20 Jap ships sunk near foe’s homeland – Superfortresses hit Kyushu
Navy bombers attack straits near Korea – B-29s smash at suicide plane bases
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Captured B-29 fliers beaten and starved by Japanese
Airmen liberated at Rangoon tell how Yanks were put in ‘special treatment group’
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La Guardia shuns fourth term race
Office should be rotated, he says
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Rehabilitation Week will begin June 2
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U.S. faces job in holding men on war work
Yet millions must shift positions
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Home front shortages to continue
Lone bright spot is gas increase
By Earl Richert, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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In Washington –
GOP to attack Hannegan’s background
To drag Pendergast issue into fight
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Republican blocks Roosevelt medal
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Victory-happy crowds throng streets of London
LONDON, England (UP) – Victory-happy crowds thronged central London streets today in anticipation of an announcement from Prime Minister Churchill that the war in Europe was over.
More than 200 persons crowded into Downing Street – which is barely quarter of a block long – watching the stream of political and military celebrities going in and out of No. 10, the Prime Minister’s residence.
Mr. Churchill was expected to make the announcement from the cabinet room in No. 10. Later he might address the crowds in Whitehall from the balcony of the Ministry of Health Building, where microphones were set up.
Street salesmen did a rushing business selling flags to crowds in Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.
In the middle of Whitehall, the Cenotaph memorial to the dead of World War I was covered with flags. A big horseshoe wreath of red and white flowers leaning against the monument bore the inscription, “Gratitude from Denmark.”
But as a reminder of what lies ahead, a sign painter was at work in front of the Ministry of Labor painting in huge yellow letters on a black background, “War Against Japan.”
Four million slain in camp, Reds charge
Himmler called director of murders
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Atrocities called exception to rule
Reports questioned by Republican
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Tiny food packets cheer liberated Norwegians
Dachau Germans indifferent to smells of dead political captives, but shudder at Nazi bodies
By Walker Stone, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Australians near Tarakan oilfields
Island’s airfield in Allied hands
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Japs demanding break with Reich
By the United Press
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