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Two Separate Heavy Bombardment Air Units Will Batter Janan
EIGHTH BEING
REDEPLOYED TO
JOIN 20TH
^ 8th Will Use B-29's And
Such Other Ships As
Are Needed
JAPAN EASIER TARGET
WASHINGTON, June 21—
(JP)—The strategic bombing
of Japan will be carried out
by two separate heavy bom
bardment forces, the 20th and
the 8th.
This was disclosed today In a
news conference with Lt. Oen.
James H. Doolittle, chief of the
8th air force which now is being
redeployed from Europe to the
Pacific area.
In answer to a question about
the general setup, Doolittle said:
"The eighth will be under my
command; the directives will
come from the joint chiefs of
staff,”
This will parallel operations of
the 20th air force, commanded
by Gen H H. Arnold.
Hie 21st bomber command, (a
part of the 20th air force), based
on Saipan, has been conducting
the attack on the Japanese home
Islands. The 20th is directed
from Washington and the strate
gy is determined by the Joint
chiefs of staff here.
Doolittle said that Colorado
8prings, Colo., will be the head
quarters of the 8th Air Force while
it is retraining in this country.
SUCH AS NEEDED
| Asked whether the 8th would use i
only the Superfortresses used by
the 20th, Doolittle said that the
"decision to date is to have B-2as
and such other ships as are need
ed.” He was unable to say whether
the B17s used along with the B24s
in the bombardment of Germany,
would be part of the 8th Air Force
in the Pacific.
He said the 8th hoped to have
long-range fighters as part of its
Pacific organization.
While Doolittle gave no further
details on the Pacific air organi
zation, he said there would be
an announcement on the strategic
command in that area soon.
He said he believed Japan would
be easier to destroy industrially
than Germany because:
1. There is a greater concentra
tion of Japanese Industry than
was found in Germany.
2. The targets in Japan are
tnore Inflammable.
3. The Japanese war economy
and industry do not have the re
cuperative power which Germany
had.
4. The Japanese he said, have
not had time to put their factories
underground as the Germans were
doing in the closing months of the
European war.
JODL REVEALS
1 NAZI SECRETS
PARIS, June 21—WV-An Intelli
gence officer of supreme headquar
ters who questioned Col. Oen.Ous
tav Jodi and other high German
officers said today that Nazi armies
were under orders to Invade Great
Britain for three months after the
fall of FYance. #
The plans finally were cancelled
as too hazardous.
The Interrogation of Jodi, Field
Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Field
Marshal Albert Kesselring brought
out these additional points, the
off leer said:
The German high command had
guessed the place, strength and
approximate date of the invasion of
France, but could not press Gen.
Elsenhower’s forces back Into the
sea.
Hitler’s decision to Invade Rus
sia—previously believed to have
been solely that of the Fuehrer—
was shared by the high command,
which declared there had been a
progressive build up of soviet
forces arrayed opposite German
forces in the east.
Tumultuous Welcome
For Gen. Eisenhower
KANSAS CITY, June 31. — (Jf) —
General of the army Dwight D.
Elsenhower and 53 members of his
official party returning from Eu
rope came home today to his na
tive mlddlewest to receive a tumul
tous two-state home-coming cele
bration and greet his 83-year-old
mother, Mrs. Ida E. Elsenhower, of
Abilene, Kas., and four toothers.
GEN. BUCKNER’S BODY TAKEN TO REAR FOR BURIAL—The body of Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner,
Jr., U. S. 10th Army commander, is taken to a Marine Corps evacuation plane for removal to a rear area for
burial shortly after he was killed by Jap shell fire at a front line observation post on Okinawa. Death came
to him June 18.—(AP Wirephoto from Marine Corps via Navy radio).
FORCES JOIN
NEAR LfUCHOW
Two Forces Meet 6 Miles
Southwest, Another 10
Miles Awoy
CHUNGKING, June 31 —<JP>
Chlnese troop* converging on the
former American air base city oi
Lluchow have joined forces sta
miles southwest of the rail and
road junction and another force
from the west has reached a point
10 1-2 miles away on the Kwei
chow-Kwangsi railroad, the Chi
nese high command announced.
The linked Chinese forces
pressing toward the suburbs oi
Liuchow, were engaged in bitter
battles with the enemy. Chinese
forces have advanced to within
three miles to Liuchow airfield,
U. S. 14th air force bomber base
wrecked and abandoned to the
Japanese seven months ago.
Meanwhile, the high command
announced, Japanese forces strik
ing northeastward from Limkng
at the neck of' the Hoihong (Liu
chow > penirisula about 200 miles
southeast of Liuchow — possibly
to safeguard their communica
tions with Hainan island to the
south—were repulsed. It was ad
mitted, however, the enemy had
advanced beyond Shekkio, his
tirst objective, about 20 miles
southeast of Llmkonk.
In Chekiang province the Chi
nese lashed at enemy forces with
drawing northward along the
coastal highway from the aban
doned Port of Wenchow, 220 miles
south of Shanghai.
WHAT’S DOING
TODAY
7:00 pm.—Kiwanis club meets
at Hotel Charles.
7:46 pjn.—First Baptists con
duct services at Highland mis
sion.
FRIDAY
12:30 pjn. — Rotary club
meets at Hotel Charles.
6:30 p.m.—Presbyterians have
church picnic at the church.
8:00 p.m.—Regular communi
cation of Cleveland Lodge 202
A. F. and A. M. at lodge room*
8:15 p.m.—Baseball game at
high school park between
Shelby and Gastonia legion ju
nior teams.
THE WAR TODAY:
Newsman Thinks War With
Japan May Ran Into 7947
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, . Writer
By J. M. ROBERTS, Jr.
AP Foreign Affaire Analyst
The Tokyo radio, broadcasting
is though it had something new,
ieviated today from its recent fret
ting over imminent invasion to re
cord that the United States has
started long and complicated pre
parations against Japan.
That’s not exactly what you
would call a military secret. Aside
from unconditional surrender, the
Japanese have no other future, and
there are few signs that is being
considered. Tokyo broadcasts on
the subject are almost Identical
with those which emanated from
Berlin a few months ago. One of
ficial broadcast that, for the Jap
anese people, “there is no choice
but to take death.”
The big question is when we will
be able to deliver that death. It
can be answered specifically only
by events.
Clean-up operations are proceed
ing throughout the Pacific while
the invasion preparations go for
ward.
Important troop contingents, re
See NEWSMAN Page 3 3
Stilwell Selected
To Succeed Buckner
General Is Veteran Japanese Fighter, Headed Slim
U. S. Command Driven Out Of Burma By Japs
By Spencer Davis
MANILA, June 21.—(/P)—Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell,
switched from his post as chief avmy gfbund forces to
the Pacific, has been selected by Gen. Douglas MacArthur
to command the U. S. 10th army now mopping up on Oki
nawa, it was announced today.
BLANTON FIRMS
BUY $1,250,000
Blue Ridge Insurance Gets
$450,000 Of Bonds,
M fir J $800,000
Purchase of $1,250,000 of bonds
In the Seventh War loan for the
accounts of Blue Ridge Insurance
company, which recently moved
its home offices to Shelby, and of
the M & J Finance company, both
of which he heads, was announced
today by Fred W. Blanton.
The entire purchase of $450,000
for the insurance company was di
rected to be credited to Cleveland
county, while a distribution of
credit for the $800,000 purchase
for the finance company was nec
essitated by the fact the firm oper
ates through branches In many
cities, Mr. Blanton said.
Over-all bond purchases for
Cleveland county have reached
$2,456,000, exceeding the quota of
$2,089,000, but E bond sales con
tinues lagging so badly that lead
ers of the campaign are hopeful
of approaching the $744,000 quota
but have little reason to think it
will be attained unless heavy buy
ing develops immediately.
Laval To Give Up
MADRID, June 21. —(AP)— Pierre
Laval, former Vichy chief of gov
ernment who fled to Spain shortly
before the German collapse, has
now promised to surrender volun
tarily to French Justice when he
completes perparations for his de
fense, it was learned on good auth
ority today.
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transfer to the Pacific ocean area
theater and his appointment to
the command vacated by the death
in action on Okinawa of Lt. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr„ was
announced from MacArthur’s head
quarters.
The assignment culminated a
series of conferences among Stil
well, Mac Arthur and other field
commanders in the Pacific area
GEN. JOSEPH W. STILWELL
recently, and it Is assumed he will
take over the Tenth army as soon
as he can get there.
Stilwell conferred with MacAr
thjir earlier this week. He left
headquarters several days ago but
still Is in the Pacific area.
It is believed he will take com
mand of the Tenth army upon his
arrival.
MacArthur as commander of the
army forces in the Pacific has over
all jurisdiction of the Tenth army,
but the Okinawa campaign was
under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and
under the operational control of
the joint chiefs of staff.
STOP-GAP CHIEF
Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, a Ma
rine general, now is serving as a
stop-gap commander of the Tenth
army in the mopping up opera
tions on Okinawa.
The 63 - year - old Stilwell,
known as “Vinegar Joe,” knows
the enemy as do few other field
commanders.
After his long and distinguished
service in the Burma-China the
ater, he was known to have been
anxious to take another crack at
the Japanese as a field command
er.
He had served as U. S. com
See STILWELL Page 3
MEAT SHORTAGE
TO BE WORKED
OUT-TRUMAN
Praises Work Of Confer
ence; Denies Intent To
Dismiss Ickes
ENJOYINGVACATION
By Ernest B. Vaccaro
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 21.
—(/P)—President Truman to
day praised the work of the
San Francisco conference,
promised the meat situation
would be straightened out
and denied reports of con
templated removal of Interior
Secretary Harold L. Ickes.
In his first press conference since
leaving the White House the Presi
dent also expressed gratification
over the senate’s approval of legis
lation extending the reciprocal trade
agreement program with further
tariff lowering authority.
He announced that he would stop
over in Portland, Ore., at 11 a.m.
(Pacific war time) Monday enroute
to San Francisco where he expects
to arrive at 4 p.m.
The President expressed confi
dence .the senate will take favorable
action on the Bretton Woods agree
ments as well as the reciprocal
trade legislation. The latter, he said,
permitting direct quotation, “Places
the United States squarely behind
the principles of international trade
cooperation.”
He came out flatly in favor of
the postwar completion of the
Alaskan highway in cooperation
with British Columbia and Cana
da. He said there is about 600 miles
of road up the trench to complete.
Would Transfer
Food Control To
Fight Shortages
WASHINGTON, June 21 —(£>>—
Broadening a recommendation
from Herbert Hoover, representa
tive Jenkins (R-Ohio) today pro
posed a price control amendment
transferring all OPA powers over
food to the agriculture depart
ment.
Jenkins read to the house
yesterday a letter from Hoov
er in which the former presi
dent and World War I food
administrator called for “an
administrative revolution” to
combat meat and fats short
ages.
Referring to scarcities in cities,
Hoover criticized conditions he
said produced black markets and
set forth a 12-point program de
signed to meet the problem. He
suggested concentrating authority
under a system where no govern
ment subsidies would be required.
“The existence of black markets
in meats and fats (except milk)
in every city of the country,”
Hoover wrote, “is sufficient evi
dence of a breakdown in control
of both distribution and price.”
VOTE ON TRANSFER
Voting begins tomorrow, to strip
OPA of food pricing and rationing
authority and transfer the respon
sibility to the War Food admin
istration, under the agriculture
department. Rep. Clinton P. An
derson (D-NM) takes over July 1
as both secretary of agriculture
and WFA administrator.
The amendment will not at
tempt to embody all the proposals
put forward by Hoover. Most of
the recommendations, Jenkins
said, should be considered as a
matter of administration.
“The secretary of agriculture,”
Hoover said, “should be not only
food administrator, as the Presi
dent has already announced, but
in my view the secretary of agri
culture should also have physical
ly transferred to him all of the
price and other powers and staff
of OPA which are concerned in
any way with animals and animal
products, including feed, except
the mechanical job of rationing.
That the OPA should continue.”
FOOD POOL
In his other points, Hoover pro
posed “one national food pool un
der the direction of the secretary
of agriculture and upon which the
armed forces should have the first
call.” He said there should be
"genuine organized cooperation”
with the farmers and the legiti
mate trades.
"If not already done,” he recom
mended, “all of the legitimate
See WOULD Page X
Japs In Cagayan Valley
Caught Between Yanks,
And Entrenched Igorots
By Spencer Davis
MANILA, June 21.—(/P)—A force of possibly 30,000
Japanese was herded north up the Cagayan valley today by
onrushing columns of the 37th Ohio infantry division—to
ward fierce Igorots bent on adding them to the more than
400,000 enemy casualties on Luzon.
o.ne .Nipponese were railing oack
on Aparri, a scant 100 miles ahead
of 37th advance patrols, with no
where to go once they reach that
northernmost city on Luzon.
On the west side of the Ca
gayan river, which splits the val
ley, the Igorots and other Filipi
no guerrillas waited in long
prepared positions to frustrate
any Nipponese attempt to find
refuge among the wild, spiny
ridges of the Cordillera moun
tains.
Maj. Robert S. Beightler’s Buck
eyes drove unchecked north of cap
tured Hagan and its grass-grown
airstrip. The backtracking foe was
hounded by planes, some flown by
Mexican pilots, which are making
as many as 300 sorties a day in sup
port of the Luzon operations.
CASUALTIES
Latest field advices added 336
more Japanese to the daily-mount
ing casualty lists.
On Borneo, Australian forces
have made a new landing, this
time at the northern head of
Brunei Bay to give them control
j of ‘‘the shores bordering both en
trances into the bay,” headquar
ters announced today.
The Diggers crossed the five
mile strait from previously cap
tured Labuan island in a move
I which would block any attempt of
the Japanese to attack from Jes
selton, 60 miles north.
BOMBER ATTACKS
Headquarters reported another
in the daily series of attacks by
heavy bombers on the oil center of
Balikpapan on Borneo’s east coast
but still said nothing concerning
repeated enemy broadcasts that
an Allied fleet is offshore, shelling
and minesweeping.
In dozens of small scale mopping
up operations on Luzon and Min
danao island fronts of the Phil
ippines, ground forces killed more
than 350 Japanese Tuesday and
captured 160 others.
Some of the stiffest fighting was
in the Davao gulf area of south
ern Mindanao where Associated
Press War Correspondent Richard
Bergholz reported U. S. 41st di
vision troops captured Calinan.
Work Of Conference
Virtually Finished
General Assembly May Discuss Any Question "With
in Scope Of Charter Written Here"
By John M. Hightower
Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—(A3)—A charter embrac
ing the views of 50 united nations was wrapped up today
into a world document designed to maintain peace.
12 OF 16 POLES
ARE CONVICTED
Sentences Range From
Four Months To Ten
Years In Prison
MOSCOW, June 21—(A3}—1Twelve
of 10 Poles accused of subversive
activities behind Red army lines
were convicted by a Soviet court
early today and given sentences
of from four months to 10 years
in prison. Three were acquitted
and the trial of another was
postponed.
The heaviest sentence—15 years
—was imposed upon Maj. Gen. L,
Bronislaw Okulicki, commander
of the underground home army
after the ill-fated Warsaw upris
ing.
Jan Jankowski, deputy prime
minister of the London Polish
government-in-exile and leader ol
the Polish underground move
ment, was sentenced to eight years
imprisonment.
The sentences will date from
the day of arrest, March 27.
(The Moscow radio, heard ir
London, said no appeal from the
sentences would be permitted.)
OKULICKI STOIC
Gen. Okulicki received his sen
tence stoically. His only show ol
emotion was a tightening of the
See 12 TO 16 Page 2
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brief holiday in Washington State
will bring the United Nations con
ference to a formal close with e
speech on international affairs
Tuesday afternoon.
Until that time the delegates
of the 50 nations represented
here will be busy with a variety
of technical problems and
speech-making sessions. But the
real work of the conference,
which met April 25, is accom
plished.
It reached that stage u last night
A committee approved an Austra
lian-Russian compromise empower
ing the proposed general assemblj
of nations to discuss and make re
commendations on any questior
“within the scope of the charter’
written here.
Thus ended a long struggle bj
small nations to make this assemblj
a “town meeting of the world’’ po
tentially capable of exerting th(
pressure of public opinion on the
big power controlled security coun
cil, even though it could exercise
no control over the council directly
EVATT LEADER
Victor Andrade of Bolivia, chair
man of the committee on assemblj
powers, attributed leadership in this
struggle to Foreign Minister Herbert
V. Evatt of Australia.
The last commission session to gc
over a chapter of the charter was
called today to receive the report
of Andrade’s committee.
From the stage of commission ac
tion the conference will move
through plenary sessions in which
the four commissions will formally
report various sections of the
See WORK Page 2
Secret Papers Show Nazi
Plans For Third World War
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WASHINGTON, June 21. —UP)—
A senate committee said today it
has obtained secret German docu
ments showing how the Nazis intend
to “hide” in strategic industries
while planning “a third attempt at
world conquest.”
The announcement was made by
Chairman Kilgore (D-WVa) of the
War Mobilization subcommittee of
the senate military group.
Kilgore said his committee will
open hearings next Monday on the
economic base for German aggres
sion”' and that additional facts will
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The announcement contained a
report on a meeting of German in
dustrialists at Strasbourg, Aug. 10
1944, Intended to make postwai
plans.
This document, Kilgore said, “is
evidence of how German industrj
worked hand in hand with the
Nazi party to unloose against the
world a war of aggression.
“Documentary material of this
type shows that with the defeat oi
the German army and the discred
See SECRET Page 3
I
COSTLIEST OF
WEST, CENTRAL
PACIFIC DRIVES
Gives America Strategic
Base Only 325 Miles
From Japan
35,116 UTs. DEAD
By Robbin Coons
GUAM, June 21.—(TP)—The
end of the Okinawa campaign
after 82 days of savage fight
ing was announced by Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz today, giv
ing American forces a stra
tegic base only 325 miles
from Japan.
Costliest of all the central and
western Pacific campaigns, the bat
tle of Okinawa took a toll of 35,116
Americans killed and wounded up
to four weeks ago, and cost the
enemy more than 90,000 dead.
While the big guns of the fleet
and the artillery battalions fell
silent, U. S. Tenth army forces still
hammered with tanks and flame
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the southern tip of the island, mop
ping up a handful of Japanese who
refused to surrender.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz In a spe
cial communique declared all or
ganized resistance had been crush
ed.
His announcement was made
shortly after Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur reported from Manila Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell, chief of army
ground forces, would take over
command of the Tenth army.
Victory was made three days
after Stiiwell's predecessor, Lt.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr.,
was killed by a Japanese shell
burst as he watched the final, de
cisive assault.
The general’s stand cost the
Japanese 87,343 killed and 2,565
taken prisoner up until Tuesday,
and the'* few soldiers still beside
him were hungry, thirsty and
short on ammunition.
U. S. army and navy casualties
from March 18—when fleet units
bombarded Japan’s inland sea in
preparation for the invasion—to
May 24 were 9,602 killed and 25,514
wounded—but they do not include
the last four violent weeks of the
campaign.
Largest Japanese island captur
ed by Nimitz’s forces, Okinawa was
invaded Easter Sunday, April 1,
with two strategic objectives.
First was the tightening of the
blockade of Japan. The second was
to provide fields for large numbers
of Amercian bombers to hammer
Japan into surrender or to soften
the home islands for American in
vasion.
Against the invaders of Okinawa,
the Japanese flung kamikaze (sui
cide) pilots and planes against the
American supply ships crowding
the surrounding waters, sinking at
least 24 and damaging 54, most of
them light, small vessels.
In all the enemy lost, by the
See COSTLIEST Page *
WPB CHARGES
WEIR EVADED
PRIORITY RULES
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON.—The War Pro
duction Board is bringing one o!
the heaviest non-compliance charg
es of the entire war against Ernest
Weir, head of the Weirton Steel
Co., for evading priority regula
tions. He is being charged with
violating priorities on 26 counts,
subject to a fine of $260,000.
The main violation, WPB charg
es, is that Weir used priorities to
obtain air-cooling equipment lor a
hospital, and then installed it in
the bar of the exclusive country
club operated for the benefit ol
the 300 top executives of the Weir
ton Steel Co. *
Weir did everything possible to
avoid having the charges brought
against him publicly. He even of
fered to pay a cash fine of from
$250,000 to $350,000 if War Produc
tion Board officials would settle
the matter without bringing public
action. However, they refused.
In addition to the air-cooling
unit, Weir also obtained through
his regular company priorities cop
per, aluminum, shower doors, and
other critical materials to install
showers and build a second-story
addition to the company’s swank
clubhouse.
The case against him is being
brought by the U. S. district at
torney in the northern district of
West Virginia.