Wainwright Found Safe Among War Prisoners in Manchuria
Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright aged 61 famed for Corregidor led the last stand in the Philippines and was found safe by U S rescue teams in Manchuria. Maj Gen George M Parker Jr also among hundreds located in camps as humanitarian drops sparked pandemonium.
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Chungking
Jonathan M
Skinny) Wainwright
Corregidor Rock
Manchuria
Wainwright
China
George M. Parker, Jr
Portland, Ore
Philippines
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
United States
Corregidor
Wedemeyer
James Devereaux
Wake Island
Fortress Rock of Corregidor
Wainnwright
Sian
Netherlands East Indies
A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Bataan
Devereaux
Peiping
American Broadcasting Company
Stock Sale Opens New Montana Livestock Firm At Butte
The Montana Livestock and Auction company's stockyards near Butte will host a 1500 head cattle sale marking the firm’s official opening. Buyers from across the country travel by plane, rail, and car to witness the event with Herefords dominant in the stock. Don Wright of Libby serves as auctioneer as William P. Studdert and Floyd E. Skelton oversee the modernized facility.
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Montana Livestock and Auction Company
Butte
Midwest
Pacific Northwest
Southwest
Pacific Coast
William P. Studdert
Don Wright
Libby
Studdert
Philipsburg
Floyd E. Skelton
Idaho
Butte Public
Bernadotte Stricken By Gastric Hemorrhage
Count Folke Bernadotte, who helped arrange a meeting with Heinrich Himmler, suffered a gastric hemorrhage Saturday requiring a blood transfusion in Stockholm.
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Stockholm
Folke Bernadotte
Heinrich Himmler
Communists in China Defy Chiang Regime
Communist Commander Gen. Chu Teh told Chiang Kai-shek to act to avert civil war as 260,000,000 Chinese were described as dissatisfied. Reports said 20,000 to 30,000 guerrillas gathered near Wuhu aiming toward Nanking. Chu demanded six terms including inclusion of Communists in surrender, Japan peace, and an all party coalition government.
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Chungking
Chu Teh
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Chiang
Yangtze River
Wuhu
Nanking
Chu
Japan
Yasuji Okamura
Yenan
Truman aging plan calls for new Public Welfare Department
Washington reports a proposed reorganization to bring welfare and labor into a cabinet level structure. A new Public Welfare Department and a Labor relations bureau under Lewis B. Schwellenbach are among early proposals in the remodeling blueprint.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
Department of Public Welfare
Truman
Bureau of Labor Relations
Labor Department
Senate
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
American Rescue Teams Parachuted Into Jap Areas to Aid POWs
Brig. Gen. George Olmstead described teams of six volunteers dropped into nine centers from Manchuria to Indo China to aid about 20,000 Allied prisoners and 15,000 civilian internees. Each team carried a radio and 500 pounds of medical supplies and food, facing unknown risk as they operated with prior Japanese warnings.
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Chungking
George Olmstead
Des Moines
Iowa
Olmstead
Manchuria
Indo-China
Bukden
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Peiping
Weihsin
Shantung Province
Korea
Shanghai
Canton-Hong Kong
Hainan
Formosa
Indo- China
Mukden
Emergency War Agencies to Be Liquidated
Washington reports most wartime emergency agencies will be dismantled soon with President Truman directing rapid liquidation. The plan shifts functions to standard departments and may create a new welfare department. Some agencies have folded or will in weeks while the war production board and OPA remain for reconversion. Snyder's Office remains, with other agency lifespans extended to 1947.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
War Labor Board
John W. Snyder
Office of War Mobilization
Snyder
Congress
Office of Civilian Defense
Office of Censorship
Soviet Unveils Vienna Monument to Red Army Soldiers
In Schwarzenberg Platz Soviet Russia dedicated a memorial to Red Army men who died capturing Vienna. A heroic statue of a soldier with a tommygun rises on a 60 foot marble shaft, encircled by a colonnade and graves of Russian generals killed in the city.
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Vienna
Soviet
Russia
Red Army
Schwarzenberg Platz
Roosevelt eyed New York newspaper after presidency
Stephen Early said Sunday that President Roosevelt contemplated starting a New York newspaper after completing a fourth term. The remark reflects ongoing speculation about his post presidency plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Stephen Early
Yanks Demand New Type Haircut the Tokyo Trim
In Guam on August 19 soldiers seek the Tokyo trim hair cut as they expect to enter Japan. Army and Navy barbershops have been delaged with demand for a close clip all around. Hundreds of officers and men order tighter styles to keep hair clean and ready for possible deployment to Tokyo.
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Guam
Army
Navy
Tokyo
Japan
Bomber Sprays City With DDT Over Rockford Illinois
A B 25 Mitchell bomber released DDT over Rockford Illinois at 150 feet, 200 mph as part of a polio research trial supervised by Dr John R Paul of Yale. The city reports 140 infantile paralysis cases since July, with 16 deaths since the outbreak began and no new cases since 9 p.m. Saturday.
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Rockford
Ill
John R. Paul
Yale University
Illinois
Elizabeth clerical worker hopes hiccups stay gone
In McKeesport Pennsylvania Angelina Lucente 26 from Elizabeth, suffered non stop hiccoughs for two weeks and was hospitalized. She lay still Sunday with fingers crossed that the attack would not return as doctors hope for a permanent recovery.
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Mckeesport
Angelina Lucente
Elizabeth
Resistance in Manchuria Mostly Ended War report from London summarizes
Soviet Russia announced that the Kwantung army in Manchuria had mostly ceased resistance and that Far Eastern armies halted operations in the Russo-Japanese war. Paratroopers landed at Harbin Mukden and Hsinking as cities prepared to surrender. The communique claimed 98 000 prisoners and mass surrenders across fronts with Malinovsky’s armor approaching Mukden and American POWs among those held. The First Far Eastern army advanced on Harbin from the east with 55 000 Japanese surrendering.
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London
U.P
Soviet
Russia
Kwantung
Manchuria
Harbin
Mukden
Hsinking
Kwantung Army
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Jonathan Wainwright
Far Eastern Army
Yenshaw
Japanese in China Accept Plans for Formal Surrender
The Japanese army in China accepted Chiang Kai-shek's arrangements for a formal surrender. Gen Yasuji Okamura sent word that surrender envoys would go to Chihkiang in western Hunan province on Tuesday to receive orders from Gen Ho Ying-Chin, complying with Chiang's instructions.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Yasuji Okamura
Chiang
Chihkiang
Hunan
Ho Ying-Chin
Japanese envoy talks on MacArthur entry facilities begin
Manila dispatch reports Emperor Hirohito's envoys questioned about airports and other facilities needed for General MacArthur's entry into Japan as head of occupation forces. The first conference, lasting over five hours, featured Lt Gen Sutherland and Lt Gen Kawabe steering discussions with six Japanese and six American delegates. The session ended with no announced outcomes and continued later in the day.
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Manila
Hirohito
MacArthur
Japan
Tokyo
Richard K. Sutherland
Takashiro Kawabe
Imperial General Staff
Sutherland
Nicholsfield
Kawabe
Imperial Headquarters
Kuriles
United States Navy
Forest P Sherman
Pacific
Army
Stephen J Chamberlin
Charles A. Willoughby MacArthur
Lester J. Whitlock
Donald R. Hutchinson
Far East Air Forces
Willoughby
President Truman Leads Nation in Day of Prayer for Victory and Peace
President Truman held a national Day of Prayer service in the White House East Room with top officials and military chaplains. He voiced thanks for victory, prayed for healing and peace, and cited the courage of those who fought and suffered. In New York, thousands joined services across faiths.
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Washington
Truman
America
White House
Luther D. Miller
William N. Thomas
Army and Navy Chiefs of Chaplains
Mrs. Truman
Byrnes
Supreme Court
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Frank Knox
Secretary of the Navy
God
Miller
New York
Jap People See Pictures of Atomic Damage
The Japanese Comet news agency says Tokyo papers publish aerial views of Hiroshima showing a city reduced to ashes with one chimney standing, marking the first graphic description by Japanese press of atomic bomb damage. Tokyo reports unrest among civilians and troops fearing Allied occupation, while officials urge restraint to maintain public order amid crisis.
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San Francisco
Japanese Comet News Agency
Tokyo
Miroshima
Domei
Hirohito
Japan
War and Navy Ministries
Nippon Times
War Not Over for Minesweeper Fleet
In Guam on Monday August 20 UP reports the mine sweeper fleet remains active as crews prepare to clear Japanese waters of mines ahead of invasions into Japan. Lt. William T. Bell of the Triump h notes the work may be tougher than the enemy’s and calls for several hundred minesweepers to manage a task far larger than Okinawa’s.
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Guam
Japan
William T. Bell
Philadelphia
Triumph
Okinawa
Butte Weather Forecast Monday Warmer And Clearer
Butte expects clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions Monday and Monday night. Daytime high near 85, with Sunday reaching 52 as a low. Montana outlook shows Monday fair and cool with highs around 70 to 75.
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Butte
Montana
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