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NO. 33 AUGUST 19, 1945 IT Lb 90,000 Sing of Peace at Festival SURRENDER ENVOYS LAND ON IE ISLE; CONTINUE TO MANILA TO GET TERMS U. S. May End AN UNBEATABLE TEAM IF- CROWD THRILLS TO REVERENT, JOYOUS MUSIC BARE PEACE BID U. S.

REBUFFED 7 MONTHS AGO Lend Lease to Allies Soon Washington, D. Aug. 18 Allied nations receiving lend-lease will get notice Monday or Tuesday that the gigantic aid program has been terminated, it was learned tonight The system which poured 39 bil House Group Lists Island Bases U.Sl Must Hold Gen. Willoughby to Meet Emissaries at Air Field YOL WON WAR. BY CO-oPKAYiOM MOW, LET'S SE if Vols can work Together to win -TOOTHER To W.H BY WALTER TROHAN Chicago Tribune Press Service IJ BY WILLIAM MOORE (Map on page 3) Chicago Tribune Press Service Washington, D.

Aug. 18 Re lion dollars of war goods and civilian necessities into countries fighting the axis is being shut down on order "THE 16th Annual Event Is Big Success Washington, D. Aug. 18 The house naval affairs committee today of President Truman. The lend-lease law authorized the President to terminate the program at the lease of censorship restrictions in the United States makes it possible to announce that Japan's first peace bid was relayed to the White House seven months ago.

Two days before the late President Roosevelt left for the Yalta war's end. The action was decided upon at BY RITA FITZPATRICK The clouds over Soldiers' field last tight were clouds of peace and the a White House conierence unaay conference with Prime Minister demanded that the United States be given outright possess ion of British and French strategic island bases in the Pacific which those two nations are unable to defend. Rejecting the Churchill and Dictator Stalin, he received a Japanese offer identical Impudent stars were reflections of 0. economic administrator; State Secre- the smiles of 90,000 jubilant men.jtary Byrnes; Secretary Treasury with the terms subsequently con 'omen' anJ children. It was the Vinson and other top policy officials.

cluded by his successor, President Truman. The Jap offer, based on five sepa rate peace overtures, -as relayed to the White House by Gen. Mac- i ernationalist bp- Vinson scheme of trusteeships, the commit Asks for Suggestions It is understood that letters of notification, drawn up by FEA, will advise purchasing representatives of the affected countries to propose immediately some other basis on which they would like to receive civilian goods that up to this time they Arthur in a 40 page communication. The American commander, who had tee called for absolute possession of islands now mandated to Japan and the outlying Japanese islands needed just returned triumphantly to Ba-taan, urg'ed negotiations on the ba for America's defense, The committee insisted that the United States obtain "specific and substantial rights" to bases built with American money on other Pa 16th annual Chicago Music Festival and Chicago's first big public celebration since victory. The entire festival, on the heels cf peace, was underscored by a reverent relief and a bouyant gayety thas was as contagious as laughter.

before has community singing swept the field with such exuberance. Old songs seemed new cnce more, just because every one could sing loudly and lustily without lear. That the war was over and that baton twirlers, dancing children, end Alice in Wonderland pageants once more were important was obvious from the moment the festival began with a lilting organ prelude. A Festival of Festivals: It was the festival of festivals. There was so much to see, to hear, to participate in! Every one went koine humming and smiling, figuratively having brushed elbows with cific islands belonging to America's allies, even tho their owners might be able to defend them.

Saved Single Handed have obtained under lend-lease. The principal countries affected are Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Russia, and China. Each involves special problems and individual settlements will have to be made. Russia, for example, never signed any special agreement for continuing post-war acquisition of heavy industrial equipment originally ordered under lend-lease, it was learned. Belgium, France Supply U.

S. Belgium and France at the mo The committee detailed a complete plan of Pacific domination by the United States with the blunt notice to the world that the Americans have restored peace there almost single handed. Nazi Slayer of Dogs of War Moreover the committee informed IE ISLAND, Aug. 19 Sunday C4) Japan's surrender envoys arrived by air from Tokyo at this tiny island west of Okinawa this afternoon and within 45 minutes were transferred to an American C-54 transport plane and took off for Manila to receive their orders from Gen. MacArthur.

The two Japanese surrender planes, white-painted with green crosses, as ordered, made the trip from Tokyo in five hours and 27 minutes. The flight to Manila requires about six hours more, so the Tokyo party should arrive there early tonight. The surrender party numbered 13 men, mostly military, but evidently including secretaries and Interpreters. Their names were not made available. Dine Aboard Plane Upon landing at the new B-29 strip here at 1:45 p.

m. 10:45 p. Saturday, Chicago time, the Japanese planes taxied up alongside two C-54s and the occupants lined up under a wing. There Lt. Gen.

Ennis C. Whitehead, commanding the United States army 5th air force, and Brig. Gen. Frank Smith, commanding the 5th fighter command, gave them brief instructions and they stepped Into one of the two American transports. The other was a "spare." The plane with the Japanese aboard started Its engines immediately and took off for Manila.

Box lunches were aboard, so that no delay for dining was required here. The Japanese pilots remained here with their planes, which were parked on the edge of the airstrip to await the envoy's return after MacArthur has dictated his instructions. GIs See Japs land Hundreds of American soldiers watched the arrival and departure from behind barbed wire fences which had been erected 200 yards from the strip. The Japanese, flanked by B-25s and with Lightning fighters circling overhead, started to land on the coral strip at 1:35 p. but at that moment lost contact with the control tower.

They went upstairs again and circled the field five times. The Japanese personnel wore their decorations, and gold braid was in evidence. The strip was empty save for the transfer planes as the Japanese planes and their convoy of B-25s, plus circling American fighters, arrived at the newly-completed field which had been intended for Super Fortress raids on Japan. The first plane to land was one of the B-25s. The others circled the field again with the Japanese planes, then one by one they touched down DENIES CLEMENCY TO CHICAGO AN IN ARMY CAMP SLAYING ment are supplying considerably more to 'the United States in the Star in Close the international propagandists that American defense is not the exclusive prerogative of the executive branch of the government but Is the responsibility of congress.

Prisoners in Bulge Caught Fort Leavenworth, Aug. 18 Special President Truman has Order Drill Fort Robinson, Aug. 18 UP) denied executive clemency to Pvt. NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 18 For emphasis the committee said it wants no "gentlemen's agreements" with foreign countries regarding Islands the Americans have protected or rescued.

And it wants civilians responsible to congress not "sea In a setting of towering white bluffs where frontier troops once battled Indians, the first six infantry scout dog platoons ever to be trained by (IP) The American doughboys' personal number one war criminal was found today by the 1st infantry division, ending an eight month search. Edward J. Reichl of Chicago, under sentence to be hanged for the shooting of a comrade at Hamilton Nov. 17, 1943, the Fort Leavenworth public relations office form of reverse lend-lease supplies and services for troops being moved out of Europe than the United States is furnishing them. China is understood to have been seeking a continued post-war flow of arms and other military equipment.

Authorities were uncertain tonight on what basis countries losing lend-lease assistance would be able to continue getting here the goods they require and whose shipments from this country would enable factories here to continue production. MISS SWARTHOUT IS TOLD OF HER FATHER'S DEATH the quartermaster corps were for announced today. the nation's top flight musicians and opera and concert stars. Indeed, the two singing stars of the festival, lovely Gladys Swarthout, mezzzo-soprano star of stage, screen, and opera, and Lawrence Tibbett, world renowned baritone, seemed to sing directly to each member of the audience. Time did cot permit them to sing as many songs as the audience would have liked.

It was heart warming also to hear the applause "which greeted the performance of the two young festival vocal winners. Miss Winifred Heck man, 21. of 7818 Crandon a contralto, and Robert F. Dalton, 31, of 305 Ohio st, bass baritone. Hail Significance of Peace Their enthusiastic reception was assurance that once more the youth going naval officers administering the islands.

Made 21,500 Mile Tour The report was written by a naval He is the commanding officer of the middle group of the first SS mally graduated today in a ceremony sis of the Jap overtures. All Acting for Emperor Two of the five Jap overtures were made thru American channels and three thru British channels. All came from responsible Japanese, acting for Emperor Hirohito. President Roosevelt dismissed the general's communication, which was studded with solemn references to the Deity, after a casual reading with the remark, MacArthur Is our greatest general and our poorest politician." The MacArthur report was not taken to Yalta. It was preserved in the files of the high command, however, and subsequently became the basis of the Truman-Attlee Potsdam declaration calling for surrender of Japan.

News Kept Secret This Jap peace bid was known to The Tribune soon after the Mac-Arthur communication reached here. It was not published, however, because of The Tribune's established policy of complete cooperation with the voluntary censorship code. Now that peace has, been concluded on the basis of the terms MacArthur reported, high administration officials prepared to meet expected congressional demands for explanation of the delay. It was considered certain that charges would be hurled from various quarters of congress that the delay cost thousands of American lives and casualties, particularly in such costly offensives as Iwo and Okinawa. It was explained in high official circles that the bid relayed by Mac-Arthur did not constitute an official offer in the same sense as the final offer, which was presented thru Japanese diplomatic channels In Bern and Stockholm for relayto the four major allied powers.

War Lords Feared No negotiations were begun on the basis of the bid, it was said, because it was feared that if any were undertaken the Jap war lords, who were presumed to be ignorant of the feelers, would visit swift punishment on those making the offer. It was held possible that the war lords might assassinate the emperor. The date of the execution of the sentence has not been announced, unique in military annals. High ranking army officers and a large throng of spectators watched affairs subcommittee which returned Aug. 2 from a 21,500 mile tour of Pacific islands, during which the it was said.

Last month the war department asked the commandant at Fort Leavenworth to delay set the scout dogs of the K-9 corps go thru their paces with their infantry members talked with Gen. MacAr- ting a date so that pleas for clem man trainers on the sun drenched thur, Adm. Nimitz, island command ency made by Reichl's family could ers, and enlisted men. be reviewed. parade ground here.

Brig. Gen. Paul X. English, act Reichl, 39, is a former bartender and a son of Mr. and Mrs.

George ing commander of the 7th service command, presented graduation cer After Gladys Swarthout, Chicago and Metropolitan opera star, finished The subcommittee was headed by Rep. Izac Other members were Bishop 111. and Biemiller Wi3. and Delegate Farrington Hawaii. The report was ap tificates to the men as they marched Reichl, of 5343 School Chicago.

He has three brothers in the army, by the reviewing stand with their one of whom was wounded in fight Adolf Hitler panzer division which murdered more than 100 American infantrymen prisoners near Mal-medy during the battle of the bulge last December. The arrogant, six-foot-two colonel, Joachim Peiper, 30 year old former adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, was discovered in a screening of 10,000 SS troopers in the 1st division's prisoner of war cage. Hidden by Prisoners Peiper's connection with the Mal-medy slaylngs had been hidden by the rest of the SS prisoners, but came out under questioning by a team headed by Paul Haefner, Elmhurst, 111. Peiper had been hunted intensively by the entire American army, which had been Investigating the Malmedy slaying as the biggest atrocity of the war in Europe. Boy! we're sure glad we located of the nation may win their places singing at the Chicago Music Festi-ln the world without the brutal in soldiers' field last night, she terruption of war.

This knowledge, I learned that her father, Frank too. seemed to seep into their swarthout, 77, retired business man, proved by the full committee and ing in Italy. Several members of canine charges. Do Close-Order Drill Speakers included Col. B.

the family have visited him here voices, and both sang with no solt since his court martial, which took Brown, commander of the remount issued by Chairman Vinson The committee's recommendations were firm regarding the islands of Manus in the Australian Admiralties, Guadalcanal in the British Solomons, Espiritu Santo in the British- place Feb. 14, 1944. post and war, dog training center; pedaling of their hearts or their talents. Another stirring tribute was the Mrs. Rose Michalski, Reichl's who has been active in seeking Mrs.

Milton Erlanger, New York, intervention by members of con special consultant to the quartermaster general, and Gen. English. awed moment of silence which followed the rendition of Wondrous gress, said Reichl fired a rifle at had died in Eldorado Springs, Mo. A friend, Mrs. Edith Mason Ragland, former Chicago opera star, met Miss Swarthout as she completed her part of the program, and took her to the Ragland home, 229 Lake Shore where the singer was told the news.

Mr. Swarthout is survived by his widow and another daughter, Mrs. Roma Swarthout Slaughter of New York. The sleek, highly trained dogs who, records show, have never al random while intoxicated and that Pvt. Adam Buchholz of Dayton, was struck and fatally wounded.

lowed a unit to which they were assigned to be ambushed, brought on the glistening coral strip on this that fellow," said Clisson. We feel French New Hebrides, and Noumea in French New Caledonia. Full Title Demanded With respect to these Islands and some other sites of American bases on islands mandated to or claimed by other nations, the committee said: "Full title to those bases should be given to the United States because: "These other nations are not capable of defending such Islands they do not possess the man power and materials that the United States does for holding and maintaining little isle 930 miles from Tokyo. Ue Bataan Code Word MANILA, Aug. 19 Sunday VP) a personal interest in the case because the men killed once worked with the 1st division." i Find 24 More Members More than 24 members of Peiper's THE WEATHER cries of admiration from the crowd as they paced thru what was believed to be the first close-order drill ever to be performed by dog platoons.

Messenger Dogs Race Earlier, personnel had demonstrated the use of pack mules, while messenger dogs, trained to carry Japanese emissaries flew to le SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1045 Officials said Mr. Roosevelt felt that Island today using as call signs for their two planes the American or the Japs were not ripe for peace. combat team have been uncovered In the screening of SS prisoners Things the Lord Hath Done." Dr F. Melius Christiansen, its composer, was to have been one of the festival's special guests, but was unable to be present because of ill health. The other distinguished festival guest, Mrs.

Charles S. Clark, president of Club Presidents and Program Chairmen, was present and swept into the field in an open car along with Miss Swarthout and Tibbett. All in all, the program was a delightful blend of reverence, stirring patriotism, friendliness, and enchantment. Spectacular field events, that could be seen from every spot In the amphitheater, were numerous. A Wonderland in Many Ways Straight from the pages of Louis Carroll's beloved classic, "Alice in Wonderland stepped the picturesque characters which have en dered code words, Bataan One except for a small group, who were CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Sunny and moderately warm and humid today; tomorrow partly cloudy powerless to cope with the war gathered in this vast camp just outside lnlormation between battle corn- lrds, and that peace could not come and warm; thunderstorms whprp r-nmmnni.

Peiper denied any knowledge of until the Japs had suffered more. The offer, as relayed by Mac- these bases and, as these bases are links in our chain of security, and no chain is stronger than its weakest link, we cannot permit any link to be in the hands of those who will cooler tomorrow night; light, varl-1 cation ,8 impractical( had staged a able winds; high today, 86 to 90; speclal race low tonight, 68; high Husky neavily furred malemutes 85. i i u. ALDRICH, N. Y.

BANKER, GIVEN KING'S MEDAL IChlcago Tribune Press Service LONDON, Aug. 18 Winthrop Aid-rich, chairman of the Chase National bank of New York, was decorated by King George VI at Buckingham palace last Thursday, it was learned from reliable sources today. The honor was described as the king's medal and it was said to be the first time it has ever been bestowed on an American or any one else. Buckingham palace not yet has revealed the details. A court circular stated merely that their majesties received Aldrich.

The banker headed the British war relief drive in the United States. He came to London to preside over sessions of the International Chamber of Commerce just concluded. the shootings, in which disarmed doughboys were lined up in a field and machine gunned by tankers. American army officers, however, Arthur, contemplated surrender of everything but the person of the not or cannot defend it." The committee further recom said records showed that he fought mended: ILLINOIS: Partly cloud? and rather warm and hamid today and tomorrow; local thnndcr-ahowrri in northwest and west centra! tomorrow afternoon or night. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO For 24 hours ended 2 a.

m. Aur. 19: siuuuicu us sieuge uugs xui me xai north then were exhibited, one group of playful pups towing a jeep and another team of older huskies pulling a bus carrying two soldiers and a WAC. "For our own security, the se- all thru the Malmedy area and was directly responsible for operations there. Continued on page 3, column 3 emperor.

Japanese quarters making the offer suggested that the emperor become a puppet in the hands of American forces. Full Surrender Offered Jap proposals in the MacArthur communication contemplated: 1. Full surrender of Jap forces on sea, in the air, at home, on 3 a. 70 11a. 83 7 a.

...79 deared themselves to children and 69 Noon 84 4 a. Lead Parade 3,000 Nisei to 8 p. .76 9 p. 74 10 p. .72 11 p.

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.85 5 p. .83 6 p. .81 adults alike since 1866. In a brilliant pageant, designed by Marian Mac-Donald, 300 mummers in beautifully outlandish costumes cavorted and pantomimed around the field while island possessions, and in occupied 10 a. ro .78 By Wireless to the New York Times and The Chicago Tribune I LEGHORN, Italy, Aug.

18 Three -men. Tixw. i tnomcisi, x-a a. n. and "Bataan Two." The envoys left Tokyo's Kisarazu airdrome at 7:18 a.

m. Sunday, Tokyo time 5:18 p. m. Saturday, Chicago time, ending one of the most unusual periods of diplomatic shadow boxing ever to precede any surrender. Orders "Bataan' Used Gen.

MacArthur at the last minute refused to allow the emissaries to forget their brutal victory at Bataan, and for the second time-designated that fateful name as the call sign for the Japanese transport planes. That word "Bataan" probablj will set the entire tone of a tens scries of conferences between th allies and the Japanese emissaries. MacArthur already has given ample evidence that in manner and tone he will not allow the visitors to forget the war's atrocities. Hold Farley Monday The Japanese, on the other hand, will be undertaking a personally unpleasant mission, representing a nation which in all post-surrender statements gave the world the impression it regards Itself as only temporarily defeated. It was believed here that delays in the envoys' trip to Manila had a gay recording of music and lyrics enrise.

sunset. 7:46. Moonset, 2:38 countries. 2. Surrender of all arms and mu nitions.

thousand Nisei Japanese-American a. hi. tomorrow. Mornlne atari. Mars, Venm, and Saturn; evening star, Jupiter, 3.

Occupation of the Jap home Today's Tribune CHICAGO TO GET LAKE AIR WHILE PLAINS SIZZLE The heat wave emanating from the plains states will spread over most of the central west today but Chicago will escape it because of a flow of air from the northeast off the lake, G. E. Dunn, weather bureau forecaster, said last night. Chicago's high today will be from 86 to 90, Dunn predicted, while the remainder of the state, particularly the western part, will have temperatures well into the 90s. Cooler air is land and island possessions by allied troops under American direction.

4. Jap relinquishment of Man News and editorial Parti Sports, markets Part 2 Metropolitan Part 8 churia, Korea, and Formosa, as well For 24 hours ended 7:30 p. m. Au. 18: Mean temperature, 76; normal, 72; excess since Jan.

1, 325 degrees. Precipitation, none; excess since' Aug. 1, 1.27 Inches; excess since Jan. 1, 3.27 Inches. Highest wind velocity, 11 miles an Relative humidity.

7:30 a. 90 per cent; 1:30 p. 62t 7:30 p. 63. Barometer reading, 7:30 a.

29.97 Inches; 7:30 p. 30.00 inches. POLLEN COUNT: For 24 hours ended 1 p. m. Aug.

18, 9 grains per cubic yard of air. Other weather forecasts on page 20. as all territory seized during the who commands the Nisei, will lead them In the march. Beside him will stride Maj. Mitsuyo Fu-kuda, a Honolulu High school teacher who is the last remaining member of the 100th Nisei battalion still in Italy.

Simultaneously with Gen. Oxx's announcement came a document signed by all the men in company of the 168th Infantry, a white regiment, promising that unit's full aid to the Nisei boys when they have to face readjustment problems back home. Their battle slogan, not generally understood, tho it is woven into their combat flag, is go for broke," the Hawaiian-Japanese dice game term for all or nothing." Radio programs war. Ten pages of comics Part 4 told the famous story. Then there was a breath-taking Buckingham Fountain dance, performed by 500 young dancers in uid.

classic costumes which caught the play of the water in human grace. Intricate maneuvers by a massed band of LOGO pieces and the parading of 100 colors by trimly turned-out Legionnaires thrilled the crowd. The traditional match lighting ceremony, conducted by Philip Maxwell, festival director and master of ceremonies, wreathed the am-phi-theater in a crown of flame, and a magnificent patriotic fireworks dis- Continued on page 12, column 1J troops, bearing their battle flag with its three Presidential unit citation streamers and single white combat streamer, were designated today by Brig. Gen. Francis H.

Oxx, frea commander, to lead the V-J day parade here. Altogether 15,000 GI's will be in line. They will be in the van in this victory march as they were when they spearheaded the attacks that opened the Vosges mountain doorway to Strasbourg last October and when they snatched the 36th division lost battalion of Texans from the encircling nazis. CoL V. R.

Miller of WInneconne, 5. Regulation of Jap Industry to halt present and future production Classified ads 5 of implements of war. 6. Turning over of Japanese the United States might designate war Real estate Parti Drama, movies, music, books. Part 2 Society news, clubs, women's 7orW mvmrmgt nf pmid cirealmtimm JULY, 1945 criminals.

features, patterns, crossword puzzle Part 7 coming eastward from Montana and will break the heat wave in the plains states, Dunn said, but it is not expected to reach the Chicago area before Tuesday. Monday will be hot in the Chicago area, he said. SUNDAY an) MtM 1,300,000 7. Release of all prisoners of war Graphic Weekly Part 8 and internees in Japan proper and in areas under Japanese control. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Picture Part 9.