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Wednesday, September 12, 1945
Borger. Texas
lor the general was premier when
tin sneak attack was made on
Pearl Harbor.
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MAGNETIC
ATTRACTION
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THE TRUMAN APPROACH
Tiio program for peacetime prosperity which President j
Truman presented to Congress could scarcely be called atom- j
ic. Yet it was a bit of bombshell which touched off some im- j
mediate explosions. Its effect will surely be felt in new
ways and in new places for months to come. And the ex-
tent to which it is followed, altered or abandoned by Con-j
gress will have a decisive effect upon our history.
v The program is scarcely an air-tight, copper-riveted
* plan, charting undeviatin.y and uncontradictory courses to-j ...... .luuvIliy. Ult. ouc 1S
ward a multitude of goals. Thus it can't safely be hailed i m, uned with the disclosure that
or cussed i nits entirety. Nor is there space to give detailed !y -;-"l had feet of clay. Tojo. the
, consideration to all its points. So perhaps it may be enough
for the moment to comment upon its tone and emphasis
This was Mr. Truman's first peacetime message to Con-
, gress. It included a continuation and even extension of
some long-cherished New Deal policies. But the presenta-
, tion was not one that would have been used by the late
- President Roosevelt, author of the New Deal.
Mr. Truman’s tone was cheerful and confident. It show-
. ed a nice balance of modesty and authority. The President
addressed Congress as a partner and an equal.
It is not unlikely that some of Congress’ most vigorous
i anti-New Dealers were deceived on first hearing bv the
President’s mild and amenable presentation of his program.
It might have required a more detailed study to convince
them that their hopes for Mr. Truman’s domestic conserva-
tism were obviously vain.
Take, for example, his request for passage of the full
employment bill. He minimized the role of government and
- government spending, the measure’s core ol' controversy,
j He emphasized government's "ultimate” duty to use its re-]
» sources if other means, fail to prevent ‘'prolonged” unem-!
? ployment.
“Full employment,” said Mr. Truman, “means full op-j
‘ portunitv for all under the American economic system- !
nothing more and nothing less, . . It does not mean made j0- General Who
work, or making people work. . Full emplovment means q . j n.
opportunity to reduce the ratio of public spending to pri-' acrco ucarn
vate investment without sacrificing essential services.”
Probably some opponents of the Murrav-Wagner Full!
« Employment Bill felt a little more kindly toward it after
, reading Mr. Truman’s interpretation.
None of this comment is intended to accuse Mr. Tru-
man of hypocrisy or deception. His record thus far shows
that he has a way of deception. His record thus far shows
that, though he rightly recognizes his power and responsi-
bility, he does not regarct tjjrnself as the final authority.
His nature seems to welcome the achievement of objectives
by Compromise and friendly co-operation. That is a trait
for which the country may have reason to be grateful in
the future.
Through lhe long years suc-
ceeding Pearl Harbor the Japa-
nese people came to look upon
Tojo as the arch militarist who
would lead them to victory and
mrke them overlords of their
tellow men. Might was right.
Militarism was the pass-word
to imperial greatness, and Tojo
symbolized militarism.
Now suddenly the public is
thicT ol .ill the militarists, shoots
himself because he has failed,
thai is. because militarim has tail-
ed. Many Japanese will nod with
approval and say that this was the
nnl> honorable thing the general
could do: this way was the only
way lie could atone for dishonor-
ing hi- Mikado. But whatever con- 1
struetion you put on it, the fact
remains that the people of Japan
;n for the first time seeing mili-
tarism in its true colors.
Wp may expect, I believe, that
Tojos action — and similar
events which are emphasizing
the evils and futility of militar-
ism — will b«» of invaluable as-
sistance to the Allies in re-
moulding the character of the
Japanese people. For that is our
task, and it must be done by
enliqhfmeni.
The bullet which Tojo sent
through his body will act as a
tracer of light to help the peo-
ple of Janan see the truth about
aggression.
(1) The first artificially radioactive
elements ever made were produced in
Paris in 1934 by the daughter and son-
in-law of Marie Curie, Irene Curie-
Joliot and F. Joliot whose laboratory
with its huge electrical equipment is
shown above. To do this, they bom-
barded the elements boron, aluminum
and magnesium with alpija particles,
or the hearts of helium atoms. It is
now known that radioactive forms of
all the elements can be produced.
Many of these already have become
highly useful in medical and other
forms of biological research. Radio-
active sodium in table salt on a soda
cracker, for example, ran be followed
n its course through the body, bv the
adiation it gives ofT.
(2) Neutrons, used in the atomic
bomb, have proven to be some of the
most useful of bullets to fire at atoms
to blow them to hits. A stream of
atomic bullets, fired from a cyclotron
with a force of 40,000,000 electron volts,
will cause a piece of steel in their path
to vanish into vapor. The neutrons,
made up of both positive and negative
charges of electricity, goes straight to
its mdrk because it is not pulled out
of its course by any force in the outer
shell of the atom. It was discovered
by James Chadwick in England The
first neutrons obtained were knocked
out of the atoms of beryllium, a close
relative of aluminum, with alpha
particles.
Cl) With the discovery of the neu-
tron, science had in its possession the
first essential ingredient of the atomic
bomb. The second essential ingredient,
U-235, was discovered two years later
by Arthur J. Dempster at the Univer-
sity of Chicago. It was found by Demp-
ster’s atomic microscope, or mass spec-
trograph. Uranium atoms were shot
through an electric field, were de-
flected by the pull of a magnet and
permitted to fall on a photographic
plate. U-235 made a spot on the photo-
graph, Ordinary uranium is a mixture
of U-234, U-235, and U-238. The pro-
cess of separating U-235 was like
pulling iron buck shot of one size out
of the air with a magnet when iron
shot of different size was fired from a
gun. The iron shot would be . ttracted
by the magnet; but each would be de
fleeted according to its weight. Thus
the U-235 would describe one curve,
the U-234 and U-238 different curves.
(4) At the time of Dempster’s dis-
ciiverv, Adolf Hitler was rallying the
German people to world conquest. Not
far front the resounding footsteps of
the goose-stepping Nazis in Berlin be-
fore their Fuehrer, a group of scientists
was quietlv at work They had put
together the two ingredients of the
atomic bomb—U-235 and neutrons—
which might have brought victory
to the Reich if events had gone
differently.
Tomdrrow Scientists make headway
Promoted
53 Men On
Jack Craig s
Ship Killed
Enters Seabees
March Hides Ouf
Jupa-
TOKYO, Sept. 12—MT
n< so Lt. Gen. Masaharu Momma,
father ol the intamous “death
march" from Bataan and the con-
queror who accepted the surren-
der of General Waimvright. has
SGT. JOHNNIE O. VINSON
\ N H A N D L E. Sept. 12 — |
Excerpt from letter of Jack M.
i Craig, A M 1-c USN. dated Sept. |
1 i. to his mother, Mrs. Eva F.. Ova.g,
! follow::
"Now that the new. of tin ship
has been released and published
! I can toll you all about it. There
Were 53 men killed and 81 wound-
jcd. All were nol killed Instantlv,
|some died on hospital ship. We
(were at I'lU'iioi at Kerama Retto.
j a little group of islands 18 miles
; from Okinawa. That was where
| the seaplane basin was located
lor tiie Okinawa area, and there
were lot of -hips anchored in
BILLS
Ben Beason Killed
In Cold Blood By
Mad Jap Soldiers
----- (he harbor. The harbor is about .
Johnnie O. Vinson, former own- j three-fourths of a mile wide and Seaman Si.wa» Class
cr and manager c>! toe Retail;a mile long. At four o’clock \ve | Bills tnu-iic! the Navy S.-nbees .
C'rc.ii; .Asm’elation n Borger, wa< I changed commands <our Captain •; M;iv, 194a He was inrmcrh
........„......... iccently promoted to the grade o! wa: relieved b> another Captain* jciwployty! by u.e Plains (' ..Mm
tied to Lis ancestral home on pic- Sergeant at Hnrlim.on Army Air and work continued . s usual. At tion (VnoMov ..a n -n v.ak*
turesque Sado island, off the flexible Gunnery School, j six forty-five v.v v. ere hit by a He i> the husband a Mr Ginger
noi-thwc-n Japanese coast, it was *^siiingeu. Texas. » ovhL. pi- oe w-r’. unexpectedly ' Bills eiai »:•< son m Mo. Zo-
* S'it. Vaiseit cute re l the
A MEDAL FOR MR. HOPKINS
A lot of people in this country don't like Harry Hop-
kins. A lot more don’t know precisely what his role in gov-
i ernment has been during the past decade. But we imagine
{there are few' who would begrudge him his recent honor.
Mr. Hopkins' has been awarded the Distinguished Serv-
! ice Medal for “services of outstanding value to the United
(States of America from December, 1941, to July, 1945." He
.was long the confidante, adviser and go-between for Presi-
! dent Roosevelt in relations with top officials in Washington
'and the heads of foreign governments.
He helped disburse the fruits of American war produc-
tion as chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, and
engineered some presumably delicate negotiations as head
of the President's Soviet Protocol Committee.
After Mr. Roosevelt's death he put himself at President
• Truman's disposal, went to Moscow and. it seems safe to!
,sav. helped break some of the dams of Russian opposition i
which for a time threatened to wreck the San Francisco
Conference.
Through most of these activities Mr. Hopkins was a very |
sick man. He wasn't, a rich man and lie received a relative- i
ly modest salary. He might have retired from his semi-
public life which brought him a great deal of public censure.
But he stuck to the jobs assigned him bv two presidents.
•And the first public recognition of his service to the nation
is undoubtedlv deserved.
(ttn'toM'd today.
The one-time strutting, bluster-
ing general left Tokyo three days
ago. slipping out quietly with
only his wife, well-informed Japa-
nese sources said. He had express-
keen interest in "the American
drive to round up war criminals."
His name is on the list of former
Japanese leaders ordered appre-
hended by General Mat Arthur,
Either we shall rebuild the
world upon the faith that all men
are equally entitled to education,
work and happiness, or, paralyzed
by our prejudices, we shall watch
the world slide back toward a
third and more horrible disaster.
—Rabbi Leon From, Detroit.
OUT OUR WAY
NOT sxKJOTHER meal
WILL I COOK UNTIL
YOU FIX THOSE
STOVEL L.E t3/ WHY
THE THINJO VVALk. .
The Army has terminated contracts for 20,000.000 pack-
•ages of gum. Soon we'll all be able to choose our choice of
chews.
„ ,, • | Two Jap suti.ue planes had,
11 ^ lh < ombei -■>, U42. i come in low on tin* vmor through i st P »o! t.h.
Graduate ol Kirkland high school, a little t;.ir in the .."lands and v., w
1 juniv»r colU.'go at Cl-ir- i.n I'a-Turt* \vc know." it ()nc
endon. Texas and received bis hit about four feet above the water
degree from West Texas State j line and came clear into the ship
ni (..anvon. and exploded am ids!) ip. The
Vinson s wile lives at 622 \Ws?t j other mi^eci us and began to
Jacl.-M.u), Bo.ger He is the son of • circle for the but l>v nnv.
"j1 j^bs. L. D. \ in.son ol , , nui of the siiiits were firing and
Kirklant . I exes. Me was shot town, hitting the
Lucky Dog ” 1 ' shy of 1 is
LOCKPORT N 5' c _ 1;o-Ket and exploding. Eire broke
i. l'i—-Peter II, ary test' his * pocket- j Wlj h;,d
book coot.lining S35 ;t|U1'c “ ,ot 01 Imublc. The dnm-
A few days late: a Spring,-r iff1* T” "! SW5 ^ t0nl'
spaniel owned h> r, ,in •; p.t'v,h'l'fl "n(l A’ !> t>tti that men
. ■ tte, 1 ■ wearing t pirati rs wer,
and content rhe 1' |! et to it.
warded with a t. .d; tugs came alongside and helped
light the lire. The fire water
system was dt trnved in some
places and we had to cut a hole
m he sale of the shin t* flood
j a magazine that was on fire. The
j magazine contained 1000-pound
: bombs, at.0-pound bond' . j00—
jpound bombs and we were Or
■?ra\< danger of them exploding I
1 “Right dose by were thirty-six 1
torpedo,":: that were dangerous,
! too. The magazine contained so j
j mum bonlbs that later it took us!
four days to take them off the
j ship. Any wav we had tires all
| over that area of the ship. At .one
; time there were eighteen ''fire*
i burning. All night long \\ ■;
tought fire." while under air at- i
Bills, boih of v.hom residP at 111
llo
By WILLIAMS
Its a break for the Japs at that—the Stars and Stripes
flying over Tokyo instead ot American bombers.
Bigger and better bath towels won’t be available lor sev-
eral months. There’s the rub.
CPL. CLEO M. HUSE
PAN H A iV BL F, Sept. 12
T-Sgt. Benjatnih K Bea.-on of
i th. Army Air Corps was murder
ed in to! '1' 139
i of his brother servicemen by the
| Japanese.
j That t- the otncial information
i received by his mother. Mrs. It. F.
Be..son. St . of Canyon, trom the
atyiulant general oi the army
Beason was killeil u action in
ho P I De 14,
1914. while was a (ndsoner of
war, The adjutant general regret-
ted that i in ums'tnmc" made it int-
I possible to r,:i«i!'. the son's death
! p; omptly
In a lelte" dated Sept, 1, the ad- :
Mutant general wrote Mr" Benson!
. as tollov, s:
"It is with de, ) regret dial i am i
• writing to confirm my recent tele-
i gram tidvhing you that your n>n
Tit htliei 1 Ser can! Benjamin 1
I Beaton, finance department. v..>-
j killed in action Dec 11. 1941.
i’uetto Piince-n. 1’alav.au, Philip-;
' pine Islands, while a prisoner M
• the Japanese ye ernment
; "Your son was one of a group .
150 members of lhe United State
Army. Na ■ ■ and Marine Cnrps
who were imttrisoned by the Jap
mtsti at a vamp a; P.a .. P i
e-a. I’alaw. m , On Dec. 14 194 1.
♦his group of prisoners were at-
tacked without wanting by their
Lit anesv gtan i.. who attemiite t
to mr-s'icn th< (lit onei V) the
last man.
"Ten of the prisoners sue, t en
ed in escaping. There were the
only survivors. It has been ofti-
cii.lly estnbhsherl by reports r,-
eeiten in the War IX'partmont
that all the remamiua 4»rinonei -.
mcludiiifc' 'our son, perished as a
result ot this ruthless attack.
I lolly appreciate the deep
sorio-A that this me-.-age brings to
vrair home and offer you ’n\
d.ecMM' : svmiiath. It my hope
th, ' you may fur- ■omv e
ol eotiaukiliun in the know ledge
that you son has saeniieed his life'
in the .service ot hi country and
in uresi rvation ol its ideal".'
'l he letter wa signed by Mujie j
Edward F. V.'it sell, acting adju-
tant general
T-SGT. BEN F. BEASON
math. He enter
m , >i t 114“.::.
t’vsaiv" }v. r
vived by two In
I’..nhan"ie
M> rnohl"-. I enn.
M - Dari Clinton Clarendon, and
Mo M 11. SI K 1: and Mrs. \V. R.
Nev, Canyon
Men am i lii u sed to have been
l.ihi : a pi.soner when Corregido,
fell in Mav. 1942.
Commoti si Use and experience
• it ••• inil that Amer-
cat b, eeted by ari Arniv
id Navy which will never bow
to an a: ere so!
G. He, la't 11 O Conor, ,d
M.n > )"nd.
lKci.se,:: since September. 1943. {
Cpl. Huse has a brother. J. I
Hive, Jr., vvllh (lie navy. Prior to 1
las enlistment in the army, he was
i employed by the
,1
OUR BOARDING HOUSE with MAJOR HQOPLfc
uOA2 id tO'J’Rt BUSTER'G^ HE'S A L-, ’I v*t(-,FxT^w
UNCLE ix’OLLO/ UM.‘ SMALL}/ SO£C- f ABOUT MV
yJOCLD I rdCT it ■; OF- r? XETEKAfA TOC. V- tAOSJAF
COURSE x WAS CSuSTiNS
when x Told you x
v\AS A Vo&LSU D&fVTlS.T
-ss-V4A\N.; I RETXLLV AN\
A ReNOvOM&D
SCIENTIST, WOW Eg EG !
UNiCLE ROLLC •'
TELL H M KO'vM
fAORSE 2
Jl WAS T A AT
TREATMENiT
YOU GOT HIT I Si V-v ISUST A .
tae back with n m.ocss
s\ beam bag,
mmoc/
J(
CAx LU.
NWZOtsl ■
one thought he would Jive,
v.'ui -i veaeliecl u: aftej- we icH 1J> .
lie died on Un Ik • >»t 1 rhlp.
VVt' Kent yu arm.se auay
,-o, «lid making emeiLitne.v re.
p.m’- ;.rt under v. nv and when
ruunijed *>ut Uu* m;-
he u mild have I een nil iii;ht ex-
cel)! thut he got .stuck in the fur-
eef d'.ineiey pit.
After pulling him
washed away the .
look him to the eo
where he war e.iven
luelv cleansing.
i laui liciiaai of the army.
(Terk-typjs: in a Medical Supply Sgt. Beason was 24 'wars old
Sis ion" of bee of a large base; mid was born June Hi, 1920. He
’ ■ 1 ■ e on I,t; on is Ciirpornl : lived in Panhandle from Seplem-
_lm, s. .... , „ t'leo M. Huse, im.-baud of Mar-: her. 1929. until April, 1988. lea,-
|tauk mmost ali the time. «■' j jorie Alice Huse. 420 East 28th St..'
iv.cic tvaeuatniR out wounded to J ,m.i. \V; a,, and son ol Mr.
|other shi' s m the harbor, and the aw, . j ,, IIu,,, Burger,
aeact Jay where they were tnr
'hie time being. We took on s«>
j much water that we had about
In twenty-degree last and that made
jit harder trying to work on deck j employe(rbv ”'Cunsolidate.i |
j.it that angle. Eighteen hours nl- steel r„m,. ,i,v
Ter being hit La: last of the fires,' Ma-011jc
j etc extingu,shed and we bcga.i ; u S;ln Grelyornio No. 6611.
u elect our .dead, and make , oiilornia.
emergency repairs to the ship. It j _......................... . ......................._
jwas three dyys before the last of
I the dead were taken front the Fall Warm Up
!damaged area so badly wa, thin: CHICAGO, Sept. 12 —t.-l’i .V j
Dorn up. Everybody in the immed- ; th, naTtury slipped flown is.to;
j iate atea ol the explosion vsa Hu: !ov. .ifi Jam,'" K Dore, 45. j
! killed instantly with the except- ! '’'fr'* '"Id police he has no permun- j
[ion ot ene bov who went out the 1 acidic hunted a place to
bole the plane made going in. H, 'her
I was conscious when he was picked i Uc vent into a basement of a,
j up from the water, and he toUC’ioall Madison street, hotel un,.
[them ills wile had led him through i crawled into tin. furnace—which
[that holt:. He wits badly* wound- [ v',“s 1 tired. Later he told fire-j
ed, h, had a he!e in hi* buck but mcn carni to extricate turn
I he h as so very plucky that every-
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