Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the First and Sixth Marine Divisions had advanced 900 yards the previous day to within 300 yards of the west coast of Okinawa, to a point north of Itoman, cutting off Oroku Peninsula and trapping about half the remaining 20,000 Japanese defenders. The other half were well entrenched in the Yaeju-Dake heights between Itoman and Hanagusuku on the east coast. Both positions were being heavily defended with machinegun and mortar fire.

Admiral Nimitz reported that as of June 6, 66,324 Japanese had been killed on Okinawa since April 1, 4,805 since the previous week.

On Luzon, the 37th Infantry Division captured Bayambong after a seven-mile advance in the Cagayan Valley in the north, encountering little opposition. The Americans knocked out two Japanese flame-throwing tanks, believed to have been the first such tanks within the southwest Pacific sector.

Some 200 carrier borne aircraft attacked enemy airfields on Kyushu while night-flying B-29's mined the western entrance to the Inland Sea.

It was reported that the previous day's raid of 450 B-29's on Osaka had been accompanied by the largest contingent yet of Mustangs, flying from Iwo Jima. The force encountered only five Japanese interceptors.

The government controlled news agency of Japan, Domei, urged that Imperial rule be imposed in the country without sanction by the Diet.

In China, the Chinese had fought into Liuchow, the former locale of an American airbase lost the previous November to the Japanese. It also appeared probable that Kweiling, a hundred miles northeast of Liuchow, would be re-captured by the Chinese very soon. The Chinese offensive in Kwangsi Province had isolated some 200,000 enemy troops in Thailand, Indo-China, Burma, and Malaya. Tatang, on the road to Indo-China, 21 miles southwest of Liuchow, had been re-captured.

Near Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, eight Filipino paratroopers and a medical assistant had parachuted into dense jungle to effect the rescue of a WAC and two Army airmen who were the only survivors among 24 in an Army transport plane which had crashed 24 days earlier. The three survivors were doing well. The natives were friendly, had provided the survivors and their rescuers a pig in exchange for salt dropped by parachute.

Army and Navy casualties reported through May 30 had increased by 9,162 since the report of the prior week, a total of 1,012,049, of which the Army had 895,824, 185,670 of whom had been killed, an increase of 1,900, 559,844 wounded, 46,747 missing, and 106,573 prisoners. Of the wounded, 317,626 had returned to duty. The casualties were those in fighting occurring through early May. Navy casualties had risen 3,347 since the report of the previous week, 44,503 of whom had been killed, an increase of a thousand, 56,767 wounded, 10,708 missing, and 4,240 taken prisoner.

In Paris, 165 Hungarian and Polish children, ages four to 16, released from Buchenwald, had arrived by train, bound for a special reception facility. Many of them had witnessed family members shot by the Nazis. Some were too weak or ill to walk, looked as small children when they were several years older.

President Truman appointed General Omar Bradley to become the head of the Veterans Administration, replacing Brig. General Frank Hines. General Bradley commented that the Americans had outsmarted the Germans in the war but he could not be sure that the Prussian commanders would ever admit it. The Americans had learned to outmaneuver the enemy, could change directions on a dime, something the Germans never figured out. Both American equipment and the fighting skill of the doughboys proved immensely superior to that of the enemy. Keys to the final victory, he said, had been the turning back of the German Ardennes offensive of December and January, and the taking of the bridge at Remagen to effect largely unmolested crossing of the Rhine on March 7-8.

Brig. General James Mollison had succeeded Maj. General Nathan F. Twining as commander of the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean. General Twining had returned to the United States for a new assignment. His family, at last report, resided in Charlotte. As previously noted, General Twining would become Chief of Staff of the Air Force under President Eisenhower, from 1953 to 1957, and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, from 1957 to 1960, succeeded by General Lyman Lemnitzer, who would be relieved by President Kennedy just 16 days before the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962.

In San Francisco, the last major roadblock to establishing the United Nations Organization had been removed, with the agreement by the Russians that there would be no veto on the Security Council for the Big Five nations with regard to mere discussion of an issue brought before the Council by a member nation. In Moscow, Harry Hopkins, President Truman's personal emissary, had prevailed upon Premier Stalin to reconsider the Russian position on the veto, causing Stalin to change course in the interest of unanimity among the Big Five.

When informed of the change by the Big Five representatives, the heads of the other 45 delegations at the Veterans Building in San Francisco applauded the action.

Across the Bay in Oakland, a large fire broke out in the Army port at 10:30 a.m. this date. Fire officials indicated that it was so big, "anything can happen".

On the editorial page, "A Close Look" remarks favorably on the proposal by the new head of the State Medical Society to conduct a study of maternal and infant deaths in the state and examine conditions within State-run hospitals.

"The Absentees" remarks on the 1865 law, scarcely ever heeded, which provided that a member of Congress would be docked pay for any days not in attendance.

"Who's Protected?" sets forth a list of the industries protected by high tariffs, showing that they paid in the United States the lowest wages, while the industries which depended on export trade paid the highest wages. Recognizing that other factors than just tariffs entered into the low wages in the protected industries, it nevertheless concludes that the Republican protectionists in Congress who sought high tariffs were really engaged in double-talk.

"Mean Is Right" complains at the mean temperature cited by the Weather Man for the month of June, that being 74 degrees, about the norm for June in North Carolina. The problem with it was that it was a composite of highs of 96 and lows of 50, each stretching days on end, the mean result being only discomfort, not the mean temperature.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record finds Senator William Langer of North Dakota reporting to his colleagues on the deplorable state of Indians in his home state, that those who lived off reservations were living in abject poverty on a few dollars per month. The Federal and State governments had essentially said that they could starve and would not be entitled to more.

Drew Pearson reports that Tom Clark, the new Attorney General, had been so surprised by the appointment by President Truman that he sought to leave the White House Oval Room via the French windows rather than by way of the door. President Truman redirected him.

Mr. Clark's great grandfather, William H. Clark, had been Solicitor of the British Government of Ireland when he came to America in 1737. His grandfather had been a chancery judge in Jackson, Miss., and a general in the Confederate Army, killed in the war. Mr. Clark's father had been treasurer of Mississippi for 40 years. One of his maternal ancestors, Dr. Efram McDowell, had a statue in his honor within the Hall of Fame of Congress. An uncle was a Federal judge in Texas and another uncle, Jim Clark, was proctor of the University of Texas, for whom Clark Field in Austin was named.

Nevertheless, he was unpretentious, drove an old jalopy, lived in a small suburban house, was talkative and easy-going. He had just retired from the presidency of the Federal Bar Association after having proposed that African-American lawyers be admitted to its membership.

Some of the politicians under indictment, such as W. T. Burton of Louisiana, part of the old Huey Long gang, indicted for income tax evasion for six years, were looking forward to Mr. Clark coming into office, hopeful of more lenient treatment than they had received from the Biddle Justice Department. Following a mistrial the previous year, Mr. Burton and co-defendants had sought to plead no contest to the charges pending, believing they would not be sentenced to jail. But when they learned that Attorney General Biddle was insisting upon jail sentences, they withdrew their pleas. Now, they were expressing optimism in anticipation of the inception of Mr. Clark's tenure.

Mr. Pearson delivers the caveat that his own observation of Mr. Clark would lend them no such optimism, that, like President Truman, his easy-going demeanor could not be mistaken for laxity on the job.

Samuel Grafton explores the former Soviet position demanding the right of unilateral veto of discussion of issues brought before the Security Council, a position now abandoned, as explained on the front page.

Marquis Childs tells of Professor Friedrich Hayek of Austria becoming the darling of conservative Republicans, favoring as he did "free enterprise" and small government. So, some Republican Senators had invited him to speak to them recently in Washington at a dinner.

A patient at the State Hospital in Morganton, born the same year The News had been founded, in 1888, writes a letter to the editor in praise of the newspaper, imparting that he read it daily and enjoyed its stories and its advertisements of fine stores.

It was probably those white plastique handbags on sale for $15 each down at Ivey's a couple of weeks back which had prompted the praise for the ads, something nice for the Missus at home.