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A WmUiw Suraae Report rt I ESTABLISHED 1841 IOWA CITY, IOWA SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1945 ON PAT NTaRLH VICTORY 1 1 IOWA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DM TEEN A I TV n7 itti r- fz i i 1 rz3T ctions as Okinawa Windub Nears tys Report Widespread A I e- Floating Dry Dock Jap Holdings RJBBENTROP IS Tell of Huge U. S. Fleet Concentrations In Okinawa Sectioh-i By LEONARD MILUMAV Associated Press War Editor Three widely separated allied fleet movements were re involving- a threatened third ported by Tokio radio today, invasion of Borneo, the first passed Truk island fortress, and "suddenly Increased activity in Okinawa waters. The three unconfirmed actions were about 2,500 miles Allies Split tA lUTUTIMItlJ AT K3UTOt 7 turn W0l Ji apart at the points of a triangle reaching up to Japan's ts krti miiiANCHuiiif sm7 IwwioXwutu 0 Alitrttnt' "Jt I .1, A battleship la need of repairs, finds plenty of room In this ten section floating dry dock known in the navy as "ABSD" or advance base sectional dock, somewhere In the Pacific The docks are built In separate sections and towed to combat sones where they are welded together Into one huge dock with a capacity of 65,000 to 100,000 tons. (AF Wlrephoto from Navy.) Truman Will Travel Evidently following the strategy of divide and conquer, the allies virtually have split the Japanese forces Into two areas.

Allied land, sea and air blows (arrows) have Isolated the enemy's war-gotten empire In southern Asia and the Indies from the Japan home Islands and northern China, Newest allied attack was the Australian landing at Brunet Bay, Borneo. Black areas are Japanese-held. (AP Wlrephoto Map.) Next 30 Jdr40 Ifft Prcsident-TrumanTplanr'to travel approximately 16500 mile within the next 30 to, 40 days. Here' how he will build up that r4 HITS 'FRIENDS tJ 7 Soviet Writer Lashes Out at Hearst, Luce, McCormick, Others MOSCOW UP) A writer in the government said today that some Americans were supporting- a "small but in fluential group of friends and protectors of German fascism," who eatvejX-ffiMi rom the eerST P16 wte'-churcj i servics from center, said ths second noma waters, deep into ute Dutch Indies and well out Into the Pacific, More than 20 warships. Includ ing a carrier and three battleships, were said to be- rearing BalJk- papan, Borneo's major oil refinery center.

The report coincided with an allied announcement that Aus tralian troops had seized all Initial objectives of their second Borneo invasion, begun only last Sunday, with the capture of their third airfield on Brunei bay. j1 increase In Forces A great Increase in American naval forces around Okinawa, Toklo said, "may point to an enemy scheme to launch fresk operations against the Japanese homeland. With less than 10,000 mostly second-rate Japanese troops left on Okinawa, the "final phase" of the ground campaign on this naval and air base Island will be ever in less than a week, said Lieut Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck-ner, whose 10th army troops narrowed the Nipponese hold to eight square miles, Naval bombardment of Truk, Toklo said, was carried out Friday by two cruisers and four destroyers iawnjunetlon with "-carrier attack which reached Us third suc cessive day today. The Japanese offered no explanation for this at tack, presumably by British forces, on the once mighty Nipponese base In the Caroline islands, Tokio also reported more than 25 Super-Forts made four mine- laying expeditions into Japanese waters during the early morning hours.

These mines are taking an ptag tn addition to the daily an- nounced bags of air raiders. To day's reports listed 14 coastal vessels and schooners sunk and six wrecked on- the ways mostly in Shanghai waters. Extend Patrols- While hundreds of American warships, loaded cargo vessels and landing craft are pouring into Okinawa waters, -Tokio said, U. S. naval patrols have been extended ilowithTn TSOOes of To mart thfa threat Jananaw were reported converting their 1 nearest island, one large fortress at amazing speed." Naval guns strongly supported three Yank divisions which have badly bent the enemy's suicide line on Okinawa? Ninety-sixth division infantry men drove deeper Into the north ern front behind tanks and flamethrower and covered- bytheir own guns mounted on Yaeju hill, which the Yanks have renamed "the Big One force, of he 96th assaulted twin-peaked Yuza hill from Which the Japanese were directing a heavy fire Into the flank of the PACIFIC Turn to page 6 profits tax specific exemption from $10,000 to $25,000, effective with the tax year beginning In 1946.

This would add $160,000,000 to the cash balances of corpora tions. 2. 10 per cent of the 05 per cent ex cess profit tax ie taken current- I OSITIONOF ALL NATIONS IREAKIKGUP 'Z Powers Ilope Win Out on Issue Tonight 37 JOHN VL B3GHT0WER IAN FRANCISCO UP) all nation opposition to a Five veto over future mges In a world security irter is cracking up, and ders of the big power bloc pe to win out orthis issue light It is one of three which nference committees are "niggling to wipe out this eek-end In Una with a high-speed hedule which cellt for President Truman to address, a final session of the United Nations conference next Saturday. The other two controversies are: 1. Whether colonial powers, sack as Britain and France, should be directed to make reports their colonies to the proposed new leagues.

Australia proposes that they should. The two big powers object 2. Whether the projected assembly of United Nations should be empowered to debate any aspect of, International relations or only matters concerned with peace and This Is an old Issue, previously settled over Russian objection In favor of the right to debate any International affair. But Russia has Insisted that It be re-opened, demanding the pesce-snd-secarity Discussion of a Big Five veto jver future amendments produced long and sometimes sharp on of a conference committee riday night. In its course, Sen.

enrl Rolin of Belgium said he robably would be accused of In insistency, but it was the unanimous opinion of the Belgian dele- atlon that the veto over future mendments should be allowed. Mexico Backs Right Manuel Telfo, undersecretary of oreign affairs of Mexico, aaii4hef ig powers should be given this veto right. Otherwise he argued amendment might be voted would cause one of them to mil out of the league and Alberto Lleras Camargo, foreign minister ef Colombia, protested the whole veto system, but said in Die present situation It was Just! Senator Rolin then suggested that the committee make a list of ai those who wanted to speak in oday's sessions but Peter Fraser New Zealand and Herbert Jvatt of Australia, small nation waders in the veto fight, blocked Ills with heated objections. Evatt ltd that to. stop debate was even orse than the veto itself.

Temporary Split Earlier, the' committee produced temporary split In ranks of the powers when, France voted ith the small nations on two ana for automatic revision of charter: 1. Canada and Brazil jointly reposed that between 5 and 10 sars after the league Is set up conference should be held to erhaul the charter. The Big tor opposed this and the vote "4 23 for, 17 against, 9 not. ting and one absent. A two-Ms vote was required, so the posal failed narrowly.

f-'. South Africa then ifd that the amending confer be held any time within 10 j-s. This also failed with 28 and 17 against. France ed with the majority of small ions In both cases, lereupon Hamilton Fish -Arm-ng, representing the United offered a compromise: If harter -were not revised wtth-5 years, then at the end of period the general, assembly 3 autornatically consider one. eraf delegates hailed thlr as oncillatory" proposal which help ratification of the char-y their home governments, in vent that those; governments to previsions of the charter la now being drawn.

-r-No ActlonTTaken finally no action was taken American ompromlse. night several members ihat the whole question be d. This appeared possible with sentiment swinging 0 the South African pro- ommittee handling the 1 settlements section of the completed its main work today only for ths of spproving a report on nplishmenta which must to a conference commi- I QUESHOieAT HEADQUARTERS -Report Most Skilled Examiners Working On Ex-Nazi Leader By DANIEL DE LUCK MONTGOMERY'S HEADQUARTERS, Germany UP) Captured nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was reported to be under questioning today at General Eisenhower's headquarters at Frankfurt-on-the-Main. The supreme command's most skilled examiners were said to have been assigned to. try to pry loose soms of the state secrets known to the 52-year-old former reich ambassador to London, who was reputed to have convinced Hitler on his return In 1938 Britain would not intervene when Poland was in- vaded.

Officially, Ribbentrop Jef Luene- berg airfield here for an unidentified destination Europe" Friday after being arrested in Hamburg Thursday along with an attractive brunet divorcee in whose apartment he boarded under the name of "Herr Rlese." Tells of Arrest v- By" telephone from Hamburg, Lieut. J. B. Adam of Paisley, Scot- landr told how his detail of a BeU gtan and two British sergeants ar rested "RlbBentrop.t He aaias "We called at a very unpretentious block of flats about a. m.

and knocked on the door ot the 'top floor, but getting no answer we nearly had decided to break it down when a lady In a dressing gown appeared She was dark-haired and very attractive, and we learned later she was 35 and divorced. Ws brushed-Jipr aside, saying we'd come la aiidTsearch7r The Belgian discovered Ribbentrop, shook him and woke him, Lieutenant'1 Adams said "We'search htm from top to bottom" but they did not discover the taped on poison phial which a medical examination at headquarters later found hidden between Ills legs.1 Sleepily Ribbentrop dressed, mut tering to himself. He then spoke up to his captors in good English, saying, "Yea know who I am, all right, don't you? I congratulate yeu. If you had been two days later Ijvould have given myself up voluntarily." Jt Little Clothing V. The room held only a few articles of clothing Mi two bulky envelopes containing long hand-written letters to Montgomery aid Churchill.

"I want to ask you a favor," Ribbentrop said, "Youf put that envelope addressed to the prime minister inside the one addressed to the field marshal and deliver -them intact to your commander." Then he was led Officers at supreme headquarters said General Eisenhower wanted no Interviews with or pictures taken of Ribbentrop In Frankfurt at the moment The reason given was that such pictures and news accounts might affect the Ribbentrop. trial. -if pictures are needed, then the signal corps will take them, an officer said. Discussion 3 Berlin Meeting Prime Minister Churchill, with the Site to be Berlin. This was made official night by an announcement from 10 Downing' street, official residence of Prime Minister Churchill.

spokesman said the date; had not been fixed defmtely, but the prima minister himself had said It would be before July 28. Ivrd -of the-Admiralty Brendan Bracken said the conference would take place at "the very time the votes are being counted" In Britain's national election. This would mean It could be any time between; July 8. date for the election, and July 27when the results are expected to be announced. Bracken ssaalled a statement by Harold Laski, chairman of the labor party, that la bo rites would abound -by-Big- -Three-decisions, despite the set that Laborite Major Clement Attlee, who was deputy prime minister In Church-Ill's coalition cabinet, had accepted the prime minister's offer to attend as a "friend and eouellqr." Returns to Find Wife Is Wed.

Mother SPOKANE, Wash. WV-Aft un Identified "Enoch Ardert" found weak endTionf used in a Japanese prison lamp after he had been reported killed in action came home to learn that his wife had married a close friend, the Rev. D. A. Russell said today.

soldier hus band, whose name he did not learn, told him the storyr The soldier, the girl, and their three-njonths-old daughter now are living Jn Spokane, ths minister said, and the-Enoch-Arden" husbandtrT patient at Madigan army hospital at Ft Lewis, Wash. The Spokane boy and the girl visited the other lad a shortJUme v-MvRw iiicjr uuui unow wnai lO QO. ine girl says shs loves both of them." Military official In. Spokane said they hid fcd.i&jjpwledge of the Spokane soldier1 identity. The Ft.

Lewis soldier, who was unable to remember his name when rescued from a Philippines prison camp and was traced through casualty lists, refused to discuss the Ft. Lewis officials said. They de clined to reveal his Identity because he Is a patient, I SEVEN FLYERS MISSING CORPUS CHRIS TI, Texas Seven men are missing -following the crash of a navy patrol bomber Friday in Corpus Chrlstl bay, the naval air station here announced today. naval bombardment of the by Yanks Score Advances On Okinawa By BOBBIN COONS GUAM Three American di visions drove across Hart Kiri pla teau today behind flame throwing tanks toward the last three commanding heights on Okinawa island still in ths hands of suicide Japanese forcesT" Ths enemy's hold on southern nicknamed "Hart Kiri" plateau by Doughboys, has been pared down to a hare eight square mUes and Lieut Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, said they couldn't last for another week.

Only about 10,000 Japanese, many of them second rate troops ahd Okinawan conscripts, were left on the plateau where Toklo Tsdio admitted they were undergoing murderous naval and aerial fire. 1 Japanese broadcasts reported suU Mtim all. attaflf a tt-a Thursday night, after a lapse of three days, against rapidly growing American naval forces swarm ing in Okinawa water. Alarmed enemy propagandist said American sea forces. Including many new assault boats, were in creasing with such speed that a new attack on the Rising Sun em- U.

S. sea patrols cruising around broadcasts to be ranging half way up to Japan. U.S. Big Guns Resound on 'Big Apple' ON THE CREST OF YEAJU HILL, Okinawa, June 15 (De layed) (S This is written atop the peak that the 96th division troops call "the Big Apple," which is reverberating today with the blast of big guns as American artillery fires, The front lines are 800 yard ahead of this point' in the middle of the southern Okinawa battls zone, The bill, or ridge. Is a coral outcropping about 500 feet high with its final 150 feet rising in a V-shaped cliff.

To ths west is a bowl-shaped depression, the rim of: which ex tends to about 1,000 yards west- ward to another V-shaped twin peak. The 381st Infantry was cleaning out this bowt this morning while riflemen and tank of the 383rd battalion were assaulting the twin pealt A mile south of the Big Apple, but not so high, is an outcropping that the troops have dubbed "Last-Stand ridge." Fighting today Is in progress in a. pine-dotted pla teau between the Big Apple and the ridge. I rode to ths top of the hill gun anven Dy me suuer or spine Lake, Iowa. looked Into some of the many Japanese caves and found them reinforced with steel and concrete and linked bv tunnels.

In one Haters wasrboaybf a woman. with combs still in her hairi lWo men's clothing was strewn about the ground. Credits Dojr with Bringing Rescue Coreyt22, today credited his mong- rei aog. iomh-speeanqr his extrication when he was pinned under a tractor CoreyTnoy recove'rinjf from a compound fracture of a thigh bone, wrote a message on a gasoline receipt, tied it to the dog's neck. Ladd took it to the house a half mile away and Corey's father, Dwlght Corey, found it and sun-monad aid, 4 From Washlngtoa to Olympia, WaaL, then to San Francisco and back to Washington; theft far Kansas City and Independence Mo, and back to Washington; then across the Atlantic to meet Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill In the vicinity of Berlin.

eWteous disclosed Frt- day that Mr. Truman plans to address the closing session of the United Nations conference at San Francisco Saturday, June 23. Earlier, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced the Big Three meeting will be held near ths German capital at a date yet to be disclosed. Roes said the president will fly to Olympia Tuesday or Wednesday, probably Tuesday, to be the guest of Gov.

Mon CT Wallgren. From Olympia Mr, Truman will fly to San Francisco the day before his address. After returning to Washington, probably June 24, the president will make another flying trip to Kansas City June 27 to attend homecoming celebrations at near by Independence that afternoon and at Kansas City the net Before leaving for the middle west, Mr, Truman will confer. with Gov. Thomas B.

Dewey of New York at the White House oh June 25, Several weeks ago he invited the 194 republican presidential nominee to drop in and discuss any matter the New Yorker may have on his mind. Unless unforeseen developments prevent, the president also plans to attend the governors conference at Mackinac Island, on July returning to Washington the following day. The White House said today that President Truman expects to spend three-or four days in his home town of Independence, and neat by Kansas City when he goes there late this month. Angry French Attack Train Carrying; Spanish Division; 12 Killed PARIS MP) Reports received here today, said 12 persons were killed and nearly 100 wounded In a riot at Chambery, 52 miles east of Lyonwheajangry -Frenchmen attacked a train transporting members of the Spanish Blue division through France to Spain. The Blue division was recruited In Spalntoflghton toe sideiof Germany against the Russians on the eastern front The train was diverted toward Switzerland, 'with the dead and wounded still aboard.

Says the Marines" General J. C. Smith WASHINGTON A war bond statement from Major Gen. Julian Smith, USMC, commanding general, depart ment of the "It will take billions more of war bonds to give the Japanese the kind of a beating which win prevent them ever again from attacking us." Proposal; Plan for Big was said again to have asked ailing Wlncenty Witos, 72-year-old former Polish premier, "to attend the meeting. -JThe-PoUsft don charged Friday -night that a "reign of terrorism" existed throughout Poland, and demanded immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and police rom Polish soil.

Jor the Middle East, authoritative Paris quarters said Britain turned down the French request for a five-power conference. The British government, previously had expressed preference for a -discussion only by France, Britain, and ths United States. The Vnited States also Is reported In Paris to have rejected7 the five-power plan. Details ot the British reply were not disclo8edimmedlately.Eritish Ambassador Alfred- Duff Cooper conferred with French Foreign Minister Georges Bldaultj i Meanwhile, preparation" were underway for the meeting of President Truman, Marshal Stalin and Plans Made to Speed wipe nazism The writer, A. Oeorglyev, declared that members of the group Included the Rev.

Charles E. Coughlln, Gerald L. K. Smith, William Randolph Hearst and Col. Robert R.

McCormick and Republican Senators Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Others in the group, the writer added, included "reactionary Catholic priest and rreedy bm nesa men enriched from secret dealings with the enemy." lie aid they represented mixed elements, but were united. Georgiyev also 1 1 a 4 Henry R. Luce, magazine publisher, and his wlfer Republican! Rep.

Clare Booths Luce of, Connecticut. -He quoted Luce ss writing in Life magazine recently that "for us (Americans) the upholding of the idea of law is more Important than, extermination, of the nasii Georgiyev asserted that it was apparent Luce's opinion was that "punishment Of the instigators and organizers of a system of lawless nesa unheard of In history is a violation of the law." The writer said that, while Luce "defends fascist criminals on the pages of his magazine," his wife "in hysterica speeches continues the propaganda of Goebbels about the "bolshevik danger and spreads provocative inventions about the Intentions of the U.S.S.R. to establish rule over Europe." Georgiyev charged that these "American advocates of reaction" represent a loud and vocal minor lty "whose political sympathies and efforts are In direct opposition to the national interests of the United grates." Seek Clues to Identity 0filQO9 Killedjn. Eastern Train Accident (Picture on Page 10) -Milton, Pa. UP) Pennsylvania railroad officials continued their search today for clues to the lden- titles- of tout of the 19-peraonS4 killed Friday in a freak collision here between a Washlngton-to-Buffalo express and a freight train, Three women and one serviceman still were unidentified, Railroad crews meanwhile are working to clear away the wreckage of the Dominioft express and ths freight trsin into which it Twenty-nine persons were 14-cer Dominion express thundered at 55 miles an hour Into the 34th car of the freight which railroed officials said wss derailed and thrown lixto it path by a broken Journal, i Tail Revision Program Open Moscow Polish wltH Teanegno Tax nabiiitv ormm ins sione Ja ine souin.

we 1944 and subsequent years, leaving with the corporations 1830,000,000 due in 1945 and $710,000,000 due in 1946. 8AjidvBnre to January 1, 1946, 1n "the Tnaturlty date of out- standing excess-profits tax post war refund bonds, making quickly available corporations not otherwise due intwo to four years. 4. A- speed-up of refunds re-auTtins' from carrv-hark tit not By FRANCIS M. LEMAY -WASHINGTON UK Plans were laid today to speed through con gress a tax revision program de signed to improve the cash position of business and industry by during reconversion, ChairmjipzrDoughton of the hoiia wava end means enm- ennmwexl-h ntrw dues the business-aid tax bin Mon -V' Representative nut son (R- republican leader of the tax-framing committee, predicted hearings can be completed and the bill passed by the house within a week or 10 days.

The committee expect to open public hearings Tuesdsy. The measure proposes no material reduction in ultimate tax burdens, but I Intended to speed postwar payments on rebates and credits due Industry. This would niake billion cf dollar available for reconversion. tio change In either the Individ- ual cxirporaticn-mcom taxte4 1 contemplated at this time. Doughton's bill will embody recommendations made Jointly May 10 by the senate-house postwar tax committee and the treasury department, providing: i.

An increase in the British Reject French BY ALEX H. SINGLETON INIXJN (a Stanlslaw Mlko- lajczyk, former Polish premier, -flew to Moscow today to confer on reorganidng the Warsaw government while to a 'second post-war dispute Britain Was reported authoritatively to have rejected France's proposal for a five-power discussion of Middle East prob- Both developments were preliminaries to the next Big Three conference, scheduled in Berlin sometime before July 26. Accompanying Mikolajczyk, the peasant party leader, were- Jan Stancyyk, who was labor minister In his London Polish government, and Jan Drojohowski, a foreign af fairs expert in Mikolajczyk's group. A Moscow dispatch said prelim inary-discussions--were underway among Poles already on the scene. The Big Three commission on Polish reorganization Foreign Commissar Molotov and ths V.

S. and British ambassadors to Russia operating losses and of unused ex.F MOSCOW. Idaho tPV-Charles cess-profits credits, amountlnz to due until 1947 to 1950. B. A hastening in refunds re- deductions for amortization of emergency feUOeav-Thi would result in refunds in 194S and 1946 of about $1,700,000,000.

Without specific legislation these refunds would be made over an Indefinite period,.