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Japan Willing To
Accept Potsdam
Terms
WANT EMPEROR
He Is Their “Son
Of Heaven”
LONDON, Aug. 10, 7:22 a.m.
•fP.W.T.>—(/P)—A Moscow broad
cast said the Japanese Premier
had informed the Soviet Ambassa
dor that Japan was ready to ac
cept the Potsdam terms.
Text of Japanese Message
P A Jap broadcast at 4:30 a.m.,
(P.W.T.) recorded in the United
States by the Associated Press and
Government monitors, of the Jap
government addressed a commun
ication to the Swiss and Swedish
governments for transmission to
United States, Great Britain,
China and the Soviet Union.
The text read “In obedience to
the gracious command of His Ma
jesty, the Emperor, who is ever
anxious to enhance the cause of
world peace, desires earnestly to
bring about an early termination
of hostilities, with a view of sav
ing mankind from the calamities
to be imposed upon them by fur
ther continuation of the war.'
“The Japanese government
asked, several weeks ago, the
Soviet government, with which
neutral relations then prevailed,
to render the good office in re
storing peace visa vis the enemy
powers. Unfortunately these ef
forts in the interest of peace hav
ing failed, the Japanese govern
ment, in conformity with the au
gust wish of His Majesty to re
store general peace, and desiring
to put an end to the untold suf
ferings entailed by war as quickly
as possible, have decided upon the
following.
“The Japanese government are
ready to accept the terms an
nounced in joint declaration,
dxrhich was issued at Potsdam July
twenty-sixth by the heads of the
governments of United States,
Great Britain, and China, and
later subscribed to by the Soviet
government, with the understand
ing that said declaration does not
comprise any demand which pre
judices the prerogatives of His
Majesty as sovereign ruler.”
The Tokyo station then went off
the air. At this point the Moscow
radio flashed it had “authorita
tively learned that the Japanese
government decided to accept the
three-power proclamation of Pots
Another Nazi Flag Comes Down |i
Coast Guardsmen hold the swastika they took from the German warship
Extemsteinne after she was cornered in an ice pack off Greenland.
dam ,later subscribed by the Sov
iet Union.”
President Truman and Secre
tary Byrnes went into conference.
Government sources in both
Washington and London said no
official word of the Jap offer had
been received, but widespread
opinion appeared that the offer
was genuine.
Hirohiio's Removal Would Moan
Ultimata Disaster
The removal of the Emperor ap
parently would be ultimate disas
ter, which they are not ready to
accept, despite the hopelessness of
the Empire’s situation. He holds
a unique position among the
world’s rulers.
The Japanese call Hirohito “Son
of Heaven.” The masses believe
him to be a living God and say
he is the hundred and twenty
fourth ruler of the dynasty “un
broken for ages eternal,” that he
is descended from the sun goddess
Amaterasu, the principal deity of
Shintoism, the national faith.
A Domei broadcast announced
today “The Japanese government
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Soldiers Stage
Wild Celebration
OKINAWA, Aug. 10—</P)—An
American-held island, only twen
ty-five miles from the Jap home
land kicked over the traces in a
wild celebration. Soldiers, who
only three nights ago shot flak
airward against enemy raiders
let loose their guns, and the is
land naval anchorage rocked with
gunfire, cheers, and the roar of
rockets. The air raid sirens wailed
all clear signals.
Soviet Tanks
Make Long Gains
In Manchuria
UNDATED — <^>) — The Red
Army of Stalin, tanks, massed
cavalry and infantry, rolled
through numerous gates in Man
churia’s defenses in sensational
advances Moscow dispatches re
ported.
Tokyo announced the broaden
ing of Soviet attacks to Korea and
Sakhalin Island. Soviet corre
spondents said units of the Soviet
Pacific fleet has gone into action.
Moscow radio announced Outer
Mongolia, protectorate of Russia,
adjoining Manchuria, and Inner
Mongolia on the west had de
clared war on Japan.
The Red Army dashed more
than one hundred miles into Man
churia from the northwest the
Soviet communique said.
MISS EDITH SCAMMON HERE
COLLECTING SPECIMENS
Miss Edith Scammon, botanist
from Harvard University, who
has been collecting rare flora
from the slopes of Anvil Moun
tain, which are in the now famous
Thornton collection, left for Kot
zebue to obtain specimens there
before returning to her home in
Cambridge, Mass.
STICKS AND STONES
—AND BOMBS
BEDFORD, Ind. — </P) — Stone
bombs? Sure.
A Bedford factory disclosed
with Army approval that it was
making bombs from Indiana lime
stone for low-flying target prac
tice.
DAVID TEWKESBURY
EDITOR FAIRBANKS
NEWS-MINER, DIES
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 10—</P)—
David B. Tewkesbury, editor
manager of the Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner, who had reported
for papers at Dawson and Nome
during rushes and worked on pa
pers all over the west in the past
50 years, died Thursday afternoon
in the ambulance, after a heart
attack had forced him to leave
his desk before the day’s edition
was out.
Mr. Tewkesbury was born in
Missouri in 1870 and began news
paper work in Detroit upon grad
uation from the University of
Michigan in 1894. Later he worked
on the Salt Lake Tribune and the
San Francisco Examiner, and the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He was
in Seattle several times working
on several other papers and with
the Seattle Associated Press Bur
eau.
He returned to the btates alter
the goldrush, but came back to
Anchorage in 1915 to edit an Alas
ka engineering paper and again
in 1927 to work for the Juneau
Empire. He moved to Fairbanks
in 1933.
He leaves two sons, both in the
Army; one editor of the Air Base
Beacon at Edmonton; the other
commands a B-29 mobile training
unit.
The “Big nch” and “Little Big
Inch” pipe lines carrying crude
and petroleum products from the
southwest to the east, required
200 working days to compltee.
Seventeen Killed
In Great Northern
Railroad Wreck
MICHIGAN, N. D., Aug. 10—
i/Fh—Seventeen bodies have been
recovered from the tangled steel
wreckage of the observation car
into which a locomotive plowed
as two sections of the Empire
Builder, Great Northern trans
continental train collided last
night, killing an estimated score,
and injuring fifty more seriously.
Bodies of six women, ten mem
bers of the Armed Forces and a
Negro porter have been recovered.
The collision occurred on a curve
a short distance from the station,
after the first section stopped to
cool a hotbox in the locomotive’s
fuel tank.
I
Navy Announces
1107 Navy Vessels
Lost Or Damaged
WASHINGTON. Aug. lO^/P)—
The Navy announced that 107
Naval vessels, including three de
stroyers and three submarines
have been stricken from the Navy
Register, “because of loss or dam
age, either as a result of enemy
action or prils of the sea.”
The destroyers are the Parrott,
Tucker, and Worden, and the
submarine LaGarto. They are all
of prewar types. Others include
forty-six patrol torpedo boats and
various miscellaneous ships, in
cluding the attack transport
Thomas Stone.
President Broadcasts About Potsdam
Conference To Entire Nation
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—(#)—
President Truman declared in a
speech to the nation that only sur
render will stop the use of the
terrible atomic bomb; that the en
emy’s power to make war will be
destroyed.
The President gave no hint of
when surrender might come, but
he said the Soviet decision to en
ter the war was only one of the
secret military arrangements
made at Potsdam, adding: “The
Japs will soon learn some of the
others, first hand, and they will
not like them.”
He reviewed the accomplish
ments at Potsdam and discussed
the Pacific war. He asserted the
Government did not lightly un
dertake the production and use of
the atomic bomb, “it will be used
to shorten the war and to save
the lives of thousands of young
Americans. We will continue to
use the atomic bomb until the
Japs power to make war has been
destroyed.”
The secret of the weapon will
remain with the United States,
Britain and Canada until means
has been found to control it, so as
to “protect ourselves and the rest
of the world from the danger of
total destruction.”
The President urged Jap civil
ians to leave industrial cities im
mediately under pain of the atom
ic bombing of factories. He wel
comed Russia as our “gallant and
victorious ally” in the war against
the Japs.
When the war is over United
States is going to maintain mili
tary bases necessary for the com
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