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World's People 'Status Of Nips' Emperor Instant Use I . L A ds· . Japan Ends e.augn "'" mg Is Sole Question Facing Over Peace Bid Truman, AHied Leaders 1
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I:·~c~l;1~h f~~~~.i~t. summer r ecess Stresses Domestic Issu.E.\s n, n der was approved Frid uy l.Jy I Senator Josep h C. O'Mahon ey, Fighting Men Ready Wc1r Mobilization Di recto r J oi ,n , D., Wyo., «sserted Frida y n ight m:::t?;.~~'~1~~l~i o;;
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W. Snyder. t that dom estic iss ues have beTh e ·progr;:irn, p;-epared by the come "the prim:ny problem" and War Production Bo::rd, may lle th at Congn,ss ~houl d enact remade public Mo:i day, or earli e r co nversion leg isla tion irnrn ediateif the Japane se officially capilu- ly after Lab or Day. Jule before th en. The legi slators arc not sched .. Ad va nce inlorrn al ion is that uled to r eturn until Oct. 8. Some :t w ill eany out ·P re~;idenl T ru - in fo rn11,d qu:,r ters believe, hown,a:i·s dl'Cl'l'l' 'l' hursu,,y tk, t pro- .,-_.n, th a t it wi ll not be nece;;sary ducliun cont rn ls in us t n,m~in for :.,, call lh<e1r1 b.i c k. They i::.iid lhal, th e prc·sent to avert dama g in g ru r the, p ,rsent ,, l le.J!it, ,· ecuneco non,,c n,perc 11ss iuus. ·, r,rs:un prub l!,in:; c:.in L,: hc1ntl ksd WP,B spuk es1rn;n , aid its aim is I;:; ucl,nininr at ive and e:{(:culivc; to prevent c:kwti:- scramble for "ctiun. materials and [:,c ilities." T hey Broader un c·mp loy ment ,:omdt sc ri t;ed il ;:is ·'so und , s im pk 1 p,-·nsatio1~ is on te pha.,e th at ConI I J a nd c Par." L " :-;o is inlendnl . gress will b" l'alled upon to <:onto. he ld hold till' pnci: and w"'ge s.·id cr early. Th e Presid en t ha_s lin e lo prev e nt ;111 111!Llt10na1·y as ked for ll•g1sla l!crn to ,over b-oorn. red<eral war wo rkers and otiiers T he plan i,; und ers tood lo tak e not now protec ted. He favors ca re of all the ad111inislrative and payments of $25 a week for as executive phases of recon version. b n g as 26 weeks on a nation Wit h lhe iegisla li ve end not yet w ide basis. There is widespread complete, th ere was renewed congressional opposition to a sp ec ulation that Congress will be (Continued on Page Six)
Japan's Or1ly Choice Remains Surrender Or face Death From Atomic Bombs; Negotiations May Last Three Or Four Days, Official Says
To Come Home; Old LOn dOn 'C UtS LOOSe I
NEW Y ORK . - (U.R) - With shrieks t'.lld shouts of lau ghter By ERNEST BARCELLA LONDON.-(UP)-Gen. Douglas MacArthur will be noand tears t he wor ld Frida y greel-minated thi s week-end to accept th e formal surrender of the Pd w h,i t il hoped w.:is th e d aw n WASHINGTON.-(UP)-The United . States has Japanese general staff, it was reported Friday ni g ht. as Big ur p,•,H:e an d fmm Lundon to draftad · a reply to the Japanese conditional surrender h C!rnngking llll'(rngh l fonc,lulu an d Four l eaders held urgent consultati o ns to decid e w }iet er Okinawa rnilliuns c,f juy n:i z, d cffer and submitted it to Britain. Ch1r.a and Russia for to acecpt the Japanese conditional offer of surrender. The mc•n :rnd wutrH,n n•n1. lh e s kic,s concurrence before forwarding it to Tokyo, it was learnDaily Mail's well-informed political correspondent Wilson wi th th eir h c.ip py vuict·s. ed ·Friday night. Broadbent said the decision already had been made to noBut as th e a£i.ernoon of w hat minate MacArthur lo accept J a-•·• had pr,, ?·.-,ised t.o Le· V-J d ay w:: m·d into d:.1sk, lh c United WASHINGTON.-(UP)-Japan, brought face to face with pan's surrender as the clim ax to "' his long roa d back lo Balaa n. J dal<'s g:., ll(,rall y W Ll S prov in g to nationJ.l death b y the atom bomb, Friday accepted the Allied MacAr thur will be authorized be the_. o.11 0_. <,:.:c:epl1on. T!ckt::t tape terms of unconditional surender with the understanding that , h e and torn n ews papers f.'utlCl'E:d to impose Allied term s 'w en into the stl·!·els spasmodically and Emperor Hirohito would be permitted to retain his status as they have been settled ," Broad· bent said. half heal'l vc\]y here and th er e , yet sovereign ru1er. " B ' t' h l I no genui,w, whole-liearlcd ccleT. he capitulation offer, w1'th the prov1'so that Hiroh·1·to re-__ . 'I ne n IS governrnen was reI bration of tl1e kinct for which ported willing to accept the conAmericans are noted, d eveloped mam the country's head, was based on the Allied surrender" 1St;fe1ta~~~. offer if the anyw h ere. or-die ultimatum of July 26. E vea Broadway and Times It was transmitted to the United States and Chin. a_. .. Prime Minister Clement R. Square h ere, where celebrat ions Attlee and Foreign Minister Ernusually arc riotous, was ca lm. It through Switzerland and to Great Britain and Russia,· by, est still were conferring at the seemed Americans, havin g been Sweden. Secretary of State James B. Byrnes received it at prime minister's residence at a pushed int o a premature celebra- 5:45 p . m. CWT. late hour Friday night. tion of V-E da y, were not going p d To Observe Tolidays ef g to Jet them selves go until they resi ent Truman and other Allied leaders were already · Attlee announced at 11 r,. m. were certain the wa r was over. in telephonic consultation on the reply to be sent to Japan• . . : that no statement can yet be .., No Reticen~e on Okinawa The White House here and No. 1 Downing St. in London anmade on the surrender offer bul GUAM-'.U.P.)-U. s. and British GUAM.-(UP)-Preliminary assessment of dama e:e at Anw rican s in Okinawa a nd Ha- nounced_th a t there would be no statement on progrei.s Friday night. 2 he told the people that as far as carrier aircraft, striking milil.:iry ~ WG(l fell n o sudi ret_ice_n ce_._ Th es It was believed here that if all w t 11 1·t ld t'U or 1 b th the government was concerned target s in northern Honshu for Nagasaki showed that 30 per cent of the built up area-- mamly WE;re Amenca s f1gli t111g . . en we . wou s . _e. re.e the two working days ''immedi- the second eonsecutive day Frinearly all of the industrial areci-'-had been destroyed. In- men who have l.Jeen killing the 1om d ays before. VJ-clay would be proclaimed. Defmite · Y.X:~Y. ;. ately following ti'" announce- day, inflicted con ,; id e rable dam::luded in the demolished district was the Mitsubushi aircraft enemy ,ind get ling kill ed, who ;:innouncement will be made at the earliest possible moment, it was · ment" of the war's end should age on Japanese airfields, ship. . have take n t lw risks, wh o know added. be regard?.d as paid holiday :,. ping and ground in ~ta llations. assembly plant. It was an explos10!1 as ternbl_y destructive de fini tely wh:;l w.:.r is like. Those , • • ·· i;; ;; •• .;.;. ,~:,t oll'' th, ::::tic .rnI \ fo~· r t: WaJ' Ul; ....1.,:... ,i L h th;1\ as. the first ;,to.m1c bomb blast .··: h1ch levelled 4.1 sq_uare ' l ) ~ . ?k1~awa ~o~ .the' n e ws an~ ~ interest that the holiday should Adm. William F. Halsey's offenmiles of H1rosh1ma Monday, w1pmg out 60 per cent of the d~i k. . fh~y sli eak~u tl.:e . i .. g":'. · be limited to those two days and sive had extended beyond the first Japanese cily_ to feel the with tr ,1_ce1 bulle ts. 'I hey ined off As President Truman and other leaders conferred, dispatches· that workers should return to time Tokyo radio announced • · their nfl es, pistols, and flare from Guam disclosed that the American Air Forces had called in work immediately thereafter," he Japan's surrender offer.) (I E'J erfe ct of the mighty ne\V wea- guns. They hugged one another, their planes. said. But workers in essential serThe attacks stretched fro.11 pa n. slapped one another laughing and vices must carry on. · Yokohama to Ominato, near the ' e Reporting th e preliminary es- shouti~g:_ "The \_v,u's ~ver." "The Superforts are not flying today," Gen. Carl A. Spaatz anAttlee said the notice was issued northern tip of Hon shu 400 miles limale o f clamare b 2 sed 0 11 oerial. Tho~e m H a_wau av;oke to the nounced. Nor were other combat planes--including the messen• to enable advance preparations to to the north. No air opposition BOSTON - lU.P.l-The Chris. u ' · . , I n ews and withrn hours, we:·e giv- gers of de ath which drop _the at.cm bomb and which had brought be made where necessary. met the American and Britis!1 tian Science Monitor said today reconn:ii ssance Fnday, C,e n ing Honol ulu, where the Japs th 1 d t O th · k ff' . 1 I 1 "A defenite announcement will airm e n and no Japanese planes it reliably has learned that the Carl A. Spaa tz , chief of the Stra- ,; ta!'led thi s war, the wi!d 2s l day e war or s etr ·nees. t seemed an uno icia truce n the be made as soon as possible as to were observed near the Allied United States is preparing to leg ic Air Forces, announce d th e it has eve r known. Early risers air ove r the Pacific. the days to be treated as holi- forc es. recommend 10 the Allies re- effe cts of what may be th e last careened through the slreets in Th e American and British cabinets, after meeting Friday, stood days," he sai d. At leas t GO enemy planes were jeciicn of tho Tokyo peace of- ::itom ic bomb ::issau lt of t he w:,r. J their SP";<'d1ng cars. Ba1;ds of by on a 24-hour-a-day basis for develqpments. The cabinet met for one hour destroyed on the ground a nd 49 fer because of reservations conI d . · (Conhnued Ou Page SllC) Imm ediate steps to be taken were: 1 and 35 minutes Frid•ay afternoon w e re damaged by American cerning the Japanese emperor n ustries n Rums j o · while crowds jammed White hall, planes. One destroyer escort and The cit y's snraw li n!' ind ustri:.d l-To work betwe~n Washington, London, Moscow and Clihng• cheering the ministers as they en- seven cargo ships were damaged. CHUNGKING-lU.P.l-A Tok- ::irea, sprea d out along 12 n1il es king an agreed statement of policy on the status of the emperor. tered the prime minister's resi- British a ircraft destroyed nine yo broadcast heard here said ~agbanstahk'1siBdac_~•• o.~. •at:.1e1_nla1nud1-n1_~_cked . . 2-To send the agreed reply to Japan through Switzerland. dence. planes on lhe ground and dam.. "disturbances" occurred in the ., .. " , I 3.-To await Japan 's acceptance-rejection seemed a remote A new statement was promised aged 14. Japanese capital when the first An an•a of .fl8 square m1k·s o f possibility-of the Allied final terms. as soon as the situation is clari---broadcast of the surrender pro- the built-up area or 3.3 squ::i re ~m~ fied. The people were urged to !Superforis Are Idle posal was made. 1111les was d evas t..i ted. :J S U " continue work as usual." GUA-M-(U.P.l-Am erican Super(No such broaacast was reAccording to Spaatz's r epo rl, The American attitude toward fortre sses are not flying Saturr . ported by any other source.) d estruction w ithin Nae-asa ki - a t Under customary procedure if and when the surrender is called :Emperor Hiroh~to's .sovereignty day, Gen. Carl A. Spaatz an.. city of 252,360 persons-stre tch O ier a I final, J apan must send high officers of h er fighting service to us, appeared to be the decisive fac- noun ced. Allied air pow e r pree CHUNGKING _ cu.r.l _ Chi- e d a Ion g b o lh s1·d es o f y· un· k am i· yr presumably either at Guam or Manila, to sign surrender documents tor. sumably had halted its batterRiver, where most of the city's th G . d'd t R · d B 1. There was no official informa- ing of Japan while th e Big Four nese armies who have fough! heavy industrial a i5 I LONDON-lU. P.l-Raclio Tokyo, as e er mans. i a. e1ms an eerm. tion about the British attitude but deliberated Nippon's conditional ~~~r:a;:!!!~ \irei;i ~;i:~~o:s: heavy industr ies are localed. the BBC repo rted, broadcast this A London Daily Mail dispatch reported that Gen. Douglas Macnormally reliable government offer of surrender. WASHINGTON- (U.P.) _ The sauli against the fleeing ene.For a di sta nce of two m iles &ccount of t.he Hirnshima atomic Arthur would be the man. That would mean Manila, a few mile9 s ources said Britain was ready to It was the first indication from d f J l f1·01n 11orth to so uth a ·,1d .7 of ,·1 bombing , give n by a Japa nese Ii from which the Bataan death march star-t ed. However 1·t w~a accept the Japanese condition any war theate1· that the Pacific surren er O apa n wou d not my Friday while this capital · , = A possible hitch was seen in the Allies were holding back their b e a signal for m ass re lease of celebrated the Japanese sur- mile fr~,1:1 easl. t~- west deslruc-. se rge a nt w 110 wa.s . in the city believed h ere that n either MacArthur nor Adm. Chester w. Nilnitz insistence in some Chinese quar- military blows in vi ew of the m en from the Anny and Navy. render offer with wild aban- tion spread aci oss the h e ai t 0 1 wl;en th e_ bom b. fell. . would sign but that lesse r commander would be delegated. · ff Nor would it mean a n immediate don. the city. 'On thi s parl1cul:Jr rnornm" I I . . · h h J J A district east and to the was in one of the hot els in the' W!ld ce]ebral10ns were touched off a ll over the Allied world ~::i5st tea~r1ateed :r:n:~~ c~·Tr!::r~.'if. a~~~~~:. 0 c~~mander of the end of redeploym ent of forces to However, this was not an official Strategic Air Forces which have the Pacific. CHUNGKING (U.P.l =.:. In· south of th e point where the city of Hiros hima. Ab ,1ut 8:30 by_ the news. that .Japa n was ready to give up-to accept, as the view. Chinese war crimes offi- sent fleets of B-29s over Japan A Selective Service spokesman formed sO'Urces said that Em- Yutikarni Ri ver opens into Nag a - a. m. I h e~rd the rnar oi a B-29 pnce of life itself, its first defeat in 2,605 years of its blood-smeared cials have refused to state their almos t every day for the past pointed out today that under the peror Hirohito created a "peace sa ki harbor a lso was demolished, cruising overhead. history. position. week, indicated that normal draft law registrants are taken commiiiee" of 21 members it was announced . . ''Putting m y h e.id out of the Japan had only the choice of surrender or death. But the o combat flights and any prev1·ous into service for the duration of which met Fr1'day morru·ng and Included m the stncken area windo w l look ed up. . . . . negotiation . . . ·· . • of Japa 11 •s l ltl1 largest ci·ty wer·e . . . . physical task-of diplomatic through the mtermed1ary 1y-schedu1ed atomic-bomb at- the present war and six months decided to propose that Japan . ·· si,nu1taiieo usly a lig htning the kMitsubi . · d th.e w h o Ie s k y, ] of Switzerland and Sweden-took time. tacks were being held in abey- after the ''date of terminati·on of surrender. h shi" . steel. and.· ar . ms. fl as h · covere . WASHINTON - (U.P.) - Japan ance . hostilities." wor s, t e ,lfltsub1sh-Yu11ka m1 blindina my eyes. Unconsc iously The status of the emperor was the sole question. HAD never lost a war. Kubla Allied air power had struck Th e "termination of hostilities" ,By_ UNITED PRESS ordnance plant. and other he avy I dov e "fo1· cover and the whole Japan ese broadcasts indicated strongly that Japan would de- , ~han :mddhihs Mongolian invaders heavy blows against J a pan only does not rneen when the shooting A Moscod. broadcast. record- , ~~i~t \'.et\etu~·anprna~esoeu r tools of place c_am e . down on top of me. pend largely on the "Zacharias broadcast" to plead for retention of 0 a most dt t e tnck in 1274 A. D., a few hou rs before Tokyo radio stops. d b U d S aR ."~. ·h . , I hugged myse lf for de ar ltfe. the emper or. but the Japs won eventually._ announced Nippon's bid for peace. ,T hat date is defined by la w as e Y nite tates listeners. e c onnais, ance P ologi a p ns Several minut es later I was out:. Japan got pushed around in a Since Friday morning, Tokyo "the date proclaimed by the f~~d 0~ri1::a~t:t~si~e cf:::~~/~ were taken afte r a heav y pall_ of sid e a little dazed. On July 21 Capt. E . M. Zacharias, official Navy broadcaster to 1t;w other scattered battles, but radio has not reported any aerial President . . . or date specified the prerogatives of the emper- ~rnoke had cleared from the city. "All ar ound me I found d ead Japan, gave an implicit offer of peace on the basis of the Atlantic history books uphold her :b oast foray s against the homeland. in a concurrent resolution of or, that "unconditional surren- Jh~anrs~o~~~to~f\~~e~h~l11~!~rfb~~ or wound ed with gashes five Charter, which promised all peoples the right to choose their own 0 ~ always being on the winning The last officially-announced der 1·s uncondit1·onal surrender. exp losion h a d shown the city me · h es 111 · d'ta me t er on th e1· r s k'ms. governmen · t s. side. attacks against the empire cov- Congress, wh1'chever 1·s ear11·er." Until Pear l Harbor, Japan HAD ered the daylight hours of FriA House Military Affairs Com- There can be no plainer words." obliterated by smoke to werin g Some were burnt-their skins never fought the United States. (Continued On Page Six) miltee spokesman noted -that 20,000 fe et into the air. looked a n awful sight. Then there President Truman has not yet VATICAN CI'i'"i - :U.P.l Nagasaki, on K y ushu Island 's w ere small children . proclaimed the end of hostilities Pope Pius XII received reports western coast 200 miles south wes t -"The citizens in the stree ts who 1 in th e European war. He said it of the Japanese willingness to of "a tomized " Hiroshima, was a n were quite happy during the I was possible that surrender of surrender. and it was reported important emba rkation point and morning hours before th e ,bomb J apan might not bring a prompt that he immediately expressed a major shipbuilding and r epa ir dropped w er e pitiful to see. Their W alter Harwell, president of America's present need· is not proclamation of the end of hos- great satisfaction and l:he fer- - center. It r e ceived huge am ounts legs and bodies were scat tere d tilities in the Pacific. vent hope that events will de- of raw m ater ials from the ship- about and debris cove re d th eir che Tup elo Chamber of Com- the establishment of better ideals, mer ce, Friday requested that but elimination of discrepancies Army spokesmen indicated th at velop toward the definiie and ping lan es extending to J apa n. llifeless bodies." members hold their ballots for and an improvement in · the o----.Congressman John Rankin in if the P resident. should call con- r edeploy ment of troops to the final conclusion of world peace. 1 from Asi a tic m a inland ports. voting in the primary election practice of democracy, the Rev. Washington in Pacific wou ld be r educed sharply - -- - -- - - - -- -- - -- - -· a statement Friday con cerning gress back to of 10 m e mbers to the board of E . P. Schaich told members of with a Japane se surrende r but Japan's offer of conditional sur- view of re cent developments. di rectors until a supplimentary the local Kiwanis Club Friday. render indicated that his sup"We in the United States be~ a l_to_g_e_th_e_r,. P~eh~;l~inH;:f~ 1~~~a~rlin of list of candidates has been report will go to President Truman teis~p~~p!~~~ab.~?tioi;h a;~e~! would_n_o_t_c_ea_s_eo_ ceived. liece democracy is the ideal form in any decision upon the matter. were n o premature celebra tions Columbus Army Air Field will Ballots for the election, to of government," he said. "It is MAN1LA.-lU.P.l-News of th e First new s of the Japan ese of- preach a t the morning service His statemen t was, "If Pre- of the war's end. After a flurry nomin a te candiates for an of- an expression of the will of the J apanese surrend er offer rocked fer was brough t to MacAr lhur Sund ay at the First Pr esbyte rian fici sident Truman is willing to ac- of exc itement foll ow ing the al ballot to be ca st August majority. Like Christianity, decept the J a pa nese offe r, I w ill early morning broadcasts w hich ' th is Philippine ca pit a l which Fri- by th e Unite d Press. Church, 1t was announced Friday. were mailed Thursday, with mocraey is based upon the back him up ." disclosed Japan 's offer, Tupeloday night was S\,va rming w ith Others who were tol_d about I There w ill be ~o e ve ning service. 24, a roster of Chambe r of Com- majesty anri integrity of the inThe sta tement followed a ans se ttled down to aw ait offiTh e Re v. and Mrs. Ezra J acks troops and jan1med w ith supplies lhe news by th e Unite d Press Cha plam F ranklm attended dividual." United Press announcement that cial word from Washington. of C arney, Mo., will ope n a r e- in preparation for lh e invasion of were .Preside nt Sergei Osmena, Davidson an d Krngs coJJege_s and mer ce membership. N am es of several members "Getting a better democracy -is Japan h a d broadcast a formal of:Pla ns for observ a n ce of the viva ] meeting at th e First Chris- J a pan. Gen. George K enney and Li eut. grad_uated f:·om the Lou1sv11le were omitted from the list by a matter of buildi11g better men," A victory celeb ration swept the Gen. Benj amin Giles. Semmary. Before ent ermg the fer to accept the Potsdam sur- end of lh e .war w ere incomplete tian Church here Sunday, with and a supplemen t ary list he added, "and we need to be render ul't imatum provid ed the Friday night, but Mayor J. P. serv ices at 8 p. m . d ai ly, it h as town. 'I'he 1.ni·ti·al re·,r t'ion o·f all W" S Army h e served partor a tes 111 error, to bring membership up to date ed ucating our boys and girls on sovereign prerogatives of Em- Nann e y disclosed th at Walter bee n announced by the Rev. E . ''When ar e we going hom e?" di sb elief, foilow;d b y relief. ~ M1ssouc1·1. _, will be mailed immediately, Mr. the practice of democracy." peror Hirohito were not "pre- Harwell, -president of the Cham- P . Schai ch, pas tor. shouted boistrn us GI's who had \V ...,e ,·i Un i· ted ,P i·nss coi·i·c -. Dr . ., _ E. McFadden, pnslor of Har we ll sa id. The n omination C harging that public thinking ber of Commerce, had been reMr. a nd Mrs. Ja cks ha ve been been ticketed to go to Japan . " 11 I11 I1 I h judiced." I th evangelistic work in the As Un i led P ress correspomlt-nls s;:,ondent went inlo a littl e cafe t 1· e c t lirc is spt_le1nc 111 _rn g Mis ·lvacat- of di rector cand id ates by a pri- is selfish 1iather than democratic, Further ex-pla ining his stand, quested to call a m ee tin g of the d oin!! 115 ' mon ' 1 nd t oltl S!!t. Ca -1·m"n · M 1·1-·b" l_l, " , .,., °n. on rea , ma ry ballot is being ina ugurated he pointed out that the contri~ Mr. Rankin said "If it will get merchant's committee to make Ch ristian church for 20 years, Mr. sprea d lhe news along ,Rizal • 1 c with thi s election. bution of the church to demoScha ich said, declaring that "Mr. Avenue - Ma nila's Broadway- Hartford, Conn., the new s he sa,cl : · · rid of J ap an's military machine definite plans. Previ ou sly, nominees have been cracy is in character building. Tup eloans recalled the ob- J ac ks is a capabl e preacher and cheering troops thronged th e "Have a stea k. Have a drinkH-----d--d o-,--- - and render her powerless to make sel ec ted by a committee named The speaker was introduced have som ething!" 'Vv e n war on us again, and save the servance of Germany' s surrend- preac hes the simp le gospel of streets. ,Dance halls rocked with ch eers MacArthur decided to w:ii t unPfc. B ru ce McCary, so:, of Ed- by th e president. Se lection of by Edgar Godbold. lives of American boys, then I'd er just three month s ago, when Christ with power and persua-----o----· and w ild singing. lil the situation was clarifi t>d -b e- wa rd C. McCary, Baldwyn, has nomin ees by the entire membercertainly like to see that condi- crowds thronged to churches for sion ." New· Commanding Officer an early morning program of Mrs. Jacks, he said, is an ac" It's all ove r n ow," shouted th e fore mak ing a s tatement, an aid e, been wound ed in acti on in the ship is a part of a genera \ plan tion brought about." !Mr. Rankin, who is spending thanksgiving. That victory was complished music ian and has h ad GI's who h ad .borne the brunt o[ r eported. Hi s household did not Pac ifi c. according to the official for reorganization of the cham-1 COLUMBUS-Columbus _Arm_y the congressional recess here, said marked throughout the entire experience in organizing and di- the offensive against Japan under celebrale, and retired about 11 casualty list released today by ber of commerce now in pro- Air Field has a new commandgress. ing officer. Col. Karl S. Axteter (Continued On Page Six) recting chilc;lren's choirs. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. p. 111. the War D epartment. that he "would not be surprised"
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