Marines Battle
Japanese Inside
City Of Naha
GUAM, May 14— (/P) —Ameri
can Marines, fighting amid in
tense artillery and mortar fire,
inched through the northern ap
proaches to Naha yesterday.
One frontline radio correspond
ent reported that the Leather
necks were already battling in
side the bomb shattered Okinawa
capital. Associated Presse corres
pondent Vern Haugland reported
by delayed dispatch Sunday that
United States infantrymen and
tanks had gained a hill in the
residential suburbs of Naha.
Infantrymen and Marines
gained up to six hundred yards
along the bitterly held southern
Okinawa battlefront yesterday
during bloody fighting in which
a Japanese counterattack repulsed
seaborne landings behind the
Yanks lines was broken up near
the center line.
The 333rd regiment of the 9tth
Division moved up a conical hill
to a key position before the towns
of Shuri and Yonabaru.
: WASHINGTON
NEWSLETTER
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By MARY LEE COUNCIL
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett
j DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS PROP
ERTY IN ALASKA UNDER.
GOES CHANGE
Four government agencies, the
Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration, the United States Maritime
Commission, the War Food Ad
ministration and the Department
| of the Interior have been desig
nated by the Surplus Property
Board as the four surplus prop
erty disposal agencies in the ter
ritories and possessions of the
United States.
The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation will be the disposal
agency for surplus aircraft and
p
aricraft parts. The sale of marine
real property and ships will be
handled by the Maritime Com
mission. Agricultural commodities
and food, declared surplus, will
be handled by the War Food Ad -
ministration. The disposal of all
other property, real and personal,
not otherwise assigned to the
above-named three agencies, will
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Chinese Enter
Jap Occupied
City Of Foochow
CHUNGKING, May 14—iJP)—
For the second time since Foo
chow was occupied by the Japs
in April of 1939, Chinese troops
entered the East China port fac
ing Formosa, striking in the very
sector where Japan fears Ameri
ican landings.
The Chinese command an
I nounced last night that several
| columns of Chinese troops entered
i the old treaty port Thursday and
! captured the airfiled to the south.
Street fighting is reported in
Foochow, although the ease with
which the Chinese entered lent
; some credence to rumors that the
Japs evacuated the city they
seized last October with the an
nounced purpose of thwarting any
| American plans for landing.
! The Chinese also announced
that fighting had flared up on the
! eastern seaboard area to the north
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come under the jurisdiction of the
Department of the Interior.
The new regulations provide,
however, that the Surplus Prop
erty Board may assign any real
j property located in the territories
and possessions to any one of the
four disposal agencies designated
regardless of its classification
j whenever the Board feels that
disposal would thereby be facili
tated.
Mr. Bartlett has been informed
that the Division of Territories
and Island Possessions is the
agency in the Department of the
Interior which will probably han
dle the disposal of surplus prop
erty in Alaska coming under its
jurisdiction. Administrative pro
cedure is now being studied.
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SENATE PASSES MEASURE TO
RELIEVE GOLD AND SILVER
MINE OPERATORS
j Senator McCarron’s bill, S. 27,
! to provide for suspension of en
forcement of certain obligations
against the operators of gold and
i silver mines who are forced to
cease operations because of the
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war, has passed the Senate and
is now before the House for com
mittee action.
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The bill provides that any op
■ erator, who because of the un
' availability of supplies and equip- '
ment is unable to continue opera
tion of his silver or gold mine and
thus fulfill any contract to pur
chase such property or requiring
the performance of certain work :
on his property, may appeal to a
United States District Court for
relief. The court after hearing,
may order suspension of work to
be done in order to fulfill any
contract or make any disposition
of the case as may be equitable to
conserve the interest of all par
ties. In no case will the suspen
sion extend for more than one
year after the end of the war.
U. S. Officers Treat
Nazi Officers
As Friends
PARIS, May 14—</P) — General
Eisenhower said he regrets the in
stances in which senior officers
treated captured Nazi high Ger
man officials on a “freindly en
emy” basis in direct violation of
his orders.
The supreme commander said
in his statement “my attention has
been called to press reports of in
stances of United States officers
treating captured Nazi high Ger
man officials on a friendly enemy
basis.. Any such statement that
has been set in motion can be as
sured the termination of these er
rors forthwith.”
where Chinese troops and local
militia Thursday attacked occu
pied Sinchang, sixty-five miles
southeast of Sangchow. This cap
ital of Chekiang Province is about
300 miles north of Foochow.
There are reports that the Japs
have altered their mainland strat
egy to concentrate their strength
norh of the Yellow river in north
eastern China, far to the north of
the present scene of fighting.
| The statement was made after
widespread criticism, appearing in
the British and American press of
the treatment of Goering by the
Seventh Army. Dispatches from
the Seventh Army said that Goer
ing had been given a lunch of
chicken and peas at the headquar
ters of Maj. Gen. John E. Dahl
quist, commander of the thirty
sixth division, after "brief greet
ings" and a handshake, and he
had posed in pictuqes with Dahl
quist and Brig. Gen. Robert Stack
of Schenectady, N. Y.
NEW YORK—(/P)—During the
three months between “D” Day
and September 6, 41,921,270
, pounds of paper were converted
i into 13,238,612 containers for
shipping artillery ammunition
overseas, according to the Ameri
can Can Company, a manufac
turer of these "suits of armor" for
shells.
Ammunition container board,
one of the principal materials
used, is made from mixed paper
and old corrugated boxes. In the
past three years manufacture of
145,689,911 artillery shell con
tainers has used 289,944,027
pounds of paper, much of it sal
vaged by patriotic Americans.
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