Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 5, 1995 TAG: 9507050033
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
State Sen. S. Floyd Landreth of Galax was nominated at the Republican state convention as a candidate for governor of Virginia. The convention also called for an unrestricted constitutional convention to, among other things, completely revise election laws.
Japanese defenders had strung balloons with explosive-laden cables over Balikpapan but had failed to halt continued heavy bombing of the southwest Borneo oil port.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities focused its investigation on Hollywood. The Mississippi Democrat who was chairman of the committee said one of the most dangerous plots to overthrow the government was headquartered in Hollywood.
Japanese radio revealed that American bombing attacks had forced the Japanese to order all but 200,000 persons from the city of Tokyo, a city of 7 million people.
A fleet of 600 B-29 superfortresses dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs onto four Japanese industrial cities, raising the total for the week to 11,000 tons.
Pictures revealed the latest Japanese "secret" weapon, the Baka bomb. The bomb was a small rocket-propelled craft that was carried under a bomber toward the target and then released and steered toward the target by a suicide pilot inside.
Harry Hopkins, a confidential adviser and wartime emissary for two presidents, stepped out of public life saying that he must take a rest.
Gen. MacArthur announced that the Philippines had been liberated and the campaign which started Oct. 20 when he landed on a beach at Leyte could be officially closed.
Four German doctors and three hospital attendants were arrested by the U.S. Army and charged with operating a Nazi murder experiment station in Bavaria.
The Navy seized five plants of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and ordered half of the company's 33,000 strikers to return to work. Other strikes had crippled the nation's steel industry.
President Truman announced that he would nominate Fred Vinson of Kentucky, director of war mobilization, to succeed Henry Morgenthau Jr. as secretary of the treasury.
The First Air Force announced that it had uncovered an organized racket in medical discharges and transfers for Army enlisted men at Mitchell Field, N.Y.
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