China tensions loom as Japan surrenders stir red forces
Amid a tense China scene, Chiang Kai-Shek rebuked communists to avoid independent moves as Japanese surrenders near, while a Russian army nears the Great Wall and General Wedemeyer oversees U.S. China actions. The piece frames Asia as a decisive theater influencing American policy and the war’s global outcome.
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Europe
Asia
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Great Wall of China
Peiping
Wedemeyer
China
Japanese Envoys Begin Flight to Manila After Capitulation
Hirohito's emissaries flew from Tokyo to Manila escorted by U S forces five days after Truman announced Japan's surrender. The envoys rode a C54 via Shima after a five hour flight, landing briefly at Shima before proceeding to Nichols Field in Manila. Japanese planes continued anti aircraft fire on reconnaissance missions as U S forces watched the surrender drama unfold.
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Clyde Bartel
Ted Press
Hirohito
Truman
Japan
Manila
MacArthur
Little
Shima
Okinawa
Tokyo
Ernie Pyle
Nichols Field
le Shima
Ryukyus
Hornet
Point free meat and cheap clothing eyed as war shifts
In Ashington Aug 18 no. clear path for affordable wear as the War Production Board moves to reallocate civilian fabrics. A substitute program will keep fabric priorities for 89 inexpensive items while October 1 scraps ad agcent production. The APA may demand a 1944 production pattern again.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith Ashington
War Production Board
Ad Agcent
WPB
Office of Price Administration
Bombers Destroyed Historic Railway Car
COMPIEGNE France Aug 18 The famed railway car where the first world war armistice and the 1940 French German armistice were signed was destroyed by allied bombers after being moved to Germany. Assistant Mayor Andre Pasille recalled the Germans claimed allied bombs wrecked it and did not say where the car was taken.
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Compiegne
France
Germany
Andre Pasille
Ber
State industries ready to absorb war laborers
North Carolina to absorb layoffs from wartime plants says Dr. J B Orton of the war manpower commission. A survey of 22 plants in 14 towns shows 27 350 jobs in war production will drop to about 13 700 next week with some already released. Most workers could be reemployed in state industry if skills and location align. No data on army navy cutbacks. reconversion hints many will be released. Cities and plants listed include Winston Salem and National Carbon, Briggs Shaffner, Firestone Rubber with thousands affected.
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Raleigh
North Carolna
J. 8
Orton
War Manpower Commission
Norton
North Carolina
The
Pacific
Army
Navy
WMC
Winston-Salem
National Carbon Company
Briggs Shaffner Company
Firestone Rubber Company
Quisling Works to Save Life on Trial
Vidkun Quisling, on trial for allegedly betraying Norway to the Nazis, is working night and day on his defense. Officials at Aker fortress report he has written 69 pages of testimony to refute the charges as false.
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Oslo
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Akershus
Quisling
Soviets Reach 70 Miles From Hsinking In Manchuria
Soviet spearheads push within 70 miles of Hsinking as Red Army advances slice toward Harbin and Mukden. Moscow reports 25,000 Japanese surrender in 24 hours, total 45,000 over two days, while large enemy forces outside ceasefire resist.
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Romney Wheeler
London
Manchuria
Hsinking
Tokyo
Harbin
Moscow
Red Star
Korea
Inner Mongolia
Sakhalin Island
Star
Mukden
Manchurian
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Khabarovsk
Hata
Otozo Yamada
Kwantung
Hulun
Hailar
Nomura
Kirill A. Meretskov
Meretskov
Mutankiang
Ninguta
Government Lifts 35 Mile Wartime Speed Limit
Washington reports the government will lift its wartime 35 mph nationwide speed limit tomorrow. Ten states already dropped the limit, five never had it, fourteen are cancelling or will soon, six undecided. States that have abandoned the limit include Ohio Kentucky Virginia Illinois Minnesota Oregon South Carolina Pennsylvania Utah and Texas.
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Washington
Associated Press
Ohio
Kentucky
Virginia
Illinois
Minnesota
Oregon
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Utah
Texas
Truman Directive Signals Rapid Reconversion Push
President Truman ordered all departments to move swiftly toward removing price and wage controls and restoring collective bargaining and the free market. Prices may be controlled to ease hardship, under Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, as the government marshals effort to shift from wartime to peacetime economy.
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James Ne Coe
Washington
Coe “Ee. Ate
Anweight
Truman
Mr. Zm
John W. Snyder
Tropical Storm Nearing Hurricane Strength East of Puerto Rico
A tropical storm of near hurricane intensity was reported north of the Lesser Antilles and moving northwest across the Atlantic. Forecaster Grady Norton said winds were at least 65 mph and warned it could threaten the U S east coast, as ships were urged to take precautions while planes tracked its path about 500 miles east of San Juan Puerto Rico.
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Miami
Fla
Lesser Antilles
Atlantic
Grady Norton
U. S. Weather Bureau
Norton
United States
Navy
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Cauition
United States warns Bulgarian government on democracy pledge
In Washington on August 18, Secretary of State Byrnes stated the United States will not sign a peace treaty with Bulgaria unless the postwar regime frees its future sections from fear and intimidation and shows genuine democratic representation. Britain echoed the stance as Barnes conveyed Washington's position to Bulgarian officials.
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John M Hightower
Washington
United States
Byrnes
Bulgaria
Russia
Britain
Foreign Office
London
Maynard B. Barnes
Barnes
Polish Soldiers Impose Ban in Peebles Scotland
Eight hundred Polish soldiers stationed in Peebles Scotland have begun a self imposed non fraterization ban in retaliation for a town council demand that they be returned to Poland. Two hundred soldiers stood outside as locals searched for partners at a weekly village dance.
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Peebles
Scotland
Poland
140000 War Prisoners Await Liberation From Japs
The American Red Cross reports up to 140000 allied nationals in POW and internee camps from Manchuria to the Netherlands Indies may be liberated after Japanese surrender. Of about 200000 confined, roughly 50000 died. roughly 10000 have been repatriated or liberated. Key prisoners include Lieut Gen Jonathan Wainwright and Col J T Devereaux with Wake Island ties.
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James Hutcheson
Manila
Manchuria
Singapore
Netherlands Indies
American Red Cross
Shanghai
Jonathan Wainwright
Bataan
J. T. Devereaux
Wake Island
Wake
Devereaux
Tientsin
Red Cross
International Red Cross
Japan
Indo-China
Thailand
Malaya
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaka
Kobe
Hakodate
UNRRA votes aid to exiled war refugees
UNRRA authorizes aid for refugees who wish to remain in exile amid tensions with Russia Poland Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The 28 to 4 plenary vote followed debate over restraining measures and possible political interference by relief staff.
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UNRRA
Flora Lewis
London
Russia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Herbert H. Lehman
P. J. Noel-Baker
Truman DeGaulle to discuss Indo China problem
Paris Aug 18 Gen Charles DeGaulle signed France ratification of the United Nations charter as his last major act before meeting President Truman next Wednesday. Indo China and France’s reparations claim and a Western Europe regional defense plan against Soviet influence are key topics.
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William Frye
Paris
Charles DeGaulle
France
Truman
de Gaulle
Syria
Western Europe
Eastern
Europe
Heavy tobacco deliveries flood South Carolina markets
Week three of sales on South Carolina and border North Carolina tobacco markets showed extremely heavy deliveries totaling 43,376,810 pounds at an average $44.91. Volume rose by 4,379,107 pounds from the prior week, causing blocked sales and some on-hand tobacco. Prices stayed steady to slightly lower for medium and better grades, while lower qualities rose. many nondescript lots reached new seasonal highs amid rains and damage on floors.
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Florence
8. C
South Carolina
North Carolina
United States
Carolina
Charles L. Amos Suffers Bad Fall
Charles L. Amos president of Melrose Hosiery Mills and chairman of the city school commission lies bedridden in High Point Memorial hospital from a fractured vertebra sustained Friday night at his home on 906 North Main Street. Hospital officials say he rests comfortably and will be confined for several weeks after slipping on the home steps while returning from parking his car.
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Charles L. Amos
Melrose Hosiery Mills
City School Commission
High Point Memorial Hospital
North Main Street
Amos
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