Japanese emissaries briefed for Yokosuka landings
Two hours before arriving Sagami Bay the Missouri took aboard Japanese emissaries led by Cent Yoshihiko Takasaki and Capt Inaho Otami. They received mine sweeping progress updates and were instructed on surrender terms including demilitarization and withdrawal of personnel by 4 am Wednesday.
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Uraga Strait
Sagami Bay
Missouri
Yoshihiko Takasaki
Yokosuka
Inaho Otami
Tokyo
AL Naval
Sirbasa
Nicholas
Five Men Arrested in Smithsburg Fight Disorde rly Conduct Charge
Five men identified by Deputy Bruce Spickler as Thomas Kline John Barkdoll Richard Kline Charles Besore and Roland Robertson were arrested Saturday night in Smithsburg on dis orderly conduct charges after an alleged town fight. The report also notes sailing ships are classified by their rig, the combination of spars gales and cordage.
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Smithsburg
Bruce Spickler
Thomas Kline
John Barkdoll
Richard Kline
Charles Besore
Roland Robertson
Increase Ordered For Troy Drivers
The Third Regional War Labor Board ordered a retroactive eight dollar weekly wage rise to April 10, 1944, for 16 commission drivers at Troy Laundrys Company amid a dispute with Amalgamated Clothing Workers Local 464. Overtime now applies after 48 hours for men and 46 for women.
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Third Regional War Labor Board
Troy Laundrs Company
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
CLO
Hurricane Menaces Texas Tops Corpus Christi City
The storm battered Texas with winds near 110 mph at the center and 100 mph in Corpus Christi causing power outages and early cleanup. Officials reported no deaths or accidents in Corpus Christi though unofficial damage estimates approach 100000 dollars. Communications delays hampered damage reports from other areas as high tides and heavy seas persisted.
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Corpus Christi
L. C. Smith
McAuliffe
Corpus Christi Bay
Street Cars Run In Nagasaki City
Lt Col Clay Tice Jr and Flight Officer Douglas Hall reported street cars operating in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing flattened much of the city. The Fifth Air Force pilots made forced landings on Kyushu, becoming the first Americans on Japanese home soil since hostilities ceased. Tice saw Nagasaki from 1500 to 2000 feet and said the city looked like a bombed ruin.
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Okinawa
Clay Tice, Jr
Phoenix
Ariz
Nagasaki
Tice
Douglas G. Hall
Anamosa
Iowa
Fifth Air Force
Kyushu
Four youths held for series of crimes
Deputy Clever Reynolds led a Saturday arrest sweep targeting four youths linked to a horse death a Hopewell filling station burglary and a car theft. Poole and Rodgers confessed involvement in the auto theft, horse killing and burglary, naming Henson Bowers and others. Hearings set in city court tomorrow.
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Wank Henson
West Franklin Street
William Poolle
Marvin Rodgers
George Street
William Bowers
Bloom’s Alley
Clever Reynolds
Rodgers
Poole
Greencastle Pike
Hopewell
William E. Stout
Washington Avenue
Reynolds
W. H. Horn
Hugetts
Hagerstown
Western Pike
Hopewell Fillhad
Alexander Street
Henson
Cearfoss
Farms Increasing in Eight South Atlantic States and DC
The 1945 census shows about 40 000 more farms and over 4 600 000 more acres in the region since 1940. Across 432 of 5798 counties, gains appear in the area while the nation overall shows a slight farm decline. The South Atlantic States and DC accounted in 1939 for over one ninth of the nation’s 7.8 billion dollars in farm products.
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South Atlantic
District of Columbia
Bureau of Census
Department of Commerce
Pacific Coast
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
North
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Bureau
Nine-in-one tomato exhibited by local gardener Sapole
John Sapole of 111 North Mulberry Street shows a tomato grown in his garden formed by nine smaller tomatoes linked together. The unusual fruit draws curiosity from neighbors and local observers.
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John Sapole
North Mulberry Street
State’s indebtedness cut by two million in month
Baltimore August 26 The states banded indebtedness dropped by 2 035 000 during the current month Governor O Connor was advised by the Comptroller s office The total state indebtedness is now 22 959 000 the lowest figure in 20 years
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Baltimore
O'Conor
Comptroller's Office
Crewmen recall long B 24 mission to Batavia Java in 1945
The crew led by Captain Royal A Putnam recalls a June 3 4 1945 B 24 Liberator mission to Batavia Java the longest flown by the unit. Lt Frank Harpa navigator Bombardier Tom Fox and others narrate encounters with searchlights antiaircraft fire and engine trouble while discussing memories of the harbor run and cattle and boats fleeing as they approached.
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Royal A. Putnam
San Antonio
Tex
Putnam
Scerabaja
Java
Frank 8. Harpa
New York City
Tom Fox
Oshkosh
Wis
Ross Hanchelt
Everett
Wash
Tony Mele
Erie
Tokyo
Batavia
Glen Cooper
Gary
Ind
Celebes
Sgt. Cain
Johnny McConnell
Bowers
Ross Hanchett
After 35 Missions Laughter Returns for Vet Pilot
A veteran pilot recalls the thrill of missions and the banter after action as he laughs about a bank crash without gunfire and a staged Japanese headquarters strike at Tandjoeng Borneo.
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Tandjoeng
Borneo
Bill Bowers
Braden Named Assistant Secretary of State for Latin Affairs
Braden, newly appointed ambassador to Argentina, becomes assistant secretary of state in charge of Latin American affairs under President Truman. A native of Elkhorn Indiana, he succeeds Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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Spruille Braden
Argentina
Truman
Braden
Elkhorn
Ind
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Jobless Problem Spurs Action (Continued from Page 10)
The article notes persistent unemployment in spring and cites the CED report urging proactive government action. It discusses selectively extending public employment services and keeping the work week at 40 hours to spread jobs, plus reconversion plans under OWI and price controls affecting durable goods and the consumer. It also covers a police search for escapee Joseph Davis, 34.
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House Military Committee
C. BE. D
Ralph E. Flanders
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
C.E.D
OWI
Truman
Bilmer Davis’ Agency
State Department
Chester Bowles
Russia Will Back Chiang and Joint Manchurian Railways
Russia pledges backing Chiang Kai-shek and plans joint use of Port Arthur as a port and naval base with China. Russia and China would operate the Chinese Eastern and Southern Manchuria railways as a commercial enterprise, with Outer Mongolia’s independence recognized if a plebiscite favors it.
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China
Port Arthur
Russia
Manchuria
Outer Mongolia
Lingiang Province
Mongolia
Tibet
Changchun
Port Arthur Defended by Soviet Navy Under Treaty
Japan will use the railroad to move Russian troops. Port Arthur, seized by Japan from Russia in a bloody siege during the Russo Japanese war forty years ago, will be defended by the Soviet Navy under treaty terms, while civil administration of the port remains in Chinese hands.
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Japan
Port Arthur
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