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Show nr sldArtUU noiiliMuiwafri'n mim '" iLi- -. aiHfrgSi- 4- :K Mukden: industrial Center Is The Pacific jUnion City Bled Dry by Russians' Grim Picture of Desolation Herald-Journ- Eruption of Volcano Couldn't al Tliiu.sdtiy, March 21. 1916 Return of Food jSchoiarship Hurt Kagoshima Raticn'ng Unlikely Winners Listed March 20 IT Goveinment officials said today it seemed very un'ikely that Amci-iian- s would be forced to return to lood rationing despite mounting world-wid- e hunger and misery OPA officials said they had "no idea at all" of resuming rationing of scarce foods in tins country to make sure that the peoples of and Asia Kurope have enough to eat. They said it would be almost impossible to restore rationing in time to do any good, since the peak of the wot Id food crisis should be over by summer.' It would take almost that long to muster a new staff to handle rat oiling, they sai l At the time of the meat .stnke President Trum in said meat rationing would be restored if il vveie necessary to mass starvation abroad but that he did not think it would be necessary. The present shoita WASHINGTON, tiEVNOI skirts green, ns Winneis ui lh'' 1945 Carl Rayi tub mond m i..' ships PACKARD duve Staff Correspondent March 17- -1 correct) J Ch.nese Nationalist troops a Chinese Communist ng off of Mukden today questioned soldiers . rficers and ?KusSmn rl. JJtCDEN. front. captured edly et near artillery position a Corn- outside The ho lies of 10 Japan e still iintmieiie amid wreckage of Mtikde i buddings, where Kttssia army iriiN c'ltioiled the city prior to reported evacuation, him Japanese met death was not eplairid, bill the;, were biTcvcd to have hem among forces used by Kuo ians I it- labor ill removing line him-rfr in eilys factories. 16-1- and highway traffic has been interrupted who are the Communists, into the city and fighting area. i lesin the downtown dashed into Mukden at night w days ago abioad a h.indiur from Sinmin ,ig the railroad e snipers peppered it with red i reports from the fighting southern edge of Mukden communists were using id the uaneae guns. The skirmish in were said Ah the six Russians be captuied centered around a cannon. It was anese the mits report that the were using artillery. c tv pl.ot have be n ev-t- gtards tor Chinese headquarters h t il tli. it letii.nn p,i jn mi. sb only spot .die seivioc, oft eii net enough power to supplv the city', vvat r plants. Tile J ipane.-- e army Far lack:, which th Chinese v n .hi like to have used ten their ovu Hoops, nave been lown up. All lirst class Mancluriti rail equipment ha, been taken ovei oy the Russians Th city itself ns an unu'd e.inip a- -d A Sino-Sovi- Ru.-sia- n com- zards. S ,e . v o p.'C-ve- ice-gre- at j Kago-speak- 4 when it tut the bay. Thia eJ the forward progress of stop; flow and additional lava the xpilling fro.n the crater merely piled up on the niounlaiik.ide. When we flew over Sakura on our way to Kago'hlma, the volcano was thpn steaming and bubbling. Molten lava could be sepn in the c later at the top of the near-per-t cone that forms Sakura. Even last September some lava was spilling out of a nick in the - de of the crater but the flow then was so small that it cooled and stopped before reaching the shores of Kagoshima Bay. There were two fishing villages vis.ble on the shores of the bay neai the mountain then. It is these little towns that probably me in the most danger from the new eruption of Sakura. Kagoshima was a prime target oi our air forces becaue it was tne southern terminus of the Japanese state railroad system. Trains v.ere unloaded here and war materials placed in freigh.ers for r A R Si er id shipment to the southern islands i nd bases that the Japs .controlled until we wrested them away. Docks there, until our bombs demolished them, were also used to un.oa.l the booty the Nipponese took fro II the iliiiippin s anj the .Vet 'erl.inds East Ind es and ship- ped home. The bombing job was so complete th.it it wasn't unt.l more than six weeks after the end of the war that trains resumed ser. vice to Japanese authbe orities estimated it would be. ore the many, many years I'o.t ia. ibties were restoied to anyr size. thing near their Kagosh.ma, on the west side of its buy near tiu extreme southern tip o, Kyushu, is only about 49 miles airline from Kanyoa Beach, where our forces were to have made their initial lauding No. 1 inin operation Olympic--th- e vasion of Japan. Krfgo-hiina- pre-wa- Winter traffic accidents in northern stat. s for the last three wartime yeaVs were 24 to 53 per cent higher than in summer months. O Of Idaho Chosen ig Gov. BOISE March 20 d'.I!) Arnold Williams today appointed . Stale Rep. A. R. McCabe, D., Bene- wah, as lieutenant governor to fill the vacancy created when Charles C. Go sett resigned as governor to accept appointment to the U. S. senate and Williams advanced to the governorship. Wfllmms said McCabe, St. Mines dentist and Democrat minority floor leader in the 1943 and Idaho house, "is the choice of the Democrat leaders of the 10 North Idaho counties. Earlier, Williams said he would appoint a north Idahoan to the position. . 19-I- en-ni- captured m ladies. v'i le i pro-tfsl- Mukden's arteries have been cut and the city hit d my by the Russians during their o. iiipuioa and domination ol the ana Without cxiaptnm, lai tores hive been clean d of machinery and equipuonalists counterattacked, fo ment right down to the electrical the gunpost to withdraw, and Even wiring and window iKureil the Russians. iloms have been removed Most of the six Russians carried Gaping holes can be se. n in evfc.irms when captured, the field ery well where th Russians blastepoits said All were in Red army ed to expedite the moving of informs. ; and equipment. large machinery i saw the six Russians in Muk-(- 0 Some factories have been comtoday. They included an artil-r- y pletely destroyed by demolition Mr.jii, a navy lieutenant, and charges alter ail di suable equipair artillery and infantry soldiers, ment had bi en removed. an interpreter for tiie uluding Japanese oldicrs, who did the Jmese language. bulk of the heavy labor under SoThe Russians said they Were viet guidance, have disappeared. from Changchun to Dairen Some were sent as slave labor to s official business when a blown Russia and Siberia; some never ndge near Suchiatung halted Hit the scene of their labors. Snr train. The bodies of 10 Japanese solThey wcie continuing i foot when captured, said. diers were found in the ruin., of they Some Russians remain in Muk-- one factory, lying where they fell The Yamato hotel, which was after being executed by persons maned the Intourist hotel during unknown. Soviet occupation, is still run The sound of rifle fire and ocI ' the Soviets. casional machine gun buists can I Mukden is under the strictest be heard breaking the cemeteryri srtial law and mghtime curfew. like stillness of this industrial fehting has occurred almost in graveyard. e center of the city. Communist Russian joldiers can be seen wps are massed on all sides, loading machinery from still unid ha been attempting to sneak stripped factories into American ftei into the city. e trucks. The Communists have been Tins systematic destruction Is their attacks along the not confined to former Japanese iioad between Mukden and war plants alone. The huge MukBonn, 50 miles to the southeast. den Gaj Company, which supplied Most Crowded ' gas for cooking and heating in the reached Sunmin city, is completely out of operayesterday oard a third class passenger tions. It's boilers, instruments and n rom Chinchow. It was the gauges have been removed. ot crowded train I ' Mos of the generators in the have ever Casualties Till Communist gun position at 18 miles south o! hutting, Men, inflicted 20 casualties on field ' reports sai I r.ionalists, 2(1 waist. Iced Molei visitd the bomb-wrpent of Kagoshima Now stationed in Silt Lake City, Molar here de- -i t abed the southern Kyushu aiea that this week is the scene of a violent eruption of fsakiiia volcano i other official buildings. i. gaily enfoiced 8 p m. to 6 n m cul'W .huts the city down with tiht evciv night Business, the exception of the black market, is at a standstill with the local Chun sc an Japanese population living in lomplete terror of the . i .ss.aas V. h r. will the Russians with-c- h ivv liom Manchuria in aceord-a- i M. m m :a re with the pact of i d m ftar. la t August? fiu sian and (h.mse Replied Major General Andrei pT.bnxes id ii visum vi. ( in i: ii commander dot i very comer tanks Kovtuu St inkavith Ml Staff orrcspoinh'iit and troops armed with tommy-gun- s of the Soviet force in Mukden; iNEAl MlKDKN, Manehuri t "When will American Marine's are everyw hei o. t h nese - This Pittsburgh of the Far East, troops are seldom scon e' c pt as leave north China ? once the ntuusti ini heait of Japan's mainland Asiatic empire, presents a grim pii'tine ol savage desolation dial lili h ss ruin Its fai'toiies lie like skeletons lavaged by buze C bullets. first an Ci 1 tr nv.-lop- i Field it by rt Mukden I v disji'tch cm lospoiiden! was written puor to the Russian w ith it ,.u al from Mukden as repot iici bv the Cbi-se Ueiitr.--l News Agency Chinese nicies del late that the 'd Mukden evacuation does riot mo essnr d indicate a general Ku siaii withdrawal liom NEA-Acni- week. railroad ;i.er Gal tor's Note' Slmity after the A mei it an oceupitum o' f ip- an begin last tall, United I1 ess War Cm lespondcnt Murrty M B.v Ml Kil V M. MOI.KR I.T I.Ws'K (TlY, Mar. h 20 dl'i Unless the Japanese have a lot ol rebuilding within the last six months, the ei option Sikuri Jimu ctn'i do mmh d: age tn tiie fo. nii'i key city of s mthei n Kviixhu Kago'-HmaThere isnt much left to damage. More than 20 laid, by aunei-- 1 forts, heavy and medium bombers, fightei-bo-iheiand earner planes Since tiie inception of the si in the elo.i ng months ot the war L'tnh piogiam in 1921, many knocked out about 9h per cent of boys ami g.iis have been able to Kagosmm i attend (ollcge who would not ot'nvt hen this c u i visited on fats centers grainand erwise have the pi, v. lege, Mr. hot September with counKagoshima th.s whether of The issue Sharp said a group of tar eastern air forge Names of the scholarship win- try should replace its voluntary bomb d image un.dysi.sts, we found ners ami alternates fellow: Bax food conservation plans with stn build ng o' unv i on was only rat omng River Johnson compulsory .Bear Elder, Klyse s t c sou. hen bi ought up by Herbert H Lehman, Kyushu Ann and Palmer, Trcmonto.i, City, school .till standing. the bismc-lelaihe. Claire Maughan, Provi-- j retiring director general ofhahih-taion Everyth m else was flat. More deuce, and Clair Theurcr; Dans, United Nations relief and ri tli'ii 20, too o' Kago.hima's 200,000 administration. Dii.'Otk. t.ici-n- , Kajsvulle, end Re-- I Lehman, forced by ill health to pe ice t'me residents vveie killed, oeeoa Brough. Kaysville; Kane, resign in the midst of the world wcundcl or burned Some DO 000 iShiilcy Esgltn. Otderville, and Lila food others had fled to the country. crisis he had tr'ed to prevent Lindquist, Kattab; Millard, Donna The 30,000 sti'l left were living in Bell Chr.sU'n..cn, Delta, and Neva sa.d rat oning should be losumrd woild-wid- c bams because wln.tovei ough s' clter they could lAshby, llnl'en, Summ't, Marjoite on a be half onoiijn find ill (heir o would there fishing, barely and DeValara Rees, Joaivtlle, alii; pitif and transportation center. next year. Murni.i, Bark City; Salt Lake, food to go around Tod ly's Japinese piesa toi.oits Joyce Howletlc, Draper, and Shir- of v 11a "e s fl em" frorn th; wrath EXPANSION ley Bermee Clayton, Sandy; Utah, SALT LAKE CITY, March 20 of Sakura Jima Jima is one of ' Kenna White, American Fork, an', Expansion of junior college several words the .ans l've Shirley Hyde, American Fork; il'Iilnoiintiiin- - is an old story to the Weber, Thair Carver and Thuyn facilities to assimilate increasedlesulenLs. Kugoshima enrollment by returning scrviceRobson, and Beaver, Rhonda Their ch ef of police told us lust men today had been urged by Dr. Milford. N. Barrows, Wash ngton. fall that Sakura was a frequent Washington county winners will Thomas o fender, and at least three times he announced later. No scholar- D. C director of the commission in the list few centuries' on of service expert- its ships will be awarded in Iron coun- enceaccreditation for the American Council on lava flow hud wiped out fishing ty this year, Mr. Sharp sa d, be- Flducation. Barrows was principal v.lluges along the shore fo cause the only entries received at a meeting here of junior shima biy between the main city were from sophomore students. The s' holarships will be used at and senior college representatives and the base of tin mountain. However, in past eruptions, an the Utah Slate Agricultural col- from Utah and Arizona: it: let of the hay had always lege. itself. T iva A black duck at Dundee, HI., Kagoshima flowing down the sides of Sakura (laid a black egg. L'eutenant-GoveiT. 4 Much-Mo- re s The following last e your n Gray $10n scholarship .x awaiued annually to club boy the most omstand ng or gul m laid of the 12 counties in Utan suveil by the railroad. County scliolaiship i ommitteei. select the winners and en alternate on the basis of project work, scliol astiC standing and diameter. Their selection is in turn approved by il.e state su;eiviory ofticials. All .selections ate reviewed by the Inidn Radik. hit Snarp said V ,B by loe i ra lioad according to David club state eaten-.- , on iiiiiour.ccd iiimi 1'iuific . Soviet offieeis and four rjf two told the Nationalist men jj.teij it was ail a quarters that .ike They said they accidently when 0ear the gun pos.tion onaliat troops attacked it, and know Communist they didn't tps mere there. Russ Captured uo other Russian soldiers Na--m by the tom were qnptured wrested from m territory Chinese Reds. These Russians were stragglers. Both ,j ti,py ,red sidearms and rifles beleaguered and gutted city Jlakden was virtually surrouud-- i The j... communist troops, doing taeir utmost to from the Nationugjre the city al troops, to whom the Russians itled control when they evacuat-- i Ill I Bharp. .Ii leader. i ne Cal' Raymond city $ Ini Jareds, "V f police station. It maintains an armed These photos, made prior to rehatricadc. at its sandbag guard ported Ruslan withdrawal from city, are exclusive NEA TeleNEA-Acm- e correspondent. photos by Harlow M. Church, This is a typical Mukden SAI.LV BERLIN, March 20. t'I9 American agents have captured Axis Sally. the dark-eye- d personality girl of radio Berlin who used her sexy voice on U. S. troops during the war. counter-intelligen- lcnd-lee.s- con-ctrat.- Ideal The slow-motio- n Together with an Everlasting "Forgst-Me-Not- " Bracelet Link Your Friends no-ma- ind de- - N.situation in Mukden when was tense. Nationalist arrived sentries were ready to shoot anyto halt when one who failed ordered. Coming fiom the railroad e station in an American 25 jeep, we were halted at leaM times Sentries inspected the party closely by torchlight. Last night I was awakened several times by gunfire on the outskirts.' where Communist forces tried to break in. a This afternoon I watched battle between a group of Nationalists and Communists just behind the Yamato hotel. A dozen .were dRcovered barricaded in a home. They tried to make a dash for it. but Nationalist soldiers and police closed in and opened fire. mi - TLoL " v of us, including the driver, owded aboard a tiny hand and (line railcar with a capacity sand made the ride into Muk- after nightfall, was like a dash ?h snow covered at miles an hour over i mile stretch. 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