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Show 2 A - .'A.. T-. f I V,? ..... , - . i -. i .. . . . . .. 4 t is? r 7 ViVAClT? 9 WIOVO. UTAH COT7NTT. jji ' . f . ASA - fl W Bt Assault Troops Encounter Heaviest Jap Fire at Salpan Since Tarawa B RICHARD W. JOHNSTON t United Press ffu CorresDondent ?. ABOARD JOINT EXPEDI- ' TIONARY FORCE FLAGSHIP. calnan Tuna 17 flTPl TTnltewl ? "States assault trooDs who invad- 4m MV A WSx' WMtAV Vfv- ed Satban in the Marianas landed ;,!' uiatr uie oeyii iiapanew 1.1 ?X;,I'Bw the first assault waves oil ttMloaded "Alligatora" fight ' their I 'and onto! the beaches, supported ? by thundering salvoes of naval 'guns and flaming: rockets jand automatic weapons from the LCI's. But despite the powerful fleet 'and aerial, preparation, the Alll- gators met a shower of Japanese long-range mortar and artillery Roosevelt Signs Navy's Elk Hill Reserve Measure WASHJNGTON. June 17 UP ; President Roosevelt today signed bill to permit increased oil pro-' pro-' ductlon from the navy's Elk Hill treserve In California, but expressed expres-sed concern, over what he termed term-ed "legislative assumption of ex-, ex-, ecutive fuhetlonB' contained in the legislation. The law, authorizes the secretary secre-tary of navy to enter Into a contract con-tract with the $tandard Oil Co. of Celifornla to permit dally produc-' produc-' tion . of 65.000 barrels of oil from the 5600,000,000 Elk Hill reserve. The measure was requested by the joint chiefs of staff to assure increased petroleum for the war effort after Attorney-General Francis Biddle held that an original orig-inal contract entered into by the navy and Standard Oil of Cali-'fornia Cali-'fornia was Invalid. . It provides that production from the field largest known reserve "In the country must be authoriz-ed authoriz-ed by congress at the request of the secretary of navy, and gives the navy authority to purchase or . condemn lands on the same geological geo-logical structure which might drain government oil. '. Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., of the house naval affairs com-Jmityee, com-Jmityee, told the house that actual production of the oil would be done by Standard, but that the rnavy would retain full control of . the. property. Mr. Roosevelt emphalzed that did not approve of all of the revisions of the bill. On the contrary." he said. "I regret? to say that in several par ticulars this act departs from prin ciples of government which have "Jbeen long established and which ;1fcre, in my opinion, fundamentally .sound. I feel it is my duty to ex-: ex-: press my concern lest this depart-,'ure depart-,'ure be continued In future legislation." legis-lation." la view of that, he said, he had given, his approval because he had been assured by the secretary of the navy that there was immediate immedi-ate need for legislation "to deal 'with the problems of drainage and current production from the naval petroleum reserves." . This measure, he said, will materially ma-terially serve to accomplish those objectives. Steel Hinge and Steel Mechanism Ring Covers Post Binders Ledger Binders again available at the UTAH OFFICE SUPPLY 43 East Center Provo VOLUMES of UniVEQSITY NORTH UNIVERSITY. South Main, Sp. Fork , - P SUNDAY HERALD ( J W W fire from the hills rising toward louu root mount rotcnau on the left flank of the assault beach. The hammering of the beaches by battleships and cruisers appar ently rorcea the Jananesa to aban don any plans to defend them with; automatic weapons as they did at Tarawa. We had arrived off Saioan ex actly on schedule and ships car rying tne assault troops were in their prescribed positions - wlthm two minutes of the time specified. When the sun came, up the morning light illuminated a sea bobbing With landing craft. Battleships Bat-tleships and cruisers already had oegun roaring reveille with their big guns and planes swept overhead over-head to drop nearly 100 tons of bombs on the invasion beaches, The troops landed on a two-mile front on either side of Charan Kanoa, on the southwest coast. The units which landed' to the South started! a powerful attack which carried close to Aslito air drome, while the northern forces consolidated the beachhead i area below the principal city of Gara- pan. The invasion troops were faced with -a savage land-battle after surviving the fight for the beach' head and there was scant pros pect of a rapid cleanup such as has been possible in their atoll Warfare. While casualties are not expected expec-ted to equal the Tarawa figures, the assault battalions suffered material losses and the Japanese still are throwing mortars their favorite weapon into the beachhead beach-head area. State Department Hands Passports To Finnish Envoy WASHINGTON. June 17 (UH) Finland's refusal to get out of the war against Russia and the "im- imical ' activities of her minister ta Washington today left that nation on the brink of ruptured relations with the United States. Both Finland, the only nation that always paid her world war dept installments, and Hjalmar J. Procope, an extremely popular member of the diplomatic corps here in happier days, now are in ill repute in this country. Procope, his wife and two small children, and three of his lega tion counselors and their fam ilies are under police surveillance In their homes and under orders to leave the country as soon as possible because of unnamed activities ac-tivities "inimical" to United States interests. Passports were handed to the Finnish representatives at 5 p. m. yesterday Just 24 hours after af-ter Finland had paid the S148.-. 445.06 semi-annual' istallment on her World War 1 debt to this country. A week ago-r-a few days before the Soviet armies began their offensive against Finland state department spokesman had denounced the government which Procope represented as being pro- German. ' The state department, in an nouncing Procope's "Persona nen grata" status, emphasized that the action did not mean severance of diplomatic relations. But only two members of the legation staff a secretary and an attache will be allowed to remain here although theoretically Finland could send a man to replace Procope. Pro-cope. No change was anoulfced in the status of Edmund Guillon. American Amer-ican charge d'af fairs in Helsinki and the only V. S. official now in Linland. Bids Refused On Springville Job SPRINGVILLE Two bids one by a Provo contractor and another by a Springville contractor, for the the remodeling of the Grant elementary grade school, were refused re-fused by the Nebo school district board of education, it was an nounced Friday. Both bids were higher than the estimated and also al-so exceeded government allowance. allow-ance. The proposed remodeling Included Includ-ed the building of four new class rooms, improvement of the ventilation ventil-ation system of the school and the eUiv.lnat'.cn of fire hazards. It was decided however to leave the school as it is until labor and material are more plentiful. Company - E of the 142nd Infantry In-fantry during World War I was made up almost entirely of Oklahoma Ok-lahoma Indians. EXPERIENCE Underlie Our Expert Service We are skilled In how to handle carefully care-fully and clean thoroughly thor-oughly your most valued apparel. Bring Clothes in Early to Allow fnr Otilnb Efficient Service7 for the 4th bf July GLEAflERS "UTAH tllE : V Main, AVENUE 172 South PHONE 214 Springville As calm and peaceful as. if the war were on another planet is the scene above, which shows soitfe of Gen. Claire L. Chennault's fighters In the China-Burma theater of operations relaxing at Camp Schiel, rest camp named after Maj. Frank Schiel, of Prescott, Ariz., former AVG and Army ace killed in action. Located on one of China's most healthful nbteaus, Camp Schiel Is equipped with basketball courts, boats, hunting facilities" and tennis courts. 'Sunbathing on beach are Sgts. Fred J. ' Crabtree, Raleigh, N. C, and Otto O'Neal, Hoxie, Ark.; sprawling, left to right, are Sgts. Delbert C. Boardman, St. Louis.. Mo.: Anthony R. Lalond, Marinette, Wis.; Birchfield B. Deatherage. Miami. , Okla.; and James McLain, Wildwood, N. J. With Ernie Pyle in France Bodies of Slain Soldiers, Personal Belongings, Seen In D-Day Wreckage By ERNIE PYLE 1 NORMANDY BEACHHEAD (By Wireless) In the preceding column we told about the D-Day wreckage among our machines of war that were expended in taking tak-ing one of the Normandy beaches. But there Is another and more human litter. It extends in a thin line, just like a high-water mark. for miles along the beach, this is the strewn personal gear, gear that win never be needed again. of those who fought and died to give us our entrance to Europe. Here in 'a jumbled row for mile on mile are . soldiers' packs. Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, bibles and hand gre nades. Here are the latest letters from home, with the address on each one neatly razored out one of the security precautions en forced before the boys embarked. Here are toothbrushes and raz ors, and snapshots or famines back home staring up at you from the sand. Here are pocketbookis. metal mirrors, extra trousers, and bloody, abandoned shoes. Here are broken-handled shovels, and portable port-able radios smashed almost beyond recognition, and mine detectors twisted and ruined. Here are torn pistol belts and canvas water buckets, first aia kits and jumbled heaps of life belts. I picked up a pocket bible with a soldier's name in it, and put it in my jacket. I carried it a mile or so and tnen put it back down on the beach. I don't know why I picked it up,, or why I put it back down. Soldiers carry strange things ashore with them: In every inva sion you'll find at least one soldier hitting the beach at Hrbour with a banjo slung over his shoulder. The most ironic piece of equipment marking our beach this beach of first despair, then victory is tennis racket that some soldier had brought along. It lies lone somely on' the sand, clamped in its rack, not a strine broken. Two Of the most dominant items in the beach refuse are cigarets and writing paper. Each soldier was issued a carton or cigarets just before he started. Today these cartons by the thousand, water soaked and spilled out, mark the line of our firs savage blow. Writing paper and air-mail en velopes come second. The boys had intended to do aHot of writing in France.' Letters that would have filled those blank, abandoned pages. Always there are dogs In every Invasion. There lb a dog still on the beach today, ' still pitifully looking for his masters. He stays at the water's edge, near a boat ; that lies twisted and half sunk at the waterline. He barks appealingly to every soldier FLOWERS for BEAUTY Flowers the right flowjpra add the final touch of beauty to the bride and her surroundings. We will be glad to help you plan floral decorations decora-tions bouquets, and corsages cor-sages for any occasion. PHONE 80 Where the Flower Grow Provo Greenhouse who approaches, trots eagerly along with him for a few feet, and then, sensing himself unwanted in all this haste, runs back to wait in vain for his own people at his own empty boat. X X X Over and around this long thin line of personal anguish, fresh men today are rushing vast supplies sup-plies to keep our armies pushing on into France. Other squads of men pick admist the wreckage to salvage ammunition and equip ment that are still usable. Men worked and slept on the beach for days before the last D- day victim was taken away for burial. I stepped over the form of one youngster whom I thought dead But when I looked down I saw he was only sleeping. He was very young, ana very urea. He lay on one elbow, his hand suspended in the air about six inches from the ground. And in the palm of his hand he held a large, smooth rock. I stood and looked at him a long time. He seemed in his sleep to hold that rock lovingly, as though it were his last link with a van ishing world. I have no idea at all why he went to sleep with the rock Jh his hand, or what kept him from dropping it once he was asleep. It was just one of those little things without explanation. that a person remembers for a long time. x x x The strong, swirling tides of the Normandy coastline shift the con tours of the sandy beach as they move in and out. They carry soldiers' bodies out to sea, and later they return them. They cov er the corpes of heroes with sand and then iri their whims they un cover them. As I plowed out over the wet sand of the beach on that first day ashore, I walked around what seemed to be a couple of pieces of driftwood sticking out of the sand. But they weren't driftwood. They were a soldier's two feet. He was completely covered by the shifting sands except for his feet. The toes' of his G. I. shoes point ed, toward the land he had come so far to see, and which he saw so briefly. ?honer 1627-11 . M:u jfo !J fjfTp) Ty d4qnd to iv luts I irJ l i WffrVL-rfl V finest, Ofest ear at FERN'S SHOP 168 West m .-v.i---"ar..iw -4) ..v US Jt u ft One Man Killed, 32 Race Horses Lost In Blaze DETROIT, June 17 UJ) One man was killed and (200,000 worth of racing horses were destroyed today in a fire at the fairgrounds track. Carcasses of 32 horses were discovered in the stable ruins eight hours after the blaze flared mysteriously in a feed barn, while the police squad was Investigating possibility of arson. A preliminary checkup showed six horses were missing. Officials hoped that they wete, at ; large after stampeding out jotj the grounds and into adjacentstreets. Track authorities placed dam age at $23,000 to buiWings-de- stroyed by the flames. It was announced that today's racing program would be held despite the tragedy. " Among the outstanding horses destroyed was Bell Buzzer, which carried the colors of David J. Ferguson, Detroit, Iri the Ken tucky Derby. Ferguson's entire stable of five horses and a pony, all trained by Charles San Burn, was destroyed. Another stable , wlped out by tne flames was that of George C; White ,of Hendersonyille, Tenn., containing horses of seven owners. Police were seeking a stable hand at the fairgrounds who was reported to have warned James McClellan. a groom, "not to sleep too soundly" last night before discovery of a blaze at 12:40 a. m. McClellan said he saw David Scott, 56, Lakewood, N. J., run from stable No. 10 with his cloth Ing on fire. Alec Boris another groom, tore Scott's clothing from him and rolled him on the ground but Scott died. Utahn Injured In Battle For Romp SPRINGVILLE Mr. and Mrs. William Glenn Carter have received re-ceived word that their so Norman Nor-man Carter, was injured In the battle for Rome. Few details concerning the accident ac-cident were received, but a letter from the son said his tank was hit and a few pices of steel wento into his body. He is confined to a hospital somewhere In Italy. Center St. , Finnish Line MOSCOW, June 17 E JEted army troops streamed northward along a 63-mile front in the Karelian Ka-relian isthmus today after breaking break-ing through the'' second Finnish defense line in a rapidly developing develop-ing drive toward Viipuri- ., v ! (An Helsinki dispatch reported that the Finns ha&eiarted a complete com-plete exacuation of civffiana from Viipuri.) V " Gen. Leonid A, Govorov Leningrad Len-ingrad army, steadily increasing the tempo of ita "thrust toward Finland's third largest City, captured cap-tured more than 100 settlements and towns, including, Luonatyo-kl, Luonatyo-kl, to bring the Soviet forces within 28 mUes, southeast of Viipuri. Vii-puri. " (The Swedish newspaper Dag-ens Dag-ens Nyheter said the Russians had reached the rail station of.Per-kjaervi of.Per-kjaervi on the Mannerhelm line five, miles north of monatyoki.) , As the attacking forces smashed smash-ed the Finnish defenses on five separate sectors through' the for-, est and lake coutnry for gains of five to nine miles long columns of trucks, half-tracks and ' ar tillery , filled the narrow roads in carrying supplies to swiftly mov-in mov-in troops. At the same time, front dls patches, reported that reconnais sance patrols h&d ..stabbed behind. the Finnish lies to disrupt Com munications and . attack enemy strong ppints. The Finns were reported evacuating evacu-ating the entire Karelian populace popu-lace and the Russians found many villages virtually without inhabitants. inhab-itants. (Observers at Stockholm said that an order of the day issued by Finnish Marshal Karl Manner- seim, acknowledging the second large-scale Soviet attack in Karelian,- indicated the. Finnish mil itary situation was becoming critical.) More than 242 localities have been captured by the 'Russians Since the big offensive1 started last Saturday. Robison Improves Still Unconscious SAN MATEO, Csi., June 17 (UE) Dean Robison, 16-year-old ap prentice Jockey from. Provo, Utah, still was unconscious today as a result of injuries suffered In a' two-horse collision at Bay Meadows Mea-dows race track Wednesday. ' Attendants at Mills hospital here said his condition was "slightly "slight-ly improved." ; Robison was I riding -Bubbling Girl when another , thoroughbred, Four P Violet, I charged up on Bubbling GiU's; heels. Four P Violet somersaulted and fell on Robison. jockey Gene Pederson,' 2, Rowley, Iowa, who rode Four P Violet, suffered only minor injuries. Slightly Although mm v lmfm'artenft;-hllfib: ": .. ----- -. -. rri u h i tm m m m m mum m m m va km wjm - i i i a 11 . l ' 1 ThfMq&m Vnmp J 1 1 , J. . molntotna th network f V " If' U tUphon wir and abU J Jj I ! thot links th nation tOflthr. " 1 i M Jji Day eftar dayt In tform and fir and flooaV up Irv, th air and underground, ftas en th Job knowing that avary circuit ts noodod for war. Thoio clays tt It Injportant for vory on to mako tho boat uto of tolo phono oqutpmont. totopnono metorlals aro tn tho war and wa rogrot that wo cant fill atl ardors for sorvlco without soma dolay. fRE HOOMTAIH STATES TELEPHONE Victory Cat tlemer from wide area around! Clinton, Ukla., are tfekking wii to the farm of Martin Chitty, Jr., to get a1 look at the quintetj pictured pic-tured above Victory, registered Red Pofled cow and the quadruplet quad-ruplet calyes she produced recently. Named Franklin. Eleanor, Winston "and Madam Chiang Kai-shek, they are ill . strong and healthy Two years ago Victory gave birth to triplets which grew - to maturity. Strike Averted At Superfortress CHICAGO. June 17 EE A walkout of 600 workers at .the huge DodgeiChlcag plant of jthe Chrvsler Corn, where 2.200horse- power. engines are produced for the giant B-29 superfortress, ended end-ed today, whenstrikifag employtei agreed to returrtyto wwrkpending negotiation of the drtpute involving in-volving 10-cent-hourlywage increase in-crease for a tool grinder. The strikers, who left their jobs last night and early toqay, began returning to work, after, a meeting at the headquartera of the United Automobile Workers union (CIO)r At the meeting, a committee was appointed to meet with company reprVntatlvs to negotiate the dispute. Frank.. Blake, UAW international internation-al representative, said the walkout walk-out was unauthorized. Union of AND TEU6RAP r COUFANY Engine Factory ram w7. .aw ar va m mm rjrjrKsi' : I mm i ww I a i- lBBKvJ gaF'saB 111 ; - ' - i nil t m V i I HI I i Quartet 'A 1 -. Ac t -X a" ff 4r.,i.. 'if', - . MX 1-1 SIS--- -s- -4- ficials had urged jthe strikers to return to work. ' , - Walter K. Kalinowski , a spokesman spokes-man for the strikers,' said the dispute concerned the pay scale of Arnold Butty, a tool grander, whom . he said was entitled' to- a 10-cent increase for working on precision tools. Butty , was denied the raise, Kalinowski, said, and the other 417 tool grinders walked out in protest between 4 and 0 p.m. yesterday. ,The "pjant, the largest single war factory in the country, emt- ploys reiore than 20,000 personal and covers 500 acres. . BUILDING I CONDEMNED , R. J. 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