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Show ' 1 V -If - 4 r r PAGE SIX PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1943 Montgomery s Men Open Attack on Rommel's Defense Lines in Moonlight ; Hamburger to Be Raised in Point By TTED RUSSELL, United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN THE ENFTDAVILLE LINE, Tunisia, April 20 (Delayed) (L'.H) A thunderous barrage from massed arti'lery at 9:30 o'clock last night opened the British Eighth army's offensive to capture cap-ture Tunis, goal of a 2,000-mile march from Egypt. It was the battle of El Alamein and the battle of the Mareth line all over agaiii. Again. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery chose a moonlight night for his attack, and an artillery barrage was the opening note. At 11 p. m., several thousand British infantrymen, armed with tommy guns, rifles and special knives for hand-to-hand struggles, filtered through the thick cactus and olive groves covering the no man's lard at the foot of the mountains guarding the approaches ap-proaches to the Tunis plain. They scrambled up the rocky, shrub-covered slopes north and northwest of Endifaville and only 50 air miles below Tunis, preced ing them by only a lew hundred yards were curtains of artillery shells from the Eighth army's artillery. By 1:40 a. m., the attacking force on the right- northwest of Enfidaville reported it had reached its first objective. Th guns went silent immediately as the gunners hastily moved them forward for itJhe next phase -of the battle. It now is 5 a. m. and a new barrage has begun .with indications indica-tions that the infantry is in the process of taking its second ob jective. Only a few miles to the west, Montgomery's men have raced up 1,200-foot high Djebel. Garci, which commands a large area of Rommel's mountain defenses. Air Line Adopts 24-Hour Clock LOS ANGELES, April 21 (U.E) Western Air Lines adopted the 24-hour clock today with an eye toward the nation's post-war air schedules as well as convenience for today's air line military passengers, pas-sengers, it was announced. Airline President William A. Coulter said, "It will be almost impossible for air lines to operate 'round-the-world' air schedules on the old domestic system of 'a.m. and p. m.,' and Western is only being alert to the possibilities of post-war aviation." WAL was the first airline in the nation to make the radical change. Ualue Says OPA V T. OX VJi . A , - ipi 1 -a M. Althouhgh it is of humble origin and only recently given dignity, the hamburger will require still more ration points when the new meat list is issued. The office of price administration administra-tion claims that the quality of the product has increased markedly md that its value five points per pound is "two to three points lower than lor other meats boasting boast-ing no better quality." Sausage will be reduced in point ,'alue even more than it was two .veeks ago. So will cold cuts and J cutter. Point values of frozen foods and vegetables and of all rationed soups canned, bottled, and dehydrated de-hydrated were reduced sharply ,y an order efective at midnight tonight. Simultaneously, black-?yed black-?yed pease were made ration-ree. ration-ree. Point values of frozen foods were cut more sharply in the commercial container sizes of two to 10 pounds, than in the smaller domestic sizes. The new and old joint values for the most popular container size of frozen fruits, weighing 16 ounces, were reduced .rom 13 to six points. values ot trozen asparagus, green and waxed beans, lima beans, corn, peas, and spinach were reduced from 13 to six points per pound. All other frozen vegetables vege-tables in the smaller sizes, including in-cluding baked beans, were cut from eight points a pound to four. In commercial sizes of two pounds up to and including 10-pound 10-pound sizes all. frozen fruits, fruit juices and vegetables were given a point value of four points a pound. In domestic container sizes, the basic point value of frozen juices was reduced to 4 points a pound, and of frozen fruits and vegetables, to 6 points a pound. The point Value of both household house-hold and commercial canned and bottled soups was reduced from eight points a pound to six points except for tomato soup which was cut to four pointtfc a pound The point value of dried and de- hyrated soups was cut in half and the number of weight classifications classi-fications reduced from eight to four points a pound. VOTERS REJECT STREETCAR MERGER SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 OLE) San Francisco voters rejected a street railway consolidation by a vote unofficially tabulated at 57,-000 57,-000 to 35,657 today. A previous proposal for purchase pur-chase of the Market Street Railway Rail-way street car system at a cost of $7,950,000 was defeated last November in a light vote. Gas on Stomach Rali4 ia S minoua r 4Mm Ju dmim; back When ics itomach icid cauaet painful, auffoeat-lnt auffoeat-lnt ki. tour stomach and heartburn, doctor usually prearriba the fartMt-actlnf medicines known for ymptomatlc relief medtclnea like thoM In Bell-ana Tablets. 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