MacArthur Leads Army Into Tokyo Today
General MacArthur will lead a triumphal parade through three miles of Tokyo streets Saturday morning, with a white-legginged U S Cavalry band. Tokyo time is late today, U S time. In Nanking, Chinese officials prepared to accept the surrender of 1,090,000 Japanese soldiers on Sunday. President Truman said the United States would secure Pacific bases by negotiation or otherwise.
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Associated Press
U. S
MacArthur
Tokyo
U.S
EWT
Comei
Nanking
Washington
Truman
United States
Third Fleet
Yokohama
Nagoya- Hamamatsu
Niiigata
Marunouchi Business Quarter
Emperor Hirohito
China
Fanatics Kill Army General in Japan as Surrender Looms
Japanese sources report fanatical Nipponese officers killed a general on August 14 to block Hirohito’s surrender message from reaching the people. The incident follows broader hardline behavior as Allied moves toward Japan’s capitulation accelerate.
Virginia sect leader charged in rattlesnake death
Norton Virginia Rev Harvey O Kirk of Ram sey VA was charged with manslaughter in the death of his wife Anna who died Monday after a rattlesnake bite at Faith Deslers demonstrations. Three sect members were also held on charges they unlawfully brought poisonous snakes to the religious event and allowed them to be released among spectators, one of which bit Mrs Kirk.
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Norton
Harvey O. Kirk
Ramsey
Anna
Iinto
Kirk
Return of Troops in Europe To Be Speeded
Paris report says the U.S. Army will ship home about 1.3 million American soldiers between September and year end. Brig. Gen. George Eyewt told reporters any soldier with 70 points or more on V J Day would leave the theater, accelerating demobilization in Europe.
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Europe
Paris
U.S
George 5
Eywtet
Predicis
Walter George
Georgia
Senate
George
Robert Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means
Legless Armless Soldier Rewarded by Kind Friends
Atlantic City reports Pfc. Jimmy Wilson, a severely injured young man in a plane crash, praised by admirers who raised a nationwide fund. The money, gathered via newspaper solicitation and charity efforts, will be placed in government securities until a trust is set to provide a steady life income.
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Atlantic City
Jimmy ‘Wilson
Aie Stark
Fila
Philadelphia Inquirer Charities, Inc
Jimmy
Steady
Wrecked Liner Found In South by Airmen
Shaw Field Army Air Base reports sighting wreckage of a missing Eastern Air Lines liner ten miles east of Florence near the Pee Dee River. The aircraft, believed to carry 22 aboard, appears to be a complete wreck.
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Sumter
S.C
Shaw’Field
Army’ Air Base
Eastern Air Hner
Florence
Pee Dee River
More Canning Sugar Is Allotted to Ohioans
Columbus announces an extra five pounds of sugar for canning to residents who received nine pounds or less since June 2. The Stcounty district Office of Price Administration will mail the bonuses immediately. Clyde C. McBee, food rationing officer, says no application is required. Several large U.S. units, including the 63rd and Infantry Divisions and the 6th Armored Division, have been alerted for shipment home from France in the coming days.
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Columbus
Stcounty District Office of Price Administration
OPA
Ray Honing Boards
Clyde C. McBee
U.S
6Th Armored
France
Missing veterans return to ranks in casualties list
The Army removes 3,485 missing soldiers from casualty rolls as they are identified alive from POW camps. Navy reports 604 belated casualties, keeping total combat casualties at 1,970,452. Army total reaches 922,587 and Navy 147,865. Fritz Kuhn to depart Washington after 17 years in the United States.
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Washington
America
Bataan
Corregidor
Navy
Ohio Jobless Get Pay Boost
Ohio unemployment recipients already on benefits since Aug 15 will receive supplemental checks under emergency legislation. The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation said claims filed and cleared at the old rate will be paid until redetermined. Legislation raised maximum weekly benefits from 16 to 21 dollars and extended duration from 18 to 22 weeks. BUC estimated over 62400 new claims filed since Aug.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
BUC
Akron Goodrich plant strike expands across six Akron facilities
All operations at B. F. Goodrich Co. six Akron plants halted as 15,000 CIO United Rubber Workers stay away amid a protest leaders call chaotic conditions. Only a few office staff remain, four days of below normal output follow a Firemen's Association of America strike of 780 members. Workers demand work for all with proper supervision. Ohioans idle mount as the stoppage grows.
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B. F. Goodrich Co
Akron
CIO
United Rubber
Firemen's Association of America
Goodrich
Nationwide strikes swell as Detroit hit hardest
A wave of labor disputes today upped the nation’s strike total with Detroit’s auto industry bearing the brunt, about 40 000 workers off duty. Other plants in Cleveland Warren Fostoria and Toledo saw hundreds to thousands walkouts over seniority and union inclusion issues.
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New York
Detroit
ARWA
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
AFL -International Association of Machinists
Parker Appliance Co
Cleveland
Matthew Demore
Aeitless
Embers Cal
Packard Electric
General Motors
Warren
Fostoria
Machanists Union
Fostoria Screw Co
Toledo
Cio-United Auto
Packard Motor Car Co
Unicast Corp
Toledo Industrial Rubber Corp
Pearl Harbor charges spark Senate probe into facts
The article notes hearings as Senators seek to delve into the factual basis of Pearl Harbor charges amid ongoing political debate. It reports a prominent naval chief, Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, dying at age 61 in San Diego after a career marked by immense WWII raids, including leading Carrier Task Force 38 to victory and witnessing Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri.
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Pearl Harbor
San Diego
Calif
John Sidney McCain
Navy
McCain
U.S.S. Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Sf Sea
Admiral Halsey
Japan
Washington
Censor Chief Praised By President Truman
President Truman lauds Byron Price, retiring censorship director, calling him a good public servant at a gathering of about 309 news and radio men, photographers, and colleagues in Washington. The tribute follows wartime achievements widely acclaimed by peers.
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Washington
United States
Byron Price
Price
Truman
Daring Rescue Party Frees 603 Prisoners From Kobe
A 24 member team including five American nurses liberated 603 prisoners from seven nations aboard a prisoner of war train, reaching Kobe and Osaka hospitals before heading to Yokohama for transport home. The raid marked the deepest Allied penetration of conquered Japan with 365 miles traveled through devastated Honshu to Kobe. Survivors included Americans captured at Bataan Corregidor Wake and Guam.
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Yokohama
Japan
Kobe
Osaka
Hon- Shu
U. S. Eighth Army
Bataan
Corregidor
Wake
Guam
Gas cutoffs hit Charleston and Huntington areas in strike
West Virginia cities face natural gas outages as United Fuel Gas Company workers strike. More than 1,000 CIO employees quit, threatening further losses in Charleston and Huntington as supplies dwindle. Union leaders cite wage and labor action protests tied to West Labor Board inactivity.
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Charleston
W.va
St. Albans
United Fuel Gas Company
Huntington
Harry A. Wallace, Jr
CIO
United Fueli
Wallace
CIO Oilworkers Union
John R
Cal) Hardwick
Kenova
WLB
Young Boy Held in Death in Cambria County
Nine year old Lloyd James Edwards of South Fork Pa. is jailed awaiting a murder hearing in the death of three year old neighbor Phyllis Jean Epperson found on an embankment beside the Little Conemaugh River. Police say he confessed to pounding the girl with bricks after she stumbled attempting to flee.
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Ebensburg
Lloyd James Edwards
South Fork
Cambria County
Phyllis Jean Epperson
Philippines
Little Contlemaugh River
Isleeping
Butcher of Warsaw Is Taken in Jap Refuge
San Francisco reports Joseph Meisinger known as the Butcher of Warsaw was captured by five Americans who traveled into unoccupied Japan on a tip. He allegedly led mass killings of Jews in Warsaw from 1939 to 1941. A second item notes the National Lutheran Council and Missouri Synod forming a five member commission to visit Europe in 1946 for church rehabilitation and welfare work.
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Warsaw
San Francisco
Bob Brumby
Tokyo
Joseph Albert Meisinger
Japan
Meisinger
Columbus
National Lutheran Council
Missouri Synod
Europe
Last of Mason Made Navy Tugs Leaves Cincinnati River
The 165 foot Army tug LT 822 sailed from Cincinnati after completion at Point Pleasant West Virginia yard. Built inland for invasion and coastal defense, it marks the last of Mason made tugs on the river amid hundreds of vessels like LSTs LCI s and other navy craft traveling the Ohio and Mississippi since Pearl Harbor. The yard also produced 16 mine planters and four submarine net-layers for Coast Artillery and Navy service.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Gulf of Mexico
Point Fleasant
W.va
Ohio
Mississippi
Pearl Harbor
Point Pleasant
Coast Artillery
Navy
Landed Estates Being Broken Up in Saxony
A Berlin decree published in all papers breaks up large landed estates in Saxony, Russian-occupied Germany, marking one of the first major west European experiments in communist land reform.
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Berlin
Saxony
Germany
Hanging of Boy Prevented by Mother in Wartime Camp
Ohio mother Erma Sponsel intervened as five boys aged eight to twelve faced a rope around her neck during a Japanese internment camp incident. The boys were reportedly to appear before juvenile authorities as part of wartime captivity releases. Hobart Aumann Amstutz and Jorain County figures were among involved locals.
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Middletown
Singapore
Erma Sponsel
Lime Road
Ohio
Hobart Aumann
Officers Will Get Discharge
Washington announces a point based discharge plan for officers up to colonel. About 200000 officers become eligible as of September 2, with some specialists possibly retained six months. The War Department expects to discharge 630000 of 800000 officers by next July.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Department
Truman Pushes Liberal New Deal Image in 1946 Message
President Truman framed the Democratic Party as left of center in his 16 000 word 1946 message promising full employment health and public works initiatives. GOP and some Democrats view the document as a campaign pitch with a plank on universal military training foreign lending and atomic energy control. Senator Taft praised the full employment section while warning on deficit spending.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Senate
Louse
Monay
House
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Barkley
United States
Truman
Trusman
Senate Banking Committee
Taft
Ohis
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harold D. Smith
J. Parnell Thomas
I J
James X. Murray
Pracice Commission
Ohio
Commerce
Wallace
Full Employment Bill Urged by CIO Union
CIO delegates from 22 states and Canada meeting in Cleveland urged Congress to pass the Murray Full Employment Bill. They called for higher unemployment insurance benefits and for action on behalf of the overwhelming majority of the nation.
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Cleveland
Murray
Congress
Canada
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and
Ma ‘Chine Workers of America
Ford Lines Halted Across Eight Plants by Detroit Strike
The Ford Motor Company halted passenger car and truck production in eight cities, idling over 30,000 workers, due to the ongoing Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company strike in Detroit.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company
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