Allies Accept Unconditional Surrender Terms After Atomic Bomb
Potsdam terms require Japan to end conquest and disarm, with occupation of key home islands and limits on sovereignty. Tokyo signals contact with Russia, Emperor’s status debated, while Hiroshima’s ruin prompts Truman to pledge further use of the bomb to end war. The Vatican warns of a dangerous future for humanity.
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Britain
China
Potsdam
Russia
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Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
Tokyo Radio
Hirohito
Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway
Harry S. Truman
Foreign Farm Help Surges In U S Amid Wartime Labor
The Agriculture Department reports about 149000 foreign workers and war prisoners on U S farms in midsummer. Mexicans total around 56000 with most in the West. Jamaica provides about 16000. Bahamians about 5500. Jamaicans work nationwide, Bahamians mainly in Florida and Atlantic truck-growing areas.
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Department of Agriculture
Mexico
Jamaica
Bahamas
Newfoundland
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Midwest
Florida
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
New
Europe moves toward new postwar order and Tito clash
Europe inches toward reform as the United States and Britain grant Austria limited independence and plan a four zone occupation while Yugoslavia weighs a republic over monarchy. Maj. Richard Bong, U S ace, dies in a Burbank crash. Senator Hiram Johnson dies at 79. War production shifts show civilian goods lagging into 1946 with limited output in key appliances and early hints of reconversion progress.
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Europe
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Britain
Germany
Austria
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Yugoslavia
Eisenhower
Danube
Marshal Tito
Tito
Peter
Richard Ira
Dick) Bong
Poplar
Wis
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Calif
Australia
Philippines
Bong
Export Surplus in South America Climbs During War Years
Between 1940 and 1944 the American republics ran a total export surplus of 3.531 billion dollars, per a Federal Reserve Board compilation. In 1944 the surplus was 1.115 billion, up from 465 million in 1939 as wartime effects began shaping Western Hemisphere trade.
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Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Washington digest warns guard against race disturbance threats
Washington readers are urged to prevent race riots tied to demobilization by recognizing signs such as rumor spread and incidents, and by planning immediate community actions. Key factors include subversive groups, crime reports, police attitudes, and housing and labor tensions with clergy, schools, media, veterans groups, and unions urged to cooperate.
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Washington
Alfred McClung Lee
American Council of American Race Relations
Federal Office of Facts and Figures
Office of War Information
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
You
Ku Klux
Black Legion
Veterans Organizations
Boy Scouts
Barbs by Bankhage on war dogs and census quips
The piece riffs on military dogs in the K-9 corps and dogs in dog houses, contrasts enlistment ease with canine service stigma, and jokes about census ages. It notes a Lloyd Times correspondent Sir Wilmot Lewis quipping on England’s labor victory with a line about country right or left.
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Labor Party
England
Wilmot Lewis
Washington
London Times
Unit Shelves Easy To Build in Home
Simple home shelving project designed for amateurs. Three units use stock lumber, no special tools, with curved end shelves cut by a compass saw. Pattern 270 provides full size patterns, diagrams, materials list, and step by step directions. Enclose 15 cents with name and address to obtain pattern.
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