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Yanks Take
Big Anchorage
On Okinawa
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GUAM, June 4—</P) —In the
greatest one-day advance in the
Okinawa campaign American in
fantrymen splashed two miles
through drenching rains yesterday
to the southeastern shore of the
island, slicing off the Chinen pe
9 ninsula which forms for the south
ern army the finest fleet anchor
age on the southern approaches
to Japan.
Tokyo broadcasts quoted “un
confirmed reports” of United
States amphibious assault units
landed near the eastern tip of the
peninsula to catch isolated Nip
ponese troops in a two way trap,
while a fleet of more than forty
vessels moved into anchorage in
Nakagusuku bay.
Three other fleets, including
two task forces, which reappeared
Rafter an absenc of ten days are
reported by Tokyo to be in Okin
awan waters. Jap propagandists
told of suicide plane attacks on
the heavily escorted convoy of
“about forty transports" moving
^past Aruku peninsula on the west
coast, where other Yanks are ar
rayed for a smashing drive on
Naha airfield, the best in the Ryu
kyu islands, in a two-hour “ram
ming assault." Tokyo said one un
identified craft was set afire.
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State Department
•Urges Compulsory
Military Training
WASHINGTON, June 4—</P)—
The State Department urged
Compulsory peacetime military
training in United States "because
of our obligations under the world
Security organization."
Acting Secretary Grew ex
pressed the department's views
before the House Postwar Military
Committee as it opened a two
week hearing on the controversial
proposal requiring a year military
-^training for American youths.
The former Ambassador to
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Japan said he believed "military
preparedness counts in the think
ing of potential enemies."
. CHRISTEN ITALIAN CAMPAIGN ARMY TRUCK
‘OLD MUD AND RUTS*—Fifth Army crewmen In the Italian theater christened this vet
eran Army Mack, which tewed a 155-ram. “Lone Tom" rifle. "Old Mud and Ruts."
Heavy Fighting
Breaks Out
At Davao
By FRED SAMPSON
MANILA, June 4—<A*)—Heavy
fighting broke out on Mindanao
battlegrounds of Davao as the
Twenty-Fourth Division troops
aided by guerrillas forced the Jap
anese out of defenses anchored in
the towns of Ula, Alhambra and
Bayabas northwest of the city of
Davao.
The doughboys broke into the
towns Saturday and found fires in
stoves and food on tablet, indicat
ing the Japanese populations had
fled hastily.
Coordinated American tank and
infantry attacks smashed the
outer defenses. A communique
from Gen. MacArthur’s headquar
ters said deep wedges had been
driven into enemy defenses west
of Davao.
On the northern part of the
island of Luzon the United States
Sixth Army reached points four
miles north of Santa Fe. Gen.
MacArthur announced 6,550 Jap
anese dead had been counted in
the Philippines in the past week,
Jack Fairweather Is Here
To Reopen Steamship
Office
Alaska Line agent Jack Fair
weather, and wife, arrived Friday
evening via the Pan American
Airways, to reopen the local of
fice of the steamship company.
Mr. Fairweather says we can
look forward to a fairly busy sea
son of freighters and passenger
ships.
Following is a list (incomplete)
of the passengers sailing on the
SS. Baranof:
Mrs. Mary Cogswell, Juanita
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FORMS AVAILABLE AT
LOCAL POSTOFFICE
Application forms for permit to
construct dwelling or non-dwell
ing buildings, are available at the
local postoffice, it was announced
by S. David Mazen, postmaster.
Anyone wishing to build a home
or business building may apply at
the postoffice for the form of ap
plication.
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and 503 captured. The total Japan
ese casualties in the eight-month
campaign are 385,480. American
casualties total 225 killed and 657
wounded during the week.
U nprecedented
Frost Hits Central
United States
CHICAGO, June 4—Frost which
nipped tender spring victory gar
dens and sent middle-westerners
pawing through closets for their
winter clothing, continued in the
upper Mississippi valley and the
upper Great Lakes region.
Many areas reported all time
low temperatures for June fourth.
The United States weather bur
I eau in Chicago said the frosts in
Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota,
northeastern Iowa and extreme
northwestern Illinois did suffi
cient damage “at least to some ex
tent" to tender vegeables, such
as beans tomatoes and corn.
Chicago recorded a low of 34 at
ten a.m., five degrees lower than
the previous June record low set
in 1894. The lowest officially re
corded reading of the nation was
20, at Cranberry Bog, Wisconsin.
POINT BARROWITE
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Noah Itta of Point Barrow has
been admitted to the hospital for
medical treatment.
Veto Voting Issue
Stalemates
Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4—
—United States is seeking some
way out of the conference stale
mate on the veto voting issue, but
without the slighest yielding on
its own insistence that there must
be no veto on the right of discus
sion in the world security council.
If American leadership fails to
break the deadlock in which Rus
sia is at odds with this country,
Britain, China and France on this
one point in the United Nations
conference it may produce a wide
open floor fight in its closing days
even though the charter is ap
proved as it now stands.
It may be accepted by some
countries only with reservations.
Guillermo Belt, the Cuban dele
gate said that would be true in the
case of his country. He expects
many of the small nations to stick
together on the veto issue.
Ambassador Gromyko reported
to Moscow that the other big pow
ers will not accept his govern
ment’s rigid interpretation that the
veto should apply even to prelim
inary discussion in the council.
This puts the next move up to
Moscow as to whether its inter
pretation may be softened in seek
ing a way out of the deadlock.
American officials evidently are
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Allied Generals In
Berlin To Organize
German Control
PARIS, June 4—«P)—Author!
tative reports said General Eisen
hower will meet in Berlin tomor
row with Generals Zhukov, Mont
gomery and Mark Koenig of
France to organize the Allied Con
trol Commission.
The Paris radio report that the
four-power representatives met
yesterday was denied emphatical
ly by Supreme Headquarters. It
is known that a party of corres
pondents enroute to the Russian
occupied capital are still in Frank
furt, Eisenhower’s advanced head
quarters.