Attacks on Okinawa Bases Caused Minor Damage
Small Japanese raids hit Okinawa ground installations on Sunday. two raiders shot down and no U S shipping attacked, as Fleet Admiral Nimitz reported in a communique. Mopping up yielded 74 Japanese prisoners, total 695, with 2,454 labor troops among them. Missing Americans estimated under 300, after 8,551 killed and missing through June 19.
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Okinawa
U. S
Vince Fleet
Chester W. Nigsltz
Nimitz
U.S
Associated Press
Robert Geiger
Okina
Ol. J. M. Ggickey
Finn
Geige
Okinaiwa
Nooe
Tokyo
Mitsuru Ushijima
High Command
Chester W. Nimitz
Geiger
Slovak Puppet Jailed in Czech Republic
Prague radio reported that Dr José Tiso former puppet president of Slovakia and his government have been handed over to Czech authorities and jailed in Pilsen.
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London
The
Prague Radio
Jose ‘Tiso
Slovakia
Pilsen
Taylor Calls Public Vote on Draft Bill Referendum
Congressman Dean P. Taylor introduced a House resolution seeking a national referendum on peacetime military training. The plan would let governors present the question to voters in the next congressional election to decide whether to compel one year of peacetime training for young men.
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Record Newspapers Bureau
Washington, D.C
Dean P. Taylor
Troy
House
Foster
Taylor
Virginia Boundary Dispute Resolution Moves to Senate
The House approved a bill fixing the mean high water mark as the boundary with Virginia and transferring jurisdiction over the national airport to the federal government. An amendment by Rep. Smith allows Virginia to regulate liquor sales at the airport, citing a local dispensary system and a desire to avoid restricting state revenue. The boundary dispute dates to 1946 when Congress ceded land on the Virginia side back to Virginia, including key federal sites.
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Senate
Potomac River
Virginia
Smith
Rich
Congress
District of Columbia
George Washington
Ten Smiles Square
Airport
Pentagon Building
Arlington Cemetery
Fort Myer
Mrs Watters Named Red Cross Executive Secretary
Mrs John Watters of 1913 Fifth Avenue has been appointed managing director of the Rensselaer County Chapter American Red Cross to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mrs Virginia Bray. Watters is the daughter of Dr and Mrs Richard Ellis and a graduate of Emma Willard and Wellesley College. She was a personnel manager at W and J Sloan in New York for ten years. Now residing with her parents during her husband’s service, she will begin duties July 1 after leaving Behr Mancing Corp where she worked since November 1913.
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John Watters
Fifth Avenue
Rensselaer Council
American Red Cross
Virginia Bray
Watters
Richard Ellis
Emma Willard Schools
Wellesley College
New York University
W. & J. Sloan
New York
Italy
Wasters
Behr Mancing Corp
Péost
Red Cross
Hurricane Heads For Atlantic City Threatens Coast
A tropical storm brushed the Carolinas with dangerous winds but caused no serious damage in initial reports. Red Cross and government agencies warned residents from Wilmington to Cape Hatteras, with evacuations near Morehead City and warnings extended to Atlantic City and Parra Island reaching up to fifty mph winds along the coast.
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Wiknington
M. C
South Carolina
North Carolina Coast Line
Red Cross
Wilmington
Wrightsville
Carolina
Morehead City
Cape Fear
Cape Hatteras
London Hears Broadcast Claim Hitler Still Lives
The Daily Sketch reported a mysterious German broadcast claiming Adolf Hitler is alive and safe, heard only at a listening post and cut off afterward. It asserted his followers remain loyal and warned Germans not to despair as the night will come again.
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London
Hitler
The
Daily Sketch
Tedio
Adolf Sitter
Reich Reds Reject Soviet Type Regime in Berlin Manifesto
The German Communist Party issued a four point manifesto in Berlin rejecting a Soviet style regime for Germany. It calls for a coalition parliamentary government and private enterprise with a profit system, equal rights, and free elections. It demands confiscation of Nazi and imperialist estates to be divided among landless peasants while preserving large properties for those who resist Nazis. The document also blames Germans and German Communists for failures in uniting democratic groups against the Nazis and urges repayment to Allies for wartime damage. The Tass report notes the party’s past vote tally and Reichstag seats in 1933.
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German Communist Party
Berlin
Germany
Communist Party
Ruksian Fass
Fot
Kurt
Adolf Hitler
Reich Stag
Tass
Reich Reds
U S Wrecks Nazi Try Again Plot
The State Department told a Senate military subcommittee that Germany seeks to hide capital abroad and rebuild economically behind ghost industries to regain world dominance. Clayton cited evidence of German assets abroad and efforts with Latin American partners to cut German influence while studying war geared monopolies and cartels. Continued on Page Nine.
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Washington
State Department
William Ja Clayton
Senate
Department
United Nations
Clayton
Garnovan Econditie Ang
Latin America
Germany
United States
U.S
Yank Advance Shrinks Jap Luzon Pocket
Allied forces tightened a vise on about 120,000 Japanese trapped in the Cagayan Valley Luzon as the 37th Infantry and the 228 Airborne Division pressed south and northward from Aparri. Guerrilla units held Tuguegarao amid ongoing counterattacks while a Buckeye relief column neared.
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Cagayan
Tugtegarao
Phése
Tuguegarao
Robert
Cagayan River
Luzon
Three Nurseries Shut After Infant Deaths
New York authorities closed three nurseries at Migericoscia Hospital as diarrhea outbreaks claim seven infant lives. Acting Health Commissioner Calderone said the outbreak began June 21 and has affected infants, with 31 children in nurseries at onset. Nurseries will stay shut until the infection clears.
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New York
Migericoscia Hospital
Tank
Caldérone
Calderone
Hotel borrows carpet for Trumans entry
San Francisco officials arranging for President Truman to welcome United Nations Conference delegates borrowed a carpet from Grace Episcopal Cathedral to cover the marble floor at the Fairmont Hotel corridor yesterday effort to buy a longer carpet failed due to shortage of length.
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San Francisco
Truman
Grace Episcopal Cathedral
Fairmont Hotel
500 B-29s Hit Ten Targets in Four Nip Cities
Allied B 29s struck ten Japanese war industry targets during daylight missions, targeting five Nagoya factories and others near Osaka Gifu and Akashi. More than 3000 tons of bombs were dropped in a large phase of Superfort operations, with weather permitting visual bombing and some precision instrument drops.
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Nagoya
Osaka
Gifu
Akashi
Kobe
21St Bomber Command
Japan
Nippon
Kyushu Island
Okinawa
Chigusa
Million Belgian Reds Plan General Strike Against King
Dr Albert Maer, minister of public health and Communist Party spokesman, said more than TORO Belgian workers stood ready to walk out in a general strike against any government formed for King Leopold. He said the workers were on day to day alert and condemned Leopold's parliamentary message as naive and empty.
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Brussels
Albert Maerteat
Communist Party
TORO
Apy
Leopold
Marteau
London Swarmed by Green Flies
Swarms of green flies invaded London yesterday forcing motorists and cyclists to halt and sweep flies from their eyes. The natural history museum blamed warm moist weather for breeding but noted the green fly life is brief, lasting only a few days.
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London
Motorisia
Yclista
Natural History Museumi
OPA Faces Move to Cut Budget Funds
Washington news reports a House appropriations committee plan to reduce the Office of Price Administration budget to 174.5 million for the new fiscal year, with a broader 3.13 billion deficiency bill before Congress. The panel also approved a 125 thousand dollar liquidation for the Fair Employment Practices Committee, while FEPC life extension efforts stalled. Lending terms to Russia were revealed, showing continued deliveries via Siberia on request and a shift to cash payments for factory tools and plant completions as military needs compete.
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Office of Price Administration
House Appropriations Committee
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OPA
House
FEPC
Russia
Europe
Leo T. Crawley
Siberia
U.S
Far East
Soviet Union
Crowley
Mother of girl found in icebox arrested in Mass murder case
Police arrest the mother of a 6 year old girl found in an icebox in Springfield Massachusetts after a reported sex incident. She is charged with neglecting her minor children and held for district court arraignment. The boy, 13, is jailed without bail for a hearing on July 2 and will undergo a psychiatric exam ordered by Judge William B. Granfield. Brothers 12 and 11 were placed in juvenile custody for arraignment. The family had a troubled history and the Salvation Army aided the situation.
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Springeld
Mass
Raymond P
John WW
Hcer
Quenty Charg
Lauet
Warang
Woress
Gallagher
Clothesline Saves Baby In Five Story Fall
A 12 month old boy William Likely Hen fell from a tricycle through an unscreened window but was saved by a clothesline outside his apartment. The lines broke his fall into a concrete area and he suffered lacerations and abrasions with no broken bones reported by reconstruction hospital authorities.
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New Fork
William
Reconstruction Hospital
Union Rew Plans to Shut 300 Detroit Plants
Labor dispute widens in Detroit as 300 factories may close within days. About 35,000 maintenance and powerhouse workers threaten to halt operations unless AFL and CIO crews are assigned, with 22,600 Packard and 7,405 Budd workers idle and Chrysler projects affected.
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of the United Automobile Workers
AF. of L
Packard Motor Car Co
Budd Wheel Co
Chrysler Corp
Uaw-Clo
A.fl
Lc.lo
Ford Meter Co
Rouge
First postwar Berlin train leaves Moscow for London
Moscow radio reports the first postwar train from Berlin departed Moscow to London. Passengers include Red Army officers returning after participating in Moscow's victory parade Sunday.
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London
Upi
Berlin
Moscow
Fifty Nations Approve World Charter In San Francisco
Delegates from fifty nations unanimously approve a charter launching a new world organization. Cuban suggestion to form a preparatory commission gains support as interim headquarters are set for London. President Truman, cheered by about 250000 in San Francisco, vows no another war as veterans and leaders witness the momentous pact signing.
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United Natioss
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Franco Telgis
Heatag
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Hhalifx
Gelegaten
Afty-nation Gelegations
Cuba
Guidere Mo Bek
Jamerram Mo Francisca
Truman
Herbert V. Evad
Mr. Truman
New World Organization
PWT
Mattoon s Lunch Crisis Hits War Center of 15 000
Mattoon Illinois, a 15 000 population town, faced a lunch shortage as most eateries closed amid wartime drives. Workers begged for meals while plants rise. three new facilities promise 33 to 5 000 jobs, including Gar Wood Industries and Kuehne Manufacturing. Local clubs redirected meals to workers. mayor urged reopens.
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BY. O. L
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Kiwanis and
Young Businessmen’s Club
George W. Smith
Testaureteurs
Mattoon
New -York
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Gar Wood Industries, Inc
Detroit
Kuehne Manufacturing Co
Surniture
General Electric Co
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