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Show f : . I "i v t1 ' - i V- VOL. 21, NO. Byrd Proposes Liquidation Of MOLC Byl946 Chairman of Economy Committee Introduces Bill on His Proposal By GLEN BAYLESS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D. V&., chairman of the joint econ-pmy econ-pmy committee, recommended recommend-ed tonight that the Home Owners Loan Corp, dispose of ?ts mortgages and real estate to private business and liquidate all its activities by June 30. 194G. Byrd introduced a bill detailing his proposals for' eliminating the 11-year-old New Deal agency, and Rep. Everett Dirkaen, R.. HI., expects to Introduce similar legislation legis-lation on Monday. The HOLC has "accomplished its principal objectives" of aiding homeowners during the depression, depres-sion, Byrd Eaid, and already .. is slowly liquidating its assets. He proposed a speeding up of the process pro-cess to: 1. Reduce the obligations 'of the United States. 2. Reduce by several thousands the number of officials and employes em-ployes of the government. 3 Reduce non-war expenditure? expendi-ture? and government activities. B3Td has campaigned for nearly near-ly a year to reduce government personnel by 300,000. Ilia committee com-mittee last J'ear succeeded against administration opposition in wlp-l ing out the National Youth Administration, Ad-ministration, another of the depression-born New Deal agencies. Seeks More Time Byrd's bill will go to the senate banking committee, headed by Een. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., vho is expected to oppose it atrongly. John H. Fahey, HOLC administrator, admin-istrator, has appealed for a longer long-er period of liquidation. Suggesting Suggest-ing a 1952 deadline Fahey said tho government will lose money in selling HOLC assets If it is forced to go out of business too hurriedly. Rep. John Taber. R., N. Y.. told the house on Monday that HOLC mortgages now outstanding total $1,440,000,000. He paid Fahey had estimated that payments thia year will bring about a15 per cent reduction. HOLC now owns 12.-000 12.-000 properties, but sales by July will reduee the number to 7,500, Taber said. The agency has made no new loans since 1936. Dirksrn estimated that 510-000,000,000,000 510-000,000,000,000 is available in savings sav-ings institutions and private financing fin-ancing firms already and willing to take over HOLC activities. . Byrd's measure would direct HOLC to sell to private business its mortgages, home - purchase contracts, repossessed real estate and othr assets for cash or government-guaranteed obligations on terms determined by the HOLC. Present occupants of property would be given first opportunity to purchase from HOLC. with down payments as low as 10 per cent. The bill, however, would place a 15-year time limit on completing com-pleting installment payments. HOLC loans originally were made on a 25-year basis. Uo Bo Fliers BMst Wake Mandt War Bond Train Comes Yednesday To Utah County SALT LAKE CITY. Fob. 5 ui'j War bond sales in Utah in the Fourth War Loan drive now-total now-total f21,666,311 toward the $40.-. $40.-. 000,000 goal, while sales of bonds to individuals total only $9,555,-100 $9,555,-100 toward a quota of .$22,000,000, the Utah war finance committee announced today. At the same time, the committee commit-tee announced a change in the schedule for the war bond train that is to tour north-central Utah next week. The train was to havo started its trip Monday morning in northern Cache county, but the committee was advised that Cache county has already exceeded exceed-ed its quota for the drive and that county officials thought the trip would be unnecessary. Present plans now call for the interurban, a train carrying six cars of war material and a ".military ".mili-tary band, to begin its trip Tuesday Tues-day morning in Brigham City, visiting vis-iting Kaysville, Farmington and Bountiful Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday the train will be in Riverton, Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and Orem and Thursday it will st?p in Prove. SprtngviUe, Spanish Fork ana Payion. " --------- - - - . - '- UTAH'S. ONLY DAILY SOUTH OK 8 ALT LAKE American Troops Threaten Encirclement Of Cassino, German Stronghold in Italy Yanks Battle Nazis House to House Through Cassino C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, Algiers, Feb. 5 l-j American troops, driving through the mountains behind be-hind Cassino, brought that embattled Nazi stronghold under three-fourth encirclement encircle-ment today and battled the Uermans from house to house through its streets, as the British flank of the Rome beachhead gave ground under terrific Nazi counter-blows. The Germans had only a nar-rowmg nar-rowmg escape corridor but of Cassino to 'the southwest but in their determination to hold the town had brought in still more reinforcements last night. The enemy also was disclosed to have reinforced the Rome front by rushing over the crack 26th panzer pan-zer division from the Adriatic. Taking advantage of houses with two-foot-thick stone walls, the Germans had converted Cassino Cas-sino into an intricate fortress that was defying the fiercest American efforts to crack it after af-ter four days "bt heavy fighting. Fighting, even more bitter than that for Ortona, was reported raging in the northwestern quarter quar-ter of Cassino where the American Ameri-can held firmly to their advance positions although buildings and houses changed hands every hour. The original small German garrison gar-rison was reinforced and the, Nazis Na-zis were using every "type of grin they could lay hands on from heavy arHery and "screaming-meemle'' "screaming-meemle'' rocket mortara to pistols. The Americans had tried repeatedly re-peatedly to blast their way with tanks into the center of the city (Contlaned on Pace Eight) Maw Confers With Roosevelt About Politics. Geneva WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (U.R) C.nx, Utrhorl R Maur rf TTfaV, n. day assured President Roosevelt; France, a total of two heavy Allied bombers are over thejground. that his fetate would go 'Demo-j bombers, four medium bombers.' Reich) I Vprv f( W lVaz1 P'lots accepted cratic in the coming election andjtwo light bombers and four fight-) RAF and dominions bombers; darn a'ld as a resu,t V?e lgn subsequently told newspapermen jers were missing. It said four en-'and fighters in considerable num-j'h "laJor A mencan aic attack on that "Roosevelt will win by a landslide in November." He said he did not discuss thn fourth term at his White House conference, but he told reporters on leaving inai ine wnoie wesii is for Mr. Roosevelt he'll sweep I . . II that entire rVart of the country." j CXplOSIVGS Hidden The Democratic governor said I arrXSirSriOn British Ships the elections he would come back to prove his prophecy. It was: "After t)fcf Renublirans niit select a presidential candidate, the j people will look at him and com- pare him with the president. The; answer will Roosevelt." be, naturally, Mr. Maw said, that the primary pur pose of his White House visit 'office announced today. was to report to the president! -These cargoes all were ex- that steel soon will be coming, amined upon arrival Hnd no fur- irom me new swci piani ai ueneva btan. ftoiancea by the De-filaten)cnt said. ..Bo:nbs of Gcr. fense Plant Corp.. and operated man origin, however, since have yK.UuS- StCel 5;??' .Ma en discovered in a crate of said that there was sufficient out-oniona hch t d t onc cropping ot iron ore in Uie Geneva thpgc area to operate the new plant fori ' 15 years, and he added that Utah' "n is 9ulte certain that the in-had in-had enough coal to supply the : tention of the enemy in placing world at its present rate of con sumption for 150 years. Maw said he would home tonight. return i Government to Build 1200-Mile Crude Oil Pipeline From Persian Gulf to Eastern Mediterranean Announces kites WASHINGTON, Feb, 5 U.K Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes announced tonight that the United States government will build a 1200-mile crude oil pipeline pipe-line from the Persian gulf area to a port on the eastern Medi terranean in an effort to relieve the burden on this country's dwindling oil reserves. Ickes said arrangements for construction of the line also provide pro-vide for establishment of a reserve re-serve of 1,000,000,000 baxrels of oil for the naval and military forces of the United States. The pipeline, he said, will cost between $130,000,000 and $165,-000,000 $165,-000,000 but he said the entire amount, plus interest and a net profit, will be returned to the government within 25 years. Under Un-der the agreement which still is PRO VP, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH; Allies Repulse Naz MILES (rut A Telepkoto) ALLIED Fifth Army troops smashed long-awaited heavy! German counter-attacks against their beachhead south of Rome, while American troops, after be log driven from Cassino after terror-filled night fight, surge back into ruined town for death battle wfith Nazi garrison. 1500 American Planes Wreck Six German Air Bases Ringing Paris By WALTER CRONKITE j United Press War Correspondent! LONDON, Ftb. 5 (UP) An' estimated 1 firm Amr-ricnn planes, including more than P00 bombers, blasted encmv installa-; tions from the French invasion coast to well beyond Paris today in a challegee to Nazi air power which the Luftwaffe largely ignored. ig-nored. A joint communique of Amer ican army headquarters and the British air ministry said that in'ported telephone communications; the American operations, plus re- noaleH Rritial, alurla r.n nnrthem : 1 '! trS KCVl 8h0t W" by; llned. taTth reord "fa"1: nine davs obtained "excellent re-Alhed re-Alhed heavy bombers and six by on the reeling Luftwaffe and the. ujt5-. nt small cost While these our escorting fighters. coastal defenders of Hitler s roof- ?reat formations blasted air fields A rfcat force pstimntrrl nt ranrr less fortress. Boston s TVBhoons. i h Pom. r-m rrr.,t m,,,-,K- than 700 hreavy bombers and 500: , In Spanish Ports I LONDON. Feb. 5 fC.D A bomb1 of German origin discovered in a; crate of onions has been traced, to- the same "British merchant j ships which brought from Spain a a cargo of oranges in hich explosives ex-plosives also were found, the home ther bombs were found," the these bombs aboard was to sink the ships. They were not aimed at the civil population of count rv." subject to approval by the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait the government owned petroleum reserves corporation will con-strurt, con-strurt, own and maintain the pipeline. Ickes said the project is covered cover-ed under an agreement in principle prin-ciple between the United States and Arabian-American Oil Co. and the Gulf Exploration Co., which operates in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, respectively. The Arabian-American Oil Co. is owned by the Standard Oil Co. of .California and the Texas Co. and tli Gulf Exploration Co. is owfied by the Gulf Oil Corp. Tonights' announcement constituted con-stituted the first official disclosure disclos-ure of a deal in which Petroleum Reserve Corp has been involved. The corporation was set up last year, report?3!y it Ickes re i Rome Counter-Of : : : ; fighters roared through. the Nazis'! vaunted "fighter belt" into the! wnr-!heart of France and wrecked six, vital German air basea ringing varia More than 200 U. S. Marauder medium bombers roared through 'intense flak barrage in stacks on a number of military objectives along the channel ; coast. I (Berlin radlon stations left the with the German capital had been! iiisiuuHmI llci.allv. on Inrllr a t inn Mosquitoes and Spitfires attacked! Dutch Underground Army Stands Ready To Strike Communications From Rear By JOHN R. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 5 U.E Months . . , . , v reliable Dutch underground army, built around a nucleus of 50,000 former Dutch soldiers,! which stands ready to smash -from the rear against German - communications com-munications as soon as the i A Hies Invade western Europe, reliable sources reported tonight. Plana for the Dutch underground under-ground campaign have been fully coordinated and only 10 days ago entered the "final phase before invaslon" underground leaders said. The final phase includes aiation in Holland, carried by the campaign to weaken the German' g ndinavian telegraph bureau in this Nazi administrative centers, free-ling free-ling political prisoners "in pome- quest, to handle foreign petroleum dealings in behalf of .this country. coun-try. It has been the target for widespread criticism, however, since its Inception. A - senate interstate commerce subcommittee is scheduled to have Ickes as a witness 5 next Tuesday on a resolution calling for dissolution of Petroleum Reserves Re-serves Corp., and if' is generally expected that the petroleum ad-administrator ad-administrator at that time will be subjected to ' vigorous questioning question-ing concerning his views on'hat government policy should be in connection with - development of foreign oil reserves. Ickes said the new agreement was'entered into with the approval appro-val of President Roosevelt and the state department, and oh the recommendation of the army and navy-Joint chiefs ol BtafI, - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, fensive PESCARAl fanatic Sea Ortono enemy targets from Beauvis-Tille airdrome 50 miles north, of Paris to the channel Only four of the armada of U. S. Marauders were missing and returned crewmen said no enemy aircraft was able to penetrate the escort of Spitfires which accompanied accom-panied them. Similar reports came from the Fortresses and Liberators which iack that was a clear challenge me uunwane 10 lorae up anu ' IieDt Or De QeSllOea Oil ine r.,ntnud on rc Ki-h thine like open battles" and wrecking communications, Thousands of Dutchmen have Knn.i ...... ..!.,, i . iVir. rnuut hv Germans and Nazi iSUrnmary courts are handing down death sentences pitilessly in an at- tempt to stamp out the growing wave of sabotage. Burgomasters are being dismissed in. droves for their leniency toward the partiota and the Nazis are purging public utility services of suspected Dutchmen to avoid breakdowns of service when the invasion comes. The German version of the situ- a Stockholm dispatch dated from Amsterdam, said that the German authorities are "doing their, utmost ut-most to calm the population." The dispatch eaid Dutchmen were suffering suf-fering from "invasion fever" whipped whip-ped up by "British agents." NAZI DESTROYER SUFFERS 1UTS LONDON, Feb. 5. (UK) Light Royal Navy forces scored several hits on a German, destroyer of the Ebling class in a brief engagement en-gagement off the Isle of Devier-ges, Devier-ges, off the northwest coast of France today, the admiralty announced an-nounced tonight. POSTAL REVENUES UP WASHINGTON, -Feb. 5 ,(UD-Postal ,(UD-Postal revenues for 1943 exceeded exceed-ed $1,000,000,000 for the first time in any calendar year, reaching reach-ing an estimated total of $1,030,-709,396, $1,030,-709,396, the post office department depart-ment said today. The 1943 total was an increaie in revenue of 15.2 per cent over 1942. 1944 Reds Capture Lutsk, Rovno In New Advance Gains Put Red Armies Within 290 Miles of Old German Border By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 6 (ttE) Gen. Nikolai F. Vatu- tin's first Ukrainian army, resuming its westward off en- sive has advanced 46 miles ldruier into oiu roiana oyi capturing the city of Lutsk and has won more than, 200 other , localities along a 105-mile curving front, Moscow announced last night. Rovno, 40 miles southeast of! Lutsk, also was taken. At Lutsk. 80 miles inside Poland, the Russians Rus-sians were within 290 miles of the pre-war German border and 45 miles from the Bug river frontier fron-tier of the part of Poland the Nazis occupied In 1939. Capture of Lutsk, a city of 32,000, represented repre-sented a 46-mile advance for Gen. Vatu tin's men who last were reported re-ported cn Jan. 16 at the town of Kostopol, 19 miles northeast of Rovno. Moscow's broadcast communiques communi-ques also revealed that in yesterday's yester-day's fighting Gen. Vatutin's eastern east-ern wing and Gen. Ivan S. Knoev's second Ukrainian army, tightening tighten-ing a ring of steel around an estimated 100.000 Germans trap ped in the middle Dnieper river pocket, cut the area of the trap down to about 900 Bquare miles by capturing 14 towns and advancing ad-vancing to within 20 miles of a junction which would apltt the pocket in half. Win Four Towns On the northern side of the pocket the Russians won four towns on the corners of a 32- square mile area. They werw Shelepukhi, on the northwestern corner six miles from the Dnieper river; iTuboltst, on the northeast- ern side; Belozerye, 11 miles from the river on the southwest una eeiDuzy, & nines in irom tne stream on the southeast. On the northern side they captured cap-tured Olshana, 17 miles northwest of Shpola and two miles Into t.h pocket nnrf Verhovkn 1 ,u northwest of Shpola and five!?". ,",;,"s . uen' "'""""'" miles into the pocket. A 20-mile gap separated .the Russians at!cd bv tne Kwajalein invasion ti Knn . . . Nimitz' announcement of the anUSi- Jfnhl? r eprl!?,V,et capture of the three islets it t8;81"' bought- t twentv the number in R,?JlnHvnJtr vdt "V tne the Kkajalein atoll chain now in Russians driving into Estonia were!ir hanH mopping up the east bank of thei ... , AW . , . , Nan-a river, presumably in pre-1, Kwajalein, Abeye and Loi is-paration is-paration for an assault on the'ands have been captured by our ancient fortress of Nana on the west bank of the stream and six miles over the border. The Rus- sians also advanced along the east bank of Lake Peipus to the south- eat : east. Moscow's daily war bulletin j broadcast by the Moscow radio re vealed that the Russians were mile norin-souin ironi. ana naa (Conlinard en Pare Elsht Uruguay Convicts Seven Nazi Spies MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb. 5 (U.P Seven Germans were sentenced sen-tenced to five to 13 years' imprisonment im-prisonment and an eighth was ordered or-dered ' deported . today following disclosures' that a ring headed by Arnulf1 Fuhrman planned to occupy oc-cupy Uruguay with unidentified troops and convert the country into a Nazi colony. Gen. Pedro Slceo, chief of the Uruguayan general staff, indicated indi-cated that the plot was of a serious nature when It was uncovered un-covered during the anti-Nazi investigation in-vestigation of 1940. 65,000 Independent Union Workers Go Out On Strike to Protest CIO Request By GENEVIEVE SCOTT United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Feb. 5 (EE) The strike of the Mechanics Education Society of America, (independent), (independ-ent), was expected to reach 65,000 union members in 67 Ohio and Michigan plants tonight as union officiate defied orders of the War Labor Board and the navy department de-partment to resume production. Approximately 22,000 Mesa workers were out In 30 plants in Toledo, Cleveland and Detroit in protest azainst a United Auto- Ijttobile Workera (CIO) request for a fcargainiEj election at the wu- COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE U. S. 7th Division Last Jap Opposition In Marshall Islands U. S. Planes Have Again Ranged Far On Road To Tokyo To Batter Enemy On Wake, Eniwetok Islands, Nimitz Says ' By william f. tvree " s United Press Staff Correspondent . .(. FEARL HARBOR, Feb. 5 American seventh; i division troops have blasted the Japanese out of their last" pill-boxes on Kwaialein islet, jalein atoll, and U. S. planes have again ranged far out on-the on-the road to Tokyo to batter the enemy on Wake and Enfc wetok islands, it was announced today. An 11-word communique Nimitz revealed that the main objectives had been seized in the opening blow of the offensive against Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor empire and a navy communique disclosed disclos-ed the new aerial blows against the Japanese flanks in the Mar-shalls Mar-shalls island area. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett's troops captured the seaplane base of Ebeye and the adjoining island of Loi, both near Kwajalein islet. Two squadrons of huge Consolidated Con-solidated Coronado seaplanes bombed Wake island the night of Feb. 4-5, handing its third battering bat-tering since Monday to that tiny outpost where a handful of marines ma-rines waged an immortal defense after Pearl Harbor. Wake is approximately ap-proximately 700 miles north and slightly east of Kwajalein. Keep Up Assoults Carrier-based planes meanwhile had struck 300 miles northwest of Kwajalein Thursday, bombing Eniwetok which is the westernmost western-most Marshalls bastion and only 800 miles from the treat enemy stronghold of Truk. Many tons of bombs were loosed on the air field and n a nearby concentration concentra-tion of tanks. Lighter aircraft kept up runn ing assaults in the Marshalls ;area. Warhawk fighters bombed and machine-trunried Mili atoll1 Thursday and army Ventura me dium bombers sank a small freighter off Imieji island in Ja-luit Ja-luit atoll and bombed the island. No planes were lost in these op- ! erations. the enemy's air resist of the last two months culminat- torces, said tne lerse "ctory announcement. Kwajalein is the administrat- I've seat of the atoli while Loi five miles to the north and Ebeye is in between the two. There was a strong probability that American troops had landed on other islands, with the Japanese Japan-ese helpless to resist them under the overpowering weight o f All.- ed aerial and naval Woywr Some of the is ands had been -wept clean of the enemy in a matter of minutes after the soldiers or ma - rines, who were working the (Continued on Page Eight) Nine Killed When Navy Plane Drops . FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.,Feb. 5 (U.E) Nino persons were killed when a navy plane crashed Into the Atlantic about seven miles east of Miami Thursday afternoon, after-noon, the Ft. Lauderdale naval air station announced today. All persons aboard the plane were lost, the navy said. The killed include Samuel J. Harmon, seaman, 1-c, Oasis, Utah. lys-Overland plant in Toledo. Matthew Smith, secretary and spokesman for the union, said Mesa officials would not appear at a show-cause hearing in Washington Wash-ington Monday because it would be impossible to summon all 100 members of the executive board by that time. "We are not being told what to do," he snapped, "and nobody would ask 100 people to Washington Wash-ington on Monday morning. We'd have to hire 10 airplanes and sleep on the pavement." Mesa officials contended the UAW-CIO was. "taking their ter-(Coatlaaea ter-(Coatlaaea em- Pace igt) THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy Booth portion! por-tion! Cooler. Little change In letst? perature Sunday. -"' PRICE FIVE CENTS i '. the principal island in Kwa- from Admiral Chester W. 80 Jap Planes Knoc ted Out In New Guinea t-5 BT DON CASWELL United Press War Correspondent ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-" QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday Feb. 6 (UJ2) Eighty Japanese planes were knocked out of th.. New Guinea fighting in a smash! ing series of raids Thursday, . sv communique announced today ,T while at the other end of the Bismark sea. battlcline U. S. force have sliced across Bougainville In a sudden quickening of the south west Pacific offensive time-table-. Portents of new offensive action in New Guinea soon were indicated in the split-second timing and careful planning that caught and destroyed 72 grounded Japanese planes at the Wewak airdrome network. 5 The coordinated mid-day attack: opened with a heavy bomber assault as-sault that rained 1,000 and 2,000 pound bombs on parked aircraft at Wewak and Borum, destroying at least 12. Eight fighters of 40 that attempted at-tempted to intercept were shot down. Then, as the enemy fighters landed at But and Dagua airdromes air-dromes to refuel, wave after wavet of medium bombers roared in to destroy 60 on the ground with nearly 200 tons of bombs. fa Other surprises were thrcOTi against the Japanese Thursday. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur revealed that U. S. forces holding the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead on Bougainville had j mlddle of iglaad ,B"6B . . ,., "TTT. ana aavancca to wimm nvo uuira nf Nlinm N,,ma on the east coast. I hpraidlnt, the start of fn?"S ninio o mraUonT m LInal mopping-up operauons on Boutrainville before invading Ra- baul, .the American drive sliced Japanese forces in two on, the) largest island of the Solomons TV. A tv.nia Aft. d japanese'at mi,e8 wegt f NumJfc p wh h , 35 T .ki ; lfrom CaPe orOKina- 1 .i - - Man, Woman Held In Child's Death g SANTA ROSA. Cal., Feb. 8 CX Allan B. Lembke, 22, a mer chant seaman, rind Mrs. Elaine Sumner, were held in the Sonoma county jail tody for invesUga tion following the death of Mrs Sumner's daughter, Lani Maurine Sumner, 3H years old. The child died last night at hospital and a medical examina tion showed she had been crlm inally assaulted and beaten, ap cording to District Attorney V0 land McGettigan. , - Lembke admitted hitting the, child, the district attorney said, with his fist "because aha wouldn't mind me," but denied ha raped her. The child's father. Roy Sumner, Sum-ner, a navy torpedoman, recently was reported missing in action, Mrs. Sumner and the child were evacuated from Honolulu shortly after Pearl Harbor and cam, tfl live at nearby Guerneville. . iv DRAFT DODGER BERGDOLJ;; FREED FROM PRISON ' . DOWINGTOWN, Pa., Feb. 5. (UJt) Literally barricaded in hif sprawlmff farm home at the edft, of Dawningtown tonight, Grovel Cleveland BergdoH, 50-year o14 veteran of World War I draft dodging, cut off his telephone, service, pulled the curtains ant) .began a new career as a couatrt gentleman, 1 1 - masts |