Occupation Schedule Is Announced
Manila reports surrender of Truk Palau Yap in the Caroline Islands Rota in the Marianas and Jatuit in the Marshalls to Tokyo with an indefinite date for 200,000 Nipponese troops. MacArthur says forces will take Korea and Ryukyus. Soviet troops seize Canton area. Plans include 12 hospitals at Yokosuka and major airlift of C 54 planes. negotiations push for capitulation of Truk Ponape Kussie Wake Nauru. White flags had not appeared on those islands.
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Manila
Truk
Pa- Yau
Yap
Caroline Islands
Rota
Marianas
Jatuit
Marshalls
Tokyo
Southeast Asia
China
Macarthur
Smithets
Korea
Ryukyuu Islands
Nippon
Canton
W&t
Shiingry
Yokosuka Naval -Base
Yokosuka
Debates Over Draft Inductions End Likely Soon
Washington lawmakers debate halting 18 and 19 year olds inductions as war ends. Rep Kilday urges immediate stop to teen drafts to allow education and emphasize older troops for occupation roles. committee leans toward abrupt halt, with a possible compromise to discharge under 35 on request. Chungking and China discuss a China peace pact amid Asian tensions.
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Washington
House Miliary Committee
Kilday
D-Tex
Enterprise Fights On As World War II Carrier Legend
The Enterprise, the fightingest U.S. carrier, survived 11 hits and six Japanese propaganda gibes in four years of war. It bore wounds in Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz, and a May 14 strike by a Japanese suicide plane killed 14 and wounded others aboard. Enterprise pilots shot down 911 Japanese aircraft and sank or damaged 263 ships. The piece also covers a China-Russia treaty pledging mutual aid, Manchuria return, Outer Mongolia independence, and joint use of Port Arthur, with political ramifications and a note on civil-war tensions in Asia.
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Washington
Enterprise
Navy
U. S
South Pacific
Solomons
Santa Cruz
Marc A. Mitscher
Task Force 58
Russia
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Manchuria
Moscow
T. V. Soong
Y. M. Molotov
Stalin
3UN Fo
Legislative Yuan
Asia
Chungking
Port Arthur
Outer
Mongola
Outer Mongolia
Russia Pledges Aid To China In 30-Year Pact
Manila AP. Battleship Missouri and allied forces enter Sagami Bay near Tokyo as final Japanese surrender, to be signed aboard the Missouri on Sunday. Soviet and Chinese pledges and moves loom in broader war endgame amid occupation contingencies in Korea and Hong Kong.
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Russia
China
South Korea
Hong Kong
Manila
Missouri
Sagami Bay
Tokyo
Japan
Eighth First to Occupy Jap Area
Manila headquarters said no official confirmation of the fleet entry yet. A spokesman said the force operates without full reporting to MacArthur on the occupation plan. NBC cited MacArthur confirming the Eighth Army as first into Tokyo area with arrival expected Sept. 1.
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San Francisco
D. S. Eighth Army
Tokyo
Merrill Mueller
NBC
MacArthur
Manila
Mueller
Eighth
Yokohama
Tol Enter or Ohio Politics Again
Washington reports former congressman Secrest, who earned a coal mine origin and studied law, remains tight lipped about wartime roles and future plans. Friends say he will likely seek the Democratic nomination for Ohio’s 15th District in next year’s race against incumbent Republican P. W. Griffiths.
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Ohio
Congress
Secrest
P. W. Griffiths
Open Far East To Air Travel
The Pacific and China theaters linked by luxury air flights last January as the Philippines battled fiercely. It is now possible to fly from Calcutta to Manila or back with similar ease as from LaGuardia to Burbank. The route was pioneered secretly by a B-24 crew commanded by Lt. Col. Robert D. Forman of Memphis Tennessee, training officer for the Air Transport Command India China Division.
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Kunming
Pacific
China
Philippines
Calcutta
Manila
LaGuerdia Fields
Burbank
Cailf
Robert D. Forman
Memphis
Tenn
Air Transport Command
India-China
Yank Headquarters Abandoned in Manila Heads to Okinawa
New York dispatch reports General MacArthur's Manila headquarters winding up its affairs in the Philippines tonight as a stepping stone toward a call in Okinawa. The broadcast notes the move marks a transition in command posture and signals shifting U.S. military focus in the Pacific theater.
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New York
Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Okinawa
Four Car Crash In Arlington Kills Three Injures Seven
In Arlington a four car collision Saturday night left three dead and seven injured. Victims include Paul Bench 17 of Arlington Donald Frech 20 of Mt Blanchard and Dwight M Leeper 18 of Findlay all killed. Others injured are Kenny Stewart 23 near Dunkirk critically, Kenny Stewart 20 Marvin Alexander 16 near Findlay and Colleen Stewart 17 of Kenton. In Columbus the body of Martha Heaton 59 was recovered from Buckeye Lake after a boat capsized in high winds while her brother Joseph Heaton 19 and Dan Howard 40 were aboard. Howard was rescued.
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Findlay
Arlington
Paul Bench
Arlinton
Donald Frech
Mt. Blanchard
Dwight M. Leeper
Kenny Stewart
Dunkirk
Marvin Alexander
Colleen Stewart
Kenton
Columbus
Martha Heaton
Eureka Ave
Buckeye Lake
Martha
Joseph
W. Heaton
Dan
Howard
N. Oakley Ave
Body of Girl Found Beside Train Tracks
The body of Elizabeth Ann Sash, 21, was found beside the Nickel Plates tracks in Euclid yesterday. Police said the victim appeared despondent in the two months prior. authorities suspect death occurred when struck by a train, with the body cut in two.
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Cleveland
Elizabeth Ann Sash
Nickel Plates
Ohio State to be cited by Navy for training 4000 sailors
In Columbus the Navy will formally recognize Ohio State University for a 29 month training program that educated 4000 navy men in aircraft and ship identification. The ceremony Friday will honor the university for its wartime contribution to naval readiness.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Navy
Hurley Helps Try Chinese Peace Talks In Chungking
Major General Patrick J. Hurley, U. S. ambassador to China, flew to Yenan to escort Mao Tse-tung and other Communist leaders to Chungking for talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek aimed at settling differences between the national government and the north China Communists. Clyde E. Jones, 71, Medina treasurer of the Ohio Farmers...
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Chungking
Patrick J. Hurley
U.S
China
Yenan
Mao Tse- Tung
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
Mao
Medina
Clyde E. Jones
The
Ohio Farmers
Central Texas Coast Pounded By Hurricane
Corpus Christi Texas reels as a giant hurricane with 100 mph winds batters the coast. The storm drives tides over seawalls and flooding into Port Aransas and coastal towns while power and communications fail. Refuge is sought in public buildings churches and hotels as the wave of destruction moves north toward the Houston Galveston region.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Houston-Galveston
Port Aransas
Mustang Island
Roosevelt
Former Ohio Official Faces Disbarment Action
Springfield attorneys George Raup W Mahar and William Elder appointed by Judge Golden C Davis to institute disbarment proceedings against Jerome A Nevins former Clark County prosecutor. Nevins was convicted of bribery and sentenced to one to ten years in Ohio Penitentiary.
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Springfield
George 5. Raup
W. ¥. Mahar
William M. Elder
Common Pleas
Golden C. Davis
Jerome A. Nevins
Clack County
Ohio
Ohio Post Office Clerks Oppose Strikes Call 30 Hour Week
In Cincinnati the Ohio Federation of Post Office Clerks reaffirmed its anti strike stance and adopted a resolution for a 30 hour work week after defeating Toledo delegates seeking a law allowing strikes. A separate report notes Hollas H. Bryant, 21, of Carthage, a discharged Pacific veteran, killed in an automobile collision yesterday in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Federation of Post Office Clerks
AFS
Toledo
Congress
Hollas H.bryant
Carthage
Navy Holds Akron Goodyear Plant Despite Seizure Plan
Akron report says Navy still controls five Goodyear plants as CIO United Rubber Workers refuse to concur on referring future labor disputes to a government agency. Capt. Harry K. Clark notes Navy tied to dock awaiting clearance from government bodies and a written stipulation from the Goodyear local.
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Akron
Navy
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Harry K. Clark
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Clark
National War Labor Board
Goodyear
Diplomats Hopeful for Changes Among Latins
Major General Paul R. Hawley says soft living causes neurotics and predicts radical Latin government changes in coming months as Americans resist unpleasant realities. He cites Spain and Argentina as last Nazi-aligned fronts and argues many diagnosed as psycho neurotic are not truly neurotic. A gas explosion in Cleveland kills two in an apartment. Braden called from Buenos Aires to oversee American republics affairs. Two veterans escape injury after a car rollover on Route 2 near Franklin.
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Cincinnati
Paul R. Hawley
College Corner
Washington
Anj
Europe
Spain
Argentina
WLW
World Front
General Hawley
eThere
Truman
Byrnes
Spruille Braden
Buenos Aires
I ! American Republics
Legislators study jobless problems workload Washington
Legislators and business leaders pressed action on postwar joblessness as the Committee for Economic Development urged immediate aid to stranded war workers and higher unemployment payments. The report warns of scarce durable goods and outlines price controls, wage pressures, and public employment service expansion to prevent large scale unemployment.
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Washington
Nationwide Committee For Economic Development
CED
C.E.D
Chester
Pat
Omer
Fleet enters Tokyo Bay as Japan to surrender near Sept 2
Large Allied armada moves into Tokyo Bay under Admiral Halsey as orders reach Japanese forces. Task force 31 led by Rear Adm. Badger prepares for landings near Katase Miura Peninsula. Japanese forces south of 38 latitude in Korea ordered to surrender to Americans. Ryukyus and Philippines capitulations set for immediate surrender on Sept 2 aboard the Missouri.
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Manila
MacArthur
Japan
U. S. Army
24Th Corps
John R. Hodge
Korea
Hong Kong
C. H. J. Harcourt
Admiral Halsey
U. S. Third Fleet
Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
Nicholas
Robert B. Carney
Osscar E. Badger
San Diego
Cruis
Ers
Missouri
Iowa
South Dakota
Katase
Miura Peninsula
Sagami Bay
Yokosuka
Keijo
Ryukyus
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tenth Army
Philippines
W. D. Styer
Pacific
Japanese General Yamashita Opens Luzon Surrender Talks
San Francisco report says Lt General Tomoyuki Yamashita, famed for Malaya and Singapore, began formal surrender negotiations with General MacArthur’s forces in northern Luzon. He seeks instructions from Major General William Gill of the 32nd Division on surrendering remaining Philippine units amid Rugged Carabao Mountains.
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Tokoyuki Yanmiashita
Singapore
Malaya
Corregidor
MacArthur
Luzon
Merrill Mueller
Carabag Mountains
William Gill
32Nd
Philippines
Mueller
Yamashita
Japan
Assailed Argentine Regime Faces US Pressure After Boston Speech
Tottering dictatorship of Edelmiro Farrell in Argentina faces US pressure following a blast by Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller. Rockefeller’s Boston speech signals possible US backing for a movement to overthrow Farrell, seen as aiding Axis remnants in the country.
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Edelmiro Farrell
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States
Farrell
Rockefellers
Boston
Franz Werfel Dies on Coast at 53 in Beverly Hills
Franz Werfel noted author of about 35 books including The Song of Bernadette died at his Beverly Hills home last night from a heart ailment. He was 53. His 1937 play The Eternal Road was a Broadway hit and Jacobowsky and the Colonel, adapted from one of his comedies, had a long run two seasons ago.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Franz Werfel
Bernadette
Jacobowsky and
the Colonel
Stettinius to Attend United Nations Parley
Edward R. Stettinius Jr former secretary of state sails to London aboard the Queen Mary as personal representative of President Truman for an interim UN meeting in London. Also aboard Sidney Hillman CIO Political Action Committee head who will attend a Paris World Trade Union Congress conference.
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New York
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
London
Truman
Commission
United Nations Organizations
Sidney Hillman
CIO Political Action Committee
Paris
iWorld Trade Union Congress
Boy dies by own action at Erie County Orphans Home
Coroner C. W. Koehler ruled death by own action for 15 year old Paul L Ditlery whose body was found hanging from a parallel bar at the Erie County Orphans Home yesterday. Police Capt Russell Thom said the youth, placed there by estranged parents, was despondent over lack of attention.
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Sandusky
C. W. Koehler
Paul L Ditlery
Erie County
Russell Thom
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