British Guard Syria Crisis as De Gaulle Seeks Conference
London reports Prime Minister Churchill to define Britain's stance on Syria in Commons this week. Damascus says Levant remains critical as French troops and families evacuate under British protection amid Bedouin attacks and curfews.
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Associated Press
London
The
Daily Mail
Churchill
House of Commons
Syria
Damascus
Levant
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
Yorkshire Post
Anthony Eden
Damacus
Kuneitra
Damasseus
Hama
Deraa
Soueida
Edouard
Jamil Mardam Bey
Warner Foretells 1000 Plane B-29 Attacks On Japs
Col. Albert L. Warner, head of the army war intelligence division, told the Army Hour that B-29 attacks could reach 1000 planes in fleets. He noted the force grew from a handful a year ago to over 500, with potential doubling. He predicted increased loads and more frequent raids, with B-29s looming over Japan's war industry.
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Washington
Albert L. Warner
War Intelligence Division
Army
Bureau of Public Relations
Army Hour
Warner Aid
War Loan Bond Box Score Shows County Progress
The report lists county quota figures with previous sales 610,134, today's 71,350, total to date 681,484, and percent of quota sold 47. Incomplete items reference a box score style update for the 7th War Loan Bond.
Seventh War Loan drive nears county and state quotas
Muscatine county reports new bond sales of 98205 dollars in the Seventh War Loan campaign pushing county totals to 1088806. Series E purchases raise division total to 407322 and county reach 35 percent of its 1155000 quota leaving 747678 to buy. Other bond types add 71350 bringing division total to 681484 at 47 percent of a 1424000 county quota, with 742516 still needed statewide. Des Moines notes D day observances with free movie day and Maj Miller tribute planned.
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Muscatine
Audubon County
Des Moines
Iowa
War Activities Committee
A. H. Blank
Maj. Miller
Maj
Glenn Miller
Miller
Tragedy as Flynn Fatally Struck by Train Near Dubuque
Dubuque reports Arthur Flynn, 42, fatally struck by an Illinois Central freight train Sunday. Police Chief Joseph Strub said Flynn apparently did not see or hear the locomotive.
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Dubuque
Arthur Flynn
Joseph Strub
Illinois Central
Strub
Flynn
Jap Davao Garrison Flees to Mountains
U S troops push 24th infantry into Mindanao mountains near Mt Apo after ousting the Davao garrison. Guerrillas under Col Wendell Fertig seize Bayabas village in a bloody clash as 31st infantry traps remaining Japanese toward Malaybalay and Panacan.
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Davao
Russell Brines
Manila
Mindanao
Roscoe B. Woodruff
24Th
Apo
Wendell Fertig
Bayabas
Alhambra
Mulig
Ula
Panacan
Edward Starr
31St
Malaybalay
Luayon
U S First Army Lands Redeploys to Pacific Area
New York The U S First Army famed for Normandy to Elbe firsts completed a redeployment milestone by sending home a complete unit for Pacific duty aboard the Monticello. The voyage carried 1 453 officers and men along with 3 339 liberated prisoners and 409 wounded to Camp Kilmer and Halloran hospital. The Liberty ship John B Hood bore a 10 foot hole from a collision with icebergs off Grand Banks as 96 ships waited in fog.
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New York
U. S. First Army
Normandy
Germany
Pacific
Monticello
Europe
Rhine
Elbe River
New York Harbor
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Halloran General Hospital
Staten Island
John B. Hood
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Joseph Sutton
Hood
Pilot Lt Baker gets order to raid Tokyo with aviation engineer
New York reports Lt Duwayne Baker from Cedar Rapids Indiana received permission to take an aviation engineer assigned to ground duties on a raid over Tokyo in a B 29 sortie.
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New York
Duwayne Baker
Cedar Rapids
Tokyo
Japs Predict Balloons Will Attack U.S
Japanese propagandists predicted U S balloon attacks by death defying pilots. Lt Col Shozo Nakajima said balloon bombs launched from Japan last March 10 would scale up after experimental results. Domei noted balloons at 15 000 meters take over 100 hours to reach the United States.
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San Francisco
United States
Comei
Shozo Nakajima
Nipponese Armed Services
Nakajima
U. S
America
Japan
Singapore
Slow Rise in Area Temperatures Forecast
The region warms after a weekend freeze with 36 degrees Sunday night and 62 by noon today. Cedar Riverfalling from a weekend high and the Mississippi at 12.8 feet show rising waters. frost damage feared statewide as Iowa records a June low near 32 and 55-degree highs in Sioux City.
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Cedar River
Associated Press
Spencer
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Sioux City
Continue Efforts To Locate Father Of Dying Infant
Waterloo reports ongoing searches for Seaman First Class Richard J. Peel, father of a leukemia-stricken three and a half year old. Representative John Gwynne said efforts to locate Peel, believed hospitalized in the Marianas after his destroyer was damaged in the Pacific, had not succeeded.
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Waterloo
Richard J. Peel
John Gwynne
Marianas
Washington
Navy
Gwynne
Peel
Pacific
Peacetime Military Training Urged by Grew Hearings
Acting Secretary Grew urged compulsory peacetime military training for the United States before the House Postwar Military Committee, arguing it would deter aggressors and strengthen policy. He said current service members favor training and that universal service could spur educational benefits and national readiness. He spoke as hearings opened on a proposed year of training for American youths.
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William F. Washington
United States
World Security Organization
Joseph C. Grew
House
Woodrum
D-Va
Grew
America
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Haislip Succeeds Patch as Seventh Army Leader
Lt Gen Wade Haislip will take over command of the Seventh Army in Germany succeeding Lt Gen Alexander M Patch. Patch commanded U S forces in the New Caledonia occupation and Guadal canal campaign before leading the Seventh Army from April 1, 1944. Haislip previously led the 15th Corps of the Third Army.
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U. S. 7Th Army
Germany
Wade H. Haislip
Washington, D. C
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Patch
U. S
New Caledonia
Guadalcanal
Haislip
15Th Corps
Third Army
Chinese 28 Miles From Former U S Base at Liuchow
Chinese forces drove within 28 miles of Liuchow the former U S air base as Chiang Kai-shek’s armies closed near Shaoyang in Hunan. Tsinkong fell, signaling rapid progress toward Liuchow and a withdrawal by Japanese forces from the area near Chihk lang.
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Chungking
Liuchow
U. S
Kwangsi Province
High Command
Hunan
Chiang Kai- Shek
Shaoyang
Paoching
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Tsinkong
Chienkiang
Clare L. Chennault
Hunan Province
Chihklang
Reunion for Lt. Harold Goad and wife after war separation
Lt. Harold W. Goad returned to Portsmouth with his wife Helen after a long separation due to his presumed death in a Japanese camp near Rangoon. Helen, 23, had remarried Ensign Robert A. MacDowell in California last December, while the army had declared Goad dead. Legal details of Helen's second marriage are unresolved. Goad hopes to remain in the army and continue flying, or pursue a civilian pilot job if blocked.
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Portsmouth
Harold W. Goad
Navy
War Department
Rangoon
Helen
Long Beach
Calif
Ens
Robert A. MacDowell
Aval Department
Goad
Good
Okinawa advance seals Chinen peninsula
In heavy rain on Okinawa, U S infantry reach the southeastern shore and seal off Chinen peninsula while a fleet of over 40 vessels moves into Nakagusuku Bay. Japanese remnants fight on as Halsey carriers attack Kyushu bases and McCain resumes command.
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Chinen Peninsula
Tokyo
U.S
Nakagusuku Bay
Hamilton W. Faron
Guam
Iin
Okinawa
Chinen
Japan
U. S
Achibald V. Arnold
Seventh
Adm
William F. Halsey Jr
Kyushu
Halsey
John S. McCain
Nimitz
Davies To Report To President On Special Mission
Joseph E. Davies will report to President Truman on his London mission at a White House dinner tonight. Davies, ex ambassador to Moscow, just returned from talks with Prime Minister Churchill and others about an early Big Three meeting. White House secretary Ross did not know when Hopkins would return. Truman expects Hopkins back within 10 days.
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Washington
Joseph E. Davies
Truman
London
White House
Davies
Moscow
Churchill
Charles G. Ross
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Hodges Escaped Nazis At Ardennes Breakthrough
Gen Courtney Hodges narrowly escaped capture during Von Rundstedt’s Ardennes breakthrough last December. Hal Boyle reports Hodges redirected staff, held Liege’s approach, and withdrew to Chaudfontaine as Ridgeway’s 82nd Airborne moved in to seal the breach.
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New York
Courtney H. Hodges
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Hal Boyle
Associated Press
Boyle
Hodges
First Army
Pacific
Japan
Spa
Belgium
Liege
Matthew B. Ridgeway
82Nd Airborne
Chaudfontaine
Ridgeway
Norway Orders Big Grain Imports to Ease Shortage
Oslo reports Norway has ordered 180000 tons of grain mainly rye from Argentina and 180000 tons of wheat from Canada plus 60000 tons of rye from Sweden to relieve bread shortages.
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Norway
Oslo
Argentina
Canada
Sweden
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Syrian Chamber of Deputies
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Luzon Island
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