OPA forecasts durable goods return to prewar prices
Washington reports the War Production Board aims to restore consumer durable goods to prewar or near prewar prices, with 1942 ceilings on washing machines irons and aluminum kitchenware. Bowles predicts high sales volumes and steady rents and food costs during reconversion. Household goods and appliances should reappear in stores near wartime price levels.
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Old Tires Pop Asks When to Buy New Ones
Quirky reader notes discuss rubber shortages and gear shifts with jokes about workers, film curbs, and vacation snaps. The piece playfully questions consumer limits and cultural habits amid changing times and disposable trends.
Yanks Will See Tokyo as Modern as American Cities
American soldiers, sailors and airmen occupying Tokyo will find a city rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake with modern fireproof buildings. The emperor's palace sits within extensive private grounds on the outskirts of Marunouchi, in central Tokyo.
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Japanese Diet to convene extraordinary session in September
The Japanese Camel News Agency reports an extraordinary Diet session will be held September 2 and 3 to address postwar recovery. FCC-recorded Tokyo broadcasts quote Masayoshi Morino praising renewal while urging Japan to shed old world cancerous growth and learn science and mass production to rise again.
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Japanese Camel News Agency
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Tokyo
Japan
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Asia
Stalin declares Kwantung army surrender in 15 day Far East drive
London reports Gen. Stalin in an order of the day says Japan s Kwantung army capitulated after a 15 day campaign. He notes Soviet Mongolian People's Republic cooperation and occupation of Paramushiro and Usyuryu in the Kuriles. Transbaikal forces moved about 575 miles and First and Second Far Eastern armies over 310 miles. Emperor Rang Teh and puppet Manchurian government have quit.
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Norwegian Jews accuse Quisling of aiding Nazi deaths
In Oslo a handful of Norwegian Jews returning from Nazi camps testified that Vidkun Quisling betrayed Norway by aiding deportations and gas chambers. Witnesses described women and children sent to Auschwitz as Quisling and Hitler supporters plotted to keep him in power while Nazi authorities vied to remove rival Terboven.
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Harris telegram on closing Southwestern Proving Ground 1945
Congress man Oren Harris reports the War Department will close the Southwestern Proving Ground as an Army operation and release most personnel within weeks. The site may be handed to Navy if needed for the Camden plant or surplus to RFC. explosives removed first for possible agricultural reconversion. He seeks repurchase by former owners, protects veterans’ rural access, and notes a $1,300,000 airport likely to be kept for city use. discusses Navy feasibility and Camden rockets storage.
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