Britain and U S Block Global Rule For Islands
At the United Nations conference Britain and the United States blocked a proposed global trusteeship rule for Pacific islands. Egyptian amendments calling for direct supervision of mandates failed with six votes, while Stassen and Lord Cranborne argued against eroding the trusteeship concept and continued work toward a compromise on self-government or independence for dependent territories.
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San Francisco
Britain
United States
Pacific
Nex Hague
Marshalls
Marignas
Carolines
Japan
Egytian
World Organization
Harold E. Stassen
Lord Cranborne
Stassen
Allies Extend Trieste Rule In Venezia Giulia Move
Allied 15th Army Group reports British Eighth Army advances 20 miles into Venezia Giulia north of Trieste with light opposition from Yugoslav forces. US Second Corps reinforces Eighth Army as forces occupy towns near Montespina Tarnova and positions from Trieste toward Gorizia. Gen Clark Guenther visits Trieste and new fronts east of Gorizia and Udine.
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Rome
Venezia Giulia
Trieste
Marshal Tito
15Th Army Group
Eighth Army
Venezia Guilia
Montespina
Tarnova
Gorizia
Godfrey Keyes
United States Second Corps
Richard L. McCreery
Mark W. Clark
Alfred M. Guenther
Fifth Army
Gorizie
Udine
Clark
Gruenther
Macreers
Keyes
John Harding
Senate Panel Approves House Expense Pay Plan
The appropriations committee backed a House plan for 2500 dollars a year in expense pay for members. The vote split 01 to 4 with retroactive payments to the current session.
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Senate Group
Washington
LLPI
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
House
National League scoreboard and yesterday's results
American League yesterday had no scheduled games. Eastern League reports Williamsport at Albany, Wilkes Barre at Utica postponed due to wet grounds. Results show Scranton 7, Binghamton 2 and Elmira 6, Hartford 4.
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Williamsport
al -Albany
Wat Grounds
Scranton
Binghamtod
Elmira
Hartford
Wilkes Barre
Utica
Severe Wind Storm Damages Troy Area
A twisting thunder storm with gusts to 70 mph struck the Troy area just before 5 pm, uprooting trees damaging power lines and severing forty real alarm boxes. A brick residence at 46 College Avenue housed a family with two grandchildren. temporary lodging was arranged. Church steeples at Green Island and St Joseph’s were struck by lightning, with minor damage. The Troy water plant and power grid faced outages as crews repaired lines into the night.
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George Jalet
College Avenue
Jalets
Jalet
Troy
Albia
Hee Gunde Cereame
Mir
Wita
George
Marcy
Italy
U Snally
Tom Ratkin
Troy Welfare
Green Island Methodist Church
St Joseph’s Church
First Street
Congress
Congress Street
Britons Face New Ration Cuts For Food And Clothes
London UPI reports Minister Col. J. J. Llewellin announced from next Sunday Britons will see bacon rations cut by 30 percent and cooking fats reduced by 30 percent as postwar shortages bite. Clothes must last longer and cloth coupons extend a month. Sugar and cheese allowances stay similar to last year, soap trimmed for most, and meat ration drops to three ounces weekly with one extra ounce of fat. Butchers must supply one seventh of meat in canned corned beef.
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London
UPI
J. J. Llewellin
United ,Kingdom
Liewellin
Taewellin
War Trials Prep: Jackson to London for Prosecution Basis
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson departs for London to coordinate with British officials on prosecuting war criminals. The War Department reported yesterday that the visit aims to lay groundwork for anticipated trials and establish working relations with allied counsel.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
U. & Jehlet
Acss
London
War Department
Chinese Make 22 Mile Gain In Offensive Near Lin Chow
Chinese forces drive 22 miles into Japanese lines in Kwangsi and Hweiyang rail corridor as they push toward Lin Chow. Reports say troops recaptured Chinchengkiang 85 miles west of Liuchow and struck near Szengen, with multiple provinces claiming successes.
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Chungking
China
Indo-China
Burma
Kwangsi
West Bank
Japan
Trans- China
Hodith
Kweichow
Linchow
Manchuria
Kwangsi-Hweiyang
Rairoad
Chinchengkiang
Liuchow
Hwaiytancheén
Szengen
Yukien
Hunan
Henang
Lawn Mowers and Bicycles Get WPB Green Light
Washington announces reconversion of civilian goods including lawn mowers bicycles and more than a score of items. Production will be limited only by factory capacity labor supply and material availability.
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Washington
Arcles
WEE
Time shift ordered for Berlin clocks by Moscow decree
A Berlin radio broadcast reported by London U A confirms a Moscow time directive. The Russian military commander ordered Berlin residents to set clocks ahead one hour to align with Moscow time. The action follows a broader wartime signal coordination plan.
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London
Berlin
Moscow
Appeals Court To Speed Up Albany Probe
The Albany County probe into alleged crime faces a faster track as New York Court of Appeals will hear the matter after oral arguments in Albany. Chief Judge Irving Lehman announced the move after an appeal by John J. Murphy of Albany from a transfer order. Barris Steinberg said the aim is to clear indictments during summer without turning cases into political football ahead of the fall election.
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Edward McDonald
Albany
Albany County
New York States
Court of Appeals
Irving Lehman
John J. Murphy
New York
Murphy
Lehman
Barris B. Steinberg
Speeink
George P. Monagnan
Thomas E. Dewey
Steinberg
Rex” Steinberg
Supreme Court
Charles B. MicLaughlin
Truman Plans Many Journeys Across Postwar Travels
President Truman plans a busy travel schedule modeling Roosevelt with visits to the San Francisco World Organization Conference Mackinac Island and Manila for the Philippines inauguration He contemplates talks with Churchill Stalin and de Gaulle and a North Carolina address to a special state senate session in October, inviting Doughtin to join.
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Washington
Tfratmsh
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Francisco
Marshal Stalin
Charles de Gaulle
Manila
North Carolina
State Senate
Representative Doughtin
Dan
Troops Move Into Chicago as Railroad Strike Sparks Crisis
Troops from Fort Custer, about 700 men, encamp on Northerly Island as federal officials prepare action in a truck drivers strike disrupting food and vital materials. Police meet with military police to coordinate, while wage disputes draw in the War Labor Board and Economic Stabilizer Davis.
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Chicago
Lake Shore
Military Politemien
Fort Custer
Mich
Northerly Island
Bursham Park
Copes
Max Ballinger
Milford Wheatley
Fort Custer Military Police
John Prendergest
Labor Board
Wiliam E. Davis
Washington
Automatic Eilectric Co
Allies Move On Doenitz Control Parties Near Flensburg
Allies and Russians dispatch control parties to Flensburg near the Danish frontier to use the German high command as an intermediary for directing German forces. Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks leads Eisenhower's delegation in collaboration with the Soviet group to supervise the Doenitz command and pass directives. Some German prisoners are discharged to civilian status as Germany restores its economy.
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Flensberg
Allied
Lowell W. Rooks
Eisenhower
Flensburg
Karl Doenitz
High Command
Germany
Troops To Return in June as 250 600 Redeploy
Paris reports 250 600 troops to come back in June. An official statement says 250 000 will be in the United States, with 85 000 leaving by month’s end. Gen Courtney Hodges First Army units are already en route home as four European infantry divisions are alerted for redeployment to the Pacific via U S.
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Nimitz
Yorehern
James L. Bradley
S6th
Conical Hill
Yonaberu
Pedro A. del Valle
Okinawa
Tenth Army
Gem Roy Geiger
Third Amphibious Marine Corps
Orivawa
Paris
United States
Courtney Hi. Hodges
Pacific
S§th
Suir
U. S
Japanese Fire Balloons Hit U S Coast
Japanese balloon attacks have reached the western U S mainland for months, carried small bombs to start fires. Balloons of gray white or greenish blue paper about 33 feet diameter have landed or dropped explosives in isolated areas but caused no property damage according to Army and Navy.
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Washington
U. S
Army Land Navy
West
Office of Censorship
Astoria
California
Mount Emily
Ore
Truman Urges Rapid Civilian Aid to Western Europe
President Truman moved to speed civilian supplies to France Belgium the Netherlands and other war torn countries in letters directing priority for minimum civilian needs. The plan follows Samuel Rosenman’s report urging swift rehabilitation of liberated areas with food fuel and transport equipment as key needs for a hungry winter across Europe.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
France
Belgium
Holland
White House
Samuel T. Rosenman
Western
WPB
John D. Small
committee _ on
U. S
Rosepman
United States
United Nations
Japanese Admit Agitation for Peace Increases
Japanese broadcasts report rising peace agitation amid wartime strain. Procurator general Maishi Makano warns arrests for any speech disturbing national unity. Tokyo papers cite Soviet leadership as example for Japan to copy in facing Anglo American pressure.
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San Francisco
Joseph Stalin
Sovietien
Maishi Makano
Demei
FGG
Makano
Chnpeals
Tokyo Shimbun
Stalin
Japan
Germans Had Ersatz Gas In 1926, Oil Man States
New York tycoon O Teagie, former Standard Oil president, claimed in a statement that Germany had developed a hydrogenation process in 1926 converting coal to gasoline far beyond U S capabilities. He cited L G Farben Ludwigshafen work later bought by Standard Oil for 35 million dollars and said the Germans were producing heavy tar and gasoline from coal as the world faced oil shortage.
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New York
O ‘Teagie
Standard ii!Co
Gersiens
L G. Farben
Ludwigshafen
Germany
Standard Oi
Standard Oil
Army Ends Draft for Men Over Thirty in Liberal Shift
Selective Service announced an indefinite deferment policy for men thirty and over, shifting older workers onto the same footing as younger registrants. The draft call will run about 200,000 to 90,000 monthly beginning July, with boards reviewing thirty to thirty seven year olds for potential deferral. Draft director Hershey said deferments will be broad and based on essential job roles, while the War Manpower Commission guidance remains a factor.
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Draf
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Selective Service
War Menpower Commission
Court of Appeals
Albany
New York County
Dewey
Supreme Court
Parson Swift
Buffalo
Wiliam H. Murray
Troy
Steinberg
Nation Realizes War Not Yet Won Says Morgenthau
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said the American people have taken V E Day in stride and fear of wartime victory claims is unfounded. He cited war loan drive support and noted War Bond sales reached 1 548 000 000 with E Bonds at 216 008 400 and E Bond sales at 31 percent of the quota.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
War Finance Commitsien
Lucky Luciano seeks clemency on big jail term
New York attorney Moses Polakoff filed with the State Parole Board an application for executive clemency to cut Charles Lucky Luciano’s 30 to 50 year sentence for compulsory prostitution. The 47 year old has been a model prisoner and aided army intelligence by obtaining data on Sicily before the island’s invasion in 1943.
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New York
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
State Parole Board
Moses Polakoff
Mindanao Front Races Toward Airfield in Bukidnon
Allied forces push through Mindanao toward the last enemy airfield near Davao as Maj. Gen Clazrence Martin’s 31st Division and Maj. Gen Rascoe Wood’s units advance from the north and south. Navy air and carrier bombers hit targets in Luzon and the Dutch East Indies while supporting ground actions in the Pacific theater.
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Manila
Clazrence Martin
Mindanao
Malabaley
Rascoe Wood Mills
Ath
Davao
Dist
40Th
Americal
Maiebaiay
Bukidnon
Sth
Bunan
Lhenan
Masila
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Formaosa
University
Canton
Nanking
China
Tammkan Island
North Borneo
Wewak
Sritisas New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
Ceibes
Gank
Saldefapen
Borzeo
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Piost
Troy Area
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Washington i
Women's Army Corps
Red
Island
Army
Guam
Seki
Yonsbura
Qokinewa
Yemercay
Yonabem
Adm
Chester W. Nimite
Shori
Nahe
Archibald V. Arnold
Seventh Infantry
Yonadam
Narashize
Doenitz
U.S. Coast
Speed
Lucky’ Luciano
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