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VOLUMEUl NUMBER 268 ========~~============================================================r-=====~-=====:%I~==========================~====== ig T Fee raw or urope ------------------------- Laval to Testify Today in Treason Trial Concentrate 250 Planes I Damage Nagasaki Labor Head * * * JiI.. .... ' . • I Urges Meeting On, Germany Attack Sinks Allied Leaders Carve Out Poland- , ~ Alrforce Sinks Communique Silent Award Vasl RegIons 116 Jap Sh1lps ~:~!~~I:~;':~:~fer On Russian Stand 10 Nip Ships On IndustrlQI i'eace With Japan Issue L0rtDON <AP)-The Big Three the nqrt,hern third of which went cal'veCl vast territories out 01 east- to Ru!sia. WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre­ WASH IN 'TON (AP)-The Strike on Harbor ern Germany and awarded them tary of Labor Schwelienbach en­ Big Thr e last night set up the to Poland in fixing the Poles' west- "On the whole, however, I think U.S., Britis h Pilots Leaves Fires dorsed yesterday a suggestion that m chanism for at powers to ern frontier along the Oder-lIleisse our government is satisfied," said Damage or Destroy he-sponsor a general industrial gr river lines-at some \JOints less an authoritative .source closely write the peace of striken Eur­ Visible for 25 Miles 278 Nip Airc raft peace conference, but It may not than 50 miles lrom the center of connected with the Warsaw gov- be h ld until his contemplated de­ op and extract reparations Berlin. ernment. MANILA (AP)-Mol'e than partmental I' organization Is ac­ While leaving the fin al delimi- Hope for cPoncessionl GUAM (AP)- United States and from a. guilty Germany forced 250 planes of 1he fa l' east ai r, complished. talion of this fron tier to the peace Polish sources here said they British carrier pilots ~a nk or dam­ The proposal came from Sena­ to devote its energies to the agri­ forces sprea.d destruction a'I'OS.'I aged ]] 6 J3panese ships 3nd de­ conference, the t h l' e e leaders still hope lor some concession l'e­ tOl" Vandenberg (R., Mich.) who cultur and peaceful industry. Kyushu's AT at 118t'OOr of Naga­ handed over to Warsaw the im- gording SteLUn- possibly a declor­ stroyed or damaged 278 ail'cl'r.(t in recommended that leading repre­ But on the question in the sa\ci Wt'dnesday, si nking 10 mediate administration of praClic- ' alion that Stettin is a free city their Monday sw eps over lTol 'hu, sentatives of industry, labor and enemy ships, damaging t111'ee ally all of agricultural Pomerania with commercial passage allowed ADmiral Nimitz s3id today in his government be calJed together te" minds of people the worlel over "final reporl" for that day. others and II snbmarin, and and industrial SHesia, about two- to Poles and Czechoslovakians. avoid strife during reconversion. - will R u s s i a help smash Twenty-foul' of the ships, in­ thirds of east Prussia and a· big Hu ssia's ~hare of this province- Thlnkin&' of Conleren.ce Japan '-a 6,OOO-worJ commun­ lea ving fi,' s visi hl for 25 mi les. cluding two destroyers and iwo At least 12 oth r ships of portion of Brandenburg. which before the war was separ- SchwelJenbach assured his tor­ ique on the Potsdam conference StelUn Remains German ated from Germany proper by the midget submarines, were sunk. mer senate colleague that he has was silent. varying size were Sllllk or dam­ Of the 92 damaged, 33 were W;,ll'­ But the Poles were denied the Polish cOI'ridor- will be thllt sec­ been "thinking more and more It concluded, however, with a aged in wid Spt' ad attacks on ships. Thes in cluded an ejU'ort big German Baltic port and ship- lion north of a line running from during these Jast few weeks about single, succinct sentence which enemy-controlled Wilt I'll from carr'ier, a li ght cl'uiser, six de­ building center of Stettin, which Braunsberg, on the eastern shore. the d . irability of c31ling a con­ which m3Y be expected to receive stroyers, nine edstroyer escorts, 0 Korea southward to Borneo and they had demanded, Stetlin lies on of the Bay of Danzig, to Goldap, Let'ence of Industry nnd labor." uneasy scrutiny from Japan's war­ the Celebes, General MacA 1'­ the west bank of the Oder. It re- near the Lithuanian border, This submarine and seven midgel sub­ Other government officials COl1- marines, a Bubmarine tender, a lords: ~hur's communique said todny. malns German. I territory, including the capital city cerned with labor said the secre­ gunboat, five identified simply as "Durlnr the conference there Lang The heavy strike a&,alnst Na&,a­ The Poles also received less than of Koenigsberg, apparently would tary is sold on the idea 3nd prob­ SY~. l •• kl, one 01 the three largest shlp­ they had expected 01 east Prussia, be incorporated inlo Lithuania. combatant ships, und a naval aux­ ably will carry it out. But they were meetlnlfs between the chief. visitor who buUdln, uenlers of Japan, was iliary. pointed out th3t Schwellenbach is of staff of the three I'ovemmenta old aCQuaint. challen,ed by 20 Japanese planes, Raids Widened deeply immersed in the job of on military matters of common In­ .Ix: of which were shot down The t'aids, initially direcled qt terest," the time to At a Glance- stre3mlining Jabor affairs. They ran th is notire wltbout loss to the raIders. Army Vetoes p.roposal the Tokyo area but widened to in­ indicated they will advise him to Issued simultnnenously In Lon­ personal col· Col. Frances Gideon, tar east clude Nagoya and the Maizuru postpone any such major project don, Moscow and W3shington, the airforce operations of!icer, de­ For Faster Discharges Iluval base on western Honshu be­ as the proposed conference, until communique was approved by Lyle Jackson $crlbed the reappearance of the cause of bad weather, also dam­ that job is done. Prime Minister Attlee, Premier Chicllgo from Japanese interceptors as "a des­ Toqay's aged the great Nagoya naval at·­ Urces Top Men Stalin and President Truman senol, naval docks and buildings Apprlasln&, their work In the invited 10 ' I paration move" prompted by the 85 Point Requirement Vandenberg, a delegate to the ul Maizu ru, four main buildings of SURROUNDED BY STERN-FACED French J)OlIce Pierre Laval, ac­ heart of a. once powerful enemy air blockade which hns cut otf the Slln Francisco conference which cused arch -C)OlIaboratlonlst with the Nads while he was premier the hprnelonds from rood, fuel and To Be Effective the K3nto Special Steel company set up Ihe United Nations organi­ 0' stale, they spoke of "Important Iowan and the Japanese Intern3tiona I Vlohy government of France, Is placed under a.rrest upon hIs arrival decisions and afreement.," of other essen tilils. Until Late Next Fall zation, urged that top men in each a.t Le BOUT&,et airdrome In Paris. Standln &, In tront and to the rlrht ot AiI'cl'a ft company, both 31 llirat­ of the nation's economic dIvisions stren,thened ties, of a "renewe4 A spokeSmAn said final repOrts her husband, is Madame Laval, her head covered with a seraf. She of Tuesday's strlkes at shlppln, suka, near Tokyo, follow the eX3mple set on the west conference with their &,overnDlenta WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bil' Three announces resul;s accompanied him In his Wcht to surrender to American for es at around Kyushu added 13 ships * * * at Nimitz' communiquc was issued coast when delegates from 50 na­ and peoples, to&,ether with the army turned thumbs down yester­ histol'ic Pot s dam conference while l our Japa nese cities and a tions sat together and "frankly Lim;, Austria, from Barcelolla, Spain. Laval Is indicated at "X", other United Nations, will eJUlure ,UlIk or damared, brlnrlnr the with plans to , establish pe'ace day on proposals tor fa ster demo­ bi g oil refi nel'Y center sti II smoul­ faced " their problems in a "tri­ the creation of a ~ust and endurlD&, Iotal to %9 ships 01 approximAtely mechanjsms in EUrope. tS,oot tons, bilization nnd emphasized tha t dered from the greatest aeriul raid umph of the council table," PARIS (AP)* *- *Pierre Laval, doubtedly would* * mean" * the trial peaee." The total included four freight­ stand by postponing indefinitely in histot,y, und rad io Tokyo de­ In Ne~'(ork , h:.a .Mosher, pres­ Specificlllly, they: ll~(} U. I'd HI'itt h planE'S chief..,.oJ' .. U1 VicI'\.Y gov I'nment, WOUld b prolonged for by dllYs. cia}' 'd Ul;>l VI -jTl\':a:ion {rial id~nt of the National Associatlon 1.
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