Sailor hatches six chicks in locker aboard destroyer
Funny things happen in Pacific; swimming Jap asks his own $64 question
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Jap ‘Butcher of Bataan’ may be in hiding on Luzon
If he hasn’t escaped by plane or sub, Yamashita faces surrender or hari-kari
By Ralph Teatsorth, United Press staff writer
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Buddhist chants, symbols rout ghosts from prison
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Japs trapped in Burma flood
Launch small attacks in effort to escape
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Chinese attack to hold coast
Check Jap spearhead south of Amoy
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Youngstown Vindicator (July 15, 1945)
Expect Big Three to rush plans, meet tonight
Where Big 3 will meet
Map locates Potsdam, outside Berlin, where President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin will meet. Sessions will begin Monday or Tuesday.
LONDON, England (UP, July 14) – President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin converged on the shattered German capital of Berlin tonight.
They will confer there amid the ruins wrought by their armies in search of the means of an enduring world peace.
The advance guard of their top advisers were arriving at the closely-guarded capital. The three leaders themselves are expected to confer for the first time at suburban Potsdam Sunday night, opening a historic 10-day conference which will seek agreement on an intricate maze of political, economic and military problems. Detailed discussions official party will enter waiting automobiles for a 45-to-60-minute drive to Brussels where they will board the presidential C-54 plane for the two-and-a-half-hour flight to Potsdam, near Berlin. Sawyer will accompany the party as far as Brussels.
The route from Antwerp to Brussels will be guarded by American troops. The conference will begin Monday.
Last-minute preparations in the sealed-off conference area of Hohenzollern palaces and woodlands at Potsdam set the stage for the meeting. A freshly-painted green and white barrier guards the road into the forbidden zone. Green-capped Russian troops manned the barrier and stood guard at 50-yard intervals along the highway.
All visitors barred
All visitors, including newspapermen, were forbidden to pass the barrier. Marshal Stalin of Russia was host as he was at Yalta. Potsdam is in the Russian occupation zone.
A small airfield in the British zone of Berlin has been isolated, and it is probable that Prime Minister Churchill will arrive there by plane from his vacation castle at Hendaye.
Dispatches from Berlin said President Truman and Marshal Stalin were expected to arrive in the United States and Russian sectors respectively. The Big Three probably will greet each other for the first time in the vast Potsdam Palace set aside for the conference.
The first important arrivals set down at two secret areas a few miles from Berlin early this evening. Their identities and the areas where they landed could not be disclosed, as the whole meeting is surrounded with comprehensive security precautions.
Americans reach Gibraltar
Dispatches from Gibraltar said a huge American transport plane landed there early Saturday, loaded with Americans. Names of those aboard and their destination were matters of secrecy. The plane left almost immediately.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill was still at Hendaye early Saturday, but dispatches from Berlin during the day said he was expected to arrive “in the most imminent future” together with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Labor Leader Clement Attlee.
Prime Minister T. V. Soong of China left Moscow for Chungking at dawn Saturday after more than a week of discussions with Stalin and prominent Soviet leaders.
Will be resumed
These discussions were only interrupted by the Big Three meeting, Moscow dispatches said, and will be resumed in about three weeks. The British press speculated that Soong had asked Stalin to join China’s allies in the war against Japan.
Resumption of the Sino-Soviet talks in Moscow will be paralleled by Anglo-American talks in London, where preparations are already begin made to receive President Truman after the Big Three conference. British officials planning for his reception are working on a tentative arrival date of July 25. The American President is expected to say at Buckingham Palace for three days as the guest of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Chennault: Train Chinese, they can free China
By Steffan Andrews, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Petain may base defense hope on American foreign policy
Asks Leahy to stand by him; may want Hull to testify
By Carl D. Sorest, Associated Press staff writer
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Eliot: Jap planes ‘hiding out’
Spread out over nation, await ‘big show’ when invasion comes
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot
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Saipan’s Jap civilians are put to work to keep selves
By Bonnie Wiley, Associated Press staff writer
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Clothes? Plenty by fall; milady’s styles are American with pinup girl influence
By Dorothy Roe, Associated Press fashion editor
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France needs help to rise
But industrial and financial revolution will be required
By Dorothy Pickles in BBC broadcast
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Stowe: The liquidation of feudalism
Soviet Russia liberating 15 million peasants in Poland, Hungary, East Prussia and Rumania, and improving lot of as many more
By Leland Stowe
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Rev. Kinder: Take vacation from religion?
We need spiritual exercise more than the other kinds
By the Rev. William R. Kinder
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U.S. State Department (July 15, 1945)
Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference
Sunday, July 15:
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1004: The Augusta moored (port side to) to the municipal dock (Compagnia Maritime dock) at Antwerp. (Total distance traveled, Newport News to Antwerp – 3837 miles.) The Philadelphia tied up astern of the Augusta.
Waiting on the dock to welcome the President were a delegation of Belgian officials, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS (the Allied Supreme Commander), Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN (Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe), Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee, AUS (Commanding General, Communications Zone, European Theatre), Major General G. Surtees (Commanding General, British Base and Lines of Communication), Brigadier General E. F. Koenig, AUS (Commanding General, Chanor Section), Ambassador Charles Sawyer and Mrs. Sawyer, Major DeWitt Greer, Supervising Agent Anheier, Agents Rowley, Waters, Holmes, Campion, Torina, Boring, Kauffman, and Behn. …
1110: The President, accompanied by his party, left the ship…
1115: The President and party embarked in waiting motor cars and departed for Brussels. There were approximately forty automobiles in the long motor car caravan. Riding with the President were Secretary Byrnes and Ambassador Sawyer.
1230: The President and party arrived at the Brussels-Evere airport (B-58), several miles northwest [northeast?] of the city of Brussels. (Approximate distance traveled, Antwerp to airfield – 35 miles.) General Eisenhower, Admiral Stark and General Lee accompanied the President to the airfield.
Awaiting us at the field were Supervising Agent McGrath and Agents Barry, Gorham and Walker.
The President was accorded honors here by a band and 400 picked men of the 137th Infantry Regiment. He then reviewed the honor guard. Each man in the guard was a “five-star” combat man. The President spoke with some of them before boarding his plane.
Plane No. 2 (a C-54 – Major Jesse Hayes pilot) was the first to take to the air and departed Brussels at 1245. Passengers were: Secretary Byrnes, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Bohlen, Brigadier General E. S. Hoag, AUS (ATC representative), Lt-Colonel A. M. McIntire, AUS (ATC liaison), Commander Tyree, Lieut. Elsey, Lieut. Edelstein, Lieut. Rigdon, Captain Graham, and Secret Service Agents Anheier, Hipsley, Torina, Waters, Holmes, McGrath and Boring.
At 1300 the President’s plane (C-54, the “Sacred Cow”, piloted by Lt-Colonel Henry T. Myers) departed for Berlin. Passengers were: The President, Admiral Leahy, Mr. Ross, General Vaughan, Captain McMahon, Captain Vardaman, Mr. Canfil, and Secret Service Agents Maloney, Drescher, O’Driscoll and Rowley.
At 1315 plane No, 3 (C-54) departed Brussels for Berlin. Embarked were: Ensign Fleener, Ship’s Clerk Hoying, Chief Pharmacist’s Mate Preston C. Taylor, USN (of the Augusta, who accompanied us to the Conference as Captain McMahon’s assistant), Chief Photographer’s Mate Belknap, Chief Stewards Prettyman, Abiba, Bautista, Calinao, Custodio and Estrada, and Chief Cooks Floresca, Olivares, Ordona, Orig, Palomaria and Licodo, Sergeant Philler, Secret Service Agents Behn, Kellerman, Gorham, Barry, Haman and Weir, and Lieutenant C. D. Sherman (ATC liaison).
Our baggage was transported in two C-47s. A third C-47 was dispatched to Tempelhof Airport, Berlin with the seven White House newspaper correspondents and photographers accompanying the Presidential party. They proceeded on to Berlin despite the knowledge that, by agreement between the Big Three, they were not to be permitted to enter conference area.
The route followed by our flight was from Brussels to Liege, thence to Frankfurt, to Kassel, to Magdeburg and to Berlin (Gatow airport). We picked up a fighter escort (P-47s) at Frankfurt that accompanied us on to Berlin. Twelve fighters covered the President’s plane and four each, planes No. 2 and No. 3. From Frankfurt to Berlin we were over Kussian-controlled territory and were required to stay within a ten-mile air corridor.
Plane No. 2 arrived at Gatow at 1558. (Distance traveled, Antwerp to Berlin, 460 miles.) Plane No. 1 arrived at 1613. Plane No. 3 arrived at 1628.
The President disembarked at once and was greeted here by a large delegation including Secretary Stimson, Assistant Secretary McCloy, Assistant Secretaries Clayton and Dunn, Ambassadors Harriman, Pauley and Murphy, Fleet Admiral King, Minister Lubin, Lieutenant General Clay, Major General Floyd Parks (Commanding General, Headquarters Berlin District), Soviet Ambassador Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador Gusev.
Honors were accorded the President here by a detachment from the Second Armored Division (“Hell on Wheels”). The President then inspected the honor guard.
At 1630 the President and party departed Gatow for his quarters in Babelsberg, approximately 10 miles distant. Secretary Byrnes, Ambassador Pauley, General Vaughan and Captain Vardaman rode in the car with the President.
We passed through a section of Potsdam en route from Gatow to Babelsberg. Part of the route was guarded by American and British troops, but the greater part of the route was patrolled by green-capped Soviet frontier guardsmen as this was a Soviet-controlled area. The American and British delegations to the conference were housed in Babelsberg in little territorial “islands” within the Soviet-occupied zone [sector] of Greater Berlin.
1700: The President and party arrived at his assigned quarters in Babelsberg. Babelsberg is a suburb of Berlin, about 12 miles southwest of the city, between Berlin and Potsdam. It lies along winding Griebnitz Lake and is in a thickly wooded area. It has a pleasant climate at this time of the year, with an average mean temperature in the low 60’s. The town was quite popular with the Germans as a summer resort and was also the seat of Germany’s movie colony.
The President’s quarters at No. 2 Kaiser Strasse (called the “Little White House”) was a three-story stucco residence which was formerly occupied by the head of the German movie colony, who is now with a labor battalion somewhere in Russia. It is right on Lake Griebnitz and is surrounded on three sides by groves of trees and shrubbery forming a very beautiful garden that reaches down to the lake. The house was stripped of its furnishings during the war but had been refurnished by the Russians. It was nicely furnished during our stay but, like most European homes, the bathroom and bathing facilities were wholly inadequate. Nor was it screened, so that the mosquitoes gave us a “working over” during our first few nights there until the weather had cooled somewhat.
The President occupied a suite on the second floor (north side), consisting of bedroom, sitting room, office and breakfast room. He also had a private sunporch outside his office. Secretary Byrnes occupied a suite (bedroom, sitting room and office) on the first floor. Also in residence here were Admiral Leahy, Mr. Ross, General Vaughan, Captain McMahon, Captain Vardaman, Mr. Bohlen, Mr. Matthews, Lieutenant Rigdon, Ensign Fleener, Ship’s Clerk Hoying and Chief Warrant Officers Caldwell and Stoner.
The President maintained his own mess at Babelsberg, employing Filipino cooks and stewards brought from the Potomac. Messing with the President were Secretary Byrnes, Admiral Leahy, Mr. Ross, General Vaughan, Captain McMahon and Captain Vardaman. Food supplies and bottled water were brought from Washington and from the Augusta. Additional supplies were obtained through the Army Mess Officer at Babelsberg. Other members of the party messed in various Army officer messes in the area.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and State Department parties also lived in Babelsberg in close proximity to the Little White House.
A map room and communications center was installed in the President’s house with direct wire service to Frankfurt and Washington. The center was staffed by Colonel Bowen, Commander Tyree, Major Greer, Lieutenant Elsey, Captain Graham, Ship’s Clerk Hoying, Warrant Officers Caldwell and Stoner and Sergeant Philler. The White House party had its own telephone exchange (“Amco”). The switchboard was set up in the basement of the President’s house and was operated by WACs, Cpl. Alma Bradley, Cpl. Mary Whiteus, Cpl. Charlotte Szostek, and Cpl. Eleanor Moynihan, of the WAC Detachment, Headquarters Command, USFET (Main).
The Prime Minister lived at 23 Ringstrasse in Babelsberg – about two blocks from the Little White House. His was a similarly large house but perhaps a bit better furnished than the President’s. Generalissimo Stalin also resided in Babelsberg, about one mile from the Little White House, on the route from the White House to Cecilienhof where the conference meetings were held. This arrangement required that the President and the Prime Minister make a three-mile drive for each session of the conference, while the Generalissimo had a much shorter distance to travel.
The Filipino messmen went into action immediately on arrival at the Little White House and at 1800 dinner was served the President and his party. Mr. Cohen, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Bohlen dined at the Little White House as guests of the President. Mr. Maloney, Mr. Drescher and Mr. Rowley were subsisted from the President’s mess during our stay at Babelsberg. They ate in a separate dining room, however.
After dinner, Ambassadors Harriman and Pauley called on the President.
Having had a full day, the President and most members of the party retired early this evening. It was still light at midnight, as this country has but about four hours of darkness each night at this time of the year. This was not conducive to much rest as one seemed to forget to go to bed until it was dark.