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Allies Study Jap Peace Offer:

Pacific War May Be Near End

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Chinese and American forces in’ China proper; Australian troops in the islands of the South Pacific; Americans in the Philippines; Russians in Manchuria, Korea and Sakhalin.

In addition the Japanese are still. firmly installed in

Malaya and Singapore, French Indo-China, Java, dozens of |

Pacific islands and the vast bulk of China.

Arrangements for the simultaneous surrender of these widely dispersed forces, it was believed, would be the most complicated surrender negotiation in history. ; It was certain the allies would insist that ‘the Japanese provide guarantees that the surrender orders be literally carried out by all the imperial forces at the same time. Whether the emperor who was cited by Tokyo radio as initiating the surrender offer could maintain effective control over such fire-eating Japanese forces as the quasi-independ-ent Kwantung army against which Russia is arrayed was a question, : Mass Harikari Suggested Another question-was what governmental authority in Japan was behind the qffer. The allies have laid down the elimination of the present. government ‘as a requisite for surrender, This, it was suggested, Tight ‘be settled by the mass harikari of the government and the military leaders responsible for the war, . Having led their country into disaster and “jeopardized the position of their god-emperor, it is virtually incumbent under the Japanese code for the leaders to take their own lives. Such a devélopment would vastly ease the task of the allies in taking over Japan and would eliminate in many instances the necessity of conducting trials of Japanese war criminals. U. S. officials pointed out that formal communications from the Japanese to this country have normally been transmitted via Berne,

They also recalled that in the past it usually has taken several days days for urgent messages to or from the Japanese to clear through Swiss channels. The record so far The usual period for transmission has been -about 10 days. But someone might speed up this message. Since the Soviet ambassador is still in Tokyo, and has been submitted the offer, it might not be necessary to await receipt through Swiss and Swedish channels.

No One Seems Hurried

The Tokyo broadcast was timed at about 6:35 a. m. (Indianapolis time). the White House at 7:25 a. m. (Indianapolis time)—his usual hour. Byrnes arrived at the executive office at*7:45 a. m,, followed by Adm. William D. Leahy, the President’s chief of staff; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. Nobody seemed hurried. To reporters’ questions as he entered the White House, Byrnes said “ask me when I come out.” Half an hour later he told them no official surrender

* offer had been received. President Truman did not cancel a heavy schedule of . previously-made routine appointments.

The Whitg House said he continued seeing his list of 12 callers, including several congressmen, a number of ministers and ambassadors, and Secretary of Labor Lewis B, Schwellenbach.

Opinions Differ

Among congressional callers a difference of opinion |

developed as to whether senators and representatives—their | houses in recess until Oct. 8—should be called back into session, Senator Joserh C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) said he believed congress should reconvene “certainly Tight after Labor day,” Sept. 3. . “The problems of peace,” he said, important as the problems of war.” : Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D. Wash.) another White House caller, disagreed with O'Mahoney. “There is no need to call congress back,’ he said, “be:;ause the demobilization job is so big and so slow.” War department officials long have said that limitations of shipping will make demobilization a long and tedious operation, ne As to whether Mr. Truman will call congress back, Ross said he did not know. Resumes Usual Schedule

After the war cabinet meeting, the President operated on a business-as-usual schedule’ while awaiting official word. “He knows nothing more than you do,” Ross told reporters. “I mean-only what came in over the radio and was monitored.” i Hours after the Jap broadcast an aid described President Truman as: “Cool, calm, collected and working as ustial, "a That didn't mean the President was not doing the necessary; that he wasn’t just as glad as everyone else that the enemy was cracking. It just meant that until the surrender offer became official he had work to do and was going to do it. When Mr. Truman arrived at his office, he told his naval aide, Commodore James K. Vardaman, to call Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretary of War Stimson, and Secretary of Ivavy Forrestal on the telephone and ask them to come to the White House. :

“are every bit as

Leahy~—Already There Fleet Adm. William J. Leahy already was with the President when Byrnes stepped springily out of his limousine in an immaculate white suit and panama hat. Byrnes strode past a fast-swelling throng of reporters into Mr. Truman's office. Byrnes joked a- bit with questioners. . Stimsoh, his car zooming into the curved White ‘House drive, was close behind, and Forrestal was but seconds later. By this time small handfuls of pedestrians had begun to gather in the park across Pennsylvania ave., and for a

time military police were posted outside the White House|

to prevent any assembly near the executive mansion fence. | Among those waiting outside the President's office, tension mounted as the emergency conference lasted half an ‘hour. Then Byrnes emerged to say that nothing official had been received from the Japanese. Then the President took up his scheduled day's work. In London, an official government. statement said that

Britain was in consultation with the United States, Russia and China.

The statement said no formal communication had yet ?

been received from the Japanese government. If the Japanese offer is genuine—officials did not over-

look the fact that it might possibly represent an attempted insurgent coup—it . climaxed a ushitgs torrent. of mighty oe Eo 8 a ladder. ts unpsvalleled in: Ristory.

President Truman arrived at

CARRIER PLANES RENEW ATTACK

B-29’s Bomb Arsenal in Tokyo ‘Area.

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just east of Tokyo for an hour and a half, Strafed Airfields A dispatch from Richard W.

dent with the U. 8. 3d fleet sald that clouds of planes “hit areas in

Kwantung army in Manchuria.”

All the Superfortresses returned from the B-29's two strikes. In all 562 giant bombers flew five missions over Japan within 48 hours and dropped a total of 3250 tons of bombs. About 950 tons | were dropped by the 160 B- 205 | which made the two attacks today. | The Superfortress assault on the Tokyo area began at 11:30 a. m. early reports said fair to excellent results. were obtained. Japanese fighter opposition was light but anti-aircraft fire ‘was moderate to intense, The bombers were escorted by 60 JIwo-based Mustangs and Thunderbolts, which found few opponents. Smoke 20,000 Feet High

Good results were obtained at Amagasaki as the B-29's struck again to cut down the enemy's dwindling fuel supplies. One pilot reported smoke billowing 20,000 feet over the target area. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced in a communique that preliminary reports from American and British carrier. forces which at-

day showed that considerable damage was inflicted. Nimitz said the raiding fighterhomber struck an area extending from northern Honshu to a point 160 miles’ to the’ south and that American planes destroyed 124 Japanese planes on the ground, damaged 57 others, and sank a number of small ships during the early hours on Thursday. During the day 11 other enemy planes - were destroyed when they attempted to attack warships of the 3d fleet. Nimitz said ‘one of these enemy planes had crashed into a light 3d fleet unit, “which is now returning under its own power.”

anese planes and 24 gliders on the ground. They damaged 19 other planes trapped on the ground and sank or damaged several small ships. |

JAPS REPORT 4 NEW SOVIET INVASIONS

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on the march across all frontiers common with Japan or Japanese{occupied territory. The reported Soviet thrust into | Korea at Keiko put the Russians only 30 miles from Rashin, an important port which repeatedly has been mined by American Superfortresses. A ' supplementary from the Japanese northern dis-| | trict army command said that simultapeously with the Soviet push | into Karafuto on Sakhalin, Russian warplanes bombarded areas south of Buika and west of Handa. Sakhalin, a slender, 600-mile-long {island off the coast of Russia's] {maritime provin€es, originally was! | owned entirely by Russia. Howtever,—she ceded the southern half of the island to Japan after the first Russo-Japanese war.

Reds ‘Reinforced Tokyo said the Red armies attacking both eastern and western Manchuria gradually were being

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-jreinforced as the Russian offensive

gained momentum, All Soviet columns—inc¢luding the new thrusts reported by Tokyo today—appeared to be heading for Harbin, Japanese administrative and military center for northern Manchuria. Moscow's first communique of the battle yesterday revealed: that one Soviet force striking east from

installations -#n the Chiba district!

Johnston, United Press correspon-

which the: Japanese have dozens of airfields and were believed to have airborne troop transportation points | which might be used to reinforce the

tacked northern Honshu on Thurs-|

British planes destroyed 22 Jap-|

communique |

Te Facts

If a drop of water were enlarged to the size of the earth, the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in it would be’ as big as marbles.

Each atom is a tiny bomb, giving off 200,000,000 electron volts of energy when it explodes . . , 5,000,000 times the energy derived from burning coal.

2D ATOM BOMB. RUINS NAGASAKI

‘Observer Says City Looks Like Erupting Volcano.

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All of us wanted to get a look at the cauldron, but the order was out for planes to stay away. Still a Mass of Flames

“After we got within 10 miles of the city, we swung northwest along a little ridge near the coast. “It was like looking over the rim of a volcano in the process of erupting. after the B-29 had dropped the atom bomb. “lI can report Nagasaki was still a mass of acrid flame and smoke. The blazing area extended at least 10 square miles. We saw four huge towers of flame shooting skyward to several thousand feet, indicating that explosions were still going on. “Watching this tremendous fire, the funeral of a whole city, it was obvious that nothing in the affected area could have a chance of survival.”

Inferno of Smoke

‘Into Stratosphere

By EDWARD L. THOMAS United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, Aug. 10-—The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan obliterated Nagasaki in an inferno of smoke and flame: that swirled more than 10 miles into the strato{sphere and could be seen for 250 miles, an Okinawa dispatch said today. Okinawa-based pilots attacking other objectives on Kyushu yesterday said the clouds of smoke from Nagasaki spread rapidly until they obscured bombing targets 60 miles from the port. Fliers told United Press War

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Okinawa that the atom:c bomb explosion was “too tremendous to believe,” One said that the blinding glare of the blast was so great that when it faded he though for a moment the sun was setting. The airmen’s stories bolstered a {growing belief that the entire {urban or built-up area of Nagasaki, {major naval base, industrial center and Japan's 1lth city, was . destroyed by the atomic bomb. The built-up area totaled only four square miles. Four and onetenth square’ miles of Hiroshima were leveled Monday when the first {atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Tokyo's Protest

Japanese government forprotested to the United through Switzerland on use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima, Radio Tokyo said. On Okinawa, two army mustang pilots told how. they watched the |blast of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki from the area of Yaku island, almost 250 miles to the southeast. Lt. Col. William Bgnks of Raleigh, W. Va. in a plane about 140 .miles frdm Nagasaki, said he saw a black cloud rising in the shape of a gigantic inverted cone. Lt. Nolan Jones of Waldron, Ark., a fighter pilot, said: “When you see something climb! {from 140 miles away, it's really]

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This was already 12 hours

Correspondent Russell Annabal “at

TRAIN WRECK TOLL 25 T040

North Dakota Crash,

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smashed into the car, telescoped and | then exploded. Ten “persons were known to have been injured seriously, Scores of others were bruised, cut and shaken. Some were hurned, The accident occurred about 7: 30 | p. m. (Indianapolis Time) last night |

{when the first section of the train|

stopped -about a half mile from-the {small Michigan dépot because of a | “hot box” on the locomotive. Before flares could be put out to| warn the second section, it plowed] into the rear coach, a combination | Pullman-observation car. It split the coach down the middle.

impact and searing steam scalded those already dying.

Felt Wreck Coming As Brakes Jammed

As Told to United Press By KARL KLEMSRUD MICHIGAN, ‘N. D, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—The first indication that. I |had that there. was going’to.be a wreck was when the, train brakes seemed to grab. I was sitting beside an eiderly lady holding a baby on her lap when the train suddenly jerked. “You'd better hang onto that baby, for something is going to happen,” I said. I hardly got the words out of my mouth when- the crash came. I was sitting with my back to the engine and the back cushion of the seat protected me from injury. When I climbed out of the car to see what had happened I saw the observation car setting on top of the engine. My first impression was that it looked like somebody had taken a big can opener and split the bottom of the car, then hoisted’ it on top of the engine like a tent. The peculiar thing about this wreck was the lack of cries of the injured which I always. thought went with train wrecks. There seemed to be a stunned silence on the part of the dazed people who had clambered out of the coaches to find out what was wrong. I looked up on the side of the dangling tar and saw a woman's body hanging out of the wreckage. Her body seemed to be pinned down in the twisted steel from the waist] down. She was still conscious and crying feebly for help. ma Her voice was the only one that came from the smashed car.

JAPS' STATEMENT ON PEACE TERMS

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the war as quickly as possible, de- | cided upon the following: “The Japanese government are! ready to accept the terms enumerated in the joint declaration which was issued at Potsdam on July 26, 1945, by the heads of the governments of the United States, Great Britain and China, and later subscribed to by the Soviet government | with the understanding that the said declaration does not compromise any. demand which prejudices the prerogatives of his majesty as a sovereign ruler. “The Japanese government hope sincerely that this, ..”

graphic transmission was interrupted. Domei waited a moment and-then-the signal “stand by” was sent, Second Broadcast A Domei broadcast aimed at Europe and heard by the FCC re-| peated ‘most of .the text heard by

gan sending the following:

clamation as communicated: to these governments through the Swiss and Swedish gov-| ernments was expressed by authori- | ative quarters here today. Thesef quarters recalled a broadcast ad-| dressed to Japan on July 27 by capt; (E. M. Zacharias (an of-| ficial office of war information | spokesman), who professed to be

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[High hts of

wick END ‘SEE

President

Truman's Radio Address| T0 GAS RATIONS

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essary for the complete protection of our interests and of world peace. Bases which our military experts deem to be essential for our protection, and which are not now in our possession, we will acquire , . . by arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter.” | BIG THREE CONFERENCE— “Thére were no secret agreements or commitments—apart from current military agreements . . . and it was made perfectly clear to my colleagues that under our constitution the President has no power | to make any treaties without ratification by the Senate of+ the | United States.” PRESS—Britain, Russia and the U. S. “Agreed at Berlin that the allied press. would enjoy full free dom from now on to report to the world upon all developments in Romania. Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. The same agreement was reaffirmed also as to Poland.” WATERWAYS A. “ ‘Selfish con- ' of European waterways has

ol — A persistent cause of wars

| The United .States proposed at Berlin that there be free and unrestricted navigation of all inland

waterways including the Danube,

thé Kiel canal and the Rhine. | 28 Re) sam) 1 De ne (Terimination May Come 48

of ‘international suthoritiesNThe | Hours After VJ Day.

proposal was referred to the coun- . cil of ministers. The Unité States | .- By EULALIE McDOWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

intends to press for its adoption.” GERMANY—"The first purpose WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.~Gove of reparations is to take out of |ernment and industry experts sald Germany everything with which today that gasoline rationing may lend almost .immediately—possibly

she can prepare for another war. Its second purpose «is to help the devastated countries to bring |within 43 hours—after Japan hoists about their own recovery by means [the white flag. 3 Deaupan sd material | Gna full-scile war operations EE et powers =e | end, it was said, the flow of military now more closely than ever |sasoiine, fuel of} gna other bound together in determination leum products to the Pacis wil] 10 achieve a (just and. lastin dwindle to a comparative trickle es 5 € and the long civilian drought will a . he over a 5 SUROPE~ - Bre Pe play & | The petroleum administration for on. the Aistress will iheresss war, the government agency mostly We gust help to the {imits of otis closely connected with the oil situae strength ABA we. will” tion, was silent on the probable end PEACE— “The United Nations of rationing. Other reliable sources, * . : © however, pointed out that gasoline are determined that here. shall was now being produced at an all be no next war The United time rate and that a sudden drop

ions t - Naliors 2 Seng Vv. "®" in military demands would create u : 8 ® can la storage problem.

never permit any aggressor in the i “If the war ends suddenly. » one

fulre 30 ve clever shougy ko a lexpert said, “there’ll be nothing to e y g ug tdo but give the gasoline to civilians.”

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they said. But nobody did. The | Yanks were certain they were going! home soon and the result was the wildest celebration ever seen in the Western Pacific. .

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Troops in Germany Cheer Jap Offer

NURNBERG, Germany, (U. P.).—News of the Japanese surrender offer touched off wild jubilation at soldiers field where 8000 G. 1's were gathered for the track meet trials,

Square garden announcer.

lowed.

shouted. “Now were sure. we're going home.”

Crowds Jam London

‘Streets in Celebration By EDWARD V. ROBERTS

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 10.—The biggest

seity in the world greeted Japan's conditional offer to surrender today jo an enthusiasm comparable to! that which hailed the downfall of Germany three months ago.

.-The news spread rapidly. Streets were jammed with cheering, sing-

ing crowds. Ticker tape and waste- | paper swirled from buildings. | On the cobblestones Britons {danced with the Yanks and the Canadians and the Australians. | "1 In Whitehall crowds cheered Cle- '| ment Attlee, as he arrived at No. 10 Downing st. In Paccadilly Circus, taxis, busses!

and private cars became snarled in |

a traffic jam. ® At the rainbow_ corner Red. Cross! club, a G. I. rushed in, waving a | newspaper and yelling, “Boys, over—the Japs are finished.” Soldiers rushed into the street: | yelling. One group marched on | Piccadilly. and stormed to the top| of a boarded-up statue. G. Ls and British office girls made up the majority of the early celeb-! rants, Even the M. P.’s joined in,

|New York Tense

But Remains Quiet NEW YORK, Aug. 10 (U.P)

|New York City’s millions today as

“Acceptance of the Potsdam pro-- they awaited official annouhcement | fe -long

of the end of the Pacific war, | In contrast to the jubilant reaction to unofficial news of V-E day, New York was still calm at noon,

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Wild Cheering Greets

News in Philippines MANILA, Aug. 10 (U. P.).—News

Okinawa Yanks Going Wild Over Japan's Peace Offer

Aug. 10

News of the offer was announced by Maj. Al Prazier, former Madison

“We're going home,” the G. L's]

15 or Tunglu and 45 miles southwest of

=ZAnT United Press listeners and then be- {air of tense expectancy dominated |

defeat us.” Fuel Oil Release «Fuel oil rationing also will be ree laxed soon after the war, but there were no predictions as to a date on which it will be lifted altogether. All forecasts were based on the |ing for ‘the tumult of a gigantic Sssinpten of an early end to ths | ior oe Pacific war. If the conflict would The downtown celebrating district {Fun for a year or more, it was said, was designated as the area bounded cHances are that rationing will have by Delaware, New York and Mary-|to be continued longer into the land sts., and Capitol ave. No cars| Peace period. : wil be permitted to park in this| This, it was explained, would be |area, and no vehicular trafic may due to the fact.that the industry move in this district except street- | a , |cars and busses. | efficiency. Continuation of that Police went to Camp Atterbury Pace for a long period would re« today to arrange for assignment of sult in declining production as between 400 and 500 military police equipment wears out and some low= |for “celebration duty” throughout yield wells dry up completely. the city. Capt. A. E Jacobs of the! Rationing End Sudden traffic department said he will also| As of now, however, prospects are have auxiliary police in the down-| that a halt in hostilities within the town district following the flash of | next few months would permit ale the good news most immediate termination of rae Curb on Liquor Sale : tioning. War plants were on the alert, and| A spokesman pointed out that the

Seven minutes of cheering fol- those with public address systems | Petroleum industry, unlike many

{planned to announce the peace news |others, “has no reconversion probe immediately on receipt. Several were lem.” Actually, he said, civilian arranging for plant celebrations. | gasoline is simpler to produce than P. R. Mallory & Co. planned to {the high-octane aviation fuel now stop work immediately and close the| flowing in torrents to the Pacific. several plants till Monday morning,| EVen after the war ends the army should the news of peace come to-|2nd navy will need plenty of pee day or tonight. Only skeleton crews | troleum products because of the will be maintained. announced Jos- | 8T¢at job of returning men and ma« eph E. Cain, executive vice presi- | teriel. It will, however, be only a dent. = fraction of the eeds for conducts Don Tooley, inspector of police, | ing’a war. In addition, there will said he had been notified by the 0 NO Need to maintain huge emer= Alcoholic Beverage Commission that gency resefyes. #

when it had been officially notified | of the end of the war. it would pro-| 13 LOCAL MEN 10 |coholic beverages be closed for the| pocK TOMORROW

claim that all places dispensing al-| next 24 hours. The following Indianapolis sole

CHINESE CAPTURE IMPORTANT CENTER a “morrow aboard

LHUNGKING, Aug. 10 (U. P).- [the Mt. Vernon: { i Pfc. Albert Dunlap. 5242 Park ave | Chinese forces on the Kwangsi front Joseph Costolic os XN. Haugh st Col. > Orville Plowman, 336 Webster ave.. (8 (have captured Kwanyang, 50 miles QE cr Gommam. lf a Mitsois st. Plo | northeast of Kweilin, the Chinese

William Hicks, 1430 S Illinois st.. Pie. . Quentin Wise, 3015 W. Jackson st.; T. Sth (high command announced today. o Enger Reed, 1363 Brasil ave; Capt. op hrapla roadway ‘In western Chekiang province, "cq pari Thompson, R. R. 9; Sgt. Wayne Chinese troops battled desperately Needier 3 Unien st: Pte. george Parke lin an all-night fight to repulse Jap- er. R R » Pe iliam berts, 1 |anese columns eight miles southwest

Pte,

Montcalm st. and Pfe. William Hagan, 197 W- Merrill st T. Bzt Virgil Love 4447 Kingsley dr. 18 ho arriving Monday gboard the Emma Willard | Hangsho in New York Chinese forces, making a flanking Four eal en bik en ele] Ho {attack against an enemy column rH or a 3 {driving north along the Kan river, ~~" Onn Harvard. ey ane: 8. Sgt. Verle Spurlin, 5014 BE. Washinge {inflicted heavy casualties on the ion st: Col. Frank Schuller 2053 Shere Japanese in the vicinity of Sing-

brook st.: 8. Sgt. Walter Gerald, R. R. 1, and Sgt Henie Howard 113 E 9th st rkiang, Hunan provitiee. |

| Pvt. Robert Carman, 1815 Laurel ! beni ist, will dock aboard the John Murry [EDITOR ALVIN HALL 040 OF DANVILLE DIES

Forbes and Sgt. Jack McCoy, 3940 DANVILLE, Ind. Aug: 10.(U. P)

Ruckle st, was to arrive today aboard the Joseph W. Gale. Both —Alvin Hall, 61, editor and pub[Hsher of the Danville Gazette and

thips came into New York. ; Five local men are scheduled te arrive Monday in New York aboard i the Joffre. They are: resident of Hendricks +t sth Gr. Harold Baver |county, died of a-sudden heart at- Tin cr Robert Coling 1 n® poinel (tack today ave; T. 4th Gr. Norman O'Malley, R. R, | Hall took his" first job with the Ai,and T..3th Gr. Wiliam Prita, 308 R | Gazette at the age of 19 ater {he purchased the newspaper from William King and operated it since

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GETS HOPEFUL POSITION ELKHART, Aug. 10 (U. P). =

is now operating at above maximum

outer Mongolia in the Lake Buir I turned my gunsight on Nor area had captured the air base {the column and the top of the cloud town of Jinjin Sume, 150 miles filled the sight ring. At 1000 feet a southeast of Manchouli and ap- |10- foot target will exactly fill the proximately 30 miles inside Man: ring. On the basis of that measchuria, urement, the column towered 53,-

the spokesman for the Washington | of the Japanese surrender offer| government, in which he said that|[ocked this Philippines - capital Japan's acceptance of allied peace | Which tonight was swarming with terms will make it possible to ap-| troops and jammed with supplies in

ply the Atlantic Charter to Japan | |DEepersiion for the invasion of apan

that time. He was active in Democratic political circles and in conservation having organized the Danville conservation club.

Nearby Hoshusume also was cap- |

Some 150 miles to the northwest, | ‘another Russjan column captured the border city of Manchouli, 150 miles east of the outer Mongolian border, and thrust another 15 miles down the railway toward Harbin to capture Challainor,

Capture Fuyuan In northwest Manchuria, Soviets forces drove across the Amur and Ussuri rivers and captured the town of Fuyuan, 39 miles southwest .of their base at Khabarovsk in heavy fighting. In southeast Manchuria, still another Soviet invasion column broke { through a network of comcrete de- | fenses and overwhelmed strong! | Japanese resistance west of Viadivostok. Mongolian cavalry forces of the Mongolian republic, an ally of Rus-! sia and through whose territory part

churia, were expected to join the Soviets in the offensive, A London Daily mail dispatéh' estimated that 2000 planes were] supporting the Russians... The dis|patch said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov was heading the Soviet supreme command for the attack,

CLYDE HOLMES ~~ . ,Clyde Holmes, §0, of 1134 Congress ave, house painter, was in City hospital, today ~with. a possible fpraiken back following a 22-foot fall ( painting the. of Eugene Chambers, 1225

of the Red army invaded Man-|

550 feet.”

tured by this force, Moscow said. |

30th Infantry Main Body Due To Embark Soon |

PARIS, Aug, 10 (U, P.)—Today's|

redeployment timetable of u. 8.| emperor, who was anxious to for- and wild singing.

jarmy divisions: | 30th Infantry: Advance unit (home, 119th regiment expected to leave Le Havre this week-end, remainder scheduled to leave Southhampton on Queen Mary Aug. 17. 13th Airborne: Advance party on high seas, main body en route froin Camp Pittsburgh in Reims assembly area to Le Havre. 45th Infantry: Advance party on (high seas, bulk of division expected | to leave Camp St. Louis in Reims area for Le Havre Sunday. 35th Infantry: Advance party | home, main body being processed at | Camp Norfolk in Reims area, scheduled to leave for Le Havre middle of next week,

107 NAVAL VESSELS LOST WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (U, P.. —The navy announced today that 107 more naval vessels and 45 landing craft have been lost or

or perils of the sea. They include the destroyers Parrot, Tucker and Worden, - the destroyer

a variety of

become unusable {rom enemy action

Escort | Fr3 Holder, the submarines. 8-21, 5-39 and 8-3, 48 motor torpedo boats| ‘auxiliary vessels.

and therefore: the Japanese na-| tion will be free to adopt a form | of government of their own choosing. “The same quarters stressed that the decision by the Japanese government to accept the peace terms; as set forth in the Potsdam proc- | lamation under extremely difficult | eircumstances, has been due to the august wish of''his majesty, the;

ward the .cause of world peace as! well as the welfare of his majesty’s subjects.

that whether in war or in peace| it is the immutable conviction of, the entire Japanese nation firmly to uphold Japan's national . The FCC said that transmission then broke off.

EVENTS TODAY

City" teen canteen street ates, orld War Memorial p. City women's golf chimpionship tournament, Hillcrest Country club, am a iy

administration, tel Washingto i Delta Theta, luncheon, Troon, Columbia

meeting,

Sons Chi, luncheon, noon, Columbia club Dita Tau Delta, luncheon, noon Columbia

ub. Ka pa Sigma, luncheon noon, Columbia

] EVENTS TOMORROW ~ ; Christian college, “luncheo: noon, CoJuma club " college, dinner, p. m, Columpia club, *

“These quarters further stressed,

IN INDIANAPOLIS

optimin club, luncheon, noon, "Columbia

; mich: E85 Coleman, 59, ¥ ww om, |

STRAUSS SAYS: . .

A victory celebration swept the town | “When are we going home? «shouted boisterous G. I's who had oeen ticketed to go to Japan. As United Press correspondents spread the news along Rizal avenue —Manila's Broadway— cheering troops thronged the streets. Dance halls rocked with cheers

City Prepares for Great Celebration

War and office workers and civilian Indianapolis in general were on edge today awaiting the expected | announcement that peace had finally come. ‘ Safety officials were busy prepar-

At City—Albert, Myrtle Centers. At Methodist—Victor, Polly Land At St. Vincent's—-John, Marjorie Spalding; Daniel, Laurabella Stephenson, Boys At St. Francis—Harry, Leona Goodyear. At City—Walter, Dorothy Durrett At Coleman James, Mildred Btephrn, Dorothy Rosenbaum At Methodist—Ernest Einel Doan; Nadine Martin; Allon, Gladys John, Jrieta Williams; Wil © William

Carl, O'Brien; ilburt, Mary

= oOL0K ~ DEATHS Lee Graham, 48, at 565'4 Warren, coronary

occlusion. Ludwig Israel Zobel, occlust

coronar Richard Charles Wiitem 18, at 4803 Eng-

53. ‘at Methodist,

paint ; Bost: one month, nuen|

Emory K. Zimmerman of Detroig today prepared to assume the position of administrator of the Elkharg General hospital Sept. 10. He suee ceeds Miss Amy Daniels,

ITS ONE DAY NEARER PEACE!

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