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Show -V-Jj THE WEATHER Showers and tew thunderstorm this . afternoon and Wednesday with some sunshine, continued, cool with little change In temper a tore. Temperatures " Hih......79 Low..;. ..41 Precipitation . .f 3 Do They Say - Xa ssch world community ef . mackis production, it is 1m- ;" 9Mtbl0 that any nation hence- ? forta can live In Isolation. artnt.. it ...l.t.il secretary of state." SIXTIETH YEAR, NO. 2 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESPAY, JUNE 5, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Ml AH I SET UP u Murdoch Feels Optimistic On Geneva Future Utah Senator, Certain Huge Steel Plant Will Operate After the War Br A. LINCOLN THOMSON "I am not alarmed at the prospect of Geneva Steel company being closed after its war contracts have been completed, although there are enemies of the huge installa tion in Washington," Senator Abe Murdock said in Provo, today. Senator Murdock, in company with Gus P. Backman, secretary of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce, and Clyde Williams, former Utahn, now of the Batelle Foundation in Columbia, O., held a conference with Dr. Walther Mathesius at the steel plant, and toured the installation. Speedy Action Vital-Asked Vital-Asked if he thought Geneva should be taken out of the gov- ernments hands and placed on the block so that private interests inter-ests might bid on the plant be fore war ends, the junior senator stated: "Absolutely. I reiterate today to-day what I have said many times, that Geneva should be disposed of as soon as possible in fact it would be the best thing to get the plant into private hands while we are still operating on war contracts. "We are all hopeful that the war will come to a speedy close. This afternoon the group met and the Geneva plant should be! together in a general alumni ready at that time to jump into; meeting to hear the address of nlnilion nmHiiirfinn " 4K Mnafu.IJ..I TT 1-1 C U -! said. Senator Murdocic stated that number of outstanding compan-iwere ies were in the market to buy Geneva. He scored the "un- necessary investigations" into the propositions. There should be absolute freedom in the bidding on Gene- (Continued on Page Two) Murder Charges Facing Utah Man In Fatal Attack CEDAR CITY John Hulse, 30, operator of a Kanarraville garage and sheep camp tender, is being held in a local jail, on charges connected with the death of Edwin Ed-win Hamblin, 49, Cedar City laboring man. Hamblin died in a local hospital Monday as a result of being brutally beaten, tramped and kicked about the head, chest and body, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury. Hulse was slated for arraignment arraign-ment today on murder charges. A companion of Hamblin, Cecil Starr, 40, also of Cedar City, is in the hospital, in serious condition. The two men were beaten, into unconsciousness Saturday during an altercation wun Hulse over; """"J "? " damage to Hulse's car when the Provo since he was sustained St,,. a j : 'nrps Hint. tnriav. when he de livers an altercation with Hulse Cedar City. " "'.a Following the fight. Hulse call-! dent Harris at the annual ban-prf ban-prf th.. sheriff nH tniH him "i i auet. He is exnected to be in townL lne Superfortresses have just beaten two men and one of them might be dead. You had better get them." Marine Vounded In Okinawa War Pfc Lewis Vance Clark with the U. S. marine corps, was wounded May 22, on Okinawa, iviay a, written in his own hand, according to his parents. Mr., and Mrs. Earl Clark of 335 West 12th North. Theletter states tltat Pfc. Clarkwas aboard a hospital hos-pital ship receiving re-ceiving treatment treat-ment for the wounds which Pfc. Clark were received while fighting with the Sixth division di-vision of the Fourth marines, campany . He adds, "I'll be okay." Pfc Clark has been overseas one year, on transport duty. In service 33 months, he enlisted in 1942, while attending the BYU. He received training at San Diego, Cal., before being assigned to active doty. An active LDS church member even while in battle zones, Pfc. Lewis is a graduate of the BY high school. P , "4& - v f fa I r Geneva Visitor 5 f 2 I SEN. ABE MURDOCK Former Grads Join Today In 'Y' Alumni Day Although wartime travel re strictions have limited the attendance at-tendance to mostly Utah alumni. the Brigham Young university Alumni day, has brought back to day to Provo a few former students stu-dents from other neighboring states to participate in the activi ties of this annual commencement feature. "Looking Forward BYU Build- aing Program." Other addresses. given by Francis Kirkham, Salt Lake City and Joseph K. Nicholes of Provo. Special tribute was paid this afternoon to the BYU alumni who have made the suoreme sacrifice in mis war wun a ron can anaK. Wamsley, Middleton, Conn., tribute by George. Hill of Salt said the incendiaries ripped into Lake City. President Don B. Colton presided pre-sided over the meeting which began be-gan at 2 p. m. in the Joseph Smith building. Music was furnished by the BYU Women's chorus. Graduates of '45 were officially inducted into the Alumni association associa-tion this afternoon by Drs. Wayne B. Hales and T. Earl Pardoe. This evening the alumni will meet in the. Joseph Smith banquet hall to honor the incoming and outgoing presidents of the institution institu-tion at the traditional banquet. "Hail and farewell to the presidents' presi-dents' is to be the theme with Lynn S. Richards of Salt Lake City as master of ceremonies. One of the features of the banquet ban-quet will -be the election of six new airecwre w ine ooara. new nounced ncarJ 9Q square mIjes alumni president will be named mlo industrial Japan have been de the first meeting of the completed !trnv ri board. Franklin R. Haymore, Pro vo, general secretary, said today. Presirfont Georce Albert Smith. president of the LDS church, will mnkP his first annearanee in tribute o! appreciation to Presi-I"18 this afternoon Professor William H. Boyle will deliver one of the feature addresses ad-dresses of the evening, "President Harris' Contribution to BYU" and ten selected persons will give one minute tributes to President Harris. Har-ris. Kiefer B. Sauls of the BYU faculty will welcome President Howard McDonald and chamber, vocal and instrumental music will be played. In the afternoon immediately following the eeneral alumni when shrapnel , meeting, alumni, board of trus-hit trus-hit him in both: tees, faculty, graduates, and legs, according j friends of the university were to a letter dated j entertained at a president's recep- tion at the president's home. The general committee for Alumni day included the directors Cleo Stokes Underwood, 19, step-and step-and Bryant S. Hinckley, Salt Lake ped f rom behind a bus. City, Miss Margaret Summerhays, The driver, who is on furlough, Roman Andrus, Florence Beck,1 was released subject to call by and Flora D. Fisher, of Provo. I police. Utah County Far Down the List In Seventh War Bond Campaign s, Sales of Series "E" bonds in ' ing in the Mighty Seventh, which the Seventh war loan drive in i means that the state as a whole Utah county as of June 4, are far ! mus sell $359,496 every one of below the state average, it was those days. reported toaay from state war finance headquarters, with a 31 per cent mark. The state average Is 48 per cent. Utah county is the lowest of all the major counties in the state. In sales of other than "E" bonds, Utah county has sold only 18 per cent of its quota, as compared com-pared with a state average of 51 per cent. There are only 29 days remain- Kobe, Sixth City Of Japan, Burning After B-29 Incendiary Raid Fires Burning: Briskly After 500 Planes Hit Jap Industrial Center; Returning: U. S. Fliers Report Smoke Rises To 20,000 Feet By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, June 5 Smoke plumed to heights of 10,000 to 25,000 feet and huge fires crackled in Kobe, Japan's Ja-pan's sixth city, following today's 450 to 500-plane incendiary incen-diary raid, returning crewmen reported Fires burned briskly through streets and buildings along a 10-mile stretch in the big port as the sky raiders swept over in formation through a screen of Japanese fighters and accurate anti-air- craft blasts, Capt. Joe Carroll, Jacksonville, and Orlando, Fla., commented: "By God that was a big fire. The smoke was at our level as we left the target at about 20,000 feet. It was still swirling up as we went over the coast it looked like Yokohama all over again." Carroll, on his twentieth mission, mis-sion, saw between 30 and 50 fighters, some of them attacking attack-ing at close range, but believed they were "strictly class B team." His co-pilot in "the City of Orlando,' Or-lando,' 1st Lt. John Merritt, Pacific Pa-cific Grove, Calif., said the fighters fight-ers followed the plane 15 minutes, min-utes, but they rode through the flak in about five minutes. He added that the weather broke clear over Osaka Bay following Bombardier 2nd Lt. Roy M. Albert, Al-bert, Gainsvllle, Tex., to put the fire bombs right on the aiming point. Lt. R. S. Combs, Miles City, Mont., arrived when "the show was about half over. . . . We left Kobe one hell of a hot place. The sky was full of planes ours and theirs but we went through and started good fires.' Combs' bombardier. Lt. William the built-up area from the water front straight through the middle of the city. Second Lt. John McLaughlin, Valley Stream, N. Y., saw a two-engined two-engined Japanese fighter go down in flames after the pilot bailed out. Sgt. Luther W. Church, Bellton, S. C, in "City of Clarksburg, W. Va.,' named for S-Sgt. Charles Kelley's hometown, saw bombs hitting streets and buildings and "about everywhere else." Kelley saw a few phosphorus bombs being be-ing dropped from Japanese fight ers, but they apparently did not hit the Superforts.' The raid was the 15th fire attack at-tack on . Japan. In the last 14, i the 21st bomber command an- In the last previous attack last Friday, the B-29s were revealed "'Y"-" . ;v 0" ou ?13 !?u"! I total destruction in two raid on j""0" usaKa alone to 111 square miles. u,uu,u V cent of the city's built struck Kobe, only 20 miles west of Osal-ka, Osal-ka, from medium altitude at 7:14 (Continued on Fare Two) 7oman Killed In Ogden Accident OGDEN, Utah, June 5 (U.R) Rhea Stokes Collins, 17, wife of John Collins, Kellogg, Idaho, died here today from injuries suffered when struck by an automobile last night. Witnesses said the victim was struck by an automobile driven by Marine Cpl. John Talbot, 23, Og- den, as she and her sister Mrs. State war finance committee officials will conduct a special executive meeting Thursday in an effort to spur Utah's flagging E-bond E-bond sales. D. Howe Moffat, chairman of the committee, said the E-bond drive requires extraordinary measures to make it a success. He urged county chairmen to ex-(Contlnned ex-(Contlnned on rage Two) 1,031 Veterans Of Pacific Land In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (U.R) Making their last "beachhead" of the war, 1,031 veterans of the Pacific war theater landed here today as the first contingent to return home under the army's point system." The landing was probably the most pleasant ever made by the battle veterans, many of whom had fought the Japanese from AUu to Okinawa. Some of the men now on the way back' to civilianlfe via the army's 85-point route were in the foxholes of Okinawa 18 days ago. Flown to Pearl Harbor, they joined other combat, service force and air force personnel assembled from various island bases of the Pacific ocean area. An army band played "Aloha" as they left Honolulu May 30 aboard the transport U. S. S. Bergen, Ber-gen, and bands, WACs and Red Cross workers greeted them at the San Francisco port of embarkation em-barkation today. The men, who adopted a line from the GI jingle "back alive in '45" as their unofficial slogan, greeted the Golden Gate bridge with a lusty cheer. For some of them, like SSgt. James F. Smith of Walhalla, S. C, had not seen the "statue of liberty of the Pacific" Pa-cific" in five years. The men will be sent immediately immedi-ately to 22 separation centers near their homes. Within three days after arriving at the centers they will be out of the army. Suicide Plane Attacks Compel Redesignment of Equipment WASHINGTON, June 5 (U.R) Vice-Adm. Marc A. Mitscher dis closed today that Japanese suicide t , sary to redesign some equipment aboard U. S. naval ships. He added at a press conference, however, that the suicide plane menace "isn't too serious," and that "we are not particularly concerned con-cerned about it." The commander of hard-hiling task force 58, here for conferences, confer-ences, went on to say that only one per cent of Japanese planes which attack U. S. naval craft 11 Prisoners Of War Holding Out FORT DOUGLAS, Utah, June 5 (U.R) All but 11 Italian prisoners prison-ers of war who staged a four-day strike here in an effort to gain working hours on a par with civilian ci-vilian employes at the post returned re-turned to work today. Col. E. L. Hogan, post commandant, com-mandant, said the 11 had been segregated as agitators arid would be sent to a special camp for such malcontents. The strike was called off Sunday Sun-day after the prisoners spent four days on a bread and water diet and housed in discarded tenting during three .days of heavy spring rains. ASK DRILLING BE MAINTAINED WASHINGTON, June 5 (U, Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies today asked the oil industry to maintain the drilling drill-ing of wildcat wells "at the highest high-est possible level." He revealed requirements for petroleum production will necessitate neces-sitate operation of the nation's Oil fields at or above their maximum maxi-mum rate of production. Mud Slows Operations on Okinawa jTr 'fe' " JM - -'J Heavy rains slow up mechanized warfare in Okin awa, but these division plod ahead despite sticky terrain which c ompletely bogs side of road. Despite torrential rains, the dough boys move up weapons can push ahead to resume the attack. U. S. Army photo. Churchill Denies DeGaulle Charges In Levant Crisis LONDON. June 5 (U.R) Prime Minister Churchill revealed today that the British are issuing arms to the local gendarmerie in the Levant to help keep order. Churchill told commons that the French -sent reinforcements into the Levant despite British warnings against causing trouble that would endanger Allied routes to the far east. Both Britain and France projected pro-jected new proposals for conferences confer-ences on the situation in the middle mid-dle east, The French government proposed that the big five confer. Churchill said Britain still hoped for an Anglo-American-French meeting in London. Churchill bluntly denied Gen. Charles De Gaulle's charges that the British stirred up the trouble in the Levant. He said Britain had no aspirations whatever in that area. "Our whole influence has been used Jn precisely the other direction," direc-tion," Churchill said in rejecting De Gaulle's accusation, made at a press conference Saturday, that the British stirred up the trouble in Syria and Lebanon. Churchill said the British min ister of ' Beyrouth had made strenuous and successful efforts ' (Continued on Page Two) ever get through to their targets. Mitscher said that more than 1,600 Japanese planes have been shot down over Okinawa alone. On the subject of suicide bombing bomb-ing he added: "It is .daily being reduced, and indications are that it will be further reduce. It is just a different dif-ferent form of dive-bombing. . . . It is something that we have been expecting to encounter all along. I have been on two ships that have been hit. We have taken a good many casualties on. smaller ships." Mitscher warned against any belief that the Japanese might collapse suddenly. "Knowing the Jap as I do," he said, "there is no danger of their surrendering for a long time'. They will surrender only when they are thoroughly whipped. . . . "It is going to be an entirely different war from the Atlantic war. Any conception of mass surrender sur-render does not seem indicated. You are fighting men underground under-ground instead of on tqp of the ground, and you have to go in and dig and dig to get them out." Expert Discounts Threat of Jap MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 3 (U.R) Dr. Jean Felix Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, predicted today that threatened Japanese balloon-bombing of the U. S. would be ineffective. Piccard, professor of aeronautical aeronauti-cal engineering at the University of Minnesota, said that if the Japanese could land enough balloons bal-loons on American soil to start 100 forest fires a day the country might face . a great hazard. But, the balloonist explained, it was unlikely that balloons could be directed at military objectives ob-jectives or cities with any accuracy ac-curacy because no matter where it is launched a balloon moves only with the wind. Principal Enemy Forces On Okinawa Destroyed - Nimitz By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, June 5 (U.R) Fleet Admiral .Chester W. Niraitz announced an-nounced today the principal enemy ene-my forces on Okinawa have been destroyed, while the remnants were given the; familiar choice -of annihilation, surrender or suicide. Front reports disclosed that the U. S. marines who landed on Oroku peninsula south of Naha harbor were advancing swiftly against scattered resistance, while army troops cut other enemy Russia Deplores Feeling Against Soviet Union By MEYER HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 5 (U.R) The Russian army newspaper. Red Star, charged today that a hostile foreign press, including prominent promi-nent American papers, was trying try-ing to prepare public opinion for war between the western powers pow-ers and the Soviet Union. The Red Star specified headlines head-lines it said had appeared in American newspapers, such as "Red wave threatens to drown Christian civilization" in the N. Y. Journal-American, and "Sovi et Union is only aggressor in world" in the Chicago Tribune. The article also cited the N Y. Daily News for exhorting Americans to 'be prepared against Russian invasions of Alaska and the Aleutian islands. Deep concern has been felt here about the anti-Russian press campaign spreading in many countries, especially the United btates. mere nave been many articles, and press reviews lately about the situation. Today s in Red Star was the bluntest yet. It was featured prominently on the foreign news page. Red Star listed headlines from American, Mexican and Turkish newspapers asserting among other things, "Red waves threat ening to engulf all Europe." The article referred to the de mand by Rep. John M. Coffee (D Wash.) that steps be taken to halt rumors aimed against the Soviet union. NEW YORK. June 5 (U.R) Secretary of Commerce Henry A Wallace, said last night that President Truman has adopted the policy of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt in seeking world (Continued on Pare Two) Prevailing air currents, he said, are mostly from the west. (Tokyo radio yesterday quoted a spokesman of the Japanese armed forces as predicting that piloted stratosphere balloons would attack the American mainland main-land in "the near future.""He said present attacks on the United States with pilotless balloons were only on an experimental scale.) Japanese, balloons which have reached the western part of . the United States probably were sent up from submarines, Piccard said. He ruled out the possibflityr of launching .such devices- from aircraft air-craft carriers or other craft because be-cause "the remainder of the Jap 85 -A (TsEA Telepkoto) Infantrymen of Tenth army's 77th down tanks seen pulled over to to hold their gains until the bigger forces into pockets in the southernmost south-ernmost hills of the island. The fall of Naha and its excellent excel-lent air field appeared imminent, and any Japanese last-ditch stand south of the city was being fore stalled by quick exploitation of the Oruku peninsula landings. Admiral Nimitz, in a statement of congratulations to Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, said: "The manner in which the Tenth army is exploiting results of the destruction of the principal enemy forces and the main enemy defensive position on Okinawa is most gratifying. To you and your fine corps and division command ers, 'well done'." Won At Low CosU ent Edward Thomas reported ent Edwar dTbomas reported from Okinawa that the Oruku peninsula was being gained at ridiculously low. cost. He saw only five dead Japanese on the beach. After silencing few enemy guns and machine gun nests, fourth regiment marines moved quickly down a ridge on the southern bank of Naha har bor. Japanese reports said American warships were'standing off southern south-ern Okinawa, directing gurtfire at Japanese defense positions on the tip of the island. The enemy ac knowledged his Naha-Yonabaru line was broken. There are still some battles to be fought on' Okinawa and the island has notet been declared secured, but in the 66th day of the campaign the end is clearly in sight for Yanks who have blazed the trail to Japan's door step. Some of the bitterest action of the entire Pacific war has raged from Naha, Shuri, and Yonabaru southward, keeping part of the U. S. fleet on hand in a defensive role. Now it is possible that everything can be turned loose to batter the enemy whose prin (Continued on Page Two) 15 Killed In Mystery Blast PARIS, June 5 (U.R) Rescue workers dug for bodies in the rubble of Bremen's American military government buildina where two mysterious explosions yesterday killed at least 15 and injured 80 other Americans and Germans. A number of Germans still were believed buried in the debris. The military government offices, of-fices, until recently headquarters for German SS detachments, were wrecked. Bomb Balloons anese fleet dare not come that close to American waters. Piccard said he did not think a balloon could travel from the Japanese mainland to the North American continent,' "To make them effective weap ons," he said, -"the Japs can only hope to send' out very many balloons equipped with fire bombs at a relatively dose range." "A balloon," the scientist added, "can 'stay in the air about 100 to 200 hours, 'hardly enough time tor it to travel from Japan to the U. S. - hr' anyccase, unless there are exceptionally favorable winds, there is no means of directing its coarse eastward, io'that it micbt land as far north as Canada or Alaska, or as far south as Mexico."! Retch Stripped Of Conquests Since 1937 Top Military Men O! Big Four Sign Pact At Meeting in Berlin WASHINGTON, June 5 u The Big Four powers today formally stripped Germany of the whole of her Nazi conquests con-quests and set up an ironclad military rule of the defeated nation. The Reich was re duced to its 1937 boundaries. Top military commanders of the United States, Russia, Great Britain and France met in the outskirts of ruined Berlin and signed a declaration documenting Germany's unconditional surren der and laying down the obligations obliga-tions and restrictions that will be her price for embracing Adolf Hitler. Four-Powes Control The Allies also announced creation of the long-awaited four-power control council for Germany. Immediately after the signing ceremony Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Russian Marshal G. K. Zhukov, British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery Montgom-ery and French Maj. Gen. Jean DeLattre De Tassigny held tha council's first meeting. The four powers promised in the formal declaration to take all steps in Germany 'requisite for future peace and security. It was erhphasjzed that the military mil-itary rule now established over Germany would operate for a long time. At some future date Germany may be deemed ready to undertake the obligation of governing herself again under supervision. The declaration specified that the new control council will rula all of Germany within the borders bord-ers she had on Dec. 31, 1937. This wrested from the Reich every territorial conquest the Nazis achieved, beginning with the anschluss of Austria in 1938. A separate control commission will be set up for Austria. Other territories seized by Germany revert to their own governments. Plans for awarding other countries coun-tries slices of pre-war German territory such as the plan to give Poland part of eastern Germany Ger-many await future settlement. ' Four documents were issued today to-day by the U. S., Britain, Russia and France in their capitals. They were: 1. The declaration signed today to-day in Berlin assuming joint supreme authority over the Reich and listing, in 15 articles, the requirements arising ' from unconditional surrender with which Germany and its people must comply. 2. -A statement announcing creation of the four-power military mili-tary control council which will be the government of Germany. 3T r-A statement providing for the i individual zones of occupation occupa-tion by the four powers Russia Rus-sia in the east, Britain in tha northwest, the. United States in the southwest and France in the west Boundaries of the zones still were not defined. This statement did, however, confirm that there Will be four-power administration administra-tion of greater Berlin, which the Russians have occupied exclusively exclus-ively so far. 4. A statement announcing to the other United Nations that tha Big Four will consult with them in connection with their-exercise of authority over Germany. The requirements growing out of Germany's unconditionajsur-render unconditionajsur-render by no means settle such basic issues as the extent to which the nation is to be de-in-(Continned en Page Two) Eisenhower Flies To Berlin Parley BY JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent ( Representing Combined Press) BERLIN, June 5 (U.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied supreme su-preme commander, flew to shattered shat-tered Berlin for the first time to represent the United States at the historic meeting of the four- power Allied control council for Germany. Great Britain was represented by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery; Russia by Marshal Gregory Zhukov; and France by Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. The first task of the four Allied Al-lied commanders was expected 'to be the signare of a Joint declaration declara-tion by the United States, Great Britain, Russia and France, proclaiming pro-claiming that the defeat of Germany Ger-many is now complete and that the four victor powers now assume as-sume supreme authority in the vanquished and prostrate reich. (The declared was signet later. Washington announced.) |