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Show THE WEATHER North portion partly cloudy Sun- ' day; South portion mostly cloudy . with locally heavy thunder "showers. Temperatures: High 88 Low 51 Precipitation .43 io iney say , - T phieed Vf iftf .cent want ad la the neraldnd sold all of our fur-- fur-- nitnreand chlekens In two day. (T cuu the same.iIT jreu have anything ; for-sale let the people know about IMhrouth the Herald want ads. . . - V- ; "' t ' X- ; ' - ' , ; : i; ; i typL. 23, NO. 10 x j-;: " - '- . . r- Jt 1UVU V UIC1D IV In Tuesday's Election 11?ivh TAllin(vr Plnnpe of Revenue Bond Proposal To Clear Decks For Improved, Modernized Water System Provo citizens will go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the special $1,000,000 waterworks improvement improve-ment revenue bond election. The voters will be required to mark the ballots for or against the proposal which city .officials declare is necessary to insure an adequate water 'Supply to serve the present demands and the expected S growth population. Failure to approve the bond issue will seriously jeop Murder Hearing To Resume rovo Preliminary hearing on first degree murder charges filed gainst Victor Edwards, 30, will continue Monday at 10:30 a. m., .for. the fatal shooting of Irvin B. Greer .following an altercation 5ver a broken window. Provo City Judge W. Dean Loose denied a motion Friday to dismiss . first degree murder chargesThe -motion, was made by A. H. Christensen, attorney for Mr. Edwards. Mr. Christensen contended that the state failejd to show the commission com-mission of any public offense, and that Mr. Edwards' action in the shooting was justifiable. The defendant, de-fendant, he said, had not intended intend-ed to take Mr. Greer's life, i During the morning and part of the afternoon session. Deputy Sheriff Walter Durrant. American Ameri-can Fork, took the stand to testify for the state. The deputy related that when called to the scene of the shooting, he found Mr. Greer lying near his home with wounds in his hand and his abdomen. 1 Deputy Sheriff Durrant said he had talked to Mr. Edwards and the defendant admitted shooting Mr. Greer. 'He then told me that Mr. Greer had. come stampeding over to" his property, knocking down an clcc - trie fence and cursing. Mr. Ed - wards said I didn't know whether he was drunk of crazy. I didn't mean' to shoot him in the stom - ch . . .1 meant to shoot af his legs'." the deputy tesificd. Durrant further testified that he had picked up two empty .22 caliber cali-ber rifle shells near the scene of ;the shooting, and that Mr. Ed- wards asserted he did not know how many shots had been fired. The county officer, who Friday morning testified that he had found blood on Mr. Edward's rifle, reversed his testimony in the afternoon and declared that he was not sure the stains were blood, that they might have been "Varnish. Three character witnesses were called who testified that Mr. Edwards' Ed-wards' reputation was good in the matter of peace and quietude. They Were Paul Neisler and Louis O. Johnson, neighbors, and Paul ON sen, coworker with Mr. Edward at ueneva steel plant. Both Mr. Neisler and Walter Holmes, who was on the witness stand Thursday, testified that-they heard only one gun shot before going to the scene of the shooting. shoot-ing. Other witnesses were Thomas C. La r sen, Provo phqtographer who took pictures of the two homes following the shooting; T. J. Turner. American Fork city marshal, and Wiliam S. Storrs, a member of the coroner's jury. Tillamook Fire Under Control PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4 (U.R) Weary forest fighters today controlled con-trolled the 200,000-acre Tillamook burn in western Oregon, with the exception of a small spot fire in western Washington county, which jumped fh-e lines on Scrog-gins Scrog-gins Creek near the Forest Grove watershed. The headway was gained against the flames after fire pumps were called into action in terrain too rugged for bulldozers. Offsetting .optimistic reports, however, was a forecast of lower humidity Sunday. Arrangements have been completed for bringing additional troops into the fighting lines if new outbreaks occur. , In Washington county and city crews, loggers and soldiers were ! on constant guard along fire lines protecting the Forest Grove watershed. The district is too rue- tged for use of bulldozers and pumps and hand-built trails were being relied upon to keep flames from endangering the water supply. sup-ply. The blaze near Consolidated Timber company camp at Glen-wood Glen-wood was under control. MORE CIGABETS FOB BERLIN CIVILIANS BERLIN, Aug. 4 (U.PJ German civilians have been granted an Increase in cigaret rations. They now receive 12 cigarets a month. Monday In P :sBondlssue TlPSI CTT tprl AnnrOVal ardize Provo s future growth and exDansion. it has been pointed out by Mayor .Maurice Harding and City Commissioners Joseph H. Swapp and.Blake D. Palfrey-man. Palfrey-man. Five Polling Places '' There are five polling places in Tuesday's election, one in each of the five municipal wards. No. 1 at the residence of Minerva Karren, 335 South Third East. No. 2 at the home of Ruth Vincent, Vin-cent, 777 West Second South. No. 3 at the home of Vids Swenson. 614 West Fourth North. No. 4 at the home of Mary Pratt, 345 North Second East and No. 5 at the home of Louise Palmer, 429 East Sixth North street. A list of the voting districts included in each of the five wards may be found on page six of today's paper. pa-per. While it is believed that the rank and file of forward-looking citizens are in favor of the waterworks water-works improvement program, there have been a number of questions asked in regard to fears jn some quarters that the irrigation irriga-tion system of the city might be changed; that the money will be used by the board of utilities; that money will be cheaper after the war. In answer to these rumors, Mayor Harding and Commissioners Commission-ers Swapp and Palfreyman issued is-sued a joint statement saying: "There is a misunderstanding stanees of the scuttling of the regarding the proposed improve- fleet-fehen the Germans, tirlejOo ment to ourTmTatibn system. TWteT TduIoiTto November city commission does not propose 1942. 'to eliminate the use of irrigation ; water on farms or city lots, but ! does intend to improve the sys- ', tern so that better irrigation ser- vice is rendered to such farms and lots. "Bottlenecks need to be re- moved from some of the main ir - rigation ditches, and proper head-gates head-gates installed along nearly- all the main ditches. Due to street improvements some lots cannot be supplied with irrigation water, and it is proposed to permit the use of culinary water on them. "The importance of voting in favor of the proposed bond issue can hardly be over-emphasized. Provo has ample supplies of pure water in Provo canyon, but can deliver less than one-half of the available supply into the city because be-cause of the small size of the present aqueduct, which was constructed con-structed approximately 30 years ago. "Our present reservoir has a capacity of 5.000.000 gallons, while we use daily about 8.000.000 thus we do not have sufficient j reservoir capacity for one day's demand. The money will not be used by the utilities department. Elsewhere Else-where in the paper today, a paid advertisement by the city points out that the money will be used to obtain a sufficiently large water wat-er supply to support a population which has more than doubled since the last system was installed. instal-led. And more important, if Provo is to become the center (Continued on Page Six) Body Recovered From Bear Lake MONTPELIER, Ida., Aug. 4 (U.R) The body of Lugene Wat-kins, Wat-kins, 16, was recovered from Bear lake near here yesterday a day after the body of her sister, Eva Lee Watkins, 18, was takep from the water. . The two sisters drowned while swimming in the lake Wednesday. Wednes-day. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Watkins of Montpelier Attlee Forms 20 By C. T. HALLINAN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 4 (U.PJ Prime Minister Clement Attlee formed a 20-man cabinet today, compos- ed mostly of staunch Laborites . who campaigned on a promise to convert Britain into a Socialist commonwealth. Perhaps the most striking feature fea-ture of his cabinet was its small-ness. small-ness. The wartime average was 39 and the pre-war average 26. Furthermore, his 19 colleagues apparently were chosen on personal pers-onal grounds, rather than on the comparitive importance of their respective departments. The cabinet is composed of: Lord President of the council: Herbert Morrison, British home UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKI Retain Aided Landing-Laval Vichy Premier Reveals j Secret Agreements to t Keep French Fleet Out By HERBERT O. KING f .United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 4 n Pierre Laval asserted today that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain Pe-tain while Vichy chief df state repeatedly instructed French troopslin North Africa Afri-ca to aid the Alfred landing, which occurred in November, 1942. Testifying for the second day at Petain's treason trial, Laval La-val said there had been secret agreements between Vichy arid Britain, negotiated iri North Africa, Afri-ca, by which Britain agreed to the French fleet remaining in port on condition that it was to be scuttled if the Germans tried to seize it. The courtroom was very hot and the stooped and swarthy premier of Vichyi France's "Evil Genius" appeAred tired and drawn as he depicted himself and Petain as patriots who worked only for the best interests of France but were helpless, before German power. ? Petain sat slumped, looking bored. Once he fell asleep. Laval said the French army !ih North Africa had had direct orders ord-ers from Adm. Jean Frdfccdis Darlan, chief of v Vichy armed forces, to resist 'any aggression. "American, British, or German, In November, 1942. Defense counsel Fernand Pay en interposed that nevertheless "Petain never ceased giving in structions for African forces - to help the American and British landings." "Yes, I can vouch for that," Laval screed. Ho then testified to secret agreements between Vichy and Britain on the French fleet, but proTessed to have little anowieaae or tne actual circum- He was certain Petain had had 'contact with the resistance forces in France, he said, but admitted the Vichy regime ; set up courts martial to deal with members of i the French Maquis after he found himself unable to persuade i French, appeals court judges to impose severe sentences. This was done to preserve "legality" in France. "The Marshal knew all about this," he continued. "He agreed with me about the necessity of defending our country. Did we agree? That's a mariner of speaking, speak-ing, because we were both tied down." ; Laval constantly parried tle (Continued on Page Five) i . ; 1 U.S. Steel Pays $1.75 Divider NEW YORK Reporting the earnings of United ; States Steel Corp. for the second quarter of 1945, Irving S. Olds, chairmark announced that the directors had declared the quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on the preferred stock, payable Aug.? 20 to stack holders on record as of Aug. 2. A dividend of $1 a share on the com mon stock, payable. Sept. 10 to stockholders of record as of Aug. 10. also is announced. Income from the second quartet of 1945, after all costs but before declaration of dividends, amounted amount-ed to $16,774,202. for the first six months the reported income of $32,153,373 was $229,160 less than for the corresponding period in 1944. Each year for the past four. $25,000,000 has been set aside for. estimated aditional costs appli-, cable to the years of war. As the balance up to Dec. 31, $96,000,000, is adequate, no additional amount was determined for the first six months of 1945. Thus, there is a decrease of $12,000,000 in the' costs of this report, j Shipment, ingot and casting, current asset and total capital ex- penditure figures fof the second quarter also were quoted by Mr; Olds. ; North Africa - Man Labor Party Cabinet secretary in the Churchill cab-: inet, and a leading member of the Labor party. Secretary of state for foreign affairs: Ernest Bevin Labor minister min-ister in the Churchill cabinet. Lord privy seal: Arthur Greenwood, Green-wood, former member of the British war cabinet ;isnd one of; the most popular members of the: Labor party ' Chancellor of the; exchequer: Dr. Hugo Dalton, former president of the British board of trade and a Laborite. " k President of the board of trade: Sir Strafford Cripps, former minister min-ister of ' aircraft production, an Independent. ' ' First lord of the admiralty: A. V. Alexander, who held the same IPRQVO. UTAH COUNTY, U. S. First Major Nation to Vote Approval of All World (Agencies Leads United Nations Towards Hoped-For Era of World Peace WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 The United States for more than two decades a citadel cit-adel of isolationism today led the United Nations toward to-ward a hoped-for efca of peace and security through international interna-tional collaboration. X. The United States became the first major nation to ratify. nnrl riAnkA . i 4-a1 9 nawf (n(na. " y v fssa mii ivi cs j utifo- tion in all of the international bodies thus far created since the start of World War II. One week after overwhelming senate ratification of the United Nations charter. President Truman Tru-man announced that he had signed sign-ed the Bretton Woods agreement providing for. an international monetary fund and an International Interna-tional bank of reconstruction and rehabilitation, the charter for an international food and agriculture agri-culture organization, and legislation legisla-tion multiplying by five the leading authority of the export-import export-import bank. ' Action Completes Steps None of the other major nations na-tions Britain Russia, France and China has approved participation par-ticipation In all of these organizations. organi-zations. President Truman's action virtually vir-tually completes the steps requisite requi-site to launching the United States on a new foreign policy one in sharp contrast to the 150-year-old policy of "no entangling entangl-ing alliances." The official state department weekly radio broadcast on "our foreign policy Saturday" recognized recog-nized this significant step forward for-ward and emphasized that the 25 years between World Wars I and II apparently provided a great lesson for the American people. Here in outline form , is what the United States, through congress, con-gress, is prepared to, do in the field of international ; relations congress has given the president new power to make an additional 50 per cent cut in tariff schedules which had already been lowered a step which will give this nation na-tion power to get further concessions conces-sions from others in the interests of increased postwar trade. International monetary fund a plan for promoting stable currencies cur-rencies throughout the world and a mechanism for exchanging money during the reconstruction period while the nations are trying try-ing to build up healthy world commerce. International bank a United Nations organization to make loans for reconstruction and rehabilitation re-habilitation in war-devastated areas. This is especially needed to begin to plug the trade gap that will result when lend-lease is stopped and before normal peacetime trade can be resumed. Export-import bank congress increased the leading authority of this organization from $700,-000,000 $700,-000,000 to $3,500,000,000 of which $500,000,000 will be used to help war-torn countries to get back on their feet. This is the agency through which the government gov-ernment can lend money on its own. aoart from the international bank; its ultimate aim is to stimulate stim-ulate foreign trade. Date Held Up For Trrdtof Major War Criminals LONDON. Aug. 4 (U.R) Announcement An-nouncement of a date for the first trial of major war criminals is being held up pending completion of certain technical details, reports re-ports from the office of Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U. S. counsel in war crimes trials, dis closed today. It was pointed out that a form al four-power agreement on the trial has not yet been signed, although al-though it may be next week. Soviet Sov-iet Russia and France have not yet appointed prosecutors, and none of the four powers represented, repre-sented, including the United J States and Great Britain, has yet i appointed judges. No indictments lhave been drwan up. post in the Churchill government, J which have closed because of ra-a ra-a member of the Liberal party. tlonP?1"t shges. I All IK wAflinKonnta 4 m A - T o:- W2iii a Lord chancellor: Sir William A. Jowitt, formerly a minister with out portfolio and a Laborite. Home secretary: James Chuter Ede, a Laborite. Secretary of state for. India and Burma: Frederick Pethick Lawrence, Lawr-ence, a Laborite. Secretary of state for war: John James Lawson, a Laborite. Secretary of state for air: Lord Stransgate; . Former director of public relations in the air ministry. min-istry. Secretary of state for Scotland: Joseph Westwood, former under -(Continued on Page Five)' UTAH. SUNDAY- AUGUST 5. 1945 New German Bprders germ fA - r, r e s :? X t $'?-'' w " V 'r-' ;i fvvlL fi r f VIENNA H-S., y AUSTRIA ? ' rw Revision of .Germany. Poland is given "temporaryily" all territory west of .her- pre-war borders, up to Oder and Neisse rivers, important import-ant port of Swinemunde, also Danzig and slice of East Prussia; northern part of East Prussia, including Koenigsburg, will go to Russia, until peace conference. Lithuania is also claimed by Soviets. Sovi-ets. Map shows eastern Poland 1939 border and "Cyrzon" Lins. which Yalta agreement made new eastern limit of Poland. Truman Wants Next Big Three Parley Held in Washington By ME R RIM AN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD USS AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Aug. 4,Ufi) President Truman hopes the next Big Three conference confer-ence can be held at Washington. it was disclosed today that Mr. Truman had Droposed the Ameri- during the Potsdam conference. although the time for another meeting has not even been discussed dis-cussed yet. Agreement on Washington pre- Franco Declares Action Against Spain 'Arbitrary' LONDON. Aug. 4 (U.R) Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Francisco Franco tonight to-night rejected as "arbitrary and unjust" the Potsdam declaration that Spain, under his government, was not worthy of a place in the world organization for interna-; tional peace and security. Franco said Spain did not "beg for a seat in any international conference" and would not accept one that was not "consonant with her history, her population, and her services to peace and culture." The dictatorial Spanish regime thus defied Russia, Great Britain, America and France to force a change in the present government through economic or political pressures. The Big Three communique had excluded Spain from membership in a world organization on grounds the Franco government was founded with the support of Axis powers and does not, "in view of its original, its nature, its record and its close association with the aggressor states possess the qualifications necessary to justify such membership." The Potsdam declaration had come as a shock to the Spanish government i and people. Some criticism had been expected but not such severe action. Spanish newspapers and informed in-formed government quarters blamed the defeat of the Churchill government In Britain by the labor la-bor party for the Potsdam denunciation. de-nunciation. Relief Denied To Restaurants RED BLUFF, Gal., Aug. 4 (U.R) Rep. Clair Engle announced today to-day that Price Administrator Chester Bowles has turned down requests for emergency relief for northern California restaurants ! cavu aina an ziuuuiii, Caljf closed yfy alQn with a number in other towns in the area. In a telegram to Engle. Bowles 'declared that the point allotments are as nign in in is area as anywhere any-where in the country, and said that the eating places are receiving receiv-ing 17 to 27- per cent more rationed ra-tioned food per meal than housewives. house-wives. Engle announced he would ask the senate small business committee commit-tee to investigate the difficulties of the restaurants. He will see Sen. James Murray, chairman of.mittee and an executive commis-the commis-the committee, in Montana next sion to draw up a reconversion week, he said, J fiscal budget not exceeding $20,- RUMANIA sumablv would denend on Rus sian Premier Josef Stalin, who has been unwilliae to travel far! from Moscow to previous conferences. con-ferences. When Mr. Truman made the proposal, Stalin was said to have indicated tentative assent by commenting, uoq wining Of the three previous confer - anceslhe one at Yalta wasJieldiAdrn- William F. misey's3rlAJUMuijc poised for the assault on Russian soil and those at Te . r- hran and Potsdam were relatively relative-ly close to the Soviet union. Despite previous lack of ex perience in foreign affairs, Mr Truman has shown no reluctance! to assume leadership in Big Three plans. At the Potsdam cdlrference, he submitted a written set of proposals pro-posals for discussion. His list, most of which was included in the final communique, included proposals for a council of foreign ministers, political and economic terms from Germany, Italian admission ad-mission to the United Nations and revised Allied control procedure for Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. Bul-garia. Other proposals were made verbally by Stalin and former British Prime Minister Winston, Churchill. Mr. Truman Was chos en to preside at the sessions. While Mr. Truman has asserted assert-ed there were no secret agreements agree-ments made at Potsdam, it was assumed that there was at least an exchange of views about Germany's Ger-many's future western berders and the disposition of the Rhine-land. Rhine-land. It was doubted that there would be an early decision about the Rhineland. Questions involving boundary adjustments were left for the foreign ministers' council, coun-cil, which will be concerned first with peace treaties for enemy European nations other than Germany. Ger-many. Mr. Truman is expected to disembark dis-embark at a northeastern port early next week. He has planned to give the nation a radio report on the Potsdam-conference conference. con-ference. Meanwhile, the president spent (Continued on Page Five) Overstaffing of Army Doctors Probed WASHINGTON. Aug. 4 (U.R) Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calif., said today that the war department depart-ment had assigned Col. William P. Holbrook to help the military affairs committee V investigate charges of overstaffing of doctors in the army. x Toft Proposes Reduction Of Wartime Controls Program By ALLEN DRURV United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R.. O., tonight to-night proposed a comprehensive program for congress including drastic reductions of wartime controls and coordinated budget of social security and anti-depression legislation. Taft, chairman of the senate's Republican steering committee, offered the program .as the Republican Re-publican version of the job congress con-gress will face when it reconvenes recon-venes Oct. 8: j- He proposed: . A Joint congressional corn- COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Raid Warnings Dropped on 12 New "Evacuate or Die" Warnings Received by 31 Cities In All on Death List;" All or All To Be Bombed Shortly, Leaflets Say; By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press War Correspodent GUAM, Sunday, Aug. 5 Fleets of Superfortresses scattered "evacuate or die 'warnings into 12 cities spread the entire length of the Japanese homeland early today, running to 3f the number of enemy cities told they face imminent destruction by the U. S. 20th Air Force. Superforts of the 73ttrwing based on Saipan flew over the main Japanese islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido shortly after midnight. and dropped 120,000 leaflets on 12 cities having a total i population of 1,400,000 in the third such warning issued by Gen. Carl A. Spaatz' strategic air forces in nine days. New Cities Listed The newest cities added to the growing "death list" were: Hachinohe, Utawa, Tottqri, Iwa-kuni, Iwa-kuni, Takayama. Fugushima. and Akita on the main island of Honshu. Hon-shu. Saga, Yawata and Miyakonoho in the southern islands of Kyushu. Kyu-shu. Otaru on the northern island of Hokkaido. And Imbari on the central island is-land of Shikoku. The leaflets warned that "some or all" of these cities will be bombed shortly. For good measure, the powerful OWI station on Saipan meanwhile mean-while began broadcasting the texts of the leaflets every half hour. Ten other cities had been warn- ed the past nine days some of them twice and bombed 24 hours later in the most audacious tip-off tip-off of a coming blow in the history his-tory of aerial warfare. The warnings' were delivered only a few hours after delayed 1 fleet dispatches had reported it ppt wan cti nmu 1 ir. r, .lanantaeo home waters 72 hours after its last assault on the enemy mainland. main-land. Despite the tremendous weight of warplane and warship bombs and shells being heaped on the homeland, Tokyo declared that it would never be forced to its (Continued on Page Five) 37 Jap Locomotives Destroyed In Raid On Eastern Java MANILA. Sunday, Aug. 5 (U.R) Philippines-based Lightning fighters of the 13th air force flew a 2,000-mile round trip Thurs day to batter Japanese communi cations in the Sorabaja area to eastern Java, destroying 37 enemy; locomotives, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced today. The attack lasted two hours. It was the first heavy blow directed against enemy-held Soerbaja, which previously had been attacked at-tacked only by unescorted Liberators. Liber-ators. Fighter pilots reported no aerial opposition and only; moderate mod-erate ground fire. Maj. Gen. Paul B. Wurtsmith commander of the 13th, promised that fighter sweeps over the Netherlands Indies would be stepped up in the future, including includ-ing increased, use of fighter planes whose range has been lengthened. "We have developed the, Ions range fighter plane into an instrument in-strument of destruction that works as well 1,000 miles from base as it does 10 miles away," he declared, i "The sweep o'ver Soerbaja showed the Jap that he's not safe from deadly deck-level attacks anywhere In the Indies or in Asia." Wurtsmith said. MacArthur disclosed in his communique that adverse weather weath-er prevented attacks against Japan Ja-pan proper, but blockading planes continued to scour the Asiatic coast in their flights to sweep Japanese shipping from the seas. .! 000,000.000 a Mar, and a "national budget" as a moans of avoiding another economic "depression. 2. A coordinated program of social welfare legislation dealing with public housing, public health, public education, old age pensions, public works and extension ex-tension of unemployment compensation com-pensation to "all groups not now covered." ' t ' 3.. Removal of wartime controls to permit private enterprise to expand as the best means of achieving "maximum employ ment. "Proposal No. 3 would include a drive to "force" opa to adopt a more liberal nolicv during re conversion; removal of all wage (Continued en rage Six) - PRICE FIVE CENTS Jap Cities MacArthur In Command Of Jap Invasion By HUUH CKUA1PLEK , MANILA, Aug. 4 (U.R) Okinawa Okina-wa and the smaller islands of the Ryukyus group were placed under un-der the command of Gen. Douglas Doug-las MacArthur today and with the Philippines will make up a huge invasion catapault from which five armies may be hurled at Japan. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz carrier car-rier pilots already were selecting suitable Japanese beaches for landing operations as the U. S. Pacific fleet commander turned over to MacArthur control of the springboard areas from which the invasion will be launched. Tokyq radio predicted the great American blow -aimed to crush swiftly the last enemy still' fighting fight-ing in World War Two would fall within 30 to 60 days. in the Pacific are three American armies and enough marine divisions divis-ions to form a fourth, with the immensely- powerful 1st army gathering to join the lunge. . As these forces readied for their blow, a dispatch from United Press Correspondent Ernest Ern-est Hoberecht, with the U. S. 3rd fleet, said carrier pilots had, been surveying the Japanese coast. The pilots found "an exceedingly exceeding-ly great number of beaches excellently excel-lently suited for invasion," Hoberecht Ho-berecht reported. With Okinawa and 17 other American-held islands in the Ryukyu chain, MacArthur also was given control of all army forces in that area, with the exception ex-ception of Lt. Gen. James E. Doo-little's Doo-little's 8th air force. Others Moving In These include Gen. Joseph W. (Vinegar. Joe) Stilwell's 10th army and Gen. George C. Ken-ney's Ken-ney's 5th and 7th air forces. .The announcement disclosed that the U: S. 13th air force, which has been supporting ground operations opera-tions on Borneo and harassing the Japanese in the southwest Pacific islands, also is moving its headquarters head-quarters to the -Ryukyus. With the Philippines, these islands is-lands form a great semi-circular base from which a mighty Invasion Invas-ion force is being formed under the primary responsibility of MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan," said the announcements status of fleeO and marine air forces based on Okinawa. Doc -little's 8th air force remains un der command of Gen. Carl H. Spaatz, commander of U. S. strategic stra-tegic air forces in the Pacific, in-( in-( Continued en Page Six) U. S. Submarine Presumed Lost WASHINGTON. Auf. 4 0J.B . The 1 525-ton U. S. submarine ; Snook is overdue fromi patrol and presumed iosi, uib navy uiaoiuw ed today. , The vessel presumably was lost in Far Eastern waters where American undersea craft haveA been searching for remnants of the Japanese navy and supply fleet. r-" " Skippered by Cmdr. John FV Walling, of 19 Brant Point Road, Nantucket, Mass., the submarine had a wartime-complement of about 90 men. The next of kin of officers and men have been; informed. in-formed. The Snook was . built at ' the ' Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard .and commissioned Oct. 24, 1942. She . was' about 311 feet long.. '' Walling, listed as missing in. action with the rest of the crew, -was graduated from the -naval; academy in 1935 and has served in submarines for most of his. naval career. 'His wife lives in Mystic." Conn. ? I Loss of the Snook brings to 328 - ithe number of U. S. naval vessels Host in this war. It was the 46th submarine lost from all causes.- . |