The Urbana Daily Citizen from Urbana, Ohio • 1

1 NEW BOMB EQUALS 2000 29 LOADS i I ''O jl JjiS" 4 v' i 2 SA S'' 7'At 4 4 i'" S' SA URBANA DAILY CITIZEN NINETIETH YEAR Japs ace Literal Annihilation rom Regular Atomic Bombing URBANA OHIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8 1945 PRICE IVE CENTS Third Story On 82 DAYS HELL AND GLORY CHAPTER HI Okinawa Battle It was on April 8 plus 7 that the 29th Regiment of the 6th Marine Division opened the campaign We know then whether the enemy was on Motobu or Hedo Misaki We found out Chaos Reigns In Hiroshima Chief Issues Safety Advice Sudden death is not an agreeable thing to think especially at a time when we are all enjoying ourselves at the Champaign County fairgrounds Nevertheless it is at times when crowds congregate and traffic in creases that the grim reaper is par ticularly alert With this thought in mind Police Chief James today issued a safety si plea for care fulness on the part of the hundreds who are expected to attend the fair this week As a that care lessness does not pay the chief pointed out that 95000 persons were killed in the United States last year by accidents which could have been prevented Due to a war time decrease in traffic the accident rate last year was decreased by four percent according to the chief is important progress" he commented still small con solation for a loss of life largely needless Those who are alert will be the ones who stay alive in 19 45" WEATHER: air and coo) Thurs day Adeline Critzer Phones Mother rom Barcelona An unexpected telephone call was received riday afternoon by Mrs Critzer of Urbana Route 1 from her daughter Miss Adeline Critzer of Barcelona Spain Miss Critzer is an office worker in the American Consulate Gen office in Barcelona Her du ties consist of typing shortharid and general office work The phone call was made at Time (8:00 in Barcelona) Miss Critzer reported that the climate in Spain agrees with almost everyone As Miss Critzer went to Spain on October 17 of last year she expects to return to the United States time this October for a visit with relative and friends Directs Bomb Lab re heavy casualties and the going was tough To Address Late Sportsmen Wire News Crash Victim Laid To Rest Washington milk fev Ntz Hospital in identifying Gets $221 Who Died In the the re Thursday to be held caused city ol for Thurs the grand Sgt Harold Crabtree of the per sonnel deprtment Camp Atterbury Ind is spending a week with his wife and children in Woodstock Hester Woodstock of Marines has been pro corporal He is serving hall are dis exhibits Liberty and also have at ret rested to the hills leaving us to land un an elaborate system of interlocking cave President Tru man will give the American peo ple his own eyewitness first hand account of the historic decisions made at the Berlin conference and perhaps unfold a new chapter in the war against Japan at 10 pm EWT tomorrow night The chief executive grimly de termined that Japan will be forced into unconditional surrender within the shortest possible time and made plans to go on the air for a report to the nation at the quickest poss ible moment following his return to Washington Mr Truman will speak for a half hour His report to the nation will be carried on all major networks in this country and to the world in many languages through an elabor ate world wide short wave hook up this ef of Urbina when fnn for Vincent councilman was After the auto he was driving on Locust Street failed to make the turn at Reynolds Street and crashed into a tree Roy Lucas Route 1 Woodstock was arrestel by police Tuesday night on a charge of operating a motor ve hicle while intoxicated Damages to his machine were estimated at $75 The atomic bombing of Hiro shima was less than 72 hours old today when it was disclosed that the Allied high command has or dered fresh attacks on Japan by the fearful new weapon Some new war center in the ene my homeland may be blasted at any moment and the attacks will continue until Japan surrenders unconditionally or is destroyed In addition to the terrific atom bomb attacks it is also reported in the capital that new surprises just as devastating to Nipponese morale are in store for the besieged people of Japan Com ing with the return of President Truman from Potsdam these re ports said the ensuing new develop ments are certain to bring about an earlier destruction of ability to wage effective warfare The President is determined to force the unconditional surrender of the Pacific enemy in the shortest possible time He will speak to the American nation by radio prob ably within the next IS hours dwelling primarily on the accom plishments of the Big Three meet (Contlnued on Paes Two) (See destroyed the roads by which they lugged before we arrived There a sign of An announcement of the four power agreement on pro cedure and scope of the war crime trials was expected to be released simultaneously in Washington and (Continued on Pace Two) See "LATE WIRE That Gen Dwight Eisenhower asked for the services of Robert Eichelberger lieutenant general from Urbana when planning the invasion of Europe was revealed in an article recently published by the New York Herald Tribune But because Gen experience with the Japanese and his vast knowledge of the East Local Concern Wins Award or Third Time PC John Milledge son of Mr and Mrs John Milledge Wood stock and S2c William Kecran met on Ryukyu Island recently Sea man Keeran is on an LSM which docked al the Island The young sailor noticed his cousin's APO on some material so he located PC Milledge and it was a happy reunion for both They Continued On Pars Two (See IN extreme southern coast of make our landings or the rest they had opposed and had set up defenses complete with disappearing artillery underground living quar ters and a mass of supplies We of the Sixth Marine Division were to encounter this defense system in its most fully developed degree in the Horseshoe and Sugar loaf battles but we met it for the first time on the Motobu Peninsula The dread prospect of literal annihilation was driven home to the Japanese people today The awesome picture of one of their own cities trans formed into an uninhabitable graveyard reeking with death made a reality of the or Potsdam ulti matum to the Japanese Radio Tokyo declared that all living things human and animal were literally seared to by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Monday morning The Jap broadcast said that of the dead and injured were burned beyond Russell the moted to in the South Pacific New Phases Of Gen Career Revealed By Newspaper A last minute rush was in evi dence today at the board of elec tions office as tonight's 6:30 dead line neared in which candidates in the November general election may file their petitions Although the terms of three members of the Urbana Board of Education expire this year the three members have not filed their petitions with the board Those whose terms expire are Mrs Leah Kirby Erie Ellis and Robert Ni er However three petitions have been filed for members of the county board of education Two of the petitions were filed by Paul Pvt Wm Hudson of 215 Pin dar Street has arrived at letcher General Hospital Cambridge Oh'o where he will receive further treat ment Colonel Ostrander commanding officer announced today Pvt Hudson served in the South Pacific theater of operations in the infantry made him indispensable to Pacific war this request from the allied commander in chief was fused Although much has been publish ed about Gen Eichelberger from a local standpoint the Herald Trib une story deals with some new and Continued On Page Two (See "GEN Daily Roundup Of News rom riends and relatives filled the irst Baptist Church at 10 a yesterday oral services were held Duane Bills 30 city and restaurant owner who killed in an airplane crash last Saturday afternoon near Wood ville Ohio The service was in charge of Rev Samuel urrow The Scottish Rite ring service was given at the church by a rep resentative of the Dayton Con sistory There was a profusion of (Continued on Pag Two) (Sec VICTIM One single atomic bomb this chaos in the Japanese 340000 persons Both American and Japanese re ports told of almost indescribable ruin in Hiroshima And the Allied high command has ordered the atomic bombing cam paign to continue unless the Jap warlords capitulate Tokyo admitted that Japanese authorities were still unable to make a comprehensive check of casualties and American scientists gave a horror striking sidelight to this admission Scientists predicted that the area levelled by the atomic bomb would be uninhabitable for from five to seventy five years This was at tributed to the fact that all matter within the affected area was made radio active The lethal influence of the radio active force can be deadened only by years of rain and sun Even the elements might spread the destructive force by washing radium into killing all life withwhich it comes in con tact General Carl A Spaatz who di rected the dropping of the atomic bomb by a lone superfortress gave some cold figures on the destruction wrought at Hiroshima communique stated that reconnaissance photographs showed that four and one tenth square miles of Hiroshima were ly This represented sixty per cent of the built up area of six and nine tenths square miles In addition to this completely de stroyed which literally went up in smoke before the eyes of American airmen unestimated Continued On Page Two (See BOMBINGS Machine Hits Tree Driver Is Arrested or the third time the Grimes Manufacturing Company in city won the Army Navy Award for high production ficiency In making the award Mr Rob ert Patterson Under Secretary of War praised the ef fort in supplying aircraft lights for our flying forces The letter received from Mr Pat terson follows in its entirity: the men and women of Plant Number 1 Grimes Manufacturing Company am pleased to inform you that you have won for the third time the Army Navy Production Award for high achievement in the pro duction of war material maintaining the fine record which first brought you distinction you have set an inspiring example for your fellow Americans on the production front second renewal adds a sec Candidates ile Late sleeping disease in Instruction by the court on method to be followed in settling the trust fund of a deceased sold ier has been asked in a petition filed in common picas court by Dallas McCrery as trustee of a fund set up by the will of George McCrery who died in 1912 for his grandson Marcus McCrery Jr who was killed in action over Ger many several months ago The McCrery will provided a trust fund of $5000 to be used for NEWS OUR MENwWOMEN IN UNIORM mg errors "In mistaking anthrax for hemorrhagic septicemia black leg for malignant edema er for tetany "In horses mistaking sickness for cornstalk botulism for weed poisoning fectious anemia for parasitism one or more of their phases these diseases frequently resemble one another As a result the own er may attempt to take measures against the wrong malady result ing in serious death losses All these diseases are so danger ous that the farmer should never use guess work with any of All pro ions attendance rec ords for Tuesday were shat tered at the Champaign County ail when 2000 single admissions and lOGt family tickets were sold at the gate Last night more than 1500 persons paid admission to the grandstand to witness the per formance of the WLS White Horse Troupe Tonight the WLS Troupe ill present its final show in front of the grandstand Judging of entries got un derway at 9 am this morn ing Secretary John Yoder an nounced At 9:30 am the State Spotted Poland China Show sponsored by the Na tional Association was pre setned in the stock barns More than 250 head were en tered in the show with SI 710 in premiums being offered This is the first appearance of the state show at the local fair The Aberdeen Angus cattlejudg ing is scheduled for morning with the sale that same evening The special attraction day night in front of stand will be the Border Legion Rodeo and a big fireworks display This year mechants' hall has been entirely reopened with plays filling it to capacity On the second floor of the played the 4 Club The Up To Date Terre Haute granges tractive displays DR OPPENHEIMER 41 year old theoretical physicist of the University of California is direc tor of the atomic bomb project laboratory at Los Alamos Credited with achieving4 imple mentation of a tomic energy for military purposes Dr Oppen heimer was among the scientists who discussed the possibility of an atomic bomb in 1941 By 1943 ihe was directing the largest num ber of top scientists ever assem bled according to a war depart ment spokesman (International) ond white star to your Army Navy Production Award lag and stands as a symbol of your great and continuing contribution to the cause of Mr Warren Grimes presi dent of the Grimes Manufacturing Co has expressed his pleasure in accepting the tribute in behalf of the company and all of its per sonnel employees have always given their best effoft to serve the requirements rkof the army and he said' adding are proud to receive this recognition for our past endeavors and pledge our continued effort until final and complete victory is Company officials have an nounced that there will be no formal program of award accep tance Employees who have not previously received the pins will be given them to wear A new flag bearing another star will be sent to the company Mistakes In Raising Livestock Are Listed but they must have artillery to the hills when we got there We were taking (Continuecl on Page Two See It Short The speaker before the Cham paign County ish and Game Asso ciation at the courthouse on Aug 14 will be A Short Chief of the Game Management Section of the Ohio Division of Conservation and Natural Resources Mr Short also represents the Division in conser vation extension activities and works cooperatively with the Agri cultural Extension Service County Agricultural Agents 4 Club lead ers and supervisors uture armer chapters civic groups garden clubs and a countless number of organ izations in orcter that conservation Continued On Paee Two (See The American oundation for Animal Health with offices in Co lumbus today called attention of Champaign County farmers to mistakes which from a nation wide standpoint cost livestock men millions of dollars annually "The mistakes common livestock diseases when they attack a farm herd are among the most frequent reasons for needless livestock the officers said "The nine which cause most confusion among farm ers were listed by the oundation as: "In mistaking erysipelas for hog cholera influenza for swire plague internal parasites for feed he was on Motobu With Col Victor Bleasdale always at the head of one or another battalion of the 29th we moved forward rom April 9 to 13 all three battalions encountered bitter resistance Then the Japs began vicious night counter attacks using artillery mortars machine guns and 20 millimeter anti aircraft guns even begun sheUing our rear areas with intense and accurate artillery fire The terrain was difficult for foot slogging troops and impossible to mechanized equipment Yet somehow the Nips had placed 75 millimeter and 150 millimeter guns up there along with six inch naval guns Dug into caves the Nips would bring out their artillery to the mouth fire and return to the cave Seal off one entrance to the cave and Nips would escape through another scurrying through tunnels to an interlocking and mutally dependent cave And each hill with these caves was covered by artillery from another cave pocked hill behind it How the Nips got those heavy guns into their hill positions is still a mystery at least to me had three years to prepare defenses of course their them Paper Check The Mercy Memorial Hcspital Association received a check today from the City Salvage Committee for $22139 This money came from the iale of the waste paper collected in the citywide drive last riday The contribution will be kept in a special account by the Hospital Association until enough has nc cured to furnish one room in the new Mercy Memorial Hospital When the hospital is completed the room furnished by the Paper Troopers will display a plaque with the following engraving "This room furnished by Urbana Paper Troopers of World Mar Two Ruin Death Widespread Says Tokyo SAN RANCISCO Aug 8 (INS) Radio Tokyo declared to day that the "new type caused "disastrous in the city crushing houses and build ings of the dead and injured were burned beyond said the broadcast recorded by the CC Authorities still are unable to obtain a definite checkup on the extent of the auid "authorities are having their hands full in giving every avail able relief possible under the cir the broadcast con tinued The effect of the bomb which Tokyo still refrained from label ing an atomic bomb was so widespread according to the Japanese that "those outdoors burned to death while those in doors were killed by the inde scribable pressure and In the destruction of property even emergency medical facili ties were burned cut said Toky and relief squads were rushed in Continued On Pago Two (See AN ATOMIC BOMB more power than 20000 tons of was dropped by our air force on the Jap naval base at Hiroshima President Truman announced Comparing this grim reality of war with a the 10 ton load of a single 29 Superfortress (above) quick figurers (w found that one atomic bomb packs the destructive power of all the bombs that could be carried by 2000 Superfortresses (International) Germany his grandson's education following his graduation from high school Marcus McCrery entered the Army Air Corps not long after his graduation without using any cf the fund He leaves a wife and young daughter As trustee Dallas McCrery asks the court to rule on the legal dis position of the fund which is row $5986 Attorney Richard aulk ner represents Dallas McCrery in the action Seeks Disposition Of Trust und or lyer By LIEUT GEORGE THOMPTON USMCR (As Told To Kenneth McCaleb) WITH 6TH MARINE DIVISION ON OKINAWA Aug When the Japs swept the South Seas in their campaign of conquest after the Pearl Harbor attack they advanced as a trained and indoctrinated to go forward or die When Marines hit Guadalcanal Bougainville Tarawa the Gilberts Marshalls and Marianas most of the Jap defenses were on the beaches the pillboxes and dug in bastions that stained so many island sands with the blood of invading Americans By the time the Tenth Army made up of the Third Marine amphib ious corps and the twenty fourth army corps reached the shores of Okinawa the Navy had accumulated the power to knock out this pillbox method of defense by intens? naval bombardment and aerial attack by carrier borne planes And the Japs on Okinawa knew it They had prepared emplacements for us but mostly along the the island where they had expected us to air Attendance Record Broken i' 4 13 i 'rx A Spain of North Lewisburg anil Dagger Urbana Route 3 can didates for re election while the third Richman president of the Johnson StParis board riled as a candidate to succeed Joseph Berry who is retiring A blanket petition for candidates for positions in the Mechanicsburg municipality: The list includes the following names: Mayor James A Cheney clerk Walter Mattix: treasurer Donald Skillman" mem bers of council rost Schettcr Bert Highlands Richie William Cligrow and Vin cent Burnham board of public affairs A Longbrake Byerly and Wing Other petitions filed by candi dates in the county wide election are: Clyde Clark trustee of Adams Township Herman Thompron trustee of Harrison Township Si mon Lee trustee of Johnson Town ship and William Daviston board of education at Woodstock To Probe Rent ees In County Champaign County is included In a survey launched by Columbus ORA officials to determine if there is any overcharging cf rent for homes not covered by the rent freeze Edward Wagner rent direc tor said he has to ba lieve that many aro far out of line and will have to bo reduced It is possible he srii (hat some landlords Will have to make refunds Wagner said rooming houses opened since OPA regulations went into effect will be particular tar gets of the survey Bonth Research Done At Ohio State COLUMBUS Aug Reserch in connection with the spectacular new atomic bomb was done at Ohio State University but War Department restrictions prohibit discussion of any aspect or we work Prof Marion Pool of the department of physics disclosed today Pool said under present regulations even the number of men engaged in the research nor the time it took can not be divulged Prof Cecil Boord of the chemistry department meanwhile said that if the bomb gets its energy from large scale breakdown of atoms it could possibly mean the opening of a source of power revo "One hesitates to even think of what the ultimate development could said Prof Boord is even a possibility that such a source of power could supersede problems of dwindling oil gas or coal Prof Boord declared he (lid not think an atom smashing machine similar to the cyclotron owned by Ohio State was involved in the actual manufacture of the bomb To Hold Rites or War Hero Memorial services will be held at 3 EWT Sunday in the Mil ford Center Methodist Church for Sgt Robert Stillings only son of Mr and Mrs Vinton Stillings of Marysville Sgt Stillings was killed May 20 while training in England In service for three years he had been overseas for two years stationed in rance and Germany He was a brother of Mrs Ernest Turner of Woodstock.