800 fleet planes rip Tokyo area
Airfields, sub base rocketed, strafed; landings predicted
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Pending peace –
MacArthur’s men continue to fight
Air, ground forces push assaults
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35,000 to lose jobs here after V-J Day
Area faces no major conversion problem
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U.S. to end more war contracts
Wholesale action due on V-J Day
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UP offers $5,000 reward for clue to peace fake
Case reported to two federal agencies; false flash sets off celebrations
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Pope Pius plans ‘peace’ broadcast
PARIS, France (UP) – Radio Paris today quoted a Vatican City dispatch as saying that Pope Pius XII “will shortly express the feelings with which the Church welcomes the cessation of hostilities” in a broadcast message.
The broadcast added: “The end of the war in the Far East will dissipate the anguish felt in the Vatican at the launching of the atomic bomb.”
Perkins: AFL blasts lack of plans for conversion
Cutbacks to hit Detroit, Chicago hard
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Tokyo says –
Soviet troops make landing on Sakhalin
Invasion reported near Jap homeland
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Chiang moves to ‘deflate’ Communists
‘Civil war in China’ fears dissipated
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Hopes raised for ‘living dead’ –
Yanks held in Jap jails look forward to liberation
Plans already completed for return of internees under surrender terms
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Abdication of Emperor being hinted
Hirohito may give throne to son
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Sun begins to rise on son of son of the Rising Sun
Little Akihito may ride the white horse
By Frank Aston, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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‘Rats’ to crack, Halsey asserts
Admiral expects ‘one more job’
By Richard W. Johnston, United Press staff writer
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Simms: World security depends on free press everywhere
All nations must know what others are doing or live in constant fear of destruction
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Ike says Reds want U.S. friendship
General is hailed on Moscow visit
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