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Show HERALD FEATURES Conslsteatr iklid af tha f tba Wmahlnrton Merrr-de-Round. daily column by Drew Pearson, appear every" day oa the Herald editorial pace. FIFTY -NINTH YEAR, NO. ! Manslaughter Cliarges riled In Boy's Death One 15-Year-Old Boy Fatally Injured, Other Suffers Serious Hurts Involuntary manslaughter charges were filed today against O. D. Rust, driver of the truck, which struck the wo Springville boys, Sunday, fhe charges were filed by Henry M. Weight, chief of police, following an investigation investiga-tion of the circumstances surrounding the accident. f court for-erraignment this afternoon. SPRINGVILLE Struck by s truck early Sunday morning While walkings along Sixth East street, Gail Averett, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Everett, suffered suf-fered a fractured skull and other , fatal injuries to which he suc- cumoea ai a jtovo nospitai sun-day sun-day night. His companion, Le Grande Barker, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Barker, was reported in a "serious" condition at the Payson hospital today. He suffered compound com-pound leg and arm fractures. The truck which struck the two oys was driven by O. D. Rust, Springville, and was proceeding east on Center street. The Aver ctt boy was thrown 36 feet and inded1rf mtel!. is thrown even farther by the ;-rific Impact. Officers who investigated the xcident declare Rust was traveling trav-eling on the wrong side of the Street., indicating that the driver might have been asleep. Marks reveal the truck continued a distance dist-ance of 80 feet after the boys were struck. Gall was born In Springville June, 1929, a son of Fred and VIaii AwitfflaUMi lvrft T-7m f ' tended Springville schools. Surviving besides the parents, are two brothers. Glen and Lionel Averett, Springville. A third brother drowned four years ago. Two other Utah youths died in, iccidents Sunday one in a collision, col-lision, and one by drowning. Leo K. Thornton, 16,Ogden, died early yesterday of injuries suffered in the collision of a pickup pick-up truck in hich he and a companion com-panion were hitch-hiking, and a private car. Only minor injuries rere suffered by other riders. Glen Call. 14, South Willard. drowned Sunday afternoon at Cold Springs. Friends said he was overtaken ov-ertaken by cramps. His body was recovered by an unidentified soldier. sol-dier. Funeral services for the Aveiett xy will be held Wednesday at 2 p m. in the Fourth ward chapel, under the direction of Bishop Er-win Er-win Sheffield of the Sixth ward. Friends may call at the family home. Ninth East and Center street, Tuesday night an Wed- lesday, prior to the services. Interment In-terment will be in the EvergTMn cemetery. Truck Lines In I ; Full Operation -By the Government -! MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 14 (EE) The Midwest Operators Assoc!-Ration Assoc!-Ration opened all its offices today fcaa full operation of 103 strike bound truck lines, seized Saturday to halt a walkout of 50,000 drivers and freight handlers, was resumed under the supervsion of the federal fed-eral government. xi Secretary Louis Hosking an-jounced an-jounced the association's decision Lfjto open its offices, but at the same time protested some nro- ylsions of the Office of Defense ..Transportation's operational plan. p particularly the manner of paying the seven-cent hourly wage increase in-crease ordered by the War Labor Board. It was the refusal of the oper-! oper-! ators to grant the wage increase i that precipitated the walkout last ' Monday and President Roosevelt ordered the freight lines seized Saturday, after shipments of crit- - teal war materials commenced to bog down. Payment of the seven-cent increase, in-crease, plus a .3 of a cent per mfle Increase, both retroactive for 10 months, - is to be made out of -Jhej?XDlILfc. which will be figured tttttt- vo- separate uooKxeeping thejerJod of seizure. Hosking said . this system was undesirable to the, eperatora, - 50 UTAH'S ONVY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAST All No Run-Off Primary In Utah County; All Contests Decided Only About a Tenth of Utah's Voters Will Go to the Polls Tuesday; First District Congressional Race Highlight of Vote There is a run-off election in Utah tomorrow, but not for the voters of Utah county. The rest of the state with the exception of Davis county will participate in the election. In Utah and Davis counties all contested nominations were settled in the primary election, leaving no unfinished election business to be taken care of in the run-off. In most of the counties of the first congressional district, dis-trict, the only contest for the voters to pass upon, is the Republican congressional contest between , Dr. William Peterson of Logan and Mayor Briant Stringham of Vernal. A few counties have commissioner and other local contests con-tests and in Salt Lake county there is a contest on state senators and judges to settle. By MURRAY M. MOLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 14 Only about a tenth of Utah's 250,000 voters will go to the polls tomorrow in a runoff primary that has the few candidates worried because be-cause of a decided lack of interest. There is no statewide contest. The only race at Governor Reports Bright Prospects For Geneva Plant SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 14 for maintain. ing the Geneva Steel plant in op eration after the war, and Utah's post-war industrial future generally gen-erally are "tremendously bright," Gov. Herbert B. Maw said today on his return from his eastern trip in behalf of Utah industry. "In Washington, I found strong sentiment for maintaining the plant, due to the strong policy of the president for decentralized industry," in-dustry," the governor reported: "In my opinion Utah will not stand for the mill being closed down and its rich ore being shipped ship-ped east, where hlgh-grsde iron ore is rapidly becoming exhausted," exhaust-ed," he said. Asked to comment on the statement state-ment of steel magnet Benjamin F. Fairless in San Francisco and here, the governor replied, "The steel industry is for centralization, centraliza-tion, the federal government against. Besides, it Is good business busi-ness for them to sound a little pessimistic, so that they can get a low price for the plants after the war. "As for freight rates, the railroads rail-roads assure me that they will adjust their rates after the war. That need not be a major obstacle." obsta-cle." The governor said that all the western governors were organized organiz-ed to protect western industry, and repeated emphatically that the administration sided with them. It was the president, and his planning board, he recalled who picked the Utah and Texas sites for new steel plants. "And," he said, "we are fortunate fortun-ate that a Utah man, Robert H. Hinckley, is in the key position on deciding what is to be done with the plant." Maw expressed optimism about the results of his trip and the prospect of obtaining new post war industries. He said he had talked to a number of industral-ists industral-ists in New York, especially about establishing new plants in outlying out-lying sections of the state, similar sim-ilar to the parachute plant now operating at Manti. THXRD ARMY OPERATING IN FRANCE WESTERN FRONT, FRANCE, Aug. 14 cue Military authorities announced tonight that the Third U. 8. army now is operating in France in active collaboration with the first U. S. army, which is un der the command of Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodgee. Utah Track Driver, Kidnaped, Robbed Forced to Drive Captors to Denver DENVER, Colo., Aug. 14 (HE) -Denver police agents of the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation today to-day were seeking two men whom 70-year-old truck driver said had kidnaped him in Utah and forced him to drive them to Denver. Den-ver. The truck driver, Frank Nichol son, whose home is in Bentonville, Ark., but who was working out of Draper, Utah, said that the kidnapers also, robbed him of S97 and his gasoline ration book. He said that the Kidnapers stop fed Airinn)5gS tracting interest in more than one or two counties is the fight between Mayor B. H. Stringham of Vernal and William Wil-liam Peterson of Logan, state extension ex-tension service director emeritus, for the Republican first congressional congres-sional district nomination. In the July 11 primary, there were four contestants for the nomination and Utah's unique and costly primary law a law that many hope will be changed by the next Utah legislature to eliminate elimin-ate the runoff requires that a candidate to be nominated must get a clear majority. Stringham led the primary field with 6757 votes. But Peter son's second place count was 4320 and D. C. Watson of St. George got 2254 and Stephen Abbott 6t Randlett got 2321 to force the top two into the runoff. The Vernal mayor has been waging an active campaign throughout the district for the last five weeks and Peterson has intensified his pre-runoff work lately and the results may be close, although Stringham is given a clear edge. The winner will face Rep. Walter K. Granger, Grang-er, who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination in the general election. Two years ago. Granger won election by only 69 votes over the Republican nominee, J. Bracken Lee of Price, who is the GOP selection for governor this year. In many of the 25 counties of the district, the congressional battle bat-tle is the only contest on the ballot. Some of the others have fights for nominations for the state legislature or district judgeships judge-ships or district attorney posts. Of the four counUes of the second sec-ond congressional district, Utah and Davis counties have no runoff run-off contests of any kind, while Tooele atid Salt Lake counties have seven men seeking six Democratic district judge nominations and Salt Lake county also have four Republican and four Democratic candidates for the state senate. Once the runoff is out of the way. Utah political interest will turn to the party platform con ventions that will adopt the flanks on which the state candidates will run this year and select four presidential electors each so that general election ballots may be printed quickly and sent to servicemen serv-icemen overseas. The Republicans have called their 708 delegates into conven-Uon conven-Uon here Aug. 26, the date for the Democratic convention will be set when the party executive committee meets Aug. 19. STRIKE ENDS MONTREAL. All. 14 (CP) Trolley and bus operators return ed to work under supervision of two government corttrollers to day, ending an 11-day strike. ped him on a highway near Salt Lake City about noon Friday and forced him at gun point to bring them to Denver. During the trip, he said, they conversed in a baffling baf-fling sort of double-talk jargon. Nicholsons truck was found on a downtown street in Denver yesterday. yes-terday. After reporting the kidnaping, kid-naping, Nicholson left police headquarters, head-quarters, and officers did not know his whereabouts today. Police had the truck, waiting for him to claim it. PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, Wr f v tv7 vA American soldiers are pictured as "jungle fighters" during mopping up of German snipers in woods outside a recaptured town. Civilians in the photo are French underground patriots who have given great aid to Americans in the Brittany campaign. Nimifz Believes Japan May Capitulate Before Americans Invade Home Island By FRANK TRE MAINE United Press War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR. Aug. 14 r.Ri:do believe that occupation of Ja Admiral Oiester W. Nimitz believes be-lieves Japan may capitulate be fore American forces invade her home island but he wants the islands occupied to guarantee that America wins the peace. Nimitz' report was given at a press conference at his Pacific fleet headquarters yesterday after af-ter his return from an inspection tour of the recently captured bases in the Marshalls and Marianas Mari-anas islands, where the Americans were poised less than 1500 miles from Tokyo. "I am not sure nor am I con- Allies Organize Flow of Relief To Aid Florence By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press War Correspondent ROME. Aug. 14 (U.P) Enemy sniping and street fighting between be-tween partisans and Fascists in Florence dwindled sufficiently today to-day for Allied military government govern-ment officials to begin organizing a flow of food, water and med ical supplies to the nearly-starv ing inhabitants. Snipers had been cleaned out of Florence, where New Zealand troops of the British Eighth army were in firm control. Except for the capture of the village of Frontone, 27 miles inland from the Adriatic on the north-south Urbi-no-Farbriano railway, the balance of the Italian front was comparatively compara-tively quiet, with activity limited to patrols. AMG officials were striving today to-day to restore normal life to Florence, Flor-ence, which fell into Allied hands Saturday when the Germans completed com-pleted the withdrawal of their main forces northward to new positions along a canal on the outer fringe of the city. Their main proDiem was to get food, water and essential services into Florence, which had a prewar pre-war population of approximately 300.000 although front dispatches said only about 100.000 remained. Work rlvo was started on clearing clear-ing th streets of debris. Although the first hasty check after the British moved into the northern half of the city, showed that the most important of the old buildings build-ings had been spared, there was considerable rubble from blasted modern structures in some sections, sec-tions, front dispatches said. In the Amo river loop east of Florence, patrols were active, and further east in the mountain north of Arezzo, the Germans re mained quiet. Increased enemy ac tivity was evident, however, in the mountains north of Pietralun ga. Shooting of Boy To Be Investigated SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 14 ue snenrr Eugene Biscaliuz today ordered an investigation in-: to the death of John Bernarding, 13-year-old hiker, fatally wounded wound-ed in Malibu hills when an In experienced deputy mistook his friends dor for a mountain lion. Seymour Lund, 35, who joined the force last month, fired his .30 caliber rifle from 300 yards because be-cause he thought an airdale dog, belonging to John's hiking com panion, Dewey Norman, 13, was mountain uon. The bullet missed the dog but struck John, resting in the shade a few feet away. He died enroute to the hospital. , UTAH. MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944 Coimvsirge Jungle Fighting in Brittany" ,vinccd that invasion by assault will be necessary," he said, "but I pan will be necessary to insure that we win the peace "This war is a new experience experi-ence for Japan. In recent times they have been o the winning side. We don t know how much they can take before they will uirow m the sponge. He promised that the full pow er of the Allied forces would be brought against Japan until vic tory was achieved. "I can only hope that our oper ations develop at such a tempo that we never give them time to prepare a defense," he said. Pointing out that it was hardly hard-ly possible to bomb Japan on the same scale as the RAF and the USAAF mighty campaign against Germany, Nimitz said the defeat of Japan would result from a combination of the entire mill tary power "Blockade, air bom bardment, possibly surface bom bardment and possibly invasion.' Nimitz' report came two weeks after his conference here with President Roosevelt and Gen Douglas MacArthur. Discussing the central. Pacific campaign, in which American forces conquered the Gilberts, nearly all the Marshalls and Sai- pan, Tinian and Guam in the Marianas, Nimitz said the Jap ense lost 52,323 dead, by Ameri can count, and not including the many that were killed in air raids and by bombardment, went down on ships or were buried by their own forces. The number of prisoners totaled 3,022, The Americans lost a total of 5.903 killed in action a ratio over the Japanese Of approxi mately . 10 to one. Nimitz declined comment on re ports that a secret weapon was used in the Marianas operations The best secret weapon . we have is the quality of our per sonnel." he said. "I think that surprised Japan, too, as much as anything." Nimitz found the men at the front in fine spirits, and ready to go. "They also are in fine physical condition,' he added. 'The people of this country can take pride in the fact they have men of this type to carry on their business. They will never let them down." Guam, the first American territory ter-ritory to fall in the Pacific, and the first retaken, and the rest of the Marianas will be developed to maximum capacity. Nimitz, asked if he planned to transfer his headquarters to the Marianas, replied: "I am constantly con-stantly on the lookout for an opportunity to move closer to the fighting." Nazi Field Marshal, By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (EE) Field Marshal Fried erich Von Paulus, Germany's "hero of Stalingrad" and the highest ranking military leader to fail into Russian hands, ended 18 months of sullen silence with a dramatic admission that the Reich has lost the war, and joined with 19 other Nazi officers today in an appeal to the wehr- macht to overthrow Adolf Hitler and lay down their arms. Von Paulus had stubbornly re fused to abandon hone in a Ger man victory since February 1943, when he and 21 other generals were captured with the remnants or the Nazi 6th army in ruinea Stalingrad. His unexpected about- race threatened to have far-reacn- ing effects in the already-shaken wehnnacht. French Division Rides Into Battle On American Tanks By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press War Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Aug. 14 OLE) A battle-hardened French division, tempered in the searing heat of the African desert, des-ert, has ridden into the battle of France on American Sherman tanks, tank destroyers, and halftracks, half-tracks, it is possible to reveal today. ((An announcement at Allied Supreme headquarters in London said the division was led by a brigadier general who fights under un-der the nom de guerre of "Jacques "Jac-ques Le Clerc" and who gained fame by leading the famous march of a free French column from Lake Chad to join the battle bat-tle for Tunisia last year.) The motorized French are cooperating co-operating in the American drive northward from Le Mans aimed at encircling and destroying the German 7th army. Many of the men in this division, divis-ion, which I saw yesterday during dur-ing a tour of the zone of advance, ad-vance, are veterans of the desert and Tunisian campaigns. They are inordinately proud of the fine new American equipment they have been given to aid in the liberation lib-eration of the homeland. They have been in action for the past several days. Capt. Louis P. Chatenay of angers told me that when the French division reoccupied his home town he made a bee line for his residence and captured six Germans "right in my own back yard, monsieur'." Transport With Bob Hope Party Is Forced Down SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 14 (UP) Comedian Bob Hope and four members of his USO camp show troupe made a safe forced landing in a transport plane 225 miles north of Sydney, today, but Hope was mourning the loss of three cases of whisky he had to throw overboard when the pilot tried to lighten the plane. As the transport, en route from Brisbane to Sydney, neared Laurieton, a small country village of about 300 persons, it developed engine trouble and began to lose altitude. The pilot ordered the passengers to abandon their luggage, lug-gage, and among the bags thrown over was one of Hope's containing three cases of a brand of whisky practically unobtainable in Aus tralia.! The transport then made an emergency landing on a sandbox (Continued on Page Two) 19 Officers, Ash Overthrow of Hitler The Nazi field marshal was taken tak-en prisoner in his headquarters in the cellar of a Stalingrad de partment store at the end of that disastrous campaign that cost theidated Moscow, Aug. 8. published German army more than 500,000 lives and turned the tide of the war. Correspondents who witnessed his surrender reported that the field marshal was extremely sul len and hostile and refused to answer even the most formal questions put to him by his Soviet captors. His top aides, including Gen. Walter von Seydlitz who became president of the Soviet-sponsored union of free German officers. conceded almost immediately that tne game was up and began broadcasting peace appeals to their former comrades. Until today's announceme nt. however. Von Paulus had been re COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TlCLEORAPB NEWS BERVICB gh Nazi 100,000 Germans Face Destruction In Falaise Area Fleeing German Troops Subjected to Great Aerial, Artillery Fire; Narrow Corridor Remains As Three Allied Armies Close In SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 14 " Three Allied armies converged behind a great aerial and artillery, barrage on the ancient Norman town of Falaise today, racing through disintegrating enemy opposition toward to-ward a juncture that would complete the envelopment of perhaps 100.000 Germans and seal the greatest victory of the war in the west. Only a narrow corridor that by now might measure 12 miles or less remained t open to the broken remnants of 12 divisions of the German 7th and 15th armies reeling hack on Paris and the Siene river, and American, British and Canadian Can-adian armor was smashing in on that ran from three sides with a power that threatened to turn it! into an avenue of aeaui. Canadians Close In The Canadian lat army swung down to elose the northern jaws of the traD at noon today, launch ing a full-scale attack on tne German bolt positions five miles above Falaise. United Press War Correspondent Correspon-dent William A. Wilson reported that the Canadian assault drove forward 2 miles in the first two hours, carrying half way to Falaise, Fa-laise, through which runs the last practicable escape route for the Germans still inside the Allied 'sack." The attack was preceded by a rolling aerial bombardment in which swarms of Allied medium bombers unloaded tons of fragmentation frag-mentation bombs on Nazi troops in their less than 3000 yards from the Canadian front. Official reports indicated that the full striking power of the Allied tactical air forces had been thrown into the battle and, that the Germans were taking one of the most frightful aerial beatings of the war. Thousands of American Amer-ican and British planes were reported re-ported in action, bombing and machine ma-chine gunning the fleeting troops and riddling their highway and railway supply convoys. Tanks and armored infantry carriers lurched forward as the thunder of the exploding bombs died away and slashed through the enemy lines, carrying a strong ly-defended river barrier in the first charge. (An NBC broadcast said the Canadians were striking on a 3,500-yard front north of Falaise.) Ghost Column Strikes As the Canadians struck, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's American Amer-ican "ghost column" smashed into the southern end of the Nazi escape es-cape corridor after a lightning drive up the main Brest-Paris highway that carried them 40 miles in a single day to a point north of Argentan and about 12 miles southeast of Falaise. A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell indicated that part of the American armored column had cut back toward the Mortain Sourdeval salient at the center; endz, and pushed on toward Gra-of Gra-of the Norman battleline to block jjevo, 18 miles to the northwest the German tank divisions at-ind athwart the entrance to the tempting to pull back from that sector. The German home radio service said heavy fighting was under way in the Carrouges area. 124 miles northwest of Alencon and 11 miles southwest of Argentan. Other American forces and the British 2nd army, meanwhile, were slashing eastward from the Vire-Mortain 1 sectors toward Fa laise, and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower declared in a confident or der of the day that the battle was (Continued on Page Two) garded as the most stubborn and intransigeant of all the captured German leaders. A facsimile of Palus' statement. in Pravda, blamed Hitler for Ger many's piignt ana said only a new regime could insure the Reich's surviving. Faulus adressed his statement to German prisoners. He told them that the Red army already had reached the East Prussian border, while in France Anglo- American troops had broken the German defenses. "Neither In the east nor the west has Germany the reserves that could retrieve this situation," Paulus said. "The superiority of the enemy in the air end sea are so overwhelming that the resulting result-ing situation becomes ever more hopeless. "The war for Germany Is lost." THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy with widely scattered light shower this afternoon and tonight, Tuesday Tues-day fair. Cooler Tuesday aad western portions tonight. Warmer extreme southeast portion tonight. 88 82 PRTfTF FIVE (TENTS rTUOC TAVJ. VIM 1J T Germans Abandon Last Barrier To East Prussia LONDON, Aug. 14 (TIE) German Ger-man troops have abandoned their defense positions on the west bank of the Bierbraza river, the last natural barrier on the southern approaches to East Prussia, the German DNB news agency said today. DNB said the German withdrawal with-drawal was carried out under cover of darkness last night, presumably pre-sumably in the Am O Soviets (CQ) sector, 15 miles from , the East Prussian frontier. The Nazi Transocean News Agency earlier had reported the evacuation of Osovlets. By HENRY SHAPIRO " - -Unlted Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 14 oira Russian Rus-sian shock troops smashed to within 10 miles northeast of Warsaw War-saw today, setting the stage for the final assault on the Polish capital while other Soviet forces forc-es swept over the approaches to a corridor through the Mansurian lakes into the heart of East Prussia. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokoa-sovsky's Rokoa-sovsky's 1st White Russian army tightened its siege arc around Warsaw eastern borough of Praga with a drive through Mos-towka, Mos-towka, 11 miles northeast, almost to the fringes of a great artillery proving ground stretching for miles east of the capital. (German radio broadcasts acknowledged ack-nowledged that Nazi forces had withdrawn "east and north" of Warsaw "in order to shorten our lines.) German tanks and Infantry counterattacked several times jin an attempt o re-capture Mos- towka, but were repulsed leaving 500 members of the German Goer-ing Goer-ing SS division dead on the battlefield. bat-tlefield. Four tanks and 16 field guns were captured. Rokessovsky's tanks, troops and guns also advanced along the east and west banks of the Bug river on a 60-mile front northeast north-east of Mostowka to within one to four miles of the Bialystok-Warsaw Bialystok-Warsaw railway, backbone of the enemy's defenses above the capital. capi-tal. The 2nd White Russian army under Gen. Georgi Zakharov seized seiz-ed the highway junction, Gon- land corridor between the Man- (Continued on Page Two) War In Brief FRANCE American forces, racing toward junction with British Brit-ish and Canadians at Falaise, expected ex-pected to complete encirclement of 100.000 fleeting Germans In what Gen. Eisenhower describes as "shaping up as greatest victory of war in France." RUSSIA Russian shock troops smash to within. 10 miles east of Warsaw, setting stage for final assault on Polish capital while other forces sweep through Mas urian lakes into heart of East Prussia. AIR WAR Thousands of Al lied airplanes roar over battle field of France in third day of greatest aerial support to ground troops in history. PACIFIC Adm. Chester Nim itz, after tour of newly won bases, predicts Japan may be knocked out of war before invasion of homeland. ITALY Street fighting and sniping dwindles sufficiently In Florence to permit Allied authorities author-ities to begin organizing relief for starving inhabitants. The shortest distances to Ber lin from advanced Allied lines to- . day: FRANCE 595 miles (uncon firmed) (gain of 28 miles In week) Russia 328 miles (unchanged for week.) Italy 602 miles (gain of two ' miles in week.) |