ell, t bi flight i not To yo .o ashington, but Tokyo to Chicago. The latest fro the I r Department is th t non of the three B- 9s th t took off for a non-stop flight fro ■ the ca ital of Japan to our own national capital, has been able to make it. Earlier word as that two of the Superfortresse were running out of ga, and ou d have to land before getting across the United States. ow e hear that all three are atoppin short. One has already landed At Chicago, and the oth r ~ two are due to come tot earth at the windy city any ti ■• - - A now. In spite o f the failure to re ch Washington, it has been a tremendous flight. to compee rea out of · gse anti coala.n • t ■ ake lashiag\ea, ae taer aai. · This great flight is a new illustration that we have aa Air Force of flying generals;- one of the '1/lMl big B-29s in the flight tod yA commanded by _ Lieutenant General Barney Giles, deputy chifi of Strate ic Air Forces in the Pacific. Another by Major General Curtis Le ■JY, chief-of-staff of th Twentieth Air Force. And the third - , , ~ , , commanded by Brigadier General Emmet~O'Donnell, commander of the Seventy-Third Bombing Wing . of the Twentieth Air Force. All three are crac flyers, llD SUPE OIT)ESS-=- as I had occasion to note wh n I w w out that way in July. I flew with General Giles -- had a lesson fro hi ■ in flying a B-29, fro Iwo Jima to Ga ■. And I isited General Le lay on Gua ■, and Ro•i• O'lo ne on Saip n. Today' night finall7 eli ine.tes th niq diatinction of that e inent Yet raa of the old days - Clyde Pangbor. Long b fore the ar, P DI flew the Pacific nonstop strai&ht acros fro ■ Japan to a awaap in th State of lashington. That t at ha• re aiaed nequalled ntil this greater flight fr•• Tot70 o nd for lashi111ton, D.C. along t e ire t. circle route -- OYer !last a. But it still iaa' t the ~ record for distance. The nonstop ■art ad ia I eteen thirty-eight y two Britia Royal Air Force planes, flying dir ct froa Egypt to Auat~alia, a distance of sey n tho aaad, one hundred and fifty-eight ailes, st ill atanda. One observation that aay be ade tonight is this, that peacetiae certainly has come, when a long distaro flight between continents once again becomes the headline ne a of the day. Pre i en rum n o cu ed eneral acArt ur's de ration that in a y r ~ will need only to hundr d thou nd tr o ops for th o cupation of Japan. The President no d th t acArthur ha changed his vies dra ically urin the past month - tim ting only thirty days go th t e ould need five hundr d thousand men in Japan. Ma rthur no doub chan ed his opinion as the ituation oh n ed over there - but the President today said that the final estimate of t.he size of th occupation forces cannot be determined accurately until next 1,tagx Spring. ~e ad4ed that the need tor troopa ia Jap&H has aeiaing •e ie wi~h ~he epeed e l • ••~titsatt Today's presidential state nt is taken to be a mil bu e of lhe ar!rtbur s i~ate of the number of tro he'll aeed - only t o hundr d J h o us nd a he end of a year. An e ha e th ru ton from the Stat Departm - As i t nt Sec ~ a pres confe n e tod a y th he as, in his own ords, " ur rised that anybody c n foresee at thi time the number of forces th t ill be necessary in Japan." A.a i ll e aa A o a es en added that Am e :r 1 c an pol i e y +,ewe. re J a pa• Japan - ~eing rende1ed incapa~le 06 ■ oking wat foy yeoPo te eeme, 111 laehington political ci1clee, Me.elrthar~• &tateaen~ ahott~ •we awnated thouaand t1uope ia reg&Pieth ...._ H pelitZ::r:;zi:::-;::!;::::~:=~ . .: ·h• ee,e be sent home. f-n Congr,wsa today, tile llacApthur pesjt]oa ••• Mean bile in Tokyo, Gen ral acArthur today suspended anther Ja anese ne sp per - the Nippon Times, hinh i c n 1h 1 i h d in En l ish. The Nip o Tim s gets tl t -fou bu u p n bee it pr·nte s or u f · r b i 0 mer c a cen o This i he ond o r r h en 1 · e , i l s i h vin an a sus en ion ye terday. J AP .Qlll CE . RS e have ,ard frequent r or o a Japanese ■ilitary upris ng to atop the rr nder, ut e'feryt ' hing hitherto has beea vague re reports that Jap••••• otf leers revolted and tri . d to preTeat the laperor troa yi ding to tbe Allies. ow we have an account in o e detail and a dra atic tor7 it 1s. It relat s that the uprising agaaat tll · • aarrender al oat succee , ded, and wa only stopped 7 tb • bold aot ion ot General Ta . nat.a, ~ommaol er of the Japanese !ray ia the TokJo area. Tod a7' s Tera ion co es fro tn,apaper IAI ICBI, which tell ! sof eT nt on the nig t t A cuat tif teen th. The llitaclo and hi adTiaors had aade the deciaioll to , surrender, a deo.i , sion that was to he a nounoed on the following day • . lord of this got aro nd i ilitary circles, and a group of you . ng ofti ! otrs deter ined to intervene. otwithstandi I the atoa.ic bo ,these fanatic wanted Japan to re , sist to utter ••••iii: annihilation. ID a oonoe ed moYe tb,y went to the Iaperial palac and ttacked the 1 · ards. Lieute a t General lori, Military Comaander at the palace, refused to collaborat and they shot hia dead. They iaprisoae4 other ~ ficers and took control ot the gat _ es of the palace grounds. 0 part, went ill nd s ized Ge1111 ral Baa . u a, aide-d - amp to the laperor. They went bo t lootiag tor the Iaperial houaehold iniater, and th Lord Ieeper of the Privy Seal, b t thes 1ot away. Their ultimate purpose••• to burst in on the Mikado ' 1 , aelf and, in t e ir words -- 1 per de hi to rec one i4er. • J at what would ha e happene if' t.bey had succeeded is coaJ ctaral -- the war oontinue4 perhaps wi . th ore atoaic 'boabs, or -- •••• civil war in Tokyo. lord got to General Tanaka at lli• military head1uarters and he flew into a rage: •r a g,,i._ ;• he shouted, •1•11 kill all of th a.• JAP 0 - - l put on his uniform, and dro t breakneck pe d to the palace. Th re, revolver in hand, he ator d ,, i sb.01:ting to the r bela: •1 your co amler-ia-chiet.• That aade the he it ate. ~ Tanaka ha ang ed the , " giYing the■ what tod 7's acoount calla a three-hour le ct re en 1 7alty to the I ape ro r. t at The Tokyo newspaper ■ tat 8Jfour of t.h 7 DI eftic re co ■aitted ui id oath pot. The ther ■ Ji lded. And so General Tanaka aayed the surr nder --<J lat r OD be coa■ itte auicicl • lhen ••••J d1.7 ca■e, the t i e for ■ati I i b p lie the Iaperial decisi . on -- the a rrend r t Jap n wa announce • ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -il.st ~ f ~~ • ~ e___Q...v-,ecsz. I h a ne fa n tas ii c st o r y about the a tom ic b · b, a s a em e n t ha t h e e lementa x pl o sion a t H iro shim a wa fo llo ed by a evas a t i n i n dsto rm - a vio le nt t e mpest pro d uced by t he b la t o f the atom. Thi c ome s from a Jesuit missionar, F a her ieme s , who w a in the outskirts of Hiroshim when the bomb exploded. In an a count written for the lew York orld-Telegram, the missionary gives a vivid pictu of the fantasmal burst of the bomb - and tells of the hurric a ne wi nd that followed. •r as smoking an after-breakfast pipe at the mission,• the J ; ~ relates, •and was lazily looking ~ A out of a window toward Hiroshima. An enormous flash split the sky. Five seconds lRter, the whole front of ay house caved in, and I found myself bleeding from splinters of glass .• He tells how he got himself out of the r~ins and saw injured people, all of them suffering from burns caused by ra i a tion. Then at the mission, a re s cue party TOIIIC BQUJ3 - 2 _,__,_,_ ... --- was ormed o loo for four Jesuit priest ho had been in Biro hi , n r r to the explosi o n. Th e re found , two of th ms iously injured. They t old of the f an tastic violence of the atomic burst, and des crib e d the ind that followed. 9 They s ai d," relates Father Siemes, "th at about ha lf an hour after the la st, there was a severe hurricane probably ca used by the extre~e heat. It was of such great force,• he goes on, •that it lifted trees~and even water from the river•/ into the air.• The account states that people were hurled into the river. The level of the water dropped, and then the river rose a ain - all combined with the blo wi ng of unearthly wind th at followed the blast. M ny have been a skin the qu esti on - h P t kin d 0 f a pe a c e - t i me A i r Ii' o 1 ~ c e should th e Un it e d St ates main t a in during the c o min g years? An a n s we r is give n today by Lieuten nt Gener al E a ker, Deputy Comm and er of the sky £,~ ~ - ' -- s q uadrons ;f fu Army. A small Air Forcet and a mighty "' good one. General Eaker puts it in these words: "A relatively small but highly efficient Air Force capable of rapid expansion in time of need." tt.. General Eaker in ,.._ report to the Uili tary ,,<.. Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, urged that new developments must be carefully considered - developments like the atomic bomb. Our peacetime Air Force must be kept thoroughly modern - small, but up to the minute. That sounds like plenty of good sense. I myself reme11ber Army aviation conditions during the years that followed the last war. People complaind that we failed to mai tain a bi g Air F orce w ith thou a n o pl n s - bu t th at as n o t the real trouble. It as no a matter of size . For a while, in fact, e had too much e q uipme nt _ ol d stuff th a t should have been junked. It w as a burden, a dra g on progress. I recall baring Lieuten a nt General Doolittle tell a story that be ars sharply on this point - a tale of wild thrills and adventures. · ! youn g lieutenant back in the 'Twenties, Jimmy Doolittle was a pilot in the Mexican border patrol, and he s a id that never in the history of avi,tion ha d so many planes been cracked up, wild and wooly crashes all the time. Were the pilots punished for •rec k ing the pla nes? lot at all - the1were almost thanked. They were fl y ing ole and obsolete crates, an d their commanders knew that the only way they could get anything new, . was to smash up the old. T he C ouncil o Fo 1 n ini ers in L o nd on c ame to a n a reem e nt t od on t h e ubj ect of Tri c te. Th e d ci io n i s o pl c t hat It al ian po rt unde r th e control of an inte r n tional r e g i m e, Tr i ste t o be a n o en h a rbor, f r e to a ll nations Thier pr e sents a back-down by Soviet Ru ia - hich b a d been supporting Jugosl a v claims to Trieste. F/n ~ o In a n bi o ric Lon o co urt , 0 1 Ba i ley. 0 gestur wer e ma d e o a t o mo io n~ o h right h nd . One app r d o e a a z i a lute - the other w s the sign of o ccurred in the fi n al act of the trial Ha w H a - the British traitor who did Nazi propa gan da during the wa r as found gu·lty of treason, a nd sen enced to h a ng. The verdict was a for eg one conclusion when Justice Sir Frederic Tuc ke r ruled that it didn't matter whether or not William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw, was technically an American citizen - born in Brooklyn. That had been the chief point made by the defense. The judger ve te d to the fact that Jo y ce h ad one to Nazi Germ a ny on a Br i ish pa sspor, and ga ve the opinion that the use of the pa r por t made hi• responsible to the laws of Gre t Britain. B e e use of the passport, he owed allgi a nce to the Crown, a n d was li able to c o nviction for tre son. A f ter tha , it took the jury on y twen y-five minute 0 ing in a ve die t of uilty, and the jud g e thens n en ed hi m to h ng. Lord Ba w H a , a small a . nd U'limpr ssi ve indi v idc a l, took it c a lmly. As he wa s l ed o ut of th , e c ourtroom, he thrt!f'bis right hand =- · in wha . J... ~r peop le thou g ht was a Nazi s a l u t~. Ne a rby his youn e r brother, who ha d testified ifi his behalf, ma de the sign of theCross. Th~ only r course l eft to Lord Haw Kaw is a plea to a court of c riminal app e al s - a n d possibly a plea to the Rouse of Lords. SUPF _...!.- £___ --- h e tod co ::r d n: " . C. " 0 o f e Cour . ro ac :o , p e . . i ~ en T •• V g a: € e no in i Se e 0 e a a n 0 ' an a a cco d e r _ si c lav sh a i 1 S e a e. On th hi or · c r i e fr ont , the Onion is tr ing to brin g h cri is to an end - b f ore the ov rnmen t steps in with i ne unified labor department. This af ternoon offici a ls of th e Automobil orker s' Uni on held a conf . nc i h local union le der for the purpose of ending the strike t a p l a nt making the necess a ry part for the Ford Motor Company - the walkout that ha s ha lt ed Ford prod uction. m ne /4bout ~ · a - nd 1V IIQ!!L Th otion ic u have a new Czar - aucce ding ill Haya ho i n d to d ay. For nty-three years Hays, on - t i e P o s mater Ge n er l of the United States, exercised control over the ethics of motion pictures - keeping the movies ure. His succes s or is Eric Johnston, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce who was in the headline~some while ago for his trip to Soviet Russia. Eric Johnston, in accepting the big aovie job, placed emphasis on the v a lue of motion pictures as a vehicle for selling America and American /1- ideals to the world. ~ } 4- ~ I ~:1.,f ~ t L t - - - - - - ~ ~ ~ ~ to ~-tk-. ~ '. -P.,.._.~-- ............... --.--~ ' \I"'--, - \ ~-to 'I ) ~ - LTP.1945.09.19i.pdf LTP.1945.09.19ii.pdf