Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - June 7, 1945, Gastonia, North Carolina GASTONIA DAILY GAZETTE TUC VOL. NO. 136. NBA GASTON THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF AMERICA FJE I NAHA AIRFIELD COMPLETELY IN S. HANDS NOW Will Be Major Air Strip For Attacks On Only 325 Miles Japs Planning Suicide Stand In Small Area LEIF June of the battle for Okinawa is in largely because Americans perfected a defense against kaze Tokyo's press and radio admitted today as can headquarters announced cap- the big Naha airport and compressing of the ing Nipponese U. S. 10th Army engineers ed swiftly conversion of the Naha airdrome into e flee live base for against 32S miles lo the The a prime objective of lhe 68-day was en over by sion Japanese news agency re- ported from its own lhe imminent end of lifting Sun strength on Okinawa with 'the war situation gradually be- roming more disadvantageous fo our enemy has been effectively ing rocket ships and which have checked our attack corps aircraft from ting to their Kamikaze pilots have sunk 13 American ships and damaged 45 at The newspaper in an broadcast by radio Tokyo commented the situation had be- come so grave is high bit of the nation's strength be thrown into this single battle of decision regardless of sacrifices in- air Asahi the sea cannol possible be The remaining 15.000 Japanese on Okinawa were squeezed inlo a 25 square mile area at the ern lip of Die where they apparently planned a final suicide Completion of lhe overrunning of Naha airfield was in Admiral Chester which reported wide advances through the southern end of the muddy rain-swept OKINAWA ADVANCES Russia Likely To Lose In Hold-Out Fight At Frisco 3 8TH BATTLING DESPERATE FOE Over Japanese Killed In Hard Fighting In Hills East Of Associated Press Correspondent Verti Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Sixth rine said the Fourth ment which captured the airdrome found borders of the field strewn with wrecked Japanese planes of all FUED June Doughboys of the 38th Division battled a perate enemy throughout the e ar ma Hill east of Manila Wed More than Japanese have been killed in this area by Gen. William C. Chase's men and large quantities of military booty captured lv v u of work or by American massive scale construction methods make it. considerably more than the major Ryukyuan air base it used to The apparently aware 38tfl is breaking them un inc was grown over I to liquidate them piecemeal BTP with grass during the three or more fighting fiercely months It was he On Lt. Gen Robert L it won't take a great i Eighth made two new landings to completely seal off Davao Gulf With warships and strong air the men landed at Cape San southeasternmost lip Or and on Balut Island Op- position was In a radically different maneuver in central Mindanao Mai Gen. R. B. Woodruffs Division is driving a strong Japanese son west directly into lhe fire of Maj. Gen. Clarence Martin's 31st division advancing It was learned today that General Eichelberger presented a Silver Star a Bronze Star and the Air Medal to lia lhe main Sec Page 10 Says Germans Were Set To Bomb U. S. June der told a press con- ference Imlay when rame in Europe the Germans ed plane with which they to bomb New York and oilier of lhe Stales by round Irip trans Atlantic flights in artillery planes over his front In the 38th's and tion in the Marikina Mass one 3STH. ferent Story In The House Approves Woods Agreements By Overwhelming Majority June Thc Woods world tary agreements were approved overwhelmingly by the House The final roll call showed 345 for ratification and Ig All lhe voles were by The ratification now where the a vigorous ROCS lo the opposition Two presidents have described agreements as laying eco- nomic for Listing The opposition in two days of described lhe monetary plan as swindle and Page JOHN M. Press News SAN June American Soviet differences the right of free discussion in s world security council headed todas toward an open fight in the United Nations with the that Russia would be defeated The Soviet delegation is re- ported no word from Moscow to change its decision that the Yalta voting formula gives each of fhe powers right to discussion of an io lhe If this is borne out in official from the of- silence on the which has been nursed along by flic powers in hope of preserving may be broken abruptly in formal That have the effect of speeding up conference The veto issue has jammed important for almost two First he Russian delegation waited for ts original instructions on the veto and then the United States ought to get Moscow to reconsider ts The met lale yesterday nit the subject was not the French and Chinese ion chiefs with relatively linor getting final on a French amendment signed merely to strengthen tion already proposed under the world charter for treaties against enemy states of this The view on the is flatly thai of the American delegation which is shared by France and These four contend lhal nn power could have a veto vote until after a had been When lhe Russians first took position on this of Slate and other American officials il was on a ing and thai Jruman intervene with Premier The Russian Andrei at the same informed his ment of Hie of lhe other four ls reported to have asked his special envoy to the to take up the detailing the American of- here expect that whether or not Gromyko gets further Hopkins will advise the ident if and when a definite is In that most delegates a conference con- would be DENIES SECRET Churchill Says No Secret Agreements Made That Haven't Been Made Anxiety Felt Over JAMES F. June Minister Churchill told Commons day that the Big Three made no secret agreements at Yalta that had not already been made but indicated that the discussions ered a wider field than the decisions officially Laborites asked specifically differences had arisen over the broadening of the Polish government -an many believed settled at CHARGES UNRRA HAS COMMUNIST FINANCIAL TIES Rep. Thomas Asks In- of United National habilitation From Red WILLIAM F. June Rep. Thomas today called for a congressional investigation of He termed the United tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad- ministration focal point for ihe Communist party in the United Thomas said In an interview he would ask the House tee on un-American of which he is ranking minority make the The same lime that the set up as Hie permanent successor lo Hie old Dies will begin hearings June 20 lo investigate what he termed tion of Communistic by an employe of the New york Thomas said he would ask the committee lo make a full scale In- of as soon as it finishes the OPA think the government should insist on an accounting of UNRRA by the general accounting he there is strong based on what I have already found that UNRRA Is financing the Communist party bv a reliable that one UNRRA gives the orders party in lhe MANUFACTURER'S WIFE want to find out if this is he Thomas said a recent trip abroad with the House military committee of which he is a gave him the im- pression the Communistic Party Ihe best organized in all Is financing il I doubt if the people 1 countries are for they didn't have any he be lhal are nol ling their funds from UNRRA which had plenty of money spend Comment was not or Two Violations Of Used Car Ceilings Are Settled Here t the Hotel ii NY iL S s sulle Carlyle an screen star Reveals How Norwegians Made Munitions Very Noses Of GermaiS JOHN A. JR June Norwegian Hred the how thousands of his toiled in secret factories to produce great stores of the nose of the Nazis Hans Olav of the Norwegian embassy in Washington said m an interview that secret factories tucked S of and millions of rounds of out tile The Big Three There were no secret ments entered into at except he agreement to give Russia three votes at San Churchill He then added of in a very intimate manner ma I am not prepared to say that nl yalla of a verbatim at Yalta were President Roosevelt and Premier Marshal Churchill's statement in Commons was maae a background of anxiety here that the leaders had left their last ence in the Crimea with varying in- of decisions reached Sections of lhe press and critics of Churchill's foreign policy have pointed specifically to lhe deadlock over lhe Polish issue and to the difference arising at the San Francisco Moscow has Insisted repeatedly that Russia was abiding by the Yalta Page 10-------- The Weather Olav disclosed that in addition and munitions manufactured at Britain and America sent rast supplies of arms and other into Norway bj submarine and surface But the story of secret orles operating day and night ng the last months of German provided an amazing new in Norway's underground fight against the Nazis and their quisling Olav announced MI hlly warmer and and anil in Friday irid 1ljhl.i.all4 shiwers thunderstorms Friday antt in and central And Local Temperature Low Last Night 2 r. M. 55 Wish June rainfall to 4.62 i today Iwo Gastonia used car ers made with the Gastonia War Price and in tendering checks to the boards price panel for over- charges made in lhe sale of motor vehicles m violation of lhe ty provision of OPA general mum price The the local OPA an- are L. L. case they said was handled bv the local OPA price and 6. G operator of Walker Motor whose case was handled by the district APO office in The Gastonia OPA office Issued ie following with the price panel of the War Price and Rationing Board in have been made by two used car dealers in the city L. used car and operator of Walker Motor Company have ered cheeks to the price panel of local rationing board in ment of overcharges on motor In violation of the warranty provision of OPA general maximum price marie payable lo he U. S. Treasury was for the sum of while Walker d Iwo one payable to lhe U. s. Treasury was for flM another for SOS payable lo the of the car on which the overcharge was r who are in violation for selling used over lhe Local OPA price officials said Davis wi 5 charged with having c. rs he sold were serviced and at when ii E showed they were not dealer Is allowed to charge c additional or 25 per whichever w ihe TWO highly They were scattered throughout areas of the country that were impossible lo reach except on how many guns and rounds of ammunition were turned out we have no But we do know that thousands of wore ami that millions of rounds of ammunition for them and other types of guns were also turned were several of these Between and persons were employed They worked day and The Germans discovered that our people were turning out munitions but despite exhaustive searches they never dis- covered one single Olav's story followed disclosure i by Erik Husfeldt of the Danish delegation that with the approval of the secretly armed the Danish under- in defiance of possible man told a news conference Swedish ships met Danish boats in the night and THE WAR TODAY AP Foreign Affairs One of the questions most often asked me by readers of this col- as the Allies close in on is whether Russia is going to join us in crushing Hie brigands of the That's not .in easy query an- in view of fact there las been no official pronouncement for either from Moscow or the other Allied Marshal italin as has been ying his nickname of by playing his cards close to his For this any guess is to whether Soviet Union vill make war on Japan must be based on Iwo and On both as I see lhe probabilities arc that the vites will come into Ihe war the bulk of their fighting strength in all categories ts in European We low time for the shifting of much of this strength to far-off Siberia titanic It might be months before Moscow WAR BOMBERS STRIKE AT JAP ARSENAL IN 3-HOUR RAID New Departure From Recent Fire Raids Tokyo Says More Japs Blasted Out Of Their W. June a departure from recent fire 450 blasted war Industries and the arsenal In Osaka the 6r- leading industrial with high explosives and incendiaries day in their tenth large scale raid on Japan this The hit this morning as Tokyo radio more Japanese have been driven from their homes by American air at- tacks and would be moved to farms The bombers struck for three hours through heavy Re- sults were not Bui a joint Japanese an- admitted fires were started in the northern and northeastern industrial said flames ly being broughl under con- not disclose the effect aimed at the con- steel buildings of lhe huge arsenal where much of pan's medium artillery and small arms are Other sky swinging in at medium poured fire bombs on a erto untouched factory belt south of lhe Shin Yodo The total bomb weight was not immediately Today's devastation added to the 11.5 square miles of eity where lhe population averages to a square out In bombings March H and June The target of the high ives is separated only by a moat from the Osaka ing landmark of the making it likely that the castle itself did not escape This second Wast in less than a week at Japan's second largest city apparently marked it for the fate already befallen the largest Tokyo Recently the 2Ist Bomber Command said the had erased all gets they had set out lo smash in the capital Later the command announced that principal tion of Yokohama port is virtually Three square miles in the trial heart of Osaka were out June 1 in a incendiary strike by 450 escorted by 150 The fires set then sent up smoke for 27000 Munitions factories are among Osaka's choice The Tokyo munitions duction ha's not come up fo Jackson Urges Sure Punishment Of Nazis June Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson today recommended for Nazis on he ground that failure to try them mock the dead and mako cynics of the Justice chief of of the United States in the of Axis war old President Truman in a word report that lie had assurances from the War Department that those likely to be accused as war criminals be kept in confinement and stern near we will number of Individuals Arrest Six For Prying J. FRANK J. FRANK June The government accused a navy two stale department officials three New Yorkers of Into wartime Taken into by FBI asents in New York and ington lale lhe six rere charged conspiring to violate a seclion of lhe espionage statute session or of defense The FBI said ing from to were stolen from the War and Navy the highly secret office of the Office of War In- formation and the Federal Com- Part of wartime work has recording Under arrest here U. Andrew 26, of former Columbia Uni- versity honor who cd for a time in office of naval A reserve of- he is not presently on Emmanuel Sigurd ol in the China division of the Stale De- office of far eastern John Stewart SIX
