End of Eight Year China War Amid Pacific Surrender
China celebrates the surrender of Japanese forces in Nanking ending an eight year war. Gen Okamura signed the capitulation for Japanese troops in China. Allied authorities report the peace move concrete with Japan’s military dissolve and troops to be demobilized.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Chen Kung-Po
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Army Navy plan faster releases with overseas service credit
The Navy will grant overseas service credit to 423000 more civilians, adding a quarter-point per month for service outside the continental United States. Overall credits push eligible discharge totals to about 750000. The Army aims to return over two million troops from Europe by February and over 1.75 million from the Pacific by June, reducing occupation forces. Secretary Forrestal says half of current personnel may be out within six months and peacetime strength could be 500000 in a year. Coast Guard also adopts overseas credit system.
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Navy
Continental
United States
Boyer
Europe
Pacific
Forrestal
Coast Guard
War Triangle Case Unsolved Stuns Manilla Tribune Readers
Gene D. Birdwell, 22, is under medical care after learning his Kansas City wife remarried while he was a POW in Japan. The War Department notified her of his status and she reportedly wed his uncle, deepening the wartime scandal.
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Japan
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Industrial Conference Opens to Counter Socialist Threats
Cleveland hosts Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems opening today with aim to alert public to dangers of materialistic socialism and economic liberalism. Speakers include W. W. Archer, industrial relations director of Selby Shoe and When. An annulment for his wife was granted on Sept 7 for a second marriage. Birdwell remained undecided on actions.
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Catholic Conference On Industrial Problems
W. W. Archer
Selby Shoe
Birdwell
Aussies Criticize MacArthur Peace Policies
Sydney listeners and readers voiced mounting dissatisfaction with General MacArthur's approach to Japan described as a kid glove peace policy. Public anger centered on perceived leniency toward Japan and criticism of wartime leaders.
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General MacArthur
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Freight Train Wreck in Fayette Town Delays B&O Traffic
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed after a broken wheel flange near Fayette Town, sending four cars off the track with two into Paint Creek near the union depot. Superintendent R C Diamond said traffic may not be restored until midnight.
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B. & O. Newark
Meat Rationing Resumes Across Canada Today
Ottawa reports Canada resumes meat rationing amid controversy as some Halifax dealers threaten protests. Government states the move aims to supply meat for liberated European nations after six years of war with only nine months of rationing.
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Canada
Helifax Chronicle
Europe
Japs Form New Semi Military Guard to Protect the Emperor
Tokyo reports announce a new semi military group to protect the emperor formed from former Imperial Army officers men and civilian volunteers from a disbanded division. Allies approval was not mentioned. Also noted is a Civil Air Patrol encampment in Oxford Miami University airport on Sept 29 with squadrons from Southwestern Ohio briefed.
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Imperial Army
Miami Oxford
Civil Air Patrol
Ohio
Miami University
Tojo Evades Question Of Who Started War
In an exclusive interview Gen. Hideki Tojo, long Japan’s wartime premier, deflected who started the war. He said victors may name the culprit but historians may judge differently. He recounted narrowly escaping a May 25 air raid and described sheltering his family amid flames near his Tokyo home.
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Peace Nears In Six Akron Tire Plants
Ohio labor action narrows as Westinghouse in Cleveland and Lima vote on a war labor board proposal delaying strikes. In Akron, Goodrich six plants halt production as 15 000 UAW workers refuse foremen lines. Foremen form vote of confidence while mediation aid from Akron Ministerial Association is discussed. Goodrich says no bargaining agent yet. URW at Goodyear Akron plants pursue education program to curb wildcat stoppages.
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Westinghouse Corp
Cleveland
Lima
National War Labor Board
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Cio-United Rubber Workers
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Foremen's Association of America
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National Labor Relations Board
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Bataan Hero Receives Congress Attention With Wainwright Visit
Congress opens reconversion session by receiving Gen Jonathan M Wainwright to probe the Pearl Harbor disaster. It weighs a postwar Navy plan, surplus-property reform, airport expansion, wage rules, the atomic bomb, and presidential appointments as part of Capitol Hill's agenda.
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Tojo Claims History May Vary On War Start
General Hideki Tojo, architect of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack and former premier, told American reporters history might differ on who started the war. He also complained that American bombers had ruined three of his nest pine trees as his forces devastated much of Asia.
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Russell Brines
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Admiral Yamamoto Death Revealed by Code Breakthrough
Washington dispatch recalls the April 1943 strike that killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the Solomons after U S code breaking exposed the Japanese plan. AP veteran J Norman Lodge notes the victory came from reading coded orders and predicting the aerial convoy’s route and timing.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
White House
Solomons
Yamamoto
J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press
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Quisling to Die for High Treason in Norway
London dispatch reports Vidkun Quisling convicted of high treason for collaboration with Germany during Norway's occupation. Oslo court pronounces death sentence under Norway's new death penalty law. execution to be by a firing squad of ten soldiers firing ten rounds.
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Oslo
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Quisling
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Siamese Twins Die Two Weeks After Birth in Arizona
In Phoenix two Siamese twins Touise and Micaila Miranda died fourteen days after birth. Their bodies will be preserved in St. Monica's Hospital pathological museum. They died at their parents Rita and Jesus Miranda's mud-thatched cottage in Coldwater. Both girls passed away at the same time.
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Ariz
Touise
Micaila Miranda
Arizon
St. Monica's Hospital
Rita
Jesus Miranda
Coldwater
Schmeling Cleared by Allied Court in U S case
Former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling was acquitted by an Allied military court of charges related to a promised movie contract and a personal appearance tour. The decision outlined that he did not intend to violate military regulations and dismissed the case.
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Prisoners of Japs Moved in Several Ships
At several ports American prisoners were loaded onto homeward bound ships. More than 500 prisoners on Northern Kyushu have liberated themselves awaiting occupation troops. Allied prisoners liberated from Honshu camps total 11,322 with 6,096 en route home. Manila escort carriers Block Island Santee and four destroyers arrived with 1,159 prisoners from Formosa, including 24 Americans. U S Navy rescue teams gathered 908 internees from camps in the Nagoya area.
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Negro convict donates eyes to Ohio eye bank
In Columbus an eye bank received the corneas of a Columbus convict who was electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary for killing night watchman Elder Johnson after Johnson and Moses Terry were beaten to death during a January 20 robbery attempt. The convict died Saturday night and his eyes were donated for the blind.
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Moses Terry
Secret prewar pact links Gestapo to 13 nations
A Berlin secret report dated August 22 1938 and signed by Reinhard Heydrich alleges a prewar agreement between the Gestapo and political police of 13 nations to combat Communism and perceived threats. It names Belgium Bulgaria Finland Italy Yugoslavia Portugal Spain and claims similar accords with Brazil Greece Holland Japan Poland and Hungary. The document also cites initial cooperation with Argentina and Uruguay and good relations with Denmark and Romania.
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Japs May Hold Army 3 Years
The Nippon Times estimates Japan will demobilize about 3,000,000 overseas troops over three years. It says 686,000 soldiers in the home islands are already demobilized and that 2,000,000 home defense forces will be sent home by early October. Demobilization in areas of the original American occupation should finish by end of August.
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Massacre of French in Indochina after surrender
Incoming Hanoi dispatch reports Japanese forces massacred about 100 French residents at Lang Son in Northern Indochina after surrender news. It also states around 500 French prisoners of war in the region suffered similar killings in the same source.
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Indochina
U S 27th Division Enters Sagami Bay Area
Three thousand three hundred men of the U S 27th Division entered Hiratsuka Odawata Sagamihara and Zami in the Sagami Bay area southwest of Tokyo, as reported by Domei via FCC dispatch.
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Odawata
Sagamihara
Zami
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Tokyo
Domei Agency
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State Starts Sale of 1946 Drivers Licenses
Columbus reports the state began selling 1946 drivers and chauffeurs licenses at deputy registrar offices. Fees are 40 cents for drivers and 90 cents for chauffeurs. Motorists must carry the licenses starting Oct. 1.
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Ohio Woman Killed In Collision Near Kane
Orrville Ohio resident Anna Zubruchen a 66 year old woman died after her car skidded off a curve in Kane Pa. She claimed she was lucky then another vehicle struck her as she stood outside. Coroner Ralph Mimm ruled the fatal injury from the second car.
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Anna Zubruchen
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