Akron Workers Vote to Return to Jobs at Goodrich Plants
In Ohio the CIO United Rubber Workers say about 15 000 production employees at B F Goodrich six Akron plants plan to return to work as arrangements are made while a foremen's strike by 200 members continues at the plants. The Goodrich workers voted four to one to reject supervisory roles if offered.
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Columbus
Cio-United Rubber
B. F. Goodrich Co
Arkon
Ohio
Goodrich
Foremen’s Association of America
John Saylor
UAW
Ford Workers Vote Imminent in Detroit Labor Dispute
More than 90,908 Detroit area workers idle as United Automobile Workers loom for a showdown over a general wage increase. Ford workers nationwide urged to attend a Sept. 29-30 meeting to decide on a strike, while Union demands include a written company guarantee of pay restoration after a work stoppage. The Detroit stoppage coincides with theater strikes and a Cleveland labor case involving CIO Electrical Workers.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
Ford
John N. Sweet
F.A.A
Cleveland
Victor Wellman
Afi-Motion Picture
Lynn B. Griffith
Trumbull County Common Pleas Court
Warren
Packard Electric Division
General Motors Corporation
CIO Electrical
Victor Decavich
International
CIO
Iwaa
Griffith
Ohio
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Lima
Westinghouse
Columbus Boy Killed In Fall From Grain Bin
Ronald Evans, 12, died after he fell about 60 feet into a grain storage bin at the abandoned Hester Brewing Co building on Front Street. His 13 year old companion James Daugherty said the boys went inside to catch pigeons. The fall occurred on the fifth floor and the boy landed in a conduit to the basement.
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Columbus
Ronald Evans
Hester Brewing Co
Front St
Fulton St
James Daugherty
James
Ronald
Miami University Numbers to Record Enrollment Rise
School officials predict the largest student body in years at Miami University with about 1 000 freshmen enrolling and 1 400 upperclassmen to register later this week as the term nears.
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Miami
Oxford
Timken Bearing Co Plans 40 Hour Week Demands
United Steelworkers push for a 40 hour week at Timken Bearing Co plants with no split crews or 12 hour schedules. President Reynolds cites a wartime unemployment end and adherence to the company union agreement as the basis for the action.
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Canton
United Steel d
Timken Bearing Co
Reynolds
Truman Aides Call for Policy Meeting on Draft and Taxes
Washington reports a White House meeting with Capitol Hill leaders to map the broader legislative picture. Key topics include draft policy, unemployment compensation, and a proposed $4 billion tax cut targeting individual incomes and corporate profits.
Japs To Learn Of War Guilt In Own Press
General MacArthur launches a broad information program to persuade Japanese citizens of defeat and war guilt. The plan uses the press radio and schools to eradicate militarism, promote democracy, and stress accountability for war crimes and leaders. Reports say Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu has resigned.
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Tokyo
MacaArthur
Pacific
Bonner F. Feller
MacArthur
Japan
Safeguards in Loans Needed by Hoover Speech
Former President Herbert Hoover urged safeguards for postwar loans in a Chicago Executives Club address. He warned Europe must not overlook America’s heavy wartime costs and said large loans risk partial repayment and strain international friendship.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Executives Club of
Hoover
United States
Europe
America
Truman Faces Labor and War Changes After Vacation
President Truman returns to Washington to address congressional and labor troubles and outline planned changes in the War Department. Reports swirl about Stimson retirement, Marshall stepping down, and possible successors including Johnson, McCloy, Minton, Patterson, and Eisenhower. A news conference is planned for tomorrow afternoon.
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Washington
Truman
White House
War Department
Martha Truman
Jackson County
Henry L. Stimson
George C. Marshall
Slaff
Morrow
Stimson
Louis Johnson
John J. McCloy
Indiana
Sherman ‘Minton
Robert P. Patterson
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Marshall
Dwight
Eisenhower
Storm Sweeps Up East Coast Toward Georgia and Carolina
A hurricane that hit South Florida with winds to 148 mph caused about 50 million dollars in property damage and three deaths. It is reforming in the Atlantic and moving toward Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Atlantic
Georgia
Carolina
Weather Bureau
South Carolina
Charleston
Florida Peninsula
St. Augustine
Buckeyes to Return Home After Pacific War Service
Ohio's 37th Infantry Division, the Buckeyes, will come home after 36 months in the Pacific theater. The War Department approved early returns for the 87th and the 31st and 38th National Guard divisions, with Brig. Gen. Leo M. Kreber leading the 37th in Columbus.
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Tokyo
Ohio
War Department
Doug
Jay
MacArthur
87Th
31St
38Th National Guard
United States
37Th
Buckeyes
Ohio National Guard
Camp Shelby
Miss
Fiji Islands
South Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Islands
Bougainville
Luzon
Manila
Baguio
Cagayan Valley
Leo M. Kreber
Columbus
Roberts. Beightler
Beasts of Belsen Faces Trial by British Court
Josef Kramer and 47 U. S. Elite Guard henchmen go on trial for life before a British military court. Conviction could bring death, life imprisonment, or fines. Also on trial is Irma Grese, a 21 year old Ravensbruck and Auschwitz guard linked to Belsen.
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Loeneberg
Josef Kramer
Belsen
U. S
Kramer
The
Irma Greese
Ravensbruck
Berlin
Auschwitz
Poland
Rubber Shipment Reaches England From Pacific Mines
The first thin trickle of natural rubber from pre war major producing areas reclaimed from the Japanese is en route to England. The shipment, a small portion from 8,000 tons found by Allied forces on arrival, was reported by the trade and industry branch of the military and civil affairs commission in Singapore.
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Singapore
England
Trade and Industry Branch
The
Military and Civil Affairs Commission
Airmen Help To Bring Out Captured Yankees
OSS reports airmen parachuted behind enemy lines during the war and set up underground railways that evacuated more than 4000 stranded U S airmen. When all fronts report, total rescued may exceed 5000.
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Washington
Office of Strategic Services
Europe
China Theater
OSS
Explosion Rips British Battleship Vanguard at Clydebank
A blinding blast in Clydebank Scotland ripped the 40 000 ton HMS Vanguard during fitting out in the basin. Two workers were killed and six others injured in the overnight incident.
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Clydebank
Scotland
Britain
Atlantic hurricane nears coast with heavy gales
Weather Bureau warns of 60 mph gales from Virginia Capes to Cape Hatteras as storm broadens north to Block Island. In Florida the system devastates Miami area with hangar fires, 366 planes and 25 blimps lost, 50 sailors injured, and a death toll rising from the blaze.
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Washington
Atlantic Coast
Virginia Capes
Cape Hatteras
Block Island
RIL
Florida
Richmond Naval Air Base
Miami
Harry M. Schultz
Navy
Miami Beach
T. Chapin
Kissimmee
Peninsula
Cuts in Taxes To Start Fight in Congress
Rep Robertson Virginia proposes to eliminate the 3 percent normal personal income tax and the 5 percent excess profits levy to cut 1946 tax burdens by about 4 billion dollars. The plan clashes with Rep Knutson Minnesota’s 20 percent across the board tax cut for individuals as war taxes end.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Army
Navy
House
Clyde M. Reed
Kans
Senate
Truman
Missouri
Capitol Hill
White House
Barkley
Kentucky
McKellar
Tennessee
Rayburn
Texas
McCormack
Massachusetts
Pearl Harbor
Pey
Hoever
Robertson
D-Va
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Knutson
Rminn
Congress
Virginia
Ways and Means
Minnesota
Ways and Means Republican
Clark County Attorney Named Prosecutor
Springfield ULP Municipal Court Judge Garden C. Davis named Glenn E. Detling as Clark County prosecutor. The post was vacant after Jerome A. Nevins was removed for bribery two months ago. Detling appointed 43 assistants led by Robert S. Olinger, who had been acting in the role.
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Springfield
ULP
Glenn E. Detling
Clark County
Carson Pleas
Garden C. Davis
Jerome A. Nevins
Robert S. Olinger
Detling
MacArthur forecasts cutoff of occupation force in six months
General MacArthur said the American occupation of Japan could be reduced to not more than 200000 troops within six months and that ships would return home as available. He called the initial landings history’s greatest gamble and noted higher earlier estimates for occupation size were unlikely to be met.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Robert L. Eichelberger
U. S. Eighth Army
Eichelberger
Radioman Irving Strobing Free After Corregidor
Brooklyn boy Corporal Irving Strobing, the last American link to Corregidor, emerged from Malinta Tunnel and Manila Bay fortress as the garrison waited for the Japanese. He sent messages about time left and asked for a chocolate soda, then waited in an Army bar racks after release from a Japanese prison camp.
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Mantilla
Brooklyn
Corregidor
America
Malinta Tunnel
Manila Bay
Wainwright
Irving
Sn Aemy
Alcoa split-up urged as security measure
Attorney General Tom C Clark urged Congress that the Aluminum Company of America should be broken into several competing firms to boost competition and national security. He warned war markets are over and civilian demand is slow, with Alcoas dominance still deterring growth. Alcoa responded in Pittsburgh calling the idea a push for federal subsidies and noting RFC lease cancellations on government owned smelting plants.
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Washington
Tom C. Clark
Congress
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
Clark
Pittsburgh
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
Gas Strike Might End Soon At United Fuel
The CIO International Oilworkers' Union said it is ready to call off a 12 day strike against United Fuel Gas Company and accept a War Labor Board offer for oral arguments if the mediation proposal is accepted. The stoppage has disrupted service in seven states and copies were sent to Governor Clarence W. Meadows and United Fuel officials. The WLB recommended a hearing panel for wage adjustments.
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Charleston
W.va
CIO International Oilworkers
United Fuel Gas Company
War Labor Board
Clarence W. Meadows
Farm Equipment Plants Face 30 Percent Wage Strike
The executive board of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America CIO announced a demand for a flat 30 percent wage increase. The target plants include International Harvester Co Olver Co John Deere Co and Allis Chalmers Co in Chicago area.
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Chicago
International Harvester Co
The
Olver Co
John Deere ‘Co
Allis-Chalmers Co
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
C.I.0
European Border Clash Sways Trieste Talks At Big Five
At a Big Five Foreign Ministers meeting in London the fate of Trieste and Venezia Giulia dominates debate. Italy and Yugoslavia clash with support shifting among Britain and Russia, while Czechoslovakia Austria and Poland seek a port arrangement.
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London
Trieste
Italy
Yugoslavia
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Poland
Raess
Istrian
Penninsula
Venezia Giulia
Fiume
Jean
Atom Bomb To Be Given Test
New York Times dispatch from Tokyo reports the 35,000 ton Japanese battleship Nagato now in U S Navy hands will be towed 500 miles to sea for an atomic test. The aim is to learn the bomb’s effect on a single ship, a task force, and the broader naval implications.
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New York
New York Times
Tokyo
Nagata
U. S. Navy
Yokosuka Naval Base
Nagato
United States
Times Dispatch
United States Navy
Ohio Industry Seeks More Workers Amid Shortage
In Columbus a group of state industry and trade leaders met with John Craig, district war manpower chief, to urge expanding the workforce. Herschel C. Atkinson of the Ohio State Chamber of Commerce said the manpower shortage still hampers reconversion and fueling recovery.
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Columbus Pi
John Craig
District War Manpower Commission
Herschel C. Atkinson
Ohio State Chamber of Commerce
Allied Officers Reported Beaten and Executed by Japanese
Maj. John A. Sing of Sherman Oaks, Calif, said five Americans were killed for being fillets and three others beheaded after marching with signs branding them as American devils. An Australian report cited death marches in Borneo and abuse of Gen. Wainwright and Lt. Gen. Percival. A Sydney witness described guards committing war crimes and an Australian official claimed a guard killed himself after grave-site duties.
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Associated Press
John A. Sing
Flaud
Sherman Oaks
Calif
Hong Kong
Melbourne
Borneo
Darwin
Australia
J. W. Larkin
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Arthur Percival
Singapore
Wainwright
Percival
Larkin
Formosa
Keys
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Ford Workers
Ani
Anne Franconi
San Francisco
Wilbur Felder
San Diego
Tokyo Bay
Mamo- Tu Shigemitsu
Florida Ward
Bahamas
Biscayne Boulevard
Far
M’arthur
United Nations
Shanghai
Eighth Army
Admiral Halsey
Ken. Terashima
Tojo
Terashima
Naval Training Squadron
Uraga
Yokohama
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Shigenon Kursuda
Homma
Philippines
Shigetaro Shimada
Nobushe Kishi
Commerce and Industry
U. S. 98Th Evesacuation
James M. Perry
Shigenori Togo
Meinister
Nippon Times
Yank
Sydney
A. M. Blain
House of Representatives
Blain
Suya
Kuching
Tae
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