Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Allied occupation troops would begin airborne landings at Atsugi airfield the following Sunday, August 26, and two Allied fleets would begin landing troops on August 28 in the area of Yokosuka after entering Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay, weather permitting. The report came from the Japanese Government via Domei. Japanese troops were to be withdrawn immediately from the landing areas.

General MacArthur would sign the surrender terms on behalf of the Allies, and Admiral Nimitz, on behalf of the United States.

The Japanese issued a non-fraternization order with respect to the landing troops.

Four of General Doolittle's fliers from the Tokyo raid of April 18, 1942 from the carrier Hornet had been rescued from their internment in Peiping by a humanitarian team of paratroopers. The names were not yet released. One of the men suffered from a severe case of beri-beri.

There had as yet been no indication from the "Tiger of Malaya", General Tomoyuki Yamashita, from his hideout in northern Luzon, as to whether he would abide by the surrender terms. Small groups of Japanese in the area continued to fight.

A report states that the atomic bomb had "probably" been used for the last time in World War II, that the landing forces would not risk carrying atomic bombs to cover the landing troops. The atomic bomb, it states, was made to be used against whole cities, not small groups of hotheads. As the Americans were as determined as the Japanese to make the peace work, they would not use the bomb to wipe out thousands of civilians and risk rekindling the war.

We feel certain that the landing troops were as relieved as the Japanese to have that report fully clarified by whoever wrote this report, the Compleat Reporter.

Renewal of the unlimited ability to engage in installment purchases would soon be allowed. The practice had been limited by government regulation since the fall of 1941, a measure to stem inflation. Installment purchases had to be paid off in twelve months with one-third down on certain items, and 20 percent down on other items. Eighteen months had been allowed on materials and services for repairs and construction.

In the trial in Oslo of accused traitor Vidkun Quisling, the judge sharply demanded of the defendant that he answer "yes" or "no" to whether he had been asked by Admiral Erich Raeder to betray Norway. After some prodding, he finally sheepishly responded that he had not. A captured German document introduced by the prosecution showed that Quisling had met with the German Admiralty in mid-December, 1939 and provided them with information on the Norwegian coast prior to the April, 1940 invasion. The documents also revealed that Quisling and his party had been paid $40,000 prior to the invasion. He denied, however, any knowledge of these payments, to which the judge quipped that perhaps the Germans had mistaken his identity.

The Government released 210 wartime controls on industry, leaving 125 in place, soon to be removed. The items affected included radios, refrigerators, metal furniture, photographic film, storage batteries, electric fans, shipping containers, trucks, motorcycles, and caskets. You could not have the penultimate item, after all, without the latter.

The Agriculture Department, according to correspondent James Marlow, urged consumers to conserve sugar as it would not be increased from the present rate of 73 pounds per person per year until "way past Christmas", in other words, sometime after the yearly knockers would come looking for their sugar and sugar plum fairies.

Prior to the war, each American consumed 100 pounds annually. It would likely not be until the second half of 1946 before sugar would rebound to normal levels of availability. Actual total sugar consumption before the war was 6.8 million tons, compared to 6.2 million tons presently, and the Army took from that latter total 1.1 million tons. Only a half million tons of sugar was produced annually within the United States.

There would for some time still be far less sugar produced than before the war. The Japanese had not maintained the sugar fields of the Philippines. France's sugar production had also not been maintained because of lack of labor and deteriorating machinery during the war. Cuba had suffered its worst drought in 87 years, severely curtailing its crop.

It might take longer than half an hour to locate the sugar.

On the editorial page, "The Undefeated" comments on the failure thus far of the Japanese to grasp the full meaning of Unconditional Surrender, griping about Allied landings in the Kuriles, protesting the landings of the paratroopers who had freed General Wainwright and other prisoners of war.

It was to be assumed that the occupation would be so onerous that, eventually, Japan would be forced to realize the situation and eliminate its feudal militarism so ingrained from its past, and cease any attempts to wage war into the future.

"A Protest" comments on 34 religious and educational leaders who had appealed to the President to end production of the atom bomb and harness its technology for peaceful purposes. They had expressed the fear on the minds of everyone, that the next war would occur by surprise with the dropping of such a device without warning.

"In Transition" addresses a question about which the editors had not concerned themselves previously, from a female acquaintance: "What about us chicks? What're we going to do when the men get back?"

The women of the country had been getting by with the men left stateside and the competition for male company had been fierce. The technique would have to change as no longer could the women simply throw themselves at the men. The men from the war had been transplants from other parts of the country and would be returning to their homes. The women would be left again with the local men, who had been with girls of other parts, too.

"And what are the wartime wallflowers going to do?" These women would be rusty, having sat out the war, in light of the scarce supply of available men. The inquirer wished to know what the Government was going to do to help.

The editors confess a lack of an answer, but believed that, somehow, human nature would take care of the problem.

And how.

The atom bomb was not the only thing which went "Boom" at the end of the war.

"50 Cents Down" predicts that the suggestion posed by the influential London Economist, that Britain be excused from half its war debt of sixteen billion dollars and be allowed to pay the rest by putting half of it down and the balance on an I.O.U. basis, was likely to strike Americans as unduly burdensome to the public coffers. Lend-Lease had been liberally provided during the war, but it was unlikely that Americans would tolerate continued refinancing of the debt.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Representative Everett Dirksen of Illinois informing his colleagues that he believed that the personnel of the Office of War Information were not overpaid as some members had asserted.

Substituting this date for Drew Pearson is the new Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson, to become within a year the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the retirement of Harlan Stone.

Marquis Childs discusses the President's press conference in which he had shared with reporters the decision-making which had gone into the determination to use the atomic bomb. The final decision, of course, had been his, in consultation with the Joint Chiefs. The President had been reluctant to use the bomb but believed that it would save American lives by ending the war without the necessity of invasion of the Japanese homeland, and so, in the end, felt compelled to do so.

Dorothy Thompson relates of her village experience at her farm a week earlier at the announcement of the peace. The streets had, the next day, become suddenly empty and silent. There was the curious pause at work wherein people wondered what to do next. The first instinct was to return to normalcy as quickly as possible, as if the war had not been.

"They are as new wine that can explode the old bottles. The previous form is broken. The Known has metamorphized. The coming age is the Unknown—and we are already in it."

But it was, she posits, the Unknown which characterized the American legend, the source of American ballads, from Plymouth Rock to the opening of the West.

"It is our 'Moral Equivalent for War'—the facing, and filling, of an emptiness."

The emptiness in earlier days was visible and could be filled with "heroism of brawn and brawl". The present Unknown was, unlike the frontier of old, full of people, varied interests, and tradition. The problem was how much could be carried into the present Unknown.

Harry Golden, writing of the fifth of his eight selected famous trials, tells of the case against the New York City police lieutenant, Charles Becker, accused of orchestrating the murder of a major gambler and club operator, Herman Rosenthal. At the time, District Attorney Charles Whitman had inaugurated a campaign against vice and gambling.

Lt. Becker had been a silent partner in Rosenthal's operations, allowing them to thrive. Rosenthal agreed to talk to the District Attorney, to provide names of those supplying protection. He was to meet with the D.A. on July 17, 1912, but was gunned down that morning at 2:00 a.m., at the doorway to a coffee shop on Broadway in a drive-by gangland-style shooting. A license number, however, had been taken down by a bystander.

Lt. Becker promised Mr. Whitman to track down the killers.

The car was traced to an underworld figure, Baldy Jack Rose. Rose had been a stool pigeon for Becker, thus arousing the suspicion of Mr. Whitman that Becker might be involved. Under intense interrogation, Rose informed that Becker had become aware of Rosenthal's appointment with Whitman and decided to have him killed to silence him. Rose had rounded up five other gunmen and a car and then accomplished the shooting.

After the arrest of all of the gunmen, the trial began, including that of Becker. The prosecutor presented the testimony of Rose and Vallon, another of the confessed murderers, plus dozens of people who confirmed that Becker had supplied protection for the gambling rackets. Becker was also shown to have wealth beyond his salary as a policeman.

The city was divided on the case, some believing Becker was guilty and others thinking that Whitman was prosecuting him to obtain political power and run for Governor.

Becker and four of the gunmen were convicted, all five sentenced to death and executed. Rose and Vallon had been provided immunity for their testimony.

Mr. Whitman became Governor, to be defeated two years later by Al Smith, ending his chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920.

Mr. Golden remarks that all of the principals had since died except for one of the two State's witnesses, Vallon, who had fired the fatal shots at Rosenthal.