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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1945
Page
1
TOKYO AP reports seventeen ships of Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet steamed from Tokyo Bay carrying thousands of Navy personnel home. Demobilization continues at a brisk pace with Allied involvement speeding the process.
General MacArthur announced that three fourths of Japan’s homeland army had been disarmed and demobilized in half the allotted time. By Sept 17 about 1,645,000 of 2,253,000 under arms had been demobilized with 608,000 to go by the Oct 15 deadline. Indirectly, U S Navy forces prepare for Navy Day events as ships head home via Okinawa to Pearl Harbor.
Congress weighs a compromise tax cut that would wipe out income levies for about 5 million people, extend normal tax exemptions, and broadly cut taxes by about 10 percent while preserving wartime measures. Senate votes challenge Truman on unemployment pay and federal role in benefits.
More than 7500 American servicemen sail from Europe to the United States on 12 troopships. New York will receive 823 troops on three small vessels, Boston 5917 on five ships, and Newport News Virginia 784 on four ships.
Comdr. Columbus P. Smith formerly of Atlanta demanded nine months back pay after reappearing in liberated Shanghai. The Navy refused noting his commission was not effective due to no acceptance note signed. He urged payment or his $10,000 life insurance to his wife. The dispute continues.
Disputes along the U S labor front intensify with new stoppages raising idle workers to about 210,000. Oil industry threats loom as CIO and UAW near strike votes against Ford Chrysler and General Motors. Washington watches actions by the Labor Department and unions as reconversion interests drive the potential national total higher.
The Republican House food study committee led by Rep. Jenkins Ohio urged dismantling the OPA. It said the obligation to feed the hungry abroad must not justify ongoing OPA food control and that price controls should move to the Department of Agriculture. The group blamed OPA for wartime scarcities and black markets and called for accountability for all overseas food shipments.
London's Daily Express writes that Britain will buy food in preference to other American goods due to currency shortage. Political writer Guy Eden says the government will not spend dollars on most commodities and must do without many imports from the United States and Canada.
Tokyo navy officials reported plans to tow the battleship Nagato to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco for a victory bond drive. Orders from Washington instructed them to do nothing until new instructions are received.
Lt. Gen. Barney M. Giles led a three‑ship B‑29 flight from Tokyo toward Washington in a trial non‑stop run. Severe headwinds forced a fuel stop at Chicago after 26 hours 25 minutes and 600 miles of leg remaining, with fuel reserves dwindling on the final stretch.
The War Production Board authorizes shoe manufacturers to raise production by 25 percent in higher price lines with no limits on lower-priced shoe output.
The Office of Price Administration launches a district campaign against repairing and recapping defective tires calling it a racket. John H Summers, district OPA director, says every town will be checked by investigators. In a separate item, Bryan Blanton age 7 inadvertently hanged himself while playing on a rope swing.
The Ohio Development and Publicity Commission announced a statewide effort to promote Ohio as a recreation and tourist center. The plan includes news stories and a regular pictorial service sent to every daily newspaper, aiming to overcome past regulatory limits and use increased legislative funds to boost publicity.
Representative Walter Brehm of Ohio bluntly urges Congress to declare hostilities ended and bring troops home. He says no draft or large occupation forces are needed after the war, noting General MacArthur's estimate of 200000 in Japan for control and arguing Congress must tell the military what the people want.
Pvt. George L. Mark of Cleveland testified before the Senate Military Committee that he and other soldiers at Fort Belvoir were pressured after encouraging contact with Congress. He described bayonet grass-cutting duty to keep men busy and said he was being railroaded to Camp Shelby after speaking to Washington papers about morale and conditions.
Dr. Reuben Gustavson of the University of Chicago urged using nuclear physics research to fight cancer. He said cancer is chemical in nature and that radiations from atomic science may help identify how chemicals attack the body.
President Truman declared there would be no padding in our armed forces and no one would be held longer than necessary. He noted General Douglas MacArthur had revised estimates for troops needed to occupy Japan and Korea as the situation evolved. Meanwhile in Europe awaiting shipment home from Le Havre were the Fifth Armored and 106th Infantry Divisions, with the Seventh Armored and the 70th Infantry moving in for processing.
OPA officials push sweeping price controls to cover new homes and the land they stand on with resale ceilings for existing dwellings. Bowles warns of a highly explosive situation as the present $8,000 limit on new home building ends October 15 and government curbs expire in 1946.
Gov. Frank Lausche traveled to Washington with Frazier Reams and Robert Sohngey to seek release of Scioto and Ravenna Ordnance Works for Ohio state needs. They pressed for terms allowing the properties to become mental hospitals, a state fairgrounds, and a central penitentiary.
Wright Field will run Lockbourne Army Air Base as an all weather flying center. Rep. John M. Vorys announced in Washington that officials at Lockbourne and Wright Field had not been informed of the move.
Transcontinental and Western Air will inaugurate the world’s first 300 mile per hour commercial airline service within a few weeks, according to TWA president Jack Frye. The plan uses 36 four engined Lockheed Constellation planes with a 14 hour New York to Europe run and a 10 hour coast to coast route.
MacArthur announces the 43rd Division will soon be sent to the United States for demobilization. Several units return home. Tokyo papers list three more suspects tied to wartime abuses: Col. Akira Nagai, Shigeru Osanai, and Setehi Gunze Miura, all linked to brutal camps in the Philippines. State Department expresses surprise and concern.
General George C. Marshall told Congress the demobilization point system could be sharpened by winter. MacArthur warned reductions would not exceed a projected 200,000 occupation troops in six months, while thousands more would arrive in Japan through year end. Lily Abegg, linked to Tokyo radio propaganda, was detained by U S Eighth Army. A typhoon on Sept 17 18 battered the home islands, killing 48 and leaving over 2000 homes destroyed. no U S casualties reported.
The OPA increased ceiling prices for clay building brick, structural hollow tile and drain tile east of the Rocky Mountains. Drain tile producers in Ohio Michigan West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania were excluded but a separate increase for them was promised soon.
George Lindsley, son of George and Essa Biggs Taylor, drowned yesterday near Pittsburgh while working on the Steamer Reliance. A former Long Bottom resident, he had two years of service on the boat. The body will be brought back for burial.
Eric A. Johnston, 48, elected to succeed Will Hays as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. Hays, 65, resigns after 24 years, during which he was known as the Movie Czar. Bays will advise and Johnston will remain as chamber of commerce president.
Dodie the fox terrier from Chicago returned to a soldier after eight years away. The dog was found starving in an ice house pit then taken on a train bound for Yuba City California. Ownership was confirmed after John Zierdin located the dog on August 26 following a prior rescue by Mrs Ramsden in Newport Rhode Island.
Shirley Temple wed Army Air Forces sergeant John Agar in a ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church. Police say about 5000 fans lined the streets as a mob pressed toward the couple, though inside the church the service went quietly. The couple planned a motor honeymoon before Agar must report to Spokane in 10 days.
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