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Atomic Bomb More
Powerful Than
20,000 Tons TNT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—(/P)—
U. S. Army Air Forces released
on the Japanese an atomic bomb
containing more power than twen
ty thousand tons of TNT, and pro
duces more than two thousand
times the blast of the largest
bomb ever used before is the an
nouncement made in a statement
by President Truman released by
the Wbitehouse.
The bomb was dropped sixteen
hours ago on Hiroshima, import
ant army air base. The President
said the bomb “added new and
revolutionary increase in destruc
tion” on the Japanese.
“It is an atomic bomb. It is har
nessing the basic power of the
universe force from which the
sun draws its power and it has
been loosed against those who
brought war to the Far East.”
The base hit was a major quar
termaster depot, a large ordnance
machine, tool and aircraft plants.
The city of three hundred eight
een thousand also contains the i
principal port.
The President said the Germans
for a way to use atomic energy in
£o ra way to use atomic energy in
the war effort but failed.
Meantime American and Brit
ish scientists studied the problem
and developed two principal
plants and some lesser factories
for the production of atomic
power. The President disclosed
that more than sixty-five thou
sand are now working in great
secrecy in these plants, adding
“we spent two billion dollars in
the greatest scientific gamble in
history and won. We are now
prepared to obliterate more ra
pidly and completely, every pro
ductive enterprise the Japs have
above ground in any city. We
shall completely destroy Japan’s
power to make war.”
Bomb Is Answer To Rejection
The President noted that the
Big Three ultimatum, issued July
twenty-sixth at Potsdam, was
intended to “spare the Jap people
from utter destruction.” Jap lead
ers rejected it. The atomic bomb
is now the answer to that rejec
tion.
The President said “they may
expect a rain of ruin from the air,
the like of which has never been
seen on this earth.” He forecast
that sea and land forces will fol
low up this attack in such num
bers and power as the Japs have
never witnessed and said that this
discovery may open the war in
an entirely new concept of force
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Alaskans Argue
For Statehood
Rights
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 6 — (/P) —
Alaskans argued for statehood
right to elect their own Governor,
handle their own wild game prob
lems at hearing held by Congres
sional committees on roads and
territories yesterday. They pro
posed that the Territory draft its
own divorce legislaion and be
given veterans and insane hospi
tals, and that the land laws be
liberalized.
W. C. .Arnold, representing the
salmon canning industry, said
statehood without control of the
resources was not desired by Alas
kans, adding that the Interior De
partment methods “hamstring
progress and development of in
dustries.”
The U. S. National Capitol was
erected with slave labor.
Army Wants To
Keep 7 Million Men
To Whip Japan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—(IP)—
President Truman will probably
have to step in and settle the
mounting dispute over the size of
army needed to whip Japan. Sen
ators Johnson of Colorado and
Taft of Ohio, over the week end
criticized the War Department
slowness in demobilization.
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Senators Pepper of Florida, and
Thomas of Utah are standing by
Secretary Sitmson in his decision
to retain seven million, as of next
June first. Taft called the big
army policy stubborn and stupid.
Johnson challenged Stimson to
disprove the Coloradoans conten
tion that there can’t be more than
three million efectives on the Pa
cific front next year due to trans
portation and supply problems.
Traiii Derails,
Injures House
Representatives
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 6— (/P) —
Representative Ben F. Jensen,
Republican of Iowa, was cut on
the leg and three other members
of the House Sub-Committee on
Appropriations were shaken and
bruised yetserday when the spe
cial three-car train taking them
to Seward was derailed one mile
from its destination.
Others in the party were Repre
sentatives Jed Johnson, Democrat
of Oklahoma, Michael J. Kirwan,
Democrat of Ohio, Henry Dwor
shak, Republican of Idaho, Wil
liam Brophy, Comissioner of In
dian Affairs, Robert Coote, Gen
eral Land Office, Don Foster,
Supt. Alaskan Native Services,
William Duvall, committee secre
tary and Col. O. F. Ohlson, Gen
eral Manager of the Alaska Rail
road. Representative John J.
Rooney, Democrat of New York
was not aboard. He had remained
in Anchorage.
22 Rescued
From Blazing
Army Transport
SEATTLE, Aug. b—v*-/ —The
rescue of twenty-two officers,
crew and passengers from the
blazing army transport F S Twen
ty-Nine off Green Island, B. C.,
on July 22, was described by Cap
tain Martin Dahl, master of the
Motorship Robert Eugene, which
hurried through heavy seas to the
aid of said small Army ship which
was enroute from Annette Island,
to Adak, when flames of undeter
mined cause raced through her.
Those aboard took to the two
lifeboats, and the Robert Eugene
took them in tow and landed at
Prince Rupert. The ship aban
doned was a total loss.
580 Superforts
Leave Four Jap
Cities In Flames
GUAM, Aug. 6— C/P) —Four
more Jap cities were left a mass
of flames by five hundred eighty
Superforts, and their destruction
appeared certain. Returning
crewmen reported that waves of
B29s dropped approximately thir
ty-eight hundred fifty tons of in
cendiaries on the industrial cities
of Nishinomiya, Maebashi, Ima
bari and Saga, and demolition
bombs on the Coal Liquefaction
Company at Ube. One Superfort
failed to return.
Pilots reported Jap opposition
was light. Capt. Lawrence Bird,
Mapleton, Utah, reported seeing
Jap jet fighter planes over Mae
bashi. “At first I thought it was
a flare or a ball of fire. It came
within five hundred feet.”
Fires could be seen one hundred
fifty miles at sea. Yesterday the
air raid sirens screamed through
out Tokyo, warning that one hun
dred P51 Mustangs had returned
to strike terror with rockets and
machine guns against anything
they could find in the Tokyo area.
Farm Organization
May Have Seat In
Peace Conference
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—(fl*)—
Farm organizations to bid for
seats if administration sponsors a
general industrial peace confer
ence as proposed by Senator Van
denburg, Republican of Michigan,
and endorsed by Secretary of La
bor Schwellenbacn.
Vandenburg proposed the meet
ing for less “needless strife” to
interfere with reconversion.
Sea lions reach a weight of 1,200
to 1,800 pounds.
Record Season For “Humpy” Salmon
Prospects Good For Large Silver Catch
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CORDOVA, Aug. 6— </P) —At
the close of the “Humpy” season
Saturday there was every indica
tion that the combined seasons at
Copper River flats and Prince
William’s Sound had produced
records perhaps never before
equaled in this area.
It is wholly evident that the
area will make the best compara
tive showing in Alaska if the
silvers season, starting next week,
holds up to equal results of the
1943 cycle year, this would give
a grand total of over eight hun*
dred thousand cases, which is
twenty-eight per cent over the
ten years’ average and increased
one hundred fifty thousand cases
over last year’s.
The humpy season is odd in
that it produced twenty-three per
cent of chums. The usual is seven
to eight percent. Fishermen don’t
like chums, as they are lower
priced and over size and fill up
the boat too fast, but they are a
good deal for packers.