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President Pleads
For World Charter
To Be ‘Live Thin"’
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27—
(TP)—President Truman sent the
weary authors of the new world
charter homeward, the world
around, with the stern admonition
“if we should falter in our will to
use it, millions now living will
surely die.”
Addressing the glittering closing
session of the world security con
ference, President Truman pound
ed repeatedly on the theme that
the drafting of the charter was
only the first step.
Gesticulating, he declared “the
world must now use it.” “The
time for action is now, let us
therefore, each in his own nation,
according to its own way, seek
the immediate approval of this
charter and make it a living thing.
I shall send this charter to the
United States Senate at once. I'm
sure the overwhelming sentiment
of the people of my country and
their representatives in the Sen
ate favor the immediate ratifica
tion.”
The President was interrupted
frequently by the applause of the
delegates of all of the fifty United
Nations.
Quick Ratification Move
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 —
(JP)—A movement to win the i
quickest possible ratification of
the United Nations charter grew
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Russian Expedition
To Excavate
In Siberia
LONDON, June 27— (fl*) —A
Russian archaeological expedition
from Leningrad is now enroute
to the Chukotka peninsula in Si
beria just opposite Alaska to do
excavation work which is expect
ed to “clarify many questions in
connection with the population of
North America.”
The Moscow radio said it has
long been the theory that prehis
toric North Americans migrated
from the Asiatic mainland across
a land-bridge which has since
vanished into the Bering Sea.
Superforls Blast
Large Jap Oil |
Refinery
GUAM, June 27— (JP) —Nearly
fifty Superfortresses struck the
Utsube river oil refinery, Japan’s
principal producer of aviation
gasoline in a precision demolition
attack at midnight last night. The
raid followed a half day of the
greatest Superfortress demolition
pinpointnig of Honshu industries
in which nearly five hundred Su
perfortresses blasted ten targets
with three thousand tons of
bombs.
The Utsube refinery near Yok
kaichi, eighteen miles southwest
of Nagoya on Ilse Bya, since the
destruction of fuel centers of To
kuyama and Otake on May tenth,
the Utsube plant was the enemy’s
largest remaining producer of avi
ation gasoline.
The city of Yokkaichi was heav
ily damaged in a fire raid on June
eighteenth.
Search Mariners of the Fleet
Wing One sank a medium freight
er transport in the Yellow Sea
and two luggers south of Kyushu
Tuesday. *
Joe Bill Sentenced
To Hang On
September 7th
SEATTLE, June 27 — (/P) —
Nome-born Joe Bill, 33, Eskimo
was sentenced to be hanged in
states prison on September 7, for
the rape slaying of Irma Irene
McGough, 5, “may God have
mercy on your soul,” concluded
Judge Clay Allen.
Bill was impassive as he heard
the death sentence pronounced.
Jap Commanding
General’s Body
Found on Okinawa
OKINAWA, June 27—(/P)—The
bodies of the Jap commanding
general on Okinawa and his chief
of staff, who had slit their stom
achs in hara kiri ceremonies, were
found in shallow graves on the
southeastern tip of the island.
Col. Cecil Nist, Salem, Ore., said
WAR BOND BUYERS—Actor Clifton Webb and so
cialite Mrs. John Royal make war bond purchases in the Seventh
War Loan drive from Mrs. John Shubert, CDVO worker in charge
of a booth in the lobby of a New York theater.
Yanks Invade
Kume Island
Near Okinawa
GUAM, June 27— </P) —Tokyo
reported Allied invasion forces
are fighting their way onto Kume
island, fifty miles west of Okin
awa and predicted that American
assault forces may land on the
China coast preparatory to invad
ing Japan.
In an unconfirmed report of
the invasion, Tokyo said “heavy
fighting was now in progress,” and
described the action as a “fresh
landing” in the central Ryukus is
lands where Americans are devel
oping new bases to hit the enemy
homeland.
the bodies were in full field uni
form and the medals and insignia
identified them positively as those
of Lt.-Gcn. Mitsuru Ushijima,
commanding general of the Thir
ty-Second Jap army, and Lt.-Gen.
Isamu Cho, his chief of staff.
LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS
Mr. T. O. Dickinson, Alaska
representative of the Railway Ex
press Agency will leave tonight
on the Pan American plane.
Japs Surrendering
In Large Numbers
< )n Okinawa
GUAM, June 27—UP)—Emerg
ing from caves, canefields and
burshy valleys, scores of Japan
ese, carrying surrender leaflets,
gave themselves up to the Ameri
can Tenth army troops yesterday.
The day's total of prisoners,
hundreds of Nipponese being cap
tured at rifle point or driven from
caves with grenades, was eight
hundred.
Two Yank patrols continued
the mopup of southern Okinawa.
A number of Japanese planes
were over the Okinawa area Mon
day night, but did no damage. A
few bombs were dropped. The
communique said twelve of the
raiders were destroyed by anti
aircraft fire and combat air pa
trols.
Contradictory reports came
from the Japanese radio; one say
ing an Allied invasion had been
attempted on an unidentified is
land midway between Okinawa
and the Nipponese home islands;
another, speculating the possibil
ity of such a move, was picked up
by London and New York. An
other report predicted the inva
sion of Amami or some other is
land in that area. Amami is two
hundred miles from Kyushu, the
southernmost of Japan’s home is
lands.
TWO YANK ARMIES COMPRESS
JAPS IN CAGAYAN VALLEY
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MANILA, June 27—</P)—Liqui
dation of the last Japanese strong
hold in Cagayan Valley in north
ern Luzon island in the Philip
pines is near. The Nipponese are
compressed into a twenty-mile
corridor between the American
columns.
Gen. MacArthur said today the
Japanese are pinched between
Maj.-Gen. Beightier’s Thirty-Sev
enth Infantry push down the river
and from the south the Eleventh
Airborne elements advanced up
the valley.
The Thirty-Seventh swept
through Tuguegargo, the capital
of Cagayan province Monday, to
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find that the Japanese, who won
control of the city from the hard
pressed Filipino guerrillas were
already in flight into the hills to
the east.
A Headquarters spokesman es
timated that of the twenty thou
sand Japanese still fighting on
northern Luzon that fully half of
them are east of the national high
way leading to Aparri, with the
rugged unexplored Sierra Madre
range at their backs.
Allied air activity Sunday con
tinued to be concentrated on Balik
papan, the last rich Borneo oil dis
trict in Japanese hands. Bombers
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