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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy tnlsafter- noon, tonight and Wednesday, scattered afternoon and evening thonderstorms today and Wednesday, Wednes-day, but principally over mountains moun-tains In west portion this afternoon; after-noon; cooler east portion today and northwest portion tonight and Wednesday CLOTHES FOR RUSSIA ghare your clothes with the Rns-slaaa. Rns-slaaa. FUee ctathinr aad shoes in In Russia. High Low 4 04 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 46 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKI PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TkTLJCGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 1 Coalition Of if afe's Right ijoids Control Senators Square Off or Debate On New Demobilization Bill By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 A coalition of Republicans -rd Conservative Democrats, 5i . unemployment, compensa-1 compensa-1 ADDeared holdin? an in- ' (iLUVCU -A IIVIUIUK Oil A' al voting edge today as the si fen jnate squared off for debate demoralization legislation. Racine to ret clans for orderly I Aflemobolization of war workers on Ve statute books before a Ger man collapse, the senate opened debate with Republicans lined up almost solidly against the Mur- ray-Kilgore bill to establish fed . eral controls over employment for two years after the war and set ud federal standards for unem- ployment compensation ranging UD to 25 a week. Democrats were split between the Mumy-Kilgore measure and m bill by Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga which would expand un employment compensation cover- ge but leave standards to the ceosion or ine individual states. A vigorous supporter of the Mur-ny-Kilgore bill conceded private- that the opposition held a mar-in mar-in as the debate opened but predicted that their strength would dwindle before a final vote taken. 7 Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Clch.. chairman of senate Repub lican and personal supporter of the George bill, called a party con ference this morning "to go over the bills and explain the situation I tto Republican members." lis The Democratic steering com- 1 . - . ... t llliiee, coniiTJn lcu wan bji mm-arty mm-arty split on a major policy ques-ion, ques-ion, just three months before the general election, held one of its rare meetings late yesterday but reached no compromise. CMit, Ttiinmii ii t In T AY. .in W. Barkley of Kentucky said e committee discussed "t he hole subject involved in the eorge bill will be taken up first. A head-on-collision seemed Inevitable, Inevit-able, however, because Sens. Har- 2M.' Gilgore of West Virginia d James E. Murray of Montana. Reserved the right to offer their bQl either as an amendment or o substitute for the George measure. meas-ure. faringville Girl f i ii ana iimea if Gun Accident PRINGVILLE Children at I with a loaded gun proved fa-I fa-I nere Monday night when Es-Mae Es-Mae Devenish. 12, was ac-' ac-' an tally shot and killed by her .other. Bill Devenish. 12 with a 38 caliber revolver which he didn't know was loaded. Four children were playing In front of the Devenish home in north Springville while Mr. and Mrs. William R. Devenish attended attend-ed picture show. Bill went to Ja clothes closet and removed the Jrevolver which he said he didn't 1 think was loaded. He aimed 'straight at his 12-year-old sis- cers DacK and pulled trie trigger. . Jesse J. Weight of Provo, who s called to the scene, said she killed instantly. Essie Mae was born June 17. 932, In Salt Lake, a daughter of IWilliam R. and Genevieve John son Devenish. She att en d e d I Dringville city scnools. and would ave begun her first year in unior high school in September. Surviving besides her parents are two brothers and two sisters. William Richard Jr., James Mer-Hll, Mer-Hll, Carole and Deanne Deven- sh, Springville; her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, palt Lake, and her grandmother nd step-grandfather, Mr. and kfrs. Delbert Johnson, Springville. Funeral arrangements will be made by Claudin funeral home. ispected Polio Proves Negative One of the three suspected cases f polio which have been reported n Provo has been definitely i roved negative while one case emains uncertain and another is lmost positively polio. Dr. Char es M. Smith, city physician, said oday. The cases are light one. he said. Ind the patients are quite well. L definate diagnosis is difficult in he early stages of the disease, jut he feels sure that one case, child, is definately a victim. I-bile the second suspected case, hso a child, shows possible sym-Ems sym-Ems of something other than In- hntile Paralysis. The third case t-hicb is no longer thought to be lolio, was an adult. No polio epidemic, such as there as last year at this time, is fared if parents take care not b let , their children become over Ired sua keep conditions sanitary, 5 saldT Body of P-47 Pilot Taken From Lake SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 8 The body of 2nd Lt. Clarence W. Husky, Cleveland, 0., killed last night when his P-47 fighter plane crashed into Great Salt Lake, was recovered today by sheriffs deputies and army rescue crews. Husky was on a combat training flight from his base at Wendover Field, Utah, when his Thunderbolt crashed into the shallow water of the lake about a mile and a half northeast of Antelope island. The wreckage was sighted from the air last night but crews had to carry a boat over a salt strip from the mainland to the island before they could reach water deep enough to launch the boat, reach the the plane and recover the body. During the search for Husky's missing fighter, the wreckage of another military plane was sighted in the lake but it was discovered later it was the remains of a plane that crashed into the brine two years ago and was left there. New Transportation Strike Plagues U. S. By United Press Another transportation strike plagued the nation today, to-day, this time in the midwest where an estimated 50,000 truck drivers and freight handlers walked out in protest against the refusal of approximately 125 firms to grant a Courts May Have To Decide Mess In Utah Liquor Deal SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 8 UE Utah's water supply this year is more than ample, her ware houses stacked to the rafters with liquor, yet a worried citizenry to day was talking about the possl bility of a disastrous drought. It all started when the state liquor commission, which controls the sale of all hard stuff, announced announc-ed profits for the first half of the year of some $1,216,000. Short ly thereafter. State Treasurer Oliver G. Ellis indicated the whole amount must be turned over to the general fund, according to the statutes. The commission, startled, said it had invested most of the pro fits in rum, which couldn't readily readi-ly be liquidated. It offered to turn over the smell change, leaving the million in what they call "working "work-ing capital." Ellis, not mollified by a plea from the attorney-general, told the commission that he couldn't turn less than all the profits over to the fund because he was bonded bond-ed to obey the law- Meanwhile, consignments of bottled goods are piling up on railroad sidings and in warehouses, and the commission is paralyzed it doesn't know what to do. Courts will have to decide upon the matter, soberly, it appeared today. Fontana Plant Investment Half Of Geneva Steel County assessor A. T. Atwood found that the Kaiser steel plant located at Fontana, California, has only one half the investment as the Geneva plant here, while mixing a little business with pleasure on his vacation to California, Cali-fornia, to visit his son who is stationed there. Mr. Atwood conferred with the county assessor there and discovered discov-ered that the Henry J. Kaiser plant at Fontana is not yet com-plet, com-plet, but present plans are to install fascilltles for making other kinds of structural steel. The plant makes only plate steel now. It is anticipated that the plant there will be permanent, he said. Dormitories For Clear Creek Okeh SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8 UE Construction of 45 temporary dormitories, costing $59,622 was under way at Clear Creek. Utah, today, the federal public housing authority announced today. The contract was awarded to the Jensen RrosT"ConstructIon Co., Salt Lake City, the FPHA said. Complete Conquest By JOHN R. HENRY (Representing the Combined Al- lied Press) ABOARD AN AMPHIBIOUS ATTACK FORCE FLAGSHIP, Guam, Aug. 8 (HE) U. S. soldiers and marines today pressed relentlessly relent-lessly onward to the northern shores of Guam after Japanese defenders de-fenders of the town of Yigo fid in wild pandemonium before a determined de-termined thrust of the 77th army divsion. "I thought we'd have a real hard fight there," Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger. commander of the third amphibious corps, which already has broken the back of enemy re- seven-cent hourly wage increase ordered by the war labor board The strike, which affected eight midwestern states, broke yesterday, yester-day, less than 24 hours after settlement set-tlement of the production damaging damag-ing walkout of 5.800 transit workers work-ers at Philadelphia. Meanwhile, at Detroit, a New flare-up in the 11-day old dispute at the Chevrolet gear and axle division di-vision of General Motors occurred this morning when 3,500 employes quit in protest to the dismissal of seven union members by the company. The workers were part of the 7,000 who returned to work only yesterdsy. In another dispute at Detroit, 1,000 workers at the gear grinding grind-ing Machine Co. voted to extend their walkout. Army transportation corps officers of-ficers at Chicago said that the striking midwestern truck drivers had agreed to keep vital war ship ments moving but at the same time they went on the alert in the event that the strike spread to such porportions that it would completely disrupt the movement of critical materials. V. X Hons, district director of the office of defense transports tion at Omaha, Neb., said that the strike affected 41 trucking firms in Omaha alone, and In volved over-the-road shipments in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kan sas. Missouri, Nebraska and North and South Dakota. Another ODT official estimat ed the strikers would number "between 40.000 and 50,000" men and Thomas A. Snyder, regional assistant director of the ODT at Chicago, said that about 20,000 of them were drivers and the re mainder were dock hands. Snyder said he had been In close touch with Washington re garding the strike and awaited government action. He said he did not know whether there were ony plans for government intervention. inter-vention. Elsewhere in the nation, the WLB director 761 employes of the Pennsylvania truck lines at York, Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pt.. to call off a similar strike. Approximately 1,200 workers remained on strike at the St. Louis, Mo., Car Co., where dis trict representative McConnell Barr of the CIO Steelwrokers un ion said a herd of "evil-smelling" sheep grazing near the plant increased in-creased the dissatisfaction of the employes. Company officials said, however, that wages was the only issue. The plant manufactures amphibious tanks for the navy and street cars for Russia. 26 INJURED IN RAILROAD WRECK LAKE CITY, Minn., Aug. 7 OIB Twenty-six persons were in jured when the coach section of the Milwaukee Road's . Chicago-bound Chicago-bound Olympian was derailed here early today. The cause of the accident was not determined. Railroad officials said two other fast trains had cleared the same point within the preceding half hour. Only five of the injured required hospital theatment. . of Guam By Americans Looms In Sight sistance, said. He said the Japanes prepared staunch defenses in Yigo. which lies 2500 yards inland from the east coastline and this strategic ally guards the approaches to Mount Santa Rosa The battle for the unimpressive little cross roads settlement of dust-covered praiter houses and thatched huts barely got beyond the skirmish stage before the enemy en-emy broke into wild flight, leaving leav-ing asserted equipment and supplies sup-plies behind. Tanks and mobile guns spearheaded spear-headed the Yigo attack, but Yank foot soldiers were behind firing Germans Burn Everything In East Prussia Apply Scorched Earth Policy First Time On German 'Holy' Soil By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW, Aug. 8 u The Germans burned houses, farms and other installations along the East Prussian frontier todav in the first aD- plication of the scorche'd earth policy to their "holy" soil as Red armies closed in along a 215-mile arc. Civilians already have been evacuated from areas east of Konigsburg a further sign that the Nazi command feels the Red army is about to smash across the border into Germany's eastern most province. Two more Russian armies the 1st Baltic and 2nd White Russian were revealed to have joined in the mounting battle for East Prus sia as Gen. Ivan D. Cherniak hovsky's 3rd White Russian army bogged down five to 10 miles from the border in the face of heavy resistance from reinforced Nazi trops. ' Col. Gen. Georgi Zazkarov's Second army pushed 15 miles northwest from Bialystok and captured Knyszten, 32 miles south of the East Prussian border, and Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's First army at the north end of the front sent two spearheads crash Ing toward Memel and Tilsit. The Russians cut one of the two remaining north-south railways rail-ways serving an estimated 20 en emy divisions trapped in Latvia and Estonia and captured the Boryslav oil fields and Sambor last two German strongholds guarding a 150-mile stretch of the Czechoslovak border. The battle for Warsaw roared on without a let up or decisive change, though Marshal Kon- stantin K. Rokossovsky's First White Russian army was believed be-lieved to have tightened its siege are around the east bank suburb of Praga-and to be striving to by pass the capital from the north and encircle it. Front dispatches said the Germans Ger-mans were throwing reinforcements reinforce-ments into battle heedless of cost and were using new "secret weapons." weap-ons." The flanking threat against Warsaw from the south was in creased by the fall of Fzydlow, 115 miles below the capital, to Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army in a 20-mile advance ad-vance from the Vistula. The cap ture of Fzydlow. 58 miles northeast north-east of Krakow, and 97 miles from the German border, also broadened broaden-ed the Soviet wedge gradually splitting German forces in west ern Poland. The 1st Baltic army's twin thrusts toward the northern ap pendix or East Prussia were launched from the Lithuanian communications hub of Siauliai midway between Riga and Kau nas. No Action Taken By Mayor Harding On New Fire Truck No action to wards the purchase of a sorely needed fire truck for the Provo fire department has been taken yet by the city commission, com-mission, in response to the open letter directed to the officials by the Provo junior chamber of commerce, com-merce, it was revealed today. While the officials all agree with the jaycees that the depart ment needs a new fire truck in the worst way, no proposal for ac tion has been placed before the commission yet by Mayor Maurice Harding, head of the department of puplic safety. Fire Chief Earl Finlayson has recommended to the, .mayor, the purchase of 115,000 American-La France truck, but the matter has not been brought before the city commission for a vote. City Commissioners Com-missioners Joseph H. Swapp and Blake D. Palfreyman are known to have made quite thorough inspections in-spections of the apparatus in the Salt Lake, Ogden, city and county departments, but they have made no commitments as yet, whether they favor or disaprove Chief Fin- layson's recommendation to purchase pur-chase the $15,000 truck. which sent the hysterical nips scampering through the streets. The capture of Yigo marked the first phase of the attempt to seize Mount Santa Rosa which is regarded as a probably focal point for the enemy's last defensive effort. ef-fort. After smashing into Yigo, the 77th "The Statue of Liberty" division, di-vision, swept on into the foothills foot-hills of an 800-foot mountain. Meanwhile, marines pushing along: the 'western side of Guam wiped out isolated pockets of opposition op-position and. in some instances, sent patrols along to the northernmost northern-most tip of the island. A its .Jefeimses American Gulf of St Malo " PertM-GuierM rlos 77 'St. Irieu ST. NAZAIRE 40 Allied forces crashed deep Into German battle lin es today, the Le Mans, while Canadian and British armies struck below Caen in Eight High Officers Executed By Hitler LONDON, Aug. S (U.PJ The 4fc Ctop .had placed, a. price Karl Goerdeler, missing mayor of Leipzig, who was disclosed in testimony at the "trial" of the attempted assassins of Hitler to liave been selected by the rebels to replace the fuhrer. LONDON, Aug. 8 Eight high German officers involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on July 20 and overthrow his Nazi regime were hanged today only two hours after sentence of by the provincial court in Berlin following a sensational two-day trial. Berlin announced officially that the eight men were sentenced to death for "honorless ambition, for high treason and treachery." The trial came to an abrupt end today after the eight made a "confession" of their guilt and of ficial German accounts indicated that the conspirators, including field marshal and three gen erals, had been hanged publicly. The condemned traitors were Field Marshal Erwin Von Witz- leben, who according to some German accounts, directed the anti-Hitler conspiracy; Col. Gen. Hoeppner, Maj Gen. Stieff, Lt. Gen. Van Hase, Lt. Von Hagen, Lt. Col. Bernardis. Capt. Frieder-icn Frieder-icn Klausing. and Lt. Count York Von Wartenburg. The "confessions came at the close of a carefully staged two-day trial in the plenary chamber of the provincial court in . Berlin where a hand-picked tribunal of Nazi judges and German general staff officers heard a damning in dictment that charged the eight officers with attempting to murder mur-der Hitler on July 20 in order to take over the government and sue for peace with the Allies. In addition to the eight execut ed .the army court expelled the following from the army: General of Communications Troops Fell- giebel, Maj. Gen. Von Tresckow, Col. Hansen, Maj. Hayessen, Lt. retired) Count Von Der Schulen- berg. The expulsion and death sen tences were carried out at the same time, the Transocean News agency said. The alleged testimony indicated that as far back as February 1943, the plot against Hitler was brewing, brew-ing, and that by the end of that year negotiations were underway among the group to actually carry out the attempt on the fuehrer's life. Soldiers customarily are executed ex-ecuted by the firing squad and death by hanging is employed only for the lowest criminals. Transocean said that Klausing and Bernardis, who were believed to have been persuaded into the plot by the others, asked that the sentence be carried out by shooting rather than by hanging-Witzleben hanging-Witzleben had nothing to say, while Hoeppner pleaded that his estate not be confiscated as was demanded by the prosecuting attorney. at-torney. The two-day trial was secret and much of the testimony either was obviously suppressed or doctored. NEWSMAN DIES LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8 UE Guy C. Stafford. 54, former city editor of the Los Angeles Times, died last night of complications from heart disease. Armor Overruns Brittany JCHCtBOl 'M-.--.vjr c ; voaraaca & - J , rJ,U"7 - a s - m aesw bm ie r " morrain- enne NANTES Soumur German Hangmen Berlin radio disclosed tonlrht that of 1,000,000 marks en the ad of death had been passed on them General McNair's Son Guam Casualty WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 (CE) The War department today sought further details of the death on Guam of Col. Douglas McNair, 37, son of the late Lt. Gen. Les ley J. McNair. News of Col. McNair's death was received only a few days after the announcement that his father, who had just relinquished command of the army ground for ces, nad been Killed by an Am' erican bomb in Normandy. Maj. Gen. A. D. Bruce, com mander of the 77th division, to which young McNair was attach ed. informed the War Department that he had died on Guam from undisclosed cause. Fascist Leaders To Face Charges ROME. Aug. 8 (CJV-A total of 310 Italian senators were listed today for prosecution before newly-created nigh court on charges of being' implicated in Fascist crimes. The list, which left only 110 senators unimplicated, was sub mitted to the court by Count Carlo Sforza, high commissioner for punishment of Fascist crimes. He emphasized that those named would be tried under a clause in a recent decree which prescribes punishment rather than merely "purification" rsxs 7rJ W?": :""' ivy "i be kwuc t Spanish Fork Pilot Participates In Air Group 16 'Mariana Turkey Shoot' SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8 OLE) A carrier-based fighter squad ron or air group 16, led by the navy's number one ace. shot down 41 Japanese planes, while bomber pilots from the same group scor ed 16 direct hits on a 28,000 ton enemy aircraft carrier during the air-sea battle for Saipan June 19 and 20, the navy disclosed today. The two-day battle against a strong force of the Japanese fleet In the Philippine sea always will be known as the "Mariana turkey tur-key shoot" to them, members of the group returning here on leave said. The fighter squadron led by Lt Alexander Vraicu, 25, East Chicago, Chi-cago, Ind., suffered no pilot los ses in shooting down 41 planes. Vraicu. described by the 12th naval na-val district as the navy's leading carrier-based fighter pilot, ac Ger ma mi Big Drive Fecamp it HavrtrrVROUEN Tionnsur norcoyrt i in rontamebleau rfecni Beauacncy lloi$yChambord American columns converging on a full-scale drive on Paris. Russian-Based U. S. Planes Blast Nazi il Refineries BULLETIN Rome,. Aug.. fCE) Flying Fortresses of the Eighth U. S. air force landed In Italy today after completion of an Ennand-to-Rus sia-to-ICaly shuttle bombing mis sion, it was announced. LONDON. Aug. 8 (HE) More than 600 American heavy bomb ers pounded enemy troop concentrations concen-trations in support of the all-out Allied offensive in the Caen sec tor today, while about 400 other Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacked enemy airdromes and fl3ing bomb installations in north ern France. During the shattering aerial as sault to blast a way for advancing Canadians south of Caen, the Am ericans dropped more than 20.- 000 100 - pound fragmentation bombs on German troops who were still dazed from the 6,000-ton RAF bomber command attack only 13 hours earlier. Both fleets bombed visually and in each case they were protected by strong forces of fighter planes. The new assault came as it was disclosed that other Eighth air force heavy bombers operating from United States bases in Russia Rus-sia smashed the German synthetic oil refinery at Tresbinia, 20 miles west of Krakow. The same force which made a shuttle flight from England on Sunday to strike the German air-j craft plant at Rahmel, 10 miles northwest of the Baltic port of Gydnia, made the raid yesterday on Tresbinia, the eastern command com-mand of the U. S. second tactical air force announcd today in a communique from Moscow. As in the raid en route to the Soviet bases, none of the aircraft was listed as missing from the at tack on Tresbinia, it was an nounced. Accompanying fighter planes brought down three enemy planes and the bombers claimed the destruction of one German plane, the eastern command re ported. INJURIES FATAL TO SEVIER FARMER ANNABELLA. Utah, Aug. 8 (LT.E) Hans Peter Christensen, 61, Sevier county farmer, died here late Sunday from injuries suffered when he fell from his horse two days previously. counted for six Jap planes "with in a few moments," The navy said. He has shot down a total of 19 enemy planes in 11 months of Pacific combat. "We would have had more, too," said Cmdr. Paul D. Buie, 35, Nashville, Nash-ville, Ga., fighter squadron commander, com-mander, "except that near the end of the turkey shoot some of the Japanese, pilots started bailing bail-ing out over Guam as soon as we got our sights on them." Members of the group Include Lt (j. g.) E. R. Hanks, Gibbs, Ida., and Red Bluff, Cal., who has six planes to his credit five of them shot down In one day over the Marsha islands last Novem ber: Ens. John Franklin Caffey. 22. Salt Lake City; Ar 2-C Robert Rob-ert L Clerr, 25, Spanish Fork, Utah. Yanks Gain On Le Mans In Drive to Paris Allied Forces Strike Behind Tremendous Air, And Artillery Barrages SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, AEF, Aug. 8 Two Canadian and British armies, striking behind a tremendous tre-mendous rolling barrage of aerial bombs and artillery fire, crashed deep into the German battle line below Caen in a full-scale drive on Paris today, while American flying columns col-umns from Brittany converged on Le Mans, little more than 100 miles from the French capital. At both ends of the twisting 100-mile front Allied armored forces were tearing to shreds the long-prepared German defenses barring the western and southwestern south-western roads to Paris. The enemy's left flank already was disintegrating under the lightning light-ning thrusts of Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's American tanks and mechanized infantry, and the right flank below Caen appeared to have been gravely menaced by the new Canadian-British offensive. offen-sive. Late dispatches from the front said the Canadians had driven about six miles from their takeoff take-off point below Caen, capturing at least seven enemy-held villages, including the. by-passed stronghold strong-hold of Tilly-La Campagne. "All the villages and landscape over the rolling hills and plains southeast of Caen is a sea of War Correspondent Richard D. McMillan reported.' He did not indicate whether the fires were started by Allied bombs or by the retreating Germans. The main Allied power apparently appar-ently was concentrated on the Caen sector, where the Canadian nrst army pusned off snortiy after midnight this morning and advanced almost four miles on both sides of the Caen-Falaise highway In the first few hours. All Initial objectives were taken in the opening phase of the attack, at-tack, and front reports indicated the Canadians still were pound ing ahead against strong enemy opposition. Massed Canadian and British guns poured murderous shellfire into the German lines, while wave upon wave of Allied war-planes streaked in over the charging troops to spray the Nazi defenders with bombs and gunfire. More than 600 American heavy bombers hit the enemy's front line positions shortly after mid-day. splattering 20,000 100-pound fragmentation frag-mentation lines across the three- mile-wide corridor through which the Canadians were attacking. The RAF opened the bombardment bombard-ment at midnight, sending more than 1,000 four-engined bombers across the channel to unload 6,000 tons of bombs on the enemy just 15 minutes before the zero hour. The Canadians officially were (Con tinned on Page Three) War In Brief FRANCE: Powerful Canadian and British forces, striking in wake of greatest aerial bombard ment in history, plunge four miles into heart of German lines southeast south-east of Caen in full scale offensive to blast open shortest road to Paris, 112 miles away- RUSSIA: Germans burn homes, farms and installations along East Prussian front in first application applica-tion of scorched earth policy to their "holy" soil as Red armies close in along 215 mile siege arc. ITALY: Eighth army troops, pushing to south bank of Arnp river five miles southeast of Florence, Flor-ence, encounter strong German position and lock in furious battle, bat-tle, while other British troops in south suburbs prepare for final assault on city. rALim.: American xorces gain three miles on Guam and squeeze Japanese defenders into tiny area; enemy base on Yap island believed neutralized after two months aerial campaign. AIR WAR: More than 1,000 four-engined RAF bombers as sault German lines in Normandy witn record breaking 6,000 ton bombardment The shortest distance to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Russia S28 miles (gain of two miles in one week.) Italy 604 miles (gain of three miles in one week.) France 623 miles (unchanged for week.) |