OCR Text |
Show J ;H-.A yf 'ifyTfyw f'Mf-'L " '& p The Weather CAtt THE HERALD 17TAII: Cloudy with howe-ftad thonderetonns early tonight, prt- ' ly cloudy with atUnioon ihowerf Fridsyj JitUe chaag in .temperature .tempera-ture toaifht and Friday. If you don't receive your Hrald before 6:30.- en ifiV hfrr a o'clock and copy .will be sent w you. , Temperatures t ' Low .... ...... . . . ... .50 - ; - Y if FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 257, Four Utah Co Candidates TNT Two District Judffesr Compe NO One Legislative Candidate Ar4 Virtually l Assured of Election; Without Opponents : . " ' The election all over as far as four Utah couaty candidates are concerned. I They are already elected he cause no opponents have filtd against them on the ticket. Two ofythe lucky candidates whi will be spared alt, election expenses are Judge; Bennion, Carlson File for G. 0. P. Senatorial Spot SALT LAKE CITY, June 1 (OS) A, flurry of last minute actlvl ty and some surprise near-dead line candidates today had brought the entry llita for the 1844 Utah Primary election majc r state races to near-capacit; K However, In IS off icesr-inclw ing the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator and Represen tatives ther6 were no primary contests. 1 The final filing deadline was 5 - P. M. yesterday. The primary eiecuon win oe on July xx. The two biggest surprises c In the battle for the Republic senatorial nomination when Adam S. Bennion, assistant the presiaent Utah Power light Co., and Oscar W. Carlso: .member of the state department of Business Regulations, entered their names. David J. Wilson, Off-den Off-den political leader, and George H. Crow, Salt Lake City retired Civil Service worker, . had. previously previ-ously filed. Candidates who have no opposition oppo-sition for the nomination will not have to participate in either the direct primary or the Aug. 15 runoff, but will come before the voters, for the Ntv. 7 genersl election. McDonald Named Superintendent oft Salt Lake Schools SALT LAKE CITY, June 1 l The Salt Lake City Board pi Education today announced the selection of Howard S. McDon aid , 49," deputy superintendent of San Francisco. CaL. schools Salt Lake City superintendent ifdttrict . two; schools to succeed the late Dr. John Nuttall, Jr. The appointment of McDonald, a native tt Holladay Utah, is ef fective July 1. His salary will be 98500 ;a year.. McDonald is a graduate Jof Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college" at Logan and a former mathematics instructor at the school. He has been connect ed With San i Francisco schools. starting at Mission high, since IB- U. S. Won't Take Part in Parleys LONDON, June 1 (UE) An ih formed ; non-British source said today that the United States gov ernment will not participateUn th projected negotiating between Qen. Charles De Baulle and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This informant said De Gaulle Lwas invited to London for discus slons only with the British government, gov-ernment, pointing out that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower already has been empowered to deal with the French as soon as military operations opera-tions begin in metropolitan France. His disclosure appeared to ne gate recent rumors that President Roosevelt would come to London for the conferences with De Gaulle. Workers to Lose Draft Deferment BOSTON, June 1 (UR Nearly all of the 136 war workers ar rested in the $500,000 war frauds racket at the Bethlehem Steel company's Bingham shipyard face probable loss' of draft-defer red status, a state selective ser vice Official disclosed today. Names of about 125 holding such' deferments were being sub mitted to their, various local draft boards throughout Massachusetts and Col. Ralph H. Smith, state selective, service director, said he believed that only under "this most unusual circumstances' would such -deferments be re newed. County AtiornW and William Stanley Uunford, Fro- vof Democratic candidate for district judge j and Judge Jo seph E. NereonL Spanish Fork; Republican candidate for dis trict judge. B4th Judge Sun ford and Judge Nelson are now serving by appointment from the governor. Since two judges are to be elected, and these two were the only ones to lie on the Democratic Demo-cratic and Rpublican tickets. their election is lutomatlcally assured. as-sured. The mcve also brings about a non - pixtisan, judiciary, because of the limited competition competi-tion for the positions on the bench, due to the lucrative private practice enjoyed rby the members of the legal pr Session at this time. The other twc candidates who are already "in' are Arnold C. Roylance, incumbent county attorney, at-torney, who will (begin his fourth term in the ofjrice in January, and Henry C. Roberts of Goshen, who has been elected representa tive to the state legislature from the fifth district by defaultj the Republicans hairing failed to place a candidal :e in nomination from this district. With Wednesday at 5 p. m. be ing the deadllm for candidates' filings, the couity clerk's office reported the busiest day at the counter since filings began. Most of the candidates were Republicans Republi-cans who had been slow in coming in.- Included among the last-minute filings were A. O: Thorn, Spring-ville Spring-ville contractor nd former mayor, may-or, Republican Candidate for the two-year term county commissioner; commis-sioner; Daryl Fawler, Lehi, Republican Re-publican Candida te for the four-year four-year ternv county commissioner.' The Republicans entered no can didate for county attorney. Republicans who filed for legis lative representatives were Ed. R. Tuttle of American Fork, district one: Samuel H. Blake, Vineyard district two: Mrs. Erne jacoos, Provo. district three; Jackr. H Swenson, Spanish Fork. No can didate was entered from the fifth district, Democrats who filed for legis lative positions included Burton H. AdarmKof Pleasant Grove, dls trict one; J. W. JGillman of- Orem, andT. Earl Foote, Pleasant View, lph H. Peters, Provo, district three, where Mrs. Delia Loveridgd had previously filed;" Howard q. Jensen, Spring- vllle, with Selvoy J. Boyer, Springville, and William Grote- gut, Spanish Fork, previously filed, and HenryCJ. Roberts, Gor shen. who is virKTally assured of election Mr. Thorn, Republican county oofi.mlssioner candidate, is presi- ( Continued on rage xnree) oh Page Thi ingville cr. Convh dent of the Springville chamber Escaped Convict Found In Phoenix SALT LAKE CITY, June 1 (ttE) Warden Johni E. Harris an nounced today that Hugh S. Palm er, who escaped from the Utah prison honor camp at Point-of-The Mountain on April 12, has been arrested in Phoenix, ,t Ariz., and will be returned here as soon as possible. Palmer, serving a terra of up to five years after conviction in Millard county of carnal knowl edge, was. arrested by Phoenix officers who reaognized hirafrom photographs distributed after he walked away prom the prison camp, Harris sajid. 1000 Rescued From Aoround Off Coast SAN FRANCISCO. June 1 UE The service transport Henry Bergh, which grounded on a Far-allone Far-allone reef 20 miles west of the Golden Gate yesterday, broke in two during the night after more -than 1,000 navy veterans of South Pacific battles had been rescued from the stricken ship and nearby Waters by navajl surface vessels. SAN FRANC ISCOy June 1 UE More than 1.D00 navy veterans of the Pacific war were safely ashore in San 'Francisco harbor today, rescued jby destroyers and patrol boats softer the uoerty ship S. S. Hehry Bergh went aground off the fog-Shrouded Farollone islanjds.v just 20 miles west of the Gulden Gate. . Twelfth Nayal District head PROVO, 1 A ' GoveiiiiiKitf ToPtovMe 1en atGsneva N Washington Agencies loin Hemds to Releaso Wider Recruiting Area Assurances were given today to-day jby the war production bo4rd, the war manpower corhmission, and the defense (plant corporation in charge of the" allocation and employ ment of critical labor for war industries throughout j t h e nation that the huge new Geneva Ge-neva steel mill, running on part capacity because of the shortage of workers, will receive priority ranking boost in order to complete remaining construction and provide pro-vide th necessary labor to bring the plant to full operating capacity. capac-ity. ' Today's recognition of the plant's manpower needs, resulting from the congressional efforts of Representative J- Will Robinson, D.,.Utah. accompanied an admis sion by the WPB that in spite of the surplus built up during the wiater ' months, 'Steel Is getting tight again." Geneva, Republic Favored Both Geneva and Chicago's Re public Steel miU have been; listed as special emergency cases, following fol-lowing the disclosure,- In order that an immediately - increased supply of labor can be made available avail-able to combat the shortage. . Geneva's immediate need calls for the hiring of 646 construction and operation workers, the Provo office of the WMC said today. The new priority rating will be subordinate only to those held bv plants turning out landing craft, aviation gasoline or secret proj- ects of the Pasco, Washington, type. At present the Pasco plant is hiring 1500 men weekly, but losing about half that number weekly for unexplained reasons. It was though that Geneva may be given ''first rights" to inter view these men, on the suggestion oi me uru, wmcn pointed out that such a source alone might furnish enough workers to bring the steel plant to capacity. me wage question at Geneva, the object of various complaints to Representative RobinSon, was reported today to still be under study by Bradley Hlght, In charge of a problems for the WMC. . with Robinson, the DPC the WMC are worftine on the matter, it was expected to b solved within the near future. Changes Made In Ration Points WASHINGTON. June 1 (U.E) The Office of Price Administration Administra-tion today removed canned car rots and canned orange and grapefruit Juices from the ration list, effective Sunday. it reduced, by two points the ration value of all cheese and cheese products, and chuck beef steaks and chuck roasts. 'Cheese will be 10 points a pound; chuck steak five points. The agency said it is expected that more beef, veal, lamb, mutton mut-ton and variety meats will be available to civilians .in June than in May. but that there will be a slight! reduction In pork supplies. sup-plies. Pork and other meat, except ex-cept beef, continue ration ree. Other changes in the new ration ra-tion chart, effective from Sunday through July 1, included a reduction reduc-tion in points for evaporated and condensed milk from one to one-half one-half point a can; an increase for grape juice in pint sizes by four points to 10, and an increase in pineapple juice in No. 2 can from 12 to 15 points. Point values of all other processed pro-cessed foods and fats, including butter and margarine, were unchanged.: un-changed.: So, too, were the values of better grade beef steaks arid beef roasts the only meats still rationed except chuck. U. S. Liberty Ship, Near Golden Gate quarters announced that all per sonnet aboard the transport had been removed from the wrecked vessel, the rocky islands, and from the frigid waters in which several sever-al hundred, floated on rafts and in life jackets. No casualties or in juries were reported. A salvage officer recommend ed; early today that the ship, weakened by three larre holes and breaking up rapidly, be abandun- e& the navy said. Salvage opera' tiohs had been carried out since the Bergh first went around at 5 Am. yesterday. Two naval ships were standing by the doomed vessel, built at the Henry J. Kaiser Richmond. Calif., shipyards in 1943, and operated op-erated as, a service transport by ma war snipping administration. UTAH, COUNTY, UTAH 7 n rri DdrfiHi Strike Ties Up In St. Louis Area Lumber Mills Resume Production On Small Scale; Key Men Away By UNITED PRESS A walkout of 3,600 street- e - car men ana dus drivers paralyzed transportation in the St. Louis area today, as production was resumed in many lumber plants m the Pacific northwest, where the vanguard of 26,000 workers returned to their jobs and 1,000 striking bakery truck drivers in Detroit voted to return to work tomorrow. The St. Louis strikers, who quit in a dispute over wages and hours, began their Walkout shortly short-ly after 1 a. m., halting all of the transportation system's conveyances convey-ances within a few hours. The strikers, members of the Streetcarmen's Union (AF L, charged that the company was not living up to the findings of an arbitration board, which agreed on time and one-half, overtime pay. A. new contract with the company was to go into effect to day. Lumber mills in the Portland, Willamette valley, Puget Sound and lower Columbia river areas resumed production on a limited scale only, because of the absence of 'key men," but it was predicted pre-dicted that all 26,000 of the AFL strikers would return to work shortly. , The executive council of the CIO, which refused to order its 14.000 striking members back to work in response to a patriotic appeal not to halt the production of smokeless powder manufactured from pulp, was meeting in Portland, Port-land, and an announcement was expected . later today. Some 300 CIO workers at; the Marshfield, Ore., plant of the Cos Bay Lumber Co. and the Old Town Mill, agreed to return to work, however. The lumber strike was called In protest against the war labor board's refusal to grant a wage increase. Meanwhile., at Detroit, art end to the week-long bakery ' truck drivers' strike was promised to morrow. The 1,000 drivers, Whose waiKOUt - nad losed 50 malar bakeries and cut off almost 90 per cent of the city's supply of baked goods, voted to return to work yesterday, following a ahow-cause ahow-cause hearing before the WLB. The men quit last Wednesday in proicji against what they termed the WLB'g delay to make a decision decis-ion on their request for increased The strike of 2700 employes of the Parke Davis Co. at Detroit, manufacturers of Pnicinhj. and vaccines and processors-tHblood plasma, was expected to end tonight. to-night. Members ' of the CIO chemical workers union voted to return to work on the midnight shift. Z Union leaders appeared before the WB at .Washington yesterday and reported to the workers today to-day that tre strike was delaying board consideration of their grievances. griev-ances. I Most Coal Mines Working Under Private Ownership WASHINGTON. June 1 OUJ A majority of : the nation's bituminous bitu-minous coal mines resumed operation op-eration under private management manage-ment today with management and labor charged with the responsibility respon-sibility of meeting: record produc tion goals. Coal administrator Harold L. Ickes released the mines after a seven-month period of government control while final setltement was being negotiated to end a prolonged pro-longed dispute, between owners and the United Mine Workers. The return of anthracite and the remaining soft coal mines was expected to follow Soon. GREEKS SURPRISE. GERMANS. KILL 150 CAIRO. June V . EE-Greek patriots surprised a group of 250 nude German soldiers lounging on th hank of a mountain stream in Thessaly artd killed at Iast ha H.m n a rictrce hand-tO- hand fight, it was disclosed to-l day. StreetCars THUSDAY JUNE mm Strong Formations Of Allied Bombers In Raid: On Antwerp Allied Planes Resume Raids vAfter Lull of Several Hours Caused by Bad Weathers Railways Believed To Be Targets in Raid IX)ND0N, June I Strong formations of Allied bombers and fighters resumed the offensive against Nazi Europe late today, breaking a , i n i i erai npurs wracn louowea fieavy uiows oy pnusn nigni bombers, at three French rail centers and the invasion coast. ; ,. - Medium bombers and fighters swept out ovi?r the channel chan-nel toward the Boulogne-Dieppe stretch of the continental coast. They flew high above t A UwL-AM lsf VhXlt stormyr weather w.hich kept the big Allied stnkmg forces grounded during the morning. The Paris radio reported tnav Allied planes bombed Antwerp and casualties were expected to be high. In their heaviest raid In at least four nights, the RAF's heavy- weights rained blockbusters and fire bombs on Trappes, lo miles Southwest of Paris; Saumur, between, be-tween, Nantes and Tours on theN Loire river, and Tergnler, 13 miles south of St. Quentinon, the main line between Cologne and the French Invasion coast. The air ministry described the raids as part of a "systematic Offensive against the railways of Sorthwest .Europe" an offensive lat is expected to continue right up until the aero hour for invest Sn, in an attempt to disorganise erman defense preparations. "Many other objectives' in oc- Soviet Troops Parry Stabs By German Tanks, Infantry in the Vitebsk Area MOSCOW, . June V UR Soviet troops parried a stab by German tanks and infantry in the Vite bsk sector of White Russia, one of a series aimed an unbalancing the Red army preparations for a Summer offensive, .front dls- patches reported today. A regiment of German tanks and troops attacked toward a village vil-lage in the forests I northwest of Vitebsk. The Russians held fast to the village after three days of sporadic clashes near it. Dispatches Dis-patches said the, Germans appar- Showdown Over Existence of 26 Agencies Reached WASHINGTON, June 1 UE The continued existence of 26 executive agencies, created by President Roosevelt but not ap proved by congress, reached the showdown stage today as the house took up a senate amendment amend-ment denying funds for their operation. op-eration. The amendment, which the senate taCked on to the independ ent offices appropriation bill after the measure had passed the house, provides that agencies created by executive order and in existence a year or longer without congressional Sanction shall be killed. It is onei of several amend ments oh which! senate-house con ferees could not agree. xtep. jviui j. vocaran, u., m.o.. warned the house Monday that approval of the senate proposal would precipitate a bitter fight between congress and the presi denta fight in which "the pub lic 'wui overwneimmgiy side wttn the chief executive." . Soviet Newspaper. Denounces Frahco MOSCOW, Julia 1 (CE The Soviet army organ, Red Star denounced de-nounced Gen. Francisco Franco of Spain today, charging that his courtship of the Allies" was a perfidious maneuver which cannot can-not save him. because the Spanish people will hare, the final word." The attack on Franco, written by A. Yerusalimsky, Red Star commentator, followed by a week Prime Minister Winston Church-ill's Church-ill's friendly mention of Spain In a commons address. Red Star made no mention of Churchill's speech, ' . 1, 1944 n. n n (Tt . Lim le)tllw Km u. .... ....l ... . . .. . . , . , , ........Z1 , J weather-enforced lull of sev ii It!!--: ? cupied territory also were hit, the air ministry said. An estimated 8,360 tons in bombs were dropped in e wde spread attacks. The bombers flew through thunderstorms and severe Icing conditions to reach Trappes, but the weather cleared over the target tar-get area and the first bombs, exploded, ex-ploded, squarely on1 thetarget indicators. in-dicators. . . Eight planes were lost in the "night's operations, which included mme-iavmr in enemv waters. The U. S. 15th air force heavlek I ran into 75 to Q0 German tlghtAj ers knd intens anti-aircraft flrel over Ploestl yesterday, and 14 of the big bombers were lost in the raid and in a supporting attack on the TUrnu Severln rail yards near the Danube river lrohgate, 150 miles to the west. Forty-three Forty-three enemy planes were shot down. ently were trying to recover tactically tac-tically important ground before a Russian general offensive is launched, - The same explanation was applied ap-plied to the flare-up above lasi in northeastern: Romania. The Russians knocked out 122 German tanks, showdown 164 planes, and I Kiiiea inousanai oz troops . in beating off attacks yesterday and Tuesday. In an attempt to expand a slight wedge Into the Soviet lines above half-encircled lasi, the Ger mans threw large armored, forces into action yesterday, the com munique said, "but suffered enormous enor-mous losses" without gaining a step. The enemy attacked, "without interruption" during the i two -days, th communique added, and at tempted to support the ground drives with strong forces of war-planes. war-planes. Soviet, airmen and antiaircraft anti-aircraft gunners brought down 106 enemy planes on Tuesday and the others yesterday, as the Red army troops held firmly to their posl-i uons nortn or the large rati center, cen-ter, guarding the southward route to the Polesti oil fields and Bucharest. Bucha-rest. U. S. Casualties In Italy 55,1 50 Stimson Reveals WASHINGTON, June 1) Secretary of War Henry L. son announced today that 83,150 casualties were suffered by Amer lean forces in Italy from' the time of their landing there last Septem ber to May 27, sixteen days arte: the current drive started; The casualties include i,686 killed, kill-ed, 86,910 wounded and 8,554 miss American Overseas 357,000 Men. Stimson Announces WASHINGTON, June 1 OE Secretary of War Henry I. Stim son said today that 8,657,000 U. S. army soldiers are now deployed in theaters or operations overseas and that Vpib "period of decisive action is nbw at hand." . He tolds news conference that the deployment of air fortes and service forces overseas is prac-ticaUy prac-ticaUy Complete and that battle- ready grounds forces are now moving abroad in coniormuy wim the overall strategic plan to beat the enemy. said that oy we ena or COMPLETE ONlf Bt PttBSB TtoUEORAPH NBWS SERV1CB Leads Draftees 1 Maj.-Geri. f John B. Coulter above, of El Paso, Tex., commands' com-mands' the 85th Infancy Division, Divi-sion, one of the first all-draft outfits to go into the front lines in Italy. With the 88th. the 85th chased the Germans 30 miles in two weeks' over the rugged Garigliano front ' American Planes Enter Battle To Aid the Chinese CHUNGKING, June 1 (OE) American planes entered' the bat tie of Tune Ting Lake today as Chinese ground forces fell back slowly along a 60-mile front ana prepared for a desperate stand on the approaches to Changsha. A communique . reported fthrft U. S. 14th air .force planes were moved in to aid the hard-pressed Chinese troops yesterday, bomb-, ing and strafing Japanese infantry infan-try columns and smashing at their supply lines. fc-'f i n v i .3 Advanced spearheads of thefbf which, would mean a perch atop y Japanese striking force, estimated in Chungking at more than 000 men, were reported cenverg Ing on Changsha from the north, northeast,' and northwest, and the Semiofficial Chinese centra news agency reported that Changsha preparation fora showdown bat- All newspapers in - Changsha suspended publication '' yesterday,; and the city bristled with troops as it 'awaited its fourth seige of the war,, the agency said. With the r enemy's forward elements Jess thsifi 40 miles from the city, official :reports indicated that a; major battle in the swampy paddy fields , north of Changsha was imminent V Occupied Europe Urged to Aid In Coming Invasion LONDON, rJune ! 1 (UE) Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's head quarters; in its sixth pre-invaslon broadcast to occupied Europe, called upon the people of the eon-i Unent today to organize SmaUl lerilla a bands to cooperate with Allied invasion armies. The broadcast was. addressed to individuals outside the organized organ-ized underground movements, urging urg-ing Immediate formation of "auxiliary" resistance bands to lend a hantT when the- time comes In anything, whether it is fire fighting, first aid, observation obser-vation of the enemy's movements, or merely the monitoring of London Lon-don radjo bulletins - Eisenhower's spokesman said the nevt operational broadcast to the continent would be made on Mondav. June . Army Now the year, :more than 5,000,000 American soldiers will be in battle theaters on every continent. The total of men; overseas Is !. 571.000 greater than the entire overseas strenjrui or. u u. a. army In the first World War, Stim son said. v . One year ago, the figure was l,46S,Q0O, representing 21 per cent of the: army strength at that time. Todav. slirhtlv less than one- half of sthe arnur air forcas alone. (which total approximately 2.857,- vw troops, are, overseas, duimotj PRICE FIVE CENTS Armored Units , Miles orth U. S. Forces Smash to Northernmost Slopes Oi the AU?ah Hills By ROBERT Vi VERRfUXlON United Press war cwrreapouawim ALLIED HE ADQUAItV 3' Of Velletri TERS, NAPLES; June 1 . ; American ; armorea uiuva (. have Rmasnea tnree ana one- ,i half 'miles -north of VeUetrl ! to the northernmost sipjjes ror f: the Alban hills, breaching the last major. German defense A line below Rome, which now is m ; plain sight, it ws reveiled to- l day. ,- . V A terse headquarters announcement announce-ment reported hard fighting alon? the VeUetrl Valmontone lin astride the approaches to ROmef which field dispatches said thes, Americans nau oreacnea m y plunge deep Into the Alban hills . fortifications. West of the most bitterly con,. tested section of the Nazi defense ' line, the Fifth, army had driyeH armored spearheads wiuun mllea of R0mfti ' Germans Falling Back v Some 20 mftes southeast of vai-montona, vai-montona, th Germans were faM ing bijMJk , Mohg the Via sill beyond Frostobne, with the . British Brit-ish Eighth army pounding on their heels. t,- . . Official announcement of th Nazi; retreat northeast of fallen' Forsinone Indicated that the Ger- , man command was pulling back , as fasti as possible, in a raca , againat the threat of entrapment if thk Americans take Valmontone and diock the via yasinnn oenmu. , A. enemy. ' - Another announcement revealed - that American troops In the van- r guard of the fifth army seized. a '; footing on tne slopes oi Mount a Artomlata- tindiSDUted DOSSesSiOa' .h a 3000-zoot neignt ovenootuug $ Roma ahd dominating stretches of Until tttm innltn Wav inH th Via Casiiina. . m Mount Atremlsio's slopes i . , creased by deep glens through which swift mountain etreama tumble. Front reports said the Am- ericans had crept up these aepres.. slons half way up the -slopes be- fore the Nazis were aware of their; presence. . - . iteinforeements Coming - Additional American units were .a 4a laln tm ) trail-blazers Consolidate their footy hold on the ; slopes of Mount Ar- temisio. i 'i Pick up at 2nd pgh. The! Rome. . .i (The Aome corresppnaeni or. the Spanish iBFB agency. said the battle had reached the "Roman castles" area with the thunder of heavy gunfire audible In the ita ian capital itself. The gunfire at times appeared to come from two, directions, the correspondent said. indicating that Allied armies weife closing m from two directions. j f TCrittah trnnm nf th VAcrhtii', army seized Frosinone, capital5 of the province or tne same name and Junction of the Vjla Casiiina " sew wapa 'gnwBy branching off to the north and WCDV. , ' ' German forces stin holding out along the Via Casiiina and in tha mountains to the aouth faced en circlement as the British surged vf on toward Walmontone, 24 miles (Cbntinoed on Page Three) in Brief w4 Wttli inn Hriwa two Ii i miles into fortified Alban nma to : withui sight of Rome, outflanking strongholds of Velletri and Lanu- - So,. Snd to west pushes spear- tad to within IS miles of capl- - itai. - - r ; Air War British' four-englned bombers, perhaps i 750 strong; shatter three major French rail? way tenters and- subject lnvasioii coast to most' concentrated bom bardmenti of. war 'list night. , Bnaula Red army forces knock, out 122 German' tanks, shoot down 164 planes, and 11 "thqus-ands; "thqus-ands; of enemy troops , in repulse Ing series of tank, and, fcfantry y attacks on lasi. OilnaAmerican warplanes enV ter battle of Tung-Ting lake Chinese fail - back slowly before onrushing Japanese along 60 mile ' front. .' ..'' v .-;1t A." I t i Pacific American advance to-, ward Mokmer airdrome .halted s troops penetrate hills tviclean out v , snipers and artillery spotters front 7 flanking positions. 1 v , I f . j ''' v. "f ' 1 -LK. I Kf |