Argentina Axis assets cut but many remain under review
A State Department report details US action against Axis ties in Argentina, noting 130 firms targeted with receivership for 53, while 70 German agents have been arrested and several Japanese and pro Axis entities suspended or closed. The piece also profiles Harry Hopkins and his wartime service and honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson Rocheller
Pan America
Argentina
Axis Insurance
Axis
Axis Pp
Thrasher
Truman to Missouri This Friday
President Truman plans a Friday trip from Washington to Missouri to visit his mother and the Iris in Kansas City. He will fly on a C-54 Sacred Sacrifice, stop at Scott Field, and return to Washington Sunday, with Barkley accompanying him on the outbound and return legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benington
Truman
Missouri
Iris
Kansas City
Innee
White House
National
Sas City
Washington
Senate
Barkley
Bark
Scott Field, Sr
Reather Odum
Independence
Margaret
Tier
George Washington
Charles G. Ross
States
N. C
Carolina State Senate
Atlanta
Georgia Tech
Duke
Springs
Singapore Surrenders Japanese forces in Southeast Asia
Admiral Mountbatten accepts the surrender from Gen Itagaki representing Marshal Terauchi in Singapore. The ceremony, witnessed by Allied leaders, marks the end of Japanese conquest in the region. Terauchi to surrender personally when able. Mountbatten vows justice and humanity but firm mastery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marc Purdue
Singapore
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
East Indies
Seishiro Itagaki
Juichi Terauchi
Mountbatten
Bay of Bengal
Hollandia
William J. Slim
R. A. Wheeler
U. S. Army
Netherlands
Australia
France
China
Council Chamber of
Itagaki
Terauchi
Saigon
Youth Topic at Kiwanis Club Discussed by Speakers
Leo Ray introduced Miss Jessie Clarice Brown and Miss Laura and Carrol Cooper who performed. Brown spoke on youth views about community and the need for education recreation and church school guidance to shape better citizens. Guests included Dr. Jim McKenzie Harry Hawthorne Mr Williams and Rev Whitlow. Leo Ray named a Kiwanis 7 district lieutenant governor nominee. Williams of Dallas sang two numbers with Thomes Lavin accompanying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Ray
Jessie Clarice Brown
Laura
Carrol Cooper
Kiwanis Club
Miss Brown
Jim McKenzie
Harry Hawthorne
Williams
Rev
S. A. Whitlow
Kiwanis District 7
Mr. Williams
Dallas
Texas
Thomes Lavin
Legion Says Federal Sale Rules Hurt Veterans
The Arkansas Legionnaire reports the Arkansas American Legion condemns surplus property sales to veterans as unsatisfactory and discriminatory. An Lt. Col. Wes Godley investigation found red tape causes few veteran sales and requires multiple trips, permits, and long waits for delivery. Continued on page Two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas Department of the American Legion
Arkansas Legionnaire
Wes Godley
Atomic Bomb Test Field Not Unsafe for Humans Says Groves
Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves released Japanese investigations contradicting claims that Hiroshima area is unfit for habitation. He noted that eleven days after the blast the ground area emitted below a tolerance dose of X rays and is safe to live in permanently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Alamogordo
N. M
Hiroshima
Leslie R. Groves
Groves
Here
Nagasaki
New Mexico
Page
1946 Cars in Production by Mid October
Detroit report indicates major and many smaller automakers will have 1946 model passenger cars on assembly lines by mid October as postwar production resumes. Prices likely rise 10 to 15 percent over 1942 schedules, with disclosure only at public model unveilings. Labor unrest threatens supply lines and Ford and Hudson halted early production due to strikes of wheel and brake drum suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J. Wilkie
Associated Press
Detroit
Office of Price Administration
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Hudson Motor Car Company
Black Dragon Society Acknowledged in Dissolution Order
Tokyo reports General MacArthur ordered the dissolution of the Black Dragon Society as occupation forces broadened a roundup of war leaders. Lt Gen Marshall Homma fled to a coastal islet while Heinrich Stahmer, German ambassador linked to Axis entry, was captured among those detained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tokyo
Pennsylvania
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Black Dragon Society
Marshall Homma
Bataan
Heinrich Georg Stahmer
Japan
Stahmer
Hitler
Tojo Receives U S Blood in Bid to Live and Stand Trial
Tokyo report says Gen. Hideki Tojo, aided by a direct blood transfusion from an American sergeant, faced a better chance at recovery and trial as Japan’s top war criminal. Four others on MacArthur’s list were arrested. suicides by war-crime leaders and a purge among Nippon’s high command were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Dickinson
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Mark L. Streeter
Wake Island
Col
T. Oydomari
Imperial General Headquarters
MacArthur
Gen
Seichi Tanaka
Philippines Army
Imperial
Tanaka
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Tojo
98Th
Yokohama
John A. Archinal
Allentown
98Th Hospital
Archinal
New Guinea
Morotai
Admiral Shimada Taken Into Custody After Tojo's Death
United Press report from Tokyo describes Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Japan's naval minister, surrendering to American counterintelligence after Gen. Hideki Tojo shot himself days earlier. The scene shows Shimada, in a green uniform, escorted with a protective escort to Yokohama CID HQ, as reporters recount his quiet compliance and emotional family farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Bartholomew
United Press
Pacific
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Shigetaro Shimada
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Shimada
Shiba
Minami
South) Lane
Kraus
Keith Wheeler
Chicago Times
Norman Soong
Chinese Central News Agency
William B. Dickinson
Gen. Thorpe
Counter Intelligence Corps
Yokohama
End of Meat Rationing Sways to Secretary Anderson Decision
Washington meat rationing hangs on a quick decision by Secretary of Agriculture Anderson as OPA Bowles presses for timing. Officials weigh whether to end rationing by October 1 or later, with announcements tied to livestock marketings and enforcement challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Alabuquerque
N. M
OPA
Chester Bowles
Bowles
J. B. Hutson
Hutson
France Seeks Reparations and Territorial Adjustments in Italy
At a foreign ministers conference France outlined aims for small border rectifications around Labrigue and Tante, control of the Roga Valley, home rule for French populations in northern Italy, and support for Trieste to remain Italian with an international trusteeship. Paris seeks Fezzan and Tunisia frontier clarifications, restitution for wartime losses, and acknowledgment of Italian reparations amid broader postwar arrangements.
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Flora Lewis
London
France
Italy
Labrigue
Tante
Roga
Mediterranean
Aosta
Rome
Trieste
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Fezzan
Lake Chad
North Africa
Pierre Laval
Tunisia
Libya
Eritrea
Egypt
Ethipia
Sudan
Russia
Moscow
Balkans
Fourteen Navy Men Die in U S Privateer Crash
A four engine Privateer carrying 15 aboard crashed near Miami as No 3 engine caught fire during a training flight. One airman, W J De Roche, jumped with a parachute but perished others. The pilot tried to return to the field as flames and exploding ammunition doomed all aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
W. J. de Roche
Naval Air Station
Navy
Six Million to Get Out of Army by July
Washington reports Undersecretary Patterson testifying before the Senate Military Committee that the army expects to discharge 6,000,000 men by next July and reduce strength to 2,500,000 by mid 1946. He rejected a proposal for a special demobilization police agency and stressed demobilization as the army’s task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bellashington
Patterson
Tony Oe
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
D-Cole
Congress
War Department
Stimson
George C. Marshall
Bridges
R-Nh
Pacific
Europe
Department
Marshall
Biddle Named to War Trial Tribunal
President Truman announced Francis Biddle former U S attorney general as American member of the Allied military tribunal to try Axis war criminals. Judge John J Parker named alternate. The president also reshuffled several high offices and announced new appointments including Bennett Champ Clark to the U S Court of Appeals and E Barrett Prettyman and Wilbur K Miller to the D C appellate court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Harrington Wimberly
Altus
Okla
Federal Power Commission
Basil Manley
Richard Sachse
Sacramento
Calif
Power Commission
John W. Scott
Gale E. Sullivan
Chicago
Smith Purdum
Texarkana Bus Drivers Strike Over Grievances
Texarkana Oklahoma Sept 12 drivers from Texarkana Bus Company walked out for a second time this summer. Ray E Markham of local 1219 Amalgamated Association said eight demands include reinstating two discharged drivers and vacation provisions. Joe Eldridge company co owner denied cause and noted union misgivings. A F Steele to represent locals amid strike. Superstitions about comets mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texarkana
Texarkana Bus Company
Ray E. Markham
Markham
Joe Eldridge
Detroit
Two Arkansas county elections face funding hurdle
Arkansas county judges and sheriffs met in Little Rock in a joint session and failed to decide on how to conduct and finance two extra Democratic primaries required by 1945 law. Judge H C Freeze said another meeting will likely be held, while a committee will pursue federal aid revisions for postwar road funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas County Judges Association
Arkansas Sheriffs Association
H. C. Freeze
Jonesboro
Judges Association
U. S. Supreme Court
Arkansas
J. W. Fulbright
Freeze
Truman
Truman Won't Define His Political Direction
President Truman refused to label his administration as left or right at a news conference. He said reporters should judge his direction by his actions, not political labels.
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Washington
Truman
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Hopkins
Harry Hopkins
Pee Hopkins
United States of America
Kington
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Fopkins
Legion
Earth
U.S
Sugiyama
Nippon
Adm
Frank Bartholomew
Big
Korea
Hugh Crumpler
Seoul
Chosen Bank
Biddle
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