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Show THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloudy west, cloudy east portion with scattered after noon thunder showers, mostly In cast portion this afternoon; Tuesday, Tues-day, increasing cloudiness with widely scattered thunder storm east portion; warmer afternoon. Temperatures: High 88 Low 52 SoTKeySoy Borne Sap said that of course God ceiUd -not ' bless America while .- Americans were oat to ret all 0 they could while the getting was aooo - smiwatcr, uaia news-Press.-' : oSWSSSl PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH MONDAY. AUGUST 3, 1945 SIXTIETH YEAR. NO. 51 complete uwrrro mess PRICE FIVE CENTS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE TVOTVOns -i- Utah County Towns Submit Lehi Sets Highest Levy. 21.50 Mffls. Provo is next 20.50 Towns and cities of Utah county today had submitted their tax levies to the state tax commission and to Ernest R. Madsen, county auditor. Lehi, with a tax levy of 2J.50 mills, was the highest in "the county, closely followed follow-ed by Provo, with 20450 mills. Goshen with a levy of only eight mills, was lowest, followed bv Salem and Mapleton with 12 mill levies. Following is a list of cities and towns ..'Which submitted their levies: i : Alpine, 15 mfjls; American Fork, 14; Goshen. 8; Lehi, 21.50; Lindon, 16; Mapleton. 12; Orem. 17; Payson. 20; Pleasant Grove. If; Provo. .20.50: Salem, 12; San-taquin, San-taquin, 19.50: Spanish Fork, 19; Springville, 18. In a breakdown of the mill levy of the different departments which was submitted by Iva Benson; city auditor, follows: Contingent fund. 3 mills; water works and irrigation, 1.50; streets and sidewalks, 3; sewers and drains. 1; city halls or memorials, 1.50; bay, 1: city auditor. .50; parks, 2; .public affairs and finance, fin-ance, 2; public safety, 5. Further Slashes lifWar Contracts How In Propsect WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U.RV-Further (U.RV-Further slashes in war contracts to clear the decks for industrial reconversion were in prospect today to-day with the navy getting ready to trim aircraft orders by as much as $2,300,000,000. The war department was prepared, pre-pared, too, for wholesale cancellation cancel-lation of contracts as soon as V-J day is proclaimed. Other government agencies were geared to place their reconversion recon-version programs into action. A war production board official said that if the Japanese surrender become official within a week, it might be possible to produce as many as 550,000 new automobiles by the end of the year. The previously authorized quota for this year was 250.000. The of ficial said a quick end ol the war would eliminate the sheet steel shortage, principal obstacle to in-. in-. creased auto output. Orders for cancellation of navy aircraft contracts are ready and probf.bly will go out this week. Under present plans, which are subjeevto downward revision, the navy, intends to retain approximately approxi-mately $1,250,000,000 of its present pres-ent plane icontracts. The remaining remain-ing cover experimental type planes, aircraft in the very final stages of construction and planes Which will be needed for the postwar post-war fleet ' Late last week, after the Japa nese offered to surrender, the army and navy ordered contract cancellations aggregating nearly $4,000,000,000. Of these. $1,200,-000,000 $1,200,-000,000 were navy ship contracts. Within the next two or three weeks, both armed services are expected to order cuts in contracts for ordnance, food and clothing. Alpine Schools To Open Sept. 10 AMERICAN FORK Alpine district schools will open Monday, Sept' 10, according to Supt. David R. Mitchell. Teachers institute will be held Sept 8. Scheduled holidays are Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, Nov. 22 and 23; Christmas, Dec. 22 through Jan. 1. and an undetermined day for the Utah .Education Assn. convention. School will close May 24. Army Ambulance Burns Near Lindon . A U. S. army ambulance which sideswiped a passing car Saturday night near Lindon, caught fire and burned without injury to its occupants. According to Sgt. L. A. Christensen Chris-tensen of the state highway patrol, there were no patients in the ambulance', am-bulance', only the driver and another an-other soldiers The Pleasant Grove fire department depart-ment was called to the .scene and extinguished the blaze. Tax Levies Peace Talker? Naotake Sato, above, Japanese ambassador to Russia, is reported to have participated in a peace parley with Premier Josef Stalin just before the Russian premier went to Potsdam for the Big Three meeting. Accident Victim Improved; Officer Warns of Speeding Condition of Mrs. Millie Boothe, Provo, who was injured in an automobile collision near Bridal Veil falls in Provo canyon early Sunday morning, was reported as fairly good today by attaches at the Utah Valley hospital. Lamar Hunter, also of Provo, who suffered cuts and bruises in the same accident, was returned to his home Sunday after receiving receiv-ing treatment. Sgt. L. A. Christensen of the highway patrol today warned - hnotorists "wtio TTSthe-PrCTVOtarv- yon road that it is "definitely a 35-mile road which is too narrow, steep and winding to go in excess of that limit. ' "There have been too many accidents in the canyon due to excessive speed. The highway way patrol will in the future redouble re-double its efforts to check violations viola-tions that occur on that canyon road," sergeant Christensen stated. According to Deputy Sheriffs Roscoe Kay and Robert Elliott, Provo, who investigated, said that the accident occurred when a car driven by Mrs. Lamar Hunter, Hun-ter, which was traveling down the canyon, swerved into the path of another machine traveling up the canyon and driven by Lee Kay, Heber. Mrs. Hunter told the investigating investigat-ing officers that she became blinded blind-ed by the headlights of the other machine. The two injured persons per-sons were, passengers in the Hunter auto, it was reported. Both Mr. Kay, who was alone in his car, and Mrs. Hunter escaped injury, in-jury, it was reported. Hutchins Deplores Atomic Bomb Use CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (U.R) The United States suffered a loss in moral prestige when the first atomic bomb hit Japan, Robert M. Hutchins, Chicago university chancellor, said today. The Chicago educator, long an opponent of a world organization, said the impact of the bomb had forced him to change his mind. Speaking on the university's round table broadcast over a nationwide na-tionwide network (NBC) yesterday, yester-day, he said he now felt the world could hope to abolish war only trhough the monopoly of atomic force by a world organization. "It may be that the atomic bomb is the good news of damnation," he said. "It may frighten the peoples peo-ples of the earth into taking the positive steps necessary to the creation of one world government now." Hutchins said he believed the United States had lost its moral prestige because "all the evidence points to the fact that the use of the atomic bomb was unnecessary." unneces-sary." Congress to Tackle By JOHN L. CUTTEt WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U.R) Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley said today the "human "hu-man element" of reconversion will be the first order of business when congress reconvenes next month. He said full employment legislation leg-islation and adequate benefits for the temporary jobless will top the five-point program for ' which congress is being called back Sept. 5, a month earlier than originally orig-inally scheduled. "Those are the two - most urgent matters awaiting our attention," at-tention," Barkley said in an in terview. "The others govern ment reorganization. surplus Toiiyo Area Attacked In Carrier Blast Several Score Enemy Aircraft Blasted; Only Light Jap Opposition By WILLIAM1 P. TYREE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, Aug. 13 Carrier Car-rier planes from the Third fleet destroyed or damaged several score ienemy aircraft parked on airfields in the Tokyo To-kyo area today and pilots reported re-ported only light Japanese anti-aircraft fire. Striking while Japan still debated de-bated whether to surrender, hundreds of American and British Brit-ish carrier planes also bombed, rocketed and strafed a submarine base, shipping, railway targets and other military objectives in a sudden resumption of their as sault on the enemy homeland. 400 Ships Concentrated A Japanese announcement said 800 carrier planes attacked ' the Tokyo-Yokohama area for 12 hours and caused "some dam age." The broadcast claimed 17 planes had been shot down end at least 25 others damaged. Radio Tokyo said the Third fleet was cruising; off the Tokyo To-kyo area and' speculated that the Allies were preparing- far landing operations in the "near future. (As quoted by the E Tf. c h ah g e Telegraph agency in London, the broad-east broad-east said the landing- might come "at any moment.") Hrerelhah-400-Anied shlpls nivit been concentrated at Okinawa and ground forces there have been "drastically increased" ' by the transfer of troops from Ley te in the Philippines, Tokyo said. South and Central Japan also were under attack by Okinawa-based Okinawa-based planes of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command. Tokyo said 30 Allied planes, presumably presum-ably from Okinawa, raided Wak-ayama Wak-ayama and Nara, 35 miles south and 20 miles east respectively of usaita. ana oiner areas ox soum-west soum-west Honshu about 11 a. m. - A dispatch from Admiral William Wil-liam F. Halsey's Third fleet quoted pilots who participated in the day's raids as saying that the Japanese were not putting' up anywhere near so much opposition opposi-tion as in the past. Neither were any Japanese planes seen In the air over Japan. However, a number attacked the Third fleet's carriers. car-riers. Several were shot down between 5 a. m. and 2 p. m., the dispatch said. One force hit a submarine base at Shimoda on Saga mi Bay south of Tokyo with 1,000 pound bombs. Other forces j attacked Kiryu and Nagano airfields, 55 and 110 miles northwest of Tokyo respectively. re-spectively. Pilots said they had "good hunting.". The carrier planes began their assault at dawn after Japanese aircraft made an abortive attack on the fleet and: another torpedo-(Continued torpedo-(Continued on Page Two) Hiroshima Mayor Killed In Blast BY UNITED PRESS The Japanese Domei News agency said today that the mayor of Hiroshima and two other high government officials were killed in the Aug. 6 atomic bombing of the Japanese city. The dispatch, recorded by the federal communications commission, commis-sion, identified ' the victims as Senkichi Awase, mayor of Hiro shima; Kunio Kawamoto, of the Chugoku superintendent g e n-eral's n-eral's secretariat, and Tadasahi Yoshida, director of the Hiro shima prefectural communications bureau. Human Problem of property disposal and continuing the war agencies are important but less urgent on the human element ele-ment of reconversion." Barkley said there is bound to be some unemployment as industry indust-ry shifts from war to peace production. pro-duction. He said congress couldn't cure that by any legislation. ;But," he promised. "Congress is going to do all that it can to bridge the gap," Barkley arranged for Chairman Walter F. George. D.. Ga.. to as semble the senate finance committee com-mittee a week ahead of time on the jobless benefits question. President Truman wants unem ployment benefits governed bye minimum national standard . of Red Utter Week ; ; K 'MM imp Sketch illustrates five momentous man against man. Russ Amphibious Troops Land On Japanese Half of Sakhalin LONDON, Aug. 13 (U.R) Tokyo said Soviet amphibious troops landed today at two points 0 miles apart on the Japanese half of Sakalin island, which stretches TT'?0 J?? y!ferr?e' 0ne bit home island of Hoaido Soviet amphibious forces were revealed to have captured the Korean ports of Yukl and Rash- inn 12 and 10 miles south of the Soviet border, in twin landings yesterday under cover of a bomb- Togo Received By Hirohito On Surrender Note By UNITED PRESS Tokyo said Emperor Hirohito received Japanese Foreign Minis ter Shigenori Togo at the Im-from the Soviet-owned northern Derial nalace at 2:10 d. m. (l:10lhalf of Sakhalin island into the a. m. EWT) today presumably in connection with Japan's reply to the Allies terms for her sur render. The Tokyo Domei agency said Togo reported to the throne on matters under his jurisdiction. A Japanese reply to the Big Four would come within that category and it was possible that Togo was submitting the text of the reply to the emperor for final approval. No further details were given in the enemy broadcast, which was recorded by the United Press in San Francisco. It was Togo's second audience with the emperor in a little more than 24 hours He also was received by Hirohito at 11 a. m. Sunday, Tokyo time. At 2:20 p. m. Tokyo time (1:20 a. m. EWT), FCC monitors heard a Tokyo wireless station call a Swiss station with a request to stand by for an expected message. Any Japanese reply to the United States on the surrender demand would be transmitted via Switzer land. "Still coming," the brief Tokyo request said. "Please wait. How are receiving conditions?" Some eight hours earlier, Tokyo had broadcast a similar request to a Geneva station. The earlier request, re-quest, however, specified that an "important message" was expect ed, supposedly during the morn ing. The Japanese people apparently still were not aware of their government's offer to surrender. Japanese domestic broadcasts (Continned on Page Two) Reconversion $25 a week for 26 weeks during the reconversion emergency, Iwith the federal government supplementing supple-menting payments under varying state laws. Congress rejected that plan a year ago but Barkley anticipated better luck now that large scale unemployment seems more imminent. im-minent. Some officials believe as many as 5,000,000 war workers will be jobless within 60 days after Japan surrenders. Barkley postponed.: setting a definite date for congress to reconvene re-convene until he reaches- House Democratic Leader John W. Mc-Cormack Mc-Cormack .who is vacationing in Massachusetts. But he said it probably would be. Sept 5. M f days in history, which marked ardrhent by the Russian far eastern east-ern fleet. A third port, Seishin, 38 miles south of Raahlnn, also was in flames from Soviet air attack and Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev's am phibious troops. In Manchuria, Marshal Alexander Alex-ander M Vasilevsky's three Far Eastern armies gained up to 80 miles in swift advances toward the military and railway hub of Harbin, 150 milss north of Changchun The Soviets went ashore at Anbetsu, on the west coast just below the Soviet-Japanese border on Sakhalin, and at Esutoro, 0 miles farther south, radio Tokyo Quoted the northern army district command com-mand as announcing. - Tokyo reported last Friday that some Soviet troops had - crossed Japanese-held section, but these apparently were only on .recon- naissance. The Japanese half of Sakhalin is known as Karafuto. With the invasion of the south tern half of Sakhalin, Red armies now were across' all common frontiers with Japan or Japanese occupied territory Manchuria, Korea and Sakhalin. Russia ordered her far eastern armies to speed their already deep invasions of Manchuria and Korea. Changchun (Shinking), the Manchurian capital, already had been partly evacuated, Tokyo said The eastern and western arms of the mammoth pincers closing on Harbin were within 500 miles fp a junction. Closest to Harbin 175 miles was the eastern col umn. The Japanese Kwantung army, communique said still ' another Soviet column striking strik-ing across Japanese - controlled con-trolled inner Mongolia captured cap-tured Wuchumutsin. a three-way three-way road hub in the desert wastes 55 miles south of the outer Mongolian border and 460 miles from the Yellow sea A drive' to the sea above Tientsin in this area would split off hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in China, Indochina Indo-china and Malaya from the de fenders of Manchuria. It also would cut off the southern sector sec-tor from all further supplies and reinforcements by land from Manchuria, Korea and thence the homeland. U. S. Legation In Bern Still Lack Surrender Reply BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 13 0J.R) American legation officials still were without information on the Japanese surrender i-eply late this afternoon, and apparently their patience was wearing thin. At three p. hi.. Donald F. Biee- viop, first 1 secretary of the, Bern legation, emerged irom ms oillce tot ask the United Press corre spondent .if .-there . was. any news from xoityo. - . At 4:45 o. ; m.. United States Minister Lelahd Harrison arrived -. '.1 . , M ' mmt . . . av inc. pwiss ioreign oriice 10 inquire in-quire whether there had been any new developments. i 1 t sv i zz I i : Aug. 9 p-- ;.ygp Aug.Tp) AUGUST SOW MOM TUt CP THU fH $AT (3) 7 (8)(i)d)n 7 14 IB re 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Aua.5I$ Atom Bomb Hiroihima A j. 6 Jop Cer Promise of More Aug. S Russio Enters Wor n rsm ggmg naggiaKi Aug. 10 Jap Surrender Offer end of world's greatest strugle of $5000 Reward Offered In False Flash NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (U.R) Hugh Baillie, president of the Ui "Press? -lasfnlgnt -offered $5,000 reward for the identification identifica-tion and conviction of the person who fed into the UP wire system shortly- after -9:30 p.m. a .false flash saying Japan had accepted the Allies' surrender terms. The UP immediately reported the case to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Communications Commission Charles R. Denny, a member of the F. C. C. said he would be glad to have any available information on the case. . The flash was fed into the UP's southern- wire system at 9:34 o'clock last night. It carried a Washington dateline and said the Japanese had accepted the surrender sur-render terms. Within two minutes the U. P ascertained that the flash had not originated in its Washington bureau. A kill on the flash was The false surrender alarm Which was flashed over the radio Sunday nlrht, failed to start any impromptu celebrations celebra-tions although there was a brief flurry of excitement iri the business district, until the official disclaimer came in j three minutes later. ! then sent, but the erroneous in formation - already had been broadcast by some radio stations Shortly after 10 p. m. Charles G. Ross, White House secretary, issued this statement: President Truman went to bed about an hour ago. If anything comes in he'll be notified. There is absolutely no word of truth (Continued on page two) Silver Employed In Atomic Bomb OAK RIDGE; Tenn., Aug. 1? (U.R) Another secret was permitted to seep out of the super-secret atomic bomb 'plant here today. The war department revealed that over 1,000,000 pounds of snver was borrowed: from the U. S. treasury for use, in thousands of electro-magnets. The silver, used as a substitute for .scarce copper, may still find itself in some future issue of new dimes, however, for the metal is unaffected by electricity. It will be returned to the treasury after the war. ; ' 17 18i I Delivery of Allied Note Required 48 Hours By United;?; The Tokyo radio asserted today that the official allied reply to Japan's surrender . offer only reached the Japanese government today through Swiss channels. The disclosure that the official allied answer had not been de- V j . a a,. ' 4 i - Ji.J 14 vcrca unui nearly o noun mrci it was dispatched from Washington Washing-ton was seen as an explanation of the: delay .in Tokyo's response to President Truman's message. Whether further delay will now result was not knowp. .The Japanese Japa-nese have been in possession- of the allied ' terms since Saturday when all American radio trans-J Mps Invite Atomic Bombs Possibility Seen of Split in Japanese High Command; Swigs Give Lie to Nips' Claims of Delay Jn Transmitting Message WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 ra Japan appeared today; to be inviting another atomic bombing by stalling unconditional uncon-ditional surrender to the Allies. As the hours and the war dragged on, observers here began to wonder if a split had developed in the Japanese high, command over surrender. : Meanwhile U. S. navy and army planes gave the enemy-home, enemy-home, islands a thorough plastering as though to remind them of the aliernative to sur- : No Acceptance Yet j J9DS StSlIlllQ 53 hours after dispatch of thej Allied reply to the Japanese sur- render offer received here Friday, Tokyo had yet to announce acceptance. ac-ceptance. What earlier had looked like ah Tokyo radio assertion that the, Allied note arrived in the enemy capital only today began to seem more like a typical bit of Japanese bad faith as the day wore; on. An authoritative Swiss source in Bern, where the Allied reply was telayed to Japan-flatly contradicted con-tradicted the Tokyo claim of transmisison delay. lie sail the official note had been in Japanese hands in Tokyo since 3:35 a. m EWT, Sunday at the latest. He said the Japanese eon firmed receipt of a second transmission of the note at -that time. In any event, the Japanese cannot can-not have been in ignorance of Allied terms. They have been short-waved to the enemy constantly con-stantly since Saturday forenoon. At his morning press conference confer-ence today. White House Secretary Secre-tary Charles G. Ross said the Allies had placed no time limit in their note dispatched at 10:35 a. m. EWT, Saturday. It appeared reasonable to suppose, sup-pose, however, that Allied pati- nri wnrln thin. President "fruman waited at the VTililC ivil-uic iit n J vvhi.ii would mean that World War II was Over except for the final formalities of egning the sur render articles. 1 At No. 10 Downing street in London, Prime Minister Clement Attlee went to work early to be" ready for the expected ex-pected word that Japan was ready to endorse her defeat Meantime, the war goes on. The j White j House announced that; President Truman will not' proclaim V-J Day until the surrender articles . are signed by Japan's emissaries. Presidential Secretary Charles G.' Ross estimated that two or three days might elapse between receipt of Japan's surrender agreement and signature of the articles assuming that the little men do surrender. There is abun dant confidence here that Japan will quit now, To Recall Congress Democratic leaders have agreed to recall congress from vacation recess on September 4 or 5 Reconversion Re-conversion plans and legislation are lagging far behind events. Congress must move quickly to cope with domestic problems mostly ; the problem of unemployment. unemploy-ment. ; ; . Surrender signatures will be affixed somewhere in the Pacific Manila, Okinawa or, perhaps, aboard; one of; the vessels of Ad-(Continaed Ad-(Continaed on Page Two)! mltters' in the Pacific beamed them to Japan, Consultations Underway Presumably consultation on the allied terms has been underway since then. Emperor Hirohito re ceived Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo at tne imperial palace this afternoon, possibly after receiving the official text 61 Mr. Truman's message. If the Japanese follow the sameipreeeaore as m tne ease ef thelr surrender offer, they will broadcast their reply te the allies ever the Tokyo transmitters at the same time ,they. hand lt. to,the Swiss for. transmission'' to Washington, j Tactics More "Q Surrender Note BERN, Aug. 13 0J.R An au thoritative Swiss source said to- night that the Japanese state ment that the Allied reply had been received in Tokyo only to- ! day was not correct and that tho reply actually had been in Jap anese hands since yesterday morning. The Swiss statement indicated that the Japanese may be sparring for time in an effort to decide on the Allied terms. . - - rr. ... The Swiss source said that lit the first place the Allied reply was turned over to the Japanese minister in Switzerland on Saturday. Sat-urday. Tokyo had said it was delivered de-livered by. the Swiss minister in Japan todav. The Allied 'answer, the Swiss source said, arrived in Bern Saturday Sat-urday a( 9:05 p. m. from Washington. Washing-ton. It was turned over to the Japanese minister at 9:22 p. m. The Japanese minister's telegraph tele-graph to Tokyo was sent from Bern at 11:24 p. m., Saturday night. It was repeated again, at Japanese Jap-anese request, at 8 a. m. Sunday morning. At 9:35 a. m. Sunday the Japanese station confirmed the receipt of the message. .nil Ponf" Handled 350 Million In Atomic Bomb Deal WILMINGTON, pel. Aug. 13 (U.R) The E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Ne-mours and Company said today that it handled $350,000,000 designing de-signing and constructing atomic bomb plants for the government through a profitless contract which specified the government must retain patent rights on the revolutionary explosive. Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., president presi-dent of Du Pont, said in a report to the company's stockholders that Du Pont threw its resources into the race to develop an atomic bomb despite the fact that the experiment was foregn to the company's experience and a drain on already burdened personnel. Carpenter said the war depart- ment; through Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, asked Du Pont in 1942 to cooperate in engineering, de signing, building and operating two huge atomic bomb plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. Carpenter said "in the light of the extreme importance and urgency of the work . . . Du Pont . . . could not refuse to attempt the work." NO COMMUNICATION ZURICH. Aug. 13 (U.R) Com munications with Japan were functioning normally today but it was understood no communica tion from Tokyo to the Allies had been transmitted. The Melbourne radio reported that Tokyo had broadcast that news of . "important develop menta was ' ; impending. This broadcast was p3ard by Australian department of information listening listen-ing post shortly before a Tokyo transmission reported the arrival of the allied answer. The Swedish foreign office announced an-nounced it had been officially authorized 'to deny reports that Emperor Hirohito had approached King Gustav with a request that he attempt to mediate peace. No . such approach was. made through members of the Swedish royal family, the foreign office said. .a |
