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Harry ?. Truman Sworn In as President _ . a. ? FaBnrin the iiMm death of the late President Kooserelt, Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn In as chief eaeeotive. Left to rirht: Secretary Frances Perkins, Secretary Henry L. Stimaon, Secretary Henry A. Wallace. J. A. Krac, Secretary Farrestal, Secretary Wlckard, Attorney General Saddle. Secretary Morfrn thaa. President Traman. Mrs. Truman, Secretary Ickes. Margaret Truman, Justice Stone. Speaker of the House Kay burn. Fred M. Vinson, and Rep. Joseph W. Martin. Again Marines Land on Okinawa Unopposed AnmiuM by the mirta cuntinieat of hit ujoadroa, this aid lithograph portrays Commodore Perry's vis* to flthiwi. At the titiene ripht foreground are two ieatherneclu to the uniform ot that period. Insert ?haws V. 8. marines in fall battle attire an decks and paafwaya ot troop transports ready far the latest as ?Mhtaa Okinawa. An armada of 1.4M ships participated in the operation. Pilot Saves B-29 Bomber Crew Over Tokyo mad Ikt lak it niilt| ay mercilessly at (kt B-?. "EstiM hit ul mire." a crew member phones to the pilot, Lt. Alfred Bioadshl W Ln Aayeles. who mrden the emyiae extiayaisher late opera Baa. Bat it failt U wrt. Steadahl beads for Caam. aad with the piaaa k desperate enmditiom am cmeryeacy laadiay was made there. Eeery hedy Jumped dear of the piaae. "lt was a close eaH." said atewdshl. Servicemen Honor Roosevelt . 'Clouds of Airplanes' Germaa eirtBaas ??U?| far the British ira; case ipauti la wea du at the salt mbu at air craft ??wi?| ererfcead iiriat the Allied airhacae anaada's flight ta Hi ahjectiTes east ad the Bhiae river They ant aiadii a heat Geuht't yraad bead that the Belch weald ?ever he hearted. Youngest Champ GrtiWM-.JTyt?<??!?? ?? teW^w. BOcMMafA* LjrjM^Sr ?b*?J!?I?'t?' in U. S. Civilians , , Slain in Manila Letters Reveal Killings of Americans by Japanese Before Yanks Came. SAN FRANCISCO.?Letters reach ing the United States from the Philippines tell of a wave of wanton killings of Americans by the Japa nese in Manila in which two promi nent business executives, a leading woman social worker and many oth ers were executed during the week just prior to the arrival of Ameri can liberation forces, says the Asso ciated Press. Among those who were said to have met untimely death because they sought to aid fellow-Americans and keep them from starving were: Carroll C. Grinnell of Albany, Far Eastern representative at Inter national General Electric. A. F. Duggleby of Colorado and California, vice president and gen eral manager of the Benquet and Bala toe Gold Mining companies. Mrs. Blanche Jurika, the former Blanche Walker of Lot Angeles. Californian Executed. The reports said among those executed with Grinnell and Duggle by was Clifford Larsen of Los An geles, assistant sales manager at the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific company of Manila, a construction concern. Mr. Grinnell was head at the In ternee Executive committee at the Santo Tom as camp in Manila for more than a year. Mr. Duggleby was one of the chiefs of supply and finance in the camp food organiza tion. Mrs. Jurika was widely known as a social worker, author and ra dio commentator. A tetter just received from Pro fessor V. V. Clark, a mining engi neer well-known in the west and South America, said Mr. Grinnell, Mr. Duggleby and a dozen other American internees were taken from the Santo Tom as cifrr. p, led to a vacant lot, and shot into a common grave. Later the bodies were recov ered by American soldiers. Other Americans Vanish. Mr. Clark, who passed more than three years in the camp, wrote, "They were real men of the highest type and their end was so unjust." He added that the other bodies re covered from the trench - grave "may clear up the disappearance of other Americans lately." Other letters said Mr. Grin nell, Mr. Duggleby and Mrs. Jurika "died as heroes, trying to aid their suffering fellowmen." Mrs. Jurika. held as a special political prisoner, was executed by the Japanese just two days before American soldiers raided the place where she was confined. Another ruthless execution by the Japanese was that of George Louis, 27 years old, of San Jose, Calif., a Pan American Airways employee. He slipped out of the Los Banos camp one night in search of food. A Japanese sentry shot and wounded him. He was executed the next morning by order of the camp commandant. Old Battleship Oregon Rusting at Pacific Base GUAM.?The glamour ship of the Spanish-American war, the old bat tleship Oregon, came out to the western Pacific to die in this mod ern new war. But she is still afloat. Navy men who had planned to sink her to help build a breakwater concede now she wouldn't even make good breakwater material. Crewless and denuded, the Oregon lies at anchor in a little inlet blast ed through coral reefs at an island base. Tn tha Snnntch.Amartr?n?t war in 1896 the Orefon made history when she steamed from the West coast around South America to Cuba just in time to join in the victory over the Spanish fleet at Santiago. When towed out to the western Pa cific to be sunk, the Oregon was loaded with 1,400 tons of dynamite ?since unloaded?and a false rumor spread like wildfire that she was going to be towed right into Tokyo and blown up. Gum Bui it for Firing Captured Rockets at Japs MANILA, P. I. ? Japanese troops on the Shimbu front were shelled by their own rockets recently but it took the ingenious efforts of Capt. W. E. Winterstein of Fillmore, Calif., to make it possible. During the last few days, the first cavalry and Sixth divisions cap tured many thousands of rounds of big caliber Japanese rocket am munition. But they didn't find any usable Japanese rocket gtoto, so Winterstein built one and fired Japa nese rockets at the enemy. The Nipponese used rockets, rang ing to sire 19 to It inches, more ex tensively on Luzon than any previ ous campaign in the southwest j Pacific. 'Hello, Goldbricks' Cheers Up Wounded ARMY HOSPITAL. SOME j WHERE IN THE MARIANAS.? Maj. Floyd A Thompson of SL Paul, Minn., has a wardful of patients whose limbs are wired j to odd positions to the ceiling 1 or cast to plaster. Same of the j bays feel psrUy low, but Thamp Navy Acts to Keep Unfit Men Ashore Overseas Drafts to Be Given Physical Examination. WASHINGTON.?Many physically unfit men are being mt overseas lor naval duty and the navy department says this must stop. The navy's bureau of medicine and surgery and the bureau of na val personnel have sent a Joint memorandum to aD ships and sta tions telling them what to do about the situation. "Numerous reports of receipt of men in the overseas areas who are not physically qua lifted to perform all their duties have been received by the bureau of navy personnel." said the memorandum, which went on: "In view of the transportation in volved, the unwarranted burden on medical facilities in advanced areas and the present congestion of men awaiting medical or dental treat ment in those areas, it is extremely urgent that steps be taken to pre vent transferring such men over seas." The memorandum reminded that the primary responsibility for the correction of physical defects was that of die commanders of the naval training centers at which recruits received their initial train ing. But the final responsibility, it adds, belongs to whoever has con trol of personnel at the port of em I barkation. j "A careful physical examination j of overseas drafts will be made at embarkation ports and the physical ly unfit eliminated," the bureaus or dered. The memorandum made it clear that it expected officers in charge of intermediate activities through which personnel pass?between the two commands having primary and final responsibility?to take steps to correct defects that may have been overlooked at an earlier command. "Men who have minor correctible defects other than of a communica ble or contagious nature, and for which treatment has been institut ed, may be considered fit for trans fer if the ship or station to which they are being transferred has prop er facilities for their further care should it be necessary," the memo randum said. American Naval Might Has Grown to 9 Fleets WASHINGTON.?American naval might, grown threefold in striking power since war began, has pushed the nation's battle lines in ever-wid ening circles away from her home shores. At least nine fleets now range the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean waters, carrying the war to the en emy?a far cry from the days of the late '20s and early '30s when the three fleets, Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic, then existing on organ izational tables scarcely mustered the strength of a single modern fleet. Strength and disposition of indi vidual fleets remain a closely guard ed military secret An innovation of modem naval warfare which also contributes to the fluidity of sea power is the "task force," organized out of available forces to carry out a particular mission. Such a task force could range in size from a task unit of the smallest possible self-sufficient force to a consolida tion of two or more entire fleets. New Tempest Plane Flies At 435 Miles Per Hour LONDON.?The Hawker Tempest Hark V. first of the Tempest fighter plane series to be put into produc tion, has a maximum speed of 435 miles an hour and a ceiling of 38,000 feet, it was announced by the air ministry. Its tactical radius is 500 miles, al though this can be extended through use of auxiliary fuel tanks. Arma ment consists of four 20-mm. cannon in the wings. The plane has a 2,400 horsepower engine and a four blad ed propellor, a bulletproof wind screen, and armor forward and aft of the pilot. It scored its first victory in the air last June. Chinese Learning to Talk English Language SAN FRANCISCO.?Although pho netics are a source of anguish and teachers are scarce, Chungking is alive with students of the English language. Each of the city's two leading schools, conducted by American-ed ucated Chinese, has graduated more than 1,000, and handles from 100 to 300 students daily. As the student body was small enough to be taught in Chungking attics three years ago, the remark able rise in attendance has been at tributed to the presence of U. S. servicemen. Canada Has Abundance Of Expensive Smokes OTTAWA.?There is an abundarce of cigarettes in Canada, but don't aak ywur Canadian friends to am! you any. The original cost is SM0 a car ton. Postage is about 35 cents; the U S. ad valorem duty. 30 cents; 0. S. import duty, $1-M. and the special 0. & cigarette tax, IS cents TW totaloost is^irZIa carton a I ts 0. S, are i^ntsd. Kathleen Norris Says: What About Military Training? IjbiBi ate-?WWU ftatum. "It is only fair to our boys to have them ready. We didn't want it, we tried to do without it, but for 50 years to come I believe we must maintain a huge force." By KATHLEEN NORMS MORE than 500 American women have written to ask me what I think of ! compulsory military service for our American boys and girls. I don't often let political or inter national questions get into this column, but this is an exception and I want to answer these wom en in this way: In a word, I'm for it. I think we might well emulate the Swiss sys tem, which means only a few weeks out of every year, or at least we might make a serious study of that system. But if we are to be drawn into Europe's eternal boundary dis putes and imperial quarrels in each j succeeding generation, then in the ; name of common sense let us be ready for it, and save the lives of thousands of our boys by prepared 1 ness. It was my dream for many years that by keeping the peace herself America might set the pace for the world. I still believe she might have done so. I still believe that if ] European countries had known, definitely and clearlyi that we would not interfere in their old quarrels, they would have managed their af fairs very differently in the last 25 years. The northern, civilized countries, ] respecters of boundaries and of in dividual rights, would then have got ten together. They would have pre sented a solid wall to Germany; in the very beginning of her anti Semitic purges, they would have united a dozen weak armies into one invincible one. They never did. | Holland, England, Norway, Sweden, France, Poland, Belgium, Russia? what mightn't they have done > against Germany's growing war menace! They never got together. ITnMiu TT.M. ?|fV TT VU | C UJVV. It is my sorrowful belief that they never will. Their claim, when any such federation is suggested, is that their differing languages, religions, backgrounds, traditions, histories make it impossible. This sounds funny in American ears. The truth is that their varying imperial ambi tions cross and intercross after a thousand years of shifting loyalties and ineffectual wars, and now can not be untangled even by their most brilliant statesmen. So I have no hopes of them. Each ooe will do what some wise or un wise minister believes best for her, aad chaos will result. Meanwhile we have our own mag nificent record, our long friendship with our neighbors, our peaceful skies, our unguarded borders. We know countries may live in peace together, and prosper all the more for that peaSE But the deadly virus of war has been scattered ev erywhere now, and who knows what country will next break forth with . improved guns and bombs and gases (or a surprise attack? It is only fair to our boys to ?tare them ready. We didn't want it, we tried to do without it, but for 50 years to come I believe we must maintain a sea and air force of perhaps three million men, and an auxiliary force involving per haps one-third that many women. These will be our police. A great city without a police force would be in the same position as a great nation with its navy sunk and its men disarmed. Other nations must know that we are ready to imple ment with the guns they have forced upon us what we say hi defense of decency and honesty. Might Have Been Stopped. If our three or four million army had been in readiness eight years ago, when Germany's fanaticism broke forth in her anti-Semitic purges, we might have seen the dan ger then. We might have warned her then that her maniac leader was starting on the death trail. We might never have had the headlines that you and I are reading today. Too late for that now. But it is never too late to learn, and I, who preached non-interventionism and neutrality for so many years, from so many platforms, see now that we are a part of the great common wealth of the world, that we can not impress upon other nations our own ideals of unfearing friendli ness with our neighbors, that we must accept a certain degree of militarism until all natiohs are wiser, and be ready to say "thus far, and no further," when the next riiuer pops up us ugly bead. Military training is essential to dictatorship, true. But it may be a democratic thing, too, ironing out some of the class consciousness of our boys and girls, helping them to appreciation of home love and home comfort, broadening their viewpoints in a way that will be beneficial to them all their lives. I haven't come to it easily. But I've come to it now. We have to have universal military training, and be ready. It may mean, to oth er countries, an increasing desire for war. It won't be that, to us. j We're smarter than that. Girdles Still Scarce Synthetic rubber is slowly becom ing available for manufacture of gir dles, bid laager quantities of synthe tic rubber than natural rubber are required to make the same amount of elastic thread. Also the stqipty of cotton fabric is still exceedingly 1 short. All this makes it necessary | that you get as much wear as paa | sible from the girdle you now have. Wash it fkequently with the same care you would give your beat haae, and dry it away (rem dbect caw tact with any radiate. | I AiMHiMMMaL A HARSH NECESSITY After many years of advocat ing neutrality and non-interven tion, Miss Morris has come to the conclusion that the only Security in the future for America lies in a large, permanent force, land sea and air. This great army and navy Kill mean universal mili tary training for young men. The women's auxiliary corps Kill re quire many thousands of girls too, although a draft of women probably never tcill be instituted. There are certain benefits to military training, as Miss Morris points out, that to some extent oflset the objections. Better health, wider experience and broader viewpoints are valuable by-products of army life in peace time.
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