The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1945, Page 1

S A %-a@\-sa THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ; “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9976 CONFERENCE AT FRISCO FACES TEST Bloody Fighting in Syria Causes Split on Good Neighbor Policy By John M. Hightower Bomb Kills | Child KAI-SHEK RESIGNS AS CHINA PREMIER; - SOONG Jap Balloon-(arried - Woman,5 ren in _(_)regon LAKEVIEW, Ore., May 31.—A wo- man and five children were killed near here May 5 by a Japanese balloon-carried bomb. Lifting of a War Department sec- recy ban permitted disclosure of de- tails of the explosion, reported May 5 without explanation of the cause. | S00NG_ SUCCESSOR SAN FRANCISCO, May 31—The| CUNKGKING, May 21.—Chiang bloody fighting in Syria put to its|Kai-shek resigned today as Premier severest test today the Good Neigh- |and turned the post over to acting bor policy on which the United by | Nations are seeking to erect a newd as a world league to keep peace. Topping off Iran’s demand for withdrawal of Allied troops and the prolonged “Big Three” dispute over Poland, the outbreak in the Levant aroused new apprehensions of many delegations here over the ability of the big powers to work out their| world interests in unselfish manner. American officials, however, are telling these small nation represen- tatives that had the projected world organization already been in existence problems such as the Levant crisis, especially, probably would have been more easily and speedily solved. Stettinius Active Secretary of State threw his influence against letting any current issues interfere with the work of the conference. Offi- cials appeared confident that he would succeed and the league char- ter would be produced early in June. Stettinius was drawn directly into the Levant situation when a group of Arab delegates protested to him against French policy in Syria and Lebanon. The shooting started after Senegalese reinforce- ments arrived in the former French mandates and the two countries claimed a threat to their recently- won independence. Independence Policy The United States, Stettinius_told the group, stands firmly by its sup- port of their independence, but the a friendly and (Continued on Page Two) The Washingtion Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on aclive service with the Army.) (Lt. Today Drew Pearson con- tinues his series of columns on our difficult diplomatic rela- tions with Russia by diagnosing the Polish situation. Another column on Soviet relations will follow shortly. WASHINGTON — Back in 1927, this country reached its lowest ebb in relations with Latin America. Stettinius!| i Premier T. V. Soong in a move view- step toward solidifying {China at a time when the Allied |Nations are appiying tremendous | pressure on Japan from all quarters. Chiang retained his post as Pres- |ident of China and head of the |State. He also remains China’s | Generalissimo, and now will be able to concentrate fully on military tasks in this critical period of the yar on the continent of Asia. When Soong, Chiang’s brother-in- |law, became Acting Premier last {December, the shift was regarded as a popular one, possibly paving the lway for a working agreement be- tween the Central Government and |the Communists of North China.| |Soong’s attitude toward the Com-| |munists is known to be moderate. Soong's elevation to thel full Pre- | miership, or President of the Execu- {tive Yuan, as the post is designated {in China, raised the possibility that 'he would attend any forthcoming meeting of the Big Five leaders of |the United Nations. | | | It was the first recorded fatality of World War II within the United | States mainland caused by enemy | attacks. The six persons were killed in the ' mountainous country of Lake coun- JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1945 LIUCHOW IS SET ABLAZE BY NIPPONS KUNMING, China, May 31 —Liu~ chow, main Japanese road and hub in southern China, WAS ‘re- ported swept by fires set by its defenders today as Chinese troops {closed in on the city along a 50- | mile front. Signs that the Japanese were preparing to abandon the former American air base site, coming after their loss Sunday of Yung- ning (Nanning), 120 miles to the southwest, reinforced a growing be- lief here that Japan is about to ty when a small girl disturbed a)surrender the main military fruits high explosive bomb which was Japanese balloon. Killed were Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, wife of a Christian Alliance Church pastor, and five children she and her 1 husband took on a fishing trip; Jay Gifford, 12, Eddie Engen, 13, Joan Patzke, 11, Dick Patzke, 13, and Sherman Shoemaker, 12. All were; of Bly, Oregon. The Rev. Archie Mitchell, - only survivor of the tragedy, told offi-| cials here that Joan was climbing through the mountains a little dis- tance away from the rest of the party. “Joan came over and told us that |there was a white object nearby,” he said. “We went to investigate. It blew up, and killed them all.” Mitchell, who had not reached the | fallen balloon as soon as the others, |escaped the full violence of the blast. |He was not injured. 1 R i of her swift conquest of Indo- |part of the equipment of a fallen|China, Thailand, Malaya and The Netherlands Indies. Such a move would mean that Imperial Headquarters at Tokyo has decided to write off its invest- ment in men and material as a non-paying proposition, and to leave its forces south of China to i shift for themselves. The land cor- ridor serving those forces already has been almost severed by the submarines have made the sea lanes more of a- hazard than a link. Chinese, while American planes and | FIGHTING IS NOW RAGING INDAMASCUS (By The s-sociated Press) LONDON, May 31.—Heavy fight- ing raged in Damascus today, widen- ing the Syrian crisis to threaten re- lations between France and Britain. A responsible French spokesman declared in Paris that a direct col- !lision between Britain and France {was possible as a result of the fight- ing between Syrians and French {which already has cost 300 or more lves The French, insisting that the ble was mainly caused by outside lerence, claimed documentary evidence to back their stand. The Syrian Minister to France, {Adnan Bey Atasd, declared that iforeign intervention alone could now solve the problem. The only solu- tion, he asserted was for the French |to tlear out of Syria entirely. H His statement, issued just after a conference with U. S. Ambassador 'Jeflfl’sun Caffery in Paris, said ori- !ginally Sytia demanded only that the French troops be removed from the cities of the country. Both the French and British cab- éts held emergency sessions. Damascus dispatches written yes- terday and received today said chaos oY f inl fin | | The. situation at Liuchow um'rmvuned in the Syrian capital, after | suggested the possibility that Japan &n ull-night French bombardment of even planned to Qquit southeast'the city Tuesday night, and Cairo China, leaving only small holdout {dispatches said heavy fighting con- pockets while concentrating her |tinues toddy. strength between the Yangtze and| Clashes occurred all over the coun- ! Amur Rivers for a last-ditch de-'try and a rebellion of the fierce ! {fense of her continental possessions. | Druz tribesmen in the southern part i of Syria apparently was threatened. Moreover, Soong will be in a better position to talk to Premier Stalin on | the .matter.. of dmproving. relations.) |{between China and Russia should he CANADA The possibility first was sug- gested by the Japanese retreat from “Yungning ‘and “south areas such as Wenchow, Swatow Quiet prevailed in the neighboring Ififit State of Lebanon. - |night, Damascus - dispatches said, Karluk Fishing At Issue; Arnold Flays "Poliligs" Sta BULLETINS PARIS—Gen. de Gaulle recom- mended today that France have a general election befere the end of the year and the Cabinet unani- mously approved. MOSCOW—The four powers ap- pear to have reached agreements on zones of occupation, and are ready to set up headquarters. This is understood from Moscow's dis- closure that an inter-Allied Control Council for Germany will meet within a few days. | LONDON — The notorious Lord Haw Haw will be brought to England by plane today or tomor- row in custody of military guards and Scotland Yard men. The British traitor, William Joyce, served as a radio propagandist for the Nazis. WASHINGTON — President Tru- man's personal envoys, Harry Hop- kins and Joseph E. Davies, are completing their overseas missions, Hopkins expects to leave Moscow within a few days for the trip home and Davies will return after a Paris conference today with Gen. Eisenhower. WASHINGTON—Here's the cur- rent status of the Seventh War Loan Drive: The sales of “E” bonds now tof f;[,,per cent of the four billion dollar quota. On’ a Quota MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS nd of AFL ANCHORAGE, Aldska, May 31— Bitter coniroversy over claims of Alaskan Indians, to huge land and water reservations and exclusive| fishing rights, flared anew with the opening of the 1945 fishing season at Kodiak Island. After announcement by the Alaska Native Service that it would en!orcei exclusive fishing fights at the Kar- luk Reservation on Kodiak Island,| the Karluk Town Council, of Natives, agreed to issue fishing permits to white residents of Alaska only. Frank Marshall, Alaska leader of the American Federation of Labor, announced that the controversy is over, as far as his union is concern- ed; but, Canned Salmon Industry| representative W. C. Arnold issued the following statement: “Union leaders are playing poli- ties with the birthright of American citizens. This is the only possible construction I can place on the an- nouncement by Frank Marshall of | the AFL to the effect that he has| agreed his members will fish in the Karluk Indian Reservation under permits from the village of Karluk.| “I know there is a jurisdictional | dispute between the AFL and the| CIO, but I didn't know until now that the AFL was s0 anxious to pre- vail it would voluntarily sacrifice the interests of their membership and waive rights which American citizens have enjoyed since time immemorial—the right to fish in} waters below mean high tide lines. “The Canned Salmon Industry, acting for itself and for fishermen' using company gear, will make no sueh concession—either to serve ends of political expediency or any other| | | Okinawa Island. lvisit Moscow on his way back to |China from the San Francisco World | Security conference. He also will be | better able to engage in discussions with other international leaders. Chiang announced his resignation from the Premiership at a meeting {of the newly elected Central Execu- tive Committee of the Kuomintang, or Government Party. It was pre- sumed that Chiang intended, in view of the accelerated tempo of {the war in the Far East, to devote | himself primarily to the job of Su- {preme Commander in the China Theatres Soong’s popularity throughout the |country is expected to strengthen {the Central Government's hand in ithc military situation. REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE IS CALLED | | | { { | | | Republican Central Committee of TO TAKE FREIGHT !and Foochow. There were signs of 'when Syrian conscripts bolted from Japanese movements northward in the French forces and the French | the land corridor above Yungning. fired into the crowd which welcomed { basis for states, Mississippl is lead- [purpose. We will insist on our rights | ing the nation in the sale of “E” jand the rights of our fishermen. bonds. Montana is second and Ala-|We do not recognize the right of the bama is thid. Secretary of the Interior, or anyone FOR 60 DAYS YET Further waiver of Jones Act pro- | visionts as they apply to Alaska shlp-i ping was revealed here today by Col- | One of the reasons for such a concentration in the north may be Japanese fear of Russian inl.erven-; tion along the Amur River. { i | A | | i lector of Customs James J. Connors ! —extending, as is, wartime emer-| gency conditions in effect prior "°§ (HAM“R COMMER(E the order which was to have restored | the ban on use of Canadian vessels, GE“ ImonMA“o" 1 at midnight today. Previously, limitations regarding 0f lounls' pAR"ES passengers and freight to Sksgway!‘ had been granted waiver extension ' A letter from ran-Pacific Good | of 60 days to July 31. By the more Neighbor Tours, Inc., was read at recent order of the Acting Secretary {the Chamber of Commerce meeting of . the Treasury, Canadian vessels this noon in the Baranof Hotel may also continue to carry inter-{which concerned a plan for the first port freight for the same period. The tour in the summer of 1946. These| wire received here from the Cus- tours will be organized and rendy1 toms Bureau headquarters in Wash-imr booking late this summer. The' ington, D. C., states: {tours will consist of two groups of “Acting Secretary of the Treasury|30 persons each with a host and has waived compliance with Section hastess for each. 27 of the Merchant Marine Act (the) Steele Culbertson, Fishing Super- Jones Act) to extent necessary to|visor for Alaska, gave a brief history! permit transportation of merchan- of the salmon industry including its' dise on Canadian vessels between peginning, rapid development and | ports in Southeastern Alaska south,the valuable industry that it repre- of Yakutat and ports in British sents to Alaska. Columbia, as portion of transporta- Guests at the meeting were Dr.| and Continental United States, dur-|Nevada; Capt. John Hoogstad, the | Pan American World Airways Clip- the fugitives. Each side accused the other starting the shooting. PAN AMERICAN FLIES 41, WEDNESDAY TRIPS | of pers had 41 incoming and outgoing| passengers yesterday, 16 Seattle-| bound. 1 Passengers to Seattle were: Amy Montgomery, Mrs. Edith Trambitas, Judy Trambitas, Robert Pierce, Hugh Dougherty, Paul Kegel, Snrflhf James, Mrs. Jessie Welch, Rose Steiner, Mrs. Mary Reischl, Lena| Swanson, John G. Wilson, Ruth' Leichliter, Don C. Lillie, Webster Cole and Vance Bingham. PHILADELPHIA — This city is planning a welcoming party for |Gen. Omar Bradley, Commander of the Twelfth Army Group in the European theatre. He will arrive next Monday and the festivities in- clude a parade, ceremonies in In-| dependence Hall and an elaborate dinner. MANILA — Gen. MacArthur re- veals another aerial blow against enemy objectives in Formosa was struck Monday when more than 30 medium bombers hit Jap fuel plants, tions, MANILA—The Thirteenth Ameri- can Air Force attacked Japanese following 11 passengers: Lawrcnce! Buttes, Mabel Buttes, Winton Arn-! old, Jr., Etta Harvey, Lt. Ferdinand| Christensen, Anthony Stoll, Obermet. Passengers to Fairbanks yesterday Chairman Elton Engstrom of the|tion of merchandise between Alaska|R. N. Scruby, dentist from Reno,!totalled 11. They were Elsie Gers-! | A flight from Seattle brought the fuel installations on Borneo Mon- day with good results. VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius XII Sam today received in a private audience | | Daniels, Hazel Manoc™, Archie Lee| Former Chancellor Kurt Schus-| |Bennett, Larry Kinser and Eugene chnigg of Austria. Schuschnigg re-, | cently was released from a Nazi| concentration camp. railroads and communica- | |else, to set aside fishing areas in' Alaska for the special benefit of any one group of citizens, and to the ex-| clusion of other citizens.” | The matter will be brought to & head, it is declared, if non-residen fishermen should defy the Indian’ PRICE TEN CENTS e SUICIDE SQUADS ATTACK PACIFIC FLEET NEW TACTICS OF JAPANESE REVEALED American FEFIMK Over Shuri - Chinese Push on Against Nips By Leonard Milliman (Assqclated Press War Editer) Japan threatened today to ex- tend - Kamikaze suieide tactics to !all branches of the Imperial Navy iin an effort to halt the Allled ad- vance on Nippon as the American tlag flew over the shattered rem- nants of Shuri Castle, four cen- turies’ symbol of the rule on In China, where Japafiese Armies have been reparted withdrawing to {meet a promised full-scale Chinese counter-offensive, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek relinquished the Premiership to devote his full en- ergies to military affafrs. Two of China’s southern columns tightened a squeeze on blazing Liuchow, re- maining enemy stronghold on the broken Indo-China corridor. 4 Allled soldiers ' were reported tightening pockets on isolated groups of Japanese i fungle-grown Philippines, ‘on from either coast t ting up a stubborn bat! Shuri town, -« The American flag went up over the rubble-filled castle yesterday {afternoon, a day after one company of the First Marine Division had | broken into the virtually = aban- doned fortress at the end of 2 three-hour push through a mile of knee-deep mud, These Marines of | Company A, Fifth Regiment, killed Office and one of them is arrested. Spectators Warned: Walch Out for Spilled Blood! Baseball battle is fore-ordained to climax all heights of fury in Gas- tineau Channel diamond annals Fri- day evening at Firemen'’s Field when | the two companies of Juneau's Vol- junteer Piremen engage in their an-' {nual horsehide encounter for the!| 1 i i | { | | benefit of the Children’s Orthopedic| Hospital of Seattle. Bitterness has mounted day by day—till now it's at the apex, those |close to the situation reveal. Not since the days when former Fire) Chief Dolly Grey inspired red-| blooded (free-flowing) baseball has! the feeling been so intense, accord- | | defenses to off 50 Japanese ghd ran up’ the - Today, Marines pushed northward |to strike at.'thg rear of tank-sup- ported Nipj " holding off ele- ments of three U. S, divisions around Shwii, Army Division 4 in from east and sent patrols within 3 mile of the south coast of while the Sixth from Nahg, - eapital ;on coast. L) Despite the -raing,' Japanese sul- cide pilots got - through Ameriean its of the V. 3'»:4: 'xww un! ol . ) " 2 In less than & week these Kami- kaze attacks baye sunk one Amert- can ship and | An indication are doing was from Secretary 4 estal for mare workers coast ship bach, Mrs. Ana Osterman, Leo V.f wAsHlNGTbN—Pruldent Tru- | | ing to informed sources. 20,000 more 1,,,. needed - We had rushed troops. into Nica- | Alaska, at the request of J. C. Mor-|ing period June 1 and July 31, 1945,|new commanding officer for the Sal- ragua to protect U. S. Puppet|, penyplican Committeeman of|inclusive.” President Adolfo Diez, former agent for an American lumber company. We were writing scorching notes to Mexico because they had seized!| certain oil lands and big ranches. We also had troops in Haiti. The South American reaction was terrific. The, Latinos just didn't like us. Howevery this was our sphere of influence and the State Department was. determined that we do not budge an inch. The man who was sending many of those stiff notes was Under- secretary of State Joseph C. Grew, the same man who, now back in the same job nearly 20 years later, is still adopting the same nmfe-I writing tactics on Tito and Stalin.| In the middle of that crisis, the the Third District of Alaska, and Al- | mer Peterson of the Anchorage Re- | publican Club, has called a meeting tee of Alaska to meet at Juneau on; June 30, for the purpose of naming the date for the next Republican Convention to be held at Anchorage. The date of December 2, has been| adopted by the Anchorage Republi- ican Club and the purpose is to get ‘mlly grganized for the 1946 elec- tions. The Republicans now have three| possible candidates for Delegate,! and a full Legislative ticket will be, advocated in all Districts. The issue of the Republican Con-! vention will be directed as to opposi-; tion to many actions of past Leg-) Secretary of Alaska' Lew M. Wil- liams revealed also that the Depart- |representative from Idaho; Dr. O.|Lavery, | vation Army former, | Colorado; Delbert Hanks, Boy Scout Osterman, Jay Osterman, LeAna, y of Pt. Collins,|Osterman, Cecil M. Weolls, Susanne! the widow of the late Secretary of | | Taylor, Rica Lavery and lubelle' Dale A. Osterman. ment of the Interior has advised that J. Blende, Alaska Construction Co.;| Ted Woods was an incoming pas-| shipments on Canadian tenders which have been relieving acute shipping bottlenecks at smaller Southeast Alaska fishing ports where fish storage facilities are inade- quate to permit long earry-overs. S ee—— Ice Jams On Yukon Bomb‘edi British suddenly sent a cruiser into |islature, lack of harmony in Alaska, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 31.—A Nicaraguan ‘'waters. This writer was present when the news of t,hisI British impertinence was given to Acting Secretary of State Grew.| This was our sphere of influence.| Nicaragua was our problem. Yet| the British had the audacity to stick their nose into our business. The State Department let them know what they thought of the matter. RUSSIANS HAVEN'T LEARNED In the 18 intervening years, our| Latin-American relations have im-. proved and matured, in that area,| at least, we have grown up. But in Europe a government in Moscow has hot yet learned the (Continued on Page Four) among the officials in power and a party platform. - HALIBUT ARRIVALS New England Fish Company yes-| load of 168,000 pounds of bombs |dropped by Eleventh Airforce bomb-| {ers on ice jams in the Yukon River Ihas unblocked the stream and re- moved all danger to persons in the { flooded Galena region. Brig. Gen. Dale V. terday bought the halibut loads of} ¥ four boats which docked at the Ladd Field, said damage in the area Juneau old Storage. They were: De-!Was held to a minimum due to the fiance, 13,000 pounds; Thelma, 12,000} preparation by Army personnel in pounds; Fane, 2,000 pounds, and 31-|anticipation of this annual flood. A303 with 2,500 pounds. I an persons in the area made their Today, three of the four halibut|way to safe havens or were flown out Gaffney of| i {Dock rent to be paid by the North<j Are-| boat loads were also purchased by New England Fish Company. were: Valahala, 7,000 pounds; Ad- dington, 11,000 pounds and Nuis-| cance II, 8000 pounds. Alaska Coast Fisheries bought 10,000 pounds of halibut brought in by the Ten- nessee. They | ‘by Army and Navy planes. s WINS AWARD Andrew M. Zelenak, Coxswain, +attached to the organization of the ! Captain of the Port here, has been ! presented the Coast Guard Good ' Conduct Award. of the Republican Central Commit-|the extended waiver applies also t0,Dr. H, Clements, new physician in' iJuneau and Walter Donovan, Fish-| eries Market Specialist from Chicago and New York. | DOCK RENT REPORT " DUETOMORROW AT | | | The first June meeting of the {City Fathers, scheduled for tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock in the Juneau City Council Chambers at the City Hall is expected to be con- Ecemed mainly with reports of var- ious special committees recently or- | ganized. Highligh of the meeting is likely ito be the report of the board of ar- bitrators into whose hands was dumped the dispute over the City and Transporaion Company. \port is also to be made on pro- gress to date on erection of the ‘Cowan Hut purchased from the Army for City Storehouse use. — ., —— TABLE COVER WINNER H. R. VanderLeest received the hand-cut linen table cover awarded ‘Tuesday evening at Devlin's Shoe Store by the Catholic Daughters of | America, it was announced today. COUNCIL'S SESSION, senger from Whitehorse. Henry J. Menger was the Juneau! |to Whitehorse passenger and Fred Durocher flew to Nome. Today Pan American took 13 pas- |scngers to Seattle. They were Dr. |Nan P. Parkes, G. Allen, Thomas | Godsell, Minnie Stewart, Jessie Rey~ {nolds, Ray Hinkleman, Joseph Evers, Lt. Comdr. F. E. Willard, Russell Daly, Mrs. Minnie Hoffmeister, Fredinand Christensen, Frank Walls| and John Corey. { Mr. and Mrs. Leo Rogge were Fairbanks passengers. Incoming passengers from Seattle |were: Charles O'Hara, Lorraine| | Been; Ernest Willkinson and Eleanor Gordon. From Whitehorse to Juneau: Mrs. Peggy Ellis, Peter Ellis, Michael El-| |lis and Dorothea Schroeder. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 31 — Closing| price of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock |today is 7%, American Can 101%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 88, Kenne- cott 38%, New York Central 27%, | Northern Pacific 30%, U. S. Steel 57%. Sales today totalled 1,210,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 168.30; rails, 57.90; “ utilities, 31. I | |brated Memorial Day yesterday in man has presented a decoration to; the Navy Frank Knox. The Medal of Merit, awarded posthumously, | was given to Mrs. Knox during a White House ceremony attended by top-ranking Cabinet, Military and Naval officials. g WASHINGTON—The Senate Ag-| riculture Committee unanimously approved today the nomination of Representative Clinton H. Ander- | son( D.,, N. M), to be Secretary of| Agriculture. i PARIS — Gen. Eisenhower will| visit at least five places in the| United States when he returns home, around June 15. These are, Washington, New York, West Polnt.. Kansas City and his home town,| Abilene, Kans. cele- | NEW YORK-—The nation comparative sanity, only 69 persons | meeting accidental death over the! mid-week holiday. WASHINGTON—The War Pro- duction Board plans fo authorize the manufacture of 4,000,000 radio tubes monthly for civilian pur- poses. LONDON-The War Crimes Com- mission got started today in an atmosphere of secrecy, with repre- sentatives of 16 United Nations laying the groundwork for the trial of Nazis. {thopedic Hospital—which same we {the reserves will take over: Joe Johnston, Company No. 2's Captain, released the following statement today: 3 “We are confident of a smashing, victory over James Patrick Orme and his Company No. 1. After belunzl them to a frazzle in last year's fra-| cas and giving the purse to the Or- will do again this year—we feel cer- tain of the outcome.” Captain Johnston has tamnmuwed‘I the following line-up—with com- ments designed to inspire a spirit! of frustration in the opposition: | “Waino Hendrickson—any position | —will take No. 1 to the cleaners; ‘Wallis George, will put the game on ice for No. 2; Guy Gaudet—drives our wrecking crew; Ninnis and Heinke, aged but only slightly in- firm; Neiderhauser, has new tricks mixed with new San Francico ad- dresses in his little black book; Leonard Holmquist—our mound ar- besides baseball; MacLean—catcher —can hold onte a ball (or any- thing) ; Roy Noland, batted 1.000 {last year and out to better his rec- {ord; Ellis Reynolds, a man-eating (though somewhat mangy) Lion; Hunter—shortstop—has that bank-! er’s clutch. “P. 8. If our age gets us down,| Bud Walker, Joe Sadler, Walter McKin- non—all young, red blood. Slaughter is assured.” el e Machine guns used by Americans ! Japanese continue the Pacitic to repair repair repair to step up sul- cide attacks, despite record of airplanes which reached last month. since suicide attacks weapon remaining to {will be extended to all branches ot R A SO —— (Continued on Page mmvi | Japanese Assert Inflicled on Fleet | san PRANCISGO, May 31-apas |tist—we know he can pitch plenty (nege news sgency Domel ‘sald today that the Mikado's Kamikaze (sui- | cide) air force. is inflicting “‘appal- ling” losses on -the United States Fleet off Okinawa lsland, 325 millés south of Japan, and that: the island’s land “battle- situation”. was ‘stalemated.” ) o The broadcast, recorded by the FCC, admitted, however, that the “devastating blows (of ~Kamikage pilots against the ‘fleet) appedr net effective enough to sever completely enemy supply lines to his. ground forces.” in World War I were developed by John M. Browning, of Utah, As a result, the Okinawa batile situation is “serious.” i3