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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-21

GUAM, May 10 QNS)-
japanese forces fighting with
the desperation born of a
hopeless situation were de-
scribed officially today as re-
sisting a full-scale American
offensive on southern Oki-
nawa with the greatest tena-
city of the entire operation.
Can unconfirmed claim that
Japanese airmen have sunk an
Allied cruiser and damaged four
other vessels off Okinawa yes
terday and this morning was
made today by the Domei
agency
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-21
4DiViSi0nS
Fail 10 Gain in
Savage Battle

GUAM, May 19 (UP)-
japanese troops on southern
Okinawa battled four Amer
lean divisions almost To a
5 la n dstill today a. the
bloodiest campaign Of the
Pacific war went into its
49th day on a note of rising
fury.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-21

of this kind would be all
too reminiscent of Hitler.
Mussolini and Japan. 1t is
to prevent such actions that
we have been fighting this
war"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-21

WITH SuHsHIlIt dlu a HISH OF Q
Coast guard patrols reported a
drop OF 10 inches in three hours
As the Clinton River crest moved
overland toward the streams
mouth.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-21

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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-23

E2oDAY, because Of government controlled prices
IL and high costs, many steel products being
sold at loss That is why the steel industry cannot
now poy higher wages.
demand for q general wage increase OF 81
day has been mode by tire United Steelworkers OF
America Clio. In presenting this demand, Philip
Murroy served notice thot this demand not
subject to "dckernq or compromise To enforce this
demand strike votes ore being taken this month in
the steel industry Any general stoppoae Of steel
dueton would be coomitous blow to reconversion.
Increased WAGES eonnot be poid out Of thin cir Pro-
eeeds from the sales Of steel provide the only fund out
of which wages con be paid. Today the ceiling prices
imposed by OPA do not provide sufficient return
to pay current costs Of steel operations let alone any
increase in wages
Present oPA ceiling prices for steel products ore
generally less thon steel prices in 1887. However.
labor and other costs in the steel industry have gone
up tremendously. These ever-mountns costs have
squeezed out virtually all Of the profit originally
contained in pre-wor steel prices.
Accordingly today steel producers entitled to
substontioI increases in these ceiling prices. Mony
months ego they asked OPA for such price relief
OPA hos not acted
American Iron
$50 Fifth Aven
OUR COMPANY MEMBERS EMPLOY IS PERc
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-23

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Evening star., 1945-03-06
Yanks Take Hamlet
In Bologna Push
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Mar. 6.-United States 5th
Army forces have captured the ham
let of Bisopra, 13 miles southwest of
Bologna, after scoring advances of
400 to 300 yards in a drive up both
sides of the Pistoia- Bologna high
way, Allied headquarters announced
today.
With the town, two 1,250-foot
heights designated as Hill 375 and
Hill 476 make up line dominating
the area between the Bologna
Pistoia highway and the alternate
Florence Bologna road to the east.
West of highway ga where the
United States 10th Mountain Divi-
sion opened strong attack two
weeks ago, American and Brazilian
troops made some progress through
rugged terrain.
Eighth Army patrols probed the
spit of land separating the Valh di
Comacchio lagoon from the Adriatic.
Italian troops cleared all the Ger
mans out of the coastal woodlands
in this area in weekend attack.
Patrols reported German fire across
the Pc di Primaro, a stream which
is the continuation of the Reno
River in this coastalSector.
Evening star., 1945-03-06

but 1t looks as if 1t were built yes
terday because of some strange
ceramic quality. This is all that
remains of a great feudal castle
which the Archbishop of Cologne
defended for generations against
the princes of Ulich.
One of these was William II, Who
lived IN the early 12th century, a
classic example of the wicked baron
OF medieval history. Returning
from the wars, William was told that
his wife had been unfaithful dur
ing his absence. ignoring her frsn-
tic denials, the prince ordered her
stripped and her entire body
smeared with honey. Then he sus-
pended her In a lion cage from an
upper window of the tower so that
bees stung her to death.
Although the tower long has been
an historic shrine, the practical
Nazis had turned it into a brewery
and the latest batch was still brew
ing when the Goth Infantry Regi-
ment broke through the east gate
(see HENRY. Page A-lOJ
Evening star., 1945-03-06
Chang Reported
1ripto
|Sdn nFrdnciisco
Anxious to Discuss
Communist Problem
With Roosevelt
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ny CONSIANIlNE BROWN.
President Roosevelt may meet
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
at the opening of the World Sc
curity Conference at San Fran
cisco on April Is.
According to reports circulated in
diplomatic quarters, the Chinese
leader, who has never visited the
United States or any other Western
country, has indicated his intention
to attend the United Nations Con-
ference. China is one of the "in-
yiting powers" together with the
United States, Russia and Great
Britain.
However, the real reason why the
generalissimo wants to meet Mr..
Roosevelt for the second time since
l943. when he had a talk with him
and Prime Minister Churchill at
Cairo, is his growing uneasiness
about the political situation in re-
gard to the Chinese Communists.
In spite of the Chinese leaders
willingness to make wide concessions
to the Yenan group, he is making no
progress at all. And while the
Chungking military situation has
improved rapidly in the last few
weeks, the pressure on Chang for
even wider concessions continues
strong.
The generalissimo wants to take
advantage of the opening of the
Security Conference to meet Mr..
Roosevelt and discuss the political
future of China, which appears to
the generalissimo darker today than
1t was some time ago when the Japa-
nese were pressing the Chinese
armies hard.
Evening star., 1945-03-06
London Dock Strike
Gains; 10000 Are Out
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Mar. Ga strike Of
London dock workers which began
six days ago assumed more serious
proportions today as port official
announced approximately 10000
men now are idle. Seven thousand
had been reported out up to yes
terday.
Union representatives meeting
over the week end had urged the
men to 60 back to work today, but
the port official declared:
There is no prospect OF the men
coming In today"
To meet the situation the gov
ernment last night assigned hum
dreds Of additional soldiers to the
task OF moving cargoes, bringing to
5000 the number so engaged.
The main grievances of the strik-
ers concerns the system OF hiring
the men and the treatment Of alb
SenteeS.
Evening star., 1945-03-06
Red Cross Solicitors
Report S1o5,oO0 in
New Contributions
Total of $252,000,
9 Per Cent Of Goal, ,
Obtoined by Solicitors
BULLETIN.

American Red Cross solic-
itors reported new contribu-
tions of approximately $105 900
at the report meeting at the
United States Chamber of
Commerce today. The total
is now approximately $252,O00
g per cent of the $2,70O,900
goal.
Two boys-one of whom thought
the American Red Cross was a
racket" before he lost a hand in
France-will tell campaign solic-
itors today what the Red Cross
did for them and other veterans
convalescing at Walter Reed
Hospital.
The ,two spoke yesterday also
when half the workers In the l945
Red Cross war fund campaign re-
ported a total OF $147,oS1-5.4 per
cent of their $2,7O0, 800 quota-gath-
cred in the first four days of the
campaign. Sergt. Peter Jankauskas,
IS, of Moscow, Pa, was the one
who thought the Red Cross was a
racket" Then a week after the
invasion of Normandy he said to
the solicitors at the United States
Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross
girls-"American girls" he empha-
sized-appeared on the beaches and
Normandy meadows with coffee,
candy and chewing gum. When
he was wounded five days later and
hospitalized in England, Sergt
Jankauskas said:
eff it hadn't been for the Red
Cross I don't know what I'd have
done."
Dramatic Escape Story.
The boy on crutches is Sergt.
Victor Mapes, n, of Orlando, Fla
He tells a dramatic story of escape
from a Japanese prison camp and a
swim of II hours in freezing water
with a broken leg.
IF it hadn't been for the food in
those Red Cross packages. I'd never
have made it," he said. words
cannot express my sincere thanks. y
Censorship obliterates most Of the
(See RID CROSS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1945-03-06
(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-D
Cold Wave Heading Here;
Snow or Rain tomorrow

Spring weather for the Capital has
been postponed. It's going to be
much colder tomorrow, the Weather
Bureau says.
1t may snow. The prediction is
indefinite, but the forecast is: Some
rain or snow likely by tomorrow
afternoon or night"
Tonight showers will sweep across
the Potomac Valley and the tenn
perature will drop.
The cold air that has been making
things pretty frigid over the Plains
States will arrive here tonight. It
will push up the present atmos-
phere of warmer air and precipita-
ton will result, the forecaster said.
Evening star., 1945-03-06
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
WITH CHURCHILL IN GER
MANY. Mar. 4 delayed by Cen
Sor) Prime Minister Churchill
told front-line troops today that
lone strong heave will win the
war" and bring down tyranny in
Europe.
Standing in cold drizzle before
Scottish troops of the famous 51st
Highland Division, which has been
fighting under the Canadian 1st
Army in the Northern Rhine often
sive, Mr. Churchill asserted that
soon the enemy will be driven
across the Rhine, and any one can
see one strong heave will win the
war"
Can announcement in London
Evening star., 1945-03-06
Senate Fight Seen Aided
By YoIto Voting Formula

Prospects of Senate approval Of
the United Nations security organ
ization, to be set up in April at
San Francisco, have been increased
as result of the "Yalta formula"
on voting, Senate leaders believed
today. -.....
This is true, they reasoned, be-
cause under the formula, an
nounced yesterday, the United
States would never be compelled 20
use military force to stem aggres-
sion without its own specific con-
sent. The formula cuts the founda-
ton from under the arguments Of
those who fear control of American
arms by "superstate."
Under the formula all permanent
members Of the Security Council
the United States, Great Britain,
Russia, China and France-must
agree before that body can employ
sanctions against an aggressor.
France to Head Small Nations.
Meanwhile, diplomatic circles here
believe that France-which refused
to sponsor Invitations to the con-
ference because its own views have
not been included in the Dumbarton
Oaks plan for the security organNa-
tion-will becorAe the focus of a
group of small European nations
bent on changing the Anglo Amer
ican- Chinese plan. 1t is
expected that France and it's d6terie
of followers will have a number of
amendments to propose.
Latin American reaction to the
"Yalta formula" outlined to the
Pan-American Conference at Mex
leo City yesterday by Secretary Of
State Stettinius, was favorable, the
Associated Press reported Since the
big powers must agree on force,
diplomats pointed out that the
votes of the six nonpermanent
members OF the council-the group
into which all Latin American states
will fall-can block action with the
support of only one of the big pow
ers. Seven of the II council mem
bers, under the formula, must vote
aflrmatively on all council actions.
Satisfies Public.
Senator George, Democrat, Of
Georgia, ranking Democratic men,
ber of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, told a reporter he thinks
the American public will be better
satisfied about joining a world
league If it knows the United States
must agree before its military forces
can be ordered into action against
any other country.
Unless the permanent members
of the council stick together any
international organization will coll
lapse anyway" Senator George said.
IF one of the large nations-say
Russia, as an example-should re-
fuse to apply force against an ag-
gressor the others could not pro-
ceed."
Senator Ball, Republican, Of
Minnesota, who has urged all-out
international collaboration to pre-
vent aggression, said he looks upon
the Yalta solution "as probably the
(See SECURITY PAGE A.30
Evening star., 1945-03-06
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

zULPICH, Germany, Mar. O.
Through a fog the spires of the
ancient university city of Bonn be-
came dimly visible today to the
9th Infantry Division advancing
over the rain-soaked Cologne plain.
Yesterday morning we captured
this extraordinary walled town of
Zulpich, an epltome of Western
Germany's history for 1000 years,
1t now consists only of a brewery
and an insane asylum where 80 loyal
nuns have cared for 300 inmates
locked in cells through the fright
full shelling of the past few days.
In a vast shelter 80 feet under
ground $50 townspeople hid out from
the Nazi evacuation order.
In the town the great tower of
blood-red brick Is 1000 years old,
Evening star., 1945-03-06
MAP on Page A-5.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, Mar. 6.-Three divi-
sions of the American 1st Army
driving into Cologne today
reached the RingStrasse trimming
the ancient heart of the wrecked
Rhineland city against surpris-
ingly light opposition.
At least a third of Cologne had
been captured by midmorning.
Tanks and infantry rolled through
the great industrial area in the
north and western sections of Ger
many's fourth largest city, and
shelled the railroad marshaling
yards, among the biggest in the
Reich.
The fall of Cologne was expected
hourly.
3rd Army Breach Reported.
Today's German communique said
that south of Cologne 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's "blacked-out' Sd
Army had achieved deep breach
in German lines guarding the mid
die Rhine and Coblenz in the area
northeast of Kyllburg on the Kyll
River. At last reports the Ameri-
cans were A miles rom Coblenz
and pushing beyond the Kyll, last
great natural barrier, from two
bridgeheads and 5 miles wide and
3 miles deep.
Between these erupting fronts
the American 1st Army pushed to
within 7 miles of Bonn.
To the north, the foe was fever
ishly Strengthening Notifications
east of the Rhine and mastering
troops to man them.
Nazi demolition squads, trying des-
perately to guard the rich industrial
Ruhr left the Rhine bridgeless along
the twisting 70-mile stretch from
Bonn to Wesel.
Hold Nearly All of West Bank.
The Americans held the whole
west bank of the Rhine from Co.
logne all the way north to Rhein-
berg, miles south of Wesel, except
for tiny pocket in the river bend
miles north Of Homberg, and a
emile stretch from to miles deep
from south of Neuss to Worringen.
Even these were believed squeezed
almost empty.
American pilots who flew over
Cologne described it as dead CITY,"
Farther north units of the
Canadian 1St ARMY stabbed into the
outskirts of Xanten, key enemy
strongpoint guarding the Ruhr city
of Wesel, 8 miles to the east.
The German bridgehead on the
Wesel were severely damaged yes
terday by 347,0O0 pounds of bombs.
One span of railway bridge was
destroyed and the west end of
road bridge was blocked.
A 9th Army armored division
Evening star., 1945-03-06
New Overseas Edition.
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond Booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The Overseas Edition may
be sent by ordinary mail for 8
cents, but 1t will. be delivered
much more quickly-and will
be all the more appreciated
II sent by air mail at IL cents.
Evening star., 1945-03-06
'Cne Strong Heove Will VIM
Churchill Tells Troops at Front
Prime Minister Fires She'll With HitIer's
Name on 1t, but Won't Guarantee Results

today said Mr.. Churchill had re-
turned to the British capital
after his visit to the western
front, where he conferred with
Gen. Eisenhower and Marshal
Montgomery
Mr.. Churchill told the troops that
he was proud to meet you on Ger
man soil you have conquered" He
spoke with pride in his voice.
I'VE will soon bring down tyranny
so you can go home" he promised
"All our efforts" he continued,
will end in a broader picture of
our islands sense of decency and
fair play and will spread over a
larger expanse."
On his tour of the Canadian Sec-
tor he was accompanied by Marshal
fCoo ~YYTTT
Evening star., 1945-03-06

Rhine's west bank shrank to ap-
proximately II miles between Kan
ten and Rheinberg, which was pen
etrated by American 9th Army
troops.
Nazi paratroopers fell back under
sledgehammer blows by the 9th
Army, which was striving to wipe
out the last enemy remnants in
that area west of the Rhine.
British vanguards pushing through
the Bonninghardt Forest only 8 miles
from Wesel were meeting bitter re-
sistance by Nazi suicide squads
Raj pilots said two bridges at
Evening star., 1945-03-06
Thousands Evacuated
As Floods Menace
Areas in 4 States
Ohio River Is Rising
Toward Levels Reached
Only Twice Before

By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Mar. g.. The
Ohio Valleys first major war
time flood began to hamper pro-
duction in scores of munitions
plants today as the river slowly
swelled toward stages reached
only twice before in history.
F Transportation was crippled in
sections; telephone service was
jammed. In Cincinnati, for the
first time in history, telephone sub
scribers were asked to cut their
lines and take instruments with
them if they had to evacuate their
homes. Telephone company of
ficials said instruments were vir-
tually irreplaceable.
With the Ohio rising 2 feet an
hour on the heels of continuing
3 inches or more Of rain, Federal,
State and city officials strained re-
sources to meet calls for aid from
residents of low-lying areas and
from war plants. in the bottoms
areas.
Levee Section Ripped.
The midday stage was $40 feet,
nearly 13 feet over flood stage, and
the Ohio threatened to reach at
least 10 feet here, with comparable
stages for many miles both up and
downstream
This compared with the record
1899 stage of 1887 and 70 feet in
1918, the previous peak.
Backwaters of the Ohio and Little
Miami ripped 40-foot section from
the Beechmont levee protecting
Lunken Airport, isloating suburban
Mount Washington except for a
long detour and cutting all city gas
service there. The airport already
had been flooded.
Cincinnati's busy Millcreek indus
trial area was protected from the
Ohio by a barrier dam, but a flash
flood in the Millcreek headwaters
was filling the valley anyway.
Louisville Threatened.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
discontinued all passenger service
between here and Louisville, where
the worst flood since 1887 was also
threatened. Other railroads were
forced to detour or cancel schedules.
Streets were flooded in Louisville
and in many Ohio, West Virginia,
Indiana and Kentucky cities. Thou
sands were evacuated by Red Cross,
civilian defense and State employees
in the four-State area.
Louisville war manpower officials
made workers available Immediately
to war firms needing to salvage
equipment from hood-stricken in
dustries. Army posts near flooded
cities denied leaves to soldiers.
The thousands employed at the
Wright Aeronautical Corp. plant
located in Lockland were forced far
out of their way, causing CONGESTION
on usually nttle-traveled roads.
The Army's Air Technical Service
Command at Patterson Field, Day.
ton, Ohio, dispatched 20 trucks and
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Evening star., 1945-03-06
1850 Marines Killed
In Two lima Invasion,
ForrestaI Reports
Says 5000, 900 Fighting
Men Must Be Defeated
To Crush Jopon

A warning that America and
her Allies must crush a fighting
force of 100000 japanese to
attain victory in the Pacific was
coupled today with the an
nouncement that the Marine
dead on strategic Two Jima
totaled 1850.
The prospect of bitter fighting
ahead was re-emphasized late yes
terday at press conference by
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal who
has just returned from Pacific tour
which included a visit to Two.
Recounting the death toll, the
Secretary said the loss was not out
of proportion to the Importance of
taking the island.
Mr.. Forrestal gave no figures for
wounded and missing. The last Of
fetal figure supplied by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz covered casual
ties for the first three days and in
cluded GA killed, 4,168 wounded and
$50 missing. Some of the missing
have since been located.
The officials have given the in
complete count of Japanse dead
found inside of American lines at
more than 12,500. Other enemy dead
are known to be buried under
smashed pillboxes. Still others are
behind the Japanese lines, a dwin-
ding area which has been shelled
by 5th Fleet warships, pounded by
Marine artillery and bombed by
planes.
Gan imperial japanese COM
munique today claimed American
Marines on Two Jima had suf-
fered 10000 casualties" The
communique, which claimed
about $50 American tanks were
either stranded or set af1re," was
carried in broadcast by Domei
News Agency and recorded by
the Federal Communications
Commission.)
Secretary Forrestal said that al.
though the joint chiefs of staff anG
the Navy had no illusions about the
difficulty of taking Two, which is
needed to put American fighte,
planes and Liberator bombers with.
in range of Japan, the japanese
were stronger on the island thar
had been expected. In addition, he
said they made very good use o1
their weapons.
Two Vital to Foe.
He termed the Marine fighting
highly successful and described
Two as vital sea and air gate to the
the inner defenses of Japan.
Despite the American progress IL,
the Pacific, Mr.. Forrestal declared
1--WE have got to face the fact that
the japanese still have ah army
which he estimated at 10 combat
divisions. These divisions, added to
service troops and similar forces, he
said, give the enemy upward OF
100000 fighting men. To defeat
Japan, he added, the United States
and its Allies will have to defeat
that force.
In the assault on Two, he said
the Navy had used the steam
roller principle" of overwhelming