Truman and Agencies Crack Down to Halt Spreading Strikes
President Truman led a federal push to end national work stoppages as the War Labor Board and Office of Defense Transportation issued directives. About 20,000 workers in vital war industries were targeted, while 18,000 glass workers in four states threatened to strike. Army seizure of a Diamond Alkali plant in Ohio was ordered, truck operations faced disruption in Chicago, and efforts to draft remaining union drivers began.
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Associated Press
Truman
War Labor Board
Office of Defense Transportation
Midwest
WLE
Chicago
ODT
Tristate Company
Jacks
Miss
Diamond Alkali Company
Painesville
Ohio
WLBE
Pittsburgh
Franco Spain Barred From Joining World League
The United States and 49 nations blocked Franco's Spain from joining the World League. The ban cites Franco’s regime as established with Nazi Fascist help, arguing no place in the United Nations for regimes backed by defeated powers. Luis Quintanilla of Mexico led the push with a strong speech, echoed by France Belgium and others. James C Dunn affirmed U S alignment with the declaration and opposed regimes formed through military force against the United Nations.
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San Francisco
United States
Natrons
Franco
Spain
World League
Generalissimo
Madrid
Conference Commission
New World Organization
Luis Quintanila
Mexico
Hitler
Mussolini
France
Belgium
Ukraine
Russia
Australia
Uruguay
Chile
Guatemala
James C. Dunn
U. S
Three Suits Of Divorce Filed
Three suits of divorce were docketed today bringing the monthly total to twenty one. Michael Peck filed against Elizabeth Peck, Marie L Brinton filed against C Stuart Brinton, and Mary Gertrude McCarney filed against Robert Kenneth McCarney.
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Michael Peck
H. H. Hoffman
Elizabeth Peck
Marie L. Brinton
Charles W. Wolf
C. Stuart Brinton
Mary Gertrude McCarney
Attornee W. K. Hartle
Robert Kenneth McCarney
Visit The Second Chicago Burglary Alarm Bypassed
Geo F Cornelius reported a second break in at his South Side home after the first theft of 200 dollars worth of goods. A slender house breaker entered through a transom despite alarms and took articles and currency valued at 293 dollars. Also announced was the promotion of First Lt Ray B Shirley from lieutenant by the 424th Infantry Regiment in Germany, with his wife Mrs Ray E Shirley and two children residing at 918 Pope Avenue.
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Chicago
Geo. F. Cornelius
South Side
Cornelius
Ray BE. Shirley
Hagerstown
424Th Infantry Regiment
Germany
Vieutenant
Ray E. Shirley
Rayette
Robin
Pope Avenue
Wounded G I Gets Greatest Thrill
General Eisenhower visiting Central Station in New York shook hands with Pvt. James Randike a wounded on Luzon last year from Rochester New York and wished him well. Randike called it the greatest thrill of his life after the encounter with the general during a stop before Ike and Mrs. Eisenhower departed for Kansas City.
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New York
Eisenhower
Central Station
Kansas City
James Randike
Rochester
Randike
Luzon
Health Service Moving Offices in Washington County Hospital
The U S Public Health Service will relocate its Washington County Hospital offices to space in the Second National Bank building before July 1. Four hospital rooms will be freed. Superintendent C J Cotter says no plans exist for their use yet. The service has been headquartered at the hospital for five years, after moving from the Health Department building.
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U.S. Public Health Service
Washington County Hospital
Second National Bank
C. J. Cotter
The
Public Health Service
Antonio Ciocco
Health Department
Eisenhower greeted by unions in New York garment district
Signs in New York's garment district greet General Eisenhower as he passes through the area. Trade unions display slogans praising his actions against the Nazis. Posters include "Hail Eisenhower, who pressed the Nazis flat" by the Pressmen's Union No. 60 and other playful chants from the Cutters and Finishers unions.
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New York
Gen
Eisenhower
Pressmen's Union No
Trail Eisenhower
Union
Hitler
Summer Daylight Reign Ends At Autumn Equinox
The piece notes summer arriving tomorrow at 2 52 PM and lasting until September 22 when the fall equinox supposedly ends the season. It recalls March summers and daylight shifts, lamenting extended daylight amid wartime changes and seasonal misplacements.
Poles Face Treated Penalty After Subversive Trial
NBC reports from Moscow say the Soviet prosecutor will not seek the death penalty for 16 Poles on trial for subversive activities behind Red Army lines. Maj. Gen. Nikolai Afanasiev says these are days of joyful victory and the accused are no longer dangerous to the USSR. In Moscow, evidence suggests Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was kept in the dark about alleged anti Russian operations of the Polish underground army as he attends talks on reorganization of Poland’s Provisional Government in Warsaw.
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New York
NBC
Moscow
Nikolai Afanasiev
Soviet Supreme Court
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
London
Yevgeny Charnowski
Polish Union of Democrats
Mikolajczyk
Warsaw
Charnowski
Miko
Rainfall Near June Average Boosts Garden Yields
Rainfall totals for June are near the long term average with more showers expected this afternoon and tonight. Gardeners in Hagerstown anticipate bumper harvests as the month nears its halfway point. the June total stands a little over 3 inches with eleven days remaining. Housewives report a bumper pea crop suitable for canning as vegetables flourish across the region. Temperatures cooled after yesterday’s rain with daytime highs around the sevenies and a night minimum of 60 degrees.
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Victory
Hagerstown
Liberated Fort Pilot Visits Lt Col Reecher Parents
A Hagerstown born Lt Col Kenneth A Reecher visits his parents after learning his former roommate Lt Raymond Forten, a POW from Fitchburg, Mass, was liberated. Reecher recalls their crash over Bremen when Forten’s bomber lost engines and forced bailouts.
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Pilot
Col. Beecher
Bremen
Germany
Roomate
Hagerstown
Luftwaffe
Kenneth A. Reecher
Aaron Reecher
Col. Reecher
Raymond Forten
Fitchburg, Mass
Colleecher
B-29 incendiary raid destroys three Japanese industrial cities
On Guam date, 450 Superfortresses dropped 3,000 tons of fire bombs on Shizuoka Toyohashi and Fukuoka turning them to apocalyptic blaze. Tokyo radio said fires raged five hours. mines were laid off Honshu coast and in Kanmon strait as Omuta burned from Monday raid. Lt. William W. Potter, Knox
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Guam
Shizuoka
Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Toyohashi
Honshu
Fukuoka
Kyushu
Toyobashi
Radio Tokyo
Kanmon Strait
Omuta
William W. Potter
Knox
Stray steer causes minor damage on Frederick Street
A lone steer strayed from a nearby farm into Frederick Street this morning causing some garden damage before a group of local riders under Motorcycle Officer John Knode corralled and captured it by driving it into a garden.
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Frederick Street
John Knode
New Italian Premier Says He's Just An Ordinary Man
Fer ruccio Parti, leader of the Actionist party, becomes Italy's premier and says he is an ordinary man not a politician. He unveiled his minister slate with four posts for Actionists and Christian Democrats, while Socialists Liberals and Labor Democrats received three each. He cited a call from the Committee of National Liberation as his reason to serve.
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Roma
Actionist
Ferruccio Parti
Actionists
Christian-Democrats
Rome
Committee of National Liberation
Flipped Cigarette Feared Cause of Bank Awn Fire
A lighted cigarette, likely flipped from a window, is blamed for igniting an awning on the fifth floor of the Second National Bank building this morning. Attorney John J. Allen and Officer John Clark contained the blaze before any damage beyond the awning. About a year ago a similar fire from a cigarette destroyed the same awning window.
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Second National Bank
John J. Allen
John Clark
Japs Report Two Allied Task Forces On Patrol Near Miyako
San Francisco June 20 Japanese said two Allied task forces were patrolling near Miyako island between Okinawa and Formosa. Domei said one force included three battleships while the other centered on five aircraft carriers and a battleship. Reconnaissance ships also sighted over 100 transports at anchor in the Kerama Islands, 24 miles west of Okinawa.
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San Francisco
Miyako Island
Okinawa
Formosa
Domei
Federal Communications Commission
Kerama Islands
Heavy postwar farm spending projected in Maryland
Maryland farmers are expected to spend about 72.67 million dollars on farm plant improvements household equipment and farm services in the first two postwar years according to the University of Maryland Department of Marketing and Economics Washington County reports suggest expenditures may be higher there with County Agent Mark Miller noting broader needs and more extensive machinery purchases than in other regions including the Eastern Shore of Southern Maryland the university notes that roughly 40 percent of state farmers were involved according to the survey.
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Maryland
University of Maryland Department of Marketing and Economics
Washington County
Marketing Service
Mark Miller
Miller
He University
Von Ribbentrop Caught By A Soldier Informer
Hamburg dispatch reports the Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured by British military police after a tip from a German soldier. A wine merchant's wife, who knew him for 25 years, recalled he sought shelter April 30 at her husband’s door but was turned away. He later hid with a 35 year old divorcee before arrest. The informer, distressed over family and health concerns, alerted authorities after intercepting a messenger inquiring about assistance.
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Charles Chamberlain
Hamburg
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
von Ribbentrop
Three Generations Bowl as Grandpa Wins Match
In Salt Lake City on June 20 James M. Kirkham defeated his son Arno and grandson Kreg in a family bowling encounter. The three generations competed in a single frame style match with Grandpa taking the victory.
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Salt Lake City
James M. Kirkham
Arno
Kreg
Thoughtful Contractor Delays Digging For Victory Garden
Milwaukee Wisconsin June 20 Thomas King Wisconsin Housing Administrator granted a contractor a two month hold on a building priority. The contractor feared disturbing a boy scouts Victory garden on the lot, so King redirected the priority to a house on another plot to keep him busy until harvest.
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Milwaukee
Thomas King
Wisconsin
King
Auditorium Top War Memorial Suggestion
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney disclosed that most memorial ideas favor a municipal auditorium. A leading businessman proposed combining the memorial with county school plans, building a new senior high with a large auditorium as a war memorial. He cites Handley High in Winchester and the S. M. Bloom annex to the local hospital as examples and urges investing in youth for a stronger nation.
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Richard H. Sweeney
Handley High School
Winchester
S. M. Bloom
Leap From Cliffs Giders Surrender Daring Yank Leader
Pictured near Davao Mindanao a U S sergeant led a Japanese patrol into a trap. Joseph F Da Luca of Belleville New Jersey drew them into a crossfire from a concealed machinegun nest and caused their deaths by commanding halt and dropping rifles. When a grenade was reached for he dived for cover preserving his men.
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Davao
Mindanao
P. L. Lune
Siait
Joseph F. da Luca
Belleville
N. J
de Luca
General Claudius M Easley Killed on Okinawa
Brig. Gen. Claudius M Easley assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division was killed in action on Okinawa Tuesday his wife notified by the War Department. He was a 53 year old World War I veteran and the second high ranking officer to die there this week following Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr commander of the 10th Army killed by a Japanese shellburst Monday. The War Department released no further details.
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Washington
Claudius M. Easley
96Th Infantry
Okinawa
War Department
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10Th Army
Hunt Stolen Auto With Baby In Rear
NORFOLK VA June 20 A five months old baby was in the back seat of a car stolen here early this morning the child's parents reported. G R Keathley a war worker and his wife said they parked their red sedan bearing District of Columbia plates near the beach and walked away briefly when they returned the car and infant were gone.
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Norfolk
G. R. Keathley
District of Columbia
Red Point Bait Use Nets Strange Sucker Catch
Miles City Idaho? No, Montana County Commissioner Frank A Spears trials fish lures without success. In a final move he uses a red ration token as bait and catches a sucker, marking an unusual fishing tale from June 20.
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Miles City
Mont
Frank A. Spears
Roosting Bird Nuisance Baffles South Enders at Sunset
Pigeons and other birds roost in Sunset avenue blocks near City Park, drawing residents into a nightly contest of deterrents. One family uses a bell on a maple tree linked to their porch, another has an electric buzzer, and others rely on tin pans and claps. Neighbors report noisy, lengthy roosting hours and sidewalk damage, while residents improvise varied schemes to chase the birds away.
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Sunset Avenue
Mearpy
Simset Avenue
Commanding General Of Japs Believed At Bay
Large numbers of Japanese leaped to their deaths from Okinawa cliffs and more surrendered as U S tanks and troops broke through to the south shore. Marine regiments seized 700 yards of the south coast while spotter plane pilots reported many leapers. Enemy forces in one pocket fought on near Kunishi ridge as Lt Gen Roy Geiger pressed for a quick decision.
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Guam
Okinawa
U. S
Tyre Marine
Saipan
Mabuni
Tokyo
Kunishi Ridge
Roy
Geiger
U. S. 10Th Army
Pla
School Board Schedules Thursday Meeting on School Program
A special meeting of the Board of Education is set for Thursday evening to discuss the county school building program and to advance plans for summer improvements and repairs. The board members and Superintendent B. C. Willis are making a personal inspection of the buildings to determine needed repairs and improvements.
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Board of Education
B. C. Willis
Auto Tax Stamps Sell Slowly Ahead of July Deadline
Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson reported that fewer than 1,900 of the $5 federal auto tax stamps have been sold since their June 9 sale at post offices and Internal Revenue Bureau windows. With roughly 12,000 stamps sold annually citywide, less than two weeks remain to purchase before July 1 deadline for display on all motor vehicles.
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Thomas M. Simpson
Internal Revenue Bureau
Local youths depart for armed service from draft boards
A busload of future GTs left this morning for Baltimore to join the armed service. The group from both local Draft Boards had freed their preinduction examinations and may enter either the Army or Navy, with nightfall as a possible enlistment time.
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Baltimore
Armed Service
Navy
Dog Catcher Says Dogs Outrun City Limits
In Anchorage on June 20 Police Chief Kalamarides pressed dog catcher Monty Clinton why he was catching few. Clinton replied dogs were getting smart and would flee just beyond city limits where he has no authority to pursue.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Pete Kalamarides
Monty Clinton
Clinton
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