Note to Gen. Ueda: We still don’t believe it
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Sub USS Trigger presumed lost
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Casualty total reaches 1,036,937
WASHINGTON (UP) – Announced U.S. combat casualties reached 1,036,937 today, an increase of 6,258 in the past week.
The total includes 239,533 killed. The Army listed 911,397 of the overall figures, with Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties totaling 125,540.
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, announcing the Army figures, revealed that Jap casualties in Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands to June 28 were estimated at 118,000. He said they included 107,046 killed and 10,578 prisoners. American ground casualties in the same islands to June 27 totaled 8,252 killed, 34,165 wounded and 1,781 missing.
The overall U.S. casualties table:
| Army | Navy | TOTAL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killed | 191,684 | 47,849 | 239,533 |
| Wounded | 566,117 | 62,236 | 628,353 |
| Missing | 38,343 | 11,237 | 49,580 |
| Prisoners | 115,253 | 4,218 | 119,471 |
| TOTAL | 911,397 | 125,540 | 1,036,937 |
Farben official tells of profits in Nazi wars
Warns of repetition unless controlled
By Marshal McNeil, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Governors propose study of nation’s food problems
Committee authorized to seek remedies; Martin elected new conference chairman
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MacArthur going to Curtin funeral
Australian Premier dies in sleep
John Curtin, led in war on Japs
CANBERRA, Australia (UP) – Gen. Douglas MacArthur was hurrying here today for the special state funeral to be held tomorrow for Australian Premier John Curtin.
Mr. Curtin died from heart disease at 4 a.m. today at Canberra Lodge, his official residence. He died in his sleep.
Gen. MacArthur immediately sent the Duke of Gloucester word he would speed here by plane from the South Pacific battle areas. The Duke, in a message to Mr. Curtin’s widow, called his death “a shattering blow to Australia.”
In Manila, Gen. MacArthur issued the following statement:
He was one of the greatest of wartime statesmen, and the preservation of Australia from invasion will be his immemorial monument. I mourn him deeply.
After the service here, Mr. Curtin’s body will be flown 2,000 miles across Australia to be buried at the little Karrakatta Cemetery, at Claremont, in West Australia, from where he first went to Parliament in 1928. He was 60 years old when he died.
Acting Prime Minister Francis M. Forde will continue to run the government until the Labor Party elects a new leader.
All flags flew at half-staff today throughout the Commonwealth for the policeman’s son who led Australia through her darkest days. He became premier three months before the Pacific war began.