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By Quimby Melton
Tnvasfcw- of Okinawa by am
phibious forces gives American
troops a foot-hold on an isl- V.
and just 325 miles away from
Tokyo and indications are that
the foot-hold will be quickly
expanded since American forces
are making rapid progress on
that island, one of the Jap
anese “ home-group. ”
This Invasi on by the riEwlv nr.
gar.ized 10th American Army
indicates that Uncle Sam is
preparing for a direct thrust at
Japan itself which in turn may
mean a much speedier conquest
of Japan than even the optimi
stic expected a few months ago.
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Okinawa is of great strategic
impcrtance. It will furnish cx
. cellent air bases for continued
raids on Japan proper; it also
will furnish excellent harbors
for our mighty fleet; and it will
give us a jumping off place for
our troops that are to take
part in the invasion of Japan.
Anyway you look at it Oki
nawa will prov: a valuable prize
for Uncle Sam._____ ,
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Now there was one feature of
the landing on Okina'wa that is
most pleasing. Invasion was
made with light losses to our
side. Of course thi§ does not
mean that the Japs, estimated
at 80.000. on the island don’t
plan to content our advance,
but it does point out that they
respect the power rf our big
naval ships, standing off shore,
that lay down a barage for the
-—- Invasion. It also proves that
the Japs are more or less con
fused and don’t know exactly
what to do when we strike.
Probably they have strongly
defended positions cn the isl
and that we must take. And
they, mav be sacking to the eld.
tactics they hav employed, but
never successfully, of trying to
hit our flanks once we have
landed.
But the successful landing on
Okinawa is just about the best
news that has come out of the
Pacific for sometime.
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TlW-Allies have made up their
list of leading war criminals
preparatory to trying them
when the war is over. Natural
ly Adqlf Hitler heads the list
as No. 1 criminal. It's signi
ficant that while, the whole
list is not announced, it is
stated that "heads of states"
will not be exempted because of
th(ir official position
All -of which boils deijn to
look out you Emperor of Japan.
Not satisfied with all the
fi ndish things he lias already
done Hitler now, according to a
report from Sweden, has prep
ared orders for mass murder of
all Allied war prisoners, all re
maining Jews and all slave la
bor In Germany, If the Allies
do not accept peace terms which
he will offer.
There is no limit to the depths
c?L evil as far as HUlcr is con
cerned.
Mass Execution Of
Allied Prisoners Is
Planned By
STOCKHOLM^ — (VP)—Tire Free
-German Press Agency said today
without confirmation from any
source and without giving authority
for its statement that Hitler plans
the mass murder of Allied prison
ers of war, hostages from occupied
lands and the remaining Jews if his
“last proposals for a humane peace"
are rejected.
(The Stockholm Bureau of the
Associated Press tr ansmitted this
dispatch “for information.” It says
it can not vouch for the reliability
of the Free German Press Agen
cy’s reports.)
The agency said it hadHlearned
from diplomatic circles in Berlin
that Nazi trade envoy Karl Sch
nurre's visit to Stockholm last month
was connected with Hitler's peac"
soundings.
Hitler’s proposal, according to the
story, calls for-an immediate armi
stice with the western Allies, and
continued war against Russia fol
lowed by a “European peace con
ference” to which Russia would not
be invited.
Hitler was also represented as
willing to let the German people
decide by a free election., whether he
should r main as leader cf Rtich.
Reprisals against German pris
oners in Allied hands would have no
effect on Hitler’s decision to- liqui
date Allied prisoners because “No
German man of honor will wish, to
live any longer if Germany loses
the war,” the story said.
In another story attributed to a
high cfficer in the German high
command tile agency asserted Ger
man war leaders acknowledge they
no longer hold control ov:r the sit
uation and are convinced the Ger
mans cannot hold out more than a
week longer.
Adoli Hiller Is
Criminal No. One
On Allied List
LONDON.—(/P) — Adolf. Hitler
heads the roster of war criminals
Chiefs cf state will have no im
miinity from prosecution, the Uni
ted Nations War Crimes Commis
sion disclosed in announcing the
drafting of five lists of Axis lead
ers who will be brought to trial.
Only Hitler's name was made |
public. Other names w ere withheld,
the commission explained;- to pre
vent forewarning suspects and avert
possible reprisals against h'lpless
persons still under ei.emv control.
Recently a number of charges a
gainst the Japanese were heard at
the ermmission’s London headquar
ters. last night's announcement sqld,
indicating that Emperor Hirohito
is included among the war crimi
nals.
The ccmmlssion also made it clear
that a plea of acting under super
ior orders in carrying out Axis
atrocities would not in itself be ac
cepted as justification for war crim
cs.
The commission’s strongly wordea
declaration apparently applied to
regular^rmy men as well as politi
cal officials.
S^L Cannafax Wins
Technician Badge
AT A TWELFTH AIR FORCE
C-47 BASE IN ITALY— Staff Ser
geant Jones M Gann:.fax. von of
C. J. Cannulas, Zebu on, Ga . upon
Tcconuirr.datlon of his commanding
offircr l,as feceiVcd tlie' Army Air
Force Technician Badge for pro
flcirncy as an aerial ngincer.
He is a member of a veteran tr:op
carrt-r gi cup of the l2‘.h Air Force
that h as se rved more than 30 months
ove: tv . The group partlclpiftd
In the airborne Invasions Cf North
Africa, Sicily, Italy and Southern
France. It was also awarded tht
War Department Unit Citation for
extinguished supply-by-air service
In the China-Burma-Iudla Theater
of Operations.
Bcfore joining the Army Air Foi
ces,' Sergeant Cannafax was grad
uated frem Zebulon High School,
Zebulon, Qa. Vi -l(
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Patton’s Third
Is lust 160 Miles
From Berlin
WAR AT GLANCE
(By The Associated Press)
WESTERN FRONT: Allies
battle to wipe cut Germans
trapped in Ruhr, fight into Ka"
sel and Fulda. Americans 160
miles or less from B rlin, 45
from Nuernberg, and less than
200 from junction with Russians.
British continue advance in
north; Germans flee froth Hol
land. •'V
EASTERN FRONT: Russians
close on Wiener Ncustadt and.
Bratislava gap, fighting 20 miles
from Vienna and 12 from Brati
slava. Glegau captured. Berlin
reports heavy assault on _Stet-.
tin.
ITALIAN FRONT: Artillery
exchanges and patrol actions on
land front; Allied warships shell
positions cn French Italian
’border.''
PACIFIC FRONT: U. S. 10th
Army infantrymen and Marines i
invading Okinawa, 325 miles
from Japan, push eastward to
ward Nakagusuku Bay fleet
anchorage, seize two airfields j
against light opposition in early
stages: seaplanes op rating from
nearby Kerarria' Islands; Tokyo
raided by probably 150 Super
fortresses; Japanese casualties I
in Philippines raised to 307.000. ‘
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs.Eva Moreland I
Funeral sendees for Mrs. Eva
Aycock Moreland. 77, who died at
her home in Rover Saturday after
critical illness of sever, weeks, were
held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’
clock from Halsten Brothers Funeral
Home'chapel with the Rev. Byron
M, Wilkinson conducting the ser
vices^
Interment was in Providence ce
metery near Rover and Halsten Fu
neral Home had charge of arrange
ments.
Mrs Mor land was born and rear
ed in Spalding County. She was
the wife of the lat£ O. T. Moreland,
prominent farmer of Soalding Coun
tv. She was a member of the First
Baptist Church here. Mrs. More
land was the daughter of the late
Juanita Cook Aycock and Joe Ay
cock of Spalding County,
Pallbearers were Ernest Bolton,
George Gaissert, Wisder . Graham
Otis Blak:, Charlie Blanton, and BUI
Fillyaw. Honorary pallbearers were
Tom Morrow, W. P Maloy, Charlie
Maloy, Rob'rt Walker. A. J. Floyd,
Frank Gaissert, John Edwards, and
Roy Stanfield.
She is survived by one son. A. J
Two lists of German ciimlnals, one
cf Japanese, on of Italian and a
fifth comprised of Albanians, Ru.
garians, Hungarians, Italians and
Romanians have been prepared and j
the hutit for the war criminals is i
already under way, the commission ]
said. I
TWO EAST GRIFFIN MEW I
MEET UP IN FRANCE
Pvt. jack l scott of spaidmgi
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Martin;
fin soldiers met recently in Franco
B?t. MKri-in hbs been overseas 26
months ana Pvt. Scott 22 months.
j City Appoints Forester
CLEVELAND. — IIP—Charles R.
Cooley, newly-appointed city for
ester, has set himself a goal of re
storing to Cleveland Its former
title as “the forest city." He
I j the to accomplish, Job will take at least 10 years
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Reds, In East, 20 Miles
From Austrian
Capital
(Bv The Associated Press)
American froors—at poin's nlmo./
two-thirds the way across Germane
—battled within les« *han 160 milts
of Berlin and 45 of Nuernberg to
day. while the First and Ninth
armies limped in to wine cut 40 -
oeo to loonoo (n—trapped lr
.the T7Uh’v
Berlin said the British Sec end
Army in the' north was assaultin':
Mr"oster (ltojooi end had spe9“
ed miles beyond to a point south
of Biefeld, 62 miles southwest of
Hannover. German transports con
tinued a race ov'rnicrht from Hol
land, apparently including troops
who had held the Zuider Zee area
and the rocket bomb coast.
The TT. S, Third Armv battled .in
to the German strongholds of Fulda
and Kassel, the latter ar city of 220 -
WO just 165 miles southwest of Bei
lin. Southeast of K'l'sn] Patton’s
troops were near Eisenach on the
praI)kfurt . B „ Un s , 1Der highw«v.
a nd fighting 160 miles or less from
the Navi capital. These units wre
106 miles from Russians on the
Neissc River southeast of Berlin.
Southward, the U. S. Seventh
Armv was on the Main .River 45
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miles northwest of the Nazi Shrine
city of Nutfmberg (430.0b0> and 124
from Munich, the Reich's fourth
city. They were 100 miles from
Czecho-Slovakia. and Patton’s troops
stood 92 miles from that Nazi-occu
pied land.
Close Ruhr Trap
The First and Ninth armies closed
the trap on 4.800 souare miles cf
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Officers To Be
Installed By Elks
Toniqht At Club
Joe Adams will be installed as
"Ekaltcd Ruler of the Ben volent
Protective Order of the Elks to
night at the Flks’ Club following a
dinner at 7:30 o’clcck.
Other officers to b« installed in
clude George C. Imes, Esteemed
Leading Knight: Grady Daniel.
I Esteemed Loyal Knight, Doug Wil
son. Esteemed Lecturing Knight;
j H. N. Smith, Secretary, H. M Grif
fin, Treasurer; A. Brisenriine. Es
quire; A. C. Griffin, Trustee: H. C.
MeEIhen-y, Inner Guard; and John
Jarrell. Tyler.
GRIFFIN SOI DIFR IS
UTTER BEARER AT
HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND
A SOUTH COAST PORT. FNG
LAND.—When a hospital ship arri
ves at this Army Transport-hion
Corps port loaded with f Hellers
Moreland; seven nieces, Mrs. C. H.
Atkinson of Senoia, Mrs. T. G. Burch
of Phoenix City, Ala. Mrs. J. F. -
Burch of Miami Beach, Fla., Mrs, 1
T. R. Walker of Atlanta,, Mrs. T. V.
Rust of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Wal
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trr Blake cf Forsyth and Miss Jen
nie Gwyn of Zebulon; and two j
nephews, J. D. Thomas of Zetclla I
and Charles Aycock of Forsyth.
Griffin Seniors To
Present Comedy At
Auditorium Friday
j . The Senior Class of Griffin Hlgh-t j
School will present a three-act farce
1 entitled “The Whole Town's Talk
lng" Friday evening at 8 o’clock at
| the High School Auditorium. The and
play, written by John Emerson
his wife, Anita Loos, has proven one
0 f the great American stage suc
' for several
ccssts years,
J The cast of the play will be an
nounoetb In The News later in tne
wee* A * % OjliJL
on the western fro,-I a
of medical soldiers takes over
carefully remote them to a ioj : -
train or ambulance. 0
One of the members of. t!;i um !
at this port is C; 1 Chiru-s
A. Gresham cf 215 William
Ga„ a litter biarcr. •
Ttiis group, a medical colliH inr
attached .VC th Ijort.
boards the, ship with IUteK and
with care and paln.Jakinp speed
carry tlie patients down the - ms
plank.
pnthetic undcrstartdhrg-...... t he - m
have won a reputation khown
as "gentle efficiency."
ROAD TO BERLIN
EASTERN FRONT: 32 miles
(from Zellin).
WESTERN FRONT: 160 miles
.(from Nesselroeden area) f
ITALIAN FRONT: 544 miles
(from Reno River). i
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AMERICANS LAND ON OKINAWA ISLAND—Pointers from flag indicate approximate extent of Initial
U. S. beachhead on Okinawa. Japanese island invaded in what Adm. Chesty W. Nimitz described as
the largest amphibious operation of the Pacific War. Arrows from flags point to airfields taken on
Okinawa and to Kerama Islands, taken by Yanks M arch 26. <AP Wirephoto Map).
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Americans Celebrate Piaster With Deep
Hope For Early Restoration Of Peace
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Americans at home and over
seas celebrated Easter in the
joyous spirit of the resurrec
t‘jn. inspired by hopes for an
early restoration of world peace.
The nation’s Easter parades,
lirgest in mapy cities since
1941, brightened a record num
• t:r- of rmlooklng eyes with
■smart fashions and pretty wo
men. New York's FifTh Avenue
parade drew 800,000 spectator
participants!
Funrire services in Washing
ton's Arlington memorial am
phitheater, at Chicago’s Sol
dier Field-, at the natural am
phitheater of the Garden of -
the (Jods in Colorado Springs
and the Hollywood Bowl brought
more than 150 000 worshippers to
flower-arrayed Easter altars.
"Tie lights of Paris blazed forth
for the first time since war be
gan, honoring Allied victories.
The flame at the tomb of the
Unknown Soldier was re-light
cd.
In,a broadcast to the Allied
forces. England’s Archbishop of
Canterbury reflected the day’s
sense of triumph in the words,
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CIVILIANS FLEE ASCHAFFENBl KG—German civilians run from blazing houses set afire by a U. S.
Tank Destroyer „which was firing on enemy snipers In a village near Aschaffenburg, southeast of
Frankfurt Aschaffenburg is tlie town where fanatic German women and girls fired on advancing Yank
troops during the bitter house-to-house fighting. (Signal Corps Radio-telephoto). —(NEA Telephoto).
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'One Doy Nearer Victory" Established 187!
) "A glow of victor^ is surging
through our veins."
In Palestine’s Holy Land,
American soldiers held a sun-' ,
rise service at Jerusalem, visit
ed the Holy Sepulchre and v
made a pilgrimage to the Garden
of Gethsemane.
Allied troops, outnumbering
the Italian civi’ians present, at
tended Easter Masses in the
great Basilica of St. Peter’s at
Rome.
Overflowing Crowds
Attend Services Here
On Center Sunday
Residents of Griffin and Spald
ing County filled the churches of
the community to overflowing at
Easter Sunday services, according
to reports marie _by officials of the
churches. It Is estimated that the
crowds of people who gathered to
worship d spite cloudy skies were
the largest In years. Special Eas
ter music was presented at the ser
vices and all those attending join
ed in special prayers for the re
turn of peace throughout the world.
Suy More War Bonds!
Mrs. Mary Binford
Dies Here Sunday
Mrs. Mary Hpndors:jfc Binford, 4(,
died at the home of her sister. Mrs.
O. E, Ponder at 645 South Hill St..
yesterday afternoon aft r an ex
tended illness
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
O. E. Ponder at 2:30 o’clock with
the Rev. Bvron M. Wilkinson con
ducting the srrvices. Interment
will be in Oak Hill cemetery and
Pittman Funeral Home has charge
of arrangements.
Pallbtarers will be Lyndon Pat
terson, James Nunnally, Parks Hen
ri rson, Fred Sibley. Claude Vaughn,
and Herman Goldstein
She Is survived by one r,ist r,
Mrs O. E Ponder of Griffin; two
brothers, J. M. Hcndeiscn of Wilm
ington. N. C., 1 and W. L. Henderson
with the Scabees in the Philippines
and Bo qby • Ponder of Griffin
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The Weather
FORECAST FOR GEORGIA:
Partly cloudy and mild tonight
and Tuesday.
Maximum Monday: 72
Minimum Monday;. 55
Rainfall: 1.10 Inches.
INVASION OF
IAP ISLANDS
MADE SUNDAY
Okivana Lies Just 325
Miles From Jap
Mainland
NEW YORK—'VPl— American
inva ion forces have started
landings on Kume Island, about
60 miles west of Okinawa and
west of the Kerama group, a To
kyo broadcast reported by the
Blue Network said today.
BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor I
A great force of American sol- I
diers and infantrymen invaded!
Okinawa Island 325 miles from Ja- 1
pan Easter morning and virtually J
without seeing a Japanese soldier 1
overran three airfields and a dozen I
towns and villages. I
Today they held a nine mile sec- \ I
tor. three to five miles deep, on the
west coast. . I
The operation was the largest of I
the amphibious Pacific war, sup- I
ported by 1,400 ships and 1,500 car- I
tier planes, and It met the lightest I
opposition the Japanese have put 1
up against major landings.
Completely overshadowed were
advance! throughout the Philip
pines where Oen. Douglas MaoAr- 4
(hur reported 10.971 enemy dead were
counted in the last five days. Mac
Arthur’s totals fist 307,000 Japanese
dead and 30 000 U. S* casualties.
About 200 Superforts raided To
kyo earlv today, raining bombs and
incendiaries on the Nakajima air- !
craft engine factory. Tokyo claim- I
ed 15 were shot down.
The Okinawa landing was preced
ed by seizure last week of ail eight
islands of the Kerama group, lying
15 to 25 miles west of Okinawa in
the center of the Ryukyu archi
pelago, and several islets just west
of Okinawa.
An estimated 60.000 to 80.000 Jap
anese soldiers garrisoned Okinawa,
narrow 65 miles long potential air
Rnd naval base for American strikes
ago Inst Japan, occupied China and
Formosa. But sporadic mortar and
artillery fire and one brief tank
clash was the only opposition they
offered to perhaps 100,000 Americans
who walked ashore behind amphi
bious tanks.
’Tliis is gravy," said Lt. Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., com
mander of the newly created Tenth
Army "We exneeted a tough time.”
lips Withdrew To Hills
Japanese troops apparently with
drew to the rui geri hills and Buck
ner. who led the 7th Infantry Di
vision in its conquest of Attu, warn
ed. "undoubtedly we will have a
tough time ahead."
Adm Chester W Nimitz, reporting
rapid advances inland, asserted "our
final decisive victory in the Paci
fic is in vi'Mv.”
Tic Japanese air force made one
all'll':! 1 i 1 1 like bark with folIT
plant All were shot down. This
v.a>. while 500 carrier planes swnrm
Of Hand,
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"•it nr insisted heavy
nm.j. • We underway.
TlxrKerama Inva-i -i rcnrieu ov j j
i r «ri c began 'last
V Mu* work f f the 77th j
‘‘Statue of Liberty" DivL'l n t ndcr
M i Gen Andrew D Bruce. A
seaplane bare, describes! es th” |
world’s area rest was established and <j
Navv plan cs, began r Tuning. Tapa- 1
Ust . , ■ ,:1
Threi i iindrcd- Japanese suicide 1
•boa is and stores cf explosives were J
ca|)turcd in the Keramas. Two hun
dred civilians committed suicide.
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