Island Is 50 0 Miles North Of Okinawa
Tokyo reported Amer destroyers and minesweepers reconnoitered Okinoerabu, a northern stepping stone island north of Okinawa on the invasion route to Japan. Allied forces announced the bloodless capture of Kume, while B 29s extended an aerial blockade of Honshu and mines were sown in Niigata and Sakata harbors.
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William F. Tyree
Guam
Tokyo
Amer
Okinoerabu
Okinawa
Japan
United Es
Amami
Pacific Fleet
Kumeisnd
Ryukyu Island
Honshu
Manchuria
Keisuke Fujie
Radio
Niigata
Sakata
Porto Manchuria
Radio Tokyo
Sea of Japan
Ryukyus
Kume
China Coast
Kyushu
Chester W. Nimitz
B 29s Hit Japanese Oil Plants In Fourth Raid Of Week
Guam dispatch reports B 29s struck Kudamatsu oil refinery on Honshu coast as part of a campaign against Japanese oil facilities. Since May 10, U S bombers have destroyed major portions of multiple targets including Koriyama Hodagawa Otake Tokuyama and Oshima facilities with a total of approximately 1,100 sorties in the week.
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Guam
Japan
Kudumatsu
Honshu
Tokyo Radio
American Broadcasttat Company
Hokkaido
21St Bomber Command
Kori Chemial
Hodagayva Chemical
Koriyama
Otake 1
Tokuyama
Toku
Fusebo
Kyushu
Okayama
Mrs. Bender Receives Life Term By Jury
Mrs Librada Lopez Bender 37 was found guilty of first degree murder in Nogales and sentenced to life. Her 76 year old husband Herman C Bender was slain. Her nephews Benito Arias 17 and Ricardo Rodriguez 15 pled guilty and will be sentenced. Manuel Calixtro 37, son in law, faces trial starting Monday. The jury deliberated 3 hours 45 minutes.
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Nogales
Librada Lopez Bender
Herman C. Bender
Gordon Farley
Benito Arias
Ricardo Rodriguez
Bender
Farley
Tqiny
Manuel Calixtro
Jackson
Los Angeles
Benny Arias
Patagonia
Balikpapan Under Fleet and Air Attack Report
Tokyo radio reported Balikpapan was under a day long Allied fleet assault with 530 ships pounding the oil refining city and shelling shore defenses as preparations for an imminent landing were described. Minesweepers braved Japanese shore batteries while other Allied craft moved in under bombardment for reconnaissance.
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Manila
Borneo
Balikpapan
Tokyo Radio
Domei Agency
Chinese Army Recaptures Liuchow and Invasion of Indo China
Chinese forces recaptured Liu chao at midnight Friday and 220 miles southwest pushed into French Indo China striking Chungkingfu after crossing from three sides. They also recaptured Linhai along the China coast, 175 miles south of Shanghai, in a broad offensive.
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Chungking
U.P
Liuchow
Indo-China
High Command
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Kwangsi Province
Indo- China
Chungchingfu
Cao Lang
China
Linhai
Shanghai
House Reaches One-Year Extension of Wartime Price Controls
The House approved a compromise bill extending OPA authority for one year by a 225 to 94 vote amid food shortage tensions. A plane prepared to deliver the bill to President Truman in Kansas City for signature before midnight.
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Washington
House Today
OPA
Truman
Kansas City
B 24 Crash Fatal at Williams Field
At Williams Field Arizona a Army B 24 bomber crash killed seven aboard a combat training flight. Col Albert M Woody said Mrs Hester Ellis of Niagara Falls New York committed suicide at home after being informed of the crash. Dead include First Lt Victor Scott Bruce Second Lt Quentin P Redden Flight Officer Frederick D Gregor and Flight Officer Ernest L Sager.
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Williams Field
Ariz
Hester W. Ellis
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Albert M. Woody
Army
Woody
Ellis
Victor Scott Bruce
South Glens Falls
Quentin P. Redden
St. Louis
Frederick D. Gregor
Hazleton
Ernest Lee Sager
Biggest Shakeup in Official Family since 1933
Four new cabinet members took office in a major reorganization aimed at improving food supply and labor administration. Lewis Schwellenbach becomes labor secretary replacing Frances Perkins. Robert Hannegan becomes postmaster general. Tom Clark becomes attorney general. Clinton Anderson becomes agriculture secretary. Marvin Jones and Jones’s war food duties shift to agriculture. James Byrnes may be nominated for secretary of state to replace Stettinius.
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Washington
U.P
Rooseve
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Frances Perkins
New York
Robert E. Hannegan
Missouri
Frank C. Walker
Pennsylvania
Tom C. Clark
Texas
Francis Biddle
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Claude R. Wickard
Indiana
Anderson
Marvin Jones
Agriculture Department
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
U. S
New World Security League
Schwellenbach
Weiberon
Wash
Wickard
Jones
Court of Claims
Miss Perkins
Biddle
Walker
Comerford Theatres, Inc
New Jersey
Service To Be Held Monday For Tetreau
Funeral services for Dr. Elzer Desjardins Tetreau professor of rural sociology at the University of Arizona who died from injuries in an auto accident will be held Monday at 4 p m at the First Methodist church with Rev Royal H Reisner officiating Music will be by Prof Rollin M Pease and Miss Ellen Dunnipace Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery Arrangements are by the Arizona mortuary He was born in Ontario and is survived by his wife three daughters a sister and other relatives
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Elzer Desjardins Tetreau
University of Arizona
Holbrook
First Methodist Church
Royal H. Reisner
Rollin M. Pease
Ellen Dunnipace
Evergreen Cemetery
Arizona Mortuary
Ontario
Dr. Tetreau
Elsie Tetreau
Ellen Tetreau Ewell
Beatrice Tetreau Schou
Tucson
A. J. Tucker
Homestead, Fla
Haze
Tetreau
Hitler Talks at Brenner Pass Dictates to Mussolini
Count Ciano records Hitler’s March 1940 Brenner Pass meeting with Mussolini. Hitler dominates the session, Mussolini listens, and the Duce confirms a move toward Germany as Sumner Welles reports peace prospects and Hungarian Premier Teleki weighs German victory.
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Ciano
Hitler
Mussolini
Brenner Pass
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Balkans
Fuehrer
Denmark
Norway
Fiume
Duce
Gegnany
von Ribbentrop
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
Blasco d’Ajeta
Germany
United States
Teleki
Byrnes Named To State Post By President
Kansas City dispatch notes James F. Byrnes, 66, named secretary of state. The nomination will be sent to the Senate Monday with expected rapid approval, succeeding Edward R. Stettinius Jr. who was chosen as U.S. representative to the United Nations. Announcement came at a 2 p.m. news conference.
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Truman
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Kansas City
Senate
U. S
United Nations
Charles G. Ross
Lyons To Hold Stilwell Trial Here Monday
The superior court will hear Catherine Favour Stilwell on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Judge John D. Lyons Jr. will preside at 2:30 p.m. Monday, after a defense and county attorney agreement to switch from Judge Levi Udal. Stilwell, an arthritic private school operator, has had illness concerns and will appear ambulatory in a ground-floor courtroom due to stairs and no elevator at the Pima County courthouse.
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Catherine Favour Stilwell
John D. Lyons
Levi Udal
St. Johns
Gerald Jones
J. Mercer Johnson
Lyons
Stilwell
Justice of the Peace
Pima County
University Land Bill Signed By President
President Truman signed a bill authorizing conveyance of certain Gila reclamation project land to the University of Arizona for an experimental farm. The action was announced today in Washington.
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Washington
Gila
University of Arizona
Truman
Senate Fears To Open Door For Amendments
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin hearings on the United Nations charter on Monday July 9 under minimal testimony rules. Chairman Tom Connally announced after a committee meeting. Hearings will be delayed a week after President Truman submits the charter for ratification. The panel will await State Department documents including commission reports and San Francisco conference minutes explaining charter interpretations.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Tom Cony
Tex
Truman
State Department
Commission
San Francisco
Char
Senate debate over US voting power in UN charter hearings
Washington June 30 supporters rallied to resist any amendment to the United Nations charter as the senate foreign relations committee set hearings on the treaty Taft urged defining the American delegate's council voting power George warned that ratification conditions could be seen as indirect charter amendments Connally opposed Taft's plan wanting only separate legislation to define the office salary and appointment The charter requires for action the affirmative votes of the five permanent members and two of the other six council members and any change could affect council authority with potential impact on use of troops See CHARTER on Page 5
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Security Council
Sen. George
San Francisco
Connally
Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Britain
Russia
China
France
Congress
Council
U. S
Europe
Identification Bureau In Service 21 Years
PHOENIX June 30 The identification division of the federal bureau of investigation has completed 21 years of service to law enforcement officers of Arizona H R Duffey special agent in charge of the Phoenix office said today The FBI's fingerprint file now totals 97 200 000 cards from a nucleus of 810 188 received from the international association of chiefs of police and the federal reform at Leavenworth Kans in 1924 Duffey said Facilities of the FBI are available to all law enforcement agencies
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Phoenix
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Arizona
H. R. Duffey
FBI
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Federal Reformatory
Leavenworth
Kans
Duffey
Baseball Finals NL Boston Defeats St Louis 8 to 4
Boston wins the National League title game with an 8 to 4 victory over St Louis. Key players contributed offensively as Boston secured the championship outcome.
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Boston
St. Louis
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