24 Aug 1945
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
1
The article reports Japan preparing for occupation after formal surrender next week in Tokyo. It notes a typhoon disrupting communications in Tokyo, damages across the Kanto region, and Tokyo radio dispatches criticizing Allied reparations while seeking clarity on surrender instruments and postwar directives.
General MacArthur outlined an official timetable effective today with groundings of Japanese aircraft and ships in home waters, ships to abandon explosives, and POW camps marked for aid drops. He allowed limited use of marked unarmed planes and some ferries, while sending food to Marcus Island garrison and planning hospital-ship aid after surrender. Bougainville troops reportedly will not surrender until Tokyo Bay signing.
Within two kilometers of the blast center skin burned by ultra violet rays turned bright red and two hours later blisters formed causing dropsy. Those farther out received lesser burns while medical supplies rushed to aid victims as the death toll rose daily. An American broadcast warned Hiroshima could become uninhabitable for 75 years and sending scientists would be a personal crisis.
Reconversion efforts highlighted by 6605 miles of track in 14 states hinder swift postwar shift. White House draft aims to restore seized plants like Montgomery Ward papers, Toledo Peoria and Western RR, and Goodyear properties to owners. President Truman notes war powers linger and hostilities not officially ended, shaping taxes and employment protections for veterans and small businesses.
The Army canceled all contracts for soluble coffee and large quantities of dehydrated foods, canned cheese, and cigarette tobacco to avert losses. Secretary Anderson urged farmers to honor 1945 production schedules, while some foresee cuts in 1946 to manage surpluses rather than shortages.
Prime Minister Attlee denounces the ending of lend lease citing that stocks and deliveries must be paid cash or via credit. He warns the abrupt cessation after Japan is defeated unsettles overseas expenditures previously set at about eight billion dollars annually for nonmunitions and essential supplies. Churchill counters, insisting the US could still revise the stance to aid allies.
A gardener credited as Henry the Eighth introduced the first apricots to England in 1434. Later records claim apricots grew in Virginia by 1720.
Washington announces September 1 validation of five meat stamps Li Mi N Pi Qi worth ten points each totaling 50 points for four months September 1 to December 31. Sugar ration remains five pounds per person per four months with sugar stamp 38 replacing 36 after August 31.
Clarence S. Gardner Sr. of Hagerstown, freshly retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad, recalls how railroads evolved from coal heated passenger coaches to modern high speed locomotives. Starting at 14 as a messenger, he served through joint operations with Norfolk & Western and Cumberland Valley, later becoming freight representative from Mechanicsburg to Winchester. Gardner, born in Harrisburg, has ties to local Kiwanis and Masonic groups, and reflects on a career across two world wars.
Bowles outlined two OPA programs to aid new small businesses. One lets operators set price ceilings like similar firms, avoiding red tape. The other allows price increases for manufacturers losing money at normal output, to be absorbed by distributors. He stressed stabilizing policy to seed free enterprise and help veterans start ventures. OPA will suspend ceilings next week on several metals including mercury, aluminum, and magnesium products.
The U S postoffices at Williamsport Boonsboro and Smithsburg were made second class from third class due to increased business. Post offices with rising business can gain better classifications and hire additional staff where warranted. Hancock has long been a second class office.
Betty Jane Moore begins work as cashier at Acme Store in Hagers town. Mr and Mrs Evans Smith and son Buddy Austin Flock Klecra Earley and Dennis Steiner hosted Sunday at Hershey Park. Mrs Ameda Adams of Roanoke Va visits Mrs Etta Hamilton. Alice Marie Kayfauver of Waynesboro Pa visits parents. Miss Pauline Poffenberger returns from Columbia University New York. Pfc Fred Poffenberger is ar-
Arrivals lately include Mr and Mrs Dick Poffenberger at Antietam Station and Evans Poffenberg es Hakle s Cross Roads who visited Frederick with the Cullers family. Mrs Joe Neikirk Mrs Charles Bender and Mrs Alexander Poffenberger traveled to Washington to see Mrs Ronald Schroeder. Sir Robert Hamlett recently home from overseas visited Elgin Hammonds William Bergstrasser and J Edgar Remsburg in Waynesboro. Lois Moore skated and cut her chin requiring stitches last week.
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