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FaO Bar. 117th Year No. 197 Price 5 Cents Montgomery, Monday Morning, July 16, 1943 8 Page Chennault Blasts Rock Japan Honrs Big Three Conference On Fate Of Europe, Halsey's Mighty Fleet Feeds Steel To Japs Reporter Aboard Battleship Iowa Describes It; Once 'Dreadful' Nips Cringe, Take Shelling B-29s Spill Explosives On Punch-Drunk Japs; 128 Nip Ships Hammered Sky Giants Take Up Where Third Fleet Left Off; Australians Near Rich Samhodja Oil Fields; Chinese Seize Airfield And Herd Mips North Pacific War Truman's Primary Objective At Potsdam Parley Will Be Victory Over Japanese Empire; Plans To Offer U. S. Aid In Rehabilitation Program By ERNEST B.

VACCARO and DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN, July 15. (AP) resident Truman and Prime Minister Churchill arrived in Germany's ruined capi-tal by plane today to join Premier Stalin in" an historic conference that may. shorten the Pacfic war and decide the world's fate for years to come. Premier Stalin also was understood, to have arrived although the Russians made no formal announcement. The bie three will begin dis- By RAY CRONIN Associated Press War Editor Carrier planes of the U.

S. Pacific Fleet Bank or damaged 128 Japanese ships, small craft and barges in strikes off Honshu and Hokkaido Saturday and Sunday while battleships and smaller warships destroyed or heavily damaged industrial, transport and harbor areas of Muroran on Hokkaido yesterday. ZZ The action brought "no defen- i Tlw Opens Today Tli Ready For Its Allied Destiny Another Four Weeks To See Four Powers In Joint Control Of Reich By DON WHITEHEAD FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, July 15. (IP) Within another four weeks battered Berlin will become once more one of the great government, centers of Europeas the -fourpower control council takes over its task of directing the governing of occupied Germany. Already representatives of all 12 divisions of the United States group of the control council are in Berlin as an advance echelon to work out details of liaison and cooperation with the Russians, the British and the French preparatory to the first full dress meeting of the control council.

By mid-August the central control council is scheduled to begin functions, thus focusing in Berlin the Allied government of Germany. Eisenhower's Part As American representative on the control council Gen. Eisen hower will spend part of his time T- i i in oei un wurxing uui policies ana a multitude of details with Marshal Gregory, K. Zhukov, Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery, and other control council members, Fugf.phowefwnrking-wi spa cious oiiice nere in a Duiiaing which formerly housed the headquarters of I.

G. Farbenindustrie, is expected to spend a large part of his time in Frankfurt, where the American occupation activities center. Paris becomes of secondary importance, although communications zone headquarters will remain there until the redeployment program is completed. This headquarters directs the handling of supplies, communications and transportation for the occupation army in Germany. Meanwhile Marseille, Cherbourg, Rouen and Le Havre will continue to be important centers for the Americans in the redeployment of troops and the shipment of supplies into Europe.

Army Groups Dissolved Both the 12th and the Sixth Army groups are in the process of being dissolved. Their command functions have ceased. Gen. Orrrar Bradley is expected to leave his Wiesbaden headquarters by early August to take over his new job as veterans administrator in Washington. The American occupation armies, Gen.

George S. Patton's Third and Lieut. Gen. Wade H. Haislip's Seventh, have established headquarters at Munich and Augsburg respectively.

Pat-ton has his advance headquarters at Bad Tolz and the Seventh is expected to move its main headquarters from Augsburg to Heidelberg. In each of the two regions of the American zone of occupation there will be large military government detachments, one in the eastern region of Bavaria and the other in the western region, a region whose geographical boundaries have not yet been defined. Where these detachments will be stationed permanently has not been announced. Raps Critics Of Chinese Retiring Aerial Combat Wizard Pays Tribute To Chiang And China Stresses Triumph His Health Still As 'Poor' As 8 Years Ago When Army First Retired Him KUNMING, CHINA, July 15. (IP) Maj.

Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, who has resigned as commander of the 14th U. S. Air Force, said today he had been shocked deeply by what he termed adverse criticism of the armies and government of China "recently made by irresponsible persons at home." "I think it's about time for Americans to cease to be so concerned by the mote in our neighbor's eye," he declared in a statement. Chennault, former leader of the Flying Tigers, announced his resignation yesterdy, saying he would remain until a new higher U.

S. air force command is installed in Chungking and tflen return to the United States and retire from the army. His statement said that China's armies and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government were "no more faultless than any others." Praise For Chiang "I have been a witness of eight years of war in and I have the deepest admiration for the generalissimo's courage, foresight and unwavering loyalty to the cause we share, Chennault declared. "I think it's time for us to remember that we owe China an immense debt." Chennault said that Lieut. Gen.

Albert C. Wedemeyer, as commanding general of S. Army forces in China, had done a "great job," and that the Japanese now were being pushed back in retreat. In his tribute to Gen. Wedemeyer, Chennault said that the "war was at a low ebb here when he assumed command.

I think I can claim not to be easily discouraged and even I was discouraged, He brought his splendid energy and determination to attack a most difficult situation. JaDS Rat Krnlrn headquarters at To kyo must have been pained by the way we got on the job in China under Gen. Wedemeyer," Chennault continued. "Aided by American soldiers and airmen and the Chinese airforce, the Chinese armies halted what seemed likely to he Japan's last offensive. A heavy defeat has been suffered by the Japanese and they are being pushed back in retreat." Chennault said that one of the most important factors in driving back the Japanese "has been the forging of a Sino-American team: All the elements of both nations air, ground and supply are striving together for the great objective of pushing the Japanese from Chinese soil," he said.

"Under the leadership of the Generalissimo and of Gen. Wedemeyer the team is going to attain that objective. They are going to attain it sooner than some people think. Good speed and good luck to them I regret that I cannot be with them at the end." Confidence In 14th Chennault expressed every confidence in the 14th Air Force. "No man in this war has ever had a finer job than mine," he said, "or more magnificent response from the men under his command, or finer help than I have received from the Chinese people." Asked about the state of his health, Chennault said that "the; new command gives me an opportunity for which I have long hoped.

Eight years ago I was retired from active duty because of my health. Most of those eight years have been spent in China. "I have led a small force, limited in resources, against a stronger enemy for more than three years," he continued. "The Japanese now have been defeated in the skies of China In view of this (Turn to Page 5) report by four Republican members of the Senate banking committee. They declared "the net result of the present bill is to waste our money and accomplish nothing." The majority of the committee had reported earlier that the program adopted by representatives of 44 nations last summer at Bretton Woods, N.

"will help preserve peace by making possible an expansion of international trade." The report was adopted by a 10 to 4 vote. The minority re port was returned by Senator Taft (R), Ohio, who heads opposition to the program, and Sena tors Millikin (R), Colorado, Butler (R), Nebraska, and Thomas (R), Idaho. Chairman Wagner (D), New York, of the banking committee who has held out for blanket unaltered approval of the program, will lead off the final administration drive tomorrow. The asserted purpose of the $9,100,000,000 international bank is to maUe or guarantee long-term loans for rehabilitation and development. The $8,800,000,000 monetary fund is intended to stabilize exchange and eliminate competitive exchange After Taps' Once Great Steel Center Smokes And Explodes Like Aroused Volcano Muroran Burning Kuskiro Destroyed With First Day's Navy Attack, Air Observers Report By LEIF ERICKSON GUAM, Monday, July 16 (IP) Struck by more than 1,000 tons of huge naval shells, Japan's once-great industrial port Muroran on Hokkaido belched continuing explosions and tow fires as the result of Sunday's fleet bombardment, Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz announced t-day. The enemy offered no defense, either aerial or naval, he said, to this second day's assaults on the home islands by 16-inch broadsides and carrier plane strikes, which first were announced yesterday while th'iy were taking place. Preliminary reports of the two days of carrier attacks showed 128 Japanese ships and small craft sunk or damaged including six vital train ferries linking Hokkaido and Honshu. Most of the city of Kushiro was burned in the first day's air assault, NimiU asserted.

Superfortresses from the Marianas joined the coordinated blasting of the empire with a 50 to 75-plane bombing of a major Honshu Oil refinery at Kudamatsu. Stunned Japs Take It Despite "widespread destruction" caused by the fleet's deliberate blasting and powerful air strikes, "the action of thesa forces brought no defensive response from the enemy in the fair or on the surface through out the day" Sunday the second day in which Japan offered no gesture of defense except ineffective anti-aircraft fire, the communique reported. Muroran's Nippon steel plant and Wanishi iron works were exploding and aflame after Sunday's cyclone of 16-inch shells from the battleships Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin- upon the city, formerly untouched by In complete reports of Sunday's carrier plane blows at northern Honshu and Hokkaido again hampered by adverse weather-showed nine ships and six small craft totalling 12,000 tons were sunk and nine ships and 30 small craft totalling 12,000 tons were damaged during the early morning hours alone. No Aerial Interception Four enemy planes were destroyed aground, and one was damaged. There was no aerial interception, and anti-aircraft fire did no damage.

Further reports from Saturday's carrier actions showed 24 Japanese ships and 25 barges totaling 41,000 tons and 25 ships totaling 43,000 tons were damaged. Carrier forces lost nine planes and three air crewmen in the Saturday strikes. In Sunday's terrific bombardment -of Muroran, "very large" explosions and fires were observed, and the Wanishi iron works virtually was devastated. An open hearth blast furnace and chemical plant and warehouses were "heavily hit" and a coal liquefaction plant including gas and storage tanks was aflame. Many other fires were observed along the city's water-Itont, where building of small wooden ships had been rushed by the ship-desperate enemy.

B-Z9s Hit Honshu While carrier and surface bombardment results were being totaled, 50 to 75 Superfortresses lashed an oil refinery on Honshu: The carrier airmen sought out Japanese airfields and shipping. The night-flying B-29s struck the big oil refinery at Kudamatsu for the second time in 16 days. The sky giants rained demolition bombs on the Nippon oil company plant near Tokuiama. Not a single Japanese plane came over the American battleship bombarding squadron, nor did shore batteries offer any opposition, while Muroran was taking the 16-inch gun broadsides. said Associated Press Correspond- (Turn to rage 5) Naval, Air Blows Held Strategic By ELTON C.

FAT Associated Press News Analyst Although the mounting fury of naval and air attacks may sug gest preparatory operations for invasion, u-uay in japan prorj-ably is several pages away on the calendar. What appears to be happening is enlistment of naval surface forces along with the air arms of army and navy, in strategic attack. The reported target of the bombardment guns of the super-battleships and their supporting craft in the attack on Muroran. on Hokkaido Island, was iron ana steel production. This is a strategic target, the same type of objective that the Army Air Forces' B-29s having been working over for a year.

Hokkaido Out Of Rartfe Hokkaido, however, is beyond the practical operating limit of Superfortresses based on Saipan and presumably will remain be-vnnd their range until bases on Okinawa or possible bases the of of as it By RICHARD OMALLET ABOARD BATTLESHIP IOWA WITH THIRD FLEET OFF HOK KAIDO, July 15 Knifing boldly inshore where the rugged hills of Muroran are plainly visible, this American battleship and others of a bombardment group mercilessly pounded the great Ninon steel works ana tne Wanishi iron mills today. riot a single Japanese plane took the air nor did shore batteries return the fire as the col umn of ships from their precise line belched destruction at will leaving a pall of smoke over the target area. At 9:37 a.m. this ship turned loose the first salvo. A thunderous blast came from the smooth, gray guns pointed like deadly fingers at the shore.

In a moment other battleships joined in the bombardment. The fire continued for 58 minutes, mainlv aeainst vital enemy- steel plants. A hi oh of smoke rose after the first salvo hit ruffeed Point Muroran. which is like many promontories on the Oregon and Washington coast oi me unuea States. Our planes covering the sky were reassuring as the ships went into the area surrounded on three sides by enemy land.

The Muroran area is shaped like a big Middle East To Test Unity Of Big Three Foreign Policy Group Reports Open Warfare Possible In Arab World By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, July 15. (JP) The conflict-riven, oil-rich middle east may be the next critical testing ground of Big Three unity, the foreign policy association said today. The private research organization offered this view as President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin assembled near Berlin for a face-to-face conference on international problems. Suggesting the possibility of "open warfare" throughout the Arab world, the association's report served to focus official attention here on one of the trouble spots certain to ba reviewed by the Big Three conferees.

Full Independence Problems One specific problem of the middle east is the restoration of full independence of action to Iran. Throughout the war Russian troops controlled the northern half of that country and British troops the southern half while American transport forces operated the country's transportation lines. The big powers have all pledged to withdraw from Iran within six months after the end of the war. Some weeks ago the government at Teheran declared that meant the European war and it called on all three powers to withdraw their armies at once. Iran is of strategic concern to Russia to whom it affords both a border barrier against attack and an avenue for trade in the middle east.

At the same time it is of immense importance to Britain which relies upon it heavily for oil. The United States is committed principally to seeing Iran's independence fully restored and, as in Europe, to establishing a political stability there 'which would promote peace rather than threaten war. It is, however, in the situation with respect to Jewish and Arab claims on Palestine that the foreign policy association finds the greatest danger. "Many observers," the association declared, "believe that, before they are realized, the political aspirations of both Jews and Arabs in Palestine fanned by outside sympathizers will lead to violent explosions far more serious than the pie-war riots which took place in that country or the (Turn to Pace 5) 2,000 Superforts Find Iwo Emergency Haven GUAM, Monday, July 16 (ft The 21st Bomber Command said today that nearly J.000 Superfortresses had made emergency landings, sometime under enemy fire, at Iwo Jifna since an advance base was set up there early in April after the conquest of the volcanic island. (The dispatch did not elaborate.

but presumablv the fire came from hold-out enemy troops hid ina in tunnels and caves after the conquest of the volcanic island was announced.) Engineers are completing con struction of an airfield on Iwo with 10.000-foot runways, longer than those of any other 21st Bomber Command base Col John C. Fowler, of Newnan, Ga. commands the base. me dS i -f pruning hook with the target located about at the start of the curve. The battleships drew in daringly close.

The ship's battleflag a big United States flag flown on'v once before fluttered from the Iowa's masthead. Flame and brown smoke leaped from tne guns. Audible above the fierce bellowing and fiery shock of the big guns was the rustle of shells sounding like giants shaking their coats in the sky. This ship fired scores of shells. Each weighed 2,700 pounds.

The ship barrage totalled more than 810 high explosive projectiles divided between the Nihon steel and the Wanishi iron works It was terrifying t-nough even aboard the battleship. The guns seemed to shake the sea and sky. It must have caused an inferno ashore. The Japanese must have cringed under the steel cloud burst. The skies were gray but there was a thin break of blue ahead as the bombardment continued end hills of the other section of the crescent-shaped promontory loomed off the starboard side.

They all seemed deserted, with no indication that somewhere in the area over which the guns were ranging was a city con-(Turn to Page 2, Coi. 5) Strike Picture Brightens As 23,000 Return Paper Delivery Dispute In New York Still On; ShipsV Workers Quit By the Associated Pres The nation's labor pictures brightened last night as at least 23,000 oi the 54,000 idle through work stoppages prepared to re turn to their jobs. Maintenance, service and power plant crews were busy yesterday preparing the Akron, Ohio, plant of Firestone Tire and Rubber ComDany for the resumption of production by 16,500 C. I. O.

United Rubber Workers who voted by 3 to 1 margin to end a two-week dispute caused by a contract renewal At Toledo, Ohio, where 6,500 C. I. A. W. workers at Spicer Manufacturing Comp any struck over discharge of an employe, production was expected to be resumed today after a vote to return to work was taken at a membership meeting Saturday night.

Paper Strike Continues In New York, Joseph Simons, president of the Newspapers and Mail Deliverers' Union (unafil-iated) said after a mass meeting of deliverymen yesterday that a two week old work stoppage which has affected 14 major New York newspapers would continue despite a warning from publishers that the strikers would be dismissed unless they returned to work today. The New York dispute which has tied up distribution of the newspapers for 14 days, was brought on by differences between the drivers and the publishers association. The drivers had asked that the strike be placed before an impartial arbitrator, but the WLB said the strikers must return to work before the board would consider their case. Simons said yesterday's mass meeting had been called for the purpose of giving the strikers an opportunity to vote on whether they wanted to return to work. He added, however, that no for mal vote was taken.

Other cities in which seven newspapers were also affected by dispute involving delivery truck drivers and mechanical workers are: Birminebam. three papers, 130 international Typographical Union (A. F. members; Fort Wayne, two papers, 00 workers; Jersey City, N. one paper, 40 workers; and Bayonnc, N.

one paper, 18 workers. A walkout of 2,700 members of (Turn to Fage 5) 90,000 RAF Airmen To Help Police Keich LONDON, July 15 (IP) More than 90,000 RAF airmen and ground crewmen will assist in the air policing of Germany, the air ministry said today as a new aerial police known as the British Air Force of Occupation in Germany came into being. The new force is a direct successor to the RAF Second Tactical Airforce, which ceased to exist as such. Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Second RAF, relinquished his rommand to Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, head of the new force, which will have headquarters at Bad McWun, west of Hanover. The makeup of the American Occupation Airforce has not yet been officially announced.

eussions tomorrow in Kaiser Wil-1 helm's former castle in suburban Potsdam and an unofficial esti- 1 mate tonight was that the conference would last from ten days to three weeks. Planes roared in over the bomb 4 blasted capital in an almost continuous stream from about 2:30 p.m. onward, bringing British and America dignitaries, while other American, British and Russian fighter planes patrolled the skies. Truman Arrives First The President, accompanied by his personal chief of staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, flew in from Brussels at 4:15 p.m.

Berlin iimo a.m. EWTV fifteen minutes after Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had lanaea. Thov hail snent two hours and -50 minutes in Belgium-after leav ing the cruiser Augusia ai n.iu (5:10 a.m. EWT).

Churchill's plane landed at 6:10 p.m. from Bordeaux, France, where he had motored from his vacation retreat at Hendaye. Truman, who has completed a draft of the proposals he will make, was understood to be ready to offer American cooper ation in tne renaDiiuauon ui Europe in exchange for assurances that European tountries will amicably adjust any differences that might cause war. His continuing primary objective, however, will be victory over Japan. The Pacific war is bound to figure in the discussions although Russia's attitude may Big 3 Talks To Center On Japan, Nips Say SAN July 15.

MflV-The Tokyo radio said thAt at the coming Big ThreeTmeetmf aTl Potsdam WOUia De cenwreu on Japan." As heard by the Federal Communications Commissi the broadcast did not enlarge on this theme. The commentator, identified as an editor of the Japanese Domei agency, predicted that the conference would "reach an impasse" because the Big Three no longer were bound by the common "cause of war against Germany. The broadcast claimed 'an atmosphere of war weariness prevails" among the United Nations and now "each nation is out to capitalize on its own war efforts." not become known until some time after the conference ends. (A Tokyo radio broadcaster Sunday said "the conference will be centered on Japan," but sought to discount it in advance.) The 41st regiment of the Second Armored Division formed an (Torn to Page 5) Ax Killing Suspect Shoots 2 Officers Reputed Wife Slayer Wins Duel With Troopers PHILLIPSBURG, N. July 15.

(IP) Corp. Jay Zeiss of State Police said a fugitive who ahot two state troopers with a service revolver after surrendering to them in connection with the axe-slaying of his wife in Orange, escaped tonight by swimming the flood-swollen Delaware River seven miles north of here. State Police said they believed the fugitive, who they identified as Ernest Rittenhouse, 30-year-old war plant worker of Orange, was hiding in the wooded area fronting the river. In Warren Hospital in critical condition was Sgt. Cornelius O'Donnell, in command of the State Police barracks at Washington, N.

and on the danger list at the same hospital was Trooper Frank Perry. State Police said Donnell and Perry saw Rittenhouse late today walking across a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the river from Brainards on the New Jersey side of the Delaware, where his par en is live. Rittenhouse surrendered them when cornered in a shanty on the Martin's Creek side and the officers and he started to return to New Jersey by way of the railroad bridge. State Police said Rittenhouse grabbed O'Donnell's revolver and fired, wounding him in the abdomen, and then shot Perry as the trooper grappled with him. Leaping from the bridge, Rittenhouse struck out toward the Pennsylvania shore.

Police said Perry fired at the swimming man, and they believe wounded him before the trooper collapsed from hn own wounds in the chest. Detective Sgt. Benjamin Tron-rone of Orange said Mrs. Angelina Rittenhouse, 28-year-old mother of three children, was slain last night in her home in Orange. Troncone said she had been struck several times with an ax during a Quarrel with her husband.

Slve response from either the Japanese navy or air forces, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today (Monday). War-battered Japan was hit again today. by 50 to 75 Superfortresses as the B-29 command pushed its campaign against Nippon's vital oil supply.

U. S. Losses Light The bold fleet strikes, for which Adm. William F. Iftlsey.

took his battle force within a few miles of the Japanese coast hundreds of miles north of Tokyo in a deep penetration of enemv waters, cost the fleet only nine planes downed and three fliers lost. Not a ship was damaged, Nimitz said, as he reported these results: Thirty-three ships. 25 barees arid six small craft, totaling 53,000 tons, sunk. Thirty-four ships and 30 small craft, totaling 55,000 tons, damaged. Six train ferries, carrying badly needed war materials between Box Score Of Fleet Blows At Japan By The Associated Press Japanese losses: Vessels sunk: (4 totaling 53,000 tons.

Vessels damaged: 64 totaling 55,000 tons. Planes destroyed: 28 on the ground, 1 in the air. Planes damaged: 63 on the ground. Locomotives destroyed: 27. Cities hit: Kushiro on Honshu burned out; Hakodate on Hokkaido, raU and shipping facilities knocked mtf- Ki 1 shi Honshu, steel set uuunc, ua- shl on Hokkaido, rail yards smashed; Muroran on two steel mills, chemical works, warehouses and other industries set afire and exploded.

V. S. losses: Nine plans and three crew members. Ships damaged: None. Honshu and Kokkaido, were included in the ships sunk or beached.

Four planes destroyed and one damaged on the ground. These Muroran war plants the Nippon steel works, Wanishi iron works, an open hearth blast furnace and coke plant, a chemical plant and warehouses, and a coal liquefaction plant, including gasoline and storage tanks were demolished or heavily damaged by more than 1,000 tons of shells from the battleships Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin and their escorting ships. Kushiro Burned Most of the Hokkaido city, of Kushiro was burned in Satur- day's carrier plane attack. The same day, another battleship lorce naa demolished the imperial iron and steel works at (Turn to Page 5) 65-Cent Wage Floor Is Urged Resolution Is Endorsed By Senate Subcommittee WASHINGTON, July 15. OP) A Senate Labor subcommittee endorsed today a resolution de claring it is the sense of Con-cress that arty hourly wage below 65 cents is "substandard." It recommended that congress give early consideration to amending their Fair Labor Standards Act "with a view to raising the statutory minimum wage and broadening the cov erage of the act." That law fixes 40 cents as the minimum wage which may be paid by business engaged in interstate commerce.

the resolution introduced by Senators Pepper (D). Florida, LaFollette (Prog Wisconsin and Johnson (D), bouth Carolina would direct specifically that the War Labor Board shall consider' any waee under 65 cents an hour substandard. At present. WLB accepts 55 cents as substandard. This means that wages can be raised to that level without regard for the wage stabilization program.

The subcommittee composed of Senators Pepper, LaFollette, Thomas (D), Utah, Tunnell D), Delaware, and Aiken (R), Vermont estimated in its report that 10,000.000 workers receive less than 65 cents. "This minimum rate, It Is important to remember, would in no sense be a cumpulsory minimum," the report said. "It would be purely permissive, if an employer wished to raise his wage rates to 65 cents he would be permitted to do so." The committee emphasized that, the resolution if adopted "would not prevent the board from setting a higher minimum should it determine such a rate to be necessary to fulfillment of the requirements of announced policy." Iqnc I ft tl I M.M Thev 'Ignored' Navy's Attacks But It's All A Wily Ruse To Fool Us Later With Very Secret Weapons SAN FRANCISCO. July 15. () The Japanese army admitted today the U.

S. Navy had bombarded the home islands for the second day in a row and told of widespread and concerted air raids, while a Navy spokesman talked of "a i for the American fleet '4nthe-not too distant future." Japanese propagandists hinted that secret weapons were being perfected to meet the challenge the American fleet, but a communique from the Japanese northern army district was coldly realistic. It reported that while a task1 force bombarded the steel city oi Muroran on southern Hokkaido, carrier planes bombed and strafed "military and harbor installations and marine and land transportation across the entire length the island. It said losses and damage were being assessed. Aerial Targets Tt announced the aerial tareets Hakodate, prefectural capital on Hokkaido's south coast; Asa- higawa and Obihiro, inland railway hubs: the ports of Otaru and Kushiro on the west end east coasts, and the port of Abashiri, far to the north.

1 -The communique claimed that 12" of the" raiders "were brought down today, wmcn coupwo wuu claims of 20 knocked down Saturday would put the total at 32 out of the thousand planes that ripped the home islands. The spokesman, Capt. Goro Takase, did not say what the surprise might be but he asserted that Admiral Chester W. Nimitz "admitted" the raid was "onesided in the sense that the Japanese had completely ignored the challenge." As quoted by the Tokyo radio in a broadcast heard by the Federal Communications Commission, Takase "gave credit" to Nimitz f-r "the candid admission that aside from the spectacular raid being a propaganda success was a tactical failure." Tokyo Talks Surprise The Tokyo radio hinted that the surprise which Takase promised might be a secret weapon, mentioning 'certain developments being experimented upon here." "Actual completion of those equipments," the broadcast continued, "would enable the Japanese to meet enemy carrier planes twice or thrice as large as those that operated lately." Then, said Tokyo, "we can urge the world to wait for the opportunity which is not far off to see (Turn to Page 5) Okinawa Air Force Bags 625 Nip Planes GUAM, Monday, July 16. (IP) Planes of the Okinawa tactical air force shot down 625 Japanese planes during the Okinawa campaign and flew 38,192 combat sorties, Maj.

Gen. Luis E. Woods, of Washington, D. told a press conference today in reporting completion of his job as tactical air commander. With realignment of the Okinawa air campaign placing all Army Air Force planes in the Ryukyus under Gen.

George C. Kenney's Far East Air Forces, the joint Army, Navy and Marine Air Force which supported the Tenth Army's conquest of Okinawa has been disbanded. On Japan Bombardment Asiatic mainland are in use. Therefore, it seems likely that the navy, with a daring unprecedented even for that steel-nerved service, is lending a hand in carrying the attack directly into the harbors of Hokkaido. Concurrently with the naval surface attacks runs the intensified pounding of Japan by carrier-borne aircraft as well as the army's planes.

Part of this is tactical attack, directed at airfields and air installations and designed to keep grounded as much Japanese aviation as possible But a large part of it repre sents a second phase of strategic attack. For months, the primary and virtually the only targets of strategic bombers were fac tones, particularly aircraft plants Now there is increasing atten tion to Japan's transportation system. Two-Fold Flan As in the case of the air war against Germany, the overal plan i two-fold: destroy produc (Torn to fage 2, Col. 1) Nation's Pocketbook Test Up On Position In World Affairs WASHINGTON, July 15 (IP) The pocketbook test of America's widened role in world affairs the question of United States participation in the Bret-ton Woods monetary agreements comes up before the Senate tomorrow. Administration leaders, who have insisted that unqualified approval of United States commitments to share in the 44-na-tion, $17,900,000,000 international monetary fund and bank is Inseparable from overall plans for world peace, are confident that approval will be given with votes to spare.

One Republican who opposes the plan said privately that it undoubtedly would be approved. But the three days or so of debate that will precede the showdown may provide a foretaste of some opposition opinion whpn consideration Is begun nrxt week of the United Nations peace charter, even though ratification of that document is regarded as assured. A preview of arguments to be presented against United States subscription of $3,175,000,000 to the proposed international bank's capital and $2,750,000,000 to the international monetary fund was given yesterday in a minority.