Unrest Markets U S Factories Across Nation
Broad labor actions ripple through Chicago Cleveland and Detroit as 39 Chicago foundries reject a back to work directive. Reynolds 98 inch mill closes for third time in five weeks. 150 workers may be laid off at two plants if walkouts continue. 1,500 at Reynolds Metals Richmond, 200 at Champion Machine and Forging Cleveland. Army takes control at Detroit Rubber plant ending an 18 day strike. Cigar workers idle in Tampa over wage rollbacks dated July 12.
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Chicago
WLB
Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
Sman
Reynolds Metals Company
Ichmond
AFL Aluminum and Tinfoil Workers Union
Cio-United Automobile Workers Union
Champion Machine and Forging Co
United States Rubber Company
Detroit
Tampa
Fila
Weygand Testifies As Ptain Trial Opens In Paris
Maxime Weygand, former French army commander, testified as the defense phase began for Marshal Petain who is accused of intelligence with the enemy. Witnesses described Vichy actions and a July 1940 coup, with Edouard Herriot noting Petain claimed full powers.
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Paris
Maxime Weygand
Marshal Petain
France
Petain
Val de Grace
Paul
Buchenwald
Germany
Vichy
Jean Lostanau-Lacau
la Cagoule
Mies
Edouard Herriot
National Assembly
Leaflets threaten Japanese surrender through allied messaging
The 12 CITIES operation and 20th air force warn Japan that America targets a military clique and urges a people-led peace. Leaflets coordinated with the psychological warfare service claim restoring peace requires new leaders to end the war. Mito, 60 miles northeast of Tokyo, a transit hub with a prewar coal line of 4,000,000 tons annually, supports 66,500 residents.
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May
20Th Air Force
Psychological Warfare Service
America
Mito
Tokyo
Ibaraki
Potsdam conference nears final decision stage amid talks
The Potsdam conference enters a critical phase with three foreign secretaries continuing talks. Officials hope a final decision may be reached by Thursday or Friday as Truman aims to return to Washington and report to the American public. Attlee pursues domestic parliamentary business while plans rumor a possible meeting with King George VI in Plymouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Party
Deutsche Volkszeitung
Berlin
Auterial
Moscow
Pravda
Germany
Bavaria
Truman
Washington
Attlee
Winston Churchill
London
British Press Association
George VI
Plymouth
Ickes Aims to Recombine Agencies Over Heating Shortage
Chairman Mead says the nation faces one of its worst heating shortages next winter and blames transportation problems on top-level lack of coordination as the Ickes committee seeks to demonstrate the need to reconvert government agencies and avoid cross purposes.
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Mead
D-Ny
Four Day Work Week Feared in Steel and Coal Industry
Government fuel expert Dr. C. F. Potter warned in Washington that industry including steel mills may shift to a four day week this winter due to an estimated 87 million ton coal deficit. Prevention hinges on army furloughing 30,000 coal miners by October 1 or an abrupt end to the war with Japan. Interior Secretary Ickes warned next winter could be the coldest of the war unless miners are released.
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Washington
Potter
Senate War Investigating Committee
Japan
Secretary of the Interior
Ickes
War mobilizer may act to ease miner discharges
Meade asserts John W. Snyder can use the wartime office to push actions in a transport crisis. He hopes Snyder will pressure the army to release miners from service to return to coal pits, despite army claims the move would disrupt the discharge point system and lower morale.
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John W. Snyder
New War Mobilizer
Meade
Office of War Mobilization
Snyder
New York
Mead
Unfilled Orders Put Pressure On Furniture Makers In 1945
At the six month mark in 1945 furniture manufacturers faced abundant unfilled orders amid scarce materials and relaxed controls. Production could rise as labor returns and purchases of lumber or upholstery inputs resume. New orders fell about 23 percent from May and were 2 percent below June 1944, while six month totals showed a 5 percent drop in bookings and shipments rose modestly.
207 Ships Target Inland Sea as Third Fleet Drifts
The text notes 207 ships grounded and factories sidelined around the Inland Sea with no new Third Fleet moves since yesterday’s return to Tokyo. Tokyo confirms the destroyer bombardment and the allied fleet roaming Japanese waters as carrier planes sweep Honshu’s southern flank. An air armada of 1600 planes attacked for 13 hours from dawn. Nimitz revises Friday’s tally to 27 U.S. carriers and eight British planes. Cecil Rhodes left England for Africa as a tubercular youth to farm cotton with his brother.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Nimitz
U. S
Cecil John Rhodes
England
Africa
Quote on war efforts and coal miners release debate
The speaker argues that with a reduced war scope the need to keep coal miners confined is less, suggesting prisoners or workers should be freed to support the home front. The remark reflects wartime labor and policy tensions.
Removal of Buried Car Tracks and Concrete Patching
High Point North Carolina city bids by 10 00 am August 7 1945 for removal of 2543 sq yds of buried car track on South Main Street and replacement with pit gravel or concrete plus 1608 sq yds of concrete patching. Includes labor materials and equipment. Bid security 2 percent required. City may reject any bids. Roy S Braden City Manager J V Wilson Jr Purchasing Agent.
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City of
High Point
N. C
South Main Street
Office
Director of Public Works
Roy S. Braden
J. V. Wilson, Jr
Japanese Troop Losses Exceed Six Thousand in Burma
Southeast Asia command reports additional 2,000 Japanese troops killed in the lower Sittang river bend area of Burma. The total enemy deaths over nine days of fighting surpass 6,000.
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Calcutta
Sittang River
Burma
Southeast Asia Command Headquarters
Mitchell Ship Damaged in Battle Near Kyushu and Canton
Naval reports indicate the hardy ship Mitchell was hit by air and sea attacks, beached and burned after engagements Saturday. Allied forces claim 1,500 sorties in three days with multiple ships sunk or damaged near Japan, plus strikes on freighters, tankers, and river convoys around Kyushu and Indo China.
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MacArthur
Far East Air Force
Kuushu
Korea
Japan
Kyushu
Mawarasaki
7Th Fleet
Canton
South China
Indo-China
Couple Attempts Night Robbery of Archdale Home
Archdale July 31 a nighttime robbery attempt at the Dewey Stanley home by two people in a 1939 model Ford was reported. A woman held a Stanley daughter at pistol point while the man searched the house seeking money, but nothing was stolen as investigators pursue leads.
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Archdale
Dewey Stanley
Sheriff's Deputies
Sanford Teague
Stanley
Teague
City Golf Course Damaged By Rains
City parks department removes topsoil driftwood and debris from the municipal golf course after weekend rains. Three bridges washed out and sand traps flooded. greens and fairways littered. Director Reece Snyder says the course should be in good shape soon. Frogs permeate water through skin.
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Parks and Recreation Department
Reece Snyder
Snyder
Jones Substituting As City Manager
City Attorney Grover C. Jones is acting city manager this week in place of Roy Braden who left for Clarion to visit his 93 year old father. Braden is expected back for the council meeting next Tuesday. he has served as city attorney since 1931 and previously acted as city manager for nearly two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover C. Jones
Roy
Braden
Clarion
Pennsylvania
Mr. Jones
Leftists Push for Social and Economic Plan for Truman
Senators Pepper, Mead, Magnuson and allies invite colleagues to lunch to discuss a 10 to 12 point program focused on social and economic issues as a shift from the president's center position. They acknowledge no talk of permanent fair employment committee.
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Ney Hillman
Mr. Truman
Labor Party
Great Britain
Sens. Pepper
Mead
D-Ny
Magnuson
D Walsh
Pepper
Draft notice return for Daniel Calvin Wilson
Mail to Daniel Calvin Wilson Negro was returned to draft board No. 4. Last address listed as 713 East Washington Street. Parties with knowledge of his whereabouts or a new address are asked to contact the board.
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Daniel Calvin Wilson
Draft Board No. 4
Wilson
East Washington Street
Board
Hitler aides shown as paranoid nuts, psychiatrists say
A wartime columnist cites Col General Gorbatov and others claiming Nazi leaders including Goebbels Hess Goering Ley Streicher Frank and Prussian generals displayed paranoid tendencies and mental instability. The piece argues such abnormalities fueled the Nazi regime and the war.
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General Gorbatov
Kommandantur
Berlin
Little Joe Goebbels
Hitler
Rudolf Hess
England
Germany
Herman Goering
Robert Ley
Julius Streicher
Hans Frank
Poland
Claude Sealey Addresses Civitan Meeting on Veterans Aid
Claude Sealey, U S Employment Service representative, spoke at the Civitan Club gathering at the Sheraton hotel about securing jobs for discharged veterans and benefits from the GI Bill. He outlined contact with friends, the bill’s provisions, and the employment service role. A round table followed with Sealey sharing Marine Corps experiences. Knoxville’s Wil Guthrie attended. Charles Risch won the attendance prize.
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Civitan Club
Sheraton
Claude Sealey
U. S. Employment Service
Tom Zimmeman
Sealey
Wh Sealey
Marine Corps
Wil Guthrie
Knoxville
Charles Risch
Southern Departing Ellender Questions Butter Stock
The committee resumed questioning about butter quantities in storage and whether stock met requirements. A witness said the supply was not in view of needs and the Army noted possible cutbacks. The panel also inquired how soldiers in transit across the Pacific would be fed.
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Ellender
Fitzgerald
Army
WFA Ft
Unclear excerpt on trials and leadership
Fragmentary statement discusses massacre and enslavement and implies leaders should be cited in forthcoming trials. No identifiable persons or organizations named.
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