Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - June 1, 1945, Gastonia, North Carolina THF 1 1 VOL. NO. THE FINE COMBED YAKN CENTER OF FRENCH ORDER IN SYRIA SMOKE BILLOWS FEET IN AIR OVER CITY Great Jap ing City Hit By Fleet Of 600 And Crews Report Yokohama Virtually Destroyed June i of is lighted in the manufacturing center of day thai sent smoke billowing 27000 I feet above Japan's most highly and simultaneously the 2lal Bomber Command an- a similar raid Tuesday burned out 6.9 square miles of principal portion of hama Is virtually headquarters as re- luming crews indicated had left Osaka in Ihe same condition Eighty of ban industrial areas of Japanese are now known have heen destroyed or heavily damaged by incendiary Semi official Japanese casts admitted flames started throughout the manufacturing center of Osaka were only being brought under con- Smoke over Osaka was so dense that many returning airmen re- ported they couldn't fee the names Only light fighter opposition was antiquated probably because an escort of about 150 Mustangs from Iwo swept in ahead of the first wave of The few Interceptors were so unaggressive that one American gunner described the raid second mass fire attack on as sort of a milk flew through heavy cloud formations and some times Department Stores Lead In War Bond Sales In Gastonia The Department Store Division is m the forefront among Gastonia retail establishments in the sale of Class War Bonds at this of the Mighty Seventh War Loan Mrs. Pauline Lowder ex- secretary of the County Association re- ported The department wilh Leon Schneider as division commander today reported a total of in volume of bonds and stamps sold to the buying public by Ihe people In the local The Furniture Stores Division with and the Dress Shoos Division with were close be- hind m second and third C. B. Shealy Is division commander lor tne furniture and Abe for the dress Other division totals to date were announced today as Morris Levinson com- Ennis Jackson Shoe Ben Licber com- Drug G. A. Littlefield Men's W. V. Gardner com- Variety T. A. Gamble com- SI Mrs. Helen Mann The grand sales made bv retail merchants and salesmen at the end of the second week of the campaign is 90 Lowder said 0PA Is Cracking Down On Sugar Chiselers DOOLITTLE WILL BOSS THE Man Who Staged First On Tokyo To Team Up With To Finish The H. June 1 Jimmy is teaming up with the to finish the job he started three ago with world-startling air attack on OK JO. Disclosure that the mighty scourge of Japan's will be a part of Eighth Air Force m its aerial war against the em- Pire was only one piece of news the Army uncorked yesterday to let the Nipponese know the worst is yet 1. Undersecretary of War son served notice that Japan will be pounded harder from the air than Germany ever With attacks already rivalling the biggest raids against Germany he both the bomb tonnage and the number of attacks will be stepped up 2. American units of the American Eastern Air Command in the theater are ing out lor places from which can get a better crack at Japan Under Maj. Gen. George E. this is the force that helped chase tne Japanese from Burma 3. in the last three months have cascaded 58000 ions of bombs on damaging or destroying war duction plants In Osaka nna Hundreds of Exploits Of One Of The War's Outstanding Sub Patrols Come To Light RICHARD PEARL June A blunt-nosed Japanese freighter serene in the knowledge that she was in home churned southward one plies to the emperor's Crewmen slouched at the Then there was a terrific explosion and the vessel A hundred yards a genial younj U. Cmdr. George of turned away from his and His submarine had drawn its first H was tht start of a war evoked this commendation from navy will go down in history as ont of lhe most outstanding of tht After first kill the sub- marine knifed northward lo find Page June OPA cracked down hard today on chiseling of home canning sugar for other chiselers are stooping to falsify their applications in an lo get sugar that they know they won't use in Price Administrator Chester Bowles said m a statement announcing a tic program to put an end to this sugar Bowles said the sugar is sufficient for home will not be enough if the chiseling x x j. con- Under OPA's four-point everyone applying for home canning sugar must sign this agree that I will use the sugar applied for for home canning for i should not use it for I will return the equivalent in stamps to my local war price and rationing I further agree that I will furnish a report to my board of the number of quarts of canned this sugar and the amount of sugar actually used in canning this I understand that my report will become a part of my record and will be considered in ure Issuance of home and other sugar rations to Last Bowles many persons who had no intention of using sugar for canning applied for sugar for this purpose and in so doing robbed our country of a substantial part of our limited sugar The same thing is happening again Ibis he home canning sugar racket must be In addition lo requiring cant Bowles I. OPA local boards in arras where fruit and vegetable crops are not now available for home canning lo suspend issuing home fanning ration certificates until the canning season This apply chiefly to northern Parts of this 2. of new certificates m many other areas lo give local boards a during which they can process more lhe applications on and to pve district offices an opportunity to recalculate monthly quotas 3. A special staff of OPA to undertake a against lhe diversion of home canning sugar into bootleg liquor illicit The home canning sogar nas been reduced from a maximum oi te pounds 3. person last year to la pounds this In been directed to keep iis 1915 within 70 per cent of list This means thai many hoards will have a maximum far below the 15-pound individual WAR AGENCIES TAKE HEAVY CUT H on s e Committee Trims Called Of Of June The House Appropriation committee today cut sharply into 1946 fiscal year funds for a group of agencies in a it de- as beginning of the such the budget estimates for agency which already had measure tee left h. IT told of the those agencies JAPS TRYING TO ORGANIZE A NEW LINE Pushing Southward Along East China Sea New tle Is Shaping SPENCER June command announced that Japanese troops pushing southward along the East China in Chekiang vince in a possible attempt to lish a new line even as they gave ground in three other The enemy columns reached Sunday in 3. 10-mile ad- vance from the high com- mand Pingyang is 30 miles south of the Port of It is 2J5 miles sou h of Shanghai and 150 miles northeast of from which Chinese di- visions are striking up the coast through Fukien A collision of these forces with the enemy elements appeared The Chinese were pursuing drawing Japanese garrison unit and a Chinese army spokesman sRid the pursuit action had reached a position 19 miles west of nea the coast 75 miles northeast of Fob the Chinese announced to to furnish the assistance lo the arS vs be eased as rapidly as of and lhe 0( k The high command said Chinese troops driven to positions nine and a half miles west of from which anese launched their ill-starred drive across Hunan toward the 120 miles to the 4o milts northwest of was Enemy killed and wounded in Hunan were declared by the army spokesman lo have totaled in ihe 50-day period ended May 28. Gains were noted in the Chinese efforts to consolidate the 145-mile gap cut into the enemy corridor to French Indo-China both above and below The high command said on the highway to Indo-China 60 miles southwest of was ured after an all day battle The army spokesman said mat an Important way junction 60 miles northeast of was regained the same and that the troops swept on o the vicinity of 25 miles The army spokesman said es wert Intensifying their rations for a grand general sive and predicted that this would oe launched than ally An eyewitness account by combat command teams in the field said that Japanese ravages in the city of former U. S. there hart been retaken Fighting continued in oilier In Honan province the Chinese were shelling Japanese bastion after pressing in closer range of that from I which the Japanese only recently were lunging westward in a drive threatening Shensi Generalissimo Chiang issued an order of the day com- mending Gen. Hu one of his mast for repulsing the enemy's southward from railroad of in less ihan 50 east of the great bend in the Yellow Chiang said Hiis troops inflicted heavy casualties on the FRENCH TROOPS WILL NOT TO THEIR BARRACKS De Gaulle's Men Com- ply With Half Of Churchill's U. S. Will Sit In On Mediation ence In ASSOCIATED June re- fused today to comply with prime Minuter Churchill's request that Syria retire to eir to avoid the cash with the but in conciliatory move ordered her roops to troops will remain in said a French com- Issued in Paris after a abinet a By ordering French to ase fire the French thul ed V backed by President take cnd Of The Japanese On Okinawa Appears To Have Ceased W. June Organized Japanese resistance on Okinawa appeared to be ended today Tenth Army Yanks pursued crippled remnants of the Rising Sun's ga S son and closed a trap on Shun Town while radio ad- mitted Japanese losses were With marines on the west and infantry on the cast kev TS CUt h to isolate the Shuri lanu JaPanese defenses and to drive spears on both the Nipponese were unable to set up new Sixth Division Marines he in former capita ity of the Island with a population f smashing furiously Iron directions into remaining Withheld from Ihe at moment funds torc S T air Employment OPA and the PEPC is in The FEA funds were held up until were until WAR Local Temperature ifh Low I r. M. I. THE WAR TODAY AP Foreign News Analyst Maybe In the long run the upheaval will prove to oe a good for it demonstrates anew that the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries are as inflammable as and that anybody who flips a lighted match carelessly aside these days is ging for One doesn't mean to by cynical in this for it's a cruel thing that this reminder should to come through more 1 must know we've lo another great see Japanese News admitted in a by Tokyo radio the of Naha by Americans It termed the situation a de- which compelled ponese commanders to withdraw part of their troops to positions in ine rear in order to consolidate their defense Elements of the Sixth Marine Associated Press War Cor- respondent Al Dopking reported from the were pursuing the enemy southward ward the mouth of the Kokuba river and toward the road south of Those which did not were either killed or Tokyo yesterday admitted the Okinawa defense had been split into multiple claimed today that the anese still were engaged in hand-to-hand against the Americans with men inflicting tremendous on the Three-quarters of the original ponese garrison on the important NO MORE QUICK YORK MARRIAGES S. June Carolina's Green villages will slow their pace by 2t hours or give up lhe probate rush riage business after July 1. A new law railing for a 24-hour wailing period between tion for ami receipt of a marriage license goes into effect at mid The enacted was fought vigorously for three years by representatives of counties ing North Carolina and whose probate judges did an knowledged land office business in hasty hy social welfare agencies and women's clubs who sought marriage controls was at- in 19U with the passage of an omnibus that included health The then Governor Olin II vetoed the measure as a of contradictions YORK In further steps resolve the lhat Plunge Arab world into it was that the United State had agreed sit with other ers in the role of foreign office an- Things Are Looking Brighter in conl Britain and the ed States to settle the Issues in- in the de- mands of Syria and Lebanon for full and Allied insistence upon safeguards for their com- the war Beyrouth dispatches said all was Jn after the French finally stopped their shelling and bombing of Damascus in and that had At least 400 sons had been killed and 300 commander in tho Middle Gen. Sir Bernard C. Faget flew to Beyrouth this ing In bomber escorted by British destroyers swung at anchor in Beyrouth harbor British tanks and moved along the main roads toward Damascus yesterday lowing Prime Minister Churchill's Myers Oversubscribed War Bond Quota 5 Times Assigned a of in the Seventh War Loan in tion regular payroll deductions pledged lo the war effort through bond employes of the Myers Mill in South Gastonia lo dale reported more than Hve times their in ex- of it was today by C. D. permanent chairman of Gaston County War Finance Special recognition of the otic cooperation of Myers Mill em- ployes was made by Chairman and to the employes of company who are in charge of Bond sales at this local C. H. Mrs Lennie Lane and W. W. The Myers employes had subscribed lo the payroll de- duclion whereby a specified portion of their weekly pay is withheld and invested in War Bonds for issue to and many thousands of dollars have gone in- fo the war effort from the Myers Mill employes through Gray Early Successful End To Frisco Conference Seen M. Press News Editor SAN June 1-4.-PJ- for settlement of thr dispute combined with reports of improved relations lorlay lo brighten hopes for an successful windup of united Nations leadership hy Ihr soring powers is regarded amons Slates delegates as lhe means tor shaking the conference out of its lagging work and whipping tbe charter for a new league into final Many delegates are saying vately that the time for action to end is at hand and the place to be- gin is among Ihe Big The States sought agreement with Chinese French spokesmen on half a en pending and an early of Secretary with Ihe four delegation chiefs is Moscow reaction to a proposed statement on tttn voting Issue h due in a day or M. Tht statement is intended lo re- nations that veto could not be wtd prevent their getting al i preliminary hearing before MM World Security
