MacArthur Arrives in Japanese Homeland for Occupation
Gen MacArthur established allied occupation headquarters in Yokohama with 11th airborne division troops and Fourth Marines landing at Yokosuka amid a peaceful, orderly invasion. Paratroopers and sailors swept into Yokohama, evacuating prisoners of war as warships and bombers covered the operation.
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Yokohama
MacArthur
New Grand Hotel
11Th Airborne Division
Japan
Atsugi
Tokyo
Nippon
Philippines
Yokosuka Naval Base
Bataan
Yokosuka
Fourth Marine Regiment
China
Manila Bay
Corregidor
Nichols Field
Miura Peninsula
Tokyo Bay
Washington Resumes Relations With Finland
The state department announced resumption of diplomatic ties with Finland effective at midnight. The U S government calls the current Finnish government representative of all democratic elements. Relations froze June 30 1944 after failed efforts to broker peace between Finland and Russia.
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Washington
State Department
Finland
United States
Roosevelt
Russia
Britain
Perry's Flag to Hail Japan Surrender on Missouri
In Tokyo Bay on August 30 the 31 star ensign that Commodore Perry flew to open trade with Japan will be unfurled aboard the USS Missouri for Japan's formal surrender. The flag was delivered after a 9 600 mile 124 hour flight from Annapolis by Navy Lt. John K Bremger of McPherson Kansas and will be hoisted on Halsey's flagship at Capt H A Bradford's suggestion from the Naval Academy museum.
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Halsey
Tokyo Bay
United States
Japan
Commodore Perry
Navy
John K. Bremger
McPherson
Kan
Annapolis
USS Missouri
H. A. Baldridge
Naval Academy Museum
Byron Price to Go to Germany as Public Relations Official
President Truman announced Byron Price will be sent to Germany as a public relations adviser to American occupation forces and Berlin representative. He will advise Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius V. Clay on public relations matters and handle all related duties. Price, former Associated Press editor, headed the wartime censorship office until its abolition after Japan's capitulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Byron Price
Germany
Price
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lucius V. Clay
Berlin
Eisenhower
Clay
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Japan
U S Marines Take Yokosuka Base In Peaceful Occupation
American forces under Admiral Halsey landed at Yokosuka Japan Aug 30 and took control of the base without resistance. Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger and Rear Adm. Robert B. Carney accepted Japan’s surrender of the port as the first major naval installation to fall, with Vice Adm. Michitaru Tezuka delivering the surrender envelope.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Halsey
Missouri
Oscar C. Badger
San Diego
Badger
Robert B. Carney
Battleship Dock
Carney
Fujtsu
Nimitz
North Dakota
Admiral Halsey
Tokyo Bay
Fourth Marine Regiment
Admiral Carney
Michitaru Tezuka
Orces
William T. Clement
Marine
Red point cuts boost meat and dairy access for housewives
Washington August 30 The Office of Price Administration lowers red point values for many foods starting Sunday. Cheese points are halved and many meats drop 1 to 8 points per pound, with canned milk becoming ration free and butter and margarine points also reduced.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Agriculture Department
Bowles
OPA
First Kansas Rocky Mountain spotted fever cases reported
Topeka reports three Kansans infected with Rocky Mountain spotted fever from Kansas wood ticks, the first such cases in state history. Four Kansans have been stricken since June, all in children. three contracted it while in Nangas and one during a visit to Arkansas.
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Topeka
Rocky Mountain
Kansas
C. H. Kinnaman
State Board of Health
Kinnaman
Nangas
Arkansas
Dr. Kinnaman
Altho
Local Bus Company Adds Another Unit
The Rapid Transit Bus company will add a new eight bus to operate on Lawrence routes. The Ford Transit built rear motor pusher bus with 110 horsepower and air brakes will enter service on the Haskell to Fourth streets route. Manager Joe Wilson says it is a modern easy riding vehicle painted orange and cream to match fleet.
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The
Rapid Transit Bus Company
Joe Wilson
Lawrence
Haskell
Mos Maine Streets
Ford Transit Bus Commansation City
Ind
Wilson
Navy to open five Waves separation centers this fall
Washington announces plans to operate five separation centers for Waves with openings about October 1. Waves from Kansas Missouri Kentucky and districts six seven eight will be processed through the Memphis center along with other units following arrival.
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Washington
CPI
Navy
Kansas
Missouri
Kentucky
Memphis
Enn
Social Security Region 9 adopts 40 hour week
The social security board region 9 offices covering Arkansas Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma will operate Monday through Friday on a 40 hour week starting the week of August 26 announced regional director J E Wrenn. The change includes the regional office and Missouri and Kansas field offices in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Social Security Board
Region 9
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
J. E. Wrenn
Missouri and Kansas
Wrenn Sai
Truman rejects courts martial over Pearl Harbor disaster
President Truman announced he will not order courts martial in the Pearl Harbor defeat. He said the country shares blame and cited preparedness failures by the nation. He affirms unity of command and defends withholding full records while denying a whitewash label.
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Washington
Truman
Pearl Harbor
America
Hawaii
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
War Stimson
Hull
Army Board of Inquiry
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Senate
Pacific Bastion
U S Employment Office Provides Free Job Help
U S Employment Service office offers free services for job seekers and employers. Manager Harry Barnard said rumors that workers must pay part of the first month’s salary are false and that assistance costs nothing to the applicant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Employment Service
Harry Barnard
Barnard
U. S
Draft calls amended by state selective service board
The local draft board reports two calls amended. One colored man’s pre induction physical now set for September 12 instead of August 31. The induction call for another colored man, originally September 7, has been postponed to September 11.
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State Selective Service Board
Plans to Feed Europe Under Postwar Financing Debate
President Truman said the state and war departments and the Foreign Economic Administration are drafting Europe feeding plans tied to Bretton Woods financing. He noted details are under study and that British representatives will discuss the end of lend-lease during upcoming talks.
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Washington
Truman
State and War Departments
Foreign Economic Administration
Europe
Bretton Woods
Truman seeks write off of most lend lease aid to allies
President Truman told Congress that more than 42 billion dollars in lend lease aid should be written off. He cites three gains: victory over the Axis, 5.6 billion dollars in reverse lend lease, and a pledge by recipient nations to join postwar trade liberalization. He halts lend lease operations effective V J day and plans peacetime swaps and talks with Britain on a credit substitute.
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Washington
UPI
Truman
Congress
Capitol Hill
United States
Germany
Japan
No Immediate Relief For Kansas Heat Wave
Topeka reports ongoing heat with no immediate relief from the hot spell. Flora, the weather official, notes scattered showers tonight may cool some areas but temperatures will remain high, averaging 95 to 102 degrees and possibly higher tomorrow. Notable rain totals include Dighton 3.5 inches and Russell 1.15 inches.
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Topeka
Flora
Dighton
Russell
Quinter
Scott City
Manhattan
Wamega
Eeven
Kansas
Phillipsburg
Arkansas City
Garden City
Coffeyville
Goodland
Congressman Sees Meat Rationing Ending Soon
Washington reports Agriculture Department officials say beef quota and ration points may be removed within weeks due to heavy market runs. Representative Carlson of Kansas relayed that packers cannot handle cattle surges and cooling space is filling, urging action before prices hurt feeders.
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Washington
Agricuture Department
Carlson
Kansas Livestock Association
Heine
Railroads Appeal Water Tax Decision In Kansas Supreme Court
Representatives of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and Union Pacific railroads appealed to the Kansas state supreme court a ruling on water tax payments in Wyandotte County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Topeka
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Kansas State Supreme Court
Wyanotte County
Flowers at Distinction Call Allison Thomas Flower Shop
Advertisement inviting customers to contact Allison-Thomas Flower Shop by phone 363 for flowers and arrangements offered by Distinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Eisenhower outlines 400000-strong fixed occupation force
Berlin Aug 80 General Eisenhower announced the U S occupation in Germany would shrink to about 400000 well before winter. He noted food imports from the United States were essential but avoided implying any plan to fatten Germans. He stressed Allied cohesion, duty to feed and shelter Germans, and a future tied to higher policy and German self effort.
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Berlin
Eisenhower
Germany
United States
Bkisenhower
Russia
Allied Control Council
Hisenhower
Holland
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Hospital ship Aleda E. Lutz docks in New York with 735 veterans
The hospital ship Aleda E. Lutz arrived in New York harbor carrying 735 service casualties from the European war. Pvt. Michael F. McInerney of Brooklyn, last battle casualty, expressed hope he would be the last casualty. The Milwaukee and Abbott L. Mills also docked with 601 and 19 troops respectively.
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New York
Aleda E. Lutz
New York Harbor
Michael F. McInerney
Brooklyn
McInerney
Elbe River
Germany
Fifth Armored
46Th Armored Infantry
Ninth Army
Milwaukee
Abbott L. Mills
Army resumes voluntary enlistments after 1942 order
President Truman rescinded the December 1942 suspension clearing the way for voluntary enlistments in the armed services. Army terms return to three years while the navy reduces first enlistment to four years. Reenlistment bonuses and 90 day furloughs are announced. Congress may raise the 280000 enlistment cap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Armed Services
Truman
Amry
Navy
Army
Congress
Five Teachers Hired In Rural School Districts
County superintendent of schools Mrs. Margaret Hurley announced the hiring of five teachers for rural districts. Janet McDonald will teach third grade at Eudora, Freda Lee at Barker, Clarence Miller at Columbia, Lela M Wilcox at Crowder, and Anna J Ward at Twin Mound. Enterprise and Centenial schools lack teachers and Rock Creek will not hold school this year.
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Margaret Hurley
Janet McDonald
Eudora
Freda Lee
Barker School
Clarence Miller
Columbia
Lela M. Wilcox
Crowder
Anna J. Ward
Twin Mound
Enterprise
Centenial
Eisenhower Hosts Congressmen On Russian Tour
General Eisenhower briefed four House Foreign Relations Committee members on Russian highlights. He urged a ride through Moscow Metro and praised Leningrad war exhibitions. The group toured Tempelhof and observed the 82nd Airborne review before flying to Moscow.
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Berlin
Eisenhower
Russia
Moscow
House Foreign Relations Committee
Leningrad
Tempelhoff
82Nd Airborne Division
Allied Control Council
Thomas S. Gordon
Illinois
Joseph F. Ryter
Connecticut
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Carl E. Mundt
South Dakota
Press Censorship Acknowledged in Wartime Unity
Byron Price praised press and radio vigilance for wartime voluntary censorship that kept free speech intact. He noted cooperation with government prevented a bitter clash over speech and warned compulsion would have endangered national unity. Price is liquidating the censorship office he led through the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byron Price
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Broadcasters
Price
Office of Censorship
Baldwin appoints Henry Breithaupt as school superintendent
Baldwin board of education hires Henry Breithaupt to lead the city schools to replace L. L. Thompson who resigned due to illness. Thompson, superintendent for ten years, is at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in fair condition. Breithaupt is a Baldwin High School and Pittsburg Teachers College alumnus who recently worked at Sunflower Ordinance Works after a prior stint with Edgerton schools.
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Board of Education
Baldwin
Henry Breithaupt
L. L. Thompson
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Thompson
Baldwin High School
Pittsburg Teachers College
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Edgerton School
University of Kansas
Suits to Test Legality of Kansas Labor Law
Attorney General A. B. Mitchell announced test suits would be filed in Shawnee county district court within a week to determine legality of provisions in the Kansas labor control law. The move follows an agreement with the Kansas City trades council to drop appeals after a federal three judge court invalidated three sections.
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Topeka
A. B. Mitchell
Shawnee County
Kansas City Trades Council
Mitchell
No Prisoners Injured in Hiroshima Atomic Raid
The British War Office said the Japanese government informed the Swiss minister in Tokyo that no prisoners of war were killed or injured in the first atomic bomb raid on Hiroshima.
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London
War Office
Tokyo
Hiroshima
General De Gaulle Arrives Back at Orly
General De Gaulle returns to Paris from the United States and Canada and lands at Orly airfield in the late hours of August 30.
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Paris
United States
Canada
General DeGaulle
Orly Airfield
Crown Champions at 15th 4 H Fair in Lawrence
The fifteenth annual 4 H and Vocational Agriculture Fair at Haskell Auditorium crowned champions in livestock and home economics. Dale Powell won beef cattle on a Hereford yearling. Frank Hagenbuch Jr. took swine on a junior Duroc. Jayhawk 4 H cll participated with dances and a style show as Lawrence donors funded extra prize money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haskell Auditorium
Jayhawk
Lawrence Community Chest
Deal Six
Thomas B. Wilson
Williamstown
Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc
Dale Powell
Frank Hagenbuch
General Wilson
Althe
America
Billy Daggett
Forrest Robertson
Billy Rice
Dale Button
Glenn Johanning
Kenneth Hubbard
Richard Johnson
Erwin Steele
Delma Hoover
Lone Star
Doris Jean Cox
Kanwaka
Joan Clough
Naomi Schellenberg
Belleview
Waneta Colman
Eneaoe Schellenberg
Betleview
Dorothy LaDuke
Blue Ribbons
Jayhawk Club
Kanwaka Clubs
Future Farmers of America
Meadow Lark Club
Belleview Club
Lawrence
Simon Hurwitz
Roland Roney
Will Hayden
Tom Smart
Darrell Houk
Martha Demeritt
Bankers
Lawrence Banks Ater
Arrivals From Europe Reported For New York Dock
Two Lawrence men listed by the Associated Press as due to arrive from Europe tomorrow aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Captain Monti L. Belot of 1501 Meadow Lane and Corporal George R. Ware of 401 Maine Street are scheduled to dock in New York.
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Lawrence
Associated Press
Europe
New York
Monti L. Belot
Meadow Lane
George R. Ware
Maine Street
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Reach Jap Shores
Local Bus Company
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