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Yanks Capture
Okinawa; Many
Japs Surrender
GUAM, June 22—OP)— Okina-1
wa has been captured with a cost
of 6,990 soldiers and marines kill
ed or missing and 29,598 wounded
through Tuseday, Admiral Ches
ter W. Nimitz said today, several
hours after reporting that the is
land has been secured.
Japanese casualties total 90,401
through Wednesday and more
than four thousand taken prison
ers. With Okinawa finally secured
from the military definition “Jap
anese soldiers are surrendering in
groups; in some cases led by their
officers. It is estimated seventeen
hundred were made prisoner dur
ing the day.”
Admiral Nimitz announced the
total American casualties in the
entire Ryukus operation, including
carrier plane attack on the Japan
ese battle force hiding in the In
land Sea March eighteenth is
454)2$.
Senate Will Get
Full Report On
Peace Conference
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 22 —
<>P)—The United States Senate,
with power enough to promote or
kill the United Nations Peace Or
ganization will get a full report
of the San Francisco Conference
next week.
Two of its members, who are
American delegates, express con
fidence that the Senate will ratify
the charter organizaion which
they and the representatives of
forty-nine other nations have pro
duced here after nine weeks work,
but they would not predict it
would be done immediately.
President Truman will report it
at the Big Three meeting in Ber
lin. In fact it appeared certain the
Senate committee hearings pre
liminary to the ratification debate
couldn’t begin until the second
week in July, when detailed re
ports on the conference debates
become available.
Chairman Connally of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations committe
and Vandenberg will leave here
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War Department
Supply Bill Thirty
Eight Billion
WASHINGTON, June 22—(/P)—
The thirty-eight billion dollar war
department supply bill went to
the House floor with the Army i
promise to speed the victory over j
Japan by “the overwhelming ap
plication of force.”
Approval by the appropriations
committee was accompanied by
the publication of three weeks of
testimony by high army officials
who foresaw the devastation of
Japan more awful than that which
battered the Nazis to their knees.
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In the testimony Marshal Ar
nold disclosed plans to use a thou
sand Superfortresses daily in the
Pacific war and to drop two mil
lion, seven hundred thousand tons
of bombs in the Far East during
the fiscal year starting July first.
Marshall said that only one mil
lion, five hundred fifty-five thou
sand tons were rained on Europe
in 1942 to 1945. Reiterating plans
for Army strength at 6,968,000 by
June 30, 1946. Marshall said that
future circumstances may permit
additional demobilizations and re
duction in size to half a million
men in the European Occupation
Force.
Chinese Attack
Japanese In
Liuchow
CHUNGKING, June 22-ilP)—
Chinese troops attacked the
former airfield in the southern
outskirts of Liuchow which was
abandoned by the Japs seven
months ago, and inflicted consid
erable casualties on the enemy the
Chinese Command announced.
A Chinese Army spokesman de
clared the buk of Jap forces in
Liuchow had withdrawn north
eastward to Kweilin, another
former American airbase. The
spokesman said that onyl a thou
sand to twelve hundred of the en
emy troops had been left behind
to defend Liuchow, whose occu
pation by Chinese forces is pre
dicted in the “near future.”
after President Truman addresses
the closing session Tuesday night.
E N I 0 Y I N C HITLER’S AERIE — Three LT. S. 7 th
Army soldiers—Pvt. Joseph Bryan, Chicago; T/5 Donald Shu
maker, CofTevville. Kas.; and Cpl. Frank Goodney, Worcester,
Mass. — relax at Hitler’s former Berchtesgaden retreat.
Seaman Drowns
In Snake
River Harbor
The first accident of the season
by drowning occurred Wednesday
evening about 6:45, when the U.
S. Coast Guard observer B. M. 2nd
Class Wilfred Verbeskmoes heard
a cry and saw a pair of hands
above the water in Snake River
where the barges were discharg
ing freight.
The alarm was sounded and ef
forts were immediately made to
rescue the man who was finally
pulled out of the river at 8:30. No
one had seen how he met with the
accident and only the alertness
of the man on watch saved him
from being washed out to sea un
observed.
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' The Coroner’s Jury found the
dead man to be Carl Floridan,
merchant seaman, from Douglass
Alaska, and brought in a verdict
of accidental drowning in Snake
River.
Women have made up from 51
to 511* percent of Denmark’s pop
ulation for the past 50 years.
FIRST SOUTHBOUND
PASSENGER BOAT
OF 1945 SEASON
Passengers listed on the first
southbound boat for the 1945 sea
son are among the following per
sons:
C. R. Stebbins, Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Lehmann, Nancy Lehmann, M.
A. McCorkle, John Tyler, Mrs.
John Tyler, Daniel Tyler, Agnes
Lagesson, Sarah Goodaall Mar
garet Westby, Herbert Beach,
Guerrillas Split
Jap Forces On
Northern Luzon
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MANILA. June 22, 1945—(/P)—
Filipino guerrillas brilliantly led
j by Col. Russel Volckmann, split
i two major Japanese forces on
Northern Luzon by crossing the
Cagayan river and capturing Tu
! guegarai, the capital of Cagayan
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province, and its good airport.
General Douglas MacArthur re
ported the daring guerrilla blow
was supported by United States
Sixth Army arillery and Fifth
Airforce planes which struck thir
ty-five miles north of Ilagan, Isa
bela province capital, which was
taken the day before by United
States Thirty-Seventh Infantry
division.
| DON ROBERTS TO HELP
HIS FATHER AT MINE
! Don Roberts, son of C. O. Rob
erts of Solomon, and former Nome
boy, arrived on the first boat to
assist his father at the mine. His
home is in Arlington, Washington.
Mrs. Herbert Beach, Dennis Beach.
Leo Hull, Mrs. Leo Hull, Jack
! Thompson, Chester Owens, Mrs.
Paul Galloway, Suzanne Gallo
way, Mrs. Guy Boyd, Mrs. Frank
Bingham, Gary Bingham, Pearl
Weslcott, Mrs. Charles Hauke,
Mrs. June Robinette, Phoebe Rob
inette, Abigail Robinette, Don
Westcott, Harry Hagen, Mrs.
Harry Hagen Mrs. Carl Anderson,
Barbara Monroe, Paul McDonald,
Mrs. John Timmer.
General Eisenhower Injured;
i But Not In Battle
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ABILENE, Texas, June 22—(/P>
—General Dwight D. Eisnehower,
who has had many narrow es
capes from death and injury as he
directed millions through three
years of warfare, turned up a
casualty on his greatest day today,
his homecmoing.
The General was limping not
iceably as a result of a fall last
night on the Topeka railroad plat
form, where he got off to greet
the group of purple heart soldiers
but the train started off without
him. As the general started to run
for it he fell and injured his leg
rather severely.
General Eisenhower slept on
board his private car which
brought him from Kansas City
last night ,the first time this week
he has slept late, arising just be
fore nine a.m.
The big parade got under way
in his hometown at ten a.m. The
Allied commander rode at the
head of the parade, preceded only
by two horsemen, the color guard
and the Abilene cowboy band.