Japan Braces as Four-Day Allied Air Raids Hit Home Front
Guam dispatch reports Japan endured its heaviest bombings of the war over a four day span. American B-29s and fighters struck multiple Tokyo Yokohama targets including Tachikawa Atsuki airfields and Hitachi works with 820 bombs. Losses included one Superfortress and several enemy planes, while Allied crews suffered ten aircraft losses with four carriers pilots rescued.
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Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tachikawa
Atsuki
Tokyo-Yokohama
Tokyo
Yokohama
Hitachi
Sukagawa
Kyushu
Adm
William F. Halsey
Four Pounds Per Person Cuba Breaks Black Market On Beef
In Havana a government drive replaces local butchers with 24 motorized meat markets selling two pounds of first grade beef and two pounds of ground beef per package at fixed prices. Thousands protested at the palace over price ceilings. violence killed and injured, but many consumers welcomed regular beef supplies. The plan, backed by cattle groups, aims to cut out middlemen and maintain ceiling prices, with free slaughter for retail butchers to protect their interests.
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Havana
Government Office of Price Regulation and Supply
ORPA
National Association of Cattle Growers
Union of Cattle Buyers
Hitler Reported To Be Father of Two Children
A Stockholm dispatch carried by London based papers claimed Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun secretly had two children, a boy and a girl, during their affair. The report said they married just before Berlin fell to legitimize the offspring, and that the children were sought by Allied forces while some Germans believed they lived with Eva Braun's maternal relatives in Bavaria.
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London
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Hitler
Eva
Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
London Daily Express
Erik Wesslen
Wesslen
Bavaria
Congress Snafu of a Modernization Drive Across the Capitol
Washington June 11 AP reports Congress stalls on reform as hearings continue to modernize the lawmaking branch. The piece highlights pay disparities among Capitol workers, duplicate offices, separate staffs for House and Senate, and underfunded drafting in Congress versus larger agency legal staffs. It notes pages earning five dollars daily, varied pay rates, and critical committees with minimal support, urging personnel overhaul.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
Capitol
Senate
House
Capitol Grounds
Ickes
Interior Department
Lou Desher
House Banking and Currency Committee
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Banking Committee
Commerce Committee
Library of Congress
Agriculture Department
Chinese Drive Near Kweilin Presses to 10 Miles
Chinese assault forces battled the Japanese within Liuchow outer defenses and closed to 10 miles from Kweilin, 90 miles northeast, as two prongs pressed toward the air base city. The high command reported a northwest thrust to 10 miles and a western advance reaching 12 and a half miles from Kweilin.
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Chungking
Liuchow
Kweilin
McGee Held in Guardhouse After AWOL Action
Pvt. Joseph V. McGee, 23, once granted a cancelled dishonorable discharge for slapping German prisoners, was confined to the guardhouse at Fort Devens after going AWOL. Intelligence officers captured him in Worcester Saturday night, hours after he had fled his barracks where he had been listed as sick in quarters.
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Fort Devens
Mass
Joseph V. McGee
McGee
Worcester
Flashes of Life at Home and Abroad
AP dispatches describe lighthearted moments from June 11. A Salt Lake City woman notes hats feel foreign after two years in the Philippines. In Waterloo a man buys underwear at a rummage sale he once discarded. A Medford hen adopts three orphaned kittens, sparking comic trouble as the brood competes for meals. In Idaho Falls a farm worker’s name is unreadable on photos, prompting a photographer to print a second image labeled Fort Hall Idaho for mailing.
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Salt Lake City
Philippines
Salt Lake
States
Waterloo
Medford
Ore
Herman Offenbacher
Wing
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Fort Hall
James Watson
Watson
Fort Hall, Idaho
Know Aspirin the St Joseph Way
Ask for St Joseph Aspirin and you will get a fast, strong relief. 100 tablets priced at 35 cents offers low cost compared with other brands. Demand St Joseph Aspirin for value and speed.
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St. Joseph
Election judge decries sparse turnout in Manchester
Manchester Mont June 11 AP report by Election Judge Oscar Johnson describes near empty polling place. Johnson faced poor roads traveled alone to set up and remained on duty as few voters and other election judges appeared. One man cannot form an election board and Johnson could not cast a ballot.
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Manchester
Mont
Oscar Johnson
Johnson
Jacksons Plan of War Trial to Set Precedents
AP analysis outlines Justice Jackson’s argument to prosecute war criminals under new precedents. He urges trying organizations like the Nazi party and Gestapo and then individuals, to establish international law by public conscience. He envisions an international tribunal and urges readiness for U.S. action in individual cases.
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Jackson
Woven
Robert
Nazi Party
Gestapo
United States
International ‘Tribune
Five Children Killed By Father in Ohio Pit Case
Coroner C Paul Waid ruled a death by own action homicide in the deaths of Alfred Stoner and his five children whose bodies were recovered from a water filled gravel pit near Bryan Ohio. The 38 year old father who had just left the army plunged the family auto into the pit on Saturday the day after Mrs Stoner gave birth to a sixth child at Wauseon Hospital A note in Stoner s wallet indicated he had planned the drownings.
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Bryan
Ohio
C. Paul Waid
Alfred Stoner
Here
Waid
Bagabag Junction Captured in Luzon Advance
In northern Luzon the U S 37th Infantry Division seized Bagabag nine miles forward and pushed five miles toward the Cagayan valley isolating Japanese. MacArthur reported 5,911 Japanese killed and 725 captured in the week, with American losses of 172 dead, four missing, and 855 wounded.
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Manila
U. S. 37Th Infantry Division
Bagabag
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Free medical exam tour by Dr Saunders in Jefferson City Mo
Dr H J Saunders appears at the Central Hotel offering free examinations for stomach heart kidneys liver and other chronic ailments. The visit promises no charge for professional services, only medicines if treatment is accepted. Married women must be accompanied by husbands. may be seen at 221 Fullerton Bldg St Louis Missouri.
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Sanders
Saunders
Blazing Buzzards Report On Jap Balloon Mystery
MARSHALL Texas June 11 UP reports to Linden Cass County sheriff of fire balls like balloon bombs. A fire burned four acres as a buzzard found near field edge had tin cans and oil saturated rags set alight. Wind from its flight kept flames behind, allowing long flight before landing. Report suggests multiple birds involved due to many sightings. Residents seek who tied cloth to birds and why.
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Marshall
Tex
Sheriff’s
Linden
Cass County
Hopkins Due in Capital Tomorrow
Washington dispatch reports Harry Hopkins will arrive in Washington tomorrow to brief the president on his Moscow mission. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross said Hopkins could meet the president tomorrow afternoon or night concerning plans for a Big Three meeting and allied issues.
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Washington
Harry Hopkins
Iide
Moscow
White House
Charles G. Ross
Hopkins
Paris
Marshal Stalin
Ross
West Coast
George E. Allen
Washington Insurance
San Francisco
Air Power Only Requirement for Defense-Daniels
Former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels urges peacetime draft foes to back universal military training. He argues future security rests on air power and a Navy strong on land and sea, insisting dominance of the skies prevents invasion. Daniels testifies as the House Postwar Military Policy Committee probes training plans.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Raleigh
N.C
House
Daniels argues for volunteer force over draft in postwar Navy plan
In a quoted defense of volunteerism, Daniels says the craft and accesso ries will attract young Americans to enlist, making a broad draft unnecessary. He predicts a small stat e land force supported by pay, education, and advancement, with no need for conscription. Eight hundred typewritten pages detail the Navy’s Day postwar role.
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Daniels
Army
Navy
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