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army were called back in again.
That is four years and five months,
or So points, for Sergt. Bell.
He's been overseas since May,
1943, with the 45th Division. That's
"a points more.
He has one child, Bobby, now 3
years old. That is IL points more.
Then in combat awards, the SER
geant has been wounded three
times-the Purple Heart, with two
clusters. That is Is points, for a
total of 104 points.
What the family doesn't know
about are the other decorations
Sergt. Bell may have accumulated,
each of which would be good for
five points more. And then there
are the battle participation stars,
Sergt. Bell has seen service in
Africa, Sicily, Italy, Southern
France and Germany. The fam
lily isn't sure how many stars he
is entitled to wear on his cam
paign ribbons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bell, who live at 618
Rock Greek Church road NV, also
have boy in the Pacific, Seaman
1/c George g. Bell.
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Biq u. ). Offensive
AGAINST 0kinawa's
Capital Shaping Up
9th Marine Division
Crosses River, Moves
Within Mile of Nuhu
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM, May IA determined
American offensive against Naha,
Okinawa's capital city, was
shaping up today after the 9Th
Marine Division, newly COM
mitted to the islands southern
front, bridged the Asa River es-
tuary despite efforts of two
japanese human bombs to blow
up the span.
Still another wide, winding river
the Asato-stands before Naha as
natural barrier to American troops.
Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, jr.s
9Th Marine Division, the third fresh
division thrown into the craggy,
cave infested southern front in
week, forced the crossing OF the Asa
in darkness early yesterday. The
9Th Division was slightly less than
a mile from Naha.
Two Japanese attempted to blow
up the span by covering themselves
with explosives and decorating the
charges as they plunged onto the
bridge. Their act served only to
damage the span and delay the
crossing.
Limited Gains Made.
Elsewhere along the southern
front, Marines and Doughboys made
limited gains" yesterday, Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz's communique
reported today. He announced these
other developments:
Japanese casualties through We'd
nesday total 38,857 killed, an in
crease of 1922 in two days fighting.
American casualties through Mon
day were 1925, including 1884 dead,
in ground fighting.
Sixty-nine Japanese were killed
on Iva Jima in the week of April
29-May and 81 captured, for total
casualties of 1924 killed and 1893
captured. Iva was invaded Febru-
airy 10 and secured March 16.
A light naval force evacuated 494
Marshallese natives from Jaluit
Atoll in the Marshall Islands in a
daring rescue effected while jap
anese counterattacked with machine
guns and other light Weapons. The
natives, who presumably had slipped
out a messenger with word they
wanted to be freed, were taken to
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No. D. c. Man in Draft Lottery
Rates High for Early DISCHARGE

The Districts No. / man in the
draft, Sergt. Robert Bell, is high up
on the list for discharge under the
Army's point system
BY the count of his mother, Mrs.
Harry S. Bell, whose scream pune
tuated the first draft lottery back in
1910, the 26-year-old sergeant has
at least 104 points, comfortable
margin above the IS points needed
for discharge.
The only factor in the way of his
discharge is military necessity"
He's in the Chemical Warfare Serv-
ice and the Army could rule that he
is needed in the war against Japan.
Mrs. Bell, who has been so busy
entertaining wounded soldiers
family that she's hardly had time to
put pencil to paper, figures it out this
way:
Sergt. Bell, whose No. 1853 was the
first to be drawn out of the goldfish
bowl, went into the Army for q
years training on November n, 1910
A year later, he became a private
citizen. But one month after that
on December n, 1871. the men who
had been trained In the peacetime
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Mrs. Truman, 81, Flying Here
For Mothers Day With Son

those Of millions of other Ameri-
cans Sunday in thanksgiving for
victory in Europe and in hope for
early peace in the Pacific.
BY solemn proclamation, Mr..
Truman set aside Sunday as day
of prayer when he announced COM
|plete and unconditional surrender
of Germany last Tuesday.
He said it was appropriate that
such an occasion fall on Mothers
Day In honor of those who have
given SO much to the cause of
freedom.
Subsequently, he arranged for his
own mother to fly here for their
first meeting since Mr.. Truman
took over the Nations leadership
April II.
Mr.. Truman calls his mother
Mamma" and beams happily when
she tells him to "be good" or re-
minds friends he once plowed the
straightest row Of any farm boy
In Missouri.
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Goering and Hess
Reported Put on List
OF War Criminals
Doenitz Also Expected
To Be Tried for Life;
HimmIer Still Fugitive
GAULEITER HENLEIN commits
suicide after surrender. Page Az

GAULEITER HENLEIN commits
suicide after surrender. Page Az
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May II. Rudolf
Hess, Hermann Goering and
Heinrich Himmler all have been
listed by the United Nations as
war criminals and there also is
strong possibility that Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz will have
to face trial for his life.
The information about the rank
ing luminaries of the fallen Nazi
hierarchy and Hitler's successor in
the surrendered Reich came today
from highly reliable source.
This Informant estimated that be-
tween 100000 and 100000 Ger
mans might be forced to atone for
their nations atrocities if the pro-
posed plan of pool punishment is
adopted by the victorious powers.
Hess and Goering both are prison.
ers and both were Hitler deputies.
Himmler, the hangman head of the
Gestapo, is fugitive.
Machinery to Be Set Up.
The machinery for determining
the guilt or innocence of the top
ranking Nazis awaits creation by the
United States, Russian, Britain and
France.
The issue was referred. to their
foreign secretaries for working out
details.
These facts were learned, however:
/. Trials under present plans will
be public, on the theory that these
will prove that best lesson possible
to convince the German people of
their errors.
2. Neutral nations will be denied
place on the bench.
3. Strong sentiment exists for the
trial of industrialists who used slave
labor, as we'll as those who formu-
lated the policies which made such
consumption of foreigners possible.
Russia Not Included.
The War Crimes Commission has
headquarters here and has Is men,
bers. Russia is not one of them.
The commission has the power only
to make recommendations which
must be submitted to the govern
ments of the members for approval.
1t was established definitely that
the commission regards as war Grim
inals all those who decreed, directed
or participated in the policies which
resulted in planned undernourish-
ment, slave labor, concentration
camps and organized prostitution.
Out of this strong feeling pre-
sumably was born the plan advanced
at San Francisco by Samuel Rosen-
lSee WAR CRIMES. Page A-12l
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laps Inland Sea, Key Horbors
Polluted With Mines by Bps
Greatest Aerial Blockade in History
Being Carried Out, Gen. lie May Says

I Japan's homeland islands by other
Super Forts. aCrrying out of both
operations can aid in destruction
of Japan's productive power.
1t is estimated rs per cent of all
japanese transportation Is water
borne.
Mines also were strewn in stra-
tegic areas to support the invasion
of Okinawa.
All missions were flown at night,
generally under 10000 feet altitude
Parachutes from to 9 feet in
diameter were automatically re-
leased from the Navy-made mines
on contact with the water. Gen.
Lemay explained that an aerial
mining campaign must be main
tanned to be successful. Aerial mines
used to sink to the bottom. They
explode when a ship comes near
enough to active firing mechanism,
and contact is not necessary.
The mine blockade, however, re-
mains effective only as long as it
takes for the Japanese to clear a
channel through fields.
Thus, while the Inland Sea is
polluted with mines and Tokyo and
Nagoya harbors are filled with mis-
siles, the 21st Bomber Command
must be constantly alert to keep
(See SUPER FORTS, Page A-5.)
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Army Will Discharge
$500 Men Tomorrow
Under Point Plan
II Separation Centers
To Release Group Brought
Home Under Rotution

The Army will begin discharg-
ing men under the point system
tomorrow at II of the % separa-
ton centers and approximately
$500 soldiers will receive their
discharge papers the first day,
the War Department announced
today.
The men,. first to be released under
the new discharge plan announced
yesterday, will be drawn from SOL
diers with long overseas service who
had been brought back to the United
States under the rotation system
prior to the end of the war in Eu-
rope for rest and recuperation.
Soldiers from all theaters are in
Guided in the group.
Fort George G. Meade, Md, the
separation center for District of
Columbia. Maryland and Virginia
and West Virginia. was not among
the II centers listed today as in
operation. This center will be
opened in the next week or so.
The separation centers now oper-
ating are Camp Atterbury, Ind;
Camp Beale, Calf; Fort Bliss,
Tex; Fort Bragg, N. c.; Camp
Chaffee, Ark; Fort Devens, Mass. !;
Fort Dix, N. j.; Fort Douglas, Utah;
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-; Fort
Leavenworth, Kans.;; Fort Logan,
Colo; Fort Lewis, Wash; Fort Sam
Houston, Tex; Fort Mcpherson,
Ca; Camp Shelby, Miss; Fort
Sheridan. Ill: Fort Smelling. MINI.
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(See OKINAWA, Page A-53
Poles TO Begin Settling
In Frankfurt Shortly
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The first group of Poles to be set
tied in neutrality-suspicious. will
leave the Polish city of LODI within
a few days, the Lublin radio an
nounced today.
The first group of more than 1000
Poles will assume posts in the ad-
ministration of local government,
commerce, industry, handicrafts
and communications" it said. The
move was reported undertaken "in
connection with the resettlement of
people in ancient Slav land that
now return to the mother country"
Frankfurt has been a German city.
The Lublin radio is operated by
the Soviet-recognized Polish regime.
owl reported the broadcast.
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Reds Closing In
On Last Nazis in
Czecho'sIovakia
Germans Flee Toward
U. S. Lines; Enemy's
Subs Surrendering
By the Associated Press,


LONDON, May II. Die-hard
Nazi fanatics who fought on in
CzechoSlovakia in defiance of
German unconditional surrender
were reported in headlong flight
toward American lines today as
a vast pincers by three Soviet
armies threatened momentarily
TO envelop them.
The LIST, I'd and 4th Ukrainian
Armies opened the assault on broad
fronts from the northwest, east and
southeast when forces under Field
Marshal Ferdinand Schooner. him
self wanted as war criminal, and
Col. Gen. Woehler, ignored the sur
render.
1t was the only reported fighting
by German troops in all Europe
Elsewhere the Germans were CIV
ing up docilely. The Soviet high
command announced capture of
209 ,060 German officers and men in
preliminary checkups along the
front. There were 26 Nazi generals
in the bag.
Nazi Vessels Taken Over.
Remnants of the beaten German
surface and underwater fleet were in
Allied hands, including the cruisers
Prinz Eugen and Nuremberg, which
had shelled Copenhagen over the
week end, These were under the
sentinel guns of the Royal Navy in
Copenhagen Harbor, along with
3 destroyers, 2 torpedo boats. 10
minesweepers, Is fax ships, 10
armed trawlers and 2 armed mer-
chantmen.
The German ships surrendered
to two British cruisers and four
destroyers which forced a passage
through German minefelds In the
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Skagerrak and Kattegat to reach
Copenhagen. mot a Nazi flag was
to be seen," a British naval reporter
said. THE crews were leaning over
the guard rails watching glumly. 1t
was clear they were beaten as
thoroughly as the rest of the her.
renvolk"
The Prinz Eugen's guns were in
wild disorder-some pointed up
others down, some trained one way
the rest another.
Meanwhile, Grand Admiral Karl
Doenitz's submarine feet which had
taken a ruthless toll of Allied ship
ping, was surrendering and putting
into British ports. The first sur
render in British port occurred In
Southern England at Weymouth
where the submersible U-249, which
had been at sea 40 days, surfaced
and was escorted into port.
Others Surrender.
The London Evening News re-
ported that two more U-boats had
surrendered in Lock Eriboll on the
extreme northern coast of Scotland
and said the 10-mile long ford hac
been selected as the rendezvous point
for submarines coming in from the
North Sea. The paper said IA other
U-boats had signalled they were on
their way in.
The French Press Agency mean.
while reported that French sailors
in the large port of La Rochelle
which surrendered Wednesday, hac
officially taken over possession Of
the German Atlantic Fleet that haC
been anchored in the harbor. These
ships were said to have been placed
at Frances disposal, but it was no
announced how many vessels hao
been seized.
Following the surrender of the
fleet in Copenhagen, the Swedes
announced that the Swedish Navy
would begin sweeping German mines
from the Skagerrak and Kattegat tc
open Sweden's door to the North
Sea. The task is expected to take
100 ships two weeks.
Off Frances northwestern coast
British task force liberated the
Channel islands, including Jersey
Guernsey, Alderney, S&k, Herm
and Jethou.
Owned by British Since 1866.
These tiny islands, on Frances
doorstep, have belonged to England
since 1865. They are the only part
Of the United Kingdom to have beer
occupied by the Nazis. The islands
were liberated at tbs am. dondor
time) Wednesday when the Nazis
signed unconditional surrender pa
pers on the quarterback of the Brit
ish destroyer Bulldog lying at an
Choir off st. Peter. the port of Guern-
sey.
The Nazis put on a show OF oh.
stinacy-at first attempting to sigr
an "armistice" instead of complete
surrender-but finally were con-
tsee CzECHOSLOVAKIA, re. AL
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Changes in Gas Rations
To Wait Quarterly Quota

Any changes in basic gasoline ra-
tons for A and B book holders
must await third-quarter alloca-
tons from the Petroleum Admins
tration for War, Price Administrator
Chester Bowles reported today.
Accordingly, he said, the OPA
cannot yet make any announce
ment on increases in gasoline ra-
tions, promised by War Mobiliza-
ton Director Fred Vinson We'd
nesday.
Mr.. Bowles estimated that II
would require another $4,000 barrels
a day to increase the 4-gallon A
ration coupon to five gallons and
80, 900 barrels more, if the ration is
to be increased to six gallons per
common
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B-Ns Hammer Japan
3 Times in One Day
BY the Associated Press.

=
GUAM, May 11.-Super Fortresses
bombed Japan's homeland three
times today, striking at three indus
trial centers and three airfields on
Kyushu and Honshu Islands in q
swift followup to yesterdays 400
plane B-29 raid.
In the heaviest attack 100 to $50
Super Fortresses attacked the big
Kawanishi seaplane plant on
Honshu, between Kobe and Osaka
as smaller fleet blasted the Oita
and Saiki airfields on Kyushu.
The latest attack was aimed at
the important cities of Miyakanojo
and Nittigahara, both on Kyushu,
and at the Miyaksaki airfield. KY
ushu airfields, home bases Of enemy
planes used In Okinawa fighting,
have been pounded time after time
by the big bombers.
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Soldiers Protest Exclusion
or Aqe as DISCHARGE Credit

PARIS, May IL (P.-American
troops in Paris-and probably all
over Europe-were busy with pen
ellis today. figuring out their indi-
vidual standings in the new going
home point system announced yes
terday by the War Department.
Under the system for troops in
the European theater, men sched-
uled to 60 home first-unless special
abilities prevent their being imme-
diately replaced-are those who
have amassed a total of IS points
based on length of service, months
overseas, number of dependent chill
dren, battle stars and decorations.
In random survey on soldier
opinion in Paris, two main objec-
tons to the system were encoun-
tered: That mans age and the
number of his dependents other
than children do not count.
In most cases it will be the
younger men who will go home first,
because their combat ratings are
generally higher than men who
(Coo nTNfOpTT T7 ATTON D. Toy
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By the Associated Press.


The White House hustled with
preparation today for the arrival of
President Truman's mother.
Mrs. Martha Truman, alert and
cheerful for all her 90 years, is fly
ing here from independence, Mo-,
to spend Mothers Day witha her
distinguished son.
She left Kansas City this morn
ing and will arrive this afternoon,
The White House said the President
would go to the airport to meet her.
Acting Press Secretary Eben Ayers
told reporters that the trip is Mrs.
Truman's first fight. She is being
accompanied by her daughter Mary
and Capt. James K. Vardaman, jr.,
the Presidents naval aide.
!. Mr.. Ayers said that no definite
time had been set as to the length
of Mrs. Truman's visit other than
that she would remain over Moth
ers' Day.
They win add their prayers to
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OPA Fixes 1912 Price Levels
For Goods Returning to Market
Bowles Says Controls Will Be Relaxed
When Danger Of Initiation Disappears

made possible largely by small sales
costs.
Mr.. Bowles said OPA's reconver-
sion policies must meet four major
detectives:
l. The continued prevention of in
f1ation. the danger of which he said
was greater now than at any time
during this war or at the end of the
World War.
2. The fixing of prices so that
they will encourage full production
rather than stand in the way of in
dustry, eagerly waiting to resume
normal operations.
3. The cement of full en-
ployment.
4. The relaxation of price con-
trolls gradually las soon as inf1ation-
airy danger disappears in each COM
modify field"
The price administrator said re-
sumption of volume civilian produc-
ton presented four major problems
to OPA. These are how to price
products a manufacturer made be-
fore the war and which other plants
have continued to produce during
(See PRICES pace A-4l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-11
Small Nations Seek
Greater Authority
On Force in Charter
Big Five Appear Near
Accord on Trusteeships:
Two New Plans Offered
YALTA FORMULA on Poland seen
facing discard. Page AS
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER.

SAN FRANCISCO, May IL
The United Nations Conference
appeared today to be developing
a strong bloc of small nations
determined to win themselves
greater authority over the pro-
posed use of force to prevent fu-
ture wars.
The issue is coming sharply to
the fore in conference committees
considering amendments to the
Dumbarton Oaks plan for world
peace organization as it was drawn
up by Britain, China, Russia and
the United States in Washington
last fall. Here are current top de-
velopments:
l. Prime Minister Mackenzie King
of Canada told a Committee on
Functions of the Security Council
which is the exclusive, powerful
core of the proposed organization,
that any nation whose troops were
to be used against an aggressor
should be permitted a voice in the
councils decision to take forceful
action. Mexico and New Zealand
Endorsed this idea and Australia
and several others are backing the
principle.
Wider Assembly Authority Sought.
2. New Zealand suggested that the
proposed world assembly of nations
Ito which the Dumbarton Oaks
plan would assign little authority
should have the right to approve or
reject any security council action
Icoa cEI61IIaIrI,1I pocH A .
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Attempt at Suicide
By German Anglers
u. S. Medical officer

Ey the Associated Press.
PILSEN, Czechoslovakia, May
11.-American medical officers,
German doctors and nurses at
tended today the wounds and
injuries of thousands of Ger
man troops and civilians gath
cred in large field hospital tents
near here.
In one tent Mai. George S.
Porter, Dallas, Tex, scolded a
German soldier who tried to
slash his throat.
Maj. Porter said 1t was in
considerate to burden the med
ical organization with a suicide
attempt. The soldier meekly
agreed.
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Allies Appoint Official
Who Subdued Revolt

Ey TIE ASSoClated Press.
MUNICH, May 11.-Hans Ritter
Won Scissor, chief of police of
Munich from 1919 to 1880, who put
down the Buergerbrau revolt led by
Adolf Hitler in 1923, was named
Munich's commissioner of police
yesterday by the Allied Military
Government of that city, headed by
1t. Col. Ralph Hubbard, jr., of Pasa-
dena, Calf.
He is the seventh anti-Nazi APP
pointed to a high administrative
post in Munich since its occupation
by the Allied troops.
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Leftist Editors Arrest
Protested in Italy
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, May 1.-THE Allied arrest
of Carlo Andreoni, editor of the
extreme left wing weekly Partisan,
provoked protests today in some
Italian newspapers.
Partisan was suspended several
weeks ago for preaching military
censorship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-11

A new shipment of colored
reproductions of AP Photog-
rapher Rosenthal's Two Jima
flag-raising picture has been
received by The Star. They
will be available for distri-
button in the business Office
lobby at 10 cents each. The
gross proceeds will go to the
Navy Relief Society.
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9th Air Force Lists
43,742 u. S. Flyers
Killed or Missinq
b. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
LONDON, May II. The
United States 9th Air Force to-
day listed 1912 fighter pilots
and bomber crewmen as killed
or missing in action in the war
in Europe.
The seriously injured were
numbered at 1923.
Bombers lost in action totaled
4,456.
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Four additional men from,
the District area hare been re-
ported killed in this wdr. See
ION the Honor Roll" Page Az.
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(See SECURITY, page A-39
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{See PRICES, Page "A }
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(See DISQUALIFICATION, Pg. Alb
Evening star., 1945-08-20

new source is the Nays Elk Hills,
now producing 5000 barrels daily.
PAW has recommended discon-
tinuance Of shipments by rail of
10000 to 10000 barrels of West
Texas crude oil daily to California.
Evening star., 1945-08-20
Clark Entertains Heads
OF Austria Occupation Units
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALSBURG, Austria, Aug. 90
Gen. Mark Clark played host yes
terday to British, French and Rus
sian generals of the occupation
forces in Austria with a reception
at Schloss Klesheim, tour OF
Berchtesgaden and an evening OF
song by the Vienna Boys Choir.
This was Gen. Clark's first Off
cial meeting with the military heads
although he has been here more
than a week. 1t was a prelude to
his entry into Vienna which is ex-
pected soon.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's contin-
ued indisposition kept him from the
party, described as a purely social
gathering, and the Russian repre-
sentative was Col. Gen. Alexis
Zheltov, deputy commander of the
Russian occupation zone in Austria.
The British general was 1t. Gen.
Sir Richard McCreery and the
French commander was 1t. Gen.
Emile Marie Bethouard, who came
from Innsbruck. Each general in
turn reviewed a company from the
42d Rainbow Division and his ma
tional flag was presented by color
guard as an Army band played his
national anthem in the vast con-
course fronting the castle where
Gen. Clark is making his head
quarters