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Show ' V. V V,- 3? 4 v: ::Ti THE WEATHER By UNITED PRESS UTAH Partly cloudy, with Mattered Mat-tered thnnder tonus era mom tains Sunday; otherwise Uttl chan( la temperature. TEMPERATURES 1 ICch ... to Low 4T, CALt THE HERALD '.'S4' If -you -dbnt receive your Herald . ibeTore. 6:50, call 495 before 8 'dock and copy wiH be eent VXO.yOU. " " ' : t .... .. ; : ... , - , - . 1 ;.VOL 22. NO. 6 Primary Election To .Settle Local, State Nomination Contests trr . - democrats Have Four Local Contests To Settle; GOP contests.Conf ined to Senator, Congressman, Governor and School Head ;if "TnmAvlit wimarv election holds more local interest ? STor the Democrats than the crats have one county commissioner contest ana tnree legislative leg-islative contests to settle in tha election, while the Republ icans have no local contests at The principal local contest t ' cf Lehi acrainst Rav E. Shelley of American Fork for the f lour-year term commissionship nomination on tne uemo- It! XI. A, 1 A. tm Observers Predict n rimary Rt MnBSAT M- MOLER United Pveea Staff Correspondent - 48 ALT LAKE CITY, July 8 OLE) The 23 candldatee for nine nom inations in. Tuesdays Utah prim ry election the earliest primary to bd held In the state since party Conventions were Junked in 193& continued intensive campaigns to day, trying' to get out disinterested voters. r Observers believed that the farm vote this year would be light because of the primary coming fa early July. The three previous primaries have been In September, when farming activities were not cult as intensive. expected to be reflected somewhat in tne city vote oecause more Citizens are on vacation or prefer to spend the warm, sunlit evenings in the mountains or at canyon pic-tiics. pic-tiics. rather than sweating In a Light voting I lussday f t closed polling place booth. ktoexlveter tn the tai fe.4fiJtegialatos and etata farm bureau Tnerf are, rougmj w,vuv res- primary four years ago last time major state offices were at stake icnlv about 120X00 voters re- irnonded. Two years ago. the vote was even lighter, totalling under 60,000. In the 1940 general election. elec-tion. 247.819 votes were cast for I president, while in the l4Z gen-i gen-i eral, the congressional vote totaled I 150.493. " Taking these figures Into consideration. con-sideration. It was doubted that the vote Tuesday would exceed 100.000 especially considering the comparative scarcity of primary Ballots from servicemen ana uie fact that thousands of people are busier In war work than they were even two years ago. ' Primary Interest continued to center on the two battles for gub-crnatlorlal gub-crnatlorlal nominations. - Gov. Herbert B. Maw was Stumping the state, defending his governmental reform administration administra-tion and the current financial Structure against the vigorous attacks at-tacks of State Sen. Stanley N. Child of Salt Lake City, his op ponent for the Democratic nomination. nom-ination. Balloting was expected to t close on this one. . . Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price And Chief of Police Reed VetterU were after the Republican gubernatorial guber-natorial bid and both were doing a lot of campaign work. Observers Observ-ers picked Lee as the probable winner. The Republican senatorial nomination nomi-nation contest, a four-way affair. Was next In line of fire, followed I by the GOP battle in the first Congressional district, also a four- Candidate contest. In neither of these was any man expected to get ia clear majority. This means that the top two in each race would nave to go tnrough a runoff primary prim-ary Aug. 15. In addition to these races, there ate Democratic contests for auditor, aud-itor, treasurer and superintendent of instruction and a Republican fight for superintendent, as well as various local battles for district II Judgeships, district attorneyships I and places- in the state senate and h house. h i The. pous Tuesday win open at t a. n, Mwr uose at i p. m. Steel Shares Go ifo t!ew lljgh i'NEW YORK. July 8 UE Steel anares, long considered leading fWar Babies," spurted this week 'to new highs extending back from if our years, despite the recent hatxarp -slump in production to a leVeAJwnere tne industry fears it Will bevnnable to meet third lirements. The drop ursiperatlons. caused principally by manpower short "ages, drew a wafhiQg from .Charles E. Wilson, executive vice -chairman of the war produi Aboard, that such an acute situation situa-tion has developed that scheduled output ox vitally needed war roods is theatened. 4K This situation was further emphasized em-phasized by disclosure that the United States win receive 10,000 'tons ox steal a month from Zing' land to head .off the threatened Shortage in this country. UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOOTH Or BAX.T VA.KSJ Republicans, because tne demo an. is between sylvan w. uiarK cratic ticket. Mr. Clark is the incumbent who seeks re- nomination in the primary. Legislative Contests The Democrats also have three legislative nomination con tests to settle in the three cen tral legislative districts, No. 2, No.' 3. and No. 4. In Na 2. J. W. Gnixnan of Orem and T. Earl Foots of Pleasant Pleas-ant View wUl fight it out for the nomination. This district hr dudes more than a dozen elec tion districts on the north side of Provo, together with Orem, Pleasant View, Vineyard and Lake View. Sample ballot and list of polling places may be found on page 8, Section two, of today's to-day's issue of the Daily. Ilcr- . In No. 3, embracing the rest of Provo city, Delia Loveridge, the incumbent legislator, is opposed by Ralph H. Peters, CIO union official. In district No. 4. embracing Spanish Fork and Sprlngvllle, there is a three-cornered contest with Selvoy J. Boyer and Howard C Jensen of Sprlngvllle, and William Wil-liam G rote gut of Spanish Fork entered. Mr. Grotegut la the In cumbent. Mr. Boyer is a former omciai, wnue Mr. Jensen Is a merchant and CIO union official. Chief interest for the Republi can voters la in the state ticket, featured by a four-way contest for U. S. senatorial nomination. Both the Democratic and Republican Re-publican tickets have gubernatorial guberna-torial contests to spice the primary, pri-mary, with Governor Herbert B. Maw opposed, by Senator Stanley N. Child for the Democratic nom ination, while Chief of Police (Continued on page five) Barldey to Make Speech Nominating Roosevelt for Fourth Term, Report By EDWARD C. EISENHART WASHINGTON. July 8 OIF5 Democratic circles, In the throes of fresh speculation over vice presidential prospects at the party's national convention, circulated cir-culated a report tonight that senate sen-ate majority leader . Alben W. Barkley. Ky., would make the 1 r Vallace Returns; Schedules Talk SEATTLE, July 9 (EE) Vice President Henry A. Wallace, returning re-turning to the United" States after a trip to Siberia and China, waa expected to arrive here tonight and was scheduled to broadcast his first report to the nation tomorrow afternnon. Capt. Clyde Parsons of the army air transport command here, re fused to reveal what time Wal lace would arrive in Seattle, His broadcast, originating in Seattle (KOMO) over a national hook-up KNBC)tfjvaa slated for 3:30 p. m. Sunday. After leaving the nation's cap ital May 20, Wallace visited military mili-tary bases and conferred with government gov-ernment officials in Siberia and China. Wallace arrived In Great Falls, Mont., from Edmonton, Alta., last night, army authorities disclosed today.. Secret French Underground Activity Revealed by Leader ALGIERS. July 8 UHX Details of the most secret of an French underground movements, the national na-tional movement of prisoners of war. And deportees, were revealed today by the organization's leader, lead-er, who escaped from a German prisoner of war camp in 1942 and left France a month ago to report to Gen. Charles De Gaulle's headquarters. head-quarters. The small, lithe, blue-eyed man, wbotfe name cannot yet be. revealed, reveal-ed, explained that the organisation organisa-tion which has more than 150.000 members In Germany and collects military Informa tion f ef-the Allies, sabotages the German-wamachine, demoralizes German: guardsand prepares tor ultimata-revolt anaescape from concentration camps factories. In France, he revealed. are several Maquis groups com Reconversion Opposed By High Command Warning Soundtd By. Joint Chiefs of Stall Over Production Log By FRED XV. PARKER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 8 u The joint chiefs of staff the nation's military high command tonight 'joined the opposition to war production produc-tion board Chairman Donald M. Nelson's program for starting reconversion now, with the warning that if the current cur-rent lag in war output continues, it "may necessitate revision in strategic plans which could pro long the war." 'In view of the major offen sive operations underway on every front," the .chiefs of staff said in a letter to Nelson, "It is essential at this time that there be no relaxation In war production, produc-tion, and that deficits in deliver ies be made up at the earliest possible date." The letter was signed for the joint chiefs of staff by Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to President Roosevelt Nelson's plan, outlined before the senate Truman war investigating investi-gating committee on June 19, proposed pro-posed a gradual reconversion to civilian manufacture by plants in which war work has definitely ceased, and in areas where manpower man-power is not needed for war production. pro-duction. The WPB chairman, who is convalescing from pnumonla, had informed the Truman committee com-mittee he would issue orders effectuating ef-fectuating the plan on July L but he has not yet done so. The joint chiefs of staff wrote him that "the Issuance of orders or-ders at this time which will affect af-fect our ability to produce war materials la not consistent with the all-out prosecution of the war." Coincident with release of the joint chief s of staff letter, the WPB ' revealed that high-ranking army, navy ana maritime officials offic-ials concerned- with production and procurement had Informed the board's Iron and steel advisory advis-ory committee that there Is immediate im-mediate and imperative need for steel if the Allied forces In Europe Eur-ope are to be adequately supported. sup-ported. Lieut. ' Gen. Brehon Somervell, chief of the army service forces; Vice Admiral S. M. Robinson, navy na-vy procurement chief, and Rear CBt1ar m Paice Five I speech nominating President Roosevelt for a fourth term. There were some who believed that the president would Insist on the renomination of Vice President Presi-dent Henry A. Wallace. But there were others who felt that Mr. Roosevelt would not remain adamant ad-amant if opposition threatened to destroy convention unity. All, however, eagerly awaited Wallace's Wal-lace's radio address from Seattle tomorrow in the hope that' he might drop some hint as to his own future plans. Meanwhile, new names were' listed as added starters In the vice presidential speculative sweepstakes a game that was being played by Democrats and Republicans alike. These were war mobilization Director James F. Byrnes and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Others Oth-ers previously mentioned Include House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Tex, -Sen. Harry S. Truman, Mo., and Barkley. Barkley was at his home In Paducah, Ky., and was not readily read-ily available for comment on the report that he would take the convention lead in calling for a fourth term. Democratic national committee officials here professed profes-sed to have no knowledge of Barkley'a plans, but at least one of them said he "wouldn't be surprised" sur-prised" if the report were true that the Kentuckian would place Mr. Roosevelt In nomination. posed entirely of men who have escaped from Germany. "From our headquarters there," he alded, "we .keep in constant touch with our representatives stlU Imprisoned, Impris-oned, send 'volunteers' back to work as provocateurs and main tain a constant flow of messages into and Out of Germany by meth ods too secret to discuss." He said the movement Is a fusion fus-ion Of three organizations of pitj-oners pitj-oners of war and deportees, one of them a Communist group. It is the only resistance movement which the Communists, who unuaHy work independently, have agreed to join. , - Testifying to the high value In which the movement is held in official of-ficial quarters, the leader asserted that it is free to have its own representative on the 16-man na- coundl of resistance in PROVO. ' UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. BBBBie mmm mm mm m MeesssaBSVv Allies Ctee Im Foifi Capture Reds Capture Vilno;!Ieat! For Brest lit ovslt Capital of Soviet Lithuania Captured In 27-Mile Advance Bx ROBERT MTJSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, July 9 amSoviet tanks and infan try broke into the streets of Wilno, capital of Soviet Lith uania, yesterday in a head long 27-mile advance over the Lithuanian borders, while to the south other Russian troops captured Baranowicze, clearing the way for a mighty three-pronged Red army assault on the fortress city of Brest Lit ovsk. Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovisky's 3rd White Russian army, plunging plung-ing to within 85 miles of east Prussia after driving 229 miles in 16 days, drove the Nazis from house ..to house In Wilno, an ancient an-cient city of. 20,000 pre-war population. pop-ulation. London observers expected ex-pected the city to fall within the next 24 boors. Severs Communication . . Gen. Cherniakhovs ley's forces severed Its communications with Daugavpils, in Latvia, cutting the Leningrad-Warsaw raU trunk line and thus depriving the German Gen. Lindemann's Baltic divis ionstotaling possibly .30 of their main escape route through Poland. Far to the south of the blazinr 350-mile front in Lithuania and Poland, Russian troops drove to witnin .24 miles of Pinsk, and In a three-way drive on the rail junction of Luninets smashed forward for-ward to within 17 miles of that town. Street fifi-htlnr rased in Wilno. city of 200,000 persons, Moscow's operational communique said tonight to-night as Soviet troops plunged to within 95 miles of the border of east Prussia. At the same time, Gen. Ivan D. Chermakhovskv'a Second Whit Russian army severed the city's communications with the Latvian city of Daugavpils, cutting the Leningrad-Warsaw rail trunk line and thus depriving German Gen unaemum i uaiuc divisions possibly pos-sibly totaling 30 of their main escape route through Poland. xne imminent fall of Wilno and the capture of Baranowicze col- iCoetlaera oa Faare Fire) Town Wiped Out In Forest Fire PASCALIS, Que., July 8 (EE) A blackened ruin was all that remained re-mained of this once thriving mining town of SOO population today to-day after a forest fire, fanned by a 30-mlle-an hour wind, raced through the northern Qubec mining min-ing area. ct Kit was reported but it was feared that some residents may be missing as the entire population pop-ulation fled to Val D'or and Sen-neterre. Sen-neterre. Few had a chance to save any possessions. At the height of the fire, many townspeople were forced to take refuge in Pascalis lake. Meanwhile, all inhabitants of the small mining town of CadU-lace CadU-lace were evacuated as miners fought a forest fire less than 600 feet from the town limits. The German guards in the big prisoner "stalags are now be-ginlng be-ginlng to remember that they are Communists, or Catholics, in addition ad-dition to being Nazis. These men, he said, often relax their guard. permitting more freedom amongS prisoners and even nelp them escape. "Even before I fled,' he said, "I knew of about 1000 .cases in which French soldiers were sent ' back to France as 'sick or "veterans of the last war on false papers, occasionally oc-casionally with the .complicity, of the Germans.' . "I wrote a pamphlet called The Deportees' -Manual In which I instructed in-structed prisoners not, to shun contact with the Germans but' to talk to them and undermine their morale Impress on them the conviction con-viction that the Allies will win-that-they are fighting in vain. SUNDAY, Roosevelt Greets BfyT,',."U-".i m-,i iMniM"yi urn. ihi.j')..,.i.ihiiiiihiii mil i hr vVV. 'V-.-:- JsrsisSJfcnfaWf :i!f; j.ri r&-jr-mmK - tfu'rrVlV-frWij:HMW,ft ' '" ' v AvmtMtiai mm n mitt-ifti n m , i iVn i Mv. M President Franklin D. Roosevalt greets Gen. Charles De Gaulle with a hearty handshake as the French leader arrived at the white Hqusa-or long awaited conference. . Basind-FV DrlL stands his daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger. Roosevelt, DeGaulle Conclude Talks To Clear the Vay for Cooperation WASHINGTON. July 8 (TIP) President Roosevtl and General Charles De Gaulle today concluded con-cluded buslnss talks which official offic-ial associates of both men hoped had cleared the way for co-opera- President Grant, Luxury Liner, Lost In Storm SAN FRANCISCO. July 8 (HE) Loss of the famed President Grant, former round-the-world luxury liner, In a 'storm in the South Pacific was disclosed today by the war shipping administration coincident with the arrival of the merchant marine crew survivors here. No lives were lost in the acci dent when the 13,050 dead weight ton vessel broke on a submerged reef barely ten miles from its foreign destination. No enemy action ac-tion was involved. Crew members, most of them from the San Francisco area, celebrated cele-brated their homecoming. It was the first time in five months they were on solid ground. The crew had been signed on In San Francisco last January. For most of them it was their first sea voyage. The men were met at the dock by representatives of the American President lines and given $100 each for their first shore leave celebration. They were in good health and eager to ship again. First, however, they wanted to "just stand on solid ground for awhile and look at women." "The merchant seamen told a story of a heroic three month's long struggle to save their crippled crip-pled vessel. While weathering a heavy storm the big ship struck a reef at 5:10 a. m. when only ten miles from port. All hands were held ready to abandon ship, but when daylight day-light came it was determined the vessel was not going to sink. Goebbels Admits Reich In Danger LONDON. July 8 (UE Nan Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels Goe-bbels told the German people to day that the Reich is in "grave danger" and that If it Is destroyed Germany wiH not have a chance to repeat this struggle for another an-other 19, 20 or 60 years," the DNB News Agency reported. Goebbels warning, coming al most Immediately after Adolf Hitler's admission to German in dustrialists that the Reich's in dustries were being far outstripped outstrip-ped by the Allies, wss directed to a massmeetlng of 200,000 Germans Ger-mans at an unidentified town "in the east" and broadcast for German Ger-man consumption. ' JULY 9, 1944 Do. Gaulle tion between the western Allies and the French committee of national na-tional liberation. Leaving, the White House after talking with the president for one hour, De Gaulle said he probably would not return. However, he refused to give reporters tui inkling ink-ling of what conclusions he and Mr. Roosevelt had reached. It was the second business conference con-ference between the two leaders since De Gaulle's arrival on Thursday. The talks were conducted con-ducted in an atmosphere so harmonious har-monious that American and French officials hoped they would speed U. S. approval formal or informal of tentative British- French agreements for civil administration ad-ministration of France. Before going to the white house, De Gaulle received more than 150 members of France forever, for-ever, the original De Gaullist organization in the United States. "The flame of France burns more brightly today than at the time of her defeat in 1940," De GauUe told the group of French patriots and American supporters who were almost hysterical In their enthusiasm. Diplomatics and officials of all categories were pleased and a little amazed by the harmony which has prevailed ever since S Gaulle's arrival on Thursday, e head of the French committee commit-tee of national liberation had been painted in this capital as a stiff-necked, stubborn man who would never . give up a position once taken. The French leader in his public pub-lic utterances said nothing of committees or governments; he talked only of French-American cooperation and interdependence. He charmed and impressed ; all American officials with whom he talked. U. S. Has Its Own Secret Weapons; tlothing to Fesr From Hitler Robots By GRANT DttJLMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, July 8 EB American "has nothing no-thing to fear" from Hitler's secret se-cret weapons because the United States has Its own secret weapons, weap-ons, including robot planes, that are "far in advance of anything the enemy has disclosed." Major-Gen. Bennett 15. Meyers, commanding com-manding general of the AAF materiel ma-teriel command, said today. Meyers told approximately CO newspapermen visiting the material ma-terial command under the auspices aus-pices of the Eastern Procurement district that we have our own secret weapons and materiel command experts are constantly at work" on new inventions, new planes and new equipment. j I know there is no question gs COMPUBTB UNITED PRESS TETUCGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICB) 1 Berlin Hints Of Abandonment By German Defenders British Smash Into Battered Bastion on the Road to Paris, Capturing 12 Forts in Juggernaut Offensive Staged Saturday ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, LONDON, Sunday, July 9 British troops smashed into Caen Saturday, Sat-urday, sweeping through 12 suburban forts in a juggernaut jugger-naut offensive to within half a mile of the center of the city, and Berlin hinted that the Germans were abandoning the burned and battered bastion on the road to Paris. Patrols may already have penetrated the inner dty, and it appeared that Gen. Sir B. L. Montgomery's British Sec ond army had met and mastered i the main German force facing the French beachhead In a battle bat-tle that may go down as one of the decisive actions of the war. American troops at their end of the 120-mile offensive front swept into La Haye Du Pults for the fourth time and on their east flank captured 8t. Jean De Daye, drilling a deep hole near the center cen-ter of the German front. Hundreds of Prisoners Late despatches from the Caen front said Canadian anti-tank gunners knocked out IT German tanks yesterday. They reported the battle' largely was an infantry and artillery -operation and that the first thrust had cracked most of the strong rings of German defenses de-fenses around Caen. Hundreds of German prisoners prison-ers were taken aa the British hacked through stone villages In Caen's western, northern and northeastern outskirts where German Ger-man resistance,, fierce when the attack started before dawn, wilted wilt-ed late In the day under the overpowering over-powering assaults. There were signs that German Japs Lose 1500 Dead In Saipdn Counter-Attack By WILLIAM F. TTREE United Press War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, July 8 -- Desperate Japanese troops cornered on the northwestern rim of Saipan counter-attacked U. S. forces before dawn Thursday morning and gained threefourths of a mile in several hours of bloody fighting in which 1500 of the enemy were killed and num- erous American casualties were incurred, it was announced an-nounced today. American marines and soldiers fell back 2,000 yards before the vicious counter - offensive, out rallied their forces before noon and smashed forward again to re gain 800 of the lost yards. The Japanese drive was concentrated against the American left name and at one point it moved to the edge of Tanapag town. Lsuincn Atiacn The Japanese opened a short lived artillery attack on Isely airfield from Tinan island and air- raided American positions ineffectually inef-fectually simultaneous with the ground counter-ofenslve In the north. Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz' Pacific fleet headquarters communique com-munique disclosed a total of 66 to the superiority of our equip ment,' he sua "Aiinougn sometimes, some-times, people ask us why we don't have certain weapons when the enemy has them, many times we do have them, but we can't tell everyone about it. "We've had robot planes for instance. in-stance. We've been working on them for years. But the robot plane is a frantic, desperate ef fort on the part of the Nazis, They're strictly a defensive weapon weap-on and we dont need them now. "When and if the time comes to use them, we've got them. But our whole concept of bombing is precision bombing. The only instance in-stance In which I can conceive of the use of robots by the Allies would be in the case of unfavor able frying weather when we might want to bombard a specific - a. a. eaeinj target. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS heavy guns and tanks were with-drawine with-drawine to a new line below Caen and the Berlin radio, pessimistic U throughout the day on the battle for the city, said last night that It Is not Improbable ws may shorten our lines by withdrawing; them beyond Caen.' Caen, with a population of 50v 000. is as big as Cherbourg and ranks aa France's seventh portv It Met - nine miles-from tharsenc but has a large floating basin and huge docking space with outlets to the coast through the Orna river and canal, making It a valuable valu-able addition to the Allies conquests con-quests in France. The 11:30 p. m. Allied communl- jque reported steady gams were made Saturday on an active por tions of the front, with the Amer icans back In La Haye and holding hold-ing all high ground in the area. After capturing St. Pean seven miles southeast of Carentan, the Tanks linked two spearheads in the central sector and plunged en south toward Important Pont-Hebert Pont-Hebert through a hail of fire from (vxmtluued an page five) Japanese planes were destroyed and 96 damaged in the previously-announced carrier attacks on Chichi and Hah Islands in the Bon Ins group, 650 miles from Tokyo. , It was obvious now that the Jap anese, trapped on a narrow strand by the inexorable advance of leathernecks and soldiers, will try to sell Saipan as fanatically and dearly as possible. The right flank of the United states forces continued to ad- vance and reached a point slight! more than a mile from the tut completed airfield at Marl point at the extreme northern end of j the 15-mile-long Island. 'Several thousand" Japanese -participated in the counter-at-attack. Thy lunged against the : (Continued on page five) . '' War In Brief By United Press INVASION: British drtva tdr-within tdr-within half a mile of Caenr cen-' ter: Berlin indicates Nazi 8 abandoning city; Americans smash hole , in center of Normandy lines, : v taking St. Jean De Daye. . " RUSSIA: Russians tight into -streets of Wilno; capture Baranowicze. Baran-owicze. . ... ITALY: Allies storm throng -three of four main outposts ex.-Gothic ex.-Gothic line;, move within 11 mDes' . of Florence as fierce battle rages. PACIFIC Cornered Japs open strong-counterattack on Saipan;;. lose 1,500, dead in three-fourths -of a nils gain. . Am WAR: More than 1.000-Italy 1.000-Italy based U. S. planes blast oil refineries and airfields tn Austria, Hungary; others batter German lines around Caen. " i CHINAs 'Reinforced Chinese press counter-offensive successfully from tnree. ewes cx Hengyang. - - - , BiisiiAt British drive Jap rem- . inants from points around Imphal: 11,000 Japs killed In abortive four- aw -- nwui vucohtsj |