Allied Control Council sets plan for German occupation zones
The Allied Control Council met with Eisenhower presiding to outline unified postwar rule across all four occupation zones. Deputies will study August proposals to establish joint control machinery and Berlin sector allocation, with monthly rotating chairmanship among Eisenhower Montgomery Koenig Zhukov.
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Bertin
Aled ‘Control Council
Geo. Eisenhower
Germany
Eisenhower
Brisk
Bernard J. Montgomery
Boiner
Georgi K. Zhukov
Prence
Pierre Koenig
Councl
Berlin
Alexander Gorbatov
Kommander
Hisenhower
Montgomery
Koenig
Zhukov
U.S
Lucuis D. Clay
Y. $. Sokofevsky
Robertson
Blarie Louis
Roeltz
Roosevelt to Quit Army on August 15
General Roosevelt will leave the Army August 15 after the War Department announced his release following a May request. His departure comes amid inquiries into a $200,000 loan and related financial matters. The department cited his long European theater service and said a Pacific assignment could be filled by another qualified officer. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Legion of Merit.
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Washington
Ellieth Roosevelt
War Department
Roosevelt
Department
John Hartford
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Pacific
Europe
Laval Leaves Spain After Engine Trouble Briefly
Pierre Laval said a regretful farewell to Spain yesterday but his plane taxied twice before returning for engine repairs. The former Vichy premier’s party waited nervously as repairs were made and a final departure time was uncertain. Spain had ordered Laval to leave, but the Junkers plane and two German pilots were free to choose a new destination once airborne.
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Pierre Laval
Spain
Serause
Vithy
Laval
Junkers
Bolzano
Italy
Afr
National League scores and minor league results update
The scoreboard reports Cincinnati 5 St Louis 4 in the lone National League game. Eastern League results include Albany defeating Binghamton 3-1 and 6-2, United beating Hartford 10-4, Utles over Hartford 4, Jimbe over Scranton 3-1, Kimira 10 Scranton 4, and Wilkes Barre 5 Williamsport 4 with Williamsport listed ambiguously.
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Cincinnati
St. Louin
Albany
Binghamton
United
Hartford
Utles
Jimbe
Scranton
Kimira
Wilkes-Barre
Williamsport
Potsdam Talks Stall After Saturday Break
The Big Three conference in Potsdam faced a delay with no agreed reason for the halt in talks. President Truman Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee aimed to resume today to press toward final terms on postwar arrangements while preparations continued in their delegations.
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Potsdam
Truman
Stalin
Jattice
Army Blamed For Delays in Reconversion
Retired War Production Board official Lester P. Doidge accused the Army and Navy of delaying reconversion by excessive buying and blocking civilian goods production. He said OCR had planned broad civilian output but military demands and aluminum constraints hindered expansion. He cited shortages of electric irons ranges refrigerators and other items despite stated needs and plans.
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Washington
War Production Board
Lester P. Doidge
Consumers’ Durable Goods
WPB
Office of Civilian Requirements
OCR
WPH
Doidge
Army and Navy
Navy
M Street
Army
Ingutin
Veteran Held as Gun Smuggler in Sing Sing Break
A wartime veteran with three and a half years overseas service and six major battles is arrested in New York City on homicide charges connected to a dramatic Sing Sing Prison break four years earlier. Police say the suspect supplied firearms to three other convicts who briefly escaped. he claims to be James Thomas Ryan, not Charles Bergstrom, and showed Army papers. Indicted veteran returned from Fort Dix pass and was booked yesterday.
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New ‘York
Batlies
Sing Sing
Charles Bergstrom
Brooklyn
Bergstrom
James Thomas Ryan
Newark
X. 3
James i Thomas Ryan
United States
Fort Dix
Bandits Take $111 300 In Hollywood Holdup
In Burbank California two men robbed a Hollywood bank messenger pair of $111 300 after forcing their car to the hills. One robber wore an Army MP armband and the other dressed in civilian clothes. Messengers Victor Lohn and Thurston Patterson were bound and gagged during the escape.
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Burbank
Cal
Holywood Bank
Victor Lohn
Thurston Patterson
Ewiy
Nazi Leaders Showing Signs Of Crackup
Captured Nazi leaders awaiting war crimes trials show fear and turmoil. Goering tormented by death thoughts. Frank and Streicher shift moods. Rib bentrop outraged at criminal label. Doenitz and Keitel protest photo markings as Doenitz objects to a shirt number.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Amelia Army
Hermann Goering
Hans Frank
Poland
Robert Lay
Julius Streicher
Hitler
Streicher
Joachim von Ribbentrop
von Ribbentrop
Goering
Albert Kesselring
Wilhelm Keiter
Eisenhower
Hitlers
Fuerner
Adm
Karl Doenitz
Diack
Million Troops To Quit Europe By End Of Year
American forces plan redeployment from Europe before year end 1945. Maj. Gen. C. P. Gross cites 800000 embarkations by July and 455000 already moved home or to the Pacific. He notes about 300000 afloat and 700000 more in transport and staging areas worldwide awaiting movement.
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Europe
Washington
C. P. Gross
Army
Erel Gross
Thousenda
Pacific
Persa
Conberg
Kaiser's Grandson Weds British Woman in Hadham Ceremony
The tall 32-year-old Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph of Prussia, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm and great great grandson of Queen Victoria, married Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness in a simple Hadham Herefordshire ceremony. He met Brigid, youngest daughter of Lord Iveagh, while a Cambridge undergraduate. his brother Prince Louis Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Adalbert Michael Hlubertus is the German throne's pretender and once worked as a mechanic in Detroit.
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London
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christoph
Prussia
Kaiser Wilhelm
Victoria
Brigid
Katherine Rachel Guinness
Hadham
Herefordshire
Wilhelm
Iveach
Cambridge
Prince Friedrich
Prince Louis Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Adalbert Michael Hlubertus
Detroit
Empire State Building Bomber Crash Injured and Killed
Debris from the E25 Army bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building injured 26 and killed 13. Fragments were found a quarter mile away on the Franklin Simon roof. Several identified victims worked for the National Catholic Welfare Council. A temporary Army claims office opened on site as repairs began 900 feet above.
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New York
Empire State
Franklin Simon Department Score
Bellevue Hospital
Arar
Newark Army Air Base
Albert G Perna
Brooklyn
Aviation
Mere Secord
Pacific
Maureen McGuire
Anne Gerlach
John Aloysus Judge
Mary Hedzierska
National Catholic Welfare Council
Joseph Fountain
Council
Open
CP. Kane
Army Board of Inquiry
Cal
Cal Hinkle, Jr
Yonkers
F. H. LaGuardia
William Franklin Smith, Jr
Hinkle
Smith
Empire State Building
US Guam battleship joins Pacific actions against Japan
The Navy disclosed Guam, the American pocket battleship, has engaged combat near Okinawa and Japan for nearly four months. It reports the 12 inch guns destroyed two enemy airplanes, downed six other aircraft, and supported carrier strikes. The ship is larger and more potent than the Graf Spee and is among the world’s best armored vessels.
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U.S
Washington
Guam
Okinawa
Japan
South America
Churchill declines Knighthood of the Garter
London reports that Winston Churchill has declined the Knighthood of the Order of the Garter offered to him by King George VI. Buckingham Palace announced the decision late that night.
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London
Winston Churchill
Order of the Garter
Britain
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Chinese Push Thwarts Japanese in Indo China Corridor
Chinese counterattacks halt Japanese thrusts along two frontier passes in Indo China as Gen Chang Pfab-kwei's forces trap Japanese near Dumb? and reclaim areas south of Canbang. Other units seal remnants around Kweilin while China claims progress in the northern corridor.
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See Chine
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Guaré
Milan
Hanoi
Loon Highway
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Wese
Kwengsi
Dorg Dang
Canbang
Chang Fpab-Kwei
Inato Shutkow
Tokyo
Korea
Southeast Asia
Kweilin
High Command
Army Seizes Plant Making B-29 Tires
The Army took over the United States Rubber Co plant in Detroit at 4 pm ET after a strike over 22 dismissals. Col. Harvey Humiong led the seizure with troops and ordered workers to return to shifts as a 6,000-employee factory faced partial resumption.
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United States Rubder Co
Curtis E. LeMay
Pacific
Harvey Humiong
Air Services Technical Command
United Rubber Workers
Ordinance Department
Mront
WAC Superior Faces Marriage News and Army Inquiry
An Anoul Berlin ceremony sparked questions after a Chicago woman claimed Captain Schulz was her husband and father of two children. The Army opened an inquiry as Schulz's marital status remains unsettled while Sgt Nay Kowlowratis and a chaplain discussed possible annulment options.
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Berlin
Charles G. Rehultz
WAC
Chicago
Kanelia
Schulz
Army
Roth Priscilla Schulcks
Schultz
Kanella Roulonvaris
Brooklyn
Carl G. Schultz
Tokyo Press Criticizes War Policy and Defense Priorities
The Tokyo Asahi accuses Suzuki's cabinet of weak defense focus and urges munitions priority. It condemns production delays in aircraft and anti aircraft guns while lamenting underused national resources and vulnerable communications. Japanese ships and air forces bombard Honshu as U S and British planes strike airfields and shipping.
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Suzuki
Tokyo
Asghi
Federal Communications Commission
Ubset
Puri
Che Munitions Ministry
Adm
Teijira Toyoda
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Honshu
Hemeamatsu
Kii
Agahi
U S Demands Speedy Action On War Trials
London reports that Justice Robert Jackson pressed Britain Russia and France to reach an agreement this week to try Germany’s war criminals. With the U S holding most cases, delays risk U S independent trials as talks extend beyond two weeks. Britain may replace or retain Chief Prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe amid the delay.
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London
GPI
Supreme Court
Robert Jackson
Germany
United States
Jackson
Britain
David Maxwell Fyfe
Churchill
Michigan Fires Warden and Six Prison Officials
The Michigan Corrections Commission fired Warden Harry H. Jackson and six suspended prison officials amid accusations of maladministration by Attorney General John F Delaters. At Dethmers’ insistence the panel canceled public hearings planned for August 19 and 21, with the action announced by chairman Leslie P. Keszen.
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Densing
Mich
State Corrections Commission
Harry H. Jackson
Michigan
John FB. Detaiers
Dethmers
Lesle P. Keszen
Bay City
Discharged GIs Granted Thirty Gallons of Gas
Washington reports Sen. Mitchell of Washington says discharged GIs will receive up to thirty gallons of gasoline at discharge. He cited OPA orders and previous terminal leave provisions. Mitchell argues enlisted men deserve gas for recreation and locating assignments.
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Washington
Mitchell D.wash
OPA
Mitchell
Army and Navy Claim Jap Carrier Hit at Kure Base
Far Eastern Air Forces bombers attacked two large Japanese carriers at Kure Sunday, with one given a direct hit though cloud cover hindered confirmation. Hits reported on the light carrier Katsuragi and battleship Haruna, while 500 sorties were flown in poor weather against shipyards and shore targets.
Oil Wells on Tarakan Returning to Full Use
Melbourne radio reported oil production resuming on Tarakan after Allied landing on May 1. Capt Meiter of the Butch oil rehabilitation battalion said most wells were operable and could reach full production within a year, noting Japanese had sunk about 200 wells during occupation.
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Tarakan
San Francisco
Tean Island
Fernse
Melbourne
Vread
Federal Communications Commission
3. Meiter
Butch
Buffalo Heat Sets Daily Record at 89 Degrees
Record Buffalo Heat reports the city reached 89 degrees yesterday at 3 30 pm, a new daily high by one degree, surpassing the previous all day record. CP Buffalo notes the heat persisted into the afternoon with peak conditions observed in the city.
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Mercury
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