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The Philippines Situation

A shaded map appearing in Tuesday's New
pines occupied by General MacArthur's forces,
a. of April g. is especially interesting because
it reveals that the reconquered sections are
much smaller than sections still to be retak.
en-.
Only the central part Of Luzon and the
islands OF Basilan, Leyte, Samar, Cebu, part
of Negroes, Panay, Mindoro and two unidenti
r." my isles, one at each end of Mindoro,
other southeast of Leyte are in Amer.
1T the situation is not as serious as this
showing might suggest. All the more valuable
positions formerly held by the Japanese have
fallen. Chiefly and Of greatest importance, the
enemy is out Of Manila. Corrigedor is retak-
en-. Air fields from which Japanese were once
sending formations of considerable strength
against the Macarthur divisions are now
bases for American Air Forces.
An index to the future may be found in
the continued assault upon areas still occu.
pied by japanese which hold a threat, and
the inability Of the enemy to conduct success
full counterthrusts. The American Sixth Arm,
has landed at and taken Legaspi, in southern
Luzon, and two Japanese thrusts have beer
repealed near Baguio in upper.Luzon.
All goes well for our forces in the island.
but it is to be hoped that all Japanese may
be quickly expelled or annihlated and so re
lease large part of the American forces
still engaged there for operations nearer To
kyo
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Army Day

In peaceful times Army Day is chiefly an
occasion for patriotic speeches full Of star
spansled oratorical flights and poetic dreams,
a day when military organizations give dem
constructions Of skill in 'maneuver with the air
force doing cartwheels overhead, and assem-
bled audiences break up and 60 home deter
mined to see that their Congressman do some
thing for the men who drill 50 splendidly.
Army Day, 1s45, is 4 different sort OF day
No speech-making is needed, though there
will be some, to convince the public that the
Army is a great organization capable OF mag
nifcent service. On battle fronts in Europe
and the Orient and in the air over two con-
tinents, the United States Army is proving
what is claimed for it-that wherever battle
is to be fought in a righteous cause, wherever
the national security Is ut stake, wherever the
bloody heels of human beasts tread, it will
give a rood account Of itself, so good that, in
the present conflict the armed hordes OF Hitler
are in flight and the Japanese are already
Keeling toward defeat.
Army Day, 1s45, is day when public SYM
pathy is pouring upon home circles from
which some member has gone at the call OF
duty and will never return. In a finer sense,
Army Day this year is memorial day Tor
our honored dead upon hundred fields OF
combat
Always a peace-loving people, we have new
er maintained large standing army between
wars, but whenever need has come to take
up arms against a foe citizens Of the United
States have proved their nettle with excep-
t.onal courage and military genius. 1t il in
largest measure 4 citizens army that today
has the mighty military machine Of the Ger
mans in retreat, and outfought the Japanese
in every major engagement in the Pacific,
save only the first Philippines campaign
which came when our guard was down.
In the fact that We have not had a large
military force save in the actual emergency
of war, and In the threat the Axis made
against not only our own security but the
security of our civilization throughout all DEM
ocratic sectors OF the world, there is reason
for US to maintain large army heneeforth
so that no brigand will again dare start on a
career Of conquest, no Hitler or TOTO send his
gangsters out to seek world domination.
Army Day, 1s45, is an occasion for US to
dedicate ourselves to the proposition that all
peoples shall live in safety, free from wars
alarms, if it takes such military force as
never was maintained in any land before.
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nv ERNIE PYLE

OKINAWA- (by Navy radlo) -
Now that we are ashore IN 1u1i
force upon the Japanese island OF
Lakinawa I would like to go back
and tell you in detail how the IN
vasion Went off.
AS our regimenta1 commander
said the night before the landing:
"au I'm worried about is get
ting pas, the first two days when
we are on our own and will have
to improvise to meet every situa-
ton. But after that we will be es.
tablished and from then on We can
Just 60 by the book" t
The first two days are over
accomplished with an ease that
had everybody flabbergasted. BY
evening of the first day we had
done much more than the most
optimistic planner figured we could
in the first three days. So iron
now it's "by the book"
For some reason which I haven
fathoned yet the conventional
name of D-Day was changed for
this invasion to Love Day." Posi-
bly, it was because we were land
ing on Easter Sunday and some
body felt the spirit OF brotherly
At any rate when dawn came
love.
on Love Day and the pink, rising
sun lifted the shroud of Oriental
darkness around us, we were alb
solutsly appalled,.
For all our main conveys had
converged and there they lay
around us in one gigantic flee-,
stretching for miles. There were
around 1900 ships and thousands Of
small landing craft which the ships
had carried with them.
There weren't as many small
ships as at Normandy, but in naval
power and actual force of men and
fighting strength it was equally as
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Put On Their Own

People in the former German-occupied coun-
tries in Europe, who have feared that the
Allies would distribute food with lavish hand
in totterins Germany are taking heart at Gen.
eral Eisenhowers recent broadcast in which
he told the German people they must depend
on their own crops for food ana at any cost
prevent 'the party" from raiding reserves
they may have cached.
And not only endangered Europeans, either.
Americans, who have been amazed at the
coddling Of Geeman prisoners in this country
while they endured shrinking food supply,
welcome the Eisenhower broadcast with equal
satisfaction.
The broadcast is one Of series the Su-
preme Allied Commander is making to the
Germans. We doubt that any other could stir
rs great or widely-felt rejoicing. 1t is worth
repeating here for the consolation it brings
The instructions which follow are Of vi
tai importance not only to you but to
the whole German people. To obey them
strictly is your only hope Of averting the
famine which threatens Germany. If you
disobey Them, nothing which either you
or the Allies can do will prevent catas-
trophe in Germany this year.
Cd Do everything in your power, W: at
ever the difficulties, to continue the nec-
essary farm work, Use to the full the evac-
uees from the danger areas.
Cd Refuse at all costs to leave your
farm work for service in the Volkssturm
# you have been conscripted already, es-
cape at once and return to work on the
land. ....-..,.
(3) Resist, if necessary by force, at
tempts by the party to remove food stocks
from the districts where you live.
a. Resist, if necessary by force, the
slaughter of cattle, pigs and poultry. Pre-
serve your livestock intact.
Remember! For years Germany has re-
lied on plundered food from the occupied
territories Relying on this plundered food,
she has modified her land workers for
the army and failed to feed herself This
year Germany must depend on her own
= food resoa,raAa
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big as the invasion Of Europe. We
certainly didn't 60 at Okinawa IN
any half.hearted manner.
We had ham and eggs for break
fast at 4:30 am. We strapped our
unwieldy packs on our backs. Our
heavier gear was left aboard to be
taken ashore several days. laser.
It was only half light when we
went on deck. You could see flame
flashes on the horizon toward shore.
The men on the deck were dark
and indistinguishable forms.
/ Our assault transport carried
many landing craft GCVP's) on
deck. They were lifted by der
rick and swung over the side. We
piled into them as they hung even
with the rail. Then the winch low
cred them into the water.
1 went on the first boat to leave
our ship. It was just breaking dawn
when we left. It was still more
than two hours before H-Hour. Our
long ocean trip as over. The days
we had reluctantly counted off were
all gone. Our time had run out.
| This was it.
AL around us hundreds of other
boats were putting off and churn-
ing the water, but there was no
organization to it. They weren't
yet forming into waves. These early
boats carried mainly the control
crews who could manage the colos-
sal traffic of shorebound invasion
lists in the next few hours.
We chugged shoreward for more
than an hour, for we had stopped
far offshore. Our destination was a
small control ship lying about two
miles from the beach.
Scores Of these little control craft
were forming a line the entire
length of our long beachhead, about
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-06
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

a quarter of a mile apart. They
were the traffic policemen OF our
invasion.
They all looked alike, and we had
to find ours by number. In all the
weller of miles of ocean traffic, it
was easy to get lost and we did.
We were half an hour finding our
control boat after getting there.
An assault on an enemy shore is
a highly organized thing. It is SO
intricately organized, so abundant
in fine detail that it would be i'm
possible to clarity it all in your
mind. No single man in our armed
forces knows everything about an
invasion.
But Just to simplify one point
Suppose we were invading an en-
envy beach on a four-mile front. 1t
is not as YOU would think, one over
all invasion. Instead it is a dozen
or more little invasions, simultane-
ously and side by side. Each team
runs its own invasion. A combat
team is a regiment. Our regimen
tai commander and his staff were
on the little control ship. Thus our
control ship directed only the
troops of our regiment.
We had beaches yellow One
and yellow Two" Troops OF our
regiment formed waves directly of
these beaches, miles at sea, ano
We went straight in.
Other control ships on either side,
having nothing to do with uss di-
rected other waves having nothing
to do with US. Each was its own
private little show.
AS I've written before, war to an
individual is hardly ever bigger
than hundred yards on each side
of him. And that's the way it was
with us at OlkinaWa.
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Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

Regardless Of whether Moscow
denunciation of the Russo-Japa-
nese non. aggression pact leads to
immediate Soviet-Nipponese hostil-
tiles, it has overnight profoundly
changed the military equation in
the war beyond the Pacific in Al
lied favor.
Tokyo anticipation Of the Rus
sian move could explain Japanese
failure to meet that American
challenge at sea or on the beaches
of OkinaWa. The overthrown jap
anese war cabinet had to look north
as well as south and west.
Potentially Japan is an COM
pletely ringed as is collapsing Ger
many. 1t makes little difference
whether Russia, now Or later. i'm
plenents her denunciation OF the
pact with military action direct or
indirect. So tar as Japan is con-
cerned another mighty enemy is
poised to strike in Manchuria or
against Japan itself from the
north.
Taken in sequence, events that
led up 10 the Russian move
against Japan point back to Yalta,
or perhaps even beyond that to
the first Big Three military con-
ference in Tehran. There never
has been any authoritative indica-
ton that the strategy OF the war
beyond the Pacific was talked ov-
err by the Allies at Yalta. But the
impression is inescapable that not
only the date for the San Fran
cisco Conference but the time table
for American action against Two
Jima and Okinawa figured in
those conversations.
Messrs. Churchill, Roosevelt and
Stain emphasized in announcing
Joint Russian-Allied military decl-
sions at Tehran the critical impor-
lance of the timing of contemplate
ed action. 1t can hardly be mere
coincidence that the seizure OF Oki-
nawa, and Russian denunciation Of
the pact with Japan came so close
together on the eve Of the momen
tous San Francisco gathering.
Even without any immediate &C
tive Russian aid against Japan the
duration of the war in the Pacific
theater obviously has been slash
ed. Yet there is no reason yet to
anticipate early Japanese surren-
der any more than the utterly crl
teal situation in Germany fore
shadows German formal capitula-
ton.
General Eisenhower, undoubted-
1y better placed than any other
man to visualize the probabilities
in Germany, scotched the idea that
the end there would come sudden
ly and completely. While his let
ter to President Roosevelt on the
subject was no doubt written and
made public by the White House
to offset any lag in American war
production growing out of public
belief that the war in Europe is
about over, it stated the case
bluntly and factually.
German army disintegration has
set in but it may take months to
finish the job, months of hard and
bloody fighting.
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RED TAPE SAVES MOOSE

O11E EIVNE WyU., AP1II J.-Vo'F0
Commissioner Lester Bagley Of
the state game and fish depart
ment says a mean, vicious moose
which has been ambushing I'M
wary civilians in the vicinity of
Moran, Wyo., might not have a
legal right to do so, but can con-
tinue until an official complaint
is received by his department. The
department has disposed of mean
moose in the past, but not until it
received an official complaint.
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JUDGE DOES A SOLOMON

CHESTER, Pa, April 5.-WD-
insulation was the remedy pre-
scribed by Judge Harold L. Erwin
when he was called upon to de-
eide whether husband or a wife
should live in house they both
owned. The judge said the hus-
band should live on the third
floor and his wife on the first.
Four roomers will be sandwiched
in between, on the second floor.
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ton of bureau chiefs with whom Mr. Roosevelt
is on friendly terms and keeps in office when
it is obvious to everybody else that they know
little or nothing about their tasks and their
services are notable for inefhciency.
It would be great day for the country if
eral.
Evening star., 1945-10-14

e;
it Tests n,sserves ssav the lovely original pattern
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-19

The Department Of Agricul-
ture, VIA and National Safety
Council have set the week Of
July 1928 as Farm Safety Week.
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Veterans
Continued from Page I

through France, preached the
Siegfried Line. captured Aachen
and fought through the dark
Hurtgen Forest. Last December
it helped block Won Rundstedt' s
Ardennes drive and finally II
crossed the Rhine and rolled on
into the heart of Germany. 1t
is now under Maj. Gen. Cliff
Andrus.
The Third Infantry Division,
now under Maj. Gen. Iron
Mike O'Daniel, first went into
action in the last stages of the
Tunisian campaign. IL captured
Palermo and Messina III Sicily
and spearheaded the landing at
Anzio.
The Third invaded southern
France with the Seventh Army
on Aug. Is, and wound up the
European campaign with more
awards for individual heroism
than any other combat unit. II
also suffered more casualties
than any other division.
The 82nd Airborne Division
made its combat debut as 4 di-
vision by jumping onto the
beaches of Sicily before the in
fantry went ashore. It's men
fought as infantry in Italy and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-19

Tinker will study music at Cha
tauqua, N. Y. Miss Burt. who
was active in the Womens Ath-
letic Association, Zeta Epsilon
Lambda, Kappa Delta, and other
organizations, will teach at De-
catur next year.
Thelma Ullrich, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Ullrich, will
receive her Bachelor of Arts de-
gree from the University OF
Michigan School of Education,
as we'll as Teachers Certifi-
cate. A scholarship student, Miss
Ullrich has signed a contract to
teach at Beethoven, Calf, next
year.
Margaret DeLaRue, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Della
Rue, took her Bachelor of Sci
ence degree as an occupational
therapist from Michigan College
of Education at Kalamazoo. Her
course included training in four
hospitals, and she is taking ex-
ira work this summer.
Mary Leone Rose majored in
art, and took her Bachelor OF
Arts degree at Marygrove co..
lege early in June. An honor
student, she is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Rose, OF
Hazel road.
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South Haven Officer
Receives Silver Star

SAN DIEGO, Calf, June 19
-P)- 1t. Comdr. Arthur L
Downing, Brakway ave-, South
Haven, Mich, received the Sill
yer Star medal here today in a
mass award ceremony at the
US. Naval Air Station.
Thirty-three other Naval Of
ficers and Bluejackets were dec
Grated for extraordinary combat
achievements. Capt. William v.
Saunders, chief of staff to the
commander, fleet air, West coast
presented the awards.
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1t. Fred Matthews
Decorated for
Raids over Japan

First 1t. Fred j. Matthews,
of "a Parkview avenue, a mem.
Der of the 21st Bomber Com
mand unit on Saipan, has been
awarded the Air Medal for par
ticipating in numerous success
full Superfortress flights and
combat missions over the Jap
mainland. Lieut.. Matthews has
been in the Army for II years
and was stationed at Selfridge
Field from 1928 to the start Of
the war. He received additional
training at Salinas, Kansas, and
was sent overseas in November
His wife and two children, Joan
and Edmund, live at the above
address.
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Union Leader 10 Apply
for Citizenship Papers

SAN FRANCISCO. June 10
(P) - Harry Bridges. chief of
the CLIO Longshoremen's Union,
will apply for final citizenship
papers as soon as the u S. At
torney General dismisses a war
rant of arrest against him.
The West Coast labor leader
announced his plans here after
learning the United States Su-
preme Court yesterday had in
validated deportation order
calling for his return to his ma
tive Australia.
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Truman
Continued from Page l

mand runway including Acting
Secretary of State Joseph |,
Grew and Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau.
The President paused at the
top of the ramp leading to his
plane to wave to photographers.
When the President alighted
from his automobile from the
White House. General Essen
hover was already on hand TO
greet him. Walking up 10 the
five star officer, the Chief Elk
ecutive said;
Il didn't know YOU could get
up this early in the morning,
Ike"
We'll, I had to. you know"
Eisenhower replied.
The Presidents plane is the
same one which brought Essen
hover here yesterday from
across the Atlantic.
In the Presidential party were
his military and naval aides
Colonel Harry Vaughan and
Captain James Zardman, Jr
Secretaries Matthew j. Connolly
and Charles G.. Ross and j
Leonard Reinsch, radio adviser
Two other planes were in the
flight. The first, carrying, secret
service men, left at 7;l5 am
The second. with newsmen. cam.
eramen and more secret service
agents, took off at 1887 am.
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Nine from City Receive
College Degrees in June

myer, daughter IF Mr.. and Mrs.
Carlos Wittenmyer, received
Bachelor of Science degrees and
Teachers Certificates from
Michigan State Teachers Col
lege at Ypsilanti. Miss Kenne-
dy has accepted a position in
Rochester, and Miss Wittenmy-
err, whose parents have moved
to Lebanon, O., will teach in
Trenton, Mich.
Priscilla Tinker, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Tinker,
and Laura Burt. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Burt, were
graduated from Albion College
with Bachelor of Arts degrees,
and Teachers Certificates. Miss
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Only 16 German war GRIMM
ais of World War l actually were
tried, with six resulting con-
victions under German tribun-
ais, according to Encyclopedia
Britannica.
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Macarthur NOT Opposed
10 Iydinqs Commission

MANILA, June 10 - R -
There is absolutely no truth
In the report of friction during
the visit of the Tydings' Com.
mission" in the Philippines, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur told the AS
ISOLATED Press today.
His statement was a reply to
Columnist Drew Pearson of the
Washington Merry Go Round
who limited that the General op-
posed the Commission.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-19

lar d e d behind the Germans
Cherbourg Peninsula coastal d.
lenses on D-Day In q brilliantly
executed maneuver. They drop
ped from the sky. too. to help
the British ut Nijmegen and they
jumped across the Rhine TO help
establish the Allied bridgehead
there.
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Gunshoi Proves Fatal

Mrs. Florence Emmt Getchell,
SO, of 2810 School Section, near
Richmond, was found dead in
bed yesterday morning from a
bullet wound which Coroner
Howard v. Groesbeck, Jr., stat
ed was self inflicted.
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Nine Mount Clemens young
people are receiving college de-
grees this month, including two
advanced degrees. y
The advanced degrees are be-
ing taken by Lois Diehl, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Diehl
and Charles V. Titus, Jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. v. Titus. Miss
Diehl is believed to be the only
physical education teacher IN
the state holding a Masters de-
gree which she is receiving from
the University of Michigan in
the field of Guidance. A ST.
Marys graduate, Miss Diehl re-
ceived her Bachelors degree
from Marygrove and has been
teaching health and physical
education in Center Line for
seven years. She organized the
teaching of Home Nursing in the
school,
Titus was awarded a Master
of Science degree in the field Of
Applied Mathematics at Brown
University, Providence, r. L.,
on Monday. A graduate of ST.
Mary's High school, he took his
bachelors degree from the Uni
versity of Detroit in 1914.
Lois Kennedy, daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph L. Ken
needy, and Jeanette Witten-
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Industries and communities in
southwestern Ohio's Mill Creek
Valley require 100000 gal
Ions of water daily.
Evening star., 1945-11-03
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