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Surrender On Battleship In
Tokyo Bay Forecast
MacArthur Due For Post
Brynes Lists Terms
San Francisco, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The men of the U. S. Third
fleet, now standing off Japan,
are "expecting word of Japan's
surrender sometime today." a
broadcast from the fleet said to
night. Wan and tired after 48 hours
without sleep, Adm. William F.
Halsey was grimly confident
that the war was about to end.
Mutual Network Correspondent
Jack Mahon said in reporting an
interview with the commander
of the Third fleet.
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
' The Pacific allies sped to beaten
Japan today the terms under
which she may keep her em
peror and word from Tokyo in
dicated they were getting
prompt and favorable attention.
Foreign Minister Shigenori
Togo called at the imperial
palace at 11 a. m. Sunday (7 p.
m. PWT) a possible signal that
the allied note had arrived in
the Japanese capital.
; V-J day, for which the world
, has been waiting three years and
eight months, appeared immin-
yent perhaps no more than 72
hours away.
And, it was confidently ex-
pected here, the supreme com
' mandcr who will accept Japa
nese surrender whether it
comes officially hours or days
hence will be General of the
Army Douglas MacArthur.
The White House announced
officially that a supreme Allied
commander would be selected to
accept and enforce unconditional
surrender, and few doubted he
would be the man.
It was not impossible, how
ever, that MacArthur's co-com-':
mandcr in the Pacific. Admiral
! of the Fleet Chester W. Nimitz,
f might receive the surrender as
signment-
Nor was it Inconceivable, be
cause of their status as co-equals,
that neither would get it. But
the betting hero and In London
was on MacArthur.
An informed official source
i said it was likely that the sur
render ceremonies would be car
ricd out aboard a U. S. Third
, fleet battleship in Tokyo bay.
', The Allied communication,
' transmitted officially through
the Swiss government and beam
ed to Japan by the Office of War
Information, was a blunt reply
j to the enemy's offer to surrender
'i if the emperor would be per
mittcd to keep his sovereign
power.
j Four Terms Given
j The Allied reply brusquely
j and clearly stated that:
1. Emperor Hirohito will be
employed by the Allied com
mander as an implement for
putting in effect the Potsdam
surrender terms- If the Japa
nese want to keep him on the
throne, that will be their de
mocratic privilege.
; 2. All Japanese sea. land
and air forces will cease opera
tions and surrender their
i arms.
3. Immediately upon sur
render the Japanese govern
ment will transport all prison
er nt n. a - mtA fivimn Int.,.
nees to places of safety where
" they may quickly be put
! aboard ship for home-
4. Allied forces will occupy
I Japan for as long as necessary
to demilitarise her completely,
i punish her war criminals, and
make certain that she never
again threatens the peace of
Asia and the world.
Byrnes set forth these points
In four terse paragraphs which j
even now are being beamed to 1
the Japanese. For manv hours !
after Tokvo's broadcast sur-;
render offer, the Japanese peop'c troops from the European theat- All U. S. Employment Service j
were kept ignorant of the f.'Ct er will continue as regularly ' offices on the west coast will
that it had been made. The scheduled before the Japanese continue to direct workers Into'
OWI hi now dispelling that surrender offer, the U. S. army ; such Jobs as transport, ware-!
Ignorance. j announced today. Headquarters . housing, longshoring, food pro-
authorities conceded, however, 1 duction and lumber supply, the I
ban Jose, Cal., Aug. 11 U.R) i that the end of the war would ( War Manpower commission said j
California prune growers will revise scheduled troop move- today. Ship repair activity will
receive a support price of Q'-ijnienls and priorities throughout he 'trcwd rs long as service
cents a pound Uus jear. Uiv woild.- 'jutu are ju iha FatUic- 1
Truman's Speech Brings
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President Truman, making radio address to nation, revealed that
"new military secrets" besides the atomic bomb and Russia's par
ticipation in the Pacific conflict
Should they continue to fight-
WPB RESTRICTION
ON LUMBER SALE
Portland, Ore.. Aug. 1 1 (U.R)
Lumber operators will receive
notice Monday of the first re
moval of restrictions on retail
sales, William Freeman, WPB
timber administrator, said today.
The freeze on 2 by 4 lumber
and western pine has been lift
ed. With the lifting of the pine
restrictions, mill operators will
no longer have to require two
certificates from purchasers, one
to buy lumber and the other to
buy pine, the statement said.
A demand for revision of lum
ber requirements by the mili
tary has been made by the WPB.
The revised requirements must
include only what is seriously
needed by the military, accord
ing to the WPB.
Orders for 700 million feet
for the military will be cancelled
to ease the serious situation fac
ed by northwest mills and
camps. Mills will be kept going
to full capacity by urgently
needed military requirements.
WPB restrictions on the flow
of lumber will be cut immediate
ly after full military require
ments are given the board. "We
intend to let loose the strings
as quickly as is humanly possi
ble," Freeman said.
WAGE VIOLATION
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
File for reference on V-J Day:
The War Labor Board says
employers may without violat-,
ing wage stabilization rcgula-
tions. excuse workers for the !
victory celebration and pay them '
not to exceed straight time for
the hours they don't work.
TO FOLLOW SCHEDULE
Washington. Aug. 11 iU Ri
Processing and redeployment of
Jap Peace Move Report
were in store for the Japanese
(NEA-Teiophoto).
TULE LAKE JAPS
FRET MOST
THEIR 01 FATE
Newell, Cal., Aug. 11 (U.R)
The 17,000 Japanese held in the
Tule Lake segregation center
here took the news of the Japa
nese surrender offer quietly,
War Relocation officials said to
day, although a large proportion
of the inmates are loyal to Japan-
The destruction of Hiroshima
by the first atomic bomb dropped
on Japan caused greater concern,
Robert H. Ross, assistant reports
officer, reported. By coinci
dence, he said, about a third of
the inmates cither are natives
of Hiroshima prefecture or have
I relatives there.
Those with relatives in the
Hiroshima area have taken for
granted that they were killed
and individual memorial rfles
are still being held. Ross said
there were no mass ceremonies
or demonstrations.
The War Relocation officer
noted no common reaction to the
surrender offer.
"Some of the older people
took it pretty hard," he ob
served. "But the younger Nisei
took the occasion in some eases
to 'tell off their older relatives
who had remained loyal to
Japan.
"Most of the people here are
more worried about their own
future than that of Japan.
Nylon Production
Comes With Peace
Washington, Aug. 1 1 (U.R)
Production of nylon hose for ci
vilians is expected to be one of
the first industrial war casual-
ties to come back after V-J day
indications are that hosiery;
mills will begin receiving nylon
thread almost at once.
Officials believe nylon hose
will re-appear on the market '
within two months after V-J day. I
COAST JOB OUTLOOK !
San Francisco, Aug. 11 'UR)'
PLACE CONGRESS
SEPT. 4
Vacation Cut a Month To
Speed Reconversion
Budget Cut Looms
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
Congress was asked to cut short
its vacation to deal with fast
multiplying reconversion prob
lems as demolization of the home
front to a peacetime economy
began in earnest tonight.
Senate Democratic Leader Al-
ben W. Barkley, Ky., revealed
after a 90 minute White House
conference that President Tru
man felt Congress should be re
convened as soon as practicable.
Barkley said Congress probably
will be called back into session
on Sept. 4, more than a month
ahead of its scheduled Oct. 8
date.
A grim warning came from
government officials that wide
spread unemployment is inevi
table during the six months it
will take to achieve a good meas
ure of reconversion.
Confronted with the imminent
end of the war. government pro
curement agencies embarked on
grand-scale program of can
celling war contracts.
The United Press learned that
the Army and Navy have ordered
termination of nearly $4,000,-
000,000 in war contracts since
the Japanese first announced
their surrender offer. Authorita
tive sources disclosed that the
heavy flow of war rail shipments
to the west has been curtailed.
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
A Budget Bureau official esti
mated tonight the government
might pare $30,000,000,000 from
its 1945-46 budget if Japan sur
renders within the next week or
two.
August 1 estimates showed
that the war would cost $70,
000.000,000 if it continued
through June 30, 1946.
The spokesman said in any
event the drop in spending would
not be immediate, because every
man who leaves the service gets
mustering out pay and transpor
tation home. In about six months,
after the end of the war, he said,
there should be "a very sharp
decline" in spending.
FULLlill
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The atomic . bombs which
wrought cataclysmic destruction
upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki
were relatively harmless a
slight improvement would have
made them weapons of such un
imaginable power as to threaten
the end of the world.
The war department revealed
the mind-numbing potentialities
of the atomic bomb tonight in a
technical report on the five
years of experimentation which
produced it. The report was
written by Dr. H. D. Smyth, head
of the Princeton University
physics department and one of
the atom bomb's progenitors.
Dr. Smyth gave a detailed ac
count of the scientific develop
ment of the bomb. In the course
of the group's experiments, he
said, two new chemical elements
were developed neptunium and
Plutonium.
WAR'SlNDlOT TO
ENO DRAFT CALLS
Salem, Ore., Aug. 11 (U.R)
The draft program will not be
affected immediately by the end
of the war, Col. Elmer V. Woo
ton. state selective service di
rector, said today.
Men called up for Induction
this month are to report. The
next date is. set for August 20.
Wooton said that Inductions
have been light the past few
months and that only approxi
mately half of the number of
flicu were Uuut tlitdiarged.
'Creeping Socialism' Plan of
Attlee Hit Bureauratic
Rule Deplored
Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 11
(U.R) Former President Herbert
Hoover, describing Britain's new
labor government as a "creeping
socialism, today urged Amer
icans to fight collectivism by
proclaiming their faith in free
dom.
t should proclaim again
and again that the road to free
men and to progress and pros
perity is not to be found in the
spread of governmental powers
and bureacracy, but in striving
to set bounds to it. Hoover told
thousands of former Iowans who
attended the annual Iowa picnic
in Bixby park.
Reviewing how "communism
or creeping socialism are sweep
ing over Europe," Hoover, native
of West Branch, la., declared
"the western hemisphere is be
coming the last hope of free
men."
"You have seen a form of col
lectivism in our own country,"
the only living cx-president, who
yesterday observed his 71st
birthday, warned. "You are fa
miliar with the pre-war growth
of governmental power over our
own citizens. To this are added
the controls necessary to win the
war. Have you not seen with
your own eyes the flood of bu
reaucratic violations of liocrty
and the moral degeneration
which comes with this collectiv
ist process?"
The Utopia of totalitarian
"Liberals" is a "will-O'-the-wisp
that leads implacably to the
swamps of serfdom," Hoover pre
dicted.
The "creeping socialism" pro
gram of British Prime Minister
Clement Attlee should bring
home "to the American people
that this is no academic ques
tion "
"Whether the nation which
was the mother of liberty In the
western world will take over for
the government the title to every
farm every home, every busi
ness, and reduce every citizen to
a servant of the government re
mains to be seen," Hoover said.
"But do you want to start on the
impoverishment and servitude of
such a system?"
The true American system
"brooks neither tyranny of bu
reacracy nor tyranny of business.
We do not defend economic free
dom because of profit or greed.
We defend it because we know
that without economic freedom
all the freedoms of mind and
spirit will perish," Hoover add
ed. KOREAN BATTLE
E
SOVIETAND JAPS
San Francisco, Aug. 11 U.R)
Tokyo radio said tonight Soviet
troops fighting in Korea arc en
gaged in fierce combat with
Japanese forces near Yukl. ap
proximately 15 miles north of
the important port of Rashin.
Yuki lies approximately six
miina inirfi the Korean border
and 00 miles southwest of Vladi
vostok, the base from whicn Hea
Banner army troops launched
their Korean offensive-
The Tokyo broadcast, recorded
by United Press. San Francisco,
reported on fighting as of Satur
day night, Tokyo time.
Soviet troops made a fronlal
attack against Hunchun, B0 miles
west of Vladivostok, and "fight
ing is now taking place in the vi
cinity of the city." Tokyo said.
The enemy broadcast said
Soviet encircled FenyBng. 4.1
miles southeast of Mulingeharg.
which the Red army previously
reported as captured.
BULLETIN
Seattle 1 4 1
Portland 11 10 0
C. Johnson, Krazier (Si and
iuuiie, Mower aud Souiau
Just a 'Love Set'
Stockholm, Aug. 11 (U.R)
Maj. Gen. Makato Onodcra,
Japanese military attache in
Stockholm, said in an inter
view today that the atomic
bomb was the main reason for
Japan's capitulation offer and
suggested that the Allies now
shake hands with Japan as if
they had played a tennis
match.
Ha said he was grateful for
the "understanding the Amer
icans have shown the Japanese
way of thinking" and said that
"the Japanese respect the Al
lies especially the Americans
r csources and fighting
spirit."
T
Snn Francisco, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The Tokyo newspaper Asahl
Sunday (Tokyo time) called on
every Japanese to do his part
In fulfilling the august wish of
his majesty."
It exhorted the nation to
maintain firmest unity if worst
comes to worst."
'Even in the worst chaotic
stage in such great national
crises, our people always have
been gratified to find a rallying
point for their souls and action.
The western term, "wandering
soul," has no place in our lan
guage. "By obeying his majesty's
august wish, our people have
always found a way out of such
crises. Our ancestors huvo thus
overcome many a national crisis
and handed down to their poster
ity Japan as she is now with
her spirit and blood."
"The Soviet Union's abrupt
declaration of war on Japan,
coupled with United States' re
sort to -atomic bombs, entailing
the mass slaughter of civilians
on a scale unprecedented in hu
man history has greatly intensi
fied the gravest national crisis.
"She (Japan) stands at the
crossroads whether or not she
will be able to maintain her
unique national policy and up
hold the honor of the Japanese
race."
DENIAL MADE OF
E
New York, Aug. 1 1 (U.R)
The Office of War Information
reported tonight that various
rumors of the Federal Commun
ications Commission having re
corded a Tokyo broadcast or a
Chungking broadcast quoting
Tokyo to the effect that Japan
has rejected Allied surrender
terms were without foundation.
The FCC has recorded no such
broadcast, it said.
Another rumor, to the effect
that the Japanese War Minister
has called on Jnpanese forces to
continue the fight, was a garbled
version of an appeal he issued to
the troops yesterday (I riday)
three hours before Domci trans
mitted its surrender offer, OWI
said.
OWI pointed out that the
Domei Agency reported Friday
night that the surrender offer
had been approved by a unani
mous vote of the full cabinet in
cluding the war and navy minis
ters. TO
T
San Francisco, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The appointment of a succes
sor to the late Sen. Hiram John
son still stirred speculation In
political circles here, as an
nouncement was withheld by
Gov. Earl Warren pending final
services for Johnson Monday.
Latest development was a
recommendation today by the
Republican central committee to
the governor that he appoint
himself. As second choice they
suggested Lt. Gov. Frederick F.
iiuutcr.
TRAITOR'S DEATH
BEGIVJMTAIN
Old Marshal Pretends Not
To Hear Verdict Due
Late Tuesday
Paris, Aug. 11 (U.R) Prose
cutor Andre Momot demanded a
traitor's death for Marshal Henri
Philippe Petain today in a five-;
hour summation of the case Thursday and Friday destroyed
against the old marshal who . or damaged at least 711 enemy
headed the French Vichy gov- j pianes and 94 ships, but he did
eminent under the German oc-1 not rcport any offensive opera
cupation. j tions against the enemy home-
The 74-vear-old Mornet. who land since Tokyo's surrender
convicted the famed world war
woman spy. Mata Hari, accused
Petain of collaboration with the
Germans, of bringing dishonor
on France, of destroying the
third republic and seizing power
for the purpose of turning over
France to the invader.
The demand for the death
penalty was expected. It brought
no response from spectators,
judge or jury in the hot and
crowded courtroom- Petain ap
peared not to hear it.
"Putting his policy at the dis
posal of the Germans is treason
in all its forms," Mornet said.
"France has been dishonored and
betrayed. Petain took away
France's reason for living by
taking away her honor."
Mornet said he had received
"menacing letters and threats."
"But let us think of all the 111
done France by collaboration,"
he snid. "I ask the high court
to pronounce the death sentence
against the man who was mar
shal of France."
The court adjourned after
Mornet's address- It reconvenes
Monday to hear the defense sum
mation. A verdict is expected
late Tuesday.
WAR BULLETINS
Chungking. Aug. 11 (U.R)
Well-informed Chinese circles
saw the possibility today of
abdication of Japanese Em
peror Hirohito to enable Japan
to comply with the Allies' un
conditional surrender terms.
Competent observers said ab
dication was the only way out
for acceptance of Japanese
surrender since the People's
Political Council of China has
named Hirohito the arch war
criminal of Japan
Washington, Aug. 11 (U.R)
The navy tonight announced
the loss of the U. S. S. Bone
fish, the Slst and possibly
one of the last American
submarine victim t.l the Paci
fic war. The ship carried a
crew of 85 officrs and men.
all of whom are listed as miss
ing In action. The navy said
that the ship has long been
overdue on patrol and must be
presumed lost-
San Francisco, Aug, 11
(U.RI The Yenan Radio re
ported today Gen. Chu Teh,
Chinese Communist Commander-in-chief,
has ordered his
forces to arrange for the dis
arming of Japanese and pup
pet troops in the Communists'
sones of operations. Gen. Chu
Interpreted the Japanese gov
ernment's peace offer as "un
conditional surrender," the
Yenan report said.
. San Francisco, Aug. 12
(U.R) Foreign Minister Shige
nori Togo of Japan was re
ceived by Emperor Hirohito at
the Imperial Palace at 11 a. m.
Sunday (Toyko time 7 p. m.
PWT). Tokyo radio reported
tonight.
The broadcast, recorded by
United Press, said that "For
eign Minister Togo is under
stood to have reported to the
throne on matters under his
jurisdiction." No further de
tails were given.
Washington. Aug. 11 U.R)
The Chinese Communist
News Agency said tonight that
Gen. Yen Hsi-Shan, former
povernor of Shansi Province
and one of China's most pow
erful warlords, had gone over
to the Japanese with his arm
ies in a deal by which he is to
protect Japanese property In
terests In Shansi in event of
Japan 1 deieal.
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711 PLANES HIT
BY THIRD FLEET
Japan Raked As Surrender
Pondered New Type
Atomic Bomb Ready
Guam, Sunday, Aug- 12 (U.R)
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
announced today the Third
ficcfs assault against Japan
offer.
Nimitz and Gen- Carl A.
Spaatz, commanding general of
the U. S. army strategic air
forces, both announced that full
scale operations against Japan
would continue with "full de
structive effect" regardless of
surrender negotiations.
But more than 18 hours later,
on the basis of available Allied
information, there had been no
heavy aerial or naval action
against Japan since the fateful
Domei news agency broadcast at
8:27 p. m. Friday, Tokyo time.
Fourteen Japanese warships
were sunk or damaged in the
Thursday -Friday action which
may have been the last sea-borne
attack against beaten Nippon by
the world's mightiest naval
force.
While Jnpan pondered the Big
Four reply to the Japanese bid
for peace, the U. S- high com
mand announced that a new
type of atomic bomb even more
devastating than the first one
used to destroy Hiroshima was
being held fn readiness for pos
sible further disintegration at
tacks against Japanese cities.
Nimitz had bluntly clarified
the Issue declaring that a state
of war still exists In the Pacific.
He said the battle against Japan
will continue with all Its de
structive effect until official
notification of the enemy's sur
render. Today he added 188 more
planes to the two-day toll previ
ously announced- Ho raised
earlier ship losses by 86. Includ
ing the 14 warships. U. S. losses
were seven planes and six air
men. British losses were seven
aircraft and five pilots.
The two-day toll of 711 planes
was taken In aerial attacks cover
ing a 400-mile long area of
northern Honshu, stretching
from the Yokohama area nearly
to the northern tip of the island.
Kumamoto Ablaze
Manila, Sunday, Aug. 12 (U.R)
Okinawa dispatches reported to
day that the 5th and 7th Air
forces sent more than 700 planes
against the city of Kumamoto
and other objectives on Kyushu
Friday in the greatest assault of
the war by Okinawa - based
planes-
The raid was made shortly be
fore the Japanese broadcast their
surrender offer.
Returning pilots said Kuma
moto, fourth largest city on Kyu
shu, was left almost totally In
flames after the fighters and
bombers dropped nearly 350 tens
of high explosives and incendi
aries and strafed military objec
tives. A smoke haze seemed to
cover Kyushu, the pilots said,
extending at least 100 miles from
Nagasaki, victim of the second
atomic bomb attack.
ORDER V J DAY
Salem, Ore., Aug. 11 (U.R)
Oregon will observe V-J day
with appropriate ceremonies,
Gov. Earl Snell said today.
The day will be a full state
holiday and a proclamation to
be distributed on victory day as
announced by the White House,
has been prepared. The procla
mation calls for closing of pub
lic buildings, state stores and
agencies and asks alt business
activity to be suspended where
possible.
The governor suggested that
churches be opened for special
Mivicei 011 victory day. .