Navy To Halve Force As Demobilization Plans Grow
Navy aims to reduce strength to 500000 enlisted personnel and 50000 officers within 12 months, discharging about 2575000 sailors and 264000 officers. Secretary Forrestal outlined expanded demobilization with pay boosts and shorter service terms amid Capitol Hill debates on continued draft. President Truman urged continuation of the draft, while Congress split on halting conscription. revolved around volunteers, selective service through 25, and naval training expansions including reserves and WAVES.
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Japanese Commander Ordered to Appear for Talks with British Officers
RANGOON The Japanese commander of the former Penang base guarding Singapore approaches was ordered to rendezvous with British naval officers offshore to discuss surrender preliminaries. This marked the first surrender contact with Malaya. Citrus plant Bac burns in Dunedin Florida destroying a million dollar citrus by‑products facility employing about 450 workers.
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Three Dead Hurricane Strikes Texas Gulf Coast Area
A gulf coast hurricane lashed toward the Houston Galveston metro area with reports of three deaths and widespread homelessness as the storm moved inland showing signs of weakening in intensity.
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Houston, Texas
Houston-Galveston
Kilgore Proposes 20-20 Plan to Boost Jobless Aid
Senator Kilgore outlines a 20-20 amendment enlarging unemployment benefits to a nationwide minimum of 25 dollars weekly for 26 weeks with the government covering the excess. He would also fund payments above 20 dollars for 20 weeks, aiming to push states to raise benefits and attract richer states. A banking subcommittee opened hearings on the broader full employment bill as Houston endures hurricane damage with deaths, floods, and widespread displacement along the Gulf Coast.
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Ohio Solons Set Special Session On Unemployment Benefits
Columbus The Ohio Legislature will convene a special session on September 4 to implement swiftly a law increasing unemployment insurance benefits. The move aims to widen relief for workers facing job loss and stabilize state unemployment programs.
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Surrender Terms Signed at Rangoon. Beightler Appointed Luzon Commander
Rangoon reports Surrender terms signed as Sutlen envoys laid preliminary agreements paving the way for Allied reoccupation of Singapore, Southeast Asia, and the East Indies. Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler, ex-Ohio highway director, named commanding general of the Luzon area. acting 37th Division commander is Brig. Gen. Leo M. Krerer. Allied representatives meet in government house, while a parachute team rescues Philippine attack survivors at Hoten, Manchuria.
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Black Markets Crumbling Before Civilian Goods Rush
Washington reports indicate peacetime goods arriving quickly while black markets in food shrink. OPA sets prices for wartime goods near 1942 levels. retailers to absorb costs. Christmas will be wartime style with limited bicycles and metal wagons. Nearly 2,000,000 war workers lost jobs since Japan’s surrender. Navy to shrink to 550,000 in a year. Used car prices slip as new auto flood arrives. Poultry firms expect surplus with abundant chickens. Intern, Post Office adopt 40 hour week. War Department to follow.
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Jap Paper Warns People Against Futile Revenge
The Asahi Shimbun warns readers that seeking revenge against the Allies would lead Japan to a state like Germany's total disruption. It calls for abolishing militarism and notes self-imposed deaths by ultra patriotic groups. Plans to evacuate prisoners and convert industry to peacetime use are reported amid reflections on Nazi Germany’s consequences.
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Japan Beaten Before Atom Bomb and Red Entry Into War
Sagami Bay dispatch notes Japan's dire wartime condition before atomic bombs and Soviet entry. Japanese naval officers aboard transports report hunger, crippled transport, sunk ships, grounded aircraft, and ruined homes. They describe Tokyo suffering, fuel shortages, and a collapsing navy as Superforts and Okinawa air units pound the home islands.
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High Officials Order Purges of Nazi Party
Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay ordered a strict purge of every Nazi Party member from any authority or civil service role in the American zone of occupied Germany. The policy directs military government to handle all such actions, with commanders urged to suspend use of former Nazis in any capacity.
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Potsdam
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Timken Pay Increase Discussed by Steelworkers Leader
Canton U S President Philip Murray of the United Steelworkers offers to send a negotiating committee to confer with Timken Roller Bearing Co on a proposed 10 percent wage increase for about 14 500 workers.
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Philip] Murray
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Reds Arrive for Talks With Chiang and US Envoy
Chinese Communist leaders from Yenan arrive with U S ambassador Hurley for a conference to avert civil strife in China. The Communist central committee issues a manifesto demanding an immediate coalition government ahead of talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's National Government.
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Pat Tick J. Hurley
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Central Committee
Butter Price Reduction Set For Sept 2
OPA officials announced that butter will drop from 16 to 12 red points per pound starting September 2 due to improved supplies. The reduction applies to both institutional and home users nationwide.
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Washington
OPA
Six Month Hunt for German Spy Ends in Capture
The Justice Department announced the capture of a 25-year-old German espionage agent, sought by the FBI for more than six months. The suspect, identified as Hans Rudolf Christin Zuehlsdorff, was linked to German agents William Curtis Colepaugh and Eric Gimpel, arrested after landing from a German submarine at Hancock Fort Maine in November 1944.
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FBI
Justice Department
Hans/ Rudolf Christin Zuehlsdorff
William Curtis Colepaugh
Eric Gimpel
New York
Hancock Fort
Maine
Japs Polite To U S Army Pilots At Occupation Field
Radio reports from Okinawa described Japanese welcomed the first American airmen to land near Atsugi Field outside Tokyo as polite and nonconfrontational. Initial caution gave way to approaching the planes, with some Japanese inviting pilots to meals and social greetings as American occupation units entered.
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Okinawa
American Lt Col Tice Lands Plane on Japanese Soil
Pioneer AR Lt Col Clay Tice of Los Angeles becomes the first American to land a U S plane on Japanese home soil since the war began. His fighter had fuel trouble on a recon mission and touched down on a Kyushu field where enemy officers were friendly and showed no sign of surrender.
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Los Angeles
U.S
Kyushu
Wainwright Welcomed at Chungking After POW Rescue
Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright aged 62 arrives in Chungking from a Japanese POW camp in Manchuria. He was found safe by a parachute team earlier this month. other American prisoners were released. Wainwright led Philippine forces from March 1942 after MacArthur left for Australia.
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Manchuria
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MacArthur
Australia
Southwest
Pacific
Job Jumping Still Banned for Draft Eligibles
Columbus UPCS headquarts ruled that 18 to 25 year old draft registrants cannot leave employment they are deferred from without a favorable local board decision. Col. Chester W. Goble stated that quitting such a job places the registrant in a class available for military service.
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Bids Sought on State School Dormitory Dairy Barn
The Ohio welfare department announced bids this week for a $115000 dormitory at the Girls Industrial School near Delaware and a $50000 dairy barn at the Hospital for Epileptics in Gallipolis. Bids will be opened August 31 as part of a $900000 expansion at the Mount Vernon sanitorium for tubercular mental patients.
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State Welfare Department
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Delaware
Gallipolis
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Mount Vernon
Fearless Youths Chase Holdup Men in Cincinnati
Two 15 year old boys chased and captured two alleged holdup men after they allegedly tried to rob a storekeeper. Patrolman Frank Feldhaus reported the youths showed little fear as they pursued and punched the suspects until police arrived. The sequence occurred last night in Cincinnati, with the youths identified as Jack Downing and John Bachanoy.
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Pattrolman
Frank Feldhaus
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Baye Chase
Airborne Yanks seize Atsugi as fleet enters Tokyo Bay
Allied forces landed at Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo as General MacArthur and 7,500 airborne troops prepared to enter Japan. Rear Adm Badger led ten warships into Tokyo Bay while Admiral Nimitz and Third Fleet covered the approach. The operation aimed to secure Yokosuka, guarding islands, and begin occupation duties ahead of Thursday landings.
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Fleet assigns forces for Pacific operations after Japan surrender
Admiral Kuincaid's Seventh Fleet units will patrol China and Korean coasts while Nimitz's Fifth Fleet covers Southern Japan and Ryukyus. Vice Admiral Fletcher leads North Pacific forces to assist occupation. Navy plans to cut active officers and men from over 3 million to about 550 thousand within a year. Japanese ships at Sasebo base near render. two submarines arrive in Sagamo Bay with prize crews. Three Mikado forces sign preliminary surrender terms. Occupation of Malaya and Singapore base to follow formal surrender aboard Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Allied and Japanese POW movements amid Pacific war reports
At least ten thousand Japanese hiding in Philippine mountains were ordered to quit. Prisoner releases and evacuations were planned to begin as Allied forces eyed Manila and Tokyo Bay. Reports from Sagamore and Soanghal describe troop movements, air drops, and civilian internment policy amid MacArthur’s operations.
Tire Makers Protest 36-Hour Week Delay
Akron workers at B F Goodrich Co protested postponement of a 36 hour week by working six eight hour shifts yesterday. The early out affected 143 tire builders as the change to a 36 hour week was delayed due to shortages of experienced workers.
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B. F. Goodrich Co
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Navy contracts canceled in Cincinnati area total $275000000
Navy contracts in the Cincinnati area have been canceled totaling about 275 million dollars since the attack. Capt G H Bowman, inspector of navy material, reports the scope includes the southern half of Ohio and Indiana, all of Kentucky and parts of West Virginia and Virginia.
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Marion May Be Site of New Ohio Penitentiary
Governor Lausche proposed the 2000 acre Seiwha ordnance works near Marion as a possible site for a new Ohio penitentiary He planned to ask the Postwar Program Commission to study the advisability of acquiring the federal reservation or other sites for this purpose.
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Columbus
Frank J Lausche
Marion
Ohio
Ohion Postwar Program Commission
Nazis Ersatz Food Factories Reopened
In newly reopened German ersatz food plants, artificial eggs and wood-based yeast are described as helping bolster civilian diets during a predicted harsh winter. Cleveland reports reveal $24,550 in findings against 13 Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia companies for war-time wage-control violations.
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Unanswered Questions on Returning Vets Job Rights
Washington reports that the meaning of job rights for returning veterans remains unclear. The Justice Department cites ambiguity in the Selective Service Act and calls for congressional clarification, while veterans groups push for a clear interpretation.
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