Forrestal Diaries Reveal Plan to Invade Japanese Home Islands
Extracts from James Forrestal’s diary recount the decision to proceed with invasion planning for Kyushu and the Tokyo Plain, the push for an unconditional surrender term, and the Potsdam Conference discussions with President Truman and key advisers about Japanese terms and Soviet timing.
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Vestal
McCloy
White House
Kyushu
Tokyo
Stimson
Japan
Berlin
Pima Jury Convicts Martin
Former Pima County Sheriff Jer ome P. Martin was found guilty of accepting a $300 bribe from a prostitute, Dolores Raines, to permit operation of a house of prostitution. Jury verdict after a four day trial. sentencing set for Oct. 6. maximum penalty 1 to 14 years.
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Tucson
Pima County
Jerome P. Martin
Superior Court
Martin
R. Porter Murry
Dolores Raines
Miss Raines
Rites Arranged For Former Gila Sheriff Byrne
Funeral services are set for 9 30 a m Tuesday at Holy Angels Church Globe for Charles R Byrne former Gila County sheriff aged 67 who died in a hospital. He served five terms as sheriff 1930 to 1940 and earlier was deputy sheriff at Miami later worked as a guard at Miami Copper Company and as general foreman of repair and maintenance for the State Highway Department. He retired 18 months ago due to ill health. Survived by two sons two daughters three sisters and three brothers.
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GLOBE
Charles R. Byrne
Gila County
Holy Angels
Byrne
Miami
Miami Copper Co
State Highway Department
Charles
Harold Byrne
Terre Haute
Ind
Charles Coats
John Lacy
Glendale
Calif
W. A. Byrne
R. J. Byrne
Goliad
Texas
Agnes Joiner
Long Beach
Joe Turner
Silver City
N. Mex
Lucy van Golden
Crusade For Freedom to Visit Coolidge Monday
The Arizona Crusade for Freedom motorcade will arrive in Coolidge Monday at 4 30 p m and park on West Central across from the post office. Chairman E W Poe says a sample broadcast will be aired similar to those sent over the Iron Curtain followed by releasing a balloon to drift into Russian dominated lands.
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Gazette
Coolidge
Arizona Crusade For Freedom
W. Central
E. W. Poe
Iron Curtain
Slayer Of Baby-Sitter Executed By Riflemen
Ray Dempsey Gardner, 29, executed at dawn in Utah State Prison for the murder of 17 year old Shirley Gretzinger of Ogden. A five-man firing squad, directed by Weber County Sheriff Mac Wade, carried out the death sentence after Gardner confessed to two murders and a possible third. The crime date was July 20, 1949, in a vacant lot where Gretzinger answered a newspaper ad for a babysitting job. Gardner’s execution drew over 100 local volunteers and occurred at 6 05 a.m. He offered no final statement and remained calm during the procedure.
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Salt Lake City
Ray Dempsey Gardner
Utah State Prison
Shirley Gretzinger
Ogden
Mac Wade
Weber County
Miss Gretzinger
Gardner
Utah Supreme Court
Wade
Woman Slain Near Buckeye
Special to The Gazette Buckeye Arizona September 29 59 year old soft drink stand operator Rufus Logan told deputies he shot a woman to death and wounded her husband because he was tired of hearing them argue in his stand two miles west of Buckeye. The deceased was Ravine Easter 35. Her husband Sidney Easter 45 wounded in neck and back was treated at Maricopa County Hospital. Deputies said the Easters had moved from Texas two months ago and were picking cotton. Logan is in Buckeye jail for murder investigation.
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Buckeye
Rufus Logan
D. L. McGovney
Ravine Easter
Sidney Easter
Maricopa County
McGovney
Logan
Wickenburg Area Home Ransacked
WICKENBURG Sept. 29 A burglary at the winter home of Morton Bodfish Chicago banker was under investigation by sheriff's deputies. Six guns were reported missing after the thief forced a window and ransacked the unoccupied house four miles north of Wickenburg on the Wickenburg Prescott highway. Bodfish is president of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago and chairman of the executive committee of the United States Savings and Loan League.
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Wickenburg
Morton Bodfish
Chicago
Prescott
Bodfish
First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Chicago
United States Savings and Loan League
Freedom Day leaflet drop described in Phoenix event
The plan outlines a Civil Air Patrol operation over Phoenix Tempe and Mesa with balloons and 41 000 leaflets including 400 theater admission tickets. Planes to release leaflets over Czechoslovakia stressed as propaganda for free press. Tours of The Phoenix Gazette plant offered to show newspaper production and recruit young volunteers.
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Phoenix
Tempe
Mesa
Czechoslovakia
Glendale
Fox
Vista
CAP
F. H. Prince
Garfield Methodist Church
Allen Payne
Civil Air Patrol
Phoenix Gazette
Arizona Republic
Grasshoppers Infest Area Between Seligman and Walnut Creek
PRESCOTT Sept 29 AP A horde of grasshoppers infests a 70000 acre area between Seligman and Walnut Creek County agent Alvin Allen reported today State Entomologist J L E Lauderdale inspected the area and called the infestation serious A count showed about 26 grasshoppers per square yard As they enter their egg laying stage they do not eat plane spraying will be deferred The state motto of Alabama is Here We Rest.
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Prescott
Seligman
Walnut Creek
Alvin Allen
J. L. E. Lauderdale
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Bohlen
Russia
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Darren
Port Arthur
Washington
Supreme Commander
Supreme Command
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Germany
New York Herald Tribune, Inc
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Gila
Farmers Insurance Group
Phil Albins
C. A. Mackey
West Jefferson
Mike Harris
West van Buren
Montana
Sue Horn
Butte
Cook
North Dakota
U. S. Supreme Court
Bear
Iy Finance
Trust Finance
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First Street
Polk
Arizona
Soldiers of the Sky
US. Army
U.S. Air Force
First Ave
Crusade For Freedom
Alabama
OPS
Automotive News
Atomic Energy Commission
Idaho
Leo A. Ohlinger
Northrop Aircraft, Inc
Ohlinger
United States Bureau of Standard
Adive
All Grey Duck Down
Army
Coleman
Air Force Type B
Navy Wool
Army O. D
Air Force
Hunter
Don Frederickson
Jim Kelly
E. Indian School
W. van Buren
Hoppe
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