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Slaw with the announcement by Dr. Owen P. Heninger, superintendent, superin-tendent, that $94,000 had been taken from the appropriation appropria-tion made by the 1943 legislature for the next biennium. According to Dr. Heningcr, the arbitrary cut. brings the appropriation appro-priation down to $840,000, which is ,the exact amount Governor ;jMaw recommended for the next TWo years. Tne governor s rec-omn rec-omn -xdedfigure is only $25,000 hlg "han the amount which was nriated by the 1943 legislate leg-islate the 1944-45 period, it vwas 'it. ' fesh in the appro- to the hospital is a part "Governor MaW's recently announced an-nounced order Tor a cut of $2,- ..popooa luthe geneP? ' und, which Jhe exDlained would be neces- TSa&Pi 'prevent a general fund deficit." Asked for a specific statement at to how the cut will affect the physical plant, staff and patients, Dr. Heninger said: 4ha Inst .futlnn Hrt nnt receive more than $840,000 for the next biennium the care and treatment we will be able to give Will be dangerously lowered. And bear in mind that we are al ready far below the minimum standards of care and treatment as set by the American Psychiatric Psychia-tric Association." The original budget submitted by Dr. Heninger and his staff was $1,167,000 or $233,000 more than was appropriated by the legislature. legisla-ture. The figure submitted, -Dr. Heninger Hen-inger said, would have given the institution- enough money to op crate in a way which would have approached the minimum standards stand-ards of care and treatment as set (Continued on Page Seven) tJavada Governor Attacds Increase In Grazing Fees RENO, Nev AprU 21 (U.R) Federal plans to increase grazing fees by 200 per cent were attacked attack-ed by Nevada's governor, E. P. Carville, at the conference of western governors here today. Carville. spoke on post war plans for western livestock industry. I feel that we will have no other choice than - to resist with all of our legal and legitimate means if the government persists in carrying out its ill-advised plan," the governor said. "Other-wise "Other-wise we shall have to subscribe to aV policy of giving up one of our basic resource values and depend Upon federal aid for our economic existence." . Co-operative arrangements between be-tween private owners and vari-out vari-out official agencies to rebuild the ranges and grazing lands through a reseeding program also was suggested sug-gested by -Carville. "Large areas of fall, winter and spring range land do not furnish the forage they should," he said, "which in view of the Increased demand for livestock calls for economic measures for replenishing replenish-ing feeding axeas.?-'T ' Development of underground water resources for surface use also was proposed by Carville. He advanced a program for systematic systemat-ic research to benefit inland west-em west-em areas. "It is probable that many additional addi-tional thousands of acres could be made to yield crops through audrirrigatioa projects," he said and pointed- eUt Nevada already has passed laws and appropriated funds for such surveys. Establishment of packing and xneat processing industries in the west also was urged by Carville, This would avoid the -disadvantage of a long two-way haul of meat and meat products, excessive exces-sive transportation costs and west- ; Continued on Page Seven) , For Cabinet? y 1. Edward Pauley, above, California Califor-nia oil man and treasurer,?- the Democratic National Committee, is considered a possible choice by President Truman for Secretary of the Treasury. Latin-American Ambassadors How In San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (U-W-i-Ambassadors of 12 Latin American countrieswcompanied by Nelson Rockefeller, assistant secretary of. state, arrived today for the United Nations conference on international organization opening Wednesday afternoon. Four special planes bringing 63 Russians to the UNCIO were due to arrive at Hamilton field this evening. Greeted by a navy band and an army detachment at San Francisco Fran-cisco airport, the ambassadors were formally welcomed by state department and city officials. A caravan with police escort carried car-ried them the 17 miles into the city. The Latin American group In dicated that one of the first resolutions to be introduced to the UNCIO, will be one .paying tribute to the late President Roosevelt. Such a resolution would be presented in the name of all delegations from all parts of the world. Delegates and their secretariat and press representatives arrived by almost every train and plane today. Marking time until U. S. officials arrive with whom they can converse off-the-record, newly new-ly arrived delegates were eagerly arranging tours of the city where they will spend the next several weeks. President Harry . Truman will broadcast a welcoming speech to the first plenary session Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon at the San Francisco Fran-cisco war memorial opera house. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, due to arrive before Monday, Gov. Earl Warren of California and Mayor Roger D. Lapham, will speak on the same program which will be broadcast over all networks from 4:30 to 5 p.m. (PWT). None of the Latin Americans would comment on the question of whether Argentina would be permitted to join in the conference. confer-ence. It. was generally admitted that Russia's stand would be the deciding factor and that if the USSR should accede to permitting Argentina to participate, a formal invitation would quickly follow. DEMAND PEACE LONDON, Sunday, April 22 (U.R) A radio station which identified identi-fied itself as "The Voice of Free Germany," said tonight, "we de-man de-man immediate peace. Only by acting now can chaos be averted." Truman May Air, Then Close Books on Pearl Harbor Debacle WASHINGTON, April 21 (UJP.) A congressional -source suggested lonignt rresiaent Truman may move soon to close the books publicly on Pearl Harbor?with or without court martial trials. This source which has urged a complete public airing of. the devastating defeat which plunged tms country into war on Dec. 7, 1641 said he believed" Mr. Truman would like to dispose once and for all of this - particularly partic-ularly unpleasant piece of un finished business. The president, this source said, may feel that Mai. Gen. waiter Short and Rear Adm. Husband E. rummei, Pearl Harbor co.'imanG- CompFomise On Poland Held Vital Compromise Must Be Found Before Parley Completes Its Labors By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent EN ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 The odds are long tonight that no one will be completely complete-ly satisfied by the compromise compro-mise agreement on Poland which must be found before the United Nations confer ence completes Its labors in San F rancisco some time next montn. Compromise seems to be inevitable. in-evitable. It is likely to come along these lines: 1. Acceptance of the new Polish Pol-ish frontiers proposed by the Soviet So-viet Union. 2. Broadening of the base of the provisional Polish government govern-ment now situated' in Lublin to include some non-communist elements. ele-ments. . A ' 2. Provision for.!, the proposed United. NaUonBjlS'?.'r?ty organ! zauono reex' vpiisn queaUoi atsome -i uture-tiateror 4. Some more specific assurances assur-ances that there ultimately will be held in Poland a free election. elec-tion. Frontiers Accepted The Russian sponsored new Polish frontiers already have been accepted in principle by the United States and Great Britain. There was an accompanying Russian commitment at the Crimean Cri-mean conference for reorganization reorganiza-tion of the Lublin government. Here it is as signed by the late President Roosevelt, Prime Min-Minister Min-Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Josef V. Stalin. "A new situation has been created in Po- land as a result of her complete liberation by the Red army. This calls for the establishment of a Polish, provisional government which can be more broadly based than was possible before the recent re-cent liberation of western Poland. Po-land. The provisional government which is now functioning in Poland should therefore be -reorganized on a broader 'Democratic 'Demo-cratic basis with the inclusion of Democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad." The current ; pre-conference dispute about Poland arose from Russia's request that the Lublin government participate in the San Francisco conference before reorganization on the agreed up on "broader Democratic basis.' The United States and Great Britain have rejected Russia's re quest. . V. M. Molotov Is arriving in Washington to attempt to untan gle that one before the conference confer-ence meets. Most experts concede now that the proposed new Pol ish boundaries will be put into effect regardless of conference or other developments. That will leave a great many hundreds of thousands or millions of Polish descended Americans bit terly unhappy. Many of them are voters.. The Polish issue may shape politics in some states for years. Judging from Moscow's reluctance re-luctance so far to- proceed with any Democratic broadening of the base of the Lublin government, any such broadening to which Molotov may be persuaded in his Washington conversations will be (Continued on Page Seven) ers at the time of the Japanese sneak attack, ought to be given court martial trials Soon or not at all. Last Dec. 1, the war and navy departments announced that they had found no evidence up to that time to warrant the trials. Secretary Sec-retary of 'War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy James Forrestal both said, however, that they were continuing investigations investiga-tions and wouM . be guided by what further evidence they found. Neither secretary divulged any of the information that the war and navy departments had ac cumulated in separate Investiga- (Contlnued on Page Sevea .. , Senior Adviser 1V ' CORDELL HULL Hull Unable To Attend Opening CifS; F. Parley By ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April St (U.R) t ormer ; vil llu: tonight that the San Francisco world security conference will be "an acid test of whether mankind has suffered enough and learned enough." The 73-year-old statesman announced an-nounced in a letter to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., that he would be unable to take his place as senior adviser to the United States delegation when President Truman starts the conference con-ference with a broadcast of welcome wel-come from the White House next Wednesday. He expressed hope, however, that the poor health which forced his retirement . as secretary of state last December would improve im-prove and permit his attendance (Continued on Page Seven) eretary m state .qenvj Thet . -rpiga. Jia tfanjpea three v miner j, J r "Tjjrs-esioj xcB.civ,rUii. - t Yanks Chalk Up Small Gains In All-Out Drive on Okinawa By FRANK TREMAIN United Press War Correspondent GUAM, Sunday, April 22 (U.R) American army divisions on southern Okinawa pressed their all-out offensive through Friday Fri-day and Saturday and made small gains in the bitterest type of U. S. Troops Seize Jan Road Terminus In Mindanao Drive Br DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent MANILA, Sunday, April 22 (U.R) American troops on Min danao have captured the Paidu Pulanga road terminus, 32 miles inland from the southwest coast, in a swift amphibious advance up the Mindanao river, and are driv ing a Japanese force opposing them Into marshy country around Lomopog, it was announced to day. This advance was made by the southward column which is push ing inland on Mindanao. On their left, another column was pressing on to the east, and patrols were fanning out through Lanao prov nice, which embraces the narrow "waist" of land connecting eastern Mindanao and Zamboanga province.' prov-ince.' Japanese troops were attacked by warplanes at Davao, Kabacan, wagayan and other points on Mindanao. Mindanao is one of the two remaining centers of organized Japanese resistance in the Philip pines, 'in the other, embracing northern Luzon, troops of Mai. were burned to death ana snot a Gen. Charles L. Mullins' 25mifew hours before the. Americans division Won Kapintalan, 31 miles southeast of Baguio, and hieh ground overlooking, the Cagayan vauey roaa at a point two miles south of the crest of Balete pass. uiner iorces closing from the west along the Villa Verde trail "report a definite weakening in the enemy's defense," said Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communi que. The Villa verde trail Joins the (Continued on Page. Seven) . Ooloona Fells To Allies On Italian Front Clark Declares Fall To Be Beginning .Of . . Final Victory in Italy By HERBERT G. KING United Press War Correspondent ROME, April 21 ux Bo logna, gateway city to the rich Po river valley, and key to all north Italy, fell to a converging attack by the U. S. Fifth and the British Eighth armies today. Special announcements by Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Mediterranean commander-in-chief, and Gen. Mark Clark, 15th army group commander, com-mander, heralded a brilliant Allied Al-lied victory, termed by Clark "the beginning of final victory in Italy." Poles First In-Polish In-Polish -troops of the Eighth army and elements of the U. B. 34th and 91st infantry divisions were the first inside Boloitna. Op position was negligible. All ot the city came into Allied hands speedily. ,. ....... and at dawn walked in. Fifth army armor, led by dust-covered dust-covered jeeps, raced through the ancient university city and capital capi-tal of Emilia province, without pause, and fanned out over the Po plain beyond in hot pursuit of the disorganized and fleeing German Ger-man army. . -. Bologna had a peacetime population popu-lation of 246,280. It is in a fertile plain at the foot of the bristling Apennines mountains, where groups of Lt. Gen. Lucien K Truscott's Fifth army broke through formidable defenses yes-' terday to clear resistance on the south and -southwest and make way fdr its capture. Church bells pealed as the Al (Continued on Page Seven) warfare, it was announced today, as the United States flag was raised on Iegusugu peak on lit tle Ie Island. For the third day the Thundering Thunder-ing barrage thrown into the southern Okinawa sector by guns of Pacific fleet battleships, cruis ers and destroyers and massed army and marine artillery continued con-tinued to support the advancing advanc-ing 7th, 27th and 96th divisions. Carrier aircraft made constant pin-point attacks against the numerous strong pillboxes, blockhouses block-houses and cave positions through which the tank-led ' Infantrymen slowly pushed their way. On the approaches to Hill 178, overlooking Shuri, a city of 60,-000 60,-000 population in the center of the line, American and Japanese forces were locked in the bitterest bitter-est type of warfare. Fleet Adm. Chester W. NimiU said. The rugged terrain around the hill changed hands several times (Continued on Page Seven) Prosperous Nazis Dig Up Victims Of German Gardelegen Massacre Under Yank Bayonets Bv ROBERT VERMILLION United Press War Correspondent GARDELEGEN, Germany, AprU 21 (U.R) American soldiers stood guard today while healthy, prosperous Nazi party members dug up - with their bare hands the hastily-buried bodies of 500 of their former prisoners. These were the bodies of anti-Nazi anti-Nazi Frenchmen, Belgians, Russians. Rus-sians. Poles, and Dutchmen who took this town. Then they were dumped hurriedly into make-shift graves. . A great majority of the towns- Stople are Nazi party members, ost are prosperous merchants. The town looks like 1 any other German town dean streets. dean homes, clean people with rosy plump cheeks. .! But they could not nave iauea n nntlm when the SS trOODS. aided by, the-Volksturm, herdeq 900 -Mile Soviet Drive Ends In German Capital Berlin Three-quarters Encircled as 12 Russian Armies Drive on German .Capital; Elite SS Troops Escape; Chaos Reigns By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LOND.ON, Sunday, April 22 UERed army troops smashed four and one-half miles inside Berlin yesterday, the German radio said as Moscow triumphantly announced that Soviet forces were at the Nazi capital, climaxing a 999-mile drive westward in three years from the gates of Moscow. ' Last-minute refugees reaching Sweden said the German Ger-man SS garrison was fleeing Berlin by a narrowing escape corridor to the southwest, leaving its defense to ill-trained people's militiamen who were being slaughtered in the Russian avalanche. Encircle The City ' Simultaneous with their entrv into Berlin, the 'Rns- Gqgubels Calls tusi-uiicimght LONDON. Aoril 21 (U.R) Ger man broadcasts said tonight that Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Josef Goebbels had called upon Berliners to fight for their city as if they were guarding all Ger many, but radio listeners in Brit' a in reported that the voice of Goebbels himself was not heard. A north German home service broadcast monitored by the BBC said that the sound of shellbursts "punctuated the brief soldierly words" with which Goebbels "bound all men and women of Berlin to an oath of allegiance and made them line up as if they were on guard in front of their own city and the whole of the Reich. Goebbels' exhortation to all-out' all-out' defense of Berlin came as Scandinavian reports said the Germans were digging in throughout lower Norway for a long fight There was some . speculation that Goebbels. in his capacity-as defense commissioner for Berlin, spoke to Berliners twice. At 7:57. p.m. DBST (1:57 p. m. EWT) A Berlin program was interrupted by an announcement that Goebbels would speak over the wired wireless, which customarily custo-marily is used for air radio warn ings, after news bulletins were sent. Previously, it had been an nounced that Goebbels would speak at 4 p.m., and this might indicate that Goebbels made a second address. United Press listeners said there was a strong possibility that the German Transocean news . agency station, one of Germany's best, may have been knocked out permanently. -Transocean was broadcasting short-wave from besieged Berlin It did not Come back on the air after it signed off in the normal I (Continued on Page seven) the prisoners Into a stone barn to - the outskirts, of the city, sorinkled gasoline on the straw flooring . and set it afire - Some of the-fear-crazed victims tried to escape by squeezing under un-der the doors but the guards shot them. The Volksturmers . dug . a 60-yard 60-yard long trench behind the barn and dumped 500 smoldering corpses into it Arrival of the Americans pre vented burial of all the victims. Gardelegan today is filled with hate. Civilian efforts to be' friendly friend-ly are rejected coldly by-. the Americans. .This changed - the civilians. They avert their eyes when they pass the American soldiers. . . The .Americana demand an im-r mediate, correct and" respectful answer to questions and they ge? it. acn aay tor six days tne Americans .havebeen rounding sians three-quarters encircled the city and cut all but, one circuit- pus rail connectiosr between it and the German armies father ing for a last-ditch stand In the uuyntfuu c-avuu m uc auuui. renorted Bii J , Soviet .amMatett crashing. Into Under Den Linden, late Saturdi he enemy's fading radio said. and 16 Russian armies were lung - ing against the city in a mighty n ... net thn .. i i n mUkl. assault. Massed Russian tank forces, possibly under the personal diMignifiCant SteeTone French a nd rection of . Premier Josef? StalfilThwn AmH.a BrmU o-iori smashed tne uerman lines in a vast three-way envelopment and frontal assault on. the burning capital covering a front of 200 miles. While three tank wedges stab bed up to or into the city on the north-east and east, other forces were "reported by Berlin to have swept 64 miles around south of the city to within 11 miles of Potsdam, the old . imperial gov ernment seat. These forces, at Treubrietzen, were within 31 miles of American forces in Dessau Des-sau on -the Elbe. Another powerful Russian spearhead had veered north in the envelopment of Berlin and struck almost to the southern (Continued on Page Seven) 285 German War . Prisoners Go On Bread-Water Diet RUPERT, Ida., April 21 (U.R) Two-hundred and eighty-five German prisoners of war were on a bread and water diet under close military guard today for refusing to work at the Rupert prisoner of war camp. Col. D. Smith, commanding of ficer at the installation, said 250 of the; men, mostly privates, went on strike Thursday, refusing to work under supervision of Ger man non-commissioned officers. The remaining 35 men, mostly non-commissioned officers, struck yesterday. Smith said the larger group was placed in a barbed-wire enclosure, in which tents were substituted for baracks. The non-commis- sioned officer group was placed in tne guaronouse. un BTouns of civilians and march' in them a ouarter-mile to the scene of the massacre for a silent ffornftin Now the Germans, 200 of them including 50 principal party members, are being forced to dig up the bodies of the oeaa. Yesterday Cart. Horace Ai Sutton, New York, N. Y., ordered the burgomeister to .assemble the 200 townsmen and bring them to his headquarters. Sutton also had a list of 50 -party members. At the graves, 150 of the men dug seven large graves. The other 50 dug up- the bodies; Some' of them were without shovels, and these Sutton-ordered to dig with their , bare hands." ; They began the Job uritier the eye o American soldiers bear ing rifles and tommyguns. - At first some protested, but the cold - eyed American captain simply pointed to the grave and said between clenched teetn "Dig, you son -o a oucn- UTAH - Cloudy cooler, with light showers or taundersbowcrs. Son day...;vv. .!: sti- Temperature: v High ....... .'. 90 Xow-r...,.... a . PRICE FIVE CENTS Towards Vanlts On-rushing Red Army Only-Hours Away From Junction With Yanks K6Q3 Kusninn By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press War Correspondent PARIS, April 21 cb The U. S. anhy was alerted to-r night for a' junction, perhaps-' only hours away, with the on-rushing on-rushing Red army charging towards .the Airiericans Elbe river bridgehead southwest of Berlin. , (The Paris radio said the June tion would be made Sunday.) Enemy reports said the Russians Rus-sians were at Treuenbrietzen, 23 miles southwest of Berlin, and 38 miles from the 9th army's Elbe bridgehead at Barby. The' Red army at that point was only 31 miles from the American 1st army fighting in Dessau, on the west bank of the Elbe. Headquarters announced tonight that a reconnaissance plane in contact with the 9th army's 83rd division-to 'the Barby bridgehead rtea sighting Kusstan tanks n westward toward the Elba late Saturday afternoon. Und earh AlHes thitTv 5 as tne gap Detween the western - . v - . " ana one-nau years ago measured 2,000 miles from' the. Caucasus to the English Channel narrowed to two American armies exploded a powerful- new assault against the Nazis' Bavarian redoubt on a 225-mile 225-mile front. Germans Fall Apart With the Germans falling apart on the road I to Berlin. Lt Geri. Bedell "Smith, Gen. Dwigbt D. Eisenhower's chief of staff, sal the double envelopment of the Ruhr which opened the way for the sweep to the Nazi capital was planned entirely by , Eisenhower and was one of the great military feats in history:' Smith disclosed that. Eisenhower .went, ahead with the plan despite 'the opposition of taany of .his advisers. i-t. Men.. Alexander xa. r atcn a -American. 7th army. throwing three armored and seven infantry divisions into action, led the assault as-sault toward the Nazi redoubt by sweeping up more than 300 towns and villages: j It was out in front in the growing offensive moving along, first-class highways to Munich Mu-nich and Berchtesgaden on a front stretching from Czechoslovakia southwest to the Swiss border. Patch's 12th armored division. scoring the day's best gain on the western front drove zo mues to Bopfingen. 50 miles southwest of Nuernberg and 72 miles northwest of Munich, in the heart of the Nazi redoubt. Lt Gen. George S. Patton's American 3rd army attacking across -.Czechoslovakia and Bavaria, Ba-varia, seized the Czech stronghold of Asch and plunged on within 56 miles of Pilsen and 97 of Prague, key communications center on the Nazis' last lines into the redoubt Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tas-signy's Tas-signy's French 1st' army was reported re-ported to have swung out past the source of the Danube river and reached a point within 12 miles' of Lake Constance, western anchor an-chor of the redoubt and to the (Continued on Page Seven) War In Brief V EASTERN FRONT: Soviet storm . into .Metropolitan Berlin, street fighting rages. - - WESTERN ir FRONT: Three Allied armies lunge toward Nazi's Bavarian redoubt: Ninth U. S. : army alerted tor Jmmieot junction with Soviets west of Berlin. ITALY! Boloena. gateway city to Po plain and key" to mil northern north-ern Italy, falls to American and British units., . AIR: More than 350 u. a. lying ly-ing Fortresses: blast rail facilities and airfields in three German cities. .-"'. .fi. , ,. "- - - PACIFIC: . American advance s haU-mile on '-Okinawa against .' stiff enemy resistance..- t PHHJPFINES; -Allies. advance toward Baguio and Davao in drives to crush- last organized, re sistance to . Philippines. if. - CHINA: ; Chinese halt Japanese i thrust toward 14th U. Si air base. , at Chihkiang in, Hunan province. . , SOUTHEAST ASIA! Brltisn ruruia continue, urtve now a- jaaa. l.- 1' .:ja m. jt. .'sr.a. daiay-BxQgoon railway. . |