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GUAM, June 20—(/P)—Japanese
troops leaped into the surf from
Okinawa cliffs yesterday as two
Marine regiments drove the weak
ening resistance to the southern
tip of the island.
The Marine push split the Jap
anese remnants into two fanatic
ally resisting pockets and brought
from Fleet Admiral Nimitz the
announcement that the enemy de
fenses were in the process of col
lapsing.
Two Marine regiments seized
seven hundred yards to the south
as they fanned out. An artillery
spotter plane pilot said he saw
many Japs and civilians leaping
into the sea.
This is the first of mass suicides
since the Saipan campaign. Other
Nipponese troops in increasing
numbers are slipping in among
the thousands of civilians stream
ing through American lines and
surrendering.
Many of the few thousand sol
diers still fighting are wounded
and some of the most stubborn op
position yet met is before Mabuni
IP near the island’s southeastern
coast, where the enemy’s com
manding general is believed at bay
with the staff determined to die.
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The Toyko radio broadcast con
ceded the loss of Okinawa and de
' dared its fall would have serious
military consequences. The enemy
claimed that “furious hand to
hand" fighting was still in prog
ress.
Allies Sign
Agreement On
* Yugoslavia
ROME, June 20 — </P> — Allied
headquarters has announced a
f program for implementing the Al
lied Yugoslav agreement on the
* occupation of Venezia Giulia
signed and said “the discussion
covered the detailed delineation
of the boundary, and an agree
ment upon Belgrade to use the
ports of Trieste and Pols; and
the western area to be occupied by
he western area to be occupied by
Anglo-American troops, and the
eastern area by Yugoslav troops.
The whole area of Venezia Giulia
I f is to be held in trust by the re
* spective countries pending final
esttlement at the peace confer
ence.”
Allies Advance
Thirteen Miles In
Cagayan Valley
By SPENCER DAVIS
MANILA, June 20—{&)—Under
cover of a furious artillery bar
rage Maj.-Gen. Beightler’s Thirty
Seventh Division spanned the Ca
gayan river in norhern Luzon in
assault boats Monday and sped
northward in a total gain of thir
teen miles, liberating the town of
Naguilian.
The advance placed the Buck
eyes within three miles of the city
of Ilagan, with a population of
thirty-thousand, capital of Isabela
Province.
Japanese casualties continued
heavy as the Yanks drove up the
valley and totaled more than six
teen hundred dead and nearly
five hundred prisoners during the
past week.
Australian forces on northwest
ern Borneo meanwhile advanced
on all sectors, driving closer to
the Seria oil fields.
Nome Eskimo
Receives Death
Penalty
SEATTLE, June 18—(/P)—De
liberating less than four hours, a
jury of six women and six men
yesterday found Joe Bill, 33,
Nome Eskimo, guilty of first de
gree murder in the sex-slaying of
5-year-old Irma Irene McGough,
April 22.
The jury recommended the
death penalty. Under Washington
state law, Superior Judge Clay
Allen must follow the recommen
dation. Bill, who has remained
impassive throughout the trial,
showed no emotion at the verdict.
F.W.A. Official
Here On Survey
Mr. L. R. Durkey of the En
gineers Division of the Federal
Works Agency is in Nome. He has
been busy in other cities of the
Territory assisting them with
their FWA projects. His most re
cent work has been in Anchorage
in connection with the improve
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DAT OF FREEDOM — A Belgian (left) and a French
Chaplain, freed by the U. S. Ninth Army after five years in a Nasi
concentration camp* congratulate each other.
S. S. Baranof
Arrives In Nome
The SS. Baranof, first passenger
vessel of the 1945 season arrived
last evening about 10:30 p.m. (Ac
cording to the Navy we can’t say
anything else about it). Following
is the list of passengers who ar
rived:
Vera Angarok, Salom Abraham,
Steffene Anderson, Mrs. Mary
Anderson, Mary A. Anderson,
Edith Arnold, Raymond Arnold
and Infant, Robert F. Black, Mrs.
H. Black, John Campbell, C. J.
Carlson, Joseph Christian, Mrs.
Mary Cogswell, O. P. Davis, Miss
C. L. Ebert, Mrs. H. Engstrom,
Joan Engstrom, Ronald Engstrom,
June Engstrom, Colman Griffin,
Mrs. Della Goshaw, H. B. Gault.
Mary L. Galvin, Mrs. Hilda
Hansen, Smiley Hansen and In
fant, Selmer Johnson, Mrs. Doro
thea Johnson, Marilyn Johnson,
Milton Johnson, Pemberton Killeen,
Magdalene Klippen, I. Leonard,
James Moto, Paul Moneymaker,
Hazel Moneymaker, John Money
maker, Helen Nashaloak, Richard
Ordway, Wallace Porter, J. A.
Pans, Jenne M. Poison, Donatta
Roberts, Joanna Seiffert, Nels
Swanberg, Charlotte Swanberg,
Mrs. Grace Edman, Joseph Saub,
Juanita Sharp, Tolbert Scott, Mrs.
T. Scott, Jane and the Burnett in
fant, J. Yavorsky, and J. B. Wing
field.
Aleutian Based
Planes Play Havoc
With Jap Shipping
ELEVENTH AIRFORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, June 20—(/P) — In
sweeps off the Kuriles by the
Eleventh Airforce Liberators and
Mitchells Sunday and Monday
they sank three small cargo ships
and left another in flames and
damaged three others.
Two Liberators broke off from
the formation bombing Suribachi
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Russ Pi •osecutor
Not To Ask For
Death Sentence
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1 MOSCOW June 20—(JP)— Maj.
Gen. Nikolai Afanasiev, chief
j prosecutor of the sixteen Poles on
i trial for subversive activities be
j hind the Russian lines has asked
the court for no death sentences,
but only imprisonment.
He told the military collegium
Soviet supreme court in his sum
mation that death is not needed,
“because we are living through the
days of joyous victory and the
Soviet nation is mightier than it
ever was.”
The final evidence indicated
that Stanislaw Mikolajaczyk who
resigned as head of the Polish ex
iled government in London when
it failed to accept his recommen
dations of accord to the Lublin
Warsaw regime had been kept in
the dark concerning alleged anti
Russian activities of the Polish
underground.
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CHARLIE IYPANA IN TOWN
ON WAY TO DIOMEDE ISLAND
Charlie Iypana, native from
Diomede, was discharged from
the Army at Anchorage and is in
Nome enroute to his home on Dio
mede Island.
Conference Closing Saturday Doubtful
Officials Hope For Compromise
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 20—iff)
—Conference leaders are striving
to resolve the last issues between
the great and small powers so that
President Truman can keep his
date to close the meeting next Sat
urday.
With the President already on
the West Coast at Olympia, and
with the time growing short to
prepare the projected Big Three
meeting in Berlin next month the
American delegates are especially
hopeful it will not be necessary to
delay the closing session until
early next week; but much de
pends on the remaining issue over
the extent of discussion to be al
lowed in the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly.
It is supposed to have been set
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tied, but yesterday the officials
said there seemed no question that
the timetable would be thrown off
if it is not settled finally today.
Russia is asking for a stricter
limitation in assembly debates
than Australia's, as leader of the
small nations group considers ac
ceptable. Several efforts at a
compromise have failed to pro
duce an agreement
Other conference work is speed
ing toward a conclusion. The prin
ciples for the projected security
league were voted on last night by
the conference commission. This
commission also agreed unani
mously in separate declaration
that the Franco government of
Spain, because of Axis support in
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