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Billboard Top 10 for the Week of September 1, 1945

#1 - “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” - Johnny Mercer, with the Pied Pipers
#2 - “Till the End of Time” - Perry Como
#3 - “Chopin’s Polonaise” - Carmen Cavallaro
#4 - “Gotta Be This Or That” - Benny Goodman
#5 – “If I Loved You” – Perry Como
#6 – “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” – Bing Crosby
#7 – “Tampico” – Stan Kenton, with June Christy
#8 – “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” – Tommy Dorsey, with the Sentimentalists
#9 – “Sentimental Journey” – Les Brown, with Doris Day
#10 – “I Wish I Knew” – Dick Haymes

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Allies Rush Plans – 2-3
Truman Will Proclaim V-J Day as Surrender Ceremonies Are Held – 3
Leading Up to the Formal Surrender of the Japanese to the Allies (photos) – 4-5
‘Hell Hole’ Found (Trumbull, Lawrence) – 6-7
List of Freed Prisoners – 6
Wainwright and MacArthur Hold Reunion in Yokohama – 7
Japanese Bitter in Defeat; Angered by Raids on Tokyo (Kluckhohn) – 8
Halsey Cites Peril of Leniency to Foe – 8-9
Japanese Asks Us for ‘Fair’ Regime – 9
Japanese Expect Tojo to Be Tried (Jones) – 9-10
World News Summarized – 10
Hong Kong Fliers Bomb Fleeing Foe – 11
Nazis Struck Poland Six Years Ago Today – 11
Marcus Garrison of Foe Gives Up – 12
Communiques – 12