Occupation Schedule Is Announced
Allied forces plan a staged occupation of Nipponese holdings in the Pacific with up to 500000 troops, seizure of Truk Yap Rota Jaluit and other bases, and a Sept 3 tentative surrender in China. MacArthur will oversee Korea and Ryukyus, while Soviet troops advance in Korea. Tokyo restructures government and expands farming while preparing POW relief.
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Manila
Truk
Pa Janu
Yap
Caroline Islands
Rota
Marianas
Jaluit
Marshalls
Tokyo
Southeast Asia
China
MacArthur
Korea
Ryukyu Islands
Nippon
Japan
Canton
U. S
Weihsien
Kelso
John R. Hodge
U. S. Tenth Army
Okinawa
Stilwell
Chungking
North China
Port Arthur
Portland
Fussia
Outer
Russia
Outer Mongolia
Debate Draft Law Fate Solons Demand Inductions End
Lawmakers on the House Military Committee push to halt all inductions of 18 and 19 year olds, seeking immediate action and a study of draft necessity as the end of fighting reduces need. Debate includes possible age-based halts and discharge options amid stalled May 15 deadline. Russia China pact aims for 30 year peace and mutual aid in Asia.
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Washington
i_Two
House
Kilday
D-Tex
Shafer
R-Mich
Congress
Army
Navy
Chungking
Asia
Russia
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Manchuria
Moscow
T. V. Soong
V. M. Molotov
Stalin
Sun Fo
Legislative Yuan
Yank Forces To Take Over Korea Hong Kong Surrender Planned
Allied forces led by the battleship Missouri moved into Sagami Bay near Tokyo as Japan prepared surrender talks aboard the Missouri. MacArthur and Hodge announced occupation plans for Korea and a British surrender of Hong Kong with Adm Harcourt, as Third Fleet and British units approached Tokyo Bay. Minesweepers began clearing channels for the Thursday surrender events.
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Yank
South Korea
Hong Kong
Manila
MacArthur
Japan
U. S. Army
24Th Corps
John R. Hodge
Korea
Co. H. J. Harcourt
Admiral Halsey
U. S. Third Fleet
Tokyo
Tokyo Bay
Secrest Plans Return to Ohio Politics for 15th District
War veteran Bob Secrest, former representative of Ohio's 15th district, hints at running again for Congress. He rose from coal mines to law, served in the Navy with lieutenant commander and commander ranks, and is tied to the Pacific theater. Friends foresee a Democratic bid as he contrasts past military service with current political plans.
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Washington
Bob Secrest
Congress
Ohio
Pearl Hall
Secrest
House
Navy
Kunming
Pacific
China
Philippines
P. W. Griffiths
Central Texas Coast Hit By Hurricanes Fury
Corpus Christi reels under a giant tropical hurricane with 100 mph winds and rising tides threatening Houston and Galveston. Power lines fail, seawalls hold, and residents seek refuge in public buildings as Port Aransas feels the storms edge and tides surge inland.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Houston-Galveston
Port Aransas
Mustang Island
Roosevelt
Yank Headquarters Will Be Abandoned in Manila
A Manila broadcast reports General MacArthur's headquarters winding up affairs in the Philippines tonight as a stepping stone for a call to Okinawa. The message frames the move as part of a broader wartime shift in command locations.
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Yank
Manila
New York
General MacArthur
Philippines
Okinawa
Three Killed and Seven Injured in Arlington Buckeye Lake Crash
Seven people were injured and three killed in a four car collision near Arlington on Saturday night. Victims include Paul Beach 17 of Arlington Donald Frech 20 of Mt. Blanchard and Dwight M Leeper 18 of Findlay. Also injured were Mrs Kenny Stewart 23 of near Dunkirk her husband Kenny Stewart 20 Marvin Alexander 16 near Findlay and Colleen Stewart 17 of Kenton. In Buckeye Lake a 13 year old Martha Heaton and her brother Joseph V Heaton 19 drowned when their rowboat capsized in high winds near Buckeye Lake. Don Howard 40 of 257 N Oakley Ave was rescued.
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Findlay
Arlington
Paul Beach
Arlinon
Donald Frech
Mt. Blanchard
Dwight M. Leeper
Kenny Stewart
Dunkirk
Marvin Alexander
Colleen Stewart
Kenton
Columbus
Martha Heaton
Eureka Ave
Buckeye Lake
Martha
Joseph V. Heaton
Don Howard
N. Oakley Ave
Howard
Body of Girl Found Beside Train Tracks
The body of Elizabeth Ann Sash aged 21 was found beside Nickel Plate railroad tracks in Euclid yesterday. Police say she appeared low in spirits in the two months before her death, and the body was cut in two, apparently by a train.
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Cleveland
Elizabeth Ann Sash
Nickel Plate Railroad
Euclid
Ohio State Recognized In Naval Citation
In Columbus Ohio State University will receive a Navy citation for its 29 month program teaching 4000 Navy men aircraft and ship identification. The award will be officially presented Friday by the Navy department to the university's research foundation.
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Ohio State
Columbus
Ohio State University
Navy Cleent
Abed’s Research Foundation
Hurley Aide To Aid Peace Talks In China
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, U S Ambassador to China, flew to Yenan to join Mao Tse-tung and other Communist leaders for conferences with Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking aimed at a peaceful settlement of differences between the national government and the north China Communists.
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Chungking
Patrick J. Hurley
U. S
China
Yenan
Mao Tse- Tung
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chiang
Mao
Legislators Study Jobless Problems in Washington
Legislators and business leaders press for action as millions face unemployment. The Committee for Economic Development urges immediate aid to stranded workers and higher state unemployment payments, plus stronger public employment services and keeping the work week at 40 hours. News from production signals mixed supply prospects with clothing abundant but men’s suits tight.
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Washington
Strandec Wat
Nationwide Committee For Economic Development
CED
C.E.D
Chester Bowles
Former Ohio Official Faces Disbarment Proceedings
Springfield attorneys George S. Raup W Y Mahar and William M. Elder appointed by Common Pleas Judge Gorden C Davis to institute disbarment proceedings against Jerome A Nevins former Clark County prosecutor convicted of bribery and sentenced to one to sixteen years in Ohio Penitentiary
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Springfield
George S. Raup
W. Y. Mahar
William M. Elder
Common. Pleas
Gorden C. Davis
Jerome A. Nevins
Clark County
Ohio
Big EF Still Is Fightingest U S Carrier
Washington reports the Enterprise earned the nickname the fightingest carrier while surviving 15 battle damages in four years of war. It remained a key U S asset in the South Pacific in 1942, bearing scars from Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz actions. A May 14 disaster nearly destroyed her. 24 were killed and 1,? injured aboard.
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Washington
Enterprise
Navy
U. S
South Pacific
Solomons
Santa Cruz
Ohio Post Office Clerks Oppose Strikes 30 Hour Week
Cincinnati report states the Ohio Federation of Post Office Clerks AFL reaffirms opposition to strikes and passes a resolution for a 30 hour work week. The conference defeated a Toledo proposal to seek federal law allowing postal clerks to strike. Veteran Hollis H. Bryant, 21, of Carthage was killed in a mobile collision yesterday.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Federation of Post Office Clerks
AFL
Toledo
Congress
Navy Fails To Give Up Plant At Goodyear Akron
The Navy kept control of Goodyear Tire plants in Akron as Capt. Harry K. Clark said the Navy remains tied to the dock because CIO United Rubber Workers Local refuses to consent to refer future labor disputes to a government agency. He noted the National War Labor Board asked the Goodyear local to commit in writing that a government board would arbitrate later disputes.
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Akron
Navy
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Harry K. Clark
Cio-United Rubber Workers
Clark
National War Labor Board
Goodyear
Soft Living Blamed For Neurotics Says Hawley
Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley of College Corner Ohio says soft living causes psycho neurotics among draft age Americans. He spoke on WLW world front broadcast declaring many diagnosed psycho neurotics are not truly neurotic.
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Cincinnati
Paul R. Hawley
College Corner
Army
Europe
WLW
World Front
General Hawley
Eighth First To Occupy Jap Area
San Francisco dispatch reports the U S Eighth Army to be the first American occupation force in the Tokyo area. General MacArthur to arrive in Tokyo with 7,500 plus airborne units on September 1, while 10,000 Marines and sailors land at Yokosuka base. Japanese party meets fleet as advance signals begin.
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Okinawa
Japan
Tokyo
Mikado
Laisan Office
East Asia Ministry
Foreign Office
Higashi-Kuni
Hirohito
MacArthur
Yokosuka Naval Base
Yokosuka Field
Truk
Ponape
Kusaie
Carolines
Wake
Wauru
Bowles
U. S
Foreign Economic Administration
San Francisco
U.ss. Eighth Army
Philippines
Merrill Mueller
NBC
Manus
Mueller
Yokohama
Tokyo Bay Entry Marks Japanese Surrender Orders
Huge fleet enters Tokyo Bay as American and British forces secure the approach. Admiral Halsey’s staff issues surrender instructions to Japanese commanders south of Korea while task force 31 stages landings near Katase. Multiple battleships cruisers and hundreds of ships and planes mass for the final capitulation ceremony aboard the Missouri on Sept 2.
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Nicholas
Admiral Halsey
Robert B. Carney
Osscar E. Badger
San Diego
Cruis
Ers
Missouri
Iowa
Katase
Miura
Sagami Bay
Tokyo Bay
Yokosuka
MacArthur
Korea
Keijo
Ryukyus
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tenth Army
Philippines
W. D. Styer
Western Pacific
Surrender talks open on Luzon with Yamashita
Radio reports say Lt General Yamashita has begun formal surrender negotiations with General MacArthur’s forces in northern Luzon. He is holed up in the Carabao Mountains and seeks instructions from Major General William G. Ma of the American 32nd Division on surrendering remaining Philippine defense units.
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San Francisco
Tokoyuki Yamashita
Singapore
Malaya
Corregidor
MacArthur
Luzon
Merrill Mueller
Carabag Mountains
William GM
Muelof
Yamashita
US seeks to back bid to topple Argentine ruler Farrell
The report says Edelmiro Farrell’s government in Argentina may be faltering after a blast blamed on Axis sympathizers. It cites Assistant Secretary Nelson A Rockefeller’s remarks in Boston signaling U.S. support for a movement to overthrow Farrell and remove Axis remnants from influence.
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Edelmiro Farrell
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States
Farrell
Franz Werfel dies at 54 on the California coast
Noted author Franz Werfel, refugee writer of about 35 books including The Song of Bernadette, died at his Beverly Hills home last night from a heart ailment. He was 54. His 1937 Broadway hit The Eternal Road and the later Jacobowsky and the Colonel, adapted from his comedy, had long runs.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Franz Werfel
Bernadette
Jacobowsky and
the Colonel
Stettinius Heads to UN Parley Aboard Queen Mary
Edward R. Stettinius Jr former secretary of state travels from New York to London aboard the Queen Mary to serve as president Truman’s personal representative at an interim United Nations meeting in London. Also aboard is Sidney Hillman president of the CIO Political Action Committee bound for a Paris World Trade Union Congress conference.
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New York
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
London
Trusman
Commission
United Nations Organizations
Sidney Hillman
CLO
Boy Dies At Orphans Home In Despondent Act
Coroner C J Koehler ruled death by own action in the case of Paul L Dillery 35 whose body was found hanging from a parallel bar at the Erie County Orphans Home yesterday Police Capt Russell Thom said the youth was placed there by estranged parents and was despondent over lack of attention.
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C. J. Koehler
Paul L. Dillery
Erie County
Russell Thom
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