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President Speaks
At Flagraising
Over Berlin
POTSDAM, July 20 — (JP) —
President Truman, speaking at the
symbolic flagraising over con
quered Berlin, said that United
States wanted not one piece of ter
ritory, but “peace and prosperity
in the world as a whole.”
The speech had great signifi
cance against its background of
the Big Three conference, where
the President is joining with Brit
ain and Russia in helping to settle
European boundary and other
prbolems. “We are raising this
flag in the name of the people of
United States who are looking for
ward to a better world, a peace
ful world in which all people have
the opportunity of enjoying peace
and prosperity.”
and prospertiy.”
Truman said that the stars and
stripes raised over the United |
States group council headquarters
in the former headquarters of
Germany’s air defense was the
flag that flew over the Capitol in
Washington on the day United
States entered the war against the
Axis. It flew over Algiers when
it was General Eisenhower’s head
quarters, and over Rome when
the first Axis capital was cap
tured. It is destined to be raised
over Tokyo.
President Truman told soldiers
picked from the infantry of the
Second Armored Division that
they had “proved conclusively
that free people can look after the
affairs of the world.”
The President, Secretary of War
Stimson, and Generals Eisenhower
and Patton reviewed the Division.
The President spoke after Vice
Admiral Land, chief of the United
States Maritime commission and
War Shipping Administrator ar
rived with his staff in response to
a special request by President
Truman.
The President’s message was in
terpreted by some of his listeners
as meaning the United States in
sisted on the peace and welfare
of the average man being more
important than territorial disputes
and boundaries.
Immediately after the flagrais
NUBBINS COES A-RIDINC — Forest (Nubbins)
Hoffman of Cheyenne, Wyo., whose life was despaired of I' -u De
cember but who now enjoys good health, rides with h:s futiicr,
Marshall Hoffman, on a specially-fitted bicycle.
Republicans Will
Control Next
Congress
DENVER, July 20— {^—Na
tional Chairman Herbert Brown
ell, Jr., told Colorado Republican
leaders the paryt will win control
of the next Congress and “we
shall have two years to audit the
New Deal” to prepare for national
triumph in 1948.
J. L. Hitchcock Nominated
Alaska Selective Service
Director
WASHINGTON, July ZO-i/P)—
President Truman has nominated
John L. McCormick as director
of selective service in Alaska.
ing the President sped back to
Potsdam to resume deliberations
with Stalin and Churchill. The
president was described as eager
to return to Washington as soon
as possible after the conference
here closes.
It is disclosed that Churchill
dined alone Wednesday night. The
conference with Stalin lasted sev
eral hours and only Stalin’s and
Churchill’s interpreters were pres
ent during the private meeting.
Oil Prices Down
In Nome Area
Carl Lomen, manager of the Lo
men Commercial Company, an
nounced today that Standard Oil
had reduced prices, at most points
in Alaska, on gasoline, kerosene
and heating oils, effective as of
July 19.
The reductions range from Vi
to lVi cents per gallon on heating
oils at all points in Alaska, while
in southwestern points gasoline
and kerosene dropped Vi to 1 Vi
cents per gallon.
These were the third voluntary
decreases made by the company
since September 1942, and were
made possible partly by cuts in
War Shipping Administration
tanker surcharge rates and partly
by operating economies.
WALLACE McIVOR RECEIVES
HIS DISCHARGE
Wallace Mclvor, who has been
stationed here with the ACS for
some time, received his discharge
today. He has had several offers
for immediate employment but has
not made any definite plans.
Iceland is about as large as
Ohio.
Chinese Holds
Fifty Miles Of
South China Coast
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CHUNGKING, July 20—(/P>—A
fifty mile stretch of the south
China Coast is firmly in Chinese
hands and open for a seaborne in
vasion of the continent the Cnin
ese command said. Chinese forces
are striking eastward along the
Kwangtung province coastal high-1
way from the town of Tinpak,
which they recently took, thereby
severing Jap communications be
tween Canton and Hainan island,
and reached the vicinity of the
road junction city of Yeungkong
1 fifty mlies from Tinpak, one hun
dred twenty-five miles southwest
of Canton.
The Chinese army spokesman,
Maj. Gen. Chi Chih said the Japs
had moved one hundred thousand
troops in Hunan province to the
coast in Shangtung in the past
four weeks, anticipating American
landings.
It is estimated that there are a
million Jap combat troops in
China and Manchuria plus an
equal number of auxiliaries. It is
said that Jap sea traffic between
the islands and China has been
interrupted and no troops have
recently moved in either direction.
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Radio Blackout
Screens Third
Fleet Movements
GUAM, July 20—(JP)—A radio
blackout, such as preceded the
first American naval bombard
ment of Japan screened the opera
tions of Admiral Halsey’s power
ful United States Third Fleet,
and Radio Tokyo momentarily
broke off warning its listeners
that the task force would be back
to strike at some unexpected
place.
Admiral Nimitz’ Friday com
munique gave no hint of the move
ments of American or associated
Briitsh units in the 11th day since
Halsey began roaming up and
down the coast of Japan unchal
lenged.
Only two-fifths of Iceland is
habitable.
Australians Reach
Flaming Sambodja
Oil Fields
MANILA, July 20—(^—Aus
tralian troops on Borneo thrust
five miles to overrun the rich
Sambodja oil fields and refinery
without a fight and found only
two Japs defending the great field.
MacArthur said the field for
merly produced seven million bar
rels of ready for use oil annually.
The Sambodja field is one of
three major pools in eastern Bor
neo feeding the ruined refinery
district around Balikpapan. The
attacking Australian Seventh Di
vision found great fires roaring
through the filed, indicating the
Japs had followed the Dutch ex
ample of 1942 and scorched the
oil-soaked earth as they left.
Big Forest Fire
Rages In
Oregon
PORTLAND, July 20—</P>— A
few stoic housewives in a lumber
town fifty miles northwest of here
calmly wiped their morning dishes
with a fifty-five square mile for
est fire only five hundred to a
thousand feet away.
The giant Wilson River blaze
roared so close to Glenwood last
night that about a hundred per
sons were evacuated. It slowed up
as it hit the green timber near the
town. Women who refused to
leave, continued their usual morn
ing chores amid a blue smoke fog.
Men employes of the Consoli
dated Timber Company, on whose
property the tiny village lies, are
all on the fire line. The blaze is
barely visible through the smoke
which is so thick that lights might
be turned on in the late afternoon.
There were only smouldering
embers near the town htis morn
ing. Meanwhile on the opposite
end of the giant blaze the flames
were moving westward in what
foresters described as a “fluid
state.”
The name vaudeville is derived
from Vau de Vire, a French town
where humorous songs were writ
ten in the 18th century.