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JEWETT, PA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1945 Atomic Bomb Would Spread Destruction Over This Area Most Awfal Weapon The 5 BATTER Mam9 H11NE0 STEEL CENTER T) ti i i ni tees Out 60 Percent Of a ar mm art i su it iTOshima In Single Blast XS'Si SALVATION ARMY Tokyo Declares City of 343,000 Turns to Ashes From Pressure and Heat Tokyo Says Blast So Terrible That the Dead Could Not Be Distinguished from Injured; Say They Will Fight On. GUAM, Aug. gUP) The obliterating blast of a single atomic bomb dropped by a lone Superfort destroyed 60 per cent of the important Japanese city of Hiroshima and today Tokyo admitted that practically nothing escaped death in its scorching path. "Those outdoors burned to death, while those indoors were killed by indescribable pressure and reported Tokyo. It said the city was in "disastrous, ruin" 'and that houses and buildings were "crushed." The newspaper Asahi Shimbun appealed to the people to remain calm under the "inhuman" bombing and "pledge to fight through until the last." The editorial declared the Japanese mind had been "trained for.

just such an occasion as this." If one of the atom bombs were dropped on New York's battery on the southern tip of Manhattan island, and, assuming its fearful waves of destruction spent themselves in a northerly direction only, the i town would be dust as far north as the Polo Grounds at 155th St. People in that area would be dead, injured or homeless. (International) CLAIM PETAIN PAID COSTS FOR AGAINST NAZI ARMY PARIS, Aug. 8. W) Gen.

Jean Bergeret, former Vichy air minister, testified today that French se cret agents furnished the RAF with details of German air force activities and were paid from a budget set up by Marshal Petain, now on trial for his life. "Petain gave me, the 1 necessary funds in said; the: defense witness on day the ligence with the enemy' and; plotting against the security'bf SILVER STAR MEDAL PRESENTED FAMILY OF PVT. JAMES H. GILLIS Presentation of the Silver Star Medal, awarded posthumously to Pvt. James H.

Gillis, one of the few privates in World War II to earn this high award, was made yesterday to the late soldier's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Gillis. The presentation was made by Major A.

R. Bullock of Pittsburgh, representing rthe Third Service I Pvt. Gillis gaye ijils life. hi service of. his November 23, 1944T after having served a short period on the Western Front.

'I General. Spaatz warned the enemy that more 29s are ready to dfbrrhore: of the world's most; destructive explosives on the island pities if resistance continues. The Strategic AiyrForces.comWander; said that 4.1 square miletf. OL' HirrohUnEVilbilttjiiri areaof 6.9 square mlies were vyiped Five military tartswerewiestroyed by the one The communiquedidi.rnot;1dehtiiy them. Grim details of what happened on the erround came onh Bergeret said tne uermans mipian for the trials of Germany's Approved by frdm Tokyo.

The; enemy broadcast revealed that the blast MttB s4wble4hat the dead could not be distinguished from the injured. Neither could be identified. Destruction "was so great, and need for relief so urgent, that authorities had been unable to establish 'the extent of civilian casualties. Spaatz based his communique on photographs from the sky. They showed the heart of the city devastated with awful thoroughness as if a giant bulldozer had swept up buildings and houses and dumped them into a river.

TRUMAN TAKES OVER Again Near Japan YAW ATA HIT 1ST, TIME IN YEAR (BULLETIN) GUAM. Aue. 8 UP) 29s fire bombed another fore warned Japanese city today, mores than 100 of the Super sf orts raidinsr Fukuyama oi Honshu island shortly ciore midnight in the fourth attack of the. day on homeland GUAM, Aug. 8 UP) Super forts struck Yawata, the Pittsburgh of Japan," today in their third powerful sweep over the empire in three days, and Admiral Halsey evaded Japan's last effective defense a typhoon to bring his massive fleet once more to the enemy's home coasts.

A Navy Department radio commentator bluntly warned Japan that Halsey's fleet again is near, and explained only destructive winds had interrupted the Third Fleet assaults that cost the enemy more than 1,000 vessels and 1,300 planes, destroyed or damaged, in the last 22 days of July. Japan herself had offered no real defense. Admiral Nimitz today reported carrier pilots had swept vengefully over Wake Island Monday and had hammered shipping off the China coast for three successive days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Yawata, blasted by Superforts today for the first time in a year, had been placed on the 20th Air Force death list Sunday. The force of 225 Superforts pounded the city's industrial areas with 1,500 tons of demolition bombs; in today's daylight! assault' Bombing was visual in good; weather nd started fires that Quickly to conflagration returning airmen said.

force of .140 Thunderbolt fighters' from Okinawa escorted the 'i It was the third blow in as many days at Japan's bleeding war centers. A 580 plane force hit four forewarned cities and a synthetic fuel plant before dawn Monday, and 125 planes struck the Toyokawa naval arsenal southeast of Nagoya Tuesday. Thirty more Superfortresses, accompanied by 70 Mustangs and Thunderbolts, raided the central district army command area in the vicinity of Tokyo on Honshu island early today the Japanese Domei News Agency reported early today. 29s in the followup raid broke formation as they neared their targets and "operated over the entire area," the broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, said. Results of the 750 ton blasting of the Toyokawa arsenal were, "generally excellent," the 29ers said 4oday.

Meeting no air opposition, approximately half the 97 escorting Mustangs swept destructively over the Tokyo bay naval base of Yokoshuka, exploding a 200 foot freighter, firing two oil tanks, damaging trains and rail facilities and 19 small vessels. One fighter and (continued on page six) TODAY Oil THE HOME FRONT, by James Mar low THE BIO SECRET WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 CD Byron Price, director of Censorship, iayi the long work on the atomic bomb was the best kept single sec ret of the war. For keeping the secret he gives special praise to the newspapers, radio broadcasters, magazines, book publishers. Says Price: The secrecy results obtained by the newspapers and broadcasters should be sufficient answer to anyone who thinks voluntary censorship cannot work." These groups accepted at war's start, voluntarily, a censorship code.

They agreed not to publish or broadcast anything to hurt the Wnr effort. All censorship during the war, under Price's direction, has been on that voluntary basis. It continues that way. The best kept, multiplied secret 0f the war, Price says, Involved movements of troops and transports. He says nothing on this was printed.

There were torn leaks on the atomic homo experiments, according to Price, but they were of a minor nature. He considered them deliberate. In 1M0 the United States and strut Britain pooled their scienti fic knowledge ueful to war. Re ATOM BOMB COMMAND OPA SPLIT Reconversion Policy May Be Left to Truman Decision. WASHINGTON, Aug.

8 UP) The War Production Board arid the OPA are split wide apart on an issue embracing fundamental price and reconversion policy. Likely to be referred to President Truman for settlement, what was once just a disagreement now has boiled to an angry quarrel over this basic point: May WPB remove or ease controls on materials no longer scarce if OPA feels such controls must be retained to help hold down the cost of living? While this issue arose in connection with a specific WPB proposal to ease restrictions on clothing production, OPA has taken the position that overall price and reconversion policy is involved. OPA officials believe materials controls should be kept firmly in place in any case where living costs might rise if they were WPB, ort the other hand, Is committed to a policy of eliminating controls soon as the supply of any material warrants' it. This difference has the two agen ciei. at loggerheads, with representatives of each predicting the quarrel eventually will "have to be 'resolved.

byJ Mr. Tramian1, i OPA's already; has brought the dispute to' the attention of John W. Snyder, war mobilization and re conversion Kliesstsef aw Wi Davis, economic stabilizer. But officials familiar with the Issues say any recommendations made by Snyder or Davis are sure to be passed on by the President, since dmintstration policy Is involved. Meanwhile the proposal which precipitated the clash has driven a deep wedge into what started as a cooperative effort to boost production of inexpensive clothing while restoring garment prices to 1943 levels.

Undertaken jointly by WPB and OPA early this year, the program set aside about 75 per cent of the civilian supply of all fabrics for low and moderately priced clothinc. Manufacturers were 'to be given priorities assistance in obtaining materials only if they agreed to produce garments that would retail at price levels of two years ago. STRlif TOTAL IN 0. S. By The Associated Press The nation's strike total dropped to around 41,000 today, the lowest in a week, as some 23,000 war workers at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation in Cincinnati ended a five day walkout.

The striking workers at the big plant engaged In the production of engines for 29s last night voted to go back to their jobs on today's first shift The vote came after a stormy three hour session and followed a War Labor Board back to work directive and an appeal by Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio. Union officials had termed the strike the culmination of a long list of grievances," and said it was "touched off last week when 14 foundry employes were transferred to lower pay Jobs in the same department," Workers In two other plants also (Continued on page three) lIEflUPLANE 1 NORTHUMBERLAND. Aug. 8 UP) She felt "just wonderful" when she heard that her husband navigated the 29 which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Mary Jane Van Kirk said here last night.

Mrs. Van Kirk said she had a letter from her husband, Capt. Theodore J. Van Kirk, navigator of the Superfortress "Enola Cay" just yesterday but that he gave no hint of the mission he was due to take part In. She last saw him In June, the same day her six weeks old baby was born, but she said, the captain had to leave before he got a glhnp of hts ne son.

The baby was named Thomas sfter Major Thomas ft'erebee. bombardier of the atomic bomb plane, and close friend of Capt Van Kirk, For Heaven's sake what next Get this picture a Nazi' superman surrendering to a Salvation Army Girl's camp! Yesterday afternoon, the FBI at Pittsburgh revealed that Alfred Naehrig, 25, had been reported missing from the Camp Sheffield, 16 miles west of Kane. i Last evening, Naehrig appeared at Camp Cornplanter in the Allegheny National Forest about 14 miles north of Kane, now being operated by the Salvation Army, and contacted Major John W. Baggs, of Pittsburgh, director of Salvation Army Youth Work in Western Pennsylvania and in charge of the camp. Naehrig, it was revealed, had been working with other prisoners cutting wood in the forest in that area and had become confused and lost.

Walking along the first forest road he came to, he arrived at the camp and promptly gave himself up; Reports indicated he was taken back to the prison camp by Salvation Army officers as there is no telephone, In. the forest camp. i tE, thl key major wnruuHiiuuB wwwiuni day by the representatives of the United States, Britain, Russia and France. The document was signed as It was 'disclosed that Jtop rankina Nazis, held as prisoners of war at Mondorf, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, would be moved soon to the Nuernberg jail, where they will lose their status as prisoners of war and be held as civil criminals, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief United States war crimes prosecutor, declined to divulge the identity of the Nazis to be removed from Luxembourg pending their arrival in Nurenberg. The total of those to be tried is probably between 25 and 50, a source close to Jackson reported.

Among those who have been held In Luxembourg and presumably those who will figure in the trials, are Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Franz von Papen, and Julius Stretcher. LATE BULLETCIS CHARTER RATIFIED WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 LT) Ratification of the United Nations Charter by this country was formally completed today with President Truman's signature on the Senate's Instrument of approval. SUPPLIES RISE WASHINGTON, Aug. 4JD There will be more than enough aluminum, magnesium and copper to meet all civilian demands In the fourth 'quarter of IMS, but not enough steel and tin.

This fore east came today from the War Production Board' In a report translating: the effect of cut backs In munitions to the civilian economy. GRIM WINTER AHEAD LONDON, Aug. 8. UD A new UNRRA levy of JMIUNHMM upon participating nations was recommended today by Herbert 1L Lehman, director general of the relief organisation, with the warning that the winter ahead may be "one of the grimmest In history." The recommended levy Is exclusive, of a Russian request for Destroy Japan Prefer Not to Use It ture to aay that most Allied folk are hoping that the Tokyo government will show reason and surrender so as to remove the necessity of such terrible retribution. There are those who hold that the world would be better off without the Japanese race and I've heard that claimed within the hour.

They advance as argument the mil itary aggression and frightful mv lahl lh I i.iiw the other United Nations. And certainly thett Is enough evidence hang the race, hat lth the Continued on pact aixl jAiSSii TRUMAN'S TALK Will Speak at 10 P.M. For Half Hour on National Hookup. WASHINGTON, Aug. President Truman will report to the nation on the Potsdam conference over all radio networks at 10 p.

eastern war time Thursday in a 30 minute, speech. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross; today the. speech, i which probably also 'will be; shor'twaved abroad, will go into greater detail ing July 26. Mr.

Truman worked on the speech today as, well as on a mass of other paper work which accumulated during his month long absence. He held his calling list to a minimum, including brief conferences with Senators Hatch (D. N. and Kilgore (D. W.Va.) and Secretary of War Stimson.

The Stimson conference was devoted to further discussion of the atomic bomb. Associates of the President indicated that his report on the Potsdam Conference probably will mention the new and revolutionary bomb used for the first time against Japan. These assistants said they did not know however, if the Presidential address would go into any greater detail on the Pacific war, a phase that was ignored in the Big Three conference announcement because of Russia's neutrality. Mr. Truman scheduled a meeting with his cabinet Friday and decided to withhold any news conferences until he has given his public report on the Big Three meeting.

As tentatively drafted aboard the cruiser Augusta, In which Mr. Tru man made a. 125 hour return voy age from Plymouth, England, the address will require 30 minutes to deliver. It is expected to cover every phase of the historic agreements the President signed at Berlin with Generalissimo Stailln and Prime (continued on page six) BELL TELEPHONE CO. ASSURES MORE PHONES NEW YORK.

Aug. 8 UP) The long waiting list of applicants for telephone service will have first consideration In the Bell Telephone System's proposed $2,000,000,000 postwar construction and expansion program. It was disclosed by Mark R. Sullivan, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Stating that at the end of June the Bell System companies held 2.014.000 applications for main telephone service and 400,000 requests for resldenre extension telephones unfilled hecause of the war, Sullivan said: GREENVILLE ALMOST SURE TO GET HOSPITAL WASHINGTON.

Aug. 8 The Veteran Administration reported today "very good progress" In negotiations with the War Department for acquisition of Camp Reynolds, Greenville, Ta. A spokesman said there were "stilt some wrinkles to be Ironed out." however. The Veterans Administration seeks the nearly abandoned Army camp as the site for an lno hed neuro psychlatrle veterans hospital. Although willing to tum over most of the camp to the veterans, the Army has Indicated I.

wants to keep part of It fur warehousing and other purposes. Presidential approval Is necessary before the transfer can be affected. Til 1041 demanded air bases In "Syria? in. the Middle East and asked French fighters to defend Paris, but "Petain refused both demands and, because of him, they were. carried out." He said French forces were reorganized in secret after the armistice to resume the fight i against Germany, adding: "Marshal Petain knew and approved all this." "When I left the air ministry In April, 1942, we had 54 aerial groups complete and ready for action," Bergeret said.

'The air force was composed of 980 planes all together. But we never had any member of the air force on active service with the Germans." He said Petain personally retired two French air generals who clam (continucd on page four) COMPLETELY DIVIDED WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 UP) The Big Three and France today proclaimed their determination to separate Austria completely from Germany. Simultaneously, the four powers announced machinery to accomplish this purpose.

Pending ultimate independence under a "freely elected" government, a Joint statement said, Austria and Its capital city, Vienna, are to be split Into four zones of military occupation. Each zone will have a military commissioner ex ercising supreme authority. For the country as a whole, the four will constitute an Allied Council. The provisional government of Dr. Karl Renner, which came Into existence with the permission, al though not the formal recognition of Russian occupation forces which liberated Austria, Is being allowed to continue under Allied supervision.

The division of th'e country and the machinery created to control It are similar to the divisions and controls applied In Germany. The great difference Is In purpose. The (Continued on page six) Allies Have Power to At Will But Would i By IIKWITT MsrKENZIR AP Foreign Tlffslra Analyst It Is with vast pride In an epochal discovery, but pi no spirit of exultation, that we learn from our own authorities that 60 per cent of the great city of Hiroshima was wiped out by the single atomic bomb dropped on It. and from Jap anese spokesmen that virtually all general the citation accompanying the medal is as follows: "For gallantry in action against the enemy in Germany, Nov. 23, 1944.

When heavy tire from five German pillboxes had halted the advance of his company, Pvt. Gillis, together with anotner soldier, voluntarily led 'a platoon in an attack on the fortifications which resulted in the capture of the positions and fifty six prisoners. In the accomplishment of this gallant act, Pvt. Gillis lost his life. "The copl courage, aggressive action and loyalty displayed by Pvt.

Gillis present an excellent example of those soldierly qualities which are in accordance with the highest traditions of the military service." STATE JOINS FORCE MINERS IN CLEANUP FORCE, Aug. 8 UP) State offiriuls joined with Dr. Elizabeth O. Hayes and 350 striking miners today in their efforts to clean up unhealthful conditions in this Northern Pennsylvania mining town. While the minors planned a meeting, possible for tomorrow, Dr.

J. Moore Campbell, Deputy Secretary of Health, announced at Harris burg that James Bell, chief of the division of Rural Sanitation, had been sent here to confer with the Shawmut Mining Co. about re moving causes of contamination. Dr. Campbell said 12 of 21 wells sampled here were contaminated In varying degrees, according to la boratory tests of water.

Paul Heltzcnrather, Health De partment representative on the ground, made a general survey of conditions which showed sewage from outhouses was reaching the drinking water, Dr. Campbell said. Dr. Hayes had resigned, her post as company physician because nothing was done to remedy what the called "the miserable sanitary conditions." The meeting of the miners origin ally had been planned for today hut was postponed because "Dr. Betty" had not yet returned from few days' vacation.

"We'll probably postpone the meeting until Thursday," said Bill Agostl, head of the miners' committee. "We don't think It Is necessary to meet without the doctor and we would much rather have her present" The miners walked out July IS after Dr. Hayes quit her company physician Job. They said they would not work without a company doctor at hand. Dr.

Hayes said she would move out of town, leaving some 4,000 persons In the area without medical Care, unless conditions were remedied. Reconnaissance disclosed that the harbor area of Hiroshima population of about 343,000 was barely touched by the tremendous blast. But the concussion, or fire effect was so overpowering elsewhere that several firebreaks and seven streams one stream was about three city blocks wide failed to stop the flames. The high flying camera planes circled Hiroshima a few hours after Monday's attack and found only two small fires still burning. The remainder of the city appeared turned to ashes.

The lens caught photographic proof that one bomb, small enough to be carried by any American bomber or fighter plane packs more death and destruction than thousands of tons of ordinary fire and demolition bombs. American officers who studied the pictures said the destruction was about the same as they would expect from a force of about 150 Superforts, each carrying seven tons of incendiary and demolition bombs. The city, which will go down in history as the testing ground for man's most awful weapon, was unprepared for such a swift, crushing blow. The Japanese had prepared their defense well against Superforts and firebombs, but they were as nothing against the atom. Tightly congested Hiroshima had a population roughly midway between that of Denver and Seattle, respectively 322.412 and 368,302 In 1940.

But Denver covers 58.7 square miles and Seattle 80.7 square miles. Physically the destroyed area approximated that of Bayonne, N. an Industrial seaport with a population of but 79.198 In 1940 The high degree of concentration undoubtedly added to the ex (ConUnued on paga four) More Troops Land Dy The Associated Press The following Army units are scheduled to arrive In the United States today from Europe: At New York (Aboard the William It. Jackson, Paul Hayne and Santa Marta) 652 casual troops. At Boston (Aboard Examiner 303rd Signal Company Wing.

196th Quartermaster Laundry Detachment, 459th. 4filh. 4R9th. 470th. 471st and 472nd Military Police Patrol Detachments.

700th Military Hospital Ship Platoon. Infantry Reorganization Detachments and At Hampton Rds, Va (Aboard Muriwn M. hrd. a day after scheduiel rtHth and WTith Field Artillery Battalions and the TMh Field Artillery Battalion irlr.u Battery If. 740 troops tf undesignated unit and ulna liberated prisoners, WASHINGTON, Aug.

8 CP President Truman, taking personul direction of the drive he believes will knock Japan out of the war, summoned Secretary of War Stimson today for a first hand report on the atomic bombing of the enemy homeland. When the next bomb will be released was a military secret known only to the White House and High Command. But the Japanese continued to Ignore the Potsdam ultimatum to surrender and it wn. reported that the time was running short on another one of their citieS fated to suffer the doom of Hiroshima. One of the President's first acts on returning to his White House office today, after a month's jhb sence at Potsdam, was to set up a radio report to the nation for 10 p.

EWT, tomorrow. At the White House, it was stated that Mr. Truman would have "something" to say about the atomic bomb and Its use against the Japanese. GO. SCHOOLS RECEIVE 5106,593 FROM STATE Payments totalling were approved today by ti.

Hurold Wagner, auditor general of Pennsylvania, to twenty MrKcan county school districts. The sums bring allocated were authorized by tho legislature for the support of public schools In the Commonwealth. 1he McKean County school districts and the sum approved for each, follow: Annln Township, Sl.ftig.&l; Bradford Township, S7.211.4I; Ceres Towshlp. Corydon Township. S834.ll; Kldred Borough, W.200.02; Eldred Township.

W.lul.. 73; Foster Township. f.Hlfi.g3; Hamilton Township, S3.754.4: Ham lln Township. S5.064.84; Keating Township, S7.782.18. Lafayette Township.

S2W1.31; Run Boroush. S1.73K43; Liberty To nihlf. SVnn: Ml. Jewett Bornueh. H.Mo.ftf: Norwich Ton htp.

S2.8.04; Otto Townthip S1QV Tsl.M; p.irt Allegsry Borough. 59V22; Sergeant Township. SI' Smethnort Borouch. in Township, S4.8tt.9J miui.r im.m!i Jp during ed to death en 10 aeain. bosses Ion atomic bomb has placed the United States and Its Allies In the peculiar position of being able to destroy Japan altnoht at wUL let I via.