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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-11
|HumanBombs
OF Japanese
Nimhz Di.closes Toll OF
Jap Dead On Okinawa
AT 38,857

GUAM, Friday, May 11-W1-
Sixth Marine Division engineers
have drive a bridge across the Asa
river just above Naha for a new
thrust toward the Okinawa capital
city despite suicidal efforts of the
enemy to blow up the bridge with
humand bombs, it was announced
today.
All across the island, Marines
and soldiers fought forward Slow
ly in bloody hand to hand combat
and Adm. Chester w. Nimitz dis
closed that the Japanese air force
had launched another desperate
suicide assault against U. S. Fleet
units off Okinawa and ground in
stallations Wednesday night and
Thursday.
Meanwhile, Nimitz announced
that the toll of Japanese dead on
Okinawa had reached 38.857 and
1t. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner.
commander OF the 10th Army, re-
vealed that the original Japanese
garrison had been underestimate
ed.' He placed Japanese strength
originally at $1,000 and said half
of them-42, 5M-had been killed
orSwounded.
Nimitz' communique said the
Sixth Marines, now in operation
with the Third Anphibious Corps
bridged and crossed the estuary of
the Asa river Thursday. Construc"
ton was delayed temporarily be-
cause of two human bombs which
caused some damage in the early
morning hours, he said. There were
no details on the ''human bombs"
The last Marine Division opera
ting further inland the 77th Army
Division in the center and the Sew
enth Army Division on the east
coast, covered by a heavy naval
and artillery bombardment, made
limited gains and in some cases
hand fighting was in progress, with
troops closing slowly in on Naha,
Shuri and Yonabaru.
Guns of the Pacific fleet and
carrier and Marine planes, opera
ting from captured Okinawa air.
fields, broke up number OF troop
concentrations in the enemy's rear
areas and destroyed pillboxes and
gun enplacements in the heavily
defended line, Ninitz said.
The enemy Degan air attacks
Wednesday afternoon, damaging
two auxiliaries and bombing Yon-
tain airfield without success.
Early the following morning an
other attack was made on ships
and ground installations, but the
enemy lost six planes without
inflicting damage.
The battle for Okinawa, whose
five airfields will transform the
7O-mile long island into a major
air base for the about aerial Of
fensive against Japan, was still
far from over.
Only limited gains were made
along the 5000 yard southern
front T h u sd a y. Hand-to-hand
fighting was necessary in some
sectors and Marines and 1nfan.
tryrhen wiped out Japanese pill
boxes and strong points one by
one. Flame-throwing tanks aided
the slow advance.
Meanwhile, the U. S. Military
Government assumed control Of
the area from the central sector
Of Okinawa near the Hagushi
beaches northward to the extrern.
ity of the island May 4. About
$4,000 civilians are under juris.
diction of the USMC, command.
ed on Okinawa by Maj. Gen. F..
G. Wallace.
Navy patrol bombers still
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Soviiets Meet.
Renegades In.
Berlin Area
Second White Russian
Front Meets Fanatic
Resistance

LONDON, May 1O.-P-BritisE
forces today reoccupied the Chan
mel islands, only part of Britain
captured by Germany during the
war as German troops is Czecho'
slovakia fought on savagely sc
hours after the official end of hos
tilities rather than surrender to
the Russians.
A Moscow communique reported
that the Germans also had violated
the unconditional surrender agree
ment on the Second White Russian
Front north of Berlin. Resistance
was ineffective, however, and the
Russians made sweeping advances
across remaining German held ter
ritory, capturing 100000 prisoners
for a two-day total Of 212, 800.
The renegade army groups in
Czec1loslovakia were under the
command of Field Marshal Ferdi-
nand Schoerner, former command
er Of all German forces on the
Southern Front who apparently had
no intention of abiding by the
capitulation signed by Adm. Karl
DoenitZ.
While this fanatic stand contin-
ued Allied headquarters announced
that a seaborne task force had gone
ashore on the Channel Islands,
lying off the French coast near
Cherbourg, following their uncon-
ditional surrender Wednesday.
The German U-boat fleet began
arriving in British waters under
surrender flags and British Naval
forces took over the enemy's sur
viving surface fleet, including the
cruisers Prinz Eugen and Neeuern'
burg.
The Russian communicate an.
nounced that $1,000 Germans sur
rendered in the Latvian pocket,
making $4,000 prisoners in that
sector in two days. The important
towns of Windau and Ventspils
were occupied. I
North of Danzig, 800 Germans
gave up in the Hell Peninsula,
marking the complete liquidation OF
that pocket. More than 10000 9th
ers were captured along the Vistula
Estuary to the southeast.
While part of Schoerner's forces
fought on, another group of his
armesw as fleeing westward to-
ward the American lines was not
able to outdistance the Russians,
who captured 10000 Germans as
they surrendered in disorder.
Towns captured in Bohemia in.
GUIDED Reicheenberg, the capital Of
me Sudetenland and Budweis, u
miles OF Prague, the famous beer
city and third largest in Bohemia.
Ihree Russian armies were clos.
ing IN the CzechoslovaMa pocket,
hemmlng most of the Germans
still fighting into a 5000 square
mile pocket northeast, east and
southeast of Prague.
Other Russian forces south anl
southwest of Prague were advanc.
ing on an 9O-nile front in pursuit oil
elSehsaged German troops trying
70 reach the American lines. Ir
austria south of Graz, the Thirc
u nAralman Army linked up witt
0ituSh troops from Italy.
included in the days bag 0.
prisoners lis were 10 German generals
Inc Channel islands, famous fo1
ce cattle first bred on Jersey ane
Soueihsey, are closer to France;
Toleatln peninsula than to Britain
s Ing Germans invaded in 1910 ane
Nc. NSesv VI fortified them, particular,
,.,s Island of Attorney guarding the
"pp.oaehes of Cherbourg.
Al'er the fall of Cherbourg las
NSVutllnpH ~ D,r. rV.. ~ y,
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equipped Chinese ground forces
augmented by new airborne units.
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault,
commander of the U. S. 18th Air
Force, declared in Running that
aerial warfare coupled with the
action of a determined and we'll
equipped Chinese army could de-
feat the japanese forces now in
China's interior provinces.
The battle for Chihkiang, more
than any other in almost eight
years of the Sino-Japanese war
apart from the Salween offensive,
represented on the Allied side a
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WEATHER
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Veto Power Limitations
Agreed To By Big -Four

SAN FRANCISCO 10-UH-The Four, revealed
tonight have agreed limitation their veto within
proposed World Security Council which permit
recommend action against threatening the
of world
agreement by Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden at what be his final Fastening
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THE HITLER GANG

KITZBUHEL, Austria, May TO-
P)-Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing today told Maj. Gen. John E.
Dahlquist, commanding the U. S.
36th Division, that Adolf Hitler was
narrow and ignorant, that former
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop was a scoundrel and that
Rudolf Hess was eccentric but had
tremendous enerov
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ROME, May 10.-P)-The Allies
today turned back a new slice of
territory to the Italian government
"a transfer which brings three
fifths Of the nation and $4,000, 900
people under Italian jurisdiction.
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jap Fuel Oil Centers
Hit In Superfort Raid

GUAM May l1GJapans major fuel storage synthetic
oil greatest
Sperforress raid of the Pacific 2
10th Arforce said Superfortreses
took in the raid enemy
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TAX CUT GIVEN
HOUSE MEMBERS
Legislatures Vote Them
selves A $500
Tax Exemption

WASHINGTON, May 10. -U.H-
House members moved to solve
their own problem of high wartime
costs today by voting themselves
81, 500 tax-exempt expense allow
ance.
The allowance is provided in a
$50, 600, 900 congressional appropria-
ton approved by a standing vote
of 179 to 80 after opponents of the
expense fund failed to knock it out
or reduce it. The House also ap-
proved an amendment to raise the
pay Of pages from 81 to IS day.
The Senate still must act on the
bill, but both houses traditionally
do nothing to overturn decisions
relating to the financial operation
of the other.
The expense fund would cost the
taxpayers a minimum Of 81 ,642, 500
annually. Its supporters said they
needed additional money to bolster
their salaries of $4,000 year
They said they believed their con-
stituents would back them up ill
demanding it.
The measure was approved after
six hours of heated debate. Oppo-
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PROPERTY TRANSFER

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FORECAST

Probably occasional showers and
eighty cooler High, 7s-low, 50.
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National Income. Production
and Economic Controls

has almost doubled ITS total output OF
under the of the program Slightly
the federal
left civilian consumption has been suf
provide with better living standards than prevailed
before the
The national is operating extremely high levels OF
expenditure large wartime
sought buy than the
available supply of goods and service Nevertheless prices have been
program of the American Whereas
living IS and 30
1899 only about order
Holding prevented
and : still preventing, infationary developments.
which hope the
will permit during the fiscal yea will result
somewhat lower wartime ceilings adjusted
avoid reduction hourly when overtime
curtaed Nevertheless the demand for goods and services VIII IN
doubedy still be be of buyers for what
durable goods industry might produce
When reduced the controls
which needed about economy be relaxed
although other controls be continued
orderly
contributed Imitation
fact individuals
ample funds for buying necessta caution relaxing
balance
will still be during the reconveron period 1t will
therefore be the machinery ALLEGATION and
controls materials and finished goods
Sterilization Act before expiration June 30 1915
In will be policy hold the overall OF living
and permit only such adjustments the full
available compatible with
objective of sterilization As long engaged
with desperate and reorceu controls needed
but they be readsted changing levels of production and
civilian production.
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Economic Controls: RecOnVerSIOn

A. long AZ we are at against powerful enemies
mr. AGAINST only one of unqualified priority TO all
needs OF NeNeThees some
of industries may become possible oepnu "
s foundation for dealing reconverson problems
Contract Settlement Act the surplus Properly
Act; the machinery
being put in operation sun
be solved we are to be ready io
have scarcity of manpoWer IN
while Unemployment may
develop SURPRISES of commodities and
particularly OF raw materials
upward on other prices
requires effective organization
concerned Servicemens RaduSmen Act
the need to strengthen our social security
the reconverson period am partcu-
broad OF workers are
by legislation and that present standards o
not adequate IN many
opportunities and 10 assure the proper ocu-
adjustment of returning veterans and war workers strong
accomplish this objective by the ESTABLISHING touh
pcrmsnent legislation of an effective national employment
throughout the nation For the econVon
should provide assistance for travel and eannS OF wal
workers ...- o.:o. Co.
adjustment disputes ready for the strains OF the
period We must apply some OF our wartime lessons ID
labor policy supplemented by permanent mediation ache! lot INC
adjustment of labor disputes , ,,.,.,
detectives OF economic policy Surplus
property disposal should contribute filling the needs OF production
and foreign 1t should be carried on with u recognition
of the detectives of price stability
achieve full civilian use OF plants
they longer needed Tor war pro-
facilitate their rapid transfer to private INDUSTRY TOT
productive prompt transfers of ownership cannot be made
transfer being worked out
information concerning business activities and mar
needed guide for policies during the
OF the and during the econversion and postwar
Congress recommendations in the future for
parts the which the Congress took no
each play its role with maximum
effectiveness during the months and years ahead
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Tells Plans for Postwar Period

operation early essential In the first place all coun
agree be found for the evils that stem
exchange which me tnnd
international
becoming The liberated countries will require
industry their their
international bank
its from borrowed funds
will private loans for these purposes
will be spent equipment
available the OF lending VIII be
read among all member
both fund and the bank be
that they be properly stated and
developing
Europe liberated Accordingly acceptance OF
agreements the enactment OF legislation which
would the United States make its proporonate invest
in the fund and the bank
addition the OF the International bank there
of foreign investment which
such the Bank should
when foreign
will be particularly The Export
medmterm credits 10 finance
will undertake lending for
development where special American
wish participate In
collaboration with banks manufacturers engineers and
porters the ExpormpO Bank has had 10 OF successful
experience in these fields
available for
limited In order that IT'S the reconstruction
early OF its lending
foreign investment mpeded by
legislation which loans those countries Which default
the First World War For both the Inerna
ona Bank and Import Bank effectively
well achieve adequate flow of investment
al that these restrictions be removed
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Decentralization and Postwar
Full Employment

Largescae demobzation hardly be begin
the period covered this budget Nevertheless continue
mobilize hard under
be caught unprepaTed for peace.
Under the impact of huge program, employing
production
and for civilian while another 100000
armed forces. After the them will
resume their schooling devote themselves TO their homes and am
But reduction the civilian labor
than by rehabilitation
growth OF the population OF working before
be 6OO0OOOO and be employed. Huge
pendureS have brought full employment full employment
billion dollars IN the period OF rehabilitation and thereafter?
following table shows the national
the nations budgetn the calendar 1889 with
unemployment
when had moved much higher level
and involving than full employment
stress of Manesty full employment peaceme
assured only when the reduction demand approximately
offset by additional pacetme demand from the millions
umers businesses and farmers and by federal and local
enmens And that that
prices above the level year employment
Is TO be provided by private enterprise.
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Full Employment After War

Full employment only matter of immediate
nteres but part stake world stability and pros
periy anxous awaiting the development OF
policy willing to make international commit
mnts they high postwar employment in the United
that international cooperation cannot
succeed unless the United States is prosperous.
attack the employment problem on every 'front.'
overhaul the wartime tax structure to
stimulate business investment
should be developed now so
that be put into effect after victory.
make opportunities for
policies which
credit investment and competition
determine future business and employment oppor-
tunites
standards and material
will productivity
effectively business and employment
Our should include provision for extended social security
triton for the Improvement of homes cities and farms and for
the development transportation facilities and valleys We
that these become effective when
and material available.
shall from time to time submit to the Congress recommends.
tons legislative to implement rehabilitation
and jobs for all returning veterans and discharged
workers
Our productive achievements during the have demonstrated
which will be required all be
distortions in economic life which must be We
to those who everything that set sights high for
peace we set them for r
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Federal Personnel

Most of federal employees engaged In essential
the job long as the war lasts Govern
en suffered in recent months by departure oil
oveopimm about early victory parity
employment opportunities AFTER the wal
number paid federal employees IN the contnena
United November 1914 was slightly unoer Z9ooVVo
whom 100000 and departments and Other
r agencies and office and other peacetime e
26999 below the peak OF June
943 There reductions the course OF the war per-
the present moment 10 Keep essen
tai government personnel the Job
Anticipated supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 1910
million dollars appropriation o me anu
onal and other salary adjustments assuming
enactment legislation Congress authorize to
ance the detailed war and other
augmentation which relates The budget estimates
expressed "man-years do however assume
week generally AZ hours Under
the MaF suarcd roHnpen
stated for hours 40 week With but minor
exceptions bec increased during The wal
In employees the skilled and unSked work
and arsena have had wage ADJUST
approximately kept with rates Tor
comparable industry They have also received over
and one-haf rates
third large OF federal empoyeS-the postal work
addition overtime compensation al
has been granted wartime bonus
expiration Overtime Pay Law The Congress
the subject OF hours OF work ana pay
Regardless progress OF the in Europe many ledefa
and provision for their overtime compensation
permanent legislation "hch
onenaH rates
future ( possible for most federal
erployeS VIII be
materially OF hardship and unarness vi" then
salary rates has been grantee
making ADJUST
the national sterilization po!ic,
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Expenditures

OF expenditures. including net OUTLAWS OF
government corporations So billion dollars o the scal year
II cent
public debt and tax refunds ana only
federal government EXpendi
group other activities estimated AT s."
fiscal they
half they in the years before INC
of the defense largely because o The educ'oh IN
work. elie aid o general public works
special accounts under existing ETS
billion dollars
Al billion dollars the fiscal year 1870 lh
the II billion dollar decrease IN
expenditures estimated IN this budget Suh decrease IN
civilian production viii mean smaller
individual incomes corporate profits This turn wl bring
2 in individual and from
will 30 l94o
profits from Tenegoaed war con
1876 recommend that
extend the authority renegoac war contracts
expected 10 continue AZ
level the fiscal 1916 the current fiscal
Sales OF surplus government owned war supplies ana poI
arebc These VIII be
still larger fiscal
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International Financial Programs

As the progresses plans to world
period the
period learned that just the United States
afford be soonSt It's political philosophy neither can
stand the malignant effects of economic isolatlonlSn
IaSt Nations monetary and financial confer
articles of for the establishment OF
monetary international bank for
institutions will be integral parts
broad policy for cooperation the United Nations in those
failure adopt policies
will result economic spite fences economic waste and economic
warfare
program international and financial
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Continued from Preceding Page)

with the farm and food require net OUTLAWS OF
one dollars during the current fiscal assumes
SUPPLEMENTAL appropriation million dollars to restore
impaired capital corporation The estimate for the hsca
wear 1916 provides expenditures Of 572 million dollars
which will absorb practically all the funds available to the
corporaion borrowing authority OF
three billion dollars the Congress approves the pending
recommendation a further increase in the borrowing
authority increased operations of the corporation may result In
additional expenditures in the fiscal year 1916
of other government corporations are expected 10
show smaller receipts during fiscal l945 qui-
daon of prewa loans and other probably off
the nondeense lending activities oil the Re
construction Finance Corporation also anticipated The net re-
corporations in both the hsca years 1910
substantial transfer of funds necessary TO res
tire outstanding obligations federal land banks.
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further increase IN the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
debt init
Management of the public become of the major
To effective discharge
particular MAINTAIN the present
available 10
AUTHORITIES legislation reducing the present
federal banks
public debt bound TO have poolno
long time TO come retaining g
general reduction OF dot ho
nv financial institutions purchasing power and create
the
millions of individual savers may nave stanZng
employment favor policy OF orderly ou
steady debt REDUCTION detectives Of longm
debt management IdA
afte the asst war should be repeated
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borrowing i'm Fiscal Year 1916

Borrowing requirements during the fiscal 1916 will amount
dollars 81 billion dollars
year Federal funds will have five billion
securities thus leaV
be borrowed from individuals and financial
that the
which amounted to 20 billion dollars at the
1914 Will be reduced by five billion dollars
and by billion dollars during the
that retirement OF guaranteed
obligations corporations held outside the treasury Will
be almost completed by June 30 1919
will further rise in
dollars 1916 Before
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YOur Share $2.n8

WASHINGTON. jan 3 UP)-Want to know how
much your share Of the national debt will be:
Well on the basis Of $4,000 900 Americans and
President Rooseyels estimate that the national debt will
be S292, SOC, OO0, 900 June 80, 1916. Net.< W.
The per capita share OF II will be S2ll8 And that's
every man. woman and child In the country. YOU
have wife and two children for instance, you'd multiply
the figure by four to find your famy's share.
The deficit for year alone-Juy 1. l9i5 10 June
So 1946-s expected to 1898 for every American
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and capital governments for nonwar purposes
that large backlog Oh oenano
period individuals however
will buy build the home only they feel secure
their Jobs plant and buy new machinery
only they confident Of profitable markets for poauc
learned the measure
their capacity and they will remember that experience
II the responsibility OF business enerpI
employment and PRODUCTION
is responsibility to hold open the door OF
and only then
fraae ternrSe prOVld
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Recommendations for Tax
LEGISLATION

Wartime maintained long arge-Scae
educ
long engaged major When favorable
OF decline expenditures
Will become possible and desirable am
internal
studying problems the and postwar period