Britain to Press Tripartite Talks on Syrian Crisis
Churchill demanded restraint as Britain, the United States, and Britain urged Paris to end the fighting in Syria and Lebanon. A conference in London may be held soon with Eden and Winant to seek a final settlement while De Gaulle weighs a French cabinet meeting.
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Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Syria
Paris
Foreign Office
France
London
United States
A. P
Frank O'Brien
Damascus
British
Japan
Britain
Eden
John G. Winant
Humboldt
Ninth Army
Middle East
de Gaulle
Office of War Information
Christian Pineau
Jacques Soustelle
British Press Association
Lebanon
Cairo
Bernard Paget
Levant
Associated Press
Ahmet Kadry
O’brien
Beyrouth
Aleppo
Deir Ez-Zor
O'Brien
Morocco
The
Charles de Gaulle
General de Gaulle
San Francisco
Doolittle Adds B 29s to Eighth Air Force War Effort
Hundreds of industrial facilities and transport hubs have been hit. B 29s join Lt Gen Doolittle s Eighth Air Force alongside Liberators Flying Fortresses and fighters. The 21st Superfortress command continues raids from the Marianas while the 20th engages homeland targets from India and China. The 20th may shift bases toward Japan as the Eighth s Pacific deployment unfolds.
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Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
20Th
Washington
Eighth
Japan
21St
Marianas
20Th Bomber Command
India
China
Army
Luftwaffe
Germany
Pacific
Okinawa
Frances Perkins Reflects On Cabinet Service And Male Respect
In Washington on June 1 Frances Perkins the first and only female U S cabinet member praised American men as considerate and equal in debate while noting her upcoming departure after twelve years as secretary of labor. She said she was treated with great respect and appreciated the help offered by her male colleagues.
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Washington
United States
Frances Perkins
Labor
Cabe
Sergeant Huff Heroic Assault Across German Lines
Sergeant Huff led a patrol under heavy fire to engage a German machine gun nest, killed two attackers, and determined enemy gun positions from an exposed stance. He then guided an 18 man assault, killing 27 and capturing 21, routing a 125 man company. He received the Medal of Honor in Rome on June 6, 1944.
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Huff
Rome
Will bury father beside daughter in tragic case
Grief stricken Mrs. Ray E. Davis grants the wish of her husband to be buried beside their daughter Lula Mae Davis 21 who was shot by him after a soldier visitor. Davis killed himself in the family home as police closed in. A deputy coroner cited a bullet from the same gun used on Lula Mae.
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Kansas City
Ray E. Davis
Lula Mae Davis
Davis
Lula Mae
William R. Stepp
Stepp
Pvt
David Harold Sharp
Pacific
Sharp
Perkins recalls Roosevelts cabinet days and labor role
In a rare interview, Frances Perkins recalls her 1933 cabinet presence with President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner. She notes Roosevelt consulted her on labor policy and lists names she offered, while reflecting on public gender expectations and her enduring influence in the Labor Department. The Senate confirmed Schwellenbach as her successor without dissent.
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Roosevelt
Miss Perkins
Labor Department
WPA
Senate
Schwellenbach
United States vows full price for war criminals
Col. A. B. McGregor Goff told the United Nations war crimes commission that the U S will exact a full price from every war criminal. He said punishment would cover Japanese Germans and Axis satellites and noted about 3 000 names are on the list, mostly Germans. The maximum sentence cited for convicts is death.
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London
A. B. McGregor Goff
United States War Crimes Commission
United States
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Ministry of Information
Germany
Alabama Senate approves sterilization bill for inmates
The Alabama Senate passed a measure authorizing sterilization of inmates in state insane hospitals and others with hereditary mental disease by 18 to 9 after a five hour debate led by Senator Vincent Kilborn who argued religious rights would be harmed. The bill creates a commission led by the director of the State insane hospitals to decide who should be sterilized and now goes to the House for further battle.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Vincent Kilborn
Mobile
Kilborn
Senate
War Agencies Face Cuts and Phased Closures in Budget Plan
The proposal calls for rapid dismantling of excess wartime agencies like the Office of Civilian Defense and the War Relocation Authority. Funds for the Office of Price Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration are withheld, with FEPC and OPA still awaiting congressional action. Total cuts amount to about 111.8 million below budget estimates and 209.3 million below current year funds. War Shipping Administration receives the largest allotment of 437.3 million, including a 367.0 million revolving fund, reflecting a 48.3 million cut from budget estimates.
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Tee
Office of Civilian Defense
War Relocation Authority
Office of Price Administration
Foreign Economic Administration
Fair Employment Practices Committee
OPA
FEPC
Congress
FEA
White House
War Shipping Administration
Deaths Norma Taunton 51 teacher dies in Monroe
Funeral services held at Concord Baptist Church Marion Louisiana for Norma Taunton 51 a Spencer School teacher who died after several weeks illness in a Monroe hospital. She leaves two sisters Mrs Willie Boyd Mrs Lillie Green and brother Claude Taunton all of Marion along with many relatives. Rev J P Burgess conducted the services and interment was in Concord Cemetery per Kilpatrick Funeral Home.
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Concord Baptist Church
Marion
Norma Taunton
Spencer
Monroe
Union Parish
Willie Boyd
Lillie Green
Claude Taunton
J. P. Burgess
Marion Baptist Church
Concord Cemetery
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
Fractions of Opinion on War Propaganda and Betrayal
The piece condemns American antiwar talk as bloodthirsty and hypocritical while criticizing a Communist refugee and a young self-styled critic named William Gailmor for exploiting public sentiment. It accuses them of glamourizing violence and undermining democracy, ending with a pointed critique of their credibility and actions.
Wartime reflections on Germans and collective guilt
The writer argues against labeling all Germans as guilty for Hitlerism and urges consulting soldiers on policy. He notes that many resisted Nazi oppression and warns against punishing all Germans for the regime. The piece contrasts German and Italian wartime experiences and urges fair treatment despite aggression.
Censorship Restored in Argentina Amid Wartime Intimidation
A wartime crackdown in Argentina saw arrests of prominent citizens and harsh penalties for newspapers that protested while censorship was reestablished to block outside news. A decree dated April 28 allowed telegrams to be delayed or suppressed without notice, and reporters feared dispatches dying in the censorship office.
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Argentina
U. S
Edward R. Stettinius
San Francisco
Spruille Braden
Cortesi
Shuri Struggle Near End as Pacific Battle Narrows
Allied forces report Japan's army losses surpass 13 thousand dead with 315 captured while U S figures show 9 602 Americans KIA or missing as of May 24. Nimitz says Shuri is being pinched out with Nahe and Yonabaru fallen, severe rain slows mechanized moves and aids foot combat.
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U S
Navy Marine Corps
Army
Nahe
Yonabaru
Shuri
Nimitz
Seventh
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