Japs Granted Time to Turn Over War Crime Suspects
Tokyo AP dispatch reports General MacArthur’s list of wanted leaders remains active as Japan’s government is empowered to round up remaining targets with no fixed deadline. Progress is expected within two days or privilege could be withdrawn. Tojo, once a wartime dictator, shot himself while being sought and is reportedly in satisfactory condition.
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TOKYO
Eighth Amy
MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Japan
Ger
Walter Krueger
Sixth. Army
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Army says to discharge about a month by December
Army officials told senators the service expects to discharge a large number of men each month through December. Navy asked Congress not to reveal all Pearl Harbor details including the Japanese code. Congress weighed the Army and Navy requests with mixed feelings amid broader Capitol Hill briefings on surplus property and standard time.
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Wasruvuiuiy
Army
Navy
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Capitol HU
Lanphier shoots down Yamamoto bomber over Bougainville
Col. Thomas G. Lanphier Jr of Washington DC was the American pilot who shot down the Jap bomber carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Naval intelligence cracked the code and learned Yamamoto would be over Bougainville on April 18 1943. Lanphier flew a P 38 and joined the ambush that killed Yamamoto's staff and another bomber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr
Washington, D. C
Admi
Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Naval Intelligence
Yamamoto
Bougainville Island
Lanphier
Tojo says he knew his time had come after seeing American troops
In a first interview since his self inflicted wound Tojo said he planned suicide long before but knew the time had come when he saw American officers outside his house. Konoye blamed militarists for war, MacArthur listed 47 wanted men, and leaders including Shimada and Homma faced surrender and personal peril as Japan’s militarist regime collapsed.
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Yokohama
Hiioki Tojo
Tojo
Saburo Kurasu
Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull
Harry Hill
Fifth
Sasebo
Kyushu
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Jike Tojo
Konoye
Associated Press
Russell Brints
Roosevelt
Japan
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
MacArthur
Sugiyama T
Atom Bombed Jap City Safe for Habitation
Brig. Gen. T. F. Farrell reported Hiroshima after the atomic blast is now safe to live in the center. He noted no deaths from radioactivity among those entering the area post bombing. The explosion destroyed a radius of about one and a quarter miles with all demolished and two miles with massive blast and fires.
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Tokyo
Hiroshima
T. F. Farrell
Farrell
Coshocton to Get General Electric Laminated Plastics Plant
GE announces construction of a General Electric laminated plastics plant in Coshocton Ohio to begin this fall. The facility will employ about 800 workers according to plastics division manager William H. Mitton.
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Coshocton
Pittsfield
Mass
General Eilectric Co
William H. Mitton
OPA to Enforce 1942 Retail Prices Despite Protests
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will press ahead with its plan to put new consumer goods on the market at 1942 retail prices, despite anger from dealers. The measure aims to curb price increases during shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Washington
Religion Work In Schools Is Taken to Court
Vashti McCollum, atheist-wife of a University of Illinois professor, petitions a mandamus suit to bar non sectarian religious education in Champaign public schools. She testifies she objects to any religious indoctrination of her children and rejects belief in God.
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Urbana
Ill
Amirs
Vashti McCollum
University of Ilinois
Champaign
James Terry
McColum
MrCollum
James
Terry
James McCollum
Case
Mother Receives Praise for Punishing Child in Court
In Des Moines a mother testified in municipal court that whipping her child for telling a fib was her duty. The judge fined a neighbor $10 suspended after interference. Assistant County Attorney Anthony T. Renda supported the act as a moral stance against juvenile delinquency.
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Des Moines
Anthony T. Renda
Ohio seeks hidden tuberculosis cases in 15 mental hospitals
Ohio officials begin a mass survey with the state health department to locate hidden tuberculosis cases among 28 000 patients and 3 000 employees across 15 mental hospitals. Superintendents start paperwork for the census aiming to identify 90 to nearly 9 000 likely cases.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Health Department
X-Tavlic Health Service
Strike Halts Radio Chains During Night
New York based NBC and ABC networks returned to air at 8 a.m. after engineers walked out yesterday. Some stations like WEAF and WJZ operated with substitute staff while unions planned a return to work today. The Independent Engineers Union cited contract talks as the cause and said workers would return.
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NEW York
American
National Broadcasting Companies
EWT
NBC
ABC
WEAF
WJZ
ABS
CEWT
Gewwt
Independent Engineers' Union
National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians
Ohio coal output rises after midyear rebound
Ohio produced 7,922,528 tons in the second quarter from 460 mines, up from 7,822,529 tons in the first quarter of 1945. Strip mines added 1,077,329 tons in the first six months, with 102 strip operations yielding 3,369,617 tons, compared with 2,292,288 tons from strip mines in the first half of 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
State Industrial Relations Department
Kamashi Bombardment Kills Allied POWs
From Ominato Japan the report says Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet bombarded Kamashi in July and August destroying the prison stockade and killing 18 Allied prisoners of war. The information came from former Kamashi inmate Set Ben K Kelley of Ecleto Texas.
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Ominato
Japan
Halsey
Third
Honshu
Kamashi
Set
Ben K. Kelley
Ecleto
Tex
Kamaishi
British Labor Leader Supports Soviet Style Economic Planning
Blackpool England Sir Walter Citrine secretary of the British Trade Union Congress said today he believed it would be an excellent thing if the British government were able to plan the production, consumption and general economic life of the country in the way in which it is done in Soviet Russia.
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Blackpool
England
Walter Citrine
British Trade Union Congress
Bovjrnment
Russia
End of Shoe Rationing by Oct 15 Urged by Experts
Washington reports WPB leather bureau urges ending shoe rationing by October 15 as output nears 30 million pairs monthly. Decision to follow after WPB Chairman Krug meets OPA Administrator Bowles. OPA officials reportedly expect little objection to the plan as dates of October 1 or November 1 are discussed.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
J.' ‘A. Krug
OPA
Chester Bowles
GPA
Leather Bureau
Japan faced mass starvation after air invasion, experts say
Seven prominent industrialists told reporters in Tokyo that American air raids crippled Japan's industry and blockade, predicting 7 million could starve if the war had continued. They stated food and energy shortages would trigger unrest, with 18 million unemployed looming if conditions persisted.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Japan
Asia
Asano
Rationing to continue says OPA chief in Columbus
Robert A. Lang of the OPA Columbus District declared rationing of tires will continue for an indefinite period despite rumors of ending dates such as Sept 15 or Oct 1. He noted farm organizations oppose end dates and expect subsidies, with tire supply limited to four per vehicle for some time.
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Columbus
UPI
Robert A. Lang
OPA
Lang
Washington
National For Farm Organizations
Cleveland
Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Anliiies
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Farm Bureau
Grange
London
Ruhr
Rhineland
France
Germany
Italy
Ohio Relief Load Reaches New Low After War End
Welfare Director Frazier Reams reported the relief load dropped to 10,592 cases in the last month of the war. He put August costs at 442,857 dollars versus July 427,697 dollars on a 16,622 case load. TIFFIN Celebrates Victory Day with parade and program as Gov. Lausche speaks.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frazier Reams
Tiffin
Northwest Ohio
Public Square
Frank J. Lausche
War hero seeks return to Japan as missionary for Christ
Staff Sgt. Jacob D. DeShazer, 32, one of three Doolittle Raiders back in the United States, declares he wants to return to Japan to serve as a missionary for Christ. He endured 41 months of starvation and mistreatment during captivity.
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Jacob D. DeShazer
Tokyo
Japan
Christ
Sa Jem
Orerfiyer
Idle Pay Claim Record Nears
Columbus report shows August jobless benefits reaching the fourth highest monthly total in the State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation history. New claims numbered 33 673 for August versus 8 977 in July. About 90 percent were filed after Japan’s surrender. Benefit payments totaled 311 939, up over July.
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Columbus
State Bureau of
BUC
Charles H. Jones
Jones
Government Delays Leave Tax Refunds Unpaid
The Internal Revenue Bureau estimates a few hundred thousand 1944 income tax refunds have not been made. Taxpayers who have not received refunds by Saturday should write to their district revenue collector for verification. The collector will check the post office and the general accounting office and inform the taxpayer of his status.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue Collector
Post Office
General Accounting Office
Fast Climbing Plane In Store for Japs
Goodyear Aircraft Corp produced a new fighter plane with a rate of climb one and a half times faster than the then latest jets. Limited production would continue for the Navy as World War II ended, according to H. E. Blythe, vice president and general manager.
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Akron
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
H. E. Blythe
Navy
CIOs Reds Denounced for Sabotage Acts
George Meany, AFL leader, told the British Trade Union congress that before Germany attacked Russia CIO unions interfered with and sabotaged America's defense effort. He cited the June 21 1941 shift in policy and AFL's refusal to join the World Trade Union Congress, arguing the CIO and Russia's pseudo unions should not be recognized.
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Blackpool
England
George Meany
American Federation of Labor Executive
British Trade Union Congress
Germany
Russia
CIO
America
Hitler
Roosevelt
AFL
World Trade Union Congress
Meany
Urges Drive on Ohio Speeders
Columbus officials press a plan for uniform traffic penalties in Ohio courts. Col. George Mingle of the State Highway Patrol says license revocation depends on the court of record, with fines from 11 to 47.50 dollars and fees ranging 2.26 to 7.09 dollars.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Mingle
State Highway Patrol
Lumber controls end September 30, declares WPB
Washington reports the War Production Board will lift all distribution controls on lumber at the end of September 30. The move clears remaining wartime restrictions and returns lumber allocation to normal market processes.
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Cumber
Washington
War Production Board
Whiskey Ration Period To Be Cut One Week
Ohio liquor officials announce a reduction in the whiskey ration period from four weeks to three weeks starting Monday. The allotments for permit holders will be increased accordingly, under Liquor Director Robert M. Sohngen.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robiert M. Sohngen
Yanks allege Japanese doctors bled POWs for blood
A Navy doctor said a patient claimed Japanese physicians bled American prisoners to death for transfusions. The claim comes as Congress weighs Pearl Harbor disclosures and four fast-moving measures proceed in the Senate and House, amid scrutiny of Japan's Black Dragon Society.
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Yokohama
Black Dragon Society
Senate Military Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcolo
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate Naval Committee
Congressional Committee
Utterly Stupid Pearl Harbor Attack Recalled by Attache
German naval attache Adm Paul Wenneker recalls learning of the Pearl Harbor attack hours later and calls the act utterly stupid. He previously commanded the Deutschland when it seized City of Flint in 1939 and arrived in Japan in 1940.
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Karunzawa
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Paul Wenneker
Wenneker
City of
Flint
John Inge Seneral
The
Armors Ola
Washingto
Eph Pershi ‘Ies
Ohio author urges industry to back improved farming program
Mansfield author farmer Louis Bromfield urged Ohio industries to support a prosperity program built on strong farming. He told the Ohio Association of Trade Executives that wealth comes from land and agriculture, not factory payrolls, and urged backing a program promoted by H. A. Lyon of Detroit. He warned that neglect of agriculture risks national decline and cited Britain and Russia as examples of failed balance between farming and industry.
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Ohio
Columbus
Louis Bromfield
Mansfield
Bromfield
Ohio Association of ‘Trade Executives
H. A. Lyon
Detroit
National
Ohin
Britain
Russia
France
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