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Show SI' - .. I'- 1 . -.: THE WEATHER So They Say ? If you sir Just on ent en each "piece of paperwork In government, govern-ment, yen will save mllllont of ..dollars ever period ef years Sep. Robert Bamspeck, Georgia. UTAH: Partly cloudy seattcreoT showers and thunderstorms fat north portion, cooler Sunday Temperatures! High ft ' Low 42 ,VOL 22, NO. 52 UTAH'S OIU.Y DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKE -PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 6ERVIC3B PRICE FIVE CENTS GenavoSfeel ValUQiion Cut On TaxRolls New Assessment Basis Reduces CoUnty Totals By Over 10 Millions Lower assessed valuation returns for the Geneva steel plant, brought about a drop of $10,343,145 in the property proper-ty assessment totals for Utah county, L. M. Atwood, county coun-ty assessor, revealed Saturday. Satur-day. The lu45 figure, including all property assessed by the county assessor is $44,608,941 as compared with $54,952,089 in 1944. This does not Include min ing, railroad and public utilities which are assessed by the state tax commission. Reduced One Half The Geneva Steel plant assess ment which was placed at $21,-101,948 $21,-101,948 in 1944 was assessed this year at 10.293,367. "This figure will remain a constant basis of assessment." Mr. Atwood said. "This value, which does not in elude machinery and equipment at the plant, was arrived at: by using the same basis of assessment assess-ment used in figuring the value of homes and other improvements throughout the state, applying an average depreciation so that tax ing units will not be upset from year to year by unforseen con ditions at the plant," he said. "At the same time the value of the slant will remain more or less constant until It goes into private ownership, at which time the per aonal property will become as sessable which should materially increase the taxable property of the county. "Personal property belonging to the U. S. government is not assessable. This represents a large percentage of the value of the steel plant. Notable differences in number tiff vnlii nf nrnnprtv nr found in swine, which was listed as 4867 In 1944, and only 1,731 this year: poultry 389,702 now as to 426,509 in 1944. and automobiles. 14,410 now as to 16,149 the previous prev-ious year. Dairy herds have in creased, while range cattle have dropped in number. Real estate values have increased in-creased because property has been divided into city lots and business section, and because land which was idle before has been brought under cultivation during the war. A considerable increase in the number of houses in the county is noted over 1944's total, and the value of merchandise merchan-dise has also, increased slightly. The following figures show county assessment totals for this year followed by those of 1944: value of lots, $3,131,118, as to (Continued on Page Five) Two Liberated War Prisoners Home In Provo Two former Provo prisoners of war who have suffered the vicissitudes vicis-situdes of warfare in the European Euro-pean theater, are home today with their wives, children and parents. Both men, Pfc. Thomas B. Madsen. and Pvt. David Forrest Driggs. arrived in time to spend the Sabbath day with their loved j ones. I "It was great day when the' English liberated us from btaiag. 11B, in Germany," Pfc. Madsen said upon his arrival at the home of his parents, where his wife the former Thelma Soren-sen, Soren-sen, and baby girl were anxiously waiting for him. Caught in the "bulge" Jan. 2. Pfc. Madsen, a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Madsen. was a prisoner pris-oner of war from Jan. 2 to April 16. He must report in 60 days at Santa Barbara, Calif., for a .routine check-up before reassignment reassign-ment or mustering but of the army. "The food situation at the camp was not so good. The medical service? Not much of it. However, j the English doctors knew their! Stuff." he said. The camp in which Pfc. Mad-ten Mad-ten was interned contained Russian, Rus-sian, English, French and American Amer-ican prisoners. Asked if the Germans had lived up to the Geneva agreement on treatment of war prisoners, he said: "There were nine men to a loaf of bread. We had a teaspoon of sugar each day, a tiny piece of ?Heinle margarine, a few spuds and a bowl of soup." Pfc. Madsen was flown from Germany in an American transport trans-port plane to Belgium, he went by truck to Le Havre, France, where he came home by boat. Returning to America after liberation from a German prison camp, Pvt. .Driggs traveled by truck, plane, tank, boat and train, to arrive in Provo, Saturday to begin a 60-day furlough. He has regained all of the 40 pounds which he lost while a prisoner of war at Nuhleburg, 4-.( 4-.( Continued on rage Five) j House Heeds Appeal Of Truman ! to Pass Reciprocal Trade Bill Controversial Bill Approved by Vote of 239 to 153 After Four-day Debate; Number Of Restrictive Amendments Are Rejected By RAYMOND LAHB United Press Staff Correspondent . WASHINGTON, May 26 The house heeded ft last-minute personal appeal from President Truman tonight to-night and passed the administration's reciprocal trade bill after a bitter, partisan fight. After debating the measure four days and rejecting a series of restrictive amendments, the house approved it by a vote of 239 to 153 and sent it to the senate where it faces an even tougher battle. The vote was a victory for Mr. Truman on his first big legislative test It also repre sented the first broad congressional congres-sional endorsement of a major administration foreign policy plank. Extends Trade Law The bill would extend the 11-year-old reciprocal trade law for three years and authorize the negotiation ne-gotiation of agreements cutting tariff rates a maximum of 50 per cent in exchange for concessions by foreign countries on American Ameri-can exports. The law now allows cuts 50 per -cent below rates set in 1930. With administration forces showing signs of worry and Republicans Re-publicans almost unanimously opposed to the provision broadening broad-ening the power to cut tariff rates Mr. Truman personally stepped into the fight today by advising the house that he con-1 Army Orders Sharp Cutback In Combat Plane Production Br KEUEL 8. MOORE WASHINGTON, May 29 (U.B Army plane production took sharp, planned nosedive today but it was not good news for Japan. Ja-pan. A well-informed congressman said the land of the rising sun Plane Production Changes Outlined WASHINGTON, May 26 (U.R) Here is a thumbnail summary of plane production changes announced an-nounced by the army: B-29 Superfortress : Production Produc-tion will increase for several months and be sustained above present levels with employment at B-39 plants litle changed. B-32 Consolidated Superbomb-er Superbomb-er Production at Fort Worth will continue at present level until un-til terminated at end of the year. Production at San Diego will end with this month's output. C-45 Beech Transport Will continue in production at Wichita,, Wich-ita,, Kans., with little change until un-til fall, then will taper off and continue into 1946 at half the current schedule. B-17 Flying Fortress Production Produc-tion at the Douglas Long Beach plant will be cut and stabilized in August at about one-fourth the present rate; will halt at the. Bur-bank Bur-bank Lockheed plant in August. P-80 Lockheed Jet Shooting Star Production will continue unchanged at Burbank, but will not be undertaken at the north American plant at Kansas City this fall as planned. P-38 Lockheed Lightning Production will taper off and end by November at Burbank and after June at ' the- Consolidated plant at Nashville, Tenn. Hopkins, Harriman Arrive In Moscow MOSCOW,' May 26 (U.PJ Harry L. Hopkins, special envoy of President Truman, and United States Ambassador W. Averill Harriman arrived by plane last night. Hopkins, on a special mission mis-sion for the president, was scheduled sche-duled to confer later with Russian officials. Insane Mother GLASGOW, Mont., May 26 (U.R) Chubby, seven-year-old Johnny Campbell remained at home with his ctnfaihi iruiav patm finH I collected although he was the only survivor when his mother threw five of her children and herself into the Milk river yesterday. The bodies of two children, bludgeoned with a hammer, and 24-year-old Mrs. Campbell have been recovered. A motor boat. crew still is searching the river near here for the other two bodies. Mr. Campbell, father of all the children but Johnny, was out of town when the tragedy occurred. Shaken with grief, he told police merely that he "just can't believe it" But tow-headed Johnny's brown! afdered the bill of "first import ance" to the success of his ad ministration. He said power to make further tariff reductions was essential but pledged that it would not be used to sacrifice any segment of American agriculture,-industry or labor. The decisive test before the final vote came shortly before 6 p. m. on a motion offered by Rep. Harold Knutson of Minne sota, ranking Republican, member of the ways and means commit tee and leader of the Republican fight. In effect, his motion would have eliminated the provision granting more liberal tariff-making tariff-making authority and would have shortened the extension period to two years. That motion was de- ( Continued on Page Five) would be plastered during the coming 12 moWha wlt. .i0J than double the weight of bombs the- allies -damped on Europe in the last year of the war there. The congressman, Chairman J. Buell Snyder, D., Pa., of the house subcommittee on war department de-partment appropriations, told re porters after an all-day cjosea meeting with Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall: "You can say that in the coming com-ing year more than two and a half times as many tons of bombs will be dropped on Japan as the Allies dropped in Europe last year." Snyder did not elaborate. However the army's announce ment of plans for a 45 per cent slash in its plane output, during the next 18 months also made it clear that the giant B-29 Super fortresses would carry much of the burden of the reduction of Japanese armed might, The army said that while many types will be cut back and even eliminated- production of B-29s would increase for several months. After that production will be held at a sustained high rate. The still shadowy B-32 "Dom-inator" "Dom-inator" Superbomber. which had been expected to take its place alongside the B-29, apparently is destined to fade entirely out of the picture. It production will be cut back sharply and ended at the end of the year. Big sister of the B-24 Liberator Liber-ator bomber, the "Domlnator" has never been reported in action. Its sudden curtailment seemed to in dicate that after some degree of production It had unexpectedly proved unfit or uneconomical for use in the Japanese war. The army's announced cutback will eliminate a total of .17,000 planes from production' previously previous-ly planned for the next 18 months. The army gave no Indication of how many employes would be thrown out of work by the cut back. But it Was certain to cause grave concern to President R. J. Thomas of the United Auto Workers (CIO) who left here last night for the west coast. Thomas' union, the nation's largest with -over 1,00,000 members, mem-bers, has one-third to one-half of its membership working in aircraft plants. Drowns Four Children, Herself eyes were unconcerned as he re lated how his mother herded her children together, telling them she was going' to take them across, the river to visit a farm. "She was acting funny," the round-faced youngster said. "In the middle of the bridge she grabbed grab-bed me and hit me on the head with the hammer. I went over first. "I couldn't breathe after I hit the water. Then I came up. 1 just s warn around and watched my mother. She had a Hammer ana was beating the kids. They were yelling." . Johnny saw his sister, Janet, 5. and brothers,. Larry, 1, Jerry, 4, and Howard, three months . old, hurled in the river. The bodies of Jerry and Howard have not been found. J Ml Truman Ms Hoover In On Food Parley Former President To Attend Conference At. White House Monday WASHINGTON, May 26 uj! The White House announced an-nounced to day that President Truman had invited former president Herbert Hoover to the" White House for a conference con-ference Monday on the food situation in Europe. White House Press Secretary Charles G- Ross said Mr. Hoover had accepted the invitation. Ross said the president felt "that Mr. Hoover had information informa-tion which would be valuable to him." Mr. Hoover was chairman of a commission for relief in Belgium from 1915 to 1919 and during two years of this time from 1917 to the middle of 1919 he was food administrator for this country. Following the last war, he served as head of the American relief administration and the European relief council. Mr. Hoover la now in .New York City. i It is believed the Monday con ference will be the first time Mr. Hoover had been in the White House since he left in 1933 at the time of the first inaugur ation of the late President Roose velt, who defeated him for re election in 1932. Ross' announcement said! "The president has invited for mer President Hoover now in New York to come down here and discuss the food situation in Europe. He felt that Mr. Hoover had information which would be valuable to him. Mr. Hoover accepted ac-cepted and will be here 10:30 Monday morning. . Tire Allotments To Be Doubled For Essential Users By JOSEPH LAXTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 26 (U.PJ New tires available for essentia motorists on the east coast will be doubled next month, it was disclosed tonight. The Office of Price Administra tion authorized distribution of 2,000,000 tires to "B" and "C" card holders in June, an increase of 500,000 over the May quota. But most of the extra tires will go to essential drivers on the Atlantic seaboard because of a proportionately proportion-ately higher Increase in their gasoline rations, it was said. An OPA spokesman explained that the allocation of tires for June was figured on the basis of tne increased driving inai occupational occupa-tional motorists will do when the new "B" card gasoline ration goes into effect June 11. Under the new gasoline ration ing program, all drivers will have a more liberal allowance. The east coast "B" motorists, however, will have their maximum allowed mileage almost doubled, while occupational drivers in the middle mid-dle and far west wiil get a small er increase when the uniform maximum of 650 miles a month (Continued on Page Five) "Then mother jumped In," he said. "They all disappeared." The youngster told how he swam ashore, went up a path to his home and changed clothes. Then he walked to the home of his aunt, Mrs. Victor Barnett. Johnny said his father came and took him home after police had questioned the youngster. "We found a note from mummy at home," he said. The note read in part, T know I am going crazy." The rest was incoherent. Johny's only surviving brother, Bud. 3, lives with an aunt, Mrs. Roy Zeiger, on a ranch south of Glasgow. The hammer with which the young mother beat the children was not found. Police believed she leaped over the bridge with the weapon in her hand,. Denounced r V-' jt-NS-V'-Vi J 4 v Ma j. -Gen. Hohn E. Dahlquist, above, of Minneapolis, Minn., commander of the 36th (Texas) Division, which captured Reichs- marshal Hermann Goering, was denounced by Lt.-Gov. John Lee Smith before the Texas senate, following news reports that he had dined with his Nasi prisoner. Breaking courteous bread ' with an arch criminal," Smith- said, is noi in Keeping wiut the U ditlons of Texas." Yanks Get Clue On Whereabout Of Ribbenfrop LONDON, May 26 (U.R) American Ameri-can troops have captured a German Ger-man official who may provide a lead to the whereabouts of Joachim Joa-chim von Ribbentrop, last member mem-ber of the Nazi hierarchy still at large, dispatches from Italy disclosed dis-closed today. He is Karl Frederick Grlesen-berg, Grlesen-berg, alias Dr. Gibbs, the 'chief administrator for all confiscated estates in Poland. Griesenberg was taken by U. S. 85th infantry division troops on Friday near Brunico in northern Italy. Griesenberg was dressed in civilian clothes and was carrying a calling card reading "9:08. Von Ribbentrop, reichminister for foreign affairs." Dispatches said that conceivably that might eventually even-tually prove a lead to Ribbentrop's present whereabouts. Griesenberg Was ambushed by a handful of soldiers as he was (Continued on Pare Five) Army Reports Two Wounded Wounded Pfc. Thomas Southouse of Provo Cpl. Blair W. Davis of Salem Pfc. Thomas Southouse, 28 husband of - Ada Rasmussen Southhouse, Provo, and son of Mr. and Mrs. James Southouse, Norwich, Conn., has been: flown to an army hospital to receive treatment for a gunshot wound In the r i ff h t f shoulder. Pfc. Southouse was w o u n d ed on Luzon, 26. April Employed as a Provo, vo, at the time he enter ed service in Aug., 1943, he received . his training at Fort McClellan. Al abama, and was sent over sea 1944. He was first stationed at New Caledonia, and later went into the Philippines where he bad been in active participation for several months as an ammunition ammuni-tion bearer with the infantry, before be-fore being hurt. PAYSON Cpl. Blair W." Davis, Da-vis, U.S.M.C.. husband of Mrs. Ellen Simons Davis of Payson and son of Mr. Leo Davis, Salem, was wounded on May 12, at Okinawa Oki-nawa and Is in a hospital in the Marianas, according to word .received .re-ceived by his wife Friday -from the war department. He entered the service Dec 3, 1943 and has been overseas since May 26, 1044, li ii 3 a' X -i ' ft- i inn, l i mi i imm iiliuhm.. ' Early Meeting Of Big Three Held Likely Churchill Gives Out Possibility oi Meeting Between June 15 -July 5 LONDON, May 26 (U.R) Prime Minister Winston ChurchiU dis closed today that he may meet with President Truman and Pre mier Marshal Josef Stalin sometime some-time between June 15 and July 5, during the peak of the British parliamentary election campaign. His disclosure came at a time when the question of big country intervention In the affairs of small European nations was com ing to the fore in British and Soviet exchanges on the third anniversary of the Anglo-Soviet treaty, and in the arrest in Italy of Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, for violating an Allied commission commis-sion order against political speeches in newly-liberated north Italy. . Brooks No Delay-Speaking Delay-Speaking of Loughton, Essex Churchill said he had advised rrvswcn inunw uibi u Ornish Orn-ish campaign must not delay "efeti "tdf tf day the meeting of the Big Three government heads. He said that "it may be I shall have to go to some conference of what they can the Big Three during the 17 days of the election period. At an earlier stop on his cam paign tour, Churchill said that "enormous problems" await solution solu-tion in' Europe. He said that Britain is "very close to that continent and its interests are an essential part of our Interests." Churchill made repeated refer ences to "our great American al lies, and of Russia .he said that "we are going to remain friends with them, and none can separate us. The need for a Big Three con ference was thrown into sharp emphasis by the Nenni arrest and by the exchange of pact anni versary messages between Britain and Russia, in which Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had smoothly reminded the Soviet Union of the two nation's agreement agree-ment to refrain from interference in the internal affairs of other nations. The arrest of Nenni had raised the question of how much power military authorities should continue con-tinue to exercise over normal political life now that fighting has ended in Europe. Eisenhower Moves. His Headquarters .LONDON, May 26 (U.PJ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower opened new headquarters today at Frankfurt-on-the-Maln, Germany, where he will act as supreme allied al-lied commander as well as chief American representative of the Allied group controlling the Reich, the ministery of information informa-tion announced. Eisenhower moved up from Reims, France, from which he directed the last stages of the war. against Germany. The information infor-mation ministery said there has been no change in the staff which Elsenhower had at Reims. Japan Is Still Able to Wage Long War Declares Official WASHINGTON, May 26 (UJ9 Japan has been hit hard and will be hit harder, but "she is still able to wage a long war," Fore ign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley said tonight. Crowley disclosed in a sum' mary'of Japan's capacity to fight on that her economic and industrial indus-trial solar plexus is a long way from being knocked out A large part of the war plant she had built up by Dec 7. 1941, is still intact, and much of it, .Crowley .Crow-ley said, has been dispersed in recent months , away- from the heavily bombed centers. Some "key plants have been put underground." under-ground." .v Citrcieys summary followed disclosure . by Rep. . J. Buell mm 0 Entire Capital Must Be Rebuilt Declares Suzuki Loss of 19 Superfortresses, Heaviest To Be Sustained in Any Tokyo Attack; New Type pf Fire Bomb Proves Highly Effective By RICHARD W. JOHNSON United Press War Correspondent GUAM, May 26 America's jjeat B-29 Superfortress Super-fortress bombers have burned and gutted Tokyo along with Emperor Hirohito's imperial palace and the entire city will have to be rebuilt, the premier of Japan reported tonight. The gigantic fire bomb attack early today, aided by 70-mile gale that helped spread destruction throughout Tokyo, cost a record of 19 Superfortresses. They carried about 209 crew members. The . Jlpanese premier, Adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki, said in radio broadcast that 'our beautiful beauti-ful capital must be completely re-planned re-planned from a bare start: There is no present hope for mere res toration." Suzuki said he saw "with my own eyes ' the roaring flame enr gulf the emperor's moated palace, although Hirohito, the empress and empres dowager were report led safe. . . Seven More Bombers The number of bombers lost from the 500-plane armada was seven more than the previous rec ord loss over Tokyo in Thursday's fire bomb attack. The cost to the United States in those two devastating attacks which saturated the world's third largest city with almost 9,000 tons of fire bombs ,was 31 Superfortresses Superfor-tresses costing V $18,600,000 and about 350 men: to Japan, by its own claim, the loss of its greatest city. The Americans, In their latest attack 24th attack on the Tokyo area used a new, more destructive destruc-tive type of incendiary. The To kyo's reports indicated the new fire bomb was highly effective. There was no official confirmation confirma-tion from Ma. Gen. Curtis E Lemay's 21st bomber command headquarters that the destruction in Tokyo was as great as ' the enemy reported. Tokyo broadcasts said that the city was "literally scorched to .the ground,' 'that the greater part of Tokyo was "laid in waste" and that the roaring blazes, eating through the city's so-called earthquake earth-quake safe buildings, . "wrought havoc on the sprawling, congested business districts and residential sections." Palace Destroyed Japanese broadcasts said that the flames destroyed the emper or s paiace; tne uyima aetacnea palace west of the main, palace grounds: the imperial, Keiya, and Bunrlka universities: the Soviet embassy, Swedish and Finish lega tions and part of the U. S. embassy; em-bassy; and the Atago, Zojo and Ikawa shrines. One -broadcast, indicating that it was useless- to try to tabulate the damage, said there was no need for offioial comment because this was the raid Tokyo had been fearfully expecting as each , sue ceeding assault in that string that started last November .grew heavier.. A late, Tokyo broadcast report ed that a total of 14 .wards or districts were severely damaged in today's raid. Additional build ings listed as destroyed were the foreign, greater East Asia and (Continued on rage Five) Snyder. D.. Pa., after a confer ence with Gen. George C. Mar-il shall, army chief of staff, that "in the coming year more than 2 times as many Jons ol bombs will be dropped on. Japan as the Allies drooped in Europe last year." Crowley said that although Jap an is now cue orx irom mosi ot her stolen empire, and her fleet has been reduced to task force size while her' greatest cities have been laid waste, she still has an operating and well-stocked indusvfwM fai- trial core which can support her 1 war support indefinitely. . Ana aunougn- tne Aiues nave come back far, they have liberated as yet "less tnan seven per cent of the nearly 3,000,000 square miles of territory conquered by Japan, he said. Yanks Drive to Maha Harbor In Okinawa Push GUAM, Sunday, May 27 OLE) American troops drove to within 800 yards of Nana harbor Saturday Satur-day in a tank-led push through the ruined Okinawa capital city as Japanese remnants fled southward south-ward after-a desperate counter attack failed to halt the U. 9. forces pouring across the Asato river: ' Torrential rains swept over the embattled 70-mile Ions Island on Japan's doorstep and slowed the American advance along the curving seven-mile front 166 Planes Destroyed The ground troops inched forward for-ward through thick mud white additional . reports on the Thursday-Friday aerial attack against American fleet units disclosed that a total of approximately 168 Japanese aircraft had been destroyed. de-stroyed. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimlbs raised the toll of Japanese planes by 55.- Details of the 18-hour action, ac-tion, reported yesterday, in which the. Japanese threw swarms . of suicide planes and bombers into a vicious attack which damaged 11 light U. S. naval vessels, revealed that 34 planes had been shot down before they ever reached that area. . . Army Thunderbolts sweeping northward to Okinawa to protect the shipping knocked down the group of 34 enemy aircraft Carrier Car-rier and land-based aircraft, ships guns and. shore batteries bagged the others.- . . The Sixth marine division repulsed re-pulsed an enemy counter-attack Friday night as 4 they pushed through the rubbled and mined streets of the capital, once a city of 63,000 population but now a mas of wreckage. Marine fighters batling toward Naha harbor said that the Japanese Jap-anese were moving in considerable consider-able strength 'to 'the east and northeast from the Naha area. It was 'Indicated that the enemy might be deserting the capital for (Continued on Page Five) 31 B-29sLost In Two Raids . WASHINGTON. May 26 UJ9 The two great fire raids on Tokyo To-kyo this week cost the 20th air force 341 highly trained men and $18,600,000 in lost superfortresses. A record of 31 B-29s were de stroyed , by -enemy action In the raids-r-12 on Thursday and 19 on Friday; Each of the giant bombers bomb-ers has an ll-man crew and cost $600,000 to build. Despite these high total figures. army officials said tne ratio oz losses remains far below the danger, dan-ger, point as far as operations are concerned. Each was record' jraidwlth more than 500 super fortresses participating, and record rec-ord losses-were to be expected, it A When "the 20th air force first went Info action. ' its plane per mission were numbered la the tens instead of the hundreds, and the loss of only one or two then had a more serious effect on total hit- - tins! power than did the much. logger losses -suffered this week- |