Tojo Talks After Suicide Attempt in US Hospital
Hideki Tojo, interviewed from a Yokohama hospital, said he planned suicide long before, and that seeing American officers outside forced action. Doctors saved him after a self-inflicted pistol wound near the heart. he remains in satisfactory condition and faces trial by the United States government.
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Yokohama
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Saburo Kurusu
Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull
Army
98Th
United States
MacArthur
Army to release more troops by Christmas in rapid demobilization
Maj. Gen. S. G. Henry told the Senate military committee the army is accelerating demobilization with about 400000 to be discharged in September and 672000 monthly by January. About 258000 eligible men in the U.S. will be freed within 45 days after increasing separation centers, reducing the pipeline backlog.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
S. G. Henry
Senate Military Committee
U.S
Henry
Plane Crashes House Near Adams Field
A Flying Fortress failed to stop after landing and crashed through a frame house near Adams field in Little Rock yesterday, killing three Black residents and wounding two others. Witnesses say the brakes may have failed.
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Little Rock
Adams Field
OPA to Cancel Price Controls On 1945 Potatoes
Washington officials announce price ceilings on potatoes will be removed within days as surplus from the near record crop builds. The Office of Price Administration approved this step after market reports show potatoes selling below retail ceilings and at government support levels at growers markets. The agriculture department has bought over 4 million bushels to fulfill price support commitments.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Office of Price Administration
Greeks Seek Dodecanese and Balkan Claims in Postwar Talks
Secretary Byrnes held talks with Greek regent Archimandrite Damaskinos amid a wider allied conference. Greece aims to gain Dodecanese islands and press Albania and Bulgaria claims while seeking reparations from Italy. Moscow radio signals a Romania peace settlement tied to recognizing its current government.
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London
James F. Byrnes
Damaskinos
Italy
Balkan
Byrnes
United States
Great Britain
Russia
France
China
Mussolini
Little Kingdom
Britain
Greece
Dodeceanese
Dardanelles
Albania
Bulgaria
Balkans
Moscow
Ruhr
Rhineland
Romania
Washington
Order Bans Sale of Public Lands with Radioactive Deposits
President Truman issued an executive order banning sale or disposal of all public lands containing deposits of radioactive mineral substances. The measure underscores a government hold on potentially hazardous sites and directs federal agencies to review related lands for protection.
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Washington
Truman
Japs called good prisoners by liberated colonel
Col Emil Rahitser of Memphis, freed from a Manchurian prison camp, says Japanese are good for one thing they make wonderful prisoners of war. He notes Russians handed some over after liberation.
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Manila
Emil Rahitser
Memphis
Tenn
Manchuria
Japs Reputation as Liars Killed Chance for Peace
Tokyo reports quote Prince Fumimaro Konoye claiming he sought a 1941 meeting with President Roosevelt to avert war but was blocked by militarist opposition and a Japanese government seen as liars abroad. He links Tojo’s rise and a failed peace push to intra-government conflict and wartime distrust.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Roosevelt
China
Army Lifts Release Rate Goal to 800000 a Month
In Washington the army told senators it expects to discharge 800000 men monthly by December 1. The Senate and House advanced four key measures on surplus property standard time government corporations and airport funding while the navy urged continued secrecy on Pearl Harbor code break portions. Senate plans total 375 million over five years for airports with state and city matching, while the House proposes 650 million over ten years.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Capitol Hill
Black Dragon Society
Johnson
D.-Cole
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate
House
America
Whittington
RFC
HOLC
House Interstat Commerce Committee
Ways and Means Continues Elliott Roosevelt Inquiry
The Ways and Means Committee voted to keep reading Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt’s financial statement, rejecting a subcommittee referral. Only 30 of about 230 pages read. case discussed behind closed doors. Roosevelt said his father pressed his sons to rely on themselves amidst questions about a $200,000 loan to Elliott for Texas radio development. A treasury probe followed reports Jesse Jones arranged or settled the loan. Hartford later listed $196,000 as a bad debt deduction.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott
Mr. Roosevelt
John Hartford
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Hartford
Texas
Treasury Department
Ways and Means Group
Jesse Jones
Commerce
Utahn explains cooperation with Jap broadcasters to save life
Mark L. Streeter, a 47 year old former Idaho farmer who broadcast propaganda for Japan, said he aimed to gain trust from the Japanese to end the war. Held in Yokohama jail on MacArthur orders, Streeter claimed he planned to work from the inside after gaining full confidence, submitting edits to officials before broadcasts. He owned a Lewiston fruit farm and his wife worked at an Ogden army depot.
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Yokohama
Mark L. Streeter
Idaho
Streeter
Ogden
Douglas MacArthur
Wake
Bunka
Tokyo
Tokyo University
Japan
Roosevelt
America
Egg futures slip on army demand for shell eggs
On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange egg futures fell as much as two cents a dozen amid reports the army would need 2,000,000 cases of shell eggs for the rest of the year. October eggs traded to 36 cents a dozen, down two cents. November touched 35.85, down 1.70. December to 34 cents, down 1.35.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Deais
Bombed City Declared Safe As Far East News Reports
Brig. Gen. T. F. Farrell described the Hiroshima blast impact noting complete demolition within 1.25 miles and widespread destruction within two miles with lighter damage further out. He cited Japanese casualty figures as likely overstated and reported substantial structural loss including 55,000 buildings burned and 6,800 totally destroyed.
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Atoma
T. F. Farrell
Farrell
Hiroshima
Couple Wins Marriage License in Salt Lake City
George Join McHugh 28 and Ola Faye Dalton 25 both of Weston Idaho obtained a marriage license in Salt Lake City today.
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Salt Lake City
George Join McHugh
Ola Faye Dalton
Weston
Idaho
Bleeding Prisoners Used for Blood Transfusions Claims
Navy physician Capt. Stanton Allison says a medical corps captain told him Japanese doctors bled American prisoners to death or to weaken them for transfusions at Shinagawa hospital in Tokyo. He cited a case of a boy with a leg fracture died after a deep bone incision and described filthy camps with tubercular patients forced to fertilize gardens and prisoners routinely beaten.
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Yokohama
Navy
Corregidor
Stanton Allison
New York
Tokyo
Shinagawa
Thptain
Allison
Japan Occupation Arrests Led by MacArthur Plan
Tokyo dispatch reports Eighth Army authority to round up remaining Japanese on MacArthur’s wanted list as occupation progresses. Tojo questioned. Konoye blames militarists. Sugiyama dies. Black Dragon suspects pursued amid broad repatriation and surrender challenges in Asia.
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U.S
Japan
Korea
Inset
Tokyo
Eighth Army
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Harry Hill
Fifth Amphibious Force
Sasebo
Kyushu
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Fumimaro Konoye
Konoye
Honshu
Kanto Plain
Gen
Sugiyama
Emperor's Palace
Kwantung Army
Y,ar
Black Dragon Society
Seigo Nakano
Associated Press
Ryohei Uchida
The
Black Dragon
Domei
Chiaki Saka
Metropolitan Police
Taketora Ogata
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Russia Estimates War Damage at 108 Billion Dollars
A Moscow led commission reported that wartime German damage to the Soviet Union totals 697 billion rubles at 1941 prices, about 108.64 billion dollars, affecting private citizens, state enterprises, farms, and public bodies. The study notes many losses remain uncounted, including national income declines and confiscations.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
London
Russia
Violence Hits Picket Line at Ford Windsor Strike
Detroit and Windsor witnessed violence on Ford Motor Co lines as 10 000 Windsor Ford workers walked out under U A W C I O backing. Police reported fights with entrants to plants, with Noel Campbell, son of Ford Canada president, among those involved. Detroit's Kelsey Hayes plant idle 4500 as unions plan further action. Overall 37 000 workers idle in the Detroit area due to strikes.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Windsor
Ont
United Automobile Workers
C.I.0
Noel Campbell
Wallace R. Campbell
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Campbell
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company
Windsor Ford
U S May Export Share of Crop
The 1945 crop report shows record food grain production and a possible export of up to 300,000,000 bushels of wheat this marketing year. Actual exports depend on financing arrangements, with monthly shipments potentially around 30,000,000 bushels to meet war torn country needs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Secret Allied Network In China Unveiled In War Years
Chinese and American partners in Sacos guerrilla network operated across occupied China and even reached toward Tokyo. Saco forces reportedly killed over 25,000 Japanese in the past year. Tai Li directed the secret police with deputy Milton S Miles, an American rear admiral.
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Chungking
Saco
China
Tokyo Imperial Palace
Rice Paddy Navy
Sinoe American Cooperative Organization
Tai Li
Central Government
Milton S. Miles
Jerome
Arizona
Tai
Miles
Pearl Harbor
Industrialists claim air raids doomed Japan before atomic bombs
Seven leading Japanese industrialists told reporters that American air raids and mines crippled industry and blockaded Japan, predicting 10 percent of the population would have starved had the war continued. They cited June and July 1945 ship losses and rationing since July 1945.
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Tokyo
Japan
Ryozo Asano
Japan Steel Tube Company
Asano Portland Cement Company
Asano
Korea
China
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Gestapo
Shunroku Hata
Koyone
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Blackfoot
Fred Smith
State Hospital, South
Donald Good
Bingham County
Berlin
Heinrich Himmler
England
Winston Churchill
Bernard M. Baruch
Paul Robeson
Holland
Belgium
Norway
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Utahn
M’ Arthur
DeWitt MacKenzie
East Asia
Orient
Far East
Jong
Indonesia
Pacific
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
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