France Will Not Submit Levant Question to Conference
Paris reports Gen Charles de Gaulle rejects sending the Syria Lebanon issue to a tripartite talk. France has withdrawn most troops while Britain keeps a large force in the Levant. De Gaulle accuses British agents of creating a situation against French interests and reiterates demand for independent bases. Churchill may seek London talks but de Gaulle signals opposition to French participation.
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Associated Press
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
Moscow
Damascus
United States
de Gaulle
London
Levant
Britain
Ninth
Syria
Lebannon
America
Lebanon
Churchill
Middle East
DeGaulle
Ted
OPA Canning Sugar Issuance Stopped in Scioto County
OPA halted home canning sugar issuance today in Scioto County as the Cleveland region including Kentucky West Virginia Michigan and Indiana ends quotas for canning fire. War Food Administration officials plan a new approach while scrutinizing certificates. about 168000 pounds had been issued recently and the stop may last about ten days.
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Scioto Co
Cleveane
OPA
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ichigan
Indiana
War Food Administration
Birkett L. Wil
Cleveland
Am West
Scivation ‘Board
Isnere
Williams
Triplets Doing Fine After Premature Birth at Hospital
Nton June 2 Mrs Donald gave birth to premature daughters yesterday at the hospital. Attendants report the babies and mother are doing well. The trio weighed a total 12 pounds 4 ounces with individual weights not specified.
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Donald
War Vet Rally in Scioto County Tonight for Bond Drive
War veterans from Cleveland will speak with Navy film and American Legion music at a Wednesday night rally in American Legion hall. Local leaders urge bond purchases as Scioto County trails Ohio’s 88 counties with only about a quarter of its $2 123 000 quota raised by individuals. Friday’s $12 369 buys pushed the total to $575 219, all in Series E bonds.
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Cleveland
American Legion
Scioto
American Legion Hall
Ohio
Truman
Congress
U.S
Pacific
Europe
Japan
Nazi 105000 workers spy on Reich oil idle in strikes
An American-born Swedish oilman revealed as a secret Allied agent helped bomb Germany's synthetic oil plants. Erickson, a Penn Oil representative in Sweden, closeted with Himmler after being blacklisted, while strikes idled about 5,000 workers in Ohio and rail lines in Cincinnati and Dixie Traction. The regional war labor board moved to end disputes and may escalate to the National WLB as maintenance walkouts impact steel plants and transportation.
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NAZI
Reich
United Press
London
Germany
Absie
Europe
Erich Siegfried Erickson
Penn Oil Co
Sweden
Stockholm
Erickson
William F. Erickson
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
U. S. Treasury Department
America
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Associated Press
Ohio
Regional
War Labor Board
Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway Co
Dixie Traction Co
WLB
Perkins
A. F. of L.amalgamated Association of Electric Railway
Sanford Bennett
Washington
Cio-United Steelworkers of America
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Brier Hill
Charles Philips
Cio-United Automobile
Russia Stands Firm Over Big Five Veto Power At UN
Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko delivered a new note to US and allied delegations asserting Moscow’s strict stance against any easing of the veto by the big five. The draft preamble and charter outline aims for collective security, peaceful dispute resolution, human rights, and international cooperation, while Syria’s Levan crisis spurs new calls for swift action.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
San Francisco
Russia
United Nations
Andrei Gromyko
Stettinius
Gromyko
Moscow
Security Council
Protected World Organization
Britain
Syria
France
Levant
Organization For Human Rights
Judge rules out wait law delaying Florida marriage
In Miami Florida on June 2 Lt Glea son R Tindell Jr 23 of Knoxville Tenn and his 18 year old bride Leonetta May McGill of Baltimore were honeymooning after appealing to the courts to obtain a license before their ceremony. Circuit Judge George E Holt ruled the three day wait law enacted recently did not conform with the state constitution.
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Miami
Fla
Gleason R. Tindell Jr
Knoxville
Tenn
Leonetta May McGill
Baltimore
George E. Holt
Florida
Ohio Valley Weather Outlook and Temperature Report
Possible thunder showers tonight with Sunday partly cloudy cooler. Schirrman reports today at 11 am 75 degrees, today's low 70, yesterday's high 92. One year ago today record was 92 and 66.
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Ohio Valley
Schirrman
Navy to commission three ships at Boston yard
Boston a heavy cruiser named Columbus will be commissioned at the south Boston annex on Friday afternoon June 8. The submarine Ling and the landing ship Tortuga will be commissioned at the navy yard in Boston.
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Boston
United States Navy
Boston Navy Yard
South Boston
Columbus
Ohio
Navy Yard
Ling
Laval death report met with Paris skepticism
Paris circles questioned a London report that Pierre Laval had committed death by own action. Laval, former Vichy chief of government, was reportedly dead, but reception in Paris remained doubtful and cautious.
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Doubt Laval
Paris
London
Pierre Laval
Fear Of Lord Is Beginning Of Wisdom 38 Central Grads Told
Rev. Leo Brehn urged the 38 graduates of St Mary and Holy Redeemer parochial schools to work and pray for success and happiness. Diplomas were awarded at Central Catholic High School with 14 Holy Redeemer and 24 St Mary seniors, two ceremonies in Portsmouth High auditorium. Three St Mary girls earned college scholarships. Regina Louise Malone, Mary Elizabeth Meisel, and Mary Frances Switalski.
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Leo Brehn
Catholic Charities
Diocese of Columbus
Central Catholic High School
St. Mary and Holy Redeemer
Portsmouth High School
Holy Redeemer
St. Mary
Sibelius
Regina Louise Malone
College of St. Teresa
Winona
Minn
Mary Elizabeth Meisel
College of Mount St. Joseph-of-the-Ohio
Cincinnati
Mary Frances Switalski
St. Mary-of the-Spring
Columbus
Father Brehn
Three Liberated as German Prisoners
Pfc Woodrow Gilley liberated from a German prison camp. He was captured in June 1944 and reports awaiting transport in France, expecting to return home within 30 days. He is father to a 3 year old daughter Sharon Kay. Pfc Ira Eugene Sigman, 20, reported missing in France on Sept 20 and then a German prisoner, has been liberated and returned to military control per war department messages to his mother Mrs Mattie E Whaley of Portsmouth.
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Woodrow Gilley
Verna Louise Gilley
Winest
New Boston
Gilley
France
War Department
Mattie E. Whaley
Portsmouth
Jt 1
Army
Berlin to shoot 50 Nazis for each Red Army life
Arthur Werner the Soviet appointed mayor of Berlin warned Germans that 50 former Nazis would be shot for every attempt on the life of a Red Army soldier or Russian official. The warning reflects intensified anti Russian sentiment in postwar Berlin.
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London
Arthur Werner
Berlin
Red Army
OPA Pledges Fair Share Of Meat For All Areas
The OPA plans fair distribution of meat across all counties, directing commercial slaughterers to resume the 1944 pattern. Bowles says areas won’t receive last year’s totals but aims for fair, even supply. effective June 17, with 80 percent delivery during each month and 90 percent over three periods when needed.
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OPA
Associated Press
Washington
Chester Bowles
East High pays tribute as 14 fall in arms honored
At East High commencement exercises 14 vacant chairs held flags for fallen service members while three graduates Everett Covey Merle Jenkins and Clifford Coe in the Merchant Marine Navy received diplomas. Dr Howard Lowry Wooster College president delivered the address at Allard Park noting courage honesty and ongoing purpose. The East High band under J C Carter performed its final concert before the turn to Class Page 2.
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East High School
Everett Covey
Merchant Marine
Pvt
Merle Jenkins
Clifford Coe
Navy
Allard Park
Howard Lowry
Wooster College
Portsmouth High School
Lowry
Alwys
J. C. Carter
Carrier planes blast Tokyo as Halsey returns
About 200 carrier based fighters attacked southern Honshu and Kyushu as Adm. Halsey reassumed command of fast carrier forces. The Okinawa campaign yielded heavy U.S. losses while Allied strikes expanded across Japan and surrounding seas, with Nimitz noting diminishing resistance and mopping up actions in newly captured areas behind the lines.
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Tokyo
Halsey
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Adm
William F
Bull) Halsey
Raymond A. Spruance
Fifth Fleet
Okinawa
U. S
Ryukyu Islands
Kyushu
Chester W. Nimitz
24Th
Shuri
Naha
Chinen
Southwest Pacific
Y Leif Erickson
Associated Press
Guam
Spruance
John
McCain
Marc A. Mitscher
Richmond Kelly Turner
Harry W. Hill
Nimitz
Memorial day observance and Portmouth high school graduation
Memorial day honors in Greenlawn cemetery pay tribute to 246 dead and other prisoners of war as Judge Vernon Smith urges unity and readiness. Portmouth High School marks its 77th graduation with 211 seniors in a commencement at Municipal Stadium led by Dr. Howard Lowry who calls progress possible through moral leadership. Casualties and liberations from multiple theaters are listed, noting several local families with loved ones overseas.
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Fellows
America
Vernon Smith
Soldier Circle
Greenlawn Cemetery
Peac
Western Hemisphere
Municipal Stadium
Portsmouth High School
Howard Lowry
Wooster College
Dr. Lowry
East High
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Nakagusuka Harbor
Howard Cunningham
George
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Carrie Fugate
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Joseph
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Lloyd E. Winters
Gallia St
Leroy Chaffin
Front St
Richard C. Dabney
Richard C
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Joseph E. Bauer
Frank L
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Walter Riddlebarger
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