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PRICE FOUR CENTS 117117 BIMGrI MP pTT TP A TjT Ip Mighty Task Force Hunting Remnants Reds Keep Rule To Feed Berlin Of Japanese Power MAP ON PAGE 2 By the United Press Guam A twin strike on Honshu and Kyushu sent the I SKs pre-invasion bombardment of Japan rolling through its thirty-fourth day today and fleet dispatches said a powerful American task force was loose in the Western Pacific under orders to find and destroy the remnants of Japanese air and sea power. Japanese broadcasts said 50 Liberator bombers pounded the Omura area of Northwestern Kyushu for almost two hours, covered by 40-odd Thunderbolt and Lightning 500,000 Yanks To Reach U. S. By Year's End 42 Divisions Involved in Movements From European Zones Germans of Culture, Young Girls Roaming Berlin Seeking Jobs Berlin (INS) Seeking jobs desperately in Berlin today are many educated Germans, including young girls, and all of them are feeling the pinch of hunger. They are a strange lot.

Their demeanor is subdued and almost apologetic. Many try to get jobs as interpreters for American correspondents. All of them have a news story to tell, for most of them were faced with death Associated Prefs VVIDEPHOTO From Murine Corpg. YANKS FERRET OUT SNIPERS-A Marine rifleman (left) signals companions to hold their fire, as a Jap soldier with bandaged head emerges from a cave hideout in the closing stages of the Okinawa campaign. Smoke bombs ''persuade" stub-' born holdouts to surrender.

(Another Japanese front line picture, page 18). Shortages of Meat, Sugar, Butter Sure Till Next Spring at Least Pakr.0. JW2T H.uphong U. S. Eyes Turn Pork Cut Will Offset Beef Increase, Federal Agencies Report hghters.

The raid apparently was aimed at the Japanese suicide plane nests from which the enemy had been launching attacks against the American naval and ground forces at Oki nawa. Authorities revealed that Super- forts had flown at least 6,442 sorties in 40 days, dropping almost 42,000 tons of bombs, at the rate of more than 1,000 tons a day. Subs in Jap Harbor The Japanese broadcast a report credited to an unidentified naval base that Superforts had been mining the main harbors of Japan. It said submarines in some force had been sent into Japanese waters to try to blockade the homeland and break up shipping activity. The enemy claimed to have sunk seven or more submarines in home waters since June 1.

Long-range army Mustang fighters, about 50 strong. led off the daylight assault on Japan today, roaring up from Iwo Jiroa at midday to strafe dozens of enemy military targets around Kyote, Osaka and Kobe on Central Honshu. No Secret Mission Three B-29 Superfortresses, ap parently scouting in advance of another major air strike, also were over the mqin Japanese island including the Tokyo area. Japanese accounts said they were followed by four B-24 Liberators and a pair of lavy scout bombers that flew over Eastern Honshu. The presence of the new American battle fleet in the Far Pacific was revealed In a delayed dispatch from the flagship of the task force, commanded by Vice Admiral John S.

McCain, chief of last farrier In Admiral William llalscy'n veteran 3d Fleet. Its position in what were still nominally enemy waters was a closely-guarded naval secret, but its mission was not. "The present mission of this powerful task force is to wipe out Japanese air power and shipping," a spokesman aboard Admiral McCain's flagship announced bluntly. Air Opposition Weaker Carrier planes from the task force, he added, will team up with the B-29 fleets and other land-based warplanes massed on the Pacific islands in the mounting pre-invasion bombardment of Japan. On Okinawa, Maj.

Gen. Louis Woods, chief of the Marine Tactical Air Force, declared that enemy aerial opposition was weakening. "Good targets are getting scarce, even though we are now ranging into the heart of the empire," General Woods said. Jittery Japanese broadcasts said other American warplanes were ranging far and wide over Japan's bypassed island holdings in the Pacific. Girl Smoker Naps, Turns Into Torch New York (U.R) The fire department's oldest story the smoker who sets his bed on fire had a new, summer night twist today.

Dorothy Williams told police who found her, seriously burned, in Forest Park that she'd fallen asleep on a park bench. Her ciga-ret had set her clothes on fire. Nip Attacks 4-Power Pact For Nazi Rule Is Aim of U. S. Washington (U.R) The United States hopes to conclude a formal, four-power pact committing this country, Russia, Britain and France to a uniform, long-term program for control of Germany, it was learned today.

President Truman, it was said, will present the single policy proposal to Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin at the forthcoming Big 3 meeting near Berlin, Its acceptance would present a new challenge to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who united the Allies RED-POLISH TRADE PACT London (U.R) Russia and the new Polish unity government have signed a mutual trade agreement for the exchange of goods valued at during the second half of 1945, according to Radio Moscow. so effectively in war. As U.

S. member of the Allied Control Commission for Germany, General Eisenhower would have the ticklish job of fitting the American plan in with the ideas of his Russian, British and French counterparts. Two Plans The United States is prepared with two plans for German occupation a short-term, "emergency" program for one to five years to be followed by a long-term plan to run, in the words of one official, "for many decades, or as long as it takes to develop a peace-loving people." The first, known as Directive 1067, is already reported functioning in the American zone of occupation. This plan, as yet unpublished, was approved in April by the informal policy committee on Germany made up of representatives of the Slate, War, Navy and Treasury Departments and the Foreign Economic Administration. Good and Tough Described as "good and tough," the short-term plan makes use of this country's own wartime experience in controlling industry.

It outlines controls similar to those used by the War Production Board and the Office of Defense Transportation to make German economy function at the level the council prescribes. Post-War Plant Lockport VP) Work was started today on a $1,850,000 building at the West Lockport plant of the Harrison Radiator division of General Motors intended to care for post-war expansion. Russia Seeking Added Relief From 2 Allies Soviets Refuse to Share Military Control in Nazi Capital WORLD CHARTER truly effective peace instrument, says Stettinius. opening hearings. Story on page 2.

By NAT A. BARROWS Special Cable To The Binghamton Press and the Chicago Daily News Berlin The question of who is going to feed whom, raises a confusing and troublesome problem in Berlin', this zombie city of terrible ruins. Until the newly arrived British and Americans, on the one side, and the well-established Russians on the other, can agree upon whose food will feed the Germans in the British and American zones, the Russians obviously intend to continue their control of the military government of ali Berlin. The Allies, who admittedly came here Without making an advance survey of some of the most vital problems involved in ruhning Berlin alongside the Russians, do not intend to feed Berliners with Allied food. The Russians want the other two powers to take over fedeing the Germans in their own zones some 800.000 in the British area and slightly less in the American.

Mor Than Million At present the Russians are feeding both the 1.100,000 Germans in their 2one. and those in the re.u of Berlin as well. They have made it clear that they will continue effective operation of the city-wide military government until an agreement is reached over food. Thus, a deadlock now exists and will exist until President Truman, Prime' Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin meet at Potsdam Pessimists see danger of hunger stalking Berlin and many experts, including some Russians, think that eventually large numbers of the Berlin population will have to be forcibly evacuated. Indeed, the futility of ever trying to rebuild central Berlin, in utter ruins, causes much discussion.

Realists wonder how the Allies ere going to reconstruct and revitalize a city so completely dismembered, nd so overburdened with misery end confusion. On Friendly Terms Marshal Zhukov and his military governor. Col. Gen. Gorbatov, are on the friendliest term with the British and Americans, but the Russians do control the military government in our two zones and intend to do so until the vexatious problem of feeding the Berliners has reached a compromise.

Russian sentries now patrol the British and American zones alongside our own soldiers. The impassable barrier of language and the vast differences in thinking and customs bring up obvious troubles and misunderstandings, such as Russians attempting to discipline G. oij Tommies. Inevitably, area restrictions for British and American soldiers will have to come. The depressing impacts of this ugly, wrecked city, begin to bear down more and more upon occupying troops from Britain, Canada and the United Slates.

End of '46 Victory Time -31' Arthur London (INS) Gen. Douglas MacArthur was quoted today as predicting that from the military standpoint "the war in the Far East would be over towards the end of next year." This report was brought back by British Air Vice-Marshal Sat-lerly. who has just returned to England after consultations with the American five-star general. 82,000 PA. CASUALTIES Scranton, Pa.

(INS) Edward Martin has disclosed that 82,000 Pennsylvanians have been war casualties. Washington JP) On the theory it will bring no comfort to the Japanese, the War Department has issued a timetable for the return of 31 divisions from Europe between August and January. With 11 others either back or in the process of returning, the movement will involve more than 500,000 men. Plans still subject to change call for eight divisions to remain in Europe as occupation forces and 18 still to be there at the year's end, presumably to await shipping facilities. Divisions Now Back Divisions already back in this country are the 86th, 97th and 95th Infantry with most of the 104th Infantry also home.

Advance detachments of the 2d, 4th, 5th, 8th, 44th and 87th Infantry and the 13lh Armored have arrived with the remainder of their units soon to follow. These 11 have been scheduled for Pacific action, although the War Department stressed that the men who fight in them will not necessarily be the same ones who opposed the Nazis. In announcing the schedule for the 31 divisions scheduled for embarkation beginning next monih, the army said that for security reasons no information is being given as to whether they will go to the Pacific, be assigned to the reserve in this country or be disbanded. How They Return AUGUST: 85th. 28th and 30th Infantry Divisions and the 20th Armored.

1 SEPTEMBER: 14th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Armored; 17th Airborne; 88th, 91st, 35th, 45th and 103d Infantry. OCTOBER: 9th Armored nd 92d, 25th, 79th and 99th Infantry. NOVEMBER: 10th Armored, 10th Mountain; 13th Airborne; 83d, 63d, and 106th Infantry. DECEMBER: 2d and 11th Armored; 34th, 90th, 80th and 76th Infantry. Occupation Duty The eight divisions ticketed for occupation duty are the 1st and 4th Armored and the 1st, 3d, 9th, 29th and 36th Infantry and the 82d Airborne.

The 18 not now scheduled for return this year are the 3d, 8lh, 12th and 16th Armored, the 101st Airborne, and the 42d, 65th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 75th, 84th, 89th, 94lh, 100th and 102d Infantry. News Strikers Still Defiant New York (JP) The National War Labor Board today in Washington will consider possible further action in the 9-day-old strike of newspaper deliverymen against 14 New York dailies, following yesterday's unanimous union vote to continue the strike despite WLB back-to-work directives. After yesterday's meeting, Harry Weinstein, union sergeant-at-arms, said, "we will slay out six months if we have to. There is nothing anybody can do to make us go back." Italy," said Mrs. Burns.

didn't do anything wrong." The women and three Italians were arrested near Ontario, Ore. The four lovers were riding in one seat, and the third. Italian, Tony Madelena, 30, was in a seat by himself. "He just tagged along for the ride," said Mrs. Dodgson.

"He was like little puppy on the trip." The five were on their way to Boise, Idaho, to find work and try to adjust their love lives. Mrs. Hodgson said she intended marry Vincent Cia-izzo, 26, and Mrs. Burns said she was filing suit for divorce to marry Nicola Gambicchia, 22. The women said they had intended to return to Seattle to Strike Picture Better; Total Below 40,000 By the Associated Press The national total of strike idle fell below the 40,000 mark today for the first time in nearly a month.

Contributing to the brightened labor picture were the return to work of strikers in Detroit and Cleveland and the dissolution of a threat of new troubles in the Akron rubber Industry. A strike of 524 polishers, C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, ended at the Graham-Paige Motors Corp.

plant in Detroit and production of aircraft connecting rods was resumed. The strike, which also idled 300 employes in the machining department, began Thursday night in a dispute over whether the management should upgrade two men to replace instructors on leave. In Cleveland, C. I. O.

United Steel Workers returned to their jobs at the Republic Steel Corp. continuous strip mill after a week-long walkout that closed the plant. In Akron, a threatened tieup of another big rubber plant was averted as normal operations were resumed at the B. r. Goodrich after a week's shutdown for machinery overhaul.

Impending bonus cuts on a base pay of 34 cents hourly brought a note of maritime discontent into the labor picture, but C. I. O. National Maritime Union leaders said war vital shipping would not be impeded. 10,000 Men Needed In Hospital Work New York Approximately 10,000 men will be needed yearly to install the estimated 33,000,000 square feet of tile demanded annually in the post-war civilian hospital building program, the Tile Council of America said today.

The organization, representing manufacturers which make more than three-fourths of all the American tile, based its statement on a survey of the Modern Hospital Publishing indicating that $300,000,000 to $450,000,000 each year must be spent for a decade to meet the country's national civilian hospital needs. complete their divorce proceedings. The women met the Italians when a group of supervised war prisoners were put to work at the Seattle plant where they were empleyed. Mrs. Burns, mother 6 two children, said, "if we ever get out of this mess, we'll marry the Italians just the same." Both said they would follow the men to Italy if they were not allowed to remain in the United States.

"Of jourse, we don't want to lose our American citizenship," they said. The women were sent back to Seattle and the Italians were turned over to military authorities. CLEAR KWANGSI Jap troops driven from Kwanicsi Province as Chinese troop take air base of Tanchuk (black arrow) and battle in outskirts of Kweilin (outline arrow). Tanchuk Falls, Japs Cleared. From Kwangsi STOHtES on ChlneM military hr (Veil It.

Dukniti, pn so 2, And Conatan-tine Brown, a 6. C'hiinitkinir -(U troop today recaptured the former American air base of Tanchuk 1, clearing all of Kwangsi Province except the northeast corner, where they battled in the outskirts of Kweilin IJfcJ. In their great surge through Kwangsi, the Chinese forces had recaptured three of the former 14th Air Force bases Liuchow, and Tanchuk and the fourth, Kweilin, wai directly threatened. Chinese armies slicing Into the steadily narrowing Japanese corridor across China had recovered 400 miles of territory from Chan-nankwan, on the Kwangsi-Indo-China border, to Loyung, 20 miles northeast of Liuchow. Today's communique reported the recapture of Channankwan as well as Tanchuk.

Along the West River, In southeast Kwangsi, the Chinese now held all the cities on an east to west line except Wuchow, on the border of Southeast Kwangsi. The Chinese were closing in on Kweilin from two directions. The main force advanced north along the railroad from Liuchow. Another column swung wide" to outflank the city from the west. After bypassing Paishou, 35 miles west of Kweilin, the second force drove right through to the city's outskirts.

ANOTHER MAJOR Washington VP) President Truman today nominated Lt. Gen. Daniel I. Sultan to be inspector general of the army with the rank of major general. General Sultan has just returned from the China-Burma-India theatre.

at Manggar northwest of Balikpapan, and the Japanese garrison there was being reduced steadily. To the north of Balikpapan the Australians advanced into swampy country and captured Soemba village. Today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur headquarters said the Australians were fanning from the Balikpapan bridgehead, which was 18 miles long and two to three miles deep. Japanese coastal guns still were pouring shells into the beachhead, although they were under heavy attack by the 7th Fleet Carrier-based planes hammered the enemy positions, while engineers sweated to ready the captured Manggar and Sepinggang airfields for land-based planes.

One big Japanese coastal gun was captured intact 2400 yards northwest of the Mangaar airstrip. To Far Lands, Still No Meat Washington VP) Empty meat counters are causing many Americans to turn their eyes toward Canada and Argentina and to wonder why the government doesn't import supplies from those meat-producing countries. Suggestions of this nature pour in on American food officials. The latter reply that it is impossible to obtain meats from either country unacr wie aiiicu program for coordinating purchases of the fighting nations. Canada's exportable surplus is being turned over to the United Kingdom and to liberated areas in Europe.

Insofar as Canada is able to help supply the British and Continental Europe, demands of these groups upon this country's supply are lssened. Argentina's exportable supply likewise is earmarked largely for the United Kingdom and the armed forces of the Allied Nations. Early in the war, the British and American governments agreed to make the British Government sole purchaser of meats in "Argentina. This agreement took into account the fact that before the war the British were the principal buyer of Argentina's exportable supply. TonS of Meat Thrown From Ships, Dealer Charges Norfolk, Va.

VP) Despite an emphatic denial by a steamship firm manager, L. J. Smithwick, Norfolk food dealer, reiterated today a statement that ships entering Hampton Roads were throwing thousands of pounds. of good meat overboard in order to obtain full quotas of fresh stock in port. "I have heard continued reports for several months that food was being thrown overboard from ves sels," said Mr.

Smithwick, secretary of the Tidewater Wholesale Grocery and Feed Association. "I have heard merchant seamen say they have thrown meat overboard so that they could get their full quotas in port." Terming the statement "ridiculous and absurd," J. C. Holladay, Norfolk manager of the Dichman, Wright and Pugh Steamship declared that meat cannot be tossed overboard even if spoiling, but must be brought to port and officially condemned by a federal inspector. Wives to Europe? 594 G.

Say No Paris (JP) Gold Brick, army publication at a redeployment camp, polled 835 soldiers on this question: "Do you think wives and sweethearts should be allowed to come to Europe at this time?" The answer: 594 said no: 183 said yes; the rest weren't sure. Lidice Massacre Director Taken Prague (fP) The arrest of Gestapo Officer Hans Forester, accused of directing the Lidice massacre, was announced today. Czechoslovak police said Forster had been hiding in a forest near Karlsbad since the surrender of Germany. 38 INDEPENDENT FOOD stores closed in Tiiple Cities. Page 3.

Washington (U.R) American housewives can expect shortages in such important food categories as meat, suger, fats and oils to be with them at least until spring of next year, a survey of government food agencies indicated today. Prospects are that meat supplies for this fall and winter will be no better than last year. While there will be an increase in beef marketings, that will be offset by a further cut in the pork supply. Officials believe there will be no real Improvement until late next spring when both beef and pork are expected to be more plentiful. Butter production is lagging behind 1944 and non-civilian demands have been greater.

Sugar Critically Low The 40 per cent cutback in military purchases to be effective next month will relieve the situation somewhat. The expected spring increase in pork supplies is also expected to ease the fats and oil supply. Domestic stores of sugar are critically low at present. The picture may improve next year if shipments from the Philippines are resumed. The public will get a good guide to 1945 food production tomorrow when the Department of Agncul ture issues its July crop Report with the season first official fore cast on all major crops.

The estimated size of the corn crop, for example, is a clue to future pro duction of livestock, poultry and dairy goods. Review of Situation Here is the outlook on other foods: POULTRY Large marketings this fall and a probable cutback in military buying should break the shortage existing since last De cember. EGGS Increasingly small sup plies until next spring. CANNED GOODS The next 12 "months will bring 19 per cent fewer canned vegetables and 7 per cent less canned fruit. WHEAT AND CEREALS More than enough for all needs.

FISH Plenty of fresh fish but canned supplies are tight. MILK Ample for record consumption barring any sudden feed shortage. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Supplies probably will be as large as last year's record crop but transportation difficulties will interfere with distribution. 6The Stomach9 Steals Stage Atlanta Diners at an- Atlanta cafeteria lost interest in their own food when Pfc. Chester J.

Salvatori, the army's eating wonder, placed his They stared goggle-eyed when the Southbridge, soldier, a mere 121-pounder, put away: Seven orders of fried chicken, 10 orders of French fried potatoes, nine glasses of orange juice, two quarts of milk, '10 combination salads, five egg salads, two orders of olives, two glasses of iced coffee, two slices of watermelon, five orders of rolls and five slices of apple pie a la mode. lhrowii Back by Aussies Wives Leave Yanks for P.O.W.'s Manila (U.R) Fierce Japanese counterattacks were reported today around the Manggar airstrip, where the enemy battled to prevent the Australians from breaking out of the Balikpapan bridgehead for a drive northeast to the Samarinda oilfield. Australian army dispatches, relayed by Radio Melbourne, said that the Japanese made two coun terattacks Saturday night and Sunday morning at Manggar, 12 miles northeast of Balikpapan. In the first enemy stab, fighting raged back and forth for half an hour before the drive was stemmed. Less than an hour later, the Japanese attacked again.

That time they lost heavily, the Australian reports said. The 7th Division had encircled the Pandansari oil refinery area Portland, Ore. (U.R) Two pretty Seattle war workers, Mrs. Lenore Hodgson, 26, and Mrs. Fae Burns, 19, were indignant today at federal intervention in their romance with two escaped Italian war prisoners.

They said they intended to marry the Italians after divorcing their husbands who are now fighting for the United States. "Why all the fuss?" the women demanded haughtily after they were arraigned here on charges of helping three prisoners flee from an Italian service unit at a Seattle war plant. They said they were innocent. "America isn't at war with.