Drastic Cut Made in U S Budget After Japan Victory
Washington announces a deep revision lowering the 1946 budget plan after Japan's surrender. War spending is cut to about 50.5 billion dollars, with total outlays and receipts revised as Congress prepares to reevaluate authorizations. Budget Director Harold D. Smith notes July August spending accelerated and that postwar reductions will follow.
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Washington
Japan
Budget Bureau
Harold D. Smith
Congress
Smith
Truman
Giant Sub Taken From Japanese Giant Sub Taken From Japanese
Two large Japanese submarines, including the 5,500 ton I 400, are inspected by U S naval officers in Sagami Bay. Prize crews under Cmdr Hiram Cassedy and Cmdr Clyde Stevens take over the ships from U S destroyers. The subs can carry planes, have catapults, and served to supply garrisons and hunt Allies. The I 400 is nearly twice the size of the Nautilus and carries 21 officers and 160 men. Both subs flew black surrender flags as they were seized.
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Sagami Bay
Japan
U. S
Cmdr
Hiram Cassedy
Brookhaven
Miss
Pujiyama
Clyde Stevens
Denver
P. L. Devos
Bangust
Harold Martin
Atlanta
Marine Combat
America
Weather Outlook For Butte And Montana
Butte areas expect clearing to partly cloudy Friday forenoon with increasing cloudiness and scattered light showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening then clearing after dark. Cool with a high near 76. Montana west of Divide to be mostly cloudy Friday with a high 80 to 85. East of Divide partly cloudy and slightly cooler with highs near 89 to 85.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Opposition to Truman jobless benefits measure
Washington observers report sharp resistance as House Ways and Means men pledge to block a plan for unemployment relief up to 25 dollars a week for 26 weeks. Doughton argued benefits may encourage loafing while stressing labor shortages across trades and industries.
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Washington
Doughton
D-N. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Coughton
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Altmeyer
John W. Snyder
Capitol Bill
Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means
Snyder
Speedy Changes Are Under Way
Washington dispatch reports rapid peacetime production gains forecast by War Production Board head J. A. Krug and a Presidential move to end the 48 hour week. Unemployment rising with about half a million seeking pay, while butter cheese and meat prices show improvement. Truman acts to end wartime controls as the changes accelerate.
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Associated Press
WPB
Washington
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
Truman
Hiroshima Destroyed in One Atomic Bomb Strike
Tokyo dispatch reports Hiroshima wiped out by a single atomic bomb dropped by a Superfortress on August 6. The city’s 300,000 population is gone. death toll expected around 100,606 with ongoing burn injuries. Reporter Leslie Nakashima describes near-total destruction at Hiroshima Station and surrounding areas.
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Leslie Nakashima
United Press
Tokyo
Powers
U. P
Robert Bellaire
U.P
Hiroshima
U. S
Hull Denies Pearl Harbor Ultimatum Charge in 1941 Letter
The State department released an unpublished Cordell Hull letter stating his peace proposals to Japan in November 1941 were not an ultimatum. He said by November 25 he believed national defense should be the Army and Navy’s concern, the day before presenting American proposals to Japan.
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Washington
State Department
Cordell Hull
Japan
Orient
Hull
Army
Pearl Harbor
Navy
James F. Byrnes
Sugar Beet Crop Outlook Bright In Great Western Territory
Frank Kemp president of Great Western Sugar says the sugar beet crop outlook across Colorado Montana Wyoming and western Nebraska is the best in years after an inspection trip. He notes cooler areas slowed growth but expects yields well ahead of last year if warm dry weather continues.
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Denver
Frank Kemp
Great Western Sugar Company
Colorado
Montana
Wyoming
Nebraska
Anaconda Details War Role by Hoover at Rotary Talk
W H Hoover vice president of Anaconda Copper Mining outlined the company’s war work before Butte Rotary club. He praised American industry’s unity and cited leaders C F P Kelley J R Hobbins D M Kelly and the staff in Montana and in Anaconda Wire and Cable and American Brass plants for supplying vital metals and supporting allied forces.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
W. H. Hoover
A. C. M. Company
America
Mr. Hoover
Butte Rotary Club
Anaconda
C. F P. Kelley
Anaconda Company
J. R. Hobbins
D. M. Kelly
Montana
American Brass Company
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
United States
Former N Y G Man Breaks Up Gang
Berlin report says Captain Charles Leonetti a former New York G man halted a five man gang at Potsdammer station in the American zone by firing on them with his service forty five. Three of the attackers were hit and two died. He had previously been a photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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Berlin
Charles
Leonetti
New York
Potsdammer
Vogue
Vanity Fair
Move to Release Doctors Found in Congress Hearing
Washington August 30. A move was launched in Congress to speed the transfer of doctors from the armed forces back to civilian practice. The House military committee set a Friday hearing on the subject as members said the nation's health will be greatly impaired unless immediate action is taken. They asserted nearly all communities are short of doctors.
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Washington
Congress
House Military Committee
Tang submarine Tang sunk near Formosa last Oct. 25
Comdr Richard H. O Kane of Durham New Hampshire recounts rescue by mercy fleet after nine crew members escaped the Tang sinking and endured months in Omori camp. He and eight others were rescued from the Formosa area after drifting at sea and facing harsh interrogation and confinement. The Tang had been overdue since February.
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Reeves
Omori
U.P
Tang
Formosa
Richard H. O'Kane
Durham
N. H
O'Kane
Navy
Kyushu
United States
Silent Service
Jesse
Fire at Kaiser Oregon shipyards causes millions in damage
A welder's torch sparked a blaze at the Kaiser Oregon shipyards in Portland. The four and a half hour fire damaged seven troop and victory ships, docks, shops, and equipment. Loss estimates dropped to three million with interiors largely repairable, yard work halted until after Labor Day, and three ships near completion.
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Portland
Ore
U.P
Kaiser Oregon
Pearl Harbor
Kaiser
Victorious Yank Sets Up Headquarters in Yokohama
General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan and establishes his occupation leadership from Yokohama. He tours Atsugi and meets paratroopers, noting a long road to Tokyo and declaring surrender plans going smoothly. The Missouri will host the surrender ceremony as Japan signs the articles ending the war.
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Yokohama
Victorious
U. S
Yokosuka Naval Base
Tokyo
MacArthur
Melbourn
Atsugi Air Base
Imperial Palace
Atsugi
New Grand Hotel
Japan
Imperial
Hirohito
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Ground-Breaking Ceremony Set for High School WWII Memorial
Ground-breaking ceremonies at 3:30 p m will mark construction of a World War II memorial plaque for Butte High School in Soldiers Memorial Park South Wyoming The Silver B organization sponsors the project with Herbert Mills and John Curtis to break ground The plaque honors over 4000 former students who served in WWII military forces W P Donnelly chairs the project committee and clergy will participate.
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Butte Silver B
Soldiers Memorial Park
South
Wyoming
Herbert Mills
John Curtis
W. P. Donnelly
Frank L. Harrington
Thomas Ashworth
Howard L. Fineberg
Free Americans Ride Through Streets of Tokyo
U P dispatch from Tokyo outlines the first American entry into the ruined city since 1941. James F. McGlincy describes burned trolley cars, destroyed factories, and a grateful populace amid rubble as he toured with the first U.S. party into the capital.
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Tokyo
United Press War
James F. McGlincy
McGlincy
Paris
Butte and Anaconda Men Land in Japan in Wartime Landing
Big Bill Lazetich from AnacondaMontana, first lieutenant and former Montana Grizzly footballer, landed in Yokosuka Japan with a bandaged leg from Okinawa and sought to join the final assault. Lt Col Robert Rickert of Butte, operations officer, arrived at Cape Futtsu with the Marine vanguard at 5 58 am. Rickert has served nine and a half years and fought in many operations.
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University of Montana
Japan
Okinawa
Lazetich
Anaconda
Mont
Robert Rickert
Butte
Lewistown
Rickert
Cape Futtsu
U S Finland ties restored after wartime split
Washington announces the United States re establishes diplomatic relations with Finland as of midnight Friday with Benjamin M Hulley to act as chargé d affaires pending a envoy appointment. The move ends a cooling period dating to June 1941 though earlier ties included sympathy for Finland’s war efforts and debt payments.
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Washington
Little
Finland
United States
State Department
Benjamin M. Hulley
Helsinki
Casualties Heavy in Air Attacks on Tokyo
ATSUGI Japan August 30 A Japanese newspaperman estimates 300000 to 500000 killed or wounded by great Superfort fire raids on Tokyo. Russian trade representative Agneev says official figures show nearly 1000000 homes razed leaving about 380000 standing as inflation and food shortages grip the city.
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Atsugi
Japan
Tokyo
Nicholai P. Agneev
Domei Agency
Agueer
Agueev
Victory in Europe Cost Assessed
Washington reports the Army Air Forces suffered 38,185 airmen killed or missing and 18,418 aircraft lost in Europe while sea warfare cost 4,612 American soldiers their lives. Figures released in Air Force journal and by the War Department detail three years of air and sea combat casualties.
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Washington
Europe
Army Air Force
Airforce
A. A. FP
War Department
Governor Ford to Speak at Billings Luncheon
Governor Sam Ford will be guest and principal speaker at a Billings Commercial Club luncheon. He will discuss postwar plans and development for Montana. George E. Snell announced the program.
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Billings
Sam Ford
Billings Commercial Club
Bo George E. Snell
Montana
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N. Y
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Russell Brines
Yokoama
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