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Show - c 5 1 v.. S" - . .Y. THE WEATHER CTAIF-InteTinltteot light rates, ..except snow at high levels southwest portion spreading eves . state Sunday Temperatures! High 4S Low 16 CALL THE HERALD If yon dont receive your Herald before 8:30, can 493 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. VOL 21; NO. 40 Roosevelt Plot By Germans to Assassinate Big 3 President Changed Quarters Front American Ameri-can Legation to Fortified Embassy; Will Make Report to Congress in January By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 CEU-German spies plotted to shoot President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin as they Tehran, according to information uncovered by Russian agents and relayed to the Roosevelt party. Mr. Roosevelt first disclosed the plot to his news con fernce yesterday. He said he in it, but Stalin himself warned him of a plot against the Congress To Take Recess For Christmas WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 ILE)- Congress in a last minute burst of speed cleared away its most press tag emergency legislation today and voted to adjourn for Christ mas on Tuesday until Jan. 10. As members scrambled on to the vacation bandwagon. Rep. Hatton W. Bumners, D., Tex , urged them in a floor speech to remind the ' folks back home during the holi days that "there is only one Job factor the nation to win the war.w . In an unusual Saturday session, the house and senate sent to the White House legislation tempor arily extending food subsidies until Feb. 17 and passed a 1200,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill. The food subsidy extension will give the senate' additional time in which to decide whether to ban such subsidies outright, as the house has recommended, or wheth er to compromise the issue. Senate-house difference J on both the extension and the appropria tioa measures had dissipated what ever hope members may have had that they could adjourn today. The differences finally were resolved in conference. In his house speech, Sumners warned of "dangers threatening the solidarity of this country." Asserting that members of con gress must "take the leadership' in impressing upon Americans the treat need for unity, Sumners added: "There are evidences of Internal disintegration that imperil this country. We must tell the people there is only one Job facing the nation to win the war." Many controversial issues of critical importance were still un resolved, among them food subsi dies, rail wages, taxes, mustering out pay for veterans, and the soldier vote. Both houses of congress held un' usual Saturday sessions in the faint hope of being able to finish their most pressing business and adjourning tonight. They were as sured by President Roosevelt, who conferred with Democratic congressional con-gressional leaders, that he had no objection to a two-week recess. Germany Yarned By Sweden About Oslo Deportations STOCKHOLM. Dec- 18 (OB The Swedish government announced announc-ed today that it had formally . warned Germany that "further deterioration" de-terioration" in the relations be tween the two countries "cannot ta avoided" unless the reich aban doned its plan to deport 1,200 interned in-terned Oslo university students and professors to Germany. Dispatches Dis-patches from Norway Indicated that Berlin was backing down. The Swedish communique, re emphasizing Stockholm's natural concern over Nazi actions in Scandinavia, Scan-dinavia, said the note in which it renlied to Germain Foreign Min ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop's brusque demand or uec. o mat Sweden cease interfering in German-Norwegian affairs, was sent last Thursday. Possibility that the Swedish stand may have forced Germany's hand was seen in a Swedish dis-natch dis-natch from Oslo yesterday report ing that 600 of the arrested uni versity siuaenis naa oeen released re-leased from the S tavern concen tratlon camp. t The dispatch quoted well-inform ed sources in Oslo as saying that it was expected that almost ell of those Interned , after a fire Nov. 27 in the university assembly hall, which the -Germans charged was sabotage, would be freed before Christmas. Prof. Georg Vallentln De Mogenstierne, brother of W. Mounthe De Morgensteirne, Norwegian Nor-wegian ambassador to the United States, was among those released, although 25 other professors still are interned, it was reported. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS BEBVICJB Reveals drove through the streets of did not take too much stock big three." That was why Mr. Roosevelt abruptly changed his quarters from the American legation lega-tion to the fortified Russian embassy em-bassy after one night in Tehran. While the president went into no details, Russian officials who informed the president's party about the plot said that German spies planned to shoot the presi dent, the prime, minister and the Soviet . premier as they rode through the narrow streets of the colorful Persian city. Meets. Correspondents The president met Washington correspondents yesterday for the first time since Nov. 9. His oval office was jammed with reporters hoping for a preview of the report ne wiu give to congress next month, on his historic trip. But in addition to the assassination assas-sination plot against the conferees. con-ferees. Mr. Roosevelt revealed only that: 1. He considers the Cairo-Tehran Cairo-Tehran conferences a success in every Way not only for the fu ture conduct of the war, but for progress toward establishing peace xor wis generation. 2. He will spend Christmas at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home, (Continued on Page Four) Churchill Shorn e Improvement to Illness Siege LONDON. Dec. 18 (EJDPrlm Minister Winston Churchill's tem perature and lung inflamation are subsiding, an official bulletin said tonight, indicating that the British war leader had passed the crisis in his i fight against pneumonia somewhere in the middle east. (A Lisbon dispatch said travelers travel-ers from North Africa reported that Churchill's physicians were attempting to persuade him to remain, re-main, somewhere in the middle east to avoid a recurence of respiratory res-piratory infections. The Prime Minister bad frowned on the. idea, planning to return to London as soon as he is recovered.) ? A statement Issued by No. 10 Downing street, the Prime Minister's Minis-ter's official residence, at 3:30 p. m. Said: "There has been some Irregularity Irregular-ity of pulse but the temperature is subsiding and the pneumonia resolving." The bulletin was signed by Lord Moran, Churchill's personal physician, phy-sician, Brigadier D. Evan Bedford, consulting physician, and Lt. Col. Robert J. V. Pulvertaft, director of pathology with the British forces in the middle east. 14,000 Americans Definitely Known Japanese Prisoners WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (EE) More than 14,000 American soldiers sol-diers out of some 18,000 originally origin-ally listed as missing In action in the Philippines have now been reported prisoners of war, including in-cluding 55 out of 66 heroic army nurses. Of the total, 1,555 have been reported re-ported i to have died from disease in Japanese prison camps; another an-other 300 died of wounds. The . Inclusion of 10 army nurses In today's prisoner of war release by the war department bring to 77 the number of nurses accounted for out of the 88 who were on Bataan and Corregidor. Most of the other 11 are believed to be alive, and hopes are felt that they will ultimately be heard from. ; Structural Steel Mill May Yet Be Completed at Geneva Works, Report Cessation of construction work on the' structural steel unit at the Geneva plant effective Deeember 20, may be modified it recom-mendatlion recom-mendatlion of the Defense Plant corporaton Is accepted by the War Production Board, it appeared Saturday. The recommendation has been made that the structural mill be completed, and the floor put in, also that all machinery, and equipment equip-ment originally ordered for the mill, be accepted and placed in the null for storage until present ces PRQVO, Railroad Men AtVhiteHouse Railroad Brotherhood Representatives to Discuss Wage Problem Bv RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (iiE) President Roosevelt today to-day called representatives of the nation's railroads and of the five operating railroad brotherhoods to confer with him at the White House to morrow, in an effort to ward off a strike scheduled to start Dec. SO. The White House, announcing Mr. Roosevelt's action, said the meeting would be held at 2:30 p. m. EWT. Spokesmen for the brotherhoods had revealed earlier in Cleveland that they had been called to the executive offices. The national mediation board cancelled a meeting its had scheduled sched-uled with union and management representatives at Chicago Mon day. It indicated lt might offers its services again if no basis for settlement Is found at the conference confer-ence tomorrow. The 350,000 members of the operating brotherhoods have voted to strike Dec. 30 in Protest against an emergency board award approved by Economic Stabiliza tion Director Fred M. Vinson of a four-cents-an-hour wage in crease. They are demanding a S3 a day boost of their basic wages. Meanwhile, officials of the 15 non - operating brotherhoods whose case Is linked closely with that of the operating brotner hoods were reportedly maneu vering in an effort to force prompt house action on the senate-approved Truman resolution which would, legalize the agree ment they reached last August with the railroads for an eight- cents-anhour wage increase. 'ymmmmm9'sr approve ait agreement on grounds it would be an out-and-out violation of the little steel formula and would go far toward breaking down the administration's stabilization program. pro-gram. The house Interstate commerce committee decided on Friday to not vote on the Truman resolu tion until Monday, apparently in the belief that Mr. Roosevelt would Intervene in the interim. . Officials of the non-operating brotherhoods were racing against lime in uieir effort to force house action on the Truman resolution. however, inasmuch as conerreas Is expected to adjourn Tuesday or Wednesday until after the holidays. holi-days. Even if the house committee commit-tee should approve the resolution on Monday, it appeared unlikely that the Democratic house leadership leader-ship which is opposed' to the resolution would allow it to be brought up on the floor before adjournment. 500 Men Heeded t High Octane Gasoline Plant SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 18 (UJ!) Work of recruiting workers for the vital Salt Lake City high octane oc-tane gasoline plant of the Utah Oil Company continued today. Officials reported that 143 more men have been hired to rush construction con-struction on the plant, which is needed to furnish high test fuel for the American invasion forces In the Pacific. But more than 500 vacancies still exist at ths plant which now has the highest priority pri-ority for any labor available in the Utah area. Many of the new workers are expert steam fitters, loaned to the gasoline project by contractors on trie ueneva, sxeei plant. BWGIIAM CHIEF JOINS THE NAVY BRIGHAM. Utah, Dec. 18 CJ Chief of Police Howard W. Call has resigned his position to enter Farragut naval training station as an apprentice seaman. Former assistant chief, William L. Jensen has been named new head of the department. sation orders are rescinded. Practically Prac-tically all the machinery needed to operate the miU is already at the plant, it Is understood. The War Production Board has taken the recommendation under advisement, it was reported but no decision has been announced as yet. E. M. Barber, vice president, Columbia SteeJ and A. J. Hulse, plant engineer, are expected back from Washington. D. C. in a few davs. Thev were called to the capi tal to confer with the government officials about the change in plans. Ashed To Meet UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, LJo'S. TVps Drive Ahead 4 Cut Jup Supply Liiniss to Tiryk Nazis Admit New Set-Bad On Russ Front Massive Red Attack By 200,000 Men Forces Germaii Troops Back TENDON. Dee. 18 ttE The Berlin radio reported tonight that a massive Russian Rus-sian attack by more than 200,000 men in' the Nevel sector east of Latvia had forced the Germans back in what was called a "shortening "short-ening of the front." A Nazi broadcast said the Red army threw into the attack 14 infantry divisions, two complete tank corps, two cavalry divisions, and one artillery division. Plunging into the base of the German Salient looping northeastward north-eastward to Leningrad, the Russians Rus-sians broke into the Nazi defense de-fense system and threatened its entire structure until the 'front was shortened, a Berlin radio commentator said. For several days the Germans had been reporting sustained Russian Rus-sian attacks in the Nevel sector near the northern border of White Russia. The new account said they had been intensified suddenly in a Red army bid for a major m& - - IWKStfOf Nevel lies some 70 miles east or the Latvian frontier in , the Lake country southwest of Velii kie Lukl, and the Russians already al-ready were well beyond the town, which they captured some time ago. Berlin also reported a drop in temperatures to 15 below zero on the southern and central fronts. partly freezing the Dnieper and rnpet rivers and hardening wide stretches of the Pripet Marshes sufficiently for the crossing of troops. Moscow advices have said repeatedly re-peatedly that the Red army winter win-ter offensive! was awaiting only the freezing weather which would (Continued On Page Ten) Two Convicted On Fraud Charges In Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec, 18 (EE) A federal district court Jury late today convicted two of five defendeants In a war frauds case growing put of an alleged con spiracy to defraud the government of $1,000,000 in the handling of contracts for canvas shelters for the army air forces at Wright field. Those convicted: , Cornelius G. Loose, formerly principal administrative officer of the contract section, general pro curement center, U. S. army air forces, Wright Field, Dayton, O. Dahne W. Wlnebrenner, Galloway, Gallo-way, O . former general sales man ager for the Baker-Lockwood Manufacturing companyyof North Kansas City. Those 'acquitted : W. L. Mcllor, president of the company. Ben D. .Christian, Milwaukee, Wis., president of the Safway Steel Products company. Loose and Wlnebrenner will be sentenced Tuesday by Judge John Caskle Collet, before whom the seven-week-long trial was held with an array of legal talent crowding the counsel tables. Maximum sentence Is a fine of 110,000, two years imprisonment or both. 'Iron Lung' Mother Gives Birth to , Fine, Healthy Boy PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 18 U A fine healthy boy was born today to Mrs. Carolyn Davis Wtt son, 20-year-old mother who was removed from an "fron lung! respirator to. permit normal delivery de-livery of the baby. Attending physicians said, the condition of, -the- "plucky young mother was only "fair." She was returned to the respirator, where she has been for nearly three weeks. -Her husband, Air Forces Corporal Marvin Wilson, 21, flew halfway around the world from India to be at her side. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 80 Dead in North V .H "(1.1 W.l J.' JWWPJPpW(WWPWWWPJBiW The ton of 69 dead and 100 injured Kay through the wreckage of two Allied Troops In Italy Smash Info Nazi Strongholds ALLIED HEADJUAR-TERS, HEADJUAR-TERS, ALGIERS, Dec 18 ) Allied troops, Hi fierce irmorel, and, .Rtretbattles, have-smashed into the outskirts out-skirts of key Nazi defense strongholds on both sides of the Italian front, it was announced an-nounced today, as the Germans threw reinforcements from Russia Rus-sia into their sagging lines. S p e a rheaded b y American shock-troops, Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army broke into the thick defenses of San Pietro Just north of the Rome road, and battled into Orsogna's streets on the Adriatic front, after knocking out 13 Nazi tanks.' Heavy fighting was reported stiM raging for both towns. Allied capture of which would almost certainly force the Germans to fall back to new defense positions on each sector. ' Eight miles north of San Pietro, Pie-tro, another American spearhead captured the mountain village of Lagone, situated at 2,000 feet two miles west of Filignano, after beating off sharp counter-attacks. Only in the, center of the front did the Nazis' desperate resistance resist-ance pay off when American troops made slight withdrawals in tne area of San Vincenzo, six miles below Alfedena, under the pressure of heavy and sustained counter-Dlowa. With their defenses thus being systematically undermined. the (Continued On Page Ten) Restrictions on Store Lights to Be Liberalized SALT LAKE CITY, Dec 18 lih Utah merchants were advised advis-ed today that advertising display and show window lights may now be burned from dusk until 10 p. m. uner a wpb liberalization of the national voluntary conservation program. Previously, such lights could be burned but two hours a day. The liberalization order does not change other limitations t cc the conservation program such as daytime use of display lighting. New Bill Would Deport Japanese WASHINGTON, Dec. lS OIH) Sens. Ernest W. McFarland, D., Ariz., and Tom Stewart, D., Tenn., have introduced -a bill for depor tation of citizens who indicate allegiance al-legiance and fidelity to a foreign for-eign country. They would be deported de-ported to the country of their ancestors. Mcr ariana said the bill was particularly aimed at the Ameri can-born Japanese, who gave negative neg-ative answers to a question sub- imitted to them by the war relo cation authority; "Will you swear unquauziea auegiance to the United States and forswear un qualified or obedience to the Japanese Jap-anese emperor or any other for eign- government, power, or or ganization?" He said 25.4 per cent of the Japanese males and about 13 per cent of the females gave "no" for an answer to this question. .19,-1943 Carolina Train Wreck , ' 9f (NEA TeUphoto) continued to mount at Lumberton, N. C, as rescue crews worked their Atlantic Coast Line luxury streamlined trains, which collided. Here is a view of the wreckage, Engineer III With Influenza Had No Chance To Avert Streamliner YrecIt By RANDOLPH HANCOCK RENNERT, N. C, Dec. 18 (EE) The engineer of the Atlantic Coast Line's Tamlaml east coast Champion, who was ill with influenza in-fluenza when -his train crashed into a sister train and killed at least 72 servicemen and civilians, said today that he did hot have a "Chinaman's chance" to avert the wreck. Frank Belknap, 67, veteran of 48 years of railroading, said there were no warning signals set up to notify him of the earlier derail- Passenger Travel Rationing Seen As Possibility WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 UJ The Office of War Information said tonight that American passenger pas-senger travel has almost doubled in the past year to produce "the greatest shuffling and reshuffling of humanity in the history of the world." For this reason, and in view of an expected 15 per cent increase in civilian and military passenger traffic next year, rationing of travel "is still not an impossibility," impossibil-ity," the OW3 quoted Director Joseph Jo-seph B. Eastman of the Office of Defense Transportation as saying. The public, in uniform and out, quadrupled its normal peacetime mileage in 1943 by traveling 117,50,000,000 miles by plane. train and bus, the, OWI said, des pite official requests not to use the already overburdened transportation trans-portation system more than absolutely abso-lutely necessary. . According to Eastman, the OWI continued, at least one out of every fiye civilian trips by rail this year and one out of every three bus trips was in no wise essential. The OWI said the 1943 trans portation load was carried by bus and rail lines witn virtually no extra equipment. Railroads, the report added, are handling to day's traffic with one-fourth fewer few-er cars, one-third fewer locomo tives, and about one-third, fewer employes than they had in the last war. Dr. Morris Fishbeln, editor of the journal of the American Medical Medi-cal Association, told the OWI that overcrowding on transportation transpor-tation .lines is Conducive to the spread of infectious- diseases of all types, "particularly of epidemic epidem-ic respiratory diseases like coughs, colds and pneumonia such as prevail around the -Christmas holiday season." New Income Tax Forms On Yay; May Become Nation's Greatest Parlor Game WASHINGTON, Dec. IS G-H What may well become America s greatest parlor game will get underway shortly with the mailing out of the new income tax forms for the calendar, year 1943. Every individual who paid ori owed a tax on 1942 income, or had a total 1943 Income In excess of 9500 if single or S624 If mar- ried, must file a return next March 15. It Is estimated that this will affect 50,000.000 Individuals.' I A treasury preview of both-the so-called "long form' 1040 and the optional short form for incomes; UTAH'S ONiiT. DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKS ment of the southbound west coast Champion, three cars of which sprawled across the parallel tracks of his speeding northbound train. Wrecking crews still ware searching the twisted mass of steel cars, two of which still had not been pried apart more than 50 hours after the wreck, for the bodies of 10 WAVES listed as missing and believed pinioned' in ine wrecxage. The known victims Included 51 servicemen and 21 civilians, in cluding a month-and-a-half-old baby. :t Major F. F. Snyder, Maxon air base officer who directed the re covery of servicemen's bodies. said he believed the 10 navy en listed women had been trapped and killed In the two cars which were smashed into one tangled mass. Belknap, who gave his version of the accident at his home in Rocky Mount, N. C. where he is ill with the flu, said he was un able to see the three derailed cars because of the glare of the other engine's headlight. "I did not know that part of No. 91 (the southbound train) had been derailed," he said. "But when we passed the engine and got past tne glare or tne headlights. I sua denly saw a man near the tracks trying to flag me. Then I saw a second man waving something. By uwi ume x saw uie oosirucuon and applied the emergency brake. Due it didn't take effect. "I don't know why they didn't come down tne tracks and put a nag out to warn me. We have a 90 mile speed limit and I didn't have a Chinaman's chance to stop." Belknop said he did not feel that he waski any way respon sible for the crash. RENNERT, N. C, Dec. 18 (HE) Workers manning giant cranes and using acetylene torches cut their way inch-by-inch tonight in to the wreckage of .three -twisted coaches believed to hold the last unrecovered bodies of victims of the double wreck of two Atlantic Coast line New York-Florida trains which killed 72 and possibly 82 pre-holiday travelers and injur ed nearly 150. The 72 known dead Included 51 members of the armed services and 21' civilians, of whom 13 had been identified some 69 hours after the wreck. " In addition. Major F. F. Snyder, Maxton army air base officer in charge of military casualties, said 10 WAVE enlisted women known to have been on the train were unaccounted for and believed trapped trap-ped in the three coaches that had not been worked on before today. of $3,000 or less, revealed several new features. The principal differences between be-tween the new "long form" tax re turn blanks and those used a year ago are the sections devoted to calculation of. the-victory tax which became effective Jan. 1 this year and the withholding tax. Major difference Un the snort xorm js uie -forgiveness - leaiure. In it, also, the table of percentages percent-ages has been arranged to simplify! the calculation of the victory tax, while Oh form 1040 a separate column ia provided. j PRICE FIVE CENTS 6th Army Men Strike Over Native Trails Yanks Win Full Control Of Peninsula in Less Than 60 Hours By BRYDON C. TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Sunday, Dec 19 s ee) u. S. 6th army troops today were reported striking over native trails cutting; across the southwestern backbone back-bone of New Britain island, key Japanese stronghold guarding guard-ing the approaches to Truk, after having won full control of strate gic Arawe peninsula in less than 60 hours. A spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's advanced field headquarters head-quarters announced that the three-mile-long peninsula, which Americans restormed from the sea Wednesday morning, was won completely on Friday when the last pockets of Japanese resistance resist-ance were wiped out. The advance is continuing, the spokesman ' said, and front dispatches dis-patches reported patrols of Yanks were fanning out over a network of native trails, the most important import-ant of which runs 40 miles across the -tugged - mountains "to Rein Bay, one of the main transhipment tranship-ment points on ' the barge line from New Guinea to Rabaul, 250 miles northeast of the Arawo beachhead. Brig. Gen. Julian W. Cunningham's Cunning-ham's 6th army, advance into the jungle above the Arawe peninsula was believed to presage a drive to the north coast in an attempt to cut one of the few remaining supply lines to the key Jap. base of Rabaul. The main invasion forces were throwing up fortifications to fend off any possible enemy counterattack. counter-attack. Ninety miles to the southwest across Dampier Strait separating separat-ing New Britain and New Guinea, Australian infantry were pushing ' northward along the New Guinea coast. They crossed the Sanga river beyond the village of La-kona, La-kona, 15 miles north of Allied-held Allied-held Finschhafen, and were fighting fight-ing the Japs in a one-mile stretch: between Lakona and the Masa-weng Masa-weng river. Lakona was taken at 5 p. m. Wednesday and it was stated officially of-ficially that the first phase in the Australian push up the coast of Huon peninsula was nearing an end. A bitter fight was waged for Lakona, where the Japs are dug In along ridges and in caves at the mouth of the Sanga river. The Australians had to use bull-: bull-: (Continued On Page Ten) Chinese Recapture 10 More Villages . CHUNGKKING, Dec. 18 (HE) Chinese , forces have recapture more than 10 strategic villages) tit the "rice bowl" area of central cen-tral China and smashed a Japanese Japan-ese counterattack northeast of Changteh, killing more than 40O enemy troops, the Chinese high command announced tonight. The communique said fierce fighting was Continuing in the outskirts of Ansiang and Nana-sien, Nana-sien, Japanese strongholds on the northwest shore of Lake Tunktlng. War in Brief RUSSIA: Nash admit retreat on Nevel sector as Red army cracks defenses. - PACIFIC: Ui S. sixth army f ana out over Jungle! trails across southwest south-west backbone of New Britain. , ITALY: Savage fighting under-way under-way as fifth army breaks into San Pietro defenses; fighters crash Or-sona. Or-sona. Report iBrenner Pass tail traffic disrupted. Nazis order state of siege In Piedmont. '? BALKANS: ! Jugoslav Partisan counter-attacks cripple "Nazi offensive of-fensive Allies rush supplies from, Italy to Partisans. : ? v - - AIR WARilSilent Nasi tadloa hint night raids; RAF hits German, supply ship off Brittany coasts . f ,FAR EAST; China-based Amer-. lean bombers join i raids on Rangoon; Ran-goon; Chinese, retake 10 villages, mash Jap A counterattack .. near Changteh. : l r- i r |