Pearl Harbor report fuels debate over blame and decisions
A long analysis questions how the Pearl Harbor disaster unfolded and who bears responsibility. It notes disagreements among Stimson Hull and Truman while highlighting military deployment issues and the impact of prewar policy on the ships in harbor.
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Pearl Harbor
Army and Navy
Stimson
Hull
Japan
Stiison
Wasserting
Truman
Congress
Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Pacific Islands
Tojo Found in Retirement at Tokyo
Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan’s wartime premier, is living quietly in a Tokyo suburb. Nippon editors say many doubt his responsibility for defeat, while some foresee possible seppuku or acceptance of war-crime blame as the emperor’s revolt and atomic bombings reshape Japan’s resolve.
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Spencer Davis
Tokyo
UPI
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Nippon
Sai“io Hasegawa
Domei
Foregn Service
Tojo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Hasegawa
Melon Movie Being Made Here Today
Jack Lamb arrives in Hope with cameras to shoot a feature on Hempstead County watermelons sponsored by Gulf Refining Co. Governor Ben Laney and local dignitaries appear in a planned sequence including watermelon queens, loading scenes, markets, and farm melons as part of Lamb’s nationwideWatermelon film project.
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Jack Lamb
Hope
Hempstead
Lamb
Gulf Refining Company
Ben Laney
Star
M. S. Bates
Terrell Cornelius
Mr. Lamb
City Hall
City Hal
S. W. Strickland
Fred Luck
United States
Pieckaninnies
John Peterfield
Ed Hubbard
M. 5. Bates
Gulf Refining Co
Frank Hill
Albert Graves
Lyle Brown
Chamber of Commerce
Oliver L. Adams
Kentucky Guard Unit Coming Home
The 137th Infantry Regiment of the 35th Division, led by Col. Charles Browne, sailed home on the Cristobal from its wartime service in Europe. Kansas soldiers, after proving themselves in Normandy and under Patton, are expected to be discharged soon due to sufficient release points. Field auditions by the Arkansas Employment Security Division gathered about 35 employer and employee representatives to address postwar job problems.
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Washington
137Th Infantry
Kansas National Guard
Charles Browne
Horton
Kas
Boston
St. Lo
Normandy
Europe
George Patton
Cristobal
Little Rock
Arkansas Employment Security Division
Hiroshima Devastated by Single Atomic Bomb Hit
Leslie Nakashima of United Press reports Hiroshima was destroyed in one strike on August 6 by a Superfort bomb. City of 300,000 largely obliterated with an expected death toll near 100,000. He describes the obliteration and his personal observations arriving Aug 22, noting minimal lingering after-effects per U S scientists.
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Leslie Nakashima
United Press
Tokyo
U. P
Robert Bellaire
Domei
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Hiroshima
U. S
Congress That Draft Warms to Public Explain Plan
Washington August 31 Congress Military Committee members push a plan for President Truman to address Congress or the nation to justify continued draft and slower discharges. They hope public understanding eases pressure on lawmakers while May convenes to decide on extending Selective Service or dropping it. A note on early U.S. rail history mentions a short inclined track used around 1790 in Beane Hill Boston to move brick from kilns.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
House Military Committee
Arends
R-Ill
May
D-Ky
Nwt
Army
United States
Beane Hill
Boston
Yanks Pour Ashore as Tokyo Prepares Surrender
Allied troops moved toward Tokyo as occupation began and reports from Comdr. Harold Stassen described brutal Japanese treatment of liberated prisoners. Hospital ship Benevolence ferried 1,494 rescued captives, with most needing care, while plans for war crimes trials proceeded.
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Frank H. Bartholomew
Badger
Yokosuka
Tokyo
Harold &. Stassen
Stassen
Minnesota
William N
Liberation
Comdr. Stassen
Oenari
Shinagawa
Kawasaki
Don Petit
Burlington
Wake Island
James P. S. Devereux
Wake
Devereux
Marine father hopes three sons join him in Tokyo landing
Edgar Rush a 46 year old Marine sergeant stands on the Tokyo Bay deck as rain passes. He is distant from his three sons serving in the Marines, two wounded and one killed, while Rush carries the family banner to Japan. He re joined in 1942 after his oldest son Harold joined earlier.
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Tokyo Landing
Hal Boyle
Marine
Tokyo Bay
Japan
Edgar Rush
Washington, Pa
Rush
Marines
Marine Corps National Rifle Tear
Harold
Donald H
Richard L
Dorothy
Ralph
Lloyd
Guadalcanal
Page
Notorious Nazi Butcher Franz Ziereis Shot in Austrian Mud
Munich reports that SS general Franz Ziereis, commandant of the Mauthausen camp, was killed by a hail of bullets after escaping American MPs. He died after revealing mass murder details and naming fugitives, describing wages of murder and the brutal regime he oversaw.
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Robert Musel
Munich
Mauthausen
Franz Ziereis
Nuernberg
Hell
Zierecis
Ziereis
Adolf Hitler
Victor Miles
Newark
N. J
U. S. War Crimes Office
Germany
Gusen
Austria
Himmler
Spain in exile regime in Mexico stirs Western responses
Mexico City hosts a Spanish government in exile led by former Premier Jose Giral after recognition by Manuel Tello. The move sparks concern over hemispheric unity and potential Allied reactions as Russia weighs support while the United States and Britain oppose Franco and seek a ballot rather than bullets to topple him.
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Washington
Mexico City
Spain
Jose Giral
Mexico
Manuel Tello
Russia
Franco
Europe
United Nations
Partial Holiday At Hope Postoffice On Labor Day
Postmaster Robert M. Wilson announced a partial holiday on Labor Day Monday September 3 at Hope postoffice. General delivery windows will open 8 to 12 noon. all other windows closed. One city mail delivery in the morning. no rural route delivery. Outgoing mail dispatched as usual. incoming mail placed in patrons boxes.
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Hope Postoffice
Robert M. Wilson
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