Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - August 13, 1945, Beatrice, Nebraska THE TEMPERATURES 8 High 00 67 Year Ago High 97 Ago WO BEATRICE DAILY SUN If You Didnt See It In The SUN It Didnt Happen Member of The Associated Press THE WEATHER NEBRASKA Partly pew cooler tonight and BEATRICE MONDAY AUGUST 1945 Single Copy So 3l Truman Turns Attention To Reconversion Labor Eco nomic W L B OP A PLANS ARE R E A D Y 13 With the end nf the war In President Truman turned atten tion today to the nations top peacetime In a move which appeared in the direction of consolidating postwar especially those pertaining to employment and the pres ident called into Conference Labor Secretary Econom ic Stabilizer William War Labor Board Chairman George Taylor and Price Chester Plans Ready Their emergency plans government agencies awaited the White House signal to start the American economy toward a goal of unprecedented civilian produc The due when Japan also will serve to unveil pro grams for putting millions of re leased war workers in peacetime jobs as rapidly as possible and for gradual lifting of rationing and other Expected are plans that may provide for easing of stringent wage controls and out line the scope of price controls in the immediate postwar Fuel Go First of gas fuel oil and tire programs within a few days to six weeks af ter VJ clay gasoline may be re leased within a Shoe ration Ing is due to go in two or three especially mea and will stay under controls Consumer pro duction before the end of this year particularly of such small items as irons and other home ap At least passen ger double the number planned are Refrigerators and washing ma chines also are likely to be in good supply late this Year On Rent Controls Price and rent to be retained for at least six possibly a year on a limited officials estimate at least war workers will lose their jobs within six months after VJ They make no prediction how long it will he before these workers can be ab sorbed in civilian demobilization is expected to prevent lifting of re striction for at least 60 Hiroshima Mayor Dies In Atomic Bomb Raid SAN 13 The mayor of Hiroshima and two other high officials were among the thousands killed when the first atomic bomb attack in history wiped out 60 per cent of that the Japanese Domei news agency reported today in a broadcast recorded by the federal communications Irou prefectural pro duction is still ATOMIC BOMB DESTROYS NAGASAKI INSTALLATIONS American Bombers Hammer At Front Door As Japanese Continue To Talk Over Terms Russ Launch New Offensive Say Japanese Threaten To Cut Off Half Foe Split In Halsey Throws Full Power Of Planes On Foe Wails All Night For Peace News Far East Force Con This photo based on Information released hy the Army Air locates important Jap anese industrial points in the Nagasaki area which was destroyed by the second atomic bomb to be a Jap Key to the diagram Major industrial including Mitsubishi Steel and Iron Works which is believed destroyed Kyushu Gas 50 percent destroyed Kyushu Power Plant Freight Yards Railway Station Nagasaki Fortress Headquarters Mitsubishi Elec tric Manufacturing 25 percent destroyer Naval The picture is a mo saic of reconnaissance photographs made prior to the 24 Area Workers Helped Build Atomic Bomb Plant Zurich Newspaper Hits Use Of Bomb 13 The Zu rich newspaper Die Tat today cri the use of the atom bomb by the United States and urged the Swiss government to protest use of the There is no said Pie Tat between the national socialists who spread atrocities over Europe and the Americans who vise the atom bomb both use extremist mea sures and methods to annihilate Premi BULLETINS 13 eral persons were believed killed and a dozen burned or seriously injured this afternoon in an ex plosion in a building occupied by the Export Box and Sealer at Grand River Avenue and Fifteenth The ox shattered all windows in the Gage county and surrounding area had its own albeit a small in the production of the atomic From this area 24 workers left for in the fall of 1943 and the spring of 1944 where they took part in the con struction of an atomic bomb The workers came from the five county area of which Beatrice is the United States Employment Service The counties are Johnson and The workers were William Roland Charles Oliver Gar Ruth Lester Har Herman Maurice Sherman Chap Albert Harry Lloyd Lloyd Harvey Burton James Richard Thomas Alfred Roy Lavern Eugene Milt El don Coates and Herbert These workers took part in the construction work as far as the Beatrice USES and none took part in the production of the bomb it Advertisements that appeared in the Sun during the time the employment recruiters from Washington were here gave no hint of the importance of the The ads said only that carpenters and other construc tion workers were wanted in the Pacific Hanford a subsidiary of Du was the construction com UNRRA Chiefs Fail To Agree Russian Representatives Do Nol Reach Ration Books For Shoes Stopped 13 P The OPA printing of new ration books for shoes and it was learned The stop order covers war ra tion book five for dairy canned foods and and a new A gasoline Both had been scheduled for distribution in The order halts work on the books pending outcome of peace If Japan quits the stop order will become ARRIVING HOME The Suns Own Service NEW YORK Due aboard the Santa Rosa in New York yesterday is John Dellenback of Pawnee Also due to arrive at Boston aboard the Joseph Robinson was Donald Wy Garner Says Politics Cost Him Job At Park Politics took me er custodians were driven out by Kelly Chau relieved of his duties Saturday after said Garner said there had been no criticism of his or the condition of the park by city commissioners who told park board members he had to He added that he has been asked to resign several times in the but has I wanted it in the record that they dismissed he Gamer said the two park Aboard members who came to see him Saturday asked him to re sign When he refused they asked for the told him his pay would stop 15 and he would give up possession of the caretakers house Garner normally has been paid He added that the incident in which a man was injured on a park slide occurred two or three weeks It was the only rea son given for dismissing Gar Garner has devoted nine years to care of In that time the rock garden has been roads pounds of grass ever greens put out in the south part of the 5 Youths Escape Serious Injuries As Car Overturns Five Clatonia youths over turned a mile east of Wilber Saturday night when the car in which they were riding hit loose The car caught fire but the blaze was extinguished before complete damage result Burtrell the received a severe cut on the back of his right His com Ralph was knocked unconscious when the car Three also in the were 13 JP Ameri British and Russian repre failed to agree today at a closed session of the third UNRRA conference on the ques tion of giving international relief to displaced persons unwilling or unable to return who requested anony said two and a half hours of heated argument failed to bring a but they expressed be lief a compromise could be reached at a further committee meeting Poland and Yugoslavia were re ported backing the Russian stand to block any aid to such it was understood that the Poles nad submitted a draft of a resolution might be acceptable to both Poles Represent Problem Will assistant secre tary of was said to have urg ed temporary aid for displaced per sons pending their return home or their resettlement He was backd by the Clayton also was said to have told the Rus sians UNRRA should not adopt any policy which would be con strued in the United States as dis crimination on account of political as it might be harmful in securing more funds for the agency through One of the main problems in volved is the future of many including the Polish army SEIZE VITAL PORTS Associated Press re porter today a vast new Soviet of fensive in Manchuria which threat ened to cut off possibly a half mil lion Japanese troops in China and split an estimated enemy forces on the Asiatic mainland in to two massive There was no immediate Soviet confirmation of the Tokyo A Moscow fourth of the told of Soviet gains of nine to 22 miles toward the central Manchurian arsenal city of Seize Vital Ports The Soviet bulletin also an that Russian marines in vading Korea under the guns of the Soviet Pacific fleet had seized the vital ports of Rashin and Yuki on the sea of The Tokyo heard by the FCC reported seaborne Soviet troops had begun landings on the southern part of disputed Sakhalin Tokyo previously has re ported an invasion of the known to the Japanese as Kara The Domei dispatch said the landings were under way at su and the latter about 60 miles south of the border on the west is just across the Japs Industries a great Japanese naval base just 35 miles from the Rus sian of south of was the best enemy port of From Rash in and 10 miles farther the Japanese had shipped the vast war production of industries to the broadcasting a communi que of the Kwantung said the new Soviet Manchurian drive was launched from outer Mongolia across inner and aimed at the Yellow south J A P PLANES ATTACK Press The war went on today with Russian armies pouring un checked across Japans north As 13 bombers ham mered at front door today while the Japanese dallied over a decision whether to surrender now on allied terms continue a suicidal The White House announced that no reply had been re at today to Saturdays dictate that Japan could keep an emperor who would take his orders from the victors supreme Presidential Secretary Charles Ross told a news con ference It is safe to say the war is going on while nego No time limit was set by the allies for a Japanese Ross Nor did he he whether there might be another A Tokyo radio broadcast m that the formal reply to Japans conditional surrender offer of Fri day was not received until Emperor Hirohito received Jap anese Foreign Minister Togo at o iu T conquests and perhaps the Imperial palace this allied planes hammering at Japan I another enemy broadcast but I no details as to its purpose were With no reported sign of Tok Suffer Invasion Jitters Still another broadcast indicated yos reply to allied surrender de the Nipponese air force west Manchuria road center and air was reported Jurors Of Trial Get Threats Jurors War Criminals Await Trial In Bare Cells 13 Sitting morosely in the bare cells of jail former German leaders who once strutted in the stadium of this nazi shrine city awaited their call to trial as war Battery B of the 391st antiaircraft which had been guarding Hermann Joachim von Robert Ley and other at a Luxem bourg completed the trans fer to this city The pri soners will go to trial next T h e battalion maintains a strong guard around the where a special cell block has been NAMED TO BOARD Norton of re tail store has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the board of the retailers committee of the cham ber of the board membership is 13 hearing final defense pleas in the treason trial of Petain disclosed today that nearly all 24 of them had again received letters death to any who vot ed to condemn the aged Some said they had received as many as 12 threatening Pierre a parliamentary said one letter he received ended with death to Jews and another said I am sitting just a few feet from you in the Fernand chief defense opened the supreme attempt to save the 89 yearold head of the former Vichy government from a firing squad with these words Petain is one of Frances most glorious It is very unlike our country to be such a Petain wears a crown of glory that you wish to take from struck back at Admiral Halseys great fleet off Tokyo and damaged one major warship off Okin See Imminent Invasion Tokyo said increasing American invasion forces were concentrating at Propagandists sug gested renewal of air attacks at dawn today might presage an im minent Associated Press war corres pondent Richard OMalley the fleet said a fog blanket kept the air raiders from Tokyo itself and they concentrated on coastal Yokohama sub marine pens and Earlier returning fliers said they had add ed at least a score of Nipponese planes to 711 they knocked out last Thursday and Friday and an untold number of ships to last weeks bag of Sixtytwo other Nipponese sur face craft were added to this toll by aircraft under Gen eral MacArthur and naval search 6 Jap Planes Down At least six Japanese aircraft were shot down as they roared out of the fog in attempts to hit Hal seys fleet OMalley Nimitz said an aerial torpedo damaged a major perhaps a battleship or in Okinawa waters last The Tokyo version was that it was a laige seaplane tend and it was sunk by submarine The combined American toll of Japanese shipping included eight destroyers or destroyer es corts and one submarine and seven destroyers or destroyer es corts There was no official report on the toll taken hy an estimated or more carrier plane and perhaps 400 raiders from Oki nawa hitting Nippon Nor was their any confirmation of a Tokyo report that had attacks by hit ting the industrial city of Matsu yama were re ported ready to spray rice fields with oil if and to attack Japan within a month with triple the bomber force that helped eliminate Stalin Wants To Be Friends Of Americans the Japanese were suffering inva sion Japanese news quoted military observ ers as viewing renewed American carrier plane attacks and fleet operations off the coast as pre saging a possible enemy Ross told his news conference at the White House Im I have only the nega ive report to make that no word has been received from It was carried by the Tokyo radio ELM 13 UP daughter of and Poulson of Elm was killed last night when her car struck loose gravel south of Elm Creek and turned over three Ike Says President Is Souvenir Hunter 13 UP Gen Eisenhower disclosed today tha President Truman is something o a He said the president had taken the big globe from globe which the gener al carried over Europe and Africa during the Had Not Halted His At Elbe Because Of sian WINS CONFIDENCE 13 a press ence today Generalissimo Stalin Japan has had our terms only a little over 12 Per haps that accounts for the Might there be another atomic he was I do not Ross If I did I wouldnt His remark on continuation of the war was in reply to an whether it was safe to assume there had been no interruption or letup in the war during the nego See More Atomic Raids Prolonged delay on the part of Tokyo appears certain to bring a resumption of American atomic bomb except for Pacific and Asia continues full There seems to be no disposi tion among officials here to en gage in further exchanges regard ing the meaning of unconditional What is wanted now is a yes or no attitude remains com If Premier Suzu kis cabinet is split in a death as some authori ties the enemy radio has given no hint of At both the White House and state department there was ob vious disappointment that the Jap aneses had not responded yester day with a statement accepting Saturdays note clarifying the status of the em President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes were on the job early and and an air of tense expectancy was reflected by their The White House per plans for the actual signing of surrender J Return 01 Yanks From IB Theater Planned meeting here which convinced Soviet Russias paramount desire was to be friends with the States and her t He said he was unable to dis close details of the but was visibly Eisenhower declared he had not halted his troops at the Elbe of t anywhere else last spring because the Red army or Stalin requested Wanted To Break Redoubt The American general said reason American troops stopped at the Elbe short of Berlin Hitlers redoubt in the south as fast as Eisenhower declared he would be glad to place before congress the record of the way the Red ar my high command cooperated him during the European Eisenhower said Stalin had ask ed nothing about the but he disclosed that he and Marshal Georgi Zhukov hai talked about it in a general way on their flight from Berlin to Wins Red Confidence Eisenhower won immediate Rus sian confidence for he has been told details of such things as the tank and the Red armys methods of handling supply and communications On their way to Moscow Zhu kov and Eisenhower exchanged ideas on strategy and Zhukov got out paper and pencil and drew sketches of his main ope rations for explaining each one in Eisenhower told the Russian how he managed his great breakthrough across RETURNING The Suns Own Service NEW YORK 13 Aboard the S S Marechal Joffre clue in the United States today is Oryal 430 north 5th street 13 Details for movement home of American soldiers in the India Burma theater will be published a day or so after surrender is the Southeast Asia com mand announced Men who have been the longest and who are no longer needed to help liquidate American activities in this part of the world will probably get the breaks as they the announcement Some of them should be home for perhaps for Methodist To Be Tonight Centenary Methodist church an conference and fellowship dinner will be this evening at conducted by District overseas dent Harry Reports of all church officers if peace comes will be received and officers will be If VJ Day is announced today the dinner will be held at but the conference will be postponed allow attendance at Union services which then will be held at Christian church Premature Victory Celebrations Sweep Through World By United Press Release NEW 13 Premature victory springing from radio broadcast of an erroneous United Press news flash that Japan had ac allied surrender swept across the United States and Canada last night and awoke briefly jubilant echoes in Central America and far away The Canadian celebration was intensified by premature re lease of a recorded victory broadcast by Prime Minister MacKenzie King from The United Press association United Press said the flash moved over one of its wires at The flash was ordered withheld from pub at and was killed at Of Mysterious Origin The UP described the flash as of mysterious origin and said that While it moved under a Washington it was transmitted by the Wash ington bureau of the United Hugh United Press offered reward for information leading to the identification and conviction of the person who transmitted the false The UP tolds its subscribers that the federal bureau of in and the federal com commission had been asked to ascertain who had cut in on the UPs wire to dis seminate false re port of the wars end was killed quickly by UP and the major radio networks which had cut into their regular programs to carry the message Washington Japan accepts surrender terms of hilarious celebrations that lasted for an hour or more in A White House denial that a Japanese surrender had been following the UPs kill by about an finally dim med the enthusiasm of In the short interval between the false flash and its bedlam had its The high squeak and baritone rour of ship whistles and horns sent up thunderous fanfares at New York Citys East and in the harbors of Los San Honolulu and San good humored crowds gathered in the city hall court yard at at Port Boston and other In a cheering throng surg ed around the White but dispersed quietly upon denial of the surrender barkeeper hi Battle had poured worth of drinks on the house before he learned there no occasion for Turbulent crowds in sought to storm the same liquor store which was looted in the riotous observance of VE Police reserves checked them with Children burned fences for bonfires in one section of Pitts estimated at 000 in marked the event in by swarm ing through Martin place to root a memorial several news stands and tip a wa ter Firemen were mob their engine sirens and headlamps New Yorks Times Square was jammed by thousands who cheered obligingly for photog as they awaited confir mation of the surrender In New Yorks as in the Chinatowns of San Fran San Toronto and the people first attacked by Japan joy fully hailed her apparent down H 1944 Real Estate Tax Delinquent 1 County Treasurer Earl announced today that the half of the 1944 real estate tax witt become delinquent 1st and y will draw interest at the of o seven per cent per i Delinquent real estate taxes be advertised in October and for sale the first Monday i picnic FLIER DECLARED DEAD SSgt Ralph of Miss Spicer of has been declared lost in i the according to by Miss Sgt Sf who was a waist gunner of i crew of the Fifth 3 was listed as missing in about a year ago mile flight to and the central
