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H. S. WEATHER BUREAU rrSOV AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy Mdav and tonight, with scattered rain-hewers and thunderstorms. Little change in temperature. Temperature yesterday: High.

91 .68 year Ago: High 84 Low 69 Sfatf An Independent NETVSpaper Printing the News Impartially Entered as terond cl 1'ost Omre. Tucson. ss matter. Arimna TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS EIGHTEEN PAGES TRUMAN WARNS NIPPON CIVILIANS TO FLEE BOMBED NAGASAKI STILL BLACKED OUT IN CITIES; SMOKE; 1,500 PLANES ATTACK NORTHERN TRUMAN ANNOUNCES RUSSIAN WAR ON JAPAN 1 4 Ant Nation Hears Report On Potsdam Meeting Hiroshima Attack 'Only a Warning of Things to Come' Japanese Wrarned; Surrender Alone Can Save Nips From Atomic Bombs By IMU GI.AS B. COKXKIX WASHINGTON, Aug.

9. (IP) President Truman urged Japanese civilians tonight "to leave industrial cities immediately and save themselves from destruction." In a nationwide radio report on the Potsdam Big Three conference and the war in the Pacific, Truman said the All ies Spread Fie ry Ruin on Jap Island Halsey's Third Fleet Shells Kamaishi, Japanese Steel City 275 Miles North of Tokyo; Damage Inflicted 'Considerable' GUAM, Friday, Aug. 10. (IP) Seventy Superfortresses dropped heavy demolition bombs on the Tokyo arsenal this General Spaatz announced The Marianas-based planes were escorted by Mustangs and Thunderbolts from Iwo Jima. Spaatz also reported that 90 Superfortresses dropped heavy demolition bombs early this morning on the Nippon oil refinery plant at Amagasaki.

They met slight enemy interception and meager to intense antiaircraft fire. GUAM, Friday, Aug. 10. (American and British carrier planes 1,500 strong spread fiery ruin across the northern half of Honshu today for the second consecutive day, and Admiral Nimitz announced that battleships, cruisers and destroyers of the Allied force inflicted "considerable damage" ii i-ii ii i At a hurriedly summoned press conference at the White House, President Truman breaks the news (hat Russia has declared war on Japan. Secretary of S(ate James F.

Bjrnes Is sra(ed in foreground and to right of Truman is Admiral William I. Leahy. Newsmen are gathered at left. This exclusive photo was made by AP Photographer John Rous. (AP Wirephoto.) JAPS SILENT; GEN.

SPAA TZ A WAITS LA TE PHOTO SCORE GUAM, Friday, Aug. 10. (P) Smoke and dust completely covered Nagasaki, and rose to 20.000 feet three and one-half hours after Thursday's atomic bombing of that Japanese seaport. General paatz, chief of the U. S.

Strategic Air Forces, made this brief announcement; U. S. CHINESE HIT MONTH AGO NO. 222 NIPS THREATEN ATOM BOMB USE ON U. S.

TROOPS i ir Jap Broadcast vague as To Actual Nature of New Weapon LONDON, Friday, Aug. 10. (p) The Japanese controlled Singapore radio, boast- ing of Japans atomic researchers." sought to imply today that the Japanese have a weapon like the atomic bomb and said Japan would "use it to the utmost against United States military personnel." The broadcast was monitored by the BBC. The broadcast was not clear as to the exact nature of the purported weapon but said "Japan is juUv aware of the true aspects of atomic energy" and "the Anglo-United States nations must kave drawn on the results of Japanese researchers." "imerica has asked for it, now she will get it." said the English-language broadcast, beamed to Europe. But the broadcast said Japan vould not use its weapons against civilians.

"It can be stated immediately and In in definite terms that Japan does not intend to employ it after the pattern of American capital in the deliberate massacre of innocent civilians." the radio said. "But Japan is fully determined to use it to the utmost against United States military personnel. Could Be Kamikazed "An Anglo-American invasion fleet of warships and transports could be kamikazed by our suicide planes loaded with fixed atomic detonators. "If that were done hundreds upon hundreds of naval craft and thousands upon thou sands of United States military personnel Tould be sent to the bottom of the sea." Threatening retaliation "in kind" for the atomic bombing of the Jap anese nomeiana, me uroautasi -serted: "Suppose Japan decides to retaliate in kind and also employs weapons like the atomic bomb. That may happen and Japan will use be more appropriate to say that Japan had been compelled to do 0.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth." the broadoastsaid. "The entire Japanese nation fully realizes the significance of this phrase. Millions to Die "Japan will surely put Into execution what she inevitably must and when thousands upon thousands, even millions, of Anglo-American military personnel meet their tragic end, their blood will be on the heads of Truman and Attlee who have been responsible for advocating the criminal effects of this inhuman weapon. "Since the Anglo-Americans have resorted to it. Japan is fully justi-i fied in retaliating.

The Anglo-Americans called the tune, now they will find they must dance to it." The radio said the Japanese have known the theory of atomic energy for a century. "To us the occurrence of this sort of weapon is nothing so very novel," the broadcast said. "The theory of atomic energy has been known to us for the last century. The fact that the Anglo-American nations, who are far "behind the times in this sphere of science, putting to use the theory of atomic energy makes it clear" that they must have drawn on the result of Japanese researches. I Propaganda Claims "According to ihe Ano-irv Amer icans, the atomic bomb now being! usea derives its explosive energy by use of uranium.

However, uranium is extremely rare. "By the employment of this new Weapon they hope to force Japan surrender. Such claims on the part of the two countries' leaders ffem to have been well taken by 'he Anglo-American press and radio allke- There seems to be no end to mention of the new bomb. "Evidently thev are trving to "lake out to the world that the ex-J Plosive will be miraculously instru-! Rental in putting an end to war i taimediatelv. For purposes of propaganda I ney can be expected to continue on the matter." Chinese See Early Collapse of Japan Aug.

9. HP) entry into the war should onng about Japan's collapse at an early date." the Chinese govern-ffientsaid in a statement tonight. The statement praised Russia's JP to China in the past. It said 'na and Russia have "numerous pecial interim's in common." there is be permanent curity in East Asia, the close cooperation of China and the Soviet j-nion must he regarded as a first the statement said. 5 KILLED, 15 HURT IN BLAST AT MILAN ILAX, Aug.

9. UP) Five Persons were killed and 15 others in an explosion at the "iian ordnance plant here today. Lt-. Col. Kenneth M.

Ilaber. com-Handing officer, said the explosion occurred on one of the ammuni-t'n lines, hut neither the extent Cause rf too Hmt-o vt-ac: im- 104 after viewing reconnaissance photographs from the second use of the fantastic atomic bomb against the enemy. He said scattered fires were visible outside the smoke-obscured area. There was no further word on the undoubtedly awesome fa'e that struck the western Kyushu city of 233.000 population. Silent HONSHU Hiroshima attack was "onlv a warn- ing of things to come," and added that unless the Japanese surrender, widespread atomic bombing of war industries is certain.

Saying this country and Great Britain realized the "tragic significance of the atomic bomb," the President in his prepared address went on: "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in the first attack to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians. "But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction." Truman gave no indication that the enemy had made any gestures, either since the advert of the terrible new weapon or the entry of Russia into the war, to end! bv capitulation the destruction of which he warned them.

Only One of Secret Only surrender, he said, will stop the use of the new agency of demolition and the Japanese alternative is ruin. In his first lengthy radio talk, Truman gave rio indication when he expected the Japanese to quit, either through surrender or through force. But he said the Soviet decision to declare war on Japan as only one of the secret militar3' arrangements made at Potsdam. "The Japs will soon learn sorrm of the other military secrets agreed upon at Berlin," he asserted, "thev will learn them first hand and they will not like them." f-i i ne vnier executive nevoterl a analysis of what was accomplish! in his Totsdam conference with Premier Stalin and British Trime Ministers Churchill and Attlee. But he also touched at some length on the Pacific war and serted that this government did not lightly undertake the prrduc-tion and use of the terrible atomic bomb.

"We have tisrd it," he said, "in order to shorten the agonv of war. in order to save the lives of thou- sanfjs and thousands of voung Americans. "We shall continue to use ft until we completely destroy Japans power to make war. Only a Japanese turrender will stop us." Britain and the United State-, he said, do not Intend to release the secret of history's most terrible weapon until means hav been found to control it so as protect ourselves and the re-t of the world from the danger of total destruction." "The atomic lomb." Truman de- ciareu. Js too oangerous to ne loose in a lawless world." Why Hiroshima Picked Hiroshima, a militarv bise, vas picked as the target for the atomic bomb, the Chk Kxer-u'ive said, to avoid killing civilians so far as possible.

"But that attack is only a warn-in? of things to come. If Japan floes not surrender, bom! will have to be dropper! on war indu tries, and thousands of civilian lives v. V. be lost, urge Japanese civilians to leave (Continued on Page fi. Column I Tokyo Radio Promises 'Sensational Message' SAN" FRANCISCO.

Aug. 9 A Tokyo broadcast, rernrdi. n.ght by the American Bro.v itig Company rcques-ed to be syre to tune jn at I A igu-' 13. Japanese t.m" cejve direct from Tauan ep.sat mr. people nf the -to; wo zin 1 1 waiting and 1 The announremc and beamed to the-was given In an i' regular Tokyo rauie called ''The Civ.

liana The announcer 1 "thev will no' want urgent news of eervo.ie." ami a "Radio monitors world are advi-d am iee-or'l this a'l-imjiorta' He repeated the date which would Vie 12.30 a i VC'I an! ti r.i. Aug. U. S. Eastern War Tur.e.

CARRIER TRUMAN WOULD EASE WPB WAR CONTROLS SOON President Has Five-Point Program to Promote Peace Economy WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (IP) President Truman today called for removal of wartime production controls as soon as possible to speed development of a healthy national peacetime economy. He made it clear at the same time, however, that the time has not yet come when American business can be freed of all restrictions. In a letter to Chairman J.

A. Krug of the War Production Board. F'resident Truman outlined a five-point program for orderly reconversion of industry from munitions to consumer goods manufacture. This was its theme: "Every opportunity must be given to private business to exercise i's ingenuity and forcefulness in speeding resumption of civilian production, subject to war needs." But he said that in order to achieve unprecedented civilian production it is necessary that WPB 'continue for the present some of the effective measures ir adopted to achieve unprecedented war production." This point had a direct bearing on a current sharp dispute between WPB and the Office of Price Administration as to whether controls on materials may be lifted when the latter agency feels they must be retained to help control the co-t of living. While the President said clearly that controls should be lifted "as soon as they are no longer needed," he added that there must be continued allocation of scarce materials when this is necessary to provide low-priced products "essential to the continued success of the stabilization program." Since this apparently leaves it up to WPB determination of when a material no longer is in scarce supply, it seemed to give that aeencv an advantage in the wrangle 1 with OPA.

However, the OPA could point to President Truman's emphasis on the stabilization program as supporting its cost-of-living stand. POMCK QCKI.fi RIOT BT'EXOS AIRES. Aug. It. An unestimated number of persons were held in police custody tonight after street clashes between police and demonstrators carrying placards calling for "free elections" and "effective riemocracv." The German people are begin- ning to atone for the crimes of the trangsters whom thev nlaced in power and whom thev whole heartedly appro-ed and obediently followed.

We also saw some of the terrible destruction which the war had brought to the occupied count-ies of Western Europe and tc England. How glad I am to be home again. And how grateful to Almighty God that this land of our ha1 been spared. We must do all we can to spare her from the ravages of any future breach of the peace. That is why.

though the United States wants no territory or profit or selfish advantage out of this war, we are going to maintain the military bases necessary for the complete protection of our interests and of world peace. liases which our militarv experts deem to be essential for our protection, and which are not now in of to on of The Japanese themselves were i CHUNGKING. Aug. 9. 0T) absolutely siient about results tvL'.

s. nlanes and Chinese nara- on the steel city of Kamaishi yesterday afternoon. Nimitz gave no details of today's air strikes, saying only that they were renewed at dawn against military targets. The chelling of Kamaishi by Admiral Halsey's heavy Third Fleet ships and light forces of the British Pacific Fleet was described officially by Ximitz as naval bombardment." 'a heavy While the big ships we're boldly steaming up and down opposite Kamaishi and pouring their tons of shells into its steel mills, American destroyers pounced upon and sank a small enemy freighter-transport and three other small vessels offshore. Kamaishi Damaged Kamaishi, 2T.

miles north of Tokyo, was badly damaged July 14 in the first naval bombardment of the Japanese homeland, which, like was directed at the imperial iron and steel works. Yesterday's shelling began at 12:49 p. Japanese timerand con-(Continued on Tage 6, Column 2) DRENCHING RAIN COVERS TUCSON Within Hour .82 of an Inch Of Water Falls at Davis-Monthan A heavy downpour of rain covered virtually all of Tucson last night during an electrical storm which caused pedestrians to take refuge in store entrances, and necessitated police to block off the Fourth avenue and Stone avenue subways. The rainfall was measured by the United State? Weather Bureau at Davis-Monthan Field who reported .82 of an inch from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m.

Streets in the downtown area, as well as sidewalks in many places, were flooded by the rushing water which tipped over parked bicycles and stalled cars that were caught in deep intersections. Police reported a car stalled in the Fourth avenue subway which had to be towed out. Finding herself stranded in her house, which had water in the kitchen and living room, Mrs. Ben Briscoe, of 1036 North Tyndall. called police for assistance, as she was concerned about the safety of her month-old child.

She moved to her mother's for the night to escape the small flood which threatened her home. Another frightened woman called police headquarters, and reported "something like a mountain lion" running loose in her backyard, and she wanted the creature taken care Patrolmen Bob Sigourney and Frank Peterson were dispatched to the scene, where they found a (Continued on Page 6. Column 2) 25 DIE, SCORES INJURED, WHEN TRAINS COLLIDE Great Northern 'Empire Builder' Wrecked at Michigan, N. D. MICHIGAN, N.

Aug. 9. Grand Forks Herald said more than 25 persons were reported killed and scores injured tonight when the second section of the Great Northern Railway passenger train, the "Empire crashed into the rear the first section here. There wfre conflicting reports as wiiv the first section had stopped here for more than the usual tinv One said a hot box bad been rhs- 1 covered, another it had stopped, as usual, to permit an cast'oound local train to pas. Doctors and ambulances were summoned from lirrnid Forks.

Devils I.ake and surrounding! towns. The dead and injured were re-j ported in the first section. I The Herald said the first section. developing a hot box. had made an unscheduled here, remaining the main track.

An effort to flag down, trie second section failed and the train plummeted into the first section. The impact was terrific, shaking man'v houses in this small com-inunitv, and at once the word spread that, brought many local residents to the scene. At Sf. Paul. headquarters I the road, officials snid that twoj three-car first aid trains had been dispatched tonight to Michigan.

Relief Train I C. W. Moor advertising manager for 'the road at St. Paul, said there! was I'O definite estimate of casual ties vet available. One relief train, bearing doctors and nurses was dispatched from (Continued on Page Column RUSSIANS FORM GREAT PINCERS TO TIEJJP JAPS Deepest Manchuria Drive Takes Jin-Jin Sume, Nip Airbase LONDON, Aug.

9. (IP) Mighty Russian invasion columns knifed into Manchuria in a great pincers and surged as deep as 14 miles into the stolen province from the east today, seizing Japanese outpost bastions and bursting through a concrete defense zone, the Soviets announced tonight. The western prong meeting little resistance, captured Jin-Jin Sume. Maps show this to be an airport town 33 miles inside Manchuria from the border of Outer Mongolia. The crack Siberian army, given the battle cry to "settle an old fcore," smashed ahead on a wide front from the maritime provinces on the east to wild Outer Mongolia on the west, Moscow's first communique of this 24-hour-oUl Far Eastern ar declared.

Pincers The east-west prongs of the multiple pincers clamping upon Japan's Kwantung army were alwut 750 miles apart. The Russian assault had already been assisted by blows by V. S. planes and Chinese parachute troops aim-d at choking off Japanese troop movements from China to the new battle area. Hod bomber Uptn ranged ahead.

pounding enemy rail renters. Mn. f-rm tin. ii r. i i i me nrni lnr nn I HU.II v- I the east.

Red Army troops cracked through the enemy's reinforced concrete defense zone and ad-j vanced nine to 14 mile-; the broad-! cast, bulletin said. Toko asserted the Russians were attacking from the east at points along a "00-mile front. Farther north? the Soviets battled over the Amur and Ussuri rivers from the Khabarovsk area and captured the Japanese strong hold of Fuyuan. in the northeast- ern tip of oesiries several other populated places, Moscow said. In a heavy blow from the west, (Continued of Rage fi.

Column 3) Atomic Bomb May Bring Cut in Army WASHINGTON. Q.UP Secret ifv Stimson said today that the war department will check over the Pacific ar situation to if atomic bombing and Russia's entrv ui another cut in the size of the armv. But the possibilities of both those new elements "had been in our minds for many months." the secretary adder). He said the test must the numbf of men hich we biii may be needed for the oomnle'e d. f.

at. r.f Japan ith the Past loss of American Parley Each of was sore ly missed. Each had elope his work toward winning this war. Each had made a tftcat contribution toward establishing and maintaining a lasting world peace. Each of them seems to have en ordained to lead his country in its hour of greatest peed.

And so thoroughly had thev clone th-ir y''- tha' w-e were able t0 carrv on rnd to leach manv agreements e-w-ntial to the future peace and security of the world. Th of the Berlin con. ference have been publ'sivef. Theie we ie no cr re agreement-; or comnrt Ticnt from curreni avrargeinerts. Anel it was made perfectly plain to my rolleagnes at the conference that, under our constitution, the President has power to make any trraties without ratification by the senate of the United States.

Before we met a Berlin, fhe Uni'eej S'a'e Government ha'! r.t 'o th So ar.d British (Continued on Page II, Column I) i i Warcraft and Paratroops Struck Ahead of Reds In Early July troops striking as long as a month nlf, jn foreknowledge of Russia's against the Japanese al-j ready have "seriously with the movement of enemy forces northwatd in China toward the now-flaming Manchurian front, Albert C. Wedemeyer asserted today. Tin U. S. 14th Air Force for a month has been hammering at withdrawal routes from South-Central China, the general commanding American forces in China declared.

Anient an-t rained Chinese parachute troops anil commandos al-o have done "splendid work'' in blocking the Japanese movement and pos-ible transfer of his forces northward. WVdemeyor declared.) Chinese parachute troops achieved complete surprise in a dawn drop recent btueen Kweilin and Hongang. a big rail hub. and caused gnat onfu-ion and heavy1 casualties among the enemy, he said. powerful Soviet armies hitting I into Manchuria completely altered the stratrgic picture on the Asi-j atic mainland, and olscrvers in i Chungking speculated that a grand i Chinese counferoifensive.

now in the making, would be speeded up. Veiemo conferred with Bus-: sian lnili'arv reprr scntativts today. was authoritatively' that Korea is included in the China thea'tr along with China proper, Mani-hui ia. and Indo-China. of Potsdam are and determined to remain united strong.

Wo can never per mit anv aggressor in the future to be clever enough to divide us or strong enough to defeat That, was the guiding spirit in tli conference at San Francisco. Tii the )t v. as the jfuiding spirit ill inference at Bet I'm. Tha in tlw ii' be the guiding cr'h if peace -i ttlemcnt to come, the conference of Berlin it In a for me to get aiong in 1 1 1 1 i i it li lal understanding and friend-with Generalissimo S'alin. Prime Minister Churchill and later with Prime Minister Strong foundation of good ill and co-operation have been laid hy President Roosevelt.

And it was clear that those foundations rested on much more than the p-rsoiiril friendships of three in-di There 't as a fundamental accord and agreement upon the objectives ahead of us. Two of three conferees- of Tel an ta ere mis sirs bv the end of this conference. the noon bombing, in which it wa possible that more than one of th lethal packages had dropped, Earlier. Genera! Spaatz head- quarters had announced that re suit were gocxi. meager description of the afomi' bombing of responded to first Hiroshima, where a Naga-aki cor-reports about great cloud of whi'e sjnoke funnel (1 upward to; 40.000 feet for four hours after the world's first atomic bomb was dropped there Monday.

After four hours, still was obscured in- smoke, and theiy as no possibility of assessing damage. I -titer photographs shower! 1 that per cent of Hiroshima's square miles was destroyed after the world'. fir.r atomic bomb wa-dropped Monday. After four hour-'. Hiroshima still was obscured by smoke and there was no possibility of assessing damage then.

Later photographc; showed that in per cent of Hiroshima's .0 square miles as roved and Radio Tokv sair! "practically every living thing" in the town was killed. Karly Report Spaatz' press release giving a 1 preliminary report of the results at Xngaski, said: General Spaatz announcer! thi-" morning that damage assessment photographs made throe and one-half hours after he atomic bomb-, ing r.f Xagn-ki showed the r-itv was (('nut inner! Cage d. Column made at Berlin were of course secret. One of those secrets was repealed yesterday, when the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. The Soviet Union, before she had been informed of our new weapon, agreed to cuter the war in the Pacific, We gladly welcome into this struggle against the last of the Axis ag-cressors our gallant and victorious ally against the Nazis.

The Japs will soon learn some of the other military secrets i greed upon at IV rbn. Thev learn tin first, nand and they ill no! like them. No one can fore-ee what another war would mean to our own cities and to our ow people. What we.are doing to Japan now even ith tin new atomic bomb is only a small fraction of what would hannr to the world in a third world war. Tiiat is why the United Nations are determined that, there shall be no next war.

That is why the United Nations i President Truman's Report on Results our vve ui" We will acquire them bv arrangements consistent with the United Nations charter. I want for the to express my tnaiiKs services which rendered at this conference wen by Secretary State rut s. and hiaiilv commended which u'ep by the powers. lead' rs of the other two I am thankiul also to t. of the American delega- the re tion- Admiral Leahy, and v.

,1,..,. tiorriman. Havis and pa' lev and to the entire Ameri- 1 can st? aff. Without their nam work and sound am ice uie ference would have been unauie lit ii much as it did. LO HCCOil.

The conference was concerned with many political and economic questions: Hut there was one strictly military matter uppermost in minds of the Anvri- can It was winning the war against Japan. On our program that was the most important, item. I The military arrangements Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Aug. 9. The text of President 'Truman's radio speech on the Potsdam conference: Mv fellow Americans: I "have just returned from Berlin, the city from which the Germans intended to rule the world.

It is a ghost city. The buildings are in ruins, its economy and its people are in ruins. Our partv also visited what is left of Frankfurt and Darmstadt. We flew over the remains of Kassel, Magdeburg and other devastated cities. German women and children and old men were wandering over the highways returning to bombed out homes or leaving bombed out cities, searching fr food and shelter.

War has indeed come home to Germanv and to the German people. It has come home in all the frightfulness with which the German leaders started and waged it. m-cuately ascertained. i.