Prisoner Oscar records life in ashes of war memory book
At Yokosuka Japan a marine private named Oscar made a memory book while imprisoned at Ashiro camp after being captured in 1942. He pasted his name and rank, drew flags and an angel on the cover, noted dates from battle to release, listed friends and places visited, and itemized gifts and clothing he hoped to receive.
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Yokosuka Naval Base
Japan
Oscar
Wen
Shanghai
Manila
Ashiro
Hirohito
Missouri
Marine Corps
Red Cross
Parker Named Alternate To War Court
President Truman announced Francis Biddle as American member of the allied military tribunal to try axis war criminals. Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina was named as alternate. The moves accompanied other judicial and administrative appointments including a new director of the Office of War Information and several appeals court vacancies.
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Washington
Truman
Francis Biddle
U. S
Allied Military Tribunal
John J. Parker
North Carolina
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Neil Dalton
Louisville
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
U. S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Thurman Arnold
E. Barrett Prettyman
Wilbur K. Miller
Owensboro
Prettyman
Justin Miller
Wilbur Miller
Fred M. Vinson
Secretary of the Treasury
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Alexander Holtzoff
District of Columbia District Court
John J. O'Connell
Pittsburgh
U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Harrington Wimberly
Altus
Okla
Federal Power Commission
Congress Set to Trim Wartime Taxes Rapidly
Washington observers report the House Ways and Means Committee will draft the first postwar revenue bill aiming to reduce federal taxes. Debates split between a flat 20 percent cut for all and replacing the three percent normal tax with a tax like the old structure, affecting millions of smaller earners.
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Francis M. Lemay
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Rep. Knutson
Minn
Republican
Doughton
D-Nc
Six Million To Be Discharged By July 1
Undersecretary of War Patterson told senators the army expects to discharge 6,000,000 men by next July 1. He said the point system would reduce forces to about 2,500,000 by mid 1946 and rejected a proposal for a congressional demobilization watchdog.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Patterson
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
D-Cole
Congress
Rationing Of Meat Nears A Showdown
Washington reports the meat rationing end date near a decision. Officials weigh ending by month end or by October 1 with Bowles pressing for quick action. Bowles met with Hutson as the stake grows for October point value charts and continued rationing.
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Washington
Albuquerque
N. M
Anderson
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
J. B. Hutson
House Passes Measure Repealing War Time
The house passed without opposition a resolution to return the nation to standard time. The measure would abolish daylightsaving, ending wartime twice yearly clock changes at 2 a.m. on September 30. It moves to the senate where swift adoption is expected. presidential action not required.
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House
Washington
Senate
Mountbatten Accepts Japanese Surrender in Southeast Asia
Admiral Mountbatten received the surrender of about 85 000 Japanese troops in Singapore and some 500 000 in the southern regions. He warned against arrogance, promising stern measures against obstinacy and non cooperation while pledging justice and humanity as allied forces assert mastery. The ceremony occurred at Singapore's city hall with Allied and national representatives witnessing.
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Marc Purdue
Singapore
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
East Indies
Seishiro Itagaki
Juichi Terauchi
Mountbatten
Council Chamber of
Slight Increase Noted In Eastern Carolina Tobacco
Eastern North Carolina markets saw a slight rise in some grades while border markets on the North Carolina South Carolina line were more irregular and heavily delivered. The Market News Service reported belt prices around one dollar per hundred with many grades damaged or in unsafe keeping.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
South Carolina
Middle Belt
State Department of Agriculture
France Presents Reparations Stance to Five-Power Talks
French delegates outline aims for Italy including border tweaks around Labrigue and Tante, home rule in Aosta, international port oversight for Trieste, trusteeship for Italian colonies, Fezzan restoration, Tunisia frontier adjustments, and restitution for war losses, while seeking at least principle reparations.
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London
France
Italy
Labrigue
Tante
Roga
Mediterranean
Aosta
Rome
Trieste
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Fezzan
Lake Chad
North Africa
Pierre Laval
Tunisia
General Tojo’s suicide shocks wartime readers
The piece credits General Tojo for shaping wartime Japan yet ends with shock as it notes his suicide in Tokyo. It recalls his role as premier during Pearl Harbor and his image as the architect of militarism and imperial rule, now toppled by personal downfall.
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Tokyo
Tojo
East Asia
Japan
Uncle Sam
Pearl Harbor
Migh
Plans Of Truman To Visit N. C.
President Truman gave no new details beyond plans previously revealed for a trip to North Carolina in early November. He indicated possible stops in Georgia at Warm Springs after North Carolina and said he would visit Representative Doughton of North Carolina to honor a promise made when he was vice president.
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Washington
Truman
North Carolina
Georgia
Warm Springs
North Carolna
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hiroshima uninhabitable claim debunked by Groves team
Refuting enemy radio claims, Maj. Gen. Groves reports Hiroshima remained safe for permanent habitation 11 days after the blast, with xrays below danger levels beneath ground and air. The New Mexico test crater showed similar results, though with higher exposure at detonation.
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Howard W. Blakesler
Alamagordo
N. M
Hiroshima
Leslie R. Groves
Gen. Groves
Groves
New Mexico
Congress Questions Marines and Money in Historic Day
Congress pressed for a Pearl Harbor investigation and questioned UNRRA chief Lehman. The Senate debated an airport bill and unemployment provisions while a new anti Un American activities inquiry began under Rep. Wood. A plan to aid industrial regions and a atomic bomb policy review also featured. GI paper China Lantern praised for delivering troop news.
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Washington
Congress
Pearl Harbor
UNRRA
Senate
House
House Committee
John S. Wood
Georgia
Herbert H. Lehman
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Bailey
D-Nc
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
United Nations
Black Hills
Kunming
China
INS
China Lantern
China Theater
A. C. Wedemeyer
Calcutta
India
Lester H. Geiss
Long Island
New York
Tojo Blood Transfusion Saves Life in Yokohama
American occupation forces report the blood transfusion and penicillin treatment saved Hideki Tojo after a self inflected wound failed. Sgt John Archinal donated B type blood saying he sought justice for the 17 months of war. Generals MacArthur and Eichelberger oversaw care and vowed strong Japanese government moves.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Cve 7
Noeanall
Hideki Tojo
Acipal
MacArthur
Black Dragon Society
Wh cc
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Heinrich Georg Stahmer
Ger
Japan
Rome-Berlin
Stahmer
Hitler
Nanking
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Tojo
Yokohama
John A. Archinal
New Guinea
Philippines
Eichelberger
U. S. Army Air ‘Corps
Eral
Ojo
Japanese War Department
President Truman Defends Britain Aid Plan Amid Criticism
Washington reports President Truman dismissed claims that American aid to Britain finances socialism as "perfectly silly." Congress critics fear the postwar loan funds underwrite labor's policies, while Britain leans toward an outright grant. Talks at the State Department, led by William Clayton, with Lord Halifax, open about loans, cartels, empire trade limits and London's control of imperial dollars.
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Washington
Truman
Great Britain
Congress of Administration
Britain
Congress
William Clayton
Lord Halifax
State Department
London
India
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