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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1945
Page
1
A Texarkana Gazette note reports 6 615 registrants in July and August for a city recreation program run across three parks and a church property. It is funded by four civic groups with municipal backing limited by cross border duplication. The program offered youth activities and sports including softball boxing swimming and carpentry.
Manila, Sept. 10, 1941 Staff Sgt. Gene D. Birdwell, 22, learned his Kansas City wife had married his uncle while he was a POW in Japan. She had also been granted an annulment from the uncle, Jack Marshall of Wichita, and Birdwell, who wed Ann Ross of Kansas City Aug 30 1943 before deployment, was confused and shaken by the news of the second marriage and its annulment as he recovers.
Washington Sept 10 UP meat rationing may end Oct 1 with shoe rationing following. OPA cut field staff and drew blueprints signaling ending. Beef lamb mutton and poultry supply is good though pork remains scarce. Fats oils and sugar rationing to continue.
Washington Sept 10 Final action on a congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster was deferred by the House until tomorrow. Democrats favored a one hour debate with open amendments. Republicans planned to offer an amendment for equal representation on the investigating committee, which under Senate action would be a ten member panel with three Democrats and two Republicans from each branch.
Louise and Micaila Miranda, Arizona's Siamese twins, died 14 days after birth in Coldwater. Their bodies will be preserved in St. Monica's hospital Pathological museum for possible organ examination to preserve anatomical relationships rather than perform an autopsy. Doctors Rosenthal and Edel stated autopsies are usually for cause of death.
American code experts deciphered Japanese radio messages and aided a daring air ambush that killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto as his plane neared Shortland Island. The operation, launched by U S Army fliers with Marine fighter command from Guadalcanal, relied on broken codes and Australian observers. The move, kept secret to avoid tipping off Japan, ended Yamamoto’s boastful plan to dictate terms from the White House.
Gen Jonathan M Wainwright was welcomed in Washington as Congress opened its reconversion session. He arrived at National Airport with his wife Kitty and was greeted by President Truman and top officials. The reception included parades and appearances before Congress and a White House meeting. The hero of Corregidor endured 40 months in Japanese custody and faced a toothache during the celebration. Congress also began a Pearl Harbor inquiry and debated postwar naval plans, surplus property control, and airports as it shifted to peacetime duties.
Tokyo dispatch reports Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan’s former premier, acknowledging defeat and declining discussion of war-crimes trials. In an exclusive interview, he says victors may assign blame now but history may judge differently in 500 or 1,000 years. He recalls narrow escape during a May fire raid and notes rebuilding his garden as flames scorched his property.
Korean patriot leaders protested the American plan to keep Japanese police and govern in southern Korea until all 100000 occupation troops arrive. Lt. Hodge said a new military government would form only if existing machinery fails. Demonstrations in Keijo and Jinsen turned violent as Japanese police fired on protesters, killing at least two. Northern Korea is under Russian occupation.
Australian foreign minister Evatt urged immediate trial for Japanese war criminals up to the emperor and general staff. The War Crimes Commission was told of atrocities in New Guinea and Guadalcanal including cannibalism, shootings under white flag, bayonets, and dissections of American prisoners. The report, based on 500 witnesses, called for no immunity and insisted on harsh terms for Japan.
In El Dorado on September 10 a second Black man identified as Question Man Cole, about nine miles south of El Dorado, was arrested in connection with the shooting and serious wounding of Perryville game warden Robert L. Myers. Myers, shot in the face and chest while investigating out of season squirrel hunting, was hospitalized in Little Rock. A previous suspect from whom a gun was seized for ballistics will be released. Cole is described as a discharged war veteran with overseas service.
General MacArthur ordered the imperial general headquarters abolished and ordered a censorship on Japan. He directed dissolution by September 13 and pledged limited press and radio restraints. The moves come as Japan demobilizes and American prisoners are visited by MacArthur in Yokohama.
Washington reports the navy adds one quarter point for every month of overseas service since 1939 to its discharge point system, expanding eligible personnel by 423,000 and boosting total ready for release to 750,000. The overhaul accompanies army plans to repatriate about 2 million troops from Europe by February.
London reports Vidkun Quisling has been convicted of high treason and sentenced to death by firing squad under Norway's new law. The verdict, announced from the courtroom, notes his cooperation with German forces during the 1940 invasion and his role in guiding garrisons to resist Allied forces, with execution possible within three weeks pending appeals.
HAL BOYLE recalls the surrender of Japan as Marines arrive on Fujitsu peninsula and face an evacuated camp. An elderly interpreter, a Long Island chauffeur, amuses a Leatherneck with a burlesque English jab as officers prepare to sign aboard Missouri. Colonel Bennet Whip-
US troops push to occupy Odawara Sagamishara and Zama, with 300 more soldiers entering Hiratsuka as reinforcements swell the occupation force to about 100,000. Navy and army task forces raise the Stars and Stripes at Katsuyama and Katsuura naval bases near Tokyo Bay.
The Arkansas State Board of Education authorized a quarterly $3,127,397 apportionment from the common school fund the largest single quarterly allotment in board history totaling $7 per capita from the 1944 enumeration. Hempstead County alone gets $50,435 with other counties receiving varied sums.
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