Postwar highway work and local notices dominate
The state highways department stresses repairing about 4000 bridges, with many spans under eight to twelve feet. Western New York reports two German POWs dying from heart attacks while assigned to local work. Chestnut sprouts show blight resistance in Warren and Chautauqua counties. Local veterans, hospital staff thanks, ration board changes, pest control plans, health officer travel, religious education week, and several local arrests and incidents fill out a broad community update.
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Buffalo
New York
Westfield
Fter
Oakfield
Ford Plants Halted as Strikes Paralyze Output
Production in Ford Motor Company plants nationwide halted due to crippling strikes, leaving about 50,000 workers unemployed. Ford blamed strike actions at supplier plants, while the United Automobile Workers CIO prepared disciplinary steps against strikers.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Ford Company
Agar
Kel- Sey-Hayes Wheel Co
Ford Party
United Automobile Workers (Cio
MacArthur warns Japan to drop arrogance in war crimes case
General MacArthur cautions Japan to shed arrogance as Allied war crimes indictments loom. Reports state Jose P. Taurel, Filipino puppet president, will be taken to Yokohama by air. Japanese surrender figures include camp commander and suspects like Dr. Tokuda, linked to death experiments at Shinagawa camp.
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Swaitlamea
EAE Creer
Jose P. Taurel
Philippines
Yokohama
Tokuda
Shinagawa
Koko Hirota
Japan
Black Dragons
Ance
Homoa
Wainwright
Bataan
Corregidor
Homma
What Every Woman Knows War Bonds Moral Tale
A 1955 reminiscence extols wartime bond buying, recounting a wife urging her husband to stay the course. The couple preserves bonds bought in the 1940s, mature returns grant security, and the wife notes the secret to Tom's success was sticking to plans and continuing bond purchases.
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Tom
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State Department of Highways
John A. Shroyer
Henry Rothra
Mayville
Rothra
Warren
Chautauqua
David Reich
Nathan Reich
Indiantown Gap
Newton
N. J
Reich
North Center Strees
Lillie Hiderkdn
RD. 2
Corry Hospital
Chautauqua County
OPA
Jamestown
AML
Tealdents
Jamestownity
Stroth
John D. Flanigan
Harrisburg
State Department of Health
League of Third Class Cities
America
Sia
United States
Sal Council of Religious One
Henry C. White
Emblem OS Co
North Corry
N. Troy Gillette
Emblem Company
White
Erie
Frank Walker
West Main Street
Walker
Betty Taylor
Spring Street
Francis B. Redleck
Phoenix
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Elgin
MacArthur
WAR Bonds
Corry
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