Manila Notes Radio Message From Bataan
Manila reports recall the April 9 1942 Bataan surrender through Capt Salvador Lopez critique of the stand by American Filipino troops. The piece notes Homma war crimes verdict and ongoing searches locating and reinterring fallen soldiers in Manila military cemetery with survivor diaries.
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Voice of Freedom
Salvador P. Lopez
Jonathan Wainwright
Lopez
Manila Post
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Corregidor
Homma
Philippines
Manila Papers
L. V. Greene
U. S. Army
Manila
Greene
Wrath of Bataan Death Toll Rumors in Aftermath
The report cites casualties from the retreat to Bataan and ensuing battles with 1,660 American soldiers and 13,000 Filipinos killed. It notes 600 Americans and 5,000 Filipinos died in the mas sacre after Bataan fell, then 600 Americans and 11,000 Filipinos perished on the death march ordered by Homma. Finally about 30,000 Filipinos and 2,000 Americans died at Cabanatuan prison camp.
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Bataan
Homma
Cabanatuan
Greene
Cincinnati Power Walkout Averted
Washington AP report says a strike by 1400 Cincinnati Gas and Electric workers was averted after four days of talks at the labor department. An agreement provides a 17 cent per hour wage increase, below the union demand of 20 cents and above the company's 15 cent offer. The settlement, awaiting ratification by the local union, could affect about one million residents in the greater Cincinnati area.
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Washington
Cincinnati Electrical Workers
Labor Department
AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
Cincinnati
Douglas Byrd
Truman Won't Have To Pay Damages in Court Ruling
Missouri Supreme Court rules President Truman not liable for 25 000 in a damage suit filed by a Jackson County attorney. The case traced back to 1931 confinement while Truman was county judge and sought damages for six months confinement. The district court had dismissed the suit as time barred, a ruling upheld on appeal.
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Jefferson City
Truman
Jackson County
Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri
Thomas B. Bush
Shift of U.N. To Frisco Is Gaining Favor
New York reports note a rising sentiment among U N Security Council delegates to move the United Nations temporary home from New York to San Francisco or another city. A high power official cites New York’s pace and Bronx location as distracting. Some doubt Sperry Lake Success site can serve, and Britain expresses mixed feelings while seeking a central, well equipped base. San Francisco is seen as meeting the needs of a unified, accessible headquarters.
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New York
United Nations
San Francisco
Security Council
United Press
Manhattan
Bronx
U.N. Assembly
London
New York City
Sperry
Lake Success
L. I
Council
U.N
United States
Spending Million A Day on A-Bombs
The United States spends over a million dollars daily to manufacture and improve atomic bombs and to explore new military and civilian uses. The program, about 400 million dollars per year, is funded largely from the President's special war funds as a flexible Treasury cushion. This is the first public disclosure of the ongoing atomic project after wartime outlays exceeding two billion dollars to develop the first super bombs.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Truman
U S Poll Teams Set Up To Assure Free Jap Election
In Tokyo on Tuesday General Douglas MacArthur ordered U S army poll-watchers at Japanese polling stations to deter bribery vote theft and coercion in Wednesday's general elections The teams aim to ensure a free expression of the Japanese people's will while avoiding impressions of Yankee bayonets interference The watch is to curb police pressure landlord or employer influence campaign funding and vote tabulation fraud after yesterday's disorder involving Premier Shidehara during talks with popular front leaders
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Tokyo
U. S. Army
Douglas MacArthur
Troop Arrivals Near 11 000 Returnees Across Two Ports
The Associated Press reports nearly 11 000 service personnel were due to arrive at two U.S. ports aboard nine vessels Tuesday. At New York Sea Witch from Le Havre carried 1 283 troops and 16th armored eng combat battalion. Waterbury Victory from Antwerp 969 troops. Gen John R Brooke from Le Havre 3 297 troops including 47th armored medical battalion. Waycross Victory from Antwerp 913 troops. Abraham Baldwin from Antwerp nine miscellaneous troops. San Francisco vessels include Gen Robert E Callan from Samar 3 230 army troops. Cape Johnson from Manus 769 navy and 166 marines. LST 727 98 navy. Thompson 53 navy. The Pittston Victory from Bremmerhaven docks Wednesday.
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U.S
San Francisco
New York
Sea Witch
le Havre
16Th Armored Eng
John R. Brooke
Eng
Antwerp
G.m
Ord. Heavy Auto Maint
Med. Coll. Co
F.A
Abraham Baldwin
Pittston Victory
Bremerhaven
Robert E. Callan
Samar
Navy
Army
Cape Johnson
Manus
LST
Thompson
Libel suit by Latex Corp dismissed in Chicago
District Judge Elwyn R. Shaw dismissed a six million dollar libel suit filed by International Latex and its president Abraham M. Spanel against Westbrook Pegler King Features syndicate and the Illinois Publishing and Printing company. The ruling said the complaints did not state a legal cause of action. Spanel alleged Pegler implied the Latex company was Communist controlled.
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Chicago (LLP
Elwyn R. Shaw
International Latex Corporation
Abraham M. Spanel
Westbrook Pegler
King Features Syndicate
Illinois Publishing and Printing Company
Chicago Herald- American
Shaw
Spanel
Pegler
Latex Corporation
City Hall Notes On Licenses Permits Utilities And Bids
City council granted Bernard Berger a cigarette permit and class B beer license at 3108 First Avenue E while Berneit S. Jones received the same licenses at that address. Don C. Hinshaw and Jesse G. Hunter received licenses or duties. Hunter’s leave of absence for armed service noted. A petition for sanitary sewers on Nineteenth and Twentieth Avenues SW from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets was referred to the city engineer. An ordinance vacating Fifth Avenue SW and part of H Street was read and placed on file. Williams and Hunting Co. would pay 831.60 under the ordinance. Navy mothers club got tag day approval for May 11. Link-Belt Speeder Corp. may cross Fourteenth Avenue SW to light a storage area, pending electrical inspector approval. Hunter-Hanson Motor Co. curb and sidewalk work referred to city engineer and police traffic department. Hedges Co. approved to drill a well at Pine Avenue SE. J W Darragh won a 3250 contract to remodel Bever Park boiler room.
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Bernard Berger
First Avenue E
Berneit S. Jones
Don C. Hinshaw
Fourth Street
Nineteenth
Twentieth Avenues
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Fifth Avenue
First
H Streets
H Street
Williams and Hunting Company
Link-Belt Speeder Corporation
Fourteenth Avenue
Hunter-Hanson Motor Company
Second Avenue
Tenth Street SE
City Engineer and Police Traffic Department
Bull Halsey Laid Up With Respiratory Illness
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., 65, rests in Philadelphia Naval Hospital with an upper respiratory infection. He has been ill several days and is in very good condition, according to Capt. Howard H. Montgomery.
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Philadelphia
William F. “Bull” Halsey
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Navy
Halsey
Wilmington
Del
Howard H. Montgomery
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Margaret Crooks
Home Economist
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric CO
City Hall
Jesse G. Hunter
Armed Services
Fire Department
Navy Mothers’ Club
Hedges Company
Pine Avenue SE
J. W. Darragh
Bever Park
Bull Halsey
Army Coes
Sam
U.S. Army
Iowa
Furniture Department
Newman’s
General Office
MR. Ettinger
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