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Newspaper Page Text1 I;OCAI; COTTON ¢ {-INCH MIDDLING ..... 22%e Vol. 113, No. 138. UNITED STATES VICTORY ON OKINAWA ANNOUNCED Japs Being Herded To Their Deat™: Australians Mak BY SPENCER DAVIS MANILA, June 21 —(AP)— A force of possibly 30,000 Japan ese was herded north up the Ca gayan Valleys today by onrush ing of the 37th Ohio Infantry Division .— toward fierce Igo ots bent on adding them to-the more than 400,006 enemy casuai ties on Luzon. The Nipponese were calling back on Aparri, a scent 100 miies ahead of 37th advance patrols, with nowhere to go once they reach that northmost city on Lu- Zon. Lie In Wait On the west side of the: Ca gayan river, Which splits the Valley, the Igorots and other Fil ipino Guerrillag waited in long prepared positions to fruglrate any Nipponese attempt to find refuge among the wild, spiney ridges of the < Cqrdillera moun tains. Maj. Robert S. Beightler's Buckeyes drove unchecked north of captured Ilgan and its grass grown airstrip. The back-track ing foe was hounded "by planes, some flown by Mexican pilots, which are making as many as 300 sorties a day in support of the Luzon operations. Mounting Casualties Latest field advices added 336 wgre Japanese to the daily mounting casualty lists. ‘ On Borneo, Australian forces have made a new landing, this time at the northern head of Brunei Bay to give them control of “the shores bordering both entranceg into .the Bay.” head quarterg announced today. Headquarters reported another in. the daily series of attacks by heavy bombers on “the oil center of Balikpapan ‘on Borneo’s east | coast but stil] said nothing con cerning regasted enemy broad casts that an Allied fleet is off shore, shelling and minesweep ing. l Athens Boy Among Tech Graduates From Naval ROTC ATLANTA, June 21— (AP)— Smart-stepping Navy men in dress whites ang pretty girls in pastel gowns gave color to the Georgia Tech graduation yester day. Many -Georgians received diplomag and honors. Robert T. Davis of Columbus, Ga., was presented the DAR awarq from the Joseph Haber sham chapter as the most efficient ROTC cadet officer. Charles Edwin Hodges of Mon trose, Ga., was among the out standing students commended for scholarship. Capt. Robert Strite, command ing officer of the Naval Train ing College program in Atlanta, reviewed the 69 members of the ROTC unit and 91 V-12 students. Of the 69 Naval ROTC students to be commissioned, 11 were from Atlanta. Other georgians in the Class included: P. N. Bruton, jr., Algany; 70~ seph E. Daniel, LaGrange; Thom as V. Dobbs, Athens; Youel Hils man, jr., Albany; William D. Kerr, Columbus; John L. Mark water, jr., Augusta and Jim 1. Pace, Albany. Jean Bullard of Thompson and Jeggy Askey, of Columbus, were among the’ sponsors. . el — Thomas V. Dobbs is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Burney Dobbs of Athens, Real Work; Will €al Work; wi Adjourn Tuesday BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWE!_! Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANECISCO, June 21—(#) A charter embracing«he views of 50 United Nations was wrapped up today into a world document designed to maintain peace. President Truman, now taking a brief holiday in Washington state, will bring the United Na tions Conference to a formal close with a speech on international affairs Tuesday afternoon. . Clean-up Affairs Until that time the delegates of the 50 nations represented here will be busy with a variety of technical problems and speech making sessions. But the real work of the C(onference. which met April 25, is accomplished. It reached that stage last night. A committee approved an Austra ha_n—Russian compromise empow ering the proposed General As (Continued On Page Secven) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Reconversion Wage Policy Trend Upward ~ WASHINGTON, June 21—(P)— The administration’s opening move } toward a reconversion wage policy appeared today to be an upward tilt in the nation’s minimum pay. _Stabilization Director William H. Davis proposes lifting the 40~ }cent hourly wage minimum to 50 cents throughout the country, with the wage floor adjustable upward to 65 cents in ‘“special committees set- up for each industry. They )would include representatives of labor, management and the pub lic, with the public members— presumably ‘appointed by the Wage-Hour Administration—hold ing the deciding vote. The spokesman said the change, which' would require amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, had been under study for some time but has not yet been recom mended formally. Davis outlined his proposal at a closed labor-government confer ence held yesterday under War Production Board auspices to seek solutions for the textile shortages. AFL and ClO. textile union lead ers both urged higher wages as the cure for manpower losses and labor recruiting difficulties in the textile mills. - A proposal to increase wage rates during the reconversion period in those industries’ where "Vinegar Joe" Will MANILA, June 21— (AP)— Gen, Douglag MacArthur’s headquar~ ters announced tod#¥ that Gei Joseph W. Stilwell, chief of the army groung forces, had been se lected by MacArthur for the command of the U. S. 10th Armny. Stillwell, chief of army ground forces, will succceed the late Lit. Gen. Simon Boliva# Buckner, ir., who was killed in the closing davs of the Okinawa campaign. Stilwel] conferred with MacAr thur eéarlier this week. He leit headquarters several days ago but still is in the Pacific area. It is believed he will take command of the Tenth Army up on his arrival. MacArthur as commander of the Army forces in the Pacific has over-all jurisdiction of the Tentp Army, but the Okinawa campaign was under Adm. Ches ter W. Nimitz and under the.op erational control of the joint chiefg of staff. Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, a Ma rine general, now is serving as a stop-gap commander of the Tenth Army in the mopping up operations on Okinawa. The 63-year-old Stilwell, known as “Vinegar Joe,” knows the enemy as do few other field commanders. After his long and distinguish ed service in the Burma-China theater, he was known to have been anxious to take anotner crack at the Japanese as a field commander. ; He served as U. S. commander of army ground forces in Wash ington siace his return from Chungking. - . Still was commander-in-chief of American ground éor'ces in Ching and military a viser 10 jGenezi'alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek pefore his recall to Washington. . 1 Tropical Storm . | Moving Toward . Florida Coast | MIAMI, Fla., June 21—(AP)-— The Miami Weather Bureau is sued an advisory warning today | stating that a tropical storm was moving northward towards the! Florida Keys attended by 50 M. P. H. winds. The Bureau advised caution in the eastern Gulf of Mexico in cluding the Florida- Keys and western Cuba. The advisory notice, issued at 9:30 a. m, declared southéast’ gorm warnings hoised in the Florida Keys from Key Largo ‘o dry Tortugas at 9:30 a. m. & A gmall tropical storm is mov -ing northward about ten to 12 miles per hour with ‘center in Yucatan Channel attended by 59 MPH wind over a small area and fresh to strong squalls over a rather wide area around the cen ter,” the warning said. dNorthward movement will continue today and tonight. ‘ “There is some indication storni imay be increasing in intensity and caution advised in eastern Gulf of Mexico including the Florida Keys and western Cuba. «Wind of 35 to 50 MPH in squalls indicated for the Keys to day and tonight.” . Full Associated Press Service. Athens, Ga., Thursday, June 21, 1945. pay scales have not risen as rapid ly as living costs also is under study by OES, a spokesman for Davis said. . No decision, however, has been reached on this issue, intended to compensate for the drop' in earnings to be caused by the loss of overtime - pay, - piece work bonuses and other wartime fat teners of the weekly pay envelope. Seven Agencies Representatives of seven agen cies—WPß, OES, Army, Navy, War Manpower Commission and ' War Labor Board—participated in yvesterday’s meeting with repre sentatives of the CIO Textile Workers Union and the AFL Unit ed Textile Workers of America. ’ The CIO wunion’s spokesman, lE&:ecutive Vice President George ' Baldanzi, described the textile in dustry as the “dead-end kid of American industry” and reiterat ed the union’s demand for a 65- cent minimum hourly wage and a general 10-cent hourly increase. Part of the industry has a 55-cent floor, the rest averaging around 47 cents, WLB said. ~ The AFL delegation asserted the 'minimum should be 75 cents and added that the government should i exert pressure for improved work ing conditions. The closing of 'munitions jobs will not otherwise drive former textile workers back intb the cotton mills, the AFL spokesman said. [ WPB officials said textile out put must be increased to avert a looming clothing shortage, but Viece chairman William Y. Elliott observed that it is now ‘too late -for clothing rationing—we’ll be out of the woods before that could take effect.” - However, Elliott, who is in ﬁmrge pﬁi:}fe Office % Civilian quirements, said “We'll be lucky | if we get a billion yards” of civil ian fabrics a quarter for the rest of this year, compared with 1,/ 600,000,000 yards in 1942. Only half of that received will be usable for garments, he added. Forecasts Easing Elliott predicted easing of the textile scarcity by the year’s end, and- said the joint OPA-WPB pro gram for more moderately priced garments would not be affec(ied adversely. This plan, whose re sults are supposed to,show them selves this fall, sets aside sizable perceneages of all civilian .-fabrics (Continued On lag BSeven) Before "Frisco BY ERNEST B. VACCARO ILMPIA, Wash., June 21— (AP)— President :Truman, the uncertainty over the adjournment of the San Francisco Security Conference removed, settled down today to the enjoyment of his firse, vacation from the White House. While disappointed that he had to alter his original plans to bring the meeting to a close with a speech Saturday, the President was represented as pleased that the way has been cleared for minal action next Tuesday. He called in Teporters and ra dio men for his first news con ferency outsice of the White House: at 10 a. m. (Pacific War Time) at which time he was ex pected to discuss developments at San’ Francisco and possibly talk about his forthcoming “Big Three meeting at B_erlin. Note Of Sadness A note of sadness was injecied into his holiday in the death of Clarence Hickey, state director of highways, the husband of Gov. Mon C. Wallgreen’s only sister. Plans for the remainder of the President’s stay here, Press Sec retary Charles G. Ross reported are indefinite. “His principal idea is to relax and rest,” Ross said. " Mr. Truman wil] fly into. San Francisco Monday, arriving about 2:30 p. m. (PWT), witness the signing of the projected peace charter, hold a reception for the delegates, and addresg the rlos ing sssion at 4 p. m, (PWT) Tuesday afternoon. | Future Plans He will leave early Wednesday for Kansas City, Mo., in his big C-54 transport plane, and drive from there to nearby Independ ence, his home town, for a cele bration that afternoon. Another homecoming celebration will be staged #t Kansas City Thursday. 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S :’chh‘ﬁ‘él i T i rﬁf ™ ‘gfrg?‘lmiai%’*z Sl 265,896 5. m P ‘fm”i‘”i = Seal 2 i 5’*55555?55??‘:'-.!nséze:i SR it i i i ";'.i.'ﬁ.?z“f‘;,i;’:if;;eilli“"'““ ‘i*isﬂ‘ S %ﬁj‘{”m}" ’r‘ .zsfis%;iiii%%‘sz;tgé s ‘x‘—.g‘,lili":*’"“ ﬁm;i ;uﬁ:é@é’;i{???ﬁ*‘i?:iéz i i f#igiﬁ:::.--..-:-... LES {}‘;?»vs?“.“!tgi:.';é‘.‘g“"‘;és’;; i L | H M' ';:.",:P[ ii i 3 i T3¢ AT The map above shows the island of Borneo where Australian forces have made a new landing to give them control of the shores bordering both entrance into Brueni Bay. Insets show the lst!a'ri‘d’s relationship to other' Pacific landmarks and' its'relative area in comparison to the state of Texas. Appreciation Fund Is Again Hiked; Amounts To sll4l Athens business concerns, or- | ‘gﬂmzaﬁonfs and individuals con inue to 'express their appreeyy tion of the part Athens and Clarke county servicemen and women are taking in the war and today their contributions to an “Appreciation Fund” totalled $1141.00. | The Fung will be used to de fray expenses of a public dinner to be given in honor of all Clarksa servicemen and women and to haV, printed beautifully design ed %ommittee Service Awards. Contributions tp the ‘“Veterans Appreciation Fund” may be giv en to any member of the Com miftee, compriseq of contributors or may be sent to The Banne:- Herald. Today’s contributors are D. BE. St. John, $2.00; Athens Junior Chamber of Commerce, $10.00; Warren Lanier, $5.00. The Committee includes the following: D.'B. St. John, . Charles R. Albert, Warren Lanier. Mrs. C. M. Snelling, F. E. Mc- Hugh, D. F. Barrow, R. V. Watter son, J. S. Wolfe, jr., J. E. Wick liffe, H. L. Cofer, Van Noy Wier. (Continued on Page Three) Radio Program Of OPA Studied By UnAmerican Group BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, June 21 — (AP)— The House committee on Un-American Activities sat as ‘a jury today to decide whether ra dio programs broadcast by the New York regional OPA office had a subversive undertone. The committee, permanent suc cessors to the former Dies Obm mittee, was undecided 1n advance whether to examine th programs —known as “Soldiers With Cou pons”—Dby ear or by eye. Its in vestigators said they had trans cripts, while OPA officials vol unteered to give a rebroadcast from records. . Although Chairmen Hart (D --NJ) said he would not permit the recors to be played, Re publican committeemen indica - ted they would insist on a test by ear. Representative Mundt (R-SD) asserted that voice in flection might be a major factor in determining whether there was subversive intend. : In any vent, said Representa tive Thomas of New Jersey, ranking Republican committﬁ man, “an examination of e (Continued on page seven.) Bloody Okinawa Has Taken Great Toll [gl JOKINAWA Lo o ) T || Bloodiest Battlel oel ; ‘ﬁ’ iof the Paeifie iiuiniif Sl 4Z 3 oumawal Eochinese 00 f ‘Qg R oril 3¢ Drive ocross GPORMOSA Bte i i iddre splits island; | Fions '4,/(/ :Em?’:‘?‘}?"“ ﬁ .?p?.ytmn negligible Kong Qﬂf‘ o Kahira il 4 7 \ [ ¢S Manilag bo e | Ry S I R R BT #0215 / % A I Rawata i) mmmcomm—b | April 1. Okinawa invaded| "Wgy: .17 RSI elaon 18: North sector } g | including le, occupied; / 75 March 26: Compaign|:: 3 52 resistance only slight i i opc;s with 73.':: , voo T moree, a 2 S '. londs o hes el bt eae ‘ ouenmo ¢ '.f.’;}::_'-'}'.:_-‘;' I Moy 14: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru §: S R i Line battle begins with ki » i g seizare of Yonoboru airstrip L e e N R eek e a 5 e ) e May 29: Japs' main s R b o ;;':ﬁ'g.i-:-‘.{:f-’:'-j-f;f:f.';':f-i-” defense smashed with |:: T A 00l foll of Noha, Shuri | i Machinato g B g L kel Shun Yt i Ly S Y onoberw SIS Ocean oLN gt T | June 10: Bloody | RN s g e Yaeju-Dake cliff | S(b aman, Z:{ June 19: Jap shell }:::""] clean-out ppens [ [-':{y‘;;:,-'.;{fN'a‘:::: m\.;;'z‘{'.f.i;’:i-: kills Gen. Buckner, 77 iwith fewer thon £ R o i top U. S. commander |1 5000 of original |- e g T ) 85,000 Japs left | O 10 W 000 olive; U, S, cos- B MILES :":f-:,-f.'.':-‘,:'."'{s;_':_"-.{-:';.;::';;":"-,?"':.:~_‘_-:'::'.::}.;~',£'_f‘_::;:,'~",',':‘_;:':?.: S valties at 35 000 The battle of Okinawa, which cost some 10,000 killed and wounded on the American side against more than 80,000 Japs, now heads the list of bloody battles in Pacific operations. This map traces the campaign from the initial invasion of the Kerama Islands (see inset) through the mopping up stages now proceed ing in the Yaeju-Dake Plateau area. —NEA Telephoto. JAPANESE AWARE THAT AMERICA DEMANDS UNCONDITIONAL DEFEAT By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Forelgn Affairs Analyst. The Tokyo radio, broadcasting as though it had something new, deviated today from its recent fretting over imminént ‘invasion to record that the United States has stared long and complicated preparations against Japan. That’s not exactly what you would call a military secret. Aside from unconditional sur render, the Japanese have no other future, and there are few signs that is “being ‘' considered. Tokyo broadcasts on the subject are almost identical with those which emanated from Berlin a few montks ago. One official broadcast that, for the Japanese people, “there is no choice but to take death.” ‘!ust Wait Events The big question is when we will be able to deliver that death. It can be answered specifically only by eveénts. Clean-up operations are pro ceeding throughout the Pacifit while the invasiofi preparations .go forward, . e Important troop contingents, released by the victory in Europe, will begin to arrive soon. From past performances we can expect the staging period to last #or several months. Then, because of the distance from Lu zon, the only staging area we now have which is capable of support ing millions of men, it may be necessary to chose ancther stag ing area, so to speak, in Japan proper. This would involve cap ture of some outer area which could be filled with the necessary strength for the climactic attack against the heart of Honshu. This (Continued on Fage 1wo) A.B.C. Paper - Single Copy, 3¢ — 5¢ Sunday 82-DAY BATTLE ENDED YESTERDAY v GEPT FOR MOP-UP OPERATIONS | IN TWO SMALL HOLDOUT POCKETS ’ BY ROBIN COONS : ] GUAM, June 21.— (AP) —End of the Okinawa ‘campaign was announced today by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz 82 days after U. S. Tenth Army troops invaded the island 325 miles south of Japan. Admiral Nimitz’ special communique announcing successful completion of the campaign in which more than 90,000 enemy troops were killed or cap tured, came within an hour after Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell was named to take over command of the Tenth Army in future operations. Russia Sentences For Subversion 'BY EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW, June 21 —(AP)—‘ Twelve of 16 Poles accused of subversive -activities behind Red Army lines were convicted by a ‘Soviet court early today and given sentences of from four months to ten years'in prison. Three were ‘acquitted and the trial of another ‘was postponed. | The heaviest sentence—lo years —was imposed upon Maj. Gen. L. Bronislaw Okulicki, commander ‘of the underground home army after the ill-fated Warsaw uprising Jan Jankowski, deputy prime minister of the London Polish gov ernment-in-exile and leader of’ the Polish underground movement, was also sentenced, The sentences will date from the day of arrest, March 27. : | (The Moscow radio, heard in! London, said no appeal from the sentences would be permitted). = Shows No Emotion - G& Hulicki receive?‘ his sen : T “show of !emotion was A& tightening of the lips, as he heard the president of ,the military presidium, Col. Gen. Vassily V. Ulrich, read the verdict land the sentences. C l Flood lights beat down upon ‘the defendants standing* in -the ‘wooden dock as the sentences were read. | Expressions of great.relief were on the faces of those acquitted— Stanislaw F. Mikhailowski, J. H. Stember-Dombrowski and K. S. Kobylyanski. . One defendant, Anton Paidak, had been too ill to attend the trial and he will face the .court. later. - Other Sentences Adam Bien, president of the Peasant Party and assistant to the chief of the Underground Council of Ministers, five years. Stanislaw Jasiukowicz,” presi= dent of the National Democrats and minister in the underground government, five years, Kazimir Puzhak, general secre tary of the Socialist Party, one and one-half years. Alexander Zwecziwersky, jour nalist @nd chairman of the Nat ional Democrats, a year and eight months. Eugene Czarnowski, chairman of Union Democrats, six months. Stanislaw Merzuva, secretary of the Peasant Party, four months. F. A. Urbanski, vice chairman of the Workers Party, four months. J. A. Khratsinski, chairman of the Workers Party, four months. Z. Stupulowski, young Warsaw lawyer and Peasant Party mem (Continued On Fage Two Roosevelt Grave To Be Marked By Simple Stone NEW YORK, June 21—(AP)— The grave of the late Prssident Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Rosg Garden of the family estate at Hyde Park, Nz Y., will be deco rated with a simple white tomb ‘stone of imperial Danby Marble, cut to specifications of the late chief executive. The office of Basil O’Connor, former law partner of Rooseveil released yesterday a note dated Decc. 26, 1937, describing the stone. In the late President's handwriting, it was found amorng his éffects and read. " " “A" plain white marble monu ment — no carving or decoration -—to be placed over my grave, east and west, as follows: length eight feet, width . four feet, height three feet. Whole to be set on marble base extending two feet out from monument all around — but said base to be no more than six inches from tke ground. “I hope that my dear wife will on her death be buried there also and that the monument contain no device or inscription except the following on the south side. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1862 — 19— . Anna Eleanor Roosevelt \ 1884 — 19" The tex tof Nimitz brief com=- munique read: $ “After 82 days of fighting the battle of Okinawa has been won. Organized resistance ceased June 21, Enemy garrisons in two small . pockets are being mopped up.” 2 Fulfill Prediction The official end of fighting ful filled the prediction of Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, jr., Tenth Army commander who was killed while watching Eighth Regiment Marines drive to the southern ledge of the island Monday. Japanesze fought stubbornly to the last although they were run ning out of ammunition, food and water. They. employed machine guns, rifles and mortars to the {ullest while the Yanks relied on {lame-throwing tanks, demolition charges and automatic weapons. Last Friday, Buckner told As sociated Press Correspondent Al Dopking: “I can’t see this battle lasting more than a week longer.” Buckner was killed at the front Monday, watching the start of this final, victorious, assault. Japs Stubborn s Eight hundred eighty-five Nip ponese surrendered the ffrﬂr three ldays of this week — probably a Pacific war recold — bt there was no weakening of their com rades’ determination to :Wekup to the B | d to kill 10 *Yéﬂki%&%aﬂ?”" « Lt. Harry Hartmann, Cairo, 111, Army medical officer at the front, told Asscoiated Press Cor ‘ (Continued on Page Two) Fraternity Pledges At University Include Athenians " Men who have pledged mem bership in fraternities at the ‘Uni versity of Georgia are listed by !J?esse Bowles of Baconton, presi dent of the Inter-Fraternity Coun ‘cil, as follows: Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Artis C. Snider, Leslie; Alex H, MacDonell, Savannah; Robért W. Reynolds, Albany; Ray Stephens, Reidsville; Jack Groves, Lavonia; Pat Evans and Jack L. Rhodes, Augusta; Cliff R. Hill, Sparta; Kirby Quinn, Greenville, S. C. X ‘e Phi Delta Theta—Charles Col~ lins, “Forsyth; Stewart Cw, Orlando, Fla.; B?Iu ett, Buford; James McNatt, Lyons. Lambda Chi Alpha — %ussel! Davis, Atlanta; Ballard ilson, Madison. i Chi Phi—Price Gittinger and Jimmy Hodgson, Athens: Tommy Pope and Hugh Thompson, jr., Atlanta; Lewis Ledsinger, Mariet ta; Rozier Turner, Milledgeville; Pierce Smith, Gainesville. Sigma Nu—Henry H. Chase and Bowdre Mays, jr., Augusta; Joe W. Butler, Camilla; Horace M. Clements, Buena Vista; Bryant Walton, Evans; John K. Crisp, jr., Macon. 7es Tau Epsilon Phi—Bobby Fein gold, Camilla; Leon Borochoff, Rome: Murray Matez, - Atlantic City, N. J. ’ Sigma, Chi—George D. Williams, Athens; Charles Rogers, Ringgold; George Taylor, jr., Miami Beach. Kappa Alpha—Bill Middleton, Atlanta; Grayson C. Powell, jr., Swainsboro; Jack Savage, Monte zuma. Officers of the Inter-Fraternity Counecil recently elected, in addi tion to President Bowles, are Charles Furchgott, Atlanta, vice president; Walter Dawson, Hines ville, secretary, and C. E. De- Loach, Claxton, treasurer. ATHENS AND VICINITY . Clear to partly cloudy and rather warm tonight and Fri day. GEORGIA—Fair and con tinued warm this afternoon and tinued warm tonight. Friday partly cloudy and warm. : TEMPERATURE , Highest . ... ... it .. NOgE Loweßt ..ix il vivs s 8 Méstr il nivivilacm Normal . ... sl i il RAINFALL : Inches last 24 hours ........ .00 Total since June 1 ........ 148 Deficit since June 1 ....... 131 Average June rainfall ...... 3.98 Total since January 1 ......2689 Excess since January 1 .... 230

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, June 21, 1945, Home Edition, Image 1