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WHAS Back Page Section 2 wtxvut SECTION 1 8 PACES VOL. 182. NO. 46 Associated Press and Wirephoto LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 194 5 New York Times Service, United Press 18 PAGES 5 CENTS ras as jk OOF, fo) tt fin To) fni rn rvi Cease-Fire Order Given Allied Forces -O f- i'-'i Vy ft- -M xX-WsX Ml rP'fr 2-Day Holiday Proclaimed By Truman. Governor and Mayor Join In Setting Today, Tomorrow For Rest and Prayers President Truman yesterday proclaimed today and tomorrow legal holidays with full pay for war workers and federal employees, and Governor Simeon Willis and Mayor Wilson W.

Wyatt quickly joined in and called on Ken-tuckians and Louisvillians to spend the days in pause and prayer in thanksgiving for the war's end. Emperor Hirohito Accepts Unconditional Surrender Of Potsdam Declaration bration. Far into the early thoroughfare, which also felt with the glad cries of a war pent-up steam. "PEACE AT LAST" proclaimed by the banner on The Courier-Journal extra was echoed and re-echoed thunderously in the canyon of buildings along Fourth Street last night as the Japanese surrender sent thousands into hysterical cele- Cruiser Indianapolis Sunk; 883 Were Killed Ship Went Down In LrM Than 15 Minute After Being Torpedoed, Probably By Jap Sub Rr the Aeiatd Pre. Peleliu, Palau Islands, Aug.

5 (Delayed) The 10.000-ton cruiser Indianapolis was sunk in less than 15 minutes, presumably by a Japanese submarine. 12 minutes past midnjsht July 30 and 833 crew members lost, their lives in one of the Navy's worst disasters. She went down in the Philip- With the announcement of Japan's surrender the President said today and tomorrow will be premium pay days. He directed agency heads throughout the Government to cut their forces to skeleton staffs for the two days and not to charge the holidays against Go ernment employees' annual leave. The Fresident said that even this was "inadequate'' recognition and recompense for the four-year efforts of "one of the hardest working groups of war workers." Count Like Christmas.

For other workers under wage controls, Wednesday and Thursday will count liktt Christmas, anil the few other accepted holidays lor purposes of overtime pay and In figuring the number of days worked in a week. Many employers already have approval for regular time pay to workers who take the days off. Governor Willis, In a statement issued from the Executive Mansion in Frankfort, said that "Americans must do everything possible to ijiomote unity at home and abroad." "In our rejoicing, let us not forget the sacrifices and suffering of the men and women of our armed forces to whom our country owes so much." Mayor Proclaims Holiday. Mayor Wilson W. Wyatt.

taking time out from signing a handful of newly adopted City ordinances, said. "The war's over. Peace is here with its joys, its problems and its responsibilities. That we may be as successful in peace as we have been in war is my prayer and hope. To that end we should, and we do, dedicate ourselves.

"As Mayor of the City of I do hereby proclaim a two-day holiday in the City of Louisville, beginning at once and ending at midnight, Thursday, August Ifi, 1945. 1 express the hope that all of our citizens will rtrvole a part of this time to serious meditation on the duties which devolve upon each and everyone of us to see that we use our victory to the best interest not only of 4he citizens of this country but also of all mankind throughout the world." Hanks, schools. City and Coun 'Army Halts Of All Men BT ROBERT L. RIGGS. The rnarier-Joarnal Wathinfton nareia.

Washington, Aug. 14. President Truman announced tonight that the war is over. The Japanese have accepted the unconditional surrender terms of the Potsdam Declaration, he said, and the order to cease firing has gone out to the armed forces. General Douglas MacArthur, who led the last-ditch defense of the Philippines when the Japanese war machine was grinding over the Pacific with apparently irresistible force, will be the supreme Allied commander to accept the formal surrender from his old enemy.

Present at that ceremony, which is scheduled to be held on the battleship Missouri, also will be hich-ranking officers of Great Rritain, Russia and China. Not until that ceremony has been held will there be an official and formal V-J Day, the President said. i President Speaks to Cheering Crowd But the nation did not wait for a formal proclamation before it began its celebration. When reporter rushed out of the White House, shortly after 7 p.m., a noiiy celebration already had started in LaFayette Park and along Pennsylvania Avenue, which divides the park from the White House grounds. The cheering crowd jammed against the iron fence of the White House grounds brought Truman out for a brief speech.

The President and Mrs. Truman walked the 100 yards to the fountain and stood waving at the shouting crowd. Accompanying the President were his aide and Secret Service men. "Ladies and gentlemen." the President said to the throng. "This is the day we have been looking for since December 7, 1941.

This is the day when fascism and police government cease in the world. faee the greatest task we have ever faced an emergency as real as on December 7. Ifs going to take the help of all of you to do it. I know we are going to meet it." Truman Announces Reduction In Draft As the first fruit of victory, which comes three years, eight months and seven days after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the President announced the draft inductions will be sliced .10.000 a month. He has approved, he said, a War Department recommendation that Selective Service take each mouth 50.000 men, instead of the 80,000 which is its present monthly rate.

The .50,000 inductions. Truman said, will provide only sufficient men to support the forces required for occupational duty in Japan and Germany. Of the millions now in service. Truman promised that between 5,000,000 and 5,500,000 will be released in the next year to 18 months. Those drafted from now on, he promised, will be under 26 years old.

This stand is in direct conflict with a growing movement in Congress to forbid the induction of any more men. Japanese Eventually Can Pick Own Ruler Truman's surrender announcement made no mention of the issue of the Emperor, which was raised Friday by the Japanese in their first offer to capitulate. But inasmuch as the message which the President received today was in reply to the note James F. Byrnes. Secretary of State, sent back Saturday, it presumably was satisfactory to this Government.

China, Britain and Russia. Byrnes' Saturday reply said, in effect, that the Allies would permit the Emperor to remain if he carried out the orders which General MacArthur gives him. Eventually, Byrnes' note said, the Japanese people can say whether or not they want to keep their Emperor. The text of the Japanese message which was delivered by the Swiss charge d'affaires follows: "Communication of the Japanese Government of August Continued on Pane 8. Column 1 pines Sea.

within 450 miles of Leyte while on an unescorted high-speed run from San Francisco. 60 Hours Overdue. (The Indianapolis was AO houra overdue at Leyte before it was learned from survivors of th sinking and a court of inquiry has been convened to investigate, Robert Trumbull of The New York Times said in a delayed dispatch from Guam. (Trumbull's story said port directors are not required to report when a warship is overdue, but on the other hand, quoted the ship's master as saying he was proceeding "on almost a railroad schedule" and would have been expected to notify Leyte if the time of his arrival changed. But the port director need not have been alarmed, Trumbull continued, because military opera-Continued on rage 8, Column 7 Jap War Chief Kills Himself San Francisco, Aug.

14 U.P Tokyo Radio said tonight Japanese War Minister Korechika Anami, 5R, committed suicide at his official residence to "atone for his failure in accomplishing his duties as His Majesty's Minister." Three hours before Japan made its original surrender offer last Friday, Domei news agency reported Anami had called upon the Japanese to conduct a war" against Russia. There was no immediate indication what method Anami used to take his own life. Phot hr Al Blank. morning hours, the famed old the 1918 celebration, resounded weary Kentuckiana letting off Marshal Pctain Found Guilty; Given Death High Court of France Recommend Clemency Rt the Aorlalrd Prm. Paris, Aug.

15 (Wednesday) Marshall Henri Philippe retain was convicted and sentenced to death early today by three jurices and a 24-man jury who deliberated almost seven hours. The High Court of Justice added it "hoped the sentence would not be executed." (This recommendation for clemency presumably will be considered by General de Gaulle, President of the French Provisional Government.) Besides condemning the 89-year-old former Chief of the Vichy State to death for "plotting against the internal safety of France," the court also sentenced him to national indignity and ordered confiscation of all his property. Petain Mike Dramatic Pica. The lengthy judgment, read by Judge Mongibeaux, president of the court, went over the acts of collaboration of the Vichy Government with Germany point by point and laid their responsibility at Tctain's feet. Mongibeaux said the marshal instituted "a veritable regime of terror" in France.

The fate of Petain was placed Continued on Pace 8, Column 3 AP Wlrephota. ty Government agencies, many industrial plants and other establishments, building and loan associations and other financial institutions, will join the Federal agencies and the war plants in shutting. Postal service for the two-day holiday will "approximate holiday service." the Post Office Department in Washington announced. Local postmasters will have wide discretion in carrying, out the President's wishes, it was indicated, and those postal employees required to work today and tomorrow will have compensating time off at a later date. In Canada, Prime Minister Mackenzie King said today will be V-J Day lor Canadians and that Sunday will be a day of prayer and solemn thanksgiving for victory and the ending of the war.

Text of Truman's Tribute. Here is the text of President Truman's tribute to the Federal employees: "One of the hardest working groups of war workers during the past four years and perhaps the least appreciated by the public has been the federal employees in Washington and throughout the country. They have carried on the day-to-day operations of the Government which are essential to the support of our fighting men and to the carrying on of the war. ''On behalf of the nation, I formally express thanks to them. "As a token of this feeling, I hereby request all the heads of the departments, agencies and bureaus throughout the Government to excuse the employees thereof for tomorrow and Thursday.

No Charre Ajrainst Leave. "This action is to be without charge against the annual leave of the employees. Only skeleton forces need be maintained. "1 hope that all of the employes of the Government will enjoy this well-deserved though inadequate holiday." This is the text of President Truman's statement on the designation of the two-day holiday: "President Truman today Continued on race 8, Column 6 Induction Over 25 millions of men who have given "long and faithful service under the difficult and hazardous conditions of the Pacific war and elsewhere overseas a constant flow of replacements to the occupational forces is thought to be imperative." Chairman Thomas Utah) of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and Senator Mag-nuson Wash.) recommended meanwhile that occupation forces be limited to volunteers. Thomas contended in addition that U.

S. occupation troops would not be needed in Japan because China and Russia could do the job. May Confers With Truman. Magnuson estimated that some 500,000 men will be needed for German occupation and from 750,000 to 800,000 in Japan. He predicted that the postwar standing army would be stabilized at slightly more than 1,000.000.

Chairman May Ky.) of the Con tin wM ea Pae 8, CoJetnn 7 All Manpower Controls Lifted uyijovernmeiu 7-Point rian for Vets, War Workers Drawn Rt the Asaoriated Pri. Washington, Aug. 14. The Government today revoked all wartime manpower controls, effective immediately, and set forth a plan aimed at speedy of veterans and released war workers. In an action timed to coincide with Japan's surrender, the War Manpower Commission announced a seven-point program which it said would stimulate "reconversion activities and the speedy re-employment of displaced workers, at the same time restoring a free labor market." Among the controls lifted are those providing for hiring through the United States Employment Service, employment ceilings to channel workers to essential industries, and the requirement for certificates of availability in changing jobs.

Pay Formula Not Affected. Eliminated also was the mandatory feature of the 48-hour week in any area or industry where it is in effect, an official said. However, the Little Steel formula for general wage stabilization is not affected by action of the W.M.C. which has no jurisdiction over it. Acting W.M.C.

Chairman Frank L. McNamee said regional directors have been instructed to put the new program into effect at once in the 1,500 local U.S.E.S. offices through the country. Specifically, it provides that: 1. All manpower controls are to be lifted immediately.

In their place voluntary community action to speed reconversion will be substituted. 2. The number of displaced workers and returning veterans in each community will be determined in co-operation with local management-labor groups. Action will be 1aken by the W.M.C. and local U.S.E.S.

offices Continued on Page 8. Column 5 Heavenly Day Furnished by 17. 8. Weather Bareaa. A little cooler Wednesday; a few thundershow-ers extreme east portion in morning.

Thursday generally fair with moderate temperature. Tennessee Scattered thun-dershowers and not quite so warm Wednesday. Thursday generally fair with moderate temperature. Indiana Fair Wednesday and Thursday. Cooler south portion Wednesday.

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14. President Truman tonight forecast that 5.000,000 to 5,500,000 men now in the Army may be returned to civilian life within the next 12 to 18 months. Furthermore, he said in announcing Japan's surrender, onlv the lowest age groups will now be drafted into the Army. Preliminary estimates indicate only those under 26 will be called, Truman added. His recommendation was that Selective Service reduce inductions immediately from 80,000 a month to 50,000.

Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, following Truman's instructions, tonight telegraphed all state directors ordering them to stop at once the induction of all registrants 26 or older. "It is too early to propose a definite figure for the occupation forces which will be required in the Pacific 12 months from now or what reduction it may be possible to make in the strength of the Army force now allotted to occupation duties in Europe," the President said. Truman Wants Justice. Army releases will be speeded by air and sea transportation in an effort to attain that 5,000,000 to 5,500,000 figure, he said.

Truman said that in justice te Hirohito Blames Atom Bombs The Emperor Hirohito. acknowledging that ''the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage," told his nation last night that should Nippon continue to fight it would result in the extinction of human civilization. He indicated the atom lKml was the prime cause of Japan's defeat, saying it was a weapon that could inflict "damage which is indeed incalculable." The text of Hirohito's address fir rt aA-er made by a Japanese Emperor over the radio, is on Pas 4. "WELL DONE" is the mutual attitude of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, former Secretary of State.

Cordell Hull and President Trumen as they congratulate one another in a three-way handshake in President Truman's office atr the Chief Executive has announced Japan's surrender. Reconversion Director John W. Snyder fs the background..