Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 17, 1995 TAG: 9505170038
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Japanese aerial assaults against units of the U.S. Pacific fleet in the Ryukyus Islands had damaged one major American warship and several other surface units, while 10th Army Troops battled into the suburbs of Naha, the ruined capital of Okinawa. The aerial attacks cost the Japanese 165 planes, Admiral Chester Nimitz announced.
The Russians reported that 700,000 captured German prisoners were being moved eastward to help rebuild ruined Soviet cities.
Hienrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS, was erroneously reported to be an Allied prisoner. But Hermann Goering, chief of the German air force, was in custody and had been indicted as a war criminal. The Veterans of Foreign Wars accused U.S. authorities of coddling Goering and treating him like a dignitary.
The Kentucky Derby, delayed by a wartime ban on horse racing, was scheduled to be run on June 9.
Patricia Brinkley of Nazareth School was causing a stir as she eliminated two boys from the Roanoke City Recreation Department's marbles tournament at Elmwood Park.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain called for action to make sure the United Nations did not "become an idle name" and committed Great Britain to a full effort with United States in the war against Japan.
More than one-fourth of Nagoya, Japan's third largest city, was believed to be in ruins following a record B-29 Superfortress assault of more than 500 planes that dropped fire bombs at the rate of 40 tons a minute for 90 minutes.
A German submarine, flying the American flag, moved into the Delaware Bay to surrender to U.S. forces. The crew of the boat, the first enemy warship to surrender since V-E Day, said it alone had sunk 16 Allied ships. Another German submarine, bound for Japan, was captured by the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic with three high-ranking German Luftwaffe generals on board.
Dr. Julian A. Burruss, who had been president of Virginia Tech since 1919, would leave Tech on July 1 with the title President Emeritus, Col. James Woods of Roanoke, rector of the school's board of visitors, announced.
Police Lt. Gen. Ernest Kaltenbrunner, who conceived and was charged by Hitler with carrying out the mass murder of millions of Europeans in gas chambers, was captured along with an aide at a fortified chalet in Austria.
A former stenographer for Adolf Hitler said the Nazi leader jumped to his feet and laughed hideously when he received word that President Roosevelt had died.
Making a surprise night attack without artillery support, units of the 77th Infantry Division secured high ground dominating the town of Ishimmi in southern Okinawa.
The Essex class aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin, once flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's famed naval task force, limped into the Brooklyn naval yard. A Japanese bomb in March had set off the carrier's own bombs and gasoline, causing the loss of approximately 350 lives, wounding more than 300 and leaving 431 missing.
Francisco Aguirre of Cuba, speaking at the United Nations conference in San Francisco, accused big nations of wanting to set up a dictatorship over the world.
by CNB