London Talks Underway as Byrnes Seeks Balkan Solutions
U S representatives in eastern Europe gather in London for urgent consultations with Secretary of State Byrnes on Balkan crises. King Peter seeks American support against Tito, while diplomats discuss Italy peace talks and reshuffles. Secret sessions delay the five power plenary.
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Joan A. Parris, JR
U. S
Europe
London
Byrnes
Ing Peter Agoslavia
Claridges Hotel
Archibishop Damaskinos
Herbert Evatt
Arthur Bliss Lane
Poland
Robert Patterson
Yugoslavia
Nard Barnes
Bulgaria
Paris
Aon C. Berry
Allied Control Commission
Romania
Robert Gray
Eire
Peter
Marshal Tito
Vladimir Macek
Macek
Tito
MacArthur occupation of Japan faces East Asia test
The World Today notes General MacArthur reports smooth occupation of Japan as a hinge for stability in East Asia. It warns the Allies face a dangerous situation with anti western sentiment. Mountbatten reports 일본 resistance to surrender and calls for crackdowns on obstinacy.
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MacArthur
East Asia
Japan
Orient
Far East
General MacArthur
Tokyo
China
Indonesia
Pacific
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
War Notes and Prison Camp Poems Echo Homeward Hope
At Yokosuka Japan Oscar a marine prisoner from Ashiro camp writes verse reflecting humor sentiment and homesickness. His poems describe meals food and language shards from camp life and end with songs about the end of the war and grateful thanks. Congress debates军 discharges secrecy surplus property time zones and airport funding as standard time bills move.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Oscar
Ashiro
Histry
Navy
Army Gains As Navy Loses In New Report
Washington reports updated World War II casualty figures through September 7 showing total armed forces 1 070 730 with gains for the army and losses for the navy. Liberation of 285 POWs reduced the army casualty total to 922 302 while the navy rose to 148 428.
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Navy
Washington
Armed Services
Army
Homeward Bound for 190000 in India Burma Theater
The war end leads to about 190 000 American troops in the India Burma theater and 65000 more in China returning home within months. A preliminary note suggests some may be home by Thanksgiving and others by Christmas.
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Kandy
Ceylon
India-Burma
China
Ramspeck questions FEPC power in proposed plan
Ramspeck, chair of the House Civil Service Committee, warned at the Southern Conference on Human Relations in Industry that a permanent FEPC could be unconstitutional and expand federal authority to end employ ment decisions. He urged peace in industry during reconversion and stressed unity of management and labor.
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Greenville
S. C
Fair Employment Fees Commission
National Speck
D-Ga
Representas
Southern Conference On Human Relations In Industry
House Civil Service Committee
FEPC
Congress
Ramspeck
Revised Bill Pleasing To President
Washington report states a broadened unemployment compensation bill, revised in the senate finance committee, still meets President Truman’s minimum needs. A White House memorandum outlines essential elements including 26 weeks of benefits in all states, federal workers’ benefits, and government travel costs for stranded workers, with a disputed provision of higher state maximums to $25 deemed desirable but removed.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Capitol Hill
Congressional
Senate Military Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcolo
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate Naval Committee
Senate
House
W. Stuart Symington
Truman
America
Whittington
RFC
HOLC
TVA
Farm Credit Agencies
Byrd-Butler
Senate Banking Committee
Senate Finance Committee
White House
Soviet Pattern Is Favored For Great Britain
Sir Walter Citrine argues Britain should plan production and the economy like Soviet Russia. He spoke in Blackpool amid a debate prompted by George Meany of the AFL who rejected joining the new world labor group. Meany warned Russian unions enslave workers.
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Blackpool
England
Walter Citrine
British
Trade Union Congress
Soviet
Russia
Walter
Contont
Rge Meany
AFL
Meany
Trades Union Congress
New World Labor Organization
CIO
Tojo Says He Planned Suicide Long Before Assault
Hideki Tojo, in his first interview since shooting himself, says he intended suicide for a long time but saw American officers outside his house and knew the time had come. He wounded himself near the heart with a .32 pistol, but American doctors saved him with transfusions and treatment.
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Yokohama
Hideki Tojo
Tropical hurricane veers near Puerto Rico coast
A tropical hurricane located about 80 miles northeast of St Thomas is forecast to pass about 70 miles north of Puerto Rico today according to the San Juan weather station.
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Miami
Fia
St. Thomas
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Tropical Hurricane Moves Toward Bahamas
Ernest Carson, chief of the U S weather bureau in Miami, said a tropical hurricane sweeping toward the Bahamas is now a dangerous storm with winds of 90 mph. The storm is moving toward the South Florida coast and lies about 1,100 miles east south east of Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Ernest Carson
U. S. Weather Bureau
Bahamas
South Florida
Carson
Puerto Rico hurricane brings strong winds and warnings
The hurricane moved west at about 16 mph with winds reaching 75 mph. Fifty mile per hour gales extended up to 150 miles north of the storm. Storm warnings remained along Puerto Rico's north coast to the Virgin Islands.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Blind Braille Courtship Ends In England Wedding
A Colorado Springs blind woman Mary Mansfield 38 and her blind fiancé Chris Marstom off Northill Biggleswade England plan to wed late next month in a small church near Marstom’s mother's home after a ten year braille romance and years of correspondence.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Mary Mansfield
England
Miss Mansfield
Colorado College
Chris Marstom
Northill
Biggleswade
Marstom
Radio Strike Of Nation Continues With Supervisory Staff
About 500 union radio technicians in 350 stations of National and American broadcasting companies remain off the job. Supervisory personnel keep all networks on air as A T Powley of the National Association of Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians signals ongoing contract negotiations are suspended.
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New York
National and
American Broadcasting Companies
A. T. Powley
National Association of Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians
National Broadcasting
Atomic Bomb Totally Burned 55 000 Structures
Tokyo reports on the Hiroshima blast describe extensive destruction within the first miles and note no measurable ground radioactivity. Brig. Gen. Farrell says 20 strong structures remain standing in the center, with further studies planned and Nagasaki visit possible.
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Tokyo
Hiroshima
T. F. Farrell
Farrell
Nagasaki
New Mexico
Wainwright Acclaimed in New York Welcome
Gen Jonathan M. Wainwright is greeted by Mayor La Guardia at LaGuardia Field after a 17 gun salute. More than 30,000 spectators watched as the four star general, defender of Corregidor and Bataan, arrived with Mrs Wainwright from Washington aboard a C 54 air transport.
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New York
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Bataan
Air Transport Command
Washington
la Guardia Field
Wainwright
Surpluses Will Assist Business
Washington reports the surplus property board pledged that war surpluses will be sold to aid civilian output, not compete with it. If excess surpluses threaten a glut, they will be exported or supplied to public institutions and undeveloped markets to introduce products to new users.
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Washington
Tojo named on MacArthur list as arrests urged
Tokyo dispatch reports General MacArthur tightened a time limited round up of remaining Japanese leaders including Hideki Tojo. The government faced two day progress demands or lose the privilege to act. Tojo, once war time premier, shot himself after surrender.
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Tokyo
Army
MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Adm
Shigetaro Shimada
Honshu
Kanto
Gen
Sugiyama
Emperor's Palace
Tanaka
Kwantung Army
Methodists Prepare for Western North Carolina Conference
Greensboro hosts the four day Western North Carolina Methodist session from October 9 at West Market Church. Dr. Edgar H. Nease announces organization meetings to start the program. October 10 features speakers Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe and Dr. Elmer T. Clark. October 11 includes talks on the crusade for Christ by Dr. Albert Edward Day who will deliver the ordination sermon. The conference ends October 12 with a business session and appointment readings.
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Greensboro
Western North Carolina
Methodist Church
West Market
Albert Edward Day
Board of Evangelism
New Life Magazine
Day
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