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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.
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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.