Storm Delays Japanese Surrender Signing and Allied Landings
Typhoons delaying Japan surrender and Allied operations shift timeline for Tokyo Bay ceremonies from August 31 to September 2. MacArthur forecasts, Atsugi airfield landings, and seaborne movements are retimed as storms threaten Western Pacific, with minesweepers and fleet units at sea and preparations continuing despite weather.
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MacArthur
Tokyo Bay
Atsugi Airfield
Imperial Palace
Tokyo
Okinawa
Atsugi
Yokosuka
Naval
Pacific
Japan
Jniths
Manila
Adm
Raymond A. Spruance
Fifth Fleet
End Hearing on Request To Build New Pipe Line
A federal power Commission hearing on Cities Service gas company petition for a Welds to Ottawa Kan line closed. Witnesses said the new line would add 27 million cubic feet of gas daily to the Kansas City area in winter, with Sedalia expected to gain 665000 cu ft daily. Lawrence, Topeka, and St Joseph could receive nearly 19 million cu ft more.
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Kansas City
Cities Service Gas Company
Welds
Ottawa
Kan
Federal Power Commission
Maximillian Baron
Sedalia
Lawrence
Toeka
St. Joseph
Delegation Arrives for Japan Surrender Talks at MacArthur HQ
Manila reports a sixteen man CP-Russia delegation arrived this morning for conferences at General MacArthur's headquarters on Japan's surrender. The group is led by Lieutenant General Kuzma Nikolaevich Derevyanko.
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Manila
Russia
General MacArthur
Japan
Kuzma Nikolaevech Derevyanko
Russian Sea Units Ready to Finish Korea Occupation
Moscow says naval and marine forces advanced along Korea s eastern coast and airborne units fortified the interior in a rapid move to seal the occupation of Korea. In Manchuria Soviet troops secured highways and railways while southern Sakhalin nearing completion. Dispatches note liberated allied POWs, large war materiel stores in Korea, and gifts from the emperor for soldiers. A Moscow-published photo shows American trucks with the Red Army in Manchuria.
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Korea
Moscow
Manchuria
Sakhalin
Mukden
Red Star
Red Army
Japan
Tass
Siberia
End of lend lease debate roils Britain and press
In London today the end of lend lease sparks sharp public debate across pubs, clubs, and streets. Newspapers praise or reproach the U S credit transition, while The Times notes the wartime facility was not wartime aid and urges calm to smooth the transition.
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London
Britain
United States
Daily Express
Times
Japan
More Meat Through Packers Non-Federally Inspected
Washington reports the OPA will raise monthly quotas for non federally inspected packers starting tomorrow. Cattle slaughter limits rise from 1 to 125 percent of the 1944 base, calves from 75 to 100 percent, hogs from 50 to 110 percent. Move aims to divert meat to deficit areas and larger packing houses.
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Washington
OPA
Want Shoe Ration Ended by October First
The National Shoe Manufacturers Association says it favors ending shoe rationing no later than October 1. In a telegram to J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board, the association notes its board vote representing 95 percent of U.S. shoe production in support of elimination.
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New York
National Shoe Manufacturers Association
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
Rayburn fractures elbow while aiding cattle drive at Bonham ranch
Bonham, Texas, August 25. Speaker Sam Rayburn fractured his left elbow when he fell while helping drive cattle on his ranch about 12 miles from Bonham. The elbow is in a cast. He rested at his farm home for a day then returned to the ranch today.
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Bonham
Tex
Sam Rayburn
Spanish exiled leader Aguirre arrives from New York
Jose Antonio Aguirre president of the Basque Nationalist party reached New York and met Jose Giral who is forming a Republican government in exile for Spain. Aguirre's arrival underscores exiled leadership amid Spain’s civil conflict. the meeting signals coordinated efforts toward a government in exile.
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New York
Mexico City
Jose Antonio Aguirre
Jose Giral
Spain
Atoll Surrenders as Pacific War Ends Mili Islet
Guam Aug 26 reports that Mili Atoll in the Marshals becomes the first Japanese held atoll in the Pacific to surrender unconditionally to the Americans. After talks begun Aug 19 between Capt H B Grow and Capt Manori Shiga, Japanese asked for terms modification. White cross on airstrip signaled surrender. 2,400 Japanese, 339 natives, 3 Japanese and 168 Koreans evacuated earlier. Occupation to begin next Tuesday with Lt Cmdr M E Brown witnessing.
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Guam
Mili
Marshals
Pacific
Sieht
Pacific Isles
Navy
H. B. Grow
Greenville
Mich
Masanori Shiga—durin
Nili
Crow
Mili Lagro
Mili Atoll
Cmdr
M. E Brown
Herington
Kan
Levy
American Corporal Meets Belgian Boyhood Friend in Brussels
Corporal James C. Richardson, an Army Air Force radio repairman overseas, visited Brussels for eight days to meet Jean Vandenborre, his letters-pent friend from junior high. The reunion followed Richardson's search for the old Brussels address and was hosted by the Vandenborre family, who were former educators. The meeting underscores enduring ties between wartime correspondents across the Atlantic.
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James C. Richardson
Brussels
Belgium
Europe
United States
Corporal Richardson
Army Air Force
Richardson
Vandenborre
U. S
Lawrence
Brussels Board of Education
Englash
Liverpool
England
187Th Infantry
D. J
Jimmy) Richardson
Barteldes
American Legion
German POWs killed in riot at Fort Leavenworth
Seven German prisoners of war, once part of wolf-pack submarine crews, died early today at Fort Leavenworth after a fatal assault described as a "traitor slaying" by a fellow prisoner. The incident occurred amid continued allegiances to Nazism among the inmates.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
UPI
Expect Building Will Start Soon Headlines War Era Price Pressures
Washington reports on renewed housing credit and wartime production. FHA ready to resume new-home mortgages on a postwar scale with banks backing loans, while prices face government and industry clash. Auto, tire and paper supply reforms loom as WPB and OPA attempt to ease shortages and true inflation fears.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
C.P.A
General Electric
G.E
Bridgeport
Conn
Automotive Council For War Production
W.P.B
Commerce Department
Government to Buy Wheat Under Loan at Full Parity
The Agriculture Department announced a program under the Commodity Credit Corporation allowing farmers to sell wheat loaned to the government next spring at 15 cents above loan value, not exceeding the ceiling price. The 1945 loan averages $1.88 per bushel, 90 percent of the July 1 parity price, applying to both farm stored and warehouse stored wheat with set purchase dates for unredeemed stocks.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
Lawrence Building and Loan Assoc insured investors at five thousand
Each investor is insured up to $5,000.00 here. In addition the rate of return offered is consistently at tractive-higher in most cases than that offered by other investments with comparable safety. The Law rence Building and Loan Associa tion. Phone 55, 800 Massachusetts Street.-Adv
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Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Massachusetts Street
Tourists Flood Canada To Eat Meat After Gas Rationing Lifts
Ottawa reports a surge of U S tourists crossing into Canada as gasoline rationing ends. Across the border Americans rush for meat, fishing, and scenery with motor traffic at border points reportedly up to four times prewar levels since August 15.
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Ottawa
Canada
Sunflower plant to lay off about 1000 workers
The Sunflower Ordnance Works will cut roughly 1,000 Hercules Powder employees during the week of August 27 due to a new five day forty hour schedule. Plant manager H. V. Chase said the reduction aims to preserve more jobs than a six day operation would have allowed, with most laid off having less than three months service.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Powder Company
Sunflower
H. V. Chase
790 Quit at Plant Sunflower Ord nance Works
Terminations at Sunflower Ord nance Works for the week ending yesterday totaled 790 people, mostly voluntary with some discharges. After the week the total employee roll reached 9,911. 496 men and 295 women terminated. Some were school teachers or left for military service.
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Sunflower
Carlson voices opposition to compulsory military training
Concordia Kansas August 25 Representative Carlson says his district opposes compulsory military training and hopes a plan could be worked out with schools. He cites opposition to wartime agencies shaping peacetime economy and notes lessons from Germany and Japan. He plans to defer decision until more veterans return home.
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Concordia
Kan
Carlson
Sixth Congressional District
Washington
Congress
Germany
Japan
Employment Office Seeks 275 Workers for Lawrence Employers
The U S Employment Service reports 275 positions with Lawrence firms. In the week ending yesterday 111 referrals were made: 41 women and 70 men. Fifty four employers said they had hired those referred. Office manager Harry R Barnard noted a surplus of women workers and urged employers to hire them promptly.
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Lawrence
U. S. Employment Service
Harry R. Barnard
Barnard
Troops Arrive in New York from Europe on Three Transport Vessels
Three transports carrying 4,630 American troops from Europe are due to land today in New York. The Georgetown Victory sails with 1,918 soldiers including part of the 326th glider regiment of the 13th airborne division. The Howard Kelly carries 747 men and the Aiken Victory 1,970 soldiers.
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New York
Europe
Georgetown Victory
326Th
13Th Airborne Division
Aiken
John M Martin Leaving Sunflower Plant for Wilmington Office
John M Martin, operating manager at Sunflower Ordnance Works, will report September 1 to Hercules headquarters in Wilmington Delaware to assume new duties in explosive sales. He is succeeded by David S Bruce as Sunflower’s new operating manager. Bruce previously served as smokeless superintendent after roles in Belvidere and other Hercules plants. The reshuffle also moves Harry V Chase to director of operations for Hercules Explosive Department in Wilmington, with F L Bod dicker stepping in at Sunflower. The article traces Martins career from Georgia Tech graduation in 1934 to service as engineer and plant superintendent at Ishpeming and Kenvil, then Sunflower since 1942, and outlines Bruces and Boddi ck ers backgrounds, noting the Martins family plans to visit Birmingham and Atlanta before relocation.
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John M. Martin
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Home Office
Wilmington
Del
Sunflower
F. L. Boddicker
Badger Ordnance Works
Baraboo
Wis
Martin
Hercules Organization
Georgia Tech
Hercules
United States
South America
Ishpeming
Michigan
Kenvil
N. J
Bruce
Belvidere
Portland
Ore
College of Pacific
Stockton
Cal
Bessemer
Ala
Mich
Renville
Radford
England
Iowa
Boddicker
Newhall
University of Iowa
Radford Ordnance Works
H. V. Chase
Olathe
University of Kansas
Atlanta
15 Fatal Accidents in Kansas After Gas Ration Lift
Topeka reports 15 fatal highway accidents since gasoline rationing ended, up from seven last year. Injuries total 33 versus 21 in 1944. State Highway Patrol head Claude R. McCamment attributes the rise to speed, thin tires, and worn cars, urging caution until new cars and tires are available.
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Topeka
Kansas
Claude R. McCamment
State Highway Patrol
McCamment
Bonner Springs man injured in Linwood truck accident
C W Brogdon 24 of Bonner Springs suffered severe forearm cuts and a severed tendon after pushing his arm through a truck window while napping in Linwood. He was transported to Memorial hospital where a physician operated to close the wound. he remains hospitalized for several days.
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C. W. Brogdon
Bonner Springs
Loring
Lawrence
Linwood
Houston Brogdon
Memorial Hospital
CREDIT OPTIONS OPEN FOR BRITAIN AFTER LEND LEASE END
Washington reports two U S credit avenues will aid Britain after lend lease ends. The export import bank is expanded to 38.5 billion dollars, and a proviso within the lend lease act allows Britain to pay for contracted goods over eighty years at 25 percent interest. Leo Crowley notes these as primary aids as Prime Minister Attlee warns of a serious financial position.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Congress
Leo Crowley
Attlee
Crowley
Truman
Hall Brothers to Open Lawrence Greeting Card Plant
Hall Brothers Inc of Kansas City began moving equipment into the Weaver building at 739 Massachusetts to open a Lawrence branch plant. Charles Stevenson expects remodeling to finish by August 30 with production of Christmas cards from the main plant and eventual nationwide shipping. Eighteen to eighty five year olds will be eligible applicants. interviews for more workers set for August 28. Mrs. Eudora Dimity will manage the plant, with two Lawrence women serving as supervisors.
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Hall Brothers, Inc
Kansas City
Weaver
Massachusetts Street
Charles S. Stevenson
Eudora Dimity
Lawrence
Eldridge
Virginia Stancliff
Mary Jane Farris
Chamber of Commerce
Betty Clover
Stevenson
Sunflower Ordnance Works
No Rain in This Area topeka Weather Update
Topeka forecast shows warm but not sultry conditions with highs near 90 to 95 and a cooling night around 62 to 68. Strong breezes keep the day from feeling heavy while eastern Kansas remains dry. Thunderstorms are expected in the northwestern part tonight and Sunday.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Concordia
Arkansas City
Coffeyville
Goodland
Hurricane alert calls Texans and Louisianans to precautions
The Gulf of Mexico hurricane with 90 mph winds was centered about 270 miles south southeast of Brownsville Texas. All interests along the Texas and Louisiana coasts were urged to take preliminary precautions and await further advisories as the weather bureau issued warnings.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Weather Bureau
Texas
Louisiana
Japanese surrender talks hampered by armed mercenaries
London dispatch reports Singapore radio stating Japanese forces halted operations at the naval base yet warn negotiations will be extremely difficult amid subversive conduct by armed mercenaries under British Army command.
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London
Singapore
Flowers of Distinction Cal Baligop Yeohida Flower Shop
Cal Baligop shows Flowers of Distinction at Yeohida Flower Shop presenting refined bouquets. The feature highlights design flair and local floral sourcing enhancing shop appeal.
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Yeohida Flower Shop
Horse Show And Fair Next Week in Lawrence Kansas
Lawrence prepares for the Fifteenth Annual 4 H and Vocational Agriculture Fair and the Second Annual Hilltop Riding Club Horse Show. The events run Tuesday and Wednesday August 28 and 29 at Haskell stadium with free admission. Firman Meyn reports 156 entries across 11 horse show classes and 75 percent from out of town. Highlights include a new 100 by 200 feet show ring, six top jumpers, 19 Palomino Bridle Path entries, and a $100 stock horse prize plus a silver trophy.
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Lawrence
Hilltop Riding Club
Haskell
Douglas County
Fritzeyn
Kansas
Meyn
Lawrence Merchants
Kansas City
Springfield
Red Bud
Joe Macky
Overland Park
Topeka
Fritz Hockaday
Peculiar
Community Chest
Deal Six
Glenn Johanning
Darrell Houk
Martha Demeritt
Mary
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