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Show J. i Jut- i i THE WEATHER J So They Say- It is downright stupid to keep a whole lot of divisions hero (in Germany) ( when a few bombers tnd ' someatomie bombs would keep the Germans In line. Unidentified U. S. Army corporal, cor-poral, stationed in Germany. SIXTIETH YEAR NO. 63 LI zs Traman In Pearl Opposition To Continuation Of Draft Seen Congressmen Vary In Reactions to Plan By President Truman By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UE House military affairs committee members showed varying reactions today to proposals that they act to continue the draft. Some said flatly that lective service mus't end with II1C wa r. Others urged g-reater inducements in-ducements to spur recruiting recruit-ing in the hope that the waning wan-ing needs of the armed services ser-vices could be met through enlistments. President Truman has acked congress to extend the draft, and is recommending that in the future fu-ture men 18 through 25 be inducted in-ducted for two year periods. The army followed up his proposal pro-posal with a summation of its needs and an appeal to congress to find a wa By next July 1 today's army of 8,050.000 will have beea.whit- tled down to 2,500.000. Committee niembers were told. Of this total j 1,700.000 wjll be retained irom; the present strength, 500.000 will be inducted and 300,000 will volunteer. This means that 6,050.000 men and women now in the army will have been returned to civilian civil-ian life by that time. To effect this release the army will revise its point system. As soon as General Douglas MacArthur gives the signal that conditions in the Pacific warrant an easing of restrictions re-strictions the critical point score will be dropped from the present 85 to 80 for army men and from 44 to 41 for women's army corps members. mem-bers. All point scores will be recomputed re-computed and brought up to date. Present scores were computed as of last May. 12. No men with scores of 60 or above will be sent overseas. The automatic release age will be lowered from the present 38 to an undisclosed younger age. Navy To Reduce Earlier the navy which will be heard Friday by the house military committee announced that by Sep. 1, 1946, it will have reduced its strength from today's 3,389,000 to 550,000. These .are the figures the committee com-mittee is weighing to measure the (Continued on Page Two) Turner to Resign From High Court, Report Says Judge Abe Turner will resign from the state supreme court in the near future and move to his home in Provo, where he will enter en-ter the race for mayor. Although Judge Turner has not been contacted in person to confirm con-firm or deny his intentions of resigning re-signing from the,high court to return re-turn to Provo and run for mayor, the source which gave out the information in-formation is an authoritative one. Further credence was added to the "authoritative source" when it was learned today that M. E. Berkhimer, .manager of the Academy theater, who is living in Judge Turner's home, has been asked to vacate by Sept. 1. Judge Turner's name has been mentioned prominently for the past two weeks in most political circles in town. No confirmations or denials have been received by The Herald after mentioning his name as a candidate, and .friend? close to Judge Turner have insisted in-sisted that he will be a candidate. It was also rumored today that in the event John Beesley, prominent prom-inent Provo business man, who has consistenely said that he will not run for mayor "under any consideration," will not do an about-face, his friends will try to pressure him into a "draft candidacy. ... f , ' ! : " SOUTH T n Defends Harbor Disaster Truman Sides Strongly With Stimson in Defending Gen. Marshall Against Certain Criticism Contained in Board's Report WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 President .Truman today to-day made public full army and navy reports on the Pearl Harbor disaster. The president strongly sided with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in defending Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, against certain criticism contained in the report of the army board that investigated the background back-ground of the disaster. Releasing the two massive army and navy documents, the president also handed reporters report-ers a statement by Stimson which the president said took sharp issue is-sue with the criticism of Marshall in the army report as being entirely en-tirely unjustified. Proper Conduct Seen Stimson's report, according to the president, expressed the belief be-lief that Marshall conducted him self properly and wisely in hand- ifJJl1"!1'0" hti .?vaUed m iiitr inn; ji i tan jiaivui. The president in releasing the wholeheartedly with Stimson si position. I Furthermore, the president said, 1 I A I .11 an . American war r army and navy Asked why the reports were being made public at this time, the president said that he felt that with the actual act-ual world hostilities over, the sooner the pablic knew all the facts the better. Surrounding- the-"president as he released the reports were Secretary Sec-retary of States James F. Byrnes, Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, Secretary of Navy James V. For- restal and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson. Asked about the probability of courts martial growing from the reports, Mr. Truman said that if. courts martial are necessary the gentlemen involved will have a prompt and fair trial. True Facts Stated He said the reports stated the facts so "that there would be no further arguments as to what the facts were. The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, plunging this country coun-try into the costliest war of its history, caught the army and navy completely by surprise. In a space of about two hours, enemy carrier-based aircraft put the' backbone of the U. S. Pacific fleet out of action and inflicted 4,575 casualties cas-ualties on army and navy personnel stationed on Oahu. Virtually the entire Pacific fleet, with the exception of the navy's carrier strength, was concentrated con-centrated at Pearl Harbor. In all, 19 warships were sunk, dis abled, or damaged. The battleship .board will work oujt a procedure Arizona was lost forever and the on a case-by-case adapted to the battleship Oklahoma later was; settlement of each particular dis-written dis-written off as not worth keeping; pute. in commission. Six other battleships were damaged, dam-aged, some severely, but they ultimately were repaired and since have exacted revenge from the Japanese. The army and navy reported 247 of their planes destroyed or disabled out of 475 in the attack area. The Japanese lost 48 planes and three baby submarines. Approach Detected Although the air attack caught the defenders by surprise, the approach of hostile airplanes was, as a matter of fact, detected. (Continued on Page Two) Jap Submarines Have Surrendered GUAM, Aug. 29 (U.R) Threei""! muffled locjr explosion Japanese submarines have surrendered sur-rendered to United States warships war-ships one early today off the east coast of northern Honshu .to an unnamed American submarine. Two others were taken by destroyers de-stroyers on Monday. They were boarded by prize crews and taken into the Tokyo Bay area. Shanghai Greets First Americans With Joy By JAMES MCGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI. Aug. 28 (U.R) Shanghai went wild today when a handful of Americans landed in a field on the outskirts of this city of more than 3,000,000- population. pop-ulation. Tonight sullen-faced Japanese sentries still patrolled the streets armed with rifles, but the jubilant jub-ilant Chinese for the first time in nearly eight years paid no attention. Thousands of people in China's principal port and industrial city filled downtown streets. Amer ican, British, Chinese and Soviet! irrAH'8 rusn.v nAii.v Or SALT LAKJ5 ! VLB Must Finish Job of Settling Labor Disputes By CHARLES If. HERROLD United rress Staff Correspondent WAsmNr.Tnv' tun -o tnn Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach took another step today toward asserting his po- " lhe ministration's top '"-j1 man. in.- luaiaicu luoi the war labor board finish the job of settling serious reconversion reconvers-ion labor disputes assigned it by President Truman, Schwellenbach turned down a WLB proposal that the labor department de-partment settle -all disputes ex- concerned agree to be bound by the WLB decision. Such agreement was obtained by the department in only five per cent of the 76,000 cases it processed between Dec. 7, 1941, and Aug. 14, 1945. Informed quar terS i .btlieved ;the , Percentage would be even less how that the war has ended.' Schwellenbach and WLB chairman chair-man George W.sTaylor, however, got together oh a ! compromise: procedure for settlement of labor-management labor-management disputes "until the WLB completes its emergency functions and a permanent basis for adjustment of disputes is established." es-tablished." The permanent basis is to be worked out at a national na-tional labor-management conference, confer-ence, probably in October. The two labor officials agreed that the labor department's conciliation con-ciliation service and WLB agents should work in close cooperation to get new disputes settled by collective bargaining or through! private arbitration, f . I private Unable to budge Schwellenbach, Schwellen-bach, the WLB agreed that when he passes on to them cases without with-out such prior acceptance the TNT Blast Heard 30 Miles Away HOWE, Ida., Aug 29 (U.R) The navy touched off 200,000 pounds of TNT today in a powder storage test and its sound carried at least as far as Boise, Idaj The blast rattled windows in Idaho Falls 30 miles away, but was not heard or fejt in Pocatello 30 miles south. I A Statesman reporter listening Y" x?"v Army east ot noise ana about laa miles Domei news agency said in a dis- from the scene ojthe blast, heard 'patch from Peking. what he said sounded like a "small: Th nnm.i Mnnrt ,intin th :o a. m. xne . liming would be about right. The weather bureau at Boise did n near me Diasi nor was it registi red on its instru ments. A grazing service crew at Glenns Ferry, JjiO miles west of the blast scene! heard two explosions ex-plosions at about 9:15 a. m. (flags were flaunted; from almost every building. For almost a half hour we circled and buzzed the sprawling city in the flying fortress "Head-liner." "Head-liner." Swarms of people below waved at us from the streets. After dropping notes to the manager of the Metropole hotel to tell him were were coming, 24 correspondents, photographers officers of-ficers and ' crewmen landed on a grass field at the edge of the city.- - : j Two armed Japanese soldiers standing near where we landed ran ftke hell. , j Two other correspondents and PROVO. UTAH COUNTY; Chief 24 High Nazis To Be Tried As War Criminals Goering, Hess, Ribben-trop Ribben-trop Lead List Given Out by The Big Four By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 29 The Big Four announced to night the list of 24 high Nazis, Naz-is, led by Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who will be tried as war criminals at Nuernberg Nuern-berg in early October. Those named for trial include: Robert Ley; Alfred Rosenberg; Rosen-berg; former Supreme Commander Command-er Whilhelm Keitel; Franz Von .Fapen; Hans Frank, governor-general., governor-general., of Poland; Ernst Kalten- nnid Heich mmml icr; wuneim rrick, interior mm lister; Julius Streicher, Jew bait- er; Walter Funk, .economics minister: min-ister: Hjalmar Schacht, financial wizard; Gustav Krupp Von Bohl-en Bohl-en und Halbach, head of the vast Krupp works; Admiral Karl Doe- nitz; Baldur Van Schirach; Fritz Speer, munitions chief; Martin Bormann, No. 2 Nazi party chief: Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl, chief of staff; Arthur Seyss-inquart, governor gov-ernor of Holland: Grand Admiral Trich Raeder, and Hans Fritsehe, Nazi propangandist. All those listed for trial were members of the Nazi government, leaders of the party or members of the German high command with one exception. Krupp Only Exception The exception is Krupp who is the senior member of the famous armament family. There were two surprises on the list. One was the naming of Bormann. This was the first pos-i itive indication that Hitler's dep-j uty had survived the chancellory battle. There had been previous reports that he was captured by the Red army but there was no confirmation of them until tonight's to-night's announcement. It was as- l ii--. n i- -iJ,, : aumea wai Durmaun js suu mjapan WOuld mean the liberation Russian cusiouy. ine other was the naming of Hess. R. A. Clyde, secretary of the The other was the naming of British war crimes office, had said that he was not expected to be on the first list. The announcement said investigations investi-gations are continuing in the case of other war criminals not included in-cluded in the batch specified for trial at Nuernberg. Preparation of the case has hoen almost entirelv an American job. This was due both to the! fact that most of the suspects fell into American hands after Germany's Ger-many's collapse and to the vigorous vigor-ous course of action prescribed by President Truman. Jap Puppet Ruler Suicide Victim SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29 (U.R) Chen Kuna Po. acting president i rt thA frtrrmr nnnnot MonVlritf Chinese government, died today j of self-inflicted wounds, the newspaper, Kuangha Hipao said n "hi-h h( mnmin from wounds he infliced upon himself vesterriav in an nttnmnt to com mit suicide. The dispatch . said Chen was seriously wounded in his suicide attempt "and passed away despite medical treatment given to save his life." myself commandeered a car driven driv-en by a Chinese Power company official and escaped to the city. This was before the .beginning of formalities, which resulted in four of our number being questioned ques-tioned most of the afternoon by the Japanese before our release. The first Americans to arrive here were approximately , . 20 members, of a military . mission from Chungking who have been in Shanghai about 10 days , investigating in-vestigating facilities for American Amer-ican headquarters to be established estab-lished here. They have been lionized ever since. : UTAH, WEDNESDAY, ZJziLzjI Here's New Role for y wmmi ir- S4 u i V V &r '7. The world't largest implements - 3 implement of mercy when nine Superforts of the 73rd Bomb Wing dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners of war at Weithsien, China. One giant bomber is shown being loaded from a field in China. (20th AAF photo transmitted by Navy radio from the U. S. S. Iowa in Sagami Bay.) 34,000 Allied Prisoners To Be Given Medical Care First By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD ADM. BADGER'S FLAGSHIP, Tokyo Bay, Aug. 29 (U.R All of an estimated 34,000 . i , ; - J l , ' - 1,1 be riven medical care before" their return to the JJnited Suites, Cmdr. Joel T. Boone, third fleet surgeon, said today. Bone, formerly White House physician during the Harding, Colidge and Hoover administrations, adminis-trations, told correspondents aboard the' San Diego that arrangements ar-rangements were being completed com-pleted to care for the released prisoners of war. Already three treat white-painted hospital hos-pital ships have joined fleet Sgt. Tom Bullock Prisoner of War, Dies In Jap Camp TTrrws that th ' surrender of : - " .. of their son. Sgt. Thomas S Bullock, taken prisoner by the Japs at Bataan, were dashed to the ground, Tuesday, when the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Bullock received a telegram from the war department, notifying notify-ing them that their son's name was listed with the dead prisoners at Camp Hoten, near Mukden, Manchuria. Sat. Bullock was born, Nov. 30, 1914, in Provo, the son of Ben H. and Nora Broadbent Bullock and attended schools here with the exception of one year spent at the Simon Gratz high school, Philadelphia. Pa. He graduated from the Provo hieh school and attended the B i u for two years. Later he was employed at the U. P. bus station and became be-came interested in the mining business with his father and brother, Vern, He enlisted ifor service in the army, Feb. 22, 1940 and was sent to the Philippine is lands a f e w months later Sat. Bollock ma. He was as signed to Fort Mills on Corregi-dor Corregi-dor where he was stationed when the Philippines fell to the Japs; and he was taken a prisoner of war. A telegram received this j morning carrying conflicting j details creates doubt .as to j whether or not the previous I message is correct. The tele gram reads: "Reference my telegram Aug. 27; you are Invited In-vited to submit a message not to exceed 25 words tor attempted, delivery to your son. Messages should be addressed ad-dressed to casualty branch AGO - room 282 ' munitions building-. Washington, ;D. CL Witsell. acting the adjutant general.. He was one of the immortal array of Americans who partici pated in the death -march at (Continued oa page two) AUGUST 29, 1945 Tk!StSSDsgi Mighty B-29s of warfare, the B-29, became an units in Sagami Bay and are expected to enter Tokyo Bay soon. All the prisoners, at least 5,000 of whom need Immediate medical attention, according to international interna-tional Red Cross representatives, will be screened through medical facilities to determine their physical condition prior to re turning home," Boone said. This, he explained, was in or der to make sure all of them are physically able to stand the trip. Much malnutrition has been re ported, requiring special strength ening diets, and there is much beri-beri. Feel Isolation "Dr. Marcel Junod. Swiss Red Cross representative who has been checking the prisoner of war camps, told me the prisoners feel an intense isolation," Boone said. Junod yesterday conferred with Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger and asked the navy to supply adequate ade-quate food at once to combat dysentery. Milk and sugar are among the most urgent needs, he said. The Swiss representative; arrived in Tokyo from Geneva Ge-neva via Moscow the day that Russia declared war on Japan, Ja-pan, Boone said. Junod added that the Japanese had experienced experi-enced difficulty in treating sick and Injured war prisoners prison-ers because of paralysed transportation. . He told Badger that 6,000 pris oners were held on central Honshu Hon-shu in the Tokyo area, with an estimated 8,000 in the Yokosuka area. Those at Yokosuka only a few hundred yards away now may be released soon. The Japanese ad mit that 2,500 of them are ill but Junod's investigation indicated that double that number require medical aid. . Badger directed the Japanese to construct 20-foot panel letters PW" as aerial markers for each camp in Japan. It was estimated that 8,000 Americans are among the 34,000 prisoners reported. The three great white vessels of mercy, the USS Benevolent, USS Solace, and the Dutch-manned British-owned Tjitjaleneka, were anchored among the hundreds of grim Allied warcraft in Sagami Bay late yesterday and all through last night their brilliant floodlights flood-lights shone like rescue beacons for the thousands of prisoners in Japan. III.. "" ' ' M w I Vt N' f k 'i v4. ; ; First American Flag Flies Over Japan's Home Soil - OKINAWA, Aug. 29 0JJJ The first American flag was raised over Japan's home soil at 12:10 p. m. yesterday on Atsugl airstrip air-strip by members of the Fifth air- force's "Flying Circus." xnevsurs and stripes siippea into the breeze from the peak of the Japanese field's radio mast. American officers returning; ifrom the first reconnaissance landing declared today that the Japanese had smothered them with politeness, feeding them turtle soup and roast beef at a flower be-decked table. r There was a chubby little lieutenant-zeneral on hand to greet them. He and his : fellow 11 f'AI MacArtlwr, Mmitz For 'L&mdliing First Sea-borne Troops To Go Ashore On Three Fortified Islands Guarding Japs Yo-kosuka Yo-kosuka Naval Base in Tokyo Bay, Thursday; By WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent ' MANILA, Aug. 29 Gen. Dauglas MacArthur arrived ar-rived in Okinawa and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz flew to Tokyo bay today as the zero hour approached for mass Allied air and sea landings in the Greater Tokyo area. The first sea-borne troops will go ashore on three fortified fort-ified islands guarding ;Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo bay at 6:15 a.m. tomorrow (5:15 p.m. today, KWT). -At 10 a.m. tomorrow (9 p.m. today, EWT), MacArthur will land with thousands of air-borne infantrymen at At-sugi At-sugi airfield, 20 miles south of Tokyo, and 10,000 marines and bluejackets will swarm ashore from ships at Yokosuka itself. Allied Forces Gathered In preparation for the post-surrender invasion, tha greatest air and sea fleets ever ft gathered in the Pacific were making mak-ing last-minute preparations at bases 1,000 miles apart. MacArthur and his headquarters head-quarters staff flew from Manila Ma-nila to Okinawa and watched the vanguard of the air-borne ,. troops who will accompany him climb Into their transports trans-ports on Okinawa's airstrips. Nearly -1000 miles to the northeast. north-east. Nimitz MacArthurs part ner in the conquest of Japan landed on the green waters of Tokyo bay off. Yokosuka in a giant Coronado seaplane escorted by fighters. The white-haired commander of the Pacific fleet immediately boarded the battleship. South Dakota, Da-kota, which will serve as his flagship. He will represent President Presi-dent Truman and the United ! States at Japan's formal surrender aboard ' the battleship Missouri next Sunday. MacArthur will sign the document as the supreme Allied commander. Admiral William F. (Bull) Hal-sey Hal-sey brought the 53,000-ton Missouri, Mis-souri, his flagship, into Tokyo bay with scores of other Allied warships, transports and hospital ships today in preparation for tomorrow's to-morrow's landings. MacArthur left Manila after Inviting Lt Gen. Jonathan Jon-athan M. Wainwright. his successor on Batan and Corrector Cor-rector in the dark days of 1942, to be his guest at the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri. Walnwright accepted. ac-cepted. Walnwrlght to Attend Members of Wainwright's staff and Lt Gen. A. E. Percival, the British commander who surrendered surrend-ered Singapore, also will attend the ceremony as MacArthur's guests. All were liberated from a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria Man-churia and flown to Chungking yesterday. Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger, commander of the Tokyo bay task force, revealed the final timetable for the sea-borne landings land-ings to correspondents aboard his flagship, the cruiser San Diego. Fifteen minutes after a marine battalion takes over the three (Continued on Page Two) Chennault Fears Jap Treachery MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 29 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chenault expressed ex-pressed fear today that the Japanese Jap-anese imperial family would be able to re-establish the military strength of Japan and again seek world conquest. officers appeared in high good humor, smirking and saluting at every opportunity. . The Americans ate in what was formerly the mess for "' Kami-' kaze Suicide outfit, but the kamikaze kami-kaze boys had either tall com mitted hari-kiri or were eating their cucumbers somewhere else. CoLv Charles T. Tencli, com mander of the party, was shown complete plans of the airfield's defense. The Japanese t guards around the field appeared equivalent equiva-lent to division in number, and Lackey said they were all youngiabdicate; naval personnel from .the xoka-suka xoka-suka naval base u UTAH Mostly cloudy .; rrtly cloudy nrth portion today to-day and TnursdayAf ternoon and - evening thunder showers south. . and east pertlos and along moan- , ' tarns in northwest portion. Con ; . tinned wans afternoons and -cool i nights. . xV. , ,2 Hlgl Low 4$ -si'" PRICE HVE CENTS Nimitz Lands In Tokyo Bay To Meet Japs : By RICHARD W. JOHNSTON,' United Press Staff Correspondent IN TOKYO BAY, Aug. 29 U.K. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, who) brought the U. S. navy from tho bottom of Pearl Harbor to his tory's greatest victories, landed at- Tokyo bay this afternoon to represent President Truman ia the surrender of the' vanquished Japanese fleet Nlmltx giant blue Coronado, Coro-nado, escorted by speedy fighter craft, broke the calm, green waters Just off Yokosuka Yoko-suka naval base at 2:14 p. m. (1:14 ajn. EWT). A few minutes later Nimitz left the Coronado, emblazoned with five silver stars of a fleet admiral, to board the battleship, battle-ship, U.S.S. South Dakota. It will serve as his flagship during the surrender of his . onetime greatest adversary; As Nimitz' plane circled the combined fleet's anchorage, Nimitz Nim-itz was able to see a great assemblage as-semblage of some of the world's most powerful warships Adm. William F. Halsey's Missouri, the Battleship Iowa, anchored near the South Dakota,, Britain's Duko of York and dozens of cruisers and destroyers. The ships, all riding gracefully and triumphantly at anchor in the enemy's last, best guarded stronghold was a sight few but Nimitz could even have dreamed of in December, 1941. Today, three years and eight months after the modest, white-haired white-haired Admiral from the navy's bureau of personnel ordered the . salvage of Pearl Harbor's tragio wreckage, the sun shone brightly . on the tall buildings of Yokohama Yoko-hama as his Coronado. halted astern of the Missouri.) ' - A half . dozen tasseled Gigs moved in to transfer the Pacific's commander in chief to the South, Dakota. Tanned and beaming; Nlra- r its was piped aboard the" -South Dakotathe ship that ' (Continued on page two) ; " Surrender Fronts At a Glance Set The situation on Pacific sum " render fronts Wednesday: " s , , ." rt Manila Map Arthur arrlv evn Okinawa, Nimitz flies to Tokyo ! Bay, as Allies prepare for mass -air and sea occupation of Greater - Tokyo area tomorrow; Wain-" wright accepts MacArtoura invitation invi-tation to be present at formal sur render ceremony. : Tokyo Bay Haisey takes 'bar tleship Missouri and other war ships into Tokyo Bay: correspon - dents find Yokosuka naval base unable to compare with U. S fleet establishments. i - San Francisco Radio Tokyo says radio activity from atomic bomb raids still killinx persons . who received Only minor Injuries in Initial explosion; acting presi dent of former puppet Nanking: eovemmeot kills himself; puppet emperor of Viet .Nam : offers to Manila Japanese Morotal and' Halmahera garrisojis surrender. |
