Millions Mob London For Victory Fete
London crowds flood the capital for tomorrow's victory celebration marking Allied triumphs in Europe. Officials expect 10 million plus attendees with a royal parade, military contingents from dominions, and RAF flyovers. The Polish contingent withdraws from the march, with details to follow.
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London
Russell C. Landstrom
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Europe
Empire
Buckingham Palace
Admiraltty Arch
Luftwafe
Germany
RAF
Lord Tedder
Kensington Gardens
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
India
Burma
Ceylon
The
Indies
Russia
Yugoslavia
Poland
Britain
Moultrie Soldier Patient Recounts Tokyo Paradise Train
A deluxe nine to ten car hospital train run by the 361st Station Hospital ferries sick GIs across Japan with private berths, a radio phonograph, books and games. Lt. Charles E. Dungard commands the train. Patient Vernon Hoots of North Carolina calls it paradise. Other riders include Edwin Forteon of Alabama and Clay Gregg of Mississippi.
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Tokyo
Japan
Charles E. Dungard
Canton
Ohio
T-5
Vernon Hoots
West Salem
N.C
Kyushu
Edwin E
Forteon
Cabot Ave
Gadsden
Ala
Clay Gregg
Glendale
Jackson
Miss
Ermage
Butler
Moultrie
Hegin
Georgia and Northwest Florida Weather Outlook
Georgia fair and warmer this afternoon and tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and warm. Northwest Florida partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with gentle to moderate southeast winds.
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Georgia
Florida
Baltimore pilot warned after stop by Virginia state trooper
Joseph Zamoicki of Baltimore says he was driving fast when two Virginia State Troopers signaled him down. The pilot produced his airplane papers and was let go with a ground warning to slow down.
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Baltimore
Joseph Zamoicki
Virginia State
Lcense
Zamoiski
Britain faces appeasement fears in postwar unity bid
In a two day Commons debate Britain signals rejection of appeasing Russia and backs resuming the Paris Big Four talks. Bevin says lasting peace requires Russia's free entry to the European settlement, while Attlee warns Moscow sees security only with global adoption of its system.
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Dewitt MacKenzie D.P
Britain
Russia
Paris
John Bull
United Nations
England
Chamberlain
Hitler
Munich
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Nuernberg
Wilhelm Kietel
Flabergasted
House of Commons
Churchill
Europe
Soviet Union
Moscow
London
Washington
Ernest Bevin
Attlee
Council Members Await Advice On Break With Spain
United States and British delegates to the United Nations Security Council seek guidance from their governments on a proposed collective break with Franco Spain next September. The plan, presented by Dr. Herbert Evatt, faces opposition from Britain, the United States, and Russia in its current form. The council adjourned until next week to allow member governments to decide on possible modifications.
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New York
United States
United Nations Security Council
Council
Franco Spain
Herbert V. Evatt
Australia
Evatt
Britain
Russia
Madrid
U. S
Herschel V. Johnson
Washington
Alexander Cadogan
Great Britain
Johnson
Alexandre Parodi
France
Spain
First Cotton Bloom Report From Sandersville Georgia
The first cotton bloom report of the season comes from Sandersville Georgia. Eugene Jordan of the Riddleville community shows the plant he planted in March about a month early and expects to pick the first bale in August.
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Sandersville
Eugene Jordan
Riddleville
Chinese guns silenced as truce ordered at Nanking
In Nanking, a noon guns‑silence order caps the Manchurian front. Communist leaders Chou En Lai Lu Ting Yo and Mao Tse Tung head to Yenan for talks on the 15 day truce. Chiang Kai Shek backs the marshal mediated plan though opposing more power for General Marshall.
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Nanking
China
Yenan
Chou En-Lai
Lu- Ting-Yo
Mao Tse-Tung
Chiang
Kai- Shek
Manchurian
U. S
Marshall
Wanking
West Coast ship owners offer to unions to avert coast strike
West Coast ship owners agreed to offer to three CIO maritime unions the proposal to avert a coast-wide walkout set for June 15. The CMU strategy session gathered leaders from 40 ports as AFL and CIO tensions flare across the waterfront.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Harry Bridges
Cio-International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union
Frank P. Fossie
Waterfront Employers’ Association of the Pacific
Labor Department
CIO Maritime Union
AFL
NMU
National Council
Committee For Maritime Unity
CMU
CIO
New York
AFL Seafarers International Unon
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Cmus
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Searrgn
Harry Luneberg
GA Farm Training Program Lacking in Qualified Teachers
A shortage of qualified agricultural teachers threatens to delay Georgia’s on the job farm training program for veterans. State officials report efforts to train more teachers at the University of Georgia and Fort Valley State College. Subsistence allowances will be paid to veterans enrolled in certified farm training courses.
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Macon
Veterans Service Board
Department of Veterans Service
J. F. Cobb
State Department of Agriculture
University of Georgia
Negro State College
Fort Valley
W.R. A. Lew
Veterans Administration
Veterans Service
Georgia
Veterans Educational Council
J. R. Wommack
Department of Distributive Education
H .P. Thompson
Department of Trades and Industrial Education
C. Arthur Cheatham
Educational Council
Agricultural Veterans’ Committee
Iup
Rivers opens Albany office for Rivers in Southwest Georgia
Albany June 7 A N Durden local attorney announces Southwest Georgia headquarters for BE D Rivers gubernatorial candidacy established at the New Albany Hotel Durden heads the Rivers for governor movement in the area Seventy six men from 16 Southwest Georgia counties met to organize Southwest Georgia for Rivers Officers elected Durden chairman Fred Scott treasurer and J E Forsyth secretary
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Albany
A. N. Durden
Southwest Georgia
BE. D. Rivers
New Albany
Durden
Fred Scott
Thomasville
J. E. Forsyth
Cairo
House Seeks Payoff For GI's Missing Furlough Periods
The House moves to pay about 15 million veterans an average 250 dollars to cover furlough time not used in service since 1939. The bill would base pay on 2.5 days per month up to 130 days, tax free, with payments to next of kin for deceased service members.
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House
William F. Arbogast
Washington
Dwight L. Rogers
D-Fla
Robert L. Sikes
Senate
Army
Navy
War and Navy Departments
Budget Bureau
Helpers at farm blaze saved barn and house
In Salamanca on June 7 a passerby group assisted to extinguish a barn fire. The quick action saved the barn and an adjoining house. Helpers were assistant fire Chief Bernard Swanson and former fire Chief C. J. Beatty of Jamestown, Fire Chief Donald Sales of Lakewood, and Geo Blackstone of Lakewood, Bard College fire chief, returning from a chiefs convention.
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Salamanca
N. Y
Bernard Swanson
C. J. Beatty
Jamestown
Donald Sales
Lakewood
Geo. Blackstone
Bard College
Free Press in Russia Differs From United States
By Eddy Gilmore United States and Soviet Russia hold vastly different ideas about a free press. Russians avoid pre announcing events, view crime as news only when it happens, and distrust editorial critique of leaders while American papers push ahead with scoops and independent coverage. The piece contrasts ownership, news presentation, and editorial norms between the two systems.
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New York
Russia
United States
United Nations
Soviet Union
U. S
Moscow
Germany
House Sends Strike Bill to Rules Group
Washington June 1 AP The House handed its rules committee the task of recommending action on President Truman emergency strike control legislation after Rep Marcantonio objected to sending varied House and Senate versions to a conferees panel for drafting a compromise. White House says Truman receives about 3000 telegrams daily for and against the Case bill with many letters. total telegrams about 35827 since his decision to use the army to operate railroads if strikers quit.
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Washington
House
Truman
Marcantonio A
I-Ny
McCormack
Massachusetts
Senate-House
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Petrillo Faces Sedition Probe Over Radio Payments
St Petersburg Florida June 7 AP The threat of arrest under Florida sedition law hangs over James C Petrillo as he discusses with the American Federation of Musicians the fate of 2 500 000 collected yearly from radio stations broadcasting recorded music State attorney Chester B Mc Mullen will decide if Petrillo violated the sedition act in a speech at AFM convention opening Monday The probe was opened on suggestion from Attorney General Tom Watson and will continue today to address Petrillo s remark that network broadcasting could end if the U S Supreme Court upholds the Lea Act The Lea Act targets union power to call strikes over staffing in radio stations A test of the act is planned in Chicago and McMullen said interrogations have taken place with further actions possible
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Florida
James C. Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Chester B. McMullen
Petrillo
AFM
McMullen
Tom Watson
U. S S. Supreme Court
Chicago
Savannah Police Vote to Affiliate with AFL
Savannah police begin move to organize and affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Fifteen officers formed plans at a conference and called a mass meeting for Tuesday. Firemen and the electrical workers union back the effort, with the latter promising potential employment if the city fires officers.
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Savannah
American Federation of Labor
Electrical Workers Union
H. Od. Miller
Electrical” Workers
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Mkenzie
Anita Blair
Fawn
LaSalle
Pacific Ship Owners
Tom Clark
John W. Snyder
CIO National Maritime Union
Per- & Cohimn
Rivers
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