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Show HERALD FEATURES THE WEATHER UTAH C3ear and continues wtrm with little change In temp-' erature. Consistently ahead et the news, the Washington Merry -Go-Bound, daily column by Drew Pearson, appears every day on the Herald editorial page. nigh .. Low . 90 40 .VOL. 22, NO. 15 UTAH'S ONLT DAILY SOUTH Or .SALT LAKB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1944 COMPLETI UNITED PRESS TELERAPU NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS- 2 More Utah Children Die In Ice Box Tooele Deatns Almost Sahara Village Case TOOELE, Utah, Sept. 9 Laverne Blackburn, 7, and Douglas Kennedy, 6, war workers' children missing since last night, were found today, suffocated in the icebox ice-box of a vacant unit at the Todd housing project. The deaths, as reported by' Sheriff Alma White, were an almost al-most exact duplicate of the suffocation suffo-cation of two children in an unused unus-ed Sahara village project refrigerator refriger-ator yesterday. The Sarahara village project Is located at Hill Field, Utah A night-long search for the Tooele boys,ln which soldiers, housing officials and police, participated, par-ticipated, ending this morning when E. K. Roberts, project maintenance main-tenance foreman, opened the icebox ice-box in court 174-M. The bodies were face to face. One of the boys had his pen-knife out, and the blade was found broken off In the jamb. Sheriff White said Investigation indicated that the boys had broken brok-en Into the vacant unit through a window 11 by nine Inches. They had apparently removed the shelves from the ice-box and placed plac-ed them under the sink, then crawled in and pulled the door abut. The tragic discovery brought , the total of children reported kil led in accidents in Utah to seven in 2A hflim Yesterday, Mrs. Frank D. Cnomhi of Sahara. Villf p near HOI Field, Utah, found her two sons, Robert, 4, and Ronald, 2, suffocated in the refrigerator of nearby house. The boys had Tiapii tha obteota rtt a uHf. uanh rtor 18 hours. A few hours later, a truck hit the playcart in which Jane True. 6, and Katherine Booth, 5, were coasting on Salt Lake City's north! Temple viaduct. Both were killed almost Instantly. unoruy alter mat, m Logan, a truck struck the bicycle ridden by!fice January 20," Dewey replied, Shannon Woodbury, 10. She died In a hospital two hours later. Court's Ruling Places Foote's Name On Ballot In an unprecedented court rul ing in Utah, Judge Fred W. Keller of Price, Friday declared T. Earl Foote of Pleasant View to be the winner over J. W. Gillman of Orem In the Democratic primary contest for the nomination as representative representa-tive from the second Utah county district to the state house of representatives. repre-sentatives. Mr. Gillman had previously been declared the winner over Mr. Foote by two votes in the official canvass following the election. The reversal of the primary election results was brought about when Judge Keller ruled that three of the votes cast in an Orem election district were illegal, because be-cause the voters had failed to transfer their registration from the district in which they formerly former-ly lived. The three voters who were brought into court and compelled com-pelled to divulge how they voted were, Mrs. Lucille Anderson, S. S. Johnson and George Long, all of Orem. While they were innocent of any wrongdoing, having voted In the same district where they have been accustomed to vote in years past, the court ruled that the votes were illegal. The court also overruled the contention by counsel for Mr. Gillman Gill-man that the three witnesses would not need to divulge how they voted, in accordance with their constitutional rights of the secret ballot, since no fraud was alleged. Since they admitted on the witness stand at the request of the court that they voted for Mr. Gillman, and they were not legal voters in the strict sense of the word, the ballots were thrown out, thus giving Mr. Foote the election by one vote. Mr. Foote said Saturday that there were several other cases of illegal voting that had come to his attention, wjiom he understood had voted for Mr. Gillman. Attorneys for Mr. Foote were J. Rulon Morgan of Provo and Ellas Hansen of Salt Lake City. Mr. Gillman was represented by George S. Ballif of Provo. Mr. Foote's opponent In the final election is Samuel D. Blake of Vineyard. Rumors Of Hitler Death Widespread LIEGE, Belgium. Sept. 9 uh Rumors are widespread in Ger-jmany Ger-jmany that Adolf Hitler is dead, laccording to Belgians who have escaped from concentration camps I hn the Reich. Dewey Expects to Be Kept Fully Informed On Talks at Quebec GOP Candidate Carries Campaign Into His Native Michigan; Governor Infers Quebec Parley May Have Political Consequences LANSING, Mich., Sept. 9 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, carrying his campaign for the presidency into his native Michigan, said tonight that he expected to be kept "fully informed" in-formed" on conversations between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill as a step toward maintaining a non-partisan approach to international security. The Republican presidential nominee made the state ment at a press conference Louisville, Ky. where last night he called for non-partisan discussion of plans for preventing pre-venting future wars. His remarks re-marks were prompted by a reporter report-er who said his paper was going to suggest that Dewey attend a meeting between the president and Churchill, expected to take place soon at Quebec. Never Invite Myself "Well," Dewey sa'd, "I never Invite In-vite myself to private discussions." The New Yortc governor declined de-clined to say whether he interpreted inter-preted an agreement between Secretary Sec-retary of State Hull and John Foster Fos-ter Dulles, Deweys foreign affairs af-fairs advisor, to mean that the GOP candidate would participate in such a conference as the plan ned Roosevelt-Churchill meeting. "All T can Mv i th under- standing between Hull and Dulles has been stated that Dulles is to be kept fully informed as to the progress of negotiations for the tormation of a world organization and for sanctions to be imposed upon up-on the defeated powers," he said. Another questioner asked: 'Assuming 'As-suming the Quebec conference is chiefly In regard to strategy and military operations, do you think iln.vlew of a possible change of aaminisirauon tnat me possiDie new administration should be kept informed of such broad strategy wilk come up "It is to be hoped the war with Germany will be over long before the next administration takes oi "and that the progress of the Jap anesc war will be so far along that any plans made will be well advanced, ad-vanced, if not completely executed before January 20th." Not OflclaUy Informed Dewey said he had not been officially of-ficially informed cf the Quebec conference, and added that it was Briefer Hits Administration In GOP Acceptance Address By BOYD GILL United Press Staff Correspondent FRENCH LICK, Ind.. Sept. 9 iU-E) Gov. John W. Bricker charged charg-ed tonight that the Democratic administration has shackled business, busi-ness, relegated courts to a minor Bus Fare To Be Reduced; Better Service Possible The Geneva Transportation Co. officials at a conference Friday at the state capitol with the put-lic put-lic service commission, representatives represen-tatives of the ODT and Provo City officials, agreed to investigate the feasibility of extending its service here. The company also agreed to sell tokens at the rate of three for 25 cents as is being done in Salt Lake City. Because of the refusal of the ODT to allow any more gas or bus tires for- Provo transportation transporta-tion purposes, the extension of bus service will have to be done in such a way as to add very little additional mileage, it was said. A plan is being studied and will be discussed this week, between Gronway Parry of the Geneva Transportation Co., and the city commission, by which the busses will travel on a two-hour schedule instead of hourly, and will thus be able to make a better coverage of the east and west ends of the city. U. S. Owned Plants to Be Sold For Highest Possible Price WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (UJ3 President Sam H. Husbands of the Defense Plants Corp. said today to-day that when the 1,800 government-owned war plants are disposed dis-posed of, the DPC will see to it that the government gets the highest possible price. He told a house irrigation and reclamation subcommittee that the investment in war plans is a siz able part of the national debt, and that circulated reports that war plants will be disposed of at "15 shortly after he arrived from "not announced until after my campaign dates had been made public." Do you Infer, governor, that the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt may have political con-Sequences?" con-Sequences?" he was asked. "I make no inference beyond what I said," he answered. 'It is a simple statement of facts." The governor declined to be drawn into a discussion of his pledge to demobilize the army as soon as "practicable.' A reporter said that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt had commented that It was the duty of Selective Service Director Di-rector Lewis B. Hershey to get men in the army "not out" and asked Dewey whether he wished to reply. "I will let you draw your own conclusions from the Inadequacy of the comment," ho answered. Dewey was greeted at the Lansing Lan-sing railroad station by a crowd estimated at 4,000 or 5.000, by Lt-Gen. Lt-Gen. Hugh A. Drum, U. S. A. (ret.). New York state guard commander, who Is accompanying the governor on the transcontinental transcontin-ental trip. Well-wishers cheered and waved home-made banners aa he and Gov. Harry F. Kelly rode through downtownatreeta in an open aula- L mobile to the Olda hotel. Following a round of conferences with political leaders and representatives repre-sentatives of various other groups, Dewey departs for Owosso, his birthplace 42 years ago. and will spend the week-end witn Ms mower, mow-er, Mrs. George M. Dewey, at her home there. The governor will leave Owosso Sunday afternoon to resume a campaign trip across the country that will be marked with major political talks at Seattle, Portland. San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City before he returns to Albany Sep. 28. role and that "Sidney HUlman and his political action committee are now in complete control of the New Deal party." Officially accepting the Repub lican vice-presidential nomination, nomina-tion, Bricker, in a broadcast address ad-dress before the Indiana Republican Repub-lican editorial association, pledsred his party to "re-establish liberty! at home; ' to clean "our governmental govern-mental house" by eliminating needless bureaucracy, restoring a responsible cabinet government, end the "reckless trend toward centralization of all power in the federal government," and create an atmosphere of opportunity for the individual The Ohio governor's appearance before Hoosier editors was part of the campaign strategy of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, his presidential-nominee running mate, to win Indiana's U. S. senatorial seat and to further the GOP effort to gain two more of the state's 11 congressional con-gressional positions, nine now being be-ing held by Republicans. Bricker said that "business must be freed from its shackles and government must .be taken out of competition with private industry." indus-try." Attacking the administration administra-tion assault on the supreme court, Bricker added that "a substantial majority of all the federal judges now have been appointed by the' New Deal president." Reviewing the 11 years of the New Deal, Bricker branded the present administration as a cradle-tograve cradle-tograve manager of the personal lives of Americans. "The New Deal candidate re- ( Continued on Page Seven) cents on the dollars" were without foundation. Husbands also told the committee, commit-tee, which is studying ecnomic development de-velopment of the Pacific northwest, north-west, that no plans have been completed for the disposal of government owned plants. He added that they will not be completed com-pleted until congress acta finally on legislation now being compromised compro-mised by senate and house conferees, con-ferees, which establishes machinery machin-ery for disposal of surplus government govern-ment property. Allies Patron Opens Huge Moselle Area Assault ENGLAND Ml J. ME fVttrar J f .atfrWaawaarj e.y : i:.V.V. sv.-.:.'. .;. " FRANCE The United State Third Amy, striking within 20 miles of German frontier, opened a general offensive from Its Moselle River bridgeheads and front line dispatches said Nazi lines were cracking under the terrific onslaught. All along a front of more than 250 miles stretching inland from the North Sea coast. Allied troops were closing in on the Siegfried Line, making giant strides on the British Second and American First Army sectors In, Belgium. Russians Driving Closer to Budapest By ROBERT HCSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 10 c Russian troops raced 37 miles downhill across Transylvania to within 226 miles of Budapest, capital of Hungary, yesterday while Berlin re-ported re-ported that Soviet forces had opened a massive new of Bulgarians Ask Allies for Terms Of An Armistice LONDON. Sunday, Sept. 10 (HE) The four-day war between Bul garia and Russia ended last night when Premier Joseph Stalin announced an-nounced that the swift Red army advance into the former Axis sa tellite state had achieved its ob jective a Bulgarian declaration of war on Germany. The Soviet foreign office an nounced that Russia, together with the United States and Britain, "at present are working out conditions of an armistice with Bulgaria." There was no indication what the terms would -be. A few hours before. Premier Sta lin announced that military operations opera-tions against Bulgaria had ceased at 10 p. m., Moscow time (3 p. m. EWT), Bulgaria switched governments govern-ments for the second time in nine days. -The veteran political leader, Kimon Georgiev, was named premier pre-mier of a new anti-German government govern-ment pledged to lead Bulgaria against the crumbling Reich on the side of the Allies. Bulgaria has been at war with the United States and Britain since Dec. 13, 1941. Russia declared de-clared war last " Tuesday because Bulgaria was unwilling to break relations with Germany and had granted refuge to Nazi forces fleeing Romnia. Bulgaria, satisfying the Russian demand, declared war on Germany Friday night, nine hours after troops of Gen. Feodor I. Tolbuk-hin's Tolbuk-hin's Soviet third Ukranian army began pouring over the frontier. By this, Bulgaria has ceased to be the base of German imperial ism in the Balkans, as it had been in the past SO years," Stalin said in an order of the day to Tolbuk- hin announcing the end of hostilities. hostili-ties. Thus within the space of IS days Russian, arms and . Allied diplomacy diplo-macy had torn three satellites from the side of Germany Ro mania, Finland and Bulgaria and put both Bulgarian and Romanian Ro-manian troops Into the field against Germany. ? mWz Reims fensive in southern Poland toward the heart of hlghly-industralized German Silesia. From the northeast, east and south, huge forces of Red army and Romanian troops were pouring pour-ing across the eastern Carpathian mountains and the Transylvanian Alps into both Romanian and Hugarian-annexed Transylvania for a giant drive toward the Hungarian Hun-garian plains the classis south eastern invasion route to Vienna and the Reich. Most of the mountain passes through the giant wall protecting Transylvania were in Russian hand and for the first time since March, Soviet forces renewed their blows in Bucovina in an at tempt to crack the last enemy- held passes in northeastern Ro mania. Rapid successes achieved In the new mountain sector in Bucovinia where more than 100 towns and settlements were seized, ( indicat ed that German and Hungarian mountain defenses were crumbling (Continued on Page Seven) War In Brief WESTERN FRONT Allies poised for Reich invasion as air and artillery bombardment softens up Siegfried line; Nazis trapped near channel coast suffer heavy losses in futile escape attempt. SOUTHERN FRANCE Americans, Ameri-cans, smashing last German resistance re-sistance In Besancon area, plunge north toward Belfort gap, as French roll 32 miles farther north along Swiss border. EASTERN FRONT Hungary-bound Hungary-bound Red army streams through Transylvania to within 230 miles of Budapest; Nazis report new Soviet offensice in southern Poland.' Po-land.' ITALY American fifth army ncars Pistoia in push behind Gothic line, but heavy rain slows British advance on eastern sector. CHINA Japanese storm rail junction near Hunan-Kwongsi border, bor-der, rolling nearer big Kweilin military base. BURMA British slug out new gains in advance on enemy base at Tlddin. ATR WAR Fighter - covered American bombers hammer Industrial Indus-trial Rhineland for second succes sive day. Poised of MILES (NBA TtUohoto) 1500 II. S. Bombers Blast War Plants In the Rhineland ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, London. Sept. 9 CU1E) More than 1500 U. s. heavy bombers and fighters today smashed at German war factories and communications in the Rhine-land Rhine-land and the Ruhr for the second straight day in a campaign to starve out the Germans' Seigfried line garrisons. Bombing through heavy overcast over-cast and weaving intense flak, more than 1000 Liberators and Fortresses battered war factories and railroad yards at the key cities of Mainz, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, and Dusseldorf and other targets in the Ruhr to complement com-plement a strong RAF night blitz against Nuremberg where the glow of fires could be seen 100 miles away. The only enemy plane to be seen by the eighth air force raiders raid-ers was one jet-propelled craft which failed to challenge, but bad weather and heavy ground . fire took a toll of 23 four-motored bombers and four esctoring P-51 Mustangs. Other eighth sir force Thunderbolts Thunder-bolts and Mustangs attacked enemy en-emy shipping along the Netherlands Nether-lands coast, blasted a railroad bridge spanning the Maaz river, 25 miles from Rotterdam, and strafed and bombed communications communica-tions and airfields in western Germany. Ger-many. Nine enemy planes were destroyed in air combat and five others were wrecked on the ground, it was announced tonight The attack on Dusseldorf, 300 miles from England and Germany's third largest port, put the raiders only 65 miles east of the first American army at Liege and the British second army at Bourg-Leopold, Bourg-Leopold, while Mainz and Mannheim Mann-heim are 110 miles east of the third American army. The assaults, the third concentrated concen-trated bombardment of the Siegfried Sieg-fried line's supply soures and feeder lines this week, followed by a few hours a lighting raid by RAF Mosquitos in greater strength than usual on Nuremberg, Nurem-berg, junction of two great trunk railroads from the Ruhr to southeast south-east Germany and from Berlin to central Germany. 1 Va ? Victory Ship S. 5. Provo Launched at Shipyards RICHMOND, Calif., Sept. 9 UJ?)The victory ship S. S. Provo, 540th vessel to be launched at Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente yards, went down the ways at 4 p. m. today. Mrs. Vilate Rodeback of Provo, Utah, christened the ship, while Mrs. Sarah Mendenhall of Provo served as matron ma-tron of honor. 'Reiclm Yanks Sweep To Within 14 Miles Of German Line American First Army Advances 20 Miles Through Ardennes Forest; Allied Armies Complete Deployment for Showdown Battle PIUL ACLT United Press War Correspondent ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 10 The American First army swept to within 14 miles of the German frontier west of Aachen Saturday and advanced 20 miles through the Ardennes forest to the south as Allied armies virtually completed their deployment for the storming of Germany's. last western west-ern ramparts in quest of victory this year. Driving eight miles north of Liege, the First armys tanks reached the vicinity of Vise ' on the Meuse 14 miles from the German border, 16 miles from! Aachen and seven miles south of. the big Dutch fortress of Maa stricht, a front dispatch disclosed. Near Vervlers (A CBS front correspondent reported re-ported that American patrols were near Vervies, 10 miles east of LA-ege LA-ege and "about 13 H miles from the German frontier.) Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' troops drove completely through the Ardennes forest and reached the area of St Hubert, 18 miles from the Luxembourg frontier and 32 airline miles from Germany. Aerial bombs already were crashing down on the Siegfried forts and enemy troops dispositions disposi-tions in a furious 24-hour soften -ing-up attack as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's troops, more than 1,000,000 strong, prepared for the attack and as the first cold winds of autumn swept the European battlefield. A front dispatch said that American troops in Belgium were digging out their mufflers and wool-lined combat trousers for protection against the cold nights. Another American column, ironing ir-oning out a salient between the First and Third army spearheads, captured the town of Ecouviz, just below the Belgian frontier and only 17 miles from the Duchy of Luxembourg. Hit Pompey The Third army battled into the town of Pompey, four miles northwest north-west of Nancy and began mopping up the dense Haye forest lying between them and the city while other units were reported in the "immediate vicinity" of the big fortress of Metz, 21 miles from Germany's borders. East of Liege the Yanks were less than 18 miles from the German Ger-man frontier and their armored spearheads were reported early today resuming their dash for the Reich, driving the Germans in confusion before them. St. Hubert, reached by the First army, is 32 miles airline from the German border. Mopping up western Belgium, British troops threw three bridge heads across the great ca nal, broadening Lt Gen. Sir Miles c. Dempsey s front moving on Holland and easing Allied com mutation problems. The cross ings were made at captured Oaten Oa-ten d on the coast, in the area of Oostcamp four miles south of Bruges and at Nieuwendan, 13 mUes west of Gent. While enemy resistance stiffen ed and heavy fighting developed (Continued oa Page Seven) How Far To Berlin The road to Berlin: 311 miles from the eastern front (measured from Poplawy, Poland) 331 miles from the western front (measured from point 16 miles west of Aachen) 450 miles from the French front (measured from Malche) 556 miles from the Italian front (measured from point two miles south of Rimini). UN French Forces Approaching German Border United Press War Correspondent ROME, Sept. 9 French mobile forces, in a 32-mile advance ad-vance along the Swiss border, pushed to within 42 miles of the southwestern corner of Germany today, while American Amer-ican forces to the west crushed crush-ed the last Nazi resistance in the communications hub of Besancon Be-sancon and drove on beyond to the approaches of the Belfort gateway to the Reich. The battered remnants of the German 19th army, thrown back as much aa 335 miles from the Mediterranean in 26 days, virtually were trapped between the jaws of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. Third army of the north and Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Franco-American 7th army of the south. A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt said the. Allied drive was meeting increasingly stiff Nazi resistance and suggested suggest-ed the possibility that the Germans Ger-mans were draining troops from other critical points along their threatened border in a last-minute effort to defend the gap. Everything Every-thing indicates that the Germans intend to defend annexed Alsace as though it were homeland soil, Schmidt reported. The main German force was reported re-ported 86 miles southwest of Dijon, Di-jon, and its only major escape route through the Belfort gap between be-tween the Vosges and Jura mountains moun-tains was menaced by the Americans Am-ericans who advanced 11 miles northeast from Besancon to Roul-ans-le-Grande, 36 miles from Belfort Bel-fort and Leshan, 25 miles from the mouth of the gap. Radio Algiers 'said the Americans Ameri-cans had driven within nine miles of Belfort while the London radio said "the battle of the Belfort gap has begun." A United Press dis-pitch dis-pitch from Allied supreme headquarters head-quarters in London said Patch's southern armies "virtually have joined up with the Third army.") While the Americans were developing de-veloping a arontal attack againSt Belfort in their swift drive up the DiJon-Besancon-Belfort highway, the French to the east were swinging in on Belfort from the south-eastern flank. They drove 32 miles from Pontarlier to take Maiche, 25 miles south of Belfort (Continued on Page Seven) War Department Seizes Plant WASHINGTON. Sept 9 UE -i The war department tonight an' mnutfeu seizure ui uie wiu vol turv Brass Co. nlant at Minncano a t M A, AA.W S", lis. President Roosevelt ordered the seizure after the case was referred! to him by the war labor board. The issue was company non-compliance with a WLB order affecting the plant's 55 employes. The war department said CoL Lynn C. Barnes, corps of engineers, engi-neers, had been designated as ltc representative to take over and: operate the plant. |