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James WHhité Morton, member
of one of the oldest and - most
prominent families in northeast
Georgia died at his home in rural
Clarke county last night at 11
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Mr. Morton was 73 years of age,
having been born at High Shoals,
Ga.,, March. 13, 1872.
Surviving' Mr. Morton are his
wife, three daughters and two
ons: Mrs. J. Frazer Durrett, At
lanta; Miss Dorothy Morton, At
lanta; Miss Louise Morton, Athens;
James W. Morton, jr., Atlanta, and
W. R. Morton, Americus, and the
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CAPT, G. L. LEWIS IN
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FORT BENNING, Ga.—Almost
as soon as the smoke and fire of
Pearl Harbor destruction had
cleared, the Infantry SChafl here
started preparation for the pro
cess now called “redeployment.”
Instruction for new second. lieu
tenants, as well as the thousands
of already - commissioned stu
dents, had to be designed to train
leaders for the principal theater,
Europe, as well as for the secon
dary Asiatic-Pacific theater, and
vet prepare all the fighters in
Europe for the eventual redeploy
ment to thé Pacific and combat
with the Japanese. |, g
Since 1942, by constant addition
and revision of instruction, the
school has kept its training
abreast of the lessons learned in
combat in both theaters of opera
tions. New courses have been de
signed, dealing with warfare pe
culiar to the Pacific region; others
have been slanted to that area
since several months before V-E
Day. Even as Von Rundstedts
Battle of the Bulge upset the Al
lied timetable in the West, in
struction in certain courses in the
Infantry School was being shifted’
to the Pacific outlook. Replace
ment officers continued to pour
into the European theater man
power pool, but they carried with
them knowledge that would be |
useful in fighting Japs.
Among these in the weapons
section of the Infantry School
now engagéd in the redeploymept}
program is Captain G. L. Lewis,
390 Hampton Court, Athens, Ga. 1
PYT. M. D. EBERHART |
FLEW WITH 12TH AAF
Among the Georgians now ser
ving with the Twelfth Air Force
is Private Marvin D. Eberhart,
whose wife, Charlotte, lives at 225
O'Farrell street. Private Eberhart
has been overseas for 16 months.
The Twelfth Air Force has
pounded the enemy from the be
ginning of the Italian campaign
until the surrender of Italy in
support of the other branches ot
the Allied armed forces. j
CORRECTS ADDRESS {
IN PREVIOUS STORY e
Based on information contain
ed in a press release from the
Navy, this column printed the
address of Mrs. Paul C. Whit
worth, wife of Paul C. Whit
worth, as 327 Hill street, in a
service article about Mr. Whit
worth. ¢ : |
Mrs. Whitworth wishes to cor
rect the address, saying she lives
on Route 9, Danielsville, and has
never resided at the Hill street
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BY JOHN S IGHTOWER
Associate? g(ss Diplomatic
Ne. Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22—
(AP) — The United States sen
‘ate, with power enough to pro
'mote or kill a United Nations
peace organization, will get a full
report on the San Francisco con
}.ierence next week from two of
its members.
; i A(nerican delegates express
confidence that the Senate will
ratify the charter of the organi
zation which they and represen
tatives of 49 other nations have
produced here in nine weeks of
work. :
. But none would predict today
‘that it would be done immedi
ately, in time for President Tru
man to report it at the July Big-
Three meeting at Berlin.
Senate Discussion
in fact, it appeared certain
that the Senate committee hear
ings, a preliminary to debate on
ratification, could not begin un
til the second week in July when
detailed reports of conference de
bates will have become available.
These and interpretive state
ments on various points of the
charter are considered essential
to senate discussion. v
Chairman Connally (D-Tex.)
of the Senate Foreign Relations
committee and Senator Vanden
berg (R-Mich.) both members of
the American delegation, have
arranged to leave here two hours
after President Tr-uman address
es the closing session next Tues
day night.
Flying to ‘Washington with the
charter — unlesg ‘Mr. Truman
himself takes it back directly—-
Connally will make a report to
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HORACE HOMBY SERVING
WITH UTILITY SQUADRON -
Horace O. Homby, seaman first
class, Athens, Ga., is serving with
the Navy’s Utility Squadron
Seven in the Pacific. '
Utility Squadrgn Seven is ‘a
jack-of-all {rades outfit “some
where west,” a roving group
which performs many tasks for
the vast Pacific Fleet. Its pilots
and aircrewmen fly single-engine
aircraft today and twin-engine
jobs tomorrow. They go early, fly
long, come home late and do the
‘same thing the next day. -
Officially, Equadron VJ-7 per
forms these tasks, among other
things: 1. Towing targets—"drag
ging rags” for warship gun crew
practice. 3. Helping to train shore
batteries in anti-aircraft fire. 3.
Giving technical aid in varied
kinds of new developments,
working with every outfit from
submarines to jet-assisted air
craft. 4. Providing fighter, dive
bomber and torpedo groups with
gunnery facilities.
In addition, there is the Fleet
Air Photography Laboratory, now
assigned to VJ-7. It is the cen
tral clearing house for combat
photography for the entire Pa
cific air command. Its photogra
phers fly long, over-water mis
sions and participate in every
phase of the squadron’s varied
duties. Most of their work cannot
be told, but one of their most
important assignments is recon
naissance photography.
ATHENIAN KILLED
IN EUROPEAN BATTLE
Staff Sergeant Lewis Elmer
Humber of Athens, was killed in
action in Germany on March 7,
according to word received from
the War Department by his wife
here.
Sergeant Humber was on duty
with the 12th Infantry of the
First Army at the time of his
death.
The Athens soldier was the son
of the former Miss Hallie Hosev
of this city and the husband of
the former Miss Ruby Bullock.
He was the nephew of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Bryant of Athens also.
PFC. PAT BRADLEY
PAYS SHORT VISIT
Pfc. Pat O’Callaghan Bradley,
paratropoer son of Mrs. Lawton
Rylie, Marion, S. C., and grand
son of Mrs. M. P. O'Callaghan oi
Athens, spent several days here
recently and is now in the Army
Hospital at Thomasville, Ga.
He is in the hospital for treat
ment of five wounds, twg in his
left arm, one in the chest, one in
the shoulder, and one in a hip. He
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It's "Hello Bill”
ABILENE, Kas., June 22—(/)—
Ike is home today. Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, commander of the
victorious Allied armies, who has
been feted around the world, is
back with his own people and all
pomp and ceremony has been
abandoned.
It was “helle, Bill” and “hello
Bud” to his friends as the General
stepped from the train last night
and shook hands with * the 12
‘members of the reception com
mittee. He called them all by
name.
~ This is the long-anticipated day
for Abigene and the citKizens have
prepared a typically Kansas tri
Bute Thotghifally, (e Somhites
arranged no formal appearances
for the General until the parade
at 10 a. m., today so that he might
spend as much time as possible
with his family, including his 83-
year-old mother and his four
brothers.
Tke will get to see the parade,
too, and it will bring memories
to him for it, will be a pageant of
the growth of the city and the
story of his own life. Only two of
the seventeen bands will be mili
tary. y
Already, he’s received the key
to the city, a beribboned replica
given him by Mayor H. F. Strowig
when he stepped off the train last
night after a triumphal ride from
Kansas City, with hundreds wait
ing to see him at each station
along the way.
The mayor said General Eisen
hower “didn’t say a word—he just
grinned from ear to ear,” when
he wc;lcomed him home,
Ike 'greeted Orin Snider, his old
high school footipall coach with
“hello there Snide, I'm darn glad
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PLANNING COMMITTEE WILL ASK CITY
COUNCIL TO INSTALL PARKING METERS
Sanitary Officials Propose Citizens
Put Garbage Cans On Front Curb
To Facilitate Collection
Recent Rainfalls
Work Wonders
With State Crops |
ATLANTA, June 22— (AP)—
Recent rains have worked wou
ders with many of Georgia’s
crops and pasture-lands, and cat
tte and hog men say breaking of
the drouth will profit them “in a
sum running far into -the thous
ands.” l
T. Walter Hughes, Georgia dis
trict representative of the- War
Food Administration’s Office of
Supply, said yesterday that the
state’'s peach crop is living up to
all expectation. “Early wvarieties
‘are already on the market and
the late crop will reach peak
production sometime in July,” |
he asserted.
~ Hughes reported that the Bu
reau of Agriculture Economics
‘estimated this year's crop to ex-’
ceed by nearly 65 per .cent last
vear’s production of . 4,860,000
bushels. S
The wunusually heavy crop,
plus congested transportation la
cilities, will cause marketingl
problems when ful] production is
reached the WFA .official said,'
and every possible outlet “will]
have to be utilized to preven:'
waste of the croe."
Around . Moultrie, cattlemen |
saig lack of rain and extremely |
“hot weather were causing graz
ing lands to become low in both
i‘quantity and quality. :
’ They declared, also, that the
water supply was running lowl
in some areas and that the cat
e “depending on pasturéancs |
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Okinawa Enemy Surrendering
In Unprecedented Numbers
‘Forts Rain Destruction
Week On Trials
0f War Criminals
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Associated Press Staff Writer
The British Foreign Office an
nounced today that the Big Four
powers would open discussions
early next week on plans for the
trial of Germany’s arch war crimi
nals, and a responsible American
source in London told of a United
States’ plan to prosecute those
criminals at a mass trial before
“next winter.”
The American source added that
U. S. authorities were ready, if
‘necessary, to go ahead alone with
‘the prosecution of those Germans
accused of being, respgnsible for
starting the second World War
unless an agreement is reached
soon among the big Allied powers
on the method to be' adopted.
Blanket Charge
Under. the Aerican plan a
blanket conspiracy charge would
be placed against Nazi government
leaders, top Nazi military chiefs;
German industrialists and diplo
mats and SS and Gestapo leaders.
Lesser Nazis would be brought in
as 'witnesses.
According to a British Foreign
Office commentator, representa
tives of the United States, Britain,
Russia and France would draft a
list of the major war criminals
and settle questions involving “the
procedure of the court which is
to try them.”
The Catholic Herald, published
weekly in London, said today that
Russian behavior in Europe was
“no better” than “Hitlerisu%"ascise‘
threat . and aggression.”
Commenting on a statement by
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“DID NOT DIE IN VAIN" SAYS G
IN REPRIMAND LETTER TO PATTON
First Cotton Bolls
Of The Year
Grown By W. M. Wall
The first cotton bolls .of the
yvear were found yesterday and
reported to the Banner-Herald
affice this morning - by W. M.
Wall, Jackson county farmer.
Perfectly formed in all respects,
the cotton bolls showed promise
of a large yield per acre on Mr.
Wall's 100 acres of cotton land.
The bolls were about a week and
a half early, none usually being
found unti! the last of June.
By JOE CONKLE L
. City Council will be ask:d by
the Chamber of Commerce Plan
ning Committee to install parking
meters on a tridl basis on “75 per
cent of the parking spaces on
Clayton street from Lumpkin to
Twaomas and on College- Avenue
from Washington to Broad, on
condition the one hour parking or
dinance be enforced within the
area covered by the present or
dinance for one hour parking, in
conjunction with the use of the
meters for tae area mentioned.”
The_ Planning Committee’s de
cision to recommend this step to
the City Council was taken after
the Mercaants Cornmitte of the
Chamber, of Commerce give the
proposal its approval, under the
conditions specified in the resolu
tion ‘above quoted.
Taeé Merchants Committee took
action on the proposal at a meeting
held - Thursday morning at 10
o’clock, when Councilman T. L.
Elder, leader of the parking meter
movement, and H. P. Williams,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, appeated before the mer
chants and told them taat the in
stallation of parking meters is
necessary to solve the traffic prob
lem. : .
At a meeting of %ie Planding
Committee immediately following,
these recommendations were re
ceived and approved and it was
agreed that the recommendations
will be passed on to the City Coun
cil for further action.
_ Preliminary discussion which
preceded the aproval of these
recommendations included a re
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' RSTABLISHED 1833,
GUAM, June 22—(AP)—Four
hundred and fifty B-29s today at
tacked Japan’s last large naval
arsenal and fiye big aircraft fac
tories with 3,000 tons of demoli
tion bombs in a precision raid
made visually from medium alti
tude in clear weather.
¢ Seven other small industrial tar
gets were fire-raided Monday and
Wednesday. '
Huge Area Hit ¢
Japan's two largest arsenals,
Osaka and Hiro, previously were
virtually destroyed. The Kure
plant, blasted today, manufactured
guns up to 16 inches, projectiles,
fuses, propellants and torpedoes.
It covered approximately 11,000,-
000 square feet.
The other five targets were the
Mitsubishi and Kawasaki aircraft
plant at Himeji and the Kawasaki
aircraft plant at Akashi, both in
the Kobe area, and the Mitsubishi-
Mishima aireraft factory at Tama
shima, 90 miles west of Kobe,
A Japanese communique claim
ed 26 of the giant raiders were
shot down or damaged.
Previous Damage
B-29s already have destroyed
or damaged 112 square miles of
Japanese urban industrial areas,
21st- Bomber Command Head
quarters announced while today’s
raids were in progress. Recent
B-29 attacks on seven smaller in
dustrial cities—all made with in
cendiary bombs earlier this week
—damaged more than nine square
miles of war factery areas.
Osaka, Japan’s second largest
eity and its suburb, Amagasaki,
suffered 2.71 sguare miles of new
damage in a June 15 fire raid,
increasing total damaged areas
there to 16.75 square miles. This
represents 26 per cent of Osaka’s
built-up areas and 11 per cent of
Amagasaki’s. .
Incendiary bombs, . aimed at
hundreds of small Japanese home
industries, on that raid virtually
wiped out the majoi Amagasaki
objective—~the Sumitomo Kanzaki
propeller plant, which was about
90 per cent destroyed or damaged.
BY J. M. ROBERTTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
- Stars and Stripes in Pavis, in
an imaginary letter from a dead
soldier, takes Genera] Patton to
‘task for telling a group of chil
dren they will be the soldiers of
the- next war,
General Eisenhower has added
his voice to those who are advo
cating peace-time military train
ing in the Uniteq States.
. Russia, expecteq to annouince
relaxation of war-time living ie
strictions, at the same accele:-
ates military training and says,
“the wa~ in Europe ig over bui
the military and political school
ing and the training of fighting
reserves does not cease for a
moment.” . «
“It’s no fun to die ~ . . says
the Stars and Stripes letter. “It's
particularly pno fun when the
genera] you followed turns right
around to yor homefolks a few |
weeks later and tells them you
died in vain. Leave the peace to
those who are working chei:
hearts out to make it stick. Leave
them alone — for a little while,
anyway. And for God’s sake stay
out of my little brother’s Sunday
School class. He still thinks !
died top make a better world for
him.” e
Well, the soldier didn't die in
vain, and the generals are not
intending to say he did. .
At San Francisco, for the first
time in history, all of the world's
great powers, all its dominant
forces, are arrayed for peace.
The flaws in the Uniteq Naticns
cha-ter are prominent. To some
they are disheartening. But it
still represents 'the greatest step
yet taken toward universiaj su
curity. It does provide machine
ry by which the nations can
have peace if they will to do s».
It represents something worta
fighting for.
But the nations have not yet
said that war will no longer be
pe-mitted. They have not agreed
that their collective srengh will
be applied automaticaily against
any one of them which first re
sorts to force. Local communities
have established constabularies
so that each law-abiding home
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Father Of Former
Athenian Dies
At Stone Mountain
Augustus Wilson, of 2782 Cov
ington Road, Stone Mountain,
Ga., died at his home this morn
ing. He was the father of J. H.
Wilson, formerly of Athens and
Winterville and now a resident of
Crawfordville. 5 .
Americans Thrust
0f Nip Resistance
Ry ROBBIN COONS
GUAM. June 22.—(AP)-—Japa
nese surrenders in unprecedentpd
numbers marked the final phase
of the conquest of Okinawa as
American troops today thrust into
the last two dying pockets of re
sistance on that new U. S. base
325 miles from Japan and 400
miles from China.
The ecampaign for this “inner
position” for future attacks on
the enemy was the costliest of
any single island for both sides in
the entire war in the central or
western Pacific.
Admiral Chesgter W, Nimitz.
who announced that organized
resistance was at an end after B 2
days of bitter fighting, said today
that Japanese casualties through
Wednesday totalled 90,401 killed
and more than 4,000 captured. On
the last ' day, yesterday, many
Japanese threw themselves into
the sea, Nimitz said, so that the
final toll will be increased.
U. 8. Casualties
~ The cost to '‘American ground
forces through Tuesday was 6,999
killed or missing and 29,598
wounded. These were divided
among the Army, with 4,417 dead
or missing and' 17,033 wounded,
and the Marines with 2,573 dead
or missing and 12,565 wounded.
American Naval casualties las!
were announced as 2otalling 4,270
killed or missing and 4,171 woun
ded from March 18 through May
24. Many of these were in the
Okinawa campaign, where the
Navy suffered from Japanese
l;:mlkaze 'fau’cidel) air attacks,
t they also included she strike
against the Jn&cfig&‘%ggfih the
Inland Sea March 18.
It was pointe? out that Japa
nese naval casualties were not in
cluded in the Okinawa lisf, al
though the Japanege by conserva
tive estimate, lost at least 3,500
dead in the Inland Sea . battle
alone. |
For comparative purpeses of
ground forces against ground
forces, 13 Japanese were killerli
for every American Kkilled or
missing. 1
In the final period, when their
stubborn, cave-based defense =of
Okinawa was collapsing, the Jap
anese lost 3,058 killed in a gin
gle day. : ,
Southwest Pacific
In the Southwest Pacific, Ausf-}
tralians leap-frogged 50 miles
down the west Borneo coast in an,
unopposed landing between the)
rich but flaming Seria and Miri
oil fields. % I
A brilliant coup by American
led Filipino guerrillas split 30,000
Nipponese in the northern Philip
pine Cagayan Valley, and the
harried enemy hurled two tank
led counterassaults against U. S.
troops in an attempt to escape
from the trap. ’
Japanese forces in Asia speeded
their withdrawals from East
China port cities — a potential
American invasion area. Chinese
began attacking the former U. S.
air base at Liuchow in southeast
China, and American ohservers
said fall of both the wrecked air
drome and the flaming cross-road
city of Liuchow were imminent.
Pacific Fleet headquarters
pointed out fighter planes and
bombers from Okinawa, 3256 miles
south of Japan, will be able to
support an invasion of eithe:
Japan or China.
In the northern Philippines,
Colonel Russell. W. Volckmann
who has led guerrillas in recon
quest of northwestern Luzon, di
rected the seizure of Tuguegarao
and its excellent airfield. Japan
ese cut off by this maneuver
hurled two tank-led counterat
tacks against-the P. S.r 37th Div
ision, 35 miles down the valley.
Eight tanks were destroyed.
Rough seas were the primary
obstacle to Ausfralian Ninth
Division forces in their latest
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| ATHENS AND VICINITY
| Partly cloudy and continued
~ warm tonight and Saturday.”
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy
~ and warm tonight, scattered
showers extreme south per
~ tion this afternoon. Saturday
partly cloudy and warm in
north portion, showers and
not quite so warm in south,
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Deficit since June 1 ....... 1.44
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Total since January 1 .....26.69
Excess since January 1 .... 2.17
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Japanese surrenders in unprecedented numbers on Okinawa
today, such as the one above, are marking the final death throes
of the campaign on the island. The Jap has given his sword to
the American as a token of unconditional sarrender.
TRUMAN, NO WEEK-END DUTIES,
RESUMES SIGHTSEER ROLE
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CCC Supply Office
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(lears Lend-Lease
ATLANTA, June 22—(&)—Col.
James H. Palmer, director of the
Office of Supply for the Commodi
ty Credit Corporation, yesterday
absolved lend-lease of all “blame™
for the current meat shortage. :
The Colonel said:
“I.end-lease was never a major
contributing factor to- the meat
situation. The amount of meat
supplied Great Britain and Russia,
two largest claimants under lend
lease, reached its peak in' 1943,
when both countries combined re
ceived one pound out of every 10
produced.
“In 1944 and for the first half
of 1945, lend-lease shipments of
meat represented less than seven
per cent of the total national
::n})pl_\'." . :
Yalmer, whose office covers the,
nine ' southeastern states for the
'"War Food Administration, gave
five reaspns for the existing short
age:
(1) Higher military require
ments—Food must be transported
over a longer supply line in the
Pacific war. P ¥ t 4
(2) Larger civilian incomes have
boosted o greater demand to prob
ably. 40 per cent above civilian
supply.
* (3) Distortion in distribution-—
Hitting hardest cities and towns
supplied by federally inspected
plants. A\ g
(4) Black markets, which create
unequal distribution.
(5) Usual seasonal low in meat
production during second and
third quarters of year.
38 Billion Dollar War Appropriation
Asked By High Ranking Military Men
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Bartow Grand Jury
Asks Resignation
Of Commissioner
. CARTERSVILLE, Ga., June 22
--(AP)— The Bartow = County,
Grand Jury called back in 3pe-'
cial session has demanded - that
county Commissioner Arthur -V,
Neal resign. and returned. tru3
bills on embezzlement charges
against A. C. Jolly, former clerx
and ex-officio treasure™ for the
county commission, deputy ecir
cuit clerk, John L. Milan said
today.
The cal] for the special grand
jury session followed completion®
of van audit 'of county books iy
Respress & Respress of Atlanta:
The g and jury action' was the
latest development in a pswspu
per crusade launched last Janua
ry by Milton L. Fleetwood, edi
tor of the Weekly News Tribune.
Fleetwood was foremap of the
January grand jury, which ke
said had received . numerous
vomplaints thar country roads
were so muddy as to be impassi
ble. ; :
Meanwhile, Commissioner Neal
(Continued on page six.)
By ERNEST B, VOCCARO
. OLXMBIA,.Mash, June 22—
(AU)—President Truman, with
nothing official to do until Mon
day, resumned the role of a sight
seer again today.
Having tried kis hand at salmon
fishing, with no great succesg, he
decided to take another automo- -
bile tour, this time to snow-caps
ped Mount Ranier,
He and his official party, in
cluding Governor Moniy C. Wal
gren, set 10 a. m. (PWT) as the"
departing - hour and did not plan
to return to the executive man
sion here until 5 p. m.
No News From President :
“I don’t believe there will be.
any news frem the President for
a while now,” Press’ Secretary
Charles G. Ross told reporters.
The President apparently plan
ned no further discussion at this
time of the administration’s pro
gram to straigh(fin out the tan
gled meat distribution system. '
He told_ a press conference here
yesterday that a plan Tooking to
ward some sort of single control
over yrices and food was in the
works and that there was no
question ‘but that it would be ef
fective, s Sey
He left observers guessing
about his plans for further chan
ges in his cabinet, flatly denying
reports he contemplated removing
Interior = Secretary = Harold L.
lekes. ; . o i
Puget Sound Tour
After the press conference, the
President went on a nine hour
tour up Puget Sound with Wall=
gren. They traveled in the U. S. S.
Brands, then got out in a row
boat only to drag in two dogfish.
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| WASHINGTON, - June 22 --
(AP'— A 3’38,500.285,“‘:1!*‘\”31' De
‘partment supply bill went to the
| House floor today with an Ariny
'pmmise to speed wictory .over
{Japan by "“an omerwhelming ap
[plicati()n of farce” . :
| Its approval by the appropria
iuons committee accompaniel
' publication of three weeks of tes
" timony by, high Army officials
who foresaw devastation for Ja
pan more w that which
battereq the Nazis te their knees.
' Testimony of gene-als of the
Army George C. Marshall, chief
of staff, and H: H. Arnold,+head
‘of the Ailr Forces, disclosed plans
to use 1,000 B-29s daily in the
Paficic war and to drop 2,700.-
009 tons eof bombs in the ¥Far
East in the.fiscal year stariing
July -1. That figure compares.
Marshall said, with 1,555,000 lans
rained ‘upon “Europe from ~1842
to 1945. -
In contrast to previous war
yeas,-the generals left much of
their closed-door testimony in
the “printed rocord.
The funds voted by the com
mittee represented a cut of $586. -
810,000 from budget estimatés
and a reduction of $9,692492313
from money made available to
the Army during-the current sis«
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