Mauldin back in U.S. after 2 years overseas
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Truman asks $39 billion to battle Japs
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Truman asked Congress today to provide the army with $39,019,790,474 to finance the attack on Japan.
He transmitted the military budget for the July 1 fiscal year, calling for new appropriations of $21,963,093,400, the reappropriation of unobligated balances from prior appropriations totaling $8,818,195,574, and estimated recoveries from contract cutbacks and terminations totaling $8,238,501,500.
The total program represents a reduction from a preliminary estimate of $45,500,000,000 which was included in the regular budget submitted by President Roosevelt last January.
Truman will attend Governors’ Conference
WASHINGTON (UP) – President Truman has made definite plans to attend the annual Governors’ Conference at Mackinac Island, Michigan, July 3 and 4, the White House announced today.
The President has been invited to address the conference and will do so if work permits him to attend.
Stilwell: War with Japs could last two years more
By Robert Geiger and Al Dopking, Associated Press staff writers
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Zhukov: Japs are hard fighters
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Jamestown area swept by $1,500,000 twister
JAMESTOWN, New York (UP) – A twister which swept through here Sunday injured eight persons and caused $1,500,000 damage, officials estimated today.
The twister hit Jamestown from the west during an electrical storm and within a minute traveled through the downtown section, damaging or destroying about 75 buildings.
Eliot: Hitler, living or dead, must be discovered
It’s up to Allies to allow no legend to grow up on Fuehrer
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot
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Demobilizing of Red Army under study
Zhukov: Soviets want criminals tried now, gives Berlin story
By Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press staff writer
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Hamburg very mixed up city
German troops direct British – flak towers stand amid ruins
By William F. Boni, Associated Press staff writer
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