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Show 4, J " i - rvnwrri IP fi:S)(I.ll lo) 1? 0 ni?; 1 0" iMUte THE WEATHER UTAH Clears this, afternooit and tonight, partly elondy Satnr : day. Continued .warm. Temperatures High... ...76 - Low...... S3 : ; Wlutt , onjp country, does in the next months will be test of our generation, We Jure been given a second chance, a reprieve in which te lay the foundations for peace. Rep. Emily Taft Douglas of -Illinois. FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 228 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OT- SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS VerrenSees OMfufure Wallace Aide m J f newest West Coast Sqen As Logical Work Shop For Vast Processing RENO, Nov... April 20 C2 The west coast is "the log ical work shop for, processing process-ing materials which will come from Pacific lands and Alaska Alas-ka under the impetus of postwar post-war expansion, Gov. Earl Warren of California told the conference of western governors today. Warren said the United States can develop "a tremendous two-way two-way trade" with China. India and other , lands which will maintain "our vast newly created merchant marine and air transport. The western states and Alaska, comprising more than half the area under the government of the United States, are "a new national nation-al value awaiting exploitation," AC MiUl Modern technology is opening new opportunities for postwar industrial in-dustrial development in tile west. Warren said. He predicted that ores and fuels now used in shipbuilding ship-building would be used to make steel billets, plates and shapes for peacetime manufacture. War plants must be converted to supply a large part of the consumption needs of the west's increased population, Warren said. "All of us would be lacking in confidence If we did not see the possibilities for increased peacetime peace-time employment in an area such as ours," he told the conference. He, described- the west as an area? possessing 80 per cent of tne nation "a potential nyoro-eiec- V. S , I - ' it -i,Vj(7 Alfred Schindler, above St. Louis businessman, has been named un dersecretary of commerce, sue ceeding Wayne C. Taylor. He was formerly assistant to Jesse H. Jones. International Experts of 44 Nations Meet after the last war. In H diysef deliberations, the United Nations trie powerr 70 per cent of the -naiexpew tion's remaininn stand of com mereial timber, one-fourth of the nation's measured underground reserves of petroleum and natural gas, enormous quantities of iron ore, limestone, silica, and fluxes requred for steel ( and "vast" re-serves re-serves of nearly all metals and non-metalics now used in modern manufacture. Meat Subsidy Program May Be Revised WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.R) The Office of Price Admin istration Is revising the meat subsidy sub-sidy program in an effort to al- . leviate the nationwide shortage;-it shortage;-it was learned today. At the same time, it was reported, re-ported, the war food administra- ' tlon is working out plans to give a direct subsidy to cattle feeders. feed-ers. Informed sources said the OPA plan would be announced before the end of this week or early next week. They said the action was the direct result of meat industry complaints on capitol hill that OPA is price-fixing meat packers out of business or into the black market and, at the same time, making it financially unfeasible for. cattle feeders to "manufacture beef on the hoof. ' These charges have been aired before the special senate food investigating in-vestigating committee and the banking committee, which is studying a bill to extend price control through December 1946. The act Is due to expire this June. The tanking committee has agreed that -price control should be extended at least through June, 1946, but it has held onto the bill in an attempt to force OPA to do something administratively admin-istratively to alleviate the meat shortage. In the absence of OPA action, some senators have indicated tney would battle to amend the act when it reaches the senate floor. WASHINGTON, April 20 OHO International law experts of 44 United Nations polished up one cog of the projected world security se-curity machinery today, five days before opening of the San Fran cisco world security conference. The jurists agreed on a set of recommendations for revising the old court of international justice established at the Hague shortly RyssSuiiu F ire 1M (gnfinlSGT) S8Vin) Mole s 1 Bcir Tokyo Reports New U. S. Landings On Southern Okinawa Gen. Buckner's Army Forces Launch New, Big Offensive in Southern Okinawa To Chalk Up Sizable Gains Against the Japs By FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, April 20 ranJTokyo reported todav tha American assault forces atterapted'to land from a 30-ship !miam'ii fluit a MiiL.. Sll.; i; a.! "iMwu ticci viji ouu bjicxii siuijawa iu cooramauon wirn a. big ground offensive sweeping toward Naha from the north. Elements of three army divisions, which "Tokyo esti mated at 10,000 troops, wedged deeDer into the stronsr Japanese defenses four miles north of Naha. cauital of the isiana, ana arove witnin a mue blueprint which will be submitted to the United Nations after the conference begins next week. The judicial delegates decided to recommend that the new world court, which will function as a part of the United Nations organ! zation, should be located at the Hague as did its predecessor Unable to agree definitely on two points, they adopted aiterna tive suggestions for the 'consider at ion of San Francisco delegations Ihese functions dealt with (1) the method of nominating and electing judges and (2) the ques tion of whether member nations of the cpurt should be compelled to submit certain types or cus Dutes to the court. p In the first case, it was under' stood, the jurists will suggest that the San lyrancisco delegates agree either to the old world court pro cedure of nominating court judges through representatives in tne nermanent court of international arbitration or to a regulation that iudses be nominated by indi vidual countries through normal diDlomatic channels The lurists proposed in tne sec ond case either that the United Nations organization require all court members to subscribe to rnmnulsorv submission of spec! 7 . .a il A. tied disputes to tne court or mat .. . 1 1 1 A. AU. an ' option clause similar to me old court s be inserted in me revised re-vised statute. The option would permit countries to participate in the court without binding themselves them-selves to submit all disputes of a given nature to the court's juris diction. of Machinato airfield In the new ground offensive. The town of Machinato. north or tne airfield, was occupied and a front report said the troons nad au nut captured a hill overlooking over-looking Shuri, two miles inland from Nana. , Tokyo radio said the amnhibl eui forces 'attempted to land pn mc BOTincrn nan at uunemna aTOklwsu: 5 miles south of Yonabaru, but Were driv- Jacobs Explains Power Shut-Down Nazi Documents Found By Yanks; Capture Hideout WITH U. . FIRST ARMY IN UKKMAWY, AprU 20 U.R) American Amer-ican First army troops have cap- urea a secret uerman foreign office hideout in the Harz moun tains and seized a great number oz wazi documents, it was dis closed today. There was no immediate indication indi-cation as to whether any high-ranking high-ranking members of the foreign ofifce had been taken. It was -recalled, however, that a number of prominent Nazi lead-4 - recenuy were reported to have taken refuge In the Harz mountains moun-tains in an effort to organize jcueriua resistance against the Americans. Too much moisture in the coal. combined with a number of con tributing conditions, today was blamed for the outage in Provo Utilities power system this morn- ine between the hours of 1:30 and 5 o'clock, according to Elmer A. Jacob, superintendent. The statement released by Mr. Jacob explains the outage as f ol lows: "Between the hours of 1:30 and 5:00 a. m. the city power plant had a series of outages caused by the fire burning too low under the boiler. During the war period it has' been impossible to get slack coal that is properly cleaned and graded from fines to sizes ap proximately one inch in greatest dimension. The coal used at the plant must be wet so as to make the fuel bed sufficiently cohesive to prevent sifting of the fine fuel through the grates. Coal having excess of fines requires more wa ter to make it hold together on the grates. "Under light loads during the mgnt or early morning period there is less heat on the grate and consequently it is more diffi cult to keep the fire burning freely. Last night this combina tion of wet coal and light load resulted in putting out the fire to such extent that the steam pressure could not be maintained on the turbine, hence the series joi outages that occurred." The enemy report described the American Invasion force as comprising com-prising 20 transports, two to four battleships, one cruiser and five destroyers. Fighters Attack Tokyo-- , While the troops were battering batter-ing -through the strong Japanese lines on Okinawa, army Mustang fighters from Iwo heavily raided tne Atsugi airfield at Tokyo in the first large-scale fighter attack at-tack on the enemy's capital. Early reports listed 102 Japanese Japan-ese planes as destroyed or damaged dam-aged in the surprise attack on Atsugi yesterday. Returning American pilots siad they sighted sight-ed rows of from 200 to 300 Japanese Jap-anese bombers and fgihters lined up on the field. In the'radi, 21 Japanese' planes were shot down, 22 probably shot oown, ze destroyed on the ground and 33 damaged: A laree carro ship also was sunk off the coat and a medium-sized freighter left burning south of Tokyo. Three Divisions Used Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivard Buck. ner launched the bis offensive on Okinawa - with elements of the Seventh, 27th and 96th divisions early yesterday behind the heavi est massed artillery fire of the racmc war. Swarms of carrier planes &nri the big guns of battleships, cruis. en ana aesiroyers off shore also aided the infantrymen as they irucjs out wun tames and flamethrowers flame-throwers in the new drive, which came after a lull of nearly two weeks in the southern Okinawa campaign. Front reports said Americans lionnnned On Page Two) Poland Certain To Be Missing From Parley AprU 20 (U.R) Yanks Capture Rommel s Aide By UNITED PRESS Gen. Bayerlein. who once ser ved as chief of staff to the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, has been captured during the mon- up of the Ruhr pocket, the British radio said today. The BBC broadcast was recorded record-ed by the Office of war Inform. tion. - There is almost certain to be itt empty chair labeled "Poland when the United Nations meet in San Francisco next Wednesday to pegin setting up an organization to Keep tne peace. The absence of Poland first victim of Axis aggression and one of the first members of the United Unit-ed Nations family casts a cloud over the opening of a conference from which so much is expected More than anything else it shows lack of complete harmony among leading members of the world's ig powers. It has been stated repeatedly that success of tne new security league depends to a large degree on continued cooperation among those powers. American officials still clune to the slight hope that the Unted States, Britan and Russia would be able to agree on a new Polish government in time to invite Po land to late stages of the meeting. The key to the Big Three tan gle, they felt, may be in the briefcase of Soviet foreicn Com. missar V. M. Molotov, who is expected ex-pected here today or tomorrow. Britsh Foreign Secretary Anth ony Eden and secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., are ready for a last-minute precon- ierence discussion of the prob lem as soon as his plane lands. German Pocket Battleship Sunk LONDON. Aoril 20 (U.R) Brit ish bombers have sunk the Ger. man pocket battleship Luetzow at her moorings in the Baltic part of aweinemunoe, it was announced today. How Far Berlin The nearest distance to7 Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT About 10 (approaching Strausberg. by Ger man report). WESTERN FRONT 43 miles (from south of Tangermuende). ITALIAN FRONT 516 miles near Comacchlo). Baffle Opens For Hitler's Last Retreat Seventh Army Strikes For Munich Following Capture of Nuernberg PARIS, April 20 vx The American Seventh army cap tured the ruined Nazi shrine city of Nuernberp; today, and struck south for Munich, to open the battle for Hitler last retreat in the Bavarian Alps. All organized resistance ended In Neurnberg after a sav age,, house-to-house battle that front dispatches said had gutted the once-beautiful medieval city. The last survivors of a Nazi Elite Guard corps surrendered to the Americans inside the old walled city in the center of Nuernberg Nu-ernberg late this afternoon iron- ically on the 56th birthday of the luenrer, who had ordered his par ty- shrine defended to the death. 15th City To Fall 2 W&tH$ ?B and the third big Nazi stronghold h lyiwiiM it uniting itiifrdt,iwcra. armies in the past 24 hours. Halle and Leipzig were taken by the U. S. First army yesterday after a prolonged fight that outdid out-did in fury even the bloody batT tie for Nuernberg. Armored vanguards of the Seventh' army 'were racing 25 miles and more beyond Nuern berg even before the last enemy resistance ended them. They struck within 70 miles or less of Munich, cradle of the Nazi party and northern outpost of the Ba varian redoubt where Hitler had boasted his followers would cbn tinue the fight, even if all else in Germany fell. Important Gains The Seventh army triumph mgmtgnted a day of unspectacular unspectacu-lar but strategically important gains scored by the Allied armies against by-passed German strongholds strong-holds up and ' down the western front. In the north, Canadian First army troops completed the libera tion of northeastern Holland and wheeled northeast and west for the naval base of Emden and the V-bomb coast of western Holland. British Second army forces sealed off all but the sea escape route for the Germans in the burning port of Bremen, rammed an armored spearhead within three miles or less south of Hamburg, Ham-burg, and battled for a crossing oi tne cioe xewer man izo miles irom Berlin. U. S. Ninth army troops on the British right flank deepened their Elbe river bridgehead southeast of Magdeburg against fierce opposition op-position and dispersed a strong Nazi counterattack near the American-British hinge, after the enemy had made some initial gains. units of the Ninth army teamed up with Lt Gen. Courtney' H. Hodges First army troops to overrun all but about one-fourth of the Harz mountain pocket. where thousands of by-passed Nazis were trying to wage a semi-guerilla semi-guerilla war from the wooded caves and ravines. Bag Secret Hideout The mop-up bagged a secret hideout of the Berlin foreign office of-fice and 30 carloads of German army and foreign office papers. Hodges' men also consolidated (Continued on Page Two) Nazis' Last Bastions Falling is?, MVrX, i ( poland swrtr " t iC ' N--s)J'' '' B&sri S wmmm. AUSTRIA J jfc Capture of Leipzig by U. S, First army toppled keystone fortress of ucrman defenses belowABerun. . Americans also battled inside Nuernberg, Halle and Chemnitz, with fall of those three maior bastions expected soon. General Bradley announced Americans in eastern Germany have reached their immediate objectives and would pause ostensibly to wait development of Russian drive which Berlin said had reached within 11 miles of Nazi capital after seizing Seelow and Wriezen. Far to the north. British and Canadians Canadi-ans closed rapidly on Hamburg, reached Zuider Zee, drove for Amsterdam. (NEA Telephonto) Pyle Buried In le Shima Plot Beside Doughboys OKINAWA. April 20 (U.R) Erne Pyle was buried on Ie Shima this morning beside some of the doughboys he glorified. As a chaplain read a brief burial service and spoke the final words, a squad of riflemen fired volley of shots and the flag-draped flag-draped coffin was lowered into the ground. ' Even as the final services were being held, the thunder of the battle the tiny noosler hated but endured rose to a crescendo on nearby Okinawa where Mother fdoughboys were fighting and dy ing in a drive to attain the enemy's capital city. On Ie ifeelf. soldiers were struggling to xpot the Japs from positions on mount egusugu. The lovable little war corres pondent, killed by Jap machine gun bullets Wednesday, was accorded ac-corded a military funeral when it was discovered he was a sea man first class in world war one. That, and not the fighting he did with his typewriter in this war was decided upon as the official reason he was entitled to be burled with "appropriate military nonors. ' 25 Meet Death In Plane Crash SWEETWXTER, Tex., April 20 (U.R) Between 20 and 25 passengers pas-sengers aboard a twin-engine army transport plane were killed today when it crashed and burn ed three miles south of here. Army officials refused at first to release the number of men aboard the plane until an accurate check on the bodies could be made, but local undertakers said that "more than 20 bodies" were in Sweetwater funeral parlors. The plane, based at Midland army air field, was en route to a New Jersey destination when it crashed shortly after 6:30 a.m. Capt. Schumacher was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the crash, about three-fourths of a mile east Of the San Ancrelo aignway, ana said mat all of the occupants were deatfbv the time ne arrived. Deputy Fire Chief Roy Steph enson oi Avenger field's depart uient saia- xne men nad no chance whatever to escape. BOMBERS RAID DEPOT LONDON. AprU 20 (U.R) RAF heavy bombers today raided a German fuel depot at Regensbure. barely 30 miles ahead of the American Seventh army. U. S.r Russian forces Join In Dresden Area Red Annies Penetrate Berlin's "Defense Zone Proper" Report By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Corresponrent LONDON, April 20 a Kussian assault forces smashed smash-ed into Berlin's "defense zone proper" within seven miles of the city today, and Moscow Mos-cow said American and Russian Rus-sian patrols probably had made a juncture in the Dresden Dres-den area. A Nazi military spokesman said massed Soviet tanks and troops had- penetrated to the area of Hangelsberg, seven miles east of Berlin on the trunk highway to Frankfurt, and had reached the defenses of the burning capital. Acknowledge Reverses The German high command, acknowledging widespread reverses re-verses in the fortifications in front of Berlin, said frankly that "the situation has deteriorated." .Other Nazi broadcastreported Soviet tanks and infantry were moving directly against Berlin between Muencheberg and Wriezen. Their center had reached reach-ed Strasberg. nine miles from the capital, and the lower wing was at Hangelsberg, seven miles front Berlin. Moscow dispatches, following up tne xirst soviet high command com-mand confirmation of the showdown show-down offensive on a broad Berlin Ber-lin front, reported that the Russians Rus-sians had broken across the Spreb river and were closing against Dresden. It was in that region that, according ac-cording to a Moscow dispatch, outriders of Lt. Gen. George S. .Patton's U. S. Third army and Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army, probably have' met. The first report of a possible juncton of the American and Russian forces came from Moscow Mos-cow United Press Correspondent Correspond-ent Henry Shapiro reported from the Soviet capital that Russian forces, after breaking through the Spree river defense line, were thrusting on toward a junction with the United States Third (Continued on Page Two) - 1,600 Bombers Blast Germans Hitler Passes His56th (Probably His Last) Birthday Today y w. u. uiuuiwuuTMAM lot fresh defeats to offer. There was no Indication the fuehrer United Press Staff Correspondent Adolf Hitler, the defeated die tator. passed his 56th. and prob ably- last, birthday today. There were no celebrations In his dying empire for Ahe most hunted man in history; The only victory salutes came from the guns of Allied armies closing in on him from east .and west. Berlin. whereIn Hitler's hey day the red flags with black swastikas flew and his storm troopers paraded, echoed with the artillery on the oncoming Red army, reported only ten . miles away. The7 German radio, which once boomed Hitler's birthday soeech- Berlin, had only. news! from would make a birthday broad cast, although a Swiss report said 21 gaulelters had asked Goebbeli last week to persuade Hitler to speak for the sake of morale. The same dispatch, quoted a Munich source, said Gbebbels and Hlramler had refused to act on the matter The fuehrer was believed to be at his mountain retreat at Berch- tesgaden, planing a "twilight of me uods- nnaie to his career of conquest Some recent reports have suggested Hitler, still was in Berlin, but few believed he would remain that close to the Red army if he could help it A zuricn dispatch, quoting a German diplomat who supposed ly left Berlin last week, said the Reich capital Nhad been stripped for its capture. According to the report, all Nazi organizations and government officers " had "been evacuated to the Bavarian re doubt where Hitler plans his last stand. The dispatch said anything that might identify Nazi party members uniforms, emblems. and- even books and pictures of Hitler had been destroyed. Martin Bormann, Nazi party leader for southern Germany including in-cluding the Bavarian Alps and Berchteggaden, warned potential deserters of sinking Germany, "Whoever breaks his oath- is a scoundrel. We will observe with watchful eyes." - . Hitler himself expelled from the party , a deputy ,, gauleiter, named Tesche, from the Gau area Including captured Halle and MeYseburg, according to a DNB report. Hitler ordered. "I degrade you and expel you from the party for the cowardly attitude ex pressed in your phone call. You can regain "honor only by trying yourself to the utmost in Immediate Im-mediate front service." In a different tone. Hitler thanked the gauletler of Franken Province, where a few thousand Nazis made a desperate last-ditch stand ; in the capital of Nuernberg. "We are now starting a fight fanatical as that we nad in our ascent to power years ago," Hitler ald in his-message. "However "How-ever great the enemy's superior- .Avontinuea' On, rase Two;. Dewey Urges Full Suport of U. S. Peace Delegation NEW YORK. AprU 20 UJB uov. Thomas E. Dewey urged the American people today to back the United States delesation to the San Francisco conference with full non-partisan support. Dewey, speaking at a Jewish labor committee exhibit last night, said the delegation would represent rep-resent the whole American -people! and must be supported in that non-partisan approach to order to help produce a lasting peace. The United States must refcllze Dewey said, that the United Nations conference was onlv th beginning of a new world iut an Allied unity was only the first step iowaru winning the war. Dewey asked that small nations be protected in the setting up of working arrangements for receiving re-ceiving a peace plan, 'So long as iui nanonai . . . are lnsuffi- voice in the family of nations, war remains a mreat, ne said, ' LONDON, April 20 (U.R) More than 1600 American bombers and fighters raided prime tareets throughout Germany and Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia today in direct support of the American and Soviet armies. The big Eighth air force of 800 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with an equally strong fighter escort concentrated the attacks on railway installations in the Berlin area and between Munich and Prague. The rail targets around Berlin' were spread in an arc ranging from 15 to 35 miles north, south and west of the German capital. In hitting rail lines between Munich and Prague in Czechoslovakia, Czechoslo-vakia, the American planes raided just ahead of the U. S. Seventh and Third armies. RAF Mosauitos attacked Berlin last night War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: American Seventh army clears most of Neurnberg and strikes south toward to-ward Munich. EASTERN FRONT: Soviet as sault forces reported storming Strausberg nine miles East of Berlin. Pacific: American assault forces -launch, new offensive against Okinawa's capital; U. S. invasion ! troops continue unopposed ad. -vance across Mindanao In Philip- pines. ... - vaik , war: American -Flying Fortresses bomb strategic: Ger man targets ahead of advancing Aiiieo armies. f""? Protected and have nolnew positions in advance toward:, - a .... i . .. . ; , a r . . I drives across Po plains. |
