Allied air raids hit Kyushu and Sakishima groups
The report notes pilot rescues and multiple air raids crossing the Ryukyu arc. Strong forces including carrier planes attacked five airfields on Kyushu, destroying dozens of Japanese planes and damaging ground installations. Kanoya and Okino Daito among key targets with ongoing kamikaze activity noted.
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Tokyo
Oki’ O
Okinawa
Sakishima Sland
Ryukyus
Con- Halsey
Tokyo Bay
Kyushu
Kanoya Nad
Kanoya
Nimitz
U. S
Okino Daito
East China Sea
Tsushima Straits
Palaus
Japanese Leaders Clash Over War Direction and Unconditional Surrender
The Domei report notes Suzuki and Ota clashing over who should direct Japan’s war effort. Suzuki accuses Western powers of tyranny while urging national unity and warning that unconditional surrender would destroy Japan’s structure and people. He calls for fighting to the last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial
YAS
Navy
Ota
Domei
Suzuki
Army
United States
Britain
Japan
Bradley Welcomed Home After Victory in Europe
Moberly Missouri June 9 Bradley the townsman returns home to Randolph county amid a tumultuous reception after the victory in Europe. He speaks on preventing another war and cites new military tech as a warning for future conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veral Bradley
Moberly
Perc
Bradley
Randolph County
Frank
Radley
Europe
Okinawa Battle Advances On Escarpment Slopes
Series of hard fights on Okinawa as Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge notes critical Japanese resistance near Oroku and escarpment sectors. 96th and Sixth Marine divisions press center thrusts while First Marine Regiment advances to the sea and seizes outposts near Itoman. Japanese claims of ship losses remain unconfirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okinawa
John R. Hodge
U. S. 24Th Corps
Associated Press
Smitz
Oroku
96Th
Edward W. Snedeker
Bendleman
First Marines
Itoman
Tokyo
Allied forces push toward Bagabag junction in Luzon
Bombers dropped 330 tons on Japanese positions while light naval forces shelled Luzon north coast. The 37th division faced light resistance as five flame thrower tanks were destroyed and 260 Japanese killed with 20 captured. In Marikina area the 38th division pressed hill assaults on Mount Ayas and Campanan as Mindanao troops advance toward Baguio.
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Page One
Bagabag Highway
Luzon
37Th Division
Arikina
Manila
Marikina
Mount Ayas
Mount Campanan
Mindanao
Philippines
Baguio
Biao
Friay
B29 Raids Hit Tokyo Bay Plants and Nagoya Area Targets
The new B 29 attacks the east shore of Tokyo bay damaged the Tomioka plant covering nearly two million square feet and hit Hitachi and Naruo plants. Sukagawa near Koriyama and Kashima gura seaplane base show large factory and naval facilities affected with multiple direct hits and major structural damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo Bay
Japan Aircraft Co
Tomioka
Yokohama
Hitachi Engineering Works
Sukagawa
Bomber Command
Koriyama
Hitachi Engineering Co
Kashimagaura
Nagoya
Naruo
Akashi
Swanishi Aircraft Co
Navy Slows Down On Landing Boats
The Navy disclosed a general slowdown in landing boat production. All producers are reducing monthly output, extending the time required to complete current contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Washington
Department
Texas Bomber Pilot Saves Airman's Life
Sst. John Boyd of Mayfield Kentucky, sole known survivor of a B 25 crew shot down on a Meiktila Burma strafing mission August 3 1943, credits Lt. Charles McCook of Georgetown Texas with saving his life by taking the bomber higher before it fell. Boyd endured almost two years as a Japanese prisoner in Rangoon after parachuting.
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Calcutta
John Boyd
Mayfield
Meiktila
Burma
Boyd
Rangoon
Meiktila Dam
Charles McCook
Georgetown
Texas
McCook
Osmena Opens Philippines Congress in Wartime Liberated State
President Sergio Osmena opened the first freely elected Congress with a pro indepedence stance. Sixty nine of 122 elected members attended the joint Senate and House session in a refurbished former Japanese school. Manuel Roxas was greeted with an ovation as new Senate president.
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Manila
Sergio Osmena
Philippines
Commonwealth
Senate
House
Osmena
Manuel Roxas
Flow Of Mexicans To U S Work Continues
Mexico reports ongoing flow of workers to the United States despite Europe war ending. In May about 25,000 Mexicans went to the U S with a train of 825 leaving every other day, projecting June total near 10,000. Quotas exist for agricultural railroad and heavy industry workers, though heavy industry remains underfilled due to War Manpower commission distribution issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Europe
War Manpower Commission
Slayer Of Kansas Man Sought By Officers
Slayers of Floyd L. Sutton are being hunted by state and local police and sheriffs from multiple counties. Sutton, a Kansas City store fixture salesman, was found dead in his car near Pleasanton with head or neck wounds from a sharp instrument. He had been missing 48 hours and the vehicle had stood along the highway for two days.
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Kansas
Pleasanton
Kan
Floyd L. Sutton
Olathe
Linn County
Ernest Cox
Sutton
Kansas City
Cox
Parverany
Folklore Society to Meet at University of Texas
Texas Folklore society will hold an informal session of Folk Songs and Tall Tales at the University of Texas on Tuesday June 12. President Frank Goodwyn announced the gathering in Austin.
Veterans Return Aboard 20000-Ton Troopship General W P Richardson
The 20000 ton troopship General W P Richardson arrives in New York on June 7 carrying over 1800 veterans from Europe. Many are slated for reassignment to the Pacific theater.
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Europe
Pacific
General W. P. Richardson
New York
Bowden Expected in Ann Arbor For Seven Month Engineering Course
Ens A C Bowden and his wife arrive today to stay with his mother in Lubbock while Bowden moves from Mare Island to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor for a seven month engineering program. He previously taught in the Texas Tech engineering division before joining the Navy.
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Ens
A. C. Bowden
Buenos Aires Police Chief Announces Prisoner Releases
Col. Filomeno J. Velazco, Buenos Aires chief of police, said all political prisoners in the four largest Argentina penitentiaries would be freed today. He reported more than 200 were released this morning.
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Buenos Aires
Col. Filomeno J. Velazco
Argentina
Britain Moves Vast Gold Reserves Amid War Threat
A Bank of England spokesman says Britain transferred nearly its entire gold stock from the island as German invasion loomed. Ships of all types ferried gold to hidden global stores, with about 4 billion dollars moved during the war from England and South Africa, and minimal losses. Huge funds were sent to New York and Ottawa to secure supplies before lend-lease began.
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London
Britain
Bank of England
England
South Africa
Churchill
Home Islands
New York
Ottawa
Lower Point Score For Discharge Seen
The War department announced a new critical discharge score under the Army point system will be set next month with a reduction from 85 points but not large. Brig. Gen. Ralph Lovett had indicated the score could fall well below 75 but above 40 after overseas surveys. The department cautioned that the exact score cannot be forecast until overseas reports are analyzed.
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Washington
U.R
War Department
Army
Ralph B. Lovett
Paris
Two Forts Break Up 9-Plane Jap Attack
Nine Japanese fighters attacked two U S 13th Army Air Force Liberator bombers returning to the Philippines from Indo China. Lt Russell L Massey and Capt James E Milles led the defense as two Japanese planes were shot down and seven fled.
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Manila
Philippines
Russell L. Massey
Aust B
Tex
James E. Milles
Birmingham
Ala
Youth Stabs Woman With Hunting Knife in Beaumont
A 13 year old boy admitted stabbing 76 year old Mrs R C Stafford in the back with a 10 inch hunting knife after she refused to buy vegetables. Police custody awaited psychiatric examination in Houston. The knife punctured her back and grazed her shoulder during the assault at her home.
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Beaumont
W.P
Houston
R. C. Stafford
War Casualties and a Fatal Okinawa Death
Mrs. W. H. Hague of Plains and T4 Ulysses C. Rowell of Hale Center were liberated from German camps. Pvt. Charles E. Payne of Levelland was killed in action on Okinawa April 25 after enlisting February 15, 1944, with training at Camp Croft and Fort Ord. Three Payne brothers in service. Fire destroys a 33 room apartment house opposite Texas State College for Women campus. damages about 25,000. occupants evacuated.
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W. H. Hague
Plains
Ulysses C. Rowell
Ellen Rowell
Hale Center
Charles Payne
Charlies E. Payne
E. C. Payne
Levelland
Okinawa
War Department
Camp Croft
S. C
Fort Ord
Calif
Hawaii
Tenth Army
E. C. Payne, Jr
Germany
Sgt
Wilson Payne
Canada
ATC
Vernon Payne
ETC
Denton
Texas State College For Women
Gene Cook
Burns Fatal for Man in Five Room House Fire
John Damron aged 63 died when a five room home burned early today in Del Rio. The blaze destroyed his residence leaving little chance of rescue. The incident occurred at dawn and investigators were uncertain of the cause.
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Burns del Rio
John Damron
Berlin At War Final Days Destruction And Rumors Of Hitler
A Berlin dispatch reports claims Hitler married Eva Braun two days before Berlin fell and a body identified as Hitler found. Zhukov says Red Army forbids fraternizing and will pursue economic disarmament. Berlin is described as ruined beyond belief with 45 percent of buildings damaged and 65 000 tons of bombs dropped.
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Hitler
Zhukov
Berlin
Eva Braun
Joseph W. Grigg, Jr
Allied Control Council
Marshal Zhukov
Germany
Red Army
Stalingrad
Third Reich
London
Warsaw
Moscow
Bezarin
Stilwell Confers With Adm. Nimitz at Guam and Okinawa
General Joseph W. Stilwell met Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz at Guam and later inspected troops at Okinawa, continuing high level talks with Pacific theater leaders. Earlier reports noted Stilwell's Manila meeting with General Douglas MacArthur and Hawaii talks with Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr.
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Guam
Joseph W. Stilwell
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Navy
Vinegar Joe
Asiatic
Pacific
Japan
Stilwell
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Nimitz
MacArthur
Hoffman Asks Probe Of Yank Conviction
Rep. Hoffman of Michigan urged a congressional investigation into Tyler Kent, a former London embassy clerk jailed in England for seven years over Official Secrets Act violations. He cited Kent’s May 1940 seizure and alleged disclosure of coded messages between Churchill and Roosevelt.
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Washington
Hoffman
R-Mich
Tyler Kent
London
Kent
England
Churchill
Roosevelt
House
United States
Vest
Britain
Memorial tablet to lidice unveiled postwar tragedy
In Lidice Czechoslovakia a tablet will be unveiled in memory of the Czech mining village destroyed by Nazi atrocity. The note mentions Britain and Russia as major Lend-Lease meat claimants and that one pound of meat from the US was allocated among over ten produced last year.
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Lidice
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Local Births Reported From Lubbock Hospitals
A summary of births listing parents names and addresses in Lubbock and nearby areas. Reported weights range from 4 pounds 4 ounces to 7 pounds 12 ounces with times on a Saturday night and morning. Several entries note parents' occupations or stations and hospital details.
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E. E. Cannon
Lubbock
Lon Kelly
Mr. Thompson
Cannon
W. D. Stephens
Harvey Nix
Lubbock General Hospital
Plains
St Biece
Int
Mary’s Hospital
B. A. Cantrell
Clint Herring
Post
O. M. Pierce
West Texas Hospital
Training Centers Named for Infantry Replacements System
Service Command readies units for Pacific redeployment. The 86th Division, first across the Danube, trained at Camp Howze Texas and Camp Livingston Louisiana before Sept 1944. The 95th and 97th trained at Camp Swift Texas. 95th joined with the 51st in Metz operations in late 1944. Replacements will fill posts under point system. Camps Maxey and Howze renamed infantry advanced replacement training centers, becoming IARTCS from June 3.
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Pacific
Eighth Service Command
86Th
Black Hawk
Seventh Army
Danube
Regensburg
Germany
Camp Howze
Texas
Camp Livingston
Service Command
95Th
97Th
Camp Swift
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Polk
Sth
Metz
Southwest
Europe
First
Ruhr
Maxey
Howze
Iartcs
Price Control Bill Faces Senate Battle
Administration forces urged absent senators to return for a pivotal Monday vote on extending price controls. They claimed enough votes to defeat two profit protecting amendments Bowles said would curb inflation. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma asserted the amendments would be backed by votes.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Thomas
D-Okla
Patton and Doolittle Welcomed Home on California Coast
Generals George S. Patton Jr and James H. Doolittle were greeted in California after victories in Europe. They arrived at Los Angeles airport from Denver aboard large transport planes with 47 officers and men. A parade of cars led to city hall for a formal welcome program.
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Los Angeles
George S. Patton, Jr
James H. Doolittle
California
Europe
Los Angeles Municipal
Denver
Two Drown Near Terrell in Cotton Tank Swim
Tom Sneed aged 41 and his 14 year old stepson O B Swanner drowned today while swimming in a tank on the Bond acsa cotton plantation owned by Rep. Thomas Bond, six miles southwest of Terrell.
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Terrell
Tex
Tom Sneed
O. B. Swanner
Bond+acsa
Rep
Thomas Bond
Here
Mark Twain Guards Manuscripts With Chalk Line
The writer feared losing manuscripts and drew a chalk line around his desk, forbidding the maid to cross it even to dust, a peculiar wartime precaution attributed to his meticulous habits.
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Mark Twain
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Hayney Blalock
Ropesville
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Blalock
Mitchell
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Napier Field
Douthan
Guy Casey
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Jean Casey
Wellman
Brownfield
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Payne
NASH
Can
Nash-Kelvinator Corp
Adm
Yank
W. E. Burnett
Starroute
Hale’ Center
Roy Herron
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City Bus Co
Dave Hunt
Patton
Doolittle
Farm and Ranch Loans
General American Life Insurance CO
M. Madden
First National Bank
Lubbock, Texas
M. Gelf
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