World Capitals Mark Fourth of July Observances
The Fourth of July was observed across Europe with flag raisings in Berlin and honor guards from U S and Red Army troops. Paris Brussels and London held ceremonies as U S Ambassadors and officials attended. Dutch wreaths marked cemeteries in Holland, while Moscow and Prague radios aired programs. American troops enjoyed holidays with sports events, rodeo displays near Marseilles, and USO shows. A Rome beauty contest and boxing exhibition were planned, with other festivities from Reims to Le Havre. Aboard a British battleship in Sydney the flag was raised, with George Hester piping aboard the U S base commandant.
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Hitler
Berlin
Gar Ted Oll
U. S
Paris
Vittorio Emanuele
Roose
U.S
Jefferson Caffery
United States
Roosevelt
Brussels
Thoroghares
Charles Sawyer Sins
London
American Society
Washington Dial
Holland
Moscow
Prague
America
United Kingdom
Bernly
Marseile
Bremen
Dufantey
Rome
Army Rest Center
Primo Carnéra
Naples
Florence
Sydney
Australia
Hom. S
Duke of York
George Hester
War scale seen surpassing World War I in Pacific claim
New York dispatch reports Lieutenant Timothy A. McInerny noting that after Okinawa the war will be nearly twice as large as World War I. He cites Japan with about 5,000,000 first line troops and China’s Hwaratung army of about one million plus 80,000 puppet soldiers. He warns of ten million enemy fighters and calls Tsushima and the Kagoshima Strait area among Japan’s strongest positions.
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New York
iNs
Cpl
Tmothy A. McInerny
Patterson
Okinawa
United States
China
Hwaratung
MelInethy
Arla
Tsu Shima
Unimpressed Yanks Enter Berlin
American second armored division moved into central Berlin to assume control of the American occupation zone after a 30 hour march from Dessau. About 25 000 troops and 4000 vehicles followed, as Soviet guards saluted and Berliners gathered. Tanks parked, soldiers described weariness after a long road, while residents sought cigarettes and chocolate amid the widespread curiosity about the former chancellor’s site.
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Berlin
United States
Gereman
tHvision
Dessau
Arthur Marina
Port Chester
Ber- Tin
Mike Wennside
Chicago
Marino
Paul Terrell
Paducah, Ky
Cpl
Joseph Struniski
Long Island City
N.Y
Paul
Fuher
Fireworks in Japan as U S A A P reports air raids
More than 5000 American airmen celebrated the Fourth of July by fire bombing four Japanese cities and wrecking military installations near Tokyo. Nipponese broadcasts claimed deep American naval penetration of Japanese waters. Allied forces reported advances in Borneo and the Philippines as Australian troops captured an airfield on southeast Borneo and drew closer to Balikpapan.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Souheast Borneo
Java
Shikuka
Karafito
Sakhalin Island
Rusia
Japan
Shikoku Island
Tokushima
Shikoku
Takamatsu
Utaoh
Barneo
Philippines
China
Balikpapan
Borneo
Bepinggang
Maggi
Russell Byrnes
Balispapan
Melbourne
Heaufont
Jesselton
Mindanaa
Tokyo Girds for Invasion with Buried Forts Across Coast
Tokyo tightens defenses as Radio Tokyo reports a vast network of underground coastal fortresses on Honshu nearing completion. Ordinary citizens join in fortification efforts, while broadcasts warn of disrupted communications during invasion and a drive to self sufficiency through homegrown food and powdered substitutes.
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Ban Francisco
Nippon
Radio Tokyo
Japan
Witnesses Set At Army Liquor Trial At Camp Beale
Fifteen prosecution witnesses were excused today on day two of a general court martial at Camp Beale California. Maj Horby Tray is accused of 25 violations of three articles of war over alleged illicit liquor shipments to the officers mess. Defense contends sales were under a club plan, not true sales.
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Camp Biaue
Calif
Maj
Horby I
Qukland
Steem
Gamp Beale
Thomas Tredale
San Francisco
Tredale
Roy
Camp Beale
Advenale
Lieut
Benjamin ©. Wadltgton
Ada, Oki
Iquer
Hoy
FI Clef
Charles Shuye
Bauer
Forecast for San Antonio and Region Weather Update
Forecast shows partly cloudy conditions across San Antonio and vicinity with scattered thunder showers late Wednesday afternoon into night and again Thursday. Wednesday maximum temperatures near warm. Thursday morning may dip to around 72. East Texas expects considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers in west and south portions and lighter winds along the coast.
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San Antonio
East Texas
Hitler death by own action linked to last bunker blaze
The Berlin correspondent reports that Hitler and Eva Braun died by self-inflicted gunshot wounds on April 30 in the Berlin bunker. Witness Kempke describes inspecting the bunker and noting flames from gasoline causing blackened rooms. Goebbels and others are said to have killed themselves nearby as Russian troops advanced.
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Fierre
Auss. T. N.S
Orressondant Beruin
UINS
Reiths
Hitler
Eva Braun
Erle Kempke
Berchterundess
Kempke
Hassa
Brig
Bimker
Goebbels
Sileide
Gare den
Iker
Eya
Will Written At Sea Filed in Austin
Probate here records the will of Lieut. Tornee W. Morelock, former district attorney, who died at sea May 26 when his ship was sunk in the Pacific. The will leaves all property to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. Wye Morelock of Alpine, who requested burial in Austin but he was interred at sea.
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Rubin
Tornee W. Morelock
Morelock
H. Wye Morelock
Alpine
Pacific
Austin
Pseistant
Sul Toss Blate Teachers College
Nazi Foreign Head Arrested
New York dispatch says Ernst Wilhelm Yahle, general manager of the Natal foreign organization, was arrested. Brainsly radio reported the development today.
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New York
TNS
Brinlsly
Ernst Wilhelm Yahle
Natal Foreign Organtennion
Leopold III to Abdicate? Reports Say Ruling Monarch Steps Down
Reports from Brussels indicate King Leopold III of Belgium has definitively declined to abdicate. The sole question remains the method of relinquishing the crown, with informed sources suggesting a formal announcement may follow amid opposition to his return from exile.
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Brussels
Leopold III
Leopold
Salabieg
Austria
Munich Hall to Be Red Cross Club in PAMIS
American Red Cross Commissioner Frederick A. Carroll announced Munich Hall will house a Red Cross club. Plans include establishing a new facility at Berchtesgaden near the former Fuehrer’s Eagle’s Nest, linked to the 1923 abortive putsch site and reflecting a wartime relief effort.
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Munich
Red Cross Club
PAMIS
Cins
Red Cross
Frederick A. Carroll
Uxity
Heer
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Stimson Hails MacArthur on Luzon Victory
Secretary of War Stimson congratulated General MacArthur on the Luzon campaign in a message from Washington. He praised the Sixth Army under Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger and the Eighth Army under Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger for the rapid advance and defeat of Japanese forces across Luzon and the Philippines. Stimson expressed respect for the Philippine people and shared in the rejoicing at the liberation of the main island chain.
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Luzon
Cagaysn Sul Immin
80Th Field ‘Artillery
Tuzon Island
Philippines
Lincal
Manila
Stimson
MacArthur
Washington
Pacific
Yooi
Walter Krueger
Robert L. Eicheberger
Uie Japs
Mindanas
Philippine
Islama
Fiovasnip
Philippine Peonie
Marines Dedicate Okinawa Cemetery
Marines dedicate cemetery on Okinawa near initial landings Easter Sunday. The site holds 1697 graves. The Red Cross received a shipment of 10,000 American flags to place one on each grave.
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Okinawa
Sly
Blaly Marine Division
Red Cross
Tokyo area bomb losses and homelessness surge reported
A wartime report states 4.9 million Japanese in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe affected by air raids with 1,135,000 homes destroyed in the five cities. Tokyo alone lists 3,100,000 homeless and 7,000 homes destroyed. Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kobe show hundreds of thousands more homeless and damaged residences.
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Wysie Associated Paves
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Osaka
Yookohama
Nagoya
Kobe
Yokohama
Jap Zoo Animals Take Raids Calmly
New York dispatch reports Tokyo residents and animals in the Ucho zoo remaining serene during enemy air raids. The Japanese Dome agency says the zoo animals have learned to crawl into concrete sleeping quarters that serve as formidable shelter whenever air raids begin.
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New York
United States
Tokyo
Ucho Zoo
Jap Domel
Lions Club Install Officers At St Anthony Hotel
Vaun DL Wheeler attorney will become president of the Lions Club at the St Anthony hotel during installation services. Terry Theilt acting president will distill the following officers James Devoe vice president Melnty secretary treasurer and a new board of directors.
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Vaun DL Wheeler
Rotary Ehib Aonstallation Services
Pidny Avon
St Anthony Hotel
Terry Theilt
Vcting
James Devoe
Provident
Fourth AIL pools reopen under new chlorination system
Pools open to the public over the weekend except Blackenridge. Park Commissioner Henry Hein announced. Dr. Lewis Robbins approved the method of disinfecting with large glass bottles. Woodlawn remained open. One day closure of other pools proved sufficient pending five chlorinating machines from the east.
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AIL Municipal
Blackenridge
Henry Hein
Lewis €. Robbins
Hana
Heinaald
Woodlawn
Warren R. Booker
Radsayeit
Concepsion
Central
Elmendorf
Gaps in Jap Air Force Puzzles U S Chiefs Say
U S air generals debate why B 20 bombers rise to meet interceptors. Some say pilots and planes are dwindling, others see hidden enemy reserves. Gen William Flood notes many planes are unaccounted, scattered at airfields, fueling talk of a possible last invasion defense.
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Suny 2
U. S
Gorge G. Kenney
Gene
Cyal MacArthur
Mumbai
Flood
Retuat Inva
William J. Plood
Ehlet
Plana
Aituntion
Revert
Atemip
Jetelig
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Fahston
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Hatnan Istana
Teoccup
Lincheng
Linchow
An i
Sgaule
Ralph Mentall
Mentall
Abe
Rosemberg
Rosenbers
Morall
Alele
Lions Club
Jap Air Force
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