Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                May and false surrender Flash gave nation while her pop runs the nation houses Short lived the pattern of the typical american Margaret daughter of the president and Harry sips a Coke Between classes at George Washington Washington where she i a with miss Truman is miss Anne Dabney daughter of and nation May take Over All Coal mines out Washington new govern ment mine seizures Are expected this week As the walkout of hard Coal miners and thousands of soft Coal workers slashes deeply into the War fuel Supply for the second time this negotiations on the wage con tract which expired monday at Midnight Are deadlocked and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes has asserted that he is As solid fuels to take Over All Coal both Anthracite and Anthracite operations Are re ported to be completely halted in Pennsylvania with tons of hard Coal already lost hard Coal miners had by an overwhelming to strike if their contract demands were not when the contract expired monday the miners left their disregarding the War labor boards order to continue until a new agree ment is a similar situation arose one month ago when the soft Coal wage contract expired during a negotiations deadlock Between Coal operators and the who had previously voted to strike if their demands were not the strike was not soft Coal strikes Are now reported in Western Ohio and West Vir final government approval has been placed on the new Compromise wage contract which gives bituminous miners a pay increase of 81 cents per Detroit strikes work stoppages which had affected Over employees ended this week when production was resumed in nine Detroit War plants producing aircraft weapons and parts for army new a few hours last saturday the United states believed that Germany had quit from the Atlantic to the the Sweet Antici pation of Victory was newspaper extras hit the streets with screaming people laughed and radio networks whistles and horns Bla Church Ells pealed and people celebrations were touched off from times Square to it of this the nation had returned to the was settling but it was still talking about the few hours of Jub Ilance caused by the false report of Ger Many the premature be Day was touched off by an associated press Story which quoted an american Delegate at the san Francisco revealed to be Tom Connally of chair Man of the Senate foreign relations committee and Vic chairman of our delegation at the Story reported that i Mahler had offered unconditional sur Render with no strings attached i and added that the official announcement of Germany sur Render could be expected moment conference rejoiced it is ironical that an Impromptu Celebration was immediately begun among the United nations Dele Gates at the conference presiding Over the soviet foreign commissar Molotov made an Effort to restore order but delegates streamed breaking up the in newsmen rushed to the White House on the basis some men returned to work of the a report and presidential at the Kelsey Hayes wheel com Secretary Steve Early told them Carrier roosevelt9 slides Down ways uss Franklin a giant aircraft car Rier of the was launched sunday at the Brooklyn Navy Eleanor Roose velt was present and she spoke before the ship was christened by John wife of Deputy com Mander of the Pacific originally designated As the Coral sea in commemoration of the the Navy reassigned its name As Franklin Roosevelt in Honor of the late Ernie Pyle honoured the maritime commission has announced that it will name one of its largest ships for Ernie who was killed on be Shima on april the Pyle will be a military Type cargo 522 feet Long with a cruising the a new Cruiser Bear ins the name of one lost in the rattle of the was Laun Ched Lasi in their strike was a protest against the dismissal of 13 fellow workers who were accused by the management of ejecting two fore men from one of the to Packard plants returned men who had walked out following a dispute Over the amount of work each shift should about men returned to work at general Short lived strike of 191 machinists at United engineering ship repair Yards ended when the Navy seized plants by decree of president a note of domesticity crept into this weeks the depart ment of labor has suggested that unions provide maternity leave of up to a year for the nations women workers to prevent their dismissal for circus aerialist fall a Ringling and Bailey Cir Cus performance last Mem Bers of a High acrobatic act plunged into the Center five girls were two of them officials stated that one or More girls apparently became faint and in losing their balance sent the ladders and performers eight girls and two together into the sawdust 40 feet the show went that if a proclamation were the president would read it on the but at reporters were re assembled and president in a dramatic press stated i was Over As you can doing a Little i had a Call from san Francisco and the state department called i got in touch with Admiral Leahy the presidents personal chief of staff and had him Call our Headquarters icbms mandarin chief Eisenhower in Europe and there is no foundation for the that is All i have to upon learning of the Connally revealed himself As the perpetrator and reiterated that Flynn fists Fly the wee hours of sunday Errol Flynn and army major John son of Walter became enga ged in another film capital As the cause and outcome not big three triplets healthy triplets were born this week to a 40yearold Josephine and the four of them Are doing the triplets two boys and a were promptly named Franklin Roosevelt Wal Joseph Stalin Walker and Winnie Churchill wheel of Fortune tie expects Germany to surrender shortly after the presidents soviet foreign commis Sar Molotov and British foreign Secretary Anthony Eden conferred with of state Edward Nius in san Stettinius denied having any connection with the false peace the directness of president tru mans denial was Aero recited by the nation which by Midnight had turned off radios and gone to but the happenings of the few previous hours fully indicated what a real be Day would be Little scepticism for the most were a mixture of jubilation and tears of with very Little Many of the nations newspapers greeted the first re port with extras or snowballed the Story with scare Heads into regular some newspapers treated the Story Gin scheduled radio broadcasts were repeatedly interrupted with Here Are some of the reactions in representative cities in new Yorks times cheers went up from thousands of persons crowded onto sidewalks As pieces of stripper paper fluttered Down from office Many movie Heaters screened special Victory it was reminiscent of the 1918 armistice at Carnegie where Fred Waring was conducting a Waring suddenly grabbed the microphone and announced Ger Many has surrendered unc ondi we Are now waiting for president Truman to go on the radio and make the official an the orchestra immediately struck up god bless at Jack Dempsey Broadway the manager stopped the orchestra while the news was everybody the of Irons kissed each other and Shook hands and practically everybody in the place drank a Toast in Honor of the ticker tape and carnival spi Rit in new York vanished when it became obvious that the War in Europe was still in full women and servicemen wept unashamedly As president Truman made it Clear that the reports were without thousands of persons trooped in dejection from times Square where they had rushed to celebrate the excitement on the Loop in celebrations were surprisingly with Loop District crowds excited but not i in servicemen sailors were ordered Back to their units but allowed to return after the official which echoed from loud speakers of the major stores along state the Tribune and times appeared on the streets with these respective headlines Germany gives up and Germany in Sari the chronicle and Cal bulletin proclaimed1 the surrender Story Zis says read the chronicles bulletins headline was Inch White letters red a Frisco newsreel theater heralded the report with Germany quits across its marqtle6 but quickly changed it to gels Many in Heaters emptied their audiences into the liquor stores and closed and Church congregations gathered for As the journal and Constitution surrender editions were rushed on the at the1 Paramount a minister was called to the stage to Lead the audience in Independence persisted the presidents whistles blew for 20 minutes after mayor Roger Sermon gave the stored immediately closed and most of the Community flocked when Linville of won a Bulky trinket from a buddy during a card game in Cal he Little realised its he tossed into his Barracks bag when he arrived in san Francisco on his Way discovered it to be a priceless tibetan prayer the jewels alone of which Are Worth in this corny Tom hold the prayer wheel and a gurkha Primus or even after the presidents in liquor stores and taverns closed while the Jour Nal and Star published an extra bantering the surrender report from Sah Francisco As Germany in a bulldog edition of the world Herald hit the Street shortly before 8 Oclock and carried the following three deck headline Germany sur High no strings attached in there were no major most persons patently decided to Watt and the extra etl with surrender while the first edition headlines of the spoke Man review stated Germany gives no strings in in los mayor Fletcher Bowron issued a statement asking civilians to conform to the be Day code of which was to keep War production there were no newspaper Boston was Ducep Tomti in most people refused to believe the report police were alerted but no extra maps or spa were sent on Telephone companies reported a 50 increase in Calls Between 8 and in the nations is it True was the question on nearly every lip of persons in throngs gathered along the mile Long route from the White House Pennsylvania Avenue to Ca Pital Many had newspaper extras stuck under their everybody was awaiting presidents its too bad president Roose velt didst Long enough to make this announcement if it is really said a in Nashville and Houston there were no undue be this was also the Case throughout new Jersey and con adulation Browns of yank Ace Manila fresh from the Over crowded skies of Europe from which he downed 21 Jerry Walker Mahurin of fort finds the vastness of Pacific skies a Little on the lonely in we had armies in the said the out i feel As though had the air to the combat Pilot is Happy to have another an other War and a bran new Jap plane to his major Mahurin was shot Down Over Europe and he escaped via the during a Brief stay in Shangrila before shinning out to he developed an enthusiastic antagonism toward the hero worshippers who beset him observations of the homing hero on the fawning Home in tickled to get Back into i dont like that hero stuff at its too people who never looked at me before the War invited me to after the they wont know me i was flunked out of yet when i came Home from rope with 21 nazis to my somebody wrote Mother that i was the most Brilliant student the school Ever i got fed As Long As the War i want to