Big Three meeting seen as key to easing postwar tensions
War Today argues the early Truman Churchill Stalin summit must rapidly address Balkan, Polish, and German occupation tensions to prevent a split among the Allied powers. It notes cross winds from shifts in Russian and British influence and warns of dangerous weeks ahead if not resolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United Nations
Itelian
Germany
Balkans
Cella
Europe
John Bull
France
Yugoslavia
Russia
Balkan
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Tito
Tursia
Observer
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Korea
Manchuria
Formosa
Aussie
Daily Worker
London Today
U.S. S
Red Stag
London
Poland
Truman
Churchill
Stalin
Rosenthal AP Photographer Known for Iwo Jima Flag Image
San Francisco May 25 The stocky AP photographer Joe Rosenthal who shot the famous flag raising at Iwo Jima reflects on a career of sports and war assignments. He recalls D Day landings Helisacis Angeur Peleliu Guam and Iwo Jima and notes the New Year’s Day East West All Star game in San Francisco as a tough shoot. He receives many letters from worried mothers praising the flag photo and offering moral support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Joe Rosenthal
Mt. Suribachi
Iwo Jima
Rosenthal
Helisacis
Angeur
Peleliu
Guam
Jimg
Sadie Hawking
Joe
Paclés Islands
Memorial Service In House Honors Rep H Tibbott
Memorial service in the House honors Rep H Tibbott of Pennsylvania as a vocal soloist. Rep Tibbott performed Taylors There’s a Beautiful Land on High and Knapps Open the Gates of the Temple while colleagues praised his performance. Harve Tibbett, a banker and former pharmacist, sang professionally before entering Congress in 1939 and appeared at Carnegie Hall in western Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tibbott
R-Pa
House of Representatives
Congress
House
Metropolitan Opera
Taylor
Land On High
Knapp
the Tempe
Harve Tibbett
Cumbria County
Ebensburg
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Hall
Pittsburgh
Bomb Disposal Troops Weaken German Munitions Threats
Paris dispatch reports Army ordnance details from World War II era. American bomb disposal units neutralized about 4000 tons of German munitions monthly in Western Europe, with an exact science reducing gear from a fire truck load to a 40 pound kit. Casualties around six percent at Normandy, as Col. Kane and Maj. Feldman describe advances in disarming deadly devices including butterfly bombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ordance Department
Amperican
Europe
Tme
Normandy
Thomas J. Kane
Purnxsu'awney
Aberdeen
John E. Feldman
Baltimore
S *E“Sdrchand Development Branch
Churchill Plans Issue Campaign Amid Election Clash
Prime Minister Churchill mapped a hard hitting campaign with a personal tour of Britain as the Conservative party faced a sharp fight against Labor. Labor leader Harald Lasit framed the contest as private enterprise versus socialism and vowed no coalition with the Tories after the July vote. Churchill eyed a caretaker cabinet and planned to begin in Woodford Essex with planned speeches ahead of a July 27 election result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Denneny
London
Churchill
Britain
Harald Lasit
Labor Party
Laborite
Labor
Tories
Truman
Statin
George VI
Woodford
Essex
Gen Hunts Gripes of GIs Sixth Army on Luzon Front
General Walter Krueger chats with soldiers near Manila on the Luzon front. He corrects misuse of shrapnel versus shell fragment, asks for improvements, and jokes about artillery needs. A Newark, New Jersey private recalls shrapnel, while Dellmar Laney of Alabama sleeps in a fox with a live Japanese, coffee later, as a patrol ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames Stutcheson
Ozon
Walter Krueger
Aveners
Bataan
Sixth Army
Pfc
Casimir Krystan
Newark
N. J
Barbara St
Kryston
Krueger
38Th
Manila
William C. Chase
Pfe
Dellmar B. Laney
Childersburg
Ala
Laney
More Meat For Pittsburgh Area
Pittsburgh May 25 The OPA director Alvin J Williams announced that non federally inspected commercial slaughterers may exceed May quotas to boost meat supplies in the Pittsburgh area Slaughterhouses exceeding quotas must cut June quotas and no slaughterhouse within quota should shut down Oswald Hesg Co and Denholm Packing Co said the ruling would not affect their holiday plans unless June quotas rise
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
OPA
Alvin J. Williams
Williams
Oswald & Hesg Co
Denholm Facking Co
Big Powers In Control of Veto Power
AP report from May 25 notes major powers poised to block any change limiting their veto right in a proposed world security council. The Yalta formula allows any Big Five to veto council actions, with a separate vote required on force, while small nations press for restricted power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
AP Diplomatia
Francisco
Stetilnius
Washington
Truman
New League
Security Council
United States
Russia
Yalta
Britain
France
China
Stettinius
Earl of Halifax
Andrei Gromyko
YT. C. Soong
Jshoe
Big Boys
United Nations Organization
Call for universal air land and sea force readiness
A statement urges that liberty organizations maintain air, land and sea forces ready for instantaneous action, highlighting the need for rapid response across domains.
Yugoslavs Celebrate Tito Birth With Trieste Fireworks
Trieste May 25 Yugoslav soldiers staged a fireworks display for Marshal Tito s 53rd birthday while civilians ducked for shelter. Rockets arched from hills as machine guns rattled in city squares prompting questions about clashes with the Eighth Army amid wartime food shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trieste
Marshal Tito
Would Force Gen Franco To Resign
Paris May 25 The French Foreign Affairs Committee urged De Gaulle to sever ties with Spain and press for Franco's ouster. They called Laval a traitor and demanded Spain hand him to France. The panel urged Allied action to remove Franco and set up a republican government in Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hy Relman Morin
Paris
French Foreign Affairs Committee
de Gaulle
Spain
Forc
Pierre Laval
Generalissimo
Franco
Assembly
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Italy
France
Laval
Germany
Old Republic
Peace Charter gains U S Steelworkers backing
Pittsburg May 25 United Steelworkers of America executive board unanimously approves the Peace Charter aimed at fostering peaceful labor industry relations after the war. Philip Murray states it will help prevent a repeat of postwar conflicts, while Murray Green and Johnston devised the charter with the AFL and VA Chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers of America
Philip Murray
USWA
United States
Murray
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Eric Johnston
The
VA. & Chamber of Commerce
$20,000,000 Headache for Pay Defense
Harrisburg May 25 The State Defense Council wrestles with a $20 million issue over federally owned fire apparatus and emergency medical supplies distributed by the U S Office of Civilian Defense to Pennsylvania communities. Chief Fire Warden Charles E Clark says focal property officers must assume full responsibility until disposition is ordered and fears OCD closure on June 30 will shift the burden. A Congress proposal would let local communities first buy the property before state or adjacent areas, with a third option before surplus disposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Defense Council
U. S. Office of Civilian Defense
Pennsylvania
Charles E. Clark
State Council
OCD
Clark
Commonwealth
Mindanao Fight Moves Toward Mop-up Stage Across Front
World War II dispatches describe Mindanao cleanup as Yanks seal two crossings and push toward remaining pockets of resistance on Mindanao island while other fronts report Chinese offensives, Japanese reinforcements, Burma operations, and Allied landings in the Ryukyus with broad casualty figures and strategic moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mindanao
Philippines
Yanks
81St
Impalatao
35Th Army
Davao
24Th
Spa
Manila
Luzon
Indo-China
Hwaiyuanchen
Litchow
Paoching
Shaoyang
Foo-chow
East China
Bassein
Rangoon
Burma
Wewak
New Guinea
Japan
Amari Island
Ryukyus
James I Herron 57 Elderton resident dies
James I Herron age 57 of Elderton Township died Wednesday at 9 32 am in Indiana Hospital. Friends may call at his home in Elderton. The body will be taken to United Presbyterian Church Elderton for viewing one hour before 2 30 with funeral services by Rev James K Leitch of Indiana. Burial will follow in Elderton Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James I. Herron
Rlderston
Indiana Hospital
Elderton
United Presbyterian Church
James K. Leitch
Indiana
Industrial Sugar Cut To One half
A congressional food investigator said the OPA plans a drastic cut in industrial sugar starting July 1 to cover a civilian deficit. Industrial users may face caps at 49 percent or as low as 30 percent of 1941 levels, down from 80 percent last year, affecting bakers and candy makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Flieger
Washington
Congressional
OPA
Anderson
D.N. M
House Food Committee
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