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Show ays For Peach Harvest Call The Herald City Proclaims Emergency , 7 IT you don't receive your Heralfl o.-r (.rc f; ?u rail 49.1 before yvi.M-h iimi ropy will be sent fill Y - LK 'HTH YEAR, NO. Commission Americaou Thursday, Friday As All-Out Harvest Days Action Taken To Save Bumper Peach Crop; Pickers Asked To Report At U. S. Employment Office, 7 A: M. Actjintf to help save Utah county's bumper peach crop, the Provo city commission today declared Thursday and Friday as emergency holidays and called upon all citizens possible to leave their normal. pursuits and assist the fanners fann-ers in harvesting their crops. The commission proclaimed the emergency upon request of a delegation of agricultural and employment service officials of-ficials who declared the peach crop is ready for shipping right now, and tons of peaches Roosevelt Calls Column Writer 'Chronic Liar' Bv JOHN A. KEICHMANS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 1 K.I! -The controversy over state department de-partment policy remained unclar-ified unclar-ified today except for the evidence evi-dence that if and whn President Koosevelt decides to discuss it in detail he will stand unequivocally behind his secretary of state. He backed : up Cordell Hull yesterday at his press and radio conference by calline: Columnist -Drew Pearson a chronic liar. Hull had accused Pearson of "'monstrous "'mon-strous and dialolical falsehoods" in repotting that Hull and his assistants were anti-Russian. Pearson retorted that he was willing to ie the president's "scapegoat" if one was needed, and reiterated his charges that Hull's anti-Soviet attitude had allowed United States-Soviet relations re-lations to roach "their present deplorable and dangerous impasse.'" im-passe.'" President Roosevelt left for the future an announcement on the resignation otv Undersecretary' of State Sumner Welles, who is reported re-ported to have resigned because of both ill health and differences with Hull on policies. Welles' resignation was first reported her more than a week ago, a no! was confirmed later through foreign ambassadors who received letters from Welles telling tell-ing thern that the -president had accepted his resignation. Put Mr. Roosevelt told his new conference yesterday that he had no news on the subject and that if and when there was news, reporters would b informed. He added that he would decide when this would be. When Welles' resignation was first mentioned, there were reports re-ports that he might be offered a roving diplomatic job. Manv sources doubted that he would accept such a job because it would bo necessary to work closely close-ly with the state department. Mr. Roosevelt's reluctance to discuss Welles yesterday, however, led to speculation that the president might be trying to persuade Welles to accept some other position posi-tion with the administration. The Welles' resignation is intertwined in-tertwined with the controversy between Pearson and Hull. Pearson Pear-son lone had b?en regarded as one of Welles' closest friends and was believed to have had access to inside state department sources of information which others did not enjoy. 'B' Ration Book Holders Allowed 0n7wees Grace SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 1 U.P - One week of grace will be allowed al-lowed for "B" ration book holders hold-ers to get their vehicles inspected, P. L. Dow. superintendent of the state highway patrol, had announced an-nounced today. Dow said the time was extended because ot crowded conditions at inspection stations. The original deadline was last night. SOLDIERS STRICKEN WITH FOOD POISONING INE'IANAPOL. St. 1 iV.P.y Between 300 and 400 soldiers were stricken with food risoninp after the noon meal at Fort Benjamin, Ben-jamin, Harrison today, the post public' relations office announced Details will 'tee announced later, army officials said. 61 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELKQKAPH NBW8 SSRVICB Declares will be wasted unless at least 300 additoinal pickers are available in the next 48 hours. S. R. Boswell, Utah county agricultural agent, said the peach crop is ' the biggest we've ever had." The crop has ripened very fast, and after the next few days will be too ripe for shipping he declared. Next week will be best time for home canning, but there are far more peaches than can be used locally. The demand for the crop is great, and the peaches are needed as food for the war effort, it was pointed out. People were asked to meet at 7 a. m. each day at the U. S. employment em-ployment service office, 40 North University avenue. Transportation Transporta-tion to arid from the orchards will be furnished by the farmers. Growers who need pickers also were urged to be on hand at that time. Mayor Maurice Harding said Provo City would set the example by closing all offices except those icquired to remain open by law. .The delegation meeting with the commission included, besides Mr. Boswell, Harold J. Mower, Farrell Ltljenquist, and T. W. Dy-ches, Dy-ches, all of the U. S. employment service. Mr. Boswell said the' prevailing wage for picking is 12 cents per busnel or 60 cents per hour. . Mr. Dyches emphasized the importance im-portance of saving the fruit crop, and declared that "right now is the time for every person to show his patriotism and loyalty by going go-ing into the orchards." Mr. Boswell and the committee issued an appeal that every community com-munity in the county follow the example of Provo city and join in the harvest holidays. Lava Hot Springs May Be Used lor Polio Treatments SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 1 (UP) Gov. Herbert B. Maw had announced today that he would discuss with Utah health authorities authori-ties the advisability of using Lava Hot Springs waters and sanatorium as a convalescent ward for Salt Lake county infantile infan-tile paralysis victims. L. W. Nye, Lava Hot Springs foundation board member, offered the facilities for use by Utahns yesterday. Meanwhile, the infantile paralysis para-lysis epidemic in "Salt Lake City abated somewhat. No new cases had been reported, and two patients pa-tients were returned to their homes to convalesce. Last week, however, 13 new cases of the disease were reported m all of Utah. P "WW Shortage" Category by Manpower Commission WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 HE The growing shortage labor in war centers was given new emphasis em-phasis today when the war manpower man-power commission placed six more areas in the "critical shortage" short-age" category. The WMC classification, used for guidance of war procurement lgencies, in effect denies further contracts to the critical shortage areas. Moved into group I (critical shortage) from group n (labor "tringency) were Meriden, Conn., Petersburg, Va., and Provo, Utah. Classified for the first time . and 1 III II YV-r III, 1 ff I II lv II I j II I II v J I I III III VVV-4 XjVUJ X ssn -.VHU rlUi)IU . U a PROVO, UTAH BERLIN BURNS AS BOMBERS I RENEW RAID Nazi Capital Hit In. 45-Min. Thunderbolt Bombing Attack By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 7 L British four-engined bombers, bomb-ers, hundreds strong, smashed another huge section of Berlin Ber-lin into blazing ruins last night in a 45-minute Thunderbolt Thun-derbolt assault that marked the end of the fourth year of the war. - Great, billowing fires wdre left Jburning in the German capital and the air ministry said all indications indica-tions pointed to "great damage." Swarms of German night fighters fight-ers rose to inteicept the bomber fleet, but failed to halt the at tack, the second heavy raid on BerH'n in ei ht nlgnts. Forty-seven bombers were lost, mnay 01 tne intercepting fighters were destroyed. des-troyed. While the tonnage of bombs dropped was not announced immediately, im-mediately, the attack was believed believ-ed on a scale comparable to that of Aug. 23, when 1,800 tons of explosives devastated an estimated one-tenth, some 30 square miles of Berlin. The raid also probably boosted the. bomb tonnage for August over the RAF's all-time high of 16,000 set in July. Waves of allied planes also swept across the English southeast south-east coast in daylight today to carry a non-stop Angto-American aerial offensive against Hitler's European fortress into its second day. American flying fortresses attacked an airfield at Amiens-Glisy Amiens-Glisy in northwestern France last evening to climax yesterday's raids. The RAF's four-engined night bombers, including Stortings, Hali-faxes Hali-faxes and Lancasters, sent what was officially described as a "great weight" of explosive arid fire bombs crashing down on Berlin, Germany's bigest war industry center. Four-ton super block busters literally blew buildings to pieces, while spreading conflagrations painted then ight sky a rosy glow that could be seen by the bombing bomb-ing crews far to the west of their homeward journey. ( The German radio called the raid a "terror" attack. Hundreds of thousands of Berlin inhabitants have been evacuated from the capital in anticipation of another devasting offensive such as the nine raids that all but wiped out Hamburg. However, members of the air raid precautions services have been ordered to stay in Berlin Ber-lin to fight fires and succor the wounded despite the fury of the attack. The raid 77 th of the war on Berlin touched off one of the greatest air battles yet fought by the British bombers over Europe. The Luftwaffe massed all available avail-able night fighter strength and the first formations pounced on the bombers soon after they crossed cross-ed the European coast in a futLe attempt to disperse them. IDAHO SAILOR MEETS DEATH OTTUMWA, la., Sept .1 U.E Ottumwa navy air base officials announcedtoday that Darwin G. Vest, 22, Idaho Falls, Ida., died yesterday of a basal skull fracture frac-ture suffered in a fall from a navy truck. placed immediately in group I were Price, Utah, Rock Springs, Wyo., and Wallace-Kellogg, Ida. Anniston, Ala., and Gadsden, Ala., jumped from the critical shortage group to group III, and Billings, Mqnt., from Group- II to group IV (labor surplus). ' Fellingham, Wash., classified for the first time, went into group II, while Eugene, Ore., and Great Falls, Mont., went from group IH to group tl as their labor supplies dwindled. The WMC now has 340 areas classified. The alignment now is 59 in group I, 112 in -group II, 78 in group III, and 91 in group IV. NWa COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, Fircc Fifth Year Of War Opens With Allies Set For Big Events United Nations On the Threshold of Big Events Expected Tto Bring Hitler To the Brink of Catastrophe By HARRISON SALISBURY United Pre StafLXJor respondent LONDON. Sept. 1 UR TmTfifth year of the war opened today with the United Nations on the threshold of big events expected to bring Adolf Hitler to the brink of catastrophe. The only question still debatable was the time the Allies would require to demolish the greatest threat to the world's peace and security since Napoleon. Estimates as to wen the Nazi dream of world domination domina-tion will crash in the dust of total defeat covered almost any . time interval during the next 12 Japanese Forced To Shift Base' by Allied Triumphs BY BRYDON TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 1 (U.E) A decisive Allied triumph has forced Japanese aerial fleets to shift their base to Dutch New Guinea, leaving nearly 400 wrecked wreck-ed planes behind and laying open their VAntt6mt, VLGr, hampered assault, it was revealed today. The victory was announced in a communique reporting that a strong Liberator force Monday destroyed l2twern 20 and 25 more planes in the Wewak area of New Guinea to which the enemy had brought reinforcements from the East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa. . Ceaseless air blows that started start-ed on Aug. 17 forced the Japanese Jap-anese to withdraw their planes to safe fields as far back as Hol-landia, Hol-landia, Dutch New Guinea, 200 miles west of Wewak and nearly 600 miles from Salamaua threatened threat-ened by Allied ground forces. The enemy's air power in New Guinea now is "dangerously removed re-moved from ground garrisons which this force is designed to support," it was announced. The garrisons included those at Salamaua, Sala-maua, Lae, Madang and Wewak, besides smaller bases along the northeat coast. Altogether 246 enemy plane? were destroyed at the Wewak system of airdromes in the first two days of attack nearly three weeks ago. Since then approximately approxi-mately 150 others have been destroyed. de-stroyed. The Liberators in their latest raid dropped 92 tons of 500 and 1,000-pound bombs on airfields in the Dagua and Wewak area and the Tadji field, 75 miles beyond Most of the enemy planes destroyed de-stroyed on the ground were medium med-ium bombers. Big fire were set There was no interception and not an Allied plane was lost. The communique contained no new report on ground action either in New Guinea or the Solomon Solo-mon Islands. . . Eisenhower Gets Permanent Post As Major General WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U.R) President Roosevelt today announced an-nounced that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander in chief of Allied forces in North Africa, has been made a permanent major general in United States army and given the distinguished service medal for "conspicuous ability" in directing the African operations. oper-ations. ' Mr. Roosevelt also annnoucea that Gen. George C. Marshall would continue as army chief of staff although his four year term expired today. White Bread Must Be Made Richer WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (HE) The War Food Administration reminded the baking industry today to-day that white bread must be about one-third richer in vitamins and minerals starting Oct. 1. The enrichment order was issued is-sued July 3. Food officials said the enrichment . will not change the color or flavor of white' bread. 9 months. But events of the past six weeks the smashing Russian summer offensive, the sudden toppling of Mussolini. - the Allied conquest of Sicily, the perfection of the air Hamburgerization technique, tech-nique, and the reverberations which have shaken Hitler's Europe Eu-rope ' from Denmark to Bulgaria caused almost every informed observer to revise radically predictions pre-dictions on the end of the war. The closest survey of high Anglo-American and exile government gov-ernment quarters, both military and political, as well as a canvass 4f opinion- in-European neutcal ''capitals, revealed only a handful of persons expect the war to last much more than a year. The shortest estimates of the war's end universally were predicated predi-cated on the possibility of an internal in-ternal German crackup. Such a crackup was regarded most generally gen-erally as most probable after the sudden collapse of Mussolini revealed re-vealed how. far dry rot could progress within a totalitarian state before signs could be noted from the outside. The best informed persons on the German internal situation be-'ieved be-'ieved Hitler, with the strengthened strength-ened powers given Heinrich Himmler as interior minister, should be able to hold off collapse through the winter. The estimates faced imponderables imponder-ables such as the effects of the-continued the-continued Russian successes, day by day and week by week intensification inten-sification of the air offensive which already has wrecked Hamburg Ham-burg and is rolling to devastation every metropolitan center in the reich, Italy's withdrawal from the war, which is inevitable either by capitulation or conquest within with-in a matter of weeks, extension of revolt within the occupied countries, and disaffection among the satellites which is expected to take one or more of Germany's allies from the war within coming months. tritish Warships Bombard Italian Invasion Coast By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent . . ALLIED . . HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Sept. 1 (11B 3iant guns of the British battleships Ne'son and Rodney bombarded the Italian invasion coast yesterday while a stiong force of flying fortresses fort-resses swept far' northward to raid the rail-air center of Pisa, it was announced today.' Accompanied by a cruiser and destrover escort, the battleships leveled their 16-inch guns at Reg-gio Reg-gio Calabria on the strait of Mes-sian Mes-sian and poured shells into enemy guns at Cape Pellaro, six miles to the south that ineffectively answered the bombardment. A communique . reported fires were touched off cjr shore by the warships. The, escort for the 33,-900-ton battle wagons included the cruiser Oiion and nine destroyers. Carefully avoiding the famous leaving . tower at Pisa, the fortresses-dropped a trail of bombs across the railroad marshaling, yards; which connect Genoa and Rome and scored hits on the nearby near-by Piaggio aircraft factory and the San JGuisto airdrome. -Other planes from the northwest Afrjcan and middle eastern -air forces continued the sweeps breaking break-ing up enemy communications in southern' Italy. ' fa net 1943 REDS ADVANCE ON 700-MILE BATTLE FRONT -Russians On The Move From Smolensk To Sea of Azov BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 1 (U.R) A KuHsian communique said tonight that German forces" encircled in .the Taganrog arei had been "liquidated" with the killing of 35,000 men. The communique, announced announc-ed advancen of lour to seven and a half miles in the new offensive aimed ut Smolen.sk, largest Nazi base on the entire en-tire front, and the capture of 200 inhabited localities. By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 1 u.r Victorious Red armies sent the Germans reeling back along a 700-mile front from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov today in a series of co-ordinated offensives. New Soviet advances posed a grave threat .to the central 1 front bastion of Smolensk, one of Adolf Hitler's headquarters; outflanked out-flanked the companion fortress of Bryansk; brought the key Bry ansk-Konotop railway supply line within .. .. artillery range; drove closer to the Dnieper river bend west of Kharkov, and ground up the remnants of the trapped garrison gar-rison of Taganrog. Russian forces now were liberating liber-ating towns and villages at the rate of 100 every 24 hours. Some 12,000 German officers and men were killed yesterday, and 87 Nazi tanks and 67 guns destroyed. At some points, including the northern Ukraine, the German retreat re-treat showed signs of becoming a rout, with tanks and guns being abandoned Intact. Eight hundred German prosiners were taken in one secttor alone southwest of Sevsk, 80. miles south of Bryansk The threat to Smolensk arose from a Soveit break-through ot nine to 18 miles on a 21-miie-wide sector of the central front that engulfed 170 localities, including Yelnya, 50 miles to the east and the most important stronghold guarding Smolensk. Dorogobuzh, 50 miles southeast of Smolensk, also was captured. Russian estimates placed the number of German forces on the Soviet front at slightly more than 200 divisions up to 3,000,-000 3,000,-000 men supported by about 3,000 planes. Yet this great mass of men and armor had failed to develop a summer offensive, and had to resort to defensive fighting fight-ing and withdrawals. Already, some Russian military experts have appraised the battle or the Kursk salient last July as the greatest Soviet victory of the war even more important than Stalingrad because it nipped a Nazi offensive and opened the day for the capture of Orel, Belgorod, Bel-gorod, Kharkov and many other cities and towns. It is possible to reveal that the Soviet fire power is seven times .greater for ' the infantry and at least three times greater for the. artillery than it was when Russia entered the war more than 26 months ago. The Russians Rus-sians also have proved that they can establish air superiority at any given sector. Marcus Germans Shoot Bonn Danes Stopping At Street Intersection fled Lightt BY HUBERT UXKULL United Press Staff Corerspondent HAELSINBORG, Sweden, Sept. i U.E) The descent of the Nazi terror on Copenhagen, with German Ger-man tanks firing casually . on groups of by-standers, was described des-cribed today by a 20y6ar-old Dane who was there and w,ho had best be identified as Holger. Speaking with unbelievable calm between sips of beer, Holger described armed clashes of the Danish garrison with tank-led German troops. . . He said the longest two hours he ever-spent were; those; in- a row boat with seven -other ; Panes crossing "the Oresund to Haelsfn- ITT AH UNH Im.LY BOITTH OF SALT I.aKI New Food Poster CONSERVE ! Symbol of the, government's new food, campaign is this ; poster urging farmers and victory vic-tory gardeners to produce all they can, asking everybody to can and preserve foods and eliminate waste, and calling for ousting of black markets. Pope Broadcasts Appeal to World For Just Peace LONDON, Sept. 1 (U.H Pope Pius XII broadcast to the warring world today an appeal for a just peace this year declaring that the hostilities now are "reaching a climax" and the people are pleading plead-ing more clamorously than, ever for peace, for bread and for work. "Speaking by radio on the anniversary anni-versary of the German invasion of Poland, the Pontiff sounded a call which responsible quarters believed be-lieved would spur whatever Italian Ital-ian peace efforts may be under way. Manifestly throwing his whole influence behind efforts to restore worldwide peace in 1943, the Pope resorted to the fohowing denunciation." denuncia-tion." "Woe to those who are building their power on oppression, on torture tor-ture of the innocents, on injustice, and those who interfere with the building or a just and lasting peace." "Hatred against total war" is mounting in all natidns, the Pope declared, as everywhere the peoples peo-ples Iook at ruins and observe the war operations reaching a climax. "Hope must be given to the oppressed peoples that this year wiil be the beginning of a new era of reconstruction and peace,' he said. Against the background of the papal pronunciaments, competent quarters here doubted that the Italian regime of Marshal Pierto Badoglio would be able to maintain main-tain power unless it publicly and emphatically makes plain to the Italian people that all possible now is being done to get Italy out oi the war. U.S. Planes Sink Italian Transport WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 L'.P) A large Italian transport of the 50,000-tori Conte Di Savoia class the world's sixth largest line; was sunk by bombs from two A-3t Invader Fighter-bombers of i United States army air forces unit of the Noithwest African Ail Forces, the war department announced an-nounced Tuesday. The AAF bombers, the attack model of the P-51 Mustangs blasted the vessel as it lay at anchor recently off a quay at Bagnara at the southwestern tip of Italy. borg Monday night. Now he was talking quietly, dispassionately, i,n in my room at the Grand hotel: "I was standing in the middle of Town Hall Square when a German Ger-man tank came down the Vester-gade, Vester-gade, approaching an intersection. At that moment the traffic light changed to red, causing an involuntary in-voluntary gathering of about 20 persons. The tank tufned its guns upon the crowd and fired. I saw five persons fall. The others ran in all directions." r Here is Holger's story in hi own words : j "Sunday morning I got up ver early to see what was going tc . (Continued on Page Eight) L J Ar- j The Weather Provo and vicinity Warmer today to-day and tonight. Temperature : High 78 I,mv ..' 34 PRICE FIVE CENTS JAP ISLANDS TARGET FOR BOMBARDMENT Attack By Carrier ask Force Begins At Dawn, Report WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U.R) An American task force's raid on Marcus island, Japanese defense outpost 1,-100 1,-100 miles from Tokyo, "presumably "pre-sumably is now in progress," the navy announced today. The attack might be but one phase of a great American naval sweep in the central Pacific. The announcement was made orally by a naval spokesman, who said: "A carrier task force raid planned plan-ned for Sept. 1 is presumably in progress at Marcus island. The U. S. task force should have arrived on scheduled time. "However, do report has been received from the raiding force, and it is presumed that there Will be none until need for radio silence ceases to exist." First word of the Marcus attack at-tack the second on that island since the outbreak of war came rrom the Japanese radio. It reported re-ported strong assaults by waves af American planes and bombardment bombard-ment byVU. fc. surface vessels. (A brief Japanese communique; broadcast domestically by the Tokyo radio and reported by the iederal communications commis-. iion, was coupled with a warning .hat the raiding party could have attacked Japan had it so desired. ("The enemy could have r&id-d r&id-d the. (Japanese) mainland it he .anted to, so the people of Japan nust lurther soliau'y the defense igainst the enemy," the Tokyo jroadcast said. (A later Tokyo broadcast for American consumption said, how-ver, how-ver, thttt ' tne enemy raid on the si and is regurded as just one fi the enemy's nuisance guerrilla iir raids now being made spora-lically spora-lically in the Pacitic ocean." Cine later broadcast also said .hat the raid had given the Jap-mese Jap-mese "a remote reminder" of .ne great earthquake. The com-nentator com-nentator did not explain this eference.) Naval officers here said that .xcept for the Japanese reports, they were without information as to thet action beyond that it was .cheuuled tor Sept. 1. It was noteworthy that the spokesman used the word "raid" to describe the American action, .his could be interpreted- to mean .hat no actual seizure of the Japanese base was contemplated .nd that the mission was prlmar-ly prlmar-ly one of destroying. the Japanese mstaMations there. The enemy is known to have aircraft runways, water tanks, nangars, fuel and ammunition storages, and important radio installations in-stallations on Marcus island. How-ver, How-ver, its primary use is for de-ensive de-ensive rather than offensive purposes. pur-poses. , , , Marcus is 880 miles west northwest north-west of Wake Island, which was aptured by the Japanese on Dec 3, 1942, after a 15-day defense y the small U. S. Marine garri-on. garri-on. It might be that Wake, too, was hit by the American carrier ask force but that the announce nent was being withheld until he task force is in safer waters. The first raid on Marcus island, iiarch 4, -1942, was preceded by (Continued on Page Bight) War In Brief By UNITED PRESS MEDITERRANEAN British arships sheU invasion coast of outhwestern Italy, Allied borab-rs borab-rs raid Pisan Pescara, and southern south-ern Italy. EUROPE Britain's heavy ombers blast BerUa in second rreat -raid in nine days. . RUSSIA Russian armies smah lerman defenses before Smolensk nd drive deep Into northern Jkraine in coordlnaUd offensives leveloping over 70"niile -front. k SOUTH PACIFIC Japanese' communique report that Amert- -?an planes and warship, bombarO- ; d Marcus Island; Allies destroy 20 to 25 more enemy plane .in. New Guinea. (DOT) |