China Civil War Threatens World Peace War Today
AP Foreign News Analyst notes renewed fighting between Communist forces and Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang. Mao Tse-tung to send a rep to discuss peace as Chou En-lai named. Britain, Russia, and the United States may couple efforts to avert catastrophe amid a 19 year-long split and stalled coalition talks.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuomintang
Chungking
Mao Tae-Tung
Chou En-Lai
Globe
Hanson W. Baldwin
Washington Dispatch
New York Times
Britain
Russia
United States
San Francisco
Sun Yat Sen
Chiang
Canada to Seek Uranium Deposits for Great Bear Lake
The Bank of Montreal reported that Canada will organize 20 prospecting parties to find fresh uranium deposits in the Great Bear Lake area. The effort follows Canada's role in atomic bomb material, framing the nation as potentially powerful and well equipped for future peaceful uses of atomic energy.
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Montreal
Great Bear Lakes
Bank of Montreal
Bank
Canada
Truman Orders 40 Hour Week For Federal Employees
President Truman ordered most Government departments to return to a 40 hour work week on September 8. He allowed exemptions where a shorter week would harm essential operations. The change reduces take home pay by about 2.49 dollars weekly for the lowest paid workers, based on an annual salary of 864 dollars.
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Washington
Truman
Agencien
Plenty of Soap Dont Hoard It Main Soap Supplies Rise
In Cincinnati on August 24 a spokesman for the nation's largest soap maker said there is plenty of soap and more is on the way after the army cancelled all soap orders after October 3. Hoarding makes it hard to obtain.
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Cincinnati
Mundt
Winter Uniforms For U S Troops In Japan
Manila report says winter uniforms, tested by scientists and European winds, will be issued to Americans moving from tropics to Northern Japan. Col. Charles Belican, chief advisor on clothing for MacArthur’s forces, notes Tokyo’s September weather is mild, similar to Washington DC. Troops will receive acclimatization training to ease the tropical to temperate shift.
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Europe
Tropics
Japan
Charles Bellican
MacArthur
Tokyo
Washington, D.C
Truman asks Roberts to take international post
President Truman said he and Secretary Byrnes offered a major international assignment to retired Supreme Court justice Owen J. Roberts. Roberts declined at the time, and the President hoped he might reconsider. The nature of the assignment was not to be made public for now.
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Truman
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Byrnes
Roberts
Roberta
Phos
Wartime Reconversion Actions Signal Change
Wartime pressures ease as the government seizes the Illinois Central and President Truman orders a return to peacetime operations. Prices, rationing, and labor rules shift as the administration outlines plans to end wartime controls, restore standard time, and restore prewar weekly hours. Agencies outline small business price ceilings and civilian aid moves while farmers face production decisions for 1946.
Communists Agree to Send Chou En Lai to Chungking
Official Communist sources report Mao Tse tung has accepted Chiang Kai shek’s invitation for a peace talks delegation. Mao named Gen Chou En Lai to travel to Chungking to discuss internal political settlement and unity. Yenan leaders previously rejected a Yenan Chungking invitation amid demands for a larger role in surrender negotiations with Japan.
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Chungking
Mao Tze-Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Mao
Chou En-Lai
Truman Promises Job Guarantees Amid Act Debate
President Truman vows to preserve job guarantees if the act ends, noting the current law already protects those rights but lacks a provision to sustain them regardless of the act's fate. Hershey argues the plan hinges on maintaining the core job protections beyond hostilities.
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Hershey
USS Penna Torpedoed in Leyte Gulf Sighting
USS Penna, hit by a Japanese torpedo near Leyte gulf, will not join the ships sailing to Tokyo for the final surrender. The Pennsylvania has fired more tons of ammunition than any other ship in naval history and withstood numerous enemy attacks during almost four years in the Pacific. Launched March 16, 1915, at Newport News, Virginia, it long served as the Sag-1 ship of the Pacific Fleet.
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Tokyo
Pennsylvania
Newport News
Occupation Forces Must Be Large
Undersecretary of War Patterson declared at Camplee Virginia that large occupation forces are essential in Germany and Japan to secure victory and enforce surrender terms. He noted the war is ended but the occupation and demobilization tasks require sustained manpower and patience.
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Patterson
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Quartermaster Corps
Britain faces end of lend lease and pay for aid
Britain braces for the end of lend lease as Attlee confirms the US directive cancels outstanding contracts and requires cash or credit payments. Churchill calls the move grave and disquieting while Halifax may be recalled to Washington to negotiate the new financial terms amid postwar shortages and mounting overseas outlays.
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Attlee
Lord Halifax
United States
Washington
Truman
Japan
Britain
Winston Churchill
Bond Law Gets First Test in Pittsburgh Court
Pennsylvania's 1945 statute allowing a married woman to post bond faces its first test in criminal court. Attorney Albert Martin seeks permission for his wife Anne to post a $1,000 bond for a man held in county jail on gambling charges. Judge Weller P. Smart took the matter under advisement.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Albert Martin
Anne
Weller P. Smart
Martin
Employment Bill Changes Proposed to Congress
Washington Aug 24 A five point supplement to the full employment bill was proposed to Congress by Beardsley Rum and Tom Clark as witnesses before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. The proposals include reform of Social Security financing a regular federal policy for public works and conservation a tax program to balance the budget at high employment and harmonious federal lending with a focus on prosperous agriculture. Rum outlined the aims but did not detail the legislative measures noting that greater consumer freedom brings us closer to true economic democracy under full employment.
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Tom Clark
Robbits
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Rum
Explosion at Iron Fireman plant kills inspector
An blast at Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company in Portland Oregon killed inspector Michael Keck and injured 42 workers including two women. Four hundred workers were on duty as a massive flame and smoke erupted, windows shattered blocks away, but the main plant area survived though operations halted.
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Portland
Ore
Iron Fireman Manufacturing Company
Michael Keck
Franco Not Liked By Truman Bevins WARLINGTON
President Truman disapproves of General Franco and believes the Spanish regime will face no U S interference. The remarks follow Britain's Bevin stance favoring a peaceful transition but opposing actions that would fuel civil war.
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Truman
Franco
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Teoman
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Bevin
House of Commons
Spain
Begin
Reversible Propellers On Atom Plane
Reversible propellers were installed on the B 29 Superfortresses that dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan to land in less distance than a single engine fighter. Curtiss Wright Propeller Division says the blades can reverse to provide reverse thrust after landing, adding an extra safety margin before discharge of the cargo. Propellers were manufactured in Curtiss Wright plants in Caldwell Clifton Beaver Indianapolis and Beaver Pa.
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Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division
Clifton
N. J
Beaver
Indianapolis
Ind
Warns On Newsprint Warns On Newsprint
A task force of newspaper publishers urged strong action to halt the switching of U.S. newsprint plants to other production. Led by Robert Choate of the Boston Herald and Traveler, the committee will report to the Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee in Washington on September 11 and 12. U.S. production fell from 1,700,000 tons in 1926 to 1,000,015 in 1941, now about 730,000 tons annually, with some fearing a drop to 680,000 absent action.
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New York
Robert Choate
Boston “Herald and Traveler
Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee
War Production Board
Washington
United States
Police salute schoolboy patrols and U S heroes
The Pennsylvania State Police praise schoolboy patrols for safe travel to school as President Truman awards the Medal of Honor to 28 Army heroes from World War II. Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell reads citations as veterans, some in wheelchairs or blind, receive the nation’s highest honor.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Truman
ADUL
Edward F. Witsell
War Department
OPA Ceilings Create Uncertainty for 1942 Goods
New York Aug 24. OPA set 1942 price ceilings on household washing machines irons growers and aluminum kitchenware. Leading manufacturers doubt they can meet the new prices as they reconvert and have not determined costs. General Electric called the 1942 choice puzzling since nothing was produced that year.
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New York
OPA
General Electric
Oil Restrictions Now Removed From Petroleum Rules
Washington August 24 virtually all wartime limits on sale and purchase of petroleum products were revoked by the Petroleum Administration for War. The secretary lifted orders restricting fuel oil use in new and re installed facilities and allowed direct buying without PAW permission. Credit cards at retail outlets are again permitted, effective September 15.
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The
Petroleum Administration For
PAW
Six Transports Arriving Today in New York Harbor
Six transports carrying 6,693 troops from Europe are due in New York today. The General Breckenridge with 1,135 soldiers was diverted from the Pacific route after Japan’s surrender. Other ships include Fayetteville Victory with 1,965, Abraham Clark 145, Robin Sherwood 63, Reverdy Johnson 786, and Morris Sigman 27 troops.
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Europe
General Breckenridge
Pacific
Fayetteville Victory
Abraham Clark
Robin Sherwood
Reverdy Johnson
Morris Sigman
Japs Get Orders On Communication
Manila August 24 General MacArthur directed the Japanese to be ready to provide communications facilities upon his arrival to permit direct telephone and telegraph circuits between his Tokyo area headquarters and the Japanese imperial headquarters He also told them to furnish wire circuits and facilities enabling direct operation of international radio cable telephone and broadcasting facilities of the Japanese government and its affiliated agencies
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Manila
MacArthur
Tokyo
Army Cancels Large Tobacco and Food Contracts
The War Department announced cancellations of contracts for over thirteen million packages of cigarette tobacco slated for overseas delivery, all soluble coffee contracts, and about $0.0 million pounds of canned processed cheese. It also scrapped eighty million pounds of dehydrated foods, reducing the total by forty percent.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Redeployed Soldiers At Indiantown
Growing list of veterans returning from abroad for processing at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation. They receive medical exams and furloughs before reassignment or discharge if eligible. Names and hometowns of district soldiers arriving Aug. 23 listed, including Peters, Sutilla, Booker, Emets, Wilkins, Daughenbaugh, St. Clair, Weiss, Gruda, Henderson, Bidwell, Beatty, Byrnes, Litzinger, and Tait among others.
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Harrisburg
Laird W. Peters
Kittanning
R. D
Rudolph R. Sutilla
Heilwood
Pleo
Thomas L. Booker
Avon
John J. Emets
Homer City
R.D. 2
PLC
Jeanges L. Wilkins
Sixth St. ‘Clymer
Harry Daughenbaugh
Cardiff Road
Nanty-Glo
Pic
Hatl H
St. Clair
New Flore
Nce
Pfc
Robert
Four Vets Out At Indiantown Gap
Four Pennsylvania soldiers discharged at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation on Thursday etched 85 plus point totals. The Stars and Stripes rumor of a 75 point discharge threshold had not yet taken effect. Discharged were Pfe. Paul Bates, 8/Sgt. Anthony Kudlawiee, Edward McKee, and M/Sgt. James Kurtz from Punxsutawney.
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Pennsylvania
Indiantown Gap
Casualties Reported Across U S Forces in World War II
Washington reports a total 1,070,819 U S combat casualties including 252,885 killed 651,218 wounded 43,969 missing and 122,747 prisoners. Most prisoners liberated and over half of wounded back at duty. army losses 923,481 and navy 147,998 after revisions.
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Washington
United States
Navy
Army
Air priorities may be lifted in travel plan
Airline officials and the Army weigh a proposal from the Air Transport Association to nearly end the air travel priority system. If accepted, normal passengers would gain better odds at boarding while military and public officials travel only for extreme necessity. A decision is expected soon.
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Washington
Air Transport Association
Green Township High School Opens Monday
Green Township High School will open Monday August 27 with a planned schedule. Principal Ivan Fetterman announced Labor Day off September 3 and early year events including the Green Township Fair September 14 and the County Institute September 37 28. Thanksgiving November 22 23 and Christmas holidays December 4 January 1 followed by Easter vacation April 19 22 and end of term May 10 24.
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Green Township
Green Township High School
Commodore
Ivan Fetterman
County Institute
Ensster
Gasoline Sales Jump After Rationing Ends
Pittsburgh officials report a sharp rise in gasoline sales as rationing ends. A firm notes a 23 percent increase versus July totals through August, reflecting higher demand and a surge in available fuel.
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Pittsburgh
Seppe
State Laws On Divorce Criticised By County Prothonotary
David B. Roberts of Allegheny County denounces Pennsylvania divorce statutes as creating easy “divorce bills” and urges urgent legislative amendments. He calls for a new department of the Courts of Common Pleas run by prothonotaries to investigate each divorce libel with impartial investigators.
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Allegheny County
Common Pleas
Pennsylvania
Roberts
the Courts of Common Pleas
Emperor Orders Hostilities End and Troop Movements
Tokyo radio reported Allied surrender terms and occupation plans for Kyushu with Sept 1 and 2 air landings. Messages to General MacArthur pressed for deadlines and details on reparations, press coverage, and troop rules, while Tokyo warned of unrest in Manchuria and Korea.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
Japan
Kanoye
Kyushu
Consid
Kakasu
Domei Agency
jFee
Takasu
Kanoya
MacArthur
Manchuria
Inner Mongolia
North Korea
Missouri
World Security League to Convene Plenary in October
London reports ratification of the United Nations Charter by Britain clears the way for the World Security League plenary session by late October. Preparatory Commission members expect most nations to approve the pact soon, with Latin America next. Debates in Parliament centered on sharing atom bomb research with the Soviet Union to prevent a superweapon race.
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London
Great Britain
World Security League
United Nations Preparatory Commission
Britain
House of Commons
House of Lords
United States
France
Soviet Russia
China
League of Nations
Soviet
Russia
MacArthur approves adjusted surrender aid and cargo moves
The general keeps marked enemy penal camps in place for supply drops and allows limited unarmed planes for rail ferries and surface craft. Japan may receive food ships to Marcus Island, while hospital ships require more detail. Allied air drops will aid 82 000 POWs in seven Japanese camps, as Bougainville troops set surrender timing. a Japanese envoy plans Rangoon talks with Mountbatten staff.
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Marcus Island
Tokyo
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Tokyo Bay
Rangoon
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Louis Mountbatten
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