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Show Co,-They Soy THE WEATHER UTAH ' Cloudy with mow frasrlejpEodaT and la south por- . tlons early toDlxfat. Cleartn- north t portions- tonight, partly cloudy Tuesday. Colder today and to- ' night. Temperatures High. 58 Lew 24 livma ha lalinast aver.. It nut last, Jong time to. come. The fact': la we have destroyed m lot of forces, llow much resistance ho- (the enemy) can put up yet remains to be jeen. Tit 'Gen. Omar N. Bradley ISttt ?Army Group Commander. HOT-NINTH YEAR, NO. 214 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PBESS PRICE EIVE CENTS SOUTH Or SALT LAKE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE ft I: .Er Sremeii literate ii ii m II m w a priiisi mom --j.m M U mm m w mt M M m w- yraes Resigns as Head 115 Of War Mobilization, conversion Roosevelt Expresses 'Heartfelt Regrets In Accepting Resignation; Nominates , Vinson, Head of FLA as WRM Successor WASHINGTON, April 2 predicting that "V-E day is day as director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion. re-conversion. President Roosevelt, expressing "heartfelt regret," ac-cepted ac-cepted the resignation and immediately nominated Fred M. Vinson, head of the federal loan agencies, as Byrnes' successor. succes-sor. Vinson formerly was director of economic stabilization. He took over the loan Job only a , lew weeks ago after Jesse M. Jones was pusted by the president presi-dent Byrnes had been mobilization director for a year and 10 months. He was charged with co- J ordinaUng all homer front phases ( of the war effort and settling dis-: putcs among government agen-! cies. . Ho Issued the disputed orders . closing race tracks and imposing a midnight curfew on entertain- ment places. He promised on sat- urday that .these bans would be revoked on V-E day. ; Byrnes asked that his resignation resigna-tion become effective today. But the president requested that he make it effective on the date that Vinson is confirmed. Byrnes agreed to stay in Washington un til hi 'duties are transferred to Vinson, and then will return to his home in Spartanburg, S. C, for rest. An ?n Byrne And- Jreaidantk, BnosVvrlMlltff 4aatJui,P . nes had hit desire remain in oiiice to admlnlstetv the reconversion program. Aftersthe election in November ByrneJbagain reminded remind-ed the president of nb desire to leave. The agreement then was that he would accept the war mobilization directornjp only until V-E day. in aMitinn o the ovrhsnup A between Byrne And- JreidaaUa,."' "u"tt UCiCa: correspondence. Byrnes auUioriz-Mno, ed White House Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels to make the f ol lowing statement for him: "Though I could not see rav way clear to accept the detailed task of reconversion tor ine pen-1 od 1 know it wiU take, it does not lessen in any way ray intense in-1 terest in the prosecution of the war and the making of an enduring endur-ing peace. I hope I can make some contribution as a private citizen." Mr. Roosevelt replied to the former supreme court justice in a letter dated March 31 wit the salutation "Dear Jimmie." Mr. Roosevelt said he was reluctant to accept Byrnes resignation but he had no alternative knowing! (Continued on Page Two) Two Utah County Men Reported Dead And Two Wounded Sgt Curtis E. Wilder29, USMC, was killed on Iwo Jlma Feb. 22, according to word received by his mother. Mrs. Matilda J. Nelson Wilde of American Fork. Sgt. Wilde was bom in American Ameri-can Fork. April 7. 1916, and was graduated - from American Fork high school after which he spent two years with the CCC. He enlisted en-listed in the marine corps in Fthruary, 1941, and twenty months of his period of service were spent in Alaska. He had been in the south Pacific since August. 1944. Survivors include his mother, now visiting in California; a sister; sis-ter; Mrs. F. A. Golden, Yuma. Arizona; and two brothers, Le-Grande Le-Grande Wilde, American Fork, and Pvt. Mark M. Wilde, U. S. army. Pfc. Lowell Manwell, son of Mm. Kin S. Man well 1QO Wtt ' First South, is among the U. S. . army men reported dead in the European battle area, according to a- release received here today from the war department. SPANISH' FORK J. Will Lewis, formerly of Spanish Fork, IS reported to be wounded in an army hospital in Germany, after having been listed among the missing for a short time. A letter. written in his own hand on the 15th of March, stated that he was wounded, but would recover with the "lull use of my body." Staff Sgt. Kenneth F. Hardy, son of Mrs. Iva A. Hardy, 155 West First North, Spanish Fork, has been wounded while serving with the U. S. army in Europe, T according to a? war department release received, here. ices Justice James F. Byrnes, not far distant,1 resigned to Steffiniiis Faces Job of Forging Unify DeleexrrHon Snlit Ovpr jeegauon Dpilt wer Secret Agreement On ' . . . . VOtes dt d. r . Meet WASHINGTON, April 2 ra Secretary of State Edward Ed-ward R. Stettinius, Jr., today faced the job of trying to forge unity among the U. S. delegates to the , San Francisco Francis-co conference on world security. secur-ity. . ea"ie?. a mrm j" "P also has arranged tentatively for a 10-day prkdo almost continuous contin-uous meetings to begin next Monday. Mon-day. The conference begins April 25. The deligation was split serlo- ously .over the secret agreement on assembly votes made bv the Big Three at Yalta. Sen. ArthurThe nation was assured today of H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., is not ionly opposed to giving any nation than one vote, on the as- sembly but is boiling mad about the way , the Big Three deal fin' ally leaked out to the public. The delegation will operate at San Francisco under the "unit "iv- w lct"-" ne among themselves before vowpg wiw ouier nauons xn me conference. The delegation's own dcision probably will be detemv ined by Majority vote,- with die dissenters remaining quiet in the conference meetings. But President Roosevelt already al-ready has commlted the United States delegation. to support the Soviet Union's request for. three votes instead ol one in the as sembly. If three other members of the eight-member delegation .join Vandenberg on this issue. It wui cause complications that probably wont be easy to solve, Despite speculation that the conference may be postponed be cause of .events of the last week, U. S. officials said preparations were proceeding normally for the meeting. But suggestions of a postponement continued, coming both from supporters and critics of the Dumbarton Oaks plan. The xormer leared that the present atmosphere at-mosphere might prevent any worthwhile a r c e m c n t being reacneo. If a postponement is being considered con-sidered at all, it will have to be made very soon. Some of the delegates del-egates already, are en route to this country. LONDON, April 2 (U.R) A breach between -the Russians and Anglo-Americans over the knotty Polish problem drew a proposal (Continued on Page Two) Official Report Reveals Japanese Atrocities on Helpless Filipinos MANILA. March 31 (U.FD An official report revealed today that the Japanese in their rape of Manila butchered helpless women wo-men and children with bayonets, shot men by the hundreds and wantonly destroyed places of worship. The atrocities were brought to light in a mass of documentary evidence furnished by the people who survived the ordeal and by American military personnel. Disposition of. the. evidence, 2rhich contains some of the most ruesome accounts ever written, was not announced but it likely will be submitted to the United! Nations war crimes commission. Perhaps the most damaging affidavit af-fidavit was that of Maj. David V. Blnkley, a 37th division medical officer. He personally insDected Unany mass atrocity scenes, but the Allies Pull Hitler's 3 Akm lW PV aw M tltt r - V T.V ,.v J J'r T I . torn I Milan O -rJ VXy-w-v b ,A y r 1 off a fatravo Junction between fast-flying Lt-Gen. George S. Patton's Third- Armyh the west and Russia's First "and Second Ukrainian armies in the east would cut off southern Germany, where Nazi leaders and remnants of their legions are reported to" be fleeing for possible last stand." Map above show how Junction of the two rmfes would eflect.the cutoit and also how other sections of the Third . are striklnjtiMr U. S. Assured of 30-Day Coal Peace lijjASHINGTON, April 2 (U.R) at least another month of strike-free strike-free production in the soft coal fields. The threat of an immediate strike' was removed when Presi dent John L. Lewis sent Easteri day telegrams to his United Misfe workers, asking them to stayon the job another 30 days under their old contract while Jle and the mine operators contjlued effortsto ef-fortsto work out a new one. PRICE, Utah. ApU 2 (U.R) Officials of the yfJnlted Mine Workers . of America today used the radio to order Carbon county coal miners back to work. Although John L. Lewis and the mine operators had agreed to extend ex-tend therold contract for another thirty days with raises retroactive- to April 1 formal notification notifi-cation of the action did not reach here until this morning, Joe Dowd, vice-president of district 20, explained. Miners therefore failed to appear ap-pear for the early shift today. The old contract expired at midnight Saturday. The government, govern-ment, aware of the miners' policy of "no contract, no work," appeared ap-peared ready to seize the mines yesterday when Lewis announced that he had requested UMW members to stay on the job. The burly mine chieftain, said he was doing so because he was "conscious of the imperative necessity nec-essity of continuing the produc tion of coal for war." He and the operators arranged to continue discussions today, with the war labor board ready to take a direct hand if there is no - substantial progress within a week. The rfirst 30 days of negotiations failed to bring agree ment on a single issue. worst was near the Manila railway rail-way station where he saw the bodies of 115 men, women and children all shot and bayonetted. Many of the adults and some of the older children were tied before be-fore they were shot, Blnkley said. The very Small children were killed without being tied. At De La Salle college, Blnkley found the bodies of 76 meft, women, wo-men, and children of various ages scattered over the ground. "Some of the women were pregnant." he testified. "The breasts of one woman had been cut off. All the bodies were pierced by several bayonet wounds. At the Campos residence on Taf t Avenue, 45 women, most of whom wore slacks, were found. Evidence of assault was apparent (Continued on Page Two) Corset Strings Tighter juv -r l&x. t mm. . jt- a Cfcownoy 4 7 z ; MMSfOBOff -SB? X"! VfCRCHTESGADCN iawsfcrtioek" i? .f Udk. V Adriatic Civilian Production oods BdckWhen By JOSEPH LAlTrN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 2 ur x dications today that production of civilian goods would climb back to pre-war levels and surpass them in the year following defeat of Germany. But that still will not mean a return to the peacetime standard of living for Americans. It will take at least two or three years, in the opinion of . many officials, to satisfy country alone for automobiles. radios, refrigerators and similar items. And some of this production produc-tion will be earmarked for export. ex-port. In the first few months after V-E day. the increase in. civilian goods will hardly be apparent to the man on the street But as the war production program adjusts Itself to the reduced needs of a one-front war, -the output of civilian ci-vilian goods should swell to gi gantic proportions. War Mobilization : Director James F. Byrnes, in his week-end report to congress, estimated that 30 per cent of the nation's resources re-sources in materials would be available for civilian production within nine months after the end of the war in Europe. As facilities facili-ties are released from war work, these materials will find their way into the durable goods that have virtually disappeared from the American scene since Pearl Harbor. ) Byrnes gave the American people peo-ple this post V-E day preview: The midnight curfew, the prohibition pro-hibition against racing the the brown-out of commercial lighting light-ing will be lifted. But the high tax on transportation and the ban on convention travel will con-r tinue, as will controls on manpower, man-power, wages and prices. There may be a "small increase" in-crease" in the basic gasoline ration. ra-tion. There must be 'immediate tax relief for 'business to encourage new .production and make new jobs for displaced workers. Byrnes also called for leslsla- tion to empower the president to reorganize and consolidate ex ecuttve agencies and to unify the war and navy departments into a single department of national defense de-fense after the war. Byrnes suggested that men who stick with war Jobs after -V-E day should be given a priority on the purchase of certain types of civilian ci-vilian goods that go back into production. "Today war workers get pref erence in we purchase of auto mobiles, tires and tubes." he said After VrE day the same po'icy will have to prevail." - Other, .(Continued on Page Two) 4 v & t i Koto ytf rwwwww Grbs r rksrv " y t viiftrtci Auii Sco to Climb War Ends tE There were strong in the pent-up demand in this Lehi Matron Is Killed By Passing Auto One Lehi woman was killed instantly, and another is in "serious" "seri-ous" condition today at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City, as a result of an accident Saturday at 10:50 p. m. when a carload of high scbool boys struck the wo men, it was reported. The accident which proved fatal to Mrs. Ellen Carter, occur -ed as Mrs. George Price, a niece of Mrs. Carter, both of Lehi. was assisting her across U. S. highway si between center and Second West streets, as they were return ing from a party. Charles Little,Kxst. machines, said he failed to see the pedestrians in time to avoid striking them, according to City Marshal Niron T. Fowler, who invesigated. Apparently neither of the wo men saw the southbound car and walked directly into its path, he said. Mrs. Price sustained a broken leg and kneecap and other injuries. Six passengers in the automobile automo-bile driven by Mr. Little, were high school boys returning from the AAU basketball tournament in Salt Lake City. The boys are Sherman Beck, Jack Coddington, Owen Dean, Jr., Blaine fUchins and Harold Angerson, all of American Fork, and Vern Clark, Alpine. No charges have yet been filed in the case, the marshal said. A strong wind was blowing and there was considerable dust in the air at the time of the accident, which may account in part for the low visability. Mrs. Carter, 74, was a lifelong resident of Lehi, where she was born June 19, 1870, a daughter of James and Charlotte Crocket Goueh. After her marriage to James Carter who died In 134, she and her family lived for (Continued on Page Two) US Expands Okinawa Beachhead; Drive For Burning Capital United Press War Correspondent By FRANK TREMAINE GUAM, April 2 C Marines an American 10th army expanded their Okinawa beachhead today, driving toward the eastcoast from the assault beaches while front dispatchesindicated U. S. planes soon would be using at least one oythe two airfields which have been captured. There have been no official reports from American Ameri-can headquarters on yOkinawa since 6 p. m. Sunday, nine and a half hours after Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner's troops poured ashore from the largest invasion convoy ever gathered in the .-Pacific. It was possible that the leathernecks and doughboys ' were moving so fast and the situation was so fluid that reports toheadquarters were un able tolceep up with the front. 1 infantrymen were lastreported less than seven miles Maha, Okinawa's burning pital. Radio towers in the city of 65,000 were clearly visible to the advancing Americans. It was believed that the next official messages may reveal sen sational new gains-, although lt could hardly be expected they would be 'as sensational as the totally .unexpected three-mile drive inland Sunday after virtually virtual-ly unonrosed landings. r Tens of thousands of troops went ashore from the 1,400-ship armada and seized an eight-and-three-quarters-mile-ong beachhead beach-head on Okinawa's west coast yesterday in an operation that placed American military might within. 362 miles of I Japan's "sacred souY f Wthin ' the first - three hours. thftg.fapfaire4..4wo airfields, and by nightfall they had driven proximately naif way across the waist of Okinawa toward the naval anchorage of Nakagusuku bay on the east coast, another ol the prime objectives of the invasion, in-vasion, y A correspondent broadcastine from a. Superfortress over Oki nawa this morning said the invasion in-vasion appeared to be continuing well despite some signs of resis tance, though apparently nothing line mat wmcn had been anti clpated. Reinforcements of men, tanks, guns and supplies were flowing across tne beaches in a steady stream. warsnips ranging from new 45,000-ton battleships to rocket-firing rocket-firing gunboats poured a steady orumxire of shells into enemy positions ahead of the ground forces. Some 1,500 carrier planes also shuttled back and forth over the island. A Japanese communique conceded con-ceded that the Americans were continuing to reinforce the beachhead, beach-head, but. claimed that Japanese forces had intercepted the invaders in-vaders in "furious fighting," The enemy communique also asserted that 41 more ships in the (Continued on Page Two) How Far Berlin By UNITED PRESS Third army tanks were within 152 miles of Berlin. Adolf Hitler was reported to have instructed Joachim von Rib- bentrop to make "a final "peace proposal," with a threat that if the Allies rejected it, captured Allied officers, hostages from occupied countries and ,250,000 Jews would be murdered. AH local Nazi party officers were ordered to stay at their Fear Implanted in Jap Civilians By Offfcials Caused Mass Suicides By E. G. VALENS United Press War Correspondent; WITH 77TH DIVISION. IN, THE RYUKYUS, April 1 (U.R) Fear Implanted by their own authorities au-thorities caused an estimated 200 Japanese civilians to attempt mass suicide on Tokashlki island in the Keramas. 1 Some disemboweled themselves with 'grenades, others hanged themselves from trees. A number num-ber of them still were living when the Yanks reached the scene, but a Japanese machine-gunner cut down the first litter-bearers. He was quickly eliminated however. The mass suicide, the .first recorded re-corded since Saipan,. was discovered dis-covered when one battalion prepared pre-pared to- bivouac lor the night about three miles norths to To- Kasnuci town. Horrible cries ot pain came from small valley almost a. mile away. When theihow the Americana treated the troops Investigated : they the civilians scattered about, some dead, some dyings , - Cpl. Alexander Roberts, army - soldiers of ' the new Soviets Near Vienna; Knife Nazi Defenses BULLETIN LONDON, April 2 U.R The Red army today captured the Hunrarlaniiraneport hub of Na- gyanizsa, "and Berlin' said It had Irreparably flanked Vienna In a lightning thrust to Semmering, key mountain town on the trunk railway 42 miles southwest of the Austrian capital. Vienna Itself was threatened directly. Soviet spearheads were reported only a dozen miles, from the outskirts of the metropolitan area. Russian advices said dis orders had broken out m ine capi tal and elsewhere in Austria. Marshal Feodor L Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian irmy captured Nagykanlssa, Hungarian oil cen ter and hub of the transport net work, of southwestern Hunri gary. "Minlul 4 Stalin, andounci t tr rltArv. MiMd It a newer- rman Mtronrhold. It IS 30 southwest of Lake Balaton and 64 miles northeast of fcagreb. By ROBERT MUSEL r LONDON, April 2. cs Red army spearheads, were re- Dorted only about a dozen miles from the great Vienna outskirts today and Russian reports said disorders had broken out in the Austrian capital and elsewhere in Aus tria. Forward columns of Marshal Feodore Tolbukhin's forces were reported fighting in the Leitha mountains, only about a dozen miles from greater Vienna. The Russians were reported sending armored columns ahead of their main body of troops to knife through the well-organized German defense system and turn, it' before the. Nazis could brace' tthemselves for a stand. The Red army-advance continued contin-ued to be aided by heavy, bom bardments of the U .S. 15th air force carried out against Vien na's rail communications. The Moscow radio reported that increasing disorders were spreading spread-ing in Carinthia and Syria and also in Vienna itself. Moscow dispatches said other Russian forces were storming Wiener Neustadt, Austria s most important industrial center, and had pushed to within sight of Bratislava, capital of the German puppet state of Slovakia. The 'London Daily Mail quoted quot-ed unconfirmed German reports that 50 Russian divisions, possibly possi-bly 450,000 men, had begun a massive assault on Stettin, Germany's Ger-many's biggest Baltic port, from (Con tinned on Page Two) photographervof New York City, was one of the first to. arrive. He estimated the -number of Japanese Jap-anese at more that 200. A white surrender flag flashed flash-ed momentarily from amid he group-, but it was hauled down before soldiers or doctors could reach it. First aid was given immediately to those who could be saved. Morphine. Mor-phine. was given to the others to ease their pain. The survivors told officers that their officials said if the Americans Ameri-cans came all the women would be violated and tortured- and the With these feariiln rnisa, rnarij fathers strangled ttheirrf amJlies and then took their own lives by pressing grenades, against their bellies; or by leaning Into -thel noose of a rope, tied to a tree. One old nan went when he saw women. Only a short tune ago be had strangled his daughter who was wounded in- the pre-invasion pre-invasion bombing Drive Aimed At scuffling V-Bomb Bases Remnants of Nazi 25th Racing Eastward in Disorderly Flight PARIS, April 2 Brit ish armored divisions drove S lore than 15 miles beyond luenster today and struck for Breman and the Dutch North Sea ports in a bid to knock out the Nazi V-Bomb bases and liberate Holland. Armored vanguards of the British Second and Canadian First armies were 74 miles southwest south-west of Bremen, Germany's sec-' ond port, and about the same dis tance south of the Dutch seacoasc German resistance was' broken all along the broad British front and a swift dash to the coast that would complete the liberation o Holland appeared well underway. Official reports said the British ; and supporting American units '. were in Muenster and lo miles beyond at an undisclosed point. Berlin spokesmen placed the Allies Al-lies 36 miles farther east oV both sides of Bielefeld, 189 miles from Berlin. Remnants of the German 25th army, possibly 50,000 strong, were racing eastward from tne Dutch seacoast in disorderly flight to escape the British tank columns closing across their line or retreat re-treat Simultaneously, the American First and Ninth armies closed an armored ring around the Ruhr, x troops were trapped in the Indus-, trial basin. At the center of the collapsed German battle screen, Lt. Gen. George JS. Patton TiJLcd-.arny4- tanJcs drove' more than nair-way across the reich to within 152 , miles of Berlin. Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 21st army group headquarters, lifted the security' blackout on the British Second army today to "reveal that the Britons were in and beyond the Westphalian capital of Muenster, 227 miles west of Berlin. 1 Scottish and English veterans '. of El Alamein and Montgome- j ry's march across North Africa; were out in front of the blazing tank drive that promised to cigar, the Nazis from all -Holland in a matter of days and lay open the'. short road. to Berlin. German resistance was reported report-ed melting away in the) path of the British tanks. The armor rode -down die-hard German gunners in the streets of Muenster, While outriders swept east, northeast and southeast of points 100 miles or more beyond the Rhine. . f Montgomery was wheeling a great part of his British Second and Canadian First armies northeastward north-eastward toward the North' Sea coast along a front of almost 60 miles from the Rhine town- of Emmerich and Muenster.' At Rheine, the British were On-U ly 74 miles from the great portJDf Bremen. At Hengelo they were 19 miles east of historic Arnhelm . and 42 miles from the Zuyder Zee. Canadian army units farther to the west were 10 miles and more north of Emmerich, still operating ; under a security blackoutrbut apparently ap-parently closing rapidly on Arn-hem Arn-hem from the southeast. Allied fliers swarming over the -battle area reported that the Ger- ' mans were abandoning. Holland at top spiced, giving up their V-bomb bases on the seacoast opposite op-posite London.' At least 10 British tank columns were through the German screen, with their easternmost units 190 miles or less due west of Berlin. -y' All -of theRuhr basin, Germany's Ger-many's last and greatest military arsenal, was enveloped by the American Firsthand Ninth armies -and doughboys of the two striking strik-ing forces were driving in swift- Iy from the west, north and east to finish off the remnants of 16 German divisions caught in the" 4,500 square mile pocket. On the heels of that far-reaching victory, probably the greatest won by the Allied armies of the (Continued on Page Two) War In Brief By UNITED PRESS WESTERN FRONT: Allied armies wheel into central Germany Ger-many for final drive on Berlin. EASTERN FRONT: ' Two Rett army:' columns, closing in '. on . Vienna. - . ! . PACIFIC Huge American in- on force overrunning ' south Okinawa only 362 miles from- nanese ' homeland: American rces kill 808.180 Japanese in six months campaign through; Philippines; Philip-pines; B-29s set fires in. plane slants at outskirts of Tokyo. ! L ITALIAN FRONT: German ' sensitivity increase along enure iforat. |