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P * L et ,’#‘p A b [ . d ‘?‘,:( .F iy : 5 o ) ‘ ‘2:%: ea 4 L F, A 6 sey i Vo 4 T S b ”& @ S 4 4 B & O Railroad officials last night credited the split-second thinking of Eugene Caudell, 11, and Bobby Rolen, 13 (rt.) with saving the crack train Ambassador, bound from Baltimore to Detroit, through Washington, from catastrophe. The boys saw lightning strike a large tree, felling it across the tracks near Washington. Knowing that the Ambassador was due any minute, they ran to a nearby house and notified the local station which in turn sent a bulletin to the Laurel station where the train was fiagged down. Train officials said the boys “will receive a surprise” from the company for their work, because, had the message arrived 90 seconds later, the crack flyer might have crashed into the tree. The boys are shown sitting on the tree which fell across the track. Ouwr Mewn: And ‘Wemen o In Service o LT. CLAUDE TUCK, JR. GETS BRONZE MEDAL First Lieutenant Claude Tuck, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Clatde Tuck, well known Clarke county citizens, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for ‘“meritori ous service in connec&ion with military operations against an enemy of the United States in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and Germany.” In General Order No. 32 from Headquarters of the 35th Infantry Division, Lieut. Tuck is cited for “his inauguration of a plan for spot-repair of wvehicles, second echelon maintenance, and organi zation of a maintenance crew with mobile equipment, which were major factors in keeping the vehi cular transportation in first class operating condition during im portant combat operations.” Lieut. Tuck graduated from the University of Georgia in 1936, taking high rank in the military department and being a member, of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military drganization. He was con nected with the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Birming ham before entering the service. He entered the service in Janu ary of 1942 and was stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas\at the Cavalry school as an instructor in the motors department. He went over seas in 1944, He has two brothers In service, and a sister in the Red Cross War branch. They are Cap tain Joseph Q. Tuck,; Fort Riley, Kansas, and Lieut. Clifford M. Tuck, on Saipan. Another brother, Robert, is a student here, ‘ His sister is Miss Elizabeth Tuck, who has just returned home after spending a year in England with the American Red Cross, being connected with the 122nd General Hospital. After spending a 30-day leave with her parents, she will report for further duty, this time in the Pacific area. JEFFERSONIAN : i TRAINS AT NORFOLK | Pledger Reems, 21, coxswain, USNR, of Jefferson, Ga., arrived al the Naval. Training Station, Norfolk, - Va., June 20, to train for duties aboard a new destroyer of the Atlantic Fleet. . / Son of Mr{ and Mrs. Henry Reems, 166 Kate street,- Prich ard, Ala.,, he is married to the former Mabel Bond of 116 Syca-. more street, Jefferson. They have a daughter, Linda Joyce, 2. A brother, Paul, 23, is @ private, first class, in the Army. | Before ‘enlisting Reems was emploved by the Jefferson Cot ton Mills. He attended Penning ton High School. . ATHENS 8§ OR ' GRADUAT_%L: - Harry Ric¢hard Couch, son: of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin R. Couch, 1393 Boulevard, Athens, recently graduated from the Aviation Storekeeper’s School here. Entering the Navy he received his recruit training at Jackson ville, Fla., later being transfer red to the Naval Air Techmca} Training Center hére. . Couch is now a qualified Avia tion Storekeeper and will probq— bly see service with a Naval Air Unit, . THREE ATHENJANS HOME ON FURLOUGH g Pfc. G. B. Dixon, T-5 J. C. Odillon, and Cpl. Ralph. . Ste phens, all of Athens.ﬁare 3sper£; ing furloughs here after 3 ye in servicegin the Hawaiian Is- Jagds. 2R ATHENS BANNER-HERALD R. S. FLEEMAN SERVES IN GERMANY Private First Class Rutherford S. Fleeman of Athens, Ga., is a supply. specialist with the 1823rd Ordnance Mobile Reclamation and Repair Company inside Ger many. His ‘company repairs and maintains-all types of Army ve hiclés. To meet the increased de mand for repair work demanded by the current large-scale trans portation movements in Europe, this company performs three to four hour engine changes daily. Private Fleeman locates and re quisitions all mess supplies, gas, oil and ‘automotive® parts in order that crews on day and night shifts ean keep the repaired ve hicle srolling out. Son of Mrs. Agnes N. Flee man, 551 Third Avenue, South, St. Petersburg, Fla., Private Flee man entesed the Army in Decem ber, 1942. Prior to that time he attended Wintenville, Ga., high school, and was employed by the Protane Gasoline Service in St. Petershurg. His wifq, Mrs. Mar ion W. Fleeman, resides at 511 Bloomfield street, Athens. Over seas 16 months, Private Fleeman has seen service in the British Isles, France and Germany. Vgt el ATHENIAN IN BLUE STATIONED IN R, L Seaman William T. Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Payne of 160 Hillside street, Athens, has completed his basic training at Great Lakes, Illinois. He recently spent a ten-day leave here.before reporting for further training at Davisville, R. L. | Another son of the Paynes is also in service. He is Pfc. Tal madge V. Payne, who has been on everseas duty with the 216th F. A. Battalion in Germiany for more than a year. . LONNIE SPIVEY VISITS PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. George W. Spivey of Winterville were surprised on Sunday, June 24, by a visit from their son, Lonnie L. Spivey, who has been in naval service in the Seouth Pacific for fifteen months. CARNESVILLE OFFICER RETURNS TO STATES Wearing an Air Médal with:a Gold Star in lieu of a second sim ilar award, Lieutenant (junior grade) Hoyt O. Gillespie, U. S. N. R., of :Carnesville, Ga:, has re turned from the United Kingdom where he served with the Navy’s Patrol Squadron 63. A pilot, he completed 90 combat missions in 20 months of overseas duty. Flying the famed PBY Catalina patrol bombers, the squadron ranged over FKEuropean waters, searching out enemy U-boats and surface units, escorting convoys and performing a variety of /other flying missions. Lt. Gillespie, who is 24 years old, was a student at Young Har ris College, Young Harris, Ga., before entering the Navy in June, 1942. His wife is the former Al lene Wilson of Doraville, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gillespie of Car nesville are his parents. . W. E. DELLINGER SEES PACIFIC ACTION .ABOARD A DESTROYER IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC.—Wil liam E. Dellinger, 33, seaman, first class, USNR, Route 3, Ath ens, Ga., has been a crew mem (Continued On Page Five Full Associated Press Service. Trapped Nipponese In Mass Suicides 20000 French Have Stood Purge Trials WAR ROUNDUP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAPAN-—More than 500 super forts unloaded 3,000 tons of fire bombs and explosives on four Japanese industrial cities bringing to 38 the number of Nipponese cities receiving the fire and bomb treatment. BORNEO—Australian and Dutch troops advanced up to two miles east and north of Balikpapan, Duteh Borneo. In northwest Bor neo, Aussies gained 10 miles, ad vancing to within 30 miles of Jesselton. CHlNA—Chinese have recap tured Tangkiang, while pushing toward former U. S. airbase at Kanhsien. Japanese forces south of Amoy, drove toward Changpu, 35 miles southwest of Amoy. BURMA-—Japanese rear guards reported digging in along Sittang river bend between Nyaungkashe ‘and Myitkyo. 8 Charfer, Finances And Prices Occupy \ | Washinglon Scene WASHINGTON, July 13—(AL") —The Office of War Informaticn won a financial fight in the, House today as a move to hold its current year fundg to siß,- 000,000 was beaten down decis ively. A standing vote of 140.t0 38, with Republicans furnishing most of the opposition, upheld a Senate-House compromise giving OWII $35,000,000. The compror ise stil] requires Senate approv al, but that body earlier had voted OWII $39,670,215. ‘ Both chambers now are in agreement on a $250,000 provision for the Fair Employment Practice Committee, half what that agency asked. Southerners had fought against allotting it any money at all. Charter Hearings Continue ‘ Senator Johnson (R-Calif), foe of the old League of Nations, teld Ireporters his present inclination is “to go along with the crowd” in voting for the United Nations Charter. At the same time he in sisted this is not a guarantee he will so vete. As Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the Char ter neared an end, Johnson fore cast the committee’s vote will not (Confinued on ¥Page Three) Draft Boards Alter ‘Job-Jumper’ Rules WASHINGTON, July 13—(AP) —Men 26 or over who do not meet the Army’s regular physi cal standards are free today to change jobs without draft board permission. At the request of the army, se lective service last night relaxed its regulations to exclude these men from the possibility of in duction as job-jumpers. ATHENIAN SAYS DAWN ENCOUNTER WITH JAPS WAS LONELY THRILL ey District Governor | Installs New ! Lions Club Officers | Hamp McGibony, district gover-i nor-elect of District 18-A Georgia Lions, -from Greensboro, Ga., in-l stalled the newly-elected officers who will lead the Athens Lions Club for the ensuing year. Officers installed were C. M. Ridlehuber, president; J. C. Stile, first vice president; Bob ‘Ray, second vice~| president; Alexander Bush, third | vice-president; Judge Arthur Old-~ | ham, secretary; J. H. Hubert, treasurer; Max Whittemore, Lion Tamer; L. W. Gretz, Tail twister. The installation took place at| a picnic held in the country home of W. D. Crawford. Members ofl the Lions Club gathered under the trees after a bountiful picnic to| hear the district governor speak to the newly elected officers and] members. He urged the members of the club to remember their; civic and religious obligation to the community and to accept their plave of leadership in the com ‘munity. . | Outgoing President Ted Crowe ’congratulated the new officers and requested a word from each of them. The new officers outlined plans for the coming year, re minding the members of projects succeséfully completed in the past, such as the milk fund, the pro viding of underprivileged children with glasses and the Christmas |empty stocking fund, and urged 'that the club enter just as whole heartedly in any project under ltakeninthe future. Athens, Ga., Friday, July 13, 1945. PARIS, July 13.——(AP)-—Morel than 20,000 people have stood trial in the nine months’ purge | of French collaborationists, but 30,000 more remain to face judg ment, Ministry of Justice figures reveal. The courts have passed 994 death verdicts, 600 sentences of hard labor for life, 4,638 other hard labor sentences, 1,063 of im-~ prisonment for five years or more and 9,876 for shorter jail terms. There were 3,315 acquittec, | Charge Inefficiency | Slow handling of the long lists of Frenchmen charged with aid ing the Germans drew sharp fire from speakers at the convention of resistance groups this* week. They charged that “the purge is being conducted in a strange manner. If the courts move slowly, au thorities said, it is because only a thin line frequently divided “collaboration” from simply liv ing and working under German ochupation, a line not always easy to find. The cases that drew death ver dicts or life sentences seldom presented difficulties for judges and juries, like the' supreme penalty for treason imposed Wed nesday on Paul Ferdonnet, the “French Lord Haw Haw,” or last April on General Henri Dentz, who fought the British occupation of Syria. | laore Death Sentences -~ Death sentences have been lev ied in absentia® against Vichy’s chief of government Pierre La val, its education minister Abel Bonnard, and Marcel Deat, col laborationist editor, but the sen tences probably never will be carried out without a retrial in person. The brilliant scientist Georges Claude, an ~inventor of neon lighting, is among those now serving life terms, -~ These - were mostly . supreme "court trials of high erimes. It is in the lower courts where the lqueer and often terrible effects of the German ocgupation on seemingly ordinary men and wo men have come to light. . Sometimes it was pure sadism. There was the beautiful and weil born girl who at 19 was one of the French Gestapo’s most expert torturers. There was the boy who informed on women because the Germans let him watch them' be ing stripped and mistreated in efforts to make them talk. - Sometimes it was anti-Semit ism. A woman who denounced a ‘French Jewess has been execut ed. A man admitted he produced anti-Jewish films, but pleaded it swas to hide that his wife was Jewish. Usually it was money or per sonal advantage A 16-year-old acted as a German spy for pocket money, cigarettes and the priv ilege of driving German army trucks. A policeman turned in seven Frenchmen to German exe cutioners for $lO apiece. The Marqui De Villefranche testified (Continued on Page Three.) | BY VIRGINIA WOODALL l Lt. John Davis, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, sr., has just returned from 40 months of adventure with Navy Task‘ lForce 58 in the Pacific. Lt. Davis, serving as Executive !Officer on a destroyer in thel !task force, participated in the campaigns of the Philippines.] |lwo Jima, and Okinawa and in| the carrier strikes on Tokyo. % Lead Task Force ‘ The Athenians, a graduate of Annapolis, class of 41, says that one of his most thriilling expe triences took place in the China | Sea. Adimniral Halsey took the 3rd fleet into the China Sea to attack Hong Kong and Saigon back in January. Lt. Davis’' ship wag about 25 miles in front of che main force and reached the 1 point of attack first. His was the rfirst surface ship to see the Indo 1-China coast, f}\e recalled that the ’!members of the crew felt pretty ‘ proug of themselves in the g.ey |dawn of that morning. Smiling | wryly, he said that, they also felt just a little lonesome. [i Duzing the attack off Okinawa, the battle in which the Bunker 1 Hill was severely damaged, the | Athenian’s ship had th< honor of | taking Admiral Mitscher, head :'of the 59th Task Force off the ¢ purning Bunker Hiil. As the Ad _‘miral swung across on a cable ' hung between the two ships, Lt. { Davis greeted him. When Ine flAdmiral was safe on board, the ! Athenian took him below - and .| furnished him with morale in || the form of a cup of cofiee .| Throughout the attack his ship | was busy warding off Jap Zevoss (Contlrred on Page Turee) ' ¢ ege 13,000 Enemy Civilians Deserted By Own Army HEADQUARTERS, ARMY FORCES OF PACIFIC, P. L., July 13.—(AP)—Helpless, terror-stricken and virtuaily deserted by their own army, Japanese civil ians in interior Mindanao Island are resorting to mass suicides to avoid capture. ) - An estimated 13,000 of the hapless cviilians are living on the sdopes of Mt. Apo, commanding Davao Gulf on southern Mindanao. Reports to officers of the 24th Division have renewed the belief that thous ands of them, all evacuated from their Davio City homes when the Japanese army fled before the Amer icans, may resort to a mass suicide and murder pro gram. Non-Fraternization Order Less Rigidly Enforced In Berlin BY DANIEL DeLUCE BERLIN, July 13—(#)—To the great relief of G. I. Joe and Tom-~ my Atkins, when you're in Berlin you do as the Russians do. In other words, American and British troops in the German capi tal—most of whom are fed up with the non-fraternization policy in force in western Germany—are copying the internationally friend ly ways of the Red Army in peace time, Unchanged Officially The generals may say that noth ing has been changed in the rule book since they moved more than 30,000 American and British sol diers into Berlin., But things nevertheless seem to be different. Ivanovich—Red Army equiva lent of G. 1. Joe—operates on the understanding that he’s not sup poséd to take dyed in the wool Nazis to his bosom. He believes that Nazis properly belong behind bars, and that Germans who are not Nazis are entitled to be treat ‘ed without rade hatred. Premier Stalin’s words to that effect ap pear on many signboards. Therefore, when Ivan saunters out in the early evening he feels perfectly free to drop into a con venient case, strike up an ac quaintance with any German girl and invite her to dance and drink (Continued on Page Three) Rabies Warning Is Issued After Mad Dog Killed Sunday Warning that dogs in ihe Broaq Acres, Rockspring, Brook lyn section of the city may have been bitten by a mad dog killed Sunday night in that area, was voiced today by Dr. Harold 1. Hodgson, city health inspector. Dr. Hodgson said that labora ary tests on the head of the dog, a large white and mixed police dog, showed the animal was in fected with rabies. * Dr. Hod{\n said that all dogs in the area mentioned above must be kept up for a ninety day period, as a safeguard to prevent possible spread of rabies, since he feels almost certain that the dog had bitten otner animaﬁs before it was Kkilled: He said dogs in that area are to be kept up for the stipulated period re gardless of whether or not they have beep vaccinated. He further said that any dogs found running loose are subjecci to being Kkilledq and alsa that anybody who has a dog which they wish to have done away with, are asked to call the City Health Department and keep ihe dog penned up until an officer arrives. Former Athenian Senior Surgeon In London Center ~ MIAMI — As senior surgeon in the European division medi cal center of ATC in London, Col. Joseph S. Stewart, Coral Gables, has g key role in the program to return wounded and sick American soldiers to this country. Five to six thousand—both lit ter and ambulatory patients—ave flown monthly to this country by ATC’s giant C-54 planes. The medical section in London composed of eight officers and eight enlisted men and women, has the important task of provid ing competent medical attentice for, these patients as well as be in! responsible for the health of the entire European division of the ATC. Col. Stewart, whose wife iMa rian H. Stewart, lives at 234 Calabria ave., left his private practice in 1942 to enter the ser vice. Complicated Task ‘ln addition to the air evacua tion program, dispensary and dental service at all of the ATC (Continued on Pape Three) : « One prisoner taken by the 24th told of 40 Japanese women and children already found in the Tamogan secior sector with their throats slit. Report Typhoon At least 21 American warships were damaged by a typhoon five weeks ago as they retired from a carrier strike on Japan, Pacific Fleet headquarters announced to day, as Nippon blazed from round the-clock bombings which Tokyo called ‘“‘a prelude to invasion.” i The typhoon damaged more ships than the Mikado’s naval guns have ever been able to hit in a single battle, but at least 20 of the damaged fighting craft are back in action. The cruiser Pittsburgh, whose bow was torn off by the moun tainous seas and 138-mile-an-hour winds, and presumably other un named units of Adm. William %‘ (Bull) Halsey’s Third Fleet are still undergoing repairs.. No ships were sunk. No one was reported killed or seriously in jured. The announcement by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz explained the long gap between Halsey’s carrier raids on Japan. The typhoon, the second to hit the Third Fleet in six months, struck June sth, eight days ‘after Halsey’s return to ac tion and two days after the fleet's carrier planes swept southern Japan. The next raid was last Tuesday when the ' fleet’s Taslk Force n?t nt more than 1,000 planes against ?ukya’:s network "&‘?ﬁtﬁggﬁa. Participating in that action were at least four of the typhoon-dam ‘aged vegsels—the fast new battle 'ships Massachusetts and Indiana, ’the carrier San Jacinto and the destroyer John Rodgers. Four other carriers of variods types and cne more battleship were among the storm damaged vessels, Aircraft Sweeps Nimitz made no mention of cur rent carrier activity. Land-based air forces filled in the gap with more than 700 planes, ranging ranging from giant Superforts to little Mustang fighters, sweeping over a 770 mile arc of the enemy homeland More than 500 Superforts in their sixth strike this month set at least four Japanese cities aflame and rained demolition bombs on the Kawasaki oil center in Tokyo Bay. Japanese broadeasts said fires were started in scoven rities. A steady red glow lighted Tsurga, western Honshu seaport that ence sent invasion troops to China. Flashes of tire mingled with static electricity as B-19¢ lunged through a rainstorm to hit Uwajima, an interisland port cn western Skikoku llsland. Other fire targets were Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo and Ichinomiya, nine miles from Nagoya. All fou~ cities were new en'‘ries in the list of 38 Nipponese cities ;hatf have heen fire-bombed. Z Naval search planes raided shipping 200 miles north of To kyo, and Okinawa-based air craft lasheq at suicide air bases 170 miles southwest of the capi tal. 2 Brig. Gen. David F. Hutchison, 37-year old commander of the advanced Far East Air Force in Okinwawa, expressed confidence the Japanese *don’t intend 1o engage us in the air” but are hus banding their pianes for suicide attacks on invasion forces. Chinese troops captured two cities in their drive to recapture the sixth former base .of the U. S., 14th Air Force which operates in China, They are eleven miles from their latest objective, Kan hsien in Kiangsi province, Chi nese units were reported inter cepting Nipponese invasion troops on the coast south of Amoy. Aussies Leapfrog Australian Ninth Division troops leapfrogged wup ihe northwest (Continued on Page Three.) ATHENS AND VICINITY Considerable cloudiness and showers tonight and Saturday with nioderate temperatures. GEORGIA — Considerable cloudiness, moderate tempera tures and scattered showers tonight and Saturday. TEMPERATURE Higheat ... ... 08 snsiis 85 Towesl .0 "is ol W Méan .St W Notmal .. .. i 19 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours ........ .65 Total siice July 1:......... 115 Deficit since July 1 ........ 1.02 Average July rainfall ...... 5.13 Total since January 1 ......28.08 Excess since January 1 .... .22 A.B.C. Paper - Single Copy, 3¢ — 5¢ Sunday New Air Commander Promises [To Strike “24 Hours A Day” A D T B R R ,‘ 5 o A fasss ;2 5 '. 5 _ﬂ’*a’ 3 ;;.. e el . G 5 S, %M P ,~ s %5 G L P 3 (S e . oo e Gen. George C. Kenney By Allied Generals ‘FRANKFURT, July 13—(#P)— Gen. Eisenhower and Field Mar shal Montgomery are expected to decide soon on what to do with the German general staff. At midnight tonight Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Ex peditionary force will be dissolved, but the problem of handling the hundreds of high ankiné stats and field officers of’“t.he‘ erman army, who- are .prisoners of the western Allies awaits final dis position. ; British and American officers held informal discussions on the matter during Eisenhower’s ab sence. Talks Unofficial These conversations touched on the possibility of breaking up the German general staff and con demning its members to exile in British crown colonies throughout the world, but the talks were re garded as no more than ground clearing expeditions assembling data to be presented to Eisenhower and Montgomery. | Of the captured German mili~ tary hierarchy one SHAEF officer said: | “Some of them ought to be shot as criminals and undoubtedly will be. Others must be regarded pure ly as military figures who carried out military orders. All these of ficers are still in uniform and are classified strictly as military prisoners. “The greatest emphasis, how ever, is placed on the members of the general staff. The general staff {Continued on Page Three) ‘Maroon’ Available Tomorrow, Monday Copies of the '45 Maroon will be available at the High = School tomorrow morning from 10 to 12, and Monday afternoon from 2 to 3:30 to students who ordered a copy during the school year. ALLIED ATTITUDE POSES PROBLEM Athens Churchgoers To Be Guests At Navy Services Sunday night will be Athens Night” at the regular Navy Pre- Flight chapel service in the amphi theater, it was announced today })y Lt. R. L. Crandall, station chap~ ain. All citizens of Athens are in vited to attend the service, which begins at 8:20 p. m. It is recom mended that the townspeople come by 8 o'clock in order to see the impressive parade of cadets. y R. V. Watterson, vice president, Citizens & Southern Bank, sug gested the special ceremony in order that local persons might be come familiar with the work being done at the Pre-Flight School. Local pastors will close their churches Sunday night, after recommending at morning services that their congregations attend the amphitheater rites. Lt. J. T. Owens, station first lieutenant, is placing hundreds of extra chairs in the amphitheater to accommodate the large crowd expected. ; The cadet choir, directed by Michael A. McDowell, jr., will sing. % HOME, BY SPENCER DAVIS MANILA, July 13 —(#)—Gen. George C. Kenney was handed the Army Air Forces’ top ftaetical command against Japan today and promptly promised that his Far Eastern Air Forces with advanced ‘headquarters now on OKkinawa would bomb the enemy homeland 24 hours a day at all altitudes from 10 to 10,000 feet. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who has had Kenney as his right-hand man for air since the early days on the defensive in Australia and New Guinea, announced that the Army Seventh Air Force, veteran of the Central Pacific, had been transferred to Kenney’s command. All Army air operations from Okinawa now are under Mac- Arthur’s = over-all command as chief of Army Forces in the Pa cific. : Adm. Chester W. Nimitz dis closed two days ago that the Seventh Air Force was returning to Army control. Saturation Planned MacArthur said this force was “in the process of deployment to forward bases to participate in the ‘air saturation of Japan.” This force includes Liberator heavy bombers and Mitchell mediums. (A dispateh from Guam today told of a blow against a naval air station in Japan by more than 100 Liberators and Mitchells which iit did not identify otherwise but which may have been part of the Seventh Air Force.) Status of the Seventht Fighter Command, based on Iwo Jima, was not made clear. Much of its work in the past has involved escort ing Superfortresses of the Stra tegic Air Forces over Japan. ! ! Kenny’s Far Eastern Air Forces already included the Fifth and IlSth Air Forces. Elements of the Fifth have been operating inst Japan recently ~from mwﬁ nawa bases, but others of both t Fifth and 13th are still active in the Southwest Pacific area. “As soon as we are in position we will attack Japan from 10,000 feet and from 10 feet, with fire and explosives, with bombers and fighters—and we will do it 24 hours a day,” declared the aggres sive Kenney, who will be 56 on August 6. (In the face of this mounting American air onslaught, Lt. Gen. Saburo Endo, director of the air craft ordnance bureau general of the Japanese munitions industry, was reported today by Tokyo radio to have urged his government to give “absolute priority” to pro duction of planes. Japs Note Danger (He was quoted as insisting it was paramount that the Japanese Air Force “destroy completely the enemy’s most important air base in the Okinawas.”) Nimitz’ communique today said nothing more about the U. S. Third Fleet which sent more -than 1,000 carrjer planes against the Tokyo area Tuesday but enemy broadcasts heard in Guam repeat edly warned more such blows were in the offing. (A dispatch from the ecruiser Augusta in the Atlantic report ing that President Truman was in touch hourly with the Third Fleet also hinted new blows were to be expected). Despite loss of 4,000 planes dur ing the Ryukyus campaign, Japan (Continued on Page Three.) TOWARD SPAIN FOR BIG-THREE By -DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreirn. Affairs Analyst One of the critical and delicate cases likely to be considered by the coming clinic of Doctors Tru man, Stalin and Churchill-—phy sicians extraordinary to the world —is that of Spain, the problem being what measures are neces sary to purge this proud and im portant country of the Axis plague. The way things stand now, it looks very much as though the cure of Spain’s ills lies in ‘a change of government. Support for that idea is seen in the action of a commission at the San Fran cisco Security Conference —the commission having voted that the Franco regime, because it had Axis support in coming to power, should never be admitted to membership. That’s a broad hint, to say the least. : Suggest Big Stick Now of course it would be easy for the . Big - Three to’' treat Spain’s malady roughly. A lot of folk are asking why the United Nations ‘should be considerate in the case of Spain when we have just fought the bloodiest war of history to exterminate Nazism and Fascism. Why not us;th.:}ﬂa (Coutinued on Paze )

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