Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 20, 1945, Biloxi, Mississippi Freed From Japanese Prison AP and NEA Monday August 30, 1945 Volume 4 Chu commander - in - chief of Chinese Communist recently sharply warned by Generalissimo Chiang against independent action in accepting surrender of Jap defied the Chungking leader by issuing surrender ultimatums to Jap forces in China's four northwestern From Communist a broadcast accused Chiang of fomenting civil Collar Workers May Be Given MAX HALL Aug. 20 The government hastened today to give white collar workers and all others earning salaries the same good news officially already given wage the lid's about off on only halter the government will hold on increases is They can be given where the increase does not mean an increase in earners told previously that they get without necessity of the boss getting government there are no price Internal Bureau is writing out instructions about the white collar workers and they will be released bureau held to 1942 levels the salaries of those earning or more and those administrative and professional not represented by labor who earned less than LOSES NO no time in pushing President Truman called into a White House conference John W. reconversion and a special advisory committee on problems involved int the change-over to headed by Governor O. Max Gardner of North consists of representatives of organized labor and farm It was created to advise the Office of War Mobilization and when Secretary of State Byrnes was the committee another big cutback in war orders was The War Shipping Administration cancelled of contracts for 135 vessels and special military equipment for the to speed the flow of scarce materials into civilian WPB Chairman J. A. Krug asked all prime and subcontractors to cancel with all orders for materials no longer needed to fill military Krug's letter said that to do otherwise will postpone the full-fledged reconversion effort which is to the nation's economic THE score as America entered its first full week of The nation will have one of Its biggest Christmas on page on Natural Gas and Equipment Aug. 20 All restrictions on the use of natural gas and gas-burning equipment were removed today by the War Production agency's office of war utilities revoked order which had prohibited new uses of gas by natural gas companies except as specifically It also provided for the integration of natural gas operation and curtailment of consumption during emergency shortage the same gas companies were told that it is all right once more for them to conduct promotional sales campaigns to add new space heating and industrial to Apply for Unemployment Aug. 20 facing millions in the months here's something to remember about unemployment If you're jobless now and eligibly for unemployment make application for the pay and a new job at your state's public employment rules that make you eligible vary by You'll find out whether you're eligible when you apply at the you must have worked in covered be jobless and be able and ready to Team Finds Corregidor Hero at SPENCER Aug. 20 Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. the hero of Corregidor who has been liberated with hundreds of other war prisoners in Manchuria and North was en route today to Chungking and perhaps from there to Manila for the personal satisfaction of facing surrender envoys of the forces will move by air and sea to occupy camps holding prisoners of war and civilian internees and begin the work of releasing US headquarters in China announcement said large numbers could be released only after Allied forces occupied the 61-year-old leader of the epic American and Filipino resistance at Corregidor after the fall of the was a captive for three years and three was found in a prisoner of war camp at 100 miles northwest of Mukden in by one of a number of teams who parachuted into the areas of several prisoner of war camps in the China theatre August 16. Gen. Albert C. US commander in who announced these said Wainwright was If he arrives in Chungking in time he may be able to get to whose bay the fortress island of Corregidor now flies the American where Japanese emissaries now are negotiating a formal surrender with aides of General Manila an report said Wainwright may attend with MacArthur the formal surrender ceremony in the other prisoners of war who were liberated by these ships are being rushed to various ports so that they may be evacuated with and in some cases planes are being sent for litter NO said there would be no discrimination in succoring Allied prisoners of war and civilian regardless of He said the prisoners of war and civilian internees in China included 3,600 at 9.000 at 2,800 at Hainan 6,000 at Hong 2.700 at 1,000 in 2,500 in 5,600 in and some 30,000 in the Japanese home SONS OF HEAVEN ARRIVE FOR SURRENDER by an American sad-faced members of the 16-man Jap surrender delegation file out of a transport which flew them from Ie Shima to Nichols Field in General Vice Chief of the Japanese Imperial Staff leads the Corps Eliminate Beat One from Hospital is the intention and purpose of the Harrison county board of supervisors to retire the proposed bonds for the Hospital in Gulfport without participation by Biloxi and beat was set forth in a resolution j adopted today by the county board of in session at following a discussion tive to the proposed expansion of the A Biloxi headed by Mayor Chester resolution that it is the intention and purpose of this board of supervisors to retire the proposed bonds of of the Hospital by taxation only on beats 2-5, and exclusive of beat one provided it is legal to do Biloxi delegation included Mayor Warren secretary of the Chamber of Eugene and G. There has been some voiced in Biloxi relative to beat One team found 1,673 prisoners | one's participation in the the Mukden including 1,- ment of the proposed 293 67 44 a Canadian and a French Most were Among the Americans may be many who withstood the last horrible days of the blazing siege of the same camp with Wainwright was A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh of the Netherlands who resisted the Japanese to the last before his He will be repatriated immediately at the request of Queen Wilhelmina of the who has special for Wedemeyer OF prisoners broke into wild shouts of joy when the rescue teams Wedemeyer Most of them had been treated and illness was not he The names of the have not vet been made men who reached camp had flown 1,100 miles from Siking in Shensi early on August They knew they were risking death to bring medical aid and encouragement to the since they had no idea of what the reaction of the Japanese would Japanese had been informed ahead of time by leaflets of the coming of the Gen. George Olmstead of Des who planned and directed the had high praise for the courage of the many of whose members never before had The all dropped in nine places from to The Japanese did not molest contact team landing at in Shantung said the Japanese were sullen but offered no At Peiping the contact team found the Japanese general in command courteous but unwilling to allow the medical men to free the prisoners until he received permission from his superiors at American Broadcasting Company reported from Chungking that Lt. Col. James P. leader of the heroic Marine stand on Wake island in 1942, was safe in a camp in the Peiping Wainwright was found in a camp at along with 34 other 16 Britons and 10 The team which landed there said the Japanese officer in charge was will be welcomed in Chungking waiting eagerly for the New Aug. 20 proclamation of official day Higgins The Associated Press 4 red stamps through U2 good through August 31; V2 through good through September 30; A1 through El good through October 31; F1 through K1 good through November 30. 4 stamp 36 good through August 31 for five next stamp valid September 1. Book 3 airplane stamps 1, 2, 3 and 4 good OPA says no plans to cancel of fuel oil stoves and processed foods discontinued as of August 15. open meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce when the proposed will be discussed and resolution of the delegation emphasized at the board meeting today there was no opposition to the proposed improving and expanding of the it was stated that in beat one felt the beat should not be required to in the pointing to what were described as adequate facilities for the area in the Biloxi and Marine Draft Calls Aug. 20 Navy and Marine draft calls for September have been reduced from 22,000 to 13,000, Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs said chief of the Navy bureau of personnel reported that the Navy call was lowered from 17,000 to 10,000 and the Marine call from 5.000 to 3,000. The Coast Guard did not originally ask for any inductions for previously had cut its draft calls from 80,000 to 50,000. Jacobs disclosed the reductions at a news conference at which he discussed the Navy's new discharge said that credit for combat and overseas service had been omitted from the point discharge on page IN CAIRO 20 Paris radio said today Maj. Gen. Jacques commander of French troops in the East Asia arrived with his staff at Cairo today en route to French SEEK CREDIT IN Aug. 20 Britain and other Allied nations facing the end of American lend-lease aid are expected to seek vast credits from the United States to obtain needed supplies in the immediate postwar quarters expressed no surprise over a decision to close the mutual aid nation's traffic death toll mounted to 59 yesterday and the first weekend since Orders Time and Half Pay For War Aug. 20 President Truman ordered today that time and a half be paid all war workers who were on the job last Wednesday and executive order did not whether workers who took holidays on the two days following surrender would be paid for their time off. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach said earlier j the president that straight | time will be paid in those j The White House said originally that August 15 and 16 would be legal holidays for overtime pay then retracted the Considerable confusion Mr. Truman did today was to issue an executive order amending another put into effect nearly three years The original order said no premium wage or extra compensation should be paid on work relating to the prosecution of the war on customary except time and a half should be paid for work on New Years July 4. Labor and either memorial day or one other of greater local new order added August 15 and 16 to the day will not be a legal White House said today that day will be proclaimed on the date of Japan's signing of surrender Truman plans to make a short radio address on Douglas MacArthur indicated in Manila that it might be ten days before the surrender could be Tell ended and most the 35 per hour speed War Leaders The of Washed The unofficial total of re ported traffic deaths for the previous weekend was 15. Dame to Open on Sept. 4 Dame High School will open September 4, Brother who has just arrived in announced The enrollment during the past scholastic year was 147 The Associated Press Tokyo noting that fear and are rampant in Japan editorially told the leaders who plunged the nation into disastrous war they are the same the Nippon Times was quoted by the Japanese Domei News in one of pre-enrollment for the coming series of broadcasts recorded already has reached 160. Hyacinth stated that the band and glee club were going to receive special attention during the new year and that Brother in charge of this has on page Conference Goes MACKENZIE to the great drama of Japanese formal surrender have been staged in Manila by General MacArthur with firm but quiet attitude calculated to remind the Mikado's sixteen emissaries that they were in the presence of conquerors but not supreme command personally remained aloof from the seems to have struck the happy medium which will best serve the interests of disarming the Japanese both and and so tend to create a stable folk are to Release 1000 Plant unleash the greatest celebration the city ever if Wainwright would be present at the formal surrender ceremonies at Gen. Olmstead think he would want to be has been three three and a half months since Wainwright last was in the then under tragic He had taken over command in Bataan when General MacArthur was ordered to leave to become supreme Allied commander in the Southwest fell in 1942, and the survivors crossed the two mile channel to the rock that was for a harrowing month of all-out air and artillery assault they held until May on paga that approximately 1,000 workers would be released because of cancellation of war contracts last week amounting to workers have been taking a prolonged holiday since the president's announcement of Japanese unconditional surrender Aug. 14. company has been employing about 5,000 workers in building landing invasion boats and other war company has announced that many of its war workers would be continued in the building of civilian Plastics Corporation at Micheaud is continuing a lot of worrying for fear we won't use the Japs rough but thus far nothing has happened to encourage the idea that we are being SHREWD has been proceeding with shrewd The signs are that the Mikado's emissaries have been deeply and in fact have known very well that they were in the presence of their The Japanese response to this treatment is said to have been an apparently sincere attitude in furnishing the military information necessary for the delicate task of occupying This attitude of cooperation on the part of the entire Nipponese delegation appears to be one of the outstanding facts emerging from the pressing matter of the moment is the military occupation of and it is believed in Manila that this will come The country is in a state of high as is to be expected of a public which suddenly has been confronted with the first major defeat in the history of the Under these circumstances the we get troops into the home the especially in view of the fact that there are some 2,000,000 Japanese soldiers in Japan proper and these should be placed under military control Japanese delegation in headed by stern faced Lt. Gen. gave the impression that it really was eager to carry out the terms of the Potsdam Federal Communications Com as saying that of the present to the cabinet of Premier Prince an even greater problem than the maintenance of public order the editorial ran an appeal to the people to remain calm to carry out the terms for peace laid down by the Tokyo newspaper Asahi urged the people to seriously on the grave mistake made in the past of following government leadership and urged all to participate in the government in this Asahi a change in national thought be effected and the Japanese nation get out of the present darkness and despair into a world of hope and Asahi's reference to the fear and of page Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Lowest tonight 74. Gentle to moderate Alabama and Partly cloudy this and Tuesday with scattered afternoon thundershowers south Gentle to moderate east to southeast winds on report at Keesler Field for 24 hours ended at temperature last night 74 Temperature today at 11 a.m. taken for 24 hours the production of life boats and | The consensus among parts for the atomic taken for 24 hours the production of life boats and | The consensus among parts for the atomic at 5:30 a City Orleans To Sign Formal Surrender Documents In Tokyo Within 10 Pictures Himself as Says Jap Armies Prepared to I Crush Their Wants to Keep Armies for Purposes of NED Aug. 20 Testimony Hermann Joachim Ribbentrop and other high-ranking Nazis will be introduced ' against the i disclosed today as the former puppet premier of Norway j went to trial on charges of State Prosecutor announced that Allied and Norwegian officials now are ' ing the testimony of the Nazi in where the Nazi leaders themselves soon are to be war ' He said that those whose mony was being taken included j Alfred former German of affairs in eastern occupied Field Marshal Keitel and Col. Gen. Gustav surprise disclosure came as Quisling presented a 21.000-word 69-page statement detailing his own picturing himself as a patriot and a the man whose name has become a synonym for collaboration declared that has proved to be it is not England who has eventually but has attained her war aim as far as beating Germany but in Russia an even more dangerous continental power has Quisling He demanded and indemnification for the insults and he said had been heaped upon NEGATIVE he told his accusers that their campaign of sabotage and resistance had played only negative in the asses give the dying lion a he elaborate statement outlining his version of Norway's wartime telling of his meetings with Hitler and of his own alleged efforts to alleviate Norway's p 1 i g h again and again his contention that the war was fought with as the main he not only beaten which was its war has also attained the old Russian imperialistic chief aim and is undertaking to form a Russian Slavonic world power with 300,000,000 further development in Quisling in an essential degree dependent upon 80,000,000 people cannot long be whether Germany will seek support in England and America or join Quisling a Nazi guarantee for freedom on page a n a of the the It ti tv i and an e m a ins prepared i e News cast a defiant s u p r e m e c c m m a r. d e r pop. in ed the emperor's sum but asserted armies in the noine Asiatic mainland ha challenged dignity u and their Domei Singapore and by the as it was beamed in to did not name the i Marshal Count Juichi of forces in the Southern has made ins headquarters in proclamation denounced American use of trie as a deadly and inhuman and said that a large numbers of old and women and were mercilessly LEONARD MILLIKAN -T General MacArthur will the the war in w in ten he formed Tokyo he would lead Allied sea es Japan to documents and occupy the enemy's an indication to or felt she maintain her armies of order and public protection came from Tokyo monitored by The Associated Press m asked MacArthur investigate the situation in China u the Japanese Chungking eminent and the Chinese Communists were making separate surrender I Other Japanese spoke i of the possibility of complete upheaval in china a whirlwind conference between his aides and Emperor surrender while Nipponese troops were laying down their arms by the thousands in Manchuria and negotiating field surrenders elsewhere in war high commander asked Tokyo to order Nipponese field commanders follow practice He sent the mikado's delegates flying home with implicit instructions as to what the Japanese should do to pave the way for occupying of expected to be largely will be for any an Allied spokesman UNREST AND and were reported sweeping Tokyo newspapers cautioned that of the would be a major problem of Premier Prince continued to Tokyo protested to MacArthur against relief parties parachuting down on prisoner of war ramps on the one of which found Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. hero of Bataan and safe and well at Imperial headquarters also Awarded For 23 Miles of for approximately 23 miles of road in three Harrison county beats was awarded today to Russell and of Gulfport in the amount nf This action was taken at a meeting of the board of supervisors held at the courthouse in contract represents eleven projects in beats two and Under the proposal the county will furnish the contractors set forth in their bid that fork can be started immediately upon receipt of material and completed at the rate of 10.-000 square yards per The projects include 245.628 square projects and bid prices No. 1, Depot Road at Mississippi estimated 2460 square No. 2, 46,464 square No. 3, John Clark j ed Allied possibly 22,176 square No. j landed in the precipitating 4, 28th 26.400 square American planes No. 5, Pass Road north of 42.240 square No. 6, Three Noch beat 5.280 No. 7, County Farm 34,848 square No. 8, Cuevas on in from scene of the major surrender came a report that Japanese delays stemmed from the stunning impact of defeat and atomic bombs and their with square No. | 9, DeLisle bridge east. 13,- j 728 square No. 10, Beat Line west in beat 19,- j 208 square S 1.073.73; No. 11, beat 50,160 square j Another bid was submitted by the Pierson Construction ny of Baton BOMB series of photos taken during the test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16th shows the various stages of Taken with an automatic movie camera at a distance of 6 miles these remarkable photos record the historic In the top photo the bomb has just exploded and a small cloud starts to the next photo shows the cloud of smoke as it grows bigger and bigger and starts to The black spots in the center of the smoke were brighter than the sun itself according to The bottom photo shows the tremendous which appears like white as it starts to rise finally reaching a height of 40,000 Army aides said 16 emissaries were apparently sincere and providing all the data necessary for complete occupation of Japan without They arrived in Manila Sunday were promptly rushed through a series of conferences with General MacArthur's MacArthur shunned His chief of Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland headed the American headed by Gen. Takashiro were told the details of Japan's duties under In return they supplied necessary military including information about airfields around Tokyo where the occupation will start whenever gives the began with precise formality Sunday broke down into rapid-fire sessions today with the on Time on West Pier Cut to 4fr4iours Per first cut in wartime earning capacity was felt in Gulfport today when it was announced by the Naval Supply Depot in charge of West Pier that the seven-day around tne clock work week had been pared to 40 hours weekly on instructions from A. B. stated that who formerly topped weekly in pay under the stress of rushing supplies to would now be cut to about five working days without Saturday and He added that instructions were for no overtime unless a special report was The new work week went into effect McKay declined to venture a guess as to what the cut represented in but stated it would be of Youth Found in Aug. 20 The body of a identified as that of Charles 17, was found floating in the Mississippi river near Vicksburg Sheriff J. J. Williamson reported to Sheriff Billingham was employed on a boat of the Canal Barge New Chief of Police Albert Alleni said police records showed the boat docked here for the night on Aug. 17, and Billingham was reported missing that Williamson said a jury return a verdict of death due to causes The body will be shipped tor
