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Show s? 1 HAttersodCfloiilsbilsad.' Tttradsr..,; it!ir!ii ;howerB north portion j-i j-i tbls ftrnoiu Warmer. Tuesdar?.. ; ht fi'ost sontli' portion tonlxht. -empentnre: - IeIlweTwefe pint Afloat . . -ICapCLeslie E.GemWfIht inr p skipper - of exnlesios-rid..' -;'dled Alrcrmft-CMrlern-U.-S.: - ' grant Un -c t y: ,s-,i - ? - iFIFTY.NINTHyEAHNO. 249 f " "TJTATTS r-'-'SOUl'H r PROVO.v 'UTAH COUNTYf UTAH; MONDAYrlAY J2I 1945 f : r-PRJCE'fIV CENTS LTXAKB- : TELEGRAPH NIW8. 81IRV1CB . f. . , -;f . - - . .C!lllki :l&liTlDFC ...... -,. - v.- -- - ..(,t t tV'U ti , ..... If J V A. 4W?r" r iUiorPerfy . isdibn Jlejc. Proposal by " ' utchill to Continue -i v rl... s Coalition Regime LONDON, May 21" c -'Hie Labor party decided to day to .break away from the coalitiokireiiaetit and force a British 'election,, despite des-pite an jBrsrent-pIea by Prime Sliniste Chutehill to. put off politics ; until . -Japan is defeated.- . Meeting at Blackpool, the labor party rejected Churchill s proposal pro-posal ' to continue the coalition government and' offered to go to theOpoll any. time. The step xnesint thl death in a short time -osIWy v levt month f the covernment cnurcmu formed five'years ago to guide Britain to victory in Eosope. in axast-jmnute maneuvers Churchill uggested that an unprecedented un-precedented national referendum be held on whether the 10-year-old parliament should continue in office. Deputy Prime Minister Clement Clem-ent R. Attlee and Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, in a press conference con-ference at Blackpool, said the party believed the election should be delayed until autumn, but was ready for it in July the earliest possible time. The convention, Including 1,100 delegates representing 3,000,090 members, was only two votes short of unanimity in balloting gainst staying with Churchill's conservative .majority fay a combined com-bined government until the war in the east is over. . rrovo iviOTiier Receives False Death Report Families who have men In the service were being warned today to be on the alert against false casualty reports over the tele phone, following a telephone call by an unidentified woman to Mrs. Joseph Kirkwood, 367 South Fourth West street, with a fake report that her son Harold Kirkwood, pharmacists mate 1 c, had died from a heart attack. . Mrs. Kirkwood who is not in the best of health, had not completely recovered from the shock of the spurious message delivered by some person, who is either mentally mental-ly deranged or else actuated by the most diabolical motives mot-ives one could imagine.' The woman who called Mrs. Kirkwood by name represented herself as calling from the Red Cross office and said she had ,i i oaanewj iui juu. . -It isn't Harold, is it?" Mrs.i Kirkwood exclaimed. ! ,.v- ij j. i. a short time ago from a i1"1 attack," the woman replied as she hung up before Mrs. Kirkwood Kirk-wood was able to obtain any further details. Frantic inquiries at the Red Cross office by Mr. Kirkwood later on disclosed the fact that there was no official information informa-tion of any death in the local office. The Red Cross workers placed a telephone call for Pharmacists Phar-macists Mate Kirkwood, and after af-ter four hours his mother was overjoyed to hear his voice and his assurance that he was alive and well. He has been hospitalized hospit-alized for a few weeks at Cor-vallis, Cor-vallis, Ore. It should be emphasized again that casualty reports are always delivered in person, per-son, nearly always by telegram, tele-gram, and are never communicated com-municated to any member of the family by telephone. While Mr. and Mrs. Kirkwood have several leads to work on in an attempt to identify the woman wo-man who made the call, they refused re-fused any statements today, while local and federal agents went to work on the case. No One Hurt In Midvale Wreck MID VALE. Utah, May 21 (U.R9 Two cars of coal were derailed but no personal injuries resulted early today when a westbound Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad freight train and an eastbound passenger col lided headon at Midvale, company officials of-ficials reported. Both trains were moving slowly, slow-ly, they added, and through traffic-was -delayed only two hours. Big Ewe Agre 0m Regional Sectinty Agreement Ends 2 Weeks of Controversy, Revives Of ficial Hopes of Adjournment of San Francisco Conference by Early June By H E SIIACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent . SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 CJ The BiJT Five powers submitted to the United Nations conference today, a plan for linking the inter-American and world security systems without jeopardizing1 .a nation's right to self defense or the historic principles of the Monroe doctrine. The Big Five agreemen versy an -draised official' hope of adjournment 'early in June. The regional solution specif- icany recognizes the right of a state or groups of states to act in self defense without prior ap proval of the world organization. Under the Yalta voting formula. for the new league, the United States would always have a veto over any "outside" Interference in this hemisphere by the world security council. , The agreement acknowledges the world organization as die ultimate paramount authority in all enforcement action. But in case an attack occurs on a memf ber. state, it. acknowledges "the Inherent right , of individual or collective self defense. ' . . Until, Un-til, the security council has taken the Jmeasures necessary to main tain, international peace and seen se-en rity." The Latin American nations- originated or-iginated the regional dispute with their demands that the inter-American security system, as formal ized in the act of Chapultepec, be:, given, complete autonomy, from the world organization.' The, biK five ilan-WBsithebwit!- fderstood' to have the -backing" nf major Latm Amerian countries, thereby assuring its approval by the 'conference. In the speedup campaign the conference steering committee composed of the heads of the 49 delegations called a meeting for this afternoon to consider ways and means of expediting committee commit-tee work and of holding commission commis-sion sessions to a minimum. During the day, nearly every conference committee and subcommittee sub-committee was scheduled to meet. The order of the day was the longest' of the conference, listing 18 committee and subcommittee meetings. The notable absentee from the committee schedule was the one on trusteeships the remaining re-maining major issues on which the big powers are split. Supreme Court Leaves Divorce Tangle to States WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.R)- cMma hlrf ih "X ' fZ- if Jf Jf? tnl self whether to recognize the . i t I . aence unaer wmcn nevaua giaiiis divorces. The 6 to 3 ruling, written by Justice Felix Frankfurther. affirmed af-firmed the convictions of a Pine-ola. Pine-ola. N. C. couple for "bigamous cohabitation." The couple O. B. WiWam and Lillie Shaver Hendrix twice were convicted in North Carolina courts. The legal entanglement arose after Williams and Mrs. Hendrix went to Nevada in 1940, established estab-lished residences there for six weeks, obtained uncontested divorces di-vorces at Las Vegas from former spouses, then got married and returned re-turned to North Carolina. The state of North Carolina refused to recognize their Nevada divorces. divorc-es. The high court upset their first convictions in 1942. holding that (Continued on Page Two) Black Market Cuts Deeper Into BY UNITED PRESS Carving knives lay Idle in kitchen drawers throughout the U. S. today as meat dealers reported re-ported black market operations cutting deeper into dwindling meat and poultry supplies. Lines lengthened before the corner butcher shop. And most housewives considered themselves lucky to obtain meat of any kind .or poultry, the next best substitute. substi-tute. About the only beneficiaries of the current meat shortage are the nation's butchers, suddenly supplied sup-plied with an unprecedented amount of leisure. Many are quitting quit-ting work after an average four-hour four-hour day. There is simply no meat to sell. In : Chicago, the meat packing ended two weeks of contro- Tito Withdraws From Carinthia By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 21 (U.PJ Marshal. Mar-shal. Tito withdrew all 20,000 Yugoslav troops from Austrian Carinthia today and expressed " ""J w meajs'wiui uie wcsirn aiues on ?tccunauon of oisDuted veni- zia Giulia, province in northeast Italy. At the same timet however, Tito expressed "his' "ihdiijmation and surorise." over Marshal ' Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander' allegation alle-gation that Yugoslavia's attitude' inlthe Venizla Giulia dispute Was -all loo reminiscent of Hitler; ITlltfnllnt' inH'Tstiah - - V' - i ready to cooperate and, eonje to wgrecrocni-vOT) oasis WX-iQ xugosiaysa as.an.-uiy,". Tito said. Tito's reply to . Alexander, su preme allied commander in the Mediterranean, was . carried bv the Soviet Tass agency from Belgrade Bel-grade as the United States ahd Britain engaged in new discussions discus-sions "looking ' toward a solution of the deadlock. The next step may be an Anglo-American Anglo-American attempt to gain Moscow's Mos-cow's support for the western allies' insistence that the Yugoslavs Yugo-slavs quit northeast Italy. James L. Roper, United Press correspondent, reported from Trieste that the situation in that city, center of the Venizia Giulia dispute, remained "extremely tense." An American battalion which had been sent to Trieste to present pre-sent a United Allied front withdrew with-drew and rejoined the remainder of the 91st division in the Gorizia sector to avoid supply problems in the event of hostilities, Roper said. British and New Zealand forces remained In Trieste, along with an even greater number of Yugoslav Yugo-slav troops. Some 1,300 of Tito's troops paraded through Trieste with 13 American-made light tanks, three British-made armored armor-ed cars, a German-made light tank, 1 1 German - guns and two light anti-tank guns in a show of strength yesterday. .Only 1,200 civilians watched the parade and they showed a noticeable lack of enthusiasm, Roper said. He estimated there were 65,000 Yugoslav troops in Venizia Giulia. NELSON JOINS MOLYBDENUM SET-UP NEW YORK, May 21 UJD Donald Nelson, former chairman of the war production board and special adviser to the president, today was elected a director of Molybdenum Corporation o f America. TRUMAN RELAXES ON POTOMAC CRUISE WASHINGTON, May 21 U.R President Truman spent several hours relaxing aboard the presidential presi-dential yacht Potomac on the Potomac Po-tomac river Sunday, the Whtie House disclosed today. center, office of price administration administra-tion officials estimate that supplies sup-plies have dropped 60 percent in the past six months. Most markets have Adopted a practice of opening only two or three days a week, while others close as soon as the day's supply is exhausted. Almost to a man, the butchers blame the black market. "A retailer can .get all the meat he wants if he has a high-income clientel and will pay, the price," one butcher complained bitterly. In New York, half the butcher shops are closed and showcases in the other are empty despite an enforced baa on raeataates.- - Mayor Floreilo HL LaGuardia last nizht called upon government officials to inaugurate-the ration 20,000Troops srijafo Automatic Discharge Age jDropped From 42 " To 40 By the . Army WASHINGTON, May 21 UJ0 Army, enlisted, men aged 40 or older were made eligible today for discharge on their own application. appli-cation. The ruling applies to all such men wnose service record is honorable. hon-orable. j This represents a' lowering" of the discharge age from 42 years. which became effective . .last April 17. . The reduction of the ace bracket affects about 0,000 en listed men in the 40 and 4iage groups. . . f When the . military situation permits, a further reduction wUl be made In the age limit, the war department disclosed. r These discharges are separate from those made on' the point system wmcn applies to au ages. -ine new policy is aiso applic able to enlisted WACs 40 and older who have served for one: year or more. Eight thousand enlisted en-listed WACs are eligible to apply under this policy. Commanders will be permitted to retain for 90 days any eligible man ?who. applies discharge under this policy for wJStm ..rer placement is not immediatel v The war department said the discharge age cannot be reduced below 40 "at this time without jeopardizing military . ooerations or slowing down the release ..of combat veterans who have namort ftig right to discharge under-the ! and rffdunilK KPrviri " -j enthbeQt vfdes indirect consideration for age." It said. "Statistical surveys have indicated that the average e oi iainers is several years above, the average for soldiers without children." As heretofore, officers ovpr and young officers not physically qualified for combat for whom no suitable assignments exist may be discharged. Gun Accident Fatal to Girl TOELE. Utah Six Doris Peterson, daughter of Kenneth Ken-neth and Edna Ney Peterson, died In a Salt Lake city hospital hos-pital Sunday from gunshot wounds suffered at her home her home Saturday morning. Tooele police said the child and her brother, Kenneth Lester Peterson, Pe-terson, were playing, with two guns, and that the boy accidental ly discharged a .22-caliber pistol. The bullet entered the oIH'b head. She lived less than 24 hour aiier ine tragic accident Allies Execute 150 Nazi Spies . PARIS. May 21 (U.R) Fifty of the 150 Nazi spies who Infiltrated American lines during the Arden nes offensive last December have been tried and executed and all but 10 of the others were shot and killed while trying to escape capture, Allied headquarters revealed re-vealed today. The . fate of the remaining 10 still was uncertain, according to Col. H. G. Sheen. Washington. D. C, chief of headquarters counter intelligence who directed the countermeasures that smashed the enemy plot. Sheen revealed that 150 enemv agents infiltrated the Allies lines in American uniforms during the night of Dec. 16-17. All spoke English with what they hoped was an American accent and nil re VlSCti Men Over 40 were equipped with faked ident-laria ity cards. Meat Supplies ing of poultry, and to adopt uni versally mew York's meatless Tuesday and Friday. He also proposed pro-posed that restaurants and hotels be required to collect ration points from patrons for meat servings. The war food administration h held out little hope for incre. meat, poultry and egg suppli ine numDer one population It points out, however, that -"fish are coming into the market at the rate of 1,000,000 a day, 300,000 atwve tne normal San Francisco's Jharket shelves invariably are empty by noon. Not only do 'delegates to the United Nations conference find' few steaks on the menu, but they are more apt to dine on fish, which Is plentiful, or Jamb, available ; in small amounts. HeroiciCommqnaer 4 Capt Leslie E. Gehre, whobrdughf! rtble oirdeal, any vAmerican rhlp ever lurviveo. . . . . " -,ry Lt Cm dr. Joseph T. O'Callaghan, senior Chaplain on US 'Franklin, was called "bravest man I'ever saw" by the flattop's sklppqr. Utah Attains One-Fourth Of Its Bond Quota SALT LAKE CITY, May 21 (U.R) Utah has attained almost one-quarter one-quarter of its 20-million dollar E-bond E-bond quota during the first week of the seventh war loan, state war finance officials announced today. E-bond sales now total $4,887. 405, officials said, which is approximately ap-proximately 24 per cent of the state's quota. A check of county quota per cenfages shows tiny Wayne county coun-ty far out in front, with an unofficial un-official report that it has attained 60 per cent of its quota. Other county leaders are as follows: fol-lows: Toole, 57 per cent; Grand, 41 per cent; Weber, 38 per cent; Morgan, 34 per cent; David and Salt Lake, each 25 per cent; Kane, 23 per cent; Cache, 17 per ceni, ana man, io per cent. U. S. Prepares Note to Russia On Ballon Set-Up WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.R) ine united States is preparing a polite but firm request that Soviet So-viet Russia begin applying the i ana principles in the Russian-occupied Russian-occupied Balkans, an official source said today. ne indicated that this gov ernment felt the time was ripe foj big three consultations aimecL broadening the Soviet-fostered governments in Romania, Bul- and Hungary. Military considerations and the big three-tangle over Poland have stalled joint BriUsn-American-Russian action in ine three countries coun-tries which, by agreement among the major alljgu, lie within Russia's Rus-sia's sphere df influence. ds firm control over the countries, although the United d Britain are represented on Bulgarian, Romanian and Hun- control commissions in a fashion." This arrange- ent, like the Anglo-American domination of the big three commission com-mission in Italy, was agreed upon early in the war. This source said that although the Polish tangle is more dead locked than ever the United States hopes for British and Russian Rus-sian cooperation in examining and perhaps reorganizing the Balkan governments now in power under Red army auspices. He said, however, that a review of Hungary's Hun-gary's government may be delayed de-layed .until political developments there, become clearer.- tyHf'ja j f ff CvM mi fSyTic'lefecmon-Crisis oUoTO.Shpota,! French Senegcaesor ByrGEQBGE'jBTTAIl" vnuca s-ress otau vorresponaeni f fit. 7 i .osure ' ina r ren.cn enegilesetroops fired' on Lebanese-demonstrators and kilted several of them- yester- J . 1 1 A. 1 uay. orouni ft new miaqie- M (A. v Cairo dispatch said clashes In Svria and CebanWhad nut ithe . whqle middle-east on ege over $.rencn .policy an ine Levantstates.1 A -Lebanese legation' lega-tion' official said .17 persons were wourfded when Senegalese, troops dispersed crowds" in Damascus.). The .shooting , climaxed , a -ser ies, of Incidents .provoked- by- the arrival , of v fresh,, French troops in Syria and Lezanon and brought these.rapld developments: - 1 Syria and Lebanon 'resolved jointly - to j refuse , to T negotiate with the French on the .question of landing-addiUonaltroops in the two conntries. The decision was 'designed to place the blame oh France for any further clash es ' f -r 3 The- Arab- league, powerful union of middle'-eactern coun- irfeVcaJledvon.' diplomatic bMSSK&g resenVvw of V. tg ftffiSfiiSr incnmwg-FraiB itself.-, to . ex - prss-xegrt?overf the -situation- VatUwortit 'cviiiCerred'iiii Xto. ancadxrSr-:------ 4 .The Iraa . government, con tacted. the Egyptian government in an effort to coordinate their policies in' the event of new developments. de-velopments. (A Syrian legation official in Carlo said the worsening situation had caused President Shukri.El Kuwatly to suffer severe emotional emotion-al shock and hemorrhage. Several blood transfusions were given the president, but his condition Still was serious, the official said.) The fatal shooting . occurred near a French cooperative store in Beyrouth. The Senegalese troops were guarding the stores and opened fire when the dem onstrators approached. The joint Syrian-Lebanese re fusal to negotiate with France followed the receipt of a memorandum mem-orandum from the French repre sentative at Beyrouth. . Japan Reiterates Denial Of Peace Feelers In Report By UNITED PRESS Japan reiterated its denial of peace feelers today and mobilized mobiliz-ed 20,000,000 students for the defense de-fense of the homeland. Sadao Iguchi, spokesman for the Japanese board of information, informa-tion, was quoted by the Tokyo radio as saying that Japan Mat no time, at no place and through no channel whatsoever has ever proposed peace to the United States and Britain." ' "Such propaganda was apparently appar-ently -designed to undermine the Japanese morale, and - there is rk reason to elaborate that Japan's policy in East Asia will not change for any reason," Iguchi said at a press conference.. Japanese Dome! agency announced tne creation ox a siu- ' -corps under a new-war- Mtitratinn dmrt .Tfn stu dents will receive special training to qualify them for combat duties, Domei said. Government Business Manager Plan Studied by Pres. Truman By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 21 (U.R) President Truman today is de veloping' an economy program that may lead to appointment oi a "general business manager" for the United States government. Chairman Robert Ramsneclc D.. Ga of the house civil service commission,-told the United Press Mr. Truman had given consider able thought to theusiness manager7 man-ager7 idea. Such ant off icial would be responsible for finding" and eliminating . waste effort, money and; personnel ln;many govern ment departments.-and agencies with their 200,000 federal employes., em-ployes., J.-sii. - ' "The president definitely was interested -in the suggestion that Marines Use l?isntia weMhe J Defenders: From JFormidable,, Fortifica s tionuuarcunruianawia:JStrongnoidiTowi By muf.; tybek GTJAMHay-2i - sent strong patrols into Yoiubanf w the eastast today while marines used flamlnsr i irura riormiaaDie xoruitcauons jruaxun7ineYUXWuyxen . The Domei (Japanese) fleet again was "on the prowi" of f - southernu Japan, fit appeared to be opproaching Kyuahri for new attacks on the L Japanese, homeland. . n .Close-range fighting of unsur-l Lassecb intensity in the . Pacific war raged among me r idges and caves-, outside snurl and xona baru. Japs 'Move Out' Army . patrols,, dispatched by Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge of the 24th corps,- penetrated- Yonabaru and found but few Japanese. The enemy apparently has been mov-J 1 Al . . . . . I mg out ox uw wwn ourmg aay-light aay-light hours when" American ar-tillery ar-tillery spotters are overhead. .Tjbe . First, marine division-one division-one of the three enveloping Chu-rl--blazed a fiery path toward the ancient stronghold which the Japanese, were defending with do-ot&die desperation. . -Front- dlf jatches; said leather- 1 """fr J7. r.' wart,frM Tiysr-.a-pioKisn .giow.oni inr cr roirUngTXth - 40iilfa! Anu vanjE guzuiers usea meir Dig weapons like rifles, firing them, point-blank at suts in coral pillboxes. pill-boxes. t Heavy Bombardment savage ground fighting progressed pro-gressed under cover of the heaviest hea-viest land, sea and air bombard ment or the Pacific war. It ap peared the heaviest-ground -as sault was being directed at Shu-ri. Shu-ri. Except for patrols, the 96th division has not yet entered Yon-abaru Yon-abaru in strength. Final attacks against Nana, rubble-heaped west coast port and capital of Okinawa, apparently were being held up pending completion of khe Shuri campaign. The First marine division on the northwest plunged ahead 800 yards to within 200 yards of Shuri. The 77th army division battled within 900 yards northeast of the town and the 96th army division on the east pushed 1,600 yards to the outskirts of Shuri. Field reports said all three divisions di-visions had broken through Shuri's defense perimeter loosely loose-ly defined as the Shuri citadel but had not penetrated the town Itself. Maj. Gen. John R. Hodge, corn-mender corn-mender "of the 24th army corps, (Continued on Page Two) FBI Chief Urges Prompt Reports On Activities WASHINGTON. May 21 (U. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of. Invesigation today urged the public to re main on the lookout for suspicious suspici-ous actviitles that might lead to the arrest of spies and saboteurs. "The Japanese are now alone in the war with their backs to the wall," Hoover said, "and they can be expected to become more desparate than ever. Now of all times we do not dare relax our vigiliance." He asked that questionable activities ac-tivities be reported to the FBI or some-other law enforcement agency. a general business manager be appointed," Ramspeck said. "In my opinion he will give more time- to the management side of Jovernment than any president t my "memory." Ramspeck came to congress in 1929. A general business' manager would not maker administration policy as such. His recommendations recommenda-tions on abolishing agencies or curtailing costly functions" would become policy if they were put into effect. Ramspeck did not suggest to Mr. Truman any Individual Indi-vidual for the job. fie told the United Press that the right man would have a background of wide business experience and some inside in-side knowledge of government. The prescription could be filled. (Continued en PJnge Two) , Theenamyn - Oldbawi oil todfive JaBanee defender news agency said an .American 0ihjrGD6gs t .', r, armes Rat Out Japs BY FRANK IL BARTHOLOMEW United Press War Correspondent NAHA, OkihawaTMay 20 (UJD- The marines brought their dogs in today toy rat out Japanese snipers. . two long sues of Doberman Pinschers and. German Shepherd police 'dogs marched along oppo-r site sides ot tne road -online long slope leading to;.the- north :bank of the Asato;river4 - - , ' TCach ' dog moved' Intently In military fashion directly ahead of" his--marine- trainer-Who' held a jlve-footfleasK-ifeoTiW 1 : r . w ahw bus nua proper. Despite the fierceness of the Japanese defense, we obviously are gathering sufficient power to cross the river and take the entire town. When .we passed the war dog platoon padding rapidly south ward this morning, we became aware that the close-in fighting had intensified since we entered Naha yesterday for the first time, In the 1,800-yard stretch be tween Asa and Asa to rivers, ma rines were keeping their heads down and only crossing the roadway road-way on the run in crouching positions. posi-tions. We tried to maneuver our Jeep into the same sheltered area we used yesterday, but were stopped , by the vicious shelling of the bluff we were descending. When we tried to go ahead by foot, we were pinned down by artillery fire. We dropped into a drainage ditch and crawled on our hands and knees to the comparative safety of a ruined wall. All the American machine gun positions I had seen yesterday down by the river bank seemed to be intact The area between us and those forward positions was under continuous fire. Pvt. Thomas Cochrane, Chi cago,, worked his way uphill to our shelter after a survey trip tor the engineers. -He waved for a bulldozer to come down and clear the road of dead Japanese and other rubble to open the way for the dogs and marine reinforce ments. Yanlts Kill 1000 Japs Per Day In Philippines v MANILA. May 21 (U.R) Amer ican trooos. killing almost a thou sand Japanese daily in the Philippines, Philip-pines, split open an enemy pocket on Luzon and seized another airfield air-field on Mindanao, it was announced an-nounced today Gen. Douglas C MacArthur an nounced I368 Japanese were killed in the Philippines in the past two weeks. Only 602 prisoners pris-oners were taken. These figures hMnirtit (he tntal of Jatmnese killed or captured in the Philippines Philip-pines campaign since the Leyte landing seven months ago yesterday yester-day to 369,818. The 43rd division drove a wedge through a force of several thou-unt thou-unt Jananese on Luzon by open- ting the highway from Novaliches. five rmies nonn m dam. The am itself was taken two days ago. Doughboys broke through the heart of the enemy pocket after a blistering, 1,000-ton fire raid on Japanese pltlmslvr 250 Ligntning, i nunaerooii- uw ting" fighter-bombers as jellied gasoline bombs poured fire on tbem, the Japenese tried desper ately to bring down the attack, ing'pxanxs wiia morwusucju. . neip |