President Truman Eyes Enduring Ties With Britain and Russia
President Truman is expected to press for closer day-to-day diplomatic ties with Britain and Russia when meeting Churchill and Stalin in Berlin. The plan centers on creating an international commission to manage postwar Europe and maintain Big Three cooperation amid competing aims on borders, territories, and peace terms.
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Truman
Britain
Russia
Churchill
Stalin
Berlin
Roosevelt
Tehran
Yalta
Potsdam
San Francisco
United Nations
Germany
France
United States
Europe
Mexico Makes Light Of Two Balloons
Mexico City July 12 Defense officials dismissed suggestions that two cigar shaped balloons over widely separated areas in Mexico were Japanese in origin. A balloon passed Polo Titlan about 100 miles northwest of Mexico City yesterday afternoon and another exploded in the air over Cadereyta de Montes in Queretaro state the day before.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Polotitlan
Cadereyto de Montes
Queretaro
Hats $1.00 and $1.95 Friday and Saturday
Mary S Yeakley announces hat prices at one dollar and one ninety five cents for Friday and Saturday sales.
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Mary S. Yeakley
Hanover Poultry Firm Fined For Court Court Action
The Hanover Dressed Poultry Company at 435 North Cameron Street was fined 200 dollars and costs by Judge John Rice for operating a slaughter house in violation of a city ordinance. The case followed a warrant issued February 5 and a May 28 hearing, with the firm continuing operations after a May 1 grace period granted by Winchester Council.
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Hanover Dressed Poultry Company
North
Cameron Street
Charles R. Bish
John Rice
Hanover Company
Burr P. Harrison
Joseph New
James P. Reardon
Commonwealth
Sgt. Funk
Wisecarver
Winchester
Cit
Reardon
Coun
Girl Found Dead After Fall From Riding Horse Near White Oak
Constance Louise Shinn, 13, who lived with her mother in Keyser West Virginia, was found dead beside a road near White Oak Maryland. Police say she died from a fractured skull after a horse her father bought for her slipped on the pavement. She had been visiting her father Hugi Shinn at his home near White Oak and left about 8 p.m. on the horse. A group of boys found her about six feet from the highway.
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Rockville
Constance Louise Shinn
White Oak
Constance
Keyser
W. Wva
Hugi Shinn
Montgomery County
Construction To Be Given Boost
Fred M. Vinson will form an inter government group to revitalize the dormant construction industry. The panel will advise on materials prices and easing federal controls to push activity from wartime lows toward a post war goal of 15 billion dollars annually, about 15 percent above prior peaks.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Inter-Governmental
Vinson
SHAEF to be dissolved and forces revert to national control
Paris July 12 Allied command will be dissolved at 12:01 a m July 14. Gen Eisenhower returns to the continent as combined command ends. American British and French forces under the supreme commander will revert to national controls.
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Paris
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Wil
SHAEF
Aussies Dutch Advance Slowly On Oil Sections
Australian Seventh Infantry and Dutch colonial troops push on Sambodja oil fields in Borneo near Balikpapan with P-38 cover. They breach outer Japanese lines near Smashed Stone Ridge while repelling counter attacks inland toward Sepinggang airfield. Allied air forces bomb Formosa and by pass New Guinea assets.
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Manila
Borneo
Sambodja
Balikpapan
13Th Army Airforce
Mt. Batochampar
Sepinggang Ketail River
Sepinggang
Associated Press
Russell Brines
Sepping Gang Field
Manggar
Melbourne
Adajeranden
Fifth Airforce
Formosa
New Guinea
Bond Set For Imogene Stevens In Manslaughter Case
Mrs. Imogene Stevens 24 posted a 15000 bond and was freed from Fairfield county jail after being held since June 24 on manslaughter charges for the shooting of 19 year old submarine sailor Albert Kovas of Norwalk in New Canaan. The bond was cut from 50000 by Judge William Comley after a September term bound over decision. Stevens arrived with her husband, Paratroop Major G B Stevens, who returned from Europe at her request.
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Bridgeport
Fairfield County
Strikes Hit Birmingham and Nation Amid Labor Turmoil
Labor conflicts disrupt Birmingham newspapers with 130 printers walking out, suspending 400000 daily copies. New York publishers plan rapid street returns after union refusals. Detroit ends several strikes and restores hundreds of workers while others remain idle in multiple plants.
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Birmingham
Ala
New York City
Detroit
International Typographical Union
AFL
the Post
Scripps-Howard
the News
Age-Herald
Birmingham News Company
Itu
New York
Publishers Association
Association
War Labor Board
Dodge Truck
Chrysler Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Gorham Tool Company
Graham Paige Motor Corp
American Metal Products, Inc
CIA Oil and Gas
United Fuel Gas Company
WLB
West Virginia
Virginia
Kentucky
British Warships Escort Truman On North Atlantic Passage
President Truman, aboard the cruiser Augusta, cools in the Atlantic en route to a rendezvous with British warships. They will escort him to a northern European port for the final sea leg before Berlin talks with Churchill and Stalin.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Augusta
President Truman
Truman
North Atlantic
Berlin
British Isles
European
Churchill
Stalin
Debarkation
Atlantic
Byrnes
Adm
William D. Leahy
France
For Sale Sencendiver farm acres Turner Sen cendiver
For sale a 167 acre home farm owned by Turner B Sen cendiver and Charles M Sencindiver as administrators. Public notice lists Sencindiver heirs and admin action dated 16 10 13.
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Sencendiver Home Farm
Turner B. Sencendiver
Charles M. Sencindiver
Adms
Russian Pattern Of Berlin Rule Still Is In Effect
Allied authorities in Berlin maintain a Soviet style rule in American and British sectors as 1 borough is handed over while Soviet directives persist. Feeding Berliners and open communist districts show the pattern continues despite Allied control. London Polish protests over Warsaw government recognition add to postwar tension. Eisenhower moves toward dissolving supreme command as British politics shift. Belgium monarchy debate persists with Leopold’s fate uncertain.
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Berlin
Germany
Communist Party
U. S
London
Warsaw
Wladyslaw Anders
Anders
Poland
Supreme Allied
House of Commons
England
Scotland
Belgium
Prince Charles
Brussels
St. Wolfgang
Austria
Leopold
FEPC Fight Near End as Congress Eyes Funds
Washington July 12 The long congressional battle over the Fair Employment Practice Committee neared a resolution with a compromise to unlock a 752 000 900 war agencies supply bill. The House planned a vote to fund FEPC at 250 000 as approved by the Senate, unlocking money for 16 home front agencies enacting payrolls for the new fiscal year.
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Washington
Fair Employment Practice Committee
White House
House
Appropriations Committee
FEPC
Senate
War Briefs Report Multi-Front WWII Actions
Tokyo radio reports 180 Okinawa based planes hit Kyushu airfields while U S planes patrol Honshu coast. U 8th Fleet hairpins carrier threat as Japanese fear new strike. In Borneo, incendiary raids aid Australian push north of Balikpapan. Tinpak falls on south China coast as Sincheng base is seized after a 32 mile advance. British forces erode Japanese positions on the Sittang in Burma.
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Associated Press
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Kyushu
Honshu
China
Tinpak
South China Coast
Canton
U. S
Sincheng
Nippon Cabinet Prodded Over Lax War Policy
San Francisco July 12 broadcasts report a Japanese journalist accusing the Suzuki cabinet of failing to tell the people the truth about military setbacks. Fearful radio Tokyo coverage mentions Halsey stalking Pacific targets and Japanese desertion from bombed cities as British carrier strikes near Sumatra and plans near Singapore loom.
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San Francisco
Japan
Suzuki
Radio Tokyo
Ichiro
Sohe) Tokumutomi
Cate Anese Press
Federal Communications Commission
Tokutomi
Honshu
Sabang
Sumatra
Bri
Car Nicobar Island
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Man walks 24 miles on 76th birthday in Illinois
John H. Keest Sr celebrated his 76th birthday by walking 24 miles from his Middleton home. He began the annual hike seven years ago and plans to resume at 80, noting many motorists offer rides, which he finds embarrassing.
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Springfield
Ill
John H. Keest
Middleton
Keest
Carrier raids and air attacks widen war across Japan
Reports from Guam and Tokyo describe Japanese homeland bombardment and extensive Allied air sorties against Honshu and Kyushu. New figures claim thousands of planes raided Sa Bang Island and northern Ryukyus, with heavy damage to Osaka area industries and Akashi Kobe vicinity.
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Guam
Japan
Honshu
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Sabang
Sumatra
Singapore
Janese
Marugen Oi
Osaka
Kawasaki Aircraft
Akashi
Kobe
W. Nimits
Kyushu
Ryukyus
Inujo
Tanega Island
Amami Group
CoCain
Washington
Navy
Marine
Tokyo Radio
Alt
Wardensville Soldier Killed in World War II
Technician Fifth Grade John F. Barney of Wardensville was killed in Northern Luzon on June 24. He served three years overseas with the 37th Division and was a Wardensville High School graduate. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. John D Barney and siblings Sgt. Charles H Barney Lt Ruth Barney Fine Mrs Mary Brooks Alton Barney Louise Barney Elaine Barney.
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Ve Department
John D. Barney
Wardensville
John F. Barney
Luzon
Cpl. Barney
Wardensville High School
John Dey
Charles H
Bond Sales Hit Over 2.5 Million in Winchester Drive
Winchester and Frederick County residents exceeded 2.5 million in Mighty Seventh War Loan bonds. War finance chair Wendell Barney reported local EF Bond sales at 397 000 as of July 7, near the quota, with service allocations pending. National totals reached 26 313 000 000 with 99.4 percent of the goal in low cost securities. Final VA figures expected soon. another drive likely in November but not yearly.
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Winchester
Wendell Barney
War Finance Committee
Frederick County
Federal Reserve Bank
Morgenthau
Ities
Barney
Virginia War Finance Committee
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Lower Sittang River
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