Tourists Find Few Cars and Many Hikers in Southern France War-Worn Route
NEA correspondent Tom Wolf describes a 1200 mile postwar road trip from the Loire to the Spanish border and back. He notes scarce automobile traffic, heavy freight laden trucks with hitchhikers, scarce hotel rooms, reliance on private homes for lodging, and limited hot water as coal supplies dwindle.
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France
Loire
Bordeaux
Tom Wolf
NEA
Paris
Normandy
Brittany
Toulouse
King Leopold Refuses Abdication and Resumes Throne
King Leopold of Belgium rejects abdication demands and announces his return to Belgium to resume the throne after five years under German control and weeks as a guest of the American Army. An official statement to the Allied press, issued by Capt. Gatlen Viscount du Parc, confirms there is no abdication. The monarch plans to reclaim full constitutional prerogatives.
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Jack Fleischer
Salzburg
Austria
Juen 19
Leopold
Gatlen
du Parc
Belgium
106Th Cavalry Group
15Th Corps
U.S. Seventh Army
House Group Rebuffs FEPC Funding Request
Washington reports a 4 to 4 tie in a Senate appropriations subcommittee defeats President Truman’s request for 599000 to fund the Fair Employment Practice Committee. The House eliminates any FEPC funding, with plans for restoral effort to continue in full committee and on the Senate floor. local Georgia citizens endorsed a permanent FEPC.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
Truman
Fair Employment Practice Committee
House
FEPC
Senate
Arlier
Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts and Professions
Senate Appropriations Committee
Fair Eminent Practices Committee
Jo Davidson
Frederic Arch
Georgia
Senate Grants Truman Tariff Cutting Authority
The Senate voted 47 to 33 to empower President Truman to cut tariff rates up to 50 percent below January 1 levels for three years. The Finance Committee backed the bill to extend reciprocal trade agreement authority, overturning a House version that had removed tariff-cut power. Administrations leaders expect easier passage of related amendments and a near‑unchanged bill.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
State Stock Show Called Off for 1945
The Arkansas Livestock Show Association board of governors voted unanimously to cancel the 1945 state livestock show. No facilities are expected to be ready by year end and priorities for building are unlikely, in line with the Office of Defense Transportation ban on state fairs.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Livestock Show Association
Pine Bluff
Office of Defense Transportation
Lamentations Quoted Line in Plainspoken Reflection
A compact quotation from Lamentations contrasts warriors slain by the sword with those who perish from hunger, noting the pining and wasting away caused by want of the field’s produce. The line underscores the harsh fate of famine alongside battlefield deaths.
Courage Under Fire Praises Pvt Craft In First Fight
First Lt Roy Barnes describes Pvt Clarence Craft’s actions killing 30 Japanese soldiers in his first combat. The account highlights extraordinary bravery and intends to rally support for continued military effort abroad.
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Roy Barnes
Clarence B .Craft
Victory garden menu features varied vegetable dishes
The article offers recipes and a day’s menu emphasizing colorful vegetables. French fried strips and broiled eggplant precede a cheese and milk flavored peas dish and baked squash rings. Tomorrow's meals list breakfast lunch and dinner centered on a fresh garden plate.
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Gaynor Maddox
Victory Garden
Give American Girls a Chance in Love War Debate
Ruth Millett argues Rep. Hubert Ellis supports US women over foreign entrants for service members. Millett cites Joe, who after military service marries an English girl, urging policy to let American girls compete for love and marriage with returning soldiers rather than expedited entry for foreign women.
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Ruth Millett
Hubert S. Ellis
State Department
United States
Europe
America
Joe
Sam
Barbs on War News and Gas Rationing
A satirical set of quips reflects wartime issues. Ribbentrop’s supposed mission to report to Hitler is invoked while Uncle Sam urges vigilance on postmeal issues. Gas rationing spurs jokes about towns owning more horses, and a Big Three meeting near Berlin is noted with doubt about finding a venue.
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Uncle Sam
Pacific
Europe
Philippines
Japan
Nippon
Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Hitler
San Francisco Earthquake Describes City Wide Fire Damage
Report notes the 1906 quake and ensuing blaze leveling four square miles in central San Francisco, leaving mass destruction and widespread fires. The narrative highlights dramatic urban ruin and lasting impacts on residents and city infrastructure.
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San Francisco
Questions and Answers on War Era Ethnic Issues
The text covers Sudeten Germans and their claims in Czechoslovakia, Brazil’s Japanese population, Carinthia’s location and current governance, plus a note on Yugoslav interest in surrounding territory. It notes German and Japanese demographic details and cites a fatal accident affecting U.S. families, with no specific dates.
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Brazil
Japan
Sao Paulo
Carinthia
Drava
Brenner Pass
Austria
Housing in Washington Is Critical
Washington faces severe wartime housing strain as about 250 applications daily flood the housing center with roughly 190 placements. Officials urge homeowners with spare rooms to help, while workers flood in from agencies like OPA, census, FBI, Navy, and War Department. Factors include returning servicemen, GI bill students, and families seeking proximity to hospitals, creating a crowded market with no guaranteed housing.
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Washington
Europe
War Housing Center
OPA
Census Bureau
FBI
Navy
War Department
Destroyer Emmons Sunk After Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa
Survivor accounts recount the Emmons, a destroyer converted into a mine sweeper, being sunk by Japanese suicide planes on April 6 near Okinawa. Seventeen killed, 39 missing, 71 wounded. 121 others survived. Lt. Commander Eugene N. Foss, ship skipper, narrowly escaped as flames and wreckage engulfed the vessel.
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James A. Maclean
United Press
Okinawa
Emmons
Pearl Harbor
North Africa
Normandy
France
Pacific
Eugene N. Foss
Chestnut Hill
Mass
Foss
Truman to West by Plane for San Francisco Conference
President Truman departed at 7 20 a m Central War Time for a west coast trip highlighted by a non stop eight to nine hour flight to Olympia Washington to greet Gov Mon Wallgren and then attend the United Nations security conference closing session in San Francisco. Ike Eisenhower greeted him and will join a big New York welcome after the meeting. The crew includes Lt Col Henry T Myers and other officers from the Army Air Transport Command.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
Truman
Olympicia
Wash
Mon. C. Wallgren
San Francisco
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
New York
Army Air Transport Command
Joseph C. Grew
Kansas City
White House
General Eisenhower
Five Star
Ike
Eisenhower
Atlantic
Henry T. Myers
Tifton
Arkansas River Flood Threat Is Definitely Passed
The Arkansas River rose at several points due to Oklahoma rains but no new flood threat was seen by the Weather Bureau. Levels were forecast to rise two to three feet yet stay below flood stages. The White River was rising in lower areas and expected to fall at Calico Rock Batesville and Newport. Ouachita and Black rivers were stationary or falling. Mississippi established the first state supported college for women.
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Little Rock
Arkansas River
Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Fort Smith
Ozark
Weather Bureau
White River
Calico Rock
Batesville
Newport
Ouachita
Black
Polish Journalist Testifies in Fifth Column Trial
Polish journalist Stanislaw Kuyavinski testified in the fifth column trial of 16 Poles that the underground propaganda office directed that the Red Army in occupied Poland be treated as enemies and aggressors. He said the propaganda line opposed the Soviet Union and that eastern Polish territory should be considered occupied by the enemy. Additional testimony showed underground mood and relations with the Red Army and London, with defendants and witnesses present and the trial continuing.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Poland
Stanislaw Kuyavinski
Soviet Union
Kuyavinski
Warsaw
L. Bronislaw Okulicki
San Francisco
Jan Jankowski
London
Jankowski
Ulrich Jankowski
Ulrich
Okulicki
Russia
Pierre Curie on crystals electrical properties and surface charges
Pierre Curie conducted experiments on crystals under varying conditions. He observed slight size changes under electrostatic strain and found crystals developed surface charges when mechanical pressure was applied.
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Pierre Curie
Eisenhower Honored On New York Tribute Day
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived at LaGuardia and was greeted by mass crowds as New York declared Eisenhower Day. Police estimated millions lined Fifth Avenue and Central Park for the hero’s visit, with schoolchildren among the largest attendees despite clouds and an occasional threat of rain. Mayor LaGuardia welcomed the general at the airport and prepared a fallback plan to hold events at Madison Square Garden if needed.
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Harrison Salisbury
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
LaGuardia Field
Europe
Eisenhower
Fifth Avenue
Avenue of Heroes
United Nations
Central Park
Florelio LaGuardia
LaGuardia
Weather Bureau
Wai
City Hall
Madison Square Garden
State Says Arkansas Can Meet Its Own Needs
Governor Laney announced that with broad public backing Arkansas can supply its own needs and build a strong export program. He credited the State Resources and Development Commission and the University of Arkansas bureau of research for coordinating efforts and gathering development possibilities.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Laney
State Resources and Development Commission
University of Arkansas Bureau of Research
University Research Bureau
Research Bureau
Resources and Development Commission
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Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
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