Big Three Drafting Joint Statement at Potsdam Conference
Report indicates President Truman Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee drafting a joint world statement after talks at Potsdam. Delegates met in secrecy with progress expected on main questions. no mention of Russia's Pacific war entry. Soong’s relief at foreign minister post cited as Chinese internal matter.
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Berlin
U.P
Truman
Josef Stalin
Clement Attlee
Potsdam
Russia
Japan
United States
Senate
T. V. Soong
Soong
Washington
Stalin
Moscow
G O P Leaders Seek Judgeships
Republican leaders urged expanding federal judgeships and backing a Republican to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts. Senator White of Maine and Rep. Martin of Massachusetts called for bipartisan, impartial courts and criticized one party control. Martin noted only four of 200 federal bench appointments in 12 years were Republicans.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Owen Roberts
Austin
R-Vt
High Tribunal
Senate
House
White
Maine
Rep
Martin
Massachusetts
Customs Court
Control Council for Reich Maps Unified Allied Rule
Berlin reporting the Allied Control Council first met with Gen. Eisenhower presiding to plan a unified occupation across Germany. Members outlined rotating chairmanship, Berlin sector allocation to France, and deputies to study control machinery for August 10 meeting.
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Berlin
Allied Control Council
Eisenhower
Germany
Bernard L. Montgomery
Georgi K. Zhukov
France
Pierre Koenig
Youthful Gunmen Rob Bank Messengers Near Lockheed
Two young robbers, one in a soldier disguise, seized $111,300 in bills and silver from Hollywood State Bank messengers near Lockheed Aircraft near Burbank. The victims were bound in a back seat, then dumped in foothills and walked two hours to report the crime. The robbers fled with six bags of cash, including $108,300 in currency and $3,000 in silver, using .45 caliber pistols.
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Burbank
Calif
Hollywood
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Currency Exchange
Thurston M. Patterson
Victor H. Lohn
Railroad Manpower Drive Urges 65,000 Workers
Butte mayor joins western leaders in declaring August as Railroad Manpower Drive Month. Montana employers report 1,600 positions via the railroad retirement board in Missoula and the US Employment Service lists support this wartime recruitment for troop and materiel movement to the Pacific theater.
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Barry O'Leary
Butte
United States
War Manpower Commission
Army
Western Railroad
Railroad Retirement Board
Missoula
Montana
United States Employment Service
Mayor O'Leary
Japan
Western Railroads
Mississippi River
Illinois
Indiana
Armed Forces Hamper Reconversion
Retired War Production Board official Lester P. Doidge accused the armed forces of delaying reconversion by excessive buying and by blocking civilian goods production. He said Army and Navy representatives on the requirements committee thwarted WPB civilians efforts, noting hearings occurred but progress lagged.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lester P. Doidge
Consumers’ Durable Goods
WPB
Office of Civilian Requirements
OCR
Doidge
Army
Navy
Senate
Senators Urge Job Guarantee Plan in Hearings
A bipartisan group of senators urged in public hearings that the government guarantee sufficient work for all job seekers. The Senate banking committee opened two days of hearings on a federally financed work program, requiring annual national production and employment budgets to be submitted to Congress.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Jap Carrier Battered by Allied Planes at Kure Base
Allied air forces attacked Japanese ships around Kyushu and Korea, downing 20 or more vessels. A carrier at Kure was listed and damaged, though not yet confirmed as Katsuragi, with the Haruna also badly damaged but afloat. Clouds hid direct hits. reconnaissance photos indicated further damage.
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Manila
Far Eastern Air Forces
Kure Naval Base
Haruna
Kure
Kyushu
Korea
Army Seizes United States Rubber Plant in Detroit
The Army, by presidential proclamation, seized the United States Rubber plant in Detroit amid an 18 day jurisdictional strike that halted B-29 tire production. Nationwide, over 37,000 workers were idle in 27 stoppages as costs were placed on air forces and ordnance. About 2,000 of 6,000 workers voted to return, but lines kept entry. dispute began July 13 after 12 workers were dismissed for alleged anti union activity.
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Army
United States Rubber Company
Detroit
Army Air Forces and Ordnance Department
United Rubber Workers Union
Butte Captain G E Mill Returns on 30 Day Leave
Captain G E Mill recipient of the Bronze Star for heroism in three campaigns returns home to Butte on a 30 day leave with wife Myrna and mother Susan Mill. He was among the first U S troops to enter liberated Paris and will report to Fort Jackson after leave for redeployment.
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G. E
Ernie) Mill
Butte
Paris
France
Germany
Mill
Myrna Mill
Mueller
Susan Mill
East Center
Fort Jackson
S. C
LeClerq
Wire
Town Shelled in Daring Raid by Fleet
American destroyers entered Suruga gulf southwest of Tokyo and shelled Shimizu as 1,500 plus carrier planes blasted a 400 mile swath along Japan’s coast. Nimitz reported 65 enemy planes destroyed and seven vessels sunk amid heavy strikes on Maizuru Yokosuka Kure and Hamamatsu.
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Guam
Suruga Gulf
Tokyo
Shimizu
Japan
Adm
Nimitz
Kyushu
Maizuru Naval Base
Honshu
Kure
Yokosuka
Hamamatsu
Mount Fuji
Schroeder
Jap Decision to Fight Brings Drastic Threats
Guam July 30. Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey vows invasion of Japan using the most overwhelming forces ever concentrated as air raids naval shelling and a tightened blockade begin. Gen. Spaatz says B 29 armadas will drop record tonnage in Pacific raids with over 1000 ships. Maj. Gen. LeMay urges making the Japanese realize further resistance brings total destruction of industry and cities.
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Guam
Japan
Nippon
Adm
D. C. Ramsey
U. S. Fifth Fleet
Potsdam
Ramsey
Spaatz
U. S. Army Strategic Air Forces
Pacific
Europe
Germany
Curtis E. LeMay
20Th Air Force
Guam Battles Japs On Okinawa Front In Pacific Action
The Navy says the giant cruiser Guam has engaged enemy forces off Okinawa and Japan for nearly six months. Guam with 12 inch guns knocked down two planes and supported carrier strikes, alongside sister ship Alaska.
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Washington
Guam
Okinawa
Japan
South America
Alaska
Leland P. Lovette
Navy Public Relations
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Trinidad
Weather forecast for Butte and Fair regions
The forecast calls for scattered light showers and thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon and early evening with continued warmth. Highs around 82 Tuesday, 79 Monday, and 45 Monday night. west of divide cooler, east of divide mostly fair with northern showers possible.
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Butte
Divide
Chinese Fight Japs for Border Passes
Chinese counterattacks seek to hold two border passes into Indo China as battles rage near Chennankwan and Suikow. Elsewhere Chinese forces mop up near Kweilin and move on Lingchwan while clashes flare toward Nanchang.
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Chungking
Kwangsi
Dong Dang
Caobang
Jap War Cabinet Is Criticized by Tokyo Asahi
San Francisco dispatch reports the Tokyo daily Asahi urging Premier Suzuki's cabinet to place national defense on a priority basis. It criticizes the munitions ministry led by Adm Teijiro Toyoda and notes aluminum ore scarcity and the need to boost aircraft and anti air defenses amid intensified air raids.
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San Francisco
Suzuki
Tokyo
Asahi
Munitions Ministry
Adm
Teijiro Toyoda
Japan
Veteran of Six Major Battles Held for Murder Trial
Brooklyn man Charles Bergstrom 43 is jailed on homicide charges connected to the Sing Sing prison break four years earlier in which four people died. Police say Bergstrom supplied guns to accomplices. he claims James Thomas Ryan is his true name and that he was inducted in 1941. He returned to the U S on a recent pass from Fort Dix New Jersey.
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New York
Sing Sing Prison
Charles Bergstrom
Brooklyn
Freedom
Bergstrom
James Thomas Ryan
Army
Newark
N. J
United States
Fort Dix
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U. S
Gulf
America
Army Air Forces
International
Big Three
Merriman Smith
Control Council For Reich
Montgomery
Koenig
Zhukov
Lucius D. Clay
V. S. Sokolovsky
Robertson
Marie Louis Koeltz
Group Council Control
Air Defense
Central Germany
Control Council
First Armored Division
Reinickendorf
Major O’leary
By James Hutcheson
Associated Press
G. E. Mill
Liberation of
By Marlin Spencer
Giant Cruiser
By Spencer Moosa
Southeast Asia
Kweilin
High Command
Lingchwan
Hunan-Kwangsi
Yangtze River
Nanchang
Hankow
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