Truman Hopes To Speed End of U. F. Conference
President Truman pressed to speed the San Francisco Security conference toward closure as hopes for a week-end windup fade. He remained in Olympia with Mon Wallgren, anticipating a press conference tomorrow and a possible trip to San Francisco for the speech, or homeward to Independence if the charter misses completion. The schedule hinges on final form of the peace charter and could force travel shifts before his midyear trip to Berlin.
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OLYMPIA
Wash
Truman
San Francisco
executive mansion
Mon C Wallgren
United States
Charles G Ross
White House
Ross
Governor Wallgren
Berlin
Trumans
Michigan
Independence Mo
Kansas City
capitol
nations
WEST COAST
National airport
Washington
Col
Harry Vaughsen
Canadian Force To Train in U S
Maj Gen Hoffmeister announced a 28 000 to 30 000 strong Canadian volunteer force bound for the Pacific will train at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky in September. The unit will wear Canadian uniforms and use American equipment with food supplied by the United States and financed by Canada. Hoffmeister noted veterans in Europe have volunteered in increasing numbers and will lead the force.
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WASHINGTON
Camp Breckeridge
B . Hoffmeister
Europe
Hoffmeister
war department
Canada
United States
Prison Terms Urged for Poles by Soviet Chief Prosecutor
Moscow June 20 Gen Nikola Afanasiev chief prosecutor for sixteen Poles on trial for subversive activities behind Russian lines asked the court for no death sentences but imprisonment. He said death was unnecessary as the Soviet nation is mighty in joyous victory. Final evidence showed Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, former Polish exile leader, kept in the dark about alleged anti Russian actions of the Polish underground army led by Maj Gen Bromislaw Okulicki, the main defendant. The courtroom was crowded with Red Army officers and officials. Attendees included Mrs Edwin Pauley and the US embassy official. Mikolajczyk’s testimony came from Lergeny Charnowski, head of the Polish union of Democrats, as Polish groups sought an accord with Russia, the US, and Britain.
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MOSCOW
Nikola Afanasiev
supreme court
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
London
L Bromslaw Okulicki
Red army
Edwin Pauley
Francis Stevens
Mikolajzyk
Lergeny Charnowski
Polsh union of Democrats
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Nazi gauleiter Franz Hoffer commits suicide in Floss
Wiesbaden Germany June 20 Franz Hoffer Nazi gauleiter for Tyrol Vorarlberg district killed himself after being arrested by German auxiliary police in AMG service at Floss near the Czechoslovak border. He died by his own hand shortly after arrest.
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WIESBADEN
Germany
Franz Hoffer
Tyrol-Vorarlberg
auxhory
AMG
Floss
Eisenhower reviewed cadets at West Point during visit
West Point hosted General Eisenhower with a 17 gun salute as 700 cadets of the academy’s third class joined a parade on the parade ground. A large crowd in New York City had greeted him the day before. Eisenhower’s arrival was marked by welcoming ceremonies and the promise of equal recognition for all ranks in the festivities. His mother Ida Eisenhower and relatives will greet him on arrival with Lt John S. D. Eisenhower.
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WEST POINT
Dwight D Eisenhower
United States Military academy
New York City
academy
Eisenhower
KANSAS CITY
UPi
Dwight
Ike
Ida Eisenhower
John S D. Eisenhower
Nazi Bundists To Be Freed From Custody
Four German American Bundists ordered freed by the Supreme Court from charges of conspiring to aid evasion and resistance to the selective service act may soon be released from custody. The Justice Department said release of the four was possible but noted reasons why twenty others whose convictions were reversed by the court could have delays.
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WASHINGTON
supreme court
selective service act
justice department
Almost Foolproof Airplane for Private Fliers
London reports a new light aircraft called the Miles Messenger described as almost foolproof by its maker. The three to four seater low-wing plane, powered by 140 horsepower, is to be mass produced after the war for business use. It served in war for special tasks and can take off or land in 60 yards in a five mile wind and clear a 50 foot obstacle 138 feet from takeoff.
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LONDON
Postwar Peace In Industry Is Sought in Bill
Washington June 20 A broad new labor relations bill aims to set a pattern for enduring industrial peace by creating a federal labor relations board and an unfair labor practices tribunal to replace the war labor board and the labor department conciliation service. The measure favors compulsory arbitration of labor disputes and preserves the right to strike, asserting rail experience shows strikes would become rare.
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WASHINGTON
congress
United States
world organization
Hatch
D-NM
Ball
R.-Minn
Burton
Ohio
federal labor relations board
unfair labor practices tribunal
national labor relations board
war labor board
conciliation service
labor department
senate
Donald Reichberg
national recovery administration
labor relations board
Admiral Royal Expires in Pacific
Rear Adm. Forrest B Royal, 52, commander of an amphibious force in the Pacific, died Monday in the Pacific of natural causes. A New York City native, he led amphibious operations near Bruney Bay on Borneo in mid June and accompanied Gen Douglas MacArthur on a June visit to the battle area. His widow resides in Arlington, Virginia. Royal entered the Naval Academy in 1911 and became an ensign in 1915.
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WASHINGTON
Forrest B Royal
Pacific
Forrestal
Adm Royal
New York City
Brunebay
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Arlington
naval academy
New York
Dutch Vessel Survives Raid at Okinawa Front
A Dutch merchant ship arrived in San Francisco after a nine day ordeal off Okinawa, bearing battle scars from a 35 hour attack by Japanese suicide planes. The ship had carried U S troops, anti aircraft weapons, ammunition and gasoline and received commendation from Rear Admiral Lawrence F Reifsnider USN.
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SAN FRANCISCO
U. S
Okinawa
Lawrence F Reifsmder
USN
Robert Kiek
ANETA
Okinawa Battle Rages as Defenses Collapse
On Okinawa, 7th division doughboys push toward Mabum headquarters while 8th regimental combat team and 5th regiment clear caves on the island south coast. 500 Japanese surrender in one day as American forces inflict heavy casualties.
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GUAM
7th division
Mabum
Okinawa
Komesu
Chester W Nimitz
Guatemala Union Proposal Favored
MEXICO CITY June 20 Guatemala Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello said the proposal for a union with El Salvador has the approval of his government and people He noted that achieving such a noble aim requires progressive cooperation between the two governments to foster understanding and harmony between their peoples He also cited Guatemala's friendly ties with Mexico and the United States and reaffirmed Guatemala's claim to British Honduras as a legal part of Guatemala.
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MEXICO CITY
Guatemala
El Salvador
Guillermo Toriello
Toriello
Mexico
United States
Cagayan Drive Nears End in Luzon Campaign
Manila dispatch reports the disorganized Japanese retreat as the 37th Ohio infantry division advances within 100 miles of Ilagan and Navalian. Maj Gen Robert Beightler orders air strikes and heavy artillery after the river crossing, with engineers swiftly bridging the Cagayan River and troops pushing toward Ilagan.
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MANILA
Cagayan valley
Luzon
37th
Ohio infantry
Cagayan drive
Robert Beightler
Navalian
Beightler
Cagayan river
Associated Press
Hamilton W Faron
Ilagan
Eire Protests Tokyo Over Priest Slayings
Dublin reports that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera told Parliament Ireland has protested to Tokyo regarding reports that four Irish priests were killed by Japanese forces in Manila. The statement emphasizes Ireland's diplomatic push amid a rising wartime tension in the Pacific theater.
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DUBLIN
Premer Eamon de Valera
Eire
Tokyo
Manila
Marines Press On In Okinawa Ridge Advance
Okinawa June 19 The marines doggedly press the retreating Japanese lines on southern Okinawa. Lt Col John Johnson of Champaign Illinois reports his 2nd battalion of the 22nd Marine Regiment pushed 7400 yards to Kuwanga ridge in 48 hours. He estimates only a few thousand Japanese remain, with about half wounded.
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OKINAWA
John Johnson
Champaign
Ill
22nd marine regiment
Kuwanga ridge
Johnson
General Easley Dies in Action on Okinawa
Brig Gen Claudius M Easley assistant commander of the 96th Infantry division was killed in action on Okinawa. He was 53 and the second high ranking officer to die there this week after Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. He had fought in Leyte, earned the Silver Star and Legion of Merit, and served from 1917 in the Texas National Guard and regular army. Born in Thorps Springs, Texas, he graduated from Texas A&M and led rifle teams at Camp Perry and Fort Benning before the Okinawa campaign.
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WASHINGTON
Claudius M Easley
96th infantry division
Okinawa
war department
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10th army
96th
Pearl Harbor
Easley
Leyte island
Philippines
Leyte
Thorps Springs
Texas
96th division
10th
Texas A & M College
Texas national guard
regular army
Philippine islands
Manila
Camp Perry
Ohio
Ft Benning
Georgia
Cargo Ships Sunk In Kuriles Attack
Eleventh Air Force headquarters reports Liberators and Mitchells swept the Kurile islands and sank three small cargo ships, left another in flames, and damaged three more. Two B-24s attacked Suribachi air field area but failed to sink all targets. The next day a Mitchell flight sank one cargo vessel near Paramushiro and burned another, severely damaging two others.
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ELEVENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS
Aleutians
Japanese
Kurile islands
lith
air force
Suribach airfield
Paramushiro
Minami cape
Shumushu
Paramasuro
Case of Corned Beef Hash Salvaged But Not for Long
In Okinawa a coast guard crew salvaged a box thought to hold enemy treasure but after lifting it aboard they weighed the crate down and threw it back overboard. Inside were 12 cans of GE corned beef hash. Rubber life belts and Japanese flashlight batteries were also recovered during the salvage.
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OKINAWA
coast guard
Firestorm strikes amid vast Japanese targets in Kyushu and Honshu
U S bombers carried out a large incendiary raid across Fukuoka Omuta Shizuoka Toyohashi and other centers on Kyushu and Honshu. Pilots described a two mile wide path of flame from docks to inland targets with smoke columns up to ten thousand feet. Flak and fighter opposition was light. Mines were laid off Honshu coast and in the Kanmon strait.
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GUAM
Japan
Shiuoka
Tokyo
Fukuoka
Kyushu
William W Potter
Knoxville
Tenn
Omuta
Toyohashi
Shizuoka
Tokyo radio
Maj
Charles Tibbs
Battle Mountain
Nev
Tinia
Saipan
India
Mananas
Gage C
Talamo
Hamarg
Japan Is Called Educated Criminal
Hartford, Conn. June 1 Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs described Japan as an educated criminal. He said Nipponese leaders cultivate savagery and brutality and drug their fighting men with a primitive religion that glorifies death. He warned their expansionists aim to subjugate Asia and threaten all decent nations.
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HARTFORD
Conn
Randall Jacobs
Japan
naval
Asia
Jacobs
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