Fragmented confession tale of a fraud scheme and blackmail
An impatient speaker details a tangled plot involving debts, a Midnight signal, and attempts to pressure figures like Jimmy Roosevelt and Boris Kostelanetz. The rambling monologue references Do Schenck, Willie Bioff, and Chicago hoodlums, with plans to expose or manipulate financial crimes.
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New York
New Deal
Jimmy Roosevelt
Joe Schenck
Moving Picture
Washington
U.S D. A
Borin Kostelanetz
Andre
Boris
Doe Schenck
Willie Bioff
Rumhouse
Georgie Browne
Chicago
Movie Union
Wall Street
National City Park
Elliott
U S Keeps Three War Agencies In Postwar Reorganization
Washington reports that three wartime bodies still employ thousands as policy shifts continue. The Office of War Information is closed while the War Production Board the War Manpower Commission and the Price Administration adjust, cut staff, and wind down programs to end in coming months. Officials warn the future of remaining agencies is unsettled as reconversion proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War & Ove
Office of War Informatio
Truman
Elmer Davie
OPA
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
WPB
Chester Bowies
Weed
U. S
WMC
Aircraft Resources Board
Office of War Utilities
Marines Raise American Flag Over Wake Island
Wake Island was retaken as the American flag rose at 1:50 PM local time. Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara signed surrender aboard the Levy. Gen. Lawson Sanderson and 75 officers watched as marines and crews saluted and the flag was raised inch by inch. Wake, three islets in the atoll, had 1,362 days of occupation ended.
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Wake
Wake Island
Levy
Lawson Sanderson
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing
U.S
Shigematsu Sakaibara
James PS Devereux
A. A. F. Liberators
America
Reid
Peale
Carriex
Isand
Seksibara
Marine Corps
Devereux
Tovasi
Naval
Army
Marine Fighter Squadron
Premier Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni Urges Surrender in Diet
In San Francisco on September 5 Premier Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni told both houses of the diet that Japan’s surrender was signed after near-impossible conditions. He described massive Allied blows, widespread destruction, and dire shortages, urging obedience to the Potsdam Declaration and a hard path to a new peaceful Japan.
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San Francisco
Japan
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Federal Communications Commission
China
Mariana Islands
J Eean
South Seas
Okinawa
Higashi-Kuni
Soviet Union
Hirohito
America
Britain
Indian Troops Enter Singapore in Surprise Reoccupation
Indian troops landed at Singapore on September 5 and began occupation of the former British base. The 2nd battalion of the 1st Punjabis led the assault from light craft at the main wharf, meeting little opposition as Fifth Indian Division troops moved ashore. Allied prisoners cheered as they passed, while a large column of smoke rose from Port Dickson oil tanks burnt by Japanese before surrender.
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Singapore
First
Port Dickson
Fifth
Johore Causeway
Malaya
Four Die as Santa Fe Train Crash Kills Three, Injures Dozens
A California Limited eastbound train derailed near Arcadia, killing four people and injuring 35 to 40. Three bodies were brought to a local morgue, including Rev. Victor Hugo Schroeder and Nobue Hand. A Japanese victim remained unidentified. Track damage extended about 200 feet. rescue crews freed trapped passengers as an army surgeon treated severe injuries.
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Arcadia
Calif
Santa Fe
Santa Anita
American Legion Hall
Victor Hugo Schroeder
Barstow
la Habra
Poston, Ariz
Warren outlines inefficiency in federal setup before Congress
Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren described the federal system as a hodgepodge of duplications and inefficiencies. He urged giving President Truman broad powers to clean house for a limited term and noted divisions across transportation, housing, labor, and land administration.
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Washington
Lindsay C. Warren
Treasury
Congress
Truman
House
House Expenditures Committee
Warren
Bureau of Customs
Manasce
Alabama
Manasco
Enlisted wives face legal entanglements after war time deaths
As liberations free soldiers from Japanese prison camps, four American men are found alive after wives remarried in good faith. Cases in Kansas City Ohio Portmouth Williamsport Oakland and Los Angeles involve annulments and potential return to first husbands. The stories highlight the Enoc h Arden dilemma across families and laws.
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Enoch Arden
Ann Birdwell-Marshall
Kansas City
Gene D. Birdwell
Birdwell
Jack Marshall
War Department
Burma
Yokohama
Helen Goad
Portsmouth
Ohio
Robert A. MacDowell
Laugherties
N. Y
MacDowell
Harold Goad
Goad
Rangoon
Pearl Keiser
Williamsport
Laurie Cales Bernstein
Oakland
Calif
Keiser
Sgt
Earl Smith
Montgomery
Pacific
Hoyt H. Keiser
Smith
Pennsylvania
Cales Bernstein
James Cales
Navy
Ethan Bernstein
St. Lo
Atomic Bomb Bill Pending In Congress This Week
Senator McMahon plans to introduce a bill to set up a government commission for national atomic policy with Congress likely shaping the final form. President Truman will provide recommendations in a forthcoming message. The secrecy around bomb production remains, with Stettinius discussing world security council options and Byrnes commenting on ongoing studies.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
McMahon
Connecticut
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
London
World Security Council
Byrnes
Capture of US Flier Amid Brutal Pacific War Atrocity
A U S airman parachuted into a New Guinea sea area and was subjected to brutal beatings before Japanese civilian Inouve beheaded him with a sword. The State Department disclosed war crimes reports and protests to the Japanese government, with Byrnes promising punishment.
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Washington
New Guinea
Inouve
State Department
Dozen Issues Face Congress in Return to Peace
This Sept 5 report outlines twelve contentious items facing a postwar Congress. Key topics include Pearl Harbor investigations, atomic secrecy, war taxes and demobilization, peacetime draft, unemployment, foreign affairs, reorganization powers, surplus property, social security, water power, and budget controls as Congress reconvenes under President Truman.
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Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
House Oilitary Committee
Truman
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
United Nations
Security Council
Pacific Islands
House Expenditures Committee
Lindsay Warren
Mr. Truman
St. Lawrence
Missouri Valley Administration
Three Tourists Hurt in Calhoun Traffic Crash
Three Oklahoma tourists were seriously injured near Calhoun Wednesday at 7 a.m. after their car collided with a truck. They were taken to St. Francis Sanitarium by Mulhearn ambulance, in most serious condition needing several operations. State police investigate and will report later. names were not yet available.
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Oklahoma
Calhoun
Mulhearn
St. Francis Sanitarium
Peace Plans Race to Tokyo as Occupation Opens
Allied heads push swift disarmament and full infrastructure handover. Eighth Army under General Eichelberger to oversee Tokyo, with up to 400000 troops for Japan's first island campaigns. Chinese surrender in Nanking expected within a week as puppet forces disband and foreign representatives attend ceremonies.
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Yokohama
Tokyo
U. S
Manila
Santo Tomas
MacArthur
United States
Allied Powers
First Cavalry
Japan
Eft
Bert Eichelberger
Eighth
Hokkaido
Eichelberger
William C. Chase
First Army
Second Army
Krueger
Korea
John Hodge
U. S. 24Th Army Corps
Nanking
Leng Hsin
China
Leng
Chang Kung-Po
Sixth Army
Chinese Military Academy
Chihkiang
Shanghai
Metropolitan Hotel
International Club
Ho Ying-Chin
U. S. Con
Robert
McClure
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Civil talks progress between Chungking and Yenan leaders
In Chungking, the Central News Agency reports a preliminary exchange of views between the Chungking government and the Yenan Communists. Mao Tse-tung Chou En-lai and Wang Jo-fei met government delegates, while Chiang Kai-shek appointed Chiang Ching-kuo as special foreign affairs commissioner in Manchuria and Hu Shih to head the National University at Peiping.
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Chungking
Central
Yenan
Meo Tse-Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao
Chou En-Lai
Wang Jo-Fei
Executive Yuan
Chiang Ching-Kue
Mancuria
Soviet Union
Hu Shih
United States
Peiping
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Westbrook Pegler
U. 5
Sanderson
Wake Marines
Sakaibera
Ontinue
California Limited
Associated Press
Europe
Hull and
Stettinius
Acheson
Grew
Senate
By Jack Bell
Hiram Johson
California
U.S. Embassy
First Cavalry Division
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