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 Commander of the Army Air Forces-now held by Gen. H. H. Ar mold who has been in i'll health dur ing recent war months. Two logi- cal successors are Gen. Carl A. Spaatz or It. Gen. Ira c. Baker.
 Secretary of War-the present sec- retary, Henry L. Stimson is 78 years old and is known to desire retire ment. His possible successors are many, including John J. Mo- Cloy, present assistant secretary of war. Some sources are agitating for the appointment of Gen. Doug las MacArthur to this post, but MacArthur's elevation to cabinet rank is not held likely.
 FOrrestal Through?
 Secretary of Navy-Recurrent re- ports say that James V. Forrestal will resign. There has been no in- dication as to when or as to who his successor will be.
 Secretary of Interior-Harold L. Ickes has a firm hold on the job although nothing permanent. Ickes is Il years old. The President is known to be willing to have Ickes remain as long as he wants to. IckeS, however, is expected to leave the government within matter of months.
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 The Japanese army is relatively intact and still has no awareneSs of defeat in the personal sense. 4 The mass of the people believe that the war was halted by the mag unanimous gesture of the emperor, rather than as 8 result of Allied force.
 Survey
 This is no snap judgment on my part, but the result of several days of asking questions. It represents the conclusion of all United Press correspondents and many American officers.
 The Japanese simply say: ''We are embarrassed at the future of the army and navy to triumph for the emperor-next time we will do bet- ter"
 American forces in Japan are re- garded as slightly unwelcome guests who must be tolerated for a time. There Is none of the abject sub- servience of badly beaten people. Nor the bitter resentment of those who know they have been hopelessly licked.
 The Japanese apparently prefer to regard this as a breather be- tween rounds. They are simply wait ing for the bell to send them out fighting again-presumably when and if Japan obtains the secret atomic bomb or some other "equal- izer."
 It appears as if the Japanese sim ply regard the existing peace as a tactic" in the eternal war for world domination.
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states have to reduce their own pay ments by as much as the federal government was giving?
 For example, if state A now has q $20 week maximum unemploy- ment compensation payment the federal government under the Kill gore plan would add $5. But be- cause of a quirk in some state laws state A might have to reduce its own payment by that $5. Thus the person receiving compensation would not receive $25 at all. He'd get $15 from his state plus $5 from the federal government-the same $20 he'd have gotten from his state in the first place.
 The committee has asked every governor to ask his attorney general or legal department to prepare an opinion on this point.
 Meanwhile Chairman Walter George, D., Ga, said he didn't think there would be any such legal bar rier to an arrangement by which the federal government would make supplementary payments merely to extend the duration of jobless conn., penSation.
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(COnClnueu rom rage U counts of the terrible destruction wrought by that lone bomb month ago next Thursday.
 Indescribable
 It is almost indescribable. No one in the United States could conceive or ever know what it is like unless he has seen it, or unless-God for bid!-an atomic bomb some day falls on America.
 The trip through the suburbs didn't prepare us for the shock of total devastation awaiting us in the center of the city.
 There were bombed and burned out buildings in the suburbs, but it was like lot of other bombed dis tricts in London, Cologne and Nun ich.
 Then you enter the city proper and you know that this is more than just another bombed city. It is just an epoch of destruction.
 The center of Hiroshima literally had been bombed fiat. Only few concrete buildings appears still up- right, and those are little more than optical illusions. They are burned out and the steel girders in them are twisted beyond hope of repair.
 The stench of death is every where. It is like the battlefields of Normandy, where the bodies of Ger mans were left to bloat in the sum- mer sun.
 Survivors To Die
 The living-and Japanese doctors tell us that many of them soon also will be among the dead-are dazed, unable to comprehend the disaster that had overwhelmed them.
 They poked through the piles of stone and wood that once were their homes. They knew they had little chance of finding anything salvag- able, but somehow those piles of rubble represented a link with the past-and with sanity.
 In their eyes when we passed us was hate-all the hate that 1t is pos- sible for a human to muster.
 Our guide was a young Japanese naval lieutenant who was born in Sacramento. Calf, and whose father still lives there. His mother brought him to Japan II years ago after he had spent l2 years in the United States.
 I asked him: How do the people here feel about us? Do they hate us e do they think that itS the koEtuzN ug Warf"
 He answered simply and frankly: Thy hate you.'
 And we could read confirmation h the survivors ayes.
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Petitjeon on College Staff

Appointed a full time faculty member of the Junior College of Connecticut, in Bridgeport, Charles F. Petitjean, son of MT. and Mrs. c. W. Petitjean of Platts Mills, will, teach salesmanship, merchant dising and other commercial sub- jects, and will also direct the col- lege bookstore, according to E. Ev- erett Cortright, Junior College president.
 A graduate of the Teachers col- lege of Connecticut, in New Brit ain, with a B. s. degree, MT. Petit jean also holds the M. A. degree from New York university. He for merly was a member of the fac- ulty at Canton high school, in Col linsville, where be taught commer- cial subjects.
 In addition to his educational eX- perience, MT. Petitjean also has worked in business and industry,
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the bomb- blasted heart of Tokyo.
 Hirohito was in full uniform. He wore boots and spurs and military decorations when he arrived at the diet building at 10:42 a. m.
 He travelled from the palace in a well-worn black Rolls Royce bear- ing 16-point chrysanthemum medallion, the imperial emblem, on its radiator.
 Hirohito was escorted from the palace, 8 mile away, by black -uni- formed police riding bright red mo- torcycles. Police kept the crowds at respectful distance. They unocv- cred and bowed gravely.
 According to the official Japan csc translation of the rescript the emperor said:
 Tt is our desire that our people will Surmount the manifold hard ships and trials attending the ter- mination of the war, make manifest the mate glory of Japan's national policy and win the confidence of the world" In another version the phrase win the confidence of the world" became keep good face among the nations"
 All Present
 At Il a. m. Hirohito appeared on golden throne above and behind the rostrum of the huge rectangu- lar room of the House of Peers.
 Some of the diet members wore uniforms. Others sported morning coats. But many in shabby business suits and rundown shoes crowded the big room with the tourquoise blue upholstery and olive draper ies.
 Prince Takamatsu. the emperor's younger brother, stood on his right in the uniform of a navy captain. Prince Mikasu, his youngest broth CT and a major on the army's gen. eral staff, stood on his left.
 Behind them stood Premier Prince NarushiSo Higashi-Kuni, Imperial Household Minister Ishiwata and cabinet members.
 At 11:05 Hirohito rose and read the reScript. which to the Japanese has the force not only of temporal but of divine law. Diet members and the few Japanese newspaper men who were admitted to the ceremony said Hirohito's solemn words moved many persons in the audience to tears.
 The emperor spoke in 8 clear, firm voice. Members who had been concerned about Hirohito's health said the adresS convinced them 1t was good.
 Correspondents Watched
 After the rescript was read Hiro- hito left the building. The Diet was adjourned until 1:30 p. m.. when a plenary session was called by both Houses which Allied correspondents were permitted to attend.
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(Continued from Page D other reason for the financial dif- ference will be "the large develop ment work. apply war experience to peace production, the company official states.
 Before the war, the U. s. Time Corp, was not very active in the ex- port market" MT. Lehmkuhl con- tinues. "The present management considers it very desirable to extend the company's activities in the for eign field and is planning accord ingly. The possibility of success in this direction depends largely upon whether or not the Allies will per- init the Germans and Japanese to build up again their subsidized clock and watch industries"
 MT. Lehml:uhl sts ted the corpora tion has nc intention of abandoning its plant in Arkansas, which was es- tablished during the war at the re- quest of the WIPE.
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chewed on Many others came back with similar bits of rug with the same legend The fact is that Hitler had no carpeting in his place It was a stone floor.
 William R. WilkersOn, publisher of the H'wood Reporter, has in his possession really important souvenir from Berlin It is Goebbels' secret files on films, with his penciled comments One of these films is w. Wanger pro- duction. Goebbels scrubbed the no- tation. "Jude" On the picture, Mission to Moscow" is this no tation: Very, very interesting" Tn Nazi, of course).
 From one of the columns cor respondents overseas we learned that his commanding officers had appointed him an interpreter with the Russians because he once lived on New York's lower East Side .. When he met the Russians he asked one of them: What are you do- ing that you won't allow Americans or British to visit places you oc- cupy? Are you doing things so naughty"
 The Russkys admitted that they were enjoying orgy after orgy. we are shooting every German we see, and we rob them and violate their women every chance we get" Our friend said: "But that isn't right. Someone should stop such goings on" My friend said a Rus sian, nobody can stop this bunch Not even Stalin can stop them. This is the first division to reach Ber- lin. It is the 1st Ukrainian Divi- sion. Their wives, their children, their kin were raped, tortured and killed and all their possessions were stolen when the Nazis were on their way to Stalingrad. Now these Rus sians have chased them back to Berlin. Tell me, comrade, who do you think could stop them from any thing?'
 The only loot Stalin personally insisted on taking out of Germany was Hitler's baton Everyone in the Kremlin wondered why Big Joe wanted it-since it was covered with SwastiwaS Nevertheless, MT. Commy, himself, had his desire granted and he showed up at Pots dam with numerous sets of cuff links made from Hitler's baton. .. Above every swastika appeared tiny Soviet Red Star Stalin then presented these cuff links as souvenirs to many friends, including President Truman.
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Tin Collection Totals l2 Tons

Twelve tons of tin cans were col- lected in a salvage drive in the northern section of the city Satur- day, according to a report by the War Salvage committee. Thirteen, trucks, manned by city employees, were used for the work.
 A city-wide collection of scrap paper has been scheduled for Sept. 30, and local residents have been urged to start assembling their con- tributionS.
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(Continued from Page D ships anchored here in Tokyo bay. They are the USS Benevolence, USS Rescue, Navy ships; the Army's USS Marigold and the Tjitwalengka, Dutch ship carrying British medical men and Chinese crew.
 A massive escort carrier is also tending British. Dutch and Austral- ian, ambulatory cases and two trans ports are loaded with such cases.
 Delousing. diagnosis, the issuing of new clothes and then assign ment to transports or hospital ships
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having held positions at the Wa terbury Clock Co., the Naugatuck post office, and the Bristol Go. Dur- ing the past year he was engaged on a full-time basis in sales office work at the Bristol O., in Water bury.
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correspondent aboard the David William Taylor, said there were no demonstrations or incidents.
 Other units of the Fifth Fleet waited outside Kagoshima Bay fo: the signal to enter. Hundreds of carrier planes flew overhead on guard against any Japanese treach- cry.
 All airfields in the area win be u1oA hv American planes in sup port of the occupation forces. Tach- ikawa lies iT miles north of Atsugi, first airfeld occupied by American troops last week.
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follow in rapid order for the prison- CTS of war. Those kept aboard the hospital ships are men needing im- mediate operations, isolation. or bed care and special medicine.
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Swedish shipyards are seeking Oregon pine and navigation instru- ments from the United States.
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VENETIAN BLINDS ivory Natural types Rupo hardware Sm plfed installation 23" to 29" 6O' long S4'|O COTTAGE SETS A variety novelty effects. Fine color assortment
 $149 10 SLIP COVER FABRICS Closely stripes Many select from.
 9sc to $1.69 SWINGING CRANES ype complete with and ornamental ends Egghe finish
 $1.79
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Some paratrOOpers (on certain missions) were equipped with com- passes. The Japs never found them The reason: These miniature compaSSeS were concealed in our paratroops' military buttons!
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LII. E. C. Herring Now Al
Roswell. N. NJ.

The Public relations office at
Roswell Airfield, Roswell, N. M,
announces the arrival here of
End 1t. Elisha c. Herring, former
Pascagoula resident, to enter on
a five-week curse of stream
lined training at the AAF Train
ing Commands BIG transition
school to prepare him as a CO.
pilot.
S/Sgt. Billy DeForrest Al
Frederic Air Field
SISgt. Billy DeForrest is now
working as requisitioning clerk
at Frederick Air Field, Frederick,
Okla, where he was recently
transferred from Greensboro,
N. c.
Segeant Forster has recently
been spending a 30-day furlough
with his mother, Mrs. Fl. M. De
Forrest, and other relatives in
Pascagoula. En- route back 10
Greensboro he stopped for a visit
with his sister. Mrs. Leo Foster
and family at Norfolk, Va.
II. H. Davidson Back In
Civil Life
II. II. Davidson has returned to
his home at Moss Point after re-
ceiving an honorable discharge
from the Navy.
D~avidson's discharge was a
medical one following a period
of disqualification in a naval hos
pital. He had been stationed in
Seattle during most of the I6
months that he had been in the
service.
Mr.. Davidson operated a cab
service in Moss Point prior to
entering the Navy. He plans to
resume this activity.
Cpl. Russell Malletfe Home
On Furlouah
Cpl. Russell Mallette arrived
last week on a l5-day furlough
which he is spending with has
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Nal
lette, at their home in Kreole.
The Young soldier, who is with
the 'medics,h came home from
England via New York.
Jesse Stone Visits Home
Jesse Stone, better known to
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HRR NEWS o. u
1850 MENaaWOMEN
RX ~ UNIFORM

Ground in Maryland, has been
received here.
This course is an essential part
of the extensive troop training
program carried on at this, the
worlds largest ordnance research
and development center.
His wife is the former Myr-
tie <. Griffin of Harleston, Miss.
His parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
Griffin, reside on Route 2, Pas
cagouIa.
Pascagoulsns Al Great Lakes
Two Pascagoula men, Hugh
Cook, EastIawn, and Robert A..
Gautier, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
II. Gautier, 423 jackson street,
are receiving their initial train
ing at the Great Lakes Naval
Training Center according to in
formation from the Ninth Naval
District.
Seaman Cooks wife. Mrs.
Frances Cook, resides in East
lawn. Pascagoula.
Louis Delmas Home From Italy
SfSgt. Louis pelmas arrived in
Moss Point Saturday on a 30-day
furlough which he is spending
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Matt Delmas, ST., at their home at
300 Griffin street.
Sgt. Delmas has been stationed
with the Goth depot repair squad
ron at Bari during the II months
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his friends as Monkey" who is
ships cook first class, USN. has
arrived for a visit with relatives
at Pascagoula, hisshome town.
He is aboard LST-325 which is
undergoing repairs in New Or
leans, and is taking advantage of
shore leave to make the visit.
Don Blanchard Back To
Great Lakes
Don Blanchard. hospital at
sendant &c. USNR. returned to
MS duties at the Great Lakes
Training station after a visit of
five days with his father, c. a.
Blanchard, Sr., and other rela-
lives in Moss Point.
The young bluejacket will soon
be sent to San Diego for a sew
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Ksnneit Matthew At Greensboro

Kenneth Matthew AT Greensboro
News comes from Greensboro.
Mac, that Pvt. Kenneth f. Ma
thieu of Route /, Pascagoula, has
reported AZ the Overseas Re-
placement Depot in that city for
assignment to an Air Force IN
stallation in the United States.
AT present he is going through q
records and classifications pro-
cedure prior to assignment. While
at the ORD Pvt. Matthew is en-
joying a period Of entertainment
and relaxation.
Mrs. Matthew lives at the fam
ily home on Rt. |, Pascagoula.
c. C. Cowsn Gradutes
The Eighth District Headquar-
tiers at New Orleans announces
that c. G. Cowan, Jr., seaman
first class, has recently been
graduated from an aviation ma
chinist's school at Norman, Okla,
and will soon be transferred to
a navel unit afloat or TO another
shore station for further instruc-
ton and duty. He is the son of
Mn and Mrs. c. G. Cowan, Sr.,
of Pascagoula.
Henry s. Nelson Completes
News that MfSgt. Henry l..
Nelson of Route 2, Pascagoula,
has just completed a small arms
course at Aberdeen Proving
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at u;15 while at work in the
office.
Funeral services at Fails Fun
eral Home had not been COM
pleted at the time Of going to press.
Mr.. Canty, d member of the
First Baptist church, IS survived
by his widow. and the following
children: Mrs. Mary Woodall and
Mrs. Jessie Flanagan, Pascagoula;
and Kell Canty, Pascagoula; Ow-
en- Canty, Camp McClelland, Ala;
Richard Canty, Philippines, and
Harold CAVITY, P%ascagoula; also
by two sisters, Mrs. Annie Todd
of Moss Point and Mrs. Florence
Jackson, of New Orleans, and two
brothers, John and Forrest Can
ty, of New Orleans.
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that he has been in Italy. He has
been in the Army for four years
and ten months. AT the conclu-
sion of his visit Sgt. Delmas will
90 to Oklahoma City for further
assignment. He expects to be in
the States for at least six months.
Matt Delmas, his brother, who
is in the Merchant Marine writes
his parents from Egypt that he
is going on a trip to Indian wa
tiers which will last from six
months to a year. Bombay is
his destination in India.
Billy Buffet Visiting Parents
Billy Buffet, seaman first
class, has arrived home on a visit
to his mother Mrs. j. D.. Buffet
and other relatives in Pascagoula,
after IS months of duty in the
Southwest Pacific.
At the end of a 30-day leave
Billy will return to his ship the
light cruiser, "Vincennes." He
has been in the service over two
years and has been in seven ma
jor campaigns.
Four Sons OF Rev. s. B. Watkins
In Service
The Rev. and Mrs. S. b. Wat
kins of Escatawpa have four
sons in the service since their
youngest, Billy. was sworn into
the Navy Saturday at Jackson,
Miss.
They are 1t. Troy B. Watkins;
1t. S. b. Watkins Jr.; Pfc. Her
bert Watkins, and Billy.
1t. Troy b. Watkins has just
been commissioned as an officer
following his graduation Satur-
day, July 81, from Hondo Air
Field at Hondo, Texas. He and
Mrs. Watkins are visiting his par
ents.
The eldest son, 1t. S. b. j.,
is with the Quartermaster's Corps
and is now en- route for service
in the Southwest Pacific. The
third son, Pfc. Watkins is some
where in Germany. Billy will
probably train at Great Lakes.
Crstus Walker AT Paris Island
c. NJ. (Cratus) Walker who re.
Gently entered the United States
Marine Corps is now in training
at Paris Island, S. c. Mrs. Walk
er and their two small children
are now making their home with
the formers parents, Mr. and
Mrs. w. Guy Krebs, 1893 Bou-
douski street, Pascagoula. Mr..
Walker is former owner of a cafe
on Live Oak street.
Herbert A. Krebs Training Al
Camp Banding
Pvt. Herbert A. Krebs, 18-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Guy
Krebs, 1913 Boudouski street, Pas
cagoula, is on his third week OF
basic training at Camp Blanding.
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MONROE AND DONNIE
STEWART. sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Donnie Stewart. ST.. OF
Pascagoula.
A Naval Headquarters office
has announced that Monroe
Stewart. seaman second class, is
aboard a new US cruiser at pres
ent doing duty in the Southwest
Pacific.
The young bluejacket, who is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Donnie
Stewart, Sr., of Pascagoula, is
serving as a powder-handler in 6
six-inch turret aboard the cruis-
er, which is a new one having
been commissioned in Septem-
Der, 1914. Young Stewart enlist
ed in the Naval Reserve u MAY
1914, and was assigned to the
cruiser when it was commits
stoned.
At first assigned to the Allan
tic Fleet, the cruiser is now in
he Southwest Pacific where ii
.ent support to fast aircraft car
'iers in attacks against Okinawa
md others of the Ryukyu Islands
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Tuesday Marked BY
Luncheon Given By
Mrs. BoYlous Stokes

A pretty event marking Tues
DAVIS social calendar was a lunch
con at Longfellow House at
which Mrs. Baylous Stokes was
hostess honoring Mrs. Richard
Abbott of Natchez. who is the
guest Of Mrs. r. B.. McIlwain,
Mrs. f. A. Burdick, who is visit
ing DR.. and Mrs. c. H. Gray, and
Mrs. Elchue Denton, who is here
for a stay with Mrs. C. A. Car
rier.
Covers were laid for eight.
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w. I. Comfy. SIS.
Succumbs To Heort
Atiock Al Office

William Irving Canty, IS. ma
tive and lifelong resident of Pas
cagoula, who was employed for
the last 20 years as salesman for
the Standard Oil Company Of
fees here, dropped dead of a
neart attack Thursday morning
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eral-week course of study.
His older brother, Claude. Jr..
is serving as soundman third
class, aboard PC-80l, somewhere
at sea.
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