Keep Island Bases Arnold Urges U S To Use Pacific Forts
General Henry H. Arnold argues in Honolulu that postwar island bases in the Marshalls Palaus Volcanoes Bonins Marianas and Ryukyus are vital to America's defense and security. He warns that any enemy with a Super Fortress could destroy cities without these bases and predicts continued need for Pacific bases to flatten Japan.
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Pacific
Henry H. Arnold
USAAF
Okinawa
Marianas
Associated Press
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Palaus
Volcanoes
Bonins
Ryukyus
America
Arnold
United States
Tokyo
Japan
Nazi Henry Kaiser Captured in Pig Sty near Leipzig
Dr. Eugen Fleiberer a top Nazi labor front official known as Germanys Henry Kaiser was captured by Americans hiding in a pig sty at Rote Leberode. A satchel with 200000 marks looted wages and 20 million marks deposited in Mainz and Wiesbaden banks were seized. He boasted over Nordhausen camp production of V2s using 1000 slave workers and claimed he loved Roosevelt and the American Army. He admitted monthly delousing fees deducted from workers wages.
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Eugen Fleiberer
Germany
Henry Kaiser
Rote Leberode
Mainz
Wiesbaden
Fleiberer
Nordhausen
Weather report from 12th Weather Region in Italy
The 12th Weather Region notes generally fair and warm conditions across Italy with a heat wave. Northern Apennines partly cloudy by midday may see afternoon showers. Forecast highs: Rome 91, Naples 90, Bari 85, Florence 92. Tomorrow remains fair and warm with similar readings.
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Apennines
Rome
Naples
Bari
Florence
Call Me Prof Parri Advises ROME Premier
June 25 the new premier Ferruccio Parri rebuked a cabinet clerk for addressing him as Your Excellency and asked to be called Professor Park. The exchange, noted by the Italian press, highlights Parri's preference for a simpler title in office.
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Rome
Ferruccio Parri
Parri
Park
Professor Park
Edda Ciano Threatened to Tell on Duce in 1944 Letter
A facsimile letter published in L Unita alleges Edda Ciano warned Mussolini she would reveal what she knew if Galeazzo Ciano was not in Switzerland within three days. Dated January 10 1944 the note pretended to be from Duce and signed by Edda.
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Edda Ciano
Benito Mussolini
Galeazzo Ciano
Switzerland
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L'Unita
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Etter
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L’anita
Italy
Edda
Berlin Churches Open To All Faiths After War
Berlin mayor Arthur Werner reports Soviet approval for reopening war scarred churches for Protestant Catholic and Jewish worship. He notes Col Gen Nikolai Berzani urged education of children to believe in God. A Catholic priest will lead the Town Council Department of Religion with rotating representation among faiths.
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Berlin
Arthur Werner
Werner
Nikolai E. Berzani
Father Bucholtz
Cholera toll climbs in Chungking hospitals
Chungking reports at least 800 deaths since the epidemic began in early June. Lt Cmdr Frank Herrington of the U S embassy physician estimated 4,000 cases and said every hospital in the Chungking area is crowded at twice its capacity.
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Chungking
Frank Herrington
U. S
Lend Lease Deal Helps Leipzig Feed City
Maj Richard J Eaton of Boston crossed into Russian territory to offer brown coal in exchange for food to save Leipzig's half million people from hunger. Russian commander agreed, and shipments moved both ways along the Molde River.
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Leipzig
Richard J. Eaton
Boeton
Molde
Eaton
Scientist In France Tried For Treason
Paris June 25 George Claude aged 75 famed for neon light discovery and alleged V-1 flying bomb inventor faced trial on charges of collaboration with the enemy. He is accused of selling the bomb secret to Germans and using his factories to aid the German war effort while promoting propaganda against Russians, British, and Jews and urging French workers to join Nazi plants.
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Paris
George Claude
Reuter
Claude
French Academy
France Petain case near completion for high court
Paris June 25 AP reports that semi official Agence France Presse says the supreme court investigators have nearly finished preparations for the case against Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.
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Paris
Agence France Presse
Supreme Court
Marshal Hienri Philippe Petain
Greek 'Democracy' Called Pro Fascist
Soviet periodical New Times accuses a Greek clique tied to Nazis of still running the country and says the September unity deal was a maneuver to allow fascist reactionaries to return. It cites open terror against anti fascists and claims the so called democracy in Greece differs little from the German occupied regime.
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Moscow
New Times
Greece
Born In Brooklyn Lord Haw Haw Tells British Intelligence
William Joyce alias Lord Haw Haw disclosed to a British intelligence officer that he was born in Brooklyn to an Irish father who was a naturalized American. At Bow Street, Joyce faced a treason preliminary hearing as prosecutors presented his purported birth certificate and his past nationality claims in passport filings and wartime citizenship applications.
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London
William Joyce
Lord Haw Haw
Brooklyn
Joyce
Bow Street
L. A. Byrne
Britain
Byrne
New York City
Herkimer Street
Galway
Ireland
Russia Halts Swiss Repatriation in Retaliation Action
In Moscow on June 25 Soviet Russia suspended repatriation of Swiss citizens as retaliation for alleged mistreatment of Soviet nationals in Switzerland. Tats quoted the June 16 announcement citing inhuman camp conditions and at least one Russian death. Repatriation of Swiss held by Soviet authorities is paused until Swiss authorities improve conditions and ensure rapid Soviet citizen repatriation.
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Moscow
Russia
Switzerland
Tats
Red Army
Soviet Union
Boot Hill Okinawa Stronghold Fights End
Pacific Sidelights reports Hill 89 on Okinawa remains a brutal last Japanese outpost seen as Boot Hill by Col. Finn due to many booted toes in the soil. Allied shells scar the area as civilians and Japanese troops wave white flags from the coral cliff.
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Okinawa
Boot Hill
J. M. Finn
Associated Press
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