Texans Rescue 131st Artillery Men From Java Captivity
War Department reports 99 of the 131st Field Artillery Battalion rescued from Java and flown to Calcutta. Some members captured by Japanese earlier in 1942. Calcutta also lists Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth survivors from the U S cruiser Houston after liberation from a Japanese prison. Additional survivors from the ill fated cruiser found in Singapore as 112 Americans yielded here.
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Truman asks Congress to keep war powers for reconversion
President Truman urged Congress to maintain war powers to support reconversion as he outlined a 21 point program including limited tax cuts for next year and steps toward full employment. He warned abolishing wartime controls before the economy settles would cause great confusion in government.
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Senate Votes for Pearl Harbor Inquiry Resolution
The Senate voted unanimously to launch a joint congressional inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster. The move, adopted as a resolution, had the full approval of President Truman per Senate Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky.
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Senate to Probe Roosevelt Disaster Critics
Barkley outlined a House Senate inquiry with five members from each chamber to be chaired by the speaker and Senate president. Ten members, six Democrats, must report to Congress by Jan. 3 with assurances of fairness and no political motive. MacArthur announced plans to deploy 15,000 US troops into Tokyo with 300,000 to 400,000 occupying home islands and Korea. Japanese surrenders include 139,009 at Rabaul with swords handed to Australian commander Sturdee.
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Truman outlines wartime to peacetime transition program
President Truman urges rapid but limited tax cuts to smooth reconversion and expand peacetime economy. He calls for a vast public works program, a full employment bill, health and social security plans, higher congressional salaries, and continued drafts for 18 to 25 year olds to sustain occupation forces.
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Students Jam Buses As Schools Open
On the first day of school amid rising enrollments Charles M. Rogers of Amarillo public schools announced the high school had the largest enrollment in history. Additional counts from city schools were being compiled as rural schools St Marys Academy and Price College also began.
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Changed Orders To Keep Three Divisions at Home
The War Department will redeploy three divisions to the Pacific while cancelling orders for the 2nd 8th and 95th Infantry Divisions. The 86th 7th Infantry Divisions and the 13th Airborne Division remain slated for redeployment.
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Four Colorado Convicts Break Out During Riot
Four Colorado penitentiary inmates escaped during a riot at Canon City. The convicts barricaded a tunnel and exchanged gunfire with guards as the disturbance unfolded.
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Canon City
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U.P
Colorado Penitentiary
Prisoners of War Camp Abuse Reported in Formosa
A returning prisoner said high ranking Allied officers including Lt Gen Jonathan Wainwright were publicly slapped beaten and stripped at a Japanese POW camp in Formosa. Maj Gen Albert Jones said Lt Gen A E Percival and others were forced to parade strip and endure beatings three times daily by Japanese soldiers and civilians.
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U.P
Jonathan Wainwright
Formosa
Albert M. Jones
Wainwright
A. E. Percival
Americans Send Aid to Japanese Families in War Gifts
American prisoners of war have sent cash, flowers and food as compensation to Japanese families bereaved by deaths caused by bundles of plane dropped supplies, the Domei Agency reported.
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Domei Agency
Ex Mayor Pfitzner Sentenced to Hang in Prague
The Prague mayor under German rule, Dr Joseph Pfitzner a 44 year old history professor and author, was sentenced today to hang in the Czech people's court. His trial took place in the former grand jury room of Pankrac prison where many war crime cases are heard. He pleaded innocent to pages of charges.
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Joseph Pfitzner
Czech People's Court
Pankrac
Chinese Troops Moved by Airplanes In Vast Airborne Move
Chinese forces undertake a massive airborne redeployment as U S Army Air Force planes begin transporting 80,000 Chinese soldiers and equipment from inland bases to the east coast provinces. Officials expect a 40 day operation with ongoing air lift between Chungking and Nanking.
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Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Forecast Update
Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Friday with widely scattered thundershowers. Not quite to warm late Friday. West Texas partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers Friday. New Mexico fair today and tonight. scattered showers and thunderstorms in the northeast Friday with cooler highs. Highs Friday 80 in the mountains and northeast, 85 to 95 elsewhere. 24 hour high 86, low 67 at noon.
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Army air fields to be declared inactive by Sept 30
The War Department released a list of 15 Army air fields to be inactivated by September 30 with more to follow. Included are Ardmore Oklahoma Carlsbad New Mexico Pampa Oklahoma Frederick Oklahoma and Marana Arizona. Ultimate disposition remains undecided and surplus release is possible if not needed for postwar training.
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Japanese Premier Criticizes Past Policy Of Suppressed News
Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni voices concern over Japan's previous policy of keeping information from the public. He says citizens fed a steady diet of government optimism could not grasp the real situation when surrender occurred, according to the Domei broadcast.
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Domei
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Extraordinary Japanese Diet Adjourns After Surrender Debate
The extraordinary session of the Japanese Diet adjourned today after hearing an imperial rescript on the surrender and an explanation from Premier Higa Shikuni on defeat. Domei reported the development, broadcast recorded by the FCC.
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Home for Over a Million to be Shipped Home by Year End
The U S Army announced 1 300 000 American soldiers would be shipped home between Sept 1 and year end, 500 600 more than expected before Japan’s collapse. Soldiers with 70 points or more on V J Day will be discharged. By Jan 1 1946 about 700 000 Americans will remain in Europe, including 400 000 in the occupation force.
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Empire Simba Poised to Sail for Scuttling in Atlantic
The Evening News reports the 5691 ton Empire Simba loaded with 8000 tons of poison gas will sail from Cairnryan Scotland to be scuttled in the Atlantic. Officials noted the gases were not specified but Allies prepared to counter German gas.
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Weather bureau predicts scattered thundershowers for Amarillo
Weather Bureau predicts scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. High near 99 degrees this afternoon, cooler tomorrow with temperatures around 90.
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Amarillo
Surrender Papers Headed to United States Capitol
Official Japanese surrender documents were en route to Washington. A plane bearing the papers, signed aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay last Saturday, is due in the capital late today from the West Coast. The ceremony with President Truman was expected within a day or two.
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Tokyo Bay
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Durocher Indicted Over Ebbets Field Altercation
Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher and patrolman Joseph Moore were indicted by a Kings County grand jury on second degree assault for an attack on fan John Christian after a June 9 game at Ebbets Field. Each defendant remains free on $1,000 bail.
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Amarillo area offers peace production as war layoffs ease
In the East thousands lose jobs as war production declines. Amarillo area officials say labor demand remains strong with USES reports, 90 percent of men laid off since Aug 14 back to work and 50 percent of women shifting to new roles. Farm labor needs grow with 100 positions weekly possible, and 1 000 workers placed on farms since the war ended. Nearby Borger shows no surplus, while Dumas plans 100 layoffs in 45 days and 300 more in two months, keeping 60 at the plant.
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United States Employment Service
B. H. Thomson
Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission
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Panhandle
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Cactus Ordnance Plant
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Overhead garage door hardware ad listing
John Maynard Lumber Company at 800 West Fifth Street offers overhead garage door hardware. The notice also promotes Dictaphones adding machines and calculators from Russell Stationery Company.
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