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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1945 TB& ABIOCIATU ..au VOLUME XXI NUMBER 288 e I an· 111 GREATEST FLEET IN THE WORLD MOVES INTO SAGAMI BAY FO R OCCUPATION OF JAPAN Eight Tortured, Two·Pronged Yanks Sli II Held Operation Still In Jap Prison Under Way Guards Try to Hide Men; Were Beaten, 7,500 Airborne Men Hung Up by Thumbs At Atsugi; 10,000 Marines at Yokosuka By VERN IIA UGLAND SHANGHAI (AP)- Eight Amer ATS OJ AIRFIELD, Near ican fliers who have been lortured Tokyo, Thursday (AP)-The. two - pronged occupation of mercilessly by the Japanese still Japan began today with the are held in jail in the tOI'eign fil1lt waves or 7,500 airborne YMCA here. lroops landing at Atsugi, 18 Japanese guards forCib ly at mil southw t of Tokyo, and tempted to prevent American war element of 10,000 marin and correspondents from Okinawa vis bluejackets 1a n d in g inside Iting them although the Japanese Tokyo bay at Yokosuka naval consul had gIven his approval. base. Th e gual'ds held bayoneted rifles G neral MaeArthur's gleam ready but finally admitted us. ing ilvcr -54 transport plane, One flier, his wrists tied behind "Bataan," wa over Japan as him, had been hung by his thumbs a procession of hundreds of trans while the Japanese grilled him as ports, stretch in, over the 1,000 to when American forces would miles from Okinawa to Tokyo bay, attempl to land in Japan. landed with split second timing. All the fliers had been brutally The Atsugi landings started at beaten and slapped. a a. m. (4 p. m. Wedn day central The fliers are being treated ex war time.) cellently now although still locked YANKS ABOARD THE U.S.S. BRAXTON take In the "sights" of the Itheir ship moves into Sagami bay with other units ot the ,reat l in' overhead-the plane!! that carried the initial airborne Invasion TaDlI.l Included up. historic occupation of Japan. At the left, a: group of marines eet Third fleet. At the deht, one of the Bra.xton crews mann In, spearhead 'rooPl to Alsu,1 airdrome: southwest of Tokyo. Navy At the same hour, the tank Flogged at Sea their first "look-see" at famed Fujlyama on the Nip homeland as 40-mm. guns looks up to see Gen. Dou,la. MacArthur's planes fiy- radIophoto trom U.S.S. Iowa. ;equlpped United States Fourth Navy fliers who sank a Japanese ------------~----------------------------------~ marine regiment, augmented by ship were flogged by survivors 1,800 seagoing marines and 400 when they were hauled aboard a I B 4byal British marines and blue destroyer escort. Their plane, a jackets, hit the shore from landing Privateer, was piloted by Cmdr. Charles B. ROlnlton of St. Paul, craft around Yokosuka naval base. lam, e Hull, for Immediate Illl1'ender 01 thai Minn. Short Pearl Harbor Walter Pallack said Houston also base to Vlee Adm. Rober' P. Carney was &JTa1lfed. was impri oned and tortured along * * * * * * * * * * * * The landings were covered by wilh the enlisted men and two But Truman, Stimson M ( · I the big guns of the ThJrd l leet others, Lieu\. (J.G.) Clinton Pres Goering ~e~~s ~ist . Hull ·ls Silent anchored in Tokyo Bay, includln, tine, who lives near Chicago, and Navy Would Have Lost, Even If Prepared Criticize Board Report Y on,sclence i the bi~ battleship Missouri, board Radioman 2/ C FranCis Wellman, NaZI O' . which J apan's surr nder will be Brooklyn, N. Y. Of 24 Criminals ~." (h WASffiNOTON*** (AP)-Reports report, but ***Was pased on testi- signed Sunday. Aboard the Soutll Four other members of the crew Dakota was Admiral of the Fleet were believed drowned or killed Hess, Dorman, Keitel, ' n, .araes Charge Army Chief (lear~ShoH on the Pearl Harbor debacle dis mony of naval oWc rs and on doc closed yesterday thot the navy um nts found on Japanese subma Nimitz, ready to ;sign the formal in Ihe crash. Doenitz, Krupp Also Failed in Informing papers as representative of the Pollack said Houston had been probably would have taken a beat rines or planes. .WASHINGTON (AP)- Former DALLAS, Tex., (AP) -Maj. ing had It Intercepted the attack United States. flown to Japan on the last Japa Named for Crimes Hawaii Commander The army board quoted Capt. Secretary of State Cordell Hull Gen. Walter C. Short, army com inll Japanese task force. Rescue Prisoner. n e plane to Tokyo. Prestine and Edwin T. Layton, who wos lnt 1- Wellman probably were taken LONDON (AP) ""': Two dozen promised r~sterday to "make such WA nrNOTON (AP)-The mander in Hawaii at the time at The oUiclal documents of army In on impressive synchronized the Pearl Harbor attack, said and navy boards of inquiry also Iigence o[ficer or the Pacific fleet operation, mercy ships immedi Ihere too. surviving chiefs of HItler's Nati .a st;atement' as may be called fot" veil of thc "lop secret" Pearl as saying that the American naval Rescued by Japs yesterday "my conscience is clear" told of: ately began taking on some of the gang-the men who plotted world ~fter he has had time to study the forces at Pearl Harbor "would Pollack said "we had two en llarboI' reporls wa. lifted yeA regarding defense preparations in timated 36,000 A]]jed pdsoners One or more Jopanese subma have been unable to have brouiht which had been h Id In Joplin. gines shol out by anti-aircra(t Ilnd conquest and reaped misery for l"earJ Harbor reports. terday revealing tha.t official Hawaii. rines operating In Pearl Harbor, the Japan e task force under At. Yokohama, the hospital ship crashed into the water a mile and their people instead-were listed The army Pearl Harbor board boards of i oquiry levelled criti In a signed statement Short relaying information to the enemy said: gunfire because our baltleships Benevolence received 500 over a half on the other side of the con otficlally yesterday ns defendants report asserted Hull failed to no cism at snch Wa hington leaders task lorce, in the days immedi were too slow and the remainder voy. The plane sank in hDIf and "On Dec. 7, 1941, I was obeying ately preceding the attack. joyed prIsoners who hod been held in a mass trial of arch war cri- tHy the war department after de clsm at such Washington leaders of our Iorce would probably have for months, even yeors, under \he(I 'ont deck sank. my instructions from Washington The u e of a "secret weapon" minals. livering to the Japanese "the do- as gencral of the army George as I understood them and was act suffered severe damage If not de Japanese guard. Among these was "The Japs sent out boats and aerial torpedo, which accounted feD t on the high seas by reason ot picked up eight survivors (rom our Reichsmarshal Hetmann Goer- cument that . (ouched the button C. Marshall aud former Secre ing in accordance with the infor reported to be the lont missln, for mosi of the terrific damage to the great (enemy) supel'iol'lty in marine flying ace, Maj. Gregory life rarts. They (ired at a Dumbo ing, whose once-vaunted., airfop;e tl1 lrl .st~rt~p the war." tary of State odell Hull. mation which was available to me American !Ieet units caught at the the air." Boyington, of Okanogan, Wash. rescue plane near us and look us paced the aggression in the Nazls' Asked if he had read the army But Presidcnt 'fruman, in at that time. A commander must Pacific outpost. aboard a destroyer escort, sh'ipped making public the reports on the Overhead hundred. 01 planel, years of ascendency, headed the report and the find ings of a navy base his decisions on the infor The success of Japanese espion us, took our watches and jewelry nation's greatest ll)ilitary dis mation before him at the time. Al age, which provided detailed in ralll'ln, trom tirMers to Super list of 24 military leaders, diplo- court of inquiry, Hull said: De Gaulle Flying Home tortre_, eovered both Ule and gave us old overalls. aster, went strongly to the dp though the entire iacts lire yet to formation on the numb~r and lo "A Jap sailor treated a gash on mats and politic;ians who will be " I have just this afternoon fense of Marshall. So also did Se be revealed to me and to the pub cation of fleet units and army In OTTAWA (AP)-Gen. Chorles Atsu,1 and Yokosuka operaUo.... De Gaulle leI!. by plane ;yesterdaY There was alertness everywhere my leg where three inches of bone brought before an international heard of these reports over the cretary of War Stimson who, in lic', the recent statement of the stallations.