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Show HERALD FEATURES Consistently ahead of the news, the Washington Merry-Go-Round, dally column by Drew Pearson, appears every day on the Herald editorial page. THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloudy, net ranch) change hi temperature. Idaho: Partly cJondy, afternoon thunderstorms thunder-storms over mountains. Temperatures t Max 01 - Mln. 46 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 42 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKB PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS Tli7L.BG RA PH NEW8 8ERV1CB PRICE FIVE CENTS Fairless' Statement On Geneva Rapped By Senator, Congressman Senator in Favor of Government Holding Geneva Plant in Standing Condition After The War Until Peace Has Been Guaranteed SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 u.r A statement by Ben- mmin irairloao nroclHont vf 1 1 Senate Committee Moves to Protect Yar Plant Workers By JOHN I CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Uv The senate finance committee to-1 to-1 day made the first break in the congressional log-Jam on demobilization demob-ilization legislation by approving unanimously a proposal to extend to workers in federal shipyards, arsenals and similar installations unemployment compensation benefits bene-fits equal to those in private industry. in-dustry. The committee acted in response re-sponse to urging from congressional congres-sional and war production leaders for speedy action on legislation to provide for orderly industrial demobilization de-mobilization in event of a German Ger-man collapse. Official alarm over falling war traduction was attributed large-y large-y ,to heavy labor turnover believed be-lieved arising out of fears that sudden victory in Europe might result In widespread unemployment unemploy-ment here. Finance Committee Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., sponsor spon-sor of the unemployment compensation com-pensation bill, said it would be taken up on the senate floor next Tuesday. The senate military affairs committee meets tomorrow to consider general demobilisation measures covering expansion of unemployment compensation benefits, ben-efits, transportation, and main-tenace main-tenace payments for war workers and veterans during training for peacetime Jobs, and disposal of surplus government war properties. proper-ties. Committee chairman Robert Rob-ert R Reynolds, D., N. C, said he hoped to have such legislation ready for the senate within 10 days. George estimated that his bill would affect more than 2,000,000 federal workers not now covered by the regular federal retirement program or the federal-state unemployment un-employment compensation system. sys-tem. Work Stoppages Hamper Yartime Production Job BY UNITED PRESS Work stoppages hampered or curtailed war production from coast to coast today, ranging from s transportation tieup at Philadelphia Phila-delphia to an AFL Machinists Strike in the San Francisco Bay area which threatened delivery of engines for navy and merchant marine ships. The San Francisco strike at the Federal Mogul Bearing corporation corpora-tion plant, where all but 17 ma chinists walked out in a dispute jprtr overtime, drew the attention! Of top ranking array, navy and government officials who have intimated the government seizure Of the plant may be requested. A letter from Assistant Secretary Secre-tary of War Robert P. Patterson, dated June 21 but made public tor the first time yesterday, denounced de-nounced union business agents Harry Hook and E. F. Dillon for irresponsible leadership, the letter was addressed to Harvey Brown, International president. " Workers affected by all strikes approximated 25,000, including the 5,800 transit employes at Philadelphia who said they were not striking but were ill. 12 Navy Pilots Bag 20 Jap Planes SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 dE' Twelve pilots of a carrier-based navy fighter squadron blazed their way out of a Japanese trap over I wo Jima in the Volcano islands over 750 miles from Tokyo and shot down 20 enemy planes while losing only two of their own, the 12th naval district disclosed today. Two of the pilots shot down four planes each. They were Lt. Paul M. Henderson, Lakeland, Fla-, who was one of the fliers who failed to return, and Lt. John R. Meharg, Troy, N. Y. company uas no pians lor postwar operation 01 me $zuu,-000,000 $zuu,-000,000 government-built Geneva, Utah, steel plant was under attack today by two western members of congress. Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont., chairman of the senate small business committee, and Rep. Richard J. Welch, P., Cal., emphasized before a committee meeting I that postwar operation of the thA TT S tnol Cryr f Vi of Viia J J. r 1 I AAAA plant was "indispensable' to full postwar eployment in the west and to the Pacific coast's shipbuilding industry. Murray said he was "surprised and astounded" at Fairless' statement state-ment to a press conference here Monday. Welch challenged an assertion by Fairless that the plant is running at only one-third capacity. "This cold-blooded statement of the Pittsburgh steel master," Welch said, "should be met as a challenge to the west. This is our project and not theirs. We should disregard anything they say. We should keep Geneva and the Fon-tana Fon-tana (Cal.) plants operating." Murray said meetings of his committee "have brought out the fact that the full operation of both Geneva and the Fontana steel mills is indispensable to any sound plan for full employment employ-ment in the west.' Congressional legislation on postwar disposition of government govern-ment war plants, Murray said, "must provide for the operation of these plants at full capacity. It must guarantee the people of the west, that western steel properly prop-erly priced will be available for the Industrialization of the west ern states. "The war production program must continue notwithstanding the possible collapse in Germany. I believe the government would be justified in holding the Geneva plant in a standing, condition in postwar days until peace has been guaranteed." Mervyn Rathbpne, secretary of the California CIO council, urged national legislation to effect full postwar employment including establishment of a national planning plan-ning board made up of representatives represen-tatives of industry, labor and agriculture. The doctrine of states' rights applied .to postwar reconversion and employment, he said, would lead to a depression. Rath bone said maintenance of steel production at Geneva and Fontana would "inevitably result" in development of new metals industries in-dustries at government-built west coast aircraft plants. He suggested sug-gested that Henry J. Kaiser's Diana for converting shipyards into as- semDiy plants for prefabricated housing could be extended to other industries. Kagel warned faces a shortage workers. The committee two day meetinsr the bay area of 27,250 war concluded its nere and can celled hearing scheduled for Los Angeles and San Diego to permit Murray to return to W-.hinrt Mr. Fairless is expected to pay a visit to the Geneva Steel plant within the next week or 10 days, eh route east from San Francisco where he went to attend the wedding wed-ding of a son. HURRICAN REPORTED MOVING INLAND WILMINGTON, N. C. Aug. 2 UE The weather bureau reported report-ed today that a hurricane, which lashed the North Carolina coast last night, plunging the city into darkness, uprooting trees and de- stroying seaside homes, was mov ing inland toward Tennessee and Kentucky with diminishing intensity. in-tensity. There were no immediate reports re-ports of deaths although dozens of persons were treated at hospitals hospi-tals after being struck by the limbs of trees or broken window glass borne by an 80-mile-an-hour wind. Bus Service Changes Worry City Dads 'Don't Blame Us, ODT Orders,' They Say "Don't blame us if you don't think the street bus service in Provo is what you think it ought to be," said the members of the city commission, Mayor Maurice Harding, City Commissioners Joseph H. Swapp and Blake D. Palfreyman today, as complaints from irate residents kept their telephones jingling all day. It seems that the operation of street system buses in war-time is controlled exclusively by the Office of Defense Transportation, a war-time agency, with headquarters head-quarters in Denver, Colo. The ODT officials who are charged with the responsibility of conserv ing tires and transportation facil ities, determine by themselves Ham Fish Wins; Senator Clarli Meets Defeat Fish Majority Cut to Low Point McKittrick Winner Over Clark The renonjination of Rep. j Hamilton risn, jr., prewar isolationist, in New York's reapportioned 29th district, highlighted the primary elec tion returns from four states New York, Missouri, Kan sas, and Virginia today, but in Missouri, another ardent isolationist. iso-lationist. Sen. Bennet Champ Clark, was trailing state attor ney general Roy McKittrick by nearly 16,000 votes and apparently appar-ently was defeated for the Demo cratic nomination. In another contest in a newly-aligned newly-aligned district in New York, Rep. Vlto Marcantonlo, seeking renom-inatlon renom-inatlon for a fifth term, won both the Democratic and Republican nomination, defeating Democrat Rep. Martin J. Kennedy, of the old district, 10,051 to 7812 and Republican Robert C. Palmer, 2,-249 2,-249 to 2,270. Fish's opponent, August W. Bennet, Newburth attorney, conceded con-ceded the nomination early today when unofficial returns from 252 of 278 precincts showed 13.975 votes for Fish and 10,891 for Bennet. Ben-net. Bennet, however, was unopposed un-opposed for the nomination of the Democratic . and American labor parties, and will oppose Fish in the November election. The margin of victory was the smallest ever piled up by Fish, who battled for renomination in a reapportioned district in which voters of three counties were strangers. In addition to the handicap of winning votes in new counties. Fish also was opposed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republics presidential nominee, and Wendell Wen-dell L. Willkie. the GOP's 1940 candidate, who attempted to purge him for allegedly injecting racial and religious prejudices into the campaign. But in Missouri it was another story for the colorful Clark, who was running for nomination for his third term in the senate. Unofficial returns from 3245 of of the state's 4516 precincts gave (Continued on Page Eight) G. 0. P. Governors Convene Under Dewey Guidance ST. LOUIS. Aug. 2 (UP The Republican governors conference convened today under guidance of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, GOP presidential candidate; to estab lish a domestic program upon which to challenge President Roosevelt s 194" bid for a fourth term. The conference will run through Thursday. Mr. Roosevelt already is under campaign charges of having failed fail-ed to cope with pre-war depression depres-sion and of bungling post-war economic ec-onomic plans. Dewey, backed by Gov. John W. Bricker, of Ohio, his running mate, is presenting a 15-point program ror consideration or the governors assembled here. They. with the two candidates, represent repre-sent 26 states which have Re publican chief executives and among which the Dewey-Bricker managers confidently expect to obtain more than the bare 266 electoral votes necessary to win next .November's election. These conferences are closed to the public but their progress will be reported in a series of press conferences. The governors' meet ing will deal with practically all phases of domestic problems where Dewey charges the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration has failed, notably in coping with depres sion. But these conferences also give Dewey a chance to talk grass roots pontics. This is the western end of a campaign swing which already nas taken Dewey into Pennsyl vania and Illinois. how much bus service a town is entitled to. That's how much service they get and no more. The city officials weren't even notified of the recent ODT order, effective last Monday, by which the Salt Lake and Utah railroad until then operators of the Provo street bus system, was ordered to take its only street bus out of Provo, and permit the Geneva Transportation Company, Gron-way Gron-way Parry, manager, to take over ov-er the bus service operation here. The ODT officials ordered also a curtailment of the service, cutting cut-ting the former 45 minute service to one hour, and revamping the route, to eliminate service to many (Continued on Page Three) 1 mil as Battle For Warsaw Enters Final Stages ! Annihilation Campaign Opens Against 200,000 Trapped German Troops MOSCOW. Aug. 2 . The battle for Warsaw entered its final stages today as Red armies stormed through the eastern suburbs and swarmed swarm-ed across the Vistula river in a flanking drive, while far to the northeast other Soviet opened an annihilation campaign against perhaps 200,000 Germans trapped in the upper Baltics.. (Berlin broadcasts said the Russians had captured Vilkovi-shki, Vilkovi-shki, 11 miles from the east Prussian frontier and 40 miles southwest of Kaunas; and Kal-varia, Kal-varia, 20 miles south of Vilko-vishkl Vilko-vishkl and about the same distance dis-tance from the border.) Front line dispatches reported a triumphal Russian march of historic his-toric scope and speed everywhere between the Baltic and the Carpathians, Car-pathians, with the Germans facing fac-ing a catastrophe of Stalingrad proportions in Latvia and Estonia where about 20 divisions were cut off by a Soviet drive to the sea. Massive Assault Marshal Konstantln K. Rokos-sovsky's Rokos-sovsky's army gathered at Warsaw War-saw for a massive frontal assault on the Polish capital while his left wing and the army of Marshal Ivan S. Konev intensified their attacks at-tacks along a 200-mile Vistula front south of Marsaw and Krakow. The Russians were sweeping across the Vistula on pontoon bridges., dinghies, rafts, rowboats, barrels and logs. Many pontoons were captured from the Germans. Reports that they were using amphibious trucks were untrue. (A section of Shapiro's dispatch was missing, delayed in transmission trans-mission ot held by censorship, which perhaps dealt with the Vistula Vis-tula crossings. Berlin yesterday reported that the Soviets had established a bridgehead across the Vistula at Deblin, 55 miles southeast of Warsaw.) Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's army smashed to the Gulf of Riga at Klapkans, west of Riga, springing the trap on the Germans in upper Latvia and Estonia. Today they were reported scrambling for their lives as the Soviets tightened the i noose around them, Red air force' planes raked their positions, and naval units based at Kronstadt and Leningrad shelled their strong points. German positions in the third Baltic republic, Lithuania, like wise faced imminent collapse as Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's army which had liberated more than one-third of the state fanned out in two directions northwestward toward the Baltic and westward toward east Prussia. (The Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that Adolf Hitlijra few days ago moved mov-ed his headquarters from Inster-burg. Inster-burg. East Prussia, asserting that the recent attempt on his life occurred oc-curred there. It said Hitler visited visit-ed Wilno and Kaunas shortly before be-fore they fell.) Dispatches from the Warsaw front said Lt. Gen. Sigmund Bering's Ber-ing's Soviet-trained Polish divisions divi-sions were taking part in the drive for the capital. Thousands of Poles lined the roads and streets, pelting the troops with flowers and embracing them. iravaa s correspondent said civilian administrations were actively ac-tively supporting the liberators, while peasants and partisans were rounding up panic-stricken Germans Ger-mans in the forests. With the Red army at the gates of Warsaw, thousands of Poles were reported rushing to enlist in newly formed Polish units which will be among the first to push inrougn we city. Geneva Yorkers Conclude Voting An overwhelming majority of workers eligible to vote in the collective bargaining election at tne ueneva steel mill and Keig-ley Keig-ley quarry here will have cast bal lots by the time the booths close late today, Joseph E. Watson, NLRB regional director, predict ed today. Watson, who heads a crew of 12 labor board officials from San Francisco, reported that the balloting bal-loting was proceeding smoothly and without excitement. Counting of votes in the important two-day election will take place immediately immedi-ately after the closing of the five booths, he said. Vying for sole bargaining rights for Utah's largest industrial indus-trial unit were CIO and AFL affiliates. M hi uottMumuis v v m Yanks Sweep Through German Battle Lines Towards Rennes American Columns Almost Half-Way Across Peninsula SUPREME HEADQUAR TERS, AEF, Aug. 2 c American armored columns lashed out west and south of captured Pontorson today and swept through disintegrating disinte-grating German battle lines lines at a pace that may already al-ready have carried to within striking distance of Renes, almost half-way across the Breton peninsula penin-sula and some 43 miles below their breakthrough point at Avranches. (The Clandestine European radio ra-dio Atlantic reported without immediate im-mediate confirmation from any ! other source that United States tanks and motorized formations captured Rennes today.) One American wing was reported re-ported nearing the famous coastal resort town of St. Malo, 23 miles west of Pontorson and 114 miles east of the Atlantic port of Brest. Prime Minister Winston Church ill revealed the spectacular American Am-erican advance in the house of commons this afternoon, announcing announ-cing dramatically that American tanks and infantrymen at thai moment might be nearing the big highway and railroad hub of Rennes, Ren-nes, mid-way across the base of Brittany. So fluid was the spreading battlefront that headquar t er s spokesmen admitted the exact whereabouts of the most advanced American spearheads was unknown. un-known. Latest official info r ma tl o n placed them "well on the way" toward Rennes, SO miles below their last reported position at Pontorson. Tanks On the Move-All Move-All along the looping 70-mlle front from Brittany to Caen . the American and British armies were on the move, striking with shattering shat-tering impact against Nazi armor massed across the highways lead- into Brittany. British forces at the center of the front broke through a suddenly-weakened enemy line in a four-mile four-mile advance that cut across the Caen-Vire highway less than four miles northeast of Vire and threatened the rear of two German Ger-man panzer divisions falling back (Continued on Page Three) General McNair Reported Killed By American Bomb WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UP Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, former form-er commanding general of the army ground forces, who met death in Normandy, was killed by an American bomb, the war de partment announced today. The bomb was dropped in an intensive aerial bombardment of enemy lines preparatory to the present large scale American breakthrough in Normandy, the department said. The war department released the following additional information informa-tion concerning McNair's death, received from Gen. D wight D. Eisenhower: "A full investigation developed develop-ed the fact that Gen. McNair died as a result of the explosion of one of our own bombs which fell short in the Intensive aerial bombardment bom-bardment of enemy lines just preparatory pre-paratory to the present large scale American breakthrough in Normandy. Nor-mandy. "Details of this tremendous air support were given recently in England by Lt Gen. (Lewis H.) Brereton, AAF, together with the fact that some of the bombs unfortunately un-fortunately fell among our own forward troops causing a number num-ber of casualties. Gen. McNair, who was observing the action with a front-line infantry unit, was one of those casultles." Marines Complete BY FRANK TREMATNX United Press War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Aug- 2 (HE) Marines wiped out isolated nests of Japanese troops today on Tinian Tin-ian island where a nine-day light nlng campaign had ended all or ganized resistance while Americans Ameri-cans on Guam smashed north ward three miles to close a death trap on enemy forces. The second fourth marine divisions di-visions conquerors of Saipan crushed a counter-attack which cost the enemy 300 dead and over- wneimed the last Japanese posi tions on the southern tip of Tinian Monday night. Adm. Chester W. Nimita' latest communique re New Pacific Landings Reported JAPAN ojc? Torro FORMOSA MARIANAS ISL 155 1 aiBMZ M WARE O l5WTjpiow;l HONOLULU ' PHILIFriNI0t J"""" . " 0 S MARSHALL ISL, BORNEO aV. w 2z SOLOMONS SAMOA 1 mjk m - v (NEA TeUahoto) Japanese reports Indicate that Americans are attempting- to land on Rota Island in Marianas, where we already hold Saipan and are swarming swarm-ing over Guam and Tinlan. In New Guinea. General MscArthur's forces swept ahead following new landings at Sansapor. only 600 miles trom the Philippines, and on nearby Islands. Churchill Sees Hope Of Early Victory; Reports 4,735 Killed By Robots Premier Reveals Evacuation of 1,000,000 Persons from London; Fears Long-Range Rockets Carrying Heavier Blast Charges By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press War Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Chur-chill told commons today that Allied victory in Europe "may perhaps come soon" and revealed that German flying bombs had killed 4735 persons, caused the evacuation of 1,000,000 persons from London, and might be followed by long range rockets carrying heavier explosive charges. In perhaps his most confident and optimistic speech, Churchill took a "sweeping glance at a world war approach- ine its closing phase" and Germans Report Rommel To Be 'Out of Danger' LONDON, Aug. 2 0IR Berlin admitted today that Field Mar shal Edwin Rommel was serious ly injured when an Allied plane bombed and strafed his staff car in Normandy on July 17, but as serted that the erstwhile "Desert Fox" is out of danger and recovering re-covering "satisfactorily" The official Nazi DNB news agency said Rommel suffered a brain concussion and other undisclosed un-disclosed injuries in an "accident" that followed the strafing attack. DNB's account tactlcly confirmed con-firmed reports relayed by captured cap-tured German soldiers in Normandy Norm-andy that Rommel's car overturned overturn-ed when it was hit by gunfire from the strafing plane. It was the first official word from Berlin on the fate of Rommel, Rom-mel, who had variously been reported re-ported critically injured and dead as a result of the "accident." DNB said his condition at present pres-ent is "satisfactory" and that "there is no danger to his life." 45,000 ACRES TURNED BACK WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (HB About 45,000 acres of land included includ-ed in the Camp Adair, Ore., reservation, res-ervation, have been declared surplus sur-plus by the war department and available for other uses and have been turned over to the surplus properties administration for disposal, dis-posal, it was learned today. Conquest of Tinian; vealed. Nimitx said the marines, who established a beachhead on the island July 23. still had some mopping up to do. The island fell after the de fenders had been battered by some of the heaviest aerial and naval bombardments of the Pacific Pa-cific war, as well as by a new, secret assault weapon. On Guam a campaign similar to that carried out o nTinian was In progress, with marines and army troops, having cut across the island, swinging north to compress com-press the defenders into a pocket surrounded on three sides by a sea under complete control of American warships. With Orote Peninsula and the, ALEUTIAN ISL PACIFIC OCEAN MIDWAY PALMYRA expressed a firm conviction before commons that the defeat de-feat of Japan will not be long delayed after Germany is crushed. The only dark spot in his 105-minute 105-minute review was the Nazi flying fly-ing bomb attack on Britain he said 5340 robots had been launched launch-ed so far and the possibility of its intensification with more destructive de-structive rockets. He said London Lon-don probably would be the target of the new wapon and advised evacuation classes and those not engaged in war duties to leave the capital. 14,000 Injured 'I fear greatly to raise false hopes, but I no longer feel bound to deny that victory may perhaps come soon," Churchill said at the climax of his resounding summation summa-tion of Allied victories, actual and prospective, around the world. In additon to the 4735 persons killed by the 4500 tons of flying bombs launched against Britain between June 15 and July 31, Churchill said 14,000 were injured more or less seriously, while 17,-000 17,-000 houses were destroyed and 800,000 damaged by the robots. Again he affirmed, however, that the secret weapon attack would have not the slightest effect ef-fect on the course of the war, and its only result would be to step up the punishment of the Nazis "after their weapons have been struck from their hands by our fighting men." Covering the whole range of global war in rolling, oratorical phrases breathing confidence in (Continued on Page Three) Close Trap On Guam southern half of the island cleared of the enemy, the Americans ad vanced three mUes on the right flank and -center of the line, and about one-half mile on the left flank, taking the towns of Utana, Pado, Pulan and Maite. The line now extends from the west coast at a point about one and-fourth miles north of Agana town to the east coast at a point less than one mile south of Fadian Point. Agana, capital of the island, was termed a "ghost town", by John R. Henry in a front line dis patch for the combined Allied press. Its buildings and homes were fire-blackened ruins, wrecked wreck-ed by bombs and shells, and the (Continued oa Page Three) , 1 ... - . seM mm TTl F77TI ePfl i imms Move Veakens Hitler's Hold On the Balkans Long-Expected Break Announced at Meeting of National Assembly By EDWARD W. BEATTTE United Press War Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 2 " . Nazi Germany's political mas- li r 1 I lery oi .r-.urupt; croc&eu touay; as Turkey broke off diplomatic diplo-matic and commercial relations rela-tions in a defiant move that threatened to squeeze Hitler's Hit-ler's Balkan satellites out of the war and force a general German Ger-man evacuation of Greece and the Aegean islands. Turkish Foreign Minister Su-kru Su-kru Saracoglu anonunced the long-expected break at a meeting of the national assembly in Ankara An-kara today, declaring that the rupture, effective immediately, was decided upon at the request of Great Britain. (A BBC broadcast heard by the United Press in New York said Saracoglu told the assembly bluntly that Turkey's entry into the war now dependa entirely upon up-on Germany's attitude.) The action was expected to ba followed by a Bulgarian attempt to make peace with the Allies, with Romania and Hungary probably prob-ably following the Bulgars out of of the Axis camp. The Turkish diplomatic stroke came hard on the heels of another an-other blow to Germany's prestige in the north, where Finland appointed ap-pointed Marshal Baron Carl Gus-taf Gus-taf Emil Mannerheim president in, an apparent move toward peace for that unhappy satellite. Mannerhelms appointment appeared ap-peared to presage a general reshuffle re-shuffle of the Finnish government that rejected Russia's peace overtures over-tures last April. Makes Defiant Speech Saracoglu disclosed his government's gov-ernment's decision to break with Germany in a defiant speech to the national assembly which immediately im-mediately ratified the cabinet ac tion by unanimous vote. He revealed that Britain had asked Turkey to sever relations with the Nazis under the terms of the Anglo-Turkish military alliance, al-liance, and that the United States had supported the British in this request. Britain, he said, agreed to pro-vid pro-vid economic assistance and military mili-tary equipment to help Turkey "meet the difficulties which will arise from this decision." Saracoglu said word of .the cabinet decision already had been transmitted to the British government, gov-ernment, where lt was received "with great satisfaction." "Two days later, In a signed letter to the foreign office, tho British ambassador said this positive posi-tive decision of the Turkish cabinet cabi-net was real proof of the friendship friend-ship agreement between Turkey and Great, Britain, and also expressed ex-pressed the Importance of Turkeys' Tur-keys' position in the decisions she was about to take," he said. Authoritative sources in Lon-described Lon-described the Turkish break as a (Continued on Page Eight) War In Brief BY UNITED PRESS FRANCE: Powerful American. columns fan out east along roads to Paris and strike southwest into in-to Pontorson, 13 miles below Avaranches, in drive to cut off Brittany peninsula. RUSSIA: Battle for Warsaw enters final stages as Red armies storm through eastern suburbs and swarm across Vistula river while to northeast other Soviet forces open campaign to wipe out 200,000 Germans trapped in upper Baltics. IT ALT: British eighth army hammers out small gains along 21 mile front below Florence In bit terest hand-to-hand fighting sinca Cassino. MEDITERRANEAN: Special Allied communique reports land. naval, and air forces cooperated successfully in raid on German garrison at Himare on nn'fn coast, inflecting heavy casualties and returning with 30 prisoners." PACIFIC: Americans begin an nihilation campaign against 45,000 Japanese troops trapped on Brit ish New Guinea as marines com plete conquest of Tinian and squeeze manevuer opens garasJ$ enemy on Guam. AIR WAR: Allied planes from Britain and Italy pound communis cation and supply lines in Franc and northern Italy. The shortest distances to Berlin Ber-lin from advanced Allied lines; today: .- RUSSIA 328 mile. , ITALY 607 miles. France 623 miles. |