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Show THEAVEATHER ITTAa-rartIr cloudy today, tonlxht and Wednesday, with scattered snow showers alone mountains - this afternoon. Con-tlnned Con-tlnned cold with slowly rising temperatures. Temperatures Trt XUgh 3S Low., ....15 Go; They Say It reaUT looks like we are in the clear at last. The enemy is , catting more and more dls- rraiuzed. He doesn't know where to look for us next. 1 Lt.-CoL, Andrew Barr of Urban, Ur-ban, HL, with U. 8. First army. 4 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL - 3, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED -PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PBICE FIVE CENTS' FIfTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 215 i ... UTAH'S "ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE E S. Not to Ask For - v. More Votes In World Assembly Says F. D.R. Stettinius Reveals Change in Attitude of U. S.; Russia's Request For Three Votes To Be Supported At San Francisco Parley WASHINGTON, April 3 President Roosevelt has decided that the United States will not ask for additional votes for this country in the proposed world assembly, it was announced today. ; It was disclosed last week that during the Crimea conference, con-ference, Russia asked for three votes in the assembly. The White House said then that Britain and the U. S. agreed to support this request in the San Francisco conference. . The White House added in last week's announcement Northern Idaho Renews Talk Of Recession' BOISE, April 3 (U.R) Three northern Idaho legislators have issued statements favoring secession seces-sion of that area from the rest of Idaho. Today in Boise, another legislator, legisla-tor, Rep. Jesse Vetter, D., Kootenai Koote-nai said the "secession talk is getting pronounced." "They say up there let's cut her off at the Salmon river," said Vetter, Vet-ter, "and they don't seem to care whether north Idaho goes with Washington or Montana or goes independent. " The cession of north Idaho from the rest of the state would have to be accomplished through con- a time in early 1880's when both houses of congress passed a bill making north Idaho into the state of Lincoln. The bill wos pocket vetoed by president. Gives Life HANSEN Provo Officer Reported Dead Word of the death of her hus- - band, Lt. Robert F. Hansen, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray A. Han sen, formerly of Provo, now residing resid-ing in California, was received today to-day by Mrs. Betty Davis Hansen. . .Lt Hansen has been listed as missing in action since his plane, 'P-38, went down over St. Lo,i France, June 16, -944. He had been in the army air corps since his enlistment en-listment in November, 1943, and overseas, February 1, 1944. His pilot training 1 was received at Santa Ana, Bakersfield, and Santa Maria, Cal., and he was graduated and received his wings at the: Chandler air basel Arizona, where he and Mrs. Hansen were married Oct 1, 1943. Bom in Salt Lake City, March 21, 1921, Lt. Hansen attended Provo city schools and graduated from the Provo high school where he had been especially prominent in music and athletic activities. Later, when the Hansen family moved to San Mateo, Cal., he enrolled en-rolled at the Los Angeles City-college, City-college, where he was a student for two and one half years. Mrs. Hansen was recently presented pre-sented with her husband's air medal and two oak leaf clusters at a ceremony at Camp Kearns. ' Survivors include his parents and wife, two sisters, Joyce, now in cadet nurse training at a San Francisco, Cal., hospital, 4nd Janet, at horne, one brother, Richard, Rich-ard, at home, and three grandparents, grand-parents, Mrs. Emily Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, Salt- Lake City. -Mrs. Hansen is residing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Davis, who recently received thepurple heart as a posthumous honor for . their son, Mack K. Davis, who was killed in the Pacific, Sept 7. Mack's wife is the former Jean Larsen. v V'" W ft .if' LT. ROBERT F. "but the American representatives representa-tives stated that, if the United Nations organization agreed to let the Soviet republics have three votes, the United States would ask for three votes also. To Support Russia j Today's announcement meant that the U. S. apparently will continue to support the ' Russian request for three votes, fulfilling the promise made at Yalta, but will not follow this up by asking the three votes for ths country. 8he announcement was made by Secretary of State Edward R Stettinius, Jr., at a record-break ing press conference attended by nearly 100 correspondents. Stettinius also announced that plans for the April 25 San Fran cisco conference are proceeding with no thought of postponement On the contrary, because of the rapid tempo of military and pol itical, events it is increasingly necessary that the plans for ere ating a world organization be carried on promptly. Stettinius declined to reveal when President Roosevelt decided decid-ed to drop the plans for this country coun-try to request additional votes. His formal statement merely said: "The president has decided that at the San Francisco conference the United States will not request additional votes- for the guvern-ment guvern-ment of the United States in the general assembly. Stettinius opened the conference confer-ence by reading a long statement which he said was the department's depart-ment's attempt to answer the 33 questions on the secret Yalta vot fog agreement submitted by Cor resoondents last week. On the question of why the Yalta agreement on the proposed Russian votes, was kept secret for 47 days, Stettinius' statement said; that the president had want. ed to discuss it with the U. S. delegation and make a final determination de-termination of the course to be followed before announcement. Different Emphasis The Stettinius statement placed a slightly different emphasis up on what the United States said ft would do in case the Russians asked for thre votes. It said the American represen tatives at Yalta believed that "it was their duty to reserve the pos sibility" of the United States having hav-ing three votes. The White House announcement last week said that if the San Francisco conference agred ;to let the Sovi et republics have three votes, (Continued on Pare Two) Furloughs to Be Stepped Up WASHINGTON, April 3 (U.R) Furloughs home for army combat troops will be stepped up greatly after Germany's defeat, according to Jean A. Brunner, commander in chief of the veterans of foreign wars. He said the VFW had been ad vised by Mai. Gen. J. A. Ulio army adiustant general, that from 40,000 to 50,000 front line soldiers are being sent home each month at the present time, and that the rate would be increased "during the months ahead." However, Brunner said, 'families 'fami-lies of fighting men should not expect them to come back in "wholesale shipments" after V-E day. "We tnust take into consideration considera-tion the future conduct of the war against- Japan and the vast problem prob-lem of policing a conquered Germany," he said. Destruction in By JACK FLEISCHER United Press War Correspondent FRANKFQRT-ON-THE-MAIN, April 3 CU.R) Germany has had it. Nobody who hasn't seen the devastated villages, towns and cities and the wretched Germans remaining among the rubble of American occupied territory can tatnom me condition of Germany reaming fun well how Germany Ger-many rebounded after the last war to threaten the entire world's security 21 years later, and .recognizing .recog-nizing the Germans' traditional industry, I still am willing to predict that Germany , Is finished as a nation for decades to come. When I saw Aachen and surrounding sur-rounding places last winter" I thought maybe that was an ex Senate (Ills Compromise Manpower Bill WASHINGTON, April. 3 ce The senate today reject ed the compromise manpower bill. WASHINGTON. April 3 (U.FD The senate neared a final vote today on the dying compromise manpower bill. Most senate leaders agreed mat all that remained to be done for the controversial measure was to declare it officially dead and give, it decent burial. Its sup porters made desperate last- minute attempts to rally votes but had no visible success. Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley. Ky.. told reporters the final vote, may come before the senate adjourns this afternoon The bill, a compromise between separate measures originally passea oy me nouse ana senate. would give the war mobilization director virtually absolute con trol over civilian manpower. Wife Held In Slaying Of Husband CASCADE, Ida.. April 13 (U.R) Prosecutor Thomas Feeney of Valley county today filed; a com plaint with Probate Judge W. D. Cromwell charging Mrs. Thelma Stonebraker, 34, with the first de- gree murder of her husband, George Stonebraker. An inquest into Stonebraker's death was delayed until 1 p. m Feeney said Stonebraker was shot and killed at his ranch home eight miles from Cascade last night af tef he and his wife quar reled. The weapon was a .38 caliber cali-ber pistol. "Mrs. Stonebraker went ud to her room to pack after telling her husband she was leaving." Feeney said. "She then came downstairs with the .38 eaiper pistol in her hand. Stonebraker was sitting in a Morris chair in the living room. I Witnesses said Mrs. Stonebrak er shot once and missed. She shot again and the bullet struck Stonebraker Stone-braker in the left breast. He was dead before the doctor arrived." Stonebraker was widely known as a dog racer some years ago and performed many primitive area rescues with his dog teams. Cold Wave Hits Mid-West States CHICAGO, April 3 (U.R) Residents Resi-dents in the northern half of the nation hung their spring suits back in the closet today and settled set-tled .down to another cold wave. The weatherman had nothing but sad news, as temperatures fell rapidly in a broad area from the Great Lakes region as far southwest south-west as Arizona and New Mexico. The mercury dropped 40 degrees in iz hours in the north central states. In the northwest, the ther mometer hovered between the five and ten degree mark, with a reading of eight above zero reg istered at Cheyenne, Wyo., .during tne mgnt. Easter bonnets were doffed for umbrellas as almost continuous heavy rains fell in southern Illinois Illi-nois and lower Michigan. Light rain was reported in the northern Nev England states. Intermittent snowfall continued in Wyoming and Colorado and the west portions of South Dakota and Nebraska with 12 inches of snow blanketing the ground at Cheyenne. Elsewhere, temperatures were only slightly below the unseasonable unseason-able balmy March records. Dow Jones Average Preliminary closing Dow-Jones stock averages: Industrial 156.20, up 0.34; railroads 51.31 up 0.04; utilities 27.86 up 0.11; 65 stocks 57.83 up 0.12. Sales totaled 730,00 shares compared com-pared with 650,000 shares yester day. "Big board bond sales ag gregated $6,880,000 against 45,-350,000 45,-350,000 yesterday. Curb stock sales amounted to 220,000, shares compared with 180,009' shares yesterday. Germany Defies tremc and exceptional picture of! destruction. But now ii ve seen Germany from Trier through the Moselle valley and the Saar basin, and across the Rhine through Darmstadt and Frankfurt, Germany is a complete wreck from bombing even without the devastation that goes witn tne Jbattle for big cities If the Germans quit today, or if they had quit a few weeks ago, they still would have had thousands thous-ands of relatively unscathed small towns and villages. But with Hitler's completely mad policy of continuing the war when every German knows the game is .up, It means even the oicturesaue non-industrial and militarily-iuiimportaiit places axel Mycinisteir Japs Enemy Stand Expected Af Capital City Casualties Continue Exceedingly Light As Yanks Drive Ahead By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press War Correspondent GUA, April 3 Front dispatches said today that the Japanese defenders of Okina wa appeared to be. making preparations for their first major defensive effort against American soldiers and marines who thus far have been virtually unopposed. The enemy stand, it was believed, be-lieved, will be made acrqss the narrow, bottleneck isthmus guarujug me approaches to tne capital city of Naha and its huge: nearby airfields. At last report, Units of Maj. Gen. John R. Hodges' 24th army corps were a little more than six miles from the city. Yanks Widen Hold The doughboys who severed Japanese defenses on Okinawa by oasnmg six miles to the east coast in less than 30 hours, widened their hold on the vital Nakaau- sukii bay naval anchorage to at least three miles and still were pushing forward behind tank companies. Vnited Freii Correspondent Edward Ed-ward Thomas reported thai if the Japnesestrrmpt-ta mass trpsJ along this front they will be ex posed to American battleship and cruiser fire, plus strafing and bombing attacks by carrier planes. . ... : Marines at the northern end of the 10th army's front broadened the west coast beachhead to at least 10 miles with an advance Of more than a mile. : The marines cleaned out and ecured Zampa Capeand sent an rmored spearhead along the coastal highway to the north Casualties continued astonish- (Continued on Page Two) Yanlts Puzzled By Absence of Japs On Okinawa Front BYE. G. VALENS United Pres War Corerspondent REGIMENTAL COMMAND POST, NISHIBARU VILLAGE, Okinawa, April 3 (U.R) TJ. S. troops were puzzled today after consolidating lines along the north rim ridge behind Naka-gusuku Naka-gusuku bay because the Japanese have -not yet committed them- selves. The Yanks continued to push their lines a half mile to the east, coast where patrols were operating operat-ing yesterday. The sky was bright with shell-fire shell-fire all last night as batteries kept roads and valleys blocked against ! possible infiltration. Although this whole army division di-vision has killed only about 130 Japs, more than 750 civilians and several soldiers ver j captured by this regiment alone. Capt. William Brimmer, Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyo., Jh charge of the refugees, refu-gees, said we've more coming in all the time and we don't know what t do with them." "Some refugees don't like Jap soldiers because soldiers took their food and livestock." "They were told to go to the leaves because the Americans would kill therm They all keep asking 'Why don't you kill us? " I saw many civilians wearing army equipment. This perhaps indicated in-dicated that they constituted a home guard, but none were reported re-ported with weapons. Description being smashed as the Allies drive relentlessly on. It's lifficult to be objective about uermany and the Germans when you're an American and when you daily are with Ameri can soldiers fighting to smash the enemy, but viewing the present condition, of Germany objectively any ' observer must be appalled by tne indescribable destruction. Before and even during the war. it was a Biff storv in Ameri ca when the Mississippi floods or the 'eastern seaboard tornadoes wrought several million dollars in damage. But no one but an astronomer and a slide rule expert could (Continued on Page Two D Jagged Cliffs Aid Jap Okinawa Defenses ft- V - 'set. L This is the sea wall at Naha .capital city of Okinawa. Note jagged walls such as these are numerous and provide Jap s with excellent - photo. j-v Okinawa Heaviest fT" vc ; " ' 4., ' "fx 1 s jab m v - . . .' . - V L,UIUUll.lttUI This is a view of I toman, Okinawa, looking across town toward Lifu island. I toman is "southern terminus of narrow gauge railroad from. Naha. The thatched and tiled roofed houses are typical of the native homes on Ikinawa Shima which house-the island's 435,000 inhabitants 910 to each square mile. U. jS.Navy photo. " Reds En ter Wiener-N eustadt, Bratislava In Breakthrough By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 3 (U.R) Russian Rus-sian armored columns were re ported today to have smashed into both Wiener-Neustadt, Austria's most important industrial center, and Bratislava, capital of Germany's Ger-many's puppet state of Slovakia. The German Transocean agency said the German high command had announced that the Soviets Neustadt into the area south of Vienna Tho hrnarlcast did not specify whether the Red army had captured Weiner-Neustadt or merly by-passed it. The breakthrough into Wiener- Neustadt, 23 miles south of Vienna Vien-na and site of one of Germany's biggest Messerschnytt aircraft Alaskan Pilot Loses Out In Race With Stork FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 3 (U.PJ-rAska Bush Pilot Jim Dodson can brave the unchartered un-chartered wilds of this territory, terri-tory, but he's no match for the stork. Dodson Operator of Dodson Dod-son Airways, received an emergency maternity call at 1:15 a. m. today. He flew to Nenana, . a village on the TananaV .river, land picked up Mrs. Hilbert ' Olsen, Berg, ' Ten-minutes! out of Fairbanks Fair-banks on the return race, the long-legged bird won. With a five-below snowstorm raging, Dodson attended the birth of a six-pound girl with one hand and guided the plane with the other. He wrapped the baby in his flying jacket Mother and. child were reported re-ported doing f fate.- No word wa available on Dodson, Fulls. Bon Populated Jap Isle I t-.u. Si. factories, was revealed by Ernst Von Hammer, German D N B agency military commentator, in a Berlin broadcast. "Heavy" street fighting was underway, Von Hammer said. Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's sc On Third Ukrainian army group, byjanese into a hopeless trap on Soviet account, was only eight miles southeast of Wiener-Neustadt Sunday. The city had been bombed on numerous occasions by I"-?. " Z- I v. Moscow dispatches said Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsity's Second Ukrainian army group drove into the outskirts of Batislava, eastern gateway to Vienna, after capturing captur-ing Biskupice, two and a half miles to the southeast. Bratislava7 lies 30 miles east of Vienna. Other Russian units were within gun range of the greater Viennaarea delineated by Adolf Hitler in 1938 and less than 20 miles from the city itself on the southeast. To the north, Moscow reported, evidence increased that the zero hour for the Red army's frontal (Continued on Page Two) News From the WESTERN FRONT British and Canadians race for Breman and: Dutch sea coast on 90 mile front. EASTERN FRONT Red army columns reported-; to have smashed into Wiener-Neustadt in Austria and jBratis-i slava. eaoital of German puppet tate of ElovaWa, 1 y PACIFIC American invasion forces continue ..jrains on Okinawa after cutting island m two wittt six mlie pusn to east coast ' - d : AIR WAR RAF Mosquitoes drop block-bu3ter and fire bombs on Berlin and Magdeburg. anese aircraft in attack on Shanghai . ' ITAtYEighth. army , assitbps drive . or dtyo Comacchio after seizing 15 miles sand spit between lake and Adriatic. s M M y In) ir 1 i cliffs-arming shore line. r Stone defensive positions. U. S. Navy nvaded By Yanks Mm i Legaspi Landing Threatens to Trap Japs On Luzon B Hyb. QUIGG United Press War Correspondent MANILA, April 3 U.R U. S. assault troops squeezed the Jap- southeastern Luzon today after an amphibious landing that overran the port of Legaspi and its airfield. air-field. Seasoned veterans of Brig. Gen Hanford McNider's 158th regimental regi-mental combat team completed the encirclement of the Japanese in southern Luzon Sunday with a surprise landing near Legaspv zoo mues soutneast oz ivianua. Fire from heavy 'coastal bat teries met the invasion craft, but, opposition faded when the troops hit the beaches under cover of a naval and air bombardment. Within three, and a half hours, the Americans had secured" Legaspi, Legas-pi, largest port in southeastern Luzon, its nearby airfield and started a drive to the north. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the landing and capture of Legaspi, Legas-pi, which had a pre-war popula-(Contlnued popula-(Contlnued on Page Tjro) Battle Fronts five 7"i If, S. Ninth Si M Armv Drives Into Hamm Twin Drives Staged To Envelop Holland Force The Weser River Line BULLETIN: PAKIS. April 3 (U.R) Lt Gen. George S. Patton's tanks today roared Into Gotha, only 150 miles from Berlin and scant 185 miles from junction with the Bed army. PARIS, April 3 Amer- f ican and British troops cap tured the Westphalian capi tal of Muenster today while ' tank columns raced 50 miles and more beyond the city in twin-drtwes "to envelop Hol land and force the Weser riv er line on the main superhighway to 'Berlin. Muenster. 227 miles due west . of Berlin, fell to the Allies after more than three days of savage street fighting and a raking artillery ar-tillery bombardment that reduc- ed the city to blackened rubble. Twenty miles to the southwest. soldiers of the American Ninth . army fought their way into Hamm, the biggest railway center in western Germany, and began a house-to-house mop-up of "its by-paised Nazi garrison. Armored spearheads- el -the Ninth army already were more than' 5a miles east of the Muen-sterHamm Muen-sterHamm linev splitting through ' the hinge of the Gerinan defenses to the . Weser river on the Ruhr-Berlin Ruhr-Berlin superhighway 178 miles from Berlip and only 37 miles east of Hannover. Race for Hamlin Another Ninth army column was 'reported racing, for the Pied Piper town of Hamlin, on the Weser 158 miles due west of the German capital. Far to the -south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American Third army appeared to have . broken through Central Germ- many. Official spokesmen saia Patton's men were only. 160 roues from a juncture with the westbound west-bound Red ' army at an undisclosed undis-closed point. Berlin said Patton's .men had captured Kassel, pivot of the Ger man defenses on tne f uiaa river . line 165 miles southwest of Ber- . iin, and another Third army force was only 152 miles from the enemy en-emy Capital at Eisenach. Southeast of Eisenach, Third army forces were almost three- quarters of the way across central cen-tral Germany in the Melningen area 77 miles from the old border of Czechoslovakia and 180 miles Inside the Reich. Between the Berun-bouna Third and Ninth armies, the American First army began chooping through the eastern wall of the great Ruhr pocket to (Continued on Page Two) General Shot By German Captors WITH FIRST U. S. ARMY IN . GERMANY, April 3 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, Denver, Grio..-ccfcnmander Grio..-ccfcnmander of the Third armored . division, vwas shot to death by Nazi tankmen while taking off his pistol to hand over to his German Ger-man captors, ii was announced today. f Rose's aide. Maj. Robert Bal- iineer. White Plates. N. Y- said. Rose already had surrendered the drew of a German Tiger when tankmen with A "Burp" gun shot him. X Rose was riding south of Fad-erbora Fad-erbora last Saturdaywhen he was captured. He was .trying to reach a portion of the Third armored task force which had been cut Off. X ! " Sam jrtu tit- the outstandlnir the war, led the row armored division spearhead through northern France into Belgium and his unit was theiirst to breach the Siegfrid line. Tt'Was tne . tirst . uv enter joi ogne and cow .is one of the first on the road to Berlin. JBaUingecyaaid i 'the - general's Jeep; followed 'byaHx?mjnand halftrack, ran in to-a German tank column. They bulled off the. road and started through a field try ins to escape tne xazi canin wnen - they ran into a German Tiger tanttoa thedgef the;woods;,:r t Th general and his' ajdo got, out of the jeep and stood with , " (Continued on Page' Twoi A 1 |