Carrier Raid on Southern Japan Signals New Strike
About 200 carrier based fighters attacked southern Japan from Ryukyu bases as Adm Halsey returned to duty in the Okinawa campaign. Tokyo reported heavy raids on Kyushu air bases and railways while U S forces pushed toward Naha and Chinen peninsula amid high losses for both sides in the broader campaign.
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Halsey
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Tion
Adm
William Full Halsey
Third Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Fifth Fleet
Okinawa
U. S
North Pole
South Pole
Tokyo
Ryukyu Islands
Inawa
Kyushu
Mikado
Chester W
OPA Orders Equal Meat Distribution Plan
Washington announces a fair distribution plan to restore even meat supplies across counties. Bowles says federally inspected meat remains the only kind shipment across state lines and bases the plan on 1944 first-quarter patterns with phased 80 and 90 percent delivery targets.
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Karl R. Bauman
Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Veterans of European Battle Return to U S
Four rusting Liberty ships converted into troop transports docked today with 775 veterans of the European war. The 45th Thunderbird division of the 7th army, veterans of Salerno Anzio and southern France, are brought back for a 45 day furlough and reassignment. Ships Moses Austin Joan Fiske John Sullivan Walter Forward arrived from southern France and are sent to Camp Shanks N Y for processing.
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Glory
7Th Army
Salerno
Anzio
France
Moses Austin
Joan Fiske
John Sullivan
Walter Forward
Camp Shanks
N. Y
Berlin Mayor Warns of Nazi Shootings Over Anti Red Acts
Berlin's Soviet appointed mayor Arthur Werner warned Germans that 50 former Nazis would be shot for each attempt on a Red Army soldier or Russian official. He said reprisals would follow arson acts for political aims and death for failing to report foreknowledge of such plots. An AP dispatch from Geneva cited 500000 displaced persons and 100000 Allied prisoners needing aid to prevent starvation and disease.
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London
Arthur Werner
Berlin
Red Army
Associated Press
Geneva
Emil E. Boesch
Red Cross
Werner
Argentina Crisis Fears Rise Over Farrell Regime
White House says President Truman is not happy about the Argentine situation and supports the good neighbor policy. Montevideo exiles report tight censorship, arrests of journalists, and about 3,000 political prisoners, with elections viewed as engineered and news tightly controlled.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Argentina
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Montevideo
Edelmiro Farrell
Farrell
Germany
Japan
Pope Pius XII on Nazi Germany and Vatican Policy
Pope Pius XII voiced hope that Germany can regain dignity after rejecting national socialism and expiated crimes. He recalled Vatican policy toward Nazi Germany before the war, noted the 1933 concordat as a barrier to violent ideas, and stressed the church’s juridical defense amid violations.
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George Bria
Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Vatican
Nazi Germany
College of Cardinals
St. Eugene’s
Church
War Loan Bond Box Score Seventh Series E Bonds
County quota and sales figures show progress on the 7th War Loan Bond drive with daily and total amounts. Counts include previous sales today total to date and percent of quota sold for both County and Other Issues, alongside pet scores.
War Bond Sales in Seventh Campaign Reach $990,601
Additional purchases today push county total to $990,601 for the Seventh War Loan drive. New sales are the second highest single day total since the campaign began, with $94,105 in war bonds and $28,355 in series E bonds part of the daily rise.
Marines General Urges War Bond Support
Brig. Gen. Leroy P. Hunt of the USMC calls for strong WW II war bond sales in a Washington message. He urges Americans to back the armed forces with maximum bond purchases, stressing the need from those fighting the Japanese to sustain victory.
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Washington
Leroy P. Hunt
USMC
2Nd Marine Division
Dememoradia
County Purchases and Sales Toward Quotas Reported
The county shows total purchases of 380,467 in this class, 32 percent of the 1,155,000 quota. Daily sales must average about 28,000 to meet the goal by June 30. New sales of 65,750 on other bonds lift classification sales to 610,134, or 42 percent of a 1,424,000 county quota.
Leo Greazel Returns to States in Navy Homecoming
Lone Tree Mrs and Mr E F Greazel learn their son Leo Greazel P O 1/e has arrived in California for his first home visit since enlisting in the navy 42 months ago Lt and Mrs E G Baker and Nancy and Bruce of Iowa City visited Tuesday evening at the
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Lone Tree
E. F. Greazel
Leo Greazel
California
Navy
E. G. Baker
Nancy
Bruce
Iowa City
The
Local servicemen dispatch updates to families
Don Crawford returns home while Douglas Abrams tours the navy base in San Diego after a 10 day visit. Mrs Yaro Lasek learns her husband Pfc Yaro Lasek has arrived in Germany. Lt Lowry Kirkpatrick writes from Paris that he is attending a school after serving in Belgium on V E day.
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Don Crawford
Douglas Abrams C. P. O
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Yaro Lasek
Pfc
Germany
Lowry Kirkpatrick
Paris
Belgium
Deny Leaders To Meet In Berlin
Supreme Allied headquarters denied reports that Gen Eisenhower Field Marshal and an unnamed French general would meet in Berlin to form an Allied military control commission this weekend.
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Eisenhower
Frankfurt
Hopkins
Moscow
Truman
Allied Control Commission
Paris
Supreme Allied Headquarters
London
Berlin
Yanks Open Twin Drives On Okinawa
U S forces push to use Okinawa airfield and harbor after completing Shuri seizure. west coast advance threatens Naha airfield while east coast moves aim to cut Nakagusuku harbor approaches. commanders report dwindling Japanese resistance and decisive questions for garrison choices.
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Okinawa
Hamilton W. Faron
Guam
U. S. 10Th Army
Japan
Shuri
Associated Press
al Copking
Vern Haugland
Naha
Navy
Washington
Fallen Naha
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Sixth Marine
Kokuba
Archibald W. Arnold
Seventh Infantry
Hinen
Nakagusuku Harbor
Chester W. Nimits
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Pedro de Valle
Shichina Hill
Naha-Yonabaru
De Gaulle Says France Won't Submit Syrian Question to Tripartite Talks
French leader De Gaulle stated France would not bring the Syrian issue to a France Britain United States tripartite conference. He blamed British agents for fomenting the Lebanon Syria uprising and argued for military independence while noting French forces withdrew to barracks as British troops remained in the Levant.
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de Gaulle
France
Lebanon
Syria
United States
London
Levant
Britain
Ninth Army
America
Churchill
Middle East
Damascus
Moscow
Reds Hold to World Group Veto Powers
The Soviet Union insists on a strict veto for the Big Five in the postwar world body. Ambassador Gromyko presented a note to Stettinius and other foreign delegations, opposing any relaxation of veto rights and even objecting to Security Council complaints without unanimous Big Five approval. Proposals aim to speed the conference toward a peace charter with four core purposes and measures to preserve international peace and human rights.
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San Francisco
Russia
United Nations
Andrei Gromylts
Stettinius
Gromyko
Moscow
Security Council
World Organization
Britain
Caldwell Freed From Prison Camp
Col umbus Junction S Sgt Philip Caldwell son of Mr and Mrs W W Caldwell of Washington formerly of this city had been a prisoner in Germany since Nov 4 1944 and was released April 29 the parents have been informed He has arrived in New York and is expected home soon He has been in service since September 1943 and overseas since July 1944 First Sgt John Bidwell Jr en route home from the European theater of operations Mr and Mrs Bidwell plan to return to Washington Ia Margaret E James DK 2/c has returned to the naval recruiting station at Mobile Ala after a leave with her parents and relatives
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Columbus Junction
Philip Caldwell
W. W. Caldwell
Washington
Germany
Caldwell
New York
M. H. Bowman
Katie
J. W. Bidwell
San Francisco
John Bidwell
Bidwell
Margaret E. James
Mobile
Ala
S. D. James
Lindmann, Nazi Commander in Norway Arrested
Allied forces arrested Col. Gen. Georg Lindmann former German commander in Denmark. He was seized on a small farm where he sought refuge. Copenhagen Social-Demokraten cites the report as confirmation. About 400 Danes have been arrested by Allied authorities to date.
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Associated Press
Norwegian Telegraph Agency
Georg Lindmann
Denmark
Copenhagen Social - Demokraten
Lindemann
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