End of Cheese Ration Setup Tomorrow
The CPA ends cheese rationing at 12:01 a m Wednesday after the agriculture department lifts cheese controls. Cheddar stock freed for foreign claimants reduces a 40 percent September set aside and allows greater cheddar production. All red stamp cheese purchases drop to zero value, enabling potential resumption if needed.
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Washington
CPA
Agriculture Department
Army
Department
Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
Tojo Attempts Suicide as MacArthur Orders Arrest
Hideki Tojo, former Japanese prime minister, shot himself at his home as General MacArthur ordered his arrest. American doctors began plasma transfusions after Tojo identified himself to officers and reporters, leaving his fate in a 50 50 balance while MacArthur also moved to seize other war cab in et officials.
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Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
MacArthur
Tojo
Japan
Shigenori Togo
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Angels
Associated Press
Asa Spencer
Russell Brines
James Johnson
Newark
America
98Th
Robert L
Eighth Army
Johnson
All Asia
Polio Standstill Encouraging with No New Local Cases
The Spring Grove area reports a mild poliomyelitis case at Bernard Clark's home with home treatment permitted after a medical review. Weather and spraying efforts with DDT are linked to polio precautions, while officials urge calm and quarantine adherence amid rumor control.
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Spring Grove
Times Special
Bernard Clark
M. W. Stuessy
Brodhead
J. Mitchell
Clark
Senate orders probe into slow demobilization in Washington
The Senate military committee moved to investigate the slow demobilization process and plans public hearings later. Senator Hill said Democrats unanimously supported the inquiry while Senator Johnson alleged army leaders prefer voluntary recruitment to fail. The panel reviewed War Department data showing 8 million in the army as of Sept 1 versus wartime peak only 300000 higher and sent 23 officers’ promotion nominations to subcommittees.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Hill
Alabama
Thomas
D-A
Johnson
D-Cole
War Department
Allied Prisoner Groups Held in Java
A small Allied party reports 19,000 women and children in five Batavia internment camps in Java. About 2,000 are severely ill. Allied medical officers are delivering medicines and relief to the internees and war prisoners, according to the government information office.
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Melbourne
Java
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Prisoner-war camp commander reported alive in Japan
A Wake Island hero Lt Col James P. Devereux is listed as alive and in charge of a prisoner-of-war camp in Bibai Hokkaido. In Ontario Dunnville a mother who had quadruplets is recovering with one infant deceased and others in incubators in satisfactory condition.
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Ominate
Japan
James P. Devereux
Wake Island
Bibai
Hokkaido Island
Dunnville
Ontario
Hugh A. Smith
Nationwide 1 Day Work Stoppage Resumes
A one day work stoppage at Westinghouse Electric office workers in the East, ordered last night, resumed today. The idle worker total nationwide reaches about 100000, signaling continuing industrial unrest.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Midwest Weather Outlook Sees Warm Trend Next Day
Chicago temperatures lingered in the 50s as the U S weather bureau forecast slightly warmer conditions tomorrow. Forecasters predict little danger of early frost in the Middlewest with light showers possible in Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Chicago
U.S. Weather Bureau
Middlewest
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
War end delay may extend farm price supports into 1949
Delaying the official end of World War II could extend farm price supports for three years, possibly costing over a billion dollars annually. If end is proclaimed in 1946, supports cover 1946 and 1947. if in 1946, extend to Jan 1, 1949. Congress and President Truman signal the timing remains unsettled.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Truman
Kilgore drops plan for $25 weekly jobless benefit
Senator Kilgore abandons a push for a 25 dollar a week unemployment payment for 26 weeks. He argues federal funds should supplement state programs only up to 14 weeks with no guaranteed $25 maximum and rejects a mandatory federal extension. He favors uniform benefits across states and the Senate Finance Committee may vote on the proposal later today.
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Washington
Kilgore
D-W. VA
Senate Finance Committee
Vandenberg
Rmich
Taft
R-O
Mississippi
Michigan
Washington State
Finance Committee
Okinawa Battle Costs Navy Losses and Japanese Air Attacks
The navy reports 253 naval craft sunk or damaged at Okinawa. Thirty ships went down, many to Kamikaze planes, including 12 destroyers. Damaged were 10 battleships 13 aircraft carriers 3 heavy cruisers 2 light cruisers and 67 destroyers with 12 incidents due to friendly fire. About 3,836 Japanese planes were destroyed, while total campaign casualties reached around 10,000 with roughly 5,000 dead or missing. navy did not disclose killed or wounded aboard ships.
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Washington
Okinawa
Amputee Totals Of War 16000
The war left about 16 000 amputees in the armed forces 14 000 in the army and 2 000 in the navy Officials said the total was far less than civilian amputations from industrial accidents They presented the figure before a House subcommittee on aid to the physically handicapped.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Leonard T. Peterson
Army Medical Corps
Frank P. Kre
Italy First Job For Allied Group
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that Italy would be the first topic for the five Allied foreign ministers in London this afternoon. He said the atom bomb would not be on the agenda and noted U S aims on colonial trusteeships and possible boundary changes in the Mediterranean region. Byrnes plans a two week London stay with travel to Washington in between.
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London
James F. Byrnes
Italy
Russia
Great Britain
France
China
Byrnes
United States
United Nations
Dodecanese
Turkey
Greece
Mediterranean
Pantelleria
Italian Eritrea
Ethiopia
Cyrenaica
Libya
Here
Washington
Ernest Bevin
Germany
Potsdam
Inquest Planned Into Death of Christ Kappeler
The Green County sheriff plans an inquest at 10 a m tomorrow at the court house into the death of Christ Kappeler who was struck by a car on the Green Wood Cemetery Road Sunday Sept 2. Chief witness is John Wyman 52 New Glarus driver of the machine. A Monroe resident 87 was also seen at the scene and a coroner jury had tentatively ruled the death an unavoidable accident and urged building a sidewalk along the road.
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Green County
Hospital Visiting Restricted to One Relative at St. Clare
New polio related rules at St. Clare hospital limit visitors to specified hours and allow only one immediate family member. Children are forbidden from visiting, aiming to reduce risk during the health threat.
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St. Clare Hospital
Lanphier Named Air Forces Pilot in Yamamoto Death
The War Department identified Lt. Col. Thomas G. Lanphier as the pilot who shot down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 15. Lanphier, 29, is the son of Col. Thomas Lanphier Jr. of Washington, and his wife resides in Boise Idaho.
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Washington
Thomas G. Lanphier
Army Air Forces
War Department
Isurakan Yamamoto
Lanphier
Thomas Lanphier
Boise
Ida
Corn Crop Races With Early Frost
The corn crop faces frosts as a race against kill seasons while late planted grain offers hope for a near record yield. Favorable weather in July and August helped offset a late start from dam aging frosts and droughts. September weather could push total production to wartime levels. If corn holds, livestock and poultry feed needs may be met and some grain could be released for whisky making. Wheat, tobacco, rice, oats, soybeans, peanuts, peaches and pears also expected to reach wartime records.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
North Dakota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Ohio Valley
Wainwright Schedules Rest After War Stories
General Jonathan M. Wainwright rests at Fort Myer after a Washington appearance and three speeches. He has not set a date to release his Corregidor captivity story to the war department or the nation, saying the tale must be told in ghastly detail to reveal the enemy’s true nature. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Truman amid crowds and cheers for "Skinny."
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Washington
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
War Department
Senate
Fort Myer
Truman
Cutback in Ranks Of Generals Begins
The army announced a wartime downsizing of generals since V E Day with 70 leaving active duty and 100 more in the process of being reduced in grade. Only a few of the 136 recalled generals are expected to remain active in the next three months as specialists to train replacements. Supreme HQ and many units have inactivated, reducing general officer requirements and prompting reversion of some officers to lower ranks.
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Washington
Army
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
Cheese rationing ends boosting industry and Christmas trade
The Times reports the dairy sector reacts with optimism as cheese rationing ends. The move is seen as timely for mailers and shipments of fancy packages, with planned factory reconstructions and equipment upgrades signaling a broad reconversion ahead. Labor supply is a potential constraint.
House Group Votes End Of War Time In September
The House interstate commerce committee unanimously votes to end war time this month. If Congress approves, clocks will be set back one hour to standard time at 2 a m on Sunday September 30. Rep Boren Oklahoma expects passage with no dissent.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Congress
Boren
D-Okla
House
Trio of Army Couples to Wed in Paris Overseas
Three American soldiers will marry in Paris this Saturday in what is believed to be the first triple wedding overseas. A blonde, a brunet and a roadhead will wed in gowns by Schiaparelli Patou and Molyneux. The couples include Cpl. Clifford W Perron of Plover Wisconsin and Pfc. Evelyn Clum of Watervliet New York.
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Paris
Brunet
Schiaparelli
Patou
Molyneux
Cpl
Clifford W. Perron
Plover
Wis
Pfc
Evelyn Clum
Watervliet
N. Y
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