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Evening star., 1945-08-17
Hirohito's War Guilt Is Topic
.OfLWeIy GIDebote in Manila

will be but odds are on the kind
OF peace which will strip Japan of
her military power for all times.
Here are some opinions I over
heard. although for obvious rea-
sons the men who voiced them
won't be identified:
What are we waiting for? Why
aren't we in Tokyo?
I'VE give those boogers the one
two with a couple of Buck Rogers
earthquakes and their Emperor
holds up his hands in holy horror
and says he's surrendering to save
civilization. The men who got it
at Pearl Harbor are just as dead
as the Nips who took an atomic
treatment.
Didn't the Krauts pull the same
baloney in 1918? We should have
marched into Berlin then and put
our feet on their necks, but no we
had to let them OF the first time
and do it all over again.
Il want to get back to the wife
and kids as bad as the next man
but now I want to 60 and sew
this thing up so tight my boy won't
have to finish the job for me"
Don't fret, Junior" said another.
After Macarthur gets through lay
ing it on the line for the bloody
Nips you won't have to worry about
your son or your grandsons either. /"
What burns me-" remarked a
third, 'ts I won't get to see that
Navy character, Bull Halsey. ride
BY on the Emperor's white horse.
wanted to be sitting on the palace
steps for that one.
Cheer up chum, cut In 4 fourth,
Maybe you'll see plenty before
nom puts that apple pie under
your nose 3,
Evening star., 1945-08-17
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, n,


SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Manila, Aug. IT,
Whether the Emperor of Japan
should be considered war GRIM
inal was a matter of lively debate
here among men who helped win
the Pacific war as the hour ap-
preached for the arrival of Hiro-
hito's ENJOYS.
Some individual soldiers hotly
contended the Emperor is equally
as guilty as Hitler or Mussolini and
represented in a higher degree that
totalitarian conception of military
power which brought the world to
the edge of ruin. This point of view,
however, is heard loudly challenged
in the sort of free-for all debate
which develops here wherever men
Of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps
gather
There can be no doubt men just
now are thinking long thoughts be-
fore they celebrate the peace which
dropped on them so swiftly. :
1t was argued that the Emperor
who represents the Supreme Being
in the minds of the Japanese masses
Is the only man who can make all
his soldiers at home and abroad
lay down their arms without addi-
tional bloodshed. Too, most men
who have followed Gen. MacAr-
thur through the long bitter cam
paign which met no major reverses
are convinced he will use the EN-
peror as an effective mouthpiece to
voice and enforce his commands
from the homeland to the last out
post of the shattered empire.
Nobody In barracks, tents a
lfo'c'sles knows yet what the terms
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Communist Paper Sees
Wall Street. Tory Alliance
BY the Associated Press.

6S lut ASSOCIATED fTeSE.
LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Com
munist Daily Worker said today a
new kind of Anglo American alli-
ance is In the making" of "a section
of Wall Street with disgruntled and
frightened Tories in Britain"
1t said there were powerful and
important American capitalists who
are certainly prepared to stop at
nothing in supporting the savage
rearguard action by their opposite
numbers in Britain"
Commenting on former Prime
Minister Churchilrs speech in Com
mons yesterday, the newspaper in a
front page editorial called it thor
oughly mischievous and reactionary
utterance" and added:
The most wicked of all is the
proposal to use the atomic bomb as
a means of diplomatic pressure. Can
anything be more calculated to un-
dernine the unity of the United
Nations so necessary for the future
peace? Not that keeping the bomb
secret is practical proposal, for the
Soviet Union and other countries are
on the verge of similar discovery, we
may be sure"
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Jap Radio Broadcast
Offers No Criticism
OF Suzuki Policies
ky the Associated Press.

As tne Associated Press.
Japanese domestic and foreign
broadcasts today continued efforts
to explain the causes of Japans de-
feat and urged swift recovery of
the national might.
One Tokyo radio broadcast re-
corded by NBC said the resignatio
Of the Suzuki war cabinet when
Emperor Hirohito accepted the
Allied surrender offer implies no
criticism of the policy or method of
the Suzuki cabinet no lack of
respect or confidence on the part
of the people"
The Ministry of Education, in a
Tokyo domestic broadcast recorded
by the FEC, instructed local gov
ernors and school principals that
teachers and students should be
determined to recover the national
might from the scorched earth -"
Acknowledges Errors.
Japanese propaganda directed to
East Asiatic peoples quoted the
newspaper Asahi as saying that "the
light OF the ideal for the racial
emancipation enkindled by the war
of Greater East Asia will keep burn
ing despite the tragic finale of the
conflict"
Asahi acknowledged that Japan
committed number of vital errors"
in its East Asiatic policies, but as
serted the fact that the peoples of
Greater East Asiatic nations never
theless did not stint cooperative
efforts with the japanese indicates
how strong and fervent was their
desire for liberty and emancipation"
At the end of lengthy review
of developments which caused the
Emperor to sue for peace, Domei
summoned all Japanese nationals
throughout the Orient to work for
the innate glory of our imperial
state" and to strive for the advance
ment of scientific knowledge, noting
that it was the superiority of the
enemy's science" that defeated
Japan.
Difficulties in Science.
Perhaps anticipating Allied con-
trolls which will keep close surveil-
lance of the Japanese to prevent
their perfection of weapon similar
to the atomic bomb, Domei noted
that under the new structure, the
advancement of science will literally
face many difficulties"
A Mainichi Shimbun editorial
warned the japanese against frater-
nal strife which would be engen-
dered by attempts to place the
blame for defeat. 1t also admon-
ished them not to take an "evasive
attitude" in living up to the forth
coming peace terms dictated by the
Allied powers" because in that event
there will be no possibility what
soever for Japan to rise to her feet
once again"
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Gen. f. H. Smith, k.,
Among Three Chosen
To Meet Japs on Ie

Brig. Gen. Frederic H. Smith, jr.,
formerly of 4434 Volta place NV,
was one of three officers named by
Gen. Macarthur to meet the jap
anese surrender party at lie Shima
and start the peace ENJOYS winging
on the final leg of their journey to
Manila, it was announced today.
Commander of the 5th Fighter
Command, Gen. Smith will join Maj
Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe of Los An
geles. deputy commander of the 5th
Air Force, and Brig. Gen. Thomas D.
White OF Springfield, ILL.,, COM
mander of the 7th Air Force, in es-
corting the delegates from their
own plane to the luxurious transport
provided for their trip to Manila.
Gen. Smith has headed the 5th
Fighter Command since last Feb
ruary and has been overseas since
February, 1912, except for four
month tour OF duty as deputy chief
of air staff at Air Forces headquar-
ters here.
Began in Field Artillery.
Son of Maj Gen. Frederic H.
Smith, former adjutant general of
the District National Guard, the
37-year-old air officer followed his
father into the field artillery before
switching to the Air Forces a year
after being graduated from West
Point in 1929.
After several tours of duty in the
Canal Zone-during one of which he
served as advisor to the Governor
of the Panama Canal on aviation
matters, Gen. Smith became COM
manding officer of the 9th Pursuit
Group at Mitchell Field, N. Y.
In November, 1912, he became
deputy chief of staff and later chief
of staff of the 5th Air Force in the
| Southwest Pacific. During this pc
riod he was awarded the Distin-
guished Service Medal and Air
Medal.
Rushed B-29 Work.
He became deputy senior air staff
officer and chief of operations to
the American component of the
Allied air forces in the European
theater in February, 1914, and
served there until September, when
he was stationed here as deputy
chief of air staff. From that post
he went back to the Southwest Pa
cif1c as commanding general of the
5th Fighter Command.
Gen. Wolfe, as chief of the B-29
special project staff at Wright
Field, Ohio, was credited with put
ting the Super Fortresses into the
war against Japan quicker than
any other major combat plane. He
saved six months by working out
the bugs" while the plane was being
produced.
When he had conquered the pro-
duction difficulties Gen. Wolfe or
ganized and trained the first B-29
force. which became the goth
Bomber Command, and took it to
Asia.
Evening star., 1945-08-17
ST. Louis Reporters
Told 10 Stay Home in
Strike Of Carriers
Ey the Associated Press


ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-THE three
daily newspapers in st. Louis were
shut down today as strike of car
riers went into its second day and
only skeleton editorial stats were on
the job following notice from pub
fishers to reporters and some desk
men not to enter the plants.
Adolph J. Rahm, president of the
st. Louis American Newspaper
Guild, said the publishers actions
constituted a lockout" resulting
from differences between the pub
fishers and newly formed union of
carriers, affiliated with the Interna-
tional Printing Pressmen and AS
sistants' Union. ...
The guild (CIO) is aghast at this
display of temper on the part of
publishers" Mr.. Rahm said. THE
guild is deeply concerned over the
utter lack of responsibility BY the
publishers as journalists and the
wanton disregard of their duties as
employers.
Offers Help on Discussions.
This lockout is a poorly concealed
attempt to use the remainder of the
employees as tool to enforce a set
tlement of difference by a union
with whom the employees have no
acquaintance" 4.,-s ,.sssss
Asserting that the guild would
offer dts services to- bring the dis
putants together, Mr.. Rahm said the
lockout violated the guild contracts
which the guild would insist on be-
ing enforced.
Munro Roberts, secretary of the
publishers association, said he had
no comment on the guilds state
ment. He said neither the carriers
nor the publishers had made any
representations and that the pub
fishers would not arbitrate until the
carriers ended the strike.
All three editions of the POST
Dispatch and the Star Times yes
terday and of the Globe Democrat
this morning were halted by the
strike. Carriers at all three build
ings set up picket lines which press
men and flyboys af1iliated with the
same AFL union would not cross.
Paid for This Week.
Charles D. Bond, business agent
for the AFL Paper Carriers Local
450A, said the strike was entirely
legal" having been voted by the
carriers June Is, with the authorize
ton of the international union.
In kilograms today to the editorial
staffs the publishers said its mem
bers would be paid for this week but
would receive no further salaries
until the strike ends.
The 200 carriers voted to strike
because Of disagreement with the
publishers over demands for COL
lective bargaining privileges as en-
ployes, a status they received under
National Labor Relations Board
ruling.
The newspaper publishers have
said they consider the carriers not
as employees but as merchants who
individually own and operate routes
which they said the NLRB found
to have an average purchase value
of S9O OO0
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Indo-China Prc>ectorate
Opposes French, Japs Say
Hy the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE
Japanese puppet kingdom of Wet
Nam, created last March by the
Japanese from the French Indo-
China protectorate of AMMAN, will
not accept peace if it means re-
turning to French rule, the Japa-
nese Domei news agency reported
today in a broadcast recorded by
the Federal Communications Com
mission
The declaration in the name of
the Puppet Premier asserted Wet
Mans intention of defending the
independence acquired in the last
stage of the Greater East Asia war"
the Domei dispatch, datelined Ha-
moi, said.
1.-THE people of yhe Wet Nam
Empire refuse to be subjugated
again by France, under whose fet-
ters they long suffered" the state
ment was quoted by Domei.
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Missions
Arrive in Manila
By the Associated Press.

MANILA, Aug, 17-Gen. Mac
Arthur's headquarters tonight an-
nounced the arrival in Manila of
special military missions from the
War Department in Washington
Admiral, Lord Louis Mountbatten,
commander of the Southeast Asia
Command, and the Australian
Army.
The announcement said only they
had arrived ito participate in Al
lied activities" but arriving at this
time, they obviously are linked with
japanese surrender developments.
The representatives from the War
Department are Brig. Gems. C. L.
Dasher and j. B. Stadler. who were
not otherwise identified.
The Australian Army mission in
cludes Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey,
Bcommander of Australian ground
froces, and 1t. Col D. H. Dwyer
Gen. Blamey's military assistant.
Representatives of Lord Mount
batten are Maj. Gen, w. R. C.
Penney. Lord Mountbatten's per-
sonal representative; Brig. Gen.
Thomas S. Timberman, an Ameri-
can; Air Commodore w. A. D.
Brook, chief of air; Col. A. Bull,
movement and transportation Off
Ger; Col. C. T. Nitford-Sl of the
joint planning staff: 1t. Col. D. w.
B. Vaughan, intelligence division;
1t. Col. A. L. Hicks, quartermaster
division, and Second Officer Muriel
Price, secretary to Gen. Penney.
CHUNGKING, Aug. II [P,.-Gen.
Hsu Yung-chung, head of the Board
Of Military Operations at Chungking
since 1887. left today for Manila as
chief of the Chinese delegation to
Japan's surrender.
Others in the delegation of eight
included Vice Admiral Yang Hsuan-
chen and 1t. Gen. Chu Shining
The party Travelled in an American
Army plane and was accompanied
by a group of foreign and Chinese
correSDOndentS
Evening star., 1945-08-17
.Onishi
CONTINUED From First Page

trous consequences. thereby follow
ing his imperial majesty's will,
shall be very happy. In your patti
ence and endurance never lose your
qualities as Japanese. You are the
treasure of the nation. Attend
properly to your peacetime circum-
stances and maintain steadfastly
the spirit Of the special attack corps
by your utmost for the revival of
the Japanese race and for world
peace"
Onishi was one of two commanders
who headed naval air units in the
Philippines during the time of the
American operations there. He be-
came vice chief of the naval general
stan last May, and helped to perfect
special aerial tactics.
According to earlier Tokyo broad
casts, Onishi is the second high
ranking Japanese military official to
have committed suicide In the wake
Of surrender.
Tokyo had reported that three
days ago Gen. Korechika Anami,
War Minister In the cabinet of
Premier Kantaro Suzuki, had COM
mitted hari-kiri.
Domei did not report whether
onishi had employed hara-kiri.
Onishi served from November,
1943, until October, 1914, as director
of the general affairs bureau of the
aircraft ordnance headquarters OF
the Japanese munitions ministry,
prior to commanding Japanese
Army and Navy land-based planes
in the Philippines.
One Japanese diplomatic ofiicial
also has been reported . suicide.
The Swiss Telegraph Agency said
yesterday In Bern that 1t. Gen.
Suemasa Okamoto, who was named
Japanese military attache in Switz-
erl9nd IN 1919, had committed sui
eide n Zurich
Evening star., 1945-08-17
More Than 100 Get
Draft Call; Majority
Are Glad 10 Get In

More than 100 men from the Dis
trict area reported for induction
into postwar military service to-
day, and the majority Of them
particularly those 81 and under
were pleased with the whole idea.
This way we get to go to school
under the CT Bill of Rights, we get
to see foreign countries, we get vet
erans' preference. Sure, even If the
war is over, we're glad to get in
explained 18-year-old Waldo Bran
han, 103 Eighth street NE, who
was a carpenters helper before to-
day
Most of the younger ones planned
to go to school after leaving the
service.
We're in for two years at least,
maybe longer" Dallas Hiett. l9, of
1346 G street Sc estimated. A
pressman's assistant, Mr.. Hiett
wants to study medicine when he
gets through his military service
and two years of Government paid
schooling would help a lot.
Some of those over 81 wanted to
get in too. Clarence Eich. "a, of 149
Ivanhoe street S.W., a mechanical
engineer at the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory, said, I've been trying
to get in ever since this thing
started. But until now I was 4-F.
They can still use us as replace
ments"
Many of those, who didn't plan to
go to school on return to civilian
life planned to use their veterans
preference to help them obtain new
jobs.
Only one of today's inductees is
over 26. He is Tom Owens. 27. of S
Erickson road, Bethesda, Md. He
said he has been trying to get in for
a long time, too, and succeeded in
enlisting in July. He said he was
told by an Army corporal at the
induction center yesterday that he'd
be discharged in six months.
Most of today's group want to go
overseas. All but about Is hope to
be assigned to the Marines. Ten
prefer the Navy and five the Army.
Sixty men from the District proper
reported for induction.
Twenty-six of the group were
scheduled to report yesterday, but
were given an extra day while the
induction station took a holiday.
Today's list does not include the
names of the men 26 and over who
were sent home. The sixty sched-
uled for induction TODAY were.
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Super Fort Attacks
Cost 5000 Flyers
And 437 Graft Lost
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM. Aug. 17.-Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz disclosed today that the
year long operations of B-29s
against Japan cost the lives OF
more than 5000 American flyers
while more than 600 others were
rescued by naval operations.
Combat operations resulted in the
loss Of 437 of the Super Fortresses
Noncombat losses were not an
nounced, but tney are known te
be considerable, particularly in the
early months of the campaign when
the crews were learning the capabil-
tiles of their planes.
Crews lost, averaging II men each
numbered 297.
In addition, 106 Iwo-based, long
range fighters were lost.
On the other side of the ledger
the commander of the United States
Army Strategic Air Forces said, the
giant aircraft destroyed the major
industrial productive capacity OF
SO Japanese cities and partially de.
stroyed 6, others.
Six Cities Almost Destroyed.
Six cities more than rs per cent
destroyed were Numazu, Fukui, Hi.
tachi, Takamatsu, Kuwana anc
Himeji.
The B-29s few more than 100..
000,00 miles in an aggregate o1
1882 fights from Marinas and In.
dian bases and dropped l69, ,42l ton!
Of bombs.
A total of 581 important factorie,
engaged in production of war ma.
terials has been either totally de-
stroyed or severely damaged. In
cluded in this number are % ma jol
factories Of Japan's aircraft indus
try resulting in a go per cent re
duction of her combat plane produc
tion capacity. the communique said
Also included are six major arse.
mails and two plants producing tetrs
ethyl lead.
Japan's major oil refining capacity
was knocked out with the destruc.
ton or severe damaging of eight
principal oil reflneries and Is PEI
cent reduction in steel capacity re.
suited from the damaging of two
major steel plants.
1903 Mines Laid.
Among the cities included in the
totals were Hiroshima and Nagasaki
which were destroyed or severely
damaged by one atomic bomb each
Since March %, 1s45, the Supe,
Forts. in a total of ,435 flights, have
laid 12,049 mines in enemy waters.
In their operations the B-29 crew.
destroyed or damaged 1885 Japa.
nese planes in the air and another
$50 on the ground.
During the period from April
to May II, total of 1850 tons o.
bombs were dropped on airfieldS IL
Kyushu for the purpose of neutral
izing enemy air operations in co.
ordination with the Okinawa cam.
paign.
Long-range fighters of the stra
tegic air forces operating from Iwt
made 8.012 flights to Japan in ad.
dition to providing escorts for th'
B-29s in their operations. The Two
based fighters destroyed or dam
aged Loaf enemy planes at a los
Of 106 of their own number, the re
port said.
Evening star., 1945-08-17
Jap Cabinet
Continued From First Page,

when Japan began war on China in
1887 and again In 1S4l prior to
Pearl Harbor. His title prince comes
from an old noble family; he is
not member of the royal family.
The Navy Minister is Admiral
Mitsumasa Yonai, who held the
same position under Suzuki. He
has been variously commander of
the Japanese Sd Fleet, commander
|of the Sasebo and Yokosuka naval
stations and commander in chief
of the combined fleet, and Navy
Minister in three cabinets between
1887 and 1899.
Other members of the new cabi-
net are:
Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign
Minister and Greater East Asia
Minister.
Naoto Kohiyama, Minister of
Transport.
Taketora Ogata, Minister Without
Portfolio: chief cabinet secretary
and president of the Board of In
formation.
DR.. Chuzo 1wata. Justice Minister.
Juichi Tsushima, Finance Min
tster.
Shikuhei Naka ajima, Minister of
Munitions.
Naokai Murase. president of the
Legislation Bureau.
Kotaro Sengoku, Agriculture and
Commerce Minister.
Kohiyama and Ogata as well as
Yonai were retained from the Suz-
uki cabinet.
Shigemitsu was Foreign Minister
in the war cabinets of Hideki Toto
and Kuniako Koiso. He has a
wooden leg, having lost a limb in the
1882 Shanghai bombing by Korean
Nationalist.
Among the others, Yamazaki is a
former Vice Minister of Home Al
fairs. and Tsushima, a former vice
president of the Bank of Japan, and
1wata and Sengoku were on Suzuki's
Advisory Board.
Evening star., 1945-08-17

j. Chamberlin of Gen. MacArthur's
G-3 (operations), is completing
plans for the occupation Of Japan.
There has been no official word
as yet on where the actual surren-
der will take place, but dispatches
from Guam have suggested 1t may
be aboard a Pacific Fleet flagship
of Japan. perhaps in Tokyo Bay
with representatives of all the AL
lied nations attending.
Evening star., 1945-08-17
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-01-23
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