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Show Weather:Forecast Temperatures Little change in temperature today and tonight. Scattered thundershowers mostly over. the moun tains this afternoon. Yesterdays max., 90; min, 65; mean, 77; normal, 75. Sunrise, 6:29 a.m., MWT; . High Lowi Denvery. . . 68 Omaha 70 New York Ga 92 Atlanta, 7t San Antonio, Tex. Bismarck, V. D. ... R5 69 Washington, D. C. 78 Chicago Albuquerque, X. M. 81 -- sun-se- t, 8:39 p.m., MWT. Price Five Cents. 97 92 60 3 94th Year No. 32. Vol. 371. Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, August 6, 1943 86 81 Fear Of Bombs Drives Nazis From Berlin New Pacific Yanks Take Fate Of Hamburg Prompts Evacuation, Goebbels Admits Drive Looms Sicilian Town not being war openly. Hamburg Propaganda the city might wishful the LONDON. Fortresses 1 No. forces. k nounced today. The Allied aerial tornado meanwhile reaihed a new climax as Fining Fortresses Messina, the last bludgeoned big Axis escape hatch to the mainland, and air and naval forces continued to blast open the path on the north roast, British and Canadian troops in the Toward' Adiano m "steady progress forward of Centuripe and Regal-butheadquartets said, but the Germans are resisting fiercely. Gagliano lies hack of a line between Troina, taken bv Americans. and Rcgalbuto, which was seized hv Canadians. Its fall helps straighten the Allied line and further endangers the German defense shielding withdrawal of large Ais forces fionr the .south and central areas of Sicily. Catania Surrenders The communique said that a British Eighth aimy brigade accepted unconditional sanender of Catania, the east toast seapoit and anchor of the Etna line, gt in 15 am. yesterday, and that the British then swept noithwest to take Misei bianco and cioss the Simeto River to Paterno, 10 miles CRACKS APPEAR IMMINENT IX FESTl'N G EUROPE" Large portions of Europe soon may be split from Axis Europe, according to indications following the collapse of Italys Fascist government. As shown on the above map, some occupied countries allied with the United Nations soon may find freedom again while, at the same time, increasing signs of defection in (International) ranks of Axis satellites indicate that some may drop from Hitler's lineup. W- - ! Pie .Victims Sees Doom For Scandinavia Over 25 Stricken Sen. Johnson Predicts Russ Expansion Two Eugene hospitals marshalled all DENVER. (INS) U. S. Sen. Johnson, who is of Swedish dc Edwin C. Johnson (D), Colo, scent, said: who issued a startling statement "They have been suspicious of on foreign affairs by predicting the giant Russia for generations. Russia would dominate all of con- I remember sitting on my grandfathers knee ana being told of tinental Europe In the post-wa- r era, today expressed his sorrow the tefrible threat of Russia. But for the probable plight of the right or wrong, absorption of Scandinavia Is inevitable." Scandinavian nations.- Johnson added that Russia has proved herself a "valiant and valuable war partner, since Hitler divorced her, but described RusNo Red Stamps? Ore. EUGENE. (AP) to facilities today in attempt save the lives of 25 persons stricken with food poisoning, which caused the death of two-- j ear-olDale Mitchell, Lorane, yesterday. Scattered reports from the Southern Willamette Valley indicated at least 48 persons were ill from eating cream-basepies and 'Dr. C. L. Lindgren, Lane County health officer, said he expected the number to increase. Lindgren said several were dangerously ill. Lindgren said the poisoning had been traced to cultures ded d veloped in pies made by a Cottage Grove bakery, . apparently due to inadequate refrigeration either in their distribution or in their handling by customers. conditions at the bakery Were satisfactory, he said. Most of the ictims lived m the rural districts, indicating developed poisonous cultures after the pies had left the bak-er- San-itar- v The poisonings w ere Oregon's since last ear when 47 -inmates of the State Hospital at Salem died from eating scrambled eggs into which roach powder had been mixed instead of . powdered milk. w orst Bottolfsen Recall Sought The first ST. LOUIS (INS) "Er- satz" meat is here. n Inc . a biewung company, disclosed todav it is producing a synthetic meat, made from yeast, water and molasses Anheuser-Busch- , the costing pi ice of natural beefsteak. C. Carl Dr Lindegien man the of Washington, who developed the product, said it would get by even the fussiest epicuieons. It was reported tha military and Icnd-leasagencies have purchased thousands of pounds ot the synthetic. and BOISE. (AP) peti- -- Charge Against Girl SuingFondaDropped "anti-Christia- one-fift- bv Communism over the world, l evolution the all Western regular salary rate, the farmer in turn to pay 4he employers at the prevailing rate of farm pav. A local "work- - or- - fight" campaign" is being enforced. It is estimated that this additional labor must be obtained to pick 1,200 bales of cotton and a large acreage of peanuts in Lowndes County. All volunteer workers will be under direction of the county farm agents office. Hanged For Rape CAMP CLAIBORNE, La. Pri- . . BERN. Switzerland (AP) failure of the new Italian government to give any outward signs that it is seeking peace renewed the unrest of the Italian people today an unrest accentuated bv news of the fall of Catania, Orel and Belgorod. The Milan correspondent of the Zurich Die Tat reported that yeshad session terday's cabinet Wellingtons blasted the beaches raid near Messina in a follow-jduring the night to disrupt German supply efforts and the evacuation of nonessential personnel p on Page 5. Stolen Baby Food Rules On Radio n cam-man- d , Italy Unrest Revives Blast Beaches See SICILY building and the hospital routine. Follows Father AT A U. S. BOMBER BASE IN ENGLAND. John G (AP) Winant, Jr., 21, son of the U. S. ambassador to Britain, Is carrying on in the job his father did in the last war flying. The eifler Winant flew Spads (a French fighter plane) as an observer in the eighth observa tioit squadron jn France. Young Winant is a Flying Fortress pilot. i Strike Stopped By Union Head's Plea Censor Busy MADRID. Spanish Berlin have unanimously closed their articles during the last week with mysterious references o something thev could tell if' German censorship permitted. A dispatch to the newspaper Informanciones today ended typi(AP) In cally: "Obliged by circumstancegto. limit ourselves to military events, we must leave for another day subjects by no means less 'PHILADELPHIA (AP) There was going to be a strike at the Quaker City Iron Works, but Its off now because Charles Daggert, president of Tank and Body Builders Local No. 1, made a speech. He made it on company time, not knowing that his son Albert, a private at Fort Lewis, Wash., had written: "Tell dad not to for-t- he get fellows in the service need that stuff bad." "That stuff" was all war wmrk which the World War I veteran, al at-wo- rk featherweight champion of the navy at 18, had given up his union salary to make. And he told the assembled workers, who were demanding a 10 per cent wage Increase: "All of you have sons, brothers, husbands, other 'relatives in, the service. The work we do is vital to them. If you walked out now youd be going back on them. He-tnabout Jimmy-Morr- is, ld, left the plant to fly a who bomber and flew it to the end of his mission, where he died at the controls. In Service d' had- back-to-wor- k up , "It was like the lifting of a load. said Daggert, back on his welding job. Plant Superintendent Robert Wilson agreed. "Now if the War Labor Board will hand down that decision our 350 fast," - Daggert-adde- d, men and women, been doing the work of 600, will pitch right In and do the work of -- : al- - Reds Push Toward Kharkov, Bryansk MOSCOW Ger- (AP) many's entire eastern front was threatened with collapse today as the Red army rolled through gaps made bv the capture of Orel and Belgorod in the first gieat Russian summer offensive of the vv ar. Interest tremendous aroused The Red aimj s new objectives among the Italian people, "all of appeared to be Bryansk and whom expected Piemier Badoglio Russian pressKharkov. troops situato report on thp diamatic were tion in Italy and its wish for ing south from Belgorod peace less than 43 miles from Khai-koEveryone is talking of peace while in the north the Rusthese deeisiv e hours and the posarmies pushing through Orel sian of sibility reestablishing Italy's honor, the correspondent wrote. were about 75 miles from Allied conHe added that-i- he The Kharkov s&hent now. bulgquests of Orel and Catania caused ,an enormous sensation. es out m the German line and The cabinet, however, gave the Nazi ghinson there is in the no sign that Badoglio was seeksame position as their cohorts at reThe announced ing peaef. Old before they gave up the citv. sult of the long session was the Moscow was in a holiday mood enactment of a series of measfor the first time in the war ures continuing the destruction over the twin victories. of the Fascist party structure, Front line dispatihes gave revising methods of administerdetails of the Russian triumph, ing the eountrj's penal code, which was greeted in Moscow abolishing racial laws and invv ith the first gun salute of the stituting severe controls of the war and an announcement by pres for the duration of the Premier Joseph Stalin that the w ar. victories dispelled "the legend A roval dccice was published of the Germans that the Sovproclaiming the formal dissoluiet troops are allegedly unable tion of the Fascist party gland to wage a successful offensive council, ihe chamber of corporain the summertime." tions, and other branches of the Even as details of capture of partv. The decree ordered tile lcmoval of all Fascist signs and insignia and changed the title duce Fascism, to "chief of government. premier and secretary of state. All these measures, plus an inLONDON (INS) A new. plea vestigation into the wealth accu- for a western front in Europe mulated bv leaders of the Fascist was made by the Moscow ladio party, said the Tribune De Ge- Immediately after it announced neve in a Rome dispatch approv- the capture of Orel and Belgo-lod- , ed by the Italian censor, are inthe London Daily Sketch letended to win the support of ported today. the Italian masses for the forOwing to the defeats in the eign policies of the Badoglio re- east and the critical situation ;n Italy and the Balkans, the broadgime. cast said, "Germanv has had to forces from the mythiChurchill withdraw cal Atlantic wall. "Now the west front is open unguarded against a blow which Stirs Interest . will kill Hitlerism. LONDON London (AP) newspapers gave prominence todav to reports from Washington that Prime .Minister Chui chill and President Roosevelt might Plan Foreign v Brv-ans- Moscow Renews 2nd Front Plea Roosevelt, Meet the two cities reached the capital the Red Army pushed on in its gieat offensive against desperate real guard action. (The Berlin ladio said a German military spokesman declaied the Russians had succeeded in entering Belgorod "in the coarse of a new attack undertaken with the stiongest forces." hut claimed fierce fighting was progressing within the "City. (The German communique reported bitter fighting m the Belgorod aiea whiqh is still raging with undiminished violence. the Germans claimed to have taken 69.164 prisoners in the past month and to have destroved tanks in the same period ) The Russians indicated lapid progress in the Belgorod sector, where it'was understood another German unit had been cut off at the same tune the Belgorod gan ison was defeated The Soviet communique gave Red Armv airmen 'and artillery a laige share of ciedit for the Eelgoiod vfetorv. Not onlv indiv ldual guns hut whole batteries and artillery battalions were found smashed in 7 See RISSIA on Page 7 Japs Lose 40,000. At Guadalcanal WASHINGTON (INS) Col. Roval L. Gervais of the field artillery leported to the War Department today that Japanese losses in the battle for Guadalcanal totaled 40,500 jnen. Gervais, ecently returned from the south Pacific, said only 1,500 Japanese out of a total of on the island escaped death or capture. Gervais discounted the vaunted superiority of the Japanese as jungle fighters. He said the boasted superiority faded from the minds of bth army troops after their initial contacts with the Japs. "Our tactics are tjund, equipment excellent, the men are fully qualified, and, man for man, wiil meet the Japs anywhere, he said. 1 L. A. Fears Sinatra Fan Traffic Jam HOLLYWOOD (AP) of "Please, said officials the Los Angeles Union Stastudio tion .to the RKO "don't greeting coipmutec, unload Sinatra here. We haven't got room in this crowded place for crooning Frankie's fans. And so get this. Sinatra fans when Frankie arrives next Wednesday (he's coming here to make a movie) the he will be taken off trr.In at Pasadena. The JtKO greeters say tliey expect 10,000 admirers Sion to meet be hand will Which may be only natra a slight exaggeration. 42,--)- and-mari- nes 4 Bomb Kills Cow, ' Milker Escapes ABERDEEN. Ida. (AP) A bomb, presumably dropped from an army plane, left Mrs. Jake Isack uninjured, but killed a cow she was milking, Sheriff William A. Clough said today. The bomb apparently slid out practice Now Itll Be Wien, Moskva from the plane's racks while the ship was on a flight over the Isack home,- - which stands' near meetagam soon, the edge of the Aberdeen bombThe reports weie without auWASHINGTON (AP) You economically, but in understand, ing range, Clough said. Mrs. Isack thoritative confirmation or deing and language. Uniformity m suffered only shock. nial. A person close to Churchill will address letters to Wien of place names most The bomb apparently was of of Vienna and to Moskva the spelling declined comment. will help in this regard. a type used in certainly bombing, The messages from Washinginstead of Moscow', if 'you want the delay and con- containing only practice a small quantity Figurj out ton leported speculation there to do offices own our in after the fusion war, a it post properly of powder and large percentage that the president and the prime a government agency suggested w'hen a letter is addressed to of, sand, the' officer said. T h minister might arrange a sixth todav. ItalCitta the Del Salato, Lago charge, however, wqs sufficient wartime meeting to discuss furThe preferred form of ad- ian for Salt Lake City. to blow the cow to bits," he ther military moves against GerUnder BurriUs a communication to a suggestion, added. dressing . . and many Japan. foreign city after the war should leghorn, Italy, would be Livorbe the official spelling used in no: Rome, Roma; Naples, Napoli; For Bucharest, the country concerned if that na- Belgrade, Killed In Beograd; LONDON (AP) The Swiss tion- Uses the Latin alphabet," Bucaresti; Lemberg, Lwow; TuIda. (APi An said Director Meredith'S. Barrlll rin, Torino; Warsaw, Warszawa; radio reported today in a VatiCALDWELL, autd-traican city dispatch that Pope Pius crash pear here of the board on geographical The Hague. sGravenhage. death of, William names, a section of the DepartNames of countries "may bet- XII had asked the papal secre-tr- y of state, Luigi Cardinal ter be given in English form, J. Young, Ucon, Canyon County ment of the Interior. tb arrange that public Coroner William Talley said. "Every effort is expected to be the board said, as it facilitates Maglioni, for peace be said in all made to bring the peoples of the handling on the part of postal prayers Young was alone in his Roman Catholic churches. The the United States. world closer together-not.on- ly employes-i- n Spelling For Foreign Citie- s- -- Do you think well be able to face the boys if we go out? he wanted to know. He called for a show of hands on a motion. Every hand w ent 600." Japanese-dea- ready been counted by victorious American troops. Munda- - was the enemys key base m the heart of the Solomons Archipelago and its capture marked a major stride in the Allied campaign on reconquest pointed toward the Philippines. Hundreds of Japanese troops, battling with suicidal fury, were slain in the last stages as Amers ican spurted death into their coral caves and foxholes. Gen. Vandegrlfts hint on netv ' Allied offensive moves in the offing came as he returned to the south Pacific war theater from the United States, where he was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor and promoted -from major general to lieutenant general. Gen. Vandegnft is the man who led U. S. Marines ashore at Guadalcanal just a year ago today. Now he w'lll command the first amphibious corps m delivering fresh blows against Japan's invasion armies. . Along with the capture of Mun-dgood news came from the New Guinea front where field, dispatches declared the big Japanese stronghold at Salamaua was so gravely menaced that the enemy launched repeated counterattacks against Allied troops advancing within five miles of the base. A spokesman at Gen. MacAr-thur'- s headquarters said the enemy attacks were heavily repulsed and Allied fighters then swept forward to dislodge the Japanese from machine-guposts. Meanwhile, a Chinese army spokesman declared that the Japanese, fearful of new air raids on Japan, were rushing aerial reinforcements for attacks on poAllied "bomb tential Tokyo bases in China. The spokesman said that at least SO planes had arrived at one enemy air field in Anhwei provmcealone and that the Japanese were hurriedly enlarging their two main air bases in Hupeh province. a, Nazi Eastern Front Totters Badoglio Touhvy-jmpnson- d . Fra-tell- Injunction Lifted Priest Charged e WITHIN' RANGE OF H4LAMAUA American artillerymen man their gun, above, somewhere in the jungles around Salamaua, where the Americans and Australians now are within field gun range of the Japanese New Guinea base. This official V. fs. Army Signal Copps radiophoto was transmitted from Australia. (International soundphoto.) Hemisphere may one dav come into open conflict with her, but that possibility must be glossed ALBANY, Ore (AP) Detailover at the present time" He predicted that Great Britain ed instructions for feeding kidwill become Jhe last defender of naped Judith Gurney together Christianity in Europe and that with the fathers plea to retuin the Russian army will defeat Gerold infant to save the five-damany this winter. her life and her mother's, were bioadcast to the abductor jodav. In a ladio appeal to whoever stole the infant from its hospital crib Tuesday, W. B. Guinev, CHICAGO (AP) A fedetal plywood mill foreman and local court's temporary prohibition labor leader, said. The lives of two people deagainst exhibiting or advertising the motion picture "Roger Touhy, pend upon you the life of my Gangster was lifted today by bahv and that of my wife. Judge Williamed H. Holly, who Won'Lyou please --leave., thp ruled gangbaby in a safe place so that it ster and kidnaper, had not con- mav be returned to us? The mother, w ho w as near comtended the film portrayed him falsely'. plete collapse when she first was "The petition does not aver learned of the kidnaping, that the picture is false," Judge reported still in an unfavorable Holly told Tqjihv's counsel, IrV' condition todav. Dr. Lew Hurd. Albany phvsi-ciaYou don't say ing S. Roth. who delivered the baby Sunwhat the film represents Touhy as doing; vo-- t just present a con- day, bioadcast detailed instrucclusion .that the picture is tions to the kidnaper on the care of the child. vicious. State and local police continued Judge Holly had issued a torn porary ban- - Tuesday pending questioning members of the Alon hearing today on a petition for bany general hospital staff the theory that whoever took the an Injunction. was child familiar with the vate - Walter - J, Bohn, 26, - of at Wilkesbarre, Pa, convicted a courtmartial trial of rape, larwas (AP) ceny and housebreaking, LONG BEACH, Calif. GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) The Year-olcharges of disorderly hanged at Camp Claiborne early conduct and vagrancy against today, the public relations office Rev. Charles A. McDonnell, 67, of St. Louis, was charged with Barbara Jean Thompson, who announced. has sued Film ActorHenry Fonremanslaughter today was involuntary sentence death His da, charging he Is the father of in the death of Venona Cuddy, her daughter, have viewed by the eighth service at Dallas, Tex., and ap- 38, of Denver, in a mountain in Municipal been dismissed accident. The comCourt. proved bv President Roosevelt. automobile based on the report The dismissal was ordered on The attack took place on January plaint was . of State Highway Patrolman motion of her attorney, on S, 1943. Ostermiller that there was was convicted of raping Bohn of lack of prosecution. grounds evidence of reckless driving. divorcee has., a young Alexandria housewife. The demanded $2,000 monthly support for the child and $17,500 for medical and legal expenses. Fonda, now in the navy, denied the childs paternity. Loader Urges Men Not To Go Back On Boys Allied Hands l YANK ARTILLERYMEN' Other British Eighth army units were smashing ahead north up the east coast toward Taormina and Messina, 55 miles away. On the north coast the Amero ican are threatening San and late reports put them within two miles of that road junction, whose capture would cut the last lateral roadstfll in enemy hands. The Flving Fortress assault upon Messina marked the first time in many weeks that the Allies heaviest air weapon has been used against that badly battered Sicilian target. Touhy Picture aldos-tVALDOSTA. Ga (AP) businesses w ul be called on for one r more w orkers for a days work each week from each firm and to pay these persons at their Vital Air Base think- hard, and t "We have already carried out thinking GoetK planning." In the evacuation, bels was quoted as stating in an A Qpmmentator of the British aiticle in Adolf Hitler's news- RAF indicated in London yesterBy The Associated Press paper, the Voclkischer Beobach-ter- . day that the crashing load of Allied headquarters announced Berlin bombs would be cast upon all organized , Japan that today of that ese resistance has In another article, In the propa- shortly, saying residents ended in the indusganda oigan Das Reich, Goeb- seat of Nazi government, of Munda air base bloody siege watchbe bels was reported to have said: try and morale "must m tlie central 'Solomons, and at We do not mind discussing ing the shrinkage of daylight the same time Lieut. Gen. Alexconcern the evacuation problems quite with some ander A. Vandegnft hinted at new Allied operationa against Japan in the southwest Pacific. "The amphibious corps is ready for action, Gen. Yandegrift at an advanced south Pacific base. A bulletin from Gen. Douglas MacArthurs headquarters, announcing the end of the grim struggle for Munda, said a total matter-of-fac- flame-throwejr- y Work Or Fight Drive Enforced target of Allied air of 1,671 awav. and "Russia has never pretended to bp otherwise, she has never attempted to deceiv e us, he said "Outside of the dozen or so nations, including Germany which she expects to gobble up, I believe she will prove a fairly good neighbor In the family of nations "If she continues to her Pagan philosophy and continues to spiead a tion seeking recall of Governor C, A. Bottolfsen for his approval of repeal of the senior citizens was grants- - initiative measure, filed with the secretary of state r today The petition, circulated by W. R. Rafrety of Nampa, contained the signatures of 21 voters of Canvon County and was certified by Canjon County Clerk Minnie Davenport. to The petition was addressed secretary of George H. Curtis, state. . Try Ersatz Meat e . -- sia as 1 is The decided through ing, but only through as follow (AP) Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels announced in a statement broadBlast cast. from Berlin today that BerNazi Escape lin had been partially evacuated because "we expect the German Bv Reiman Morin ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN capital will be the target of eneNORTH AFRICA - (AP) U. S. my attacks." This recorded bv tioops have plunged forward two Reuters,transmission, officially confirmed reto three miles on the north coastto Stockholm Aug. 1 that al load to Messina, and in the ports were being central sector of Sicily have moved from civilians Berlin in fear that seized Gagliano in a steady of Germans west of Ml. Etna, an Allied communique an- Prayers Accident n result-ed-m-nsta- I Peace |