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? 1 Danes Gain Representation at San Francisco This irnf of Danish officials is shown on arrival in San Francisco, Where Denmark was admitted as the 50th member ol the United Nations Security conference. Met at the airport by Axel C. F. Sporon-Fedler, right, consul general of San Francisco, they are, left to right: Henrick De Sandman, minister to Washington; Prof. Erik Hnsfeidt and Prof. Hartvlg Friscb. Twice Bombed Off Flagship Vice Ada. M. A. Mitscher, commander of carrier task force 58, -was twice bombed off his flagship* by "suicide planes" of the Japs. Despite his close calls, Mltscher dees not consider the Jap suicide planes ? "serious threat to Americas success in the Pacific." 'Photo shows Admiral Mltscher as he spake te press conference In Washington. With him Is Secretary ?t the Navy James ForrestaL * War Crimes Conference in Session Here U a view at (ha aeaaa la tha law court of London ai the Halted Nationa War Ciiaaaa conference opened. Great Britain'! Justice Wrt(ht (standiac la center haefccroaad) ta addressing the anembled (Jotted NaUoaa delegate! to tha caafereaee. Generals Watch Front Line Action marise Maj. (Ma. ubm saeperd. holding walking atlefc, and Uti taaaat Gaarnt Baekacr. eeater, watch troat Uac action from ai Okiaawa ridge as their forces storm Naka, capital of the island. Th 'Up a Tree' Five marine communicators are up a tree in an effort to further confuse a puszled Okinawa native. The leatherneck linemen are (coun terclockwise from upper left) Cpl. F. Clevenjer, Cleveland, Tenn.; Cpl. Thomas J. Kranz, Toledo, Ohio; Pfe. Jerry Locke, Pryor, Okla.; Pfc. Henry Luebbe, Beivue, Kans., and Cpl. John Jones, Ebensburg, Pa. Happy Jap Arms folded across his bony chest, this skinny Jap prisoner was taken by infantrymen wbo captured Wawa dam on Luzon. He told his captors that he was kicked in the face by a Jap captain when he fell from ex haustion while carrying supplies. Shown with S/Sft. Andrew Fedoris. Icewoman Is Here Not even the Iceman'* domain U ?ale from the asaanlts of advancing womanhood. Here Is Mrs. Ada Man tell ef Pittsburgh, Pa. Wins Opening Race ? Jacker Bobby Permaae prntita t this mad-caked face after be hat ? Park, aatetta "May - Bobby aa ?wd mmI teadtac aU tt? wi] . Stern Military Rule for Nazis Eisenhower to Heed U. S. Unit to Fight Activities of German Underground. ' WASHINGTON, D. C. ? A special Intelligence section to detect and "ruthlessly" suppress any Nazi un 1 derground activities will be part of the United States military govern ment in the American occupation Izone of Germany. This was disclosed recently in a war department announcement of plans for the United States group which will form part at the Allied four power control council for Ger many. The American unit will be divided into 13 major divisions, cor responding generally to the minis tries of the German central govern ment, says the Associated Press. It was announced that General Eisenhower would be the United States representative on the control council, pursuant to an agreement at the Yalta conference. Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay will be i deputy to Eisenhower and also j "deputy military governor for Ger many," the department said, with out amplifying the latter reference. Rpnad OvAr.AH Promm. The announcement said the Unit ed States army, navy and air forces had perfected, over a period of many months and in coordination with the British, Russians and French, a "coordinated program to impose a stern military govern ment over all of Germany and to carry out the policies agreed upon at Yalta." It did not, however, offi cially define the area of Ameri can occupation. The creation of the intelligence section was a sample of this de cision for stern control. Each of the 12 divisions will share responsibility in purging public agencies and in dustries of Nazis, but the over-all intelligence section, "answerable directly to General Clay, will main tain general supervision over the entire de-Nazification program," the department said. It added: Also directly under Clay will be two other sections?public informa tion and public relations. The for mer section, said the department, "will control all forms of public ex pression in Germany, including newspapers, radio, magazines and other publications and motion pic tures." Demobilization of German armed forces and disarmament will be at tended to by three military divisions ?army, naval and air. A reparations, deliveries and res titution division will supervise car rying out in the American zone poli cies agreed on in the control council dealing with activities "suggested by its title," said the department. Big Tasks Ahead. "Tremendous tasks lie ahead of the economic division, which will deal with such problems as food, agriculture and forestry, fuel and mining, price control and ration ing," the department declared. "This division will see to it that the Germans are forced to exert all efforts to feed themselves, and also to ensure that the liberated United Nations are given first consideration on essential commodities." An internal affairs and com munications division will include among other duties supervision of public safety and control of civil police forces. This unit, said the announcement, "will concern itself with elimination of the dreaded se cret police." Other divisions will include: Political ? Dealing with foreign affairs, domestic political matters, protection of American interests in Germany and reporting political in telligence. Transport ? Regulation of traffic movements by rail, highway and water. Prisoners of War and Displaced Persons ? "Millions of citizens of the United Nations have been held prisoner in Germany" and must all be cared for and repatriated speed ily. ImaujA^wci v-Hal gfU W1U1 UIS5U1V ing the "notorious Nazi labor front and laying the groundwork for the normal growth of democratic labor . organizations and practices." Legal?Jurisdiction over prosecu tion of war criminals and the exer cise of "proper control over Allied military courts, German ordinary and military courts and prisons." Jap Radio Offers Gem to 'Explain' War Losses SAN FRANCISCO. ? Radio Tokyo offered this gem to explain why the war "is still running unfavorably" for Japan: Nippon's "all-out national might is actually not only far from being all-out, but cannot even be consi<? ered fair." The explanation was the creation of Gen. Jiro Minami, president of the Political association of Great Japan. New Catapult Seat Hurls Pilot to Safety DOWNEY, CALIF. ? Consoli dated - Vultee engineers have de veloped a seat which catapults a pilot out of the range of the pro | peller when he is forced to bail I out. The seat, operated by the t feet and designed for pusher-type t aircraft, shoots the pilot forward r. bom the cockpit and clear at the Love Gropes Way Around the World Two Are Married by Proxy After Many Hardships. KANSAS CITY. KANS. ? Five years to the day after he rowed ?way from the Belgium coast with his fiancee in a tiny boat, German born Edgar Wihl, a U. S. army cor poral, wed Miss Lucy Golombiesky by proxy. She was in London. The 39-year-old soldier stood be fore Thomas M. Van CI eve, Kan sas City attorney, and pledged eter nal devotion to the Berlin-born woman of Polish-Jewish extraction who fled to England with him. Born near Cologne, Wihl had lived in Holland since he was six. In 1934 in Amsterdam, where ha was a reporter on a Dutch maga zine, he met Lucy, a visitor, and it was love at first sight. Lucy stayed in Holland but the laws of the country at. the time for bade marriage of a German and a Jewish woman. They decided to be married in Belgium on May 17, 1940. On May 10, the Nazi armies broke through. The couple bribed a German guard with Edgar's automobile and radio and shoved off in the row boat, accompanied by Wihl's broth er, Rudy. They drifted for seven days without food until a Canadian destroyer picked them up and took them to England. The brothers shipped out July 8, 1940, for Canada and two days later the ship was torpedoed. They were picked up by a ship headed for Aus tralia. It was not until 1941 that they reached the United States and they survived another sinking in the Caribbean to do it. They enlisted in the army April 16, 1941, at Fort Dix. Rudy was wounded on Okinawa. Edgar be came a citizen September 28, 1942. French Women Make Votes Tell in Local Elections PARIS, FRANCE. ? The tradi tional gallantry of Frenchmen to ward the weaker sex was a little strained by the recent local elec tions, which brought women to the polls for the first time in the his tory of France. Somebody?it might have been a defeated candidate ? went around Paris chalking walls with the slo gan, "Beware ot petticoat govern ment." The small northern town of Echigey now has a complete matri archal government. Ten women ran on a single ticket and somehow that ticket won. The defeated mascu line candidates are demanding a re count. In another community 500 nuns dominated the election. Their con vent is situated near a town with a population of less than 300. The 500 sisters swept the village's "old guard" right out of office. Flowers, Cheers Greet Yanks in Hitler's Town BARUNAU, AUSTRIA.?American tanks and infantry were greeted with flowers and cheers when they "liberated" Adolf Hitler's native town. Not a shot was fired. The American doughfeet crossed the Inn river in small boats bor rowed from obliging civilians. No one here except a sad-eyed policeman seemed to care that Hit ler had been reported dead. "Well, how do you feel about Roosevelt's death?" the policeman kept asking. "That's the same way we feel about Hitler's. Roosevelt was the greatest American and Hitler the greatest German." But others in the crowd laughed at him. "Yes," the policeman admitted. "Most people here in his own birth place are glad that he's gone be cause they think now they may have peace." His Dad ai Dunkerque, Youth Gets His Revenge t a wcr nui Tt-Mr-iv r.rnuiwv ?William Piddington, a 20-year-old British driver whose father was at Dunkerque, went AWOL to stage such a savage one-man vendetta against the Germans that even bat tle-hardened American G. I.s blinked in surprise. He returned to American lines for the first time in five days after the following exploits: Putting on a German tunic, hi jacking a German army truck, driv ing 25 miles into German lines and one mile from the Russians and sending back German staff disposi tions. Capturing 80 Germans, loading them in his truck and driving them back to hand over to the Americans. Killing another 20 or 30. "I only got shot at four or five times," he said. "When any Ger man discovered I was British, I just killed him before he could start any thing." Mail to Prisoner* in Germany Being Held Up WASHINGTON. ? All mail ad dressed to American and Allied pris oners of war in Germany has been halted in transit and insofar as possible will be returned to the send ers. Deliveries will stop because of the breakdown of German mail deliv eries coincident with V-E Day and the rapid evacuation of Americans and Allies formerly held prisoner* la Germany. Kathleen Norris Says: Breaking a Soldier's Heart Bell Syndicate.?WNU Features. "My mother and sisters say they tcill not see me again if Murylin and 1 are recon ciled. What shall I do? I feel like I have no home, no family and no friends" By KATHLEEN NORRIS EVERY woman, in the next tremendous years of our ' country's history, is going to be either a taker or a giver. Every old, old woman, with the end of her labors and the quiet of death in sight, and every very young woman?ten, twelve, sev enteen years old, must put her self into the class of the takers or that of the givers. We have come of age in the last terrible years, we Americans. We begin to see the great future that opens before us, a future in which the nations of the world shall all be friends, shall be speaking, as it were, the same language, shall solve together the age-old problems of want and excess, bitter need and extravagance, inflated currency, de pressed currency, overproduction, underproduction. But this glorious future, that shall remake the whole history of man, will not be reached without acts of separate and individual heroism on your part and mine. It cannot be reached without our determination to achieve it. It is there?the glori ous tomorrow, without fear, with out poverty, without war. But the statesmen and diplomats and sol diers who are at the top of all our governments cannot accomplish it. It is only the people, ourselves, who can do that. Hence it is needful for every woman in the worlH thin summer morning to look her own circum stances, her own conduct, severely in the eye, and decide just where she falls short. Just how much is she helping her neighbors to be come loyal and useful Americans? Just what sum of happiness, se curity, service is she rendering to her own people? 'Devil of a Mess.' Here is a letter that gives the dark side of the picture, I quote it only in part. "I've come home," writes Pvt. Bates McVayne, "to a devil of a mess. Maybe my nerves are still shaken from a pretty rotten time in the Pacific. Well, anyway, when I left two years ago our kid was three days old. It was like death to part with them, but the arrange ment was that Marylin and the baby were to live with my mother and sisters, and everything was go ing to be swell. "Marylin and the girls quarrelled, and Marylin took the baby and went and lived with a woman friend. Here the baby was so neglected that my mother went and got her one day and brought charges against my wife, in court. Marylin then went to live with a man she'd met and fallen in love with, and is still there, and the baby too. The baby seems happy, and doesn't know me, of course, and Marylin wants a divorce, but the man she is with wants me to pay for it as he thinks charges of complicity or alienation of affection could be brought against him if he pays for it. Marylin says she will come back to me if I say so, as she feels she treated me badly. My mother and sisters say they will not see me again if Marylin and I are recon ciled. What shall I do? I feel like I have no home, no family and no friends." C? UW w Unit gitL ... BITTER HOMECOMING Probably not many returning soldiers will find as unhappy a situation at home as Bates Mc Vayne did, but there is a lot of heartbreak ahead for many poor fellows. His wife teas wrong, of course, to live with another man while her husband was away fighting, but she is trying to make amends. It's his mother and sis ters who are making a bad situa tion worse. They have told Bates that they will never speak to him again if he takes his wife back! There is a little daughter in the picture, too. Bates would like to have her, in any case. She was only a few days old when he left, and does not remember her father, of course. Then there is the other man. He wants Bates to give Marilyn a divorce, and to pay for it too! This maddening mess is a soldier's homecoming "present." "I feel," Bates writes. "like I have no home, no family and no friends." There is a warm welcome home (or a tired soldier! I am advising Bates to wait; to get hold of his little girl and take her to his mother for a long visit, this without antag onizing Marylin or anyone else. Under the circumstances he will have no trouble in getting hold of the child. His sisters will probably be especially gracious with this" ar rangement, and time to cool off and view the situation dispassionately will be given everyone. Such Women Are No Help. But what takers these five wom en are, and how far from their con ception of things is the idea of giving! Giving help, hospitality, friendship, giving service, coopera tion, comfort. Their letters to Bates might have been family chronicles full of content, family gossip, cheer ing reports, hopeful plans. They might have made it impossible for him to forget that he is loved, needed, missed every hour. Instead they have regaled him on petty suspicions, quarrels, scandals, law suits. He has been tormented by anxieties for his child, regret for his mother's distress, resentment at the infidelity of his wife. If America and the world are ever 10 emerge trom today's ter rible shadow of war, it will not be through women like these that they will be saved. We never can solve national and international problems while our own lives are a confusion of discontents, debts, doubts, idle ness, indifference, selfishness. We need strong doses of the old-fash ioned virtues of faith, hope and charity. Charity toward starving China, of course, stricken Europe, of course, the claims of the Red s Cross, the War Chests, the homes and aides and drives and institu tions, of course. But faith and hope and charity first of all for our own people?the people with whom we have breakfast, and for whom we set the dinner table at night. If each of us plants the three cardinal vir tues in the home circle, the world will one day become one great home circle and very close to the Kingdom of God. Berry Season Is Here Blackberries and dewberries are in season now. Plump, full berries with a bright solid color are the choice ones. Since even good quality berries keep only a short time, the housewife should plan to can them or use them otherwise, very soon after the berries reach the home kitchen. Three-fourths cup of the berries is about equal to a medium sized apple in food value. The Juice of the berries makes ex cellent summer beverages and Is equally as good in winter. j
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