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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Cloudy, rain and snow spreading over state Sunday. Temperatures: High 65 Low 31 CALL THE HERALD If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and m copy will be sent to you. VOL. 21, NO. 45 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS DPTT? TTUr TVTTC TELEORAPH NEWS SERVICE rflJUL 1 1 V L UtJN i b fiuv Mil III 1) . jl Solemn Rites Marl: Easter Observances Commemoration of the blessed Eastertide with its message of triumph over! death through the ressurec-j tion of Christ will be carried I out in the traditional manner in the Provo area today, with hopes that the Christian holiday holi-day will be blessed with good weather. The weatherman, Saturday Sat-urday hinted of possible rain and now and brief showers Saturday gave little promise of sunny skies Sunday. Today's observance here gen- church services, featuring Easter: cantatas and special music in keeping with the sacred theme. Many Provoans assembled! at Utah lake early this mornings for the sunrise services held under! the auspices of the Young People's: Christian Endeavor Society of the Community church. Jim Plaugher gave the Easter address, and program numbers included in-cluded a violin trio, Loraine and Jean Drissel and Earl Gorden; scripture reading by Alma Ayers; Invocation by the Rev. Edwin F. Irwin; violin trio numbers, and the benediction by Sylvia Johnson. Orem will observe Easter with a rendition of the Easter cantata, "Resurrection Morning," by Gates, to be sung by a chorus of 130 voices from the Lincoln high Bchool at Sunday morning sunrise services In the Scera community auditorium. E. B. Terry, head of the music department, will be the director, and his brother, L. L.j Terry also of the faculty, will be1 the reader. The services start promptly at J8:30 -aV nC" and wTirTasrYor 50? minutes, and the public is invited to attend. j Climaxing elaborate Holy Week servlcs. age-old Easter observ-i ances are being held In the Catho-: 11c, St. Mary's Episcopal, Community Com-munity and St. Mark's Lutheran churches of Provo. Special Easter music has been arranged for the regular 11 o'clock Easter services at the Community Commun-ity church, "'with the Rev. Irwin presiding. The Masons will observe a traditional tra-ditional Easter ceremony todav, by attending the services at the Provo Community church in a body at 10:30 a. m. All sojourn -lner Masons have been invited to attend the church services witii tt mi f 1 1 nt'ri tin I'Hier Tttiit Orjden Police Captain Put Dictaphone On Ex-Mayor Bramwell's Conversation OGDE.N'. Utah. April 8 !M: .1- C. .Mf Vii'i, 52-year-o'd n v.u; - Hunt center operator, and O ien police Captain Clifford Ke tci day testii;ed that they had operated in obtaining dictagranh records of conversations with former M:vor Kent S. Uumwell "in o : to see if he w.i.- cr o lied." li-ed." Testimony was given here today to-day in Justice Alfred Gladwrll's C'lirt. v. n. -re Meyers is eh-u ; with ntiy a bribe t I5ra Two Killed In Auto Accident at Point-of-Mountain Two Salt Lake county residents were Killed and two b ys injured in an accident north uf L. hi Friday night. th- state highway patrol re ported. Killed were Charles L. Roulger, 47, Salt Lake, driver of the car, and his brother, Frank J. Foulger, 60, Holladav. The boys, who were in fair condition con-dition in the Lehi hospital, were William Jesse Holsten. 9, of Salt Lake City, and Gene Foulger. 12, a nephew of Charles Foulger. They suffered shock and bruises. The accident occurred early riday night wben the b oulger car sideswiped a one-ton truck and horse trailer driven by Arn- j Housekeeper. 21. old Thomas, 36, of Kamas, Utah.! Stevenson was tried for the s'-c-Investigating officers said Thorn-1 ond degree murder of Miss House-as House-as was not injured and the truck keeper, who died in his office fol-was fol-was only scratched. The Foulger lowing an operation last Decem- car went out of control and plung- ed into a 15-foot wash. The two men were, thrown from their sedan and diea almost instantly. in-stantly. The boys were thrown from the back to the front seat of the car. The two deaths are the first traffic fatalities to be recorded in Utah county during 1944, asjter four years of delinquent, taxes compared with three traffic deaths during the corresponding period last year. In the state the traffic deaths now number 34 as compared to 22 durin period in 1343. the same Draft Boards Ordered To Suspend Inductions Of Men 26 or Older By PAUL HARRISON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 8 Selective service headquarters head-quarters today ordered local boards to suspend induction of men 26 or older who are "making a contribution to essential agriculture, war production or war supporting activities" until "substantially" all available younger men have been taken. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.'national selective service director, said the step was dictated by the armed forces Easter Svmbol (SEA Telephoto) Mother and child kneel in prayer before huge cross atop San Francisco's Fran-cisco's Mount Davidson, aglow with light for the first time since the war for the observance ol Holy Week. ft,. ,,-4 4 -..:. v. r.u is r.u.'. an a:;::y pr.vatc i-t I-'ui t L '';ias. AUhojii :nt speaki:: under to-;oth, Meyers stated that he had co-.nuiu' o:.orrd nor g.ven a bribe to iiramv.-ell. Meyers s-i d h.el i- Ml. !.:::. e.i.:.p;i ! il.; Chnloii Carrol however, that he to thu Brar:i-veil at tl'.e rcqui st of and Warren I. Cd;-s dy pun h;is who was appointed city :g a;;cnt by Bramwell ! but u reve d th;il .( rs lis :r.iph , y- V e(.,,p- T-r,-iiiK!:ig tailed to Tat.f1 Witi; M" to I'.ave a eiel.i li-rdid co:i er.-itio:.s with ..; I ".vh.ch w ere to be Urani-about Urani-about . ;:: bail m:. hi!:es.'' Keetcr s.ud I a i i ;i:igt n.eias fur in.siaiing ma- ciiuies were made with a Salt; Lake City laboratory and that; transcriptions of these conversa tions were later made in radio i ... at. on KLO m Salt Lake City iraiii. cji icsu.t a y esecraay, au-- tjoTli( to Czf,cb officers hidden imwhen the western front opens, imttin.:; conversations with Mey-jtfl() Carpathians awaitinr arrivalisaid tne entire nation except some eis which he said had been made;of the Russians. Some Czech of- two per cent who are Quislings in ururr to 'incriminate' Meyers j ficials are enroute or shortly wilFare banded together in a ereat dliu Ul.ltc-. Stephenson Case Re-Trial Denied SALT LAKE CITY. April 8 r.l!' District Judge M. J. Bronson today .'emeu a motion for re-trial in the case of Dr. T. W. Steven- on, Ob, salt Lake City, wno was convicted of involuntary . slaughter in the death of man-Alene man-Alene ber Tax Sale Slated Here On May 12 Public tax sale on property which has gone to the county af- jhave been charged up against it, will be conducted on the front steps of the city and county building, Provo, May 12, beginning at 10 a.m. according to Ernest 'Madsen, county auditor. because "the demand for!lOQa- young men is so great that J, , . drastic measures are neces-;pected sary even though they may result in failurp to fill the current calls." The induction suspension ap- Electing to fight it out over plies to mm who rca-lu-d their! their aircraft plants, the Gcr-26th Gcr-26th birthday on or before March , 'nans let five; fighters fields in 24. 1944. Such men engaged in , the northwestern Reich go almost essential industries will not be undefended from other bomber inducted, even though they have! formations to storm in 15 abreast been ordered to report for indue-: against the bombers over Bruns-tion. Bruns-tion. passed their physical exam-(wick which one Mustang fighter inations or been ordered to report pilot described as "the greatest for physical examinations. mass attack I ever saw.'' Deferments Wiped Out j Other German planes were de- The step was in line with new.stroyed on the ground by 8th air selective service regulations vir-' force fighter sweeps against tually wiping out all occupational fields in the Frankfurt area, dur-deferments dur-deferments for men under 26 iniing which an additional 11 Nazi order to siphon younger men into' Interceptors were shot down, the army and navy. Bombers attacking Luftwaffe Essentiality of jobs held by men fields at Oldenburg, Rheine, Ach-26 Ach-26 and over will be determined on'mer, Quackenbruck and Handorf the basis of whether they are in lost four ships io ground fire but one of the 35 industrial categories met no enemy interception, thus listed by the war manpower com-j bringing the .total number of mission as essential. WMC now , planes shot down to 92 German is preparing a new closely re-j fighters, 34 American bombers Btrictetl list of super-essential in-: and 25 escorting AnTed fighters dustries which will be the only which American air headquarters ones whose below-26 employes isaicj vere iost from all operations, will be givAi deferment considera-, The attacks, which broke a t'00, ; week's weather-enforced lull In Non-Essentials To Go ;tne ajr war. were made itl ciear Men over 26 who are employed weather with good results, the in what selective service regards communique said, as non-essential industries still, The target at Oldenburg was a will be inducted as usual, and will dppo, and base for eingle-engined not be affected by today's order. .fj-nterSi at Rheine a night-fight- oinciais said tney couiu not es-,er ; timate how long it would be before 'depot, at Quackenbruck. an air Is 1Sns of increasing pressure on .local boards have "substantially" depot' and air repair depot, and at'ncutra st-&tes to cease aid to Ger-inducted Ger-inducted all younger men. Indue-' Handorf an air storage and rpnnir!many and Japan appeared tonight I tion of all oldr men may be re : sumed when that point is reached, but some sources believed that the next step might be induction of I ni'-n in the 35 "essential' industrial indus-trial categories who fall in the 26 ! to 29 age bracket. Tod'iy'.s, order from Her.shev speeif;c;l!v rcseir.d.-J previous orders or-ders calling on local boards to forward for-ward .sufficient inimocr: of nun for induction to make up deficits accumulated in past months. The order was in the form of a telegram tele-gram to all state selective service director:-. The move temporarily pushed into the background a drive being, Hitlers once arrogant nortnern conducted by Hershey, the war'sarnson stood mentally beaten manpower comm :ssi .;i and the(and a prisoner in the country they house military affairs committee tried to conquer. to get t-K s into er?ential activi- tic.-. Tiiat campaign st;u is oeing anniversary of the German in-carried in-carried on, however, with the vasion of Norway, Haakon's words house committee preparing re-!Were beamed by radio into every where the Czech border wns;Viiiage and hamlet and into iso-reached. iso-reached. but it was presumed the!ated guerrilla outposts and un-t'ir:-l army swept 15 mis fr.mju, rground centers where patriots the tov.ii of I. latyn. tak- n "" await onlv the word to rise up April a. to reach the Tatar P:vss . aga ,nsL the invadcrs. gateway to ir.e great Hungarian pla in. Simultaneous with the announcement announce-ment that the Nazis had ber-n thrown back across a seconel So- viet border this month they were 'driven into Romania on April 2- Meanwhile one of : INorways ithe United Press l'arncd that the 'most famous underground lead-i lead-i i'7ch rnvommrnt h.-ro hu hpcn trs. here to make final clans for ceaselessly boardeasting instruc- Lovn fr,t- flioir nr.mt.lanH t r. tnkn'fnrrf' to ad the Allies. over civil administration of liberated liber-ated areas. The first army victory drew the maximum salute of 24 salvos from Moscow's 324. guns, while (Continued ou l'nr Two) Robinson Sees 4th Term Draft For Roosevelt SALT LAKE CITY. April 8 UH Rep. J. W. Robinson of Utah, visiting Salt Lake City last night, predicted that President Roosevelt Roose-velt would be "drafted" into a fourth term. Robinson, who himself expects to be a candidate for re-election said the president had told him he would "like to stay home and let someone else take over j "However," Robinson said, "The country needs Roosevelt now and no one else can take over his job." The Utah congressman is visit ing his congressional district, which includes Salt Lake, Utah, jD'avis and Tooele counties. 92 Nazi Planes CLaA fttasM Im A ii R ri By WALTER CROXKITE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday April 9 (U.R) Powerful American bombers and fighter formations forma-tions blasteja" Brunswick aircraft air-craft plants yesterday, and succeeded in goading the Luftwaffe into a suicidal defense de-fense in which 92 Nazi planes were shot down by escort fighters fight-ers alone against 34 American bombers lost, it was announced I" cmpl"e tou ,' iu"w I planes over Brunswick was ex- to rise to well above the hundred mark when 8th air force interviewers tally those that fell to the bombers' guns. base, at Achmer, an air repair! shop. Liberation For Norway At Hand Says King Haakon LONDON, April 9 UP) -King Haakon VII of Norway tonight promised his people that the "hour oi i; Deration soon win strike as underground reports indicated that Coming on the eve of the fourth Norwegians in ships at sea and 'concentrated in army camps and 'on British airdromes took up a inew battlecry: "We will fight our way home. the part patriot forces will play Complete plans have been perfected per-fected for D'-Day when the Allied armies sweep onto the beaches of western Europe, he said. Two-Shift, 10-Hour Working Schedule Proposed for Country's Yar Plants WASHINGTON, ' April 8 U.E) Sen. Clyde M. Reed( R., Kans., today proposed that the government govern-ment establish a two shift, 10-hour-day working schedule in war plants to relieve the manpower shortage and at the same time supply an additional 1,000,000 men to the armed forces. Criticizing the administration for "stalling" and playing politics poli-tics with manpower policies, Reed told a press conference that the 10-hour shift schedule would turn out more production than the three-shift, 8-hour day program (now used in most plants. He charged that the administration "would apparently rather have a labor drai than utlliie labor ef ficiently. Reed declared that the war de - Naval Force Knocks Out 46 Jap Ships, 214 By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Tess War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, April 8 (UP) Destruction or damaging of 46 Japanese ships and 214 planes by a huge U. S. task force In the western Carolines America's biggest big-gest naval victory of the war was believed today to have driven driv-en the enemy fleet into its inner strongholds and completed the at least temporary neutralization of Truk as an offensive base. A communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz yesterday disclosed dis-closed that the most powerful naval na-val striking force ever assembled in the Pacific sank 28 Japanese ships, including three warships, and damaged 18 others, one of them a battleship, during operations opera-tions that carried nearly 1,200 miles west of Truk to within 550 miles easf of the Philippines. Most of the destruction, includ- ing the razing of at least 65 build- ings, was wrought at the Palau islands, last enemy stronghold east of the Philippines, in a two-day two-day assault March 29 and 30. Yap, 20 miles northeast of Palau, Ulit-mi, Ulit-mi, 100 miles farther east, and Woleai, nearly 650 miles east of Jap Bauxite Works On Ponape Blasted PEARL HARBOR, April 8 CE Army medium bombers blasted the Japanese bauxite works on Ponape island Thursday in continuation con-tinuation of a smashing American Ameri-can mid-Pacific offensive which authoritative ' quarter aay haa Allies Pressure Sweden to Stop German Exports vvAsmiNuiun, April (lj; of the eve of Secretary of State Cordell Hull's scheduled address on United States foreign policy. The newest disclosure of Allied pressure was the revelation that this country and Britain are seeking seek-ing to bar Sweden from exporting increased quantities of ball bearings bear-ings to Germany following dis-truction dis-truction of the Reich's ball bearing bear-ing plants at Schwelnfurt and Steyr. This Allied action came as Hull prepared to tell the American public in a speech from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. EWT tomorrow night over the Columbia broadcasting system's network what this nation is doing to implement the 17-point foreign policy which he enunciat- cdJaf.t mont Hull stated principles then; to morrow night he is expected to discuss action. He probably will reply to criticisms of the United States' attitudes toward Spain, France, Poland, Italy, and Argentina. Argen-tina. Next week, when congress returns re-turns on Wednesday from a 10-day 10-day Easter holiday, Hull is expected ex-pected to present to the foreign relations committees of the house and senate this country's proposal propos-al for an international organization organiza-tion as promised at the Moscow conference last fall. The Allies also have been putting put-ting pressure on Turkey, by discontinuance dis-continuance of Anglo-American lend-lease shipments, to stop her shipments of chrome needed for German production of high grade steel. Spain has been pressed to cease exports of wolfram and other oth-er good needed by Germany, and Eire has been asked to expel Axis agents. partment, under direction of Under-Secretary Robert P. Patterson, was not attempting to utilize labor in war plants efficiently and indicated indi-cated that this was due to political politi-cal pressure. The heads of west coast labor unions are opposed to the 10-hour shift and have tried to upset it where It exists, Reed added. "If they would organize the plants on the 10-hour shift there Arould be sio labor crisis on the west coast," he said, "but of course the west coast is essential to the fourth term." Reed said art aircrart plant he visited recently had changed to the 10-hour shift, and produced more planes with fewer employes. By March 1 of this year the plant had delivered more planes than ithe goal set, he added. Palau, were and 31. attacked March 30, Not a single Ameican shiDiair assault bv bombers from th was damaged in the raid. Twen-'south, southwest, and central Pa-ty-five American planes wereicific. lost but only 18 airmen. One! (A Japanese Domel dispatch re-hundred re-hundred and sixty Japanese planes ported by the U. S. Foreign Broad-were Broad-were destroyed and 54 damaged, cast intelligence service said many of them so badly they prob- about 20 American Liberators ably never reached their bases. had bombed Truk Thursday morn-Close morn-Close on the heels of Nimitz' img. Two of the raiders were shot line victory, Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's headquarters in the southwest Pacific announced that planes and warships from his com- Lnri h.H t tv, enemy shipping by sinking a Japanese Jap-anese tanker, a coastal vessel and 12 barges and setting afire a 7,-000-ton cargo vessel. The latest American blows brought the total number of Jap anese ships sunk since the start of the war to 1.358. the number pro - jbably sunk to 895, and the num - ber damaged to 1,163. The attack on Palau knocked out te-nporarily a key link in the Japanese chain of bases supplying and reinforcing Truk, once re - garded as the enemy s Pearl Har - bor, depriving Truk of needed aid neutralized Truk and heavily im- paired Japan's ability her inner empire. to defend i Striking again at the Caroline islands, where the Pacific fleet K n a Cilnlf s-vT - rr n ryrvI CIS Ti no ouiia .ua6Lu w -hou- ese Wpr ftt t-o powerful sweeps head positions, gaining as much tion of the remnants of five to through the enemy b once form d-as a nille at some point8i while ' six trapped Nazi divisions, killing able domain, the army planes also j their artillery has unleased a more yian 7,000 of the enemy and hit airfields on Ponape, a fleet an-. heavy barrage against the Ger-! capturing 3.200. In the "Skala nouncement said. Only moderate man east flank, battle reports dis-' pocket," where the remnants of anti-aircraft fire was encountered closed tonight. i 15 German divisions were being and all the raiders returned. Pon- j Badlv handicapped by the con-; wiped out, the Russians tightened ape is 37 land miles east of Truk. atant Anjed bombing of their re-1 the ring by taking several strong-It strong-It was the seventh straight day inforcement and supply lines to! holds, that Allied bombers had pounded italv, the Germans Friday hurled Capture 300 Towns strategic Ponape, lying midway 75 of their carefully husbanded! The Moscow bulletins announced between Truk and the Marshalls. planes against American Liberat-1 that the first armv, in its drive Dauntless dive-bombers, Cors-iors which attacked Mestre, the t0 tne Soviet frontiers, had cap-air cap-air fighters of marine aircraft : rail junction for Venice, and' Sen-! tured more than 300 towns. Sta-wing Sta-wing Four, army Mitchell bomb- j ,galha on the Adriatic coast, j lin's orders, which touched off the ers and navy Hell-Cat fighters j Twenty-six enemy planes were ! mightiest series of artillery sa-meanwhile sa-meanwhile bombed and strafed shot down at a cost of three Al-' hltes ever heard in Moscow, an-three an-three of the four remaining Jap-!ijed bombers and several fighters. ' nounced that the two victorious anese positions in the eastern' Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth I' armies had hurled the Germans Marshall islands. No planes were arniy troops established a new from 30 towns in northern Ru-lost. Ru-lost. IfnnvarH ttrnnrnrani nnrihu-ct I mania and 150 in eastern Ro- Last week's great victory at padiglione in the center of the Palau, Yap, Ulithi and Woleai, j beachhead in which the most powerful strik-1 The exact gain in padigiione ing force ever assembled in the!sector was not specified but di - Pacific sank or damaeed 45 en- 'rt.r a o,-io emy ships, provided the clinch-, troops were disclosed to have driving driv-ing evidence of our tremendous en a mile above Carano and foUght superiority for the battles to brisk batte in a cemeterv with come. Three monthes ago it was al- most unthinkable that our ships and planes could roam unchal lenged by the Japanese fleet nearly near-ly all the way to the Philippines. But after the carrier-task force blows at Truk, costing the enemy 40 ships sunk or damaged, and now the victory at Palau, our naval sway in those waters is unquestioned. unques-tioned. (A German DNB report from Tokyo quoted Capt, Goro Takase of the Japanese press department as predicting a major American offensive in the Pacific before July 1. He said that in the last year American naval and aerial strength has been "very considerably consid-erably increased" while the Marshalls Mar-shalls campaign demonstrated that the Americans have abandoned island-to-island strategy. OPA Boards to Employ Veterans WASHINGTON, April 8 V.rr Price Administrator Chester Bowles tonight announced plans for employment of World War II veterans in OPA boards throughout through-out the country. Servicemen will be hired as soon as vacancies occur, Bowles said, to aid in the "difficult but extremely Important work" of controlling prices and rents and of rationing scarce commodities. About 2,500 new employes are hired each month to fill vacancies, a "great many" of which henceforth hence-forth will go to veterans. Bowles listed these "special advantages" which he said would accrue to veterans in OPA jobs: 1. The opportunity to continue serving the country. 2. An opportunity, in local boards and field offices, of working work-ing near their relatives. 3. A chance to "bridge the gap" between military life and a permanent place In civilian life. RAID ON ROME LONDON. April 8 aE Radio Rome reported today that Allied planes have again raided Rome, dropping bombs on the outskirts of the city. f Planes i at a time when it was , - vnig U . . V. . 3 1 i . . uiuugin. ujiuer increasingly neavy down, the broadcast claimed.) The fact that the only capital warship sighted, a battleship, was j . ' Lu uttJ"aeIu an American submarine March 23 as it fled from Palau was interpreted interpret-ed as a sign that all major vessels ves-sels of the Japanese fleet now were taking refuge in Japan's inner ring of bases against the j cnier or tne Czech government-m-day when they will be called upon exile, in which Benes asserted that 1 -aH.,toc i.uuiciauu. ! Hundreds of dive and torpedo f bombers and fighters from a great j armada of aircraft carriers spear - , headed the assault on Palau. But! : the big guns of warships from the ' j 16-inch rifles of battleships to 1 five-inch weapons of destroyers, .also joined in administering the ; coupe de grace. Allied Positions Improved Around Anzio Beachhead ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NaDles. Anril rii AIHaH frrr- !es, in a series of unspectacular but i decisive thrusts, have substan- I . , ... t ai V llTmrovOfl tflP r A n7io honrhuniU V,o U ! German patrols, ormm units iair; in the ,recent beachhead figiiting includ- ed a luftwaffe battalion which the Americans call the "Doghouse Brigade" because its members had been guilty of derelictions in the air service and were trying to redeem re-deem themselves in ground combat. Large-Scale Engagement Imminent Between Japs and British In India NEW DELHI, April 8 U.P British Imperial troops have smashed local attacks by Japanese Japan-ese invasion columns pushing through the hills north of Imphal, capital of Manipur State, Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's communique com-munique said today, and a large scale engagement appeared imminent. immi-nent. (The Japanese Domel News agency, in a wireless dispatch for American consumption, said Japanese Jap-anese forces and troops of the puppet Indian national army had captured Kohima, big Allied sup- Dlv center 60 miles north of Imph al and vital junction on the Im- Dhal-Dimapur highway. (Kohima lies only 25 miles jmile fronL-Teach frontiers of Cze-east Cze-east of the vital Assam-Bengal jchoslovakia and northern Ruman-rallway, Ruman-rallway, main Allied supply linejia, drive 40 miles into eastern for Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and American forces driving driv-ing down the Mogaung valley in Burma.) Off setting indications that an all-out assault on Imphal was im- ing airfields in northwest Germ-minent Germ-minent from the south, southeast j any; meet heavy luftwaffe oppo- and east of the city was the fact that the enemy apparently had failed to exploit positions gained last week when Japanese troops surged across the Imphal-Kohi-ma road 50 miles north of the city. Repeated probing thrusts have been turned back and today's bulletin bul-letin reported British troops had improved their positions in the hills overlooking the Imphal plain. In the upper Mogaung valley, where Stilwell's forces are pressing press-ing construction of the Ledo road to China, Chinese troops were reported re-ported intensifying an attack on Reds Pick Up Speed In Drive For Balkans By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April S The Red army, rolling swiftly swift-ly toward the Balkans, has smashed the Germans back to the frontiers of Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia and northern Rumania on a 125-mile front, and driven driv-en up to 40 miles into eastern Rumania, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight in two orders of the day. An indication that the Russians might actually already have crossed the Czechoslovakian border bor-der came in a message to Stalin from President Edouard Benes, , p.. ' f T h r i ear agC uaPs " rearing nuge gaps in the crumblinfT German lines falling back into Hitlei"s stolen eastern finpire, me cracK ooviei iirsi ana second Ukrainian armies were re vealed to have merged their fronts I and begun clamping a giant 230-j 230-j mile-long vise down on the southeastern south-eastern corner of Hungarian- oc-i oc-i cupied Czechoslovakia and the , northern half of Rumania, j The regular Moscow war bullc-, bullc-, tins later revealed that the Soviet third Ukrainian army had pressed to within eight miles north of the j gn at Black Sea port of Odessa by ; capturing the town of Gildendorf and also rolled the Germans from 29 other localities on that front. To the northwest, Moscow announced an-nounced other Soviet third army mania, and on the latter front pierced the Nazi lines to depths of 35 to 40 miles, ! Stalin's first order announced ! that the first army, commanded by Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, the Soviet vice commissar of defense, de-fense, had whipped the Nazis in the foothills of the Carpathians and reached "our state border with Czechoslovakia and Romania" on a 125-mile front. During that drive the Russians punched down into northern Romania and won more than 30 towns, including Se-ret, Se-ret, ten miles over the border and 23 miles southeast of Cernauti. The Soviet premier did not state lluntlaiird on Hnitr Tiiol the Japanese-held village of Wa-kawng, Wa-kawng, 35 miles northwest of My-itkyina, My-itkyina, the main enemy base in central Burma. Other Chinese units un-its had contacted the enemy near Shadazup, 15 miles to the northeast. north-east. Near the Tingzup crossing on the Suprabum-Myitkyina road, some 40 miles north of Myitkyina. Allied detachments ambushed three Japanese units, causing 50 casualties. War in Brief RUSSIA Russian 1st and 2nd Ukrainian armies join on 230- iRumanianis,; 3rd Ukrainian army within eight miles of Odessa. AIRWAR U. S. bombers and fighters, 1100. strong, raid Bruns- i wick aircraft plants and support- sition. BURMA Japanese claim capture cap-ture of Kohima in drive toward Assam-Bengal railway; battle for Imphal believed imminent as British repulse local attacks north of town. ITALY Allied troops Improve beachhead positions, gain as much as one mile; 5th army artillery pounds German left flank. JUGOSLAVIA Partisans counter-attack in eastern bosnla after smashing three-day German drive on Tito's headquarters at Jajce. report main Nazi force cut off from bases. |