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39TH YEAR, NO. 36 —5<f PACKS
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1945
PRICE TEN CENTS
Japs Report 2,200 U, S. Planes Massed on Marianas and Okinawa
CI Loved His Dog Officer Loved Money
Court Martial Left the Army Minus Lieutenant
Water For Fleet
was   overseas,   but like  an  old   friend
gether they were transferred to an Army camp  in  Montana. Like • tiood Kriend
There they were  both under the
command of a lieutin:int who took
particular notice of  how  fond the
GI was of the  dog. A year later,
"Lucky"   was    condemned    as    no
longer   useful    to    the   K-9   Corps.
Baltimore    July   7.   (UP) - Armyj Army  authorities  decided   that   he
officials   tonight   revealed   how   a; ^hmiM  be ^s^oW  at auction or shot.
heutensnt  was   courtmartialed  be-j^^^  lieutenant
cause he  tried to capitalize on an      informed   him   of   the   fate   tiiat enlisted man's love for the dog hC; avvaitcd his pet once nurtured In the frozen wastes of the Antarctic.
They did not identify the lieuten¬ ant. The dog, they said, was "Luckv," a hiiskv Eskimo Male- mute :'i he GI. PFC Malcolm Doug¬ las of Lake Placid. X. Y.. a mem¬ ber of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition of 1939. Story  Begin*  Far  Aw«y
The   story   begins   in   the   Ant¬ arctic, where Luckv was  born one
Douglass wrote back immediate¬ ly, pleading with the lieutenant to have someone represent him at the auction. He was very fond of the dog. he said, the mone.v was no object. So the lieutenant's wife bought the dog for .?7.50. The offi¬ cer promptly resold him to the private for a cool S300.
The GI made no complaint. He sent a money order for $3(X) to the lieutenant.
There are Still Rulea I Bul the officer reckoned without cold, polar day. Douglas, a dog-,y^^^y regulations. It seems the team driver wilh the Byrd cxpedi-jYygf Department does not believe tion, took care of the pup imtil| ,hat the lieutenant's business judg- thev returned lo Ihe United Stalesj^p„{ i„ ,(,i, rnatter was exa-lly nnd the war forced them to go | becoming an officer nnd a gentle- thcir separate ways. l man.    He    was    lourtuiartlalcd    at
Two years later, at Camp Hale. Camp Mea^e. Md., and although Colo., they met again this time as! he was not found guilty of a crime members of the same outfit.I he was later discharged from the Luckv was a member of the Army's! Army.
K-9 Corps. Douglas was an Army' Now the soldier has his do.g private. Tne soldier and Malemiitej "Lucky" has his master: and the renewed  their old  friendship.    To-lArmy  hasn't  got   Ihe  lieutenant.
WALKERSUGGESTS
IN POSTAL SETUP
Report to President
., Provides for Tenure, Shift from Capital
Wsshington. July 8. (UP) A fsr-reaching plan to reorganize the postofficc department was recom¬ mended to President Truman by former Po.stma»ler General Frank C. Walker before he turned Ihe job over lo Robert E. Hannegan, il was  disclosed  tonight.
Walker's recommendations in¬ cluded swinging most of the rou¬ tine administration away from Washington, providing definite ten¬ ure nf office to ranking offlriaU and creating n new office of direc¬ tor nf jiostol service. Advise*  I^ng Tenure
Walker recommended the crea¬ tion   of   a   "director  of   postal   ser-
SENATE TO OPEN
Predict Approval By Aug. 1 with Few Dissenting Votes
Washington, July 7. (UP) formal battle for prompt ratifica¬ tion of the United Nations Charter begins Mondn.v with hearings be¬ fore the Senate foreign relations committee, and there were predic¬ tions tonight that it might be over by Aug. 1.
Committee Chairman Tom Con¬ nally. D.. Tex., said the group hoped to complete hearings in one week and thus bring the charter to the Senate floor by July 18. If that could be done, he said, "we might complete   Ihe   whole   thing"    ralifi-
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Battle for Oil Fields In fithjlay
Aussies Run into Coastal Guns in Drive Inland From Balikpapan
Germans Already Planning Revenge
Copenhagen, July 6. (UP) — German mothers who fled here wilh their children from East Prussia to escape the Red Army are boldly boasting that Ihcir sons will grow up and avenge Ger¬ many.
A Danish newspaperwoman who in\estigated Germon refu¬ gees in Denmark said most Ger¬ man women were "arrogant and intolerable.'"
There nre about 300,0(X) well- fed German refugees in Den¬ mark. Danes ore becoming more nnd more enraged because chil¬ dren of the refugees occupy DO per cent of (^openhogens school.^. They'll probobly prevent schools from reopening Aug. 1, as was scheduled.
Told by geologists that here- fore untapped source of water lay underground on Guam, Sea- bees  of  Sth   Naval  Construction
Sale of Army Discharges At Mitchell Field Probed
Hempstead, N. Y., July 7. (UP)— The Federal Bureau of Invcstifa-
tion is ohacklng civilian parties to _        _
a conspiracy at Mitchell  Field  to j tor "hospital   treatment, sell  soldiers  discharges  and  trans fcrs, it waa learned today.
First  Air  Force officers  invest! gating  the alleged  racket  revealed
By Ht'UH < Rl'.'VIPLKR
Manila. Sunday, July 8. (UP)- Auslralian troops have driven six miles Into the interior of Borneo northeast of captured Balikpapan as the battle for the great Pando- nasari oil refineries north of the town entered ils sixth day. Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed to¬ day.
Troops on the western shore of Balikpapan Bay ore fanning stead¬ ily inland from their beach posi¬ tions at Penodjima without meet¬ ing any serious opposition. L'nexpecled Resislanee
The heaviest fighting of Ihc East Borneo campaign appeared lo br in the area of the Pandansarl re¬ fineries and at the opposite end of the 18-mile wide beachhead, whcro Japanese resistance is stiffening. Australian troops driving to thr northeast beyond Manggar toward the rich oil fields which feed the Pandnnsori refineries ran into un¬ expectedly strong opposition Thursday when they bumped into a powerful road blockade. L'slng C««aUt Guns
It   was   composed   of   strong   in¬ fantry units  backed  up  by  coastal I guns, three-Inch artillery pieces and I mortars.    Beyond Manggar are the two major  East Borneo  oil   fields. one In the area of Sambodja and
  Ithe other around the delta  of the
to the soldier rather than ship thcjMahakam    River.     Earlier   recon- soldier to his papers. nalssance had reported great fires
As   Wold   explained   it,   Mitchell |'ag'nK    """id   the
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Brigade built a tunnel to reach millions of gallons needed by the fleet. Here they are working on tunnel.
™    ..„.„   ..^» .„....„   ..,         -   - Sambodja    re-
Fi7ld acccpteTanyGi who"appi'ied I f'n'eries and  oil storage  tanks, ap
hos-1 ?¦""<"tly   from  enemy   destruction, pital   administrative   officers   then i    On the western end of the battle- wrote   the   patient's   home   station | front   other  Australian   troops  are;, and  asked  for his  papers. moving steadily  through  the  Pan-1       •
Once Ihe  patient's   paper orrlved {donsari      refinery      srca      against' that  at   least  six  Gl's  were  given  ^l  Mitchel   Field,   the  soldier   lost i jteody   resistance    from    Japanese. Thei fraudulent    medical    discharges 'ontact with his former outfit   Cer-l^ug in amid the smoldering wreck-  2Af
tain hospital administrative officers ag^   of   Pandansari's   hundreds   "'   '" now suspected of fraud could  then  acres.
ONWARWITHJAPS
President Turns to Foreign Affairs After Great Shake-up Home
Washington,     July     7     (UPi President   Truman   is   expected bring   back   from   the   Big   Three conference   a   definite   decision   on when   or   whether   Soviet   Russia will   join   the  war   against   Japan.
His departure is expected shortly and the meetings will begin in ap¬ proximately two weeks .at Pots¬ dam,  near  Berlin.
During the next two or three months the President will be more diriv-tly concerned with foreig' pollc.v than with affairs at home. His Big Three journey will keep him away from Washington until mid-August, perhaps later. Fixed for sometime thereafter Is a con¬ ference here with Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Many CThanges >lMie
But   in   the   three   months   since
Say Ships Pour Attack Supplies Into New Bases
I    13 Okinawa Airfields in Use; Sth AAF Raids Kyushu Again; Air Blockade Strangling Japan
By EDWARD L. TIIUMAS
I <iiiam, Hunda.v, July «,—(IP)—Tokyo lodny reported mighty AmerU can air Meet of more than 2,000 planes massed oil Nippon's'doorate|> lor an nhllteratlnn offensive while Uklnana based .Mustangs of Gen. Douglas .MarArthur's ftth Air Force were hlastlng Kyushu for the third time and warplanes srourglng .lapan's vital Inner Sea lines deslrnyrd nr damaged 14 more enemy ships.
Jive nf Ihe homeland'n key war renters still sninuldered after a near- record BOO plane R-2H Are raid a« Tokyo worriedly speculated on the tremendous air fnrre being built up nn (he Island bases south of Japan.
Far-ranging     planes     of     Fleet
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Adm. Chester W. Nimltz's and MacArthur's air command bombed, strafed and rocketed shipping along the Asiatic cooat, off For¬ mosa and south of Jopan 'n deadly strikes slowly strongl! ig the homeland's vital supply lines. Navy bombers coiighf five ships off fTiinn Saturday ond set one afire and domoged four others. Marine bombers hit four ships with rock¬ ets off Honshu, tn Air  Defense  Dtaappearing
Japan's obvious inability to ef¬ fectively counter-attack the grow¬ ing U. S. offensive designed to crush the enemy's war machine by fall was graphically revealed by the very few enemy aircraft en¬ countered in the past 48 hours.
No B-29s were lost in yesterday's fire  raids.
During the entire month of June, Navy bombers from Iwo Jima de¬ stroyed 16 300 tons of shipping and damaged 11,150 tons but destroyed or damaged only 21 planes. Seven enemy aircraft were set afire on the ground in attacks on the Saki' shima and Amami Islands in the Ryukyus Friday and Saturday but there was no report of Japanese aerial opposition. MacArthur's planes  met  only six  fighters  over
the   Mitchell   Field   hos-
who would have long tenure | cation    by the  end of this  month.
despite changes in the national ari- minislralion. The director would serve aa the "odininlstrative'" head of the service, leoving the postmas¬ ter general as "executive head,'" in charge of funilMjienlal public and departmental   policy,   he   said. _^	
The   former   postmaster   general. f^vor  of the "charter of   office.
Stettinius First
Plans completed tonight called for former Secretary of Slate Ed¬ ward R. Stettinius jr., who was chairman of the American delega¬ tion lo the Son Froncisco Con¬ ference,   to  open   the   testimony   in
also urged long tenure subject to retirement rules and "'removal for cause," for all top administrative jobs. These would Include the four assislont post¬ master generals, a general counsel, a purcha-sing agent and o comptrol¬ ler. .,   .     ,.
Walker"s report assailed the ¦"outmoded. Inefficient and illogi¬ cal procedure"" of having the de- portmcnt.s only official financiol records kept by an outside agency .    the   General" Accounting   Office.
Leo Pasvolsky, Slate Department assistant on international organiza¬ tion and security, will follow with a detailed review of the document, riien Green H. Hackworth State Department legal adviser, will testify on the international court section of the charier. This tes¬ timony Is expected lo be completed on Tuesday. To Hear Opposition
Eight  opponents  of  the  charter, who have asked pcrinission lo tes-
through pital.
The FBI wos reported Investi¬ gating the civilian members of the alleged ring who sold discharges for "several thousand dollars'" and transfers from Army units bound overseas for less. IjfH a lioophole
Col. T. G. Wold air Inspector of the First Air Force, said "stream lined" hospital administration icies adopted to speed deserving casualties into civilian life gave the racketeers the loophole they need¬ ed.
Wold  said  Mitchell  Field,  which receives     thousands     of     wounded hospital administrative officers and brought   home   by   air,   decided   to s.;x more enlisted men who alleged transfer   a   soldier's  service   record iiv received  false  transfers.
control   the   "sick"   Gl's   future, Six Were taught
Wold said the six soldiers who leceived phoney dischorges never entered the Mitchel Field hospital. Their names were merely added to a list on names of men whom Army doctors had recommended for medical discharges. The six men then were sent to a separotion pqJ. tenter and mustered out with pay. ' The Army voided the six dis¬ charges shortly after the investi¬ gation began and oil six men are confined — as soldiers--at Mitchel Field.    Their names were withheld
of
SISTER ATTACKS WILL OF LUPE VELEZ
President.
Mr. Truman gradually Is releas¬ ing officials who came to promi¬ nence largely as personal favorites
HolLvwood. July 8 (UP)-The will!?/«[.- ?°°^^l"l,V„^"M'!f/'lr"^„f" of Ldpe Velez. who committed | "^^y ^- Hopkins, Miss Frances .,.i»i.i« ...v... iV.« k»... <.n III. Perkins and Henry Morgenthau jr. Xi,.,. chiM w„^ contested to ' ^^ith these Cabinet changes. Sec- SX   hv»   .iii.r '^""^""^'l   ^°-|retary   of   t=ilalc   James   F.   Byrnes
nignt  oy a sister. i hprf,,,,^, ^pj^f  [„   nn^ „( succession
Mrs. Josephine Anderson, the to Ihe presidency. Byrnes will ac- slster,   charged   in   a   court   action -       —
that   Miss   Vclez's   secretary.   Mrs. i,f   ^o,,,    „ere Beulah  B.  Kinder, had exerted un-   ,^,pj,   Secretary of Treasury
the   death   of  Franklin   D,   Roose-i„
Mr. Truman has done a lot •*>¦"*""¦ of work on Ihe home front. Hcl The latest shipping toll brought has given the executive dcpart-lthe 14-day total for Pacific air- ment     a     remarkable     shake - up.leraft to 298 Japanese vessels sunk
ere   are   ."ix   new  Cabinet   mem-!or  damaged, bers   in   office   or   to   take   office]    Tokvo admitted  dailv nir strikes soon,   four   of   them   former   con- by  smaller  warplanes   against  the grcssioinal   colleagues   of   the   new|southern    home   Islonds   and   said
some .100 U. S. transports and war¬ ships were off Okinawa, pouring supplies    into    that   island,    being
closed that the Army Mustangs destroyed four out of six enemy fighters and probably destroyed tha other two. Both tho eastern and western coasts of Kyushu were hit in the fighter-bomber sweep. "Tha Koshiki Islands southwest of Kyu» shii olso were attacked. Philip* pines-based bombers again hit Formosa ond Ihc Asintio coast, sinking two vessels off Hoko Island and destroying two junks and a lugger west of Hong Kong and In the Gulf of Tonkin.
Japan admitted large fires raged through the five cities of Shimotsu .\kashi. Chiba. Fofu and Shimzu after yesterday's raid by more than (iOO B-29's which cascaded almost 4.000 tons of bombs into tha Honshu war centers. Aerial   Opposition   Fading
Not a single bomber was lost in the assault. Airmen said Japan"! weakening acriol opposition was almost non-existent over the target areas and anti-aircraft fire waa weak. Results of the strike were described as "unobterred to excel- lent" Seme pilots described tha fires In Shimuzu and Shimotsu u ""large   conflagrations."'
The Superfort crewmen reported that several Japanese planes wera sighted over Shimotsu and some made passes at the giont bomber* but did not Are their guns.
The B-29 command added mora Ihan five square miles of destruc* tion to the damage so for wrought In Japonesc industrial cities. Re« ports still were incomplete on the latest Superfort fire raids but photo reconnaissance of recent strikes boosted the toll of devasta¬ tion to nearl.v  12R square miles In
transformed Into  the greatest air- Japan's  most  important industrial base  in  the world. centers.
Both Coasta of Kyushu Hit |    Reconnaissance planes are roam*
MncArthur"s     communique     dis- (Continued  on  Page A-11)
I company Mr. Trumon to Potsdam ^"¦llf   both    were   killed   or   incopaii-
U. S. FLYERS HELP IN DRIVE ON INDO-CHINA
The   |)osl
office "should maintain lif.v, will be heard next Wednesday its own uniform system of ac- and Thursday. Committee mem- counts adopted to the depart- bers would not identify these op- menl's particular needs." he said, ponents bul il was .said Ihey do He opposed use of the postal! not include any senators. Addi aysleni as n agency,  because
....    of   the   postal^
revenue-producing j tionaj   proponent
"it should be con¬ ducted as an organization for serv¬ ice   only."
CHIANG SAYS ARMIES BROUGHT TO STRENGTH
Chungking. July 7. (UP)-A con- aiderable port of the Chinese army has been reorganized and brought up to strength in the past six months in preparation for a coun¬ ter-offensive against the Japanese. Generalissimo Chiong Kai-Shek told the People"s Political Council today.
Chiang discussed China's Inler- notionol. military, economc and political si'ualion in on address to the opening session of the coun¬ cil. The session opened on the eighth nnniversarv of the Sino- Jopaiiese war and wos the la-st scheduled tn be held before the NoUonol People's Assembly meets Nov. 12 to Inoiigurote ronslilu- tional   government   in   China.
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In Today's Issue
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I'Idltnrial     C—S
>Iovles    A—14
Social „ B—t
Sports     B—1
Radio     A—U
Uutdnnr     B—S
of  the    charter will  be heard on Friday.
Connolly and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. R.. Mich . predicted tonight Ihat the charter would be ratified with only slight opposition. Connolly said ""less than 10 votes" would be cost against it Other; al the Capitol were confident that no more than five "nays " would be heard.
Real  Battle to Come When  l>aws   Are   .Made
Yellow (springs. O.. July 7. (UP) - .Sen. Joseph Ball jr.. Minn., said tonight that Ihe U.NCIO charter probably would pass the Senate without difficulty but that the ""real battle"" would come when Congress storls working on o law oiitlininj; powers of the United States dele¬ gate  to the security  council.
He told the Anlloch College In¬ stitute on conditions for on endur¬ ing peace thnt the charter would pass Ihe Senate with no more than a half o dozen votes against it— "perhaps none."
But when the enabling low comes up, he said, "'we arc likely to run head-on Into a demond that deci¬ sions for use of force musl be sub¬ mitted lo Congress before final ac- Uon."'
•"If that demand wins." he said,
Chungking, July 7 (UP)—Chinese troops have started an assault against the Indo-Chinese border town of Chennankwan while American planes to the southeast hammered an attempted Japanese escape from Indo-China by sea through the Gulf of Tonkin, It was reported today.
The assault against Chennank¬ wan, just inside he Chinese border was made by a column which re- coptured the highway town of Pingsiang, eight miles north. A Chinese communique said th'e Jap¬ anese garrison was resisting blt- lerlv.
While land fighting raged along the Kwangsl-Indo-China border, medium bombers and fighters of Ihc U. S. 14lh Air Force continued to attack small craft loaded with Japanese troops fleeing north and east from Holphong through the Gulf of Tonkin.
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ns were  those  of  two  non-medical! due influence on the Mexican »pil-   Morgenthau   jr     would   succeed . -._: :... .^ -'fire When the will «os drawn ,y„ ^        ,   j,^^,,,,,,,.
Mrs. Anderson clamed    hot Mrs^ ' announced
Kinder, who received a third of the  ,„..,„ ,. „,  .,  .,  ,,-„„,„„.   ......cor.
*nK,x/w.,1      .   .      «    ...!..!....I,,   ...n..*    toda.v that  if it  becomes  necessary
.S250,000  estate,  fraudulently   rcprc-i ¦ ,..,.,   „„   r,,„-   ah,
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vlvLiou'i'actrL"""''''" '" "'i FRENCH BEGIN ENTERING of"r p^*e'tVo°u"s tru irn'defvirhiGERMAN RHINE PROVINCE
Mrs.   Kinder  would   hove   received j 	
only   $5,000.   and   the   hulk   of   the'    Saorbruecken,   Germany.  July   7.
. ,, estate   would   have   gone   to   Mrs.: (UP) - French     occupation     forces
ahst leader, said today he  »»vored| Anderson    and   the   screen    stars i began     moving     into     Germany's
mother, Mrs. Josefina Velez of i Rhine province today to take over .Mexico Citv. This will also would: from U. S. troops who have been have   left   $5,000  to   Lupe's   colored I covering      Ihe      area.       American.
Roam at Will Over Japan To Pick Targets for B-29's
INDIAN LEADER FAVORS FORM OF SOCIALISM
Simla,    India,    July    7 Jawaharlal  Nehru,   Indian
(UP) — natlon-
By HAZEL HARTZOO
Guam.   Sunday,    July
I Ryukyus to Hokkaido has been re- 8    (UPi- corded by their cameras. The long- American    B-2n    photo    reconnais-|est   mission   to   date   was   a   4,100- sance pinnes ore hunting daily fori mile    round    trip    from    south    of
"progressive Soclolism" for India under a genuinely national gov¬ ernment but at the same lime dis¬ counted reports of growing Soviet influence,
Nehru said some measure of state control and direction seemed inevitable if the great sub-conti¬ nent is to make rapid progress to¬ wards solving ils many economic ills.    He said it is "'difficult to say
maid, Katie.
BRITISH DRIVE JAPS FROM BURMA POSITIONS
Calcutta,   July   7.   (UP)-British
how  far this will  go in  its  initial j troops   In   Burma  hove  driven   nt-
stoges."" He believed o "great deal" 'of individual freedom and initia¬ tive would be needed.
State   planning   without   a   trulj national government should be op¬ posed, Nehru said in an interview, because   it   merely   would   mean continuation   of   foreign dominotion.
tacking Japanese from a strategi river   position   northeast   of   Pegu
76,600 Strikers Keep Rubber Output Stalled
Akron, O., July 7 (UP)—Produc¬ tion of war vital rubber at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co, was stalled for the seventh consecutive dov today as 16,600 striking rubber workers remained away from their jobs.
Partly completed tires and other rubber goods, unprocessed since the work stoppage was prec.'.iilatcd a week ago by a labor-manage¬ ment dispute over union griev¬ ances, were ready for the scrap heap. To  Defy WXB
There was little prospect of a settlement before next week as offi¬ cials of the United Rubber Work¬ ers (CIO> Indicated they would defy a hack-to-work order Issued hy   the   Naiionsl   I.rftbor   Relations
"the   whole effect  of  speedy   inter
naiionsl   action  against  aggressors'Board yeslerdoy.
may be lost." The   ultimatum
demanded   thai
after   a   fierce   Ihrec-doy   battle,   h communique  said   today.
The  position, al Ihc bend  of I he Siltang   River,   was    cleared    with heavy   losses   to   the   enemy.   Else- economic! where  in  the  area there  has  beer I little     change.     Ihc     communique
   said,   indicating   the   Joponese  still
held newly-won footholds on Ihc Pegu - Moulmcin railway and the Pcgu-Sitlang canal. Enemy rein¬ forcements reportedly are attempt¬ ing to relieve hard-puressed garri- I sons.
' To the norlh In the Pyu area. 200 Japanese were intercepted at¬ tempting    to    cross    the    Siltang
the    workers     resume    production   river.    Heavy   casualties   were   in-
Monday  or   send   local   union   offi-1 fUrtcj    b.v    British    troops.    Other
cials   to   a  show-cousc   hearing   ini Allied   uiiits   seized   three   villages
Washington    Tuesday   to    explain j je    miles    southeast    of    Tharra-
the   reason   behind   Ihc   prolonged U.^jdy.
strike   in   o   lop   priority   industry I
If the  order  is   ignored   the   board;
will subpoena union leaders as was
the  cose in   the Goodyear hearing, i
Goodyear Near Normal |
Meanwhile. Capt. H. K. Clork ot
the  II.  S.  Navy  sold  that  produc¬ tion   is  nearly  normal  al  the  five
Goodyear   Tire   and    Rubber   Co.
plants, seized earlier this week  by
the    government,   with    "about    W
percent"   of   the   workers   sl   their
jobs.   He   expected   :he   remainder
to return Monday. Clork   said   some   of   the   rubber
which   v.ent   lo   woste   during   thf
Goodyeor strike may be reclaimed
as salvage.
French and German authorities took measures to prevent dis¬ turbances from the (ijermana* re¬ sentment over prcspecl of French rule.
The changeover, part of the re- >^ently onnounced shuffle of occu- potion zones within Germany, be- Bon yesterday and is scheduled tn be completed hy .lulv 15. The 23rd Corps of the 15th Army has been In control.
French liaison officers recentlv began entering Ihe region. The Germans sow them, knew a change was imminent, and flocked to Amcricon   militarv  government   of
new fire-roid targets in Japan and their missions nrc so successful officers are able to virtually chart Japan's day-by-day war produc¬ tion.
Kept    busy    by    the    stepped-up B-29  bombings.  Ihe  reconnaissance
Kyushu to far beyond Honshu. .Maj. Harold L. Wood made the flight and was in the air for 15 hours and \!i minutes.
Maj. Ralph B. Stcakley. now In the United States, mode the first photograph of the Japanese home-
planes moke everv trip with thd'""'','»*' ^°^'', Subsequently, IS sloian: "Get the pictures home."" 1"?'"'""^ ""." ""i);" '° P'^IS" ^"^ The Superforls of this rccon-^'j'" first raid on Tokyo at the end naLssance squadron, which also °f ^ovcmber. charted China. India. Burma. "The <'•'""<>""»»' Fa"* Hump,"" Ihe Aleutians. Canada andi To the cold eye of the recon- Soiith   America,   hos   photographed naissance  camera,  the expert   Jap-
more than l.OOO.nofl square miles of lapanesc territory between Novem¬ ber  and   May Roam at Will over Japan
They roam at will over the Jap¬ anese home islands. Bomb damage and new targets ore systcmoticolly charted and only weather delays them.
Usinc   Iwo   for   emergency   land
anese camouflage f.iiis utterly to screen enem.v indiistr.v. said Lt. William Walker. Memphis, Tenn., who hos flown 18 misfions over Japan.
Camouflage can deceive bomber* but even people walking in the streets  show  up  in  photographs.
Intelligence officers scanning photos of one damaged aircraft nlont   discovered   Ihat   the   enemy
ings, they have been able to extendi hod  rebuilt   It   under   o   false   roof, their  range over all of Japan. Al-JThe   wrecked   top   was   left   in   an
ficcs to plead that Americans stay, most   the   entire  empire   from   thc'effort  to fool  the bombers.
}Varned of Mines Off V. S. Coast
New York, July 7. (UP)—Vice Admirol H. L. Lcory, command¬ ing officer of the Eastern Sea Frontier, warned fishermen today that many unexploded enemy mines ore known to lie in waters off  the Atlantic  Coast.
Leary cautioned against tam¬ pering wilh or ollempting to re¬ cover any mines or other explo¬ sive containers which fishermen may bring up In their gear.
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