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Show Hark the Attackl Buy An Ktrn $100 War Bond Today. This in Our Battle, Too! Provo and vicinity Little change in temperature. Temperatures High low 90 41 MO 15 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEW8 8BRVIC PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DALLY SOUTH .OF SALT LASS PRICE FIVE CENTS (LOOT 5 einidlcirs 6 The A sacu o a V i O POLIO SCARE TO CLOSE ALL S. L SCHOOLS Children Under 17 In Salt Lake Banned From Gathering SALT i.AKK CITY. Sept. 11 l' i . t uaily all schools in the Sail Lake City area, including tin' (nanitc district, dis-trict, were closed indefinitely, indefinite-ly, as spread of infantile parah sis anions school children chil-dren made congregations in- ii'lvisa hit I 'hi In T. K.i rnsv irth, superin-tt'Ptlt'iit superin-tt'Ptlt'iit if w Granite school district, dis-trict, t f r t i today that the decision de-cision t't closf thf schools, including includ-ing juni'r ;md senior high .s h'iols. had n taken upon the reeonimcr.tlat ion of Salt Lake County Health ( 'ommissioner, Dr. ejeore M Curtis. Elementary schools had heen closed earlier. No date lias heen set for reopening. reopen-ing. Many New Cases I)r William M. McKay, state health commissioner, said several new cases have heen reported let-day, let-day, and that a complete compilation com-pilation . of reports will he ready Monday. Hospitals have been pressed to provide facilities for the increasing increas-ing number of victims, and the Lava Hot. Springs Foundation at Lava Hot Springs. Ida., recently ouend use of the resort as a ospital fr paralysis victims. vhe hot springs were to he used in ttvatmtn! of the disease by the Kd.'inv method The Salt Lake City order not only clo-ed all schools but also banned all children under 17 from theaters, Sunday schools and other places of public assemblage. Hr. T. .1. Howe lis, city health commissioner, reported that the action was taken in view, of the 10 known deaths out of about 150 polio cases reported in Utah, with several new eases occurring daily He declared that more than seven new paralysis cases and one new death had been reported in Salt Lake ('itv alone in the past 121 hours At Salt Lake City, grade school opening was postponed until Oct. 1 at a recent hoard of health meeting, but when the order was extended to include high schools, no definite time was stimpulated for the opening. ligh Schools In MJtah County To Open This Week Although secondary as well as elemertary schools in Salt Lai- City have hern ordered closed in view of the poliomyelitis epidemic, junior and senior hieh schools in Provo. Alnuie and . Nebo district" are planum" to go abend wi' 1 egistration Monday, officials sa"d ti i rda v Dr Milto-i Marshal1, nresidept of th" hoard of education, spid that "as far as I know now w,- will ?r ahead " Ho sairj Hi" boar''1 has hern acting on thf aHvjee c.f the phvsicians. and has thus far received no recommendation to close the. secondary schools. The board last week dfrrl the mening of elementary schools until September 27. The Provo LDS stake prsi-den-v annonneed Saturday that the junior Sundav Schools of eil wards in the stake, together with other classes involving children 1" years of pgo or under, will be cancelled can-celled until the enidmic subsides However, the adult Sunday School .and . priesthood and sacrament services vill o forward as usual A similar announcement hd previously been made by Utah stake, except that in the wards of that strike the entire Sundav School has been called off until (Continued on Page Two) Bulgarian Regime Has Now Resigned LONDON, Sent. 11 L'.R The Bulgarian government resigned today after the council of regents had assembled. Interior Minister Peter Gabrow-jski Gabrow-jski was appointed provisional Premier and foreign minister lt)ending the designation of a new iljpremier. Other members of th government were retaining their posts for the time being. Cong ress Convenes T ues day; Drafting Fathers to Come Up Manpower Question Most Important of Those Facing- New Session; Taxation, Foreign Relations Other Subjects Due WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 u.r Congress reconvenes Tuesday, and all signs pointed tonight to immediate open-in": open-in": of one of the most important debates in the nation's history on the subject of its military and industrial war effort to collapse for want of manpower? The debate, packed with critical possibilities, is expected expect-ed to start in the military affairs committee of both houses with discussion of the father draft and to branch out almost al-most immediately into a parade- of views on the explosively controversial con-troversial subject of national service legislation. Sen. Alexander Wiley, R., Wis., said he would introduce av resolution resolu-tion asking that Gen. George C. Marshall. U. S. army chief of staff, tell the senate in executive execu-tive session why fathers must be drafted. "I recognize that a legislator is not in the same position as the board of the army, which has a more complete picture of militarv requirements," he said. "I would like to know what the military requirements are?" Also high on the agenda are taxation, foreign relations, postwar post-war planning, price control and food subsidies, renegotiation of war contracts, and strikingly enough in .an era of $100,000,000 budgets economy. Acting Chairman Kenneth Mc-Kellar. Mc-Kellar. D.. Tenn., of the senate appropriations committee introduce intro-duce the economy issue tonight with the assertion that army and navy spending will be scrutinized more closely in the coming ses-a ;on than it was in the last. "What we need," he added, "are some full time monetary experts who can help us economize on the money we spend for the war. I believe we'll get them this year." The manpower problem may come before the senate on the first day if Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Wheel-er. D., Mont., carries his announced an-nounced plan to call for an immediate im-mediate vote on his bill to defer drafting of pre-war fathers until Jan. 1. In that event, administration leaders are expected to ask that the bill be returned to the military mili-tary affairs committee to give the high command an opportunity opportuni-ty to present new information on manpower requirements. Senate Republican Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon and Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky both believe the manpower muddle requires a soeedy survey by congress. Rep. Andrew May, D., Ky., has announced an-nounced that the house military affairs committee, of which he is chairman, will start manpower hearings at once. War Ration Book No. 3 Now in Use WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 tU.PJ War Ration book three will become be-come usable Sunday. Brown stamps marked "A" and 'totaling 16 points may be used to purchase rationed meats, fats, oils and the rationed dairy products through Oct. 2. Other brown stamps will become valid on successive suc-cessive Sundays. Stamp "B" will expire on Oct. 2 along with stamp "A," and "C" "D." "E," and "F". will expire on Oct. 30. The final red stamps of book two. "X," "Y" and "Z" will continue con-tinue to be valid through Oct. 2. -GD Utahns Purchase $3,080,080 In War Bonds Up to Noon Saturday SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14 UJR) Members of the Utah state war finance committee today reported re-ported that Utahns have purchased pur-chased $3,000,000 in war bond? and stamps to noon today. Meanwhile, bond-selling campaigns, cam-paigns, aided by military personnel person-nel from establishments throughout through-out the state, in spectacular exhibitions, ex-hibitions, wre continuing efforts to boost the sale over its $41,000,-000 $41,000,-000 quota. During the second day, the Beneficial Bene-ficial Life Insurance company purchased $750,000 in bonds, the Fall Of Salamaua Imminent; Enemy In Full Retreat ByDON CASWELL United PresM Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Southwest Pacific, Sunday, Sept. 12 (U.P) A spokesman for Genera' Douglas MacArthur announced today to-day that the fall of Salamaua, Japanese stronghold on the southern south-ern side of Houn gulf in New Guinear was imminent after American Am-erican and Australian jungle troops had cracked its defenses and had driven the enemy into "full retreat." The Allied announcement stated that the Japanese line " had been smashed Saturday and "our troops are pressing after the fjeeing enemy." The Japanese left many hundreds of dead before Salamaua and abandoned much equipment. Allied forces broke through the heavily fortified line just outside Salamaua a week after Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur personally had opened a companion drive against Lae, major ma-jor Japanese base opposite Salamaua, Sala-maua, with a twin amphibious landing and paratroop operations from the east and west. The Japanese in their haste to give up the hopeless position at Salamaua even left their' artillery, the communique said. The enemy's defenses of the area had .consisted of a series of strongly-prepared positions o n precipitous spurs and knolls. "Our losses in the attack, which was made after heavy artillery preparations, and during the entire en-tire Salamaua operation were light,' the Allied announcement said, and were only a small frac tion of those inflicted upon the enemy Motorists Urged To Cut Down On Pleasure Riding IS ALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 11 U.R Utah motorists should cut down pleasure driving and join the share-the-ride program, Utah tax commission officials said today, to-day, denying, however, that the state was not cooperating in the rationing progTam. Milton Twitchell, member of the commission, said average use of gasoline had dropped 24 per cent in the past year, indicating that Utahns were reducing their driving. driv-ing. He declared. however. that there was still a considerable amount of waste on the part of motorists in the state. In a report he said gasoline use was 85.1 gallons per vehicle in July, 1941. and only 64.4 gallons in July, 1943. largest single block of bonds sold during the day. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 OLE During the $15,000,000,000 Third War Loan civilians! will have a chance to look oveV;the kind of axis weapons their "bonds purchases pur-chases are equipping' Al lie d -soldiers to combat. Gen. Dwight D.Eisenhower advised ad-vised Secretary of Treasury Henry MorgenthauV Jr- today that he had shipped 13,000 tons of enemy equipment captured. In Sicily and (Continued on Page Two) i REDS DRIVE 94 FROM KIEV Russians Roll Up New Gains .In Every Key Sector , By ROBERT S. MJUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 11 " The Red army, carrying the running battle for the last strip of German-held soil east of the Dnieper into its climactic phase, drove to within 94 miles of Kiev today to-day in general advances on a 450-mile front which netted nearly 200 towns and villages. Rolling up new gains in every key sector between Smolensk and the Sea of Azov, the Russians captured the town of Pliski, on the Kiev-Konotop railroad 94 miles northeast of the Ukranian capital and only 24 miles short of the Nezhin junction on the last German-held railroad east of the Dnieper. A Red army communique broadcast from Moscow added weight to Soviet dispatches which said the drive for the Dnieper was sweeping westward at an accelerated pace. The latest Russian reports failed to specify further gains be-for be-for the big bend of the Dnieper, where an 80-mile advance in two days had overrun the key railroad rail-road junction of Chaplino, only 47 miles east of the .river. Military quarters pointed out that after such , a headlong dash the Russians might have been obliged to pause for a breathing spell and consolidating their lines to the rear. Saturday's greatest advances, ranging up to nine" miles, were west and southwest of Stalino, industrial capital of the . Donets Basin. After crushing- German resistance re-sistance in the thick network of railroads and towns of the basin, bas-in, Soviet striking forces were moving swiftly westward. Among the more than 40 communities com-munities captured in that sector were Velikoanadol, railroad town seven miles north of the railroad, junction of Volnovakha, which fell a day earlier; and Kalchik, on the railroad 18 miles north of Mariupol, Sea of Azov port and metallurgical center. On the Pavlograd front the Russians moved forward six to seven miles and captured .more than 70 towns and villages..' On the Nezhin front' northeast of Kiev, the gains were four to six. miles, and 20 communities wer.e captured. Sixty more fell north of Bryansky to troops pushing forward for-ward three to six miles. Argentine Regime Of Ramirez Said To Be Overthrown BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 11 (U.E) Reports that the government ot Argentina had been overthrown by a militarv movement were denied officially tonight. SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 11 (U.E) It was reported authoritatively tonight that a military movement had overthrown the Argentine government Gen. Pedro Ramirez Reports that the government of Argentina was involved in a crisis had been circulated widely after foreign minister Admiral Segundo Stomi resigned . Thursday upon publication of an exchange letters with United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull. r "Stomi ad asked the United State .,-i.o "understand Argentina Argen-tina ' failure to break with the Axia and had asked for American arms, military ecuipment and oil field machinery. Hull -rejected Storni's requests and strongly criticized Argentina's policy in regard re-gard to the war. A proclamation addressed to the Argentine people, apparently from the .army, circulated in Buenos Aires today. It repudiated Storni's letter to Hull and charged it was "full of falsehoods,' and took advantage of "the president's presi-dent's good faith." ... Ramirez became president on June 7, three days after the government gov-ernment of President Ramon S. Castillo had been overthrown by an army , revolution. MILES Allied On Germans, Italians in B it t e r Fighting lit Rome Streets . i . By JOSEPH W. ORIOG ITnited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 11 German and 'Italian troops are locked in bitter street fighting in Rome, military sources said tonight, refuting Nazi propaganda claims that the city had capitulated and the greater part of the Italian Ital-ian peninsula was in German hands. The picture emerging slowly from the smoke and flame, over Italy still was blurred. From the facts, claims and counter-claims it appeared that the Allies were tightening a three-way grip on south Italy while the Germans were taking over in the north. Premier-Marshal Pietro Bagog-lio, Bagog-lio, King Victor Emmanuel and Crown Prince Umbert were believed be-lieved to be at Allied headquarters headquar-ters in Sicily. Benito Mussolini still was unaccounted for. Reports Re-ports ranged from speculation that he was about to be turned over to the Allies for trial as a war criminal to a Berlin guess that he was in North Africa. Stiff Resistance-Spokesmen Resistance-Spokesmen here said that the Italians still were putting up stiff resistance against German efforts ef-forts to take over Rome, the tenacity ten-acity of their efforts forcing- the Nazis to bring up reinforcements. Though street fighting was reported, re-ported, Military quartgrsCQncedr, ed that the Italian resistance was not expected to fend off the Nazis in one of the few instances in history when a major power has swung about so quickly to start shooting at its ally. The Germans were reported to have "occupied" Vatican City, but its radio was broadcasting the usual features mostly religious, re-ligious, devoid of reference to the storm swirling about the state within a city. The official German DNB news agency said the Vatican was under un-der the "protection" of the German Ger-man army, which would "keep it from mischief-makers and restless rest-less and criminal elements." Elsewhere in Italy, the Allies were expanding their Naples, Tar-anto Tar-anto and Calabrian bridgeheads with the apparent aim of fusing them into the occupation of all south Italy, while there was little to indicate that the Nazis were not having things their own way in the north. A German transocean dispatch quoting a Nazi military spokesman spokes-man as sayingr the greater part of the peninsula was in German hands, appeared definitely extravagant, extrav-agant, and the Berlin communique communi-que did not repeat it. "The disarming of the Italian Badoglio army is nearly concluded," con-cluded," the high command reported. re-ported. "Wherever, local resistance resist-ance still is being offered, our troops are advancing energetically." energetical-ly." The Italian garrison of Rhodes, main island of the Dodecanese group in the eastern Mediterranean, Mediterran-ean, gave up after bejng attacked by German dive bombers, the Nazi communique reported. But the Nazis were less assertive asser-tive regarding the situation south of Naples, where Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army was expanding ex-panding its beachhead. "In the Salerno area, German (Continued on Page Two) Patman Sponsors Comprehensive Legislative Program For Rehabilitation of Discharged Service Wen, Women WASHINGTON. Sept. 1U Rep. Wright Patman, D., Tex., said. tonight that he will introduce next week a comprehensive legislative legis-lative program for rehabilitation of discharged service men and women which, he asserted, "goes beyond the postwar recommendations recommenda-tions ,of President Roosevelt." Patman, who described his program as "no dole, no bonus but a simple business proposition," outlined its principle points as follow: 1. Continuation of service pay and benefits -for three months after discharge, to be followed by unemployment compensation for 26 weeks if the veteran has not found a Job. 2. Free vocational training for all veterans. Araan s THnree Landings Follow Capitulation of Italy C i!SsNeR W S - v GERMANS TAKE Turin Vtreno AUID LANDINGS REPORTED '. . Ligurian Vnic i tifngg. DoloflM :.-.:v:?.-n:V. &Wm ITALY C0RSlCi::iCWl4WecW CivitavtcchiaYL .Voticon City ALLIED LANDINGS RCPORTtD VTrranoo A ) AMERICAN : CAPtl) Abetn4::W:"&-Z W5 Tyrrhenian St a !'"'!,.' SARDINIA v . :.:.! , Trepan MtJUerrbneon 5 ' MonoJo j i - if r i! i NEA Telephoto Mapped here are the newest moves of Allied forces following the unconditional uncon-ditional "Surrender of Italy. Battles with Nazi troops are heavy, however, as American, Canadian and English troops advance into the defeated country against strong opposition. 30 Italian Ships Escape the Germans LONDON, Sept. 11 LPThe United Nations radio in North Africa reported tonight that 35 Italian warships now had reached Allier or neutral ports, including 23 at Malta and Gibraltar. The Evening Standard said 12 Italian ships were at Palma, Balearic Islands. VALLETTA, Malta, Sept. 11 u.R' The total of Italian Ital-ian warships escaping from the Germans apparently was boosted to 30 today when 17 naval vessels, including four battleships, arrived here after a desperate 30-minute battle Desperate Call For Cannery Help A desperate calf for cannery workers was issued Saturday by the U. S. Employment of fire. The Pleasant Grove Canning company at Pleasant Grove was far undermanned, according to Frank G. Shelley of American Fork, executive secretary of the state farm bureau, who reported the cannery had 8000 bushels of peaches on its platform and turned down 6000 additional bushels. At least 150 workers are needed, need-ed, employment officials said. 3. Liberal government loans to help veterans purchase farms. 4. Disposal of the nation's stockpile stock-pile of surplus war property trucks, planes,. ' machinery etc. "with a view, of encouraging the establishment of small business enterprises by veterans." 5. Compulsory employment of disabled -veterans. Employers of 100 or more persons would be required re-quired to employ one " disabled veteran for each 100 employes or major fraction thereof. 6. A 10 per cent increase in the redemption value of war .bonds purchased by 'members of the armed services when used to apply ap-ply toward purchase of farm lands or surplus war property. 7. A social security benefits Advance Fronts GERMANY MltES I A inn fU-ftM CROATIA YUGOSLAVIA 9 Sorojfvo 1 1 At AN FLEET 5-T URGED TO FLtf ALLIED PORTS: acta No pits fptnp Toronto LAND ruciota, 'f. . . i os en z a BRITISH ii ARMY &i:::&L ADVANCE .otamaro - agio Colo brio Bova Morin Ionian Sa in which some of them engaged Nazi airplanes. In addition to six Italian warships war-ships reported at Gibraltar and seven said to have arrived and been interned in the Spanish Balearic Ba-learic islands, the units of the Italian fleet arriving here including includ-ing the battleships Eugenia Di Savoia. the Andrea Doria (23,000 tons and the Giulio Cesare (23,000 tons); the cruisers Cardoma.and Magno, and the destroyer Darreco. RAF fliers said that about 21 fleeing Italian vessels fought a hard battle with the luftwaffe, which left at least one battleship afire and sinking. The Germans also claimed to have sunk a cruis-and cruis-and a destroyer. The Italian ships were attacked attack-ed by the luftwaffe off the Strait of Bonifacio, between Corsica and Sicily, where the battleship and possibly other vessels were sunk. One Marauder reconnaissance (Continued on Page Two) credit for the period of service in the armed services at the rate acredited a civilian making $1,700 per year. (Patman estimated the average service man's anual income in-come at $1,700.) Patman , said the bill would enable en-able the nation to recognize ttfe veterans hervice fin a manner commensurate with their sacrifice and accomplishment." He said he would introduce it when congress reconvenes Tuesday. The act would become effective immediately in order to make its benefits available to the veterans who are currently being discharged discharg-ed for various reasons at the rate of 8,000 pf r week, Patman said. i . - l MJ M Atfriolk 5a - T4W0U-.:V?V In Italy American 5th Army Captures Salerno Below Naples BY DONALD COc United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, North Africa, Sept. 11 (u.R) The heaviest fighting fight-ing of the Italian campaign raged in the Naples area tonight, to-night, wilih the American 5th army scoring its first victory by capturing the rail and port city of Salerno and Allied Al-lied warships and planes joining the big offensive. On the other two fronts he British 8th army pushed ahead 15 miles in 24 hours to reach the 21-mile Calabrian bottleneck and other British troops who took the Taranto naval base on Friday were reported fanning out in three directions up the Italian "heel" after occupying several airdromes. Push 10 Miles Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Am ericans who pushed ashore below ; Naples Thursday morning, smashed smash-ed forward approximately 10 miles to reach Salerno, their first objective, well ahead of schedule. A United Press correspondent with naval forces which supported support-ed the landing said the 5th army, in its first action of the war, went ashore 40 miles below Naples Na-ples which is 30 miles up the coast from Salerno. The Americans and Britislv troops who followed them ashore, were reported beating down fierce German counterattacks and driving- steadily inland under the cover of a vast aerial umbrella. British and American bombers and fighters, operating night and day,' punished a dozen key communication com-munication points along a wide arc around Naples in one of their most concentrated offensives of the war to prevent Germans clogging clog-ging the surrounding roads from reaching the battle zone. Salerno, a town of 34,125 persons, per-sons, from which railroads radi- ate in all directions, was taken by the Americans on Friday, less than 48 hours after going into their first fight The Americans already have taken 200 German prisoners in the Naples fighting and bagged another 91 in capturinp; Vento-( Vento-( Continued on Page Two) Surrender of Italian Fleet f Allies 'Comi:i By CLATttt LEE Representing the Combined U. S. Press Distributed by the United Press) ABOARD HMS DESTROYER HAMBLETON IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, MEDI-TERRANEAN, Sept. 11 (UJ?) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham Cun-ningham shook hands in mutual ' congratulation yesterday when a strong battle unit of the Italian fleet steamed past their destroyer flaeship in surrender. Their moment of elation on the bridge of the Hambleton was the hierh ooint of the dramatic, unprecedented un-precedented ending of the four-year four-year fight for the control of the Mediteranean. The main force of Italy's modern, mod-ern, powerful battlefleet now is in Allied hands virtually Intact and ready to be turned against our enemies. Escaping from Italian ports despite des-pite the German viglance, and eluding angry attacks by Nazi (Continued on Page Two) ladoglio Killed Says One Report BERN, Sept. 11 ' uTB)-Unconfirmed reports reaching Lugano today said Marshal Pietro 'Bado-"io 'Bado-"io was killed in a skirmish Thursday between Italian ' and German forces. It is believed here, by authoritative authori-tative sources, however, that these reports were without foundation and that the Italian Prennetl is with King Victor m'm ahuet and Crown Prince Umberto. wha; are reported en route to Sicily, - |