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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRU5I. UTAH , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Japan Begins to Feel Full Weight Of Allied Air, Sea, Land Blows; Europe Warned of Food Shortage Released by Western Newspaper Union FDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these eelnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Lniona sews analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper ) UNIVERSAL TRAINING: Governors Hear Plans Sheriff Pickets OPA Back to Horse and Buggy Days Pleas for support of a system of universal military training after the war were made to the 37th annual governors conference at Mackinac island by Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Adra. Ernest King, chief of the U. S. fleet Meeting with the state executives to report on the progress of the war on Japan, the top leaders of the army and navy pictured universal military training as essential to the future safety of the United States. The two chieftains warned that if there should be another world war, it would come swiftly, without time or opportunity to tram a large army. Maintenance of a strong national guard with a large reserve maintained through universal training would keep the United States prepared, they declared, without the necessity of a large standing army. ATLANTIC AIR: O. Kd for Three Lines Certificates authorizing the operaroutes tion of air transportation across the' North Atlantic were issued to three United States air carriers by the Civil Aeronautics board. The companies are Airways, Inc., Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., and the American Air Lines, Inc. Terminal points designated by the board include New Juicy sides of beef, whole hog's, veal and lamb bang in the aging Washroom of a quick freeze and food locker plant in Towson, Md., near York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Chicago ington, Baltimore, while OPA Investigators question locker holders about their The certificates authorizing the meat supplies. The OPA reported that it was not satisfied with the ex- new services were limited to a term to the of half of date. group questioned planations holdings given by of seven years in order that dhe operations thereunder, after a reaCABINET CHANGES: JAPAN: sonable period, may be reviewed. The action of the Civil AeronauMorgenthau No. 6 Target for Onslaught tics board was approved by PresiThe resignation of Secretary of dent Truman. Japans dwindling empire was the Treasury Henry Morgenthau given a thorough going over with PresiBERLIN: bombs, warship strikes and offen- marked the sixth member of dent Trumans official family who sives by American and Australian has severed his ties with the cabi- G.I.s Take Over Area land forces. net. The five who preceded him As MaJ. Gen. Nikolai N. Barinov, In an attack that carried Amer- were Secretary of Labor Frances soviet commander in Berlin, formalican naval power almost within sight Perkins, Postmaster General Frank ly turned the American occupation of Russian Siberia, a U. S. battle Walker, Secretary of Agriculture zone in the German capital over to fleet made a surprise bombardment Claude Wicard, Attorney-GenerGen. Omar N. Bradley, the Amerof the Japanese-hel- d half southern Francis Biddle and Secretary of ican flag was raised over the Adolf of Sakhalin island In the Sea of State Edward Stettinius. Successors Hitler barracks. Okhotsk. The Tokyo radio reported to all five have assumed their ofA 4,000 vehicle convoy brought the that American surface units had fices. American forces from Halle to the broken through the Kurile barrier Zehlendorf area of war battered Secretary Morgenthaus resignaand steamed more than 500 miles tion was accompanied almost Berlin which will comprise the U. S. westward to attack Sakhalin. Tokyo simultaneously by the resignation of zone of occupation. American vetlikewise reported an American bat- Associate Justice Owen D. Roberts erans of World War II entered the tle fleet threatening the northern from the court. This was former Nazi stronghold as conquer-ror- s, Supreme coast of Japan. the first resignation from the high returning the smart salutes of Meanwhile the relentless air of- tribunal in President Trumans Red army traffic police. fensive snuffing out Japanese war term, but unlike those of the cabiFor the duration of the occupation production cities continued unabatnet, it was not expected to set a of the Reich by Allied armies, Bered. Climaxed by an hour-lon- g radio precedent for others. lin was to be jointly in the hands of challenge of American fighter planes Justice Roberts, appointed by Pres- the Russians, the Americans and the circling three Tokyo airfields for the ident Hoover had served 15 years British. The British generally will Japanese air force to come up for on the Supreme court. One of his control the northwest area of the battle, approximately 800 planes set most notable public services was city, including the localities of Dll the latest fires and explosions and Wilmersdorf. performed as head of the commitin Japan. I ires in four Japanese tee that investigated the Pearl Harcities burned so brightly they could bor disaster. WAR PRODUCTION: be seen simultaneously by returning 96,359 Planes 9 . pilots Everything from power PHILIPPINES: A forecast of the enormous Amerbouses to light houses was strafed. Six Tokyo air fields were riddled Springboard for Tokyo ican industrial capacity for postwar In one of the proudest moments wuth bombs Two Japanese destroyyears was given by J. A. Krug, War of his career, Gen. Production board chairman, m a reers were hit in the Yellow Sea. Douglas MacArthur proclaimed that view of production results by war the Philippine Islands had been won Borneo Oil plants since the summer of 1943. back in the greatest disaster ever The United States produced 45 per On Borneo the coveted oil fields sustained by Japanese arms. cent of the worlds munitions in 1944, held by the Japs sirrfce early 1942 The doughty American commandMr. Krugs report disclosed. came closer into Allied hands. De- er announced that the islands 0 9 In 1944 the country produced struction of well facilities by the miles are being transsquare 16,048 heavy including airplanes, Japs had been widespread, but en- formed into bases comparable to bombers, built 30,889 ships, 17,565 gineers were prepared to work on the British Islands" to pace the tanks, 595,330 army trucks, and prorepairs. Australian and American march on Tokyo. duced 3,284 heavy field guns and in the libforces were The saga of the Philippines tri- howitzers and 7,454 light ones, 0 eration of this former Dutch holdumph disclosed that in 250 days of rocket aircraft launchers, army ing With Australian infantrymen campaigning, 17 American divisions 215,177 bazookas and 1,146,774 tons of battering at the last Jap footholds defeated 23 Jap divisions in one of the ground artillery ammunition, in Balikpapan, this major oil port the rare instances when a report declared. was m Allied hands. Across the bay ground force superior in numbeis from the city, artillery had shelled was entirely destroyed by a numer- STARVATION STATION: strongly placed enemy guns. Mean- ically inferior opponent while engineers had rushed reconIt was estimated that 420,000 Jap- Discovered in Bavaria struction of the Captured Sepingang anese were slaughtered, including The grisly discovery of a Nazi air strip. scientific starvation station which such hated outfits as the 16th Imperial division which had tortured was claiming children and adult RUSS AID: American and Filipino prisoners in victims until recently was retlie Death March of 1942 followported by two public health officials For China Foreseen fall of of the American Military governBataan. the ing To Japan the dread question of ment in Bavaria. The arrest of 4 German doctors possible Russian participation in the FOOD: Pacific war was heightened by the and 3 hospital attendants at the staMust Speed Europe Output cordial reception Chinese Premier 45 A blunt warning to the liberated tion in the Kadfbeuren area, T. V. Soong received in Moscow on of Munich, preceded southeast miles nations of Western Europe to speed his official visit to the Soviet Union. the announcement, One woman conup their own food production be- fessed killing 211 children for which Foreign diplomats in the Red capcause relief shipments from abroad extra compensation, the she drew ital reported that the Japanese mismay fall short of expectation has announcement said. sion there were highly nervous over been delivered, according to Dennis the friendly relations evident be- A. Fitzgerald, Umted States tween the Chinese and Russians. on the combined food board. deputy LEGION: The Japs were the only diplomats Officials of the nations involved Backs U. N. Charter who did not attend a sumptuous rehave been told that theyd better Full support of the 1,600,000 mem ception that Vacheslav Molotov, so- start gulling themselves up by bers of the American Legion, includviet foreign commissar, gave for their own bootstraps and use every ing veterans of both World wars was Premier Soong. conceivable device to increase their pledged to the United Nations charWhether the Russ Chinese meetproduction," Fitzgerald disclosed. ter when National Commander EdLiberated countries have been as- ward Schieberling urged the senate ings presaged future action by the soviets against Japan continued to sured that vigorous efforts are be- to ratify the pact. be a moot question, but reports were ing made to give them all assistSchieberling set forth his views in current that Soong might at least ance possible, he said, but they a letter to all members of the sennegotiate a mutual aid pact where- have also been reminded that the ate. d by Russia would undertake to sup- United States still has a The American Legion feels that ply Chinese armies without lending war in the Pacific which will get the San Francisco .charter is an them direct military aid. In return first call on our own food stocks. honest and able attempt to create it was assumed that China would By far the largest share of rea workable association of free and make certain concessions to Russia lief shipments to Europe will be sovereign nations, the. letter depossibly granting a warm water composed of wheat and flour, Fitz- clared, "implemented with force to naval base in the Liaotung penin- gerald reported. Approximately maintain peace and prevent recursula of Manchuria and certain rail- 650,000 bushels of wheat are ex- rence of war. It is obvious that it way transportation rights through pected to go out from the U. S. and is the best and only charter that can Manchuria. Canada. be produced at this time. Char-lottenbu- thrill-studde- Wearing a hogshead. Sheriff Kirk S. King of Rockford, 111., picketed the OPA office as a protest against reg- ulations which virtually denuded him. He needs 4 yards of cloth for a suit, but OPA says that is too much cloth. OPA regulations provide that three suits must be made from 11 yards of cloth. When the nations governors opened their annual conference at Mackinac island, Michigan, they found only horse carriages awaiting them. Automobiles are not allowed on Mackinac and even the progressive governors had to be content with a horse and buggy. Much of session was taken up by reports on the United Nations charter and discussion of food Big League Record Hull Signs United Charter The all-timajor league record was broken when Frank Hayes, Cleveland Indian catcher, appeared in his 218th successive game, without missing an appearance in the lineup. The record was broken when he caught against the Philadelphia Athletics. Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a delegate to the United Nations conference at San Francisco, who was unable to attend because of Illness, is shown signing the United Nations charter at the state department in Washington. Hull, although ill, was consulted by other delegates before and during the conference. Charter met with his active support. problems. He Fired Last Shot d 113,-60- 96,-35- 152,-00- ... Pfc. Dominic Mozzetta, 19, of Providence, R. I., who fired the last shot in the European phase of the war, shown as he arrived at Camp Shanks, N. Y. Mozzetta was on rescue patrol, on May 7, when he fired the last bullet at a Nazi sniper. This statistical table issued by the U. S. navy and British admiralty, shows the total loss of merchant ships by the Allies during the war, until faU of Germany. First column, or 538, represents the loss of U. 8. ships. Second column, or 2,570, represents the British loss, and last column shows the total loss of all other Allies until V-- E Day. Ration .Free Dinner Farm Fish Ponds Prove Popular ...... trtrrrmnTr t-i- v rr-- i rr.im hi full-size- HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the weeks news For the first COPENHAGEN: time in 53 years the death sentence was passed in Denmark when authorities announced Terben Wuiff, accused informer for the German Gestapo, was sentenced in a national purge of Danish traitors. Wuiff was accused of disclosit g information to the er.cmy resulting m the murder of a Daiush patriot, Arboe Rasmussen. NAVAL LOSSES The loss of two American destroyers and one submarine was reported the navy department. MUNICH: The famed Munich byThe destroyers were the William beer hall where Adolf Hitler made D and the Twiggs. Jap aerPorter bid his first for power shortly will attacks sank the destroyers off ial bcome a GL club andAmerican Okinawa s.x days apart, the navy soldiers will munch doughnuts m the Casualties totaled 244. 01 fuehrers eagle nest overlooking reported 183 were suffered by the these, Frederick Carroll, Berchtesgaden in a attack that American Red Cross commissioner, Twiggsoff the surprise blew ship s bow. Sixty-on- e reported that repair work on the wounded comprised the entire casud hall would start alty list of ths Porter, hit by an soon. enemy suicide dive bomber. bomb-damage- Thousands of lobsters were cast up on the beach near Santa Monica Canyon, Calif., and for hours men, v omen and children swarmed over sea the beach to gather ration-fre- e gifts. Relaxation as well as food is provided by the farm fish pond. This pond on a North Carolina farm yielded 90 fish in three days this spring-- ail of them edible. It was built by simply throwing up earth dam across a low, eroded field, then equipping it with a spillway in the corner. It is fed by springs and was stocked with blucgill and bass. |