Singapore Once More to British Singapore
Indian troops landed at Singapore today and began occupation of the former British stronghold surrendered to Japan on February 15 1942. The First Punjabi regiment led the assault while Fifth Indian division troops followed unopposed and released Allied prisoners of war behind barbed wire. Port Dickson oil tanks were set on fire by Japanese forces, creating a massive smoke plume observed from troopships. Harbor damage appeared minor with some wrecks noted among red flagged structures. An Australian aboard cheered the liberators as they advanced.
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Singapore
First
Port Dickson
Fifth
Report details wartime Japanese crimes against prisoners
The State Department released a report detailing brutal mistreatment and mass killings of American POWs by Japanese forces in World War II. It cites executions in tunnels, burnings, drownings, and many protests by former officials, urging accountability and punishment for war crimes.
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Byrnes
Japan
Europe
Hull and
Stettinius
Acheson
Grew
United States
Philippines
Old Glory Repeats Valor as Wake Island Flag Rises
The American flag was raised on Wake Island at 1 50 p m yesterday. Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara signed surrender aboard the Levy as Brig Gen Lawson Sanderson and 75 marines and destroyer escort crews watched. Wake’s recapture followed 1 362 days since fall and cited losses on both sides with Marine Maj James P S Devereux noted among survivors.
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Wake
Wake Island
Monroe
Levy
Lawson Sanderson
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing
U. S
Adm
Shi
James P. S. Devereux
Marine
Devereux
Wake Marines
China
Sakaibara
Badger Legislature splits over governor vetoes and policy
Wisconsin Republicans control both houses and adjourn sine die as Governor Goodland vetoes a liquor price fixing bill and several education and road funding measures. He argues prices should be set by public authority and cautions against piecemeal trunk highway additions and state financing beyond the trunk system.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Goodland
Assembly
Senate
Wisconsin Assembly
Aseae 1
Dodge
Sawyer
Bayfield
Douglas
Lafayette
Call for Slashes Federal Outlay
President Truman urged Congress to cut civilian war agency appropriations by 3 percent, revising about $2.76 billion in war related funds for 1966 across 28 agencies and reducing portions of several contract authorizations. Military spending not included. further department details to follow. White House action aligned with House Appropriations Chair Cannon who called for immediate hearings by a deficiency subcommittee.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
War
Navy
White House
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Comptroller Warren Slams Government as Hodge-Podge
Lindsay C. Warren testified before the House expenditures committee calling the federal system a hodge podge of duplications and inefficiencies. He urged President Truman be given broad powers to clean house and cited 75 bureaus in transportation, 15 agencies funding publicised tasks, eight departments handling labor relations, 12 units administering land, conflicting aid to dependent children, two profitable customs bodies, and at least 12 retirement systems.
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Washington
Lindsay C. Warren
Treasury
Congress
Truman
House
House Expenditures Committee
Warren
Naw Federal
Bureau of Customs
Truman Nominates Undersecretaries for State Department
President Truman named Donald S. Russell of Chicago and William Benton of Southport Conn as assistant secretaries of state. He also sent to the Senate the nomination of Benjamin V. Cohen as counselor of the state department.
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Washington
Truman
Donald S. Russell
Chicago
William Benton
Southport
Conn
Senate
Benjamin V. Cohen
State Department
Solons Prepare Truman Message for Congress Thursday
Senate leaders announced that President Truman will send a comprehensive message to Congress tomorrow with separate documents. Barkley declined to specify topics and said the lengthy address may take hours to read. The session marks the first peacetime assembly since 1941 with many controversial issues pending.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
White House
Barkley
McKellar
D-Tenn
Rayburn
House
Sen
Hiram Johnson
Calif
Hughes to Seek Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court
Oshkosh circuit Judge Henry P. Hughes announced he would run for justice of the Wisconsin supreme court in the 1946 spring election. He serves a second term on the third judicial circuit covering Winnebago and Calumet counties and seeks the seat occupied by Justice Edward T. Fairchild.
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Oshkosh
Henry P. Hughes
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Hughes
Third Judicial Circuit
Winnebago
Calumet
Edward T. Fairchild
Truman Nominates Wainwright for Four-Star General Rank
President Truman promotes Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright newly liberated from Japan to a four star general rank. The nomination highlights his service and wartime leadership.
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Wainwright
Washington
Truman
Jonathan Wainwright
Polio Fear Drives Preemptive Closures in Illinois Towns
Monroe faces pressure to shut down gatherings as polio fears rise after Freeport and Rockford close churches schools taverns and theaters. Officials consider drastic steps only with health officer Dr L A Moore's backing while Freeport acts against outbreaks and Rockford tightens controls amid twenty polio cases and three deaths.
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Monroe
Freeport
Rockford
L. A. Moore
Illinois
Stephenson County Medical Society
Col Matthew Legler Released From Army Due to Injury
Col Matthew Legler formerly a West Point graduate and lieutenant colonel, released after injuries from a mine blast in December during action with the 99th Infantry Division and 393rd Regiment. He now works at Standard Oil in Buffalo with his brother. he is the son of Mrs. Anna Legler of this city.
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Col
Matthew Legler
Buffalo, N. Y
Army
West Point
Standard Oil Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Legler
99Th Infantry
Mr. Legler
Anna Legler
Watchman Drowns in Manitowoc River Incident
Arnold Oth berg, 43, Cleveland, watchman on the freighter Sierra, drowned in the Manitowoc river last night after falling from a small boat being hoisted aboard the ship. The body was recovered.
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Manitowoc
Arnold Othberg
Cleveland
Sierra
Army Gradually Loosening Ties
The army signaled it will discharge within a year all enlisted men aged 34 and older and those with 45 points by May 12 who will not be sent overseas. House military committee resumes study of boosting regular army enlistments to minimize disruption before the draft law expires May 15. Legislation approved by the committee includes 2 to 3 year enlistment terms, immediate mustering-out pay, 90-day furloughs for reenlistment, GI bill benefits during new terms, and enhanced overseas bonuses and reenlistment incentives.
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Capitol Hill
House Military Committee
Japan
War Department
Army
Two World War II Veterans From Monroe High
At Monroe High two graduates are veterans of World War II Ernest Von Kaenel son of Mr and Mrs John Von Kaenel and Lee Jacobs son of Mr and Mrs Edgar Jacobs. Von Kaenel enlisted November 21 1944 served in an infantry training battalion at Camp Robinson Arkansas and was discharged January 9 at Ft Sheridan for medical reasons. Jacobs joined the merchant marine reserve as a junior in high school in November 1944 trained at Staten Island and was discharged after rheumatic fever and hospitalization.
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Ernest von Kaenel
John von Kaenel
Lee Jacobs
Edgar L. Jacobs
Young von Kaenel
Army
Ft. Sheridan
Camp Robinson
Ark
Jacobs
Staten Island
N. Y
Merchant Marine
Reserve Corps
Maritime Service
Georgia Democrat Proposes Repeal of Daylight Saving Time
Washington Representative Brown proposes yielding to peace time by turning clocks back to standard time and repealing the January 1942 act that instituted daylight saving. The Georgian prepared a resolution for the house opening session to end DST nationwide.
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Washington
Brown
D-Ga
House
Tokyo Occupation To Begin Friday Per U S Command
Allied forces plan the first cavalry move into Tokyo this Friday with the U S First Cavalry Division entering the bomb damaged capital after liberation of Santo Tomas. General MacArthur to move HQ to Tokyo embassy as Eighth Army under Lt Gen Eichelberger prepares to disarm Japan by October 10 and deploy 300 000 to 400 000 troops across Honshu Hokkaido and four islands.
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Yokohama
Tokyo
U. S
Manila
Santo Tomas
MacArthur
United States
Allied Powers
First Cavalry
Japan
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth
Honshu
Hokkaido
Eichelberger
First Army
Second Army
Krueger
Korea
John Hodge
24Th Army Corps
Premier Higashikuni cites dire Japan war losses and ruin
Tokyo premier Higashikuni told the diet that Japan faces immense military losses, widespread poverty, and exhaustion at home. He said overseas holdings are cut off, cities destroyed by bombing, and production collapsed making swift recovery impossible. He cited 2,200,000 homes burned and hundreds of thousands killed or wounded.
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Tokyo
Naruhiko Higashikuni
Diet
Japan
Houses of Peers and Representatives
America
Britain
Draftees Report Time Set for Thursday Morning
Green County selects draftees and pre induction men report at 6 45 a m Thursday to the local draft board for transport to Milwaukee where they will be sworn in or undergo pre induction examinations.
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Green County
Milwaukee
Summer Weather Returns to Monroe with 86 Degree High
Monroe reports a 1 pm temperature of 86 degrees the highest since last Friday as fair warm weather continues though clouds form. Meteorologist Howard J Thompson notes Wisconsin crops benefited from warm days and soaking rain with soil moisture good and corn growth rapid. further warm, sunny weather could ripen most crops in 3 to 4 weeks. Threshing nears completion while alfalfa and clover harvesting lag due to heavy rains.
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Monroe
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Howard J. Thompson
Thompson
Lobbying Expense Reports Filed For 1945 Session
Lobbying expense reports filed with the secretary of state show the Wisconsin Tavern League led with 2537 dollars during the 1945 legislative session. Several associations and individuals from Madison Milwaukee Chicago and Racine filed totals above a thousand dollars including the Wisconsin Railroad Association and Milwaukee Gas Light company interests.
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Madison
Paul E. Jorgensen
Racine
Wisconsin Tavern League
Wisconsin Railroad Association
F. E. Nicoles
A. R. McDonald
Amos Mathews
Chicago
Walter Nortman
Milwaukee
Milton T. Murray
Milwaukee Gas Light Company
International Union of Life Insurance Agents
Wisconsin Consumer’s Committee For Natural Gas
J. H. Fagan Company
E. E. Hoebel
Wisconsin Road Builders Association
L. A. Miller
Wisconsin State Brewers Association
Supreme Court Rejects McKay Petition in Liquor Graft Case
The state supreme court today rejected the petition of Frank D. McKay former Republican national committeeman and four co defendants seeking delay in the liquor graft conspiracy trial opening this morning.
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McKay
Lansing
State Supreme Court
Frank D. McKay
Republican National
Prisoners of war recount brutal deaths in Burma and Thailand
Survivors of the sunken U S S Houston and members of the 131st Texas national guard field artillery regiment describe grim fates of Allied prisoners in Japanese captivity. They report 20,000 deaths out of 56,000 from starvation disease and cruel treatment, and a 140 mile death march in Thailand. The group includes 133 American prisoners.
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Calcutta
U. S. S. Houston
Texas National Guard) Field Artillery
Burma
Thailand
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
Baguio
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Inouye
Hajimoto
Nishitani
Gematsu Sakaibara
Badner Solons
Solons
H. P. Hughes
High Court of State
The
Associated Press
Parker Appliance Company
Frank Story
Arcadia
Santa Fe
Monroe High
Mercury
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