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Seems as if Lois Williams and
Jimmie Henderson are trying to
keep upp with the various styles
But we wonder what would happen
if they would stop talking and Cos
siping so much?
The Tiger heard that d. H. New
man and Ethel Robinson are get
ting on much htime.
Oh yes, Laura Jane Treadwell
and Norman Burnett have also got
ten in the groove.
Yes, still water runs deepp.
Styles
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Desaree Willis blue skirt and
white blouse seem to attract much
attention
Charles Campbell really has a
nice becoming haircut.
Cashier regret to report two
cases of absenteeism.
Bank President-Well, what are
they?
Cashier-Mr. Jones and $4,000.
Buy vicory Bonds Now
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There isn't enough to talk about
on the air. Moley, quit
ting as radio commentator.
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BRITON TO URGE
MASS INDICTMENT
Vansittart To Seek Conyic-
ton OF Gestapo And
SIS Troops

LONDON, May 49, W.D Lord
Vansittart, influential Leader OF
Britain who believes a stern peace
necessary to European security,
disclosed today that he intended Ia
demand mass Indictment of the
German Gestapo and SIS troop Or
ganization on war criminal charges
At the same time investigators
of the United Nations War Crimes
Commission prepared to leave for
the continent to gather evidences
against leaders of the German
medical profession implicated in
guinea pig experiments and sirni-
lar atrocities as the result of which
thousands of men, women and chill
dren were murdered under Naz'
auspices.
The terrible record of German
war crimes fully revealed in re-
cent weeks was heightened today
when the Swiss radio said on the
authority Of the president of thu
International Red Cross that Adolf
Hitler wanted to murder all Allied
prisoners of war.
Lord Vansittart, former CHIEF
diplomatic adviser to the Govern
ment, announced that June II at
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Nitro Glycerine
Blast Kills Tuo

KANSAS CITY, May 18-W.D-
Two persons were killed and two
more missing tonight after the ex-
plosion of a nitro glycerine neu.
trailer at the huge Sunflower Ord
nance plant near De Soto, Kansas.
Damage estimated at about $4O,.
600 was caused by the explosion
which was felt for radius oil
80 miles around the huge rookie!
powder plant.
Col. Donald R. Hyde, command
ing officer of the Hercules plant
said the small barricaded build
ing in which the nitro-glycerinc
was housed exploded violently
about p. m.
Another worker was injured in
the explosion, Hyde said. He had
left the building about three min.
utes before.
Reverberations from the blasi
were felt in a 30-mile area around
the plant and newspapers and "a.
dio stations were swamped with
telephone calls asking for infor.
nation.
Doors and windows in homes N
Kansas City, some Is miles dis,
tant from the big plant, were
shaken by the blast, and othet
communities farther east reported
they felt the conclusion.
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Souiets Term Sakhalin
zmmemorubly Russian

MOSCOW, May 49, @ Mos
COW newspapers today prominent
ly displayed a letter to Premier
Stain asserting that the northern
Soviet half Of the Russian-J panese
Pacific island of Sakhalin was
'immemorably Russian land"
The Soviet army newspaper Red
Star meanwhile reported train
ing meeting Of Red Army con-
manders in far eastern Siberia fac
ing Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
The letter from the people of
northern Sakhalin took. up third
Of a page Of every Moscow morn
ing newspaper and was sent on
the Goth anniversary of liberation
from Japanese occupationists"
which its signers said conceded
with victory over Hitlerite Ger
many.
Sakhalin long has been an irri-
tating question in Japanese-Rus-
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AMG In Italian
Area Is Talked

ROME, May 18-tR-An Allied
informant said today that the Al
lies and Italy were seeking to in
duce the French to withdraw from
the tiny valley region around Aosta
in northwest Italy so that an Al
lied military government can be
established there.
The informant, who declined to
be named. said Gen. Eisenhower
supreme Headquarters had been
asked to persuade the French to
retire and that Allied officers in
northern Italy also were negotiat-
ing for the withdrawal Of French
civil administrations set up in
towns and villages of thu region.
Coming on top Of the Yugoslav
occupation of Trieste and Venezia
Giulia province which set off =
continued press clamor here weeks
ago, a reported statement by .
French foreign office spokesman
that France would seek frontier
adjustments from Italy at the
peace table was received with hos
tility by newspapers here,
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Killers Last Effort
To Split Allies Told

SOUTHEN GERMANY, May 10
-R)-Adolf Hitler's principal sec
rotary said today the fallen Fueh-
rer made one last desperate eff
fort to split the Allies by ordering
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels to plant story that
the Russians were arming $1,000
Germans to fight England.
But when the plot fizzled, when
front communications were broken,
Hitler decided the afternoon of
April % that all was lost and de-
clared he knew he would die in
Berlin, said the secretary, Ger
hardt Herrgesell, who believes the
fuehrer lies dead somewhere in the
capital.
The. secretary said he left Berlin
that same April q for zBercntes-
gaden with thousands OF. pages OF
notes on the inside story Of Ger
many at war in the last two years.
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CHINESE PURSUE
JAPS in HANAN
Enemy Reported With
drawing Toward Key
Base OF Paoching

CHUNGKING, May 18.-(P)-Chi-
nese troops hotly pursued enemy
forces over Human PROVINCES L.
500-foot hills today toward the skey
Japanese base of Paoching, guard
ing the communications city OF
Hengyang in Japan's vital supply
corridor across China between
Manchuria and Indo-China.
Chinese soldiers were within 10
miles northwest Of Paoching and
70 miles northwest of Hengyang
Thursday. The Chinese high COM
mand indicated that the entire
right wing of the abortive Japa-
nese drive on the American air
base at Chihkiang, $50 miles south
east of Chungking, had folded up.
The Chinese pursued these flee
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ENEMY RETREATS
TOWARD MoULMEIN
$4,000 Japanese Report
ed Involved In Cen
eral Withdrawal

CALCUTTA, May 1S.-P)-Thou-
sands of bedraggled Japanese,
large numbers in poor physical
condition, fell back today toward
Moulmein which they seized early
in 1912 in embarking on the con-
quest Of Burma.
.. 1t was estimated that $4,000
Japanese soldiers, many OF them
rear -echelon troops, were involved
in the general withdrawal all the
way from near Thai, 29o n1nes
north of Rangoon, to Moulmeln,
which is 80 miles east of the Bur
mese capital across the gulf OF
Martaban.
CA British task force caught and
sank an eight-inch cruiser OF the
10,OOO-ton Matt class Wednesday
about so miles west of the Malay
peninsula, the admiralty reported
in London.
Near the center of this front the
retreating Japanese put up still
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Fifth German U-Boat
To Surrender To u. S.
Arrives Early Today

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 49,
UP-The last of five German SUBJ
marines to surrender to patrol
units of the Y. S. Atlantic fleet
will arrive at the Portsmouth Navy
yard early tomorrow, and special
detail from Washington is ready
to take charge of those aboard the
U-boat.
The Navy revealed that Mai.
Gen. Ulrich Kessler, former COM
mander of Luftwaffe operations in
the Atlantic, is on the submarine.
Two dead japanese attaci es also
a-e reported aboard the 1,60o-ton
U-234 which surrendered while en-
route to Japan. The unidentified
Japanese were believed to have
committed hari-kiri rather than
be captured.
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FranceNanled
By President
In Land
Truman T zutual
Probley ench

WASH1N ay 18- Up -
President IN, reaffirmed
Americas histor1s friendship with
France, today expressed a desire
to meet General Charles de Gaulle
and offered the French a portion
of the. American occupation zone
in Germany.
In a formal statement issued aft
er he conferred on a number of
problems of primary interest" be-
tween the two countries with
Georges Bidault, French foreign
minister, the chief executive also:
/. Welcomed any assistance
France land our other Allies"
might bring against the Japanese
that could be synchronized with
operations already planned or url-
derway.
2. Asserting the United States
government and it's people will
continue to take all possible steps
to facilitate the recovery of
France and Of her people"
3. Declared France had emerg-
ed with renewed strength from
the European Wa and had dem
onstrated her determination ! Ind
ability to resume her ''rightful and
eminent place among the nations
which will share the major respon-
sibility for maintaining European
and world peace.
The Presidents statement, couch
ed in the third. person, was in
terpreted generally as an effort
on the part Of the new admins
tration to erase any i'll feeling that
might have resulted from past fric-
ton between this government md
de Gaulle.
But his statement that he would
like to meet General de Gaulle
was taken to refer to a conference
just between the two. Not with the
other members of the Big Three
in attendance. Asked Tuesday at
a news conference whether de
Gaulle would sit in on the next Big
Three meeting. The President said
it would embr:: .ce only himself,
Prime Minister Churchill and Mar
shall Stain. Place and date Of the
meeting have not been determined.
In the same sentence H. which
he mentioned de Gaulle's name,
Mr.. Truman today said the Unit
ed States fully appreciated the
part which France could and
should play in the settlement of
questions Of world and European
interest" M. Bidault told report
ers his conference covered poll
teal questions Of the day. with
out referense to any meetings.
On the occupation question, the
chief executive confirmed to M.
Bidault this governments complete
willingness to relinquish a part of
the American zone of occupation in
Germany" adding:
"Details have already been con-
veyed informally to the French
government and are now in the
process of being formalized."
Exactly what territory will be
turned over to the French for oc-
cupation was no announced.
France, however, has expressed
a desire to take over much of the
industrial Ruhr region.
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ARE BELIEVED PREPARING
FOR DEATH STAND ON OKINAWA ISLE
YANKS PENETRATE
SOUTHERN FRONT
Communique Gives Ground
Action Only Through
Thursday

GUAM, Saturday, May 19.-R-
American troops penetrated Sec Q
tors of the fiercely-contested south.
ern Okinawa front, Fleet Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz reported today
but failed to make appreciate pro-
gress toward either Naha or Shuri.
their prime detectives.
Nimitz' communique surprising
ly reported on ground action only
through Thursday. Normally. his
reports are only several hours be-
hind the fighting. Illustrating in.
tensity of battling which won small
local gains. he cited these in-
stances:
A regiment Of the 77th Infantry
Division captured one hill position
three times but was driven off each
time, finally yielding to strong
Japanese artillery and mortar fire.
Elements of the Sixth Marine
Division assaulted Sugar Loaf Hill
nine times in one week before see
curing it. The last three assaults
carried them to the crest, but they
were forced to yield the crest vice
under fanaical couneraacks
There is evidence that some Jap.
anese commanders realize their
eventual defeat is certain and that
they Enthusiastically are prepar-
ing for a ceremonious death.
Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle's
first division Marines found Jap.
anese officers dressed in cerc.
monial white IN a command post
they captured. Presumably the
white uniforms were formal mourn.
ing dress, worn under Japanese
military custom.
Del Valle's Leathernecks over
ran the command post, broke up
the ceremony and melted out the
death the white uniformed Japs
anese officers were expecting.
G. Company, 383rd Regiment Of
the Goth Division, engaged in an
hour-long grenade duel with Jap.
anese in another instance.
Fleet Adm. Chester w. Nimitz in
today's communique said the
enemy's lines were "being defend
ed with the greatest tenacity Of
the entire operation as the 10th
Army smashed at the strongly
fortified little Siegried" line
stretching across Okinawa from
Naha on the west coast to Yona.
baru on the east.
He estimated that Maj. Gen.
Lemuel c. Shepherd, Jr.'s Sixth
Division Leathernecks destroyed
two battalions of fiercely defend
ing and communicating Nipponese
! troops in their advance from the
Osa to the Asato river guarding
Naha. This advance represented
about one mile and required near-
ly a week, so bitterly did the Jap-
anese fight back. The leather
necks repulsed number of small
but savage counterattacks in this
push.
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Russia Given
Deadline On
Security Plan
LATIN Americans Seek To
Prevent Further Ac-
ton Immediately

GAM FRANCISCO, May 18.-R-
.. a delegates decided to-
n to give Russia three more
d aays to decide whether to support
. va'' h]sing of an inter-American
~. .nd p world security plan in the
United r Nations conference.
Some Latin American nations
we're teaming up to prevent con-
tsrence action on some big issues
Until mt thew know what the Soviets
are going to do.
B1t the American delegation de-
,;ded If was better to play a wait
;na came than to risk another row
with Russia.
The delegation drafted last week
formula which would let the Pan
american republics band together
~ resist attack OH any of their
Number and at the same time
would not jeopardize the overall
nneaee.keeping authority of a new
world organization. The formula
WAS relayed to Moscow last Satur-
dav. No answer has come back
Some American delegates were
all for showing the regional Sc
curitv issue into the conference
without waiting for Soviet reac-
tion Others favored the more con-
ciliatory process of holding off
until Monday, and that view pre-
vailed.
On another conference problem
involving Russia, the United
States through Secretary of State
stettinius, formally declared to-
dsv that independence of depend
emf peoples is an American OBJ
jective.
For areas to be protected by
mandates and trusteeships, Ameri-
can delegates are backing a pro-
posal for progressive develop
nent toward self-government in
forms appropriate to the varying
circumstances of each territory"
But Secretary of State Stettinius
said in a statement:
1T is our understanding that
this policy clearly includes the
attainment Of independence of the
people of a trusteeship area when
they 50 desire and are prepared
and able to assume the responsible
ity Of independence
Seeking to answer criticism from
various sources and to clarity the
American stand, Stettinius assert
ed that attainment of independ-
ence is one of the United States
detectives in any government OF
dependent peoples"
The "self-government'' clause
is part of paper submitted to a
conference trusteeship committee
so it could have something to
work on. 1t was offered on behalf
OF the Big Five-China, France
Britain, Russia and the United
States.
Russia has proposed that indie
pendence be named an objective.
emma has suggested that both
self-government and independence
be included.
The British, perhaps concerned
over the possible reaction in their
colonial empire, have argued
again writing in independence. -
ana Stettinius said the unanimous
position of the American delega-
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SAILORS RELATE
: CARRIER BOMBING
Two Wilmingtonians De-
scribe Jap Raid On U.
S. S. Franklin

Two Wilmington sailors last night
told their stories of the disaster
of the Aircraft Carrier U. S. S.
Franklin. when it was struck by
two bombs from Jap dive bomb
er off the coast of Japan March
10.
II was at the stern of the Frank
lin when it was hit, on my way
to my battle station" said L. K.
Branch, seaman &c. son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. w. Branch, l Wooster
street. Seaman Branch was thrown
into the sea and rescued by an
other ship in task force So, he said
II was in the same task force
with the Franklin when it was hit,
about 20 miles to our starboa~d,' y
said Joseph R. Newton, aviation
machinist mate &c, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. T. Newton, Of 615 South
Fifth street.
eat the time / didn't know what
ship was HIT" Petty Officer New
ton added. Smoke was pouring
off her, and the ship looked dead
in the water. We circled around
her, and gave the carrier air GOV.
erage."
Seaman Branch hesitated to say
anything when asked how he felt
when his ship was struck, he
couldn't get into words what hap
pened that day, but this was term
ed the most terrible U. S. ship
disaster in this war.
A former student at New Han.
over High school, Seaman Branch
went to Honolulu after he got pack
to port. He was there little more
fHnv4{SrnvV@I ft4u
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KUHN IS ORDERED
BACK TO GERMANY
Officials Say Former Bund
Leader To Be Dealt
With By Army

WASHINGTON, May 10. -R-
An order deporting Fritz Kuhn,
former German American bund
leader, back to now-conquered Ger
many was announced today by the
justice department.
For the 49-year-old Kuhn the or
der opened no prospect for renew
ing his activities. He has been I'M
der detention in this country as a
"trouble maker and officials said
that on his arrival in Germany ne
will be dealt with as the U. 5.
Army sees fit.
The custer was ordered by the
Board of immigration appeals who
classified him as an undesirable
alien. It was the result Of series
of legal proceedings involving his
conviction in 1899 of larceny OF
bund funds and a decentralization
action taken by the government IN
1912.
Admitted to the United States
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Vinson Designs Plan
To Beat Black Market,
Subsidies Are Raised

WASHINGTON, May 1S- Up -
The Government gave cattle pro-
ducers guarantee tonight against
ceiling price cuts, and at the same
time set up brand-new subsidy
to feeders, in a general attack on
the meat shortage.
Subsidies to packers of both beef
and pork also were boosted.
The order, from Fred M. Vim
son, War Mobilization director, pro-
vided for a bookkeeping record or
cattle from the range to the butch
er's block, to beat the black mar
ket
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being put to American use.
Ipo dam, strangely enough was
taken intact although the japanese
had the opportunity and the demo
litions sufficient to destroy it.
A guerrilla force under Co,
Marcus All gustin closed the north.
ern jaw of a pincers against light
opposition but Maj. Gen. Leon
ard F. Wings 43rd met harder
fighting in smuggling the southern
jaw shut. /
The action trapped a large Jap.
anese force but the enemy still was
fighting hard and appeared well
supplied.
The final assault on the dam
was preceded by one of the mos,
intense aerial firebomb raids in
this theater. More than 375 Thun-
derbolt and Lightnings of the
Fifth Air Force gave the area =
sever two-day blasting.
Capture of the dam does moi
bring Ipo water to Manila immedi
ately. The Japanese still hold par1
of the aqueduct route.
Mai. Gen. Clarence Martin s
31st Division moved six miles IL
central Mindanao to capture Va
lencia and the two adjacent all
dromes, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
announced today.
This was the first mention Of
Mai. Gen. William H. Arnold's
veteran Anerical Division on Min
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With a staff of eight, he now is
in a southern German city tran
scribing his shorthand.
After his arrival, HerrgeseD
claimed that an attempt was made
to burn his records-by whom he
did not say-but tremendous
amount was recovered to provide
the world with an intimate picture
of Hitler, his staff, their most
secret deliberations and pictures
of hangers-on and women friends.
Herrgesell said he wanted to
be helpful in translating the notes
for their historical value. I saw
some, of the notes, charred about
the edges.
The secretary asserted that even
after Hitler abandoned hope IN
mid-April Of splitting the Allies
only a few days before the end,
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sian relations Oil-bearing SakhaI.
in lies just north of the Japanese
home island of Hokkaido. The
northern half of the 559-mile long.
124-mile-wide island is Russian.
the southern part is Japanese.
The letter, from ''tne toilins
masses of Sakhalin," said they had
dedicated themselves to the princi
pie Of mot for one minute lessen.
ing our efforts in the cause Of
further Strengthening the defen.
sive growth Of the military might
of our homeland and STRENGTHENING
the defensive power Of Sakhalin."
A dispatch from a correspondent
Of Red Star datelined "Trans-
Baikal Front''-that part of far
eastern Siberia between Lake Bal.
kal and Notwithstanding re.
ported successful 20-day meeting
Continued on Page Five Cob 81
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Chinese Gold Scandal
Will Be Investigated

wv WASHINGTON, May 18.-WAAt
. least two Chungking banking off
im sls' and possible 10 more, face
n aetisS proceedings in con-
do11 .lon with China's multi-million-
pre asr gold scandal" Chinese
MR. reports 70 said today.
vs NEWS Of the speculative buying
m sre winch hit the Chungking gold
g go1d ct March %, involving some
!; S'i i.ll loaned by the United States.
tig iu't coming to light here through
sn oir censorship which the Chinese
1u" .o On export of the story.
,,S Just before he left washington
FIN F. night to return to the San
eig a,le e1:' conference, China's For.
e ed a Minister T. v. soong authoriz IL
81 sons Statement that the guilty Der r.
c csl,s behind an official leak which
be- ~, he speculative wave will
Az pu i drastically.
'A'' investigation which he order.
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ed before he left Chungking is still
in progress, it was learned, and ne
declined to comment further before
he gets full details of what it dis
closes.
News leaked out prematurely
that the official price of gold was
to be raised from 10000 Chinese
dollars to $4,000 per ounce. Quick
fortunes were made by those who
got wind of the rise in time to
buy gold at the old price.
Today it was learned here that
a Chungking business daily, the
shang WI Jih Pao, reported April
Is that the control Yuane had IN
stituted impeachment proceeding fol-
lowing an investigation.
The paper said that the Central
Bank of China, its subsidiary Cen
trail Trust, the bank Of Communica-
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BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, Satur day,
May, 18.-U.R)-A very large''
force of Marianas-based Super
fOrtresses hurled high explo-
sive bombs on industrial tar
gets in the western outskirts
Of Tokyo today Japanese time)
the War Department announced.
The demolition raid was in
contrast to the two mass in
cendiary attacks carried out
earlier this week on NagOya,
Japan's third city.