Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the Associated Press had taken a poll of 74 of the 96 United States Senators and found 51 definitely ready to approve the United Nations Charter, with five more stating they would probably vote for it, and another eighteen as yet undecided. Of the 51 ready to approve, 34 were Democrats and 16 were Republicans, indicating strong bi-partisan support. A two-thirds majority of the Senate was required for approval. Some of the Senators even indicated their readiness to vote for the Charter without having yet read the draft finally approved at San Francisco, for the sake of preserving the peace into the future.

Senator Tom Connally of Texas, a Democrat, a member of the American delegation to San Francisco, predicted comfortable ratification of the Charter in the Senate.

The Senate debate on the Charter was expected to begin the following week and would likely be transpiring when the Big Three leaders were meeting in Berlin for their conference. President Truman, however, had expressed hope that the Senate would act quickly so that he might take the ratified Charter with him to the conference.

On Luzon, Aparri on the northern tip of the island, where the Japanese first invaded on December 10, 1941, was retaken by the Americans with assistance from the Filipino guerillas, trapping the remaining approximately 20,000 Japanese in a 90-mile stretch of the northern Cagayan Valley. The 37th Infantry was now at San Juan, 30 miles to the south of Aparri.

The bodies of 128 Japanese soldiers, bayoneted or shot by their own fellow soldiers, were discovered by the American 129th Infantry Regiment in an abandoned field hospital on northern Luzon at Bayambang. Captured enemy orders stated that the commanding officers were to see to it that the sick and wounded were killed before the Americans arrived.

On Borneo, the Australian Ninth Division had taken Miri airfield and were moving toward the town of Miri without encountering strong opposition, more than 50 miles from the original landing point on Brunei Bay.

More than a hundred Mustang, Hellcat, and Lightning fighter planes bombed Japanese airfields in the vicinity of Fusuoka on Kyushu, and returning bombardiers reported that Kure had been virtually wiped out by the previous day's raid of 450 B-29's. Four of the prior day's raiders had failed to return.

In China, the Chinese had regained two points temporarily taken on Friday morning by the Japanese at Sichwan in southwestern Honan Province. The points protected the approaches to Hankow, 240 miles to the southeast, and the west flank of the Peiping-Hankow railroad corridor linking Japanese forces in Central and Northern China.

In Liuchow, 630 miles southwest, the situation apparently remained unchanged from previous reports, which had stated that the Chinese were at the South Railroad station and mounting a five-column attack on the city.

The British endorsed the plan of United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor for the War Crimes Tribunal, to have a collective trial of war criminals. No word had yet come from the French and Russians but they were believed to approve. The British had previously favored summary punishment by executive decree without formal trial.

It was disclosed that an Allied air invasion of Rome had been scheduled for September, 1943, but was called off after General Giacoma Carboni told Marshal Pietro Badoglio that it would not work because the Nazis had possession of the airfields in the area and his own troops lacked sufficient munitions and fuel to assist the Allies. Carboni had been suspended from duty on September 16, 1944, along with General Mario Reatta, former chief of staff of the Italian Army, and two other generals, for investigation into the disorganization of the Italian military which led to Nazi occupation of Rome after Italy left the Axis in September, 1943. Carboni had disappeared during the military inquiry six months earlier and no trace of him had been found.

Probably wound up in a slaughter house in Detroit.

The U. S. House voted for an amendment to the OPA extension bill to permit slaughter houses to slaughter without limitation as long as they did so under sanitary conditions, in an effort to end the meat shortage in the country.

The military indicated that it would cut down sharply on its purchases of meat during the ensuing 60 days, also to alleviate the shortage of civilian supply.

The Governors of thirteen northeastern states urged OPA to provide that red rationing points would be used solely on meat. Such a move was consistent with consumer demand. Butter was backing up in warehouses because consumers were using their red rationing points solely for the scarce meat available.

In Charlotte, the Chief of Police, Walter Anderson, resigned to take a job as head of the consolidated State Highway Patrol and Division of Public Safety, appointed by Governor Gregg Cherry. Chief Anderson had previously served as Chief in Winston-Salem, where he had been on the force for 17 years, before coming to Charlotte in 1942.

The bold headline on this story marked one of the few times during the war that local or state news had trumped international developments. More space to non-war news was allotted on this day's front page, in fact, than at any time since before Pearl Harbor.

The last article of John F. Kennedy for the Hearst newspapers appeared the following day, written from London, regarding the upcoming July 5 British election. The young Mr. Kennedy, son of the former Ambassador to Great Britain, astutely suggested that Prime Minister Churchill might not win the election after all. Most of the commentary in the United States at the time, including that of The News, had assumed that Mr. Churchill, the old war horse of the previous five years, would win rather handily.

As a small substitute, we provide the book-page, with a book review by Reed Sarratt of Fighting Liberal, the autobiography of deceased Senator George Norris of Nebraska, father of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Senator Norris was a liberal Republican in his day, having begun his political life as a conservative at the turn of the century.

Senator Norris, incidentally, as fate would have it, was the object of a chapter by Senator John F. Kennedy in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage, published in 1956.

And, as a further bonus, you may also read the comics. We find, naturally, the citizens of Dogpatch somewhere in England. But, much has changed since last we checked in with them four years ago, in June and July, 1941.

The Belmont Stakes, last leg of the Triple Crown for 1945, was run this date, having been run late with the other two races on three successive weekends in June because of the cancelled winter horse racing season to conserve gas and rubber. The race was won by Pavot with Eddie Arcaro riding the horse. The Preakness, run the previous Saturday, had been won by Polynesian, ridden by Wayne Wright.