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Show THE WEATHER UTAH: dear this afternoon, to night and Thursday, except some; afternoon cloudiness sooth port tion; slightly warmer north pon tion Thursday. HERALD FEATURES Consistently ahead of the news, the Washington Merry-Go-Round, daily column by Drew Pearson, appears every day on the Ilerald editorial pace. Temperatures t High , Low 88 47 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 52 UTAH'S ONLT DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1944 POVPLETH DN1TED PRESS TITiTlT TTirT? TMTef TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE) 'wti flVJi OtUN Id We I A WE FBIKE CAD 4Mt.. Contest Won By St ringham Incumbent Salt Lake County Senators Lose Re-nomination Race By MURRAY M. MOLEB United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 16 OE Utah's 35,000 runoff primary election today had merely confirmed results of the July, primary and given Mayor B. H. Stringham of Vernal the Republican congressional con-gressional nomination from the first district in the only major contest of the day. Stringham took the lead over William Peterson of Logan, extension ex-tension service director emeritus, soon after the polls closed last night and by 10:45 p.m. had piled up such a lead that Peterson graciously gra-ciously conceded defeat. Voting throughout the state was extremely light with only about 10.000 votes cast, far under the vote in the July primary. Reports came in slow because of the lack of interest but the count on 475 election districts out of the 494 in the first congressional district gave Stringham 5164 and Peterson 4120. The unreported districts are all small and in remote areas. Stringham carried every county coun-ty except three Peterson's home county of Cache and nearby Box Elder and Morgan counties. A unique feature of the results and indicative of the usual condition con-dition in the runoff election was that Stringham received less votes in ewcning ine nomination man ne did in July, when he led the four- man field. In July, Stringham got 6757, Peterson 4320 and the other two contestants 4575. The only other contests on the runoff ballot yesterday were local affairs in 11 counties. Sixteen of the first district's counties had only the congressional contest and Utah and Davis counties had no runoffs of any kind. In the local races, the only noteworthy note-worthy result came in Salt Lake county, where Senators Lynn S. Richards, J. Arthur Bailey and George A. Christensen were de-( de-( Continued on Page Eight) Aged Executive Wins Vote Race MILWAUKEE, Aug. 16 (UE) Acting Gov. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's 81-year-old chief executive, and U. S. Sen. Alexander Alex-ander Wiley, both won remonina-tion remonina-tion from Republican voters by a wide marein in yesterday's pri- "jnary election in which the once- powerful Progressive party pooled barely enough votes to keep its name on the ballot. Goodland, who is making his first bid for election to the Governor's Gov-ernor's chair after being elected lieutenant-governor three times, far outstripped all of his four younger opponents, who made a campaign issue of his age, and polled 120,206 votes, according to unofficial returns from 2497 of the State's 3078 precincts. Goodland, the oldest state chief executive in the nation, took an early lead and never relinquished It. His nomination was coceded early today. His closest opponent oppon-ent was Delbert J. Kenny, who polled 64,981 votes. NLRB Certifies AFL As Geneva Bargaining Agent WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 rj;--The national labor relations board today certified the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor and its Metal Trades Council as bargaining agent for the Geneva Steel plant and the Klegley Quarry at Provo. Utah, pursuant to the election conducted Aug. 1 and 2. House Approves Censor Relaxation WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 E) The senate-approved amendments to the soldier vote law, which would relax censorship restrictions restric-tions oh reading material for the armed forces, were passed by unanimous consent by the house today and sent to the White Bouse. ETAHN MISSING WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 OIRV The Merchant Marine disclosed today that 2nd. Asst. Engineer Floyd W. Roach, son of Earl S. Roach, Park City, Utah, was missing miss-ing la action. Invasion Leader ' , , " i - ' "- TnT" f - i W -so V" -t. a. I llllllll I I III III (NEA TeUphoto) Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, USA, deputy commander-in-chief of Allied Al-lied forces in Mediterranean theater, leads Allied troops In invasion ol southern France. Navy Cancels Draft Deferments Of AFL Strikers SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 EE The navy today cancelled draft deferments, supplemental gasoline rations and imposed a war man- tpewer blacklisting upon AFL ma chiniats who refused to obey overtime over-time work orders at machine shops seized by the government under an executive order issued by President Pres-ident Roosevelt. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bow- en, special assistant to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, an nounced invocation of sanctions against members of International Association of Machinists Lodge 68. Sanctions were authorized last night by Fred M. Vinson, director of economic stabilization. Machinists today almost unanimously unani-mously refused to report for work on an overtime basis at four major ma-jor machine shops, working on vital vi-tal war contracts, which were taken tak-en over by the navy Monday. Earlier Bowen announced the following results of a check-up at five plants today: Pacific Gear Sc. Tool Works: "None of the machinists obeyed the overtime schedule calling for opening at one half hour earlier." Link Belt Company: "Last night the welders, but not the machinists, machin-ists, worked to the scheduled closing clos-ing time on an overtime basis. This morning none of the machinists appeared at the scheduled opening open-ing hour on the overtime basis." Main San Francisco plant of Enterprise En-terprise Engine i Foundry Company: Com-pany: "Only 2S oul t f a total of 280 showed up rt th overtime opening op-ening hour "; SouUi San Francisco plant: "All employes went to work on overtime." Federal Mogul Beming Corp.: "As of this morn'.rjr, 2 strikers in addition to the 17 already there, were back at worc out of a total of 111 strikers." Bowen disclosed late last night that Fred M. Vinson, director of economic stabilization, had directed direct-ed the selective service to cancel draft deferments of no-complying machinists upon certification by the Navy, and also had issued directives providing for blacklisting blacklist-ing of the men by war manpower authorities and cancellation of their supplemental gasoline ra tions. Five of the largest of 104 ma chine shops affected by the refusal re-fusal of Lodge 68, International Association of Machinists, to work more than a 48-hour week were taken over by the Navy Monday under a presidential order. Drive Opens for liberal' Benefits For Unemployment Compensation WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 UE A drive was opened in the house today to rally "liberal minded" members behind demobilization legislation offering more gener ous unemployment compensation payments than the senate-ap proved George state s right bilL The campaign was launched by Rep. Emanuel CelJer, D., N. T., as both house and senate moved ahead with work on different phases of debate on the Colmer bUl to create machinery for disposing dis-posing of 175,000,000,000 of surplus sur-plus war property while the ways and means committee continued consideration of the George un employment compensation plan. Germans Caught In Allied Trap Suffer Terrific Blasting Allied Tanks Crush in Western Wall, As Canadians Storm Into Outskirts of Falaise To Close Escape Gap to Six Miles, Or Less By VTRGIL PINKLEY United Press War Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Aug. 16 & Allied tanks and infantrymen crushed in the western wall of the pocket enclosing the German Seventh army in Normandy Nor-mandy today while Canadian troops stormed into the outskirts out-skirts of Falaise, squeezing the enemy's eastern escape gap to six miles or less. Bloody fighting raged all around the pocket as the Allied armor squeezed Field Marshal Gunther Von Klug's battered division into narrow ing corner near the Falaise-Ar-gentan gap, but front reports indicated in-dicated the enemy's stubborn resistance re-sistance was beginning to crack under the storm of bombs and shellfire ranking their lines in cessantly. Badly-shaken Nazis were surrendering sur-rendering by the hundreds and official sources disclosed that Canadians rounded up more than 3,000 captives in the Falaise sector sec-tor during the past 30 hours. Headquarters sources believed that only a relatively small portion por-tion of the 100,000-odd Germans originally caught in the Allied net had been able to escape, despite front reports that about half of Von Kluge's 12 divisions had broken brok-en out in a wild clash through the Kalaise-Argentan corridor early yesterday. These sources Indicated that at least 50,000 to 60,000 of the pocketed pock-eted Nazis were doomed to surrender sur-render or death, although it was acknowledged that small bands of enemy infantrymen might manage man-age to escape overland through the closing Allied lines. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, now in the field to direct the final stages stag-es of the battle of annihilation, poured more men, guns and armor into the fight, throwing the bulk of his forces against the western side of the pocket, while the Can adian first army and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton s Third army hammered their armored wedges deeper into the eastern end. The Canadians swung down more than a mile through a blazing screen of German 88-millimeter guns and anti-tank weapons, capturing cap-turing dominating heights from which their artillery could sweep virtually every road in the Falaise area. Simultaneously, Patton's tank and riflemen pushed slowly north and west of Argentan to within less than six miles of Falaise, meeting savage resistance from German panzer units battling to hold open that side of the corridor. corri-dor. At the opposite end of the trap, British troops from the north and Americans from the south slashed slash-ed deep into the German defensive defens-ive perimeter in a series of fast-rolling fast-rolling thrusts that isolated a half-dozen half-dozen enemy units and pushed in the Nazi lines as much as three miles. The Americans captured Dom-front, Dom-front, La Ferte-Mace and Ger, drove into . Yvrandes, thre miles south of Tinchebray, and farther to the east pushed beyond Ranes against strong enemy opposition Pilot Reported Missing in Action First Lt. Harold C. Schaurer, formerly of Spanish Fork, is reported re-ported missing in action over Hungary. Hun-gary. His mother, Mrs. Mary Schaurer, is now living with his wife, Mrs. Ruth Bowen Schaurer, and daughter, Lois Ann, in Berkeley, Berke-ley, California. A pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber, Lt. Schaurer entered the Air Corps in January, 1942, received re-ceived his commission in January, 1943, and was assigned overseas in June, 1943. War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes was scheduled to discuss dis-cuss it at a closed meeting with the group. In the senate, a military affairs subcommittee continued hearings on another surplus property bill, with Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickes and Chairman Maury Maverick of the smaller war plants corporations as witnesses. Celler, author of a house bill similar to the senate-rejected Murray-Kllgore bill providing federal unemployment compensation compensa-tion up to S35 weekly, announced that he intended to invite about 50 "liberal minded" members to a conference tomorrow to mobilize mob-ilize support for his measure. American Planes Pound Targets In Germany, France LONDON, Aug. 16 (EE) Approximately Ap-proximately 2,000 American war-planes war-planes from Britain and Italy pounded targets throughout Germany Ger-many and France without opposition opposi-tion from the Nazi air force today as they continued the five-day aerial aer-ial campaign to deprive the luft-waffe luft-waffe of operating bases, fuel, and replacements. Italy-based heavy bombers were not even escorted as they struck vital bridges over the Rhone and elsewhere in France in 'support of southern invasion troops. Swarms of medium bombers and fighters from. Ihe same bases flew far Inland to attack communication com-munication lines and targets of opportunity behind the German lines and reported they did not find a single German fighter in the air. Liberator bombers also flew up from Italy to attack a chemical plant near Friedrlchshafen, Germany, Ger-many, while forces of more than 1,000 American heavy bombers es corted by fighter planes in almost similar strength crossed the English Eng-lish channel to attack aircraft and engine factories, oil refineries and airdromes deep in the heart of Germany. The continuing heavy attacks were designed not only to maintain main-tain dominance over the luftwaffe, but also to make the German fuel shortage increasingly serious for the wehrmacht. Another Allied Landing Seen In Southern Europe LONDON, Aug. 16 (U.R German Ger-man and neutral sources speculated specu-lated today on the possibility of another landing in southern Europe, Eu-rope, probably in Yugoslavia. Radio Ankara said a landing was expected in the Adriatic, which includes Albania as well as Yugoslavia, while a Berlin dispatch dis-patch in the Stockholm newspaper news-paper Tidningen said the Allies probably would open a "fifth front" soon in Dalmatia. Allied sources declined to comment com-ment on the reports, but it was recalled that Prime Minister Churchill conferred with Marshal Tito, commander of the Yugoslav Partisan army, and Dr. Ivan Su-basitch, Su-basitch, prime minister of Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, last Saturday and Sunday in Italy. The three leaders discussed both military and political questions ques-tions "in a spirit of entire frankness,'' frank-ness,'' a British communique said at the time and added that the conversations would continue. Tito's army, comprising 350,000 or more guerillas, already holds several large sections of Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia and on many occasions has demonstrated its ability to seize beachheads on the Dalamatian coast on which an Allied invasion inva-sion army could be put ashore. French Patriots Seize Two Towns BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 16 OLE) Reports ' from the Franco- Swiss frontier said the French underground began a general up rising in the Haute-Sovoie department depart-ment of southeastern France at 4 am. today and captured at least two German-held towns with in the last four hours. Strong forces of Maquis were reported to have opened simultaneous simul-taneous attacks on a number of Nazi garrisons in Haute-Savoie. using heavy artillery which they apparently had been massing secretly for some time. Beachheads Catrbourg SPAIN MIllS jS p V SWITZ. tocKorfc VICHY JV JSY Ul of Biscay : 'ob!jC' The Allies open a "4th front" against Germany by storming a 100-mile stretch of French Mediterranean coast with Invasion armada of 800 ships, thousands of planes and clouds of paratroops. The new invasion works in perfectly with Allies' smash in northwestern France, where noose is being drawn on some 100,000 Nazis caught in Falaise trap. Germans Seize Initiative Against Russians In Desperate, All-Out Attach By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent . MOSCOW, Aug. 16 The Germans, admittedly seizing the initiative, hurled their largest forces of the summer campaign against the Red army before Warsaw and East Prussia today in a desperate effort to stabilize the eastern front whatever the cost. The Soviet high command's communique last miamgnt snoke of German "attacks" rath- er than ''counter attacks" for the first time since the start of the Russian summer offensive June 23 and conceded that the Nazi forces had wedged their lines temporarily. Reeline under crushing blows from both the east and west, the Wehrmacht appeared committed to an all-out attempt to plug the holes on the Russian front to prevent pre-vent Soviet armies from breaking through to Germany while Anglo-American Anglo-American forces were engulfing German troops in France. Both north and south of the Warsaw-East Prussian fronts, however, the Russians gained new ground. Gen. Ivan I. Maslennl-kov's Maslennl-kov's 3rd Baltic army struck three miles farther into the flank of the German pocket of nearly 300,000 men in the Baltic coast with the capture of Anne, 14 miles west of the railway junction of Valga on the Estonian-Latvian frontier and 75 miles from the Baltic. Kassi, 17 miles northeast of Valga and nine miles from the Riga-Tallinn railway, and Mus-taja, Mus-taja, 29 miles south of Tartu, also were seized by Maalennlkov's men. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukranian army occupied several unidentified villages in enlarging its bridgehead on the west bank of the Vistula northwest and west of Sandomires. The Germans counterattacked in an attempt to regain the villages, but were thrown back with a total loss for the day of 22 tanks and 25 arm ored troop carriers. Konev's army was credited with killing 140,000 Germans and capturing cap-turing 32,360 in its phase of the Soviet summer offensive, bringing to 780,000 the number of enemy troops put out of action on all eastern fronts since June 23. Two Utahns Die In Air Collision GARDNER FIELD, Cal., Aug. 16 OLE) The mid-air collision of two training planes 20 miles southwest of Bakersfield yesterday yester-day took the lives of four army airmen, Lt. Col. H. J. Bechtel, commanding ofifcer, announced today. The dead Included: 2nd Lt David W. Gemmill, 27, who was survived, by his mother, Mrs. Amanda' Gemmill, of Salt Lake City, and his wife, Millicent, also of Salt Lake, and Instructor Dick L. Erickson, 23, of ML Pleasant, Utah, survived by his wife, Melba, of Taft, CaL Won in "4th Front" Allied Commands May Be Merged In Drive to Paris WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 CJ! Military observers said today the European and Mediterranean war theaters may be combined, at least in part, to solve command problems that will arise when Allied armies in northern and southern France merge for the drive on Berlin. The overall job, it was said, may well go to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, now supreme Allied commander in the European theater the-ater and former chief of the Mediterranean Medi-terranean area during the earlier phase of operations there. Supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater now is British Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson who directed forces that landed along the southern coast of France yesterday to begin a northward drive toward a junction junc-tion with Eisenhower's forces in Normandy and Brittany. The meeting of the two groups of armies, it was said, will, create problems that make it logical for major command changes to be made. Some preparation for this streamlining was indicated in the creation by Eisenhower of the 12th American army group under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. Bradley Brad-ley was succeeded by Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hedges as commander comman-der of the 1st army while the command of the newly-formed 3rd went to Lt. Gen. George S. at-ton at-ton Jr. Germans Order Hasty Evacuation of Paris; Collaborationists Fleeing LONDON, Aug. 16 (CE) Madrid dispatches said today that the Germans have ordered all their command posts except those directing di-recting rear guard resistance and destruction squads to evacuate Paris immediately. Other frontier reports reaching Madrid asserted occupation authorities au-thorities had ordered administrative administra-tive departments of the French puppet government at both Paris . a ri i a , m . ana vicay io leave zor uic cuv as soon as possible. The reports followed by only a few hours the Allied invasion of southern France and coincided with the growing threat from the Allied armies advancing on the French capital from the west. Madrid also heard that key Invasion Japanese Inner Defenses Raided By Yank Airmen American airmen were revealed today to have aimed new blows at Japanese inner defenses from the Kuriles in the northern em pire to bases in the south Pacific. A communique from southwest Pacific headquarters disclosed that the steady air assault on Halmahera, 250 miles from Cie hilippines, entered its second week Monday as Liberator and Mitchell bombers battered two sections of the virtually neutral-zied neutral-zied enemy base. The Mitchells, flying at low level, bombed and strafed installations instal-lations on the west coast, setting fires, while the heavy Liberators concentrated on the Wasile bay area. A Japanese Domel dispatch re corded by FCC said today that a fleet of about 40 Allied planes raided Halmahera last night for the fourth successive day. A central Pacific communique disclosed that over the week end navy search planes made the first attack of the war on Araito, northernmost of the Kuriles, and sank an enemy patrol vessel, while a single Vencuta attacked Shumushu and Liberators raided Paramushiro. Five of 15 to 20 enemy fighters which attempted to intercept the raiders on Paramushiro were shot down. Five others probably were destroyed and two were damaged. Two Liberators were damanged but returned safely. Army Liberators of the seventh air force raided Iwo Jima in the Volcanos again. One bomber was lost. Mitchell medium bombers attacked at-tacked Pagan and Rota in the Marianas and navy Venturas raided Nauru east of the Gilberts. Gil-berts. SHERIFF EXONERATED LOS ANGELES. Aug. 16 UP Deputy Sheriff Symour H. Lund today was exonerated by a coroner's coro-ner's jury of blame for the death of 13-year-old John Gerald Bernard Ber-nard ing, whom he accidentally shot. French collaborationists in Paris either had gone into hiding or had fled the capital. Sporadic clashes between collaborationists and French patriots have broken out, it was said. Parisian women were represent-as represent-as particularly aggressive in demonstrations dem-onstrations against the Germans, shouting insults at soldiers, singing sing-ing the Marsaillaise and cheering Gen. Jacques Le Oerc, command er of the French 2nd armored division di-vision fighting with the American 3rd army in Normandy and Brittany. Brit-tany. Disruption of public services in Paris has become so acute that one French family had to pay $1600 for a simple funeral after three days of negotiations, Madrid Ma-drid dispatches said. Troops Seize Objectives On 40-Mile Front Algiers Reports Cap ture by the Allies of Cannes, Resort Town ROME, Aug. 16 CPow erfully-reinforced American and French invasion forces stormed eight miles into southern France on a 40-mile front between Cannes and Toulon against weak German opposition today, while thousv ands of sky-borne troops struol far inland to throw a stolid block across the path of enemy reservel moving down on the beaches. German accounts said port irn stallations at Nice, Cannes, $mi St. Tropez had been blown up bj Nazi demolition squads, and front dispatches broadcast by radio Al giers said the Allies had capture Cannes and the village of Crois Des Gardes, just inland from th famous resort. All Objectives Reached Barely 24 hours after the lnUe air and sea invasion that breach ed the Germans' Mediterraneaa wall. Allied headquarters announced announc-ed that every initial objective had been taken and that the combined American and French army wai firmly established on the coast be tween Cannes and the great Totf Ion naval base. Casualties in the first day and! night of the assault have been "ex ceptionally light," a communique said. The fast-rolling assault forces ran into some opposition from German beach troops and coastal batteries last night, but it was announced officially that these de fenses had been overrun. Simultaneously, a great force ol paratroops and altrborne infantry men were revealed to have bees landed far ahead of the main striking force last evening to sup port the original sky troops wha spearheaded the invasion befor dawn yesterday. No Luftwaffe Seen Unopposed by the strangely dormant luftwaffe, hundreds oi gliders and transports streamed boldly across the French coast be fore nightfall yesterday and sen! thousands of fighting men out on to the network of highways ovei which the Germans must mov their armor and infantry if they are to mount an important coun terattack. The glider fleet was described officially as fully 50-miles long. It was announced omcialiy tnat the air-borne units had established themselves ."successfully" across the highways funnelling into th Toulon-Cannes beachhead fronl and had blocked off the flow of enemy reinforcements. At least five unnamed towns were known to be in Allied hands this evenine and there was no sign that the Germans had yet been able to offer more than isolated iso-lated resistance. Giant naval rifles of the Allied fleet, firing over the heads of the. advancing Americans and French, devastated tne Nazis- uuana ae-fenses. ae-fenses. (Ralio London said one correspondent corres-pondent had been 20 miles inland (jjontinueu on rage jugmj War In Brief southern FRANCE Tens of thousands of American and French troops sweep inland from French Riviera on 40-mue rronc rainst snoradic resistance threat- ninc in outflank and perhaps envelope large French naval base at Toulon. NORTHERN FRANCE Allied tanks and infantry crush in west wall of pocket enclosing German seventh army in Normady while Canadians storm Into outskirts of Falaise squeezing enemy escape es-cape gap to six miles or less. RUSIA Germans hurl largest forces of summer campaign atrninat RmI armies before War saw and East Prussia in desperate desper-ate effort to stabilize eastern front. AIR WAR German radio re- norta AllitM homhen mtrikins? into Germany from south and west shortly after hundreds ol war-planes war-planes cross channel. ITALY British eighth army rluii out last enemv resistance in Empoli, 15 miles south of Flor ence while Polish troops expand holdings in Adriatic sector. The shortest distances to Ber lin from advanced Allied lines today: RUSSIA S28 miles (unchanged for week.) ITALY 602 miles (gain of two miles la week.) NORTHERN FRANCE 593 miles (unconfirmed, gain of 23 miles In week.) SOUTHERN FRANCE 665 miles (measured from point near Cannes.) |