12 Jul 1945
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a gathering in Albany and a lecturer, with stray references to Hitler and fascist themes. The readable lines are garbled and provide few concrete facts or names to anchor a full summary.
The formation of a provisional Jewish government with global Jewish movement participation was revealed as the main item on the Florence conference agenda to be held next September. Also reports note restored air service between London Paris and Berlin and typhoid cases among Umberto's relatives in Switzerland. Padilla withdraws from Mexican presidential campaign urging friends to end their bid.
Mrs Anna Dufficy 41 held without bail in the death of 22 year old Sandra Lee McCann. Detective chief Fred Jack quotes Dufficy saying the child irritated her during bathing or feeding leaving her nerve wracked. Autopsy found broken neck and cerebral hemorrhage with welts and bruises. father Pvt Lawrence McCann was killed in Italy in 1943.
New York Mayor La Guardia will not travel to Paris for Bastille Day. President Truman granted permission but said the trip would not be in any official government capacity. The mayor's comment was not fully reported.
A private citizen discussion centers on actions by the mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The record notes he will remain in New York as the conversation unfolds.
A tuneful reminder at the Vermont State House in Montpelier plays a different song each day to help legislators remember the day of the week. The clock chants classics such as Old Hundred on Sunday and The Seinnstriel Boy on Friday, among others.
Navy corpsman PM 2/e Victor Hi. MacSorley of Cambridge Maryland used a combat knife to amputate a Marine’s foot to save his life during battle on the Motobu Peninsula. He treated 18 other wounded that night and later found a shell fragment in his leggings at dawn.
The report details looming negotiations among major powers over Europe’s postwar order, noting Berlin conference dynamics and strategic positions. It mentions key figures like Truman and Churchill, with advisers close to the admiralty and State Department weighing paths toward peace and reconstruction.
Senator Connally led hearings as opponents labeled the Charter a Communist plot and a world domination scheme. New witnesses included President Murray of the CSC and Norman Thom, with Dulles expected as Friday’s final witness. Proponents Anna Lord Strauss and Ray Krimm urged immediate ratification and no reservations by August 1.
Allied aerial blockade disrupted Japanese forces en route to homeland. Chinese high command says Nipponese retook Trnpak to fortify land routes between Canton and Hainan. U S Linchow air base case nears Kweilin as Japanese counterattacks along Indo China border falter. Isolated Japanese grip near Nyaungkashe in Burma. Australians seize Sepinggrange air field in Borneo. Dutch and Australian air actions in the region.
Melbourne radio said Australian and U.S. air and ground forces pressed operations on multiple fronts. Allied troops along a single lane highway northeast of Manggar airfield received naval and air support as they countered Japanese artillery. Over 40 Fifth Air Force Liberators struck three Formosa airfields while the Australian Sixth Division reported progress in New Guinea and a reported 6,000th Japanese death tally.
Maj. Gen. Klemens Rudnicki, head of the First Polish Armored Division, urged his troops in Italy to return to Poland with arms, while Anders told officers they would not be sent home as slaves of a foreign power. London reports say Rudnicki’s division, attached to British forces in Northwestern Germany, faces limited chances of discipline from the War Office. Our legal Polish authorities claim public relations constraints.
The U S Army will stop supplying food to civilians in occupied Europe on August 31 to save money. Purchases and distribution by liberated governments may keep food levels similar. Lend-Lease shipments of meat to Russia will continue in July, August, and September with 25 million pounds of toshenka included.
Okinawa Marines at a post office encounter a Japanese bond poster while buying stamps and money orders. Marines learn the meaning of the Japanese characters and bayonet armed soldiers on the poster but no Jap bond sales have been reported.
Manila has almost eliminated malaria among U S troops in the Pacific. Col J S Andrews credits behavior changes and self protection with nets medicine and repellents. The Army also uses four C 47 planes to spray DDT over Manila and suburbs since mid April.
London reports the last B 24 Liberator bomber from the Eighth Air Force left England for the United States after 51 days of departures. The program moved 41 500 American air personnel home and included more than 60 000 troops flown since the third week of May with 20 06 more scheduled this month.
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