Questioning Japanese Casualty Figures In Pacific War
The article questions official counts of Japanese deaths in Pacific battles, noting many wounded may also die and that prisoner captures reveal different loss ratios. It discusses terms like counted dead, rumors of killed wounded, and the ethics of treating wounded as prisoners versus casualties. It cites Luzon and Okinawa data and warns against implying American forces killed a high share of enemy losses.
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Washington
War Department
Ias
MacArthur
Philippines
Luzon
Okinawa
Pacific
Subscription Rates and Office Note From The Messenger
Subscription rates are listed for various regions including Ohio and outside Ohio. The notice notes weekly, monthly, and annual charges, with special weekly service editions available worldwide. It also states mailing details and office locations in Athens Port Office and national representatives in several cities.
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Carripr
Ohio
Athens
John W. Cullen Gomes
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Clermand
Cord of Thinks
Uncle George Plans Immediate Wedding for Corliss and Dexter
In the Pringle home the grownups cajole Corliss and Dexter into a hurried ceremony. Uncle George asserts the family will stage a real wedding in the living room with flowers and ferns, while Corliss balks at rushing nuptials and Dexter cheers the idea.
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Corliss
Uncle George
Mrs. Archer
Janet
George
Dexter
Dexter Franklin
Harry
Franklin
Need Some Outs United States Senate and Big Three balance
The piece argues the Senate may act independently from the Big Three talks led by Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin. It notes Churchill's defeat, Roosevelt's death, and Truman's rise, suggesting the Senate could push U S policy with fresh decisions. It ends with hope for domestic autonomy and strategic outs if needed.
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United States Senate
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Winston Churchill
United States
England
Truman
Senate
San Francisco
Mr. Roosevelt
American
Mr. Truman
Mr. Attlee
Letter From Washington on mail reply system at State Dept
Peter Edson explains a 4 card method used by the State Department to acknowledge mail within three days. Yellow blue red and green cards route dates acknowledgments and responses to a secretary’s office, with final disposal and potential humor about filing in a psychiatric ward.
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Washington
Josephine de Oakes
Department of State
White House
Secretary of State
Communications and Records Office
Jetter
Gran'man’s
Right to be free requires constant work against false socialism
The piece warns that public indifference endangers liberty and that radical parties drift toward totalitarian socialism. It urges democrats to oppose misuse of democracy, noting postwar U S plans, European state socialism concerns, and the risk to individual freedom from expanded state control. It argues the century 1848 to 1948 may be seen as a era of socialist delusion.
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United States
Europe
Sturdy stock behind war leaders strength noted
A brief editorial ponders how veteran commanders and leaders like Eisenhower Spaatz Clark Halsey Mitscher and the president's 92-year-old mother exhibit energy. It suggests sturdy ancestry fuels endurance in battle and urges readers to consider impact of shared sacrifice and responsibility without self indulgence.
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Eisenhower
Spaatz
Clark
Halsey
Mitscher
Denison Opens Drive For New Fieldhouse
Denison University launches a drive to raise 275000 for a postwar fieldhouse. A Wednesday dinner in Dayton opens the campaign led by Dr. David Reese with meetings across the east and midwest in the next three months. Funds would be turned over next year on the Denison Society alumni’s founding centennial. The plan includes an indoor field area, running track, courts, locker rooms, and a 42 by 75 foot swimming pool with future women’s gym facilities.
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Granville
Denison University
Dayton
East
Middle -West
David Reese
Denison Society of the
A& T
Reunited Fighting Family After Long Separate Wars
Elvin Poole, a disabled World War I veteran from Holgate, and his wife fled to Baltimore with their son Elvin Poole to confirm that Elroy Poole, a World War II veteran long reported killed in the Pacific, is alive. Their father John Poole, once amnesiac, has recovered, aided by an elderly aunt and the Red Cross. The reunion also includes the father’s 90-year-old mother.
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Holgate
Elvin Foole
Baltimore
Corp
Elroy Poole
Pacific
John Poole
Elvin
Elray
Army
Elroy
War Department
Gerhard Hohenbrink
Elvin Poole
Colder War Winter Warned If Coal Is Not Released
Secretary Ickes warned the Senate War Investigating Committee that next winter could be the coldest of the war for Americans unless 37 million tons of coal mining workers are released from military service. He urged shipping 6 million tons to liberated Europe and cautioned of riots if coal supply drops.
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Washington
Y Ickes
Europe
Ickes
Senate War Investigating Committee
Federal meat kills rise in week wartime output
Chicago report shows federally inspected meat production at 265 million pounds last week, up from 263 million. The War Meat Board attributes the rise to higher hog slaughter, comparing with 17 million pounds in the same week a year ago.
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Chicago
War Meat Board
Soap Theft Troubles Police Face In Cleveland
Police Chief George J. Matowicz notes a growing theft wave as 400 one pound bags of soap chips are reported stolen from a local company. The sequence began with coffee and whisky then sugar and cigarets before soap emerged as the latest target.
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Cleveland
George J. ‘Matowicz
Snappy Attire For Returning Soldiers Reported
Brig Gen J E Barzynaki says army quartermasters and supply officers nationwide will outfit veterans on furlough under the redeployment program with well fitting attire as servicemen return home from overseas.
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Chicago
Anappy
J. E. Barzynaki
Veteras
Hitlers Inner Circle Labeled Paranoid by Psychiatrists
A London based columnist cites American camp reports from Mondorf Luxembourg showing Hitler aides and Nazi leaders display mental abnormalities. It argues paranoia helped drive aggression, noting Goebbels, Hess, Goering, Ley, Streicher, Frank and others exhibit abnormality, with implications for postwar trials.
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Hitler
Dewitt Ukrenzie
Mondorf
Luxembourg
Fueher
Berchtesgarden
Godesberg
Munich
Sudetenland
Joe Goebbels
Berlin
Rudolf Hess
England
Germany
Hermann Goering
Robert Ley
Julius Streicher
Hans Frank
Poland
Soviet commander orders anti fascist youth committees in Russian zone
In Berlin Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of the Soviet military administration in Germany, orders creation of Anti-Fascist Youth Committees in Russian zone cities. All other youth groups and affiliated unions are forbidden as part of promoting a united front of Communist, Socialist, Democratic and Christian Democratic parties in Eastern Germany.
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Berlin
Georgi Zhukov
Germany
Zhukov
Athens area social notes from old archives
News items recall events from 410 years ago and 20 years past in Athens area society. Claude Westfall returned from Akron after a small bore rifle tournament while Mary Frances Gillingly of Albany visited Athens with Lucile Minchert. Other entries mention Prof. and Mrs. George W. Clark and relatives in Columbus, H T Westfall at Buckeye Lake, Athens League of Women Voters members touring McBee Bindery, Esther Class picnic at Buckeye, and travels of Mr. and Mrs. Drake and the Bethels on trips through Illinois Michigan and Indiana.
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Claude Westfall
Akron
Athens League of Women Voters
McBee
Gladys van Dyke
Harvey Ramsey
Paul Hall
Mr. McBee
St. Louis
Sussex
N. J
Salzburg Festival Returns to Austria After Eight-Year Gap
Salzburg gears up to host the three week Festspiel from Aug 13 to Sept 1 marking its return after a year. Baron Henry Python, directing for 20 years, oversees the revival aided by American gasoline and supplies to feed artists as crowds once topped 100000 music lovers in peacetime march memories.
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Salzburg
Austria
Goebbels
Baron Henry Python
Maart
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