Volume 17, 1946.

Chapter 302,592 wordsPublic domain

38. Yamashita found guilty. Hess confesses insanity sham. First jet [plane, the Royal Navy "Vampire"] take-off from carrier. Flametanks demolish Jap planes [at the Sasebo naval base in Japan].

39. Congress, Parliament sing Christmas carols. Truman goes home for Christmas. Japs petition to save Yamashita. Eight-year-olds learn aviation [in Chattanooga, Tennessee]. Jap Embassy turned over to U. S. Self-service wash at Laundromat. [New hydraulic] jack works from car's dashboard.

40. Truman reports to nation. Patton buried [in Luxemburg] where his army advanced. Delegates sail for [London] for first UNO Assembly. La Guardia [is] replaced by O'Dwyer. Saints and Sinners honor Halsey [in New York]. Alabama tops Trojans in Rose Bowl classic.

41. General Homma on trial [in Manila]. Ambassador Marshall arrives in China. GI's fraternize with Tokyo girls. Canadian court dooms [Brigade Fuhrer Meyer] Nazi killer. Last Jap war captives leave United States. New York welcomes 82nd Airborne [Division]. GI's at Vienna motorcycle race.

42. Kidnap murder [of Susan Degnan in Chicago] shocks nation. Army, Navy plan atom bomb test on ships. Kaiser-Frazer Corporation signs UAW contract. UNO committee searches for site. Flames level huge post exchange [in Yokohama]. Britain gets first bananas in years. Movies honor [Ted Gamble] bond drives leader.

43. Eighty-second Division in biggest victory parade. Winston Churchill arrives in the U. S. The Little Flower [LaGuardia] as private citizen. Helicopter [Army-Sikorsky R–5] sets five world marks.

44. First meeting of UNO Assembly [in London]. GI's demonstrate [against the slow rate of demobilization]—Eisenhower answers. Pearl Harbor inquiry hears Admiral Kimmel. "Bathers' day" in [Boras] Sweden.

45. Strike closes steel industry. New Kaiser and Frazer cars go on display. Truman honors draft board volunteers. Ruined Warsaw rebuilt by Poles. Rescue pilot from Burma jungle. Close famed London Rainbow Club. Stassen heads Brotherhood Week.

46. Navy outlines atom bomb test. Assembly begins job [in London]. Government and Communists sign truce in China. General Morgan under fire for statement [that Polish Jews were secretly organized for illegal exodus into Palestine].

47. Jet plane [Army P–80] in fastest flight across U. S. [U. S.] seizes meat plants—strikers go back. The "F. D. R." on shakedown cruise. Byrnes praises UNO's progress. England in bid for world's trade. [Allies] restore blasted German rail roads.

48. Radar contacts the moon [at an Army Signal Corps laboratory in Belmar, New Jersey]. De Gaulle resigns [as President of France]—Gouin, new President. Truman, nation mark Roosevelt birthday. Germany holds first free election [in 13 years]. U. S. sub fleet goes into storage.

49. GI's English brides arrive in America. Transport in record flight across nation. [Chinese 6th] Army of occupation sails for Manchuria. Harry Hopkins dies at fifty-five. U. S. opens bridges across Rhine. New fabrics, walls resist stains. [France's] herring fleet catches vital food.

50. Brazil inaugurates President Dutra. POW's guard billions in U. S. surplus goods [near Paris]. U. S. ships repatriate Koreans from Japan. Open New York to Paris air service. Rare ivory is shaped for market. Princess [Elizabeth of England] on tour of inspection. Luxembourg honors Grand Duchess [Charlotte].

51. [UNRRA distribution centers] increase relief to starving Europe. Mine fields cleared by new army devices. Send Jap "conquerors" home from China. Great Florida fleet harvests sponge crop.

52. New York shuts down [because of an eight-day tugboat strike]. Secretary Ickes resigns after Capitol row. Justices [Frankfurter, Murphy and Stone] in plea for American brotherhood. Cardinals-elect on Rome flight. New auto midget comes on market.

53. Steel strike ends. Saratoga [carrier] ready for atomic tests. Kaiser introduces new family plane. Ski champs in international meet. Dionne quints at Canada carnival. Barefoot pilgrims carry holy statue to Notre Dame [in Paris]. [Enormous snow plows] clear path thru thirty foot snow [in Mt. Rainier National Park].

54. UNO delegates return home. Bradley urges action on veterans problems. Musk-ox task force braves Arctic wastes. First jet squadron in formation flight. Find missing Italian royalty. Royal opera opens in London.

55. Cardinals [in Rome] receive red hats. Taxi drivers ride on Washington. China celebrates happy New Year. Mrs. Roosevelt in Germany visit. Richelieu [battleship] comes home to France.

56. General Homma sentenced to die [in Manila trial]. UNO begins move to Hunter College. Giant machine "lays" new homes like eggs. Fast army plane [XF–12] is new airliner. Churchill gets honorary degree [from the Miami University]. Shanghai hails Chiang Kai-Shek. GI's "rest up" on Jap ski run.

57. President [Truman] calls meeting on food crisis. Jap Emperor unbends on visit to people. New York opens emergency homes for veterans. Fun and prices hit new high in Florida. Find child and nurse in kidnaping. Navy shows first "hobby [lobby]" station. New Red Cross drive opened by Truman.

58. Churchill [at Fulton, Missouri]. Truman [in Columbus, Ohio] in major speeches. France closes its Spanish frontier. Peron, Tamborini in race for presidency [in Argentina]. Cardinals [Spellman and Mooney] hailed on return to U. S. French GI brides sail for America.

59. First pictures of atom test site [at Bikini Atoll]. Radio-guided planes for atom experiment. Truman supports loan to Britain. Churchill and "Ike" together on tour. Jap Empress on first visit to people.

60. First report from looted Mukden. One-hundred-thirteen-day General Motors strike comes to end. New volcanic island rises from the sea [off Japan]. Churchill to F. D. R.—a last salute. Dam brings vital power to France. Army demobilizes smallest train [in England].

61. Churchill, Byrnes in significant speeches [in New York]. General Marshall home from China. Peron wins crucial Argentine election. Meet Mrs. Attlee of 10 Downing Street. [Scientists] record tremendous sun upheavals. GI show at Ernie Pyle theater [in Tokyo].

62. Churchill poses for portrait, leaves U. S. Show electronic blanket. Pathe News report: United Nations. Destroy U. S. planes, gunpowder [in Germany and Alabama]. Smith named Russia Ambassador. Iran dispute submitted to UNO. UNRRA meets in Atlantic City.

63. UNO meets in New York. Hoover surveys food crisis in France. "Bluebeard" Petiot at scene of his crimes. Army embarks on Jap anti-typhus drive. Carrier Midway on Arctic cruise. Princess [Elizabeth] christens H. M. S. Eagle.

64. Russia walks out. The Iran-USSR dispute before UNO Security Council: the Iran question; Russia leaves; Iran is heard.

65. Insane pianist fights way back through music. President Truman awards two medals of honor [to Commander O'Kane and Sergeant McGaha]. Two million dollar fire ruins pulpwood, big bridge [in Canada]. Pre-war gaiety in Paris festival. Thirteen-hundred-pound rocket is U. S. biggest. [Crewmen] resume Oxford, Cambridge classic. Mine phosphates for Europe's farms.

66. Tidal wave hits Hawaii. UN Council agrees on Iran dispute. Goering takes stand at Nuremberg trial. First films of Warsaw as Hoover tours city. Meager rations for the beaten Germans.

67. President Truman in Army Day speech [in Chicago]. One thousand Japs, Formosans jammed on "hell ship" [at Sydney, Australia]. Yugoslavia's Tito is hailed by Czechs. A village of France [Dortan] rises from war ruins. Russian fashions at Moscow show. War planes in mammoth junk heap.

68. League of Nations ends for all time. Jap undersea fleet sent to the bottom. French [troops] come back to Indo-China. Florida cypress cut for lumber. First Lady [Mrs. Truman] at Children's Hospital. [U. S. motion picture] exhibitors' team to serve U. S.

69. F. D. R.—a nation remembers. Physician reports President [Truman] well after first year. DDT cleans up an entire county [Muscogee, in Georgia]. Open UNRRA University in Munich. Land mines in gigantic blow-up [in Texas].

70. General MacArthur asks nations to ban war. 1946 baseball season begins. Auto industry marks its golden jubilee. Dreams come true for a dying boy. Hirohito and family—first portrait. Army wives, kids sail for Europe. "Missouri" carries [Turkish] Envoy's body [to Istanbul].

71. Japs at polls in first free election. U. S. must conserve, or Europe starves. Cadets at Annapolis—Middies at West Point [on a three-day visit]. Million New Yorkers in biggest Easter parade.

72. The occupation job [in Germany]—one year after victory. Truman reviews 8th Fleet's maneuvers. Byrnes off to Big Four Paris talks. Royalty [of Sweden and Holland] meet amid old splendor. Khaki University [in England] for vets only. Airborne lifeboat drops from sky.

73. Big Four [Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and Bidault] in Paris Conference. Forty-five dead, one hundred hurt in [Naperville] Illinois train wreck. La Guardia seeks aid of Midwest farmers. Army reveals Flying Wing bomber. President Truman on vacation cruise. Mrs. MacArthur at Jap tea party. Famed auto race resumed at Nice [France].

74. Seized films of Nazi V–2 launchings. Roxas is elected new Philippines President. Jap silver hoard taken from sea. Plastic lung aids polio victims. Deliveries from sky by parachute. Lightning rods for Eiffel Tower.

75. Alcatraz riot. Kentucky Derby. Name [Mrs. Emma Clement, of Louisville] American Mother of 1946. May Day celebrated in Paris.

76. Army wives and children join dads in Berlin. France votes down new constitution. May Day in Tokyo, Prague and Berlin. President Truman aids famine relief. Operation Musk-ox is completed. Policewomen are "Tokyo's finest." Marshal Montgomery home [in England] to stay.

77. Jap war lords on trial. Army tests Nazis' deadly V–2 rocket [in the New Mexico desert]. President-elect Roxas [of the Philippines] in U. S. meets Truman. Yank raiders combat China's black market. Assault wins the Preakness.

78. Pearl Harbor—a Jap's-eye view. Hoover home from world food tour. Disabled vets train for a normal life. President [Truman] honors movies for $4,279,000 [Red Cross] drive.

79. Plane crashes into New York skyscraper. Byrnes reports on Big Four Paris meeting. First "new Americans" since war land in New York. UNRRA clothing, food saves lives in Europe. Berlin and Paris mark VE-Day. Memphis holds Cotton Carnival.

80. Rail strike paralyzes nation. Work goes ahead on atom bomb test. General Eisenhower on Far East tour. Variety Club award to Evangeline Booth.

81. Railroad strike ends. Truman entertains 1200 wounded vets [in Washington]. Louis, Conn train for championship battle.

82. Coal strike settled. One billion, four hundred million-dollar loan to France. Hold national spelling bee finals. Target-animals for atomic test. Bust [added to New York University's Hall of Fame] honors Booker Washington. Repair U. S.-Britain cable link. Henry Ford, shows first flivver.

83. Destroyer of Lidice hanged. Robson wins 500 mile Indianapolis [auto racing] classic. Assault takes Belmont—wears triple crown. Eisenhower speaks [in Washington, D. C.] on anniversary of D-day. First films—Panama's wild Choco Indians.

84. Fifty-eight killed in Chicago hotel [La Salle] fire. Report on Hiroshima atomic bomb damage. Elections in France, Czechoslovakia, Italy. Industry celebrates fifty years of autos.

85. Britons parade on Victory Day. Allied dead honored on D-day anniversary [in France]. China national government back in old capital [of Nanking]. G. I. families settle in Berlin. England holds its Derby classic [at Epsom Downs].

86. London erupts in mammoth celebration [on the eve of Victory Day]. Gandhi leads Hindus in public prayers. News cameramen get ready for atom test. U. S. Ambassador Smith in Moscow. Big oil blaze rages in [Whiting] Indiana. Jap pearl growers back at work. Australia sees richest foot race.

87. Baruch on atom control. Big Four [Byrnes, Bevin, Molotov and Bidault] meet again in Paris. Peron inaugurated as Argentine President. [Howard Hughes'] largest flying-boat moved to launching. Mangrum wins National Open championship.

88. Japan today. Christen baby prince [Carl Gustaf of Sweden] amid royal pageantry. Italians hail their new republican government. General de Gaulle takes the limelight again. Train future Filipino envoys at State Department [in Washington].

89. Vinson sworn in as U. S. Chief Justice. Campaign for Mexico's presidency [led by Miguel Aleman]. Open New York to Prague air service. Select [nation's] best barber shop quartet. Paris fashions are in news again. Illinois takes national [collegiate] track crown. Cornell wins international regatta.

90. Famine in China. [Staten Island] ferry station burns in $2,000,000 fire. Army's [XB–35] Flying Wing in maiden flight. New posts for Steelman, Snyder. Jap Crown Prince [Akihito] enters school. Berlin carnival aids destitute. Grand Steeplechase run in Paris.

91. Operation Crossroads [at Bikini]. Truman on prices. Hirohito attends 90th Jap Diet. Helicopter aids war on insects [in Yakima, Washington].

92. Allies on guard in Trieste. UNRRA fights famine in Hunan Province. British women rebel at bread rationing. GI families take up new homes in Japan. Nisei war heroes return to U. S. Britons bid for war surplus cars.

93. Bikini atom explosion—Operation Crossroads. Able Day [in the Pacific]. The atom explosion. Aftermath [59 ships destroyed or damaged].

94. [Ted] Williams stars in All-Star game [Boston]. Aleman wins quiet Mexican election. Philippines Army now under own flag. Truman visits Gettysburg shrine. Benes is Czech President again. Japanese in Corpus Christi rites. Clark honors Italian partisans.

95. Philippines gain independence. New boundaries set in Big Four agreements. Byrnes returns home—hopeful for Big Four. Hamburg mob protests Allied eviction order. Britain begins move out of Egypt. Princesses [Elizabeth and Margaret] attend Henley Regatta.

96. King's death is Siam mystery. France marks Bastille Day. British bombers begin U. S. tour. San Francisco trolleys make news. GI's enjoy Pyle roof garden [in Tokyo].

97. Exclusive films of George Bernard Shaw. Hindus in weird Juggernaut rites. Last German prisoners leave United States. Two-section bus is Kaiser's latest. Anything goes in Siamese boxing. France seizes German horsepower. Ship kept from Nazis is launched [in Holland].

98. Shriners parade in San Francisco. Chinese Ambassador [Wellington Koo] answers press. Paris hears choir boys' congress. McNarney opens the Patton bridge [across the Rhine]. Germans make old rags into cloth. Rubber boats ride Australia surf. Britain thanks U. S. for loan.

99. Byrnes flies to Paris Peace Conference. Sister Kenny in U. S. to fight epidemics [of infantile paralysis]. Eisenhower honors Army Medical Corps. UNRRA chief La Guardia on tour in Italy. New York welcomes Europe's homeless. Water ski champs in national meet [in] Holland, Michigan.

100. Paris Peace Conference opens. De Gaulle calls for France-Britain pact. Russia's might in Red Square parade.

101. Underwater atom blast. Operation Crossroads—blast number 2. Test Baker. Zero hour. Results of the blast.

102. Inside Oak Ridge [Tennessee]. Voting causes Peace Conference conflict [at Paris]. Truman, in Missouri, votes in primary.

103. Palestine violence breaks out anew. UNRRA conference hears La Guardia [at Geneva, Switzerland]. Rio De Janeiro roars welcome to General Eisenhower. Send gas-laden ship to bottom of [North] Sea. [Jehovah's Witnesses] hold mass baptism in Lake Erie. Mash 2 million pounds of potatoes [in Washington].

104. Biggest bomber [Army's new XB–36] in first air test. President Truman on famed 6:30 a. m. walk. Trieste mob protests. Big Four decision to place zone under international control. Monks rebuild Cassino monastery. Big show staged for General "Ike" [in Brazil]. Huge French dam near completion.