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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE The German Menace: Editorial Governor Stevenson's Economy: Editorial Lawrence and Adams: Columnists Relief Is on the Way: Cartoon MEMBER E PRESS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEW YORK TIMES VOL. C SAN MONDAY MORNING,'JUNE 25, 1945 PRICE 5 1865 to H I T L U Z O N J A P S J a p s H u r l B e s t P i l o t s a t O k i n a w a A I R B O R N E V E T E R A N S D R O P O N 2 0 , 0 0 0 T R A P P E D N I P S Hitler Balks Over II Duce Blackmail Mussolini Wants Million Tons of Supplies as Price of Italy's Help This is the seventh article drawn from the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. (Copyright, 1945, by Chicago Daily News, Inc.) All rights reserved for all countries, including right of translation.) Aug. 3, 1939 Mussolini made a last effort to blackmail the Germans for 17,000,000 tons of military supplies as the price for entering a war he knew he couldn't fight, it is disclosed in the diary of Count Ciano, his son-in-law, for the closing of August, For a duce aspired to the mantle of peacemaker, but he wore it poorly and cynically. As hostilities approached, he began to hope the war would be "long, hard and bloody" for everybody but the Italians. Ciano ran up bankrupt Italy's telephone bill with frantic long-distance calls. duce alternately was lion and lamb. His advisers were One even suggested war would be popular with the Italian women because they would be rid of their husbands and draw six lira a day in addition. Ciano went to Tirana, Albania, Aug. 19 and then to Valona, but an urgent telegram summoned him back to Rome Aug. 20. He wrote: Aug. my absence il duce has done an about-face. He wants to support Germany in the which is now close at hand. . . . Conference between Mussolini, Attolico (ambassador to Berlin), and This is the substance. It is too late already to go back on the Germans. The press of the whole world would say that Italy is cowardly, that it is not prepared, and that it had withdrawn in the face of the threat of war." Pleads With Duce Aug. I've spoken clearly. 'Duce, you must not do At Salzburg I myface to face with an ultimatum. Not we, but the Germans have betrayed the alliance. . . . Tear up the pact. Throw it in Hitler's face and Europe will recognize in you the natural leader of the anti-German crusade. Do you want me to go to Salzburg. Very well. I shall go and shall speak to the Germans as they should be spoken to. Hitler not make me put aside my ciga-ret as he did Schuschnigg (former Austrian premier)." "HE WAS very much impressed and" approved my suggestion to ask Von Ribbentrop to come to the Brenner Pass. . , . We telephoned Von Ribbentrop, who was unavailable. Finally, at 5:30 p. m., I speak to him. He says that he cannot give me an answer because 'he is waiting for an important message from Moscow and will telephone me during the evening.'" AUG. last night a scene occurred. Von trop phoned that he would rather see me at Innsbruck than at the frontier because he was to leave later for Moscow, to sign a political agreement. . . . (The German - Russian non-aggression pact.) The Germans have struck a master blow. All Europe is upset. . . . We must wait and be ready ourselves to gain something in agricultural industries in the world are thriving and highly promising infant industries in Texas today. To cite an instance, Palo Pinto County is going in for silk production on a considerable Transplanted from Lebanon and in experienced hands, silkworm culture is initely established at Mingus and is spreading from there. The white mulberry, on whose leaves the silkworm feeds, does well in that area. Then, South Texas farmers, from the Winter Garden to the Loiver Trinity Valley, have taken to growing flax as a winter crop, mainly for the seed. The biggest crop of record is being harvested. OAKS soon may base a wood-products industry for this State. During some seasons past, mainly under the stimulus of wartime needs, Texas Forest Service has been distributing acorns for experimental plantings over diverse, widely scattered areas. The results should show what parts of Texas are best adapted to cork As West Texas Today (the West Texas Chamber of Commerce magazine) Deaf Smith recently was famed the country over as the "community without a has undertaken to grow cork oaks in earnest. E. B. Posey, manager of the Hereford Chamber of Commerce, has distributed 10,000 acorns to landowners over the county. The to the Spanish and Moroccan highlands apparently is well suited to the Texas High Plains. The 4,000-foot altitude, the dry air and sunny days nearly match conditions in the cork oak's original home. SMITH COUNTY ings are being directed by Marion E. Ziegler, who came there from a cork-manufacturing center. A firm in that city is supplying the acorns. promoters of this enterprise hope to have perhaps 10,000 seedlings growing in Deaf Smith County next year. In that event, the first cork harvest might be expected by 1966; but meanwhile the trees would yield welcome shade, besides an annual crop of mast for As it is botan-akin to the live oak, the cork oak well might find a home in South Texas. It is a source of in South Texas. T)IG BEND National Park is due four million dollars' worth of roads in the postwar era. Dr. Ross Maxwell, superintendent, has announced plans for motor thoroughfares that will lead into the Chisos Mountains, to Boquillas and Mariscal canyons, to Santa Helena Canyon. When the driveshall have been finished, can get to the park's main scenic spots; but that view of sunset color playing upon the Sierra del Carmen from the South most awesome natural spectacle on the be reserved for hardy climbers and daring horsemen. Peace Parley Appraised as A Signing Document, Truman's Address to End Conference By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, June of 50 nations appraised the United Nations Conference Sunday as a suchas produced a charter for a new world league. The task is finished. Whether the charter and the league also will be a success, whether they will eradicate "the scourge of war" and guide the world into paths of permanent peace, be inscribed in the pages of history in the future. Only a two-day whirl of formalities remains for the conferplenary session Monday for final approval of the charter text, the signing of the document by delegates who drafted it, a round of speeches Tuesday. Trnman Arrives Today President Truman flies in from his Pacific Northwest vacation spot late Monday to look in on the ceremonies and bring conference to a conclusion with 'a address Tuesday afternoon. Except for a comma to be inserted or a word changed here and there, work on the charter is complete. A steering committee of all conference delegation chiefs saw to last night. The committee accepted the charter as pieced together by technical experts. And it had determined May 1 that in the final plenary session there should be no discussion or statement on the substance of approved texts. "Great Milestone" Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, a link between this conference and the writing of covenant of the old League of Nations, termed the new world constitution "a great milestone along the path of human progress." In an analysis for the Associated Press, Smuts said the new charter corrects the covenant precisely where it failed, retaining the "idealism and human vision Continued on Page 3, Column 1 Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Urges Strong Nation By Associated Press HAMILTON, Mass., General George S. Patton Jr, Sunday told 5,000 cheering neighbors that this "will be the last war, if we are prepared." Speaking at a reception on the Hamilton High School lawn, Gen-Patton asserted "the war has not ended. It will take blood, sweat and honest labor to win. "If the 5th Division took a day off to go to the races when it was at the Rhine, what would happen? When you do things that you are gambling with the life blood of brave Americans who died because they were not supported." He told the residents of the town in which he makes his summer home that "the more one travels where you can buy hosiery in drug stores and where bridges are still in position you were bound to realize what your soldiers, airmen and sailors have kept from you." LEAGUE AND NEW CHARTER CONTRASTED By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. Field Marshal Jan Christaan Smuts of South Africa today drew up a four-point table of contrast between the covenant of the League of Nations and the charter drafted at the Conference here. In an analysis written for the Associated Press, he said the charter differed from the covenant in recognizing: 1. That force is necessary to maintain peace. 2. That only the combined force of the great powers can guarantee peace and that unity among them is essential. 3. That the other nations agree to supply armed forces against aggression. 4. That defense groups should help to maintain world peace. Germans Know Who Is Boss, Gen. Devers Says Special to San Antonio Express By the New York News NEW YORK, June Germany that Adolf Hitler proudly fashioned for 1,000 years is "through for the next 100 years," according to one of her principal American conquerors, four-star Jacob L. Devers. . "Every nearly every house and factory is down," Devers reported. "And the people will not be too hard to handle." "The Germans," he said grimly, "will behave once they recognize a master. you show them who's boss, they'll down." Along with General Joseph T. McNarney and Lt.Gen. William H. Simpson, Devers gave his views of the postwar Germany at a press conference at the Wai-dorff-Astoria. Earlier, four big planes had dropped them and a dozen other generals at La Guardia Field. Hirohlto Would Quit Kepner, new head of the 8th Airforce in Europe, said that Emperor Hirohito would quit the war "right now" if he could see the devastation wrought by American air attacks on Ger- "It was like a desert wherever we hit," he said. "I never saw a picture of an earthquake that was a bad. If I could take Hirohito over Germany to see the things that I saw after our raids, he would quit right now." Simpson was met at the airport by his wife, Ruth, of San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Simpson didn't wait for her husband to descend from plane, but rushed up the ramp into his arms. When p h o t o g raphers, caught off-balance, asked them to repeat the kiss for the cameras, General Simpson cried: Continued on Page 2, Coumn 5 in London Swamp Transatlantic Phone By Associated Press LONDON, June than 3,000 American soldiers rushed to the telephone over the end to place $12 calls over the transatlantic system, opened for private conversations fbr the first time since 1939. Only 100 calls got through in the first 24 hours, and the British post-office said tonight that no more calls could be placed before Tuesday, and maybe not then. Personal Swastika Dragged in Street As Reds Celebrate Victory Over Germans By Associated P r e ss MOSCOW, June Hitler's personal Swastika flag was dragged over the cobblestones of Red Square and hurled into a muddy gutter Sunday after Marshal George K. Zhukov, in a victory parade speech, said the Red Army was the most powerful in the world, but that Russia must not become "conceited or complacent." "After four years of savage battles, we have entered a period of peaceful development," said Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin and defender of Moscow. "The Soviet state has emerged even more mighty from the grim struggle we waged, and the Red Army the most modern and powerful army the world. But for us Soviet peoples it is unseemly to become conceited or complacent. Much To Do "In the future, too, we must strengthen the economic might of our country, unceasingly perfect our military skill, study the abundant experience of the Fatherland-war, and develop our military science." Zhukov stood beside Marshal Joseph Stalin on a review stand atop Lenin's red marble tomb as he spoke. He said the victory over Germany grew out of the socialist regime's strength and because the nation was "led to victory by our great leader and military genius, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Stalin." Zhukov had ridden into the square on a gleaming white horse, the traditional Russian mount for a conqueror, 'in sight of thousands of Russians and scores of foreign diplomats. It was the Soviet Union's greatest official ceremony to honor its victorious troops. Nazi Flags in Gutter Two hundred captured Nazi banners, including Hitler's personal standard, were marched through the square, dragged along its rain-soaked cobblestones, and disdainfully tossed into the gutters before Lenin's Continued on Page 2, Column 7 Try to Keep U.S. From Using Bases By Associated Press GUAM, Monday, June Japan's best airmen and newest planes apparently have entered the fight to forestall development of Okinawa as a base of operations against Nippon. Having lost the island, only 325 miles from Japan's southern shores, to the American 10th Army, and shorn of sufficient navy power to oppose Yank plans to make the island one huge airbase, Nipponese struck through the air "with the best they had Thursday and Friday. American pilots and antiaircraft artillery downed 59 of the enemy planes, Pacific Fleet headquarters announced But the Yank airmen said Japanese tactics were much more skillful than in previous raids, and enemy planes including new types of army and navy fighter craft as well carrying the recently-developed one- rocket suicide bomb. General H. H. Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Airforces, on a visit to Okinawa, said the island would afford a "very good" start for full-scale air war against the Japan homeland, with er strikes expected to be started fall. General Arnold, in promising heavy air blows for Japan, said on Page 2, Column 6 Japs Fire, Quit Borneo Oil Wells By Associated Press MANILA, Monday, June Australian 9th Division troops, driving down the Borneo north coast towards the Miri oil fields, still confronted little Japanese opposition Sunday. The enemy apparently was withdrawing in the belief he had inflicted maximum damage to the wells. The Australians having captured Seria, potentially the richest petroleum area in the British Empire, found that at least 21 of its 50 wells still were burning from Japanese' sabotage. In the continued aerial pounding of the Southeastern Dutch Borneo port of Balikpapan, the U.S. 5th Airforce joined the 13th Airforce and the Royal Australian Airforce in sending more than 150 Liberators, Mitchells and Lightnings over the target with more than 200 tons of bombs. Storm Regains Full Force By Associated Press June storm which moved across North Florida Sunday without doing great damage gained full hurricane force after striking the Atlantic Ocean and about 75 miles east of Brunswick, Ga. at 8. p. m the Miami weather bureau announced. Strong winds and gales up to 60 miles an hour and considerably above normal were dicated for the Atlantic coastal area from Savannah northward to Norfolk, Va. The weather bureau said the storm was moving at about 20 miles an hour and should increase in force during the night. All interests on the coast of South and North Carolina and Virginia were cautioned to be on the alert. Storm warnings were displayed from Fernandina, Fla., to Norfolk. TOKYO-BOUND German prisoners of war (foreground) watch as an American truck is hoisted a merchant ship at a staging area 18 miles north of Marseille, France, where U.S. troops and equipment are processed reassignment to the Pacific. Allied Warships Shelling Balikpapan, Tokyo SAN FRANCISCO, June radio Sunday reported heavy Allied warship and plane poundings of the Balikpapan oil center, on the Borneo southeast coast, and claimed Allied landing attempts had been "completely checked." While General Douglas Mac-' Arthur's communiques have reported almost daily air attacks on the Balikpapan area, there has been no Allied announcement of invasion intentions. The broadcast, monitored by the federal communications commission, said that on June 15 "20-odd warcraft were massed by the enemy" and bombardment and operations were started "further clarifying his intentions to effect landings." Shelled Daily The warships shell the Japanese coastal positions and oil area by day, but withdraw far out to sea at night for fear of Nipponese suicide plane the broadcast said, adding that one minesweeper had been sunk and another damaged. Tokyo also reported that American Superforts flying in groups of seven to 13 laid mines off the coasts of Honshu and Kyushu islands in the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago last night and early today. The planes also dropped bombs on coastal communities, unconfirmed broadcast said. Brace for Invasion An English-language Japanese broadcast beamed to America made the wholly unsubstantiated claim that 555 Allied ships had been sunk or damaged off Okinawa up to June 1. Japanese imperial headquarters was quoted in the announcement that the ship losses included 16 aircraft carriers and 14 battleships sunk. Japanese officials have mobi- Continued on Page 2, Column 3 Chinese Press Toward Shanghai By Associated Press CHUNGKING, June nese troops, pressing up China's eastern "invasion" coast in the wake of a Japanese withdrawal toward Shanghai, have reached Taichow Bay, 175 miles south ef the great enemy-held seaport, the Chinese command said Sunday. Swift new Chinese gains along the coast 450 miles west of the American-held Okinawa came as bitter fighting raged for the former U. S. airbase city of Liu-chow, in South China, 400 miles southeast of Chungking. The Chinese high command said that Chinese spearheads had engaged Japanese rearguards in the Hwangyen after the enemy had fallen back 60 miles in a week from Chinese-occupied Wenchow. The Japanese were maintaining a steady withdrawal along the Chekiang province coast and the pursuing Chinese were within 127 miles southeast of the city of Hangchow. Mine Jap Railway In supporting operations inland, Chinese guerrillas mined the Chekiang-Kiangsi railroad near 65 miles south of Hangchow, blowing up a Japanese mu- Push Forces Mop-Up to A By Associated Press MANILA, Monday, June of veterans of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division, joined by gliders for the first time in the Southwest Pacific, descended on the rice paddies near the north Luzon port of Aparri Saturday morning and swung south to , join the final of the Ca-gayan Valley, where an estimated 20,000 Japanese are trapped. The airborne troops landed at 9:10 a.m. in bright sunlight without any enemy opposition. The town of Aparri, last Japanese escape port from Luzon, had been captured earlier by guerrillas and units of the U.S. 6th Army. who fought in bloody Manila campaign, brought w i t h them formidable pack-howitzers, while their gliders disgorged jeeps and mobile radio equipment for a rapid push up the Cagayan River. Contact Guerrillas Commanded by Maj.Gen. Joseph M. Swing, the troopers contacted the guerrillas already in the area and the combined force quickly captured Town, 11 miles south of Aparri and only 53 miles north of Tuguegarao, Cagayan Province capital still held by another guerrilla force despite three days of Japanese counterattacks. Farther the U.S. 37th Infantry Division under Maj.Gen. Robert S. drove nine miles in 24 hours ending at nightfall Saturday, reaching within eight miles of Tuguegarao in a bid to relieve the hard-pressed guerrillas. Japanese making every effort to crack the guerrillas under Col. Russell W. mann before the 37th could arrive. An headquarters spokesman said Tuguegarao was Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Flyers Blast 1,500 Junks By Associated P?ess MANILA, June Mitchell bombers from the 5th Airforce pounced on more than 1,500 junks and fishing boats Friday on a strafing run between Hongkong and Canton. The medium bombers wrecked at least 40 of the craft and damaged docking facilities. No indication of enemy evacu- in the Hongkong area was reported officially, although the use of small craft for such operations is a favorite device since Japanese shipping has been driven from the seas. than 90 5th Airforce Lightnings strafed and strewed jellied gasoline fire bombs on three Southwestern coastal areas of Formosa, They concentrated on the butanol plants at Heito and refineries and storage tanks at Toshien Mato. Following them were 30 Liberators which dropped 197 tons of bombs. Flames reached almost half a mile high as explosions rent the area. Continued on Page 2, Column 2 WEATHER San Antonio and vicinity: Partly cloudy Maximum temperature Sunday was 92 degrees, 72. C O S T O F B A T T L E S Lt.Comdr. Wm. J. Warburton is authority for the statement that the battle of Okinawa, now finally concluded, had cost the navy $8,800,000,000 up to June 1. The battle has been won, but other battles are to That is why more and money is needed. The 7th War Loan is a means of paying for the ammunition, supplies, and weapons to be used in bringing nearer final victory. THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC PHILIPPINES paratroopers glider troops descended on Japs trapped on Luzon in bid for quick clean-up of the island. Page 1. planes and pilots into fight to keep U. S. from developing base. Page 1. Chinese forces follow retreating Japanese Shanghai. Page 1. march down Borneo coast without much trouble. Page 2.
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Title | "The San Antonio Express" - June 25, 1945 |
Date | 1945-06-25 |
Identifier | po-guttery-nwp-sae_1945-06-25 |
Custodian |
Baylor University - Poage Legislative Library |
Original Collection | Ben Guttery Collection |
Note | From Ben Guttery collection. |
Total Pagination | 8 |
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Newspaper |
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Language | English |
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OCR - Transcript | ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE The German Menace: Editorial Governor Stevenson's Economy: Editorial Lawrence and Adams: Columnists Relief Is on the Way: Cartoon MEMBER E PRESS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEW YORK TIMES VOL. C SAN MONDAY MORNING,'JUNE 25, 1945 PRICE 5 1865 to H I T L U Z O N J A P S J a p s H u r l B e s t P i l o t s a t O k i n a w a A I R B O R N E V E T E R A N S D R O P O N 2 0 , 0 0 0 T R A P P E D N I P S Hitler Balks Over II Duce Blackmail Mussolini Wants Million Tons of Supplies as Price of Italy's Help This is the seventh article drawn from the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. (Copyright, 1945, by Chicago Daily News, Inc.) All rights reserved for all countries, including right of translation.) Aug. 3, 1939 Mussolini made a last effort to blackmail the Germans for 17,000,000 tons of military supplies as the price for entering a war he knew he couldn't fight, it is disclosed in the diary of Count Ciano, his son-in-law, for the closing of August, For a duce aspired to the mantle of peacemaker, but he wore it poorly and cynically. As hostilities approached, he began to hope the war would be "long, hard and bloody" for everybody but the Italians. Ciano ran up bankrupt Italy's telephone bill with frantic long-distance calls. duce alternately was lion and lamb. His advisers were One even suggested war would be popular with the Italian women because they would be rid of their husbands and draw six lira a day in addition. Ciano went to Tirana, Albania, Aug. 19 and then to Valona, but an urgent telegram summoned him back to Rome Aug. 20. He wrote: Aug. my absence il duce has done an about-face. He wants to support Germany in the which is now close at hand. . . . Conference between Mussolini, Attolico (ambassador to Berlin), and This is the substance. It is too late already to go back on the Germans. The press of the whole world would say that Italy is cowardly, that it is not prepared, and that it had withdrawn in the face of the threat of war." Pleads With Duce Aug. I've spoken clearly. 'Duce, you must not do At Salzburg I myface to face with an ultimatum. Not we, but the Germans have betrayed the alliance. . . . Tear up the pact. Throw it in Hitler's face and Europe will recognize in you the natural leader of the anti-German crusade. Do you want me to go to Salzburg. Very well. I shall go and shall speak to the Germans as they should be spoken to. Hitler not make me put aside my ciga-ret as he did Schuschnigg (former Austrian premier)." "HE WAS very much impressed and" approved my suggestion to ask Von Ribbentrop to come to the Brenner Pass. . , . We telephoned Von Ribbentrop, who was unavailable. Finally, at 5:30 p. m., I speak to him. He says that he cannot give me an answer because 'he is waiting for an important message from Moscow and will telephone me during the evening.'" AUG. last night a scene occurred. Von trop phoned that he would rather see me at Innsbruck than at the frontier because he was to leave later for Moscow, to sign a political agreement. . . . (The German - Russian non-aggression pact.) The Germans have struck a master blow. All Europe is upset. . . . We must wait and be ready ourselves to gain something in agricultural industries in the world are thriving and highly promising infant industries in Texas today. To cite an instance, Palo Pinto County is going in for silk production on a considerable Transplanted from Lebanon and in experienced hands, silkworm culture is initely established at Mingus and is spreading from there. The white mulberry, on whose leaves the silkworm feeds, does well in that area. Then, South Texas farmers, from the Winter Garden to the Loiver Trinity Valley, have taken to growing flax as a winter crop, mainly for the seed. The biggest crop of record is being harvested. OAKS soon may base a wood-products industry for this State. During some seasons past, mainly under the stimulus of wartime needs, Texas Forest Service has been distributing acorns for experimental plantings over diverse, widely scattered areas. The results should show what parts of Texas are best adapted to cork As West Texas Today (the West Texas Chamber of Commerce magazine) Deaf Smith recently was famed the country over as the "community without a has undertaken to grow cork oaks in earnest. E. B. Posey, manager of the Hereford Chamber of Commerce, has distributed 10,000 acorns to landowners over the county. The to the Spanish and Moroccan highlands apparently is well suited to the Texas High Plains. The 4,000-foot altitude, the dry air and sunny days nearly match conditions in the cork oak's original home. SMITH COUNTY ings are being directed by Marion E. Ziegler, who came there from a cork-manufacturing center. A firm in that city is supplying the acorns. promoters of this enterprise hope to have perhaps 10,000 seedlings growing in Deaf Smith County next year. In that event, the first cork harvest might be expected by 1966; but meanwhile the trees would yield welcome shade, besides an annual crop of mast for As it is botan-akin to the live oak, the cork oak well might find a home in South Texas. It is a source of in South Texas. T)IG BEND National Park is due four million dollars' worth of roads in the postwar era. Dr. Ross Maxwell, superintendent, has announced plans for motor thoroughfares that will lead into the Chisos Mountains, to Boquillas and Mariscal canyons, to Santa Helena Canyon. When the driveshall have been finished, can get to the park's main scenic spots; but that view of sunset color playing upon the Sierra del Carmen from the South most awesome natural spectacle on the be reserved for hardy climbers and daring horsemen. Peace Parley Appraised as A Signing Document, Truman's Address to End Conference By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, June of 50 nations appraised the United Nations Conference Sunday as a suchas produced a charter for a new world league. The task is finished. Whether the charter and the league also will be a success, whether they will eradicate "the scourge of war" and guide the world into paths of permanent peace, be inscribed in the pages of history in the future. Only a two-day whirl of formalities remains for the conferplenary session Monday for final approval of the charter text, the signing of the document by delegates who drafted it, a round of speeches Tuesday. Trnman Arrives Today President Truman flies in from his Pacific Northwest vacation spot late Monday to look in on the ceremonies and bring conference to a conclusion with 'a address Tuesday afternoon. Except for a comma to be inserted or a word changed here and there, work on the charter is complete. A steering committee of all conference delegation chiefs saw to last night. The committee accepted the charter as pieced together by technical experts. And it had determined May 1 that in the final plenary session there should be no discussion or statement on the substance of approved texts. "Great Milestone" Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, a link between this conference and the writing of covenant of the old League of Nations, termed the new world constitution "a great milestone along the path of human progress." In an analysis for the Associated Press, Smuts said the new charter corrects the covenant precisely where it failed, retaining the "idealism and human vision Continued on Page 3, Column 1 Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Urges Strong Nation By Associated Press HAMILTON, Mass., General George S. Patton Jr, Sunday told 5,000 cheering neighbors that this "will be the last war, if we are prepared." Speaking at a reception on the Hamilton High School lawn, Gen-Patton asserted "the war has not ended. It will take blood, sweat and honest labor to win. "If the 5th Division took a day off to go to the races when it was at the Rhine, what would happen? When you do things that you are gambling with the life blood of brave Americans who died because they were not supported." He told the residents of the town in which he makes his summer home that "the more one travels where you can buy hosiery in drug stores and where bridges are still in position you were bound to realize what your soldiers, airmen and sailors have kept from you." LEAGUE AND NEW CHARTER CONTRASTED By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. Field Marshal Jan Christaan Smuts of South Africa today drew up a four-point table of contrast between the covenant of the League of Nations and the charter drafted at the Conference here. In an analysis written for the Associated Press, he said the charter differed from the covenant in recognizing: 1. That force is necessary to maintain peace. 2. That only the combined force of the great powers can guarantee peace and that unity among them is essential. 3. That the other nations agree to supply armed forces against aggression. 4. That defense groups should help to maintain world peace. Germans Know Who Is Boss, Gen. Devers Says Special to San Antonio Express By the New York News NEW YORK, June Germany that Adolf Hitler proudly fashioned for 1,000 years is "through for the next 100 years," according to one of her principal American conquerors, four-star Jacob L. Devers. . "Every nearly every house and factory is down," Devers reported. "And the people will not be too hard to handle." "The Germans," he said grimly, "will behave once they recognize a master. you show them who's boss, they'll down." Along with General Joseph T. McNarney and Lt.Gen. William H. Simpson, Devers gave his views of the postwar Germany at a press conference at the Wai-dorff-Astoria. Earlier, four big planes had dropped them and a dozen other generals at La Guardia Field. Hirohlto Would Quit Kepner, new head of the 8th Airforce in Europe, said that Emperor Hirohito would quit the war "right now" if he could see the devastation wrought by American air attacks on Ger- "It was like a desert wherever we hit," he said. "I never saw a picture of an earthquake that was a bad. If I could take Hirohito over Germany to see the things that I saw after our raids, he would quit right now." Simpson was met at the airport by his wife, Ruth, of San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Simpson didn't wait for her husband to descend from plane, but rushed up the ramp into his arms. When p h o t o g raphers, caught off-balance, asked them to repeat the kiss for the cameras, General Simpson cried: Continued on Page 2, Coumn 5 in London Swamp Transatlantic Phone By Associated Press LONDON, June than 3,000 American soldiers rushed to the telephone over the end to place $12 calls over the transatlantic system, opened for private conversations fbr the first time since 1939. Only 100 calls got through in the first 24 hours, and the British post-office said tonight that no more calls could be placed before Tuesday, and maybe not then. Personal Swastika Dragged in Street As Reds Celebrate Victory Over Germans By Associated P r e ss MOSCOW, June Hitler's personal Swastika flag was dragged over the cobblestones of Red Square and hurled into a muddy gutter Sunday after Marshal George K. Zhukov, in a victory parade speech, said the Red Army was the most powerful in the world, but that Russia must not become "conceited or complacent." "After four years of savage battles, we have entered a period of peaceful development," said Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin and defender of Moscow. "The Soviet state has emerged even more mighty from the grim struggle we waged, and the Red Army the most modern and powerful army the world. But for us Soviet peoples it is unseemly to become conceited or complacent. Much To Do "In the future, too, we must strengthen the economic might of our country, unceasingly perfect our military skill, study the abundant experience of the Fatherland-war, and develop our military science." Zhukov stood beside Marshal Joseph Stalin on a review stand atop Lenin's red marble tomb as he spoke. He said the victory over Germany grew out of the socialist regime's strength and because the nation was "led to victory by our great leader and military genius, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Stalin." Zhukov had ridden into the square on a gleaming white horse, the traditional Russian mount for a conqueror, 'in sight of thousands of Russians and scores of foreign diplomats. It was the Soviet Union's greatest official ceremony to honor its victorious troops. Nazi Flags in Gutter Two hundred captured Nazi banners, including Hitler's personal standard, were marched through the square, dragged along its rain-soaked cobblestones, and disdainfully tossed into the gutters before Lenin's Continued on Page 2, Column 7 Try to Keep U.S. From Using Bases By Associated Press GUAM, Monday, June Japan's best airmen and newest planes apparently have entered the fight to forestall development of Okinawa as a base of operations against Nippon. Having lost the island, only 325 miles from Japan's southern shores, to the American 10th Army, and shorn of sufficient navy power to oppose Yank plans to make the island one huge airbase, Nipponese struck through the air "with the best they had Thursday and Friday. American pilots and antiaircraft artillery downed 59 of the enemy planes, Pacific Fleet headquarters announced But the Yank airmen said Japanese tactics were much more skillful than in previous raids, and enemy planes including new types of army and navy fighter craft as well carrying the recently-developed one- rocket suicide bomb. General H. H. Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Airforces, on a visit to Okinawa, said the island would afford a "very good" start for full-scale air war against the Japan homeland, with er strikes expected to be started fall. General Arnold, in promising heavy air blows for Japan, said on Page 2, Column 6 Japs Fire, Quit Borneo Oil Wells By Associated Press MANILA, Monday, June Australian 9th Division troops, driving down the Borneo north coast towards the Miri oil fields, still confronted little Japanese opposition Sunday. The enemy apparently was withdrawing in the belief he had inflicted maximum damage to the wells. The Australians having captured Seria, potentially the richest petroleum area in the British Empire, found that at least 21 of its 50 wells still were burning from Japanese' sabotage. In the continued aerial pounding of the Southeastern Dutch Borneo port of Balikpapan, the U.S. 5th Airforce joined the 13th Airforce and the Royal Australian Airforce in sending more than 150 Liberators, Mitchells and Lightnings over the target with more than 200 tons of bombs. Storm Regains Full Force By Associated Press June storm which moved across North Florida Sunday without doing great damage gained full hurricane force after striking the Atlantic Ocean and about 75 miles east of Brunswick, Ga. at 8. p. m the Miami weather bureau announced. Strong winds and gales up to 60 miles an hour and considerably above normal were dicated for the Atlantic coastal area from Savannah northward to Norfolk, Va. The weather bureau said the storm was moving at about 20 miles an hour and should increase in force during the night. All interests on the coast of South and North Carolina and Virginia were cautioned to be on the alert. Storm warnings were displayed from Fernandina, Fla., to Norfolk. TOKYO-BOUND German prisoners of war (foreground) watch as an American truck is hoisted a merchant ship at a staging area 18 miles north of Marseille, France, where U.S. troops and equipment are processed reassignment to the Pacific. Allied Warships Shelling Balikpapan, Tokyo SAN FRANCISCO, June radio Sunday reported heavy Allied warship and plane poundings of the Balikpapan oil center, on the Borneo southeast coast, and claimed Allied landing attempts had been "completely checked." While General Douglas Mac-' Arthur's communiques have reported almost daily air attacks on the Balikpapan area, there has been no Allied announcement of invasion intentions. The broadcast, monitored by the federal communications commission, said that on June 15 "20-odd warcraft were massed by the enemy" and bombardment and operations were started "further clarifying his intentions to effect landings." Shelled Daily The warships shell the Japanese coastal positions and oil area by day, but withdraw far out to sea at night for fear of Nipponese suicide plane the broadcast said, adding that one minesweeper had been sunk and another damaged. Tokyo also reported that American Superforts flying in groups of seven to 13 laid mines off the coasts of Honshu and Kyushu islands in the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago last night and early today. The planes also dropped bombs on coastal communities, unconfirmed broadcast said. Brace for Invasion An English-language Japanese broadcast beamed to America made the wholly unsubstantiated claim that 555 Allied ships had been sunk or damaged off Okinawa up to June 1. Japanese imperial headquarters was quoted in the announcement that the ship losses included 16 aircraft carriers and 14 battleships sunk. Japanese officials have mobi- Continued on Page 2, Column 3 Chinese Press Toward Shanghai By Associated Press CHUNGKING, June nese troops, pressing up China's eastern "invasion" coast in the wake of a Japanese withdrawal toward Shanghai, have reached Taichow Bay, 175 miles south ef the great enemy-held seaport, the Chinese command said Sunday. Swift new Chinese gains along the coast 450 miles west of the American-held Okinawa came as bitter fighting raged for the former U. S. airbase city of Liu-chow, in South China, 400 miles southeast of Chungking. The Chinese high command said that Chinese spearheads had engaged Japanese rearguards in the Hwangyen after the enemy had fallen back 60 miles in a week from Chinese-occupied Wenchow. The Japanese were maintaining a steady withdrawal along the Chekiang province coast and the pursuing Chinese were within 127 miles southeast of the city of Hangchow. Mine Jap Railway In supporting operations inland, Chinese guerrillas mined the Chekiang-Kiangsi railroad near 65 miles south of Hangchow, blowing up a Japanese mu- Push Forces Mop-Up to A By Associated Press MANILA, Monday, June of veterans of the U.S. 11th Airborne Division, joined by gliders for the first time in the Southwest Pacific, descended on the rice paddies near the north Luzon port of Aparri Saturday morning and swung south to , join the final of the Ca-gayan Valley, where an estimated 20,000 Japanese are trapped. The airborne troops landed at 9:10 a.m. in bright sunlight without any enemy opposition. The town of Aparri, last Japanese escape port from Luzon, had been captured earlier by guerrillas and units of the U.S. 6th Army. who fought in bloody Manila campaign, brought w i t h them formidable pack-howitzers, while their gliders disgorged jeeps and mobile radio equipment for a rapid push up the Cagayan River. Contact Guerrillas Commanded by Maj.Gen. Joseph M. Swing, the troopers contacted the guerrillas already in the area and the combined force quickly captured Town, 11 miles south of Aparri and only 53 miles north of Tuguegarao, Cagayan Province capital still held by another guerrilla force despite three days of Japanese counterattacks. Farther the U.S. 37th Infantry Division under Maj.Gen. Robert S. drove nine miles in 24 hours ending at nightfall Saturday, reaching within eight miles of Tuguegarao in a bid to relieve the hard-pressed guerrillas. Japanese making every effort to crack the guerrillas under Col. Russell W. mann before the 37th could arrive. An headquarters spokesman said Tuguegarao was Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Flyers Blast 1,500 Junks By Associated P?ess MANILA, June Mitchell bombers from the 5th Airforce pounced on more than 1,500 junks and fishing boats Friday on a strafing run between Hongkong and Canton. The medium bombers wrecked at least 40 of the craft and damaged docking facilities. No indication of enemy evacu- in the Hongkong area was reported officially, although the use of small craft for such operations is a favorite device since Japanese shipping has been driven from the seas. than 90 5th Airforce Lightnings strafed and strewed jellied gasoline fire bombs on three Southwestern coastal areas of Formosa, They concentrated on the butanol plants at Heito and refineries and storage tanks at Toshien Mato. Following them were 30 Liberators which dropped 197 tons of bombs. Flames reached almost half a mile high as explosions rent the area. Continued on Page 2, Column 2 WEATHER San Antonio and vicinity: Partly cloudy Maximum temperature Sunday was 92 degrees, 72. C O S T O F B A T T L E S Lt.Comdr. Wm. J. Warburton is authority for the statement that the battle of Okinawa, now finally concluded, had cost the navy $8,800,000,000 up to June 1. The battle has been won, but other battles are to That is why more and money is needed. The 7th War Loan is a means of paying for the ammunition, supplies, and weapons to be used in bringing nearer final victory. THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC PHILIPPINES paratroopers glider troops descended on Japs trapped on Luzon in bid for quick clean-up of the island. Page 1. planes and pilots into fight to keep U. S. from developing base. Page 1. Chinese forces follow retreating Japanese Shanghai. Page 1. march down Borneo coast without much trouble. Page 2. |
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