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THE ESC AN AB A DAMA PRESS VOL. XXXVll NO. K7 fUPPFR LEADING NEWSPAPER ESCANABA, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JUNK 28. 1945 (A ssociated Press leased ire ews ervice (12 PACKS) TOKYO REPORTS NEW ALLIED INVASION TRUMAN GIVES All Of Luzon HIGHEST POST TO STETTINIUS SECRETARY RESIGNS; HEADS SECURITY DELEGATION Is Liberated 'Hey Harry' brins As Old Home Town Shouts Welcome BY ERNEST B. VACCARO Independence, June 27 Truman announced today he had accepted the resignation of Edward R.

Stettinius, as secretary of state, and was appointing him as American representative on the postwar security council and chairman of the United States delegation in its general assembly. The president announced he would appoint a successor to tinius as state secretary next Monday or Tuesday, but laughed oft attempts of reporters to make him say if would be James Byrnes of South Carolina. Offer Accepted He said Stettinius had accepted the offer of the job as United States representative in the League of United Nations projected under the peace charter he steered through to approval at San Francisco. It is, said the president, the biggest post in the gift of the government, and he didn't see how anyone could refuse it. In a lengthy prepared statement read to a news conference in his home town here, the president announced he was accepting the resignation Stettinius submitted the day after former President Roosevelt's death, but which he refused at the lime.

The statement, in the form of a letter to Stettinius asserted that he had asked him to stay on at that time to carry out a vitally important as chairman of the United St does at the United Nations Conference. Berlin Meeting Next accepted that the president wrote. was i very grave He added: San Francisco Conference has now fulfilled its purpose. The charter of a permanent United Nations has been written. You have every reason to be proud of your part in this achievement nm the Tiie letter disclosed that he had to suggestion that he accompany the president to the meeting near Berlin, which the president said take place next Under questioning, the president id that Byrnes, former senator, war mobilizer and supreme court justice will attend the three" meeting as earlier announced.

Mr. Byrnes go in a personal the president was He laughed and replied: Mr. Byrnes is going at my invitation. Senate Gets Charter The president said he would fly back to Washington Sunday, arriving there at 2 p. m.

(Eastern War Time) if the stays in the air, using the humorous name tor the big C-54 luxury plane in which he has toured the country during the past several days. ile said he would formally submit the United Nations postwar peace charter to the senate Monday for its ratification but declined to say whether he would make a personal appearance. The president emphasized that he wanted Stettinius to remain in Washington as his to be available to the senate whatever assistance Manila, Thursday, June 28 entire main Philippines island of Luzon, which Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur reinvaded Jan. 9.

now headquarters announced today. Reporting complete conquest of the Cagayan valley, munique added: entire island of Luzon, embracing square miles is now Americans have made a juncture in the valley of northern Luzon the entire RYUKYUSCOST S. 3,731 MEN Slil well Arrives On Okinawa As Head Of 10th Armv BY LEIF ERICKSON Guam, Thursday, June 28 The Ryukyus campaign cost the U. S. Pacific fleet 9.731 officers and men killed, missing and wounded.

Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today announced these figures for the navy for the period March 18 to June 20, inclusive: Killed and missing, 4,907. Wounded, 4,824. This was an Increase of 1,290 for the four week, from May 24, last announcement of fleet casualties, through June 20.

report through May 24 and climaxing a campaign of 28 days. The once powerful Japanese force in the 200 mile long valley has been driven into the mountains to the east and west, cut off from all supplies. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy, MacArthur placing these at 113,593 dead. He said the graves of many more thousands of Nipponese troops had been located but uncounted. for isolated operations, this closes the major phase of the northern Luzon campaign," the communique reported, of the most savage and bitterly fought in American The only other enemy forces of consequence in the Philippines are on Mindanao, southernmost island, and they are scattered and growing increasingly disorganized.

In addition to the listed enemy dead several thousand were takqn prisoner. Announced American losses were 3,793 dead, 34 missing and 11,351 wounded Enemy losses throughout the archipelago already far exceed 400,000. Carrier Bunker Hill Survives Jap Blow With 656 Casualties Independence, June 27 Truman came back home today to a welcome be will never forget from thousands of Independence and Kansas City neighbors who shouted, until then wpaiBunker Hill, causing 656 casual- was causing a six degrt hoarse. ties, but the flagship of Vice Ad- list in the ship. Below decks men His grey head bared to the sum- ruiral Marc A.

Mitscher survived were dying from heat and suffoca- Washington, June 27 Jap- ing oil and gasoline, wen forc ing ianese suicide planes scored two the fin fighters back against the direct bomb hits on the carrier bulkhead. The sheer weight of the mer sun, the home town boy who went to the White House acknowledged greetings with a happy wave of his hand. Standing in the rear of his open ear, a grin on his face a mile wide, he rode like a conqueror through the streets so familiar to his earlier struggles as a farmer, soldier, haberdasher and smalltown politi- I cian. Throughout the 18-mile ride from the airport to the two-story white frame little white house where Mrs. Truman awaited him the crowd waved and called him Harry.

His daughter Margaret boarded the presidential plane when it landed at 1:30 p. Central War Time, after waiting for nearly an CONGRESS SETS UP FOOD CZAR Agriculture Secretary To (iet More Powers Over Pricing BY NORMAN WAI KER Washington, June 27 today prepared new powers and duties for Clinton P. Ander- listed 4,270 naval personnel kill- son to use in control of the na- ed or missing and 4.171 wounded. food supplv after he be- Most naval casualties were suffered aboard ships sunk or dam- jaged in Japanese aerial assaults on forces lying off Okinawa to protect ground forces. communiques have disclosed that a total of 33 of destroyer size or damaged since March 18 in the entire Ryukyus and supporting operations.

Gen. Joseph Stilvvell made his first appearance on Okinawa as commander of the 10th U. S. Army today and Japan awaited the next move by American forces that conquered the strategic island only 325 miles south of Kyushu. Air Crewmen Bitter As Pacific Missions Are Increased To 35 Milwaukee, June 27 Bitterness exists among some American Superfortress crewmen still hour the arrival of her His thousands of gallons of flam- brother, J.

Vivian Truman, rode beside the president and his ABOUT fagged out by the time he reached LIVVlIU II nUvw I his recently-remodeled summer White House, from the terrific heat and the glare of the sun on his deeply-tanned face. Presidential Secretaries Matt Connelly and Charles G. Ross, I George Allen, Washington, insurance man and close friend of the president; Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.) and others in the official party were invited to come in for a cold drink. It was the third parade for the president this week. He was cheered by thousands at Portland, Oregon, Monday on a 90-mile tour through the city, and flew into San Francisco to receive a thunderous welcome from upwards of 250,000 persons that afternoon.

four hours of flaming death and tion. Will fight again. The cruiser Wilkes-Barre, a The navy disclosed today that member of the task group, had the Bunker Hill, despite losses of come alongside, placing tier bow 373 dead, 19 missing and 264 hard against the Bunker Hill's wounded in the tragic episode off starboard quarter, to add her hose Okinawa 11, is home under to the firefighting. With the her own power for repairs at the Wilkes-Barre at her side, the Puget Sound navy yard. Bunker Hill went into a wide, 70 A daring maneuver which liter-; turn at 212 degree rudder, ally flung the fire from her han- In turning, the navy account said, gar deck capped the heroic efforts she shifted the load of water of her crew and assisting ships to 1 across the ship and the conquer the flames.

heart of the roaring inferno on Fire Rages For Ilnurs hei hangar deck out into the sea Three hours after the attack, with lips too burned to firefighters were still waging a cheer rushed forward with their nip and tuck battle in the flam- the navy related. ing deck. air whipped across the deck at Tons of water, poured on count- their backs, forcing the heavy smoke of burning oil and gas away from them. New life breath- LANDINGS ARE PREDICTED ON CHINA COAST K1JME ISLAND NEAR OKINAWA CLAIMED BATTLE SITE LOST FOR JAPS Chinese Enter Suburbs As L. S.

Planes Wipe Out 100 Defenders comes secretary of agriculture. A senate-house conference group agreed to include what Anderson wants on food pricing in legislation extending price controls one year beginning July the same day the New Mexico representative succeeds Claude Wickard in the cabinet. There were these other developments on the food front: (1) A house sub-committee, reporting critically 011 an investigation of the War Food Administration, instructed Anderson to provide periodic reports on progress of (2) The house tentatively approved an allocation of $174,500,000 for OP A for the fiscal year starting July 1. A move by some Democrats to boost the figure $6,000,000 was defeated 93 to 47, when Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) and other appropriations committee members declined to support it. Republicans did not make an expected attempt to reduce the flying against Japan after having amount, which is $11,200,000 less (Continued on Page Two) Weather by U.

8. LOWER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered thundershowers Thursday. Friday mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Cooler north and west portions. UPPER MICHIGAN: Cloudy with showers and thunderstorms Thursday.

Friday cloudy and cooler with showers In east. Moderate southerly winds becoming northerly Friday. High Low ESCANABA 66 57 Yesterday Alpena 68 Los Angeles. 73 Battle Creek. 77 Marquette 75 Bismarck 83 Miami ..............91 Brownsville 94 Milwaukee 72 Buffalo 84 Minneapolis 78 already completed 30 missions, Robert J.

Doyle, Milwaukee Journal correspondent, said today in a dispatch to his newspaper from Saipan. The principal complaint of the enlisted crewmen, Doyle said, is that some of the original crews which flew the first B-29 missions against Japan were sent home after completing 30 missions while the rest of the old crews were told they must fly 35. Dovle said he was told by Brig. Gen. Emmet (Rosie) O'Donnell, commander of the 73rd bomb wing, that some original crews must fly more than others because sufficient trained replacements were not yet available and if all original crews were relieved after 30 missions even more planes (would be idle at a time when I every effort is being made to step up the Superfort program.

White House Gets than last year's allocation. The new food pricing proviso requires approval of the secretary of Agriculture on all OP A price orders on processed foods anit agricultural commodities including wool and cotton. This would require his approval on meat pricing. Senator Wagner (D-NY) told reporters the new proviso, still subject to formal ratification in both branches of congress, makes Anderson first on food pricing. STEEL LACKING FOR NEW CARS Dolav In Reconversion Feared; Sheet Supply Running Tight Cincinnati Cleveland Denver Duluth Grand Rapid? Houghton Lansing 75 New Orleans 94 83 New York 76 79 Omaha 81 86 Phoenix 102 79 Pittsburgh 33 72 Ste.

Marie 75 "6 St. Louis 31 76 City 70 Walkout At Hudson Plant Is Settled Detroit, June 27 strike that made 1 1,500 Hudson Motor Car employes idle was settled tonight as Governor Harry F. Kelly of Michigan appealed to labor unions to end jurisdictional disputes affecting more than 40,000 other workers. The governor, in a statement at Pmi Hill Lansing, the state capital, urged umui 1 11 a return to Washington, June 27 increasing the pay of postal workers was sent to the White House today. The house approved a senate version of legislation which provided a permanent yearly wage boost of approximately $300 to $400 for most postal employees.

A similar increase voted in 1943 expires July 1. Swedish Coalition Government Retires ork the good of Michigan now and in the postwar Production of parts for B-29 Superfortresses and Curtiss Hell- diver bombers had been halted by the Hudson walkout which climaxed a dispute over job assignments. Details of the settlement were not disclosed but a Hudson spokesman said the men agreed to return to work on their regular shifts tomorrow. General Of 15th Popular Writer With Bops On KP Stockholm, June 27. Premier Per Albin Hansson said today that his coalition gov- Wiesbaden, Germany, June 27.

eminent would resign at the end think the U. S. 15th of July. With the end of the war, army commander, Lt. Gen.

Leon- he said in a statement, parliament- ard T. Gerow, writes the most arv groups decided there no longer beautiful prose- was reason for continuing the our GIV off P. (kib-hen coalition. police) duty. Hire all the civilian The Social Democrats, as the help vou need Let our men at majority party, vill be asked to and let the Germans wait BY STEKI.IN F.

GREEN Washington, June 27 prospective shortage of sheet steel gave concern today to the automobile gets its conversion go-ahead on and to the government. Theoretically, every ton of sheet steel in the estimated supply for the next three months is spoken for by military and other priority users, leaving none lor automobile bodies. John D. Small. War Production Board chief of staff, said sheet Steel was tightest thing and predicted no improvement until late in the July- September quarter at the earliest.

Both government and industry spokesmen voice hope, that munitions cutbacks will release greater supplies than can now be counted on. They note also that passenger car production cannot reach any substantial volume before the final quarter of the year. The failure of cutbacks to show up on steel mill order boards has so alarmed WPB, however, that Chairman J. A. Krug has sent letters to 800 war plants asking that they cancel their priority orders for metal when their war contracts are trimmed down.

Sales Of Bonds Spurt In Michigan May Attain Quota Lansing, June 27. sale of $1,000 bonds during the week have shown such an increase that there is hope the state may reach its quota before the end of the Seventh War Loan drive, Governor Kelly said today. The governor reported that a state-wide survey showed that since he issued an emergency proclamation Sunday people have responded with spirit and determination," and that and Tuesday state-wide sales of the $1,000 bonds have increased ten-fold over average daily sales preceding the He -aid that is the difference between a glorious achievement and a dismal World War 1 veterans have responded to the call, Kelly reported. He said many "are cashing in their adjusted service bonds which matured June 15 and are investing them in these bonds. One bank in Detroit today sold over $150,000 of bonds to these The governor asked that who hftu not joined the ranks do BY SPENCER MOOS A Chungking, June 27 Chinese troops, supported by low- flying U.

S. fighter-bombers, have fought into the western suburbs of Liuchow, South most vital communirationji hub, after a 10-day battle in which more than 1,300 Japanese troops were killed, Chinese reports said tonight. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- soldiers battled into the western suburbs ot the former U. S. 14th Air Force base in thrust through Japanese defenses that wiped out 100 Japanese defenders, the Chinese high command said.

Northwest of Liuchow, enemy troops and gun positions were heavily pummeled by P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers of the 14th Air Force, an American que said, while the Japanese-held strongpoints of Luchai, 27 miles northeast, and Tawan, 29 miles south, also were blasted. Only Remnants Left In Japanese Elect Washington, June 27. Admiral Forrest Sherman, deputy chief of staff to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, today presented this official navy estimate what the Japanese have left in surface ships: Two partially converted battleships, half old battleship and half carrier, the Ise and Hyuga; 1he battleship Nagoto, roughly equivalent to the U. S.

West Virginia, commissioned in 1923; two other old battleships not in commission; a small number of aircraft carriers which are moored alongside docks under camouflage; approximately 30 destroyers ana a cruisers. Among the carrier strength, he said at a news conference, are two or three fairly large carriers not ready for service Sherman said the Pacific naval forces like nothing better" than for the remnants of the enemy fleet to attempt a attack. Peninsula Railroad Gets Safety Award New York, June 27 Three Michigan railroads tonight received H. Harriman Memorial awards for their safety records during 1944 at a dinner given by the American Museum of Safety. For the best safety record among larger railroads of the country the Michigan Central, a major unit of the New York Central system, received the gold medal.

A silver medal was awarded to the Ann Arbor Railroad company, mid a bronze medal went to the Lake Superior ishpeming Railroad company. The Harriman Memorial medals were established in 1913 by the late Mrs. Mary Harriman in memory of her husband, Edward Harriman. ed through the ship. Men who were lying on blistering hot docks below knew, even as they drew their first breath of fresh air, that some miracle had saved them They knew, too, that the Bunker Hill would live to fight Commodore A.

A. Burke, chief of staff to Admiral Mitscher, said the admiral was in flagplot when the attack came and escaped unhurt, although three officers and 11. men of his staff were killed and about 20 officers and men were wounded or overcome by smoke. Admiral Loses Clothing Admiral Mitscher transferred his flag to another carrier after the ship was saved. Fire destroyed all of the clothing except what he wore The ton Essex class carrier was a proud veteran of every Pacific invasion and campaign since the opening of the central Pacific offensive more than year ago.

Many of her planes were fcDWARD R. STETTINIUS, JR. GETS NEW JOB resignation of Edward R. Stettinius as secretary of state has been accepted bv President Truman, and the retiring cabinet officer has been appointed as American representative on the postwar security council and chairman of the United States delegation in its general assembly. The position is the biggest in the gift of the government, according to the President.

A new secretary of state will be named next week. (AP Photo.) DELAY GRANTED MAY HEARING Prosecutor Says Sinus Operation Was Trick To (Lain Time (Continued on Page Two) LEOPOLD MUST GIVE UP CROWN Abdication Of Belgian Kintr Predicted By omnumists BY DANIEL DE LUCK Brussels, June 27 A An abdication announcement by King Leopold III before the weekend was predicted today by a munLt leader who declared pold must tell the whole world lie is giving up the But that is done, we have no interest in whether tie completes the formalitic1 of abdication hen1 or in Dr. Albert Marteau, Communist minister of public health, added. Mennwhlie, an air trip planned by the leaders of the Belgian bar to Salzburg to consult with the king, presumably on legal aspects of abdication, was reported delayed until tomorrow by the weather. Marteau said that the Communists are not represented in conference this week, we have news that what he is doing now is seeking a way to save his face and prestige when be abdicates.

Before the end of the week the crisis will be He said Switzerland might lie a for Leopold to live after abdicating because would not be in the national interest for him to stay here permanently after abdication. We do not rare if he back for a short while and some of his admirers celebrate a little in the Greets Ho must first give his solemn promise to abdicate however. Then he able to change his TOURIST BOARD MEETS Lansing, June 27 tourist and resort advisory board will meet in Detroit tomorrow to discuss the ten most important problems I icing Michigan in postwar touri industry. Don C. Weeks, state planning commission ft.

airrnm. -aid of 76 Washington 841 form the new government. on within hf next 72 hours to in- meeting would he to the Gire a Michigan victory in this planning commission later this i war i year. Sou phones Mailed To Congressmen Washington, June 27 Bones for congressmen started piling into Washington via the U. mails this morning.

A dozen hefty unwrapped soup- shanks, with stamps and address cards attached, were delivered to the office of Rep. Harless (D- while another array reached his colleague, Senator Hayden (D-Ariz), Harless commented, know what a soup bone looks Tin t. 1 rone I m.tu said they understood clean- picked bones were sent by number of Ar-cmd rectaurant as protect against OPA meat rationing regulations. BY ROBERTA APPLEGATE Lansing, June 27 The examination of Frank D. McKay of Grand Rapids and seven other persons accused of a liquor graft conspiracy today was adjourned until July 5 because McKay still us iti an Ann Arbor hospital recovering from an operation for a sinus infection.

Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler, opposing a request by counsel thal the examination be continued until July 17, charged that whole business need not have been done, and it was done for the sole purpose of obtaining a Circuit Judge Leland W. Carr, whose one-man grand jury Issued the warrant June 16, in setting the new date for the lower court examination said he was the situation as it is, without reference to the motives or purposes Raymont Paul, appearing for McKay, presented an affidavit from Dr. Albeit C. Furstenberg Ann Arbor that McKay had made arrangements for the operation on June 15, the clay the conspiracy warrant was issued, and that he would be disabled until June was operated on at St. Mercy hospital in Ann Arbor June 20.

Severe Hail Storm Hits Detroit Area; Windows 1 re Broken Detroit, June 27 -Considerable damage was caused in the Detroit area tonight by a brief but severe hail storm. Many trees were blown down and a number of windows were broken by hail stones. One greenhouse was reported to have had 200 windows smashed. Twelve-year-old Melvin White of suburban Fertidale was struck by lightning while riding his bicycle during an electrical storm which preceded the hail He was taken to Ardmore hospital in Ferndale. In the same vicinity some 25 high tension lines were reported down, while at nearby Berkeley a two-family was set afire by lightning.

Downtown Detroit and the western part of the city escaped the storm, which struck from about 8:25 m. to 8:55 p. m. (EWT). Damage was reported, however, in Highland Park, Royal Oak and Huntington Woods.

Liberators Sink Ships Off Honshu BY BOBBIN COONS Guam, Thursday, June 27 Navy search Liberators attacked shipping off the coast ol Honshu yesterday in quick follow-up strikes to the 550-plane demolition raids on eleven Japanese industrial and ordnance plants. The Liberators, from Fleet Air- wing 18, sank a trawler and damaged a small cargo ship, raising to 36.000 the tonnage of Japanese shipping sunk by this Marianas- based air wing since April 23. These Liberators also have shot down 17 enemy aircraft. Medium Mitchell bombers of of Okinawa-based Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing ranged almost to Tokvn to rocket on two medium cargo -hips. They exploded one P), tSp I wine struck Japanese i in the Marshall? and Palaus.

San Francisco, June 27. Radio Tokyo reported without confirmation today that Allied i troops had landed on Kume Island about 50 miles- west of Okinawa, that heavy fighting was in progress. This unsupported claim, broadcast to American areas, was mixed with other Invasion prattle which included a prediction of an American landing on the China coast and reiteration of reports that Allied invasion forces had struck about half way between Okinawa and Kyushu, probably a reference to the Amami Islands. The terse report of the Kumi operation said it was made Tuesday morning (Japan date) and referred to it as a landing." It added that the island's garrison the enemy and heavy fighting is now in Balikimpan Kume is due west of Naha, tpi- tal of Okinawa, its occupation would expand the American hold on the Okinawa area and protect the western flank of the Yank occupation forces on Okinawa. Kume is a small Island, shaped like a head, with an area of about ten square miles.

Radio Tokyo continued its reports of nearly two weeks running that, an Allied invasion fleet was operating off the refinery center of Ba I Ik pa pan. It sold the warships are taking an extremely precautions method of operation." and they continued to shell the area and that mine operations in the bay still were under way. First confirmation of the Tokyo reports that Balikpapan had been shelled came in a delayed dispatch from Nathan Broch, correspondent for the official Dutch news agency, Aneta. He flew over the area in an Australian heavy Liberator bomber and reported under date of June 19 that the oil center had been subjected to a heavy air and sea assault. The prediction that China coast might be invaded came from Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri the Hochi, Domei the editoriai us saying, possibility is great that the enemy will attempt a landing on the China continent in preparation for the actual slon of AUSSIKS EXPAND Manila, Thursday, June 28 forces on western Borneo are expanding their gains the Brunei Bay area, headquarters communique announced, as well as in the Sorin- Miri oil fields area to the south.

There was nn mention, however, of an Allied invasion fleet hammering at Balikpapan, oil refining center on the southeast coast of the island, as reported by Radio Tokyo. In the Brunei area. Aussie ground troops moved into Bcau- foit, railroad terminus. This completed consolidation of defenses north of Labtian Island, securing the northern flank against attack by enemy forces that may be based at Jesselton. For the past week patrols probing tidal streams had advanced slowly on Beaufort, cutting its rail line two and a half miles south of the town.

Beaufort is a rubber export center. Down the western coast, units of the Ninth Australian division occupied Kuala Bclait, seven rmlcs south of Soria It is the river port for the Serin fields. Heavy and medium bombers and fighter units, supporting the Borneo operations, made medium and low level attacks on the likpapan area. More than 200 tons of bombs were dropped, destroying gun positions and starting large fires. Personnel areas at Tandjoen, to the southwest, also were bombed.

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