spans nation
The Polish government in London charged last night that a reign of terrorism existed throughout Poland and demanded immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and political police from Polish soil. In the Middle East, Paris authorities said Britain rejected the French request for a five power conference.
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London
Poland
Middle East
Paris
Britain
Four Victims Of Railroad Wreck Are Unidentified
Milton Pa June 16 four of the 18 killed in yesterday’s collision between the Dominion express from Washington to Buffalo and a freight train remain unidentified. A wedding ring inscribed FEC to ARF 10 20 41 and a serviceman’s laundry-marked clothes are among the clues. Crews clear twisted wreckage as 30 injured and 200 shaken reveal the magnitude of the crash at 55 miles per hour into the freight’s 34th car, derailed by a broken journal.
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Milton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Buffalo
Dominion Express
James Resigns As Fisheries Commissioner
Hinton James of Laurinburg resigns as commissioner of game and inland fisheries with the state department of conservation and development. He earns 5 000 dollars yearly and will leave July 1. John Findley is discussed as potential successor after a prior transfer to Lake Mattamuskeet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Hinton James
Laurinburg
Vame
State Department of Conservation and Development
James
John Findley
Game and Inland Fisheries
Fingley
Lake Mattamuskeet
Ribbentrop Questioned By Allied Chiefs
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was reportedly under questioning at Eisenhower's headquarters in Frankfurt as Allied examiners seek state secrets. He had been arrested in Hamburg and flew from Lubeck to an undisclosed European location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Eisenhower
Frankfurt-on-the- Main
Supreme Command
Reich
London
Hitler
Britain
Poland
Ribbentrop
Lueneberg
Europe
Hamburg
Battleships Lead Jap Fleet in Brunei Bay Push on Balikpapan
Brunei Bay reports say a Japanese striking force including three battleships an aircraft carrier and escorts moved toward Balikpapan while MacArthur noted bombardment of Balikpapan defenses and nearby airfields. Australian forces push into Sarawak as Labuan airfield falls. Allied carrier raid on Truk continues after bombardment by a naval task force.
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Asia
Indies
China
Brunei Bay
Borneo
Tobruk
Gale Ward
West Borneo
Balikpapan
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
13Th
Jungle Fightin
Aeapan
Manggar
Seppinggan
Ninth Division
North Africa
Singapore
Sultanate
Seria
Miri
Melbourne
Sarawak
Tautong
Tainibalai
Labuan Island
San Francisco
Truk Island
Tokyo Radio
Treasury And Congress Study Roosevelt Case
Washington June 16 congressional and treasury officials study a $200000 loan by John Hartford to Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt. Hartford claimed $196000 as a bad debt on his 1942 tax return and only $4000 was repaid. The committee probes the loan and bad debt deduction while calls for testimony from Roosevelt and Hartford are discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Treasury Department
Elliott Roosevelt
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
John Hartford
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Hartford
Roosevelt
Coughton
Treasury
Rep
Knutson
Rminn
Peacetime training backed by Forrestal Nimitz and Halsey
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal urged a peacetime draft as the nation’s safeguard against any aggressor. He cited letters from Fleet Adm. Nimitz and Adm. Halsey supporting universal military training and argued Congress may repeal the law if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Forrestal
Limited GIs Freed From Bataan and Corregidor Prisoner Stints
Manila dispatch reports only 1,447 of more than 18,000 American forces captured by Japanese at Bataan and Corregidor have been liberated. About 13,000 still unaccounted. many were sent to labor and munitions camps in Japan, China, and Formosa, with some shipwrecked en route to Asia.
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Manila
P. L
Bataan
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Rock
Japan
China
Formosa
Yokohama
Muk
den Munitions Works
Bilbid
Bilibid
Philippines
Orient
Cabanatuan
Santo Tomas
Los Banos
Opposition Of Small Nations Cracking Up
Four conference commissions meet to push toward a world security charter. Leaders of the big power bloc hope to win on the veto issue tonight as they race to finish before a weekend deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Truman
Seven Missing After Navy Bomber Crash in Corpus Christi Bay
The Naval Air Station reports seven crewmen are missing after a patrol bomber crashed during landings in Corpus Christi Bay. Nine others were rescued. the aircraft apparently struck a channel marker. Names of the missing were not released.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Navy
Corpus Christi Bay
Naval Air Station
One Man Killed And Two Injured By Falling Beam
Kings Mountain report states a falling beam at the First National bank building construction injured two and killed one. Harry Bridges 38 of Kings Mountain died. Howard Jenkins suffered arm injuries and Howard White had broken ribs as a rope was snapped by a passing truck. Police investigator L. W. Carpenter described the accident.
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Kings Mountain
First National Bank
Harry Bridges
Howard Jenkins
Howard White
L. W. Carpenter
World Today A muted Fifth Avenue parade honors injured servicemen
A quiet parade along Fifth Avenue featured 200 army jeeps carrying wounded veterans with purple hearts marked on the vehicles. Crutches and bandages were visible while nurses accompanied some riders and girls offered roses as spectators stood in hushed silence.
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Fifth Avenue
Cassino
Burma
Saipan
Okinawa
Ley
War News From Around the World and Pacific Fronts
The report covers global postwar issues with Poland overprinting stamps with a red star and hammer and sickle, Czech flags at Lidice, Krupp seeking resumption of wartime production, France named a public enemy in the Middle East, and American forces advancing on Okinawa as troops parade on Fifth Avenue before Pacific deployment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Britain
France
Poland
Polish Telegraph Agency
Warsaw
Lidice
Germany
Krupps
Oper
Paris
Andre Vienot
Middle East
Associated Press
Guam
Okinawa
Fifth Avenue
Pacific
Weather drifts toward spring as storms ease across regions
The Associated Press reports snow has stopped in the Rocky Mountains while the east and west coasts endure heat. A New York windstorm uprooted trees and disrupted services, injuring a woman, as temperatures rose to 92 in the city. Continued on page six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rocky Mountains
Texas
Belmont
New York
New York City
Sole Survivor Of Plane Crash Describes Fatal Flight
Army air corps Sergeant R L Bullock the sole survivor told from his hospital bed of the C 46 crash near Vicksburg Mississippi. The Lawson Field Georgia based plane en route home crashed 17 miles northeast killing 17 airmen. Bullock recalled heavy overcast poor vision and a warning to adjust seat belts before the aircraft hit an air pocket and plunged. He escaped the burning wreck after being thrown clear and suffered severe burns.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Army Air Corps
Here Thursiday
Lawson Field
Here
R. L. Bullock
Somerset
Shreveport
Bullock
Commanding Heights Still In Japs Ha on Okinawa
American divisions edged toward the last three commanding heights on Okinawa as Japanese forces, fighting from a plateau nicknamed the Hara, faced intensified fire. General Buckner reported 10,000 Japanese remaining, with 8,000 more on the island as defense lines collapsed under naval and air assault.
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Guam
Okinawa Island
Okinawa
Hara Plateau
Buckner, Jr
Okina
Tokyo Radio Admi
Okinawan
U. S
Japan
Puckner
Tenth Army Spe
96 Infantry Division
James L. Bradley
Yaeju
Big Apple
Yuza
Divisi
Seventh
CAB Hearings Terminated For Weekend
The Civil Aeronautics Board resumes hearings Monday on National Airlines Inc plans for a large Georgia Alabama route and a Fernandina to Tallahassee corridor with multiple Georgia cities. Separately Southern Airways Inc seeks expanded service across several southeastern states from Atlanta to Wilmington and other connections.
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Greensboro
Civil Aeronautics Board
Sedgefield
National Airlines, Inc
Georgia
Alabama
National
Rocky Mount
N. C
Jacksonville
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Fernandina
Waycross
B .Savannah
Vidalia
Eastman
Cops Dere
Americus
Macon
Columbus
Albany
Moultrie
Thomasville
Eufaula
Dothan
Andal Troy
Montgomery
Selma Grove Hill
Tallahassee
Marianna
CAB
Ross I. Newman
Curtis Henderson
Southern Airways, Inc
Birmingham
Atelanta
Wilmington
Memphis
Abductor Shot Dead By Agent of FBI
Chicago report says Rus sel Marvin Stamper kidnapped FBI agent B Scott Reardon in the 2400 block of Grenshaw street. Stamper forced him into a stolen car and was shot by the agent during the pursuit, Stamper dying later at a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Albert Petik
Russel Marvin Stamper
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stamper
Sergt. Petik
B. Scott Reardon
Grenshaw Street
Aside Reardon
Acenase
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Nature of Business
Ours
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Australia
Ilton
Treasury and
Nimitz
Halsey
America
United Nations Today
THE
Aachen
Cherbourg
Attu
J. M. Roberts
FBI
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