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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1945
Page
6
Western Newspaper Union reports the Big Three study terms for peace as homecomings beat schedule and allies prepare for Berlin rule. Analysts note shifts in postwar planning and occupancy arrangements.
President Truman arrives in Potsdam to meet Churchill and Stalin to discuss Germany control, territory disposition, Italy terms, Spain, and postwar order. Diplomats note talk will not immediately tie to the San Francisco conference and UN charter while Berlin rules shift under Allied occupation.
Eight ships docked in New York bringing 35000 veterans from the European war the largest daily return since V E Day. Americans total 28000 and 7000 are Canadian with multiple units on board including infantry regiments and an 8th Air Force hospital unit.
Representative Wood of Georgia has been elected by the House to chair the Un American Activities Committee succeeding Representative Hart who resigned due to ill health. Ranking member Rankin praised Wood as outstanding and one of the finest Americans in the House.
Reports from Tokyo indicate widespread alarm over continued Allied air raids on Tokyo and industrial hubs. US Navy claims 17 000 Japanese planes down since Pearl Harbor with 2 700 fleet losses. carriers near 100 ships. 26 000 aircraft deployed last year. Admiral Halsey’s fleet battered but back in action after a devastating typhoon. one cruiser damaged bow torn off but refitted. A Japanese hospital ship wrecked conditions aboard show filth and vermin. 1 000 patients starved and ill treated while officers remain polite and curious about American baseball.
Fred M. Vinson will become secretary of the treasury and will keep the top OWMA personnel. Treasury officials seek further consolidation of independent fiscal agencies into the Treasury as OWMA merges with the department.
The United Nations charter faced near unanimous support as it reached the senate foreign relations committee with minimal opposition. After brief hearings the committee closed with an outpouring of backers and a few outspoken critics. Final witnesses included CIO President Philip Murray and NEA head William G Carr along with Socialist leader Norman Thomas.
Col. Westray Battle Boyce named director of the Women's Army Corps after Col. Oveta Culp Hobby resigns to return to civilian life. Boyce, with eight years in federal service, has served as WAC staff director and chief assistant to Hobby. The report notes Hobby's retirement and Boyce's prior roles.
Daily low flying aircraft spray Manila with DDT a fine mist at rooftop level reducing flies mosquitoes and other pests among the unwelcome population and lowering malaria case numbers. The same method used on New York City beaches with limited supply remaining.
BAUKHAGE outlines radar origins from 1932 findings to its decisive role in Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Britain. He notes radar guided night fighting, fighter-bombers, and long range bombers, predicting peacetime uses in commercial aviation and air traffic safety.
The District of Columbia basks in a rare peacetime calm as Congress plans an extended recess amid a busy White House scene. Veterans, business movers, and Truman loyalists crowd D C, with Hannegan and Pauley networks jockeying for influence, Vaughan guiding insiders, and labor tensions brewing as Republicans eye next year’s elections.
The piece notes that many soldiers with high point scores remain classified as essential and held indefinitely. Captains report wives distressed by delayed returns, with one German unit captain cited as having 127 points. Chaplains see dozens of similar cases each week, morale dropping.
A personal column fragment notes a witty line about literate women seeking laughter and advises against opening mail on the first of the month. It mentions a French paper on G I romance and cites a soybean past use as sauce, while Metropolitan Life notes divorced or widowed persons finding new mates more easily than singles.
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