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Show , K TteWeatKer r.n1l The Herald i , . . . "Y I I:! J ,u .x, . '. I f I , ' . ." ) ill' I I - I i ' i 1 in, i i li i i VOL. 20, NO. 40 SS&SESh Sl?!3 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, ; UTAH, 5U3AY, ; MARCH; 28, 1 OPA Revises Its Point Value On Canned Fruits Point Value on Some Items Lowered, Others Raised; Approximately 50 Percent of Housewife's Food Budget Rationed By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 27 (lIE The office of price administration Saturday night revised its point values on canned and processed fruits and vegetables, lowering values on several items and raising a few, effective Monday the same day rationing starts of meat, butter, cheese and cooking cook-ing fats. The OPA lifted all rationing restrictions on dried and dehydrated prunes raisins and other fruits, and on canned O apple juice. It drastically slashed m m ' m I point values on all canned fruit raciiing uompany To Discontinue Sale to Retailers PHOENIX, Ariz., March 27 OLE) The Tovrea Packing: company, which supplies approximately 75 per cent of beef to civilians and 90 per cent of beef to armed forces in Arizona, announced Saturday night that by April 10 its output would be curtailed 65 per cent including in-cluding a complete shutdown of sales to retailers. The curtailment is being forced, forc-ed, the company explained, by price ceilings allowing insufficient margin between prices of live cattle, which are uncontrolled, and .fixed wholesale prices of meat Isold by the company. - The company printed a full two-page two-page advertisement in the Arizona Republic, Phoenix, explaining its decision and reasons. None For Retailers Forty per cent of its output will go to the armed forces, the remainder re-mainder far short of normal needs to restaurant supply divisions di-visions in Phoenix ' and. iTncsoiu There will be none for retailers except that supplied by other companies. "HiUiard Brooke, Office of Price Administration director for Arizona, Ari-zona, conceded that the resulting situation would be drastic in the extreme. "But it is away over my head," he said. "Whatever is done .must be directed by Washington. While (fair situation 'is perhaps unusually Tacute, it is in some degree existent exist-ent over the entire country." President Phil Tovrea of the packing company said he had received re-ceived no reply to wires sent Washington officials including Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown,, and Director of Economic Stabilization James ByrtJe, telling the company's situ- ation and plans. One wire said the company was losing $3,000 daily on livestock operations. v. Scalley to Ask Recognition for Sugar Industry SALT LAKE CITY, March 27 president and general manager of the- Utah-Idaho Sugar company, com-pany, today had said he would confer in Washington, D. C, with U. S. Food Administrator Chester C Davis next week in an effort to have the sugar beet industry in this area classed as a "vital war industry." . "During , negotiations with the , government -in the last, three months," Scalley explained, "the industry took the position that beet sugar would be classified as an essential war crop." It was pointed out that the beet sugar industry has a .definite .def-inite relation to the. meat industry. indus-try. Scalley said all by-products of. the industry, such as beet tops, pulp and molasses, go into production produc-tion of meat. Livestock are fed such by-products. , ' "The .beet sugar industry, dur- iruj the last three months, on f& numerous occasions has taken , - the positiori" that there is ho crop more vital than beet sugar in the interests of our war effort," Seal-ley Seal-ley said. The' beet sugar crop is recognized as the Outstanding factor in the west in contributing to meat production." THEATERS DECLARED "OFF LIMITS" , KNOXVILLE, Tenn March 27 LEV--Ail major theaters of a Knoxville chain today .were declared, de-clared, "off limits" for army aviation avia-tion cadets . training at the Uni-, Uni-, versity of Tennessee. The. - ban was placed when the theaters re-fused re-fused to reduce admission prices for trainees. ' . and vegetable juices and dehy drated soups. But it raised point values of more than half a dozen canned foods, including applesauce, apple-sauce, peaches, pineapple, fresh lima beans as differentiated from canned dried limas and catsup. New Tables Released The changes were revealed with publication of OPA tables for point values of canned and Dro- cessed foods during the last three days of March Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and April. Inauguration of the meat-butter-cheese-fats program, together with the -month-old rationing of canned and processed foods, means that from Monday on approximately ap-proximately 50 per cent of all items in the 'American housewife's house-wife's food budget will be rationed on a point basis, so that available supplies may be distributed evenly. even-ly. The only important food items not rationed will - be bread, cereals, milk, eggs, fresh fish, poultry and game. Revision of the point values of canned and processed foods mean that housewives who saved some or all of their March blue coupons cou-pons in war ration book No. 2 in thd. hope of last-minute cuts in value of these foods, will profit considerably if they purchase canned fruit or vegetable juices or dehydrated soups. The "A," "B" and "C" blue stamps for March do not expire until midnight, March 31. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next, week; these coupons plus the "D," "E" and "F" April-stamps, April-stamps, which became valid Mar. 25. may be used at the lower values. Kenneth Stauffer, OPA director of processed foods rationing, warned that the point reductions do not mean any important overall over-all relaxation of point rationing. Cuts Largely Cancelled 'The cuts,' he said, "are largely large-ly cancelled out by the increases. The cuts do, however, mean that the housewife wUl be able to buy more of those items like canned fruit and vegetable juices, of which only small quantities were sold in March ownig to high point values." The biggest cut is 16 points for 30-ounce cans of frozen fruit (Continued on Page Four) Slayer to Face Firing Squad (U.R) Angus Dewey Russell, 48,, SALT LAKE CITY, March 27 con vie ted of the knife slaying of his wife, Mrs. Anna Laura Seip Russell, ,45, on Jan. 3 was sentenced sen-tenced to die before a firing squad at the state prison on may 22 by District Judge J. Allan Crockett here -Friday. , Crockett pronounced sentence after oyerruling a defense motion for e stay of judgement and a new trial. COMPROMISE LIKELY ON TlPPLANS Partial "Forgiveness" Of 1942 Taxes Held Most Likely By TONY SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.R) Some sort of house compromise between the Ruml skip-a-year and the Houghton not - one cent-of-abatement income tax plans appeared to be in the cards Saturday night after a day of inconclusive floor debate, The odds seemed to be that the compromise would ' provide at least partial forgiveness of taxes on 1942 income, ' in order to put income vtax collection on a current cur-rent at-the-source basis. Reoublican advocates of the Ruml plan and Democratic advocates advo-cates of the Doughton bill, which is before the house, each claimed enough votes to win. Conviction that the house would write its own compromise measure, however, was expressed by Rep. Robert Ram speck, D., Ga., Democratic whip, who said neither the Ruml nor the Dough-ton Dough-ton proponents could muster a majority. The Doughton bill, approved by the house ways and means committee, com-mittee, would initiate a 20 per cent withholding tax on wagea and salaries on .July 1. It would forgive no taxes on 1942 income, but would grant discounts up to six per cent on 1943 taxes to those who placed themselves on current bases by paying both years' assessments in one. Democratic supporters of the committee measure Ayere strongly opposed to compromise. Chairman Chair-man Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C, saidTafter a conference with house Democratic Leader John W. MeCormack, of Massachu-( Massachu-( Continued on Page Four) 6onvict Who to Escape Sentenced to Die SALT LAKE CITY, March 27 (UP) Thomas Neimer, 24, and Norman Standard, 22, convicted of assault on prison guards during dur-ing an escape, from the Utah State prison here were sentenced Saturday to be shot Wednesday, May 19. Nemier and Standard, serving life terms at the penitentiary, received re-ceived the maximum penalty for their Feb. 3 short lived dash for freedom. Utah law provides a possible death sentence for assault as-sault on prison guards by life-termers. x - 7 y . i . V 8 PAY CHECK FORGERS TO FACE TRIAL That's' fhe deadline set' hy . I 3 TT '"-'XWI lowing, ou&ny-orowea v iv V president John Lewis, after which .his miners won't .wbrfc . unless demands forwage' in creases- are; met. And he indi- s cates he isn't April fooling. 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY OUTH OF BAX.T UOCB Foreast for Prpvo and Vicinity: Little change in temperatur e today. to-day. ' . ' ... ;.: . ... Tempenttorai: . ' V High ' 67 Law '. ; i ZS PRICE FIVE CENTS Six Defendants Already ' In Custody Cash yA $25,000 Worth Lewis Elopes to Get $2 Increase On Court Ruling oy 6, Run Over, Killed by Truck BOUNTIFUL. Utah. March 27 (UJ) Keith Kagie. 6,son of Mr. and Mrs.; John H. Kagie of Boun tiful, died in a Salt Lake City hospital late last night after being run over by a truck driven by David Hatch Howard, 16, of Woods Cross. Sheriffs officers at Farmington reported ' that the boy evidently dashed behind the Howard truck as .it backed out of the driveway xf Delbert Moss, Bountiful. Two witnesses. Moss and , Allen Mills, said Howard did not see the boy and ran' over him twice. -vj The accident occured at J:30 &- . ' By JOHN L. CUTTER. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 27 .E) Some senators believed today that John L. Lewis has hinted how. he hopes to get his United Mine Workers a $2-a-day wage increase without touching thrs "little steel" wage ceiling fojr mula. It might lie, they believed, in a March 16 decision by the United States circuit court of appeals at New Orleans that miners must he paid from the time they enter the mines until they emerge. Lewis referred to the .decision repeatedly yesterday in a threes hour session before the special senate committee investigating the war effort during which h denounced the little steel formul as arbitrary rather than equity able. - . - - . Under existing UMW contracts tlft naifteci.pAyarj reacn mes vein 01 coax, on wiuci they are working. "Portal -to-portal' pay is one of Lewis' demands in wage negotiations for 450,t)0O bituminous miners. Lewis told the committee that the miners' present rate of $1 an hour, which reflects increases above the 15 per cent since' Jan 1, 1941 allowed under v the little steel formula, is inadequate to meet rising living costs regardless regard-less of whether they work- the standard five-day week. for. $35 or a six-day week at time, anda half for a weekly wage of $V5.50, He added that the six-day 42-hour 42-hour week actually represents 52 hours a week counting the time from -"portal-to-portal." Payments for those 10 hours at the base rate of $1 an hour would give the miners almost the full $2 a day increase that Lewis is demanding without involving in-volving the basic hourly rate or which the little steel formula has been applied. ti Operations of a vast check forgery ring; " were revealed Saturday, with the j indict-hient indict-hient of eight defendants by a U. S. grand jury which made a partial report to Judge Tillman D. Johnson. Six of the defendants who have confessed to have 'plastered'.' 'plaster-ed'.' the intermountam defense plant area with at least! $25,000 in forged checks, are already in custody, another is expected to be picked up shortly, and- the eighth is in military service. The members of the ring operated op-erated in. Salt Lake City and Ogden, although there was also an epidemic of forged checks in the Provo area, which may have been the work of another group. The defedants in the check ring were named in one I general indictment and five others citing specific counts. Defendants are James Ormsby Costln, Merl L. Gall, George Oakey Carmichael, William Murphy, Walter William Oarshiyiski Millard Joseph Moore, Charles' Watson and Wilbur ' C. Baker. Salt Lake, Ogden ! The defendants, according to indictments, operated in Salt Lake City and Ogden the last half of 1942, assertedly conspiring to and making forged documents with intent in-tent to. defraud and transported forged checks and equipment used ik their making to other states. Government officials have seized equipment, including a check-writing; check-writing; machine, rubber type anil printing equipment. John S. Boy-den, Boy-den, assistant U. S. district attorney, attor-ney, 'said admissions Jiave been obtained indicating passing of $25,000 in checks, of .which Manganese Mill Planned at Butte WASHINGTON, March 27 U.K) Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickes said today that more manganese man-ganese for steel mills would be provided fey erection of a 400-ton-a-day custom mill at Butte, Mont-, to treat ores from mines Jjn. the area. Ickes said that the domestic Manganese company of Montana has applied for a $250,000? loan from the Reconstruction" Finance Corporation to construct the mill. O ' " ' - " ' : - Deadly "Bazooka," New Secret Weapon, Enemy Can Destroy Any CINCINNATI, March 27. (HE) Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, Jr., army ordnance, chief, boasted tonight to-night that the " deadly "Bazooka! a new secret weapon "can destroy des-troy any enemy tank on the battlefield today! . In an address t'rore the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati post of the army ordnance association, Campbell, also revealed reveal-ed that the army has another "surprise "sur-prise package" tor, the enemy in the form of a new high explosive which is "more than one-third greater in its destructive .effect thin is TNT." .... 1 Discussing the army's new gun which he said soldiers have dubbed dub-bed the .."bazooka." He said it "is a weapon which1 carried in the Jiands, of a soldier can destroy de-stroy any enemy tank on the battlefield bat-tlefield today." , "During, recent operations in Africa, 'he . said,' . "a r small . but strong fort gave considerable trouble to ' the Americans.: One . i . . . . . ' lone American soldier .detached TiimseJf. from the landing party, waded ashore and with one shot from his gun effected .surrender of the fort That will be know as the saga of one American soldier and his Bazooka." -'r': . ' ' "On anotherpecasion, . in ; An crtcan . soldier? armed, with 4this weapon ; was ; suddenly confronted by six tanks. Unobserved, he fired hastily from cover, i The projectile missed the tanks, but felled a large tree- . ' ' " - " "The tank commander, an "experienced "ex-perienced officer, surrendered! The Americans were astonished. The tank commander explained: y; " . 'When you start firing 155 mm. guns ; at. tanks t's time to surrender... - " - Turning to frequent . criticisms of the performances . of American weapons, : Campbell. : said ' there seems ta fce."a spirits svhich does, hot UkeLto admit that- anything. Tank Battle K its own army, . including its own ordnance departmen, is , doing, is the. equal of that being done by the enemy' - "I often believe that this sort of thing springs from Berlin and from Tokyo and that it is stupidly picked up by the shallow thinkers within oar country," -he' said: - He recalled that the Germans recently brought out .a 62-on tank in Tunisia. He said it was armed with an 88-mm. gun of a 10-year-old design.' ' "Immediately certain elements of this country cried out that your ordnance department has - again tsen caught off guard," he declared. declar-ed. " ; ; . Actually,, he said, his department, depart-ment, produced - a 60-ton tank 16 months ago but.lt was found "to be too heavy, too large a target, :of too little "gunpower,- for -its weight, and most important it lacked maneuverability." It was therefore rejected,' he said. $15,000 agentju vlhv another indictment, James Joseph Roedl and Le Roy ' Edward Ritchey, held in the. Salt Lake county jail,' were accused t of the murder October 12, 1942, of Abi-gale Abi-gale Agnes Williams on the Uintah-Ouray - Indian reservation. They were accused of beating -her to , death-., with a short-handled claw; hammer. Range Fire J. Srnest' Bushnell ' and J.- Leo Stott Millard county, werje , accused ac-cused in an indictment of setting a fire . September 17, 1942, which swept 9000 acres of forest . and grazing land in -Millard county. The defendants are at liberty un-dtr un-dtr $1000 bond. Other cases reported' by the jury follow: Dyer Act Fred Garcia, Robert Edward Cecil, Earl J. Lewis, David ( Continued on Page Four) Laval Tightens Hold on France LONDON, March 27 (U.Ei Chief of government Pierre Laval clamped a tighter Nazi-bossed dictatorship on seething metropolitan metropol-itan France tday in a move believed be-lieved aimed at assuring Germany her demanded deliveries of slave labor. . Five members of the ; puppet Vichy cabinet quit ther posts,, the size of the . cabinet was reduced by . merging, duties and Laval submitted sub-mitted to aging Chief of State Henri Phillipe Petain a series of decrees which Vichy radio described des-cribed as necessary for, "a greater concentration .of; ; power' . Reports from Madrid' indicated that the new remaining: vestiges of a - French government' by Frenchmen . were . rapidly being erased. , .These .' reports pointed out that the shakeup followed ' resignations resig-nations , by. em-bassy staffs' in Spain khd : Portugal in protests against the Reich demands for French labor ' to -staft its war factories. . J Radio "Algiers; which is controlled con-trolled by the Allies, reported that M. Pierre Bairaduc; chares de'af f aires at .Lisbott; had broken off with Vicsmd:; that he and the legation staff ; had gone over to Henri - Honored GiraudV French: leader fn Nortlt Africa. COPPER MOGULS . INSPECT8 PROPERTY t ' SALT LAKE CITY, ; March 26 uXRK -T. T. Stannard, New "York City, president Of Kennecott Copper Cop-per Corporation today was ready to complete his tour of western copper, .operations after a visit to Utah . Copper company here wliere . he praised a "remarkable" record.. v V'i. - - ' . . Stannard : inspected "operations at. Garfield, and. commended, employes em-ployes for an excellent absenteeism absentee-ism cecbrdy .and for. the high production pro-duction despite iack of manpower. mm fUl & & P STRONGHOLD DAMAGED l HEAVY BLAST Long Distance Flight Required To Bomb Jap Gibraltar' By SANDOR 8. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 27 (U.R American heavy bombers bomb-ers for the first time have rained destruction on the enemy's Nauru island hase guarding one of ' the approaches ap-proaches to Truk, Japanese "Gibraltar' of the South Pacific, Pa-cific, the navy revealed today. The attack was made by Liberator Liber-ator four-engined bombers on Friday (island time) after a long night flight from an undisclosed American base. The American bombardiers scored hits on a wharf, an airplane air-plane runway, the officers' quarters, quar-ters, and the barracks area. Several enemy planes were damaged, dam-aged, and as the raiding formation forma-tion high-tailed it back to base, they left' at least x-four fires blazing blaz-ing amid the shattered Japanese installations. PttVipmiy, British- r.. Nearest ; kttOwn - American airfield air-field from which heavy bombers could operate to Nauru is Henderson Hend-erson "field on Guadalcanal, 675 nautical miles distant. Nauru is about 10 miles in 'circumference and guards the southeast approach ap-proach to Truk, . 10,020 miles away. Prior to Japanese occupation, occupa-tion, Nauru, which is just west of the Gilbert, group, was .under British mandate. This is the first time Nauru has figured ' in the Pacific, war, although the navy has carriecf out several operations -in- the nearby Marshall-Gilbert islands. The last American incursion into that general gen-eral area was in early October, when a naval task force" sank two enemy . patrol vessels and damaged a destroyer and merchantman mer-chantman near Tarva island in the Gilberts. The first raid on the Marshall and Gilbert islands was the destructive de-structive sweep made on Jan. 31, 1942, by a task force under Admiral Ad-miral William F. Halsey, Jr. (Continued on Page Four) Quezon in Favor Of AU-Out Attack On the Japanese MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 27 (HE) Manuel L. Quezon, president presi-dent of the Philippines, declared today the American flag would be flying over Manila by Christmas Christ-mas of 1944 if the Allies launched a large-scale assault against the Japanese now. ; ; "I think the time to strike and strike hard in the Pacific is at hand," Quezon said." "I don't believe Japan will' ever surrender she must be destroyed : The sooner we begin bombing her, the Sooner she will crack.' War In Brief' -6 By United Press North Africa: British Eighth army attacks successfully suc-cessfully .along Mareth line; operations proce eding accord ac-cord ing to plan. London: Royal Air Force bombs Duisburg in German Ruhr Moscow: Red army makes fierce infantry attack in Belgorod Bel-gorod area. Australia: Allied bombers attack We wak on north New Guinea coast. South Pacific :t American heavy bombers Blast installations instal-lations on Nauru island, Japanese Jap-anese base near the Gilbert group. Reds Wipe Out Nazi Spearhead In Dpnets Line BY 8AMCBL I). HALES United Prats Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, March 28 U.E The Red army wiped out a German spearhead driven into its Donets river line . northeast of Kharkov yesterday and on the central i front caDtured two in habited localities in its slow drive toward Smolensk, a Soviet communique com-munique said today. Both the Russian push against Smolensk and German offensive against the Donets line 'appeared to be slowing down as the, spring thaw spread northward, sending the rivers out of their banks on the- central front and flooding many fighting areas. . The midnight Soviet communique communi-que broadcast . from Moscow said there vere no appreciable changes anywhere on .the active fronts yes-trday; yes-trday; but told of strong blows and counterblows in the Ukraine. In . one sectdr of the Belgorod area northeast of Kharkov, the communique said, German armored, armor-ed, forces succeeded at high cost in'' breaking into Red Army positions. po-sitions. -Lashing back vigorously, the Russians threw the Germans back to their starting ilne, wiping out two companies of about 400 men and disabling, two tanks. Along the middle reaches of the northern Donets, a German infantry in-fantry batallion attacked twice with strong artillery support. It was beaten off with a loss of 900 men. Earlier Soviet advices said Russian Rus-sian and German tanks were locked lock-ed in a violent battle east of Kharkov and north of Chuguev, where the Nazis had massed a strong force in an attempt to blast a breach in the Donets Line. The Russians were reported . fending fend-ing off the attacks, counterattacking counterat-tacking frequently, and improving their positions at some points. . For several days the Russian communiques have skirted details on the exact Soviet gains in the drive toward Smolensk, and there was no confirmation of Stockholm reports that Dorogobuzh, 50 miles east of the Keystone Base on the central .t ront, had ! been taken. The midnight bulletin said the (Continued on Page; Four) , Roosevelt Proclaims April 6 As 'Army Day ' WASHINGTON," March 27 UJ! President Roosevelt today proclaimed pro-claimed April 6 as Army day and exhorted the American-, people to intensify, their "war; eff ort, to -reflect upon the V. soldiers "whose very lives they hold rin - trust and to think of means to, increase "the flow of war supplies " to them.' , w v v -' -Whereas the men of .the.United States . array hare ' parried ' the flag. . of the United i States : and the ideals which it i represents to every; .part ; of " the.: earthV; :he proclamation said, "and .with their brothers-in-arms from the nations united with : us are' offering" their lives for; the ' future! of America and of the world; - ;-" "Whereas our . soldiers on the firing lines and in posts .'of . danger depend for-their . very, lives pa.1 the tonstant flow of ammunition, weapons and supplies from their brothers at home; and on the fidelity fi-delity of their countrymen to maintain the ideals which they bravely defend; "Now, "therefore, I, Franklin B. Rooseyelt, president of the United dates of America, do hereby proclaim pro-claim Tuesday,' April 6, 19i3i as Army day; and I invite" the gov ernors of -the, states to Issue proclamations proc-lamations appropriate .to that day ; and I request that on ; Army day, whUe s intensifying' the war effort" in factories, fields, 'mines, transportation V lines s and ports, the American people reflect upon the soldiers ' who very,: lives - they hold in .trust.. and upon ways and means- of . increasing the . flow ' of supplies to them and of maintain-ing. maintain-ing. in this nation a country worthy wor-thy of their sacrifice . and r fit for their ,'returri.v J 1 4 ; . , ; V YANKS lAKE NEW ATTACK AT FONDOUK British Launch Heavy Air Attack To Try Break Through By GIRVIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, North Africa, March 27 (U.R American infantry launched a new attack today toward the central Tunisian town of Fondouk," while far to the south the British' loosed loos-ed a heavy aerial barrage in an effort to effect a breakthrough break-through the Mareth line toward. Gabes. Front line reports said the Americans were thrusting from the southwest toward . Fondouk, only 50 miles, inland from the vital .Axis supply port of Sousse, on Tunisia's east coast. A light German -infantry attack at-tack northeast of Maknassy, some 60 miles below Fondo.uk, was repulsed re-pulsed by American infantry and artillery. The British Eighth army . was Slashing deeply , into the strongly-defended. French built Mareth line in southern Tunisia. At some plnraa,, , Aayonet . fighting- was-1 progress as Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's air power pounded tho enemy positions to soften them for a break-through. !.; -. American and British . planes were battering enemy ships,; air fields, supply lines and Tairoored columns with bomb ranging .from some missiles- to- two-ton blockbusters, block-busters, indicating that allied- air power was playing' a ma jo - role in the Tunisian fighting. i The' eighth army was locked , in a death struggle with' the German Ger-man . Afrika Korps 1 at the ' southern south-ern end of the .-300-mile Tunisian line. . Official ' announcements - gave no more than a hint, of the progress prog-ress of the battle, but the news generally was favorable " to 7 the Allies. American Holding American troops . were squeezing squeez-ing the enemy toward the coast on the south central front, and the Yanks appeared to be holding their own against Axis troops (Continued on Page Four) DeGaulIe, Giraud Plan Conference LONDON, March 27 (U.R)-Gen. Charles DeGaulIe probably ' will leave-next i week for a conference at Algiers .with Gen. Henri Honore Giraud that not only will unite their respective followers, "but also may lay the groundwork for a temporary French' provisional government, it was understood today. -An Algiers dispatch pointed out that Giraud in a recent speech said his army automatically would ; come under a provisional government govern-ment when it lands in France with .allied- Invasion, forces- . . K Giraud - and . DeGaulIe probably will taW advantage of the Impending, Im-pending, unity conference to discuss dis-cuss the framework of such ,.a4 government." ' ' DeGaulIe; in his . most" conciliatory concilia-tory speech to date, announced in a , radio broadcast beamed to France last night- that he would leave for. ..North Africa "very shortly'.? to meet - Giraud, whom he described as "a great soldier and a noble figure." V 12 MeetDeath in KNOXVILLB,Tenn - March 27 (EE) A lage army ..transport plane crashed 'in; a. field near "Oil-. ver Springs Temw. todays-Twelve oersons were killed, William T. Sharp, Oliver Springs undertaker, Said.:- J'- " !,".-' ' r'Z-'''.'.u fSharp said 4hat- the bodies .were brought to ids establishmentivThe crash; occurred on. 8 farm owned : by Dan Kelly.; who said wreckage was scattered' over a wide area. Oliver 'Springs is-25 miles west of here, t Eye - witnesses said the' plane,-1 was , flying' west j when 4 It appeared . to develop - engine troubles . ' ' - "j |