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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEHI. UTAH United Nations' Parley Holds Hope of World Russia Important Factor in Outcome of Peace Conference; U. S. Delegation Working for Successful Formula. 7n f v i rr i At ICNTJ Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. I walked down the cool, twilit corridor cor-ridor of the senate office building and out into the warm spring sun. Kt I crossed the threshold, the light on the bright white marble step blinded me and for a second I groped downward blindly. As I stood a moment recovering my equilibrium the thought flashed through my mind that this experience experi-ence was very much like the longer one which preceded it I bad been talking with Vice President Truman, Senators Connally, Vandenberg and others about the forthcoming meet-big meet-big in San Francisco of the United Nations. I recalled Truman't nervously energetic en-ergetic speech as be assured me that be was giving his time to Just one thing: acting as liaison between the President and the senate to keep the chief executive and the legislative legisla-tive leaders as nearly in step as possible. pos-sible. I recalled Senator Vandenberg' expression as I left him plunged deep in the thousand extra tasks and worries which his function as Republican Re-publican member of the delegation had plunged him. He had said: "If San Francisco doesn't succeed It will be the greatest moral blow the world has ever experienced." I thought of Connally s careful policy pol-icy of withholding public comment or quotation concerning the coming conference, except carefully thought out statements or speeches such as the one he will make in the senate before the conference. His is the delicate task as senior administration administra-tion representative on the delegation of maintaining a balance between the views of the Republican members mem-bers represented on the delegation, delega-tion, the administration's viewpoint, and his own and other personal views. After all, as senate majority major-ity leader he is responsible for helping help-ing to carry out a policy which not only a majority, but two-thirds of the senate will accept I also thought of the wide variance vari-ance of views expressed by members mem-bers of both houses not directly connected con-nected with the negotiations and of the great reticence of many who hesitate to express any view at this time. And I thought of the out-and-out Isolationists; a very few who admit that position and others whose doubts and suspicions battle with what they feel has been the strong trend for wholehearted cooperation which the various polls and other media of public expression appear to register. These kinetic thoughts moving now in harmony, now in friction, i seemed suddenly to have generated a blinding light that burst into the shadows of the complacent assurance assur-ance which had enveloped me and left me a little dizzy. What a tremendous tre-mendous opportunity seems to be offered to a war-weary world; what a fatal possibility if the effort fails. Fear of Russia Shades Future It is clear that such doubt and suspicion sus-picion as may have arisen as to the possibility of failure of achievement of world cooperation arises chiefly from one thing: fear of Russia. Next is the feeling in some quarters that Churchill's inability always to get along with Stalin bodes ill for tri-party tri-party harmony and some feel that the United States instead of trying to bring the two closer together should identify American interests more closely with Britain as opposed to those of Russia. Then there is still the unhealed sore which President Roosevelt's personal emissary, Edward Flynn, has been trying to heal, the friction between the Vatican and the Kremlin. Krem-lin. Lastly and perhaps more disturbing disturb-ing is what appears to be unilateral action toward small countries on the part of Russia in spite of the Yalta agreement Now those persons like Vice President Presi-dent Truman, who take the more positive and more hopeful view, feel that some of these factors have been built into bogey-men, that granted they exist as facts, that Churchill and Stalin don't always see eye to eye and that even less sympathy exists ex-ists between the Catholic church and the bead of the Communist party, none of these situations need affect the creation of an international organization. or-ganization. As to fear of Russia. Well, frankly, frank-ly, I cannot understand the workings By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 1 of the official Russian mind, I cannot can-not understand the hysterical at-tacks at-tacks in the Russian press on Walter Lippman, for instance, who has been in the first ranks of those who urge Russo-Amerlcan unity; attacks on Senator Vandenberg against whom they throw their whole book of antifascist anti-fascist vocabulary when he is on record as supporting a three-power treaty for disarming the axis which would be the basis of the chief thing Stalin wants an agreement of the only two great powers besides his own country, which would guarantee Russian security. I do not understand all this. I do not accept the propaganda which tries to say that communist government govern-ment is democracy. But there is one thing which sold me on playing ball with Russia. That is the patient pa-tient earnest and convincing argument argu-ment of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who certainly has no more love for communism than he has for fascism, who was never accused ac-cused of wandering with his head in the clouds or of trying to reform the world, or square the circle, and although he has faith a-plenty he wouldn't try to move a mountain without a bulldozer. His argument boils down to this: Russia and America need each other. oth-er. Russia knows this. There are fewer obstacles to a practical understanding un-derstanding between the countries than there are reasons why we should work together for mutual benefit Sponsors Provision For Adjustments Though it is generally agreed that the support of the American people of any international organization of which Russia is a part depends on the conduct of the Kremlin between now and the end of the San Francisco Fran-cisco conference, Senator Vandenberg Vanden-berg goes farther than that. He says that the support of the necessary two-thirds of the United States senate sen-ate for any organization which reo ognizes international organization depends upon inserting into the document which defines it, what he calls an "escape clause." That es cape clause would permit th2 readjusting re-adjusting of certain conditions now existing, certain sore spots which he feels may become cancers. The escape es-cape clause would permit the United Unit-ed Nations to escape from any restriction re-striction which prevented what they feel is the righting of wrongs. "Injustice," says Vandenberg, "is a strait jacket and you can't keep the world In a strait jacket" Of course, there are a lot of Polish votes In Vandenberg' s constituency and a member of congress is such by virtue of, and the powers he exerts ex-erts are delegated by, the people who put him in office. Nevertheless, he is not speaking merely for his Polish constituents when he talks about including in the jurisdiction of the United Nations, the administering administer-ing of justice. That is the trademark trade-mark he wants to put on any organization, or-ganization, which comes out of San Francisco. Other members of the delegation have trademarks of their own. But as nearly as I can judge all are willing to make considerable sacrifice sacri-fice of their personal views, rather than shake the world's morale with failure to. produce anything The safety record of the railroads rail-roads In the present war is much better than that in the First World war, the Interstate Commerce commission com-mission reports. This is true, the commission points out, despite the fact that there has been a substantial increase in the last few years in the number of accidents acci-dents arising from the operation of trains and the number of casualties resulting therefrom. "It appears," the commission says, "that for' each class of person per-son the fatalities were much greater great-er in World War I than they were in World War II. the total for all classes being 10,087 in 1917 and 9.288 in 1918. compared with 5,337 in 1942 and 5; 051 In 1943. In the two decades prior to our entry into the present war, notable progress was made in reducing railway accidents, acci-dents, and especially those resulting in casualties to passengers and employes. em-ployes. In 1932 and again in 1935 but a single passenger was reported as killed in a train accident although 18 and 24 respectively in those years were killed in the train-service accidents, acci-dents, as in getting on and off cars." BARBS by Daukhage The cherry blossoms in Washing-ten Washing-ten beat spring by 2M hours which shows that even the good old spirit of competition and free enterprise is favored by Nature herself. About the only long-horn cattle left are the ones In the Washington 100, the stuffed one at the Houston airport air-port and the photographs of them it the Texas congressmen't offices. What is a Brahmin? An Indian priest? Maybe, but for many a southwestern farmer it is half of an American calf. Vice President Truman is an ex captain of artillery (World War I) 1 am an ex-lieuienant in the same branch of service. The other daj we reminisced on dodging the fas. ones, then and now. -WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS- Allied Thrusts Across Germany Trap Nazi Troops by Thousands; Navy Cuts May Draft Call in Half . Released by Wei tern Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In theee columns, they are tbsss of Westers Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ef this newspaper.! TRAPS: In Europe As the final days of the war against Europe progressed with an increasing show of Allied might, the once highly touted Nazi army found itself split up and caught in a suc cession of military traps some ac tual, some potential British troops drove hard for the North sea to pen in the large German Ger-man army group H in Holland. Patton's Third army thrust toward a junction with the Russians along the Oder river while other tank columns col-umns of his group swung off to pierce the Nazi lines before the border bor-der of Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile combined blows of the American First and Ninth armies closed the perimeter of the Ruhr trap. These were the Nazi garrisons GENERAL PATTON His column swung two ways. which General Eisenhower had termed as being "ripe for annihilation." Aiding in closing the Holland trap was the Canadian First army. This drive had special importance because front line observers noted that the fleeing Germans bad been taking with them much of the equipment used to launch the robot bombs which have given London and southern England so much trouble trou-ble the past year. From the British civilian sources came word that these robot attacks had fallen off to a large degree. There were periods of several days in. which no robots at all were reported. But not all the action was con fined to the British-American forces moving on Berlin from the west Russian tank and infantry forces surged well into Austria and brought the great city of Vienna into the headlines. head-lines. This drive also cut the main Vienna-Venice railroad and a transalpine trans-alpine highway connecting the war arsenals of Austria and Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia with Nazi troops in Italy. WORK OR FIGHT: Takes a Beating By a vote of 46 to 29, the senate rejected the bill which would have given the administration power to draft and freeze workers to war jobs and exert sweeping controls over industry. in-dustry. The bill, under which penalties pen-alties for violators would have been $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment, imprison-ment, had been previously approved by the house. The fight against the bill was led by Senator O'Mahoney (D., Wyo.), but the last hope of its passage faded fad-ed when Senator Johnson (D., Colo.), one of the original sponsors of the bill, lined up with those against it. Conferences on a milder job control con-trol bill passed by the senate some time ago may be reopened, but this Is very doubtful. HERO GENERAL: Slain on Surrender U. S. army Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose of Denver was shot to death by Nazi tankmen while taking off his pistol to hand over to his captors. The general was captured near Paderborn, Germany, while trying to reach a portion of the 3rd armored ar-mored task force, his aide, Maj. Robert Ballinger of White Plains, N. Y., revealed. General Rose was one of the outstanding out-standing tankmen of the war. He led the 3rd armored division spearhead spear-head through northern France into Belgium. His unit was the first to break through the Siegfried line. While a hard disciplinarian, General Gener-al Rose was always up in front PACIFIC: Tokyo, 325 Miles While an. invasion fleet of 1,400 ships poured reinforcements of men, tanks, .guns and supplies across the invasion beaches of Okinawa (only 325 miles from Japan proper) without with-out challenge and 1,500 carrier planes roared overhead, the invasion of this vital island in the Ryukyus proceeded days ahead of schedule. U. S. army troops who had sliced the island in two in a dash to the east coast widened their hold on the important Nakagusuku bay naval anchorage. an-chorage. American observation planes operated op-erated off two of the main airfields wrested from the Japs, but units of Maj. Gen. Hodges' 24th army corps met with stiffening resistance as they advanced south along the west coast towards Naha, capital of the island, which, with other enemy strong points, was bombarded with shells and rockets from warships and planes. Casualties, however, were light on both sides. Immense stores of supplies were moved to the beachhead, sufficient to supply the needs of the Okina-wans. Okina-wans. Great numbers of civilians were rounded up without difficulty, most of them badly undernourished from the spare diet of their Jap captors. cap-tors. Many came in from the hills and surrendered to the marines, eager for the marine chow. They had left the cities and airfield areas after being warned by leaflets dropped from U. S. planes before the Invasion. The island has an enemy garrison of from 60.000 to 100,000 troops, concentrated con-centrated at the southern end where the landing was expected. COAL CRISIS: Delayed a Month Threat of a nationwide coal strike vanished for a month at least when John L. Lewis agreed to extend ex-tend the now expired contract through the month of ApriL His action came quickly after the War Labor board ordered an indefinite indef-inite continuance of the contract with any wage adjustments later made to date from April 1. The op- WWWWMJl t i - I4 if ! JOHN L. LEWIS ' ' He got in line. erators who had asked for a 30-day limit on their retroactive pay obligation obli-gation agreed immediately. Lewis however slapped an until-May-1 clause on his acceptance. While this meant a crisis might develop at the end of the month, both operators and miners were hopeful that a new contract could be worked out before then. Negotiators Negotia-tors went to work immediately in an effort to capitalize on the optimism op-timism emanating from both camps. NAVY DRAFT: Cut in Half It meant only a 12 per cent reduction reduc-tion in total selective service calls for the month of May, but the navy's announcement that it would require only half the number of men it was scheduled to receive in that month caused plenty of speculation on the future of draft calls. The official navy statement indicated indi-cated that this wing of American arms was rapidly reaching authorized author-ized strength of 3,600,000 and after June calls would be necessary only for replacements. Two main reasons were involved in the favorable progress of the navy's manpower problem: 1. High enlistments of 17-year-olds, and, 2. Casualties may not have been as high as estimated, therefore there-fore peak strength is being obtained ob-tained more rapidly than anticipated. HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news RECONVERSION: Another Change Industrial observers all over the country pricked up their ears when the news came from Washington that President Roosevelt had accepted accept-ed the resignation of James F. Byrnes as war mobilizer and appointed ap-pointed in his place Fred M. Vinson, federal loan administrator and for-, mer director of economic stabilization. stabiliza-tion. Importance was attached to the event because Byrnes had agreed last November to stay on the Job until "Germany is out of the war" and the Job of reconversion was ready for attention. Some sources FLOOD: The Mississippi river, hitting flood stage over a 1,544-mile course from Iowa to the Gulf, caused concern to Army engineers, who plugged gaps in the last line of flood defense at New Orleans. The engineers stood ready to operate the 100-mile Morganza floodway, hitherto hither-to unused, to divert 640,000 cubic feet of water a second from the lower river into the Gulf. OBJECTORS: Seven conscien tious objectors who were accused of deserting from the civilian public service camp at Germfask, Mich., drew sentences of three years and six months in prison from Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond of Grand Rapids. The camp is operated by the selective service administration for objectors not affiliated with re ligious groups. , mmmmmmt 'r ! 1 . J i"mar JAMES F. BYRNES A broad hint. interpreted this move as the broadest broad-est bint yet given that Germany was considered beaten. Vinson, former U. S. representa tive from Kentucky, is popular with congress. He got along good with labor in his job as economic stabilizer. stabiliz-er. With management he was equally equal-ly successful in handling the problems prob-lems of prices and wages. These facts augured well for his direction of the complicated job facing him as the new director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion with emphasis on the second half of his title. END TO BANS: . AfterV-EDay As the events leading up to the final fall of Germany sped swiftly onward the Office of War Mobilization gave U. S. civilians a partial picture of what was going to happen to some of the much discussed bans which had been put into effect during the recent war months. A few days before his resignation as war mobilizer was announced James F. Byrnes disclosed plans to end the midnight curfew, the brownout brown-out and the racing ban as soon as the Nazi fall was complete. Price, wage and manpower controls con-trols must be continued into the indefinite in-definite future, the report stated, not only until the end of war in Japan, but until the complete economy of the country is back to a peacetime footing. CONFERENCE: Not a Tea Party There were signs that the coming San Francisco United Nations conference con-ference would be anything but a quiet affair. To begin with, Washington officials of-ficials disclosed that the ztate department de-partment had joined with London in turning down a request from Soviet Russia that the Soviet-sponsored Polish Po-lish provisional government at Warsaw War-saw be invited to the security meeting. meet-ing. This meant that unless a new Polish Po-lish government "of national unity" is formed before April 25 Poland could not be represented. Also loaded with dynamite for the conference was the report that Russia Rus-sia would seek to divide its delegation delega-tion into thirds or ask for three conference con-ference votes-one each for the U. S. S. R., the White Russian and the Ukrainian republics. FASHIONS: Paris or America? From the department of commerce com-merce came a statement praising the contribution of American custom designers who, with confidence, took over the fashion situation after the German occupation of Paris, and, despite the limitation orders of WPB brought the industry to the high artistic ar-tistic level it enjoys today. Whether American women will look to Paris or this country for ideas in fashions after the war ends is important to the commerce department de-partment because with the answer rests the future of huge U. S. ready-to-wear industry largely an aggregation aggre-gation of small business houses. The report was optimistic in the outlook for American designs for it revealed that retailers generally are enthusiastic over the realistic turn fashion has taken under American tutelage. More and more advertising adver-tising and window display is going toward the promotion of American designs. SPRING CLEAN-UP: As housewives throughout the nation na-tion moved into the annual job of spring clean-up the National Fire Protection association issued a stern warning that the months of April. May and June show the highest incidence in-cidence of home fires, with most of them stemming from careless housekeeping and failure to eliminate elimi-nate common hazards found in all homes. Cleanliness, says NFPA, Is the surest way to protect the home and family against the threat of fire. III iffO ijy'r n I i i Notes of an Innocent Bystandert When Lowell Mellett, former aide to FDR, was asked why the President Presi-dent is a great executive, Mellett said: "Because be is never too busy to workl" ... Add towns you should be glad 'you didn't name: Rising Sun, Ind. . . . John B. Kennedy, the news commentator, says now that the Nazi prisoners of war over here got their own newspaper the next thing they'll probably demand will be pensionsl Sudden Thawt: Say! Could the war department's request for Mr. Byrnes' curfew be a move to offset the war's Interference Inter-ference with the birth rate? ... When one night clubman griped about "his Investments" a newspaperman said: "This Is a total war meaning total for everyone and everything. This is your part in the war to sacrifice sacri-fice more than others. For some people the war means to go blind. For others to go broke. Which would yon rather?" Congressman Dickstein aimed a well-deserved blast at Rankin. The chip on Congressman Ranking shoulder is a cinder in the public eye. ... The Allied War Crimes commission announced that Hitler and company would be tried for their war crimes. It is about time! To repeat a query: But what is holding up the trial of Hess? Sec'y of Commerce H. Wallace will be named "Man of the Year" by the Churchman at its annual banquet ban-quet Willkie and Baruch were so honored. What we'd appreciate learning from Justice Byrnes is what he has done abont the defiant Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, stay-up-late Joint which (at last reports) remains open all night? . . . That Toledo theatre manager who kept open all night, too, what about him? Can't he be drafted to help pick up the wounded and dead? General Patton, so the story goes, was holding a meeting with his staff officers when the telephone rang. . . . Thinking it was a friend, the voice at the other end of the wire inquired, "Hello, is that you you old sonovabee?" Undisturbed, Patton looked around the room and then spoke into the phone. "Which sonovabee do you want?" he inquired. Strange Bedfellows: John L. Lew-Is, Lew-Is, Sewell Avery and Fiorello La Guardia Americans who defied their government during the war. . . . One wag recently remarked: "Now that the war dep't has stepped into the curfew controversy, the Little Flower of New York hasn't a pot to bloom in." . . . Telegram from Miami Beach: J'What those magazines maga-zines (which rapped Miami Beach) neglected to add was that since December De-cember 7, 1941, Miami Beach gracefully grace-fully cooperated with a midnight curfew. But it was your mayor who was first to violate it. Have you any comment to make about that?" Taking the words out of our mayor's may-or's mouth, he once confessed: "When I make a mistake it's a beaut!" When General Eisenhower visited vis-ited Paris after its liberation, he and several officers inspected the Eiffel Tower. ... At tbe top, Eisenhower leaned over the rail and Viewed the city. . . . After a silence of several minutes min-utes an aide said: "A penny for your thoughts, general." ... Eisenhower, visibly impressed, turned and said: "Isn't this a wonderful place to hang Adolf?" The story in the gazettes that new motor cars may be nameless (after V-E Day) appeared here on July 10, 1944 Mr. Krug is quoted as saying it is very possible." . . . Draft boards have been Instructed to order all "swishes" (now classified 4-F) into defense factories as file clerks etc Some Broadway musical shows' will suffer mostj Before his death A. Woolcott assigned as-signed his royalties from the sales of his book, "As You Were," to care for seamen throughout the world. To date United Seamen's service re-ceived re-ceived $10,778 from the late author, royalties . . . Lt Roland Hill (he was Archbishop Spellman's sec'y in Algiers) is the first G L to run for pubUc office. Ha, . good chaTe to llu r Ctet mayor of Minneapolis Pals report He went overseas as . private, and General Eisenhower promoted him with bars madTfrom Spam cans because no lieutenant bars were available in the field. Recently we n,entioned 127 ' We 8t our data from the war department a pretty good source, don't you think? But Newark officials T ' " Papers (and 't.of spanked our wrists for the rep0r - - So wot? So nothing! 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