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106 associated tress usased wiub ') I GREENWOOD, S. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 22, 1945 associated press features nea features RICE HVE CENTS ii British Men Over 29 In Useful Work Indefinitely Def eBed ri Election TTMT1 Assured i a i i i 4 1 liML Um If mm Patrols Churchill, Rejecting Delay Until Fall Indicates Summer Ballot FIRST TROOP SHIP HOME WITH U. S. SOLDIERS All Our Might Is Needed In Pacific, Says Gen. Krueger Heaviest Raid Hits Call To Be Gut In July Entering Yonabam Formosa London.

May 22 (P) Prime 'MlnUter Churchill virtually assured aummer general election for BrtUin todav In a letter to Clement Attlee rejecting the labor partyl suggestion that the ballot tog be delayed until falL The letter of the Prime Minister tu made publio arter the Labor Party had adopted a U-poInt program aimed at establishment of "a Boclallat commonwealth of Oreat Britain." The Prime auuater expressed re gret that the Socialist had turned down his proposal to continue the coalition government until the end of the war agalnat Japan and aid that continuation of the coalition short of that period "might soon weaken the country before the world" because Of "bickering' with In the government. Jaly See Likely Date Churchill's letter did not how ever name a specific date for the voting nor did tonight's official London Oasette contain any notice of dissolution for Parliament Con eequetly the exact date for the election remained undetermined but most observers believed it would be July 6, The 1.104 Ubor Party delegates meeting Blackpool at the party's national convention gave swift approval of the platform which virtually meant the opening of the political campaign. Political circles predicted the election woulu be set July 5 provided Churchill acts by Thurs mms I fill Mfc 3 A welcoming group of girls waves a greeting to a small vanguard of home-coming American soldiers aa the Army troop ship bearing them glides into a berth In New York harbor. The ship is on: of a convoy, the first to reach America since V-E Day. (AP Wirephoto).

i US, Britain, Canada To Balance Reconversion i alav 30. The London Press, which has Washington. May 22. iP) President Truman said today American, Rritish and Canadian reconversion1 plans are being coordinated so that each country will bear Its fair share of the Pacific war burden. He added In transmitting the 19th report on Lend-Tease opera been urging an early, of the Big settle the Polish other European problems, aid that with the elections coming Airmen Sink Six Ships, S6 Craft; 500 Luzon Japs Killed By Dean Mrhedlt-r Manila.

May ,23. W--The heaviest air strikes ever made on Formosa In four months of raid ing by riillli)ilnes-la-ed bom Intra were reported today as U. S. In fantrymen wiped out 500 encir cled Japanese on central Luzon lautnd and drove toward a Junction on Mindanao slowod only by brown-out bridges. Associated Press war correspon dent Kussel Brlnei reported from (he 5th Air Force Base that airmen returning from last Satur day's record raid on Formosa had sunk six ahips and.

3 small craft and damaged 14 other yessela of all types. A total of 3,000 tons of explo sives have been rained on Formo- war Industries, airdromes, transportation facilities and military installations since the first bomber struck from the Philippines January 11. Trapped Foe Wiped Out Just three days after capture of Ipo dam In the Manila watershed, doughboys of the 43rd Di vision, aided by wiped out two-third 6f a large enemy force trapped la the area, a spokesman at Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters reported today. A tank-led column split Japanese troops by seining Metropolitan road and then liquidated organ-ited resistance south of that key highway.

At least BOO enemy bodies were found. A few miles to the southeast, the 38th Infant! Division drove toward Wawa 7dam. 8ome ISO Pace '7 Column a 22,000 Liberated Yanks To Be Back In U. S. This Month Washington, May 22.000 American soldiers liberated from Oermany In the closing stages of the war will be back in the United States by the end pf thli month.

Other." cf the 10000 held by Oermany as the collapse came will be.sen home as swiftly as possible. the War Department says The men arc coming back both by air transport and ships. Col. Albert L. Warner, war intel ligence division chief, explains that many of the men were released In camps deep in Germany, and others In areas Into which the Russians advanced.

im ire being moved as rapidly as posrlble to American camps where medical attention, good food and part of their back pay await them. Heavier Draft of Younger Men Seen With 30-37 Deferments Washington. Msy 23 jfV-Selec tlve Service today announced a po licy of indefinite deferments for men who have reached their 30th birthday and who are engaged In "useful" wor. At the tame time It predicted heavier call of young men to mili tary service. Washington.

May 32. T--6e 'ectlve Service today announced i rollcy of indefinite deferments for mep over in "vseful" work. At the same time it predicted heavier alt of younger men. i Maj. Gen.

Lewis B. Hershey draft director, said et a news con fere nee that as a result of the war's end in Europe "occupational defer ment policy must be liberalised" for registrants 30 through 37. This course, effective immediate ly, means that these older men will not be drafted so long as they stay In work considered useful by local beards. It means, too, that defer' ments will not require renewal at he end of six-month periods, as heretofore. S3 Percent Overall Cat Been Hershey alao announced that the draft call, beginning In July, will be cut abouV 23 per cent below the current rate.

That will put it at 60,000 men, as compared with 120, 000 at present The draft director Instructed lo cal boards to review at once the files of e-P and limited service regi- rtrnt. 18 through 23. Where there Is reason to believe "they may now be qualified for military service," they should be forwarded for re examination, Hershey said. For men 28 through 29, the pre vailing certification policy of government agencies will be continued 'for. the pre-cnt Hershey predicted, however, that "the time is coming' when more of these men occupa- tionally deferred will have to be drafted." Navy Has Almost As Many Ships As It Had Men in '38 Washington, May 32 The U.

S. Navy, world's biggest, now has almost as many ships and boats as It had men in 1938, This was disclosed today with toe announcement thaw 100,000 vessels of all categories have been added to the force of 7.695 which existed on Dec. 7. 1941 the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In 1938, the fleet wad only officer and men.

The 100,000 craft Include 1,150 combatant ahips of the lines; 2(3 landing ahipa and craft and 657 auxiliaries. tions to Congress that the mutual military necessity" until final victory. up any such meeting was out of the I For Atrocity Camps I Urged By Richards ft 5 1 aid program will continue as "a TariffVote Said Test Of lonism By Francis M. Le May Washington, May 22. fP) ftrp.

Doughton (I)-N7) opened the sdinlnlstration's tariff battle to day ny telling the House Its vote will test whether America is willing to cooperate with other nations or prefers isolationism. Th Sl-yeai'-old Ways and Means Committee chairman call-pd for enactment of legislation eiving President Truman broad row authority to cut duties In re-clnrocal trade agreements with other nations. "We nan talk our heads off a-hont world cooperation at Dum barton Oaks, at San Francisco, or other points of the- compass," Houghton asserted, "but an Inclination for action Is a lot more! convincing to our Allies with wnom -we must work out a more permanent and secure peace, "Our vote on this hill will be Hie first real tet as to whether or not we are willing to participate In International cooperation or revert to a policy of economic-and political isolationism." "I am older than most of you In this House," the octogenarian nsK'rted, "but I am proud to stand here today for 'a prograpi that has In it. courage, youth and vitality, the kind that made this nation great. Instead of the cringing, fearful, bogeyman attitude of some of my good friends who really show their age by their i timidity." Accused Slayer Of Baby Girl Suicides Brunswick, On, May 22 (At Richard Bailey, 26.

shipyard worker scheduled to go on trial today for murder In the death of 2-year-old Betty Lou Frailer last February, was found hanged in his Olynn Sheriff Oeorge M. Owens said a blanket Ued to the top of Balley'a ell window served as the death Major C. A. Williams of the state highwaf patrol said Bailey, former- i quoted Bailey as saying he didnt jknow why he had done it. "31 Wash lag ten.

lay 23 4V- A 'Tar Bond state neat frwnt Oen. falter Krweger, jeaasaaadlag ewerat af the Mxth Army, La-vn. Philippic-: MMMO-loaa, and meney will be needed In the Parlffe. f.very American mast back the attack Japan with his ar her aaaxlmam rasa-trees the Seventh War Loan." CIO Wants 20 Percent Wage Hike Washington. May 22.

(AV-The CIO called today for a 20 per cent Increase In prevailing basic wage ates "to restore prewar relation hips between wage rates, prices and productivity per man-hour. The recommendation for a 20 per cent increase on top of the IS -er cent allowed' under the little Teel formula was presented to resldent Truman by CIO Presi dent Philip Murray. Murray said the Congress of In dustrial Organizations had naked the Office of War Mobil last Ion anT deconversion for an immediate increase of IT cents an hour for stel and other Industrial workers. "Cut-backs are underway, work en have been laht and the re conversion period has begun, Murray's statement said. Unless labor receives an even larger share of what it produces than In 1940 when, ten million workers were jobless, he said, "even more workers will be unemployed." The CIO said labor's earlier ar gument that wage rates must be in creased to keep pace with living costs still holds good, and will ne cessitate an upward adjustment of at least ten per cent on the basis of the most conservative estimates.

However, the statement, released after Murray called at the White Mouse to discuss the proposal with Truman, added: "STh an ad'ustment would make: no allowance for tlu increase In labor productivity, which in over four years may be estimated conservatively as ten per cent or more, i "Thus, a 20 per cent Increase, In basic wage rates Is necessary simply to restore prewar relationships be-twen wage rates, orlces and pro ductivlty per man-hour." Japan Will Arrest 'Any Specchmakers Who Disturb Unity San Francisco, May 22. F--A high Japaaese official admitted growing "peace agitation" in the homeland and called for the arrest Of any person making speech es "that might cause disorder In the national unity," the Domel inews agency said today. cations of he Shoguns. American nnri Japanese forces are fighting at lose qinrters often hand-to-hand with cold sterl-for possesssion of Oiir island which is one of the keys to the Japanese mainland, only 325 mile north. Te Be Base For Death Blew IX.

Oen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Tenth Army commander of Okina wa. says it will become a base from' which the death blow can be dealt" to the Japanese empire." I rom there our Superfortresses can ravage Nippon at will and the air going to play a. mighty part In reducing the Japs to Impotence. The enemy fully recognises the strategic implications of this situs-tlcn.

and the defenders are fighting literally to the death. Yesterday Jap soldiers with demolition charges strapped to their bodlea were flinging themselves against our tanks hrman bombs. When this terrific combat began the Japanese had some 80.000 men on Okinawa. Close to 50.000 ef them are dead, leaving Page 7 Column 9 Casualties Heavy on Both Sides as '500 Japs Counterattack on SugrarLoaf-' By James LlntUley Guam. May 22.

(AP) American Infantrymen and Marines fouRhr toward the battered fortress city of Shu-ri from- three sides today, a- Rainst fierce Japanese-resist ance as Tank patrols entered Yonabam. and bloody enemy counter-attacks' were beaten back by determined Marines. An estimated Hve hundred Jap anese, some or them. wearing Am-rrfcan' Marine anlfortpc and carrying A. 'weapons, counter -attacked fiercely Agilnst the Fourth Marine Regiment of the CUth Marine plvlslon on Sugar Loaf Hill, with heavy casualties eiacted on both sides.

Two hundred dead Japanese were found after the attack was repulsed and at tasst 100 others werei believed killed but: Marine casualties also were Pfc. Raul Hunter; laks after looking over one elope where a-bout SO Marines 'and 15 Japanese lay dead r- "That'e" the 'first time" I have ever seen a hill with more" Marine bodies thag' Jgp bodlea." Across the-islaad. the JJlst Regiment of the Infantry Division sent two patrols Into Tonaharu. Town of Talra Aelaed The T71h" Division, caught the enemy oft balance with a surprise predawn attack and within an hour and a quarter had captured the. town of Talra.

500 yards from 8hur(. where 1 from "high ground' they looked upon tba smoking ruins of the one-tlmo second largest Okinawa The 307th Regiment made a surprise assault upon a hill 1.100 yards east of fihuri late; Sunday, killing almost 800 Japan-se In taking hill and paving the way for later advances la eitreme- ly bitter fighting. Brig. Oen, Walter Dumas of the Tenth Army Staff told Asso-eiated Press Correspondent Vern Haugland that Phurl, in the center of the line, no longer has military 'Importance and the breakthrough to the city will not be followed by Immediate occupancy. All blgh ground around fihuri.

Page 7 mm Column a Tito Changes Attitude On Trieste Hold London, May 22. trtV-Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito appeared today have executed jb complete about face In his attitude toward the occupation of Trieste and the surrounding area, giving rise to speculation In London that be might have received a suggestion from Moscow to change his stand. riplomattc' sources close to the British Foreign Office said the situation was "definitely. Improved, ant there were Indications of an early solution. Tito was withdrawing his Parti san forces from southern Austria.

ne of the points of dispute, and Yugoslav occupation headquarter .14 been removed from Trieste, although both' British and Partisan troops remained In the Adriatic port. i --7 There were indications of Tltof apparent readiness to discus with Italy a long-term status of the disputed territory and with the Al lies the present status of occupa tion. It was believed' la London tttat the Yugoslavs were prepared to agree to a peaceful but temporary settlement of the dispute and would press their territorial claims at the Columbia, May 72 (JV-Oerman concentration camps and war atro dUea as witnessed by Bouth Carolina's representative James P. Richards In Europe were described here last night by the representative as a colossal scheme of exter mination." "Firm, harsh punishment la the only form of retribution the Oer man people will understand and profit he said Richards spoke before a Seventh War Bond rally under the, auspices of the 8tate War Finance Committee. A member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he was one of elx repreentativea cho sen to go abroad with a special congressional committee as re quested by Oeneral Elsenhower af American armies uncovered ev ldencea of atrocities at Buchenwald, yordausen and Dachau.

SoIonThinlcs iledsToJoin WnrOnNitifl Million Tons Less Sugar For Civilians By Howard FUrgrv Washington. May', Civilians manafactnrers and nousenoiders alike will have a million tons lens augar this year than last. The House Food Committee urgently recommended appoint ment of a slni-le administrator to coordinate controls now -pread through a score of govern ment agencies'. Otherwise. It asserted, reserve stockpile which now are vanishing will be gone entirely in 1946.

There were report that two men are under consideration as possible sugar coordinators: Earl Wilson, sugar branch director of the Commodity Credit Corpora tion, and Joshua Berntiart, head of the War Food Administration's sugar division. Wilson, formerly a vice presi dent of the National Sugar Re fining conferred with Presi dent Truman last week. "Only when the housewife finds how little sugar Is going to be available under the contemplated program which provides five pounds per person for a four-month period. Will the full Impact (of the, shortage) be the committee said in unanimous report. "We feel that all of the alloca tions to liberated countries or neutrals should be re-examined in the light of existing supply and urrent production figures." Figures given the committee, it said, "indicate a very substantial reduction from the estimates at the time allocations were tenta- ely made." ast under the long heavy table and steprd back behind and to th? right ofHltler.

Hitler was standing in the center of the long table which was fpread with maps. On his right was Oen Hensinger, then Col. Brandt- "Tie conference had Just begun when Col. Brandt kicked CoU Stauffenbergs briefcase and seemed annoyed fiat It was hi wav. He stooped and plckeu jt up and et it over about a foot on the outside of the thick oak slab that supported the end of the table.

at 12,:40 someone called Cot StAuf- fenberg to the telephone. At 12 the brief case exploded with a bi? burst of yellow flame and black smoke. For a few moments it was quiet Everybody was deafened, by the noise. -Then everyone started yelling here the Puehrerrr Kelt tel got him by the arm and started out. a "There will be substantial reductions In the total volume of Allied war production now that Germany has been defeated." the substantial report said.

"Both In the United States and abroad, these redue tions will permit some reconversion from war to civilian production and some increase in com mercial exporta. To Hhar Burden Equally "Plans for reconversion in the United Slates. Britain and Canada are being co-ordinated on a broad front so that these nations will be devoting equitable shares of In dustrial capacity to the war a- gainst Japan. "Such adjustments must re main subject to the overriding consideration of maintaining the moM effective flow of war supplies to win total -victory over Japan." Covering thr, rlod through March 31- -mor tJMn a month before Germany's collapse the repfrtTwas silent on future lend-lease to Russia, which is not at war with Japan. It said however: Future programs -of lend-leaNe aid will continue to be based, as in Uiep asi, on the controlling consideration of the most effective prosecution of the war." Total lend-lease shipments to Russia for tho trid covered by the report were listed at "00,000, with 3.

285,000.000 sent in the lust 12 months. Included were 13.300 airplanes, "more than to any other ally," 6,800 tanks and 312,000 tons of explosives. Uend-lnase aid to all Allies a-inouuted to 138,971,797,000, 1 exclusive of consignments valued at $874,383,000 to commanding generals for transfer in the field to lend-lease countries. First Army To Go To Pacific From Europe Via U. S.

A. By Brack Curry Washington, May 22 The American First Army, which blazed Dath for Allied troooa across the sjegfried line, soon will be stslklngj Japanese. r- Numbering some 150,000 men a month ago, the army commanded by Oen. Courtney H. Hodges is be big redeployed by way of the tm- Colonel's Briefcase Kick Epic Battle Of Okinawa Shows Ferocity Of Japs Sayecl Hitler Last July ww wwwwm i '-aa aaaa gf -aw V- Washington, May 33.

fP) -Rep. Mansfield D-Mont) predicted to dcy that Ru4sia will join the war against Japan. Mansfield added In a speech prepared for i House delivery; that unless China is unified soon, such a development rhicht split China into two separate 'states. Tisunity in China is so great, said Mansfield, who recently served as a personal -i observer for President Roosevelt in the China-Burma- China th-nter. it may force this country -wttoh its strategy Jn the war with Japan.

If China, la not unified, he de quite possible that we will shift our plant for beachheads i or. the China coast to a direct as sault on the Japanese home Islands themselves; Weald Back China CemmwnlsU "The U1. In my opin 16a tenter the war aralnst Japan." Mansfield said. that happens the Soviets will, aa a matter of By Howavd Cawan Berchtesgaden, May. 22 WV-The attempt to assassinate Hitler last July 20 would have succeeded if a colonel had pot kicked a little black briefcase, said Helnt Buch-hols.

a shorthand expert who was In the barracks at Rastenburg. East Prussia when the bomb went off. BuchhalaV who ecaped with only minor cuts from flying glass, continued recording Hitler's confer ences until April 30, when he was ordered to leave Here to his story of Col. Von Stauffenberg to kill Hitler: "Hitler had a xsonference every day at lunch time. His headquarters was in the forest near Rasten burg.

The code name was Wolfs schanae. "There were about 23 people in the room. It was the first time Hitler had ever seen Stauffenberg, and Field Marshal Keitel Introduced him. 8tauffenberg was forming the new Volks Grenadier divisions. "Cut.

Stauffenberg set his brief- Ty Dewitt MacKensie ictory Is crystallizing with Increasing speed In all theatres of the war against Japan, and the perimeter of our attack Is steadily contracting about the Mikado's home islands for the kill. As President Truman said yesterday, we are "striking devastating blows in the Pacific" and "we are rrepnring to strike them later in overwhelming force." Chief Interest of the moment centers In the bloody strle for kinawa island, in the Chinese occupation of the port of r'oochow on the China coast opposite Okinawa, and in the report by the harassed Japanese that an Allied task force la headed towards southern Nippon and Just what -xuld this mysterious, task force be vp to? If traveling mlnlstrela still sang the glories of fighting men we certainly should be hearing, throughout our land the epic of Okinawa one of the fiercest and most important ratUes of the war against Japan. TBhere amidst the' ancient fortifi geographical propinquity, depend on and render such aid aa la necessary to the Chinese Communis ta because they will be 1. good position to attack Japanese concentratlona and lmiiH ther ham been and will ha ited States, with 30-day furloughs ly of W. Va had con-a waiting lu members here.

killing the child by putUng It is the first sizeable contingent her head under his armband press -the War Department has of icially ing her nose against his body. He Qn the future unle-4 Chinese unity in achieved Idological sympathiea announced will move from the Eu ropean theater to Jie Pacific. PS4 Column 8 peace confr renc:.