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Show -Hi I HDasa'tt" E?a2Il ft Votte Una' WaCepvoi?Eic - Domi(3 ISIlestlSoim! IPoBIIc Hoc aft O 'cBoeEi jmSnllntS r-vPollinj places are as follows: v -J Ward One Residence of Minerva Karren, 355 South Third East street for voting districts dis-tricts l, ?, 3, 13 and 14. Ward Two Residence of Ruth Vincent, ' "Ward Three Residence of Vida Swenson, 777 West Second South street for 'voting 14' TKFKViKt? f "5 Districts 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. j fricts 22' 23' 26' 27 2829' 30 and Ward Four Residence of Mary Pratt, 345 North Second East street for voting districts dis-tricts 4, 7, 10, 11, 24 and 25. Ward Five Residence of Louise Palmer 429 East Sixth North street for voting dia tricts 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12. . ' THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloudy with IocV afternoon and evening thunder showers today and Wednesday! : no marked chance in temperature-. Temperatures: , High 5 Low 2 . So They Say i'y Democracy as a form of gov-t gov-t eminent Is raited only to a devout : nd disciplined people. Supreme Court Justice Frank 'Murphy. SIXTIETH YEAR, NO. 47 IPS Geneva Sure Of Operating Into October v DPC to Supply Orders : Until Plant is Ready . For Private Operation . Orders sufficient to keep the Geneva Steel mill at Pro-vo, Pro-vo, operating "well into October' Octo-ber' have been promised by Defense Plant Corp., and Sur-rplus Sur-rplus Property board officials, Sen. Abe Murdock, D., Utah, . said today. ;, The senator, "who arrived ;here with his family for a rest from the rigors of law making, .said reconversion of the steel 'plant into a peacetime producer . Of steel would cost from 30 to 40 million dollars. He said he be-ilieved be-ilieved the government should furnish the financial backing for such. con version. Utah's junior senator, who plans to spend his congressional vacation in Utah., was accompanied accom-panied from. Washington by Mrs. : Murdock and their son. Lt. Dan TB. Murdock, United States navy, awho was returned to the United States for hospitalization after 20 months aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. "Orders already in, or soon to be directed to Geneva will keep the plant operating until well into October," -Sen. Murdock said. "After talking -with the heads of te Defense Plant Corp. and surplus sur-plus property board, I am most hopeful some satisfactory disposition dispo-sition will be made during the interval. Atty. Gen. Tom Clark told me just before 1 left Washington, Wash-ington, that every competent and legitimate bidder would be in the picture, and, in event there is any interested bidder on whom there might be some question under antitrust laws, that bidder will be given a fair hearing before the attorney general himself." He predicted Geneva will be the hub of heavy production in western steel industry and that sheet steel production from Geneva Ge-neva will result in establishment in this vicinity of numerous steel fabricating plants and will stimu-( stimu-( Continued on Pace Two) Eastern Steel Chief Protests LHelp to West PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7 (U.R) This city, long the kingpin of American steel production, may lose its top position to war-born western steel mills. Ernest T. Weir, chairman of National Steel corp.. warned today. e- The former president of the American iron and steel Institute protested alleged favoritism shown western industry by gov ernment and freight rates that handicap this district s producers. "The Pittsburgh steel industry has no objection to competition with west coast mills as long as it's on even terms and freight rates are comparable," Weir said. "Pittsburgh has been taking it lying down and it s time to wane uu." (U. S. Steel has indicated it may be forced to build an east coast plant because of Pittsburgh's high rates which may mean scrapping scrap-ping of facilities here. Weir said that low rates now exist in.. the west and pressure for even lower rates is just beginning. He protested plans for decentralizing decentral-izing industry advanced by Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada. He said the Pittsburgh area is typical of areas in which the senator proposed "to prevent industry in-dustry from growing and even to force a reduction in its present size." Weir visualized unemployment unemploy-ment and eventual regional deterioration de-terioration through such a "ceiling "ceil-ing on growth." The steel leader compared costs of ' shipping per 100 pounds of steel from the Kaiser plant at Fontana, Cal. and from the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh area over similar distances. In some cases rates for Pittsburgh were over twice as high. 13 Killed In Elevator Blast PORT ARTHUR, Otn Aug. 7 CU.RJ At least 13 persons were killed by an explosion at No. 5 pool, elevator shortly -after 11 4. m. today, according to police. M Court Hears Arguments In Killing Cose Entire Case Reviewed By Attorneys As Testimony In Hearing is Completed Final arguments in the preliminary pre-liminary hearing in the case of the state vs. Victor Edwards. Ed-wards. 30, American Fork, who is charged with first degree de-gree murder in the fatal Fri-day-the-13th shooting of Irvine Ir-vine Greer, his neighbor, were under way this afternoon. " Attorneys Arnold Roylance. representing the state, and Judge A. H. Christensen and Don Mack Dalton, for the defense, reviewed the entire case before Judge W. Dean Loose, in Provo city court today. In the morning session, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of the defendant, was brought to the stand to complete her testimony, begun in court Monday afternoon. Upon cross-examination, she quietly quiet-ly broke down and cried in telling of the scene when her husband and the late ; Mr. Greer were struggling 'Violently" 'Vio-lently" for the death weapon She stated that she was too excited ex-cited at the time to remember the exact positions by which the men held the gun, adding that she ; didn't realize Mr. Greer was hurt until she saw blood. Whgi she tried to get into the car. to go for a doctor, she moved the gun," which had been laid in the front seat by Mr. Edwards, to the back seat. The defendant later trans- ferred the .22 long rifle to the I front seat again before it was ! finally taken as evidence by Wal ter Durrant, deputy sheriff at the scene of the shooting. . Several times, Mrs. Ed -wards changed her testimony concerning intricate points. She first stated that Mr. Edwards Ed-wards ran to the house for his gun, taking from five to ten minutes. Her attorney brought to her attention the fact that she might have been wrong, and she corrected herself her-self stating that she had meant to say seconds. mrs. tuwaras wsunea ui sue, had witnessed the beginning of the argument from her kitchen window, and later moved to her kitchen door where she saw the shooting. Don Mack Dalton, attorney forlclusion of the first day of a'10- the defense, was sworn as a wit- ness in identifying exhibits two to eignt inclusive, pnoiograpns ot the Greer and Edwards homes and of the picket fence and surrounding sur-rounding territory where the controversy con-troversy occured. The pictures, exhibits for the defendent, were ' taken by Mr. Dalton. Also present in the courtroom this morning were the seven children chil-dren of Mrs. Irvin Greer, widow of the deceased. The oldest boy (Continued on Page Two) Water Bonds Voting Light Provo voters were slow; in going to the polls today to vote on the $1,000,000 waterworks water-works improvement revenue bond proposal. Reports from the five polling poll-ing places indicated that the vote would be light although it was expected that a heavier vote would be registered this afternoon and tonight prior to the closing time at 8 o'clock. All registered voters are eligible to vote on the bond initiative ordinance. Taxpayers Taxpay-ers are also expected to cast a ballot on the bond proposal. Site of World Capital Sien In Vicinity of San Francisco WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UR)w A virtual "capital of the world" probably will be established within with-in 100 miles of San Francisco, birthplace of the United Nations charter, to house the mechanics of the international organizations planned for post-war operation, the United Press has been informed. in-formed. A treasury spokesman disclosed the plan today and said that inasmuch inas-much as it has. been pretty well agreed that such organizations as the international monetary fund and the international bank for reconstruction re-construction and development are 5&so?NbiTDi35 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. ES1KTI1 Signs of the Times I as? v Berlin today, although to a great extent: cleared of rubble, still shows results of the terrific ter-rific pounding it took from Allied Al-lied bombs and Russian artillery. artil-lery. Picture above shows - a wrecked cofner of the once-busy once-busy Wittenberg Platz, sprouting sprout-ing a "defeat garden' 'of signs telling potential customers the -4-out I new addresses of bombed-out shopkeepers. Berliners were short of gasoline, but apparently apparent-ly there was no beer famine, judging by the photo at right. It shows a heavily-loaded beer truck (note rubber tires) pulled by a span of oxen. These photos were taken by Hans Martin Herloff, Danish photographer, photog-rapher, who, disguised as a Nazi cameraman and with forged credentials, roamed Berlin Ber-lin before the city fell, snapping snap-ping pictures under the noses of gestapo agents. A. F.of L Proposes 6-Point Plan Jo Speed Reconversion CHICAGO. Aug. 7 (U.R) The Ampriran FVrt Mn t inn rf T .nhnr warning that the nation faces economic disaster unless action is taken to speed reconversion, to day set forth a six-point program "to win the peace." A statement issued at the cort- day quarterly meeting of theCovery," : union s executive council asserted mai xnis country was rar iess,basis of its Droeram that theiav i prepared for peace today than it! was ,. mar- a Dori iiorkn " was for war at Pearl Harbor.' The 15-man council, represent- Forest Fire Still Burning PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 7 (U.R) ' Raging flames today continued! . . . .. . ...... . ... taxing tneir ton ,01 timoer at tires mausiry wun me suo-areas suo-areas in western Oreaon anrf ! stitution of voluntary methods. in threatened two towns. the water supply of On the Forest Grove front, firjs fighters from the Portland army base, state forest service crews;, loggers and Forest Grove voliin-teers voliin-teers battled to save the citys watershed as flaroes approached a third of the 2600acre area. And a few miles away, the Hillsborb water supply was threatened by fire which Sunday jumped out of bounds on Scroggins Creek. - CAB DRIVER DROWNS I BILLINGS, Mont., Aug 7 (U.R)4-Amos (U.R)4-Amos Rees, 24, Billings cab driver, driv-er, died enroute; to a local hospital hos-pital early today after he was rescued 'from Lake Elmo last night. ' :j' i to be located in the United States, it was almost certain that they would be situated in the same 'area. - It was suggested furthermore that a world university for the study of finance and economics peace, labor and the international aspects of aviation already mentioned men-tioned in numerous quarters be set up within thei borders of the "capital," which Would be a dis triet 10 miles square patterned after the District of Columbia. The school would be a graduate institution and draw its students from all over thelwcrld. f n Berlin rrrr 4. J v In. 5 4 T , is it. r ) . it- i ing 7.000.000 members, said lt airrH -iiritH einHmAnta AynraeeaH by the U. S. senate war investi- gating committee which reported that as conditions stand now, sudden victory over Japan will plunge millions of workers into unemployment and destroy any chance of rapid postwar re- The council suggested as the 1r ,.S. g-m t" Jon2. z4-vear-oia con tf ressiona l 1. Scale down the war effort to, ia one-front basis in order to icase surplus materials ana man-, power for an accelerated recon version drive. 2. Initiate a new peace production produc-tion program "on a scale large enough to meet the nation's needs Dut witnout interierence to war production." 3. Relax wartime controls over l - i : i . . i 4. Encourage private industry to expand its production in order to obtain full employment. 5. Approve President Truman's recommendations for supplementing supplement-ing inadequate state unemployment unemploy-ment compensation establishing higher minimum wage standards and expanding the national social security and housing programs. 6. Halt the "present alarming shrinkage of the worker's purchasing pur-chasing power by restoration of collective bargaining between labor and management." Efforts Fail To End Strike CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 7 (U.R) U. C. Conciliator James McNam-ara McNam-ara today renewed his efforts to end a five-day walkout at the Lockland, O., plant of the Wright . , . Aeronautical Corp. which has idled 27,000 workers and halted production orr Bi29 engines. McNamara met separately yesterday yes-terday with officials of the company com-pany and the United Auto Workers Work-ers (CIO) but neither would make the first move to end the strike. The strike began Friday when 14 employes refused to accept lower-paying lower-paying jobs. Picket lines flung around the huge plant admitted only a skeleton skele-ton crew of maintenance - men, guards and nurses. . UTAH. TUESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1945 4 C Air Ace Dies In Jet Plane Crash On Testing Duty By PATRICIA CLARY United Press Staff Correspondent BURBANK, Calif.. Aug. 7 (U.R) Maj. Richard L. Bong, Ameri ca's ereatest ace. was kiUed in the : flaming crash of a jet plane from) which he desperately tried to ijump clear, investigators said to- medal of honor holder, died ves- re-!terday as he struggled to free his heavy clothing from the narrow escape hatch of the P-80 Shooting Star he was testing. He had almost al-most bailed out when the crippled aircraft exploded. The force of the blast, which shattered the plane . into pieces less than three feet square, shot Bong's body clear of the plane, 'tt v j . . n i u i ki. He had pulled the ripcord of his parachute, and its silken folds swirled about the crumpled body as flames' swept over it. Bong was brought home for r'J,,:r . T """CZ 'mntiitds an hi ue air aee oy shooting down 40 of the enemy without a scratch. "Safe" duty was testing the jet-propelled P-80, the army's newest fighter model. Witnesses did not agree on the cause of the crash. One army flier said Bong overshot the Lockheed Lock-heed landing field. Another said something appeared to fall out of the tail of the rocket-like ship. A Lockheed mechanic said he saw a puff of black smoke come out of the plane. Then the escape hatch flew off, he said, and the (Continued on Page Two) Man, for Good or III, Unlocks Incalculable Power of Atom; World Enters on Atomic Age By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UJ) For good or ill, man has unlocked the incalcuable power of . the atom. He , has entered upon the atomic age.' His first use of this power the same that -energizes the sun, the stars, and the far galaxies has been to make a bomb. It is the most terrible en- 1 cine of destruction ever conceived. con-ceived. It may end the Japanese Jap-anese war soon. If the 'Japanese 'Japan-ese decide to fight on. it will . demolish their homeland. -But -when the-bomb'r work -is done, its makers hope to convert! OF ITlffll V Truman To ! Arrive Home By Tomorrow President Expects Wear To End Quicker Since Advent of New Bomb By MERREV1AN SMITH United Pfess Staff Correspondent ABOARD USS AUGUSTA i WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, TRU-MAN, Aug. 7 u) President Truman, jubilant over the development de-velopment of the powerful atomic bomb, expects to arrive ar-rive in Washington tomorrow to begin preparing his report) to the nation on the Big Three meeting at Potsdam. No definite date has been set II SCI as yet for the president's radio' address but it undoubtedly will be made within a few days after his .return. Mr. Truman is expected expect-ed to take occasion in his report I to warn the Japanese again that,e"emy number one of soclal J" destruction from a new source! awaits them if they stay in the war. A j The president himself broke the news of the awesome atomic i bomb to officers and men aboard this cruiser during the "show" hour. "We have just dropped a bomb on Japan that is more poderful than 20,000 tons of TNT," he said. "The experiment" has been an overwhelming ov-erwhelming success.4' The president said ' the an nouncement was the happiest he ever made because it meant a quicker end to the war, a saving of American lives, .the men cheered. . Mr: Trum8n Pfld particular tribute to Secretary, of War nenr; oumson iui nut pari in development of the new weapon. "If ever a man worked on a thing heroically, it was Secretary Secre-tary Stimpson," he said. "He deserved de-served great credit." Stimpson went to Potsdam, site of the Big Three meeting, to discuss dis-cuss atomic bombing with the president and transmit final approval ap-proval of plans back to Washington. Washing-ton. - - In the light of these developments, develop-ments, it was. obvious that Mr. Truman, former Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had the atomic bomb, in mind when they warned Japan two weeks ago to get out of the war or suffer the worst destruction the world has ever seen. New Ultimatum To Japs Likely WASHINGTON, Aug, 7 (U.R) Military observers believed today that the Allies were considering a new ultimatum calling on Japan to surrender or be annihilated with atomic power. If it is decided to issue an ulti matum, the observers said, it would probably come within a few days, after President Truman arrives home from Potsdam. The period until then will give the Japanese time to examine the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The observers noted with interest inter-est that Tokyo was not . picked as the .target for the first atomic bomb. The purpose of this may have been to avoid destruction of the Japanese government, the appropriate ap-propriate surrender authority. A second motive may have been to play on Japanese nerves by stirring stir-ring fear of having the closely-packed closely-packed capital blasted by atomic power. its power to the arts of peace, and to the enforcement of peace. Upon realization of this hope hangs the fate of humanity. Atomic power could remake the world; it also could destroy it. -Its power to destroy has been nude manifest te the Japanese. An atomic bomb -more devastating thin 20.000 tons' of TNT was dropped entile en-tile Japanese army base "of 'Hiroshima on Sunday. The next day yesterday President Truman gave the enemy another chance to accept the sur-render-or-be-destroved ultimatum of Potsdam.- . "If they do not accept our COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Is Hiroshima Sustains Undetermined Damage In Atomic Bomb Tokyo Broadcasts Declare Bombs Dropped By Parachute to Explode In Air Before Reaching Ground; rBestial- Bomb Deplored SAN FRANCISCO, Augv 7 j Japanese propagandists, propa-gandists, describing the atomic bombardment of Hiro- shima yesterday said today that "the destructive power of the new weapon cannot be slighted," adding that "considerable destruction" had been caused Heroshima. Tokyo broadcasts recorded by United Press aJso said that' "a few" of the bombs dropped by parachute exploded in the air before reaching the ground. ; The official - Allied announcement referred to only one atomic bomb. The first semi-official Tokyo . ; .1 i f i j 4V. ...f on was "sufficient to brand the enemy for ages to come as the destroyer de-stroyer of mankind and public Dropped By rarachute The broadcasts made a mod if i- cation of the usual Tokyo claim t18 no military damage had been suffered. "As a result of this wanton attack," Tokyo said, a considerable con-siderable number of houses in the city were demolished while fives were caused to start at several points." The broadcast said the bombs were dropped by parachute and "exploded in the air before reaching the ground. "Destructive power of this new weapon cannot be slighted," the broadcast warned, "although as investigation is still under way into extent of the damage , wroUght by the enemy's new tac- tics Quoting "informed quarters" In Tokvo, the broadcast said: "By employing a new weapon designed to massacre innocent children the Americans' have opened op-ened the eyes of the world to their sadistic nature. "What caused the enemy to resort to such bestial tactics which revealed how thin a veneer of civilization the enemy en-emy has and of his impatience impa-tience at the slow progress of the -enemy's much-vaunted Invasion of Japan's homeland." home-land." The broadcast claimed that effective measures are being worked out by the authorities concerned." Despite President Truman's announcement an-nouncement that only a single atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. Tokyo said: Diabolic Weapon "Describing how the enemy us-( us-( Continued on Page Two) Germans Within Five Months Of Completing Bomb 2 1ST ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Germany, Aug. 7 (U.R) Germany was within five months of completing her own atom bomb when the European war ended. ' A British task force four months ago discovered that German scientists sci-entists almost had completed work on the bomb in a two-room laboratory in the heart of a small silk factory north of Hannover. The bomb, it was calculated, would wipe out everything with- Mn a radius of six miles. A famous German research scientist sci-entist in charge of the experiments experi-ments was flown immediately to Britain at the time. He estimated his work would have been com pleted by October. , terms," he said, "they may expect a rain oz rum zrom tne air, tne . a s ft- 1 - ft. luce ox wn.cn nasi never uccu seen on this earth:" The announcements of the atomic bomb by President Truman, Tru-man, Secretary of War Henry I Stimson, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill signalized hat the war department called Oman's entrance into a new .physical world." VThe new bomb, the war department depart-ment said, max be "the instrumentality instru-mentality to end all major wars." In any event. It means that the basic power of the uni-(ConUnaed uni-(ConUnaed on Page Two) PRICE FIVE CENTS 10) IS9 High Explosive Bombs Hit Jap Naval Arsenal BY EDWARD L. THOMAS United Press War Correspondent GUAM, Aug. 7 (U.R) A fleet o2 125 Superfortresses hit the Toyo-kawa Toyo-kawa naval arsenal with 880 tons of high-explosive bombs today while smoke still belched from, atom-bombed Hiroshima, 300 miles to the. west. Radio 7r&TtyoSlr40 YwO-basedT American Mustang flghter-bombj ers led by a lone B-29 almost simultaneously bombed and strafed straf-ed military installations and "cities" in the Tokyo-Yokohama area for an hour for the fourth time in five days. Several British planes participated partici-pated in the Tokyo raid, Tokyo said. It marked the first time British and land-based planes have been reported in .action over report that 400 bombers and fighters of the ' Far Eastern air . force had utterly demolished what appeared to .be robot plans launching installations and other . military targets at Taramizu in southern Kyushu. The city itself: was left a sea of flames, airmen said. Returning pilots said they saw on the ground a number of small ' planes resembling the V-l or V-t Jet-propelled and rocket robot bombs used us-ed by the Germans against Britain. It was theorized that the Japanese might have been plotting a robot bombardment bom-bardment of the American in-vaslon in-vaslon base of Okinawa, 3S0 " miles to the southwest. Preliminary reports indicated" excellent results were achieved1 -in pin-point bombing of the main surviving source of Japan's naval- ammunition. The arsenal also turned out machine-guns, machine-guns, aircraft, cannon, -anti-aircraft guns and rifles.' The arsenal was situated on ST, narrow coastal plane ' northeast of Atsumi bay. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, command- -er of the strategic air forces, alse reported that final reports ore yesterday's B-29 raid on five Honshu industrial cities showed that 572 bombers hit the primary targets, 28 dropped mines and nine struck at targets of oppor- -tunity. They crew of the only B-29 lost was rescued. The effectiveness of the (Continued on Page Two) 125,000 Workers Unaware of Bomb Production Work WASHINGTON. Aug. 71 (tt-i For two and a half years now, as" many as 125,000 Americana have been engaged In making the war top secret weapons the atomic, bomb. Few were aware of what they had been producing. Working at plants at Oak Ridge; Tenn., near KnoxvUle; Richland,. Wash.; near Pasco; and an installation instal-lation at Santa Fe, N. M- the workers have seen great quantities quanti-ties of 'material going into, the plcnts. but nothing coming out as. a xuusned product, me product is sosmall that it. could be -concealed from all. but a very few.- c President Truman. ; In tevealinjfc the atomic bomb to the public today, to-day, said the workers, although -handling, materials '-used in-pro-" ducing the ' "greatest: destructive" force in history" have not been in much greater danger than that of many other occupations, v "The tmocaj jiaseen taken of their safety. 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