Reconversion plans slim shelves as Truman signals peace pace
Washington dispatch reports President Truman outlines postwar policy moves. Price controls stay where needed while war agencies wind down. OPA and WPB linger, Civilian Defense and censorship shut down, and a new Department of Public Welfare may form. Bond drives continue with Americans urged to hold, lend lease ends, and exports shift to loans via Exim Bank.
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Max Hall
Washington
America
Truman
OPA
War Labor Board
Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
Japan
Office of Scientific Research and Development
War Production Board
Department of Public Welfare
MAPS
Schwellenbach
Bureau of Labor Relations
WLE
Management and Labor
Treasury
Vinson
Tom Hthem
Britain
Argentines Detain 24 U-977 Crew as POWs
The Argentine navy ministry said 24 crew members of the German submarine U-977, which surrendered in Mar del Plata Friday, have been confined as prisoners of war.
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Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Body of Girl Found in New Jersey Cistern
The nude body of a brown haired girl, apparently assaulted during a Friday night celebration, was found in a cistern in Haddon Heights New Jersey. Police say she was attacked and knocked unconscious before being tossed alive into the cistern where she suffocated.
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New Jersey
Haddon Heights
N.J
Wake Island saga from Pacific battles and wake defense
Six Marine divisions seek Wake Island assignment as the pivotal outpost. The Wake garrison of 517 fought valiantly against overwhelming Japanese forces, enduring air bombardment and naval shelling. Despite heavy losses, the defenders held firm until the Japanese landed, with key actions including the sinking of two destroyers and the bombardment of the atoll.
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Guam
Pacific
Wake Island
Wake
Devereaux
British Learn Of Red Moves In Europe
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told Commons that Bulgarian Romanian and Hungarian governments do not reflect the majority and that totalitarian regimes are being replaced by another form. He warned this era lacks the world’s working democracy as defined, in the first full dress debate on Labour foreign policy. Orville Wright, pioneer of the airplane, turned seventy four yesterday without celebration.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Commons Today
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
House
Japanese Surrender Delegation Is Given Cold Reception
Japanese surrender envoys faced a cold, businesslike reception from General MacArthur's staff at Manila. Kawabe's group, not empowered to bargain, was to transmit occupation terms, with no friendliness shown as the talks centered on Potsdam terms and Allied occupation plans. A peace gesture flowered as one crewman offered flowers on arrival.
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Mantila
MacArthur
Japan
United States
Manila
Takashiro Kawabe
Kawabe
Nichols Field
Tokyo
Mitchell
Doolittle
MacArthur to lead allied surrender signing in ten days
General MacArthur predicted formal surrender documents would be signed in Japan within ten days. He announced that ground, naval, and air forces would accompany him to Japan to witness and enforce the unconditional surrender. Surrender by Japanese forces would follow under Allied theater command.
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MacArthur
Japan
Tokyo
Suoh
United States
Chinese Republic
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Imperial Japanese
China
Malaya
MacArthur directs Southwest Pacific occupation shift
British and Australian commanders will assume responsibility for the southern Southwest Pacific area under General MacArthur. Japanese emissaries left Manila after being told of surrender terms and occupation duties. The talks aimed to secure surrender terms. armistice conditions were expected to prevail on all fronts.
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Southwest Pacific
Phillippines
Nese
Manila
Japan
Takashiri Kawabe
Tokyo
Imperial
NBC
Merrill Mueller
Manchuria
Mukden
Harbin
Hsinking
Kirin
China
Luzon
Philippines
Bougainville
Wewak
New Guinea
Shipyard Work Cancelled By Navy Order Across 195 Ships
The Maritime Commission announced the cancellation of 425.9 million in contracts covering the construction of 195 ships and three contracts for special military equipment. The affected ships include 35 coastal cargo ships 42 Victory Fargo ships 24 small tankers for lend lease to Britain four Liberty ships converted to aircraft repair ships eight military type victories eight tankers five large military transports of the C 4 type six refrigerator ships and three large P 2 type passenger ships. Three contracts for special equipment accounted for 70 million of the total cancellations.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Victory Fargo
Great Britain
Navy
54 Die as Motorists Crowd Nation's Roads
Nation's traffic toll rises to 54 as weekend rush returns after gas rationing ends and speed limits lift. Deaths by state noted for the period, with an unofficial prior weekend tally of 15 and State reports including Onin with six fatalities.
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New York
Japs Protest Chute Landings in Manchuria
In San Francisco the Japanese general staff protested to General MacArthur over parachute humanitarian teams dropped near Japanese held areas. The teams, led by Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, were safe in Manchuria and returned to base. London reported Marshal Keitel admitted Germany bluffing in 1938 Munich Conference and that Britain and France might have prevented war if the bluff had been called.
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Hitler
Britain
France
San Francisco
MacArthur
Pisot
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
London
Paris
Tadio
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Germany
Munich
Czechoslovakia
War Prisoner Dies in Traffic Mishap near Middletown
Sgt William Hurd of Oakley Q recently liberated from a German prison camp on a three day pass was killed when an automobile struck while he was fixing a flat south of Middletown. Also Fisher plant workers begin reconversion to civilian auto body production in Cleveland. John L Derr founder of the Derr Company and former mayor of Gloria Glenns Akron died there yesterday.
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Middletown
William Hurd
Oakley, Q
Here
Derr
Akron
John L. Derr
Derr Company of
Gloria Glenns
Chippewa Lake
Halsey’s Riding Outfit Forwarded to Flagship
The saddle and bridle that were prepared for Admiral Halsey’s Tokyo ride have been sent from Reno to his flagship off Japan. The Navy disclosed the forwarding details today.
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Guam
UPI
Reno
New
Tokyo
Japan
Navy
Reds Capture Big Jap Army
London dispatch reports Japan's Kwantung army, once numbered by Russians at about 1,000,000, has ceased resistance across Manchuria. Over 98,000 Japanese troops surrendered on three fronts Sunday as Soviet airborne units entered Mukden Harbin and Yungki, with ground forces poised to assume control.
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London
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Manchuria
Red Army
Moscow
Mukden
Harbin
Yungki
Krin
Quisling Trial Opens with High Nazi Testimony
Oslo reports State Prosecutor J Anneaus Sehodat announced that Hermann Goering Joachim von Ribbentrop and other top Nazis will testify in the Quisling trial in Germany this week. Also listed to testify are Alfred Rosenberg Wilhelm Keitel and Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl as witnesses against Vidkun Quisling.
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Oslo
Anneaus Sehodat
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Vidkun Quisling
Norway
Alfred Rostenberg
Wilhelm ‘Keitel
Gustav Jodl
Heavy Fighting Continues on Chinese Front
Chinese government troops press into North China advancing on Paotow in Suiyuan while awaiting surrender envoys from Japan. Communist commander warns Chiang Kai-Shek to avert civil war as Tang En-po reclaim Wuchow and other towns. North China forces retake Taiyuan and several other cities as puppet forces defect to Chungking.
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Chungking
China
Paotow
Suiyuan
Shansi
Peiping
High Command
Supréme Command
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tang En-Po
Wuchow
West River
Canton
Padtow
Yeh Si-Shan
Yuncheng
Hungtun
Chaocheng
Fengyan
Kihsien
Tsingyuan
Sukow
Taiku
Nanking
Ohio Legion Sets Columbus Meeting Dates in 1945
The Ohio American Legion will hold a full business session in Columbus on September 23 24 and 25, state officials announced. The convention was originally planned for August 26.
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Ohio Legion
Columbus
Ohio American Legion
Corregidor Hero Liberated En Route to Manila
Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, Corregidor hero, has been liberated from a POW camp in Manchuria and is en route to Chungking and Manila. Allied forces plan air and sea moves to free prisoners and internees, with Wedemeyer confirming no discrimination in aid.
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Chungking
Jonatan M. Wainwright
Manchuria
China
Manila
U.S
Wainwright
Corregidor
Philippines
35000 Navy Men Are Trained on Wyoming
The ex-battleship Wyoming trained more anti-aircraft crews and fired vast ammunition without a casualty. Since March 1942, over 35,000 officers and men trained aboard her using seven kinds of AA guns, distributing more than 1,700,000 pounds of ammunition.
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Washington
Chesapeake Bay
Wyoming
Unrest and despair sweep Nippon report
Tokyo papers warn that control of the military will challenge Premier Naruhiko Hayashi-Kuni as unrest spreads across Japan. In Ohio, five Hancock County jail inmates remain at large after escaping during a funeral, and Capital University names Far Metz head of its education department.
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Guam
Japan
Tokyo
Naruhiko Hayashi-Kuni
Findlay
Hancock County
Capital Post
Columbus
Farl Metz
Jefferson Union Schools
Jefferson County
Capital University
Department of Education
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