Convicted in Top Court and Police Evade Case Grows
Reports say a suspect faces conviction in a New York top court while police investigate a separate highway pursuit. A landslide blocks a major road between New York and Albany, delaying freight trains and triggering road repairs.
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Mental Patient Beating Leads to Grand Jury Action
Washington dispatch reports three attendants at St. Elizabeth Hospital faced grand jury action after a coroner's inquest into the fatal beating of Seaman Clark J. Leeper, 22, a mental patient. Public casualty, hospital investigation, no charges named yet.
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Cholera Epidemic in Chungking Grows Worse
The cholera outbreak in Chungking since June has worsened with a flood of new hospital admissions. Foreign medical experts estimate about 6,000 cases with roughly 20 percent fatality since it began, signaling a severe crisis for the city.
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Strikes Hit Multiple Cities Across Nation
iNew strikes idle 50,000 workers as protests spread. In Cleveland a walkout by Republic giant workers ends with 10 union members returning to work. Warren Transportation Company drivers and maintenance staff vote to report for duty amid pay dispute. In St Louis 1,500 workers at three packing plants protest wage terms, urging federal seizure. Fort Wayne reports 1,750 International Harvester workers walk out, with no immediate explanation.
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Pacific War Air Raids Strike Nagoya Osaka Area
Seventh Air Force pilots from Iwo Jima flew 1600 miles round trip to attack Nagoya Osaka targets in Honshu. They used rockets and machine guns, met little air opposition, damaged 6, and destroyed at least one grounded enemy plane along with a probable second. Eight river boats and two coastal ships were hit. Three Mustangs fell to Japanese flak. Fifth Air Force raiders hit Kyushu airfields and facilities, while large forces bombed and strafed Shanghai docks and airfields. Formosa and Nimitz’s Fleet Air Wing 18 reported fires and vessel damage near Honshu. Okinawa raids resumed with several planes shot down or damaged. No sign of the new weapon appeared.
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Chester W. Nimitz
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Lake Placid
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Albany
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Walter Hoffman
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Army Ground and Service Forces
Washington
Stinson
Beard vow fuels bass season chase for 1775 inch giant
Carl Subdjeck vows not to shave until catching a bass at least 1775 inches long. His best so far is 15 inches, leaving a long season ahead as he pursues the unlikely record.
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Bess
Veterans Try Slumber Shift On Army Troop Train
Washington reports an Army experiment in rotation sleeping aboard a troop train from Camp Kilmer New Jersey to Fort Sam Houston Texas. A group of 512 returning GIs will be paired, each pair getting a Pullman berth and a coach seat. One sleeps while the other rides, then they swap when the first’s shift ends.
Plane Search Deepens for Missing Adirondack Plane
Boonville businessman SAY RICE believes a missing Stinson plane with two women aboard is down somewhere in the Adirondacks. Forest rangers and multiple aircraft scoured the Lake Placid and Long Lake area after the craft departed in bad weather.
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Boonville Aircraft, Inc
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Rice
Nimitz Praises Guam Veterans on Liberation Anniversary
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz hailed Guam veterans broadcasting to armed forces on the island. He called Guam the springboard to Tokyo and credited millions of manhours for air fields roads and facilities making Guam a powerful base. Nimitz paid tribute to troops who fought through swamps and jungles amid harsh weather while Guam’s natives celebrated liberation with dances and American flags.
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No Recognition of Polish Exiled Leaders by Britain
A British Foreign Office commentator said Britain does not recognize the authority of President Wiayds Taw Raczkiewicz of the London Polish government in exile nor Lt. Gen. Tadeusz Komorowski. The move signals efforts to preserve a Polish fighting force loyal to the exile government abroad as the United States and Britain withdraw recognition.
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Great Britain
Japs Reinforce China Fronts in Last-ditch Push
Japanese forces in China mobilize to defend key posts as Chinese Premier Soong says the battle for China may end by early 1939. Japanese units, aided by 240,000 troops and air support, press toward Shanxi and the southern invasion coast while Chinese forces hold edging toward the Frenens border.
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Sean Wise
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U.S Diath Air Force
Truman Aims For Balanced Potsdam Conference Policy
Reports from London note President Truman pushing for a U S policy at Potsdam that insists on Russian participation in key decisions yet remains impartial toward other nations. Diplomats say secrecy clouds exact agreements as sessions run late and Truman’s informal style wins favor with Stalin and Churchill.
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Commandos Kelly and Wise Leave Army Under Medal Rule
Charles Kelly of Pittsburgh and Homer Lee Wise of Baton Rouge are departing Fort Benning under a special provision allowing Medal of Honor holders to resign from service. Both commanded heroics in Italy and earned Medals of Honor, choosing to finish their tours before civilian discharge.
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Charles Kelly
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Legless Airmen Again at Controls
In Tampa Florida the three amputee airmen, Capt Kenneth C Jewell from Cumberland Maryland Lt Joseph M Hannon from Boston and Lt Willem R Graham from Coopers town New York, met General Henry M Arnold at Walter Reed Hospital who asked how he could help. They told him with one voice to let them fly again.
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Cumberland, Md
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Boston
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Cooperstown
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Two New York Army Fliers Die After Crash
At Gila Bend Army Air Field Arizona two officers Kenneth J. Wadsworth 30 and Lt Frazer Shaw 26 died from injuries after their single engine plane struck a field power line and burst into flames. Wadsworth’s sister Sherry Elaine McSawney lives in Jackson Heights while Shaw’s father Frank A. Shaw resides in Poughkeepsie.
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Poughkeepsie
Goering’s Sedative Use Reported at Palace Hotel Infirmary
Dope losing dope in Mondorf Luxembourg reports Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering’s sedative intake being reduced in the infirmary of the Palace Hotel where he is held. Col Anders, commander of the enclosure, says Goering arrived taking twenty times the normal paracodcine dosage alongside Joachim von Ribbentrop, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, and 49 other high ranking Nazis.
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Joachim von Riboentrop
Karl Doenitz
Navy Tests Age Based Weight Release Plan for Navy
The Navy outlined a test plan for discharge of older officers and enlisted personnel using only age and length of service. About 600 may be eligible by December, with points ranging from 23 to 32 depending on branch. Regular officers not fully included. plan not a demobilization, manpower remains at 3.389 million.
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Navy
Mindium
Jin
Pink Panties Debacle Headlines City Officials Denials
Controversy erupts as reports claim women bought tea rose unmentionables for husbands. Senator Homer Ferguson cites garment sales driving desperate measures. City officials vociferously deny. Councilman Sweeney vows proof that his panties aren’t pink amid fleeting sale rumors.
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Washington
Ghoris
Henry S. Sweeney
Bus Crash Injures Several as Driver Diverts Attention
A bus crash occurred when a driver watched the car ahead turn right. Police and rescuers struggled to extricate victims. Mrs Turney suffered severe head injuries. Lt Turney, Carroll, and others sustained scalp lacerations, facial wounds, and possible fractures. Passengers were transferred to another Greyhound and continued to Albany as officers assisted in the investigation.
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Carroll
Greyhound
Albany
Louis Mosher
Patrick Walsh
Paul McLaughlin
Kocher
Trusteeship Plan Considered For Pacific Islands
Truman aides discuss placing non strategic islands Japan held under mandate into a United Nations trusteeship. The US could set administering terms with a trusteeship council and World Security Council if strategic areas are placed under trusteeship. Senator Byrd warns that Okinawa claims must be settled at the Pacific war peace conference.
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Burma Escape Aim of Japs
Calcutta report says Japanese forces northeast of Peru are strengthening positions as British probing efforts continue. A front dispatch cites a large scale breakout attempt toward the Rangoon Mandalay road and notes orders to break out by month end or be written off.
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House Advances War Property Control and FEPC Fight
The House moves to consolidate control of surplus war property while President Truman seeks a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission. Southern Democrats block the measure, but a $250,000 FEPC appropriation survives to keep it alive for another year.
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Chennault May Hold Present Rank
Senator Chandler urged Congress to retire Maj Gen Claire Chennault at his highest rank upon retirement from command of the 1st Air Force in China. He noted Chennault, currently an Army captain, designed the command after Stratemeyer’s promotion. Chandler criticized the failure to promote Chennault as a major issue.
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D-Ky
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Claire Chennault
China
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Cortland Fire Dept Fretruck Recycled From Old Rig
Cortland firemen admit the new fretruck is junk. The shiny pumper was built from the remains of a 6915 truck the department had discarded earlier. Total cost was 3591.
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Vatican Sends Pope Peace Views to Truman via Spellman
A Vatican spokesman said Pope Pius XII’s views on liberty and religious freedom in Europe were forwarded to President Truman through Archbishop Francis Spellman and to Myron Taylor before his U S envoy left for the United States. The Vatican denied seeking direct representation at Potsdam while hoping to ease Soviet suspicions and aid world understanding.
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Francis J. Spellman
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Holy See
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Tabby Raises Bunkits Medina GP
One of four kit tens inva litter relensing to Fred H. Goetz has developed a short cottontail. When frightened the bunkit hops into a hole, rabbit fashion, but otherwise he plays sand and eats with his normal brothers.
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Fred H. Goetz
Bunkit
Goetz
Chiang Plans U S Visit Amid Far East Talks
General Chiang Kai-shek plans a United States visit later this year to discuss war strategy and future peace terms with Washington and Beijing, aiming to strengthen ties with the Allies. The trip, last hinted in 1943, would follow Cairo Conference outcomes and potential talks with President Truman on Far Eastern war matters.
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Chiang Hai-Shen
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China
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Germany
Escaped Marines Recall Wake Island Surrender
Marines McAlister and Kinney describe Wake Island defense, surrender on December 23, 1941, after 23 Japanese assaults. Kinney helped patch Wake’s planes. McAlister fought on Wilkes Island as the last unit to surrender. Fifty Marines and seventy civilians died. Japanese losses about five hundred.
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Shange
John AL McAister
Blue Mountain
Miss
John FP. Kinney
Colfax
Wash
Kinney
Wake
McAlister
Wilkes Island
Onions Scarce Woman Stocked Three Stores
A Cortland housewife thrilled to find unlimited small onions, but she unwittingly bought the entire stock of the three nearby grocers. The incident highlights local onion shortages and consumer overenthusiasm.
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