Army to Release 800000 Monthly Pearl Harbor Secrecy Plea Renewed
Washington reports the army aims to discharge 800000 men a month by December 1 with 71 separation centers by then. Navy again seeks secrecy on parts of the Pearl Harbor naval inquiry focusing on the Japanese code, while Congress weighs full disclosure. A 10 man panel will open an A to Z Pearl Harbor inquiry, and Rear Admiral Kimmel reportedly does not want a court martial.
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Army
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Congress
Capitol Hill
Congressional
Black Dragon Society
Senate Military Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
O'Mahoney
D Wye
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate Naval Committee
FE. Kimmel
Secretary of the Navy
Forrestal
Shoe Rationing May End Oct 1
Washington reports that shoe rationing could end on October 1 if the War Production Board follows the leather bureau's recommendations. A decision will come after talks between WPB Chairman Krug and OPA Administrator Bowles. Officials say rationing is effectively over and shoppers are spending shoe coupons more freely.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
J. A. Krug
OPA
Chester Bowles
Office of Civilian Requirements
Senator Wiley's Cup Is Full of Cheese Wins for Wisconsin
In the Congressional Record Senator Alexander Wiley celebrates the OPA decision to remove cheese from rationing. He envisions happy days ahead and hopes fellow senators will soon enjoy vitamin rich Wisconsin cheese including cheddar Swiss blue brick and other brands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alexander Wiley
OPA
Wisconsin
County Nimrods Anticipate Duck Season Opening
County Clerk John Niederprim announced hunting licenses are available as fall approaches and summarized season details from the State Conservation department. The waterfowl season runs September 20 to December 8 with bag and possession limits for ducks geese and mergansers. Upland birds include woodcock October 10 to October 24 with limits. pheasant October 20 to November 4 in Kenosha county. no season for ruffed grouse prairie chicken or snipe. pheasant shooting begins at 1 pm on opening day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nimrods
John CC. Niederprim
Niederprim
Phil Sander
Kenosha County
State Conservation Congress
State Conservation Department
Maillard recounts Nazi camp torture in Kenosha talks
Major Marcel Maillard former underground officer and German prisoner spoke at Kenosha events about torture and starvation in Nazi camps. He described capture in 1944 Bordeaux water torture and transport to Buchenwald with 130 others, detailing executions, deprivation, and forced salutes to the Nazi emblem.
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Marcel Maillard
Patriots Fund Drive
France
Major Maillard
Kenosha
Kenosha Kiwanis Club
Orpheum Theater
Ile
Vichy
Savoie
Gestapo
Toulouse
Bordeaux
Buchenwald
Bunchenwald
Three Arraigned In Slugging Case At Restaurant
Madison 19 and Bouchard 19 and Miss Neau 18 faced charges in county court after a restaurant slugging in Kenosha. They allegedly planned a cash raid at Bob and Dutch’s, struck Mrs Carson, fled to Waukegan, then Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Robert V. Baker
Arnold Madison
Forty-third Street
John Bouchard
Carmelita Neau
Sixty-first Street
Madison
Bouchard
Manchester
N. H
Miss Neau
Miss Neal
Bob and Dutch
Sixth Avenue
Edna Carson
Bob Carson
Walter Taleronik
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Waukegan
Chicago
Public School Religion Courses In Champaign Under Fire
In Champaign Urbana a circuit court hears Vashti McCollum suit challenging three year program teaching general religious matters in public schools. Rev Herbert L. Miller testifies that Catholic material was not used as Catholic groups run their own classes. Clergy from Emanuel Memorial Episcopal and other churches defend curricula while opponents say such lessons misuse public funds and breach church-state separation.
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Urbana
Til
Champaign
Wetter
Herbert L. Miller
Emanuel Memorial Episcopal Church
Council On Religious Education
Miller
Vashti McCollum
McCollum
Terry
Landon Chapman
Santa Claus
God
Philip Schug
Jesus Christ
Chapman
Wainwright Honored by New York City Parade
Millions in New York greet Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright with a 32 mile motor tour through cheering crowds to City Hall where he receives honorary citizenship. Mayor La Guardia hails him as a model of virtue while Wainwright honors fallen soldiers and cautions against indifference to danger. In Tokyo, Japan ousts Taketora Ogata as war criminal amid MacArthur's list of Black Dragon Society leaders.
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New York
Jonathan M. Wainwright
New York City
John J. O'Connel
la Guardia Field
Financial District
Lower Broadway
City Hall
Gen. Wainwright
la Guardia
Corregidor
Tokyo
Ogata
Black Dragon Society
Information Board
Tatsuo Kawai
Australia
Nash UAW to Vote on Strike at Nash Kelvinator plant
Union Local 72 in Kenosha set a strike vote for Sunday September 16 at the Eagles ballroom after management refused wage adjustments in the Nash Kelvinator maintenance department. Nash Kelvinator executives from Detroit are in town to negotiate with Local 72 leaders in an effort to avert a plant shutdown.
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Brass and Copper Workers
American Brass
Kenosha
Joseph Lourigan
Local 72
United Auto Workers
Lourigan
Eagles
Nash Kelvinator
Harold Long
R. A DeVieig
Detroit
War Labor Board
WLBE
R. A. DeVleig
Nash. Kelvinator Company
Soldiers Bayonets for Grass Duty Protest
Nine Washington area soldiers at Fort Belvoir say they are forced to cut grass with bayonets to stay occupied while in occupation, and they seek to testify before the Senate Military Affairs committee. They urge pay increases to $125 monthly and two-year enlistments for occupation duty, noting their average seven months in service and ages 32 to 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Fort Belvoir
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George L. Mark
Cleveland, C
Tojo reveals long plan to take own life before capture
In Yokohama the former Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo, wounded by a self-inflicted shot, says he had planned suicide for years but waited as American officers stood outside his house. He notes he did not answer on Pearl Harbor links without evidence and cites harakiri as traditional but impractical.
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Kawai
Imperial Palace
Mamoru Shigemitsu
MacArthur
Kideki Tojo
Japan
Shigenori Togo
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Honshu
Kaizara
Shigemori Kuroda
Philippines
United Press
Yokohama
Hideki Tojo
Saburo Kurusu
Cordell Hull
Army
98Th
United States
After Oversea Duty Vets Die in Crash
Four veterans who served in France and Belgium were burned to death when an army bus crashed into a south main street tree in Ayer Massachusetts overturned and caught fire. Twenty eight others were injured all New Englanders. The dead were members of the 86th depot repair unit. Names of the fallen were not released immediately.
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Ayer
Mass
France
Belgium
Army
86Th
New
Meritorious Service Brings Bronze Stars for Kenoshans
Three Kenosha men, all first lieutenants in the European theater, received Bronze Star medals for meritorious service. Roger Gerling, Michael Stipanuk, and Ernest L. Chambers were cited for duties with the 3rd Field Artillery Observation Battalion in Germany. Gerling was praised for precision as survey officer under enemy fire. His mother reports he expects to continue service. citation covers August 2, 1944 to March 14, 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Roger Gerling
Michael Stipanuk
Ernest L Chambers
Theon
Margaret Gerling
Piffth Avenue
June Gerling
Fast Troy
Gerling
Batery A
Germany
United States
Yank doctor claims Japanese bled POWs for blood
Navy physician Capt. Stanton Allison testified that Japanese doctors at Shinagawa hospital bled American prisoners to death or to weaken them for transfusions for wounded Japanese. He described brutal conditions, confinement and filth at the hospital, with antiaircraft guns surrounding the camp and patients beaten or kicked.
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Yokohama
Navy
Corregidor
Stanton Allison
New York
Tokyo
Shinagawa Hospital
Allison
Shinagawa
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Associated Press
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Couple
Love
James Terry McCollum
Chicago Civil Liberties Committee
N. Y
Wainwright
William B. Dickinson
WLB
Radio Tokyo
Naval Colleges and Intendance Schools
Domel
Imperial General Headquarters
Kenoshans
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