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Show .'.i-i-; 0" 4. THE VVEAtlJEH .... TEACODrMMa- Starch 1 . jronday tiixht the pesbody ledxe Net . Elks - burned themortcare en . it balldinx. Today the. building 'V Jarne&Iofs 115,008, IJTAII-Clfrad Willi inwr . fooler S V Vmperatures: nb,a4 si ; - . Low Ss , r ' Precipitation. .fl4 ? yOLv22rNCM0 UTAH'S ONLT DAItiX , SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS EvEiistfcinad Pies lnCrash Stfifies Keep D 2ftiry Tw v a hk mm POO Idle In mi nmission yarSich Plan To Meet Hot BatUe From Opposition in Senate I SALT LAKE CITY, March S" cub Appointments made by Cot. Herbert B. Maw to dajr appeared headed for a iirey reception in the senate fat the result of a request by Sen. Alonzo Hopkins, D., Woodruff that the attorney general rule on the legality of two of the nominations. The request concerned Maw's Appointment of liquor commis-tioner commis-tioner Justin Hurst to the state jwelfare commission, and Road v Commissioner John S. Evans to the state liquor commission. ; Neither man has resigned his present position and there is no vacancy as yet in the liquor Commission. Hopkins said he believed under the circumstances, the governor 0 was overstepping legal bounds. r ' He asked the attorney general to rule on whether the governor, tuts the legal power to nominate" a man to a position not yet vacant va-cant and whether he can nominate nomi-nate a commissioner already holding one job to another job 4 without first obtaining his resignation. resig-nation. The appointments committee has postponed action on five commission appointments pending pend-ing action by the attorney general. gener-al. y i? Governor Maw also presented to the senate the name of Ray H. Leavitt of Utah county to a six-year six-year term on the state engineering engineer-ing commission to take the post to be vacated by Mr. Evans. Mr. Leavitt, a former Utah county legislator from Dividend, is at 4 present an employe of the commission, com-mission, and one of half a dozen or more applicants for state ap-poinimentfrom ap-poinimentfrom this county. In; submitting the nominations, the governor departed from the customary form of- communica- h uon. to explain tne reasons for fhet change. He pointed out that nr.3r.imm-.Z, w-s4 : . 7. " 1 A4:, having served as sheriff of Utah ! county, .and is therefore well quaftiedo take charge of liquor v - , r T 6 . 1 i coniroi eniorcemeni worK. State Dept. Of Publicity May Be Eliminated . ; the crash knocked her off the ,OHN NESS 'sofa, where she has been lying. United Press Staff Correspondent! and Mr. Meenderink, vho was SASJL LAKE CITY". March 3 eating lunch at the time of the U.R The Utah state senate, mov- crash, said he thought at first it ing rapidly to clear its calendar was an earthquake. In time to adjourn next week, to-; Col. Wolf said Saturday that day voted to eliminate the state identitv of the B-24 pilot would department of publicity and in- dustrial development and substi- tion of the army board of inquiry. ! !, ' f?l!" i.iTon Stalin'i order of the day saluted tute for it a department of pub- Capt. Hodson was born in TPro-lfi ft9, L,0. ZZ!n trol under 17 erals and call-liity. call-liity. Uo Dec. 6, 1918, the son of Joshua tndtZ W operators spokesman i, for a victory barrage of 12 In other rapid fire develop-jand Ina Gee Hodson He attend-- ioint wage-hour confer- salvoes from each of 124 guns in k ments, the senate passed four ftSJ.Vtae "ft PUt mU the state s grand jury system. Thi latw ,.tin mirf.f changes from Sen. Ward C. Hoi - ' i brook, D.. Bountiful, that he had heard whispered threats against him for his part in the recent in-l in-l vestigation of the state's liquor control system. . House members, meanwhile, passed a bill to increase salaries Of minor state officials and then recessed until next Monday to . give the joint appropriations' committee time to complete its! i Work. Earlier the rammittee aonroved a gl.315.031 budget for operation i and expansion of the Utah Fish and Game department during tne next two years. The money, which would come entirely from sportsmen's fees, represents an increase of 66 per cent over the budget for the current cur-rent biennium. Fish hatcheries were scheduled to benefit most from the increase, receiving $549,335, or almost twice the amount for the current biennium. ' The senate, in voting to set up O department of publicity for the Mate, also provided that it should be headed by a commissioner who was a qualified publicity man. While debating aspects of the grand jury measure, Holbrook said that whispered threats had been made against him for investigating in-vestigating the liquor control setup set-up but added that they would not deter him from his duty. However, he added that in supporting sup-porting action for a revision of (Continued on page two) Iwo Jima Marines Get First Mail GUAM, March 3 (UJO Planes of a transport air group, piloted by Marine and Army fliers, delivered de-livered the first 8000 pounds of mail from home to Marines on Iwo Jima Thursday and Friday, it was announced today. The pilots flew under 200 feet over the embattled island to drop bundles of mail by parachutes. ....... . - r. . v : ,o ::. CapL R. G. "Bob Hodson Provo Pilot Meets Death In Ogden Crash Full militarr rites win be carried eat at site funeral services for Capt. Hodson to bo held Tuesday Tues-day at 1:3 pjn. In the Fifth L D 8 ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Frank T. Bennett. Interment will bo In the Provo Burial park. Carrying its pilot, Captain Rob ert G. "Bob" Hodson. 28, Provo, to his death, a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane crashed shortly after noon Friday, in the outskirts of Ogden, after colliding in mid-air with a B-24 Liberator bomber. Both planes were on routine flight. The bomber was able to return safely to its base. Announcement of the fatal accident ac-cident was made from the office of Col. Paul W. Wolf, commanding command-ing officer of the Ogden air technical tech-nical service command, who has appointed board or inquiry 'to 'investigate 'in-vestigate the couse of the crash. - ice acciaenf occurea, at approximately, ap-proximately, I p. m, Friday Toe p-T piumoWeqjrrnTO m in to aow too into w pacKyro B. J. Meendermk."MO .West Pal ISSSvTjSSL llf'VfS? ine T'J ? in e round and the olane was com- ground and the plane was com pletely demolished after being enveloped in flames. According to eyewitnesses, the fighter nosed "down in a mock dive on the larger plane and as the fighter pilot apparently sensed the imminent collision, he attempted to send the plane in a vertical dive and then was unable to pull out of the dive. i Mrs. Meenderink said impact of W be disclosed nendine comnle- ed the local schools graduating the LDS seminary and the Pro vo hi ch school and later SDent LV.0 "lgn. sfan A. inree ears in siuuy ai ine oxu (Continued on pare two) C. F. & I. Shows Interest In Geneva Steel WASHINGTON. March 3 (U.R) The Reconstruction Finance Cor- nnratinn tnHav annnunrfH that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp.,i had become the third major com- pany to express interest in post-: war purchase or lease oi its Geneva, Utah, steel plant United States Steel and Henry J. Kaiser had previously indicated interest, RFC said. The $200,000,000 project is now operated by the Geneva- Steel Company, a U. S. Steel subsidiary. AFL Members of VLB Carry Demands For General Wage Raises to FDR WASHINGTON, March 3 (U.R) AFL members of the War Labor Board tonight carried demands for immediate general wage in creases directly to President Roosevelt. They complained that Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson's policy is "to turn the thumbscrews more vigorously upon wage earners" whenever something goes wrong with any phase of the government's anti-inflation anti-inflation program. They also strongly denounced the recent report in which WLB public members told the president presi-dent an upward revision of the Little Steel Formula was NOT warranted. In a lengthy answer to the public members' report, the AFL representatives asserted that the economic facts call for modification modifica-tion of the formula. Detroit Plants Hope Seen For Early Agreement to Reopen 11 Closed Plants By JAMES L. RXXBY United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, March S c A break in the eight-day Chrysler Corp. strike and perhaps the stubborn Brings Mfg. Co. stoppage became a distinct possibility tonight when a high union official declared that "agreements reached at the Washington conference con-ference improve immensely chancei of ending both unauthorized unauthor-ized walkouts immediately." This was the first encouraging word in strike-ridden . Detroit since the Chrysler strikes mush roomed to include a total 38,000 workers in 11 closed plants of Chrysler and Briggs corporations. Company spokesmen said this evening that the approaching "critical week-end" will determine deter-mine whether 13 other major plants can remain in production. New Strike Flares A new strike, however, flared at the Detroit Aluminum & Brass Corp. when 1,000 employes quit work in protest against company refusal to pay a union shop steward stew-ard for three days in which he was suspended for disciplinary reasons. Informed by the United Press that Chrysler officials had given their assurances that no discriminatory discrim-inatory tactics would be used on striking employes when they return re-turn to work, Eddie Levinson said "it definitely will pave the way for a return-to-work vote." Levinson, public relations director di-rector for the United Automobile Workers (CIO) with whom the striking workers are affilated, said the membership had feared the company would order discontinued dis-continued on Fage Two) slfbaWvtiners - Royalty Plan To Be Argued WASHINGTON, March 3 (U.R A spokesman for soft coal oper ators said tonight that the United Mine Workers' demand for a 10 cents a ton royalty "has acturial merit and. as such, is worthy of consideration." But, the spokesman added, if l?,?,,i "!and only one mile from the old nZfJiv win !P n; Polish er where it juts sharp-S sharp-S ... A ,k ? 'V into Pomerania. handling the fund themselves. Between the extremities of their This concession from the oper- Ldv Rokossovsky's troops ators. heretofore adamantly op- took starserif Gross Schwirsen posed to the royalty plan, was' nrt in .rains n rin. Icca J?y V - i 7 ' ' H ".TTli. I derway Thursday seeks to ne f, w y inursaay seeKs xo net i gotiate a new contract to replace the present one which expires March 31. The miners proposed that the operators pay the royalty, on all soft coal mined, into a UMW fund ; which would be used to provide "modern medical and surgical service, hospitalization, insurance, rehabilitation and economic protection" pro-tection" for UMW members. O'Neill's statement came after open-xo-ine-puDiic sparrmg siage.: I The real business of negotiating "w contract iwmuay hind closed doors. The final speech-making public pub-lic session saw UMW Secretary-tary-treasurer Thomas P. Kennedy Ken-nedy ridiculina operators' esti- mates that the UMW demands wr.ems .iemem carae """iplanes swarmed over the western the conference had concluded its,? . . t . ,i would cost more than 65 cents a ! carrying the non-stop air offen-ton. offen-ton. To the contrary, he said, thelsive through its 19th straight day. demands including the royalty would amount to only 28 cents a ton. "Wage rates," they added, "have increased 4 since January, 1941) by 19 per cent. The cost of living has increased based upon official figures by 30 per cent. To correct the maladjustment between be-tween wages and cost of living . . . an adjustment of approximately approxi-mately 11 per cent is justifiable." The AFL members declared that failure to adjust wages upward up-ward now would have a disastrous dis-astrous deflationary effect on the postwar economy. They estimated that the European war would be, over by summer and the western conflict by the fall of 1MB. For full employment In 1947, they said, the country's consumer buying power will nave to be $120,000,000,000. But at present wage levels, they added, this buying buy-ing power will amount to only $102,000,000,000. "This." tney warned, "leaves a deflation gap of $13,000,000,000." Reds Capture Rood Centers Advancing Russians Fight to Within 14 Miles Nazi Eoeslin By ROBERT MUSEL LONDON, Sunday, March 4 u) The Red army, overrunning over-running more than 80 towns in gains up to 12 miles, has captured the Pomeranian road centers of Pollnow and Rummelsburg and fought to within 14 miles of Koeslin, bottleneck of Germany's last overland links with Danzig, Mos cow announced last night. There still was no Soviet confirmation con-firmation of 24-hour-old Berlin reports that Russian spearheads had cut the Danzig road and rail road in the Koeslin area. Latest German broadcasts said the Soviets Sov-iets were driving a second wedge through Pomerania toward the west, this one aimed at Stettin bay, after a 19-mile gain. The newest victories announced by Moscow fell into the pattern set by German commentators as early as five days ago. when they reported fierce fighting around Rummelsburg, a 10-spoked traffic traf-fic hub 33 miles southeast of Koeslin. Marshal Josef Stalin, in his 69th order of the day this year. announced the capture of Rummelsburg Rum-melsburg and of Pollnow, 13 miles to the A northwest . He described them as "important communica - te tions junctiont -and powerful enses in Pomeran: Capture of Pollnow represented the longest advance of the day, a surge of 12 miles north of Gold-beck Gold-beck in the outskirts of previously toppled Bublitz. Other columns of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos sovsky's second White Russian army took Dargen, 14 miles southwest of Pollnow and 14 miles southeast of Koeslin, in a four- mile advance on Rokossovsky's left flank. On the right wing of a 29-mile advancing front Second White Russian troops captured Gross miles j Moscow last night. 1,800 Bombers Raid Germany LONDON, March 3 U.R More than 1,800 American bombers and fighters struck the heaviest blow in weeks at Germany's dwindling oil reserves today and tactical equipment evacuating westward across the Rhine, The RAF gave the sleepless populace of Berlin no respite as fast mosquito bombers hit the Reich capital for the 12th consecutive con-secutive time tonight. A 200-mile long column of 8th ir force bombers and escorts. headed for Berlin and then broke , into packs to blast seven oil tar- gets, war factories in Brunswick and the railyards at Chemnitz, funnel for reinforcements moving to the Russian front. The fighter - bombers raked jammed highway and rail lines from Wesel down along and west of the Rhine to the regions of Cologne and Duesseldorf. They hammered evacuation trains, cutting cut-ting the rail and highway network net-work and zoomed low in close support of the ground troops. A mass exodus of German forces was reported underway but one tactical air force communique said cryptically that it was "doubtful whether they will reach their destination." CALIFORNIAN NAMED BOWLES ASSISTANT WASHINGTON. March 3 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion. said today that Ben C. Dunl- way, San Francisco OPA regional attorney, has been made assistant to Price Administrator Chester Bowles. Duniway, who will make his headquarters in Washington, will work with various departments of the coordination of OPA's major programs. Poi Start of Bataan's 'March of Death" pr-r; . " 1 ' 1 1 i i m triJ mmk- zirx 7 I II. in I T - ' --- JC&vt& i Herded together like SO many cattle, their faces re fleeting anguish and despair, these American soldiers sol-diers are guarded by a Japanese guard with fixed Bayonet before they began the ::march of death" from Bataan after their surrender in April. 1942. This picture, one of a series stolen by Filipinos from the Japs during three years occupa tion, was released by U. S. Marine Corps . ' i Telephoto U. S, Warships iiipdSI By FRANK TREMATNE United Press War Correspondent GUAM, March 3 (U.PJ Pacific Fleet warships made their closest approach to the Japanese mainland main-land for a surface attack by bombarding the outpost island of; Okino Daito Thursday night after Flying Bombs Hit Great Britain LONDON. March 3 (U.R) The Germans renewed the flying bomb attack on southern England today in what appeared to be the first move of a stepped-up campaign to make London pay the final bitter price for Allied victory. Flying bombs crashed into southern England in the first daylight day-light activity since last autumn. Nazi propagandists have been threatening one last wild fling of vengeance with a revolutionary weapon far beyond the V-l and the V-2 in destructive power. It may come true. Allied leaders are not taking the threats as mere bragging. They feel it is likely that the Germans are experimenting with a new device which might be ready before this war is over. Yanks Seize Two Small Islands In The Philippines MANILA, Sunday, March .4 (U.R) American forces have siezed the two small islands of Ticao and Burias in the Sibuyan sea at the lower tip of Luzon, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. The landing, carried out by elements of the American division of the 8th army with naval and air support, came with little opposition, op-position, MacArthur said. Occupation of the island threatens threat-ens envelopment of the enemy positions in the Bicol peninsula of Luzon eastern anchor of the Japanese hold on south Luzon, the communique said. This "will result either in evacuation evac-uation or destruction without major effort." 'MacArthur said. Ksl Japs Put Up Fierce Resistance By 1L D. QUIGG United Press War Correspondent MANILA, March 3 (U.R) The U. Si 6th infantry division and 1st cavalry, su ported by bombers and fighters, battled foot by foot through the powerful Japanese line in the Sierre ftladre mountains moun-tains east of Manila today in some of the fiercest fighting yet seen on Luzon. The battle raging through the Marikina . watershed east and northeast of Manila is now in its ninth day with no lessening of Japanese resistance, despite heavy Bombard Jap ttearttomeland carrier planes destroyed or damaged dam-aged 91 planes and 55 ships in daylight attacks on six islands in the Ryukyu chain, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today Steaming within 460 miles south of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, battleships, cruisers and destroyers poured tons of bombs into Okino Daito setting large fires. The attack xook tne t-acinc rieei aimosi auuFleet Adm Chester W. Nimitz miles closer to Japan than ever reported . and the southern air- oeiore to aeiiver a sunace auacK.,field is being used by aircraft uinougn neayy jieci uiuia ven - tured close to the Japanese coast to protect aircraft carriers during the Feb. 16-17 and Feb. 25-26 attacks on Tokyo and other tar - gei, uieu previous uevpvsi pv"e - tration for a bombardment was at embattled iwo, ojo miles cast; Marine artillery supported the of Okino Daito. 'American drive but air strikes Concede Possibility Almost simultaneous with Nimitz's announcement, the To-! kyo newspaper Mainichi virtu-1 ally conceded the possibility of, American troops landing successfully success-fully on the Japanese home islands, Japanese broadcasts said. Okino Daito lies 250 miles a strong pocket of enemy re-southeast re-southeast of the main Ryukyu1 sistance at Minami delayed the island of Okinawa, one of six hit! 4th division, Nimitz reported, in the daylight attack by carrier; Land-based aircraft, presum- plancs of Vice Adm. Marc A.; Mitscher's famed task force 58. It was presumed that alter the Ryukyu assault, which was made against islands stretcmng across, northern part of the island, a 275-mile north-south arc, the Between one-half and three-fleet three-fleet steamed southeast to batter I fourths of the 20.000 Japanese Okino Daito under the cover of darkness. The carries planes, in their third major strike in two weeks, swept from Amami O Shima, 225 miles south of the big Kyushu naval base of Kagoshima, south - ward through Toku Wo 5hima.the trapped and thirst-crazed Okinoerabu, Okinawa, Ninami Japanese troops. Daito Jima and Kume. The attacks were made in an area 800 miles southwest of Tokyo three days after the same fleet had finished battering the island of Hachijo, just south of Tokyo on Monday. The carrier planes caught the Japanese by surprise. Only four enemy planes were shot down, and they were bombers or reconnaissance recon-naissance planes which just happened hap-pened along. Nimitz announced that 37 planes definitely were destroyed on the ground and about 50 destroyed de-stroyed or damaged, some of (Continued on page two) aerial and artillery bombardment. The Japanese were resisting savagely along the entire 11-mile line from Antipolo, 10 miles east of Manila, northward to Wawa. in a desperate attempt to cover what was described officially as their "final mountain retreat." Maj. Gen. Edwin Patrick's 6th infantrymen were on the attack in the north and Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge's 1st cavalry was attacking at-tacking in the south. They were encountering strong artillery, mortar and rocket fire as they inched through the enemy s tough Kobayashi line, me i if -! Marines Chalk Up Good Gains On I wo Jima By FRANK TREMATNE GUAM, Sunday. March 4 (U.R) Under heavy fire from Japanese small arms and mortar fires. Marines on Iwo made gains of 200 to 400 yards Saturday, it was announced today. U. S. ships are now unloading nn Hnt h oactprn ann u.'etprn - rrQ ct e r tha omhatttAl icl anH Evacuating wounded men. The 5th and 3rd Marines drove ta,MH on th left and central sectors m a general advance. But jthe 4th division on the right i flank mad slow progress because Gf heavy "enemy resistance. were limited because of the small area now left to the enemy on the northern end of tiny Iwo. The Marines are now within 500 yards of splitting the Jap- oncoc ucicnuio 00 wiv-j oiiici0ivi relentlessly toward the northern 1 coast ably transport planes, were using the restored southern airfield to; carry wounded men to rear areas, : while the battle still raged in the 'troops on the island when the Marines landed were estimated to have been killed or severely wounded and for the remainder death was not far away. Front dispatches disclosed that enemy 1 planes were dropping water to ! The Marines continued their relentless advance Saturday after rolling up their biggest gains of the campaign the previous day. A 700-yard gain Friday had been made after a terrific barrage by artillery, naval guns and carrier aircraft. Today the Marines were near' ing the craggy northeast coast and when they reach it; they will have split Lieut. Gen. Tad-amichi Tad-amichi Kuribashi's fanatical garrison. gar-rison. After Friday's gains the Marines Mar-ines were in a position where the end of the bloody campaign was near. East of Manila Other American forces mean' while continued to fan out through newly-invaded Palawan island against practically no op position from the Japanese who were fleeing into the hills. One force swept across the bay at Puerto Princesa and seized the abandoned vilage of Iwabig. That gave the Americans practical control con-trol of Palawan and it was presumed pre-sumed that air and navaj operations opera-tions might soon be started from there against the rich Japanese possesions in the Dutch East Indies to the south. Three Bridges Blown Up By Germany Allies Drive Remnants Oi Third German Army Against Western Bank By JACK FLEISCHER United Press War Correspondent PARIS, Sunday, March 4 The American Ninth and Canadian First armies, meeting and merging into one battleline, completed the destruction de-struction of two German armies yesterday and drove the bewildered remnants of a third against a 1 Smile stretch of the west bank of the Rhine. Battlefront reports to Allied su preme headquarters sak. Nazi defenses de-fenses in the western Ruhr industrial indus-trial district were "in chaos" as the .German high command sought desperately to salvage some men and material from the debacle by rushing them across five escape bridges to the eastern bank under a hail of Allied bombs and shells. Three major bridges at Duesseldorf Duessel-dorf were blown up by the Germans Ger-mans early yesterday, in the hope of forestalling an Allied crossing of the Rhine in force. Last night the Allied armies were racing for the remaining bridges with a good chance of capturing one and per- naps more before the traped German Ger-man remnants could use them or destroy them. The German first paratroops army and the 15th army were eliminated as fighting units in thr bloody battle west of the Rhto' and only remnants of the fK. panzer-army were lervwrnoia tn German escape bridges betweel Wesel and Moers. In a day of flashing successe marked by six to 10 mile advances, ad-vances, Lt. Gen. William H.. Simpson's Simp-son's ninth army joined up with British forces of the Canadian first army between Geldern and. Kevelaer at 11:45 a. m. Ninth army troops cleared Neuss and Krefeld and reached the Rhine at Uerdingen, where there is bridge, giving the Allies control of 15-mile stretch of the Rhine between Uerdingen and Neuss in addition to a 25-mile stretch in the north between Rees and Nijmegen. Field dispatches said a fierce battle raged in Uerdingen last night as the Nazis sought to hold the bridge, which had been shelled shell-ed by guns of the U. S. 2nd armored arm-ored division all day. "Troops fighting inside the town heard heavy explosions during the night which were believed from Nazi demolition of the bridge and the, Nerdingen power plant. North of Uerdingen the Nazis were fighting desperately along a 1 ,7 " u-miie line irom Anien xo aons- DecK 10 raoers 10 noiu ou ine iuri-ous iuri-ous Allied rush. As shattered Ger man groups fled acros the bridges, they were straffed and bombed mercilessly by Allied tactical planes which yesterday ,flew a total of 3400 sorties on both sides of the Rhine. The heaviest fighting raged south and east of the Hochwald (forest) on the northern flank, where elements of 11 Nazi divisions divi-sions were attempting to hold a bolt position before the Wesel escape es-cape bridge. These forces formed form-ed the only major knot of resistance re-sistance left along a 75-mile stretch of the Rhine from Nijr (Continued on Page Two) War In Brief By UNITED PRESS WESTERN FONT Americans and Canadians join to push beat en Nazis against Rhine; Germans blow up three bridges in fear of Allied crossing at Duesseldorf. RUSSIA R u s s i a n a -capture Baltic cities of Rummelsburg and Pollnow in heart of Pomerania. PACIFIC American warships make closest surface attack of war against Japanese homeland, bombarding Okino Daito. IWO Marines drive within 900 yards of splitting Japanese defenders de-fenders with more than half of original enemy garrison of 20,000 killed. PHILIPPINES U. S. 8th army troops seize Ticao and Burias . islands at southern tip of Luzon to put squeeze on Japanese being compressed into Luzon's lower; tip. AIR WAR More than 1X00 American warplanes blast Nazi oil targets; fighter-bombers take heavy toll of German troops and equipment west of Rhine. BTJKSfA Chinese advance to ; within eight miles .of Lashio. ITALY Artillery duels rage along snowbound Fifth and... Eighth - army fronts - in central Italy. : - n n |