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Evening star., 1945-04-19
PacificIsIandQ Question
0vershadows Debate
On Naval Supply Bill
By the Associated Press.

!
Demands for postwar retention
by the United States of japanese
islands in the Pacific over
shadoWed House debate today or
Ia $24,879,510,546 Navy appro-
priation bill.
Slated for unopposed passage
late in the day, the supply bill te
provide funds for the fiscal veal
starting July received scant at
tenticn in the increasing clamor fol
positive steps to take over withou,
restriction such Pacific outposts as
the Marshall and Caroline Islands
Two Jima, Saipan and Okinawa
Until American forces moved in
the japanese owned or held all
these islands under League of Ma
tionS mandate. They have little
economic value. but are strategi-
cally situated for military control
of the Pacific.
Navy Position Strengthened.
Members of the Appropriations
Committee handling naval funds
said privately the turn of House
debate would strengthen the posi-
ton of Navy officials when the
time comes to determine what shall
be done with the islands. These
officials, they said, expressed the
view during closed hearings on the
appropriation bill that the United
States should keep the islands.
Another suggestion has been for a
system of international trusteeships.
The House applauded vigorously
yesterday when Representative
Wadsworth of New York, high-rank-
ing Republican on the Foreign Af-
fairs Committee. declared that the
United States must occupy and
hold strategic points in the Pacific.
Not, he said, because of any desire
for territorial expansion, but to dis
charge what he termed this coun-
try's responsibility to keep peace In
the Pacific as 1.-The most-trusted
Nation
Joint Control Opposed.
MI. "dOSWOItI Sdlu Ilc COulu llOt
conceive of our Allies objecting to
it," adding that suggestions that the
islands be placed under jurisdiction
of an international organization
should give us pause"
II think it will be incumbent upon
us to hold those strong points our
selves in order to hold that posi-
ton in the Far East which all
Asiatics want us to hold" he said
"Amen from our side" interjected
Representative Plumley, Republican,
of Vermont after several Demo-
Gratis had applauded Mr.. Wads-
worth's views.
Representative Thomas, Demo-
crat, of Texas told the House the
Navy believes there should be no
joint control of the islands and
hoped the State Department would
adopt the same attitude.
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Army seized bank containing the
equivalent of $70,000,000 in Naz
silver and paper money, plus great
art treasures On the approaches
to Leipzig, the 1st Army captured
intact an /. G. Farbenindustrie
rubber plant sprawling over
square miles.
Halle (220,362) was cleared save
for its southern outskirts "a hours
ago, and Dessau (120,000), 50 miles
southwest of Berlin, was defended
from the attacking 1st Army mainly
By civilians. Chemnitz 1886, ,000)
in Saxony north of Czechoslovakia
was besieged by the Sd Army, which
was within 80 miles of Dresden.
In that area the troops of 1t
Gen. George S. Patton, jr., were g.
miles from the CZechoslovak capi.
tai of Prague. They we're IS mile!
from Pilsen and its Skoda arsena
in the area 2 miles inside the re.
public.
The Texas and Oklahoma (90th)
Division was the first outfit of the
Sd Army to enter Czechoslovakia
and today the troops were menacine
the Sudetenland city of Asch (22,.
e43), where Konrad Henlein stirred
the Sudeten crisis which was one
of the preludes to the war. Asct
was miles ahead of elements
which reached the German border
zone town of Wurlitz.
Weissenstadt Cleared.
The Yankee (26th) Division was
miles inside the republic and hao
units in Kirchenlamnitz, II miles
southwest of Asch, and had cleared
Weissenstadt, IS miles southwest o1
Asch. The 89th Division advanced
up to 7 miles and entered Ober-
lungwitz, miles southwest OF
Chemnitz.
The French were 10 miles from
outf1anked Stuttgart (460,00O) and
less than so miles from Switzerland's
northern boundary.
Poles and Canadians were oppo-
site the North Sea port of Emden
The Canadians menaced Utrecht
and Amsterdam, largest city in
Holland, by advances through fresh
ly flooded areas along the southern
shores of the Zuider Zee. The Ger
mans blew more dikes north OF
Amsterdam.
Germans Are Split.
BY reaching the Zuider Zee yes.
terday, the Canadians split the
Germans in Holland, estimated al
200, 900, into two pockets. The Ca.
nadians were barely 20 miles from
Amsterdam.
French on the Atlantic Coast com.
pressed the last Germans at the
mouth of the Gironde Estuary into
a small pocket around Pointe de
Grave, just about prying open tht
great port of Bordeaux, so miles w
the river.
For three days now there have
been no reports of advances by the
dozen American armored division.
which have made such deep inroad.
into Germany. This suggested thai
Gen. Eisenhower might be massine
his armor for thunderbolt drive.
Clear skies again loosed Allied all
power.
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790,616 prisoners east of the
Rhine. This indicated that the
18th Army had seen fairly heavy
action, capturing perhaps as
many as $4,000 prisoners
Part of II Divisions Trapped.
The general met newspaper re-
porters somewhere in Germany in
a large motor trailer whose walls
were covered with huge maps of
both the western and Russian
fronts.
This is how Gen. Bradley sized up
the military significance of the
Ruhr conquest:
The pocket was of the greatest
importance because elements of at
least II divisions were bottled up
Those were divisions which should
have been opposing the Allied east
ward advance. With the II divi-
sions were miscellaneous elements,
detached battalions and other units
which were gathered and thrown
into battle hastily.
Pocket Larger Than Expected.
This Ruhr pocket turned out to
be much larger than any of us
guessed" Bradley said. I'VE knew
there were a lot of Germans in it..
The latest figure, with still some to
be counted, is 316,930 German pris-
oners.
1--WE got two, corps commanders
and nine divisional commanders.
We have every reason to believe
there are some other high-ranking
commanders still running around
in there, probably in civilian clothes,
trying to get out"
Gen. Bradley used II divisions in
reducing the pocket, a total of about
100000 men.
There are certain times in a
campaign when you are moving rap
idly when you have to catch up
with your supply lines and clean out
your areas and SO FORTH" the gen.
eral said. Il would say we have
advanced to a definite line Con the
Elbe River) on which it is necessary
to pause before starting the next
operation"
Evening star., 1945-04-19
,Yanks Pushing Inland
After Second Landing
: On Mindanao Island

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, April ia second
American landing on Mindanao
focused new attention today on that
second most important Philippine
Island, where the Japanese have
been established since long before
the outbreak of the present war in
the Pacific.
Maj. Gen. R. B. Woodruff's gath
Division troops drove ashore Tues
day at Malabang and Parang, on
the east shore of Illana Bay, against
light initial opposition and seized
IS miles of coast line.
Russell Brines, Associated Press
correspondent, who went ashore in
the first wave. said the Dough-
boys advanced 5000 yards in few
hours, drawing only negligible de-
fense fire, but that they probably
would meet tougher going when
they move toward the main high
way leading to the insular capital,
Davao City, IS miles to the east.
Highway Is Near Beach.
The highway is only 5 miles from
the beach positions.
The new landing poses a direct
threat to the most nearly Japanized
part of the Philippines, in and
around Davao Province. which has
been settlement for immigrant
japanese for many years.
Thu y,rov;a,,e
was on the Zamboanga Peninsula
March 10 by the 4lst Division. They
took the strategic port of Zambo-
anga City and most of the peninsula,
but stretch of wild, mountainous
country separated them from the
prewar japanese settlement area
Military sources estimated the
number of japanese troops on Min
danao Island at three divisions, or
about $4,000 men This, however,
takes no account of the great num-
ber of Japanese civilians.
The landing was witnessed from
an airplane carrier by 1t. Gen Rob-
ert Lawrence Eichelberger. COM
mander of the 9th Army. 1t was
the 36th amphibious operation I'M
der his command.
A guerrilla division under Col.
Wendell w. Fertig of Boulder, Colo,
was credited with dislocating enemy
defenses and facilitating the land
ing. Col. Fertig. mining engineer,
was in the Philippines at the wars
outbreak. He was commissioned in
the Army Engineers and was on
Bataan, but escaped to Mindanao.
Guerrillas Join Doughboys.
His guerrillaS joined the Dough-
boys shortly after the landing, which
was preceded by a bombardment
from cruisers and destroyers under
Rear Admiral Ralph Riggs of Anna
rillo. Tex.
Richard Bergholz, Associated Press
correspondent with Gen Eichelber-
ger, said the Yanks prepared to ad-
vance on Cotabato, principal city on
Nlana Bay.
On Luzon Island, American troops
continued their cleanup of japanese
positions on the outskirts of Baguio
and captured considerable supplies
The 5th Air Force continued its
raids on Formosa April Is and 16.
A Navy bomber sank a 10,000-ton
tanker off the coast of Foochow,
China. Army Mustangs hit small
boats on the Canton River. Capt. |
George w. Orr of LIE Claire, Iowa
said the planes went in so low that
the pilots could see the japanese
going overheard.
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Okinuwu
From First Page

and prolonged artillery exchange.
Even at night, japanese 150-mm.
shells were falling into American
lines every Is minutes. Not since
April 10 has Maj. Gen. John r.
Hodges oath Corps advanced on this
irregular front stretching miles
across the southern end of the is
land.
This natural defense barrier,
honeycombed with pillboxes de-
signed for interlocking fire, was un-
der constant American artillery, ma
val bonbardment and straf1ng
| rocket attacks from the air.
Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger's Sd Ma
rine Amphibious Corps reached the
northern end of Okinawa yesterday
and mopped up pockets of resistance
on the Motobu Peninsula, which
juts off the northwest coast.
On Motobu the Japanese were
battling back fiercely from noun
tain caves. One hill changed hands
twice before the Marines took con-
troll.
Evening star., 1945-04-19
Plan Roosevelt Tribute

Memorial services for President
Franklin D. Roosevelt will be con-
Quoted at o'clock Sunday night at
the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion
Church by the Charles Catcher
Colored Masonic Lodge. Clifton
H. Bowles is master of the lodge
Grand Master Simpson w. Wallace
and Past Grand Master Allan A. C,
Griffith will make brief addresses
Evening star., 1945-04-19

The count is proud of his record
that he never took any life, always
clearing a ship before sinking it. He
talks with slight American slang. as
he toured the United States a num-
Der of times in the 20s and early 30s
He says he never served Hitler
and he has no influence over the
Halle military commander, although
he is adored by the people.
Evening star., 1945-04-19
Bradley
Continued From First Page

not be through until we had occu-
pied all of Germany"
Although no announcement has
been made of where 1t. Gen. Leon
ard T. Gerow's new United States
18th Army is fighting, Gen. Brad
ley said the four armies in his group
have captured 842,864 prisoners
since crossing the Rhine. The other
armies are the LIST, Sd and 9th.
Cat last accounts, the LIST, Sd
and 9th Armies had captured
Evening star., 1945-04-19

Buying War Bonds through pay
roll savings is the easiest way. It's
better for you-it's better for Uncle
Sam. It's the best way to fulfill oul
obligation to our fighting men,.
Evening star., 1945-04-19

Look At the casualty list in this
paper-then decide how many War
Bonds you should buy.
Evening star., 1945-04-19
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24

STA. every time the party line
changes. or as they did in Germany
to satisfy the private notions OF
Herr Rosenberg, the Baltic pundit
who based his theories upon those
OF Houston Steward chamberlain.
the English snob who turned Jesus
into a Nordic
Our children ought not to be de-
priyed OF the leisure and time to
study slowly that they might learn
truly. For learning, in spite OF all
the modern courses in administra-
ton. requires a goodly dose of
scholasticism. OF dispute and argu-
ment. and the turning over OF fact
and fancy, in each generation, un-
iii the human mind is disciplined
to discard the false and to
respect the eternal verities, which
like the basic laws OF physics were
as real for the distant savage as
for us. Teaching home economics
or giving term points for playing
the saxophoue may help the lazy to
get degrees or even fatten the fees
Of colleges, but that is not learn
ing. It IS time serving for four
years and prepares for nothing es-
sential 10 human development and
culture.
And so san Francisco might
along with other Commissions ap-
point one TO restore learning IN
this world. to resurrect the great
universities and libraries, to re-
lease scholars from bondage to the
state. TO free the human spirit, to
open the doors 10 knowledge and
the truth. How much more useful
that would be than to argue over
whether Russia is to have one or
three votes. Perhaps we might ask
such scholars as Ray Lyman vii.
bur. Chancellor of Stanford Uni
versity James b. Conant, president
Of Harvard, Felix Morley. presi
dent OF Haverford College, and
Robert Hutchlns, president OF Chi
cago University. 10 he the Ameri-
can members of such a commission
This would be rebuilding for the
ages.
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STAGE onaSCREEN

My parents wouldn't let me have
dates till you started" she said,
because they always approved OF
the way you were brought up
Now that you're getting married
| guess they won't have a thing to
say II | want 10 too"
And that isn't all. Shirley moan
ed.
Re been getting all kinds OF
letters from sweet old ladies'" she
explained. They point out very
gently that I'm much, much, too
young to be getting married and
why don't think it over and
maybe wait little while?'
Besides. Shirley insists, she's
not 1G She's Il OR ut least she
will be tomorrow.
Even the anxious mamas and
papas checked in Most OF their
protests were addressed to Mr..
and Mrs. George Temple,
One mother in Indiana was en-,
phatic about it, even.
We have always considered
Shirley an outstanding example OF
young girlhood," she scrubbed,
"and we've encouraged our daugh-
ter-who is just Shirley's age to
be like her. Now, what are we
going TO say when she insists upon
getting married 10 her soldier boy
triend?"
A father in New York thinks the
Temples should be ashamed OF
themselves.
Anybody knows IL year old
girl doesn't know the difference
between love and puppy stuff,
he wrote Il should know--Iye
got twins that age And now
they're hoppin' all over my NECK
screaming that IL Shirley can get
married why can't they? What
are you going TO do about this
mess you've got me into"
Il guess there's just one thing
We can do" sighed Miss Temple
Were writing every one Of these
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24

ogical war planners have permitted
them TO remain alive.
Within the ode Of voluntary cen
sorship respecting speculation On
Russo-Japanese relations | yentui
that MoscoW's diplomatic move
which paves the way for war v!th
out requiring such a declaration,
has plunged official Japan into
condition o. hysteria.
Japs fear the Russians.
Their knowledge OF the hatred
the Soyiets hold for them prompts
the observation that Russias mott
iication Is a nightmare TO the aver
age Jap who will chatter to him
self, a psychological state develop
H. 2" whenever events fail TO move
with his thoughts.
After the treaty was arranged
in Moscow on Easter Sunday 1871
by Yos Ike Matsuoka. one-time Uni.
versity OF Oregon student orator.
a prominent japanese prophecied
TO me that the document Is a
death warrant for Japan"
Historical Note OF the Week
Japanese this year are unlikely
70 celebrate the Black Ship festi-
val April 20 at Shimoda, small lEu
peninsula seaport town where
Commodore Perry and the Ameri-
can consul, Townsend Harris, sign
ed the first treaty between the two
countries. In early days, all for.
eign vessels were called black
ships, hence the anniversary title.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24
SideIights on The News

and float the pontoon government
downstream and out TO sea.
Premier Suzuki was pessimistic
in his first weasel-worded state
ment telling the nation over the ra-
do that the people can walk over
his body when the lighting gets
tougher. This action, he said.
would aid our beloved sovereign"
note that Premier Suzuki is rep
resented as a moderate. "A parallel
label was placed on the Koiso-Yo-
mai government formed last sum-
mer after Tojo went back 10 gard.
ening Commentators are saying
that Prime Minister Suzuki is anti
army, that he was opposed to war,
that he almost sacrificed his life
TO stand by this position In 1886
when assassin's bullets nicked him.
Suzuki in his prime was a navy
war lord who opposed war when
he believed a plan unsuccessful,
but 1t can never be shown that he
was against war II the strategy
as 1t appeared TO him would lead
Japan TO victory.
True, he was "anti-army", but
there prevailed for years two navy
factions which frequently were IN
disagreement with one or all 1--WE
OF the army's cliques. ! knew Of
army groups which were violently
"anti-navy"
The term moderate" must be
qualified in assessing a japanese
leaders status, whether a business
man educated at Harvard, Yale,
Dartmouth. Princeton or Cornell, a
navy officer or an army man. AS
sassinations were arranged when
army or navy men were impatient
at delays. They removed opposi-
ton by shooting All elements
however would unite TO acquire
wealth, territory and glory for the
emperor.
regret that we did not use our
best available tactic to cause Pre-
miere Koiso and his cabinet mem
bers 10 kill themselves. They
would be dead today by self des-
truction, had we bombed the emp
eror's palace. Instead. our psychol.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24

The San Francisco Conference
could perform no more useful and
permanent service 10 mankind than
by devoting Itself 10 the problems
OF learning, to the reconstruction
Of scholarship. A thousand years
OF European universities have been
destroyed in this war. libraries
that have Withstood the deyasta.
tons OF time have been burned and
Quilted and whatever OF value has
been rescued is dissipated in hid
den and perhaps forgotten caches.
Men Of learning, scholars and philo.
sophers. are scattered over the face
OF the earth, refugees from the
wreckers OF the spirit that for a
quarter OF century have taken
possession OF so much OF the earth.
But | speak not only OF building
and men The processes OF learn
ing have been disrupted and cor
rupted by the politics OF this era.
The great advances in humanism
have been a product OF mans
search for knowledge and for the
truth, and real scholarship has
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24

By VIRGINIA MCPHERSON
I Please girls. begs Shirley Tenn
pie, take it easy on those letters!
sure. she got engaged at the ten.
der age of l6 But that doesn't
mean she's getting married right
away does it,
Ever since she announced her
intentions OF becoming Mrs. John
George Agar, Miss Temple report
ed today she's been showed under
with letters. Grateful ones from
l6 year olds. Indignant ones from
mamas and papas. =
And they all seem to be under
the impression that I'm already
getting fitted for my wedding
dress she said. Il guess maybe
they didn't read the paragraph that
explained the ceremony won't take
place for at least two years yet"
Miss Temple, who's still got
curls and dimples IL she is a grown.
UP young lady with curves. thinks
it'd be foolish to get married while
there a war on.
Jacks - and a sergeant in the
air force she explained. land
he's busy giving physical training
to the pilots. He doesn't have
time for a wife vet
She's in a spot, Miss Temple is.
In the past week letters have ar.
rived at her hous by the carload
She showed us a few Of 'em so
we'd know what her problem was.
There was one happy note from
'teen-ager named Mary Jane up
in Maine
Dear Shirley" Mary Jane en-
Unused. I'm 50 happy that you
have announced Your engagement.
I'm IS, too. and my boy friend
wants to give me ring, but my old
man has been raising cain about
It. Now maybe he'll listen TO rea-
son"
4 little girl named Susie in Tex
as felt the same way. Susie is
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For Love Of Civilization
IheSeDdYSby ezO~E- 5OT0IsE7

been marked by a devotion OF the
learned 10 knowledge for its own
sake. and for the sake OF the hui
man spirit In a world that rec.
oguizes the worth and dignity OF
nan. the scholar is not perverted
into a thing OF utility TO the poll.
tlcian. His search for knowledge
and the truth is recognized as a
right, in fact as the noblest human
vocation.
OF such. Matthew Arnold once
said that they filled men with rev.
erence and enthusiasm 30. Because
they humanize knowledge, because
they broadened the basis Of life and
intelligence. TO make reason and
the will Of God prevail.
In our age. the scholar has been
bent and twisted to produce JUS
tifications for the whims and fan
cies OF political leaders until the
truth is buried beneath the rubble
OF utilitarian nonsense. So we
know how many reaches devastate
UdhtlltEt bAk- w v q otaA Z a. WV "a
to the roots Of thought that We
might better appreciate its bios
som? We take census OF men and
poll their glib answers but do we
salt their thinking with the wis
dom OF all ages?
Even in our own country. during
the years OF war, our colleges have
permitted themselves to he bossed
by military men into an accept
ance Of accelerated courses; two
weeks OF Aristotle, two periods
OF Hume. a reference 10 Chaucer
and Thomas AQuinas left out as I'M
necessary baggage. Did not Harry
Hopkins in a totalitarian mood de.
priye youth o. Latin and Chaucer?
And perhaps We too shall rewrite
,f-,,rx oe thAv do IN Cpviaf Dnu-