Mine contract being delayed by one issue
But both sides urge acceptance
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Veteran, 108, dies
MINNEAPOLIS – Henry Mack, oldest veteran of the Civil War, died at the Veterans Hospital here yesterday at the age of 108. A former Negro slave, Mack suffered a fractured leg in a fall last December.
Okinawa victims arrive at Guam
GUAM (UP) – Wounded Marines and soldiers from Okinawa Island arrived here simultaneously today aboard a hospital ship and the first Navy evacuation plane to land in the Ryukyus.
The wounded on the hospital ship were men who had been hit early in the campaign but the big four-engined R5D – Navy’s version of the Army’s flying ambulance – carried 23 patients wounded Saturday and one who had been hit this morning.
Aboard the plane was Ens. Jane Kendeigh of Henrietta, Ohio, who was the first nurse to land at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
The hospital ship brought 431 patients. Nine men died en route.
Lower status for foremen predicted if they unionize
GM president says action would put another layer between labor, management
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Perkins: World labor party shunned by AFL
Against too close a tie with government
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Loan program biggest fizzle of G.I. rights
Man who can qualify won’t need U.S. aid
By Ned Brooks, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Jap pilots get ‘morale’ wine
OKINAWA – This label was bound on a bottle of sake – a white Jap wine – confiscated by our advancing troops.
Aviation grape sake. Army provisions depot. Description: A special strong, refined mixture is added to this delicious grape sake to overcome exhaustion and to restore good spirits quickly. NOTICE: Use to restore spirits after landing. Do not use to excess before flying. (Signed) Okuro Grape Sake Co., Inc.
Civilians cause little trouble on Okinawa
30,000 surrender in first week
By William McGaffin
WITH THE U.S. TENTH ARMY ON OKINAWA – Okinawan civilians, surrendering by the thousands, are giving so little trouble that we are already turning them loose in the fields to harvest their crops and allowing them to live in their own villages instead of in camps.
By the end of our first week on Okinawa, 30,000 civilians had given themselves up. Mostly these natives are farmers and fishermen. The former live in villages and work little patches of sweet potatoes – their subsistence.
It is too early yet to make much of a generalization, of course, said Lt. Col. Donald T. Winder of Oak Park, Illinois, military government officer for the Marine III Amphibious Corps, but, from experience to date, the civilian problem looks as if it will be much easier than many people had expected.
Met them at Saipan
As for the colonel himself, he says he is not much surprised for he learned the caliber of these civilians when he first met them at Saipan.
The situation, Col. Winder said, is much better here than at Saipan in some respects. There has not been a single suicide here as far as he has heard. But, of course, he adds, only a relatively small percentage of the island’s 500,000 people has been heard from so far.
Many of these people seem to have ties with America and to be eager to demonstrate their sympathy with us.
Col. Winder said that we are having no trouble getting civilians to surrender – in fact they are coming in faster than we can take care of them.
“You let two persons go back to get clothes and coffee pots and they return with 50 others.”
Observe curfew
Civilians are well disciplined, observe the curfew well and give us little trouble. They have tried no sabotage to Col. Winder’s knowledge.
There are comparatively few wounded as most of hem took refuge in homemade shelters or fled to caves and valleys. The injured are being treated now in civilian hospitals that we have set up.
Try to share food
They are so grateful for medical assistance that they try to share their food with us. At first, we gave them K rations. Now they are getting brown, native rice from the large stocks we have found in caves and abandoned stores.
The Marines are doing their share to keep the kids happy. The children stand grinning along the dusty roads yelling “Chow, chow” – it didn’t take long for them to pick up the Marine word for food. And it always brings a shower of candy bars from passing Marines.
Villages to which Okinawans have returned are pretty well demolished by our pre-invasion bombing and shelling. But the natives seem to bear us no ill will, at least outwardly.