WE Day Postponed by Pasadena Prophet at 72
The Rev Charles G Long of Pasadena Calif postponed his Sept 21 1945 World End prophecy to nine days later. He urged caution about folly affecting lives and war sacrifices while contrasting patriotism with idle prophecy. A Tokyo story notes Homma reads It Cant Happen Here as justice looms. A Chicago jury allows eviction protection for a woman with a no day lease declaring a dog a gentleman.
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Charles G. Long
Pasadena
Calif
Mr. Long
James Thrasher
Tokyo
Homma
Sinclair Lewis
W. W. Jacobs
Jacobs
Styx
Charon
Bataan
Chicago
Dwindling Oil Supply Cuts Steel Work
Oil shortages from the Calumet river basin strike force major industries in Indiana and Illinois to curb production at Carnegie Steel in Gary and the Illinois Steel plant. Over 200,000 workers nationwide idled as CIU and CIO actions spread, affecting Detroit auto and Ford parts plants amid wage and hour disputes. The big oil pipeline remains at capacity. Arkansas seeks more public health nurses. a cylinder printing press failure attributed to an inadequate inking device.
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United Press
Calumet River
Indiana
Carnegie
Carnegie- Illinois Steel
Gary
Ind
Rail Workers International Union
CIU
OWIU
Detroit
CIO Automobile
Chrysler Corp
Dodge
Labor Department
Kelsey-Hayes Whel Co
Re Jayoff
Ford Motor Co
A. N. Horne
Cincinnati
War Emerency Pipeline, Inc
WEPI
Would Cut Taxes for War Vets
Senator Walter George, as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, urged tax relief for veterans, proposing continued $1,500 exemptions after discharge. Congress returned from recess with a busy but unsettled postwar schedule, weighing unemployment pay, full employment procedures, re enlistment incentives, and government reorganization among other bills.
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Max Hall
Washington
Walter George
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
George
Senate
Truman
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Banking Committee
House Expenditures Committee
Navy
House
Senate Military
Senate Judiciary Committee
House Interstate Commerce Committee
House Rules Committee
House Roads Committee
FEPC
House Labor Committee
Senate Special Committee
Dewey Knew Secret Code, Favored Caution Over Disclosure
Republican leaders Brownell and Elliot Bell said in New York that Governor Dewey knew during World War II that the United States had cracked Japan’s secret code but chose not to reveal it for patriotic reasons. They cited Life magazine’s claim about forewarned Pearl Harbor and Marshall’s warning that disclosure could tip off Japan and risk American lives.
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New York
Herbert Brownell ,Jr
Thomas I. Dewey
United States
Japan
Dewey
Brownell
Elliot V. Bell
Life Magazine
Roosevelt
State Department
Pearl Harbor
George C. Marshall
War wounded soldier recuperating in Memphis hospital
First Sgt. Emerson V. Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Price of Hope Route Four, Memphis, recuperating at Kennedy General Hospital after wounds in the Southwest Pacific. He was flown from Luzon to San Francisco. previously served at New Guinea and other Pacific fronts.
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Emerson V. Price
S. Price
Hope Route Four
Kennedy General Hospital
Memphis
Southwest Pacific
San Francisco
Luzon
New Guinea
Pacific
Round World Flight to Take 6 Days
The Globester plan launches September 28 from Washington with a 23 147 mile route lasting 151 hours. Army Air Transport Command will restrict travel to military personnel cargo and mail though civilians may ride at 2431 plus 15 tax with future civilian service tied to aviation interests. Howard Hughes set a speed record but the Globester aims longer mileage completing a around the world circuit via Azores Africa India China Philippines Hawaii and back to Washington.
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Paul Miller
Washington
U. S
Howard Hughes
New York
Paris
Moscow
Fairbanks
Alaska
Minneapolis
U. S. Army Air Corps
New York City
LaGuardia
Azores
North Africa
Egypt
India
China
Philippines
Hawaii
A.T.C
Bermuda
Santa Maria
Casablanca
Tripoli
Cairo
Abadan
Iran
Karachi
Calcutta
Luhliang
Kunming
Guam
Kwajalein
Johnston — Island
Honolulu
San Francisco
Kansas City
Castro
Rapist Sentenced to Life in Prison by Drew Co Jury
Monticello Arkansas Drew county circuit jury convicted Albert Copeland 42 of Monticello of rape involving three minor girls ages 12 12 and 9 on a country road near Monticello. Life imprisonment was recommended and Judge John Golden to pronounce sentence. State Hospital superintendent Dr A C Kolb testified Copeland was sane.
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Monticello
Drew County
Albert Copeland
Simal
John Golden
Here
A. C. Kolb
State Hospital
Copeland
Truman Leads River Picnic Outing With Democrats
President Truman and about 75 Democrats left Annapolis for Jefferson Island on the SS Mary land for a 14 mile river excursion. The group, including John W. Snyder and Stephen P. Early, planned to return to Washington the next day as more supporters were to join in Chesapeake Bay.
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Annapolis
Truman
Naval Academy
Jefferson Island
Maryland
Coast Guard
Jefferson Island Club
Washington
White House
John W. Snyder
Leslie Biffle
Senate
Stephen P. Early
Harry H. Vaughan
Robert E. Hannegan
George Drescher
Secret Service
Snokesmen
Chesapeake Bay
Ross
Crossett Sawmill Strikers To Return Monday
The 500 workers at the Crossett lumber company sawmill division will return to their jobs Monday after a September 11 walkout that shut down the plant. Peter Watzek, company manager, announced a settlement reached at a meeting of company and union officials.
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Crossett
Crossett Lumber Company
Peter Watzek
Watzek
Gasoline Shortages Sweep Six States Amid Oil Strike
The nationwide fuel crisis deepens as filling stations ration or close across six states as about 25 000 refinery workers strike for a 30 percent wage hike to offset wartime cuts. Gasoline supplies dwindle in Toledo Detroit Ann Arbor Flint Gary and Chicago with unions oilmen urged to meet in Chicago to end the walkout.
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United Press
Oil Company
Chicago
Chinese Ran Their Railroad 120 Miles in 3 Hours
The Kowloon Canton line once ran 120 li in three hours. Under Japanese rule it stretched to 36 hours, a badge of colonial inefficiency. Lt Peter Morris and 50 Chinese mechanics revived the line, restoring a vital British led railway hub near Hong Kong with improvised power and wood fuel to resume service toward Canton.
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Hal Boyle
Hong Kong
Far East
Kowloon-Canton Railway
Kowloon
Canton
China
Brest
France
New York
Will Shespeare
Peter Frank Morris
Indomitable
Morris
Casey Jones
Stratford-on-Avon
Kaiser and Frazer Form Kaiser Frazer Car Co at Willow Run
Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer announce a 20 million Kaiser Frazer corporation to build low priced Kaiser cars at Willow Run outside Detroit. They sign a five year lease with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the Willow Run plant starting December 31. Graham Paige facilities move to Willow Run to enable integrated manufacturing and sales. The Frazer car will also be produced, alongside full sized six passenger Kaiser and Frazer sedans.
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New York
Henry J. Kaiser
Joseph W. Frazer
Graham-Paiges Corporation
Kaiser
Willow Run
Detroit
Frazer
Kaiser-Frazer Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Graham-Paige
Graham-Paige Company
Kaisers
Frazers
Catholic Prelates Gather for St Vincent de Paul Centenary
Archbishop Glennon invites 35 archbishops and bishops for a five day centennial observance in St Louis from Sept 27 to Oct 4. The program includes the United States branch superior council meeting and the National Conference of Catholic Charities. An outdoor riverfront service on Sept 30 is planned with over 100000 attendees and a 10000 child choir.
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St. Louis
John J. Glennon
St. Vincent de Paul Society
America
Superior Council of the
United States
National Conference of Catholic Charities
Riverfront
Glennon
Chares H. le Blond
St. Joseph
Christopher FE. Byrne
Galveton
Tex
Francis Beckman
C. M
Panama
Edwin V. O'Hara
Kansas City
Fulton J. Sheen
The
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Christian H. Winkelmann
Wichita
Kan
Henry Althoff
Belleville
Albert Lewis Fletcher
Lattle Rock
Ark
Paul S. Schulte
Leavenworth
No Rationing of Gasoline Planned in Strike Crisis
Washington reports denying any plan for nationwide voluntary gas rationing amid petroleum industry stakes. John W. Snyder of the Office of Reconversion and Ches ter Bowles of the OPA state the issue has not been discussed. The OPA also dissolves its gasoline rationing branch and has no immediate information on the crisis.
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Washington
Office of Mobilization and Reconversion
Office of Price Administration
John W. Snyder
OPA
Chester Bowles
Egg shells form from carbonate of lime
Egg shells are chiefly formed of carbonate of lime, providing calcium carbonate material as the primary structural component of the shell.
Epes Case to Reach Jury Today in South Carolina
Samuel C. Epes faces a murder trial in Columbia charged with poisoning his wife to pursue another relation. The state seeks the death penalty or a life sentence with mercy, while a mistrial is possible if the jury cannot reach unanimity.
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Jane Noland
Columbia
S. C
Samuel C. Epes
South Carolina
Richard E. Broome
Epes
Mississippi
Broome
Virginia
Clint T. Graydon
T. E. Williams
Mary Lee Epes
Nashville Flier Lt Honeycutt Killed in Saipan
Lt. Lawrence C. Honeycutt 23 of Nashville was killed August 27 on Saipan while serving as co pilot of a B29 Super fortress. He had three years in the Air Forces and went overseas last May. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Honeycutt and two brothers Pat and Mage.
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Nashville
Lawrence C. Honeycutt
I. C. Honeycutt
Saipan
War Department
Honeycutt
Air Forces
Nashville High School
Hendrix College
Conway
Pat
Mage
Scout Organization Meeting Tuesday Night at City Hall
Bar Scouts of America district committee will meet at Hope City Hall on Tuesday September 25 at 7 30 p m All persons interested in Scouting are urged to attend The item notes a US household size decline from 3 3 to 3 persons between April 1940 and October 1944.
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Bar Scouts of America Organization
Hope City Hall
U. S
MacArthur Demands Jap Bank Books
General MacArthur orders a full accounting of Japanese finances from Pearl Harbor to today including imperial household assets. He also demands bank holdings, insurer sums, and executive lists to curb money used against occupation. Naval police demobilization and arrests of Nobuyuki Abe are ordered as occupation widens.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Pearl Harbor
Imperial Household
Fumimaro Konoye
Washington
Hirohito
Kenji Doihara
Japan
Japanese War Ministry
Nobuyuki Abe
Korea
Konoye
Chikuhei Nakajima
Commerce and Industry
United States
The
Philippines
Commonwealth
Sergio Osmena
Manila
Osmena
Sasebo
Kyushu
U. S. Fifth Marine Division
Iwo Jima
Fifth Amphibious Corps
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Ted Dealey
Dallas
Tex
Morning News
Dealeyv
Naval Police
Privy Council
Arkansas Veterans Returning to U S
Arkansas veterans listed as returning to the United States aboard the S S Europa arriving in New York on September 24. The roster includes names with ranks and towns such as Hawkins James M S Sgt Bearden Chaite Russell W Pic Poca hontas Beavert Obe S S Sgt Prescott Hart Edward B Tee 3 Brannon William H Tee 3 204 Glen St Hot Springs Smith Loy C Pettigrew oan James E Tec 4 White Bryant Henry Tec 5 Judsonia Root Joseph Tec 5 Cherry Valley Sowell Walter E Pfc Vilomia Threlkald John A Pfc Star Watson Edd M Pvt Dover Evers Oral L S Sgt Texarkana Kanelord S Set Mena Fetters Floyd A Sgt Lamar Nester Burford M Pfe wood. One tiny ball bearing 2 7 millimeters in diameter is vital to the Norden bombsight and other delicate aviation instruments. The first Sawrence factory was ones in the United States in 1825.
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New York
S. S. Europa
Hawkins
James M
Bearden
Chaite
Russell W
Pic
Pocahontas
Beavert
Obe S
Prescott Hart
Edward B
Stephen
Brannon
William H
Glen St
Hot Springs
Smith
Loy C
Pettigrew
Norden
United States
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Alex. H. Washburn
End of the
Mister
Little Rock
Arkanms
Public Ealth
T. T. Ross
State Health Department
Sgt. Emmerson
Price of Hope Rt
Memphis Hospital
Pfe
John J. Fare
Philadelphia
Drew Co
Pres. Truman
Toledo
Ann Arbor
Mich
Flint
Union
Federal Con
Texas
Standard Oil Co
Inwana
Standard
Carnegie-Illinois Steel
Seaboard
Toledo Food Locker Co
Rank Peck
Retail Gasoline Dealers Association
Sam Epes
NEA
Up Car Co
Lt. Honeycutt
Scout Organization
City Hall
Arkansas
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