Addition of Two New Structures to Finney Hospital
Col S M Browne announced two new facilities at Finney General Hospital a library and a Neuro-psychiatric NP building both under construction. The library 29.6 by 76 feet will include a reading room work room and study with acoustical ceiling and indirect lighting across from the Red Cross building. The NP building 80 by 222 feet will feature a recreation room an occupational therapy room a reception classroom storage and staff offices joining Ward C-19. Browne cited postwar patient influx from Europe and Pacific activity necessitating expanded facilities to improve patient service.
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Finney Hospital
Col. S. M. Browne
Finney General Hospital
Red Cross
Browne
Pacific
Cheaper air travel eyed to boost resort visits
Greensboro June 6 AP that cheaper air travel can cut resort costs and broaden access to vacations, aiding families. Colonial Airlines executive E S Ridley testified at a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing that reduced air fares could open popular southeastern and northern resort destinations, linking Roanoke to Mon treal and Burlington to Watertown. Ridley urged direct service to minimize travel time and expense.
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Greensboro
N. C
S. Ridley
Colonial Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ridley
Colonial Airline
Roa Coke
Pinehurst
Southern Pines
Wilmington
Camden
S. C
Aiken
Brunswick
Watertown
N. Y
Navy unveils new casualty reports system
The Navy announces a redesigned casualty reporting system to speed updates to next of kin. Commands abroad designate officers for dead missing wounded and injured reports with weekly amplifying details to Washington by air mail when needed. progress notes may reach families sooner than official notices.
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Washington
Navy Today
Marine Corps and
Coast Guard
Continental United States
Continental
Air
Navy
Anti Draft Critics Warn On Mind Regimentation
A. J. Brumaugh of the American Council on Education told the House postwar military policy committee that a peacetime draft would regiment youth minds. He warned immediate conscription risks eroding faith in collective security and values of higher education.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
A. J. Brunbaugh
American Council On Education
House
Congress
Brumbaugh
Plan to Control Germany Not Yet Clarified
The Allied plan focuses on control machinery rather than how Germany will be re established as a nation. The 1937 occupation boundaries hold, no annexation is promised, but Polish resettlement raises questions about future sovereignty. Local zones may face overall decisions by a central council, signaling future disputes beyond immediate issues.
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Germany
J. M. Roberts, JR
Sileasia
Lublin
Lodz
Frankfurt
Council
Helicopter Industry Seen Hiring Large Postwar Work Force
Buffalo June 6 AP Lawrence D Bell president Bell Aircraft Corp says the helicopter industry will absorb huge numbers of workers in the postwar period and mark a new day in transportation. He predicts the industry will grow over 15 years, though not competing with airplanes or autos.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lawrence D. Bell
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Black Rock
Bell
Farmer Admits in High Stakes Manhunt Details
FBI and Ware county officers pursued a major swamp manhunt after two wildlife patrolmen were found shot in a swamp. The suspect Thrift faces a hear ing in Ware county jail with J Daniel Taxton to represent the government.
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FBI
Ware County
Waycross
Erin Johnson
Jesse DeLoach
J. Daniel Thaxton
U. S
Great Swamp
Martin
Crew
De Gaulle’s Mixed Role in Syrian Crisis Threatens Allied Unity
The piece condemns General De Gaulle for egoism in the French government amid Syrian fighting that damaged Damascus. It argues his stance risks widening conflict, endangering Allied interests, and urges pressure to replace him with a line aligned to Britain and the United States.
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France
General de Sgeulle
Damascus
de Gaulle
Roosevelt
General DeGaule
White House
United States
de Gaulle Anas
England
Churchill
Miss Margaret Watt Returns After College Term
Miss Margaret Watt came home last week from Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans where she studied for the past scholastic year. She will spend the vacation here with her father, Mr. Harsell Watt.
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Margaret Watt
Sophie Newcomb College
New Orleans
Harsell Watt
Truman Orders Seizure of Humble Plant in Texas
President Truman directed Ickes to seize and operate the Humble Oil and Refining Company plants at Ingleside Texas due to a labor disturbance. The move aims to secure crude oil and war material production with cooperation from all federal agencies including War Manpower, Selective Service, and the Justice Department.
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Washington
Truman
Ickes
Humble Pland Refining Company
Ingleside
Texas
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service System
Justice Department
War Petroleum
Book of names and payments found in Langford murder case
A book listing names and amounts paid was found in Park Avenue home of Mrs. Albert B. Langford after her husband was shot. Police say entries cover a long period and list every sum, with many names recurring. Officials note the total is substantial and ponder motives and suspects amid broad questioning of social and theater figures.
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New York
Park Avenue
Albert B. Langford
Langford
Plain Textile
Boundary plan maps allied zones in Germany advance
The document outlines a proposed eastern boundary along the northern Bavarian frontier toward the Czechoslovak border of 1937. It would leave Hamburg in allied control, tracing the Elbe past Hamburg toward Berlin, then swing west to include Leipzig Gotha Erfurt and other Thuringian cities under American occupation. A Special occupation arrangement follows.
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Bavaria
Hamburg
Elbe
Berlin
Leipzig
Gotha
Erfurt
Governor Caldwell outlines postwar Florida plans for growth
Governor Millard D. Caldwell told 300 patients at Finney General Hospital that Florida will push a postwar construction program including schools highways and state institutions expansion. He praised a Supreme Court ruling on freight rates and warned of a possible postwar slump with $50 million set aside for unemployment compensation while Florida aims to invest $15 to $20 million in roads, hoping federal matching funds will double it.
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South
Millard D. Caldwell
Florida
Finney General Hospital
Zyey
Caldwell
Supreme Court
Northeast
Southeast
Barefoot Dad Marches for Army Shoe Stamps
Hagerstown Maryland June 6 a man paraded the business district barefoot to protest shoe stamps for soldiers with a sign reading barefoot daddy two sons in the army and no shoe stamps his action aimed at raising support for military relief amid postwar shortages.
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ARMY
Hagerstown
Hargerstown
Berlin zones under advisory commission still under study
Tass reports that European advisory commission continues to consider zone boundaries for Berlin and that only Soviet troops occupy Greater Berlin. It does not specify any maps showing areas allocated to the United States Britain or France.
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Berlin
European’ Advisory Commission
Tass
United States
Britain
France
Seek 10 AVOID Five veto issue dominates early talks
International talks proceed in Moscow and San Francisco to avert a Big Five split over veto power in the security council. Stalin's stance on veto rights is under review while Hopkins and Stettinius press for a unified US led position. Also debated is trusteeship rules and moving past World War I mandates.
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John M. Hightower
Associated.Preas
San Francisco
Moscow
Stalin
Security Council
Truman
Harry Hopkins
Stettinius
United ‘States
Ambbassador Andrei Gromyko
Russia
United States
France
China
Britain
Normandy
Denmark
Army transport plane with WAC missing on Africa flight
A War Department report says an army transport plane carrying a WAC and three crew members is missing after a week long 764 mile flight in Africa. The craft departed Accra in British West Africa en route to Roberts Likcong on June 30 and has not been accounted for.
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Washington
WAC
Africa
War Department
Accra
British West
Roberts
Trovshcones Seiroe
Georgia court upholds race based property restrictions
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that restrictions limiting property to white owners do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Savannah Bank and Trust Company, as administrator for the estate of Peter Rabey, sued Louise Fisher and Margarita H. Dooley of Savannah over property tied to parcels numbered 617 to 623.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Uit
United States
Savannah Bank and Trust Company
Peter Rabey
Louise
Fisher
Margarita H. Dooley
Savannah
Bank
Raley
Governor succession defeat framed by Harris legislative fight
Report notes opponents of lifting the gubernatorial succession ban met at a cottage owned by Consolidated Distributors, a liquor organization. Harris led the fight, while Arnall denied having a law partner and urged retracting the statement. The conflict centers on who would influence the governor's succession after a special session.
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Alvan Free
Harris
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