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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10
Dantine Threatened in NJ. Y.
for Alleged Aid TO Maxi Foes

lust before he left for the "I Am American
~ Day" ceremonies at Central Park Helmut DAN
tine received threatening letter which in part
reads:
I'VE have been ordered by great leaders to
get every traitor who assisted in defeating Ger.
many and gave valuable aid to ignorant Americans.
We will not until have fulfilled duty.
You and the rest who escaped us as traitors to
your people, your country and the Third Reich
must receive quick and just punishment-a rather
fefned death"
The note has been turned over to the FBI.
The young looking officer the other night who
drew the admiring stares of most of the pretty
gals was 1t. Gen. Lewis II. Brereton commanding
general of the First Airborne Army just back
from Germany. The even younger looking colonel
was James ID. Henry who in peacetime
familiar night club figure. The last time l
BreretOn-he then a major general-he had
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10
Youth Of Airborne Chief
Draws Eyes Of the Gals

Streicher, is the pretty little girl who used to
work in night club chorus-and was finally
selected to play opposite Billy Vine in a comedy
routine Gilbert Kahn is out of his navy uni
form.
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Maj. Bong, Top American Ace,
Dies in Explosion Of Jet Plane
Winner Of rs Medals
Had Combat Score
OF 40 Jap Planes
81 the Associated Press.


BURBANK, Calf, Aug. t.
Mai. Richard Ira Bong, "A. the
farm boy who became Americas
ace Of aces by downing 40 Japa-
nese planes while emerging I'M
injured from over 500 combat
hours, is dead, the victim of a
Jet P-8O Shooting Star explosion
which occurred four minutes
after a takeoff.
The explosion. which scattered
parts Of the plane over an acre,
occurred yesterday afternoon just
after the pilot left Lockheed Air
Terminal on a test flight. Maj.
Bong apparently tried to Jump clear
of the disintegrating ship, but
flames caught him.
His body was found 100 feet
from the flaming jet turbine. His
parachute had partly opened.
Witnesses said the plane exploded
with q terrific roar.
Flames Visible 2 Miles.
A piece fell from the plane" said
Mrs. ]. B. Villarino. whose atten-
ton was attracted to the plane be-
cause 1t seemed to be flying SO low.
The plane started straight down
and crashed with . tremendous
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u. S. NovyCi
Tokyo Rose for
Boosting Morale

Tokyo Rose, seductive-voiced jap
anese girl propogandist, won a cita-
ton from the United States Navy
today for "meritorious service con-
tributing greatly to the morale Of
American troops in the Pacific.
with the citation goes permits
sion to broadcast soon to the United
States Army of Occupation in Japan
and to the ships of the United States
Fleet at anchor in yokohama Bay
the history-making scene of Admiral
Halsey riding the Japanese EN-
peror's white horse through the
streets of Tokyo"
The citation was broadcast today
by Capt. T. j. OBrien, director Of
naval welfare, over the Navy Re-
porter program, shortwaved to all
personnel beyond the continental
limits Of the United States.
while the United States armed
forces In the Pacific have been ex-
tremely busy capturing enemy held
islands, sinking Jap ships and
killing Japs. Tokyo Rose has per-
sistently entertained them during
those long nights in fox-l1oles and
on board ship, by bringing them
excellent state-side music, laughter
and news about home,n the citation
said.
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President Due
Here Tomorrow;
Report Awaited
Truman Gives News
Of First Atomic Bomb
To Crew Of Augusta

By the Associated Press.
ABOARD U. S. S. AUGUSTA
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN.
Aug. 7.-President Truman.
confident the new atomic bomb
will shorten the war against ia
pan, today neared the shore of
his own country, which he left
one month ago.
The President expects to be back
in Washington by tomorrow and
soon thereafter will fix a time for
his radio report on the Berlin Big
Three meeting.
Obviously eager to share his
elation over War Department adj
vices on the first use of the terrible
new aerial weapon. Mr.. Truman
walked all around the ship yester.
day telling crew members about it.
First he entered the officers ward
room, and, directing them to keep
their seats, announced: I'VE have
just dropped a bomb on Japan
which has more power than 10000
tons OF INT. 1t was an over
whelming success"
He then fastened away to repeat
the announcement to seamen lunch
ing in messes elsewhere in the shin.
Juollant cheers arose everywhere
he went.
Typical of the comment heard on
every hand was, II guess I'll get
home sooner now"
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Splitting Of Atom, as Told in Stor in 1899,
Big Step in Development Of Great New Bomb

major turning point in the history
OF the world.
Can man ever. fiy ito the moon,
Venus or Mars? Last week the an.
swer Of any sober scientists would
have been an unqualified no. To-
day the answer may well be an OPP
timistic maybe with the actual ac-
complishment thrown far enough
into the future. He certainly could
if he had control Of atomic energy.
Could a big gun be set up In Berlin
and lombard washington? Maybe
so--if this enegry can be tapped
and controlled fully. But 1t should
be kept clearly in mind that this is
not yet the case and may never be.
The dificulties in the way Of tap-
ping for practical purposes the bind
ing energy that holds creation to-
gether are intellectually stupendous.
The significance OF last weeks hap
pening was that 1t was q beginning
1.-THE accomplishment on however
small = scale Of what the worlds
most eminent physicists were con-
(ses HENRY. Page Ash
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Reds Report Baltic Island
ShelIed by u-Boat

Ely the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 7.-Red Star
said today q German submarine
still at large had shelled q Red
Army outpost on Rugen Island In
the Baltic Sea, where many small
German vessels still are hiding"
The army newspaper said the.
Smelling occurred 81, q misty night
from q distance Of 400 yards in
answer to a challenge by sentry
who heard the U-hoat engines.
tThe date was not specified.)
Captured crewmen Of other out.
law German vessels said they were
based on deserted sectors Of the
shore and uninhabited islands, the
dispatch said. M
It added that some Of the crews
were trying to reach foreign ports
to be interned while others wanted
to return to Germany to surrender,
but hardened Fasicts continue to
busy themselves with piracy"
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JAPS ADMIT GREAT ATOMIC BOMB DAMAGE
Vatican Paper
Expresses Fears
Over Bombs Use
BY the Associated Press.

VATICAN CITY, Aug. THE
Vatican City newspaper L'Osserva-
tore Romano today called the new
atomic bomb dropped on Japan "a
catastrophe conclusion to
the wars apocalyptic surprises"
1t compared the invention Of the
atomic bomb with the invention Of
a submarine by Leonardo da Vinci,
the 18th century Italian artist and
inventor.
It expressed regret that the bombs
inventors did not, like Da Vinci. de-
stroy their creation In the interest
of humanity.
"Da Vinci wanted to defeat death
by thought" L'OsServatore said,
"but the road Of men who have not
his Christian charity must defeat
death with death. This incredible
destructive instrument remains a
temptation, If not for Mortified con-
temporaries, then for posterity, to
whom little is taught by history"
The Encyclopedia Britannica says
Da Vinci knew of method Of re-
a long time under water,
but he refused to tell of 1t because
of the evil nature of man.
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Members Of Congress!
Believe Atomic Bomb
Will Shorten War
Legislators Are Ready
To Act on Trumon's
Proposal for Controls
Ey the Associated Press.

y tue AsSoCldteC FIeSf.
Elated legislators today fore
cast that the atomic bomb would
shorten the Japanese war and
might mark the trail for revolu-
tionary peacetime development
of cheap energy. ....
President Truman's announce
ment that the worlds most de-
structive missile has been dropped
on Japan found members of the
Senate Military Affairs and Appro-
priations Committees ready to act
on White House bidding as soon as
Congress reconvenes in October.
Mr.. Truman suggested congress
sional establishment of a commits
sion to control the production and
use of atomic energy which gives
the bomb its tremendous destructive
power.
The fact that the bomb was being
developed-one of the wars best
kept Secrets-has been known to
some Senator'S for more than two
years.
Chairman Thomas of Utah told a
reporter the Military Affairs Com
mittee will expedite legislation set
ting up the control commission so
that it can be ready to make swift
transition from war to peace activi-
ties when the Pacific conflict ends.
While seeing the possibility that
the bomb might shorten the war
materially, Senator Thomas said he
could not guess whether it would
eliminate the necessity for an inva-
sion of Japan.
Senator Thomas and Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of Wyoming,
a member of the Appropriations and
Military Affairs Committees, said
Congress is certain to provide all the
(Cee CONGRESS- Page A.H0 -
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Weapon Sent Down
By Chute, Exploded
In Air. Enemy Says
Destructive Power
Cannot Be Sighted
Broadcast Comedies
ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. T.
The new atomic bomb that
shook Hiroshima was dropped
from an American plane by par
achute and exploded before 1t
hit the ground, japanese
Domei news agency dispatch
broadcast by the Tokyo radio
said today.
THE destructive power of the new
weapon cannot be sighted" the
enemy report, monitored by the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
admitted.
Domei quoted Informed quarters"
in Tokyo as conceding that the new
bomb had considerable destructive
power" Earlier, a Japanese i'm
perial headquarters communique
used the same adjective in describ-
ing damage to Hiroshima as CON
siderable"
While President Truman's an
nouncement said one atomic bomb
was released, both the Tokyo COM
munique and the later Domei dis
patch referred to the bomb in the
plural, indicating the Japanese could
not believe that only single bomb
was used.
"a Few Dropped" Japs Say.
Domei said a few" we're dropped,
adding:
"As a result of this wanton at
tack, a considerable number of
houses in the city were demolished,
while fires were caused to start at
several points"
The dispatch claimed Japanese
authorities already were busy on
countermeasures and declared that
1.-The history of war shows that the
new weapon, however effective, will
eventually lose its power" because
of discovery of ways to nullify its
effect.
Domei quoted its informed source
as branding the bomb tactics "a de-
stroyer Of justice and mankind
and public enemy No. / of social
justice"
First Acknowledgement. " g.
The Tokyo communique was the
first Japanese acknowledgment
that Hiroshima had been subjected
to any special form of attack. Earlier
the Tokyo radio said a number of
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Petain Approved Visit
OF Rougier 10 Britain,
Admiral Fernet Saws
Secret Negotiations After
Fall Of France Related
At Treason TrioI
Ey the Associated rress.

PARIS, Aug. Admiral Jean
Fernet told the court trying
Marshal Petain for his life today
that Petain approved secret ne
gotiations with Great Britain IN
1910, shortly after the French
German armistice.
He said the marshal approved the
visit TO England of Louis Rougier,
and that he returned from confer
ences with former Prime Minister
Churchill and former Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden with working
agreement.
The witness said Britain agreed to
take no aggressive action against
French colonies If the Vichy govern
ment would not attempt to regain
control Of territory held by Gen. de
Gaulle's Free French. Under the
proposed plan, Fernet said the Brit
ish would have relaxed the blockade
if vichy agreed not to help Germany
in any way.
Peyrouton Testifies.
Rougier has written a book about
the negotiations, which official Brit
ish statements branded as distorted
account.
Marcel Peyrouton, former Vicny
Minister and Governor of Algeria
told the court that Britain MAIN
tanned contact with Petain's regime
throughout 1910 through Spain and
Switzerland.
He said Petain and Laval were at
loggerheads. within six months after
the Vichy government was set up
and that Laval was arrested on
the night of December Is, 1910,
after Petain had consulted the cabi-
net of which he was Interior Min
lister.
Concerned About Fleet.
A woman's suicide leap before a
subway train delayed the trial for
an hour today because a juror was
caught in the ensuing traffic jam.
Peyrouton, who was transferred
from Ambassador to Argentina to
North Africa by Gen. Henri Giraud
after the Allied landings, said the
British established contacts with
Vichy because they were concerned
about the French fleet. He said
nothing, came of the exchanges.
When a juror asked about vichy's
anti-Jewish law, Peyrouton asked:
us this my trial or Marshal
Petain's?" But he asserted that
'tSee' PETAIN, Page A-6D
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Jap Naval Arsenal
AT Toyokawa Blasted
In Super Fort Raid
Escort Mustangs Meet
No Air Opposition;
Results Excellent
Ey the Associated Press.

GUAM, Aug. 7.-Marianas-
based B-29s today kept up the
continual pounding of the Japa-
ncse Empire with q MONDAY l26-
plane strike at the big Toyokawa
naval arsenal, 81 miles south
east of Nagoya Castle. Return
ing airmen said they bombed
usually in good weather and re-
suits were excellent"
Their missiles were high ex-
plosives," the 10th Air Force said
presumably not atomic bombs. Mus
tangs escorted the Super Forts, but
found no air opposition.
The 10th Air Force communique
today also reported broad sweep
across the Tokyo area yesterday by
81 Iwo-based Mustangs which
smashed at nine enemy airf1elds,
rail yards, and shipping, and de-
stroyed or damaged Is grounded
aircraft.
The Tokyo-Yokohama district was
bombed and strafed about an hour
this morning by 40 Iwo-based Amer
lean Mustangs and 1T is reported
that several British planes of un-
specified category" participated,
Japan's Domei agency reported.
II confirmed, that would be the
first attack on the Japanese home
land by land-based British aircraft.
British carrier planes attacked ia
pan many times last month as part
of Admiral Halsey's Sd Fleet.
More than 400 Far East air forces
fighters and bombers converted the
Kyushu port of Tarumi into vast
swirl Of flame Sunday with a two
hour hammering with fire bombs,
rockets and bullets, Gen. Macarthur
today. Pilots said the great
fires were visible 80 miles.
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New Overseas Edition
viii Be out Tomorrow

A new issue Of The Stars
overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The edition is strictly linz
tied. Please don't waste 3
single copy.
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Many Domestic Problems
Await Presidents Return

President Truman will find the
domestic pot boiling with problems
when he returns to Washington.
First of, Mr.. Truman must com.
plete his manuscript for the radio
report to the Nation he is expected
to make within the next day or two
on what happened when he sat down
with Premier Stain, Prime Minister
Attlee and former Prime Minister
Churchill.
The Big Three sPotsdam COM
munique left Unanswered such cues.
tions as the use to which German
prisoners are to be put, how Euro
pean relief will be handled and
whether newsmen actually are going
to be permitted to report on what
happens inside Poland and the Bal.
kan countries.
Other Problems.
Whether Mr.. Truman answers
any of these queries, he apparently
is going to have to say something
about the size of the Army. Some
legislators lately have been bearing
down on the key that the Army Is
keeping too many men in uniform.
Capitol Hill friends of the Presi.
dent expect him to stand squarely
behind the high command If 1t
maintains that it still must have
100000 men in the Army next
June !.
Because most members of Com
gress have gone home, Mr.. Truman
may not face any showdown with
them until October. But he may
have to tell the Army to release
more transportation workers and
coal miners.
Shakeup Impending.
Mr.. Truman also has some unfin.
ished business on appointments.
Secretary of State Byrnes wants to
shake up the State Department,
and Assistant Secretary Will l..
Clayton may be the only survivor
among present top-rank officials.
Dean Acheson, another Assistant
Secretary. repeatedly wants to be
Solicitor General, and it is doubtful
that he would stay in the depart
ment even if Mr.. Byrnes wanted
to retain him.
The President has yet to complete
the formalities for appointment Of
Edward. r. Stettinius, jr., former
Secretary of State, as American
delegate to the United Nations
World Security Council.
In this connection Mr.. Truman
will have the final say on the form
In which legislation to set up the
Office will be offered.
The four other American dele
gates to the United Nations still
are to be chosen and q representa-
tive named for the organization's
economic and social council. The
latter might be John q. Winant, now
Ambassador to Great Britain.
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Grobner, Nozi Prison
Commander, Arrested
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. THE Exchange
Telegraph Agency said in Vienna
dispatch today that Austrian police
had arrested Ernst Grabner, former
commander of the Nazi prison camp
at Oswiecirn (Auschwitz) in Upper
Silesia.
Grabner, personally charged with
killing 1000 persons, will be tried
by an Austrian Peoples Court.
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Nomura Warns Japs
u. ). Will Not Accept
Compromise Terms
Former Envoy Declares
Countrymen Have No
Choice but to Fight On
By the Associated Presi.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. T.
Kichisaburo Nomura warned the
japanese people today not to
expect. compromise surrender
terms although the Americans
are frankly anxious to end the
war quickly.
The former Ambassador to Wash
ington, who yesterday characterized
the Potsdam surrender ultimatum
to Japan as the height of imperti-
hence, today moved to further
stiffen the national backbone in an
interview characterixing the Ameri-
can people as "hot-tempered,"
The former envoy did not men,
ton in his anti-surrender discussion
the new atomic bomb which first
was released against the Japanese
yesterday with a power threatening
determination Of the empire.
Says Japs Must Fight On.
After explaining American hot
temperatures" and nervousness" at
length, Nomura cautioned I'VE
should not take these weak points
Of the American people at their face
value. Although they are looking
forward for quick termination Of
the war, they are not the kind Of
people who will seek a compromise
because of this.
Keeping this point in mind
clearly, the people of our country
must not be misled by their sugar
coated words, and must fight to our
hearts content with our own power
alone"
Nomura's comments were broad
cast by the Tokyo radio and re-
corded by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, which likewise
heard a varied group Of Japanese
broadcasts indicating to some extent
the curtailment Of activities which
the war has caused In japanese
national life.
Transportation is Problem.
In one report, the Bank of Japan
announced that because of COM
munications damage, and lack of
labor, reports would be made but
once a month and limited to
scantiest details.
Another told of a cabinet meeting
in which the Transportation of
materials from the China CONT
nent," which have been almost
wholly cut of by air blockade, was
considered for the second straight
day without an indicated answer to
the problem.
The death last week of Katsubo
Kubo, counsellor to the puppet
Manchukuo government, was an
nounced.
Quoting dispatches from Malaysia,
Tokyo announced again that Singa-
pores defenses had been completed
and the majority of the resident
Japanese have already taken up
arms"
With the entire Japanese-con-
quered Southwest Pacific areas now
within range of Allied bombers and
hopelessly cut OF from their home
land, the Japanese Army announced
formal approval" Of plan for the
preparation" for liberation of the
East Indies.
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Security Air Force
Equipped With New
Bombs Suggested
BY the Associated Press.

by lHt hSSOCIHItu IrekS,
LONDON, Aug. Some dip
lomats in London suggested
today that Britain and America
might agree to furnish a spe-
cial air force equipped with
atomic bombs to the United
Nations Security Council.
Such an air force would be
under control of the council for
use wherever aggression might
break out, but such use would
not mean giving away the secret
of the atomic bomb to the in
ternational organization.
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B-29s had bombed the city at 800
am. and an Osaka broadcast made
a tter-of-fact announcement
that trains in Hiroshima prefec-
ture had been Cancelled.
American reports said Hiroshima
was angulfed in an "impenetrable
cloud of dust and smoke" after the
incredible blast and the japanese
may be unable to gauge the amount
of explosive used.
Following is the text Of the i'm
perial communique, as transmitted
by Domei and recorded by the Fed
eral Communications Commission:
First, considerable damage was
caused in Hiroshima City as a re-
suit of an attack made by small
number of enemy B-29s yesterday,
August 6.
Second, the enemy appears to
have employed new-type bombs in
this attack. However, details are
now under investigation"
Text of Broadcast.
Following is the text of the Domei
broadcast as recorded in New York
by the Associated Press:
New bomb: The main reason
which drove the enemy to the use of
a new-type bomb in a raid on
Hiroshima yesterday morning is his
impatience at the slow progress of
the projected invasion of Japan's
mainland, informed quarters point
ed out here today.
while admitting considerable
destructive power for the new weap-
on, these quarters said the resort
to such inhuman tactics is sufficient
to brand the enemy for, ages to
come as a destroyer of justice and
mankind and public enemy No. /
Of social Justice
Describing how the enemy used
such a diabolic weapon for the first
time in raids on Japan,s homeland,
these quarters reported that a
small number of enemy planes
shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday
morning appeared over the city of
Hiroshima and dropped a few new
type bombs. As a result of this
wanton attack considerable num-
Der OF houses in the city were de-
molished while fires were caused to
start at several points.
THE new type bomb used by the
enemy yesterday morning has par
achute attached to it and expiodes
in the. air before reaching the
(see HIROSHIMA, Page A-3o
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Three additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed In this ionr. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page AS.
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BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

Early last week occurred an almost
incredible event the splitting Of an
atom and the first release Of atomic
energy.
BY implication it may be the most
significant happening Of our times.
Man has got his hand on the throttle
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Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press NewspoI
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(See BOMB, Page A-6.)