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4 TKey Keep Fighting 3 mi. Wmlv BUY WAR BONDS You Keep Buy'nq 3 A CENTR II irriifcmnpfi ILLINOIS nunc SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS nitko rn-a FRIDAY, MAY 4, 19 15. -TWENTY PAGES. tV AMKIATK HUM Ch German Troops i PROBLEM PRESENT nly in St. Elizabeth's hospital.

Mrs. Hellgeth, an expectant mother, received her notice to head for the hospital. What to do with the Kurk children had her stumped until she thought of calling the police. A squad car picked them up, located Mrs. Kurk's parents, and delivered the tots to them.

Mrs. Hellgeth, meanwhile, reached the hopltl and settled down to await her first child. PAST POSES IN HURRIED CHICAGO. W1) Children pieent a order eauned a flurry of excitement Thursday at 13H Schubert avenue. The atork signaled to Mrs.

Veronica Kurk of that address It was time to go to the hospital. In her hate she left her two children. Ronald. 3. and Sandra.

2, with another tenant, Mm. France llellgpth. At about the time a boy was being added to the Kurk fam- 97TH YEAR. NO. 124.

Partisan Capture Now Zealand Fighters Join At Gorizia HOME. WV-Allied cdqur ln announced Thursday that New Zealand tnxps, Jolnlr.fi hirers With Uic Yugoslavs, had ravluml Trieste and Corida in dinputcd IlrU. only Nazi held fcjllc of Italy iKt commanded by Uen. Helnrldt Von Victinghofl-Sohccl who surrendered hU mil lion roan army in norm Italy ana wwtern Aulria. (The Belgrade radio broadcast Yuconlav headquarters stale- Tinent denying Uie Allied announcement end saying that Jugoslav force, not New Zca-lAndwi.

canturcd Trlct and Corlzta. The Federal Communl rations rommtss Ion heard the 6 broadcast) At the same time It was an Hard Coal Mines Seized On Orders by Truman Nazi Force in Norway Stands In Way of Declared Peace Here's What U.S. Wants at 'Frisco LONDON. (JP) Germany's new fuehrer, Grand Adm. Doenit- vas reported to have fled to the naval base of Kiel Monday as British forces swept through capitulated 50 miles to the south and victorious Russian troops searched for Hitler's body in the ruins of Berlin.

So swift was the disintegration ot German icistance and so thiotle the ccneral situation in side the Reich that it appeared Wednesday night there might be no necessity to negotiate a for mal surrender. A Stockholm dispatch said Japs Flee DavaoCity; ALy Green to Support 'Gateway' Plan Of Amendment SPniNCFirLT. ILL. Ml Gov. Grcrn Thursday pledged hl upport of a no railed gateway amending methiKi to cnange me Illinois rnixtilutliin.

He said he preferred a ron- siitutional convention. Hut sine the houe this week defeated that proposal, "I now favor the gateway for the same reanons. al though I wan't for It before." The home Is scheduled to vote next week on a gateway resolution requiring two thirds ma-lorily of both houses for adop tion. It would call a referendum on whether to three constitutional amendments Instead of ore to be submitted at one elec tion. The plan also tlms to remove the stumbling block to nearly all basic law amendment attempt he requirement that they be approved by a majority of all votes cat In the referendum.

If the gateway proportion won majority of all votes cast something four previous attempt failed to do then future constitutional amendments would need only a majority of votes cast on such propositions. British Support U. S. Claim lor Island Control SAN FRANCISCO. (JP) An American demand for retention of control over strategic areas wrested from the enemy drew un official British support Thursday night as representatives of the Big Five sought agreement on a Unit ed Nations trusteeship policy.

This countrys anxiety over what is to become of such militarily Important islands a bloodily won Iwo Jima was emphasized during the day by the arrival of a senate naval affairs subcommit tee to confer with delegates on the trusteeship question. Sens. Byrd (D.Va.), Eastland (D.Miss.) and Robey (R.N.H.) went into informal conferences with Secretary of State Stettinius and other delegation members Immediately. It is known that the senators want some assurance from this conference that the United States will be permitted to retain exclusive control of the hard won Pacific areas which military men think may be useful in countering any future aggressive threat from Japan. Nazi Radio Says Kiel Open City (Br Ataoclated Prr.) The German high command in its daily communique broadcast hours late Thursday night saw that the naval base of Kiel and Klensburg on the Danish border had been declared open cities.

The communique, reported by the Federal Communications com mission, was broadcast over a hookup of north German stations still in German hands. Reds Attack Laaland Report LONDON. (JP) The Luxembourg radio reported early Friday that Russian forces were attacking the Danish island of Laaland in the Baltic sea. A Purchasing Told in Courts DANVILLE. (P) Four manufacturing executives testified in fAHpmi rnurt Thursday concern ing advertising allowances and quantity discounts their firms granted the A and food chain.

Earl Jinkinson, assistant government prosecutor, said outside of court he was attempting to the "centralized control" and "blanket purchases" of the New York Great Atlantic and pacific Tea company, which is on trial with 28 officers and sub sidiaries on an information charg ing anti-trust law violation. Tr.TnM. Aussies Get Airfield in Davis to Hold Price Reins WASHINGTON. I). C.

Economic stabilizer William H. Davis aertv Thumlay tht he intnsds to hold the wac and price line rigidly "throuch the squall" resulting from collapse of Germany. Stabilization of the nations economy Is more than ever necessary. Docnitz and his new foreign minister, Count Ludwlg Schwerin Von Krosick, were conferring at Kiel with Josef Tcrboven, Nazi commissioner for Norway, and Wer-nrr Best. German minister to Denmark, on the possibility cf mnking a final stand in those Scandinavian countries.

The chief obstacle standing In the wav of a declared peace was be'ieved to be the German force In Norway, estimated by rcsponsl ble quarters at 150.000 troops, who have been strengthened in recent months by aerial delivery ot wca i pons and supplies. Enemy Fight On Borneo Isle Termed Light (JP) Tank led Australian invaders of Tarakan reached the approaches of Lingkas town and the airfield Wednesday, their second day on the little port island off Borneo. In the Philip pines the fall of Davao city to the Americans appeared imminent. Gen. Douglas MacArthur com munique Friday said the veteran Aussies moving with close air and naval support, expanded their beachheads and drove to within a few hundred yards of the Tarakan airfield.

They were on the out skirts of Lingkas. town. On Mindanao island, Maj. Gen. Roscoe Woodruffs 24th Uniteo States Infantry division penetraterl Davao city, a major port of the Philippines, as the Japanese garri son retreated northward.

Another airfield south of Davao was taken. This was the fourth airdrome seized by the Yanks on the western shore of Davao gulf. The Australian invaders ot Tarakan still were finding only scant resistance. Heavy and medium bombers from the Philippines, flying support of the invasion operation, struck at airdromes, bivouacs and defenses at Jesselton, Kudat, Sandakan and Tawao, on Borneo. In the interior of Mindanao, the 31st division advanced another two miles northward along the central highway, with close sup port from dive bombers.

American bombers dropped more than 325 tons of bombs on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, where American ground troops are nearing the rich Cagay- an valley. Trace German Assets Through Hidden Records PARIS. () German foreign assests are being through seized hidden records to add to the Allies' trove of Nazi treasure already estimated at fully 200 tons of gold, Allied headquarters said Thursday. This is twice the original estimate for the gold, found cached in the Merkers mine and in bank vaults and under chicken coops of other towns in the Thuringian plains. Naval Flyers Killed NORMAN, OKLA.

(JP) The naval air station Thursday an nounced an officer and an avia tion cadet had died from injuries suffered in a training plane crash near Moore, Tuesday night. ANCIENT MARINER WITH OLD LOVE? NEW YORK. (JP) Police were searching the waterfront Thursday for a 100 year old retired seaman, William S. Clark, reported missing from Sailors' Snug harbor here. Officials of the home suggested to police he had run away to join the mer- chant marine.

aos Big Three Lines Now 200 Miles IjONDON'. ''It coiUpfd u.e laft Ccinwn rcut-anic in north central Germany Thursday, hiking with lirttish forces on a 63 front south of the in a 30 mi.e surge thit wiped out a cm-my pocket between ntock and Hamburg. At least three enemy divisions; surrendered the combined Rus sian and Ilritwn lorccs in m-clconup of Mecklenburg province. More than lO.COQ demorauea Nai soldiers surrendifed to tht Hod army alone as Marshal Kon-stantin K. RokohMn sky's Second White Russian army and Field Marshal Bernard L.

Montgomery's troops Joined for the first time between the Baltic port of la-mar and Wittcnbcrce on the Elot river, 62 miles northwest of Berlin. Join Forces. At the same t.me, forces of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukova First White Russian army, co-conquerors of Berlin, Joined UP with the U. S.

Ninth, army on a 3 mile front west of tte Jazl capital's wnok.ng ruins. The junction of American, Brit ish and Russian forces now extends across northern and central Germany on an almost solid 200 mile fnmt from WLsmar south to the Elbe northwest of Dresden. In Berlin, another 64.000 stunned and battle weary German troops emerged rfom the subways and sewers of the rubbled city to hand over their weapons, almost doubling tne huge bag of German prisoners herded into Red army cages since the surrender of the capital. Clear Prewar Toland. On the northeastern fringe of the Germans' tottering southern redoubt, the Russians seized the mining center of Cieszyn (Tes- chen), tJie last enemy held strong- point in southwestern Poland ana at the same time cleared all of prewar Poland.

Approximately 150 square miles of the Cieszyn area remained to be cleared. The Warsaw provisional government, with Soviet approval, recently agreed to return the Cieszyn mines to Czechoslovakia when the area is totally liberated. Meanwhile Gen. Andrei I. Yere-menko's army was converging on the Moravian war production city of Olmeutz (Olomouc), 128 miles southeast of Prague, in conjunction with Marshal Rodion Y.

Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian army. Luce Charges Guard Secrets By Starvation WASHINGTON, D. (JP) Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R, Conn.) accused the Nazis Thursday of deliberately starving and torturing slave labor to death to protect the secrecy of weapons on which they worked. That, she asserted in the house, was how details of the "V-l" and "V-2" robots were kept from the Allies until it was almost too late.

The congress woman, just back from a two months tour of European battlefronts which included a visit to the Nazi, "extermination camps," said existence for a human being in the Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps was a "descent into the bowels of hell." She put the Ordhuf, Belsen, Langen-stein, Dachau and other prison centers in the same class. Briton Protests Mobbing of Duce LONDON. (U.R) Comdr. Oliver Locker Lampson served notice Thursday of intention to move in commons a motion "that the house Drotests against the bestial end of Signor Mussolini, regards dead bodies as sacred and not to be desecrated, hung up and exhibited, and invites the Italian government to protect Mussolini's wife from a similar outrage." Kenny to Explain Treatment to House WASHINGTON, D. (JP) Sister Elizabeth Kenny arrived here Thursday prepared to explain her treatment of infantile paralysis to the House Rules com-mittee if the committee will hear her.

Chairman Sabath 111.) notified Rep. O'Toole N. who has been active in behalf of the Australian nurse, that he will "take up with the committee Friday the quetsion of Sister Kenny appearance before the committee. 250,000,000 Will Need Food to Live-Crowley WASHINGTON, D. (JP) Leo T.

Crowley, Foreign Eco- -nomic administrator, said Thursday nearly 250,000,000 people in Europe will have to. receive supplemental food "just'to exist." "The United States," he added to a reporter, "must be necessity be the main source ora sup ply." Troops Trieste ixHinrH Uiat'Nai'l Gen. Sohlimcf Mini had defied VieUnghofT's unconditional surrender order, had Mirremlcrcd hi army of 40,000 troops )MN-kclr In Ligurla at the end of the Italian front and that -fitting ha crated in northern Italy west of the Imhmo river" on the fctrlan boundary. Surrender of the German carrion at Triete was received at 4 30 p. m.

Wednesday by Lt. Gen. Sir Bernard C. Frcyberg. commander In chief of the New Zealand Second corp.

which advanced 221 mile in 23 days and made a Juncture with Yugoslav force wet-l of the city after overrunning Gorlrla on the Isono. Honoris earlier In the week by the Hrlgradc radio that Marshal Tito's Yugoslav troop were fighting In the streets of Trieste, object of conflicting territorial claim since die Inrt war. led to an Italian demand that the port be controlled by force of Field Manual Sir Harold Alexander 'pendlng postwar wMlcmcnK. BETTER GUESS THAN HIMMLER CHICAGO. lV- Numerolo-gists are keeping their eye on Saturday a possible VE day.

Here' why: Armistice day In 1918 wa the 11th day of the 11th month of that year. day was the sixth day of the sixth month of 1944. Saturday is the fifth day or the fifth month of 1943. Flyers Slaughter Nazis Fleeing To Denmark LONDON. (JP) Germans at- tcmntinff to flee the Reich by sea toward Denmark and isorway were slaunhtered Thursday Dy American, British and Canadian planes which sank or damaged mnre than 64 shiDS in day long nttarim nff the Baltic coast of Schleswig-Holstoin.

"Another Dunkerque" nyers de scribed it. only this time it was Germans trying to get away ano tvi Allies their jumbled convoys of ships with bombs and rockets "like shooting nsn in barrel." U. S. Ninth airforce rocketfir-inff Thunderbolts and fighter- bombers joined Thursday afternoon in the massacre which was started by the RAF Wednesday night with raids on xne ft.ici wvu base. The Ninth reported hitting German ships of transport or cargo size and many other smaller craft.

The Naz is set sail from ail avail able ports in every type of ship they could muster from barges to 10,000 ton cargo snips ana xroup carriers, and even in a frantic effort to escape me British and Russian armies, now linked up east of LueiiecK ana closing in on the last, iazi neiu ports and Germany's few remaining boat lairs. Duke, Wally In Florida MIAMI, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived here Thursday on a Journey which may take them back to Europe and possibly to the Britain he once ruled. The former king and his American wife came here by boat from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, where he had been governor for nearly five years. Length of their stay in America was not known. Proposes F.

D. R. Coin WASHINGTON, D. Coininff of a 10 cent piece bear ing a elikeness of the late Presi dent Roosevelt was proposea Thursday in a bill introduced by Rep. Morison (D, 950,472 In Army Stimson Sets Italy's Figure At 109,163 WASHINGTON, D.

The 20 months long battle for Italy ended victoriously by the surrender of German forces there, took the lives at at least 21,577 American soldiers. Secretary of War Stimson said Wednesday that was the toll for Ickes Takes Charge in Pennsylvania WASHINGTON. D. C-iJD The government Thursday night seized the nation's anthracite mines, strikebound in a contract dispute. Acting on orders from President Truman, Secretary of Interior Ickes proclaimed that he had taken formal possession of the mines and breakers owned by 363 companies, all located in fenn- sylvania.

"A breakdown in wage threatened a fuel crisis that would Impair public health and Impede the progress of the war next winter." said a statement issued by the Solid Fuels administration, headed by Ickes. Ickes ordered the flag of the United States raised above these mines and breakers and mine whistles blown for work Mon day morning. (A breaker is an where coal is broken up). tir tiranrt all pmntoves to re turn to work "producing fuel nvrrt ld homes and shops which would seriously handicap the war with Japan next win ter The operating heads of the coal designated as 1 fpHcral ooerating managers. ThP hard coal miners' wage contract expired April 30 and John L.

Lewis, uaiw has not acceded to a War Labor board order for extension of the pact pending negotiation ui new agreement. Superforts Hit Fields On Kyushu GUAM. (JP) American Super-AvfOrcra ottflrkmi airfields on Japan's southern mainland island of Kyushu by daylight Thursday and ToKyo raaio icpw first appearance" of Okinawa based U. S. aircraft off the same island.

Tirppn B0 and 100 of the B- 29s flew from Marianas bases of the 21st bomber command in the oititnHe bombing of Tachiarai, MiyazaKi, MiyaKauujy, ULU1U111 i Kanoya, Kanoya east ana j.okuuu airdromes. It was the 13th raid in five weeks on Kyushu, from which the Japanese have been sending planes to anacK American Okinawa invasiuu forces. Truman Pleased With Stettinius Work WASHINGTON, D. (JP) Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller said Thursday President Truman "expressed himself as eminently satisfied with the work" Secretary of State Stettinius is doing at the San Francisco conference. Rockefeller and Aeting Secretary of State Joseph C.

Grew called on the president to discuss the United Nations conference and the Argentine situation. SAN FRANCISCO. Ml America made iU hid Thursday to strengthen a world charter for peace through specific recognition of the cardinal prinrlple of Justice, International law, human rights and the Atlantic charter four freedom. And. beyond these the U.

S. delegation to the United Nation conference further recommended: Future review of a projected international constitution "in the light of experience and the developing world ituation after the war is over." Provision for "peaceful change of conditions in the world sothat the world i not frozen." Nine Tolnts. This is what the American want: 1. An International organization functioning "in keeping with the principle? of Justice." 2. Clarification of the Dumbarton Oak blueprint, worked out last fall by the four sponsoring na- tions as the agenda for this conference, to say that the world organization shall function within international law and assist in perfecting it.

3. The development and safc-m guarding of human rights. 4. Provision for peaceful change of world conditions. 5.

A definite system of trusteeships for weak or strategic territories. (J. A system to facilitate amend- Ing the charter to meet postwar conditions. For Small Nations. 7.

A modernized world court. 8. Incorporation into the charter 'of specific provisions of the Atlantic charter, including assur- 4 ances of freedom from want and fear, freedom of speech and w-or-ship. 9. A declaration of cultural similar to those already proposed by China.

Adoption of the American ree- ommendations would dissolve some, but not all. of the dissatisfaction of small powers with Dumbarton Oaks as it now stands. Johnson Promises More Rail Cars WASHINGTON, D. Director J. Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation Thursday assured the senate committee investigating the grain car shortage that "you're getting more cars and you're going to be all right." His testimony concluded an A eight day hearing before members of the Interstate Commerce committee on the cause of the car shortage which has resulted in Hamburg Falls to British PARIS.

(At Mas surrenders swept through German armies of the north Thursday as the fall of Hamburg sounded the knrii of an rcsUtancc eat of the grwt port and the enemy high command itself declared the famed naval baie of Kiel an open city. More than 130.000 Germans laid down their arms to the Second and U. S. Ninth armies along the Elbe by noon Thursday and thousands of others were giving up or being driven to their deaths as they tried to flee by sea. itritiih tanks slashed on north east within 20 miles of Denmark.

churning over roads strewn wr.n the burned out hulks of 800 vehicles caught In a tornado of aerial bombardment. The British last were reported beyond Ncumuenster, 18 miles south of Kiel, running roughshod through all the debris of a broken and beaten army. There was chaos In the Baltic is German ships quit Mel foros.o and other Norwegian refugees un der a raking lire irom auicq firrhir.Vvmbor which sank or dnmaced 64 cargo sized vessels. Resistance also was oreaxing up in what Is left of the southern redoubt, with the U. S.

Seventh army hammering 21 miles deep in(n Anatria to within seven miles of the big communication center of Lh- In concert with the Seventh army, the American Third army was shredding what remains of the Nazi redoubt in Bavaria. rpnkinff loose unopposed on a superhighway cast of Munich, the Seventh army last was ri-ii miina rst of both Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, bastions within the rHiiht u-hil the Third army was the same distance from Salzburg on the north. The Third army likewise naa driven into CzccnosiovaKia much as six miles along a 50 mile front, seeking out the Nazis wno, according to the Hamburg radio before it quit the atr, were uiKa fr a itnnd to Uie Oeain. Surrender fever also gripped the nrman armies of the south, a field dispatch reporting that one Seventh army division aiuiic tured 50,000 troops. House Sustains Truman Veto of Draft Measure WASHINGTON.

D. President Truman emerged a win ner from his first legislative fight Thursday as the house sustained his veto of a resolution giving almost ironclad draft deferments to farmers. The president, in rejecting the measure earlier in the day, de clared that "no group should have any special privileges." He said the legislation would violate the non-discrimination principles the selective service act. On the showdown in the house, 185 members voted to override the veto and 177 voted to sustain it Kinre it. takes a two third vote of both houses to override, the legislation thereby died.

Thirty Democrats joined 154 Republicans and one Progressive in the vote to override. Against them were arraved 12 Repubn cans, 1 American Labor member and 164 Democrats. Gl of the Year Killed in Action T.A PORTE. IND. (U.R) Sgt John H.

Parks, 23, Mill Creek, whose photograph as a com-soldier in the battle for Germany gained him the title of "GI man of the year" in tne cum-oHitinn of the Stars and Stripes, has been reported killed in action. His mother, Mrs. Ella Harness, received a message from the War department Tnursaay, informing her that, her son lost his life in Luxembourg uec. o. Nazi Generals Squeezed ON THE ELBE.

(JP) German officers who crossed the Elbe to surrender, reported German Field Marshals Wilhelm K.eiiei ana TWk. both without com mands, were in a tiny pocket slowly being squeezed shut by tne Russians ahead ot tne in mm LEGS IS LEGS, HE MAINTAINS GARDEN CITY, KAN. (JP) Daniel L. Osborn is suing the oil company employing him for compensation of injuries allegedly resulting rom the fracture of his wooden leg in an oil field accident. Osborn, a truck driver, says his fellow employes repaired the leg with a clamp and that he continued to work, causing soreness and blisters on the stump of his natural leg.

Okinawa Drive Cost 16,964 U. S. Casualties GUAM. (JP) U. S.

naval casualties of 5,551, including 1,131 killed, were reported by Aom. Chester W. Nimitz Friday for the Okinawa invasion and associated operations. The wounded totaled 2,816 and the missing, 1,604. This brought total announced American casualties, including soldiers and marines, to 16,964.

Nimitz earlier reported 11,413 ground casualties through April 27. Japanese ground casualties alone exceed 21,000. The fighting on southern Okinawa rtiged in full fury Thursday as Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck-ner Tenth army hurled itself agains tough Japanese defenses Only the First marine division of Maj.

Gen. Pedro Adel Valle reported gains. Elsewhere the Yanks were held. Churchill Not In Commons LONDON. (JP) The British Press association said Thursday that Prime Minister Churchill's absence from the house of commons had raised speculation and added: "There were even queries as to whether Mr.

Churchill might have gone to Germany to De at tne siu render ceremony or at some meet mid untn President Truman." There was no information elsewhere to support this conjectural rhnrchill had Deen ex- SWtcliivuu pected to announce next weeK.s r.nlpnriar in the house Thursday, but Sir John Anderson deputized for him. ed by the assaulting forces said the Japanese began evacuating Rangoon three weeks ago both by land and sea. and only light opposition was anticipated. Airmen flying low over the capital saw a large sign on one buildins saving "Japs gone" the Japanese are believed to have blown up port installations. Whatever Japanese remained in the i i it were hopelessly trapped by Wednesday's landings from the Bav of Bengal at the mouth of the river 20 miles south of Rangoon.

Strong Allied armored forces driving down from Mandalay were last reported approaching the capital from the north after capturing Pegu and probably entered the city with the seaborne forces Wednesday. Allied Troops Enter Rangoon-Mop Up grain spoilage ill 11 midwestern states. House Refuses to Pay Extra Pension Benefits ILL. (JP) The house refused Thursday to ex-. tend old age pension benefits to persons receiving other public assistance for chiropractic or osteopathic treatments.

The 1935 law now denies old age grants to persons getting any other state or local aid unless it is "for necessary medical, surgi-cal and hospital assistance, or for treatment of diseases by prayer or spiritual means." Killion Demo Treasurer WASHINGTON, D. C. (JP) George L. Killion of San Francisco 'has been chosen treasurer of the Democratic National committee, Chairman Robert E. Hanne-gan announced Thursday night.

Partly Cloudy, Warmer Friday GOVERNMENT WEATHER FORECAST. BI.OOMINGTON: Partly cloudy Friday; fair Saturday; warmer Friday afternoon and Saturday; -high Friday 60: low Friday night 37; high Saturday 68; moderate winds, diminishing Friday night. fantAgraph weather reooho. niilniiim. 48! minimum.

4(1. Thunday 8 3 p.m. Midnight Temperature 42 Sun aeta Friday: 7:58. sun Maea Saturday: 5:54. 44 Casualties and Navy Most Japanese Flee Before British Forces CALCUTTA.

(JP) British and Indian troops in their 'greatest victory of the three year old Burma campaign Wednesday entered Rangoon, capital and chief port. of Burma, and began speedily out Japanese resistance in tne city only a day after making a powerful seaborne lanaing di the mouth of the Rangoon river. There were indications that Rangoon already was in British hands. Allied prisoners iiDeiai- the Fifth army up to April 28 six days befor the campaign was over. In addition, 77,248 were wounded and 10,338 were missing, making the total casualties 109,163.

Simultaneously, Stimson announced that army casualties in all theaters since the beginning of th war have reached 848,089 on the basis of names reported here through April 21. Added to the navy's losses of 102,383, this placed casualties of both services at 950,472. This was an increase of 11,099 since the report of last week. PANTAGRAPH PHONES C900-5.