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maintenance of world pease.” the President ‘said.

Germans Worked On It

Before 1939, he said, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was “theoretically possible’ to. release atomic energy. . But no one then knew any practical rs method of doing it, he added. By 1942, however, Mr. Truman continued, “we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.” “But they failed,” Mr. Truman said. _ “We may be grateful to providence that the Germans got the V-1's and the V-2's (rocket bombs which they showered on England) late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.” ‘Battie of Laboratories’

The “battle of the laboratories,” Mr. Truman said, held “fateful risks” for the United States as well as the battles of the air, land and sea. “And we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles,” he said. The President said that beginning in 1940—before = Pearl Harbor—the United States and Great Britain pooled their scientific knowledge that would be useful in war and said that “many priceless helps to our victories” game from that arrangement. With American and British scientists working together, he said, *we entered the race of discovery 8 against the Germans.” Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the late President Roosevelt agreed that the research should be carried on in the United States’ because Britain was exposed to constant air attack and was still threatened with invasion.

125,000 Workers

“We now have two great plants and many lesser works devoted

power,” Mr. Truman revealed, “Employment during peak construction numbered 125,000 and over 65,000 individuals are even now engaged in operating the plants.” Many of these perso Truman said, i for 2% or and only a “few” knew what they * were producing. “They see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants,” the President said. “We have spent $2,000,000,000 | on the greatest scientific gamble in history—and won.” Complex Knowledge

Mr. Truman said the “greatest | marvel” was not the size of the enterprise, its secrecy, or its cost, but “the achievement of seientific ibrains in putting together infinitely complex pieces of knowledge held by many men in different flelds of science into a workable plan.” “And hardly less marvelous,” he continued, “has been the capacity of industry to design, and of labor to operate, the machines land methods to do things never idone before so that the brainchild of many minds came forth in physical shape and performed as it was supposed to do.” | The President said that science d industry worked together der the direction of the United Btates army on the project. The flarmy, he said. achieved “a fjunique success” in “managing so idiverse a problem in the advanceiment of knowledge in an amazgly short time.” Under High Pressure “It is doubtful if such another ombination could be got toether in the world,” the President said. “What has been done is the greatest achievement of

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organized science in history. It .was done under high pressure and without failure.” i Speaking of the effect of the bomb on Japan, President Truman said: 5

their factories, and their communications,” the President said. “Let there be no mistake; we ‘shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war.” Greater Attack Power Behind this our attack will follow sea” and land forces in such numbers and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already well aware.” Mr. Truman said that Secree tary of War Henry L. Stimson, who ‘has kept in personal touch with the atomic developments; would make public further details. The President said that although the workers at the atomic sites have been making materials to produce “the greatest destructive force in history,” they had not been in danger beyond that of many other occupations, “for the utmost care has been taken for their safety.”

May Supplement Power The President said that this final harnessing of atomic energy might be used in the future to supplement the power that comes

from coal, oil, and materials, but said that at present “it cannot be produced on a basis to compete with them commercially.” Before that comes, he said, there must be “a long period of intensive research.” The President said it had never been the habit of the scientists of this country or the policy of the United States government to withhold from the world scientific knowledge. “Normally,” he said, “therefore, everything about the work with atomic energy would be made public. ~ “But under present circumstances it is not intended to divulge the technical processes of production or all the military ap-

ination of possible methods of | protecting us and the rest of the world from the danger of sudden destruction.”

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LAUNCH NEW SCOUT SHIP, ‘SEA WOLP

The Sea Scout ship “Sea Wolf” was launched yesterday by Lt. Fred{erick Cretors, a South Pacific navy | veteran, at the dedication of the {new senior Sea Scout base, Port Optimist. The new base, Yoeatod at 30th st. and White river, includes a building which is a near replica of a 60foot two-masted brig, a marine railway, dry docks and anchorage facilities for 20 or more sailing boats. Port Optimist was sponsored by the Indianapolis Optimist club, with financial help from the Optimist club - foundation. James Sargent, the club president, formally presented the key to the base to Scout Commissioner Wallace O. Lee, who in turn gave it to John L. Buehler, the port commodore. A highlight of the afternoon's program was a sailboat race which began as soon as the presentation | ceremonies were over, The winning | boat was the 8. S. S. Flying Cloud, | which was manned by Bob Evans {and Mac Milholland. The port was christened by Mrs.

retary «of the Optimist club. Special guests at the ceremony included Mayor Tyndall, Marshal}- Springer, 5th district governor of Optimist international and Lt. Cmdr. Robert Hall and his staff of officers from | the naval armory.

Can Pick Up a STRAW HAT i You Get

Enough— They're Body Styles—and They're Cleared

plications, pending further exam- .

“We shall destroy their docks, |

George O. Browne, wife of the sec-|’

jof the four main Japanese home

of the U. 8. aircraft carrier Horne it could ‘hit.

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Fighters Rake Tokyo; Canada’s Troops Enter War, JiCominued From Page One)

closed officially the first contingents of Canadian troops, ships and planes had arrived in the Guam area, marking Canada’s all-out entry into

the Pacific war. Col. Richard 8S. Malone; director- | of public relations for the Canadian army, said Canada will field 30,000 troops, all trained in Kentucky. They will use American arms, and will be supplemented by squadrons of the R. C. A. F. in addition to at least 60 Canadian navy ships, including two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, and’ numerous destroyers and frigates, Tried to Break Raid

Superfortress . pilots reported the Japanese attempted to break up today's five-pronged B-29 raid with jet fighters. Capt. Lawrence Bird, Mapleton, Utah, .said he saw a Japanese jet over Maebashi. “At first I thought it was a flare or a ball of fire.” Capt, John A. Corrick; Detroit, Mich., said a jet hovered over his B-29 for a few seconds, then took off with its exhaust flaring a white streak. The enemy claimed seven Mustangs had been shot down and three others heavily damaged. Superfortress ' crews reported “good to excellent” results in their 3850-ton pre-dawn raid on ‘a synthetic gasoline plant at Ube and on the industrial centers of “Maebashi and Nishinomiya-Mikage on, Honshu, Saga on Kyushu and Imbari on Shikoku. Radio Tokyo -said some bombs also fell in the big Honshu war production center of Osaka, Japan's second largest city Maebashi was raided for about two hours and suffered a “considerable loss,” Tokyo said. Jap Waters Mined Others in the force of no fewer than 580 B-29s mined enemy waters near Tsurga and Hagi on the southwest coast, of Honshu and around Rashin, in northeast Korea, 21 miles from the Soviet border. It marked the first time that the Superfortresses have attacked three

islands in a single assault. Imabari and Saga had been forewarned of their impending doom in leaflet raids less than 48 hours earlier, while the other two cities were warned in previous leaflet raids. Still other blows appeared in the making in the great air and sea offensive softening Japan . for invasion. A dispatch from the 3d fleet revealed that it still was off the Japanese coast as late as

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THE INDIANAPOLIS

Hornet Back Home But

TIMES

A water color painting from memory by Lt. Dwight c Shepler depicts a Jap pilot diving for the deck Anti-aircraft fire disintegrated the plane before

a : The cafrier was damaged in a typhoon June 5. Here crewmen survey, the flight deck.

Unable to launch

planes, the Hornet backed into the wind to get search planes aloft to aid in finding other ships dam °

aged in the storm.

Flattop’ s Belt Holds Scalps Of 1410 Jo Planes, 54 Ship s [ISLE OBLITERATED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6~The or damaged

By COURTENAY MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent

aircraft carrier Hornet, which has

about 1,270,000 tons of Japanese shipping and

| destroyed 1410 enemy planes, is back home far repair—but it took a typhoon to get her back. The Japanese never touched her. The 27,000-ton Essex class carrier, named in honor of the ship which took the first American fliers to Tokyo in 1842, went through

{14 months of battle-packed action {in the Pacific before putting in at ‘| san Francisco for repairs and a rest. During that period the Hornet and her fliers inflicted the following damage on the enemy: 668 planes shot down; 742 planes destroyed on the ground; one carrier,

cargo ships sunk, and an “assist” in the sinking of the battleship!’ Yamato. The Hornet is scheduled to be ready for sea again in three weeks, in time to participate in the final assault against the Japanese homeland. Her repairs have been estimated at a cost of $2,200,000. Caught June § The Hornet had been through lone typhoon in the Philippines, |but the typhoon of June 5—~which damaged many other - American warships—bounced her around like a chip. The 120-knot gale caught

one cruiser; 10 destroyers and 42.

the Hornet 150 miles east of OKkinawa at 2 a. m. Suddenly her bow rose atop a tremendous wave and crashed downward with such force that the forward corners of the flight deck folded down along her sides. She was forced to retire from the battle area and head home; — The. Japanese tried. hard to. get the fighting ship, but her score of enemy planes shot down indicates the futility of their attempts. Part of Task Force 58 As a part of the famed task force 58, the flagship of Rear Adm. J. J. “Jocko” Clark, the Hornet hammered the Japanese in every major action from the March, 1944 strikes on the Palaus through the Okinawa operation. One of her last and most telling assaults was against the battleship

Yamato—45,000-ton pride of the

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new appliance washes, rinses and damp dries the clothes. Hurley said the machine .uses the spinner-agitator principle. He said this is more efficient than the whirl method of pre-war wringerless washers. As a dish washer, the Thor needs only a new attachment—a metal plate for pots and pans and a wire basket with space for a complete dinner service for six. ” » » HOT WATER rushes over the dishes at a 35-mile-per-hour raie. A continual stream of water is necessary, Hurley said, as the washer holds only two quarts of water, used over and over again.

Hurley explained that the once = inescapabl~ headache of food - scraps clogging a dish

washer drain has been solved by using ingenious metal fingers, which grind large particles of food to powder, As a result, only bones and potato peelings need be scraped from plates before they are placed in the washer. The machine both washes and _dries dishes, operating on - the

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same spinner principle as the

clothes washer. E J » » THE THIRD miracle, a potato peeler, is another attachment—a small tub coated with abrasive. The potatoes are spun rapidly, so that the abrasive literally skins the vegetable. ; Hurley said. the prospective butter churn and ice cream freezer will fit into the machine as do the other gadgets, A paddle in the butter churn will beat the cream, using the agitator motion. A tub with an outer compartment for ice and-salt will freeze ice cream, whipping up the cream continually as it is frozen. It is Hurley's idea that the best ice cream is frozen while in motion.s EJ » » AS A kitchen unit, the Automagic weighs 200 pounds and stands three feet high and two feet square. It is portable and easily moved about. Hurley has been working on the housewives’ dream since 1940. He said the cost of the device, with both clothes and dishwashing attachments, will be. less than the price of standard pre-war washing machines.

COMMUNISM 1S

Saturday, apparently preparing for a new series of attacks on the enemy homeland. Could Steam Into Bay High-ranking officers of the fleet | said the great armada now was so powerful it could steam directly into Tokyo bay if ordered; Vice Adm. John 8. McCain, commander of the fleet's carriers, told

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American citizens of good character.’ The four classes of members were listed as “founding members, contributing members, active members and supporting members.” Duration of the corporation was described as “perpetual.” Only the board of directors have authority to elect additional “founding members and. Officers” and to charter other sub-units, to accept contributions, fix fees, salaries and

as a non-partisan, non-sectarian, non-racial organization.”

newsmen- that his airmen were de-~ termined to hunt down and destroy every plane in Japan before the invasion. Radio Tokyo reported that extensive underground anti - invasion fortifications have been completed on southern Kyushu, only 330 miles north of the American bhse on Okinawa. “Granting that enemy mechanized units may penetrate a part of the fortress, it will surely be destroyed by Japanese shock units, who are in a position to carry out surprise attacks,” Tokyo® said Japs Report Ale Attack Tokyo also claimed, that Japanese bombers had kindled “15 columns of fire” in a surprise attack on two American airfields on Okinawa and a ‘third at adjacent Ie island Sun-

Its purposes; as—-outlined -in- the incorporation - papers:

“1. To uphold, and defend the constitution of the United States against all its enemies, both foreign and domestic. “2. To win the war, maintain the peace and provide liberally for the disabled veteran, his widow and orphans. “3. To preserve the sovereignty of the individual citizen, the rights of the several states and the sove ereignty of thé government of the United States. “4 To provide for an adequate national defense. / “5. To make securg the rights of free citizens, free initiative, free enterprise and free labor. “6. To make secure the government of the U. 8, its offices, positions of trust and influence and those of the states and lesser political subdivisions in the hands of true Americans. . . . ” “7. To advocate and sponsor legislation for the accomplishment of | these purposes. “8, To refrain Trom entering into controversial subjects not pertinent

jbo. he. iiss ‘and objects’ herein |

allowances &nd enter into agreements.”

‘FLIER CRASHES PLANE IN OWN BACKYARD

SOMERSET, Pa. Aug. 6 (U.P). — Robert Romesberg, coal dealer, whose hobby is flying, is recovering in Somerset hospital today after crashing in his own backyard. Before taking off from Somerset airport yesterday, Romesberg remembered he forgot to leave his automobile keys with his wife. He phoned her that he would fly over his house and drop the keys. But Romesberg swooped too low when he flew over his home and was caught in a down draft. He crashed into a tree in his own backyard.

FORMER HOOSIER DIES IN ILLINOIS

Services for George F. Coble, a former resident of New August, Ind., of | will be held tomorrow in Aurora, Ill. He died Satruday at his home in Aurora. . Mr. Coble was the son of the late

Japanese fleet now resting on the bottom of the East China sea.

and three air groups in her short, bit busy life. lieved to be a record for carriers! by destroying 255 Japanese planes in a 30-day period. between March! 18 and April 16, 1945. In a single] day’s operation, she accounted for 67-Japanese planes. The ship's first skipper was Capt.

Gonzales st.,

701 N. Palafox st. Pensacola, who brought the Hornet home. ~~" Commissioned in 1944 ; The Hornet was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va, and commissioned | in March, 1944. Twenty days after she was com- | ‘missioned the vessel ' joined task | force 58 and within 10 days was striking at Palau. Within a matter of months she had supported landings on Hollandia, made a stab against the enemy fortress at Truk

rand followed through with others |

at Satawan and Ponape. In August of that year, Rear Adm. Sample relieved Capt. Browning and it was under his command that the ship went into the Marianas operations. Sample took the nes from Guam to the Bonins : through the battle of the Philippines sea, to

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Miles, R. Browning of 20 Boulevard | West, Mountain Lakes, N. J. The! second was Rear Adm. (then cap-|and a trip up the coast of Luzon tain) William D. Sample of 284 W.| where she launched the first attack Pensacola, Fla, and|on enemy shipping and installations the third Capt. Austin K. Doyle of [around Manila bay.

Pagan and Bonins again, Pp Eni-

{wetok atoll and back to the BoThe ship has had three skippers | nins.

She supported the Guam invasion

{fourth time-—the Bonins.

[ After the Marianas operations, |

Sample was relieved by Capt. Doyle, | who took the Hornet through her subsequent. campaigns and brought { her safely home to port... | Her tour included strikes against Davao, Mindanao, Cebu and the Negros islands in the Philippines,

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In ‘October the Hornet attacked Okinawa, then moved in on" Fors mosa. Later, she helped protect the {army landings on Leyte and again |joined with other fleet units in {beating off the three-pronged attack of the Japanese fleet, achiev- | ing one of the greatest naval vic- | tories of all time.

' 10 Other Vessels At

Lalifornia Drydocks WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P).— The navy revealed today that 11 naval vessels, including the aircraft

| carrier Hornet, are now at the U. 8. {naval drydocks at Hunter's Point, | Cal., for repair or routine overhaul. The others are the aircraft carrier Boxer, the submarine Guitarro,

Newcomb, Morris, Ingraham, Leutze, and the destroyer escorts Duffy and Wintle.

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She set what is be-| then hit Yap, Ulithi and—for the | | water's edge, but was large enough

Ito be shown on admiralty charts, It was removed from the charts after the “grand slam” hit. There wasn't a trace of it left. Blasts Often Freakish In mathematical terms an atomie bomb thus might be expected te annihilate an area 2000 times as large as the tiny channel island, It was pointed out, however, thaf the forces of explosives are varied and often produce freakish results, Thus a building comparatively close to the scene of an-atomie bomb explosion might escape dame age while one farther away was demolished. Also, BIS pointed oul that the “grand slam” was designed for deep pénetration - as a wea against German underground wap plants, and contained more ballast than explosives. The “grand slam” that fell om the English countryside caused gas pockets deep underground that exe’ ploded in a series of trembling blasts long after the main explow sion. i The effect of the atomic bomb blast on the Japanese army base of Hiroshima, and the possible effects of such an explosion in a city like New Qork or Chicago stirred sciene tific imaginations here more thaw any event in the war,

IT'S ONE DAY NEARER PEACE!

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ORDERS FROM THE ARMY!

India-Anna!

When he gets backyou can bet your Dollar against his Anna (it's an India coin, worth about 2¢ in our money)--that he will ‘proceed pronto (if not sooner)—into ‘The Man's Store to satisfy his deep urge (there are thousands his-es) —for Civvies with the Strauss label in them (and with an honorable discharge button on them.)

The Button comes from Uncle Sam—it flso comes from Strauss -It giyes us pleasure to give a returned veteran a duplicate of the button the Army

+ gives him-with our * compliments. :

One of our leading citizens called on uUs—with the werd that he had just received

a letter from his son stationed

in India.

In it was a request for Clothes

—with considerable detail

as to what he wanted— but he concluded his letter

saying— “They've got to be from Strauss—if Strauss doesn't have them—never mind I will try to manage somehow!"

" P.S. He got Strauss Clothes!

L. STRAUSS & CO. me. THE MAN'S STORE