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Lord Wavell Leaving For India Tomorrow London, Sept 12, (JP) Lord Wavell, viceroy of India, who has been in London several days discussing the India situation with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and other members of the new Labor government, is leaving for New Delhi tomorrow. It is understood no drastic new line of policy in India has been i wtiMm motive and the boiler exploded scalding several personos. The engine overturned into ditch. The derailed cars including two sleepers remained upright. ine stalled automobile was owned by Floyd Fisher who es caped injury.

The train, carrying 125 passen gers, was wrecked at the Main street crossing. Railroad officials estimated 36 hours might be required to restore traffic on the line. Six injured taken to Memorial Hospital at Shelby included: Mrs. William R. Triman, Johnstown, Pa, O.S.

Experts Find Atom Destruction Greater Than Expected at Hiroshima San Francisco, Sept. 12, (JP) American experts returning from atom bombed Hiroshima reported today the destruction was "much greater" than they had expected, but that there was no dangerous radioactivity lingering in the area, radio dispatches said. American broadcasters Quoted Col. Stafford Warren, chief medical officer of the atom bomb project for three years, as saying that 70,000 to 100,000 Japanese cas ualties at Hiroshima would be "the best guess." Most, he added, were from blast, missiles and fire; and the casualties from radioactivity resulted from exposure at the inr stant of the explosion father man anerwaro. He said the American investl gators had tested the area but found nothing to support Japanese claims that radioactive matter re mained in the area.

The bomb was designed as a blast weapon and radioactivity was confined to the point of detonation, he added; and he also denied Japa nese reports that gases had been released by the bomb. He reported 68,000 buildings de stroyed or damaged 80 to 90 per cent, of the city, with the area completely devastated for a ra dius of a mile and one quarter. Buildings three miles distant were half destroyed, he said. IELEGKAPH FAIR founded 1831 VOL CXV Nn 9fl PA AFC Daily Except Sunday. Entered as Second Class no.

iia vvjtJ Matter at the Post OHice at Harrisburg HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1945 Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper In Harrisburg. News Around the Clock SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS 0 EDITION Jap Son Fugitive Brought Back to 'School' After 75 Mile Hike Stephen Gregor, 16, Baltimore, who escaped from the White Hill' Industrial School, September 5, by climbing the school fence, returned today, the Rev. Eugene S. Keller, superin tendent, reported. The youth was accompanied by his mother, Mrs.

Stephen Gregor, the superintendent said. Gregor told the Rev. Mr. Kel ler he ivas forced to hide in the woodland section near the school for two days and at one time guards were within three feet of r.im when they made their drives through the 1000 acre area near the Gettysburg pike. He told the superintendent he lived on raw carrots and toma toes from gardens.

Gregor walked more than 75 miles to his home, sleeping in neids at night. He said after the guards stopped searching the area lor him, he fled to the New Cumberland mountains. The Rev. Mr. Keller went to the youth's home over the weekend to ask the parents to report when Gregor arrived.

Gregor arrived yesterday and wanted to return last night he told the Rev. Mr. Keller. The youth was committed to the I school from Luzerne county for juvenile delinquency. Women Observe 25th Anniversary Of Suffrage Act About 150 women are expected to attend the dinner tonight at 6.30 in the cafeteria of the main Capi mm France Demands Italy Pay Part Of Yar Losses, Frontier Changes London, Sept 12, (P) France presented to the con ference of foreign ministers of the world's five big powers today her views on a pro posed peace treaty for Italy insisting at least on the prin ciple of reparations.

Outlines of American and Brit' ish views indicate both govern ments have opposed collection of reparations from Italy because they were eager to get the Italian economy back "on a sound basis. Washington, Sept. 12, (JP) President Truman said today the working out of the details of the Potsdam plan for internationalizing the Dardanelles is up to the meeting of Foreign Ministers in London. He made this statement at a news conference when asked about a report that be had sent a new communication to Turkey on the subject. He said he had not sent such a communication and added that his stand for an international commission to control the as taken at Potsdam, not changed.

The French views, it was were these: 1. France wants a small recti fication of her border with Italy, mainly on the Alpine frontier around the towns of Labrigue and Tante and would like complete control oyer the Roya valley, on the fronler just north of the Mediterranean. 2. France disclaims any desire to annex the valley of Aosta in (Continued on Page 20, Col. 2) Truman Promises To Remove Japs From Korea Posts nn 1 4 Mavy Men Killed in Crash of Huge Plane 1 Mountbatten Bars Jap 'Arrogance' After Surrender; Warns of Obstinacy Singapore, Sept.

12, (JP) Admiral Lord Louis Mount batten received the surrender of all Japanese forces in Southeast Asia and the East Indies today from Gen. Seis hiro Itagaki, representing the ailing commander of the Japanese southern armies, Marshal Count Juichi Ter auchi. Promptly after the ceremony the Allied Southeast Asia commander announced he would tolerate no arrogance from the Japanese, and told his troops in an order of the day that they would have his support "in taking the sternest measures against any Japanese attempt at obstinacy, impudence or non cooperation." The order of the day underscored Mountbatten's previous stern announcement that "we are going to treat our enemies with justice and humanity, but we are going to be their masters." The surrender involved about 85,000 Japanese troops in the! Singapore area and some 500,000 soldiers and sailors in "the southern regions" Southeast Asia and the East Indies. By the instrument the Japanese gave up the richest and most ex pansive conquests of their long campaign of aggression an area stretching 4o00 miles from the Bay of Bengal to Hollandia, embracing (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3) Truman Laughs Off Left Right Questions Washington, Sept.

12, (JP) President iruman today laughed off attempts of reporters to persuade him to specify whether his administration is heading either to the left or the right. He told questioners at his news conference that they would have to judge the direction in which he was heading by his acts. Johnson Silent After Indictment By Federal Jury Scranton, Sept. 12, (JP) Former U. S.

Judge Albert W. Johnson declined comment today after his indictment by a Federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and defraud the government. The indictment was handed up yesterday to Judge William H. Smith of Newark, specially pre siding during the grand jury in vestigation. Nine others are also named in the indictment, including three sons of the 72 year old Johnson, who last July 3 resigned his post during hearings bemg held by a congressional sub committee in Washington.

In addition ft the former jurist, those indicted are: Donald M. Johnson of Middle Continued on Page 9, Col. 8) 608 Killed in Crashes During First 7 Months Motor vehicle accidents cost 608 lives in Pennsylvania during the first seven months of 1945, the State Bureau of Highway Safety reported today. The figure was 58 less than in the correspondent months last year. The fatality rate increased 7.4 per cent, during July as compared with July 1944.

Cameron and Juniata were the only counties without a fatality during the seven month period in both years, the bureau said. rffS jji ATOMIC BLAST LEAVES SCORCHED EARTH Air view of the site of the atomic bomb test blast reveals stub of tower (center), 300 foot diameter crater, and 2400 foot diameter (blacked area) which turned earth into green jade color and chrystalized it at the Alamogordo, N. test, grounds. Wain wright Opens Army to Discharge 6 Million Men Display of Tokio Surrender Papers Washington, Sept. 12, (JP) The Japanese surrender documents, symbol of America's victory, were unveiled to the public at the National Archives Building today by Gen.

Johnathan M. Wainwright, hero of Corregidor and Bataan. At ceremonies honoring the United Nations, Wainwright said the documents "bear enduring evidence of the supremacy of right over might and of the return of peace to a distraught world." House Speaker Sam Rayburn introduced Wainwright as "one of history's greatest heroes, a man who even in defeat symbolized the ideals and objectives for which this nation mobilized all its resources." Rayburn said Wainwright "con tribtued greatly to our ultimate victory by holding out with meager and inadequate resources far longer than was expected." Wainwright, tall and gaunt, spoke briefly. His words were scarcely audible. "On this occasion, as always," he said, "I think of the brave men who served under my com mand.

On their behalf, as well (Continued on Page 9, Col. 2) Blood Furnished By State Soldier 'In Revenge9 Yokohama, Sept. 12, (JP) A lanky Pennsylvania mess sergeant, John A. Archinal of Allentown, volunteered the type blood which was used for former Pre mier Hideki Tojo's first whole blood transfusion today and explained: "I'm doing this so he can get his just dues and suffer for the time (17 months) he made me spend in New Guinea." Afterward Capt. Roy Gold, Montreal, Canada, Army medical oiiicer, reported Tojo condition as "very satisfactory." Tojo didn't say anything: He just lay with his eyes closed and his legs comfortably crossed his feet sticking out from beneath the covers.

By Next July 1, Patterson Says Washington, Sept. 12, (Undersecretary of War Patterson told Senators today trie Army expects to discharge 6,000,000 men by next July 1. Defending the point system of demobilization in testimony be fore the Senate Military Commit tee, Patterson said it should bring the Army down to a strength of 2,500,000 by the middle of 1946. The Undersecretary vigorously rejected a proposal by Senator Johnson (D Colo) that Congress set up a special agency to police demobilization. Johnson asked if it would be "harmful" for Congress to name a committee which would 'watch the situation close ly, stating that members were being "overwhelmed" with re quests for discharges.

"I believe it would be harmful," Patterson replied. "Demobilization is the Army's task. I think (Continued on Page 9, Col. 7) 10 Persons Hurt As 'Red Arrow' Hits Stalled Auto Tiro, Ohio, Sept. 12, (JP) The second section of the Red Arrow.

Pennjylvania passenger train, from Washington to Detroit was derailed here today after it struck a stalled automobile. At least 10 persons iwere injured. The locomotive and seven cars baggage car, diner and five coaches and Pullmans left the tracks. The train, west bound, was wrecked at 6.50 a. m.

(Central War Time). A piece of rail pierced the loco' tol building, to observe the 25th anniversary of the Woman Suffrage Amendment. State Senator M. Harvey Taylor, State Chairman, and chairman of the Republican County Committee, and Mrs. Helen U.

Loewen, vice chairman, are arranging the dinner, which will have State vice chairman, Mrs. Edna R. Car roll, Philadelphia, as the principal speaker. Brief talks will be given by other GOP leaders as well. Plans will be discussed for a more intensive organization of women's activities in the county to be centered around the proposed plan of a Republican Town Meeting in each township and pre cinct Members of the county commit tee, the Republican Council, dis trict workers, and pioneer women of the organization have been invited.

Entertainment will include mu sic by Miss Frances Palm, contralto; Evelyn and Mae Hughes, harmony singers; Miss Lorraine, patriotic accordionist; and a small band directed by Leonard Oxley. I Washington. Sept. 12, (JP) Presi dent Trumsn promised today that Japanese officials will be removed from their posts in Korea as soon as possible. He told a news conference that the Army's decision, to retain some of the Japanese overlords was dic tated by practical consideration Asked to fix a time when the Japanese will be put out, the President referred the question to General MacArthur.

He said the decision to retain them in office until changes can be made was strictly a theatre de cision, but added there would be a policy statement on that line' soon. Under further questioning, how ever, he said the changes would be made as soon as possible. Earlier, he had expressed a be lief that any fears in Australia about what a reporter called "kid glove" treatment of the Japanese would be found baseless after the program had been worked out. Airport Taken Over Tokio, Sept. 12, (JP) The Japanese government today was directed to turn over to American occupation forces the small Haneda municipal airport in the Tokio Bay area.

The field will be reconstructed into the principal air transport command terminal here. Parents Refuse To Believe Son U.S, Traitor Ogden, Utah, Sept. 12, (JP) The parents of Mark Lewis Streeter, civilian electrical engineer on Wake Island prior to his capture by the Japanese in February 1942, acknowledged this morning that their son had made several broadcasts to the United States. Most oi his broadcasts were personal messages to the family," said Mrs. George C.

Streeter, mother of the civilian who is ac cused of making propaganda broadcasts from prison camps for the Japanese. George C. Streeter, father of the former Wake Island prisoner, refused to accept the Associated Press report of the general head quarters announcement that his son had been picked up for ques tioning. "We have better word than that from the provost mar sha," he said. Rescue Thwarted By Arms Blasts As 4 Engine Ship Crashes at Airport Miami, Sept.

12, Fourteen Navy men died to day in the crash of a big, four engined Privateer which, with one engine afire, was being guided to cleared runways of the Miami Naval Air Station by radio. One man escaped by leaping with his parachute. The man who jumped was W. J. DeRoche, aviation ordnance man, who attempted to rescue his comrades but was driven away by flames and exploding ammunition.

Naval authorities gave this description of tWe tragedy: The big plane with 15 men aboard took off from the naval air station on a regular training flight and as it gained the air observers in the control tower saw that its No. 3 engine was afire. "Your engine is afire," the pilot was told by radio. "You will land immediately on any runway. All runways are being cleared for Every plane in the vicinity was ordered out 'of the way of the distressed craft as the pilot acknowledged' the message and began to turn back toward the field.

"The aircraft circled and made a normal, three engine approach. At about 500 feet with smoke getting into the cabin, one man was observed to parachute to safety. No one else left the plane," the Navy reported. "The aircraft suddenly dived, crashed and exploded. There were no other survivors.

Names of the dead will be released after next of kin have been notified. Envoy Named Athens, Sept. 12, (JP) Leon Melas, director of the Ministry of foreign Affairs, has been ap pointed Greek ambassador to Washington succeeding Christoff Diamantopoulos, the government announced today. Diddle Appointed To Allied Courts; Parker Alternate Washington, Sept. 12, MP) Pres ident Truman announced the appointment of Francis Biddle, former U.

S. Attorney General, as American member of the Allied military tribunal to try Axis war criminals." Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina was named as alternate. At a news conference in which he cleared his desk of a long series of appointments, the President disclosed the resignation of Elmer Davis as director of the Office of War Information and the assignment of Neil Dalton of Louisville to succeed him for the purpose of liquidating that agency. The President announced the appointment of former Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri to be an associate justice of the U.

S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, succeeding Thurman Arnold. He appointed E. Barrett Pretty man of Washington and Wilbur K. Miller of Owensboro, hthe two other vacancies on the Appellate Court in Washington.

Pret (Continued on Page 20, Col. 1) Washington, Sept. 12, (JP) President Truman will fly to Mis souri Friday to visit his mother and the homefolks at Kansas City and independence. The White House announced the President will leave here at 1.30 p. m.f Eastern War Time Friday from the National Airport, ar riving in Kansas City about 6.25 p.

Central War Time. He will return to Washington Sunday, arriving about 6.50 p. Eastern War Time. The Chief Executive, traveling in the Presidential 54 the "Sacred Cow" will give Senate Majority Leader Barkley Tojo 'sLifeSaved By U.S. Blood, Doctor Asserts Tokio, Sept.

12, (P) American occupation authorities tonight pressed the roundup of 47 Japanese war leaders and renegade occidentals as a gift of blood from a Pennsylvania sergeant probably saved the life of Hideki Tojo, principal architect of the Pearl Harbor assault. General MacArthur, extending his list of "wanted" men to include seven of' the notorious black dragon society's top terrorists, ordered dissolution of the jingoistic secret organization, which the Japanese claimed had disbanded more than a month ago. While the roundup bag increased, one of the most badly wanted, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, who sanctioned the murderous death march of Bataan, fled to his islet home off the northwest coast.

7 Leaders Put On Wanted List By Arthur Tokio, Sept. 12, (JP) General MacArthur, decreeing dissolution of Japan's notorious black dragon militaristic secret society, tonight placed these seven leaders of the organization on his "wanted list Ryuhei Uchida, Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, Seigo Nakano, Toyo saburo Kikuci, Koki Hirota Taketora Ogata, and Prof. Genchi Kato. One of the most feared and sinister semi official secret organi zations in the Orient, the black dragon was instrumental in set ting Japan upon the aggressive path to the Chinese invasion and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

There was no immediate report that any of the seven leaders had been arrested. The black dragon society was organized in 190f with strong backing from the army and navy and governmental leaders, many of whom held membership in the society. It had far reaching power in the war ministry and abroad and was represented in all oc cupied territories. It was notorious for its strong arm methods gangster tactics with an Oriental touch. Assas sination groups carried out ter rorist policies against any Japa nese official who dared offer even indirect opposition.

Any act considered detrimen tal to the empire was dealt with by the society in a shadowy method which blended well into the background of weird jstories of the Far East. Boyington Back; 18 Buddies Gather To Welcome Ace Oakland, Sept. 12, (JP) "Pappy" Boyington is back with his Black Sheep squadron gang again. The swashbuckling, 26 plane Marine ace had no sooner landed at the Oakland airport this morn ing than he was grabbed by 18 of his former buddies and paraded on their shoulders around the run way. Twenty one other passengers aboard the Naval Air Transport plane were virtually ignored by the crowd.

It was Gregory Boyington, 32, an almost legendary figure from the (Continued on Page 20, Col. 1) Truman to Fly to Missouri Friday To Visit Mother, Hometown Folks a lift to Paducah. Barkley has a weekend speaking engagement in his home state. The President will pick up Barkley again on the return trip Sunday, flying him back to Washington, On the Friday trip the Presi dent also will stop at Scott Field, 111., where Miss Reathel Odum, Mrs. Truman's secretary, will leave the party to start a vaca tion at her home nearby.

Mrs. Truman will accompany the President to Independence, where she will remain for a brief (Continued on Page 20, Col. 1) One of those caught, however, was Heinrich Georg Stahmer, German ambassador held chiefly, responsible for bringing Japan into the Rome Berlin Axis. Stahmer came to Tokio in 1940 as a special envoy on the Axis deal, was rewarded by being named Hitler's envoy to the Nanking puppet government, and then became ambassador to Tokio. He was a personal assistant to Nazis Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop.

Tojo, who attempted suicide yesterday, admittedly to escape trial as the main Japanese war criminal, but who missed his heart with a bullet from a pistol taken from a downed American flyer, rallied strongly tonight after the transfusion of type whole blood and injections of penicillin. Doctors, who had said he had a better than even chance to live, declared his condition now was "very satisfactory." Tojo himself was strong enough to thank them and to tell a Japanese government representative, T. Suguki, who visited him at the American Evacuation Hospital in Yokohama, that he appreciated the care he was getting. The blood donation came from Sgt. John A.

Archinal, a veteran (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) Gen. Homma Flees To Island Home; Led 'Death March' Tokio, Sept. 12, (JP). Japanese Lt.

Gen. Masaharu Homma, father of the infamous "death march" from Bataan and the con queror who accepted the surrender of General Wainwright, has fled to his ancestral home on picturesque Sado Island, off the Northwest Japanese coast, it was disclosed today. The one time strutting, blus tering general left Tokio three days ago, slipping out quietly with only his wife, well informed Japanese sources said. He had expressed keen interest in "the American drive to round up war criminals." His name is on the list of former Japanese leaders ordered apprehended by General MacArthur. Homma left on an ordinary train for the two day trip to Niigata, where he was to ferry, the 20 miles to the island.

Although his destination was no secret from intimates, no publicity was given his departure. Homma is not the first refugee on the 330 square mile island, which with a pre war population of 109,000 was long famous in Japanese history as a hiding place for fugitives from Samurai justice, including at least one emperor. The most famous of the me dieval refugees to Sado was the noted 12th century Buddhist priest, Nichiren, who was banished there for preaching for preparedness against the Mongol invasion. Tradition is that one of Homma's forebears protected tne priest then. THE WEATHER (17.

8. Weather Bureau) Sunrise, 6.45; sunset, 7.21. Harrisburg and vicinity Most ly sunny with moderate tempera' tures this afternoon. Clear and cool tonight. Thursday increasing cloudiness with little change la temperature.

Light to gentle var table winds. High today, 78; tomorrow, 78; yesterday, 82; low tonight, 54; last night, 57; river, 3.5 feet. A.