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Evening star., 1945-06-15

searched for discriminating docu-
ments from the moment it was de-
cided Ciano was a traitor to the
Axis plan.
In Ciano's own words from the
final entry in his diary, ''If these
notes OF mine will one day see the
light, it will be because I took the
'precaution to put them in safety
before the Germans, through base
trickery, made me a prisoner ="
Possibly the only complete pic
ture that now can be passed on to
historians is contained in this docu-
ment.
Ciano depicts the decline and fall
Of the Roman Empire as graphically
as did Gibbon in his renowned
works. The cynicism of the Axis
gang, their contempt for democracy
and the disregard for all human
rights, stand out in bold relief
against the background OF intrigue
and vain posturing.
No part of Ciano's diary. in any
form, has ever before been pub
ished.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Meeting Is Planned
Al San Francisco 10
Map Interim Agency
Allied Representatives
Due to Get Together
Day After PorIey Ends
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-
Representatives of the so United
Nations will meet here the day
after their present conference
adjourns to perfect an interim
agency, which will be provided
for in a separate document still
to be adopted by the conference,
according to present plans.
An executive committe is expected
to be named at this meeting to carry
on the work of preparation for the
first meeting of the general assembly
which will follow ratification of the
charter of the world security organi-
zation.
The presumption is that this COM
mittee will have IA members, prob
ably representatives of the same
nations which constitute the mem
bership Of the conferences own
Executive Committee. These nations
are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
China, Czechoslovakia, France, Iran,
Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia,
United Kingdom, United States and
Yugoslavia.
Draft of document setting up a
preparatory" commission to plan
for the first meeting of the general
assembly of the United Nations has
been virtually completed. It will be
one of three documents which will
be signed by the representatives of
the so nations assembled here be-
fore the conference finally adjourns.
The other two are the world organi-
zation charter and the statute of
the international court of justice.
1t has been rather definitely
agreed that the preparatory COM
mission will meet in London soon
after the adjournment of the con-
ference and establish headquarters
there.
An executive officer will be chosen.
If the commission is to have head
quarters in London, this ofiicer
probably will be an Englishman. It
will be distinctly understood, how
ever, that this executive officer is
not eligible for nomination and elec-
ton as secretary general of the new
world organization. Emphasis will
be. laid on the fact that the prepara-
tory commission is to be temporary.
Commissions Duties.
Some of the duties of the COM
mission are to be.
l. Fix the time and place for the
first meeting of the general assem-
bly, when the charter OF the new
organization is ratified by the i've
(See LINCOLN, Page ALL
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Eisenhower Asks Draft
In Peacetime as WAY
OF Saving Lives
Stimson Coils for Passage
Of Training Measure
Before End of War
sBy the Associated Press,

Gen. Eisenhower advised .
House committee today that
fairness to the country and to
the individuals chances of sur
vival in war" demand universal
military training in peacetme.
The views of the supreme Allied
commander in Europe were set forth
in a letter to Chairman Woodrum
of the Postwar Military Policy Com
mittee.
The letter was made public as
Secretary of War Stimson testified
in support of peacetime draft pro-
posals.
I'm spite of all chronological ad-
vances," Gen. Eisenhower wrote
numbers great strength in all
arms, land, sea and air. are vitally
important in war and Americas ap-
proved military system must aim
at the rapid development, after the
beginning of any serious war, o1
the country's maximum potential
ties in leadership, manpower, equip
ment, technique and industrial ca
pacity."
Swift Conversion Shortens War.
In time of peace, he said, indi-
viduals subject to war service should
have received "a thorough ground
ing in technique, discipline and I'M
derstanding of the citizens obliga-
tions in time of emergency"
In a serious war, he continued
"the quicker the maximum potential
can be converted into tactical power
the surer the victory and the less
the cost"
The contrasting character Oh tne
performance of only partially
troops on early battief1elds OF Tuni-
sia and that. of thoroughly trained
ones on their first entry into the
battlefields Of italy and France -
Gen. Eisenhower said. affords
ample proof Of the value of effective
traininr prior to entry into battle" "
sacretary Stlmson urged enact
ment of universal military training
issdsIation now" instead of after
e ire war, and advanced these argu-
|ments:
y l. The United States should be in
state of military readiness to i'm
plement by force it's part in prevent
ing future aggressions and preserv-
ing world peace.
2. The existing military institu-
ton. with its vast equipment and
(See TRAINING, page AID
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Lack of Blanks HuIts Issuance
Of Extra Shoe Coupons Here

small children, said he offered to
draw up a typewriter application
in the same form as the printed
blanks. The board clerk, he added
explained he was unable to accept
an. application except on the nom
existant printed forms.
Incensed at this refusal, the ply
sician told The Star:
MY two children are badly in
need Of shoes, and the irony of all
this is that without printed appli-
cation forms you can't fill them out,
and without filling them out you
can't even try to find shoes to buy.
The shortage OF children's shoes is
bad enough without having this
thrown in your way"
A District OPA spokesman said
the regional OPA Office had in
formed local boards the delay was
the fault Of "the printers and that
it could not set a date on which
boards could count on receiving the
blanks.
Retailers report that the supply
Of children's shoes has improved ii
the last few months.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
VON RIBBENTROP IS CAPTURED NFHAMBURG
German Leader, ,
Found Asleep,
Yields Poison
Says He Planned to
Give Up After British
Feeling Died Down
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOM-
ERY'S HEADQUARTERS, Ger
many. June 15.-Nazi Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribben-
trop was captured by British
military agents yesterday as he
slept nude in a Hamburg board
ing house, bringing to a close
the most intensive man hunt in
Europe since We day.
Won Ribbentrop, understood to be
wanted by the governments of at
least 10 nations to stand trial <or
war crimes, was the last top-ranking
Nazi known to be alive who had
eluded capture. A metal can of
poison was found strapped to his
body, but he surrendered this sAvol-
unfairly.
The former champagne salesman
who became the engineer Of Hitler's
arrogant foreign policy, had been
hiding in Hamburg since April 30.
The man who had imposed his Dip
lomatic will on Europe had NOT q
friend in all of Germany's second
largest city who would assist him
actively in obtaining a place Of
refuge.
Says He Planned to Surrender.
Won Ribbentrop volunteered the
information that he had INTENDED
to hide until British feeling about
him died down, and then surrender
for a fair trial which would spare
my life" He went to a wine mer-
chant friend, he said-a man who
had known him 25 years. The mer-
chant Stunned him. Won Ribben-
trop, using the name of "Riese," got
lodging with an hnsuspecting land
lady.
The same wine merchant was
brought to British intelligence head
quarters late yesterday and thers
Evening star., 1945-06-15
(See SARATOdl
Storfo Publish Ciono's Diury
Giving Inside Story Of Axis Plot

hitherto undisclosed details of the
wnrld plot by which Hitler and
eIussolini duped the people of Europe
are revealed in the personal diary OF
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's
son-in-law which will be published
in The Star, starting next Monday,
June IS.
Day-to-day entries reveal how the
dictators double crossed each other.
Count Ciano was Mussolini's right
hand man, sitting in on the secret
meetings and negotiations, and him.
self handling d large and important
part of the diplomatic and state
work for italy. When the Germans
grew suspicious of Ciano's own plans
and ambitions, at variance with the
: Nazi scheme. Ciano was arrested and
shot. The last few pages of his
diary were written in the Verona
jail, where he awaited execution.
Fhe diary was smuggled to neutral
country at sensational risk of life
for all involved. Neither Hitler nor
Mussolini was aware. that Ciano had
written a diary, but the Gestapo
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Temperature Of "a
Forecast for Today

Yesterdays maximum temperature
of SO degrees, highest of the year, is
expected to be topped today, with a
maximum of 81 predicted for this
afternoon The .low this morning
was 73 degrees at q am. A mimi
mum Of 70 Is predicted: for tonight.
A man collapsed and died In front
Of the Municipal Center iate ,yester-
day and police at first assumed his
death was due to the heat. They
identified him as Edward F. Zollers,
81, Of 1924 c street NE. DR.. Chris
topher J. Murphy, deputy coroner.
said this morning Mr.. Zollers had
died Of heart attack and that. he
had been under treatment for a
heart condition. He said the heat
may have been factor In Mr.. Zol-
ler's collapse.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
'0pA Cuts Industrial
Sugar Use 374%
In Next Quarter
Reduction in D. c. and
Some Nearby Areos
Will Be SmoIIer

The Ofice of Price Admins
tration today ordered a 3712 per
cent Nation wide cut from last
year in sugar allotments for in
dustrial users in the July-Sep-
tember quarter. The cut affects
soft drink manufacturers, bakers
and commercial Gamers.
This reduction is In keeping with
similar reductions already made in
restaurant and household use, in
cluding a cut in the amount of home
canning sugar that can be obtained
this year" Price Administrator
Chester Bowles declared in an
nouncing the cut.
OPA said industrial users serving
Washington will be allowed gener-
ally a 10 per cent increase over the
new reduced allotment because OF
population increase. Similarly, Alex
andria receives roughly a 10 per cent
increase over the new figure; Anne
Arundel County, per cent, and
Prince Georges County, 10 per cent
The latest reduction pares the
July-September quota by from to
% per cent below the current April
June ration for most industrial
users.
Producers of such products as ice
cream and bottled beverages must
(See SUGAR, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1945-06-15

Efforts OF consumers to obtain
supplementary shoe coupons have
been halted in the District because
application forms are exhausted il
was learned today.
The is War Price and Rationine
boards have been without applica.
ton forms In some cases for as
long as a month, District Once oil
Price Administration officials said
Denying blame for the situation
which is repeatedly causing hard
ship, especially in the case of chill.
dren, OPA officials here said $50
blank application forms have been
on order from the New York regional
OPA Office for six weeks.
Ten days ago, consignment OF
500 forms arriyed-amounting to
an average OF 100 per board-and
these were exhausted quickly.
Boards refuse to accept applica-
tions for supplementary shoe cou-
pons unless they are made on
printed forms.
One physician, applying yester-
! day for extra coupons for his two
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Five D. &. Officers Among 53
To Fly Here With Eisenhower
100 Big Army Planes
To Meet Heroes on
Arrival at Coast

Five District officers are among
the So veterans of the European
fighting who will accompany
Gen. Eisenhower to Washington
for the city-wide celebration of
Eisenhower Day" Monday, the
War Department announced to-
day.
Flying here from Paris via Ber-
muda the n ofAcers and as enlisted
men with Gsa Eisenhower will be
met at the coast by 100 bombers and
fightersl They Sta arrive at ap-
,proximsA Aely II n Monday At the
air txahsport terminal. washington
National Airpof. Later the, aerial
(ContinlIed nm pace Az Column /
Evening star., 1945-06-15

pointed out his erstwhile friend.
But Identification was made even
more certain.
BY keeping the arrest secret over
night, British agents who had trailed
Won Ribbentrop across much of
Western Germany managed to ar
rest his sister. Today in a fearful
and hysterical scene she identified
the Foreign Minister.
Won Ribbentrop first had been
traced to an area of Northern Ger
many near the Danish frontier,
where he was known to have passed
in disguise. The story, as released
today, did not reveal what had hap
pened to him between the time he
left Berlin and the time he arrived
in Hamburg, nor was anything dis
closed of what he might know about
Hitler's death or survival.
Taken From Lueneburg.
Won. Ribbentrop was taken under
guard in an Raj transport plane
from the Lueneburg Airfied at 1890
pm. to be interrogated by supreme
headquarters authorities. Cores
pondents will not be allowed to in.
terview him.
tThe capture of Won Ribbentrop
found the major powers still un-
settled on plans for trying top
war criminals, but responsible
British quarters in London said
his hearing would be public. The
publicity-shy United Nations War
Crimes Commission would not
comment.
Justice Robert H. jackson,
United States war crimes prose-
(See Won RIBBENTROP, p. A-12l
Evening star., 1945-06-15
B-Hs Blast Osaka
In Weather So Bad Il
Breaks Up Formations
5000 Tons Of Incendiories
Dropped; Jops Admit
Bio Fires Are Storted
BY the Associated rress.

GUAM, June 15.-A force oil
$40 Super FortresseS fought
weather-so thick it broke UP
their formations halfway tc
Japan and back again today tc
unload 5000 tons of incendiaries
IN what they hoped would be .
knockout blow to Osaka. Japan,s
greatest Industrial city, ane
neighboring Amagasaki. Osaka L
Japan's second largest city.
Bombardiers released their in.
cendiaries by instruments. Cloud.
were so thick they blotted out any
view of the targets and resulting
fires, which Tokyo admitted wer.
started at "a number of points"
The weather was typical OF wi,a'
can be expected for the next sew.
eral weeks in raids on Japan.
It was so thick the flyers couldn't
keep formations of more than two
planes" said Capt. Charles B
Miller, Richmond, Va.
No Interceptors Met.
'sThe weather was so bad the jar
air force must have been grounded, ;
added 1t. Ollie A. Thacker, Pear
Valley. Tex. No airmen reported
seeing enemy interceptors and 1t
james B. McWephy, Aurora, ILL.,, was
the only flyer in the 314th Wing who
reported seeing flax. He counted only
three bursts.
I'VE could just about see oul
hands in front of our faces" said 1t
Joseph Leo of the Bronx, N. Y.
The raid, which Maj. Gen. Curtis
E. LIE May said may have finished
of Osaka's warning potentialities
was acknowledged by Tokyo to have
lasted at least an hour.
The first enemy reports also
omitted the usual quick claims OF
R-29s shot down. A later broadcast
Said the many fires were 'in the
process of being extinguished."
The first announcement of the
raid was made by Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, commander of the Army
Air Forces, at a press conference
during his visit to Gen. lie Nays
headquarters.
Gen. Arnold said the japanese
face bombing at the rate of 1000 900
tons per year.
Amagasaki Also Hit.
The Marianas-based B-29s un-
loaded their jellied gasoline bombs
on steel, iron and precision works
of Southeastern Osaka and, for the
first time, hit AmagasaN to the
northwest.
Tokyo, in conceding Osaka came
under the bombsights of q big
force, said the Super Forts were
accompanied by some smaller air.
craft" Japan, since the American
seizure Of all but 4 fraction of
Okinawa, 325 miles south, now is
within range of all types of bombers
and fighters.
At Amagasaki, the Super Forts
hit iron and steel plants, machine
tool factories, aircraft parts plants
and factories producing gears and
chemicals.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
General Says Many
Officers Doubted
Success of Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTZ r. s, June 15.-Gen.
Eisenhower told press confer
ence today that the Allied in
yasio1 of Europe last June sue
ceeded only because the air, sea
and ground arms fought as q
single, unified force.
Speaking with great frankness
the supreme Commander said that
many Allied oficers actually had
doubted that an invasion OF Europe
WAs possible.
The cooperation Of all arms
which made the feat possible, he
added, was carried on through We
tSee EISENHOWER, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Abner H. Ferguson Quits
|As FHA Administrator

The resignation of Abner H. Fer
guson as administrator of the Fed
eral Housing Administration, was
announced at the White House to-
day. He will return to private law
practice in Washington.
No successor has been selected,
but an appointment is in prospect
before July l, when Mr.. Ferguson is
due to step out, Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said.
President Truman accepted the
resignation with regret. Mr.. Fergu-
son had been identified with the
FHA in various capacities since 1894.
He was appointed administrator five
years ago.
Evening star., 1945-06-15

Hill, Pa. N. E. Graeff, fireman
Harrisburg, Pa, and A. H. Hoverter
brakeman, address unavailable.
TheFthree Washingtonians who
we're injured are: Mrs. Clara A.
Troutman, 81, of 1736 Q street
NV; Mrs. Anna Wright, 40,
of "a Buchanan street NE, and
Mrs. Mildred Double, AZ, of 1918
Seventeeth street Sc.
Mrs. Troutman, wife of an
Army lieutenant. is employed at
the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics.
She left last night for Buffalo to
visit her husbands parents and
(See TRAIN WRECK, Page A-12.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
3 Generals Reported
Shot in China for Croft
BY tie Associated Press.

by tIe ASsoeleteo Press.
RUNNING, China, June 15.-
Three Chinese army supply service
generals have been shot after Gener-
alissimo Chang Kai-shek confirmed
their court-martial convictions on
charges OF extortion and graft in
handling war contracts, the Morning
Post said today in . dispatch credited
to the Central News Agency.
Evening star., 1945-06-15

By. the Associated Press.
GUAM, June 15.-With hun
dreds Of japanese laborers sur
rendering and scores of troops
committing hara kiri, Marine
Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Vale
today said the enemy on Oki-
nawa might be crushed ''in two
days-or two weeks. 1t all de-
pends upon how lucky we are"
If we could hit their command
the whole defense might fall to
pieces" Gen. Del Vale, commander
Of the 1st Marine Division, told As
sociated Press Correspondent AL
Dopking, on Okinawa.
Not long after the general made
mis- statement, 9Th Marine Corsair
fighters, diving as low as SO to 100
feet. spewed a ravine believed to
house Japanese headquarters with
1920 gallons of jellied gasoline
and poured 460 rockets into caves
where the enemy top officers were
believed quartered.
A sheet of flame quickly covered
two acres and smoke was so dense
that it obscured some of the at
tacking planes. 1t was the greatest
fire raid of the Okinawa campaign,
now in its 18th day.
100 Laborers Surrender.
Mr.. Dopking reported that nearly
TOO JapaneSe-mostly laborers-had
surrendered and scores were killing
themselves. Still others were report
ed slain by fellow japanese as they
tried to give up.
A majority of the Japanese on
Okinawa-perhaps 10000 of an
original garrison of 85,000--were be-
,lieved to be naval construction OF
antiaircraft personnel klahprsrs,
With I nucleus Of infantryfucn.
Although hundreds quit the futile
fight, other thousands of japanese
fought fanaticafly along the full
length of their fortified Yaeju escarp-
ment line.
On the western flank. Gen. Del
Valle's Marines were subjected to
heavy fire from the area southeast
of Ozato Town. The 1st Regiment
Of this divisian wfdened its hold on
strategic Kunishi ridge in a pre-
dawn attack, then was forced to
repel counterattacks as the japanese
charged their positions after day.
light.
Highest Point Captured.
The 9Th Regiment moved up to
help consolidate the 1st Regiment s
positions.
In the center, Maj. Gen. James
l.. Bradley's 96th Infantry Division
captured Yaeju Hill, more than 500
feet high and the highest point of
the escarpment, the Japanese fought
back, futilely, with artillery, mortar
and mach;ne-gun fire.
Yaeju Hill commands the entire
remaining japanese held plateau.
The Goth Division continued its ad-
vance, assaulting lesser Yuza Hill
to the southwest. 1t has only one
more elevation to capture. That
height is directly ahead and is COM
manded by both Yaeju and Yuza
hills.
Yaeiu has been nicknamed Big
Apple" by the troops.
On the eastern end of the escarp-
ment, the 32d Regiment of Mai.
Gen. Archibald v. Arnold's 10th In
fantry Division killed about 200 jap
anese as it drove inside Nakaza
Town, half mile west of Han
agusuku.
Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherds s
9th Division Marines still were en-
gagged lin mopping up on Oroku Pc
ninsula, where 102 japanese sur
rendered. Others, driven into the
mud fats of the Kokuba estuary,
committed hara kiri
American aerial activity slackened
somewhat, but the Sakishimas, Yap
and Palaus all were attacked. Navy
search planes sank small cargo
ship and damaged a lugger and sew
eral fishing craft off Southern Hon.
chr
Evening star., 1945-06-15
(Picture on Page A-4.)
BY the Associated rress.

BY the Associated Press.
VALLEJO, Calf, June Is
Scared and battered, with her
superstructure wrecked from a
direct hit by a japanese kami-
kaze plane off Okinawa April %,
the doughty 2,100-ton destroyer
Hazelwood is berthed at the
Mare Island Navy Repair Yard
today being ref1tted for action.
Ten of her IS officers, including
her skipper, Comdr. v. P. Duow,
Abingdon, Md, and 67 of her 299
enlisted men are dead or missing.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Eight Section Gang
| Members Are Killed
When Hit by Train
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y, June
15.-Eight members of a New
York Central Railroad section
gang were killed today when
struck by the Chicago-to-Ne
York Water Level Limited just
east of the station here.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
BULLETIN
Biq Three to Meet in Berlin
LONDON, (P) P).-Maj. Clement r. Attlee
disclosed today that the Big Three meet
ing will take place in Berlin.
Destroyer Loses II of Its Crew
In Suicide Raid, but Survives
HozeIwood, Battered by Three Jop Planes,
Is Being Reodied for Action at Mare Island

The gallant craft came home
just 4 days short of her second
birthday. She was commissioned at
the Bethlehem Yards in San Fran
cisco, June 18, 1943, and had seen
action in the Wake, Tarawa, Gilbert.
Marshall. Peleliu and Philippine
Island strikes before joining the Sd
Fleet to carry the war to Japan's
doorstep.
The story Of her nearly-mortal
battle against three japanese suicide
planes was told by 1t. q. g. L. E.
Legas of Seattle, senior surviving
officer.
Low clouds scudded over the fast
Evening star., 1945-06-15

Four additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this iDar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page AZ.
Evening star., 1945-06-15
Great Fire Raid
Aimed at Japs'
0kiinawa Office,
Hundreds of Enemy
Quit or Kill Selves;
Early Collapse Seen

NEW ALLIED AIR STRIKES at
Borneo oil center reported.
Page Az
Evening star., 1945-06-15

(See HAzELWOOD, Page A-4)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-06

The effectiveness of the
NLRB's orders can be judged by
the fact that in 55 cases carried
to the Supreme Court enforce
ment was denied in only two.
Work Has Increased
NLRB's work has increased
markedly in recent months, ac-
cording to Board officials. Fiji
teen percent more unfair labor
practice cases were filed during
the last four months than during
the same four months last year.
Election cases jumped 22%.
One of the most interesting de-
velopments in recent months has
been the tendency of unions to
file strike votes against large
groups of employers or entire in
dustries spread over large areas.
The recent building service case
in N. Y. cited 1857 separate en-
ployers; the California cannery
case SO employers; the Chicago
trucking base 2010 employers,
and the Detroit trucking base
269 employers.
Another NLRB headache is ex-
pected as layoffs increase. In
many instances employers will
want to lay off the most militant
unionists first if they can get
away with it under seniority
practices.