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Show I SOUTH CACHE COURIER. IIYRUM. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Menace Early Jap Conquests; Ask Overhauling of Vet Bureau; Smoothen Big Three Relations . Released by Western Newspaper Union. . (FDITOHS NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Unions news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) V. i& ' y t 1 " , f , I f i , Xfi V f i f i ? x .''.-a' 1 it 'X-- . V fJVV. ? x XX .V , ,Fv .I1 e "X s 4 -- T-t F 4 , Vv j , - x Z A X' . x V -- A .. MX VVK' 7 , J ' ; Xvl Xv ,rff tii & A . y to power, the Roman Catholic feast i jo Munich, with procession wending spoken foe of Hitlers rfgime, Michael s ..remain. .Uied forces un-J- n, Douglas northern Borneo in a drive to conquer the island that easily could be the prelude to a campaign against the Indies and Malaya. Rich in oil and rubber and possessing good ports and airfields for a thrust to the west, Borneo was overrrun by the Japs early in 1942 while the Allied cause in the Pacific still remained after paralyzed Pearl Harbor. With Jap shipping coming under increasing U. S. air and sea pressure, Borneos value to the enemy has been sharply reduced, and Allied invasion forces met only meager opposition as they moved inland in the mountainous country. Though only lightly defending the comparatively communicable coastal regions, the Japs did fire the extensive oil installations located there In an effort to prevent their use by the Allies for future operations. fl,' hies from the' storage tanks and wells could be seen for 40 miles. Mac-FX;Ji,u- ur VETS CARE: Legion, V.F. W . Critical Stung by the American Legion and F.W.s ringing denunciation of the veterans administration bureau, congress moved to look into the whole question and give ear to the comprehensive program outlined by both service organizations for efficient functioning of the department. With a spokesman declaring that the bureau may eventually have to handle the cases of 18,000,000 G.I.s, the American Legion suggested the creation of a deputy administrator under Gen. Omar Bradley and a realignment of authority under six assistants to handle medical care, insurance, finance, loan guarantees, readjustment allowances, vocational training, rehabilitation and education, adjustment of compensation, pension and retirement claims, construction supplies and contracts. Though criticizing the overall operations of the bureau, the American Legion and V F.W. particularly rapped vet hospital care, charging that 47 per cent of the institutions now give inadequate treatment and citing instances of abuse in some centers. To relieve conditions, the organizations proposed increasing bed capacity; boosting wages; allowing authorities more leeway m securing help and supplies; more intelligent segregation of patients to speed recovery, and replacing army with civilian personnel. V BIG THREE: Smoothen Relations Troubled relations over Poland having been seemingly smoothened, the Big Three looked forward to their forthcoming meeting tpr planning the peace conference to reestablish the broken continent of Europe. News of the approaching Big Three confab followed announcement that officials of the U. S., Britain and Russia would meet In MosWarcow with the saw government and democratic leaders from within and outside of Poland to discuss the composition of I more representative regime for the country. Instrumental in smoothemng Big "Sunny Side Up . . Three relations were Harry and Jotph E. Davies, Pre.,JK social emissac f w and DeX- re- of reports fronl them upon their return to the U. 'S , the chief executive expressed confidence in a settlement of the Polish question, declaring the Russians were as anxious to get along wif us as we are with them. The late President Roosevelt's No. 1 confidante, Hopkins appeared to have played an especially key part in the discussions abroad, with Mr, Truman revealing that he not only conferred on the irksome Polish situation but also persuaded the Russians to surrender their demands for vetoing the right of aggrieved nations to air their complaints before the postwar peace organization. While the step toward bringing together the dissident Polish elements was considered an encouraging move for the development of a r anWJWjg"A'8WWi OPA: Farm Prices NTew V N x 1 sii vT : With his Chief of Staff Adm. William H. leahv standing be. President Truman receives report of overseas missions of Joseph Davies (left) and Harry Hopkins (right). Swashbuckling General Cries Army Passed by the senate as part of, a bill extending OPA for one year, a provision requiring that farm pro- ducers be granted cost plus profit headed for rough treatment in the house, with Pres Harry S. Truman joining to oppose the amendment Drawn by Senators Wherry (Neb.) and Shjpstead (Neb.) and adopted proby a 37 to 30 vote, the cost-plu- s vision stipulates that it shall be unlawful to establish or maintain against the producers of any livestock, grain or other agricultural commodity a maximum price . . . which does not equal all costs and expenses (Including . all overhead expenses, a return on capital and an allowance for the labor of the producer and family) . . . plus a reasonable profit thereon. deWhile Truman President scribed the provision as bad and hoped the house would knock it out, other critics declared that it would create confusion by replacing the present parity formula, scaling farm prices according to general costs. Countering this argument, Senator Wherry said the provision would apply if parity prices failed to meet expenses. SUGAR: Set Quotas Though distribution . Ft I of sugar through the first five months of 1945 exceeded that for the same period In last year, the War Food admims-Jratip- n fixed rigid quotas for govern-en- t and civilian users for with the home t obtaining 10,000 less tons than Pfc. Clarence Craft, Santa Anita, Calif., Is credited with killing more than 30 Japs in a spectacular, and almost single-handerifle and grenade fight. He was exposed to enemy action during the entire time. It was his first time in battle. d, Photo shows that even Gen. George S. (Blood and Guts) Patton may be overcome. At a reception given in his honor in Boston, at which time honor after honor was heaped upon him. General Patton responded with praises for his men and ended with; We thank God such men were At this point the photo was taken. born, I cant say any more. at piVsent FroWJanuary through May, distribution olsugar totalled 2,955,906 short tons ejpipared with 2,747,543 last year, It ws revealed. Reflecting criticism that the impending sugar pinch has Resulted from loose allocations of the commodity in the face of over supplies, figures showed that as of June 2 raw sugar stocks amounted to 275,746 short tons compared with 442,234 last year, the beet inventories totaled 374,052 short tons as against 465,222. Twenty Four Planes -- Most Decorated G.I. 25 Minutes 'Ti over-optimis- ; b Ml 1 V A commander in the famed U. S. 21sl bomber force in the Marianas, Col. Alfred F. Klaberer, estimated that 500,000 Japanese had been raids on Tokyo, with killed in the possibility the figure might even Look at Yokohama, be 1J00,000. he said. One minute it is there and the next it has disappeared, I believe we killed 250,000 there. Because burns caused by fire bombs require the care of two or three people and the Japanese lack the personnel to attend to the injuries, one 21st force medic opined the death rate must be enormous, Klaberer said. ft'' S, s ' Bombs Take Heavy Toll SAN FRANCISCO: Peace Force With French delegate Joseph declaring that the confer- Paul-Bonco- ur i V t . k . V 9 ence was erecting the keystone of the peace structure," the United Narepresentative rule, the Polish gov- tions meeting in San Francisco ernment in exile in London denied moved to approve plans for the first the authority of the Big Three to international army, navy and air supervise formation of a regime for force in history. Directed by a military staff comthe liberated country. Not directly included m the Moscow parley and mittee, with regional throughout the world, the world long at loggerheads with the Reds d because of alleged political inter- peace force may draw on ference m Poland, the exiles of the U. S.s present army and reauthorities branded the plan as a concession to navy, American the Russians. cently estimated. All members of the United Nations will have to grant BIG HARVEST: the international force free right of passage through their territory in Problems Mounting the event of hostilities. Even as the department of agriUse of the peace force will be culture predicted a bumper wheat to the unanimous apsubjected bushels for yield of 1,084,652,000 proval of the Big Five the U. S., 1945, along with another banner genBritain, Russia, China and France eral crop year, Kansas undertook and a majority of the security counthe harvest of 215,000,000 bushels of cil of 11. its winter wheat with a heavy shortage of both men, machinery, SHIPYARDS: storage and transport. Premier winter wheat producing Workers Needed The rush of workers to peacetime state of the U. S , Kansas needs an additional 20,000 hands; 2,000 com- jobs is seriously impeding the conbines; 2,000 trucks; and many ra- struction as well as repair of war tion points for feeding extra workvessels, the navy revealed, with ers. Because of the local elevator the situation equally serious in both glut resulting from the freight car west and east coast shipyards. shortage, farmers expect to dump With damaged vessels receivsizable quantities of wheat on the ing first call on facilities for reground after filling up vacant pair, the building of new ships houses, store buildings, filling stanecessarily must await their fixtions, etc. With the Brooklyn navy ing. Typical of the problem confrontin need of 5,000 additional yard ing other southwestern states, Kanworkers at once, the new 27,000-to- n sas transport situation devolves aircraft carrier Reprisal Is from the inability of the railroads five months behind schedule and to divert sufficient cars for the grain the Oriskany is about half comtrade in the face of heavy war propleted. Approximately 3,000,000 duction traffic and the redeployman days of work will be rement of U. S forces to the Pacific quired on the super 45,000-to- n through this country. flattop Franklin D. Roosevelt, In the face of impending harvest Both east and west coast shipyards and transport difficulties, the USDA have been losing about 600 emlooked forward to not only a bumper wheat harvest but heavy oats, ployees a month in the shift to jobs, with the tight manhay and rye production, and another peacetime in the west reflected situation power Debanner truck and fruit crop of the by the necessity to tow the famed spite wet weather, corn crop has been planted, USDA flattop Franklin to Brooklyn for said. & m Vv-FJ- ? 'Si IT ;ta . First Lt. Audie L. Murphy, Farm-ersvill- e, Texas, Is the most decorated American soldier. He has every decoration for bravery save the Legion of Merit. Murphy won the Congressional Medal of Honor by beating off 250 Germans and six tanks at Colmar. i These marine pilots made aviation hisory off Okinawa by knocking down 24 Jap planes in 25 minutes. L. to R. in rear are: Maj. G. Axtell, Beach, Calif.; Col. W. E. Dickey, Du Bois, Pa.; Maj. J. Dorrah, Hood River, Ore.; Lt. E. Abner, Washington. Front row (L. to R.) : Lt. W. L. Hood, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Lt. J. J. OKeefe, Biloxi, Miss.; Lt. N. T. Theriault, Milford, Mass.; and Lt. C. Allen, Fort Worth. La-gru- na Sketch of Jap Balloon and Bombs First Postwar Cars F flash BOMB To destroy bag after descent one-thir- The first photos of 1946 postwar cars to be received show, top: the Nash 600 passenger automobile. Lower, the handmade Ford passenger, to be known as the 1946 model. Motorists may have to wait from one to two years for these. 1946 Propeller Cuts Jap Artists sketch of the balloon, with bombs, which the Japanese launching from their home islands against continental United States. are Big Four at Berlin Conference rSLX, two-thir- POLIO: Cases Increase Following perfection of wirebound On the eve of infantile paralysis will summer outbreaks, figures show egg cases, sunny side up soon be the new breakfast order of that the number of poliomyelitis G I. Joe ovei&eas. Real eggs in the cases in the country is running about 50 per cent ahead of a year shell will take the place of powdered and canned eggs on the menu. ago, it was announced by the Nafor Infantile To ship eggs in the past in the tional Foundation the numshell took up too much shipping Paralysis. As of space and also gave trouble because ber of new cases this year were 642 of their fragility and need of some as compared with 424 cases for the sort of refrigerating or cooling same period in 1944, the foundation reported. process en route. mid-Ma- : ' 9 i One-Ma- n PETS FOR G.I.S Veteran war dogs no longer suitable for combat because of over age and not adaptable to scout duty are being assigned to army convalescent hospitals as pets and mascots for recuperating patients. If a hospitalized veteran soldier becomes attached to an individual dog, he may assume full ownership and take the dog home with him when he recovers and is released from the service. Marine 1st Lt. Robert Klingman, Bingcr, Okla., who knocked down a Jap plane at 43,000 feet by using his propeller as a carving knife. Hit guns had frozen because of cold. the Representing Big Four at the Berlin conference where the granting the Allies full supremacy over Germany was riLhj . ? right; Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal Lattre Do Tassigny. They will be fa MontmervrenAu' 4 Army chJgllJeJlcerGyJea De |