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;--WILMINGTON. N. C„ THURSDAY, MAY 17. 1945 “-~- ESTABLISHED 1867
World reace
ParleyNears
Final Round
amendments bulky
U# S. Holds Sessions To
Catch Up On Dumbar
ton Oaks Changes
caw FRANCISCO, May 16-UP)—
J Tinited Nations conference be
TheC< fourth week today with
and little powers in subst*n'
„:cord and the American de
lation turning on pressure for
. weedy wind-up of the job of
drafting'a world charter.
United States delegates ran off
, series of meetings of their own
during the day and were ready
to urge statesmen of other coun
tries to vote as soon as possible
on a bulky list of amendments
offered to the Dumbarton Oaks
clan for a world conference.
The Americans nact oeen so
wrapped up in tussles over region
al security and trusteeship issues
that they hadn’t defined their posi
tions on scores of these amend
ments. Their sessions today gave
them a chance to catch up.
Drafted by the United States de
legation, a compromise plan for
letting the Pan-American and any
other regional defense systems op
erate under a world organization
had enough support to guarantee
jts final acceptance. It had the
backing of nearly all the 20 Latin
American states and most of the
Big Five powers. Of the latter,
Russia still had not made known
her position.
Now there is one major prob
lem left: preparation of a formula
for international trusteeships over
dependent of strategic lands—areas
like Libya, or Iwo Jima, or the
Caroline islands.
The question has two phases:
looking after the welfare of the
the assignment of mandates so
people of these territories and
that the United States and other
countries will control bases they
regard as essential to their own
security.
Primarily, America wants to
keep her grip on key islands
snatched from Japan in order to
make sure from now on that the
Pacific really will be “Pacific.”
Britain, America and France are
pretty much in agreement on
trusteeships. Russia and China
have different views. The Soviet
delegation referred the issue to
Moscow.
To give a conference committee
on trusteeships something to work
on, U. S. Delegate Harold E. Stas
sen brought together all the Big
Five proposals in a single docu
ment.
The Anglo - Americans would
place strategic areas under general
•r-- a octuiiiy council
—the agency in the world organi
sation which would conti 1 peace
enforcement machinery. Other
areas would be administered un
it oninued on Page Ten; Col. 5)
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U. S. Captures
German Leader
WITHTlffi U. S. THIRD ARMY
® SOUTHERN GERMANY, May
• w —An anti-Russian resist
ance movement may have been
tapped in the bud with the arrest
Austria of Ernst Kaltenbrun
er. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Him
™er s right-hand man.
Ju, brunner' catured by the
:.b ,In*antry May 12 at Alt Aus
, ts known to have admitted he
Planned “some sort” of action
gainst the Russians but he would
ip go so far as to say it would
_ a fullscale resistance move
•fient.
However, at about the same time
was arrested, the 80th also seiz
“ S?Veral members of the SS
lct police at Bad Aussee. Their
P-esence in the same general area
j ( [Cgorded as hardly coinci
"ontal because all.are known ex
f ns °n southeastern Ktirnnean
*mugue.
Kaltenbrimner. who tried to dis
?e himsell by shaving his mus
- . said he intended to remain
lit-ioC US'°n unt4l things were a
t™ , i0076 settled,” then launch
n u“derground movement.
WEATHER
(Eastern Standard Time)
MewJ 1 s' "'eather Bureau)
fcdhj, ,°iaglcal data for the 24 hours
g 1 30 p.m., yesterday,
l’ili „ Temperature
l:3'i pm\69; 7:30 am- 72; 1:30 pm, 80;
toSun’71m 84' Minimum ®7; Mean 76;
1:30 „ Humidity
,:!l> PiraV51 7:30 am’ 92: 1:30 pm’ 66:
lota ,. Prec>Pitation
H) inches. 16 24 hours e>i<Hn8 7:30 pm,
^32 inches. 6 tlle flrst °f the month,
(From I|<Ie5 For Today
* s- Coast6 an‘dCGeod 'r® pubIisbed h?
ana Geodetic Survey)
Wilmington High Low
k ' -- 2:02a 9:23a
®so»horo in]pi 2:32P 9:35p
- 6:14a
unwise, s on- y 12:34p 6:24p
Vag “;on«V, 12:09' ’ 7:°7; M00nriSe>
r"er at Fayetteville, 1C:22. ,
_ Marines Burn Out Jap Snipers In City Of Naha
Vo ^0V1I^£ Past a burning building, First Division M arines keep a sharp eye out for Jap snipers. The
' WnfL • e ho?1se aflre.in their* effort to flush the enemy marksmen from the structure, which was
I If?™? nor^rn residential district of Naha, the capital on Okinawa. They followed in the wake
oi tames .that smashed into the city after days of furious fighting._(International Soundphoto)
CHINESE SMASH
JAPANESE DRIVE
Enemy Drive On U. S. 14th
Air Base At Chih
kiang Is Stopped
CHUNGKING, May 16.—tiB—The
high command announced tonight
that the Japanese drive on the U.
S. 14th Air Base at Chihkiang in
Hunan province had been complete
ly smashed in one of the most im
portant Chinese victories of the
war and that a considerable force
of enemy had been trapped.
Heavy street fighting was con
tinuing in the east coast treaty
port of Foochow with severe casual
ties on both sides. The Chinese
broke into the town last Friday
and bitter fighting has raged since.
The high command gave no further
details.
A large force of enemy troops cut
off from their main base at Paoch
ing from which the abortive Hunan
offensive started April 9 was re*
ponea Dy me unmese comoat com
mand to be attempting to escape
through the Chinese lines.
The Japanese were trapped in a
pocket stretching roughly from an
area 22 miles northeast of Tung
kow, 55 miles west of Paoching, to
a point 31 miles southeast of the
Paoching-Chihkiang highway town.
Most eastward escape routes were
reported by the combat command
to be firmly held by the Chinese.
The high command said two im
portant heights and numerous vil
lages in the area had been taken
by the Chinese and some 400 Jap
anese killed or wounded in futile
assaults on the Chinese lines.
Chinese forces southeast of
Yang chi, 40 miles north-northeast
of Paoching, continued their at
tacks against Japanese units re
treating southward, the high com
mand said. Heavy casualties were
inflicted on the enemy.
In Honan province severe fight
ing was reported west of the Hsishi
ang whose possession by the enemy
constitutes a potential threat of an
invasion of Shensi province. Sev
eral Japanese counterattacks were
foiled, the high command said.
Fighters and bombers of the U.
S. 14th Air Force slashed at Jap
anese forces in Hunan and bomb
ed and strafed enemy transport
and storage facilities in the Han
kow-Yochow area northeast of
Tungting lake, a communique from
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer’s
headquarters said.
A Chinese dispatch said that
Allied warplanes damaged a Jap
anese transport carrying more
than 3,000 evacuees from Formosa
April 17th.
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Ireland Defends Policy
Of Nation’s Neutrality
Attacked By Churchill
DUBLIN, May 16.—GP)— Prime
Minister Famon De Valera tonight
defended his neutrality policy
against criticisms by Prime Min
ister Winston Uhurchill in a speech
Sunday, and emphasized that he
did not yet feel that Ireland was
free.
If Great Britain in self defense
had violated Irish neutrality, De
Valera said in a radio speech, it
would have been the sort of ag
gression that started two world
wars.
“All credit to him (Churchill)
that he successfully resisted the
temptation which I have no doubt
many times assailed him in his
difficulties and to which I admit
other leaders might easly have
succumbed,” De Valera said.
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REPORTS DENIED
LONDON, Thursday, May 17.—
UPf—Denying published reports that
Willy Messerschmitt, ace German
plane designer, is living a “life of
luxury” in a London flat, the Air
Ministry said today that his living
scale is that of an ordinary non
working prisoner of war.
\
War Crimes Commission
Schedule^ Conference
LONDON, May 16—UP)—Amid rising criticism of the “coddling”
of German prisoners of war and demands for a speedy trial for top
flight Nazi war criminals the United Nations War Crimes Commission
announced today that an international conference on German war
crimes would begin in London May 31.
The commission also announced that ithad arranged for “certain
governments” to send investigating officers into Germany to help
■ -__ w _
NAZI LABOR CZAR
TAKEN BY YANKS
One of 12 Men Who Ruled
Germany Captured
Near Berchtesgaden
O B E R SALZBURG, Germany,
May 16—(U.R)—Dissolute Dr. Robert
Ley, head of the Nazi labor front
and one of the few men who really
ruled Germany during the Nazi
reign of terror, was captured in
his pajamas today by American
troops south of Berchtesgaden.
The 55-year-old Ley, who fre
quently would stagger intoxicated
to the Berlin radio and extoll the
glories of war, was sporting a
week-old beard when seized by
troops of the U. S. 101st Airborne
Division.
He was captured at the house
of an unidentified family 40 miles
south of Berchtesgaden. At first
he denied his identity and then
admitted he Was the Dr. Ley who
had. broken the German labor
unions early in the Hitler regime
and organized them into the Nazi
labor front to toil for the sprout
ing German war machine.
Presumably Ley had escaped to
3erchtesgaden along with others
of the Nazi hierarchy now in Al
[ lied hands and then fled that moun
tain retreat Deiore it ien in tne
last hours of the war.
It was said of Ley that he was
one Nazi nobody knew and that
he was one of the dozen men who
actually ruled Germany during the
Hitler regime.
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Extension Of Trade
Program Is Approved
By House Committee
WASHINGTON, May 16. —(/P)—
The first round in the 1945 tariff
fight went to the administration
today when the House Ways and
Means Committee approved, 14 to
11, legislation to extend and broad
en the reciprocal trade program.
Republicans voted solidly against
the bill giving the President new
tariff-cutting powers but the 10
GOP committeemen were joined
by only one Democrat, Rep. West
of Texas.
Rep. Knutson of Minnesota,
Ways and Means Republican lead
er, declared “the majority today
voted to create unemployment when
the war ends.” He predicted a sizzl
ing battle when the legislation, in
volving one of the most ancient
issues between the parties, comes
to debate on the House floor next
Tuesday.
dence of war crimes there.
In Paris supreme headquarters
said 10-man teams from the war
crimes branch of the European
theater judge advocate section were
conducting widespread investiga
tion of crimes committed by the
Nazis against Allied military per
sonnel as well as civilians.
The teams, Eupreme Headquar
ters said, went into operation more
than a month ago under the di
rection of Brig. Gen. E. Betts and
evidence of atrocities and violations
of the Geneva convention which
they are gathering will be used
in the trials of indicted German
war criminals.
The teams, Supreme Headquar
opportunities for detecting war
crimes and identifying their per
petrators” had been provided by
‘‘the liberation of occupied coun
tries, establishment of military
control in Germany, the overrun
ning of concentration camps and
repatriation of Allied workers.”
The conference, the commission
announcement said, ‘‘will enable the
commission to discuss with the na
tional offices the best methods for
promoting mutual aid between the
offices and closer contact between
them and the commission.”
In commons todav Primp Mini
ster Churchill declared he had no
information as to the whereabouts
of Gestapo Chieftain Henrich Him
mler but said “I expect he will turn
up somewhere in this world or the
next and will be dealt with by
approprate local authorities.”
British Minister of State Richard
Law said he hoped Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering, now a prisoner
of the American Seventh Army,
would be hanged.
Law described the German
people as “not only an incredibly
silly people but a dangerously silly
people.’’
‘ They are cruel people,” he said,
“Belsen, and Buchenwald (Concen
tration camps) are not propaganda
. . . and unfortunately they are not
isolated cases.”
Clamor against the Allied treat
ment of German war criminals con
tinued in the British press with the
News Chronicle declaring that
“public indignation is now harden
ing into public consternation.”
“Remembering Darlan, remem
bering Badoglio,” the editorial said,
“the people are asking can it in
deed be that the Allied authorities
are preparing another and even
more cynical frameup.’’
The News Chronicle said Gen.
Eisenhower's rebuke to officers
treating the Germans as “friendly
enemies” had not ended the toler
ance shown to the defeated Nazis.
British Warships Steam Into Trieste
TRIESTE, May 15.—(Delayed)—
(U.R)—British cruise/s and destroy
ers steamed into the harbor of
Trieste yesterday while American
neavy bombers thundered over
head.
Trieste was tense—as it has been
almost from the time the Yugoslavs
entered the city.
Sherman tanks, manned by New
Zealanders, were alerted in the
streets. Marshal Tito’s stoic sol
diers, with Red stars on their
overseas caps, patrolled the side
walks with British arms.
Eight British-made “Honey”
light tanks flying the Yugoslav
flag, vehicles which apparently
had been given to Tito, were seen.
For the last few days the British
military have been operating on
1
the theory that all territory east
of the Isonzo river in northern
.Italy was Yugoslav-controlled. In
Trieste itself the British control
only part of the port area.
Tito allotted the British enough
docking room to unload 90,000 tons
of supplies daily for the Allied
armies of occupation in Austria.
Those supplies now are being un
loaded. The British keep open a
line of communications to the dock
area, but otherwise Trieste is un
der the control of Yugoslav troops
commanded by Maj. Gen. Dusan
Kvadr.
There are an estimated 35,000
troops in the Trieste area, although
they are not very heavily armed
with automatic weapons or armor.
The day after Tito’s forces en
tered * the city thousands upon
thousands of persons of Yugoslav
descent who live in the surround
ing hills entered Trieste and held
a mammoth demonstration. The
next day the Italians, who accord
ing to the British are 85 per cent
of the population, staged a counter
demonstration. That was broken
up by Tito’s force and two Italian
civilians were killed in the accom
panying gunplay, which was not
authorized by high Yugoslav offi
cials.
The Yugoslavs today installed
their own prefect of Trieste prov
ince, Guglielmo Callipara. They ad
vised the British afterwards.
The Yugoslavs also have placed
Trieste on Yugoslav time, which is
one hour later than Italian time.
They have renamed one of the main
thoroughfares “Corso Tito.”
The Yugoslavs have started con
scripting men from 15 to 60 into
the Yugoslav army. These men
have been whisked away from their
homes and can be seen dripping in
the countryside under Yugoslav of
ficers. At least 1,000 other Italians
in Trieste have been arrested by
Yugoslavs.
Tito’s troops apparently are
strongly backed by their own wo
men, scores of whom can be seen
walking Trieste streets. Most of
them are adolescents, but they
carry pistols as if they mean it
and wear regular Yugoslav uni
forms with either skirts or trous
ers.
4
MORE THAN 500 SUPERFORTS
STRIKE NAGOYA WAR PLANTS
WITH3,500 TONS OF BOMBS
3,781 DOUGHBOYS
DIE ON OKINAWA
46,505 JAPS KILLED
Sixth Marine D i vision
Makes Small Gains In
Naha Fighting
GUAM, Thursday, May 17.—(tf>—
Okinawa, longest, bloodiest cam
paign of the central-far western
Pacific, has cost the lives of 3,781
Doughboys and Marines and total
U. S. casualties of 20,950, Fleet
Adm_ Chester W. Nimitz reported
today. '
Japanese losses on Okinawa were
46,505 killed and 1,038 captured
through Tuesday’s fighting.
Total U. S. causalties on that
far western Japanese bastion, only
325 miles south of the enemy’s
homeland, exceed American losses
on Iwo Jima (19,938) by 1,012.
However, more Americans were
killed on Iwo, 4,189, than so far
have fallen on Okinawa. The Okin
awa battle is far from ended.* To
day’s communique said the front
lines there remained substantial
ly unchanged, with the Yanks
still trying to take the towns of
Naha and Shuri.
America’s Okinawa casualty re
port, tnrough Monday, was ior 43
days of savage battling on an is
land of some 300 square miles.
Iwo figures were for the 26 days
it required to capture that volcanic
heap of only eight square miles.
Japanese casualties on Okinawa
are nearly double their losses
on Iwo, where 23,244 were killed
and 1,038 taken prisoner, these
figures include some 2,000 killed
since victory-day on that island.
U. S. casualties for the Okin
awa-Ryukyus campaign, including
carrier plane raids on Japanese
horde islands, are 27,803, including
6,853 Navy officers and men dead,
wounded or missing. Navy figures,
March 18 through May 9, were 1,
283 killed, 3,498 wounded and 2,
072 missing. Nimitz has not esti
mated Japanese casualties result
ing from Naval strikes, including
sinking of the super-battleships
Yamato and other ships.
U. S. casualties on Okinawa re
ported by Nimitz today were:
Killed — 2,771 soldiers; 1,010
Marines.
Wounded—11,675 soldiers; 5,329
Marines.
Missing — 129 soldiers; 36
Marines.
These figures were evidence of
the fierceness of the fighting on
the southern Okinawa line the past
week, where Doughboys and
Leathernecks are fighting des
perately to smash the “little Sieg
fried Line.”
The Sixth Marine Division yes
terday made small gains around
Naha, the Island’s capital city,
rvn fna nrocf V>llt tllP frftllt
lines remained “substantially un
changed,” Nimitz’s communique
stated.
Fighting for Naha and Shuri,
considered the key to cracking
the Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru line ex
tending four miles across a waist
of the island, cost the Americans
1,097 killed in the past week alone.
Total casualties for the week were
4,425. Thus, in that seven days
from May 7 to May 14, American
dead were a far greater propor
tion of total casualties than for
the full Okinawa campaign, now in
its 47th day.
Nimitz’ figures for May 7 were
2,107 soldiers and 577 Mari las
killed; 10,402 soldiers and 2,800
Marines wounded and 501 soldiers
and 38 Marines missing, a total of
14,625.
The big increase in Marine cas
ualties was directly due to trans
fer of the First Sixth Marine Di
visions to the southern front, after
they had conquered the northern
half of Okinawa against com
paratively light opposition.
Last previoulsy announced Jap
anese casualties w e r e 38,857
(Continued on Page Ten; Col. 2)
Allies Plan Program
To Discipline Enemy
PARIS, May 16—(JP)—A program
of sweat and discipline under
which Germany will have to earn
her way back into the community
of nations under strict military
control was laid down by the Al
lies today.
The so-called German govern
ment of Grand Admiral Karl Doe
nitz was declared officially to be
only a temporary stop-gap, “fully
controlled’’ by the Allies while it
fulfills a useful purpose.
A supreme headquarters state
ment said Doenitz “and certain oth
er selected German officers” were
being used only temporarily as an
instrument for facilitating the sur
render and disarmament of Ger
man forces and were acting under
complete Allied control.
The formal statement made clear
that there was no thought of rec
ognizing Doenitz and his “Flens
burg group” as a German govern
ment- So far as the Allies are
concerned, Count Ludwig Schwerin
Von Krosigk “does not exist” as
Doenitz’ foreign minister.
This was underscored by Lt. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, Gen. Eisenhower’s
deputy for the occupation of Ger
many. “The Allied government of
Germany is going to be military,
and the Germans are going to
know it is military,” declared Clay.
In London Prime Minister
Churchill told commons that it
was the Allied aim that “the Ger
mans should administer their coun
try in obedience to Allied direc
tions.” The British leader added
that “we have no intention of un
dertaking the burden of adminis
tering Germany ourselves.”
It was not immediately clear
how these statements fitted into
the pattern of the yet to be deter
(Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3)
Doughboys Closing Gap
In Sector Of Mindanao
V . .
MANILA, Thursday, May 17—C5*)—Trapped Japanese continued
to fight savagely Tuesday on two of three Minadanao fronts but Dough
boys slowly were rooting them out of entrenched positions.
The veteran 24th Infantry Division was locked in close combat
with a major force north of Davao. It repulsed another heavy coun
*'*" 1 " ■ ■— ■ .i .. MforaHanlr
WSA WILL DELAY
HOUSING UNITS
Port Group Reports Tem
porary Delay In Ship
ment Of Houses
Shipment^of pre-fabricated
houses, under construction by the
Walsh Construction Co., of Salis
bury, to war torn areas overseas
may have hit a temporary VE
Day snag, it was revealed yester
day by J. T. Hiers, executive gen
eral agent of the Wilmington Port
Commission.
War Shipping Administration of
ficials, with whom Mr. Hiers dis
cussed the matter on a recent trip
to Washington, stated that due to
changes in the flow of war sup
plies to Pacific theaters, they were
reluctant to commit themselves to
any definate program, he said
Meanwhile, the Cumber-Moore
Plumbing firm of Wilmington,
which has the contract for outfit
ting the demountable uits with a
complete plumbing system, reveal
ed that considerable progress had
been made with the work.
George A. Moore, of the plumb
ing firm, said that gas ranges,
tubs and sinks had begun to arrive
DU i (.licit scvcidi ijrpcs Dj. equip
ment necessary to complete the
work had not been received.
Mr. Moore said that the units,
which contain two bed rooms,
(Continued on Page Seven; Col. 5)
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Japs Make Desperate
Pleas To Nazi Rulers
For Use Of Submarines
. OBERSAEZBURG. Germany.
May 16.—(U.R)—Japan made a de
sperate, last-minute plea to get
the Nazi U-boat fleet but both
Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz, then
commander of the German navy,
and Adolf Hitler turned down the
proposition, saying their subma
rines would fight on to the end, it
was disclosed today.
Gerhardt Herrgeselle, one of two
official stenographers with Hitler
during the last days in Berlin,
told how the Japanese ambassador,
Gen. Ilirosi Oshima, made futile
attempts to get Germany to turn
the fleet ovter to Nippon.
iterattack.
The 31st Division, fighting north
ward on Sayre highway in central
Mindanao, pushed within eight
miles of the Valencia airbases.
L'ess than 60 miles to the north,
the 40th Division was meeting
strong resistance below captured
Del Monte air center and made
only slight progress.
PT »boats, crossing Davao gulf
in daylight Tuesday, destroyed six
70-foot Japanese torpedo boats
and one barge, fired four fuel
and ammunition dumps and knock
ed out a pillbox at a small enemy
naval bases on Pisco point.
Earlier the speedy PT boats de
stroyed- a Japanese marine rail
way at Mapanga bay in Davao
gulf.
A Marine divebomber knocked
out a Japanese naval gun, one of
several which has been harassing
the 24th.
A shore to shore operation, in
which Dutch troops landed on the
southernmost tip of Tarakan is
land, off northeast Borneo, also
was announced. Activity in other
sectors on oil-rich Tarakan were
limited.
On Luzon, the American First
Cavalry Division pushed north
along the east coast to within three
miles of the port of Lampon, an
enemy seaplane anehorage south
of Infanta. Light naval units sup
ported the advance, bombarding
ciiwiijr oiiwj. c vunvcuuauuufl HCttJ
the port.,
East of Manila, units of the 43rd
Division near the Ipo dam were
reported “pressing in from all
sides on the enemy’s isolated
forces.”
Medium attack and fighter
bombers continued their raids on
Nipponese communications and
defenses in the Cagayan valley of
northern Luzon, dropping more
than 150 tons of bombs.
In support of the Tarakan in
vasion, heavy, medium and fight
er bombers expended 125 tons of
explosives. They blasted airdromes
at Balikpapan, the great oil re
fining center on Borneo, and at
Jesselton, Kudat and Eintula.
Thousand-pound missiles left great
holes in runways, destroyed build
ings and started fires. Air patrols
sank six small enemy ships.
The communique reported night
harassing attacks on Formosa,
followed by day raids in which 145
(Continued on Page Ten; Col 3)
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WPB Control of 1,200
Common Civilian Items
Is Reported Revoked
WASHINGTON, May 16. —{A>)—
WPB today revoked its controls on
an array of civilian products rang
ing from golf clubs and juke box
es to house trailers, but gave
manufacturers no metal to make
them.
One sweeping action expunged
controls on 1,200 of the commonest
civilian items, while the juke box
revocation also released pinball
machines, coin-operated amuse
ment devices and the so-calleu
“one-armed bandits” — slot ma
chines for gaming.
The omnibus order dropped from
the WPB books has been a key
stone of its controls for almost ex
actly three years. It forbade the
use of iron and steel—and thus in
most cases ended production—of
400 types of goods embracing some
1,200 individual products.
I
ENEMY ARSENAL !
CITY HAMMERED
_ i
ESTUARY DOCKS HIT !
Fliers Report Fires From
Last Monday’s Raid
Still Burning
GUAM, THURSDAY, May 17—
UP)—Striking again with more than
500 Superforts, 21st Bomber Com
mand squadrons showered 3,500
tons of fire bombs on the Japanese
arsenal city of Nagoya shortly after
midnight today, adding more dev
astation to fires kindled in a raid
Monday.
The big planes, carrying more
than a million six-pound gasoline i
jelly bombs, flew low over the tar
__, _ 1 w 4U. rtinnt
Mitsubishi aircraft assembly plant,
the Atsuta factory of the Nagoya
arsenal and other war industri^.
Fliers returning today said they
observed fires still burning in the >
northern section of the city hit in
the big daylight attack Monday.
Besides being the second record- i
breaking assault on Nagoya in 08 ,
hours. The raid was the 14th dem- i
olition and fire bomb effort to put
the industrial might of Nippon’s
third largest city out of production
since the B—19s started flying from
Marianas bases last November.
Today’s attack was centered in
the area adjoining the city’s in
ner harbor and estuary docks.
Nagoya, with a prewar population
of 1,500,000, also is a big port on
Japan’s inland sea.
There was no immediate report
of any American planes being lost
in the post-midnight attack. Two
B—29s were shot down in Monday’s
raid.
The Superforts today struck at
a 16-square mile target area, cas
cading their incendiaries on the
only remaining part of the city not
hit with the fire bombs in previous
raids.
The Mitsubishi aircraft assem
bly plant, bigger than the Willow
Run factory near Detroit, has been
called the largest of is kind in the
world.
Another unit of the huge Mitsu
bishi interests, the aircraft engine
factory in northeast Nagoya, was
95 per cent destroyed in a series
of B-29 demolition bomb raids
several months ago, and the elec
tric plant of this same firm was
in the target area of Monday’s at
tack.
The incendiary attacks also strike
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destruction of small shops set up
in homes and smaller buildings
for the production of parts for
Nippon’s vast war machine.
The Aichi aircraft co.’s Mizuko
plant, which produce aircraft parts
and the Atsuta engine factory, also
are in today’s target area, along
with aluminum, locomotive ond
munitions factories, and warehouse
and storage facilities.
Major plants in the target area,
in addition to the aircraft assem
bly plant and the arsenal factory,
include:
Steam and electric cars; loco
motives; munitions and ordnance;
a vehicle company plant, second
largest of its type in the empire^
the Aichi Aircraft Co.’s Mizuko
plant, producer of aircraft com
ponent parts; Aichi Aircraft’s At
suta plant, producer of engines and
other aircraft components: the Su
mitomo Aluminum Company
Works; The Hokuku Machinery
Co’s Atsuta plant, The Yahagt
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Jap Subs Seen
On East Coast
WASHINGTON, May 16.—A
disclosure that Japanese subma
rines have been operating in the
Atlantic came from the Navy to
day.
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, com
manding the Atlantic fleet, told •
news conference in unfolding some
of the long-held secrets of the
“battle of the Atlantic” that Ameri
can craft had sunk one Japanese
submarine late last summer Juid
south of Iceland.
He said it was identified by blot
sam which rose to the surface af
ter its destruction.
TTiis was the first word that
Nipponese undersea raiders had
joined—or attempted to join—Ger
man U-boats in harrassing Allied
shipping in the Atlantic.
A giant 1,600-ton German sub
marine carrying three German
Luftwaffe officers and aviation
plans and equipment headed for
Japan surrendered Sunday in the
Atlantic.
Admiral Ingram told a news con
ference that from the time of our
entry into the war "we know
definitely that we sank 126 U-boats,
most of them far from our shore,1''