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Show 4 v c . - -; - i-I i-I - EALTlIOSCITV'.Teb.XSCWJ I F The 'Vanishing Lothtrlo," who , ; - for the past few weeks has been ( a. showering klssei upon fair las-Y las-Y sles waiting at bus and street-ijV street-ijV car stops, and then running off, V;7 was solved today by Salt Lake . f7 police. r'-'itj- . ft V "- Police - said the : culprit was. a f Ml-.v 13 rear old "Don Joan,' who was Aivd taken to the boy's some for b-fcervaUon b-fcervaUon ...fV.?'--; 5 fateratt tent rain , thir afternoon and. tonight north -portions. FarUy : cloudy CTednts- 7 cUycooler.4n.r nerfhwest-parttaa ,": r mis vttaommm ' : ............... ...T, - nFTT-NINTH YEAR, NO. 180 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKZ PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1945 COMFfJETE . UNITED - PKESS-TXUEGRAPH PKESS-TXUEGRAPH -KIWS SXRVICX t - PRICE'FIVE CENTS Slight Pause for Prisoner Identification st lralk T 'Industry Must Be OperatedIs Key To .Western -Economy JSj BXEL S. JZNMZNGS SALT XAKE CITY. Pen. IS CIO Western industrialists and financial interests will not participate par-ticipate in any intra-steel-lndus-try fight, "but wiU and are" mustering mus-tering influential public opinion . m support , oz maintaining the west's war-born steel industry as an Important key in western economy. Such was the consensus voiced today by speakers at the Western States Council meetine in Salt it Lake City. ' lif Fifty council delegates assem- r bled from tha 11 wMtrn ta j and joined by many Utahns inter- . M & . 1 i . . r mea xa ure oosiuon 01 ueneva li (Utah) Steel Co. in western I peacetime economy, heard the Pendleton, president of the Plomb Tool Co, Los Angeles, one of the wwn major users ox sieei. Western manufacturers, said Pendleton, "will not take part inj discussion oz ontana, ' ai'T Steel Co. vs. Geneva." Further, he said, these manu facturers have no concern as to . who may operate the established f-r steel plants, except that they be opersiea oy private interests. Geneva Steel now is being operated oper-ated for Defense Plant Corporation, Corpora-tion, the owner.' "Our "only objective is lower . delivered prices of steel with western steel plants operated on a sound, economic basis. "W insist that selling prices for steel that can be produced in B we wen snau be based on cost of f production at the mills, plus a fair profit, instead of on eastern basing, bas-ing, point- prices plus arbitrary and fictitious freight charges," Pendleton declared. , Be pointed out that the west f currently is consuming several umej ue fouu proaucuon of ail of the west's. steel mills put together. to-gether. Responsible estimates, he added, indicate that the postwar requirements will consume more than the steel making capacities of all present western nulls. iv nieru mamnacrartn uo not jk intend to embark upon a postwar economv and mean In nmmti. live business with a penalty in steel prices which is suffered by no other major industrial section of the country," Pendleton said, f "Every other mafor industrial section now buys Us steel competitively. com-petitively. "We ntend that the west shall, too." Since western steel plants and principally Geneva Utah's giant $200,000,000 "war-baby" "have proved production records," the major problem is that of equitable freight rates, in the opinion of Dr. J. R. Mahoney, director of the bureau of economics and business research at the University of Utah. Present rates are either "war rates established in the absence ab-sence of competition from water transportation, or pre-war class rates established without reference-to western production," he pointed, out Among the special needs for steel products in the west. Or. Mahoney listed the canning industry, in-dustry, petroleum and natural gas production, metal mining, lumbering, lum-bering, shipbuilding and the airplane air-plane industry. Terming the conference a factfinding fact-finding meeting. Leonard E. Read, general manager of the Los Angeles Ange-les chamber of commerce, and secretary of the conference, said the council soon woujd perfect an organization "that will assure a western unity with respect to our iron and steel objective." However, the group does not intend in-tend to serve any plant or any company. "Our objective," said Read, "is to develop as abundant a supply of -aow-cost iron and steel as Isvpoesible for us cco-nomicallyvlQ cco-nomicallyvlQ obtain." French Agree With Big t3 Declaration PARIS, Feb. 13 (UJ0 French quarters expressed full agreement with nearly all phases of the Big Three declaranon today and said France would accept invitations to participate in the occupation and control of post-war Germany. France also will send a rep resentative to the United Nations conference at -San Francisco in response to the Big Three's invitation, in-vitation, these sources said. Satisfaction over the Crimean declaration was tempered, how ever, by bitterness over France's exclusion from the conferesce though she isitSermanyis principal princi-pal neighbor in the west France was kept completely in! the dark as to wnen and where the confemce was being held and what was- being- discussed. . The decisions finally, were handed to French" Foreign 'Minister George BIdault by the American. British and Soviet ambassadors last night! Just' -es they -were being ziouaced to the world, an- 1 J - 'I f . vu mam .... . fJVEil Talaphota) German soldiers captured by Fourth Dtrlsion of General Patton's Third Army line up in snow-covered field for searching and identification before being sent back to prisoner of war camps. The Third Army has already al-ready breached the West Wall on an eight-mile front before Fruem and won 10 crossings of Sure and Our River Unes between Luxembourg and Germany. Photo by Charles Saacker, NEA-Acme photographer for tWar Picture Pool. Maw Prepares To Submit Budget As Solons Return BY JOHN HESS SALT LAKE CITY, Feb, 13 (U.R) Herbert B. Maw today prepared to submit his 1945 budeet bill based on his previous ly delivered message to the Utah legislature, as tne state's lawmakers law-makers returned to face the biggest big-gest problems of the session still unsolved. As the governor's appropriation measure left the printers, the joint appropriations committee for the first time began to con sider controversial "policy is sues. A three-members committee, consistuut . of . Sen. Ira HuKfins. D., Ogden, Rep. Sclvoy J. Bayer, D., Springville, and Rep. G. A. Staples. R -Monroe sras drafting counter-proposals covering the size ox tne governors contingency contin-gency fund and lump-sum versus line-type appropriations. Meanwhile, the senate prepared to resume debate on election law changes. Two bills up for final action would eliminate the runoff and restore the convention sys tem of choosing nomineer Still to be discussed are three measures relating to the non-partisan ju diciary. In an echo of Friday's sena torial blast against the activities of lobbyists on the floor of the legislature, the CIO today issued a statement in support of the bill by Sen. Val J. Cowles, D-, Price, to require lobbyists to register and show their expendi tures. The matter of trust law revision, re-vision, so complicated that banking bank-ing commissioners Saturday balk ed at trying to explain it to the senate, becomes a special order of business this afternoon. Prof. D wight A. Pomeroy of the University Uni-versity of Utah law school will make the effort In the house, the liquor situation situa-tion continued to occupy the attention at-tention of a highly secretive investigating in-vestigating committee headed by (Continued on Face Two) How Far Berlin? By United Press The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT 32 miles (from Kienltz.) WESTERN FRONT 295 miles (from Rhine north of Kleve.) ITALY 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna.) Perhaps Utah's Senator, Thomas Would Understand 'Naive' if Translated into Japanese 'Classic' Tongue By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UJO Stick close (you, too, Sen. Thorn as) and we'll have a discussion of Brigadier Generals, hound dawgs, and naivete. Particularly on naivete. Now there's a word for you. I mean you. Sen. Thomas. Here's where you're going to learn something: The boys in the senate had up the nomination of Elliott Roose velt to be a Brigadier General and pretty soon the argument got so hot it was hard deciding wnetner ciuott was being promoted, pro-moted, or his dog. Blaze. Sen. Harlan W. Bushfield of South Dakota said there were nearly 10,000 active colonels in the army, mostly sore about Elliott "But their lips are sealed,' be said. "Mine are not". They weren't either. He , said being a Brigadier General .'Was not like managing the 'hosiery counter in a department store; He said the 84-year-old son of the president had bad eyesight, that ne never naa acmeved a-poors 1 rating in the army air force,, ga4 v 4 - r k - v ; r f :: -'v.-: - .. . k. Three Divisions Blast Japs In Deadliest fight Of War . BY FRANCIS MCCARTHY United Press Car Correspondent MANILA, Feb. 15 Three American divisions linked link-ed up inside southern Manila today and blasted the Japan ese garrison back into the burning waterfront in the deadli est, close-in fighting of the entire Pacific war. The decisive juncture, sealing off the last avenue of escape for the trapped Japanese in Manila, came as Bataan and Corregidor across Manila bay were rocking under a tremendous bombardment by hundreds of American planes. It was the greatest aerial blow ever struck in the Pacific and apparently was in tended to clear the way for an amphibious assault on Carriga-dor. Carriga-dor. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique - reported that the slant suns on "The Rock" ap peared to have, been knocked out of action. At. the same time, a force of American Thunderbolt fighters caught 35 troop-laden Japanese barges off the east coast of Bataan Ba-taan "in daylight Saturday and blew them out of the water, killing kill-ing an estimated 2,500 enemy troops. - There was no Indication whet-er whet-er the ' barges were evacuating troops from Bataan, Corrigador or Manila. There was even a remote re-mote possibility they may have been trying to sneak reinforcements reinforce-ments into the capital to aid the Japanese garrison in its finish fight Inside Manila, meanwhile, the survivors of several thousand enemy en-emy troops compressed into a narrow pocket south of the Paslg river were fighting with redoubled redoubl-ed ferocity as the Americans herded her-ded them slowly back to the bay. MacArthur revealed that virtually vir-tually every street in the capital had been sown with mines and booby traps and that his troops were moving slowly to hold down casualties and spare the city from destruction insofar as possible. Three American divisions joining join-ing forces in southern Manila, herded the Japanese into a narrowing nar-rowing pocket south of the Pasig river today. U. S. bombers carried out widespread sweeps over the Pacific and ran the aerial offensive offens-ive against Iwo Jima 'into the 68th consecutive day. The battle against the Japanese garrison, backed into the burning waterfront at Manila, was the deadliest close-up fighting of the entire Pacific war. The enemy that - he'd brought dishonor upon himself in Le Affaire Blaze. "Giving this bull dog a priority to the Pacific Coast was - - -he began. , "It wasn i a -bulldog,' it was a mastiff," interrupted Sen. Charles W. Tobey of New nampsnire. "Well, it weighed 110 pounds," said Sen. Bushfield. "One hundred and thirty pounds, amended Sen. Tobey. "It was not zignt, ' conunuea Sen. Bushfield. "A Cot Ireland took the rap for giving this dog the priority. Now this Col. Ire land mysteriously left the country after this thing happened." Sen. Elbert D. Thomas oz Utan. chairman of the military affairs committee and the man who's going to learn about naivete in a minute, rose in defense of Elliott Does tne custinguisnea cnair- man imply that Elliott Is so brilliant bril-liant he .should be promoted above the 10,000 otner coioneis?" demanded Bushfield. "He is very, very wrrthy." said the egg-bald and dignified Thom as, m leading eaucator ana noioer of 'such degrees as AJ5., LLD and LrrT.D. He defended Elliott at length as a soldier and a fight-ins;- man. -He said the army had promoted ypung Roosevelt upon , , - i .. V - was fighting with renewed feY oclty and sowing virtually every street in the Philippines capital with mines and booby traps. The junction in southern Ma nna.,wsHiTtisrtft -ny units ..ol the first cavalry division, the 37th infantry division, and the 11th airborne division. Units of the sixth armored division at the same time raced to the island's east coast at Dingalen bay, cutt ing Luzon in two. American bombers rocked Ba taan and corrigidor across Ma nila bay with more than 700 tons of high explosives in an attempt to clear the wSy for an amphibious amphibi-ous assault on Corrigidor. Other U. S. bombers raided Iwo Jima, in the volcanos 750 miles south of Tokyo, for the 68th consecutive con-secutive day. Five Japanese planes were sighted over the tar get but there was no report of interception. The 21st bomber command announced an-nounced that B-29 Superfortresses Superfortress-es achieved "good results" in their daylight attack on .Iwo yesterday yes-terday and that all returned safely safe-ly to their bases in the Marianas. American warplanes from elsewhere else-where in the Pacific also were active, hitting Truk and Yap in the Carolines; Babelthuap and Arakbesan in the Palaus; Rota in the Marianas, and outlying Marcus island, southeast of To-iyo. To-iyo. INDIAN AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER RESIGNS WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (U.R) The White House today announced an-nounced the resignation of John Collier as commissioner of the interior department's office of In dian affairs. Collier has held the post since soon after President Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933.- He has ef fected many reforms in the fed eral handling of Indian problems, his merits. He read the citations to prove it. Sen. Clyde M. Reed of Kansas jumped up then to ask: "Is the senator from Utah naive enough to believe that anybody in the army, all the way up to the chief of staff, would even think of re moving from the list the name of the president's son?" "That word, naive," replied Sen. Thomas, long-time professor of political science at Utah uni versity. "I don t know what it means." Sen. Reed bowed elaborately and said that the senator from Utah certainly should be able to recognize a little word like that Sen. Thomas said he was sorry, but he didn't understand it Elliott's nomination was con- firmed,-with only 11 senators vot ing no. All 11 were Republicans. That's that and I don't think well be hearing much more about Blaze, unless he takes a bite of Faye Emerson. The only thing left is that word, naive. - Webster says, Sen. Thomas, that it means artless, or unsophisti cated. Kind of a polite way of accusing somebody of being . a little' dumb, or maybe slightly dopey. All right - professor? -J After Congress Gives Big 3 Cheer On xSacred Obligation' to World Goebbels Screams As Big 3 Catches Him Off Guard Bt ROBERT DOWSOH United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 13 0JJ!)--The German radio screamed to the world today that the Big Three had committed the "greatest political crime of all times," but made no broadcasts for home consumption apparently because Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels had been caught off base again. Ever since the Big Three con ference had been rumored, Goebbels Goeb-bels had turned loose the full propaganda facilities inside Ger many to warn the Reich against a Big Three appeal to the Ger man people. He assured them that the Big Three would issue a 1 moneyed plea to Germany which would make "unconditional sur render" sound appealing. He warned the Nazis to beware of any such new "Wilsonian" tactics. But when the Big Three com m unique failed to bear out this build-up, the Nazi propagandists apparently did not know how to break the grim news to the Nazi public. For hours after the news had been announced and Allied radios were blaring it into Germany Ger-many on all available wave lengths the domestic Nazi radio made no mention of the Crimea conference. 'For foreign' cunsuiuptluu - the Nazi propaganda displayed equal uncertainty. Initial broadcasts merely gave the gist of the Crimea Cri-mea communique. Later, Nazi commentators said the Big Three had confirmed their policy of "hate and destruc tion," toward Germany. Broadcasts Broad-casts beamed to the United States said that the Big Three had adopted the "Morgenthau plan of enslavement and destruction" of the Reich, and had committed "the greatest political crime of all times. Broadcasts to Europe attacked the Polish solution and made sar castic references to Allied plans for relief of liberated countries. The official Berlin propaganda line broadcast for foreign con sumption was one of surprise that the AUied leaders bad decided against the "Wilsonian siren songs of 1918" and were in "complete agreement concerning their plans of hate and destruction towards Germany. Berlin spokesmen railed at the Big Three plan to transfer German Ger-man territory to Poland and de clared jeerlngly that "the bear's skin is being divided before the bear is caught" "The arrogant authors of the communique must have realized themselves that the German answer ans-wer to these songs of hate cannot be anything but fight" one broad caster said. 24 Killed Vhen Naval Transport Crashes in Bay ALAMEDA, CaL, Feb. 13 (U.R) Twenty-four persons were killed today when a New York-bound Navy C-47 transport plane crash ed into San Francisco bay a few minutes after taking off from Oakland airport. Only four bodies had been re covered almost five hours after the crash, 'which occurred at 7:10 a. m. The plane apparently developed mechanical trouble after leaving Oakland at 6:52 a. m. and dived into the water about three-quar ters of a mile off Chestnut street In Alameda. Eyewitnesses said there was no mid-air explosion. The plane broke up when it hit the water and crash boats were able to find only the tail and part of one wing. The first body found was that of a sailor who had 40-day leave papers in. his pocket The navy said a Isit of the plane's passengers passen-gers and crew members had been forwarded to Washington and that tne aead would not be identiiieat until next of kin are notified. It was believed, to -be the first naval air transport service plane to crash in thev San Francisco bay area since "operations began at Oakland airport early in 1942. Numerous Alameda residents heard the crash. United Nations Called to Meet In San Francisco By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UJD The Roosevelt - Stalin - Churchill conference report got an enthusiastic enthus-iastic cheer from congress today on its proposal that the United States, Russia and Great Britain be bound in post-war unity as a "sacred obligation" to the peoples of the world. President Roosevelt, Marshal Josef V. Stalin and Prime Minister Minis-ter Winston Churchill made that postwar compact the foundation of their "report and statement" on the Crimean conversations. To achieve it they announced they had summoned the United Nations to conference, In San Francisco on April 23 to draft a world security treaty. It will be in the Dumbarton Oaks pattern. The Black Sea conferees announced an-nounced they had reached final agreement on treaty frame-work, Including voting methods. Announcement yesterday of completion of the Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill conversations and of the April conference call opens the administration campaign to present the security treaty to the senate before hot weather begins to swelter this capital. Final senate 'action is sought by midsummer. mid-summer. . The conferees held their eight-day, eight-day, meeting at Yalta, a Crimean resort They said they bad agreed on war and pogtwar flans for Germany. Ger-many. They passed on her a grim cleansing, sentence, but assured the German people that they would survive and be fit to live within the "comity of nations." They announced agreement on objectives and methods of dealing with most of Europe's political and economic problems boundaries, boun-daries, forms of government and such. They promised aid to distressed dis-tressed populations and revealed they would intervene jointly almost al-most anywhere to aid or prod liberated lib-erated peoples toward desired objectives. ob-jectives. The report revealed a specific settlement based' on compromise but In very substantial measuring granting all basic Russian demands, de-mands, including territory. There was Instant rumblings of objections objec-tions to that But over-all political and economic eco-nomic plans for Europe were tied firmly to the Ideal of free elections elec-tions and universal suffrage. This latter was regarded as a reassurance reassur-ance to Americans, and especially to the senate, where Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt must soon stand sponsor of a security- treaty guaranteeing world pace backed In part by our armed forces. Some saw an inference in the statement that the Soviet union is maneuvering to swing at least its moral strength into the Pacific war against Japan. It was no more than an inference. But it was observed that April 25, when the United Nations conference be gins at the Golden Gate, is the last date upon which Japan or Russia can denounce their mutual non-aggression pact Furthermore, unlimited Russian participation in a United Nations discussion will put them at .the same - table with the Chinese, whom Russians have avoided because be-cause their enemies have not been the same. China fights Japan. Russia fights Germany. The Crimean report ended on a note of unity for peace as for war. "Our meeting here in the Crimea," Cri-mea," stid the three most powerful power-ful men in the world, "has reaffirmed reaf-firmed our common determina-( determina-( Continued on Page Two) Geneva, Fontana Mills Yilt Effect Vest For Years, Engineer Predicts SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 13 0IJD Disposition of the war-devel ooed and government finance! financed Geneva, utan, ana r ontana, tai., steel mills will effect the course and character of western industry indus-try for many years to come, F. T. Letchfield, San Francisco em glneer and financier said here today. "That is why their ultimate disposition be on an economically economical-ly sound bass," Letchfield told delegates to the Salt Lake 'City meeting, of the western states council chamber of commerce commer-ce organization s they probed the peace-time potentialities of the Steel Industry in western economics. ec-onomics. "One of several -western ccono- Troops Punch New Holes In German Line Canadian First Army Beats Down Brisk Nazi Counterattacks LATE BULLETIN PARIS, Feb. 13 (U.R3 The Canadian First army completed com-pleted the conquest of the Reiehswald or Reich's forest . at the north end of the Siegfried Sieg-fried line today and pressed n into ' the Rhlneland through heavy German artillery ar-tillery fire. Front dispatches said the clearing of the forest relieved reliev-ed a. "lost battalion which had been encircled at the east edge of the Reiehswald without with-out food, ammunition or supplies sup-plies for 24 hours. Other elements of Gen. H. D. G. Crerars forces closed up to the Kleve-Goeh line, and threw a bridgehead across the Nlers river which winds through Goch. The battle for the Eels-wald Eels-wald definitely Is ever after five and a half days of bitter fighting.". United Presf Correspondent Cor-respondent Ronald Ctarsf reported re-ported from the front Te units which were lining i L .eastrn-edge.of tb&foresfes are beginning to areas; our to the east" J " By Jack Fleischer - ' PARIS, Feb. 13 c Lt. Gen. George . S. Patton's troops punched two new holes in the Siegfried pillbox belt north of Echternach today, giving them three possible gateways to the Rhineland. Canadian First army units beat down brisk German counterattacks counter-attacks and suddenly stiffened resistance re-sistance to score new gains in the offensive against the northern end of the westwalL Units of seven German divisions divis-ions had been counted -in the forces bracing against Gen. H. D. G. Crearars .push toward the Ruhr and Rhlneland. The Germans Ger-mans appeared to be throwing in reinforcements at the expense of other portions of the western front Heavy fighting now was going on along an arc of 12 to 15 miles southwestward from ' the Rhine above the village of Griethausen, three miles northeast of Kleve. The village fell to Canadian troops, who crossed"the railway northeastward from Kleve. The 80th and Fifth, divisions of Patton's U. S. Third army shouldered shoul-dered past the concrete forts of the Siegfried belt at points northwest north-west of Echternach. Farther to the north Patton had a breakthrough break-through the westwall in the Pru- em area. The Fourth division rooted, out the last sniper in Pruem and repulsed re-pulsed two severe counterattacks across the Pruem river northeast of the town. To the south other Third army troops erased one of the last fragments frag-ments of the Ardennes bulge when they captured Vianden, lower anchor of the old St Vith-Vianden Vith-Vianden line across the base of the salient Field dispatches said the Germans Ger-mans were throwing crack tank and Panzer grenadier divisions Into the threatened RhineUnd front to reinforce the second-rate (Continued on Page Two) i mists.' Industralists and financiers L participating in the - conference, (Letchfield delved thoroughly into the development of western industry in-dustry and declared that western industry should, without doubt have a market for all it can produce pro-duce He added that there need . to be no fears as to labor costs "and it is to be presumed that tran-portation tran-portation costs will be so -ordered as to permit western industry indus-try to meet competition." Voicing optimism as to the future, Letchfield consulting engineer and vice-president of the Wells Fargo bank and Union Trust Co. of San Francisco declared de-clared that the "ease and sure-ness sure-ness with which western bust- iCoatJnBeitamX" ssjstence mm': ; Other Soviet Forces March Toward Baltic Coast On Wide Front LONDON, Feb. 13cbl! The rains of Budapest, tapitat of Hungary and one-time city; of 1,600,000, fell todajltdt the.. Red Army after a siege of six weeks. Marshal S t a 1 i unan nounced in a special order of the day. , ? Last ditch resistance by "the doomed German and Hungarian garrison of Budapest encircled since Dec. 26, flickered out in the rubble of the ancient city astride the Danube river, -and the total of prisoners captured by the Russians in the siege mounted to 110,000. Budapest fell under the combined com-bined assault of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukraine ian army and Marshal Fedor L Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army, which bad clamped a noose of strangulation on the gateway city to Austria and southeastern Germany. North of Budapest 300 miles, other Russian forces were reported report-ed by the German high command to have fanned out through Silesia to the Quels river, seven to 10 miles beyond the broken border, line in Silesia. . Marshal Ivan S. Konevs First Ukrainian army was running roughshod over the cracking-defenses of Silesia in a two-way drive within some 70 miles of Dresden, capital of Saxony, and toward the southeastern flank of thrcetlinortlflca-tlopg. The fall of Budapest was foreshadowed fore-shadowed by the announcement last night that all organized resistances re-sistances in the city had been crushed. It became a certainty today - when the German high command for the first time in weeks ignored Budapest and other Nazi broadcasts admitted tacitly that the city had been written-off. Other Soviet forces to the north resumed their march toward the Baltic coast along a 200-mile front between the- Vistula and Oder rivers, advancing within 30 miles of Stettin and about 50 miles of Danzig. The drive was aimed at cutting off the Pomeranian bases between the two Baltic ports that might serve as springboards for a German Ger-man counter-offensive against the northern flank of the Russian army, massed along the Oder directly east of the Nazi capital. Unconfirmed reports proaacasi (Continued on Page Two) Exile Cabinet Expected to Defy Allied Invitation By PHXLAULT '- LONDON, Feb. 13 (OR) The Polish exile cabinet was expected to defy the Allied big three today to-day and reject their invitation to join- the provisional government in liberated Foiand. The exile cabinet probably will make known its stand In a formal statement following a special meeting today, but Its repeated anti-Russian declarations made rejection of the Crimean confer encei formula for solution of the Polish question a foregone con clusion. - " It was likely, however .that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who re signed as exile 'premier last November No-vember after failing' to bring about a ranoroachment with the Russians would hasten to Poland to a. Joint coalition government. President Kooseveu ana rame Mtpffftf Churchill doomed the exile government by promising at Yalta to recognize the Soviet- (Continued oa Page Two) War In Bri By UNITED PRESS ? CWs Riffle EASTERN FRONT Russians . drive -on borders of Sazony. 70 ' miles from Dresden in sweep - around southern flank of Berlin. - WESTERN FRONT British, and Canadians advance on 12-mil 12-mil fnmt. toward Goch. west - wall anchor town; Patton's army extends bridgeheads over Our and Sure rivers. . .. 3 wrmc Three American dim t visions -in South 1 Manila blast -- Japanese garrison - oacKi: towara water front. . v , ; -? AIR WAR RAF Mosiuitoes v bomb. Stuttgart-gud targets ia; western Germany. ITALY Fifth armyforces con-. Militate, nasition after withdraw al in west coastal sector 45 |