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lARA'S FANATIC DEFENSE GIVING AWAY

CARRIER FRANKLIN CAME BACK
BUT SUFFERED MORE THAN 1,000
CASUALTIES FROM BOMB ATTACK
to Germany a*
She Justine
teday.
departure w I

in GetHa will be
under American
department

said

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wtf. U. S. army au(tommy may take

they se fit when
department
bailed
order on Kuhn 3
of a c me

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Kuhfl was uaturatlited
jus'to department
b took his oath ot
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By JOSEPH L..MYLER
Washington, May 18(UP)
Big Ben hus come back from the
most terrible U. S. ship disaster in
tlis war and will right againon
borrowed lime.
Behind her in the bloody Pacific, where for 15 hours' she was
a flaming funeral pyre for heroes,
she left more than 1,000 casualties
as the price uf her .survival. It was
the heaviest price thus far paid
by an American: fighting ship in
World War ii. It was twice the
cost of the entire battle of the
Coral sea
Big Bon Is the USS franklin,
27.000-ton Essex class carrier. An
hour after dawn on March ID, as
she stood 60 miles off Japan, she
was as proud and trim a warship
ss ever rode the waves. She was
a carrier division flagship poised
to strike with other -units of Vice
Admiral Marc MHseiior's
Task
force 58 at remnants of the Japanese fleet In the inland sea.
A few minutes later, because
one Japanese dive-bomber got
through, she was a volcanic chaoj
ot bursting bombs, flaming gasoline, and exploding rockets and
gun ammunition.
By nightfall she counted her
heroes high in the hundreds, the
dead at 341, her missing at 431,
ami her wounded at more than
300.
Big Ben's story can be told now
because she came back.
After
steaming 12,000 miles under her
own unquenchable power, Big
Ben, unrecognizably seared and
battered and mangled, is home at
long last in a berth at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy yard! There she
will be made wbcde again.
The Japanese bomb'er, its ap-

proach undected, caught the carrier at the moment of greatest vulnerability when its planes
were
being launched, its gasoline lines
were full and flowing, and
its
bomb and rocket stores exposed.
Prom the time the enemys two
500-pound armor-piercing bombs
found their marks until the'agony
was over, -Big Ben took enough
punishment to kill
a hundred
ships, enough to wreck a city.
In the hours ot her orclca'l, 200,000 pounds of the carrier's own
bombs, rockets and ammunition
blow up, and an estimated 12,000
pallons of high octane
aviation
gasoline either burned in cascades
of flame or exploded in volcanic
eruptions.
;
Of the ship's
complement of
more than 2,500 sailors and men
01 air group 13, many scores died
in a flash. Other hundreds were
blown into the sea, where many
drowned. Fire, fumes'and smoke
trapped and killed still others below decks.
Heroic rescue work, brilliant
seamanship, and incredibly efficient damage control operations
saved many hundreds. The exact number of survivors remains
undisclosed because the navy does
not want the enemy to know just
how many men the Franklin carried.
But at least 706 of the crew survived to sail the carrier from the
scene of disaster, and other hundreds of sailors and airmen were
removed and kept -in the Pacific
The Japanese reported Big Ben
sunk, and the navy admits thai
"she should by all accounts have
gone to the bottom." .

BLAST
LIFE FUTILE, SAYS
NAZI LEADER LEY, WAY DEEP INTO
ITHOUTfLER CITY'SJESSES

Farewell to a Fellow Hero

:
,
(Navy Photo from NEA)
The dramatically composed photo above shows Lt. Comcir. Joseph- O'Callahan, of Boston, chaplain
aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin, administering last rites to an injured crewman. When Japanese
aomb hits set off thousands of pounds of bombs and ammunition aboard'the carrier, Father,O'Callahan
himself was one of the outstanding heroes in the fight to save the gallant ship.

NOT. SUSPECTED
TIKE BUI

Late News
Bulletin*

NAZI PHYSICIANS
MAYBE
FORTI

BY WILLIAM F. TYREE
By JACK FLEISCHER
Guam. May 18(UP) Front
Sixth U.-. S. Army Group, Germany, May 18(UP) Dr. rtob- j reports said marines of the Sixth
division were cracking fanatic
ert Ley, former German
Uborj Japanese resistance deep inside
front leader, told his American! the rubble fo Naha, capital of
captors today to shoot him be- . Okinawa, today.
cause "life .has no more ms'.an-! Early conquest of Naha, once
Ing for me" without Hitler. .
[ a thriving city of 65,000, was ex"I knew that after Hitler there pected despite savage opposition.
would be chaos," said the one-An apparent'Japanese plan to turn
time leader of . strength- through the capital into a Japanese Cassino
joy 'movement. "Life has no more that would hold o'ut for months
meaning for me. You can do away seemed doomed.
The marines already . were.
with me. Shoot me right _now. I
across the Asato river several
don't care."
hundred yards inside the ruined
Quietly defiant, Ley said:
"f myself shall' always remain j city in strength and steadily were
loyal ^to Hitler and the Nazi par- expanding their bridgehead.
The defenders, probably comty program."
Ley once was a pot-bellied, bull- prising the bulk of : 30,000. Japnecked, hard-drinking, profane anese.troops in southern Okinawa,
labor boss. Today there were attempted to dupe" marine patrols
neither strength nor joy lef* in which crbssecj. the Asato iri adhim as" he languished in a 15'th vance of the main thrust by percorps prisoner, of war cage. He mitting them to-roam, the inner
appeared to weigh no more. than city unmolested for as long as
150 pounds, and he wai cold so- five hours.
But once the main American
ber.
forces struck across the river, the
A Nazi To The End
Japanese opened up with everyHowever he was Nazi to the thing they had, and the fight was
last.
.
on.
"You cannot kill off 80,000,000
One mile beyond Naha lay an
Germans," he said.""We Nazis even bigger prize than the capital
will continue. You don't know itself Naha airfield, fifth and
who. most of them are."
largest airfitld on Okinawa.
He pointed through a window
Three other marine and army
to Austrian flags flying in Salz- divisions machine-gunned and
burg's streets. "Many of those bayonetted their way deeper into
flying them are the most fanatic the defenses of tha other two
Nazis."
anchor strongholds of the enemy's
Ley calmly denied1 that foreigb Okinawa line, Shuri and th east
workers in Germany were'staves. coast port of Yonabaru.
He said'they all had. worked-'volAll four divisions were supportuntarily, and that he had followed ed by naval guns, land artillery
orders to feed everybody alike and planes that were laying down
who worked, Germans and for- one of the heaviest bombardments
eigners.
in history. In.the first 45 dayi of
Neither, j would Ley admit that the campaign, warship's alone
he had liquidated the old German hurled 25,000 tons of shell and
.explosives into Okinawa.
trade labor unions."
. "I merely took , them ovr,"
was his explanation. "Their organizations still were the*. "Irf
fact some of their treasuries are
larger:"
He admitted he supported the
Nazi policy of persecuting Jews
except "kiUing them outright."
But he also said "as such, Jews
don't exist for me."
Last Saw Hitler April 20
London. May 18(UP) . Lt.
Ley said .he last saw Hitler in
the Berlin chancellory- on Apri! Gen. Tadeusz Kbmorowski, lead20th when he congratulated the er of the abortive uprising against
fuehrer on his birthday. H said the Germans in Warsaw last fall,
he asked how the situation was. j said he was treated more harshly
and Hitler replied that it was! than other prisoners after he fell.
serious but he thought he could! into German hands.
handle it.
'
~
j "Several hundred British officThe labor front leader' said Sit-! ers can testify that I was treated
ler was in good health then, and more severely than the o*ers,"
the first, he knew ot his death Komorowski said at a press oonwas when he heard it on the ference in the Polish embassy.
Komorowski, who was the "genGerman radio.
Ley claimed that after the sur- eral Bor"-.of the Polish 'home
render of Germany he walked army, was released from an Althrough the American lines to the pine prison camp last week and
vicinity of Cologne to see his; was' flown to Britain earlier this
wife and children. He . said she j week.
had been killed and he didn't! He said he still favored Polishknow where the children v/'ere. < Russian cooperation, and his home
Ley claimed 'he walked back to army numbering- 300,000 followed
such a policy.,. '
Austria.
"9 believed the common strugWhen he was captured by troops
of the 101st Airborne. division] gle might establish .better telaWednesday afternoon. he was tions between Poland and Rusgrowing a beard and tried to deny I sia," he said. Asked if he still behis identity. Today he was clean lieved that, he replied that he
shaven and he readily admitted ; was "still willing" to beli-eve it.
his name to Lt. Albert Komblum,! Bor said he knew that Polish
New Haven, Conn.
i leaders now reported under arrest and accused of creating diversionary activities in Red army
areas.
'
"They were in ^Warsaw at the
time of the uprising," he said. "I
knew them as patriots and good
Democrats."

Detroit, May 18(UP) Five

hundred " residents of Harrison
township, east of Mt. ^Clemens,
a 1)35, Kuhtt wai convicted In
have fled their homes before, the.
jprifork i!st court ot grand
overflowing Clinton river as the
as? sad forgery Involving
BY W: K. HIGGINBOTHAM
By MALCOLM MUIR
{taidi.Ihls was within years
London, May 18(UP)The
Paris, May . 18(UP)- -This weather bureau predicted that
a to to Bitty, the justice deFrench .capital, was turned into an drenching: rains that have swollen United'Nations war. crimes comthe Clinton and'the BouseDriver mission was revealed -today to be
Hid. Kuhn originally
(Continued on Page Five) ' armed csmp.ipr ten' tense days last to flood stage will end today.
to Ih* United States
considering the indictment of
Deceinb'er..;.vvhen :.scpyes.-pf .Gewan
ratdfic itt t028.
secret]' agents 'were,, reported
Cb.ungkiii.sr. Chinese troops leading German physicians . and
In the
prowling through..the city under have advanced to within 18 miles scientists for the deaths of thouK:M at.jpflltenttafy
at
orders'-to murder Gen. Dwight D.. northwest of Paoching: in pursuit sands of persons in Nazi "human
DasKtfa. Hi wu de-BaturatizEisenhower, Allied, counter-intel- of a beaten Japanese column fall- guinea pig" experiments.
tf IBM. -Shortly after his reVictims of ruthless human vivifiAPorn
Mitirno
ligence headquarters revealed to- ing back on that western Hunan
Imttm p*ia h was interned
base, a communique reported to- section and experimental injecday.
,
;
'
,
.
,
'
it Jty'l 1943, it the enemy alien
tions were slave workers and poBreaking their months-long sil- day.
_____
litical prisoners seized in terriMalta Wfflp la Crystal City,
ence on the.reported assassination
London.The U. S. Eifhlh air tories occupied'by Germany, inand his son Walter
plot, which at one time was .. ac- force
announced today that Col. vestigators for the commission
to the camp with him,
cepted as true even by high-rank- James Stewart, former film star, said.
Sit tat repatriated en th exing Allied staff officers, counter- .has been promoted to wing- comTwo groups of investigators,
tSttH slip Ofipsholm In Kebru*
Washington, May 18(UP)
Washington, May 18(UP)' intelligence . spokesmen said the
mander in the second air division. one Czechoslovak and one Polish,
Following Is "Ih war loan
, IMi taiy, with another son
The hard coal crisis apparently attack on Elsenhower, never was
were' slated to leave London for
statement br Gen. Omar N.
aid, HI now living
in
had blown over today as swiftly actually attempted..
the continent today at the invitaNAZIS.
FRIGHTENED
Bradley, commander of the
tony.
They disclosed that
guards
as it came the might of April 30.
tion of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow12th army group- in Belgium:
Ot Feb. 21, 1944, Kuhn was
Seventy-two thousand Penn- were posted all over Paris.during AS RUMORS SPREAD OF
er to investigate charges against
"The victory volunteer who
fcuferrtdtotit detention camp
sylvania anthracite miners, on the abortive German offensive in RED OCCUPATION
the medical- profession of Gercalls upon you at your home
aXttti3f,lx,,Md in August he
strike since midnight of the day th.e Ardennes last December after
many.
or place of work speaks for
Jnlt9?t.3tnten, N. Me*.
before May clay, were expected to a captured Nazi soldier declared With U. S. Eighth Corps, CenThe disclosure came as the bag
every soldier when he asks
Set h paftisipated In a hunger
oc back -digging coal on Monday. that an elaborate
scheme was tral Germany, May 18(UP) of accused German war criminals
you to buy extra war bonds.
a *hih WM going on among
In the meantime a total of afoot to kill Eisenhower.
Thousands of frightened Ger- and
Nazi sympathizers* grew
News of your personal partiafatM nd was placed In a'
nbout 3,230,000 tons .of hard coal In Many Uniforms
mans 'crowded the highways in a steadily. Latest to fall into the Alcipation
Iti
the
seventh
war
fH&t sfocksdt with about
a
estimated by Fuel Administrator
mass exodus from the heart of lied net were said to be:
loan U the best kind of news
** <ffi tmublesoma prisoners
Harold L. Ickes to be enough to At that time a high Allied of- Germany today as rumors spread
Lt. Col. Otto Skorzenymaster
from
home."
.
ficer
told
the
United
Press
tfcat
to tffltt eaaifis. He will remain
heat all the houses in a city like
that Russians soon would occupy Mussolini and wanted as a war
Baltimore for an entire winter enemy agents were entering the the _area.
until time for his
Mussolin aincl wanted as a war
has remained under the ground. Paris area In American, British
Germany, the GEN. KESSLER ONLY
There was, no official'
con- criminal. :for plotting the assassinand
French
uniforms
in
bands
of
Ickes
moved
swiftly
.yesterday
ONE OF THAT RANK
said.
firmation of the., occupation ru- ation, of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenlo end the deadlocked wage nego- three to 20 men, bent on slaying mors but civilians' have been hower and other Allied leaders.
ABOARD NAZI SUB
tiations between John L. Lewis' Eisenhower and blowing .up the. streaming down the highways in
Max Schmellng:former world
J&fcp*swaggering, grinning
Washington, May 18(UP) United Mine Workers, represent- city waterworks' and transporta- 'alarmingly increasing number: heavyweight champion. He said
*&. "htiled Hitler" through
tion
system.
ing the hard coal .miners, and
he had been dismissed torn a
for several clays.
j&i!3{}few York even after The navy revealed today that coal producers.
The prisoner said the plot was
German parachute regiment after
laiittitte1 embezzling bund MaJ. Gen. Ulrich Kessler, former
Matters had been at an impasse directed by Lt. Col. Otto Skorzeny,
injuring his back in the invasion
l t t b w t h b U l j of girl commander ot German aviation since the old contract expired a veteraij Nazi agent already BRITISH TOBACCO
o.C Crete in 1941. '
In the Atlantic was the only
April 3p when negotiations ap- credited with the p'aratroop rescue INDUSTRY AT PEAK
Leni ReifenstahlGerman acot
general
rank
he. and his corpulent known officer
1
parently _on the verge of success of Bcnito Mussolini from an Altress and one-time close friend oi
London, May 18=-r(UP) For AclolJ: Hitler.
d IB the blue-gray bunfl aboard the German submarine suddenly' blew up during the lied prison, in Italy. Skorzeny's
on Hs way to Japan.
the first time in the history .of
** familiar sights captured
Heinrich Himmler, No. 1 Nazi
Despite the fact that Athv.iral evening. The hard coal miners capture by the Sixth, army group the tobacco industry workers are
m blaad'and New Jer- Jonas H. Ingram reported Wed- followed their custom of "no was disclosed Wednesday. ..- '
war' criminal, remained at large.
being
asked
to
work
night
snifts
**m| * late 80s.
A London News - Chronicle disSubsequent investigation ''disresttay there were three luJEtwaTfe contract, .no work.''
to replenish" slocks of ci.garets. patch from Luenberg said, howthe bund called a mass generals aboard the enemy subThe case was referred to the closed thaii the prisoner's
story now,at
their
lowest
point.
tf Madison Square Gar- marine, the navy department rec- war labor board which promptly was based on "factual misinforever,' that British Second army
From -one tobacco firm alone authorities knew where he waS
drdored the miners back to work.
t*t "Americanism" tn ords here showed only Kessler.
the
government
is
demanding
an
.(Continued on Page Ten)
They wouldn't go, however, and
** ins hall was surrounded by
and "presumably could take him
extra 250,000,000 cigarets a month into custody, at any .time."
apparently nobody could do -much
uniformed "helling"' VINSON TO ANNOUNCE .
to
fulfill
the
promise
of
50
tree
about it because they were vio- COMMUNICATIONS ARE
Dr. B.'- Ecer, leader of. the
who In turn were sur
cigarets per week for every Brit- Czechoslovak team of the United
lating no laws. Meanwhile tckes RESTORED BETWEEN
NEW MEAT PRICE
ork police.
ish soldier in the .far east.
has been figuring out what should DENMARK-BORNHOLM
Nations war crimes commission,
REGULATION SOON
be done.
said many ai his countrymen were
RUSSIA-BULGARIA
Mass.. later that
Late yesterday he' called both 'London, May 18(UP) The
among the victims of Nazi scienWashington,
Mny
18
(UP)
received a minor set- War Mobilization Director Fred parties into his office.
In 10
TO SIGN NEW TREATY
tific experiments.
hs WS3 arrested for M. Vlnson, is expected shortly to minutes he laid before them a Danish radio reported today that
V The experiments were' carried
aml
have been reIstanbul,
May
18(UP)BulPfofanlty but assure the public that there will compromise proposal' and repealed communications'
stored between Denmark and the garian government sources said out in efforts to gather informa W 'in*.
bis warning that -anthracite coal
tion concerning tuberculosis and
. N. J.'. wug harder be no change in meat ctlling pric- must be mined.
* today that a Russo-Bulgarian other diseases. They were directes without six months' advance
of Bornholm.
London, May 18(UP)Brit'h Ceding year. notice, congressional sources said
Botli miners and
operators 1 The broadcast reported the pre- treaty of friendship and mutual ed through a national research
aid will,be signed in the near fu- center set up by Dr. Bernhardt ish naval losses in World War II
agreed
to
Icke's
proposal,
which
viously cut telephone -and teletoday.
have reached 804.ships, one of
im with
Rust, minister for science aridi ed- them a cruiser rammed and sunk
Such a mo\'c, they declared, would give the miners $1.3.7-Vs graph lines again-were working. ture.
e&seaded ovar his
a clay more than they're getting The evacuation of German troops CHILI) IS KILLED
Washington, .-May 18(UP)
ucation, in collaboration . with by the former luxury liner Queen
would
inspire
confidence
all
along
nd smashed the
now. The producers had offered
Himmler as minister of interior. Mary, an unofficial tabulation The decision-as to when passenger
bund's headtiua,.^..,. the meat industry line from the ?1.03 and the miners asked $1.79. on the island-was said to be proBuffalo,
May
18(UP).Tencars will begin rolling off assemceeding according to p]an.
Into his battered cattle raisers to housewives.
year old Ronald Smith was ' iri- TOTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT , showed today.
. The UMW and the producers
bly lines today rested on the
The
loss
of
162
of
the
-ships
was
amiM "* hand in the Nazi JULY 4 FIRST DAY FOR
jured fatally last night when he CROSSED OFF BOOKS
were meeting again today in Ickes' DOWNETcWlLTERVICE
shoulders of War Production
revealed
only
last
night
by
the
2**<'TUbebMk. He
conference room to agree on final
was struck by a" car. Police said
Chairman J. A. Krug.
admiralty. The sinkings had been Board
BILL PASSES SENATE
NOMINATION PETITIONS
details of their new contract.
Kdit
the -boy ran between two parked
Krug is studying proposals subAlbany, May. 1.8 (UP) The kept secret in the belief that the
JSS AM* !., Ffan(t|ln D
1944 state law creating a 10th Germans did not know o them. milted to him in the past two days
- Washington, May IB(UP) Cars into the street.
Albany, Mny 18-r-(UP) The BELL WILL WELCOME
judicial district out' of two Long. Among these were the escort by automobile manufacturers and
The sena'te'has passed unanimous- EVERY DAY BUT SEVEN
first day for signing independent
Island counties 'was' crossed ol't carrier Dasher and the cruiser labor leaders who see eye to eye
ly and .sent to the house . the
nomination petitions- for the '.B45 ANY.U. S. INSPECTION
Buffalo, May
18(UP)The the. statute bob'ks today by ac-i Curacoa. The over-all lotal now on the question of the need for
Downey bill.to. give all civil serelections is July 4. Alty.-Gen. NaBuffalo, May. 18(UP)Bell vice employes a 15 p*r cent raise jU. S. weather bureau here forecast tion of the court of appeals.
I includes three battleships, two speedy reconversion.
Ihnnlel L. Goldstein said in a forThe manufacturers suggested
Aircraft Corp. officials here to- i n pay . . . . . . . .
I more rain f o r today b u t t'n'at isn't
The state's '.highest tribunal, battle cruisers, 29 cruisers and
mal opinion today.
they could make at least 200,000
In replying to a sUite rloiwrt- day said that they would welcome !< ' -Sen.'Sheridan Downey, D., Cal.,.| anything new. It has -rained every reversing a lower ;:cou.rt" decision- seven aircraft carriers.
tar
in the by a four to three vote, ruled yes-, The Curacoa sank after being passenger cars this year on the
ment query. Goldstein pointed oul any investigation oE its produc- i sponsored the pay raise bill which I'day but seven so
basis of WPB's estimate of availterday that' the new district was' rammed by the Queen Mary only able
that the election law fixes the tion and inspection methods by he told the senate would cost months of April and May:
steel supplies. The union rep$487,000,000 a year. Downey said KILLED IN GRAVEL PIT .
Unconstitutional. The: action .con- 20 miles northwest of the Donegal resentatives
date at'six weeks prior to'the last the government.
questioned the govThe company issued the state- the actual amount of the increase
tinues Nassau arid Suffolk coun- coast of Ireland on Oct. 2, 1942. ernment steel
day ^for filing the petitions, which
figures, however,'
ment in response ta a speech was 15.8 per cent but that it was
Auburn, N. Y., May 18(UP) ties as part of the second district The Queen Mary was carrying
Is Aug. 15 this year.
and said there would be enough
He held that the general con- made in Washington yesterday by within the limi'ts^of the little steel Funeral arrangements were being with Kings, Queens and Richmond, over 1,509 American troops, to the .to
make "considerably" more than
made today for George A. Snook, instead of-having them comprise British 'Isles when the accident,
struction law, which excludes a Sen. William Langer. of North formula.
200,000 cars and that production
58, Westport farmer,, who was a new district.
Sunday or holiday from the reck- Dakota, in which he attacked Bell 1
occurred.
of them could have started a
War bonds ' finance the. war lolled when ihc giavel pit in
oning "if It is the f i n a l .day, has and other manufacturers of milmonth agoi
which he was working collapsed. Successful merchants adver- ; Don't Waste Waste Paper.
nd jour futur*.
itary aircraft.
no bearing on the case.

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BUYER
BEST NEWSJOM HOME DUE BACK MONDAY

"GENERAL BOR" SAYS

HE WAS TREATED
HARSHLY BY GERMANS

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