Jap surrender envoy on way to meet Reds
Fighting in Manchuria expected to end
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Why can’t it be told now? Pearl Harbor probers ask
Demand for Navy’s file, plan for Congress to sit as court-martial may end dim-out
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‘Little Steel’ plan smashed –
WLB keeps rule over wage cuts
Permits pay boosts if prices aren’t raised
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Business tax cut hopes brighten
Treasury may revise all 1946 income levies
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War casualties reach 1,070,138
WASHINGTON (UP) – With final figures yet to be compiled, U.S. combat casualties in World War II as officially recorded here stood at 1,070,138 today.
The total did not include the cruiser USS Indianapolis’ 1,196 casualties nor a few thousand Army and Navy losses still to be reported from the Pacific.
The 1,070,138 figure included 252,146 killed. It represented an increase over a week ago of 2,534 casualties.
The table:
| Army | Navy | TOTAL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killed | 199,183 | 52,963 | 252,146 |
| Wounded | 570,997 | 80,171 | 651,168 |
| Missing | 33,653 | 10,553 | 44,206 |
| Prisoners | 118,924 | 3,694 | 122,618 |
| TOTALS | 922,757 | 147,381 | 1,070,138 |
Of Army wounded, 356,331 have returned to duty, and 96,337 of the Army prisoners have been liberated.
Adm. Nimitz flooded with congratulations
GUAM (UP) – Adm. Chester W. Nimitz has received a deluge of congratulations for his successful execution of the war in the Central Pacific.
Among those who cabled him were Adm. Ernest King, commander-in-chief, U.S. Fleet; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower; Gen. H. H. “Hap” Arnold, commanding general U.S. Air Forces; Prime Minister Peter Frazer of New Zealand, and British Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, governor-general designate of Canada.
Sabu leaves Army
FT. MACARTHUR, California – Sgt. Sabu Dastagir, better known to movie fans as Sabu, the Elephant Boy, was discharged from the Army today under the point system.
War-starved buyers stage greatest shopping spree
Canned goods and gasoline vanish under impact of ration-free spending attack
By the United Press
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It won’t be cold!
Coal shortage averted by end of war
Cutbacks in industry to leave surplus
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WPB removes restrictions on 3 basic metals
Control of aluminum, steel, copper ends
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Yanks now use Nazi radio with thanks to Goebbels
Vast network set up in Hitler regime being employed to ‘teach’ Germans
By Otto Zausmer, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Emperor may face war charge
LONDON, England (UP) – A Foreign Office commentator said today that Japanese surrender terms did not “preclude consideration of war crimes charges against Emperor Hirohito of Japan.”
He was asked to state his views in the light of Australian charges that Hirohito is a war criminal.
He said the surrender terms had referred only to the “Office of the Emperor” and not to Hirohito personally.
Members of the new Jap Cabinet, even if acceptable to the Allies at this time, will not be immune to war crimes charges if they ae preferred by any Allied government, the commentator said.