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President Tronun breaks the newt that Rassia has declared war
a Japan. Secretary at Stata James F. Byrne seated In fore
. rround. This exclostre phota waa aoade by AP Phototrapher John
&oui. (AP Wlrephoto)
Truman Predicts
f0nly Surrender'
WiU Stop Bomb
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-(i- President Truman declared
tonight that, only surrender will stop use of the terrible new
atomic bomb and that the enemy's power to make war will be
destroyed, j
'"' Addressing the. nation in his first lengthy radio talk, Mr.
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I confess that my impulse on
reading of the destruction caused
by the atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima is to cry out, "Stop; it."
I do not doubt that there are
thousands of other Americans who
feel just that way. It is not being
chicken-livered, but such sudden
and complete annihilati'rk of
noouloui city Is so alien to the
code of humanity which lies at
the basis of. western civilization
that we cannot helD a feeling of
revolt against use of such a weap
on. I realize that the atomic bomb
1 merely an extension In magni
tude of the block-busters and in
cendiaries which have been show
' ered on cities on all side of the
present war.; And I realize that
Japan by Ita own atrocities nas
Invited bombings, but still I hate
in . m the warfare extend to
wholesale extermination of chil
dren, the aged and non-combatant
civilians;- My hope Is that the ex
perience may drive "the Japanese
- leaders into Immediate surrender.
This method of warfare- has
long been discussed. Its chief
' nuwtorn -exDonent l was General
- Guflio Douhetr an Italian. He was
'"the Bflly Mitchell of the Italian
army. . CohtemDorarT with our
famous 'advocate of military avia-
Hon, and like him unpopular witn
;hia superiors. Douhet laid down
: tnrA nmnAcitlons:
v 1. Aircraft ! are , Instruments of
Incomparable potentialities against
which no effective defense can
be foreseen; i
9 rriviiian morale will fee shat
tered by the bombardment of cen
ters of population. '.
TTn ta Sunday Douhet was
wrong. Defenses against aircraft
were (continued on editorial page;
'Jdplnterhees
Ponder Atom
passively meditating news of the
atomic Domo hhoi
warfare- against Japan, the Japa
nese ambassador to Germany and
lis - five-man staff began "today
their Internment on aunpjefare
at v once-luxurious mountain re
sort riotel-whielt-his entertained
. The .Internees art permitted no
newspapers or. radios, but avJtate.
department "special agent report-
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ed they were xoia ox me war ue-
while beintf driven
VCiVyww , -
here from Washington yesterday.
. . ktIim iMn'f say anything, but
they didnt show much anima
tion, ' he said;
, c.Ainir n.infvM ta nlaln. rs-
gcifiui m '
tioned meals at a cafeteria of the
325-room Bedford Springs hotel,
Ambassador Hiroshl Oshima and
vi. .wnntnni thn settled down
lUj , vyiA tw
to their quiet detention life -pend
ing their exenange lor aweu fr-
cners ox me japs.
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Truman gave no direct intimation
as to when that surrender might
come.
But he said the Soviet decision
to declare war on Japan was only
one of the scret military arrange
ments made at Potsdam
The Japs will soon learn some
of the other military secrets agreed
upon at Berlin," he aserted, "they
will learn them first hand and
they will not like them..
The chief executive devoted a
large share of his address to an
analysis of what was accomplished
in his Potsdam conference with
Premier Stalin and British" Prime
Ministers Churchill and Attlee.
But he also touched' at some
ength on the Pacific war and as
serted that this government did
not lightly undertake! the produc
tion and use of the terrible atomic
bomb.
"We have used it, he said, "in
order to shorten, the agony of war,
in order to save the lives of thou
sands and thousands of young
Americans.
"We shall continue to use it
until we completely destroy Ja
pan's power to make war. Only a
Japanese surrender will stop us.
Secret to Be Held
Britain, Canada and the United
States he said, do not intend to
release the secret of history's most
terrible weapon until means have
been found to control it so as
"to protect ourselves and the rest
of the World from the danger of
total destruction.!
The atomic bomb," Mr. Tru
man declared, "is too dangerous to
be loose in i lawless world."
Hiroshima, a military base, was
picked as the target for the first
atomic bomb, the chief executive
said, to avoid killing civilians so
far as possible.
Only a. Warning
"But that attack Is only a warn
ing of things to come. If Japan
does not surrender, bombs will
have to be dropped on war in
dustries, and unfortunately, thou
sands of civilian lives will be lost.
I urge Japanese civilians to leave
industrial cities immediately and
save themselves from destruction.
The president, renouncing, for
the United States any territorial
gains or profits or selfish advant
age from this war, made it plain,
nevertheless, that this country in
tended to have the military bases
"experts deem to be essential for
our protection."
Te Acquire Bases
Those not now in our possession,
he said, we will acquire under ar
rangements i consistent with the
United Nations charter.
Mr. Truman did not "disclose
what strategic areas he had la
mind which his country does not
already hold. ' '
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Betomized
CHUNGKING. Aug.
ttm. Albert C-JWdwffey'rtold a
press conference today that use
of . atomic bombs "Is very mucn
under consideration in the China
theater wherever military neces
sity dictates." - -Wedemeyer.
commander of U. S.
forces in the China theater, specif
ically mentioned, Japanese-occu
pied Shanghai as a possible mui
tarv tarret y. - .
It was. presumed here that leaf
let warnings would be distributed
prior to any bombings in occu
pied Chinese territory in an effort
to avert loss of civilian life. -
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Japanese
On Fate! of Atom
Bombed Seaport
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GUAM, Friday, I Aug. 10.; -tip)-
Smoke and dust completely; cover
ed! Nagasaki and! rose to 20,000
feet three' and one-half hours after
Thursday's atomic bombing of
that Japanese seaport, f t
General Spaatz, chief of the
U. I S. i strategic air forces, made
this .brief announcement ) after
viewing reconnaissance photo
graphs from the second use of the
fantastic atomic bomb against the
enemy J He said scattered fires
were -visiDie uui- , ..
side ' the smoke- n
obscured area. I' f .
There was no r:
furthejej word ., on .J
the undoubtedly
awesome late?
that struck thelU
western Kyushu I
city of 253,000
population.
1 SPAATZ
The i Japanese themselves: were
absolutely silent about results of
the noon bombing. In which it
was possible that more than one
of the' lethal packages was , drop
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Earner General i Spaatz' ? head
quarters had announced that re
sults were "good." i J
Tokyo radio, which admitted
that the 'initial atomic bombing
Monday of Hiroshima had de
stroyed! "practically every living
thing,'! let hour! after hour pass
without comment about Nagasaki.
The Japanese people were told,
however, in millions of B-29 scat
tered pamphlets , that "the awful
fact (of the atomic bomb) is one
for you to ponder and we solemn
ly assure you it is grimly accur
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Nagasaki, chosen as the second
target, U an industrial center and
important port on the supply route
through Korea to Manchuria, re
ported j kinder invasion by Russia.
W.IT. Vinton!
Rites
McMtNNVTXXE, Aug.
neral services will; be held -from
Macy A Son chapel here Friday
at S njn. for William T. Vinton,
veteran! attorney; who at one time
was a state senator and a mayor
of McMInnville. He died i here
last night at the age of 80. Dr.
B.'Xarle Parker of the Methodist
church
will officiate at the serv-
A native of Wisconsin, he came
to Oregon in IMS and laugnt
ooliifor several years i before
being admitted to the bar in 1882.
He served six terms in the state
legislature beginning in 1913. Ha.
wat chairman of the Judiciary
committee in-19174 and president
of the senate in 1919
He waa senior member , of the
law firm of Vinton, Marsh It
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Record
Dauia
Today
St. Jo1in?s Liitlveran Qiurcli
Buys Property i err New Edifice
Si .John's Lutheran hurch,
now located at North 16th end A
streets, has purchased the former
Tl M. Barr corner at 14th and
Court streets and plans construc
tion, of a new church edifice as
soon as war conditions permit
Request for -a tonehangesedT
cy i prni ot pcopcrvr uj
eent has been filed with the city
engineer. ' : :- ': I "k I
St, John's church was : organ
ized In 1899. It first worshipped
on Center street, ibetweenMSth
and 14th streets, but moved to its
present; location, which Is fartherj
out,: with the Intention of erecting
covered sheds for ; the teams of
farmer members coming in for
worship. The early advent of the
automobile made horse shed,un
necessary. Now the church s re
turning to the vicinity of its for
mer location. ; ?!
The ) pastor, the Rev. It W.
to m
? Dot Tract ! Wireclk
f MICHIGAN, N. IX, An. 9 (AP) From 25 to 40 per
son were killed in the. observation car of the first section
of the Great Northern railway's Empire Builder when the
second section crashed into it here tonight. i
li Rossell .Dushinske, editor of the Devils Lake, N.
Journal who was at the scene
service men, were visible in
scoped and raised onto the
second train.
Dushinske said Great Northern railroad officials esti
mated the bodies could not be
as the 'mass of twisted steel must
be cut apart with acetylene
torches.
More than 40 persons were in
jured,! Dushinske estimated, the
most serious a sailor who suffered
a broken neck.
The Herald said the first sec
tion, developing a hot box, had
made an unscheduled stop here;
remaining on the main track. An
effort to flag down the second sec
tion failed and the train plum
meted into the first section.!
The impact was terrific, shak
ing many, houses in this small
community, and at once the word
spread that brought many local
residents to the scene.
They immediately set about re
moving the victims and sent out
a 'call for help. j
The Great Northern dispatched
relief trains from Grand Forks,
54 miles away, and from Devils
Lake, 34 miles distant, while. local
doctors and volunteers gave; such
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omtmentj
Of Stettinius i
Is Announced
WASHINGTON, Aug.! 9.-(y-
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., was ap
pointed today as the United States
representative on the preparatory
commission of the United Nations
organization with the rank of am
bassador. f ' U
President Truman announced
the appointment which had been
expected ever since Stettinius
guided the American delegation's
work in the writing of the 50
nation treaty at San Francisco for
the peace of the future. j
- The president, informally l ad
dressing hia former secretary of
state as "My . Dead Ed," said In
a letter that he wished Stettinius
"success In this vitally important
undertaking." - I
In a statement the White House
said that Stettinius probably
would not attend the first routine
meetings of the executive commit
tee of the preparatory commission.
The group is so called because it
will do the spade work for the
United Nations organization until
the required number of nations
have ratified the San Francisco
charter and made it effective."
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CLOVIS. N. M- Aug. 9 -VPf An
automobile collision her i last
night claimed the life of 2nd IX
Robert. W. Risenour, Philomath,
Ore, stationed at the Clovit army
air? field. ; 'Cu -
Gross, has served the church the
past S3 years. He la the oldest
pastor hv point of active service
In the city. " . -..-r,i- '. I
We want to build as soon as
practicable,Tthe Rev-Mtt Gross
aaldThmdayr,,and certainly.
want tv be In anew church by
the time of our semi-centennial
In 1949. Meantime wo-will clear
up the lot to make It presentable.
The new church w21 h. of ma
App
sonry . coiistructioa. We Lutherrftlomic bombs and the fuU fury of
ana take .pride In good- church
architecture and plan to have an
attractive structure on this lot"
-The old T. M. Barr home stood
on: this corner for many years.
The house was torn down after
the property passed into the hands
of Willamette university. It was
sold to Thomas Roen some months
ago and by him to St John's
church recently. . I
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said that many . bodies, mostly
the car which was held tele
top of the locomotive of the
i
removed for another 12 hours
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Japs Advertise
Radio Message
Set for Aug. 13
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. H?1)
A Tokyo broadcast recorded
tonight by the American Broad
casting company requested lis
teners to be sure to tune in at
1:30 pjn., Aug, 13, Japanese
time "to receive direct from the
citizens of Japan a sensational
message the people of the War
torn world have been waiting
and longing to hear."
The announcer told his audi
ence "they will not want to
miss : the urgent' news of vital
importance to everyone," and
added! . .
ftRadIo" monitors throughout
Hie world are advised and urg
ed to record this all-Important
event" f
He repeated the date and
time, which would be 9:30 p-m,
Aug. 13, UJS. Pacific Coast War
Time. i
There was no hint as to what
the 'promised "announcement
might be. j
In the recent 'past the Jap
anese radio several times has
promised Important announce
ments which failed to material--lze..r-
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Discharge) Points
For Indian Wars
Must Be Cancelled
Charles A. Hoover, 1524 N.
Capitol aWfelt pretty sad about
not being well eaeash to f
down to selective service offices
tr receive In pertea Ms "greet
ings frea the president." Bat -he's
chackllng aboat tt today.
rVhea the girl telephoned this
weekie say the letter Jiad been
retoraed as andeUrerable and
m assured tone i notified Mrs.
Hoover thai her hasband weald,
be expected to pfek.lt vp with
little delay, she was told that
he sorely weald like to "Toa
see, he likes army - life he
fooght la theladlaa wars fat
his yooth, was there' at the"
Boxer rebellion and served la
the PbfUpptaes! daring the
Spanlah-Aaaeiieaa war.""
. Mr. Hoover, It, Is Bet the
enly Charles Hoever In Salem.
Subcommittee
Visits Plant
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the Japanese are having trou
ble deciding when to surrender,
RepTJed Johnson (D-Okla) as
serted tonight Jl. quick ride
through the atomic bomb, produc
tion project at Hanford would
make p their minds.
1 Johnson, echoed by other mem
bers of a house subcommittee on
mteriat department ' appropria
tions, called Hanford's "plants the
"most inspiring sight I vere laid
eyes on.'
Johnson said he though, the war
would be endmgjwieim a. ptw
days, wiiXJapan crushed between
Allied forces.
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu-
hreau. McNary field: Salem): Partly
cloudy today with iiightly cooler tem-
peranires. uignest tooay as oegreea.
3rd Fleet! psspsnit IFBtraceirs
Attacks
Continue
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Planes, 70 B-29s
Pound Honsliu
GUAM, Friday, Aug. 10 -iff)
The massive Third fleet, so close
to Japan that it has heavily dam
aged the steel city of Kamaishi
with its guns, sent 1500 carrier
planes back , over north Honshu
today at dawn for the second
straight day. Then around noon 70
Superfortresses in their fifth
straight day over Nippon spilled
2000 pound , demolition bombs Op
the big Tokyo arsenal.
The mounting air offensive
moves were reported while, the
U. S. army strategic air forces
headquarters was announcing that
smoke churned up by the atomic
bomb dropped yesterday on Na
gasaki still prevented photographic
disclosure as to Just what remain
ed of that Kyushu port city's 12
square miles. -
Nimitz gave no details of today's
carrier strikes renewed against
Honshu but an Associated Press
warship dispatch said air v basts
under attack included ones the
Japanese might try to use to send
planes against the Russians. V
The raid by 70 B-29s on the
Tokyo arsenal followed by a few
hours' another by 90 Superforts
on w oil' refinery company at
Amagasaki near Osaka.
The shelling yesterday of Kam
aishi by Admiral Halsey's heavy
Third fleet ships and light forces
of the British Pacific fleet was
described officially by Nimitz as
a "heavy naval bombardment.
Albany Man at
Hiroshima? I
! ALBANY, OnL, Aug. 9-(-ip)-Lt;
David Kliewer, Albany, may have
been in the Hiroshima prison
camp when the atomic bomb dev
astated the city, his parents, Rev;
and Mrs. P. A. Kliewer, said to-i
day. - 1 i.j
i The war department informed
them - that the - Japanese radio
broadcast a letter, supposedly
written by their son, that he had
been moved from Zentzuji prison
camp to Hiroshima. Whether the
letter was written before or after
the bombing: was not known. ''
Kliewer,. a marine corps flier;
was captured on Wake Island. ;
Knudsen Predicts End"
01 War in Jptember
COPENHAGEN, Aug. i-UPi-Lt
Gen. William S. Knudsen told re
porters today they could expect
the end of the Japanese war In
September; '-- - , . - "
The resigned director of the U.
S. army production, program made
the statement when asked how
soon American automobiles would
be In production. He said cars
would be available shortly after
the end . of the war.
Japanese Br ocidtreidictsi
Nip UseAtomBonW
LONDON, ; Friday, Aug.
The Japanese radio in Singapore,
ina broadcast monitored by RBC,
said today that Japan has a weap
on "similar to the atomic bomb"
and will use tt "to the utmost a
gainst United States mflttarjLper-:
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The broadcast wag not clear as
to the exact' nature of the pur-
weapon but said "Japan is
fiilW awar tt tlietma n i if i f of
tamcentiJ," , aadSthe Anglo -
United States nations must have
drawn on the result of Japanese
researches.' -
"America has asked for it, now
she will get it," said the English
language broadcast, beamed to Eu
rope. -: ' "
: But the broadcast said Japan
would not use its weapon against
civilians. ,!..,-
"It can be stated Immediately
and In definite terms that Japan
does not Intend to employ it after
the pattern of American capital in
tesDirag
Siberian Army Drive Aided by
U.So Parachute Troops, Chinese
Choking Off Nip Troop Movements
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 ( AP) Russian troops
have invaded Korea along a wide front, the Japanese im
perial headquarters announced today.
The broadcast, recorded by the federal communica
tions commission, said the soviet troops entered Korea in
the vicinity of Keiko and Karafut. ,
NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (AP) The Tokyo rado an
nounced today that soviet troops had invaded the Japanese-occupied
southern half of Sakhalin island.
The broadcast quoted a Japanese communique as say
ing the invasion was launched "at points near Buika."
At the same time a soviet force "carried out a light
bombardment of areas southwest of Buika as well as west
of Handa," added the broadcast, which was reported by
the FCC. . . ,-:; '-..
MOSCOW, Friday, Aug. 10 (AP) A hard-striking red
army stabbed into enemy-held Manchuria yesterday, regis
tering initial gains of up to 14 miles in what appeared to be a
mighty soviet drive to cut off Japanese armies in the north.
, Apparently the Russians were driving into Manchuria
from three sides. ; rr i ;
(The broadcast Moscow communique as recorded in Lon
don indicated, the red armies were engaging in a giant pincers
action as they knifed into Manchnra. I , V,
I'tThe broadcast bulletin reported the 'capture of Jin-Jin s
Sume, which maps in London showed to be an airport town
Tired Fighters
as
Fires Reduced
PORTLANb, Ore, Aug. -4Jfy
Fire lines throughout the' state
were quiet tonight after foresters
completed trails around two blazes
on the Warm Spring Indian reser
vation which threatened to meet
The two fires, about 13 miles
northeast of ., Mt Jefferson, to
talled approximately 2000 acres.
ML- Hood national forest, crews
controlled them despite low hu
midity and a mild breeze.
Three lightning-set fires In
southern 'Oregon wemmder con
trol, and on the Tillamook front
foresters took.dvantage "of a lull
in fighting to send in relief for
men who had been .etr fire lines
three weeks. Good progress con
tinued to be made on trails.
Mayor taGuardia Plans
"Swan Song$ln Concert
NEW YORK, Aug. tP)-Ma6r
F.-H- LaGuardi&rplans a musical
finale to bis .12 years in office.
, With baton under his arm, the
versatile little.may6r whose third
term ends this year will step onto
me poaium in juewuonn stmum
Tuesday- night to lead the New
York philharmonic ' symphony
orchestra in the last number, of
a .
its xasx summer concert. .
the deliberate massacre of Inno
cent civilians." the radio said.
"but Japan, is full "determined to
use it to the utmost against United
States military personnel, r
"An Anglo-American Invasion
fleet of- Varship and transports
could be kamikazed by our suicide
planes leaded with fixed atomic
detonators.
; "If that were done hundmlsiroJ
cAalwrnaredtnf weel tiaft and
jthousana upon thousands of Unit-
ed States military personnel would
be sent to the. bottom of the sea."
Threatening r e t a 1 1 a 1 1 o n "in
kind" f or the- atomic bombing of
tne Japanese homeland, thebroad-
cast asserted
"Suppose Japan decides to re
taliate in kind and also employs
weapons like the atomic bomb.
That may happen and Japan will
use such a weapon now. But it
would be more appropriate to say
that Japan has been compelled to
do so."
on Japs
33 'miles inside Manchuria front
the border of Outer Mongolia, on
the western prong of the pinch
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The crack Siberian army, given'
the battle cry to "settle an old
score;" smashed ahead on a wide
front from the maritime provinces
on the east to wild Outer Mon
golia on the west, Moscow's first
communique of this 24-hour-old
far eastern war declared.
Pineer-Prenss Clamping .,.
The east-wesr prongs of the
multiple pipneers clamping upon
Japan's ' Kwantung army were.
about 750 miles apart. The Bus- J
sian assault had already been as
sisted by blows by UJS. planes !
and Chinese parachute troops
aimed at choking off Japanese1
troop movements from China -4a ,
the neyu.battle area
While the land armies were
pressing into Japanese-held posi
tions the soviet air force bombed
the porta of Seishin and Rashin
on the Japanese sea, apparently
with the intent of Interrupting
Uornmtmications between Japan
and the northern Manchuriah
armies.' """ ' ' .- "
300-Mile Front
Tokyo"1 asserted the Russiana
were attacking from thast at
points along a 300-mile front. J
Farther noruVttte Soviets bat-'
tied over the Amur and Ussurt
rivera frbnv the Khabarovsk area
and captured the Japanese, strong- .
..hold of Fuyuan, in the northeast
ern tip of Mancmiria, besides sey
era! other populated places, Mot-
cow said.
Beat Down Resistance :
In a heavy blow fromthe west.
the Soviets said they beat down
fierce enemy resistance" and cap
tured the towns and railway sta-
tions of Lupin (Manchoull) and '
CBaualnoerh, 15 miles farther
southeast of the former Chinese
Eastern: railway, t w
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