Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 14, 1995 TAG: 9506160001
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Striking to surround isolated enemy garrisons on Mindanao in the Philippines, American troops with aerial and naval support made new landings on both the east and west coasts of Davao and were driving inland against little opposition.
Admiral William Halsey threw the might of the Third Fleet against airfields on the Japanese home island of Kyushu, and Japan said the mounting air assaults might require a declaration of martial law throughout her empire.
"The most significant development of this age is the attempted return of paganism," Virginia Gov. Colgate Darden declared during a memorial address for the Page County war dead. Christians should "be thankful, not only for the victory abroad, but that spiritual foundations have been preserved," he said.
Nearly 500 American superfortress bombers poured 3,300 tons of fire bombs into Kobe, Japan's sixth largest city and principal port.
The Allies stripped Germany to her pre-Hitler borders and assumed supreme control of the country and its 70.8 million people with an ironclad military rule. Berlin was to be occupied by forces of France, Britain, Russia and the United States.
President Truman named Gen. Omar Bradley chief of the Veterans Administration.
Bernard Oelerich, inventor of jet planes for Germany, surrendered to the U.S. military government and offered his designs to the U.S. Army.
A Chinese army spokesman said that 200,000 Japanese troops had been isolated in Southeast Asia as a Chinese offensive rolled into the northern suburbs of Luchow, a vital airbase city in the Kwangsi province.
Hans Metz, 30, a German prisoner of war who escaped while working on a mountain near Elliston, was captured and returned to the Salem prisoner of war camp where he was put on a diet of bread and water. Metz had been hunted for two days.
Veteran American infantrymen broke through the outer defense of cliff-studded Yaeju-Dake peninsula on southern Okinwawa, routing the enemy with hand grenades and bayonets in vicious fighting against fanatically resisting Japanese. Total Japanese dead were estimated at 67,603 as the battle blazed through its 71st day.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported heavy allied air and naval attacks against the eastern and northwestern coasts of Borneo.
The bloody story of the Czeckoslovak town of Lidice was finally told in full. On the pretense that the town was protecting assasins of a Nazi official, 174 of the men of the town were rounded up on Oct. 6, 1942 and shot and all the women and children carted off to concentration camps.
Despite a travel ban, 70,000 people saw a war-delayed Kentucky Derby won by Hoop Jr. with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle.
Saying that the Allies would have peace even if "we have to fight for it," Gen. Eishenhower was presented the Soviet Union's highest military honor, the jeweled Order of Victory.
The heart of a new world charter -- provisions for a securitiy concil to enforce peace and back up its decision with armed might -- was approved unanimously late today by a United Nations conference commission meeting in San Francisco.
Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki, who had won emergency powers from the Japanese Diet, said that even 500,000 American invaders would be met by defenders five to 10 times that number when they attacked the Japanese homeland.
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in his pajamas in a Hamburg apartment that he shared with an attractive 35-year-old brunette. He was carrying poison but was given no chance to use it on himself.
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