Postwar Japan not beaten in mind say defense leaders
Vice Admiral McCain argues Japanese militarists are not defeated mentally and will seek conquest again. Premier Hayashi-Kuni admits heavy losses and exhaustion show defeat, though Japan is physically shattered. The piece urges continued Asian democracy, reeducation, and removal of militarist influence to maintain peace and deter a future Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. McCain
U. S
Nippon
Japan
Hayashi-Kuni
Tokyo
America
Jenan
Far East
Sixty Million Jobs proposal by Henry Wallace
Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace unveils the book Sixty Million Jobs arguing for a postwar plan to create 60 million jobs by 1962, target a 200 billion dollar national income, and invest 85 to 85 billion in plant and equipment abroad and at home. He favors no planned economy, seeks balanced budgets, and calls for housing, health, and rural electrification programs with federal but not federal control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Rooseevlt
Chicago
Roosevaelt
United States
Ike Tva
Schmeling Held in Germany on Breach of Military Orders
Max Schmeling former world heavyweight champion was arrested by British military government authorities last night on a charge of breaching military orders and could be tried later. The incident occurred in Herword Germany on September 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herword
Germany
Max Schmeling
Champlor
Congress To Investigate Pearl Harbor
Congress and party leaders push for a full independent inquiry into Pearl Harbor with a 14 member joint committee. Speaker Rayburn notes the subject is political and President Truman signals the people bear responsibility for readiness, while Republicans vow to press for facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Senate
House Republican
United
Pearl Harbor
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Senate Republican Steering Committee
Senate House Committee
Martin
Army and Navy
Rayburn
D-Tex
White House
Truman
Capitol Hill
Congress
Ferguson
R-Mich
House
Navy
Rep
Rich
R-Pa
Redeployed Soldiers At Indiantown
Names and addresses listed for soldiers redeployed to Indiantown include Gaines Williams Jr of Blairsville, Donald F. Rising of Indiana R D 3, John H. Smith of Kittanning RD 4, William Brink of Glen Campbell RD 1, George A. Lamison of Kittanning RD 2, Carl Kalus of Glen Campbell, Kenneth E. Bowers of Sagamore, Stanley W. Valkosky of Punxsutawney, Joan R. Ranch of Cherry Tree, Alfred R. Piccola of Yatesboro, Paul E. Murphy of Kittanning, Paul B. Kiser of Kittanning Grand View Ave, and other listed residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaines Williams Jr
Edwards St
Blairsville
Donald F. Rising
Indiana R.D
John H. Smith
Kittanning RD
William Brink
Glen Campbell
George A. Lamison
Kittanning R. D
Carl Kalus
Pfc
Kenneth E. Bowers
Church St
Sagamore
Stanley W. Valkosky
Perry St
Punxsutawney
Joan R. Ranch
Cherry Tree
Alfred R. Piccola
Yatesboro
Paul E. Murphy
Jacob St. Kittanning
Pleo
Paul B. Kiser
Grandview Ave
Kittanning
Twenty Irea soldiers discharged at Indiantown center
Twenty Ire a soldiers were honorably discharged from Uncle Sam’s service yesterday at the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Separation Center. The men, part of about 400 Pennsylvania soldiers passing through daily, begin civilian life as they leave the Army. Names and addresses of the discharged service members are listed from Indiana Kittanning Saltsburg Blairsville Homer City Barnesboro Nanty Glo Glencampbell and Colver with ranks ranging private to sergeant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irea
Uncle Sam
Pennsylvania
Indiantown Gap Miliary Reservation
Wilder E. McCreary
N. 6Th St
Indiana
Robert A. Haye
Reynolds Ave
Kittanning
James A. Vogel
N. Std
St. Indiana
Johm F. Blytheway
Salisburg
John Leaskie
R. B
Walter Brabon
Belle Vernon
R. D
Kenneth W. Conrath
St. St, Indiana
Maric A. Clelo
Saltsburg Aerate
Simon F. Furray Kittanning
Susquehanna Ave
Barnesboro
Charles M. Zimmerman
School St
Nelson Menth
Culver
Peter Kupehels Jr
Nanty Glo
Melvin S. Fetterman
Glen Campbell
Would Make 4 Fs Occupation Army
Rep. Joe Bates proposes an occupation army filled with new deferred men 4-F or wartime workers. He says every man with overseas stripes should be discharged and questions why some could not serve at home, noting many were turned down earlier for minor disabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joe Bates
D.-Ky
Army of Occupation
Bates
Noa
Spy System In Japan Camp Reveals Hong Kong Plot
Six British officers and 35 men captured by Japanese in Hong Kong built an espionage network reaching Chungking and New Delhi from prison. Sub-Lt. Joseph Haddock of Ipswich disclosed the case after arriving with 320 liberated prisoners aboard the Oxfordshire. He testified of executions, water torture, and a mass end by December 1948 at Shamshuipo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Hong Kong
Chungking
New Delhi
Joseph Haddock
Ipswich
England
Oxfordshire
Haddock
Canton
Shamshuipo
Kowloon
Anolonel Newham
Federal Judge F P Schoonmaker Dies At 67
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Judge F P Schoonmaker of the Western District of Pennsylvania died today at his daughter’s home in South Norwalk Connecticut after a period of ill health. A veteran of the Mexican border campaign and World War I he was appointed by President Harding to the federal bench. He had left for New England about three weeks ago in frail health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
F. P. Schoonmaker
Federal District Court
South Norwalk
Conn
Pennsylania
Harding
New England
Berlin V-1 Parade Set for Tiergarten Showing
Berlin dispatch reports four thousand infantrymen and two hundred armored crews from the United States Russia Britain and France are prepared for a VJ victory parade through the Tiergarten tomorrow Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery General George S Patton Jr Marshal Georgi Zhukov and a senior French general are expected to review the salute during the military spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Georgi K. Zhukov
Utilities Build Up Big War-Era Cash Reserves
Pennsylvania utilities accumulated a strong postwar buying power due to wartime policies. Public Utility Commission official John Siggins Jr said utilities have cash to fund rehabilitation and modernization as material and equipment become available. He noted no formal rate investigations while urging restraint on dividends and salaries, to keep rates reasonable for consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Sept
Pennsylvania
Chaletman
John Siggins, Jr
Public Utility Commission
Siguins
Sigging
Sara
Old Slain By Schoolboy Playmate Near Home
Three year old Phyllis Jean Epper son, daughter of Edgar L Epper and Mary Harvey Ep person serving in the Army in the Philippines, was found dead on rocks near her Cambria County home. A nine year old boy led authorities to the body and admitted striking her with rocks, then slept through the investigation. police found bloodstained clothing in his room. The coroner reported the skull was crushed by a rock and the boy said he did not know why he struck the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Fork
Sept
Phyllis Jean Epperson
Edgar L. Epper
Philippines
Mary Harvey’ Epperson
Cambria County
Joseph Govekar
John F. Carroll
Rehoolboy
Relief Heifers For Starving Europe
The Flamereek Church of the Brethren near Elderton sends seven heifers for European relief. A dedicatory service at the church on Sunday morning September 9 at 11 o'clock features Reverend Levi K. Ziegler as preacher. Heifers for relief have moved from local communities to eastern seaports with hundreds now shipping. Phumcreek community animals go to Baltimore next week. Contributions may be sent to J. Kimmel, chair of the heifer committee, Shelocta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flamereek Church of the Brethren
Elderton
Levi K. Ziegler
Huntingdon
Church of the Brethren
Phumcreek
Baltimore
J. &. Kimmel
Shelocta
Butter Thief Caught With 864 Pounds In Car
Philadelphia report notes Henry Johnson aged 33 was charged with receiving stolen goods after authorities found 864 pounds of butter in his car during a Sept 6 incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Henry Johnson
MacArthur orders surrender swords sent to US military scholars
General MacArthur today ordered the surrendered swords of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashira and Vice Admiral Okoch to be sent to US military and naval academies for study. The action follows Japan's surrender in World War II and marks the handling of key imperial leaders' weaponry by Allied forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashira
Okoch
Imperial Army
Philippines
UD. 5
Three Airmen Recall Jap Prison Atrocities
Washington report on war department briefing by Capt. Robert L. Hite Chase J. Neilsen and Sgt. Jacob D Deshazer who described brutal interrogation torture and threats in Tokyo camp after April 1942 Tokyo capture Their death sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment by the emperor's “graciousness” and two other airmen were spared while three more are missing or dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James Doolittle
Tokyo
War Department
Robert L. Hite
Earth
Tex
Chase J. Neilsen
George Barr
Queens
Lst
Robert J. Meder
Lakewood
Meder
Nanking
William G. Farrow
Washington D.C
Dean’e
Hallmark
Dallas
Harold A Apatz
Lebo
Knsi
Asbestos Aids In D-Day Landings
Asbestos played a unique role in D-Day operations by providing a non conductive grease to protect electrical parts from salt water during landings. Standard Oil of New Jersey produced 20 000 pounds of this grease in a week, with 31 tons shipped before the invasion. Asbestos fibers also supplied building materials, fireproof cloth, and brake linings for military equipment in the broader war program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Seraft
Eisenhower
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Fractured Leg While Changing Tire Injures Thomas Keener
Thomas Keener of Glen Campbell is hospitalized at Adriar Hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg sustained Tuesday while changing a truck tire near Glen Campbell. He works for Camarco & Miller, coal strippers. A rim flew off and struck him, causing the bone to protrude through the flesh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Keener
Glen Campbell
Adriar Hospital
Keener
Camarco & Miller
End of Most Rationing Expected This Year
Washington reports from Sept 8 say the OPA foresees most rationing ending this year with price ceilings and ration rules to be lifted in many areas. Meats and shoes likely unrationed by year end. fats oils possibly into 1946. sugar uncertain. Tire rationing may extend to year start. rent controls will continue, possibly for some time with state or local handling later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles, II
Bowles
John J. Collyer
B. F. Goodrich Company
Inight
Congress
Want Paid For V J Holiday
A mandamus suit in Cambria County Court may be advanced to settle pay disputes for 50 municipal employees on the V J holiday. Controller Harl Mearkle seeks to speed proceedings after a committee of firemen police and workers pressed for payment. Mayor Arthur L Schwing backed the march on city hall with 59 workers involved. The city council had authorized holiday pay but Mearkle said a third class city cannot pay for unrendered services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Cambria County
Harl Mearkle
Arthur L. Schwing
City Hall
Mearkle
Soldiers Do Not Change Character Says RAF Chaplain
ATLANTIC CITY N J Sept 6 UP If you wonder whether service has altered character for friends and loved ones Chaplain F Patterson of Redistribution Station No 1 RAF says men are good bad or indifferent to start with and the uniform does not change them much A soldier today is essentially the same man who swapped civvies for olive drab
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Patterson
RAF
Southern Blonde Wins Mrs America at Palisades Park
Peggy Payne of Honeyville Georgia won the 7th annual Mrs. America title at Palisades Amusement Park after beating 139 married contestants. She received a $1,000 prize and a tour of Chicago Cleveland Detroit Washington Richmond Buffalo Bridgeport Boston and New York. Judge panel was led by Gypsy Rose Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palisades Park
N. J
Peggy Payne
Atlantic City
Honeyille
Atlanta
Palisades Amusement Park
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Richmond
Buffalo
Bridgeport
Boston
New York
Gypsy Hose Lee
Area Miners Walkout At Three District Mines
Area miners walked out at three district coal mines over disputes on Office of Price Administration red point allotments. About 274 men idle and production cut by roughly 600 tons as talks were expected to resolve the controversy today. At Imperial Cardiff near Nantyglo and Nettleton some 174 miners withdrew, with about 100 more idle at Arcadia mines in Indiana County amid the conveyor rate stall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Point
Office of Price Administration
Imperial Cardiff
Nettleton
Nanty- Glo
Arcadia
New York Central Railroad
Indiana County
Obituary notices from Blairsville area residents
Obituaries report the deaths of Luca St Blairsville at Cresgon Sanitarium on Sept 5 and Martha Houston of Black Lick who died at Indiana Hospital Sept 10. Additional notices include Jessie Laula Orr Alexander of Brushvalley Township and Ellen Gertrude Waugaman of Canoe Township with funeral details, survivals, and interment plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mel
Martha Houston
Black Lick
Indiana Hospital
Germany
Harry Houston
Mary Kuhns
Black- Lick
H. E. Miller
Corall Chapel Cemetery
Ellen
Gertrude
Harry C
Anna Rishell Waugaman
Canoe Township
Indiana County
First Regular Baptist Church
Indiana
Pers
Mary
Komar
Ward M
Cere Friends
Robingon Funeral Home
Robert F. McLaughlin
Oakland Cemetery
Martin Allocations Move Through Pennsylvania Agencies
Governor Martin disclosed postwar spending from the Legislature’s appropriations for health welfare and education. Allocations include 1 000 000 to Public Instruction for state college construction, 14 485 000 to Welfare for institutional building, 18 500 000 to Forests and Waters for reforestation and parks, 10 325 000 to Health for institutional construction and pollution elimination, 2 450 000 to Military Affairs for armories, 1 850 000 for new state police barracks, and 6 000 000 for Capitol Park and William Penn Memorial in Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Martin
Department of Public Instruction
Pennsylvania State College
Welfare Department
Department of Forests and Waters
Department of Health
Department of Military Affairs
Capitol Park
William Penn
Reds Shoot Down B-29 By Accident
CBS correspondent John Adams reports a U S B 29 relief supply plane was shot down by Bosnian fighters in China during a raid. Adams calls the incident purely accidental and notes the attack occurred in the days prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
CBS
John Adams
Manilk Today
China
Yago
Adams
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Luca
Ferguson Funeral
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Ville
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Jessie Laula Orr
Alex~q Ander
Brushvalley Township
Wilflet
William
Mary Emma Heasley Orr
Inndiana County
Brushvalley Lutheran Church
W. F. Alexander
Arthur Reed
Penn Run
Harry Ray
Newport
Wellington
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Creekside
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Brush Valley Lutheran Church
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