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MIKADO'S PALACE
AND ENTIRE CITY
GUTTEDBY FIRE
Stolen Empire Near Collapse
War Closes In Upon
Home Island.
(By United Pieu)
Japan's tapital of Tokyo and
Emperor Hirohito's imperial pal
ace were in ruins Saturday,
burned and gutted by flames
spread by a great B-29 fire raid,
as her stolen empire neared col
lapse and full allied power
against the homeland.
Flames -started by bombs
dropped from 500 Superforts
roared through the city and en
gulfed the palace area, Premier
Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki
said. The raid, which Suzuki
said left Japan with "no pre
sent hope for mere restoration"
of the city, cost a record num
ber of 19 B2-29's and about 209
American airmen.
Tokyo announced the devasta
tion of the world's third largest
metropolis while her troops in
south China fell back on de
fenses nearer home and Amer
icans on Okinawa pressed relent
lessly toward a climax to the
battle an that doorstep island
to Japan.
Allied air power battered the
enemy from the Indies to the
homeland. Army Thunderbolts
hit airdromes on southern
Kyushu,,., Aircraft to the south
sank or damaged 33 ships in
strikes from Shanghai to the
Indies. U. S. planes blasted
the hastily retreating Japanese
throughout central China.
. Japan, hard-hit and facing
much harder blows, "is still able
to wage a long war," Foreign
Economic Administrator Cleo T.
Crowley warned.
Doolittle Returns
But as the war closed in on
the Japanese home islands, it
was announced that Lt. Gen.'
James H. Doolittle, who led the
first Tokyo raid more than
three years ago, will return to
the Pacific to lead the U. S.
Eighth Air force in the final of
fensive against Japan.
The Eighth Air force will be
moved from Europe to join the
Pacific war. Some units are al
ready on the move.
Japan could realize the fate In
store for her. Tokyo was a
symbol of the things to come in
the aerial offensive that will
climb to a tempo greater than
that ever reached against for
tress Europe.
The cost to the U. S. in the
two devastating fire raids this
week was 31 Superforts. Pour
ing 9,000 tons of bombs into
Tokyo cost $18,600,000 in value
and about 350 men. To Japan,
by its own claim, the cost was
the loss of its greatest city.
No official confirmation has
been given by the 21st Bomber
command that the destruction in
Tokyo was as great as the enemy
reported.
Tokyo said the city was "lit
erally scorched to the ground."
The greater part of the city was
"laid in waste" and roaring fires
"wrought havoc on the spraw
ling, congested business districts
and residential sections," enemy
broadcasts said.
Still Potent
Crowley, in a summary of
Japan's capacity to fight on, told
the United States that her eco
nomic and industrial power is
far from knocked out. Much of
her great war plant is still in
tact. She still has an operat
ing and well-stocked industrial
core which can support hei war
effort indefinitely even though
she is now cut off from most of
her stolen empire, he said.
Army officials, however, pro
mised that in the coming year
more than 2i times as many
tons of bombs will hit Japan as
were dropped in Europe last
year.
NO PAPER WEDNESDAY
Following a long-established
custom the Mail Tribune will
not publish on Wednesday.
Memorial day in order to per
mit employes to have a well-
First 4-Star General
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Gen. Courtney H. Rodges, commander
first four-star general to return from
answers auestlon far reoorters st
SPURS HOUSE TO
PASS TARIFF ACT
Washington, May 26 (U.R)
The House needed a last-minute
personal appeal from President
Truman tonight and passed the
administration's reciprocal trade
bill after a bitter, partisan fight.
After debating the measure
four days and rejecting a series
of restrictive amendments, the
House approved by a vote of 239
to 153 and sent it to the Senate
where it faces an even tougher
battle.
The vote was a victory for Mr.
Truman on his first big legisla
tive test. It also represented
the first broad congressional en
dorsement of a major adminis
tration foreign policy plank.
The bill would extend the 11-year-old
reciprocal trade law for
three years and authorize the
negotiation of agreements cut
ting tariff , rates a maximum of
50 per cent in exchange for con
cessions by foreign countries on
American exports. The law now
allows cuts 50 per cent below
rates set in 1930.
With administration forces
showing signs of worry and Re
publicans almost unanimously
opposed to the provision broad
ening the power to cut tariff
rates, Mr. Truman personally
stepped into the fight today by
advising the House that he con
sidered the bill of "first import
ance" to the success of his ad
ministration. He said power to make furth
er tariff reductions was essential
but pledged that lt would not
be used to sacrifice any segment
of American agriculture, indus
try or labor.
5 NEW RED, BLUE
Washington, May 26 (U.R)
Office of Price administration
will make good on June 1 five
new blue stamps and five new
red stamps worth 10 points
eacn.
They will be valid through
Sunday, Sept. 30.
The five new blue stamps will
be Dl, El, Fl, Gl and HI. The
red stamps will be V2, W2, X2,
Y2 and Z2.
Five blue stamps and six red
stamps will cease to be valid
after Saturday, June 2. The
Diue stamps are H2. J2. K2. L2
and M2. The red stamps are
xd, AZ, BZ, C2 and D2.
Sugar stamp 36, however, will
remain valid for five pounds
inrougn rnaay, Aug. 31.
BLAST KILLS FIVE
Grand Island. Nph Mav in
(U.R) A terrific explosion which
tossea a cement building block
approximately 100 yards killed
five persons, lnlured four nthn
and destroyed a new bomb and
shell loading building at the
Cornhusker Ordnance plant to-
Home From Europe
?
Mcme Itlcpliolol
of famous U. 8. First Army and
Europe since defeat of Germany,
New York Dress conference.
WAR BULLETINS
Manila, May 26 (U.R) A
Ion American patrol plan de
stroyed 20 Japanese freight
ers in a daring solo raid on
the south Boreno port of Band
jermsiin, a communique re
vealed today.
London. May 26 (U.R)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
opened new headquarters to
day at Frankfurt-on-the-Main,
Germany, where he will act
as supreme allied commander
as well as chief American rep
resentative of the allied group
controlling ' the Reich,' the
Ministry of Information an.
nounced.
CLUE TO MISSING
London, May 26 (U.R) Amer
ican troops have captured a Ger
man official who may provide a
lead to the whereabouts of
Joachim von Ribbentrop, last
member of the Nazi hierarchy
still at large, dispatches from
Italy disclosed today.
He is Karl Frederick Griesen
berg, alias Dr. Gibbs, the chief
administrator for all confiscated
estate In Poland. Gricsenberg
was taken by U. S. 85th Infantry
division troops on Friday near
Brunico in northern Italy.
Griescnberg was dressed In
civilian clothes and was carry
ing a calling card reading "Joa
chim von Ribbentrop, reichmin
Istcr for foreign affairs." Dlt
patches said that conceivably
that might eventually prove a
lead to Ribbentrop's present
whereabouts.
A Dispatch from Zcll Am See,
Austria, said that Philipp Bouh-
ler, director of Hitler's chan
cellery and since 1033 reichs
lcader of the Nazy party, had
been arrested by military gov
ernment agents attached to the
101st airborne division. Bon ti
ler and his wife fled Berlin for
Bcrchtesgadcn on April 21 and
stayed with Hermann Goering.
Steiwer Hill Road
Bids Open Tuesday
Salem. Ore., May 26 (U.R)
The State Highway Commission
will open bids Tuesday in Port
land on one of the largest road
improvement jobs to be let by
tnis state in recent years.
The Job involves grading and
paving of 10 milps of the Steiwer
Hill-Albany section of the east
side Pacific Highway in Marion
and Linn counties.
SEEK SOLDIER
Information wanted regarding
Harry L. Porter, G. M. 2c, on
leave in this city. Important
message for him at USO, Phone
7131.
HOLLYWOOD RIFT
Hollywood, May 26 (U.R)
Mrs. Eleanor Hempstead today
sued Movie Producer David
Hempstead, who made Actress
Ginger Rogers' latest films, for
divorce, charging extreme cruel
ty
TANK LED YANKS
AS ENEMY FLEES
Torrential Rain Slows Drive;
Jap Plane Loss 155; New
Line Seen.
Okinawa, Sunday, May 27
(U.R) Heavy rains sent the Swol
len Asato river in Naha over its
banks yesterday and washed out
three of four U. S. bridges into
the city proper and turned the
entire battlefront into a quag
mire which slowed advances in
every sector except the east
coast.
More than three inches of rain
were recorded from midnight
until 4 p. m. Saturday.
Guam, Sunday, May 27 (U.R)
U. S. Marines and Doughboys,
spearheaded by large numbers of
tanks streaming across the Asato
river, drove to within 800 yards
of Naha harbor today as Japan
ese remnants fled from the
wrecked Okinawa capital city.
Marine fighters battling to
ward the harbor said that the
Japanese are moving in consid
erable strength to the east and
northeast, indicating that they
might be deserting the capital
for other defense positions off
Shuri, already threantened by
other American troops.
The enemy movements are
stemming from a point southeast
of Naha, . dispatches said, cov
ered by heavy artillery fire from
the south bank of Naha uove
just north of Omlne airstrip.
Marines of the 6th Division
inside Naha advanced 500 yards
through the capital's rubble, en
larging their grip on Naha to
one sixth of the city. The tanks
helping the drive were brought
across the Asato on two heavy
bridees recently completed, in
addition to two lighter foot
bridges.
The tanks added new impetus
to the drive to clear the city.
Dispatches said the troops have
been bogged down Dy muaay
terrain saturated by two days of
pouring rain. The rain was said
to have hampered operations
more than the moderate machine
nun. mortar and sniper fire of
fered by the enemy in defense of
their capital.
Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Ar
nold's 7th Division also was
stalled In the mud south of Yona-
baru after cracking the enemy s
eastern line yesterday. The 7th's
184th regiment killed 140 Jap
anese in mopping up operations.
Weather also bogged the tnree
way drive on Shuri, although
mnrlnns of the 5th regiment
sealed a'.t 20 gun emplacements
against enemy fire that has
slackened to moderate intensity.
El
BADE
Wochinclnn. Mav 26 (U.R)
ThA Annmv'a wnrst WBS flOt good
enough to sink the Liberty ships
John M. Clinton ana jubh uc
Pnr-o hn War Shinning admin
istration disclosed tonight.
Both vessels, damaged ana sei
nfirn hv .Tnnflnntp bombs off Min-
doro in the Philippines, have
returned to port ana win in
completely overhauled.
State Police Nab
729 Auto Violators
Salem. Ore.. May 28 (U.R)
A total of 729 arrests were made
by the Oregon state police for
violations of the Motor Vehicle
laws during April, monthly re
ports showed today.
A total of $13,280 In fines was
collected, and $3,477 warnings
issued. General law enforce
ment cases totaled 315 arrests
and game code violations 181
FAMILY REUNION
Albuquerque, N. M., May 26
(U.R) A pretty, young mother
Mrs. Otis Embrry burst into
tears and ran from the court
room today when District Judge
Henry G. Coors acquitted her
and her husband on charges of
abandoning their two-year-old
daughter. The Embreys, profes
sional singers of western songs
were reunited immediately with
then Unld
QUISLING'S TRIAL
AS BETRAYER OF
Nazi Puppet No Longer
Tough, Admits Talks
With Hitler.
Oslo, May 26 (U.R) Vidkin
Quisling, a weak-voiced, blink
ing man whose name became a
symbol for treachery, appeared
in the prisoner's dock of an
Oslo court today and was
charged formally with deliver
ing Norway into the hands of
the enemy.
Norwegian machine gunners
stood guard in the courtroom
as the man who once was Nor
way's Nazi premier was led in.
Catcalls and whistles greeted
him. He chewed his lips and
fumbled with his coat, and then
his face settled into a dull, heavy
mask. Only his blinking eyes
betrayed emotion.
Judge Gunnar Gulbrandsen's
first act indicated that Norway
will give its No. 1 traitor a fair
trial. He asked Quisling wheth
er he wanted an attorney and
when he mumbled, "I don't
know," the judge appointed Hen
rik Bergh. Bergh rose from the
crowd, walked forward and
shook Quisling s hand without
a smile.
Gulbrandsen began . reading
the charges immediately after
the appointment of Bergh. Quis
ling stood expressionless during
the reading. - -
"I never did anything against
Norway," he said bleakly when
the Judge finished. '
Under questioning by the dis
trict attorney, Quisling denied
he collaborated with the Ger
mans before the invasion in 1940,
but admitted being in Berlin
when the Germans invaded
Poland and having talked with
Hitler. He said he told Hitler
Norway wanted only to be neu
tral. Quisling was extremely polite
in his answers and showed no
trace of his bull-throated vio
lence when he was top man in
Norway. He tried constantly,
however, to inject a political
discussion into the hearing. Each
time, the judge interrupted him.
reminding Quisling that the is
sue was not political.
VETS TO PACIFIC
Paris, May 26 (U.R) Su
preme Allied Headquarters an
nounced today that doughboys
who fought in the European
theater of operations and had
been "in actual combat" in Sic
ily, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy
would not be sent to the Pacific
unless they volunteered for duty.
The previous announcement
from Shaef had stated that sol
diers who fought in both north
Africa and Europe would be in
eligible for reassignment to the
Pacific and today's proclamation
made it clear that the phrase
north Africa" Included the step
ping stone islands of Sicily, Cor
sica and Sardinia, or the entire
north African theater of opera
tions.
MRS. CANTENBEIN PASSES
Portland, Ore., May 26 U.R)
Mrs. Helen Louise P. Ganten
bcln, 69, longtime civic and so
cial worker, died in a Portland
hospital. Mrs. Gantcnbcin was
the daughter of the late Henry
L. Pittox, pioneer Portland news
paper publisher, and the wife of
J. Edward Gantenbeln.
CHARGE DENIED
McMinnville, Ore., May 26
(U.R) Phillip John Warren, 345
pound Grande Rnndc Indian,
pleaded Innocent today when ar
raigned In Yamhill circuit court
on a second degree murder
charge.
PRISON FOR VETERAN
Abuq'ierque, N. M., May 26
(UP.) Billy Manion, 21, World
War II veteran who escaped
from Bernalillo county jail May
10. was sentenced today from 18
months to three years in the
IjUU BOUtenUaiy.
Jewish Major Captures Streicher
lAcmt J ;iiulo.
Julius Streicher (left), most fanatical of Nasi killers and author of In
famous Nurnberg racial laws against Jews, was captured in fine piece ol
poetic Justio by Maj. Henry Q. Plltt (right), New York City, Jewish of
ficer of 101st Airborne Division.
L
BY JAPS, CLAUD
Chungking, May 26 (U.R)
Japanese forces are withdrawing
hastily from Canton and Hong
Kong to avoid entrapment in
south China by a powerful Chi
nese drive that has collapsed the
west wall of the enemy's trans
continental corridor in Hunan
province, reliable reports said
today.
Chinese troops, assaulting the
160-mile wide Japanese corridor
along the Canton-Hankow rail
road, captured the bitterly-contested
city of Taohwaplng, 22
miles west of Paoking, after it
had changed hands five times in
two days of fighting.
The Japanese collapse opened
the way for a powerful Chinese
drive oh Paoking, major enemy
base guarding the Canton-Hankow
railroad only 60 miles to
the east in the area of Hengyang.
Front dispatches said the en
emy has rushed one brigade to
Paoking to hold the Chinese
drive and that another division,
reportedly from Hankow, has
been hurried to Changsha and
Hengyang to hold open the rail
route for the evacuation of
troops from the south.
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KILLING CHINESE
San Francisco, May 26 (U.R)
Touslc-haired George Jabcr, a
16-year-old lad who admits he
has been "living in the wrong en
vironment" was being held In
jail today after confessing to po
lice the year-old flatiron murder
of a San : Francisco Chinese
laundry man.
The boy, son of a socially
prominent Arab family, said that
he had killed Lee Yl wing dur
ing an argument about women a
year ago, but had almost for
gotten" the crime.
Jaber said that he killed Wing
when the latter came at him
with a claw hammer after the
boy's refusal to Introduce him
to a white woman.
Snow Still Blocks
M'Kenzie Pass Road
Salem, Ore., May 26 U.R)
The McKcnzio Pass may remain
closed to traffic for quite a while
yet, state nignway engineer n
II Hnlrinrk said tndav.
Iniruwlnrt rnnnrt the mnw
packed to a depth of three feet
cast of the summit, ana is acep
a,, atlll npiir (ho summit. No re.
port, has been received on the
west slope, but it is known that
heavy snow has fallen In the
area during the past several
weeks.
NO HOLIDAY
Seattle, May 26 (U.R) Dis
trict war plants, federal office
and classes at the University of
Washington and Seattle college
will remain busy Memorial day
survey disclosed today.
Bulletin
COAST LEAGUE
(Night Game) , 4
Portland, Ore., May 26 (U.R)
The Portland Beavers snapped a
three game losing streak tonight
with a 5 to 3 victory over San
Francisco in a game called in the
seventh inning by rain.
San Francisco . 3 6 2
Portland 5 8 0
Barthclson and Sprinz; Mosscr
and Souza.
Los Angeles ..... . 6 ' 9 1
Seattle 3 9 1
Osborn and Grene; Palica, El
liott (6), Johnson (6) and Sueme,
Sacramento .................... 6 12 0
Hollywood 1 3
McCarthy and Schlueter;
Sharp and Krause.
NATIONAL
(Night Gamei
Brooklyn 11 16 0
St. Louis 2 8 2
PfunH and Andrews: wllks.
Donnelly, Brechen, and O'Dea,
Rice.
Pullman, Wash., May 26 (U.R)
Phil Sorboe, Tacoma, tonight
is named new Washington
State college head football coach,
replacing Orin "Babe" Holling
bcrry, who held the post for 17
years, Earl Foster, graduate
Cougar manager announced.
INVASION READY
Honolulu, May 26 (U,R) Pre
paring for the day when Japan a
"Inner fortress" will bo invaded
stocks of cold-climate clothing
already are arriving in the Pa
cific, according to Brig. Gen
Georgo E. Hartmen, quarter
master of army forces in the
Pacific ocean areas.
A group of experts also has
arrived to instruct army per
sonnel In tho use of the new,
specially constructed clothing
and to observe its effectiveness
in use against the Japs.
A far cry from the bulky, par
ade-ground-type uniforms Amer
ican soldiers have worn In other
wars are the combat-designed
garments issued today,
guamWgets
Guam, May 26 (U.R) Tony
Ducnas is the proudest native on
Guam because he helped the
Americans retake the Inland.
Ducnas was rewarded for '(III
log 59 Japanese today when Ma
rine Maj. Gen. Henry L. Larson.
island commander, pinned a sil
ver star on his freshly-laundered
Jrcket Ih ceremonies before
other Chimorro natives, Includ
ing Ducnass' wife and four chil
dren. Military leaders and scores of
Duenas' friends witnessed the
presentation in the Green Pa
ace of Agana, Guam'l capital
city.
FOR RELIEF TALK
Advice On Feeding Europe
Asked By Truman; Nation
Acclaims.
Washington, May 25 (U.R)
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver will make a dramatic return
to the White House on Monday
in the role of elder statesman to -advise
the Democrat Incumbent,
Harry S. Truman.
He will give Mr. Truman, in,
his first return to the White
House since he turned it over to
the late President Roosevelt on
March 4, 1933, the benefit of his
vast World War I experience in
the feeding of hungry and des
perate Europeans.
The 70-year-old Mr. Hoover,
the country's only living former
president. Is expected to reiter
ate to Mr. Truman the conven
tion he has expressed often be.
fore during this war the con
viction that the United Nationa
cannot win the peace unless they
feed the starving victims ol Nazi
aggression,
Mr. Hoover won International
acclaim for his expert handling;
of food problems, at home and
abroad, during and after the last
war. Frequently in recent
months voices have been raised,
urging the government to avail
itself of the former president'!
great store of practical knowl
edge on what Is one of tho Un!
ted Nation's biggest problems.
That, the White House dls
closed today. Is exactly what Mr,
Truman will do at 10:30 a. m.,
Monday. Presidential Secretary
Charles G. Ross said that Mr.
Hoover had accepted the presi
dent's Invitation. He added that
Mr. Truman believed the former
Republican President "had in.
formation which would be valu
able to him."
The dramatic news waa In
stantly applauded here. It waa
Intprnreted in many quarters a
an effective bid for domestic uni
ty at a time when, fajed wntt
food shortages at home, the na
tion Is committed to assuming
large share of the burden of
feeding liberated Europe.
The news was the more dra
matic because the late Presiden.
Roosevelt had never invited Mr.
Hoover to the White House and
had turned a deaf ear to all urg
ing that he do so.
Sen. Alexander Wiley, R-.
Wis., echoed the feeling of many
when he congratulated the prest.
dent "for this splendid non-parti-san
gesture." ,
Mr. Hoover's knowledge or
wartime food probl emi waa
gained as chairman of the com
mission for relief of Belgium
from 1915 to 1919. as U S . Food
Administrator from 1170 "i.!
and as head of the American Re
lief Administration and Euro
pean Relief Council Immediately
after the last war.
Hopkins and Josef
Hold First Parley
Moscow. May 26-U.R-Hr3r
Hopkins, special envoy from
President Truman, conferred for
90 minutes tonight with Premier
Marshal Josef Stalin. The sub
ject of their discussions was not
announced.
Soviet Foreign Commissar
Vlacheslav Molotov was with
Stalin, and Hopkins was accom
panied by U. S. Ambassador W.
Averell Harrlman and by Charlc
Bohlcn, U. S. State department'a
top Russian expert who particl.
pated in the Moscow Teheran
and Yalta conferences.
SYRIANS HAVE FAITH
Los Angeles, May 26 U.R)
Three Syrian princes here from
the San Francisco world confer
ence tonight expressed faith in
the Atlantic charter but said
they think France is trespassing
on their freedom by military oc
cupation of their homeland.
Seventh
War Lean Drive
"E
Sales to Date $220,34
Quota $1,067,000
Total Sales to Date
$606,801
Quota $2,087,000