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STATE THEATRE TODAY
"TARZAN AND THE
AMAZONS"
JOHNNY WEISMULLER
BRENDA JOYCE
VOL. XLI11- 193
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS
SHELBY, N. C.
MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945
TELEMAT PICTURES
SINGLE COPIES—fie
JAPS CLAIM TO
HAVE SUNK BIG
U.S, CARRIER
Planes Of Third Fleet
Blast Yokohama Docks,
Submarine Pens
FEAR BANZAI RAIDS
By the Associated Press
A Japanese broadcast from
the Domei agency asserted
without confirmation that
Nipponese marine forces had
sunk a large aircraft carrier
off Okinawa in an attack to
day.
The communique was published
»t 3 pm. Japanese time. Shortly
before that time, Domei said. Em
peror Hirohito received Foreign
Minister Togo, presumably for a
report on peace negotiations.
Earlier, the Japanese said thev
had sunk a seaplane tender off
Okinawa Sunday.
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
OUAM, Aug. 13.— (/P) —Admiral
Halsey’s powerful Third fleet
guarded against a possible banzai
attack by the Japanese air force
today as his carrier planes blasted
the Yokohama docks and subma
rine pens after being turned back
by heavy weather from the Tokyo
area.
Associated Press War Correspon
dent Richard K. O’Malley with the
fleet reported six enemy planes,
attempting sneak attacks, were shot
down by carrier planes.
A Tokyo broadcast, recorded
by the FCC, admitted “some
damage" was caused by MO car
rier-based planes attacking the
Kanto district of East Central
Honshu. The attack, the Japan
ese said, lasted 12 hours and
17 planes were shot down and
25 damaged.
Possibility of a Japanese aerial
banzai assault against the fleet
was voiced by some officers. O'
Malley said, because of persistent
attempts by reconnaissance planes
to locate the American force.
Turned back by heavy weather
at Tokyo the carrier planes picked
See JAPS Page 2
OPA HALTS NEW
RATIONBOOKS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 —(&y
The OPA has halted printing of
187.000,000 new ration books for
food, shoes and gasoline, It was
learned today.
The stop order covers war ra
tion book five for meats!, fats,
dairy products, canned foods and
sugar, and a new "A” gasoline
book. Both had been scheduled
for distribution in December.
The order halts work on the
books pending outcome of peace
negotiations. If Japan quits the
stop order will become perma
nent.
The action was taken, it was
explained, because there are suf
ficient stamps In books now In
use to carry through to about the
first of the year. In the case of
gasoline, tationing is expected to
end within a week or two after
V-J day. The other programs
are expected to continue longer.
False Surrender Flash Set
Off Victory Celebrations
NEW YORK, Aug. U. —(/Pi— Pre- '
mature victory celebrations, spring-,
ing from radio broadcast of an er
roneous United Press news flash
that Japan had accepted allied sur- I
render terms, swept across the '
United States and Canada last night
and awoke briefly jubilant echoes in
Central America and Faraway Syd- i
ney, Australia. i
The Canadian celebration was in
tensified by premature release of a
“victory" broadcast by Prime Min- j
later MacKenzie King from Otta
wa. • j
The United Press Association
[United Press) said the flash moved
>ver one of its wires at 9:34 p.m.
;EWT). The flash was ordered with
leld from publication at 9:36 p.m.
ind was ‘‘killed” at 9:40 p.m.
The UP described the flash as
'of mysterious origin” and said that
vhile it moved under a Washing
ion dateline, it “was not trans
nitted by the Washington bureau
>f the United Press."
SEWARD OFERED
Hugh Baillie, United Press pres
dent, offered $5,000 reward for
Information leading to the identi
ication and conviction of the
See FALSE Page 3
V ....
ATOMIC BOMB BLASTS JAP CITY OF NAGASAKI—Smoke columns more than 30,000 feet high rise above
the Japanese city of Nagasaki three minutes after an atomic bomb was dropped there by American fliers Aug.
9. Thirty per cent of the city, including nearly all of Hs industrial dlstriet, was reported destroyed—(AP Wire
photo from Strategic Air Forces via Navy radio from Guam).
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SV,i*d Frorn JaP»ne8e
WordF?r^-*“"'''rf’
secretary tor -ae Minister ^jce said, P°
“aitine Jf«flwss Slender demands.
A momentarily. t «,ed sur
-,he Japanese tv
nuwever, a press huucuc ui me
Japanese legation said the note,
which has been awaited since last
night, had not arrived in Bern.
Aides to the Swiss undersecretary,
Walter Stucki, gave no details.
As neutral intermediary between
Japan and the United States, Swit
zerland would transmit any Japan
ese reply to Washington.
The Swiss political (state) depart
ment closed up at 9:30 p.m. (3:30
p m., eastern war time) last night.
Kase was "too busy” to answer
queries by correspondents, Japanese
legation attaches said, and they gave
no inkling of when the Tokyo reply
might be received.
Eisenhower Says
Stalin Eager
To Be Friends
MOSCOW, Aug._ 13—(/P)—Gen.
Eisenhower told a press conference
today Generalissimo Stalin had
said things during their social
meeting here which convinced him
Soviet Russia's paramount desire
was to be friends with the United
States and her people.
He said he was unable to dis
close details of the meeting, but
he was visibly impressed.
Eisenhower declares he had
not halted his troops at the
Elbe or anywhere else last
spring because the Red army
or Stalin requested it.
The American general said the
reason American troopj Stopped
at the Elbe short of Berln was
because he wanted to>„ break up
Hitler’s redoubt in thee south as
fast as possible. His orders to
the commanders were to halt at
the Elbe at certain places and
turn southward at others with all
speed possible. These orders were
given weeks ahead of time, he said,
and it never was his plan to halt
See EISENHOWER Page 2
PETAIN JURORS
THREATENED
Defense Calls Defendant
One Of France's Glor
ious Sons
PARIS, Aug. 18. —(/P)— Jurors
hearing final defense pleas in the
treason trial of Marshal Petain dis
j closed tody' that nearly all 84 of
them had again received letters
■ threatening death to any who voted
to condemn the aged soldier.
Some said they had received as
many as 12 threatening letters.
Pierre Bloch, a parliamentary
juror, said one letter he received
ended with "death to Jews’’ and that
another said “Beware I am sitting
Just a few feet from you in the
courtroom."
White-haired Fernand Payen,
chief defense attorney, opened the
supreme attempt to have the 89
year-old head of the former Vichy
government from a firing squad with
these words:
“GLORIOUS SON”
“Petain is one of France’s most
glorious sons. It is very unlike our
country to be trying such a man.
See PETAIN Page 2
Trapped Japanese
In Burma Resist
CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 13.—(/P)
—The remnants of a trapped Jap
anese army in lower Burma, which
ha6 suffered more thah 11,500 cas
ualties during the past month, con
tinued to resist allied mop-up pat
rols in the lower Sittang sector,
northeast of Pegu, the southeast
Asia command said today.
Enemy snipers were active
against patrols in the area of ,
’ lyitkyo and astride th Prgti ■
; Martaban railway east of Abya, a ,
i communique announced. j
REDS IN AREA
OF JAP WAR
PRISONCAMPS
Powerful Russian Drive
Info Manchurian Plain
Continues
LANDINGS ON KOREA
MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—(ff)—
The southern wing of a pow
erful Russian drive into the
Manchurian plain threatened
today to break out in the di
rection of Mukden and reach
numerous Japanese prisoner
of war camps filled with Am
ericans, British and British
empire troops.
While one Red army force fol
lowed up its landings on the Ko
rean mainland by pushing down
the coastal highway there, the two
big army groups of Marshals Ro
dion Y. Malinovsky and Karill A.
-SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13—
(/Py—‘The Japanese in an un
confirmed broadcast said Rus
sian troops have begun land
ings at Anbetsu and Esutoru
on the Nipponese-held southern
part of Sakhalin island.
The broadcast, recorded by
the FCC, quoted an announce
ment by the Japanese north
ern army district.
Anbetsu is just below the
border of Soviet Sakhalin on —
the west coast and Esutoru is
about 60 miles south of An
betsu.
Meretekov opened the battle for
the Manchurian plain, which leads
to the arsenal city of Harbin.
Malinovsky’s tanks, well across
the Khingan range west of Harbin,
poured down the eastern slopes,
hurling the Japanese back into
the plain where a defense will be
much more difficult than in the
rugged mountains. Military ob
servers predicted Malinovskv
would advance swiftly on the plain,
soon bringing the battle to Har
bin's western gate.
His southern wing was driving
southeastward toward Mukden and
the prison camps, while his other
See REDS Page Z
Fact War Lost
Is Kept From
Jap People
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.—W
—Still withholding from the Jap
anese people the knowledge their
self-sought war was lost, the Jap
anese Dojnei news agency today re
ported new fears of an American
invasion of the homeland.
Domel, in a broadcast monitored
by the Associated Press quoted
Nipponese “military observers” as
viewing the renewed American car
rier plane attacks and fleet opera
tions off the coast might mean “a
possible enemy landing on the
Japanese mainland in the near
future.”
Today’s Japanese newspapers and
radio broadcasts all stayed strictly
away from mention of surrender.
But all stressed the need for “un
swerving loyalty” to the throne and
cautioned the population to “wait
for the great command from the
throne.” They gave no hint of
what the command might be.
CALL FOR LOYALTY
A Domei broadcast, recorded by
the Federal Corrftnunications Com
mission told the Japanese their
loyalty was “the only factor which
will save the nation from the
worst crisis it has ever been con
fronted with.”
The Asahi Shimbun editorialized
that the nation was "burning with
righteous indignation” because of
the atomic bombing, but warned
that only by solidifying their unity
could the bomb-shocked people
“set his majesty’s august mind at
rest.” The imperial family, the
newspaper Sangyo Keisei added, “is
the very center and ruling point”
of Japanese unity.
No Word From Japs Up
To 10:45 A. M. Today
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—W—American bombers hammered at Tok
yo's front door today while the Japanese dallied over a decision whether to
surrender now on allied terms or continue a suicidal war.
The White House announced today that no reply had been received at 10:45 a. m., to
day to Saturday’s four-power dictate that Japan could keep an emperor who would take
his orders from the victors’ supreme commander.
Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross told a news conference “It is safe to say that the
war is going on” while negotiations continue.
1 No time limit was set Kv
Tokyo Says Reply To
Surrender Received
Domei News Agency Suspends News Service To Orient
For 12 Hours
By The Associated Press
The Tokyo radio broadcast a Domei dispatch today say
ing that the official text of the allied reply to the Japanese
government’s message offering surrender was received to
day in Tokyo through the Swiss legation.
"*■ rr-n_:_ _• - — r-i' *■.1 , :__
ed by the Associated Press in New
York from an English language j
wireless transmission at 9:04 am., I
eastern war time.
The dispatch was sent by Do
mei as a bulletin. It gave no ad
ditional details.
The Allied reply to the Japa
nese, making it clear that Em
peror Hlrohito would have to be
subservent to an Allied supreme
commander, was dispatched to Ja
pan Saturday at 10:30 a.m., east
ern war • time, through the Swiss
legation in Washington.
Text of the Domei transmission:
“Bulletin
“Tokyo 13-8 (Aug. 13)
"Authoritatively disclosed offi
cial text Allied reply to Japanese
government’s message was receiv
ed in Tokyo today Monday
through Swiss legation. (End.”)
At the time of the broadcast It
was 10:04 p.m. in Tokyo.
Domei followed the announce
ment with a French-ladguage
broadcast saying that Emperor
Hirohito had received in audience
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
at 2:10 this afternoon (1:10 a.m.,
EWT).
“Togo made a report to the
See TOKYO Page 2
Play-By-Play Of
Shelby Games At
Sumter Arranged
A play-by-play report of games
in which Shelby’s Junior Legion
team plays at Sumter’s regional tour
ney Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday will be furnished local
fans through cooperation of radio
WFIG at Sumter. The broadcast,
cost of which is being borne by
local fans and The Star, will be
handled by Bob childrez and Harry
Robinson, using equipment owned
by Paul J. Kennedy who is out of
the city this week.
Time of the game will not be
determined until tonight’s draw
ings, but the opening broadcast will
be either Tuesday afternoon or
evening.
NIP EMPRESS
PEACE MINED
Chinese Papers Says Ja
pan Ready To Be Rid
Of War Leaders
By SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, Aug. 11. —(Delay
ed)—(JP)—The Chinese army news
paper Sao Tang Po said today Jap
an was ready to offer up her war
leaders as hara kirl victims and re
treat to her 1931 boundaries as con
ditions of peace, even before the
first atomic bomb fell and Russia
entered the Pacific war.
Quoting Hsieh Nan Kuang, des
cribed as a leader of the Formosan
revolutionary league, the newspaper
pictured the growth of a surrender
clique in Tokyo as fire bombs and
explosives fell on Japan’s cities,
and American carrier planes struck
her fleet.
It described the Empress Nagako
as a peace plan organizer.
Here is the newspaper’s account
of Hsieh’s report:
The first step toward peace was
taken June 3 by imperial household
Minister Tsuneo Matsudaira, busi
ness manager for the imperial family
and its fortune, which has been es
timated at four per cent of all
the wealth in Japan.
Matsudaira resigned with the aim
of organizing a pro-American, pro
British surrender cabinet. The plan
failed because of the army’s opposi
tion.
FEARS GROW
Japan’s situation was getting
worse daily, however, and on June
See NIP Page 2
WHAT’S DOING~
TODAY
7:30 p.m—State Guard drill
at armory.
TUESDAY
7:00 p.m.—Regular meeting of
Lions club.
the allies for a Japanese re
sponse, Ross said. Nor did he
know, he asserted, whether
there might be another ulti
matum.
A Tokyo radio broadcast
said that the formal reply to
Japan’s conditional surrender
offer of Friday was not re
ceived until today.
Emperor Hirohito receiv
ed Japanese Foreign Minister
I Togo at the imperial palace
j this morning, another enemy
broadcast said, but no detail’s
as to its purpose were given.
Still another broadcast in
dicated the Japanese were
suffering invasion jitters. Do
mei, Japanese news agency,
quoted “military observers”
as viewing renewed American
carrier plane attacks and fleet
operations off the coast as
presaging a possible enemy
landing. .
Ross told his news conference it
the White House:
“I’m sorry. I have only the ne
gative report to make that no
word has been received from Ja
pan. It was carried by the Tokyo
radio that the Allied reply had
only been delivered today, Mon
day. If that is true, Japan has
had our terms only a little over
12 hours. Perhaps that accounts
for the delay.”
“Might there be another atomic
bomb?” he was asked.
"I do not know,” Ross replied.
“If I did I wouldn’t say.”
His remark on continuation of
the war was in reply to an inquiry
whether it was safe to assume
"there had been no interruption or
letup in the war during the ne
gotiations.”
Carrier planes of Task Force 38
See NO VORD Page *
Woman Who Suffered
Double Fracture Of
Neck Is Recovering
Mrs. C. L. Self, 56, of Marion, who
suffered a double neck fracture in
a fall down basement steps at the
home of her brother, Dr. R. C. Kills,
whom she was visiting at Lawndale
last week, today was resting nicely
at Shelby hospital with chances of
recovery termed good.
Mrs. Self’s neck was Iroken in
two places in the fall down the
steps, but miraculously and with
help of expert attention bot^ at the
scene of the accident and at the
hospital her life was spared despite
the dangerous accident.
Government Ready When Peace Comes To
Start Wheels Of Civilian Production
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13,-j- UP) -
Emergency plans ready, govern
ment agencies today awaited a
White House signal to start the
American economy toward a goal
of unprecedented civilian produc
tion.
The signal, due when Japan quits,
also will serve to unveil programs
for putting millions of released
war workers in peacetime jobs as
rapidly as possible and for grad
ual lifting of rationing and other !
wartime restrictions.
Expected quickly, too, are plans
that may provide for easing of
I stringent wage controls and out-j
line the scope of price controls in
the immediate postwar period.
In the meantime, this is the
homelront outlook as the war ap
pears to be nearing the end:
Rationing—Elimination of gaso
line, fuel oil and tire programs
within a few days to six weeks
after V-J day; gasoline may be
released within a week. Shoe ra
tioning is due to go in two or three
months. Food, especially meat and
sugar, will stay under controls for
some time because of continuing
military requirements.
Consumer Goods—Volume pro
duction before the end of this
year, particularly of such small
items as toasters, irons and other
home appliances. At least 500,000
passenger cars, double the number
planned originally, are expected.
Refrigerators and washing ma
chines also are likely to be in good
supply late this year.
Price and rent controls—due to
be retained for at least six months,
possibly a year on a limited scale.
Manpower—Government officials
estimate at least 5,000,000 war
workers will lose their jobs within
six months after V-J day. They
See GOVERNMENT Paf* 5