Connally Urges Action on Charter
Texas Democrat and Foreign Relations Committee chair Tom Connally urged rapid Senate ratification of the United Nations charter. He urged world peace through a united Big Five veto framework and predicted broad support, saying early ratification would spur other nations and that the fate of world peace hinges on U.S. entry.
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WASHINGTON
Tom Connally
senate
San Francisco
world charter for peace
United Nations organization for peace and security
United States
Connally
Associated Press
security council
Anderson pledges WFA clean-up after probe
Washington June 28 Rep Anderson Democrat New Mexico pledged an immediate WFA check-up and cleanup when he takes over as secretary of agriculture. A house appropriations subcommittee faulted WFA warehousing and records, citing millions in losses and accusing officials of giving false information. Jones said the charges cover only the warehousing phase in lend-lease and price support work.
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WASHINGTON
WFA
Rep. Anderson
D-NM
house appropriations
war food administration
congress
Anderson
subcommittee
WEA
Marvin Jones
Cement companies face antitrust charges nationwide
The Justice Department filed a complaint in Denver alleging conspiracy to fix and maintain identical prices in Portland cement. The Cement Institute Chicago and 89 manufacturers are named. A system of delivered price quotes, says the department, killed competitive differences and caused cross shipping wasteful and expensive. Assistant AG Wendell Berg said sealed bids to the federal government often showed identical quotations across mills despite large distance variations.
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WASHINGTON
justice department
Cement Institute
Chicago
Francis Biddle
Denver
Colo
Wendell Berg
antitrust division
More Troops Arrive Home from European Theater
NEW YORK June 28 UP Additional troops from the European theater are expected to arrive today aboard three transports the Darien the Marine Raven and the Jonathan Oner. The Marine Raven with 1732 troops of the 387th regiment of the 97th infantry division will anchor off Peismont NY.
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NEW YORK
Darien
Jonathan oner
97th infantry division
Peismont
M, Y
Clark to Command Forces in Austria
Gen Mark W Clark designated chief of United States occupation forces in Austria by Undersecretary Patterson. He will lead military government and political affairs in the U S zone as Austria is divided into four occupation zones like Germany with Vienna split into four sectors.
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WASHINGTON
Mark W. Clark
bee
United States
Austria
Patterson
Clark
15th army group
Germany
Vienna
Berlin
Truman to Name New Secretary to Succeed Stettinius
President Truman will name a successor to Edward R. Stettinius as secretary of state and forward the nomination to the senate. Charley Ross said no comment on Byrnes speculation and noted Stettinius resigned effective yesterday with Joseph C. Grew remaining acting secretary until Senate confirmation. The president plans to meet Alf M. Landon if he calls and may see Thomas E. Dewey. minimal engagements were listed for Friday and Saturday.
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KANSAS
UPI
Truman
Edward R. Stettinius
senate
GREW
Charley Ross
James F. Byrnes
Ross
Stettinius
Joseph C. Grew
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Topeka
Thomas E. Dewey
Bullet Wounds Pilot of Blimp
Santa Ana, California June 28. Authorities pressed the search for the ground shooter who fired a small caliber bullet at a navy blimp wounding pilot Lt. Willisford Bennett Day. The bullet pierced the airship nose over the Santa Ana river bed and Day was struck in the left leg but landed safely at the Santa Ana naval air station.
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SANTA ANA
Calif
naval intelligence
FBI
Orange county
Willisford Bennett Day
Laguna Beach
Day
Santa Ana naval air station
Troy Rights Dependent on Calico Rent to Mohawk
Troy faces eviction from the St. Regis Mohawk reservation as of August 1 unless the U S government pays annual rent in four bolts of calico per tribal member. The calico rent stems from an old treaty cited in the report with the Mohawk chiefs.
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Troy
U.S
TROY, N
U. S
St. Regis
Big U S Carrier Survives Attack
Washington June 28 Navy reports the 27 000 ton carrier Bunker Hill was saved after two Japanese planes caused a flaming attack. The ship, flagship of Vice Admiral March A. Mit Scher, suffered extensive damage at Puget Sound while planes supported Okinawa ground operations. 656 casualties occurred, including 373 killed or dead of wounds.
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BUNKER HILL
Bunker
Okinawa
Kyushu
Casultés wes
U. S. Navy
WASHINGTON
navy
Puget Sound
Wash
navy yard
March A. Mit Scher
marine
Navy Reveals Ryukyus Losses in Okinawa Campaign
GUAM June 28.4 The Ryukyus campaign cost the United States 46,319 casualties with 11,897 killed or missing. Fleet Adm Nimitz announced naval casualties of 4,907 killed or missing and 4,824 wounded for March 18 to June 20. Over 1,400 ships took part, with 33 ships sunk among destroyers and small craft. the Okinawa advance involved heavy carrier actions and multiple enemy air attacks.
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GUAM
Ryukyus
Okinawa
United States
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Okhotsk sea
Kuriles
Franklin
Bunker Hill
U. S
Chinese Capture Liuchow Railway Station and Air Field
Chungking dispatches report Chinese forces captured a railway station in the western suburbs of Liuchow in Kwangsi province and seized part of the air field to the south. Western column supported by American fighter bombers pressed toward a junction with other troops attacking Liuchow’s south station.
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CHUNGKING
Liuchow
Kwangsi province
Negro Troops Capture Islands in Marianas Reconnaissance
American Negro troops landed on six northern Marianas islands Anatahan Saligan Alamagan Agrihan Ascuncion and Mang without a single shot aside from a pistol cartridge expended by a guide on a defiant Japanese. The operation supported by a destroyer escort and two landing craft aimed to locate future bases for crippled Superforts and assess survival conditions for personnel. Japanese civilians and natives were evacuated from Rota while others remained. guides from Saipan aided the landings under Lt Cmdr W E Dunlap.
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duuincu wuss
Japan
LCI
new Marianas islands
Guam
Tinian
Saipan
Anatahan
Saligan
Alamagan
Agrihan
Ascuncion
Mang
Marianas
ROTA
Rota island
Pagan
Japan Hails Special Attack Weapons Plan Invasion Readiness
Reports from Domei quote a Japanese correspondent claiming huge numbers of youths are being trained for special attack weapons. He predicts early mainland landings to provoke worldwide astonishment as Okinawa falls and Tokyo boosts home defenses. The Tokyo government uses emergency powers to move 450,000 bombed city residents to farms.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Domei agency
Japan
federal communications commission
Okinawa
United States
Tokyo defense army
Tokyo
Ichiro Baba
Kantaro Suzuki
Potato Shipments To Europe Halted
NORFOLK VA June 28 UP The War Food Administration halts further shipments of potatoes to Europe due to shipping difficulties and spoilage risk. Potatoes are scarce at home and intended to repay Belgium for potatoes borrowed by the American army this spring, officials said.
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NORFOLK
UPThe War Food Administration
Europe
WFA
Ralph M. Woodside
southern region
commodity credit corporation
office of supply
Washington
Belgium
Executions Probed for Italian Patriots Near Rome
TDO reports two members of the Italian Waffen SS were executed by firing squad at Fort Bravetta near Rome for complicity in killing Italian patriots. The incident followed fascist salutes by Hitler and Mussolini supporters during the execution days.
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ROME
Hitler
Mussolini
waffen SS
fort Bravetta
MacArthur says North Luzon campaign ends in victory
Manila report credits U S American and Filipino forces with complete liberation of the mountainous north Luzon region after a 28 day drive from Lingayen gulf to Manila. The operation wrapped up with the Cagayan valley conquest and marked the major phase of northern Luzon combat. Casualties numbered 15 178 for the allies with heavy enemy losses. The Philippine reinvasion is deemed complete save for Mindanao mop up actions.
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MANILA
UPI
Luzon
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Cagayan valley
Lingayan gulf
Bataan
Manila bay
Corregidor
Cagayean
U. S. 37th Ohio infantry division
11th airborne division
Aparri
1st corps
north Luzon
6th army
Far Eastern air force
7th fleet
MacArthur
Philippine
Leyte
Mindanao
8th army
Television Used In Court Action
In Los Angeles a bed ridden widow will testify by two way television from her home in a August 8 superior court session ordered by Judge Samuel R. Blake. Mrs Mathe J Anderson 38 is being sued by William Willheim who paid two thirds of 31500 for her home but says she breached the sale agreement.
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LOS ANGELES
superior
Samuel R. Blake
Mathe J. Anderson
Oklahoma
Sawdust Floors and Dogs Barred From Drinking Places
Pennsylvania bans dogs from eating and drinking areas in eateries and taps rooms and forbids sawdust floors in restaurants. The new hygiene regulations also require oysters and clams in the half shell to be served in their original shells.
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HARRISBURG
Pennsylvania
Superforts Smash Aircraft Factories in Japan
The 21st bomber command reports June raids on four plants in Kagamigahara Himeji Tamashima and Akashi along with 113 square miles of factory and urban areas burned or bombed. Kawanishi and Kawasaki sites show heavy damage with Kagamigahara 35 percent, Himeji nearly destroyed, Tamashima 85 percent, Akashi 24 percent.
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GUAM
21st bomber command
Curtis E. Lemay
21st
Kwasaki
Kagamigahara
Nagoya
Kawanishi aircraft
Himeji
Mitsubishi aircraft works
Tamashima
Kawasaki
Akashi
Kobe
Urges Congress To End Strikes
Rep Stewart of Oklahoma told reporters Congress must curb a mounting wave of strikes. He warned returning veterans will seize influence in Washington after the war and labor will gain ground. He urged seizing all attack plants and running them immediately.
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WASHINGTON
Stewart
D-Okla
congress
amy
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