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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
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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-