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0 cP) afison V5r Add". NDIETY-nrTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Orecjon, Saturday Morning, May 5, 1915 Prlca 3c No. 34 jf 1 -" l l jNI jrn ni ii oT n- vi. - -,-' "' i v. . . s - - - t. ' I RT' TOGOOCg - - 5 1 4 . POUNDBD 1651 ! - ! I . , Says (Summary of talk , before the . Salem Realty Board Friday noon.) . . . V-E day is here! It has not been 'announced by General Eisenhow er or Marshal . Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman; but V-E day, la here. They know it; ; we know it? even the Germans know that . they are licked. Only - the final clean-up of pockets of . resistance -delays the proclama- - tions. , ?This is the day we long have sought, and' mourned because we , found it not." So closely has our attention been riveted on military operations and recently on the t San Francisco conference to plan a new world organization that We are hardly ; ready for V-E day. Peace, like the war, is "busting ' in our faces." Our preparations : for peace may be "too little and too late," as were those for war. Consider these facts: about 50 - per cent of our industrial produc- lion has been for, war; perhaps s25 per cent of our agricultural production has been for war or lend-lease; perhaps as many as 50 per cent of our workers have been employed directly or indi rectly in war production.- With V-E day Chairman Krug of WPB estimates that war production will decline 12 per cent in three months, 20 per cent in six. months -: and 35 per cent in 12 months. At the end of. - year all types of civilian goods will be flowing into , the markets, f j Reconversion of industry will be muchlmore rapid than was once estimated, merely a matter of months even in the case of auto- , mobiles man t - . (Continued on Editorial Page) Prisoners of War at , Camp Adair, May (Special)- Several - score German prisoners housed on grounds which once were the training site"" loir 40,000 American soldiers . were busy , packing thousands of dishes and cooking ' utensils here today for shipment to VS. encampments - ? overseas. . - The majority of the prisoners - appeared cheerful at their work on what constituted a virtual assem bly line of boxes. One man. with the letters , "FW" on his work clothes wore a red campaign rib- ' bon attesting toliis service on the Russian frontand he obviously .was proud of what was regarded as a distinction. . The prisoners are kept busy maintaining camp facilities when no ther duties are assigned, and officials have said that in the main they are ready and able workers. They are i kept under strict military dicipEne and 1 no major trouble has been encouni ered. , ' ' A- f -J" ' Chinese Halt " Nip Offensive & CHUNGKING, May 4-()-The . Chinese high command announced ' tonight that Chinese troops aided br American-equipped air-borne reinforcements had completely halted : a .four-pronged Japanese . offensive aimed at the UJS.- air base at Chihkiang. 250 miles southeast of Chungking,! annihilat fag 3000 of the enemy. ! l MaJ. Gen. i Robert BJ McClure, chief of staff to the allied com ' mander in. chief in China, Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek, also said that the enemy; offensive seemingly has bogged down," and that the Chinese were continuing their counter-drive in j this port of western Hunan province. Reliable Source Says : Himmler Is in Denmark STOCKHOLM, May 4HWP)-Re-ports from . .usually i -reliable, source said tonight that -lleinrich Himmler, gestapo chief and -commander of the German home army, was ln'Denmark. Y: : " - -1 This might mean that Admiral Karl Doenitz and other officials - of his, German government also are in that country. There has been no indication here that . British forces yet. have crossed Into Danish territory. Sweden Premier Happy Over Surrender News - STOCKHOLM, May 4-ff)-Pre-mier Per Albin Hansson of Sweden said tonight he was tremendous ly glad to hear the news of the capitulation and hoped the mes sage would' be "followed by an other of the.same kind." f . .' This was an obvious reference to Norway, in which the Swedish government long has been inter ested and is hopeful of a peaceful liberation. Adair Pack Dishes Russians Liberate Slovakia Germans Bitterly Resisting Soviet Army Advances By Remney. Wheeler ' , LONDON, Saturday, May !H) Russian troops, smashing out powerful 10-mile gains in the na- zis' Czechoslovakian mountain re doubt, liberated all Slovakia yes terday as German forces bitterly resisted Red army advances and staged a big tank battle near the Moravian war .production city of Olmuetz (Olomouc). '' Despite violent German opposi tion in which the Russians lost and then regained at least one town. Red army forces battled for a quick cleanup of Czechoslova kia while the Germans reported a new . Soviet offensive was in progress in Austria. The nazi high command said that Soviet armor had opened a big drive west of Vienna toward a Junction with American troops battling for Linz that would cut off the Austrian redoubt from Czechoslovakia. The enemy said Red army mountain fighters also were plunging toward Austria's second city, Graz. While the Red army pressed campaigns to reduce the Germans southern European strongholds, mop-up operations continued against German forces in northern Europe. , More than 45,700 German troops laid down their arms- and sur rendered to the Red army north west and southwest of Berlin and north-of Stettin a drive was' op ened to .clear the Baltic islands guarding Stettin Bay. - -a The. entire Czechoslovak prov ince . of. Slovakia wast freed of German troops after' month-long battles when, the 2nd : and 4th Ukrainian armies - rolled down from the White Carpathian and west Beskid mountains into east em Moravia in preparation for an all-out drive toward the Czecho slovak capital, Prague. Rates of Draft Calls to Stay After V-E Day WASHINGTON, May 4-(ff)-The army's draft calls may stay at the current rate of about-100,000 men a month for some time after V-E day. ,,:' Hopes for a cut at the end of the German war were dimmed, it was learned today, by an asser tion from Gen. George C. M. Mar shall that May and June replace ment needs of the army cannot be met under the present calls. The chief of staff, writing with in the last week to Chairman May (D, Ky) of the house military committee, , statecL that the pre vailing shortage probably will be increased "by some 50,000 men over the next three months. There - was no indication that this situation may be alleviated when German resistance collapses altogether. WPB Official Will Visi Salem Aluminum Plant WASHINGTON, May 4, -()-A war production board official will visit the Salem, Ore., alum inum plant to determine how much sulphate ammonium will be need ed to have the plant operating in June, Congressman Homer Angell (R-Ore.) said today. ' Angell said the WPB official will make the trip in a - week or 10 days. Previously the agency had refused rto a&Hcate .any ; of the ehenaieal-frem 4hf , fertilizer, pro gram. ' Danes Wildly Celebrate Hour Of Liberation Front Germans i BrLuuLemkow COPENHAGEN, May 4-WVThe Danish people burst loose from the long, hard bonds of German occu pation tonight With scales never before equalled in Copenhagen's 800-year history. . ' ; r The ordinarily temperate Danes swelled into the streets, shouting, singing, crying . . . and fighting. In the midst of the celebration the Danish Freedom council or dered mobilization of the whole resistance movement, on what was said to be a direct order from King Christian X. . This put under arms an esti-' mated 300,000 men in the capital ro ToWSisId! . Bmv W Kl 54 Per I By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW, May H-VP)r Adolf Hitler's blazing 'chancellery in Berlin failed to yield the body of the German fuehrer Who the nazis said had died there May 1, dis patches from the 'German capital said today. "" f f v: '. Meanwhile German prisoners went to work clearing up . their ruined city as thousands of civil ians wandered through the rub bled streets facing starvation. . Berlin "aristocrats' were filjng; out, of their cellars, and -falling on dead horses in the streets tear ing them up in the space of mo ments, dispatches- said. Hundreds of German bodies; still were not buried, but the red army was be ginning to restore order and a Big Four Strikes Snag (on How ito Fit Area Treaties Intd World hi By Douglas SAN FRANCISCO, May tonight to have agreed on more than 20 amendments to the Dum barton Oaks plan but to have struck a snag on how to fit regional treaties into a world security system, r 1 The united! States, Russia having divergent ideas on dovetailing such regional arrangements as the Pan-American act of Cha pultepec and Russia's assistance pacts with France and other Euro pean countries, into the Dumbar ton proposals fofj an all-powerful security council 1 with worldwide authority." ' 1 1 ' All were described as having agreed in principle oh the point that security can;best be maintain ed on a; worldwide basis, rather than with regional organizations working independently- of the- se curity council. I But .they lacked formula for - jnaintaining tthis principle and at the same time pro tecting regional defensive arrange ments. I . . ii :t - . : Russia evidently was chiefly concerned with fhe possibility of again being attacked by a resur gent Germany. ' i i i .-' ' . The big-four met early in th ev ening at dinner sin the pent-house apartment of Secretary 'of State Stettinius.- It had been planned to get joint amendments to : the press tonight. But word later went out that nothing would be issued before tomorrow.; ; Then It was s learned that the reason was a decision to meet again later. I complete accord could be reached, it was said, the only amendments to be sponsored by the big four Would be those on which they all agreed. Otherwise it was thought fthat ; the United States and possibly Russia and Britain might have one or more independent proposals. In any case, if was reported that the big-four would be in agree ment on 80 to 5 per cent of the changes they want made. (Addi tional details oh page 2). Gl Man of Year Killed LaPORTE, Ind, May 4-(ff)-The soldier who was chosen by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes as the "GI Man of the Year- for 1944, hat beenfkiUed in action. Mrs. Ella Harness said tonight the war;! department notified her that her" son, Set. John H. Parks, 23, was killed in Luxembourg on Dec 23. She had been informed earlier that he was missing. Parks' picture, taken by the ar my signal corps, appeared in Stan and Stripes Dec 23 the day be fore bis '-eaQi iinder -the GI Man of the Year" caption. " alone. They seemed to be every where, carrying tommy guns, ma chineguns and pistols, mostly of British find American make, and wearing' armbands in the Danish colors;.. ' I- )i ' ' - " :' Some of the members of the re sistance movement immediately attacked the police building, main seat of Jthe feared HIPO (Danish nazi aUxiliaryl police corps), the gestapo headquarters in St. Anne palace, (and the headquarters of German Ambassador, Werner Best at Dagmarhus on the Raadshus platen, the capital's central square. They used light field guns, smaller weapons and tear gas. registration of all j nazis had be gun. Dispatches coming out of the city make it ' apparent that the capital : offers one of the worst problems in all Europe. Dispatches to Moscow newspa pers said that red army comman dants had put hundreds of . pris oners to work iri emergency bak eries, turning out bread for the population, but it appeared that even these measures would be in-l sufficient to stem famine. the threatened Correspondents who entered the chancellery with Russian soldiers related how they found dead Ger man machine gunners, iron crosses around their necks, at the chan cellery's smoking windows. " I "Hitler's chancellery still is Security System BJ Cornell jd - The big four! were reported and Britain were represented as New Phone Book for 1945 Almost Ready j The 1843 "Salem and vicinity- telephone directory . was i almost ready ior distribution today, with the 1 Smiths stiU j- leading in the number of entries of that name. Produced by -; The - Statesman Publishing company for The Pa cific. Telephone and - Telegraph company, the directory contains 192 pages. Salem has 4 pages, nearby towria . I identical fig urges with last year's but the clas sified directory jumped from 78 to 120. - i. In the Salem section there are 87 Smiths in the new book, 52 Browns,' 50 Johnsons, 49 Jones, 48 Millers, 40 Andersons. It begins with! the AAA Automobile asso ciation and ends with G. L. Yysset, as did the 144 directory for this city.! u- . f The directory, which will be dis tributed within a few days, nasi a few more names than did last year's, but restrictions on the use or equipment has precluded making hundreds of additional connections sought. Big Force of Superf orts Hit Isles WASHINGTON," May 4 A very ; large force ; of B-29 Super fortresses carried out a two-prong ed attack on the Japanese home is lands of Honshu and Kyushu to- aay (May a Japanese time), head quarters of the 20th air force an- nouneed tonight. j : One force attacked an industrial target at Kure on the main Japa nese island of Honshu, while other B-29s continued the assault on air bases on Kyushu. .'...-i! Possibly as many ai 150 of the big bombers participated in the at tacks. ... -:?(-.- -r: -is- : Both phases of the operation were carried out by Marianas base Superfortresses of the 21st bomber command voder Jit, Gen. CurtU E.-LeMay. . .'---ti Today Is Not V-E Day- Ike IS th Axfioc!At3 PrHut : ; Gen.' Eisenhower declared last night that Germany had been "thoroughly - whipped, but this did not make Friday V-E day.! ' Despite the capitulation of ' all kGerman troops in northwest Ger many, Holland and Denmark and mass, surrenders elsewhere yes terday, there still are large Ger man forces in Norway and in the Czechoslovak-Austrian pocket.) -Moreover, supreme allied head quarters disclosed several days ago that V-E day, when it comes, will be proclaimed ' by the chiefs of state of the allied - governments and not by Gen. Eisenhower. Nip ablaze," the dispatch said. "Smoke and flame are so thick it is im possible to see much. The fire in the chancellery "got so hot we had to duck out through Windows.?- -' Reichsmarshal Herman , Goer lug's ministry of aviation likewise was ablaze, the dispatch revealed. "It is Impossible to get Into it, but the gigantic shelter is intact," it said.' , V - . The Russian reports indicated that the bodies of Hitler, and Goering, if he too joined Hitler and Goebbels In reported suicides, would be difficult to identify if they actually died in the burning! buildings. " " f ' Red Star's story strengthened the theory here that if. Hitter killed himself he did pot do it in the chancellery. ; v Portrait off Count Lmdwlg Sewer- in Toa Kreslfk, nephew; ef the Kaiaer Wnhelas. who haa been appointed Foreign Minister ef Germany to sneeeed Joachim voa , Kibbentrop, oasted by the new Taehrer," Admiral Karl Deenita, (International Kadlor soamdphoto). ' - e- .. ... ' r . ! - 4 May Weekend Activitiesi i - - At WU Today Highlight of May (weekend ac tivities cn the Willamette univer sity campus, which in turn climax the collegiate social "Calendar, the coronation of Queen Betty Kan auska of Salem is Scheduled for 1:30 pjn. today in the outdoor throne room of the campusV Should the cloudy; sky dp more than threaten .the annual cere monies, .to which townspeople of Salem annually throng, the cere monies will, as in many another year, be held indoors. " , J With patriotism as a theme, the musical program following the Maypole dance will .honor Queen Betty and her attendants, Prin cesses Wilma Frohman , of ; Ash land and Emma Lou East of Sa lem. The day starts with! a May- morning breakfast on the; campus lawn and closes with the formal queen's ball. ' j- - f House Okelis r V WASHINGTON, May 4 T (ff) -What had been described as $7, 365,000,000 cut in . wartime ship building funds shrank tcf $4,265 000,000 today when it was discov ered that someone in the govern ...... i 1 ment made a' $3,100,000,000 error. However, the house of tpreseh- tatives heard . that . further war tapeuding -cuts are forthcoming ma it fiapproved '. the ' $465,000,000 slash and sent the legislation on to the senate. , I . One Industrial Death Reported During Week ' One fatality, 772 i covered acci dents and 13 claims for occupa tional disease benefits were filed in the state Industrial r accident commission here during the week ended May 3. The fatality in volved Arthur A. Beyer, Portland electrician.- . '. ! Weather San Tranciaco Eugene . Salem - , Portland Hax. DVa. Bala 60 ; 4 CT .50 S8 . 47 67 i so e Seattle if U trace WiUamette river: ft. "i r FOHECAST (by tJS weather bureau. McNary lield. Salem j Clear today, with somewhat -warmer temperature. Maximum temperature expevtcd about H degreea. , v Appointed Spf3ndin Nips' Sink Vessels Yanks Destroy 154 Japanese Planes in Fight By Lief Erickson . . GUAM; Saturday, May 3 UP -Attacking by land, sea and air. the Japanese sank five small US ships off Okinawa yesterday, af fected . nuisance landings . behind American lines on that island and caused some damage to Yon tan air, field -on the central western coast. A total of 154 Japanese air planes were destroyed and 21 damaged. " " One of the counter lan dings was repulsed on. and upwards of 500 enemy troops involved in three other other , landings were pock eted near Machinato air field and were being destroyed. Japs Counterattack About 3000 Japanese troops counterattacked behind 20 or more tanks, in the 7th division sector, but were repulsed with hundreds killed, Associated Press Corre spondent James Lindsley reported from 24th army corps headquar ters. ' - . . r There was much hand-to-hand fighting and one unit of the 7th division engaged in a grenade bat tle, Lindsley added. The enemy's strongest aerial at tack was made against American ships off Okinawa, resulting in a furious hour and a half battle in' volving bombers, torpedo planes, suicide crashing pilots and Baka bombs. The five light naval units were sunk in , this assault, which cost the enemy 54 planes destroy ed, and one Baka bomb shot down by. a destroyer. First Baka Downed This waa the -first official rei port of a Baka bomb, being down- ed. The Baka Is a suicide-piloted rocket-like missile built like a small airplane. Other Baka bombs W I - . " T lier in ue oay, as carrier pi lots? roamed the northern Ryukus, the enemy sent additional waves of aircraft winging southward but none reached American forces off Okinawa. Carrier pilots shot down 96 of these. The previous day they destroyed, two and damaged 19 on the 'ground In neutralizing strikes on Amami and , other northern Morse Seeks Beyer's Help To Change Act Assistance of J. M. Devers, at4 torney for the state highway com mission, in recommending amend ments to the federal surplus prop erty act, was sought by Sen. Wayne Morse, Washington; D-C. in m letter received here Friday. Severs some time ago sent a letter to Senator Morse calling at tention to complaints that surplus property acquired by various gov ernmental agencies in connection with the war effort was being de stroyed and in some cases dispos ed of under conditions which ap peered to favor a certain class of persons to the exclusion of others. Senator Morse replied that he had received similar complaints and that a number of senators, in cluding Guy Gillette, of Iowa, chairman of the surplus property board, were conducting an inves tigation. ' i ."The manner' in which public property has been and Is being disposed of has created considera ble . feeling and the republican members of congress are endea voring' to remedy the situation,' Senator Morse. wrote. , V i Norway jPatriola .Cany AWay Official Papers - STOCKHOLM, May-A-iVNor-wegian patriots clad in police uni forms entered the justice and po lice department in Oslo late Wed nesday and carried away a mass of files and official papers, the Swedish telegraphic bureau re- ported today.. : : i s; ; The German controlled agency said 6ie patriots' coup was design ed to save from destruction ' lm- portant papers which could be used later for. war -criminal trl- V-E Day Expecteil t LONDON, May 4 -Wf Lines formed . at bakeries , and tobacco cVinria tnnicSt a hnm-hnurirl f v"n doner stopped for emergency up- n m In vnt ef an overnlffht V-E day announcement. Shops are to close on that day. I " LONDON. M av ( AP in northwest Germany was proclaimed by the Wilhelnu haven and Bremen radios at 8 a.m. (11 p.m. PWT) to. day in accordance with the surrender articles signed by German commanders yesterday at Field Marshal Mont goniery's headquarters.. It was presumed here Holland and Denmark, also bound by the surrender articles, were observing the deadline for the end of hos- lilities although there was either allied or German quarters on this score. Both the Wilhelmshaven . and Bremen stations . called upon the population it maintain exemplary calm, Both also declared they would have another im- Dortant official announcement at .11 a.m j (2 a.m. PWT). By Robert - r - ; ' " ..... ' 4 . PARIS, Saturday, May '-tiPi-All enemy troops in Denmark, Hol land and northwestern -Germany surrendered-unconditionally yester day in the greatest mass capitulation, since the armistice! of 1918, and General Eisenhower .declared the enemy was beaten "on land, sea and in the air." . ' ' " - Only formal admission from fighting was useless was needed to bring peace to Europe five years and eight months after the dead or missing Hitler, plunged the conti nent into the most terrible war in the history of mankind, v ,1 A half million Germans in the Marshal Montgomery under terms the 500,000 captured on the count for one million men. This tion in northern Italy and western 500,00 Germans Left It was. estimated that no more' fight of an army that once made army at its peas strengia numoerea By these estimates there were tria, where the enemy was surrendering almost as fast las the Ameri cans approached, 150,000 in isolated Norway, and 10,000 in the French ports and channel islands. , )-. ; A' - Associated Press Correspondent Daniel de Luce- reported that ne gotiation were in progress for the surrender kf both the Norway aid Czechoslovak pockets, with Doenitz apparently delaying capitulation, to let as many troops as possible pe lAice said pt had learned Norway had reached a. tentative wa w iw..wy. m.m.m,& Offers to Quit Norway . (The Luxembourg radio said of. Norway, had appealed to all party leaders in Norway to retain dis cipline in order to avoid turning the From north to south, this was machine with, which Hitler set out 1. The Germans agreed yesterday to surrender at 8 aim. today (1 ajn. eastern war time) aU northwestern Germany, Holland, Denmark. 2. General Eisenhower declared ped" and called on all enemy troops holding put in Norway .-Czecho slovakia, Austria, the Channel islands and the French coastal pockets to surrender.'" ----'y'-;? , ;v ' ,V . - ;.- 3. Germans in flight to Norway, possibly with their fuehrer, Ad miral Doenitz, were under a terrible aged 74 of their vessels. ; 4. The remnants of the German 9th and 12th armies, beaten by the Russian, gave up to the US 9th Mountain Kedonbt Vanishes :X : S. The Bavarian-Austrian redoubt vanished, with the US 7th army seizing Hitler's Berchtesgaden, the key ' to communications in the Alps. Organized resistance virtually ceased on a 70-mile front and 50,000 prisoners were taken. 9. The 7th army plowed on meeting the US 5th army's Italian 7. The US 3rd army accepted sion at the Czechoslovak border, opposed inside, threatening to outflank the arsenals of j Pilsen. Jt. The 3rd army last was reported three miles from the .strong- hold of Linz, and the German communique said the Americans had entered that third irgest city of 9. Pilots back from Czechoslovakia bombing missions said thou sands of civilians were in flight from Prague, fleeing toward the Am erican lines ahead of the Russians. Apparently they were Germaa civilians. Nazi Surrender Ferees . Involved in the surrender of Germany were these forces under shall Ernst Von Busch: - CoL Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz's armies in the Netherlands. - CoL Gen. Georg" Lindemann's armies in Denmark.) , Gen. Schlemm's 1st para troop army. . j" ' ' A makeshift army under the command of Gen. Gun ther Blumen- tritt. The German 23t army. , ' Supreme headquarters discounted reports that Doenitz himsell figured In the surrender, asserting a "battlefield surrender and Doenitz now u considered neta oi uer- many. - - . t I British Look to Whipping Japanese in:Burma CALCUTTA; May e-CffJapa- nese armies in Burma have been "decisively defeated,wJeaving 87j 000 dead on the field of battle, Al lied beadouarters announced " to- day as British and Indian .forces completed the bloodless occupa- tion of the great port of Rangoon. t Harbor installations of the capi- tal cityof more than 400,000 were taken Intact and will be ready within a few days to handle Allied shipping s and provide a staging base for future operations in the southeast Asia theatre perhaps an assault on the naval base of Singapore. British amphibious and land for ces entered the Burma's first city yesterday and found that, but for a few stragglers, the Japanese had l evacuaveu uj tiij capture,' however, was not, oni daily announced until today. - lTli rarf nf IinafJlitiM that German forces in both' no immediate word from in northwest Germany to order and discipline. ! .. ' Eonsen - ''' ".' i . Fuehrer Karl Doenitz that further north will surrender today, to Field of the capitulation order, and with British-Canadian front yesterday will ac overshadows even the mass capitula Austria Wednesday. .. than 500,000 Germans remained to all Europe tremble. The Germany 8,wutoog men. . 300,000 in Czechoslovakia and Aus escape the Russian ocetrotion zone. la Stockholm that the Germans m agreement with Swedish officials to aaiaaifc u wnmm ,.s - ' :?:v' : " that Vikdun Quisiir&mppet rule country into a battlefield.) the story of the fall of the military; to conquer Europe. ' . ' Germany waa "thoroughly! whip . aerial scourge that sank or dam ' V. . army west of Berlin near Stendat -W- ' 1' l'-. bastion of Salzburg, and Innsbruck, into Italy through the! Brenner pass,' veterans.- surrender of an entire panzer divi then drove 10 miles or more Un Austria. . . .:; i -. Denmark, Holland; and northwest the overall command of. Field Mar . - j s : that the capitulation , was strictly - . t - - - t i South After f In a message t Admiral Lord Louis -' Mountbatten last night. King George VI of England ex pressed . his ; "heirty congratula tions on . the brilliant success achieved by all arms and services In the capture of Rangoon. - - - -British Indian parachute troops who landed Tuesday at th mouth, of "the Rangoon! river, 20 miles south of the capital a day in ad- vance of the main seaborne land ing there encountered only ST Japanese., They killed. 36 and wounded the other, i Although it , was plain at that point thatsthe enemy had fled Ran goon andi that this reconquest of Burma virtually ! was ' complete three years Rafter the Japanese ov erran the country, the. seaborne landings Were carried out as scheduled, a rehearsal for bigger times to come.