Seventh Infantry
Captures Kuhazu
On Okinawa
By LIEF ERICKSON
GUAM, May 1*-^(JP)—Advance
elements of the Seventh Infantry
division yesterday entered the vil
lage of Kuhau in a move to flank
Yonabaru airfield on southeastern
Okinawa. Kuhazu is in high
ground one mile west of Yona
baru. One of the immediate ob
jectives of the Tenth Army drive
Machinato airfield on the west
coast already is in American
hands. Local gains were made
elsewhere along the line was re
ported by Admiral Nimitz, who
announced also that light Japan
ese air attacks made on the Okin- !
awa area yesterday damaged one j
medium sized American ship, but
there was no indication of its type
or the casualties.
The Seventh Division advance
on the east flank evidently was
designed to clear Japanese from
the high ground west of Yona
baru before the airfield was cap
tured.
The Ninety-Sixth division in the
central sector, last reported with
in eight hundred yards of Shuri,
Okinawa’s second city. Carrier
Walker Resigns As
Postmaster General
WASHINGTON, May 2—^)—
President Truman announced the
resignation of Frank C. Walker
as postmaster general. He named
Hannegan to succeed Walker, ef
fective July first. Hannegan will
stay on as Democratic chairman.
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Buglers Heeded Own Call
SALT LAKE CITY—(^P)—Ten
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years ago a dozen boy buglers
would line up beside the flagpole
at the veteran’s hospital here and
blow “To the Colors” as the flag
was lowered at sunset. Now 10 of
the 12 boys are in military serv
ice.
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Portugal, Sept. 7, 1882.
planes worked over Sakishima
islands south of Okinawa Satur
day and Sunday in strikes ot keep
their airbases neutralized.
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck
ner, Jr., commanding the Tenth
Army said his troops were over
coming the strongest Japanese;
fortifications and meeting the j
heaviest artillery positions en- j
countered anywhere in the Paci
fic.
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Doenitz Juggles
Nazi Heads
LONDON, May 2—(/P)—Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz moved
swiftly in his role as successor to
Hitler with a shakeup of the Nazi
military and diplomatic fronts in
efforts apparently directed
toward a last ditch fight in Nor
way. However hours after the
Hamburg radio announced the
death of Hitler not a single top
ranking Nazi party man, and only
one commander came forth with
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a pledge of allegiance ot Doenitz
as Fuehrer. •
One of the first acts of Doenitz
was to dismiss Von Ribbentrop
and to replace him with Count
Lutz Schwerin Krosick as finance
minister Gen. Franz Boehme,
army commander in chief in Nor
way, broadcast an order of the
day over the Oslo radio, pledging
allegiance to Doenitz and calling
on the German forces in the north
to fight on as “a fanatic commun
ity.”
Simultaneously Norwegian of
ficials in London reported that
Doenitz had fired Admiral Otto
Ciliax, German naval chieftain in
Norway since March, 1943, be
cause Ciliax allegedly favored
capitulation, and replaced him
with Admiral Kranke, formerly
chief of the naval staff to Gen
eral Boehme.
The Hamburg radio, slightly
amplifying last night's announce
ment of Hitler's death said the
Russians attacked Berlin's gov
ernment quarters Tuesday “in
the fighting both sides sustained
heavy losses, during which the
Fuehrer was killed. The Russians
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succeeded in deepening their
breaches into the Wilhelmstrasse.”
Whether the top men of the in
ner Nazi gang, Goering, Goebbels,
Himmler and Bormann had fled,
were dead, or would support Doe
nitz remained a mystery.
The Moscow broadcast said that
German sailors rioted in the Bal
tic port of Rostock and menaced
the Soviet push.
British Officials accepted the
fact that Hitler was dead, but de
cried the idea he had died a hero’s
death. Similar skepticism was
voiced in the Supreme Headquar
ters in Paris, where a statement
authorized by General Eisen
hower, declared that Himmler
had told Count Folke Bernadotte
in a meeting on April twenty
fourth that “Hitler is so ill he
might already be dead,’’ at any
rate he couldn’t be expected to
live more than two days. The
statement made it plain that the
Doenitz version of Hitler’s death
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as a hero is not accepted at Su
preme Headquarters.
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to how young men in Alaska may
make application to attend the U.
S. Coast Guard Preparatory
School at Groton, Connecticut for
a course designed to prepare them
to compete for entrance to the
Regular Coast Guard Academy,
was announcd here today.
The instruction course will be
gin in August of this year at the
Connecticut school, and the 200
students to attend will be selected
from aplications received at Coast
Guard headquarters in Washing
ton not later than July 15, accord
ing to Lt. <jg> William G. Dwyer,
17th Naval District Training Offi
cer.
Applications will be confined to
young men who have reached
their 17th birthday but who have
not reached their 18th birthday,
Lt. Dwyer said.
Visits to Juneau, Fairbanks,
! and Anchorage to personally inter
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students will be made by Lt.
Dwyer. He was at Juneau on
April April 25, 26, and 27, then
went to Fairbanks for a two-day
stay, April 30 and May 1, and will
conclude interviews at Anchorage
on May 3 and 4.
Young men unable to contact
Lt. Dwyer personally at the high
schools in these cities may obtain
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