Forget Pearl Harbor fading from Japanese leadership call
Tokyo dispatch reports Premier Higashikuni urged Americans to forget Pearl Harbor and embrace a new peaceful Japan. He said the war is ended, Japan must bury hate, and promised freedom for press and speech as rebuild begins amid Potsdam provisions, food relief, and unemployment estimates.
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Tokyo
Higashi Kuni
America
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Associated Press
Amorica
Higashi-Kuni
Peace Pace Reconverson Progress Reported By BOA
Washington reports the second month of peace with reconversion 2 to 3 weeks ahead of schedule. Meat fats oils and sugar rationing expected to ease by year end with other controls lifting by Oct 1. Rail air and ship priorities to relax gradually as factories and roads accelerate toward normal peacetime activity.
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Washington
America
War Production Board
Gargoyle dispute over ownership in Monroe garden
The old gargoyle long anchored on Monroe square gardens reappears in Pat Connors’ yard with a new rock garden and pool. Ownership remains disputed among G S Soseman, Thomas Bowen, Renault, and Connors, though an amicable settlement is likely. The piece, valued practically at 25 dollars but sentimental worth far higher, traces its journey from the fairgrounds to various owners over decades.
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Pat Connors
Fitzgibbons
Monroe
G. S. Soseman
Thomas Bowen
Orangeville
Soseman
Bowen
the Fair Associa
Connors
Renault
Fair Association
Soseman-Bowen Place
Tru man departs for Missouri for weekend visit
President Truman leaves National Airport at 12 37 p m bound for Missouri to spend a weekend with his home folks in Miami Florida amid a hurricane threat striking Turk Island and the Florida coast. Labor unrest snarls 163000 workers nation wide with Westinghouse Electric strike swelling to about 47000 idle in six eastern states. UNIONS warn no quick resolution amid the prolonged walkout.
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Washington
Truman
National Airport
Missouri
Miami
Fla
Turk’s Island
British West Indies
Florida
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Still Debating on Meat Ration End
A top agriculture official says meat rationing end is delayed by uncertain foreign demand and fear of new shortages or black markets. Britain seeks meat to supplement Canada and Argentina, but payment terms may block action next week. Packers struggle with cattle volumes and worker shortages affect slaughtering.
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Agriculture Department
Great Britain
Canada
Argentina
OPA
Senator Wiley Presses Free Sausage Rations
Wisconsin Senator Wiley asks Secretary Anderson to make sausage a ration-free food. He cites reports that housewives refuse sausage points, causing declining sausage sales and harming retailers wholesalers sausage manufacturers and slaughterers in the trade.
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Wiley
R-Wis
Anderson
Polio Threat Dims in Monroe District as Public Life Reopens
Polio fears ease with no new infantile paralysis cases in Monroe area as most businesses churches and theaters prepare to resume normal operations. DDT spraying in Green County nears finish and rural schools plan to rerun while Monroe football practice shifts to limited sessions ahead of an opener with Darlington. Illinois counties report declines with Rockford area improving and Freeport set to reopen, with most schools to operate normally Monday.
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Monroe
Green County
National Foundation For
L. A. Moore
Times
Moore
Monay
Darlington
Ilinois
Illinois
Rockford
Vicinity
Freeport
OPA officials foresee no large scale price control removal before spring
Washington officials predicted that no broad removal of food price controls will occur before next spring. They noted last night's suspension of ceilings on white potatoes does not indicate a trend for other market basket items.
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Washington
OPA
Wisconsin Strike Idle Total 7 000 Lifts Warship Spending
President Truman urged Congress to cut navy spending by nearly 17 billion dollars and to review naval construction laws. Meanwhile about 7,000 workers in Wisconsin walked out or were idle across firms in Milwaukee Kenosha Beloit Madison and Horicon amid contract and wage disputes and job reclassifications.
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Navy
Washington
Truman
Congress
Associated Press
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Harley Davidson Motor Company
Fuller Manufacturing Company Company
Heil Company
Mueller Furnace Company
Crucible Steel Casting Company
Gueder, Paeschke and
Frey Company
Oswald Jaeger Baking Company
Koehring Company
Kenosha
American Brass Company
Beloit
Fairbanks-Morse
Horicon
van Brunt Manufacturing Company
Madison
le Roi
Nash-Kelvinator
Perfect Camp Ashiro Menu Dreamed by Oscar Prisoner
Oscar, a marine prisoner at Camp Ashiro, kept a memory book listing a six meal daily menu he deemed perfect. He catalogued 26 meats and 16 pastries and drafted a full day’s meals from 6 a.m. to midnight, including non alcoholic drinks, soups, entrees, and desserts before liberation ended the project.
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Hal Boyle
Yokosuka Naval Base
Japan
Oscar
Camp Ashiro
Shanghai
Philippines
Congress Turns To Jobless Pay
Congress debates federal cash unemployment benefits as the Senate takes up the bill after weeks of finance committee work. General Marshall letters, speedy releases, and Stimson defense frame the army demobilization drive while wartime jobless pay would widen state programs with federal support and travel expense coverage.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Chamber
Japan
George C. Marshall
Senate Military Committee
Navy
Stimson
Army
Small Fire at Burkhalter Music Store Draws Crowd
Monroe fire crews responded to a 9:02 a m blaze at Burkhalter music store. The incident caused slight smoke from a window decoration light transformer burn out, damaging moulding. A large crowd watched despite the rain.
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Monroe
Burkhalter Music
Milwaukee Lawyer Sues Press Publishing for 50000
E H Puhr an acting municipal judge at Sheboygan filed a $50000 damage suit in circuit court against the Press Publishing company of Sheboygan. He claims the article and a photograph on the front page of the Sheboygan Press on September 23 1943 caused the damages.
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Milwaukee
E. H. Puhr
Sheboygan
Press Publishing Company
Puhr
Sheboygan Press
Early Patrolman Tertin’s Off Season Rat Disposal
Patrolman Will E. Tertin of the police department killed a muskrat out of season this morning. He was summoned to the Clinic pharmacy at 7:20 a.m. to dispose of a large rat caught at the door. His report said he disposed of the rat, with questions raised about hunting and trapping licenses.
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Will E. Tertin
Cold and Damp in Monroe with .89 Inch Rain
It was cold and damp in Monroe with temperatures near 50 degrees after a low of 48. Light rain began overnight and by noon .89 inch of moisture had fallen. The forecast calls for more on the way with little change in temperature for a day or two.
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Monroe
Mercury
Rationing Boards Close Across State as Moves Disabled
Several war price and rationing boards are closing with notices of removals. The Green County board in Monroe remains, while Beloit shifts to Janesville on Oct 15. Burlington Oconomowoc and three Milwaukee boards receive similar orders as commodity removals enable the relocations.
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Green County Board
Monroe
Beloit
Janesville
Burlington
Oconomowoc
Milwaukee
Barth Seeks Final Discharge From Army After 30 Missions
Sgt. Ray T. Barth, a former Monroe high school student and Times reporter, hopes for discharge after returning from England where he flew as a radioman and gunner on a B 17. He earned 98 point credits, 12 overseas, 36 service points, 5 air medals and 5 bronze stars from 30 missions. He has moved through Camp Grant Truax Field and Camp Custer while awaiting final orders.
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Sgt
Ray T. Barth
Times
England
Germany
Camp Grant
West Coast
Truax Field
Camp Custer
Mich
Truax
Army
California
Air Branch
The
Armed Service
Madison
Monroe High School
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Ninth Corps
Charles Ryder
Hokkaido Island
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