JAPA __ _ ............. .-.. Tokyo informed General MacArthur today that surrenaer envoy will proce@ to Manila on Sunday. This followed a ter e deman by General MacArthur, which in effect - cut out the delay. For days the surrendering Japanese have holding out on one of the first requirements made by MacArthur - the sending of a surrender envoy to aake arrangements for carrying out the capitulation under the Potsdam ultimatum. It isn't quite clear just what the Japs have been up to - whether they have been stall1a or whether they may be faced ith possible dif iculty in getting their many ailitar forces to lay down and yield. Another mes age from Tokyo to General MacArthur. st ted that imperial envoys had left for such occupied areas as Manchuria, parts of .China, Indo-China and Malaya. These are members of the Imperial Family who have been sent to force the JaP. Military Coamanders to obey-tft..Imperial surrender order. " That orde1 has now been repeated in the ■ ost JAPA! - 2 authoritative style - in the form of an •Imperial Rescript•. Toni g ht's dispatch from Manila states: "This rescript is absolute l y mandator y .• At the same time, Tokyo complained • A-,.-.~ MacArthur,,. today about the Soviet offensive in llanchuria - the Russians keeping the •z war going in a big way, with a full dress drive. Tokyo asks MacArthur to intervene - as Supreae Allied Comaander of the Far East. The word froa Manila tonight is that MacArthur is addressing an urgent coamunication to loscow concernin the continued warfare that the Bed Ar ■y is waging in llachuria. •This•, said a MacArthur spokesman today, •is a ■ oat iaportant ■atter and requires immediate ·action.• The situation in Kachuria is confused - with the Japs complaining that , the Red Ar ■y is still attacking and the Soviets complaining that the Jape are still resisting. Each side blaming the other for fighting. The Russians are particularly angry because the Jape aade a stron g counter-attack, which appears to have JAPAJ' - 3 halted the Soviet offensive. And today the Red radio in the Far East, issued a ferocious proclamation to the Bed Army Tl'oops, the gist of which as - "kill with-0ut mere .• The complication becomes more word that the ussians have been joined by the Communi ts in a drive against the Jape. Chiang Iai-Shek --- -4 ordered the Chinese Reds to halt offensive operations, but they refused to obey - which,brought the feud between the Nationalists and the Coamunists to a new point ot gravity. And now the Chinese Coaaunists, continuing their ""'obedience 1J the Bat~onalists Government, have joined ~ with Red army Forces in the of ensive. The news is all the more critical because of the announceaent that Chinese Co ■■ unists and Soviet Russians have driven to within ten miles of Peiping, the foraer capital of China. That raises the question - who's to get Peiping. We hear that the Chinese Co ■ munist and Soviet drives has reached the historic Marco Polo Bridge, the place where the Chinese--Japanese JAPAN - 4 -- war be an. An incident, a skirmish, near the Marco Polo Bridge, started hostilities - in nineteen thirty-seven. - - - The u stion of continued Japanese resistance, after surrender, was sharpened today with news of a Jap a tack on an Aaerican Air Squadron. American reconnaissan lanes flew over Tokyo Bay, and were assailed by anti-a'rcraft fire and Japanese fighter planes. The anti-aircraft fire daaaged one of the American aircraft, and our own fighters shot down two . Jap planes. As a rather remote addition to all of this, we have a statement that one of the puppet goyernaenta set up by the Jape is going to resist the Alli~s. In French Indo-China, the Province of Anaa, the ~uppets today announced that they would, in the words of the . statement, •Refuse to be subjugated again by France, un er whose fet t ers they suffered so long.• I don't iaagine this pat,ty outfit in Indo-China can do anything formidable, but its defiance may indicate a state of min d among the peoples oi Southwest Asia, a L, • ~ - reluctance to accept again the authority of ~uropean ••sx ■ a ,A JAPAN - 5 ~ A strange turn of the Japanese m ' n d is to be noted in the suicide of the Chief of Staff of the Jap nese Navy - Vice Admiral Onishi. He organized the Suicide Air Corps, and before taking his life presu■ablJ by ' Hari IJri, he addressed a message to the spirits of the [aaikazes who died in suicide attacks. The ■ essage stated: •Ever convinced of final victory, you fellfallantly,as human bullets. But that conviction has not been fulfilled. With my death,• he added, •1 aspire to make atonement for you c@didates.• In other words, the Ia ■ ikazes had been given the belief that k■ i their aa&i suicide tactics would win victor. They were deceived and the Commander who organi z ed them, ■ akes atonement. But there's another angle to the suicide of Admiral Onish i . The Navy Chief-of-staf f joins Army ... Chief-o ~ -staf f General Anami, whot committed Bari I~ri short l y after the surrender. In other words, the heads of both the avy and the Army taking the tra di tional J a a ese way out. The death sentence imposed on arshal Petain has been com mute d - as was expected. Today General DeGaulle follow e d the recommendation aade by the cou r t that condemned the aged Marshal for treason. Ile commuted the death sentence to life iaprisonaent - which is not likely to last long, considering the great age of the one-time hero of Verdun, condemned for S%i treason as the head of the Vichy government. Marshal Petain will spend the rest of his days on an island off the south coast of France, where his wife wil be allowed to be with hi ■. U B MAfil.Nt ? ' ~ Sufp:rni~~""'news from the Argent i ne - another ~-t:e.,-.., G e rman s ub ma rine h aR come and sur e nder e d, three months I\ . a n d a w eek af ter the en d of the Euro p ean w ar . ft.ti 1'a th e secon d 0-bo a t to give up to the Argentinians - the first havin g ut into Buen o s Air e s more than a mo n th a g o. This latest is the 0-Nine seventy-seven, - - which had abom a crew of thirty-two. The story froa Argentina is that th craft showed the effects of a long period at sea - as why wouldn't it. We can only wonder what that U-boat was g ■ i doing, what the men aboard were thinking - delaying sur ender and staying out at s e a until three months and one week after the end of the war. SCIENC E --- Sto ri es of sci e ntist ho w o rked on the Atomic bomb are still being revea le d. Tod y's account d iscloses th a t two of the technicians were Drs. E.J. Tillyer and Alexis Pi n cus, members of the scientific staff of an optical company. So the Atomic bo ■ b had to do with optics, lenses, glass. The s crecy i s still on, and today the two optical scientists would only say that the War Department had requested what they aost aabiguously call •certain glass for certain purposes.• Dr. Tillyer states that, during the research, he was depressed by the thought of what was being done - the fearful instrument of destruction that was being developed, the ultimate consequence of which nobody could foresee. Be couldn't ■ enti o n to his faail. what he was working on, a nd hes ys: •My wife couldn't imagine what was wrong with me. But, as the realization o f what the a tomic bomb w o uld mean became clear, I became depres s ed - and wished that nobody bad ever t hought of i t, and that the efforts t o develop it would fail.• His col l eague, Dr. Pincu s , made si mil a r SCI CE - 2 -- ref le ctions today, an d a ed - •I f the British and Aaerican scientists had not discov e red it, the tomic boab would have b ee n developed in tiae by some other nation." In Washington - the wo rd is t h t the Bureau of cience that presided over the development of the bomb will oe continued. This was stat e d by Dr. Vannever Bush, Chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. lie ax,ia■ i••i explained that a whole series of scientific ideas were in process of research when Japan surrendered , wi~h important new results about to be achieved.• , B P t e - efore .!rr Tis thought i s ech oed by the Co ■ m n er of SCIEN E - 3 ... -~~ the , Army Air Forces, G neral ~ Arnold, who today stated that th security of the United States and the peace of the world depend upon the continuance of the wartime re earoh by American Scientists. This General Arnold applied pointedly to air power - laboratory rort to do its part in maintaining the supremacy of this nation in the skies. The General stated that the development of the Atomic Bomb show d what American scientists could do when they were given the money and the facilities. {)k,-le disclosed new marvels of air power which hitherto have been concealed by military secrecy. ~ ~ General Arnold stated that~+xbe-~ developed a new super-bomber with a range from two and a half to three times greater than the range of the B-29's. Be declared that the new super-bo•ber, flying from bases that this nation now possesses, could cover all of Asia, all of the Pacific, and all of the Atlantic. General Arnold spoke of rockets that are drawn automatically to a targ t by the presence of heat, light SCIENCE - 4 ..... . .......... or metal in the target zone. In other ; ords, rockets that make a ort of •homing• flight to the target. And he spoke further O i that pri cipal o - waoming.• •The time is coming,• said he, "W h en we will not have any men in bomb rs. The bombe s ill be direct d from distant base until they approach their targets, and then t ey J ill •home• on te their targets automatically.• In ther wor s, pilotless planes striking automatically at targets~ound the world - with atoaic " bombs, perhA.ps. To which th Air Force Commander added ,, IJ that thet-e had better not be any more wars. General Arnold, by the i way, told newsmen today that he will soon retire. With victory won, the Coamander of the triumphant Aaerican Forces ot the sky feels that•• bis job has been done. ~ Arnold has been -- .... ' A foday hes id: •r•m going to step out - and sit under an Oak tree. I don't know hen, but it is not - ~Qil!QI - 5 too far of. An a , "he added, "I f any airplanes fly over the Oak tree, l'a going t shoot the down.• A picture of a retired Army Air Fnrce Co ■aander sitting under an Oak tree ith an anti-aircraft gun. GA OLINE --------- The government today r moved restrictions on the manufacture of high test gasoline for civilian otorists. The news from ashington is that the oil refineries have been notified th t many of the controls have been raised - though not all.Some controls will continue for thirty days. In commen-r on this, I have a reminder from J. Bo ard Pew, Presid nt of the Sun Oil Company, that gasoline rationing was only one of the many wartime restrictions imposed on the petroleum industry.There ~ - , were others which limited the q u a l i t y , A ~ l ~ - a J ~ ""'-Q.J c J - ~ -4lu.{J ransporta ion of gaso1 ·.ne. ~hese/\remain in effect in certain areas. J. Howard Pew says further that these - - 1 9 e ~ restrictions will be ended,Aannii:ftg , . the petroleu■ administration for war, as quickly as the neces ary transportation and distribution adjustments can be made. That means as soon as American tankers get back GASOLI~E - 2 from v riou ar zone. t also means hen pi elines have been reconverted for normal use, and when &iii•• civilian arehouses are refilled. The arous Book refiner, Sun's gr at catalytic plant, and the Sun catalytic refinery at Toledo, Ohio, are now ready ~ ~ ' for the product i o n of gas o 1 in e of AC _ n p u 1• 1: ,nP qua lit y ~ - - - ~ A A to any we have ever had. The quality of Sun's output during the ar has demonstrated the abilit of that gr at concern to lead in these days of peace. For instance, more one hundred oct ne aviation gasoline was shipped since Pearl Barbor.I by the Sun ~ larcus Hoo refinery..., than by any other refinery in the orld.And the refini g facilities that produced that flood of vital fighting fuel, when released from wartime restrictions, will go to ork producing finer, better autom bile gasoline than ever before. Sun ill have an announcement of great importance to a e - when the day comes - the day when the gasolin an oi »~ak business is · ctu lly back on a p cetime basis. li .. L_O ___ l_G I D ro · t, , i n i c · e a ur d i n t o i · i e r . obe'd like \o aerate~ her eye e out-: It is 11 a r a n unct· U , im , to an excee in y hu n t l' . It be ~ n h n a ol ier named at , on, bout to 0 overse , thou. ht it ould be ood thin i f his if , left . " ith a three yearix old chil, h bile he the co a , ionshi of n , o her oman ay. B met Alv · Reynol , thirty ears old and . ivorced, and thought sh ·ould be the right one to live in his hom itb Mrs. atson and the hi _ d - Alva Reynolds as obv·ously fond of chil r n That as just the oint. The child in the household · a a little girl ho they oall - Baby Dum lin . . For a t i e a}l ent well - the sol ier a ay and the t o omen livin to ether. Then r . tson be an to th i n that Alv R e ynol b c o rr 1 in to o f f a l ~ 1 1 l . I L • T ha . a · ;:, · t o a f f i r h n , o n Tu it. I , C i W v ~ ~ r . n t i n · ci a h' r o C d l n r ' - n e rl thi ba ' bu r in the atso n th mo h e r: 'h di OU u - a n 0 i c o t to n a p in he a line in mornin Al v a , carryin a a rt m e nt , nd ye lled a ll ha tuff i n the pa er?" Th all Led idn er r ai i n c in with ~ i o ~ ~ . , ~ ~ . , therA.. r . at · on called for b 1 - thorou hly fri hten ed . :;_ C • the the t he Th o ice interv ned, nd Alv a R ynolds a t a en off to il. She eclare h e rried the ch ild a y be · u Baby Dum 1·n ,a~ n•t bein properl y cared for . Sh e cl imed that h , in r e ali as entitl ed to the h ' l , o n groun It )) of su erior a fec tion. f · hich rovi s uite a n ar um nt - t o omen 1 · mi n B by Du lin . One - b ee u b e i th o her . T h o her - b c a u s e sh e s s h lov e s h th d t. ~~~~- LTP.1945.08.17i.pdf LTP.1945.08.17ii.pdf