Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that more than 450 B-29's had attacked Yokohama in the largest Superfortress daylight raid and the first on Yokohama, dropping 3,200 tons of incendiary bombs. A total of 11,700 tons of incendiary bombs had been dropped during the previous three raids. It was the third strike in six days within 20 miles of the Imperial Palace. Fires were reported engulfing the city, fifth largest of Japan. Some of the raiders apparently flew on to Tokyo and Kawasaki.

The only previous raids on Yokohama had been via carrier-based planes on February 16-17.

The previous day's reported attack by Mustangs was confirmed, hitting three airfields near Tokyo to neutralize enemy air resistance. Resistance to this day's raid was reported light.

A Japanese air raid had taken place on the American Fleet at Okinawa and light to moderate damage had been inflicted, as 77 Japanese planes were shot down. Within a week, Japan had lost in excess of 240 planes.

Rain slackened on Okinawa, permitting the Tenth Army to resume attacks against Shuri. Seventh Division units, closing the pincers on Shuri, entered Kamizato and Tera south of Shuri. The Sixth Marines and 77th and 96th Infantry Divisions formed the other pincers. The First Marines attained the crest of Wana Ridge, only to be pushed back by enemy fire consisting of satchel charges thrown over the Marines' heads from long poles as a slingshot.

The Seventh Division advanced two miles south of captured Yonabaru at the eastern point of the enemy line, penetrating Ogushuku and Shurato to isolate Chinen Peninsula.

The Sixth Marines swept through the entire western two-thirds of Naha.

A Marine patrol moved onto Onoyama Island in the center of Naha Estuary but was driven off by enemy machinegun fire from the south shore of Okinawa.

On Luzon, a mechanized column of the 38th Infantry Divsion moved into the Marikina Gorge toward Wawa Dam, and its capture appeared imminent. The dam appeared intact.

The 25th Division had captured Santa Fe, 75 miles from the southern entrance to the Cagayan Valley in the north. The 32nd Division moved along the Villa Verde Trail to the west, to within three miles of Santa Fe. General MacArthur anticipated a tough fight to the northern tip of the island at Aparri, 135 miles distant.

In China, Chinese troops moved southwestward to the vicinity of Shulo, 60 miles from captured Nanning, toward the Indo-China border. Heavy fighting was ongoing in the area of Pinyang Highway, 60 miles northeast of Yungning.

In Hunan Province, the Japanese counter-attacked from Tantow, twenty miles northwest of their main base at Shaoyang, but were repulsed.

In Honan Province, the Chinese gained ground toward Hsihstakow, 400 miles northeast of Chungking, capturing two heights. Chinese attacks continued south of Shanhsien, 50 miles east of the Honan-Shensi border.

Unconfirmed reports stated that the Japanese were withdrawing from the former American airbase at Liuchow in Kwangsi Province.

British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden suggested that France should withdraw its forces from the Levant States, Syria and Lebanon, to avoid further flare-ups in Syria as reported the previous day. France had recently sent about 500 fresh troops into the two mandates. As the French reinforcements had arrived, the French Government had dispatched a delegate-general to Beyrouth, with instructions to submit proposals for a final settlement between France and the Levant States.

In Bordeaux, hungry Frenchmen rioted, turning over pushcarts of food peddlers and gathering in front of grocery stores demanding the lowering of prices. The grocers responded by lowering the prices of cherries from 80 to 30 francs, about 60 cents, and artichokes from 90 to 30 francs.

In the Soviet Union, all eighth and ninth graders between 15 and 16 would be called up to attend compulsory Army training, starting June 1. Training would be conducted on a higher level than during the war. It was the largest peacetime military training program in Russian history.

"Lord Haw Haw", most recently William Joyce, the English-speaking radio mouthpiece for Herr Doktor Goebbels during the war, was shot in the thigh and captured at the Danish border near Flensburg the previous day. His condition was critical. Mr. Joyce was being transferred to Lueneburg. He was a native of New York City, later becoming a British Fascist.

While was boasting in his broadcasts of German attacks on London during the Blitz of 1940-41, his own father was killed in a German bombing raid on London in February 1941.

He would be tried for treason against Britain in September, convicted, and sentenced to death. His appeal would affirm the conviction and sentence and he would be hanged on January 3, 1946.

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From San Francisco, Secretary of State Stettinius the night before had given an address by radio in which he discussed unilateral veto for the Big Five on the Security Council, stating frankly that if one of the Big Five moved aggressively and then vetoed action by the U. N., "another world war has come, vote or no vote, and the world organization has failed." But he assured that the Big Five had come to San Francisco to charter a world organization for peace, not to conspire for war.

The goals of the speech appeared to be to elicit support from the Senate for ratification of the U. N. charter and to restore the United States to the role of mediator between Britain and the Soviet Union, a role recently occupied instead at San Francisco by the British.

In New York, a composer, Tony Gale, sat at his piano "thumping out chords" with two other musicians in his studio on 42nd Street. Suddenly, Mr. Gale stood, said, "So long," and jumped out the window, fell nine floors to his death.

He had been an arranger for Kate Smith.

On the editorial page, "Allies Spurned" finds it troubling that Supreme Allied Headquarters had ordered the dissolution of two anti-Nazi organizations in Germany which had helped the Allies identify several Nazis since liberation. It was signal of the need for public examination of the Allied policy forthwith, as that policy had allowed numerous low-level Nazis to escape capture.

"Hitler's Toll" sets forth the tremendous cost of the war in Europe in money and lives: 740 billion dollars total, of which the Axis had spent 300 billion, the United States, 240 billion, and England and Russia, 100 billion each; in lives, 15,635,000, of whom about nine million belonged to the Axis, 8.5 million Germans, and 6,725,000 Allies, 5.5 million Russian.

"Battle Rejoined" finds it not surprising that violence had erupted in Syria regarding continued French occupation. In 1925, French planes had bombed Damascus and nearby villages and had generally abused its World War I mandate over the Levant States. They were supposed to be granted independence, but France had sought to hold them permanently as part of its empire, quartering a large occupation army in Syria. Revolt had erupted in both 1923 and 1927 and the French had meted harsh reprisals.

"First Challenge" believes Alabama's Representative Carter Manasco, chair of the Expenditures Committee, to be casting the first stone to bring to an end President Truman's honeymoon in office, by restraining the President in the proposed reorganization bill. He wanted to exempt 22 agencies from reorganization and have the bill allow either house on a majority vote to veto the President's reorganization, whereas the proposed bill enabled a veto only by majority vote of both houses.

"Man of the Right" observes that Winston Churchill, despite his 70 years, was proceeding with vigor to carry the fight to his political opponents in the opening salvos of the campaign for the general election in early July, the first to be held in Britain since 1935.

Life presented, the previous week and this week, a two-part presentation, "The Lives of Winston Churchill", including his somewhat puzzled expression adorning the first cover, the unplanned pose for which was said to have been obtained by the photographer audaciously snatching from Mr. Churchill his cigar.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Representative John Dingell of Michigan speaking on the bill to extend reciprocal trade agreements, specifically addressing remarks to Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota, an opponent of the bill who had asserted that it would lower the American standard of living and send jobs overseas, put most farmers out of business.

Drew Pearson explains that Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, president pro tempore of the Senate, had voted against the increase of Congressional expenses to $2,500 per year, but had not refused to accept an increased salary for himself to $15,000 per year plus $15,000 in expenses and use of a limousine, as perquisites of the office of vice-president, unoccupied and so being provided to Senator McKellar as theoretically the vice-president for his being presiding officer of the Senate. It made him the most highly paid Senator by $5,000 and the only one with a large expense account and a Government-supplied limousine. He also had several relatives on the Government payroll, such that his total family allotment was $44,300 per year.

Mr. Pearson reports that, in the wake of the publicized experiment by a couple of journalists and U.S.C. co-eds breaching security with impunity at San Francisco on repeated occasions, security had now been strengthened so much that even Secretary Stettinius, being accompanied by Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong and British Ambassador Lord Halifax, were stopped by M.P.'s and prevented from entering the elevator at the Veterans Building to transit between floors without first producing their passes, which none of them had.

Mr. Stettinius then spotted the Secretary-General of the conference, Alger Hiss, and asked him for validation to enable them to proceed. Mr. Hiss verified their bona fides and afforded passage of the three through security.

—Yeah, Bob, did you see that? We'll put an end to that soon enough. You just wait. These Commie-sympathizers, you know. We'll put an end to that. What about this Teamsters fellow on the West Coast? Don't you think he could do something about it?

—A million? Sure, we could get that.

Dorothy Thompson, writing from Klagenfurt in Austria, indicates that all of Marshal Tito's partisans had withdrawn from Klagenfurt and all of Carinthia without any clashes with British troops occupying the area. The British had stated that there was no indication that Russia was backing Tito's attempts to grab territory in southern Austria or at Trieste and Slovinia—as Ms. Thompson had speculated in her column published Saturday was very probably the case.

When the British had arrived, they took Dr. Karl Renner into custody and established a military government headed by Dr. Stefan Tauschitz, who had been Austrian Ambassador to Berlin in 1938 at the time of Anschluss.

There was a confused mass of partisans and refugees, some of whom were Pavelic Croatians who had fought in April with Mikhailovitsch against Tito, and included otherwise French, Russian, and Czech slave laborers, Russian Cossacks, Slovaks, Hungarians, and Germans. The partisans and refugees were being sent back across the border into Yugoslav territory, except for the Russians, Cossacks, and Hungarians, who were being sent to the Russian zone of Austria.

Initially, the partisans had competed with the British for control, but the British had convinced them to return across the border. The situation was now quiet and the authorities could begin weeding out the Nazis from the remaining population.

Ms. Thompson found the situation to be one in which the Allies had maintained their heads and agreement and order had prevailed—at considerable contrast with Greece and the EAM/ELAS problems there in the fall and early part of the year.

Marquis Childs finds that the three new Truman Cabinet appointees, Federal Judge Lewis Schwellenbach to the Department of Labor, Representative Clinton Anderson of New Mexico to the Department of Agriculture, and Tom Clark of Texas to head the Justice Department, had each been received well on Capitol Hill and throughout the country.

Samuel Grafton suggests that President Truman had arrived on the scene and become the true leader of the people. Whereas both Britain and France, domestically, appeared in considerable political and economic disarray, America was, by comparison, in good shape.