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Show CALL THE HERALD It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday and not much change in temperature. Temperatures: High - 81 Low . i ..... . ..3 below FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 158 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TYDTT rTUT "TVTTC? TELEGRAPH NEWS SEHVICH ffUUij tlVLi Vi-LMIU our U Soififilbfflrs F Airfields ii ) Economy Bloc To Scrutinize r i jl ci ii uuugeT aei-up Non-War Budget Estimates Esti-mates to Have Water Squeezed Out, First By FRED MULLEN' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 c Economy advocates in congress promised today to "wring the water" out of President Roosevelt's budget proposals for non-war expenditures expen-ditures and to comb financing financ-ing carefully to make certain that every requested dollar Is needed. A sizeable number of members of both parties In the senate and house centered criticism on the more than $6,000,000,000 Bought by the president for non-war purposes pur-poses out of a total of J 100,000,-000,000 100,000,-000,000 in his new budget Reflecting economy bloc determination deter-mination to vote new appropriations appropria-tions only after careful scrutiny. Rep. John Taber. R., N. Y., ranking rank-ing minority member of the house appropriations committee, declared that estimates for agencies agen-cies and departments other than the army and navy have a tremendous tre-mendous amount of water in them which must be squeezed out." The administration, he said, will realize the meaning of this attitude atti-tude when treasury-post office appropriations are acted upon by the committee within the next fortnight. There must be sizeable cuts, "or there will be a fight," he said. Committee Chairman Clarence Lannon, D., Mo., declared that the time was past when congress was compelled, because of the war situation, to make huge appropriations appro-priations "swiftly and without close inspection." "We can now proceed more leisurely and carefully scrutinize each item," he said. "This may lead to" some economies." War appropriations and expenditures expen-ditures also were promised close attention, particularly because some $80,000,000,000 of war appropriations ap-propriations already voted have not been obligated. Some $90.-000,000,000 $90.-000,000,000 of the president's new budget was for war purposes. Many congressmen felt there was, little need to vote new multi-billion dollar war funds so long as unexpended funds existed. Sen. Harry S. Truman, D., Mo., said "these huge unexpended balances" bal-ances" should not be carried over, and that they "'ouht to be accounted ac-counted for, $1,000,000,000 at a time," by the a-rencies and departments de-partments involved. Blaze Wines Out In American Fork AMERICAN FORK A fire which threatened the entire main business section of American Fork, Completely gutted the Cameo theater, thea-ter, American Fork's only picture house,, early this morning. The blaze was discovered shortly be-for be-for 6 a. m. bv N'ht Marshal Preston Pres-ton Nanh. The fire alarm not only brought the American department but a large portion of the rttizen-ery rttizen-ery as well. Both the Lehi and Pleasant Grove depratments were summoned to combat the conflagration. conflag-ration. In spite of the si'b-zro temperature, the firemen battled the blaze without a let-up. Tire fire apparently started underneath un-derneath the stage and spread ran- idly to the roof which collapsed. The seats are badly damaged by smoke and water and he projection projec-tion equiDment as well. The theater is owned and was operated by John H. Miller, of this city, former president of the American Am-erican Fork Lions club and city councilman. Mr. Miller is the owner own-er of the Pleasant Grove and Lehi motion nicture houses. The Cameo theater vithln the past few years was entirely renovated reno-vated and redecorated and new caroeting was laid the past summer. sum-mer. Considerable concern was felt for the adjoining business firms, especially the Chlpman Lumber, the new Bates store building and the Robinson confectionary and home, upstairs, immediately adjoining. ad-joining. The loss could not be determined determin-ed at this time. ACTOR DIES HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 14 Funeral services for William Collier, Col-lier, Sr., veteran actor, writer and producer who died yesterday of pneumonia, will be conducted tomorrow to-morrow at the Forest Lawn Metn-'orial Metn-'orial park., Seven Soldiers Die In Head-On Crash Of Two Trains In Texas At Least 75 Injured in Crash, Several of Them Critically; Troop Train Speeding Around Curve Skids Into Passenger NOVICE, Texas, Jan. 14 c Railroad officials sought today the identity of two of the seven persons killed yesterday yester-day when a troop train sped around a curve and skidded into a California-bound passenger train during a snowstorm. snow-storm. At least 75 other persons were injured, several of them critically. All of the dead were from the passenger train which had stopped at the Novice sta tion, four hours behind schedule. Four of the six civilians known dead were identified as: Mrs. Dorothy Morris Roberts, 19, and her three-months-old daughter, Bonita Madge, of McGregor, Mc-Gregor, Tex. Alice Jean Bailey, 9, daughter of Mrs. Janie Bailey of Garvin, Okla., who waa among those injured in-jured in a Coleman hospital. Marvin Young, 11, son of Mr and Mrs. Edward C. Young of wjnsjow, Ariz., lormeny or fiat- tiesburg, Miss. One soldier, whose name had not House Committee Approves Bill For Soldier Vote; States Given Control WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 HE The house elections committee today to-day approved a soldier vote bill leaving control over absentee ballots bal-lots for servicemen and women in the hands pf the states. The proposal Would authorize the secretaries of war and navy to send cards to all members of the armed forces and the red cross, merchant seamen and civilians serving overseas, requesting them to notify the secretary of their home state if they desire an absentee ab-sentee ballot. The state officials then would forward the ballots and Church Bells To King In 4th Varr loan Inaugural WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U.E War bonds will be sold at 53,000 places in the United States during dur-ing the Fourth war loan drive, Including postoffices, booths, banks, theaters, offices, and radio stations, the treasury" said today. to-day. Church bells and victory sirens will sound in many cities at noon Jan. 18 to open the motion picture industry's drive to sell "a bond for every seat" in theaters. thea-ters. Motion picture exhibitors are planning thousands of "free movie days" when patrons may gain admission through purchase of either a war bond or a ticket. The radio industry is also planning an intensive campaign and the four major networks on four "bond days" will devote a :ull 24 hours to bond sales. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 14 (UP) The Fourth war loan drive in Utah will open next Tuesday with a bang, literally. A 22-gun salute will be fired from the grounds of the state capitol to start the campaign. The Ninth service command will aid in the drive by furnishing furnish-ing equipment displays to emphasize em-phasize the cost of waging war. The display will open at the Victory House in downtown Salt Lake. Maj. Gen. David McCoach Jr., commanding general of the Ninth service command, said that the exhibit later would be available to any county war loan committee commit-tee that requests It. Yomen Mobolize for Fourth War Loan Drive; 'Kick-Off Meeting Saturday A local armv of more than a! hundred women is being mobilized to sell the Fourth war Loan jx the people of Provo in an intensive, in-tensive, house-to-house campaijm, slated to get under way next week. The organization is oeing whipped into shape under the guidance of Mrs. H. B. Mensel and Mrs. Hazel Clyde Watkins of the women's war bond division. The "kick-off" pep rally for the women volunteer group will take olaca Saturday at 3 p. m. in the Victory House, basement of the public library. Plans have been completed for distributing com been released by army author! ties at Camp Barkley, near Abi lerie, waa among those killed. As yet unidentified were a woman, wo-man, age about 24, and a baby boy. It was not known if these two were related. All of the civilian dead were In funeral homes in Coleman, 18 miles away and the nearest town of any size to Novice. J. B. McCalle, engineer of the i troop train, en route to Camp Bowie, Tex., near Brownwood, said he did not see the cars In Continued o Pace Two) upon their return dispatch them to local lection boards. The committee approved bill retains that provision of the senate legislation recommending to the several, states that "appropriate machinery" be enacted to handle the disposition of the presidential ballots. The army and navy have gone on record as holding that only a system of federal distribution of ballots is workable. The bill passed pass-ed by the senate and the bill approved ap-proved today by the house committee com-mittee reject that contention. The house committee voted seven to five for the bill, with four Republicans and three southern south-ern Democrats approving it. The fifth Republican member of the committee is recuperating from an emergency operation. ToM'ers Charred "Yifh Astaull How t Fort Douclas Two soldier boys from Camp Ord, Cal., who attacked a motorist mo-torist near Santaquin while he was giving them a ride, were turned over to the military authorities auth-orities at Fort Douglas today by Sheriff Culbert Robertson of Fillmore who picked them up after receiving a call from the Utah county authorities. The two men, Pvt. Robert Cline, 21, Crawfordville, Ind., and ly. Richard A. Smith. 18, Bellaire, Mich., assaulted W. O. Poundstone, a steamfitter of Webb City, Mo., who had picked them up near Mesquite, Nev. The soldiers were on their way to Salt Lake City, to see a girl, before they went overseas, and figured ' they were in desperate need of Poundstone'a car who was en route to the Geneva steel plant to work. Poundstone was struck on the head and suffered also a badly bruised arm in the attack, but he broke away from the assailants assail-ants and made his way into Santaquin. San-taquin. The soldiers became frightened and turned back, picking pick-ing up a ride with a south-bound motorist, only to be apprehended by the sheriff at Fillmore. Local authorities will probably drop the charges against the pair, and let the military authorities auth-orities handle the case, according to county officials. plete material to be used in the drive, such as application forms and explanatory literature at thisUeasion Sunday. "Pep Talk" Slated The "pep talk" wiU be given by George S. BaUlf, local attorney and other speakers will explain the different denominations of bonds and the principal features of each type. Determined to exceed the $358,000 sales record set in the Third war loan, the women leaders are going go-ing to urge the workers to go out as crusaders to try to convert CoBtinne4 on Pace Two) ; U.S. Sales Tax Proposed As Compromise With Basic Items Left Tax-Free Modified Sales Tax Might Go WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 c-e President Roosevelt's renewed demands for more taxes and the equally firm congressional opposition to treasury proposals, raised the possibility today of a compromise compro-mise involving a modified sales tax. - Although there was ho official confirmation that the administration administra-tion would recede from its strong anti-sales tax .position, it became increasingly apparent that a sales levy was the only new burden that congress Iwould be ready to impose on the; public, A straight sales tax without exemptions probably would have difficult sledding in an election year, but it may be acceptable to both the administration and a majority in congress if the basic items involved in the cost-of-living were left tax free. While demands for such a tax were heard in both housea of congress, con-gress, the senate moved toward final approval of a new revenue bill which Mr. Roosevelt opposed on three counts in his budget message. The president strongly protested pro-tested the bill's ?2,2 1 5,600,000 yield as insufficient to support the anti-Inflation program; opposed op-posed a provision to freeze the social security payroll levy at one per cent for another year, which would cut estimated revenue by 44,400,000,0,09 9 , denounced amendments ' which would "destroy" "de-stroy" effectiveness of the war contract re-negotiation law in capturing excess war profits. The proposed social security freeze is now before the house w.a y s and means committee. Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer ofi the social security board, oppos ing amendment, told the group that the longer the present one per cent rate was kept in effect the higher the levies would have to be eventually. Mr. Roosevelt's dissatisfaction with the yield of the pending bill led to belief he would veto Jt, a possibility not" overlooked by Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the senate finance committee. com-mittee. "The only practical course," he said, "is to push this bill through and lay it on the president's desk. If he then rejects it, we can decide de-cide whether to stand by it t write an entirely new bill." . Utah Fruitgrower Convention Opens SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 140J.P) Fruit production, storage and marketing preblenis were the main topics of- discussion at the openir session of the two-day Utah State Horticultural Society convention her? this morning. Dr. E. L. proebsting. assistant assist-ant pomologist; at the University of -California waa principal speaker. He replaced a, faculty mate, Dr. Warren P. Tufts. Clarence Ashton of Provo, assistant as-sistant Utah county agricultural agent, is siatea to present a paper at the convention. Paper Publishers Open Convention SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 14 UB More than 100 Utah weekly newspaper representatives are expected ex-pected to begin registering tonight to-night for their . third annual wartime war-time conference, opening tomorrow. tomor-row. ' War problems affecting the newspaper industry will be the main topics of -discussion. Vernon R- Frost, south central Idaho publisher, will be principal speaker at the convention. He will address the final business JESSE JONES ILL IN HOUSTON HOUSTON, Texjf Jan. 14 (HE) Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones was struck down by an automobile auto-mobile on Dec. 23 and since has been confined to this downtown hotel ho-tel apartment by a broken leg and influenza, his Houston office disclosed dis-closed today . ' The annouhcefnent added that Jones waa recovering ana expected expect-ed to return to Washington soon. Allied Air War Pul LI - ft ' as Allied bombers continued to droD ever-lnrreasin o hnmK ,-, adi Tele photo) polished bloc, in Cologne. Germaa "S jSUSSS? mounting United Nations air offensive. . 1 01 Russian Shock Troops Blast Yide Gap Info German Fortifications at Mozyr BULLETIN: LONDON, Jan. 14 Soviet Premier Josef Stalin announced in an order of the day today that the Red army has captured Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, last remaining German Ger-man strongholds in southern White Russia. By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 14 Gen. Konstantin K. Rokossov-sky'a Rokossov-sky'a armored shock troops, timing the -last two N2i strongholds in southern White Russia, blasted a wide gap deep into enemy fortifications between Mozyr and Kalin- Fighter Pitot Takes On Over 30 Planes Alone luindun, Jan. 14 (uji Tne U. S. 8th air force bomber com-! mand sought "today to identify an . . ,. . , ,, . ,.1.1 American fighter pilot who took on more than 30 planes during last Tuesday's great air battle in a single-handed attempt to pro- tect an entire combat wing of m , Flying Fortresses. Although hundreds of miles from his base and onutnumbered into the German forma - tion in what veteran bomber TfiflA AMK. crewmen described as one of the,,WW' wVOrKerS IO most amazing feats of the war, "It looked like one lone Ameri can against the entire luftwaffe," said Maj. Allison C. Brooks, Pasa- riona Cs,Ut lH.r f n, v. ,,ic n,iru u pilot defended. Brooks said the flier was last seen diving his Mustang through a cloud bank on the tail of a German Ger-man fighter. The Fortress crews, who believe be-lieve he ahot down possibly six cf tha German planes, are spreading spread-ing the word through the fighter command that the keys to their base planes, hangars and runwaysare run-waysare waiting for him if he will identify himself. "We don't know who he waa," said Maj. Edwin W. Brown, Ooak-land, Ooak-land, Calif., "but there isn't one of us who wouldn't like to shake n&s nana. . fie is my idea of a hero." Both Parties May Use Same Hall For Conventions CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (TLB) The Democratic and Republican parties may use the same convention hall decorations .except for party symbols, sym-bols, when the nominating conventions con-ventions are held this summer. The heads of the national com"! mittees of the two parties, Harrison Harri-son Spangler of the GOP and Frank C Walker of-, the Democrats, Demo-crats, conferred here yesterday on means of conserving, vital war materials at the conventions. The Republicans already have chosen Chicago as , their convention conven-tion city with tha meeting scheduled sched-uled to start June 28. Walker said he favored Chicago fof the Democratic Demo-cratic convention, and it was believed be-lieved little opposition would be offered. . verizes Cologne I fmnaiti . 1 I i - fin - nn mi T i Ti-rrnrrrirn-T in pun .u . . . , 1 "NJ ikovich today and drove the Ger- mans into panicky flight Ski battalions and saber-swinging calvarymen infiltrated far into in-to the German rear, massacring troops fleeing in disorder along both banks of the Pripet river, which separates Mozyr and Kalin kovichi, two bastions guarding the Pinak corridor throusrh the treacnerous Fripet marshes. The fall of the two cities, al- vl?ua"3r rounded was considered a foregone conclusion, front dispatches said. Prisoners captured by Soviet W battalions were Quoted aa sone German units only " iul a 1 . Z. i 10st more than 60 per cent of their effectives. The Red a r ra v amaahMt trough the main defenses to the 1 Be Needed In S. L SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 14 (T.P) Nearlv 7(l(in i i.tn H hmno-ht- T-,.. indi-strial plants and military in- s-"aUons this year to offset the effects of an emnloyment turnover of nearly 5,500 workers a month, A. C. Ti'ley. federal s-crritv agency ag-ency official, renorted today. The monthly turnover ia nearly 17 per cent of the total working force of 34,000 In 64 establishments. establish-ments. Much of it is caused by problems of housing, eating, shopping, shop-ping, laundering, hosoital and transportation, TiUey said. He added that because of the turnover and because local labor is being fully utilized, outside la- , bor must be brought into the area. TiUey said that Ogden area plants and installations also were experiencing a heavy turnover, running: as high as 25 per cent monthly. The FSA official presented these figures to the Salt Lake City commission com-mission at a meeting yesterday. Court Takes New Trial Motion In City Airaort Case Under Advisement After listening to arguments for for a new motion; in the city airport air-port case. Judge Abe W. Turner today had taken the matter under advisement' for a decision at a future date. The motion was made by attorneys representing the state and the city, plaintiffs in the case. The counsel submitted briefs for the court's study. The case is of great importance because it is expected ex-pected to solve the highly involved matter of title to lands near Utah lake which were formerly 1 under water. It has been in court since December, 1941. Judge Dallas H. Young of the iff Fighter-Bomber Squads Resume daylight Raids LONDON, Jan. 14 (cJK-Waves of medium and fighter-bombers resumed their pre-invasion assault on the .French "second front coast today in what appeared to ba the first large-scale daylight air operation since 1,400 American plane hit northwest Germany Tuesday. Fighters and fighter-bombers opened the daylight attack with a sweep over the Calais area. Several Sev-eral hours later, a big force of medium bombers with a strong lighter escort roared out through low-hanging fog toward the Pas De Calais area. Twin-engined British Mosquito bombers raided western Germany presumably the industrial Ruhr or Rhineland. Informed sources reported that the number of German planes shot down by American bombers and fighters in Tuesday's mammoth air battle over the reich probbably , iaimed- .ar exceeded the 152 officially U. S. army headquarters, in announcing an-nouncing the official toll last . night, emphasized that it could be assumed a number of additional aircraft were destroyed by the 60 foiir-neHnH ITlvtricr FrvrtrpRSAR and Liberators and five American fighters lost in the record attack. The official toll also did not include in-clude a number of German fight ers which were seen to break off combat badly damaged or afire, but which were not seen to crash ! ,j ,: j .,.;.s Rancher Is Found Dead Near Price PRICE. Utah, Jan. 14 OLE) - Lloyd Olson, 25, Price rancher, was found dead on his ranch of what was believed to have been an accidental gunshot wound, it was learned here today. Olson's body was found Tuesday by a neighbor who went to the ranch after Olson failed to keep an appointment. ICKES BREAKS, HIS COLLAR BONE WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes broke his collar bone in a fall at his Maryland farm on Wednesday Wed-nesday night but is continuing to work with his arm in a sling. Fourth district court, since resigned resign-ed to pecome OPA hearings commissioner, com-missioner, ruled In favor of the 65 landowners who claim title to the lands, holding that the city and the state had failed to establish grounds for legal title. The litigation has already proved prov-ed quite costly to Provo city and an early settlement of the case is sought by the city officials. At the present stage, the matter is right back where they started from with no vital matters determined: deter-mined: The city, has occupied the lands under a court order, which is another reason why an early settlement is desired.' Yanks, French Batter Down Nazi Troops Luftwaffe's Fighter Strength in Italy Heavily Cut Down By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, ALGIERS, Jan. 14 cx) Strong American bomb ing fleets, striking at the heart of the luftwaffe's fight er strength in Italy, wrecked four major airfields in the suburbs of Rome as Ameri can and French 5th army troops battered dewn savage German resistance re-sistance on the approaches to Cassino, it was understood today. Spearheading a series of wide-ranging wide-ranging assaults against German Ger-man air bases and communications communica-tions centers throughout central Italy and the Jugoslav coast yesterday, yes-terday, large formations of Flying Fly-ing Fortresses, Mitchell medium bombers, and Marauders hammered ham-mered at the chain of airfields Just south of Rome with high explosives and fragmentation bombs. A communique revealed that Lightning - escorted fortresses opened the aerial offensive with a concentrated attack on the Centocelle and Guidonia airfields. Forty German fighters rose to intercept the raiders, but tha fortress gunners sent three down In flames, and their Lightning escorts destroyed five more in a series of dogfights. Not a single heavy bomber was lost in the attack, although three Lightnings were reported missing. The- concerted attack, s iiead-r quarters ' spokesman said, was a heavy blow at the heart of the Luftwaffe's fighter strength In Italy." American Liberator bombers struck 80 miles north of Rome at another major German airfield air-field in Perugia, but heavy weather prevented accurate observation ob-servation of the results. American troops, roughly within with-in three miles of Cassino on both, sides of the Rome road, beat back a savage German attempt to recapture Cervaro and pushed, their forward lines closer to Cassino. The main American effort appeared ap-peared to be concentrated against Mount Trocchio, the last natural barrier held by the Nazis dn' the south bank of Cassino. Simultaneously, French troops attacking through the mountains north and northeast of Cassino' drove the Germans from three important heights and advanced' as much as two miles into the enemy flank. Allies Attack rawe Beachhead ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- UAnitno, ivew guinea, Jan. l , (UJ?) An Allied land and air at tack against Japanese positions around the Arawe Peninsula beachhead on New Britain Island-was Island-was disclosed in a communique today. Texas cavalry units, fighting aa infantry and supported by artillery, artil-lery, attacked enemy defenses east . of the beachhead as U. S. planes blasted Japanese positions on tha southwest coast. The communique said the Am-., erican troops, who have been attacking at-tacking the enemy lines around the beachhead positions for several weeks, were increasing their pressure. pres-sure. The communique revealed no details de-tails of the attacks, but a spokesman spokes-man at Gen. "Douglas MacArthur's headquarters again denied Japanese Japan-ese claims that they had recaptured recaptur-ed Arawe. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS i RUSSIA: Russian forces smashi defenses before Mozyr and Kalln- : kovlchi In White Russia,, advance 48 mUes into prewar Poland, and t score new gains on the approaches to Rumania. ITALY: U. S. heavy bomberjrt attack four major German alr-v fields south of Rome; Franco-American Franco-American troops close in for-frontal for-frontal assault on Cassino. 4 WESTERN EUROPE: Allied ' medium and fighter bombers re-' sume preinvasion assault on French "second front" coast; un-r official estimates say toU of Ger-s man planes Tuesday far exceeded 152 officially claimed. PACIFIC: Texas Cavalrymeh;; plunge ahead at Arawe; U, S.'1 bombers attack seitwesQpaat as Allied troops tacrea&ffrej- sure. r |