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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943 I It - v 1 r ... I - I I Roosevelt Reviews American Soldiers In French Morocco BY WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent CASABLANCA, Jan. 21 (Delayed) (De-layed) (UJ?) American troops in French Morocco lined up today expecting to be inspected by "just another bunch of brass hats" when to their amazement they were reviewed by the president of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt rode past the soldiers in a jeep, ate a field lunch and drove 108 miles north to visit Port Lyautey, scene of the hardest, hard-est, fighting in the North African campaign, and to lay a wreath at an American cemetery near the 400-year-old fortress of Kas-bah Kas-bah Mehdia. The presidential convoy formed form-ed at 9:30 a. m. it skirted the city of Casablanca and drove directly to the review area, several miles to the north. Mr. Roosevelt rode in the official limousine of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and was escorted by other limousines, armored scout cars carrying 50-caliber 50-caliber machine guns and weapon carriers with the photographers' corps. There were about 20 cars in the convoy. Protected by Planes It drove past the airport where scores of planes took off, forming a vast umbrella that protected the president all day. The morning was chilly and somewhat cloudy. Mr. Roosevelt wore a gray felt hat, a gray suit with white pin stripes, and white pull-over sweater. The convoy speeded through the winding hill roads on which soldiers sol-diers not knowing who they were guarding, were stationed at regular regu-lar intervals, guarding every inch of the road with pistols and tommy tom-my guns. Reaching the review area, where the troops were lined up for at least a mile in front of cars and cannon of all sizes, Mr. Roosevelt left the limousine and entered a jeep. The jeep, driven by Staff Sgt. Oran Lass of Kansas City, Mo., drove slowely in front of the soldier. sol-dier. s after a band played the Star Spangled Banner. Many Bodyguards Riding with Mr. Roosevelt were Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark, commander com-mander of the American fifth nrmv Charles Fredericks, the president's personal bodyguard, and the general officer commanding command-ing during the inspection of troops. Immediately behind the presidential jeep was another with bodyguards. The next jeep carried Maj. Gen. George S. Pat-ton, Pat-ton, Jr., commander of troops in this area, Admiral Ross Mc-Itte-Miw Roosevelt.. BftysU cian and Harry L. Hopkins. Robert Rob-ert S. Murphy, American envoy in North Africa, and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harri-man Harri-man were in another car. The soldiers were unaware of Mr. Roosevelt's presence at first. Staring straight ahead at attention, atten-tion, they could not see him until his jeep passed less than six feet away. Few were able to resist smiling. . The convoy turned into an open field where Mess Sgt. Joseph Baer of Sharon, Wis., had set up a field kitchen near 20 small folding fold-ing tables with chairs. The president presi-dent inspected "K" rations and was introduced to 50 representative representa-tive officers and men who had been decorated with silver stars and purple hearts for their feats in the initial occupation. Eats Army Lunch He ate a typical field lunch of ham, green beans, sweet potatoes, coffee, bread liberally spread with butter, strawberry preserves, and canned mixed fruit. Leaving the review area, the presidential party drove to Port Lyautey where Mr. Roosevelt s limousine stopped at a cemetery for American soliders killed in North Africa. The cemetery is beside be-side the famous Basbah fortress. Mr. Roosevelt laid a wreath at the flagpole there. " He returned to Casablanca through a drizzling rain along roads lined by troops whom he greeted. They saluted him with waves ftnd yells. 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She was born in Goshen, Utah, August 22, 1871, the daughter daugh-ter of John and Emma Richards Morgan.' cated in the Go-She Go-She was edu-shen edu-shen schools and at the Brigham Young academy under the late Dr. Karl Maeser. She taught school in Goshen for some time. S'he was married Mrs. Straw to Thomas Peter Stubbs in the Salt Lake temple, May 18, 1899. Mr. Stubbs passed away October 28, 1908. . She worked in the city recorder's record-er's office for four years and then became city treasurer, a position po-sition that she held for 13 years. She married Alma Straw in Salt Lake June 24, 1919. Very active in church work all her life, she was a member of the. L. D. S. church. She is survived by her husband, one son, Thomas M. Stubbs, of Provo, and a daughter, Mrs. Clair Mortenson of Salt Lake City. Also surviving are three xstep-sons, xstep-sons, Ellis Straw of Montpelier, Idaho, Ralph Straw Arco, Idaho, and Cal Straw, with the U. S. Navy stationed at Mare Island, California; and three grandcmia-ren. grandcmia-ren. Services will be held Saturday at 1:30 in the First ward chapel, P.ishop George E. Collard officiate ing. Friends mayy call at the Berg mortuary Friday afternoon after-noon and at the home Saturday morning before the services.- Interment In-terment will be in the Provo cemetery. Allie M. Jensen SPRING VJL.L.E Funeral services serv-ices will be conducted in the Third ward chapel Thursday at 2 p. m., for Allie Moore Jensen, 52, who died at the family residence. resi-dence. 97 West First North street I Monday. Friends may , cal at the ramuy residence ueiuiu une ices. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery, directed by A. Y. Wheeler and Son mortuary. He was born in Mapleton, June 27, 1890, a son of Hans Peter and Cora Marie Nielson Jensen. He spent his early life at Maple-ton, Maple-ton, attending the schools of that city. He married Charlota Gammell, April 20, 1915. Surviving t3Sides his widow, are four daughters:, Mrs. Bernice Angell of American' Fork; Mrs". Melva Howser of Pftvson; Lucille and LaRayne Jensen of - Springville, also two grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. John Bissell. of Springville, and three brothers, Joseph, Chris and Peter Jensen of Mapleton. Hyriim Heiselt Hyrum Heiselt, 77, Provo farmer far-mer and resort operator, died at 11:30 last evening of - ailments incident to age. Mr. Heiselt was bom July 8, 1865 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, the son of Neils C. and Karen; Olsen Heiselt. He married Magdalene Neilson in July, 1887 at American Fork. A farmer most of his life,- Mr. Heiselt lived in Pleasant Grove until 22 years ago, at which time Vta mAwoH fv-y Vrrtve Hp W3SI the' owner and operator of the Heiselt resort in Provo canyon for a long time. He was a member of the L. D. S. church. Mr. Heiselt is survived by his wife, Mrs. Magdalena Heiselt of Provo. one son, W. LeRoy Heiselt of Bell. California, with daugh-ters, daugh-ters, Mrs. Vera Nilsen and Mrs. Ruby Jones, both of Provo; eight grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. , Funeral services will be announced an-nounced later by the Deseret Mortuary. Mor-tuary. . '"J NOW PLAYING:.; 1 ; S A t I I p tinetd ij ttmtg MiKMU lam tUrty ttnt Doors Open 7:00 Shows at 7:30 and 9:30 m President Left U.S. January 9 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 U.E The president of the United States disappeared from Washington on the evening of Jan. 9 and for more than two weeks the nation's editors and .broadcasters were entrusted en-trusted with the explosive knowledge knowl-edge that, he was making another important trip! The office of censorship, which administers the voluntary code governing wartime newspaper"and radio practices, advised the editors edi-tors that night that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt was leaving Washington-. It did so in line with its policy of keeping them advised confidentially confiden-tially of such developments so they can cooperate in safeguarding safeguard-ing the secrecy of his movements. Forty-eight hours had not elapsed before at least some newsmen news-men Were aware that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt had left the country. And almost at once some of them knew that the top generals and admirals had left town, too, and that they had gone to North Africa. CONGRESSMEN (Continued from Page One) prgpriate in theOJnited States or in England. "The people are interested in what Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill decided to do with North Africa and India after the war, and what agreements, if any, were arrived at on general postr war plans. The announcements made thus far throw no light on three matters at all." Other congressional comment: House . Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Tex. "Anything less than unconditional surrender would not be "achieving our ends." House Republican Leader Joseph Jo-seph W. Martin, Jr., Mass. "I af glad to know that there is agreement on 'unconditional sur-j render. Senate Republican Leader Charles Li. McNary, Ore. "A very encouraging report." Senate Democratic Leader Al-ben Al-ben W. Barkley, Ky, "A thrilling thrill-ing event in the tragic history of the world." DeGAULLE (Continued from Page One) tprce---Tt&tiPmll&ng a part 6f the Tunisian line, and the Fighting French, one of whose columns has reached Tripoli-after an astonishing astonish-ing march through interior Africa. The agreement provided only for an exchange of information and for consultations. Informants said De Gaulle and Giraudi were unable to agree on basic repudiation issues such as repudiation of the Vichy regime of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval, restoration of the laws of the French republic which Petain wrote off the statute books, and creation of a single French authority in exile to represent France. De Gaulle has insisted consistently consist-ently that these conditions are essential to complete French collaboration. col-laboration. DeGaulle and Giraud expressed to orie another a strong desire to bring about union, it was said. DeGaulle, back in London, issued is-sued the following statement: "I was very honored to meet President Roosevelt in Africa. "His friendship for France is a particularly comforting factor in the? struggle which the French people are waging against the enemy within and without its own territory. "It was an equal satisfaction to me to be able to renew, conversations conversa-tions on this occasion with British Brit-ish Prime Minister Churchill." DeGauule conspicuously did not mention Giraud or express satisfaction satis-faction at having met him. The French national committee which De Gaulle leads made the following statement: "Complete union of the empire .and its armed forces, in conjunction conjunc-tion with the movement of resistance resist-ance in France, to toe accomplished, accom-plished, under conditions conson ant with the 'will and dignity of the French people, . remains the immutable aim" of the De Gaulle national committee.' . ".'V - . I lit Vmmttt fr 9 IWm itrf ' ' :':.L I -N AMERICAN . (Continued from Page One) muniques regrarding political decisions de-cisions indicate. Washington Post Indubitably the mission will be hailed with nothing but enthusiasm and gratitude. grat-itude. , Indianapolis Star No such .rendezvous would have been attempted at-tempted had there not been com-plet com-plet confldnce In our mastery of the air. Nothing Hitler can say about his luftwaffe can obscure ob-scure In the German mind the significance of the Casablanca meeting. Chicago SunThe hearts of America and Eritain have been lifted . . . in a coalition war teamwork is the key to victory. We have8 solid reason to "expect more of it henceforth. Chicago Tribune It is difficult to t'3lieve that the setting and the excitements attendant on getting to it were particularly conducive to the preparation of a sound military program. It is even more difficult to believe that the principals of the conference confer-ence are capable of finding the best and quickest way to win the war. San Francisco Chronicle There may be reason to criticize the president for his trip to North Africa ... but not on the ground of legality. We may expect to hear criticism in or reflected frtom congress. GREAT BRITAIN London Daily Mail Tremendous events may break in the near future. London Daily Express (The conference) must rank among the decisive events sueh as the battle of Britain, the defense of Stalingrad Stalin-grad and the battle of Midway. London Times Allied leadership leader-ship had traveled far indeed from the frantic expedients of desperate desper-ate men which occupied the last monysnts of "the supreme war council In Paris. Now the men of Casablanca are able to prepare pre-pare their plans with authority, knowing it is in their power to dictate to the enemy the pattern of the coming war. GOVERNOR (Continued from Page One) finance commission to invest funds in federal securities and to authorize all fiduciaries to invest in government bods. . ; A measure amending Utah marriage mar-riage license law to permit issuance is-suance of licenses by any county clerk in the state of Utah also was ready. . This amendment would eliminate the provision of the present law .that requires a minor girl (under 18) to obtain license in the county where she resides. A bill by Rep. Mrs. C. L. Jack, D., Salt Lake, and others would place virtually all employes in cities of the first class under civil service and would empower cities of the second class to establish civil service commissions and place their employes under civil service by ordinance. Another bill by Mrs. , Jack provides pro-vides for the registration of voters vo-ters at the offices of county clerks. Only bills ready for introduction introduc-tion in the senate thus far today were measures for increasing salaries sal-aries of county clerks and recognizing recog-nizing a parked automobile as evidence of ownership. STARTS Primitive Romance! ...death-defying adventure in the heart of the jungle! featuring - f ; JOHNNY ,J WEISIVJULLERv , , : MAUREEN 1 O'SULLIVAN JohaShefficId ' - J inn. -Ldl dASsS jvs? DOUBLE SHOW VALUE!- :wnh FELIX ti4mf4 kr "Unconditional Surrender" Pledge Only (Continued from Page One) could not come unless it was accompanied ac-companied ' by the total destruction destruc-tion of the power of Germany and Japan to make war. The president told correspondents correspond-ents gathered at his feet in the velvety grass of the villa's rear garden that the keynote of the meeting had been taken from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. General Grant, he said, was known as" "Unconditional Surrender" Surren-der" and that was the purpose and purport of the present deliberations. de-liberations. He said that the meeting would be known as the "unconditional surrender" conference. confer-ence. Strip Axis of Power The prime minister, speaking a few minutes later, echoed Mr. Roosevelts statement and said that with unconquerable will America and Britain would pursue pur-sue their purpose to its logical conclusion. The correspondents listened as Mr. Roosevelt told of the plans of the United Nations to utilize every last resource of the world uui uc CAiciuiiiiauuil ui iA13 War power as quickly as possible. President Roosevelt revealed that his meeting with the prime minister had been planned as long ago as November, when the Americans and British first ;3warmod ashore on the North African coast. He said the time had come to review the progress of the war to date, as well as to take practical steps for the year ahead. The first actual discussion of the meeting took place about De-ce"mber De-ce"mber 1. Josef Stalin, he revealed, had been invited to attend but replied that he was unable to leave Russia Rus-sia because he was directing the Soviet winter offensive. Stalin Informed Although the Russian leader was not able to be present, Mr. Roosevelt said, he and Churchill kept him fully informed of their discussions. Mr. Roosevelt said the conference confer-ence of Churchill and himself was unprecedented in history. He stressed the strong personal friendship between himself and Churchill. Elaborating on the unusual nature of the meetings, the president presi-dent remarked that during the first World war the Allied leaders lead-ers could talk for Only a few hours at a time at widely scattered scat-tered ' periods. While he and Churchill were in almost constant conference, said Mr. Roosevelt, the British and American combined staffs pro ceeded on the principles and methods of pooling all the re- sources of the Allied Nations. Mr. Roosevelt said that all those participating in the discussions reaffirmed their determination to destroy the military power of the Axis while proceeding with their discussion of the Allies' military L-bperations for 1943. To Aid Russians The president said that all possible pos-sible material would be sent to aid the Russian offensive, thereby cutting down German manpower as well as wearing out German material. The United Nations, he said, would give all possible aid in the heroic struggle of China now in its sixth year, and thereby end for TODAY Cr.ESSm -1EE 10NX . CONSIOIME, j t. ? of Casablanca S lory all time the attempts of the Jap anese to dominate the Far East, Mr. Roosevelt said that he and Churchill were determined that peace should come to the world, and that the war-making power of Germany and Japan would be totally eliminated. He made no mention of Italy's war-making power. The president said that there was no intention on the part of the United Nations to harm the people of the Axis countries' or of the Axis - dominated countries. However, he said the United Nations Na-tions certainly would destroy the philosophy of hate and fear for the subjugation of other peoples. He said he was confident that all members of the United Nations Na-tions had the same ideas on this subject. The president said that he and Churchill and their staffs- had finished their work and that the general staffs had had a meeting of minds on all tire military operations. oper-ations. Brighter Future The president said he was con fident that 1943 would be a much President Roosevelt gave the correspondents the names of those who participated in the discussions. discus-sions. They were: Gen. Harold Alexander. British middle eastern commander; Admiral Ad-miral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham; Lieut. Gen. Dwight' D. Eisenhower, Air Marshal Mar-shal Arthur Tedder, Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark, Maj. Gen, Carl Spattz and others! He said that he-and Churchill felt that the occasion was an excellent ex-cellent opportunity for Generals Charles DeGaulle and Henri Honor'e Giraud to meet. He said that DeGaulle and Giraud had been in conference lor a couple of days, and that both were wholeheartedly bent on achieving the liberation of France. He said they were both in accord on that. The president said that the French armies, navy and air force would all take part in the liberation of France. A complete agreement between DeGaulle and Giraud was reached during their conferences, it was learned, and only a few small details de-tails need to be worked out before full collaboration is effected. The meeting was the fourth personal per-sonal conference between Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill the most recent having been at the time of the Rommel offensive in Egypt last spring. GOVERNMENT TO BE FIRM AT TRIPOLITANIA CAIRCv Jan. 27(Illlelayed) Richard G. Casey, the British war cabinet's representative in the Middle East, said today that a military government will maintain main-tain a firm but just attitude toward to-ward the talian government of Tripolitania. LAST 2 DAYS Tivo horror SSits! BELA LUG0SI i Co-Heart Pounder! 91 BORIS PETER fi KARLOST I0RRE THPHftflRIB Mill VILLGET YOU ( ENDS TONIGHT! i Monty Wolly In "PIED PIPER" K.-Francis - W Huston A 1 -mrn Z m m ii loot .MM mmmmr i f WITH il It el y t i ALLIES (Co ntinued from Page One) quarters here that Casablance was only the beginning of an ever-accelerating series of surprises sur-prises for the Axis. Many Developments Behind "the generalities of the communique Allied quarters saw these developments: 1. Full decision on ai overall plan of; offensive action against the Axis in 1943. 2. Presumable agreement upon up-on a unified command in Africa with a view to quick liquidation of Axis forces ih Tunisia and early attacks, aerially or otherwise, other-wise, against Italy. 3. Initial steps toward a solution solu-tion of the French North African political troubles, but no great headway toward resolving tho basic difficulties between General Charles DeGaulle and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. 4. Hints of possible diplomatic maneuvers of a magnitude yet unrevealed. North African dispatches dis-patches mentioned rumors involving in-volving Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Spain and even Italy. 5. Obliteration of any Axis feelers for a "negotiated" peace through the forthright declaration declara-tion of Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill Church-ill that the only terms acceptable. t& them, were those of "unconditional "uncondi-tional surrender." 6. Complete strategic decisions designed not only to bring greatest great-est possible pressure to bear upon the . Axis in Europe, but to enhance en-hance cooperation with Russia and China, and maintain utmost pressure upon Japan in the Pacific. Pa-cific. Belief was expressed in Allied quarters that the most important events of the epic meeting were matters which could not be dis-ussed dis-ussed until they occur. It was believed that one commander com-mander would be named to head-up head-up all operations in Africa, taking over the direction of the British 1st and 8th armies and the American 5th army, and that another an-other general would be placed in over-all charge of the whole Mediterranean Medi-terranean theater. One of these commands, it was assumed, would go to the British and the other to an American, but betting varied as to which would get which. . As for the French political squabble, Allied quarters frankly stated that lengthy and possibly difficult negotiations lie ahead before full collaboration can be achieved among tlis French factions. fac-tions. There was little but rumors on the possibility that diplomatic negotiations of some nature occurred oc-curred at Casablanca. Dispatches from North Africa mentioned labels on the luggage of travelers travel-ers indicating they had come from Finland, and rumors spread that there might have been Swedish, STARTS i loor 'Open . . OnljTlOp -fcS .V 'ftO S- At l:ST m. ' . , TUI 6 i. m. ' r iOW 4 4 .T? Nazis Rejected Surrender at Stalingrad Jan: 10 MOSCOW, Jan. 27 U.P.) Gen. Friedrich Von Paulus, German commander-in-chief of Stalingrad, rejected a Soviet ultimatum to surrender on Jan. 10, still hoping that Adolf Hitler would somehow make good on a boastful promise to get aid to him, made on Christmas, Christ-mas, when he ordered his trapped forces to fight to the last man. Von paulus had onlv 70,000 or 80,000 troops left. He didn't kno; it, but his position was hopeless, Food rations dropped until his men were eating only 125 grams of bread daily (approximately 4.4 ounces) and had already eaten their horses, cattle, dogs, and cats. Prisoners . told Anglo-American Anglo-American newspaper correspondents correspond-ents visiting the Stalingrad front 10 days ago, that the Germans never fully realized the hopelessness hopeless-ness of their position. Hitler saw to that. The luftwaffe lost over 600 transports up to Jan. 10 in desperate des-perate effort to feed the isolated troops, but finally abandoned daylight day-light flights when the receding front made it impossible for fight-ters fight-ters to escort them. The loss of Pitomnik airfield, inside in-side the encircled area, then put an end to any hope of food for the Germans because all the transports were based at this field. Joan Wood Joan Wood, month old daughter daugh-ter of Lamar Alton and Margaret Mar-garet Ann Newman . Wood of Springville, died Tuesday in the Payson hospital. The child was born in Payson December 4, 1942. Surviving besides parents are one sister, Carol Ann Wood, and the grandparents, Mrs. Naomi Na-omi D. Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Newman of Springville. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 12:30 in the Spring-villes Spring-villes Third ward chapel. Interment Inter-ment will be in the Provo City Burial park under the direction of the Claudin funeral home. Turkish and even Italian participants. partici-pants. Some credence was lent to the Finnish rumors by signs that some Finnish .diplomatic activity mieht.be underway. iheie ve been recurrent indi it) cations of Allied efforts to takQ Finland out of the war. and wit in the past week a German propaganda pro-paganda broadcast alleged that Hussia had made another peace offer to Finland which had been turned down. The importance of Finland, it was noted, would be enhanced by any Allied invasion moves in Norway Nor-way designed to clear the supply route to Russia. - TODAY? -f:y j&mi jr . ., 3 |