Wainwright rises amid Tokyo Bay drama
Jonathan M. Wainwright, freed from a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria, heads to Japan as one of the era’s notable figures. The former Allied commander, scarred by surrender at Corregidor, is surprised by his sudden fame and speaks of Administration and public forbearance. He received the Distinguished Service Cross in Chungking for heroism in the Philippines in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Japan
Manchuria
Corregidor
Tokyo Bay
Wainwright
War Department
P. S.wainwright
Ichungking
Philippines
Censorship Preserved National Unity Says Price
Washington urged wartime voluntary censorship kept free speech intact. Byron Price, director of Censorship, told a joint American Chamber of Commerce and broadcasters event that national unity survived a potential free speech clash. He warned compulsory censorship would have sparked a postwar crisis, praising editors and broadcasters for cooperating with government to limit dangerous military information. The report notes his remarks came as his office winds down in postwar Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byron Price
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Nat ‘Ational Association of Broadcastlers
Price
Jack
Associated Press
Tokyo
Nippon “Times
MacArthur
Japan
Commodore Perry
Perry
Cashier Fends Off Gunman In Hold Up at Exchange
In Chicago on August 30, Cecelia Montgomery a currency exchange cashier, was forced to the counter by a revolver. She alerted the caller on the line "I'm being held up" and the gunman fled after she screamed. The incident ended without injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
S Cecelia Montgomery
Chen
Pearl Harbor inquiries near end as calls for trials grow
Washington Aug 30 1941 Congress presses for full records on Pearl Harbor inquiries led by Justice Roberts with demands for military trials to fix responsibility. President says no muzzle on those who supported sides of the question and acknowledges a past inaccurate statement about the disaster. Top secret labels lifted from boards and reports by War Navy top officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Army
Navy
Pacific Bastion
Truman
Public Reports
Washington
Congress
America
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Committee
War Department
May D-ay
Mouse Military Committee
Japan
Pacific
Department of National Defense
Army and Navy Boards of
Secretary of War & Mt
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
Ernest J. King
Pearl Harbor inquiry findings spark calls for full records
A surge of anger and demands for complete transparency followed Pearl Harbor inquiry reports. Senators and Congress members urged full records and testimony, while Stimson, Forrestal and May pushed for no whitewash and fair trials. The documents highlighted warnings to Kimmel and Short and pointed to advisory notes from Stark and Marshall about possible Japanese actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Marshall
Army
Cordell Hull
Truman
Pearl Harbor
Stimson
Forrestal
May
Waller C. Short
Husband E. Kimmel
Navy
J. Kimmel
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Philippines
Guan
Roosevelt
White House
Japan
Hull
Army Inquiry Board
Starks
Kimmel
Thai
Kra Peninsula
Boryneo
Marshall
Short
U. S
Hawai
Stark
Hong Kong
Singapore
Batavia
Washington
London
Returning Over-Seas Service Men
This column chronicles service members who have arrived home after overseas deployments. It notes those discharged and any who are visiting relatives, highlighting their return status and current whereabouts for local readers.
Joseph R. Davis 09th General Hospital Heading to Pacific Redeployment
The 09th General Hospital unit stationed in France under 1st Lt. Joseph R. Davis moves from the Assembly Area Command at Camp Philadelphia toward redeployment to the Pacific via the United States. Since April 1944 the unit treated Normandy casualties, operated in Reims after liberation, ran the American Memorial Hospital in Raima, and established a Verdun hospital before orders to redeploy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
09Th General Hospital
France
Joseph R. Davis
Chestnut Street
Indiana
Camp Philadelphia
Assembly Area Command
Pacific
United States
Belgium
England
Foxley
Wereford
Reims
Champagne
Raima
99Th
Verdun
Edward Wolf Discharged After Distinguished WWII Service
Edward G. Wolf S/Sgt and grandson of Mrs. Della J. Burkett of Marion Center was discharged at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation after a notable combat record in Normandy Northern France and the Rhine area. He entered the Army in February 1941, reached England in October 1941, and returned home in August 1945. He earned the Purple Heart the Bronze Star the American Defense Ribbon and the ETO Ribbon with three bronze battle stars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward G. Wolf
Della J. Burkett
Marion Center
Indiantown Gap
Normandy
France
Rhineland
Indiana
England
Sergeant Brust Promoted in 433rd Troop Carrier Group
Neil G Brust son of Mr and Mrs BE M Brust of 146 East Oak Street Indiana has been promoted to sergeant in a squadron of the 433rd Troop Carrier Group Fifth Air Force in the Philippines He arrived overseas in October 1943 and serves as an Aircraft Sheet Metal Worker hauling personnel supplies and equipment to General MacArthur's invasion forces He wears the Philippine Liberation Ribbon and six battle stars on his Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon for campaigns in the Southwest Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neil G. Brust
BE. M. Brust
Oak St
Indiana
Fifth Air Force
Philippines
MacArthur
Brust
Southwest Pacific
Soldier Bob Sell Returns Home With Honorable Discharge
Robert Sell son of Mr and Mrs Ira J Sell Indiana R D 1 came home with an honorable discharge from the US Army awarded at Orlando Florida. He left the United States in October 1942 landed in England where he won the Presidential Citation and five bronze battle participation stars to his ETO Ribbon. After returning to this country he was stricken with rheumatic fever and had been stationed in Florida prior to discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Sell
Ira J. Sell
Indiana
US Army
Orlando
Florida
Bob
United States
England
More Meat More Butter Less Points Continues
OPA indicated tires might be rationed longer than most people think. With about 145000 Pennsylvanians laid off since Japan's surrender, a drive to find reemployment for displaced workers and veterans is underway. Steel mills plan to add jobs as reconversion accelerates in Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Japan
War Manpower Commission
United States Employment Service
Tittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Aulqtippa
Carnegie-Milnais Steel Corporaton
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Joseph Hueter
Textile Workers Joint Board
CIO
Miles Horst
Centre Mall
Income Per Capita Doubled Since 1940
The Commerce Department reported a U.S. per capita income surge during 1940 to 1944, rising from 575 dollars in 1940 to 2017 dollars in 1944. The total civilian income divided by the population yields a 43 percent increase, indicating the wartime effect on individual earnings.
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Washington
App
United States
Commerce Department
Price sent to Germany as public relations adviser
President Truman announced Byron Price will leave his post as censorship director to serve in Germany as public relations adviser to the American occupation forces. He will advise Gen. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay on all matters of public relationship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Jhhat
Byron Price
Germany
iThe
Price
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lucius ¥. Clay
Old Boy Sets Fires For A Thrill
SMETHPORT PA Aug 30 A 12 year old Port Allegany boy was quoted by police as saying he set fires for the thrill of flames and sirens. He is held for juvenile court after fires caused 300000 to 400000 in Port Allegany including 250000 at American Extract Company and 50000 at Pierce Glass Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smethport
Port Allegany
Charles G. Hubbard
McKean County
Merle Dickinson
American Extract Company
Pierce Glass Company
Dickinson
Niere
Navy mop technique wowed by sailors on voyage
Seaman Frank Zikind of Walnut Creek California explains Navy swab cleaning aboard Halsey s Third Fleet off Japan. He says three to four mops tied with a clove hitch and heaved overboard are cleaned by sea water in about ten minutes. The sailors praise the sea as a handy cleaning aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halsey
Japan
United States Navy
Frank Zikind
Walnut Creek
California
Occupation Begins in Tokyo Bay with Large Allied Forces
An Allied force lands in Japan as 18,150 American and British troops begin initial occupation. Paratroopers pour into Atsugi after 54 transports deliver 7,500 soldiers. General MacArthur arrives amid cheers as key leaders including Sutherland and Eichelberger join the operation. Supplies and prisoners of war are moved amid a coordinated mercy effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo Bay
Japan
MacArthur Phufill
Manila
Joseph JM. Swing
MacArthur
Richard K. Sutherland
Atsugi
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Tokyo
General Spaatz
U. S. Army
Strategic Air Forces
George C. Ken
Brutality of Japanese Captors Revealed by Rescued Americans
Eight American fliers recount brutal mistreatment by Japanese captors near Shanghai. They describe wrists tied behind and being hung by thumbs, beatings with bamboo slicks and metal rods, and forced interrogations while constructive survival tales follow. Survivors from Wake Island and other crews corroborate similar torture as Allied forces advance toward surrender coordination under MacArthur and Nimitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghi
Nippon
YMCA
Harold H. Hiffer
William R. Martin, Jr
Colorado Springs
Colo
Clyde J. Sellers
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Walter Pallack
Chicago
Frank Maratea
Ted Hauser
North Hollywood
Calif
Jens Martinsen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Richard C. Warner
Dalston
Pallack
Shanghai
Eifler
Wake Island
Edward Cook
San Francisco
Amos J. White
Rahway
N. d
Robert ©. Lee
Taylorville
Pfo
Leroy Moritz
Sedro Wooley
Wash
William D. Bock
South Gate
J, PS. Devereux T
Wake
Joan
Wagner Attack on Liquor Board Over Stockpile Claim
MARRISBURG Aug 30 The 1946 governor race injected into a cantors clash between Auditor General G Harold Wagner and Liquor Control Board Chairman Frederick T Gelder. Wagner charged the board with stocking enough wine to last 26 years at current sales and accused it of incompetence and foresight. Gelder dismissed the claim as unfounded and said Wagner aims to stir publicity for a run for governor. The board had said whisky rationing would continue due to delays in whisky orders, labor and transportation issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marrisburg
Harold Wagner
Frederick T. Gelder
Liquor Control ‘Board
Liquor Board
Wagner
Gelder
Commonwealth
Shirts and Pajamas Shortage Predicted Through 1946
In New York on August 30 civilians face shortages of shirts and pajamas until spring 1946. National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers executive secretary Max Lovell predicted the delay and explained supply constraints affecting consumers and retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Max Lovell
National Association of Shirt and
Enlistments Resumed in U.S. Armed Forces
President Truman ordered the resumption of voluntary enlistments in the armed forces. The policy, suspended December 5, 1943, is revoked to boost forces for the occupation of Germany and Japan.
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Washington
Truman
Germany
Japan
Man leaps to death from Schenley Bridge in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh dispatch reports 27 year old Frank W. Pint a warehouseman, plunged 150 feet from Schenley bridge in Schenley Park striking a hillside below. Coroner's office noted no stated reason and witnesses saw him climb the railing before the fatal fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Frank W. Pint
Schenley Bridge
Schenley Park
Pini
Fire Blazes Closet Injures Home in San Pedro
Fire Department Captain Ernest Fer led his crew in a quick dash to 3606 Elmira Street in San Pedro California as a broom touched off a closet blaze after using a purpose incinerator. Damage was estimated at $1000 and the home belonged to Capt and Mrs Fer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Pedro
Calif
Fire Department
Ernest Fer
Elmira Street
Quite Chipper at Eighty After 35 Mile Walk to Beaver
Elden Kutch, 80, arrived in Beaver Oregon visiting relatives. He walked 35 miles in two days and slept outdoors one night and told relatives he felt chipper as ever after the long trek.
Polio Cases Increase in Pittsburgh Area
Three more infantile paralysis cases involve children ages four to 15 in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. A total of 22 victims are being treated in city hospitals, with six from Pittsburgh, 12 from the rest of Allegheny County, and four from other counties.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
How to Kill It KiN the Outer Skin Ivy Remedy
An advertisement touts a topical ivy treatment promising removal of ivy infection with a single application. It claims quick relief from itching and irritation and offers a 83 cent money back guarantee if not pleased return tomorrow. Available today at Shield's in Marion Center Widmags and Teak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shield's
Marion Center
Widmags
Eisenhower Sets Occupation Goal for Germany
Berlin Aug 30 Gen Eisenhower announced the 2,500,000 American troops in Germany would be reduced to about 400,000 as an occupation force before winter ends He warned food from the United States would be needed to feed Germans but did not intend to fatten them He hoped Germans could elect their own officials in fall and said Allied occupancy may not last forever The press conference followed a meeting of the Allied Control Council and reflected easing Allied suspicion and planning for postwar welfare in Germany
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Berlin
Eisenhower
Germany
United States
Hel
Russia
Hisenhower
Allied Control Council
Miners Tired Says Pres of UMW Dist 5
Pittsburgh Aug 30 John P Busarello president District 5 United Mine Workers of America blames weariness and poor nourishment for unrest among district coal miners He cited a telegram from operator R B Jamison noting 65900 man days lost to strikes since May He said miners seek rest and holiday amid six day work weeks while Jamison warned illegal strikes threaten coal supply and the labor contract A Renton No 3 Mine walkout ended but nine others in Allegheny Washington and Greene counties remained idle by the Solid Fuels Administration
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
John P. Busarello
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
UMW
R. BE. Jamison
Busarello
Western Pennsylvania Coal Operatorg) Association
Jamison
Western, Pennsylvania Operators 'Association
Lewis
International Union
Renton
Consolidation Coal Co
Allegheny
Washington
Greene
Solid Fuels Administration
Ox Hill Fair to Open on Labor Day 1945
The fourth annual Ox Hill Fair will be held Labor Day and September 4 and 5, 1945, with entries from South Mahoning and adjoining townships. Programs include horse pulling contests and a stock cavalcade. Selections on September 4 feature Moving Pictures and ventriloquist Ivan Reece. All judging wraps up Tuesday, September 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ox Hill
South Mahoning
Ivan Reece
Prominent Greensburg Residents Die, Three Longtime Community Figures
Greensburg funeral notices report the deaths of Attorney Henry E. Marker Jr., 38, a four year lefty solicitor. Edward J. Schaller, 66, operator of a major local bakery. and Elmer L. Turner, automobile dealer and former Butler resident who led war loan drives in several western Pennsylvania counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Henry E. Marker, Jr
Edward J. Schaller
Elmer L. Turner
Butler
Pennsylvania
George W Lensner obituary in Indiana and Saxonburg
George W Lensner of 268 16th St Indiana died in Indiana Hospital at 5:50 AM from cerebral hemorrhage after a stay since March 8. Born March 1 1864 in Jefferson Twp Butler Co he was son of Herman and Charting Tollery Lensner. Surviving is a sister Mrs Clare Sweeney of Pittsburgh. Funeral arrangements and services set at Streams Funeral Home and McCoy Funeral Home Saxonburg with interment in Saxonburg Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Lensner
16Th St
Indiana
Jefferson Twp
Butler Co
Herman
Charting Tollery Lensner
Masons
Order of Mechanics
Chapman
Lutheran Church
Clare Sweeney
Pittsburgh
Streams Funeral
Arthur J. Pfohl
McCoy
Saxonburg
Wainwright Back in Manila After Four Years of War
General Wainwright returns to Manila with his staff after Corregidor surrender era. He surveys how Clark airfield now a vast modern base linking Manila with Washington and Tokyo. Crowds greet him as he recalls harsher days and vows to receive all he asks from General MacArthur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wainwright
Osmena
America
Corregidor
Nichols Field
Manila
Washington
Tokyo
Imperial Nippon
Chungking
Homme
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Nat
Adm
Edward Wolf
Neil Brust
Robert Sell
Hirohito
MacArthur Headquarters
Ewie
General MacArthur
Hayama
Migemi Bay
Bryon Price
Pres
Ney
Par East
Ennis C. Whitehead
Melbourne
Yokohama
Nimitz
South Dakota
Sixth Marine Division
Cape Futtsu
Yokosuka Naval Base
Fujtsu
Admiral Halsey
Missouri
Guardian Islands
Naval Base
William Clements
Americal Flae
Admiral Carney
Third Fleet
Yokosuka
Stilwell
Korea
Beaver
Ore
Eldén Kutch
Dad
Gazette
Dist
Ox Hill Fair
Imer Turner
Feday Western Panna
Soma
Lake Erie
Toainwright
Z . Pugh
Dooley
Sid Nuff
Salamanca
Willoughby
Huff
Col
Andres Soriano
Bataan
Indiana Evening Gazette
Sea At
Rae ST
Mooreears Indians
Old Fort Golf Club
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