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VOL. XLVII. No. 73. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1945 PER COPY—157
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Russian Proposal
Blocks Closing
Of Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18—(ff>)
—Only one issue stands between
the United Nations Conference
and adjournment, but that one,
raised by Russia, may be enough
to block the scheduled windup on
Saturday.
Russia is demanding that the
restriction of powers already for
mally proposed for general assem
bly of the proposed world organ
ization to discuss and make re
commendations on any matters af
fecting international relations.
Moscow wants this changed to
cover only questions “relating to
the maintenance of international
peace and security.” Reopening
this controversy stirred anew the
small nation resistance to big
power leadership in writing the
United Nations Security Council.
Stettinius put himself Foreign
Minister Evatt of Australia and
Soviet Ambasador Gromyko as a
special committee yesterday to
work out a compromise on the
Russian demand.
Today he had to inform the con
ference executive committee he
had failed to do so. Gromyko is
under instructions from Moscow
and is unable to accept any com
promise. He could only report
back to Moscow what was offered.
Evatt let it be known he was
considering the reopening of other
issues by starting a new fight
against the Big Five veto in the
world security council.
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Superfortresses
Pay Fiery Respects
To Four Jap Cities
By RICHARD O'MALLEY
GUAM, June 18—<£>)—Ameri
can B-29s rained incendiary
bombs on four Japanese cities of
less than two hundred thousand
population each this morning.
Omuta and Kagoshima on Kyu
shu and Hamamatsu and Yokkai
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>chi on Honshu felt the blistering
from these low level raids before
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dawn today. Approximately four
hundred fifty Superfortresses par-1
ticipated in the raids.
Nimitz Criticizes
Columnist’s Article
On Okinawa
GUAM, June 18—^—Subse
quent events proved the wisdom
of tactical decisions made in Okin
awa, Admiral Nimitz said yester
day and added that the criticism
leveled by newspaper columnist
Lawrence was “out of place and
ill advised,” and in “simple justice
to the group of fine soldiers” made
it necessary that Lawrence’s June
fourth column be answered.
Admiral Nimitz told the press
conference that the unprecedented
statement in “Lawrence’s column
showed he had been badyl misin
formed.” Nimitz said he had been
given the “information by some
one with an axe to grind.”
The remarks, he declared, gave
the impression that the writer
“made use of four purposes not
in the best interests of United
States.**
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In Washingon Lawrence replied
that Nimitz himself was “misin
formed about what I wrote.” My
column he said, was based on a
dispatch from Okinawa by Cor
respondent Himer Bigart to the
New York Herald Tribune, who
expressed the opinion that a land
ing should be made by the Ma
rines behind the Jap lines.
Lt.-Gen. Buckner, Tenth Army
commander made all the tactical
decisions on the island, “but they
had my concurrence,” Nimitz de
clared. He said “new landings
would have had to be made over
very unsatisfactory beaches,
against alerted enemy defense
and they would have created
heavy casualties and created un
accepatble supply problems.”
Big Three Meeting
To Be Held
In Berl in
LONDON. June 18—(A3)— Maj.
Clement Attle disclosed that the
Big Three meeting will take place
in Berlin. Attlee, former Deputy
Prime Minister and present leader
of the Labor opposition made the
disclosure in a letter to Churchill,
accepting Churchill’s invitation to
attend the “prospective confer
ence in Berlin.”
SWASTIKA OVERCOAT — Irving C. Sueilau, man
ager of the Russian War Relief warehouse in New York, and
Catherine Duffy, guard, examine a man's overcoat with swastika
embroidered lining, received from an anonymous donor.
F.S. 244 First Ship
To Arrive At Nome
This Season
The first boat of the season to
arrive in Nome through the ice
was the F.S. 244. The officers and
crew say that it was a fine trip
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all the way, with many seal and
walrus on the ice floes.
They went through fields of
seemingly solid ice for about 125
miles and arrived about four
, o’clock June 15. The skipper of
! the ship is Chife Warrant Officer
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Jack Anderson and Warrant Of
; ficer, jg, Norman Nelson is Chief
Engineer.
East, West Coasts
Swelter In
Week-End Heat
The nation’s eastern and west
ern coasts shared in a week-end
roast in a sweltering presummer
heat wave, as the southern mid
western states enjoyed milder
temperatures, but was harassed by
thunderstorms and the threat of
flood damage.
San Francisco endured the
eighth day of a heat wave with
temperatures yesterday at 86, the
hottest June seventeenth since the
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Soviet Commander
Killed In Accident
In Berlin
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LONDON, June 18—</P)—The
Soviet controlled Berlin radio an
nounced the Col.-Gen. Bezarin,
commander in Berlin had been
killed in an accident. The broad
cast was recorded by BBC, but it
didn’t give any details.
Chinese Continue
Steady Advance
Against Japs
i CHUNGKING, June 18——
| Chinese troops smashed to Tatang
1 the vital road junction twenty-one
i miles southwest of strategic Liu
chow in Kwangsi province the
; Chinese command announced. An
other Chinese column is pushing
east from Ishan and has stabbed
to within twenty-seven miles of
Liuchow. Advances have been
made against stubborn resistance
amid indications that the Japs in
tended to put up a stiff fight for
the Liuchow rail junction, the
former United States Fourteenth
Airforce base.
Meanwhile reinforced Chinese
in Kiangsi province recaptured
Tingnan, one hundred thirty five
miles northeast of Canton after a
day of fighting which followed a
dawn counterattack Saturday.
Tingnan is the key point in com
munications linking Kiangsi with
Kwangtung province. It was taken
by the Japs Thursday as part of
the general enemy plan to streng
then the anti-invasion defense of
South China and to bolster the
east flank of their Hongkong-Han
kow corridor.
WASHINGTON GIVES EISENHOWER
' GREATST OVATION IN ITS HISTORY
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WASHINGTON, June 18——
General Eisenhower, returning
triumphantly from victory in Eu
: rope declared his soldiers “pas
sionately believed the problems of
peace can and must be met.”
Climaxing his spectacular home
coming saw him ride over the
Capital’s historic triumphal par
ade route of Pennsylvania ave
nue, past wildly cheering men and
women. Eisenhower told a joint
session of Congress and the Su
preme Court “the genius and
power of America have, with her
Allies, eliminated one menace to
our country’s freedom, even her
very existence. Still another re
mains to be crushed in the Pacific
before peace can be restored.”
Saying he spoke for the Ameri
can men and women he command
ed Eisenhower declared “though
we dream of the return of our
loved ones, we are ready as al
ways, to do our duty to our coun
try, no matter where it may be.”
Hundreds of thousands of wild
ly shouting men, women and chil
dren, veterans of this war and
last wounded veterans, old and
young, raised their voices in a
mighty tumult as the general rode
through their midst.
It was one of the greatest ova
tions the nation’s capital ever has
rendered. It started when the
commander left his giant plane at
the national airport, and contin
ued through lines of ten deep to
the Pentagon building, into the
city, past Lincoln memorial, down
broad Constitution avenue to his
toric Pennsylvania, thence to the
seat of the lawmakers on Capitol
Hill.