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BILL MUNZ HAS
AIRPLANE MISHAP
—
Sunday afternoon Bill Munz, of
Munz Air Service was test-hop-;
ping one of his planes, when the
wings collapsed about 50 feet
above the ground. The plane fell
to earth without any other seri
ous damage. Bill was unhurt.
The plane had been out of serv
ice for the past few years are was
r recently overhauled.
Upon examination of the wreck
ed plane, it was discovered that
the mechanic had neglected to
wire-tie the wings to the fuselage.
Bill says the plane should be in
operation again in a few days.
FRIDAY GAMES
American League
New York 5, Chicago 4. St.
Louis 5, Boston 0. Cleveland 3,
Washington 0. Detroit 2, Philadel
phia 1.
National League
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 3. Pitts
burgh 5, Boston 3. New York 5,
Cincinnati 2. St. Louis 9, Brooklyn
7.
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 6, San Diego 0. Seattle
2, Los Angeles 1. Hollywood 10
Sacramento 6. San Francisco 0,
Portland 4.
SATURDAY GAMES
National Laagua
Brooklyn 11, St. Louis 2. Phila
delphia 1, Chicago 2. New York 5,
Cincinnati 1.
American League
St. Louis 9, Boston 2. New York
13, Chicago 0. Detroit 5, Philadel
phia 4. Cleveland-Washington,
game postponed.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4, Oakland 5. Sacra
mento 6, Hollywood 1. Los Angeles
6, Seattle 3. San Francisco 3,
Portland 5.
SUNDAY GAMES
American League
Detroit 3, 1; Washington 1,2.
St. Louis 9, 1; New York 10, 3.
Chicago 0, 1; Boston 7, 2. Cleve
land 8, Philadelphia 3. Second
game postponed.
National League
NO. IT’S NOT A TUNNE L—\ 1*4-ton Army truck appears to be going through a tun
- nel as it stands in the upper fuselage section of the giant Boeing C-97 transport.
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Japs Blow-Up
Caves At Shuri
Before Withdrawal
By LIEF ERICKSON
I
GUAM, Monday, May 28—{IP)—
Heavy fire from warships, co
ordinated with aerial strafing,
bombing and rocket attacks
smashed Japanese troops concen
trations of a “considerable num
ber” south of Shuri on Okinawa
yesterday.
Admiral Nimitz did not say
whether the Japanese were with
drawing southward from the fort
ress of Shuri, which is half sur
rounded, or were mustering the
move to the north for reinforce
ment of Okinawa's battered sec*
ond largest city northwest of Shu
ri.
The First Marine Division ob
served Japanese blowing up fif
teen to twenty caves. These* caves
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Boston 4, 0; Cincinnati 0, 5.
Philadelphia 2, 3; St. Louis 0, 2.
Brooklyn 1, 2; Chicago 6, 2. New
Ygrk 4, 5; Pittsburgh 16, 10. Sec
ond game called because of Sun
day law, to be completed Monday.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 2, 3; Hollywood 6,
0. Los Angeles 2, 2; Seattle 8, 6.
San Francisco 8, Portland 4. Sec
ond game postponed. San Diego
3, 9; Oakland 4, 8.
378,427 Japanese
Casualties In
Philippines
By FRED HAMPSON
MANILA, May 28— </P) — The
Japanese dead and captured total
378,427 in the overall Philippine
campaign, General MacArthur an
nounced in reporting steady prog
ress on Luzon and Mindanao is
lands.
General MacArthur reported
8,101 enemy dead had been
counted and 508 prisoners had
been taken in the week ending
Saturday. American casualties for
the same period were given at 389
killed, 15 missing, 1,002 wounded.
The total Yank casualties on the
Philippines are 48,044.
Heavy and medium attack
bombers unloaded a 426 ton bomb
load in support of ground opera
tions on Luzon, causing wide
spread damage to Japanese supply
dumps and defenses.
General MacArthur reported the
Americans on Mindanao are “fan
ning out in pursuit of the enemy.”
Reduction of the tough Japanese
sector of Davao is under way.
Volunteer workers served a to
tal of 108,427,310 hours at USO
clubs since their inception in 1941,
according to the National War
Fund which supports activities of
USO.
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French Troops
Fire Upon
Syrian People
DAMASCUS, May 28—(>P)—Ja
mil Mardam Bey, acting premier
of Syria said that French troops
yesterday “fired upon people in
Hama” in the north of Damas
cus on the road to Aleppo. He ex
presed fear that “a general clash”
between the French and Syrians
was imminent.
He issued a statement in which
i he said that after the French
opened fire in Hama “the people,
then attacked the French garrison.'
The French called for reinforce
ments from Homs.
“There is now fighting in the]
streets, communications have
been cut off and the feeling is
now so intense in Homs that any
thing may happen there momen
tarily. I dont know what may
happen in Damascus. The gendar
merie is trying to keep order but
we fear the incidents may grow
into a general clash.”
Mardam Bey made the state
ment after a conference with
United States Minister Wadsworth
and British Charge D’Affaires
Young. It is understood the Amer
ican Minister urged the Syrians
to exert every effort to maintain
order until diplomatic action can
be taken in Paris.
CHUNGKING, May 28— </P) —
Chinese troops, pushing deeply in
to the enemy’s overland corridor
in IndoChina reached the vicinity
of Pingyiang, sixty miles north
east of recaptured Nenning. The
Chinese announced the march car
ried the Chinese almost one third
of the way from Nenning to Kwei
lin in northeastern Kwangsi, one
of the first United States air bases
lost to the enemy in the Jap ad
vance several months ago, which
established a link across China
from Manchuria to Indo China,
The inland port of Nenning is
one of the most important sec
tions on the overland route
through Changsha, Kweilin and
Yengyang.
The offensive over the week
end was one of the most promis
ing of the Chinese counter offen
sives of the war. The fall of Nen
ning came as a surprise in Chung
king, since no word of the offen
sive had been given out.
Congress To Act
On Unemployment
Compensation
WASHINGTON, May 28—f/PI—
President Truman called upon
Congress to take emergency action
to widen the coverage of unem
ployment compensation. The Pres
ident in a special message de
clared the lack of adequate bene
fits to workers temporarily unem
ployed during the transition from
war to peace remains “the major
gap in our reconversion program.”
Specifically the President pro
posed for Congress to extend the
coverage unemployment compen
sation, during the emergency peri
od, to include federal employees,
maritime workers and other
workers not now assured.
He proposed they be financed
entirely by the federal govern
ment during the emergency. The
benefits “to appropriately be ad
ministered” by the States.
He recommended a maximum
weekly unemployment compensa
tion payments should not be less
than twenty-five dollars. “Every
eligible worker should be entitled
to twenty-six weeks’ benefis, and
one year if his unemployment con
tinues that long.”