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Show THE WEATHEB TJTAII-Clear east, partly clan dy west, portion this afternooit and tonight with widely scatter ed late afternoon thunder show era 'to mountains, west portion, Saturday partly cloudy. Scatter ed 'afternoon thunder showers, principally; along- mountains. Con tinned warm today and tonight ; Bbu:kv markets are nude -by customers. If' consumers refuse to bay meat at over-celling prices jst without ration stamps, the black market could be checked virtually overnight. OPA Administrator Chester Bowles. Slightly cooler Saturday. Temoerat nigh 81 Low ...L 37 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 238, UTAH'S OHLV DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKS PROVO, .UTAH! COUNTY UTAH, FRIDAY, COMF1XTB' ' UN IT !U PRESS TTLEGHAptf KEW8 ' 8XRVICB PRICE FIVE CENTS ir A v., MAY 4, 1945 . . 1 v. - V- y sflVl.AoW iuuuudWuM (Mitral II Ku;im L-inll II uq -. . . ' ' . H . ' . HussiaSeelis Polish Issue Settlement Study Begins on Proposed Pro-posed Dumbarton Oaks Plan at the Conference By B. 1L 6HACXFORD United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 flsa-Soviet Foreign Commissar Commis-sar V. M. Molotov was seeking seek-ing today to settle the long-deadlocked long-deadlocked Polish govern ment issue quickly so that Poland can be invited to the United Nations conference before be-fore the Argentine delegation ar rives. Molotov, It was understood, wants to leave San Francisco before be-fore the Argentines arrive, probably prob-ably Monday or Tuesday. But he was represented as being optimistic opti-mistic that accord could be reached reach-ed before then on broadening of the Warsaw provisional government govern-ment In line with the Big Three w , . ' . a. i i i . xau agreement ana uivuuig n to send a delegation here, restttoa Left Open One official position has been ie open in me jprjj; commission set up, that of rapporteur rap-porteur or recording re-cording secretary secre-tary on commission com-mission f o ur which Is- concerned con-cerned with plans for- a world court. It was understood originally thit -this place was lieing-held f or Argentina. But Molotov were were reports, now xnai Molotov might attempt to get it for Poland in event of any speedy settlement. In connection with Argentina, -the United.. States delegation's press officer described as "without foundation" published reports that former Secretary of State Cordell Hull had rebuked the delegation for voting to invite in-vite Argentina to the conference. Doll Rebuke Denied It was believed likely that prior to the plenary session vote on extending ex-tending an invitation to the formerly form-erly pro-axis South American republic, Hull with some reluctance reluct-ance urged the delegates to vote for the motion. But the press Officer Of-ficer r-nf ocrorlf all v ffoniorl that ho AC : - . . . i m (Continued 'on Page Two) Utah War Bond Drive Workers In Conference SALT LAKE CITY, May 4 (U.R) Failure to raise as much money in war bond drives this year as was raised in 1944 may nullify anti-inflationary good , of bond drives of the past, Ted R. Gamble War Finance official from Washington. Wash-ington. D. C. said today. ' Gamble addressed more than 200 Utah war bond salesmen at a meeting here to map details of the state seventh war loan drive, He said he understood there were $270,000,000 in the the hands of Utah individuals over and above needs for living and recreation costs. This, he said, could be used to meet the state's $28,000,000 individual quota. R. W. Coyne, national sales manager of war bond selling, also from Washington. D. C; cited reasons for high war bond quotas. He said that in March, 1945 war costs were highest of any period of the war. In spite of Germany's fall these high costs are expected to-continue, be added. " Clarence Bamberger, executive vice chairman of the Utah War Finance committee, presided at today's meeting. Utah War Finance Fi-nance Committee Chairman CharleSJL Smith introduced the speakers. James W. Collins, Salt Lake banker and members of the Utah War Finance executive committee commit-tee the Utah payroll savings pro-cram pro-cram directed by Lincoln R. Ore has a $9,000,000 goal in -the seventh sev-enth war loan drive. He said in previous campaigns approximately approximate-ly half of Utah's series E bond quotas have been met through this program. WILLOW RUN MAY BE ABANDONED "WILLOW RUN, Mich., May 4 U.R) Army and Ford Motor company com-pany spokesmen indicated today that the government-owned $100,- OO0JD00 Willow Run bomber plant may be abandoned as an expend ed tool of war impractical for peacetime use. toy 4MeV Opera Star Gets Driver's License inProvo Richard. Bonelll, Metro-, .politan opera star and auto mechanic, can now drive his automobile on the highways of Utah without being picked up by the highway patrol and perhaps being made to "sing." In company with Ab Jenkins, Jen-kins, former Salt Lake mayor, and holder of more automobile auto-mobile racing- records than any other man alive, Bonelll dropped Into the Utah state tax commission office' at Prove this morning and after being given the "works" In a test, was passed with flying colors. According to Ray Scovil, SprlngvUle Bonelll did the usual routine in the "spot test" Ab and Dick passed through thro-ugh Provo on their way to Price. Bonelll is making his summer home at Crystal Bay, Nev. Stassen Emerges As Strong Man Of U. S. Delegation BY LTLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent SAN' FRANCISCO. Mav 4 (UJJ This United Nations conference is making American political history his-tory today with the emergence of Lt. Cradr. Harold E. Stassen as the powerhouse of the American delegation. He is junior member in everything every-thing except political, significance. Stassen plays his role here before a picked audience of American newsmen and top flight politl- ciaw frnm all over tho world, He4 is judged by observers to be mov ing fast toward rail position in tne 1949 race tor Republican presidential nomination. - - Stassen is 38 years old. He was first elected governor oMinne- sota when only 31. . Campaigning for re-election after the war be gan, Stassen told the voters that he would resign shortly to join the. navy and he did so, leaving his political organization in the capable hands of Edward J. Thye who moved up from, the lieutenant lieuten-ant governorship. For the record, Stassen made a campaign for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination, something some-thing like the frontporch strategy invented by William B. McKinley. The difference, however, was that Stassen s front porch was the bridge of Admiral William F. Halsey's flagship in the navy's hell for leather task force 58. With his status as a war veteran firmly established in the navy tremendous sweep through the Pacific, Stassen 's backers figure him as a better than merely a 1948 challenge to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. If the conference becomes a po litical liability, Stassen still has had his chance at national publicity. pub-licity. Furthermore, he is a strong minded young fellow who may be expected to speak his mind right out in public if things do not go here as he thinks they should. The chances of Stassen getting anything but a big boost toward political stardom are fairly remote. re-mote. German Troops In Denmark Mutiny MALMOE, Sweden, May 4 U.K Reports from Denmark said today that German troops in several barracks at Copenhagen mutined yesterday, but were suppressed. Four hundred German sailors mutinied at Aabenraa harbor were imprisoned, another report said. Canal Break Hear Point-of -Mountain Piles 8 Feet of Debris on Highway7 State road commission 44 cats" today were clearing the sand and gravel from the four-lane highway high-way around the point-of-the-mountaln which blocked motor traffic Thursday and today for almost 24 hours. The highway was submerged in eight feet Of sand and gravel when a flume under the highway clogged and sent water from the y Se5vou tcan,V uover running under the highway. With road, according to highway Pjthe pipe clogged, the water burst umiu. According to R. J. MuMfock, secretary r tne canal company, mgnway now nas one lane! rougn roe aeons, ana xne re nder of the sand and eravel should be cleared late today. Patrolmen Melvin Grant of American Fork reported that one car, a new-sedan, had stalled In the center of the flood, and was Troops S verm American Seventh Army Troops Moving Across Brenner Pass to Italy PARIS, May 4 &BXNazi spokesman announced the end of German resistance in Holland, Denmark and northwestern north-western Germany today as British troops already were swarming into Denmark, where Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and the new Nazi fuehrer Admiral Karl Doenitz completed negotiating a general surrender. American Seventh army troops were moving across the Brenner Pass into Italy from the north. The German-controlled Oslo radio said the "cease firing" order ord-er had been sounded in western Holland, halting all fighting in the Rotterdam, Amsterdam and the Hague triangle still held by the Nazis. Oslo said an "armistice" had been signed by the Allies and German commanders in Holland, Indicating that the enemy ' had 'surrendered unconditionally. Capitulation in Holland would leave the Germans only three major pockets of resistance on the European continent Denmark, Norway and Czechoslovakia. British Second army troops al ready were racing 15 miles or more Into Denmark's Jutland peninsula and American Third army troops in the south were Closing fast on the Austrian cit adel of Linz, threatening momen- o y? with. toe RuwiansJ nd-ehv6I6p alT CzechosfdvaTcla. At the same time, the U. S. Seventh army rammed down through the Brenner pass into Italy and captured Salzburg, headouarters of the southern na tional redoubt 11 miles north of Berchtesgaden. Salzburg capitulated to the Am ericans without a fight and a CBS broadcast relayed from the front said the Yanks pushed on to within five miles easy artillery range of Berchtesgaden. Surrender En Masse . German divisions were surrendering sur-rendering en mase up and down the European front. Norwegian Nazi leaders. Including In-cluding Josef Terboven, Reich Commissar and Admiral Fritz Boehm, German commander in Norway, were said to be participating partic-ipating in the Denmark surrender surrend-er conference. There were reports also of Ger man soldiers and sailors mutiny- in? in Denmark. The enemy's Wilhelmshaven radio announced somberly "this Is the last hour of the war." Ridio Oslo reported from Copenhagen Co-penhagen that the British Sec ond armv crossed the Danish border at Midnight unopposed by the German garrison of more than 750,000 a hint that Its surrender sur-render may be imminent. Field dispatches said all fighting fight-ing had censed on the Kiel peninsula, pen-insula, linking northern Germany and Denmark. The Germans declared de-clared the naval bases of Kiel and Flensburg ooen cities, to be occuDied at will by the British. Reports persisted that sur render negotiations already were under way in Denmark or Kiel between Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and German Fuehrer Admiral Kal Doenitz. A stock-holm stock-holm newspaper said the surrender sur-render of the last remnants of the German army was expected at any hour. 250,000 May Surrender- Swedish reports that command ers of German forces in do in Denmark and Norway were attending at-tending the negotiations suggest- Continued from Pace Oner : completely coverea over with water and mud. The driver, E. D. Smith, abandoned his machine when patrolmen and road men were unableto free it. Several other machines were stalled for a short tira in the flood which occurred oc-curred ground 2 p.m. The'- canal flows high on the bank through which the four-lane hUrtiwav is cut. and the water Is siphoned through a large pipe over the bank and washed tons of dirt and gravel across the roadj patrolmen said The entire hiehwav was block- ed for -more than 800 feet by the flood, and large sections of the bank were washed away, it was reported. Highway patrolmen redirected, the traffic along -the old road, which cuts around the Point of-the-mounta,in. IntoDanmam As Nazis Quit tied Flag : Flies y Ove i i r r i J i " i . i ' . i-1 1 ' - - " ' I"- " f ' . 5k; hlC: , ?;? A Symbol of final victory, the red flag of the USSR files over the Reichstag in conquered Berlin as Russian Rus-sian tanks roll along the street below. (Radio Moscow to New York; NEA telephoto). German Army Facing British Is Completely Out of Control By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN United Press War Correspondent BRITISH SECOND ARMY AD VANCE HO... May 4 U.R) The German army facing the British which includes the German. high command Is out of control. The Germans are -throwing away, their apn by too hundreds to ox woasanas. Tney are refusing struggling to sive themselves urn as prisoners. ( The highest German staff biffi Booms In Basic Things Expected To Furnish Jobs BY CHARLES H. HERROLD United Press staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4 (UJJ oiaDuization Director William H. Davis believes the nation ran achieve full employment arid postwar post-war prosperity by booms in food, clothing and . lumber- industries tne "basic things of living." He . told a ." two-hour - seminar witn a dozen reporters last night that a standard minimum budget for these items should be- drafted arid multiplied by 133;000,0tip Americans, ine result, he said, would be annual Droduction voals for the three industries providing enougn jods to maintain with employment in other basic industries indus-tries at present levels the present pres-ent $150,000,000,000 annual economy. econ-omy. . Davis said this - would be the way to raise the standard of liv- consume the $60,000,000,000 worth" oi peacetime goeos . -which are now being thrown at the Germans and Japs." ,-' Davis plans several specific steps toward achieving that end. He will attempt to hold prices and the cost of livirig at present levels after the end of the European war while gradually raising wages. He said the warlabor board and office of price administration are working jointly on .the development develop-ment of a reconversion wage-price wage-price policy. He favors breaks in the "Little Steel" Wage ceiling to permit general gen-eral boosts for industrial workers whose wages have' not kept pace wjth the cost of livirig, such as in prieat packing. The largest wage increases will be allowed the lower-paid groups, ' he- said. This was also recommended by James F. Byrnes, former war 'mobilization 'mobiliza-tion director. Davis said the success of reconverting recon-verting our economy, to peacetime production depends on timing the removal of price' and wage con trols. "Till we get through the sauall. everyone is going to have a tough time to shake anything loose as, far as I'm concerned," he said. Continuous Naval Building Favored WASHINGTON, May- 4 (UJ9 Assistant Navy . Secretary H. S. Hensel said today that he favored "a continuous. building program" for the navy during times of peace. ! Hensel told the house naval -af fairs committee in testimony on surplus ship disposal that it wouia pe impossible to Tnfotjn a modern fleet without a continu ing disposal and building pro. gram. r Reichstag . cers recognize the situation, and admit it. The Germans admit the fall-of Denmark. We are simply waiting for the final word which will conf irm what the German leaders say .With .their .army or what Is left of it -camnletely out of con trol, the German leaders cannot fight .nn.Jf -they jwant to. And say so. - This is the last of resistance op posite the British Second army. The war in Holland arid Denmark also is near its close. (The German Ger-man controlled Oslo radio reported re-ported the ( cease-fire order had been given 'in northwestern Holland.) Hol-land.) The German high command now Is entirely within the area facing the British army. But contacts con-tacts would have to eo through higher channels because of the other powers involved. The German Ger-man high command cannot make any contact direct with the Rus sians, for example, because our forces are between them and thefpected to be ready for a tremend Russians. f .tuawaiifl. . .. Hamburg is an example of bbw the German mind is working these days. Armed German con-trot con-trot traffic and direct7 British tanks,' armored' cars and convoys through .the ruins of the port. Street cars are still tinning, electric-lights work, .and the docks are not so badlydamaged. Now -it' hasgot to the stage w.nere tne-' German generals weepingiy admit it is the end. Arid the stage where we have to turn down surrender offers because be-cause we cannot cope with any moreprisoners than we have in ourhands. 'Sd many Germans have given BDout inside the British lines, driving their own cars and trucks. You see them sitting beside the vehicles on grassy banks, munching munch-ing anything they can find to eat. Our men hardly notice them any more. ' The sight has become too common. War Criminals List Is Growing LONDON, May 4 (U.R) The United Nations war crimes commission' com-mission' sent to SHAEF today two more lists, of Naiz officials and leaders charged with offenses listed as war crimes. A third was completed yesterday yester-day but has not yet been forwarded for-warded to military authorities. Persons listed will be placed under un-der arrest when apprehended and held for trial. The commission previously turned over five lists of Germans facing war crimes charges. " They Fail to Deliver On Hitler Death Signs By FREDERICK C. OTTOIAN ; United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 4 (UJ There is skullduggery and welch- ery going on. People are advertising advertis-ing things, that ain't so. What I'm talking about are the signs In saloons all over this nation: na-tion: Tree drinks the day that Hitler dies." Did you- get avlree drink? There are other sizns. thousands upon thousands of 'em, which say: "Will oerclosed oa thf day of Hit. NtttS.. - " , . The Capital's .biggest novelty house. Garrison's, reported that it had. sold -these-banners by the . - Rangoon Falls To The Allies CALCUTTA, May 4 UJ& Jap anese armies in Burma have been so decisively defeated that they were unable to defend Rangoon, tne capital,- an Allied communl que said today, revealing that the enemy lost 97,000 dead in the last is raontns of lighting: Rangoon, with awnravwar. ulation of-fhore than 400,q00,Jell troops drove into, the fciualte, a three-day assault byfrpuri and amphibious forces aha para troopers. , ' . Southeast Asia command head quarters said tne successful combined com-bined operation baffled the Jap anese by its speed and synchronl zation- and . enabled the port to be seized before its installations could be destroyed Looming ahead for Admiral Lord .Louis Mounfbatten's for midable land, sea and air forces in souineast Asia are Malay, Thailand and Indo-China. i ne narnpr ot Rangoon was ex- ous amount of Allied shipping wunin in lew days. Hitler Is Dead WITH U. S. SEVENTH ARMY, Uermany, May 4 (UJD Marshal Karl von Rundstedt said today he believed Adolf Hitler is dead and that he died in battle or "under the burden of his heavy strain.' Cold and haughty in the; best Prussian style, von. Rundstedt submitted to a press conference in the living room of a villa in southern Germany where he was lodged after, his capture by the Seventh army. He made much of insisting that he was not a voluntary prisoner, declaring that ' "it Is - the most shameful act an officer can com mit to surrender without fighting." fight-ing." "I am sure that, on my knowl edge of .the fuehrer, he never committed suicide, von Rundstedt Rund-stedt said. "It is not his nature to disappear and where . would he go?" Japs Report Raid On Marcus Island By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio reported today that about 20 B-29 Superfortresses Superfortress-es and B-24 .Liberators raided Marcus Island, 1,500 mues south' east of Tokyo, in daylight Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The,-broadcast, recorded by the FCC, said two of the. planes were damaged. gross. It bad 'em piastered on its own windows, .but etui lt re mained open for the sale of funny faces and exploding cigaretki The manager wasn t - even emoas He said -he'd put these signs up to sell 'em, not to close the place on the appropriate day. What worried him was the fact that Der Adolf a demise left him with a fine stock of signs, which -aren't much good now for anything, but starting fires la the furnace. That brings ue to how; to tor ture the man who's: been tortur ing you with no cigareta, no razor blades, no ice cream, no butter on your sandwich, r noUypg.rujch Rundstedt Say foenitz Gives Up 250000 Men To Geri. Montgomery Unconditional Surrender To Become Effective Effec-tive At 8 a. m., British Time, Saturday; Last German Fighting Force On Continent By PHIL AULT United Press 8taff Correspondent . LONDON, May 4 The German armies of northwestern north-western Germany, Denmark and Holland have surrendered unconditionally to British Field Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, leaving Nazi resistance isolated in two doomed pockets of Norway and Czechoslovakia. The surrender is effective at 8 a. m. British time, tomorrow to-morrow (2 a. m. EWT). The Nazi capitulation was-announced at the close of a dramatic conference between Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and a high-ranking but unnamed representative representa-tive of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the new German fuehrer who succeeded Adolf Hitler only 72 hours ago. 250,000 Troops Mnotgomery informed Ge"n. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Paris that the surrender would also apply to the pocketed German divisions in Heligoland and oh the Frisian islands off the Dutch coast. " More than 250,000 German troops, representing the last effective German fighting force on the European con- tinent outside Norway and Czechoslovakia, were involved m the mass surrender, in 'addition to well over 500,000 Nazis who laid down their arms on the British front in the last two days' Tljere were still many minor. pockets of resistance on the continent, including areas around a few French ports. A brief, announcement of the northern capitulation, issued at Eisenhower's headquarters, emphasized that this waa t "battlefield sin-render' to Monigomery's 21sl army .group and not ie-the Allied govern ments. . ieM Marshal Montgomery has reported to tne supreme Allied eominand'that'all-enemy forces-in Holland, northwest Germany and Denmark, including Heligoland arid the Frisian Islands, have surrendered sur-rendered tothe 21st army group, effective at . eight o'clock tomorrow tomor-row morning, "double British summer, sum-mer, time," the announcement said. 'This is a battlefield surrender involving the forces now ,f acing the 2lst army, group on the northern north-ern and -the western flanks." ' Serious resistance to the British forces had begun melting away before the announcement of the surrender. United Press War Correspondent Cor-respondent Richard D. McMillan reported that German troops were throwing away their weapons weap-ons by the hundreds of thousands, refusing flatly- to fight, and their staff officers, wandering freely through the Allied ranks, admitted admit-ted it was all over. The Czechoslovak pocket in the south was rapidly being enveloped envel-oped and neutralized by American Amer-ican and Russian forces converging converg-ing on the Austrian, city of Linz. The American Third army late today drew within three miles riortheast of Linz and a juncture with the Russians in that area appeared imminent 1 At -the extreme southern end of the front, American Seventh army troops overran most of the empty Bavarian redoubt, capturing captur-ing the keystone base of Salzburg without a fight,,and closing with-(Continued with-(Continued on Page Two) Wot In Brief Western-Front Allied armies collapse Germany's two national redoubts by racing Into Denmark and . slashing through Brenner Pass Into Italy; Salzburg surrenders surren-ders to 7th army; Doenitz reported re-ported regotiating surrender. Eastern Front Fourth Ukrani-ianarmy Ukrani-ianarmy liberates last of pre-war Poland. Pacific War Allied- troops score new gains on Okinawa, Tarakan and .Mindanao; .B-Z9 S blast Jap anese homeland .again. China Reinforced Chinese troops counterattack. Japanese drive toward air base at Chlhki-ang. Chlhki-ang. - that you want.' The corner druggist. drug-gist. The one with the sign about Hitler. Go ahead. Ask him. And listen lis-ten to him stutter. My man, who wants everybody to know there's a war on, said yep, when he put up his sign about closing; the lolnt, he really meant to da it. So when he reads in the papers about Hitler being dead, be thought -lor a minute about lockmg the door. That's all he did. ,i- Or the?Iadyh;presWs1 my pa: She owns the place that tocks - off my suspender buttons on account of the .war. (Continued on rage Two) . SeventhFifth-Armies SeventhFifth-Armies Unit Up Inside of Italy By ELEANOR' PACKARD United Press War Correspondent BRENNERO. BRENNER PASS, May 4 (U.R) The U. S. Seventh and Fifth armies linked up 10 miles inside Italy just below Vipi-teno Vipi-teno at 11:15 a; m. today. The history-making junction of the American forces converging through the Alps was made in the Brenner Pass area made notorious as a meeting place of Adolf Hitler . and Benito Mussolini in the hey day of Fascism. . The Seventh army's 103rd division di-vision and the Fifth army's 88th division joined when Major John E.fRhea of Corpus Christl, Tex., leading' a. Seventh army task force south from the pass proper, met Lt. CoL Ralph Haines of Orlando, Or-lando, Fla., who with a jeep and two half-tracks had got some miles ahead of his Fifth army column. Haines Is executive officer of the 349th regiment, 83th division. Hhea turned back with Haines to Brennero, where the contact was formalized as Haines shook hands with CoL Donovan P. Yuell of Harrodsburg, Ky., commander of the 411th regiment which took ' Brennero. Major - Generals James Mc-Auliffe, Mc-Auliffe, commander of the 103rd division, and Edward H. Brooks. Concord, N. BL, commander of the sixth corps, watched the brief formalities. for-malities. ' State Officials At CPA Hearing SALT LAKE CITY, May 4 (UJ3 The off ice of price administration administra-tion today began a hearing of two members of the Utah Finance commission and a former state inventory in-ventory officer to determine whether they shall be prohibited from receivine rationed gasoline. tires and tubes. The men .Gordon Taylor Hyde and J. Fred Pingree, of the finance commission, and N. E. Hainsworth were accused of misusing gasoline rationed to the state. ' The OPA expected the hearing to end late today. Truman Appoints New Naval Aide WASHINGTON. May 4 0JJ3 The White House today an nounced the appointment of Capt. James K. Vardaman, Jr., as naval aide to President Truman. Vardaman. 50. son of the for- im rnwrnor ana u. js. wnauw by the same name, is m xormer at unus Dans er and businessman who was, commissioned in the naval re serve just oefore the war. i L |