200 B-29s Hit Tokyo For Fourth Straight Day
200 B-29s hammered Tokyo and Yokohama with high explosives targeting Hitachi Chiba Tomioka and Atsuta plants plus an army air field. The raid damaged industrial targets, with one plane missing, and characterized as Japan's worst weekend of the war. Inland Sea mining and Kyushu airfield strikes followed, with 36 planes destroyed at Aichi Atsuta.
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Aichi ‘Atsuta
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Xyushu
Sielda
Okinawa
Debates over Japan’s wartime dictatorial powers widen
Premier Kantoro Simhi seeks dictatorial authority as Japan’s Diet faces an emergency measures bill. Tokyo reports note fears the lower house could be abolished by decree, while cabinet moves to empower regional governments and safeguard potential invasion. Martial law contemplated to grant ministerial independence in urgent cases. Diet plans a committee to advise the government.
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Domiei Agency
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Doziei
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Home Islands
Domai
Toj
Tokyo
Radio Azia
Takataro Sakuda
Hiroshima
Tadataka Ike
Japan
Kora Ehike Anami
Suzuki
Absenteeism aches for Democrats in House
Washington reports show absenteeism among Democrats driving a major headache for leadership. With 433 members, 266 voted as Republicans seized a victory over an IWOW funding cut, aided by nearly 100 Democratic absentees and 20 Democratic defections.
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MacArthur Uses Plane As Mobile Headquarters
Sante Monroe Calif via Douglas 684 reports General Douglas MacArthur now uses a transport plane as mobile headquarters in the Philippines. The four engined craft named Bataan cruises at 200 miles per hour with interior modifications for desk space, dining and sleeping areas to serve as a combined home office and command post.
Congress Unmoved by Truman Plan to Reorganize
Washington leaders told President Truman Congress is not inclined to consider his government reorganization plan before September. Budget Director Hatfield Smith relayed the stance as lawmakers plan to adjourn July 16 and reconvene in September unless an emergency arises. Opposition from Rep. Rankin and some Senate figures may block broader action on veterans aid, with the reorganization measure seen as unlikely to fare well until after lawmakers assess other priorities.
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Hat‘ea Smith
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Senate
New York to Welcome Eisenhower All Day
New York prepares a full day of events for General Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 19. He arrives from Washington at LaGuardia and will be greeted by a motorcade route through the city. A gold city medal is to be presented at City Hall, with baseball at the Polo Grounds and a Waldorf Astoria banquet to conclude the day.
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Reds Gift Fully Equipped Hospital to Moscow
Minsk report says a fully equipped 500-bed hospital was delivered as a gift from the American Red Cross to Moscow. The gift was reported by Tass and linked to UPI dispatches from Minsk.
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Tass
Minsk
Red ‘Grose
Reds Shattered Berlin Defenses In Night Attack
Marshal Gregory Zhukov revealed the Red Army’s night assault using about 4,000 tanks and 10,000 airplanes that broke Nazi defenses along the Oder River and led to Berlin's fall. He said the decisive battle was won on the Oder, not inside the city, and noted thorough preparation and concentration of equipment. The interview, from Moscow, describes the historic night operation against roughly 300,000 defenders.
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Gregory K. Zhukov
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Ie Sates
Red Army
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Neavky
Oder River
de Zhukov
Oder
Act to Conserve Canned Milk for Civilian Use
Washington reports the CPA has shipped canned milk to commercial outlets to reserve limited civilian supplies for infants invalids and others in need. Four institutional and industrial users will be barred from spending ration points for canned milk, with exemptions possible where fluid milk is scarce. Hospitals and child feeding establishments remain exempt.
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Washington
CPA
OPA
Laval Arrives in Bordeaux After Recall to French Authorities
Telegraph records from Paris broadcast that Pierre Laval arrived at Bordeaux after being ordered by French authorities to the French Spanish frontier following a stated surrender or recall amid Franco-Spanish tensions.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Bordeaux
British Deny Allies Harsh Treatment Of Reds
The British Foreign Office rejected Soviet claims that Allies mistreated liberated Russians and accused Russia of mistreating British subjects. It stated Russians in Allied care received welfare and comfort, while British citizens faced inadequate aid and Soviet barriers to assistance. The Foreign Office said camps for Russians in the UK were American supervised and disclosed to the Soviets last fall.
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Lordon Ups
Russia
Foreign Office
Galiko
United Kingdom
Seins
Police Check Old Gun Permits in Langford Slaying
New York investigators reviewing city records for Albert E. Langford murder trace widow Mary Langford's 180 mooner lift recipients and 75 suspects questioned. A 23 calib bullet was found in Langford's neck and a 32 caliber shell in his hotel suite. No suspect or motive yet. two men described vaguely by an elevator operator remain unproven.
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Albert E. Langford
East River
Migst
James DebLamatier
Eideétis
Japs On Run Along Entire Land Route
Chinese high command reported rapid advances against Japanese forces in a broad offensive. They claimed capture of Ishan 43 miles west of Liuchow and continued pressure around Liuchow while infiltrations reached outer defenses. Futing port on the east coast was taken, and Lunkchow highway stronghold fell to Javanese troops retreating from South China.
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U.S
Liuchow
Atlee
Gainer Liuchow
Futing
China
Okinawa
Indo-China
Lunkchow
South China
Australians Invade British North Borneo
Australians land in British North Borneo per a broadcast quoted by the Bite Network citing Deputy Prime Minister J B Chiefler and Gen Douglas Macarthur. Tokyo said Allied landings were in Labuan Island Brunei Bay. bombardment followed in Brunei Bay and Bandjermasin area.
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Bite
Borneo
J.B. Chiefler Asi
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Douglas Macarthur
Radio Tokyo
Labuan
Brusel Bay
Tokyo
Labaue
Brunei Bay
Comedgnique
Boxcar shortage cripples midwest wheat harvest in crisis
Kansas and Oklahoma farmers dump new wheat as grain elevators refuse to unload. Despite calls to route more empty boxcars to the midwest, war demands keep cars scarce, threatening a glut as harvest accelerates and stored grain climbs toward 200 million bushels. Local officials, grain men, and farmers pressed Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission for action.
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Helds
Hansa
ElDorado
iGkla
O.D T
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Inter~ S
State Commerce Commission
O.D.T
Legion Backs War Against Tax Evaders
Washington reports three veterans groups the American Legion Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars will aid the Treasury in recruiting for 100 new Internal Revenue Service posts. They will help train servicemen especially disabled to qualify for agent deputy collector and clerk roles with salaries from 1440 to 2500 a year plus overtime.
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Revolumwe Bureau
Morganthau
Army Men Killed in Delaware Air Mishap
Seven Army men died when a C-45 transport crashed on a Sussex County farm near Newark Delaware. Officials at New Castle Air Base reported mangled bodies and said the plane enroute from Pope Field North Carolina to Trenton New Jersey lost bearings before two heavy engines struck a tree and exploded spreading wreckage and remains over a wide area.
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Eisenhower Receives Russia's Highest Honor in Victory Toast
General Eisenhower accepted the Soviet Order of Victory from Marshal Zhukov at a luncheon in his headquarters in Frankfurt. He praised Allied unity and peace after the European war, saluting Montgomery and some sixty senior Allied officers. The ceremony marked the first presentation of the Order of Victory to non Russians.
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Order of Victory
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Britain
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Ebenhower
Jamestown Hit by Cyclone Causes Severe Damage
A cyclone swept Jamestown at 9 30 pm injuring several and causing mass damage to buildings trees and wires. Police Chief Harry Nelson reports property damage from south wind. Rescue squads faced debris delays as fires broke out in city parks department building and other locations. Jamestown General Hospital admitted six persons including a woman with back lacerations.
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Feast Sever
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Jamestown General Hospital
Betate
Parks Department
93 Year Old New York Bookshop Linked to Nazi Arms Trade
A long shuttered midtown New York bookshop, B. Westermann, and its leaders were found to have aided Germany by shipping military related magazines and aviation journals to German stockholders. From 1928 to 1940 the firm sent cash and books worth over 195,000 to Germany while directors traveled frequently to Europe. The Treasury opened investigations in 1941 and turned cases over to federal authorities.
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Wilhelnstrasse
Treasury
Germany
Ophe Treasury
Eisele
Timas
Jie
Weetermann's
Scherl Co
Alfred Hugenberg
Krupp
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Scherl
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Aero Digest
Coast Artilery
P General
Imechanics
Westsierman
Jfo
U. S. Fired 62,384 Tons of Shells on Okinawa
The Tenth Army Artillery reports that up to yesterday 473,535 rounds totaling 82,384 tons were fired on Okinawa. Japanese daily shelling peaked at 15,100 rounds, while American forces rained heavy bombardment in the vast Pacific theater. Col. EB Edwards of San Benito Texas led the field artillery efforts.
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Lord Haw Haw Transferred to Brussels Prison
Renegade Briton and Nazi propagandist Lord Haw Haw was placed under heavy guard aboard a plane and sent to the British military prison in Brussels, where he will be held pending further proceedings.
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Brussels
Lueneburg
Germany
Ram Jones
Americans Face Heavy Enemy Fire on Okinawa Front
The US Fourth Army and Marines report heavy Japanese resistance across Okinawa. American units push inland with armor and air support, Seventy-ninth Infantry and Sixth Division Marines advancing toward Kunishi Ridge and Oreku Peninsula. Japanese kamikaze incursions continue as air battles and naval skirmishes unfold with fighter and storm activity.
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Itoman Town
Kunishi Ridge
Tuesewa
Oreku
Jananése
Okinawa
Fifth Army
Kyushu
Adm
Chester W. Nimets
Elevan
Ofinsiva
House Girds For Poll Tax Battle Today
Washington i-Congressional tempers flare as House moves to overhaul poll tax law a prerequisite for federal offices in Southern states. Backers say the measure has strength to reach the Senate where similar efforts failed before. The day ahead promises renewed controversy over a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission as heated exchanges spill into hallway adjournments.
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Ames
Chee DoRy
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