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Temperatures (Tor 24 hour period ending at seven tnriav I Th0 Weather Min Max i Ogden 39 84 Omaha Albuquerque 65 88 Phoenix Atlanta 65 85 Pocatello Min Max 58 80 66 111 50 86 UTAH: High afternoon tempera Bismarck 60 80 Portland Or 60 Boise 67 83 Provo 40 Butte 45 8d Hivj 47 Chicago 58 TTRock Springs 53 Denver 56 82Salti Lake 56 87 98 80 86 89 68 tures today and tomorrow little change in temperature tonight scattered high clouds Antonio 67 Grand June 61 88 San Las Vegas 69 110 San Los Angeles 60 75 St 51 Fran Louis 64 56 78 87 Minneapolis 54 74 Seattle New Orleans 71 88 Sheridan New York 68 83 Washington Okla City 61 86 Yellowstone The United Prese The Associated Press Seventy-fifjth No 218 NEA Service AP Service OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING JUNE 21 1945 FINAL EDITION I PAGES Truman Welcomed: to West Coast £ber County up Okinawa Victory Won Td 80 Per Cent In Pacific War's Of Bond Quota Bloodiest Ca paign Labor Disputes Robert Walker Will Boost Campaign At Premiere Friday Triumph Gives Yankees Base for Injvasion Of Nip Mainland Only 330 Miles Away Casualties 35116 Japs Lose 90000 Kei GUAM June 21 The American Teith army has On the Sidelines won the battle of Okinawa after 82 days Of I the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific war Admiral Chester Nimitz an Weber county today had leaped td 80 per cent of its bond quita to pile up a totat purchase! of $2713806 of these bojids On Wednesday we had a record of only 73 per centi Box Elder was at 50 pei cent of quota witl $310405 Cache 80 per cent with $817535 Davis 58 per tnounced today said the United Radio Tokyo States apparently already has be By The Associated Press Labor disputes kept some 40000 employes on the sidelines along the nations labor front today The strikes and work stoppages curtailed production in war plants hampered transportation of some gun preparations for a "direct invasion of the Jap I mainland" Nimitz's brief triumphant com munique reported that all organ lzed Jap resistance on Okinawa hard-won steppink stone island only 330 miles southwest of Japan HOLIDAY President Harry Truman (right) is welcomed to Bashington state by Gov Mon Wallgren at McChord field near lympia Truman will enjoy a brief holiday in the Pacific northwest before he flies to San Francisco for final UNCIO session ended today Mopup Continue UMO Delegates Complete Work On World Charter Truman's Talk WU1 Formally Close Conference Tuesday SAN FRANCISCO June 21 (AP) A charter embracing the views of 50 united nations was wrapped up today into a world document designed to maintain peace President Truman now taking a brief holiday in Washington state will bring the united nations' com-ference to a formal close with a speech on international affairs Tuesday Until that time the delegates of the 50 nations represented here will be busy with a variety of technical problems and speech-making sessions But the real work of the conference which met April 25 is accomplished Compromise Approved It reached that stage last night A committee approved an Australian-Russian compromise empowering the proposed general assembly of nations to discuss and make recommendations on any question "within the scope of the charter" written here Thus ended a long struggle by small nations to make the assembly a "town meeting of the world" potentially capable of exerting the pressure of public opinion on the big power controlled security council even though it could exercise no control over the council directly Victor Andrade of Bolivia chairman of the committee on assembly powers attributed leadership in this struggle to Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt of Australia The last commission session to go over a chapter of the charter was called today to receive the report of Andrade's committee From the stage of commission action the conference will move through plenary sessions in which the four commissions will formally report various Sections of the charter for approval-Secretary of State Stettinius announced yesterday that the charter would be signed Monday A special room with a huge round table blue-covered against a background of united nations' flags has been prepared for that ceremony The president will arrive Monday in time for the signing and (Continued on Pag Two) (Column Six) Remnants of the! enemy garrison in two small pockets in the southern portion of tihe island are be ing mopped up" the communique said cent with! $420482 and Morgan 103 per cint with $92306 In the state Utah people purchased $43f5520 in bond since the last reporfi to bring the state total up to $12l7933 which is 645 per cent of thje quota the state promised to raise Cache Cofnty Rises The wafr bond drive chairman in Cache county insists that his county hs purchased enough bonds to -j amount to 92 pet cent Of the Cache county quota This claim has! not yet been supported by the statistics but Cache insists that the truth will soon come to light The stale war finance committee reports that if the state is to reach 1 its bond quota by the end of the month the daily average purchase of uonds must reach $70B207 Only yesterday! marines and doughboys of the "jTenth army had split diehard enemjy remnants into three separate death pockets Nimitz's announcement indicated one Move Underway To Strip OPA Of Food Powers WASHINGTON June 21 Broadening a recommendation Truman Predicts Improvement In Food Supply OLYMPIA Wash June 21 (UP) President Truman today forecast of the three pockietB since) had been wiped out and tjhe! others reduced a material improvement in the national food situation when the new from Herbert Hoover Represent tytive Jenkins (R-Ohio) today pro- i Qod administrator takes over 60000 passengers in a nine-state area and slowed truck movement of foods and war materials in parts of the midwest The biggest single strike was in Akron Ohio where 16700 CI United Rubber Workers at the Goodyear Tire Rubber Company stayed away from their jobs Hopes faded for a prompt settlement as union members voted to defy a war labor board back-to-work order and there was a possibility the government would take possession Returns to Work A new strike in the Detroit industrial area was more than offset by returns to work in other disputes there One thousand I United Automobile Workers left their jobs at Packard Motor Car company in a jurisdictional controversy between I maintenance men and A construction men But 7525 I maintenance men resumed work at three Budd Wheel company plants and one Ford Motor company plant Seven hundred A workers remained on strike at five Detroit lumber yards in a jurisdictional dispute but 2000 Bendix Aviation corporation workers ended a one-day walkouts The WLB sought to halt the spread of a glass workers strike to eight plants as some 6000 remained out at two Pittsburgh Plate Glass company plants in Ford City and Creighton Pa More Soldiers Called In Chicago more soldiers were called to help restore normal trucking operations as thousands of drivers remained away from work for the sixth dav The Mr Truman made this forecast By Alice West I Standard-Examiner Staff Here's fa real surprise! Bob Walker wouldn't let me tell it until he wafe sure but now it can be tod He's coming to town to appear? in person at the bond 1 sale Ogdejn premiere of his pic-4 hire? 4Th Clock" in which he is Jj starred with Judy Garland He Here's Log on How Yankees Won Okinawa By the Associated Presc April 1 eight-thirty Easter Sunday Okinawa 325 miles south of Jap homeland invaded by Tenth army consisting of First and Sixth marine divisions and Seventh 95th and 96th army divisions after the capture of nearby Kerama islands where 539 Japs killed 166 taken prisoner April Jap sub pens at Uten bay captured April 16 Army landed on Ie Shima off west coast April 19 Marines reached north coast April 20 Heavy assault of Nan a-Shiru-Yonabaru defense began May 1 Machinato airfield captured May 4h-Japs attempted to land behind American lines strong counter-attack failed May 12 Elements of Sixth marines entered Nah a capital city Ilay 26 Extremely heavy rains impeded mechanized advance May 29 Elements First marine division reached Shuri castle pivot of Yonabaru-Naha line May 24 Last reported casualties: Army and marines 5332 killed 21343 wounded navy casualties 4270 killed and missing 4171 wounded June Seventh infantry effectively cut off Chinen peninsula on southeast June 4 -Marines made strong amphibious landing on Oroku peninsula on west capturing half of Naha airfield June 9 Yaeju-Dake (hari kyri) escarpment put under heavy fire June 11 Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr commander of the Tenth army called on Jap commander to surrender June 16 96th division gained foothold on Yaeju-Dake escarpment June killed in action June 19 Latest Jap casualties 87343 killed 2565 surrendered Brigadier General Claudius Easley 96th division killed in action June Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz overall commander of Okinawa operation announced organized enemy resistance ended to impotency Total Jap casualties were not announced immediately' but they were believed veH above the 90-000 mark A total of 67343 Jap dead had been counted through Tuesday and 2j565 other enemy troops had surrendered American casualties have not been tallied for publication since May 24 Then they totaled 35116 in the army marine corps and navy including 9602 dead Costliest Naval Campaign For the vast strides achieved in the Pacific war it was also one of the costliest naval campaigns in the history of the fleet Some 85 vessels were sunk or damaged most of them smaller units 31 actually were Sunk according to communiques Another 54 Including four large units were damaged At that time jthe American casualties already had exceeded those suffered in the uivsions of Tarawa Iwo and Saipan previously the most costly in the Pacific campaign Conquest of thej island gave they Americans an island base 60 miles long with a number of air bases and sufficient ground area to deploy hundreds of thousands of troops for the invasion of Japan The bloody battle of Okinawa began on the morning Of April 1 a quiet Easter Subday The late Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr led! his troops ashore on the western Coast and Jap opposition was B4j iegligible as to cause wondermMt The reason came a few weeks later when the Americans began striking southward the Japs Had pulled back to General Joseph Stilwell Stilwell Is Named Commander of Okinawa Mop-up MANILA June 21 Gen-eseph Stilwell Mgf from his post as chief of army ground forces to the Pacific has been selected by GeneraL Douglas Mac Arthur to command the Tenth army now mopping up on Okinawa The veteran Jap fighter's transfer to the Pacific ocean area theatre and his appointment to the command vacated by the death in action on Okinawa of Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr was announced from MacAr-thur's headquarters today The assignment culminated a series of conferences among Stilwell MacArthur and other field commanders in the Pacific area recently and it is assumed he will take over the Tenth army as soon as he can get there Confers With MacArthur Stilwell conferred with MacArthur earlier this week He left headquarters several days ago but still is in the Pacific area MacArthur as commander of the army forces in the Pacific has over-all jurisdiction of the Tenth army but the Okinawa campaign was under Admiral Chester (Continued on Page Two) (Column Clght) in a special news conference here in the office of Governor Mon Wallgren his host during a vacation in the northwest The conference was held primarily for reporters from this section Praises Congress Mr Truman also praised congress for its renewal5rf he trade agreements act saying this action "places the United States squarely behind the principles of international trade cooperation which must prevail in the interests of world peace and economic well "being" At the same iime the president expressed gratification over the progress of the San Francisco united nations' conference saying he was very happy that it had been a success He announced plans to make a brief stop Monday at Portland Ore en route to San Francisco where he will address the adjourning session of congress on Tuesday Will Leave Monday Mr Truman said he would leave here at ten a (P T) Monday and fly to Portland arriving there about eleven o'clock and leaving there in time to reach San Francisco about four Monday The president said former President Hoover had been helpful in (Continued on Page Two) (Column Six) posed a price control amendment transferring all OPA powers over flood to the agriculture department I Jenkins read to the house yesterday a letter from Hoover in Which the former president and World war I food administrator galled for "an administrative revolution" to combat meat and fats Shortages Criticises Conditions I Referring to scarcities in cities Soover criticised conditions he id produced black markets and set forth a 12-point program designed to meet the problem He suggested concentrating authority upder a system where no government subsidies would be required "The existence of black markets in meats and fats (except milk) in every city of the country" Hoover wrote "is sufficient evidence of a breakdown in control of both distribution and price" Hoover Letter Read Jenkins chairman of the Republican food study committee read the Hoover letter as the house opened debate on legislation prolonging the price and rationing law for one year Later he told newspaper men he could offer an amendment when voting begins tomorrow to strip OPA of food pricing and rationing authority and transfer the responsibility to the war food administrator under the agriculture department The amendment will not attempt to embody all the proposals put forward by Hoover Most of the recommendations Jenkins said should be considered as a matter of administration seized 1700 lines and the army jit ct rat a iuaj iiig a iii iui to be at the Orpheum theatre at eight-fifteen It takes a bond for admittance and Bob will be right there! pitching "I'm having a deuce of a time getting reservations" he wired at first "but if moving Heaven and earth can get me there I'll be with you Putting this bond drive over is one of the most important things in pur lives right now We've got to get this thing over and get our boys home" Bob is most enthusiastic about doing his bit in this war He was rejected fjkr an eye condition which gave him no little trouble at times Some say "The Clock" is Bob's best picture I haven't seen it yet so I can't give my opinion but this I'in sure of it wilL have to be out of the ordinary to surpass the others he na made Ogden can well be proua of her own star It's nothing short of sensational the way he has risen to fame His popularity is not only with his fans but with most anyone who knows him His directors A his co-workers (Continued on Page Twot (Column Fivei was 10 nave izuu soldiers in the city today available to the office of defense transportation Two other striking groups in Chicago were given WLB directives to return to work There were between 4000 and 5000 I United Farm Equipment Workers on strike at an International Harvester company plant over differences of interpretation of piecework wage schedules A strike of more than 400 bus drivers and mechanics of the Tri-State company which started in Jackson Miss June 9 an spread to eight states hampered transportation of 60000 passengers TaWes Turned a nowerful defense line in tne iente south 4 Invasion Prelimi Prior to the landings on the (Continued on Pag Two) (Column Twoi FPANtV US Planes Scout! Yanks Step Up Doolittle Maps Bombing of Japs WASHINGTON June 21 (AP) The strategic bombing of Japan will be carried out by two separate heavy bombardment forces the Twentieth and the Eighth This was disclosed today in a news conference with Lieutenant General James Doolittle chief of the Eighth air force which now is being redeployed from Europe to the Pacific area In answer to a question about the general setup Doolittle said: "The Eighth will be under my command the directives will come from the joint chiefs of staff" This will parallel operations of the Twentieth air force commanded by General Arnold with Lieutenant General Barney Giles the deputy commander in the Pacific The Twenty-first bomber command (a part of the Twentieth air force) based on Saipan has been conducting the attacks on the Jap home islands The Twentieth is directed from Washington and the strategy is determined by the joint chiefs of staff here Doolittle said that Colorado Springs Colo will be the headquarters of the Eighth air force while it is retraining in this country Asked whether the Eighth would use only the Superfortresses used by the Twentieth Doolittle said that the "decision to date is to have B-29's and such other ships as are needed" He said the Eighth hoped to have long-range fighters as part of its Pacific organization Germans Shared Kiiss War Plans iVlEWf Steel Head Faces Priority Charge By Drew Pearson The war production board is bringing one of heaviest non compliance charges of the entire war against Eanest Weir head of the Weirton Steel company for evading priority regulations He is being charged with violating priorities on 26 counts subject to a fine of $260000 The main violation WPB charges is that Weir used priorities to ob Handinef me a page from Life VT Harris secretary of Utah Construction company said "Here is some finje advertising for Ogden" In Luzon War MANILA June 21 AP) Situations have a way of reversing themselves in the Philippines war Today Japs in northern Luzon are being forced to seek the same mountain hideouts used by guerrillas and Americans in 1942 If the Nips attempt to flee" east Cagyan alley they must penetrate the wild unexplored jun-g-1 where Emilio Agui-naldo Filipino insurrection leader eluded American patrols for two years some 45 years ago On Mindanao guerrillas have advanced 40 miles up the broad Agu-san river to capture Baylo This indicated the Japs were forced into the same swamplands which sheltered the guerrilla forces of Colonel Wendell Fertig? Colorado mining engineer during the dark days of Jap occupation In beautiful colors was the story of "War frains That Go to Sea PARIS June 21 An intelligence officer of supreme headquarters who questioned Col Gen Gustave Jodl and other high German officers said today that nazi armies were under orders to invade Great Britain for three months after the fall of France The plans finally were canceled as too hazardous The interrogation of Jodl Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Field by Rail" Luzon Drive MANILA June 21 Four American divisions today hammered Jap positions in northern Luzon in a climactic drive to clean up the island and one of them was within 100 miles of the north coast The 37th division after capturing Ilagan capiital of Isabela province crossed the Ilagan river to a point within 100 miles of Apar-ri on the north coast of Luzon It was another seven-mile sweep for the fast-moving 37th Farther west the 6th 25th and 33rd divisions were liquidating enemy positions in the rugged mountains The 6th was working along Highway 4 northwest of Bagabag while the 25th and 33rd fanned out north of Baguio Jap Mainland GUAM June 21 Tokyo reported that 56 American planes scouted Honshu and Kyushu for several hours today in apparent preparations for stepping up the bombing of Japan The Jap radio also said 300 or more allied carrier planes attacked Wake island far behind the Pacific battlefronts yesterday It was the first attack in strength this year on Wake scene of a gallant stand by 385 marines in December 1941 The reconnaissance fleet over Japan today Tokyo said comprised 12 Liberators 40 Grumman fighters two naval patrol bombers one Superfort and one other plane of a large type The radio said the Liberators and Grummans evidently came from Okinawa 'Just wM of Ogden Utah the Nazis Continue To Flee Russians WEIRMAR Germany June 21 (UP) Thousands of Germans were fleeing the Russikns again today They were on ifojir way westward from areas thel Russians are expected to take over from the Americans sometime jsofon They jammed the highways in long columns on trucks carts puiled by horses and on foot At night they slept under hedges or bridges or Un barns or farmhouses where tMy begged shelter Once 1700 refugees took possession of a train fin the Weimar freight yard and refused to budge The army finally decided after three days the only way to solve the problem was to hitch an engine to the train and take it to Frankfurt i Military government authorities are doing their best to prevent the mass migration to devastated cities which just can't cope with such an influx Also they don't want thousands to migrate leaving food-producing areas in the east to the Russians and giving the Americans and British hungry populations to story rurfs "Southern Pacifies Overland jRoute leaves the land and heads jboldly out to sea toward a distant thirty miles away Marshal Albert Kesselring brought "This is: the spectacular Lucin Cut-off a causeway across Great Salt lake Southern Pacific built it to save 44 miles It was and is an engineering wonder of the world "Great Salt lake fought its conquerors with savage fury Sudden storms torfe away the pilings as fast as they were driven In one place the buildirs had to dump 75000 qut these additional points the officer said: The German high command had guessed the place strength and approximate date of the invasion of France but could not press Gen Eisenhower's forces back into the sea Hitler's decision to invade Russia previously believed to have becsn solely that of the fuehrer was shared by the high command which declared there had been a progressive build-up of soviet fbrces arrayed opposite German fbrces in the east Man 135 'Kills SelF LONDON June 21 -(UP) An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Khartoum said today that an Eevd-tian named Heir Alia tain air-cooling equipment for a hospital and then installed it in the bar of the exclusive country club operated for the benefit of the 300 top executives of the Weirton Steel company Weir did everything possible to avoid having the charges brought against him publicly He even offered to pay 4 cash fine of from $250000 to $350000 if war production board officials would settle the matter without bringing public action However they refused In addition to the air-cooling unit Weir also obtained through his regular company priorities copper aluminum shower doors and other critical materials to install showers and build a second-story addition to the company's swank clubhouse The case against him is being brought by the district attorney in the northern district of West Virginia carloads ok rock before they found firm bottdm for the roadbed But the job was done It cost $8000- Elephants Play Large Role In Defeating Burma Japs By Henry Jameson Williams one of the world's (Substituting for Hal Boyle) foremost experts on organization or ms i sons announced he was tired of living went on a fe'' died seven days later at the age of 135 000 Eight million dollars to save 44 miles 'America can be thankful now feed No tickets are being sold for the railroads except to civilians with snoHal travel nermits and no LONDON June 21 (AP)-They A "Elephant throughout Burma as "Elephant don't give medals to elephants but for the ccjurage and vision of the men who built the Lucin Causeway It if one reason why America's railroads were able when war came to no a transportation job which would have seemed impossible befoife Pearl Harbor travel permits are being issued ex Nazis Sabotaged Factories Key Parts' Data Scattered it t- Casualties Hit 1023453 WASHINGTON June 21 battle casualties in World war 2 now total 1023453 an increase of 6356 from a week ago The army casualties reported today represented the period extending through the greater part of May and the increase apparently represented mainly Pacific action Of the total 90371 are army casualties and 119752 navy Army casualties reported this week and a week ago follow: Killed 189294 and 187369 wounded 460836 and 558611 missing 39956 and 42710 prisoners (before liberations) 113615 and 111262 The navy figures: Killed 45417 and 44669 wounded 59196 and 57402 missing 10-908 and 10736 prisoners 4231 and 4238 "After tie war we hope you'll come west on Southern Pacific's Overland f-oute You'll 'go to sea 'Ike' Would Combine A deliberat 21f "The Plan- which the nazi leaders climax their defeat "by' wrecking cPed by the code name of "Laeh-the industrial economy of Germany "inngsgut" paralyzation of prop-and all eastern Europe was blocked was aimed at stripping vital toons 6 nTXl machinery and records from all Dy ran "But thait must wait Southern Pacific trains now are war trains" cept for exceptional circumstances Allies Capture Krupp Nazi Munitions King ESSEN Germany June 21 (UP) Alfred Krupp German munitions king was held by British military authorities in a secret hideaway today for possible trial as a war criminal Kruppt head of Germany's most powerful munitions and armament trust was the first Bill" About 5000 elephants formerly belonging to the big teak extraction firms and local contractors were left behind in Burma The Japs who had used this type of transport in bringing their mortars through Siam continued to use them in Burma In November 1942 a group of British officers and natives headed by Colonel Williams managed to "persuade" 60 elephants to bolt from the Jap lines on the Chind-win banks Women and children volunteered as mahouts By the time the 23rd Indian division reappeared in the Kabaw valley the elephants had bridged all the streams enabling the di-(ConUnued oa Pas Xwo tCoiumB seven) no story of how the long drawn-out war in Burma was won would be complete without mention of "Elephant Bill" Williams' unique army unit There is no other military outfit like it anywhere It is a labor company made up solely of elephants more than 200 of them and their handlers Their main job was building log bridges and carving roads through dense jungles where no roads existed before But the elephants carried out many other important assignments like evacuation of the sick Each animal could carry three men 12 miles a day over roads that were impassable even to mules Boss man is Lieutenant Colonel themselves it can be rpveaiari day Allied intelligence officers have unearthed proof that the Army Navy Airforce WEST POINT June 21 (AP) General Eisenhower said today "the army navy and air forces must be a unit and if I had my way they would all be in the same uniform" "Of course" he added humorously in an extemporaneous address to cadets at the military academy "I don't suppose congress and the big brass hats would ever agree to that" important industries and scientific establishments in Germany and eastern and southeastern Europe These key parts and data were to be removed from factories mines and laboratories before the arrival of the allies and were to be scattered systematically in prearranged hiding places all over Germany A railroad man said yesterday "The Southern Pacific is doing a grand job We on the Union Pacific are dumping into the Ogden terminal all the traffic a double-track road £an carry and to our great amaztement the Southern Pacific is moving much of all that (Continued oo Page Two) Column Three) nazis hoped to bring all Europe down with them through a diabolic sabotage program that might nave paralyzed everv kpv fartnrv nazi industrialist known to have been arrested as a possible war and scientific laboratory in the reicn criminal.