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PAGE TEN THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1945 SILESIA LOSS HURTS REICH Lack Of Coal And Iron Severe Blow To Industries ter- ritorial loss, under the Potsdam agreement, of Upper and Lower Silesia with their great coal and iron resources, is a great blow to her industrial standing, but their possession by Poland will greatly increase the importance of that nation in the manufacturing field. The agreement shifts Poland to the west, and in the territorial changes Poland comes out with less acreage, but with gains in natural resources, seacoast, shipping ports, and control of navigable rivers. Only time will tell whether or not her economic gains fully balance her land losses. The western boundary of Poland.

according to reports, will be the Oder river in the north, and a line to the Czechoslovakian border extending from the great bend in the river south of Frankfurt. The area coming to Poland includes the eastern part of erania province in Prussia, most of Lower and all of Upper Silesia. The Silesias were once a part of Poland They were lost in the eighteenth-centurv Polish partitions, but still have a large population of Polish people, particularly in the rural areas. Silesia is an area some 200 miles in length from northwest to southwest, and from 50 to 75 miles wide, projecting between prewar Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is a region of mountains, hills and fertile valleys, with the upper Oder running down its center.

The area of the former German Silesia was approximately 14,000 square miles, nearly twice the size of New Jersey. In addition to coal and iron, it produced oil, timber, textile fibers, food crops, cattle, sheep and wool. The area of Pomerania east of the Oder is about the size of New Jersey and has similar physical characteristics. It is flat, with a range of low hills, and has, in general, a thin sandy soil, numerous lakes, and some timber. It produces potatoes, rye, oats, sheep, cattle, hogs and geese.

It contains' important former German ports on the Baltic. In addition to the above acquis- itions, Poland will acquire much of East Prussia, and the former Free City of Danzig, the great port near 1he mouth of the navigable Vistula rivei which can now furnish water transportation from great inland areas of Poland to the Baltic sea. These acquisitions widen the so-called Polish corridor to the Baltic from a 60-mile prewar strip to a Baltic seacoast about four times great. The area that Poland loses to the Soviet Union, roughly 60,000 square miles is considerably greater than the area gained from Germany. It is practically the area east of the so-called Curzon line, which extends from the southern extremity of Lithuania to Czechoslovakia.

This is largely an agricultural and grazing area, but includes a considerable part of the Pripet marshes. A large proportion of its prewar population were White Russians and Ukrainians. Peace News Stirs Wild Celebrations Doomed Nation Asks Terms To Spare Emperor (Continued from tight to unadulterated unconditional surrender. The formal proposition came through the Swiss government in Bern and American Minister Leland Harrison there. Its arrival time was announced as 6:45 P.

M. Eastern War Time. Staggered by bombings, surrounded by the mightiest array of armed might ever assembled, Japan announced by radio she would she could keep her emperor and his powers. But with th ed, Britain, Cl United States ate, open incl ceptance. Cabinet In Session The White House said in mid- afternoon; Our government through the regular diplomatic channels is in communication with great Britain, Soviet Russia and China regarding the Japanese surrender That, said Presidential Secretary Charles G.

Ross, all that can be said at this And he added. there would be no further statements today or tonight. The firse disclosure that the disdainful enemy of the Pa- it condition attach- ina. Russia and the showed no immedi- ination toward ac- TAKE DAYS Orderly throngs assembled on the street outside the White House to start through the high iron fence. Barricades went up, military police went back on patrol after months of absence, and the crowds were nudged across to the far side of broad Pennsylvania Avenue.

The cabinet went into session with Mr. Truman early in the afternoon. It had been planned earlier to have a meeting today but those plans were laid long be- fore the Japanese broadcast pro- vided such a hot item for discussion. The British cabinet was also in session. For long hours through the day the policy in Washington was one of and what happens.

But jubilant celebrations were on in Okinawa, Chungking, London and among allied troops in Europe, and among Americans back from the job of whipping Germany. Secretary of State Byrnes pointed up the possibility of even more waiting once a surrender bid became official. Acceptance of a surrender, BRITONS SHOW AUTO INTEREST Bomb-Wrecked Factories In London Area To Be Rebuilt Washington officials indicated, Djay porry Detroit, is keen interest in England in postwar automobiles and also indications that the British motorcar industry will get into early production, according to Hugh J. Ferry, vice-president and secre- tary-treasurer of the Packard Motor Car who has just returned from a quick trip to Lon; don. Ferry said the work of rehabil- itating Packard facilities, wrecked by one of the last V-2 bombs to hit the London area, will get under way within the next two weeks.

Describing a visit to a London salesroom where a new Austin automobile already was on dis- (Continued from Page One) festivities. Cheering broke out on Guam. Air raid sirens screamed on Okinawa while soldiers fired guns in the air and launched rockets. Londoners joined their GI guests in a spontaneous uproar that overshadowed even the wild observance of V-E day. American soldiers kissed all the English girls within had enthusiastic cooperation.

Pubs filled with people and quickly were emptied of spirits. Fireworks painted the sky in suburban Battersea. American WACS with streamers, rattles and spoons led a snake dance through Piccadilly Circle. Across the English channel, France heard the news impassively. Parisians who went mad with joy when Germany surrendered gave only a glance to newspaper headlines telling of offer, and ignored the occasional cheers from American service men.

on( I eific was ready to call it quits was I in an early morning Tokyo broadcast by the official Japanese news agency Domei. The neutral capitals of Stockholm and Bern indicated the offer had gone into official channels. And Ross did not deny that the proposition had been made official. His announcement of Allied consultation followed an cabinet meeting at the White first for several of its members. Secretary of State Byrnes reported that: have an agreement by which the president will give out any Some authorities reasoned that if the other Allies wanted to let the man the Japanese regard as a god as well as an emperor stay on the throne, this country would not stand in the way of peace at that price.

No Deviation The Allies, themselves, however, have decreed that surrender must be and that they will not desiate from those terms. When a order might silence the guns of war thus I remained highly uncertain. Yet victory celebrations were under i way around the world. This was the early sequence of events on a day that appeared to mark at least the beginning of the end of arrogant Japanese bellig- 1. The official Japanese news agency Domei broadcast this morning that Japan would quit if Emperor Hirohito could retain his prerogatives.

2. The White House lacked any official word and indicated the bombing and blasting continued. But President Truman conferred hurriedly with his secretaries of state, war and navy, and called an afternoon cabinet meeting. 3. Moscow radio announced the Japanese foreign minister had informed the Soviet ambassador in Tokyo that Japan would submit, to a surrender ultimatum issued in Potsdam July 26 by Britain, i China and the United and subsequently accepted by Hirohito were left on his ancient throne.

4. An official British statement said the government was in consultation with the United States Russia and China on the broadcast in which Japan virtually acknowledged she was whipped. 5. Neutral Sweden and Switzerland, designated by Japan as in: termediaries, were reported to have received formal documents to relay to the Allies. 6.

The war went relentlessly orr Russian troops battered ahead in Manchuria, reportedly invaded Korea and southern Sakhalin island. The Red fleet was said to i be in action. So were Chinese and American troops and planes. Delay Long But plunge into the 1 aoific wax two days ago, the unleashing of atomic bombings by the United States, and now steps toward quitting signified to the war-weary mil: lions that peace may not be lone delayed. Allied capitals interpreted the plea for god as well as emperor to the might be followed almost immediately by an end to fighting.

But it might take days to work out the formal terms and begin the occupation of the Nipponese home islands. Under the Potsdam proclamation. Japan is to be occupied until a new order of peace, security and justice is established and is convincing proof that war-making power is Liver Disease Is Spread In Water For apparently the first time, medical scientists have experimental evidence that infectious hepatitis spreads through contaminated drinking water. This is an inflammatory liver disease sometimes accompanied by jaundice which has become widespread among civilians and military forces during the present war. With this medical first comes also the first satisfactory evidence that a virus disease can be naturally acquired by humans through water.

Studies showing these facts are reported in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here by Capt. John R. Necfe. of the Army Med- They told me I could have delivery in the United States about October. It looks like cars will precede even bicycles over Ferry described the need for aid in England as is be said, our domestic need for motor cars will absorb all our production for some time, since English imports must first deal with such prime necessities as good.

To help raise the present low caloric intake of a brave ally is a humanitarian task we well fed members of American industry need not ical Corps, and Dr. Joseph Stokes, of Philadelphia. Gamma globulin from human blood, which is used to give protection against measles, will also protect against this infectious hepatitis, it was found in trials during an epidemic in a heavy bombardment group and various regiments of the ground forces in the Mediterranean Theater last winter. These trials are reported in the same issue of the medical journal by Dr. Stokes and Capt.

Sydney S. Gellis, Maj, George M. Brother, Maj. William M. Hall, Col.

Hugh R. Gilmore and Maj. Emil Beyer of the Army Medical Corps and Capt. Richard A. Morrissey of the Army Sanitary Corps.

Get good year EXTRA A CE RECAPPING France had no Pearl Harbor to an attempt to salvage something remember, and no Singapore. 1 1 ----ATOMIC BLAST LEVELS THIRD OF NAGASAKI (Continued from Page One) of a volcano in the process of he said.) General Spaatz announced at his U. S. Army strategic air forces headquarters here that results of the Nagasaki bombing were but that smoke obscured the area from a photographic plane three hours and a half after the attack. About 70 B-29s, escorted by more than 60 Mustang fighters, dropped demolition bombs on the Tokyo arsenal Friday, with crews repoi'ting results.

It was the second B-29 raid on the ai'ea in three days. In 1720, Stephen Gray made the important electrical discovery lhat some bodies arc conductors, and of electricity. lrom the wreckage. I before 8 a. (EWT) that Tokyo radio went on air a Domei broadcast i that said: Japanese government are ready to accept the terms enumerated in the joint declaration which was issued at Potsdam on Julv 26, 1945, by the heads of the governments of the United States Great and China and later subscribed to by the Soviet gov- with lhe understanding that the said declaration does not comprise any demand which prejudices the prerogatives of his majesty as a sovereign And later, Domei said the government sincerely that this understanding is warranted and desire keenly that an explicit indication to that effect will be speedily forthcoming." The first condition set forth at Potsdam was that must be eliminated for all time the authority and influence of those who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest, for we insist that a new order of peace, security and justice will be impossible until irresponsible militarism is driven from the NO CERTIFICATE NEEDED I W-H-O-A-A going somewhere? Better get a horse recapping fast for you won't go far on thin, ready-to- retire tires.

And when it comes to recapping, come here for dependable Goodyear Extra-Mileage Recapping your best bet for extra service and safety at no extra cost. Speed Is The Secret Of The Power By Marjorie Van Dc Water Science Service Staff Writer is the secret of the power speed with which the electrons revolve around the nuclear heart. And it is by means of speed that this power has been released. As pictured by modern science, atoms are like tiny solar systems with the electrons swinging in tiny orbits around a miniature sun. But the in which the electrons complete their journey around their sun go flying by millions of millions of times in each second.

Speed is one form of energy kinetic energy. And it is one of the axioms of science that although energy can never be created or destroyed, it is always possible to change it from one form to another, provided you know how. Thus, kinetic energy can always be converted to heat or it can be made to do work. The whole trick is in knowing how. And, so far as the atom is concerned, its great wealth of energy has through the ages been securely locked behind the barrier of its outer orbit of electrons.

It is the speed of these flying electrons that has made the atom so impenetrable. There is plenty of room between the electrons. You might think that it would be easy to invade the atom through all this empty as there is plentv of room for airplanes to fly between the earth and Mars. But it is not. And that is because the electrons are moving so fast that they keep everything out as effectively as if they were everywhere at once.

This is easy to understand if you look at an electric fan. When the fan is still, it is easy enough to put your hand between the is plenty of room. But just try to shoot peas at a revolving fan! It is only the lucky hit that will manage to fly between two blades and get through it has to be a pretty small pea at that. The only thing that can be shot into an atom is a fragment of another atom: a proton, a neutron or an electron. And it must be shot with great speed.

In the giant atom smashers where research on the atom is conducted, electrons are used as projectiles and shot at tremendous speeds. Details on such matters are naturally not available now, but long before the war, back in 1934, electron speeds of 174,840 miles per second were attained in the apparatus of Prof. J. W. Beams and H.

Trotter, at the University of Virginia. Often, the electron projectile will go right on through the atom without doing as comets shoot through the solar system without touching anything. But scientists have at last found the secret for which many learned men have sought for many to use the atomic projectile effectively to disintegrate the atom. Atom-smashing results in the release of a tremendous electric charge. The discovery is truly great, but even greater is the discovery of how to control this tremendous weapon to do will.

Had Boundary Changed Six Lake Farmhand Admit Attempt To Kill Wife In Woods Big Rapids, Aug. 10. Prosecutor Fred Everett said tonight that Frank F. Bristol, 41- year-old Six Lakes farm hand, confessed he attempted to kill his wife, Alice, 41, in a woods Tuesday night. The proscutor said he would ask for a warrant tomorrow charging Bristol with assault with intent to murder.

At Community hospital, Mrs. condition described as critical. Everett said that Bristol stated in his confession that he and his wife quarrelled frequently. While enroute to visit a relative, the prosecutor quoted Bristol, a quarrel started, I then decided to kill first choking and later cutting her throat. He said he believed she dead he returned home.

NAVAL LOSSES ANNOUNCED IN PACIFIC AREA (Continued from Pago One) LONG SLEEP? Englishmen went to bed on September 2, 1752, and, when they woke up the next morning, they found the date had been set as September 14, 1752. EARLIEST PRINTED BOOK The earliest printed book found to date came from the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, in China. The book was dated 698 A. D. Deimos, the mine layer Montgomery, gunboat Erie, net layer Ailanthius, salvage vessel Rescuer, tugs Gcnessee and Grabe, the minesweepers Hornblll, Crow, Bunting, and YMS-133, and the auxiliaries Robert L.

Barnes and the Ronaki. The navy did not disclose the fate of any individual vessel except the Lagarto. It said the fact they had been stricken from the register had not been reported heretofore reasons of national In addition to these ships, the navy said 45 LCTs (landing craft tanks) had been stricken from the register. V-J DAY CELEBRATED Now York, Aug. 10 Deputy Sanitation Commissioner William Powell estimated tonight that 830 tons of paper were showered on Manhattan streets today in a prc- V-J Day celebration.

Department workers were still clearing away the debris tonight. Missouri's southern boundary have been a straight line had not a large plantation owner, J. Hardeman Walker, used his influence in having a jog made so that his land would be inside the border. CATTI. EXPERIMENT Belgium made an on the ability of cats to home from distant places in 1877.

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