Truman Hopes Conference Ends This Week
President Truman pressed to speed the San Francisco security conference toward a final charter this week though aides warn completion this week is unlikely. He planned a Thursday press conference at the White House and a San Francisco address if work allows, with a possible pause for the Berlin talks and a plan to depart next month for the Big Three meeting in Berlin.
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Olympia. Wash
Truman
San Francisco
Executive Mansion
Mon C. Wallgren
United States
Charles G. Ross
White House
Ross
Wallgren
Berlin
Michigan
Doerflinger's To Sell Bonds in Drive to Reach Quota
Doerflinger's plans a bond sale on the first floor with 50,000 in Series E bonds secured from the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis. Sales run 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with two entertainment programs by WKBH and a free airplane ride for purchases of 500 or more. The drive aims to raise funds before the June 30 end, as local totals show substantial progress toward the national war bond quota.
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Federal
Minneapolis
Reevent
WKBH
Camp McCoy
Ion
Civil Air Patrol
Park
Col
Eaton
Cita
Clarence Ekern
Law
Boy
Army
Weather outlook but temperatures unclear in fragment
Fragmentary forecast notes 55 degrees and slight warmth with fair conditions overnight and Thursday. Mentions a daytime high near 78 degrees and a mild afternoon with a high around 78.
Davis Proposes 50 Cent Hourly Minimum Wage Increase
William H. Davis proposed a general minimum wage of 50 cents per hour with a floor up to 65 cents in textiles and other incentive needed industries. He urged amending the plan to draw workers back into industries facing manpower shortages and support reconversion stabilization. The proposal was presented at a conference of six government agencies with AFL and CIO textile unionists.
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Washington
William H. Davis
Davis
Office of Economic Sug
AFL
CIO
More Troops Chicago Bound
Additional troops mainly combat soldiers were en route to Chicago to help smash a strike against 1,700 seized government assets. They join 4,200 military police and army truck drivers on duty, surpassing the total union membership of about 14,000 in the striking AFL Teamsters and related unions. Army drivers and escorts move cargoes as trains and trucks operate.
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Chicago
Ee Ene
Ianeae
Feuckaches
AFL Teamsters Brotherhood
Supers Firebomb Three Japanese Industrial Cities in Wide Raid
In a large incendiary strike, 450 Superfortresses dropped 3,000 tons of fire bombs on Shizuoka Toyohashi and Fukuoka, igniting windswept blazes visible from 75 miles as Tokyo reported fires burning for hours. Minelaying B-29s operated off Honshu while Okinawa fighters hit Omuta.
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Guam
Shizuoka
Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Toyohashi
Honshu
Fukuoka
Kyushu
Omuta
William W. Potter
Knoxville
Tenn
Maj
Charles Tibbs
Battle Mountain
Nev
Assistant Commander Of 96th Division Dies In Action
Brig. Gen. Claudius M Easley assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division was killed in action on Okinawa Tuesday. He was 53 and a World War I veteran. He is the second high ranking officer to die on Okinawa this week after Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was killed the day before.
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96Th
Okinawa
Washington
Claudius M. Easley
War Department
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10Th Army
McKenzie Pilots Special Plane For Rescuing Crash Survivors
In New Guinea three survivors of an army crash were guided to safety by a specially equipped C-41 transport piloted by Capt. William G. McKenzie. The mission involved towing a glider into a mountain valley and later extracting it with Maj. William Samuels observing. The operation followed a three day jungle trek by the survivors and native helpers. Col. Ray T. Elsmore oversaw a rehearsal of the rescue at Biak.
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Hollandia
New Guinea
gri-La
Mckenzie
Girt
Biak
Ray T. Elsmore
Menlo Park
Calif
T. R. Lynch
Elsmore
Wac Corp
William G. McKenzie
Grace McKenzie
Prospect Street
la Crosse
Wis
Manila
William
Samuels
Oakland
374Th
332Nd
Owi Island
Saw Hitler and Eva Braun Bodies Reported Burning
A Berlin police officer told Allied correspondents on May 1 that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun lay dead and on fire by the exits of the Reich Chancellery shelter. He described their bodies, gasoline cans nearby, and an odor, saying Linge and other aides were present as the claim circulated amid reports of Hitler’s possible escape.
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Montgomery
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Reichs Chancellery
Hitler
Marshal Zhukov
Thefuehrer
Va Braun
Fuehrer
Fraulein Braun
Linge
Karnau
Hollisches Tor
Sturmbahnfuehrer
Braun
Allies Sweep Balikpapan Harbor Of Mines
Manila reports allied minesweeping off Balikpapan as ships cleared the harbor ahead of bombardment of the oil refinery. General MacArthur discounted enemy claims of a large fleet in the area and confirmed a 200 ton Liberator bombing mission.
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Manila
Seria
Borneo
Balikpapan
Douglas MacArthur
Plan To Start Chest In City
A La Crosse meeting at the Stoddard hotel launched a push to reestablish the Community Chest. Leonard Blackmer presided as acting chairman and a steering committee was formed to organize a public drive at the Chamber of Commerce Friday at 4 pm. Community leaders from labor, management, and local organizations pledged support, citing reduced manpower, budget control, and unified donor tracking as key benefits.
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la Crosse
Stoddard
Leonard Blackmer
Milwaukee
Wisconsin War Fund
E. P. Newburg
B. W. Ingli
J. J. Verdota
George Sarazin
J. E. Healy
George Hall
Roy Lamb
Hugh G. Corbett
Frank Ross
Madison Community Union
George Pany
J. E Healy
la Crosse Bber Mills
Peter Pendleton
Harry B. Jones
AFL
CIO
Citef
Ross
Rail Spring Firms Face Antitrust Charges Over Pricing
Ten major railway spring and spring plate manufacturers were charged in a federal antitrust suit with conspiring to suppress competition and fix prices. The civil action targets firms in New York and Pennsylvania and Indiana, plus the Universal Railway Devices Co of Chicago and the Railway and Industrial Spring Association of Pittsburgh. DOJ officials say annual sales to railroads and car builders total about 10 million dollars.
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Washington
Justice Department
York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Universal Railway Devices Company of
Chicago
Railway & Industrial Spring Association of
Pittsburgh
Wendell Berge
Wisconsin Legislature Recesses After Five Months of Battle
Madison lawmakers end a five month session and recess until September fifth after settling differences on an anti gambling bill and a postwar building program. The anti gambling measure allows seizure of slot machines and reports violations to district attorneys. The building program allocates 16.5 million dollars for remodeling and new construction at state penal, charitable and educational institutions. Major actions include a biennial budget of 83 million and taxes raising about 16 million, plus highway funding shifts. A mountain time bill and a Coleman party change proposal died after vetoes and party friction surfaced.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Goodland
Senate
Assembly
Circuit Court
University of Wisconsin
Welfare Board
Sen. Risser
Beggs
Lord Crewe Dies at 87 After Long Public Service
Lord Crewe, 87, former Liberal leader in the House of Lords, died Wednesday night. He served as secretary for India and for war, president of the board of education, lord privy seal, and as British ambassador to France.
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London
Lord Crewe
Liberal Party
House of Lords
India
Board of Education
France
Chinese Forces Close on Liuchow Air Field
Chinese troops advanced within three miles of the former American air field at Liuchow and pressed bitter battles in the city’s southern and western outskirts. A key Kwangsi railway junction six miles southwest has been recaptured as fighting continues near Pingisang, with Japanese resistance reported and new offensives claimed in Kiangsi.
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Chungking
Liuchow
Kwangsi Province
Kwangsi
Pingisang
Indo-China
Tokyo
Kiangsi
Polish exile leader kept in dark see no death sentences urged
In Moscow Maj. Gen. Nikolai Afanasiev urged the Soviet military court to impose imprison ment rather than death for 16 Poles on trial for subversive activities behind Russian lines. He argued the Red Army was the liberator of Poland and chastised defendants for exploiting Soviet restraint. Mikolajczyk testified through Yevgeny Charnowski about being kept uninformed on anti Russian activities.
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Moscow
Nikolai Afanasiev
Supreme Court
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
London
Bronislaw Okulicki
Mikolajczyk
Yevgeny Charnowski
Polish Union of Democrats
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Afanasiev
Red Army
Poland
Mikolajcczyk
Five Thousandth Okinawa Wounded Evacuated by ATC
GUAM The 5,000th casualty flown from Okinawa by the army air forces air transport command has arrived at Guam. Brig. Gen. Thomas O. Hardin said no patient or plane has been lost since April 8, the first evacuation flight. The 5,000th casualty was among 30 aboard a plane piloted by Capt. George F. Britten. Sgt. Maurice H. Van Susteren, Madison Wis., was medical technician.
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Guam
Okinawa
Army Air Force
Air Transport Command
Thomas O. Hardin
ATC
Central Pacific
George F. Britten
Bismarck
N. D
Maurice H. van Susteren
Madison
Wis
Tired Disgusted Nazi Soldier Led Allies To Ribbentrop
Hamburg dispatch reports a weary German soldier tipped British MPs to the arrest of Joachim von Ribbentrop. The informant, worried for his wife and unborn child, hated the war and avoided his superiors as he relayed the warning after seeing the Nazi minister sheltered by a divorcee.
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Charles Chamberlain
Hamburg
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
von Ribbentrop
Wehrmacht
Hundreds Of Japs Captured Near Okinawa Invasion Hints
Tokyo broadcasts cited signals of another possible U S invasion of the Ryukyu islands as Japanese troops surrendered by the hundreds, with U S transports massed near Okinawa and task forces moving toward Miyako and the Sakishima group. Allied mine layers swept toward Borneo as naval activity continued.
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Tokyo
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
U. S
Miyako Island
Sakishima
Balikpapan
South Pacific
Borneo
Bonin Islands
Iwo Jima
Jaluit Island
Marshalls
Okinawa Battle Rising Toll As US Forces Close In
Japanese troops and civilians leapt to their deaths from southern Okinawa cliffs as U S tanks and troops pushed to the south shore. Marine regiments seized coast, many Japanese surrenders reported while Nimitz praised collapsing defenses.
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Guam
Tokyo
Okinawa
U. S
Saipan
Kunishi Ridge
Roy S. Geiger
U. S. 10Th Army
Eighth
Chester W. Nimitz
Edwards Announces 86th Division Men Heading For Home
Lieut. Col. Forrest W. Edwards said the first 500 of the 86th Infantry Division Blackhawk troops would be homeward bound on furloughs late Wednesday from Camp Grant Illinois. About 1,500 remaining men will be furloughed by Thursday evening. The units include soldiers from Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa.
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Camp Grant
Ill
Forrest W. Edwards
Infantry Division
Blackhawk
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
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