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Show j? -J '.t THE WEATHEH . UTAH Parflj cloudy and cooler 4 Btmdij. Awiiyiw i Low . 83 VOU;22, NO. 5 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. . SUNDAY, JULY OOMPLJBTB UNITED PRESS TkXEflRAPB NEWS 8ERVICB PRICE FIVE. CENTS SOUTH OF UAVT LAH n urana jury on 2, 1944 Branriwell Indicted By vuaae Bribe Taking Charge Former Weber Commissioner is Charged ft ynth Failure to Account for County Money; ;Trial for Ex-Mayor Slated in September 5 fc OGDEI-J, Utah, July 11 ra Fontisr Majcr Kent S. Branwell, whose ; March resignation set off a sensational Investigation of Ogden vice and civic affairs, has been in-VKcted in-VKcted on a charge of. accepting a bribe, it was disclosed -today. - rr At the 'same time, it was . announced that former Weber county commissioner John w. Arrington has been tnamed by gnmd jury on -a charge of failing to account t, for some county funds. 'Disclosure that Bramwell and .Arrington have been in dieted brings to 1& including- seven public officials -' the total names of persons L5fi Iiato . been attested. Ten other Issued. v .Th young mayor of the Junction Junc-tion "City resigned last March 13 after Iiolding office only 10 weeks, and. immediately joined the army. hortl aftar J. C. lfvcra. one day morning, was indicted on a Charge of offering' Bramwell a $500 teibe. nbeaxlemeat Charge fcl tin 1 vhn r1ffn from ifie coonty conuniuion a year ago I f oUowlag an inTestigatlon of ex- penaitures or county run da, was charged in the indictment re-yealed re-yealed today with 'alleged failure to ccount for a sum of money sanded to ' him to be Applied against the cost of cartee- for a V person at the county infirmary," aa wivn emoczziemeni. Bona Was posted at $500. r BramweU, now stationed , at an rmy air base unit at Oianute tleld. HL, wilt not appear in Sec- , ona oustnet court of Judge Glenn . 'iim . niui uc vvuer w 1 fendaotg to enter plea on July A iVtmasm- ond -has -bent sfTB.t "i$100O by his counsel. Parnell :v :lack of Salt Lak aty. Black 1QQ0 Garfield Smelter Workers Walk Off Job Vacation GARFIELD, Utah. July American Smelting and Refining company were criPDled waay wnen i.uuu woncers at oil.tne jod because of what won auowances. Officials of the Intejna- r tional Union of Mine, MiU And Smelter Workers (CIO) , to which the workers belong, said that the walkout was definitely defin-itely not authorized and that the Union's regional council would SUdtt in Salt Lake City late to- , day In an attempt to persuade :th men to return. ' K A company spokesman said the ulka was a surprise to them and that the issue was "Indistinct" j The A. S. & R. is an important cog ' in the production of war-i war-i heeded copper by the Utah Copper Cop-per company, ' whose. Bingham mine produces .about one-third of the : nation's supply of copper. Concentrates from the Magna And Arthur mills of Utah Copper at taken to the Garfield smelter to be turned into blister cooner. . which is sent to eastern refineries " ior conversion into zlnished products. ;: A ' spokesman for the wnrkm said that the strike was decided trpon when the men were unable '..to; get any- satisfaction on their Who had worked for the smelter Two Democrats To y Vis In Primary For Commissioner ; T Interest in the local primary election Tuesday as far as coun- V ty "offices go is centered mainly the Democratic contest for the ; county commissioner four-year -- term nomination between Sylvan W. Clark, of Lehi, incumbent and Ray E. "Bun" Shelley of Ameri- can Fork. I " The Democrats also have three legislative district contests. In district two, J. W. Gillman of Or-; Or-; em Is opposing T. Earl Foote; in district three, Ralph H. Peters I opposes ' Delia L. Loveridge, in-' in-' cumbent, and in district four, there 'is a three-cornered contest . with Selvoy J. Boyer and Howard C Jensen of Springville, and SVllliam Grotegut of Spanish Fork .as the contenders.' Unless v n of 'the three obtains a majority major-ity vote, the contest will probably be carried into the run-off between be-tween the two hleh men. The Republicans have no con- tests for county, offices. will enter Bramwell's blea on the 5th, according to' District Attor nev John A. Hendricks. Trial for the young former mayor orobably will be held some time in September. Hendricks said. Chahute field oftcials have been notified of his Indictment, the district attorney added. The other 13 who nave been arrested so far are: Former Mayor Harman W. Pecry, charged with permitting gambling and conspiring to com mit acts injurious to public mor als while holding offlee. Former Chief of Police Rial C Moore, charged with permitting gambling and conspiring to com? mit acts injurious to public mor als while holding office. ' Meyers, who already faces charge of offering the bribe to Bramwell, charged with criminal conspiracy and perjury in the first degree. - Police Detective Henry. AUred, charged with committing a 'de testable crime' against nature,' with Lavon Roberts. Police Patrolman John F. Whetton, charged with adultery. Warrm L Caasldy, former city purchasing agent, charged with perjury in the first degree and cnminal conspiracy. -James Kallas, former American begum commander, charged with criminal conspiracy. PeteTaeoni;- charged with "receiving "re-ceiving money from proceeds of ttonunuea on page fire) Disoute 1 W Utah oDerationa f , m uie uarfield smelter walked they called a dispute over vaca for one year, eight day for two years and nine days for three years and over, x la. 01. m. j. Tlerney, execu tive officer of the labor blanch of the Ninth service command. said that other issues such as pay In a dispute between the men and the A. 8. & R had already al-ready been submitted to tbe war labor board, and that the vacation issue would also have to go to the WLB. M.. . xieraey said the smelter was the sole source of supply for an acia necessary to production of 100 octane aviation gasoline at refineries In Utah and Wyomlnz. and that these vital gasoime plants would have to close down "within 24 hours if the men do not return to work tonight" 22 In Race For tline On State Tickets In By MURRAY M. MOLLER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY. July 1 (HE) roe zz candidates for nine nom inations in Utah's July 11 primary election started down the home stretch today with - interest throughout the state still eompar-aively eompar-aively mild except for the hot fight for the Democratic guberna torial nomination. A United Press check of representative repre-sentative observers in strategic nts brought replies that the cor teat that- was attracting much interest was that between Gov. Herbert B.' Maw? now com pleting his first Aerm as chief executive, ex-ecutive, and State Sen!. Stanley N. Child, of Salt Lake City. - A Uteh county source said that "this race is getting hot down here and Child seems 'to be picking up considerable strength." "There's some attention on the contest; between Mayor .Bracken Lee of) Price and Reed Vetterli, Salt Like City police chief, for the PJoublican srubernatlo ri a 1 nomination, and it looks from here like Life should get it," the Provo observer added Two (years ago, Lee cam wiuun a few votes of being elected first district congressman losing to the iiumbent. DemocraUc' repre sentative. Walter K. Granger of Cedar I City, in one of tbe state's closefl political contests. An? fOgden political cojnmentay-f tor alio pegged the CMld-Maw race Mayor Proclaims "Make Your Quota Week" Here As Bond Buying Lags Provo's laurels in the Fifth War Loan drive are in danger, declared. Mayor Maurice Mau-rice Harding, Saturday as he pointed out that thus far in the campaign, citizens of this community had failed to meet their quota by $750,000. The apathy of the publio to wards the necessity for meeting the individual quota is responsi ble for the present lag in war bond sales, as a result of which Utah county has 'purchased only 44 per cent of its quota although the end oz tne drive is July 8. Provo city jarchase as of Fri day night were S775.949.75. The quota is $1,600,000. Failure of the country to meet the Fifth War Bond quota would be hailed with delight in Tokyo and Berlin, war finance committee leaders declar ed. In an attempt to meet the chal lenge. Mayor Harding, following a conference with other mayors fox eait LAKe and Utah counties, Saturday, issued a proclamation setting the week beginning July $ apart as "Make Tour Quota Week." The proclamation in part fol lows: This proclamation is made to encourage the citizens of Provo City to make the necessary War BondTnirch4SesAd that the peo ple ox tovo to nave purchased their full quota of War Bonds by the en of said week. The citizens of "Provo ' City have thus far failed to meet their quota by $750,000, and this proc- uunauon is maae . so that each individual citizen may know that it is his responsibility to help win the war by buying all the bonds he can. "Every citizen hmmt tnnn Tnr- warn anq npin ,Q$lwz tM,-va Ugation we owe to our country, "BUY WAR BONDS NOW. WE CAN NOT, WE MUST NOT SALT. LAKE' CITY. July 1 UH Utah's Fifth War Loan drive bond purchases now total $32,-190,400 $32,-190,400 toward the S46.000.000 goal, .the state war finance committee' com-mittee' announced today. . Individual Individ-ual purchases with a quota of $20,000,000 have reached $10.- 495,198. Free Passage of Provo River Thru Reservoir Med Use of the Deer Creek reservoir reser-voir as a flood control device is not desired by the Utah Lake and sail iaxe uanai companies, re gardless cf-any flooding of Vivian, Viv-ian, park or the lower lands on the Prove river, it appeared Sat urday, following the issuing of an order by T. Frank Wentz of Grem, Provo river commissioner, asking that the natural flow of the Provo river be allowed to pass through the reservoir unimpeded oy zne aam. During the high water this spring, part of the flood stream has been stored in the reservoir, and as a result there was no (Continued on page five) Nominations Tuesday Primary as the headline contest and noted "considerable unfavorable com ment here against the Maw ad ministration'' ' because of the way in which a state financial report is Deing aisoiDutea. The financial report, about which Maw disavowed knowledge, was prepared by Chairman Gordon Taylor Hyde of the State Finance Commission and mailed to 140,000 taxpayers at state expense. Outside of the gubernatorial bracket, main attention is on the two .Republican contests for senator and for district congress man that have four .aspirants ca.cn. nowever, most points cnecx ed found little GOP activity prob ably because most Republican leaders have been busy with the national convention. In the senatorial race, the con testants are Adam 8. Bennlon, former for-mer Utah Power A Light assistant assist-ant president;- Oscar W. Carlson, state business regulation commis sioner; former Republican Chair-' man David . J. Wilson , of Ogden, and George H. Crow, disgruntled ex-civil service worker. Senator Elbert D. Thomas is unopposed for Demcratie renominatlom - I Seeking the first district GOP congressional bid are William Pe terson of Logan, extension service director emeritus; Mayor B. H. Strlnghara of VernaL Mayor D. C Watson of St. George and -Stephen Abbott of Randlett, retired army (Continued 00 page five) Tbree Soviet Armies r 11 East of Minsfi Red Army Spearheads Outflank the City to The North and South LONDON, July 1 Three powerful Soviet armies merged ' along the Berezina river 43 miles east of Minsk yesterday while Red army spearheads outflanking the city to the north and south, drove to within 25 and 33 miles of the two remaining rail road escape routes from that capital of White Russia. Minsk rapidly was being en gulfed in the mouth of a gigantic sack whose closing may trap the Nazis' Central armies on the eastern front in an encirclement dwarfing that at Stalingrad. Driving ahead at incredible speed, Red army tanks, infantry. cavalry and armored forces, aid ed by guerrillas, swept all Ger man resistance before them, cap tured Borisov, 45 miles northwest of Minsk, and closed to within four miles of Polotsky, five-point rail junction at the northern end of the blazing 400-mile front. At the same time. Red army troops advanced 22 mues Inside the old Polish border gy the capture cap-ture of Hermsnwlczf, 41 miles west of polotsky. and by the seis- winarxow'rcmea-w"WBnmiititAii ihW cu.rr .i-M.Uuf.Mt 25 miles of Latvia, and within 50 miles of the Latvian rail lunc- More than 530 towns and settlements set-tlements were swept up in the Russian "advance in White Rus sia and mora than 10,700 Ger mans were killed and 6,100 cap tured yesterday. Eight thousand were killed at Borisov alone. J On the Finnish front, between Lakes Onega and Ladoga, Mar' shal Leonid A. Govorov's Lenin- grade army captured SO towns and settlements, killed 500 Finns and, straightened their battleline from Petrozavodsky west 80 miles of Pogranichny Kundush, one and one quarter miles from the pre-1939 Finnish border. While the combined 3rd, 2nd and 1st White Russian armies, commanded by Gen. Ivan D. Cherhiakhovsky, Col. 'Sen. Mat-vei Mat-vei Zahkharov and Marshal Kon-stantine Kon-stantine K. Rokoasovsky, massed on the west and east banks of the Berezina, Minsk, the gateway gate-way to Warsaw and Berlin, became be-came the center of a great encirclement en-circlement movement. Roller Bearing Plant Shut Down By 9000 Strikers CANTON, O., July 1 (UB) Production Pro-duction was at a virtual standstill today at the Timken Roller Bear ing company's four Canton plants as a strike of members of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO) entered its fourth day with r.o settlement in Right. Fines Reynolds, local union president, said the strike was due to "a complete breakdown of labor relations and violations by the company of every provision in our contract" He said the strikers had no intention of returning to work until "labor relations" are restored. All but 1,000 of the four plants' 10,000 employes were participating participat-ing in the strike. Those remaining on the job were merely supervisory super-visory employes and maintenance workers. Business As Usual Monday; Stores to Close On Tuesday 'Only in a; few Instances will there be any stores closed Monday, Mon-day, most of the Provo business houses will remain open as usual during the day, it was announced Saturday. Tuesday which will be observed observ-ed as Independence day will see all stores, offices and banks closed. clos-ed. The postoffice will be closed for the day, with only the general gen-eral delivery window open from 1Q to 11 for transients..' There will be no city or rural deliverydur-ing deliverydur-ing the day, according toPostmaster toPost-master J. Dangerfield.' All perishable and Special delivery de-livery mail vfill b candled as usual us-ual -Ttowever.'0 - 1 V 01 f. j " t 3 Vs 41 ( J, V r 1 ' 1 (NBA Rmdi TtUpkota) FRENCH MATOB GREETS TANK Sgt Max Monsorno of Wood-haven, Wood-haven, N. Y, is enthusiastically greeted by mayor of BamevWe, end the town's citizens as bis division entered tbe French village. Photo by Bert Brandt, NEA-Acme photographer for War Picture F00L Street Fighting Brealis Out In Danish Capital Between Patriots and Nazis ByCRJTXXUCZXXJt STOCKHOLM, July 1 (BE) Streetlng fighting on the largest scale thus far, contlnXied . in Copenhagen Co-penhagen today between some 15,-000 15,-000 armed Danish Patriots and German occupation: forces who fired into the crowds from machine gun nests, heavy gun emplacements emplace-ments and low-flying planes, killing and. wounding many per- 5th Army Troops Make Big Gains On Italian front ROMS, July 1 () American Fifth army troops have advanced within 17 miles, southeast of the great port of Livomo (Leghorn) after outflanking the coastal stronghold of Cecinaj while French forces to .the east; have driven through the mountains to points six miles south of the ancient Siena road junction, it was an nounced today. One American force driving up east of Cedna forged across the Cecjna river and then swung east ward to its mouth, ; reaching point 17 miles from! Xlvorao, and another pushed five: miles north west from Bibbona to break info the southern outskirts of Cecina. The French elements of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army, mov ing northward toward Siena, 41 mites east of Cecina, and Florence. 33 miles beyond Siena, reached the area of La Villa, six miles south of Sient, and Grotti, a mile west of La Villa. , (The United Press listening post in London heard the Oslo radio say that Adolf Hitler had declared Florence an "open city" in order to "safeguard and preserve its his toric treasures. ) In the center of the Allied line stretching 170 miles across Italy from the Tyrrhenian to the Adria tic, British forces cleared the entire en-tire west shore of Lake Trasimeno and pushed- east, west and north from Perugia despite stiff German resistance. On the Adriatic sector nthr units of Lt. Gen. sir Oliver Leese's 8th army ' crossed ' thelmonth more tohose holding the Chienti river at a number of polntVI and reached the vicinity of Civl tanova, 23 miles below ithe por Ancona. jT ira of brents of liW INDIANAPOLIS July HUE The parents . ot lght- , month-oldLHtfgh Teal; Jr won a victory. Aver their landlords today AAr a judge's i cecision that, the baby is not a nuisance nuis-ance and that his birth was .. not a violation of OP A regu lationa, . . ' ' The, landlord had sought to evict; thefsmtlyf on tha grounds that the biby's birth iiad broken, a jnide-year-old . agreement that v the Teals would bring aotihildren into ' the buUdtag. 7' v. sww.nnUnK dispatches sata. Copenhagen was reported "in an uproar" as the Patriots rose in spontaneous rebellion against tne Nazi authorities demanding that the German-imposed state of emergency and curfew be lifted' and the Danish Nazi Schalburg corps sent from the country. The Germane were reported rushing mobile artillery, tanks cannon and renforcements into the city to quell the uprising, while Svenska Dagbladet in Stockholm said Nazi troops were forming into in-to an "iron ring" around the Dan ish capital. The Danish press service said that up until eight P. m. Friday 3S6 persons had been hospitalized while an unknown number of wounded had been unable to find hospitals. Another unknown num ber were reported aiued in tne rioting, and it was feared that the Germans had taken some Patriots 1 hostages. (The British radio, reported by NBC. said 40 persona had been killed by German patrols, firing on everyone in sight, and added that some wounded Danish refu-. gees had arrived in Sweden by: fishing boat. (The Germans have blocked all roads leading from the capital in an effort to check the stream of refugees leaving the- city aa rein forcements are brougnt in. bbc said quoting the Danish Press service.) The Danes reportedly had hung British. American and Soviet flags on trolley, wires and marched through the streets, singing "God save the king" In defiance of the Germans who, according to one report re-port had only 3,000 troops in the city at erst. Roosevelt Signs Bill Raises to G. I. Joes-U. WAsmNQTOlf. Julv l mm a. X. Jo the common American foot soldier received new recog nition of his services today when President Roosevelt signed a bill srantine a 35 a month pay in crease to those wearing the expert I infantryman badrer and J10 infantryman's combat badge, Soldiers entitled to wear both badges wiu receive nota increases. Gen. George ca-Marsnau, army The case set a precedent for evictions on the grounds' thatjchlldren1 are tnauwncesy and violate office of price administration rent .regular tiona. ' , . - " . During.. Daylong testimony. ; yesterday, j Baby ' Teal's be-' havior was: exemplary. He lay on a pillow on a courtroom .-bench,, playteriVith his toes, i happily oblivious to the hti-gaUon hti-gaUon bJa arrival Jiad caused. caus-ed. -He "was anything but a "nuisance while in court. Superior -eouit; Judgs iWal Yanks Wipe Out : Last Nazi Near Cherbourg : Seven German Panzer Divisions Under Personal Per-sonal Command of Rommel Ready to Square Away Against Montgomery ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS! LONDON July 1 b& Vast Allied forces streamed to theCaen front tonight for a showdown battle on the road to Paris with" seven German panzar divisions under Field Marshal Erwhv Rommel's personal; command, as American troops wiped-, out the last enemy resistance on Cherbourg peninsula. It was again Rommel vs. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery and as the desert antagonists squared away their forces a tremendous artillery bar-; rage by both sides, reminiscent of the night before El Alameln, is thundering across the Nor man orchards, filling the sky with flames. (A German DNB broadcast heard by the U. S. federal com munications commission said that new Allied landings were being effected behind a thick smokescreen smoke-screen east of the Orne estuary above Caen. German reconnais sance pilots sighted an Allied fleet of about 300 vessels in front of the estuary, including battleships' battle-ships' and heavy and light cruisers, cruis-ers, the agency said. (A German Transocean news agency broadcast said that Al lied battleships were shelling the town, ana naroor ox 14 uavre.1 German counter-attacks intend ing to ease the British strangle hold continued for the fifth day. but on a diininlshed scale, .and Empire troops recaptured ground which had been temporarily lost along the shoulders of their ss lent across the Odon river below Caen. A late communique said both aides were stalemated along the looping front formed by the Allied bridgehead across the Od on southwest of Caen. No new Allied gains were re ported, but several Nazi attempts to Infiltrate the British lines around Esquay, at the center of the bridgehead, were repulsed. Up to a late hour this evening, British staff officer said, the enemy has failed in all his probing prob-ing attacks against the Allied bulge. The late communique also re ported that a "small'.' pocket of German resistance on the cape De La Hague, at the northwest ern Hp of the Cherbourg penin sula, has- been reduced further. The period of resTounlaa and jockeying is almost over and of ficial quarters said it! is clear (Continued on page five) Vichy Official Reported Slain By UNITED PRESS The secretary-general of the Vichy militia in: lot department of south-central France was assassinated assassin-ated 'Monday, the Vichy radio re ported today. . The broadcast, reported by FCC, said a friend of the militia leader: also was allied. Granting Pay S. Infantrymen 1 chief of staff, requested the in- ureases. w iw jr: per columnist. The president also signed Into law the first major measure to aid industry in its reconversion to peace time production a war contract con-tract termination bUL Under its terms, power to settle an claims arising out of war contract con-tract termination is given to a new agency the office of contract set tlementcreated ny me tau. ra Trial ter Pritchard took 'notice of '.. the fundamental Issue affect--s Ing thousands of wives of servicemen and war workers far' Indianapolis, and overruled over-ruled the claim that the Teals had violated any agreement by having a baby. ' "Should they be put out of . their homes just because they ;' '. have m, baby- The judge ask. .' -ed. Thl court does not be' 'Here . this poitey ahould ba". followed here,1 and this court wm act permit auch tacU Force Americans Chalk Up Small Gains . In Saipan Battle WASHINGTON. July 'l CETi5. American marines and army, troops on Saipan have consolidated their positions and made small . gains in the central sector of their lines on .Thursday, the "navy announced an-nounced today. A Pacific fleet commnnioua re leased here , revealed that several pockets of enemy resistance, which,- Jhad-previously-been hypassedioN American advances, have -been ' wiped out. Several enemy planes dropped bombs in the area occupied occu-pied by U. S. forces Thursday, night, and one enemy planer was shot down. ' , Meanwhile, aircraft bombing and naval shelling continues on Tinian ' island In an attempt to neutralize' enemy arun posttions, the navy said earner aircraft also oomne buildings and runways on Rota island is-land on Thursday but encountered' no enemy aircraft. Meanwhile, navy search planes hit Paramushiro and Shumuahu In, . the Kuril islands In a pre-dawn 1 attack on Thursday, encountering meager anti-aircraft fire and no 1 . . . 1 , ... - m tv.- I mtercepung pianes. au ox u raiders returned. " - The firrbn stnunrle for the eon i quest ox omipm swvaHijr m the lives of 1474 Americans andy at least 4951 Japanese. The U. S. line now runs acroea the center of Saipan from Gara- pan town and north of ML Tapot. chau. - Enemy .packets eliminated Thursday were in the Tapotchau area, but it was believed there probably were still other group, of Japanese fighting on in lime., stone caves behind American, lines there. Nimita reported that carrier' planes which hit Rota, 60 miles . Laouth of Saipan. bombed buHdtngsJ and runways witnout mtercepuoa . from Japanese planes. N V, Although the communique re ported several Japanese planes dropped bombs Thursday night in U. S. areas on Saipan, enemy air " power at the present has beea praetically eliminated In the central cen-tral Pacific. U. 8. raids during the past weekr eitoountered virtually vir-tually no opposition, while, at-' tacks on American positions have (Continued oa page five) War In Brief By UNITED PRESS . ' INVASION Massive Al 1 1 a d forces stream Into Caen front for msmuown nauie on roaa ioNrani; Americans wipe out lsstlorganized -resistance on Cherbourg peninsula. . RUSSIA Threa Soviet. umfH converge east of Minsk for frontaL assault on city; other Soviet spear- ... heads in outflanking thrust fromV. south cut Minsk-Warsaw-Berlin : railway. , . ' ft AIR WAR Robot bombs hit southern England f6r 18th straight day, lnfiicting damage and casual-" ties: bad weather slows Allied air offensive after RAF night bombers smash Nazi armored fores -to". Normandy. y .ITALY Americans 15 mues -from Llvorno, French six miles' from Siena as Germans retreat all : along. Italian battle , line; Nazis declare Florence open city.1 CHINA Japanese Uunch six-pronged1 six-pronged1 offensive northward from Canton to close .Canton-Hankow railwayr; other Japanese columns , repulsed in new attack front central cen-tral China seacbast. -,---' BURMA Allies km or captura more- than :500 s Japanese In mop-plng-cp operations in -Jiorthern Burma aod eastern-Indiai . - Y.- A i I 4 ?.'i.Y4U5'.5i. ' |