State Department Lifts Ltd on Jap Atrocities
The report details Japanese cruelty including a captured American flier forced to parachute into the sea near New Guinea and slain by sword. Secretary Byrnes pledged punishment for war crimes, noting the report limits during wartime to avoid hindering relief shipments.
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State Department Lifts Ltd
Washington
New Guinea
Teaniwe
Halnatu
State Department
Byrnes
Japan
Europe
Byrnes Reshapes Japan Policy with Tough Staff Changes
Washington sources say Secretary Byrnes is tightening Japan policy by replacing soft-line aides. Dooman retires and Vincent named in key Swink role as Byrnes moves to harsher occupation stance and MacArthur liaison Atcheson gains acting political adviser duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
James F. Byrnes
Japan
State Department
United Press
Byrnes
Eugene H. Dooman
Joseph W. Ballantine
Far Eastern
Dooman
U. S
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Foreign Service
Swink
State
Army
Navy Department
John Carter Vincent
Vincent
China
Joseph C. Grewn
Ballantine
Erle R. Dickover
McCain Sees Japan Not Half-Licked After Surrender
Vice Admiral John S. McCain returned from Tokyo bay surrender events aboard USS Missouri and said Japan is not half-licked and suggested drastic remedies. He praised General Douglas MacArthur for the surrender ceremony and noted Japanese officials looked at American officers as a man measures you before striking.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
John S. McCain
McCain
Tokyo Bay
Missouri
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Parliament ratifies United Nations charter in unanimous vote
Tehran officials report the Iranian Parliament unanimously approved ratification of the United Nations charter. The move signals full alignment with UN principles and international norms as part of Tehran's diplomatic posture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
United Nations
Woman With 76 Aliases Booked By Police
Minneapolis police booked Jeanette J. Plaser, 32, mother of five, for using 75 alias names to charge 1326 dollars of items at a department store over two years. She was detained after the single listed name was recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
U.P
Jeanette J. Plaser
Loop
No More Bumping for Passengers on Airplanes
The Air Transport Association said bumping from airline seats is nearly over after a War Department plan to end domestic air priorities. By Sept. 15 priorities will drop from 100 600 monthly to about 15 000 or fewer as of Oct 15.
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Washington
APA
Air Transport Association
War Department
Japan Surrenders to End World War II Says Premier Higashi Kumni
Premier Naruhiko Higashi Kuni told the diet that enormous losses and economic exhaustion forced surrender after Allied bombing devastated cities and cut Japan off from overseas holdings. He described 2,200,000 homes burned and millions as war sufferers, with salt shortages crippling explosives production and the Soviet declaration of war shaping the crisis. Emperor Hirohito decided to save millions, and obedience to the Potsdam terms was urged as Japan faces a hard, peaceful future.
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Tokyo
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Japan
Houses of Peers and Representatives
Higashi-Kuni
Soviet Union
Hirohito
America
Britain
Two Masked Bandits Rob Woman in Madison
Police report two masked men forced entry into Mrs. Beulah Stephenson's home, knocked her down, and robbed her of $18. The attack marks the fourth in a string of robberies in under a month, with investigators saying the burglars appear unarmed and possibly different from a pharmacy theft the prior Monday.
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Madison
Wis
Beulah Stephenson
Enlisted Fate Echoes of Ensign Arden Marriages
Multiple liberated World War II prisoners in a rising wave of Enoch Arden cases report wives who remarried after presumed deaths. Four American women learned their husbands survived, prompting annulment actions or rejections of second marriages.
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Anne Birdwell - Marshall
Kansas City
Gene D. Birdwell
Tin Can Drive Starts Monday Urged for Soldiers Aid
The Kenosha County Salvage committee launches a tin can drive starting Monday at 7 am to aid American soldiers overseas. Residents should place washed cans with labels removed on curbstones. City trucks will collect and transfer them to East Chicago for processing. The goal is about 75 000 pounds.
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Kenosha County Salvage Committee
City Water Works
Chicago
Ind
Post Exchange
W. B. Tower
County Salvage Committee
Kenosha Council Funds Airport Survey And Revolver Sales
The Kenosha city council approved 2000 for an aviation survey to assess airport expansion ideas including Site 3 Stephenson farm and future needs. It also authorized selling retired police revolvers for 1 to long serving officers and heard a request to rescind wartime work rules for police and firefighters. continued discussion noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha Chamber of Commerce
Kenosha Manufacturers’ Association
Kenosha
Policemen’s Protective Association
Kenosha Industrial Union Council
Black Marts Run Rampant in London
London authorities report a thriving postwar black market for silk stockings cameras rings watches and other jewelry. Customs estimate 100000 pairs of silk stockings enter weekly via merchant seamen from the United States as Petticoat Lane dealers move goods including lipstick powders and fountain pens from Germany. The trade costs the country thousands of pounds in taxes and duties while seamen and Queen ships crews supply the market.
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London
U.P
United States
East End
Petticoat Lane
Germany
Kin of Freed Men Pour Into Frisco
Families of twelve Bataan veterans gather in San Francisco to welcome home loved ones from years in Japanese captivity. An army cargo plane with eight generals and officers is due to land at noon at Hamilton Field. Mrs. King, wife of Maj. Gen. Edward P. King Jr, travels from Atlanta to greet her hip-injured husband.
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Hamilton Field
Cal
U.R
Bataan
San Francisco
Edward P. King, Jr
Oak Park, Ill
Mary C. Dwyer
Tisdale
Chicago
Mukden
King
Meyer Elected Commander of Kenosha Legion
Leo C. Meyer, World War I veteran and longtime Kenosha Legion leader, was elected commander of Kenosha Post No. 21 at the annual election. New officers include Carl M. Gardner vice commander Ray Koehler adjutant Murray Rice finance officer and others. more than 200 members attended. Meyer has served the post as band committee chair and post adju tant among other roles. installation is scheduled for October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo C. Meyer
Kenosha
American Legion
Legion
Carl M. Gardner
Ray Koehler
Murray Rice
Tom Honore
Fred E. Frankson
William Winters
Edward Dayton
al Gehl
Francis Mayer
H. J. Fiege
Fred Scholey
Jack McCarthy
Frank Zoubek
Indian Troops Begin Singapore Occupation
Indian troops landed at Singapore today initiating the occupation of the former British bastion after its surrender to Japan on February 15, 1942. The initial landing was made by the second battalion of the First Punjabi Regiment from light craft at the main wharf.
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Singapore
First Punjabi Regiment
Truman Names Wainwright for Four Star General
Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, recently liberated from the Japanese, was nominated by President Truman to be a four star general. The 62 year old survivor of more than three years imprisonment under the Japanese is scheduled to arrive here Monday in the last leg of his journey home from the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Truman
Pacific
New Schedule For X Ray Unit Announced In Kenosha
The Wisconsin Board of Health X ray unit resumes a revised schedule to screen Kenoshans for tuberculosis. The mobile unit visits Holm Manufacturing Peter Pirsch and Sons Specialty Brass Full Fashioned Mills Cooper's Wis Gas and Electric West Side merchants and Dynamatic corporation from September dates. Results are confidential and returned to the individual in about six weeks. The test is voluntary and hundreds have already participated.
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Wisconsin Board of Health
Holm Manufacturing Company
Peter Pirsch and Sons Company
Specialty Brass Company
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company
Cooper's Incorporated
West Side
City Board of Health
Bronze Star Medals for Four More Local Yanks
Four Kenosha soldiers earned Bronze Star medals for actions in Italy and Europe. Pfc. Carl L. Pauschert saved a wounded comrade under shelling. he served with the Fifth army Red Bull division in Italy. Michael A. Perrine was cited for bravery at Monticello, Italy, on Sept. 13, and also helped wounded buddies despite his own injuries. Perrine is overseas 18 months and on a 35 day furlough at home before Camp McCoy. He has three brothers in service.
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Kenosha
Italy
Europe
Pfc
Carl L. Pauschert
Emil Pauschert
Seventeenth Avenue
Pfe
Michael A. Perrine
Nick Perrine
Fifty-third Street
William J. Bienemann
W. J
Fifth Army
Red Bull
Perrine
Monticello
2Auschert
Camp McCoy
Camp Rucker
Ala
Pvt
Louis Perrine
South Carolina
Crack Cavalry Unit to Rule Battered City
Eight army reconnaissance squads entered Tokyo to prepare for its formal occupation by the First Cavalry Division led by Maj. Gen. William C. Chase. Allied forces to establish headquarters in Tokyo with plans to move MacArthur’s HQ from Yokohama. Japan admitted seeking Russian intervention last June to save Hirohito’s empire.
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MacArthur
Yokohama
U.S
Tokyo
U. S
First Cavalry Division
Japan
William C. Chase
Chevy Chase
First Cavalry
Douglas MacArthur
Imperial Diet
Hirohito
First Cavalry to lead U S occupation of Tokyo
The First Cavalry Division and artillery troops occupy four air fields near Tokyo and will relieve by Americal division around Saturday. The Seventh regiment selects an honor guard to escort Gen Mace Arthur into Tokyo as Gen Chase plans to take the center. Tachikawa air base is seized, but no new aircraft found. MacArthur moves HQ from Yokohama to Tokyo with 18 000 troops joining the occupation.
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First Cavalry
Tokyo
Mace. Arthur
Chase
Fifth Air Force
Tachikawa
Admiralities
Leyte
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Yokohama
MacArthur
Robert L. Eichelberger
Train Restrictions Lifted by ODT
The Office of Defense Transportation lifts wartime limits on railroad passenger schedules effective Sept 16. The five day reservation rule will be relaxed soon. The order in force since Oct 4 1942 ends extra section limits unless they met the 20 percent usage rule. Railroads will determine extra sections now. Government restrictions on special trains or cars are removed.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Admiral Halsey Transferred to Iowa From Missouri
Admiral William F. Bull Halsey moved from the battleship Missouri to her sister ship the Iowa in Yokosuka Japan today.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Missouri
Iowa
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Gwen Morgan
United Press Staff
Hull
Stettinius
Acheson
Grew
Philippines
Hojimoto
Nishitani
Red Cross
Atcheson
Thailand
George Atcheson
Uss
Panay
Iran
Doolittle
Jacob DeShazer
Salem
Ore
Chase J. Neilsen
Hyrum
Utah
Robert Hite
Earth, Tex
Enoch Arden
Associated Press
Mate
Birdwell
Jack Marshall
Birdwells
Burma
Helen Goad
Portsmouth
Ohio
Robert A. MacDowell
Laugherties
N. Y
MacDowell
Harold Goad
Goad
Rangoon
Pearl Keiser
Council
Carl Barbee
C. of C
Manufacturers’ Association Aviation Committee
Tiger OF Malaya
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Baguio
P. I
Signal Corps
Frisco
Decatur
W. E. Brougher
Brougher
Ft. McKinley
Roger Lapham
J Maxon L. Lough
Fargo
N. D
Meyer
Kenosha Legion
Wainwright
Bank
Halsey
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