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Evening star., 1945-06-23
Greek Plan 10 Attack
Albania Reported
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, June 23.-The Moscow
radio quoted an Athens report today
that letter published in the news
paper Rizospastis said Greek re-
action and the Military Union are
preparing an armed invasion Of the
southern part Of neighboring Al
bania."
The broadcast said the letter
stated that "in this connection
troops have been concentrated on
the Greek frontier" Mos
COW described the letter as having
been written by a "high-ranking
officer, a member of the Military
Union"
This invasion will serve as a
pretext for the declaration OF
martial law, the return of the King
Of Greece and the complete crushing
Of the Left movement" the officer
was quoted.
THE letter also states" the broad
cast continued, that the reac-
tionaries are preparing a blacklist
containing several tens of thou
sands of names. A letter of the
Greek Communist party leader.
zachariadis, is printed in the same
issue of the paper. He appeals to the
Greek people to exercise vigilance
so as to counteract maneuvers
directed against the understanding
with the great allies"
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Luke SeweI|, ; Players
Fined for White Sox braw|
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 23.-President
Will Harridge of the American
League today fined Manager Luke
Sewell of the st. Louis Browns $3.50
and three payers s100 each as re-
suit of brawl which occurred in
the Chicago White Sox dugout dur
ing a game at st. Louis last We'd
nesday night.
The three players fined were
Pitcher George Caster, Pitcher
Sigmund Jakucki and Infielder Ellis
Clary.
Mr.. Harridgr made his announce
ment after studying evidence of the
attack on Karl Scheel, discharged
Marine and White Sox batting prac-
tice pitcher, as presented to him by
Art Passarella, umpire in chief of
the game.
In a message to Sewell today
Mr.. Harridge told him the fine
was "for your failure to control
your ball club and maintain order
Casters fine was for throwing a
ball into the White Sox dugout
when he was removed from the
game, and the other two were fined
for fighting with Scheel
Evening star., 1945-06-23
12O Jap Soldiers Found Slain
By Comrades in Luzon Hospitu|

fore the hospital could be set ablaze,
permitting Army Signal Corps pho
tographers to make a record of the
scene.
Headquarters also released extracts
from Japanese documents and
statements by prisoners captured by
the Americans citing the enemy S
attitude toward his own sick and
wounded, a spokesman adding:
This is the best evidence we can
CLEAN to prove that the Japanese
slaughter their wounded"
One order by the commanding
officer Of the japanese I'd Armored
Divisions 7th Tank Regiment read: !:
Concerning those wounded: Men
who are slightly wounded will par
ticipate in this battle. When men
wounded are not able to participate
In battle, their unit leaders will see
to it that they end their lives"
Another field order OF q general
commanding the 58th Independent
Mixed Brigade read: "You are here
by ordered to execute all sick and
(See JAPS. Page A-3l
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Truman Expected to Submit
Charter to Senate on July ?
Hearings May Play
Part on TuIks
Of Big Three
BY JOHN. NJ. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Stad Writer.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-
Senate committee hearings on
the United Nations charter may
play a large part in President
Truman's meeting with Premier
Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill at Berlin next month.
The expectation here Is that the
hearings will begin about mid-July
in time to have them opened by
Secretary of State Stettinius just
before he leaves with Mr.. Truman
for Germany. That means the hear
ings will be under way while the Big
Three are discussing postwar prob
lens of Europe and the world.
President Truman had hoped at
one time he might arrive in Berlin
with Senate ratification of the
charter in his pocket He was rep
resented as considering that would
be an effective reinsurance to the
other big powers that this country
was determined to retain its full role
in world affairs
Now the question is becoming one
of the effect on the Big Three of
the Senate airing Of views about the
charter for world peace organiza-
o. CrIYTn IT7I1 49, . =
Evening star., 1945-06-23

New U.S.. Raids
On Homeland
AirfieIds Attacked by
100 Fighter Planes,
Broadcast Suys
By the Associated Press.

d. tAc hooOClAteQ flcSS.
GUAM, June 23.-More than
100 American rocket-firing
fighter planes attacked airfields
on the Japanese homeland to-
day, the Tokyo radio said.
Tokyo said about rs Mustang
fighter planes, accompanied by
B-29s, attacked airfelds north OF
Tokyo in Ibaraki Prefecture fol-
more than an hour and half after
% Lightnings and Hellcats strafeo
and bombed airfields around Fu-
kuoka on Kyushu Island.
The Mustangs presumably were
Iwo-based while the Lightnings and
Hellcats struck from recently won
Okinawa.
Naval Arsenal Wiped Out.
Meanwhile, Yank bombardiers re-
turning from yesterdays raid by
$50 Super Fortresses on Kure said
Japan's greatest naval arsenal had
been erased from the list of BIS
targets.
The Super Fortresses roaring in
over Kure, on the north shore of
Japan's Inland Sea, and five air.
plane plants, were greeted by in
tense antiaircraft fire which burst
in all the colors of the rainbow, but
for all that pilots said they had
"one of the most successful days OF
the war"
Four Super Forts failed to return
to bases on Guam, Saipan and Tin
ian. Tokyo claimed 18 were shot
down. At least three japanese fight
ers among the handful of intercep-
tors which resisted the strike were
shot down.
Clear Weather Aids Yanks.
Enthusiastic over the results, the
crews said they hit their assigned
targets with high explosives in clear
weather.
One expressed belief it would be
unnecessary to give the Kure naval
arsenal another treatment, while
others said the aircraft factories
were either showed aside" and de-
stroyed or tremendously damaged.
The targets included the Mitsubishi
and Kawasaki plants 20 miles west
of Kobe, the Kawanishi plant at
Himeji and that of Kawasaki at
Akashi, both near Kobe.
The peculiar antiaircraft bursts
led flyers to call it FLAX Alley in
TechnicOlOr. but no one knew
whether the colors meant anything
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Storm Is Due 10 Reach
Gulf Coast Tomorrow
By the Associated Press


NEW ORLEANS, June 23.-The
Weather Bureau predicted today
that a tropical disturbance in the
Gulf would reach the coast early
tomorrow morning between Mobile,
Ala, and Panama City, Fla.
The 8 am. Central War Time adj
visory fixed the disturbance as CEN
tral about 200 miles south of VAL
paraisio, Fla, moving north of
north-northeastward at 8 to IL miles
an hour.
Winds near the center were esti-
mated at IS to IS miles per hour.
Fresh to strong winds and squally
weather extended $50 to 200 miles
east and north of the center.
Storm warnings were displayed
from Tampa, Fla, to Grand Isle, La,
and precautions were urged against
dangerous Winds, high tides and
heavy seas over the northeastern
Gulf Of Mexico.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Questions Method,
y tht Associated Press.

A $38, ,500, ,285, ,951 War Department
supply bill for the 1916 fiscal year
became the vehicle today for q
congressional move to force the
Army to discharge fathers Of large
families.
Representative Engel, Republican
Of Michigan, member of the APP
propriations Committee which ap-
proved the big measure yesterday
said he would demand floor con-
sideration of an amendment af-
fecting all Army fathers with four
or more children.
His amendment, which may reach
a vote today, would require the dis
charge of any such father who ap-
plies for release before August /
It would accomplish this by denying
the Army funds to pay these men.
Mr.. Engel estimated some IS, ,000
men in the Army have four or more
children. About $1,000, he figured
will be eligible for release under the
point system and under regulations
allowing the release Of men over 10
OF the remaining 10000, he esti-
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Personal Appeal
For Approval Of
Pact Held Possible
By ]. A. FOX,
Star Staff Correspondent.

OLYMPIA, Wash, June %
President Truman will submit
the United Nations charter tc
the Senate on Monday, July 2
it was believed here today as
the Chief Executive neared the
end of his vacation in the North
west.
The President wants to get the
pact before the Senate at the ear
liest possible date, in the hope that
it may be approved before he heads
for the meeting of the Big Three
at Berlin in the middle of the
month. AS his travel schedule is
now arranged, the July 2 date seems
the likeliest for the document to 60
to Capitol Hill.
There has been nothing to in
dicate whether Mr.. Truman would
simply submit the charter with a
message asking for ratification, or
would go to the Senate to make
personal appeal, seeking by that
course to emphasize the desirability
for early action. Observers would
not be surprised if he did that,
particularly in view of the close as
sociation he has maintained with
(See TRUMAN, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Discharges Sought for Fathers
By Barring Their Army Pay

mated 10000 would apply for dis
charge, If his amendment is ap-
proved.
The Appropriations Subcommittee,
handling Army funds, reportedly
voted once to include Mr.. Engel's
proposal In the original bill and then
reconsidered at War Department re-
quest. Mr.. Engel is a member Of the
subcommittee.
Mr.. Engel told reporters these two
major considerations prompted his
proposal:
l. These men belong ut home
with their families" and
2. TT Is not economical to keep
them in the Army"
Allotment payments to families
and permanent pensions to depend
ents of any who are killed, he said,
make 1t bad business to retain
them now that the war in Europe Is
over.
Except for . possible scrap over
Mr.. Engels amendment. the bill It.
self was scheduled to clear the
House without . dissenting vote and
In short order.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Carboni, Who Opposed
Rome Invasion, Disappear!
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, June 23.-The Italian War
Ministry disclosed today that Gen.
Giacona Carboni, who figured in
the last-minute abandonment of
Allied plans for an air-borne in
vasion 6 Rome in September, 1943,
had disappeared during a military
inquiry six months ago. A spokes-
man said no trace of him was
found.
Carboni was suspended September
16, 1914, along with Gen. Mario
Roatta, former chief of staff of
the Italian Army, and two other
generals, pending a probe of the
disorganization which led to the
NaI occupation of Rome after Italy
dropped out of the Axis.
Military quarters said that Car
boni, as commander of Italian
motorized forces at Rome, advised
Marshal Pietro Badoglio co-opera-
tion with air-borne Allied units
would be impossible because his
troops lacked munitions and fuel
and the Germans had possession OF
all airdromes in the Rome area.
The projected invasion was called
of as Allied troops were preparing
to board the planes.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Latin American Supplies
For Europe Arranged
By the Associated Press.

0S eAc AsoOSidltu
Arrangements have been made
for the first Latin American con-
tribution to relief supplies for lib
Grated Europe through the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, Director Herbert H
Lehman announced today.
Brill, Chile, Cuba, the Dominican
Republic, Peru and Uruguay are
providing more than 100000 metric
tons, Mr.. Lehman said, which will
be shipped by the end of summer te
such countries as Czechoslovakia
Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, AL.
bania and Italy.
Brazil is furnishing 10000 tons oi
cottonseed oil, 10,500 tons of cotton.
seed meal, 1,400 tons of canned fish
1000 tons of soap. Brazil expects tc
furnish 100000 yards of cloth
which will be ready by August.
Chile is sending $4,000 tons o1
nitrate of soda.
Cuba is furnishing 10000 tons OF
sugar, the Dominican Republic
5000 tons OF corn, Peru 1000 tons OF
beans and 600 tons of fish, while
Uruguay will provide 100000 blank
cts, 10000 pairs of shoes and 15C
tons of cheese.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Use Of Red Points
Fof Meat Alone Asked
'A Governors ParIey
Concentration of OPA
On Enforcement Of Food
Regulations Also Urged
3% the AsSocisted Press


NEW YORK, June 23.-Gov-
ernors of 13 Northeastern States
today recommended that red
points in the OPA ration pro-
gram be used for meat alone.
In . statement following q closed
conference on food problems, the
Governors also suggested that OPA
enforcement be concentrated on food
instead of on minor and unim-
portant items"
A third Recommendation was that
q single Government agency be made
responsible for all phases of the
national food program.
Previously the Governors had rec.
commended elimination of rail.
road bottleneck" which they sale
was the key to food shortages II
their areas.
The Governors statement, the
second issued during their confer.
ence, said the United States was thu
only country which combined
rationing Of meats with ratiohinf
of fats, butter, cheese and canned
f1sh.
The statement declared that but.
ter appears to be backing up ir
warehouses because the consume,
prefers to spend red points TO
meat and 60 without butter
1--WE conclude, therefore," tn,
statement continued, that a majol
overhauling of the point system
is Immediately imperative and tha'
points should be granted to con-
sumers for meats alone =.
"Only in this way, and with rigie
enforcement on q national basis
can every person get the share O
! (Cao GNVrRNOpC poUn A9N
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Parliamentary Election
Urged in Belgian Deadlock
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, June 23.-Belgian
Socialists opposed to the King and
Royalist Catholics were reported
today to be favorable to national
parliamentary election to break the
political deadlock over King Leo
pold's proposed return to the throne.
Belgian's parliamentary leaders
gave the absent King the political
background in talks in castle. in
Salzburg.
A spokesman in Brussels for Pre-
mier Achille van Acker's Office said
1t was extremely unlikely now that
Leopold, freed after five years h,
German hands, would force the
crisis to q violent climax by coming
back under present circumstances.
United States Ambassador Charles
Sawyer was closeted with Premier
van Acker for almost an hour.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
OPA Food Control Supporters
Count on Absences Votes
House Democratic Leaders Wire Them
To Return to Reverse Stripping Of Authority

from having its control over food
prices transferred to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture by the sur
prise amendment Republicans
tentatively wrote into the price
control extension bill late yes
terday.
When a teller vote showed 145 to
|.l42 in favor Of stripping the price
control agency Of virtually all juris-
diction over food, administration
forces made a hasty adjournment
move to reform their broken line.
overnight.
Comes Late in Day.
The reversal came late in the
afternoon, after several previous at
tempts to curtail the one-year ex-
tension of the Price Control Act
had been beaten OF. =
Sponsored by Representative Jen.
kins, Republican, of Ohio, ths
amendment that carried tempora'
| (See PRICE CONTROL, Page "A.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
BY SPENCER DAVIS,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
MANILA, June 23.-Bodies of 12C
Japanese soldiers, bayoneted or shot
by their comrades as they lay in
bed, have been discovered in an
abandoned enemy field hospital on
Northern Luzon, Gen. Macarthur
headquarters announced today.
Even before American troops made
the grueSon1e discovery in an enemy
hospital at Bayombong north OF
Manila, evidence had been accumu-
lated that the japanese ordered the
ruthless determination of their
wounded.
Elements of the 10th Infantry
Regiment under Col. John d. Fred
erick, Springfield, Ill, made the
latest discovery in two school build
ings used as Japanese field hos
pital.
Some Of the wounded japanese
had been bayoneted on their wooden
cots. The greater number had bull
lets in their temples.
The japanese had withdrawn be-
Evening star., 1945-06-23
laps Report Hitting
70 Ships in Suicide
Attacks Off 0kinawa
kimitz Acknowledges
Sinking Of Two Ships
And Domogine Of Three
BY the Associated Press,

GUAM, June 23.-The Tokyo
radio claimed that suicide pilots,
continuing attacks which sank
two American ships and dam
aged three of OkinaWa the same
day Americans conquered the
island, crashed into at least 20
more vessels last night and to-
day.
The Lnconfrmed enemy broad
casts asserted an unidentified Allied
warship was known to have been
sunk in Friday night raids which
scored considerable successes
Kamikaze (suicide) pilots returning
after daylight hit 10 others, Tokyo
said, including two battleships, three
destroyers and IA unidentified
vessels.
Latest confirmed enemy air at
tacks began Thursday night and
continued until noon yesterday.
During these assaults, Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz announced, two
light naval units were sunk, an
auxiliary heavily damaged, and two
other craft lightly damaged.
Hunt Out Jap Remnants.
AS American soldiers and Marines
grimly hunted out the last scattered
remnants of Japanese troops and
the Stars and Stripes were raised
formally over the island at 10 am
yesterday, the enemy threw in &C
separate raids in small groups.
The two American vessels sunl
and the one heavily damaged were
hit Thursday night. In daylight
yesterday American fighters drove
off all but a few of the raiders, Ad-
miral Nimitz announced.
The toll taken of enemy planes
was not yet tabulatSd.
The Japanese previously had sunk
81 ships and damaged more than SO
mostly by suicide tactics, during the
Okinawa campaign. Their last large.
scale air assault was on June and
7, when American gunners ano
fighters shot down Ill of them.
Aground in isolated sectors some
semblance of fighting continued
amid the confusion that has become
the normal attendant of every is
land conquest Of this war.
Wave of Suicides.
There was suicidal resistance from
tiny strong points; there was a wave
of Japanese hara kiri suicides; but
there were also many surrenders by
both enemy soldiers and civilians
which swelled the bag of prisoners
far beyond the 1000 previously an
nounced by Admiral Ninitz. The
toll of more than 10000 Japanese
dead also was rising.
Patrols of the victorious 10th
Army killed 500 of the diehards
Thursday night and early yesterday
while 160 others used hand grenades
to commit suicide.
Having massed on Okinawa the
greatest concentration of artillery
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Beef Allotment
|0f Army |sCut
from 50 10 3096
DeImurvu Poultry
Order Also Eused
To Aid Civilians
BY MALCOLM LANIBORNE, Jr,


Paving the way for diversion
Of more beef into civilian mar
kets, the War Food Administra-
ton today signed an order re-
ducing from so to 80 per cent the
amount of good, choice and COM
mercial grades OF beef Federally
inspected slaughterers must set
aside for military use.
The order which also drops from
IS to IS per cent the amount of
lower grades of beef required to be
set aside for the Government, will
become effective July l.
At the same time, VIA an
nounced a change in its poultry pro-
curement program on the important
poultry-producing Delmarva pc
ninsula, which officials said would
give civilians in the Eastern part
of the United States somewhat
increased quantities of chicken"
The beef order follows a re-exam-
ination of Army needs in coming
months. A VIA spokesman said
the orders should benefit cities like
Washington, which has been ex-
tremely short of meat and poultry
supplies for months.
Army Co-operates.
Commenting on the action on
beef, VIA Administrator Marvin
Jones declared:
THE reduction in the amount re-
quired to be set aside for the armed
forces will make a larger percent
age Of Federally-inspected meats
available for nonmilitary purposes.
Soon after We day, the War
Food Administration asked the
Army to re-examine its require
ments. The Army has co-operated
fully and this announcement is a
result Of action taken"
The agency also disclosed that,
effective Monday, the Army will
reduce its anticipated requirements
for canned fruits by 1900, 900 cases
and its requirements of canned
vegetables by 100000 cases. VITA
estimated that the canned fruit re-
duction is about per cent of what
the Army will require, and in the
case of vegetables it will amount
to 10 per cent.
Preference to Hospitals.
Mr.. Jones stressed, however, that
the release of the canned goods
will not be sufficient to meet all
civilian needs and that, therefore,
every one who can possibly do so
should plant Victory garden"
| Prior to the change in the poultry
program, q plant which made its
weekly goal Of chickens required for
the Army had 80 per cent taken by
the Army and 10 per cent for civilian
distribution Under the new plan
su the poultry still will be processed
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Won. Ribbentrop's Wife
Reported Found at KieI
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, June 23.-The
newspaper Extrabaldet said today
the wife of captured Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentror
had been found aboard the refugee
ship Felde In the port of Kiel, when
a<group of Danish experts were ex-
amining ships in the port in an
effort to determine which were
stolen from Denmark by the Ger
mans.
The dispatch said Frau Ribben-
trop readily admitted her identity.
Evening star., 1945-06-23
Emperor May Assume
Total Rule Of Japan,
Tokyo Radio States
Hirohito Says Present
Crisis Is Unprecedented
In Nations History
By the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-
Japan's present crisis is un-
precedented in scope in her
national history" Emperor Hi
rohito told his people today as
speculation arose that he might
assume personal rule of his
invasion threatened islands.
His message, reported by Dome!
agency, was issued in connection
with the PRONUNCIATION OF the volun-
tary military service act and "gra-
ciously" expressed his satisfaction
at the "valor and courage" of his
people.
War Minister Korechika Anami
followed with an address declaring
that the act, which effective yester-
day set. up combat force in the
peoples volunteer, corps, laid 'the
foundation for sure victory"
Cabinet May Be Bypassed.
| Earlier an unidentified Tokyo
radio commentator had asserted
that the Emperor might bypass the
cabinet and assume personal rule
in the event of a supreme crisis.
The prediction came as other en-
emy broadcasts said preparation
for the defense of Tokyo agains
invasion were virtually" complet,
and that American and Chimes,
forces were preparing to strike OF
the Asiatic mainland.
Personal government by the EN-
peror," said the Tokyo broadcas
heard by the Federal Communica
tions Commission, based on tn
tradition and sentiments of the Jap
anese nation, is more deeply rootet
than government by law and cal
more successfully meet what is oc
casioned by the gravity of the situa
ton"
The commentator asserted tha1
imperial rule would not mean "des.
potic or absolute government" but
was more like parental authority"
Premier Kantaro Suzuki obtained
an emergency grant of power from
the Diet effective today to permit
his government to- rule by decree tt
make it unnecessary for the En-
peror, who has remained in the
background, to invoke his supreme
authority.
Imperial Law Supreme.
But the commentator observed
that the emergency bill would not
prevent the Emperor from taking
the helm since imperial supreme
(See HIROHITO. Page AID