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Sundav. Sent. 2. 1345 DETROIT FREE PRESS PART ONE First Close-Up of Atomic Bomb Havoc DOMEI XEfTSHAirKS 120 Millions Phone Work Is Started Japs' Behavior Is Unlike That of Conquered People Old-Line Democrats in State Wooed bv urn c.r.onr.K trr I'rrM surf rilrr Old-line Michigan Democrats, vho fretted a year ago over influence dominating party decisions, are being wooed back ir.to the fold. The temptation reflecting Truman-Mannegan strategies, is a first tep toward placating Jef- fersontan Democrat revolts and the South' uneasiness over New Dealism.

GEORGE J. BURKE, Ann Arbor attorney, will be finance director of the party's coming Michigan campaign, Cy Bevan, national committeeman, has announced. Associates will include Ned J. Kenlon, law partner of former Senator Prentiss M. Brown; Hymn.

Ballard, law partner of Kdmund C. Shields, former national committeeman; Gerald L. CIcary, of Escanaba; Russell Tope. rf Bay City; Paul M. Toid.

of Kalamazoo, and Varnum B. Stcin-baugh, the Van Wagoner regime's representative in Washington. All are Democratic conservative. The CIO-PAC I without representation, although llrvan nay the committee may be enlarged. Burke and Pope were about the only Truman supporters in.

the Jfr. rf 1 I 51 2'' I AssMX-ialed Ptpm Wiwptiolo from P. S. Arm? Signal Corp. bombing.

Smokestacks and a lone building stand in background. This picture, the first ground view of atomic bomb damage, was obtained by the Army from files of Domei, official Jap news agency. ATOMIZED NAGASAKI Japanese workers (foreground) carry away debris in a devastated area of Nagasaki, Japanese industrial city on southwest Kyushu, after the Aug. 9 atomic ItELlEVF. 23,000 U.S.

TROOPS SLAIN ItY JAPS Sadistic Prison Tortures Are Revealed 'HORX Quite frankly. I would not say that they behave as a conquered people. There is no outward demonstration of any kind. Somehow you sense their Innermost feeling that another ar.d better is in store. I MARVEL at the discipline of the people.

There were ample opportunities for any vengeful one to make a few potshots as I drove from Yokosuka to Tokyo. The same thmg was true days ago hen William McGaf fin of the Chicago Daily News and I toured the harbor and ship yards at Yokouka in a small boat. But ever since the Emperor decreed that hostilities hould end, not a single incident has been reported in this part of Japan. When our troops enter Tokyo, following the formal surrender next Sunday, the whole affair will go off as peaceably as a Sunday school picnic. It is not that the Japs have a forgiving nature, but the word of the Emperor is a command that is never disobeyed.

YET THE JAPS seem like such "little people." I am sure they must suffer from an inferiority complex, because no normal folk could, under the circumstances, behave with suh an apparently detached attitude. I aw absolutely no trace of emotion on their face. They betrayed no evidence of sorrow, nor did they bow and wrap with their peculiar hissing sound they use when being excessively polite. Perhaps they regard, the end of the war and their complete defeat as a "tennis match" but they will find in time it was the i toughest one they ever lost. CORRECTION In tojjv'a Rotogravure Section Rackhatn's advertisement a that the store is closed Saturdays.

This is an error, as the store will be open every Saturday commencing September THE NEW Western Electric MODEL 63 Hearing Aid Now can oftVr you the "Full Color" hearing aid bringing you more of the tone and overtones that add rolor to the world of sound. It'a the Vestem F.lectric Model 63 Hearing Aid achievement of Bell (Telephone, Laboratories. You'll find it give you new style as well as new value because it'a smaller, lighter, curved to body contour. Let us show vou the Model 63 today. Try it and I1EAR the difference! $39 50 mM4 eorpi Ermine by appointment AUDiPHONE Detroit 1303 Stroh 28 W.

Adams KAndolph U1 IN AMERICA fingernails in a fruitless effort to get information. 2 Pouring small amounts of incense-like powder into open wounds and then setting it afire, leaving the victims horribly disfigured. 3 Injecting mixtures of bile drained from gall bladders and acid into tubercular patients in an experiment to find a cure for tuberculosis. Obittiaries The Belt Telephone Co. has started Hi $120,000,000 postwar construction and improvement program, largest in its hi.story-More than h.Uf the total il! be spent in Detroit.

George M. Welch, president. the company's cbjective is to provide service as soon as possible lor 125,000 aoplKU who have U-en on the watting including 67.000 in Detroit "IT MAY trike as long a two years before telephones can eenerai'y without delay," he cautioned. 0 The expansion program v. ill Increase the company's system by nearly 5a per cent.

Jobs will be provided for 2.000 new employees, ii. addition to absorbing returning from he armed forces. Welch said. Nine new buildings will be created in Detroit, while nine existing buildings wrll receive major additions. Dial service will be installed in the nine rerraining manually-operated offices in the Detroit IN ALL, Michigan Bell will erect 49 new buildings, make 13 additions, spend $50,000,000 for central office install a long distance cable containing 50,000 miles of wire end place in tervice 2,500,000 miles ot wire for lical calls.

Other improvements include the direct dialinj of Detroit nunt.ers by suburban subscribers. Lonq; distance operators will be able to dial numbers in distant cities directly. Jobless Pay to Be Issued at Counter BY HUB M. GEORGE Irre l'ra Staff Writer A streamlined procedure that will save a week in getting benefit checks to Detroit's 200,000 jobless workers was announced Saturday by the Unemployment Compensation Commission. Starting Monday morning, 14 district offices of the Commission will be prepared to hand out checks directl to claimants at the counter as reporting requirements are complied with.

Heretofore mechanical delays averaging a week have ensued as vouchers wer3 transmitted to the check writing department and payment was accomplished through the mails. "MICHIGAN IS the first state to decentralize its benefits operation to this extent," Eugene T. Dormer, MUCC executive director, said. At the same time, Dormer te-vealed that facilities of the MUCC will 13 operated at capacity Monday. It probably marks the first time in history taat Labor Day, dedicated to the sons of toil, is concerned as.de?p!y with the security of those who have no place to toil.

THE NEW "over-the-counter" payment proiam will be effective in the following offices: No. 1 Hamtramck, 2965 Carpenter, corner Mitchell; No. 2 5459 W. Fort; No. 314421 E.

Jefferson; No. 4 10785 Grand Riv-r; No. 56210 Second; No. 6 6590 Hurlbut; No. 722199 W.

Michigan, Dearborn; No. 82181 Washington, Royal Oak; No. 92338 Biddle, Wyandotte; No. 10112 E. Jefferson; No.

11 4519 Mapie, East Djaibom; No. 12 35115 Park, Wayne; No. 13585 W. nn Arbor Trail, Plymouth and No. 14 14320 Southfield, Lincoln Park.

Couple lo Observe 50tli Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Mano Weissberg, of 4101 Clements, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday. A dinner will be served for their family and friends at 7:30 p. m.

at the Hungarian Village restaurant. Mr. Weissberg is 72 years old, Mrs. Weissberg 65. They were married in Hungary and have lived in Detroit since 1934.

THE FINEST BY JOHN S. KNIGHT Mitor. trtrHt 'r lrr TOKYO The Domei News Agency staff is everywhere in evidence, and when the Yokosaka. Naval Ease was turned over to Rear Adnu Oscar C. Badger.

Domei photographers sat next to me on the rati of a damaged patrol boat and seemed completely at home. They barge in on every ceremony with as much aplomb as if they were among newspaper men. This is a spirit that you catch everywhere in Japan. The people do not seem to feel they have been defeated, but tiat they put down their arms only at the request of the Emperor. I AM SPEAKING of the masses who never were given the truth by the Jap press.

Of course, when you talk with the better informed people, they blame their defeat on the atomic bomb and a very few concede they were licked after we took Okinawa (which I have said before was the key to a successful invasion) and stepped up bombing of the mainland. Even they infer that "we shall prove to be good losers, but will you be good winners?" Navy to Let 865000 Out in 4 Months WASHINGTON The Navy announced that it expects to release approximately 75,000 officers and 790,000 enlisted personnel by the end of 1945 under its demobilization program. The schedule for release of personnel through Sept. 1, 1946. date of the Navy's goal for complete demobilization, provides for release of approximately 3,000,000 officers and men.

This figure may be reduced, the Navy explained by transfers to the regular Navy. THE NAVY made public its plan schedule of releases by months, explaining it was subject to changes as a result of unforeseen military requirements and availability of transportation. Projected releases by months: September, 1943. 11,200 officers and 121,000 enlisted personnel; October, 16,100 officers and 171,000 enlisted; November, officers and 221,000 enlisted; December, 26,000 officers and and 251,000 enlisted. From January through July, 1946, the estimated rate of release will remain constant at 25,900 officers and 257,000 enlisted personnel monthly.

THE AUGUST, 1946, estimate was 23,700 officers and 256,900 enlisted personnel. Remaining strength at the end of August, 1946, counting person nel procurement planned by then, was 57,800 officers and 500,000 enlisted personnel. Toledo Officials Move to Close State Line Inn TOLEDO (JP) Prosecutor Joel S. Rhinefort struck at commercial gambling in Lucas County again by filing civil action in Common Pleas Court here to close the Dixie Inn and confiscate the property. The Dixie Inn is two miles from Toledo City limits and within a few yards of the Ohio-Michigan line.

Judge John M. McCabe granted a temporary induction and appointed attorney John W. Bebout as receiver and Walter Bielefeldt, of the Toledo police department, as special officer to serve the papers. In his petition, Rhinefort named as defendants 22 persons, including a number of persons who have served workhouse sentences as gamblers. TASTING BEER 4 Subjecting prisoners to endless mental torture, such as repeating the phrase "very soon all of you will be in a small box" referring to the Japanese practice of cremating the dead and putting the ashes in a small box.

5 Cremating the bodies of Allied prisoners on spits over open fires. Gottlieb said that although many of the 23,000 died on Ba- er and executive head of the Kahn corporation. He was a registered architect. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, Michigan Society of Architects and the Detroit Engineering Society. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he was a member of the Bloomfield Open Hunt Club and Temple Beth El.

A brother Felix, of San Francisco, also' an architect, is the only brother living of the famous family of architects. 1 Head of Famous Firm, Louis Kahn, Dies at 60 BV FRANK TREMAINE ABOARD THE HOSPITAL, SHIP BENEVOLENCE, Tokyo Bay (UR)-At least 23,000 of the 30,000 American troops in the Far East at the outbreak of war have died, two American doctors said. They said many of them died in prison camps where bodies were cremated on spits and Japanese doctors conducted sadistic "medical experiments." The doctors, liberated from camps near Tokyo, are Dr. Mack Leonard Gottlieb, New York, captured on Guam in December, 1941, and Dr. Harold VV.

Keschner, New York, captured on Bataart, TIIEV LISTED the following among the many cruelties inflicted on Allied prisoners: 1 Failing to treat Allied fliers as regular prisoners and subjecting them to such tortures as jabbing uplinter under their Thomas Read Tosses Hat in Politieal Ring Sprrlitl to the Frrc Prr LANSING Thomas Read, of Shelby, Saturday announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination -as lieutenant governor. Read is a veteran of many Michigan political battles. "I will start campaigning immediately," Read said. "And I will follow my campaign right through." Read started his political career in the House of Representatives, serving from 1915 to 1920. He was chosen speaker of the house in the final term.

He was lieutenant governor for two terms, starting in 1920, and then was elected to the Senate for one term in 1927. HJT was lieutenant governor again in the 1935-37 session and was elected attorney general in 193S. No Pressure Put on Idle, Dormer Says Charges made bv R. J. Thomas, president of the UAW(CIO) that "Michigan Employment Office is a hiring hall for sweatshops' were denied by two local spokesmen.

Thomas made the allegation in Washington as a witness before a Congressional committee examining means to expand unemployment compensation benefits. HE CHARtiFU that his Detroit office was "deluged with protests from workers who have been de nied all compensation because they refuse to accept employment at rates more than 50 cents lower than their previous wages. Eugene T. Dormer, executive director of the Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission, said that only about one unemployed worker in 1,000 is being denied a claim. Edward I Cushman, state di rector of the War Manpower Com mission asserted, "Thomas must be under the impression that the L'SES can create jobs." IV 4TI.Y there were 139.000 claimants," Dormer said.

"Only 230 of these were denied compensation for various reasons. i Michigan delegation to the Chicago convention a year agojn, THEY WERE SWEPT aside when the CIO stampeded the delegation for renomination of Vice President Henry A. Wallace. In the end. Burke and Pope were on the winning aide.

Brown, Shields and Former Gov. Van Wagoner have agreed to serve with the committee'' In an honorary relationship. The committee is planning- an ok roast late this month near Detroit, as the kick off of their 1rive to raise a war chest of $275,000 for the lfllo campaign. This includes a $125,000 national committee levy. The Bevan announcement that Burke will be head man of all Michigan party finances, virtually eliminates the post previously held by Ben Levinson, Detroit mortRaKe broker, as a special assistant to the National Committee's treasurer.

Burke has not indicated that Levinson's services will be continued. AFTER tOl'K unsuccessful tarts, Andrew Asikainen, of (Jwinn. is grooming himself for another try at the Congressional nomination in the Twelfth. He-has twice failed to win the Democratic nomination, losing to fr'Tank Hook, the incumbent, also as a Republican aspirant against John Bennett, of Ontonagon, former member. A a Prohibition Party candidate, he credited with having contributed to Bennett's election with at balance of power tote.

This time Asikainen, a former ML'CC field auditor, will' bid against Hook for the Demorratic nomination. His major issii'. he says, will be a challenge to mounting CIO influence in Democratic councils. WarliincFisli Control Eiuliii WASHINGTON The Office of Co-ordinator of Flfhenes is i its way out. Secretary of the Interior Harold I Ickes, who served as co-ordinator during the war, announced that area offices on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and on the Great Ijtkcs would be discontinued Sept.

T.rt. They are located at Cambridge. New York. Beaufort. N.

Jacksonville, New Orleans and Ann Arbor, Mich. Area offices at San Francisco and Seattle will remain open tem-jxirarily on account of the ivirjtinu-ing need for maximum production of canned fish and orderly distribution of halibut, Ickes Mtid. New Yprk State Cwntd ftgft SARATOGA SPA MINERAL VUTER Rick In natural e'kalines. Saratoga Geyur Watar will ipur your appetite id digeition tnd to harmful acidity. Delicious (or table uia.

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WHITING 4432 CASS AVE. NOTICE Members of Biiggs Units, Local 212, UAW-CIO There will be aimeet-Ing Sept. 4th. 8A. at Local Mack Ave.

JOHN J. MURPHY, resident rwo taan and other battlefields, other thousands" died in prison camps. HE SAID HE was unable to estimate how many additional thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who arrived later in the Pacific also died in prison camps. Keschner estimated that 5,000 men alone died in Philippines camps. Gottlieb said that American fliers got "special treatment," both from civilians who often beat and tortured them after they parachuted into Japan and by officials who tortured them for information.

He told of one B-29 pilot whom civilians bound up, tied to a mo torcycle and dragged through the streets. Then they tied him to a village flagpole and foully abused him. Once Sunk, SubPlaaues Japan's Navy WASHINGTON 7P The Navy told how the submarine Sailfish, the former Squalus, dared overwhelming Japanese power and mountainous seas to sink a aircraft carrier of the Kasuga class. As the Squalus, the vessel almost came to a tragic end May 23, 1939, when sv sank in ,240 -feet of water off Portsmouth, N. during diving exercises.

She was refloated, refitted and recommissioned as the Sailfish. For the ten-hour battle which sent the Japanese carrier to the bottom, the Sailfish received the Presidential Unit Citation. HER COMMANDING officer, Comm. Robert E. M.

Wrard, Antioch, won the Navy Cross. The Sailfish faced heavy odds. A typhoon was raging. The sea was tremendous, and there was a driving rain. It was a battle by instrument and radar with the crew of the Sailfish unable to see their quarry.

Comm. Ward took his ship down just as an enemy destroyer passed close by. SOON THE SAILFISH fired torpedoes, and heard the impact of two hits. Within seconds she was being attacked with depth charges. The attack continued for 30 minutes, "and then the Sailfish surfaced again to look for the crippled ship.

As visibility improved in the morning light, the Sailfish fired two more torpedoes. Moving within less than a mile distant the Sailfish released more torpedoes for the "coup de grace." Nine minutes later the carrier had disappeared. New Hih School to Open Tuesday A complete four-year high school course for girls opens Tuesday in the new Our Lady of Mercy School at Southfield and Curtis. fc The building is a streamlined structure. The school is unuer auspices of the Sisters of Mercy.

Facilities The Weather Bureau's forecast was the brightest note. Winds will diminish on Sunday. There may be some cloudiness Sunday and Monday but the sun is expected to get through part of the time. Campers will be able to sleep out under the stars. The Weather Man said nights will be clear but it may be a little chilly toward i dawn.

Louis Kahn. president of the Albert Kahn Associated Architects and Engineers, died Saturday at his home, Crestbrook, In Franklin Village, after a short illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Kahn, who was 60 years old, was the youngest brother of the late Albert Kahn. He had been associated with the Kahn firm since 1909.

After his brother died he was elected president in January, 1943. Kahn was born March 5, 1885, in Honesdale. Pa. He came to Detroit about 40 years ago. He lived here until he moved to Franklin in 1925.

Kahn had been secretary-treasur- Frank Craven, Veteran Actor, IsDeadat70 BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (Jf) Frank Craven, 70, veteran playwright, stage and screen actor, died Saturday. Born in Boston. Craven first attracted recognition by his appearance in "Bought and Paid For" on Broadway.

Later he wrote and played in "Too Many Cooks." "The Nineteenth Hole," "Thafs Gratitude." "The First Year," afid others. He also wrote "Money From Home," "New Brooms" and "This Way Out." HIS FIRST film role was in 1929 and he came to Hollywood in 1942 as a screen writer. He appeared in numerous pictures since then, including recently "Dangerous Blondes." "The Horn Blows at Midnight," "Jack London" and 'Son of Dracula." Action Asked on Joh Tests Officers of the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Wayne County Allied. Veterans' Council Saturday sent a joint telegram to members of the Common Council asking action on the proposed charter amendment to give veterans preference in civil service. The measure, submitted by the Civil Service Commission, will be placed on the hallot in the fall election if the Council acts upon it by Thursday.

cast by the Weather Bureau for all of Michigan. Much of the exodus from Detroit was toward resort centers as tens of thousands sought relief from their war weariness in the double holiday. THE MAJORITY of emplovees were excused from most Detroit plants for the week-end. Only 4 LOUIS KAHN Dies after illness He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Beryl Schulherr Kahn.

and a son, Ensign William Louis Kahn, of the United States Naval Reserve. GORDON WILLIAM STEGER. Mr. Steger, 53, of 438 Hague, for 30 years bellman at the Frontenac Hotel, died Friday in the veterans hospital at Fort had been in the hospital for the past six months. Death was due to a heart attack.

Funeral services will be from the home, Wednesday at 12 noon Burial is to be in Reece Cemetery Battle Creek. Surviving are his widow. Dorothy, choral supervisor with the Department of Parks and Recreation, and a son, Carl, of the home address. ELI A. WOLFF.

Funeral serv ices will be held at 11 a. m. Monday at the William R. Hamilton Co. chapel.

Cass and Alexandrine, for Mr. Wolff, who died Saturday at Harper Hospital. HLs home was at 0 W. Alexandrine. Mr.

Wolff was born Oct. 15, 1S69. at Bryan, O. He was receiver for the Metropolitan and formerly was president of the Mer cantile Finance Corp. Tax Travel 'Here's a pot of good beer, neighbor, fjjlr drink and have no fear." SHAKESPtAU HENRY VI ACT a.

SCJNC 3 jP 111 All-GRAIN BIER ALL-GRAIN BEER ALL-GRAIN BEER ALL-GRAIN BEER i 4 mw0 CO. PITtOlT 7. mot HKCORI) TRAFFIC EXPECTED Labor Day Wcek-Endcrs Labor Day week-enders taxed travel accommodations leaving Detroit Saturday. Busses, trains and boats were filled to capacity. State Police were alerted in expectation of the heaviest week-end automabile traffic since Pearl Harbor.

Generally fsir weather with moderate temperatures was fore small maintenance crews were retained at the General Motors, Ford. Chrysler, Hudson and Briggs plants. A warning to motorists to drive carefully was issued by State Police Headquarters. State Police Commissioner Oscar G. Olander placed all erews on twenty-four sen ire to" be ready for any emergencies A 1 DETROIT P'JCLJC L13RARY.