Senate Applauds Charter Talk by Sen Connally
In a preview of debate, the Senate praised the United Nations charter as the hope for future peace and a landmark foreign policy. Sen LaFollette announced support for ratification, while Overton urged a fast call for action. Debate raised questions about hearings and procedure as Connally defended the charter as a pivotal document.
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Senate
Sen
Connally
Sen. LaFollette
Wahington
United Nations
San Francisco
LaFollette
Wis
Dtex
Foreign Relations Committee
Overton
D-La
Barkley
George
D-Ga
Brooks
Rtil
Texas
House Approves Fund for OPA and Extension
The House voted 174 million dollars for the OPA as price control is expected to continue for another year beyond June 30. Clinton Anderson, set to become agriculture secretary July 1, promised action to repair the War Food Administration. A Senate filibuster delayed final action on the extension. meat supply in July rises 5 percent but ration values stay unchanged.
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Washington
Senate
House
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Agriculture
War Food Administration
Rep. Andresen
R-Minn
OPA
Anderson
House Senate
WFA
Butte Forecast Sees Showers and Warmup Friday
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with afternoon and evening showers increase Friday. Maximum around 60. Thursday's high 48 and low 40 with Montana west of divide turning warmer Friday to 60 to 65. East of divide stays cooler in 40s to 50s.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Truman urges U S ratification of UN Charter first
President Truman told about 10 000 people in Kansas City he wants the United States to be the first to ratify the UN peace charter and the world court document. He received the first honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Kansas City school of law as he urged leadership for world peace and universal law.
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Kansas City
Truman
United States
University of Kansas City
School of Law
San Francisco
Republic
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Jackson County
Landings on Six Islands Revealed
GUAM June 29 Twenty four Japanese civilians and thirty eight natives were cleared from six northern Marianas islands Anathan Saligan Alamagan Agrihan Ascuncion and Maug after scouting landings by American Negro troops Two platoons and guides returned to Saipan Only one shot was fired during the operation. Japanese forces remain on Rota and Pagan.
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Guam
Marianas Islands
Japan
Anathan
Saligan
Alamagan
Agrihan
Ascuncion
Maug
Saipan
Tinian
Rota
Pagan Islands
Marianas
Fleet Operates in Straits of Macassar
Gen MacArthur announced U S Seventh fleet operated in the Macassar straits between Celebes and southeast Borneo. Surface craft shot down three Japanese planes Monday, while air forces continued heavy neutralizing strikes on gun positions and airfields in Dutch Borneo and surrounding areas.
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Manila
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Macassar Straits
Celebes
Borneo
MacArthur
Tokyo
Balikpapan
U. S
Fifth
13Th Air Forces
Royal Australian Air Force
Dutch Borneo
Banikpapan
Manghar
Redeb
Tarakan
R. A. A. F. Kittyhawks
North Borneo
Jesselton
Fifth Air Force Liberators
Kuching
Sarawak
Seventh Fleet
Pontianak
Black Widow
Ensuiko
Formosa
Canton
Nanking
China
28 Butte Men File Military Discharges June 1945
Officials list 28 local servicemen who filed discharge papers with Selective Service boards 2 and 3 within the past month. Of these, 16 entered service before December 7 1941 and many were released under the point system or due to age or disability.
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Butte
Selective Service
Dennis J. Scanlon
Woodrow D. Cole
Board
Byron A. Gillan
William H. Webster
Warren H. Box
Johns. Olson
Robert J. Ramsey
Milton N. Brunson
Edward J. Sullivan
John J. Riley
Robert N. Clark
Lawrence J. Connell
John Conners
Richard L. Camwell
Bruce Jones
Tracy A. McQuin
Clarence J. Guay
Harold Bunney
Bernard F. Long
Ray Cullen
Richard H. Brennan
Nestor A. Wirkkanen
Bomb-Battered Pinkney To Return To Action After Repair
The U S S Pinkney, bomb-battered evacuation transport with 100 wounded veterans from Okinawa, is being repaired in Oakland California after a June 28 torpedo bomber attack killed 36 and wounded 19. Comdr Arnold A Downing led the ship's crew in evacuating patients within 90 minutes.
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Oakland
Calif
Navy
Pinkney
Arnold A. Downing
Brooklyn
N. Y
Four great task forces hit Japanese ports and training centers
Four task forces of 450 to 500 B 29s dropped more than 3000 tons of incendiaries on Moji Nobeoka Sasebo and Okayama to burn Japan's island mainland. The raid marked the 24th straight day of heavy air attacks as Nimitz reported ships sunk or damaged in the Ryukyus and Korean waters with air forces from Okinawa and surrounding areas supporting the mission.
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Guam
U.P
Honshu
Kyushu
Japan
Moji
Nobeoka
Sasebo
Okayama
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Army
Navy
Marine
Ryukyus
Korean
Tactical Air Force
Okinawa
Kakerama Island
Amami Group
Army Thunderbolts
Sakishimas
Two Days Left to Hit War Loan Drive Goal in Butte
Two days remain for Silver Bow county residents to reach the Mighty Seventh War Loan target. Max Dean reports county bonds and corporate investments exceed goals, but about $115,000 still needed to meet a $2,536,700 individual quota. Local donors include Hennessy’s 75, Symons 75, Emil Marans 500, Oechsli’s 2000, Grand Silver 50, Jim Spier 100, and A. W. V. & 590.
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Silver Bow County Seventh War Loan
Butte
Max Dean
County War Finance
Dean
Laborers Fatally Harm 100 Germans in Ruhr Outbreak
Military officials said liberated foreign laborers fatally harmed more than 100 Germans in the Ruhr over two months in a wave of attacks including robberies and serious cases of harm.
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21St Army Group
Ruhr
Chinese Capture Part of Liuchow Airfield
Chinese forces seized part of the former United States airfield south of Liuchow and captured a rail station in the western suburbs. Chiang Kai-shek said Allied forces were preparing for the final blow against Japan and urged arming Chinese troops to lead the fight on the Asiatic mainland.
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Chungking
Liuchow
United States
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Chiang
Seventh War Loan Breaks All Previous Drives
The Seventh War Loan set new records by selling bonds totaling 21.639 billion dollars, surpassing the prior high of 21.621 billion from the Sixth War Loan. The campaign carried an overall quota of 14 billion dollars.
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Washington
German Scientists Share Data On Screwball Inventions
Paris report says 1200 German scientists in Allied custody predict rockets will ferry mail in 40 minutes within 5 to 10 years and regular Europe US passenger flights in 15 to 25 years. Keck notes they also foresee gravity conquest and sun power within 50 to 100 years. he stresses such claims stem from V 1 and V 2 veterans and warn the first nation to achieve these feats would rule the world.
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Paris
Germer
Atlantic
Europe
United States
John A. Keck
Greensburg
U. S. Army Ordnance Division
Keck
Germany
London
Senator Capehart on Japanese Peace Offers
Senator Capehart said Japanese peace offers, acceptable to him, have been made in recent weeks. He noted terms of surrender remain undisclosed but argued conditional peace would be preferable to unconditional surrender and predicted fighting in China could last two years. The senator urged public disclosure if such offers exist.
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Washington
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Manchuria
Europe
Capehart
China
Mitscher Bombed Off Second Ship
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher disclosed that three days after being bombed off the USS Bunker Hill he had to leave his new flagship when a Japanese plane crashed into it. He said the ship burned, elevators and quarters were destroyed, and he then moved to a third carrier before returning to the USS Enterprise.
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San Diego
U.P
Bunker Hill
Marc A. Mitscher
Adm
Mitscher
United States
U. S
Task Force 58
Japan
Japanese brag of death by own action weapons for homeland defense
San Francisco dispatch reports Tokyo bragging of new death by own action weapons to deter invasion. Ichiro Baba says the enemy landing would be welcome as Japan’s battle array is complete, while Domei cites Okinawa losses and hints at a large trainee pool.
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San Francisco
Radio Tokyo
Ichiro Baba
FCC
Okinawa
Domei
Tokyo Radio
Kiska
Aleutians
U S Casualties Rise to Over One Million
Washington June 28 United States combat casualties increased by 7 226 in the past week reaching 1 030 679 since Pearl Harbor The tally breaks down to 236 735 killed 625 288 wounded 50 240 missing and 118 416 prisoners It covers 908 025 Army and 122 654 Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel General Joseph T McNarney head of U S forces in the Mediterranean placed theater casualties at 186 616 and estimated German losses there at 1 341 000
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Washington
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Joseph T. McNarney
Mediterranean
Southern Filibuster on FEPC Blocked by Senate Vote Motion Monday
A long Southern filibuster over the fair employment practices committee ends with an agreement to vote on a cloture petition Monday. Senator Taft introduced the motion to curtail debate after Bilbo yielded the floor following a lengthy attack on FEPC. The impasse held up an $446,200 FEPC funding measure and other business as quorum calls and floor wrangling continued through the night.
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Francis J. Kelly
Washington
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Bilbo
Fair Employment Practice Committee
Truman
D-Miss
Chavez
D-N. M
Fair Employment Prac
Mississippi
FEPC
Chiang urges more US economic aid for China
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told reporters in Chungking that US cooperation with China has improved but he pleaded for greater economic assistance and advisers. He praised military support from Lt General Wedemeyer and Maj General Hurley and warned that without better economics, military gains cannot be fully utilized. He predicted Japan’s defeat only with total surrender and noted the San Francisco conference ended well.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
U. S
United States
Chiang
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Patrick J. Hurley
Japan
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Truman
OPA authorizes raise in bean price ceiling in eight states
Washington June 28 The OPA Thursday authorized a retail price ceiling increase of a half cent for No 2 cans of pole snap beans produced in eight western states Effective July 3 the increase applies to these beans grown in Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado Arizona New Mexico western Texas and northwestern Idaho
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Washington
OPA
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Idaho
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