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G.I.s Trap Twenty
Thousand Japs In
Cagayan Valley
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MANILA, June 25— (/P) — Hun
dreds of veterans of the United
States Eleventh Airborne Division
joined the gliders for the first
time in the southwest Pacific and
descended on rice paddies near
the north Luzon port df Aparri
,0 Saturday and swung south to join
in the final battle of Cagayan val
ley, where it is estimated twenty
thousand Japanese are trapped.
Airborne troops landed in
bright sunlight without opposition.
The town of Aparri, the Japan
ese escape port from Luzon was
k captured earlier by guerrillas and
units of the United States Sixth
Army chutists, who fought in the
bloody Manila campaign and
brought formidable pack howit
zers, while gliders disgorged jeeps
and mobile radio equipment for
the rapid push up the Cagayan
^ river were commanded by Maj.
Gen. Swing.
Troopers contacted the guerril
las already in the area and com
bined the force quickly and cap
tured the town of Lallo eleven
f # miles south of Aparri, only fifty
air miles north of Tuguecacao, the
Cagayan province capital, which
is still held by another guerrilla
force despite three days of des
perate Japanese countrattacks.
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Truman Says Vets ,
Will Run This
Country After War |
PORTLAND, June 25 — (/P) —
President Truman told wounded
soldiers and veterans of this war
“in the next generation the veter
ans of this war are going to run
this country.” They fought to save
it and now they want to fight to
maintain it, that is their duty.”
The President left at 11:49 a.m.
for the United Nations conference
in San Francisco after an enthus
iastic greeting from the people of
Portland. He left McChord Field
near Tacoma, at 9:07 and arrived
in Portland at 9:40, accompained
by Governor Wallgren and Sen
ator Magnuson,
Lord “Haw Haw”
Pleads Innocent
To Treason Charge
LONDON, June 25—(^—Wil
liam Joyce’s defense attorney en
tered a plea of innocent to the
British charges of high treason
and indicated that the man who
made war propaganda broad
casts for the Germans under the
name of “Lord Haw Haw” would
base his defense claim on Amer
ican birth.
The preliminary hearing of
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Lend-Lease To Russia Is Now
i Being Sent To Siberia
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WASHINGTON, June 25—(&)—
Lendlease supplies which were
cut off from western Russia when
t Germany surrendered are being
shipped to Russian Siberia on the
threshold of the Japanese war.
Leo Crowley, lend-lease admin
istrator told the House Appropri
ations committee that the Siberian
shipments were being made at the
request of United States military
leaders.
The fact became public today
i when the committee released his
testimony made earlier in the
1 month. Crowley disclosed he had
previously announced in a "re
w” that Russian lend-lease had
actually stopped and all commit
ments which were not then en
route to Russia or being loaded on
ships.
The Russians were given the
choice of paying cash if they want
the previously promised lendlease
supplies to finish uncompleted
plants. Crowley testified that the
highest military strategists regard
Siberian lend-lease as a “military
advantage to United States.” He
explained “the possibility of Rus
sia’s enry into the war against
Japan acts to pin down in north
ern Manchuria large numbers of
Jap troops which otherwise might
be diverted against Allied forces
in the Asiatic theatre.”
THREE-WAY CRAS H —Two moving automobiles and a
parked car were pinned beneath the limb of a tree blown down
| during a storm at Buffalo. One driver was injured.
12 Soldiers
Killed When
Bus Overturned
JOPLIN, June 25—(/P)—Twelve
persons were killed and 28 injured
when a bus loaded with soldiers
struck a cow and swerved off the
highway, plunging down a ten-foot
embankment and overturned.
The soldiers were returning to
Camp Crowder twenty-five miles
south of here after a weekend in
Joplin. There were forty-one pas
sngers aboard. The top of the bus
collapsed as it overturned, pin
ning the passengers inside. The
rescuers worked two hours remov
ing the dead and injured.
MRS. JOE KEHOE
ARRIVES FROM STATES
Mrs. Joe Kehoe arrived with
the Pan American last Friday,
from the States. Judge and Mrs.
Kehoe will make their home in
the Lehmann residence on First
avenue.
MRS. KIRK JACKSON
LEAVES FOR SEATTLE
Mrs. Kirk Jackson left for Seat
tle via the P.A.A. Friday, to visit
with her daughters and mother in
Seattle. She received word recent
ly of the death of her father in
Seattle.
Japs Planes Attack
Okinawa To Stop
U. S. Field Plans
GUAM, June 25—(JP)—Japan’s
best airmen in their newest planes
apparently entered to forestall
American development of Okina
wa as a base of operations.
Nippon, having lost the island
325 miles from Japan’s southern
shores to the American Tenth
Army and being short of suffi
cient navy power to oppose the
plans to make the island one huge
air base.
The Nipponese struck through
air which was the best that has
been had for some time, on Thurs
day and Friday. American pilots,
anti-aircraft, and artillery downed
fifty nine enemy planes Pacific
headquarters announced Sunday.
Yank airmen said that the Jap
anese tactics are much more skill
ful than in previous raids. The
enemy planes included new types
of army and navy fighter craft as
well as bombers carrying the re
cently developed one man baka
rocket suicide bombs.
Fleet Admiral Nimitz said the
Japanese suffered nearly a hun
dred ten thousand casualties on
Okinawa.
President In San
Francisco To Help
Close Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25—
f/P)—The arrival of the President
today to help wind up the United
Nations conference in a brilliant
round of ceremonies and speech
making may also lead to a speedy
windup another situation, the fu
ture of Stettinius.
In the American delegation and
other diplomatic groups here,
there is considerable speculation
that the President may indicate
either publicly or privately his fu
ture plans for Stettinius before he
leaves here tomorrow night. There
are two main reasons for this
view. One, the prolonged specula
tion that Truman may intend to
replace Stettinius in the secretary
ship with James Byrnes, weaken
ing Stettinius’ official position, in
addition to being personally em
barrassing to him. Two, now that
the conference has come to a suc
cessful conclusion with the char
ter of the new world peace organ
ization ready for final formal ap
proval and signing by Stettinius,
the immediate task is done and
the breaking point reached.
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Tokio Admits Air
Raids Destroyed
Formosan Cities
MANILA June 25—Radio
Tokyo admitted that in six months
of systematic American air raids
they have demolished most of the
cities on Formosa, Guardian is
land, and the East China coast and
sent residents fleeing to the hills,
with the cities “reduced to cin
ders.”
The enemy broadcast said the
city dwellers had “dispersed and
organized themselves into various
formations to meet any possible
emergency.” New fire raids and
bombing of the island were re
ported by MacArthur conducted
during the week by Mitchell
bombers. More than fifteen hun
dred junks and other small craft
have been strafed in the waters
between Kongkong and Canton,
and at last forty junks wrecked.