U S Warns Japan It Will Use Atomic Bombs Again
The London broadcast quoted日本語 radio claiming a weapon similar to the atomic bomb, pledging to use it against U S military targets while sparing civilians. Nagasaki, hit Wednesday, lay under a 20,000 foot smoke pall as U S forces warned they would continue atomic attacks until Japan surrenders.
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U.S
Japan
London
Singapore
B. B.C
United States
America
Europe
William F. Tyree
Guam
U.P
Nagasaki
U. S. High Command
Kyushu
Carl Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Pacific
Spaatz
Honshu
Hiroshima
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Regions
Butte area expects clear to partly cloudy morning, then clouds with scattered light showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon, clearing in the evening. Friday highs near 80. Thursday 79/44. Western Montana remains clear to partly cloudy with little temperature change, 75 to 85. East of the divide partly cloudy, slightly cooler in the southeast, highs 80 to 90.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Husband of Butte Woman Is Killed
Paul E. Dusenberry, husband of Lilly Pedersen Dusenberry and former Butte resident now in San Pedro California, was killed in action with the navy in the Pacific. He enlisted after Pearl Harbor. Survived by wife, parents in law, two children Diane and Charles, and three brothers in law in service.
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Paul E. Dusenberry
Lilly Pedersen Dusenberry
Butte
San Pedro
Calif
Pacific Area
Dusenberry
Hans Pedersen
Silver Bow Street
Seaman Dusenberry
Navy
Cleveland
Ohio
Diane
Charles
William Pederson
Ray Pederson
Harry Pederson
Camp McCoy
Wis
Will Check Pacific War Situation
Secretary Stimson said the War department will review the Pacific war situation to see if atomic bombing and Russia's entry could allow another Army size cut. He noted those options had been under consideration for months and the test is the number of men needed to defeat Japan with the least American lives lost.
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Washington
Stimson
War Department
Russia
Japan
Mighty Russian pincers drive into Manchuria 14 miles deep
Soviet invasion columns pierced into Manchuria from east and west in a coordinated pincers move. Eastern prong reached nine to fourteen miles, capturing Jinjin Sume near an airport town 33 miles inside the border. Farther north, Russians seized Puyuan near the Amur and Ussuri fronts as U.S. planes and Chinese parachutists aided the advance.
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London
Manchuria
Jinjin Sume
Outer Mongolia
Maritime Provinces
Moscow
Japan
Kwantung
U. S
China
Red Army
Amur
Ussuri
Khabarovsk
Puyuan
Lewis and Clark Program Honors Pioneers in Dillon
Dillon program marks 140th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Prof. Rush Jordan extols the explorers as Montana’s true pioneers while reading from their journal. The ceremony re-dedicated the Union Pacific depot lawn marker, with the Beaverhead DAR chapter leading the event.
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Dillon
Lewis and Clark
Montana
Rush Jordan
Beaverhead
American Pioneer Trails Association
Jordan
Explorers’ Journal
Union Pacific
Daughters of the American Revolution
Lewis D. Smith
O. A. Bergeson
More Pork Promised for Civilian Use
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announces a further 29 percent cut in government pork purchases from federally inspected slaughterhouses effective Sunday. The move, starting August 12, is expected to add about 10 million pounds of pork weekly for civilians.
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Washington
Anderson
President Urges Quick Removal of Restrictions
President Truman urged lifting wartime production controls as soon as possible to foster a peacetime economy while insisting some limits remain to regulate material allocation and curb costs. He outlined a five point reconversion plan urging private industry to resume civilian output with WPB continuing essential measures. He sent the letter to War Production Board chairman J A Krug amid pricing and materials debates with OPA.
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Washington
Truman
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
WPB
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Truman urges Japanese civilians to flee cities amid atomic threat
President Truman in a nation wide radio address from Washington urged Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately under penalty of atomic bombing of factories until Japan quits the war. He welcomed the Soviet Union as ally and said Moscow agreed to fight Japan before the atomic bomb was disclosed. He outlined postwar base protection, free navigation of European waterways, and ongoing plans in the United Nations framework.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
Russia
Soviet Union
Pacific
Berlin
United States
United State
Europe
Potsdam
Foreign Ministers Council
Carrier Planes Renew Attacks Across Japan and Honshu
More than 1,200 American and British carrier planes struck northern Honshu and the Tokyo Osaka regions in a second day of raids in support of Russia’s Manchurian advance. B-29 Superfortresses hit Tokyo and Osaka while a prior Kamaishi bombardment marked an Allied push into Japan’s mainland.
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Guam
U.P
Manchuria
Honshu
Tokyo
Osaka
Japan
Kwantung Army
Kamaishi
Adm
William F. Halsey
Third Fleet
Carl Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Forces Headquarters
Kyushu
Nagasaki
Tokyo Arsenal
Nippon Oil
Amagasaki
United Press
Richard W. Johnston
Stettinius Named U.S. Ambassador to UN Prep Commission
President Truman named Edward R. Stettinius Jr as the U S representative on the United Nations preparatory commission with ambassadorial rank. The appointment follows his leadership of the American delegation in drafting the 50 nation treaty in San Francisco for postwar peace.
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Washington
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
United States
United Nations Organization
Truman
Stettinius
San Francisco
Airmen Hammer Honshu in Numerous Attacks
Far Eastern Air force units swept a 3,000 mile front from Korea to Java destroying or damaging over 60 Japanese vessels in 24 hours. Honshu air raids hit air bases and industry, with 47 enemy planes destroyed or damaged. Usa air base attacked. Omuta zinc factories and refineries blasted by B 24 Liberators.
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Manila
U.P
Far Eastern Air Force
Korea
Java
Honshu
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
France
USA
Thunderbolt
Omuta
Kyuu
Anti
Injured Parachuting Forest Fire Fighter Receives First Aid
Near Mis soula a parachute forest fire jumper Neil ford Eller fell eighty feet after his parachute fouled. Paradoctor Capt. Amos Little provided aid and he will be moved seven miles through thick forest by smoke jumpers to an ambulance once a trail to the road is cleared.
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Missoula
Missoua
Neilford Eller
Amos Little
Air Force
Great Falls
Forest Service
Eller
Little
Marlboro
Mass
High Crown Peak
Colorado
New Fire Front in Oregon Threatens 4500 Acre Burn
A new major fire front developing in Oregon on the Warm Springs Indian reservation endangers 4,500 acres. Two fires in Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir stands threat to merge. Additional fires on state land reach 600 acres in Applegate Josephine county and another 200 acres in Rogue View. The North Fork of the Trask flows toward Siuslaw National Forest with trails bordering the blaze on the east.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Warm Springs
Applegate
Josephine County
Rogue View
Trask
Siuslaw National Forest
Empire Builder Collision Kills 15, Injures Many
In Michigan 15 dead and many injured after the second section of the Great Northern Empire Builder rammed the rear of the first section. Reports cite possible reasons for the stop and describe emergency dispatches from Grand Forks Lake and Devils Lake as doctors and nurses rush to the scene 54 miles west of Grand Forks and 34 miles east of Devils Lake.
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Michigan
N. D
Great Northern Railway
Grand Forks
Lake
St. Paul
Minn
Devils Lake
N. C
Moore
Chicago
Twin Cities
Empire Builder
Michigan City
Japan Expected Surrender May Come Sudden
Moscow reports that Japan’s unconditional surrender could arrive abruptly under a combined strike by Soviet Siberian forces, atom bombs, B thirty series and the U S Third Fleet. Cadets at the Moscow Military Academy seek deployment to the Far East as Russians express resolve to crush Japanese land armies swiftly.
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Moscow
U.P
Japan
Russia
Asia
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Japa
Reds
White House
James F. Byrnes
William D. Leahy
John Rous
United
Hirohito
Thomas F. Farrell
Marianas
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
By Douglas B. Cornell
Halsey
Edward L. Thomas
Far Eastern Air Forces
Hugh Crumpler
West Point
Siberia
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