Big Three Recess One Day For British Election
The Big Three pause for a one day recess Thursday so Churchill can be in London for the British election results. Eden and Attlee expected to join the premier at Potsdam as discussions continue on postwar issues and potential government changes.
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Churchill
London
Potsdam
Anthony Eden
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Churchil
Eden
Attolee
Benin
Attlee
Eingland
Truman
Stalin
Stalin Tas
1000 Japs Die In Pegu Region In Burma Fight
In Burma's Pegu region allied forces say over 1000 Japanese troops were killed and 80 captured as they attempted to break out toward the Sittang River. Heavy fighting raged along a 77 mile road from Toungoo to Nyaungle din with major clashes near Penwegon. Allied aircraft, including Spitfires and Thunderbolts, bombed Japanese positions while a coastal schooner was sunk and smaller craft damaged by strafing.
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Cabuna
Pegu
Burma
Southeast Asia Command
Sittang River
Toungoo
Nyaungledin
Penwegon
Nyaunegledin
Sittang
An &Foot
Kre Isthmus
Street Scene Wildlife and Childs Costume in City Scene
A gray cat calmly trots up hospital steps past visitors, appearing like a scheduled visitor. A five year old boy imagines playtime in cowboy and Indian lore and asks his mother to make a loin cloth to wear with an Indian chief headdress. Sk Soman fans herself with a handkerchief as a countermeasure to heat, absorbed by a fur coat display in a store window.
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Soman
Canvass Finds No Opposition To Charter In Senate Vote
Washington reports a canvass by Democratic and Republican leaders found no opposition to the United Nations Charter besides Senator Hirmmn Johnson of California. Johnson may be absent for ratification. President Truman could address the Senate on the Potsdam Big Three meeting. Wheeler weighs a lengthy address. most expect ratification votes to occur soon.
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Washington
Senate
Hirmmn Johnson
Johnson
Naval Hospital
Truman
House
Wheeler
D-eront
Barkley
Anderson Says He Has No Plan To Ration Soap
Washington announces that Katos P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, says no plan to ration soap. He urges housewives to stop store raiding as new shipments arrive and states manufacturers may boost output by 10 percent for heavy duty laundry soaps and related products.
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Anderson
Washington
Katos P. Anderson
Six Tennessee Men Flight Home From War Fronts
Air Transport Command plans to fly home six East Tennessee servicemen from Europe. Cpl. French E. Hoover Kingsport T/5 Robert C. Parker Sgt. Jos B. Wright T William N. Johnson Greeneville Pte. Marshall Hays Jonesboro Pvt. Wiley A. Eggers Mountain City will join others among the first group slated for monthly return. After brief ATC processing they travel by rail to Camp Blanding Florida for discharge or reassignment.
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East Tennessee
Air Transport Command
Farflung
Cpl
French E. Hoover
Robertson Street
Kingsport
Robert C. Parker
Jos B. Wright
Bristol
T. William N. Johnson
Greeneville
Marshall
Hays
Jonesboro
Pvt
Wiley A. Eggers
Mountain City
Miami
ATC
Philippines Become Key Invasion Point
Manila reports indicate the Philippines shifting from battleground to a major staging area for the invasion of Japan. Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer states that in July to September, nearly one million more tons of supplies will reach Interfanlia and other Philippine ports than in eight months of prior operations. Troop numbers will more than double, with storage space expanding to cover 205 city blocks as materials move forward from bases in Australia and New Guinea.
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Manila
Phiippine Islands
Japan
Wilhelm 3. D. Styer
Army Force
Western Pacific
Oday
Tokyo
Science Bills Seen As Subs For Peacetime Draft
Washington reports mounted today that peacetime conscription legislation faces contentions over necessity if the nation develops a top flight research program. Senators Kilgore Johnson Pepper introduced a bill to create a National Science Foundation to back research in war weapons medicine and basic sciences. They argue research is key to military success and warn another war would be fought in the laboratory rather than on the drill field. Kilgore cites Germany and China to show manpower alone is insufficient and suggests school and ROTC programs could build discipline without broad conscription.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Kilgore
D-W Va
Johnson
D-Cole
Pepper
D-Fla
Germany
France
United States
China
Reynaud Testifies On Franco British Union At Petain Trial
Former premier Paul Reynaud testified in the Petain trial that a Franco British union was an ideal to be realized someday. He recalled June 16 1940 when his cabinet fell and said he opposed an armistice and favored transferring government to French Africa to continue the war. He described Churchill’s plan for union and noted Camille Chautemps opposition and a cabinet threat to resign if armistice was demanded.
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Faoudt
Paul Reynaud
Marshal Petain
France
Great Britain
Churchill
Petain
Toln
Reynaud
French Africa
Maxime, Weygand
Fetain
Fetter
Camille Chaultemps
Chautemps
Chinese Hit Area Nearer To Kweilin
Chinese troops bombarding a village three miles northwest of Lingchwan and 15 miles north of Kweilin threaten Japanese communications between Kwangsi and Hunan. A roadblock northeast of Kweilin hampers movement as Chinese units rip up rail lines, destroy boxcars, and take Japanese prisoners. Japanese forces retreat from Changsha area toward Nanchang faced by Chinese counterattacks with heavy casualties.
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Chungking
Kwangsi
Hunan
Lingchwan
Kweilin
Mies
Kwellin
U. S, 14Th Air Force Base
High Command
Hongkong-Hankow
Say
Changsha
Liuyang
Kanhsien
Nanchang
Yangtze
Kiukiang
Wanan
Kan River
Kanhalen
Atruck
American Units Arrive From ETO in Batches
Several Army units progress toward U.S. arrival from Europe with shipments scheduled at Boston New York and Hampton Roads Virginia. Units include the 153rd Finance Dis burning Section 66th Replacement Battalion 445th and 440th Military Police Prisoner of War Procurement Companies 213th Quartermaster Service Company and the 300th and sixth Quartermaster Truck Companies. Yesterday arrivals include the 6th Armored Infantry Battalion 464 Tank Battalion 124th Armored Engineering Battalion and an ordnance detachment of the 118th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion from the 12th Armored Division. Elements of the 497th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and 488th Armored are noted at Hampton Roads.
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United States
Europe
Boston
153Rd Finance
Military Police
New York
Sith Armored
124Th Armored Engineering
1A8th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
12Th Armored Division
Hampton Roads
497Th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
488Th Armored
New War Ration Books Issued In December
Washington announces distribution of War Ration Book Five for food and shoes from December 3 to 15, via schools and public buildings, and new gasoline ration book issued December 22. Books aim to cover about 15 months, with stamps and colors redesign, as supply concerns persist into next year.
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Washington
Price
Cheater Bowles
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
Bowles
Carrier and land based planes pound Kure Osaka Nagoya
American warplanes struck Japan with heavy air power today. Carrier and land based planes bombarded Kure naval base and the Osaka Nagoya industrial belt with thousands of tons of bombs. Reports describe direct hits on ships and widespread damage to plants, with large carrier air forces over Honshu and minimal enemy fighter opposition.
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Guam
Tokyo
Japan
Kure
Osaka
Nagoya
U. S
Honshu
Associated Press
Nagoya-Osaka
Superforia
20Th Air Force
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Radio Tokyo
Lindsley
Wherry Pushes Senate Debate on Japanese Peace Terms
Senator Wherry Nebraska urged the Senate to discuss whether Japan sent any peace feelers to Washington. He plans to question if the State Department has received genuine offers and cites a rumored message to President Truman at Potsdam from a "high military source" proposing terms including keeping the emperor and avoiding occupation. The senator noted the State Department says no authentic peace offer exists and urged peace terms under the UN Charter to secure Japan's surrender.
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Washington
Wherry
Neb
Senate
Japan
State Department
Truman
Potsdam
F Wherry
Nebraska
Waa Hla
Floods and Heat Sweep Across Nation Remain Mixed
Floods swept eastern and western New York Massachusetts Vermont and nearby states with rivers and creeks overflowing. Damage reached millions to roads bridges and private property with several deaths from drowning and two heat fatalities reported nationwide. Heat aided corn and wheat crops while drought showed no sign across most regions.
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New York
New Tersey
Vermont
Fennsylvania
Virginia
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Paterson
N. J
Hancock River
Little Falls
Peck
E Man
Kinderhosk Creek
Rensselaer County
Nebraska
Seaboard
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Firefighters Build Bridges to Move Equipment in Tillamook Fire
Portland workers battled a week-long blaze that scorched 90 000 acres of timberland. Fire crews aimed to restore an abandoned logging railway to haul bulldozers and military gear into the Tillamook Wilson fire zone as mopping up continued along the northwest rim. Northward shifts reduced the threat while 2 800 soldiers and loggers prepared to move to other areas. Separate fires in Meadow Creek Idaho and Whitman National Forest Idaho were reported controlled.
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Portland
Ore
Durned
Tillamook~ Wilson
Meadow Creek
Nez Force National Forest
Idaho
Whitman National Forest
Senators urge Army Navy cut weekend leaves to ease travel strain
Senate War Investigating Committee members urged reduced weekend leave for soldiers and sailors to relieve railroad congestion caused by redeployments from Europe to the Pacific. Senators Ferguson and Burton pressed for a review of leave policies as Col. J Monroe Johnson testified on undeveloped redeployment plans and Army freight impacts.
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Army
Navy
Washington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Europe
Pacific
Ferguson
R-Mich
Burton
R-ohis
Cot. J
Australians Slaughter Japanese Forces in Borneo Push
Allied reports say Australian troops slaughtered Japanese forces north of Balikpapan and advanced toward Samarinda in eastern Borneo. Japanese withdrawals from Mount Batochampur were shelled at night, with naval units hitting bivouac areas in the Mahakara River delta. Royal Australian Air Forces provided close support as natives were described as killed by retreating Japanese in villages along the Balikpapan front.
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Austtart
Balikpapan
Borneo
Samarinda
Macarthur
Mount Batochampur
Thhey
Samarinds
Mahakara River
Royal Australian Air Forces
Melbourne
American Broadcasting Company
Careful Driver Wins City Safety Award
Hermon Anderson of 909 Myrtle Street received the daily Kingsport Safety Council Careful Driver award for careful driving on rough city streets. License number 35-1087 noted. Tickets have not been mailed.
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Hermon Anderson
Myrtle Street
Tureday
Kingsport Safety Council
Anderson
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