LeMay Acknowledges Tokyo Yokohama Fire Raids Damage
Maj. Gen. E. LeMay reports allied airstrikes on Tokyo and Yokohama using 1500 B-29s with 11,700 tons of incendiaries. He notes 51 square miles ruined, 60,000 homes damaged, and civilian crews numbering up to a quarter million. The raids continued amid extensive destruction and heavy losses.
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Emperor Hirohito
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Okohama
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Yokohama
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Yoko
Marines Break Rock Walls At Shuri Castle Okinawa
Allied forces push toward Shuri Castle as Fifth and Seventh divisions press on in Okinawa. Marines reach the castle west of Shuri while northern units report heavy Japanese resistance and continuing shelling near Naha.
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Seventh Division
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Ogusuku
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Associated Press
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John H. Griebel
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Naha-Yonabaru Highway
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Sixth Division
Fortress Shuri
Vern Haugland
First Marine
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Radera
Sashiki
Baten Bay
Chinen Peninsula
U S Forces Hit Japanese Lines in Luzon Advance
Allied units push through the Sierra Madre to smash the Shimbu line with the 38th Infantry and reach the Caraballo mountains near Santa Caraballo as MacArthur asserts the end of enemy resistance along northern Luzon fronts. American engineers clear routes and secure critical dams to support the drive toward the Cagayan valley battleground.
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Ipo
Luzon
Ique
Santa E Caraballo
Razorback
Douglas MacArthur
Cagayan Valley
Father Kills Daughter In Family Row
In Kansas City Missouri Lula Mae Davis 21 dies from a gunshot fired by her father Ray E Davis 42 police hunt him Lt Charles Welch homicide bureau says Pvt David Harold Sharp recently warned by Davis not to see Lula Mae Witnesses include Lula Maes sisters Mildred 19 Wanda 15 mother Wilda Davis who was at work describes the daughter asking her not to go in to work as David visited the home
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Lula Mae Davis
Charles Welch
Homicide Bureau
Ray E. Davis
Davis
David Harold Sharp
China-Burma-India Theater of War
Welch
Lulan Mae
Sharp
Heah
Lula Mae
Mildred
Wanda
Wilda Davis
David
Truman’s Right At Home In The White House
In a White House tour for newspaperwomen Mrs. Harry S Truman shows a transformed executive mansion. The Trumans have repainted rooms and rearranged furniture, removing dark wardrobes and moving for a lighter, more intimate setting. Margaret’s suite features Madonna blue and shell pink while Mrs Truman favors dove gray in her bedroom.
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White House
Executive Mansion
Harry S. Truman
Mrs. Truman
Margaret
Strange changes in southern China hint Japanese strategic shifts
The World Today notes growing Chinese successes near Nanning and weakening Japanese footholds through south-central China toward the Yangtze. troop movements head north from the southern zone, suggesting possible concentration against Russia and consolidation in the region.
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Nanning
Russia
Taft criticizes peacetime draft plan at Gettysburg
Senator Taft of Ohio denounces immediate peacetime draft proposals as a threat to liberty. He argues government propaganda backs compulsory postwar military training and urges a voluntary system to staff future forces. He warns such measures could lead to militaristic, totalitarian state power.
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Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Japan
Washington
Memorial Day Observances Across Nation Honors Fallen Soldiers
Americans marked the 77th Memorial Day with parades and services from Gettysburg to Normandy, honoring Civil War and World War II fallen. In Chicago Gen. Mark W. Clark led a 15 mile parade as 50 Fifth Army heroes arrived. New York prepared a large Riverside Drive march. Hyde Park voiced Roosevelt memorial events with a wreath on Roosevelt’s grave. Arlington and Battleground cemeteries held ceremonies with Vinson addressing the crowd.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Daughters of the Confederacy
New York City
Riverside Drive
Hyde Park
Frank C. Walker
Roosevelt Memorial Committee
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Arlington Memorial Cemetery
Potomac River
Washington
Battleground National Cemetery
Walter Reed Hospital
Tribute By Foreigners Honors American War Dead
Soldiers and civilians from many nations joined Americans to honor U S troops who fell in World Wars I and II. Religious services were held at 54 European cemeteries with over 117000 of 130000 U S dead buried there and in Germany over 8000 in temporary graves. General Devers led wreath ceremony at Heidekre university flagpole as he paid homage to fallen soldiers.
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Paris
United Nations
United States
Europe
Germany
Sixth Army Group
Jacob L. Devers
Heidekere University
Devers
Fresh Outbreaks Hit Syria Amid France Assad Tension
Syria suffers new violence as fighting spreads from Aleppo to Hama and Homs toward Deraa. A train derailment near Hamdanieh killed three and injured 14 as Syria reports 80 to 100 dead and 200 to 300 wounded. France and the Levantine governments refuse mediation, planning to safeguard strategic air bases ports and Mosul oil interests.
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Lebanon
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Legation
Damascus
Aleppo
Hama
Homs
Deraa
Transjordan
Hamdanieh
Kawakeb
Jamil Mardam Bey
Paris
Far East
Mosul
Father and Son Face Divorce Suits in Denver Court
In Denver County Court a father and his son were sued for divorce. Polly Holden Schneck sues Harry Schneck for non support. Clare E Schneck seeks a divorce from Dale Schneck, in the armed forces in Hawaii, on mental cruelty grounds.
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Denver
Colo
Polly Holden Schneck
Harry Schneck
Clare E. Schneck
Dale Schneck
Hawaii
Weather hinders crops as 1945 harvests loom
Weather drops hopes for a lush 1945 harvest across the Midwest to the East Coast. Cool wet conditions slow planting, hitting corn and soybean crops vital for meat, milk, and eggs in 1946. WFA notes the nation depends on farmers and weather as Rep. Anderson nears confirmation to lead agriculture.
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Seaboard
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WFA
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D-Nm
Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Wagner predicts food rationing to extend to 1950
Senator Wagner of New York forecast continued food rationing and price controls through 1950 as he disclosed the Senate Banking Committee approved extending the OPA through June 30 1946. He cited meat black market enforcement and federal inspection of slaughterhouses as keys to improving shortages and warned of a Senate floor fight over the extension.
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Wagner
Senate Banking Committee
OPA
Japan
Taft
Ohio
Chester Bowles
William H. Davis
Bowles
Davis
Treasury
Senate
Thomas
D-Okla
$20 Highest For Idle In This State
The North Carolina unemployment compensation commission said that under its insurance program war workers may draw up to $20 weekly for 16 weeks if unemployed during the shift to peacetime production. The fund totals about $110 million, with an average potential payment of $12.50 weekly to 500,000 workers.
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North Carolina
A. L. Fletcher
UCC
Congress
Truman
Fletcher
Retiring Cabinet Member Honors Late President
HYDE PARK New York May 30 A retiring cabinet member paid tribute to the late President Roosevelt in a Memorial Day address at Roosevelt's grave Postmaster General Frank C Walker praised Roosevelts leadership saying never before did a whole people look to one man to win peace for their children Walker will leave the cabinet June 30 and be replaced by Robert E Hannigan Democratic national chairman
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Roosevelt
Frank C. Walker
Walker
Robert E. Hannegan
Yokohama Firestorm Leaves 250000 Homeless in War Raid
San Francisco report states American dive bombs left Yokohama with 250000 homeless and many dead or injured. 60000 houses destroyed and transport systems knocked out as doctors rush to aid victims. Imperial leaders and six former premiers meet at Tokyo amid wreckage.
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Yokohama
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Yte
Genki
Kawasaki
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Viscount Kikujiro Ishii
Japan
United States
Tsuneji Taniguchi
Bank of Japan
Yorozu Oda
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