Chiang Renews Appeal To Chinese Communist Lead
Chiang Kai-shek sent an urgent message to Communist leader Mao Tse-tung urging early arrival in Chungking to discuss national policies and prevent civil war. He warned against independent action on Japanese surrender and sought reconstruction after eight years of war, while noting no reentry for civil strife.
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Spencer Moone
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Chiang
Mio Tetetung
Yenan
Chu Teh
Chu
Finland Restores U S Friendship After Finnish Elections
The State Department reports Finland conducted free elections in March and the United States will welcome a restoration of diplomatic relations. Relations were severed June 20, 1944, after Finnish Minister Hialmar Procope and three aides were expelled from the United States.
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Washington
Finland
United States
State Department
Byrnes
Hialmar J. Procope
Mountain Home Included In Vet Expansion Plans
Washington plans a 200 million hospital program to meet expected veterans retirements. The two year program seeks 40 new hospitals and additions to existing ones, aiming for 300,000 beds by the end of fiscal 1947 if approved and funded. Mountain Home, Tenn is listed for convalescent and general medical expansions.
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Washington —P
Publc
Veterans Adiminiaetralian
Federaal Board of Hospitalization
Congress
Veterans Hospitals
Mountain Home
Army
Navy
General Medical and Surgical
Tennessee
Tenn
General—Mountain Home
Memphis
Millington Naval Center Designated Separation Center
The Millington Naval Air Technical Training Center is named a separation center to discharge about 24,000 Mid-South veterans each month. Capt. Robert W. Beckins, NATTC commanding officer, announced the designation as of early September.
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Memphis
Millington Naval Air Technical Training Center
Robert W. Beckins
NATTC
Roosevelt Stamp To Be Sold Friday
The first Roosevelt memorial two cent stamp will be sold Friday at the Little White House in Warm Springs Georgia where Franklin Roosevelt fought infantile paralysis and died Governor Ellis Arnall will sell the first rectangular red stamp to Basil O Connor president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
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New Fork
Roosevelt
Little White House
Warm Springs
Franklin Roosevelt
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For Infantile Peralyss
Retired Millikan Led California Tech Into Atomic Era
Robert A Millikan renowned physicist who confirmed the cosmic ray and won the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics retires as administrative head of the California Institute of Technology at 77. He served as chairman of the institute’s executive council and earlier taught physics at the University of Chicago for 25 years. He said he began in 1900 seeking uranium ores and noted atomic energy has limited practical use in large machines.
Street Scene Ends In Wild Dog Race In Town
A group of under ten children mob a motorist at Linville and Watauga then hijack a ride to town. The ride turns into seats for a race between two hound dogs that follow the car yelping all the way to the circle. Reactions include disgust as the driver struggles to retrieve the children.
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Linville
Watauga
Yanks To Get 850 Francs Per Month
U S service men in France will begin getting 460 francs a month each 17 at the official exchange rate from the French government beginning September 1. By this device worked out by France and the Treasury and War Departments the franc in effect is revalued downward for service men only with no change in the official rate of 50 to the dollar.
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Washington
U. S
France
Treasury
War Departments
Allied Occupation Troops To Land In Japan Sunday
Allied forces prepared to land at Atsugi airfield near Tokyo on Sunday with a second group due August 28 at Yokosuka. Tokyo fears disorder as veterans and military leaders anticipate occupation under General MacArthur.
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Japan
Tokyo
Manila
Atsugi
Japanese Information Ministry
MacArthur
Allied Supreme Command
Yokosuka
Tokyo Bay
Domei
Dome
MacArthur's Eta, Praves
Tamahiro Kowahire
Fukyo
Engsh
Burma Japs Told To Meet Terms And Surrender
Mountbatten via radio orders Japanese south eastern army commander Terauchi to send surrender envoys to Rangoon by Thursday. The broadcast, aligned with MacArthur’s surrender plan, seeks complete land sea and air capitulation in the theater amid ongoing clashes across the 300 mile Burma front. Prisoners claim they have not heard Allied terms and fighters report air strikes against Japanese forces near Shenegyin as cease fire limits are tested.
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London
Burma
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Rangoon
Mountbatten
Juichi Terauchi
New Delhi
MaccArthur
Philippines
Rangoor
Talen
Nyawnglebin
Tolye
Pegu- Hills
Thunderbolt
Shenegyin
Mountoatten
USS Washington Home Without Losing a Single Man
Bremerton, Wash. — The battleship USS Washington, famed for steering a steady course from Guadalcanal to Okinawa without losing a man, has returned to Puget Sound for overhaul in dry dock. Since Dec 7, 1941 she has steamed 277,084 miles, serving from Murmansk convoy duty to the first surface sinking of a Nipponese battleship off Savo Island on Nov 14–15, 1942.
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Bremerton
Wash
America
Guadalcanal
Okinawa
Washington
U.S.S
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Navy
Murmansk
Pacific
Savo Island
Government Opens Door To Peacetime Production
Washington reports government action lifting 210 wartime controls, leaving about 125, with most slated for removal to resume full peacetime output. WPB plans to lift limits on radios refrigerators trucks while guarding against hoarding by big manufacturers. Controls on autos and durable goods remain under review as industry shifts back to civilian production.
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Washington
Hoon
William H.davis
Senate
Truman
Congress
Productio
War Production Board
Underground Towns as Defense from Atom Bomb Says Expert
New York reports aerial armaments expert Louis Bruchiss associate editor of Aerosphere asserts subterranean cities offer protection from nuclear attack. He predicts radar advances but notes some devices will penetrate surface. urges immediate, vast underground settlement with mountain basements and long subterranean rail networks despite immense cost.
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New York
America
Louis Bruchiss
Bruchiss
Aerosphere
International Aviation Yearbook
St. Louis Newspaper Strike Enters Sixth Day
In St Louis Missouri the citys newspaper strike reaches its sixth day with the Publishers Association and the AFL Paper Carriers Union still apart in negotiations. Each side has rejected two proposals as talks stalled since last Thursday.
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St. Louis
Publishers Association
AFL Paper Carriers Union
State To Study Effect Of DDT On Polio Spread
The State Health Department will study whether DDT spraying affects infantile paralysis spread. Dr. R H Hutcheson said 12000 West Tennessee homes were sprayed with TVA cooperation, with poliomyelitis cases reported in sprayed and unsprayed areas. January total reaches 185 with three new Memphis cases and one each from Carroll Henry and Sevier counties.
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Naenville
State Health Department
R. H. Hutcheson
Tennessee Valley Authority
West Tennessee
Tennessee
Memphis
Carroll, Henry
Sevier
Fire Reported At City Creamery
Firefighters reported a small exterior blaze at the City Creamery Company building in the early hours of Tuesday. The alarm came in at 12 24 a.m. and was extinguished quickly with a return to base by 1 03 a.m. Acting Chief Kenner said there was practically no damage.
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Haddon Helxltu
Nid
Katherine Halpin
Ann Rust
Miss McDade
Bellmawr
N. d
Miss Rust
Philadelphia
Cau Asury Uve Meurs Atu & Boiler
City Creamery Company
City Fire
CM. Kenner
Davis Sees No Threat Of Inflation
Economic Stabilizer Davis said new policy allowing pay raises without government approval will not raise prices. He stated he is optimistic raises under the program won’t be inflationary or break price controls, while noting payroll will fall as wartime overtime ends and unemployment rises. Officials deem future raises hard to predict.
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WPS
WPB
J. A. Krug
Krug
Brug
Watlington P
William H. Davis
Davis
Truman
Prines
Mua
Wagner
Murray
WMC Plans Weekly Reports On Cutback Employment Effects
The War Manpower Commission will issue weekly updates showing how cutbacks affect employment in 166 labor market areas. Regional directors will report figures by Friday, with headquarters releasing summaries next week. The agency lists 77 areas in balance at 6 to 12 percent unemployed including Knoxville Chattanooga and Hampton Roads.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hampton Roads
Japs Have Little Left as Fleet Collapses Says Sherman
Rear Adm. Forrest Sherman reports from the Manila pre occupation talks that Japanese emissaries confirmed the U S Navy view that Japan s fleet virtually no longer exists The statement cites a severe losses in battleships aircraft carriers and other ships with only a damaged crewless flagship and a few light carriers remaining and no surrender possible while the army and air forces still fight.
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Robert Myers
Guam
Forrest C. Sherman
Manila
Mikado
United States Navy
Nimitz
Mania
Japan
Sherman
Haystaks
Jatsuragi
UNRRA May Get Additional Funds
Washington reports UNRRA may receive another 1 billion dollars from the United States to combat famine abroad. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Bloom of New York says he supports unfettered use and will convene hearings in three to four weeks on the proposal.
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Washington
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Bloom
D-Ny
House Foreign Affairs Committee
No Increase In Sugar Seen In ’45 Warns Official
A spokesman from the Agriculture Department says Americans will still receive about 73 pounds of sugar per year with no increase expected past Christmas. The prewar intake was about 100 pounds annually. Improvement isn’t anticipated until the latter half of 1944 despite reduced Army requirements.
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Wasungton—P
Agricultur Department
Japs To Intern Yanks Who Freed Mukden Prisoners
Lt Gen Albert Wedemeyer said Mukden informed him American personnel would be kept in the dark until Russians grant permission. Mukden, Manchuria’s key industry center, fell to Soviet forces yesterday. Wedemeyer noted word reached him from Mukden, as humanitarian teams parachuted in to reach Allied POWs, including Lt Gen Jonathan Wainwright found 100 miles northwest of Mukden.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
China
Mukden
Manchuria
Moscow
Wedemeyer
Jonathan Wainwright
President Backs Full Employment Act to Create Jobs
Washington hearings opened on the Full Employment Act to guarantee all willing Americans access to regular full-time work. Key sponsors include Murray of Montana and Thomas of Utah with White House support, as Omar Bradley and veterans groups prepare to testify.
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Washington
Senate
Murray
Montana
Thomas
Utah
Wagner
New York
O’mahoney
Wyoming
Marge
Oregon
Tobey
New Hampshire
Aiken
Vermont
Langer
North Dakota
White House
Truman
Omar W. Bradley
Jo Davidson
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Imperial Staff
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Richard Sutherland
Signal Corps
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Ho Ying-Chin
Chibisiang
Hunan
USS Washington
Barlier Wmc
UNRRA
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