House Votes Another Year For OPA Rule
Washington June 22 The House approved a one year extension of wartime price and rationing controls while defeating a six month limit The Hoover amendment would shift food production distribution and pricing to the Agriculture Department and Bowles control. Rep Jenkins led the amendment defeated 145 to 142 while the extension passed 177 to 126 amid warnings of inflation and food shortages.
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WASHINGTON
house
office of price administration
Ita
Rep
Jenkins
Ohio
department of agriculture
house today
OPA
Rayburn
D-Tex
Hoffman
R-Mich
Martin
Mass
America
R-Ohic
Chester Bowles
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico house
secretary of agriculture
Hoover
agriculture department
Spence
D-Ky
banking committee
San Francisco Bars Tourists From Hotels
June 22 San Francisco hotel leaders announce no rooms for vacationers. Only armed services members and others in essential war work will be housed, with allocation by the army and navy housing bureau.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Joseph D. Sullivan
Islets Recaptured by Japanese Forces Near Palau
Japanese agency claimed forces hold out in the Palau island group 600 miles east of the Philippines and recaptured several islets since mid May. The report dated June 22 from San Francisco notes the claim of Nipponese army and marine units in the area.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Comei agency
Palau island
Philippines
Smithy Jailed Farmers Alarmed
Knox ville Iowa June 22 Sheriff Jim Van Hemert says he sympathizes with area farmers needing a blacksmith but will not release Black smith Van Waller from jail until he completes a 90 day sentence for assaulting former Sheriff Paul Applegate. He has allowed a brief release only to shoe a horse in emergencies.
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KNOXVILLE
Jim Van Hemert
Van Waller
Paul Applegate
Waller
Senate to Get Charter Report on UN Peace Organization
San Francisco June 22 UP The United States Senate will receive a full report next week from American delegates on the San Francisco conference for the UN charter. Senators Connally and Vandenberg plan immediate reports after Truman's closing address, with ratification seen as the key to the new international league.
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SAN FRANCISCO
United States Senate
United Nations
senate
Truman
Berlin
senate committee
Connally
D-Tex
senate foreign relations committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Washington
international league
United States
Russia
Britain
China
France
Quake Recorded In Japan Area
Weston Massachusetts reports a fairly strong earthquake recorded on the seismograph. The quake occurred about 6000 miles northwest of Boston in the northern seas of Japan region. It began at 5 31 20 a m eastern war time and lasted about an hour and a half. Centered about 65 miles beneath the surface, it likely did not hit populated areas.
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WESTON
Mass
Boston
Japan
Weston college
Charles F. Turner
Father Turned
Geiger to Head Pacific Fleet Marine Force
Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger was named commanding general of the Pacific fleet marine force. The 60 year old veteran, famed for amphibious campaigns, succeeds Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith after Smith moves to a training role in San Diego. Geiger previously led the 3rd amphibious corps and organized the Guadalcanal air wing.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
Roy S. Geiger
Pacific fleet marine force
Geiger
Okinawa
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Holland M. Smith
A. A. Vandergrift
marine corps
Smith
1st marine airwing
Guadalcanal
1st
marine amphibious corps
Bougainville
Vandergrift
3rd amphibious corps
Czechs Seize Nazi Property
PRAGUE June 22 President Benes ordered the confiscation of all farms and corporations in Czechoslovakia belonging to Germans Hungarians and traitors and Nazi collaborationists of any nationality in a sweeping wartime measure.
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PRAGUE
Benes
Czechoslovakia
Spoiled Eggs From Hatchery Yield 60 Chicks for Crowd
A barrel of spoiled eggs from a hatchery rolled from a truck and broke in the street. The driver drove on to the city dump leaving about 60 chicks among the mess. Onlookers quickly gathered the chicks and saved them.
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SPRINGFIELD
Eisenhower Sprains Leg On Homecoming Parade Day
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower sprained his leg in a fall on a Topeka platform while greeting Purple Heart soldiers. He limped visibly during a dawn to midday Abilene homecoming parade, rode at the head of the procession, then reviewed the stands at the Lamer Hotel as Abilene and central Kansas honored the Allied commander.
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ABILENE
Kas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Topeka
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Lamer hotel
Dickinson county
Kansas
WAC Injured During Scuffle in Paris
Paris June 22 U P WAC Frt Helen Potter of Detroit is recovering from injuries suffered in a scuffle between American and French soldiers on the Champs Elysees. Provost Marshal G Ruhrmaster said there had been no serious repercussions and that only the usual police were on duty after reports of clashes lacked authenticity.
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PARIS
Helen Potter
Detroit
Champs Elysees
G. Ruhrmaster
Schenectady
French Foreign Legion
Montmartre
War Criminals To Face Trial Before Autumn
Justice Robert H. Jackson announced a U S plan to prosecute Germany's arch war criminals in a collective trial and hoped it might start before summer's end. Britain France Russia will discuss drawing up a list of major criminals in London to set trial procedures. The plan envisions a military tribunal with four powers represented by one or two judges. No immunity for high ranking war criminals if evidence proves guilt. Trials would begin as soon as a reasonably complete case is ready.
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LONDON
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Germany
Jackson
Britain
Russia
France
supreme court
British
foreign office
U. S
Gestapo
Truck Drivers Returning to Work in Chicago Strike
CHICAGO, June 22. A back-to-work movement was forming among AFL drivers in the week-old Chicago truck strike. The Office of Defense Transportation, managing 1700 seized truck lines, reported a flood of calls from operators seeking military escorts for drivers reporting for work. Louis Pike of local 705, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said the union aimed to win back members. About 300 to 400 men waited at a local office for word on army escorts at larger cartage firms. The army continued to move troops into Chicago, with totals expected to reach 9500 by afternoon. Army drivers and escorts have hauled goods since Monday to keep essentials and perishables moving.
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office of defense transportation
Louis Pike
Okinawa cleanup pushes as Jap nests fall
Guam dispatch reports American patrols cleaning Okinawa of Japanese sniper nests ahead of a planned invasion of Kyushu. Admiral Nimitz notes Okinawa as a forward base. Allied losses mount with 25,598 wounded and 6,990 KIA or missing, while Japanese casualties exceed 90,000 dead.
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GUAM
Okinawa
Japan
Tokyo radio
Kantaro Suzuki
Kyushu
esa aan
Janu towers
Pacific fleet
China
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Mikado
U. S
Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
army
marines
Inland sea
Workers Quit Over Meat Shortage At Detroit Briggs Plant
About 3500 workers at the Briggs Manufacturing Co Conner Avenue plant quit their jobs over lack of meat in sandwiches supplied by a catering firm. Harald R. Wood of local 742 CIO said the action went against union officials advice. The strike worsened Detroit meat shortages as most city slaughterhouses closed due to a rendering company strike affecting 335 workers.
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DETROIT
Conner avenue
Briggs Manufacturng Co
Harald R. Wood
United Automobile workers
Actor Ram Varro Freed After DUI acquittal
Los Angeles June 22 A jury acquitted Ramon Varro a 46 year old actor of a drunk driving charge.
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LOS ANGELES
Ramon Navarro
Bombs Blast Naval Arsenal in Japan Raid
Guam June 22 report says four hundred fifty B-29s attacked Japan's last large naval arsenal and five aircraft plants with 3000 tons of bombs in a medium altitude raid in clear weather. Seven other small industrial targets were fire-raided earlier. Osake and Hiro were reported virtually destroyed. Kure plant supplied guns up to 16 inches, projectiles, fuses, propellants and torpedoes.
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GUAM
Japan
Osaka
Hiro
Kure
Mitsubishi
Kawasaki aircraft
Kagamigahara
Nagoya
Kawanishi aircraft plant
Himeji
Kawasaki aircraft plant
Akashi
Kobe
Mitsubishi - Mishima aircraft
Tamashima
21st bomber command
Amagasaki
Liuchow Air Base Attacked by Troops
CHUNGKING June 77 UPi Chinese troops attacked the former American air field on Liuchow's southern outskirts abandoned to the Japanese seven months ago. They inflicted considerable casualties and reported most Japanese forces withdrawing northeast to Kreilin. Only 1900 to 2000 enemy troops were left to defend Liuchow.
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CHUNGKING
UPi
Liuchow
Kreilin
World Flight Trips Listed
New York June 22 an 88 hour round the world flight on Pan American airways planes was announced by the Atlantic division upon postwar travel resumption. The trip costs 700 dollars or less than the current Europe round trip rate. Reservations had already been made by 11 passengers.
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NEW YORK
Pan American airways
Atlantic
Europe
Fire Chief Caught Smoking in Bed During Hospital Stay
Decatur Til June 22 Fire Chief Sam Crow known for anti smoking in bed admitted to friends that he smoked in bed during hospitalization his pajamas caught fire and he suffered a minor burn.
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DECATUR
TIL
Sam Crow
War bill pledges 38 billion for Pacific push
Washington reports a $38,500,285,951 war department supply bill sent to the House with an army pledge to speed victory over Japan by overwhelming force. Generals Marshall and Arnold testified that 1000 B-29s would fly daily and 2,700,000 tons of bombs would be dropped in the coming year amid a plan to intensify Pacific offensives to force an early victory.
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WASHINGTON
war department
house
Japan
appropriations committee
th army
George C. Marshall
H. H. Arnold
air forces
Europe
Tokyo
Marshall
Pacific
Battle Forces Japs in Luzon Valley Clash
Manila June 22 A battle probably the final major clash in the Luzon campaign was forced on the Japanese in the Cagayan valley by Filipino guerrillas halting their retreat from the 37th Ohio infantry division. About 30,000 Japanese were believed in the valley after guerrillas seized Tuguegarao threatening a rear-guard stand to keep the road open to Aparri sixty five miles north.
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MANILA
Luzon
Cagayan valley
37th Ohio infantry division
Tuguegarao
Aparri
Tueguegarao
9th division
Seria
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