Gruesome Find of Japanese Atrocities On Luzon Battlefield
American troops uncover a bayoneted Japanese hospital corps in Luzon. The 129th infantry under Col John D Springfield discovers a field hospital in a school building filled with wounded, many slain in the temples, amid reports of the Japanese retreat and extermination of their own wounded. Prisoners’ documents cited as proof of the massacre.
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Luzon
Douglas
Bayombong
Manila
129Th Infantry
John D. Fred Springfield
Frightened Pup Rescued From River Mud
A mongrel pup once in a pound was adopted by the Krider family but later faced dismissal after the Kriders lost their two sons. Workmen nearby saw the dog leap from the river and the family was later found stuck in river mud.
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Krider
Planes Begin Raids Across Siam Gulf and Malaya
The RAF announced raids expanding over the Gulf of Siam Malaya and adjacent areas in weeks of combat. They claim to have sunk or damaged ships along the line to French Indo China and Thailand.
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RAF
Gulf of Siam
Malaya
Invasion Plans Found in Garage by Prime Minister Smuts
A garbled note reports plans and maps of a German invasion, once in the possession of Prime Minister Smuts, described as a blue file in a garage. The fragment hints at a World War II era “invasion that never was” with uncertain details.
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British Isles
Prime 4
C. Smuts
Jum
Meal Weather in amd warm tonight with thundershowers
The forecast calls for warm conditions tonight with thunderstorms possible. Sunday will be partly cloudy with a low and a high near 85 and a cooler day ahead.
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Amd
Demobilization Plan for 13 Oldest Red Army Groups Adopted
The Mos cow radio reports the Supreme Soviet of the USSR unanimously adopted a bill to demobilize the 13 oldest age groups in the Red Army. The order signals staged downsizing of the armed forces as part of wartime to peacetime transition.
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Russ
London
Moscow Radio
Supreme Soviet
Us.s.r
Kamikaze Attacks Timber Okinawa As War Rages
Tokyo radio reports Japanese pilots using death by own action strike patterns amid raids that sank two American ships and damaged several more. Allied forces claim control around Okinawa with Stars and Stripes raised, while Americans press to rout remaining Japanese forces.
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Guam
Tokyo
Okinawa
Nimitz
Japan Faces Crisis as Emperor May Assume Personal Rule
Emperor Hirohito declared the present crisis unprecedented while speculation rose that he might take personal control. War Minister Anami announced a volunteer corps act to recruit a combat force, as Tokyo radio reports suggested rapid shifts in power and possible imperial leadership in a national emergency.
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Japan
Hirohito
Korechika Anami
People's Volunteer Corps
Tokyo
China
FCC
Montana Leads In War Bond Drive Milestones
Montana became the first state to meet all quotas in the 7th war loan drive by surpassing its $16 million Ebond quota by over $200,000. This marks the fifth consecutive drive where Montana achieved all goals first.
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Washington
Montana
Treasury Department
Hose Drives Rats From Sidewalk Collapse Site in Columbia
The Columbia health department used a high pressure fire hose to force about twenty rats from under a sidewalk as the sidewalk collapsed from undermining. The event followed concerns over urban rodent control and street subsidence.
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Columbia
S. C
Health Department
Mustang Pilots Bomb Airfields North of Tokyo in Major Raid
About 75 Mustang fighters with three B 29s attacked airfields in Ibaraki prefecture for over ninety minutes. Lightnings and Hellcats struck Fukuoka and Kyushu, while Superfortresses hit Kure. Tokyo reported 18 Japanese planes shot down and several U S bombers missing. Crews hailed the operation as highly successful amid vivid anti aircraft fire.
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Japan
Kure
Tokyo Radio
Okinawa
Guam
Saipan
Tinian
Tokyo
Polish exile government in London to gain recognition
British quarters said Poland’s exile government in London would lose US and British recognition after the expanded Warsaw provisional government pledges free elections at the earliest opportunity. They cited Crimea conference authority and said recognition would come automatically once the new government’s exact makeup and posts are announced.
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Warsaw
Poland
London
V. M. Molotov
Archibald Clark Kerr
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Cria
Britain
United States
Churchill
Roosevelt
Yalta
Crimea
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Wisentyn Witos
Peasant Party
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Wladyslaw Kiernik
Interior
Czeslaw Wycek
Stanislaw Grabski
Polish National Council
Jan Stanczyk
Moczislaw
Witos and Grabski
National Polish Council
Britain backs US plan for collective war crimes trial
A British source says Britain will accept the United States plan to hold a collective trial of Germanys arch war criminals and terror organizations before a high military tribunal. France and Russia mood unclear but likely to agree as Anglo American front forms ahead of London conference.
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London
Britain
United States
Germany
France
Russia
Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rudolf Hess
Bond Sale Draws Crowds at Doerflinger's Store
Crowds flocked to Doerflinger's department store as the Seventh War Loan drive neared its June 30 deadline. By 10 a.m. $9,425 in defense bonds were recorded with more sales uncounted on the first floor while 25 clerks processed forms from Boy Scouts relaying bonds. The county lagged $700,000 below its quota. a $500,000 Federal Reserve shipment aided today’s push.
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Doerflinger
la Crosse
F. T. Holman
Westby
Wis
Joyce Merrell
Loomis
la Crosse County
Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapolis
Riverside Park
Stanley J. Eaton
Camp McCoy
Clarence Ekern
Jackson Street
Ekern
Riverside
Heileman’s
Boy Scouts
Doerflinger’s
Tin Can Is Indias Jack Of All Uses
Five gallon tin cans shipped to the armed forces are used in India as seats in movie theaters as measures for fish and grain and as building blocks when filled with sand and cemented together. The American Can company says East Indians buy the cans for about 12 cents in American money and sometimes attack each other with knives over discarded army cans.
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New York
India
American Can Company
Brazil Repairs Vessels at Vianna Island Dry Dock
Brazil's ship repair shops and dry dock on Vianna Island in Guanabara Bay have repaired vessels since 1939. They have also built corvettes and submarine chasers now in service with Brazil's navy in the South Atlantic.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Vianna Island
Guanabara Bay
South Atlantic
Dr Allan White Dies at 69 Former St Joseph’s Rice Lake Chief of Staff
Dr Allan S White aged 69 longtime chief of staff at St Josephs hospital Rice Lake died Saturday after a long tenure of 22 years in the hospital.
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Racine
Wis
Allan S. White
St. Joseph's Hospital
Rice Lake
French Zone 1s Announced
The Paris radio said French troops would occupy the southern Rhineland Saar Rhenish Palatinate Baden a corridor through Luxembourg and Bavaria plus War Austrian province. The four powers reached final agreement on occupation zones with Moscow stating the Red Army would hold the east of a line near the Lübeck bay. British and American areas depended on France’s accord.
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Paris
Rhineland
Saar
Rhenish Palatinate
Baden
Luxembourg
Bavaria
Moscow
Red Army
Luebeck Bay
Germany
France
Truman Sees Charter O K
President Truman reportedly faces strong Senate support for the peace organization charter he plans to submit on July 2. Sources say he has spoken with nearly all senators and hopes for ratification well above two thirds with no major delay before his upcoming conference.
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Olympia
Wash
Truman
Peace Organization
Senate
Army Slashes Meat Buying Amid Civilian Shortages
The army will sharply cut meat purchases for 60 days to boost civilian supplies. President Truman signaled this move as relief measures and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones orders lower government set asides for beef in federally slaughtered output.
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Washington
Truman
Olympia
Wash
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
War Food
Marvin Jones
Eisenhower to Confer With Stimson in Capital Return
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower leaves Abilene for Washington to meet Secretary of War Stimson then plans a brief holiday before resuming duties in Europe. He rejects politics, says he wants nothing, and will oversee American forces in Europe and the German control commission. He credits U.S.-Soviet cooperation and clarifies Elbe halt was always planned.
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Kas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
War Stimson
Europe
Gen
Eisenhower
The
United
Truman
Middle West
German Control Commission
Elbe
Meat Shortage Solution Seen By Anderson
The house voted to permit unlimited local slaughtering under sanitary conditions as part of an amendment to OPA extension legislation. Rep Patman and Rep Anderson backed the measure which would bar quotas on certified cleanly operating plants. Anderson said the amendment would help solve local shortages by boosting production and easing meat transport.
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Washington
House
Patman
Texas
Rep
Anderson
Dn.m
Agriculture Secretary
Marchers protest Detroit meat shortage at city hall
A long line of men and women marched on Detroit city hall and OPA offices carrying placards reading We want food and All we get is OPA baloney to protest the meat shortage.
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Detroit
OPA
Governors Seek Meat Only Red Ration and Unified Food Agency
New York dispatch reports 13 northeastern states urge using red points for meat alone and concentrating OPA enforcement on food. Governors call for a single national food agency and local quota fixes, plus revision of meat allocations and stricter control at public eating establishments.
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House
Repo
OPA
Herbert Hoover
New York
United States
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