Tucson Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - May 19, 1945, Tucson, Arizona DO YOUR The Tucson Daily Citizen to onr ment Buy War Savings or Bonds Buy them LATE NEWS EDITION VOL NO 120 Entered ml Mar Post Tucson TUCSON ARIZONA SATURDAY EVENING MAY 1945 FIVE CENTS TWELVE PAGES ALLIES FEAR CLASH AT TRIESTE Stalin Sends Blunt Word On Poland Soviet Chief Spurns Talks With Captives Rift Russians And Allies Seen As Growing Worse LONDON May 19 remier Stalin bluntly Russia's refusal to with 16 arrested Polish eaders a statement London sources said ned the rift between the Soviets nd the western Allies on the Issue called for solution of the problem and reconstruction the Polish provisional ment at Warsaw In strict nee with the Crimean decisions He asserted that the arrests of te 16 Polish them len recommended by the United tates and Britain for inclusion the coalition in no way connected with the cile t I on of the government Will Xot Negotiate Neither he said had the ans ever Invited the arrested men formation of the new Soviet authorities do not 111 not negotiate with violators 1 the law on the protection of the of the Red he said The arrested Poles Including J S Jankowski of the exile government in in were held by the Red army on larges of activity be- nd the Russian lines Stalin's ith ent in Whitehall arid Polish lie government headquarters Particular surprise was ex- over assertion tnat JAPS YANKS W IN FEROCIOUS BATTLE By WILLIAM F TYREE GUAM May 19 troops on southern awa battled four American divisions almost to a standstill today as the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific war went into its day on a note of rising fury Marines and Army troops were inside Naha Shuri and the three anchors of the Japanese line but key hills dominating the cities were changing hands as many as times in 24 hours in the Steinhof Skipper Of Captured Kills Self In Cell he Poles had nothing a do with reconstruction of the provisional government British Astonished That almost takes your breath commented one British ex- ert A- Polish exile government of- called Stalin's reference to ie arrested men pure nonsense he exile government Itself which as refused to recognize the decisions was not ex- to comment formally Stalin's statement generally was as patting into public srm the stonewall attitude that diplomatic representatives ave been expressing for several Feeks The statement was carried on ie front pages of Moscow news apers a dispatch from the Soviet said BOSTON May 10 Steinhof com- mander of one of four German which surrendered to tho U S committed cide in his eell at Charles street jail hern today Army authorities announced that Steinhof broke his spectacles and used a jagged piece of lens to slash oni of his wrists Ho was taken to near-by general hospital where ho died shortly his arrival Steinhof was skipper of the one of four held at de- with other captured submarine personnel at the Jail pending transfer to a prisoner of war camp Army officials snirt nary precautions were being taken to prevent similar suicide attempts by other Germans con- fined to the jail FOR SETTLEMENT 3 BV LONDON May 19 Premier taHn laid down three iry conditions today for solution f the Polish question of he said was recognition of ie present Warsaw provisional as the basic core of future Polish government of onaj unity Russian leader his lence on the Polish issue as re- See STALIN on Page 7 Of Oiled Playing A Bullet Perry William Fletcher was lied today as a result of the ex- of a 50 calibre bullet with nich he playing in the Verde district The accident occurred around p m today Fletcher was shed to the Tucson Medical snter by his mother Mrs Lotta etcher route 2 Tucson but died fore reaching the hospital It Is reported by the sheriff's of- investigating the case that e bullet was found by the boy illo playing in the district Many bullets are found in that sa probably falling from military flying overhead Sentence Is Set Aside By Court PHOENIX May 19 re- al for Frank Miller Negro iced to die for the death of liter Smith also Negro yesterday by the state smc court In reversing Miller's In Graham county 19.44 on a murder arge has been In death row at state prison for almost a year ilth was stabbed fatally In a game court's unanimous Justice R C cl held that Superior Judge Blake erred In Instructing t jury thereby depriving substantial Justice Manila's Dam Airfield Both Taken By U.S In Borneo Australians Finish Occupation Of Tarakan Island By H May 19 troops today seized two important objectives in the dam on Luzon and Valencia field on Australian forces completed the conquest of Tarakan island American planes already were operating from the two airstrips at Valencia flying in supplies and making close air support missions while division troops had pushed on northward to within 14 miles of capital of province Is an important tural center Troops of the 40th arid American divisions pushing from the north had the stubborn enemy nests of resistance in the river canyon to occupy one mile to the east Juncture Sought Only 32 airlines miles or along the Sayre highway now separated the two forces splitting Mindanao Another major Japanese air base was doomed oh Mindanao when 24th division troops drove to the edge Sasa field in the Davao city sector The Americans now hold four of the six airfields around Davao capture of Ipo dam on restored to Manila the of one-third of jts water The dam was taken in- the division and Filipino guerrilla units powerful on Japanese positions by ors and fighters Several thousand were trapped in the Ipo sector On Tarakan off Borneo units reached the east coast of the island virtually winding up the campaign MacArthur's com- v All major installations and ob- are now secured the enemy's remaining forces have been forced Into the central hills The Luzon source supply tact by porting after a Mine Workers Get Pay Rise Ordered Back ing battle There were some signs that the Japanese were cracking under the American pressure and ceaseless land sea and air However commanders cautiously reserved final judgment The battle was far from over A front dispatch said marines if the sixth division had penetrated as much as 500 yards into ruined capital of Okinawa western anchor of the line The first marine division finally won control of the northern slopes of Sugar Loaf hill northeast of Naha in bitter hand-to-hand ing but its a no man's land Defenders Control Japanese still controlled the southern slopes of the hill holding up virtually the entire western flank of the Okinawa front rines have fried nine times un- successfully to dislodge in the past week The crest changed hand's four times yesterday alone Complete conquest of the hill well might open up a corridor that would enable the Americans to en- both Naha and Shuri A Pacific fleet communique said Sugar had been captured but front this was premature The seventh regiment of the first marine division advanced 250 yards and sent patrols into j the Loaf but they later withdrew A command post on a small hill be- tween Wana was cap- tured The Infantry division east of Shuri captured a small hill twice yesterday but each time was forced to retire under heavy nese artillery and mortar fire Still another small height known as Carbuncle hill in the center of the line was captured held American forces foil rid Japanese there dressed variously in white uniforms or robes conducting -a while the battle raged all around They apparently were preparing to their maker The Japanese were using every trick in the book to defend their rolling hand down hills into American foxholes Front dispatches reported that a new airstrip has been placed in operation on nawa 325 miles from Japan proper Hacked from the island's coral it was completed within 15 after the aviation engineers landed This gave the Americans three operational fields with two other captured airbases still to be placed in use The two still were under Japanese fire Factory City Of Japs Given First Bombing 400 Raid Also Strike Tokyo GUAM May 19 than 400 were re- ported over Japan today bombing Tokyo and matsu industrial and mines in two vital ways Some 300 raided about noon heaviest strike the only one announced bv the bomber command here They dropped more than tons of demolition bombs in the greatest raid ever on the industrial center The 20th air force in Washington and Japanese broadcasts both re- ported the strike on Tokyo by haps Japanese propagandists who have taken to belittling the size of bomber strikes said SO were in the formation Scattered The Japanese news cy also reported two i ned Wa- Honshu port on the Japan sea during the morning another formation Little Nations Question Veto Of Agreements Right To Ban Peaceful Settlement Is Challenged FRANCISCO May 19 possibility of an early break in United Nations conference impasse over the re- issue was seen today when a afternoon session of the conference's Biff Five was scheduled with less than three hours notice Calling of today's session was regarded as indicating that the Russians finally have received their instructions as to what stand they should take on the compromise regional ments reached by the U S and Latin-American countries after 10 days negotiating Official sources said hey knew of no other reason for calling such a meeting at his time Harding Clark To Trial Next Tuesday Two Officers Will Be Tried In Florence For Beating Lewis WASHINGTON May 19 President John L Lewis of the United Mine Workers operators announced today that they had completed a new hard coal contracts be signed tonight Lewis immediately called upon all of Pennsylvania's an- miners who have been on strike since May 1 to return to work on Monday morning The new agreement provides a daily wage increase This was the compromise proposal gested Thursday by Fuel trator Harold L Ickes PHOENIX Ariz May 19 Clark special U S Indian agent and -T F Harding state liquor license and control agent will go on trial next Tuesday on charges of shooting beating Percy Lewis Papago Indian spite the fact that the alleged tim and principal witness for the state Js dead U S District Attorney Frank Flynn Clark said today that both sides had agreed death Apr would not affect the trial date Flynn was Instructed U S attorney general to represent the Indian agent because he was on fluty at the time of the alleged offense The trial will be held In ence the defendants having taken a change of Pima to Final county The prosecution will be conducted by Pima County At- torney J Mercer Johnson Private counsel will defend Harding The Indian's death did not re- sult from the boating wound he is alleged to have suffered at the hands of the officers when they arrested him In Tucson last Dec 23 on charges of drunkenness and assault He died in the state hospital at Phoenix from peritonitis caused stomach ulcers It was not discovered that Lewis had been shot in the log until three days after he was jailed in Tucson The wound had healed before his death Clark and Harding are at liberty on bonds and another formation southwestern en- trance sea an important pre- war textile manufacturing center had converted to diversified war production including manufacture of airplane propellers The city 60 miles southeast of Nagoya has about population It is an important railroad ter site of military bases in- four airfields The bombed from medium altitude through an under- cast so were unable to observe re- sults of their attack with high ex- plosives Fighters presumably Iwo Mustangs corted the Nagoya Gone About the time the werp leaving for Maj Gen Curtis Lemay commander of the 21st bomber command said four raids on Nagoya's industrial plants and small home factories had destroyed 11.3 percent of thai third largest Japanese city That is 22 percent of Nagoya's area Thirty-three gets including important factories the Electric Manufacturing Co three important Aichi aircraft plants and Atsuta factory of the Nagoya arsenal were tually destroyed or heavily aged in the series of four Mar 12 and 19 with demolition bombs Monday and Thursday with a total of more than little fire bombs Lemay also said square miles of of Japan's largest ties including some 17 square miles of Tokyo have been bombed out or damaged by attacks Today's raid was the first in force on Hamamatsu whose urban industrial area was the chief get Small raids the last Apr previously had been directed at the city The Monday and Thursday fire raids on Nagoya destroyed or aged 5.9 square miles of war plants See HAIDS on Page 7 fey H SAN FRANCISCO May 19 The little nations today challenged the right of big powers to veto peaceful of disputes in the posed world security organization Tho minor powers forced tion of a special subcommittee at the Nations conference to produce ah tion of complicated Yalta ing formula for the proposed curity The questions the veto power oE the Five applies arrangements peaceful ment of as well as en Headed Plot British Alert For Skirmish With Gen Tito tary This new complication came as the second phase of the conference was ready to start For two weeks committees have been doing Die technical work of preparing 3 world charter Now they are ready to report some of their work to their parent commissions Commission one of the four top groups into which the ence is meets this ing to receive reports from its com- on the world on legal de- are subject to debate and vote before final conference tion Big Powers Divided The current debate on voting procedure uncovered a strong di- vision between big members of the United Nations which would have the special veto privilege and the smaller members The latter admit the necessity of giving the big nations veto power over the use of force to maintain peace But little middle-sized powers seek to eliminate any of a big power vetoing security council recommendations for peaceful settlements Although all of the Big Four are committed See PARLEY -on Page 7 Lt Col Otio Austrian for was as the driving force behind a winter plot to assassinate Gen Dwight Eisenhower who planned and out the of Benito Mussolini was have had the mission of killing the supreme allied commander The plot was disclosed with the rapture of by the U seventh army AP Chinese Take Foochow Port Time Freight Rates Of Nation Are Unified By ICC Rate Case Ruled On Interim Figure Set pre- WASHINGTON May 19 in the long-pend- ing southern freight rate the interstate commerce commission ICC today scribed a uniform scale of rates for the entire country Asserting that present railroad freight rate classifications are un- reasonable and unduly the commission gave the nation's railroads 90 days in which to mit for its approval a method of j uniform freight Claims Part Of Italy And Austria It was a 9 to 10 Per 2 decision Cent Cut by ICC Japanese Driven Out After Once Taking Back East For an interim period effective Aug 30 the commission ruled present class rates in and between these territories be reduced 10 per cent until a uniform classification is In and between southern ern trunk line and southwestern territories and between those official eastern rate territories All present class rates within By HERBERT ROME May 19 shal Sin Harold Alexander announced today that he had been unable to reach a ly agreement with Marshal Tito on Yugoslav claims to of Italy and Austria and the Allies now are waiting to see whether be will back them up with force In a blunt statement baring for the first time the full gravity of the crisis brought on by Marshal Tito's territorial aspirations the Allied supreme commander in the Mediterranean It is Marshal Tito's apparent in- tention to establish his claims by force of arms and military tion Action of this kind would be all too reminiscent of Hitler solini and Japan It 5s to prevent such actions that we have been fighting this war Alexander's statement was ad- dressed to the Allied armed forces in the Mediterranean theatre It alerted them for the i which the Allies wait cto see whether Marshal Tito is prepared I to cooperate in accepting peaceful Roosevelt Auto Hits Truck Four Killed MIDDLETON N Y May 19 persons were killed and two others injured today when an automobile owned by Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt wife of the late dent struck a parked truck on route 84 near Montgomery N Y State police identified the dead Edison Mauldin Stewart field Daisy Hill 20 Poughkeepsie wina Riley 19 New York and Dorothy Harris Poughkeepsie The injured were James J son jr 25 chauffeur who was driving Mrs Roosevelt's tible Buick at the time of accident and Pvt Anderson son of Stewart field By WALTER CHUNGKING May 39 nese troops the east coast port of which the Japanese may become an American invasion gateway to China it was announced today The city opposite Formosa and at 5 a m yesterday after a bitter week-long battle ing which positions changed hands repeatedly The American conquest of but the southern tip of Okinawa along with the neighboring Kerama is lands already has given the Allies a passage through Japan's Ryukyu island chain to the east China sea Foochow Any attempt to force the east China sea at this time however would expose Allied ships to at- tacks by Japanese planes based on Formosa occupied China The Chinese opened their assault on Foochow May 10 and 24 hours later smashed into the city itself Sanguinary street fighting followed Chinese Go In Again The Japanese rushed ments presumably from Formosa into the battle early one time cleared the entire city Page 7 the c corner of ugc ruled to be increased London 10 per cent Arizonian On First D-M List Of Discharges V Phoenix Officer Among Group Of 28 Leafing For Processing New Star Discovered By Mt Expert MT WILSON Calif May in of a new star of out- standing brilliance was announced today by Milton L Mt Wilson observatory astronomer Humason said stars fied as Super Nova were ered only about every 500 years He said he the new star ast Apr 6 when he was ing a spiral nebulae Close tion of old photographs proved the star bad not been there before The nova just south of the end of the is light the earth and not visible to the naked eye Throne Of Belgium Totters As Unrest Sweeps e By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign News Analyst The leftist tide which is sweeping across Europe seems to he reaching dangerously high on ihc throne of Belgium King was released re- cently hy American troops near Austria where he had held prisoner Iiy the has made it known that he won't be returning to his capital for some time because of his stale of health Actually of course he was de- of his throne on May 30 1940 by an order which was approved by the gian cabinet in exile in Paris Leftist groups in Brussels shrug away the stale of health explanation Their terse and ominous response is that parliament to decide whether Leopold is in position to fulfill the duties of king He's on a tough spot but of far greater tance than bis own fate is thai of archy The extreme left has no use for alty Leopold was shorn of bis prerogatives three days after he surrendered the gian army to the invading Germans by exposing the left flank of the British forces lo fury of the Hitlerite attack His supporters declared that he had no other course than to capitulate to the en- enemy especially sirice countless Belgian civilians had mingled with their troops and were being killed in the swirling battle But shouts of treason and German were See BELGIUM on Page 7 First to be chosen for discharge at field under the new Army readjustment plan which became effective after the defeat are 11 officers and 17 enlisted men with long Army service and lengthy overseas records One Arizonian First Lt rence E Melby Phoenix is among the officers now leaving for tion centers for processing and receiving their discharges Maj Allen Martini pilot of Che famed bomber Dry one of the eighth air force bombers which flew in the early at raids over Germany is also among of the discharged officers High Score Tech Set Carrol D Sigman 27 of Hart Tex with 30 points has the highest score among the en- listed men Enlisting in the air corps in January he served in the Caribbean area in 1941 and in India from April 1.044 until his return to the state's in February An aerial gunner he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with one Cluster Jmd be eral campaigns including the air offensive against Japan Others Qualified Other officers chosen for dis- charge were Capt James W ick Ohio Capt Arthur T Spence First Lt S Cook Second Lt Louis Glauser jr ley Park Mo First Lt Moe M Wolf Bronx N Y First Lt James M Bridges Baton Rouge Tex First Lt Arthur Hanbury New York City Second Lt Stanford Cochran Oklahoma City Okla and Major Paul E Seattle Wash Other enlisted men to be dis- charged are Sgt Wilbur L nard Hayward Calif Sgt Sigman Sgt Robert Poindexter bia Heights S C Sgt Ernest See DISCHARGED on Page 7 settlement of bis territorial claims or whether he will attempt to them by force The disputed Italian territory is that around Trieste and Gorizia and east of Isonzo the part of Italy known as Giulia Tho Austrian area is around Klagenfurt and Villach the border strip abutting the northwestern of Yugoslavia Dissatisfied In London a foreign office com- said an unsatisfactory reply had been received from Tito in response to an Allied demand concerning the occupation of Trieste He added that further exchanges will have to alee place with the Yugoslav The Belgrade radio said the Yugoslav reply to notes was drafted in a spirit of cooperation It said the our army and country tho presence in Istria Trieste and the Slovene coastline without to any allotment of this territory at the peace conference Yugoslavia op- poses all unilateral tho broadcast said and needs of our Allies concerning ports and lines of communications have been completely guarded the spirit of talks between Marshal Tito Marshal Alexander made it plain that the Allies had no objection to Tito claiming the territory His claims the Allied commander said will be settled Twith ness and impartiality at the peace conference The bone of contention he is our policy been publicly proclaimed is that changes should be made only after thorough study and after full l consultation and deliberation be- tween various governments con- cerned Alexander said he had tried his hardest to come lo a friendly ment with Tito regarding tion of Istria pending the peace conference but bad failed As a result he said United States and taken up the tor directly with Tito Alexander made known his tude in a special statement Trieste dispatches described the situation there as the first meeting of he self-styled Trieste constitutional assembly ably with Tito's blessing Allies Able To Cooperate PARIS May 10 sions are going forward j between the western Allies j ami Russia for the mutual tion of liberated prisoners in the various occupation zones inside j Germany Allied headquarters an- nou need today The announcement said of Gen D wight D headquarters as well as of the various British and American groups are conferring with the Russians on the transfer of freed and United tions citizens Truman To Present Soldier With Medal WASHINGTON May 19 President Truman the White House announced today has set 1 p m Monday for his appearance before a joint session of congress to present the 100th Congressional Medal of Honor awarded in tills war to an infantryman The President will make a brief speech of presentation which will be broadcast over all networks The award will go to Tech Sgt Jake of Lucedale Miss Cattle Feeders Be Awarded Subsidy WASHINGTON May 19 subsidy for cattle feeders designed to insure heavier animals before slaughter spearheads the ment's new plan to increase the civilian meat supply War Mobilization Director Fred M Vinson announced a subsidy of 50 cents a hundredweight directly to feeders effective today In additional attacks on the meat shortage Vinson ordered subsidy boosts to packers of both beef and pork r
