Jackson Puts Out Plan To Try Criminals
Justice Robert N. Jackson announced a U S plan to prosecute Germanys arch war criminals in a single trial and hopes it may start before summers end Representatives from the United States Britain France and Russia would open discussions in London to draft a list of clim ato details for their trial The plan envisions a military tribunal with major powers represented and no immunity for war criminals while aiming for a speedy start to preserve witnesses and records.
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Robert N. Jackson
United States
Germany
Jackson
Britain
Russia
British Foreign Office
France
Ee Jackson
Supreme Court
First Degree Verdict Sought in Beck Case
The solicitor pressed for first degree murder verdicts for the Beck bootlegger case as trials for several defendants proceeded. Lee Wilson indicated Lacy Sal was the trigger man while Salmon claimed he went to the bootlegger's home with a gun, aiming to influence other defendants. The court recessed amid reports of possible lesser pleas.
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Almetta Brooks
Greenseono
Lee Wilson
Lacy Salthe
Bob Beck
Icttor
Herbert Carroll
Ison
Outfit
Wilson
Hout
Salmon
Murbie
Blinder
Phillips Appointed Commission Member in Raleigh
Gov Cherry named six state officials to the sanitation and conserve commission and ten industry and public members to join. The unlisted appointees include C A Waynick of Raleigh and Earl N. Phillips, mayor of High Point, among others, to coordinate actions of state departments for sanitary goals and North Carolina water courses.
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Gov- Cherry
Sixte
Ream Sanitation and Conserve Commission
Actios
Northlina
Ca Waynick
Earl N. Phillips
High Point
Soldiers and peace training clash in wartime letter
In a Paris Stars and Stripes imagined letter from a dead soldier General Patton is faulted for telling children they will fight in the next war. Eisenhower backs peace-time training as Europe ends war while training continues. The letter urges restraint from generals meddling in home life.
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Eisenhower
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Russia
Europe
Rider Offered Free Education After Journey
A 17 year old girl who rode horseback from Mars Hill North Carolina to Knoxville Tennessee seeking work has been offered a complete education by Mrs E S Hodges of Birmingham Alabama after reading of Myrtle Power s three day trip The girl now works at a Knoxville drug store soda fountain while education plans are arranged
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Tenn
Mars Hill
N. C
E. S. Hodges
Birmingham
Myrtle Powter
Truman and Wallgren Fail To Reel In Salmon
President Truman and Governor Wallace Wallgren, on a Puget Sound tour from Seattle to Mount Rainier, fished without success then enjoyed two dogfish. local fishermen later gave them two king salmon. The press secretary noted no news on cabinet changes.
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Truman
Mony
Mount Rainier
Mon C. Wallgren
Executive Mansion
Kes G. Ross
Harold L. Ickes
Puget Sound
Wallgren
U.S. S
Cherry Grants Commutation in North Carolina Gas Case
Governor Cherry commuted Clarence Lord’s death sentence to life imprisonment minutes before his scheduled execution for a fatal shooting of his sweetheart Elder Phifer in Cabarrus County. Henry French and William Jones were executed after their convictions for killing a woman and for murdering his wife respectively.
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Clarence Lord
Cabarrus County
Cherry
Lord
Elder Phifer
Henry French
Montgomery County
French
Duck LeGrand
Chaplain Watts
William Jones
Wake County
Jones
Watts
Basic A Gasoline Rations Increased Nationwide
The 50 percent rise in basic A gasoline rations took effect today. Motorists with A-16 coupons can buy six gallons with a stamp instead of four, averaging three gallons weekly or about six miles per day. The six coupons last three months through September 21 and total 36 gallons, 12 more than the expired A-15 stamps.
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Washington
Last Battle For Luzon Looming As Guerrillas Strike
Manila reports guerrillas force the Japanese in the Cagayan valley to defend Tuguegarao to block a highway advance by the 37th Ohio Infantry Division. Japanese tanks near Ilagan repulsed as Australian Ninth Division lands threaten Seria oil fields. Tuguegarao seized by guerrillas splits the valley.
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Ilagan
Destruction Rained Upon Vital Plants
In Guam on June 22, 450 B-29s attacked Japan's large naval arsenal and five aircraft plants with 3,000 tons of bombs. Previous raids damaged Osaka and Hiro arsenals. Kure plant blasted, targeting gun production. Allied losses and enemy claims cited as raids continued on Mitsubishi Kawasaki and other Kobe area facilities.
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Kure
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Kawasaki
Kagamigahara
Nangoya
Kawanishi Aircraft
Himeji
Kawasaki Aircraft
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Kobe
Mitsubishi-Mishima
Tamashima
21St Bomber Command
Amagasaki
Yanks Rescued Thousands Under Nazis Eyes
London June 22 More than 3000 key passengers were flown from neutral Sweden during the final year of the European war by the U S army secret airline operating under German noses. Brig Gen Earl S Hoag revealed this covert line grew into a formal Scotland Sweden military route. Weather often favored operations with airmen posing as civilians. Gestapo shadows followed them and even hotel rooms were left unlocked.
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London
Sweden
U. S. Army
Scotland
Earl S. Hoag
Air Transport Command
Seventh War Loan Tops E Bonds Amid Nationwide Drive
Benjamin H. Namm of the National Retail Dry Goods Association urged Americans to limit purchases and invest savings in the seventh war loan. Treasury figures show total sales near 16 billion dollars with 2.779 billion in series E bonds toward a 4 billion dollar E-bond quota. The drive runs May 14 to June 30 for individuals and ends July 7 accounting period.
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National Retail Dry Goods Association
Benjamin H. Namm
Brooklyn
Namm
Treasury Department
Treasury
Morgenthau
Eisenhower limps home after rail incident at Kansas parade
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, finishing a long war tour, suffered a leg sprain when he fell on a Topeka rail platform while boarding a train for a homecoming parade in Abilene Kansas. He slept aboard the private car and appeared with a visible limp the next morning before leading the parade. In China five columns pressed Liuchow as Chinese forces closed on the city and airfield near the Indo China frontier amid reports of heavy fighting and airfield destruction.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Eisenhower
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Kweilin
Robert B. McClure
Kunming
McClure
Ishan
Tatang
Pinsiang
Indo-China
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Kwangsi Province
Baruch Calls for Breakup of Nazi War Industry in Europe
P Bernard M Baruch told the U S Senate military affairs committee that Nazi war potential must be destroyed industry by industry to end German dominance in Europe. He urged a European reconstruction council and a new American foreign economic policy to preserve free enterprise amid moves toward regional cartels.
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Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations
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Europe
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Russia
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European Reconstruction Council
Mop-Up Units Push Through Okinawa After Heavy Battle
On Okinawa Marines and infantry advance through charred southern ridges using flamethrowers and demolition charges to clear Japanese nests. The invasion tolls rise with 6,990 Americans killed or missing and 29,598 wounded, while 4,000 Japanese have surrendered. Washington notes Okinawa as a forward base for air and sea operations toward Japan.
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Kantaro Suzuki
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Pacific Fleet
China
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Mikado
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Admiral Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
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Japa
Local Man Elected Vets Vice Commander
SALISBURY June 22 Albert Watson Boone is the new commander of the North Carolina department of United Spanish War Veterans. Also elected at a one day administration council meeting were A. B. Frost High Point senior vice commander and O. C. Eubanks Spencer junior vice commander. Auxiliary officers include Mrs. Clara Cahill Spencer president Mrs. Lovie Hughes Asheville senior vice president and Mrs. Pikney Merchant Asheville junior vice president.
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Salisbury
Albert Watson
Boone
North Carolina
Senators to report on San Francisco UN charter
Two U S senators from the American delegation plan formal reports to the Senate on the San Francisco conference charter. Connally and Vandenberg will depart after President Truman's address to Washington with the charter and deliver sequential reports on Thursday and Friday.
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Connally
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Vandenberg
R-Mich
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