Conference Ready for Veto Vote
The United Nations debate over the big power veto moved toward a vote as Evatt and Connally pressed to remove the veto option from peace settlements while not challenging it on the use of force. The conference also advanced work toward the United Nations charter and a regional defense report as small nations spoke for and against the veto, with Canada signaling restraint on amendments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Tom Connally
United States
Russia
Britain
China
France
Council
United Nations Conferees Committee
Evatt
Trvo
United Nations
International Social and Economic Council
Alienations Assembly
Security Council
Byo Sidh
T. Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Yalta
Joseph Hane
Czechoslovakia
L. T. Pearson
Canada
Arguitig
Vietor de Layeleye
Velgian
Penner
Foir
Deputy Trevino faces murder charge after fatal La Tapalia shooting
Joe Trevino 40 of 245 Simpson Street was charged in Justice of the Peace Frank Vaughan's court with murder in the fatal shooting of Pvt. Willard E. Twitchell at La Tapalia restaurant, 149 Ridgevalde Walk, Monday night. Bond set at $1500. Twitchell, a Brooke Convalescent Capital patient and Fifth Army veteran, died from a bullet to the eye after an altercation during a dispute over whisky. Several soldiers and witnesses described Trevino striking Twitchell and drawing a pistol before the shooting as troops intervened near Travis Street and the Rocking Moon nightclub.
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Justice of the Peace
Frank Vaughan
Joe Treving
Simpson Street
Ftal
Willard E. Twitchell
Brooke Convalescent
le ‘Tapatia
Rigevalde Wilk
Trevino
Clayton Hulsh
Adet Ab 8. A. A. CG. GC
Twitchell
Travis Street
Soledad Street
Nile Crell
Wesk Olmos Drive
la Trpalia
Frovino
Twittell
Watin
Miss Crest
Mary Watson
Augusta Street
la ‘Tapatia
Twitchel
Trevine
Watson
Albert M. Sutton
Brooke ‘Hospital Center
Soledier
Suthai
Treving
George Klevenhagen
la Tapalin
Fifth Army
Italy
Brooke Hospital Center
Maude Twitentl
Des Moines
Inwa
Meryl Twitchell
Patrick Lee
Lance John Twitchell
Churchill Reveals Secret Talks With Vichy in 1940
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill stated Britain conducted secret negotiations with the Vichy regime in 1940. He argued Vichy was under German pressure and could not assure the French fleet would surrender to the Nazis. The disclosure came in Parliament amid assertions of a hidden treaty during Germany’s occupation of France.
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Churchill
Vichy
London
Britain
Hl Churchill
Petali
France
Nazi Maps Pinpoint German Minefields
In Paris on June 12 American engineers delivered to Belgium Norway and Finland German maps locating every Nazi minefield. The maps were presented at Paris embassies with France receiving signal copies last week. Advance U S Seventh Army units captured the materials. Their use could speed mine clearance and save thousands of lives.
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Paris
Auihy
Belgium
Norway
Finland
France
U. S. Seventh Army
London Hails Eisenhower Freedom of City and Iron Unity
General Eisenhower received the honorary freedom of London as Prime Minister Churchill praised him as a great commander. King George VI later invested Eisenhower with the Order of Merit at Beckingham Palace, making him the first U.S. soldier to receive the honor. Crowds cheered as the Allied leader rode through Parliament Street, while Churchill spoke of bonds between nations and the Allied victory in the West.
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London
Disenhower
Churchill
George VI
Eisenhower
Beckingham Palace
U. S
Russia
China
Artat
Japan
Husebul
Wner
Normandy
Temple Bar
Undertaker to Race Hearing
BINGHAMTON June 12 Indicted undertaker Donald Collins Ackley, 30, was sought for return to face grand larceny charges tied to the discovery of partly decomposed bodies in his former funeral home. Two indictments allege he collected unperformed burial services. Police say he fled before bodies were found. Authorities say he planned to move to California to start a new funeral business.
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Binghamton
Michael Banilim
Donald Collins Ackley
Tve
Hanifin
San Francisco
Ackley
Broome County
California
Stowaway Bride Towed to France In Honeymoon Plan
London June 12 The 21 year old Yvonne Coppert former Chingford school teacher pleaded guilty to leaving the country without authority after she hid in a packing case four by two feet and rode on a glider to France with her American air force husband. She was fined 100 dollars and said she felt ill during the flight.
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London
Orunette
France
Waltham Abbey
Yvonne
Gi Uculttes
Shaft
Vehicle and weapon losses in ETO reported by Allied HQ
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Paris reports American forces lost 40,058 weapons and 41,379 vehicles in one month of fighting from D-Day to VE Day. The tally includes 19,058 tanks and armored vehicles and 20,698 motor vehicles, plus 961,326 small arms and 4,263 artillery pieces. Also listed are 18 bridges and numerous engineering items such as cranes, concrete mixers, power shovels, and trailers.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forge
Paris
Smo
Crtiery
McGee Sentenced to Four Days Hard Labor at Fort Devens
McGee, a Worcester veteran, was reportedly held for 14 days hard labor for striking German prisoners and AWOL. He had been transferred from Army Disciplinary Barracks to Fort Devens. Army officers say he was cited for AWOL at a summary court martial but did not wish to explain. A $30 fine was noted in yesterday’s report.
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Fort Devens
Mass
Pi—Pyt
Jog McGee
Aland
McGee
Brunei Bay Falls To Allied Forces In Malaya Campaign
American and Australian troops rapidly exploited landings in Brunei Bay and capt ured Brooke ton and Labuan air field as Japanese resistance faded. The 7th Fleet and Royal Australian forces, with over 25 000 naval personnel, moved toward Seria oil district and Mint field while engineers prepared Labuan strip for swift operation amid jungle and swamplands.
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Manaua, Yung
Barnei
Brunei Bay Fleet
Seria
MacArthrue
Forrest B. Royal
Emphibious
America
Labuan
Brunei Bay
Singapore
Mint
Okinawa Landing Report Shrugs Off Surrender Offer
Guam, June 14. A surprise American landing on Okinawa’s southern beaches began an all out offensive to wind up the campaign against about 15 000 Japanese still alive. U S forces cleared caves and advanced on Yaelu Dake as Japanese shells fell in defense. Buckner’s HQ reported aerial surrender offers ignored.
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Guam
Oxminawa
Tokyo
Tenth Army
U. S
Simon Bolivar Huck‘oer Jr
Ho Gn
Yaelu-Dake
James L. Bredleys
66Th
Yaeju
Oreku Peninsula Poches
Merines
Fnvision
Cohimna
Forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
Forecast shows considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers in San Antonio and vicinity Tuesday afternoon and night, then Wednesday partly cloudy with a high near 26 and low around 70. East Texas sees continued cloudiness with scattered thundershowers, especially near the coast, and little temperature change.
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San Antonio
Texas
Showers Hit San Antonio For First Thunder Shower Since April
A strong storm swept San Antonio just after 4 a.m. Tuesday bringing heavy rain, wind and thunder described as a ten-dollar rain by County Agent H. A. Fitzhugh. Rain totals across surrounding towns ranged from 0.7 to 4.18 inches, aiding corn, pastures, and crops while peanut and small grain markets reacted to the moisture.
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San Antonio
J H. Jarboo
Wisheagler
Gongales
New Braunfels
Fredericksburg
Crystal City
Austin
H. A. Fitzhugh
Cotulla
Stockdale
Inchentelly
Rainstorms Damage Texas Areas
Severe weather across Texas brings wind and rain with fatalities and widespread damage. A Brady Army camp guard was killed by falling brick during a windstorm while two soldiers and two civilians were injured. Mexia reports about 100 buildings damaged and $500 unofficially in losses. trees blocked the Palestine Mexia highway. Additional damage includes unroofed houses in Mount Calm and downed signs and trees near Yaco Fort Worth and Gainesville.
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Mexia
Brady
Texas
Dallas Weather Bureau
Northatu Gentral
Abilene
Downstate
Austin
San Antonio
Austin Weather Bureau
West Central
Bill County
Texan
Brady Prisoner of
Palestine-Mexia
Yaco
Barna
Mount Calm
Axtee
Bosqueville
Trea
Fort Worth
Gainesville
Texarkana
Paris
Dallas
Greenville
Maury Warns Committee On Anti Red Gossip
Maury Maverick told the House postwar military policy committee that anti Russia gossip and talk of universal military service risks harming policy. He condemned the spread of rumors as harmful to U.S.-Russia relations and cautioned against letting such talk drive future policy.
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Maury
Washington
Maury Maverick
Chainman
House
Russia
Tv No Sete
Martin
Bam
Universal Service
Northport Teachers Probe Violent Patient Abuse Charges
Washington reports the House veterans committee opened an investigation into alleged sickening violence at the Northport neuropsychiatric hospital for veterans in Northport New York after a Veterans of Foreign Wars charge. Colonel Lews Verdel was subpoenaed as head of the facility and Maj. William Turner called to testify on hospital conditions.
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Northport Hospital
Kearney
U.N
Frank Hines
Verdel
Maj
Wiliam J. Turner
Northport
Dayton, Ohio
Veterand
John H. Ale
Ramey GR
He Hing
He Dayton Hospital
Veterans
V. A
American Legion
Disabled American Veterans
Veterans’ Committee
Jng
V.F. W
Fost
Moe
le J
Veterans’ Organization
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Fort Lewis
Wash
Mexico City
Moexteann de Matadores
Hell Fighters’ Union
Ban Francisco
Lad
Vet Mental Hospital
Undertaker
ETO
Ucts
Worcester
Armey Disciplinary
Fort Devons
Brouqketon
Brooketon
Muara
Austraten
Jeland
Tambalal
Brunel
Bay
Wen
Royal Australian First Tactical Air Force
Autiowlileral Tarakean
Tarakan Island
Eastern
Born
Okinawa
Maverick
Knayish
Itussia
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