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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Port of EmbarkatiOn.
Newport News. Va. Saturday. July

VXTE ARE up at m and the presidential train pulls
w the long shed of the port of embarkaon alongside the
famous Atlantic Charter" cruiser USS Augusta $50
The President and his party leave the train promptly
and pped aboard the Augusta We have breakfast
aboard and up anchor at a. m. ~
The President and Secretary Byrnes the gun
deck the port side of the orecase They chatting
with the huge warshp and its escorng
Philadelphia, steam out through Hampton Roads.
The early morning is humid and both the Pres
dent and Byne in their shirt sleeves
wearing sailor he brought with him from the presidential
coasguard cutter Potomac stiff springs up he
changes it to gray tweed cap
The Presidents conversation is sprighty varied He
speaks the language Americans understand
about First World War when he field artillery
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Predicts Allies
In Japan 70 Yrs.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4 (INS)
The commander of the first
battalion Of American soldiers TO
land in Japan predicted today an
Allied army of occupation will be
kept in the islands 20 years.
This statement was made by
Mai. Thomas MeSereau of Bergen
field, n. j.. commander OF the
Third Battalion of the 1SSth
Regiment, 1lth Airborne Division.
which served as guard Of honor
for Gen. Macarthur at the sur
render ceremonies.
The 23-year-old major told
news conference the 20-year occu-
patton would be required TO edu-
cate Japan'S children against at
tempting another world conflict.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Insurance Co. Valves
Interest on Vet Loans

To assist returning veterans 10
re-establish themselves in civilian
life, Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety will waive interest for one
year on $1,000 of principal on
home and farm real estate loans 10
veterans, Thomas ]. Parkinson,
president, announced today.
On the same basis Equitable will
waive interest for one year for all
its present home and farm borrow
ers who have served 80 days or
more in the armed forces.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05

THE Presidents special tan equipped with its special army
communications of ultra -hghspeed radio and radio
phone apparatus leaves its siding in the yards of the Union
Station at 10:40 p. m.
Members of the party haze boarded the train
Singly and secretly. No Word of the Presidents de-
parture for the Big Three meeting has been made
public Extraordinary steps taken to prevent
leakage of the
The President of the first aboard He got on the
train shortly after p Members of the party include Sec
reary of State James Byrnes Adm William D. Leahy the
Presidents personal chief of staff H. Freeman Matthews
chief of the European division of the state department Charles
F. Bohen Russian expert for the state department and the
Presidents official Russian interpreter Capt Vardaman, the
naval aide and Brig Gen. Vaughan the military aide Charles
c. Ross the press secretary Ben Cohen adviser
Secretary Byrne Cmd John F. Tree charge of the map
at the White House which enables the President 10 know
from minute minute the disposition United States
Allied and enemy military naval and air units the entire
tial party, and others
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05

A total OF $1,000 of Hiroshima :
pre-atomic bomb population OF
$4,000 is dead.
Thirty-three th housand are
known 20 have died almost i'm
mediately in that awful fash at
S;l5 a. m. and the death toll has
been rising daily. Even now, 5000
other people are waiting TO die.
CASUALTY FIGURES
A high Japanese provincial Off
cial furnished Us with these cas-
ualty figures for Hiroshima:
On Aug. 26-33 ,666 dead; 10000
missing and probably dead; IA
600 seriously injured, 43,5O0 less
seriously injured
On Sept. l, known dead had
mounted to $4,000.
But no casualty figures could
possibly describe the four and
one-half miles of terrifying deS-
olation--an area where the fear
Of death will bar permanent resi-
dents for years TO come.
Streetcars are running and a
few people are walking through
the ruins of Hiroshima but there
is nothing standing above the
ground except a dozen reinforced
buildings.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
RUN AND DEATH

Every japanese style building
in the stricken area has been
blasted or burned fiat and all that
remains in the streets are piles
of scattered tiles and black dead
trees.
Gravestones, too, and some con-
crete bridges and fences with
stood the blast.
There is no city in the world
so terribly destroyed-not Berlin
Hamburg or any other.
Reports of witnesses and doc
tors indicate that clothing pro-
vided some protection against the
death rays from the explosion.
Burns were inflicted mainly on
exposed portions of bodies. black
clothing, however, seemed TO alb
sorb the death rays and was less
helpful than white clothing which
reflected them.
There were many cases where
mother who had her uncovered
back TO the blast was killed while
nursing her baby. The naked baby
in these cases apparently survived
because the rays were partially
absorbed or DETECTED by the
mothers BODY.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
5000 FIiers Puzzled

AM ARILLO ARMY AIR
FIELD. Texas. Sept. 4 (UP)-A
telegram. signed 5000 Perplexed
AAF Cadets" was sent 10 high
army officers today, demanding TO
know why B-29 trainees were be-
ing asked TO enter into another
contract with the army.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Where Atom Bomb Hit:
Where Atom Bomb Hi:
HirOSIlinla--
Ruins. Death
BY CLARK LEE

HIROSHIMA, Sept A Japanese naval surgeon-standng
ran-swep wilderness that Hiroshima until atomic
exploded its central Aug 6tod today that
will be at least five six years before the people
can safely rebuild and reoccupy the city.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Washington, Sunday. July 1

WE LAND at Washington National Airport after four
w hour fight from Kansas City, and wait in the and
1OOdegree heat for the Presidents huge C54 Transport
aectonay known to the ATC The Sacred Cow to land
Hank" Myers, its pilot who has flown the ship
around the world many times drops the plane down to
a feather landing at p. and we motor to the
White House with the President.
Vice Adm. Ross T. McIntre general surgeon general OF
the navy, waiting there with pretty WAVE lieutenant to
give inocuatons We immunzed for typhoid typhus
tetanus and small pox.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
DRAMATIC STORY

Perhaps the most dramatic story
was told about two fencers who
were practicing when the blast
came. One who had his back 70
the center of the blast had just
made a lunge when the bomb
exploded.
His opponent whose exposed
face was turned TO the blast area
dropped dead on the spot from
burns. The other fencer died a
week later from burns on the
back of his neck.
The point Jap doctors made
much of in this case was that
severity of the burns depended on
amount of skin surface exposed.
Water seems to absorb the
death rays.
That was a comforting thought
when we visited Hiroshima in a
driving rain.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Speed Recruiting Law

: WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (UP)
The House military affairs com
mittee worked on legislation 10
encourage recruiting Of army vol
unteers TODAY.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
TOUCH OF DEATH

Even persons suffering from
small burns the size of a half
dollar die, he said, unless given
immediate blood transfusions and
other treatment.
In addition 10 the toll of human
life, thousands Of trees are stand
ing starkly stripped of leaves and
will never grow again.
Grass apparently was little af-
fected by the atom blast and has
grown out again even in down.
town areas.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Washington. Tuesday. July ,

We learn that TO leave Friday. Our instructions
to be ready hours notice after a.
Friday.
We told to take woolen clothing wool socks and top
coat Right Washington in the midst of its worst heat
spell of the
We told too, to carry formal evening Clothes
and there reports that after the Big Three meeting
concludd the President be received at the court
of St. James in London and by the kings of Denmark
and Norway in Copenhagen and Oslo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
DEATH IN WATER

The Jap naval surgeon said,
however, that the rays will make
drinking water dangerous for
years to come. He named water
as the most dangerous source of
future radioactive infection.
Right now it is relatively safe
for people to walk around or ride
through the streets for hours at
a time. But to remain in the
area for a few months is almost
certain TO invite infection.
The Jap doctor described the
effects of the radioactivity as
similar to an overdose of X-ray-
but many times stronger.
Victims suffer decrease in white
blood cells, their hair falls out,
they suffer from diarrhea, their
gums bleed and they lose weight,
have no appetite and soon die.
The surgeon said the rays prob
ably cause sterility.
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long six weeks. Get your inOcuatiOns we
return TO Washington"
1t is the word we have been anxiously awaiting
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Free P0Ws,
Jdps Told
Macarthur Orders
Disarmament SPeedup

YOKOHAMA, Sept. 4 (INS)-A
CBS broadcast today said that
Gen. Macarthur had issued Cen
eral Order No. 2 calling for imme-
date rehabilitation and disarTna-
ment of the japanese army. clear.
ING Of all harbors and speeding Of
the release Of Allied prisoners OF
war.
Specifically. the second order
since the Japanese surrender
directs the japanese 10 demobilize
their own armies and 10 diSarm
al soldiers al once.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
Writers Visit
Hiroshima Ruins
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gums bleed, their kidneys refuse
TO function, how the number OF
their white blood corpusle are
found 10 total only one-seVenth
what they should, how they grow
weaker and weaker, and how they
finally die.
We can confirm japanese ac-
counts of the terrible destruction
wrought by that lone bomb a
month ago next Thursday.
Ii is almost indescribable. No
one in the United States could
conceive or ever know what il
is like unless he has seen it, or
unless - God forbid! - an atomic
bomb some day falls on America.
The trip through the suburbs
didn't prepare us for the shock of
total destruction awaiting us in
the center of the city.
There were bombed and burned
out buildings in the suburbs, but
it was like a lot of other bombed
districts in London, Cologne and
Munich.
Then you enter the city proper
and you know that this is more
than just another bombed city.
1t is just an epoch of destruc-
ton.
The center Of Hiroshima liter
ally had been bombed flat. Only
a few concrete buildings appear
still upright, and those are little
more than optical illusions. They
are burned out and the steel grid
ers in them are twisted beyond
hope Of repair.
The stencil OF death is every
where.
1t is like the battlefields of
Normandy. where bodies of Ger
mans were left te- -bleat tn the
summer sun.
The living g-and Japanese doc
tors tell us that many of them
soon also will be among the dead
arc dazed, unable TO cunpre-
hend the disaster that had over
whelmed them.
LINK WITH SANITY
They poked through the piles of
stones and wood that once were
their homes. They knew they had
little chance of finding anything
salvagable, but somehow those
piles of rubble represented a link
with the past--and with sanity.
In their eyes when we passed
them was hate-all the hate that
it is possible for a human to
muster.
Our guide was a young Japa-
nese naval lieutenant who was
born in Sacramento, Cal. and
whose father still lives there.
i asked him:
"How do the people here feel
about us? DO they hate us or
do they think that it's the for
tune of war;"
He answered simply and
frankly:
"They hate you"
And we could read confirmation
in the survivors eyes.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
TWO WEEKS TO co

II also directs them 10 clear all
harbors of mines and buoyS and 10
provide new charts by Sept. II, a
little less than two weeks hence.
Gen. Macarthur also ordered
the japanese government 20 report
at once on the location OF all pris-
oner-of-war camps. together with
the number Of prisoners held and
10 Immediately turn the camps
over TO the ranking prisoner of
war.
The japanese also were ordered
10 provide food for the prisoners
and. when direc d, transport
them TO specified places.
In the future all cities in Japan
are 10 display news both in Eng
liSh and Japanese and the existing
government is charged with carry
ing out all internal censorship
regulations.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
OCCUPATION SPREADS

Meanwhile. thousands of Amer
lean troops began the occupation
OF southern Japan by sea and air,
taking over Kyushu's most i'm
portant airfield and a large port.
Some 600 miles to the northeast,
the first 200 OF an ultimate force
of 10000 American air and ground
force crewmen moved into the
Tachikawa army air base. eight
miles west OF Tokyo, under an
occupation program that will put
troops in Tokyo metropolitan dis
trict Friday.
Large-scale transfer of troops
from Atsugi to the Tachikawa air
drome will begin Thursday, t9
DAYS ahead of schedule.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-05
SCHEDULE REVEALED

A japanese government COM
munique gave the followin &
schedule for the movement OF
more than $500 additional Amer
lean troops in the greater Tokyo
area:
Wednesday $500 troops 10
enter Hiratsuka city and Oiso
Kamagawa prefecture.
Thursday-2,250 TO enter Oda-
wara city.
Friday-1.120 10 enter Gotemba,
Shizuoka prefecture: $3.50 TO enter
Hachioji city. metropolitan district
of Tokyo: 1,120 to enter Hatano,
Kanagawa prefecture: 1.120 70
enter Uyenchara. Yamanashi pre-
lecture.
MARINEs RELIEVED
Adm. Halsey announced that
the Ar1ny'S 112th Regimental
Combat Team relieved a Marine
detachment at Tateyama on the
Clfiba Peninsula yesterday.
Marine landing parties from the
battleships South Dakota and
Missouri and other ships which
occupy Yokosuka naval base have
been relieved by regular occupa-
tion troops and have returned 10
their ships, Halsey said.
Prize crews have been placed
aboard all japanese ships, includ-
ing nine large submarines. One OF
these was the worlds largest with
hangar space for four airplanes.
Occupation units in Kagoshima
Bay, Kyushu, include:
The 3o7th Airborne Squadron,
3728th Signal Equipment install
lation Detachment OF the Army
Signal Corps, Detachment 118 OF
the 150th Army Airways Com
munication System Squadron,
Company A B73rd Aviation Engi-
neers Battalion, 1037th Signal
Company Service Group. 1S3Sth
Ordnance Service and Maintenance
Company.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-10

week, her niece and nephew, Mr..
and Mrs. Lawler, and grand
nephew, Sammie Lee Hook of And
erson, Indiana. A family dinner
was given Monday night at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl B.
Williams of 2746 Clinton Ave. So.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs. Law
Ter and Sammie Lee; Mr.. and Mrs.
Governor Cook, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Stewart, Mrs. G. J. Cheek, Mrs.
Margaret Lockett, Mrs. Dorothy
Hines and family, Mrs. Gippie
Smith, Mrs. Francine Lawler, and
Phyllis and Carroll Williams, daugh-
tiers of Mr.. and Mrs. Williams. The
LAWYERS left for their home in In
diana Tuesday night.
Mrs. Ruth Judy and her son,
Ronald, 1921 Fourth Ave. &c., flew
to Chicago on Thursday, July 9, to
visit Mrs. Judy's brother, DR.. Paul
B. Boswell.
Mrs. Jessie Finley of st. Louis,
Mo. arrived in the city Tuesday
night, Aug. 7, to visit Mrs. W. E.
Gray, APO E. S7th St.
Dinner Party: Mr.. Edward
Green, 616 Seventh Ave. No., gave
a dinner party in honor of his wife,
Marie, on her 6Srd birthday, July
90. Guests included Messrs. and
Mines. Harold Young, Charles
Chambers, W. Underwood; Mines.
Beulah Cohron Smith, Melvina
Woodland, Cornelia Young; Messrs.
Ellie Rice, Odel Smith, VIM. Boyd,
Arthur Boyd, Plummer Willis,
Misses Bertha Rice and Virginia
Jones of the Twin Cities, and Mr..
Paul Herndon of New York City.
Mrs. Charlotte Farall, It's Fiji
teenth Ave. So, has as her house
guest Mrs. Martha McWilliams of
Chicago. Mrs. McWilliams will be
in the city for a couple of weeks.
Omitted: The names of Mr.. and
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Phyllis Williams, Estella Roby,
Barbara Merrille, Adrian Merrille,
Norma johnson, Wilma and
Minerva Johnigan, Matte Mae
White, Leola Jackson, Inez White;
Messrs. Albert Moore, Mackey Nc
Kay, Marven Crawford, Gilbert
Nevils, Willard Merrille, Leroy Cot
ton and Leon Johnigan. Because
of an accident James Gresham Jr.
was unable to attend.
Mr.. Phillip Robinson Jr., a young
businessman of Omaha, Neb., left
Sunday night, Aug. 4, after visiting
his uncle, Mr.. Robert Wynn, 2201
Fifth Ave. &c., and his aunt, Miss
Osceola Wright, I'LL Emerson Ave.
So. Also Momm sc Robert Leon
Wynn, formerly of Minneapolis, son
of Mr.. Wynn and nephew of Mrs.
Wright, returned to the Naval Air
Base in Pasco, Wash, after spend
ing a fifteen day furlough visiting
his mother, Mrs. Ella Dysart, Oil E.
22nd St., and his father and aunt.
Birthday Party: Mrs. Ethel
Saunders, 523 Colfax Ave. No., en-
tertained on her birthday, July 20,
at dinner, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Per-
kins, Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Wallace,
Mines. E. Boyd, Ruth Morris,
Johnnie Mae Prizes, Tiny Holder and
Estella Howard; S 1/c and Mrs.
Marion Parker and Miss Josephine
Thomas.
Proud Parents: Proud parents
are Mr.. and Mrs. Timothy Mills,
ST., Oil E. 22nd St. They have a
baby boy, Timothy Jr., born at
Fairview Hospital, Friday, July 20.
Mrs. Mills is the former Grace
Jamison, teacher of music and Eng
lish in the Junior High of Indian
apolis, Ind.
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Carolyn Bonner
Helen Mudgett
Speaker Sunday

The Women's Day services at
Border Methodist church, Mime
apolis, will begin promptly at IL
a. m, Sunday, Aug. II, with
Carolyn Banner, graduate student
at the University of Minnesota, as
guest speaker. Elizabeth Moore,
soprano, of st. Paul, and the Jolly
Sixteen chorus will appear on the
program.
Helen Parker Mudgett, assistant
professor at the University of Min
nesota, who gained recognition for
her work in the field of inter-
racial relations and intercultural
education, will speak at 8 p. m.
Mrs. Mudgett introduced the course
at the University on racial and
cultural democracy and was re-
sponsible for the first course in
Negro-American history at the
University of Minnesota.
Mrs. Mudgett has assisted in the
organization of the st. Paul Council
on Human Relations and is a mem
Der of their speakers bureau. She
is chiefly responsible for the inter-
cultural workshop, now in progress
at the University.
Evelyn Olson, Ruth Pittman,
Avis Ware Carter, Dorothy Simms
and Alyce Lyles, will give special
musical numbers and readings.
ST. PETER A.M.E. CHURCH: The
Women's Day program last Sunday was a
grand success The chairman and her
committees are to be commended for ar
ranging such a fine program. The guest
speaker, Miss Blanche Patterson, brought
q wonderful message on ''Women's Day in
Latin America" The afternoon program
was unusually good. The Mems Day pro-
gram is Sunday, August 26. The women
raised over five hundred dollars. The final
report will be made later.
The pastor will preach morning and eve
ming, Sunday, August IL. Subject for the
morning: The Work and the Effect of
Righteousness" The evening subject will
be: Gods Call to the Women of Our
Day" Evening services from 7:45 to
BIAS.
The trustees will meet at the close of
the morning service.
WAYMAN A.M.E. CHURCH: Sunday the
pastor, the Rev. L. P. Ashford, spoke from
the subject: Sleeping Sickness or Uncon-
verified Christians" Text: When Thou Art
Converted" Luke p :32.
Visitors present were: William Seabron,
the new industrial secretary at the Urban
II
apOiis: Mrs. L. Carriger of ST. James, st.
Paul; Miss Felicia Boyd of Minneapolis
Mrs. Matilda Davis of Jackson. Miss.
Tuesday night, the Busy Bee Club met at
the home Of Mrs. N. Whitiker. Friday
night the Pastors Aid Society will meet at
the home Of Mrs. Blanche Cooper, 7O5 7th
Street No.
Sunday morning the pastor will occupy
the pulpit. Services will be held Sunday
night.-Church Reporter.
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Social and Persona
o MINNEAPOLIS

W. Glenn, 364O Fourth Ave. &c.,
returned to their home, Tuesday,
Aug. z. DR.. Eve is a prominent
surgeon of Hot Springs and has
his own hospital.
Mrs. Lucille Malcolm of Panama,
who arrived in the city last Wednes-
day, Aug. l, to attend Dunwoody
Institute, is stopping at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Gray, APO
E. 37th St.
Sgt. Robert McCray, Fl. Leon
ard, Mo-, came by plane to spend
the weekend visiting his wife, Mrs.
Eva Davis McCray, 7O5 Girard
Ave. No.
Mrs. W. C. Crews, 1928 Oakland
Ave-, had as her dinner guests,
Wednesday noon, Aug. l, Mines.
E. A. Glover, Walter McElroy, C. C.
Underwood, ]. E. Riley, C. W. Haw-
kins, VIM. Mosley, Harvey White,
E. T. Cooke and Miss Vesta Mosley,
Minneapolis, and Mrs. C. C. Haw-
kins of Sumter, S. C.
Entertains ChicagOans: Mrs.
Bessie Gresham, 1886 Fourth Ave.
&c., entertained at dinner Thurs
day, Aug. 2, in honor of Mrs. Car
maria Dickerson, and Mrs. Aegean
Sharpe, house guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Wesley, Mrs. J. Pullen,
of Omaha, Neb., mother of Mrs.
Harry Massengill and Miss Mable
Bludsoe of Hook, Tex. Others pres
ent werwe Mines. Robert Wesley,
j. E. Brown; Misses Jewel lobe,
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Social and Persona !

Mrs. Robert Blair, S74S Fifth
Ave. So, was hostess to the follow
ing out-of-town guests at a pokena
party, Tuesday, July 81: DR.. and
Mrs. John Eve of Hot Springs,
Ark, Miss Marian Jeffries and
Mrs. Ada Jenkins of Chicago, and
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Harper of Los
Angeles, Calf. Mrs. Harper is the
niece of Mrs. Blair.
Mrs. Mamie Nolan, 1921 Fifth
St. So, had as her house guests last
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Card OF Thanks
We wish TO thank our many friends and
neighbors for their kindness to US during
the illness and death of our beloved hus-
band and father, William GUIDE. Especially
do we thank those who donated cars and
those who sent the beautiful flowers.
Gods richest blessings on you all.-Mrs.
William GUIDE, wife; Alfonso Guyden,
son; Mildred and Alice. daughters.