Strike halts filmmaking in Hollywood
Jurisdictional row leaves 15,000 idle
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Dewey signs bill outlawing discrimination
Various groups attend Germany
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Bill introduced in New Jersey
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Perkins: 18,000 attend CIO’s debut as ‘world voice’
U.S., British, Soviet cooperation hailed
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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War industry probers told –
Men think $18 a day enough so they earn that and quit
Assignment of quotas also assailed as cutting down maximum output
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Simms: Should Allies kill Hirohito as criminal?
Emperor regarded as deity by Japs
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Top officers won’t hazard guess on date for victory
Eisenhower and aides prepared to keep fighting all the way to Berlin
By Henry J. Taylor
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Adm. Ingram: V-bomb attack on East Coast still possible
60-day danger period passes without attack
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Fight for Iwo moving near mop-up stage
1,000 Japs remain in shrinking pocket
GUAM (UP) – The 23-day battle of Iwo neared the mop-up stage today.
Marines of the 5th Marine Division were gradually crushing the last organized resistance in a shrinking pocket along the north coast of the tiny island only 750 miles south of Tokyo.
Probably fewer than 1,000 of the original garrison of 20,000 remained in the pocket, but they were fighting to the death against Marines armed with flamethrowers, tanks and guns. Their backs to the sea, they faced only death or capture – and few prisoners were being taken.
The campaign along the northeast and east coasts was already in the mop-up phase. The 3rd and 4th Marine Divisions were rounding up scattered enemy snipers in the rock-ribbed area. Only a single enemy pocket of resistance remained by 6 p.m. yesterday.
Army fighters bombed and strafed targets on Chichi in the Bonin Islands north of Iwo Jima in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire yesterday.
Liberators of the 11th Army Air Force bombed installations at Suribachi on Paramushiru and Kataoka on Shumushu in the Northern Kuril Islands north of Japan Sunday.
Editorial: Next step in the Pacific
With the Marines now mopping up Iwo Jima enemy remnants in the bloodiest battle of the war, and Gen. MacArthur successfully invading the large southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a new phase in the Pacific war is about to begin. Hence the top flight strategy conferences in Washington and Chungking.
The President, fresh from his meeting with Prime Minister Churchill, has talked with all of our ranking officials in the Far East except Gen. MacArthur – including Adm. Nimitz, and Gen. Wedemeyer and Ambassador Hurley from China. Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied commander in Southeast Asia, went to Chungking to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and American officers.
Our chiefs of staff are putting the finishing touches on plans for the big push in the Pacific. It is not supposed that the Jap home islands can be taken quickly after Germany’s collapse. On the contrary, several months after European victory will be required to shift troops and materials in the Far East. But the plans must be made now and part of the process started if we are to be ready when the time comes.
In the meantime, thanks to the Iwo Jima and Philippine victories, we are in position for much more effective softening-up action against the enemy. From Iwo our medium bombers can strike Tokyo and our fighting planes can escort the Superfortress raids. From Gen. MacArthur’s Philippine fields our planes can blast the China coast, only 700 miles away. Equally important they can blanket the South China Sea, Japan’s main supply line.
Whether the next strike will be against the Dutch East Indies, Formosa or islands nearer Japan, or the China coast, the enemy command will not know until the blow falls. We now have sufficient sea and air control and bases to pick any of those spots for attack.
Our high command, however, is anxious for the American public to understand one thing. Although Japan has lost the initiative, she still has a strong defensive position. Adm. Nimitz points out that the enemy’s defensive advantages include: Geographical position and shorter supply lines than ours, ability to produce planes almost as fast as we destroy them, a fanatical fighting spirit, and a strong army of which 90 percent has not been reached by our island warfare.
The conclusion is obvious. Any letdown on the American home front would be disastrous. The biggest battles are ahead of us. The Army, Navy and Marine victories to date have put us in position for heavier blows, but those blows depend on more production, more blood banks, more supplies of all kinds.