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Yonks Worn Jap People
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unable to concentrate their defenses against B-29 raids. He said losses over even the most heavily defended cities have been negligible.
 The Superfortresses carrying the 60,000 leaflets from Saipan were still in the air as Lemay spoke. The Office of War Information began immediately to broadcast the same information to Japan.
 The leaflets were prepared by the Nays Psychological Warfare Office at Lernay's suggestion. They carry pictures of B-29's dropping clusters of fire bombs with the names of the Il cities and warning that Japan's military clique must be destroyed.
 Pre-Invasion Attack
 The move came as hundreds of Superfortresses and tactical raiders picked up the pre-invasion bom- bardment of Japan from Admiral William F. Halsey's blacked-o out Third Fleet.
 Punctuating with bombs and gun- fire the surrender ultimatum broad cast to Japan by the United States, Britain and China, the Army's raid- ing squadrons from the Marianas and Okinawa stoked new fires across across a 300-rnile belt of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu Islands.
 Tokyo broadcasts said an Allied submarine shened Kinkazen Island, off the northeastern coast of Hon. shu, yesterday afternoon.
 Super-Forts
 Three big B-29 task forces. more than $50 strong, kicked off the at- tack soon after midnight with triple blow at Amuta, Matsuyama and Tokuyama.
 Winging in through light Jap- anese fighter opposition and spor- adic anti-aircraft fire. the giant bombers unloaded over 2.200 tons of gasoline incendiaries on the three enemy cities.
 Billowing clouds of smoke and flame shot thousands of feet into the air as the fires took hold and merged into roaring conflagrations in the wooden cities below.
 Returning Superfortress crews said the heat blast rushing up from the stricken cities could be felt in- side their planes, thousands of feet above. and the flames were visible for more than 100 miles on the homeward journey.
 The main target apparently was omuta. Q Kyushu city of i7T.OO0 with the biggest artificial harbor in Japan. Matsuyama was the most important city and seaport on ehlk- oku. and Tokuyama's burning in-
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 Values of other canned foods were not changed.
 Ten points were added to these popular size canned foods: Spinach and Asparagus, No. 2 cans, both in- creased to 30 points; Apple Sauce and Apples, No. 2 can, will be 20 point; Grape Juice, pint, will be 40 points.
 Actual Reduction
 Twenty more points were placed on spinach, No. 1-2 can, and april cots, No. 2 1-2 can, will be 50 points; and grape juice, quart size, will be 70 points.
 A reduction of 10 points was made on: grapefruit juice, 46-ounce can, dropped to 10 points; grapefruit juice, No. 2 cans, reduced to two cans for 10 points; orange and grapefruit juice blended, 46-ounce can, down to 10 points, No. 2, to two for 10 points; and tomato catsup and chile sauce, 14-ounce size, to 10 10 points.
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security and justice.
 2. Allied occupation of Japanese territory until such new order is established and until Japan'S war making power is destroyed.
 3. Enforcement of the Cairo dec- laration which strips Japan of all her conquestS since tine turn of the century; and limitation of Japa- nese sovereignty to the four princi- pal home islands and some minor ones.
 {. Disarming of all Japanese forces and permission for them to return home.
 5. Stern Justice" for war crim- inals but no plan to destroy the Japanese as nation or a race.
 6. Maintenance of all industries needed to sustain Japanese econ- omy, but an end to those which would enable Japan to rearm.
 T. Withdrawal of occupation forces when these objectives are accom-. plished and a peacefully inclined and responsible government" has been established.
 No mention was made of the Jap- anese emperor. The American at- titude toward him has been the subject of bitter controversy. ofii- cials explained that that issue was being left open-to be decided when Japan slfvenders or is beaten to her knees. They emphasised that tho proclamation does not prejudice the ability of the Allies to take any step they deem desirable on the ena. peror Issue.
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YkCANumes EorI Dinger
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pany B of the 309th Engineers of the 84th division. Eleven months of his thirteen months service were spent in France. Following the arn1- istice he acted as interpreter In French and German. For four months he did graduate work Tn French and in History at the Uni- versity of Toulouse.
 After honorable discharge from the army, MT. Dinger spent year in graduate work at Union Theo- logical seminary and Columbia university. From 1920-1923 he was assistant industrial secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Worcester, after which he taught a year at Heidelburg college. In 1924 he returned to Wor- cester as religious work and pro- gram secretary. Among his signifi- cant achievements at Worcester were the formation of a Foremen's club which is still functioning, the organization of a Y Mems club and a survey of the organization, program and personnel of the Wor- cester Y.M.C.A.
 Served In Chicago
 In 193O MT. Dinger went to Chi cago as assistant program secre- tary for the Metropolitan office of the Chicago Y.M.C.A. including 20 branches. Here he was instrumental in setting up a system of program accounting which is in wide use in Y.M.C.A,,s throughout the country. From 1933-1936 he was executive secretary of the North avenue Lar rabee branch. While here he taught courses in group work financing at George Williams college. From 1936-1941 he was general secretary of the Y.MC.A. in Flint, Mich., where he liquidated a large debt and remodeled the Y.M.C.A. Here he served also as a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Michigan, teaching group work for three years.
 Family Man
 MT. Dinger is married and has five children. Earl. Jr., is in his second year at the School of Den- tistry at the University of Michi- gan, Dorothy is a senior at Albion college; Robert is a VIZ navy man at Depauw university. David, 8, and Mary Elizabeth, 6, will attend
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dustrial areas on southwestern Hon. shu housed thousands of war plant buildings and shadow factories" before the B-29s struck.
 One Superfortress was lost in the attack, which raised to 49 the num- Der of Japanese cities gutted by the U. s. 20th air forces SuperfortresS- es since the obliteration campaign began on March 10.
 It was the first blow at Toku- yama and Matsuyama proper. al- though B-29's had visited Toku- yamas fueling station and synthetic oil plant and the Matsuyama air. field before.
 Japanese broadcasts said another 200-land- based planes, apparently from Okinawa, followed up the B. % strike with a three-hour attack on the Kobe eand Osaka areas be- tween 6:30 and 9:30 this morning (Tokyo time).
 Later, the enemy said, 90 more American planes flew over south central Honshu, but there was no immediate word of their targets.
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Walter WinchelI
 On BrOadw0y
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Fortunately, our military victories have crushed the power to do harm, if not the inflated and insane ego- tism, of the Fascists. We still have to mount guard, however, against those in our own midst who have been nurtured on the myths of the superior and inferior races, and who practice discrimination against felloW-Americans because of the color of their skins or some other arbitrary racial sign.
 The lofty phrases of the Declara- tion of Independence "that all men are created equal, that they are en- dowed by their Creator with cer- tain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pur- suit of Happiness"-these cynics ri- dicule as "glittering generalities. They remind us that when the Dec- laration was written numbers of men were held in slavery in our land. That was a falling-off from our basic principles that we as a nation ended eighty years ago, and it in no way weakens the validity of those principles set forth in our original articles of faith.
 Instead of clinging to group pre- judices that shuts us off from our fellowmen, we must keep firm hold on the magnetic chain of hu- manity. We must open our hearts and our minds and our way of Av- ing to individuals of all groups.
 The day is dark. But in every dark night a kind providence has never deserted man. Somehow mans destiny always lifts him to his feet again no matter how bit ter the struggle. God made us brothers. Let us while remaining strong as a nation recapture tender ness and kindness-precious qualities of the human spirit. They are the imperishable splendours of life. Battling problems confront us but i'll seeking their solution let us remem- Der the debt each of us owes to each other and remain good neigh bors and kind friends.
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Believing them were Sen. Leverett ealtonsta;l,. R., Mass, Sen. John L. Mcclellan, D., Ark, Sen. James Q. Eastland, D., Miss, Sen. Arthur Capper, R., Kans., and Sen. George b. Aiken, R., Vt.
 SaltonstalI In Favor
 Capper, who supported reserva- lions in the League of Nations fight 25 years ago, gave the new charter his urANalified support.
 He said tffe new treaty Is dif- ferent in that "the retention oi rational sovereignty of the United @Dstes s in the charter itself this N1me."
 ealtonstall told the Senate that ratification of the charter "is our best means to obtain. security in the future and to attain our objective of lasting peace" He said it repre- sents a practical step toward ina- proved mutual understanding.
 No Choice But Vote
 Mcclellan said the Senate had no choice but to ratify the charter or reject 1t and that he would cast his vote for ratification.
 Eastland said he would vote for the charter. But he protested be- cause it does not he said. guar mntee freedom of the press. He rec fhrred to the fact that the Allies do not have free access to the European territories under Russian domination.
 Aiken told the Senate that he will vote for charter ratification. No argued. at the same time, for passage of st. Lawrence enaway logIslaiion as stlll another step to- ward postwar international collab- ogniIon, with Canada.
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Coming to the issue of Petain's alleged treason, Blum said he was no crininologist and was unable to define the word. But he said Petain received mandate only to revise Frances republican institutions.
 DeSpotiSm
 Instead he destroyed them and replaced them with "despotic pow err, Blum said, "and that was trea- son."
 Tn allowing himself to be dashed to the ground in despair and letting his country fall in like manner no, he cannot say re, was doing that for Frances good or honor," Blum declalmed.
 Under Cross examination Blum said he always insisted that the Vichy government was constituted illegally, as was the Riom Supreme Court, which heard the incompleted trial aimed at fixing war guilt in France.
 Defense Counsel Thorough
 Fernand Payen, chief defense counsel, piled Blum with questions asked all the witnesses so far as to Pierre Laval's influence on Petain.
 Laval was master of the dou- ble cross," Blum said bluntly. Tt is hard to fix the responsibility for the conduct of the Vichy government between Laval and the Marshal. Whether he influenced Petain is a thing I cannot answer definitely"
 Payen's insistence on this point indicated that the defense planned to make Laval's influence on Petain one of the main points in favor ot the old Marshal, setting up Laval as the one on whom the actual guilt reposed.
 Reviews Flight
 Tracing the governments flight to Bordeaux, Blum said that there right from the start it was the army leaders who kept repeating that the situation was hopeless and nothing could be done. It appeared that all of a sudden the will to re- sist had disappeared in France"
 In the jockeying over whether to continue resistance from North Africa, Blum charged, the faction which favored it got double cross. It set out to sail on the steamer Massilia. But an order came from Petain's cabinet cancelling all de- parture orders.
 Those who turned about to return to Bordeaux learned that "in truly abominable manner, although they knew they were not going to leave, they had allowed the Massila to de- part"
 Backed by sobs, Blum said he went to Toulouse, read the news of the armistice, left for Clermont- Ferrand and then reached Vichy July 9.
 3rd Premier Testifying
 Blm was the third former French premier to testify against Petain in the Marshal's treason trial which was resumed at 1:20 p. m. in the gloomy Palace of Justice.
 Petain entered the Stuffy court room at 1:15 p. m. He was report ed to have had a sleepless night.
 The 89-year-old Petain's appe- tite was reported failing.
 Judge Pierre Mongiebeaux an- nounced that today's session would end at 5:15 p. m. to enable the parliamentary jurors to attend de- bate on Gen. Charles De Gaulle's new constitutional proposals.
 The linking of Petain's name with the Cagoulards, the hooded ones," was done by indirection.
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 Whole black orthodox rubber heels, U. s. Rubber Co.,, Providence, R. l., 2,500 pairs; new patterns and changes in aluminium shoe lasts,
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grade schools i'm Waterbury.

grade schools in Waterbury.
 MT. Smith, retiring secretary. plans to remain in Waterbury. He will remain available to the I'M. CA. directors and successor for advice for an indefinite period aft- CT his resignation. He will contin- ue to reside in Waterbury.
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Shoe Hardware Division, Waterbury, Conn, 915 pairs; Rubber compost tion half tap soles, Kleistone Rub- Der Co., Warren, R. I.
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Surrender Terms

1. Elimination flor all time" of the asthority and influence of the militarist. industrialists and others who have deceived and misled the people Of Japan, and establishment Of c new order in Japan of peace,
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UItimdtum Rejected

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Fruit Juice Points Cut

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The Valley settler., 1945-06-15
HOSPITAL
NE NlS

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Marsh are the proud parents of a son, their first hi1d, born on June II. The baby, who has been named Iavid Eugene, weighed lbs. 5 sz.
 Mrs. Jim Tyone of Gulkona gave birth .ts q son, Robert James, on June IA.
 krthar Hutte, .an Eklutna student, re co ived medical Urea tment this week.
 E1izabe tn and Frank Tyone of Sourdough were hospital patti ents a few days for medical tree tment.
 Mr. Henning Benson was hospital 1zed on thursday, for a sho ort time.
 About this time of year when mosquito repe11ants are being used freely 1t might be we'll ts remember that the free use of some of these repellants might be dangerous. Any insect repeh Meat that causes any skin irri ta ion should be discon- tinued es 1t may cause other seri ous damage if continued to be us ed.
 David H oehn Mp.
The Valley settler., 1945-06-15

ANCHORAGE WOMAN GROWS TROPICAL
 PLANTS
 Mrs. Fred Schedde of An oh orage has exotic tropical .gloxinins in bloom and orchids in bud. ohe' raised the first orchid in, alaska in 1858. Her success with ord1 ids led to her experiment wi tn glsxinia as and she now has tRG of these p1ants . She lets the plahtsfs leep in winter, storing them in dry, dark place and repotting them in the spring.
Evening star., 1945-05-13

keep on tooling people torerer. He can't
alcays keep their respect, il he hasn't got his
0tcH.
The Catalna's engines were tuning up.
Pete Mason was in the co-pilot's seat. He
was an older man than Cords, with dark,
quiet face He had been flying Navy planes
before John Cords ever saw an ocean, but
he'd flown them as chief until the war
came and gave enlisted men their chance at
commissions He was JIG. now He said,
She's ready to 60
Cords called his crew on the interphone.
There's a fighter pilot down." he said.
I'm give you the word when we reach the
area One of you take port, one starboard,
and keep your eyes out"
AYE, aye. sir.
IHEY were flying at little over two thou
sand feet. The Pacific was blue glass with
white cracks across it. Too many white
cracks. Well, the skipper had said to use
his own judgment, Yes and the yeoman in
the operations room had said. "That's The
man I'd ,cant looking tor me. =. Mr.. Cords
wiU bring him back"
Pete Mason said, It'll be heavy going
down there"
Cords glanced at him quickly, but the
older man was peering out the starboard
window His dark face showed neither
loathing nor pity, bitterness nor hatred.
Yet Mason was the one man who knew what
had happened to Cords that Sunday morn
ing when the Jap planes came; Mason knew
that at least one Navy Cross had gone to
the wrong man. And remembering this,
Tw-5-I3-45
Evening star., 1945-05-13
Deciding not to be a hero
was the bravest decision
that John Cords ever made
A Short Story

CMITH, the operations officer, gave him
y the position. 1t was south of Kauai.
about hundred miles out. Just the job
for you," Smith said Maybe another rib
bon
John Cords hoped the grin on his face
looked all right. A man shouldn't mind be-
ing kidded about the ribbons he wears.
A man wouldn't mind il he had won them.
There's twenty-knot wind, and it's
rough out there" Smith said. The skipper
says if you find him, use your own judg-
ment."
Who's my second pilot?"
Mason. He's at the plane"
Cords was stuffing the cotton in his ears
as he hurried out, but he heard a yeoman
say, IF was out there, that's the man Id
want looking for me. If the guy is still alive,
Mr. Cords will bring him back.
Hearing this, Cords felt the old sickness
tighten round his heart, the sense of shame
so acute it was almost physical pain. 1t
had been with him for more than three years,
since that 7th of December. 194l. Instead
of fading out it spread and ate, like an in
fection He'd been an ensign then, the braid
on his cap untarnished. He was full lieu
tenant now, and he'd be lieutenant COM
mander with the next alnav. He'd get
his own squadron then. And a man can't
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
FEW ATTENDED

Although not more than half a
dozen members of the 23-mcmber
committee have so far attended
any one session Of ne hearing.
II was charged by the California
contingent that a call for n total
attendance Of the II DruUcratic
members had been issued by Sen
ator ConnalIy for the executive
meeting.
A futt Attendance or The iHteF-
nationalist majority m q N bers
would make inevitable the enact
ment OF the gag on opponents of
the treaty. and a free play Tor all
testimony IN its favor. IL Has
pointed out by Phil D. Swing, Spe-
cial counsel Of the California Sec-
tion OF the Colorado River Board.
leader OF the opposition 10 the
rivers agreement.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
Light Plan
To Council

The city plan commissions re-
quest for S5,2oOO00 for the public
lighting commissions poStwar
power plant viii be presented 10
the common council today
The site proposed IS an unde-
veloped l0-acre area at the foot
Of st. Jean on the Detroit River.
just west Of Detroit Edison Co. S
Conner Creek plant.
In addition, the plan commits
sion will present 10 the council a
revised version Of The proposed
blight elimination bill, 10 he pre-
sentcd to the Legislature.
The revisions would give con-
demnauon power 10 city legiSla-
tive bodies; free taxes in the areas
involved; make the proposed law
applicable 10 any city or town
regardless of population md re-
quire property owners 90 obtain
approval Of the city plan commits
sion or the board Of appeals OF
their own plans 70 change build
ings In the areas involved
The commission Will also pre-
sent 10 the council a number OF
protests from Negro groups who
claim that no consideration has
been given 10 the rchouslng OF
thousands of families who would
be left homeless by the proposed
redevelopment of the medical cen
ter, cultural center and parks and
Fairgrounds programs.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
I3 FROM TEXAS

Witnesses listed 10 testify in
favor Of the treaty number Just
twice as many, SO, including l3
from Texas.
Senator Connally would not be
pinned down as TO whether he in
tended TO thin out" the witnesses
fagering the treaty He declared n
"unthinkable, " however. that one
state, California, should present Is
witnesses.
The treaty's opponents argued
In vain that not all the witnesses
were from California that water
users Of all seven Of the Colorado
River basin states were included
in the total of Is. as well as
sPohesmen for the American Le-
gion, the American Federation Of
Labor and the American Bar As
SOCiafion
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
Aiding Fugitive
Case Dismissed

Charges against a full time
OPA food investigator, his wife
and another woman who appeared
before u. s. Commissioner j.
Stanley Hurd on charges of har-
! boring a federal fugitive, today
were dismissed.
Released were Walter Bcrlow
40. of 1926 Ker ucky. OPA
investigator and in rance man
his wife. Paula. IS, md the wife
Of the fugitive, Mrs. Elsie Stein
berg. 80.
They were charged with giving
assistance 10 Leon J, Steinberg,
AZ, who is wanted on charges of
stealing and burning the car of
an FBI agent in Jacksonville, Fla.
The government aditted il could
not prove the three defendants
knew Steinberg was fugitive al
the time they allegedly assisted
him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
FAVoRs TREATY

Senator Connally is doubly mott
waited in favor of the treaty. 1t is
a document endorsed by interna-
tionalists of the adminiStrati ton,
and IL contains a section under
which Texas ALLEGATIONS from the
waters of the Rio Grandc would
be increased through a palpable
state department trade of Colo
RADIO River waters on which
depend far western projects i'm
menSely more valuable already
than those of Texas.
Witnesses tcStIfying against Tho
treaty, including southern Cali
fornians, representing half bill
lion dollars IN public water and
power utilities already built num-
her Is
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03
Texan Fdvors
Water Grab
BY RAY RICHARDS
Detroit Times washington bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Sena-
tor Connally CD of Texas, chair
man of the Senate foreign rela-
tions committee and perhaps the
most influential individual advo-
cate Of the proposed rivers treaty
with Mexico, has made bold an
nouncement that he will endeavor
today TO choke off the telling tes-
timony OF witnesses opposing The
compact.
Despite fierce demand from
Senator Johnson (R) Of Califor-
MIA that antagonists OF the treaty
be allowed TO complete their case
at the present hearing by the com
mittee, Senator Connally called
an executive session of the group
today to consider his proposal that
opposition witnesses be thinned
out 10 shorten the sessions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-03

Listed her, are the funeral Q
memorial services for the brave yh
died Ia the service OF our country
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Returnees Complain
OF Facilities On Train
BY the Aasoetsts4 Prssa

OMAHA, Oct. ia troop train
loaded with Nebraska and Kansas
soldiers returning from Europe to-
day wired the Omaha World-Herald
complaining the train was without
sleeping or washing facilities and
that a last-minute change in desti-
nation should be revoked.
The telegram, filed from Newburg
Mo, by two officers, two enlisted
men and 400 Others" said they left
Camp kilmer, N. j., Thursday and
had been travelling since on SLOW
routes"
Their destination originally was
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where
they had arranged to meet their
families, the telegram said, but a
last-minute change was made and
they are being sent to Fort Logan,
Colo. They protested the destina-
tion change on grounds human
consideration" outweighs admins
| trative consideration involved"