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Show 1 -C3 5o They Sar THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloudy Sviiday, with increaatas ahower actlritr. Temperatures: Hlh 89 . Low 41 .My cxpcrleneft M' chief xces tire of (OTernmenUl of fleet hu tsnffhttn tiutl there-U & limit te the amount of nwney that i . moue oineuua art capable oz pendlnr. Got Frank Zausche, OUn " ' VOL 23, NO. 4 f food Czar Voted Into Extension of OPA Act Amendment Will Give Secretary Final Say On Food Set-p; Republican Demand Wins In Spite of Administration Opposition By DEAN DITTMER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 23 u-JThe house tonight approved' ap-proved' legislation to extend the price control act one year after amending it to give food czar powers to the secretary of agriculture. V The food czar amendment represented the fruition of a longstanding Republican demand. It also was a vote of confidence by his colleagues in Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D., N. M., who will become secretary of agriculture July 1. Sponsored by Rep. August H. Andresen, R., Minn., the 44,000 Men In Detroit Plants Out On Strike CHlCAdO, June 23 UJ Nearly Near-ly half of the nation's 90,000 idle workers were striking in Detroit today, with 44,000 workers off the job in the arsenal city. Approximately 22,000 workers were out at Packard's main aircraft air-craft engine plants. Other Detroit plants affected were Chrysler, Ford, Budd Wheel and Briggs fpiants. I The nation's strike picture was pnarked by a back-tp-work move-fsnent move-fsnent in Ashland, Ky., and in Chicago, .scene of a week-long truckers strike. Some 2,600 members of the United Steelworkers, CIO, voted to resume work at the American Rolling Mill Co. in Ashland. In Chicago, where the Office cf De-kense De-kense Transportation ha$ been placing army drivers on strikebound strike-bound trucks, a steady back-to-.work movement has sent substantial substan-tial numbers of strikers back to work. Estimates were that as manvas half of the original 10,-OOOrlvers 10,-OOOrlvers have resumed work. Two other continued strikes, Involving some 35,000 workers, till showed no signs of ending. The war labor board in Washington Washing-ton sought to force appearance of of officials of the United Rubber Hit i rn 4 .rl.. :n mW. F,they have not ended a strike of L 16,300 workers at the Goodyear rTire and Rubber Co., at Akron, O. A 10-city strike of 20,000 members mem-bers of the Glass Ceramics and Silica Workers, CIO, extended in- ' to another day at the plants of ' ft i .t r , f-i ; J iv. ine rilisourga uiass u.) anu uie !Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. Joseph Froesch, president of the union at Columbus, O., said he was still trying to persuade strikers to go ' back to work. The war labor board for the third time ordered 130 members of the International Association of Machinists to end a month-long strike at the Anchor Hocking Glass Co. at Connellsville, Pa. Boy Held In Icebox Death SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 23 W-.R) A 14-year-old boy was among a group of suspects ques tioned exhaustively tonight in the . "icebox' slaying of -year-old Hazel Laurie. Police said the case "may break any time." Others questioned about the brutal killing a child, whose body was found - in an unused icebox included a 9-year-old girl and a drunken man. The girl's possible connection was not disclosed but the man, arrested intoxicated in the neighborhood, virtually was eliminated- Police, found a bloodstained cofa in a children's playroom in the basement of the apartment house where the Laurie family lives. The abandoned icebox was in the courtyard behind the - house, often used by the children as a hiding place. The body was found there yesterday. , Hazel's sweater was in analley between the apartment house and the home of Mrs. Mary Gilbert!, Gil-bert!, who discovered the body. Her bloomers, stunea into a newspaper, were found under the Gilberti's baoc ateps. . Hazel, who was to nave been .Promoted to the second grade yesterday, apparently died a slow death. Her leu nana was cut ana bruised where the slight girl had pounded against the door of her metallined tomb in an effort to escape. The icebox had an out-tude out-tude latch. '. The child was reported missing Thursday, launching a six-state police search, but it was not until un-til yesterday that Mrs- Gilbert! learned of the disappearance. 4She went Immediately to the ice-. ice-. box, where her own daughter had .been locked for three hours recently re-cently while playing hide-and- JK - " UTAH'S ONLY SOUTH OF SALT Amendment I proposal would make all govern- ment food regulations valid only if approved by the secretary within 90 days. Andresen told the United Press that his amendment was intended intend-ed to give the secretary of agriculture agri-culture veto powers over all orders ord-ers including those of OPA affecting processed food and agricultural ag-ricultural products "in their natural na-tural state." Hence it would not affect clothing, he said. Asked how the amendment would affect the agriculture secretary's sec-retary's authority over OPA, he said: "As far as food is concern ed, he'll have the final say." Andresen also said that under his amendment the secretary would have to approve all food regulations now In force within 90 daysiafter enactment of the bill. Otherwise they .would become be-come inoperative. Administration forces failed in their attempt to block the An dresen amendment although they succeeded in reversing an earlier vote on an . amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Jenkins, R-, O., to shift all food controls, except rationing, from the office of price administration to the department of agriculture. Jenkins' proposal was based on a recommendation . of former President Hoover, who had urged such action for animal products alone. Both amendments had been tentatively adopted before they were subjected to roll call tests. Then Andresen's was' approved by a vote of 211 to 153 but Jenkins' was defeated, 198 to 178. Administration supporters took another licking on an amendment sponsored by Rep. Evjerett M. Dirksen, R., 111., to permit court review of all OPA regulations-On regulations-On a roll call vote, it was adopted by a vote of 200 to 164. Under Dirksen's amendment any individual who felt himself injured by an OPA regulation or directive could go into a federal district court or "the emergency court of appeals to ask for an injunction. in-junction. All war agencies have consistently fought such restric tions on grounds that slow court action would destroy their enforcement en-forcement powers. Two amendments aimed directly direct-ly at relieving the current meat shortage were adopted with substantial sub-stantial Democratic and Republican Republi-can support. One was the so-called Barkley amendment, already approved by the senate, requiring OPA to consider con-sider profit margins for pork. beef and- lamb separately and not to calculate meat price ceilings on an industry-wide basis. The amendment was offered in the house by Rep. George J. Bates, R., Mass., and adopted by a vote (Continued on Page Two) Nevada Senator Dies In Hospital SAN DIEGO, June 23 (U.R) United States Senator James Graves Scrugham of Nevada died in the naval hospital here today. Senator Scrugham, who entered the naval hospital March 30 for a checkup, died as the result of a heart ailment. He was 65. As the time of admission, ele venth naval district authorities said the senator's condition was "not serious." One Year Southern California Shipyard Workers Granted Pay Increase By CHARLES H. IIERROLD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 23 (U.R) The war labor board tonight broke a three-year-old wage rule to grant southern California shipyard ship-yard repair workers a 11.8 per cent wage Increase.' It ! said It did so in the interests of "winning "win-ning the war in the Pacific." The WLB carefull specified that the higher wage was to be paid only to the 7,000 workers in Los Angeles and San Pedro yards who actually perform repair work and .is not J be applied indiscrim-inatelysto indiscrim-inatelysto other employes in the yards. The pay boost is retroactive to as far back as last Dec. 14 for the workers affected- The -workers! DAILY AKE Truman Vorlis Oi ey President Mtets His First Test in Stalin, Churchill Conference By MERREVIAN SMTITI United Press Staff Correspondent OLYMPIA, Wash.. June 23 President Truman worked today on plans for the July meeting of the Big Three where he will meet hs first test in face-to-face dealings with two of the most astute leaders in history. Mindful of the great task ahead of him, the president spent a great part of today thinking about the forthcoming international interna-tional conference and drafting his own plans in the light of latest lat-est information from the war fronts and reports from the United Unit-ed Nations 'conference San Francisco Exchanges Notes The president completely stepped step-ped out of his role as a vacationer in the northwest to work in his improvised office in the official home of his host, Gov. Mon Wall-gren. Wall-gren. There was a lot of paper work flown to him from Wash-, ington and he worked on it during dur-ing the morning with Jack Ro-magha, Ro-magha, White House clerical aide. While in Olympla the president has exchanged messages with Prime Minister Winston Churchill Church-ill and Marshal Josef Stalin. He meets Churchill and Stalin in the Berlin area sometime in mid-July.; Efforts are being made to see that the Big Three meeting meet-ing lasts no more than 10 days. Then the president is expected to make at least a limited tour of the European battle sites, probably prob-ably with a ceremonious stop in London. (President Roosevelt premised, before his death, to visit London this summer - and Churchill is particularly -anxious to play host ed this country on many occas ions.) In working over the Washington Washing-ton paper work, the president found great satisfaction in the response to his request that congress con-gress alter the line of presidential succession, in event of the -death of tbe chief executive. White House Press' Secretary Charles G Ross said response to Mr. Truman's message to congress con-gress "showed almost unanimous aporoval. " Tomorrow the president has his last full day of the vacation vaca-tion in the northwest he has enjoyed en-joyed so enthusiastically. In the morning he will visit nearby Fort Lewis, then drive to Ta-coma Ta-coma and board the U.S.S- Brant, a vessel of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service, for an afternoon after-noon cruise on Pudget Sound back to Olympia. Tre president leaves early Monday morning by plane, stopping stop-ping first for a brief motor tour of Portland, Ore., before continuing con-tinuing to San Francisco. The president conferred today on plans for his Portland stop in a talk with Lew Wallace, Oregon Democratic national committeeman. committee-man. The president's luxurious C-54 transport plane will land at the Portland army air base at about 10 a.m- The party will drive to the Portland Veterans hospital where Mr, Truman will visit patients pa-tients briefly. The takeoff from Portland has beep scheduled for 11:45 a.m. Mr. Truman's aerial procession lands at Hamilton field, outside San Francisco, at 2:30 pm. (PWT) Monday when he will receive re-ceive a 21 -gun welcome with full military honors. The president's schedule in San Francisco calls for a reception recep-tion Monday afternoon for the UNCIO delegates, dinner that night with Secretary of State E. R. Stettinius, Jr., a reception at noon Tuesday for a citizens committee com-mittee and his appearance that afternoon before the conference to make the concluding address. This has been the first real rest the president had since en- (Continued on Page Two) are represented by ship repair unions of the American jeder ation of Labor said the Congress of Industrial organizations. The board: and Its shipbuilding commission had previously denied the demand f6r the wage increase on three different occasions since it was first raised in 1942. wLB Chairman George W. Taylor said in a statement ex plaining the unanimous board action ac-tion that "the dominating 'consideration 'consid-eration was the urgent necessity of seeing that ships are repaired and ueturned vta, the war in the Pacific with the maximum of speed and efficiency. . "The payment of some added wage for ship repair work is On P ans For gSParl (ContiauedonTag e ?wo)' PROVO; UTAH "COUNTY Krug. Refuses to Change Quotas On New Autos . WASHINGTON, June 23 0J.R War Production Chief J. A. Krug refused flatly today to-day to . change the quotas assigned to the Big Three and the seven smaller automobile manufacturers. Quotas under fhich the 10 major -firms- would produce 691,018 passenger cars in the nine months following July 1 were issued last week. They were immediately denounced as discriminatory by General Motors, Chrysler and Ford- "The quotas represent the considered judgment of the war production board," Krug said in a statement "I wish to make ,it clear, that I have carefully reviewed all the facts and considerations leading lead-ing to the assignments of the quotas and there will be no change in the quotas at this time." Hurricane Blowing In From the Gulf MOBILE, Ala.. June 23 " (U.R) The . tropical storm surging up from the Gulf of Mexico has increased in-creased to hurrican intensity and has turned northeastward to be centered only. 100 miles south of Appalachicola, Fla.. the weather bureau said here tonight. Hurricane warnings were hoist ed at 7:30 p.m. (EWT) north of rampa to Carrabelle. Fla., and southwest storm warnings from Tampa to Punta Gorda, Fla., southwest warnings were hoisted on the east coast from Titus ville, na., to pavannan. ua. Interests in the area in which hurricane warnings are displayed snouia take immediate precauAl uons against destructive winds and very high tides, the advisory warned. The storm Is now centered about 100 miles south of Appala cnicoia," tne 7:30 cm. lEWTV advisory said. iucciuudiu against xne blow, first to boil up out of the Carribean this season' The big naval air trainins cen ter at Pensacola, Fla., was on a standy-by basis with all personnel on board." Pilots and crews stood by their planes, ready to take off for 11 refuge fields in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia. Dale Mabry army air base at Tailahasse, Fla., went on a hur ricane alert. All planes from the fbase were evacuated to points further inland. Personnel were ordered off Tailahasse streets after 3 p. m. Planes from numerous other air bases were flown to safe haven. Between 300 and 400 already had arrived at Birmingham airfields. Many of the aircraft to land there were from southern Florida. The Red Gross announced in (Continued on Page Two) Five Men From Utah County Reported Killed in Action KILLED IN ACTION Ffc. Lewis Provo O. Throckmorton, Lt Parol Keith Davis, Provo and Reno. Lt. Samuel W. Hilton U, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. T-Sgt. J. Leon Bjarnson, Fsy son. Pvt. Fork. Blaine A. Hales, Spanish Pfc. Lewis O. Throckmorton, 27, Is reported to have been killed J n action June 4, with the Spanisp Fork; Mrs. Mrtle Strong; South American Mission Through WASHINGTON, June 23 (UJD-A (UJD-A government mission in South America is being liquidated after successfully combating German-Italian German-Italian threats to . .the Panama canal,. Federal Loan Administrator Administrat-or John W Snyder announced tonight. to-night. . The mission, which .operated under the Reconstruction Finance Corp. as the American republics aviation .division, succeeded in removing German and Italian influence in-fluence from South American air lines. Snyder said. - It -went to work shortly before PearIHarbor . 'and got whole hearted cooperation .from nost of the Fan-American - nations," Snyder said. '"- If Axi influence had not been eliminated. - Snyder . added, it might ' have been impossible to defend the Panama canal properly proper-ly whenit was .vulnerable to at- lacK eany in ne war. . , Snyder said the Nazis and Fas cists used commercial aircraft in Latin. America to., spy. on U. S canal zone defenses- UTAH, SUNDAY, JUNE. : 24,- 1945; Vorid Chafer 15,4S6 Japs ECiUedl mmm: paptaired Qn OI Short Cuts Taken To Sova Tim in Csrtrincr the Fined Approval ; Jji SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 ar-EU-The United Nations security se-curity conference tonight bypassed by-passed three time-consuming steps in a move to smooth the path to final approval of the now-completed charter for world peace and adjournment adjourn-ment on Tuesday. The conference s powerful steering committee, composed of the chiefs of each of the 50 dele gations here, took on the job of giving the penultimate okay to most of the charter instead of sub mitting it to public commission meetings. PUnavv SmcIaii MAiiMtv Final approval of the charter will be given at a plenary session of the full conference on Monday. Then it will be speeded to Wash ington and other world capitals for ratification. Under the regular procedure, the final drafts of each of the four major portions of the charter would have had to co to the com' mission assigned to deal with it tor approval. This would have involved in-volved hours of Odious reading in bprr-Engtlsb and French.. Instead, In-stead, three of the four parts will be submitted only to the steering committee. Only one commission meeting nas been scneduied the final one of the conference. It was for the purpose of approving tbe new preamble text worked out by the conference coordination committee. commit-tee. The commission approved tbe report of. its rapporteur, and three annexes containing minor adjustments suggested in previous meetings. The new preamble text was distributed to delegates but was not made public. It was un- derstoodNto have involved onlyvi few changes from the earlier ararcr"'" - - That commission previously hid asked the coordination committee to write a new preamble because it was dissatisfied with one which had been prepared in a technical committee." Commission members wanted something shorter short-er and more literary something, as Dear! Virginia Glldersleeve suggested, that could easily be memorized or framed and buns on the wall of every home: Assistant Assist-ant Secretary of State Archibald Mac Leish, one of this country s ouisianmng poets, had been asked to try his hand at it. but his draft was rejected by the coordination committee. During the week-end. the final text of the charter will be rolling off the presses of the University of California in five languages English, French, Russian, Spanish and Chinese. After its approval at Monday's lionunued on rage Two) 169th infantry division, company A, while in active combat duty on Okinawa, according to official war department word received by his mother, Mrs. A. R. Crev-iston Crev-iston Of 600 North Seventh West. Pfc. Throckmorton, husband of Mrs. Sarah Branin Throckmort on, who resides at 1010 South Fifth West, entered service in September, 1944, and received training at Camp Robison, Ark, before being assigned overseas in February. Prior to becoming a soldier, the private was employed in Provo and at the Geneva steel plant as a painter. He was born at Koosharem, Utr August 15, 1917, a son of Mrs. .Creviston and the late Ben Throckmorton. His early education was received at Richfield. Surviving' are his mother, his wife, three children, Patsy, Cal vin and Harold; sisters: Miss Lu-Dean Lu-Dean Creviston, Mrs. Grace Creviston and Mrs. Ida Burr, (Continued on Page Two) . Wholesale Jap Surrenders On Okinawa Point To Effectiveness of American Propaganda i By REUEL S. MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 23 !)- The , unprecedented surrender- nf thousands oi Japanese -on '.Oki nawa was attributed today by observers ob-servers to the growing effectiveness effective-ness of American propaganda and an .Increased realization: by the. enemy that the war is lost. : The 7th division alone table 2,000 -prisoners v.in one 24-hour stretch and .-observers 'estimate that; the 'total for. the, campaign wilt number jnore'than .7,000. .This, is a greater . number J- of prisoners than have-been taken fai l .11 -.1.. J . a. . .1 i ml J iu lira jprvvuwa uivuum u. racuic fightings The Japanese refusal to to surrender' sterna! froraf the bii-shido bii-shido code which teaches, thata t V iv -,-r n5 .-w " i - "9 4 - . . .-.. V ;. ,. ' - W , : 1 " .r- .... ' i -:--tVn-HiT?m mm ml iiriv:i'r ----- With Okinawa's conquest virtually complete, Ma.-Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, commander of the 6th marine division, relaxes on a ridge near Nana, and looks over a map. Going somewhere, general? Yank Fighters, AA Gunners Blost 120 Japanese Planes ByEXIlTBD L THOMASu. -.-.t United Press War Correspondent TWO . JTMA, Sunday, June24 UJ9 American .fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners destroyed or damaged a total of 128 Japanese planes Friday and Saturday, it was announced today. P-51 Mustangs of the 7th fighter command, based on Iwo, destroy ed, probably destroyed or dam aged 69 enemy aircraft yesterday in offensive sweeps against Jap anese air fields at Kasumigaura and Shimodate, northeast of Tokyo. At Okinawa, army and marine Arnold Predicts More, Bigger Raids OKINAWA, June 20 (Delayed) 0JJD Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of army air forces, predicted today that there would be little left of Japan by early fall and that 1.000 plane B-29 raids are in the off ing for the enemy. "What Germany got was a very amateurish performance . " compared com-pared with what. Japan is going to get," -the general declared on the eve of his first inspection of this important airbase island. "It is awfully hard to tell what the Japanese reaction will be to all-out bombing," Arnold said, noting that the enemy are fanatics in ground fighting. He said no body could tell whether or not the Japanese will break when their cities are destroyed one by one- . I expect to put 1,000 B-29's. alone over Japan exclusive of other types of aircraft. My effort is to get the maximum weight of bombs on Japan in the minimum time and see what happens. "I expect that targets in Japan wUl be scarce before fall." . The air chief said he couldn't Use all the airplanes that now are available but could use only those for which we have bases. 'Okinawa will give us a good start a very good start," he said. surrendered soldier Is a dead soldier. sol-dier. A war prisoner is officially proclaimed dead, Is mourned by hi family and. may never return tov Japan. Such wholesale surrenders as have taken place on Okinawa,.) however, have -cracked the leg end of total Japanese adherence to bushldo. Jt shows that com-mon com-mon Jananne soldiers have the same instinct of self-preservation as other animals and the seeds of surrender exist, even if they haveftt; flowered profusely In the land of the rising sun. - Observers make haste to de-clare.fc de-clare.fc however, that military leaden draw no unwarrantedly optimistic conclusions from the Okinawa. -Surrenders. They - do - COMPUTE UNli'LU PRESS S TELEGRAPH NEWS .SERVICE 4 fighter-croups andshlp and shore I ack-ack guns shot down 59 Jap anese aircraft during a three-hour series of attacks- Friday, , -It was a 1,645-mile flight probably the longest combat mis sion ever undertaken by Mus tangs, r. , 1 Tokyo reported 75 Mustangs, led by B-29's, attacked air fields in Ibarakl prefecture Saturday while 20 Corsan-s and .eight Lockheed Lock-heed Lightnings raided airstrips near Fukuoka on Kyushu island. The enemy apparently was throwing some of his best pilots and planes into the attack, trying to keep Americans from obtaining full use of the giant Okinawa base as a springboard against Japan. Japanese planes hit Okinawa in groups. Fighters escorted a few baka-bomb carrying "Betty" bombers. Although the,, attacks were spread out over several hours, they were repelled successfully by U. S. pilots.. During the three hours from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday, Okinawa time, 35 enemy planes were shot down. The 7th fighter command lost three Mustangs in yesterday's Honshu raids, but two of the pilots parachuted and were rescued at sea. Nineteen Japanese planes were destroyed in the airy 13 aground, and two probably . were La . i i i .1 m l . T usiruyeu in wie air. xwnve prvo abjy were destroyed on the ground, 13 were damaged in the air, and 10 damaged on . the ground. Today's flight was 1,645 the longest combat mission ever flown by Mustangs, one pilot was airborne in his tiny instrument-filled instrument-filled cockpit for eight hours and 20 minutes. Two flights of rocket-firing planes hit the shop area at Shimo date. leaving it "a heap of rubble. At the secondary target, Kasumi gaura, Mustangs encountered bar. rage balloons for the first time over Japan. Army and Marine planes ac counted for- 35 Japanese planes over Okinawa during the enemy attack which- sank two U. S. light naval units, heavily damaged an auxiliary unit and slightly dam aged two other light vessels. point out that the surrenders took place when the enemy soldiers were in some measure relieved of the close watch of their officers. who either had 'been killed ' or who had -taken their own lives. This, allows some speculation on the possibility that the Japanese nation may accept "defeat without utter annihilation when the ; iron supervision of the military class has. been destroyed lay, an Amen can invasion of the homeland. . .What will actually- take place can. only be guessed. The Okinawa Oki-nawa surrenders,', however, tend to confirm that Japanese fanaticism, fanatic-ism, if inspired from above and it may weaken when Japanese lead ers are killed or put to flight.. , PRICE FIVE CENTS Up Suzuki Government Assumes Dictatorial Powers Over Nation By WILLIAM F. TTBES United Press War Correspondent .Guam, Sunday, June 24 csr -Japanese casualties on Okl nama mounted to 105,496 killed and captured Friday as American forces mopped up the conquered island and the Suzuki government of Japan assumed dictatorial power over ov-er all phases of national life to combat, the final Allied offeni-lve offeni-lve to crush Nippon. In Japan's hour of supreme peril, the government moved to " combat the impending swift and powerful land, sea and air offensive of-fensive which will be designed to beat Japan to her knees at the earUest possible moment. On Okinawa, U. S. soldiers and marines carried on the arduous task of wiping out scattered Japanese Jap-anese remnants while engineers and construction crews busily prepared more and more airfields for the coming offensive. In no other Pacific campaign have Japanese losses reached such am appalling, figure. The enemy garrison that was once thought to number 85,000 men, when the U- S. 10th army storm- . ed ashore on Okinawa April 1. possibly consisted of more than 115,000 troops. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimita disclosed that 98,564 Japanese) -had been killed through Friday. The greatest prisoner list in a Pi - 1 cific battle reached6.932, include ins 2,433 labor troops, he ant nounced. r . Seal Up Cav- Marines and soldiers, moving through southern Okinawa with demolition squads and tank teams, methodically sealed caves wbere countless - Japanese held out to the end. The area of Me- deera town was cleared during. ' the day's operations. Nimitz reported that the vicious vic-ious 48-hour aerial assault against American fleet units Thursday and Friday had cost the Japanese at least 59 planes destroyed. Army: and marine fighter groups anji anti-aircraft fire from ships and short .batteries blasted the enemy aircraft. " The attacks reached their greatest intensity between 7:30 and 10:30 a m. Yesterday Nimitz had reported that two light naval - (Continued en Page Two) Recognition Of Polish Government' To Be Withheld LONDON, June 23 (U.R) American Amer-ican and -British recognition of the New Polish government of national unity will be' withheld until "free and unfettered" elections elec-tions to choose a regime truly representative of the will of the people, it was disclosed tonight, by spokesmen of the two Allied nations. Formation of the new coalition government,, announced in Mos-. cow yesterday by representatives of three Polish factions, was hailed hail-ed by both Britain and the United Unit-ed States as a "very satisfactory step-toward solution of the difficult diffi-cult Polish question. But it was emphasized that a general election' elec-tion' was .essential to fulfill the' agreement reached by the Big Three at Yalta. Bitter denunciation of the new government came from the emi- -gre Polish government here. A spokesman asserted its formation forma-tion represented "unconditional ": surrender" to Russian demands . and said any. election staged un-der un-der Soviet pressure "would be a i sham." A British foreign, off ice official,,: who denied the agreement was! -a "concession, to the Russian point -of view," predicted . a general ' Polish election could not be,-held-until Autumn and Anglo-.. " American recognition would not ' be given until one is held. ' He emphasized that the agree- S ment reached in the Crimea tyl Premier Stalin, President Roose-i-velt and Prime Minister Church- , ill called for Polish elections by secret ballot with "universal suf-' ' frage" and the right of all "Dem-'T ocratic and , Anti-Nazi parties' to participate. " - , T " , ! - r STRIKE VOTE SET s PORTLAND, Ore June 23 (UlFd t. The executive committee of the'-- ' northwestern council . of lumber -' and sawmill workers today set'. July 15 as the date to. request , a strike vote in all operations ; where a local or district council had , authorized such action. De- .; mand for a raise in wages prompt , ed the ultimatum, - i-. |
