The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-14

 San Franciscos Market street sport ing colonel's cap. A sailor climbed to @ theater marquee and tossed the letters from the sign onto the crowd below. Celebrators piled war bond booths in the middle of the street and turned them into bon- fires. The crowd estimated at per- haps 50,0O0 persons broke into liquor stores and overturned automobiles.
 San Francisco, who took V-E Day in their stride, cut loose with all the revelry they had stored up. Street car service on the main street was discontinued because of the crowds! A group of soldiers and sailors conn., mandeered truck and rolled 1t over. They ripped of the tires and pulled out the wires. A blonde danced in her bare feet, and police and shore patrolmen stood quietly aside and watched the fun.
 New York, the nations biggest city, took the good news more calmly. Crowds gathered slowly in Times Square.
 5000 Jam Times Sq.
 By g 8. m. police estimated that 50,000 packed the sidewalks between 42nd and 18th streets along Broad way, not much above normal as Times Square crowds go.
 Traffic still passed through the square and hundreds rode in auto mobiles decorated with paper streamers and flags. A score of trucks filled with children, some of them with cymbals and horns, wound in and out of the area.
 A steady stream of paper and confetti showered the streets. A group of boys hung an effigy of Hi- rohito. Soldiers and sailors with their girls yelled at the moving news sign on the New York Times building:
 Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up."
 The celebration was held in check only by the fear-as one soldier put it-''There might still be a gimmick in it.''
 At Washington 8 small crowd gathered before 4 a. m. in Lafayette Park across from the White House.
 Workers Sober
 At Detroit, the nations biggest war production center, workers gen. erally received the news quietly ua- til office workers began showing up in the downtown section. Then 8 band played in front of the city hall and people danced in the streets.
 Chicago received the news cau- tiously. There was some celebrating but sudden rain sent most per- sons home. Police said there prob- ably were more people in the churches than in the bars within the first couple of hours after the Jap radio flash.
 At Philadelphia, crowds poured into the business section and the bigger stores began boarding up their windows.
 By a. m. big crowd had gath cred around the Indiana soldiers and sailors monument at Indianap- oils. A crowd of ycSug people in- cluding several sailors and soldiers went swimming fully clothed in the fountain pool.
 The first fatality was reported at Denver. There a soldier fell out a third story window of a hotel where a celebration party was in progress.
 The newspaper publisher at Rolla, Mo, found out how to sell extras while people are asleep. He equipped every newsboy with whistle.
 At St. Louis a crowd of about 150 persons swarmed around a Catholic church. By banging on pans, ringing bells and blowing whistles they fi- nally persuaded the pastor to open the church for services at 2 a. m.
 Memphis reported that every thing there was perfectly normal" except an ordinance against blow ing of automobile horns was sus- pended temporarily.
 Tn Mexico city the champagne was on the house at Ciros night club.