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Show i : THE WEATHER UTAH: North portion mostly eloady with snow flurries today and tonirht, becoming partly cloudy Tuesday; south portion, cloudy with snow today, tonight and Tuesday; continued cold except ex-cept sUshtly warmer west portion por-tion Tuesday. Temperatures: High 38 Low 9 Precipitation .09 4 Nothing But Ambulances HOLLAND. Vt. OMO Pvt, George A. Smith, Jr complains tn a tetter heme that he Is "sector the war threagh an ambulance window." He's been wounded five times. FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 194 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Ivans, Hurst Held Illegal Resignations Must Precede Appointments Says Attorney General SALT LAKE CITY, March 5 Two appointments submitted by Gov! Herbert B. Maw to the Utah state senate today were declared unlawful by Atty. Gen. Grover A. Giles. The appointments were those of liquor commissioner Justin E. Hurst to the welfare commission and road commissioner commis-sioner John S. Evans to the liquor fft commission. Neither man had resigned his position, and in the opinion, asked by Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkln. chairman chair-man of the senate appropriations committee, Giles said that unless 4 Burst resigned before the ap- Kintment was made, it would be egal. "So far as the records are concerned," con-cerned," he said, "there are no Vacancies in the liquor commission." commis-sion." When informed of the opinion, 4 Maw told Unitet Press: "If no vacancies exist, there will' be no appointments. I will leave them Just as they are." Hopkin, meanwhile, said he would call a meeting of his committee com-mittee to study the opinion and B would possibly confer with the ' governor about it. when Maw submitted Hurst's name for confirmation by the sen ate, he explained that Hurst would resign his liquor commis skn post when and if the senate approved him for the welfare l position. Otherwise, the gover- r nor said, he will continue as liquor commissioner. Giles opinion said in part: "Unless prior to your action on the nomination of Mr. Evans, Mr. Hurst submits his resignation from the' liquor control commis- f tion. . .the governor is without authority to nominate, and your Appointments body is without authority to confirm... con-firm... as there will be no vacancy vac-ancy existing or legality certain jo exist in either office." "Vinson Nominated. U.S. Loan Chief , By Roosevelt WASHINGTON. March 5 (U.R) President Roosevelt today nominated nom-inated Economic Stabilization Director Di-rector Fred M. Vinson to be federal fed-eral loan administrator. The former Kentucky con- k ere&sman and federal judge thus w will get the other half of the job left vacant when Mr. Roosevelt summarily fired Jesse H. Jones as secretary of commerce. Before confirming former Vice President Henry A. Wallace for the cabinet post, congress passed legislation P divorcing the multi-billion loan agency from the commerce department. de-partment. White House Secretary Jonathan Jona-than Daniels said the president had decided on Vinson's successor suc-cessor in the office of economic stabilization. He said that would i be announced after the senate acts on Vinson. There was not expected to be any vigorous opposition to confirmation con-firmation of Vinson as loan administrator. ad-ministrator. Some members of congress have objected to some of his. policies, particularly his l orders imposing ceilings on live cattle prices and his wage policies. poli-cies. But on the whole, he is well liked in congress, even among conservative Democrats who opposed op-posed Wallace. Congressman Returns Home ' SALT LAKE CITY, March 5 4. UJJ Rep. J W. Robinson, D-Utah, D-Utah, will be principal speaker at the dinner meeting Of the sixth annual Utah highway engineering en-gineering conference here tonight. to-night. The two-day conference opened at the University of Utah this I morning with Dean A. Leroy Taylor of the school of mines and engineering welcoming the delegates. dele-gates. Most of the session was devoted de-voted to technical problems connected con-nected with highway work. , Postwar -highway construction plans are expected to be discussed discus-sed thoroughly before the conference con-ference ends. Heads 23rd fMr J rn wo.- m ' CoL Walter W. Wensinger, above, of LaJolla, Calif., commands com-mands the 23rd Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, currently fighting on I wo Jima. He is a veteran of the Roi-Namur and Saipan-Tinian action. Funds Sought For Research In Utah Coal Br JOHN HESS United Press Staff Correspodent SALT LAKE CITY. March 5 (U.R) Use of Utah coal exclusively at the giant $200,000,000 Geneva steel plant near Provp, Utah, has proved unsatisfactory, a report to the joint appropriations commit tee of the Utah legislature reveal ed today. Sen. Lorenzo E. Elggren D., Salt lake City, told the committee that Utah coal has been found to lose 40 per cent of its fuel value in the coking process preceding pre-ceding its use at the plant. Because of this, he said, the company had been forced to im port outside coal to mix with the Utah fuel to gain a high grade coke. The disclosure came during a discussion of appropriations for the University of Utah. One item contained an appropriation for $40,000 for continued coal research. re-search. When asked what the research was for Elggren said that it was for the purpose of developing a process for coking Utah coal to be used at Geneva. He said the research had been underway for several months. Following the discussion, the committee approved a total budget bud-get for the school of $3,063,431. Of the total, $131,522 would be used for research for the department depart-ment of engineering, research and experimentation, including the $40,000 for coal, research, and $461,587 for the medical school. All appropriations represented a sum considerably higher than asked by Gov. Herbert B. Maw. He had asked $2,284,886 for general gen-eral administration, nothing for research and experimentation, and $397,000 for the medical school. Elggren said the general administration ad-ministration appropriation included in-cluded salary increases averaging less than 10 per cent. In the senate, members passed a proposed constitutional amendment amend-ment to provide for an , annual meeting of a grand jury in the state's larger counties. They also pujsed a bill to compel private purchasers of used automobiles I to pay a sales tax and one to! designate new state highways. 1 Provo Man Missing in Action SSgt. Robert Smith Haws has been reported missing in action over Austria since Feb. 14, according ac-cording to word received Sunday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Lynn Haws, 905 North University avenue. He is a nose turret gunner gun-ner and radio operator aboard a B-25 bomber in the 15th army air force in Italy. In service since Oct. 1942," Sgt. Haws trained at the Pueblo army air base, Camp Grant and Har-llngen, Har-llngen, Texas, before receiving overseas assignment at Topeka, Kansas, Sept. 5, 1944. He wears the air medal with oak leaf clusters, clus-ters, the Presidential citation and the distinguished unit badge. He has completed 15 combat missions. mis-sions. Sgt. Haws was born in Provo, Feb. 2, 1923, graduated from the Provo high school and was a junior in the Brigham Young university at the time he entered service. Other family members awaiting further word are bis sisters, Mrs. Ora Vance, Mrs. Lois Nuench and Lt Vivian Haws with the army nurses at Tacoma, Wash. Yalta Peace Plan Includes Veto Power Nation Involved In Dispute to be Barred From Participation WASHINGTON, March 5 (u.b The Yalta agreement on voting power in the international interna-tional security organization would permit any one of the "Big Five" permanent mem bers to veto any direct action proposed to enforce peace, it was announced today. However, any nation big or little Involved in a dispute would be barred from taking part in council deliberations on such preliminary steps as whether to brand a country as an aggressor or whether further investigations should be conducted into an international in-ternational dispute. President Roosevelt said at the conclusion of the big three Cri mea meeting that the agreement represented a compromise be tween the Anglo-American and Russian views on voting procedure proce-dure as expressed last year at Dumbarton Oaks. At that time, the United States and Great Britain did' not want any one nation to have veto power over any proposed action. Russia wanted any one of the big five permanent council members mem-bers to have absolute veto power. Mr. Roosevelt advanced the compromise. com-promise. Under the Dumbarton Oaks plan two representative groups would be established by the world security organization. There would be an assembly, compris ing a representative of each member nation. Then there would be the council, composed of the big five as permanent members and six others chosen by the assembly as-sembly on a rotating basis. The voting agreement announced announc-ed today provides that on preliminary pre-liminary questions, seven council members must vote yes before anything is done. Those seven must include the five permanent members, unless one of them is a party to a dispute in which case that member would be barred from voting. In consideration of proposals for enforcement of peace, there still must be affirmative votes from seven council members but in such cases they must include all five permanent members. A statement issued under the name of Secretary of State Edward Ed-ward R. Stettinius. Jr., explained that this latter 'provision was adopted because the permanent members "must, as a matter of security, bear the principal responsibility re-sponsibility for action." "Unanimous agreement among the permanent members of the council is therefore requisite," he said. Stettinius gave examples of matters which would require unanimity un-animity of the big five, including includ-ing "determination of the existence exis-tence of a threat or breach of peace: use of force or other enforcement en-forcement measures: approval of agreements for supply of armed forces; matters relating to the regulation of armaments; and matters concerning the suspension suspen-sion and expulsion of members, and the admission of new members." mem-bers." Invitations were sent to 39 nations, na-tions, all of whom are at war with at least one of the common (Continued on Fare Two) SSGT. ROBERT S. HAWS h First Army " . , & ipr-i !. 0 , if J kp HI -J ', 4i :; - V5 'it If !: .,. 1 T iiiiim fiiiini it i fmt" . iihiimi i rii -ii i r if' " Enloj-lng their first American cigaret on American soil are (left to right): Pvt. Ralph Splnelll, Sewlckley, Pa.: Pfc. Joseph Mazur. Northampton. Pa.: Pvt. Joseph Sanchez. Los Angeles. Cauf ana ssgt Frame A. Harangody. Whiting. Ind. four of 23 Army prisoners of Manila's Bilibid prison, who were flown from Hawaii tn Fairfleld-Suisun, Calif , air base on their trip "home." Most of the men were minus a leg or suffering from beriberi, result of the Jap starvation dirt. Marines Complete Capture of Four-Fifths of Iwb Island BY FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, ' March 5 (U.R) U. S. marines completed the capture of four-fifths of Iwo today as the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war went into its third week on a rising ris-ing note of fury. More than 15,000 of the original enemy garrison of 20,000 troops already have been knocked out, but the remainder were fighting Vandenberg Accepts FDR's Invitation WASHINGTON. March 5 (U.R) Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. R.. Mich., today accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to serve as a member of the United States delegation to the international security conference at San Fran Cisco. He said he had been assured by the White House that there would be no restrictions on his freedom of individual action. Vandenberg announced his ac ceptance after "an exchange of cordial and satisfactory personal letters with the president, clari fying my right of free action. Previously he had declined to comment on the White House an nouncement that he would be invited to be one of eight U. S, delegates to the San Francisco meeting beginning April 25. 'Charlie' Bryan Dies In Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb., March 5 (U.R) Former Gov. Charles W. Bryan, brother of the late William Jennings Bryan and Democratic candidate for vice president in 1924, died yesterday at his home. He was 78 years old. Bryan had been ill for several months. He was schooled in politics by "the great commoner," who was seven years his senior. Bryan's political career stretched across a half a century. He started as secretary to his brother when the latter won the Democratic' nomination nom-ination with his "cross of gold" speech in 1896. He climbed rapidly rapid-ly and managed the two subse quent presidential campaigns for his brother. Girl, 14, Killed In Idaho Accident PAYETTE, Ida., March 5 (UJ0 Donna Roy, 14. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Guy Roy, Payette, was killed instantly yesterday when cars driven by Marvin Morse of Payette and Thomas R. Smith, Route 2, Payette, collided at a street intersection. Diane Madrid. 14. another pas senger in Morse's model T Ford was injured. . ,-J Police Chief Cecil C. Rose said no one could be blamed tor the accident. It was just one Of those things." Into Men From Bilibid Come Home nan ' ' . to the death for the shrinking strip of the north and east coasts stai in their studs, , Stiffened enemy resistance reduced re-duced marine gains to five to 100 yards yesterday. Hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets, grenades and even knives swirled through clouds of sulphurous steam rising from crevices in the volcanic terrain ter-rain as the battle entered its final stage. The Japanese appeared to have chosen to fight from cave to cave and pillbox to pillbox until they finally have been thrown over the high cliffs of northern Iwo into the Pacific. But 'a last "banzai" suicide charge such as has marked the collapse of organized resistance resist-ance on other islands still is a possibility. Even as marines continued their yard-by-yard advance to the north, seabecs repaired captured airfields sufficiently for hospital planes to land and evacuate the wounded. A Superfortress made an emergency landing for refueling on the airstrip yesterday after bombing Tokyo and took off four hours later. Eventually, Iwo's airfields air-fields will .be used regularly for refuelling the B-29s and as a base for escorting fighters. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet, announced in a communique that 12,864 Japanese dead had been counted by 6 p. m. Saturday, an increase of more than 5,700 over the toll announced only 24 hours earlier. Hundreds, perhaps thousands more, enemy dead were believed behind the Japanese lines. Eighty-one prisoners had been taken by 6 p. m. Saturday, comprising com-prising 45 Koreans and 36 Japanese, Jap-anese, Nimitz said. How Far Berlin? The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT 31 miles (from Zaeckerick). WESTERN FRONT 291 miles (from outskirts of Cologne). ITALY 530 miles (from north of Ravenna). First Yanks to Cross Rhine Win By ANN STRINGER United Press War Correspondent KREFELp, Germany, March 4 (U.R) Men of two American pa trols the first to cross the Rhine were awarded silver stars today only a few hours after they re turned from fire and shell- rocked Adolf Hitler bridge. Fifteen of them stood in an icy, biting rain to receive their hero awards from Brig. Gen. T. D. White, commander of the second armored division. The four others were too tired to attend the cere mony. They had just come back from a treacherous patrol across the 'bridge, from where they looked down and saw the Rhine and then farther on the cobble stones lin-big lin-big the eastern bank. along1 the rain-swept railings of the 'bridge, under heavy artillery f irtLand against a background of two huge fires that silhouetted wgm against the darkness. Yanks, Filipinos Put Squeeze On Japs In Luzon By II. D. Qatar United Press Wr Correspondent MANILA, March 5 (U.R) American Am-erican troops and Filipino gueril las clamped a huge pincers on Japanese forces in northern Lu zon today and seized bases within 225 miles of Formosa. The squeeze on the Japanese in me nortnern mountains was paced by American-led guerilla forces who cleared the 2.000- square mile Ilicos Norte province in the northwestern center of Lu zon. Thousands of Japanese were killed by the guerillas as they drove the last of the invaders from the province, commanding the south China sea, the China coast and the enemy's Formosa stronghold. The guerillas, armed with mod ern American weapons and aided by U. S. planes, were led by Col. R. W. Volckman, South Clinton, Ia.He was. a member of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces before be-fore the war and went over to the guerillas after the fall of Ba-taan. Ba-taan. By clearing Ilicos Norte, which is 68 miles long and 12 miles wide, the suerillas were only 44 miles from the north coastal air base of Aparri, 490 miles from Hong Kong and 225 miles from the southern tip of Formosa. The offensive by Volckman s forces also carried to within 100 miles of American lines on Lin- gayen gulf and within 160 miles of U. S. troops pushing "tip the center of Luzon. A communique disclosed that troops of the 32nd division, advancing ad-vancing up the Ambayabang river, entered Neuva Viscaya province and seized Santa Rosa, 17 miles southeast of the Japa nese stronghold of Baguio. At the same time the 25th division di-vision tightened the southern half of the vice by capturing Digdig, a junction point on the roads leading to the Cagayan valley. The thrust carried the 25th division di-vision to within 22 miles of a junction with the 32nd forces at (Continued on page two) One of, the patrols, which had been searching for demolitions, got back only 15 or 20 minutes before the Germans blew up the great modernistic bridge. It was heartbreaking sight when the bridge went down. If it could have been captured intact, it would have' saved countless American Am-erican lives. The first patrol nine engineers and three infantrymen was led by Capt. George L. Youngblood, Charlestown, S. C, whom Col. Sidney R. Hinds, commander of the second's combat force, described de-scribed as the "bravest man in the army." After White passed out the pins to members of the. patrols, he turned around to Hinds, who-had been handing him the medals, and presented the colonel with his third cluster. "We climbed up the ramp of the bridge about 10:23 p. m. and started working our way across pretty darned slow looking for Colwgime Bulk of German Garrison Flees Across the Rhine American Troops Enter Rhine City From Two Directions to Meet Little Opposition; Battle for Rhineland Plain in Final Phase PARIS, March 5 E American armored and infantry in-fantry forces broke into the streets of Cologne today and struck for the center of the Rhineland city without meeting meet-ing opposition. First accounts from the front indicated the bulk of the German garrison already had fled across the Rhine and that only scattered Nazi rear guards were left in the Cologne ruins. Elements of the U. S. first army's third armored division swept into Cologne from; the northwest in two parallel columns. Vanguards of the American Am-erican 140th and eighth infantry divisions were driving into the city's outskirts from the west and southwest. The third armored division captured cap-tured Longerich, 1 miles northwest north-west of Cologne, and Mengenich. two miles to the west and about the same distance from the city. Tanks Pouring- In Both columns pushed rapidly ahead into Cologne proper and at last reports were pouring tanks and infantrymen into the heart of Germany's fourth city. "We are within the city limits and thus far there is no resistance," resis-tance," United Press war correspondent corres-pondent C. R. Cunningham reported re-ported in a dispatch filed from the Cologne front at 9 a. m. to day (4 a. m. EWT.) The- dramatie break-through into cologne brought the battle for the Rhineland plain into its final phase, less than 11 days after the start of the American drive across the Roer river. American ninth army troops to the north were astride the western west-ern entrances to two bridges spanning the Rhine between Homberg and the Ruhr valley city of Duisburg, and the Canadian first army on the ninth's left flank was ramming against the last remaining re-maining enemy bridgehead at Wesel. Cunningham reported that the Cologne garrison was believed to have escaped across the Rhine in (Continued on page two) German Planes Bomb England LONDON, March 5, (U.R) Ger man planes bombed England last night for the second straight night, but caused little damaee and no fatalities. The hit-run raid was on a much smaller scale than that of the previous night, when Nazi aircraft killed at least nine per sons in bombing and machine gunning attacks on towns in east, north and northeast England. One plane flew low over an east Anglian town and dropped a number of small bombs, two of which exploded over the roof of a house In which a number of babies were asleep. One woman was cut by debris, but the babies. though showered with plaster, were unhurt A terrific anti-aircraft barrage met the raiders as they appeared over the English coast and night fighters rose to challenge them. There was no immediate announcement an-nouncement of how many were shot down, but six were destroyed the previous night. If the raids continue, it seemed probable that Britain again would be put under a permanent blackout. black-out. Restrictions were relaxed last December to permit street lighting light-ing and unshaded windows. Silver Stars krauts and demolitions at the same time," Youngblood said. "We made a perfect target for we were silhouetted against a blazing house which was throwing throw-ing light on the bridge. The only way we could get across was to clamber along the railing at the side, putting our toes in between the steelwork and holding onto the top rail. "There was nothing under us but cobblestones some 75 feet below. And all the time there was a crossfire of artillery above us as heavy guns on, each side of thei river fired across except for mat one baby which didnt get across but kept plunking them smack down in the center of the bridge sending shrapnel hailing back at us." On the far .side of the bridge, a fire apparently fed by tar raged in the center of the span. Artillery Artil-lery shells were dropping every two minutes, and Youngblood's men were forced to turn back. Russian Siege Forces Seize Nazi Stargard LONDON. March 5 (U.R) Berlin reported today that Russian siege forces had captured Stargard, key Pomeranian rail hub 20 miles southeast of Stettin, opening the way to that big Baltic port which already was within Soviet artillery artil-lery range. The Nazis also said the Russians Rus-sians opened a new attack on a large scale near the lower Vistula river in the area of Grpsswollen-thal, Grpsswollen-thal, 40 miles south of Danzig city, and in the first few hours "achieved a few penetrations." norm or aiargaro, xne in axis said, Soviet mobile forces scored further gains in the direction of Naugard, 22 miles northeast of Stettin and 28 miles from the Baltic. Thus it appeared that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's right wing was drawing in line on a broad front east of Stettin for a push against the Oder estuary. Even without a river crossing, strong Russian forces on the lower Oder could neutralize Stettin with gun- lire across the stream. Even while Stargard was being stormed, other units of Zhukov's First White Russian array swept on beyond it to within a dozen miles southeast of Stettin. Big guns were being wheeled up to train on the great Baltic port, which is the turntable of all of Berlin's defenses on the northern flank. Spearheads of two Russian armies. already had been planted on the Baltic, chopping Pomer-ania Pomer-ania into pockets for piecemeal disposal and trapping many thousands of German troops in the coastal area to the northeast. The Communist party newspaper news-paper Pravda reported in Moscow Mos-cow that nine-tenths of East Prussia had been cleared. All along the Baltic coast German resistance was collapsing. Planes Mass For Invasion In China By UNITED PRESS Between 700 and 800 American planes have been massed In the Kunming area of southwest China to support an "expected invasion of the China coast," Tokyo radio said last night in a broadcast heard by the United Press In San Francisco. Kunming, 170 miles north of Japanese-occupied Indo-China, is a major Allied supply base for equipment coming into China over the Burma road. The broadcast said Japanese military leaders also expected expansion ex-pansion of American air activity to the East China Sea from the interior. War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: American troops storm into outskirts of Cologne. Co-logne. EASTERN VrONT: Red army drives within -artillery range of Stettin, largest German port on Baltic; capture Stargard, 20 miles southeast. PACIFIC: Ten B-29s bomb Tokyo; marines complete capture of four-fifths of Iwo island; American . troops and Filipino guerrillas clamp pincers on Japanese Jap-anese in north Luzon. AIR WAR: American Flying Fortresses launch new raids on . reich; German planes attack England Eng-land for second straight night. ITALY: Fifth army captures Monte Delia Croce; Eighth army clears coastal woods in Adriatic sector. |