Troops to Stay in Japan for Many Years Says Hightower
Washington dispatch reports American troops will remain in Japan for many years to come. Gen. Douglas MacArthur estimates force needs but aims to keep Japan peaceful and under U.S. policy supremacy. Acheson criticized the line between Tokyo and Washington, delaying promotion in the Senate last week. Plans GO page 6.
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Wasshington
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MacArthur
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Tokyo
Acheson
Senate
Nazi Baron Neurath confined in Nuremberg jail
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former German foreign minister and wartime cabinet member, has been placed in solitary confinement in the jail behind the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. Report notes many top Nazis await war crimes trials, with Neurath among kin captives at Baden.
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TWO NEW LABOR DISPUTES ROIL NATION WAGE TALKS
The Associated Press reports two new disputes increase idle workers to over 23 thousand, with 240 thousand idling after 10,000 New York painters return to work. Pacific northwest lumber and sawmill workers and 23,009 New York City building service employees began leaving jobs, affecting 348 mills and camps. The dispute rejects a 1.10 daily wage minimum and industry wide bargaining, challenging War Labor Board awards and office building pay adjustments.
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APL Lumber
Pacific Northwest
York City Building Service
Funder
Building Service
Manhattan
War Labor Board
WLB
World closes in Berind as Lt. Epes goes to life in prison
Columbia S C September 34 The world he knew closes behind Lt Samuel C Epes after a six month jail stint he is sent to the state penitentiary for a life sentence for the murder of his schoolteacher wife. An all male jury found him guilty after a three hour deliberation and recommended life imprisonment. A new trial motion was filed by Judge A L Gason as both routes of hope exist through a potential new trial or a pardon or commutation.
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Samuel C. Epes
Virginia
State
A. L. Gason
South
Carlina
Epes
Theatre Tickets Advertised At The Grafton Sentinel
The Grafton Sentinel lists theatre showings including The Clock starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker at the Strand and Scandals starring Joan Davis and Jack Haley at the Dixie theatre on Washington Street.
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Rhea Fisher
Washington Street
Judy Garland
Robert Walker
Strand ‘Theatre
Joan Davis
Jack Haley
Dixie Theatre
Hirohito ignored peace messages say adviser
Marquis Koichi Kido, close to Emperor Hirohito, reveals to the Associated Press that Roosevelt peace terms and a 1941 U.S. memorandum were rejected by Japan’s ruler. Kido says the Emperor had no advance warning of Pearl Harbor and urged a possible compromise while fearing a war tide within Japan.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Pres Roosevelt
U S
Kido
Foreign Ministry
Pearl Harbor
Flashes Of Life and War Dogs In Odd Polling Note
In Schenectady New York scientists report vibration tests show polka at 170 mills per second surpassing jitterbug pace of 120. In Kansas City Kansas colonel describes Butch a brown mongrel picked up by a gunner who inspired disdain for officers among 4000 troops, wearing same outfit except insignia.
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General Electric Company
Kansas
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Butch
Thomas G. Corbin
Corbin
Escape on Hokkaido plane crash survivor 68 days
Oliver Rasmussen, a former Wisconsin high school track star and aviation radioman, recounts surviving 68 days after a plane crash on Hokkaido Island while evading Japanese pursuers. He lived by raiding root cellars and milking cows. Also reports a separate liberated prisoner recounting an appendectomy without anesthetic performed by a Japanese surgeon on Edward Cudd. The Japanese war ministry notes some DoolittleRaid flyers were killed or buried abroad and urns with ashes of at least 2,600 Allied prisoners were handed to the U.S.
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Odanah
Wts
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Rasmussen
Edward Cudd
Whitney
Hokkaido
Cudd
Nippon
War Ministry
Doolittle
Japan
Wealth, Poverty, Color And Drabness Of Hong Kong Described By Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle portrays Hong Kong as a crowded mix of wealth and poverty, color and drabness. He depicts beggars and starving children on the streets, cut by trade and hunger, with plainspoken observations on scarcity, luck, and the harsh realities of daily life in a prewar port city.
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Hal Boyle
China
America
West Virginia Briefs From Sept 24 News Roundup
In Philipsi Valley district near Audda Bridge three men were wounded in a woods gunfire exchange. Boyd Thorn, 58, was in critical condition. his son Gene, 30, and Alfred Davis, 60, received minor wounds. Charlerton hosts WV social work conference October 4-5 with Governor Meadows and Mayor Dawson to speak. Homer Collier, 77, a former mine foreman, died in a cabin fire at Pemberton. Jesse Lee Barker, 58, pipe fitter for B&O, died after a fall in Gassaway yards. Ray Allman, 13, drowned in the Little Kanawha River. body recovered after hours of searching. Huntington’s Assistant Prosecutor Carl McComas said Johnston C. Bowen, 44, was questioned in the death of Charlie Hodges. West Virginia page 2.
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Valley District
Audda Bridge
J. N. Forman
Forman
Boyd Thorn
Gene
Alfred Davis
Charlerton
West Virginia Conference of Social Work
Meadows
D. Boone Dawson
Charleston
Beckley
Homer Collier
Sutton
Gassaway
Jesse Lee Barker
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Huntington
Carl McComas
Johnston C. Bowen
Charlie Hodges
West Virginia
Big Five Council Struggles In Europe Crisis
MacKenzie's Column notes blue Monday for the Big Five foreign ministers as they grapple with Europe's postwar crisis. The council faces renewed tensions, but the columnist cautions crises were inevitable in remaking Europe, hoping for a path to solid peace despite slow progress.
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BIG Five
Dewitt Mackente
Big Five Council of Foreign Minters
Europe
London
Council of
Tor Tomansters
Russia
M'Kenzie
Emperor Hirohito to Meet General MacArthur at Residence
Tokyo reports say Emperor Hirohito plans to visit General MacArthur at his residence in the American embassy area. The move, if confirmed, would mark the first audience of a Japanese monarch with a ruling Allied leader. Concurrent Allied orders tighten control over Japan’s economy and press while limiting currency activity and exports.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Hirohito
MacArthur
Russell Brines
Fujita
Allied High Command
Japan
Shortages Loom As Strikes Continue In France And West Virginia
Labor disputes ripple internationally and in Charleston West Virginia with shortages of natural gas bread and gasoline likely. In France left gains in local elections portend shifts as runoffs loom and national vote nears. In Monongalia county West Virginia some 20 coal mines may halt operations affecting about 5,000 workers amid wage talks with the War Labor Board and mine bosses seeking recognition contracts.
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W. Va
West Virginia
CIO Oil Workers International Union
United Fuel Gass Company
War Labor Board
H. K. Daniels
Cleveland
WLB
CIO
United Fuel
Labor Board
United Mine Workers’ United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Employes Union
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