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Show a ' - Vs --" " " - A . V. .a 5T iJAs a A PROVO UTAH : COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, "JUNE 115, 1945 Ed iforial ... I the Lord' have Mid, I wlfl sorely do It unto .all this evil congregation, that are fathered to gether against me: in this wilderness they shall be', consumed, and there they shall die. Numbers .' i '.Indulgent god' grant me to sin once with lm- f" unity. That is sufficient. LdWa second offense ear its punishment Ovid. . Hail the Infantry . One year ago, on June 15, 1944, the army and we citizens cooperated m the-celebration of the first Injntry Day. Today marks Infantry Day II. During those 12 months the wait has taken a decisive turn. Germany Ger-many as a military power has, for the time being, been defeated. Some day the full - story of that achievement will be told. When ft IS told, the longest,xthough not necessarily the most glamorous chapter in it will deal with the wearjj, heroic,- -anonymous, unshaven, un-shaven, griping; "determined fqot-salier, the infantryman of Bill Mauldine's cartoons. It' the infantryman who takes the, hill and holds the hill and dies holding it. It's the infantryman who mops up and occupies. It's the infantryman who, when .all the scores are added up, wins the wan And now he .turns from one hemisphere to another. Oh a hundred Pacific islands with bayonet and grenade, he performs the heartbreaking task, foot by foot, inch by men, that must be gone through before this country is made safe from the murderous people oi Japan. . Howxean we properly thank him? He. is legion; he is in the millions; we cannot know all ma names. But we can remember that he Is jthe thin black line on the map that inches forward day by day, so much blood to the inch. We can remember that without him, the ordinary foot-soldier, no war is won. We can remember that his. life and His death cannot b too. solemnly honored. Help For the Farmer At no time during the war has the Job of the American farmer, been more important than it is today. Production of other vital war materials can be cut back now that Jermany is defeated, But the need for the food the farmer, grows will be greater than ever in the months ahead. The bald facts are in the report just issued is-sued by War Mobilizer Vinson. Military requirements ,will be as high, as ever for many months. Relief needs are far greater with the end of hostilities in .Europe. Sup4 pnes are & to 10 per . cent lower while demands de-mands are 5 to 10 per cent greater than they were, shortages in such essentials as meat, sugar,, butter, fats and oils will become more serious. The prospect fully justifies War Food Administrator Ad-ministrator Jones' pleas that American farmers and food processors be given more help in doing their essential job. Mr. Jones . would like to see farm machinery given top priority. He wants key personnel on farms deferred. He asks that food-processing plants be placed on the critical or urgent list to give them "equality with othe war in dustries" in obtaining essential labor and tenals. For the first time since the war began there is a falling off in the demands of war industry and , the armed services for manpower man-power and materials. There is surely no better place to put the surplus than on the farms and in' the plants struggling to meet the world's demands for food. vaus ma Patriot's Reward ..For the .complete details of what underground under-ground forces in various German-occupied countries contributed to the Allied war effort, the world will have to wait. For the present, all it knows is that, in the words of General.. Eisenhower, the contribution was "inestimable." To all resistance forces in France "RpT. gium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Nor-' way, tne Allies - supreme command has broadcast a message of thanks for their 'service to the Allied cause and 'to the future fu-ture of all freedom-loving people." The message said in part: . "Inadequately armed and in the midst of a savage and ruthless enemy, you have f?.u.t. on month after month, year after jear, regardless of the disappointments you suffered and of the danger you have undergone. under-gone. For most of you, your sole reward has been the knowledge that you have, by your fcpf forts, helped to rid your homeland of the hated enemy.". To the true patriot, that reward is doubtless doubt-less sufficient. To that the Allied world adds its homage accompanied by a desire for as much of the resistance story as can be -toldv Many of the heroic acts of these patriots, some. of . which, have not yet been reevaled.to the, world, will occupy prominent promi-nent and permanent niches in history. Not in modern times has tyranny; and slavery been engaged in under moredisceuraging -circumstances. The lib- fawuQo-.fiiai nas now come to Europe seemed seem-ed far .frway four. years, or even one year ago. J ' The Washington Merr4C3o-Rou id A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Uf Drew Pearson (CoL Robert A' Allen en etlve out?) Dbudhf QolTheyCalliYou,;,.: WASHINGTON There Is a lot mora than meets the eyk behind the arrest of two state department de-partment officials and f one naval officer on J a charge of passing out secret documents to magazine maga-zine writers. -'A Chief factor behind it is the intense, cut-throat rivalry between two Chinese factions Chiang Kai-Shek's war lords in the south- of cmn ana the so-called ; Chinese Communists (actually an agrarian party) in the north. Mixed un in all this is the action of the Chi nese secret service operating undercover in the USA against' anyone opposed to Chiang Kai- Shek. Also involved is the Prime Donna temper ament of a very temperamental U. S. ambassador; and finally the issue of Whether tne umtea btates will get itself caught between Chinese political faction's the same way it has between Polish factions. fac-tions. . It so hannens that all three of the vountf far eastern experts arrested in the navy and state de partment believe ardently that the USA is backing back-ing the wrong horse in China. They feel that the northern Chinese governmeriKis much more representative rep-resentative of the Chinese people, has done more fighting against Japan and that Chiang Kai-Shek is chiefly an impotent prisoner of his "own south ern war lords. Moreover, these three are not alone inMhls belief. General Stilwelf emphaticaUy believed "til and was ousted from China as a result. John R. Davies, secretary of the American embassy, also believed it and. was ousted by Ambassador Patrick Pat-rick J. Hurley after a bitter verbal batle. Also, John Service, another secretary of embassy, be lieved it, was fired out of China ,by Hurley, and has now been arrested by the state department. Finally, U. S. military men, solely concerned with winning the war quickly, feel that the north ern Chinese can be a vitally important factor in defeating Japan on -the vast mainland in China. COWBOY VS. FARMER It was this Question which led to one of the most spectacular feuds In the recent annals of American diplomacy between handsome Ambas sador Hurley, the Ex-Oklahoma oil man and cow puncher, and hard-hitting Gen. Al Wedemeyer, former Nebraska farm boy. now - U. S. com mander In Chungking. Nothing much like it could happen any place but in China unless it be in Washington. 1 When General Wedemeyer first arrived in Chungking, he and Hurley appeared to be excellent ex-cellent friends. They took adjoining rooms In a big Chinese mansion, with a connecting bathroom. Three times a day they ate together. Wedemeyer told Hurley he would show him all his dispatches to Washington If Hurley Would do the same. Hur ley, promised and complete cooperation seemed i . - i "I don't know anything about the fine points or diplomacy," General wedemeyer said, "But I do know a square-shooter when I see one and I am sure we can work together." Some time thereafter. Wedemeyer was in specting the Chinese front at Kunming when he got an urgent message from his chief .of .staff asKing mm to return tof Chungking; He advised hWedemeyer that a hot cable awaited him from Chief of Staff Marshall in Washington "for weaemeyer s. eyes only, r . .'V'- . it. . ... ' K!etafc'' f, 'in-,. MARRY: It's hard for an East ern ear to (become accustomed to it. but out West most people pro- fnouhce both niarry and Mary identically with merry. ' - uabokatory: in America we accent both the first and, a little less emphatically, the fourth syl lables fla bor-a-toary).. ..but speakers in Great Britain gener ally stress only the second syllable SiSt-M ?E&JE& J Planning a trip to Camprlwia, oer not to confuse this word with tn,.Mn.r. in ih By JAMES THRASHER What do you do in the Infantry? You march, you march, you march. ; That's what the song says, but that isn't all. You march, .Sure. You also run and duck and crawl. You spend a lot of time on your feet. And you spend a lot of. time on your belly, waiting, while the shells and machine gun fire and snip ers bullets fly over your head If you re lucky. You live pretty close to the earth in the infantry. in-fantry. You sleep on it. You get it in your mouth and hair. You accumulate a good bit of it on your person and carry it with you. Doughfoot, they calf you. The going' is slow In the infantry. While the navjr ana air xorces are measuring meir advances ad-vances and maneuvers in hundreds and thousands of miles, you're fighting for yards, and sometimes taking weeks to win them." But there's one thing about "the infantry. No matter how far and fast the ships and planes go, victory always waits for the infantry to get there and win it. In the end it's your finger on the trigger that fires the bullet that wins the war. When you're in the infantry you knoW that there would be no road to victory unless the doughfeet marched along it in boots heavy with the mud of Italian mountain roads and German potato fields and New Guinea jungles and -the slithery hills of Okinawa. And the people of the United States know that, too. Which is why they are? celebrating Infantry In-fantry Day today for the thousands of doughfeet who will march the streets of Tokyo, and for the thousands more who dfed along the road to victory vic-tory to-make Jthat last march possible. lavatory, lav a-trce. MOSCOW: The second syllable rhymes' yMth toe, not with how. RIFLE: In certalri parts of the South, this word-is almost indis tinguishable in pronunciation from raffle. GREASY: As you travel West, you generally hear the word rhymed with easy, but in the East the s is' commonly hissed as in kiss. HARVARD: In most of the country this university is called Hahr verd; around New York City it's called Hah' vid;. and In Boston you hear it spoken, of as Har (almost the a of hat) verd. WHITE HOUSE HEAT Wedemeyer raced back to Chungking, was flabberagasted to read a blistering cable from General Marshall bawling him out for letting members of his staff sabotage the ambassador's important diplomatic mission in China, Marshall also enclosed a copy of a cable the ambassador had sent the White House, accusing weaemeyer s ontcers. of doubie-crossinff him. Wedemeyer Immediately went to Hurley and demanded ait, explanation. He wanted to- know what the ambassador meant and why he. hadn't carried out his promise to; show him all telegrams ana cooperate coropieteiyrHuriey turned his back. "i am the ambassador here," he replied and waixea away, General Wedemeyer then discovered that Gen eral William Donovan, hid 6 strategic services, was due in China and his representatives had been anxious to determine th possibilities of workine wiui me nonnern cninese against. Japan. There- tore, weaemeyer s chief of staff. Gen. Robert B. McClure, had agreed to send two U. S. officers to North China to examine North Chinese cooperation, cooper-ation, f While they were away. Foreien Minister T. V. toong complained to Hurley about their trio. He said this was UDsetinir Chunckinc's relation with the North Chinese. Whereunon Hurlev sent a stinging cable to President Roosevelt accusing U7Mj4AMM..nnM rrl r i . i . , i . ucuciiic.ci a winters oj inacr-cuiing mm. xms was wnai causea wedemeyer to set the rebuke irom uenerai Marshall. However, Wedemeyer a-etlied to Marshall ex plaining the whole situation and statins that Hur,1 ley Knew in advance about the northern trip of the two UV S. officers. Marshall took the cable to tne white House. Roosevelt read it: siehed wearUy. "Pat is Pat," he said, "and there's nothing you can do about him." - . END OF HOUSEKEEPING Amusing aftermath in Chunskimr wu that Ambassador Hurley and General 'Wedemeyer. the , A . A ! . . . iwu ivji rupcFican in inina, occupying the same house and and adjoining bathroom, refused to speak, to each olher. Day after dav thev dodmri each other in their common dining room. Finally, Final-ly, on " the fourth day, Hurley capie down' to oreaKiast, toia wedemey.eryjiow sad, he was,, and begged him to let bygones be bv cones. "Presiriitnt Roosevelt told me that my job was kill Japs out nere, not American diplomats," replied the gen eral. "I will still play, ball if you will." - Cl Ll " a V onoruy mereauer, nowever, tne two men Droxe up joint- house-keeping and moved to separate sep-arate homes. At about the same time. General Mn Clure, Wedemeyer's chief! of staff, encountered Hurley at a cocktail party , and chided him for sending his telegram iof. protest without prior wnsuiiauon. ) :i z?Vr- roafedith ex - cowpuncher from Oklahoma, "I've sftot men for less than that" Fists went up. "KfeClure is . Bontowing has become uch a habit that ttieneigBbors will take everything' but a ; .(te. i'wn Your; Own Home" move will fMl0 .tner moyes-rwith no place to move to. no amall man. Neither is Hurley. Bvjt before anything further nappenea, xnencts intervened. However. Chinese were present "and, saw(these two high-ranking Americans in a near list-liem. it didn't heln American prestige., .- . . It- was about tills time alsd that-, embassv advisers John Davies and John Service, the-latter now arrested, were ordered out of-Chunskins by Hurley. He .said he did not want anyone around Who - sided with the Northern Chinese. Since then, the rift between North and South China Chi-na .has become wider-and: wider: with the jre- Isult that Russia probabely rwill officially recog nize ine iNonn enmese leaving the u.-S. A. with anqiner i.ubiin-London Polish dispute on its hands. . This has been one of. the hottest debat among junior officers inside the state denartmefit. i.op. otticiais,.Jiowever, are dead aet against cussion. . (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) A R S ana ASl Congress Gets Combat Fatigue ' ' BY PETER EDSON .thing that will do them much Wr K I n 'tin I gtnnA Is a tfrrfi Inn it reef miH mtiAt Q How man women were in volved in auto accidents during 1944? A National Safety Council reports 700,000. Q What are the essential parts of the Norden bombsight? A Computing machinery that solves two problems in Trigon ometry- and makes other ma the matical computations, an optical system attached to a variable speed motor, and a gyro-stabil izer. Q What is the area of Bor neo, apparently next on the Al- Jles list after victory on tne island is-land of Tarakan. off its shores? A This third largest island in the world has area of 392,000 sauare miles, about 219.000 of which belong to The Netherlands. Q When was the American Flag first displayed by our armed forces? A July 2, 1777, by John Paul Jones, on the U. S. S. Ranger. . O How much - water does it take to supply the city of New York? A Its four reservoirs hold 253,000,000,000 gallons of 'water, about 960,000,000 of which are used dajly. : Manpower Controls To Be Released Manpower controls will be re leased as promptly -as present la bor shortages In metal mines, smelters, -end transportation become be-come less acute, according to Joseph Jo-seph S. ' Mayer, state manpower director, for Utah. , Pending further word, the steel industry's work week hours will continue on a national basis, but a minimum " work week' of 48 hours will continue to be applied. Lhe said. Minimum hours will con tinue' to" be required In non-ferrous metal, lumber and textile industries, but will be subject to local application for removal, he added. The state labor market is being watched carefully by the Utah labor-management committee, for an opportunity to discontinue manpower controls as soon as possible. Mr. Mayer stated that the revision of the national list of essentia activities is expected to include only th6se directly engaged en-gaged in the production of war materials or those necessary to the maintenance of war production. produc-tion. v Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINCrrORJune 15Poor old congress got combat fatigue. The battle of Washington Just too much when taken in un: lieved tours of duty and the C-men are beginning to show it. Over a fourth of the members of both houses are absent with or without leave. On the day somebody some-body threw a luncheon for the new secretary of the senate, Lies- lie L. Biffle, Senator George was ithe only Democrat present on his side of the aisle, while five lone ly Republicans listened to Sen ator Harold make a heavy speech on the blgfive veto. Total attendance, attend-ance, seven. Over in the house the record' was better with 300 out of the 400 on hand to pass repeal of the poll tax. But that was. so hot for some of the south' erners they wished they were home and it was a futile gesture besides, because the senate.. will probably kill it. Adjournment of congress in The U. S. Patent Office began numbering its patents serially in 1838. July is likely, however, and .it'sjthe war will cost twice and a half about time because the- distin guished members are all stir crazy and they need to go home for a check-up and to be checked-up on. The battle neuroses now show on the congressman in the things they do. The house is always un predictable but when the senate goes haywire as it did in passing the price control amendment which would guarantee a profit on all produce, then you know it's time for a change. Even Ed O Neal of the Farm Bureau retched at this proposal, calling it unwork able, and when that cagy old codger calls any piece of legisla tion benefitting the farmers no good, it really must be bad. What you can really be thankful thank-ful for is the bicarmeral system which permits one house' of congress con-gress to check the rash acts of the other. The lower house Was clear off forriTand doubly surprised everyone every-one by (a) passing the Bretton Woods agreement and (b) taking a terrible hack at the president's powers to cut tariffs under th reciprocal trade agreements pro gram. The first was considered as good as the latter - was disappoint ing to the administration. What seems to have happened to both the reciprocal trade .rer newal in the house as well as to the OPA renewal in the senate is that the solons were unable to look past their -own noses. Both were considered as purely local issues instead of matters oh which there should be a national policy. Everybody wants price control, everybody wants tariffs reduced except on those' particular commodities com-modities in which he deals. And when congressmen listen and re act to such pressures, the only 'Vinegar Joe' Visits Luzon ...A-. - sV ) thing that will do them much good is a good long rest mid quiet surroundings. Inflationary fevers and chills are still' epidemic all over Wash ington. In congress they have howed up recently in the house Idea-of increasing congressmen's expense allowances $2,500 a year and in the senate proposal to double congression salaries- from $10,000 to $20,000 a year. Not to be overlooked, either, is the bill to increase the pay of govern ment workers by some $736,000, 000 .a year. Anyway you. size this up, congress seems agreeable to the idea that government' is going to cost more, and the few econo mies effected by a' knocking $17,000,000 off the office of -war information' appropriations are going to be more than made up for if the congressmen stay in Washington much longer. The great saving, of course, can come in reduced war and navy appropriations, but even so the Brookings Institution is out with a - report that government- after . - s Desk- Ghat Once News lNOv nisrory PRONUNCIATION POINTERS ,. An iinkiaaMt' muirt nn tutor they .say ly different parts ofL TWettt U YeOTS AgO the country v w wii ? m. a wh a0 Me v The Prove Herald Of Jane 15, 192$ E. I Price of Heber was ap- pointed agricultural agent for Utah -county to succeed VJ. . P Welch. Mr. Price had served as Wasatch county agent for the past eight years. . ' ' , ' Battery Cot the 145th, field ar tillery. Utah NaUonal Guard, was which they pronounce, nt r.mr c. Hirrii. times' as much as in 1940 The two things which President Truman has specifically, asked of congress unlimited power to reorganize re-organize the government and increased in-creased social security payments will probably have to ride over until congressreconvenes in the fall. . The president needs both these authorizations to deal with immediate problems, but both seem headed for a right and congress con-gress is in no mood to tackle such large orders' at this time. Even with congress out of town for the summer, things aren't going to be dull. Senator Robert F. Wagner's banking and currency curren-cy committee is fixing to hold elaborate hearings on Senator James E. Murray's controversial full employment bill, and there will be the United Nations charter written at San Francisco to argue about. That, too, will probably have to wait until fall before the senate will feel like considering it for ratification. i RED TOKENS She counted - Her ration points And found them enough To' visit the meat shop To procure some stuff But the butcher, Alas, Was very gruff: She asked for A boiling piece And some suet, But found The Black Market Had beat Her tuet. She was willing To settle i For bologna or liver But the butcher said He had none To give her. Then she asked For spareribs Or mutton ... But the butcher ' Insisted - . "I just ain't Got' nuttpn." So she returned Blaming the OPA For its many Fool regulations Which it passes off So blithely and gay With the alibi that Its price regulations Is the only thing That wiH 'prevent Rampant inflation Although it permits The Blacky Markets To sabotage This Nation! home when a person says;. "I don't like that fellow" what he really means is: "I i do not know that leiiow. A salesman got tired of his Job and gave' it up to join the police iorce. several months laterr a friend asked him if he liked being a policeman better than being aj salesman. "Well," he replied, "the pay Is ine nours are regular. first- sergeant, announced, Provo will also send along a. medical detachment of 14 men in charge of Capt Fred R. Taylor. Capt Robert B. Patterson was the commanding officer of the battery. j Utah county's three . school districts submitted budgets for the coming year, totaling approxl mately one million dollars. i , Julius Kruttschnitt, retired chairman of the executive committee com-mittee of the Southern PaClic railroad, died in New York. - . J. W. Robinson, prominent Provo attorney, was elected sec ond vice president of the state bar association. Marriage licenses were issued to Carroll McComb, Salt Lake City and Lois Norton, Provo; Clay M. Beesley and Helen Taylor, Provo and Floyd- Carter. Provo and Klorence Nelson, Pleasant Grove. Thirty Years Ago ' from the Files Of June 15. 1915 Sponsored by the .Industrial committee of the. Provo Commer cial club,, William M. Wilson, chairman, a tour of the Knight Woolen Mills was arranged for the merchants and business men of Provo. - 4 ; . s ' The first car of Utah straw berries was shipped out of .She state by the William M. Roylance company of Provo for the eastern market. Dr. H. S. Pyne was named first counselor to Bishop A L. Booth of the Fourth L DS ward to sue ceed E. H. Smart, released to become be-come a member of the high: council. coun-cil. R. J. Murdock is the second counselor. m The "Drys" were organizing, to get out the vote for the impending: liquor election. GeorgC A. Startup was chairman of the meeting and J. M. Jensen was named campaign cam-paign manager. . . , i . . A Hiram "Ham" Clark of Provo, was returned the winner ot the motorcycle endurance race from Salt Lake City to Blackfoot. Clark covered the distance of, 203 miles in 7 hours and 34 minutest T-HT- can-spend! more time 3 with j Jpy family and victory garderu- Blrt what I like best of all Is that the customer is always wrong!" Better a winning score PLUS a few mistakes- Than errorless defeat.'' LIBERTY CAFE OPEN SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Chinese & American Dishes Served Open Day and Night (24 hours) Manager and Chef-Harry Moye v PHONE 1584 1 Wng an unexpected visit to battleftont near Mariklna, RtoTovlnca. hjpen. JosephStUweU watches effect of 88th Artillery against hged-upJape. Left to tV&xti "Gen. StUwell. Maj. Gen. William C. Chase. ninaing general. Wth Infantry Division and Maj. Gen. Charles p! au, commanding geqeraL XL Corps. 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