Japs Make Peace Offer Omitted Roosevelt Comment
A distorted report notes Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt questioning the waste of estate living and hints at breaking up landed gentry for small holdings. It alleges her remarks sparked chatter about Hyde Park and English trends, misattributed with managerial criticism of luxury estates and New York life.
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King Peatures Syndicate
York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Tage
President Says War Continues in Pacific After Potsdam Broadcast
President Truman's cabinet met at the White House amid high alert as Allied officials weighed a reported Japanese surrender offer via the Domei agency. Washington pressed for official communication while war in the Pacific persisted, with Britain and Moscow weighing the claim and public celebrations already stirring in Okinawa and elsewhere.
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Washington
Truman
Pacific
Potsdam
White House
Byrnes
Domei
Japan
Attlee
London
Tokyo
Charles G. Ross
Associated Press
Hirohito
Domet
United States
Okinawa
Sweden
Switzerland
Moscow Radio
Russia
Adm
Shigenori Togo
Britain
China
U. S
Office of War Information
E. M. Zacharias
U.S
Domei Agency
Forrestal
Atlee
Moscow
Truman urges Japan to quit as atomic threat looms
President Truman warns Japan to surrender or face a planned atomic campaign aimed at crushing the nation city by city to shorten the war. He says civilians who ignore the warning may be killed and emphasizes safeguards to the weapon’s use while promising no future war. He spoke in a radio summary of the Berlin Big Three meeting and surrender efforts.
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Ashington
Tokyo
Truman
Tewman
Treman
Berlin
Japanese Planes Attack Kyushu Aerial Assault Report
Aug 8 Kyushu attack reports say Japanese fighters engaged a large escorted bomber fleet over Kyushu. All ten enemy aircraft were said shot down as U S planes damaged ships and targets. Pilots described Mustang escorts pursuing enemy formations with several planes going down.
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Okinawa
Ip Brung
Kyushu
Interor
USA
N. Y
Soviet Red Forces Launch Broad Invasion of Korea and Sakhalin
Soviet troops surged into Korea near Keiko and struck across Sakhalin as part of a multi pronged attack. Tokyo reported rapid advances in Manchuria and swift gains on Sakhalin with Russian forces pressing from east west and north. Allied air forces in China prepared to coordinate with the Red Army to meet the new front.
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Associated Press
Korea
Sakhalin
Karafuto
Tokyo Radio
Red Army
Manchuria
Russia
Japan
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Keiko
Sakhalin Island
Baika
Handa
FCC
China
Europe
George E. Stratemeyer
Chungking
U.S
Albert C. Wedemeyer
U. S
Moscow
Jin-Jin Sume
Outer Mongolia
Karefuto Sa
Hokkaido
Ussuri
Amur
London
BBC
Indi
Wilbur Smith Named L A U Dean in Medicine
Dr. Wilbur C. Smith athletic director and anatomy head at Tulane University is appointed dean of the L A U school of medicine effective September 1, succeeding Dr. B J Burns. Smith joined Tulane in 1916 and led the anatomy department since 1933, with prior posts at Bellevue and Wake Forest and education from University Medical College. He is a member of multiple medical and professional associations.
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Burns
New Bombing Reports Describe Nagasaki Strike
Guam August 10 reports say airmen two miles away witnessed Nagasaki bombing described as tremendous beyond belief. Okinawa fliers saw flames and explosions as the weapon proved most destructive. A plane 28 miles away saw a fiery ball rise and a smoke column climb high. General Spaatz called Nagasaki results good, though smoke obscured damage hours after the drop.
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Guam
Nagasaki
Associated Press
Richard Cushing
Okinawa
Spaatz
U. S. Army Strategic Air Forces
Tokyo Arsenal
Amagasaki
Osaka
Honshu
Radio Tokyo
Kyushu
Hiroshima
Louisiana Tuberculosis Hospitals Planned Across Four Cities
The advisory committee on tuberculosis will urge four 100 bed TB hospitals in Shreveport Monroe Alexandria and Lafayette under a 1942 bond plan. Final site approval rests with the U S public health service. The group also seeks funds to expand employee housing at Greenwell Springs.
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Baton Rouge
R. L. Pettit
State Institutions Department
Shreveport
Monroe
Alexandria
Lafayette
U. S. Public Health Service
New Orleans
Greenwell Springs
Pettit
Jimmie Davis
State Liquidation Board
Charles R. Gowen
Charlie Mitchell
Julius Lane Wilson
Chester A. Stewart
Myron A. Walker
O. B. Owens
J. R. Stanper
R. E. King
Winnsboro
Allied planes blast Honshu in major carrier strike
American and British carrier pilots destroyed or damaged 259 Nipponese aircraft and gliders on northern Honshu in a primary report from Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. Eleven enemy planes in a kamikaze attack were shot down. one suicide pilot hit a light fleet unit.
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Marclin Spencer
Guam
Japan
Honshu Island
Admiral Halsey
Third
Halsey
Misawa
Honshu
Matsushima
Kamaishi
Third Fleet
Fleet Air Wing One
Ryukyu Islands
United States Service
U. S
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japs to Move China Forces
A Chinese army spokesman reported Japan plans to move five Kwantung Army divisions back to Manchuria from North China. He cited 600,000 fresh Japanese troops plus 320,000 puppet troops, described as poorly equipped and likely to defect.
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Chungking
Manchuria
Kwantung Army
Hankow
Peiping
Yellow River
Luichow
Hainan Island
Canton
V J Day Plans Formed by Twin Cities Merchants
A Twin Cities merchants committee met in the Chamber of Commerce and unanimously agreed to observe V J Day only when the U S president officially announces an end to war with Japan. They will observe any holiday designated by the president, with no further plans made at this time.
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Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Twin Cities
United States
Japan
Japanese Surrender Offer Text Broadcast by Domei Agency
The Japanese government declares readiness to accept the Potsdam Declaration terms and seeks an early end to hostilities to spare mankind further suffering. It notes that prior mediation efforts failed and emphasizes preserving the emperor's prerogatives. The broadcast ends mid sentence with hope for explicit confirmation.
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Manchuria
Formosa
China
Korea
Malaya
Netherlands Fast Indies
Domei
United States
Associated Press
Japan
Russia
London
Foreign Office
Britain
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Domei Agency
Demarche
Potsdam
Frank Lynn Company Sold to Salley Grocer Company
Effective Monday August 13 the Frank Lynn Company wholesale grocers 2509 Gordon Avenue will pass into the ownership of the Salley Grocer Company of Bernice and Shreveport. The sale includes all realty and physical equipment. purchase price undisclosed but among Monroe’s largest in months. The Salley firm is a partnership of C T Salley and his two sons Jack and Van, expanding after Bernice 1924 and Shreveport 1942.
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Frank Lynn Company
Gordon Avenue
Salley Grocer Company
Bernice and
Shreveport
Monroe
R. &. Brookings
W. Frank
Power, Lights Off On Thursday At Monroe Plant
A major boiler shutdown at Monroe's municipal power plant led to electricity curtailment from 6 a.m. to shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday. City finance commissioner W D H Rodriguez cited repairs needed to avert a broader outage as the cause. The outage disrupted publication of the News-Star and Morning World for the period.
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Monroe
News-Star
Morning World
W. D. H. Rodriguez
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