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Evening star., 1945-08-10
owl Error Forces Newspapers
To Get Truman Text in London

New York for distribution to Amer
lean newspapers.
At tbs, when about half the text
had been received from London,
copies were handed out to newsmen
waiting at the White House.
Later Owl explained. in formal
statement, that it normally docs
not export advance texts received by
it or sends them abroad only with
ban on giving them to the press
before they are made available to
the press here. Inadvertently,
neither precaution was used in this
instance"
1t added that the White House
was "in no wise responsible for the
Owls error"
Evening star., 1945-08-10
Atomic Bombing of Jops
Is Called Ruthless Murder

DUNKIRK, N. Y, Aug. 10 Or
The atomic bombing of Japan was
deplored as ruthless murder" in a
protest sent to President Truman
yesterday by members of the Evan
gelical and Reformed Church
Family Camp.
The Rev. Carl E. Berges, camp
director and pastor of st. Johns
Church, Massillon, Ohio. said the
protest was signed by 176 of the
camps $50 members, most of whom
are from New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio.
Evening star., 1945-08-10

nature that the Army Is deliberately
delaying the release of soldiers con-
tribute no little to the understand
able discomfort of men who have
been anxious for many months to
return home"
Mr.. Stimson said he realized that
the success of the atomic bomb
might cause Senator johnson to be-
lieve that "this development re-
inforces the point of view expressed
in your letter." and continued:
Il want, therefore, to say that in
my opinion common sense and pru-
dence dictate that we continue with
our reliance on we'll tested modes of
warfare supplemented, of course, by
the atomic bomb
Sudden departures at this time,
predicated upon our initial expert
ments with the atomic bomb, could
very easily delay our ultimate VIC
tory at greatly increased cost in
life"
Senator johnson, chief critic OF
the Army's redeployment program
made public last Saturday a letter
he had written to Mr.. Stimson. de-
manding the Army be scaled down
to sensible figure" He challenged
the Secretary to refute the claim
that no more than 5000 900 men
could be deployed in the Pacific by
the end of the year mo humble
tumble answer will do" he said.
Use of New Bomb Stressed.
Mr.. Stimson, earlier In the day,
had cancelled his weekly press con-
ference, when summoned hurriedly
to the White House with Brig Gen
Leslie r. Groves, director of the
atomic bomb project. His state
ment, along with his reply to Sena-
tor johnson, were released later
in the DAY.
The atomic bomb is being used
against Japan, he said, in echoine
an earlier declaration by President
Truman, because I'VE believe its use
will save the lives of American SOL
diers and bring more quickly to an
end the horror of this war which
the Japanese leaders deliberately
started"
Mr.. Stimson said the world has
changed and 1t Is time for sober
thought.
"It is natural that we should take
satisfaction in the achievement OF
our science, our industry and our
Army in creating the atomic bomb,
he said. but any satisfaction we
may feel must be overshadowed by
deeper emotions"
Responsibility Is Terrific
He added that the results of the
bomb are so terrific" that the re-
sponsibility for its use and posses
sion must weigh heavily on our
minds and our hearts"
Mr.. Stimson placed the number
and position of Army men as fol-
lows: 3,750,000 in the Pacific thea
ters, the ia-Burma- China thea
ters and the strategic reserve; $780,
900 in the occupational forces, in
Guiding such garrisons as those in
the Caribbean, Alaska, etc.
In addition, he said, 1,1S1 900 are
in replacement centers and schools,
as well as in transit. Practically all
these are for use in the Pacific. Also
overlooked. he said, was the required
force of LIST 900 men in the United
States to train and maintain the
Army and 5000 sick and wounded
in hospitals.
All these figures were given in de-
tail to Congressional Military Al
fairs and Appropriations Commit
tees, Mr.. Stimson reminded, and
met with no objections from any
member of the Appropriation Com
mittees of either house.
Il can only presume, therefore
that the Congress approves our
plans." he wrote
Evening star., 1945-08-10
0ttenberg's S Bakery Fined
For Food Act Violation

Melvin Gutenberg, trading as OF
tenberg's Bakery, 1913 Seventh
street NV, was fined $500 by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge Almond Scott
today on charges of violating the
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act.
The defendant pleaded no con-
test to Government charges that
Federal inspectors found impure
substances in products and that
products were prepared under in
sanitary conditions.
Evening star., 1945-08-10
Members Of Congress.
To Seek Speedy End Of
Draft al Japan S Fall
81 the Associated Press.


A japanese surrender will find
Congress ready to end the draft
Immediately.
Congressional leaders dealing with
military policy disclosed today that
as soon as the current recess ends
they will begin a drive to halt
Selective Service inductions. Barring
an earlier call, the law makers are
due to return to Capitol Hill
October 8.
The comment of the congressional
leaders came early today before the
news of Japan's surrender offer.
Army to Survey Needs.
Secretary of War Stimson re-
ported last night that the War De-
partment will resurvey its man.
power needs in the light Of the new
atomic bomb and Russia's entry
into the Pacific war. But Mr.. Stim-
son emphasized that the Army will
not reduce it's forces "by even one
man" below the number it considers
necessary to defeat Japan with the
least possible loss of American
lives"
Present plans call for an Army
Of about 7,000, 900 men next June 80
Some congressional leaders be-
lieve the draft act should be ter
minated no later than November l.
regardless of whether fighting con-
tinues in the Pacific. AS a result at
least one bill calling for repeal on
that date is ready to be tossed into
the House hopper.
Surrender Held Essential.
But the general feeling on Capitol
Hill is that nothing should be done
until Japan actually surrenders.
The present draft act, renewed
last May 8, remains effective until
next May Is "or the date of the
termination Of hostilities in the
present war. or on such earlier date
as may be specified" by Congress.
So, unless Congress intervenes OF
President Truman proclaims the end
of hostilities sooner, selective serv-
ice may continue drafting men until
next May Is.
Hershey Favors Continued Draft.
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Sc
lective service director, recently in
dicated that inductions would con-
tinue perhaps at the rate of 100000
men monthly even after Japan ca
pitulates. 1t was Gen. Hershey s
statement that spurred the drive for
congressional intervention.
Most members of Congress are
dead set against permitting induc-
tions to continue beyond the surren-
der of Japan, regardless of how
much longer hostilities continue
technically.
Secretary Stimson made known
the Army's latest manpower views
in q formal statement, amplified by
the text of letter to Senator john
son, Democrat, of Colorado. The lat
ter, member of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, had contended
the Army Is retaining many men IL
does not need and that its discharge
policy is blind, stupid and GRIM
inal."
Stims0n Answers Charge.
Denying that the Army has been
holding millions of men it could
not USE" the Secretary added:
Your request for candor in this
reply compels me to observe that
public charges Of an unsupported
Evening star., 1945-08-10
Ruth Chotterton's Home
Attached by JeweIer
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey GHt 2SSOCIdlcU Z IcoNs
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.-The
Beverly Hills home and furniture of
Actress Ruth Chatterton have been
tied up by q writ of attachment OBJ
tanned by New York jewelry firm.
Shreve & Co. obtained the writ in
an attempt to force payment Of q
New York judgment for $2,423,
claiming the actress owes this ball
ance for purchase Of jewelry and
repair of q watch.
Evening star., 1945-08-10

Mr.. truman SdlQ, Will enaDle fO-
land better to support it's popula-
ton. 1t will provide a short and
more easily defensible frontier be-
tween Poland and Germany. Set
tied by Poles, it will provide a more
homogeneous nation
The three powers, the President
added, also agreed to help bring
about the earliest possible return to
Poland of all Poles who wish to re-
turn, including soldiers, with the
assurance that they would have all
the rights of other Polish citizens" p"
The President also disclosed that
the United States had proposed at
the conference that there be free
and unrestricted navigation" OF the
Dardanelles-one of Russia's major
aims-and other inland waterways
of Europe, where, he asserted.
selfish control" had been lone of
the persistent causes for wars This
proposal, he explained, was passed
on to the Council of Foreign Minis
tiers and there the United States
intends to press for its adoption"
The President amplified the terms
of the German reparations plan
announced in the communique when
the Big Three meeting ended, ex-
planning that a new basis for COL
lecting damages had been substi-
tuted for a proposal advanced at
the Roosevelt Churchill Stain con-
ference at Yalta which contemplated
fixing Germany's liability at $780,
000, 900 900.
The idea of setting dollar value
was dropped, he said, because it
might not be possible to pay off all
claims on that basis. Instead, 1t
was decided to divide the property
to be taken from Germany "by per-
centages of the total amount avail
able" The Yalta reparations for
mula which would give Russia
one-half of the total collected for
herself and Poland, and allot the
remainder to other nations entitled
to damage, was unchanged, how
ever.
The Big Three communique vas
silent on the subject of relief for
the liberated countries, but Mr.. Tru-
man once more told this country
that it must help. Stressing the
shortage of necessities, the Presi-
dent asserted that the winter will
bring the threat of increasing dis
treSs-perhaps turmoil.
"If we let Europe go cold and
hungry" he said, 1--WE may lose
some of the foundations of order
on which the hope for worldwide
peace must rest. We must help to
the limit of our strength. And We
will"
New Warning to Japan.
The President prefaced the new
warning to Japan by recalling that
the enemy had rejected the ulti-
matum in which he was joined by
British and Chinese governments
at Berlin.
"Since then" he said, "the Japa-
nese have seen what our atomic
UOillU Cdu uO. 1lCy Cdl 1OiCoCc
what 1t will do in the future"
1--WE shall continue to use 1t until
we completely destroy Japan's
power to make war;" he said. "Only
a japanese surrender will stop u.s.
The President reiterated his in
tention to seek the cooperation OF
Congress so that the production and
use of the bomb may be controlled
and "its power be made an over
whelming influence toward world
peace"
He added:
I'VE must constitute ourselves
trustees OF this new force-to pre-
vent its misuse, and to turn it into
the channels of service to man.
kind"
Evening star., 1945-08-10
By the Associated Press,


Half of the advance ext of Presi-
dent Truman's report to the Nation
reached American newspapers by
way of London, due to an acknowl-
edged error by the Office of War In
formation.
The sequence of events went like
this:
At 5:46 pm. yesterday the Associ-
ated Press in Washington learned
that copies of the address, scheduled
for 10 o'clock, had been distributed
to the London press by the owl.
No copies being available then at
the White House, the Associated
Press obtained one from the London
owl and began cabling it back to
Evening star., 1945-08-10
259 Jap Planes Struck
In 0ne-Day Attack by
FLYERS From Sd Fleet
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM, Aug. American
and British carrier pilots-fer-
reting Japan's grounded air
force from it's camouflaged hide
outs-destroyed or damaged 259
japanese aircraft and gliders on
Northern Honshu Island yester-
day, preliminary report from
Admiral Halsey'S Sd Fleet dis
closed today.
The bag, scored both on grounded
craft and in the air, was the great
est yet reported for initial waves of
a carrier strike by Admiral Halsey,
greater even than the damage re-
ported for the same period of the
destructive attacks Of July 10 and %.
Eleven enemy aircraft of a small
co-ordinated kamikaze attack on
the fleet were shot down. One of
the suicide pilots managed to crash
into a light fleet unit, possibly a
light cruiser or a destroyer, which is
retiring under its own power. Two
enemy aircraft were shot down in
the vicinity of the fleet the preced-
ing day.
Raids Fulfill Promise.
The American and British pilots
swept from Misawa airfleld on the
northern tip of Honshu to MatSu-
shima airfield, 100 miles southwark
in raids backing up Admiral Halsey's
promise to support the Russian en-
try in the war by pinning down
Japanese aircraft.
Japanese gliders were mentioned
for the first time in the announce
ment that British carrier pilots de-
stroyed "a of the troop carriers.
Both British and American flyers
sank several small Japanese ships
and damaged others.
The communique covered only the
initial action yesterday.
Strikes Thursday afternoon, and
damage caused by the 1;500 carrier
planes which returned to the attack
today, were not included.
Meanwhile, the northern Honshu
steel city of Kamaishi still smoldered
from the heavy shelling it was given
Thursday by the Sd Fleet.
Adding to the damage toll being
exacted from Japanese, Fleet Air
Wing l reported today that in the
four months from March 26 to July
20, while operating from the Ryukyu
Islands, its Privateers, Corcairs and
Liberators sank 212 Japanese ships,
aggregating 166,660 tons; damaged
246, totaling 153, 3,855 tons, and de-
stroyed As enemy aircraft.
During its operations the air wing
rescued 230 United States service
personnel, presumably flyers who
had been forced down at sea.
Bag by the carrier pilots was as
follows:
Yesterday United States pilots de-
stroyed 124 aircraft and damaged
81, all on the ground. British pilots
destroyed "a aircraft on the ground
and the "a gliders and damaged 10
grounded aircraft.
Grounded Planes Struck.
Associated Press correspondents
aboard warships on Japan said the
rocket-firing formations were in
low-level action from, Honshu's
north tip to Tokyo after expert
encing "one Of their best days yes
terday since the Sd Fleet began at
tacking the japanese homeland last
July TO-"
~. -
Correspondent Richard K. O,Mal-
ley quoted operations oficers - say
Evening star., 1945-08-10

Thousands of Italians may 60 into
the Far East for road repair and
construction activities.
Evening star., 1945-08-10

FOCAL POINT IN SURRENDER BROADCAST-Emperor Hro-
hto the figure involved todays Dome broadcast saying
the ready terms of the Pots
dam utmatum the Emperor could retain his preogatves
The shown astde his favorte white horse Shrayuk
which white snow Acceptance of the Japs demands
would interfere with Admiral William Haeys wish to ride
Evening star., 1945-08-10
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Evening star., 1945-08-10
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
1t. Burke Won Promotion
For Aidinq Lost Battalion

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 3 tP)
Only Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. JOS
eph E. Burke. ST., received a pic
ture from their 28-year-old son in
his new lieutenant's uniform.
Then yesterday-a few hours later
they read how he had captured
Field Marshal Won Runstedt. Ger
many's top-ranking military strate-
eiSt
We're too proud for words" said
Mrs. Burke.
At ST. Petersburg the wife of 1t
Joseph E. Burke. jr. was told the
news by a reporter. She burst into
tears of joy.
1t. Burke. his parents related. won
his battlefield promotion only three
weeks ago as the result of his part
in the Lost Battalion action last
March in the Vosges foothills.
A group of 270 American soldiers
were trapped by Germans and young
Burke. then private. first class, was
awarded the Bronze Star and later
a commission for his part in its
release.
1t. Burke was indicted in Column
bia. S. c.. in December, 1913, while
working there for a retail credit
company.
He and his wife were married in
October, 1899. Mrs. Burke is a ma
tive of Pittsburgh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

some Time IN minneapolis, before
returning here.
DR.. Herbst was elected at the So
cietys annual business meeting last
night. He will succeed DR.. William
Earl Clark, now president ELECT, who
was elevated to that post last year,
and who will become president next
July l. DR.. Clark. a native of Phila-
delphia, also was graduated from
Georgetown Medical School.
DR.. William NJ Ballinger, first vice
president of the Medical Society,
who has been acting president while
1t. Col. James N. Greear, jr., is
serving overseas with the Army, was
elected member of the executive
board for four years beginning
July l.
Other officers named for the COM
ing year were: DR.. Fred A. J. Geier,
first vice president; DR.. Dorothy S.
Jaeger, second vice president: DR..
Harry F. Bowling, member of the
board of censors; Dr. Coursen B.
Conklin, delegate to the American
Medical Association; DR.. Arch l..
Riddick, alternate delegate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03

House Tuesday that the President
would 60 on the air when Germany
collapsed.
There was feeling here, too, that
fanatic Nazi determination to con-
tinue fighting Russia until complete
disintegration took place appeared
to have blasted any prospect of a
sudden end to the war in Europe
through wholesale surrender of the
German forces.
Allied acceptance of this view was
indicated by official disclosure that
Himmler. after offering to capitu-
late to the Americans and British,
had failed to reply when told that
the only acceptable terms included
unconditional surrender to the Rus
slams as we'll
Wanted to Fight On.
Himmler's offer to cease fighting
on the western front was coupled
with a declaration that he hoped
to carry on the war against Russia
This iibed with reports that Doe
nitz had ordered Nazi troops facing
the Americans and British to with
draw to the eastern front.
Himmlers exact position was I'M
clear since Admiral Donetz's Access
sion to power
In unconclusive peace negotiations
confirmed by Acting Secretary of
State Grew late yesterday, the
Gestpo chief had claimed to have
full authority" in Germany as Hit
Ter lay dying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Second Negro-5taffed
firehouse 10 Be Installed

The second Negro-staffed fire.
house in the District, No. u Engine
Company, at Minnesota avenue and
Hunt place NE, will be officially in
stalled at pm. tomorrow.
1t. James F. Mills was named
captain and several other men were
promoted to ranks of lieutenant and
sergeant to staff the new company.
Although in several cases men were
advanced several grades, it was ex-
planned that the promotions had the
approval of the Civil Service Com
mission and that Negroes topping
the commission list got the higher
ranks.
Seven firemen, who have been do
ing emergency ambulance service
with the Health Department, have
been transferred to the new COM
pany, being relieved of their ambu-
lance duties by men specially trained
in first aid and the operat ton of
tWo-way radios.
The other all-Negro company is
No. Engine Company at 934 r
street NV. White firemen now at
No. n will be transferred to other
companies,