The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1945 VOL. LXV., NO. 9959 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ————————— — ] PRICE TEN CENTS MINES STREWN IN WATERS OF JAPAN EISENHOWER GOES ON BIG FOUR COUNCIL Will Repre_sgt U. S on Control to Be Exercised Over Germany By Elten C. Fay WASHINGTON, May 11 — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will represent the United States on the Four- Power Control Council for Ger- many. This was disclosed today War Department announcement of plans for America’s part in occupy- ing Germany. The United States unit in the Allied Control Council will be divided into +12 major divi- sions corresponding generally to the ministries of the German Cen- tral Government. Included will be a special in- telligence section to detect and “ruthlessly” suppress any Nazi underground activities. Eisenhower’s role upon at the Yalta meeting. Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay will serve as deputy to Eisenhower and also will be “Deputy Military Governor for Germany,” the department said, without amplifying this latter ref- erence. Clay, a West Pointer was attached to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion until last month, when he was trans- ferred to Supreme Allled Head- quarters. The announcement said that United States Army, Navy and Air Forces had perfected over a period of many months and in coordina- tion with the British, Russians and French a “coordinated program to impose a stern military government over all of Germany and to carry out the policies agreed upon at Yalta.” It did not, however, offi- cially define the area of American | occupation. in aj was agreed “Big Three” The Washingtoni Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.* SAN FRANCISCO—The play-by- | play’ account of what went on be- | hind the scenes after the United; Nations Conference reluctantly voted to admit Argentina can now be revealed. After Stettinius forced a public| vote on the Argentina issue despite Russian requests for delay, he sud- denly found himself catching criti- | cism from the press and the public. Greatly upset, he hastily called a closed-door .meeting of the Ameri- can delegation. The air was charged with tension. Young Rockefeller broke the ice by launching into a eulogy of the way Stettinius had handled him- self. “This country is fortunate to have its affairs in his hands,” praised Rockefeller. Another Argentine rooter, Assist- ant Secretary Jimmy Dunn, started to chime in but was interrupted by shrewd Hamilton Fish Armstrong, key U. S. adviser. “I'm very disturbed by all this,” said {‘rmstrong. “I think we ought | to call the press in and explain the American position. The press is calling us Fascists and Stettinius is being put in a reactionary posi- tion.” But Minnesota’s quick-thinking Harold Stassen, who had been cool to Argentina’s admission, inter- rupted: “Oh yeah, what are you going to tell the press when you get them in?” John Foster Dulles, who once| represented Dictator Franco, ob-! served that he too was worried about the public reaction. “It's very important,” Dulles said, “that the public doesn't get the feeling that our delegation is re- actionary.” Again ex-Governor Stassen in- terrupted to say: “I don’t under- stand - why we have to be so apologetic about something that was discussed fully in here and was then voted upon and passed. The important thing is that we work together. It's impossible to { stroyed. |oners and both were Hitler's depu- |ranking Nazis awaits creation by PROSECUTION FOR WAR (RIMES IS BEING PLANNED Organizations as Well as| Individuals Going fo Face Trial By Jack Bell SAN FRANCISCO, May 1l1—An American proposal to try organiza- tions as well as individuals for war crimes was interpreted today as opening a legal road for the use| of forced labor in rebuilding war- devastated Europe. The proposition was reported re- ceiving favorable consideration from representatives of Britain,; Russia and France assembled here for the United Nations Conference. Presumably it was taken back to Moscow by Soviet Foreign Com- missar Molotov. Acting as the personal repre-| sentative of President ’l‘rumnn.] Judge Samuel I. Rosenman worked with Secretary of State Stettinius! in discussing the program with! Foreign Ministers and their aides. The State Department disclosed | the plan which calls for organiza- tion of an International Military Tribunal to try the major indi-! viduals and organizations accused | of atrocities and war crimes in Europe. | State Department officials ex-| plained that presumably the Nazi party or any of its adjuncts—and conceivably the German Army—! could be charged before such a court with war crimes, If the or- ganizations were convicted, the! members then would become sub- | ject to penalties. ‘Thus, if the German SS organi- zation were found guilty, its indi- vidual members might be sentenced to hard labor in reconstruction | work in Russia, France and Eng-/ land. Such an arrangement would give court backing to use of Germans to rebuild what they had de- CRIMINALS SLATED LONDON, May 11—A highly re- liable source said today that Rudolph Hess, Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goering all have| been listed by the United Nations| as war criminals and there is strong | possibility that Grand Admiral| Karl Doenitz also will have to face trial for his life. This informant estimated that between 4,000000 and 6,000,000 Germans might be forced to atone | for their nation’s atrocities if the proposed plan of pool punishment is adopted by the victorious powers. Hess and Goering both are pris- ties. Himmler, the hangman head of the Gestapo, is a fugitive. The machinery for determining the guilt or innocence of the top-| the United States, Russia, Britain and France. The issue was referred to their Foreign Secretaries for working out details. These facts were learned, how- ever: 1—Trials under present plans will be public, on the theory that these will prove the best lesson possible to convince the German people of their errors. 2—Neutral nations will be denied a place on the bench. 3—Strong sentiment exists for the trial of industrialists who used slave labor, as well as those who formulated the policies which made such conscription of foreigners pos- sible. The War Crimes Commission has headquarters here and has 16 members. Russia is not one of them. ———eeo— JURORS ARE EXCUSED T0 MONDAY, MAY 21 John H. Walmer, Clerk of the District Court, announced today that Judge George F. Alexander directs that -all jurors serving on the present jury panel are to return for jury service at 10 o'clock, Mon- day morning, May 21, instead of next Monday as heretofore in- structed. e e ANCHORAGE MEN HERE TRUMAN'S MOTHER WILL VISIT HIM AT WHITE -HOUSE BULLETI WASHINGTON, May 11—Mrs. Martha Truman, the President’s mother, arrived at the Washington Airport after Small Power Block Wants Biggir Yoice [GILL NETTER IS DROWNED OFF Mike Richard Johns, Indian fish- erman, was the victim of a mishap on Gastineau Channel last evening, reportedly drowned off the mouth of SHEEP CREEK| a four and a quarter hour plane ride from her Missouri home. She was welcomed by her son. By Ernest B. Vaccard WASHINGTON, May 11 — The ‘White House bustled with prepara- | tion today for the arrival of Presi- | dent Truman's mother. Mrs. Martha Truman, alert and :cheeflul for all her 92 years, plans to fly here from Independence, ! Missouri, to spend Mother’s Day with her son and join with millions of other Americans Sunday in thanksgiving for victory in Europe and in the hope of early peace in the Pacific. By solemn proclamation, Mr. Truman set aside Sunday as a day of prayer when he announced com- plete and unconditional surrender | of Germany last Tuesday. | Sheep Creek, when he fell over-| 'SURPRISE AWARD ' MADE BY JURORS IN ROLFE CAUSE Jury Finds Error in Com- plaint Figures - Ups } 2,000-PLANE 'RAIDS T0 BE MADE, JAPAN SUPERS MAKE MORE RAIDS, JAP EMPIRE |Seaplane Base Near Kobe 'Lime Nations “at Confer- ence Demand More Say on Use of Force By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diplomatic Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, May 11—The United Nations Conference ap- peared today to be developing into a strong bloc of small nations de- termined to win themselves greater authority over the proposed use of force to prevent future wars. ‘The issue is coming sharply to the fore in conference committees considering amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world peace Qrganization as it was drawn up by Britain, China, Russia and the United States in Washington last fall. Small Nations' Proposals Subsequently, he arranged for his | Here are current top develop- mother to fly here for their first | meeting since Mr. Truman took ments: over the nation’s leadership on the| 1—Prime Minister Mackenzie death of Franklin Delano Roose- (King of Canada told a committee velt April 12. |on functions of the Security Coun- Mr. Truman calls his mother |Cil. Which is the exclusive, powerful “Mama” and beams happily when |COre Of the proposed organization, |she tells him to “be good” or re_;that any nation whose troops were (to be used against an aggressor |should be permitted a voice in the council’s decision to take force- | ful action. 2—New Zealand suggested that the proposed world assembly of |nations—to which the Dumbarton minds friends he once plowed the straightest row of any farm boy in Missouri. e — KONRAD HENLEIN { thority—should have the right -to |Oaks plan would assign little au-; board from his 28-foot gill net boat. His body had not been recovered up {to early this afternoon and search for it was continuing under direction |of the U. S. Coast Guard. Jones is survived by his widow, the former Dora Davis, and two children. He previously resided at Haines, Alaska. He was 27 years old. | The accident tQat resulted in | Johns’ death occurred at 6:20 o'clock last evening. He and a fishing part- ner, Robert E. Schoppert of Juneau, were enroute to the Taku River to fish. Each was aboard his own boat. Schoppert had started out ahead from Juneau and had just been overtaken by Johns. It was first in- itended that Johns would tow Schop- pert’s craft, but Johns was having trouble with his engine and when, the two boats were brought side by | side it was decided that each would | go on alone. Schoppert, whose motor was stop- | ped, had just shoved off from Johns' boat and was facing away from it {when he heard an outcry. Look- ing back he say Johns in the water/| some distance away. Schoppert im-| | mediately put his skiff over and| rowed to the spot, but when he! still was about 10 yards away Johns | sank below the surface of the Chan- ynel. He never did come up again, i Schoppert said. “I fished for him | with an oar, but could not feel him,” he added. Schoppert hailed a passing boat which put into Thane and reported | |t occurrence to the Coast Guard.| L1, Gen. Doolittle Discloses Plans to Atfack Nip Empire Amount in Verdict Two and three-fourth times um‘ amount prayed for by the plaintiff| in his complaint was awarded this morning by the trial jury to Walter Rolfe from Edwin A. Kraftowner (By Associated Press) iof radio station KINY. LONDON, May 11—Lt. Gen The sealed verdict returned in U.{James H. Doolittle, commander of | S. District Court here by Jury Fore-|the U, S. Eighth Air Force, who led | man Eugene G. Nelson awarded|the first aid raid on Tokyo predicted /$4.802.90 to the former technician |today that 2,000-plane raids would be ! |at the Juneau broadcast station. The | made upon Japan. jamount that had been asked in the| “The size of the American air| | complaint was $873.81 plus an equal force operating against Japan will| amount as liquidated damages. Ad-|continue to be increased as airfields | | ditional claims for interest the Court|become available and supply routes| | had instructed the jury to disregard.| and communications bases are estab- Judge George F. Alexander also|lished,” Doolittle said at & press con- charged the jury to return a mini-|ference. mum award to the plaintiff of| He disclosed that the -personnel $348.60, an amount which, including |strength of the Eighth Air Force in| | | | | | TAKES OWN LIFE WITH U. 8. THIRD ARMY IN CZECHOLSOVAKIA, May 11—Kon- rad Henlein, who before the war de- approve or reject any security Schoppert retrieved Johns' boat, but| council action. This is bluntly op- did not go aboard it, and remained {posed by the big powers. lat the scene until a Coast Guard| 3—A Cuban proposition that the 'vessel arrived and search for the vic- penalties, the defendant admitted | owing. | Immediate objection to the ver-! dict was taken by Defense Attorney |Howard D. Stabler on the ground that the verdict was improper, be- ing an award of more than twice what Rolfe had asked. Question- ed by the Court as to how the jury had arrived at the amount of the verdict, Foreman Nelson stated that an error had been found in the cal- culations embodied in the complaint | and that the jury had re-computed | the amounts in accordance with the Court’s instructions, arriving at the higher figure. In addition, the plaintiff had ask- ed for ottorney fees and court costs which.are in the Judge's province to! allot. | Attorney Stabler followed up his| objection to the verdiet by motions England now numbered npproxlmnt.‘ ely 20,000 men and women. | Force To Come To Pacific | Doolittle said part of the Eighth| Air Force's manpower and equip- ment would be moved directly to the | Pacific and the rest would be sent! back to the United States or would be kept here indefinitely as part of | the Allied Occupation Air Force. He indicated that large numbers of | flying fortresses and Liberators used in battering Germany would be| shifted to the Pacific, where they would be used in the role of “med- ium bombers” augmenting opera- tions of the ever-increasing fleet of Superfortresses. Doolittle disclosed that the present bomber strength of the Eighth Alr Force exceeded 2,400 One of Six Targets Hit ~Chinese Trap Nips BULLETIN-GUAM, May 11- Mines strewn by Superfortresses in every major port of Japan furnished new hazards today for the ‘lmnrl-l Navy and Merchant Marine, both already pared to a fraction of pre-war strength by U. 8. planes, war- ships and submarines. The Twentieth Bomber Com- mand disclosed that B-29's, in history's greatest aerial mine- laying operations, have planted floating explosives in Tokyo Bay, the Inland Sea, Singa- pore harbor and other former havens of Japanese shipping. The most frequently used waterways were described as “polluted” by American - laid mines, ’ By Leonard Milliman (Assoclated Press War Correspondent) Japan tried to strengthen its polit- ical position in threatened corners of its crumbling empire today as some 200 Superforts thundered over six targets on the home islands in a daily preview of predicted 2,000 plane raids against Nippon. All Tokyo spokesmen app to agree there was "no alternative” for the Mikado's war lords but to continue fighting despite slow attri- island m and a threatened de- |bacle in China. Chingse Trap Japs A Chinese Army spokesman re- Liberators and Fortresses. Air Power Strength Doolittle was'asked what part he | security council be enlarged from |11 member nations, provided under | | Dumbarton Oaks, to 14 or 15, was debated in the committee on the {council yesterday but a decision yed pending further study. livered the Sudetenland to Hitler, died yesterday, a suicide in a war prison camp. It was reported at an American Camp Headquarters that Henlein slashed his wrists with a razor blade | Was dela concealed under adhesive tape in a| Trusteeship Issue cigarette case. | On the other big conference is-| By taking his own life Henlein es- |sues—how to govern the ex-enemy | caped execution by the cfi(:hosmv,k}wrmofles of both world wars—the | Government. He has been sentenced | “Big Five” powers appeared to be | to death in absentia by a Czechoslo- | steadily approaching an agreement. vak court in 1938. iRussh and China yesterday sub- i mitted trusteeship plans. These, tim was commenced. It is reported that Johns was wearing ordinary fisherman’s cloth- ing with high-top leather boots. Ac- cording to Schoppert’s statement, Johns apparently was unable to swim. The tide was in flood at the time. f Freak Weatherin Many Parts, Nafion| (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 11—A wide that the case be re-submitted to| the jury or a mistrial declared. The motions were denied. Members of the trial jury were ex- | cused until 10 o'clock Monday morning, May 21. Other members of | the petit jury panel had been ord-| ered to report in Court next Mon-| day morning. Whether they are to| be excused until the latter date has not been stated. It is expected that appeal from the verdict will be taken by the de- fendant. Meanwhile, counsel on both sides are wearing down their pencils refiguring the amounts in- volved. Final amount of the award to the plaintiff is within the power| | Laughing, he replied: expected to play in the final phase | of the war against the Japanese. “T only wish T knew.” | In answer to a question whel,herI he believed Germany would have| been defeated by airpower alone, Doclittle asserted “Under plans ad- mitted by the Allied High Command the European war could not have been won by airpower alone, but this war did not prove whether a war, could be won by airpower alone if all energy were turned in that dir- ection.” The Eighth Air Force’s public re- | jations staff, in a compilation today, | sald the force dropped an average, ilike those of the United States, \would provide for creating stra-| ALASKA PROPOSED | tegic trusteeships over Pacific Is-| | SEATTLE, May 11.—Rep. Hugh Delacy (D-Wash. from the national capital ment of a Federal Alaska Develop- ment Authority to assist in settling!| and developing the Territory after| the war. The Congressman said he and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.-, have been working with Alaska’s Delegate, E. L. Bartlett, on a bill to set up the authority. ! Its twofold purpose would be to underwrite and guarantee loans to war veterans and others to purchase, equip and develop farms and small businesses; to survey Alaska’s miner- al, oil and power resources, report- ing to Congress so the National Government could take action to develop them or make them avail-! able to private industry or business. The bill would set up the author- ity on about the same basis as the Federal Housing Administration. | The loans would be made by private business, but repayment would be guaranteed by the Federal Authority. He said he did not know whether such an authority would be placed‘ under direction of Secretary of In-| terior Ickes, who has aroused the ire of Alaskans by his management of Federal functions in the Terri- tory. Delacy said that point had not been determined. PR - 1 S BURDICK BACK Charles Burdick, Assistant Re- gional Forester, has returned to his Juneau office following a flight to Fish Bay. Division Supervisor John Brillhart, who flew out with Mr. Burdick, is to return here later aboard a Forest Service vessel. T s MALCOM RETURNS Mackay Malcom, interior deco- rater for the Baranof Hotel, re- turned to Juneau 'yelterdny from a buying trip to New York. He was on arrival here| today, | disclosed a proposal for establish-| istock today is 7%, American Can| of the Judge to determine when he| gives his judgment. STOCK GUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 11 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine | of one ton of bombs every minute! during the last months of the war against Germany. TOKYO BROADCAST WHAT'S DOING IN PRESENT CONFLICT Going “fo —A—\Enge Fallen Germany and Smash 96%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | 5%, International Harvester 87, Kennecott 87%, New York Central | 25Y%, Northern Pacific 26, U. 8. Steel 65%, Pound, $4.04. Sales, 1,070,000. Dow, Jones averages today are as | follows: Industrials, 163.21; rails,| 55.18; utilities, 30.49. | |ported that a sweeping Chinese counter-offensive has trapped thous- ands of Japanese and killed off at least a third of the 80,000 invaders who began driving toward the U.' S, Chihklang Air Base In Western China a month ago. He said Nippon- ese reserves were thrown into the lines as Chinese columns closed a pincers 40 miles from Paoching, main springboard of the abortive Japanese offensive. Significant Conference Japan's overall position was con- sidered in a significant meeting of five former Premiers and other elder statesmen with Premier Kantara The session had scarcely broken up when Japanese broadcasts reported political prisoners would be released in Thailand, civilian sup- port was asked In Sumatra to “consolidate the war-time structure” and the Mikado's Ambassador to Indo-China had been called home hurriedly for conferences. Three-Wave Strike Superforts following up yesterday's, initial and successful 400 plane raid against Japan's home island oil sup- ply sources, struck in three waves today. The heaviest blow was against the Kawanishi seaplant plant near Kobe, Japan’s largest. The two other strikes were directed in the morning and at dusk agains® Suzuki. and the British are reported near-|and in upper New York State. Tem- Colony Question | Because of the snow, transporta-, principle that colonial | American officials had hoped to| i PasFie ' PUNISHMENT FOR VIDKUN QUISLING IS FIRING SQUAD SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—Nor- | ! wegian officials said today that Vid- avoid all differences between na- tions and. people.” (Continued on Page Four) E. E. Davis and Bill Talbott, of able to purchase furnishings, drapes Anchorage, are guests at the Bar-|and materials needed to finish anof Hotel decorating the hotel, lands and other places having mili- |Section of the United States ex- tary importance. France intends no!perienced freak weather these past | plan of its own on this subject, 24 hours. Snow fell in New England ing agreement with the United |Peratures dropped to below freez- States contention that sfrategic ing over the Midwest area, and rain | {areas need special treatment in,fell in some regions. order to allow their development| Northern New England had its as Army and Navy bases. | severest May snowstorm in 25 years. Russia was reported to have tion and electric service has been | tossed a-potentially explosive propo-!’in',el'l’llpted in scores of towns in| sition into the committee on trus-, Maine, New Hampshire and Ver-| teeships last night. This would|mont. The storm had cost more! commit the United Nations to the |than $1,000000 in damages to crops, | peoples | communications and power systems. | should be assured of eventual in-| dependence—which could become a hot point of debate for empire nations. |avoid discussion of colonial ques-| tions here and to limit the whole problem of dependencies to that of setting up machinery for controlling former enemy territories. SEATTLE, May 11—In anticipa- tion of accelerated traffic between | Seattle and Alaska this summer, Pan | American Airways Clippers will op- erate 14 round trips weekly begin- ning today, Assistant Manager J. V. Roscoe announced. Space for at least 700 additional passengers each month will be made available by the increased service. The twice daily flights will bring Seattle 10% hours of flying time from Fairbanks, 7% hours from Whitehorse and 6 hours from Juneau. Three flights weekly will connect Seattle with Nome in 14 hour’s flying time. e MRS. KASTROMETINOFF HERE Martha Kastrometinoff, of Sitka, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. kun Quisling is due to get his day in court—no matter how long—before the day they expect to have him be- fore a firing squad. Here for the United Nations con- ference, they anticipate learning a lot later from the puppet ruler who | sold Norway out to the Germans, and whose name became a synonym for treason, and who is now sa!ely‘ Jailed. | i a2 S | HUMPHREY BOGART DIVORCED; T0 WED HIS LEADING LADY | LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 11— Humphrey Bogart was free today to marry his leading lady, Lauren Bacall. His wife of nearly seven years, Mayo Methot Bogart, obtained a divorce yesterday in a private hearing before District Judge George Marshall, The actor did not contest the action. Bogart announced recently that Enemy,” Report SAN FRANCISCO, May 11-—-“To avenge fallen Germany and to smash the enemy,” said Radio Tokyo, is the “true picture of the spirit today.” Paying tribute to the late Axis partner, Tokyo added: “The fight {Kyushu Island, where three air- {flelds and war industries at Miya- | kanojo and Nittigahara were bomb- |ed. Naval Plant Hit Simultaneously the Twentieth |Air Force reported photographs !uhowed previous raids had knocked out about 80 percent of the Tevhn put up by the German people mi “We are not interested in speedy‘h defending their Fatherland and,| ‘moreover, Fuehrer Hitler's ngmmg\ | pression in the minds of the Japa-| | nese people. | “Our feeling of sympathy and ad- | miration toward the Germans '\s‘ far stronger than that of contempt | or scorn and the determined feeling | of ‘now we are alone’ arises in the | wind of each and every Japanese.” Jjustice,” Hans Olay, a member of the Norwegian Legation in Washing- ton told a reporter. “Quisling will {have two months if that is the time “We want to go into Quisling’s dealings with the Germans before |Norway was attacked and through his reign so that we will have a com- plete record for history.” — e —— LUIS HERNANDEZ RITES Funeral services for Luis Hesx- nandez will be held Monday after- noon, May 14, at 2 o'clock in the Church of the Nativity. The Rev. Edward C. Budde will conduct the it takes to get his treacherous story. | e and Miss Bacall would wed on Author Lewis Bromfield's farm near Mansfield, Ohio, month. | declared that “when it comes to In her divorce action, Mrs. Bo- |fighting alone, the Japanese are gart charged the actor with “ex-|able to manifest tenfold strength.” The broadcast, recorded by the Acknowledging the peace in Europe has made “our future tre- i | \treme cruelty causing great men-f ]ul suffering and impairment” of; FCC, admitted that Japan “started| | the war on her own accord for her | {her health. | e | HALIBUT ARRIVALS | Returning from the halibut banks yesterday, the Oceanic delivered 125,000 pounds of halibut; the Reli-; 1ance came in with 7,000 pounds; the Freemont delivered 26,000 {lown reasons” and not with the “idea that Germany would take sides with us.” - e MISS PETERSON SOUTH Miss Thelma Peterson, beauty operator for Lucile's Beauty Shop, later this mendously difficult” Radio Tokyo! plant in the Tokyo area. On the closest battlefront to Japan the Sixth Marine Division bridged langorous?to his death, have left a deep 1’“'lnnd crossed the Asa River on the west coast of Okinawa. It was the biggest gain of four U. S. Divisions on the front where 38,857 Japanese have been Killed. Suicide Plane Attack Two Fleet Auxiliaries off Okin. awa-were damaged in renewed Jap- anese suicide plane attacks, one ~= which missed Rear Adm. Lawrence F. Reifsnider’s flagship by a few' feet. There was no further report of an isolated American’ battalion on Mindanao Island of the Southern Philippines, where other Twenty- fourth Division units were systemat- ically reducing Japanese strong- points. The Thirty-first was “Rapidly consolidating its advances” inland. The Mountain-Fighting 43rd was closing in o Ipo Dam, a major sburce of Manila's water. Australian troops penetrated the southern edge of Djoeata oil field pounds, and the Lynda, 4,000|left today for her home in Oregon on Tarakan, off Borneo, and killed services, She has been on a business trip to Kodiak, Cemetery. pounds. four cargoes at OPA ceiling prices. Xn'-en’nem will be in Evergreen! Sebastian Stewart purchased the via Pan American plane. She will {1,393 Japanese in scattered actions return sometime in June to resume {in the -Solomons, New Britain and her work here. New Guinea,