119.Y.il T ee ♦ hun re d men of he Crui e r 0 ston nave be e n di sc ov r d 1 . Th Ho us ton, early in the war, dis p ea red i flame of battle - - he battle of the J va Sea. It seeme as though there had no survivors, but no three hundred have been found - prisoners of the Japs. .... OCCUPATION - In the occu p ation o Japan, the Americans are about to begin - ope~ation number three. This is the - - latest from General acArthur's headquarters, which ex lains that operation number three will consist of.a landing United States Marines on three islands n front of the Yokosuka Naval Base - Tokyo Bay. Operation nu ■ber one was the airborne landing at the Atsugi Airf·eld - a force of American technicia arriving by plane. They were greeted with all appearance of friendship. The Japi went out of their way to be nice. The men coming in by plane• were gr eted with a feast. A pavilion was waiting at one edge of the field, a avilion itb eaoy c airs, orderlies in white jlickets, and luncheon tables gleaming with white lin n. There, the Americans ~ere served a five or six curse meal. Tne nearest thing to trouble s itb the saxiaaaitJ cur i osity of the Jap at the i l d. Th American communi ation s of icer tat a: "A little i le aft r w 1 · nd d, th e J n a c me very cl o s end QQC!]PATlQ1! - 2 and e had to cha e th m away several times.Everybody . -P -ie.. . a ~ , is • very friendly • .i. gues:;they are just showing the u ual oriental courtesy you find in Cina or anyw~ere in the Far East." Another message states that the J ps were fascinated by the big silvery C-54 Transport Planes. A flight engin er states: •They alked righi up and felt the plane 's k skin. and then got down on their knees to look how the landing gear worked." So, ••operation••-~ number one was an uneventfu suoces . s - and. mu , cb the same story peration number twor Tkie consisted of the sending of a naval task force into Tokyo Bay. The trip was a bit nervous - because it meant steering a course thr ugh Japanes~ minefie . that the B - 5 ' A t b , ott ent th . n r y c 1 th - hu r t e re as a l ai Ta k Fore an - c 0 To h also th ril of the mines in Ja , an harbors. ,- a throu - 1 th arrow yo Bay, ~ t e 1 " u t r . don hit l r n r · d n ocCO P TI O N - J - ~ s h i p s , h ad ed by the cru i s e r an iego, were gu i ed i n by a J a panese p ilot, h o h d formerly been a sailor bet een J a pan a n San Franci s co. H e stated that the Japanese people ere astonished by the end of the •z war. They realized that things were not going well, but thought they would win out eventually. The Japanese masses be ex lained had paid little attention to the collapse of Germany, though Russia's entrance into the war was a shook. But, said he, it was the Ato ■ ic Bomb that had done the trick so suddenly that the average Jap was astonished by the quick surrender. The Task Force cast anchor off the Yokosuka aval Base, compl ting operation ••i• number two. ind now number three is propably under way - the landing of Marines ' on .-i.slands dominating the base. Operation number four will consist o f the occupation of Yokosuka _ by American and British Uarines. And everything indicates that/\they will get the same unresisted welcome - that Ja p an in its surrender is OCCUP !!IO.ti - 4 - gi ving the forces of o ccupation. ext on the schedule wi ll be a mighty procession of arships into Tokyo Bay - the mains uadron of the A erican-British Fleet, which t last re p ort s just outside at the . ntrance of the bay. The procession in will be led by Admiral Halsey, aboa1'-tb&ttleship Missouri. " ~ G en eral MacArthur is expected Yokosuka on Thursday ~ He'll set up his flag at the nearby summer palace of the Jap Emperor. On Saturday MacArthur will establish himself o~attleship Missouri for the formal signing of the ,.. surrender of Japan - and that will take place aboard th~ - ' Wissouri on Sunday. RUS IA --- -- an ounce that Red Army Tr oop occu i d all ut o n of th Kurile Islands . T h t Th oviet S trategic~ 1 n ct1a1·n ext d t en nor h o J pan , and the or at one time w s that t e Un 1 ·ted t ., es mi ht seek ase in the Kuril es . Now t h Soviet s have taken all ~~4~. ~ae islands excQpt the eae i ■ metiiat.ely a&-Pt,h qf J..apa 11 ~ Troops, at the southern tip of Sakhali, are ~ e . e f 2 . / J ~ within a few milae of Hokkaido,~the nort h ernmost,<.island of Japan. Tokyo several day ago protested to General MacArthur against rumored Russian inte n tions of pushing into Hokkaido, which appar e ntly would not be i n line with the term of J p surrender. This is recalled today by a Soviet broadc st, which bids the Red Army Troops on Sakhalin to be prepared for what the »x ■i&aasx&aiiax broadc st calls - tasks ahead.· e don't know what these t a sks might be - maybe a landing on Hokkaido. PA L AU ----- p culi - - ~ L e t · t u tio n ha d V lo ed in the Pa ' au ~ I lan - I.. t hat, p r t 0 th archi e ago s til hel d by the J a s . urr n er ot· ti ons h v e b e en g oing on ith the Ja 8 tak i 8 h :i b n d l o ty st n d . Th y on't ive up, unt il t h f rm al surr n r as be n i ned in Tokyo Bay. A d L e y ant t t ~ rms to be so rafted that they won't lose face. The Jap attitude in t h e Palaus is made the u g ler by the disclost.re of the murder of an American flyer. A naval aviator forced own on Ioro Island was made a pri oner. There he was killed by a J panese Of icer. Th e J a ps take a defiant attitude - s ying t\at the murder was not aR bad as the Atomic Bomb. That statement was made hy a Jap Colonel, who••• has been talking surrender aboard an Amerlcan warship. He coldly went on to say that the J ps in the P laus ill resist any Ame1ican attempt to land - until the surr nder of Japan has been formally signed. They object to words like surrender and pri oner-of-war. They don't want to take o rders - only requests. In o t her words, the want to sav e face, and the -.. :....- _ ~~- ~~ right anew e - a pu n u la rs ~ t J wave of /4. A 6 uici es that has been announced - ma s s Bari Kari. An enemy roa cast a n ounc s that thirty-six m mbers of ation l i t rganizations in Ja an h ve taken t he ir li ves ith the tra 'it i o nal cer mony - u ing the Bari Kari Kni e. Ten - at the At o yam a sh rine. Twelve - , in front oft Emp e ror's Palace . Fourte en - nea r the I Yoyogi arade Ground. Having been noisy protagonists for militari man conquest, they took the tr ditional Japan se way out. CHINA ---- Th ~onfer nc e s be twee n the Chine e ti n alis ts and t e Com m unists have begun - with the arrival in Chun king to ay of the C inese Communist l eader, Mao Tse-Tun. He was accom p anied by American Ambassa6or Hurley, who flew yesterday to br i n g th Chief of the Chinese Reds to the Nationalist capital. The result of the conference may tel l the story of whether or not post-war China is to have a civil war. Mao Tse-Tung today spoke moderate words. He ~ said: •The consoli ation of the internal unity is of the utmost urgency.• Meanwhile, the Chinese Co ■ munist P~ess has changed its tone. Today, the Red newspaper, •Rew China Daily•, began speaking of •President Chiang.• In the past, the Re d paper had usually sppken of Chiang [ai-Shek as - •The Fascist Reactionary Dictator.• And the Communist Daily came out in support of the new treaty between Chiang Iai-Shek and Stalin - a pact in which Soviet ussia pledged a •Hands-off• policy toward China's internal administration. So it C INA - 2 -- seems as if lb Chinese Reds had haard the word of y 0 sco ' - an ere coming to terms. _!.!_!R __ fiT ha Here re the first wor ds that Gen ral inwri h fello · Am ricans . Aft er d e la y s in to say to hi anchur i a , where he was released from J panese captivit , ain · right arrived in Chung ing t oday _ the Commander o bore the tragic burden of misfortune in t he Phili pp ines, ainwright of Bata a n and Cor re i do r. His first ex pre ssion to the pe o p le at home is to t ha nk the for what he cal l - •Their genera it y t o a defe ted comman e r." - - - · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' General Wainwright speaks of the gallantry of his troops in the dark days of Bataan and Corregidor. Re says that, after the urrender, he wa s shunted fro ■ one Ja p prison to ano t her. w1 had,• he says, •Yery little direct contact with my~ountry, or its of tic ial agencies. But for over three years such contacts here and there caus ed me to believe that the Administration, the ar Dep artme nt , and the American people, had accepted ■y dire disa st er with a forbearance and gene r osity that are perhaps unique in the experience of any defeated commander." The de feated comman d er is now ■ on his way IA YtRI "' HT ---------- to To yo BY to b presen a the ormal s urrender of Japan. ith ueneral ain right came a hole list of American of icers c aptured in the Philippines . Also _ high British of ; icers, like the British Commander in Malaya, the former Governor of Singapore, the for■e1 Governor of Hong ong. ~_:..:~----------- Sir Shenton Tomas, who was Governor of Singapore, told the newsmen that the high British officer in their Japanese prison, had been informed of nothing that was going on in the outside world. •we knew nothing about Hitler's collapse, Roosevelt's death, or Churchill' defeat in the British electionf said he. H t ound n u n wh t - i hy u · I r? n't 1 nee, ~ i · ha thi g to d o it b ond s. It t t i r . s d er u - like Nazi uzz om n V-2 o c k t . It i clo tod y at German war science a ucce in u i g hy r g e j, * o id e, as fue ' a comb u t i le fo r in viol nt d s ruction. Thia was stated by Seer try oft Nav Forrest ho sai that ydrogen peroxide was emploved in aunching devic s for buzz bombs nd in auxiliar ' pumps for the V-2 Rockets. Headed that i n t "e rm an ~ · av y roxi e fuel wa used with good results. Secretary Forr t a , - in a new revelation of Nazi t cbnoligical e e h, ad ed that the Germans were evelo · g - •A tru subm rine." That is, a subm rine ~ thatl'\Qid:: ~ever have to come to the urface - under ater all th t im • T 0 dinary ub must pend a consider ble time on t e urf c , an t . ere ore is only - half s _ ubmarine. - 2 m D a d V 0 d tor do th t coul b u u e t r - or out of th t r. T e r 0 t coul C an th ir cti n oft t r 0 ov r it e t . And, sai s er tary ~ Forresta " H C uld m ke it jum out of th ate like poi " ell, jum ing torp do I 4eaping out of a ,z 0 . S t - the ave· like a po oi e! pa i farm n ' t l ik i c h I V r r 0 h m i n ki lGu lock o chic n. The story come from Pu lo, Color d , c,M,.f - ~~ ~ ~ ~•~7-... .. a farm oman ho foun uncon c1ous o t e kitch n lo r, surroun by s arm of her barnyard fo 1 - hich, eking t her, had inflict d atal injuries. Apparently, sh a all n unconscious with a stro e, and ha been t ere for several d ys. She had been unable t f d her hickens and th se., w.e~ ~~ hungry - ,ru/' attack d her. B e ' s another of tho se v ions 0 r e vel n n hum n lif e - to b e ro uced out of the scie n tific marvels of the • ar. This latest vision_ a orld ithout mosquito or flies . All of which, of cour se , has to do · ith D. D. T., t ~ insectic ideA.m:c-- A me ric an M ilit a ry Forces use i ith such te l ling effect in the Tro i c , amid the swarms of tro p ical bu g s. T h ere has been a cod deal of discussion r e cently about the use of D.D.T. in peacetime, and our rediction today is from the inventor of the bug destroying stuff. He's a Swiss chemist, Dr. Paul Mueller who back in nineteen twenty-seven started ex p erimenting - -- in search of something that ,· oul d ill moths - the ._e_JJ~ C l ~ ~ p estilent m th that e a t a ~ ~ m - ~ ~ - ~._,, ..f y ~ . For t we lve years he w orked in the laboratory, and finally cam up with somethin that was death to household insect e sts - not o nly m oth s but also flies and mos u·t, 0 • That stuff...,"'" D.D.T. - developed just in time t be of incalculable use in thfwar. Tod r y the inventor, · ith an as ociate acting ~- D. T.:.. - 2 as okesman , tells us th at the 1 o a elimination of flies a nd mos uito s ill be p ossible year s . T ha t, in turn , ~ mean the it hin several isap e ara nce of Malaria and Ty us - and all other disease that are transmitted b flie s and osquitos. There are, ho ever, reserv a tions. A program to de troy in ect pests fiith D.D.T. will have to be scientifically controlled, lanned r ith the greatest care. Because D.D.T. kills, not only bad insects, but a lso good ones - a nd t1i indiscriminate use can do A vlenty of harm. For example, insects beneficial to the soil might be destroyed along with the pests. And, - ---«. ~ ~ ,-o:Vb:J ~ - the inventor points out, there might be an elimination A ,i of birds and fish that live on insects. /j- So it isn't so simple,-llut, with scientific control, ther e is ro ise of an ••~ era of D.D.T., wi thout mos uito or flie. When that Uto ia comes about the Jersey S eeter story will be an obsolete ~f ~~Ti:., ◄ (':,,=-~~~-"' A•'- A•'-'~ anti ue And e o le ill be p u zz led about the meaning " of th e old son • - "Shool fly, d o n 't bother m ·" D. D. T.:.. - 2 as p o kesma n, tells u s th a t t h e to t al 1 e imin a tion of • fl i es a nd m os uit 0s ill be p os s ible it ' in s ev e ral year s . T ha t, in tu r n , ~ mean th e dis a p earance of M a lari a an d Ty p hu s - a n d a ll other disea s es that are tr a nsm i tted by f l ie s a n d o s uitos. There a re, however, reserv a tions. A program to de s troy insect pests ith D.D.T. t ill have to be scientifically controlled, planned ith the greatest care. Because D.D.T. also good ones - and k i lls, not only bad insects, but ;~ 5i. indiscriminate use can do I,.. plenty of harm. For ex a m le, insects beneficial to the soil might be destroyed along w ith the pests. And, - -..c. ~ ~ fo~J ~ - the inventor points out, there might be an elimination ~ A ,i of bird s and fish that live on insects. /J- So it isn't so sim p le,-llut, with scientific control, the re i s ro m ise of a n aax era of D.D.T., w ithout mos ui to ~ or fli es . When th a t Uto p ia comes . about, the Jer s ey . Skeete~ story will be an obsolete ~f -~~-~~-~~-"' .. ~-·~~ a nt i ue And pe o l e ill b P. p u zz led a bout the me a ning ,... of th e old so n g - "Shool fly, do n 't b o ther m e ." l r. 'l-- BOOSE ---- O v e r in ondon , fter th e a r, they busy are u l l i n 0 n b ui l in s a a ed by bo m bin - by the Na z i blitz, b u z z bomb s , a nd the V-:2 rock ts. And s omet i me h e · r e c in ere s c a n be enthusiatic. This w a di cov e red by Aubrey Ar Cott, a Londoner hose house a d a ma g ed in the blitz, but h,e put a new roof on it, and the house as as good as new, if not better. Today the news relates how Aubrey Arscott, after some days of absence from London, returned home - and found a hole in the ground where his house had been. Wrecking crews had been op~Tating in the neighborhood, and they had pulled down his perfectly good house. Today Aubrey Arscott, with that British ft gift for under-statement, declared: 'The~e must have been a blunder some p1ace.• ~~~ ) ~ ~ - ~~at-:~.~. 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