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A Paper For The Home SUNDAYINDEPENDENT 39TH YEAR, NO. il~ 36 PAGES The Weathei Cloudy, not «o warm: possible showers lata Sunday and Monday. CMTED rRcas TVIr« Nawi acrtlre WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. FORCES MARKING TIME FULL SURRENDER AWAITED I Will Recall Congress To Meet the Nation's Reconversion Problems Cancel $4,000,000,000 Of U.S. War Contracts; ' Face Compensation for 8 Million Unemployed Washington, Aug. 11. (UP) - ConRrcsa wrs asked today to cut abort it.s vacaliou and deal wiih multiplying: reconversion problems as dcmobiliznlion of tho home front to a pemetime economy be¬ gan in earnest. Senate Ucmocratic I..eader Alben W, Barkley, Ky.. announced after a flO-minute While House lonfer- enie, that PrcHident Truman felt fonBresR should reconvene as soon as prnctirMblc. Barkley said Con- grcs.'i probably will be calli.d back Into session on Sept. 4. more than a month in advance of the sched¬ uled Oct. 8 date. Government officials warned that widespread unemployment was inevitable during the six months ll will take lo achieve a pood measure of reconversion. tiraiid Scale C'ancrlbitioii* Confrontrd by thc end of the war, government procurement agencies began cancelling war con¬ tracts on a grand iicale. The United Prcaa learned that the Army and Navy had termi¬ nated ncHrly $4,000,000,000 in con¬ tracts since the .lapanese an¬ nounced their surrender offer. Authoritative sources discloMd that the heavy flow of war ship¬ ments to the west by rail had been cjilailed. neronvei.sinn Chief John W. ."jnyder, announcing the start of contrart cancellations, said Ihey were being made "to the greatest extent possible in order to free mntoria'.s for reconversion." Snyder said the Navy already had ordered $1,200,000,000 in cut¬ backs in ship construction alone. These involved stoppage of work on 95 warships. War Department nuthorities disclosed they were or- (lerinR huse <uts In war procure¬ ment lolallinK hlllion.t of dollars. Thrv r.itlniBleil that nrocurenicnt for the Armv serviie forces would be ml an averaj.e of 00 per cent: fnr the nirforces niorr than HO per I'cnt: and i>e!roleum products nhnut 4^ per rent Will Take A Month* Adniini.-tratmn offirials did not concenl their concern over the great Iv - multiplied reconverfiion prnblrms the quickly approaching end of the war had dumped into their laps. One hi«h-rnnklng reconversion ofTicial estimated that during the period of liansition from war to peacetime prndiictinn - a period he estimated would last not less thin .six months unemployment will rise In 8,000,000. There were a,400.00(1 johle.-s in mid-June. Snyder said thc administration was prepared to give "the maxi- (rontinued on Page A-J) FEARS Red Army Smashing Into Koiea 250,0001E Production Drop To 30% Predicted In but Two Weeks Best Generals Leading Attack Into Manchuria; New 50-Mile Gain The Road to Tokyo: Detroit, Aug, 11, (UPt—The nation's arsenal city prepared to¬ night for the end of World War ll and an impact expected to diaplace 200.000 workers nnd dis¬ turb every level of industry and society. This vast factory comnunily, uhich absorbed S18,000 new work¬ ers in the first two years of war, v/as warned against economic dis¬ locations which may affect the nation's fourth city for a decade .o come. Ilrop to IM'i. When war contrac: termi natlona are ordered, industriul production here is expected to toe paicd io ;!( per ce-;* v.iliiin two wra.is. Leaders of the Congress of In- j duslrial Organizations predict im-| mediate unemployment for 220,000 war workers, and with this dis-1 placement they anticipate a series of disturbances steinniing from the | workers' demand for take-home pay to match their wartime in¬ come. Trouble Predicted Richard Leonard, International representative of the United Auto¬ mobile Workers (C'lOi, said De-| troit "simply will go boom in a huge economic explosion" He .said the lavoffs in war factories will' he "staggering." introducing "90 days of unpredictable hell." ! Keeping Emperor Prevents Ending Of Jap Menace Will Convince His Misled People That His Divine Power Has Triumphed Again By JA.>U» R. %UL>U, Author of The Koad tn Tokjn and for thirteen jeam Far Kmatem dlrretor for International News Kervire with hemdquarlera in Tol<>o. The Allied counter-proposal to Japan Is n compromise with the Number One war criminal of that Setting Sun empire. Our peace-at-any-price diplomat.'-, cartel merchants and missionarlea who agree to the Japanese proposal to let thc Kmperor remain under Allied control meana that while militarily we would have won thc miles southwest of Vladivostok, the conflict, the Japanese will have won the peace, base from which Red Banner Army' How would*the Emperor fit in with the Japanese state of the troops launched their Korean of-! future? '*~l'*'*~ , .. J . J jl My calculation is that the U4th alleged direct descendant of the The Tokyo broadcast recorded j sy„ Goddess would fit perfectly by United Press, San Francisco, t^e purposes of a certain clique reported on fighting as, of Satur- - - "^ -"^ • • ¦ • •• Blunt Note Gives Tokyo No Choice San Francisco, Aug, 11 (UPl — Tokyo radio said tonight Soviet troopa fighting in Korea are en¬ gaged In fierce combat with Jap¬ anese forces near YukI, approxi¬ mately 15 miles north of the im¬ portant port nf Rashin. Yuki lies approximately six miles inside the Korean border and AO day night, Tokyo Time. By BRl'CE vT^iInN Many iitiea Fall In Drive on Harbin ^- ,- , , , . ... war three vears by a policy of not in the Japanese imperial household bombing the palace and destroying and big business merchants, many! ^^^g ^^^ur of this fake divinity. of whom are Bri'.iah and Amei-1 _,. _ , . . .,, . lean college trained. i Fit. Regimented Mind.. ••••¦¦ • I . n I a I The war has revealed how deep- WIU Lie to I'eople Ag«ln i ,.„otej i, the Nipponese loyalty to 1 nr,Ar,., A..» 11 /ITD^ E-AM, «* Mow will the Japanese people i the throne. The Japanese who feel .hV hIh A^mv'. i'l.r e^m«nH,«i''« *'"'' »' capltuUtlons? The Japa- the utmost reverance for the Em- If .h. ii-,.,»?Ln wtu^n?!^ !^f """ broadcast which startled the peror ostentatiously show a sacrl- ?!. h-,!L^^^« qIvU? „?.„.^^!l^^''''"''' ^'" *"" ^^* knowledge ofifjcing spirit only to him and any In charge of the Soviet offenslvoU few top-flight Japanese close -o explanation of how the peace was JnM- Pn re^;.,^J"ne« ^il^n. Of 'H* kmperor, who realised the „.„"„ ^.„m be acccpt.W*-1« tlM4r todav in reporting newr Jfaina orlshow was over when Soviet troops I „„imented minds M miles along the Chinese Eastern .marched on the stage. i fTVlVt. ir^Lrr,r h,ve . new Railwav leariinir tn Harbin .„.. . ,j .' Would the Emperor have a new ^ri ^u ?o 7 "'"^'""- The Japanese would be told, if government "percefui:y inclined" J'l' •h"-'> Rusaian communique! ,t all, that the conflict ceased be-||s the Potsdam framers asked? of the Far Eastern war disclosed | cause of the need to prevent Com- j believe the Emperor would con- that Marshal Alexander M. \asllev- munism spreading in A.sia. That' tinue to open and dissolve parlla- sky. former chief of sl,iff of the Germany having failed to check i ^ent He would determine lc«is- Red Army and commander of the the Reda In Europe, Japan no long-1 i^tlon to honor Ihe heroes of this 3rd Whit£ Russian Army that con-1 er had a partner in J.he original, ^y,r ^ylth special awards quered East Prussia, ia in top command of the Red Banner Far Eastern armies, Anotiier SO :«lileii Anti-Comintern Pact, To avoid be-i „. _._„_„. ,„ i._._ „.„„ij i,« iJfreTnd^d" "' '""'-''"' ''°'""^'"! an"eff?ctive" moTali^roSst^erlor": This illogical explana.ion is typi-1 ^-"Xr't ^T c^oTpU'e" "mUa- The Moscow communique «ald ^ ^^«'„j°f ^^e conceited Japanese | °;'„'^,--[„^„ 1,-^^—^-^^^^ What the Japanese will not be Malinovsky's mobile columns, wliich gained 10.1 miles and captured thel, .'J""^ "'ha;'T,l'rnJ°Ar ;,',!',•'.In'^'.^' .,.~»i.. —•-. r u»ii... .,..>...]„.. told and what many or our .iincere- supply center ff "«''" yf»'"da^^! n,inded and well-ineaning hut dis- had driven another .V) miles closer lo Harbin and hart captured a number of passes in the great gj;:;^,'; ,,,„j „„ i,„p^,ig, j^,,,,,,. ,,_ ir.iain. The Ru.ssians I knew in Dealing with the Emperor as r front or a.s a stabilizing force cer¬ tainly will not diminish his infl'J- placcd policy planners will over-1 ence with his subjects^ It might jiii look i.s thn determination of thc "' *" " the contrary conceivably be a rea¬ son for the Japanese to ilaiir coercion as a hasis for nutlificn- BRITISH TROOPS READY TO MOVE TO SINGAPORE Khingan Mountain.^ Behind the.se swift-striking spear-1,'j'apan a,i(i thcywc'"'' all olfirial. tion and evasion of Impohert pen !ad.'. othrr troop.s in the Lake including Tas.s ncA.s mrreppond-] allies Kxnerience teaches Iha head.' ! Kandy. Ceylon, Aug. 11. lUPi I Reports of a .lapanese surrender ! offer came as British forces in this 'area were preparing for a final at¬ tack upon Japan's Southeast Asia ba.stion and, while the war went; I on toda.v. It waa a.ssumed a cease-1 fire order will be issued shortly. ! (An Exchange Telegraph dispatch! from Southeast Asia said th.il thej force in that area could be sent directly lo Singapore for occupa¬ tion if Japan's surrender Is ef¬ fected.) Dalai Nor sector were hammering ^nts. held the utmost conlenipl fori harsh punitive measures are rarely their way through numerous Japa-1 the Japanese, whom the\ called resorted lo against importsnt per- nese garrison cities along the raill^pes and dwarfed bandils nn stills.; sonaaes who have permitted liicm- line^ .itlempting^to clear the rail- whitewashing the Kmperor j (Continued on Page^ A-12i The peoples of Russia, Auslra- lla, China and the Philippines op¬ pose the emperor system. They know thnt among Briti.sh and American leaders the Japanese are receiving aid in whllewB.shing the Emperor. One American senator road for the Russian supply of hailar. They captured the rail station (Continued on Page A-12) 3RD FLEET EXPECTING JAPS TO -r TODAY BRITISH TO CELEBRATE MONDAY AND TUESDAY Only Fraction of Power Unleashed In Atom Bombs That Hit Japan Washington, Aug. 11. (UPi-The atomic bombs which wrought cat¬ aclysmic destruction upon Hiroshi¬ ma and Nagasaki were relatively harmless - a slight improvement wotild have made them weapons of such unimaginable power as to threaten the end of the world. The War Department revealed Ihc mind-numbing potentialities of the atomic bomb tonight In a technical report on the five >>cars of experimentation which pro¬ duced it. Thc report was written hy Dr. H. D. Smyth, head of thc Princeton University physics de¬ partmenl and one of the atom bomb's prnpenilnrs. Only Slightly Effeclive He disclosed that the atom bomb In its present stale of imperfec¬ tion releases only one-tenth of one per cent> of the total energy po¬ tentially relcasable In the splitting of uranium atoms. Should the bomb be improved only slightly, Smyth said, "civiliza¬ tion wnuld have the means to com- tni' suicide at will" But even a partial unlocking of the atom's power the same kind of power Ihat keeps the sun and stars burning let loose forces so terrible that the men who made thc bomb were unwilling to give it free play—even against thc Japan¬ ese. In Todaua laaue Classified . C-T F.dltnrlal C-2 >iovle» _,...„.,.. C-tl .Social B-4 ^'P'>rt<^ B-1 Radio B-4 Outdoor ..,.....„.........,„'.i"!."ii!„.B-4 Dr, Smyth disclosed that il was necessary to devise a means of ex¬ ploding the bomb above, rather than on. Its target tn assure dis¬ persal of deadly radioactive by¬ products. Deadly By-Produrls Dissipated Some scientists have expressed fears Ihat this radioactivity would make any spol where the bomb fell deadly to man for generations af¬ terward. Thc War Deparlment did nol estimate the extent and power of radioactive which would result if the bomb hit the ground. But Dr. Smyth discussed the ef¬ fect of exploding the bomb in the air. "On account of the height of the explosion." he said, "practically all of the radioactive products are tarried upward in an ascending column of hot air and dispersed harmlessly oxfr a wide area." "Even in the (original i New Mexico teal, where the height of the explosion was necessarily low (the bomb was suspended from a steel lower which was instantly vaporized', onlv a small fraction of the radioactivity was deposited im¬ mediately below the hohib." Exploded Above Ciround Another reason for exploding the bomb above the target, it was said, was that thp maximum blast effect was thu.s obtained against buildings and other structures in the target arei. (Theater dispatches on Ihe Naga- sacid bombing said that, unlike the blasting of Hiroshima, a crater waa j left in the grniinrt. It wss not i known however. whether thej Nagasaki bomb hit the ground be-[ fore exploding.) ^ _ London. Aug. II. lUPi tlreat ^ declares that we must nol crush a Britain is expecting quick Japi [nation's religion: that we must not anese acceptance of Ihe Allied i disturb the Emperor as god in thel peace terms made known in Wash- I minds of the Janancse. ington and is confidently plannirr ' In England, all religions operate a two-day victory celebration for San Francisco, Aug. II (UP> — Thc men of the U. S. Third Fleet , , . now standing off Japan, are "ex-'freely, the Church of England has: Monday and Tuesday. , peeling word of Japan's surrender, not become thc center of ancestorj It is recognized thai Ihe Initia- soaietimc today," a broadcast fromnnd hero worship for the king.| tive in clinching the Japanese siir- the fleet said tonight. I Shintolsm. however, combines pow-, render is In Washingion. Brilisli Wan and tired after 48 hours; erf ul political and mililary factors | foreign office quarters give the without sleep, Adm. William F.' in emperor worship. Shinto has no impressloin of waiting for develop- Halsey was grimly confident that church. There ia no bible. There; ments naiae.v was Krimi.v connoenT mat ........... *..«..«. ... ¦ • ¦ • ...-^...... tj..:»„i« Ihe war was about to end, Mutual; are no commandments. It ia ant Informed sources siud Britain Network Correspondent Jack emperor cult worship which stands; will accept the appointment of an Mahon said in reporting an Inter-1 today unscathed in the rubble of American as supreme '¦ommanrter view with the commander of the Tokyo. In a surrender situation as; m the Pacific «''1''<"'V'>""*;'""; '""^ proposed by the Domei News; British leaders recognize Ihe^ dorn- 3rd Fleet Halsey called a press conference aboard hia flagship to diacuss what would be the Third Fleet's Imme¬ diate mission in event of a aur- rcnder, Mahon reported, "Details of the conference, of course, cannot be revealed," he added. Halsey has expressed the opinion In the past that Emperor Hirohito should be hanged and the admiral said he was "ready to strike again at Japan" If they refuse the Big Four surrender terms but "per¬ sonally, I think it'a over," Mahon reported. Domei Agency broadcast, the Japanese! inant American role In the Pacific, will be convinced that the United; The appointment of Oen. Doug-| Nations gave special divine dlspen- las MacArthur to accept the Jap- sation and forbearance on thej anese surrender would meet with j theory that Hirohito la sacrosanct. British approval, it was said, for, This is utter blindness in our he is best known here among high commands. | American commanders In ihei Already we have prolonged fhe Pacific, Japanese People Know Nothing of Surrender Told Emperor Must Be Under Allies' Supreme Commander; Tokyo Preparing People Man Franrisrn, Aug. II. (I P)— The Tokyo neuit|iaprr Akahl ¦Sunday (Tokyo Time) railed on "every ilapanese to do his part" in fuirillinB tlie "august wish of Hia .'tlajeaty." It exhorted the nation In "maintain firmest unity if wont comes In wont." The Tolcyo broadcast, rerord- rd by I'nited PreM, iSsn Fran- riarn, quoted Aaahl as followa: "Since the beginning ot our hiatory, Iho Japanese nation haa gone through many an ardeal ¦nd kept growing hy courageoua uverroniing of such ordeals. "in numerous nalloiuil criiea «hich our anreston have ralni- ly and courageoualy gone through either internationally or exter- I nally." ' (The Tokyo tranunittrr broke I (iff, as it Iiad aeveral times prr- I \ioualy, apparently because ot I transmission or equipment dll- flruHles.) I "Kven in the worst rliaotir htage in sucli great naUonal j crises, our people alwaja have been gratified lo find a r«lb- I Ing point for their souls and I aclion. The Western term 'u-andering soul' ha* no place in our language. I "B> obejing Hi* >tejeiily'» I august wiah, our people have ' alway* found a way out ot auch I crises. Our Anreaton have thun cvrrronie many a national rrisin -ind handed down In their po*- rrlty •lapan as she Is now, Mith -r *pirli and blood." San Franrlsro, Aug. II. (LP)— 'oreign .Minister Shigenorl Togo 'f .lapan »a* reeeited bv Kiii- crnr Hirnhlln al Ihe Imiierlal t'alace at II a.m. Sunday ('Tok.tn Time —in p.m. EWT), Tok.io radio repnrled tonight. The brnadrasl. recorded h.» I nited Press, said Ihat "Foreign >llnl«ler Togo Is iinderstnnd lo I have reported to the thrnn- on I matters under his iurisdietinn." I The Doniri dispatch said Tngn marie hi* report at II a.m. Sun¬ day (10 p.m. Saturday KWTi, thi* wnuld be *l\ hour* and .10 ' ininntes after Ihe Allies' reply In ilapan'* surrender offer was ; lianded lo the .lapane«e delega- ' tinn In Suilserland fnr trans¬ mission In Tnkjo. Wa.-hinglon. Aug. II lUPi By cable and radio IJir Allied iiower.s Informed be.iten Japnn tonight that she may keep her Emperor for the time being hul he nnd Ihc govern¬ ment and people will be subject alike to a supreme Allied com¬ mander who will accept .ind en¬ force unconditional .surrender. V-J Day waa immieni per¬ haps no more than 72 hours away because Japan had no alterna¬ tive to abject acceptance. The Allied communication. Irans- mited officially through the Swiss government but beamed by radio to the Japanese people by the Office of War Information, was a non-committal and blunt reply to the enemy's offer to surrender if the Emperor was permitted to keep his sovereign power. ll was signed by iSecretary of Slate James F. Byrnes in behalf of the United Slates. Soviet Russia. Great Britain and China. A dispatch from Zurich. Switzer¬ land, said the Allied note arrived there al B;0,'i p. ni tonijrht i3:0.'i (Continued on Page A-I2i Nimitz, Spaatz Say Yfar Still on But Don't Attack 711 Jap Planes, 94 Ships Hif In Last Raids by Third fleot; SOO Planes over Kumamoto By WILLI.XM (\ WILSON Manila, Sunda.v, Aug. 12 (UP)—Okinawa-based boml> CI-.S and figiiters delivered their greatest as.sault against Japan on Thursday and Fri¬ day, sending more than 500 planes against the Kyushu city of Kuniainoto, Gen, Douglas MacArthur an¬ nounced today. San Francisco, Aug. 11 (UP)—Tokyo radio report' ed tonight that 70 Saptr^ fortresses escorted by IB Thunderbolt fighters at* tacked Matsuyama on Uw northwestern coast of Shikoku Island at 10 a. ¦• Sunday (Japan Time). By WILLIAM F. TYBEE T,, , 4 I »*i I <•««•«. Sunday, Aog. IS Planes of every type hit the (UP)_p|eet Admiral ChestW enemy communications center] w. Nimitz announced te*9 on the western coa.sl of|t|,e -phifj Fleet's asaaitt Kyushu a few hours befort against Japan Thursday aai Radio Tokyo broadcast thel Friday destroyed or dawagT* Japanese offer of conditional at least 711 enemy plaMS aad surrender. ()ti«r warplanesj 94 .hips, but he did ¦^tjfts. bombarded the Kyushu city, port any offensive operaMM of Oita. {agaiMt^.th«,.«Mimy hoimhpd The Kumamoto raid topped two|sJnce Tokyo's surrender tftr. days of almost continuous a«iault. vi—« » -«j r-— r'aal A MacArthur also announced the ^ WljnilX and ben. ian A. blockade of sea lanes had account- Spsatz, Commanding general cd for ,^7 more Japane.se ships,of the U. S. Army Strategk 8ma.hing"Attack '" '"""' *""" ^ir Forces, both announced Fourteen Japanese warships were sunk or damaged in the Thur.'day- Friday action which may have been the last sea-borne attack against beaten Nippon by the .world's mightiest naval force. M Nimitz announced that a state 'of war still exists in the Pacific. I He said the battle against Japan 'will continue until oflicial notifica-. hea^ aerial lion comes of the enemy's «ur-1 against Japan that full - scale operatioMS against Japan would continue with "full destructive effect" regardless of surrender nego> ! tiations. But more than 18 hours later, on the bails of available Allied In¬ formation, there had been no or naval action „„., ,.„.. since the fateful '¦'¦"flfr. I Domei News Agency broadcast at Today he added 188 more planesig 27 p „!. Fridav. Tokyo time, lo the two-day toll previously an- 14 n'arahlps on List noun-ed He raised earlier ship! The Kumamoto raiders dropped \nsr.cs by 8(5. including the 14 war-j j(,i|i,d gasoline and sent 150,000 • hips US ln>.ies were seven planes rounds of .V) calibre mschlnegun ind six airmen. British losses were bullets ripping into the citv's In¬ dustrial areas, road networks and 'ryen aircraft and five pllo'-. The two-dsy toll of 711 planes vvas taken in aerial attacks cover ing ;ern air Inatallations. Smoke towered 15.000 feet over 40O.milc long area of north-1 Kumamoto, whirh was believed to Hon."ihu. stretching from ther contain large troop eoncentrationi. Yokohama area nearly to thej Fires were seen from 2(jO mllea northern tip of the Island. away. Extensive damage was caused toi The air feet w»nt over Kyushu hangar.--, warehouses, shops, bar- vlthout enemy fighter opposition, racks, locomotives, freight cars,|nlthough one Mitchell bomber radio stnlion.s and ground installa- was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Planea of Gen. George C. Ken- nrys Far East Air Force sank or (Continued on Page A-8) 11 ions In the destructive assault Reds, Chinese Fight on 'Soviet Russia ordered her Far Eastern Red Banner armicB, al¬ ready more Ihan 1.11 miles inside Manchuria, tn drive forward merci¬ lessly against the Japanese despite the enemy's surrender offer. • China ordered her armies and] Washington, Aug. 11. lUPi-Tha people to fight on aginsl the Jana- y^yy announced tonight the loaa SUB. DESTROYER LOST; POSSIBLY LAST OF WAR of the USS BonefiJh, the 51st — and possibly one of the last -— American submarine victims of tha Pacific War. The ship carried a crew of 88 nese and in Manila, the Far Eastern Air Forces continued bombing and strafing attacks against enemy targets, and thou¬ sands of soldiers - convinced^ after a celebration that the war is ofriccrs and men." All are listed aa not yet over - went back to work.) mis.sing in action. There was jubilant reaction hercj The Navy also announced loas of to the news that Secretary of .State the destroyer Callaghan as a re- I James F. Byrnes had informed Uult of enemy action in the Okinawa I Japan that the Emperor and Japa- area. The Callaghan carried a I nese government will be subject normal complement of 353 men. on surrender lo the Allied supreme |Forty-nine are listed as missing In action, three killed and 73 wounded. commander. Expect to Put MacArthur In Charge of Surrender Think Hirohito ]Mll Abdicate Chungking. Aug. 11. (UP) — Well-informed Chinese circles s-aw thc possibility today of ab¬ dication nf Japanese Emperor Hirohito to enable Japan to com¬ ply with the Allies' unconditional surrender terms. The Tokyo radio announced that 13-year-old Akihito, ^on of Hirohito. was made a "higha- rhimiya"—crown prince — In a ceremony at the Imperial Pilace in Tokyo at 11 a.m. Friday and It waa pointed out the status ef highashimlya was necessary l^fore he could be enthroned. Meanwhile Tokyo broadcasts have played up the personal life nf the crown prince. in.ludi"^g his devotion to textbooks and natural science and his horse¬ manship. San Francisco. Aug. II. 'UPt - Japanese broadcasts showed today thai Japan was leaving her people In thc dark on surrender dealinn- but though the government seemed to be preparing them for uncondi¬ tional defeat. Since 7;3."> a. m. (EWT» Friday when a Japanese Domei News Agency broadcast abroad reporteti for the first time that Japan would accept the Potsdam surrender pro¬ clamation, neither United Press listeners nor FCC monitors had heard any indication that the gov¬ ernment of Premier Baron Kan- taro Suzuki had let thc Japanese people in on their future. Radio Haa Said Nottilng As of 11 a.m. E\\T, less than in minutes before the Washing Itcin announcement that tho Allies I would accept Emperor Hirohiti .sjhjert to Allied militarv tliila- liOM, Tokyo radios dnmestir hroart- 'casls. a main sourte of informa¬ tion for Japan, were still silent i;,ii the surrender dea'iiigs. I The United Stales Offic- nf W..r ] Information began broadcasting ¦in Allied reply on Hirohito to the lapanese people as soon as it 'vs made puhlic, thus informing them jf all development''. f'ontlnue \\ar Report* Tokyo broadcast occasional re- t Dorls of continued activity by I Japanese forces. II broadcast, to home listeners, a government ap¬ peal to transpori workers to mnin- 1 Lain the pace of Iheir activities, land said a general mobilization for war production, ordered in ihe bo- rjnning of July, would be con¬ linued only "unlil the end of j August " .lapanese newspapers were giv¬ ing unusual prominence lo the I activity of Ihe 13-year-nld Crown f'rincc Akihito. Observers specu¬ lated thai Ihe buildup might hr (or the piim.'e nf pa\inz the way in a regency if th? Allici" refused lo arrept Akihito'i father, the . Emperor Hirohito. V To Sign Surrender On v. S. BattleHhip Washington, Aug. II. ilIPi- The surrender terms for Japan ma.v be signed aboaid a battle¬ ship of the Third Fleet .n Tokyo Bay. informed quarters said to¬ night. The Jdpa lesc dolcti.ition would hr requiied to go out to Ihc big naltlcwagoii. one ot tlio.sc which ill recent months has hurlcj de¬ struction ::ilo t:-.e enemy home¬ land, and there Indorse their countrys humiliation. This procedure, it was ex¬ plained, would have a symbolic value and the Japanese arc greatly impressed by symbolism. The presence nf a U. S. man- nf-war in the home waters of Japan it wa.s said would sym¬ bolize the American naval might which 'he enemy boaatcl m:\ny times it had dc^troycl. \\'ashington. Aug 11 'UPi An Ameikan will be named as Allied .supreme comni.inder to administer surrender terms imposed on the Japanese and the betting In high places was that it will be General of Ihe Army Douglas MacArthur. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, who announced that an American will get this im¬ porlant job. said that he could not now sey who will be named. MacArthur Top Choire But high government officiRls in close touch with the While House said they expecied the nomination of MacArthur ns the supreme com¬ mander. There was some specula¬ tion that it mighl be Fleet Admir¬ al Chester W. Nimitz. whn led the sea assault on Japan. Others felt there was an off-chanie that be¬ cause MacArthur and Nimitz are co-equals, someone rise would be chosen First indiiatinn 'hat a supreme commander wou. . be named was given in the text of the Allied communication to the Japanese. The note bluntly stated that from the moment of Japan's surrender, aulhority of the Emperor and tha Japanese government to rule the state "shall be subject to the iup- rem.e comm.inder of the AIIlM powers who will take such itept as he deems proper to effectuate thc surrender terms." Fimt ^n That Area Thus a supreme commander of 'Allied forces in the Pacific is to be named just as the war it about over. Allied forces there wave under divided command for moat of the war although co-ordination I was achieved through the com- 1 bined Anglo-Americans chiefi of j staff and the U. S. joint chiefi of staff. In contrast. Allied western oper* I ations against Germany wera un* I der supreme command of Gen. I Dwieht D. Eisenhower almoit'froBI I the beginning.
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 41 |
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Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1945-08-12 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Month | 08 |
Day | 12 |
Year | 1945 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 41 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1945-08-12 |
Date Digital | 2009-09-03 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 29871 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text |
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAYINDEPENDENT
39TH YEAR, NO. il~ 36 PAGES
The Weathei
Cloudy, not «o warm: possible showers lata Sunday and Monday.
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TVIr« Nawi acrtlre
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1945
PRICE TEN CENTS
U.S. FORCES MARKING TIME FULL SURRENDER AWAITED
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Will Recall Congress To Meet the Nation's Reconversion Problems
Cancel $4,000,000,000 Of U.S. War Contracts; ' Face Compensation for 8 Million Unemployed
Washington, Aug. 11. (UP) - ConRrcsa wrs asked today to cut abort it.s vacaliou and deal wiih multiplying: reconversion problems as dcmobiliznlion of tho home front to a pemetime economy be¬ gan in earnest.
Senate Ucmocratic I..eader Alben W, Barkley, Ky.. announced after a flO-minute While House lonfer- enie, that PrcHident Truman felt fonBresR should reconvene as soon as prnctirMblc. Barkley said Con- grcs.'i probably will be calli.d back Into session on Sept. 4. more than a month in advance of the sched¬ uled Oct. 8 date.
Government officials warned that widespread unemployment was inevitable during the six months ll will take lo achieve a pood measure of reconversion. tiraiid Scale C'ancrlbitioii*
Confrontrd by thc end of the war, government procurement agencies began cancelling war con¬ tracts on a grand iicale.
The United Prcaa learned that the Army and Navy had termi¬ nated ncHrly $4,000,000,000 in con¬ tracts since the .lapanese an¬ nounced their surrender offer. Authoritative sources discloMd that the heavy flow of war ship¬ ments to the west by rail had been cjilailed.
neronvei.sinn Chief John W. ."jnyder, announcing the start of contrart cancellations, said Ihey were being made "to the greatest extent possible in order to free mntoria'.s for reconversion."
Snyder said the Navy already had ordered $1,200,000,000 in cut¬ backs in ship construction alone. These involved stoppage of work on 95 warships. War Department nuthorities disclosed they were or- (lerinR huse |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19450812_001.tif |
Month | 08 |
Day | 12 |
Year | 1945 |
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