02 Sep 1945
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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1945
Page
1
The speaker notes Nazi leaders receive the same rations as POWs with heavy labor and claims this leniency is to prepare them for trial. He dismisses the inmates as the poorest of the supermen and ridicules their fitness, mentioning Rudolph Hess as also to be treated alike on arrival from Britain.
In Slaton on Sept 1 special report, W H Jones becomes acting superintendent of the Slaton division with HQ at Slaton. J N Landreth returns to trainmaster on the New Mexico division with HQ at Las Vegas. J H Rapier returns to Amarillo for other duties while L M Olson remains temporarily in Chicago as railroad vice president.
London dispatch reports major powers agreed Spain should remove occupying forces from Tangier at once to restore the city to its former international status. Madrid was expected to accept the Allied decision.
HAL BOYLE notes that American forces meeting Japanese staff near Yokosuka include ten reporters from Tokyo papers and Domei, among them Masaru Fujimoto class of 1939 University of California. Fujimoto says his loyalty lies with Japan and that Tokyo observes orderly surrender while awaiting the occupation.
The report notes Gov. Ben Laney promised to send 100-pound melons to each of the 47 other governors. Hempstead county, famous for a 195-pound world champion melon in 1935, sent the first four melons weighing 103 pounds each to the governors, with 43 more en route. Separately Fujimoto downplays a broader suicide wave after the surrender, citing perhaps a dozen suicides at the imperial palace.
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