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Kamikaze Planes
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Crash On Island
Near Okinawa
^ OKINAWA, Aug. 15— (/P) —A
pair of bomb-carrying Jap “kami
kaze” suicide planes crashed on
Ihya island, thirty miles north of
Okinawa Wednesday night, injur
ing at least two of the American
garrison of troops in the futile
raid.
It left Okinawa fuming with
^,fury. The raid came twelve hours
after President Truman’s an
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nouncement of Japan’s surrender
was made known and caused a
two-hour blackout alert over
Okinawa and nearby islands.
UNDATED—A Domei dispatch
► broadcast from Tokyo said “Im
perial headquarters are endeavor
ing to transmit the Imperial order
to every branch of its forces, but
before took effect the air force
reported it had made the attack
on Allied bases and fleet in the
south.”
fiomei added “while Imperial
headquarters are trying their best
• to prevent the recurrence of such
incidents, Allied fleets and con
voys again are requested not to
approach Japanese home waters
until ‘cease fire’ arrangements are
made.”
German Sub
Surrenders In
* Argentina
MARDELPLATA, Argentina,
Aug. 17—</P)—A German sub
surrendered here to Argentine
Naval authorities. The six hun
dred ton craft carried number
U977 and a complement of 43, in
cluding four officers, one of whom
was Commander Heinz Schasser.
Russia, Poland
Sign Boundary
Treaty
LONDON, Aug. 17—<JP)—Rus
sia and Poland signed a treaty, the
Moscow radio said, establishing
the Curzon line as the Poland
Soviet boundary except for a few
deviations in “Poland’s favor.”
ALL CENSORSHIP
IS DISCONTINUED
SEATTLE, Aug. 16— </P) —All
censorship has been discontinued,
it was announced today, due to
the end of the war, the need for
secrecy is no longer necessary.
WOMEN PARACHUTISTS - Mme. Bonne Compaq
nie, mother of two children, and Susanne Hirsoux (above) worked
in Brussels four years in the Belgian underground movement.
They were trained to drop by parachute behind enemy lines. ..
Truman Proclaims
Sunday As Day
For Prayer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(if)—
President Truman proclaimed
next Sunday, Aug. 19, as a day
for prayerful thanksgiving for vic
tory and the remembrance of
those who died to achieve it.
The President said victory came
“from the courage, stamina and
spirit of free men and women and
with the help of God.”
Petain Sentence
Commuted To
Life Imprisonment
PARIS, Aug. 17—</P)—DeGaulle
commuted Marshal Petain’s death
sentence to life imprisonment. The
action consisted of approving the
statement of the court to write
into the verdict that it expressed
the wish that the execution not be
carried out.
The jury condemned the head
of the Vichy regime to death for
betraying the State to the Ger
mans during occupation. Petain
denied the charge but made no
plea for his life.
i 10 Jap Fighters
I Attack Four
B-32 Planes
OKINAWA, Aug. 17—</P)—Four
American B-32 bombers, flying
on a photographic mission over
the Tokyo Bay area were attacked
by ten Jap fighters and moderate
to intense antiaircraft fire.
One bomber was badly shot up
around the wings, flaps and cowl
ing, but none of the crew was
hurt. Two Nip fighters were sent
down in smoke and listed as prob
ably destroyed.
SISTER MAGDELENE KLIPPEN
RETURNS FROM TELLER
Sister Magdalene Klippen of the
Lutheran Church who has been
visiting in Igloo and Teller after
an absence of sixteen years told
of the activity around Teller
where the new airport is under
way. The army personnel visits
Teller in groups of not more than
forty so that the town will not be
overrun at any time. Strict censor
ship of the activities and all mail
has kept Tellerites feeling that
they were right in the war zone.
Magdline Klippen left with Wiens
for the States and will return to
her work in Chicago.
Truman Presents
Many Post-War
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Plans For America
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—f/P)—
President Truman presented a
hatfull of plans for America today
and above all emphasized the need
for full employment, no strikes,
no lockouts, for awhile at least.
Meanwhile the Army said mili
tary cutbacks assures more meat
for civilians and enough coal for
the winter.
President Truman asked man
agement and labor for a temporary
renewal of the waritme no strikes
or lockouts pledge, until a meet
ing between management and la
bor, which he will call'when Con
gress reassembles in September.
CIO president Phillip Murray
served notice that most major CIO
unions would start to reopen con
tracts for higher wages under the
government’s new wage policies,
which are that raises can be
granted when they do not increase
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Atomic Bomb
Saved Lives Of
Many Soldiers
LONDON, Aug. 17— (JP) —The
atomic bomb saves the lives of
a million American and a quarter
million Britons by making the in
vasion of Japan unnecessary, Win
ston Churchill said. Prime Minis
ter Clement Attlee asserted the
bomb would force the world to
“make a revaluation in the sphere
of international relations.”
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Mae Arthur Orders
Japs Stop Stalling,
Send Emissaries
MANILA. Aug. 17—</P,—Gen
eral MacArthur curtly ordered the
Japs to comply without further de
lay with his directive to send emis
saries to Manila. Tokyo mean
while carried on a quibbling over
a preliminary peace conference
for the second day. The Allied Su
preme Comamnder didn’t set a
deadline for the departure of the
Jap envoys, but indicated defin
itely he would tolerate no ex
tended delay without good reason.
“The directive from this head
quarters is clear and explicit and
must be complied with without
further delay.” The stern massage
said Japs wanted to know if the
emissary would be required to
sign the surrender papers.
Tangled long distance wireless
negotiations occurred after which
Hirohito strengthened his “cease
fire” order with the Imperial re
script for armed forces to lay
: down their arms and sent urgent
i messages on a number of points.
The Emperor asked, One—
; that the Russians halt the Man
! churia offensive: Two—The Al
lied forces “refrain from ap
proaching Japan proper tempor
; arily. Three—Additional instruc
' tions.
MANILA, Aug. 17—(/Pi—Sat
urday < Manila Time* General
MacArthur announced at two
forty-five a.m. today the Jap gov
ernment had notified him its sur
render emissaries had been selec
ted and would leave by plane to
I morrow for Manila.
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Jap Bomb-Carrying Paper Balloons
Were Great Flop As War Weapon
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SEATTLE, Aug. 17 — (/P) —
Japan landed more than two hun
dred bomb carrying unmanned
paper balloons on western North
America out of perhaps thousands
launched, but the bizarre attack
fell flatter than a pancake as mili
ary weapons.
Details of the strange balloon
attacks, hitherto kept secret to
keep the enemy from learning the
results was disclosed by the relax
ation of censorship at the end of
July. Nearly thirty-two of the
lethal balloons or their exploded
remnants have been recovered.
They fell from Alaska to Mexico
and as far east as Michigan, but
most frequently in British Colum
bia, Washington, Oregon, Califor
nia, Montana.
The number launched will, be
unknown unless Japan tells the
number, but official guesses may
be in the thousands, based partly
on the Navy Task Force reporting
hundreds sighted in a single day
off the Aleutians, headed for Cal
ifornia. It was at the time of the
San Francisco Security Confer
erce and the report caused ap
prehension and a redoubled watch
but not one of these were sighted,
all of them apparently falling into
the sea.
Except for killing six persons
who tampered with a bomb near
Lakeview,' Oregon, and perhaps
causing two small fires, and di
verting manpower for investiga
tion and control, the balloons
flopped badly as a war weapon.