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Manila, Aug. 28 U.R The
occupation of Japan began
smoothly today with the estab
lishment of American advance
headquarters 20 miles from To
kyo and the anchoring in Tokyo
Bay of a nine-ship task force
with 10,000 marines and blue
Jackets. An advance party of 150 tech
nicians the first occupation
troops to land on Japan radio
ed back from Atsugi airfield to
night that all 48 planes in the
initial air-borne force had land
ed safely this morning.
Radio communications were
set up and preparations begun
to ready the airfield for the
mass air-borne landings sched
uled to begin Thursday morning.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su
preme occupation commander,
will be among the early arrivals
Thursday.
An NBC correspondent on
Okinawa quoted the Atsugi par
ty as savine that the Japanese
garrison served some of the
Americans a six-course dinner
on a white tablecloth while
other pilots guarded the planes.
Curious Japanese soldiers and
civilians had to be pushed away
from the planes.
4 Main Plane Crashes
The main communications
plane for the advance party
crashed on its takeoff from an
Okinawa airfield early this
morning and all 19 occupants
were killed. Some valuable
. equipment was lost, but a sub
stitute plane was sent imme
diately to Atsugi in its place.
Rear Admiral Oscar C. Bad
ger's flagship, the Cruiser San
Diego, led a troop-laden trans
port, four destroyers, and three
seaplane tenders through nar
row Uraga Strait into Tokyo
Bav without incident.
The Armada dropped anchor
et 1:30 p.m. (12:30 a. m. EWT)
300 yards off Yokosuka naval
base, 20 miles south of Tokyo
and 20 miles southeast of Atsugi.
American naval commanoeio
handed the Japanese a final
memorandum directing them to
keep the Yokosuka base operat
ing until American forces land
7 there Thursday.
The Japanese were told to
keep skeleton crews guarding
ail installations. Word reached
fleet units offshore that the
Japanese were stripping shore
defenses, disarming guns and
sweeping mined channels.
A ranking American officer
said: , . , ,
"The Japanese are completely
cooperative and it looks like the
marines and bluejackets will
simply march ashore."
Some 10,000 American mar
ines and bluejackets and British
marines were poised aboard the
transport Gossclin in Tokyo Bay
to go ashore Thursday at three
points around Yokosuka simul
taneously with the airborne
landings at Atsugi.
(An NBC boardcast from the
fleet said a Japanese mine ex
ploded in Tokyo Bay few
points off the port side of the
transport Gossclin, but caused
r,iiw riamnce nor casualties.
y.
r Find Bomber, Fate
Of Crew in Doubt
Walla Walla. Wash., Aug. 28
OI.Ri The wreckage of a B-24
Liberator bomber, missing inre
Saturday night, has been found
seven miles north of Tollgate,
Ore., but the fate of the 15 men
aboard was undetermined, the
army reported today.
The announcement said the
plane was spoiled from the air
in the rtigscd mountainous re-1
gmn of northeastern Oregon and
that word was being awaited :
from a ground party. j
The bomber disappeared on a ;
training flight from Sioux Falls, !
ft. I)., to the army air field here.
plantTo CLOSE
San Diego, Aug. 28 (UP.) The
Louisville. Kv.. division of Con
solidated Vultce Aircraft Corp.
will shut down Sept. 7. company
tiUxuli announced today.
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(Acme '1 clephoto)
Bluejacket landing detail lines up aboard Iowa-class battleship off Japan In preparation for naval occupation
of Tokyo Bay. Adm. Halseys mighty U. S. 3rd Fleet lies In water off Japan homeland, Including battleship
Missouri, aboard which the historic surrender ceremonies will take place. U. s. Navy radiotelephoto direct to
Ban Francisco trom 3rd Fleet via Guam,
E F
TO
FULL FORCE
Houston, Tex., Aug. 28 (U.R)
The latest U. S. weather
bureau's advisory today reported
the tropical hurricane now has
struck Sealy, Tex., 50 miles
west-northwest of Houston but
was decreasing in intensity.
The storm was reported mov
ing slowly north "With gales of
about 40 to 50 miles per hour
around the center and possibly
winds up to 70 miles over a
small area at the center.
It now was believed that,
with the -course the hurricane
had taken, Houston might miss
the full force of the blow.
Missouri Pacific Railroad of
ficials reported two of the com
pany's trains were missing.
Communications were down, but
it was believed they had reached
the small town of Franeitas, near
Bay City, where sufficient track
age would be found to support
them.
YANK-JAP GOES
San Francisco. Aug. 28 (U.R)
Takeo M y a m a, Japanese
American machinist, today re
turned to his job at the Munici
pal Railway Bus Repair shop de
spite threats of 100 AFL union
repairmen to "escort him out,"
stage d sit-down strike or a walk
out. Mivama came to the shop
shortly after 8 a. m. and was
sent to repair a bus standing in
the y:rd outside the shops. When
the other workers heard the
Nisei had returned they ceased
work In small groups to discuss
the maltcr.
Police and plain clothesmen
guarded the repair shop in an
ticipation of violence.
A ?an Francisco hero of the
Aircraft Carrier Franklin ap-proa-hed
Miyama while he
worked on the bus, to offer en
couragement. "Good lurk and I hope you get
your chanca to work here."
Chief Radio Technician Harold
Stone said to Miyama. "I think
you have the risht to." Stone
noldi the silver star for gallan
try In ac tion against the Japan
ese. Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R) j
President Truman will hold a i
news conference at 10 am.,
Thursday, the White House an
uounccci today. 1
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BULLETIN
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Lt. Col. Nicol Smith of the
Office of Strategic Service re
vealed today that about 300
survivors of the cruiser Hous
ton, sunk early in the war, are
interned in a Japanese prison
camp in Thailand,
Oakmont, Pa., Aug. 28 (U.R)
Sammy Snead, of White Sulphur
Springs, Va., shot a one-over-par
73 today to take an early lead
in the 72-hole $10,000 war bond
tournament at the Oakmont
Country club.
Snead's score was one stroke
better than Byron Nelson, who
turned in a 74 for the first 18
holes. Veteran Gene Sarazen had
to be content with a 79, while
Harold (Jug) McSpaden, away
off his game, shot a poor 81.
HETJC TIME SHE
SAYS WITH HARRY
San Francisco, Aug. 28
(U.R) Mrs. Agnes Bridges today
was expected to resume the
sland at the divorce hearing of
Harry R. Bridges, west coast
CIO labor leader, who she said
pushed her nut a window be
cause he didn't want to take her
to a party.
Mrs. Bridges yesterday denied
in detail earlier testimony by
Bridges that she was an habitual
drunkard and had entertained
men unclothed In their home.
In fact, shp said, one time the
labor leader lay drunk on his
bed while Magnus Carson, a long
shoreman, chased her around the
bedroom and pinched her.
"When I told Harry about it.
he aid the stevedore didn't
mean any harm," she said. "But
I didn't think it was very nice."
Mrs Bridges said she suffered
a broken leg and head and back
injuries from the fall after her
husband assertedly pushed her
from a window of their apart
ment after a quarrel telling her
'(he next time I push you out,
you go for good."
Bridges didn't like taking her
to parties, his wife said on the
stand because he was too much
interested in other women, in
cluding Mrs Nancy Feinstcin
Beredico a New York dancer.
Mrs Bridges charged In I
cross-complaint that Mrs. Bere
dico was the mother of a child
by B-idges. She said she first
heard of Mrs. Beredico's baby
from her daughter. Betty Jacque
line, last spring.
AIR POST WAR PROBLEMS
Portland, Ore., Aug. 28 (UP.)
Mayors of at least seven major
Pacific coast cities will discuss
mutual postwar problems at a
conference in San Francisco
September 20. Mayor Karl Riley
of TortUm! gnuounccd today.
TO ATTEND
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Washington, Aug, 28
(U.R) LI. Gen. Jonathan Wain
wright will leave Chungking
Aug. 30 for Manila to go to
Tokyo for the Japanese sur
render, the War Department
was advised today.
Brig, Gen. Lewis C. Beebe,
who also was captured by the
Japanese in the Philippines,
will accomoany him. Beebe's
home is in Faribault. Minn.
Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Waln
wright returned from a Man
churian prison camp today and
in his first public statement
paid homage to the troops who
shared his bitter defeat on
Bataan and Corregidor.
Weather-beaten and lean after
more than three and a quarter
years of imprisonment, Wain
wright brushed aside his own
ordeal to speak of the American
and Filipino troops who died In
the last stand on Luzon or who
survived with him the death
march from Bataan.
He also offered his thanks to
the American people for stand
ing by him through his defeat
and capture.
That experience of popular
support, he said humbly, was
"perhaps unique In the experi
ence of a defeated commander."
Wainwrlght held his first
press conference since his libera
tion from the Sian prison camp
100 miles north of Mukden last
week after a "briefing" confer
ence with U. S. army comrades
at which he was brought un to
dale with events since his cap
ture. Japs Throw Party
For First Yankees
With the Third Fleet. Japan.
Aug. 28 (U.R) Japanese
threw a veritable tea party,
complete with easy chairs and
white jacketed orderlies, for
Ihcir American conquerors at
Atsugi today.
The welcoming group consist
ed of Japanese members of the
Atsugi liaison committee, head
ed bv the General Chairman,
Lt. Gen. Selzo Ariuye.
At the ede of the field, a pa
vilion tent had been set up. In
side were easy chairs and lunch
eon tobies wth white linen. Or
dcrliei scooted around efficient
ly, serving mostly cold drinks.
PAY BOOST ORDERED
San Francisco, Aug. 28
iURi The National War Labor
Board today announced a gen
eral wage increase of five cents
an hour under the little steel
formula, retroactive to Oct. 1,
and a paid vacation of one week
lor 10,000 tuail luufrkuuacu.
Chungking, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Chinese and American para
troopers have dropped into
Shanghai and taken over con
trol of China's largest citv for
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek,
it was learned today.
The sky-fighters swept down
into the teeming city of 3,489,
098 persons with their auto
matic weapons ready, but they
were confident that they would
meet with no opposition, Chinese
underground reports as early as
last week had indicated that
Shanghai's Japanese garrison
was ready to quit.
The great seaport practically
fell of .its own weight when the
Kuomintang underground units
swarmed from their hiding
places to take over, and by the
time the paratroopers arrived
Shanghai had already taken on
a holiday appearance with
crowds yelling and cheering as
they raced through the streets
ready to seize any luckless Japa
nese soldier.
Chinese newspapers In Chung
king today splashed the story all
over their front pages while
Chiang sat In the Chinese capi
tal awaiting the arrival of Com
munist Leader Mao Tze' Tung
and prepared for discussions
aimed at peacefully solving
China's Internal situation.
Official amity between the
Communists and the Central
government was apparently only
hours away as the Communist
party's central committee Issued
a manifesto Saying: "We are
willing to conclude a compro
mlsory agreement with the Kuo
mintang and other democratic
parties to facilitate a speedy set
tlement of various problems and
to become united on a long term
basis."
ELLIOTT TO TELL
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
The House Ways and. Means
committee will devote its next
session on Elliott Roosevelt's
loan transactions to studying
the testimony of Elliott himself.
It spent three hours yesterday
reading testimony about a $200,
000 loan made to Roosevelt In
1939 by John A. Hartford, pres
ident of the Atlantic A Pacific
Tea Comnanv. It ronA Hor,ni.
tions from Hartford, A. & P.
Counsel Robert Ewing and for
mer Commerce Snrretnrv .Tran
Jones who settled the loan for
4,()00.
Committee members said the
testimony showed that lha ini
President Roosevelt had approv
ed the loan and later had asked
Jones to try to settle It.
the committee adjourned
without setting a date for re
suming consideration of the
case.
GIVEN 3 YEARS
San Francisco, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure has
sentenced Lionel A. Berrv 30-1
year-old waiter AWOL from the!
Canadian army to three years In
federal prison for failure to reg
ister for the United States draft.
Berry came here on a IS day
pass from the Canadian army In '
1941 and obtained a job is a
waiter in a local restaurant
He Is wanted by the Royal
Canadian police for violation of
draft regulations and by U. S.
Immigration authorities for de
portation when he finishes his
prison term.
New York Aug 28 (U P)
Cnttnn futures opened 4 to 9
iiowls higher today.
Guam, Aug. 28 (U.R) By
passed Japanese in the Carolines
Islands today were awaiting an
official order from Emperor
HirohiU- before surrender, as the
navy revealed that a Liberator
crewman forced down May 4
was killed in cold blood by an
enemy officer.
The army flier, who was not
identified, made a safe para
chute landing on Koro in the
Palaus May 4. He was subse
quently taken prisoner and kill
ed by a Japanese officer, the
navy said. The Japanese said
the killing was under investiga
tion and that it had not been an
execution carrying out a court
martial sentence.
Questioned about the murder
of the unidentified crewman in
violation of international law,
the Japanese chief of staff, a
Col. Tada, said coldly:
"While the incident Is regret
table it Is Insignificant by com
parison of the loss of innocent
women's and children's lives by
the atomic bomb."
Tada also claimed that what
he said were 44,000 soldiers and
6,000 civilians under his com
mand would "resist any attempt
at a premature American land
ing to the point of hara-kiri."
JOBS FORALL OR
Fl
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Secretary of Commerce Henry
A. Wallace said today the oniy
alternative to the administra
tion's "jobs-for-all" bill is a
planned economy which "obvi
ously would mean the end of
the free enterprise system."
Wallace appeared before the
Senate Banking committee as It
began the second week of hear
ings on the measure, designed to
set up machinery for govern
ment action against depression
and unemployment.
Wallace said the full employ
ment bill "embodies the only
known means by which the right
of workers, the businessman and
the farmer to prosper In a cli
mate of full opportunity can be
assured within the framework
of tho free enterprise system."
President Ira Mosher of the
National Manufacturers associa
tion and two labor leaders also
were summoned to testify today.
LIST TOLD SOON
London, Aug. 23 (U.R) The
Four-power representative In
London have drafted Indict
ments against the major Euro
pean war criminals and In the
next two or three days will an
nounce the names of perhaps 25
top Nazi leaders scheduled to go
on trial for their lives in Nuern
berg The United Press learned that
the list of major war criminals
will be made public this week in
simultaneous announce m c n t s
from Washington, London, Paris
and Moscow.
That step will fulfill the first
directive by the big three at
Potsdam calling for issuance of
the first list of .war criminals
before Sept. 1.
BASEBALL
National
Phlla-ielphla 1 8 4
Brooklyn 7 9 2
Kraus, Muntoagudo (5) Bnd
Andrews. Suindrl (5i; Herring,
Webber (3) aud Ueutouio,
Paris, Aug. 28 (U.R) From
70.000 to 80,000 American
troops are scheduled to sail
from Marseille to the United
Statos during the first two
weeks of September, mostly
high-score soldiers ready for
discharge, it was announced
today.
San Francisco, Aug. 28
(U.R) A total of 38 members
of ' ultra-patriotic" societies
have committed suicide since
Aug. 15. radio Tokyo said to
day. London, Aug. 28 (U.R) A
Soviet broadcast said today
that Red army troops have
reached the southern tip of
Sakhalin island, only 24
miles across a narrow strait
from the Japanese home
island of Hokkaido.
The broadcast said other
tasks still lay ahead of the
army, but did not specify
whether these Include a land
ing on Hokkaido. A Tokyo
broadcast several days ago ex
pressed fears that the Russians
would force the channel.
BUTTER REDUCED
TO 1 2 PTS. SEPT. 2;
Amount On Hand or Order
Remains Military Secret
To Public
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
The ration point value of butter
will be reduced from 18 to 12
red points a pound for the pe
riod beginning Sept. 2, an Office
of Price Administration spokes
man said today.
The reduction will hold good
for both household and Institu
tional users.
This will be the second cut In
butter point values this summer.
In mid-July It was reduced to 16
from 24 points.
Washington, Aug 28 (U.R)
The war seems to be over for
all practical purposes, and the
Office of Censorship has ceased
operations, but the army still
won't reveal such erstwhile mili
tary recrets as:
1. I he Bmount of butter lt has
on hand.
2. The amount of butter It Is
currently buying.
Once the size of the army was
a secet. and a shrewd enemy
might have been able to figure
out its strength from statistics
on butter stocks and purchase.
But while the army's size is
no longer a secret it Is 8,050,
000 and will be reduced to 2.
500 000 by July 1 its butter
facts are.
An Inquiry brought the re
sponse, "sorry, but we can't give
them out."
Nips' Act Neither
Guilty or Ashamed
By United Press
Japanese at Atsugi seemed to
show "no guilt or shame In their
defeat," two U. S. army air
to :c officers reported Tuesday
after their return to Okinawa.
merican Broadcasting Com
pany Correspondent Jack Hool
ey Interviewed Major Stanley B.
Rusi'h, Houston, Texas, and
Capt. Robert P. Spot. Walnut
Cr.-ek, Calif., pilots of two air
transport command aircraft that
landed with the occupational
spearhead 14 miles southwest of
Tokyo.
Both Ru.sch and Spot said the
Japanese at the Atsugi airstrip
'seemed to want to be friends,"
and that they "bent over back
wards trying to be helpful."
Reno, Nev., Aug. 28 (U.R)
Arthur Adelard (French) Du
pout, Reno's marrying barber,
today planned to marry his 1 2th
wife at his dude ranch
"lloueyiuoun Lodge.", . .
Draft Hearing Brings Cut
Plan First May Not Go
To Pacific
Washington, Aug. 28 U.R)
The Army disclosed today that lt
would reduce the point discharge,
scoro from 85 to 80 as soon as
Gen Douglas MacArthur gives
the word, and that it plans to cut
its size from 8,050,000 to 2,500.
000 by July 1.
Additional demobilization
plans and the projected point re
vision were submitted to the
House Military Affairs commit
tee as It began an Inquiry into
the administration plan to con-'
tinue drafting young men. Un
der the plan, such men would be;
drafted for two years only.
Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry,
assistant chief of staff for the
army's personal division, said a
new point plan reducing the re
quired number of points from 85
to 80 would go into effect only
after MacArthur finds that his
Pacific manpower needs are pro
vided for and discharges can be
accelerated.
Earlier, Maj. Gen. I. W. . Ed
wards, assistant chief of staff for
army planning, told the commit
tee the army plans to whittle its
strength down to 2,500,000 men
by next July.
Henry said that when Mae
Arthui's signal comes, no men
with 80 or more points will be
sent overseas. At present the
army is screening out 75-point
men from outfits headed for the
Pacific. .
Washington, Aug. 28 (U.R)
Gen. Douglcut MacArthur's three
armies which carried the war to
Japan's back door before she
surrendered may furnish all the
American occupation forces
needed and eliminate the need of
sending the U. S. First Army to
the Pacific, lt was believed to
day. Assignment of Lt. Gen. Robert
L. Eichclberger's 8th Army to
occupy the Tokyo area helped
round out the occupation picture
and suggested there would be
little left for Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges' First Army to do In the
Pacific.
The First Army was ear
marked to proceed to the Pacific
shortly after Germany capitu
lated, the only entire European
army specifically named for re
deployment. Hodges brought hit
headquarters over to tnis coun
try and established It at Fort
Jackson, S. C. The headquarter
is still there though Hodges per
sonally Is not present.
These circumstances suggest
that Ihe First Army's orders may
be changed and It may never b
redeployed.
ALLIESSOONTO
RULE SINGAPORE
Rangoon. Aug. 28 (U.R) Pav
ing the way toward a rapid Al
lied entry Into Singapore. Japa
nese surrender envoys signed
preliminary peace agreement!
for southeast Asia at 1 a. m. to
day In the brilliantly lighted
grand ballroom of Government
House
The BBC, monitored by the
NBC in New York, reported last
night that the British East In
dies fleet, led by H. M. S. Nel
son, was already steaming to
ward the Straits of Malacca for
the British navy's triumphal re
entry Into Singapore.
Cowboy Groom Of
Heiress is Chilled
Reno, Aug. 28 (U.R) Don
Valentine, cowboy musician who
married New York Heiress Anne
Gould Aug. 23, wanted to get
back to his fiddling today after
wearying of "the fresh air" at
his bride's camp near Lake Ta
hoe. W. M. Wells, Valentine's em
ployer, said the cowboy told him
his honeymoon was featured by
numbed fingers and loss of his
tent to Mrs. Valentine's child
bood nurse,