Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Biloxi, Mississippi Turns He AP and NEA Friday August 17, 1945 XL nearly 15 Dr. has been president of the provisional government of For most of that time he has headed a mission in Washington seeking U. S. aid for his Korean independence campaign so that his government might take Two years ago the United Nations pledged his country With Japan Dr. Rhee's dream Bring Back 4,000,000 Men In Ten Aug. 17 The Army will bring back from overseas 4.000,000 veterans in 10 J By the end of the year it will be discharging men at a monthly rate of 500,000. the Navy's Men O' Army bombers and virtually everything else that will float or the Army expects to have the flow back of soldiers up to the figure by January 1, and to pass that figure at the further piecing together the Army's schedule for turning back 5,000,000 men to civilian life within a released yesterday at a news conference by Gen. Brehon chief of Army Service and other high-ranking ASF only uncertain Somervell are the force that must be used in the occupation of Japan and the difficulties that may troops must go in prepared for even he the Army doesn't expect he will require a large amount of shipping which must be given first Gen. C. P. transportation said the occupation job would not take all available shipping and that resource will be ignored in our efforts to speed our men addition to US shipping and available the Army will use the British liners Queen Queen Elizabeth and which alone are capable of transporting 50.000 men seven German and Italian liners including the is enough shipping in the Gross to enable the Army to shift some vessels to the Atlantic and speed up the return of men from five additional separation centers will be established with 75,000 specially trained men assigned to The goal is to send every discharged man home within 48 hours after he arrives at the to come from the Pacific will be the heroes of Corregidor and captured by the and the sick and disclosed for the first time that the Army now has 1,-800,000 troops in the An additional 2,760,000 are in Europe and 190,000 in overseas garrison Steel Formula Goes Into Discard With New Aug. 17 The little steel wage formula went into the discard for undetermined thousands of workers immediate result was to set the stage for a potential wide struggle among employers and unions whose contracts call for reopening of negotiations when there is a change in national wage Truman announced the new policy late yesterday in a statement in which he also called upon labor to continue its wartime new wage stand authorizes the War Labor Board to permit voluntary wage increases without WLB approval so long as employers certify that such increases will not lead to price It also authorizes the WLB to grant pay boosts in excess of the little steel formula in cases designed to correct maladjustments or inequities or to aid would open the way for increases for untold thousands of workers whose pay during the war has been held to 15 per cent above 1941, levels by the little steel measuring has been receiving about 4,500 applications for voluntary increases each less than one per cent of the employers seeking higher the labor market fast the number of voluntary agreements is expected to drop Truman's new wage policy followed recommendations made by WLB public members several weeks the White House announcement was issued yesterday President Philip Murray told a news conference it was to that major CIO unions would take immediate steps to reopen Outlook For Coast Mass of any unemployment in the Mississippi Coast area a result of Japan's surrender were minimized today in a of the by competent L. acting area director for the War Manpower that while all labor controls had been lifted and there were some anticipated it was expected that barring wholesale shutdown of the four major war installations of the Coast could be absorbed into other have in the past been interested primarily in finding people for the WMC official we revert to the position of findings jobs for official stated that exclusive of 9.000 or roughly 75 per cent of those employed in the area have been engaged in some type of war Approximately 3,000 are he and a large proportion of the remainder are or persons who will return to the farm or homes elsewhere with the conclusions of their present added further that removal of employment ceilings and bans on would mean that many local employees not of essential nature might now find a more available labor was the picture as affecting the four major sources of employment in the Mississippi Coast Ingalls Shipbuilding a stabilized employment level due to and construction of Diesel Gradual deactivation of the field might mean absorption of civilian employees into other Announced as a permanent Some workers might be Naval Advance Base A gradual tapering off ef Prospects of being used as storage for surplus disposal with greatly curtailed was pointed out that it is yet too early to forecast what might be done with certainty at any of the With the exception of all other major sources of employment along the Coast come either under the Army or Terminations might come or gradually in either case resulting in a large number of unemployed or gradual absorption into other direct impact had been felt this although it was reported today that approximately 200 had been laid off at the pontoon assembly project at Gulfport's small craft At Biloxi last week Westergard Boat Works had reportedly sought termination of their lease with the Biloxi Port Stratton Porter wrote four books that sold over 1,500,000 copies a record unequalled by an other American SEES 17 Maj. Gen. Claire L. former commander of the US 14th Air Force in wu received in Thursday by 17 At least five spectators were killed and 71 others injured last when a skyrocket fired in victory celebration landed in a munitions case aboard a British warship moored There were casualties also among the warship's MAY BE 17 Although end of the war and of the coal shortage apparently have paved the way for resumption of prewar standard the change probably can not be made for a month or time was invoked by statute and will have to be revoked the same Numerous bills to do this are pending in Congress but the lawmakers do not reconvene until next BE Aug. 17 A British Foreign Office commentator said today there was nothing to exclude Emperor Hirohito from being tried as a war criminal if the Allies decided he wu responsible for the Japanese policy of ORDERED TO SURRENDER Aug. 17 Berlin residents were ordered today to surrender all their silver and other treasure within ten Allied kommandantur under present chairmanship of American Maj. Gen. Floyd did not announce the A similar order had been issued earlier in the NET Aug. 17 Off the floor of San Francisco Bay today came the Navy's 6,000-ton, three and a half mile long antisubmarine net which has silently guarded the harbor from enemy undersea craft since 1941. net at various times snared derelict boats and a mountainous quantity of floating timber and to 550 ships a week have passed through its three Lost in Entire Operations Against Aug. 17 Combat loss of 437 and crews of 297 of them in entire operations against Japan from Marianas and India bases was announced today by U.S. Army air total of over 600 combat crew personnel wai rescued by naval rescue the air force headquarters said in a summary of strategic giant flew jnore than 10,000,000 miles and dropped 169,421 tons of bombs in an aggregate 32,612 flights by individual and accurate evaluations of results must await completion of photographic reconnaissance and ground the communique but available intelligence confirms the major portions of the industrial productive capacity of 59 Japanese cities has been six additional cities the productive capacity has been partially destroyed and in two other urban areas damage as not been total of 581 important factories engaged in production of war materials has been either totally destroyed or severely Included in this number are 23 major factories of Japan's aircraft industry resulting in a 60 per cent reduction in her combat plane production the communique included are six major and two plants producing tetraethyl major oil refining capacity was knocked out with the destruction or severe damaging of eight principal oil refineries and a 15 per cent reduction in steel capacity resulted from the damaging of two major steel the cities included in the totals were Hiroshima and each was destroyed or severely damaged by one atomic Tells Mikado To Comply With US Directives Without Further Photographic Planes Attacked Over Tokyo Declines To Discuss Fate Of Nazi Aug. 17 The Commerce Department today invited bids on more surplus The 74,998 new oyster USE GREEN Aug. 17 The OPA plans to use green stamps in Ration Book No. 4 when the present supply of red stamps is are enough red stamps to last until Nov. 1. Stamps validated on that date will be instead of unless the present plan is on page Tibbets Illustrates Code of American DeWITT MACKENZIE I to break down the determination Just before Japan's inquiry Allied peoples to carry through to utter destruction of Japan unless there was unconditional The Tokyo spokesmen were trying to play on our best answer I know to all this is a little in which the central figure is Col. Paul of who piloted the carrying the atomic bomb to It well illustrates the code of the American the Allied for that GRAND FIGHTING ran into Tibbets back in 1942, in England when he was just getting under way on the distinguished career that was weighted down his chest with He's a most likable chap and a grand fighting and withal one of the most unassuming fellows you could He was a lieutenant colonel and was piloting a Yankee bomber in our early raids against the had a long talk with the young officer at his and deliberately steered the conversation around to his reactions to the job of He told me that while he was waiting for his first raid he was sick over the thoughts of the civilians who might suffer from the bombs dropped by his of peace the Tokyo radio was directing a barrage of name calling against the Allies because of and what Jap spokesmen also were surprisingly in broadcasting the outside world but not to the home the effects of that first historic atomic bomb on every lining both human and was It was calculated to make one's flesh certainly had considerable these charges of backed by stories of wholesale slaughter of were intended for more than mere Their purpose Partly cloudy this and Lowest temperature near 80 Gentle variable Partly cloudy this and Saturday with a few scattered this afternoon and in south portion Saturday Gentle variable winds on the report at Keesler Field for 24 hours ended at temperature last night 74.2 Temperature today at 11 a.m. taken for 24 hours Killed When Ammunition Ship Explodes at Aug. 17 At least 58 persons were killed and hundreds of others were injured today when a German ammunition ship on an Oslo quayside blast caused extensive damage in the dock region and shook the entire Windows in homes and business establishments were shattered in an area of more than a square bodies still were being recovered by and civilian and military personnel were treating scores of injured civilians in a wide American and British military personnel were among the the port commandant called the explosion of Oslo's worst and said 43 of the dead were German laborers handling the The other 15 were Norwegian troops guarding the was started to determine whether sabotage was Japanese Cabinet Sworn Aug. 17 Japan's new cabinet was sworn in at the imperial palace today and quickly went into session while the world speculated whether its royal Prince Gen. might be tried by the Allies as a war scheduled to be the first ever to function under an alien occupation includes ministers of munitions and of greater East of whose functions would be eliminated by official Agency said the cabinet three members of ousted Premier Kantaro Suzuki's last war its first meeting at residence immediately after the investiture himself assumed the war vacated by the hara-kiri of Gen. to atone for his as brief report that the cabinet was in session gave no hint of subjects under It is on pace Sentence Is Commuted to Life forecast for the period 7:30 tonight through 7:30 p.m. August 22nd. Eastern and northwest Temperatures will average near normal in southeast portions of Louisiana and southern and northwest and 3-5 above normal remainder slowly rising trend beginning precipitation mostly moderate except light in Arkansas and locally heavy in northwest Florida and extreme south in scattered mostly in Dead and 112 injured in Buenos Aires Aug. 17 Police fired early today into a crowd of injuring nine persons and bringing the toll in this three days of rioting to four dead and 112 another district a force of about 300 youths attempted to storm former headquarters of the rival Nationalist Youth to which they suspected the NYA still had disorders began with the celebration of the Japanese when groups attacked nationalists in the War Minister Juan acting for President cancelled Army leaves yesterday to prevent soldiers from becoming their sirens tore through the dense crowd of demonstrators as marauding armed with battled police amid cries ot to Aug. 17 Gen. de Gaulle today commuted Marshal death sentence to life action consisted of approving a statement the court into its verdict which expressed the wish that the execution not be carried jury of the high court of justice condemned 89-year-old head of the Vichy regime to death for betraying the state to the Germans during the denied the charge but made no plea for his state presented a battery of former politicians including former Premiers Paul Edouard Edouard and Leon Blum to denounce actions from the 1940 armistice until the collapse of defense wai offered mainly from a long array of French include Maxime who was commander in chief at the time of the An unexpected witness was Pierre described as who occupied the stand for two days after being brought to France after his exit from Laval's testimony was chiefly a defense of Both he and Weygand face jury was composed of 12 parliamentarians and 12 drawn irom resistance JACK BELL Aug. 17 Russia has declined to discuss the fate of hundred of thousands of German prisoners in her today by a high this development of the Potsdam conference has disrupted attempts to reach an Allied agreement for the systematic return of captured Germans to civil life in all parts of occupation forces have proceeded on schedule to screen and release prisoners not held for war But so far as this country's representatives have been able to Russia has released if of the men it supposition in official quarters here is that the Russians already have put many of these prisoners to work in rebuilding Soviet factories and cities devastated by the German Russians long ago made known their intention of utilizing forced labor for It was one oi the major problems discussed at Yalta by the late President former Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Soviets were represented as contending that German as well as who fell under control of the Russian armies should be pressed into the Americans apparently expressed opposition to the use of what has been called this country the Russians reputedly argued that a decimated German industry could not employ all available German hence it should be used by the victor TO were reports that large numbers of civilians had been transported from Poland and other areas to Russia to work in on in the mines and on reconstruction Americans who visited the zone in Germany reported seeing few 18 to 45 old males Many of may have fled to other portions of Germany as the Soviet armies advanced toward agreement on the forced labor question was reached at the Yalta The official report merely expressed determination to and disband all German armed It was accompanied by a demand for reparations in kind from the for the destruction had Pt e s i d e n t Roosevelt told a news conference it might not be a bad idea to send some soldiers into the Crimea td clean up the war mess he had seen DIVISION OF was as close as any American official has come to accepting the Russian There apparently is some division of official opinion over the use of prisoners as forced but if support for the similar use of of State Byrnes is known to have gone to the Potsdam conference with the question weighing heavily on his But it is reported that all his efforts to bring the matter into discussion there were rebuffed by the Soviet representatives were described as taking the attitude that the disposition of prisoners and civilians in their custody was not a matter for discussion with the other They it was that they were not inquiring into similar matters in the British and French Soviets also apparently failed to furnish any estimate of the number of Nazis they hold The other governments have no accurate information on this the Americans will attempt to reopen the subject later remains Most officials here apparently are discouraged about finding a solution to a problem many believe eventually will have serious population Speech Is First Threat to Aug. 17The Australian Department of Information today branded Emperor Hirohito's radio speech as first threat to peace in the and urged be compelled to issue a rescript repudiating his speech and admitting Japan's war statement was carried in a Melbourne radio broadcast recorded by the American Broadcasting Australian information and immigration has been defeated but is still She will move south again at some future date unless Australia is strong enough and is peopled by a population big enough to deter The Japanese are 80.000.000 strong and we are but 7,000,000." Aug. 18 General MacArthur announced at 2 45 am. today that the Japanese government had notified him that its surrender emissaries had been and would leave by plane tomorrow for word came from the defeated enemy after two days of quibbling nn the part of Tokyo and after MacArthur had curtly told Japan to comply with his directives further Rationing as Early As Aug. 17 Secretary of Agriculture Anderson said today he believes it may be possible to terminate meat rationing in the near as as an exclusive the secretary stated that an examination of demand and supply prospects as of today indicated that supplies not needed for military and other requirements are rising said that later figures indicate that civilian meat supplies for the October-December quarter will be at the annual per capita rate of 145 compared with less than 120 pounds so far this supply will be even he should there be an run of cattle to market this in the meat he reflects the cutback in military uncertainty as to whether financial arrangements will be made for sending large quantities of meat to Europe and a run of cattle to among government food officials on the question of meat rationing were spurred today by reports that cattle marketing has increased sharply since Japan asked for Department livestock officials said some action such as the lifting of may become necessary to prevent possible cattle and other livestock by producers fearing a sharp price lest producers start runs which would surpass slaughtering the department was considering issuing a statement designed to curb farmer fears of a sharp break in of meat if ordered by would be made in the face of a statement by Reconversion Director John W. on that the end of the war and reduced military supplies of fats and oils and sugar will continue short of demand for at least 12 statement assumed that considerable quantities of meats would be sent to Europe to feed hungry at the Agriculture Department it was pointed out that the United Nations and Rehabilitation Administration was without funds to finance large purchases of meat for foreign relief other financial arrangements for and that Congress had made no foreign relief LEONARD MILLIMAN General MacArthur cracked down on Emperor Hirohito as ten Japanese fighters attacked US photographic planes over the Tokyo area hours after the general told Tokyo to get busy on arrangements the Japanese radio said that the Nipponese representative to receive Allied surrender terms will leave Tokyo Sunday for MacArthur's the newest of a series of Nipponese four photographing the Tokyo area were met by antiaircraft fire and ten Two Japanese fighters were sent down flatly told the Mikado to comply with US directives further His order interrupted a series of messages from now in their second Because of the scheduled meeting in Manila has been postponed from yesterday until probably sometime next week and bickering developed today as to whose armies were responsible for continued fighting in Manchuria and Hirohito told his armed forces again that the war was asked MacArthur to hurry up and tell Russians the game while one of the mikado's puppets stuck a thorn in the side of without that its bombers attacked 12 Allied transports off Japan after the surrender and probably inflicted some spokesmen explained again that it takes time to stop the war machine that has been rolling for roughly a They asked MacArthur to keep Allied ships out of Nippon's home waters a little and asked him for further clarification of his was in response to this that MacArthur replied that directive from this headquarters is clear and explicit and is to be complied with without further mikado and henchmen did take their first notable series of steps toward actually ending issued an imperial rescript to augmenting his previous order to the same He dispatched members of his household in three aerial parties to tell rising sun troops in China and the Southern areas to lay down their his first official act as Premier Gen. Prince John W. of commands the U. S. 9th occupation force in the Bayreuth area of He also was in command and made the decision Last March 7 when Yank made their oi bridge over Rhine River at Barred From Federal MAX Aug. 17 America today entered postwar day released for wartime contro Is u men government 5: keep peace on the - la coming battles Hints was the Army cut its coal orders and sird the nation's problem is The Solid Fuels Administration denied But there was no that cut would help Army also announced more meat is being released for 1 and it threw on the market 10,-000 jeeps and vast quantities of other It that reduced shipments end railroad freight congestion Petroleum Administration said controls over the oil industry will be removed fast and that the agency will start liquidating itself at Office of Defense Transportation abolished controls over rental auto state and local It also authorized bigger THOUSANDS OUT OF Army announced it will bring back from overseas 4.000,000 troops in lOj months and will be releasing a million a month by January 1. Wholesale canceling of war contracts threw thousands out of work The civil service commission announced it will accept federal job applications from veterans resident Truman asked labor and management to keep their and pledges until a new plan can be worked 01, at a peace conference this Truman also announced that voluntary wage boosts will be permitted if they don't result in higher The War Labor Board will keep operating for a time and the president said he expects industry and labor to obey it. But the board will start winding up its affairs son after the autumn President Philip Murray indicated every major CIO union will ask for right away under the new struggles in the president's with Congress may end if he fights for on page Allowed To Return to San Francisco Chiefs of Staff Invited to White House Aug. 17 President Truman invited the combined chiefs of staff to dinner in the White House at 8 o'clock is the staff that was set up by the American and British armed services for the joint war effort in all to the dinner were representatives of United New Canada and the in addition to Secretary of State Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy Secretary Charles G. Ross said the president was taking this opportunity somewhat in the nature of a farewell for some of the high officials who served with the chiefs of staff will soon be leaving for their LOTS OF natives of hot require enormous amounts of Unless irrigated they will flourish only near Aug. 17 Sailors will be allowed to return today to this great Pacific port staging quiet for 24 hours after three nights of unbridled As order was resumed the city counted its toll at 12 648 injured and property damage in many thousands of Adm. C. H. commandant of the 12th Naval yesterday canceled all liberty for Marines and Coast Guardsmen at stations within 100 miles of San but subsequently modified the order to allow normal noon of Wednesday's looting mob was composed of Navy described by Mayor Roger Lapham as kids who never served Scores of civilian and girls also in the riotous civic officials considered possible action to fix responsibility for the District Attorney Edmund G. Brown announced he would poll members of the grand jury this morning to determine whether an investigation shall be the state political code the city is liable for all real and personal damage caused by riots and Authorities said the government may be asked to reimburse the city for property loss of the Navy's part in the Federal Reserve System wu told the Japanese i Two Youths Truck th. same directive to ( Slain troops in China at da Manchuria and Moscow charged the Japanese were Tokyo protested in one of a series of messages that the Red Army was making the Japanese position in Manchuria very difficult and urgently requested an cessation of the Soviet Soviet commander said the Red Army would stop rolling when the Japanese actually He gave them until Monday to lay down their Meanwhile forces on New Kind of Anglo-American Alliance in 17 The Communist Daily Worker said today a kind of alliance is in the of section of Wall Street with disgruntled and frightened Tories in said there were and important American capitalists who are certainly prepared to stop at nothing in supporting the savage rearguard action by their opposite numbers in on former Prime Minister speech in Commons the newspaper in a front page editorial called it and reactionary and most wicked of all is the proposal to use the atomic bomb as a means of diplomatic Can anything be more calculated to undermine the unity of the United Nations so necessary for the future of Not that keeping the bomb secret is a practical ior the Soviet Union and countries are on the verge of similar 4i#cov*7, wi mmr Aug. 17 1TP) Two youths arrested on charges of stealing a truck from a slam Mississippian have admitted the charge and also have confessed to choking and robbing the victom of his FBI Agent R. J. declared deny any connection with the Abbaticchio adding that they will be removed to on charges of violating the national motor vehicle theft said the question of whether the Misissippi resident was slain in that state or in Louisiana had not been definitely said the two were charged by the FBI with the theft of a truck W. E. 40, of who wai ilain Aug. 7 while en route from to body wai recovered beneath an approach to the Mississippi River bridge new the agent two were apprehended near yesterday through the efforts of the the Alabama highway patrol and the Calhoun The FBI man said they would be removed to were identified by Abbaticchio as John A. 22, of near and Doris 22. of The FBI agent said they were Army escapees who fled Camp while under military police stolen from Liddell was traced through Kentucky and Tennessee before being abandoned near Abbaticchio C. E. Hester of Madison said today the two men would be taken to FBI headquarters in Jackson for after which they are to be removed to La. body was found on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi ia
