Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - July 4, 1945, Ogden, Utah The Weather Scattered afternoon clouds and widely scattered afternoon thunderstorms in mountain areas mostly clear tonight and day continued warm with little change in temperature Temperatures For 24-hour period a m today Ogden 58 Omaha 65 Albuquerque 64 75 107 Atlanta 69 Pocatello 57 83 Bismarck 51 Or 50 77 Boise 52 50 94 Butte 38 Rock Springs 51 80 Chicago 57 Lake 57 89 Denver 55 Antonio 71 89 Grand June 51 Fran 54 72 Las Vegas Louis 61 76 Los Angeles 58 76 Seattle 48 75 Minneapolis 58 871 Sheridan 53 85 New Orleans 73 87 Washington 65 82 Okla City 70 30 78 Seventy-fifth 331 The United Press The Associated Press OGDEN CITY UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 4 1945 NBA AP Service 12 PAGES HOLIDAY EDITION Old Glory Flies Over Berlin t European Cities Formal Observance Of Day Marked With Gay Ceremonies By The Associated Press The Stars and Stripes were hoisted over the Adolf Hitler barracks in a formal Fourth of July observance in Berlin today as American troops in the European theatre Independence day with the assistance of their allies A salute to Old Glory marked the ceremonies in Berlin carried out by troops of the U S Second armored di- vision which entered the German capital only yesterday to take over their zone of occupation An or guard of 100 Red army In European Capitals Formal observances also con- ducted in other European capitals Paris the beautiful old Vittorio Emanuele was renamed Avenue de dent Roosevelt by French ties at ceremonies attended by U S Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who acknowledged the tribute in behalf of IT S government A similar tribute paid the late President Roosevelt in sels where one of the city's est thoroughfares was in his honor In London special observances were sponsored the American Society and the Washington Dutch officials marked the day by laying memorial wreaths on ments at three American war eteries in Holland and the Moscow and Prague radios arranged ial Independence day programs Holiday For American servicemen and women however the day was for the most part one of relaxation army personnel at United om bases were granted a iday and special entertainments were arranged for their benefit High on the day s program ever American troops gathered from London to Berlin were events that included baseball boxing track and swimming Near Marseille American units amused themselves and astonished the French by staging an wild west rodeo In en members of the infantry division held a track and field meet in Wesser stadium which was rededicated Eisenhower stadium Boxing and Motorcycle racing boxing and dancing were on tap at Reims scene of the German surrender where a huge redeployment ter is now located A host of USO performers in- Eluding such headliners as Jack Benny Ingrid Bergman Marlene Dietrich and Mickey Rooney helped the American forces radio network celebrate its second an- by broadcasting programs to the troops Stars and U S to Okinawa PHILADELPHIA SIGNING RECALLED From Philadelphia's Independence hall where on July 4 1776 the declaration of independence was signed to Okinawa outpost near Japan's homeland the national independence for which the stars and stripes stands has spread Nations subjugated by the nazis in Africa and Europe are island people of the Pacific hail the rebirth of dom after the tyrannical rule of Nippon Work to By The Associated Press End War Americans observed another Independence day today by remaining on the job for the most part to help defeat a tenacious enemy War bond rallies entertainments for wounded veterans parades and flag raisings were held in scattered cities and towns But a majority of working men and women lowed the leadership of President Truman who devoted this July Fourth strictly to tasks at his desk Yesterday afternoon a part of a train of Ledo road workers ar- rived at the depot and were at the canteen Four prize cakes given by Bush market made up a surprise for the men from far away India who have been helping the Chinese open the Ledo road so essential in supplying the Chinese army with equipment The returning Americans were vigorous and seemingly had not suffered from their experience in the wilds leading up to and over the hump near the Himalayas Instead of shovels and picks and Chinese they had applied steam shovels bulldozers and power drills in the building of the new road The men were glad to get back to America and partake of the of the canteen en route home 4 On Kiesel avenue near third street the forest service has a machine shop where a crew of twelve men is employed making repairs on 30 or more automobiles in the service Last week the shop sent aid to a road crew at Manila in the high out of Vernal to make repairs to equipment working on the forest The machine shop has a special mobile unit which responds to calls in the field having a small power plant a welding torch and other necessary to the making of repairs In the post-war period this chine shop may be enlarged to meet the planned increase in forest service roadwork A bulletin on the British tions offers the comment that the Scandal Looms In Rye Market WASHINGTON July 4 AP Rep Keefe predicted day that several Washington including some congressmen would be implicated in what he terms a national scandal in ket It is common talk on Capitol hill that certain in- members have benefited from inside knowledge of tions of the rye market on the Chicago board of Keefe told a reporter His statement was an elaboration of remarks he made in the house yesterday when Reps Sabath and Stefan rose to support his remarks and join in a demand for a full tion In his house address Keefe that a certain group of manipulators has obtained a corner on the rye market and as a result lost lions of dollars manipulators made profit and the a handsome We should know if any what there has been between WFA war food the com- credit corporation and the FEA foreign economic tration with this he ed should expose any member of congress who has enriched himself as a result of his power to influence decisions of these agencies Rail Income Mounts WASHINGTON July 4 AP The income of class one roads in U S during May was estimated by the Association of American Railroads at after interest and rentals com- pared with in the same month last year The president issued an day statement asking Americans to honor our nation's creed of liberty and the fighting men and women who are carrying it with them throughout the world In Combined Might We have pride in the combined might of this nation which has contributed signally to the defeat of the enemy in he said have that under providence we soon may crush enemy in the Pacific Chairman J A Krug of the war production board earlier appealed to war workers throughout the country to mark the anniversary of the birth of their country by staying on the job The U S reau of labor statistics estimated the response would time lost by strikes since Pearl Harbor With the danger of subs along the east coast ended New England communities ushered in the Fourth with traditional midnight bonfires set for the first time the start of the war In the south Dade Ga with a pageant and made known to it had ended a legend that it still stood from tho rest of the country Attend Show Chicago expected more than DOO to attend a show at Soldier Field put ori by the Cook county council of the American Legion Patients from army hospitals will be guests The weather bureau forecast fair weather states but called for increasing cloudiness in others with probable or storms Railroad officials Detroit re- Continued on Pact Two Column Eight Truman Orders Week For U.S Workers WASHINGTON July 4 AP Pres Truman Tuesday ordered most government agencies to cut their work week to 44 hours immediately His memorandum excluded the war and navy departments the treasury the veterans tion the Tennessee valley ity and the Panama canal All other government agencies were ordered to cut four hours from the six-day week they have maintained through the war Even in the case of the six departments excluded the dent said they should examine their operations and go on a hour week wherever In a memorandum to the heads of the executive and agencies Mr Truman It should be clearly understood that reduction in hours of work are not to constitute a basis for request for additional funds for personnel The president's action means that hundreds of thousands of eral workers will receive smaller pay checks than they otherwise would get Utah Indians Proud of Ute First Yank to Enter Berlin ROOSEVELT July 4 This Roosevelt high school was the first Independence day really meant full-blooded Indian to join the something to Indians of the Ute ture Farmers of America When reservation in eastern Utah campaign closed with cheers for Churchill boos and It is difficult for an American on Page Two Column They had a lot to talk about or one of their own boys old Pfc Harvey a skilled larmonica player the first Yankee soldier to reach the center of Berlin The Indian rode his jeep down Unter den Linden Berlin's Fifth German men and women hailed him with evident joy and relief wife Clara and his two-year-old daughter Millicent live on the reservation here as do his parents Mr and Mrs Edward He also has three sisters I The stocky youth a graduate of he was a high school senior in he entered a Future Farmers amateur performance at Utah State Agricultural college and carried off top honors with his harmonica warbling was born at Fort chesne May 26 1919 He was in- ducted June 26 1942 and received his training at Camp Roberts Calif He has been overseas about two years The Indian boy shared his tions with a hungry Berlin child and with an old woman gnd told correspondents about the 200 head of cattle on my ranch back home in Utah Sheriff Dons Summer Suit ROCKFORD 111 July 4 AP Sheriff Kirk S King who squeezed his 295 pounds into a pickle rel in protest against a shortage of fat men's fair weather finery was out of his pickle and resting comfortably in a summer suit size 52 King was notified by a Rockford haberdasher that he had a stock of King size lightweight suits The sheriff investigated and chose a sporty tropics ensemble He also agreed to inform several ing friends fellow Behemoths that the tailor could suit them The sheriff is staging a sort of a one- man campaign to get himself a suit of cool clothes for the summer This is cool and a little com- Kirk grinned as crowds gathered to get an of the husky sheriff inside the hogshead and wearing a straw hat a pair of shoes and a necktie But it is going to be heavy to carry around for Jong The suspenders they make now days aren't strong enough to carry the weight Kirk who had threatened to don a hogshead and picket the OPA in protest over his failure to find a suit of summer clothes big ough for him squeezed through fhe door to the office of the nebago county ration board Chief Clerk Edwin Kotche greeted him and listened to his complaint I'm not sure it is the fault of the King told Kotche I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't the big manufacturers who are ing off the market items of ing that are in demand Japs Get Fourth of July Bombs JL Tons From Americans Shell Karafuto Island Area Just Below Marks Deepest Yankee Penetration By Associated Press Tokyo reported American warships and subs shelled Karafuto island just below the soviet Russian border in their deepest penetration of Jap waters In major ground action ian troops captured a Borneo within fighter range of Java and the Japs hurriedly offered in- dependence to natives of the Dutch East Indies Tokyo radio said five American warships shelled Shikuko on the eastern shores of Karafuto day following up subs which shelled and strafed nearby shore targets Monday and Tuesday Kara- futo is the southern half of Sakhalin island the northern half belongs to Russia Russ Greet Chinese Coincidentally Moscow dis- patches said Jap diplomats in the soviet capital showed able nervousness over the cordial reception given a Chinese tion headed by Premier T V Soong The unconfirmed report followed up Jap worries of an invasion from the north and attacks by Vice Ad- miral Frank Jack Fletcher's Ninth fleet which steamed through the Kurile islands for the first time last week to attack a convoy Kara- futo is roughly 500 miles beyond the Kuriles and just off the Asiatic coast Allied ground forces captured two towns and an infield on neo one in the southern pines and took one and lost one in China Oil Cities Captured The Seventh Australian division driving on flaming Balikpapan southeast Borneo oil center cap- tured town and its strip which was immediately put to use Field dispatches said tank led columns were closing on gar airdrome which Australian broadcasts previously announced was captured Associated Press War dent Russell Brines said the sies had virtually secured central re- fineries and docks by ing positions city Melbourne broadcasts said the fall of Balikpapan was only a matter of hours Yanks liberated a village on Mindanao in the southern pines but driving rains of the new typhoon season hampered tions in the north admitted they had lost a highway hub to Japs expanding their hold on peninsula to safeguard communications with Hainan island About 120 miles to the northwest Chinese reported they reoccupied 11 miles northwest of recaptured U S air base city Tokyo's invasion worries were augmented by confident comments of American commanders and an Australian report that the British war office wants ration packs from Australia by gust for commandos and landing parties Our Eyes on Tokyo Admiral Thomas C Kinkaid Seventh fleet commander who re- cently returned to the southwest Pacific from staff conferences in Washington indicated American forces weren't interested in Ing on the China coast eyes are on he said and there is nothing else to look at Major General William C Chase whose division has killed 000 Japs in the Philippines com- we are running out of Nips for training purposes Japan's Rear Admiral Kurihara told his countrymen we must have food and faith We cannot fight on empty stomachs His statement coincided with the launching of a food conservation drive Women Defy Ban on Shorts DECATUR 111 July 4 UP Stubbornly independent this day Decatur's feminine population today defied a police ban against the wearing of shorts in The and those cool cool abbreviated ers and so-called halters in the face of Police Chief H J threat to issue warrants for those who failed to fully clothe Schepper said hie might charge violators of his ban with cent exposure But the shorts exponents weren't paying much attention to him the police chief admitted sourly By the dozens Decatur's women and girls were making the most of American freedom and appearing downtown in defiance of the edict Schepper said he wasn't at all perturbed by the many indignant telephone calls flooding his desk since the order became effective Monday REPAIR BORNEO OIL WELLS Allied troops repair oil well equipment in the Tarakan fields of northeastern Borneo damaged by Japs before the Australian forces Nation Delays Seizure of Plants in Strike By the Associated Press The government marked time day after a move apparently ing toward federal seizure of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company plants in Akron Ohio The labor dispute which has kept workers away from their jobs for 18 days was in the hands of William H Davis economic turned over to him by the war labor board after refusal of strikers to obey its directives to return to work In Akron where tional rubber employes of the stone Tire and Rubber Co are om strike C I O union leaders told President Truman there was ab- no necessity for ment seizure of the plants The Firestone workers out since day defied a WLB order on Strike The number of workers away Continued on Page Two Column Wyoming Boy Sought With Two Girls BILLINGS Mont July 4 UP Authorities of three counties had joined with Spokane Wash police today in search of Leland S Owings Sheridan Wyo old Arthur Bros circus employe and two young Spokane girls Search for the trio started day when Leland failed to arrive with the circus here His father J O Owings had arrived here ex- his son but instead received the youth's broken glasses and wrist from a circus woman who said the boy had given them to her a few days before The father said he did not become alarmed until he received Leland's glasses He explained the boy was almost totally blind without them because of Utah's Share in Project Funds Exceeds 2 Million WASHINGTON July 4 AP More than for ture in Utah is contained in the interior department's annual propriation which is waiting President Truman's signature The major Utah item is 000 for construction work on the Provo river project A second allotment of is made for development of the gation system on tribal lands of the Uncompahgre and White river Ute Indians In addition Utah will share in a grant for investigations and development work in the rado river basin and in for development of stock water ties on Navajo Indian reservations Clear Weather Makes Raid t Highly Successful GUAM July 4 AP General c o n f 1 a grations spreading from the white-hot blasts of tons of firebombs greeted the Fourth of July dawn over four more of Japan's centers Terming the assault highly Major eral Curtis E LeMay's 21st er command headquarters said weather was clearer than it has been for three weeks and ly all planes bombed visually their targets in Tokushima Takamatsu and on island and Himeji on Honshu 30 miles west of Kobe Jap Casualties Tokyo radio today conceded Japs in Tokyo Osaka Yokohama Nagoya and Kobe were- killed injured or rendered less in American aerial to May 31 A total of homes were destroyed in the five big cities the broadcast admitted General LeMay said 70 per cent of the commanders re- ported to headquarters by radio after their bombing runs this morning describing resulting fires as reaching general conflagration proportions in all four cities Pilots said flames appeared greatest at Tokushima at the ex- treme northeast end of Shikoku at the entrance to the Inland Sea Destruction was next greatest in Kochi For all except Himeji it was the first fire raid Cities Blitzed The strike was the bombing of Japan Twenty-six of the enemy's most important cities have now been blitzed by torch Takamatsu contains the shiki aircraft plant evidently day's most important military get and is also a railroad ferry terminal Kochi a major industrial city of southern Shikoku houses paper and textile mills now converted to war products as well as plywood metal cement and chemical plants One 21st bomber command spokesman described it as an im- portant food producing center Tokyo radio earlier acknowledged a growing food shortage and talked vaguely of making food from mulberry time diet of a silkworm Tokushima Shikoku's largest city contains large textile mills now converted to war industry Himeji on Honshu is a major railroad terminal a military ing center and a producer of ex- plosives WASHINGTON D C July 4 for reclamation ects in Idaho and Montana have been decided upon by a joint con- gressional committee They The Palisades Ida project will re- as proposed by the house instead of proposed by the senate The committee also set up for the Boise Ida project instead the a compromise between the proposed by the senate The appropriation from the souri river basin surveys is 000 a compromise between the proposed by the house and suggested by the senate Patton Off to Europe WASHINGTON July 4 AP Gen George S Patton Jr wound up his vacation in the states and left Tuesday for Europe where he will resume command of the Third army headquarters Patton retains his rank as commander of the Third army The Third and the Seventh armies have been as the American occupation forces in Germany Japs Face Increasing Hunger As Allies Isolate Islands By DeWitt MacKenzie rice and her poor acres don't Japan is heading into the grow enough to supply her needs est situation she has encountered She long has had to import 20 per in her losing that's hunger The blockade by sea and by air has brought the little island empire to the point where the mikado's ministers are warning the people of a food crisis or more of her foodstuffs and this was one of the prime reasons for her seizure of rice-growing French Indo-China at the outset of the war Apart from rice Japan subsists ______________ on fish and ironically The is so acute enough much of her fish comes public is being told how to prepare Russian waters under treaty food from mulberry leaves tional fare of the silkworm and from potato vines This is one emergency which can't be countered by suicide tics Hunger doesn't restrict its attacks to fighting forces but strikes impartially at all classes including the very old and the very devastating sive from the standpoint of morale One of the things which beat many in the last war was the sight of her children's faces pinched by hunger Britain too was in a tight spot for food during the height of the unrestricted German sub warfare Japan doesn't feed herself and can't feed herself Her staple diet arrangements Eut treaty or no treaty the fish might as well have come from our own Great lakes because of the allied blockade Japan's already sharply curtailed food rations are to be slashed 10 per cent on July 11 barring some of the major cities and these will be affected a month later The country looks for help from the October harvest of rice Whatever that hope may bring Japan's supply lines to Indonesia have been severed and her com- to China aren't much better off The allied warplanes subs and surface vessels are such a stiff blockade that Jap islands are approaching total isolation Hopkins Just Private Citizen WASHINGTON July 4 CAP Harry L Hopkins arch New Dealer presidential candidate returned to an unfamiliar role of private citizen The man who came to ton with the late Franklin D Roosevelt as a member of the original brain trust and rose through the cabinet and political criticism to become one of the most intimate White House advisers re- signed yesterday special ant to President Truman Ill for more than a times critically Hopkins said The time has come when I must take a rest Mr Truman re- the tion It came at a time when he was counting on Hopkins to company him to his first Big Three conference Hopkins has attended them all as a confidential aide to the White House Hopkins came to Washington with President Roosevelt in 1933 to head the emergency relief ad- ministration Me projects administrator in 1935 and three years later entered the net as secretary of commerce He was in charge of the lease program at its start and pi- it through the early days of the war It was however in his role of confidential adviser to the White House that Hopkins attracted the most attention He took part in all major war conferences and made numerous secret missions abroad on tial assignment His most recent voyage was a trip to Moscow at the request of President Truman In accepting his resignation Mr Truman wrote Hopkins I am sure that you must feel much pride and a deep sense of accomplishment in all your great and patriotic ice to our country during the last 12 years Firemen Save Youth LOS ANGELES July 4 UP Twelve-year-old Wayne Martin of Fitzgerald Ga today had all he wanted of mountain climbing after an fire department ladder company rescued him from a high cliff on the face of Chavez ravine
