Parley Opens Six Inside Steps at UN Over Sea Access
In San Francisco on June 21 Bolivia presented a bid to gain sea access at the United Nations security conference. President Andrade told a commission his landlocked country seeks a world-body study of continental issues and recognition of its right to a free outlet to the sea. Bolivia has been landlocked since 1904 after a war with Chile.
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U.P
Bolivia
Andrade
Commission
World Organization
Chile
R. H. Shackford
United Nations’ Conference
New World Organization
Truman
Edward R. Stettinius
Commission III
Yalta
Commission II
Stettinius
Poland Exiles Face Prison Terms In Moscow Trial
In London and Moscow reports, 12 Poles linked to the London exile government were sentenced in Moscow on terrorism charges with long terms ranging up to 10 years. Britain and the United States signaled potential shifts in support toward a broadened Warsaw regime led by Mikolajczyk as Britain weighs intercession.
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Soviet Union
Stettinius
Russia
Australia
Great Britain
Philault
London
U.P
Iim Grvccasest
Ment
Pio
Britain
Moscow
Red Army
United States
Warsaw
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
Yalta
Germany
Radio Moscow
Okulicki
Jan Jankowski
Poland
Adam Bien
Underground Council of Ministers
Stanislaw Jasiukowicz
Baseball Finals From AL and NL Outcomes
In the American League finals New York defeated Boston 14 to 4 and Detroit beat Cleveland 5 to 1. In the National League Chicago topped Pittsburgh 5 to 4.
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New York
Boston
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Truman forecasts food situation improvement with new administrator
President Truman said the national food situation would improve once the new food administrator and secretary of agriculture Clinton Anderson takes over. He praised renewal of the trade agreements act and noted satisfaction with the San Francisco United Nations conference. He planned a stop in Portland before addressing the UN session in San Francisco.
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Olympia
Wash
Truman
Mon Walligren
Northwest
Clinton Anderson
N. M
Congress
United States
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
No Sign That Stettinius Is To Be Ousted
President Truman seeks congressional change to line of presidential succession placing the speaker ahead of the secretary of state. Ed ward R. Stettinius Jr. remains in role amid rumors of a cabinet reshuffle as James Byrnes and UN work draw attention. Truman travels the West Coast en route to final UN conference sessions with stops and homecomings planned in Missouri and Kansas City.
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Merriman Smith
Olympia
Wash
U.P
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Truman
Congress
House
Stettinius
State Department
Senate
James F. Byrnes
White House
Byrnes
Ben
Roosevelt
Mon Wallgren
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Independence
Kansas City
Stock Exchange to Close On Saturdays in Summer
The New York Stock Exchange announced that the board of governors voted to close the market on Saturdays during July and August and on September 1 the Saturday before Labor Day.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Board of Governors
Eisenhower Homecoming in Kansas City Hug From Mother
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived at Kansas City airport at 10 16 p m to a family welcome led by his mother 13 year old Idastotler Eisenhower. He kissed Mamie Eisenhower and greeted brothers and aides before a 20 minute private reunion and a parade to Liberty Memorial hall.
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Kansas City
U.P
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Idastotler
Eisenhower
TWA
Mamie Eisenhower
John S. Eisenhower
Ike Yoo
Ike
Grand Avenue
Liberty Memorial Hall
O'Reilly General Hospital
Springfield
Costly Battle Comes To End Okinawa Victory Report
Admiral Nimitz announced the battle of Okinawa ended after 82 days of heavy fighting as the 10th Army secured victory. MacArthur appointed General Stilwell to command the 10th in the final phase, with guerrilla pockets remaining and Japanese casualties reported well above 90,000.
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Joseph W. Stilwell
Douglas MacArthur
Okinawa
10Th Army
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
William F. Tyree
Guam
U.P
Chester W. Nimitz
Joseph W
Vinegar Joe) Stilwell
U. S. Army
10Th
Japan
Radio Tokyo
United States
Nimitz
S. Greiger
Hill 81
Ciano’s May 1939 Berlin Pact and Europe Tensions
Count Ciano's diaries describe Mussolini signing a May 1939 alliance with Germany and echoing rising strain with Britain. Entries recount Roosevelt's peace note, Goering’s visits, warnings on Poland, and Mussolini's reaction as Axis influence grows.
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Count Ciano
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
The
Chicago Daily News, Inc
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Mussolini
Berlin
Hitler
Goering
Ribbentrop
Albania
Roosevelt
Percy Loraine
Axis
Il Duce
Poland
Automobiles Big Three Protest 1945 Output Allocations
Detroit June 21 Big Three General Motors Ford and Chrysler protested war production board quotas for passenger car output in 1945 arguing an 8 000 car minimum for five smaller firms would aid distributors WPB Detroit official defended the plan noting a 10 to 1 margin over smaller companies Stilwell reassigned to command the U S 10th Army in Okinawa MacArthur announced the change after talks with Stilwell and other Pacific commanders.
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Detroit
U.P
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
War Production Board
WPB
Spencer Davis
Manila
Joseph W. Stilwell
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
U. S. 10Th Army
Okinawa
Pacific Ocean Area Theatre
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
MacArthur
Tenth Army
Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
Burma-China
U. S
Washington
Chungking
Ar Ae
Burma
Burma Wilds
China
Yank Planes Scan Targets For Bombings
Tokyo reported 56 American planes scouted Honshu and Kyushu for hours in prep for intensified bombing of Japan. Japanese radio said 300 or more Allied carrier planes attacked Wake Island, first large Wake strike this year, as naval aircraft from Okinawa joined raids on Amami and Sakishimas while coast defenses faced further carrier air activity.
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Edward L. Thomas
Guam
Wa.p
Tokyo
Honshu
Kyushu
Japan
Wake Island
Pacific
Wake
Okinawa
Truk Island
Jaluit Atoll
Marshalls
Navy
Tauxhima Strait
East China Sea
Amami Islands
Sakishimas
Radio Tokyo
Goebbels Telegram Reported Death of Hitler Found
A Paris press conference said Allies have strong evidence Hitler is dead. An operative showed a telegram from Berlin via Goebbels to Doenitz in Hitler's code, dated May 1, a day before Berlin fell and Doenitz announced Hitler's death.
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Goebbels
Hitler
Malcolm Muir, JR
Paris
Supreme Headquarters
Adolf Hitler
Flensburg
Berlin
Joseph Goebbels
Fuehrer
Adm
Karl Doenitz
Doenitz
Hamburg
Too Late For Hearing On Beer License
Phoenix June 21 The attorney general's office ruled that a state liquor license hearing cannot be held to receive protests to the beer and wine license issued to Homer D. Lininger for the Lodge on the Desert near Tucson The license was granted without protests and later protests were filed. Assistant Attorney General Earl Anderson advised reopening would exceed statutory jurisdiction as the protest period had passed.
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Phoenix
Attorney General's Office
State Liquor License and Control Department
Homer D. Lininger
Tucson
Lininger
John A. Duncan
Earl Anderson
Duncan
$1,396,835 Bet on Dog Racing Totals Report
The Arizona tax commission announced pari mutuel handle for recent horse and dog race meets totaling 1,396,835 with $55,909 state share and 2,882 in sales taxes. Bettors received 1,196,851. Dog racing ran 28 days with 759,495 total bets and 661,401 returned. state take 30,779. A 30 day permit for dog racing in Tucson begins Saturday night.
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Phoenix
Arizona Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Tucson
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