New Food and Gasoline Ration Books Planned for December
Washington announced new wartime ration books for December. Ration book five will be issued at schools from December 3 to 15, covering meats fats processed foods sugar and shoes. Gasoline books also go into use December 22. Book five will be smaller than a dollar and later in 1940s terms it will function alongside book four.
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Washington
Price
Chester Bowles
Department of Agriculture
War Production Board
Bowles
Army units arriving in the United States from Europe
AP reports today’s arrivals in Boston New York and Hampton Roads of multiple units from the 18th armored division and related formations. Units include 158th finance disbursing section 66th replacement battalion 443rd 440th military police POW companies and more.
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Associated Press
United States
Europe
Boston
158Rd Finance Disbursing
Military Police
New York
67Th Armored Infantry
46Th Tank
125Th Armored Engineering Battalion
135Th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
18Th Armored Division
Hampton Roads
497Th Armored Field Artillery
498Th Armored
482Nd
157Th Ordnance
28Th Infantry Division
6Th Engineers
Combat Command
13Th Division
13Th Armored Division
153Rd Armored
496Th Armored Field Artillery
16Th Armored Infantry Battalion
59Th Armored Infantry Battalion
544Th Air Service Group
Plans For A Book On Southern Resources For Schools
Atlanta July 24. Advisory committee on southern resources in education plans a book for use in public schools. The American Council on Education Peabody College Nashville and University of North Carolina sponsor. Ivey and Gordon Blackwell will prepare the volume at UNC.
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Atlanta
Advisory Committee On
American Council of Education
Peabody College
Nashvile
University of North Carolina
Ivey
Gordon Blackwell
Georgia Weed Sold At 42 Cents A Pound
The tobacco sales season opened with flue cured leaf at 42 cents a pound at local warehouses, two cents above the ceiling price. Tobacco companies may pay beyond the ceiling for grades of leaf, but total purchases for the season are capped. The initial sales amount is a small fraction of expected totals.
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Valdosta
Senator Wherry Seeks Peace Feelers From Japan
Senator Wherry of Nebraska urged the senate to discuss possible peace feelers from Japan. He planned to press the state department for any offers and highlight a purported high military source’s communication to President Truman at Potsdam proposing terms including the retention of the emperor and no occupation of Japan proper. He said he did not know who authored the message.
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Washington
Wherry R-Neb
Senate
Japan
Wherry
State Department
Truman
Potsdam
Nebraska
British Leaders Split for Election News at Potsdam
POTSDAM July 24 Big Three plan a one day recess so Churchill to London for British election results and Eden and Attlee to join talks Friday if needed Truman and Stalin continue deliberations. Result mood uncertain as Labour or Conservative victory reshapes leadership.
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Potsdam
Churchill
London
Urchill
Eden
Clement R. Attlee
Truman
Stalin
Hohenzollern
Orem Conservative Party
Labor Party
Attle
Veteran Seeks Damages Over Refused Pre Army Job
In Asheville on July 24 a U S district court suit by D E Stanley seeks 25000 dollars from E Y Wimbish alleging the former employer refused to reinstate him to his pre army position after service. Stanley says he lost his job and commission and would return under selective service law. Wimbish says Stanley was not employed before entering the service.
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Asheville
G.I
U. S. District Court
D. E. Stanley
E. Y. Wimbish
Stanley
Wimbish
Cardinal Would Build Convent on Prison Site
Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber asked General Eisenhower for permission to build a convent on the Dachau concentration camp site. He envisioned turning Dachau into a place of pilgrimage for all Europe, a plan disclosed by Rev. P. Van Gestel, who was confined at Dachau and spoke on Dutch radio from Maastricht.
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London
Michael von Faulhaber
Munich
Eisenhower
Dachau
Europe
P. van Gestel
Maastricht
Holland
Petain Given Warning By Roosevelt
Paris reports on the Petain trial describe former Premier Reynaud testifying that a union of France and Britain was an ideal to be pursued. Reynaud recalled the June 1940 cabinet falls and said Petain read a letter threatening resignation if an armistice was not accepted, while he and Weygand opposed surrender.
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Paris
Paul
Marshal Petain
France
Britain
Churchill
Petain
Palace of Justice
Reynaud
Gia
French Africa
Maxime Weygand
Union
Jap Ambassador Said To Favor Allies Demands
U S infantrymen guarding 100 Japanese prisoners in Salzburg report they understand Lt Gen Hiroshi Oshima would urge Berlin to comply with the unconditional surrender demand. The prisoners, captured in May by the Third Infantry Division, are to leave Austria for Le Havre then the United States. No further American diplomats remain with the Japanese, and a possible exchange of Oshima for Wainwright and others is thought possible.
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Salzburg
Austria
U. S
Hiroshi Oshima
Berlin
U. S. Third Infantry Division
le Havre
United States
U. S. State Department
Oshima
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Submarine attack and allied advances report clashes and losses
U S submarines shell Chichi island near a Japanese escort, reports from Guam. In Burma’s Pegu area allied forces say about 1 000 Japanese were killed or captured as 5 000 troops attempt a breakout. Australian troops fatally hit several Japanese trucks near Balikpapan and push inland toward Samarinda.
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Calcutta
Pegu
Burma
Southeast Asia Command
Sittang River
Manila
Balikpapan
Borneo
Samarinda
MacArthur
Mount Batochampar
Salis bury Youth Arrested After EightHour Search
Gerald Blalock 17 a construction worker from Salisbury was arrested after an eight hour manhunt in woods east of Salisbury. He is held in county jail in connection with the pistol incident involving Henry R. Morgan 44 a Stanly county carpenter employed at Walsh Construction plant here.
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Salisbury
Gerald Blalock
Here
Blalock
Henry R. Morgan
Stanly
Walsh Construction Company
Rampant Rivers Trigger Widespread Floods Across East
Associated Press reports rivers and rain swollen creeks overflowed banks in the east causing severe floods in New York Massachusetts New Jersey Vermont and parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Damage to roads and bridges in New York and Massachusetts exceeds 3.5 million with Paterson New Jersey at about 1 million. Two drownings occurred in Massachusetts and a woman was missing in North Dakota after a home was swept away.
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New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Paterson
N. J
Hancock River
Little Falls
N. d
Peckham River
Eastern
Seaboard
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Idle workers drop to forty thousand in nationwide disputes
The number of idled workers fell to about 40 000 amid ongoing labor conflicts. A potential further drop was seen as actions to end a stoppage affected 11 000 lumber yard workers in Detroit and 4 000 distillery workers in ten plants. Several walks ended, but disputes persisted in over twenty cities across multiple industries.
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Detroit
Free exchange of news urged to build world peace
The World Today argues peace cannot be manufactured or secured by force but must grow in minds and hearts. It advocates Truman Stalin and Churchill talks to let American and allied correspondents freely report in Europe and beyond to reduce censorship and deepen international understanding.
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Truman
Stalin
Churchill
Europe
Wartorn
Globe
Middle East
Germany
Italy
Poland
Balkans
Free flow of news urged for Europe and world
Dewitt Mackenzie argues for open news exchange between Europe and the world. He notes Truman’s May stance on secrecy, critiques wartime censorship, and urges eastern and central European censorship relief under Potsdam, stressing informed parliaments and full reporting of Europe’s politico economic issues.
Research Preference Over Training Drives Science Foundation Plan
Washington July 24. Senators Kilgore Johnson and Pepper proposed a bill to create a national science foundation to boost research for war weapons medicine and basic sciences. They argue peacetime conscription may be unnecessary if a strong research program underpins military success.
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Washington
National Science Foundation
Kilgore
D-Va
Johnson
D-Cole
Wit
Pepper
D-Fla
No Rationing Of Soap Is Planned
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said there is no plan to order soap rationing. He urged housewives to stop raiding shelves as new shipments arrive. He announced a 10 percent output increase for heavy duty laundry soap products while current toilet and laundry soap production remains unchanged.
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Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
Massive Allied air sweeps hammer Japan from Kure to Osaka
In a large Pacific air offensive, about two thousand American warplanes attacked targets across Honshu. The blasts hit Osaka Nagoya industrial belts and the Kure naval base while carriers and land bases launched concentrated strikes, supported by Superfortress bombers from the Marianas.
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Guam
Tokyo
Japan
Kure
Osaka
Nagoya
U. S
Jas
Honshu
Associated Press
James Lindsley
Richard ‘O'Malley
Marianas
Nagoya-Osaka
20Th Air Force
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Honoshu
Radio Tokyo
Twin death by own action Ends Lives Of Father Child
August Charles DeMont and his five year old daughter Marilyn died after plunging from the Golden Gate bridge. The elevator repairman, described as nervous and ill, jumped from the south tower rail after his daughter walked to the railing and jumped. A note in the car claimed they had committed suicide.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Charles DeMont
Marilyn
DeMont
Golden Gate Bridge
South Tower
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