Ohio Plants Still Closed By Walkouts
Ohio remains tense as labor strikes keep about 30 000 workers idle across seven cities. Key actions include 1700 Industrial Rayon workers in Painesville returning only after plants are readied, and 21 WTAM Cleveland engineers ending a strike following a contract dispute. Violent clashes injure two at Warren General Motors Packard plant. Toledo Machine & Tool and other plants keep hundreds idle amid broader stoppages in Akron and Cleveland area.
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Ohio
Industrial Rayon Corp
Painesville
WTAM
Cleveland
Eugene Barto
Cio-Textile Workers of America
Rayon
Independent National Association of Broadcast Engineers and
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National
American Broadcasting Companies
General Motors
Packard Electric
Warren
Matthew M. Augustine
Mary Ann, Davie
Niles
Miss Davie
Alice’ Meeker
Eva Shiesl
Toledo Machine & Tool Co
Afl-Shopman
Akron
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Lima
Westinghouse
Ohio Steel Foundry
Cio-United Auto
B. F. Goodrich Co
Foremen’s Association of America
AFL Association of Machinist
Parker Appliance Co
Peace in Gas Strike Remains Distant as Contract Is Cancelled
United Fuel Gas faced a setback as the company canceled its CIO union contract, extending the dispute during a nine day old walkout. Governor Clarence W. Meadows pursued a solution while Company President Harry A. Wallace Jr granted five extra days beyond the 30 day notice.
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Charleston
W. Va
United Fuel Gas
Harry A. Wallace, Jr
Clarence W. Meadows
Egg Futures Fall on Army Demand Cut Report
Egg futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange declined after the Army denied needing 2,000,000 cases for the year. October eggs dropped to 36 cents per dozen, with November down to 35.85 and December down further. In other items, a fatal collision killed two farmers in Norwalk and Florence Magruder Gilmore, 65, a Catholic writer and author, died in Columbus after a major operation.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Ohio
Columbus
Misa Florence Magruder Gilmore
Old Jerusalem
Balkans Issue Dominates Third Session of Big Five Foreign Ministers
The Big Five Council of Foreign Ministers opened a third session focused on peace treaties from World War II. Bevin proposed an Italian peace treaty now under study. the British and Americans seek immediate consideration. The Russians favor prioritizing the Italian treaty but argue Balkan, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian pacts deserve quick talks too. London and Washington insist on unrecognized regimes not be discussed until acknowledged. Byrnes met King Peter of Yugoslavia and Archbishop Damaskinos amid protests over planned elections in their nations.
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Balkans
Council of Foreign Ministers
Ernest Bevin
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Balkan
Washington
Ot Byrnes
Peter
Yugoslavia
Damaskinos
Greece
Nation's total rising sharply amid labor disputes and wartime output cuts
Labor disputes push national strike totals above 182 000 as Westinghouse plants in six states idle more than 29 000 workers after failed peace talks with the War Labor Board. Senate group backs Army plans while Congress weighs postwar jobs and agency reorganizations.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse
Washington
War Leabor Board
Army seeks to sell Congress on discharges
Gen Marshall began a drive to persuade Congress that the Army is doing its best to demobilize and return troops home quickly. He sent personal letters to all members of Congress with a booklet outlining efforts. Other generals told the Senate Military Committee they were pursuing similar aims.
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Washington
The
Army
Congress
Senate Military Committee
Pro-Japanese stance noted by Kagawa in Tokyo interview
Foyohiko Kagawa, seen by many American religious leaders as an Orient leading exponent of Christianity, argues Hirohito can do no wrong in a Tokyo interview. He also reflects on opposition to Japan's militaristic policy and his own deathly stance regarding a war outcome.
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Japan
Vail
Foyohiko Kagawa
Hirohito
Tokyo
Kagawa
Higashi-Kuni
England Seeks More Loans To Finance Reds
Rep. Frederick C. Smith accuses Britain of needing further loans to fund a state socialist program he calls communism. He alleges Lord John Maynard Keynes works with Treasury officials to drain American resources to aid Britain, which he claims is using harmful economic nostrums.
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England
Frederick C. Smith
Ohio
Britain
Smith
Lord John Maynard Keynes
Marion
Keynes
United States
Treasury
Hurricane Aims Toward South Florida From Bahamas
A powerful hurricane, the year’s worst, struck the Southeastern Bahamas early today and threatened South Florida with winds near 135 mph. The storm center lay near Cosos Island, 650 miles southeast of Miami, moving west-northwest at 16 to 18 mph and expected to affect the Bahamas and north Cuba later. Federal forecasters warned for the Florida peninsula while the Navy evacuated planes from Miami Naval Air Station and military bases planned northward movement if warnings expanded.
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South Florida
Miami
Bahamas
Carcos Island
Measures Drawn To Help More Workers
Washington AP notes two major postwar labor bills advancing in Congress. A jobless pay measure would extend unemployment benefits to 26 weeks for most workers, with a cap near 25 dollars weekly, and allow states to opt in or out. A full employment bill, advancing in committee, would declare federal responsibility to ensure jobs for all willing workers.
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Senate
Finance Committee
Truman
Arizona
Mississippi
Banking
Taft
Ohio
Meeks
Murdock
Utah
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Japanese Domei News Agency Suspension Ordered
General Mac Arthur ordered a complete suspension of the Japanese Domei News Agency without warning or explanation. Domei served about 85 papers in Japan and every daily in the islands subscribed. Federal Judge Nevin sentenced Tobias Neft to six years for sabotage linked to a 1944 fire at Joyce Czidtland plant.
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Japan
Tokyo
General MacArthur
Domei
Islands
Dayton
Nevin
Tobias Neft
Joyces Czidtand
Japan Industrialists Warn of Winter Starvation Risk
SEE RED spokesman Ryozo Asano president of Japan Steel and Tube Co Ltd warned that Japan faces a wave of starvation this winter and may trigger a socialist revolution. He and colleagues seek American commercial and financial aid to revive Japan's stricken business.
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Ryozo Asano
Japan Steel and Tube Co., Ltd
Asano
Japan
Mystery of Lost Pope Crew Cleared by Commodore Blinn
Commodore Belford C. Blinn, returning from a Japanese POW camp, stated the Pope disaster on March 1 1942 resulted in only one death among 154 aboard. The Pope and two British cruisers Exeter and Encounter were sunk in the Java Sea after attacking an enemy convoy. Survivors were taken to Manzanar? No, Ofuna Camp.
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Oakland
Calif
Pope
Navy
Commodore Blinn
Ma- Sassar
Celebres
Ofuna
Many Yanks in China Due for Trip Home
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer says remaining U S troops in the China theater will aid Chinese re occupation of former Japanese areas. The pace of this mission will determine when troops can return home, with a goodly proportion expected home for Christmas.
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China
Chungking
China Theater
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U 5
United States
Jap Atrocities Read: MacArthur Eyed Allies Action
Washington reports detail Japanese wartime crimes including beheadings of airmen, prisoner abuse, and mass killings in Burma and New Guinea. Allied plans foresee a four power Tokyo trial in 1946. In Korea, dismissals of Abe and Nishihiro are cheered as Burmese and Dutch detainees are handed to Eighth Army MPs.
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Araausa
Adm
Shigetaro Shimada
Tojo
Navy
Pearl Harbor
William T. Lander
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Washington
Tokyo
Korea
Baltimore Sun
John R. Hodge
Nobuyuki Abe
Tadao Nishihiro
Abe
Army Discharges Total More Than Half Million
The Army announced 661,000 soldiers discharged from May 12 through Sept. 7. During the week ended Sept. 7, 80,000 GIs returned to civilian life. A redeployment summary shows 1,280,000 men returned home from overseas between May 12 and Aug. 31, with 120,000 arriving in the week of Aug. 24–31.
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Washington
United States
MacArthur Denies Soft Treatment as Policy Attacked
Allied occupation of Japan could end in a year. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger estimated the surrender terms are not soft and will not be applied in kid glove fashion, General MacArthur asserts in a formal statement.
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Associated Press
Japan
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
MacArthur
Doughboys Not Satisfied With Postwar Plans
MacArthur defended his soft policy as necessary until Japan is disarmed. He warned the effort would continue into mid October while the Comei News Agency was halted. Eichelberger argued that a landless, resource-poor Japan would pose little threat within a year. Allied liber ees in Manila voiced frustration at what they called lenient treatment of Japan and questioned who really won the war. US troops for occupation may be reduced as some orders for railroad and engineer units were cancelled due to Japanese railways and docks being in better condition than feared.
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MacArthur
Japan
Comei
Eichelberger
Manila
Domel Dispatch
Tokyo
Gineer
U. S
Chikahiko Koizumi
Hideki Tojo
U. S. Eighth Army
Allied Forces Move North Japan as Surrender Terms Advance
Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold leads the 14th Corps toward Sendai with an airborne division slated to follow by train. The 27th Division heads for Nagsato and the Ninth Corps begins occupying Hokkaido from Sapporo by Sept. 27. MacArthur stresses patience in surrender execution, noting trials and security must align with war crimes commission guidance while Koizumi is removed from the wanted list.
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Oscar W. Griswold
14Th Corps
Sendai
Nagsato
Hokkaido
Ninth Corps
Charles Ryder
Sapporo
War Crimes Commission
Washington
MacArthur
Shift to Peace Enters Second Month in U S
Washington moves into a second postwar month as wartime controls ease. Rationing loosens with sugar likely to end by 1946 and clothes shortages easing in 60 days. Vacancies rise as 800000 veterans join the labor market monthly, while construction rebounds and travel restrictions ease.
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Washington
America
Atom Bomb May Bring New Type of Armies
Pittsburgh based scientist Dr A Allan Bates chemical and metallurgical chief of Westinghouse asserts the atomic bomb makes large peacetime conscript forces useless in future warfare. He said in Germany with a secret American unit that armies would resemble a classroom of boys armed with pea shooters.
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Chicago
Germany
A. Allan Bates
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Target Plane Aided in Training Air Gunners
A pilotless radio controlled target plane able to swoop dive and simulate flight actions to evade fire helped sharpen the aim of Army and Navy gunners at Wright Field. The air technical command said the device trained B 29 Superfortress crews and anti aircraft crews and was used by the Navy for automatic weapons target practice aboard ships.
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Air Technical Command
Wright Field
Navy
ATSC
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