First Alien Army Parades Through Blasted Capital
General MacArthur enters Tokyo with First Cavalry Division to raise the U S flag over the embassy marking Allied occupation. The parade through central Tokyo unfolds as guards, veterans, and officials witness the symbol of victory amid rebuilt streets and destroyed districts.
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First Alien Army
MacArthur
Philippines
Tokyo
First Cavalry
United States
Rome
Berlin
First Cavalry Division
Custer
Little Big Horn
Emperor’s Palace
Robert L. Eicchelberger
Eighth Army
Honshu
White House
Washington, D. C
Bataan
North Honshu
Washington
Japan
Imperial Hotel
Hibiya Park
Amarillo
Hirohito
Diet
Japanese Prison Camp Atrocities Documented For Postwar Prosecution
Singapore reports liberated prisoners of war compiling exhaustive dossiers on alleged Japanese cruelties at Lime Road internment camp and Changi jail. The record details beatings, water and burnings, shock treatments, and executions, noting 12 deaths from illness and one execution among 57 segregated for two years.
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Singapore
Lime Road
Changi
Malaya
Tominaga
Koby
Airliner Crash Kills 22 in Florida Swamp
An Eastern Air Lines jet searching for a forced landing crashed in a dense swamp near Florence Florida. All 22 occupants are feared dead as rescue workers, Army planes, and a Navy blimp battled flames and thick vegetation to reach the wreckage. A 12 year old boy discovered the scene hours after the crash.
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Florence
Eastern Air Lines
Navy
Hicks Harwell
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook and Five Day Forecast
Weather bulletin from Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy conditions in Amarillo and West Texas with isolated thundershowers Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures yesterday ranged from the mid 60s to mid 80s with highs in the 80s and lows in the 40s to mid 60s. The five day outlook calls for high 80s afternoons and high 50s nights with light precipitation mainly Saturday and Sunday and a slight rise by Wednesday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
Pecos Valley
West
Texas
Surrender Papers Presented to Truman in White House Ceremony
The Japanese surrender papers signed aboard the Missouri were presented to President Truman by Secretary Stimson. Also handed over were Emperor Hirohito's rescript and the credentials of the two Japanese signatories.
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Washington
Missouri
Truman
War Stimson
White House
Hirohito
Texas Prisoners Of War Freed in Asia Are Listed
Five Texans back from Jap prison camps arrived at the Oakland California airport yesterday. From Calcutta and Singapore more than 100 liberated prisoners were listed, with many from Lubbock Amarillo Plainview and other Texas towns. Names include Hartland Thornton Rogers Drake Lee Williamson Cellum Ray King Morris Moss Lamb Webb Weiss Steeddard Reed Spann Stone Bailey Bumpass Wright Harris and others.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Cal
Singapore
Pacific
Calcutta
Texas
Hartland C. Thornton
Hale Center
John E. Rogers
Long
Amarillo
Henry C. Drake
Lubbock
John W. Lee, Jr
Abernathy
Earl Weiss
Quincy St
Plainview
Gordon V. Steeddard
Sdn
5Th Interceptor Command
Pic
Raymond D. Reed
Filmore
Burster H. Spann
Preston E. Stone
Jack W. Bailey
Kress
Jesse F. Bumpass
Huddleston
Ww. Wright
25Th St. Lubbock
Claude R. Harris
Memphis
Quisling Defends Dictatorship in Oslo Court
Vidkun Quisling defended his puppet regime saying treason would require more traitors like him. He boasted Hitler favored him and warned that Norway may need more traitors for its sake. The seven judge panel would hand down a verdict after Sept. 12.
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Oslo
Vidkun Quisling
Hitler
Europe
Quisling
Norway
Russia
Nazi Princesses Sweep Streets In German Town
Alexandra and Mar guerita von Waldeck daughters of SS general Prince Joseph von Waldeck help sweep streets in Arolsen as part of a military education program for 137 wives and relatives of SS men. Captain Chadwick says the effort teaches democracy with no favoritism. The girls, ardent Nazis, still live at the family castle with their 80 year old grandfather Prince Frederick.
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Arolsen
Germany
Alexandra
Marguerita
Prince Joseph von Waldeck
Winfield S. Chadwick
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Prince Frederick
Renewal pledge bids ignored as 111000 idle across nation
The Associated Press reports 111000 workers idle nationwide highest in months as AFL President Green rejects Truman’s request for continuation of the no strike pledge. A labor conference set for late Oct or early Nov to limit stoppages. Detroit area hit hardest with 45000 idle and Ford halting production in eight cities affecting over 30000 workers. Kelsey Hayes strike centers on rehiring three minor officials, with 4500 CIO UAW workers involved. Additional Detroit strikes push total idle.
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Associated Press
AFL
William Green
Japan
Washington
Green
Truman
Labor
Schwellenbach
Commerce Wallace
Europe
Detroit Automobile
Motor
Kelsey- Hayes Wheel Company
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Detroit
Kelsey-Hayes
CIO
United Automobile
Hudson Motor Car Company
Four Carriers Sent Against Pearl Harbor
Yokohama dispatch quotes Rear Adm Yoshitane Takata saying Japan used four aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor. He calls the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in 1943 the war’s greatest shock and notes the Okinawa campaign signaled Japan’s loss. He credits air power as the decisive factor in Japan’s defeat.
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Yokohama
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Yoshitane Takata
Takata
Bismarck Sea
Okinawa
Yakata
Barney M. Giles
U.S. Strategic Air Force
Paul B. Wurtsmith
13Th Air Force
U. S
Dope Fiend Goering Cured By Sodamint Sleep Trick
London dispatch reports doctors declared Hermann Goering cured of his drug habit after a single sodamint sedative caused him to fall asleep immediately. The incident occurred last week and was described as proof of his rehabilitation.
Evacuations Accelerate As Allied Forces Free Prisoners
About 9,000 liberated prisoners reached Yokohama for treatment and transport home by ship or plane. At Manila HQ at least 1,000 atrocity cases are prepared for war crime trials, with several thousand Japanese slated. Evacuations proceed across Honshu with 5,000 Allied prisoners moved from Kobe Osaka Kyoto camps and 5,800 freed from Nagoya Hamamatsu Nigata areas.
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Yokohama
Manila
Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto
Honshu
U. S. Third Fleet
Nagoya
Hamamatsu
Nigata
Senadi
Sendai
British Intensity Search for Hitler and Bormann on Yacht
British security police probe a six week rumor Hitler and Martin Bormann may be in the area. They traced a mahogany luxury yacht from Hamburg to Glueckstadt and found it departed in early May carrying two radio transmitters. Despite weeks of searching the Schleswig-Holstein coast, no sightings. Bormann was listed by the Allied War Crimes Commission among the first 24 Nuernberg defendants.
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Hamburg
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Martin Bormann
Elbe
Glueckstadt
Schleswig-Holstein
Bormann
Navy Maintains Flight Training for young graduates
The Navy will continue its flight training program for 17 and 18 year old high school graduates or students in their last semester. Applicants must be unmarried and agree to remain single until commissioned. They will receive three to four semesters of college training before flight school.
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Dallas
The
Navy
New Red Tanks Steal Show at Berlin's V-J Parade
Berlin reports a grand Allied victory parade featuring over 50 65-ton Soviet tanks leading a display of allied force. Marshal Zhukov praised a future just peace while saluting U S Britain Soviet France and China. US units included the 504th 505th and 325th Parachute and Glider regiments.
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Berlin
Georgi K. Zhukov
Zhukov
George S. Paton, Jr
Umn
Reichstag
504Th Parachute
Anzio
Normandy
505Th Parachute
325Th
France
Britain
5Th Royal Horse Artillery
11Th Hussars
1St
Royal Tank Regiment
U. S
16Th Cavalry Group
Zhu
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Asia
Arkansas Peach and Peaches
Arkansas
Frances Wilson
Powers
Tion
Kisarazu
Tokyo Bay
Marianas
Kobe
Hong Kong
Mukden
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Manchuria
Pormosa
Charlottenburger Chaussee
Far East
United States of America
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
French Republic
Patton
Kov
Vistula
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