Hong Kong Occupation Is Debated
Debates over who will occupy Hong Kong and receive the Japanese surrender raged as Chinese and British positions shift. Chinese generals Chang Chi chung and Miung Suh hui were named to accept surrender in Manchuria while Formosa and Hong Kong rise under China theater command.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Hong Kong
U.S
China
Cuang Fuh-kwei
Hong Hong
Manchuria
Chang Chi-chung
Msiung Suh-hui
Comcnlt
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Indo- China
Chiang
Genwei Chen Yi
Fukien
Cairo
Chowkiaow
Hainan
Tangho
Hunan
Ho Yingchin
Kunming
Chihkiang
Trade Officials See Full Clothing Stock In Months
Trade officials predict clothing and textiles will return to stores within two months after wartime shortages. An Associated Press survey notes housewives may delay relief if purchases deplete scarce items, but shortages should ease by year end. Federal textile leaders say wartime production exceeded prewar levels and shifted to consumer items while military orders declined after the war.
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Washington — i
Associated Press
War Production Board
Eighth District Reports on Subi and Naval Actions
The Eighth Naval District details German submarine activity near New Orleans within 189 miles, reporting 434 allied seamen killed by U boats and a torpedo that missed and exploded against a jetty. The district extends from the Gulf of Mexico west of the Apalachicola River to the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico.
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Vans —Fp
New Orleans
Eighth Naval District
Gulf of Mexico
Ue Anpalachicala River
Florida
Yucatan Caanmel
Cuba
Mexico
U. S. Sponsored Air Travel Plan Heads For Oblivion
The United States proposed five freedoms for international air transport faces likely abandonment at the Interim Council session. Britain opposes the idea, fearing undue American advantage in aircraft and traffic. A Chicago conference in miniature may rewrite the plan into a compromise.
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Montreal
Great Britain
United States
Chicago
Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization
World Civil Air Organization
Hi Tha
Alguing
Air Travel
Hershey Sees Veterans Job Rights Rest With Congress
Major General Lewis D. Hershey says Congress holds the decision on wartime veterans job rights as automatic suspension of most Selective Service laws would occur when hostilities end. He notes restoring former jobs depends on remaining legislation and questions arise if Congress later changes terms after war ends.
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Congress
Lewis D. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Massachusetts
Draft Board
Washington
War Department
Armed Services
Gen
Contgress
Seek To Retain Wartime Reins In Attlee Government
London Britain s new Labor government introduces legislation seeking broad authority to keep wartime controls for at least five years including price pegs and service regulation. Top officials Morrison Dalton and Cripps, leaders in Prime Minister Attlee s cabinet, blocked the measure in Commons.
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London
Britain
Herbert B Morrison
Hugh Dalton
Stafford Cripps
Board of Trade
Meadure
Commons
Attlee
120000 Jap Island Men Set To Quit
Od noting that 120000 Japanese in the bypassed Marshalls and Carolines are surrendering a first group signs papers aboard Levy. Japanese representatives accept the move while awaiting formal notice. American occupation of Mili and surrounding atolls will follow in days as Allied recon confirms the shift.
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Guam
Central Pacific
Marshalla
Maréhalls
Carolines
Truk
Solomons
New Ireland
New Britain
Japan
Mili
Marshalls
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Nimitz
Carolines Atolls
Saipan
Marianas
Palaus
Mil
Navy
Masatori Suiga
H. B. Grow
Greenville
Mick
Majura
Rabaul
Atoll
Melbourne
Bougainville
Canberra
Head Of Japan's Designs On India Killed In Crash
Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the pro Japanese backed provisional government of Free India, died in a hospital in Japan from injuries after an airplane crash near Taihoku. The crash killed Lt. Gen. Tsunasmasa Shidel and injured Col. Habibur Rahman and four others as Bose was en route for talks with Tokyo. Bose had led the All-India Congress Party in the past despite Gandhi’s opposition.
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Tokyo Radio
Subhas Chandra Bose
India
Japan
Associated Press
Bose
Free India
Bangkok
Burma
Tokyo
Thailand
Taihoku
Board of Information
Tsunasmasa Shidel
Rose
Habibur Rahman
All-India Congress Party
Meokhandagh
Gandhi
War's Formal End Set By MacArthur Aug. 31
The Associated Press reports that Japan and the conquering Allies will formally end the war on August 31 by signing the surrender document aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. General MacArthur announced the ceremony, with field capitulations already proceeding. Guards of honor, prisoner evacuations, and occupation plans are outlined as Allied forces prepare to land at Atsugi, Yokosuka, and Sagami Bay areas.
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MacArthur
Japan
Tokyo Bay
Res
Manila
Missouri
Apamu
Northern Lion
Mindanao
Cebu
Marcus Island
Marcus
Tokyo
Croga
Atsugi
Yokosuka
Sagami Bay
Nimit’n Bagship
Kuzma Nikolaevech
French Indo China Talks Open At White House
President Truman and General Charles de Gaulle opened a second round of talks amid signs Indo China would dominate the agenda. Paris officials feared a British pronouncement on future administration of Indo China. a French source said France could mobilize its own ships and troops, with 000 soldiers in China ready to move. The British plan envisioned Chiang Kai-shek forces in the north and British troops in the south. De Gaulle arrived in Washington for get acquainted talks, with coverage continued on page 16.
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Washington
Truman
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
United States
Paris
Foreign Office
Rot
Indo-China
China
U. 5
Trumen
Army Air Forces to cut strength to 1.9 million in peacetime
The Army Air Forces aim to reduce from 2.4 million to 1.9 million within 12 months to smooth peacetime postwar transitions. Maj. Gen. Fred L. Anderson announced in a radio address that screening will focus on personnel with high discharge points and older ages, with RAF and WAC thresholds noted for overseas service considerations.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Fred L. Anderson
RAF
Luzon Japs Quit While Yanks Get War Souvenirs
Japanese mountain forces in Northern Luzon, several thousand strong, surrendered after peace talks. A 38th Division party descended into the Madre Mountains to meet the enemy at a designated spot as American and Japanese troops exchanged pistols sabers watches and personal items for souvenirs.
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Luzon
Associated Press
38Th Division
Madre Mountains
Early British Charter Backers Push For Rapid UN Approval
London forecast a near unanimous ratification of the United Nations Charter as Parliament prepared to resume debates at 2:08 p.m. The session featured solemn warnings about atomic bomb potential and calls for international control. Lords discussed secrecy limits amid evolving weapon power.
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London
Britain
International Organization For the Preservation of Peace
Laborite
H. L. Austin
Arthur Salter
Hom
United States
Wall Street
DuPont Promises Women 11 Pairs Nylons Per Year
DuPont announces large scale peacetime nylon production with Seaford Delaware and Martinsville Virginia plants opening capacity to produce 380 million pairs of hosiery annually. The firm notes postwar demand and prior wartime use in parachutes ropes and brushes, with nylons to keep shape through laundering.
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Wumureton
Del
DuPont de Nomours Company
DuPont
Tropics
Sro
Eighth Bond Drive Opens October 29
The eighth and final war loan drive begins October 29, offering a victory loan of 11 billion dollars. The government aims to raise four billion from individuals with half in B bonds as Treasury Secretary Vinson warns of the costs of postwar settlements, troop pay, hospitalization, and rehabilitation.
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V Warnington
Slarong Cate
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
War Contract Cancellations Rise As Unemployment Flares
Crowds flood employment offices amid nationwide job cuts as nine new war contracts totaled nearly 55 million, lifting total terminations to about 7 billion across 71 SEC reports. Strikes continue at Spicer Manufacturing in Fetstown and Midvale Steel in Nida Town as veterans reinstatement and seniority rights spar with company policies. Westinghouse, Bosch and Magnavox lead list of major contract cancellations while firms from Philadelphia to San Francisco report layoffs and wage disputes under wartime regulation.
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Philacelpmia
Sai—Ap We
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Spicer Manufacturing Company
Fettatown
State Mediation Board
Selective Service
Company
United Automobile Work
Ers
CIO
John Bohannon
Midvale Steel Company
Nidatown
American Bosch Corporation
Springfieldd
Mass
Menasce Manufacturing Corporation
Burbank
Calif
Piper Aircraft Corporation
Lock Haven
White Sewing Machine Corporation
Cleveland
Goldfieia Consolidated Mines Company
San Francisco
Army Offers 252 War Plants For Civilian Output
The Army offers 252 government owned war plants to industry to convert to civilian production. Declaring them surplus from radar and engine work, the move pledges a $1.5 billion contribution toward full employment. White House pressure pushes sale or lease to private manufacturers as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation gears up to accelerate disposals.
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Washington
Army
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Families Of Four Tokyo Raiders Freed In 1942 Rescue
The War Department told the families that four Doolittle raiders captured in 1942 were freed after a rescue team parachuted to Peiping China and found them not in a prison camp. Named are Lt Chase J Nielsen Hyrum Utah Lt George Burr formerly of Queens Lt Jacob D Deshazer formerly of Madras Oregon and Lt Robert L Hite Horta Texas. Four other fliers remain unaccounted for. Roosevelt had disclosed deaths and commuted sentences earlier. Mrs Nielsen feared the news but intuited a possible release.
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Washington
Tokyo
War Department
Jimnyay Doolittle
Peiping
China
Chase J. Nielsen
Hyrum
Utah
George Burr
Queens
Jacob DD. Deshazer
Madras
Ore
Robert L. Hite
Horta
Texas
William G. Farrow
D. C
Robert J. Meder
Lakewood
Ohio
Dean E. Hallmark
Dallas
Tex
Harold A. Spatz
Lebo
Kas
Roosevelt
Nielsen
Associated Press
Army Service Forces
Ogden
Iron Factory Blast Shakes Portland Plant
An explosion at the Fireman Manufacturing iron plant in Portland, Oregon, shook the facility today. Witnesses reported debris and four pieces of the roof blown into the air as two ambulances were dispatched to the scene. The plant, normally producing furnaces, manufactures engine parts for Boeing aircraft.
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Portland
Ore
Fireman Manufacturing Company
Boeing Aircraft
Street Scene Dogs and Frantic Return Home
Street scene depicts a terrier defending every home as dogs bark at passersby. Exuberant woman celebrates a family car returned after five weeks in the repair shop. A motorist struggles to steer between two racing dogs while a reckless cyclist nears.
260,000 Japs Killed By Air Raids On Isles
The Tokyo radio broadcast reported by Associated Press says about 260,000 people killed and 412,000 injured on the Japanese home islands from enemy air raids during the war in Greater East Asia. It notes 16,000,000 directly affected, 90,000 killed and 180,000 injured by two atom bombs, 9,200,000 homeless, and 2,200,000 houses destroyed or burned. The figures are incomplete and may rise with further investigation.
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Associated Press
Greater East Asia
Tokyo Radio
Unit Defense Headquarters
Japanese Diet to Convene to Stress War Losses
The ordinary session of the Japanese Diet will be convened Sept 2 and 3 to drive home the stark reality of Japan's defeat and to clarify the circumstances leading to the end of the war. Premier Naru shiko Higeshi Kuni obtained imperial sanction for the two day extraordinary session.
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Japan
Domeinawa Agency
Federal Communications Commission
America
Dome
Narushiko Higeshi-Kuni
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91Th
Bern Zornis
Paul
Adams
McCallister
Charles C. Gable
Beattyville
Joe D. Fagan
Chi‘ Cago
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