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May 30, 1945

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1945Gladys Horton, American singer (died 2011)^[†]

Gladys Catherine Horton was an American R&B and pop singer, notable for being the founder and lead singer of the all-female vocal group the Marvelettes, the first successful Motown girl group.

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Headlines from May 30, 1945

51 Square Miles Burned Out In Six B-29 Attacks on Tokyo; LeMay Backs Figures With Photos of Havoc --1,000,000 Japanese Are Believed to Have Perished in Fires

By Warren Moscow By Wireless To the New York Times

GUAM, Wednesday, May 30-- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the B-29's operating from the Marianas, gave correspondents at his headquarters tonight, in figures and photographs, a summary of what his big "Superforts" had done to Tokyo

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Cannon and Taber Engage In Fight on Expense Pay; New Yorker Says He Did Not Hit Back and Held Missourian Until He 'Cooled Off'-- Latter Refuses to Admit Encounter

By C.p. Trussell Special To the New York Times

in fist fight with Repr Taber over Cong expense acct

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U.S. SUES TO SETTLE COASTAL OIL ISSUE; Biddle Would Determine Who Owns Deposits From Tideline to the Three-Mile Limit

By Lewis Wood Special To the New York Times

Govt seeks to settle coastal oil deposits ownership issue; files suit against Pacific Western Oil Corp; Calif Atty Gen protests action as States rights violation; issue revd; Atty Gen Biddle comments

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Kung Quits Posts In Chinese Regime

By Unknown Author

H H Kung resigns as Exec Yuan vice premier and as gov of Central Bank of China

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MARINES SMASH INTO SHURI, WIN ALL NORTH PART OF NAHA; TOKYO ERASED, SAYS LEMAY; THE WAR AGAINST THE JAPANESE ON THE SEA AND ON THE LAND

By Bruce Rae By Wireless To the New York Times

US engineers bridge Naha north-south canal and marines stream over to occupy all of city north of harbor; other marines break through Jap defenses to reach Shuri Castle; Japanese offer stiff resistance to north and northeast; Amers thwart efforts by Jap swimmers to land behind US lines; Jap planes attack fleet units; US lines unchanged on east coast; map

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SOVIET WILL CALL BOYS, 15, TO ARMY; Record Peacetime Training Is Planned--Siberian Troops Begin Their Maneuvers

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S Kaftanoff, in Bolshevik, repts USSR built improved combat ships during war

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Foe Pushed Toward Indo-China In New Gains of Chinese Troops; CHINESE PUSH FOE NEARER INDO-CHINA

By Unknown Author

US State Dept refuses to accept responsibility pending investigation

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U.S. Rejects Tokyo Charge In Sinking of Relief Ship; NOTES EXCHANGED ON THE AWA MARU

By Lansing Warren Special To the New York Times

US refuses

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NATION GETS VOTE ON USE OF FORCE IF IT SUPPLIES MEN; Big Five Agrees to 'No Taxa- tion Without Representation' as World Principle POINT IS WON BY CANADA British Memory Is Factor-- France and Russia Act to Bar Curb on Their Pact

By James B. Reston Special To the New York Times

Big 5 accepts 'no taxation without representation' principle in issue on whether individual nation has right to vote on use of mil forces against aggression when it supplies forces to world organization; point is won by Canada; Brit memory is factor; France and USSR act to bar curb on Franco-Russian pact; Denmark to enter parley

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War News Summarized

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NAZI U-BOAT LURES BOND BUYERS HERE; They Stream Aboard Craft on Which Crew Played Soft Music While Lurking for Kill

By Unknown Author

described; illus; visited by war bond buyers

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Lord Haw Haw Seized in Germany; Traitor Wounded by British Officer; HAW HAW SEIZED BY BRITISH ARMY

By James MacDonald By Wireless To the New York Times

Brit capture W Joyce, Nazi radio Lord Haw Haw; wound him when he makes false move

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