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v , , , . : , - .. : I Id) J (J p. jjj ! " m a Ma m k k k v B - k m m m mi . i fc. .. m w m fc . t a m mm a ' -k. m. ' -mw m an . K v - Jap Sty MagagisiCdi 'i i i Uncounted Thousands of Japs Perished Under Hiroshima Bomb, Reconnaissance GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 9 atomic bomb, most destructive was droDDed on strstefirieallv imnortsiil Nssrasaki on western Kyushu island at noon today. - - Crew members radioed General Spaatz said additional until the mission returns. Spaatz communique reporting the bombing did not say whether only one or more than one '4mis:hty atom" was OlP Russia has dropped the second bomb oh Japan in t week. Of the two, ' the. US, atomic bomb and the Russian declaration of war, the latter may be the one most quickly understood by the mass of the Japanese people. For the Japanese government by ritdd control of channels of communica tion can prevent full comprehen sion o the destruciveness of the new 1q "from reachinf the peo ple. The descriptive - leaflets dropped by Americans will gener ally be regarded as enemy propa canda. But for years Japan has lived in mortal fear of Russia. There are memories of the victory in 1904-5 over czarist Russia, but they 'know that soviet Russia is a different power. There was a trial o"f strength on the borders of Mon golia in 1938 in which the Rus sian armies badly worsted the Jap anese. Since then the Japs have t treated Russia with the greatest consideration. j Although a member of the axis Janan carefully refrained from declaring war on Russia, Ger many's foe. Instead' she let steady convoys go through bearing war materials from the United State to Vladivostok although they knew the cargoes would be used against their ally. Being so deep ly involved with China, Japan did ; not dare invite war with Russia. The neutrality treaty was signed between the two powers, which ; (More on editorial page) Chinese Take Jap-Held Isle CHUNGKING, Aug. 8-W-Chin sa troops have captured a Japa nese-held island off China's east coast west of Formosa and have ' launched a drive in the Chinese rice bowl" region designed to ; split Tokyo's transcontinental cor ridor to Hongkong, the high com mand reported tonight. Veteran Chinese forces also punched out new gains toward two former American air bases In the Chinese interior, a communique 'announced.'-' " Animzl Crcchcrs By WARREN GOODRICH ?Qh, Ceorje, f heVrt limply Photos Reveal (AP)Th world's scond explosive Inyented by man. that results were sood, but j details would not be disclosed dropped. The first atomic bomb destroy ed more than 68 per cent 4.1 radio Tokyo reported "practically every living thing there was an nihilated. 1 i M Nagasaki, although only two- thirds as large as Hiroshima in population, is considered more im portant industrially, with a popu lation now estimated at 255,000, its 12 square miles are jam-pack- ed with eave to eave buildings which won it the name "sea of roofs." The city also included Indus trial suburbs of Inase and Akun- oura on the western side of the harbor and UrakamL The com bined area is nearly double Hiro shima's. GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 9 Japanese perished by uncounted thousands from the searing, crush ing atomic blast that annihilated 80 per cent of the 343.000 popu latfon of Hiroshima Monday, pho tographic and other evidence in dicated today. ' Tokyo radio, which said that practically all living things, hu iSrSS man and animal, were seared to death," reported that SSt . JST-SSbT. to check the total casualties. Photographs showed that not even stout concrete structures in the heart of the city, presumed to have been air raid shelters. escaped. The structures still stood but all their lnsides were appar ently burned out General Spaatz announced from V. 1 - I. J I ters here that 60 per cent of Hiro- shima had been "completely de-1 stroyed." To Celebrate RICHLAND, Aug. 8-(P)-Rich- land's 15,000 resident, have been pretty quiet all week in spite of the stir made by the atomic energy bomb thev have been manufartiir. mg, but they decided today to go all out with a Labor dav bration. "Wer'e going to have a cele- Oration that will mn .Wt , loud as the bomb that hit Hiro- f5 Ves shima,- said Paul Nissen, teKijffllJ or the communitrs weeiciy news u7-'- a. k - - J . , to the world how happy we are." BRIDGES PASSES TEST SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 -UP) Denying he was ever a commun 1st, Harry Bridges passed his pre - liminary U. S. citizenship test be- lore naturalization Examiner I H. Garner today. Lehman Proposes Doubling Money to Be Spent in jEuropg ' LONDON, Aug. t-(ff)-Told by Director Herbert L. Lehman that unless it makes good this winter the "name of the United Nations will be a mockery in Europe, the TJNRRA's council set to work to night to exact an additional $1, 816,908,150 from con trlbutlng member nations to- finance -1948 operations. ; . The amount ' sought .roughly would double the present pledged quotas of the 43 member nations. Lehman, in an address accom panying a voluminous report on the program of operations, gravely told conference delegates that UNRRA's funds would be nearly I exhausted at the end of 1943, TtfL ii am $i tin i Generals n 1 J : I ! ' ! ! A ni sir Mdreiam Defense Witnesses Claini Marshal Helped RAF Intelligence PARIS, Atig. 8 -P)f Defense asserted , today ' that Marshal Henri Phillipe Petaln ap proved a secret anti-nad reorgan ization of the French j air I force after , the ! Franco-German armis tice! and set.: up a special secret fund for French agents: to supply the RAF with information about the jluftwaffe. As the former Viefcr Chiefs! treason trial went through its 15th day, members of tie 24-man Jury i said they j had received threatening letters. : The streets of Paris were littered with leaf lets attacking witnesses who had testified against the old , soldier. Four generals, one admiral and an engineer appeared before the court today to testify op Petain's behalf and fill in details of Pe- Vichy state, fall of wiich they said were aimed ! at Alleviating French suffering,' he: in the allies and frustrating German efforts to win France's jcollabora- tinn Group Favors Island Gntrol SAN DIEGO, Calit, Aug. Full ; post-war control by the United Stttes of all Pacific islands it nqw occupies will be recom- menaea xo congress oyjine nouse navat aiiairs suocommiiiee wnicn has Just returned from la month's T I Ml . a4 vi .', - I (D-Calif)i committee ichairman, said today. Izac said the committee was of the unanimous opinion! that the united sutes not only should also ail islands which fcefore the war naa Deen controuea Dy the ngush and French. Russian Lend-Le4se i . j H Loading to Continue i " ! - I '- V , P0TLA?ID Au- MP-Load; Ing ;of lend-lease cargd by iRus- sian! ships trill icontihue there jWimoui , toierrapuon, p eo r ge roweu, assisiio; raouq COW Oh to wnethfr , shJps ( willfcontinue taking the ! north sPacific route, wt,tv 1M nnn J - il has moved during three years. 8SUM MAY SAVE CUUJ erum man san r ran Cisco which may save ; the me ; or ; i9-months- 1 old Riokoi Ogawa j was flown to the Tulelake segregation center to - day by a plane from the Klamath I naval air station. t i i - 'i 1 1 when , it ' expected to be In the midst of Pone ot the igrimmest He warnea tne unuea iNauons xney musn mase gooa quiauy on their current pledges and dig down deeper to meet next year's needs in Europe and- , the Far East. - The director , generars report highlighted the second day of UNRRA's third lntemauooal ' ses- sion. : During the day (Sir Girja Shankar Bajpal, agent general for India in the United Stites,fWas elected chairman of the congress, and Denmark ? was adinitted to I full-fledged membershii In the! UNPJIA council. 1 i Factual Report Given by Nippon Of Russian War SAN FKAN CISCO, Aar. 8 UPi Japaif s first recorded wireless reactipa to Rossia's war decla ration was a brief factual an nouncement f that action by the Dmel agency la aa Eng lish language transmission ; te Europe. j ; The Dome! account, bread- east hours and BS minutes after the 'Moscow announce ment, reported: 1! Flash! Tokyo, Aug. '$ Tass News agency announe- ed late last night that Ferelgn Commissor Vyacheslar nolo-, 9Y , KUinillMIIICttCtt MP MUULV Sato, I Japanese ambassador to Russia, that the soviet union will Consider itself in a state of war with Japan from Thurs day, Aug. 9, according to the Moscow radU recorded here this morning." owers Pact to Begiti i 1 1 D LONDON, Aug. 8 -()- The four I ; S A . A. . greai; western powers xoaaj iisij. I J i L A l.Llf.U 11 Tj"!" sousa ma invexan- mass 1 'trials of Germany's . war criminals to demonstrate that ag gression leads "to the prisoner's I dock t rather than the way to honors.? . The legally-unprecedented doc ument established the tribunal's Seat In I Berlin, but provided spe cifically that the first major trial one; expected to bring more than 1 23 nasi chieftains together m th lame dock shall be held m Nyerrfc ottered citadel of jAj'g giory. i Thri will .nn1 fr th triMunAi mnA Hfn9nt . ; nanmU will not h 11nwA in I r.n .n Hfncc imi! tv sweeping master plan signed by the ited States, Brittain, Bus- Ufa an France. Work on Atomic Bomb Calif, Aug. 18 -m JaDanese chvsicistx from tne Uni versity 1 of Tokyo spent months working with University of Cali- lorma scienusxs at the notation laboratory, which harbors I the ramea cyuotron, primary unit In development of the theory of the ttomic bomb. Dr. Ernest O. Lawr- oEei pnze winning pnysicist, wc uwMj. : , war hai been one of the govern- ment's toast closely guarded se- n-att; r f Fire Blamed V gging Company 1 1 COO BAY, Aug. 8 - VP) - The Lyons Irwin Logging com nany t ay brought suit in Co- 1 quille t court charging the Coos Ixging company with responsibility for a forest fire. plaintiff asked $248,400 It was believed the first of its kind in Oregon and Irwin company as serted aa the complaint that the J . J.Ll- a . i ueienunmj operaiea -aonxev en- sines iri their own operations the f: and had not uou to uevuK xires. 1 1 r est Forlonshs I : B N. D- Aug. 8-W I Russia' eclaratlon of war I against Japan today prompted Sen. Iton.B. Young (R.-N. D.) to ask the war department to grant furloughs to soldiers for the harvest sseason. In. a (telegram to Secretary of War Stfinson, Young said, ; "Since Russia's! -active participation-' in war is assured, it would no longer seem 'necessary to maintain the I present huge army. Tnals -The" li damages. legai case courts. I Lyons Harr Nimitz Welcomes Aid; Moscow Hails Army; 1 Chungking Sees End GUAM, Thursday, Aug. 9.-ffVThe United SUtes Pacific fleet will give full assistance to the Russian effort against Japan, Admiral Nimitz said today in welcoming a powerful partneTr" fA 11 ' ", - , . , ' .- T ' r- . mw war. r MOSCOW, Aug. 8 -(AP) Long columns of singing red army men tramped through the cheering: heart of Moscow tonight, 45. minutes after the soviet radio an nounced to the people of Russia that the nation would be at war with Japan at one second after midnight to speed "universal peace. CHUNGKING, Thursday, Aug. 9,-VPhAn early finish of the war with Japan, already expected in Chungking with use of the atomic bomb, now is regarded here as even closer with Russia's declaration of war. MANILA, Thursday, Aug. 9 (AP) With Russia's declaration of war on Japan, it is expected that prompt steps will be taken to set up liaison between (ho red army and General Mac Arthur's headquarters. MANILA, Thursday, Aug. from Korea to Malaya and the damaged 23 ships and 36 small General MacArthur reported. NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (AP) The soviet domestic radio said last night in a special broadcast that the Japa nese "more than once tried to violate our bdrders," but "our troops defended the far eastern borders of our land."- -! ! ) ' ' n ; ' GUAM, Thursday, Aug. returned to its terrific carrier homeland today, attacking shipping, 'air installations and other military targets on the northern part of Honshu island at dawn. (Additional details on page 2). ADAK, Aleutians, i Aug. 8 (AP) Russia's entrance into1 the war was welcomed today by Vice Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of the North Pacific forces, as a factor that would bring; a quicker conclusion to the conflict in the Pacific. - ! GUAM, Thursday, Aug. which dropped more than 2300 bombs on four major targets' almost around the clock blasting of ! Japan's war machine achieved excellent results. Atomic Bomb After-Effects Rumor Killed WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-(ff) Fears that deadly after-effects of the new atomic bomb might lin ger for years were calmed today by , the man in the best position to know, : ! i -. ! The war department Quoted Dr. J. R. Oppenhelmer, head of this phase of atomic leesarch, in deny ing published reports that blasted- out areas might continue to emit killing radioactive rays for years. Dr. Harold Jacobson of Colum bia university, one of those who participated in the atomic re search, had expressed the opinion that' rays from the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima might per sist for 70 years. Portland 'Mayor to Prepare V-J Plans i PORTLAND, Aug. 9-iPy-lSajox Earl RUey. tonight ordered Police Chief Harry M. Niles , to. call a conference of all auxiliary police organizations to prepare: plans to keep V-J day celebrations under control. ... ' ' - - RUey said he had no desire to "repress the exuberance of the people , . '. but wanted to assure that life and security of public and private property are safeguarded. He said he would ask an churches to be open for prayer and that other civic programs similar to V-X, day would be sponsored. Washington Fird Noted LONG VEEW, Aug. -VA for est fire, the extent of which could not be learned here was being battled tonight by civilian log ging crews and 200 soldiers on the Cowlitz-Lewis county line north west of Ryderwood. It was on Long Bell Lumber Co. property. 9. - Cff) - In more than 400 sorties Indies, allied planes sank or craft Sunday night, and Monday, (Additional details on page 2. fi.-KAdmiral Halsey'a Third fleet plane devastation of the Japanese 9A&hA total of 402 Superforts tons of incendiary and demolition yesterday and early today in an U Kiirile Volcano Said Erupting ADAK, Aleutians, Aug. 8 (V- Long dormant Chikura Dake vol cano on Paramushiro in Japan's Kurile v islands ; was reported by army:; and navy pilots today to be erupting 20,000 feet in the air. The mile-high peak Is three miles; from Kakumbatsu airfield on Paramushiro and within IS miles of two other airfields, but the pilots did not disclose whether lava was rolling ' down on any of the enemy installs tions.' 'it There are two other volcanoes on the , island,! one of which active.'' ADAIR HOUSINQ APPROVED , li ' ' ' ,- r - ... , MONMOUTH, Aug. -Con struction of 23 dwellings costing up to $7000 at Camp Adair by pri vate, owners on an H-2 priority basis, was approved today by the national housing agency. Big FcAease Planl for Keesiablishment of Austria ' WASHINGTON, Aug. -tfV A plan for re-establishing Austria as an independent nation, separat ed forever from Germany, was set forth today, by the Big Three and France.--: -t . i; EstabHshment, "as soon si pos sible, of a central Austrian ad ministrative machine and ultimate independence - under a , "freely elected government were listed as primary aims in a joint state ment issued here by the state de partment " ' " " ' Meanwhile, Austria and its cap ital city of Vienna are to be split into f four military occupation zones, r controlled by the United States, Britain, Russia and France. The provisional government of Tilla Roars On 1 -lightning JJiaZeS otOPPed; oiiaS la rUre Kampaging PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. B-fP)- Foresters .reported tonight most of Oregon's j widely scattered lightning-set fires .had: , been snuffed out but patrols were still struggling with the big Tilla mook blaze. I. , ' ' Seventy - marines from the Klamath Falls barracks - were ordered Into the Shasta forest area In California where a 1200- acre blaze was out of control. Elsewhere, the: .fires were burning out; were controlled or were not dangerous. Crews were! driving bulldozers at top speed in the rugged timber country south of JTillamo fire to hem 'it in the area of the 1933 burn. Other, sectors ; were quiet Watersheds of Forest Grove and Hillsboro were still out of danger. StateHealtli QassesLead, n I . i A- Oregon is pioneering in health education in this country, mem bers of the state joint committee An health snt rVivIel fi'fnu. dared as theylgathered in Salem on Wednesday to adopt a compre hensive plan for teaching of health in public schools. Standards set by Oregon schools say will be baTi; for devefoTmt of tha unwnrapping of theater. - similar program over-the state, fW nweapw of atonuc bomb Dr. Adolph WeinzirL professor of cannot ' public health and preventive med icine at the University of Oregon and chairman of the health in struction sub-committee of the joint committee, declared. ' A set fit ifaiwtawli and mmm Dom the foib-committee and the larger joint committee has been tiimprf v. r -,,fa- superintendent! of pubuTmstruc - tion. Agnes C. Bopth, Marion given considerable credit for the outline of the program as it is the first six grades. See also "School Health" story on page 2.) ,- Stratemeycr Cominancb j Chungking, Thursday, Aug. fl.-WV-Mal. Gen. Geortr E. Strat. meyer,' commander of the U. S. ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-(P-army. air forces in China, an- The 131 sald UAa7 ih&i 130 lop nounced today that Maj. ' Gen. idirected 1 sabotage was com Charles B. Stone, 2rdr had been "" atomic bomb In placed In command of the 14th tallation although German agents air force. - . 1 . this country had orders to get 1 Stone succeeds Maj. Gen. Claire ChennaulL who recently imM his post. Dr. Karl Renner fa t1n i11ai to continue under Allied suoervi- sion. ; General Mark Clark, who com manded United SUtes forces In Italy, is the American military comnussaoner. jor. Austria. ;, - The American zone consists of xne nortnwestern province of Salzburg-and a part cf the province of upper Austria on the Danube riv er's right banav Russia win occupy the north eastern zone; France, the provinces of Tyrol and Voralberg, and Brit ain, Carinthia and a portion of Styria. . ' j--- .: Vienna will be occupied joint ly by the' four; powers. Nippon Ground Assault . v .... . Heads Red Push; Russ Planes Hit! By Deaglas B. Cornell WASHINGTON, Aug. tMJP)r RtusI joined the war against Ja pan tonight and a few hoars later the Tokyo jdl said the Soviet army k waa attacking en the eaai en jauchorian border. t 1 1 xne enemy areaacaM oeciarea a gTMnd aeaasut waa latuwheA while a small number ef Russian plane , begam bombing strategje points' In the big Asiatic mainUnd InreTinee. ' The i radio report, unconfirmed Kwantung army - communique. midnight Thursday, Japanese attack .was not stated. Eastern MOSCOW, Atag. SWffY-Sevict Ferelgn Cemmissar V. M. Mele tev was asked tonight about the reaction ef Japanese ambas sador NaeUke Sate when Mole- tov presented him with the Ras- aian declaration ef war agahut Japan, fa ne ef the war's fin est pieces ef understatement Molotev repUed: wHe gave the text a careful stody. Manchuria (Manchuguo) faces the big Soviet base ot Vladivostok. Early Doom Predicted Mighty Russia's entry into the 2 .gJJE America and the allied world. Early doom of the enemy was ex-; pected. ' . - :.. J Russia declared war at the re quest of the United States, Brit ain, and- China, as -ox a p. ' m. (EWT). That was midnight In Russia. V I S i:--'iA : .? Prsident Truman announced the decision in mid-afternoon, i Secretary of State Byrnes 1 fol lowed through with a declaration that there Is 'still time but little time for the Japanese to save themselves from the destruction which threatens them.", t Raada Tree to Duty Foreign Commisar Molotov pro claimed; In Moscow that Russia hd to her " ally." . i ' v I- Swift and sure was Washing ton's reaction that the Soviet de cision to fight once more, along long survive. For not only are Russian le gions set to strike on the Asiatic mainland, but Russia's j Siberian air bases are available for loos ing her bombs on the nearby Supplies Cat Japan thus was all but cut off from the continent, from Its rich 1?!?!,' "T " Byrnes voiced 1 a hope in a formal statement that "the people further resistance to the forces of the nations now -united in the enforcement of law and justice will be futile.- No Sabotage Committed At Atomic Bomb Plants I BPcific information on the bomb on uranium.. Nazi spies were directed but failed to contact key personnel at atomic bomb plants and to deter mine among other things the type of protective devices used, a FBI spokesman said. , , FRENCH ELECTIONS DELATED ! PARIS, Aug. rrance'a general elections and constitu tional referendum, ' scheduled priglnally for Oct. 14, have been ; delayed a week until Oct 21. the cabinet announced today after a meeting presided " over by Presi- j dent Gen; Charles De Gaulle. afuc TS Min. SUin 53 trmc . IS .00 1 .00 0 . JPO San Vranciaeo Eugwnt ,., ....... Salem . . Portland Sattl , 78 63 . J00 ! FORECAST (from U. S. weatbrr tu- . reau. McHary field, Salem): Partly cloudy today with TUttI changa in temperaturea. Maximum this afternoon