Americans play it safe –
U.S. waits official word; rest of world celebrates
But the delay isn’t so bad after having sweated out Pearl Harbor, Bataan, D-Days
By Joseph L. Myler, United Press staff writer
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Crash of trains takes 34 lives
50 others hurt, 15 seriously
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Travel crisis will continue
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SOUTHWEST PACIFIC WAR CONTINUES WITHOUT LETUP
147 vessels destroyed by Allied planes
Japs report Borneo counterattack
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Jap people kept in dark on surrender
Propagandists try to cushion shock
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Simms: Jap Emperor was reared a mamma’s boy
Way to use Nip ‘god’ for peace described
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Tokyo ‘disturbances’ reported by radio
CHUNGKING, China (UP) – A Tokyo broadcast heard here last night said “disturbances” occurred in the Jap capital when the first broadcast of the surrender proposal was made.
No such broadcast was reported by any other source.
The broadcast said the “disturbances” were suppressed. It gave no further details.
The report purported to explain an interruption in the original broadcast of the surrender proposal.
15,000 happy Yanks arrive in New York on liner Elizabeth
Eighth Air Force comprise majority; five other transports also dock
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Europe after the war –
Planes speed Yank soldiers back to U.S.
‘One man a minute’ leaving Casablanca
By Henry Ward
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G.I.’s dream gal an angel
She can cook, she’s beautiful!
By Patricia Clary
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Go kill yourself, Yamashita urged
Jap general asked to spare his men
By Ralph Teatsorth, United Press staff writer
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Millett: Adjustments of home life are post-war problems
Employed wives of servicemen have plenty to think about
By Ruth Millett
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