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MM tern a roic u i n n Nippon Aghast At Damage Inflicted By Atomic Bomb STRUCTURES IN T IvSML i FOUR WIILE AREA VANISH IN BUS! Corpses Too Numerous To Count Litter Ruins- Casualties Heavy. United Presi Full Leased Wire .TRIBUNE nlted Press Full Leased Wli Fortieth Year VnirnRn, nKEflON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1945 NO. 117. San Francisco, Aug. 8 (U.R) Japan, aghast at the ruin of Hiroshima, charged today that the United States had violated international law by using the atomic bomb. Radio Tokyo quoted authoriz ed quarters in the capital as say ing that the United States was -.inlntinff article 22 of the Hague convention and showing disre gard for humanity. Br United Press Article 22 of The Hague Convention which the Japan ese cited today as barring the use of atomic bombs says: "The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited." Religious Group Protests Use Of Atomic Bomb London, Aug. 8 (U.R) The first protest from a British religious body against the use of the atom bomb was printed in London newspapers today. The Rev. A. D. Belden, chairman of an organization known as "Christianity Call ing" telegraphed Prime Min ister Attlee and President Tru man protesting against atomic bombing. "This unparalleled terror ism disgraces .the United Na tions," the message to Attlee said. "Beg you secure veto of its use." i Truman Reports To Nation Thursday, 7 p. m Widow of America's Leading Ace WIND STORM HITS The broadcast made no men r,f tho fart that Japan did not subscribe to the Hague con vention. Tokyo also disclosed that the Japanese cabinet met in special session this morning to hear a report on the raid. Guam, Aug. 8 (U.R) Tokyo conceded today that most of Hiroshima had been destroyed nnmnlntplv hv a sini-te American bomb Monday and said blasted and blistered cropses ' too num erous to count" littered the mini "The impact of the bomb was m tprrifir that nracticallv all litrtno- fhlnr-c human find animal. were literally seared to death hy the tremendous neat ana pres sure engendered by the blast," one Tokyo broadcast said. Buildings Vanish American reconnaissance photographs confirmed that four and one-tenth square miles 60 per cent of the built-up area of Hiroshima had vanished al most without trace in the world's greatest explosion Unofficial American sources estimated Japanese dead and wounded might exceed 100 000. Five major war plants and nrM nf smaller faptnrips of fice buildings and dwellings were known to have been level 1pt Clnv fnur ckplptone of con crete buildings remained in the obliterated area. Additional dam age outside the totally-destroyed section still was being assessed. Radio Tokyo, breaking its sil ence of more than 60 hours after tlip rairl cniH thp "inripf-rrihahle destructive power" of the bomb J had crushed big buildings ana small dwellings alike in an un paralleled holocaust. Atomic Comment Gets Scientist Into Hot Water New York, Aug. 8 (U.R) Dr. Harold Jacobson, who helped in atomic research at Columbia university, collapsed in his of firp tnHav when military coun ter-espionage agents told him he could be imprisoned for a signed newspaper article on the after effects of atomic bombing. Philip E. Wilcox, Jacobson's present employer, said he had been taken to his home by a doc tor after he was threatened with as much as 10 years in prison for the article. Jacobson issued a written todav declaring that it was his opinion that the atomic m wmild leave fatal radio activity in its wake for 70 years, but that "emminent and quali fied scientists" more closely con nected with the project did rot agree "with some of my opin ions." BASEBALL American League " J o Detroit 5,1 0 Ferris and Gnrbark: Ovcr mirc, Benton 8l and Swift- PORTION OF CITY CLOSES LAUNDRY An nnestimated amount of damage was caused last night by a sudden and localized wind torm which damaged equipment at the weather bureau station at the Medford airport, and blew .-..i,n thp cmnkp stack of the Domestic Laundry. Operations at the laundry are halted until the smoke staik is repaired, office omr.'nvees stated today. Local weather bureau officials report that the sudden squall .1..1.1 ot B in n m. when a lo calized wind covering 30 to 40 feet swept across the corner oi :or Vmnirer. tearing four two-by-four boards from a sky light cover, one ooara mv small brick cnimney. cumu.--..- j i lha nnnpr seen.1.., -j Kripir .mashed a tner ana ii.'M'b - -- - , mometcr shelter ana .u .u ,-, ih. roof. Another hit a wind instrument support, snap ping the 18 foot long tnree ...... pipe, and a third flew over the main part of the roof and dam aged the annex roof. The wind was described as a "twister." the velocity of which was not measured as it was so localized that wind Instruments were unable to detect traces out side the immediate path. Damage to the weather station will be estimated by the post engineer later today. SILL FIRES DOT ROGUE FOREST AS RESULTS OF BOLTS j V v y S J I - w V ' 11,' 1 f - - s ji F. Mention of New Atomic Bomb To Be Made May Give Jap New Warning Mrs. Marjorle Bong, 21, widow of MnJ. Richard Bong, America j leading combat flying ace, who was killed when Jet-propelled P-BO ho was testing overshot Burbank, Calif., field. He was returned from the Pacific after . . . i I . !.... I flnn - KelHn nf Ins. than lit vO Victories Bna aanitcim w ,o. u.u u "-nths. will flv to Superior. Wis., with body of her husband, from Los Nation's Greatest Flying Ace Is Welcomed Home in Death National League Chicago J 1 J Boston 2 5 1 Prim and Gillespie: Andrews, Hutching (8) and Hofferth- Cincinnati 0 5 S Brooklyn 14 2 Kennedy and Unser; Gregg and Dantonio. The Queen of Shoba is sup posed to have been an Ethiopian. Crews from the state forest. patrol and Rogue Kiver Forest service ": ,.- a large number of small foret fires started in this area Sunday evening and Monday by elcctri- cal storms. . , fires were reported .u. (innal forest service iorrtav. bring heaaquai 3 j-- - . . o k. nnmher reported rceVund.',: Thirteen of the fires cover more xnan m" acre, while others are confined to areas of less space. Of the J 62 reported. 27 are y known today to be ex tingulihed. and 110 men are still working on the others. Supplies were dropped by plane yiu., " ..i.t:M r.wi nt one tire i lire iigni'K , the Union Creek area, and an other in Umpqua aisir.. Men from the forest patrol hv loccing crews, are ers. and army ground crew, are patroling about 80 small ires scattered generally throughout southwestern Oregon. No new iir-s were reported yesterday. Another storm is predicted for this afternoon, according to for est service headquarters. DiiDPF.TS WORRIED i-hnnffltinn. Aug. 8 iU.P.) Japanese - sponsored puppet princes in Mongolia hem a mre j... -imi last month to con sider ways to protect themselves in the event of a japaneso De feat, the Chinese newspaper Takungpao reported today. Superior, Wis., Aug. 8 (U.R) The greatest air ace this country ever had came home to- dav to stay. An Army Transport plane brought the body of Maj. Rich ard I. Bong in a iibk-uiij.h - kct back to the shores or sity blue Lake Superior where he roamed the woods as a boy. Bong, 24, became the nauon s BK. hv dhootink? down 40 Jap planes. He was killed Monday in the crasn oi plane he was testing in Cali fornia. A silent crowd of about a hun dred persons watched the big .i -im onto the runway at the airport in Duluth, Minn- adjacent to ouperioi. i..--.- iniir rfionitaries from Washington, young men w,,u went to school with the war hero and the plain folks from nearby Poplar where Bong giew up on a farm. r arnuy ei There was Carl T. Bong, the major's father, who taught him how to shoot a rifle. There was Mrs. Glen Bryce, the fliers j u- uiVinsP rookie jar he raided regularly before he went away to war. His brother Carl. 17, was ARLEY TO BE GIVEN 30-W1INUTETALK DEATH LIST CITY HIT BY 100 SUPERFORTS MANY DEFERRED WILL BE CALLED waiting at the airport, and so worn two of his sisters. JNCiaa nnrt fleraldine. His mother remained at her farm homo, too overcome by the . 4n nnmA tn tHo Rimort. She planned to attend the funeral in Superior this anernoon. flifr wife, who accom riA tho horlv from California was the first off the pinne. sue was dry-eyed and held ncr ncau high. She stepped into a waiting car which took her to her parents' home in Superior, where only a few months ago the hero was courting her. Aerial Honor Guard Eighteen P-47 and Nine C-47 io. ...ill nroviHe an aerial um brella over Superior and Bong's d o Inel rites for the IHIIIIl-'uni, o.t Wisconsin aviator are conaucieu. ti, Poo Arv rl Hoorne win ;ini. ot funeral services at two p. m. in the Concordia Luth eran church. Assisting hum be the Rev Paul Boe. who mar ried Bong and his college sweet heart in the same church last Feb. 10. , That wedding was not quite six months ago. Graveside' services and burial u t 4ho Ponlnr cemetery WJ". "...birt. nf the little ..:,t two ujhcrfl UOuK shiik in the churcn cnoir. mu-. . .. in. Un riii;f And tOOK lamer imm . his first flying lesson. Poplar Is only 18 miles from here. Woehinstnn AllS. 8 U.P.) President Truman will report to the nation on the Big inrce Rnrlin conference Thursday night at 7 o'clock (PWT) The White House saia me ad dress would be broadcast on all farlin noturnrlr. Presidential Secretary rimrips r,. Ross said Mr. iru man would make a 3U-minuie address, in which he would go into greater detail aooui me historic Potsdam parley than was related in last week's offic ial communique on the meeting. Ta Mantlnn Romb D.. 11, n nrosirlont WOUld I'manlinn'1 th n P W atOmlC bomb, but probably to no great extent. r,,. ftf Mr Truman a first ap- ooinlments today his first day i it, wiiilo House since his re turn from Europe was witn Secretary of War Henry L. . : Tint-B .a ii inpv were iu discuss the fearsome new bomb which devastated a Japanese in iciriai oilv in Its first use. The president's first pre i rniinuilnff the Berlin CUNIICllVC ,w.,v n meeting will be held early next week, probably mommy u. Tuesday, Ross said. "He should repon 10 wc v ple as a whole first," the press secretary explained. T...nnn nlnnned brlct ivir. i'"n" i , . conferences today and will also catch up with paper worn ..u t..ii.tir touches on nis PIIV IIIII3MI1IB m, ..... .K.rn unecula'.lon inure wa v , . . that the president might take : i ,io neeeh to warn the Japanese again that incy must surrender now or entire country suffer the fate of ri: U ln rr-i. JnolnnlTiint OI MC 1 lie u- . . , i i i the coun atomic Domu iios , . ? j .t.. orlrt with mixed feeiings over what the future holds. Many people will be tening to the president for fur ther word on steps taken to con trol this awe-inspiring wcret. In first announcing the cxis- . . ... i u 4,i,n dnva ago. tence ot me oumu ' . Mr. Truman said that he would ask congress to cstannsn a . , ..- irnl the oroduc- rnTnduse oratomle- power and that he would mane msndatioi.s himself on - ploymcni. . h The cruiser auk"". carried the president's party to . iTupinA docked i New Port News. Va.. shortly be fore 5 o'clock yesterday after noon Guam, Thursday, Aug. 9 (U.R) Nearly 100 Superfortresses, hitting the Japanese home is lands for the fourth time in 24 hours, sent incendiaries crash ing into the "death list" city of Fukuyama shortly before mid- The new blow in a rounn me clock offensive by the 20th air- force followed two late aner nnon demolition strikes at the Nakajima Musashino-Tama air craft plant in Tokyo ana me once mighty Tokyo arsenal, and a smashing daylight raid with more than 1,000 tons of explo- SPEEDUPPEACE MOLOTOV AVERS Declaration Becomes Effec t i v e Tomorrow Jap Mediation Try Told, Tl IRE KILLED 'U UUIA I Ml IIUIIIII1U I IIVLU 111 OREGON'S FORESTS nr..l.!..lnn Allff. 8- ftJ.P.1 wtiniiiiis.v " Selective service warned tooay that greater numbers of men , . iq onH so nreviously deferred for eential work will have to be drafted into me CO 1JI vi a. A report to the house mniu.... affairs committee said there! was not a sufficient number of young men becoming 18 years of age each month to meet in duction quotas. Rep. John J. Sparkman. D., Aia who received the report for the committee, said it also may mean that an additional num ber of men above 30 years of age will have to be drafted. The report did not specify what occupational groups would be in line for induction. PACIFIC FIGHTERS SEE EARLY Fl Portland Ore.. Aug. 8 (U.R) T..,.. mnrn rinalhs for 8 total of five were chalked up aRainst western Oregon's month-old for est fires today. At Forest Grove, a soldier member of a crew fighting to save the city's watershed from encroaching flames was killed when a bulldozer ho was driv ing plunged over a steep em bankment Tuesday afternoon He attempted to leap clear wnen a ml.Ql rio hiffnn tn tilt the ncavy mnohinn hut the bulldozer tum bled over the road edge after him, killing him outrigni. Th. PortinnH nrmv alrbase re ported the victim's name as Joseph W. Short, zu, tvansviue, Ind., a Pacific war veteran. Paratrooper Killed tn thp ITmnniia National forest In southwest Oregon, one of 10 paratroopers jumping to control a liehtnine-causcd fire was kill ed Tuesday and another was in jured. This was the only casual ty since smoke-Jumpers were first used in 1038. Earlier in the battle against the Tillamook fire on the Wilson river, a fire fighter was killed by a falling snug and two sol diers were killca in a iramc ac cident while being rushed to the fire front. Hope For Watershed Forest officials were optimis tic today over the possibility of saving the Forest Grove and Hillsboro watersheds seriously threatened for the last few days- Th Ignnl force of men a ia equipment has been assigned to the district around the Stimsnn Lumber company in the Seine creek area where the fire is four miles from the camp and endan I goring the Hillsboro water sup- i ply- sives on the great steel center of Yawata. 15th City Warned Fuguyama was the 15th of 31 cities warned by the B-29 command to be blasted by in cendiaries, and the 62nd Jap anese city to be burned out. Lo cated 47 miles northeast of Kure on the Inland sea, with a popu lation of 57,000, it is a cenicr for chemical production ana air- fratt Works. Included In Its main urban area of 1.5 square miles are the lmnprinl Dve Works, the Ka- wmihhi Aircraft company and thp Mitsubishi Electric company Earlier Gen. Carl A. Spaatz v.o1 onnnunrpH from U. S. Stra tegic Air Force headquarters that some 50 Superforts had bombed (hp Nakalima nlant visually while a smaller force was hitting the Tokyo arsenal area, selectea no in nltprnnte target for planes which found the aircraft plant obscured by smoke. The B-29s met intense flak V...I nn pnpmv nlrprnft. Radio Tokyo said about 85 SitnprfnrU were in the TokvO raid and claimed two were snoi down and 10 others heavil damaged. 1 Harbors Mined Other B-2fls mined harbor areas at Rashin in Korea and at Shimonoseki, Maizuri and Sakai on Honshu. Itariin Tokvo said 30 Other B-2fls with an escort of 70 Mus tnncra nnrl ThlinHprhnltfl. attack. ed airfields and communications fnrilitips throughout the central army command area on the main Jnpancse home island of Honshu todnv. Admiral William F- Halscy' thlrrl flept remnined under a se curity blackout, but two other naval task forces carried out the China coast and on the long by-passed former American island of wake London, Aug. 8 U.R) Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov announced in Moscow to night that Russia had declared war against Japan, effective to morrow, in order to speed the end of the conflict in the Far East. Molotov, In the war declara tion statement broadcast by the Moscow radio, revealed that Japan had asked Russia to medi ate for peace with the United States and Britain. Ru:ia considered that the Jap anpep reiprtinn of the surrender- or-die ultimatum announced at Potsdam on July 26 nullifiea Japan's mediation proposal, Mo lotov said. Jap Envoy Told Molotov called In Naotak Sato, Japanese ambassador to Moscow, and informed him or Russia's decision to enter tne war. Simultaneously the boviei en voy in Tokyo was transmitting tn the Jaoanese government the same statement. i.oti.r Molotov receivca me k..,.in.. frnm the United States, Great Britain and China, . . . . t v.a Cnuipt ann toia mem ui Union's momentous decision. They expressed satisfaction with the declaration, the Moscow ra dio said. NEW GRADER IS BOUGHT BY CIT What They Say About Atomic Bomb Guam. Thursday. Aug. 9 fljpiAllied fighting men re ceived the news "f Russia's en trance into the Pacific war a dawn today From fleet Admiral Chesfr W Nimitz on down through the ranks mey ..... the war's final lap was at hand. The announcement of the So viet declaration of war drew solemn and quiet reaction with an underlying feeling of jubila tion among the soldiers and sail ors and marines who have been fighting Japan fur months and yean. By United Preit 1 What they say about the atomic bomb: "It undoubtedly will be gen erations before the atom will make all the nation's steel, pow er the nation's locomotives, gen erate the electricity.-, ur. - -Lclyn Barin, technical const ant. Bituminous Coal institute. "Wc all know what lighlnlr.g i, and can do, but wc haven't learned yet how to control It Charles W. Kellogg, president, Edison Electric Institute. "This Is the first war that will be won exclusively by air pow er, notwithstanding all ex perts' Capt. Eddie Rickcnback er. "I suggest . . . that we pray for a sprpdv ceslion of hos Itilities '' Dr. Earl F. Adams, ex ecutive director of the protcst ant council of New York. "Our savage generation cannot be trusted with it (the atomic bomb) at all." Rev. itoneri Gannon, S- J . president of Ford ham university. "My God!" Men of the B-29 crew which dropped the atomic bomb and saw it cxplodo at Hiroshima Monday. j Sen. Harold II. Burlon, R O "It's a good thing wc have the j United Nations if a force of that kind is to be loose in the world " j ... Rnn .lnenh H. Ball. R.. Minn. ' "We certainly can't permit another war- . I Sen. Carl A. .Hatch, D , N. M. "Wc simply have two altcrna ! lives to live together peaceful i ly or die together." Pnrrliaw nf a $5,500 grader hv thp pitv tn be used in the near future for work on the new city park site was announced to day by Frank Rogers, city su perintendent. In reference to progress of work on the park, Rogers said several applications from plan ning and landscaping engineers and architects have been sent to the city in connection with park development, and that a repre sentative from the San Francisco nlnnnintr cnmmlsslon is exnected ! shortly to advise park officials. The park board of Seattle has also given the city park plans which were drawn up as a fa vor to Medford. IRRIGATION DISTRICT OFFICE TO HOLLY BLDG. By request of the Jackson county court. Medford Irrigation nklrint hpnHmiartpr is this I week being moved from the base I ment of the courthouse to rooms ! 204 and 205 of the Hollv Theatre building, and County Juvenile Officer Robert Elder is moving his oftlce from the Liberty build ing into the courthouse. The move Is expected to be com pleted by the end of the week. TICKETS COME HIGH Chungking, Aug. 8 U P Some Shanghai residents. fear Ins new American air raids, are paying up to 1,000,000 puppet doilars for black market railway tickets to Hangchow. 150 miles to thp .nil thwest. the Central News Agency reported today. Lenflets dropped by American .;.m.n I., u-hlrh residents were advised to flee have marie shanahal's suburb! a veritable i "no-man'i land." .V.llr. Aim K (U.R) - WU9II...-9-U.', '"a- - Soviet Russia has declared war on Japan, President; lrumuii ..- nounced toaay. Tho president calico repot -ui. ppiitiv office to an- 111... IliO nounce the momentous event. Russia has aeciareu w. Japan-that'! all," Mr. iruman said. ui. . He said he hafln i Deen nu. call a regular press conference but the announcement was so 'mPr,a" : i "?.U.?nCVh- called ter give n. - .. in the reporters who were avail able on quick nonce. The announcement nie.. the days of the Japanese empire were numbered and that the Pa cific war, aircaay " V the atomic bomb, would be end ed even sooner. Arranged at Potsdam ..tinn nnnarently Hie OOViei m-.. -t-f - stemmed from "anemeI'rtl made by Presiacnt i. -.. Generalissimo josci ou... . inn the Big Three meeting at Potsdam. ... Russia presumably n"v. throw against Japan the vast military organization that it has built up opposite Manchuria and Korea. This, organization has been reinforced since Russia whipped Nazi Germany in the eastern front. Her armies on the Manchurian border arc known to be large . i rt hp a matcn and are Dcneveu - - for the enemy sizeauic well-equipped forces there. Thiib the United States will be able to concentrate its power on the Japanese homciaim w. worrying about liquidating, e cmy forces on tne upo-.-. -- mainland. Truman Smiling Mr. Truman was seated, smil ing and confident, at his desk when the reporters entered. The president's military ana naval aides and a few other ca Scr administration officials formed a semi circle behind Mr. Truman's desk. It hi'S been speculated that tne ciip. unuld continue to bear the brunt of the air war against Japan, and possibly the invasion, while Russia neutral izes and presses forward on the enemy's flank. The Soviet air force is not be .. u opnrnd for long- ranged bombing assa ults upon the Japanese mine - ---t mav be expected to attack In stallations in Mancnuria perhaps Korea. P From Kamchatka, Russ an planes also could dominate the Japanese Kuriles and he Jap ancsc half of Sakhalin Island. . vum n&Rt MOTHER Hollywood, Aug. 8 Actress Lynn Bari gave birth !to a baby girl today, out child died alter several physicians at St. jonn s nsnv T t..Hnv It was the first child for Miss Bari, wife of test pilot Sid Luft. The coupie.wcj married Nov 28, 1843-
