Mass Nazi Leaders Named for World War II Trial
Allied powers list 24 defendants for the first major postwar trial in October. Hermann Goering Rudolf Hess Wilhelm Keitel Karl Doenitz appear among the accused along with Ribbentrop Ley Rosenberg Frank Kaltenbrunner and others. Hess deemed mentally fit to stand trial. Bormann’s whereabouts uncertain.
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LONDON
Herman Goering
Rudolf Hess
Wilhelm Keitel
Karl Doenitz
Germany
Hess
fuehrer
England
Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Robert Ley
Nazi party
German labor front
Alfred Rosenberg
Hans Frank
Poland
S. S
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Congress weighs unemployment and full employment plans
Washington reports Congress is shaping two key measures. One unemployment proposal would fund states up to 25 dollars weekly for 26 weeks, while a “full employment” plan would have a yearly government study of employment prospects and potential job creation if needed. Other items include draft protest, abolition of a three member property board, and limits on postwar production, with WPB easing leather restrictions and housing price discussions affecting builders and manufacturers.
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Congress
Truman
instry
house committee
consideran
Associan of Home Builders
WPBs
gar
quan
Texas Tropical Storm Leaves Toll of Deaths and Damage
A tropical cyclone battered the Texas coast causing crop and property damage that may reach 15 million dollars. The Houston Post reported widespread destruction from the storm with efforts to aid the homeless underway. The Salvation Army and Red Cross mobilized clothing and aid networks. Three people were dead and at least thirteen injured.
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IOUSTON
Tex
Texas
Houston Post
Salvation ny
Houston
Red Cross
Thomas W. Nero Dies at 70 Founder of Faultless Rubber Die Mat
Thomas W. Nero 70 former president and chairman of the board of Faultless Rubber die Mat died after a heart event. Nero led the company for years shaping its direction and growth. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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SHLAND
Thomas W. Nero
Co-Chairmen Named To Lead Muskingum War Chest Campaign
Fred H. Archer and Verner Watts were named co chairmen for the 1946 Muskingum County War Chest campaign announced by Earl Swingle. Archer, a Red Cross field director, and Watts, Ohio Motor List proprietor, will head a six division campaign to raise Muskingum County share of the National War Fund 115 million dollar goal.
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Fred H. Archer
the
Credit Bureau, Inc
Verner Watts
Ohio Motor List company
Muskingum County
American Red Cross
Maryland
Florida
Louisiana
War Chest Campaign committee
joint budget committee
War Fund
Community Chest
National War Fund
Swingle
War Chest
Archer and Watts
Houston crewmen found after WWII mystery
A returned report from Thailand and Bangkok details 300 survivors from the US Cruisers Houston and Perth, held in jungle camps since 1942. OSS sources say two Houston crewmen reached a guerrilla base, aiding by Thais, with hundreds of prisoners to be evacuated by plane from Bangkok, signaling imminent flights out of the jungle.
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WASHINGTON
Houston
KANDY
Ceylon
Thailand
U. S
Bangkok
Evertsen
Smith
Asia
OSS
Stottsberry to Quit Ration Post As Clerk Resigns
Edwin Stottsberry will resign his post as chief clerk of the Muskingum County War Price and Rationing board effective October 1. He had held the role since January after William E. Decker Jr. stepped down, previously working as teller and bookkeeper at Citizens National Bank until 1936 and later at Aktion.
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Edwin Stottsberry
Muskingum County
Birmingham Sinks to Kamikaze Hit at Okinawa
The light cruiser Birmingham sustained its third major battle damage at Okinawa on May 4 when struck by a kamikaze and a 500 pound bomb. Casualties were 45 killed, six missing, 83 wounded, including two medical officers and 19 of 24 hospital corpsmen. The ship had earlier been torpedoed in 1943 and later damaged near the carrier Princeton.
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WASHINGTON
Birmingham
Okinawa
navy
Princeton
Plan for Japanese general elections by year end
Reuters reports a Tokyo broadcast recorded plan that Japan will hold general elections before the end of 1944. The note cites a London desk transmission signaling an imminent electoral timetable.
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LONDON
Reuters
Tokyo
Japan
Halt Inductions on Saturdays and Holidays
Columbus Ohio selective service director Col. C. W Goble says inductions and pre induction physicals will be halted on Saturdays and legal holidays beginning this week. Recruits with orders for this Saturday or Labor Day will receive revised notices.
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COLUMBUS
Col. C. W Goble
Goble
Denison appoints Richard C. Burts Jr dean of men
Granville Denison University announces the appointment of Richard C. Burts Jr of Rock Hill South Carolina as dean of men. Burts previously served as assistant dean of students at City College of New York under President Kenneth I. Brown.
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GRANVILLE
Richard C. Burts, Jr
Rock Hill
S.C
Denison university
Kenneth I. Brown
City College of New York
State Senator's Son Dies in Crash
TOLEDO. P Thomas M. Cramer 16 son of State Senator and Mrs Virgil Cramer Toledo was killed instantly when the automobile he was riding crashed into an island at the intersection of State Routes 65 and 110 one mile northeast of Grand Rapids State highway patrolmen reported.
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TOLEDO
Thomas M. Cramer
Virgil Cramer
Grand Rapids
Yanks Poised to Landing In Japan
Allied forces prepare to occupy Japan with 18 250 troops landing by sea and air. Nimitz arrives Tokyo Bay as MacArthur awaits at Okinawa. Yokosuka base inspected. San Diego to dock first at Yokosuka. British and American units prepare for early landings and surrender events aboard Missouri.
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Nimitz
Tokyo Bay
MacArthur
Japan
Yokosuka
Tokyo radio
Yokohama Marine transport board
Oscar C Badger
San Diego
Royal navy
Tokyo Bay islands
Yokosuka naval base
General MacArthur
Atsugi airfield
Tokyo
Nagato
Badger
Robert B. Carney
Admiral Halsey
cief
South Dakota
Missouri
south Pacific
Duke of York
Atlantic
Scharnhorst
Adm
Bruce Fraser
Miura peninsula
Sagami bay
Pacific ocean
bay
Frank Jack Fletcher
north Pacific
Marine Ace Boyington Reported Alive After Missing
Marine ace Ma. Gregory Boyington was reported alive today aboard USS Ancon in Tokyo Bay, nearly 20 months after vanishing in battle near Rabaul. The uncertain report, flashed from San Juan, lacks details and may stem from a Japanese pilot or Atsugi airmen. Boyington earned the Medal of Honor for actions starting with the Flying Tigers in China.
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Tokyo Bay
Ma. Gregory “Panny” Boyington
south Pacific
Rabaul
San Juan
Atsugi
Tokyo
Boyington
Flying Tigers
China
New Britain island
Hero of Corregidor to See Jap Surrender Ceremonies
Lt Gen Jonathan Wainwright, hospitalized in Chungking, plans to witness Japan's surrender in Tokyo. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in the Philippines in 1942 and hopes Gen Masaharu Homma will attend. Wainwright will travel with former prisoners of war to Manila and Tokyo for the surrender events.
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Chungking
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Lewis C. Beebe
A. C. Wedemeyer
Philippines
General Wainwright
Corregidor
Jonathan Wainwright
Tokyo
CHUNGHKING
Manila
Japan
Wainwright
Homma
Col
James H. S. Rasmussen
Phoebus
Mutken
Bataan
MacArthur
John Pugh
Maj
Thomas Dooley
T-Set. H. Carroll
Southwest Pacific
general staff school
war college
Zanesville Seaman Lindsley Among Houston Survivors Hopeful
Albert John Lindsley Seaman 1-C from Zanesville is missing in action since the USS Houston was sunk Feb 28 1942 now among 300 Japanese prison camp survivors reported in Thailand. Brother Terry Lindsley stationed in England since 1943. Jack Burge Waterford and James Gore Cincinnati also aboard the Houston.
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Robert Lindsley
Moxahala avenue
Albert John Lindsley
Houston
Thailand
Jack Burge
Waterford
James Patrick Gore
Cincinnati
Burge
Gore
Lindsley
Pearl Harbor
ball park
Putnam
Corp
Terry Lindsley
England
Quisling II Trial Delayed by Illness in Oslo
The treason trial of Vidkun Quisling in Oslo was adjourned to August 31 as prosecutors announced the defendant was too ill to attend. A doctors report said he is sane but a strenuous brain examination over the weekend weakened him.
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OSLO
Vidkun Quisling
Erik Solem
Quisling
Ways and Means Delays Roosevelts Treasury Study Release
The House Ways and Means Committee announced Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt’s treasury study cannot be published now due to legal restrictions. It will decide when the record is complete whether to include the full study in a formal report to the heads.
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WASHINGTON
house
ways and means
Elliott Roosevelt
treasury
Army Board's Pearl Harbor Report Released
President Truman defended General Marshall against army board criticisms while endorsing War Secretary Stimson's praise of Marshall. The three volume Pearl Harbor findings faulted Rear Admiral Kimmel Admiral Stark and General Short, with Truman pledging fair court martial action if warranted. Short and Kimmel led Pearl Harbor forces and Stark led naval operations.
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army
Hawaiian department
Short
Mr. Truman
Pearl Harbor
navy
udge advocate general
T. L. Gatch
E. J. King
naval operations
Secretary of the Navy
General Marshall
Army Pearl Harbor board
Secretary of War
Marshall
Admiral Stark
Stimson
Admiral Kimmel
General Short
President Orders Enlistments Resumed
President Truman ordered the resume of voluntary enlistments in the armed forces. Enlistments had been suspended on December 5, 1942. The suspension is revoked to add military forces during the occupation of Germany.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Germany
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