Navy Demobilization Shifts To Half Million Navy Strength
Secretary Forrestal outlines sweeping demobilization plans aiming to discharge about 2.57 million personnel and 264,000 officers over 12 months, cutting Navy strength to 500,000 enlisted and 50,000 officers while offering higher pay and shorter terms to boost recruitment and retention amid ongoing draft debates on Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Navy
Capitol Hill
Armed Services
Forrestal
Sea Arm
Truman
Solons
Congress
Naval Reserve
SPARS
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Annapolis
Officers Training Corps
Japanese Commander Ts Ordered To Appear
RANGOON UP The Japanese commander of the former Japanese German submarine base at Penang guarding approaches to Singapore was ordered today to rendezvous with British naval officers offshore to discuss surrender preliminaries. This marked the first surrender contract with Malaya. Citrus Plant Burns in Dunedin Florida Fire yesterday destroyed the $1 million Citrus Concentrates Inc plant, one of Florida’s largest citrus by products establishments employing 456.
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Rangoon
Penang
Singapore
Malaya
Dunedin
Fla
Citrus Concentrates, Inc
Florida
Three Dead in Texas Storm Hits Houston Galveston Area
A gulf coast hurricane struck toward the Houston Galveston metro area with warnings of heavy damage. Reports indicate the storm may be weakening as it moves inland and hundreds are left homeless amid rising floodwaters.
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Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston-Galveston
Houston
Fort Isabel
Harris County
Galveston
Port Lavaca
Bay
Seadrift
Rockport
Port la Jaca
Bay City
Kilgore's 20-20 Plan Expands Job Insurance Aid
Senator Kilgore proposes a 20-20 amendment to broaden unemployment benefits to a national minimum of 25 dollars weekly for 26 weeks with the government paying the difference. The plan would also cover all payments above 20 dollars for 20 weeks, aiming to raise state benefits and attract broader support. A banking subcommittee opens its second week of hearings on the full employment bill as a hurricane toll climbs, with widespread damage across Texas coastal areas and Port Lavaca to Bay City reporting severe winds and destruction.
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Washington
Kilgore
D-W. Va
Ohio Solons To Act On Jobless Benefits
Columbus reports the Ohio Legislature will convene a special session on September 5 to implement new legislation raising unemployment insurance benefits. The move aims to provide immediate effect to the policy change and aid affected workers.
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Ohio
Columbus
Surrender Terms Signed at Rangoon
Sullen Japanese surrender envoys signed preliminary terms paving the way for Allied reoccupation of Singapore and Southeast Asia. The three envoys sat stiffly in chairs in the Rangoon government house ballroom as Allied representatives gathered nearby.
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Rangoon
Singapore
Southeast Asia
East Indies
Beightler Appointed Commander on Luzon
Manila General MacArthur's headquarters announced Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler as commanding general of the Luzon area. Beightler, ex Ohio highway director, led the 327th Division, previously the Ohio National Guard, in the Luzon campaign. Brig. Gen. Leo M. Kreber acts as commander of the 37th Division. Washington War Department reports Brig. Gen. Lewis C. Beebe, captured earlier, was rescued by parachute team at Camp Hoten, Manchuria.
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Manila
MacArthur
Robert S. Beightler
Luzon
Beightler
Ohio State Highway
327Th
Ohio National Guard
Leo M. Kreber
Washington
War Department
Lewis C. Beebe
Philippine
Camp lHoten
Manchuria
Black Markets Crumbling as Civilian Goods Return
Washington reports black markets shrinking as peacetime goods reenter the economy. OPA sets price levels near 1942 for new non war goods while promotions push costs up. manufacturers absorb increases. Toys will be wartime types, bicycles scarce, and metal wagons limited. Nearly 2,000,000 war workers lost jobs since Japan’s surrender. Navy to shrink to 550,000 in a year. Auto dealers see prices dip as new vehicles flood in. Poultry firms expect chicken surpluses. Interior and Post Office adopt 40 hour week, with War Dept to follow.
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Washington
OPA
Robert C. Goodwin
U. S. Employment Service
Japan
Navy
National Automobile Dealers Association
Agriculture Department
Interior and Post Office
War Department
Japanese Paper Warns Against Vengeance and Militant Ultranationalism
The Asahi Shimbun warned readers that seeking revenge against the Allies would lead to total disruption, urging abolition of militarism. It noted Japanese ultra patriotic groups surrendering to ritual suicide, with grim domestic pressure and broadcasts about prisoner evacuation and peacetime conversion.
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Germany
Tokyo
Asahi Shimbun
Domei
Atagoyama Shrine
Imperial Palace
Yoyogi
Maruhiko Higastu-Kunin
Japan
MacArthur
Japan Beaten Before Atomic Bomb and Red Entry Into War
Sagami Bay Japan reports indicate Nippon already overwhelmed before the atomic bomb and Soviet entry. Japanese naval officers aboard transport ships describe a starving, wrecked transport system, sunk fleet, damaged air force, and fuel shortages as Tokyo endures heavy bombing and displacement.
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Japan
Marulin
Spencer Sagami Bay
Nippon
Soviet
Russia
Sagami Bay
Tokyo
Ruesta
Purge of Nazi Party Officials Ordered in American Zone
General Eisenhower and Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay issued orders for a strict purge of every Nazi Party member or former member from any authority or civil service role in occupied Germany. The policy, to be carried out by military government agencies, bans temporary reemployment of former Nazis and directs division and regimental leaders to refrain from issuing such local orders.
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Frankfurt - ON -The-Main
Potsdam
Germany
U. S
Ecivil
Eisenhower
Lucius D. Clay
Clay
Idivison
Plan Conference on Timken Pay Increase
Canton Ohio President Philip Murray of the CIO United Steelworkers offers to yield a negotiating committee to confer with Timken Roller Bearing Co representatives on a company proposed 19 percent wage increase affecting about 14,500 workers.
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Canton—I
Philip Murray
Cio-Umited Steelworkers of America
Timken Roller Bearing Co
Chinese Reds Arrive To Meet With Chiang
Mao Tse Tung and two other top Chinese Communist leaders arrived from Yenan with Maj. Gen Patrick J Hurley the U S ambassador to attend a conference with Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek to avert civil strife. The Communist central committee issued a manifesto calling for an immediate coalition government.
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Chungking
Mao Tse- Tung
Yenan
Patrick J. Hurley
U. S
China
Butter Points Reduced To 12 Per Pound Sept 2
OPA officials announce butter point value will drop from 16 to 12 red points per pound starting September 2. The cut applies to both institutional and home users due to improved supplies.
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Washington
UPI
OPA
Six Month Hunt for German Spy Rewarded
Washington report states the capture of a 25 year old German espionage agent after over six months of FBI pursuit. The agent, identified as Hans Rudolf Christin Zuehlsdorff, is linked to William Curtis Colepaugh and Eric Gimpel, who were arrested after landing from a German submarine at Hancock Point Maine in November 1944.
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Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Hans Rudolf Christin Zuehlsdorff
William Curtis Colepaugh
Eric Gimpel
New York
Hancock Point
Maine
Japs 'Very Polite' To U. S. Army Pilots Near Tokyo
Reports from Okinawa say Japanese greeted the first American airmen to land at Atsugi Field with politeness. Initial caution gave way to closer contact as advance occupation units met no trouble. Japanese then invited the pilots to meals and hosted six course dinners.
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San Francisco
Atsugi Field
Tokyo
MacArthur
Okinawa
Pioneer Lt Col Tice lands U S plane on Japanese home soil
Lt Col Clay Tice of Los Angeles becomes the first American to land a U S fighter on Japanese soil since the war began. His plane developed fuel line trouble during reconnaissance and touched down at a Kyushu field. Enemy officers were friendly and no sign of defeat was shown.
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Clay Tice
Los Angeles
U. S
Kyushu
Wainwright Welcomed in Chungking After POW Release
Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright, 62, hero of Corregidor, arrives in Chungking from a Japanese POW camp in Manchuria. He was found safe by a parachute team and released with hundreds of other American POWs. Wainwright led Philippines forces starting March 1942 after MacArthur left for Australia.
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Chungking
Jonathan _M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Manchuria
Wainwright
Formosa
Philippines
MacArthur
Australia
Southwest
Pacific
Job Jumping Still Banned
COLUMBUS. For draft eligible 18 through 25 year olds job jumping remains prohibited. State Selective Service Headquarters ruled the manpower regulations stay in effect for registrants. Col. Chester W. Goble said if a deferred worker leaves employment without local board approval, he will be placed in a class available for service.
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Columbus
State
Selective Service
Chester W. Goble
Goble
Bids Being Taken on New OHE Dairy Barn
The state welfare department announced bids to be published for a 50000 dairy barn at the Hospital for Epileptics in Gallipolis and a 115000 dormitory at the Girls Industrial School near Delaware. Bids on a 900000 Mount Vernon sanitorium tubercular patient expansion are to be opened August 31.
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Columbus
State Welfare Department
Girls
Delaware
Gallipolis Bull
Mount Vernon
Fearless Youths Chase Holdup Men in Cincinnati
Two 15 year old boys, Jack Downing and John Buchanov, chased and subdued two alleged holdup men after they allegedly attempted to rob a store, showing little fear of the robbers' guns. Patrolman Frank Feldhaus reported the youths helped police officers arrive to take the suspects into custody.
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Cincinnati
Frank Feldhaus
Feldhaus
Jack Downing
John Buchanov
Airborne Yanks Seize Atsugi Airfield in Japan Invasion
American forces captured Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo as the U S fleet steamed toward Tokyo Bay. General MacArthur and 7 500 airborne troops were set to land Thursday with Lt Gen Robert L Eichelberger and Rear Adm Oscar C Badger leading the way. Nimitz announced Pacific Fleet forces would back the occupation with heavy support from Admiral Halsey on Sagami Bay. The operation began with a transport crash near Okinawa killing 20, while the Tokyo landing plan shifted from tomorrow to Thursday.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S
Tokyo Bay
Nippon
Atsugi
Imperial Palace
Okinawa
MacArthur
Robert L. Eichelberger
Oscar C. Badger
San Diego
Badger
Nimitz
Admiral Halsey
Third Fleet
Sagami Bay
Yokosuka Naval Base
Guardian Islands
Fleet units assigned to patrol coasts after Pacific operations
Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid announces Seventh Fleet will patrol the China and Korean coasts in support of MacArthur's return to the Philippines while Nimitz moves the Fifth Fleet to Southern Japan and Ryukyu Islands. Fletcher leads North Pacific forces aiding occupation. Navy plans to cut personnel. Japanese ships at Sasebo prepared to surrender. prize crews bring subs to Sagami Bay. Three signed preliminary surrender pacts for Southeast Asia and Dutch East Indies. British occupation of Malaya imminent. Indies to follow Sept. 2 surrender at Missouri.
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Thomas C. Kincaid
Seventh Fleet
MacArthur
Philippines
China
Korean
Nimitz
Iifth
Japan
Ryukyu Islands
Frank Jack Fletcher
North Pacific
Navy Department
Sasebo
U. S.S
Sagami Bay
Mikado
Southeast Asia
Dutch East Indies
Malaya
Singapore
The
Indies
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Tigers Map Hideout and POW Movements Reported in Pacific
General Yamashita allegedly supplied a map of his hideout in the Northern Philippines. Ten thousand Japanese in Philippine mountains supposedly received orders to quit. Allied forces plan to evacuate POWs from camps in China Manchuria and Japan through Manila as atomic bomb gratitude grows among American troops.
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Tomoyui Yamashita
Malaya
Singapore
Philippines
Philippine
Tire Makers Protest 36 Hour Week Delay
Small truck and passenger tire builders at B F Goodrich in Akron worked six hour shifts in protest of the postponement of the 36 hour week. The action involved 143 workers as the change, scheduled to begin yesterday, was delayed due to shortages of experienced tire builders.
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Akron
B. F. Goodrich Co
Earry
Goodrich
Cincinnati Navy Contract Cancellations Rise in Area
Navy cancellations in the Cincinnati area total about 5.275 million since fall for Japan. Capt. G H Bowman, inspector of navy material, reports the area covers southern Ohio and Indiana, all of Kentucky and parts of West Virginia and Virginia.
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Cincinnati
Japan
G H. Bowman
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virginia
Marion May Be Site of New Ohio Penitentiary
Gov. Frank J. Lausche proposed the 2000 acre Scioto ordnance works near Marion as a potential site for a new Ohio penitentiary He would ask the Ohio Postwar Program Commission to study taking over the federal reservation or other sites for the project.
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Columbus
UFI
Frank J. Lausche
Scioto Ordnance Works
Marion
Ohio
Ohio Postwar Program Commission
Nazis Ersatz Food Factories Reopened
Nazis Ersatz food factories resume production of phoney staples such as eggs and yeast from wood in British occupied areas. Officials say the reopens aim to bolster German civilian food supply during a predicted hard winter. Also reported: findings totaling $24,551 levied against 13th Kentucky and West Virginia companies for war time wage control violations.
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21St Army Group Headquarters
Nazi Germany
Willes
Cleveland
Kentucky
West Virginia
Unanswered Questions On Job Rights Of Returning Veterans
Washington reports continuing uncertainty over job guarantees for returning veterans. Officials cite the Selective Service Act as ambiguous and unavailable for interpretation, urging Congress to clarify meanings or await court rulings. Veterans groups press for rewording to define temporary versus permanent positions and reemployment rights after draft absence.
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Washington
Justice Department
Department
Congress
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Selective Service Act
Army
Selective Service
Veterans
Department of le
Veterans Organizat
Selec
Lewis B. Hershey
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Home Islands
Rurner
Jong
Halsey
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Adm
O. C. Badger
Chiang
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