Wheeler Urges Immediate Halt to Draft and Voluntary Occupation Troops
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana called for stopping the draft at once arguing enlistment should supply occupation troops. He said soldiers in Europe are bitter and should be brought home as transport allows. He favored voluntary enlistment for occupation forces and opposed peacetime conscription, urging use of scientists to develop new weapons and keep atomic bomb secrets under national control. He viewed Europe as heading toward Communist influence and predicted reduced freedoms, while supporting private industry to reintegrate war workers without heavy government interference.
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Helena
Burton K. Wheeler
Wheeler
United States
England
Russia
Europe
Orient
Britain
France
Washington
Congress
D Ewart Urges Montana to Lead Reconstruction Course
Rep Wesley A D Ewart on tour of eastern Montana urged the state to avoid federal dictation during postwar reconstruction. He said federal aid is welcome but Montana must retain sovereign rights while private industry must create most new jobs. He cited a 4 5 million fund for rural electrification highways and water projects to employ veterans and displaced workers. Six military prisoners escaped from Fort Missoula disciplinary barracks in three trucks near 4 pm. No further details were provided.
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Great Falls
U.P
Wesley A. D’ewart
Montana
Congress
United States
Washington
D'Ewart
D’ewart
Gove
Fort Missoula
Butte
Missoula
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana Thursday
Butte expects clear to partly cloudy start, then increasing cloudiness with afternoon and evening thunder showers. Highs around 83 on Thursday and 84 on Wednesday. Montana generally fair with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the west and warmer temperatures around 85 to 95.
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Butte
Montana
Air Raid Halts German Bomb Project in Czecho Slovakia
In Prague a shattered American air raid, Czech sabotage, and an accident delayed German attempts to develop an atomic bomb. German engineer Eisenbeck worked at a radio plant in Vysocany. work halted in 1943, then resumed later in the war. Apparatus sent to Berlin was damaged by Czech workers before shipment.
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Prague
Czecho- Slovakia
Eisenbeck
Vysocany
Imperial Research Institute
Berlin
Administration Accused of Fumbling Ball
Washington August 22 U P Herbert Brownell Jr Republican national committee chairman accused the administration of fumbling reconversion and charged Governor Wallgren of denying jobs to returning veterans who are Republicans He predicted GOP control of Congress in 1946 due to public dissatisfaction with reconversion and cited a Spokane Washington case where a veteran was told Republicans need not apply for a job and should wait for their party to return to power
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Washington
U.P
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Republican National Committee
Mon C. Wallgren
Truman
Republican Party
Brownell
Congress
New Deal
White House
Wallgren
Milton Morsing
Alaska
Washington State Highway Department
Spokane
Highway Department
Olympia
Morsing
Wellgren
United Press
Restrictions on Deliveries to End Nov 1
Washington reports that wholesale and retail motor truck deliveries will be lifted on November 1. The order cuts Sunday deliveries and limits most commodities to two retail deliveries weekly, with stricter schedules for milk laundry dry cleaning meat vegetables bread canned goods and other staples.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Signs of peace in Atlanta prompt curious slogan
An Atlanta filling station displayed a bold message promising a free pack of cigarettes with every grease job, a move seen as perhaps too much for drivers already weary from peace-time chatter and smoke.
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Atlanta
Chinese to occupy Hong Kong Formosa and Indo China
Chinese surrender terms disclosed say Chiang Kai-shek troops will occupy former British crown colony Hong Kong the island fortress Formosa northern Indo China and part of Thailand while British and French forces prepare to hand over administration in liberated regions.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Hong Kong
Formosa
Indo-China
Thailand
Ernest Bevin
China
High Command
Foreign Office
K. C. Wu
Chiang
London
France
Ban on Holiday Trains Lifted
Washington reports the Office of Defense Transportation lifted its ban on seasonal passenger trains allowing postwar seaside and resort services to resume for Labor Day. Railroads may operate trains under 35 percent capacity. veterans inflow, veterans returning, could affect car availability. WPB notes lumber controls easing with full release by Oct 1 and industrial construction liberalized.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
DDT
WPB
New Sugar Stamp Keeps Current Ration Through Winter
The new sugar stamp valid Sept. 1 will maintain the current five pounds for four months as sugar supplies stay tight. OPA plans to announce details soon. The household ration is down about 25 percent from prewar levels and imports are not expected to rise until next year. The stamp likely will be No. 38 in ration book four, skipping No. 37 due to misapplication for home canning last year.
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Washington
OPA
MacArthur to lead invasion marks Japan occupation
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced target date for the Allied occupation of Japan with sea and air landings to seize Tokyo area. Airborne and naval forces will secure Atsugi airfield and Yokosuka base while Nipponese assets are disarmed. Follow up steps include surrender documents signed in Tokyo region.
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Japan
MacArthur
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Imperial General Staff
U.S
Atsugi
Pacific Islands
Yokosuka Naval Base
Tokyo Bay
Atsugi Airfield
Domel
Missouri
Gen. MacArthur
Associated Press
Adm. Halsey
Bypassed Jap Garrison On Mili Surrenders At Last
The small Japanese garrison on Mili in the Marshalls surrendered aboard an American warship, the first capitulation on a bypassed atoll since Japan quit the war. Capt. Masatori Suiga formally surrendered to Capt. H B Grow, Majuro commander, after 48 hour notice.
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Guam
Mili
Marshalls
Japan
Marianas
Navy
U.S. S
Ponape
Carolines
Central Pacific
United States
Grow
Majuro Atoll
W. K. Harrill
Marshall and
Gilbert
Western Automobile Industry Could Rise in West
Colorado Fuel and Iron issued a statement outlining possible decentralization of the automobile industry. It notes conversion of Utah’s Geneva Steel plant could supply flat rolled steel in quantity for the West and that western firms already producing auto parts could expand. Locations eyed include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Trinidad and other Colorado cities.
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Denver
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation
Minnequa Steel
Pueblo
Geneva
Utah
West
Colorado Springs
Trinidad
Colorado
Japanese attempt to sink U S carriers foiled by fighters
Seattle dispatch reports a small group of American fighters repelled a Japanese effort to sink two damaged U S carriers, the Wasp and Franklin, off Kyushu last March. The Wasp, wounded March 19, later returned to the Pacific. the Franklin awaited extensive repairs in Brooklyn. Casualties were heavy on both ships.
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U.S
Seattle
H.F.R
United States
Wasp
Franklin
Kyushu
Pacific
Bremerton
Wash
Navy
Kure Naval Base
Honshu
Okinawa
Flying Mercy Teams Rescue POWs Across Asia
Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright possibly headed to Chungking after being freed from a Manchurian camp. Mercy teams parachuted into Japanese lines to aid internees in camps in Asia, with Wainwright to be flown from Mukden to Chungking. a rescue plane was directed from Keijo, but Japanese did not permit viewing Allied prisoners. An B 24 from Mukden to Hsian was sent for Wainwright and 18 prisoners in the camp, eleven needing swift evacuation.
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Chungking
Jonathan M. Wainwright
United States
Corregidor
Manchuria
China
America
Asiatic
Korea
Keijo
Weihsien
Mukden
Hsian
Wainwright
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
Russians Occupy Port Arthur and Kurile Islands
Soviet airborne troops seized Port Arthur and Darien in Manchuria and landed on Simusyu in the Kurile chain while Kamchatka forces crossed towards northern Kuriles. Jap POWs total 71,000 with 20 generals captured as Manchuria and Sakhalin activity ends.
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London
U.P
Darien
Port Arthur
Kwantung Peninsula
Kamchatka Peninsula
Kurile Islands
Russia
Manchuria
Pacific
Sakhalin Island
Radio
Moscow
Kuriles Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Kuriles
Kamchatka
Simusyu
Shumushu Jima
Hongo
Kwantung Army
Sakhalin
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Red Army
Willow Run Offered to Auto Company
Willow Run, the government war project valued at 100 million dollars, has been offered to the Graham Paige Motors corporation for automobile production. The offer was reportedly directed to Henry Kaiser and Joseph Frazer, head of Graham Paige, who have formed a joint venture to produce two auto models.
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Detroit
U.P
Willow Run
Graham-Paige Motors Corporation
United Press
Henry Kaiser
California
Joseph Frazer
Graham-Paige
Eleven Billion Is Bond Goal
Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson set an $11 billion Victory Loan target with the campaign to begin October 29. About $4 billion will come from individual purchases, the rest from non bank investors. Series E bonds sales aim at $2 billion. Funds are to cover troop demobilization and related postwar costs.
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Washington
U?p
Federal Reserve System
American Bankers Association
Urgent Diet Session Sought in Japan Amid Allied Peace Pressure
An extraordinary session of Japan’s diet is urged by multiple political groups to demonstrate government good faith and enable emergency measures. If called, it could revise election law and lead to a general election, with plans to form new political parties involving the public and avoid exclusive diet member groups.
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Associated Press
Japan
Domei
Domet
Dal Nipepon Political Association
Diet
Yomiuri Hochi
Hochi
Mainichi Simbun
Nippon Times
Heap Sleepy Indian Blocks Bathroom
In Great Falls on August 22 a 34 year old Indian slept through a hotel bathroom door blockade. Patrolman Andy Nemec entered via a rear window and found the man sound asleep with his back to the door. The next day he did not appear for police court.
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Great Falls
Andy Nemec
De Gaulle Arrives in Washington for Three Day State Visit
Gen. Charles De Gaulle arrives for a three day state visit to the United States and a first personal meeting with President Truman at the White House. He declares the United States must lead in organizing the world to conform to allied principles. De Gaulle stresses cooperation with the United States and aims to improve relations with Truman.
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United States
de Gaulle
Washington
U.P
Charles de Gaulle
Truman
National Airport
White House
Roosevelt
Europe
Asia
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