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YANKS SPEED Teen. Vcaiter to Attend
Funeral for Premier Curtin
AR ATTACKS
_U. 8. Fleets Sweep fapan
Twice Daily. “(Continued From Page One)
~Moscow and was given a very cog-|
dial reception by the Russians. V. M. Molotov, foreign affairs commissar, was at the airport to meet him. Chinese Premier T.-V. Soong already was in the Soviet capital to plead for help from the | Russians, On Borneo Australian troops had
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captured most of :the oil port of |
Balikpapan and were driving toward] oer, he. | fore he died = Also there was their ! | SOY,
the Pandansari oil north of the city, pateh sald the captured Manggar
airfield was almost ready for use. |
+ Philippines Fighting Ends
{ mid-June
-_ chauffeur, Ray Tracey.
| Then he told his wife:
(Continued From. Page One)
went into a hospital here. He im~ proved and: was able .to ‘leave In Since then he had been résting at Canberra lodge. Flags at Half-Staff Five hours before he died, Curtin {said good night to his trusted
“I've. had a tough day." Tracey Shortly before midnight Mrs, Cur« {tin brought in a cup of tea for him “Off to bed with you. Mrs. Curtin retired to an adjoin= | ing room. but she didn’t sleep and was back at her husband's side be-
Sgt. John Francis Curtin, of the Roval Australian air force, Their other child, Mrs, Elsie Cole, was|
| sertously fll.
he told
¢ pfgiting with the destruction of 23 enemy divisions, or 450.000 troops.
,vasion base -rivalling England in
“that Chinese troops has recaptured
* Tbaraka and Tockigi prefectures in
~ Nimite's headquarters. ‘more
* types steamed into Tarakai bay and
; the Japanese homeland,
cities of Kochi, Tokushima and Ta: the east China sea and the Yell
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All flags flew at half-stafl today | throughout the commonwealth for
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an-| . nounced the end of the Philippines
tralia through her darkest days. He became premier three months | before the Pacific war began, and was the chief advocate of close co-! operation. between America and Australia in the fight against Japan. Curtin and MacArthur worked very closely together, and were very good friends. Forde Is Candidate
. The Australian parliament was to aséd yestern Europe. g She 3 Ble x ask I the adjourn until after the funeral It | Japanese drive north from Luichow | Was expected the cabinet would. be | peninsula, Apparently a cover for changed considerably as a result a withdrawal from Hainan island, of Curtin’s death. The two top
K announced | candidates for his post were Forde was halted. Chungking and Joseph Benjamin Chifley, min-
ister of the treasury.
Seventeen Amghrican divisions were used in the campaign, degeribed ~ by MacArthur as “the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms,’ and presumably the bulk of them weré free for new operations. MacArthur said the Philippines would be turned into a great in-|
Fahsien, lost two days ago to the Japanese,
: | ‘WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P).— In Tokyo Area | President Truman today voiced his The first enemy accounts of to- “deep sorrow” over the death of day's attacks said nine Buperforts Australian Prime Minister John and about 100 long-range Mustang Curtin. fighters hit Honshu i The President sald Curtin was was They concentrated on the Chiba, —
SPAATZ TO HEAD AIR ATTACKS ON JAPAN
(Continued ‘From Page One)
the Tokyo area. A few hours latér about 200 Liberators and fighters attacked ob-| jectives in Kyushu. The heaviest - blow was struck at Nagasaki nearby Omura, the Japanese hey Other targets in Miyazaki, Oita, Saga and Nagasaki prefectures | primary targets. ware atiacked, Superfortresses, he noted, now are| undering in across the Jap-| 3} attackin Ia { ¢ in three formations, the | “PEaged : in g -Japat's) infil cons secondary cities, at least 40 in num- | Siders bombeq ae Sot » grunt! ver. Ten such cities were attacked | {during the past week. Jali hota, Ses0rding to the ENEMY | He listed the six large industria. | cities, a great part of whose indusThe attackers centered their fire trial value has béen destroyed, as | on Japanese airfields in Chiba, Iba~{ rogys, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, YokoTaki and Tochigi prefectures eet hama, and Kawasaki, | same general area was pounded by | : Five B-20's Lost & similar Superfortress-fighter tearn| During the past week more than | |12, 000 tons of incendiary and
yesterday. ; | demoltion bombs were carried on
Navy Moves In : : Meanwhile, Tokyo reported that more than 1700 sorties against Ja-
0 Ameriean, bacsie Dew. "of Japan| That represented almost one-third after a surprise hombardment Tues. | € tonnage dropped during - the day against Japanese-held Sakhalin | | entire month of June. July tonnage island in the sea of Ohotsk. | was expected to be 50 per cent The strike on Sakkalin carried ereater jan June's: American naval power almost| Five B-29's. were loss from. all within sight of Russian Siberia for Causes during the past week, a Joss the fleet's deepést penetration of rate on the basis of sorties of less Japanese waters since the war be- than one:half of one per cent, Patgan. terson said. It came as hundreds of American | He said the allies already are warplanes ranged at will over pumping oil from the. oilfields at central and southern Japan with | Iarakan, Borneo, whieh may be bombs and gunfire, finding Tokyo used for bunkers without refining.
itself virtually stripped of defend. (He said the oil refineries, tanks ing airpower. {and cracking plantg at Balikpapan,
{recentt seized by the Australians, Through Kurile Aslands | were Mm destroyed in the preFirst word of ‘the fleet attack on |jminary bombardment while about Sakhalin “#1 the presence of gp per cent of the city itself was American battle units off northern destroyed. Japan. came from the Tokyo radio| patterson said the oil resources and there was no immediate con- f+ porneo will be useful, but he firmation from Adm. Chester W. y..n64 that measured against ‘the a . total - consumption of this country Tokyo said American surface (yo. are not large: units had broken. through. the: «pgny oo burning a lot of gas Kurile island barrier and steamed because of our successes in Borneo,” than- -500 miles westward po warned. across the sea of Okhotsk to ate - 2 tack Sakhalin Tuesday. Five warships of
| | { 50 badly battered they are no longer
ing an easy target for thousands of incendiary bombs. 8moke and { flames shot 15000 feet into the air over the stricken cities as the gasoline bombs caught hold in the flim- | sy buildings below. : Returning Superfortress ° crews | said all four targets were “burning like all the fires of Hell had broken | loose.”
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opened a heayy bombardment of shore installations at Shikuka.| American sumbadrines, which shelled and machine-gunned Kaihyo island | south of the bay Monday: surfaced | off Shikuka to join the attack, Tokyo said. ’ Japs Alarmed Tokyo spokesmen added the usual ; claim that no damage resulted but! Hours later, two big fleets of their alarm over the United States army, navy and marine planes! spreading naval activity in their struck in broad daylight at the Jap+ northern waters was evident. anese suicide plane bases on south | They said other American war-'ern Kyushu and ‘along the east| ships, in addition te the Bhikuka | coast of Honshu on the outer fringe attackers, were loose in the sea of of the Tokyo metropolitan area. | Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, in the, .The Tokyo ralderes, about 120 game area where a five-ship Japa- strong, ripped ,up six enemy air-| nese convoy was smashed on fields, radio stations and merchant Juhe ‘25, |vesséls ‘with machine guns and The northern half of 500-mlile-long rockets, destroying eight enemy Sakhalin-i¢ owned by Russia, 8hi- | plan es on the ground and one. aloft. | kuka lies 56 miles“south of the Rus-!| The six fields, forming the outer | 50 - Japanese boundary line,
In Tokyo Area »
suggesting the Japanesé might “has stripped their dapital’s Far to the south, almost 750|fields to cover invasion-threatened | American warplanes, ranging from Kyushu. ! glant B-29 Superfortresses to, long | Two, of the main Kyushu bases | “range army fighters, celebrated the took a terrific pounding from ane | Fourth of July with one of their other 120-odd American fighters and Heaviest night and day assaults on bombers, including a force of : Mitchell medium ‘bombers Operating | A great fleet of 450 to 500 Super: from Okinawa. fortresses uriloaded 3000 ‘tons of Meanwhile, blockading American fire bombs on the, Shikoku island planes ranged over a wide arem of
850 miles north of Tokyo
kamgtsu and the Honshu port Of sea, sinking .or damaging 32 more Himeji. enemy ships, including two-destroys All four cities were biilliantly ors bageed In an attack on a Japlghted when the giant B- 29's ar- anese’ COnRVOy off the mouth” of the
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700. &ir defense of Tokyo, were strangely || mites northeast of -Viadivostok ant deserted,
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John Curtin
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SAYS 6.1.'S RODE IN DIRTY TRAINS
Plagued Redeployment. (Continued From Page One).
Washington announced that. an in vestigation had been: started and pointed out regulations forbade use of Pullmans for war prisoners. who were not hospital cases. DePaolo said railroad: employees at Chicago told him similar groups | of returned veterans had been gettiig: similar travel accommodations and urged that someone make a complaint, ! Not Engough Pullmans officer declared he the war ‘department
had for
The |asked
rity” who had shown a deep sense | promised sleepers and had been of loyalty to the principles which old railroad - equipment shortages
“have guided the United Nations the policeman's son who led Aus- through this war so victoriously|).. ire asserted travel conditions!
prevented army use of the Pullmans. He said he wa§ making pub- |
be redeployed later and in the
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Pete DePaola Says Vermin
hope civilians would not occupy Pullman space unnecessarily. C. H. Buford, vice president in charge of operations for the American . Association: of Railroads, said in ‘Washingtorf’ ‘that
servicemen country.
Buford said railfoad executives will
being. moved cross-
and office of defense transportation officials to try. to provide service personnel with more sdevuate railroad facilities! Congressmen Arousal The cars used by DePaolo’s group were said by west coast officials to |have been day coaches usually ply{ing between Boston ahd New York [but Buford disclaimed knowledge of any New York-Boston equipment with the limited plumbing facilities the soldiers described. It is possible, however, Buford |said, that the coaches were from shortline railroads in the New YorkBoston area. Meanwhile, three members of the California. congressional delegation {in Washington urged better accomfor “returning war
{modations
| ended in Europe and so-successfully | in behalf of other servicemen to|heroes” and an investigation by the | being waged in the Far East.”
| house ‘military affairs committee.
“there just! aren't enough sleeping cars” for all |
meet sometime this week with army |
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New commander of the 11th air force in Alaska and the Aleutian islands is Maj. Gen. John B. Brooks, above, former commanding general of the Newfoundland base command.
it THURSDAY; JULY 5, 1945"
ef 127 MILLION IN BRITAIN VOTING
Churchill Closes Bitter Reelection Fight. (Continued From Pagé One)
munism.’ If we go down, all the ninepins of Europe will fall.” Looking old and tired after the mos strenuous of his 15 election cam
‘| paigns, the prime ministér never-
theless radiated belligerent confidence at each of his many street corner stops. "At one point, a “thunderflash” —a noisemaking power charge used
4by the home guard in practice
drills—exploded within 10 feet of | Churchill, Attlee Finishes Too He flinched slightly and halted {his speech to watch ‘police seize | the prankster, » 17-year-old boy. Churchill smiled slightly and told {the police: “Don't hurt the little | fool.” . His. chief opponent, Laborite Leader Clement Attlee, also finished
his campaign before a crowd of 1500
persons at Bethnal Green, where ne
| denqunced the conservatives. for in= jecting “bogies” into the election.
“We are asking that, for the first
time. in the history of Britain, ‘a A
working class party should be given power to-earry outa policy that putg the interests of the common man first,” said Attlee. Predictions on the outcome were a dime a dozen, but most London newspapers shied away from making any detailed forecasts on the coms position of the next parliament. Conservatives, See Close Race ,Even the most optimistic Cone servatives in their pre-election fore casts were expecting to win a bare maojrity of the 640 seats in commans. Other analysts saw the likelihood that the Laborite, Liberal, and Come monwealth and Communist candi= dates, plus a sprinkling -of antie
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