Manila Notes Radio Message From Bataan
The April 9 1942 Bataan surrender message from the Corregidor radio spoke of fighting spirit and faith as Filipino and American forces yielded to superior forces on the peninsula. Capt Salvador P Lopez wrote the words describing the epic struggle and the enduring beacon of liberty.
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Manila papers reprise Lopez 1942 radio speech
The Manila press reprinted Lopez's 1942 broadcast noting no formal commemorations. Lt. Col. L. V. Greene reports the U.S. Army found graves from the Bataan campaign, id by diaries and survivors, with many reinterred at a Manila military cemetery.
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U. S. Army
Bataan
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Greene
Tragic Pacific War Death Toll Stated in Postwar Review
A historical summary notes U S and Filipino casualties across the Bataan withdrawal, the Masacre after Bataan, the death march ordered by Homma, and the Cabanatuan prison camp deaths. Estimated totals include 1 600 Americans and 13 000 Filipinos in the initial action, 600 Americans and 5 000 Filipinos in the massacre, 600 Americans and 11 000 Filipinos in the march, plus about 30 000 Filipinos and 2 000 Americans at Cabanatuan.
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Cincinnati Power Walkout Averted
The Cincinnati Gas and Electric workers avoided a strike after four days of talks at the Labor Department. A wage increase of 17 cents an hour was agreed, far from the 20 cents sought by the AFL brotherhood of electrical workers and above the company's 15 cent offer. The 1,400 union employees service nearly 1 million residents and ratification by the local union is expected promptly. federal conciliator Douglas Byrd called the contract subject to approval.
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Cincinnati Electrical
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Cincinnati
Douglas Byrd
Truman Won't Have To Pay $25,000 Damages
Missouri Supreme Court rules President Truman need not pay the $25 000 claimed in a Jackson county damage suit. The suit filed November 6, 1944 by a hospitalised lawyer alleging he was confined six months seeks damages against Truman and Sheriff Thomas B. Bush. The district court dismissal rested on statute of limitations.
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Jackson County
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Missouri
Thomas B. Bush
Shift of U.N. To Frisco Gains Favor Among Delegates
A quiet under current among Security Council delegates favors moving the United Nations temporary home from New York to San Francisco or another city. A high-power official notes New York’s excitement and distance from Bronx offices create insecurity for the council. Some doubt Sperry Lake Success as a solution, and officials say a centralized site with full facilities is needed, with San Francisco seen as the best fit.
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Spending Million A Day on A-Bombs
A United States program spends over 1 million dollars daily to manufacture and improve atomic bombs and to study civilian and military uses for nuclear energy. The effort, totaling about 400 million dollars annually, is largely funded from the President's war funds.
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Washington
United States
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U S Poll Teams Set Up To Assure Free Jap Election
Tokyo AP report says Gen Douglas MacArthur ordered U S army poll-watchers to guard Japanese polls on the eve of the general election. The teams aim to deter bribery coercion and vote theft while denying claims of Yankee bayonets intimidation. Observers will monitor police interference landlords economic pressure bribe schemes and tabulation dishonesty.
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Popular Front
Troop Arrivals By The Associated Press
Close to 11 000 returning service personnel were due to arrive at two US ports aboard nine vessels Tuesday San Francisco expected four ships carrying 4 413 men while at New York 6 471 returnees aboard five vessels were awaited Ships and units arriving At New York Sea Witch from Le Havre 1 283 troops including 16th armored eng combat bn 67th Field hospital Waterbury Victory from Ant werp due originally Monday 969 troops including 218th eng bn Gen John R Brooke from Le Havre 3 297 troops including 47th armored med bn less co D 1514th eng water supply co 481st flight pontoon co 253rd eng com bat bn less co D 709th tank bn less co D Waycross Victory from Ant werp 913 troops including 3353rd and 3354th gun truck cos 137th 914th and 340th ard heavy auto Imaint cos 141st A A A gun bn med det of 454th med coll co 659th F A bn Abraham Baldwin from Ant werp nine miscellaneous troops The Pittston Victory from Brem erhaven due originally Tuesday is now due to dock Wednesday April 10 At San Francisco Miscellaneous on following vessels Gen Robert E Callan from Samar 97 navy 3 230 army Cape Johnson from Manus 769 navy 166 marines LST 727 98 navy Thomson 53 navy
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Libel Suit Against Pegler Dismissed in Chicago
District Judge Elwyn R. Shaw dismissed a $6,000,000 libel suit filed by International Latex Corp and its president Abraham M. Spanel against Westbrook Pegler King Features syndicate and Illinois Publishing and Printing, publishers of the Chicago Herald American. The judge ruled the complaints did not state a legal cause of action. Spanel had alleged Pegler implied the Latex firm is Communist controlled.
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Abraham M. Spanel
Westbrook Pegler
King Features Syndicate
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Chicago Herald- American
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Latex Corporation
City Hall Notes On Permits And Public Works Actions
City council granted Bernard Berger a cigarette permit and Class B beer license at 3108 First Avenue E. Bernert S. Jones also received a cigarette permit and Class B beer license at the same address. Don C. Hinshaw was issued a cigarette permit. Jesse G. Hunter, on leave in April 1945 to serve, was restored to the fire department March 15. A sewer petition from 21 signers sought sanitary mains on Nineteenth and Twentieth Avenues SW from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets and was referred to the city engineer. An ordinance to vacate part of Fifth Avenue SW and the north 88 feet of H Street was read and filed for seven days. Williams and Hunting Co. would pay $831.60 for the property. A letter from the company said details with abutting owners were settled. The Navy Mothers' Club received a May 11 tag day permit. Link-Belt Speeder Corp. was allowed to cross Fourteenth Avenue SW with overhead lines to light a storage area, pending electrical inspector approval. Hunter-Hanson Motor Co. curb cut and sidewalk work at Second Avenue and Tenth Street SE referred to engineer and police. Hedges Co. permission to drill a well at Pine Avenue SE granted. J. W. Darragh bid $3,250 to remodel Bever Park boiler room heating plant.
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Bull Halsey Laid Up With Respiratory Infection
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., 65, resting comfortably in Philadelphia Naval Hospital with an upper respiratory infection. The naval medical staff report he has been ill several days with cold symptoms and is in very good condition. Halsey, from Wilmington, Delaware, is confined at the hospital under the care of Captain Howard Montgomery.
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