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Evening star., 1945-08-28
Airborne Troops Begin Preparing
Atsugi Field For Gen. Macarthur;
Task Force Moves Into Tokyo Bay
28 Jap Worships
Found Lined Up
For orSurrender
Ry the Associated Press.

ny lne hSSocldIeu fItSS.
MANILA, Aug. 28.-Americar
air-borne troops took command
of Tokyo's Atsugi Airfleld today
simultaneously with the careful
but dramatic entry of the SC
Fleets special advance squadron
into Tokyo Bay.
The first forces consisted of Isl
technical specialists, but the occu-
patton of the enemys homeland
was actually in progress after
irritating delays caused by japanese
negotiations and bad weather.
Meanwhile, % of Japan's remain
ing SIS warships, most of them
destroyers or submarines, were found
lined up for surrender in Kyushu's
western port of Sasebo. Mitchell
bomber pilots on reconnaissance
flights from Okinawa sighted the
vessels and said three damaged car
riers, still under camoufiage; light
cruisers, destroyers and destroyer
escorts were all lined up in groups
Prepare Way for Macarthur.
The sole task of the advance
echelon at Atsugi was to prepare
the way for the triumphal entry OF
Gen. Macarthur, supreme Allied
commander, at the head of $500
troops.
(Two Associated Press corre-
spondents with Admiral Halsey's
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Japs Ask Macarthur
For UNDERSTANDING
By the Associated Press.

py Tue ASoOCldtcu ficSo.
MANILA, Aug. 28.-With a token
Allied occupation force already on
japanese soil the Japanese govern
ment and imperial headquarters to-
night petitioned Gen. Macarthur
for a conference before the formal
surrender signing Sunday, ito OBJ
tain full understanding in advance
on certain points regarding manners
and stages of executing the terms" ;"
In another broadcast monitored
by the Associated Press Manila
radio the Japanese repeated re-
quest that they be allowed to pro-
vide their own currency to Ameri-
can forces rather than have the
Americans issue and disburse their
own invasion" yen.
There has never been any head
quarters announcement of a reply
to the previous Japanese monetary
appeal to Gen. Macarthur.
Japan also informed Gen. Mac
Arthur today that conditions in
Northern Korea have taken a sud-
den turn for the worse since August
% and lives and properties of Japa-
nese residents are exposed to immi-
nent danger.
These deplorable situations if left
unremedied will in all probability
spread to Southern Korea, forcing
local Japanese authorities into an
extremely awkward position with re-
gard to the maintenance of peace
and order.
Accordingly, local Japanese au-
thorities eagerly wait for early ar
rival of Allied forces which are to
take over maintenance of peace and
order from Japanese forces in
Southern Korea and urgently de-
sire that Allied forces will fully take
into consideration actual conditions
on the spot before proceeding with
the disarmament of japanese forces
and the transfer Of administrative
organs from Japanese"
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Alexandra Officer Among First
OfU. S. Forces to Land in Japan
Col. Charles T. Tench
On Personal Mission
For Gen. Macarthur
By w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.,
Star Staff Correspondent.

OKINAWA, Aug. 28.-Col.
Charles T. Tench, of Alexandria,
Va, Gen. MacArthur's personal
representative, was one Of the
first men in the American occu-
patton forces to land on Japan.
The colonel commanded an ad-
vance party Of $50 technicians who
arrived at Atsugi airdome today to
set up immediate communications
and pave the way for arrival Of
Gen. Macarthur and his headquar-
tiers staff.
The mission was charged with the
grave and urgent responsibility Of
sending back information on con-
tSee SHIPPEN, Page ALL
Evening star., 1945-08-28

patiently for your return. We are
all well. Best love to you. Kitty
M. w."
Gen. Wainwright smiled happily
AS he walked to a waiting automo.
bile he carried the picture in his
hands and every now and ther
glanced at it.
1t. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer
United States commander in China
took a place at Gen. Wainwright's
left as junior officer. AS the two
walked along, Gen. Wainwright,
picked up, Gen. Wedemeyer's step
Gen. wainwright planned to give
an interview after he rested.
During his stay in ChunskYhg
Gen. Wainwright will be the guest
Of Gen. Wedeneyer and will stay al
the theater commanders house-a
far cry from the prisoner of wal
camp at Hsian, Manchuria, where
he was being held when released
by an Allied parachute mercy team
earlier this month.
The group of released Allied pris-
oners of the Japanese included
about IS persons. They arrived in
Two planes from Russian-occupie6
Mukden.
Gen. Wainwright arrived in the
first plane, CAT transport. There
(See WAINWRIGHT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Beribboned Jops
Greet Americans
In Work Clothes
Garden Party Setting
Wasted as Occupation
Units Begin Job
BY RICHARD X. O'MALLEY

ABOARD A NAVY HELLDIVER
OVER ATSUGI AIRFIELD, Aug.
28.-American officers dressed in
work clothes were greeted on
Atsugi Airdrome near Tokyo to-
day by japanese generals re-
splendent in full-dress uniforms
with clanking samurai swords
and beribboned blouses.
Two Navy torpedo bombers land
ed on the airfield 20 miles from
Tokyo shortly after Gen. Mac
Arthur's advance contingent of key
men stepped out of olive drab trans
port planes at $3.50 this morning
G:30 pm. Monday Eastern war
time).
Later Comdr. Harold Stassen,
former Governor of Minnesota, and
Comdr. Douglas Moulton, both of
Admiral William F. Halsey's staff,
arrived to join discussions.
The first Navy bomber bore Liai-
son Officer 1t. William v. Bellew
of Dallas, Tex.
1t. q. g. H. w. (Willie) Forsgren,
pilot, circled this He'll Diver around
(Cee ATSTTf.T poe,o AE0
Evening star., 1945-08-28
RuhIond Charges U.S.. Agencies
Crowd D. c. Municipal Center

Patients have to be shunted back
and forth between rooms which
really are needed for other pur-
poses, he said.
DR.. Benjamin Weininger, psychia-
trist, has assumed temporary direc-
ton of the alcoholic clinic and took
charge at his Office in the Munich
pal Center last night. However, Dr..
Rutland explained, DR.. Weininger
does not intend to continue evening
hours there
|. Or. Weininger will see patients
only by appointment, it was ex-
planned, and these appointments
may be made at his ofiice In the
Municipal Center from .2:30 to $50
pm. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Telephone calls for future ap-
continents also may be made on q
tentative basis, DR.. Rutland said,
by calling the Bureau Of Mental
Hygiene during early evening hours
at National 800, Extension 2l94.
Stressing the difnculty in getting
(sec OFFICE SPACE, Page A-20
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Federal Permit Plan
On Housing Urged in
Dispute
Government Would Set
Sales Price Under
Terms Of Proposal
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr

BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE. Jr.
A plan to continue controls
over home building during the
reconversion period, with build
ers required to obtain a permit
for each home constructed and
the Government setting a sales
price based on Government ap-
praisals, has been advanced by
administration officials opposed
to complete lifting of the War
Production Boards construction
order, it was learned today.
The controversy over private
construction continues both in and
out Of Government, and one highly
placed official predicted it might
be two or three weeks before final
disposition Is made, presumably by
President Truman.
The National Housing Agency
ana Office of Price Administration
are arrayed against WPB and some
officials in the Ofice of War Mobil-
ization and controls as a means OF
warding of postwar imitation.
Hit Blandford, Bowles.
Meanwhile the National Associa-
ton Of Home Builders took a pot
shot at National Housing Admins
traitor John B. Blandford and Price
Administrator Chester Bowles, who,
the association claims, are RESPONSE
BILE for the misguided policy" OF
keeping controls over private build
ing.
The inevitable result !" +" will
be to hold home building to min
imum, in the face of the fact that
q critical housing shortage exists in
practically all major cities and many
returning veterans are unable to
find shelter for their families" {"
Joseph E. Merrion, association pres
ident, declared in statement.
Builders cannot take chances on
(See RTITTDTNC pace A9N
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Washington Hopes for End
OF Chinese Internal Strife

Hope prevailed in washington
today that Chungking talks between
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
and Communist leaders from North
China will pave the way for an
end to Chinese internal strife and
the building up of a strong China
as a bulwark of peace in the Far
East.
Prospects for successful conclu-
sion OF the unity talks we're be-
leived greatly bolstered by dis
closure of the terms of the new
treaty between Chang Kai-shek's
government and Russia, which ap-
peared to remove any basis for
fears that the Chinese Communists
could look to the Soviet for aid is
maintaining rivalry with the ma
tional government.
Secretary of State Byrnes yes
terday hailed the Russian-C Chinese
treaty as "a practical example Of
the continuing unity and mutual
helpfulness which should character
ize the acts of members OF the
United Nations in peace as well as
in war"
He added that the United States
was kept informed about the Mos
COW conversations leading up to the
30-year pact, which calls for early
withdrawal of Russian troops from
Manchuria and full Moscow support
Tor the Chungking government.
knowledge Of the Soviet attitude,
generally interpreted here as DEM
|onstrating that Moscow's policy now
comedies with American aims for
the development Of q strong, unified
China, was believed to have spurred
American Efforts to help bring the
contending Chinese factions to-
gether.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Wallace Indorses Bill
For Full Employment
AS Conservative Plan
Tells Senote Hearing
Only Alternative Is
Planned Economy
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

SECRETARY Ol commerce wal
lace told the Senate Banking
Committee today the admins
tration's full employment bill is
a conservative" measure, be-
cause it does not interfere with
"industry's function of develop
ing it's own potentialities."
The former Vice President, q
leading figure in the New Deal
wing of the Democratic party
sounded this warning:
THE only alternative to the full
employment bill is a planned econ.
omy which imposes specific control:
on the production and distribution
methods of business. This alterna-
tive obviously would mean the enc
of the free enterprise system"
Not Responsibility of Business.
Mr.. Wallace's testimony was re.
plete with professions of faith ir
the free enterprise system, as dis.
tinguished from a planned econ.
omy." He contended, however, thai
business management should no,
be saddled with the responsibility
for maintaining full employment.
He wa1 the first witness as the
committee began a second week o1
hearings on the Wagner-Murray.
Patman bill, by which Congress.
would lay down the policy that the
Federal Government should bs
ready to take necessary steps x
assure full employment whenever
an annual survey by the President
indicates the plans of private in
dustry will not meet that goal.
He was followed to the stand by
Ira Mosher, president of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
who challenged the bills practical
ability to achieve prosperity.
Mr.. Mosher testified that the IA
900 manufacturers he represents
indorse the objective of the hear
ings-f employment-but question
"the practical operation of the pro-
posed national production. and en-
ployment budget" the bill would
require the President TO draw ur
for Congress each year.
The theory of the bill is that
whenever this annual survey indi-
Gates private industry would not
absorb all employables in the sue
ceeding year, Congress would take
whatever steps were necessary either
to stimulate more private spending
or to create Jobs by public works.
Proposes Substitute Plan.
Mr.. Mosher went the authors OF
the neutrality-suspicious. bill
one better by proposing what he
called full employment plus
substitute, which would require the
Government to take the following
steps:
Adopt as q national policy "the
elimination Of all special favors and
privileges; provide vigorous en-
forcement Of the anti-trust laws; 4
progressive, gradual reduction In
tariffs; international agreements to
eliminate cartels; q general over
hauling Of national labor policy;
(see WALLACE, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Nimitz Will Arrive
In Japan Tomorrow;
To Sign Surrender
By the Associated Press.

SAGAMI BAY, Japan, Aug.
28.-Admiral Nimitz, command
er of the Pacific Ocean areas,
will arrive in Japan tomorrow
and make the battleship South
Dakota his flagship, it was an
nounced today.
Admiral Nimitz took no part
in preliminary discussions on
the terms of Japan's surrender,
remaining at his headquarters
at Guam.
He will, however, sign the
formal surrender papers aboard
the battleship Missouri in Tokyo
Bay Sunday for the United
States.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
y Ships in Task Force
Lie at Anchor Off
|Yokosuka Naval Base
Tokyo Boy Is Cleared
Of Mines; Wreekoee of.
Enemy Vessels Sighted
BY AL DOPKING,

hSsSSsoeSo 1900 otoA NOiACSpoAuSht-
WITH TASK FORCE 81 IN
TOKYO BAY, Aug. 28.-The
spearhead of the occupation
forces of the United States Sd
Fleet lay at anchor this after
noon a few hundreds yards of
Yokosuka Naval Base, where Ma
rines and bluejackets will land
Nine vessels of Rear Admiral Os-
car c. Badgers vanguard Task Force
81 dropped anchor at 1880 pm
(Japan time-12:30 am. Tuesday
Eastern war time), exactly foul
hours after they got under way from
Sagami Bay, where they had re-
NAMED overnight.
As we neared Yokosuka could
plainly see the ruins of Yokohama
through field glasses. It looked like
a skeleton city of smokeStacks. ]
could see twisted steel frames OF
what once had been buildings
There is little more except debris
Super Fortress fire raids left little
(See M I,EE.T Pare A-31
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Hurricane Diminishes
Fast in Inland Texas;
Damage in Millions
Heavy Roin in Houston
Brings Threat Of Flood;
Crop Toll Reported High
BY the Associated Press.

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 28.-
What was left of the gulf hur-
ricane which caused at Least
three deaths and millions ir
property and crop damage as il
lashed the Texas coast, was fast
diminishing inland west o1
Houston today.
The Weather Bureau, in a fina
advisory, ordered all hurricane
warnings down on the Texas coast
at 10 am. 1t said the storm wa.
centered between Sealy and Colum.
bus, Tex, 28 to 40 miles from
Houston.
From the base weather officer a
the Miami Fla) Army airfield
came report that an Army hurri
cane hunter, flying over what re.
manned Of the hurricane area, dis.
closed mo winds higher than 81
miles per hour"
Crops Damaged Heavily.
But before it left the coast tn,
storm had battered a stretch of some
400 miles, demolished or heavily
damaged buildings in exposed coasta
towns and scooped high water ontt
the low coastal plain. Heavy dam.
age to cotton and rice crops wa.
reported.
Heavy rains accompanying tn,
inland movement of the storm
stopped traffic in Houston early to.
day, and brought a threat of flooe
to those sections of the city neal
where bayous were brimming.
The death toll reached three a.
one man was killed in the collaps,
of residence in suburban Houston
budeted by 55-mile-an-hour gal,
last night. Earlier two fishermen
drowned off Port Isabel, Tex, whel
heavy seas capsized their boat.
There was an unconfirmed repor
that two cotton pickers, seekin,
protection under house as tn,
storm struck Austwell yesterday
were drowned when the area wa!
inundated.
Hundreds Homeless.
Besides the dead, hundreds wer,
left homeless in the storms wake
THE center is moving north
northwestward S miles an hour afte
crossing inland over Matagorda Ba,
Sunday night" the last advisor,
said.
1T piled up 7 to 10-foot It'd,
on the southwest shore of the ba,
and raked the countryside will
winds officially recorded at IS mile
per hour some distance from tn,
center, and unoficially reported a
100 to 1876 miles per hour outsid,
the calm center, meanwhile movins
very slow inland.
"Gales in the Freeport, Por
Arthur, Lufkin, Yoakum, Austin
area will gradually diminish ant
high tides on the upper Texas, ex
treme West Louisiana coast viii
gradually subside today"
Wharton, Tex, center of the storm
last night. was we'll boarded VI
against the 100-mile-an-hour wind
which struck it. Electric powe
failed in the city Of 1000 population
about 60 miles southwest of Houston
but it was restored partially today
A report from Wharton said prop
erty damage was severe at FL Campo
town in the same area. The roo
of the Ell Campo Hospital blew of
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Chinese Reds
Arrive for Talks
With Chang
Demand for Coalition
Precedes PorIey
On Avertine Strife

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Aug. 2S.-Mao
Tse-tung and two other high
Chinese Communist leaders ar
rived today from Yenan with
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, the
United States Ambassador, who
went there to accompany them
to a conference aimed at pre-
venting civil strife In China.
Four aides and secretaries came
with the Communists.
On the eve of talks with General
issimo Chang Kai-shek's National
government. the Communists Gen.
tral Committee issued a manifesto
demanding immediate formation of
coalition government.
Demands Reiterated.
The committee reiterated the de-
mands Of Communist military
leaders that their troops be given
the right to disarm surrendering
Japanese forces, including some In
South China, and that all National
government troops be withdrawn
from the territory around the Com
munist border region"
Other points set forth by the
committee included: Establishment
of freely elected national as
sembly, granting of legal status to
all political parties, liberation of all
political prisoners, guarantees Of
freedom of speech and assembly, re-
duction Of taxation, severe punish
ment for traitors and disbandment
of all puppet forces.
Meanwhile. dispatch from
Shanghai indicated that Shanghai
had reverted to Chinese contr0
after eight years of japanese occu.
patton.
Underground Forces in Control.
The frst dispatch from Shanghai
ice the Japanese In 1887 occupied
EShe great port, one Of the worlds
busiest. said underground forces of
the national government had taken
over from the Japanese.
The official Central News dispatch
reported the presence OF a general
representing the Chungking Ma
tional Military Council. He was
quoted as saying the situation there
was normal.
Underground forces, he said, had
fulfilled their mission and were
awaiting orders from Chungkine,
Two United States Strategic Air
Forces planes, carrying correspond
ents and press officers, landed at
Shanghai shortly after 10 am. yes
terday.
A great cheering throng greeted
the planes. Uncertain of the status
OF the airfields so lately run by
the Japanese military, the planes
landed alongside paved highway.
Fly on to Airfield.
Japanese officers emerged from the
quickly-gathered crowd of Chinese
and ordered the men to take of
Immediately.
They said the planes should
proceed to a regular airdrome where
reception was awaiting. A cor
respondent with the group said, I'VE
protested that we preferred to
remain where we were rather than
risk an additional landing, but we
finally flew to the airfield."
Chinese at the field said the
Chinese Army had completed oc-
cupation of Shanghai Monday night
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Army Still Holds
Its Butter Supply
Is Military Secret
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Military secrets today - two
weeks after the end of the war
Include the amount of butter
the Army has on hand.
Asked how much butter would
60 into civilian markets when
an expected cancellation of the
Army's. set-aside order occurs
and how much Is on hand,
an Army spokesman replied
the figures could not be dis
closed "for reasons of military
security"
Evening star., 1945-08-28
Sd Fleet reported the first forces
would land at Yokosuka tomor-

Sd Fleet reported the first forces
would land at Yokosuka tomor-
row.
Joy of the first $50 eomfnufiica
tions experts, who landed at 9 am
today 6 pm. Monday night, East
ern war time) in three transpor
planes, at becoming the first troop
to land in Japan was tempered b.
the announcement that 20 of theil
comrades had been killed in take
off on Okinawa.
Robert Shaplen, NBC and
NewSweek war correspondent,
said in a broadcast last night
from Okinawa that among those
killed were men who had been In
service since the early days of
the New Guinea campaign. Con-
siderable equipment also was lost,
he reported. Another plane and
(See SURRENDER, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1945-08-28
By JOSEPH YOUNG.

Demand for an immediate
basic wage increase of at least
% per cent for Federal employees
to make up the cut in income
resulting from loss of overtime
pay high lights an eight-point
program submitted to Congress
and the Civil Service Commits
sion today by the American
Federation of Government en-
ployes.
The AFGE pointed out that a
return to the 40-hour week meant
an average loss Of 20 per cent in
take home" pay for the average
Government worker. 1t said the
40-hour week wipes out any increase
in income gained when Congress
recently passed the Federal pay
raise bill. s-.
In fact, Government employees will
Evening star., 1945-08-28

| One additional man from
the District area has been re-
ported killed IN this DGr. See
"On the Hos,or Roll,s page AZ.
Evening star., 1945-08-28
22%U.S. Basic Pay Raise Asked
Offset Overtime Losses
AFGE Says 40-Hour Week Wipes Out
Coins; Presents Eight-Point Program

ICC. WAR AND Post Office Depart
ments to 60 on 40-hour week.
Page B-1
Evening star., 1945-08-28

(See DRAFT, Page A-4) )
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(See BUILDING, Page A-30
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(See HURRICANE, Page A
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(See FLEET, Page A-33.
Evening star., 1945-08-28

(See ATSUGI, Page A-53
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-05
Many n Well.Meaning
Mother HAndicaps Her Chill
dren by Teaching Them to
Read Too SeoH.

cap Of too early pressure on
their reading abilities. But
all too often troubles may
occur. Let me cite YOU an
example
The Judge in a juvenile
court looked across his desk
at 12.year.old Bobby who
faced the bench because he
had attacked his bed-riddcn
father and because he had
played hockey from school
Rebelious and defiant, he
was headed for real trouble.
The court psychologist
said the boy had good in
telligcncc but that he had
dyslcXia the inability 20
learn TO read by the usual
methods.
The difficulty the psy
chologist told the Judge
was that Bobby q mother
had tried too hard 20 teach
him 10 read before ne went
TO school. The task had
been so difficult for both
the boy and the mother that
ne had hated the sight OF
books ever since
Before a child can read
profitably he needs 10 de-
velop the capacity 10 re.
tain and comprehend word
sounds and 10 develop a
memory span for audi
tory sounds. This same
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-05
Started q Fire
With Water

WHEN Ed Hostetler, a
w farmer living nea
Krcss. Texas, told his neigh
bors that ne had set his
house on fire with a jug of
water. nc was telling the
gospel truth.
"How IN b,azes, the boys
at the general store wanted
TO know, can anyone start
a fire with the stuff they
use to put fires out?"
Mr.. Hostctler had an
answer 10 this one. On his
porch was a gallon jug of
water. The jug was trans
parent glass and the hot
Texas sun beat down on il
The cylindrical shape of the
jug and the water inside
the cylinder made il a
crude lens which bent the
suns rays and focused
them into one bright, very
hot spot on the dry boards
of the house.
BY high noon the spot got
SO hot that q little wisp of
smoke Curlcd up from il
and the wood began 10
blaze. Before the Hostetlers
knew what had happened,
they had a lively fire on
their hands.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-05

ing Of reading until boys
and girls have had time 10
develop a guency in speech
and have learned words by
listening TO them. Good
English in the home helps
this natural process.
I am not urging that
reading be put off too long
l am saying that the fond
mother who brings her child
- kindergarten and proudly
tells the teacher that little
Johnnie can read may have
done the youngster more
harm thap good
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-05

By DIR. JAMES T.. BENDER
National Institute Of
Human Relations

~ NE overlooked cause
1 of juvenile delin-
~ quency - and many
reading and speech disabili-
tics-iS the attempt Of we'll