Chiang Kai-Shek vows end to one party rule in China
Chiang Kai-shek announces in Kuling a six point plan toward constitutional rule. He pledges to end one party government and hold the National Assembly, while demanding Communists honor the truce and withdraw from troubled areas. He calls for broad political inclusion and peaceful reconstruction.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuomintang
China
Japan
Chiang
John Leighton Stuart
George Marshall
Marshall
Suna Wml Te
Kuling
Stuart-Marshall
National Assembly
Political Consultative Council
Natonal Assembly
Political Consultative Conference
Producer's Wife Dies In Operating Room
Mrs. Bertha Todd 39 wife of New York producer Michael Todd died in Santa Monica Hospital under anesthesia for a severed hand tendon. Coroner's surgeon issued a pending certificate and tests will continue to determine cause of death as her husband faces divorce proceedings.
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Los Angeles
Bertha Todd
Michael Todd
New York
del Mar Reve Track
Victor Cefalu
Santa Monica
Stanley Zimmerman
Todd
Michael
Japan occupation enters a new phase a year after defeat
A year after Allied occupation of Japan began on August 28 1945 Japan under American tutelage shows surprising stability and a firm will to regain world status while facing massive economic and political challenges Inflation rises crime increases and food shortages test the new system Democracy evolves slowly with Japan taking responsibility for liberation under continued Allied oversight Communists and Soviet interest influence politics labor unions grow in power and the emperor remains a unifying symbol as a new constitution promises rights and renounces war
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Russell
Tokyo
Japan
Fim
al- Hed
Douglas MacArthur
Ragged Islands
Kijuro Shidehara
Shigeru Yoshida
MacArthur
House of Representatives
Japan ‘Commounist
Supreme Command
Allied Control Council For
George Richeson, Jr
United States
Tat
Jsuaneied
Viliey
Halieds
Four Power Council
Robert JL. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Arrests on City Charges In Five Man Docket
Mt Airy and Germantown men figure in six arrests on nine charges. Boodie and Thomsson faced multiple counts including operating without a license and indecent exposure. Martins, Duvall, and Duvall’s accomplice were cited for indecent exposure or being drunk in public. Several arrests carried small collateral amounts.
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Mt. Airy
Germantown
Jackson T.boodie
Mt Airy
Archie Thomsson
Boodie
Simmons
Boodle
Phillips
Thompson
Mikel Siliumisci le Cada
John Mikalov
Fredericksburg
Herbert L. Duvall
Damascus
Six
Hoffman
Enola Martin
Middletown
Umit
Om- Cers
Equity Suit Seeks Absolute Divorce for Stitely Couple
The court records a bill of complaint in the equity case Evelyn Mae Stitely versus Charles William Stitely seeking an absolute divorce. The docket also lists marriage licenses for Carlton W. Ridgley and Mildred Myers, and Robert E. Brown Jr. with Esther Mae Hardy, plus property transfers by Travers W. Fout to Scott S. Pettingall and by Martin L. Cordell to E. S. Baker, with various counties and sums.
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Evelyn Mae Stitely
Charles William Stitely
Carlton W. Ridgley
Mt. Airy
Mildred
Myers
Frederick
Robert E. Brown, Jr
Knoxville
Esther Mae Hardy
Brunswick
Lewis A. Baumgardeer
Helen Mac Kreh
North Bentz Street
Travers W. Fout
Scott S. Pettingall
Martin L. Cordell
E. S. Baker
Wheat loan rate rises by three cents a bushel
College Park Aug 13 The Wheat loan rate by the Commodity Credit Corporation rose three cents bringing the Baltimore Philadelphia base to 1.74 per bushel for No 2 red winter wheat. The total rise above 1845 loan price is 11 cents. Blandford notes producers with completed 1946 loans would receive the 3 cent increase if the wheat is delivered to satisfy the loan.
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College Park
Commodity Credit Corporation
Joseph Blandford
Baltimoreland
Philadelphia
Blandford
CCC
World unrest after wartime hopes spark global turmoil
The map shows major upheavals across 22 months of peace as rioting and insurgencies erupt in India, Burma, Manchuria, French Indochina, the Netherlands East Indies, South America, Poland, Russia, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria-Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq with new governments, border disputes, and nationalist clashes fueling a turbulent postwar era.
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Pacific
India
Burma
Ence
Manchuria
Indo-China
Netherlands
TnGi
Shawade
France
South America
Venezuela
Bolivia
Argentina
Poland
Italy
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Greece
Egypt
Palestine
Syria-Lebanon
Iran
Iraq
Nails sales at War Assets Office tied to Fields scheme
Witnesses testified that the War Assets Administration Philadelphia office sold hundreds of nails to promoter Benjamin Fields without proper certification. A senior official denied favoritism, linking his dismissal to politics while others noted gifts from Fields and hotel charges. Also mentioned are parade prize wins by the Ladies' Auxiliary to Hereford Hose Company No. 1.
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Washington
House
War Assets Administration
Philadelphia
Benjamin Fields
Lucian Sneed
William J. Gilrein
Gilgein
Field
Fields
Pennsylvania
Senator Myers
D-Pa
Gilrein
Joseph Dellert
Surplus Property Office
Gim Myers
Joseph Muldowney
Muldowney
Sneed
Glenn Dies
Shoreham
Hugh Wise, Jr
Benjamin F. Fields and
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Independent Hose Company
Hereford
Draft To Call 185000 In Next Seven Months
Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul said barring a recruiting surge the Army expects to draft 185000 draftees over seven months. September quota is 25000. next monthly calls undecided after March 31. Army net strength July 1 stood 1715000, with 185000 above authorized, much of which comes from 135000 fathers to be released by September.
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Washington
Willard S. Paul
Paul
General Staff
United States
School lunches rise in Allegany County schools
Allegany County will raise luncheons for pupils from three to five cents. Superintendent Charles L. Kopp cited higher food costs and a thinner federal subsidy as reasons. Last year elementary lunches were 12 and 15 cents in high schools.
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Cumberland
Allegany County
Charles L. Kopp
Kopp
Frederick banker A Grant Hooper named to bank board
A. Grant Hooper, prominent Frederick merchant and County Commissioner, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank to replace the late William O. Kolb. Hooper qualified on Tuesday.
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A. Grant Hooper
Frederick
Frederick County
The
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
William O. Kolb
Hooper
City to discuss Frederick taxicab problem at meeting
City officials invite a large citizen delegation to a meeting with the Mayor and Aldermen to decide taxi policy in Frederick. They will consider reserving the 190 block of Patrick Street for cabs, alternatives if spaces are discontinued, and broader regulation under the 1943 act. Public input is sought from cab operators and local business interests.
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Frederick
Chamber of Commerce
Maryland Automobile Club
Patrick Street
West Patrick Street
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Gist
Carroll County
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Bailey
James J. Martizaid
Ernest Dorsey
Joseph Parr
John Wood
Westminster
Street
REICH
Virgil van Street
War Department
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Maryland
Bernard J. Flynn
Germany
Empire
Hagerstown
Charles W. Stump
Stump
State Highway Commission
Federal Bureau of Roads
Orphans’ Court
John L. Routjzabin
Samuel DB. Bussard
Peter EL
Sigidau
D. Sayler Weybright
Ida M. Dal
Calvin
Lohr
Samuel B. Bennett
Oldsmobile
Ford
Packard
Studebaker
Chevrolet
Hillside Motor Co
Patrick St
S. Water
Court News
Mary C. Fuss
Isone A. Hall
Moalwin
William Alderton
Asia
Australia
Braddock Heights Pavilion
Clark Sheetenhelm
the Social and Economic Research Foundation
Social and Economic Research Foundation, Inc
S. BR. PF
F.rf
West Patrick St
Paul L. Romsburg
Helene. Rubenstein
Allen
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Barbara Fritchie Motor CO
Boy's & Girls
South Market
Western Maryland Trust CO
Frederick Auto
Frederick, MD
Ena
Fali
Sol
Hendrickson
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