Civilians Offered High Wages For Burma Road Work
Indians Gis Resent Bid For Civilians. In Calcutta June 29 ANS reports soldiers in northern Burma resent civilian pay offers of 450 to 500 dollars monthly plus keep for the same road work. The Roundup notes Chrysler program to hire 500 per station along the 4700 mile Ledo Burma route, with Army uniforms and meals provided. Many soldiers seek civilian wages to avoid discharge yet stay at their posts, arguing army travel costs and acclimation to disease country are saved.
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India
ANS
Burma
J. F. Yokum
Myitkyina
Jean
Khampafnun
Arwair Aai Lawaeau UY VT
Puwpws
Flint
Mich
India- Burma
Ledo-Burma
Free China
Edward L. Cushman
War Manpower Commission
Chrysler Corporation
Hitler plotted to bar Von Fritsch in 1938
Graf Rudiger von Goltz said Allied officers were told Hitler used unfounded homosexuality charges to divide the Wehrmacht and remove its independent leadership. He claimed the Army tolerated the move, von Rundstedt and others intervened, and von Fritsch was acquitted but kept to a single regiment before dying on a patrol near Warsaw.
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Wiesbaden
Graf Rudiger von Goltz
Reichstag
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Werner von Fritsch
Wehrmacht
Count Goltz
Goltz
von Rundstedt
Hitler
von Fritsch
Warsaw
Connally Pushes Fast Ratification of World Charter
Sen Tom Connally chairing the Foreign Relations Committee urged speedy Senate ratification of the World Charter. He said the nation must ally its moral and material strength for peace and predicted few opponents. An AP tally showed 54 of 96 senators likely to vote for the Charter, with several leaning support and no outright opposition. A move to bypass hearings was blocked to allow any opponents to be heard.
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America
World Security Council
Tom Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Nazis Rising Again in Cologne Mayor Says
Cologne mayor Dr Konrad Adenauer declared the Nazi party is rising again in central Germany with secret meetings and the Heil Hitler salute reported in many areas. He cited Thuringia near Erfurt Weimar Hotha and the Hard Mountains as sites of activity amid Wehrmacht collapse leaving people searching for a straw to cling to.
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Cologne
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Thuringia
Erfurt
Weimar
Hotha
Hard Mountains
Adenauer
Wehrmacht
Towns In South Italy Orderly Once More
June 29 Bari reports calm returned to Andria and Minervino Murge after Labor Minister Gaetano Barbareschi met with local National Liberation Committees and Bari Communist leaders to secure order. In Minervino Murge, 13 men were arrested amid an armed attack that freed prisoners, with two carabinieri killed. In Andria unrest ended with arrests of fascists and a new prefecture commissioner, Francesco Basile. The Christian Democracy Executive Committee blamed open revolt against police for the disorder, denying socialist and communist claims that unrest stemmed from impunity of fascist elements.
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Bari
Gaetano Barbareschi
Andria
Minervino Mur¢e
Barbareschi
Communist Party of
National Liberation
Minervino Murge
Conto
Minervino
Francesco Basile
Christian Democratic Party
Argentina Students Demand Democracy in Nationwide Walkout
University students across Argentina walked out demanding a return to constitutional government. Spurred by the Argentine University Federation, protesters paraded in Buenos Aires shouting We want democracy. Fifteen students were detained after a clash near Congress, where Congress had not met since Edelmiro Farrell seized power.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Argentine University Federation
Congress Square
Congress
Edelmiro Farrell
Rough Ocean Trip Home For 390 ETO Troops
The storm battered Liberty ship Jonathan Elmer reached New York harbor after a 70 mph hurricane on the voyage from France. The vessel rolled 40 degrees. among the veterans aboard were elements of the 65th, 66th, 97th and 106th Infantry Divisions, plus members of the 8th Air Force, 101st Airborne and 4th Armored Divisions.
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New York
Jonathan Elmer
France
65Th
66Th
Tist
106Th
8Th Air Force
101St Airborne Division
4Th Armored Division
Big Three set to discuss Dardanelles fate at talks
London June 28 Reuters reports the forthcoming Big Three meeting will consider future control of the Dardanelles and Turkey related issues. Insights from London say Soviet Turkish talks have progressed with aims to redefine access through the straits and potential joint bases to guard the Dardanelles and Aegean Sea.
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London
Dardaneles
Turkey
Reuter’s
Syria
Levant
Soviet Union
Dardanelles
Aegaen Sea
Unwed Girls Babies in Reich Mostly Boys
AP reports Americans seized files revealing Himmler and statistician Dr Korherr discussing racial aims to breed more boys for the SS. Korherr’s report notes that very young, especially unmarried, mothers tend to have more boys and that unmarried status further increases that likelihood.
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Reich
Regensburg
Germany
Wazi
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler
Korherr
Dr. Korherr
Admiral Predicts War Ends In Six Months To Year
Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman predicted the Japanese conflict would finish in six months to a year. He dismissed longer estimates, saying any guess is as good as another and expressing optimism about an early end to the war.
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Washington
Frederick C. Sherman
Baptism of Jewish Refugees Sparks Call to End Kidnapping
London Chief Rabbi J H Hertz writes The London Times that many Jewish children saved from Nazis in liberated countries were baptized by rescuers. He urges the United Nations to end spiritual kidnapping and establish Jewish guardianship or adoption for orphans while praising Christians who saved the children.
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London
Britain
J. H. Hertz
London Times
United Nations
British Tommy Disrupts Trieste Black Market
Cpl. Norman Cooper a veteran of Dunkirk and member of the British Army Welfare Service interrupted a Trieste waterfront black market operation. He alerted MPs after observing gang activity, aiding a raid that recovered food valued at about 100000 dollars and led to the capture of an Italian civilian held for AMG trial.
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Trieste
Cpl
Norman Cooper
Dunkirk
Army
Wefare Service
Mps
AMG
European officials seek probe into Nazi era abuses in Ruhr area
Civilian officials in Ruhr area communities urge British military police to investigate violence by displaced persons and slave laborers under the Nazi regime. Reports cite over 100 murders, 60 rapes, 200 robberies, and 1,000 lootings in the British zone in two months.
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Ruhr
Weather forecast for Italy with regional temperatures
North Italy cloudy with light rains in mountains and along the west coast. South Italy mainly clear and windy along the Adriatic. Expected highs include Rome near 0, Naples 85, Bari 90, Florence 85. Tomorrow unsettled yet warmer with cloudy periods.
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Adriatic
Rome
Naples
Bari
Florence
Fogeia
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