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Invest in Victory Buy Bonds Today Vol. Il-No. 209 The Independent-Record Back the Attack Helena, Montana, Tuesday, June 19, 1945 With War Bonds Price Five Cents Tenth Army Smashes All Resistance on Okinawa 1. 0 Millions Pay Honor To Eisenhower In New York City Greatest Crowds in History Roar Welcome As Triumphant Parade Passes Through Central Park, Fifth Avenue and Broadway Largest Nazi Stolen Treasure Cache Recovered by Yanks Paris, June troops of the 12th corps have discovered a second great German treasure cache, communications zone headquarters announced today. Included in the capture in hidden vaults of the Regensburg reichsbank was the national wealth of Bavaria and Austria.

The cache was estimated to be more valuable than 7 in the which in- New York, June of New Yorkers-the greatest throng this city ever has seen--lined curbs, leaned i clllded 300 tons of gold, from windows and hung from fences today as they roared a The treasurew as in gold bui- welcome to General of the Army Dwight. D. Eisenhower. Chief Police Inspector John J. O'Connell estimated that 6,000,000 persons greeted the supreme Allied commander in the two hours between his arrival and his appearance at city hall.

They cheered, they whistled, they broke through police lines in some places as a 25-car motorcade, with the general in the President Truman Favors Speaker As Next in Line Present Succession Law Points to Secretary of State Washington, June (JP) -President Truman, embarking on the first of a long series of plane flight, today asked congress to make the speaker of the house his successor if anything untoward should happen to him. As the house is now organized, this would throw the succession to 63-year-old Sam Rayburn of Tesas. Under present procedures. Mr. Manhattan.

Truman would be replaced in the White House by the secretary of reatest Ovahon state, the post now held by Edward R. Stettinius should he be unable to complete his term. The speaker of the house of representatives, Mr. Truman told congress, is more truly representative of all the people. In a special message to both houses of congress sent shortly after he took off on a nonstop flight to Olympia, the president said the question of succes- position of honor, wheeled through Central park, down Fifth avenue and through "Heroes' Canyon," Broadway.

And Eisenhower, seemingly unwearied by the welcome 1,000,000 persons gave him in Washington yesterday, waved, smiled, saluted and clasped hands over his head in acknowledgement. A 17-gun salute boomed out at LaGuardia Field after the supreme Allied commander's silver C-54 transport, bringing him from Washington, swoo'ped out of the overcast sky and taxied to a stop at 7:12 a. m. The general and his party immediately left for the heart of the city. The cheers that greeted the general and other members of his party, in automobiles to the rear, mounted as the caravan crossed the triborough bridge, left the borough of Queens and entered lion, stolen jewelry and securities.

Some was known to have been taken from victims of Xazi death camps. The same corps made the original discovery in the same general area of central Germany in the lost days before the unconditional surrender of the enemy. Mexico Would Bar Franco Spain From World Setup Quintanilla Will Put Question to San Francisco Meet sion "is of great importance now because there will be no elected vice president for almost four years." Mr, Truman, who entered the White House from the vice presidency on the death of President Roosevelt April 12, said the existing law, enacted in 1886, provides for members of the cabinet to take over the presidency in the event that neither the elected president nor vice president can serve. Pointing out that each of these cabinet members is appointed by the president. Mr.

Truman said i now lies within his power to nom inate his immediate successor ''in the event of my own death or in ability to act." "I do not believe that in democracy this power should res with the chief executive. Insofa as possible, the office of the presi dent should be filled by an elec live officer." He recommended further tha the succession pass to the pres dent pro tempore of the senate there is no qualified speaker or i the speaker fails to qualify. Th president pro tempore would hoi the office only until a duly aual Jied speaker is elected Coming 15 years to the day fter Adm. Richard E. Byrd's tri- mphal return from the Antarctic, oday demonstration promised to vershadow New York's tradition- ly tumultuous welcomes to trans- tlantic fliers, foreign dignitaries nd other celebrities.

Many uniformed men and wom- were among the thousands hat lined the curbs in every jlock. Eisenhower smiled and waved acknowledgement to the heers. Mrs. Eisenhower, meanwhile arrived from Washington at Penn- ylvania station, where she was greeted by Mrs. LaGuardia and a number of army officers before eaving for city hall ceremonies her husband's honor.

Good Weather Threatened rain held off and the temperature was in the ir.id- 70s, coolest in five days, as the Eisenhower caravan proceeded Baseball Results By The Associated Press National League Boston 001 104 021--9 13 0 New York 000 002 000--2 8 1 Tobin and Masi. Emmerich, Fischer 6 Voi- selle (8) and through CentraK park and down Fifth avenue. The general wore a tropical worsted summer uniform and a summer cap. He was visibly touched as 30,000 school pupils, lining the park drives, cheered and waved little flags. Now and then he stood up in the car to wave and grin.

A navy blimp hovered overhead. The procession halted briefly at Eisenhower's request while Harry B. Robbins, former American Legion post commander, breathlessly handed the general a "key" to Brooklyn. Fifth avenue stores--most of them closed for several hours as were the stock, curb and commodity exchanges displayed large, bunting-draped pictures of the supreme Allied commander. Windows were boarded as pro- lection against the milling crowds.

San Francisco, June came forward today with a proposal that the United Nations permanently bar the Franco government of Spain from membership in their world league. Luis Quintanilla, former Mexican ambassador to planned to put the proposition formally before a public session of one of the United Nations conference commissions, which are driving toward completion of world charter this week. His proposal invited argument as to whether the conference should attempt to write any specific membership limitations when it is assigning to a world assembly the task of admitting outside nations. Quintanilla said he would ask the commission to adopt a declaration stating that no government should be admitted which came to power with the aid of military forces of countries which have fought against the United Nations The final session of the confer ence, with President Truman making the closing address, stil is scheduled for next Saturday But it also is still uncertain whether that date can be kept even with every effort of confer ence leaders. Much depends on possible Rus sian acceptance of a compromis Truman Flies To Coast Via Helena Presidential Party Is on Way West; No Stops Planned Washington, June --President Truman left by plane at 6:20 a.

MWT, today for a west coast visit he will climax hy attending the San Francisco United Nations security conference. The president planned an 11- hour nonstop flight to Olympia, where he will pay a "social visit" to Gov. Mon C. Wallgren before going to San Francisco to address the closing session of the security conference The president was given a cheery sendoff by Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, America's returned hero, whose plane, the "Sunflower" rested just behind the president's special C-54 waiting to take the general to a big New York welcoming. Others in the small group at the army air transport command runway included Acting Secretary of State Joseph C- Grew and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mor- genthau. The president's plane, the same one which brought Eisenhower ere yesterday from across the tlantic, is piloted by the same ght-man crew that has been with er from the start. Her chief pilot Lt. Col.

Henry T. Myers of ifton, Ga. With the president in the big -54 were his military and naval Blackhawk Division Returns Home the Yanks Surprise Japs With All-Out Push Adm. Nimitz Proclaims "Day of Victory" For American Troops Guam, June U. S.

Tenth army broke all planned resistance on southern i Okinawa and drove today to- 'ward imminent, final victory to avenge the death of its commander on the field of battle. I Shortly before he fell mortally wounded from a shell burst yesterday, Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, declared that with two dry days he could "cut them to pieces," and a field dispatch reported that task now was accomplished. Buckner had held back a surprise, the second marine division, and those veterans of Tarawa and Saipan roared into the Okinawa battle for the first time, the enemy's U.S.

Auto Industry Polish Witness Tells for limiting the field of subject which the assembly may debat and on which it may make rec ommendations to member nation and the security council whic would be the peace-enforcing agency. ides, Col. Harry Vaughan and apt. James Zardman, Secre- aries Matthew J. Connelly and Charles G.

Ross and J. Leonard leinsch, radio adviser. Two other planes are in the Greatest Reconversion Task in History Is Facing Motormen By David J. Wilkie Detroit, June (if) --The nation's automobile industry, four and one-quarter billion dollar manufacturing colossus, has begun its return to peacetime produc- a mQre than three years light. The first, carrying secret ervice men, left at 5:15 a.

m. a( The second, with newsmen, cam-1 Altllougll the industry may not ramen and more secret service agents, took off at 5:37 a. m. The president's plane was exacted to follow the great circle make new passenger automobiles under governmental authorization until after July 1, it has begun reinstallation of assembly lines route which would take it just and conveyors in plants where it- A i i i outh of Cleveland, north of Chicago, south Minneapolis, of Milwaukee over Billings and and Helena, and Spokane and Wenatchee, Wash. Although signs are growing that the delegates from 50 nations will not complete the writing of the charter until next week, Mr.

Truman proceeded, the White House said, on the assumption the meeting could wind up this week. Whatever the closing date, the president will move into San. Francisco the afternoon before. Then he will meet all the delegates and such action does not interfere with war production for the Pacific. The industry has been authorized to make only 214,000 passenger cars during 1945, but in many ways the physical task of restoring production facilities is as great as it would be for unrestricted output.

Manufacturers point out that their planning must consider that developments in the Pacific war might easily double production quotas overnight. Restoration of the automobile witnessable signing of the charter company plants to peacetime work has been called the greatest singl before delivering a closing address voicing "Godspeed" to the new experiment in international relations. Leopold on Job Salzburg, Austria. June Leopold of Belgium declared today that he had reassumed his full constitutional prerogatives and that there was no question of his abdication, despite the resignation of Premier Achille van Acher's government. 450 Superforts Bomb Secondary Cities In Newest Fire Raid Twenly-First Bomber Command, Guam, Wednesday, June their second fire mission against secondary Japanese industrial cities, about 450 Superforts struck Shizuoka and Toyohashi on Honshu island and Fukuoka on Kyushu today.

division of the Third army line the rail of their huge gray i in the enemy's west to Only hours before a Japanese shell fragment struck Buckner, the final assault hit its full momentum and while Adm. Chester W. Nimitz did not proclaim the campaign ended he asserted the day of Buckner's death was the day of victory. On Southern Tip The mauled remains of a Japanese garrison that numbered at least 85.000 when the invasion struck SO days ago have been herded into hardly more than six square miles of the southern tip. They have been swept from most of Yaeju plateau, bulwark of i last line of defense, and with their backs to the sea held positions three miles wide and nowhere more than two and a half miles deep.

Nimitz, in a message to Gen. MO.COW, witness the trial oM6 Begins Return to Peacetime Basis Of Blowing Bridges And Killing Russians Journalist Says Soviet Army Was Considered "Enemy and Aggressor?" Poles Admit Their Activities Hampered Allied War Effort members of the Polish underground government and home army on a charge of fifth column activity told a Soviet court today they had wrecked trains, blown bridges, killed Russian soldiers and on one occasion hanged a Soviet citizen. A journalist said the underground army's propaganda minister had directed that the Russian army be considered an enemy and an i Many of the witnesses said they belonged to the home army before and after the Russian occupation of Poland. Jan Jankowski, deputy prime is imminent." Day of Victory Conservative Admiral Nimitz in effect announced the capture of Okinawa when he messaged reconversion task in American industry. To carry it to com pletion the companies are pre pared to spend approximately 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 in plant and equip ment rehabilitation and new in stallations on the assumption tha the greatest volume of peacetim business in the industry's histor; lies ahead.

It has been estimated authoritatively that the automobile makers will have to produce 6,000,000 vehicles annually for at least three years to catch up with accumulated demand. That volume would be about 50 per cent above normal. minister of the Polish London regime and leader of the Polish underground government, testified that such diversions aided the Germans and hampered the United Nations, particularly Russia. A witness who said he once lived in Detroit, Cheslaw Alex- androwich Latorewitz, gave direct evidence of attacking Russians. Mackenzie King Loses Personaf Effort As Government Wins Ottawa, June votes in the June 11 Do- Montana, National Weather Forecast, Helena and vicinity-Partly cloudy with occasional showers tonight and Wednesday.

Warmer. Montana Station-- Max. Min.Pcp. night. St.

Louis at Cincinnati, night. Only games. minion election returned to office the government of Prime Minister at Philadelphia, Mackenzje Kingi bnt the rime minister himself suffered a personal defeat in the Prince Albert constituency which he represents. The 70-year-old prime minister, who had successfully contested Prince Albert in four general elections, was defeated by B. L.

Bowerman, co-operative commonwealth federation candidate, by 129 votes in the combined civilian-service balloting. In a field of four candidates, King had a lead of 263 in the civilian vote. American League New York at Boston, twilight. Cleveland at Detroit, twilight. Philadelphia at Washington, twilight-night double-header.

Chicago at St. Louis, night. New Institute Washington, June (JP) -Senator Pepper and five colleagues have introduced a bill to create a national psychiatric institute to study the causes and treatment of mental diseases. Deat Faces Death Paris, June Deat, minister of labor and internal solidarity under the Vichy government, was condemned to death today by a court of justice which tried him in absentia. Billings 79 56 Belgrade 76 50 Broadus 78 52 Butte 75 48 Custer SO 50 Cut Bank 74 Dillon 78 52 Drummond 77 48 Glasgow 77 47 Great Falls SO 55 Havre 78 56 Helena 79 82 54 75 47 Livingston 77 ,55 Miles City 79 54 Missoula 83 55 West Yellowstone 7 4 Whitehall 81 54 The official Helena temperature at 2 p.

m. was 75 National Station-Bismarck, N. TJCheyenne, Wyo Chicago, 111 Wax. Min.Pcp 75 51 .07 50 72 73 52 52 5S 53 53 57 58 Denver, Colo 74 .02 Fargo, N. 79 Huron, S.

75 Kansas City, Mo. 67 Los Angeles, Calif. S9 Paul 75 New Orleans, La 84 i York, N. 89 North Platte, Neb. 73 Omaha.

Neb 77 .05 St. Louis, Mo. SO San Francisco, Calif 91 Seattle, Wash 80 Sheridan, Wyo 7S Washington, D. C. 92 68 Williston, N.

74 49 ,07 .01 .10 Presidential Tariff Cutting Powers Restored fo Bill Washington, June senate restored to the reciprocal a bill today power for the president to cut tariff rales by as much as 50 per cent. The vote was 47 to The house had approved the additional rate cutting power in passing the bill extending the reciprocal trade program for three more years. The administration had fered a temporary setback in the "We were operating in a village," he said. ''We saw a Russian car and we opened fire on it. Yes, I fired, too." He related another incident in which a driver was killed and told of other cases in which four persons were killed and Russian workers were fired upon.

Large Detachment Stanislaw Kolonedo, another witness, said he was instructed 20 days on blowing up bridges, wrecking roads and He said 100 were in his armed detachment. "We got orders to derail all Red army trains which were supposed to be sent into action against the Germans," he said. Another witness, France Urban- owice, leader of 25 riflemen, said his group aimed to create terror in the rear of the Red army, prin- guerrillas after the Red army drove out the Germans. He told of a Russian civilian being captured and banged. First Witness The journalist, Stanislaw Ku- yavinski, the first witness called at the second session of the military trial, said he saw such a directive in the underground office propaganda on Feb.

15, 1945. He said the general line of underground propaganda was "against the Soviet Union." He asserted the propaganda office had stated that all eastern Polish territory "should be considered occupied by the enemy." Three of the principal defendants and six of 22 witnesses in the trial were heard yesterday, the general's troops all of us take pride in the day of victory on which he gallantly met a soldier's death." Fully cognizant, however, that some 10,000 Japanese remain to be killed or captured before Okinawa can be declared "secured" from a military standpoint, Nimitz carefully refrained from announcing the end of organized resistance. He has followed that policy throughout the Pacific campaigns under his command. Although some Japanese were fleeing in the southwestern sector, thousands of others fought back as savagely as any time in the SO-day-old Okinawa campaign. It was just such resistance-- a counterartillery barrage --which killed Buckner.

All along the ragged, narrow- Ing southern Okinawa sector, 'Tenth army troops surged south- indicating that the trial still has war(J aga i nst crumbling, ditninish- ing resistance. Everywhere they encountered intense fire from automatic weapons, machine guns some time to Kuyavinski said that he was an employe in the Polish underground, working in the eastern i area, and that sometimes he got Deat stam i aps directives from Warsaw. Attacking with tanks and self- Today's session drew a large guns, the Seventh in- audience--men and women oC a Division blasted hollowed Russian armed services, wounded veterans and one officer in the uniform of the Polish army. U. S.

Divisions Are Ready To Fall Back in Favor of Soviet Army Paris, June Ten combat divisions of the cipally among Russian officers but Third and Seventh armies among civilians if necessary. He a standing by along a 125-mile said his group fought Russian a a uing ciders to fall Jack from territory which has been as- signed to Russian occupation toiTCS. These divisions are: Seventh out coral heads in which death- stand Japanese resisted with small arms near Mabuni. These doughboys were within 1,000 yards of Mabuni. It was the eighth regimental combat team, however, which broke the Japanese main resistance effort around Kuwanga and Makabe.

These fresh troops gained 650 yards in their predawn attack, defeated a counterattack and gained momentum late in thf day as they surged southward. American Submarines Sink I More Vessels in Pacific -64 .01 70 55 50 57 1.64 55 59 51 senate finance committee, where three Democrats jumped the party fence to line up with a solid Republican representation and dc- the extra authority, 10 to 9. President, Truman said renewal and strengthening of the tiade agreemeuts act was "of the first order of importance for the success of my administration." .58 .04 Woolman Dies Portland, June Mac Hoke, 54, of Pendleton, vice This data for 24-hour period ending 6:30 a. U. S.

weather bureau, Helona. Montana--Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Wednesday. Continued mild. Destroyer Emmons Sunfc Off Okinawa by morcd: Third army--26th, 9 4 and 7 9 infantry, and eighth and 16th armored. It was announced, meanwhile, a British troops havo now taken over all territory in their oc- American forces.

)--Major president of the National Wool furnished assoc iation and one of the northwest's most prominent stockmen, died in a hospital here today. Washington, States submarines have sunk I more enemy ships, including two light combatant vcs- "zone formerly held by sels, in Far Eastern waters, the navy announced totlaj. The combatant ships wrrc medium patrol vessels. Noncombatant vessels claimed in the latest toll were a medium cargo vessel, two medium tankers, a medium merchant vessel, two small cargo vessels, and three small merchant vessels. The 11 raised to the total Japanese losses inflicted by United States submarines.

The total Includes 138 combatant ships and 1,015 noncombatant. Hoyle Xametl Denver, L. H. Hoyle, former Colorado county health official, has been named regional medical officer for the security administration, with headquarters in Denver. Detailed to FSA by the U.

S. public health service, he will direct rural health programs ir Colorado, Wyoming, Montana. Kansas, Nebraska and North and South Dakota. Washington, June -The USS Emmons, which helped escort. President Roosevelt en route to the Teheran Big Three conference, has been lost off Okinawa--victim of Japanese suicide planes.

Hit by five Kamikazes within a few minutes, the Emmons was so badly damaged she had to be sunk bv sister ships 12 hours after the attack last April 6. She suffered 139 casualties, including 59 killed, 78 wounded and two missing. Formerly a destroyer, the Emmons was converted to destroyer mine sweeper before she joined the Pacific fleet last January. Attacked by 12 enemy planes, she shot down Jix, but fire bored through the wall Of crashed tht shift. EWSPAPERl.