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THE TEMPERATURES Yesterday's High Yesterday's Low Year Ago High Year Ago Low VOLUME XLII BEATRICE In The SUN It Didn't Happen" MANILA HARBOR AGAIN OPEN TO TRAFFIC urad. tied at the newly-reconditioned pier 5, South Harbor of Manila, Philippine Two ships others are await up turns to discharge cargo. At left center and in background are sunken lands, while Jap waiting to be removed. "If You Didn't See It Move To Solve Food Crisis Associated Press Government moves took shape yesterday to hasten the agricultural rehabilitation of war-swept areas, now largely dependent on the United States for food, and to improve distribution of short meat supplies here at home. Rep.

Clinton P. Anderson (d- Chinese Peril Jap-Held Base Threaten Ex-U. S. Airbase At Shaoyang In SouthCentral China. By Spencer Moosa CHUNGKING, Sunday, June 3 (P)-Chinese troops today imperilled the Japanese-held former American airbase of Shaoyang (Paoching) in south-central China after smashing enemy fortifications on the town's approaches, the Chinese high command said in a 'special communique.

The command said Japanese troops were falling back to Shoayang's outskirts after Chinese veterans seized three outer basitions Yenkowpu, eight miles west; Tankow, 19 miles northwest, and Chukowpu, 23 miles northwest. The Chinese burst through Shaoyang's outer defenses after launching fierce attacks in which the Japanese suffered heavy casfualties, the communique said. Resistance Bitter At opposite ends of the breach, Chinese troops slogged 15 miles across south China's bleak plateau lands to within 22 miles of the Indo-China 'border and posed a new threat from the south to the big, former U. S. 14th Air Force base at Liuchow.

The Japanese, however, were putting up bitter resistance all along a 900-mile front from the border area northward to the Yellow river. At many points along the line, Chinese forces were locked in swaying, indecisive battle. U. S. 14th Air Force headquarters.

revealed 11 American bases in China were evacuated between July, 1944 and January of this year. Two of these-Yuhgnling and the latter in Kiangsi province have been recovered while Shaoyand and Liuchow appeared near recapture. RAINFALL HIGHER YEAR AGO weather bureau reported today LINCOLN, June 2 (AP) A The that precipitation for. the first five months of the year totalled 13.95 inches, compared to a normal of. .9.47 inches, and 16.07 in the corresponding period last year.

NM), who will take over July 1 as secretary of agriculture and national food boss, proposed that civilian food experts follow the armies and speed plantings. He told reporters he had talked it over with President Truman. Since Anderson was drafted from congress to try to improve the food situation there appears to be 10 question but that his ideas will be heeded. Ease Drain With a world shortage of sugar, Anderson said every Pacific island clear to the China coast is a potential sugar producer. And every ounce of extra can be produced in liberated Europe, he commented, will ease by that much the drain on this country.

Price Administrator Chester Bowles directed that commercial slaughterers, beginning June 17, distribute their meat in the same three pattern months of followed 'At present, meat is extremely scarce in some areas, more plentiful in others, although, none, has new all it order could should use. go "a long wane toward the goal of fair and even distribution of the supply that we do have." Crop Prospects Better These developments came. at the end of a week of better weather which improved domestic crop prospects, particularly in the important midwestern producing area. need has been for warmer, Frank Marek Passes Away In New Mexico Frank S. Marek, veteran member of the Silver City, New Mexico post office staff, age 68, passed away at Silver City General hos: pital May 18 following a heart attack suffered while on duty.

He served as a letter carrier for 25 years and had a wide acquaintance of friends. His last illness was brought on by his determination to carry on until the end of the war as a patriotic duty although the was eligible for retirement under Civil Service. He was born in Lipce, Bohemia, Au; 24, 1877 and came to the United States at the age of 13, locating at Wymore, Nebr. He was engaged in farming but owing to the ill health of his wife they moved to New Mexico in 1918. He was a member of Z.

C. B. J. Brotherhood No. 61 at Wymore.

He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in Nebraska. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Wm. Shellberg of Richmond, a son, LeRoy Marek of the American Hall Bank Staff and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held the following Sunday at the Cox Mortuary chapel with Rev.

R. A. Burge in charge. Internment was in the Masonic cemetery. His nephew, Stanley A.

Marek, lives at 501 So. 7th Beatrice. 134thOn Way Home? Associated Press Is Nebraska's own 134th in-, fantry regiment coming home'? Evidence that the famed outfit which reduced St. Lo shortly after D-Day and then drove within 50 miles of Berlin may be en route was contained today in two letters received by families of Beatrice servicemen. Two 134th sergeants, Glen Otto and Smiley Allword of Beatrice, wrote that they would be home "around June 1." Sgt.

Otto said the rest of his company was coming. But they are not home. yet, No Word From Boatsman The family of Lt. Col. Alford C.

Boatsman, who succeeded Brig. Gen. Butler B. Miltonberger of North Platte as 134th commander, said they had no word from him about movement of the outfit. There was no doubt here that 8 joyous welcome: would be planned when official word arrived of the return of 134th soldiers, Since its activation Dec.

23, 1854, the regiment has established a 91-year record of service, which began with Indian wars in western Nebraska, DAILY SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1945 DeGaulle Sore Over Arab Row French Leader Charges British Furnished Arms To Natives In Old Quarrel. By Reiman Morin PARIS, June 2 de Gaulle charged today that "carried Syrians who fought the French arms furnished by the British" and suggested that a four-power tiate the including, the whole conference Russia negoArab area where British interests predominate. When to give the names of the "crowd" of British agents which he said precipitated the Syrian and Lebanese uprising, de Gaulle said "everyone knows their names, and I would blush to give them to you." Finish With "Diktats" "We must finish with 'Diktats' and crisis," said the French leader in outlining the French side of the Levant dispute which has found the Syrians and Lebanese refusing to negotiate with the French because of French wishes for concessions in their homelands. "It would be a most monstrous absurdity," said De Gaulle, "if, having ended the war against Germany, we should find ourselves confronted by bloody incidents between the allies." DeGaulle told of French-British political and economic clashes in the Middle East dating from the last World War and clearly indicated his refusal to submit the Middle East problem to a tri-partite meeting of France, Britain and the United States, as proposed by Prime Minister Churchill three days ago. He declared Churchill's message "will change nothing," adding "I haven't thought it necessary to reply to this message." DeGaulle said France was entitled to military bases Britain and the United States and charged that the "British attitude" in the Middle East was one reason for France's inability to give full independence to Syria and Lebanon.

DeGaulle indicated his willingness to submit the explosive question to international discussion providing Russia was invited to participate and "the question of the whole Arab world, including Egypt, Iran, Palestine and others" was discussed. De Gaulle claimed that French government orders halted the recent fighting in Syria even before Churchill's statement May 31 announcing British intervention was delivered to the French leader, In, the Syrian capital of. Damascus, angry Syrian crowds caught and killed two Senegalese soldiers trying to: reach French headquarters from their outposts, while British troops strove to protect the French. French troops were being taken from their barracks in the city by the British under cover of the curfew--but some French conscripts fired on passersby from a barracks wall and wounded two. Production Of Crops In Pacific Possible WASHINGTON, June 2 (P)- Civilian food experts soon may be moving in the wake of battle in the Pacific to speed the return to crop production, particularly world-scarce sugar.

Rep. Anderson (d-NM), confirmed yesterday as secretary of agriculture, recommended to President Truman during White House conference that food men be sent into Pacific invasions with the army to hasten soil rehabilitation when the shooting stops. "All the Pacific islands clear to the China coast are potential sugar producers, and we're not getting it," Anderson told a reporter after the conference. NEW FORD IN YEAR OR 2 DETROIT, June 2 (AP)-The first Ford passenger automobiles to be built since February, 1942, will feature numerous styling and design changes, including a heavy bar horizontal front end grille and the adaptation of several war-developed engineering advances. Ford emphasized that production was not expected to begin much before 60 or 90 days, deliveries in a year or two.

BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, Pope Hopes Germans Rise Freed Of Evil Influence. Should Regain Place Among Nations. By George Bria VATICAN CITY, June 2 (AP)Pope Pius XII expressed the hope today that the German people, purged of nazism, "can rise to new dignity and new life," but said that postwar Europe is menaced by a "tyranny no less despotic than those for whose overthrow men planned." In a world broadcast on Saint Eugene's day--his name day--the pontiff reviewed the Vatican's prewar German policy. The Holy Father defended the rights of the small nations "to take their destinies in their own hands" and said the future "harmonious relations between men" was threatened by mobs of "dispossessed. disillusioned, disappointed and hopeless men who are going to swell the ranks of revolution in the pay of a tyranny less despotic than those for whose overthrow men planned." Set Up Barrier The pope declared that the Vatican concluded the 1933 concordat with Germany "to set 11p a formidable barrier to the spread of ideas at once subversive and violent" and he asserted that Pius XI, his predecessor, denounced the nazi regime in 1937 after the "solemn pact" had been deliberately violated by the Germans.

"Nobody," he said, "could accuse the church of not having denounced and exposed in time the true nature of the national socialist movement and the danger to which it exposed Christian civilization." The pope's outline of the church's stand on Germany was apparently in answer to criticism that the Vatican's attitude toward nazi Germany had been ambiguous or favorable. The pope declared that during the years of nunciature Berlin he had "occasion to learn the great qualities of the people and we were personally in close contact with its most representative men." Rise To New Life "For that reason," he added, "we cherish the hope that it can rise to new dignity and new life when once it has laid the satanic spectre raised by national SOcialism, and the guilty. as we have already at other times had occasion to expound, have expiated the crimes they have committed." The pope described the peace in Europe today a as "yet very fragile which cannot endure or be consolidated except by expending on it the most assiduous care "and called on all the peoples of the world "to devote themselves to it, each in his own office and at his own place." The pontiff declared the "primary task of the peace framers is to put an end to the criminal war game and to safeguard vital rights and mutual obligations as between the great and small, the powerful and the weak." Would Abolish Excess Profits Tax V-J Day WASHINGTON. June 2 (AP) Legislation definitely ending the 95 percent excess profits tax on Jan. 1 of the year following the end of the Japanese war was urged today by Rep.

Robertson (d- Va). The Virginian, a member of the house ways and means committee, said he would offer an amendment to the tax bill stipulating the date. Meanwhile, Committee Chairman Doughton (d-NC) let it be known he is having legislation drawn embodying the joint congressional treasury department plan to improve the cash position of business in the reconversion period. The legislation, without the excess profits repealer, would have little effect on the ultimate tax liability of business but would increase their ready cash for reconversion by speeding up payment of credits on excess profits taxes and various postwar refunds provided I in present law. drier weather suitable for field work.

Although much planting has been delayed by cold and rain, the general situation is not much different from a year ago when heavy rains and floods late in May and early June hindered farm operations. Slight Increase In Unemployed Predict By Early August Unemployment Will Become More Complicated. By Marvin L. Arrowsmith WASHINGTON, June 2 (AP) The shift toward a one-front war economy has added only lightly to the nation's unemployment rolls so far, manpower officials said today. They estimated that since mid herald when day, the cutbacks number began of persons who want jobs but do not have them has increased around 150,000.

This makes the total of unemployed abcut 950,000, not many more than at the peak of war production. Predictions Unchanged But these war manpower commission officials, anonymous at their request, emphasized that nothing has occured to disturb their previous predictions that by early August unemployment will have climbed to approximately 000,000. While about 150,000 have become actually unemployed since April, twice that number have left munitions jobs or related projects since that time, WMC officials said. Of these 300,000, fifty per cent either have found non-war jobs or, as in the case of many women, have retired from the labor market, they added. Use Riot Guns To Quell Disorders In Prison JESSUPS, June 2 (P) Sixteen convicts' were shot and wounded tonight before state troopers and prison guards were able to drive several hundred rioting house of correction prisoners back into their cells and end disorders which broke out during the evening meal.

State police were ordered to open fire with riot guns at the climax of more than three hours of disturbances when approximately a dozen inmates rushed eight troopers attempting to close a door. Thousands of windows in the cell tier were broken by the prisoners, who maintained a thunderous. din by hammering with utensils, smashing glass and shouting. All efforts to quiet them proved. unavailing until after the troopers opened fire.

WAR CRIMES COMMISSION BEGINS WORK i 1 Lord Wright (standing, center) London with announcement that Of the accused, 2,625 are Germans. opening meeting of the United Na- 2,657 persons had been indicted on (NEA Telephoto) tions War Crimes Commission In charges made by. various nations, SUN The Associated Press THE WEATHER Fair. 833 90 69 Member of Copy 50 No. 281 Carrier Aircraft Hit Suicide Plane Bases Russia Takes 'No Retreat' Stand On Veto Soviet Stand Once Again Deadlocks Big Five, United Nations.

DICTATED BY MOSCOW By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 (AP)Russia was reported tonight to have taken an emphatic "no retreat" attitude on a veto-voting issue which once again has deadlocked the Big Five and the United Nations conference. This stand was dictated straight from Moscow. Because of the impasse, a disposition appeared to be deveolping among some delegates, the particularly, to tell the conference the Big Five couldn't agree on one interpretation and to let the two versions stand side by side. Up to Conference That would leave it up to the conference to accept or reject a veto-voting formula whose meaning was not agreed on even by the great powers which drafted it.

Unless they can break their deadlock, some delegates suggested, the best the Big Five is inform the conference that in practical operation there might never be a ban on security, council discussion of a that represented the Russian viewpoint, too, but that the Soviets want to retain and use veto rights over discussions if they ever consider it necessary. Some delegates talked of skipping the veto plan at San Francisco and calling another conference later on to work on that one issue. Interpretation Asked Presentation of the Russian viewpoint left the Big Five knotted again in efforts to obtain agreement on an interpretation which had been asked by the smaller nations. The little powers had pounded 22 questions on specitic application of the veto power. As the situation stood today, it appeared possible that no agreement would be reached by the Big Five on a single joint interpretation although work was continuing in this direction.

If two interpretations are permitted to stand, there will be confusion among the smaller powers as to where the veto applies. This confusion could carry over into consideration of a list of other points on which the Big Five have not yet reached complete agreement. Swift Advance Of 5th Prevents Alp Retreat SCOTTSBLUFF, June 2 (P)-The swift advance' of the American Fifth army into northern Italy prior to the nazi capitulation prevented Germans from retreating into the Alps where "they might have held out a long Pfc. Harold Ellis, 32, told his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

F. L. Ellis of Scottsbluff, in a recent letter. The Scottsbluff youth, able to describe the Fifth's advance following the lifting of censorship in the Italian theater, said the Germans didn't have much gasoline, most of their was horsedrawn and transport, abandon a great part of their horses at the Po river. Seeks Dismissal Of Suit Against LINCOLN, June' 2.

-Federal Judge John W. Delehant has taken under advisement defense motions seeking dismissal of the government anti-trust suit against 47 western railroads, certain individuals and banking houses. He is expected to take several weeks to prepare his ruling. The two-day hearing on the motions wound up late yesterday with defense attorneys demanding a bill of particulars in the suit. Compiled From AP Dispatches GUAM, Sunday, June 3 (P)-Peppery Adm.

William F. Halsey, just returned to action in the Pacific with his U. S. Third fleet, sent carrier planes against potential suicide plane bases of the Japanese homeland on Kyushu island Saturday while the 10th Army tore into disintegrating enemy, forces on Okinawa. Today's fleet communique reported carrier planes of Halsey's fleet, operating under Vice Adm.

John S. McCain, shot down two enemy planes, destroyed 11 on the ground and dafaged 23 more at Miyazaki, Kokubu, Tushira, Kagoshima and Chiran. Two enemy surface craft were destroyed of the coast. The Third Fleet's assault on enemy suicide bases came at a time when Tokyo radio was trumpeting that huge successes had been scored by such attacks on shipping at Okinawa and that, the attacks would be stepped up. But Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz said today that enemy air action through Friday continued on a small scale as it had the past few days. Gain Below Shuri Aground on Okinawa, in the west coast sector southeast of fallen Naha, the First marine division yesterday gained 1,000 yards below Shuri and crossed the Naha-Yonabaru a highway. Near the center, the 96th Infantry. division captured Chan village which is two miles below captured Shuri and pushed on below Chan toward Tera village.

The Yanks seized high ground near Kamizato. On the east coast side, the Seventh Infantry division pushed southward in a move aimed at cutoff the Chinen peninsula and reopening the Nakagusuku harbor, once anchorage fleet. Seventh chetulapanese suku town, two and a half miles south of occupied Yonabaru and speared toward Shinazato. Meanwhile, the 77th infantry division mopped up Japanese stragglers around fortress Shuri. Mindanao Landing MANILA, Sunday, June 3 (P)- American forces made their sixth amphibious landing on Mindanao island Friday in a move designed to encircle and exterminate isolated Japanese garrisons.

The landing was made at Lauyon '75 miles south of Mindanao's capital city, Davao, and on the western shore of Davao Gulf. Doughboys rushed ashore against light opposition, quickly secured their beachhead and moved inland in search of the enemy. The landing was made under cover of strong aerial and nave al support. Short-to-Shore Action The maneuver was a shore-toshore operation, shifting some AmGen. Roscoe B.

Woodruff's 24th Inerican forces, probably from Maj. fantry division Davao sector. Japanese in the Lauyon area probably were cut off on southern Mindanao as Woodruff's outfit bisected the island in their recent. sweep through the center to attack strong enemy forces guarding Davao. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur recently estimated 50,000 Nipponese troops remained on Mindanao, bulk of them in centrally located. Bukidnon province, However, Woodruff's division has encountered stiff resistance and been forced to repulse strong counterattacks northwest of Davao. Another strong force may be in the Lauyon area. On Luzon island, the 25th Infantry division continued its advance into the Cagayan valley from Santa Fe, while to the east the 33rd Infantry division occupied positions on Highway 11 seven and a half miles northeast of These operations were supported by medium, attack and fighter bombers which dropped 220. tons and fired many thousands of rounds in assaulting Japanese supply dumps and concentrations.

Allies Arrest Former Denmark Nazi Leader Single Associated Press The Norwegian telegraph agenCV today carried a report that allied military authorities had arrested Col. Gen. Georg Lindemann, former commander of German forces in Denmark. The dispatch credited this information to the Copenhagen socialdemokraten. It said Linemann was captured on a small farm where he had sought refuge.

The report said so far 400 persons had been arrested in Denmark on orders of allied military authorities. Halsey Back To 3rd Fleet Isships Colorful Admiral Ready To Strike 'From North Pole To GUAM, Sunday, June 3 (P) Adm. William F. (Bull): Halsey was back in the Pacific war today at the head of the Third fleet, and the Japanese reported that the action-loving seadog already was throwing. carrier planes a against homeland.

Halsey's return, announced by Fleet Adm. Chester: W. Nimitz, coincided with indications that new far-reaching blows against Nippon were in the making. Ready To Strike As he took over on his flagship off Okinawa relieving Adm. Raymond A.

Spruance, Fifth fleet commander, May 27-Halsey deready to strike any. where "from the north pole to the south" and right into Tokyo bay. Have Temporary Quarters Nimitz announced that Spruance and his carrier force commander, Vice. Adm. Marc A.

Mitscher, who started their Fifth fleet cruise with the 'first carrier plane at tack. on Tokyo last Feb, would have temporary headquarters here. No new assignment was announced for Mitscher, Vice Adm. John S. McCain res turned to sea with Halsey, resume ing command of the Third fleet: carrier, Nimitz also disclosed that the amphibious phase, of the Okinawa campaign was over and this car ried the implication that expanded operations against Japan could be expected.

John Bauer Chosen Grand Champ John Bauer was chosen as grand champion. speaker of the evening at commencement exercises of the Dale Carnegie class in effective speaking Thursday evening. Thirteen graduates of the sixteen weeks course received their diplo mas. About forty people attended the banquet preceding: the exercises. Winners of prepared speech contest were Miss Julia Tietjen, Miss Lucile Hasenohr and C.

B. Willard. Impromptu speech contest winners were John Bauer, Ralph and': C. B. Willard.

Other winners were Miss Esther Falkenroth, C. A. Doyle and Maurine Morton. Judges were Claud Smith, Rev. Lennie Curd and George Ahrens, all of.

Lincoln. Nebraska Aeronautics Group Adopts Rules LINCOLN, June 2 (P) -The Nebraska: aeronautics commission yesterday adopted rules and regu lations of the civil aeronautics board and civil aeronautics admin-: istration at a meeting here yesterday as a basis for future operations. Commission members said the matter of rules. would be gen further study, but took yesterday's action as a precautionary mea sure since the legislative act res quired that rules be set up within 30 days after effective date of the act. The commission allocated $2,637 to the city of Columbus for airport improvement, Other municipalities with unexpended funds allo cated by the commission will be asked to report on plans for use of the money.

Thereafter, in 1898, it was sent to the Philippines and was immediately assigned to defend Manila, where it fired the first shot of the Philippine insurrection. After service in the SpanishAmerican war, the 134th marked time until the First -World War. During that conflict the men saw action, but the regiment itself established no battle record. This was because the regiment's men were put into action as replacements rather than as a unit. Attack At.

St. Lo The 134th's World War Two service began on July 5, when it landed in France. Ten days later it launched the attack on on on on on fortified St. Lo, which fell only after three days of the fiercest fighting, Its greatest feat was the liberation of Nancy, a great French city which formally recognized the then Col. Miltonberger as its liberator.

As the war neared its close Col. Boatsman disclosed that the 134th was at one time closer to Berlin 50. milesthan any other Yank or British outfit, 2 Youthful Girls Abduct Baby PHILADELPHIA, June 2 (AP) -Two youthful girls told police today how they abducted threemonth old Thomas V. Ripley, from a coach at his home Thursday, Detective Lt. Ervin Mock reported.

Mock identified the girls as Irene Jones, 15, and her. sister, Janet, 11. The child's body was discovered eight hours after he disappeared in a vacant lot. A post mortem examination revealed that he died of a broken. neck.

Charged With Abduction The girls will charged with abduction and theft of a carriage, Mock said. No other charges were mentioned. Hardie Scott, attorney engaged by the girls' mother, Mrs. Bonnie Stanley, who operates a convalescent home here, told Mock the girls blurted out their story when their mother questioned them about being absent from school Thursday afternoon, Irene told Mock: "My sister' did not know how to take care of a baby as well as I do. So I rocked it to sleep before we put it in the bushes." Janet sat dry eyed through the questioning.

Once she. looked up and said: "Oh, I know how the mother must feel. I'm. terribly sorry." Otherwise the girls were calm. After the questioning, the girls were taken to their home, Mrs.

Stanley, in a state of near collapse, led the detectives to -floor room stuffs where: monkey she pointed doll. On were the blue and white booties the girls said they took from the baby: The infant's. blue cap was on the doll's. head, Mock reported. The girls told Mock they de cided to remain from school Thursday afternoon and were strolling down a street when they saw an empty.

perambula tor. Janet put her doll in she said, and they pushed tho coach away Later, the girls, said, they din covered the Ripley baby it the yard of his mother's and decided to take Both girls told Mock tended to return the but that their mother ed to allow them to again. The Ripley child of Min. Barbara Rip delphin and V. Riper with.