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Minesweepers Clear Channel
Japs Pack Beaches
Entry Tonight
Manila, Aug. 27 U.R) Ad
miral William F. (Bull) Halsey's
mighty flagship Missouri, lead
ing a 100-mile long procession of
slued warships, anchored in the
shadow of Fujiyama today and
waited impatiently for mine
sweepers to clear a channel into
Tokyo bay.
A dispatch from the 53,000-ton
y Missouri said Japanese could be
teen through field-glasses jam
med shoulder to shoulder along
the beaches two miles away as
the big battleship dropped an
chor in Sagami bay at 1:30 p. m.
(12:30 a. m. EWT).
Factories, barracks and other
buildings clearly were visible be
hind the shining beaches, and
rot far away rose the quiescent
volcano Fujiyama, snowless and
smoky blue.
Sometime tonight or tomor
row depending on the progress
of the minesweeping Halsey's
warships will sail through the
narrow Uraga Suido straits into
Tokyo bay in fulfillment of his
long-dreamed goal.
More than 400 allied warships
and supply vessels were arrayed
off Japan under Halsey's com
mand, but how many of them
v will enter Sagami and Tokyo
bays was problematical. "
' The Missouri's sister-battleship
Iowa, along with the British bat
tlewagon Duke of York, anchor
ed beside the flagship at a point
some 45 miles south of Tokyo
itself. No incidents were report
ed. More than 1,200 carrier planes
thundered overhead as the Mis
souri steamed into Sagami bay
at 10:32 a. m. (9:32 p. m. Sunday,
EWT) and took aboard 21 grim
faced Japanese envoys.
The enemy emissaries were
given detailed instructions to
prepare for the passage of third
lleet units into Tokyo bay and
for the landing of American oc
cupation troops at Yokosuka na
val base, 21 miles south of
Tokyo, at 10 a. m. Thursday (9
p. m. Wednesday, EWT).
Rear Admiral Oscar Badger,
who will command the first task
force to move through the nar
row straits Into Tokyo boy, told
T newsmen with the third fleet
that American commanders were
taking no chances on possible
Japanese treachery.
"Any violence will be met
with definite and drastic steps,"
he said. "I will deem any such
act mutinous and against the
will of the emperor as well as
contrary to the interests of the
allied nations."
SIX KNOWN DEAD,
DAMAGE HIGH IN
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Houston. Tex., Aug. 27 U.R)
A tropical hurricane, leaving I
in its wake at least six dead and j
.uncounted thousands of dollHrsj
in property damage, today wasi
reported centered on the coast j
near Port O'Connor. '
The storm, which has been ;
lashing the Texas gulf coast since ;
yesterday with winds from 75 to!
110 miles an hour, threatened j
the entire upper Texas coast i
area. I
The weather bureau reported
the storm was moving north:
northeastward about lour to five!
miles per hour. I
Port Lavaca reported winds I
between 75 and 110 miles an
hour with tides rising seven fort
above normal and still mount i
ing. I
Communications lines were
down throughout the storm area .
and detailed reports on damage
and loss of life were not avail
able.
a New York Aug. 27 V
Cotton future.; opened 3 to 5
points higlicr today.
Leads Tokyo Flight
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Col. John H. Lackey, Jr, Norfolk
Va, who will pilot first Americai
plane to alight at Atsugi alrstrij
near Tokyo, lackey, who led flight
of planes that dropped paratrooper!
on Corregldor. will be riding No. J
position on a sky train that will In
clude cargo planes protected by 5th
and 7th Air Forces and by Navy and
Marine Corps.
DAWN 10 ATSUG
C-54s To Carry First Occu
pation Troops and Sup
plies for Main Force
Okinawa, Aug. 27 (U.R) The
First planes of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's reconnaissance par
ty the vanguard, of the Allied
occuodtion of Japan will land
at A'suai airstrip southwest ol 1
Tokyo between 9 and 10 a. m.
tomorrow ( 8 and 3 p. m. toaay
EWT).
Okinawa, Aug. 27 U.R)
The vanguard of American occu
pation troops will fly to Atsugl
airdrome, 14 miles southwest of
Tokyo, at dawn tomorrow.
Included Sn the aerial party
will be engineers, , communica
tions and reconnaissance experts.
They will make the trip to
Atsugi in C-46s and C-47s and
C-54s of combat cargo and troop
carrier groups. All planes ex
cept communications aircraft are
scheduled to return to Okinawa
tomorrow afternoon.
Combat cargo and troop car
rier groups will fly the most
direct route from Okinawa to
Atsugi, W ATC planes will
make a short dogleg northeast
before heading directly for the
airstrip.
C-54s will fly at a high alti
tude, with the C-46s and C-47s
flying below. On their return,
the C-54s will fly at a lower ele
vation, with other cargo planes
above.
Reconnaissance planes will
carry personnel, gasoline, nil,
rations and communication
equipment.
An elaborate rescue system
has been set up for the operation
by navy and army air forces.
The navy has two destrovers
stationed every 100 miles di
rectly on the overwater route
from Okinawa to Honshu
destroyers will work In coopcia-1
lion with navy Catalinas and
army air
planes.
forces air-sea rescue
15 ODT Offices To
Close in 2 Months
;
Washington. Aug. 27 (U.R)
The Office of Defense Tran.'por
talion announced today that 15
field offices of its railway trans
port department will be shut
down within the next two
months.
On Oct 22 offices will be
closed in Denver, Colo., and Kan
sas City.
The remaining seven of the
railway transport department s
field offices will continue fori
the time being." ODT said I hey !
Include Portland. Ore ; Seattle.
Wa.'ti : Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
JAPAN SHOKF OF
FOOD, FUEL SAYS
People Unmoved By Occu
pation, Humbled By De
feat, States Kasuado
With U. S. Occupation Forces
In Sagami Bay, Aug. 27 (U.R
Japan, humbled by defeat and
food and fuel shortages, is now
ready to accept the fate of the
vanquished, a Japanese naval
officer said today as American
navy and marine forces steamed
through the mine fields of Sag-
I ami Bay in the direction of
Tokyo.
The Japanese officer, Lt.
Cmdr. Z. Kusuado, skipper of a
destroyer escort anchored In
Yokosuka naval base, came
aboard this transport the U. S.
S. Grimes at 1:30 p. m. He
was ready to lead the U. S.
naval flotilla to a safe anchor
age. Kusuado transferred from the
destroyed U. S. S. Stockham off
O Shima. U. S. sailors and ma
rines stood on the deck watched
as Kusuado came aboard on a
breeches buoy.
He grinned once, then
whipped out secret maps of the
Sagami channel and went into
conference with Cmdr. Roland
M. Smoot, Coronado, Cal.
Kusuado said everything was
In readiness to receive American
occupation troops at Yokosuka.
The Japanese people have 'no
-particular feeling" . about the
occupation of their country, and
have "just accepted it," Kusu
ado said.
Two-thirds of the personnel of
Yokosuka base, including both
high commanders, already have
departed for Tokyo while others
are standing by awaiting the
Americans.
Kusuado said the food situa
tion In Japan was "very acute."
and that the remaining Japanese
war vessels virtually were forced
to remain at anchor because of
a luei snoriage.
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HEAR DIG BLAST
BUT COAST WILL
Pocatello, Ida., Aug. 27 (U.R)
What probably will be the
loudest explosion In the United
States since the test-firing of the
atomic bomb will be touched off
20 miles from here Wednesday,
the navy disclosed today.
(In Seattle, 13th naval district
spokesmen announced that be
tween 9:30 a. m. and 10:30 a.
m. (mountain war time) naval
ordnance crews will set off a
blast of TNT that "may be heard
along the Mexican border."
(The explosion, the navy said,
is one of a series to determine
the safest method of storing TNT
and powder returned from over
seas.) Oddly, noise of the explosion
may not even be heard in Poca
tello, due to the skip-effect of
such blasts.
"It's quite likely," a weather
bureau official said, "that no
body within a radius of hundreds
of miles around Pocatello will
hear the evnlnsinn BMhminU It
Theimoy be heard nlnntf th
coti in Canada and along thc
Mexican border.
Any west coast residents hear
ing an explosion, "or what they
believe to be an explosion Wed-
macHqv mnpnlna ,i,aa ..b.J u..
!he11na2' "J?!4 ',' ,by P',card
lo the Chief of the United States
Weather Bureau In Washington
DC.
Thc card, thc navy said, should
contain the sender's name, ad
dress or location when the sound
was heard, description of thc
sound's intensity and the exact
time it was heard.
BACK FROM ALEUTIANS
Seattle, Aug. 27 01 R The
first squadron of rocket-firing
PV Vega Ventura bombers to
serve In the Aleutians back
in the United Slates today afteri
10 months, the 13th natal dis-l
tnct announced.
Siamese Twins Born
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 27
U.R) Siamese twin girls, de
livered by their grandmother
late Saturday, today were giv
en a good chance to live,
though physicians expressed
doubt it would be possible to
sever them.
The infants, born to Mrs.
Rita Miranda at her home at
Coldwatcr, a Phoenix suburb,
with only her mother in at
tendance, weighed a total, of
eight ponds nine ounces and
are of almost identical size.
The case did not come to
attention of doctors until late
yesterday when the father
called one who immediately
arranged for admission of the
babies to St. Monica's hospital
here. The mother remained
home and was reported doing
well.
Top Jap General Who Boast
ed Would Dictate Peace
Terms Quits
With the 32nd Division,
Northern Luzon, Aug. 27 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita.
commander of the Japanese
forces in the Philippines, opened
formal negotiations today for
surrendering his forces in north
ern Luzon.
In a letter to Maj. Gen. Wil
liam H. Gill, commander of thc
32nd Division, Yamashila. who
once boasted he would dictate
peace terms to Gen. Douglas
Mac-Arthur, said he had received
an order from Tokyo to cease
hostilities and would be ready to
negotiate as soon as authorized.
The message was delivered by
a Japanese captain late yester
day. Thc 59-year-old Yamashita.
known to American soldiers as
the 'butcher of Bataan," was
one of the top Japanese gener
als. He led Japanese forces on
Bataan and captured Corrcgidor.
As commander of Japanese forc
es in Malava, he received thc
surrender of Singapore in Feb
ruary 1942 Afler General
Homa's conquest of the Philip
pines bogged down in 1942 Ya
mashita was sent in from Malaya
to take over the Job.
When MacArthur returned to
thc Philippines in the Leytc
campaign, thc Japanese high
command quickly returned
Yamashita as commander of
Japanese forces in thc entire
Philippines area, relieving Lt.
Gen. Shlgenori Kuroda. Yama
shita marie his main bid to de
fend thc Philippines at Leytc,
sending In thousands of water
borne reinforcements at Ormoc.
Losing at Leyte he fought a
retiring, defensive war on Lu
zon and finally withdrew to
northern Luzon to retain active
command of the Japanese garri
son there.
Ward Store Test
Case Not Likely
Washington Aug. 27 U.P
Government lawyers said today
that the only attempt to test the
president's wartime seizure pow
ers probably would bo frustrat
ed bv return to private owner
ship of Montgomery Ward & Co.
propo-ties in seven cities
Federal agenries operating ap
proximately 200 private eslab
llshmc-nts were to start return
ing the properties today under
terms of a weekend executive
order issued by President Tru
man. The order covered all pro
perty taken since 1942 to halt
strikes or force compliance with
War Labor Hoard directives and
up until last July 30. It (lid not
includ" the Illinois Central Rail
road akrn over last week by
the Office of Drfi'ne Tranpor
tation to halt a walkout nf en
ginemen and firemen.
autoIplunge KILLS
Eveictt. Wash., Aug. 27 UP.)
Two persons were killed and
two seriously injured last mid
night when thc automobile in
which they were riding plunged
over 200 foot embankment a
mi'.'; v est nf the summit on
Stccn Paii, Wa;h., highway.
20 PER CENT CUT
E TAXES
Business and Individuals to
Benefit Hold Down Na
tional Debt
Washington, Aug. 27 (U.R)
Rep. Harold Knutson, of Minne
sota, ranking Republican mem
ber of the house ways and means
committee, predicted today that
congress would cut next year's
individual income tax about 20
per cent.
Knutson told reporters It was
"his guess" that a 20 per cent
reduction "across the board"
present tax rates would be made
-effective Jan. 1.
He believed that the govern
ment should be able to hold the
national debt, now approximate
ly $263,000,000,000. below thc
present ceiling of $300,000,000,
000. He said, however, that he
thought it would be necessary to
keep prices and wages up near
present levels to avoid deficit
financing in thc postwar period.
Knutson said the excess pro
fits tax on corporations should
end by next Jan. 1.
Hs also issued a statement ex
pressing hope that the ways and
means committee would "recog
nize that the payments to be
made in 1946 that means the
payment of 1945 corporation
taxes and payments on 1946 in
come for individuals under our
pay-as-you-go program can
speed up or retard the return of
a prosperous peacetime econ
omy." That statement suggested
Knutson might favor retroactive
tax relief for business on 1945
taxes payable next year.
"When we consider corporate
taxes we must keep in mind that
payments in 1946 must be re
lated to providing Jobs in private
industry and encouraging new
industry to help take up any la
bor slack," he said.
As to individuals, any program
must give them relief during
1946 both as to deductions from
wages and total tax burdens. As
to a postwar lax program cover
ing three to five years, that will
depend entirely on how large a
budget thc administration will
prevail on congress to vote."
Knutson expected thc govern
ment's peactime budget to total
approximately $26,000,000,000
about $6,000,000,000 each for
debt service, veterans' benefits
and national defense, and about
$8,000,000,000 for other func
tions. KIN SEEK SPEEDY
OF
ELIST
Berkeley. Cal., Aug. 27 (U.R)
Relatives of American prisoners
of war held by thc Japanese to
day asked President Truman to
authorize Immediate release lo
press association and radio cor
respondents of names of Amer
icans found alive In prison
camps.
A telegram sent the president
by II. E. Smetls president of thc
East Bay Bataan Relief organiza
tion, urged that the names be
made available Immediately,
without waiting for Wbt Denart
merit notification of next of kin.
Smetts declared War depart
ment announcements hBve been
delayed for days and even weeks
and said that "as an act of mercy
to hundreds of families living In
hourly suspense" official chan
nels should be by passed.
Capture 1,259, Many
Entombed, wo Jima
Iwo Jima. Aug. 27 .'U P j
American troops on Iwo island
have taken 1.259 Japanese sol
diers prisoners since thc Island'
was rantured Inst Marrh nnH mn'
uncounted number of other sol
diers are believed to be entomb
ed In the island's extensive tin-rirrcrour-d
lunnel system, Ihc
Lulled Vit.ii learned luday.
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Ma). William F. Knowland (right), newly appointed United States senator
from California, receives his discharge papers trom U. 8. Army from Col.
H. H. Gallon, commanding officer or Sun Francisco, Calif., Presidio, Just
one and a hnlf hours after he started throiiKh special separation center
set up to rush lilm to civilian life so Uiat he con Drcoaro for new duties.
By Ernest Hobercht
United Press Correspondent
In a Helldivcr over Tokyo,
Aug. 27 (U.R) American pris
oners of war, frenzied with hap
piness, jigged a war dance in
their Japanese Internment en
closure today as U. S. navy
planes skimmed low overhead.
I flew with a navy pilot En
sign Merrill Skinner, lite. 4,
Buhl, Idaho, among the wrecked
buildings of devastated Tokyo.
For sir hours we dived and bank
cd at tree-top level over the
sprawling metropolitan area
where blazing flak once spewed
skyward at attacking American
warplnnes.
Thc biggest thrill of our sight
seeing tour was a view of Amer
ica, l prisoners as they received
parachuted bundles of food and
medicine from other planes of
Virc Admiral John S. McCain's
task force 58.
As wc swooped low over their
prison camp, they danced and
.vaved. Soon they will be freed.
Wc found Japanese cooslal wa
ters doited with small fishing
craft as wc streaked through
lonshu skies In advance of Adm.
William F. Halsey's great victory
armada.
Wrecked Japanese ships litter
ed Tokyo bay. My pilot had a
hand in sinking some of them.
Over Yokosuka naval base 1
saw many gun positions which
had made tills area thc dreaded
'flak alley" for pilots approach
ing Tokyo. I saw men working
aboard the battered battleship
Nagato.
Some of the planes on the
Yokosuka runways seemed In
good condition, but most of them
appeared damaged.
The built-up residential areas
around Yokosuka seemed to
hae escaped serious bomb dam
age, but military and industrial
targets took a heavy beating.
Tokyo seemed desolate and de
vastated. Buildings still standing
were burned out Inside. There
was some activity in the streets
below us, but the city still has
not recovered from the knock
out blows wo delivered.
Acheson Sworn In
As Undersecretary
Washington. Aug. 27 'URl
Dean Acheson was sworn in to
day as undersecretary of slate,
succeeding Joseph C. Grew who
recently resigned.
Acheson will serve on an In
terim appointment until congress
returns next month and his I
nomination can be sent to the
senate for confirmation.
Acheson took the oalh hi the
office of Secretary of Stale
James F, Byrnes.
the Senate
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ELLIOTT'S LOANS
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Washington,- Aug. 27 (U.R)
The slory of Elliott Roosevelt's
financial transactions was laid
before congress today.
The treasury department gave
thc report to Colin Stam, tax ex
pert for the house ways and
means committees, which re
quested a far-ranging inquiry
into the loan deals effcled by
the late president's son when he
was a Texas radio-chain oper
ator in 1039.
Treasury Investigators have
gone as far afield as Texas, New
York and Chicago in iheir search
for the insirle story of Roose
velt's transactions.
Principal items they have
checked Include:
1. A $2000,000 loan from John
A. Hartford, president of the
great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
made In 1939 and reportedly set
tled for $4,000 In 1942 by the
then secretary of commerce.
Jesse II. Jones, at thc request of
the Roosevelt family.
2. A $70,000 loan from David
G. Balrd, New York Insurance
man, made in 1939 and reported
ly settled In 1941 for about $30,
000. 3. A $50,000 loan from Max
well M. Bilofsky, New Jersey
radio equipment manufacturer,
made In 1030 and reportedly set
tled for $20,800 In 1941.
Elliott Roosevelt at the time
of the loans, was part owner of
the Transcontinental Broadcast
Inc System. Inc.. which was
formed In October, 1939, and
went Into receivership less than
a year later. k
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OKINAWA. Aug. 27 (U.R)
A typhoon which was over the
Japanese Inland tea at noon
today was moving north at 12
to 15 miles per hour and will
not affect tomorrow's recon
naissance landing at Atsugi
airstrip, the Air Transport
Command weather section re
ported, San Francisco, Aug. 27
UR Tokyo radio said today
approximately 6.500 Allied in
ternees have been set free in
Shanghai. A Japanese broad
cait recorded by United Press
San Francisco, said an Amer
ican mission was "looking
after the internees' welfare."
San Francisco, Aug. 27 U.R)
The Singapore radio said to
day Japanese troops there
were suffering a "large num
ber" el casualties attempting
to p-eserve order.
The broadcasts said dis
turbances were "continuing"
In the Malaya peninsula and
that railroad facilities were
bting sabotaged.
T
E
OF D RAFT2 YEARS
Men 18 to 25 Affected
Would Replace Veterans
Keep Army at Safe Level
Washington, Aug. 27 (U.R)
President Truman urged con
gress today to continue selective
service inductions of men 13
through 25, but with a two-year
limit on their period of service.
Mr. Truman said "the situa
tion in the Pacific continues to
have many elements of danger"
and emphasized the danger in "a
too early unqualified formla ter
mination" of thc war emergency.
"Tragic conditions would re
sult If we were to allow the pe
riod of military service to ex
pire by operation of law while
substantial portion of our forcca
has not yet been returned front
overseas," he said. "I am confi
dent that the congress will take
no action which would place th
armed forces In such a position."
The president act forth hia
views on continued selective ser.
vice In identical letters to Chair
man Elbert D. Thomas, D.. Utah,
of the senate committee on mili
tary affairs, and Chairman An
drew J. May, D., Ky., of the,
house military affairs committee.
On the day he announced Ja
pan's agreement to surrender,
Mr. Truman said that some 50,
000 men a month would be draft
ed for the army Indefinitely, pri
marily as replacements for vet
erans who have seen long serv
ice. The president suggested that
congress take additional steps to
furnish inducements which will
stimulate voluntary enlistments.
The number of inductions will
depend on the number of volun
teers, he Indicated,
The president said he wished
It were possible for him to rec
ommend the immediate cessation
of the draft. He could not. ha
said, because he shared "the deep
feeling of our people" that battle
veterans should be returned t
their homes with all possible
speed.
In pointing out that world con
ditions will require during the
transition period the mainte
nance of "a real measure of our
military strength," the president
declared that our occupation
forces in Europe, as well as the
Pacific, must be held "at safe
levels."
Ho recommended that Induc
tions contini.e until congress
"shall establish the broad na
tional policies to govern full de
mobilization, occupation and
world security."
He said that most recent
studies indicated that 300.001
would be thc maximum number
of volunteers to be expected by
next July and that Inductions, if
continued at thc present reduced
rate, for the same period would
produce approximately 800.000
men. On that basis, no more
than 800.000 non-veterans and
volunteers would be in thc army
next July.
SAILORONlEAVE
PhM 2c Bryan Milton Yor
ton, 23, was instantly killed
about 2 a. m. today when the
coupo he was driving sideswlped
a car driven by Holllo Alvm
Rhoads, 8 Bcrrydalc avenue,
about a mile north of Medford
on thc Crater Lake highway.
Yorton had been home on
leave from thc navy for thc past
three weeks and was visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl B.
Yorton. route 3 box 476.
Rhoads was taken to a local
hospital In Ihc Conger-Morns
ambulance and is suffering from
head Injuries and lacerated
knees, according to Deputy Cop
oner Carlos Morris.
Yorton's body is at thc Conger
Morris Funeral Home awaiting
funeral arrangements. The de
ceased was a member of the Vt
etaus ul Foreign Wars,