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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Mastery OF Atom Heralds
Da1un Of Ne1u Civilization

on Hiroshima early this week.
The terrible implications of the de-
structive force of the bomb are con-
Presidents statement:
Normally, everything about the
work with atomic energy would be
made public.
But under present circumstances
it is not intended to divulge technical
processes or all military applications,
pending further examination of pos
sible methods of protecting us and the
rest of the world from the danger of
sudden destruction"
The President indicated he would
recommend that Congress control pro-
duction and use of atomic power
within the nation Its strict regulation
by the United Nations is foregone
conclusion. The hand that rules the
atom can rock the world.
Begun In 1910
Before 1889, scientists believed that
it was possible theoretically to release
atomic energy. Beginning in 1910, be-
fore Pearl Harbor, President Roose-
welt and Prime Minister Churchill
pooled research facilities of their ma
tons in quest for what the stunned
public, even today, thinks of as fantasy.
They knew German scientists were
working feverishly toward the same
goal.
eve have spent two billion dollars
on the greatest scientific gamble in
history-and won,'' said President
Truman in his announcement.
Victory in the battle of the labora-
tories will mean victory on the field
of battle, he said.
eff they do not now accept our
TERMS" he said, "they may expect
rain of ruin from the air, the like OF
which has never been seen on this
earth. =. The force from which the
sun draws its power has been loosed
against those who brought war to the
Far East.
This line of thought appeared to
hold dramatic propaganda possible
ties. The japanese regard the Emperor
as direct descendant of the Sun
J Goddess. Now they can be told that
, the very power of the sun itself IS
being turned to their destruction.
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scientists who made the atomic bomb
have created a monster which could
wipe out civilization and that some
protection against the monster must be
found before the secret will be given
to the world.
Since time began man has waged
war by hurting missiles at his foe. The
caveman threw rocks, African pygmies
pulled blow guns, Australian bushmen
used boomerangs. American Indians
shot arrows from bows.
Engines of war grew more compli-
Gated with the advance of science.
Ancient Greeks and Romans devised
catapults to hurl great stones and fire
balls. The invention of gunpowder,
ascribed variously to Sir Francis
Bacon (1214-1292) and to the Chinese
in 1882, made weapons more destruc-
tive and immensely more complicated.
In 1915, man learned to throw atoms.
Halifax Blast
On June 6, 1917, a munitions ship
blew up in Halifax, N S., killing 1,5OC
persons, injuring 1000, making 10000
homeless and devastating two and one
half square miles of the city.
That munitions ship carried 5000
tons of TNT-about one-seventh OF thu
equivalent of the new bomb dropped
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Russia
Gets In 1t

,roW that the atomic bomb had
N thoroughly shaken Japan - and
nerhaps started a chain Leading TO
Hirobito's speedy surrender it was
time for Russia, with her longtime
interests in Manchuria, Sakhal1n and
the Kurile Islands, to lay her pres
sure on.
Three DAYS after Japan felt the
earth tremble beneath her at Hlro-
shima, she got another shatterlng JOLT.
Americas first announcement OF 1t
came dramatically from President
Truman, holding his first news con-
ference since his return from Pots
dam. To 80 hurriedly summoned news
men. he announced: Russia has JEst
declared war on Japan.
The declaration, effective August y,
not only put Russia in a position TO
have her say in the postwar Aslatlc
set-up but also gave her chance to
settle some old scores she has long
held against the japanese. These go
back to the sudden attack on Port
Arthur in 1904 and extend through
long period during which the weak
ened Russians were squeezed out OF
Manchurla.
Russian entry had been accepted as
more and more of certainty since
the Soviets denounced on April .
their aggression pact made with
Japan in 1941. 1t was half-expected
at the conclusion of the Big Three's
Potsdam parley, where Stain had
pointedly conferred with the British
commander in southeast Asia, Lord
Louis Mountbatten and had presum-
ably nodded agreement with the Tru-
an-Churchill- Chang Kai-Shek ultl-
matum issued from there urging Jap
anese surrender. Russias war declara-
ton hit the enemy's refusal to accept.
Now that Russia had come in the
Allies had one of the worlds great
armies threatening the Japanese oc-
cupation forces in Asia. They also had
the potent psychological weapon -
which perhaps they would not have
needed in addition to the atomic bomb
to attempt to force Japan into an
earlier capitulation than anyone might
have hoped.
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NATION: Problems Galore

unfinished business on appointments.
Secretary Byrnes wants to revamp his
State Department and William l..
Clayton is rumored to be the only sur
vivor among top-rank diplomatic off
Gals Dean Acheson, another assistant
secretary, repeatedly desires the So
licitor-g eneralship and it is question
able if he would stay in the department
if Byrnes wanted to retain him.
Stimson also was said to be consid-
ering stepping out soon.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes was
repeatedly as hot about his cabinet
post as about his problems as War
Fuel Administrator. Ickes may ask for
a showdown on his job. Westerners
lately have been booming D. Worth
Clark, former Idaho senator, for the
post.
On the international front, Sen. Van
denberg (R-Mich.) called on the Big
Three to guarantee news freedom in
Poland and the Balkans as check on
freedom of elections in those countries.
Three-Cornered Fight
In New York City, things were
shaping up for a hot political fall.
Last spring when Republican leaders
showed reluctance to nominate him for
a fourth term, Mayor LaGuardia an
nounced his retirement. This week,
however, LaGuardia had his oar in the
political pool again, not as candidate
but as manager of an independent
third party.
The mo Deal' party slate, as the
mayor called it to signify its indepen-
dence of bosses and machines, was
headed by Newbold Morris, President
of the City Council. Although not
conceded a chance of election, the in
dependent party was expected to cut
into both parties and create wide
open mayoralty race.
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TN 1862, when Sweden's Alfred
i Bernhard Nobel invented dy-
Mantle he thought he had created
a force so destructive and terrible
it would outlaw war. He died "a
years later, a fabulously rich but
disillusioned old man.
In 1945, the Allied scientists who
invented the atomic bomb, 3,0OO,0O0
times more powerful than TINT, hold
no such idyllic dream.
What seems destined to be the
biggest story of the century was an
nounced by President Truman when
he reported that American and
British scientists had succeeded in
Harvesting the basic power of the uni
verse-atomic energy.
An atomic bomb, the President said
soberly, had been dropped on Japan.
1t fell Monday Japanese time) on
Hiroshima with a force equal to the
peak bomb load of 1000 BIOS. The
record for BIOS over Japan was 300,
set last week.
Hiroshima was an industrial city of
$4,000, about the size of Rochester,
N. Y. After studying reconnaissance
photographs, experts said 60 per cent
of the city was wiped out.
The bomb was dropped by para
chute from a B-29. Eye witness &C
counts said it's flash could be seen
more than 100 miles and the impact
of it's shock wave could be felt much
further than that.
Harvesting of coal and development
of the reciprocating engine brought
about the industrial revolution and the
age of steam, oil and electric power.
It was civilization of plenty.
New COsmic Era
Discovery of atomic power I'M
doubtedly means opening of new era
on an entirely new, cosmic plane.
Atomic energy gives man source OF
power more than 100000 times
greater than he can get from coal or
an equal weight basis.
But Harvesting the power thai
makes the sun and the stars shine
means, too, a destructive force toe
awe-inspiring for even men of science
to comprehend fully.
The President indicated that the
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ship. His body was found 100 feet
from the flaming jet turbine. HIS
parachute was partly opened.
Tech. Sgt. Kurt J. Hermann, 26,
aerial gunner who had fought over
all three Axis capitals, failed to come
back from his 108th mission. He had
turned down several chances to hang
up his uniform, was within two OF
his goal-110 missions.
A merchant sailor, he enlisted IN
the Air Corps after being torpedoed
and spending 26 days on life raft.
Hermann served in Marauders, Fly
ing Fortresses and Superforts. HIS
B-29 didn't return from raid on
Shikoku on July 4.
Corp. James Newman, Is, survived
the Bataan Death March and three
wears in a japanese prison camp. U. S.
Army doctors found him with tuber-
culosis of the lungs, throat and
stomach and beri beri, brought on by
starvation. They brought him home te
die but Corp. Newman put up gal
liant fight on mons cooking" He
received more than $500 letters from
every state and Canada.
p"The Lord has brought him thi:
far" said his mother. 1.-THE Lord will
take him the rest of the way"
Early this week, the Lord took hin
"the rest of the way
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Statistics
Atomic Fractions

When the atomic bomb process was
discovered in March, 1941, no more
than a microgram-a mllllonth OF
gram-of the material could be made
by the methods then available.
Working with a so-called ultra.
micro" scale, scientists designed
plants for production 10 billion times
greater. They worked with chemicals
in fractions of micrograms-a dime
weighs 100000 micrograms - then
in millegrams. Not until July, 1914
did the experimental amounts reach
as much as 10 grams.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
ABROAD: War Criminals

to Austria and Turkey; Alfred Rosen-
berg. former Nazi education commits
sioner and civilian administrator OIL
occupied Russian territory.
Field Marshal Gen. Wilhelm keltei'
chief of the Army High Command
DR.. Robert Ley, head of the Labor
front: Julius Streicher, Nazi leader OF
Franconia and ardent Jew-balter;
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, former COM
missioner for Austria and the Netner-
lands. 80,
Karl Hermann Frank, protector
of Czechoslovakia; Col. Gen. Gustav
Jodl, former military adviser to Hit
Ter and chief of the joint general stan
of the Army, Navy and Air Forces
who signed tAs surrender aerr terms t0l
- Qe4zE~
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Public Enemies I To 10

Ten German leaders, including men
Charged with starting World War II,
Will go on trial next month at the first
International war crimes court IN
Nuremberg in September.
The defendants in the first group
VIII be prosecuted by Justice Robert
II. jackson. Jackson will surrender
me role later to other representatives
VI the United Nations.
The 10 defendants are: Hermann
~oerlng, former Nazi air minister, and
chalrman of the ministerial council
10! ner defense of Germany; Joachim Won
Enooentrop, former foreisA { Nster;
'~-"s ve- Papen. former -
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
In Short

Seized: BY Virginia state troopers,
lone copperhead from snake-loving,
Bible-quoting cultists in convention at
St. Charles.
Fixed: By WPB, production limit OF
1,155,O0O domestic mechanical retrlg-
orators through March 81, 1916.
Arrested: A British photographer,
accredited to U. S. Army, charged with
lending a pistol to Adolf Hitler's but
Ter.
Granted: Amnesty by Yugoslavia's
new provisional Parliament to hum
dreds of former Chetniks impressed
into Nazi puppet forces.
Missed: Title of "Miss Atlanta of
1e45" by pretty, blonde Peggy Wayne,
when it was discovered she was Mrs.
Bumped: Col. James Roosevelt. off
an airliner by civilian with priority.
Rumored: Killed in bombing at
tack on Luzon, 1t. Gen. Tomoyukl
Yamashita, Japanese supreme COM
mander in the Philippines.
Intercepted: A japanese hospital
ship carrying ammunition in cases
marked medical supplies and combat
soldiers disguised as wounded patients
Died: Sen. Hiram johnson, 70
(R-CaD foe of the League of Nations
and United Nations, of heart attack
Cited: BY U. S. Navy, Tokyo Rose
japanese girl propaganda, for 'merl
torious service contributing to the
morale of American troops IN INT
n-..E.O
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Ace Of Aces

A puff of grey smoke belched from
the worlds fastest plane. The right
wing tipped, the pilots escape hatch
came off, the ship nosed straight
down. Then a column of black smoke
plumed 400 feet into the sky.
That was the end of Americas top
ace, Maj. Richard Bong, "a, VINO
downed 40 Japanese planes IN two
years and 500 combat hours in the
South Pacific. Holder of rs decorations,
including the Congressional Medal OF
Honor and the Distinguished Air
Medal (presented by King George of
England) he came home to be test
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Quotes
Kichisaburo Nomura, former

KichisaburO NOmura, former
ambassador to Washington: eve
should not take hot temperatures
and nervousness of the Americans
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"
ALT LandOn: IT don't think after
this British election that the left
wing American New Dealers will
stand for any middle-ground
position
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Boomerunq

BY an ironic twist of fate, Adolf
Hitler's anti Semitic purges prob
ably cost Germany the battle Of
the laboratories.
Among the scientists expelled
as non-Aryan was DR.. Lise Nett
ner, who suggested a solution to
the at0m-splittiIg problem which
had stumped physicists nearly 10
years. Within two weeks after
learning of Meitner's calculations,
researchers at Columbia Univer-
sity, Carnegie Institute Of Wash
ington and Johns Hopkins proved
her point.
Other refugee scientists worked
directly on the Allied expert
ments. They include DR.. Enrico
Fermi, Italian physicist, now a
Columbia professor, and DR.. Niels
Bohr, Danish physicist.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
Coal And Rail BottIenecks

Regardless of the military manpoWer
dispute, the President may have to
order the Army to release more coal
miners and Transportation workers to
relieve impending serious fuel and
railroad bottlenecks.
Mr.. Truman may also have some
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12

to Japan. He is
1t. Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz, comman-
der of the U. S.
Army Strategic
Air Forces in the
Pacific.
Re d = h air e d,
poker pl a y in 6
Spaatz will take
charge of the
BIOS now level
in 6 Nippon's
cities and soften
ing the enemy
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HEROES: Too Young To Die

pilot of the jet-propelled P80 Shoot
ing Star.
Bong knew he was in trouble the
minute he took off. He radioed the
control tower at Lockheed air terminal
at Burbank, Calf Apparently he tried
to Jump clear of his disintegratlng
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Umbrella
Man

man who directed the smashing
of Germany from the air arrived at
Guam this week to do the same thing
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IAu R;ohts Reserved, AP Ne1psfeutures)
Evening star., 1945-09-12
TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
Buy War Bonds and Stamps at Any Local Theater

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros Ads Indicate Time Feature /,
Presented.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Std&Cs
National--"O Oklahoma: 2:20 ane
$40 pm.
Screen.
CapitoI-"Thrill of Romance:
II an, lao, 4:30, 7:10 and $50 pm
Stage shows: los, 1855, 6:35 and
9:15 pm.
Columbia--"Out of This World
11:25 am, LIS, $3.50, $50, 7:30 and
9:35 pm.
EarIe-"Pride of the Marines"
1910 am, 1890, 2:45, sos, 7:2s
and 9:45 pm.
Three Hours: 2:20
4:10, 6, 7:5o and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Wonder Man: 10 am
11:55, 1855, $50. $50, 7:45 ant
$40 pm.
LittIe-"On Approval: II am
12:45. 2:30, AIS, s, 7:50 and 9:40 pm
Observation-Disclosures in Con
necticut": 10 am, 1920, 2:40, S
7:20 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"Bell for Adano": lis
am. 2:20, 4:45, .7:10 and 9:35 pm
Pix-"Carnival in Flanders: 3:4o
6:45 and 9:55 pm.
Trans -Lux-News and Shorts, con
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
To Be Restaurateur

TIOIL WOIJD.
The restaurant business is begin
ming to attract Hollywood actors,
and Louis Hayward is the latest to
make plans for side career in this
line
During filming Of Young Widow" I"
in which Louis co-stars with Jane
Russell, he engaged an architect to
draw up plans for cafe he will
open after the war on property he
owns on the exclusive Sunset Strip
in Hollywood.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
She's Through as a Mother

Rosemary's first real chance In
films came with Hold Back the
Dawn" when she almost stole the
show from Charles Boyer and Olivia
de Havilland. She played an i'm
migrant woman whose frantic ef-
forts to have her child born in the
United States bordered on hysteria
"It was the luckiest break of my
life," said Rosemary. Because it
brought me to the attention of pro-
ducers-but I have been fighting
it down ever since. Now I think ]
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Baxter ainting
To Be in Film

f1OLLX WOOJ.
A worldwide showing for his first
oil painting will be won by Warner
Baxter, thanks to his current role in
Columbia's THE Crime Doctors
Warning"
Most of the action in the thriller
takes place in an artists studio, and
Baxter, who only recently took ur
painting at the suggestion of his
friend, Ronald Colman, couldn't re.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

HOILY WOOD.
Personality parade: Ever hear Of
any one breaking a good-luck jinx
and being happy about it2 Well, 1t
could happen, and it did, right here
in Hollywood. And to a talented
but typed actress named Rosemary
De Camp who, as cne of the screens
champion mothers. confesses she's
had enough rubber and gutta-pef-
cha put on her face to build a
blimp.
Evening star., 1945-09-12

have 1t whipped. At least I'm be,
ginning to play my age"
In her early sos, attractive enc
charming, Rosemary went on from
Hold Back the Dawn" to play some
20 or more mother roles, including
such prominent ones as James Gag
ney's mother in Yankee Doodle
Dandy" wife and mother in This
Is the Army" and eventually. the
mother of George Gershwin in
Rhapsody in Blue"
IF the wrinkles they etched into
my face were laid end to end they
would resemble a box car full OF
prunes," she commented. I'm the
original old lady with the lamp In
the window. but now I guess my
luck is changing"
\
1t was during the filming Of "Yan.
kee Doodle Dandy" that Rosemary
was heard to mutter wistfully how
nice 1t would be to play some one
near her own age. Cagney appar.
emily remembered her mutter fol
when he started casting Blood or
the Sun" he called and said he hae
q good, II very small, role in which
she could play her own age. Rose.
mary grabbed 1t. Her luck had be.
gun to change.
Her fortune got its biggest boost
however, when Warner Bros. cas-
her as the sympathetic nurse ir
Pride of the Marines: the woman
who virtually makes John Garfield
IA blind Marine hero, get grip or
himself. AS the nurse she is sweet.
ly down to earth. matter of fact
woman not unlikely Rosemary de
Camp in person. ...
Rosemary's dad, who died couple
of years ago, was mining executive
so her chief childhood recollections
center around mining communities
in Arizona, California and Santiago
Chile. 1t was while in Arizona thai
she was stung by the acting bug. II
happened when Western stars like
Tom Mix and Harry Carey whooped
1t up around the De Camp mine
The girl. who had thought shed
study medicine, knew then it was
acting or nothing for her.
~
Summers were hot in Phoenix, SC
Mrs. De Camp would take Rosemary
to Carmel by the Sea. Calf, to cool
of. 1t was in this picturesque town
that she started acting In the COM
munity theater run by Gait Bell
whose The Drunkard" Is now show
world history. There followed stock
acting jobs in San Francisco and
then a cross-country tour with one
of Bells rowing "drunkard" COM
panies which ended in New York
Sam Harris and Rosemary
father had been business associates
SO the veteran producer gave her
a comedy role In "Merrily We Roll
Along" Then came radio and a
brief time Of writing reviews for a
New York newspaper. 1t was soon
after that Martha Scott, who'd
worked with her in radio, insisted
on getting her into Cheers for Miss
Bishop" Then, as has been duly
noted. came the mother roles
Four years ago Rosemary married
John Shidler, formerly the young
est judge in California and at pres
ent a lieutenant in the judiciary
department of the Army Air Corps
They have 8 81 year -old daughter
Mana.
Right now she is living with her
mother in Beverly Hills waiting fol
the lieutenant to come home from
the wars. She wants him to sec
the new Rosemary-the one without
the bber-faced, bewrinkled make
up
IReleased by North American Newspape,
Alliance.)
Evening star., 1945-09-12

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Silent Star Returns

Enid Markey, famed silent screen
star who returns to films in Colum-
bias "Snafu," after an absence of
Is years, owns pair Of silver six
shooters presented to her by VIII
liam s. Hart, with whom she ap-
peared in many silent sagebrush
sagas
Evening star., 1945-09-12

Isist E1e opportunity to hang q can
vas OF his own on a wall Of the set,
where 1t will be seen in the Aim
with scores of other works.
The painting is a landscape, show
| ing undulating hills studded with
scrub oak and chaparral.
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Mowbray Writes Play

Alan Mowbray has written play,
THE Lucky One," to be presented
on Broadway this fall with major
studio doing the financing.
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FOUR REALTY DEALS
ARE RECORDED HERE

Four stable transfers of real
estate in Key West and at Tav-
ernier were recorded in the
county clerks office.
Z. c. Gomez sold plot at
Duval and United streets to
AKRON Key for $4,000. The plot
has a frontage of 100 feet on
DuvaI and $50 feet on United
street. -.r ,.4 .s,
Hastings G. Smith has purchas-
cd from William Il. McClintock
a house and lot at Georgia and
Duncan streets for $4,000. The lot
is Al feet on Georgia and 80 feet
on Duncan.
Loran II. Prcvo has sold seven
lots and a house at Tavernier
Cove to Clifford d. Carpenter for
$1,000.
A house and lot at Catherine
and Varcla streets have been
conveyed by Horace Theodore
Webb To Mary B. Sanchez for
$4,000 The lot fronts 55.4 feet on
Catherine street and l04. 10 inches
on Varcla street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-06-12
Appoint New Acting
Managing Director
OF Cancer Society

Appointment of a new Acting
Managing Director of the Amer
lean. Cancer Society, was an
nouhced yesterday by Mrs. NAL
colin Smith, State Commander of
the Field Army ofsthe Society in
Florida. Admiral Charles S. Step
henson, U3N Rctircd was ap-
pointed by the national Exccu-
tive Committee, to succeed DR..
Clarence Cook Little, Managing
DlrcCtqr since 1929.
DR.. Little, who has directed
the Roscoe L. Jackson Memorial
Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine
since 1929, received q grant of
$282,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation for genetic and en-
vironment studies to be conduct
ed at the Laboratory, which will
take his full time. In addition,
the biological research on cancer
and allied conditions, the prim-
airy work Of the Laboratory, will
be continued undfr Dr.. Little's
direction. He will remain q mem
Der Of the Board Of Directors Of
the American Cancer Society,
said the, Field Army Commander