Okinawa Neared Loss as Tokyo Warns of Invasion Risk
Guam June 6. Hamilton Faron reports Tokyo admits Okinawa is virtually lost and warns of a direct invasion of Japan. Domei claims fierce U.S. fighting on Oroku peninsula with 100 tanks and 400-500 infantry, while Nimitz notes weather quiet on ground action but air strikes continue.
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Hamilton Faron
Guam
Jhetn
America
Okinawa
Japan
Domein
U.S. Tenth Army
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Domei
Oroku Peninsula
Naha
Nimitz
Miyako
Kume
Tonaki
Ryukyu Group
Fleet Air Wing
Asia
Manchuria
Korea
Fleet Air Wing One
First Anniversary of Normandy Landings Observed Quietly
Paris marks the first anniversary of the Allied invasion with simple observances. Veterans and servicemen remained in Europe or headed home while ceremonies were limited by Eisenhower’s directive. At Omaha Beach a small memorial wreath and flag-raising honored those who fell on D-Day.
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Normandy
Paris
France
Hitler
Eisenhower
Europe
Pacific
Japan
Continent
United Kingdom
Omaha Beach
Omaha
St.Laurent
Poultry Price Ceilings Debate With Industry Leaders
Washington witnesses urged either removing poultry price ceilings or tightening control removed ceilings risk black markets. Cliff D. Carpenter said only about ten percent of poultry reaches consumers through legitimate channels. H L Wingate of Georgia Farm Bureau claimed farmers would police the industry if given a reasonable profit but opposed current policy.
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Washington
Special House
Cliff D. Carpenter
Tute
American Poultry Industries
OPA
H. L. Wingate
Pelham, Ga
Georgia Farm Bureau
Wingate
Russians claim Hitler body found in Berlin ruins
A high Russian military source said a smoke burned corpse found in Berlin is identified with fair certainty as Adolf Hitler. The body was among four found in the underground fortress beneath the Reichschancellery after Berlin fell. Russian physicians examined the remains and noted poisoning as the likely cause of death.
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Joseph W. Grigg, Jr
Berlin
wWe
Adolf Hitler
Reichschancellery
Hitler
Red Army
Nazifuehrer
Moscow
Doctor Morel
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels To Grand- Adm
Karl Doénitz
Goebbels
Russian zone of occupation delineated by Moscow map
The Moscow Tass report claims a future Russian occupation area in Germany east of a line from the Gulf of Lübeck across Schleswig Holstein Mecklenburg Hannover Saxony Anhalt and Thuringia to Bavaria. The broadcast references maps published in Soviet newspapers and was recorded by a Soviet monitor.
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London
Moscow Radio
Tass
Germany
Moscow
Monitor
Russia
East Prussia
Gulf of Luebeck
Schleswig-Holstein
Mecklenburg
Hannover
Saxony
Anhalt
Thuringia
Farmer Admits Killing Two Forest Rangers in Georgia
FBI agent in Savannah says Oliver Thrift, 64, confessed to shooting rangers Andrew Bryant Crews 36 and Joe Daniel Martin 40 in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Thrift, who farms near Waycross, claimed the government protected bears that harmed his cattle. He faces murder charges and will be heard before a U.S. commissioner in Waycross.
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Savannah
Federal Bureau of Investigation
D. K. Brown
Oliver Thrift
National Wildlife
Thrift
Jap Balloon Falls in Michigan Revealed by Army
The Sixth Service Command disclosed that a Japanese balloon had fallen in Michigan within recent months. No date or exact location was given and no bombs were attached. Civil defense director Capt. Donald S. Leonard urged residents not to touch any strange objects and to report them to police.
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Detroit
Army
Michigan
Sixth Service Command
North America
Donald S. Leonard
New York
Leonard
OCD
Big Three Meeting Likely Site Still Unclear
London reports hint the next Big Three parley may not be in London after Commons was told there is no chance of a London meeting. Berlin talks leave unsettled details on the allied control council and Austria’s future, with Eisenhower and Montgomery returning to headquarters after a quick Berlin briefing.
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James F. King
London
Commons
Allied Control Council
Berlin
John Anderson
Austria
Eisenhower
Field Mareshal Montgomery
U. S
Germany
Richard K. Law
Foreign Office
Vienna
Poland
Syria
Truman
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Graz
Stalin
Georgia and Northwest Florida Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy to slightly cloudy with mild warmth across Georgia south and north today and tonight. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and a bit warmer conditions in the north. Northwest Florida sees partly cloudy conditions this afternoon tonight and on Thursday.
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Georgia
Florida
Harris Charges Effort to Blacken His Name
Atlanta June 6 AP The House Speaker Roy V Harris accused Governor Ellis Arnall’s backers of trying to smear his character after Arnall urged sticking to the truth. Harris defended Fortson amendment defeat and urged harmony for Georgia’s future.
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Atlanta
Roy V. Harris
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
Harris
Rep
Ben @ Fortson
Georgia
C. E. Gregory
Atlanta Journal
Georgia House of Representatives
Roy Harris
Gregory
C. E
Sugar shortages may close many soft drink firms
Washington reports a sugar shortage could force many soft drink firms to shut down. J E MacNaughton, a member of a Boston area advisory committee, warned that sugar quotas in the third 1945 period may require a 50 percent production cut versus 1944, risking closure of many establishments. He urged measures to expand cane and beet processing in Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, and Puerto Rico for 1946 and 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soft Drink Industry Advisory Committee
J. E. MacNaughton
Boston
House
McCormack
Massachusetts
McNaughton
Louisiana
Florida
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Beheading of 16 Americans by Japanese captains in 1943 Hopevale tragedy
A detailed account released on June 5 194? recounts the mass execution of 16 American Baptists led by Captain Kinogi Watanabe in the Valley of Hope Iloilo Philippines December 20 1943. Mrs Dharma Covell and 14 others suffered fatal injuries while 11 victims were missionaries.
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Richard Bergholz
Iloilo
Panay
Dharma Covell
Kinogi Watanabe
Valley of Hope
Paterno H. Enano
Enano
Central Philippine College
Covell
Watanabe
Libacao
Capiz Province
Robert King
U. S.S. Army
Catanabe
Francis H. Rose
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
James H. Cowell
Dorothy Cowell
Bap
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Tokyo
Aka Jima
Radio Tokyo
Yomiuri Hachi
Mitscher
Farmer
Brown
Waycross
Agent Brown
Lippe
Duesseldorf
Denmark
Holland
Strasbourg
Schleswig Holstein
Kassel
Hesse
Switzerland
Brunswick
Bavaria
Stuttgan Wuerttemberg
Munich
Salzburg
Stettin
Alinz
Prague
Berchtesgaden
Poznan
Breslau
Silesia
Viennay
Wakia
Warsaw
Lublin
Hungary
Reich
Britain
Greater Berlin
Harris-Arnall
Speaker Harris
Consolidated Distributors
Lakemont
Frank C. Gross
State Senate
Gross
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