Unity among the Big Three to shape postwar peace
War Today analyzes the Pacific and European balance as Truman Stalin and Churchill head to a unity conference. It warns that America must guide reconstruction without exploiting gains, and weighs Germany's punishment and reeducation, plus handling Japan and Europe’s hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bether
Truman
America
Britain
Russia
Europe
Sam
Santa Claus
Uncle Sam
Big
Berlin
Germany
Eich
Japan
Tokyo
D Day In Japan Likely Months Away From Invasion
Analysis suggests no imminent invasion of Japan. Navy and Army air and surface forces focus on strategic strikes against Muroran and rail lines across Hokkaido and Honshu while shipping and troop redeployments continue. The final assault remains years away, with heavy emphasis on destroying production and transport networks.
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Japan
Muroran
Hokkaido
Saipan
Okinawa
Maineland
Navy
Germany
Nippon
Europe
Pacific
Patterson
Tokyo
War Labor Board acts after New Jersey newspaper strikes
The War Labor Board ordered strict action against the International Typographical Union over walkouts at the Jersey Journal in Jersey City and The Times in Bayonne. It withheld approval of fringe wage increases unless the ITU drops its demand for by law based contracts, warning back pay denial for strikes tied to that policy. The board also suspended approval of about 20 printer pay increases pending review, and publishers warned workers to return to work or face dismissal.
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Washington
International Typographical Union
AFL
Twe
New Jersey
War Labor Board
ITU
WLB
Indianapolis
Jersey Journal
Jersey City
the Times
Bayonne
N. J
Executive Council
Printing and Publishing Commission
Chicago
Publishers Association of
New York City
Publishers Association
Fleet Destroys 3 Industrial Cities Amid Major Japanese Bombardment
US forces bombarded Honshu and Kyushu cities including Kamaishi Muroran Kudamatsu Otaru Kushiro and Kushiro as well as Miyazaki Kagoshima with battleships and carrier planes. Total strikes injured oil refineries steel plants and chemical facilities while fires raged across Muroran and Kushiro. Over 50 to 75 B 29s hit Kudamatsu and many plants suffered heavy damage and fires.
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Kudamatsu
Hokkaido
Kushiro
Chester M. Nimits
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Wanishi Iron Works
Muroran
Oscar C
Badger
Sendai
Honshu
Shibetsu Dm
Nhe
Sianesrasen
I Muroran
Ships sunk and damaged in Pacific air strikes on Honshu and Hokkaido
Task Force 38 aircraft hunted Japanese ships through Tsugaru straits and over Hokkaido. Reports cite sinking of nine ships and 12,000 tons plus 12,000 tons damaged in the first strikes, with broader carrier air operations listing 41,000 tons sunk and 43,000 tons damaged. Sunk vessels included destroyer escorts and cargo ships. ferries between Hakodate and Aomori were largely eliminated, disrupting coal, steel, and munition transport to Honshu.
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Muroran
Honshu
Hokokaido
Tsugaru Straits
Japan Sea
Nimitz
Tsugaru Atrain
Hakodate
Aomori
Hokkaido
Four Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy Nine Japs Killed In Week
Manila report from General MacArthur headquarters states that in the last week 4,879 Japanese troops were killed and 608 were captured in the Philippines. American losses were 62 killed, 195 wounded, and one missing, bringing total Japanese casualties to 428,792 and American casualties to 54,502.
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Manila
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Vindicated claims about depot damage rejected by army
An official army inquiry found charges that repairable equipment at a Warminster depot was destroyed by US troops were without foundation. The report, tied to a London Tay item, also mentions Oscar Wilde's mother, the Westinghouse committee, and a writer using the pen name Speranza as part of broader UK inquiries.
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London
Tay
United States Army
Warminster
Oscar Wilde
Westingting Committee
United Kingdom
Bane
Ration Time Tables and Stamp Validity Notes
Fragmentary wartime ration schedule lists book stamps for meats and processed foods, shoes, gasoline, and gasoline coupons. Includes validity through various dates from July to October and mentions Albany Stamp validity and period coupons. Names likely OCR errors.
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SLGAN
Kianip Valla
Mie Opa Saya
Albany
Chinese Capture Air Bases In Southwestern China Drive
Chinese troops mop up Japanese remnants in Kanhsien after capturing the air field south of Klangsi Province city. Other units close on former American air bases at Kweilin and Liuchow, with columns progressing toward Hsiujenhsien and Kiweilin. Kanhsien air field appears unusable, lacking overland supply routes from the interior.
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Chungking
Kanhsien
Klangsi Province
Kwangsi Province
Kweilin
Chinese High Command
Hwangminkal
Hunans Kwangsi
Liukianghsien
Liuchow
Hsiujenhsien
Kiweilin
Hsuljenhsien
Kanan
Kanhsieen
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Bretton Woods Bank Plan Faces Senate Vote
The Bretton Woods plan creating an international bank and a monetary fund to stabilize currency and support development moves toward final Senate action. Proposals include a gold price unit and a silver-backed option, with expected quick approval after House support.
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Washington
Bretton Woods
Senate
Millikin
Chamber
United States
N. H
House
Thomas D-Okal
Thomas
Treasury
Monetary Fund
Morgenthau
Egg Production Drops In June Across Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports June egg production fell by 39 million eggs from May and 36 million from June 1944. Six month total reached 1.461 billion eggs, down 12 percent from year-ago levels. Hens laying age on farms fell 7 percent from May and 16 percent from June last year. Meanwhile milk production hit a June record of 510 million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Department of Agriculture
Federal
Pennsylvania
Horse and buggy must obey traffic laws in Lancaster
State Police said three Amish sect members received summonses for failing to stop before entering a main highway with their horses and buggies. A fourth member is charged with parking his buggy on a pavement.
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Lancaster
Returning Over-Seas Service Men Arrive Home
A column listing service men and women who have returned to the United States after abroad duty. Includes those discharged and others on furlough visiting home, with notes and brief identifiers as printed in the military arrivals column.
Pennsylvania Giant Airlift Arrives in Miami for Reassignment
A group of Pennsylvania soldiers flown from distant fronts by Air Transport Command arrived at Miami Beach en route to AYU Miami Army Air Field for rail transport to Camp Blanding. Included among them is Pfc. Davis A. Palmer, 22, of Black Lick, a 35 month veteran with five battle stars in an anti aircraft unit.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Pennsylvania
Air Transport Command
United States
Miami Beach
AYU
Miami Army Air Field
ATC Caribbean
Pfc
Davis A. Palmer
Black Lick
Kaly
Blairsville Soldier Receives Purple Heart With Cluster
1st Lt. Arthur Evans Jr. of Blairsville served 14 months Overseas in France Belgium Luxembourg and Germany with the 1st Army 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Division Company G now at Martinsburg W Va Hospital for treatment He wears the Purple Heart with cluster the ETO ribbon with 4 stars and the Combat Infantryman's badge He was employed at Fred W Wappat Electrical Tool Company Pittsburgh and his wife Miss Mary K Watson and son James reside in Blairsville
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Arthur Evans, Jr
Main St
Blairsville
Frances
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
1St
9Th Infantry
Martinsburg
W. Va
Hoe
Fred W. Wappat Electrical Tool Company
Pittsburgh
Mary K. Watson
James
Alvis Sutter Receives Combat Infantry Badge and Purple Heart
Alvis Sutter is home on furlough. His brother Gerald Sutter lives in Indiana. Sutter fought with the Timberwall Division in Holland Belgium and Germany campaigns and earned the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart.
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Atis L. Sutter
Gerald Sutter
Indiana
Timberwall
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Man Shot After Police Chase Near Punxsutawney
Plowman, pursued from Punxsutawney to a country road near Kimmel's Park, was shot by Cpl Stevens after refusing to stop. He had stolen seven automobiles and license plates, escaped Blairsville and Harrisburg police, and admitted thefts while in prison and after release. The car was traced to Charles Moskel of Brentzer. Australia covers 3,000,000 sq miles and 17,000,000 people.
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Punxsutawney
Plowman
Punxsutawney Electric Company
Plum ‘Ville
Cpl
Stevens
Kimmel's Park
Blairsville
Pvt
Lutz
Binna
Turtle Creek
Pittsburgh
Western Penitentiary
Jenners
Indiantown Gap
Harrisburg
Ernest
Charles Moskel
Brentzer
Indiana County
Allegheny County
Somerset County
Stoystown
Japanese Garrison Surrenders After Okinawa Invasion
Marines of the Eighth Regimental Combat Team landed on a tiny island near Okinawa on June 3 and found a 166 man Japanese garrison surrendering by longboat after observing the invasion. Adm. Chester Nimitz announced occupation of nearby islets July 16.
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Robert Geiger
Jhiya Island
Okinawas
Eighth Regimental Combat Team
Gyushu
Chester W. Nimitz
Ihiiya
Aguni
Ihiya
Okinawa
Sips Aguni
Leroy P. Hunt
Berkeley
Calif
Shiga
Ihe
Clarence R. Wallace
Manitou
Colo
Hunt
U S Victory Over Japan Tops Postwar Agenda
The wartime alliance leaders gather for Potsdam talks amid forecasts that Japan's defeat and Germany's future will dominate the agenda. Stalin, Truman, and Churchill meet in a closely guarded session to shape a postwar world with tentative spheres of influence.
No Trouble In Potsdam Conference Preparations
Nearly 4 000 GIs helped prepare Potsdam for the Big Three converting German homes to restaurants and radio stations. Major General Floyd L. Parke reports new buildings, 3,000 blankets, luxury food and drink setups. The American Army moved 20 refrigerators, 20 lawn mowers, 50 vacuums, 150 clocks as Moscow and London guests were to be served. Donald Coe, ABC correspondent, reports from Berlin.
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Potsdam
Floyd L. Parke
Berlin
Quartermaster Corpa Diétitians
Truman
Great Britain
American Broadcasting Company
Donald Coe
Truman arrives at Potsdam as Big Three meet
President Truman lands by plane near Potsdam and stays ten minutes from the conference site as talks with Stalin and Churchill begin. Reporters may attend the Potsdam sessions but not the talks. Truman favors brief progress reports and may visit London after the meeting but not France. If prolonged, he would return to Washington to brief Congress.
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Stalin
Potsdam
France
Washington
Congress
United States
Japan
Europe
Senate War Investigating Committee
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
James W. Byrnes
Brussels
Jeriven
Augusta
Atlantic
Antiwerp
Antwerp
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Dent
C. G. Ross
Byrnes
George C. Marshall
Ernest J. King
To Fingerprint 3 000 000 Nazis
Washington July 11 an estimated 9 000 000 persons in the American occupation zone in Germany are going to be fingerprinted Col Orlando W Wilson chief of public safety in the Internal Affairs Division said it will be a gigantic task He outlined the effort in a War Department statement announcing five civilian police experts and a five department supervisor to the control group in Germany The United States will fingerprint every German who in their view is a criminal including Nazi party members armed forces officers and non commissioned officers plus those arrested for security reasons
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Washington
Germany
Orlando W. Wilson
Berkeley
Calif
United States Group
Wilson
War Department
Lynn G. Adams
Pennsylvania
United States
County Stock Farms Visit By American Horse Officials
Fred Cook of Beaver Pa president of the Belgian Horse Association of America and Howard Grant secretary visited stock farms in Indiana County last Thursday. They toured L. W. Robinson horse farm in Indiana Old Home Isaisee and Dick Stephens farm in Homer City.
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Fred Cook
Beaver, Pa
Belgian Horse Association of America
Howard Grant
Association
Indiana
L. W. ‘Robinson
Old Home
Isisaee
Dick Stephens
Homerity
Obituary notices for Motsko and others from Ernest and Creekside
Obituary notices report Mrs. Mary Mihalo Motsko 54 of Ernest died at 7 15 am after a long illness. She leaves husband Elias and six sons serving in the armed forces plus three daughters and seven grandchildren. Sons listed include Steve John Michael Pie Alex Charles and Andrew with service in Germany Germany Philippines and the Pacific. Also notes church membership in Homer City and arrangements at Assumption Church with interment at St Bernard Cemetery Indiana. Additional deaths include John Dinardi Creekside 1880 heart attack and Thomas Howorth Stafford 70 with details of family and funeral plans. Florence Sunderland Pennington of New Kensington died July 14 wife and one son Ronald survive with siblings Don Sunderland and Mrs Ernest Brady. Visitation and funeral arrangements noted.
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Mary
Mihalo) Motsko
Ernest
Elias Motsko
Austria
Steve
Berlin
Maryland
John
U. S. Army
Germany
Michael
U. S. Army Air Forces
Philippines
Pie
Alex
U. S. Marine Corps
Naval Hospital
Corvalis
Oregon
Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
United States
S. Pacific
Charles
Keesler Field
Andrew
U. S, Army
Nellie Melnick
Youngstown
Ohio
George Sakash
Mildred
Homer City
Assumption Catholic Church
John J. Baycura
St. Bernard Cemetery
Indiana
Thomas Howorth
Stafford
Indiana Hospital
Howorth
Anh
Lewis) Howorth
England
Margaret Bewles
George
Commodore
Marsetler
Jas
Akron
Thomas Jr
Frances Horvath
Sarah Cunliffe
Inlaw
George Howorth
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Albert ‘Yorick
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Florence Sunderland Pennington
New Kensing
Joseph
Ada Sunderland
Ronald
Don Sunderland
Cresson
Ernest Brady
Scranton
Thomas Funeral
Glen Campbell
Norton
Burnside Cemetery
Archbishop urges bureaus to curb rising divorce rate in England
Canterbury July 16 The Archbishop of Canterbury urged a nationwide network of public bureaus to help couples resolve marital troubles and check the growing divorce rate. He called on Mayors to establish bureaus with public funding and demanded government housing to restore home stability for national well being. The speech also touched on South Africans and Uitlanders.
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Canterbury
Eng
Eerry
England
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Arthur Evans
Alvis Sutter
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Creekside
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Ralph
Ft. Worth
Texas
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Rose Frances
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