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. ENEMY DEFENSES
IL
EXCEPTAT SHUR
Marines Mass To Exploit
Naha Bridgehead Ad
vance In South.
Guam, Friday. May 25 (U.PJ
Th. Japanese reported today a
fleet of American transports and
a "new" carrier task force have
arrived off Okinawa to reinforce
10th army troops locked in
biasing battle for th. fortress
city of Shuri.
Tokyo said without allied con
firmation that a total of "mora
than 400" vessels have been
amassed off th. wsst-central
coast of Okinawa under protec-
tion of a "new" task fore, built
around six aircraft carriers.
The fleet, Tokyo said, has been
augmented by 50 transports and
U. S. forces "are frantically at
tempting to land equipment and
supplies." American warships
are "continuously bombarding"
Japanese positions, th. enemy
report said.
(Several days ago Tokyo re
ported an American naval force
steamed out of the Marianas to
ward an unknown destination.)
Guam, Friday, May 25 (U.R)
Tenth army troops, In furious
fighting, assaulted th. fortifica
tions of besieged Shuri today
and advanced southward along
the east and west coastlines of
Okinawa in powerful drives that
turned both flanks of the Japa
nese line.
Th enemy's Naha-to-Yona-
baru defense system which has
held off American forces 55 days
showed signs of crumbling ex
cept at Shuri, core of desperate
Japanese resistance.
Shuri was threatened with im
minent encirclement. Front re
ports indicated 6th division ma
rines have massed for a full-scale
drive into shattered Naha to ex
ploit a bridgehead deep inside
the city.
Dispatches said marines of the
first division and infantrymen
of the 77th and 96th divisions
moved forward with raw cour
age in a frontal attack against the
interlacing Japanese block
houses, pillboxes and caves out
side Shuri.
The assault troops, supported
by artillery, were met with vio
lent blasts of machine gun and
rifle fire from entrenched Japa
nese, who sporadically emerged
from their defense positions to
counter-attack the Yanks.
Fighting swirled among an
cient tombs dotting the Shuri
ridges.
While the battle raged on
three sides of Shuri, the 6th ma
rine division sent a column knif
ing southeast toward the rear ap
proaches to the city. This drive
was aimed at completing the iso
lation of Shuri and cutting off
retreat for the main Japanese
garrison.
Resistance south of Yonabaru,
where Ma). Gen. Archibald V.
Arnold's 7th division was advan
cing along the coast and inland
behind Shuri, Was described here
as "relatively weak" compared
with the stout defense of Shuri.
Late reports received at Guam
indicated the 7th has "improved
its position" south of Yonabaru.
U. S. CASUALTIES
10
Washington. May 24 UP
Officially reported V. S. mmnst
rasualties edeged close to 1.000.
000 todav with losses in all the
atres totaling 996.089. The new
total was 9.875 more than a
week ago the smallest seven-day
gain in many months.
The overall total Included
886.525 army and 109.564 navy,
marine corps and coast guard
casualties. The army figure re
flects actual fighting through
the greater part of April, before
the German luriendcr.
Medford
United Press
Reports U.S. Reinforcements Off Okinawa
Hero Sights Girl
(Acmm Telephoto)
TSgt Jake W. Llndsey, Lucedale, Miss., Congressional Medal of Honor
winner, meets bis girl, Beverly Hargreaves, Boston, Mass. at Washington
National Airport After their embrace (left) large patch of lipstick
(right) shows Just under the sergeant's lips result of a near miss.
Lucedale. Miss.. Hay 24. (U.R)
turned out 800 strong today to welcome home Jake Lindsey, who
brought with him his girl from the north and a Congressional
Medal of Honor.
Sleepy and tired after their
Washington and a night plane trip from the capital to Mobile, Ala.,
the soldier and his best girl, Beverly Hargreaves, begged off from
further interviews.
FOR BARBARITIES
Idndnn Mnv 84 jfll.R) Re
liable souces said today that Aus
tralia has demanded the indict
ment and execution of Emperor
mromto of janan as ine neaa oi
a state responsible for "system
atic barbarities.
An unofficial Chinese sookes-
man Indicated China would sup
port the demand before the
United Nations War Crimes com
mission.
The attitude of the United
States haa not been revealed.
Reports have been received in
London that some state depart
ment advisers believed Hirohito
should be snared and resnonsi-
bility for the war placed solely
upon Japanese military ana eco
nomic leaders.
The Australian demand was
attached to an authenticated re
port of Japanese atrocities in
New Guinea which has Just been
submitted to the War Crimes
commission.
When the report first reached
Canberra last year, Australian
Pnroion Minister Herbert Evatt
said it was "too horrible" for
publication. It contains a list
of atrocities ranging from cannl-i-niicm
in lesser forms of mal
treatment of natives and of Aus
tralian and American war pris
oners. Correspondents covering the
New Guinea campaign confirm
ed Instances of Japanese aviat
ors flying over Billed fields and
dropping ,hy parachute -limbs
which mocking notes Identified
as those of captured airmen.
KNOWN IN STATE
Portland, May 24 UR) Tom
Clark nf Tpa. President
Truman's new appointee as at
torney general, is no sirangtr
the Pacific coast.
After war was declared in the
Pac
cific. Clark was chosen cnici
faff nt m civilian orsaniza-
of
tion to help the army evacuate
enemy aliens from the west
coast. He worked in close co
operation with FBI, state and
local officials of all three Pad-
; coast states in this activity.
r!nrk a-nrk e a ffovernment
prosecutor brought him to Port
ion! in loin in mnrliirt a aeries
of anti-trust investigations
t:UJdh WA M.a vaMaa.
Full Leased Wlr.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY
Kisses Same
This southern town of 800
i
hectic days of hero worship In
IF WAR I DEBTS
TO U.S. EVER PAID
Washington, May 24 (U.R)
The United States will never re
ceive the $11,000,000,000 in
World War I. debts owed by
European nations. Assistant Sec
retary of State William L. Clay
ton said today.'
Clayton testified before the
Senate Finance committee which
is considering a bill to repeal
the Johnson act. - The act pro
hibits private loans to govern
ments which have failed to pay
their debts from World War I.
He favored repeal of the John
son act so that foreign countries
could get loans for reconstruc
tion. He said our welfare de
pends on their getting back on
their feet as soon as possible.
"My Judgment is that the
debts cannot and will not be
paid," Clayton said.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, D.,
Colo., suggested that all First
World War debts be cancelled,
but Sen. Hiram W. Johnson, R.,
Cal., author of the Johnson act,
objected to signing off "a fabul
ous sum" with one stroke of the
pen.
MARSHALL FIELD
Denver. Colo., May 24. U.R)
Marshall Field, publisher of
the New York PM and the Chi
cago Sun, asserted today that
congress has failed so far in
planning for the transition from
a wartime economy to peacetime
conditions.
Field warned that the transi
tion period could be "very diffi
cult" unless congress makes
plans for it. He said that plan
ning was needed if the nation
Is to avoid a repetition of seeing
its people "Set down and out.
Bond Buyers Riot
For Bob Hope Show
Kansas City. Mo., May 24
(U.R) Screaming threats to "break
in anyway." 6,000 to 7 000 angry
citizens today milled through
the lobby of the municipal audi
torium after an early-morning
distribution of tickets to a Bob
Hope show here June 3 left them
minus ducats but holding war
bond purchase orders for them.
Three calls for police protection
wrre broadcast before the mob
was brought under coultuL,
ill H
FLY FOR SPEECH,
NORTHWEST TRIP
Witness Charter Signing,
and Broadcast Brief Talk;
On Brief Jaunt.
Olympia. Wash,. May 24 U.R
Gov. Mon C. Wallgren an
nounced today that President
Harry S. Truman has agreed to
spend a "day or two" in the
Pacific northwest following his
address before the final plenary
session of the San Francisco con
ference. Washington, May 24 (U.R)
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross announced to
day that President Truman will
fly to the west coast for his ap
pearance for the final plenary
session of the United Nations
conference at San Francisco.
Ross said Mr. Truman will ar
rive in San Francisco only a few
hours before the speech which
he will deliver in the San Fran
cisco Opera House witnessing
the signing of the world security
charter. ,
Ross said that en route back
to Washington the President
might make a side trip, but the
plant for this had not been com
pleted. .
This side trip, he said, probab
ly would be to the Pacific north
west. Ross said he foresaw the
possibility of some announce
ment on this soon from Olym
pia, Wash.
Ross said Mr. Truman's ad
dress would take about 15 min
utes and would be broadcast
over world-wide radio facilities,
Tentative plans call for the Pres
ident to attend a reception for
the delegates immediately after
the plenary session and then
leave San Francisco within a
few hours.
Ross said that even if the side
trip to the northwest is arranged
definitely, the entire trip will
keep the President, away from
Washington much less than a
week. No member of the Tru
man family will make the trip.
The President is considering
the brief visit to the northwest
for purposes of a rest "and noth
ing else," Ross said.
GEORGIANS HAIL
E
Atlatrla, Ga., May 24. (U.R)
Hundreds of thousands of Geor
gians in the wildest reception
here in a decade, today greeted
with 17-gun salutes their con
quering hero, Gen, Courtney H.
Hodges, commander of the U. S.
1st army.
The big C-54 transport bearing
the famed commander set down
at the army air base adjoining
the municipal airport at 1:06
p.m. CWT.
Two other transports bearing
49 other decorated heroes In the
victory in Europe, landed a few
minutes later.
Hodges stepped from the first
plane to be greeted by the wel
coming committee and set in
motion the nation's first big
tribute to the men who brought
victory in Europe.
EARLY REPLY TO
' TITO PROPOSAL
Rome. May 24 'UP The al
lies were expected today to an
swer soon Marshal Tito's propos
als for working out the Trieste
problem.
One of the difficulties was said
to be Tito's desire to leave Yugo
slav personnel in 'key posts in
the disputed Italian province of
Venezla Giulla. It was believed
the allies would demand that the
only Tito men left behind be na
tives of lb. diilricW
24, 194
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PLANES
ATTACK "SUICIDE"
Tokyo Waterfront Ablaze
After Raid Palace
Grounds Blasted.
Guam, May 24. (U.R) Some
180 American carrier planes at
tacked suicide-plane bases in
southern Japan today, enemy
broadcast said, while miles of
Tokyo's industrial waterfront
still blazed from a record pre
dawn superfortress raid.
Radio Tokyo said the carrier
planes began their attacks on
bases on Kyushu, southernmost
of the Japanese home islands,
at 3 p. m. Japanese time. They
caused "relatively light" dam
age, Tokyo said.
Carrier planes and superfort
resses have struck repeatedly in
the past month at the Kyushu
airfields, from which suicide
planes take off to attack Amer
ican shipping off Okinawa.
More than 550 superfortresses
kindled fires in southern Tokyo
visible 200 miles away early to
day. Approximately 4 500 tons
of fire bombs were dropped in
the greatest incendiary attack
ever made.
' A Japanese communique said
some fires still were burning at
a. m. Japanese time, mora than
five and a half hours after the
start of the raid.
It said an arbor in the Im
perial garden was attacked and
an "establishment" within the
grounds of the Akasaka detach
ed palace, used to house visiting
royalty, had been destroyed.
Other Tokyo broadcasts said
the Singaku Temple of the Ron
ins, "symbol of Japanese chlv.
airy," was destroyed. Some
bombs fell In Yokohama and
rvawasakl as well as in Tokyo,
the broadcasts said.
The Japanese -claimed 27
superfortresses had been shot
aown ana so others damaged.
PLEA OF NORWAY
IN CHARTER LOST
San Francisco, May 24 (U.R)
Norway's ntlemnt to i,u. in
the new world charter an "anti-
appeasement" amendment has
been defeated, it was revealed
todav.
The United States, Great Brit
ain, Mexico and the Ukraine
Were the lpaHinff mnlraim.n
against It, contending that the
sense or the Norwegian amend
ment was Implicit In the pur
pose and principles of the or
ganization. Czechoslovakia, her
self a victim of appeasement In
ip.in. supported tne Norwegians.
The amendment wntiM have
wrilten Into the World Organiza
tion charter being drafted here
a specific statement that the
organization should nnt Imnnse
any solution of a dispute on a
state that would Impair that
state's "confidence In its future
security or welfare."
ine Norwegians argued that
it was nereasarv in nnttin t-ulns
cf future conduct because It
Would he Imnnssthli. in tell whn
would be the aggressors of the
future, sir Alexander Cadogan.
the British delegate, and Sen.
Tnm Connally, D., Tex., nf the
IT S. rirlrffatinn nMeftnH strenu
ously nnt lo the principle but
to u-rittntf in uvhat thav rnnlitnH-
ed was implicit. Potential law-
Dresners cannot be nanmed py
such an amendment, Cadogan
contended.
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New York 6 110
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BULLETIN
Dublin, May 24. (U.R)
Charles A. Lindbergh was ex
pected to arrive at Foynes after
a transAtlantlc- flight today. He
was reported to be touring Eur
ope on an aviation assignment
on behalf of the U. S. army and
navy.y
London, May 24 (U.R) Allied
troops occupied parts of Austria
today as "conquerors" by order
of Field Marshal Sir Harold R.
L. G. Alexander.
The texts of proclamations
disclosed Alexander told his
troops to enter as "victors Inas
much as Austria waged war as
an integral part of Germany."
Chicago, May 24 (U.R) New
trouble flared today as most of
Chicago's 6,500 Independent
union truck drivers returned to
work after a week-long strike.
Drivers for the Keeshin
Moter Express refused to return
to work when told they would
have to sign new application
cards. Some 85 drivers began to
picket the company's garage
Later they were joined by 110
dockmen who quit work in sym
pathy. TRUMAN LEANS TD
FOR GOVERNMENT
Washington, May 24.U.R)
President Truman moving vig
orously to remake tha adminis
tration Inherited on April 12,,
asked congress today for perma
nent authority to make the exec
utive branch more businesslike
and efficient."
He asked for legislation so
flexible that it would permit the
chief executive to undertake
"any form of organization ad
justment, large or small, for
which necessity may arise," '
The president's request, couch
ed in a special message to con
gress, followed by less than 12
hours announcement of new cab
inet changes which some observ
ers believed were the prelude to
a general shakeup.
Mr. Truman's message was
general in nature, but it recalled
reports heard here this week
that he is well disposed toward
th. idea of setting up a "general
business manager" for the gov
ernment. Th. legislation he is request
ing would make it possible for
him to do so. It also would give
him broad powers to make virtu
ally any other innovations in the
Interests of efficiency.
The proposed business man
ager would not be primarily a
policy-making officer; instead he
would guard against duplication
of effort and expense, making
recommendations to the presi
dent. DISTILLERS CAN
OPERATE IN JULY
Washington, May 24. (U.R)
Production Chief J. A. Krug to
day authorized American distil
lers to make beverage alcohol
during July.
He said the month-long holi
day for distillers the third
since the war started was made
possible in part by suspension
of lend-lease shipments of Indus
trial alcohol to Soviet Russia.
At the same time, Krug re
voked an order against the
blending or processing In this
country of imported can spirits
processed after May 8.
NAZI REVENGE
London, May 24. (U.R) The
Stars and Stripes reported under
a Hannover dateline today aide
light on the arm rule against
fraternization.
Every day, it said a frauleln
with the right curves at the right
places walks past a military
policeman of the 35th division,
gestures at the more prominent
of the curves, and mockingly ex-
damn. "Vcrbutca. - -,
Full Leased Wtit
NO. 64.
PASSENGER AUTO
PRODUCTION DUE
SOON AFTER JULY 1
Krug Gives Go Ahead as
Soon as Material Can Be
Delivered.
Washington. May 24. U.R)
War Production Chief J. A. Krug
today authorized the automobile
industry to start turning out pas
senger cars as soon after July 1
as individual manufacturers can
get their assembly lines going.
Krug said indications are that
the industry should be able to
produce about 2,000,000 new
cars by July, 1946.
He gave th. industry specific
authorization to make about
200,000 civilian vehicles during
the last six months of 1945 if it
can obtain the necessary mater
ials. This will enable auto manu
facturers to order their produc
tion materials Immediately, with
deliveries of these materials to
start after July 1.
"The exact date on which Indi
vidual auto manufacturers will
begin production after July 1
will depend on their particular
situations such as the extent of
their tooling up, availability of
facilities and materials, et
cetera," the WPB chairman said.
His announcement was accom
panied by a warning to the pub
lic that the office of price ad
ministration Intends to ration
these new cars until essential
motorists needs can be met.
WPB will assign Individual
production quotas to each manu
facturer, and provision has been
mad. to allow newcomers to
make cars In the event any
manufacturers want to enter the
automotive field.
The decision to set th. auto
mobile industry ready to resume
production as quickly as possible
was made in Detroit last April 8,
Krug disclosed. He said manu
facturers will have to find what
ever materials thev need on th.
free market, without priority as-
aiauincc irom Wl-'H,
CHURCHILL EYES
London. May 24 (U.R) Prime
Minister Churchill sat up most
of last night selecting his new
cabinet, but political observers
believed he would not make any
sensational changes.
One appointment rumored In
Whitehall circles was that
Churchill would name his son.
Major Randolph Churchill, to
succeed Major Arthur Hender
son as financial secretary to the
War office. Major Churchill re
turned from the Middle East
last week.
Churchill was expected to
name a number of young mem
bers of parliament, who have
not held office previously, io
Junior posts vacated by mem
bers of the dissenting Labor
party. The aim would be to
give new blood to the cabinet
and cabinet experience to the
new blood.
T
Contracls for th. removal of
the four residences on the new
city park site on East Main street
were approved by the city coun
cil at their meeting Tuesday
night, Frank Rogers, city super
intendent said today.
Approval was given contracts
to W. W. Coleman to remove
501 and 511; C. P. Ortwick. to
remove 517, and J. M. Baker to
remove 523. Removal must take
place within the next 60 days,
U.a luycjmtuitlait Midi .a
FEARED GESTAPO
CYANIDNN CELL
Captured By British, No. 1
War Criminal, Boasts His
Identity.
London, May 24. U.R) Heln
rich Himmler, number on. Nazi
war criminal, killed himself in
a British military prison at
Luneburg last night, boasting
that he was the dreaded hang
man hunted for more than two
weeks by three allied armies.
The hunted Gestapo chief had
been captured by British second
army troops who apparently
were unaware of the Identity of
their prisoner.
The dispatch said he swallowed
a dose of cyanide of potassium
and died shortly after 11 o'clock
last night.
Captured last Monday by two
British Tommies guarding
bridge at Bremervoerde the for
mer gestapo chief at first tried
to conceal his identity. His fa
miliar toothbrush mustache had
been shaved off, a black patch
covered one eye and his rimless
spectacles had been replaced by
thick horn-rimmed glasses.
Brought before high-ranking
allied intelligence officers a few
hours later, however, Himmler
threw off the mask.
"I am Heinrich Himmler," ha
announced dramatically.
Himmler was placed in a tem
porary detention cell at British
headquarters in Luneburg to
await further questioning.
First accounts from Luneburg,
subsequently confirmed by Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower's Paris
headquarters, said th. gestapo
chief concealed a phial of syan
lde of potassium in his mouth
throughout the questioning and
a routine search by his captors.
Late last night h. was taken
before British army doctors for a
routine medical examination
and it was then that he swal
lowed . th. " poison, apparently
fearful it would b. discovered
and taken from him.
Himmler's suicide left Joach
im von Ribbentrop, former Ger
man foreign minister th. last of
the Nazi overlords still aliv. and
uncaptured.
Adolf Hitler, Propaganda Min
Ister Joseph Goebbels, and Nazi
Party Chieftain Martin Bormann
all were reported seml-officlally
to have died in Berlin in th.
final hours of th. ' red army
siege.
Hermann Goerlng was cap
tured last week by American
troops and now is understood to
be in Britain awaiting trial by a
United Nations tribunal.
44,ooPetTrans
New York, May 24. (U.R)
Mora than 7.000 armv wounded.
former war prisoners and rota
tional troops from Europe ar
rived at the New York nnrl nf
embarkation todav aboard five
ships.
Washington, May 24. (U.R)
Acting Secretary of War Rnhert
P. Patterson said today that sick
ana wounded American service
men now are being brought
home from all war thnatera at a
rate of 44 000 a month.
All sick and wounded will b.
evacuated from the Eurnnean
and Mediterranean theaters with
In the next 00 days, he told press
conference.
San Francisco, May 24 (U.R)
A. J. Gock, chairman of th.
board of the Bank of America,
today promised Henry J. Kaiser
that his bank and others In th
nation would raise $60,000,000
with RFC underwriting to com
plete the purchase of th. west
ern industrialist'! Fontena steel
mill.
Seventh Wir Loan Drive
"E" Sales to Date 1189,501
Quota 11.067.000
Total Sales to Dat.
$553,357
Quota $2,087,000
BANK OF AMERICA
TO BACK KAISER