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Vote Formula
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 The special position Of the big powers can be justified, he said. by realizing that they represent more than half of the worlds population. Any falling out of the big powers would result in war anyway, he argued, and the unanimity rule among them is especially needed in the early stages of the organization
 Cadogan hinted that as the or- ganization grows and commands more respect, the voting procedure can be progressively liberalized. Bri- tain has never hidden the fact that she believes the big powers should give up all their veto power over decisions involving arrangements for peaceful settlement of disputes.
 Australia asked reconsideration of the part of the formula which all lows one of the big five to veto peaceful settlements of disputes not involving itself. The Netherlands asked especially that the formula be revised to allow the cou:cE se tsrnnd one Of the big five an aggressor if necessary.
 Debate on the voting formula in the closed sessions of the committee is expected to go on for several days. Thus far. however, it has brought to the forefront of the conference a new subject after days of turmoil in high quarters over the compro- nN.sa fnr1totllo ,antnno1 ments and trusteeships.
 Conference action on the regional formula has bsen delayed since Tuesday night because of failure of Moscow to instruct the Russian del- egation here how to vote A big five meeting scheduled for yesterday was suddenly cancelled because of no word from the Kremlin.
 The conference committee on the regional issue is scheduled to meet this afternoon and the United States may present the formula on it's own and not wait for Russia's reply
 The trusteeship issue again was begged down by new discord among the big powers, China and Russia sought to make the objective of the trusteeship system the eventual sel.-government and independence of all dependent peoples. Britain and the United States disapproved Of the word independence,
 Cmdr. Harold F. StaSsen Of the U. s. delegation finally interyened. re. mlndine the delegates that the suc- cess Of the whole conference was de- pend,nt upon agreement Of the big powers on fundamental Issues; that the working paper on trusteeships represented the maximum area Of agreement by the big overs. He in. sisted that the Chinese amendment went beyond the working paper and served notice that the United States would oppose 1t.
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Continued from Page D ported throughout the Tokuyama Naval fuel station, Japans main naval fuelling station, and the ad- joining Tokuyama synthetic fuel factory, principal source of fuel for Japanese Army planes.
 Only on area immediately east of the target areas at Tokuyama escaped damage, reconnaissance re- vealed.
 A dispatch from the flagship of an American carrier task force of Japan said pilots who hit the ku- mamoto assembly plant reported the factory no longer would be of use to the enemy.
 American officers were unaware of the plant before carrier planes swept over it. Cmdr. Edmond Con- rad of Medina, Wash, said the plant was brand new and covered an area equal to four or five city blocks.
 Leaving the target we noticed an extra big explosion, indicating that a power plant had been hit" he said. "Ani-aircraft fire was meager as we went in and dropped our bombs without loss"
 Two based Mustang fighters which swept Atsugi airfield near Tokyo yesterday destroyed seven and prob abaly nine enemy aircraft and dam aged B others, a Pacific fleet com- munique announced.
 Liberators of the llth air force sank small cargo ship or escort vessel between Paramushiru and Shimusu in the Northern Kuriles north of Japan.
 Carrier planes of the British Paci- fic fleet heavily bombed towns and airhelds in the Sakishima group be- taween Formosa and OkinaWa We'd nesday and Thursday. A large ex- polsion was observed during an at tack on the town of Ohama and an oil dump set afire.
 Two small craft were destroyed, small coastal cargo ship and lug ger left sinking and two small cargo ships, two luggers and six barges damaged.
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courthouse workers to rearrange chairs so the courtroom could ac- commodate the huge number of veniremen.
 When he made his move yesterday to withdraw as counsel, Attorney Mascolo offered to return the fee already paid by Corcia, in accord ance with any order the court might make. The chief defense counsel was not in the courtroom today when the judge was told the request would no longer be pressed, The attorney had been in the building most of the morning, however.
 Judge Cornell, after hearing the comments of Attorney Feeley, re- viewed the situation indicating he did so "so that there will be no misunderstanding" He said Attor- ney Mascolo claimed he was unable to proceed before him. The court then gave him opportunity to show whether or not he was able to pro- ceed before him or any other judge, Judge Cornell stated. Since there was no evidence presented, the case was ready for trial on Tuesday, he concluded.
 Attorney Mascolos motion to have the judge disqualify himself, denied immediately after presenta- tion, was the second such motion Attorney Mascolo had presented in recent years.
 In June, l943, the attorney asked Judge William H. Comley to dis qualify himself from the Michael Churchelow criminal case. The mo- tion was denied, but the case was put over finally until the next term and Judge Cornell was the jurist to try it and sentence the accused to prison.
 Cant Recall Case
 At that time Attorney Mascolo pointed out Judge Comley had once prosecuted criminal charge against the accused and as a re- suit reformatory sentence had been imposed. Judge Comley com-
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heroes high in the hundreds, her dead at 341, her missing at 43l, ana her wounded at more than 300.
 Big Ben's story can be told now Because she came back After steam Ang 12,000 miles under her own un- luenchable power, Big Ben, un- recoguizablly scared and battered and mangled, is home at long last in a berth at the Brooklyn tN. Y) Navy Yard. There she will be made whole again
 The Japanese bomber, it's ap- proach undetected, caught the car rier at the moment of greatest Vul- nerability when its planes were be- ing launched, its gasoline lines were full and flowing, and its bomb and rocket stores exposed.
 From the time the enemy's two 500- pound armor- piercing bombs found their marks until the agony was over, Big Ben took enough punishment to kill hundred ships, enough to wreck city,
 Tn the hours of her ordeal, 200 900 pounds of the carriers own bombs, rockets and ammunition blew up, and an estimated l2,000 gallons Of high octane aviation gasoline either burned in cascades of flame or eX- ploded in volcanic eruptions,
 Of the ships complement of more than 2,500 sailors and men of air group 13. many scores died in a flash. Other hundreds were blown into the sea. where many drowned, Fire, fumes and smoke trapped and killed still others below decks.
 Heroic rescue work, brilliant sea- manship, and incredibly efficient damage control operations saved many hundreds. The exact number of survivors remains undiscloSed be- cause the Navy does not want the enemyq to know just how many men the Franklin carried
 But at least 70 of the crew sur vived to sail the carrier from the scene of disaster, and other hun- dreds of sailors and alrmen were removed and kept in the Pacific.
 The Japanese reported Big Ben sunk. and the navy admits that she should by all accounts have gone to the bottom.
 Big Ben refused to die. For seven hours packed with deeds of heroism unrivaled in this war she lay dead in the water. For nine hours she had no communications, no elec- tricity, no drinkable water. For Is hours fires burned-in niagaras of flaming gasoline at first: in smould ering, ume-generating pockets at the last.
 Before Big Ben came to life again and shook off the tow lines of friendly ships. she had drifted with in 38 miles of the Japanese home island of Shikoku At one time, a time of horror for men trapped below decks, she listed 20 degrees and seemed to be on the verge Of capsizing.
 Big Ben refused to die because her skipper, 47-year-old Capt. Les lie E. Gehres of Coronado, Calf" said T won't abandon this ship; because her crew would not be cowed by death; because her offic- CTS and men, those that lived, did all the right things at the right times.
 That Big Ben did not go down the navy said, is tribute not only to her officers and bluejackets but also ito the skill and devotion oi the men who designed and built her at the Newport News (Va0 Ship building and Dry Dock Go. yards
 In fact, the navy says Big Ben Is no hero ship" rather, she is typical
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He pointed through window to Austrian flags flying in Sa'zburg's streets. Many of those flying them are the most fanatic Nazis."
 Ley calmly denied that toreign workers in Germany were slaves. He said they all had worked volun- tarily, and that he had followed orders to feed everybody alike who worked, Germans or foreigners.
 Neither would Ley admit that he had liquidated the old German trade labor unions.
 T merely took them over," was his explanation. Their orgar!za- tions still were there. In fact some of their treasuries are larger"
 He admitted he supported the Nazi policy of prosecuting Jews ex- cept killing them outright. But he also said "as such, Jews don't exist for me"
 Ley said he last saw Hitler in the Berlin chancellory on April 20th when he congratulated the Fuehrer on his birthday. He said he asked how the situation was, and Hitler replied that it was serious but he thought he could handle it.
 The labor front leader said Hit Ter was in good health then, and the first he knew Of his death was when he heard it on the German radio.
 Ley claimed that after the sur render of Germany he walked through the American lines to the vicinity of Cologne to see his wife and children. He said she had been killed and he didn't Know where the children were. Ley claimed he walked back to Austria.
 When he was captured by troops of the l0lst Airborne Division We'd nesday afternoon, he was growing a beard and tried to deny his identity Today he was clean-shaven and he readily admitted his name to Lieu tenant Albert Kornblum, New Ha- ven, Conn.
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 The Marines already were across the Asato river several hundred yards inside the ruined city in strength and steadily were expand ing their bridgehead.
 The defenders. probably compris- ing the bulk of 30,000 Japanese troops in southern Okinawa, at- tempted to dupe Marine patrols which crossed the Asato in advance of the main thrust hy permitting them to roam the inner city un- molested for as long as five hours.
 But once the main American forces struck across the river. the Japanese opened up with every thing they had, and the fight was on.
 Airfield Big Prize
 One mile beyond Naha lay an even bigger prize than the capital it. self-Naha airfield. fifth and larg- est airfield on Okinawa.
 Three other Marine and Army divisions machine -gunned and bay onetted their way deeper into the defenses of the other two anchor strongholds of the enemy's Okinawa line, Shuri and the east coast port of Yonabaru.
 All four divisions were supported by Naval guns. land artillery and planes that were laying down one Of the heaviest bombardments in history. In the first 45 days of the campaign, warships alone hurled 20 900 tons of shells and explosives into Okinawa.
 Mraines Of the first division reached Wana town just northwest of the bitterly defended island cita- del of Shuri.
 The 77th infantry division broke into Ishimmi village 400 yards northeast of Shuri in a surprise attack without artillery prepara- ton. Strong positions which had been stalling A southward drive were oyerrun.
 A hanking attack by the 382nd Regiment of the 96th Infantry divi- sion ran into heavy resistance after carrying within 20 yards east of Shuri
 On the east coast other units of the eoth division were fighting In the outskirts of Yonabaru, main port on Nakagusuku Bay.
 Field dispatches indicated the battle for Naha was approaching
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its climax with the Marine thrust across the ASato river. The Japanese were taking full advantage of the excellent defenses left by the wreckage of concrete buildings.
 Just northeast Of Mana, Marines captured by-passed Sugar Loaf Hill,
 Enemy Plane Downed
 A small force of Japanese planes attempted to attack American forces on and around Okinawa Wednes- day night, but caused no damage. One enemy plane was shot down
 A Japanese Domei dispatch re- corded by the EGG said Japanese suicide planes sank an aircraft car- Tier and crippled two cruisers and an unidentified Warship in attacks in OkinaWa waters from Wednesday night to Thursday morning.)
 Evidence of the heavy air sup port being given front-line Amer ican troops on Okinawa came in an army announcement. During yesterday morning alone, it said, 8l American planes expended 35 tons of bombs, 260 rockets and 44OOO lOuiiNo oi iHdSilAiIc-s uIl dl!u CdIlllOll fire.
 While battleships, cruisers and destroyers poured large-caliber shells into the enemy defenses. a fotilla of landing craft infantry moved close to Naha cove and fired 1900 rounds of 0-millimeter mach ine-gun fire, 4,100 mortar shells and 4,400 rockets into the ruins of the capital.
 Land artillery on the Shuri front killed 200 Japanese in a single bar rage. Among them were several white-eloved officers who Marines said were strutting around in front of fortified caves "cocky as Hell"
 On the Yonabaru front, an Amer ican platoon of 26 men advanced 1000 yards west of Conical Hill. They had advanced over one hill and were at the base of the next when the Japanese opened up from the reverse slope Of the hill they had just passed, from Conical hill it. self and third hill.
 Only the platoon leader and three
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 Dr. B. Ecer, leader of the Czecho- slovak team of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, said many of his countrymen were among the victims of Nazi scientific experi- ments.
 The experiments were carried out in efforts to gather information concerning tuberculosis and other diseases. They were directed through national research center set up by Dr. Bernhardt Rust, minister for science and education, in col Liberation with Himmler as min- ister of interior.
 Both Rust and Himmler already were under indictment as major war criminals because of their ministerial status. A large number of German scientists involved in planning or carrying out the pro- gram also were under investigation and indictment of many appeared certain.
 Much evidence was gathered by investigators at one camp alone, Buchenwald, The chief physician at Buchenwald, & doctor Aesle, al- ready had been indicted as a war criminal. Inmates said an average of 30 internees day died as re- suit of his injections between 1899 and 1942.
 The Czechoslovak and Polish in- vestiga tors also will look into other and all phases of war crimes. Dr. Ecer said he would seek to ques- tion Reichmarshal Herman Goering,
 Teams from six other Allied coun- tries will follow the first two to Germany. They will represent Yugoslavia, Greece, France, Bel gium, Holland and Norway.
 Lieutenant-Colonel korzeny, wanted for an attempt to assassin ate Eisenhower, was captured at an unidentified spot in Austria by the American Seventh Army May l3,
 Captured German agents said Skorzeny and other high Nazi agents filtered through the Ameri- can lines in British uniforms in six command cars during the Ardennes counter offensive.
 One Nazi Uniform
 One of the party was in German uniform and the plan was to tell any troops who stopped them that they were taking an important pris- oner to supreme headquarters for questioning.
 Another version was that Skorzeny had parachuted behind the Allied lines on the assassination attempt. Just how the plot was thwarted was not revealed.
 Skorzeny also was credited with engineering the paratroop rescue of Mussolini Sept. l2, l943 after his capture by the Badoslo govern ment.
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ara" with bombs, rockets, bullets, and steel splinters falling every where, he was able to report; There was no panic"
 But there might have been, For 90 terrible minutes 300 men were trapped in their mess compartment. Smoke. flame and smashed bulk heads blocked all exits. Oxygen be- came scarce. There could have been panic, had it not been for It. Cmdr. James L. Fuelling Of Indian apolis, a flight surgeon, who made a 30-word spech to the trapped men.
 Everybody sit down. ne said. Were trapped here for the time being. Stay calm and be quiet. Use as little air as possible. Stay close to the deck and say a prayer,
 Rescue came. It. Donald A. Gary of Oakland, Calf. left the compart- ment promising 70 return. He sropen through smoke and Are until he wound a way out through ventila- tion tubing to the flight deck.
 In trip after trip he led the men to safety. All but one made It. The last to go was fuelling. Not untii it was over did Gary reveal what he alone knew at the time. Midway of the escape route was space filled with bombs and rockets. Their war heads set for action, ready 10 explode at any moment.
 The light Cruiser Santa Fe ana the heavy Cruiser Pittsburgh help ed to tow the big ben until her own engines were working again. The deStroyers Hunt and Marshall res cued more than 500 Of the Frank lins crew. and the Hickox and Miller saved others.
 Wardlng of two other passes by single Japanese planes, the carrier finally headed for home on March p. at 2S knots under her own power,
 Chaplain Hero
 Al Pearl Harbor, United Press War Correspondent Richard w, Johnston visited the ship and inter- viewed her skipper Captain Gehres, According to Gehres, the No, l hero of the ordeal was Lieutenant Com mander Joseph T. OCallahan of Boston, Catholic chaplain aboard the carrier.
 ocallahan. a black-hsired, blue eyed Jesuit scholar. had boarded the carrier only l7 days before her trial He administered last rites to the dying, aided the wounded, and led ire-hehtlng parties repeatedly into the smoke. He rlsked his life a dozen times. once he led two other men into glowing fye-lneh shell magazine and vet lt down. thus keeping it from exploding and des- troylng the ship.
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 fray costs of the construction from the special sewer fund inasmuch as the original estimates by the en- gineering department totaled about s43 000, However, subsequent es- inmates increased the final costs to Sl07,00c which could not be met from the special sewer fund.
 The construction is a necessity at this time as ruled by the street de- partments and the city health of iicer. The construction will serv- ice such areas as those consisting Of Moran street. Macarthur Drive, Hill street, part of Cooke street, etc. Residents of the areas have consist enly appealed 10 the works board and city authorities for the con- struction. The city. up to now, has been unable to optain priorities from the War Production Board
 of the total cost $8l 900 will be for sanitary sewer construction and s26 900 for storm-water sewers,
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mented he had no recollection of the case, heard in Bridgeport in 1930
 Yesterday afternoons motion for disqualification was based on claims that the lawyer had no confidence to try the case before Judge Cor nell in view of past experience" he had had with him. The jurist replied he would treat the attorney just as he would any other member of the bar.
 Todays move ended widespread speculation as to what would hap pen to the murder case. The poll ing of the jury will start Tuesday morning and is expected to con- tinue into a second week.
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 detention camp in Crystal City, Tex. His wife and his son, Walter were sent to the camp with him, but were repatriated on the ex- change ship Gripsholm in February, l944. They, with another son Wal graud, are now living in Germany.
 On Feb. 21, 1944, Kuhn was trans ferred to the detention camp in Remedy, Tex, and in August he was sent to Ft. Stanton, N Mex. There he participated in hunger strike which was going on among the internees and was placed in a special stockade with about dozen other troublesome prisoners from other camps. He will remain at Ft. Stanton until time for his en- barkation for Germany, the Jus tice Department said.
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 The Admiralty communique said the British force included the de- stroyers Venus, Viragojn Vigiland, ana Venulam. The Saumarez sus- tained a small number of casual ties.
 The Tokyo radio yesterday re- ported a naval battle in the Ma lacca Straits between Japanese units and British task force of two cruisers and three destroyers. The Japanese claimed one British de- stroyer was sunk, but mentioned no losses of their own.
 The engagement marked the first time British ships have penetrated the Malacca Strait between Malaya ana Sumatra since the fall of Sin2a- pore.
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Jap Peace FeeIers
 To Britoin Denied
BY UNITED PRESS

A Tokyo radio spokesman sald today that Japan by severing her Axis ties with defeated Germany, has established completely friend- ly" relations with Russia
 The spokesman, identified by EGG Monitors as Ichiro Baba, ac- knowledged that Japanese-Russian relations had been "unpleasant because of Tokyo's adherence to the Axis alliance. He asserted, how ever, that these difficulties had been swept away with the down. fall of Germany.
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Beyond Balete Pass in northern Luzon the 25th Division, which had advanced due north, and the 32nd Division, which cut in from the west, joined forces for an attack on Santa Fe Today's communique reported enemy troops steadily were being driven back on Santa Fe A Japanese counter-attack was re- pulsed in that area.
 Australian forces on Tarakan Is- land. of Borneo's east coast, drove down the Anal track within mile of the islands east coast. A Jap anese counter-atta north Of Tara kan city was turned back.
 In another attack on Formosa Liberator Bombers dropped ls3 tons of bombs on Shinchiku, rail and industrial center
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RAIL, GAME OFF

Boston, May ls (UPJ -- To- days National League baseball game between the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds was post. poned because Of rain and wet grounds, The teams will play sin- gle game tomorrow.
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of his men escaped. The interlacing fire killed the others in matter of minutes.
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FBI Orders
 Kuhn Ousted

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