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Chinese Repulse
Jap Counterattack
On Junction
CHUNGKING, June 6— f/F) — j
Reports from American _ sources !
said that Chinese troops have oc- ]
cupied Liuchow Kwangsi Prov
ince rail junction, site of the for
mer United States airbas^ earlier
# in the war.
Gen. Yang Sen, governor of
Kweichow province, announced
the rewinning of the city but no
official confirmation was made.
The Chinese said the enemy poc
ket at Paipin forty miles south of
Liuchow had been cleared Mon
day after severe fighting, but
made no mention of Liuchow.
The Chinese declared the Japs
had counterattacked from Kukong
on the Canton-Hankow railroad,
one hundred twenty-five miles
north of Canton, presumably in
an attempt to break up the Chin
ese threat to their escape route
out of Canton and Hongkong.
Aleutian Bombers
Raid Kataoka
r Naval Base
ALEUTIAN BASE, June 4 (de
layed^— (JP)— Army and Navy
bombers from the Aleutians at
tacked the Jap Kataoka naval
base on Shimushi Jima in the Ku
riles. The bombing was done by
instrument through a heavy over
* cast and the results were unob
served.
The results of the raid on Ka>
taoka last month by Army planes
accounted for six enemy ships
p sunk or damaged. Today’s strike
by Eleventh Airforce Liberators
Fleet Airwing said antiaircraft
.
fire was meager and inaccurate.
A flight of enemy fighters was
sighted by the Liberators but they
didn’t attack.
Thirty miles south of Kataoka
the Eleventh Airforce Mitchells
bombed installations at Masuga
wa on the east coast of Paramu
1 shiro. Going in at two hundred
fifty feet altitude the Mitchells
made numerous direct hits and
leaving several buildings burning.
All planes returned safely.
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SYDNEY LOAN PARADE — The Duke of Gloucester, povernor-general of Australia, re
views part of a Victory loan parr ’c '•r ? r ) ^r . 1c * rr sn and women in Sydney.
Secret Service
Gives Warning Of
Counterfeit Dollars
Lonnie McIntosh of the United
States Secret Service has issued
a warning that counterfeit silver
dollars are in circulation.
He suggests that all people hand
ling these coins ring them on a
hard surface—genuine coins have
a clear ring and counterfeit dol
lars have a tlull sound. A closer
scrutiny of the coin reveals that
a good dollar has evenly spaced
ridges on the edge and a counter
feit has irregular spacing.
Body Of Hitler
Found In Fortress
U ndergrou nd
BERLIN, Juil^S—«>)—A high
Russian military source said the
body found in Berlin has been
identified with fair certainty as
that of Hitler. The body smoke
blackened and charred is one of
four discovered in the ruins of the
great underground fortress be
neath the new Reichschancellory
after the fall of Berlin.
These four bodies, any one of
which answered pretty well the
description of Hitler were care
(Continued on Page Four)
Conference
Seeks To Avoid
Big Five Split
’
! SAN FRANCISCO, June 6—(S>)
—Urgent talks, seeking to avoid a
I
j permanent Big Five split over the
veto vote issue are reported un
derway both in Moscow and San
Francisco.
Stalin is said to be reviewing
!
I the Soviet insistence of the right
j to veto even in discussibn in
the world security council.
President Truman’s personal
emissary, Harry Hopkins, is hand
ling the negotiations. Secretary
Stettinius, as chief United States
delegate to the United Nations
conference is holding conferences
|
on the subject here with Soviet
Ambassador Gromyko.
American officials hope an ans
wer must come initially from Sta
lin by this week end at the very
latest.
They consider the issue of such
importance they are declining to
fix any deadline. They expressed
the view that if the present split
aligning Russia against United
States, France, China and Britain
continues the small nations will
demand opposing views be put to
a test conference vote.
$30,000 Fire
Damage In
Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, June 6— (/P) —
Estimated damage of thirty thou
sand dollars was done by fire
early Monday when flames started
in the sawdust between the walls
of the Chena Bar and the Star
Liquor Store.
Fire, smoke and water damaged
the apartments in the two story
Chena Bar building on First ave
nue. Water damaged the Star Li
quor store and the Pioneer Grill,
the Northern Hotel and the Pio
neer Hotel, adjoining structures
Much liquor and food from the
Star Liquor store and the Pioneer
Grill, piled in the rear of the
building was taken by spectators.
No buildings were burned down
or gutted by the fire. The debris
is being cleaned up and repaired,
and business will be resumed in
a few days.
COL. JOHN CROSS TO REOPEN
NORTHERN CROSS AIRLINES
Colonel John Cross of the North
ern Cross Airlines which are lo
cated in Deering, is receiving his
discharge from the Army and
plans to resume his work with his
own company which has been in
active for the past two years.
Okinawa To Be
Great l). S. Pacific
Airbase
By LEIF ERICKSON
GUAM, June 6— </P) —The
American Tenth Army troops
fought Japanese pockets todaj' on
muddy Okinawa with an official
“well done.”
Fleet Adm. Nimitz indicated the
island’s conquest will be complet
ed in three or four days.
There is ample evidence of the
gathering of Amrican might for
the next phase of war against Jap
anese mainland, three hundred
twenty-five miles away. The re
maining job of the Tenth Army is
to clean out the southern tip of
the island so the development al
ready underway may proceed un
hampered to make Okinawa one of
the greatest United States airbases
in the Pacific.
j Invasion Of
Jap Homeland
Imminent
i
—
GUAM, June 6——*The Jap
anese have admitted that the
American invaders have reduced
Okinawa to an “isolated island”
and warned that the invasion of
Japan was “imminent”.
The virtual admission that Okin
i awa was lost came as unexplained
American silence indicated the
i
possible end of the campaign. Do
mei claimed “fierce fighting”
(Continued on Page Five)
' 26 To 29-Year
Deforces May
Be Drafted
WASHINGTON, June 8—</P)—
Sixty thousand currently “irre
%
placeable” industrial workers in
the twenty-six through twenty
their draft deferments by fall gov
heir draft deferments by fall gov
ernment officials estimated.
Munitions cutbacks and the di
minished urgency of other war
supporting activities reduce by at
least seventeen percent the total
three hundred fifty thousand key
men of that age now occupational
ly deferred said these officials.