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1 LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER Tuesday Evening January 1 1946 Tuesday Evening January 1 1946 LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER 7 7 (Photos Tell Story of Most Thrilling Events of 1945 1 irth of Atom Bomb Preview of 1946 I BY irought no change in this spirit of ruthlessess Inthe 80' years I 4 a 4S 9 4 a aataa A AvX 4 A waA a a a A a a Bute 7 ourt rancisco on April 25 peace loving nations of the world met xsl a ji I i i i i 3 Mm OPENS wltomic world GERMANY LIES IN RUINS SSXXVKXaXa "Vino PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PASSES I POSTWAR LABOR STRIKES BEGIN HISTORY'S BLOODIEST WAR IS ENDED The Year's Outstanding Personalities LITERATURE 1 i ater jf '3 1 i i i i BE CtiC OU OO The courtroom at 'Nuernberg Germany crowded as twenty top Nazis go on trial Nov 20 accused of war crimes Prisoners are in dock at lower right and La th at go SPORTS 'Doc Blanchard Army A' war correspondent examines' a mass of rubble all that remained of a section of Hiroshima after the Jan city was hit by the first atomic bomb attack es accused of mtirder plbnder horror andi torture HnriAlnh Hac Hnfiawf 4iuiomu O' SCIENCE Oppenheimer Atomic Scientists) I ENTERTAINMENT Bob Hope set up an organization by which the hoped to maintain global ac ord forever The San rancisco negotiations followed a lengthy eries of gatherings designed to iron out the economic and INDUSTRY Eric A Johnston WOMAN THE YEAR Dr Lise Meitner A UNITED NATIONS ORGANI7 Tops News of 1945 Si BEDtOR INVICT disputes threw John the American ederation "bor an indication Lewis' Mine Workers may back to the federation in 1946 INTERNATIONAL AAIRS: The United Nations organization will get to work ending the top i level personal diplomacy of the years German reparations especially and other issues In threaten the failure in spring of the four power control system in the reich1 It will be a winter of death starvation and disease in Europe1 Thete jwjH be continued unrjst among submerged' peoples every where W4W documfaftfa '3 cloudetL The agenda for 1946 is a long and tortuous: ailmeni Ut maybe the new year will find solutions for all the is this year resolved I tv )efeat of Japan and Germany Death of Sited as Outstanding in poll of AP Editors By CHARLES HONCE 4 A CHIETAIN OTRIL 12MThave ftferri Resident Iranklin said to CdmiAandlsf iicffln? Rrpnp wflvAVRrm SnrinX GSporcHfi commanded in chief in America's greatest war was dectcb rebral hemorrhage Vhnd Harry Trumanwas resident The' lassing of Roosevelt the early months of his unprecedented i term came almost at the ed of a conflict which had taxed rmous strength' to the final breaking point! end of the war iroughtjnany pressing problems none more attention compelling hkn facing labor and management ifi reconversion to a peace ime economyA strike in the vast General empire and a hreatened strike in the great steel industry highlighted the problem is government' and leaders' sought peace formulas THE UNITEB NATIONSSET up HOUSEKEEPING (April) i DEPARTMENT EDITORS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 7 IT! SHOULD 'be a year of marked return do a peacetime business boom i greater than any the country has known By the end of 1916 war shortages should be ended imany highly publicized new products should be on shelves in The armed forces will have mainly demobil ized)i' of interest will have shifted after five jyears vback to ydomestic affairs what the new year seet BUSINESS 7 AND INDUSTRY The wage'price tfenglis All that POLITICS: The Working parti stands the wayof prosperity 'nership' democrats 'and repubiSome the earlyMicans' whem' Nt'dfc did: 'months tfye year? maysee eVen both 'parties' witfjrdy out a jnild 'depregaLpn fsinpe' strike their' bijfj gunsTforthe 194 eam 'r'jmstrlkethreMs'must be Settled paigri drhicftJWi kovprfiorS 435 Abeforfoll prodUcboffTisihebieved house menbdtassra3rti al Unemployment' may fhe sdhate will Me ior resrdeTit iniK part In theV It( Will vbe a Chap taxpayers With theear the first federalA i years becomes effec payments by about six billion Tax experts say there will be no further general cuts in 1946 though congress may fix a definite cutoff date Tor: highwartime excise levies' on such items as' liquor' luggage jewelry furs and cosmetics 4 WOMEN: "Home on the will be' the theme song of UJS women in 1946 Having had LABOR Walter Reuther for more than 12000000 new pa senggr cars Experts estimate it will tequire four to five years for Industry to catch up The year will be great for civil aviation Commercial transport will be widely expanded To serve in a world shrunk to weekend travel size LABOR: Unions offer the big reconversion I Most signs in their fling at work and ca di cate a great amount of labor reer jobs most of are now turmoil in reconversion although happy tov rediscover the comfort unions expect industry to be more 'of home willing! to bargain on wage in The trend is toward ultra fem creases after the first of the year inity in dress manners home when tax and other financial and fireside activities Clothes are benefits go into effect softer in silhouette more femin si protest 'against the ine lesb severe than in many suggestion' in November for fact finding procedures in i industrial Continued on page Eight THE dropping of the atomic bomb ushering in the atomic age vas the biggest news story of 1945 That is the opinion of Associated newspaper editors answeApg a poll by A Although this represents a majority opinion it likely will be open considerable individual dispute This is due to the fact that 1945 ias crowded with many tremendous events worthy of consideration or top place on the list I In addition to the atomic bomb there wasthe defeat of Japan ringing an end to World War II the overpowering of Germany an imen that the end was in sight and the death of President Roose elt All four ranked high in the voting Illustrating the differences of opinion an up state New York edit at a recent meeting of New York Press members said that his eeling and that of his associates was that first choice would lie be ween the death of President Roosevelt and the end of the war be ause irf his estimation these had occasioned more personal com nent over a longer penoTi However a vote is a vote so here goes: 1 THE ATOMIC AGE OENS (August terrible lestructive force ever" harnessed by man atomic was the de scription of the weapon used against the Japanese island base of Uroshima President Truman told the story to a stunned and hard Understanding world hours later By the end of the year usef atomic energy "either for good or for evil has become the most vritten about news subject probably of all time As 1946 is about dawn it remains the greatest question mark 2 JAPAN SURRENDERS (August 141 The second' world greatest flood of death and destruction came" to an endn this date with unconditional surrender The only possible: iiirgrise element 'was the rapidity with which Japan folded up 'after Germany collapsed dream of a vast co prosperity 1 sphere or East Asia was dissipated and the groundwork was laid for the eduction of the grasping empire of the Rising Sun to a tenth rate igricultural country GERMANY COLLAPSES (May 7) and HITLER DIES or Germanic tribes have been spilling out of their homeland misions of conquest Modern days and modern civilization HU Hl LiHS Opii I Ux U1 IUlHlUi53CO3 AU ULC IftOL OU' J'ettlO he Germans fought? five a warj the firsts three of them ul Nineteen eighteen brought stunning defeat mt it wasnQt npijjgh A new' Caesar bearing the prosaic name Adqlf 1 mane a final try at world conqiiesf and the jia(ion that sheep 1 sly follow Mm went down to suqh gutter and devastating defeat csi leforefea: world coalition that earth isHkelw to" 6e freed? forever' from tnfeJ1'(Sermanureozoi conauest iHWmCwhimself broken and jiHberingijwreck is have dlifn his ChMeeJ with oof Vvw Hi Xa 1 41 am irenchi time Mon ills Organization stress and strains still were a source of thc end with virtually all problems carrying over 7 BRITAIN SWINGS TO THE LET (July 26) A pudgy little nan forever smoking a long black cigar wearing an airplane suit vhenever the spirit moved him and smiling some cherub a fantasy epitomized the British' Commonwealth nrough jnost of the war Came victory and British voters relegated AIIP aad party to a back seat as a labor government took over in election on July 5 When the vote finally was counted Il he "ees iater Winston Churchill as government under Clement Attlee brought in a socialist pro Kram for national reconstruction but it soon was noted that regard i ess of who is in power foreign relations program never manges 8 SPOTLIGHT ON PEARL HARBOR "Remember Pearl 'as America's battle cry during the Pacific war With the end of however Pearl Harbor was more in the news than ever Pre on the Japanese attacks on our Hawaiian naval Le made during the conflict Now' the whole story is coming 'a through a congressional inquiry This was touched irrn us'i When President Truman made public reports of Jr ana navy investigators on the sneak Japanese attack CRLMINALS GO ON TRIAL (November 20) The ln Nuernberg Germany probably the most devastated of all Dn th once was tne scene or nazi pomp and splendor lonir November however! strangely assorted score of 'o he sat an International military tribunal accused or murderplunder norror and: torture wily Rudolph rHess defiant Marshal itel and their co defendants thus were brought to book j4 pnal chapter of the bloody nazi story UPHEAVALS PLAGUE THE WORLD When the the ft s8ned on November 11 1918" bringing to a conclusion I of a St iWor conflict the peace was hailed everywhere as the end conehi? 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Yr X'ft Tt fa 7 A i fa fa i i a 7 fa a JBt Jftfa7? a A 4 A i i ft" 1 feWsicn rAh COKVEMTfOU HALLA SM RAUCISCO a VT ii fi I INDUSTRY Eric A Johnston LITERATURE Ernie Pyie LABOR Walter Reuther Xh I I I.