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white-coated Jap f1unkey when he
stood at attention with his mill
tary and naval delegates before
Gen. Macarthur.
Documents to Be Flown Here.
The official signed and sealed un-
conditional surrender documents
will be delivered in person to Presi-
dent Truman by special courier
armed with highest air priority. He
is Mai Thomas A. Mesereau OF New
Jersey, 23-year-old West Pointer
heading the honor guard Gen. Mac
Arthur selected on the basis of COM
bat records Incidentally the cour-
ier, in addition to historic papers
has been loaded down with personal
messages from soldiers and sail
ors here to wives, sweethearts and
families in the Washington area.
The 45,000-ton flagship of Admiral
Halsey became the flagship of Ad-
miral Nimitz when he was piped
over the side at $40 as his five-star
flag was hoisted aloft. She was
sponsored by Margaret Truman. at
the Brooklyn launching January,
1914, at which President Truman
gave the dedicatory address.
With her long, graceful, gum
bristling bow pointed toward the
capital whose shores she had
pounded so often, the Missouri rode
as steadily on the calm bay as if in
concrete. Her 16-inch guns, 5-inch
rifles and ack-ack batteries had
wrought havoc among Kamikaze
planes, ships and shore installations
from Two. Jima to Okinawa and the
east coast of Japan. On her star
board beam lay her sister ship the
Iowa, while, to port the South
Dakota and the King George v rode
at anchor inside screen of fighting
ships of all types posted around the
misty horizon.
Gen. Macarthur, Admiral mint.
and their aides were dressed ir
field suntans and khakis, with tie.
less shirts open at the throat, while
British naval officers came aboare
in white shorts and blouses. Tit
banks of khaki and white uniform.
along the decks mounting II storie!
were sprinkled with Russian nava
blues and varicolored belts and hat
bands of many nations.
The BIOS, whose awful weigh
had been impressed along the dim
f1re-ravaged shore in the back
ground, were on constant patro
throughout the historic ceremony
An overcast of some 5000 feet OBJ
scured the sky. Perfect Kamikaz.
weather" remarked an officer whs
had seen Jap suicide pilot crash
on the MiSSouri's decks last April
Among some $50 correspondents
radio and camera men ferried ou
to the Missouri after daylight today
in the famed destroyer Taylor wer,
several japanese journalists ane
photographers who covered tn,
event for the native press. At leas
two of the characters wore shaver
pates, horn-rimmed spectacles ans
bucktoothed grins. Their reportin,
OF 1t. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright
surrender on Bataan was still re-
membered.
Batteries of cameras were focuse,
on the center of world news as tn
foreign minister limped toward Gen
Macarthur in front of his part,
lined up at stiff attention.
First Pen for Wainwright.
When Gen. Macarthur signed TO
the United Nations he turned fror
his seated position and handed tn
first pen to Gen. Wainwright, her
of the Yankee surrender of Ma,
1912, and the second to It. Ger
Sir Arthur Percival, who was cap
tured with his troops at the fall ,
Singapore and was liberated 500
after the Japs' surrender. Ger
Wainwrfght's scanned and weather
beaten face was grim as he stoo
tall and unrelenting before the sma
beaten Japs who had given hir