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Show .;' . " 1 So They Say f I i-B-!eP?eilce Proved 5 tht instead of one blood trans-:J trans-:J fasten for crenr fire wounded. V one to required for every two wonnded. -MaJ.-Gen. Paul R. Ilswley European theater of operations surgeon. THE WEATHER UTAH Partly, cloudy this afternoon, after-noon, tonight and Tuesday, except ex-cept becoming cloudy north portion por-tion Tuesday ; continued warm. Temperatures: High S Low 29 FIFTY-NNTH YEAR, NO. State Senate Demands Maw Oust Three State ' Liquor Commissioners Governor Reported Averse to Asking: Any H 0 he Commissioners to Resign; Senate Rejects Nomination of Sheldon Brewster SALT LAKE CITY, March 12 a Gov. Herbert B. Maw declined to comment today on the demands of the Utah senate that he oust the Utah liquor control com-J. com-J. missioners. - In a stormy executive session last night, which de-' Jayed formal adjournment of the 26th legislature, the senate sen-ate rejected the renomination of liquor commissioner James C. Allen, a republican, and asked the governor for Iclces Launches Attcclt Against , State Ownership WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 CU.R) Bep. Carl Hinshaw. R., Calif., said today he understood Secetary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has "launched a long threatened attack at-tack on state ownership of tide . and submerged lands of coastal f United States." He said Ickes had done so by virtually inviting applications from private companies for drilling drill-ing permits on valuable tide-lands. tide-lands. More than 200 applications $ "Those lands, many of which j j i . i . rc rica in ou ana outers wmcn Include metropolitan harbor developments, de-velopments, belong to the states nd congress certainly should as-aert as-aert that principal," Hinshaw aid. If Ickes beats congress to the draw on asserting rights to the coastal lands, his action in granting grant-ing permits probably would be contested in court by the state affected. Hinshaw said be believed be-lieved the first target would be the Long Beach-Seal Beach area C-f Southern California. Whichever agency holds title to the lands will reap the royalties royal-ties accruing from their use. Many tidelands, along both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico, are believed to be rich in oU. Others are used as harbors, such as the ports of New York and San Francisco. Court Refuses To Make Review In Ward Seizure WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 (U.R The supreme court today refused to make an immediate review of a lower court decision holding ft that President Roosevelt was without authority to order army seizure of Montgomery Ward it Co.'s plants and facilities. The action meant that the case!th stat. will have to be heard in regular procedure by the circuit court of; I appeals, before being taken to the supreme court. The justice department asked for immediate review by the supreme court, stressing the case's interest to the war effort. Montgomery Mont-gomery Ward joined in the request re-quest for a quick review over the legality of the seizure. The government argued that the lower court's ruling threatened threaten-ed to impair its ability to handle "future emergencies" growing out of work stoppages. Utah Population Estimated 606,994 SALT LAKE CITY, March 10 (U.R) Full development of Utah's industries to provide postwar jobs for the state's increasing population popula-tion was urged today by Gus P. Backman, executive secretary of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. com-merce. He pointed out that according to the latest census, the state's population had increased 60,000 persons since 1940 despite the absence ab-sence of a like number in the armed services. The state's 'total population as of July 1, 1844, the census report showedwwas 606,994. Hirohito May Be Named An Axis War Criminal . LONDON, March 12 (U.R) Well-informed sources said today that Emperor Hirohito was expected ex-pected to be named an Axis war criminal because of Japanese atrocities, including the execution of American fliers after Lt. Gen. James H- Doolittle's 1942 raid on Tokyo. , These informants predicted that vwar criminal charge against the .Japanese emperor would be formally approvea Dy xne unuea Jiations war crimes commission 1 -ta-the near future. 199 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE , the resignation of chairman Jus- tin Hurst and Lawrence Johnson Both Hurst and Johnson also refused re-fused to comment. Allen's rejection reportedly came at the request of the republican repub-lican state committee. The senate also refused to conr firm Sheldon R. Brewster of Salt Lake City, secretary of the state fair board and a Maw stalwart as a member of the publicity and industrial in-dustrial development commission. However, it did confirm Ray Leavitt, former miner and CIO official, as road commissioner. The governor told United Press he would not ask any of the commissioners com-missioners to resign. The statement state-ment was to deny printed rumors that he had offered the resignation resigna-tion of the liquor commissioners in exchange for "killing" the Hol-brook Hol-brook bill to revamp the state liquor setup. The bill would have set up a non-partisan board of directors who in turn would have selected a business manager. The appointments question was the only important unsolved issue standing in the way of adjournment adjourn-ment last week-end. It could not have been solved then because the house did not act until Saturday Sat-urday night on the Holbrook bill nor the Hopkin bill to eliminate the department of publicity and industrial development. Thus, the governor had to make his nominations to the latter department de-partment Sunday, and he named Joseph J. Cannon, R., Salt Lake, and Brewster. Should Maw refuse to make any further moves until the legislature legis-lature adjourns, he will have vacancies va-cancies on the welfare commission, commis-sion, the liquor commission and the department of publicity and industrial development all by way of senatorial rejections. However, the governor has ten days in which to prepare new appointments ap-pointments in the case of rejections. re-jections. SALT LAKE CITY. Marrh 12 (U.R) Two special Utah senate committees named by Senate President Dexter Farr of Ogden today prepared to begin their in terim studies One committee will study the - j i . . pending Colorado river treaty with Mexico, the other will studv racial discrimination throughout Mountbatten Trip Stirs Speculation CHUNGKING. March 12 (U.R) Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat- ten's four-day visit to Chungking increased speculation today that the Allies may be planning a landing in French Indo-China. The Chinese government announced an-nounced yesterday that Mount-batten, Mount-batten, supreme Allied commander comman-der for southeast Asia, had conferred con-ferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, supreme commander in China on military matters last Thursdays through Saturday. Their decisions were not disclosed dis-closed for obvious reasons, but they almost certainly foreshadowed foreshadow-ed new. coordinated blows against the Japanese on the Asiatic continent con-tinent by Chinese, British and American forces. Perhaps coincidentally, the Chinese ministry of information said in a release Saturday as Mountbatten and Chiang were concluding their conversations that both Frenchmen and natives in Indo-China were expecting Allied Al-lied landings there. "Once the Allies are ready to land on Indo-China, Chinese forces for-ces in southern Yunnan will move southward to effect a juncture junc-ture with the Allies," the statement state-ment said. Supreme Court Agrees To Review Appeal In Utah Polygamy Cases WASHINGTON, March 12 (U.F) The supreme court today agreed to review the "celestial" marriage case of nine Utah residents convicted con-victed under federal laws for the practice of polygamy. They appealed from a Tenth circuit court of appeals decision affirming convictions against them under the Mann act and the Lindbergh kidnaping law. The eight men and one woman are members of a Fundamentalist cult which sanctions plural marriage. mar-riage. They contended they were Stri fie Ties Up Hollywood Film Industry Picket Lines Thrown Around Film Studios In Hollywood Strike HOLLYWOOp, March 12 u.E-One of the worst strikes to hit movieland today kept many cameras from turning as picket lines were thrown around picture studios in an AFL jurisdictional dispute. Spokesmen for the Motion Picture Producers association estimated 5,000 craftsmen declined de-clined to go through the picket lines. Herbert Sorrell, president of the conference of studio workers work-ers which called its nine unions and 8,000 members out on strike, estimated 15,000. or about half the employes failed to report for work. As early as 6 a. m., picket lines were set by the AFL Set Designers Design-ers local 141, whose claim to represent rep-resent the 78 set decorators in the industry is being challenged by the AFL International Alliance of Theatrical stage employes, local lo-cal 44. Local 1421 is seeking to force the employers to obey a war labor la-bor board arbitrator's decision that it b ree cognized pending NLRB action to allow the set decorators to choose between it and IATSE. Local 141 claims most of the decorators as members. mem-bers. Warnef Brothers, reported that its sole picture in production is not being shot today as generator men walked out Universal's cameras are not turning as only a third of its 2,000 employes reported. re-ported. At R-K-O. too, electricians electric-ians had virtually shut down everything. A fourth producer, California Studios, signed up this morning with local 1421, agreeing to abide by the WLB arbitrator's decision Disney, PRC and Monogram stu dios also were unaffected by the strike as they had agreed Saturday Sat-urday to the directive. Technicolor, Techni-color, where no set decorators are employed, also escaped strike action. ac-tion. Sorrell saiJ that any work be ing done by the army would not be affected. Provoan Succumbs To Battle Younds In South Pacific KILLED Pvt. Kelch B. Anderson, 21, of Provo. MISSING Lt. Edward J. Kapaloski, 25. of 1 yson. v WOUNDED Pvt. Afton Haskell, of Parson. Corp. Keith L. Manninr, UMC, of American Fork. PRISONER OF WAR Pvt. Lloyd Keith Daybell, of Provo. Pvt. Kelch B. Anderson, 21, of the infantry, died Feb. 4, in the southwest Pacific area from wounds received in battle Jan. 24, according to word by his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kodel of 442 East Second South street, Provo. Pvt. Anderson made his home with the Kodels from the time he was 10 years of age, when his parents, Locklin J. and Helen Brown Anderson died within a few months time of each other. He entered the service July 24, 1943, and trained at Camp Roberts. Rob-erts. Calif. He went overseas 14 months ago. Born in Salirfe. April 1. 1923, he attended the Maeser, Franklin and Farrer high schools after coming to Provo. His grandmother grand-mother is Mrs. J. M. Brown, of Provo. PAYSON Lieut. Edward J. Kapaloski, 25, husband of Mr. La Verl Hansen Papaloski of Pay-son Pay-son is missing in action in the Mediterranean area since January Janu-ary 20. The confirmation was received re-ceived from the war department this week by his wife. Lieut. Kapaloski was a pilot pn a B-24 and had been overseas since July, 1944. He was a na-(Continued na-(Continued on page two) being prosecuted for their religious religi-ous beliefs and that the two laws could not be applied because the "federal government is without power to regulate marriage." Those appealing were Heber Kimball Cleveland, David Brig-ham Brig-ham Darger, Vergel Y. Jessop, Theral R. Dockstader, L. R. Stubbs, Follis Gardner Petty. William Wil-liam Chatwin, Charles F. Zitting and Edna Christensen. The last three named were convicted con-victed under the Lindbergh law; the others for Mann act violations. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, j? n U. S. Bombers Swarm Info Oder Battle Red Army Drives with in Sight of Stettin After Break-Through BULLETIN LONDON. March 12 (U.R) Marshal Mar-shal Stalin tonight announced the capture of Kuestrin, fortress city 38 miles east of Berlin. LONDON, March 12 American bombers were reported re-ported swarming into the battle bat-tle of the Oder today, and a Moscow dispatch said a decisive de-cisive Russian break-through on a 100-mile front before Berlin was expected soon. Powerful U. S. air forces attacked at-tacked Germany by daylight. Berlin Ber-lin said raiders were over Stettin, Stet-tin, apparently to strike a crushing crush-ing blow in the closest support yet given the red army by Allied bombers from the west. Soviet dispatches said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's army was storming the Oder estuary north and south of Stettin, and a great battle for river crossings was in full swing. The German high command said three Russian armies were hammering the Nazi bridgehead across the Oder from Stettin. Counterblows knocked out 28 Soviet tanks, it added. A Nazi communique said Zhukov's Zhu-kov's first white Russian army continued relentless attacks in the Oder valley before Berlin, where a Soviet bridgehead earlier reached reach-ed within 26 miles of the capital. United Press correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that the Soviet news blackout on the Berlin front continued, con-tinued, "pending a decisive breakthrough break-through which is expected in the near future." He defined the blacked-out front as extending from the area of Kuestrin, 38 miles east of Berlin, Ber-lin, to Goerlitz, on the Neisse river 100 miles south of Keustrin. 105 miles southeast of Berlin, and 54 east of Dresden. This suggested sug-gested that the whole defense system east and southeast of Berlin Ber-lin was about to fall apart. crested that the American nlanes were attacking Stettin and Swi- nemuende. 35 miles to the north at the Baltic entrance to Stettin dispatches were reporting that the red army had driven within sight of Stettin after breaking through the city's last belt of outer fortifications forti-fications on the east. "Stettin's position appeared hopeless," a front dispatch published pub-lished in the Moscow newspaper Pravda said. Soviet forces holding bridge heads across the Oder 30-odd miles due cast of Berlin attacked with four infantrv divisions 60,000 men in an attempt to'neav-v artillery, and the big guns shake loose the German hold 6n the anchor city of Keustrin, Ernst von Hammer, German DNB agency commentator, said. Despite the weight of the at tacks and its tank and aerial sup port, the Russians were diven back into their "small bridgeheads" bridge-heads" on all sectors between rranKiurt and Kuestrin, von Hammer said. In Kuestrin itself, astride the Oder 38 miles east of Berlin, Ger man troops were said to have im proved their positions. Flood Waters Recede Rapidly By UNITED PRESS Flood waters of the Ohio river receded rapidly today and the river was expected to return to its banks within the next four days, ending its worst rampage in eight years. Showers fell throughout some sections of the Ohio valley during last night, but flood officials said the rain was not sufficient to halt the recession of the waters which impeded war production during the past week and caused and estimated $4,750,000 damage. Damaee amounting to $2,000.- fOOO was reported at Louisville, New Albany and JeffersonviUe, Ind., and $1,000,000 at Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Covington, Ky., across the river from Cincinnati, suffered damage estimated at $1,750,000, but downstream down-stream damage was comparatively compara-tively light. F ree -Two New Crossings She ithome Near -IRemagen American Troops American troops and vehicles of bridge (in background) to cross and equipment crossed the river heartland. U. S. Signal Corps Nagoya, Jap Aircraft Center, Ablaze After Superforf Raid BY E. G. VALENS United Press War Correspondent GUAM, March 12 (U.R) Fires visible nearly 100 miles at sea raced uncontrolled today through Nagoya, Japan's greatest aircraft manufacturing center, after 300 Superfortresses sowed 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs through the center of too city. Swinging 165- miles from stiU-burnlng stiU-burnlng Tokyo, the giant armada unloaded death and destruction on five square miles of war plants, business blocks, govern' Complete Conquest Of Ivo Hear; Last laps Are Cornered By FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent GUAM. March 12 (U.R) Complete Com-plete conquest of Iwo appeared at hand today. Weary marines were driving the last Japanese defend ers into the sea in a final battle along the north coast. (A Japanese broadcast reported by the FCC said Japanese troops on Iwo had lost most of their heavy arms and 'were fighting with small arms, hand grenades, swrd?-f"d ba7ef"j 5id ft i,l?.atiLei,..wf 8 rowln ln ICi UV.HV UCUljr. J Pacific fleet headquarters was avnntnr( fn annmin f rto Lapse of organized resistance mo- mcntarily as the bloodiest cam paign of the Pacific war entered its fourth week on Japan's front doorstep. A communique this morning said the Fifth division had whittled whit-tled down the enemy's last sizeable size-able pocket to half a square mile along the north coast by 6 p.m. yesterday in heavy fighting. The 1 marines were making slow but I steady progress with support of of warships offshore, The Third and Fourth divisions crashed through the last Japanese lines in eastern Iwo over the week-end and captured most of the rock-ledged east coast, the communique said. One small enemy pocket was by-passed for later annihilation. The advance along the north coast was a slow and tedious business. The last few thousand Japanese survivors of a garrison originally totalling 20,000 crack troops were fighting to the death from pillboxes, blockhouses and caves. Army fighters bombed Chichi airfield and harbor installations and strafed targets on Haha in the Bonin islands. Just north of Iwo. Army liberators also bombed Chichi airfield. Hitler Hints New By CHARLES ARNOTT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. March 12 (OR) Desperate new Nazi measures to avert Germany's defeat were ex pected today in the wake of fight talks by Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Propa-ganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. The speeches, broadcast by Berlin radio, pointed to a swift purge of German defeatists and the further scrapping of the rules of war at the front, possibly including in-cluding the use of poison gas. Hitler Himself hinted at tne new blood purge. In a proclamation proclama-tion to the German army commemorating the 10th anniversary anniver-sary of conscription in Germany. He called upon all Germans to MARCH 12, 1945 and Vehicles Cross the 9th Armored Division, First Army, advance toward the railroad the Rhine river at Remagen, Germany. A mighty stream of men to form a firm b ridgehead bulging several miles into the German photo by Radio- Telephoto. ment -buildings and flimsy dwellings dwell-ings in the tinder-box center of Nagoya for two hours under cover of darkness early today. Returning pilots said the rain of bombs, more concentrated even than the 2,300 tons which burned out 15 square miles of Tokyo Sat urday, kindled "hellish fires" that threatened to spread far beyond tno original target area A' "Japanese .uimiiniilu uo-lndl-f- cated that a number of fires still were out of control at 4:30 p. m (Tokyo time), more than 16 hours after the start of the raid. It said a fire had been started ln the "precincts" of the Atsuta shrine, one of 10 large shin to or religious shrines in Japan, but added that the "main and de tached shrines were safe." MaJ. Gen. Curtis Le May, com mander of the 21st bomber com mand in the Marianas, reserved judgment until all reports were in, but said "so far the attack ap pears very successful." From Washington came word that B-29s of the 20th bomber command in India also were in action today. A medium force probably 50 strong bombed in dustrial targets ln the Singapore area for the sixth time. The 20th command attacked Kuala Lum pur, 200 miles north of Singapore, Saturday. A Tokyo Dome! agency dts patch said 40 B-29s participated in the attack on Singapore ana caused only "extremely slight damage. Two Superfortresses were shot down and a intra aam a zed. Tokyo said. Suoerfortresses wnicn struck ai Nasova. Japan s third largest cny with 1.400.000 inhabitants, caught the defenders offguard by bomb- in from 5.000 instead of the cus tomary 20,000 feet. Le May said the Japanese lacked automatic weapons for use against low-altitude raiders. No fighters opposition was re ported. Anti-aircraft fire was weak at first, but increased as the raid wore on. Losses were not announced an-nounced immediately. Tokyo claimed that 22 of the big planes had been shot down and more than 60 damaged. Airmen over the triangular-shaped triangular-shaped target area adjoining Nagoya Na-goya palace midway in the attack estimated that 50 to 75 per cent of the area already was in flames. They said they could see the fires 95 miles at sea. How Far To Berlin? The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT 31 Miles (from Zaeckerneck). WESTERN FRONT 275 Miles (from Bruckhauser). ITALY 524 Miles (from Do Pi Primaro river). Blood Purge, Gas Warfare 'do with dogged determination t everything we can. ... to bring about the turn of the tide." "We must be no less fanatical in annihilating all those who are trying to oppose this command, he said. "We are already witnessing wit-nessing today in large areas of the east and ln many parts of the west what our whole people might have to go through. "It is quite clear to everybody what we have to do namely, to offer resistance and to hit our enemies until in the end they grow tired and break up. . . . There will be no repetition of 1918. "Even if fate seems now to conspire con-spire against us, there can be no doubt that our fanaticism, stead- COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Rhine Invasion Forces Reach Zamboanga In Mindanao Strike BY H. D. QUIGG United Press War Corerspondent MANILA, March 12 (U.R) In vasion forces neared the heart of Zamboanga on the southwestern tip of Mindanao today after quickly seizing four villages and two airfields on tho Island, second largest of tno Pnillpplnea Bittlm wnned-junli. of. Maj. Gen Jens A. Doe's 41st division of the Eighth army landed on Mindanao's Min-danao's coral-studded beaches Saturday morning against light opposition, A cluster of four villages and two airstrips, west of Zambo- anga's administrative center, were rapily overrun and Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that American Amer-ican reconnaissance planes already al-ready were operating from the island. (A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by FCC. said American forces also had landed Thursday on Basilian island, across the 1 0-mile Basilian strait from Zamboanga. Tokyo claimed that the troops which stormed Mindanao were accom panied by tanks.) The landing on Mindao, 21 si Philippines island invaded by American amphibious forces, seal ed the entire western side of the 800-mile long Philippines archi pelago. It also brought MacAr-thur's MacAr-thur's forces within 180 miles of oil-rich Borneo. A heavy air and naval bom bardment from heavy and light cruisers preceded the landing from Basilian strait, which had been swept for mines since Wednesday Wed-nesday Planes from both the Fifth and 13th airforces covered the landing so completely that no Japanese planes were sighted. The l3tn air force had softened up the invasion in-vasion points with more than 1.000 tons of bombs during the past weeks. Doe's forces went ashore in am' phibious vehicles at 9 a. m. Sat urday. hitting the beaches at San Mateo, three miles west of zam bo ansa's administrative center. The Japanese were caught on guard by the landing. While rear guards put some scattered machine-gun fire, the bulk of the enemy garrison fled across the two mile-wide plain into the hill region. The Americans quickly cap tured Wolfe airdrome, three quar ters of a mile inland, and fanned eastward along the coast, captur ing Clarian. San Roque and ban Jose, the latter only two miles from the heart of Zamboanga Reconnaissance planes began operating almso amietiemdt operating almost immediately from Wolfe's airstrips, whicn De- fore the war had been a U. S army airfield. fastness and determination will overcome all these setbacks as it has so often done in the past." The Stockholm newspaper Dag ens Nyheter reported that travelers travel-ers from Berlin said Hitler had set up headquarters near Berlin and was working with a big staff of engineers and industrial experts ex-perts on what were believed the final preparations for the battle of the capital. From Basel, Switzerland, came word of Insistent rumors ln German Ger-man border districts that Hitler had called a meeting of the Reichstag, possibly for some dramatic dra-matic announcement. Goebbels threat to scrap the rules of war came in a speech (Continued on Page Two) PRICE FIVE CENTS 50,000 Men Forced Into Bridgehead Full-Scale Drive Now Under Way Against Southern Ruhr Basin PARIS, March 12 The American First army launch ed its first concentrated at tack from the rsrnagen bridgehead today ant cored initial gains of more than a mile, boosting the number of captured German towns across the Rhine to 23. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' headquarters ajwounced tonight that powerful infantry units supported sup-ported by tanks struck eastward toward the superhighway paralleling paral-leling the Rhine east of Remagen. They advanced more than a mile, and now were more than half way to the highway. Late dispatches said after today's to-day's steady expansion of the bridgehead across the Rhine from Remagen, lt was four miles deep and 10 miles wide. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army to the south extended ex-tended its grip on the north bank of the Moselle between virtually' beleaguered Coblenz and Trier . to a 50-mile stretch. Patton's troops were drawing up in full force against the Rhine below the First army bridgehead. A Third army dispatch said that German casualties on the western front since mid-January were -believed- - to oxeeeoV . tho.. equivalent to more than 20 divisions. divis-ions. North of the Mosel, Patton's men were rapidly mopping up the remnants of an estimated 23,000 Germans pocketed in the Eifel mountains. Scattered German armored and infantry groups still were reported report-ed escaping through the 15-mile Mosel gap between Cochem, 22' miles southwest of Coblenz, and Erden, 23 miles northeast of Trier, but the bulk of the pocketed Nazi divisions faced almost certain death or capture. Bodges Shift Reported-Alarmed Reported-Alarmed German military spokesmen said Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges was shifting the bulk of his U. S. First army into the break-through area to exploit the unexpected capture of the Ludendorf bridge at Remagen last Wednesday. Censored dispatches from the partially-blacked out Rhine front reported only that the Americans were pushing out steadily all around the perimeter of a bridgehead bridge-head that yesterday extended at least three miles inland and nine miles along the river bank. Radio Berlin, however, said the Yanks already had pushed two armored and two infantry divisions divi-sions across the Rhine and held a salient more than 10 miles wide. American shock troops, Berlin said, crossed the Rhine in assault boats . this morning at two more points inside the northern flank of the bridgehead. They landed on either side of the captured river village of Rheinbreitbach, 3i miles north of the Ludendorf bridge, in a move apparently aimed at covering the construction construc-tion of pontoon bridges. Allied headquarters had no immediate im-mediate confirmation of the enemy reported and field dispatches dis-patches said only that the Yanks had pushed out their bridgehead perimeter another 400 yards eastward east-ward during the night against sporadic opposition. Delaying Action The Germans continued to trumpet reports that powerful Nazi armored and infantry reinforcements rein-forcements were ramming against the Americans, but latest official information indicated the enemy was still fighting only a limited delaying action and that his re- Continued on Page Two War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: American infantrymen battle up Rhine bluffs from bridgehead; Berlin reports re-ports two new crossings north of Remagen. EASTERN FRONT: Russian 5 forces drive within sight of Stet-' tin; Berlin reports powerful Al lied armada supporting assault on Baltic port. PACIFIC: Fires roar through. Nagoya, Japanese aircraft center, after B-Z9 raids; American in?.; sion forces near heart of Zam T-boanga T-boanga on Mindanao aftencaptur-: in four villages and two Miir strips; conquest of Iwa near com pletion. -. 4 NTTALY: Fifth and Eighth army; patrols clash with Germans. . ' t A 1-!. |