Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - August 6, 1945, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin THE WEATHER For Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with few widely showers Fair Tuesday Local weather facts for 24 hours preceding 7 Maximum 70 minimum 57 Those toys He Thirty-Second 9853 Wisconsin Rapids Wis Monday August 6 1945 Single Copy Five Make Bonfires of Four More Jap Towns Tons of Incendiaries Kindle Targets SPENCER JP more nese cities were left in a mass of flames by 580 day and their destruction appeared certain returning crewmen re- ported Waves of dropped mately tons of on the industrial cities of Nishinomiya Maebashi Imabari and Saga and demolition bombs on the coal faction company at Ube One Superfort failed to return Light Opposition Pilots reported Japanese tion was light although Capt rence Bird Mapleton Utah ed seeing a Japanese jet fighter plane over Maebashi At first I thought it was a flare or ball of fire It came to within 500 feet of our he said Reporting on the results of the heavy raid on Saga on Kyushu 2nd Lt Gordon P Marchal of Calif said I could see lines of fire on the ground and be- lieve me the whole thing was Over Nishinomiya however one pilot reported seeing more flak more fighters and more searchlights than in recent forays over Japan Fires could be seen 150 mites at sea Once again an all but helpless that the big bombers coming on a mission of unable to offer resistance Mustangs Return Yesterday air raid sirens ed throughout Tokyo in a warning that 100 Mustangs had re- turned to strike terror with rockets and machine guns against anything they could find in the Tokyo area Radio Tokyo said 130 Mustangs tarried the assault into the daylight today an attack on the Tokyo area The in two raids August 2 and today have sown tons of dreaded fire and demolition bombs on Japanese cities in warnings to the people of Japan to surrender They burned out mately square miles of war ducing cities since the first fire raid on Tokyo March 3 the newest series of diary raids has always been pre- ceded by warnings to civilians to Jlee to safety their effectiveness was told bluntly in a single sentence in General Spaatz communique which reporting on the record raid August 2 First photographs available on results of the strike in the early hours August 2 show that the industrial area of Toyama was tally destroyed Bad Aluminum Plant Toyama a population of Four Die in State Mishaps By the Associated Press At least four persons lost their lives in accidents during the end in Wisconsin three by ing and one in a traffic crash The Chester R Cleiber 26 Abbotsford Lawrence C Strang 23 Baltimore Mci Daniel Conway 42 Milwaukee John Zuidweg 16 Kenosha Cleiber an army veteran ed in Long lake in county Friday when a boat in which he and another soldier were fishing overturned The body was ed Saturday Strang also a veteran drowned in Brown's lake near Burlington yesterday Witnesses said he dived from a pier and was swimming ward a raft when he sank Conway drowned when his boat overturned in Lake Michigan during a rain and wind storm that kept coast guardsmen and men busy retrieving dozens of small craft Zuidweg was killed when the motorcycle he was riding figured in K collision with a car near Kenosha Hold Everything How many times must I lei was the third largest city on Honshu fronting the Japan sea and had the empire's largest plant The Japanese radio acknowledged the attacks as announced by the U S strategic air forces headquarters at Guam and added that also bombed the Honshu cities of Osaka Takasaki and Shibukawa Maebashi Tokyo admitted a considerable loss It ed eight were shot down Tokyo radio also reported sive mine sowing operations by in Wakasa bay off the west coast of Honshu in the Harima sea between the Inland sea and Osaka bay and in the Sea of Japan Strategic air forces authorities did not confirm the report nor the Mustang attack on the Tokyo area today but did confirm the raid by the fighter pilots yesterday Japs Beaten Back on All Pacific Fronts By the Associated Press Desperately a c k i n g Japanese were beaten back as they thrust vainly against the tightening Filipino-American noose around Gen Yamashita's last on Luzon General thur reported today The division meanwhile of- a lough in the United the capture of any live Japanese eral Yamashita whose title has faded from Tiger of Malaya to The Gopher of is still alive and leading his troops last-ditch fight in the rugged mountains north of Baguio some Filipinos insist Raise Enemy Losses Mac Arthur's communique ed Japanese dead were ed and 444 prisoners captured in the last week raising total enemy losses in the Philippines campaign to American losses for the 27 dead 61 wounded Elsewhere Allied armies drove ward trapping the largest Japanese force remaining in New Guinea and counted more than Nipponese dead in recent fighting in swept south Burma In New Guinea's mountains two Sixth division columns were 18 miles from a junction would isolate the strongest enemy force still on the island Channel British empire troop patrols in Burma have crossed the old Sittang river channel in the advance toward Thailand Admiral Lord Louis h e a d q u arters an- Advance elements of dian soldiers arrived at forward Pacific bases today They will be followed by Canadian air force units and 60 ships of the navy Smarts Hear Voice Of Son First Time In Over Two Years Mr and Mrs G Smart 1011 Elm street heard the voice of their son Richard Smart for the time in over two years when they talked to him by phone Sunday morning overseas operator from New York contacted the Smarts day evening and an an appointment was made to talk on Sunday ing The soldier has been in Africa and is now in Italy where he has been building telephone lines He is stationed at Leghorn Italy hut made the call from Rome when he came on a pass from his own tion He reported that he was fine but did not know just when he would be coming home He is ing communications to linesmen at present Mr Smart is manager the Wood County Telephone company ATOMIC BOMB TO BACK ULTIMATUM LOOSED UPON JAP ARMY BASE Workers Never Knew What They Were Making Richland in a huge government plant near here the new atomic bomb is being assembled never knew what they were making and produced the compound by operating complicated dials from behind thick concrete walls President Truman's ment said that from to workers were employed on the atomic bomb at Richland at Oak Ridge near Tenn and at an unnamed installation near Santa Fe N M Some of the details of the secret project were revealed for the first time today after President Truman announced the first bomb was COMPARATIVE POWER New York faint idea of the power within the atomic On June 6 1917 a munitions ship blew in a collision in Halifax N S harbor persons were killed ed and made homeless two and one-half square miles of the city devastated That munitions ship carried tons of one- seventh of the equivalent of the new bomb series of dials and enable the operators ped on the Japanese Not until the official announcement did any of the workers have any idea of the nature of the startling new product The manufacturing area a 000 sere guarded section 30 miles from here is into three large areas Each of the three is into smaller areas Remote Control Plants were designed so that all the complicated operations were performed by remote control behind concrete walls So complete were the safety pre- cautions officials added that they protected workers against even the fear of danger The plants in the manufacturing area near here are huge rectangular structures 800 feet long They a government ment said the most remarkable chemical plants ever designed by man where enormous quantities of material are handled through many successive processes with no human eye ever seeing what actually goes on except through a complicated panels that to maintain perfect control of every single ation at all times This operation is performed in a remote cell and when completed the treated material invisibly moves on to the next cell until the end of the process when the material em- erges ready for the next stage at other plants Construction of the plants was rushed in greatest secrecy by ands of workmen recruited from many states At one time during construction persons were employed Agents Seize 33 More Gambling Devices in Raids S ton chief of the state erase tax division announced today that his agents had 33 more gambling devices in 12 establishments in five Wisconsin counties Included in the raids made Thursday and Friday under the new law were 13 slot machines Places raided Clark Thorp and J Arthur and Pearl Johnson Humbird Marquette Roberts shara Lietz Coloma Herman Filler Fremont Robert Stahl and Walter Ernst Other places ed in LaCrosse and Marinette ties Landon Says New Dealers in US Are Feeling Their Oats IP Former presidential candidate Alf Landon raid today that as a result of the Labor party's victory in Great tain the American New Dealers arc feeling their oats and cither Mr Truman will yield to them or the left New Dealers will form a third party Landon in an address to the peka Kiwanis club declared I don't think after the British election that the left wing New Dealers will stand for any tion Political parties mean ing to them There are too many high ranking New casualties already to make them very happy with Mr Truman Landon that the third par ty financed and smartly handled by the P A C political action com- does not mean the election of the Republican ticket We may see a duplication of the shoe on the other foot In that campaign the cans changed a good mahy votes the lust few weeks by saying the Foil ticket might a deadlock in the electoral college Therefore vote for Coolidge In there is a party ticket backed hy the P A C may see the Democrats make the samo plea for Republican votes for Truman and getting them mountainous wave lifted up and smacked down the aircraft carrier Hornet so hard last June 5 that the forward corners of the flight deck folded down along the aides Thus nature in the form of a gale 138 miles an achieved what the Japanese were never able to do in 14 months of hard-fought damaged the big ship The navy told the Hornet's story today It let the Japanese know exactly where the Hornet Hunter's Point in San Francisco bay She steamed through the Golden Gate July 7 and went to drydocks for repair Behind her lay tons of enemy shipping sunk or damaged and enemy planes Principle of New Explosive Explained by Power of Sun BY HOWARD W BLAKESLEE Science Editor New man's statement that the atomic bomb is made the force from which the sun draws Its power ex- plains the principle of this new ex- plosive The sun's power is the sun's heat For years scientists have known that this heat could not come from ordinary fires like any known on the face The sun just wasn't big enough to have lasted the billions of years during which there is plenty of evidence it has been burning at the present rate In ordinary fire molecules of wood coal or whatever else is ing separate As they come apart the energy which held them er is released in the form of heat light and other rays like x-rays Even a hot fire gives off a bit of x-rays The sun burns not by separation of molecules but by two much more intensely hot methods One is the atoms that form molecules rating from each other This kind of separation releases incredibly greater amounts of heat and gy than molecule separations Separation Releases Energies But an even greater source of sun power is the fact that the atoms themselves come apart to some extent These atoms are made of electrons protons and other and particles Electrons and other particles fly off the atoms This kind of tion releases even greater energies including heat and alt other of rays than the separation oC atoms from each other Not alt these forces are yet even known Some are so RETAIN LETTER TO HITLER DISCLOSED letter which shal Petain sent to Hitler three weeks after the Allied landings in Africa of conversations be- tween the two about reconquering French colonies was introduced denly by the slate today at the treason trial of the old soldier The letter dated December n 1042 apparently surprised the defense It contained this I am aware Mr Chancellor of the personal intentions that you have expressed to me concerning your resolution to collaborate with France and to assist her in her colonial Gen Tico testified at the treason trial of Marshal day that French troops were by Gen Weygand at the time of the Armistice to hide military equipment They concealed of war materiel fiom the Germans and an equal amount of food and raw materials hy the end of 1942 he asserted Pierre French delegate to the United Nations conference at San Francisco sent a cable to the trial from Santa Barbara Calif describing as a mnn who served France with perfect tism and loyalty and with all his power and powerful that they have only been guessed at The popular phrase smashing the atom describes this sort of atomic disintegration where the atom itself flies apart For many years scientists have been able to disintegrate atoms in laboratories There were no sions because billions of atoms would have to go off at one time even to equal a firecracker The reason is that atoms are so ingly tiny It has been clear to scientists for nearly a half century that if they could get enough atoms in a piece of solid matter or even gas the size of a pea to break up all at once the explosion would be rible President Truman's ment gives no clue to method of producing the atomic bomb The steps which were sensational just before the war and which were world-wide publicity then are still strictly censored even the information is available in lic records His statement does give one hint which is in line with what expected This is that there are useful possibilities in thu ic power as well as destruction What will explode will also hum more slowly to give heat for ing steam or electricity The atomic bomb bunt started right after the war got under uay when a German mathematician a Jewish woman Lize Meitner lated that something which had puzzled for 10 years really an explosion of atoms of one of the kinds of the metal Within two weeks after she this calculation the great physics laboratories in the States England and Germany had verified her prediction She was banished from Germany but Hitler put all ble physicists at work on atomic bombs and atomic power at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute What the scientists found wits that a rare form of uranium known as 235 when d with low electrical energy in the form of neutron rays would react by splitting some of its atoms McCrillis Resident Of McCrillis resident of Arpin for 50 years died in the Adams-Friendship hospital early this morning after an of one month Mr McCrillis was born nt Toman December 16 and married Alice R at Bethel Wis He is survived by his wife one daughter Mra C M Roach sin Rapids brothers Hopkins Charles Arraya Grande Calif John Lac du beau Frank Los Angeles and a grandson Funeral services will he held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the Bethel church and burial will be in the Bethel cemetery The body will be nt the Baker chapel from o'clock Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday noon most squarely in two Up to that time no atom had ever been really smashed A few electrons or other particles har been forced out by the smashing rays used which might be x-rays or rays made of atomic particles When uranium atoms split in two as the German woman pre- a whole new world opened for atomic power The energy re- leased by an atom breaking in was thousands of tunes greater than the energy when just a few pieces were chipped off This new situation started the United States and Britain on a hunt for atomic power and atomic bombs and even before the United States entered the war all this atomic work was placed under Since then not a single de- velopment has been published un- til today's bomb announcement Crowns and Father Canoe to Wisconsin Dells A trip by canoe down the Wisconsin river to Wisconsin Hells was a pleasant experience for LI A J Crowns Jr after spending 13 months as a in many He made the camping trip with his father Attorney A J Crowns week Starting out Thursday night they below the dam Jit and arrived at Wisconsin Dells lerday where Mrs Crowns met the pair trip was very pleasant and we had no trouble that we th tough the Mr Crowns remarked and did a when we met boats in narrow channels at a md mix very well We camped over in a tent the three and did our own nlr which wasn't so fancy but ing Jit Crowns is spending a convalescent with his parents after from iin in lie was sh down serving ai 1 in the air in Italy Missile Is Equal To Tons of TNT atomic bomb hailed as the most terrible destructive force in history and as the greatest achievement of science has been loosed upon Japan President Truman disclosed in a White House statement today that the first use of the more power than tons of TNT and producing more than times the blast of the most ful bomb ever dropped made 16 hours earlier on Japanese army base The atomic bomb is the answer President Truman said to refusal to surrender Secretary of War Stimson predicted the bomb will prove a tremendous aid in shortening the Japanese war Mr grimly warned that even more powerful forms of the bomb are in development He said If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth The war department reported that an impenetrable cloud of dust and smoke cloaked after the first atomic bomb crashed down It was impossible to make an immediate assessment of the damage President Truman said he would recommend that congress consider establishing a commission to control production of atomic power within the United States I make recommendations to congress as to how atomic power can become a powerful and forceful influence towards the maintenance of world peace Both Mr Truman and Secretary Stimson while emphasizing peacetime potentiality of the new force made clear that much research must be undertaken to effect full peacetime application of its principles The product of spent in research and the greatest scientific gamble in Mr Truman atomic bomb has been one of most closely guarded secrets of war Franklin D Roosevelt and ton Churchill gave the signal to start work on harnessing the forces BEAT GERMANS CHURCHILL SAYS Germany ed some atomic power secrets ston said tonight but by God's mercy British and American science outpaced all German forts The Nazi efforts to develop an atomic bomb were on a able scale but were far said the former prime minister in a statement issued by Prime Minister Attlee Churchill reported that gian and British commando teers in the winter of ed at heavy loss nf life Norwegian stores of heavy water an element in one of the possible processes The of the war might have been altered he declared if the mans had atomic power Profound anxiety was felt by those had been informed of the German efforts he added Three Accidents Reported in Area During Weekend Three were reported to city and county police over the week-end in which one person was injured last driven by Mollet SSI Ninth street south ami Warren Jr Route 1 collided bulb were west on Highway 51 about three miles east of Wisconsin ids According to county police the Mollet vehicle was attempting to pass when the hooked fenders and it went inlo the ditch rolling over The four occupants of Mollet vehicle nf caping were Miss and Jean Hesse Heinle 1 and Marjorie Sampson 740 Oak street Clyde Kentie -10 Biron drive re- cuts the when he failed in make a curve about six miles of Wisconsin Rapids on Trunk W day ami struck a tree The end of his car was badly A car by Francis M MO Tenth north collided witli a parked car by near the interaction of 5 street and street smith o'clock to city police Tavern Quota Violated at Green Bay State Charges Green Hay Hist Atty J Hasten said today that injunction proceedings would lie started in circuit court tomorrow against nine Green Hay tavern ers alleged by the state beverage tax division to have been issued in of the city's quota Up July I the city council has tavern and the state contended the city's quota was taverns Hasten said the proceedings re- mitted from his receiving papers from J Ward Rector deputy at- torney general The Green Hay city council sued nine tavern licenses at one time on Because the nine wero issued the state ig taking action against all nine rather than the number exceeding city quota The council claims that the city now tins no more liquor ments than it had in when the quota went into effect The difference resulted the council claimed because four private clubs were among the nine issued licenses June 28 and the club had been op without licenses prior to that time Hasten said the proceedings would be started under a nuisance law and that he would ask for a court order requiring the tavern keepers to show cause why R injunction shouldn ot be is restraining them from the sale of liquor of the atom Mr Truman It is an atomic bomb It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East base that was hit is a major quartermaster depot and has large ordnance machine tool and craft plants The city of also contains a principal port The president disclosed that the Germans worked feverishly in search of a way to use atomic gy in their war effort but failed Meantime American and British scientists studied the problem and developed two principal plants and some lesser factories for the duction of atomic power The president disclosed that mora than persons now are in in great secrecy in these plants We are now prepared to ate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war to Rejection The president noted that the Big Three ultimatum issued July 26 at Potsdam was intended to spare the Japanese people from utter de- struction and the Japanese leaders rejected it The atomic bomb now is the answer to that rejection and the president said they may ex- a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth Mr Truman that sea and land will follow up this air attack in such numbers and power us the Japanese never have The president said that this dis- covery may open the way for an entirely new concept of force and power The actual harnessing of atomic em i y may In the future supplement the power that now comus coal oil and the great dams he said It has never been the habit of the scientists of this country or the policy of tins government to hold from the world scientific Mr Truman therefore everything about the work with atomic energy would be made public That will have to wait however he said until the war emergency is over Could Destroy Human Race New Cmdr Herbert aide to U S ambassador to Great Britain John G Winant said on June 29 that if the war had gone on for another six months it tut quite possible that this planet would have ceased to exist because it was probable that someone would have learned to break the atom without controlling it Agar there was a ter that the Germans would learn how to split the atom and 1 sincerely believe that in a few years human beings will know how to destroy human race
