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IOWA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 3 IDTD CITIZEN ESS A NEVVSPAPEB FOB THE IIOME Information and Enjqyment For Every Member of TUB FAMILY I I 1- 1 IOWA CITY WEATHEB Cloudy, continued mild, scattered I Hlfh and low readings for the put 14 hours: 78 and to. Today's reading at p.m. 71. a. Westntr lurtu Jtaport at I 'JL 1841 IOWA ESTABLISHED CITY, IOWA, FRIDAY EVENING," MAY 25, ONI PAT NEARER VICTORT nnrafRrnRfiiiOT 'rviAM TPfrrirnrrn ataman iiKM ilia yMlnl MiMuuv Yafiks I 45 Tons of Steel Swing Into Place on Local Is SecondBigFire Bomb Raid in 2 Days; Hit Modern District WASHINGTON Another big fleet of Super-Fortresses rained fire on Toklo today as 20th alrforre headquarters announced the loss of It B-29s in Wednesday's record attack.

It was the heaviest loss -yet suffered by a B-29 misaion. The 12 Super-Fort reiwies were shot down out of a SSO-plane fleet, the Nipponese capital. By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, Saturday, May 26 VP) A force of about 500 Super-Forts dropped more than 4,000 tons of bombs on Tokio'a Marunouchi business district and imperial government cen- ter this morning in the SECOND BIG FIRE BOMB' RAID biggest thus far sent against the THAN 48 HOURS. ward from Toklo bay through the city's equivalent of Chicago's Stats sfreeTdepartment store and office building, district. On the outskirts of the Marunouchi district Is the Imperial hotel, designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which survived the 1923 earthquake.

Major government buildings also are situated there. One end of the Gihza, which Is the city's Broadway, runs Into the Marunouchi. Beat-Built Area The hew area to fall under the B-29 bombsighta probably has the best-built and most modern buildings In These' Include the nation's largest, so-called fireproof RAID Turn to page 8 iWARSURPLUS PLANS SET UP Des 'Moines Will This 45-ton section of steel was lowered Into place Thursday morning In the Rock Island railroad's new Maiden tana Heavy beams were shipped here from Chicago and assembled Into the bridge section. -When assembly was completed this week, two cranes, on from 8 11 vis, IO, and one from Des Moinns, came hero to lift the heavy unit en flatcar for transportation to the viaduct. Photo, taken by Frtw-CHfaen Phototrapher-Charlea shows the heavy section Just after eranertwd lifted It from the flatcar on-an adjoin-tng track.

Work on the $35,000 project started In early February. Cement abutments were completed this week. Be Distribution Point for State 1945 TOMO REPORTS LANDINGS ON- CHINA COAST Allied Infantrymen Turn to Mopping Up In 3 War Sectors By LEONARD MHJJMAN AMMUte Tr Ww KdlUr Japanese counter-landings by airborne suicide troops on Okinawa and amphibious units on the central. China coast were reported today as allied infantrymen swept through five more towns and turned to mopping up in three widely separated sectors. An unconfirmed Japanese communique said airborne troops landed on" two American airfields on Okinawa 825 miles south of Japan, where they blew up aircraft, ammunition dumps and installations.

It claimed tho suicidal raid co-ordinated with air strikes on nearby U. S. shipping. Admiral Chester W. Nimltz previously announced one more light U.

S. ship was damaged In ah Talds Wednesday and Thursday nights. He admitted the raids were continuing. American ground troops, de prived of tank support by deepen ing mud, slogged ahead all along the Okinawa front. The" 7th in fantry seized new hill positions moreL.thana jnUe JtoUtb-Of JTona bam on the east coast against stiff opposition, while Japanese troop movement! to the south indicated the enemy wu preparing to' sat up a new defensive line.

ZT Repulss BldwYtrr: On the west coast, 6th division marines poured hi strength into Nana, the island on bridges built under continuous ar tillery fire. In the center of the line the 77th division captured two small, villages near Shut! fortress and the 86th repulsed two counterattacks. The 27th was pulled out of this sector to begin the biggest mop-up Job of the Pacific. The full division started out In a steady downpour tosearch ever 800 square miles for an estimated 1,000 Japanese soldiers and to round np perhaps 150,000 Okl-nawan civilians. Gen.

-Douglas Mae Arthur n-nquncedL tne "mopping up stage" wa also indanao island In the southern Philippines after Yanks completed two June-tions. On the central plateau the 31st joined the 40th and America! divisions at Impalutao, former headquarters of the Japanese 35th. imy. In he Davao sector, the! 24th advanced eight miles to join jruerruia iorcea. yanks also began cleaning up aisorgamzea out ouieny resisting Japanese in the Ipo dam area of the Manila watershed- on' Luzon island.

Chinese, Advance The three-pronged Chinese offensive jweeplng toward the enemy's corridor to Indo-China en gulfed Hwalfyanohen, 60 miles from the crossroads city of Liu- chow, Due north, other Chinese were within, 19 miles of Paochlng (Shaoyang) springboard of a re cent Japanese offensive. I In a belated effort to halt the Chinese counter-offensive In the Foochow area, Japanese landed reinforcements from warships north of that recently freed east China port. tp- British troops found the river port of Basseln, 88 miles west of Rangoon in a by-passed sector of Burma, -deserted by the Japanese after they had destroyed the main jciues. Australians exterminating Nip- ponese in the Wewak sector of northern New Guinea killed 1,091 more enemy soldiers and found boxes containing the ashes of 7,000 others which had been prepared for shipment to Japan. See New V.

8. Landings -Japanese broadcasters foresaw a possible allied landing on AmamI island in the northern Ryukyus. 200 miles south of Japan, and ad mitted Nipponese suicide tactics couldnt halt, the -Americanad-vance. Another broadcast" discussing Soviet Russia's position in the Pacific said "if Japan should desire peace it would be possible that Japan- would make proposals through Russia." BABT DROWNS MARSHALLTOWN Ken neth Murray, 18 months old and only child of Mr. and Mrs.

M. N. Murray, drowned Thursday after- noon In a fish pool at the V. C. Peterson horns.

The boy had wandered from kla home. BREAK VITH SPAIN URGED. UPON FRANCE1 Demand Return of 4 Laval; Seek Means Epr Franco Ouster By RELMAN MORIN PARIS UP) The French foreign affairs committee ask ed the De Gaulle government today to break relations with Spain, force the extradition of Pierre Laval and propose means the allied nations to force Generalissimo Franco from office. 1 The committee is composed of members of the Assembly and It corresponds roughly to the Unt- ted States senate foreign relations committee. The recommendation to Gen eral DeGaulle's government asserted that the Franco regime was no different from the erst-while fascist government of Italy before Its surrender.

The Spanish regime was term ed a menace to world The committee also demanded that the government lose no fur ther time In forcing Spain to nand over Pierre Laval to France. Laval, chief of government in the Vichy regime, is under death sentence in France as a traitor and is In cus tody of Spain after fleeing Ger many by air. Urges Joint Action The committee said the allies should take joint action to remove Franco7'bead of the Spanish government since the old republlo was overthrown la civil war, and provide the Spanish people with the means of holding an Immediate consultative election. The committee said the Franco regime was forcibly imposed and the European war Its neutrality was a fiction. 1 The pronouncement said the security of France demanded the resignation of Franco and the substitution of a republican form of government The Laval case has been developing over the past three weeks into a serious -dispute.

He landed at Barcelona early this month. France asked Spain to deliver him to the frontier and the Span- lards refused. Both the United States and Great Britain were reported to JavejrgedlBpaJnTjtoAnmn sum. xne aiaiuae 01 Dom gov- ernments, however, was said to have been that the Laval affair should be settled directly between France and Spain. 1 The suggestion that a British warship take him to a French port was said to have been accepted by the British foreign office, but it was reported here that Britain late balked, Laval may eventually be flown back to Trance.

"Walt and See" Attitude Even as the French committee spoke out, the communist party publlcationr L'Unlta in Rome, call' ed on the Italian government to break off diplomatic relations with Spain, charging that Franco was giving refuge to high ranking fascists. 7 A London dispatch described j' British reaction as "wait and see." The British foreign office declined comment, and officially responsible circles took the position that Britain still had normal diplomatic relations with Spain. British quarters said discussions with Spain on such questions tas Tangier, thr African zone opposite Gibraltar which Spain occupied during the were Inevitable. IT WAS EMPHASIZED THAT THE FRENCH COMMITTEE ACTION WAS A RECOMMENDATION AND NOT IN ITSELF A BREAK IN RELATIONS. "Haunt of Fascists It was recalled that a year ago Prime Minister Churchill deprecated the fact "some people think our foreign policy Is best expressi by drawing comical or even rude cartoons of General Franco." He said the Spaniards had "continued absolutely friefliBy-a4tranluU DES MOINES CT) A distribu-tion point for the sale or surplus war commodities wM be established in Des Moines, 'the newly-cre Hitler's Own Report Terrific Indictment -Of Mezi War Guilt BERCHTESG A DUN fP-Steno-( Ardennes offensive of December Viaduct it Hi I 4 BIG POWERS GAIN VOTES InJPosition to Block Any Change In Veto Power BV JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO tmTb big powers are reported todayto have lined up enough votes in the United Nations conference to block any change in their absolute control of world macmnery designed to pre-wrvs-peaea; This issue the' veto power of any of the Big Five over' settling international disputes or using force to smash an aggressor Is the most critical remaining tor jiationaJThe decision hour comes as the con ference enters its second month va and Secretary of State Stettiniut returns irom taiiia in vv asningioni with President Truman. Many committees are' striving to wind up their work by this week-end In order to allow pub lic discussion of their reports to bgin in the Jour Wg conference commissions early next week. Among their latest accomplish ments are agreement on provisions designed to strengthen the economic and social woMt of the new CONFERENCE Turn to page 8 Stalin declared: "Other people could have said to their government, Tfpu have not fulfilled our expectationsgo away and we will set up another gov ernment which will make a tieace with Germany and make us secure'. "But the Russians did not take to this, because they believed in the soundness of politic! of their government and made sacrifices in order to guarantee the defeat of Germany. And this trust of the Russian people in the Soviet government proved to.

be the decisive force which guaranteed the heroic victory over the enemy of humanity over fascism Tremendous roars' filled the great hail. Moiotov, in toasting Stalin, said of the marshal: "He who was leading and to leading our combat. He who has brought our people to their great' victory, a victory unparalleled In history." A group of Polish miners who last week delivered a trainload of coal to Moscow was present and Moiotov raised the vodka: "I offer a toast to friendly democratic Poland. For Soviet-Polish friendship, which should serve as an example of unbreakable friendship of Slav peoples." 1 ON THAT CITY IN LESS The Nipponese capital still waa burning from the record 650- plane fire raid early Thursday (Japanese time) In which, pre-. Hmlnary reconnaissance-photo graphs showed, at least 3.2 square miles of the Shlnagawa Industrial center was damaged by fire.

Haze and smoke obscured pictures and Major Gen. Curtis E. LeMay's headquarters said-considerable additional damage probably was Inflicted, Hit Toklo "State 8treet" The target area for today's task force that struck shortly after midnight, Japanese time (about 10 a. m. Friday, CWT) waa south cen tral Toklo, bordered on the north by the imperial palace and on the south by the Bhlnagawa area bombed Thursday.

Today's target area runs west Gallant Fight "BylDestroyer Off Okinawa. ABOARD VICE ADMIRAL RICHARD K. TURNER'S FLAG- SHIPX)FF OKINAWA April 18 (Delayed by Navy Censorship) UP) The gallant-llttle destroyer Laf-fey took everything the Japanese could throw at her from the air for two hours and survived. suicide planes hit her. Two bombs nitJierand two more scored damaging near" misses.

Thirty-one members of the Laf- fey's crew were killed end 60 others wounded. 1 With her guns going until- the last enemy plane disappeared, the Laffey shot down at least eight Japanese planes -and saw one friendly plane crash nearby after chasing another Japanese craft Into the sea. (In Seattle, where the Laffey was brought" or-repalrsr-the-ver-sel's skipper, Cmdr. Frederick Julian Becton- of Hot Springs, said eight Japanese planes struck the ship, seven with sul-cidal Intent Another accidentally clipped the destroyer's mast. Nine planes were shot down! by the Laffey's gunners, the cam-mander said.) 1 "I'll never abandon- ship as long as a gun will fire," ljhe Laffey's skipper, Ctndr.

Frl erick Julian Becton, of Hot Springs, declared. He kept his promlsei .1 The destroyer's communications Lieut. Frank Mansion, Tahlequah, related the epic battle of two days ago at a news conference today. V. "Every man stayed on hk battle station.

If one was killed a radioman or pharmacists mate would take his place. One boy, Coxswain Calvin W. Cloer from Burbank, in mount three was seriously burned. He went to the wardroom, saw the many casualties needing treatment and went back to his battle station. Wounded again, he returned to the wardroom for attention Just as a bomb hit, killing him.

I "For awhile weTthought we were going toslnk but a tug pumped us out and saved us?" Lieutenant Manson said. Says the Navy's Admiral McCain 'WASHJCVGTON- bond statement from Vice Ad miral John 8. McCain, com- manger of carrier task force within 3rd fleet: The fast carrier task force fighting men can beat the Japs as long as the people at A Me'' McCain heme back them op. Put the Seventh War Loan across and' yon help give your fighting men the weapons to keep smashing- the enemy until lie to defeated." ated Iowa war surplus commodities board was told today by Henry Wichman," board secretary. He said F.

G. Moyer, deputy director, of the surplus production board, Kansas City, had informed him that both a sampling room and large storage area would be set up in the Iowa capital. Other distribution each with a sampling room, will be established at St Louis, Sidney, and iom. point in Kansas' yet to be deter-) mined, "Wichman said- he had learned. federal government hopes; -to the set-up.

working in; about added. The fact that Dei Moines will serve as a distributing point does not mean necessarily that all commodities distributed in the state will come from that, point, Wichman explained. The Iowa board, created by the 1945 legislature to list tad purchase surplus war materials for various units of the state government learned from the secretary that all commodities would be sold from samples methods would be used Infrequently Tax-supported institutions will- WAR SURPLUS Turn to page 8 graphic notes successfully to destroy t.ied Un-have re- Vealed a secret, solf -indicting account by Adolf Hitler saying he planned the "crushing" of Czechoslovakia and Poland as "essential preliminaries for the war of the future" against the allies. said Germany prepared" for war and that psychologically she' "could not afford to waste" nazl-scbooled fanaticism, which' T-Hfr Inv'a rAraM fatww nna In division commanders last Decern. ber 12, was the most spectacular find to date by- American officers studying thousands of pages of partly charred notes which are shaping up as terrific Indictment of nazi war guilt.

a stenographers, who themselves took down many of thesestatemenUthe nazit never dreamed would come to light, were transcribing the notes, brought here from Berlin, when a partial text of Hitler's report was Made Just before the German 16. Hitler's statement to his' officers openly belied the nazis' ex-cuM they had started the war because of alleged Polish provoca tions. Hitler outlined his plans -made in peacetime for war prep, in this order: -l Ml "First, Immediate Hon of universal military ser- Vlee. "Second, re-entaWIshment-of German sovereignty through the occupation of the Khlneland and the creation of a fortification system. "iniru, immediate annexa tlon of Austria, crushing Czecho-Slovakla and ultima) crushing of Poland ht order Ti bring Germany, territorially a position for effective defense.

"These were the essential preliminaries for the war of the future." There is not only militarv preparation there Is also terri-1 tonal preparation for a big war 1 and. tat this respect we with limited space were very nadiy "If the course we then proposed to take should lead to a big war, HITLER Torn to page TTnlonrAohgTineeople of our I raise this toast to the health of the Russian people not only because they are the leading people but because they have clear minds, sound character and durance." In a toast to the foreign commissar, Stalin, said: "I offer a toast to the leader of our foreign Vyacheslav Moiotov. Do not forget that a good foreign policy sometimes weight! more than two or three armies at the front" It was after the toast to the Russian people that Stalin: said the government had made no few mistakes in the war ''during theH desperate period In 1941 and 1942. It was then that the red army was recreating, abandoning villages anrWeansre-WaineTTWte Russia and other provinces, "giving them up because there was no other The celebration started at 8 p. m.

It lasted nearly antll Marshals, front eommandera, Inventors and national heroes la ail rank of RossJaa enterprise were la the audience and all received I FUNERAL FOR GESTAPO BOSS? British Undecided On Question; Hunt Ribbentrop Now' By WILLIAM F. BONI BRITISH 2nd ARMY HEAD- QUARTERSW Second armjrbT iclala still are undecided today whetheftohold "I funeraJ for Gestapo Chief Helnrlch Hlmmler in the presence of German military In allied hands. Thirty-six hours aftet the suicide death by poison of the S3 chief his dy-still laron the bare floor of Lueneburg villa. It will be placed in a coffin today. It was generally suspected that the former nazl foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the only high nazl not yet captured or reported dead, was somewhere in the British lector In northwest Ger many, i However, considering the numbers "of refugees on the move throughout the countryside, con siderable time could elapse before his capture.

Gen. Oberg, 'Butcher Of Paris, Caught By A. GOLDBERG KITZBUHEL, Germany, May 24 (Delayed) OR Gen. Karl Oberg, former chief of all German S3 and police activities in occupied France, was arrested today through the combined efforts of the 101st air borne and the 42nd divisions. Oberg was captured at a hide out" atop a mountain which took three hours to climb, but was not Identified luntii some time later when he was picked out of a batch of Germans in a prison pen.

The identification was made by Major Simmons, commander of the 3rd battalion of the 602nd parachute Infantry. Oberg at first denied bis identity, but finally admitted who he was. Taken with him were twa other officers and his blond secretary, with whom he said he came to this ares on May 7. TuiveDeenooklng for thi character for seven days," declared Simmons after Oberg admitted his identity. 'I'm sure glad I Jtound him." Oberg, known to the French as rtthe butcher of Paris was wearing civilian clothes when captured.

His face was deeply tanned and his hair was clipped close la Prussian SNOW IN MOSCOW Iff) A blustery snow- storm hit Moscow today and lowered the temperature' sharply. Soviet Leaders; Celebrate Win Pays High Tribute to Russians at Victory Banquet Auto Industry Speeds Plans For New Cars DETRO IT VP) America'! automobile industry sped plans today for its gradual return -to car making, strictly a low-gear proposition for the time being. After more than three years of total effort in the war, the industry had the war production board's authority to produce 200,000 passenger cars this year. The WPB granted the -zation Thursday but stipulated that the industry, must find its own materials in the "free mar. BT EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW Premier Marshal Stalin and other Soviet leaders congratulated themselves at a banquet Thursday night on 7 the triumph over Germany, although the Russian leader said that the government had made mistakes during the early months of battle.

Perhaps the high point of the tremendous victory gathering in the ancient White Hall of George in the Kremlin was Stalin's toast to the Russian people as he raised a vodka-filled tumblert 1 drink first of all to the health of the Russian people because they are the most outstanding of all nations In the composi- fton 9t tht Soviet The Russian people make np mom than half the population nit the Soviet Union, which Includes vast expanses of Asia. The toast-by the Georgian-born Stalin to the Russians was-considered equivalent to President Truman, Mlssourlan, toasting the people of the eastern United States. 1 raise this said -Stalin in one of hi beat moods in yesrs, "to the health of. the Russian people because they have deserved in this war the acknowledgement tt the period ot wanarc.n itv would be riven. Manufacturers may place orders immediately for materials, -with er not to be made- until after July 1, and it was expected that few would roll off the assembly -lines before October 1.

In view of restrictions, the gen-eral buying public ia likely to have to wait many months before new cars will be available. Henry P. Nelson, automotive reconversion co-ordinator, said the WPB probably would authorise production of 400,000 ears in the first -quarter-of-1946 and by the end of the first year of production. A "good, normal year" in the auto industry has been about 4,000,000 cars. the Mediterranean, mougn German pressure.

Criticism of this speech. led "Churchill to tell the house of commons December 8 that: It Is' one of thes great misrepresentations thai I hve said pleasant words about Franco." Spain has been under frequent attack in Moscow, especially while the Spanish Blue Legion was fighting beside the Germans on the eastern front Today's Pravda said ''Spain has become the haunt ,01 1 fascist traitors trying to save their hides." 1 oi ue leading force of the Soviet i' viM' V' -m..