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Show 44 Tit 1 ' Paper Driye Fridcry V lun yeur nanaies 01 eta news- afterBoen, tanUht sad Thursday; slightly vuner. " - Temperatares ready Friday morning for the ntvare crewi who will pick them JWP- at .the nearest corner. v .,.., ; FinyrNiNTH year, no. 226 UTAH'S ONLY 'DAILY pbovo, utah .cxmmimm.vMmfr aril- ,.1$, -.ms , PRICE FIVE QENTS SOUTH Or SALT LAKB TZXEGAAPU HKW8 SEBVtP . OTff t uvJu ' . : : : -. r 1 . . rr- r ' , 5 5 . . . ' ' fpo n rto won reo n v? M M no 038 tief d For Concessions lofov Controversial Polish Issue Might Be Solved iKliussians Yield WASHINGTON, April 18 cb American and British diplomata were hopeful today that Russian Foreign Commissar Com-missar V. M. Molotov would come to the capital prepared to make eleventh-hour con- BvMo! N cessions in the Big Three's toughest diplomatic problem the' Polish' issue. Unless he does, officials felt, Britain, Russia and the United State will enter next week's world security conference without with-out their much .hoped-for united front Tne Russian statesman is expected ex-pected late this week and his ar rival -will begin the first of the quarterly meetings of Big Three foreign ministers planned at Yalta; Yal-ta; There was no doubt that the Polish deadlock would be the top topic on the agenda. One American official went so far. as to predict that Molotov's visit-might result in an agreement which would admit a Polish del- eeaHon to the United Nation conference. However, there was little evidence that Britain and the United States on the one hand orRussia on the other had changed chang-ed views regarding polish rep resentation at aan xrancisco. 'This government and the Brit ish have adamantly refused to accept, ac-cept, representatives of the pro visional Polish government' at 'Warsaw. The Russians have reit - isfated their insistence that the Soviet-sponsored Warsaw Poles be invited for want of a new. broadened Polish government such as was prescribed at Yalta. Observers believed that Pres ident Truman instructed Stettin- ius to stand firm on the Anglo American decision to insist on the; new Polish government. Mr. Truman himself will have an opportunity op-portunity to discuss the issue when Molotov pays a call at the White House before going on to San Francisco. V-E Day Approach Spurs Workers to Buy More Bonds WASHINGTON. April 18 (U.R) Five industrialists representing a cross-section of the nation's business' busi-ness' said today that the approach of -V-E day was spurring workers on to buy more war bonds. In an - unusual long-distance telephone press conference, the business men reported tnat wage earners in their plants were par ticipating fully in the seventh war loan drive. The advance payroll savings drive opened April 9. The main drive, designed to raise $7,000,-000,000 $7,000,-000,000 in individual, bonds sales and $14,000,000,000 altogether, opens for the nation May 14. Bonds purchased through weekly paycheck deduction in factories and business organize tions wUl be credited to the seventh war loan from April 9 untu J my 7. The business men interviewed included Aaron Frank, president ox Meier and Frank department store, Portland, ore. Hoover Seeks New Definition Of 'Aggression' Term PHILADELPHIA, April 18 (U.R) Former President Herbert Hoover Hoo-ver said last night the San Francisco Fran-cisco security conference should define aggression to include "direct "di-rect or indirect subsidized governmental gov-ernmental propaganda in other nations." The enforcement of such a pro vision, wr. uoover told the foreign for-eign policy association, "would help cure that cause of war which grows out of crusade in faith, political po-litical or otherwise." Experiences with the Nazi infiltration in-filtration of poisonous propaganda and fifth columns info peaceful nations should "indicate there is a new form of aggression in the world," Mr. Hoover said. mm Republicans Gird For Battle Against Lowering of Tariff Biggest Congressional Tariff Fight in Recent Years Looms Ahead; Reductions Proposed of 50 Percent Below Jan. 1 Level By LYL.E C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 18 naAdministration spokesmen spokes-men opened their fight today for new tariff cutting authority. au-thority. They immediately ran into Republican demands for proof that power previously granted to that end had been beneficial. Beginning what promised to .be the biggest congressional congres-sional tariff fight in recent years, the house ways and means committee opened hearings on legislation to extend the reciprocal trade agreements acts for three years. The bill would authorize reductions of tariff rates to 50 per cent below the level of last Jan. 1. President Truman at his first news conference confer-ence yesterday endorsed the legislation. leg-islation. Questions Asked Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton appeared to New Commander-in-Chief Spaces ?o Afiurfcan Troops WASHINGTON, April 18 President Truman's reports to congress and the armed services outlined a cautious cau-tious pattern today for the crucial 100 first days of an administration ad-ministration he promised to conduct in "the American tra- Ernie Pyle, Great War Correspondent, Killed In Action WASHINGTON, April 18 (U.R) Ernie Pyle, the greatest frontline front-line reporter of this war, has been killed in action. The skinny little Scripps-How-ard war correspondent beloved of U. S. fighting men the world over was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on a little island is-land off Okinawa. He had come close to death countless times before in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. It was on the little island of le, near Okinawa, that Pyle was killed. t Pyle started covering the war in England and North Africa. He stayed with it, except for a brief furlough home, until the Americans Amer-icans were sweeping the Germans out of France. Then he came home again, leaving leav-ing the front, he explained, simply sim-ply because he couldn't stand the sight and smell of death any longer. long-er. He didn't want to go to war again, but he felt he owed it to America's soldiers and sailors and marines to report what they were doing in the Pacific. He landed on Okinawa on what they called "love day" the day or the first assault. The news of Pyle's death saddened sad-dened an already bereaved White House. A few moments after the report got out, President Truman said: "The nation is quickly saddened again by the death of Ernie Pyle. No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting fight-ing men wanted it told. More than any other man he became the spokesman of the ordinary American in arms doing so many extraordinary things. It was his genius that the mass and power of our military and naval forces never obscured the men who made them. "He wrote about a people in (Continued On Page Two) Locker Plants Blamed For Black CHICAGO, April 18 (UJJ The appointment of a federal food czar, coupled with a more stringent string-ent control over locker plant operations, op-erations, was urged today by food group representatives as the most efficient means of dealing with the nation's meat shortage. Testifying before a congres sional committee investigating food shortages, Mrs. Rose M. Keifer, executive secretary of the National Association of Retail r if TOomii w dot Bim mm jt ywirpoinif ;wiii read a statement of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who was unable to be present. But before he could begin. Rep, Harold Knutson of Minnesota, ranking Republcian committee member, said the committee wanted to know why "unem ployment was never overcome (Continued On Page Two) oution." Plans were being made, as he broadcast last night, for a meeting meet-ing of the big three foreign ministers min-isters here preliminary to the San Francisco conference. China and France may also be represented. In his broadcast to the millions of uniformed Americans, the new president told of .his shock . at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death. "He never faltered," he said, "nor shall we." Mr.. Truman spoke of the troops as a veteran who knows the mud, muck and danger of. battle. Assumes Duties "I have done as you do in the field, when a commander falls," he said. "My duties and responsibilities respon-sibilities are ' clear. I have assumed as-sumed them. These duties will be carried on in keeping with the American tradition. "I know the strain, the mud, the misery, the utter weariness of the soldier in the field. And I know, too, his courage, his stamina and his faith in his comrades, his country and himself. "We are depending on every one of you." The five minute broadcast was beamed from 32 short wave stations sta-tions in this country. It was re-broadcast re-broadcast by army and navy stations. sta-tions. Amplified transcriptions reached those forward elements which couldn't get it otherwise. Some 8,000,000 armed Americans overseas heard the report fo the services. ine president ended with a paragraph from Lincoln's second inaugural address: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish fin-ish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for hid widow, and his orphan to do al which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations." Mr. Truman demonstrated sound radio technique . on the air last night His text, delivered to newspaper offices some' hours be fore delivery, was a model of short-sentence composition. That (Continued on Page Two) Grocers, and Charles B. Bro-mann, Bro-mann, executive secretary of the Associated Food dealers, demanded demand-ed the appointment of a czar with control over all phases of food consumption and production. His powers, they agreed, should extend to federal purchase of meat for foreign shipments. Strict supervision over locker plants was demanded by Brof vised, Pitrzak told the group. He mahn and Ichael Pietrzak, inter- said that farmers were slaughter-national slaughter-national representative of the ing much more livestock than American Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers (AFL). Soviet Tanks Breach Lines At Seiversdorf Nazis Admit Russians Are Fighting 17 Miles Northeast of Berlin BULLETIN: LONDON. April 18 ou Nazi broadcasts reported tnat a charge by 250 Soviet tanks opened a new breach in line through Seiversdorf, 17 miles east of the capital. By ROBERT MUSEL United Press WarCorrespondent LONDON, April 18 & The officiaNScMet newspaper Red Fleet said today that the Russians were fighting within with-in sight of burning Berlin. The dispatch made no di rect reference to the big Berlin-bound offensive, nor did it locate . advance Soviet positions, but the Nazis admitted the -Russians were only 17 miles northeast of the capital. A German DNB dispatch said the offensive had breached its "climactic phase" with nine at tacking Soviet armies scoring new penetrations west ox Kuestrin on the Warsaw-Berlin superhighway and north of Wriezen, 23 miles nortneast ox tne capital. Berlin earlier revealed that the Red Tirmy "also had linked ud an its Oder river bridgeheads to form a solid 45-Mile front east of Berlin, Ber-lin, and had all bat isolated Frankfurt, the capital's main out' er defense bastion. To the south, the Germans said. other Russian forces stormed nine miles beyond the Neisse river, a tributary of the Oder, to the Niesky area, 45 miles northeast of Dresden and possibly 65 miles irom a junction with the Amer ican Third army. The Russians threw operational reserves into battle beyond the Neisse in ah attempt to force a quick decision, the DNB agency said. Altogether, perhaps 2,000,000 Soviet troops were on the march to the west along a 180-mile front from the Baltic port of Stettin to Goerlitz in the Sudeten foothills, the Nazis said. A r n i m Schoehberg, German Transocean agency commentator, said Marshal Gregory K. Zhu-kov's Zhu-kov's First White Russian army had made "deep penetrations" of the German defenses between Frankfurt, Oder river stronghold 33 miles east of Berlin, and the Oder-Spree canal. Another German broadcast said the fighting had spread to the Oder plain above Beeskow, 27 miles southeast of Berlin an indication in-dication v spearheads along the canal had reached a point almost due west of Frankfurt, threatening threaten-ing if not cutting the Berlin-Frankfurt Berlin-Frankfurt superhighway. Lee Supporters Decide to Press Recount Contest SALT LAKE CITY, April iu.rj . recount oi tne vi SI M . a . Utah's last gubernatorial election was being pressed today by sup porters of Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price, who lost the election to Gov. Herbert B. Maw by slightly more than 1000 votes. Decision to go ahead with a contest was announced by George M. Cannon, one of Lee's attorneys, attor-neys, who said "both sides are agreed that many ballots have been improperly counted." The action will be taken despite de-spite the fact that the Utah Supreme court recently upheld a district court ruling invalidating invalidat-ing so-called double ballots. Market Evil They described lockers as the "black magic of black market operation." op-eration." and blamed them for a widespread uneven distributiont of meat. Locker plant users do not have to surrender ration points for meat stored - in plants ana their operation is completely unsuper they needed and that the surplus Iwas going to the lockers. Nazi Syn&eti&Kubber Plant Falls Into American Hands Modernistic Leipzig: Plant is Captured by Yanks Undamaged WITH U. S. FIRST ARMY BEFORE LEIPZIG, April 15 u.R) American troops have captured the I. G. Farben company's greatest synthetic rubber plant t and its chief chemist, army officials revealed re-vealed today. The great, modernistic plant which until three days ago produced pro-duced rubber at a ' rate of 6,000 tons a month, was taken undamaged undam-aged yesterday. Today, Dr. William Hahn, mild-mannered mild-mannered industrial chemist for the concern, fell into American hands. The plant . covers . four square miles on the Saale river .south of Halle. It suspended operations a few days ago only because 'the American advance had cut off its supply of raw materials. Karl Wulff,. director of the plant, was found biding in a four-story four-story solid concrete pillbox-office to escape newly-freed and vengeful venge-ful slave laborers: He said the factory could resume production on an hour's notice if supplies were provided. J5 Of Shifting From European Theater WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. The army already has begun the job of shifting men and equipment equip-ment from Europe to the far east. , Authoritative quarters disclosed today that the original schedule for deploying U. S. military might from Europe against Japan has been advanced about four months due to the rapid crumbling of German strength. Key service forces personnel are being sent to the Pacific to buUd and care for bases that will be needed when full army strength is transferred to the east. Mass troop movements from Europe, of course, . must await V-E day. The announcement that stra tegic aerial warfare against Ger many nas Deen completed was expected to mean a sharp stepup in reassignment of air forces. Most of the troops in Europe are expected to go directly to the Pacific, probably throuah the ISuez canal. Some Will be returned to the United States for furloughs. fur-loughs. Little possibility is seen of relaxing re-laxing army production requirements require-ments immediately after V-E day. Not more than 16 per cent of the nation's industrial capacity can be shifted to civilian requirements require-ments at that time, it is estimated. Curtailment of B-17 flying fortress and B-24 liberator bomb er production was interpreted-as pointing to revised plane requirements require-ments for the . Pacific war. Foe Concedes Water Treaty Ratification BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April . IS (U.R) The senate today ratified rati-fied the Mexican water treaty. WASHINGTON, April 18 (U.B Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calif., leader of .the fight against the Mexican watei; treaty in the senate, sen-ate, virtually conceded its ratification ratifi-cation today during a final summation sum-mation of his opposition. . "I assume that there, will be a two-thirds vote for ratification," Downey said. Although he believed the treaty trea-ty had been improved by reserva tions. Downey said he still found three "serious" faults in it: 1. Failure in computing the 1.500.000 acre feet of Colorado river water allotted annually to Mexico, the underground -seepage from the river now available to her. 2. Back of provision, for a dam betwen Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz., to protect the proposed ..more southerly division dam from flash floods on the Gila river.; - 3. The unanswered questionvof whether or not Mexico is compelled, com-pelled, to accept water degardless oX'its salinity content AnTiyOc- Squeeze of Death Vir if ain?::::: LrtlL aahi r j 1 k --mss&zzzxmmvtm r I 1 CMIMNIT! FRANKFURT Hoi. amber t ft f MSTUTTSatT v, HsrtWki y ' , - - ....... - The assault. on Berlin from .west 1 II WC''"9 fury with Russians reported within 17 mues of capital wnne Americans Ameri-cans storm Elbe VaUey less than 45 miles from goal To the south., Yank troops battled in Leipzig and Nuernbefg, near juncture with Soviet troops in attempt to halt to Hitler's Bavarian redoubt. 1350 U. S. Bombers, Fighters Attack Rail Lines, Air Fields LONDON, April 18 (U.R) About 1.350 American bombers and fighters attacked rail targets and German air fields in southern Germany and western Czecho slovakia today. An announcement that some 600 ' Mustangs and Thunderbolts were shooting up German' air fields again indicated they were Baguio, Japanese Citadel, Stormed By U.S. Troops MANILA, April 18 U.R U. S. troops today stormed - the out skirts of Baguio, Japanese citadel Filipino guerillas have rescued more than 7,000 civilians In the last three weeks. The civilians, who were brought to the American-lines, included a number of U. S. citizens, Presi dent Sergio Osmena's daughter, Milagros, and Brig. Gen. Manuel Roxas. former speaker of the Philippines assembly. Four members of tne Filipino collaborationist government also were captured by the daring Igorot natives who stole into Baguio at night and brought outj tne civuians in groups ranging from two to 1800 persons. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 6aid the four collaborationists would be held for the duration of the war and then turned over to the Philippines government "for trial and judgment." The men and their positions in the Japanese-controlled puppet regime were: Jose Yulo, chief . (uonunnea on rage two) Russian Forces By BOYD LEWIS United Press War Correspondent PARIS, April 18 (U.R) The next few. days of operations in Germany, it appeared today, will reveal whether the Americans or the Russians will take Berlin. The swift advance of the U. S. Ninth army had given rise to belief be-lief the Americans wpuld be the first to march down iUnter Den Linden. But with the; opening of the Red army offensive the opinion opin-ion in -many quarters was that the Russians will take the Reich capitals' I' T&er3Bv ig-cojKiteCfcs- mrrtery, Berlin Ahead of Yank Troop Imnti I .,tpHCMlA i and east reaches a crescendo -of Nazis' flight from central Germany (NEA Telephoto) out to strike the final blows against the Nazi air force, which had lost 1,447 planes in the previous- 48 hours. It was - the third straight day the Eighth' air force had hit-the target. More than 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators bombed rail lines in the corridor . between the Allied armies. The persistent bombing of transport facilities in that area was aimed at disrupting the flight of the Nazis into the Bavarian Alps. ZURICH, April 18 (U.R Berlin's Ber-lin's defenses recently have been strengthened considerably, travelers travel-ers from the Reich report. The travelers reported this joke about the previous barricades and trenches: the Berliners said the Russians would need one hour f and two minutes to take them one hour for holding their sides with laughter and two minutes for storming. Hearing Promised On Treatment Of Prisoners of War WASHINGTON, April 18 (U.R Chairman Andrew J. May., D., Ky., announced today that his house military affairs committee will conduct a full-fledged inves tigation of thajtreatment of Axis prisoners of war in this country. May said that the investigation would probably get under way a week from Thursday. Representatives Represen-tatives of , 'the state and war departments de-partments ! will be asked in open hearings, he said, to tell the committee com-mittee all the facts regarding U. S. treatment of prisoners of war. May Get Into regarding the nature and extent of. the liaison between Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Russian high command. Supreme Allied headauarters has just reissued Eisenhower' statement at. a press , conference last February that liaison with the Russians i as good as he could wish for. At the same time a more definite statement on the subject has f been -given for the information niylof correspondents.; correspond-ents.; . " ? It has been revealed that an operational boundary line has Continued e: Page tm9 " es RolIIhglnto Czech Towns Qennon Western Front Swept Away in American Ameri-can Drive Nerds Say PARIS, April 18 c American armies rolled into Czechoslovakia and stormed the -five keystone cities of Hitler's crumbling Third Reich today in a general offensive of-fensive that Nazi spokesmen admitted had swept away their western front. Flying- columns oi Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American Third army broke across the German - frontier- into Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia early today on the final lap of a 200-mile dash from the Rhine that split the Reich In two. The break-through was made at an undisclosed point near the northwestern tip of the enslaved Czechoslovak . republic, barely 100 miles from Prague. Patton'a Third army troops also al-so fought then way into Chemnitz, Chem-nitz, about 50 .miles, northeast of their crossing point, and 80-odd miles west of the advancing Red army. '.r, -. , . . ' Powerful tank and Infantry forces of the American First, Seventh-ahd Ninth armies, mean whiMr, were storming the ' re-remainlng re-remainlng foua cornerstones of Oermafty's western llrie" LeTp-zig.HaUe, LeTp-zig.HaUe, Nuernberg and Magde- burgV . Near. Russian Troops- The Americans . already had swept far beyond all five Nazi citadels to points as close as 70 miles from the Russians on the Berlin front and their fall appeared ap-peared only a matter of days at most. Die-hard German garrisons, most of them held in the fight only on-ly by the guns of Nazi elite guards, were battling desperately to hold the five strongholds and prevent -a -general break-through that might finish off the European, war. . Censored, field dispatches indicated indi-cated that the fanatical German; resistance around these key fortresses fort-resses and supply difficulties had slowed the armored sweep of the American armies into eastern Germany. Nazi spokesmen admitted somberly, som-berly, however, that the stiffening stiffen-ing had come too late to prevent the break-up of their western defenses de-fenses into a patchwork of disorganized dis-organized islands of resistance, many of them out of. contact with the -German high command. Infantrymen and flame-throwing tanks of the U. S. Ninth army ran into ferocious resistance from Nazi elite guards And some 1,400 members of the Hitler Youth organization or-ganization in the streets of Magdeburg, Mag-deburg, but they were reported making steady progress toward the cltys four Elbe river bridges. Hitler Boys Dig In Late dispatches said the Ninth army's 30ra infantry, division and units of the Second armored division di-vision had cleared all of Magdeburg's Magde-burg's southern and southwestern districts, except for two streets In which the teen-aged Hitler youths were dug in for a death battle. Roving gangs of these boy soldiers sol-diers were reported infiltrating the American lines at a number oi points inside the city and at- (Contlnoed-'On Page Two) Yanks Find New Treasures WITH UJ S. NINTH ARMY. GERMANY. April 18 (UJ Troops of the 30th division found a Vault at Magdeburg containing jsuver and currency worth $20,000,000 and m - number of stored art treasures. War In Brief EASTERN FRONT: Soviet newspaper says jRed -Army i flghtfag withln'sight of Berlin, WESTERN FRONT: Ninth army battles for Elbe river crossing at Magdeburg; British tanks drive Within 20 miles of Hamburg, . -. AIR. W ARr Allied air forces re some assault' ori Germany' after destroymg 1,42' German ' planes . in previous ,4S hours. 1 , PACIFIC: B-29s blast Japanese. suiddeplane oases second tim , in 12 hoars .Filipino guerillas! rescne 9,000: civilians from Baguio 1 on rwrthern Luzon . f' ITALY: Eighth r army.iiurlve- witlulO- toUesorBolognt, -' |