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Show f llf you " don't recelT6 Your ; Herald before 6:30, caU 495 before 8 o'ock tod . -copy will'-be -tent F1FTY-OGHTH lYEAR,- NOrvl 14- I 4 A ;-i -J V ::- 1 1 ! w, sa xv - ' r ' "rir ? tmiH' m li 1 1 i o'Wi'mi iirrw -muaii r " ifirtiir,;,: w r.-, i ji """" v - ' - ; ! 1 1 1 i iff- -vr'rr; i v if i Yank ingenuity and humor are , - as shown. here New Guinea Hit In Heaviest Air Raid By BBTDON C TATES United Presa Staff Correspondent ALLIED "HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Nov. 15 wT-Allid aerial might was directed against New Guinea Saturday when possibly 200 planes dropped 223 tons of bombs on Madang, it was announced today, while a Bou- ; rr grainviHe dispatch quoted Admiral Campaign Enters Its Second Yeek With the United War Fund campaign lagging: somewhat over the weekend, drive officials today hoped for a spurt of enthusiasm and accomplishment this week by the various teams contacting- industrial in-dustrial and business houses. - Solicitations to date have produced pro-duced good results, and with the peon! apparently willing and waiting to be contacted, officials urged that the workers soeed completion com-pletion of their assignments. Three special gifts from service clubs added to the Saturdav total. Rotary donated $100. B.P.O. Elks fl50, and Kiwanis $100. These were termed "double dutv dollars" since most members of these clubs are also contributing through other channels. On the industrial front. Columbia Colum-bia Steel comoany emoloyes at Geneva are developing nlans for aolicit'tion and final details for payroll deduction of onraniised labor are being worked out by officials' of-ficials' and union leaders. Vendover Soldier Dies In Accident TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 15 uXE) John R. Morris, 43, em ployed in the post engineer's of fice at wenuover tieia, uwn, wm killed late yesterday, when an army truck in which he was riding rid-ing overturned on highway' No. 93, about 19 miles south of Twin Falls. Pvt. Milton Rosenburg, about SO, is in critical condition! in a Twin Falls hospital. Sgt. Donald L. Swoger, 27, driver of the truck,! suffered a rraciurea ieg, ana ogi. Sidnev Hochhauser suffered a brain concussion. CnL Edwin R. Hoover, 22; Cpl. Paul Krolick, 22, and Cpl. William Craie escaped with lesser hurts. Sheriff Warren LoWery said the track overturned at the bottom of a grade about 3 p. m., Sunday. Mai. F. G. De berry of Wendover field came to Twin Falls to inves tigate the accident. Aid Asked for Industrial Safety SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 15 (UE R. H. "Dalrymple, JJtah state industrial commission mem ber, urged industrial, labor and government leaders here today to help promote industrial safety throughout the state. V The meeting was the first of a three-day sories, conducted under .the auspices of the state indus trial commission. Iaiber-management cooperation f o r' iccldcnt prevention was scheduled for round-table dia-J ''V . WUMfUETK .UNITS.! - ?TEf.:nRAP NEW' 8BRVICJB ? " rwnei!ery,pfu.:5;:Airforces; revealed in some of the typical titles American airmen give their plane, in representative collection from several battlelronts. . . - William P. Halsey as reporting I th American camnaien thre waa going oexier man Bcneauieq. -The Madang assault, delivered by atrongly escorted forcea of Liberators and Mitchells, was the heaviest raid of the war oh a New Guinea objective, and was topped in tne soutnwesi racmc oniy oy ua ow-ton uomoarameni oi baul, New Britain, Oct. 12. Operating in direct support of Australian troops working up the Ramu river ' valley toward the Japanese base on the northeast New Guinea coast, the aerial fleet, met no air opposition and ineffective ground fire which dwindled and died as their , explosives explo-sives Shattered the enemy's defenses. de-fenses. Only one fighter was lost on the raid. Size of the fleet was unspecified, but the bomb tonnage indicated use of 200 or more aircraft. air-craft. Four ground enemy planes, three luggers and five barges, were smashed by the low level attackers. Alexishafen, airdrome 20 miles north of Madang, was a subsidiary objective. A heavy pall of smoke covered the target as the planes left. Madang lies 165 miles northwest of Finschafen, on the Huon peuin- sula. Lack of enemy fighters indicated in-dicated the measure of success in previous raids aimed at knocking out Japanese, aerial centers in the area, particularly at Wewak. Halsey, on an inspection tour of his south Pacific forces . engaged in the final stages of the Solomons Solo-mons campaign, told United Press Correspondent Frank Tremaine at Bougainville that the invasion there was progressing "a damned sight better than scheduled." ' "We expect the Japanese to try almost anything and we are never disappointed wnen tney do,' ne said. "I don't think this place could become a second Guadalcanal. Guadal-canal. We have the stuff now the Japanese haven't. Tremaine added that barge con centrations observed near the is land indicated the enemy may make new attacks against the marine beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay, on the island's west coast, where fresh army and ma rine reinforcements were unloaded Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Reds Hint of New Offensive LONDON,- Nov. 15 (U.E The Leningrad radio said today that "we are on the eve of the most important events" an apparent hint of an imminent . Red army offensive on the northern front,! which has. been largely quiescent during the Soviet offensive to the south. The Leningrad broadcast was based on an appeal by the director of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad to Soviet rail workers. . "It Is of utmost necessity that you be prepared for action." the message to the workers said. "Be ready to transport troops and sup Pt l' PRO VO, ,4. ' Denver Ordnance Plant To Release DENVER, Nov. 15 (CE) lieut Col. Seth Wiard, commanding officer of-ficer of the Denver Ordnance plant; today announced that 4,000 workers were to be released, effective ef-fective Dec. 6. Coincident with the Colonel's announcement, A. T. Twing, works manager for-the Remington Arms Co., contractor-operator of the Denver Ordnance plant for-the government, disclosed that one entire en-tire shift was being discontinued on the same date. A week ago, Wiard, who also Is the commanding officer of the w-'TJtah Ordnance plant, announced that 3,000 employes of that small arms manufacturing plari were being discharged Nov. 21. The total number of employes at the Denver plant was not revealed, re-vealed, although it was explained that the 4,000 workers do not compose com-pose the "graveyard" shift 12 midnight to 8 a. m. which is being eliminated. Operations at the ordnance olant here started in 1941, with the first cartridge 'having. been compxeiea on wet. 10 or tnai year Portal-To-Porta! Issue To Be Heard By Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 UH The supreme court today agreed to hear a case involving the pay ment of "portal-to-portal" travel time wages to approximately 6,000 Alabama iron miners a decision which may have a bearing on the travel-time issue in the coal in dustry. Seeking declaratory judgements which would free them fim any obligations insofar as travel time is concerned, three Alabama mining companies appealed from, a March 16, 1943, ruling of the fifth circuit court of appeals which granted the miners payment for travel tune. Main question in the dispute is whether or not the word "work week" as used in the fair labor standards act of 1938 was meant to cover the time spent by the miners in traveling to and from work in the mines. In another case of national im plications, the court refused to ac cept for review a test case chal lenging the constitutionality of the Office of Price Admlniatra tion's rent control program. iress To Leave Cong Discussing The Moscow Conference WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (CE)lutIons sJreafy submitted for Congressional leaders indicated today they preferred to. leave it to Secretary of State CordeU Hull to decide without pressure of of ficial invitation or summons i whether it would be advisable for him to discuss the Moscow conference con-ference in congress. Republicans -and . Democrats alike expressed anew their . hopes that Hull would choose to give them a more detailed account of his historic talks, but . hoped - it could come about by his own decision de-cision rather than through pass age of any of the numerous re so- i UTAH COUNTY, - UTAH, -MONDAY, NOVEMBER yv f "A E OPA Ajccused Of Exceeding Legal Powers Illegcd Practices By OPA Reyealed;, Basic Rights Are Undermined WASHINilTON. Nov. 15 flSB-A special house committee, commit-tee, accused the Office of Price Administration today of -usurping! legislative and judicial powers to carry out illezal nractices. rane i n c from alleged attempts to con trol the profits of American in dustry to the establishment of its own judicial tribunals and crim inal code. It -urged congress to halt fur ther assumption of power by OPA and to "eliminate the abuses and injustices now apparent." The - committee, investigating executive agencies and headed by Rep. Howard W. Smith, D., Va., filed a 30-page report which re iterated Its firm belief in both rationing and price control as wartime necessities, but assailed OPA's use of them. "The illegal, useless and conflicting con-flicting ' regulations heretofore promulgated oy tn ufA. are creating suchgreat confusion that it is impossible for the average citizen to knew how to comply," IVsaidV ' t -The ; CbmiftiHtee bcBeves that tne facta here presented reveal jctfcer-wiiferrw inif!r4on ceivably lead;; to the undermining of our basic constitutional provisions provis-ions for separate and independent executive, legislative and Judicial departments of government. " - "It foUowi that concentration of all three categories into 'the hands ' of the executive branch with merely a limited and circumscribed circum-scribed Teview by the courts violates vio-lates a basic principle of the Constitution Con-stitution and constitutes a dangerous dan-gerous approach to totalitarianism totalitarian-ism ..." ;. The report accused OPA of misinterpreting mis-interpreting acts of congress, and of setting up a nation-wide sys tem of judicial tribunals "throue-h which this executive agency judges that actions of American citizens relative to its? own regulations and orders, and imposes drastic and unconstitutional .penalties upon those citizens depriving them of certain instances of vital rights and liberties without due process of law." V. It said no Court was open to a citizen who wishes to test the (Continued on Page Three) " j c ' Submarine Menace Believed Solved LONDON, kov. 15 (EE) World wide Americjn supply schedules now are based on a conviction that the submarine' menace in the Atlantic and Pacific has been brought under permanent control, Rear-Admirat William B. Young said -today. ? Young, chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and pay master general of the United States Navy,' made the report of permanence in the victory over the submarines at a press confer ence today. ,:- "We planned our schedule with pretty fair assurance of success." he said. "There is no threat from the U-boats in the North Atlantic at this time of year, particularly in view or out numerous.new wea pons and tattles, while the Pacific Paci-fic routes generally are safer be cause tney are not so cramped as the routes to England and the thorfeation. .an official lnvita- tlon. f - I Rep. xsugnfD.-scott, Jr., k., fa., sponsor of one of the resolutions, said congress Wouldn't want to embarrass; jb , man . in ' whom we have'' such confidence." Chairman Sol Bloom ft, N. Y of the house foreign - f fairs committee said they-looked tiorwara to a report from Hull but -only :1f he wants to and .as ICfng as he's not made the whipping- boy for any political Admlnistrttion leaders, admit- re Russia s Ukrainian f . " Army Races To Od Beds Advance Under Coyer of Swirling Snow Which "Will Soon Become a Shroud For "Hitlerite Germany," Says . Pravda By HENRY. SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOWVNov. 15 Russia's first Ukranian army raced westward within striking distance of the old Polish border today under cover of swirling snow which, the newspaper news-paper Pravda said, "will soon become a shroud for Hitlerite Germany.' (A Moscow broadcast heard in London said a Soviet spearhead was "at" Barataovka, 42 miles west of Zhitomir and 30 miles east of old Poland in the Rowne area.) : Front reports said the battle Brazilians Favor Trade Base For Relief ATLANTIC CITY, N.. J Nor. 15 tKE-tA plan to finance the work of the United Nations relief re-lief and rehabilitation administra tion program through contribu tions based on foreign trade rath er thin on the United State! proposal pro-posal of one per. cent of national income was put forward today by the Brazilian delegate Eurico Penteado. The national Income plan would call for a United States contri bution of $1,000,000,000 and congress con-gress would be asked to appro priate about $500,000,000 or-even less for the first contribution. Penteado was , to lay his plan before the finance committee at a meeting this afternoon. Describing it at a press conference, he de clared it more equitable than the national income plan and more easily ascertainable. The formula would caU for a minimum contribution based on the amount of foreign trade any one country had had during a base perwar period 1938 or a comparable com-parable year. " The setting of a minimum con tribution, he said, would not prevent pre-vent a country from contributing more. The export trade figure would be based also on the amount of foreign trade previously had with the occupied country receiving aid. Thus Brazil might contribute from her 10,000,000 bag coffee surplus and cotton, cocoa or other needed relief supply. Brazilian support of this formula for-mula was taken as indicating the extent Latin America is -thinking In terms of Europe as its best exports ex-ports market. Argentina, which is not represented -here because she was . not invited. Is even more European-minded than other South American countries. WASHINGTON. Nov. 15 (UP) President Roosevelt today asked congress to authorize the appropriation appro-priation of funds to permit participation parti-cipation by the United States in the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Admin-istration. Explaining in a message to congress con-gress that he waa not now recommending recom-mending the appropriation of a specific sum, the President re quested only the authorization. He said he would, after the. UNRRA meeting in Atlantic City,, recommend recom-mend the appropriation of specific funds. . "A small fraction of the national nation-al income of the- contributing member states will, it is hoped,, he sufficient to meet the meeds," the President said. v Atlantic City reports said that UNRRA Director Genera) Herbert H. Lehman and his advisors had decided to sponsor an assessment plan of one per cent of the nation-l al income of participant countries.! hAr(n Drkturnc v?. From -Mexico Trip SALT LAKE CITY. Nov.-1 15' uXE) David O. McKay, second counselor of the Latter-day Saints; catirvu iiroi prceiaency, was iwwc today from a month's tour of the! church's Mexican .mission. ' -, -During his visit, McKay dedicated dedi-cated an LDS chapel at i Zentlal-pan Zentlal-pan and conducted 17 conferences. He reported that -the ' church membership in. Mexico now is 3000. Financing and- U incrttasuur ateadilv ' 15 1943 : . - Slnnliislnl OciTlnnlillnl -? Westward Polish Border ror the western Ukraine had en tered its decisive phase, with the Germans ,'n - full retreat en the widening Kiev front. (Berlin Acknowledged that 30 Soviet divisions totaling some 450,000 men had penetrated the German positions north and north west of Krlvoi Rog in an appar ent oia to suce down across the base, of the Dnieper Bulge and trap the Nails to the east.) As the Ukrainian struggle mov ed toward its climax, the Red Army was -making final prepara tions, along the entire front for the winter -campaign which auth oritative soviet sources confident-ly(jwiLiWould confident-ly(jwiLiWould hurl the Germans irom the last inch of Russian soil. i Emilyan Yaroslavsky, distinguished- Soviet historian, wrote In Pravda fe commenting on the onset on-set of winter: "The snow will soon become a shroud for Hitlerite Germany. The occupation forces iwUl soon find graves outside Leningrad and on all Soviet territory, still in their hands. The day is approaching when not a single German will remain on Soviet soU." The present transitional period between the first mild snowfall and the bard frost was believed to be hampering Red Army offens ive preparations in some sectors. With. , the imminent, freezes the armored and mechanized forces again will find a firm footing, and (Continued on Page Three) Police To Bust 'Dead-End' Gang SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 15 (HE) Police Chief Reed E. Vet terli said today that a self-styled "Dead End" gang that has oper ated here for several months would be broken up. Vetterll promised the action after 11 of the 13 to 17 year old youths attacked a 20-year-old soldier, John . Florez, as he, emerged from a west side dance hall. . He was treated at the police emergency hospital for scala laceration lac-eration inflicted by gang mem bess when they knocked him down and kicked him on the head. One of the alleged assailants a 13-year-old youth, was captured by police. However, he refused to answer questions or divulge names of his other associates. Criticism Heard Over Slow Rate Of Allied Advance Up The Boot Of Italy Editor Note The United .herewith parallel dispatches on a public discussion the ' slow rate . From- London, Ned Russell, in North Africa and Sicily before vBrltish capital, -reports that there the anafl's pace advance and a cry massive strokes." " " - ? . - From Allied headquarters at Algiers, namson Bausoury repona rhmr i nn i i creation there, that the troops and commanders have failed ta perform up to the battle plan expected of them. He recalls official forecasts by Allied leaders that all fossible strength will be brought to bear against the Germans in Europe at the proper moment. BY NED RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON Nov. 15 (TIB) Sharp criticism of the snail's pace pro gress of the. Bnusn cut ana American Am-erican 5th armies in Italy lias cropped up In London newspapers. .; "Allied .troops are , not merely slowed down," the. Daily Mail said Ur its leading editorial the other- day. TThey seem, so far at we can gather - from the . news (Continued on Page Eight)! - UTAH'S ONLT DAILY SOOTH HT SALT LAKH m U War In Brief BY UNITED PRESS ITALY: Allied and German troops battle to temporary stand- still along : Nazi winter line su miles below Rome; Americans hurl back .three counterattacks northwest north-west 'of Isernia; 8th army patrols pa-trols cross Sangro river; Berlin hints hew Allied landing on west coast expected after repeated war ship bombardment of German lines. RUSSIA: Berlin acknowledges Red army break-through north of Krivoi Rog, threatening 500,000 Germans in Dnieper bend; front reports indicate battle of western Ukraine at decisive stage; Soviet tanks and . cavalry sweep on to ward Polish border. . .Oidrr!evixYdeetaointaolnunuaua AIR -WAR: American daylight bombers from Mediterranean bases raid Sofia for first time, disrupt German , railway lines throughout the Balkans; RAF bombs French coastal railroad leading to north Italy. JUGOSLAVIA: Germans raze three Jugoslav towns in reprisal for railway sabotage; launch new offensive against Partisan-held Dalmatian islands. PACIFIC: Allied fliers drop 223 tons of bombs on Japanese-held Madang in heaviest raid on New Guinea campaign; Halsey says Bougainville invasion going "better "bet-ter than expected;" American war-planes war-planes hammer Japanese in central cen-tral China. Allied Bombers Hit Sofia, Bulgarian Capital, In Raid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 15 UE A big. fleet of Mitchell medium bombers disrupted dis-rupted communications throughout through-out the Balkans yesterday with a daring dalyight raid on Sofia, that smashed key railway Installations and left part of the Bulgarian capital wreathed in smoke and flame. ' It was the first American and first northwest African air forces raid of the war on Bulgaria, and on Sofia, vital hub of the German suply system for the Balkans. (British based bombers apparently ap-parently were idle last night fol-. lowing the second raid on Berlin In three nights Saturday by RAF Mosquitoes.) Escorted by lightning long-range long-range fighters, the twin-engined Mitchells dropped tone of explosives explo-sives and fire bombs on Sofia in what was described officially as an "extremely accurate" raid. Direct hits were scored on locomotive lo-comotive repair shops, car assembly assem-bly shops, the main line depot and sidings. Pilots reported that flames and explosions covered the whole target area. The resultant destruction was believed to, have disrupted railway traffic throughout the Balkans, since the Sofia -yards were a key point of lines radiating to Hungary, Hun-gary, Rumania, Greece and Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia and have been used extensively exten-sively by the German army. "This successful opening of the (central) Balkans offensive has far-reaching consequences," an Allied spokesman said. It was the deepest penetration of the Balkans yet made by Allied medium bombers, though four- engined Liberators raided the Ploesti oil' fields in Rumania and hit the Messerschmitt works at Wiener Neustadt, Austria, r ii ..ii Press and The Daily Herald present question which has arousea warm of the Allied ' advance up the who covered much of the fighting taking a aipiomau run jn tne is growing dissaUsf action with from men fat the field for bold, . "' " ' .; BY HARRISOV SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED - : HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 15 ue .in 68 days since the Allied , landing at Saler no, the American fifth army has pushed northward vtothe Garigliano Garig-liano ,river -banks for an average of about one mUe dAy; .' It is feltf by persons wbo-tave followed the Mediterranean r campaign cam-paign closely rfront Jxeadquarters (continued on rage jsignxj. . -THE WEATHER Utah Fair with little chaste ta temperature today and Tuesday. Temperatures: Hlsh Lew 66 Z4 PRICE FIVE CENTS y Germans Ruf h Reserves Into Italian tines Considerable Losses Inflicted On Enemy By Allied Fighters By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, ALGIERS, Nov. 15 uj Three German counterattacks counter-attacks launched by a Nazi regiment hastily rushed into battle from rear reserves, have been smashed northwest of Isernia with considerable enemy losses 'in casualties and prisoners, it was announced today. Troops on the American wing of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's fifth army front hurled back the enemy torce or some a.uuu men of the 29th panzer grenadiers who previously had been puUed out or the fighting line. Fierce Fighting The attacks marked the hardest hard-est fighting on the trans-Italy line, which remained practically unchanged for the third straight day as Allied patrols felt out the German winter defenses protecting protect-ing the roads to Rome some 80 miles below the capital.. The- enemy evidently, was attempting at-tempting to eliminate a threat to it mountain' Hn sJerosrthe Ap-pennines Ap-pennines in Centrar Italy wnere fifth ejid British eighth . army forces have driven two "salients northward, . - The battle -was fought through the daylight hours yesterday, end ing when -the Germans gave up their futile lunges at 4 p.m. Rain fell all along the front, adding to the hardship Of the Allied Al-lied troops plodding through mud. rough terrain and cow weatner. German guns opened up on the British sector of the fifth army front near the western Italian coast, where Clark's forces were inching forward around Mignano still held by tne enemy in a threat to the Nazi coastal anch ors above the Garigliano river. (Berlin radio, acknowledged this threat, said last night that British warships had sheUed their defenses above the GarigUanp "repeatedly" "re-peatedly" and speculated that the Allies could carry out a new landing behind the lines because of the alleged failure of costly land attacks.) Most operations were confined to small scale scouting patrols against which the Nazis put up the strongest defense to- protect the outer edges of their winter line. Eighth army units venturing across the Sangro river near the Adriatic knocked out an enemy gun position. An 'armored car was destroyed near Ateasa, six mues south of the Sangro and 12 mUes inland. Atessa was captured Saturday. Sat-urday. Germans How Fear Invasion Through Danish Territory -LONDON,- Nov. 15 CUJS The Germans, gripped by new invasion Jitters, have ordered a state of alarm throughout Denmark's Jutland Jut-land province, end have called home families ol Nasi off iclals in France, European reports said today. to-day. ; " - The Swedish telegraph agency reported Maj. Gen, Herman Voi Hanneken, German commander in Denmark, Ahad inoyed his head-quarters head-quarters from 'the J0anlab;iids: to Silkeborg on Jutland, to direct necessary preparedness measures. Danish authorities were said to have been warned to be ready to proclaim V state; Of emergency throughout Jutland on - short notice. . - " French undergrbund sources in Algiers said German officials in ; France had been ordered o cease ; bringing their families to France ' and to send back -.those already. there. 140 CASUALTIES IN LEBANON CRISIS - : ( -CAIRO, .Nov. 15 UE Off iclal -sources estimated today that there had been 140 casualties, including " 10 to 12 dead, in disturbances, in . Lebanon - -"-' cuaakA this afternoon. plies to the treat." .. tC3oatinue4 on Tags Three) '! .1: : : ' i' - |