Paris Delegates Near Accord on Italian Reparations
The big four foreign ministers move toward a compromise on Italy's reparations for joining the Axis. Molotov seeks a light burden and a cap on damages while plans consider using Italian ships and property to defray claims. An accord on renunciations and a three man claims tribunal framework advances.
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Joseph Dynan
Paris
Russia
Italy
Trieste
V. M. Molotov
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
U. S
Molotov
Georgia and Northwest Florida Weather Outlook
Georgia remains partly cloudy and warm into this afternoon tonight and Wednesday with a few widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. Northwest Florida reports partly cloudy conditions this afternoon tonight and Wednesday with some scattered thundershowers and moderate southerly winds on the coast.
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Georgia
Florida
Plymouth volunteers save cat from tree in Lake Plymouth
Terryville Connecticut June 1% members of the Plymouth volunteer fire department waited for their first call. After three weeks they went to Lake Plymouth and rescued a cat stranded at the top of a tree.
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Terryville
Conn
Plymouth
Bidault Poised to Lead France in One-Party Government
Paris June 18 AP Foreign Minister Georges Bidault appears certain to be elected provisional president of France. He and allies favor a one party cabinet to resolve the government crisis. Socialists say they will back Bidault if the presidency is theirs.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
Popular
Republican Movement
France
Edouard Depreux
Bidault
Constituent Assembly
MRP
Lidault
Jacques Duclos
Felix Gouin
Gouin
Bradley warns of lowering standards for army inductees
Fort Benning June 18 AP General Omar N Bradley Veterans Administrator warned the armed forces must not lower physical standards to meet commitments. He cited 1,900,000 disability compensations and about 43,000 mental cases in this war, many never near combat.
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Fort Benning
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
Deadline Near on Future of Battered OPA
Washington reports a tentative move to retain price controls on butter and pork as the joint committee begins work on OPA legislation. With a 13 day deadline, prospects for major changes to OPA authority look slim while differences linger between House and Senate plans on extending the agency and profits rules.
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Washington
Joint Congressional Committee
OPA
Senate Democratic
Barkley
Kentucky
Conference Committee
House
Senate
Billa
Von Papen Recalls 1938 Murder by SS Troops
Franz von Papen told the Nuremberg tribunal that an aide was killed by the German secret police after helping assemble Austria records for export to Switzerland. He said the body was found in the Danube three weeks later, and that he shipped records to Switzerland to show he opposed the Nazi plot.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Franz von Papen
International Military Tribunal Today
Austria
Switzerland
von Papen
Adolf Hitler
Danube
Fiiver
Detroit Windsor Tornado Leaves 17 Dead and Hundreds Injured
A June tornado ripped through southern Michigan and nearby Ontario causing at least 17 deaths and hundreds injured. Blackened River Rouge and Sandwich areas suffered severe damage with millions in property loss as rescue teams comb debris on both sides of the border.
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Detroit
Michigan
Ontario
Canada
Windsor
Detroit River
River Rouge
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Sandwich
Weather Bureau
Sandwich West
Sandwich East
Lake St. Clair
Red Cross
Donald
Leonard
Harry F. Kelly
New York Central Railroad
Windsor Area
Train Hits Horse in Springfield Road Incident
In Springfield on June 18 an express rail track collided with a saddle horse that bolted from a lawn. The horse and truck driver escaped injury though the windshield and fenders were damaged.
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Springfield
Mass
Boltel
India’s OK on British plan for freedom likely
New Delhi reports indicate acceptance by the Congress and Moslem League of Britain’s plan for a coalition interim government toward Indian independence. Leaders expect formal approvals to be announced soon as the plan allocates five seats each to the League and Congress in a 14 member cabinet with four others for minorities. A rail strike threat looms with potential postal disruptions if not called off by Saturday.
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New Delhi
Congress Party
Moslem League of Britain
Congress Party High Command
League
Florida Health Officials Protest Imposed Infantile Quarantine
Georgia enforces two week quarantine for travelers from Florida amid polio fears with Georgia officials citing aim to prevent an outbreak. Florida health officer Dr. Sowder says Florida polio cases down and infection risk negligible. Georgia to enforce via local officers. excludes travelers destined for other states. camp directors told to bar Florida children. Georgia seeks lifting talks with Florida and North Carolina governors.
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Atlanta
Florida
Georgia Health Department
Georgia
Wolson T. Sowder
National Foundation For
Dan Bowdoin
Bowdoin
Millard Caldwell
Forida
Tallahassee
Caldwell
Gregg Cherry
North Carolina
New jet weapon speeds at five miles a second
The Army reveals a molten metallic jet weapon with an initial velocity near five miles per second that could defend against atomic rockets and armored space craft. Experts say adapting it to an anti atomic sky defense will require development, with speeds potentially reaching 25 000 feet per second for a shaped charge jet.
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Ruth Cowan
Washington
Army
Army Ordnance Department
War Department
Ordnance Arm 15
Everett S. Hughes
Ordnance
Leslie E. Simon
Ordnance Department
Ballistic Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Maryland
Germans arrested for spying in Shanghai circle
Shanghai June 18 AP Two Germans accused of violating Germanys surrender terms by spying for the Japanese in north China have been arrested in Peiping, U.S. Army headquarters announced. They were picked up in the roundup of operatives of Bureau Ehrhardt, the German high commands Far East Intelligence organization, whose agents have been flushed all over China.
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Shanghai
Germany
China
Peiping
U. S. Army
Bureau Ehrhardt
High Command
Far East Intelligence Organization
Ching
Kilian Presses Third Bid to Halt Trial
Bad Nauheim Germany June 18 AP Col James A Kilian seeks to quash charges of cruelty claiming accusations are malicious and based on fraud under duress He objects to a court martial proceeding in the European theater where Gen Joseph T McNarney commands The defense argues no fair impartial investigation into Lichfield operations was conducted and calls two generals to witness stands
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
James A. Kilian
Lichfield
Longland
Highland Para
Josefn T. McNarney
McNarney
Geverals
John T. Lewis
Vetern
Withers A. Burress
The
Fense
Kilian
Chetnik Leader Pleads Guilty to War Collaboration
Belgrade June 18 AP Slavoljub Veanpestic 42 year old Chetnik chief pled guilty to collaboration and treason before Yugoslav military tribunal the first of Gen Draja Mihailovics lieutenants to admit blame for dealings with the enemy Radioslav Rade Radic former Bosnian Chern unit commander testified he collaborated with the Ustashi Quisling army of wartime Croatia but felt no alternative and said the Chetniks recognized Croatia as an independent state only to buy time while Mihailovic and 22 others face trial on war crimes charges
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Belgrade
Radic
Mihailovic
Chetniks
Independent State of
Croatia
Four British Officers Held Against Will in Tel Aviv by Jewish Extremists
In Jerusalem a Reliable informant says four British officers were held against their will by armed Jewish extremists in Tel Aviv after clashes in Haifa. The broader violence across Palestine included railway attacks, explosions, and arrests as Irgun linked unrest intensified.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Haifa
Irffun Zvai Leumi
Irgun
Lydda
Khanyunis
Gaza
Lydda-Kanatara
Egypt
Haifa Bay
Beth Haawara
Dead Sea
Vilence
Communists call Chinese peace terms unsatisfactory
A Chinese Communist spokesman in Nanking said the government’s demand that the Communists yield several strongholds in North China and all of Shantung’s coastline makes peace unlikely. Wong Peng Nan stated the memo was given to General Marshall and forwarded to General Chou En-Lai without comment. Communist sources called the proposal unsatisfactory.
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Nanking
China
Shantung Province
Wong Peng- Nan
Marshall
U. S
Chou En-Lat
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