It is symbolically appropriate that the Stars and Stripes were raised over conquered Berlin on the Fourth of Ju l y. L a st night we heard how the A ■ eric had in to take over their zone of occupation in the ruined Geraan capital. Today, the occupation formally began - with an official ceremony. Military courtesies were exohaaged betwe~ " Americans and the Russians. Military bands played national anthe ■, and the Soviet officers turaed eTe~ the southern suburb of Berlin to the American Coaaaade ~ Be was General Oaar Bradley, the retirin& Coa■ander of the Twelfth Ar ■ y Group, who will soon return to the United States and take charge ot the Veterans' . Bureau at laahington.) Simultaneously, theBritiah took over their sector of Berlin - for the joint Allied occupation of Hitler's for ■ er capital, The occupation has been delayed, and comes about two aontha after the end ot t~ Euro ean War. But it is fitting that the Aaerican fl&& should be raised in Berlin on*• the Fourth of Jul,. CBURCBI!iL There is a London rumor that Priae liniater Churchill ■ ay aeet President Truman before the Confereno •• of the Big Three. The Churchill-Truaan-Stalin set- • together is aaid to be scheduled for the weekend of July fifteenth at Potadaa, near Berlin. The London veraien is that the Priae Minister and the Preaidaat hav aoae iaportant things to talk over before aee\ia& --LL? . -'--' ~~ /' 0 - ~ ~ ,,;:4"~ Stalin, •r1 t1D'-'a1e, -9■ tba•e'f•~ i 1 follow the precedent set by the Yalta conference - when Preside\ Roosevelt and Priae Minister Churchill aet at lalta - before going to .!.!lta. Malta followed bJ Yalta waa atatesaanahip, as well aa rhyain1. Thi ■ tiae the rhyaing will not be ao 100d - Potadaa and Bendaye - if the London repo ts be correct. - The place of a Churchill - Truaan aeeting, befor, &•l•I to Postdaa, will be the French reaort city of Bendaye - near the Spanish-French border. At least, that's the inference drawn fro-faord that Churchill, during the next few days, is going to Bendaye for a rest. They say the Prime Minister is exhausted CBUBCBlLL - 2 by the election caapaign which now coaes to an end, the British people going to the polls tomorrow. It haa been a strenuous political battle, into which the sevanty-o~e year old Churchill threw hiaaelt with Tia and vigor. Be loves an electioneering battle, aad ••4• a series of arduoua tours and speech••• Okurchill ia aaid to be worn out, and heuc will 10 for a reat to tae resort at Bendaye, which ia likel7 to be ki1 •••\i plaoe with President Truaan - alwa7a ••• ■ iDI t~a\ , - . - London report• are oorreot. SA~BALIM Tokyo reports that A ■ erican warships baYe bo ■ barded fortifications on the island of Sakhalin~ and that aeans the deepest penetration ot the weatern Pacific by the A ■ erioan fleet. ---------~~---.-.1 long island to the no_:;bno} ~~~~-~ Japan, cmt just aoroas fro ■ Soviet I i eri~~•lt • ft ' ~ ~i• held by the Japa,~alf bF the Buaaiana.1fiaerioaa warships, to get to Sakhaiin, bad to pen trate oae - ' o f : ~ o r lines of oceanic defense - the h■i 1,rt J d i • • lurile islands. sea of Okhotsk, within Siberia. ~ ~-o'-hh!IVZ. And 1 ~ had to driYe into a M ~ d ::tweaLp ail•• of 'A ~ ~ n o A■erican oonfir■ation of th41C report; but 1 Tokyo states that our warahipa shelled the city of Sbikuka - a war center on Sakhalin. In Borneo, Australian troop• drove toda1 t the oil oity of Balikpapan.They crossed the final ridl• ■ eparating the• fro• the town, and found Balikp,pan all but obandoned by the Japs. Only one saal~enea7 i ■ fGrce aade a show of resistance. The place is said to be blackened ruin - the great oil refining plants burned out. Theae wer hit bJ Allied air bombarding and 1hell1 t aaYal guns - after which the Japa fro ■ Balikpapan ia refineries / ~ of 1abota1•• lor4 the il that it will be cheaper ones than try to repair the fire-aoarrei The Japs are considering a belated political aove in the Dutch East Indies. A Tok70 dispatch states that Japanese coaaandera on Sumatra have a plan to offer - independence. aldr-Uis independence offer to include the entire Dutch East Indies. "" to ~~ 1119 ;ttJ - ■-• t••s: l•t Tok70Afigare• that an otfer of independence m-ay persuade the n&ive populati a t• help the• against the British-Aaerican sweep. Bow ~ . ■uch aid the Jape ■ay gain by this••••• exceedingly A I doubtful,-1Wut 1ttAta they are probably willing to try ~~~ anything, ...t of desperation. ,,A-- A PHll!lPPiill_ -. Gener 1 Mac,Arthur today for ■ all7 announced the liberation of the Philippines - the caapaign completed. Be stated that the ■ opping up of the Japa has progressed so far that the battle fort~• I Philippines can be regarded as virtually at aa ead. D E TROY E R The Navy announces the los of two destroyer• off Okin aw a last onth - one h i t by a Jap suici e plane. ~rt ai L tA ~:.::•:!:::::. 0 : : . 0 :u!i::e::~a■e i■ low, and struck the starboard aide of •• S.S. lillia■ - D. Pore. The explosion ripped the hull Just aft of the engine roo ■. The orew fought desperately to aaye the aki,■ ship; but in vain. The skipper of the Porter, Co ■■ ander Charles I. Ieyes of GreeleJ, Colorado, abandoned his ship only four ■ inutes before the Porier took her final plunge. In the case ot the other destroyer, the lavy doesn't know what kind of ■ i.Uile did the da■a1e - the . u.s.s . .!!!._Q!._W&B bo ■barding Japanese poaitiona on shore during the final battle for Okinawa. A plane was seen, and there is aention of so ■ ething that looked like a red ball, which zoomed over the bow of the Twiggs. This was follo ed by a shattering explos i on, -- •• and the bow . imply disappeared. The Navy thinks the Di 'tBQYER§. - 2 missil e was an aerial torpedo. ~ ~~ ' ~ \ The casualties were heavy. All of the ~ __ __,, officers Aware either wounded or aissing. The Captain of the Porter - mis sing. lie was at the bow when the unidentified aissile hit. there was no officer to take over the coaaand, and the next in line waa 1ki the Chief Pharaaciets's ■ ate - Joseph Deworo~ o '/N A of Long Beach California." becaae the skipper ot Twiggs, but only long enough to gi e the order· ~ abandon ahip. The T•i[&s,•as dooaed, eruptin1 and sinking. IW9 JIMA The bloodhound of th e Pa ific is coming home . That's the word from the far Pacific. The blood hou dis Captai n Hor a ce Taylor of Winnsboro, Texas , a B - 2 9 p i 1 o t - who has won fa · • e for something else than bombing. He has done plenty of that, too. Be has hurled tons of bombs on the Japs. But theJ call him the bloodhound of the Pacific for an entirely different reason. •Bloodhound• s~unds ferocious, but the faae of Captain Taylor had to do with mercy, sacrifice, taking dea d ly risks to help others. Be ia a rescue chaapion - saving the lives of airaen forced down at sea off the coast of Japan. Be has been on twelve air-sea rescue missions - thirty flyers saved. The method has been for C aptain Taylor to find airmen on the ooean and then to gui d e Navy shi s to pick t h em up. as m is an d tha ' ti me for . H i r cu e f l i h sh v e t k en him to 1 hin e · t m.:.l , o th p e s oa - ins v·ng the liv u c t ay ir n t a t near th J nemy shore.) Bi 1 te t xploit w a one of the toughe t. A grou of air en e re d r i ftin for thirty-six hours. Taylor fund th m, nd ncircled t em hour after hour. Bad eather, the ceiling fiv bun red f ~s t, visibility a mere two miles. nd he had to direct a subaarine to the men drifting on the sea. His record of re cue is so glorious, that the air forces out ther9 in the far Pacific say that Horace Taylor can, in their words - •smell a castaway flier fifty miles away•. That's why they call him - the Bloodhound of the Pacific. Captain Taylor attributes his lifesavin& success to som thing else, something called - Iwo Jiaa. That bit erly ought for and hard won island has turned ou to be i ■••• immensely useful. B-29s use it as a way station, where they can, if necessary, make •• emergency landin s bet een their regular bases and Japan. But Io Jim ha s bee • the regular base for Tylor n the ut rn Bell e in flyin out to rescue B-29 crews for ced down. I "It's sure a fine t _ hing to have I•o•, he s ya, "•e never would have been able to stay out there long enough to save those boys,unless we had Iwo to ~o•e back to. We would have had to leave them before the Navy arrived. That's what we had to do before we got Iwo, and sometimes the downed fl:ers we spotted were never found again". ie there•-a a aew \lee fop - the- c~agg7 iei••cl~ ~ha~ w.e wea •ita l\lQA aa»4 figh~iag ana at •~eh a hea . . c:o:st.lf;hen I was~ there only a couple of •eeks a10, I a a• · ~ o t B J . H ..a~t.eP 'e .. ital 11■af11lae•• ef -i■in ( ,,,,.--- *• a ■abtet ut fiWt;lI saw Captain Taylor'• plane, the Southern Belle and photographed it. I ~ ~ a b e r the naae, but I can't reball what t:IRFgtPl'■ ( ~~~G4'oM~ picture ~ • : t i r ~ p · ane . .ft:a::i-J~ecently General Arnold gave the order that pictures of stream-lined girls should no longer be pa ~ ted on B-29s. Be thinks tbat ~~ 1~~ are too big and dignified for art of the in-ip girl v ri ~ Y- But, some s till have the piotures. 110 JIU .. 4 There w as one weather reconn a issance shi p that I saw at Iwo w i th a picture name of the . p ·. ~ s , ~ , --.ext- . - . l;l:l:::=o £.'l"be with Captain Taylor -- of Japan wcu.d be a far "Warm Front.::<.- ~~ o.-'P fliers -tbltt I talked to 1 ~greea -f- £ _->- v.Q~ .. that •i thou\.~ wo :J i■a 1 \the bo■bia • re difficu.lt and <'08tl7 ~,:..-• I saw forty B-29s parted there after one big raid on Honsju and Iyushu, forty tha might not have been ab to make it on to their bases at 3aipan, Tinian and Guara.--~·-tf...t.- ~ ~ L r ~ ' - t o ~ ~ ~ + ~ . , The airaculoue thing about these sea rescues that are being aade alaoat every daJ off the Japan coast is that even in i i impossible weather, remue planes like the Southern Belle coae out and apot fliers•• who have had to ditch their big ships on the homew ard journey. They dot . his by the wi . zm:lry of new scientific devices. And in ' the same way, after loc a ting the men who are down. they cal1 d e stroyeia and eubmerlnes to co . me a nd pick t.hem up. You wouldn't think that ships crossing the Atlantic would have perilous adventures - now that tht European war is over. The lazi ••• subaarine ca ■paign is a thing of the past, and the Atlantic oce n entirel7 in a state of peace and quiet. However, a troop tranapo carrying American soldiers boae, put into lew York harbor today with tales of assorted kazsard. First immediately upon leaving France, it was fog. The ship's officer states: •The fog was aa thick as custard, and we kept the whistle blowin1 tor lext - it was whales, on the aecon . d da7 !£illl out, a b i g ~ of whales was sighted, and the ■ hip was in i ■ainent danger of bu■ ping into the ■ ight7 cetaceans. The transpor 1 L kept Ii ■ go in& full speed ahearl, and blew ai ear-splitting blasts of the whistle to scare the whales off. The whales took the warning and got out of the way - which was lucky tor them. Afterward - mines. Half a dozen floating charges of high explosive were spotted, any one of which could have sunk the transport. A crew of lavy sharpshooters opened fire, and exploded the aines ~ a•ad. finally - icebergs. The troopship didn't get fresh with thea, and changed course, aaking a wide detour around the towering aaaaes of ice. B7 the tia~he Fourth of Jul7 arriYal at ew York, the troops aboard s• were ready to aa7 - af\er all those assorted perils: •bring back tbe 1ubaarinea•. COR~QRAL At Fort Worth, Texas, on this Fourth of July. a gr o u p f c i vilian physicians disagreed with the verdict of Aray D octors. This is in the case of Corporal Jim Newman. about whom we hea~d last night. The story of the Corporal is aaking quite a stir, with sympathetic people sending a atreaa of gifts today to the Rewaan home. · There is a profound hu ■ an appeal in the oase o~ the veteran of Bataan and survivor of Japanese prison brutality. lhen liberated, he was an eaaoiated skeleton - wasted a•ay f ■ troa Malnutrition and the ~ropical disease, beri-beri. Tho Army doctors, after doing ever7thia1 they could i ■ to aavehiw, gave up hope, and he went back to his Texas hoae - to die, they said. Last ni1h~ we heard bow the Cor~oral seemed to be improving - because of Mother's home cooking. Today once ' again, he had Mother' · a home co o k i n g - an d what a s w ell appetite. And he had some- th ing ala• mo re . Among the gifts sent t o t e lewaan home s a s i ty poun d wat e rm e lon. An int the si ~ k CORPORAL - 2 ~---- room walked Mother - with a great big slice, ice cold. The Corporal's eyes glistened, and he dug into that atera e lon, eating enou g h fort o healthy ■ en who~ad never seen Bataan. That aade a profo\MI impression down there in Texas, where the fol have so ■ uoh regard for wateraelon. Maybe - ~ fluenced the civilian phyaioian~ / who exaained Corporal today. Maybe those Texas ,,/ doctors just figured- anybody who can eat wateraelon / 1· e that, can't be so desperately sick. ~ d . . _ - . ~~ ~ g : p - o a ~ q , ( io~k exception to the verdict of the army doctors, who said that Corporal Jim had only a few days ■ ore to live. The civilian medical men thol!ght that he aight get well. After all, said they, it was the spirit that counted - and the spirit of Corporal fia has bucked up mightily at hoae, with Mother's home cooking - and Texas watermelon. [OURTH OF JULY The Fourth of July new• today has been telling how Vicksburg, Mississippi, finally consented to celebrate Independence Day. In the Civil War, Vicksburg, after a bitter siege, had to surrender to --~ the Yankees on the Fourth of July - nev ~ had much enthusias ■ for the day•• thereafter. That is - until today, when Vicksburg put on a celebration - endin1 the Civil lar and rejoining the Union. Less noticed by the newa was the case of a place in Georgia - another stronghold of the ~ Confederacy, which todayl\decided t,'nd th Civil lar. There is a county in northwestern Georgia which calls itself - the free state of Dade. That status of a free state was asa~aed in Eight,en Sixty, when the county seceded not only from the Union, but also froa Georgia. There was some delay in Georgia(s ordinance ~f secession, and the hot-heads in that northwestern county took action on their own account. They constituted thema~lves the free state of Dade and seceded all around. l:QlIB.Ili _Q.r_l JJ.LI - 2 ~ , e T od y 's F ourt h o f July celebration included I' a n emotional ceremony, emo ti onal fort~ iaf descendant• of the fiery confeder t s of old, On a tall flagpole fl w the colors, not the Stars and Stripes, but the flag of the Southern ~onfederacy - the Stars and Bars. The flag - under which Lee antl Stonewall Jackson and 7 - Jeb Stewart fought, ~ t e Stars and Bara of ~he A Confederacy were lowered, and in its place old Gl rJ was hoisted, an American flag still creased and new, added drama to the cere ■ on7 so obviously new that it by which the free state ~~· bf Baae rejoined the union 1 I