Labor Chief Maps Plan for Postwar Prosperity in AFL Address
William Green, AFL president, urged a 50 percent rise in living standards and a swift reconversion to peacetime production. He backed higher wages, a 65 cent minimum and 75 cent floor in three years, a national labor accord, shorter work week, and expansion of social insurance bills. He warned against panic and urged unity of labor and veterans to win the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
N. J
United States
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
AFL
Congress
Truman
America
World War II Ends Reach Japan and Asia Pacific News
Allied forces advance across Asia as Japan surrenders in Tokyo Bay and campaigns end in the Philippines, the Marshalls, and surrounding areas. China and France report transitions toward occupation governments amid ongoing regional turmoil and anticipated political shifts in Indo China.
Chiang Kai Shek urges democracy in China after war
Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek in a V-1 message to the nation said that with the war over there should be no delay in inaugurating constitutional democracy in China. He urged that past sacrifices be meaningful by introducing democracy and consolidating national unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Chiang
Congress moves to speed up draft cuts in war
Washington September action accelerates draft reform aimed at trimming inductions. House military committee to meet to review a plan that lowers discharge points from 85 to 80 and 44 to 41 for WAOs, while expanding GI Bill benefits and reenlistment incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Congress
House
War Department
Japanese Horror Ship Story Told
A survivor of Bataan, James F. Schiffner of Albuquerque, recounts the Beecher's Boat atrocity tale about a Japanese ship where thirst and cruelty drove prisoners to murder and cannibal thirst for water. He discusses broader prisoner conditions under Japanese forces as General MacArthur orders camps located and prisoners fed and treated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Bataan
Beecher
James F. Schiffner
Albuquerque
N. M
Corregidor
Imperial Hotel
Schiffner
Colonel Beecher
Philippines
Japan
Miabara
Biwako Lake
Nagoya
Padilla Enters Mexican Presidential Race
Ezequiel Padilla, recent foreign minister, announces candidacy for Mexico’s presidency. He frees his followers from a prior election campaign abstention. Elections are scheduled for next July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Ezequiel Padilla
Mexico
Padilla
School Enrollment Set for Thursday Morning in Amarillo
Amarillo students will enroll by level this Thursday with high and junior high pupils registering tomorrow afternoon. Superintendent Chas M. Rogers urged bringing report cards transcripts and immunization evidence. Transfers require written permission and observers must enroll in their resident district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Chas. M. Rogers
Dowd Nan
Tventh
Alice Landergin
Wolflin, Sanborn and
McKinley Ele
Mentary
Rogers
Mikado Isn’t Answering His Telephone
Duane Hennessy reports from Yokosuka Japan on attempts to reach Japanese leaders by telephone. Clerks report Emperor Hirohito Tojo Kurusu Koiso and Marquis Kido unavailable or out of reach, highlighting their publicity shyness amid ongoing wartime coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokosuka
Japan
Hirohito
Tojo
Kurusu
Koiso
Marquis Kido
Imperial Household
Cab Driver Cares For Lost 3-Year-Old Boy
A cab driver, A. H. Asbery, found a blond three year old boy at 8:30 am near the Yellow Cab stand in Amarillo and kept him at his home in Pleasant Valley. The Will Rogers Day Nursery was closed, so police helped locate the mother as the search continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Asbery
Taylor
Mr. Asbery
Will Rogers
Amarillo
Amarillo Police Mr. Asbery
Brown Drive
Pleasant Valley
President Truman Cruises Potomac on Labor Day
President Truman and Mrs. Truman left the White House at 9 30 a m to spend Labor Day on the presidential yacht Potomac. The trip marks the first non working Labor Day since 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Potomac
White House
Chiang and Mao Reach Temporary Truce Agreement
A Reuters report from Chungking says Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-Tsung have reached a temporary agreement. The disclosure notes it was learned reliably today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Tse-Tsung
Docile Tiger Signs Defeat in Philippines Surrender
In a five minute ceremony at Baguio, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita surrendered 10 000 Japanese troops to Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright. The event, witnessed by Gen. Arthur Percival, followed a prior surrender in Tokyo aboard the Missouri. Yamashita, once boastful, became a prisoner of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Sakhalin
Kuriles
Ryukyus
Bonins
Volcanoes
Palaus
Marianas
Carolines
Marshalls
Philippines
Jonathan M. Weinwright
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Baguio
Luzon
Truk
Nimitz
Rota
Pagan
Iwo Jima
Moscow
Red Army
Manchuria
Ichang
Centra China
China
Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek
Chungxing
Indo-China
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Jacques LeClerk
Tiger of
Malaya
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan and
Corregidor
Wainwright
Japan
Lensone Nical Acce
Liecemeval
Yamashita
Singapore
Arthur Percival
Whs
UAW Local 200 Threatens 17000 Ford Strike Tomorrow
Windsor officials report United Automobile Workers Local 200 announcing a planned strike at Ford Motor Company in Windsor affecting 17,000 workers with action slated for the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Ont
U.P
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Ford Motor Company
Fair Weather Expected for Labor Day Celebrants
Labor Day celebrators will enjoy fair weather all day with little temperature change. The Weather Bureau predicts similar conditions for tomorrow, keeping skies clear and temperatures steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Day
Weather Bureau
Previcis
Mine Belts Cleared Off Britain's Coast in Postwar Cleanup
London Sept 34 More than 100 Royal Navy sweepers began clearing off 20 to 30 mile offshore mine belts that protected east coast shipping in the war. The barrier held over 260 000 anchored mines from northeast Scotland to the Thames Estuary. Clearing aims for mid next month to reopen fishing areas. Thames Estuary work continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Scotland
Thames Estuary
Britain
Free Access to European Waterways Outlined
Secretary of State Byrnes outlines proposed plans to grant the United States and other major powers decisive control over Europe’s inland waterways. He will present these plans to a meeting of Big Five foreign ministers in London this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrnes Sci
London
United States
Europe
Survey on Future of Synthetic Rubber in Washington
The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion forms a special rubber committee to survey foreign rubber supply and advise on the nation’s 700 million dollars of synthetic rubber plants. Chairman selection is pending. members will come from various government agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
Er Wee Oe Ke Ewes
Weeewe
Yan Re . Wee Eee
John Ss. ‘Snyder
U S Rubber Shortage Risks Delayed Tire Supply
The United States faces a rubber shortage as supplies for U S manufacturers dwindle. With only 93 650 long tons in reserve at the year’s start and crude rubber shipments from the U S Rubber Co. limited to about 350 000 tons next year, the tire industry may face peacetime shortfalls and longer delivery times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ual
U. S
U. S. Rubber Co
Synthetic Rubber Boom Amid War Time Efforts
The United States battles a critical natural rubber shortage as wartime measures boost synthetic rubber output from thousands of tons to about one million tons annually. This surge reflects the war time rubber program and its impact on industrial supply chains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
German Secret Budget Figures Disclosed Today
German budget figures disclosed today reveal Adolf Hitler’s annual income of $2,640,000, claimed as the only world leader without a personal bank account. In the third year of the war his income rose to nearly $60 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt ON Main
Adolf Hitler
Secret German Budget Details Revealed by U S Army
The U S Army reports a Reich president received a flat 100000 dollars annually with five similar sums to be spent at his discretion as part of the 1942 German budget analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
Local City Golf Championship Semis Near Finish
The semi finals at Ross Rogers Municipal Golf Course saw J. R. Brown lead Al Clayton three up at the seventh hole while H. L. Bradley and Knox Whitney were tied at seven. Clayton trailed early with bogeys on holes one two and six. Bradley birdied hole five to close gap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Rogers Municipal
J. R. Brown
al Clayton
H. L. Bradley
Knox Whitney
Bradley
Whitney
Clayton
Federal Aid Pay Hike Is Asked
Washington September 3 Senate support grows for funding unemployed benefits as extended payments rather than higher weekly sums. Senator Vandenberg proposes longer state unemployment payouts and Congress plans early action after recess. Proposals also include full employment policy measures, higher enlistment incentives, Truman executive reorganization, and centralized surplus war property disposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
Michigan
Republican
Congress
Amarillo Observes Labor Day with Quiet Events
Amarillo marked Labor Day with little fanfare as most businesses paused. The day’s highlight is the Will Rogers Range Rider Rodeo ending tonight at the Tri-State Fairgrounds, with the Dol lar Day sales event planned for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Will Rogers
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Former Nazi leader Ackerman arrested near Salzburg
Joseph Ackerman a former brigadier in Hitler’s SA described as a dangerous party man was captured by American troops in a remote Austrian mountain town near Salzburg traveling with a German woman using the papers of her dead fiancé a soldier killed serving Germany. Ackerman joined the Nazi party in 1925 and was a former Reichstag member from Koblenz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
Joseph Ackerman
Adolf Hitler
Salzburg
Ackerman
Nazi Party
Reichstag
Coblenz
Labor Day Death Toll Nearing Three Year High
The US Labor Day holiday death toll nears a three year high with 203 accidental deaths reported nationwide since the weekend began. Auto, drowning and other accidents contribute to the rising total, as last year ended with 245 deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
America
Pearl Harbor
Eighty five Army nurses enter Japan with occupation forces
In Yokohama on September 1, eighty five American Army nurses arrived in the Tokyo area as the first female medical unit of the occupation forces. They come from the 42nd General Hospital to set up Japan's first medical installation. Commanding officers are Col. George H. Yeager of Baltimore and Maj. Grace Dick Lona coning of Maryland with Capt. Nelly Newell of San Diego as chief nurse of the Eighth Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Tokyo
Japan
42Nd General Hospital
Pacific
George H. Yeager
Baltimore
Grace Dick. Lonaconing
Nelly Newell
San Diego
Cal
Eighth Army
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Peter J. McGuire
Tokyo Bay
Johnny
Armed Forces
V-J
Germany
Honshu
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
NEA
MacArthur
New Grand Hotel
John Maynard Lbr. Co
May
Kentucky
Full House
United Nations
Hallo
Wakinohama
Ee Louis S. Sirois
Pawtucket
AIM
Mikado
By Duane Hennessy
President Truman
Potomac River
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pagoda
Texas
Estey
J Jenkins Music Co
Ong 8&T
Edmond H. Leavey
W. D. Styler
Western Pacific
Percival
Bilibid
Manila
KCI
Foreign Economic Ad
Southwest Pacific
Weliev
St Lake
Cuo
Watling Lakes
Honest
Wdition
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!