Yanks Drive Deep
Wedge In Defenses
On Okinawa
GUAM, April 27—«*)—Infan
trymen of Maj. Gen. James L.
Bradlye’s Ninety-Sixth Division
drove a wedge deep into Japanese
secondary dfeenses on southern
Okinawa yesterday capturing high
ground in the center line heights
just east of Ursaoe Mura village
and won in an attack which fol
lowed a general Japanese with
drawal under heavy artillery
fire.
Shelling from the fleet of war
ships meantime continues close j
support, the fire knocking out I
numerous enemy artillery batter
ies, gun emplacements and de
fense installations. Maj. Gen. John
R. Hodge, commander of the
Twenty-Fourth Army Corps re
ported all key features of the Jap
anese outer defenes line have now
been scured by the Yanks in the
eighth day of the grand offensive
toward Naha the capital city three
and one-half miles to the south.
Hodge said Americans control
“skyline ridge” across Ryukyu is
land three hundred twenty-five
miles south of Japan itself. A
tenth Army spokesman said the
Seventh, Twenty-Seventh and the
Ninety-Sixth Divisions made a
drive on the Japanese from all
key positions on the first heavily
fortified defense zone. “We now
are only a few hundred yards
from the next Jap stone <vall.”
A staff spokesman told James
Lindsley, Associated Press cor
respondent that Maj. Gen. Hodge
said when the second defense ring
was broken his troops should
smash the inner circle about Naha!
without too much trouble. The
key positions seized by the Yanks
include Kakwzu, a town captured
once before but lost, and the stra
tegic hill hundred seventy-eight
on the east coast.
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Russia Wants
Decisive Influence
At Conference
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In an earlier talk the military
and naval advisers worked out a
formula for setting up interna
tional trusteeships of enemy de
pendent territories and which
provided strategic base areas
should be handled through the
proposed security council as being
essential to the armed protection
of future peace. Other trustee ter- I
ritories should be supervised by
a general assembly of world or
ganization with the primary view
of building up the living stand
ards of their people.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27—
</P)—The United Nations confer
ence settled its row over the
chairman one delegate said, the
job to rotate among the four big
sponsoring nations. He reported
Stetinius had received the chair
manship of the all-important
steering committee which shapes
the program policies of the con
ference. ;
Russia tossed the conference i
into a deadlock yesterday on such
division of the top positions. It
was not immediately clear what
concessions, if any, were made in
reaching the agreement.
Adjustment of the chairman
ship issue opened the way for the
conference to organize and get'
down to work. It was learned that
China played an important role in [
the steering committee talks, ar
guing for a compromise to the
deadlock so that the conference
could get down to business, but
it is reported that Molotov dra
matically agreed to the British
sponsored compromise on the
chairmanships only after vigorous
arguments in its behalf by China
and New Zealand.
Under the compromise Stettin
ius will preside over both steer
ing executive committees and the
chairmanship of the full dress
plenary sessions of the forty-six
United Nations will be rotated
among the Big Four powers.
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Used For Rescue
jWork in Far East
The long expected initial Army
order for “Seabees” to be used
for rescue work in the Far East
has at last materialized, announc
es Northwest Air Service of Seat
tle, Wash. It is for Republic’s
commercial version, modified only
as to horsepower of motor, rear
rangement of the right side of the
cabin (to take two litters) and ad
dition of flight instruments, in
cluding radio.
Norhwest Air Service,. Inc., of
Seattle, Washington, through its
famous Vice President, Joe E.
Crosson, will establish “Seabee”
distribution for Republic in Alas
ka. Few men know Alaska as well
as Joe and Noel Wien one of his
partners, and manager of their
Arctic Mercy Ship
To Return
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“The M. S. North Star” which
was built for service in the Arc
j tic for the U. S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs and which was taken over
| by the Government in 1942 is be
i ing released again and plans are
being made for it to resume its
regular route to Pt. Barrow and
•vay points this summer. For
many years this ship was the only
boat to reach Barrow, with the
exception of the Coast Guard
U.S.S. “Northland.”
Before World War II, 95 per
cent of abaca fiber for manila
rope was imported from the Phil
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comments are “That the ‘Seabee’
is just the plane for Alaska.”
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