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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Mostly cloudy with occasional oc-casional rain or snow Sunday. not much -chance in temperature So They Say ritbt to l yean after V-J Day - ft to quite possible that 400,000 workers will be supported directly direct-ly or Indirectly by civil aviation. aCommerce Secretary Henry A. ' Wallace. Temperatures: lUxh Low 42 28 i 111 ii w vr -on 1 1 i r j rk sa in im i r. iivi v r tv vj l, v v - j w va iu n i m nn r 11 UOL 22, NO. 42 , Provo. Retains Utah's 'A' Basketball Championship "'By Beating Jordan, 34-26 State Basketball Tournament Summary CLASS "A" r Provo, champions Jordan, second South Cache, third East, fourth . Granite, fifth Box Elder, sixth. SATURDAY'S RESULTS Provo 34, Jordan -2G ' Wasatch 42, Am. Fork 28 South Cache 4 (T. Granite 35 Murray 38, Sp. Fork 34 . East'46, Box Elder 23. Delta 36, Richfield 34. . -Ptovj $ green-clad Bulldogs did it again ! The lughljr -touted Region three champions retained -their Class, A" Jtah basketball championship Saturday night byfrjufpoinnng an inspired Jordan high challenger, 34 to 26 in a well-played, crowd-pleasing title game. It was the first time Provo had won the state basketball basket-ball championship two years in succession. The Bulldogs first Iwpught the title to Provo in 1941, came back to cop Judge Tricked U Into Ordering Overpayments ' PORTLAND. Ore., March 17 (OPJ U. S. District Judge Claude r M ririvfxl into order in e over- Kiyments in condemnation suits garding land now occupied by Camp Adair in Oregon. "I was tricked into paying out more than the property is worth," Judge McColloch declared, blam-ig blam-ig "greedy men and recreant public officials' for his mistake. Adair site were set Dy ine leaerai court In those instances where property owners and the government govern-ment could not agree, McColloch lA explained. . The land .was lanea, over ny the government for use by tne army. Representatives of the U. S. public Lands division were identified iden-tified -thoueh not by name, by I v JiKlge McColloch as the "recreant public officials'' he had reference to, McColloch said that, upon learning that false testimony had been given before him, he set aside his approval of payments In 24 land deals. It was too late. 4 however, to save $200,000 in volves in ine iransacwi, Elained. since the court already ad Issued checks in payment. He did not identify the false testimony involved. " "Now, by a series of technical leeal maneuvers," his statement k-rHrn h. . K . . . . . been brought about, wnereoy inu,- ,he fpaH ' " court is compelled by mandate'1" lead- j 4 A infirm the oavment of a sub-1 Provo started out with a rush ntaiiv neater sum for the! Unds In question than juries have found them to be worth. Irish Celebrate St. Patrick'sOay Yith Big Parade 'NEW YORK, March 17 (U.R) It was the' best day for the Irish in New York in 10 years. More than 1,000,000 persons turned out today to see the St. Patrick's Day parade as it rolled up Fifth avenue under the first March 17 balmy breezes and sunshine in a decade. Th2 parcde began at 44th street. tThe Irish, 50,000 strong, proceeded pro-ceeded uptown to 110th street to .the tune of 75 hibernian bands and eight troupes of bagpipers. - From the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman watched the marchers. Earlier, the archbishop celebrated Pontifical mass for 500 members of the 69th regiment of the New York national guard. , At 64th street. Gov. Thomas E. Jewey, Mayor F. H. La Guardia and James A. Farley reviewed the parade. On the curbs along the streets and in the buildings, children and adults cheered as the sons and daughters of Erin inarched by. JM Poll Reveals 49 Senators For . World Peace Plan JfEW YORK, March 17 (U.R) ie newspaper PM said today it polled the united states ite and had found only 49 aenators who would say unequivocally un-equivocally that they would vote for United States entry into a kvorld security conference. Sixtv-four votes, a two-thirds inajority, would be necessary for Approval. PM 'said no senator declared flatly, that be would vote against such a proposal, dux 3. expressed aanrlnc decrees of reservation. UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CLASS "B" Wasatch, champions. American Fork, second. Murray, third. Delta, fourth. Spanish Fork, fifth Richfield, sixth illic iiuiivi a lost J . .iiu "'""v. successful defense of the title this year. Wasatch high school of Heber retained the Class "B" champion ship earlier in the day. defeating American Fork, 42 to 28. I Jordan, although defeated twice in pre-season games Dy rrovo, by top-heavy scores, put up a gallant scrap, in their phenomenal phen-omenal surge into the finals, after barely getting into the tournament tourna-ment as the third-place team in Big Six. ' The Bulldog victory avenged the 7-0 defeat suffered by Provo in the state Class "A" football finals last fall at the hands of the Jordan Beetdiggers. Playing without the services of n "Xon" fliT the prospects looked bad for the Provo team, with the Bulldogs clinsins to a slim 23 to 19 lead. Mooney came In for. Weight and the green -shirted Pro v o a n t coasted through the final quarter, putting the -game pn 1ce with' a Mfe ejgnt-point margin as the gun ended the battle. Weight played a bang-up game. on the bankboards, and although he was closely watched and chalked up nine . counters. Bud Davis maintained the fast scoring pace he has been setting lately. garnering high" scoring honors with 11. Whipple played a whale of a floor game and dunked In nine points. Jay Allen at .guard counted two field goals and played heads-up ball at guard John ' Brinkerboff, captain of the team, was a tower of strength on the guard line and held the team together in fine style. Jordan clung tenaciously close behind Provo through the early of the game, trailing only hv a rmint or turn llmth nvr and ran the Score to 14 to 6 early in the second quarter, but Jordan rallied, closed the gap and came within three points of Provo las the hall ended, 16 to 13. With four fouls on him as the second half opened, Joe Weight was forced to play cautiously in the third quarter, but his fifth foul was called before the quarter was over. The loss of Weight spurred the rest of the team to greater efforts and Jordan was unable to break through the tight Simmons defense to gain a lead. Morgan, Player and Cary were outstanding for Jordan. The box score: Provo G T F P Whipple, f 4 3 1 9 Davis, f 5 4 1 11 Weight, c 3 7 3 9 Mooney, c. 0 1 0 0 Brinkerhoff, g. 0 3 0 0 Allen, g. 2 2 1 5 Totals ...14 20 6 34 Jordan G T F P Peterson, f 1 2 2 4 Cary, f 1 4 2 4 Morgan, c 2 4 3 7 Player, g 2 2 0 4 Andrews, g 1 1 1 3 Day, g 2 0 0 4 Totals 9 13 8 26 Score by quarters: Provo 9 16 24 Jordan 5 13 20 a WLB Approves Fringe Wage Raises for Textile Workers WASHINGTON. March 17 (UJi) The war labor board tonight recommended for 90,000 textile workers fringe wage increases which it said would increase production pro-duction and "help win the war." In a precedent-setting order, the board directed mills and workers to continue collective bargaining on wage differentials with Its recommendations as guide posts. The approved increases may be put into effect only if the price administrator finds they will not force price ceilings up, or if economic eco-nomic stabilization director William Wil-liam H. Davis approves them anyway, any-way, i Conferenc&on Bill Awaited Five Senators, Five Congressmen to Iron Out the Differences By ALLEN 8. DRURY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 17 (CE Five senators and five members of the house start conferences on Monday to iron out differences on long-disputed long-disputed "work-or-else" legislation. leg-islation. Sen. Warren R. Austin, R., Vt, is the only member of the senate group who favors manpower man-power controls on individual employes. em-ployes. He has a compromise to bring before the conferees. On the vther hand. Rep. Dewey Short, B., Mo., is the only house conference committeeman who opposes compulsory labor measures. meas-ures. In fact, he is against any manpower legislation. Personal preferences do not usually us-ually have much effect during the early stages of a conference. The members consider themselves bound by the action of their respective re-spective bodies. But when a deadlock dead-lock threatens, compromise action ac-tion comes into play. The house bill would empower local draft boards to order men 18-45 years of age into essential war jobs. Persons guilty of violating violat-ing such orders would be liable to fine and imprisonment The senate bill would place controls on employers by limiting e. number ol.workera they aguJOl Them refusing to abide" by the employment ceiling set for them would be liable to fine and imprisonment. Austin's compromise, which may finally bring the two groups .into, agreement, would combine parts "of both bills and keep administration ad-ministration of the laws on a strictly local basis. "1 want to localize the obligation obliga-tion to work so clearly," Austin said In an interview, "that all these spurious claims of coercion and slavery will be exposed for what they are." He said be would give labor, agriculture, business and govern ment every cnance to express themselves when the use of com- pulsion arose not to delay ac - tion but to reach fair decisions." The other conferees are Sens. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, chairman of the senate military affairs committee, Edwin C. John son, Dv Colo.. Joseph C. O 'Ma-honey, 'Ma-honey, D., Wyo., and Harold Burton, R., O.; and Reps. Andrew J. May, D., Ky., chairman of the house military affairs committee, twing Tbomason. D.. Tex.. Ov erton Brooks. D., La., and Walter r A n Dino Grand. In Portqual; Warrant Of Arrest Issued By UNITED PRESS The British radio said Saturdav that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Dino Grand!, former Italian Fascist foreign minister and. ambassador to Britain, by the Rome commission in cnarge of punishing Fascist war criminals. The broadcast, heard by the FCC. said Grand! had flH tn rorUjigai. SWEDEN. U. S. TO OPEN AIR TRAFFIC STOCKHOLM. March 17 01 n Sweden and the United States have agreed to open courier air iraxxic between the two countries pending the ODenins of remlar air communication, it was an 26'nounced officially today. There appeared to be no doubt that the proposed Increases would be allowed inasmuch as they were originally approved when Davis was still -WLB chairman. The board's action formalized a tentative order of last month providing pro-viding for a' 35-cent hourly minimum mini-mum rate and other wage adjustments adjust-ments in the textile industry. The original order was held up pending the working out of an agreement with then economic stabilization director Fred M. Vinson on fringe wage awards such as vacation pay, shift differ-cntlsi&laoa differ-cntlsi&laoa the like. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, Food Watchdog Warned that chaotic conditions in shipment of food and other supplies overseas, including duplication, du-plication, which threaten the home fron food larder. War Mobilization Director Byrnes appointed a new lnter-agency committee to clear up the scramble for food. The committee commit-tee will be headed by Leo T. Crowley, above, hard-hitting Lend-Lease Administrator. Civilian Meat Supply Cut By 12 Percent By JOSEPH LAITIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 17 fitf' The government tonight announced a 12 per cent reduction re-duction in the amount of meat available to civilians for the next three months. The cut will mean that civilians ci-vilians will have their small- lest supply oi meat in 10 years, it was said. Because of the growing shortage, short-age, lend-lease will take a "substantial "sub-stantial reduction in meat alloca- lions, iUwas announced. Six government agencies are working out a plan to achieve an ecjuitable geographical distribution distribu-tion of available civilian supplies in this country, it was said, but it may be "some time' 'before such a program could have an effect. Drop In Supply The civilian meat supply had to be cut, it was said, because of a four per cent increase in army and navy use coupled with a six per cent drop in the total U. S. meat supply. The cut was announced through the office of war information after a meeting of all interested agen cies in the office of war mobiliza- tion director James F. Byrnes. j The war food administration saia meat supplies wui continue to be short.- It foresaw no sub stantial improvement until next fall. The end of the war in Eur ope, the announcement added. will not materially afect the gen eral meat situation. The announcement did not mention the effect the cut will have on ration point values. It was assumed, however, that the office of price administration will adjust point values upward, be ginning with the April rationing period. The only supplies to be made available for lend-lease shipments to Russian and the United Kingdom. King-dom. The announcement said in the next three months will go 300,000,000 pounds of a pork and beef combination will go to the Russian army and 25,000,000 pounds of meat will go to the United Kingdom. OPA was authorized to issue1 new distribution regulations to cover commercial, retail and farm slaughterers as well as custom slaughterers. This action, OWI said, was designed to facilitate the movement of more cattle and hogs into federally-inspected slaughter houses. As part of the new program to get more meat, subsidy adjustments adjust-ments will become effective April 1. Provoan Killed On IwoJima Pvt. Russell E. Lee, 27, USMCR, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ray Lee, Provo, whose widow is Mrs. Renee Lee, 653 E. 3rd South, was killed on Iwo Jima. A native of Price, he was born Nov. 9, 1917. He attended Carbon county high school, and was graduated from Provo high school. Pvt.- Lee enlisted in the marine corps Feb. 19, 1944. and was reported re-ported killed Feb. 20, 1945. survivors include his parents. widow, a son. Bobby Lee; five brothers. First Lt. Gareth G. Lee, Langley field, Cal.; Pfc. Clinton L. Lee, Dalhart, Tex.; Pvt. Ster- lins C. Lee. Germany; Douglas and Richard Lee, Dennison, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. George Halstead, Portland. Ore., and Anna Jean Lee, Provo, and two grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lee. oaii v r-1 LJk Lake City. UTAH, SUNDAY, INARCH 18, 1945 t7 n vv 1 0 i ivV JUUU Reds Capture East End Of Road to Berlin Autobahn Bridge, On Six-Lane High-Speed Highway Falls to Reds By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON Sunday, March 18 ..) The Red army, whittling whit-tling down the Germans' Oder bridgehead opposite Stettin to 30 square miles, yesterday seized the- eastern end of the Autobahn bridge south of the blazing port on a six-lane, highway to Berlin, Moscow an nounced last night. The Germans undoubtedly had blasted the structure, but the Russians are known as the fastest bridge-restorers. Moscow dispatches said huge .Soviet forc es were passing before the crossing cross-ing site as well as along the Oder estuary north of Stettin for an outflanking drive on the Reich capital. While Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army stormed Stettin's dockside suburb, Altdamm, other Soviet troops were reported by unoffic ial Moscow sources to nave smashed to the sea between Gdynia and Danzig, splitting the defenders of those Baltic ports. The Soviets apparently reached Danzig Bay in the area of Zop- pot, a peace-time gambling resort between Danzig and Gdynia, a Moscow dispatch said. Other Russians Rus-sians stormed suburban Altdamm across the Oder mouth from burn ing Stettin and it appeared that all three posts might be In Soviet Sovi-et hands in a matter I. days if not of hours. News-BUck-Oat The Soviet high command clamped a news blackout on the 200-mile crucjal sector between Stettin and the Sudeten foothills, but a Moscow dispatch said: "There is reason to expect significant signif-icant events in the very near future." fu-ture." j According to the Germans, the crisis developed west of Oppeln in upper Silesia some 170 miles southeast of Berlin where "ex tremely strong armored forces' had been locked in bloody battle bat-tle since mid-day Friday. Berlin broadcasts claimed the knocking out of 239 Russian tanks in the Silesian fighting but admitted that the two-day -push by Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian army had reached the "depth of our defenses." There (Continued on page two) Poland Estimates Her Casualties At 10 Million LONDON, March 17 (U.RV Poland has suffered an estimated 10,000.000 military and civilian casualties since the war began. or more than 28 per cent of her pre-war population of 33,000,000, the Polish press bureau reported tonight. The bureau said that the cas ualties, which included soldiers killed, wounded and taken prisoner and civilians deported. Interned or "displaced," made Poland's losses greater, comparatively, compar-atively, than those of any other of the United Nations. Military casualties were esti mated at 1,045,000 and civilian casualties at approximately 9, 000,000. The Polish report said that about 5,000,000 civilians were killed during the five years of German occupation. They included in-cluded 3,000,000 Jews. More than 3,000,000 Poles have been deported to Germany. The report said, and there are still roughly 662,000 Poles still unaccounted un-accounted for "somewhere in Russia." Pacific Shipyards to be Busy on By SANDOR S. KUEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 17 UJ0 The Pacific coast is being con verted rapidly into a vast Hospital" Hos-pital" area for the repair of battle-damaged and otherwise in jured ships, -Rear Admiral E. L. Cochrane said tonight Cochrane, chief of the navy's bureau of ships, told the United! Press that by the end of this year only a small portion - of- the west coast's shipbuilding faculties will be engaged ln new 'construcuon. And this Includes yards both. un der maritime . commission ana navy control. The peak load c4 repairs is ex-nected ex-nected to be reached in December. For that ressonv'ihe conversion program aas av tremenaous urgency. Cochrane said plans for the con I WTRE Nutcracker Sweep (NEA Telephoto) American Third and Seventh Armies slash into northern and southern flanks of the Saar Basin in powerful nutcracker offensive threatening to envelop elements of at least two German Ger-man field armies west of the Rhine. The First Army lashes ahead east of the Rhine, reaching almost to Kunr superhighway. 8th Air Force Planes Blast 5 Oil Plants By TJOTJGALTJ wWRER United Press War Correspondent LONDON, March 17 (U.R) More than 2,150 U. S. 8th air force planes and a strong formation of RAF heavy bombers blasted five German sasoline. oil and benzol plants today in a concentration of Aiiuri aerial micht uDon the en emy's dwindling fuel production. Lt. Gen. James Doolittle sent more than 1.300 fortresses and Liberators, escorted by upwards of 700 fighters, against tne tigm-way tigm-way rail center of Muenster. a tank factory at Hannover, and three fuel targets. Their longest flight which was the longest of the day, a 1,100-mUe 1,100-mUe round triD. was made to bomb the synthetic oil plant at Rubland, 27 miles norm oi ures-den ures-den and one o fGermany's biggest remaining producers. Ruhland was hit Thursday by American planes from tlalian bases. Taking up the non-stop aerial offensive. Mosquito Bombers attacked at-tacked Berlin for the 26th consecutive con-secutive night and the German radio reported that at least two other bombers formations were over the Reich, some heading toward to-ward Strausberg, 30 miles from Russian-held Kuestrin. RAF Spitfires, cutting through thick clouds, attacked Holland rocket sites, cut rail tracks and bombed road and rail junctions. Italy based Billy Mitchell bombers bomb-ers bombed Brenner Pass- and Po Valley targets for the 12th Other planes of the 8th alr force, grounded by unfavorable weather yesterday, attacked the big Bohlen synthetic plant south of Bohlen and a benzol plant at Moblln, east of Mohlen. The American planes bombed by instrument through clouds and again failed to meet aerial opposition. oppo-sition. Returning crewmen reported re-ported that anti-aircraft fire was medium to intense. A benzol plant near Huels. in the Ruhr close to Duesseldorf, and another northeast of Dortmund Dort-mund were hit by the British bomber formation escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs. version of west coast yards were made long ago. The first major steps in that direction, he said, were taken a year, and a half ago when some $300,000,000 . in contracts for new cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers minesweep-ers -and 'tugs were transferred from west coast to east coast yards. The repair program, Cochrane made 'dear, is one of the biggest and most important jobs confronting confront-ing the bureau of ships. The navy, he pointed out, has the responsibility responsi-bility for repair not only of naval vessels but of ships operating under the war shipping adminis tration and of lend-lease vessels. The admiral visited the 'west! coast in October and again In early January to make a personal Inspection of repair operations and the conversion of shipyards. If V -T SSL v-l' smi Y""' v.s. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Pattern's Tank Units Stab Into Saar Basin In Swift Power Drive Patton's Third Army Tank Divisions Less Than 50 Miles From Juncture With Seventh Army; Germans wait too long to Withdraw By JACK FLEISCHER United Press War Correspondent PARIS, Sunday, March 18 C Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army captured the major Rhineland city of Coblenz yesterday while three of his tank divisions were enveloping the Rich Saar basin and approaching a juncture with the U .S. Seventh army, less than 50 miles away. Three Third army tank divisions; plus other tank battalions bat-talions attached to infantry, already were 40 miles south of Coblenz in the swiftest power drive of the war. Thev reacnea ine mane river ana were threatening the 11-way road and rail junction of Bad Kreuz-nach Kreuz-nach the transportation key to the Saar basin. Wait Too Long Authoritative sources at Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group headquarters said the Germans had waited too long to effect a successful withdrawal from the Saar to the east bank of the Rhine and would elect to GUAM. Sunday. March 18 (U stand and fight with the rem- Record fleets of B-29 Superforts nants of-their First and Seventh j burned out at least 28.86 square armies rather than attempt a last-! miles of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka minute helter-skelter retreat. (and Kobe during the past week's. But Allied airmen spotted large . obliteration assaults against Jap-scale Jap-scale withdrawals from the clos-'an's war industries, it was an ing Saar trap, and it seemed evi-j nounced today, and unofficial re-dent re-dent that the Germans were at-, ports showed that the destruction tempting to salvage what they j may amount to 36 square miles, could to fight another day on thei The 21st bomber command re-east re-east bank of the Rhine. ported today that reconnaissance They spotted nwny columns of , Psrapto showed two square trucks and horse drawn vehicles j""" ly. burned ut ln fleeing south and southeast be- Jibe yesterday in a record 2,500- ton lire bomb raid. But other re. trying to reach the rallroadS'Pf1 that lre miles of running east of the Rhine through Kalserslautern, and thence to safety across theThine at Mainz. Worms. Ludwigshaven, a rt4 nthrr nrin nninb. whiu lart ditch fSitS T tried to hold back the Americans Allied aerial activity was severely se-verely limited by poor weather but the planes that did take the ! air descended upon about 400 enemy vehicles around St. Qen-del, Qen-del, 18 miles northeast of Saar-brucken. Saar-brucken. They destroyed 175 and damaged 107 along a 15-mile stretch of the road. Third army spokesmen said the speed of the drive 33 miles in less than 48 hours caught the Germans flat-footed and prevented prevent-ed them offering coherent resistance. resist-ance. The drives of the tank columns col-umns were cloaked ln a security blackout, but German dispatches said massed tank formations of the 4th armored division had reached the area of Bad Kreuz-nach, Kreuz-nach, major transit hub 40 miles south of Coblenz and nine miles south of the big bend of the Rhine at Bingen. At Bad Kreuznach they vtere only 50 mUes from a junction with the Seventh army s 63rd di vision ai wmmeraneim ana j,to 9,1000 tons with an early- ui viwn Bitche. To the east and south' east it is 22 miles to Oppenhelm on the Rhine and 26 miles to the ereat Rhine center of Worms. Now Racing South Late front dispatches disclosed disclos-ed that the 10th and 11th armored armor-ed divisions were racing south parallel with the 4th to trap the remnants 'of two German armies against the Rhine and between the tank .columns and the U. S. Seventh army. Third army headquarters said the .forces taking part in the drive were being revealed so the Germans would know the strength streng-th of the avalanche bearing down upon them from the north and perhaps give up in the face of hopeless odds. The 4th division reached the; Nahe river.valroost halfway to a junction with Patch's troops, (Continued on Page Ten) Repair Work He said he believed facilities now ln existence and contemplated will take care of the maximum load of repair work as now envisioned. en-visioned. Cochrane said west coast yards will bear the brunt of this task, however, some of the more "extensive "ex-tensive repairs will be handled on the east coast. He pointed out that a considerable amount of j repair work, particularly on battle-damaged ships, is done in the forward areas of the Pacific. "TSe facilities out there are sort of like first aid battle-dressing stations," he said. "They do quick jobs on ships. And they've saved a lot of ships that might never have been able to make it back to the states to be repaired.n The- whole ' program is geared at getting; ships repaired and back: on the lob aa quickly as possiwe Cochrane said. PRICE nVE CENTS UVJ Raids Cripple Jap War Plants In Four Cities 'By E. G. VALENS ; United Press War Correspondent Kobe were in ashes or burning. . It was disclosed today that 7.8S square miles had been burned out 1 ' 7 hV,' 4,11 "a?1 "on nearly three square miles in usaKa Wednesday an aHril. JK reported earlier. Photos Inconclusive A headquarters spokesman pointed out that the photographs of the Kobe damage were "inconclusive." "incon-clusive." Much of the 12 square miles of Kobe reported burning earlier was covered with smoke and a large area therefore could not be photographed. But the 21st bomber command refused to officially claim more damage than the photos actually show. As thousands of mechanics prepared pre-pared the giant bombers of Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay's Marianas-based Marianas-based B-29's for yet bigger blows, a medium fleet of Superforts of Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey's 20th bomber command battered the big Japanese supply base of Rangoon, Burma today. That was the war's fourth B-29 assault on Rangoon and ran to 68 the number of missions carried out by the two commands since June. - The 21st ran the total weight of -fire bombs dropped on Japan in a week of unprecedented assaults morning raid on Kobe, fifth larg- est city oz mppon. now only Kyoto remains of Japan's biggest war centers for the B-29s to devastate. deva-state. The assault , opened last Monday with an attack which burned out (Continued an Page Ten) War In Brief Western Front: U. S. Third army captures Coblenz; sends tank columns to within .50 hiIIm of Junction with seventh army. Eastern Front: Soviets smash to Baltic sea between Danzig and Gdynia; Nazis report "supreme crisis" southeast of Berlin. Pacific: Thirty-six square miles of Japan's great industrial cities laid waste in zour n-z raids. Air: More than 2,000 U. S. war planes and strong force of RAF Lancasters blast German fuel, supply. Philippines: Americans in nor-, thern Luzon reported within six miles of Baguio, summer capital. Italy: German counter-attack aisioages r uu ui o. army uaiu tn wrthactm - nnrnnch(j( tvs t - m n. Vergato. China: Chinese advance to sub urbs of Kanh Sien, former American Ameri-can airbase city in Kiangsi prof : vince. Southeast Asia: Japanese forces squeezed into pocket southeast ot . Fort Dufferin in Mandalay. Today m Germany V By United -Press flMmm vrfiifmrmn renortea . fleeing toward Denmark, which appeared to have been by-passed , by the aesirucuon ox war. . Telephone communication: were out between Stockholm and Berlin. . . Tne nerve-wrecjcea uennui , capital was bombed for the 25th consecutive t " |