MacArthur Likely to Be Named High Commander
Reports from Washington indicate General Douglas MacArthur is expected to accept and enforce Japan's unconditional surrender as supreme Allied commander. The announcement, transmitted via Swiss channels, suggests the ceremony may occur aboard a Third Fleet battleship in Tokyo Bay within 72 hours, with Nimitz a possible alternative.
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Washington
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
White House
Australia
MacArthur
Tokyo
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
London
Tokyo Bay
Office of War Information
James F. Byrnes
United States
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
China
War Offensive Against Japan Resumed By U S Forces
The United States resumes a full strength offensive against Japan in support of the Big Four demand for unconditional surrender. Third Fleet reports 711 enemy planes and 94 ships damaged or sunk in a two day assault on northern Honshu. The war continues as Japan is urged to submit to Allied command and a new atomic bomb is prepared for potential future use.
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Guam
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Third Fleet
Northern
Honsu
U. S
High Command
Hiroshima
Nimitz
Pacific
United Nations Relief Chief Seeks Over Two Billion
Director General Herbert Lehman said UNA R A requires more than 2 billion dollars to sustain relief and rehabilitation work as war ends in the Pacific doubles the task. He warned the sum may still only bridge the gap until restoration begins and noted earlier demands for 1.5 billion more for next year.
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London
Herbert Lehman
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Pacific
Lehman
United Nations
Far East Air Force raids hit Kumamoto and Oita
Gen. MacArthur announced that more than 500 Far East Air Force bombers and fighters carried out a heavy saturation raid on Kumamoto in western Kyushu. Liberators Mitchells attack bombers Thunderbolts and Lightnings faced light to heavy anti aircraft fire. Simultaneously 10 Liberators struck Oita on Kyushu’s opposite side.
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Manila
Far East Air Force
Kumamoto
Kyushu
MacArthur
Kenney
Oita
Butte Pilot Survives Death Speed Flight Over Sicily
First Lt. Arthur S. Lovera, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel N Lovera, formerly of 623 Utah and now of El Monte California, dodged a 600 mph space sweep during a P 38 mission over Sicily in spring 1943. He flew alone into a dive amid German 109s, surviving when many could not.
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Butte
Arthur S. Lovera
Samuel N. Lovera
Utah
el Monte
Calif
Ethel L. Pallgren
Lovera
Sicily
Japanese Receive Allied Answer To Surrender Offer
The United States reply to Japan’s peace bid was received and decoded by the Swiss State department. Undersecretary Stucki summoned the Japanese minister Shumi Kase to a conference. Kase declined to comment, saying he was in a hurry as he drove away toward Parliament. Kase will transmit the message to Tokyo.
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Bern
United States
Japan
Swiss State Department
Stucki
Shumishi Kase
Kase
Japanese Attache Credits Atomic Bomb for Capitulatory Offer
In Stockholm Maj. Gen. Makoto Onodera says Japan offered surrender mainly because of the atomic bomb. He claims peace is timely and war became a sporting contest, dismissing Russian entry and noting future conflicts may be on the golf course. He offers a casual, sometimes theatrical view of wartime events.
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Stockholm
Makoto Onodera
Japan
Onodera
United States
China
Hatas
United Nations
Cori
Navy Announces Loss of Sub and Destroyer
The Navy reported the submarine Bonefish overdue from patrol presumed lost with 85 officers and men aboard. The destroyer Callaghan was sunk in the Okinawa area with three killed 49 missing and 73 wounded. A communique cited action but gave no details.
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Washington
Navy
Okinawa
Halt Ordered on Building 95 Navy Ships
Washington reports a halt to building 95 ships costing 1.2 billion dollars as Navy needs shrink. Army plans foresee cutbacks totaling more than 25 billion dollars yearly, with 56 combatant ships affected including Illinois Reprisal Iwo Jima carriers and 10 heavy cruisers.
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Washington
Navy
Army
John W. Snyder
Japan
Snyder
Illinois
Philadelphia
New York
Iwo Jima
Newport News
Russians Reach Harbin Area in Major Manchuria Push
Moscow announced rapid 50 mile Soviet advances across the Great Khingan into western Manchuria breaking into river valleys leading toward Harbin. Three Far Eastern armies under Marshal Vasilevsky launched tank tipped assaults along five points on the frontier converging on Harbin from west north and east.
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London
Manchuria
Harbin
Moscow
Japan
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Red Army
Manchurian
Kharbarovsk
Vladivostok
Kwantung Army
Little Increase in Sugar Forecast
A Washington Agriculture department spokesman said ending the war with Japan would give civilians only a slight sugar increase for some time. If the war ends soon and the Army is reduced quickly, a small rise is possible. Sugar stocks on July 1 stood at 684,020 tons, dangerously low versus 1,286,822 a year earlier and about 1.5 million in normal midyear years.
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Washington
Japan
Agriculture Department
Department
Montana Legion Opens One Day State Convention
The Montana Department of American Legion opens a one day convention in Butte with a streamlined agenda focused on veteran welfare and rehabilitation for World War I and World War II servicemen. George A. Wright of Havre leads sessions at Legion hall as officials from Helena Great Falls and Billings attend.
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Pacific
Montana Department of American Legion
Butte Legion Hall
ODT
Legion
George A. Wright
Havre
Legion Hall
Silver Bow Post No. 1
Butte
Herbert Kibler
Helena
Fred Lehn
J. C. Christofferson
Great Falls
John Love
Miles City
Charles Rogers
Billings
Frank Flaherty
Barney Johnson
E. B. Wainwright
Silver Bow Post
Dewey Price
John Duggan
Jamel Comba
Joe Burns
Pete John
Walter Barnard
Japanese People in Dark on Surrender Offer
United States wartime dispatches report Japan kept its people uninformed about surrender terms while government media hint at defeat. Tokyo radio and newspapers focus on mobilization and royal succession implications as observers speculate on a regency for Akihito.
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Roger Johnson
San Francisco
U.P
Japan
Comet
Potsdam
United Press
FCC
Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Hirohito
Tokyo Radio
United States Office of War Information
Tokyo
Akihito
Akimito
Emperor Hirohito
Domei
Yomiuri
Butte Weather Forecast For Sunday Turns Variable
Butte expects a clear to partly cloudy forenoon with afternoon clouds and scattered showers or thunderstorms. A dry period near dark is anticipated. Saturday peaks at 80 with a 41 low. Sunday highs range from 75 to 85 in central portions.
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Butte
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