France Orders Cease Fire as Syria Lebanon Crisis Persists
French troops in Syria halt shelling and will remain in positions while Britain and the United States mediate. The move follows Churchill and Truman calls to end bloodshed with a London conference planned. At least 400 killed, 500 wounded. Beyrouth reports calm after French cessation.
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London
France
Churchill
Syria
Paris
Truman
United States
British Foreign Office
Britain
Lebanon
Pacific
Beyrouth
Damascus
Middle East
Bernard C. Paget
Sergeant Huff to Visit City in Airborne Attack Show
Ser geant Paul B Huff of Cleveland Tenn one of two living Medal of Honor holders from World War II will visit Monroe for the Airborne Attack show at Selman Field He earned the Medal for heroism on February 8 1944 at Anzio Italy leading a small group under heavy fire to locate German positions while his unit faced a minefield and entrenched defenses
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Monroe
Selman Field
Paul B. Huff
Cleveland
Tenn
Sergeant Hulls
Tennessee
York
Anzio
Salerno
Carrano
Italy
No Mans
Huff
Judge Kennon Returns to Post After War Service
Lt Col Robert F. Kennon of Minden is to assume as judge of the Court of Appeal Second Circuit in Shreveport after four and a half years in the Army. He served at the front 18 months with the Ninth Army and was with the Elbe crossing at V E day. He defeated Harmon C. Drew for the post in 1940 and was elected for a 12 year term. He arrived from Germany by air, wore civilian clothes, and began arranging his judicial duties on Thursday.
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Shreveport
Robert F. Kennon
Minden
Court of Appeal
Second Circuit
Kennon
Germany
Bossier-Webster
Harmon C. Drew
Drew
A4th Coast Artillery
Camp Hulen
Texas
San Diego
Calif
Ninth Army
Simpson
13Th Corps
A. C. Gillen, Jr
Camp Polk
Elbe River
Ouachita Parish High to Hold 1945 Commencement
Ouachita Parish High School will hold its 1945 commencement in the Neville High School auditorium Friday night. Dean Rodney Cline of Northeast Junior College will deliver the principal address. The program includes national anthem, invocations, salutatory and valedictory talks, musical selections, awards, diploma presentations, and benediction.
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Ouachita Parish High School
Neville High School
Rodney Cline
Northeast Junior College
Francis Scott Key
P. M. Caraway
Edward Elgar
America
Harvey B. Gaul
Glee Club
Hobson Norris, Jr
Ford
Maxine Sechler
Arthur S. Sullivan
H. F. Madison, Jr
W. B. Inubner
Fred G. Thatcher
Schubert
McKenzie to Meet with Slaughterers Over Meat Shortage
Congressman Charles E. McKenzie will meet tonight at 8 in the Ouachita parish court house with all meat industry members from Ouachita and adjoining parishes to discuss the local meat shortage. George D. Holland, chairman of a special committee, says a brief will be prepared to request an increased slaughtering quota from the OPA. He notes McKenzie is familiar with the issue and aims to address the shortage, inviting all slaughterers dealers and the public.
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Charles E. McKenzie
Ouachita
Ouachita Parish
George D Holland
OPA
McKenzie
Holland
Argentine Freedom Gone in Buenos Aires War Clampdown
New York Times dispatch from Buenos Aires cites vast army patrols in streets, arrests, deportations, and jail crowding as evidence of a severe government crackdown after declaring war on Germany and Japan. Cortesi reports editors jailed, newspapers closed, and citizens exiled or detained while censorship thickens.
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New York
The
New York Times
Buenos Aires
Arnaldo Cortesi
Germany
Japan
Mexico City
Cortesi
Buem
Aires
Italy
Argentina
Heavens Open Up as Soldier Is Found Alive
Mr and Mrs Edwin O Lankston of New Orleans were at Union Station when a War Department call revealed their son Sgt Edwin P Lankston, previously listed as killed in action, had been found alive in a German prison camp and freed a week earlier. The couple learned the news just as a train to Corpus Christi arrived. The mother cried, “the heavens have opened up for me Edwin is alive,” as they prepared to tell relatives.
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New Orleans
Edwin O. Lankston
Union Station
Corpus Christi
Tex
Lankstons
War Department
Mrs. Lankston
Commencement at Northeast Junior College Honors American Ideal
Dr Edward Bane Robert of LSU teaches the 1945 class on public education and democracy. He traces how freedom and opportunity arose from European refugees and shaped a universal US system of free public education with teachers free to inquire and speak. Continued on Tenth Page.
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Northeast Junior College
Edward Bane Robert
College of Education
Balboa
Europe
Atlantic
Pacific
War trials opened to writers under court martial rules
Paris June 1 Col R Ernest Dupuy announced that trials of German war criminals would be open to all accredited correspondents under court martial rules. The ban on interviewing prominent Nazis remains in force by direct order of General Eisenhower.
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Paris
R. Ernest Dupuy
Supreme Headquarters
Eisenhower
Dupuy
Supreme Commander
War Agencies Funds Slashed by House Appropriations Panel
The House appropriations committee cut 1946 funds for war born agencies, calling the bill the beginning of the end for these wartime bodies. Excluding a $325,000 line for state marine schools, the $769.8 million measure targets agencies that aided war production, civilian support for the armed forces, and wartime economic adjustment.
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Washington
House Appropriation Committee
Truman
House
End of Organized Japanese Resistance on Okinawa Emerges
June 1 report from Guam notes the Japanese garrison on Okinawa appears ended as U S forces trap Shuri, mop up Naha, and press south along the Kokuba river. Nipponese losses rise with 61,519 killed and 1,353 captured of 85,000 original troops.
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Hamilton W. Faron
Guam
Okinawa
Tenth Army
Rising Sun
Shuri Town
Radio
Sixth Division
Naha
Domei
Tokyo Radio
Sixth Marine Division
Associated Press
al Copking
Kokuba River
Naha-Yonabaru Road
Shuri
Ryukyu Island
Neville High Delivers Diplomas for Class of 1945
The Neville High School class of 1945 received diplomas in a Thursday night auditorium ceremony. After a band concert, the program included a Star Spangled Banner, an invocation by Rabbi F K Hirsch, a trombone solo by Carl Fontana, salutatory by Betty Sue Shotwell, co valedictorians Virginia Butler and Morris Scharff, and remarks by Rev. Ernest Duncan Holloway on peace.
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Neville High School
Coronation Maren
F. K. Hirsch
Evening Star
Carl Fontana
Betty Sue Shotwell
Virginia Butler
Morris Scharff
Clara Hall
Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Eleven Baptist Missionaries and Boy Beheaded
The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society reports that in 1943 eleven Baptist missionaries and a nine year old boy were beheaded by Japanese forces on Panay Island Philippines. Executions occurred December 19 or 20 1943 after the group fled to a mountain refuge named Hopewell to continue preaching teaching and healing.
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New York
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Panay Island
Philippines
War and State Departments
Hopewell
Great Osaka Yokohama fire raids devastate Japanese industry
Guam dispatch reports B 29 incendiary raids on Osaka burn 6.9 square miles, with 27 000 foot smoke plumes and major targets like harbors, warehouses, Sumitomo dural sheet metal plant, shipyards, electrical plants, power stations, and Osaka main railroad station. Yokohama also heavily damaged. 86 square miles of urban industry destroyed or damaged.
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Robbin Coons
Guam
Osaka
Japan
21St Bomber Command
Yokohama
Iwo Jima
Sumitomo
Tokyo
United Nations talks edge toward early windup amid Franco-Syrian dispute
Diplomats in San Francisco see progress as Big Five unity could unlock stalled UN conference work. US, Britain, Russia, China and France press six questions while Hopkins and Stalin reportedly open channels for warmer Moscow-Washington ties. Berlin and Vienna occupation plans may quicken with a joint Allied approach on the horizon.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
San Francisco
United States
Stettinius
Moscow
World Security Council
Eelco van Kleffens
Netherlands
Truman
Harry Hopkins
Marshal Stalin
Washington
Berlin
Austria
Truman pledges doubling U S Army for Pacific war
President Truman told Congress the U S Army in the Pacific will be twice its present size and larger than Europe’s peak as the war expands. He urged shipyard workers to curb travel during troop movements and called for intensified air and naval operations to cripple Japan while warning of heavier future damage.
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Washington
U.S
Pacific
Truman
Europe
Congress
Navy
Doolittle Joins B 29s in New Tokyo Raid Plan
Washington reports Jimmy Doolittle will lead B-29s with the Eighth Air Force in renewed air attacks on Japan. Undersecretary Patterson vows heavier bombing than Germany, while Eastern Command groups shift into positions for better strikes. In three months Superfortresses dropped 58,000 tons on targets including Tokyo Nagoya Osaka Kobe.
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Washington
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Japan
Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Empire
Patterson
Germany
Eastern Air Command
India-Burma
George E. Stratemeyer
Burma
Nagoya
Osaka
Kobe
Joyce identified as German national in 1940 case
A British intelligence officer in Lueneburg says American born William Joyce Lord Haw Haw became a German national in 1940. No charges yet. Joyce detained for military security as an "intelligence expert" interviews Joyce and a claimed English wife Margaret White. The wife to London by plane. Joyce to remain in Lueneburg until mid next week. he was wounded when arrested.
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Lueneburg
Germany
Second Army
William Joyce
Lord Haw Haw
London
Berlin
Joyce
Margaret White
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Parish High
Kenzie
Daniel A. McDuffie
Atlanta Ga
William A. McDuffie
Papa McDuffie
E. B. Robert
Neville High
Rev. E. D. Holloway
Stassen
Minnesota
Thomas Connally
Arthur Vandenburg
Trieste
Isles of the Pacific
Bosphorous
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Locksley Hall
Israel
Isaiah
Micah
Levant News
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Ned
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