Jap Generals Urged to Surrender or Face Firing Squad
Southeast Asia Command plans to accept local surrenders of Japanese commanders in Burma Thailand Malaya and the Indies with orders to hand over installations intact or face execution. Burma Thailand surrender at Rangoon with Malaya Indies at other agency sites as ships and transports assemble. About 800000 to 900000 Japanese remain in SEAC area.
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Guarded Guam From the Japs
Pfc. Fred Pierce guards the U S base on Guam protecting it from attack. He is 19 and has served about a year after prior work at Pantex. Pierce trained for Coast Artillery at Ft. Bliss and has lived in Amarillo with parents since leaving Clarendon School. Relatives include aunt Mrs. T E Perdue.
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Trails Runner To Destroy Command Post
Lt. George W. Adams, a Marine pilot, describes trailing a Japanese runner two miles and signaling artillery to destroy an enemy command post. He followed the messenger as the runner delivered messages and then watched the ruined headquarters after the post was blown up. The mission ended when the runner discarded his final message into the wreckage and walked away.
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Army height statistics show tall soldiers common
U. S. Army records indicate that over a quarter of American soldiers stand five feet ten inches or taller and about one in ten reach six feet or more.
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U. S. Army
Truman moves to smooth postwar harmony with labor and capital
President Truman seeks to promote postwar harmony between business and labor and plans a capital labor conference after Congress reassembles. He endorses a full employment bill now in Congress and says the War Labor Board will stay in effect as needed to maintain industrial peace. The passage notes past wartime shortages and cites 1941 auto accident figures.
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Truman
Congress
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Reflections on Lost Time and Missed Savings
A speaker recalls evenings with a spouse dreaming of starting a business or building a home. He laments age 51 and asks what he has to show for it, admitting wasted chances to save and wondering if he was wrong in 1945.
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