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Never Say Live. In Santa Ana, Calif., Albertina Merriman, 72, shot herself three times with a pistol, turned on the gas, sliced herself with a razor, finally succeeded with a shotgun...
...interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever...
...seen the Stars & Stripes pulled down in the Pacific went on to see it raised over the home islands of Japan. At Yokohama's New Grand Hotel he was embraced by his old commander, sat down to dinner served by bowing Japanese. There was a pistol at his hip. To U.S. correspondents on Japanese soil Skinny Wainwright said: "It's good to be back a free man and an American soldier wearing a gun again...
...Chiang Kai-shek's grandson received a present from Joseph Stalin. It was a jolly gesture of good will from the man who had just decided to back grandfather against the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL). The present: a pistol...
Flyers welcomed news of additional emergency landing fields. Two platoons of Negro troops landed on six pinpoint islands between Saipan and Iwo, and took them at the cost of a single pistol shot. Back from a visit to the Marianas, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold announced that Superforts would soon operate from Okinawa, cutting over 1,000 miles from their round trip to Japan...