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(SSE
WEATHER
WEST TEXAS: Mostly clcudy with scatter'd
showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, to-
night and Thursday.
Sawr Sfefatb
★ THE CARBON BLACK CENTER OF THE WORLD *
Vo!. 19—No. 221
NEA Sorvicc
Associated Press
Borger, Texas, Wednesday, August 8, 1945
(Six Pages Today'
A BUI
America s first Atomic Bomb Destroys
6Q Per Cent of Jap City of Hiroshima
Four Groups of Superfortresses
Totaling Probably 400, Strike
Industry in Jap Home Islands
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
GUAM. Auj;. <-! (AI’i -The oblileratirn; blast of a single
a ton lie bomb droppoi! by a lone Suporfort desti oyed 00 per
cent ui the impel taut Japanese cstv of Iliinshima anti today
Tokyo atlmittwl that pract ii allv notion ■ .eapeii death in its
.v'orthin ; path
“Those outdoor, luina-d to ileiitli. while thost* indoors
were killed b\ uuioM'i'ibublt pit >uie ami heat, reported
Tokyo It .aat the eitv wa.-- in ‘aiisastnui.-; ruin" anti that
houses and builclun.'.s were erusht'd"
The nevvspapci A. aln Shimbun appealetl to the people
to remain calm under the ''inhuman' bombing and “pledge
to fight through, until the i n ' The editorial declared the
Japanese mind had been ‘‘trained tor just such an occasion
as this." \
General Spa at/, warned the enemy that more B-29s are
ready to drop more of the world’s most destructive explosives
on tlu island eiti,-;. if resistance continues.
Key Plan Signed
For Trials ol
War Criminals
By MURLIN SPENCEl!
GUAM. August 8 ■ V The
growing fleet of Superfortresses
struck tor the third straight day
today with multiple blows landing
on the Japanese empire at Yaw-
ala, the Tokyo arsenal, the Naka
Several Thousand
Women Needed by
Women's Army Corps
Due to tlu decreased number of j
points needed lor discharge under !
the sys'ein ol releasing members
of the Women’s Army Corps, sev-
eral thousand women replacements j
are neclc.i at once, Sgt. Lillian
Bnstiii, recruiter, stated yesterday,
in an interview.
Sgt. Bastin and CpI. Madge Sun- ;
| mons, recruiters for the WACs in '
, 1. di trict completed two day
recruiting in Borger today. They i
| will return to Oklahoma City,j
I Okla., tonight where they will be1
assigned to a new city.
I “For information concerning the j
I WAC's. write to the WAC Reeruit-
I ing Office iii Oklahoma City.
, Okla.,” they said yesterday.
I "Some of the skills in demand j
I are—typing, occupational-therapy,
] operation of radio, telephone nr
teletype, pharmacy, optometry and
Reds Will Fight Nips;
President Truman Makes
Announcement in U. S.
jima aircraft factory just outside pir aph\ lht > .loir.
, , . . i : i___i___ l W A ( ' i ' ■ • ' I' M i •
Tito Strategic At Forw nim-|
ina-tior said that 4 l square miles j
of Huv»:.luma's built-up arc-a Ml
uIt*.4 writ1 wiped uitt. i
f y squ.i.o
Five mihL
stroyod by
communitii:
them.
clo-
The
Although nil
wore wearing d
\ i ua! impact*’ •
c, rot.l flash was si
some cried “My
crow membris
,ifK glasses, the
t trio explosives’
tremendous fhat
God” in sheer
Onh th
d ’ kno
men on
of their
Grim details of what happen-
ed on the ground came only
from Tokyo. The enemy broad-
cast revealed that th'01 Ha t was
so iernb’* that the dead could
not be distinguished from the
injured. Neither could he id«.i-
tified. Destruction was so grr.H.
and need for relief &o urge. t.
that authorities hnd been u?
able to establish the extent of
civilian casualties.
Kun
. ub\ Huisly highly Haled,
the no a vvi'iipmi “the m* . t
•n is <io\olopmout m tht
t>1 t ho v. *»rlei and said “d
....o shortened the war 'in
m\ to eight months.
There would have been "no
need to have had D-Day in
Europe" if the bomb had been
developed earlier, asserted ?dej.
Gen. Curtis Lcmay. his chief of
staff.
Spaatz based his communique
on photograph: from the sky. They
showed tlu* heart of the* ody dev •
.(.stated with awful thoromd'.ness
--as it a giant bulldozer had swept
up buddings and houses and
dumped them into u rivei.
Reconnaissance disclosed that
the harbor area of Hiroshima—
p "■ : : 1 ® ; ■ . mi. . ■ y maim lined
l-ai-dy Hutched by the tem-nd.u.s . wh»
C’apt. K d d i v Rickenbackor.
World war I ace. quickly predict-
ed that aerial assaults alone would :
knock Japan out of the \v«u.
But here on Guam, where the
v..:r is very close and the amaz-
ing atom is in the ‘‘I still can’t
believe it" realm, some military.
Tokyo and lhe chemical center of
F ukuyama.
The B 29s hit with mounting
fury as Admiral Halsey's mighty
Third fleet returned to Japanese
waters for new attacks after rid-
ing out a typhoon—the only ef-
fective defense against its savage
bombardment of the homo islands.
Beginning with a daylight raid
cn Yawaia, the "Pittsburgh of Ja-
pan" four groups of Superfortres-
ses cascaded destruction down on
the home islands, the last rah
striking Fukuyama just before
midnight. Probably 400 A 29s,
• v. i as civil crimi- SOme with fighter escort, partici-
pated in lhe raids.
Fukuyama. 12 miles north of^
Kure cn Honshu and one of the
cities forewarned of its doom,
was the target of 130 B-29s of
Brig. Gen. Rooor M. Ramey’s
Tinian-based 58th Wing. The
incendiaries hit a square mile
industrial area containing a-
mong important industries the
Imperial D”e W^rks, the Ka-
wanishi Aircraft factory and the
Misubishi Electric Co.
L< >NI)ON, Aug. 8—i.?!-—1The key
plan ini the trials of Germany’s
majnr war criminals was signed
tod;>\ by the representatives of
the l?ititori States, Britain, Russia
and T ranee.
The document was signed as it
was disclosed that top-ranking
.V: i . held as prisoners of war at
Mi. . 1, Luxembourg, and els.
whoie, would be moved soon to
the Nuernberg jail, where they
will ii-M* their status as prisoners
of \v • and be held as eivl
nals.
They will be moved in small
■ cun under close guard.
Am»>ng those who have been
held in Luxembourg, and presum-
,-,l t'M.-. who will figure in the
trials, are Hermann Goering, Joa-
chim Von Ribbentrup, Franz V’on
P c en, and Julius Strcieher.
Phillips Lions
Discuss Problems
Df Chin Whiskers
it would be the infantry wh
would win eventual victory. and
’ ? i i on the ((round
atm. ._________
blast. But the concussion, or fin
effect was so overpowering eh
where (hat several firebreak
seven xtroums-—one !resni we
shout three city blocks wide—luil
erl to stop the flames.
The high-flying camera plane:
< .rcled Hiroshima a few hour:
alter Monday s attack atvl i< ‘i n | ni}.j i;,i|e(j an emergency meeting
only two small .in s .. . .. i'll, i - ,,f the cabinet in his home to studv
The remainder of the city appe..: - , ,( i0!H)rl o{ the aamage.
cl turned to ashes. lhe Jens
■ aught photographic piooi ,i‘"! i admitted grave concern over ....
one bomb, small enough to !.<• ear- ; Miroshimi, bombing. The London
lied by any American bnmbet ■'> •. |-)lti|v Mail said us listening post
tighter place pack- more deiiih , nroadeast order for Japa
and destruction than thousands of -
tons of ordinary fire and demo-
lition bombs
The city, which will go down
in history as the testing ground
for man's most awful weapon, was
unprepared for such a sv\ ill.; v x x that the atomic bomb will
crushing blow. lhe .lap.nicse j j„. ., threat compelling
l ad prepared their delense u i II ( ()1,." j jt, expressed doubt that
against Superfort , and tiiehomli.--. t||(, ,i;t,i;ineM, could develop such
A
1J-2t*s ..>s:,uited Ya .vuta with 1,500
ton. of demolition bombs, starting
1 huge IT e i in the great Northwest-
ern Kyushu steel center.
Fifty other Superfortress!
hut they were a nothing against
(lie atom.
In the heart of the city, a few
ecncrcte structures remain
standing, like bleak sentinels
over a scene of ruin. They are
believed lo be air raid r,heifers.
Although lhey were not dcst-ov
ed, photographs indicate they
were burned out.
Two small fires were burning j
when the photographs were tak-I
cn in the afternoon. The bomb I
. . , _ — Japa-
Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Farrell,
Albany, N. Y.. who helped find
a way to use the mighty atom,
disclosed that the date for the
first atomic bombing was set
more than a year ago in order to
lay out a schedule for com-
pleting the project, which cost
$2,000,000,000.
was dropped at Si: 15 ft. m.
pose time j Pilot Tibbets and others on the
An expert at . atm> j nugnty atom carrving l.i-29, named
logic an fuu-o headquarter.. "Knola Gav” for Tibbets'
there was no cOirip.u iMm between , m,l(h,,r- .said the'Hiroshima explo-
the lire caused by the aton-.n sjon w.ts n>t.|nr ;ci«us and awe in-
bomb and normal cormnuration.^. Spirjno.“
VVhen Yokohama was burned I v | NaZv. Capt. William Sterling
liu-e-ulinnes, be said, it looked •'* p;,w|„, designed the boniti,
ii smoke puts ueie burning p,, Hiroshima flight as
throughout the cd>. A. 11 e - •w<..,punei.r," illuf it was not con-
si lima, a white puime o fnim t , 1,1,,, an ordinary bomb,
rose thousands ol leet into tbe|
air. Crewmen of the
dropped the bomb said it rose 40,-
During the regular weekly meet- j
In:; of the Phillips Lions Club at j smashed for the 12th time at the
The JaiMiie’e. ol.viouslv shaken th • Phillips Grade School Audi-:great Nakajima aircraft plant
j.v tat..vl.teh they tei mm. the members of the club i which once turned out 75 per
-’ill'rei'ed te concede eouid under the chairmanship of Ham cent of Nippon's combat engines,
i , , |,ec„ v. i.,ugh' bv a single Hamilton discussed the pros and When heavy weather closed over
bomb, screamed "barbarity" -miis eons ..f raising “Whiskers on the the plant another small group
acre tactics ' while Premier Su- Chins.” it was reported this morn-j turned from that target to plaster
me. the Tokyo arsenal with heavy de-
•-Following very little adverse ; molition bombs,
oppi sition, the members voted to Returning pilot- reported cn-
Ai! *C kw murnir g newspapei ■ ,'i111: at' whiskers for the Phillips eountei ing hoavv tlak over both
the Free Fair, which is to be held Sep- the arsenal and the aircraft plant,
tember 1. 2 and 3," it was learned, but of seeing no enemy planes.
Mrs. Dell Hubbard, guest enter- Both objectives were bombed
tamer played several popular j visually without announced re-
musical selections during the pro- I suits,
ram Other B-29s mined the entrances
Several reports were made by to the important harbors of Shim-
the chairmen of the committees, jonoseki, Mausuru and Sakai on
it could destroy all life on Japan o,,,, t t ,,, die parade coni- '■ Honshu and Kashin on northern
in a ic« days \ x \ it may mean v.|,;t.|, 1S a port of the Phil- Korea.
'.......VV1'J lips Free Fair, was made by 1!. E
jvo,1'ld Smith.
Other making reports were: W
C Paxton reported the meeting]
eoncerning juvenile delinquency,;
which was held at the Hutchinson ;
Count.' Library August 3. Dick
Weeks, president of the Phillips |
Lions Club, also made a report of
similar type, stating what the
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-—(AP)~Russia has declared war upon Japan.
The declaraiion, announced lo ihe Uniied Sleles first by President Tru-
man, and followed by a report on the Moscow radio, is effective at 5 p. m.
eastern war time.
The first reaction in Washington, unanimous and unequivocal, was
that Russia's eniry, coupled wiih the atomic bomb means an early end of
She Japanese war.
Mr. Truman made the momentous announcement to a hurriedly sum-
moned news conference.
He said he had only a simple stat emeni to make but it was so important
he could not delay it.
The president greeted reporters with a broad grin. Then he became
solemn as he said:
Russia has declared war on Japan.
That is all.
l In London the Moscow Radio was heard to an-
nounce that ihe declaration is effective as of Auqust
9J
The disclosure that the Soviet Union at last had
pitted its enormous might alongside Britain and the
WACc are needed ulso for training
] as jnedicai and dental technicians,
j “Women between the ages ol 20 i
; and 38 are eligible to join this I
branch of the armed services. I
I They must have at least two years
of high school training or the I
(equivalent. They must also be able
I to pass the physical examination," j
they concluded.
li is estimated that then, arc
25t) different jobs being done l>\ |
the WACs in the service ot their
count ry.
WAC Recruiters
5VAG recruiters. Cpl. Madge !
Simmons and Sgt. Lillian Bastin!
have been in the service a total ]
of four years. Sgt. Bastin has been !
in the service two and one-haif !
years and Cpl. Simmons has been i
in the service a year and a half.
Cpl. Simmons is lhe mother of !
three children, two of them in the j
service. Her son, Lt. Roy Parnell
Simmons, is a veteran of 18 •
months oveis. duty. He hold• United States against the Pacific enemy had not been
the Silvei St.i . Purple Heart with .mo*nnrtnA
cluster Presidential filiation and untxptgrea.
When it would come, however, had been a mat*er
of conjecture for months.
Official Washington at once took this develop-
ment, along with the unieasing of atomic bombing
against the Pacific enemy, as a sure sign that Japan
can net long continue to resist.
The President sat behind his desk for a minute :, at midnight <4 p m
until the 30 or so correspondents all were gathered
around him. Then he arose, flanked on the right by1 The Moscow Radio announce-
Admiral of the fleet William Leahy, his personal chief RusNiaAnm *hir'pacifiTW*War
of staff, and on the left by Secretary of State James F. I sai<i -Japan had previously ap-
r\ --------- - pealed to the Soviet Union to
Byrnes.
way of Siberia, as they came
Members of the Russian party
with families within bombing
range of Japan showed evidence
of worry.
ne e to evacuate big cities.
I): (St-ort'.o Willard Watt, Uni-
versity ol Texas chemist who
helped develop the bomb, asserted
a weapon to attack the Uniied
Slate.- and pointed out that Ger-
many had failed to do so. al-
lium;;!] ihe Nazis had made a
star!.
Still more nf lhe Superforts
moved closer to JaDan for new
strikes as the first ef the giants
under the Eighth Air Force
Command of Lt. Gen. James
Doolittle landed at their new
UKmawa case, ready to co-
ordinate their blows with those
cluster, Presidential Citation and
is to receive the Croix do la Guer-
re from the French Government.
Her daughter, Nancy Ruth Sim-
mons. is a member of the Cadet
Nurse'.- Corps. R. C. Ifinzie, the
husband of her eldest daughter, is
a member of the United States
Coast Guard.
Cpl. Simmons is a former news-
paperwoman.
Sgt. Bastin was a home econom-
ies teacher before entering 1he
service.
U. S. Mail Service
Survey Being Made
In Ciiy of Borger
Reprt
LONDON, Aug. 8—(/P)—Soviet
Run; ia declared war on Japan
mediate in the conflict.
The president was wearing a
light gray tropical suit and a blue
and white four-in-hand necktie.
He explained that he had no in-
Survevs are bemg made in Bor- u'ntio" of h?win« a news eonfer-
ger this week with the idea of *>ut this ma ter was sum-
. . .. . . . . ’ it, »t't • i ti f li.. I h h t ii ,»,ii i I, I i , T
enlarging the territory ot mad
delivery service. ('. S. CampbGi.
postmaster, stated today. “It is
expected that there will bo rec-
ommendations made to the gov-
ernment to use nine men in the
delivery service,” Campbell said
At present there are three
portant he felt that it couldn’t j
wait.
Mr. Truman then made the j
simple one sentence announcement |
of Russia’s declaration of war. He !
added that was all he hod to saw
The short announcement brought
a -asp from reporters who had
Russia's entry into the Pacific
war is generally expected lo
turn loose a new wave of psy-
chological and propagandist ac-
tivity directed at persuading the
enemy that resistance now is
completely fulile.
Already- the Allies have been
Jo; '1 iejected the Potsdam ul-
timatum of July 2d by the United
States. Britain and China demand-
ing unconditional surrender, how-
ever, and thu: Japan’s request
for mediation “loses all basis,” the
announcement said.
The announcement, quoting a
.-latement from Foreign Commissar
Molotov, ;aid the Allies then had
requested Russia to join in the
war against the Japanese.
’1 he Moscow declaration follow-
ed by two days President Tru-
.-w present men are inns “ 1 ' ■" ■ ’ .■wii-iu;. me nui: neve neen cu uy tun nays t-resident Tru-
men being used to deliver mail in I rushed to the White House in a capitalizing to the fullest on the‘man's announcement that the first
the main part of town.” he added ' stream of taxicabs and an excla- threat of the new atomic bomb. | atomic bomb had been cast upon
A Navy Department radio com-
jmentator bluntly warned Japan
The addition of the other men i motion of
In the delivery department will |
allow the mail lo be delivered :
twice daily in the main part of
(town and also to the Hughes-Pitts
[Addition, Buna vista—which will
include Philview and the Philrieh
Camps
It will also enable the depart
my God" from some.
Washington and London Japan.
The announcement was broad-
of th" 20th Air Force and the
PhninG Lions'Club had done’dim- Arm» and Navv'
ing the past year to combat these
problems.
Three thousands copies of the,,. , ,, . . ,
'BkL‘for*'the privileged Lion'and had h;,mmcred 'sh,1,pi,,« ,)f(
were
| full v ovci Woke Island Monday j Campbell stated.
If the recommendations are
the China Coast for three .-ueees |accepted—mail service in thi's-e
A number of naval aides and within the last few hours there |
State Department attaches were have been expectations of a new (cast at 10 p.m. Moscow time '3
present when the announcement ultimatum to the enemy to quit
was made. now or face national annihilation.
The president's usual smile was What factors finally tipped the
absent as he made the grave dis- balance and persuaded the Soviets
closure. ; to go to war again so soon after
Whether the arrangements for helping to crush Germany were
Russia's entry into the war on Ja- ! not entirely clear here,
pan were fashioned at Potsdam : These too, may ligure in Presl-
was not disclosed. [ dent Truman's address tomorrow
The chief executive may throw , nigh!,
light on that tomorrow in a re-; ------ 1
enrolled and the highest bid- Il"” ’ ' "" ’ , iwvepuxi—man service m iih-sc | port to be broadeasl lo the nation
.....w! h i ' S3c i ,v; ■ SaUuda'v’Sullday and wltl K°ba“* :!-
000
At l!t«* Ea <* of tins lii«l)-ntck«'d
inu.ihroom w,> ;i cloiid-liki* aefu-
I HU hit I o|) \x ! I i i I Wtth ill to or
(lu. t iijov n it t»> the ail hy tLt
111 ifU’i ulou x iuncuwiwiL Sinuliii
. , . , but that ho could give no details,
n . wnirn Tibbets’ young son. Paul W.
3rd, informed of the bombing feat,
beamed “I think my daddy is a
j grand guy.**
SOUHCE OF ATOMIC BOMB
EXISTS IN TFJ
DALLAS. Aug
G.I", They will have the privi- R,‘y^vata. blasted bv Superforts
leges olleird in this capacity dur-jtoday ,0|. Uu, ,lrst tllI10 in a year,
nig the next muting. had boon placed on the 20th Air
(,’oup sinking was h i by Bob ^urc.(x death list Sunday. Bomb-
* . n , „ , , . . ing was visual in good weathei
(»ursK wefo: Bob Bahlwin,grad- anq starteti fires that quickh
unii* of tlu Phillips High School, spread to conllagiation propor-
nttw i rnemboi of Marine Corps nons returning airmen said. A
n i Karl Raw lin- force of 140 Thunderbolt fighters
from Okinawa escorted the Super-
forts.
It was the third blow in as many
days at Japan's bleeding war cen-
' ters.
Congressional Medal
Of Honor Winner Is
Jiftcry of Wedding
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inuningi id Luting. Tex.i
;<> tu Agnes Pauli!,, Burk
ik bui g W
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il. diu'liiJfged
dial Ik
Thirty more Superforts, ac
comparucd b» 70 Mustangs and
Thunoert oils, raided th. central
distrial armv command ar.a in
th# vicinity of Tokyo or, Honshu
Island vurly lodav th. Japanas#
Dom.i N‘ wh A j.uev raporlvd
•ariy today
Nuiaktf On# Caga I
in about fid thu s. More inlorir, .- j
turn will be available in the nexi
20 days concerning Ihe streets
and blocks to be serviced,” be
concluded.
10 p. lit. Eastern War Time.
Hospital Notes
G. I
l lent.
Mrs. K. T
patient -
Flov Guli h i i
tient.
Pearl Pru ill.
pat it*nt
Min W n. 1>
pat it’fd
Doftylliv Jful
<al patient
North Plains
Cradit is a mudu.
is a mrdii al
A communique signed by him-
self, Generalissimo Stalin and
Prime Minister Attlee, released
v/hen the Potsdam meeting end-
ed, made nn specific mention o!
Japan. But it carried the signi
ficanl statement that chiefs of
staff had studied military mat
ters "of mutual interest.'*
There hnd been multiple hint
: that the Soviets would align them-
clves with the Western Allie in
ii’ishing lhe Nipponese
Perhaps lhe most pointed \v;i ;
. Hus-ia’s denunciation months ago
Dii its non-aggies-ion pact w*ith
iJapan.
Forty and High!
To Elect Officers
m Eastern War Time), two hours
before midnight.
Ii quoted a statement from
1
Soviet Eoieign Commissar Vyac-
heslav Molotov.
The midnight deadline is S
p.m. Eastern War Time. Molo-
tov s statement, as Droaacast
See Number Two Page 6
I
Local Sheriff's
Department Men
rediureu in Ariicie
have their annual ejection of otli- |
cers during the regular meeting
a! lhe Amem :.n Iav ..?! Hull I Members of the Sheriff’s De-
Thtii • *y n tit at 30, Bayard 3 ! artment of Hutchinson County
Ih'inn n • ;*rc--1• •»r:*• <‘i ' a. ■ • » u: » .• .«• • i tht? Sheriff’s Posse will bo
i' iHired m an article in the
the • ■ n i o!; S • r'lt A >eiation Magazine of
jeers, dinner will
(added “All men
Ito attend the meet
be
Births
Fdlltvx
J,
i the Septembei i.-sue, it
ed I was reported uxl.iy.
Ail niembei of the Sheriff*
<■ will be entertained with
Ii t-.iuoriuw,” Sheriff
"Members of th*
r:u*« .,i Mu-, i i Sluhle*
lln Mdei Jhisb ut It p m.,**
......ii ■ Ufkuii tu It.*
I • Inli itl'rk lined by IJu.
i * i«d i < lAhit* shtrt,
“nicd dome pig.
1 • ni'* .J Him iiievt.
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