Stokes: Bold precedent
By Thomas L. Stokes
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Mt. Lebanon woman knew Gen. ‘Ike’ as school chum
They at first attended classes in Kansas town’s fire engine house
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Nazi leader arrested in Bavaria, kills self
By the United Press
A British broadcast said today that Franz Hofer, district leader in South Germany, killed himself yesterday a few minutes after he was arrested.
Hofer had disguised himself as a chimney sweep, the broadcast said. German auxiliary police arrested him in Bavaria. The radio said Hofer was the first prominent Nazi arrested by the German auxiliary police.
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Well, we Americans have always been a nation of souvenir hunters and this war has proved no exception. A few days ago, Gen. Patch presented the President with Hermann Goering’s diamond-studded baton, and now “Iron Mike” O’Daniel says he has Hermann’s trousers hanging on the wall of his division headquarters. From the pictures I’ve seen of Marshal Goering, his trousers could make a divisional headquarters all by themselves.
As an old collector himself, Goering probably feels unhappy. But his friend Hitler came out even worse. Hitler started by collecting most of the small countries of Europe. Then he went after the big Russian bearskin and the bear collected him.
Now Adm. Halsey says he wants Hirohito’s horse. Personally if I were in Hirohito’s place, I’d mail him the horse before the Admiral decides to collect Hirohito, too.
Dick Haymes a singer mainly through ‘accident’
Crooner started out as songwriter – and nearly starved!
By Maxine Garrison
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Monahan: Poignant film opens at Penn
By Kaspar Monahan
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Pirate defeat scrambles flag chase
Runners-up bunched below Dodgers; Roe to tackle Cubs today
By Chester L. Smith, sports editor
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Loop leaders widen margins by victories
By the United Press
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The Syonan Shimbun (June 22, 1945)
Foe’s Chungking plans for link on China coast completely upset
Military strength of 7th war zone smashed
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Two more United States commanders die
Zurich (Domei, June 21) – Rear-Admiral Forrest B. Royal, Commander of American Amphibious Forces in the Pacific, died Monday June 18 of “natural” causes.
Nimitz’s Headquarters communique announced that Brigadier-General Claudius M. Easley, Act.-Com. of the U.S. 96th Div., operating in the Okinawa battle, was killed in action.
How U.S. general was killed on Okinawa front
Lisbon (Domei, June 19) – A San Francisco dispatch, quoting an United Press War Correspondent, today gave the following description of the last moments of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Commander of the American 10th Army, who lost his life yesterday as the result of Japanese artillery action in the Okinawa fighting.
Yesterday afternoon, the American Commander, the dispatch said, visited the foremost frontline, where the Eighth Regiment of the Eighth American Marine Corps was in action, and sat down on a rock to watch the progress of the battle.
As on the previous days, the Japanese during the morning hours kept up a furious barrage of artillery fire, and when Buckner in the afternoon accompanied by his staff officers, arrived on the scene of action, Japanese guns continued to thunder, the dispatch said.
While Buckner was watching the fighting, two Japanese shells screamed up t where the American Commander was stationed. One of the shells burst close to where Buckner was sitting, sending a shell fragment tearing through the left of Buckner’s chest.
An Army surgeon who rushed up to Buckner in 10 minutes pronounced him dead, the dispatch said.