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Show --l?srs Wise Young Lady COLUMBUS, O QUO Mayer 4 Janes A. Rhodes was addressing 9 IHBf people's rrarp st local hareh. Suddenly s nun girl ru ts the stage sad tkratetf.That'i jeaMshr It wss his daughter, Sae. She wanted to 'ge home. THE WEATHER UTAH: Bain this afternoon, be-comlnz be-comlnz intermittent light rain tonight; to-night; Wednesday, mostly cloudy with scattered showers sooth portion; por-tion; cooler. Temperatures: Hih C8 Low .. 22 nmr-NiNTH year, no. 'Disposal Of Steel Mills .Under Study Commerce Deportment Engaged in Research pn Geneva and Fentana WASHINGTON, March 13 cjy Studies of steel, aluminum alumi-num and magnesium production produc-tion which may affect government gov-ernment policy in determining determin-ing the future of western war-born industries are being be-ing conducted by the industrial indus-trial economy division of the commerce department, it wss repealed re-pealed today. H. B. McCoy," chief of the division, di-vision, told the house appropriations appropria-tions committee in recent bears' bear-s' lngs that his staff was preparing studies which dealt with disposal problems relating to government-owned government-owned plants. Transcripts of the hearings were released only today. to-day. "Regarding' the two steel mills . in the west,' McCoy said, ."the question arises as to whether that steel capacity is necessary to supply sup-ply the needs of that area for steel products; and what advan-ages advan-ages if any, does the location of steel-producing capacity on the west coast and in Utah have over t Industry in the east." McCoy said the aluminum and magnesium studies were similar to the steel research. "It is believed these studies will be helpful to the government in connection with disposing of these plants," he said. 1 Producers Fail To Avert Mine .Strike Poll ' WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.R) A court ruling remained today the only hope of southern coal producers to block the $300,000 strike poll of the nation's soft coal miners. . " The producers' first effort ended end-ed in failure yesterday when three federal agencies rejected their request to cancel the scheduled sched-uled March 28 balloting. There was no immediate announcement of plans for sn sppesl to the courts, slthough it has been promised previously by Edward R. Burke, president of the southern south-ern producers. Mine operators were. scheduled to continue work on a reply to the wage demands of President John L. Lewis of the United Mine 1 Workers, and Burke may urge Other regional groups to join the southerners in any court action. - The National Labor Relations board. War Labor board, and labor la-bor department yesterday said the vote would have to be taken as scheduled. The NLRB has halted all other work to devote the next 15 days to preparing for the unprecedented un-precedented poll. The vote will be not only the largest, but it will be the most expensive ever taken under the Smith - Connally "anti-strike" law. The NLRB says it will cost the government "conservatively" , $300,000 to find out whether the nation's 400,000 soft coal miners "wish to permit an interruption Of war production in wartime as a result of this dispute." CIO Lends Support To Postwar Plans . NEW YORK, March 13 (U.R) All Congress of Industrial Organization Organ-ization unions were urged by the CIO executive board today to arrange ar-range meetings with local employers em-ployers and municipal officers to consider post-war employment problems. . Philip Murray, CIO president, ' said yesterday st the conclusion of a special executive board session, ses-sion, that the meetings should be held immediately after victory in Europe. "Toe purpose of these conferences." confer-ences." Murray said, "will be to , let the community know what volume of emniovment and pur chasing power there will be in each city and town. "If the replies do not add up to a sufficiently large number of tons and enough income, CIO members should pledge to give ' their time and energy to community com-munity activities that will make Work oportunities available when E (employment comes," Murray id. . Worker Killed In 76-Foot Fall BENP, Ore., March 13 (U.R) John Byrd, 40, ox oena, was aeaa today after plunging into the wwb"v mrM of Crooked river. east of Terrebone while working Monday on tne norm umi irrigation irriga-tion district siphon. ' w um removini loose rocks from an abutment at the edge of the gorge and evidently naq siip-mwui siip-mwui fatten over the brink. He dropped 76 feet to the rocks be- , JOW and cuea on a suxicner wuuc ' being brought out. 200 UTAH'S ONLY SOUTH Or SALT Legislature Adjourns After Confirmation Of Lunt, Tracy in Senate Adjournment Comes 4 Days After Clock Is Stopped; Rift Between Senate and Maw Only. Partially. Closed At Closing Time By JOHN BESS United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, March 13 unThe 26th Utah legislature adjourned sine die last night following an afternoon after-noon session devoted principally by the senate to gubernatorial guberna-torial appointments and by the house to routine signing of bills. Adjournment came four days after the regularly allotted allot-ted period. The rift between the senate and Gov. Herbert B. Maw over appointments wss only par tially closed by the time the law makers ended their business. Lunt Replaces Allen- George H. Lunt, R., Cedar! City, liquor commission attorney, was confirmed for a si:, year liquor commission post, but only after the senate earlier had rejected re-jected James C. Allen, R., Logan for reappointment. Aaron Tracy, D., Ogden, former Weber college president, was confirmed con-firmed as a two-year publicity and industrial development commissioner. com-missioner. This also came after the senate rejected a previous nomination that of Sheldon R. Brewster. The senate and the governor still were at odds over the remainder re-mainder of the liquor control commissioners. The senate requested re-quested that Maw oust Justin Hurst and Lawrence Johnson. But the governor said he did not intend doing so on the basis of rumors and allegations. He added, however, that if the commissioners were guilty of any corruption, he would remove them immediately. "I am interested in fair play for the commissioners," he ssid. "if they are innocent of any corruption, cor-ruption, and so fsr I haven't seen any evidence, they should be giv en a clean bill. Maw also asked for a transcript of testimony taken by the senate liquor investigating committee, adding that he would study it thoroughly. Only one commission post remained re-mained unfilled after the adjournment ad-journment That was on the public pub-lic welfare commission. Hurst earlier was rejected for this post because he had not resigned the liquor commission position before his name was submitted to the senate. Lunt's nomination was the only on-ly one to get whole hearted approval ap-proval of the senate, though Tracy's name also was approved without opposition. Both Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats praised the Lunt nomination. nomina-tion. Sen. Ward C. Holbrook, who. as chairman of the investigating committee, revealed practices that, he said, had the commission been an individual it would have been behind bars, was one of the biggest supporters of Lunt. "Had the commission followed the advice of its own counsel," he said in praising the new commissioner's commis-sioner's work, "it would not have gotten into such a mess." OPA to Put Stop To Overcharging WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.R) The office of price administra tion intends ot put a stop to overcharges over-charges for repairs on household appliances, cTitomoaUs, and farm; macmnery. Beginning March 19, regional OPA offices may require repair shops charging an hourly rate to do two things: (1) Give customers custom-ers detailed bills on the exact amount of time and materials used; and (2) Keep detailed time records themselves. Whenever an "unreasonable discrepancy" is found between the two, OPA said, appropriate enforcement en-forcement measures will be taken." Repair prices are frozen at the highest March. 1942. levels. Your Red Cross The dollars j'ou contribute in the Red Cross War Fund drive go around th eworld ! From the Philippines, Cpl. Leon Steadman of Provo, wrote to his wife on Christmas day when their own packages hadn't arrived saying, "The Red Cross gave each man a package that was pretty nice. It wasn't a great deal but coming at the time it did and knowing how hard it must have been to get them up to the front for every man. it makes a guy feel darn good and DAILY LAKE Jap Internees AtTule Lake Ran the Camp WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.R) Japanese internees at Tule Lake. Calif., segregation camp virtually controlled the center late last year and had created "quite a serious situation," according ac-cording to Attorney General Francis Biddle. ' RiHrllo HicrlnuxL th situation in recent testimony before a house appropriations s u b c o m m i ttee. Transcripts were released today. "The Japs were practically running run-ning the camp, from the point of view of expressing their loyalty; they were marching, they were bowing to the emperor, they had bugle calls, they had all of the performances," Biddle said. "It was just a little Japanese center." He said Jack Burling, department depart-ment of justice representative, discovered the situation when he was sent out to administer the law providing for expatriation ot Americans who specified their prime loyslties were to another land. "He found out who the leaders were snd he picked off the first 80 "expatriates and called them out and put them in some ox our internment in-ternment camps, which at once broke up that situation," Biddle I said. He told the committee the matter mat-ter had not been reported or made public. "We have not emphasized It," he said, "because we are trying to get it smoothly worked out." The attorney general said his office had received 5000 applications applica-tions from Japanese-Americans for expatriation. He predicted that in spite of a supreme court decision prohibiting prohibit-ing further exclusion of loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry from the west coast, many of the loyal internees will remain in relocation re-location camps. "They are afraid to go home," Biddle said. "There has not been a great deal of unfavorable reaction reac-tion on the west coast, but there has been a little. The whole program pro-gram is working out very satisfactorily." satis-factorily." Filmdom Strike Still Unsettled HOLLYWOOD, March 13 (U.R Stars, directors and writers got together today in hopes of settling a paralyzing two-day strike over 78 movie set designers. Nearly every major studio was shut down. Bored with twiddling their thumbs while the two AFL unions contesting jurisdiction battled it out with the producers and the war labor board, the three groups formed a committee to find some ground for settlement. Local 1421 of the painters union was disputing jurisdiction over the set designers with the International Inter-national Alliance of Theatrical Stage employes. An appeal from national War Labor uoara nair-man nair-man George W. Taylor was flatly rejected. The Screen Actors guild, the Directors guild, and the Writers guild ware to meet today to discuss dis-cuss the walkout, which has tied up the film industry and left 15,-000 15,-000 workers Jobless. Dollars Go Around the World! n LZ Zl u PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY. . MARCH 13, 1945 Mavy Budget Shows Cut Of Four Billion FDR Asks Congress For $23,719,153,050 For The 1946 Fiscal Budget WASHINGTON, March 13 URI President Roosevelt asked ask-ed congress today for a 1946 fiscal year budget of $23,719,-153,050 $23,719,-153,050 for the navy. This is a reduction of more than $4,- 000,000,000 from the figure for this year. The president also submitted submit-ted a request for additional contract con-tract authorizations of $3,088.-012,624 $3,088.-012,624 for the navy. About half of this, or $1,513,012,624, would be new authorizations. The balance would be continued from the current cur-rent fiscal year. The request envisioned a navy during fiscal 1946 composed of approximately 3,389,000 men. Marine corps strength was set at 478,000 and the coast guard strength st 173,165. The request indicated that the U. S. high command envisions fullscale naval operations in the war for at least another 16 months. The 1946 fiscal year ends on June 30, 1946. Total appropriations for the navy in 1945 fiscal year were about $28,500,000,000. In 1944 the total was about $23,000,000,000 The White House said the principal prin-cipal reductions were approximately approxi-mately $2,000,000,000 in previous previ-ous estimates of the cost of the navy airplane program and a drop of about $4,000,000,000 in cash required for the shipbuilding program. These reductions were partially partial-ly offset by "increased requirements require-ments for advanced bases" and by certain Increases in pay allowances, allow-ances, dependent allowances and higher ratings achieved as the war progresses, the White House said. The president's recommendations recommenda-tions Included $402,012,624 for use in this country for ship repair, re-pair, facilities and for some expansion ex-pansion in housing, welfare; recreation rec-reation and rehabilitation establishments. estab-lishments. These projects, the White House said, number about 800 and range from $20,000 in some areas to $43,000,000 at Hunters Point, Calif. Jap Bombproof On IwoJima Luxury Place By S-Sgt ALVIN M. JOSErH, Jr. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Distributed by United Press I WO JIMA (Delayed) Some of the most luxurious living of this war is going on. ironically enough, amid the horror and desolation of battle-torn Iwo. A few lucky members of the 21st marine regiment discovered intact a series of ornately-furnished bombproof shelters which had evidently' housed high-ranking officers of the Japanese garrison. garri-son. The bombproof into which the marines promptly moved were so well protected by concrete and rock casements that they had scarcely been scarred by naval and aerial bombardments preceding pre-ceding marine landings. The interiors in-teriors were undamaged. The occupants oc-cupants had left everything intact as if they had run away at the approach of the marine assault troops. The bombproofs were fitted out like Japanese apartments with panelled walls and sliding doors made of fine wood. Shelves and cupboards held food, magazines, a phonograph and records. Tableware, Table-ware, and clothing. There were soft cots, unholstered chairs, writing writ-ing tables and the usual furniture of a home. Running water and electric lights made it difficult to believe that just outside the bombproof was not civilization, but a sandy stretch of volcanic ashes, camouflaging camou-flaging pillboxes, bunkers, and a network of death-dealing weapons. also pretty cheap for not giving them more when he was in a position to give." he was in a position to give. From a German prison camp, 2nd Lt. C. 0. Stephens of Provo takes precious space in his letters let-ters home to say, "Mora, do all you can for the Red Cross. They help us." These are just two instances taken at random, in which Utah county boys on the World War battle fronts put in a good word for the Red Cross. Are you helping to keep the Red Cross at his side ? Give more ! Give Now ! Yanks Slug Alieadl a Mile In New RMnne Bridgehead! Kuestrin Fall To Speed Drive Against Berlin Red Army. Battling To Widen, Link Up Bridgeheads on Oder By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 13 0J.PJ Nazi reports said today that the Red army was battling to widen and link up bridgeheads across the Oder river for an impending all-out drive toward to-ward Berlin, 30-odd miles to the west. The fall of Kuestrin. 38 miles east of Berlin and anchor of the shattered Oder river line, was expected to speed the march on the German capital. The fortress city was captured yesterday after a 35-day battle. Berlin broadcasts said the Soviets So-viets had attacked with especially strong forces from bridgeheads on the west bank of the Oder near Lebus, 10 miles. south of Kuestrin, and Klessin, eight miles south. Lebus lies 33 'miles east of Berlin. Berlin has conceded that the Russians hold six small bridge heads across the Oder on both sides of Kuestrin east of Berlin. Moscow has not confirmed officially offic-ially that the Red army was across the river. However, part of newly-captured Kuestrin is on the west bank, and it is possible that the Soviets crossed the river at that point. Fsr to the northeast, Marshal Konstsntin K. Rokossovsky's second sec-ond White Russian army broke through to the Gulf of Danzig with the capture of Puck, 15 miles northwest of the Polish port of Gdynia, and Sellistraw, three miles south of Puck. More than 100 other towns and villages ''were captured and thous ands of enemy troops killed in the breakthrough. Another column seized Quas-chin, Quas-chin, seven miles southwest of Gdynia and eight miles northwest of Danzig, in an advance to with in six miles of Danzig Bay mid way between the two ports. Tczew, 13 miles south of Dan zig, also was captured. Both Danzig and Gdynia were in flames from repeated Soviet shelling and bombing, and both were expected to fall to the Soviets So-viets within a matter of days. Kuestrin, main stronghold guarding Berlin, was captured by Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army in fierce street fighting. The Germans Ger-mans resisted to the death from fortified stone houses, pillboxes, barricaded streets and other steel and concrete defenses. Static Blamed For Plant Blaze PHOENIX, Ariz., March 13 (U.R) Static electricity was blamed today for a fire that swept the Richfield Oil Corp. storage plant, destroying more than 450,000 gal lons of gasoline and fuel oil. The sparks apparently exploded one small storage tank, starting a blaze that spread until it wiped out 15 tanks, a two-story office and storage building and consid erable plant equipment. Most of the gasoline and oil was owned by the army. Value of the products and equipment could not be estimated by the' firemen, who lougnt tne blaze until last night before bringing it under control. Today In Germany Stunned residents of Dortmund. latest city marked for oblitera tion, counted their dead from 5,600 tons of bombs dropped in a 2,000 plane raid. Sleep-hungry Berlin had its 21st consecutive night air attack. A prisoner said a German sol dier, "tired of fighting,' cut the demolition wires on tne Remsgen bridge. German front dispatches re ported hundreds of Russian army trucks were rushing supplies to tne Oder for a direct drive on Berlin. Captured German regulars said SS officers blew up a bridge with them on it because they disobeyed dis-obeyed orders to fight to death west of the Rhine. MOVIE COLUMNIST ASKS DIVORCE HOLLYWOOD. March 13 (U.R Producer-Writer Harriet Parsons, daughter of Columnist LoueUattarget Parsons, today asked for a divorce from Playwright King. Kennedy, whom she married Sept. 28, 1939. She charged cruelty. They have been separated since June 19. New Crossings -Al 4 mm ,,,,r t . . .-.v.-. v s. isr Syiy I JICOIL1MT1 (NEA Telephoto) Berlin reports that American First Army has forced two new Rhine crossings north of Remagen Bridge and rammed upwards of 60,000 men into the salient for a full-scale drive against southern flank of Ruhr basin. All enemy positions were cleaned out in the Wesel area in north and a large Nazi force was completely cut off w(st of Remsgen. FDR Names Nine For Promotion To 4-Star Generals WASHINGTON. March 13 (U.R) President Roosevelt today proposed pro-posed the creation of nine new generals to give the army its greatest galaxy of four-star officers offi-cers on active duty in U. S. history. his-tory. He nominated nine lieutenant generals to the temporary rank of general. At present there are only two. generals on active duty, and four five-star "generals of the army." Those nominated for promotion to four-star rank were: Joseph T. McNarney, deputy supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater. Omar N. Bradley, commanding general of the 12th army group in Europe. Carl Spaatz, commanding general gen-eral of the U. S. strategic airforce in Europe. George C. Kenney, . commanding command-ing general of the Far East air-forces. air-forces. Mark W. Clark, commanding general of the 15th army group in Italy. Walter Krueger. commanding the Sixth army in the Philippines. Philip-pines. Brehon Somervell, commanding the army service forces. Jscob L. Devers, commanding the Sixth army group in Europe. Thomas H. Handy, deputy chief of staff to Gen. George C. Marshall. Mar-shall. Four-star generals now on active ac-tive duty are Malin Craig, who was recalled1 from retirement to head the war department's personnel per-sonnel board, and Joseph W. Stil-well, Stil-well, chief of the army ground forces. The five-star generals are Marshall, Mar-shall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and Henry H. Arnold. They were four-star generals when congress created the new super-rank of "general of the army." Photos Reveal Vast Damage In B-29 Raids On Tokyo, Nagoya BY E. G. VALENS United Press War Correspondent GUAM, March 13 UM Recon naissance photographs showed today to-day that Superfortresses destroy ed more than 16V& square miles in the center of Tokyo and 1 1-5 square miles 285 city blocks in Nsgoya in their two heaviest raids of the wsr on Jspan. Fifteen fires still were -burning in Nagoya, Japan's principal air craft manufacturing center and third largest city, when photographs photo-graphs were taken late, yesterday, some eight hours after a 2,000-ton kindled in the five-square-nuie B-29 incendiary raid. The remainder of the fires area in, the center of Na goya either had been extinguished extinguish-ed or burned themselves out. The area leveled by flames totalled 34,300,000 square feet. Specifically, the photographs COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Hodges' Army Threatens Nazi Superhighway Superhigh-way Linking Ruhr and Upper Rhineland as German Counterattacks Are Stopped Cold BULLETIN PARIS, March 13 UJ American forces in tte Remagen Rema-gen bridgehead drove eastward nearly two miles today, covering half the distance to the Rhnr-Rhineland superhighway, super-highway, and were revealed to have thrown a Pontoon bridge across the Rhine. PARIS, March 14 an Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' troops slugged eastward a mile at the center of the Remagen. Rema-gen. bridgehead today arid were threatening the superhighway superhigh-way linking the Ruhr and upper Rhineland. The Germans mounted two small but well organized counterattacks against the eastern rim of the bridgehead. One by 200 tank-led troops was stopped cold. The other dented the First army lines in the hills east of Remagen, but the Americans regained the lost ground. Capture High Hill-First Hill-First army headquarters announced an-nounced that Hodges' forces in the south end of the pocket over the Rhine last night captured a high hill overlooking Hoeningen, five miles southeast of the captured cap-tured Ludendorf bridge, and commanding com-manding a broad sweep of the east bank of the river. U. S. shocktroops were fighting in the streets of Honenningen and Honnef, at the opposite end of the 10-mile wide foothold east of the Rhine. German planes tried 30 times between 1 and 6 p.m. to attack the bridges over the Rhine yesterday, yes-terday, a front dispatch reported. Twelve were shot down. Bombs bounced close to the brides, but missed. (The reference to "bridges" apparently ap-parently tended to confirm German Ger-man reports that the Americans had thrown at least two pontoon bridges across the river at the bridgehead to supplement the Ludendorf bridge.) Berlin reported that the Amer icans attacked along a line east of Rheinbreitbach and Ohlenberg. 3 k and two miles north of the east end of the Ludendorf bridge, after violent artillery preparation. prepara-tion. t A Nazi broadcast quoting reports re-ports from German headquarters on the western front ssid the U. S. Ninth armored division attacked attack-ed northeast of Honnef, indicating indicat-ing that the pocket had been extended ex-tended somewhat at its northern end. Need Good Weather A dispatch from Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group headquarters said the Allied tactical air forces needed a day of good weather to get in their work on the German positions before the bridgehead. But this was not the day, it added, and the dirty weather was even holding down the desperate efforts of the German air force. This report ssid the Germans had lost 31 planes in "suicide raids." They were reported diving div-ing on the Ludendorf bridge under un-der apparent orders to get it at any cost. German artillery fire still pounded the First army positions. Besides large numbers of 88's, the Germans had brought up a large railroad gun for use against the wedge cutting more than four miles into Germany from a base of at least 10 miles along the Rhine. Battling to better yesterday's gains of up to a mile and a quar-(Continued quar-(Continued on page two) Traffic Heavy On Remagen Bridge PARIS. March 13 (U.R Traffle over the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen has been so heavy that the body of a dead German has lain on the span since last Wednesday Wed-nesday when the First army captured cap-tured the structure, it was disclosed dis-closed at headquarters last night The Americans have been so busy moving across to the east bank that no one had time to remove the body. showed 13.6 per cent of the total roof area of the Aichl aircraft works damaged, one main subassembly sub-assembly building gutted snd 13 miscellaneous buildings destroyed. destroy-ed. Moderate damage was indicated indi-cated at the Tsukiji plant of the Daido Electric Steel company, the Nissan Chemical plant, the At-suta At-suta factory of the Nagoya arsenal, ar-senal, and the Sumitomo light metals plant. MaJ. Gen. Curtis LeMay. commander com-mander of the 21st bomber command, com-mand, freely conceded that the Nagoya. raid was not as successful ss the 23 00-ton fire attack on Tokyo Saturday. He hinted that fast work by fire fighters at Nagoya Na-goya had 'limited the destruction. One of the 300 B-29s which raided Nagoya failed to return yesterday. One also was lost in the 300-pIus plane strike at Tokyo Saturday. fRICE FIVE CENTS German Soldier Cut Demolition Yires on Bridge By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press War Correspondent REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD, Germany, March 12 (U.R) The Ludendorff bridge across the Rhine fell intact to the First army because a German soldier, "tired ot fighting." deliberately cut demolition de-molition charge wires, a German prisoner said tonlgnt. The prisoner, a curly-haired German engineer sergeant in a demolition company, told his captors cap-tors that he had been informed the German captain in charge of blowing up the bridge had committed com-mitted suicide after its capture. The sergeant's story was among the first from German sources ot . sabotage by a member of the German army. He was among 33 engineers assigned to the bridge who were captured--today- while ' fighting as infantrymen in Luebs-dorf, Luebs-dorf, one mile south of Linz. "The bridge was supposed to have been blown up in mid- . afternoon," the sergeant said. "When only two explosives went off, a company was sent to investigate. in-vestigate. "They returned in a few minutes min-utes saying the wires had been cut and they were unable to find the explosives." The engineers who originally wired the explosives returned to the bridge about 5 p.m. with additional ad-ditional dynamite charges, but found the tressle already in American hands, the prisoner said. Fleeing into bushes, the engineers engi-neers hid out until nightfall, then returned to their outfit The engineer captain in charge of the destruction of the bridge shot himself in the head when .informed .in-formed that the span had been captured intact, the prisoner said. As for the soldier who cut the. demolition charge wires, the' prisoner said: "Like the rest of us, he was tired of fighting. Only the SS (Elite Storm Troopers) want to continue the war." Osaka Hit In NewSuperfort Incendiary Raid WASHINGTON, March 13 (UJD Hundreds of Superfortesses showered fiery destruction upon a third great Japanese city today with an incendiary bomb attack on Osaka. Japs Run Out Of Explanations BY UNITED PRESS The Japanese ran out of explanations ex-planations today in trying to describe de-scribe the fighting on Luzon. After much rambling, the Dome! News agency said the fighting east of Manila and in the Lmgayen bay area has begun to assume an aspect" The dispatch was recorded by the FCC. War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: First army advance east of Rhine threatens to split Ruhr and upper Rhine-land Rhine-land fronts. report Red army battling to link bridgeheads over Oder for all- ; out drive on Berlin. PACIFIC: tE.S. troops fan out over southwest Mindanao, from ; captured Zamboaingai reconnais- sance photographs - show " large V. areas of Tokyo and-Nagoya de- ; stroyed Tjy'B-2 raids. ITALY: Fiftli army troops cap--, hire Mount Splgolino in Apen nines. |