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Show - it " ' ' HHDEIt HEWARDED THE WEATHER - JCTCW YOBX. Oct. XX OLD 'Dennis XtXeGUilcuddy, a train-lau, train-lau, has flit war band today aad a premise ef free dental care for tit rest off his life. Be found a fStf bill en s cemnmters train sad tamed It la to the New Hav-en's Hav-en's railroad lost and f emnd department, de-partment, where Dr. A. B. Weln-' Weln-' stein, dentist, claimed It. UTAH Clear Sunday, becoming Partly cloudy west portion te- ttdh merrow. Little change In tent peratnre. Tempera tares; High 71 . Low 35 VOL 22. NO. 21 UTAH'S ONL.T DAILY SOUTH OF SALT UKI PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1944 COMPLETE TtLERAPH PRICE FIVE CENTS' NEWS SEBVICa V 1 V ' . VI IP r - V 70 noun Deed In Cleveland OilBIusfFire Death Toll Expected To Exceed 100; Blaze Sweeps 165 Buildings r. in i-. The death toll continued to mount tonisbt as firemen searched the ruins of a 50- block area on Cleveland's east side in an effort to find the charred remains of additional addi-tional victims of a holocaust that was expected to claim more than 100 Uvea. The devastated area, embracing embrac-ing approximately 165 buildings of nearly all types, was virtually leveled by the blaze that started yesterday when a gas storage tank exploded, like a flame thrower at the East Ohio Gas company plant. 11 Unidentified Bodies-Coroner Bodies-Coroner Samuel Gerber an nounced that 78 persons were known to have perished in the fire and be added that the toll probably would exceed 100 when a thorough search of all wrecked wreck-ed buildings was completed, pro bably by tomorrow. There were 54 bodies, including includ-ing those of. two children and several women, at the morgue and at least 13 were Identified. ' The others were burned beyond recognition, many merely a panful of charred bones. Bodies of the other 24 victims were still at the scene. Led by Coroner Gerber, 80 'volunteer workers were conduct ing a systematic search of the debris, but still-burning fires and red-hot bricks and walls kept them away from some parts of the area. The fire was the most devas tating In the city's 148-year his tory. Besides the persqns burned burn-ed to death and the buildings destroyed, de-stroyed, more than 10Q automobiles automo-biles and other valuable properties proper-ties were wrecked. Unofficial es timates placed the damage at dose to $10,00400. A total of 214 persons were hospitalized but most were dis charged after treatment, while another 200 were reported as probably pro-bably injured to a lesser degree. Doctors and nurses in all of Cleveland's hospitals, which were jammed with fire victims, worked work-ed valiantly to save the lives of 53 persons reported critically burned and hurt. Meanwhile, the community aided by the Red Cross Marshalled Mar-shalled all of its forces to provide pro-vide food, shelter and clothing for nearly 3,000 homeless. At least 700 residents of the burned-out burned-out area were housed at Will-son Will-son Junior high school. Perkins Studies Post-War Plans For U. S. Labor WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (UJ3 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Per-kins is studying plans for postwar post-war "revitalization" of her department de-partment and expects to be on the job to carry them out, it was learned tonight The program calls for return to labor of the U. S. employment employ-ment service, now under the war manrjower commission, transfer of the national labor relations sador to the Soviet Union, ar-board ar-board Into the department a5- rived here today for consulta-sorptlon consulta-sorptlon of some of the media- tions with President Roosevelt tion and arbitration sen-ices of the war labor board as voluntary adjuncts to - conciliation ser vice, and expansion of social se curity to include peacetime maternity ma-ternity benefits, administered by the children's bureau, similar to the plan now operating for wives of servicemen. Miss Perkins' ideas will be Incorporated In-corporated in her annual report to congress which she is now drafting. Most of the reorganization reorganiza-tion could be carried out by executive ex-ecutive ore of President Rooce-velt, Rooce-velt, it was believed. Springville Man On Wounded List SPRINGVILLE Pfc. Vern Boulton has been wounded in action in the South Pacific, according ac-cording to word received here. Serving with the U. S. Marines, he is a son of B. G. Boulton of this city. He enlisted in June 1943 and four months later was . sent on overseas duty. On about June 15, he was released from a hospital in the South Pacific where he was confined for seven weeks as a result of combat fatigue. Details concerning the nature of his wounds have ceived. not been re- J1IOST GERMANS THINK WAR ALREADY LOST HERTZ OGEN RATH, Germany, Oct 21 OE Eighty-eight of 90 residents of this town polled by a 'United Press war correspondent today said that Germany already ias lost the war., FDR Asks Power to Act Be Given Delegate at United Nations Parley Roosevelt, Speaking in New York, After Rain-Drenched Campaign Tour, Pledges No Secret Treaties or Guarantees by U. S. NEW YORK, Oct 21 0JJ5 President Roosevelt, climaxing cli-maxing a rain-drenched campaign tour of New York's major boroughs, tonight demanded before the foreign association that the American delegate to the United Nations Na-tions council be given in "advance" power to act with other oth-er nations in enforcing peace even by force of necessary. The president said such the post-war world organization is to nave any reauty at ail. No Secret Treat! And at the same time he prom ised that no "secret treaties or any secret guarantees" would be developed by Secretary of .State Cordell Hull or him and that the defeat of Germany would "the Nazi conspirators" left without "a shred of control open or secretof the lnstru ments of government." In a lengthy analysis of this country's International position as he sees it and particularly referring re-ferring to keeping the peace after af-ter the present conflict ends, Mr. Roosevelt said "It is clear that. If the world organization is to have any re ality at all, our representative must be endowed in advance by the people themselves, by con stitutional means 'through their representatives in congress, with authority' to act" Unconditional Surrender At the same time the president re-stated the principal of unconditional un-conditional surrender, applying in the most -immediate sense to Germany, saying that once Germany Ger-many is defeated "we shall not leave them a single element of military, power or of potential military power. As for Germany.' he said In naiiiifi 4tta sner Vim 4 W-BIue network andhe- fimJ&Z!?" jm tional Broadcasting company,1 "that tragic nation which has sown the wind and is now reaping reap-ing the whirlwind we and our allies are entirely agreed that we shall not bargain with the Nazi conspirators, or leave them a snrea or control open or secret of the Instruments of government," Mr. Roosevelt said that the Allies Al-lies had "rejected" the possibility possibili-ty of coming "to terms" with Germany and Japan because "the decision not to bargain with the tyrants rose from the hearts and souls and sinews of the American people. They faced reality; re-ality; they appraised reality; and they knew what freedom meant" Mr. Roosevelt was bitterly critical of the "isolationist" attitude atti-tude of Republicans in congress, says: "If the Republicans were to win control of the congress in this election, Inveterate isolationists isola-tionists would occupy positions (Continued on page twelve) Harriman Returns With Report On Moscow Parley WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (U.F& Averell Harriman, U. S. ambas- nd Secretary of State Cordell HulL He will give a full report on the recently- ended Moscow conference con-ference between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. Harriman's trip from Moscow to Washington was made in 57 hours. FLYING BOMBS STILL HIT ENGLAND LONDON, Oct 21 (U JO German flying bombs were directed against southern England and the London area from the North sea for the 10th straight night last night but no casualties or damage were caused, authorities said today. Geneva Lacks Workers to Go Into Capacity Production Capacity production at Geneva! Steel will be impossible until the necessary number of workers can be employed at the plant it ap pears in the light of figures obtained ob-tained Saturday, snowing that 'nearly 1200 men are still needed to man the jobs at the plant There were 3822 men on the payroll as of October 20, which was only eight more than the October 13 payroll of 3800. Everything is ready to start out the No. 4 battery of coke ovens as soon as more workers can be obtained. No. 3 blast furnace is also ready manpower for operation when becomes available. authority must be granted if Crowds Give FDR Rousing Ovation On New York Trip By MERBJMAN SMITH United Frees White House Correspondent NEW YORK. OCT. 21 (U.R) President Roosevelt toured the rain-soaked streets of New York amid a wet but enthusiastic crowd today In an open bid to garner the state's 47 electoral votes for his fourth term campaign. In his first stop on the four-borough four-borough swing, the president stood bareheaded under dripping skies in Ebbetts field, the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Dodgers' ball park, where he urged an estimated 16-thousand persons to return Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., to the United States senate. Bad weather, sent Inland by a sea-ridlng hurricane, failed to take the edge off the occasion, as the 50-car flag-draped procession wound through New York's streets in a procession that was destined to continue for four hours. The parade, which began after the president arrived at the Brooklyn armjauppiy. iopaaijot 7:33 a. m. aboard an overnight train from Washington, will be climaxed by an address before a dinner of the foreign policy association as-sociation tonight The Ebbets field crowd gave the president a regular Dodger ovation as he stood by his open car bareheaded and without his customary cape "to pay a little tribute to my old friend, Bob Wagner." Tribute to Wagner "We were together in the legislature legis-lature thirty-some years ago," he said. "We've been close friends ever since, largely because we have the same ideals of being of service to our fellow men." Mayor F. H. La Guardia, topped top-ped by a broad hat and decorated decorat-ed by a broad smile, accompanied accompan-ied the president on the first leg of his trip. Other municipal and party officials were in the parade, and various municipal politicos alternated in the presidential car, flanked by alert secret service men. The president had one constant con-stant companion, Fala, his dog, who took a somewhat aloof interest inter-est in the crowd. Since Mr. Roosevelt was touring tour-ing as a presidential candidate and not as commander-in-chief. no 1-gun salute was fired at the V, .r1, nv,n ai OTe navy (Continued on page tw el vc ) I Bricker Favors Expansion Of Heavy Western Industry Governor John W. Bricker, dur-fsisted that no one section of the JJfrJi alLHIntry HouM be given any un- that he is in favor of continued expansion of western industry, At a press conference in Ogden, at an Ogden rally and again at a press conference here in Provo, the Republican vice presidential candidate asserted that the west has proven through its war effort that it is entitled to a sizeable place in the American industrial picture. "The West should be given every advantage" to continue its industrial progress, he said at the Provo press meeting. "Its res ponse to the war effort justifies that" and in addition, the west has the "resources, the space and the labor." However, Bricker pointedly in- Three open hearth furnaces are standing idle because the blast furnace and coke ovens are not in operation. It was learned Saturday that the quality of the ship plates now being turned out of the rolling muis ax ueneva is oi such a nigh grade that metallurgical men from all parts of the country are dropping In at the plant from time to time to look it over and learn "how It's being done." Laboratory tests of the Geneva steel plates have revealed that there is no finer steel being produced any- where in the country today, than at the Geneva plant Briefer Hits FDR Record In Provo Speech Crowd of 1200 Attends Rally at Paramount; Gets Royal Greeting Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican candidate for vice president, speaking before a capacity crowd of 1200 persons Saturday at the Paramount theater, labeled President Roosevelt's "vaunted "vaunt-ed indispensability for foreign fore-ign affairs" a "pure myth." He blamed the president for the failure of the 1933 world economic eco-nomic conference which he said paved the way for the present war. The governor was given a cordial cor-dial and rousing greeting upon ms arrival on Ms special cam paign train at the Provo union depot shortly after noon, Sat urday. A crowd of more than 200, consisting principally of leading Republican party workers work-ers from every city in the county coun-ty and elsewhere in the state, was on hand to welcome the party standard-bearer to this city. Introduced by Mayor-He Mayor-He was introduced to the audience audi-ence by Mayor Maurice Harding of Provo, following the introduction intro-duction of party candidates and workers by A. V. Watkins, county coun-ty Republican chairman, who presided at the rally. Governor Bricker's speech was broadcast over an intermountain network, through station KOVO, Provo. The Republican vice presidential presiden-tial nominee asserted that the New Deal did not want next month's election decided solely on domestic issues, because it feared "an over-whelming defeat." de-feat." Instead, he said, the Democrats Dem-ocrats want the campaign based on foreign issues because they think they can win on them. Earlier at Ogden, Utah, Brick - western states should be permitted permit-ted to "retain" their war-built industry. "The very fact that you've responded re-sponded so magnificently to the (Continued on page twelve) Five Killed In LSM Explosion On the 7est Coast ine iNrrrr rw Aim rl?;,"- ri... nn-j j 5Wtodlykinnaexp"osio wnicn sent flames licking over a U. S. landing ship (LSM) at its Terminal Island dock, fire department depart-ment headquarters reported. Ambulances from naval and civilian hospitals were rushed to the scene to remove the Injured to harbor area hospitals. The landing ship was towed into in-to the bay and the fire extinguished, extin-guished, firemen reported but flames, started by Uie explosion, raged over a lumber yard near the dock. All craft in the area were towed OUt of thf Hanffpr nrno whan n leaking iras lanlr nparhv throat. ened to touch off another ex plosion . just advantage over any other section cither now or during reconversion. re-conversion. "We shouldn't let the east get out of war production and back into peacetime production before the west does," the Ohio governor remarked. "After all, the war with Japan Is the nation's war, not just a war between Japan and the Pacific coast" Asked by The United Press at his Ogden press conference to state his position on the future of the Geneva steel mill, Bricker checked with his audience to ascertain as-certain the exact history of the huge government-built mill, its raw materiel sources and its possible pos-sible markets. Then he replied that the future of Geneva is "a matter to .be worked out by private pri-vate capital." "The country has to look to the west," he said. "But lt has to de velop as a whole, not permitting one section to get advantage over another. The New Deal has built up too much executive power through use of sectional favor-tism favor-tism . . . One of the dangers of super-government is the threat of intimidation." Returning to the western in dustrialization theme at his Ogden Og-den breakfast-time rally, the Ohio chief executive said that the war has illustrated that the nation has "looked too long to the east" for its heavy industries." "Expansion in the west tops the nation during the war, Bricker said. "So now the nation must J turn anew, to the west" y iimlk Leyfte Germans Fall Back 15 Miles From Aachen Clearing o! Antwerp Channel Creates Bad Situation for Nazis ALL IED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, PARIS, SUNDAY, OCT. 22 u.R German forces retreated toward to-ward a new defense line on the Roer river 15 miles east of fallen Aachen Saturday while two allied armies converged con-verged on the enemy pockets commanding the Schelde estuary into Antwerp, clearance of which might mean final victory in a matter of weeks. The British Second army, in a lightning five-mUe dash westward, west-ward, linked up with Canadian troops on the Roosendahl canal 14 miles north' of Antwerp, to tighten the noose on possibly 20,-000 20,-000 enemy troops in the Schelde esturary area. The commander of the Aachen garrison, a Colonel Wllck, belatedly belat-edly surrendered with 600 of his men at a point just west of the city where they had held out af- ter Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' doughboys completed the mop-up of Charlemagne's old capitol Friday. Fri-day. TT.J 41 I I . sHfrwiyelMyow'uriruiig: the malflTf Czl uermgn aeiense iorce in ine Aachen area, frustrated in more than a score of counter-attacks designed to break the siege, was reported pulling out to the north- cast toward emergency defenses before the Rhine. Drive Eastward The Yanks immediately follow ed up the withdrawal, and drove half a mile eastward from the Wuerselen area, three miles above Aachen their first advance in that direction since Uie sieve arc was first thrust around Aachen nearly a month ago. I he Germans' defense of Hol- land as a buffer before the Reich unu as a duuct oeiore ine neicn hil. detected sharply aa oitauidii uuvfa CAuruum ill six miles their gains in a new (Continued on Tage Seven) Russians Driving Into East Prussia Near Insterburg By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 22 (U.R) Red army troops, in a 20-mile advance, yesterday reached the Danubq river 84 miles south of Budapest and reopened a great offensive to win the Hungarian capital, while Berlin admitted that massive Russian tank columns col-umns had driven 20 miles Inside East Prussia to within 15 miles of the great German rail hub of Insterburg. In the deepest allied penetration penetra-tion of German soil, Soviet armor arm-or reached ths Gumbinnen-Gol-dap highway some 67 miles east of Konigsberg, the capital of the Junkers stronghold, and appeared appear-ed from German reports to have seized perhaps 100 German villages vil-lages and a few towns. Enemy reports of 'white-hot tank battles and the deep Soviet breakthrough of Nazi defenses in East Prussian remained uncon firmed by Mocow. The Soviet war bulletins, however, how-ever, told of forging a new encirclement en-circlement around thousands of - (Con tinned on Page Seven) Small War Plants Facing Problem DENVER. Oct 21 (UJD The War Manpower Commission and the smaller War Plants Corp., today to-day were considering the problem of whether or not employes of smaller war plants now manufacturing manu-facturing civilian goods shall be withdrawn to essential industries in the intermountain region, SWPC District Manager E. P. Musselman said today. Musselman said the problem was referred to the SWPC and the WMC at a recent conference here. He explained that smaller war plants now authorized to produce civilian products face the prospect of being forced out of business if they lose workers to more essential industries. term illnld Board of Directors, 3rd i srj I 75 v -4? r" j?.iy k-x nt'4 P i wyf I Under overall command of A dm. William F. Halsey, Jr., the seven admirals pictured above direct the slashing attacks of the U. S. Third Fleet against Japan's inner defenses in the Pacific. Second in command is Vice Adm. W. A. Lee. Jr., of Natlee, Ky.: sparkplug spark-plug of the fast Carrier Task Force is Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, with Vice Adm. J. S. McCain, former deputy chief of naval operations, opera-tions, in direct charge of carrier units. Other Third Fleet commanders com-manders are Rear Admirals Fredericks Sherman, R. E. Davison, G. F. Bogan and H. B. Sallada. 83 U. S. Prisoners of War Rescued From Philippines GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTH-! UR'S HORS.. LEYTE. PHILLIP- PINES, Sunday. Oct 22 (U.R) Eighty-tlirce American officers and men who were Japanese orisoners of war in the Philip- pines ior iwo ana a nan years were rescued several weeKS ago and all but two who elected to remain with Filipino Guerrilas ... i i. a.. 81C I1UW MIC .11 III tralia. Gen. Douglas MacArthur revealed today Two of the liberated Ameri cans, First Lt. Richard L. Cook; of Los Angeles and Staff Sgt. Joseph T. Coles, Caso, Ala., elect-: MacArthur Yarns Japs to Treat Prisoners Decent GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTH-UR'S MacARTH-UR'S HEADQUARTERS. LEYTE, PHILIPPINES, SUNDAY. OCT. 22 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today Issued a warning to the Japanese military leaders in the Philippines that, as commander in chief of U. S. invasion forces. he will hold enemy leaders im mediately responsible for any failure to accord prisoners and in ternees proper treatment to which they are entitled. MacArthur addressed his warning warn-ing to the commander in chief of the Japanese military forces In the Philippines, Field Marshal Count Tarauchi. "The surrender of United States and Philippines forces in previous campaigns were made with the belief that they would receivethe dignity and honor and protection of military prisoners as provided by the rules and customs of war," MacArthur said. "Since then, unimpeachable evidence has been received of degradation de-gradation and even brutality to which these prisoners have been subjected In violation of the most sacred code of martial honor. "For these actions, the Japanese Japan-ese government will be responsi ble to my government "As commander in chief of ground forces in the Philippines, I shall in addition during the course of the present campaign, hold Japanese military leaders immediately responsible for any failure to accord military prison ers, civilian prisoners and civilian internees the proper treatment to which they are cnu Tclbaini Floor I- 2 ed to stay with the guerillas who assisted them after their escape; I from Japanese ships transporting them to Nipponese camps, the special release disclosed. "All of the men are in good condition, except five recovering from bullet and grenade wounds, rsone is listed as serious," seri-ous," the announcement said. The men will soon be sent , , t ,L TTi.J C,t. "'Z "'Tt.i. " the military hospitals. Revealing the story of the men who escaped from Japanese hands, were aided by Filipino guerillas and lived for more than two years in Japanese-occupied areas, MacArthur told a grim story of cold-blooded murder. The Americans, after performing perform-ing forced labor on an enemy airfield in the southern PhUip-pines, PhUip-pines, were being shipped north when their convoy was attacked by an American submarine. Their transport and at least two other enemy ships were hunk. "The Japanese guards deliberately deliber-ately fired on the Americans trapped in the holds and seeking to escape Irom the sinking ship. "Others were hunted down and kUled in the water as they sought to swim for shore two miles distant. dist-ant. Some were picked up by enemy patrol boats and at least 30 were later brutally exeedted. "After escaping death from such savagery and hours of hardship, hard-ship, 83 of the American officers and men made shore and were cared for by Philippine guerril- ( Continued on Page Seven) War Front News Briefly Told By United Press PHILLIPINES Americans drive across front seize road junction, probably two Tacloban. western FRONT Yanks Germans reported retreating to new defense line 13 miles to the act Canadians canture of Antwero channel imminent ' I EASTERN FRONT Powerful Soviet columns reported 201 miles inside East Prussia within scored in Yugoslavia and Hungary. f PACIFIC British announce three-day air and sea born bardment of Japanese-held Nicobar islands in Bay of Bengal. AIR Up to 250 Italy-based American heavy bombers smash rail yards in-western Hungary in conjunction with Russian a& vance; RAF- Lancasters bomb German gun positions In Holland.- ITALY American advance south of Bologna meets fierce resistance; British capture CesenaUco and drive Germans to fringes of Cesena. v GREECE British speed 53 mQes beyond Thebes; Allied warplanes harass routed enemy. CHINA Chinese hold Japanese forces advancing on KweCm as Allied bombers attack Kwangsi supply lines. - SOUTHEAST ASIA StUwell's North Burma troops occupy Mohnyin; British gain la Chin hills Main Airfield Captured By Yank Cavalry Invasion Troops Seize Dulag Road Junction Two Coast Airfields By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent BULLETIN GEN. MACARTHUB'S HEAD QUARTERS, LEYTE, Sunday, Oct 22 (U.R) American dismounted dismount-ed cavalrymen captured the 6.-000-foot Tacloban airstrip within five hours after hitting the beach and our tank-led forces are new battling in the outskirts of Tacloban Tac-loban City, which Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur said he expects to occapy this afternoon. GEN MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, LEYTE, Sunday, Oct. 22 U- Ameri can invasion troops, driving inland on a 20-mile front behind be-hind tanks and flame-throwers, have seized the road junction of Dulag and probably prob-ably two airfields on the east coast of Leyte and are storming the defenses of Tacloban, capital capi-tal of this central Philippine island, is-land, front dispatches reported today. Japanese resistance was in- creasing as-th-nemy recovweJj from the initial shock of the assault, as-sault, but nowhere was lt suffi cient to stem the tidal wave ot I the biggest American invasion army of the Pacific war, adopt ing "Remember Bataan' as its battle cry. 25e,00e Yanks Attack With perhaps up to 250.000 Americans attacking frontally. the Japanese were confronted by a major uprising of ten's of thousands of fierce Filipino patriots in their rear. Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, Philippines resident commissioner who land- ! ed with Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, said he anticipated the guerrillas would provide major aid. Romulo indicated the patriots had been advised in advance of I the invasion and were provided with special recognition signals to contact the Americans. (Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an nounced in Pearl Harbor that U. S. naval planes supporting the invasion on Friday Pearl Harbor time (Saturday Philippines time) destroyed 50 Japanese planes, sank seven ships and damaged four in widespread forays. They raised to 436 the number of Japanese Jap-anese ships sunk or damaged and planes destroyed or damages to 1172 to 1182 since Adm. William F. Halsey 's third fleet planes be gan the pre-Invasion assaults Oct 9. Sink Cargo Ship (Carrier planes attacking Jap anese snipping in Coron bay between be-tween the Islands of Busuanga and Culion northwest of Leytj sank a previously damaged cargo car-go ship, a small coastal cargo I ship and a small escort vesseL Four enemy' torpedo boats were sunk at Botangas bay and Cebu harbor. Several ammunition (Continued en Page Seven) How Far Berlin? The Road to Berlin: 296 Miles. from Western front (from point southeast of NiJ-mesen). NiJ-mesen). 310 Miles from Eastern front (Prasa). 539 Miles from Italian front I (from point south of Bologna). Leyte on a SO-mfle airfields and storm . drive three miles abeve Aachen: 15 miles of Insterburg; advances r 1 |
