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m. 2C AN INDEPENDENT HOME NEWSPAPER 1 IITY-EIGIITI1 YEAR. IIANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, HANFORD SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1945. 1 No. 71 DMemdrairiism Is Fire imi Jap-OwBiel Hitlers Body Found, Russians Report; He Died of Poisoning All of.

them were empty and the loss, according to Cackler, will not run over $250. Mrs. Temperance McCoy, who lives at 211 North Brown street, told the fire chief that the fire spread over two of the garages in a matter of seconds, as if they had been dashed with gasoline. Cackler said the fire presumably was started by someone who had learned of the forthcoming return of the Japanese owner of the property. An investigation is being made in an effort to determine how the fire was started and by whom.

Fire Chief Dan Cackler said today he is convinced the fire which damaged three small garage buildings in the 300 block on East Seventh street Tuesday night was of incendiary origin. The garages are on property owned by Harry Totsukawa, a Japanese, who is reportedly due back here this week from a relocation camp. Two of the garages which face the alley were badly burned inside and the third, adjacent to the other two, but away from the alley, was burned about the roof and eaves. u. over mo mg Havana; Faoir Tiff- Delayed lers descriptions, were removed and carefully examined by Russian Army physicians.

All were badly burned from the flame throwers with which the Red Army soldiers finally cleared out the underground command post where Hitler and his leading Nazis made their last ditch stand. After careful examination of teeth and other characteristics, the Russians singled out one body which they believed almost certainly is that of the Nazi fuehrer. Asked why no official announcement of the discovery has been made yet by Moscow, this Russian source said as long as any element of uncertainty exists the Russians do not wish to state definitely that Hitlers body has been found. The source added, however, tfrat there seems little doubt that this actually is the corpse of Hitler. Examination of the body showed that Hitler almost certainly died of poisoning.

Whether this was self administered or whether Hitler was killed by one of his henchmen there is no means of knowing. It will be recalled, however, that Russian sources recently reported that Hitler died of an injection given him by his physician, Dr. Morel, after he had been insane and partly paralyzed for several days. According to a telegram sent by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels to Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Hitler died at 3:30 p. m.

on May 1. Goebbels himself apparently committed suicide shortly afterward, just before the last stronghold of Nazidom" in Berlin fell to the Russians. Berlin, June 6 (UP) Russias last-minute insistence on the deletion of a single word which she feared would compromise her neutrality with Japan delayed signature of the big four pact on Germany for nearly six hours. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, the Soviet delegate, also blocked immediate establishment of the Allied London, June 6 (UP) United States armies will turn over most of the territory they conquered in Germany to British and Russian troops and occupy only Bavaria, it was believed today.

The Ninth Army will yield such cities as Leipzig', fifth largest in Germany, Magdeburg, Chemnitz and Erfurt to the Russians. The Ninth had taken over much the First Armys sector when the first returned to the United States. The Rhineland and the Ruhr, including Cologne, pre-war Gcr manys third largest city, Dueren, Ducsseldorf and Essen, will be taken over by British occupation forces. Though largely conquered by the American First, Ninth and Third Armies, the Ruhr and Rhineland have been administered lately by the American 15th Army. Unless radical changes were made yesterday at Berlin, correspondents who have been travelling with American Armies in Germany believed the American occupation zone will be confined to Bavaria in southwest Germany.

This sector' prokabfy wilt extend as far north as Frankfurt, at present Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowers headquarters, and certainly should require no more than one or perhaps two of the four American armies at present in Germany. The division of Germany presumably was decided upon at the Yalta Conference last February. Present occupational conditions inside Germany undoubtedly have caused some changes in the original plan, but they probably were minor.

Quinn, Equalization Member, Some of the State Board of than the beverage it the largest institution in were Wednesday Quinn, member resenting the' counties of the Quinn devoted hours he conferring with of the officers whom we have type of cooperation. There are service performed board of the administration Okinawa Fight Ireadv at Mop-Up Stage Guah, June 6. (UP) The Kittle of Okinawa entered the mop up stage today and Tokyo predicted American invasion fotccs next will land in Japan itself in the near futuie. Admiral Chester V. Ninulz was expected inoinentaril to issue a communique announcing the end of all organized resistance on already being com cried into a major base for the invasion of Japan.

Radio Tokjo, while regarding Okinawa as doomed, said Japanese troops were firmly entrenched in new positions jesterday and were locked in fierce fighting with numerically superior enemy foues. Field dispatches said the seventh division overran Chmen peninsula on the southeast coast of Okinawa to its eastern most and southeast -ernmost tips yesterday. Seventy-five to 100 Japanese soldiers were killed on the peninsula and more than 10,000 hungry, ragged civilians were taken into custody. There have been no repot ts of American progress on the test of the island since Monday, but it was likely that marines on the southeast coast had completed the capture of Naha airfield, biggest, best and last airfield on the inland. Other units inland were believed to have squeezed the last survivors of the original garrison of perhaps 80,000 Japanese into the southern tip of the island for final, mass annihilation.

Tokyo already was writing oif Okinawa and attempting to rally the Japanese people lor a stand to the death of their home islands. The influential Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Ilochi bluntly told rU readers that Okinawa had bey'll reduced strategically to an siolatcd island and warned: The moment for the battle of decision on our soil is rapidly approaching. It is high time that the entire nation of Japan completely burned all bridges and made the fullest, complete, all out preparations for this imminent development, whose outcome will decide the rise or fall of our country for centuries to come The present course of military developments on Okinawa, coupled with recently-intensified enemy air raids on Japanese cities, is considered an unmistakeablc sign of a direct invasion attempt against the Japanese mainland in the near futuie. The newspaper, as quoted by Tokyo radio cited President Truman's disclosure that 7,000.000 Americna Iroops would be used against Japan as evidence of the United States determination to crush her. Grange Hits Curran Visalia, June (UP) The county board of supervisors at Visalia had under consideration today a request by the Pomona Grange to discontinue contributions toward the salary and cxjenses of Roland Curran, Washington lobbyist for the Central Vallcjs Project Association.

Victor Bowkcr, master of the Porterville Grange, presented to the board a written communication charging Curran with betraal of Tulare and Kern County water interests. The letter said Curran had used his influence to assist TuIjic Lake Basin farm operators in tfmr establishment of first claim to water resources to be developed at the proposed Kaweah, Tule and Kern River dams. FREE Ver Band Movie PREMIERE 10 p. m. THURSDAY at the Fox Theatre Buy a War Bond NOW Gqt your FREE ticket to see: Rita Hayworth in "TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT" (in Technicolor) Varans Sale After Grim, Epic Retreat Kunming, June 4 (UP) Bearded, starving veterans of the French Foreign Legion have arrived at an American Army hospital near Kunming after an epic 650-mile fighting retreat from Indo-China, it was disclosed today.

They reported some of their wounded comrades were murdered on the trail by Japanese. Suffering from disease and malnntrition, the Legionnaires straggled through almost' impassable jungles and over steep hills for nearly two months. Fighting a rear guard action against harrassing Japanese, they made their way to Szemao in southern Yunnan Province. From there they were evacuated to the U. S.

medical station. At the end of their terrible journey, there were only two thirds of the original force of two battalions. The other third were left behind, killed or wounded. Several of the veterans said they saw Japanese murder wounded Legionnaires who, through necessity, had to be left behind. Eighty per cent of these men are Europeans, said Col.

Maurice E. Sheahan, Ontario, and they are in the worst shape of any Europeans I ever saw. The Japanese harrassed them all the way out of Indo-China. Col. Sheahan said the Legionnaires suffered from typhus.

They had been bitten by jungle leeches. Some of them had no shoes. Food supplies were limited throughout the trek. Despite their dire condition, these fighting men were gallant to the end. Some carried stricken Cpmrades the final, miles.

Wheri Col. Sheahan found them, beaded on straw in an old barn, some tottered to their feet to salute him. Sgt. Jules Carbonel, a veteran of 15 years in the Foreign Legion, said he would rather face four years of battle in Europe than two months of day-to-day fighting the Japanese in Indo-China. Carbonel, his feet in, clean bandages after walking the entire 650 miles said Japanese were pressing native annamites into coolie service.

Men who faltered because of exhaustion were whipped or shot, he said. DUUUsTINS A wholly unconfirmed report broadcast by Bern said today that reports continue to persist in Moscow that the U. S. S. R.

has been asked by Japan to transmit perfe offers to the Allied powers. Fresno, June 6 (UP) C. F. Lane, Fresno branch official of the War Relocation Authority, announced here today that executives of the WRA would meet here this month to iron out problems involving the return of Japanese-Americans. Armono Deputy Asked O.

H. Clyde today requested the board of supervisors to allow the appointment of a full time deputy sheriff at Armona. He cited a number of burglaries and theits and the juvenile as reasons for placing a deputy in the unincorporated town, four miles from Hanford. The commuuity has a population of about 1200. The salary proposed for a full time deputy would be $195 per month, plus the $15 war time bonus.

There now are ten full time deputy sheriffs in the county. Union Dispute Pends Stockton, June 6. (UP) Sixty members of the International 'Longshoremens and Warehousemen's Union, Stockton Local 6, scheduled to be tried by a union committee June 16 on racial discrimination charges, today showed no disposition to settle the dispute. The attorney for the dissenters said ILWU leaders yesterday asked his clients to: 1. Dismiss their attorney; 2.

Issue a statement that dictatorship charges against the. local and international were made in heat, and 3. Sign pledge cards, alreadV signed by a majority of Stockton unionists, to work with returning Japanese. Berlin, June 6 (UP) Adolf Hitlers body has been found and identified with fair certainty, it was learned from a high Russian military source here today. The body, smoke-blackened and charred, was one of four discovered in the ruins of the great underground fortress beneath the new Reichschancellery after the fall of Berlin.

These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty well to Hit- State Aid Is Sought For Jail Project As a preliminary step toward making a formal application to tne State Deartment of Public Works for state aid in the building of the projected new county jail, Fred L. Swartz, Fresno architect, appeared before the board of supervisors Wednesday and requested that required resolutions be adopted by the board, so they may be sent to Sacramento along with detailed estimates of costs. Some months ago the Slate Legislature passed a bill making available $10,000,000 in state funds to assist political subdivisions, mainly cities and counties, in the building of post war projects. The money may be applied to the acquisition of sites and rights of ways as well as buildings, and state grants may run as high as 50 per cent of the actual costs. The county already has ac-.

cmired a site at -the Eighth pnd Phillips street fer the new jail building, which will cost well over $100,006. Swartz is scheduled to meet with the county planning commission here on the evening of June 13th at which time a more detailed esti mate of the cost of the building can be worked out. He also is planning to accompany Sheriff O. H. Clyde and County Surveyor J.

R. Hayes on a trip to San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and Ventura where they will study the county jail buildings, architecture and appointments. Swartz drafted preliminary plans for the local jail building about two years ago, but these still are open to revision. War conditions have prevented any start on construction work. Storage Endorsed Corcoran, June 6 (UP) S.

II. Harding, engineer for the Tulare Lake Basin Water District, said today that storage of water on the four rivers entering the basin would definitely stabilize agriculture on the 170,000 acres in the area. The rivers feeding the basin are the Kings, Kaweah, Tule and Kern. With complete control of the rivers, Harding said, there would bo about 60 per cent enough water for irrigation of the surrounding farm land, however, the supply could be augmented by waters from other sources such as the Central Valleys Project. 'Bona Fide' Definition Scramento, Jurte 6 (UP) The Third District Court of Appeals today took under submission briefs in two cases involving the definition of a bona fide eating place, the only type of establishment permitted by the constitution to serve alcoholic drinks.

In one case, concerning a Glendale cafe, the Los Angeles Superior Court held that the place was not a restaurant because only 20 per cent of the volume of its business is in food. His attorneys argue that customers cant be forced to cat if they want to drink. Join Russian Mission Paris, June 6 (UP) American, British and French military missions arrived in Vienna Sunday to join the Russians in joint administration of Austria, the French foreign office announced today. Missions for the western Allies had been waiting for nearly three weeks in Rome for word from Russia that they could join the Soviets in Vienna. Remember 'D-Day' -Exactly a Year Ago Washington, June 6 (UP) Another D-Day is in the making though it probably wont come tomorrow and maybe not till next year.

One year ago today the western allies launched their major assault on Nazi Europe across the beaches of Normandy. The same western allies that helped seal doom are now building up the necessary strength for the invasion of Japan that will spell the downfall of that empires military might. President Truman said last week that U. S. army strength in the Pacific would be more than doubled and would ultimately exceed the 3,500,000 soldiers sent to Europe.

Most of the increase in troops in the Pacific will have to be first hauled home from Europe. French Beaches Now Are Quiet By W. Higginbotham On the Normandy. Invasion Beaches June 6 (UP) ---This marks the site begins a plain board sign on Omaha Beach. In proud memory of starts a legend on a monument on Utah Beach.

These are the lonely symbols in the quiet today where exactly one year ago American Iroops stormed Hitlers Europe. At Omaha, the wreck of an infantry landing craft hangs broken on the snds where the German guns smashed her as her troops swarmed across the sands and up the steep cliffs under terrible fire. A Liberty ship down by the stern still lay off the flat Utah beachhead. A bomb opened her seams there. Nearby are the masts of a smaller vessel that struck a mine.

Curious soldiers and some sailors many remembering D-day, the guns, flashes and men falling strolled on the sand. But they were only a few compared with the thousands who once were here. They were not even as numerous as those who lie beyond the beach-sides under white crosses and small fluttering flags. Alongside the relics of war are the symbols of peace. French children paddled in the water beside the piers of the artificial harbor at Omaha In sight of the line of blockships sunk offshore.

A Frenchman slept in the wreck of an old whaleboat. A child ran to inspect a battered helmet liner washed up on the sand. Jcp Ddlson Lends In Michigan State Lansing, June 6 (UP) A Japanese balloon of the type that cany bombs landed in the state of Michigan several months ago and was located before any injury resulted, Capt Donald S. Leonard, director of the Michigan Office of Civilian Defense, announced today. Leonard said the announcement had been cleared by the Detroit office of the Sixth Service Command, acting on instructions from Washington.

Leonard said there could be no announcement of where the balloon landed. 'Pavot' Loses by Nose New York, June 6 (UP) Pavot, the undefeated two-year-old champion of 1944, as bested by a nose in his first start of the year when he ran a photo finish second to Mrs. P. A. B.

Wideners Polynesian in the $25,000 added Withers mile at Belmont Park today. Control Council State Here functions of the Equalization, other administration of the alcoholic control act, making single business the state of California, pointed out to Ki-wanians by James H. of the. board, rep: eighteen central state. a part of the several was in Hanford, to local representatives board, with local enforcement and others from received a high fourteen branches of by the state equalization, other than of the liquor control act and Quinn pointed out to the club men the most important of them.

The collection of the state sales tax, which represents 35 per cent of the states income and is the main support of the school system of the state, he said. Kings county paid $419,000 in sales tax last year and received in return $477,000 for its schools. The $58,000 gain in the transaction is due to the larger buying power in the larger counties, who shoulder these losses which arise in the transaction with the smaller counties. The speaker after pointing ou the functions of the board which embrace the assessing and collection of insurance taxes, the motor vehicle fuel tax, the private rolling stock tax paid by the owners of private cars and other main duties of the board, spoke at some length on the liquor enforcement angle and the asserted liquor lobby. Also the effort of the board to secure cooperation of the schools in the matter of presenting alcoholic effects of liquor to the school children.

Harold Iviirviss, chairman of the Seventh War Loan campaign, made an appeal for cooperation in the purchase of bonds. i Baseball Finals AMERICAN Clubs: R. II. E. Detroit 100 034 0008 12 0 Cleveland 000 000 010 1 10 2 Overmirc and Richards; Smith, Henry, Klicman and Hayes.

Clubs: R. II. E. St. Louis 000 000 0000 8 3 Chicago 001 003 OOx 4 6 0 Jaeucki, West and Mancuso; Grove and Tresh.

First Game: R. II. Phildclphia 001 000 1002 14 2 Boston 310 000 Olx 5 7 0 Kncrr, Gerkin and Kosar; Fer-riss and Garbark. Young Jewett Killed Word has been received by Glenn Jewett, informing him that his son, Alen Eugene Jewett, Slc USN, was killed in action April 12. The young seaman is the grandson of Mrs.

Gertrude M. Jewett of 507 EfsI lltli btreet, Hanford. in Berlin and discussion of coordinated policies for the four occupation forces. Zhukov said he had not been empowered by his government to carry on further discussions until American troops had withdrawn from the zone of Germany assigned to the Red Army. The Russians had prepared one of their now-famous banquets in celebration of the signing of the pact.

However, both Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, the American and British delegates, said they had to return to their headquarters tonight. The meeting broke up shortly before 7 p.

m. and the leading American and British delegates drove back to for their return Drew Middleton of the New York Times, in another dispatch for the combined press, said the day which began with such high promises ended in frustration.) The dispute which delayed the signing of the big-four pact from noon to 5:45 p. m. centered around the word nationals in article 10: The forces, nationals, ships, aircraft, military equipment and other property in Germany or in German control or service or at German disposal, of any other country at war with any of the Allies will be subject to the provisions of this declaration and of any proclamations, orders, ordinances or instructions issued thereunder. The Russians wished to eliminate nationals from the article.

If allowed to stand, Japanese citizens caught in the Russian zone of Germany would have to fe handed over to the western Allilcs despite the fact that Russia is not at war with Japan. The word finally was deleted temporarily pending the outcome of discussions at government level, and the pact was signed. Pastor Volunteered Naples, June 6 (UP) Martin Nicmocller, the Berlin Lutheran pastor who was imprisoned for more than seven years for his anti-Nazi opinions, admitted today that he volunteered in 1939 to resume his World War One role as a German U-boat commander. Niemoeller, who had been hailed throughout the war as a martyred symbol of the good Germans in Hitlers Reich, jolted correspondents at a press conference with the blunt admission that he had been ready to fight for Nazi Germany. If theres a war, a German does not ask the question whether the war is just or unjust, whether the aim is this or that, but feels instinctively he is bound to serve in some way, he said.

New School' Dispute Moraga, June 6. (UP) Mor-aga's parents and children were up in arms again today after the board of trustees of the elementary school demoted Mrs. Thelma Quinlcy from her position as principal to that of teacher of the first four grades. Daniel E. Dwyer, board chairman, and L.

W. Kennedy, his son-in-law, voted to reinstate Mrs. Quinley as ordered by Contra Costa County District Attorney Francis W. Collins, then demoted her in a four-minute meeting last night. Hoover Kails Truman's Move Chicago, June 6 (UP) Former President Herbert Hoover praised President Truman today for taking action to remedy what he called a terrible muddle in the domestic food situation.

Mr. Hoover said the president had taken a wise step in appointing Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, N. as secretary of agriculture.

He commended Mr. Truman for his plan to consolidate the War Food Administration with the Department of Agriculture. But the most hopeful part is that we have a new regime tackling the problem, Mr. Hoover said. Everybody wants the president to succeed.

Mr. Hoover denied rumors that he would accept a governmental post in connection with post-war food relief. Canal Work fleering Washington, June 6 (UP) Work on the Friant-Kern irrigation canal in central California probably will be started before the end of this summer. Rep. Alfred Elliott, said today.

The War Production Board has approved construction of the first unit of the canal and excavation of its entire length of 160 miles. The Friant dam was started in 1939 and contracts were let for the irrigation canal in 1941. They were cancelled when the United States entered the war. Later the Food Administration and War Manpower Commission urged construction of the canal, because it would contribute to increased food supplies, but WPB approval was withheld. Grand Theft Charged 4 San Francisco, June 6 (UP) Joseph M.

Etienne, socially prominent San Francisco manufacturer, swore out a warrant for the arrest of LL Ernest Conway, 28, of the Maritime Service, on grand theft charges. Etienne complained that he had sent Conway two $500 checks last November when the officer was in Reno getting a divorce. Conway was supposed to come to San Francisco and wed Etienne's 21-year-old niece. But he didn't NAVAL ENSIGN KILLED Deland, FlaM June 6. (UP) Naval air station officials here today announced the death of Ens.

Franklin H. Dehoy os, USNR, who was killed when his plane crashed during a routine training flight. Plane Disaster Large Transport Lost; 18 WACs Aboard Washington, June 6. (UP) An army transport plane carrying 18 WACs and a crew of three has been missing in Africa since May 30, the war department announced today. The plane was lost on a 766 mile flight from Accra, on the Gold Coast of British West Africa, to Roberts Field, Liberia.

The plane was last reported over Takoradi, British West Africa, 150 miles west of the take-off point. Aircraft and surface vessels are searching for it over a wide area of the French Ivory coast. The WACs had been stationed at the air transport command base at Accra since last October. They were being sent on a new assignment. A war department spokesman pointed out that approximately 17,000 members of the womens corps have been sent abroad.

These were the first ones missing in transit overseas in this war. Coalter Due Home Mrs. Alice Coaltcr, fonncrly Miss Alice Saylor of Hanford, now residing in Santa Cruz, has received a telephone call from her husband, Lieut. Jesse Coalter that he has arrived in New York and expects to' be home soon. Lieut.

Coaller, a B-17 pilot, had been a prisoner of war in Germany for the past two and a half years. Mrs. Coaltcr was employed here in the office of Dr. C. II.

Duffy. She phoned word of the good news to Mr. and Mrs. George Glincs. State May Buy Tract Sacrament, June 6 (UP) The slate finance committee today recommended a $600,000 appropriation for the state purchase of the Mountain Home tract in Tulare county.

The tract would be added to the state park system. The bill is designed to preserve the Redwood trees in the track, Sen. Hugh Burns, Fresno, author of the bill, said..