New Prison Camp North of Mukden Found by Allies
Chungking Sept 6 A new internment camp about 90 miles north of Mukden where 31 Americans and several Canadians are confined has been located. Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer announced a field processing team in Mukden is arranging contact with the internees and 120 military personnel have been evacuated from Mukden through Sept. 3. Plans were made to evacuate other internees through the new port of Dairen now in Russian hands. Nine Americans, six of them making their first jump, were recently flown into the Hainan area with supplies for Allied prisoners. The transport piloted by Lt Roy B. Sutherland made a 1,000 mile roundtrip from its China base, the first flight into Hainan since the war ended. Russians and Americans in Mukden, Manchuria, trade victories while an American observer said vodka is passed around cordially. See NEW PRISON Page 4.
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Theatre Ticket Present This Clipping for Adjustment
Adjuatation to the Strand or Dixie theater presented with a clipping noting Violet Knotts at 102 West Washington Street. Dorothy Lamour film titles referenced as A Medal for with Dixie theater.
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Number Of Enock Arden Cases Grow As Yanks Are Freed
As many soldiers return from Japanese camps the wartime tragedy of presumed widows grows. Several women facing remarriage learn their spouses survived and seek legal steps to undo second marriages. Names include Mrs Ann Birdwell Marshal and Mrs Helen Goad amid other confirmed cases.
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Enoch Arden
Parsons Former Mayor George Wolf Dies at 75
West Virginia brief notes Parsons where George Wolf 75 longtime mayor died at his home yesterday. Wetzel county board closes Littleton High School prompting 200 pupils to transfer to Hundred High School sparking a grade school opening day turnout of only two. Morgantown figures J Ward Wood named director and EB R Zimmerman as assistant director for the new production and marketing administration in West Virginia. Charleston travel clinics lined up to aid communities in improving tourism despite war travel disruptions.
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Charleston
Japanese Garrison Surrenders at Wake Island
Wake Island falls back to American control after Rear Admiral Sakaibara signs a surrender aboard the Levy. Brig Gen Lawson Sanderson and 75 navy personnel witness as the flag is raised, ending 1,362 days of Japanese occupation and highlighting Wake’s defense by Marine Maj James Devereux and his First Marine Defense Battalion.
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James P
Devereux
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Wake Marines
China
Sakaibara
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Information from Japanese POWs to be used in war crime trials
YOKOHAMA September 5. Information from prisoners of war may be used in war crime trials against Japan and will be delivered to General MacArthur for courts martial. Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger said the Eighth Army will liberate prisoners in northern Honshu and southern areas including Formosa, though Chinese forces will occupy Formosa. Those who killed or tortured POWs would be tried on a court martial basis by headquarters MacArthur.
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Shadow of Pearl Harbor fears haunt first postwar session
Congress opens its first peacetime session since the Pearl Harbor attack with renewed calls for a full inquiry into who bore responsibility. Republicans weigh the political use of any findings, while Byrnes defends Hull against Army board critiques and questions its jurisdiction.
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William F. Arbogast
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Truman Nominates Wainwright for Four-Star Rank
Washington September President Truman nominates Lt Gen Jonathan Wainwright, recently liberated from Japanese captivity, for promotion to four-star general. The nomination highlights Wainwrights long service and wartime roles, signaling a high honor for a veteran of WWII campaigns.
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Truman
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Formal surrender of Japanese units in China on Sunday
Leng Hsin, commander of Chinese forces in Nanking, said the surrender of all Japanese troops in China would occur within a week with ceremony likely on Sunday. Plans include dispersal of troops after surrender and disarmament of arms and war materials.
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China
Donald Huth Leng Hsin
Nanking
MacKenzies Column on American War Aims
DEWITT MACKENZIE discusses debates in Britain over US return to war and moral obligations after World War I. He notes Guardian and Guardian sanctioning neutrality, while Uncle Sam vows to contribute to democracy and peace. The piece references Stanley Evans remarks and calls for normalcy alongside global rehabilitation.
Cavalry to Enter Tokyo as Occupation Opens
The first U S cavalry division will enter bombed Tokyo Saturday with General MacArthur moving HQ to the U S embassy building. Lt Gen Robert L. Eighth Army advances Honshu north of Yokohama and Hokkaido as Japanese forces are disarmed under Allied directive.
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Veterans Work For Better Postwar Planning
A long dispatch from Arcadia California notes a major Santa Fe wreck near Santa Anita with fatalities and injuries, naming Rev Victor Hugo Schroeder and Nobuo Itano among the dead. In Washington veteran policy advisor Bernard Baruch urges integrating veterans into communities, proposing job programs, streamlined administration, and independent medical care study.
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