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August 9, 1945
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Smoke Pall1
Covers Ruin
At Nagasaki
• GUAM, Aug. 10.—(API—A
20.000 foot pillar of smoke
and dust, fringed at its base
bv fires, told with eloquent
silence the fate of Nagasaki
"but prevented accurate as-
sessment of the damage done
by the second atomic bomb
dropped on Japan.
General Spaatr. chief of the
> U. S. Army Strategic Air
P Forces, said today that results
of the bombing were “good,”
but that three and a half hours
after the mighty atom was
dropped at noon yesterday.
• Moke still obscured damage
• from a photo reconnaissance
plane.
With radio Tokyo totally silent on
the atomizing of Nagasaki, there
was no other, information on the
awful fate of the western Kyushu
seaport of 253.000 population
% First reports from Hiroshima,
"which later was shown to be 60 per-
cent destroyed, also were merely
that that military city of 343.000
was blanketed by smoke and dust.
The world’s first atom bomb smash-
ed 4.1 of Hiroshima’s 6.9 square
Omiles Monday Radio Tokyo added
that "practically every living thing"
there was destroyed.
Spaatz’ Superforts carried
their devastating blows against
Japan into the fifth consecutive
% day with a 70-plane strike that
poured 2,000-pound demolition
bombs onto the Tokyo arsenal
area.
Crewmen’s radioed reports said
results were excellent
War Continues,
Fliers
Destroy 2
Truman Asserts Nip Aircraft N
111 Tel I * H t. GUAM, Aug. 10.—(AP)-
Russian Envoy Informed,
/ould Keep Ruler
American and British carrier e i
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — (AP) — President pilots — ferreting Japan’s ...___, - —... --- _________________________
Truman assembled his cabinet in an atmosphereof exouidrdpeaif RS ofurnim des Japan had handed the Swedish minister of foreign affairs u ..— .
official expectancy today, but the war raged on in e stroyed or damaged 259 Nip- the British, American and Russian governments offering to surrender.
Pacific as hours slipped by without official con rmo- ponese aircraft and gliders on
tion here of o broodcost Japanese surrender offer.
Russians Rip
Up Nip Lines,
Invade Korea
By the Associated Press
The Red army’s Stalin
LONDON, Aug. 10.-(AP)-The Stockholm radio said tonight that cavalry nfonled throughnul
: a note to merous gates in Manchuria’s
northern Honshu island yes-
terday, a preliminary report
By the Associated Press
Japan announced today she is ready to surrender under the Pots-
MORE , terday. a premarJapan announced today she is ready to surrender under the Pots-
TaTte tim cabinet meetipsaziewhs .u= twihit tuned hem ^ ^ 7 " dam declaration if Emperior Hirohito can retain his power, but the
-----------.u---..... - word from either the The bag. scored both on White House made it clear that the offer had not been received offi-
As the day wore on, there was no word from either the
President or Secretary of State Byrnes across the street that
a formal Japanese surrender proposal had been laid before
defenses with sensational ad-
vances today. Moscow dis-
patches reported, and Tokyo
announced the broadening of
the Soviet attacks to Korea
and Sakhalin island.
Soviet correspondents said un-
its of the Soviet Pacific fleet
had gone into action.
The Moecow radio announced that
Outer Mongolia, a protectorate of
Russia s adjoining Manchuria and
Inner Mongolia on the west, had
declared war on Japan.
grounded craft and in the air, ,
was the greatest yet reported
for initial waves of a carrier
strike by Halsey, greater even
than the damage reported for
the same period of the destruc-
tive attacks of July 10 and 28.
Eleven enemy aircraft of a small
coordinated Kamikaze attack on the |
fleet were shot down. One of the.
suicide pilots managed to crash into
a light fleet unt, possibly a light
cruiser or a destroyer, which is re-
cially and that the war was going on.
The offer was transmitted by the official Domei agency at 6:30 a. m. (Abi
lone War Tima), and picked up in the United States by the Associated Press and
government monitors. But it had not come through official diplomatic channels .
and the White House said at 9:40 •. m. that the United States was continuing MMheniuma mon ‘her be mamb
to fight. .routes of invasion, the Rus.
No. 10 Downing street said Britain was consulting with the United States, sians had opened up "numer
Russia and China about the broadcast. ous gates" in the enemy’s care-
Japan, through her official news agency, said the offer was being trans- fully prepared defenses and
mitted via Sweden and Switzerland, and the Moscow radio said Russia’s am- apparent Pomemiikentomon
bassodor in Tokyo had been officially informed by Japan's foreign minister, dispatches said. These advices
Shigenori Togo. . . . , . declared Cains of up to 33
Once the offer is'transmitted through official channels, the condition imposed by J miles yesterday were being
pan—that Hirohito remain in power—may prove a stumbling block to immediate accept- enlarged sensationally today,
ance by all the Potsdam signatories—the United States. Britain. Russia and China. The The first Soviet blow was so well
Potsdam declaration itself did not mention the emperor’s status but broadcasts of the U. S. prcprd W on the patte f HE
Office of War Information have refrained from attacking Hirohito. Capt. E. M. Zacharias, the Japanese were unanse to hold
in an official U. S. broadcast last month, told the Japanese they would be able to form a single defensive line along the
their own government under the Atlantic charter, once the Allies' terms of unconditional frontier, one Soviet dispatch re-
surrender were met. . ported. . .
FCC monitors said the Japanese offer was transmitted only overseas, and not carried thekumsann btruck from tre man:
on the Japanese home radio, , c ‘time provinces to protect their im-
Trading was suspended on the Tokyo stock exchange ‘under orders of the finance mi portant naval and air Base of Vladi-
istry.” Domei said. ,---. —----
Japanese acceptance of the Potsdam ultimatum would mean that the nation would steady progress from
, , . . . sank “several" small Japanese ships surrender unconditionally, disarm and give up her conquests, returning Manchuria and and captured Fu Yan toward Har-
* * * =* -= M-h Mam 2=: SIS -=-" — -
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1,500 carrier planes which re- . .... .
turned to the attack today, were | f 1 1
not included. timne I Pan
Meanwhile, the northern Honshu JIIIJIV V JI TUN
steel city of Kamashi still smol-.e
cellaneous ships dered from the heavy shelling it. A very simple, easy-to-under- , , . 5__9- the
Removal of the vessels from the was given Thursday by the Third stand program for Abilene s cele- Japan had rejected the Potsdam declaration Jul
register had not been announced 1 fleet. bration of V-J Dav was adopted day after it was issued Use of the atomic bomb and the entry
this morning by members of the of Soviet Russia into the war came after that
retail trade committee of the cham- Domei said the Japanese government acted in obedience
her of commerce in a called session to Hirohito, who it said, "desires earnestly to bring about
an early termination of hostilities.”
this government. ,,
This did not indicate any lack of intense consideration of
the Domei news agency broadcast that Japan was ready to
accept the Potsdam ultimatum with the condition that the
emperor’s sovereignty should not be compromised. _
Prime Minister Attlee reported in London that the
British government was consulting its Allies on the To-
kyo broadcast although it too lacked an official commu-
nication.
A little earlier. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told re-
porters Mr. Truman was not then in contact with the Allied
governments. ..
Byrnes, who had conferred with Mr. Truman and the
War and and Navy secretaries at the White House early in
the day, returned shortly af-
ter 12 noon and had lunch
' with the President in his of-
fice. 1
No where in Washington was
there any immediate, official
interpretation of the Japanese
decision, as announced by the
Japanese news agency Domei.
When first told of the report
More than 60 Mustangs and
PThunderbolts from Iwo accompan- Eben Ayres, assistant White House
died the B.29s. which bombed both press secretary, said he had no of-
visually and with precision instru- P
ments at targets hit only two days fical information whatever
before by 67 Superforts. Many vital Byrnes pulled up to the White
military and industrial plants make House before 9 a. m and almost
„the Tokyo arsenal area one of | ran to the President a office Secre-
• Japan’s biggest concentrations oftary of War Stimson followed him
a few moments later
it began to look as if most of
the cabinet might turn up when
Navy Secretary Forrestal put
in an appearance on Stimson’s
heels.
war productive power. Eleven
square miles were burned out there I
by a 350-Superfort incendiary raid
April 14
General MacArthur s communique
today said that Far East Air Forces
“and Seventh fleet planes sank or, -
damaged more than 60 Japanese the lobby inquired "What does it
vessels and 47 planes and maintain- 1 look like?"
ed their daily heavy pounding “I don’t know. he replied I 11
A reporter trailing By res through
ed their daily heavy pounding of
Kyushu’s factories, railroad instal-
lations and airfields Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Ninety Superforts early to-
day created explosions at Ama-
gasaki that illuminated the
whole area. The Nippon oil re-
finery, once the chief source of
Japans aviation fuel, was the
} prime target.
The target looked like a giant
torch Heavy clouds of smoke bil-
lowed up 20.000 feet," said Lt E
A Berris Waltham Mass
Although some planes encoun-
tered heavy antiaircraft ‘ e •
Pof the B-29s returned
tiring under its own power. Two
enemy aircraft were shot down in
the vicinity of the fleet the pre-
ceding day.
Navy Tags 107
Ships as Lost
WASHINGTON. Aug
10.-A
The American and British pilots
swept from Misawa airfield on the
northern tip of Honshu to Mat-
• sushima airfield, 160 miles south-
ward, in raids backing up Halsey s
promise to support the Russian en-
try in the war by pinning down
Japanese aircraft.
Japanese gliders were mentioned
The Navy announced today tha
101 Naval vessels, including three de-
stroyers and three submarines, have
been stricken from the Navy register
Of the sea."
The destroyers are the Par-
rott. Tucker, and Worden. The
submarines, all old pre-war
types, are the S-27, S-36, and
S-39.
The other vessels include 46 pat-
rol torpedo boats and various mis-
let you know when I come out
Spokesmen at the Swiss and Swed- ~
previously, the Navy said for rea-
sons of national security
ish legations, whose government!
Navy Losses Up
were named in the Japanese broad-
cast as the media for transmitting
the surrender communication said
such a note probably would be
channeled through authorities in aimed forces to 1 068.216.
for the first time in the announce
ment that British carrier pilots de-
stroyed 24 of the troop carriers
Both British and American fliers
vostok, the Russians were making
Khabarovsk
Adding to the damage toll being
exacted from Japanese was the
fleet air wing One reported today
that in the four months from March
26 to July » while operating from
the Ryukyu islands, its Privateers.
■ Corsairs, and Liberators sank 212
Japanese ships, aggregating 166.-
Switzerland and Sweden for trans- This figure, reported last night 660 tons, damaged 246 totaling
mission to American diplomats by the Army and Navy was 7,-153.855 tons, and destroyed 45 enemy
there 489 higher than reported last week aircraft
WASHINGTON. Aug 10 - (—
A sharp rise in Navy losses h as
boosted combat casualties of the
JAPAN RISES AND FALLS IN LESS THAN CENTURY
in the office of the organisation
The program calls for all
business concerns to be closed
on the day officially designated
as Victory Day by President
Truman, However, the entire
town is asked to close immedi-
lately after the official an-
nouncement that peace has been
declared. If that day happens
to be named by the president
as official Victory Day, stores
will remain closed that day
East Indies and China.
The Domei statement first was heard in the United States
by the Associated Press and government monitors. The last
sentence was interrupted in this 7:30 transmission, but the
full statement was given bv Domei at 9:30 a. m. The gist of
the statement was given also at 7:51 a m.
This Domei broadcast was recorded by the Associated
Press from an English-language wireless transmission to
the United States. The broadcast came shortly after
Domei announced that Japan was protesting through
diplomatic channels the United States’ use of atomic
bombs, and coincided with new Tokyo reports of Russian
advances in Manchuria, Korea and on Sakhalin island.
* * *
Authoritative quarters in London said the petition "looks
An imperial headquarters com-
munique broadcast from Tokyo by
Domei said the invasion of Korea
was in the vicinity of Keiko about
20 miles northwest of Changkufeng.
The invasion of Japan’s half
of Sakahalin island was at sev-
eral points along the 80-mile
frontier, Tokyo announced.
Bombardments at Buika and
Handa were mentioned by Tokyo.
The southern half of this island,
which is called Karafuto bv the
Japanese was awarded to Japan
as a result of the Treaty of Ports-
mouth in 1905
I Moscow dispatches said veterans
of the war with Germany veterans
Please See REDS. Pg 14. Col. 1 & 2
U. S. Submarine
Jap-Americans
’Sweat Out V-J
Abilene’s Jape neae-Americana are
z standing by with the same enthu-
* siasm others share today over the
prospective military collapse of
Japan
Jessie Watanable: who with her
sister Grace is a junior student
at Hardin-Simmons university, vote-
reed approval of Japan’s supposed
peace offer and said she believed
it was to mean the end of hostil-
ities
Jessie and Grace, whose mother
Mrs. Watanabe, now of Abilene, and
late father were born in Japan, are
gnot interested in returning to the
“island Born in America, both vis-
cited Japan several years before the
war.
Naomi Fugita, 526 Chestnut,
continues to hope for the safety
of her brother, Sgt. Frank Fug-
$ ita. a prisoner of Japan since
the fsll or Java. "We’re wor-
ried about him, with this talk
of the prisoners being moved to
the cities attacked by bomb-
Ing. Rut we think he’s all right
and now maybe hr will be com-
• • ing home soon” she said.
We feel just like everybody else
toward Japan,” Naomi stressed
Born in America the daughter of a
Japanese father and Occidental mo-
ther, she is one of three sisters, and
has another brother, Sgt. Herbert
Dugita of the 442d infantry who
has recently returned from Italy
Her mother lives here
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COMMODORE MATTHEW C. PEPPY, V.S.MARINE FIRST LANDED ON OKINAWA WHEN COMMODORE
AMERICAN COMANDERWHO OPENED PERRY VISITED THE IMPERIAL PALACE AT NAHA, AS SHOWN
UP JA PAN TO WORLD COMMERCE,1853. IN OLD LITHOGRAPH ABOVE
1954. COMMODORE PERRY
SIGNS TREATY WHICH
OPENED PORTS
OF SIMODA AND HAKODATE
TO AMERICAN TRADE
SMITH HUGE ARMY AND WORLD’S
THIRD LARGEST NAVY, SHE
PLANS CONQUEST OF EASTERN
HEMISPHERE 5E12E5
MANCHURIA: 193 1 -
JG45, JAP NAVY
DESTROYED.
HER MAJOR CITES
BURNED BY .
. AMERICAN UP POWER
Lagarto Missing
WASHINGTON Aug 10— T— The
only. .like the end of the war” and a British foreign office commen-
udm nmoulart seeinar inee tator said it sounds authentic
In thy day, and if the president Presumably a consultation of the United States, Britain,
proclaims the next day aa the of - China and Russia would be necessary. London observers said
ficial time for celebrationWromes 1 These nations are the signatories of the Potsdam declaration. V s submarine Logarto is overdue
remain Such a consultation would take some time.
The Japanese announcement said:
"The Japanese government are ready to accept the terms _
enumerated in the joint declaration which was issued at Emme imam on who
Potsdam on July 26. 1945. by the heads of the governments was graduated from thy naval aced-
of the United States, Great Britain and China, and later sub-emy in 1932
scribed to by the Soviet government with the understanding I Submarines of the Logartoss class
that the said declaration does not compromise any demand Wo * CNFTXMAcoplement of a
which prejudices the prerogatives of his majesty as a sover- The submarine is the 47th to ba
eign ruler * * , lost since the start of the war.
Domer said Japan was informing the Allies of her ac- ---------—--————
ceptance through the Swiss and Swedish governments—neu- The Weather
tral intermediaries. 1 6
If the Domei report is borne nut by official commu • • DERTMEL IMHEACE
nications to the United States and Allied governments, ABILENE AND VICINITY Parti
it means that the third member of the Tokyo-Berlin- ane * me .AM
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first announcement and
closed that afternoon and V-J Day.
too
If Victory day is the same day
the announcement is made, that
day only will be observed
As soon as official notifica-
tion of the ending •< the war
is received, Pete Murphy al
Abilene View Bus office will be
notified, and through that of-
firer the fire department and
industrial plants, will be noti-
fied in sound sirens, whistles.
and other powerful noise mak-
ers. This will be the signal to
the residents of Abilene that
the Japs have officially surren-
| ) dered.
• Plans for prayer and thanksgiv-
ing services in the churches
| throughout the city have not been
completed Dr T S Knox, presi-
dent of the Ministerial Alliance is
out of town, and other pastors re-
ported services would be held, but-----— t i t__- 1041
no definite hour or schedule has the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 1941.
been worked out so far I The Moscow radio earned this “flash
.----------------"Authoritatively learned Japanese government decided
Grid Fang To Be to accept three-power proclamation Potsdam of July 26, later
Posted on News subscribed by Soviet union." ..
from patrol and presumed lost, the
Navy announced today The next of
I kin of casualties have been notified.
The Logarto s commanding offi-
72
Fri Thur Thur We
AM Hour TX
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PM
| Any important news bulletins to- The Potsdam declaration was issued July 26 .by Presi- 75-7
night concerning the Japanese sur: dent Truman. Prime Minister Churchill and President Chiang 77
render mee upoune % rot Kai-Shek. Soviet Russia associated herself with the declara- ,,_,,
Pah ane North South Al: -Bur tion when she declared war on Japan two days ago. 7 #
football game at Eagle stadium Sper The declaration, telling Japan she must surrender uncon- -7
cial arrangements have been made ditionally or be utterly destroyed, was reinforced by Presi- a s
phon. Tin, ^r^X*. a dent Truman last night in a radio broadcast to the people of "*
audience. I the United States. -* • C--
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