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Show THr WEATHER tSo They Say v I , C It it against all traditions of onr poller tor allow unity amonr the great powers to become a means to bull y the smaller. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Anth-ony Eden. UTAH Partly cloudy over south portion Sanday; north portion elondy Sunday with slight showers; show-ers; pet raven change in tempera-tore. tempera-tore. Temperatures HUhv. 68 Low 23 UTAH'S ONLY'J DAUjY PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRiCIfc FIVE CENTS VOL. 22, NO. 45 SOUTH IV BALiC bAM) . j ; : . ; . . . - : --. . - , . . ' Soft Coal Mine Wage Dispute To Be Ended ti n i mt .i in i n Monday, mm ames oay Stalenfcite of Five Weeks' Duration May Be kfw I JM A n An Aa n 1 Minam flat- Together To Avoid , Government seizure By CHARLES 3 DEGGES ' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 7, The soft coal mine wage dispute will be ended on Monday, both sides predicted predict-ed tonight. Orjerators and miners said they exroected to solve their own wage-hour problem without drastic government in-, in-, tervention by signing a new two-year contract. It would . replaec the one which expired The new contract, removing the threat of nationwide Geneva Orders Cutback; Coal Pile Shrinks , A cutback, affecting 110 workers work-ers in all departments, plate mill and the open hearth, was ordered order-ed Saturday at the Geneva Steel plant due to serious shortages of coke oven gas, coal tar and coke, it was announced by Peer Niel-son, Niel-son, superintendent A bulletin posted at the mill Friday, states that no layoffs of employes will be required, since there are jobs in other departments depart-ments for those affected by the order. According to Mr. Nielsen, it dpes not mean that these departments depart-ments will be closed down but the coke plant and blast furnace operations will be slowed down. Reason for the shortages, according ac-cording to Mr. Nielsen, is dwindling dwind-ling coal supplies. There is only enough coal stockpiled at the plant for-two days operations. A let-down in the amount of coal needed became more serious seri-ous with the threatened coal strike. Absenteeism, according to the report, tsTOimtnp on the average av-erage of 10 per cent per day. The mine, to run at its full compliment, compli-ment, would need, 922 miners. "At the present time there are only on-ly 740. Mr. Nielsen also stated that because the mine operates only six days and the steel plant seven sev-en a week there is always a lag in coal, but. that it Is no reflection on the mine. Approximately 4200 tons of coal were mined Friday at the Geneva coal mines in Carbon county which is an improvement over tne 3400 tons, low point. The increased tonnage, however. is still not enough to operate at full capacity, Mr. Nielsen said. The open hearth furnaces have been reduced from eight to seven. sev-en. The bulletin posted reads: "To all employes, Geneva Steel plant is unable V obtain sufficient supplies of coal to maintain present operations, opera-tions, and the resulting short ages of coke oven gas, coal tar and coke make it necessary to reduce re-duce operations in coke plant, blast furnace and open hearth departments. These curtailments, and the continued heavy demands for shell steel billets, in accord ance with war production boards directives, will reduce the amount of steel available for production pro-duction of slabs anOtes, and will require limitlngNof plate mm operations to a single turn per day, for six, days per week, beginning Monday, April 9, ,1945. "The reduction in the working forces in the rolling mills department depart-ment will be necessary and will (Continued on page six) 20,000 Homeless In . Louisiana Flood ALEXANDER, La., April 7 (U.R) Rising flood waters of Louisi- . ana rivers by tonight had affect ed half of the . state's 64 parishes and inundated over 1,000,000 . acres ox land. Both the Red Cross and U. S coast guard, which is directing evacuation operations, have set up advance headquarters here. Red Cross director John Fligg estimated that 20,000 persons have now been driven from their homes and are' being housed in 27 tent cities, state guard armories, arm-ories, high ground churches and municipal buildings. Long food lines formed at hurriedly set up army field Kitchens. Fast army planes were skimm ing the tree tops of the flood area In search of the marooned and were patrolling up and down .the levees watching for breaks In the sand bagged and earth bar riers. Pilots were dropping life rafts to families who waited too long to get out and Were left clinging to rooftops. Twenty-five coast guard craft joined in the. evacuation work near Monroe in northeast Louisiana, Louis-iana, and from there they will cruise downstate on the swollen Ouachita. April 1. government seizure of mines, will provide substantial pay in creases for miners but will not, it was understood, Include the 10-cents-a-ton royalty originally original-ly asked by the United Mine Workers. The consensus among miner and operator sources was that the wage increases probably would amount to about $1.25 a day per miner. Operators estimated that such an increase, if approved by the government, would add a maximum of about $150,000,000 a year to the cost of soft coal pro auction. Presumably this increased cost would be reflected in .higher consumer con-sumer coal prices. Five-Week stalemate The first indication that operators op-erators and miners were getting together after a five-week stalemate, stale-mate, was given by Ezra Van Horn, chairman of the joint wage conference. At a time when everybody thought the disputants were about to throw the case all the way into the war labor board's lap and ask for a government-dictated government-dictated settlement, Van Horn announced an-nounced that "we believe an agreement will be reached and a contract signed" on Monday. The labor department certi fied the coal dispute to the W. a week ago, but tne board bad ordered the parties to continue negotiations for another week and report progress today. It had been assumed that the report would be failure. In that event, the WLB would have dictated dic-tated a settlement, after hearings, hear-ings, with the possibility of government gov-ernment mine seizure hanging over the industry, if either side rejected the board's decision. The miners now are working under an agreement to extend (Continued on page seven) LDS Speaker Urges Return To Law, Order By CARL WELTI United Press Staff Correspondent SALT IiAKE CITY. April 7 (U.R) Levi Edgar Young, president of tne Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church first council of seventy today called for a revival of civic pride in American and a return to law and order. His speech keynoted the opening open-ing meeting of the second day's session of the 115th annual church conference here, attended by nearly 1400 ranking priesthood members of the organization. Other speakers were Spencer W. Kimball, a member of the quorum of 12 apostles; Nicholas G. Smith, assistant to the council of 12. apostles; Joseph L. Wirthlin, second counselor to the presiding bishop; Milton R. Hunter, newly appointed member of the first council of seventy. Thomas E. McKay, Mc-Kay, assistant to the church first presidency and acting president of the European mission and Richard L. Evans of the first council of seventy. Young warned that there must be a return to a more orderly life after the war and pointed out that the practice of self discipline, national na-tional consciousnes and righteous living were necessary steps toward to-ward gaining that goal. "Civilization,' he said, "must develop a thoughtfulness for the rights of others. There is a need for the old fashioned ethics whlchlYamato with at least eight tor- are based upon the belief , that (Continued on page six) OPA Investigates Coast Trip By State Officials and Wives SALT LAKE CITY, April 7 (U.R5 The office of price administration administra-tion today launched an investiga tion of gasoline rations issued to the state Highway patrol for a west-coast trip by two members of the state finance commission. Those involved in the investigation investi-gation were Gordon Taylor Hyde, chairman -and J. Fred Pingree, a commission member. They, their wives and two high way patrolmen left here March 2d for Seattle where the highway patrolmen were to pick up two new cars. The patrolmen drove the old If Mljyl E IM u is lr Wo Ihjm uyuiMi ip j , c ; f c d 5 . " Fourth of Japti.ese Fkcfc Wipd OuS Fliers Sin Battleship, Eight Others Battle OH Southern Tip of Japan Costs lap Navy Heavy Toll By FRANK TB AMAIN E United Press War Correspondent GUAM, Sunday, April 8 OE) Fleet. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today that American and 1 British carrier planes destroyed 417 Japanese aircraft Friday and Saturday as the enemy made a desperate but futile attempt at-tempt to. hamper invasion operations oper-ations of U. S. soldiers and marines ma-rines on the key island of Okinawa. Oki-nawa. Earlier Nimitz reported that the 40,000-ton battleship Yama-to, Yama-to, pride of the already-crippled Japanese navy, and six other warships were sunk by American Ameri-can pilots from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's fast carrier task force, off the southern tip of Japan. 34th Corps Stalled Front reports said the army's 34th corps was stalled on Okinawa's Oki-nawa's southern front in the face of increasing Japanese resistance,' resist-ance,' Nimitz' communique, how ever, disclosed - the 3rd marine drive forward along the-lshlka- wa isthmus against "negligible" resistance. -The -communique said -a small group of enemy planes attacking U. S. forces Saturday off Okinawa Oki-nawa in a follow-up of Friday's major assault in which 116 Japanese Jap-anese planes were destroyed. Twelve more were added -yesterday. Latest reports from Mitscher's carriers said they sank four small cargo ships and many small craft in the Ryuku area before the navy and marine pilots smashed the great Yamato and eight other warships which had ventured out from hiding places in the inland sea. Three Destroyers Lost In all the attacks the U. S. has lost three . destroyers sunk: a "heavy" warship and several other oth-er destroyers and smaller craft damaged. The "heavy" craft, presumably pre-sumably a carrier .battleship or cruiser, was fully operational. Seven carrier planes were lost. The British carrier task force operating under Nimitz' over-all command returned to the Saki-shima Saki-shima islands south of the Ryu-kyus Ryu-kyus for a two-day strike against airfields and other installations. British pilots destroyed five Japanese Jap-anese planes in the air and three on tne ground. At Washington, an official navy na-vy spokesman said that what remains re-mains of . the Japanese fleet is a "not-so-powerful task force which could be easily handled" by any one of the major i task forces of the mammoth U. S. Pacific fleet. He said "it looks like a good 25 per cent of the remaining naval Japanese combat com-bat force") was wiped out. Nimitz said the Japanese fleet was sighted early this morning by navy search planes. It had left the Japanese inland sea, where American bombers riddled hideouts hide-outs last month, and headed into the East China sea, passing south of Kyushu. Vice A dm. Marc A. Mitscher started a fast carrier task force .in that direction at high .speed. At midday, his planes struck. About 50- miles southwest of Kyushu, southernmost of the main Japanese islands, they sank the pedoes and eight heavy bombs; (Continued on page six) machine and one of the new ones back. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde and Mr. and Mrs. Pingree drove back by way of San Francisco. . E. H. AzbilL district OPA rationing ra-tioning representative, said that no one from the state administration administra-tion had requested or obtained approval for using state gasoline rations for any trip outside of the state. , Hyde estimated he used 20 to 30 gallons more gasoline in returning re-turning by way of San Francisco. He added that the gasoline was ourchased with the use of cou pons issued to the highway. patroL Doughboys Make Big Haul; Find) $106,000,000 In German Gold Yanks Capture War's Greatest Treasure In German Salt Mine WITH THE 90th INFANTRY INFAN-TRY DIVISION, AT MERK-ERS, MERK-ERS, GERMANY, April -7 American soldiers found a vast treasure trove said to include the entire German gold reserve, in a salt mine today. Fritz Vieche, a balding official of-ficial of the Reichbank, was on guard. He said the; subterranean vaults contained approximately 100 tons of gold bullion, $2,000,-009 $2,000,-009 in United States currency, 10(1,000,000 francs in French currency, cur-rency, 110,000 British pounds, 4,-000,000- Norwegian crowns, and lesser amounts in other currencies. curren-cies. The salt mine also sheltered a priceless art collection. The gold and currency were stored in a room 2,100 feet under the ground. Brought From Berlin "The gold was brought from Berlin by train, starting February Febru-ary Hth, and later all the rest of the treasures were brought in," Vieche told this correspondent. "Later when the Berlin printing VJhmbliSgV we attempted td return" the paper currency back to the capital. "However, because of blown bridges arid the fact that American Amer-ican armor moved so swiftly, we were unable to escape with the paper currency, and were forced to give up the entire idea." The Third army tonight issued an official statement thaf there was "ho verification yet on the captured German gold bullion because be-cause no American actually has seen it. However, there is no question whatever that paper cur-reacyand cur-reacyand art treasures are stored inside the mine." It was some time before the American doughboys got into the gold vault because the Germans had clamped the doors closed. Capt. James McNamara, of Los Angeles, was the first to enter. "Gee, I never saw so much money in my life than when I walked into the room and saw those bags stacked up against the wall," he said. The storage vaults were so deep, the trip down in an elevator eleva-tor takes two or three minutes. The statuts and paintings were in wooden cases with Vienna, Brussels or .Paris stamped on them suggesting some may con tain stolen art, though the German Ger-man civil servants said it all be-(Continued be-(Continued on page six) Suzuki Takes Helm at Head Of Jap State WASHINGTON, April 7 U.K The new Japanese premier, Baron Bar-on Kantaro Suzuki, installed a "battle" cabinet today, changed the army and air commands, and told Japan that the war "warrants "war-rants not the, least bit of. optimism optim-ism whatever for our nation's survival." sur-vival." The final steps in formulating the new cabinet which succeeds the ousted regime of Kunlaki Koiso, were" delayed by at attack of American B-29 Superfortresses upon Tokyo, Japanese broadcasts admitted. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced an-nounced that six more Japanese warships had been sunk and others damaged southwest of Kyushu, and a navy spokesman here said it was believed that more than a fourth of the remaining Japanese fleet was knocked out. This was the ominous background back-ground of Suzuki's inaugural statement, the most pesimistic utterance ut-terance to date from a high Japanese Jap-anese official. It was recorded by the United Press in San Francisco broadcast by the Japanese radio. Suzuki called on all persons to suport the mperor, and offered to die in battle himself if necessary. neces-sary. "The enemy has now firmly es- taDiisnea inemseives on our homeland," said Suzuki, referring to the American invasion of Oki-nawk Oki-nawk island, less than 40 miles from the home island of Kyushu. -Tne present war, which is (Continued on Page. six).. ; - I Allied Armies Close W.. : CV osmaAukk . tun ilttrfLB u i ur 'UCJliVlAPf I v . i iter Cttiie- K FRANKFURT .i ' WviTTIMfiUfi VjC'2 V MonnfamA British and Canadian troopjr, pushihf their, Netherlands drive from south, outflank great German port" of Breman roadv American Ninth and British Second armies stream across Weser, converge on Hannover. '"U. S. First and Third armies made new progress across German plain towards the capital while the U. S. Seventh and French First armies knife deeper into southern Germany. (NEA Telephoto) Red Army Storms 18 Miles to The Danube; Vienna Encircled By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, April 8 OfJfO The Red army stormed 18 miles to the Danube northwest of Vieri- na yesterday, encircling two- thirds of the Austrian capital and Yanks Shoot Down 07 German Planes LONDON, April 7 OI.R American Amer-ican bombers and fighters shot down at least 87 German planes today as the crippled luftwaffe desperately sought to stop crushing crush-ing raids on their dwindling air bases in northern Germany. More than 1,300 Flying Fortresses For-tresses and Liberator bombers, es corted by 850 Mustang and Thun derbolt fighters, hit four German airfields and the luftwaffe rose in their greatest numbers in three months to meet the American challenge. At least 11 of the destroyed German, planes were jet-propelled. The remainder were Mes-serschmitts Mes-serschmitts and Focke-Wulfs. 'Fighters shot down 63 planes and bomber gunners blasted at least 24 more out of the sky. Twenty-two U. S. bombers and (Continued on page six) . Roosevelt Proclaims 'New Testament' to. Help rt . ;. r i i ia j d L unarr rne v-ounrry s course in war ana reace BY JOSEPH L. MTLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 7 U.R)- America received a. new testament testa-ment todav of faith in its future. It was proclaimed by President Roosevelt and the men of ness, labor, and agriculture chosen by him to help chart the country's course, in war and peace. It was a statement of faith not only in this country's ability to create full employment ana abundance after victory in the war but also in the world's ability to insure future peace. The key line, fit for a motto or slogan, was uttered ny chairman O. Max Gardner speaking for himself and ills colleagues on the advisory board of the office of war mobilization and reconversion. reconver-sion. It was: ; 1 "We believe and snow, that It can be done." 1 The testament was in tne form of an exchange of letters, released on Hannover mmHAWH i SAXONY ; OHtiMM AVKb?V MHZ i putting the last German escape roads under short-range artillery fire while other Russian troops battled into the city streets from the -south. ..Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army captured the riverside suburb of Kloster-neuberg, Kloster-neuberg, one mile' from the Vienna limits and left only a 13-mile 13-mile gap between its spearheads at the Danube on. both sides of Vienna, which lies almost entirely entire-ly on the south bank. Street fighting broke, out in the shell-shaken Austrian capital as Qther Third Ukranian army units entered the main' city from the south, a Moscow communique announced. an-nounced. Berlin admitted a penetration pene-tration af two miles inside Vienna to the edge of Simmering, the city's gas and electric power station sta-tion four miles southeast of St Stephen! cathedral in the city's center. Berlin, also reported that, the Russians threw several bridgeheads bridge-heads across the Morava-Danube confluence 19 miles east of Vienna in a drive to cut across the German Ger-man garrison's last escape lines and complete the encirclement. , . The battle for Vienna, a metropolis metro-polis 'of almost 2,000,000 population popula-tion And one of the most famous capitals in the world, entered the climactic phase as German com-: com-: (Continued on page six) i. by the White , House!, between Gardner .and the president Asserting As-serting that "the days Of the Nazi tyranny are numbered" and that nothing must interfere with "the grim necessity ox intensive prose cution ox tne . Japanese war," busi-jGardner added: By magnificent cooperation of Industry, labor, and farmer on; the Home front we have achieved unprecedently high levels of wartime war-time production, income, and employment. em-ployment. "National solvency - Itself de- imands the maintenance of .those high levels of production, income, ana employment in; the reconversion recon-version period and into the peacetime peace-time economy. The nation has demonstrated that we can do this for war. We can4 and must do it for peace. s "In achieving It. the aspirations of the people of this nation and ofi tne world wui xind tneir fuixm-ment" fuixm-ment" -In -ilia- reply, the president 3 Allied Approach Outer Berlin Defenses Hamburg, Hannover, Breman, Brunswick Near Fall as Allied Offensive Rolls Over North German Plains with Incredible Speed By BRUCE W. MT7NN United Press War Correspondent PARIS, Sunday, April 8 o.u; Three Allied armies sprinting across the north German plains neajed Berlin's outer defense bastions of Hamburg-, Hannover. Breman and Brunswick yesterday, while the U. S. 7th army ripped 36 miles into the enemy's southern flank in exploding a new offensive toward Munich, birthplace of Nazidom. The Allied offensive rolled so swiftly into inner Germany Ger-many it engulf ed the greatest single prize of the war $106,000,000 in gold and curren cy plus hundreds of cases of priceless art treasures hidden by the Nazis in a salt mine at the Thuringian town of Merkers. The 100 tons of gold were believed believ-ed to comprise the entire Reichs bank reserve. Beyond Weser- River The three northern armies were moving beyond the shatter-eded shatter-eded Weser river line toward the Elbe .Berlin's last natural defense de-fense on the west, against slight - thened nHSlnent setefrelSi0 aSSfcMS ana aismtegrating resistance of Hannover, Breman. Hamburg and sranswicic.wnich nad a. total to-tal peacetime population of 2,-696,000. 2,-696,000. One ' column of ' Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British 2nd army raced up pie west side of the Weser to within- 15 miles of Breman and 54 miles of Hamburg, Ham-burg, at the mouth of the Elbe. Another which crossed the Weser k three days ago, was ramming a deep wedge between Breman and Hannover in what Berlin said was a drive for the Baltic, 85 miles to the northeast, to cut off Denmark from the Reich. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's Simp-son's American 9th army, sweeping sweep-ing 25 miles past the Weser, reached a point a scant nine miles southeast of Hannover, 25 miles west of Brunswick, and 133 miles from Berlin closest point to the rubbled German capital reached by the northern armies. Lt. Gen; Courtnes H. Hodges' 1st army, coming up on the 9th's lower wing, slashed over the Weser Friday night northeast of Kassel, put four armies across that stream on a 150-mile front Lt. Gen.- George S. Patton's army ar-my was -beyond the headquarters headquart-ers ot the Weser in the south. Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th army-got into the race in the south by bursting 36 miles south ward to sei2e the town of Crails-heim, Crails-heim, 95 ; miles northwest of Munich and . 42 '- miles - from the headwaters of the Danube river gateway to Adolf Hitler's inner citadel-in the Bavarian Alps. The advance, which put the 7th 48 miles southwest of the Nazi Na-zi shrine center , of Nuernberg, was made by the 10th armored division . against -dissolving resistance. re-sistance. Dispatches said an air attack last week had destroyed a huge munitions dump at Nuernberg, Nuern-berg, causing van acute shortage of ammunition on that sector .ot (Continued on page six) agreed that victory, in war must "mean, at home a peacetime economy econ-omy far more abundant and productive pro-ductive than we have ever had before." He also agreed with the advisory advis-ory board that a strong American economy is essential to fulfillment of the . "plans maaev at Bretton Woods, Hot Springs and Dumbarton Dumbar-ton Oaks," and that "abundance at home depends upon organizer tion for order and security in the world." - "We must plan security and abundance -together," the -president said.- Both communications said thej country was fortunate in having public servants like James F. Byrnes and Fred M. Vinson, the old anct -the new mobilization directors. di-rectors. ;;. .' , -..,. S uch men, the president said, Drove that nhere has been -no shrinkage in the stature, and the spirit of the American Armies Last Nazi Army With Commander By ANN STRINGER United Press War Correspondent - WITH THE U. S. 1ST ARMY. jvpru i tu.rj a nign ist army officer of-ficer said today that the Germans line ln.the west because their last major, army .group ts trapped in the Ruhr wilh ita comander. Field Marshal .Wallher von ModeL He revealed that -army erouo "B" the last German-army group which could be put into operation as- such was in the Ruhr. It comprises the 5th Panzer and 15th armies. Among the trapped units are 30,000 to 40,000 combat troops and HO.OOOtto 120,000 service, labor la-bor and anti-aircraft troops. The staff officer said that group represented . the . "guts of the nr.L..kin i u.i m nwuKuik w uiai its position was hopeless. The Germans, he said, have no ammunition factories factor-ies in the pocket and their gasoline gaso-line stocks already are exhausted. There is virtually no hope of flvlne in minnliea hecause of Alter! air power. , "Never again invthis war can the Germans hope to establish a cohesive western ront Jine," the oficer said. He added that with the Weser river line gone, the Elbe river-line is next. "The biggest thing now. ista drive across1 Germany to Join hands with the Russians, cutting, Germany in half," he said. "Then it will be only mopping, up operations opera-tions which will be more confused and hopeless for the enemy than the present ' mopping up of. the Ruhr." - He-revealed that the Germans already had combed all their available reserves including hos- piHU uqiH.Mia.miiiuig uwps, ui a desperate, but impossible effort to halt the westerhjalliegi . . . Modelf who. commands - army group. B, was in the field when the Ruhr trap was- shut He is recognized as one of the ablest of German 'generals. He formerly was commander of an army group in Russia; .was .one time com-. Biander in the west; and was chief a amim ' fVM 4vli a whim lain uw Americans- nemagen . i 1 . . A 1 , V bridgehead .across the Rhinei War In Brief - Western-Front Allies gain up to 35 miles; threaten to cut .off Denmark; fall of four large German Ger-man cities appears imminent. Eastern Front Soviet storm toto Vienni; smash 12 miles to reach Danube northwest of half-encircled half-encircled city. ' ' Pacifie' V. S. carrier planes sink 40,000-ton Japanese battle ship'r damage or alnk eight other warships; Japs lost 891 planes in. two-day battle; more-than 400 Superforts hit Jap- homeland. Air war More than 100 heavy bombers raia-uerman ainieios; shoot, 4own 87 enemy planes in bigalr battles v Italian Front Fifth army troops drive toward rfeat navaT base.: La Spezia, S6utheast Asia-Japanese ,15th army .virtually destroyed Jn Man- dala-eectc army no longer "effective "ef-fective fighting force." ? - - Gnrck rntTiiEE resigns 1 LONDON,4 April Si WiThe British-, broadcasting s , company said"in a, broadcast- on!ght that' Greek ipremier Gen;,Hicholas - Group Trapped Plastirarhad resigned. . - t . |