General Orders Step on It For Japan Demobilization
General MacArthur issued Order No 2 directing rapid demobilization of Japanese forces and outlining terms for American entry into Tokyo. It calls for the 1st Japanese army to report to Lt Gen Eichelberger, with the 1st Cavalry Division slated to lead the Tokyo occupation, followed by the 27th Division, 11th Airborne, and others.
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Yokohama
Japan
MacArthur
Tokyo
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Eichelberger
Sugiyama
General Army Staff
Empero Hirohito
First Cavalry Division
Manila
Neil Stewart
Woodvine
U.S
Okinawa
Yokohama-Tokyo
11Th Airborne
First Cavalry
Nippon
Korea
WMC Sets 14 Million Jobs as Goal
The War Manpower Commission targets 14 million factory jobs in the coming months as a first goal though many workers lose jobs in war plants after victory. The report warns of up to four million layoffs in six months and urges expansion in mining, building, trade, and farming to absorb returning veterans and displaced workers.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Japan
WMC
War
Navy Department
Army
Navy
Snake Rites Blamed in Preacher Death in Tennessee
Lewis E. Ford a 32 year old lay preacher from Dolly Pond Church of God near Chattanooga died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a religious service. His widow Mrs Bessie Ford said she would urge church members to participate in funeral rites. In Wise Virginia the wife of Reverend H O Kirk was bitten during a snake handling demonstration. She gave birth to a child Monday and both mother and infant died shortly after.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Virginia
Lewis E. Ford
Dolly Pond Church of God
Here
Bessie Ford
Wise
H. O. Kirk
234 Aleutian Klyers Reach Siberia
Eleven AAF reports that about 234 American airmen completed an 800 mile bombing run from the Aleutians to the Kuriles and landed in neutral Siberia after Japanese anti aircraft fire damaged their planes. The force included nine B 24s and 13 B 25s plus 11 Venturas and Harpoons from Fleet Air Wing Four. The largest forced landing occurred on September 11, 1943.
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Aleutians
U.P
Kuriles
Siberia
11Th
United States
Fleet Air Wing Four
Byrnes Reveals Yalta Understandings on Kuriles Sakhalin
Secretary of State James Byrnes disclosed that the United States and Soviet Union reached a six month old understanding at Yalta allowing the USSR to regain the Kuriles and southern Sakhalin. He also said he will appoint a special assistant to avoid future Pearl Harbors and that no decision on sharing the atomic bomb with the World Security Council has been made.
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Washington
U.P
James F. Byrnes
United States
Russia
Yalta
Japan
Soviet Union
Kuriles
Sakhalin Island
Pearl Harbors
War
Navy
State
Truman
World Security Council
Byrnes
Council of Foreign Ministers
London
Sakhalin
Solon Says Congress Afraid to Give Truman Broad Power
Rep Manasco said Congress fears granting the President broad power to cut and reorganize agencies. Harold Smith backed Truman to act more economically and effectively, but lawmakers favor limiting change to 21 agencies unless both houses consent. Manasco warned of future risks from broad powers.
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Solon
Congress
Truman
Washington
Rep
Manasco
D-Ala
Roosevelt
Harold Smith
House Committee On Expenditures
House
Senate
Smith
Bars Lifted for Loyal Japanese Americans Returning to Coast
The Army ended all bars against loyal Japanese Americans returning to the Pacific coast effective at midnight Pacific War Time. A mass exclusion program had banned people of Japanese ancestry from California Oregon and Washington since early in the war. The War Relocation Authority will close its eight relocation centers gradually with last shutdown planned for December 15. About 33,000 remain in centers. The Justice Department retains control over around 6,000 internees at Tule Lake segregation center. The move follows the 1942 exclusion program ending last December and replaces it with individual exclusion. Resettlement last spring provoked coastal protests and violence.
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Washington
U.P
Pacific Coast
FE. W. T
California
Oregon
War Relocation Authority
Justice Department
Tule Lake
Calif
United States
Supreme Court
West Coast
H. C. Pratt
Western Defense Command
Henry L. Stimson
Pratt
Congress to Start Work Today on Peace Problems
Congress returns to handle reconversion as the United States shifts from war to peace. President Truman seeks action on jobs unemployment aid selective service government remodeling and disposing of leftover war goods with possible added topics like taxes and lend lease. Leaders will decide if the president’s comprehensive message is delivered in person. Some members push to open an inquiry into the Pearl Harbor catastrophe.
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Washington
Congress
America
Truman
British Occupy Penang Island
British occupation forces have landed on Penang Island and found civilians suffering severe food shortages amid Japan’s Southeast Asia empire reclamation. Mountbatten ordered Japanese forces in Singapore to provide landings and hospital details while civilians pleaded for urgent rice supplies. Georgetown, Penang’s principal city, fell to the Japanese in early 1942 during the Malaya retreat, and Penang was formally agreed for occupation aboard HMS Nelson.
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Rangoon
Penang Island
Singapore
Japan
Southeast Asia
Straits Settlements
New Delhi
Louis Mountbatten
Java
United Press
Joe Fromm
Penang
Fromm
Georgetown
Malaya
Southwest Asia Command
H. M
Nelson
Burma
Miners Benefit as Rubber Boots Rationing Ends
Washington report says the OPA ended rationing of industrial rubber footwear on Tuesday. The footwear is worn mainly by workers in industry and by fishermen farmers and miners.
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Washington
OPA
Butte Forecast Cooler With Light Rain Wednesday
Butte area mostly cloudy and cooler with occasional light rain on Wednesday and Wednesday night. Tuesday's high 83 and low 53. Montana scattered showers in the north and west, cooler conditions in the east and central portions.
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Butte
Montana
Hirohito Opens Japanese Diet
Emperor Hirohito personally opened the 88th extraordinary session of the Japanese diet. He urged the people to win world confidence and rebuild the nation, with ministers reporting on defeat causes. The imperial rescript urged calm, reconstruction, and concord with all nations, and aid for families of the fallen. Baron Wakatsuki criticized the former Tojo government during the brief session.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
House of Peers
House of Representatives
Diet
Asia
Japan
Baron Reijiro Wakatsuki
Tojo
Tang submarine sunk by own torpedo in Pacific war
Guam sept 5. survivor Lt Lawrence Savadkin 24 says US submarine Tang was sunk by a circular torpedo after firing on a Japanese convoy. Tang went down oct 25 1944 between Formosa and China. Seventy six lost, nine survived. Commanding officer Comdr Richard O Kane later found safe in Japan.
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Guam
United States
Tang
Lawrence Savadkin
Forest Hills
N. Y
Formosa
China
Savadkin
Richard Heatherington O'Kane
Durham
N. Fr
Overseas duty curbed as Army redraws eligibility
The Army said enlisted men with 45+ points as of May 12 or aged 37, or ages 34 to 36 with at least one year service, are not to be sent overseas. No more WACs abroad. A revised Sept. 2 points total will guide eligibility, affecting about 665,000 older soldiers and 1,100,000 discharge-eligible personnel.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Pacific
Fire Spreads in Montana as 200 Soldiers Join 2,000-Acre Blaze
MISSOULA Sept 4 A 40 mph wind fanned a fresh 2,000 acre fire in Lewis and Clark National Forest drawing 200 trained firefighters flown from Spokane plus 120 soldiers from Gorefield and Augusta area crews. Sun River blaze, considered man caused, remained uncontrolled with homes under threat. Idaho's Nez Perce forest faced a 3,000 acre fire. another 300 acre blaze risked breaching lines near the Salmon and Snake rivers. Smaller Kalispell area fires were expected under control tonight.
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Missoula
Lewis and Clark National Forest
Montana
Spokane
Gorefield
Great Falls
Augusta
Forest Service
United States Employment Service
T. M. Wiles
Sun River
Lewis and Clark Forest
Fred Fite
Northwest
Idaho
Nez Perce National Forest
Geigerfield
Snake
Flathead National Forest
Kalispell
Argentine Envoy to U.S. Recalled
Buenos Aires reports Oscar Ibarra Garcia, Argentine ambassador to the United States, has been recalled and placed on the inactive list. He presented credentials in Washington on May 8 this year and previously served as undersecretary of foreign affairs.
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Buenos Aires
Oscar Ibarra Garcia
United States
Argentina
Washington
Maxwell D Taylor Named US Military Academy Superintendent
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, previously known for aiding the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, was appointed the 37th superintendent of the United States Military Academy in West Point New York.
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West Point
N. Y
Maxwell D. Taylor
Washington
101St Airborne Division
Bastogne
United States Military Academy
Hatchet men feared in Portland Chinese district stir
Portland police patrolled the Chinese district after a San Francisco tip alerted that a band of 25 hatchet men from the bay area was en route to Portland to settle a tong feud.
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Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Bay Area
Japs Instructed to Turn Over Prisoner Camps
Gen MacArthur orders Japanese to hand over all prisoner of war camps to the senior Allied officer interned at each camp and to allow required food and medical care. Liberated American POWs recount torture and starvation as Eighth Army officers interview prisoners aboard the hospital ship Benevolence.
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Yokohama
MacArthur
United States
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Guam
Associated Press Core
Robert Myers
America
Honolulu
San Francisco
Eichelberger
General Headquarters
War Crimes Branch
Col
Standley Livingston James
San Antonio
Texas
James
Philippine Department
Bataan
West Point
Japan Promotes Tourist Trade Abroad
Japan urged growth of its tourist industry with Domei reporting that the country has natural advantages for visitors and is taking steps to provide international tourists with first rate hotels meals and souvenirs.
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San Francisco
Japan
Domei Agency
America
House Group Votes to Liberalize Army Retirement System
The House military committee tentatively backed extending voluntary retirement after 20 years with half pay for life, while preserving 30 year automatic retirement at three quarters pay. The measure aims to boost volunteers to reduce drafts, as debates continue on draft moratorium and broader G I Bill enhancements.
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House
U.S. Army
Washington
House Military Committee
Ferguson
R-Mich
Germany
Japan
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