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Tokyo May SolonsSure Censorship
Be Next In New Bomb Puts Clamp
Attack Line To Shorten On Damage
For Atomics Nippon War To Seaport
Washington Seeks Jses In Peacetime Japanese Official
To Get Idea Of Are Also Cause Report Declares
Destruction For Elation Damage Great
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington, Aug. 7—(AP) Guam, Aug. 7—Iron cen-
Washington, Aug. 7—(AP) — Elated legislators todaj sorship was clamped on de-
•~- Tokyo or one 01 Japan's 'orecast that the atomic bomb ails of the atom bombing of
vould shorten the Japanese SfJHERE ATOMIC BOMB WAS MADE AT OAK RIDGE, TENN.—This is an aerial view of Hiroshima by the U. S. stra-
other great w-ar industry var and might mark the trail one of the big factories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., near Knoxville, where the new atomic bomb
cities was believed here today 'or revolutionary peacetime ngle air forces today, but
vas developed. President Truman personally issued a statement through the White House from the stunned enemy fin-
to be next on the list for ievelopment of cheap energy. Vug, fi, disclosing existence of the bomb, described as the most terribly destructive force ever
atoiriic bomb destruction. illy came admission that the
This was the view of offi-
cials trying to evaluate 'the
N EGROES CLING TO TENT 'CITY'—About 40 negro fam-
ilies, living in a tent colony (top) at Columbus, Ga., have
refused to move into a new housing project (bottom) because it
President T r u m a n ' s an-
louncement that the world's
most destructive missile has
larnessed by man. Tile disclosure was made just after the first atomic bomb was dropped
m the city of Hiroshima, Jap sea port and army base. Note that the factory buildings have
;errific new weapon had done
reat damage.
'ew windows except on the top story. (AP Wirephoto). A Japanese imperial communi-
possible effects of the terify- was built across town away from their home neighborhood. jeen dropped on Japan found que broadcast by radio Tokyo
ing new weapon—both on The families pay only $3.50 per month for tent space. Quarters members of the senate mili- lintcd the Nipponese war lords
bringing this war to an early
end and on shaping the world
in the housing project, 12 blocks away, would cost from $10 to
?25 per month. Health authorities say they will tear down the
;ai;y and appropriation com-
mittees ready to act on White Strike Total UNRRAMust Excitement were scurrying about, trying to
determine what hit the Hiroshi-
ma army base.
of tomorrow.
From what has been announced
publicly by President Truman and
tent "city" Sept. 1. (AP Wirephoto). Souse bidding as soon as con-
ress reconvenes in October.
Mr. Truman suggested Congres-
Hangs Around Put Billions Is At Peak While meager U. S. disclosures
said one bomb had hit with such
devastating force that the city was
other American and British offi-
cials it is clear that old ideas of
national defense and security—
Tarumi Port Yanks Using sional establishment of a commis-
sion to control the production
use of the atomic energy which
and 64,OOOJVIar Into Relief In Oak Ridge hidden in a towering cloud of
dust, the Japanese talked of new
"bombs." Their use of the plural
based even on weapons as modern
as the rockets Hitler used against
London — are due to undergo rad-
Is Set Afire New Pincer ;ives the bomb its tremendous BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
destructive power.
Some Knew It The nation's strike total wa:
London, Aug. 7.—(ff)—A highly Oak Ridge,
responsible American source said (if) — Excitement continued
Tenn., Aug. 7 — indicated the blast was so shatter-
ing they could not believe only one
bomb had struck.
ical changes. today that UNRRA's program today following the dramatic re
In its impact on peaceful pur-
suits, the newly harnessed energy
During Raid OnYamashita ing
The fact that
developed—one
the bomb
best-kept secrets—has been known
of the
was be-
war's
around the 64,000 mark today,
more than two dozen disputes cur-
as The Nipponese communique said
I through 1946 would require new velation that this war-created city a number of B-29s made the at-
contributions from participating is the home of the mighty atomi tack with "considerable" destruc-
still is some years from practical Manila, Aug. 7.—(/Pi—American to some senators for more thai: tailed and halted production along nations of between 51,500,000,000 bomb. tion. The admission was typical
use, according, to official reports, Manila, Aug. 7.—(«—The south-
two years. the labor front.
but it may revolutionize industry ern Japanese port of Tarumi was and Filipino troops are developing Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) told With 23,000 idle at the Wright and $2,300,000,000. For the first time since the vast of the Japanese habit of underesti-
and trade of the future. set afiame Sunday by more than a two-way pinch on Japanese hide a reporter the military committee Aeronautical Corporation plant in Details of the financial program I project was begun slightly less mating damage, because U. S. sour-
ces indicated the great cloud of
Announcement Is Clear 400 Far East Air Forces planes in outs in northern Luzon in a relent will expedite legislation setting up Cincinnati, the metal working in- will be presented to the UNRRA than three years ago, Oak Hidge dust that rose from Hiroshima
Evidently with this in mind, he heaviest* fire raid yet mounted less search for Central Yarna dustries was the hardest hit. A conference here by Director Gen- residents numbering approximate- might have contained vaporized
President Truman made clear in by the Okinawa-based fliers against shita despite some rumors that the
control commission so that
can be ready; to make a swif total of 43,000 were idle in this eral Herbert Lehman, he said. The ly 75,000, knew what was being 3uildings.
his announcement of the new bomb a single objective. transition from war to peace activ category. Several hours before the enemy
yesterday that the development of The entire target was engulfed the Japanese commander of the ities when the Pacific conflict ends One of the oldest stoppages on larger figure was reported to de-1 manufactured here and the over- communique was issued, the Osaka
atomic power in this country is to n flames and smoke that billowed Philippines was killed in an air While seeing- the .possibility tha the.strike list ended--during the pend upon whether the council whelming bearing it was expected radio had given some suggestion
.be kept .under .tight government 12,000 feet high, Gen. Douglas raid- - - - -^ •'•:.... " . = - - . • ' — - the bomb might shorten the wai last 24 hours, enabling about 2,700 grants Russia's request for ?700,- to have on the war with Japan. of the extent of the damage when
control. MacArthur related in today's com- An estimated 6,000 Japanese
materially, Thomas said he coulc men and women to go hack to 000,000 worth of supplies. t made a matter-of-fact announce-
Because of its enormous poten- munique announcing the two-hour have been pocketed in three areas not guess whether it would elim work in Kentucky coal mines and It was learned that financial Surprise was complete and wide- ment that various trains in Hiro-
tialities for both war and peace, attack. in the towering mountains. The affiliated jobs. spread when the secret was first shima prefecture had been can-
inate the necessary for an invasion questions would be discussed in
the use of atomic energy is a two- Planes of all categories in the U. S. Sixth Infantry division re- of Japan. A 29-day old strike which had executive session until the pro- released in Washington yesterday. :elled.
sided problem. Here are princi- I'ar East Air Forces participated ported these enemy remnants had Thomas and Senator O'Mahone; closed four mines, six company gram has been whipped into shape. Newspapers sold here for a dol- The imperial headquarters com-
pal points of both sides as devel- ncluding Liberator heavy bomb- been split into small groups in the (D-Wyo), a member of the appro stores and five recreation centers The United States' contribution to munique was amplified later by
oped in official statements and in- ers, Mitchell mediums and Thun- vicinity of Antipolo, Mayoyao priations and military committees of the Consolidation Coal Company the organization's fund to date has lar each. One circulation man said Domei news agency dispatch
terpreted by those qualified to do derbolt and Mustang fighterbomb- and Hungduan. at Jenkins and McRoberts, Ky., amounted to about 72 per cent of
1,600 were bought from him with- quoting
Tokyo "informed quarters"
so: •s. Associated Press Correspondenl said Congress is certain to provide ended after a personal appeal by in 35 minutes.
Russell Brines, with the 127th In all the funds necessary for peace the total. as saying that the bomb was par-
Effect on the war with Japan . . Tarumi, about the size of San- President JJohn L. Lewis of the Ernest Bevin, Britain's new for- Thousands of workmen employed achuted and exploded before It
Dropping of the first- atomic dusky, O.. is on the east shore of fautry regiment of the 32nd di time development of atomic energs
a possible replacement for coal United Mine, Workers. eign secretary, told the opening on the project heard the news with reached the ground.
bomb on the Japanese army base Kagoshima bay on Kyushu island, vision, said three American anc as Lewis told the strikers, members session of the third UNRRA inter-
at Hiroshima 'Sunday night was opposite the often-Dom'oed Indus- one Filipino columns had made oil and other power sources. as much surprise — and exhilara- The dispatch warned the Jap-
mainly a warning to the enemy. rial center of Kagoshima. new thrusts 55 miles northeast Both insisted that any such de of the UMW and the affiliated uni- national council that liberated Eu- tion — as anyone else throughout anese people that its destructive
velopment should be controled bj ted construction workers that rope must he succored during the power cannot be slighted. It re-
It is believed here that the city, Only one Japanese plane >at- of Baguio, and were developing a the government for the commoi "this strike is in violation of the next 12 months to prevent "dis- the country, but remained at their peated the communique's state-
which had a pre-war population ;empted interception. two-way pinch on enemy holdouts contract with the company." He ease, anarchy and bloodshed." jobs without celebration. ment that more than one bomb
of 318,000, was largely if not com- Other aerial attacks were an- belived to include Yamashita and good of all, an objective Mr. Tru
man seemed to have in mind it urged- the workers to "put their
pletely wiped out. nounced against enemy holdings his staff. grievances in my hands." TOe When newspaper extras hit the had been used, declaring a "few**
lad been dropped.
The Japanese have no adequate all the way to Jr.va and Singapore. Ifugao native scouts four days recommending establishment o walkout on July 9 resulted from Atomic Bomb Is streets in Knoxville, one woman Domei followed usual Japanese
defense against this weapon any- A Fifth Air Force Liberator on ago said Yamashita and been kill- the commission. what union officials said was a j declared, "I'm too close to Oak procedure in admitting only that
more than against regular aerial Sunday sank a large transport and ed a month ago by an air raid or "We must have a commission to protest against discharge of se-
bombardment. a medium freighter in Tsushima the remote Kungdaun-Kiangkiang deal with the entire area of scien- veral workers. "jCheap if It Cuts Ridge. I want to move away right houses, rather than military es-
straits between Japan and Korea. sector. tific development," O'Mahoney as- Other stoppages ended during now." Another said. "Now we've tablishments, were damaged. It
Few See Quick End
Few top officials here expect a Seventh Fleet Liberators hit the Two Japanese prisoners said serted. "That is the new post- the last 24 hours were at two Vul-
War By Few Day* been told everything." termed the bomb tactics inhuman
and said impatience at slow pro-
surrender at once. Mr. Truman southern Korean copper-smelting however, that they had been war frontier. We must use what can Iron Works plants in Wilkes- Recollections of the manner in gress of invasion plans "drove the
disclosed that new and even more ;own of Gunzan with 500-pound force dto act as litter-bearers for science is capable of producing for Barre, Pa., which had idled about Washington, Aug. 7.—(/P)—Even which the gigantic project, sprawl- enemy" to its use.
powerful atomic bombs are in the 3ombs Saturday night, causing at Yamashita because he was wound the advancement of human beings, if the atomic bomb shortens the
making. least one violent explosion. ed. The date they gave corre instead of destruction. The peo- 1,000 workers for three days, and ing over 59,000 acres of land, had Marianas-based B-29s today kept
at the 10 plants of the Reynolds war by only nine days, its money sprung up occupied almost as much up the continual pounding of the
The president and Secretary of Other Seventh fleet Liberators spends to the scouts' repovt of his ple as a whole must have access Metals Company at Louisville, Ky., cost will have been more than conversation attention as the ato- enemy empire with a noonday 125
War Stimson gave little detail of ank a 120-foot submarine chaser death, but there was no evidence to it. It must not be held as pri- justified.
and two at Richmond, Va., affect- President Truman announced mic bomb itself.
vate domain." plane strike at the big Toyokawa
the new weapon except that the ind damaged eight other small ves- of the accuracy of their story. ing 3.500 and 1,500 employes, res-
size of the explosive charge is ex- ^els off Formosa while Fifth Air On the other hand, two guer O'Mahoney said it seemed ap- pectively. Some 1,500 other em- the project has cost $2,000,000,000. People recalled that Oak Ridge naval arsenal, 37 miles southeast
mushroomed from a rolling and of Nagoya castle. Returning air-
ceedingly small. A London com- Force Liberators were harassing rillas said they had seen the gen palling that such developments as ployes of the company at New Treasury experts said today this timbered rural landscape into Ten- men said they bombed visually in
mentator reported 'that the bomb Shanghai's Tinghai airdrome. eral alive and well in the Mayoyao the atomic bomb are often ob- York City and Glendale, L. L, re- represents the cost of less than
tained in the first instance for war mained out in a dispute over con- nine days of war, at the present nessee's fifth city with more than good weather and results were
is only one-tenth the size of the Thirteenth Air Force and Sev- sector recently. 300 miles of roads, 55 miles of 'excellent."
blockbuster, although some observ- enth Fleet Liberators and Royal Brines reported that a column instead of peace. But he acknowl- tract negotiations. rate of spending.
railway track, schools, churches, Their missiles were high explo-
ers here believe it may be heavy Australian Air Force planes con- which pushed off at dawn Augus edged that scientificic research for No new developments were re- averaged U. S. war expenditures have
and bulky because of the appa tinued to support ground forces 4 from Highway 11 met strong war must continue along with ported in the other continuing well over $7,000,000,000 theaters and recreation centers. sives, the 20th Air Force said —
There was so much mud on the presumably not atomic bombs.
atus needed to tough off the on Borneo, blasted the runway at enemy resistance, while a secom peaceful developments. strikes and walkouts. a month for the last two years.
charge. Miti airdrome on Java, sank three column on the floor of the twist In July the government spent project in the early days of con- Mustangs escorted the Superforts
ing upper Agno river valley me $7.395,000,000 on the war, a daily struction. . one newspaperman re- but found no air opposition.
Effects of atomic energy use in small vessels off western Borneo,
Yugoslav Agency
and made neutralizing raids on the rear guard forces four miles t< average of about $239,000,000. At called, that Oak Ridgers always The 20th Air Force communique
peacetime . . .
At the moment the use of this Celebes and Halmaheras.
new weapon is securely in the
Atomic Bomb Sunk
the south.
At Trieste.
(this rate $2,000,000,000 was spent took off
in about eight and one-third days.'ing a friend's house.
their shoes before enter- today also reported a broad sweep
across the Tokyo area yesterday
by 97 Iwo-based Mustangs which
hands of the Allies. But it is ex-
President Is NearingHome; Shakes Jap's Says Relief Ship smashed at nine enemy airfields,
pected that in future years every
great industrial nation will devel- Fernet Says Marshal Petain rail yards, and shipping, and de-
stroyed or damaged 25 grounded
op it.
Reliable authorities already are
talking of the possibility that the
DomesticPot WillBeFoun orale, City ApprovedSecret Agreement
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Yugoslav News agency said
aircraft.
The Tokyo - Yokohama district
today the merchant ship William was bombed and strafed about an
United States could be attacked
Boiling WhenHe GetsHome San Francisco, Aug. 7 —- (^ — Palmer, bearing relief supplies of hour this morning by 40 Iwo-bas-
by atomic rockets launched either
from Europe or Asia. Some ex-
pect to use this as a new and dra- Washington, Aug. 7. — m — ident expect him to stand squarclj the
The new atomic bomb shook both the United Nations Relief and Re-
the
military city of Hiroshima and habilitation Administration, struck
Japanese morale, enemy pro- a mine at the entrance to Trieste
With Britain After Treaty ed American Mustangs.
More than 400 Far East Air
Forces fighters and bombers con-
matic argument, when congress re- President Truman, nearing home behind the high command if i pagandists indicated today in a harbor and sank in 30 minutes last tain maintained contact with the verted the Kyushu port of Tarumi
turns, for enactment of national today with a satchel full of in- maintains that it still must have broadcast lifting some of the sec- Saturday. By RELMAN MORIN
old soldier's regime throughout into a vast swirl of flame Sunday
service legislation. ternational agrements, will find 7,000,000 in the army next June.
on the devastating effect of The cargo consisted of 835 tons Paris, Aug. 77.—-(/P)—Adm. Jean 1940 through Spain and Swizer- with a two hour hammering with
Future Possibilities the domestic pot boiling with Significantly, Secretary of War recy of clothing, more than 1,000 tons Fernet told the court trying Mar- land. firebombs, rockets and bullets,
The contention will be made problems. Stimson said recently the maxi- the new "diabolic weapon."
that should an attack occur in First off Mr. Truman must com- mum rate of discharging men is chute The bomb was dropped by para- of barley and 360 horses to be shal Petain for his life today that He said Petain and Laval were General, MacArthur reported to-
some future generation this coun- plete his manuscript for the radio now being carried out. yesterday morning, explod- used for breeding purposes, said Ihe old soldier approved secret at loggerheads within six months day. Pilots said the great fires were
try would need millions of trained report to the nation he is expected Because most congressmen have ing in the air and spreading ex- the broadcast dispatch, reported negotiations with Great Britain in after the Vichy government was visible 30 miles.
citizens capable of taking control to make within the next day or gone home, Mr. Truman may not tensive destruction across the city, by the Federal Communications 1940 shortly after the French-Ger- set up and that Laval was arrested Eyewitness reports of the his-
government - controlled Do- Commission. on the night of December 13, 1940, toric blow struck at Hiroshima by
to prevent panic, to organize se- two on what happened when he face any showdown with them the man armistice.
The Palmer's crew was saved He said the marshal approved after Petain had consulted the the single, small atomic bomb were
curity and to prepare for resist- sat down with Generalissimo to tell the army to release more mei news agency said.
Japan's fear was indicated in an and several of the horses were the visit to England of Louis Rou- cabinet of which he was interior withheld pending their release by
ance and counter-attack. Stalin, Prime Minister Attlee and until October. But he may have the War Department in Washing-
However, Senator Johnson (D- former Prime Minister Churchill. transportation workers and coal unprecedented series of adjectives able to swim ashore, it said. gier, and that he returned from minister.
conferences with former Prime A woman's suicide leap before ton. Witnesses of a test blast in
Colo), a member of the nfllitary The Big Three Potsdam com- miners. calling the attack 1'inhuman,' "wan-
ton," 'destructive, 'bestial,' 'bar- minister Churchill and former a subway train delayed the trial New Mexico July 16, however, re-
(ommittee, told interviewers al munique left unaswered such ques- Although now on vacation, Sec- baric' and 'designed to massacre
*enver last night ."the . atomic tions as the use to which G-erman retary of Interior Ickes is likely innocent civilians.'
Rehabilitation Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden for an hour today because a juror lated that a steel tower was "va-
with a working agreement. was caught in the ensuing traffic porized" by the incredible blast—
Domb ought to blow up peacetime prisoners are to be put, how Eu- to be an early White House caller American "impatience at the
conscription x x x It ought to mean rupean relief may be handled and to discuss the coal problem. De- slow progress of the much vaunted
Staff Session The witness said Britain agreed jam. shock of which was felt for 250
to take no aggressive action against Peyrouton, who was moved from miles.
the end of big armies." whether newsmen actually are go- fense transportation director J.
One of the most common com- ing to be permitted to report on Monroe Johnson, who has been invasion of Japan's mainland" was
Is In Progress French colonies if the Vichy gov- Argentina to North Africa by Gen. Secretary of War Stimson In
ments heard in the capital after what happens inside Poland and "hollering" about the lack of rail- described as one of the main reas- ernment would not attempt to re- Henri Giraud after the Allied Washington gave a hint of what
the atomic bombing airmen over
release of the news abo,ut the ato- the Balkan countries. road workers, also may have a few ons for use of the bomb. Morehead City, Aug. 7.—M>)— gatin control of territory held by landings, snid the Britis hestab-
mic bomb was that it greatly in- Senator Vandenberg (R.-MicJk) words for the president. "The destructive power of the The North Carolina division of Gen. De Gaulle's Free French. lished contacts with Vichy be- Hiroshima had seen. The city, he
creases the responsibilities of gov- called on the Big Three yesterday Mr. Truman also has some un- new weapon cannot be slighted," vocational rehabilitation continued Under the proposed plan, Fernet causg they were concerned about said, was quickly engulfed In "an
ernments to work together for to guarantee news freedom privi- finished business on appointments. admitted the enemy report, mon- its staff conference here today with said the British would have re- the French fleet. He said noth- impenetrable cloud of dust and
the blockade if Vichy agreed ing came of tho exchanges. (smoke."
world peace. leges in those areas as a check on Secretary Byrnes wants to shake itored by the Federal Communi- national workers and medical men laxed not to help Germany in any way. When a juror asked about Vichy's The Japanese Domei agency In
Another piece of legislation for the freedom of elections there. up the State department, and Wil- cations Commission. attending.
apparently is going liam L. Clayton may be the only Dome! quoted "informed quart- Subjects up lor discussion are about Rougier has written a book anti-Jewish law, Peyrouton asked: a broadcast last night noted simp-
which military leaders are prepar- Mr. Truman the negotiations, which of- "is this my trial or marshal Pe- ly that President Truman and Brit-
ed to argue would authorize the to have to say something about, the officials. Dean Acheson, another ers" in Tokyo as conceding that the fiscal affairs, mental tests, phys- ficial British statements branded tani's?" But he asserted that ish Prime Minister Clement Att-
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federal government to organize size of the army. Some legisla- survivor among present lop-rank new bomb had "considerable de- ical restoration, and reports on ac- a a distorted account. "racial laws were signed by all lee had announced the dropping of
ind promote peacetime scientific tors lately have been bearing assistant secretary, reportedly structive power." Earlier, a Jap- tivities of the past year. a
the bomb on Hiroshima. It was
Marcel Peyrouton, former Vichy government ministers."
research. It was such research down on the key that the army wants to be solicitor general, and anese imperial headquarters com- The conference, directed by minister and governor of Algeria, The trial, entering Its 14th day the first enemy reference to the
'hjit led eventually to development is keeping too many men in uni- it Is doubtful that he would stay munique used the same adjective Charles H. Warren, Raleigh, open- today told the court trying Mar- is expected to elose by the end of newest and most fearful weapon
form. in the department even if Byrnes in describing damage to Hiroshi- ed here yesterday and will con- ot Allied scientists.
'CJONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN Capitol Hill frleud« of till pres- Wanted to retain him. ma as "considerable." tinue through Friday. shal Petain for his life that Bri- r.cxt week.