Aussies Find Big Oil Hub Ghost City in Borneo
Australian troops sealed a major oil hub on West Borneo by capturing Miri and its 500 oil wells after a swift land advance. The town, once a bustling center with the Lutong refinery nearby, was deserted as Japanese forces retreated toward Kuching.
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Menile
Ninth Division
Great West Borneo
Siri
Luton
Douglas MacArthur
Borneo
Tokyo Tidio
Balikpapan
Seid
Miri
Barneo
Imalatly
Singapore
Luterg
Afiri
Kuching
Bornes
20000 Japs Hemmed in Luzon Pocket
Allied forces close in on northern Luzon as Japanese troops are squeezed into a twenty mile corridor in Cagayan Valley. MacArthur reports from Manila that the 37th Infantry and Uta Division advance while guerrillas fight in the hills east of the highway toward Aparri. An official says about 6000 Japanese remain, with half east of the highway backed by the Sierra Madre.
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Cagayan Valley
Lakea Island
Philippines
Ger
Douglas MacArthur
Ith
Uta
Tuguegareo
Cagayan Province
Filiping
Aparri
Luzon
Sierra Madre Range
Browne Quits As State Tax Commissioner
Rollik Browne resigns as state commissioner of taxation and finance effective Sunday. Governor Dewey accepts the resignation and praises Browne for improving the tax system. Browne cites personal considerations and plans to return to private legal practice.
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Albany
Rollik
Browne
Dewey
New York City
Artion
Brownealso
Muunicipal
Alabama
Columbia University
Lew Sahook
Geld
Housewife Blames Phone Co for Domestic Troubles
Mrs Leon Leighton of Scarsdale testified in a Public Service Commission hearing that lack of a telephone disrupted household work with no maid, late dinners, and inability to summon a doctor. She cited 140,253 extensions in use and alleged revenue losses from delaying phone service to phoneless homes.
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New York 7
Leon Leighton
Scarsdale
Leighton
Sffy
Siy
Postal Workers' Raise Approved by Senate
Washington Senate passes House approved legislation granting general base pay increases for postal employees. Estimated to cost 150,000,000 a year, the bill raises pay for each employee between 300 and 400 dollars annually.
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Washington (P
Senate
House
Postolice Committee
Flu Hits Hawaii Forces Army to Close Civilian Theaters
An influenza outbreak on Oahu prompts the U S Army to declare all civilian theaters off limits for personnel. No fatalities have been reported.
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Honolela
Oahu Island
U.S. Army
B 29s Blast Last Enemy Oil Refinery
B29s struck the Utsube refinery near Yokkaichi, southwest of Nagoya, destroying Japan's main aviation gasoline producer after heavy prior raids. In a separate attack, Superfortress bombers and Marines targeted Nagoya Osaka and Kobe industries while Marianas-based B 20s hit aircraft and shell factories.
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Guam
Utsube River
Japan
Honshu
Utsube
Fukkaichi
Nagoya
Ise Bay
Tokeyama
Otake
Yokkaichi
Army
Navy
Marine
Pacific
Iwo Jima
Osaka
Kobe
Chinese Clear 16 More Miles Of East Coast
Chinese forces report 16 miles gained along the east coast toward Shanghai with a 165 mile southward push of withdrawing Japanese troops. Chiang Kai-shek’s units advance to Taichow area near Hangzhou region and push Japanese from a 56 mile coastal stretch as American air forces operate over a 2000 mile front.
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China
Shanghai
High Command
Taichow Bay
Okinawa
Gererelin
Simo
Chiang Kai-shek
Tlinhai
Taichow
Hangchow
Formosa
Brea
Amoy
Foochow
Sinhai
Inner Mongolia
Canton-Hong Kong
Atefite
Linchow
Chiang
Caunghking
Reds Claim Spain Has Hitler's Personal Files
Moscow radio reports Hitler papers hidden in Palencia Spain in a Falangist guarded garrison. Aerial transfers from the Balearic Islands in late March and early April moved the records to Madrid and Palencia with German specialists then storing them locally.
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Reds
Spain
Hitler
New York
Moscow
Adolf
Tne
Galias
Madrid
Truman Flies East from San Francisco to Missouri
President Truman departed Hamilton Field at 9:25 p m Eastern War Time for a leisurely trip to his native Missouri. The journey comes as he plays a role in the United Nations Conference described as drafting a script for peace, with his “White House” aircraft carrying him eastward from California.
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San Francisco
Truman
White House
Hamilton Field
Missouri
Commander of Reich Still Strong For Jap Okinawa New Conflict Congress Told
Bodies of Ushijima and Cho found in shallow graves on Okinawa near a cave HQ. Ota and five staff officers previously found in a cave on Oroku peninsula. Buckner killed June 25. Senate panel heard that German war potential could revive quickly if Allied bombers stop war industry. Germans retain industrial strength despite setbacks.
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Okinawa
Congress
Gpi
Mitsuru Ushijima
Generzion
Pura Kiri
Cecil Witness
Selem
Ore
24Th Army Corps
Ushijima
32Nd Japanese Army
Isamu
Cho
Adm
Minoru Ota
Oroku
Ganejima
Hill $3
Aids
Sixnon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
U.S. Tenth Army
Crowley
Treasury Urges Complete War Stamp Books Conversion
Washington GA The Treasury issued a call for every American household to turn in partly filled War Stamp albums and exchange them for War Bonds. National war finance director Ted R. Gamble urged families with multiple books to combine stamps with extra dollars to reach the four billion dollar E-Bond quota. The bonds will start paying interest.
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Washington GA
Treasury
Ted R. Gamble
National War Finance
Fourth Ward Republican Designations Ahead of Primary
Filing up to 5 p m yesterday with the Rensselaer County Board of Elections shows single minor contest in Troy Fourth Ward where William J Brown is the Republican nominee for supervisor Opposing designating petition filed for Thomas J McGinis The County Republican Committee endorsed two candidates Mrs Mary F Jones and Avilla Ti Cote for the Board of Supervisors Jones a current member fills the vacancy created by the death of David J Jones and Cote is active in civic affairs The designation reflects the potential struggle for control of the Board of Supervisors in the forthcoming campaign Continued on Page Eleven.
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Renszelaer County Board of Bilections
Troy
Wiliam J. Brown
Rensselaer County Republlican
Thomas J. McGinis
Rensselaer County Bens
Jfratic
Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors
Mary F. Jones
Avilla Ti ‘Cote
Ity
Rensselaer
Jones
Ager
Tosoand
David J. Jones
U. S. Army
France
Cote
Renese
Laer
Americas Lavor Party
Philadelphia Scion Shot in Beheading Inquiry
El Paso Texas. William F Main, scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family, was critically injured after a pistol duel with El Paso County officers who went to question him about the slaying of an elderly man. The victim's body was found in a Shelton grave near Ysleta, with the head recovered in a hotel room. Main, an ex soldier and son of W Main of the accounting firm Main Co, was wounded in the abdomen and possible charges had not been filed.
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Texas
Wiliam F. Wain
Alan G. Falor
Philadelphia
Shelton
Ysleia
Here
Main
el Peso County
Falley
Sdde
Sheriffs Department
Texas and Pacific
Ysieta
Edward Baker
Falby
Mets
Main & Co
Young Main
Lea County Gas Co
Ysleta
Storms Fury Shrugs Off Coast With Light Damage
Storms along the Atlantic coast brought heavy winds 25 to 45 mph and rain. A freighter grounded near Cape May and trucks were damaged in Norfolk while New York saw sharp temperature drops and gusts 30 mph. The tropical storm skirted Boston moving toward Canada with no serious property damage reported.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Norfolk
Virginia
Cape May
Morrland
Wartiiz
Washington
Javent
Nantucketsland
Mass
Center
Boston
Ted
Canada
Tokyo Reports Island Invasion Near Okinawa
Tokyo radio reported Allied troops landed on Home Island about sixty miles west of Okinawa. The English broadcast, recorded by the FCC, gave no details. If confirmed, the landing would expand the American foothold in the central Ryukus amid several small islands.
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San Francisco
Radio Tokyo
Home Island
Okinawa
FCC
Ryukus
Okinawe
Truman Urges Quick Approval Of United Nations Charter
President Truman urged immediate ratification of the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco conference. He promised to send the charter to the Senate at once and called it a living instrument for peace. Delegates from around the world applauded as the charter was signed and the assembly pledged to support its use.
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San Francisco
Lord Halifax
Urey
Truman
United States Senate
Senate
United Naviers
Tang
Stete Stellinius
United States
Army
Navy
Marine Services
WACS
WAVES
SPARS
Gixon
Linmen
Sindsing
Jap surrender surge continues on Okinawa
Allied reports say 302 Japanese surrendered on Okinawa bringing total captured to 9,898 in stockades and caves. American patrols mop up in southern Okinawa as a few enemy planes drop bombs with minimal damage.
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Guam
Tenth Army
Rifle Point
Okinawa
Fleet Ati
Chester W. Nimitz
Alonday
Nippon Se Homme Islands
FCC
Tokyo
Amami
ates _ammathi
Hyushu
Japan
Congress Votes to Extend Three Cent First Class Postage
Congress agreed to extend the three cent rate on first class mail for two more years. An automatic return to two cents on June 30 would have occurred without this action, under a House resolution approved by the Senate.
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Ington
Congress
House
Senate
No Fair Exchange at St Louis Plant
St Louis GPs Miss Matt Szywal found a shiny quarter and a red point in her hunch box yesterday at the St. Louis Ordnance plant but she was very unhappy. A roast beef sandwich was missing.
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St Louis
Matt Szywalski
St. Louis
Perkins Ends Labor Secretary Tenure With Private Farewell
Frances Perkins, first female cabinet member, retired as labor secretary after 72 years in public service. She said goodbye to 2,300 Labor Department staff in a somber ceremony, shedding her tricorne hat for a plain private life while an orchestra played softly.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Labor Department
White House
Ike” Hoover
Roosevelt Cabinet
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