Provo Daily Herald | 1944-01-21 | Page 1

Buy War Bonds and gtv tho cftanf to fight INFANTILE PARALYSIS THE WEATHER UTAH Clear: today, tonight aad Saturday; little change In temperature. tem-perature. Temperatures; High Low , 87 . 4 FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 163 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRICE, FIVE CENTS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE War Bond Sale In Utah Rises To $2,175,009 Increased Individual Investments Called For by the Officials Wax finance officials In TTJtah called for increased individual in-dividual investments today as the state's sale of war1 bonds during the fourth war I loan drive rose to $2,175,000! worth. I Although sales have been j alow, officials said they were con-, fident the state would exceed its' quota of 522,000.000 in individual; bond purchases and 140,000,000 total. ' I An exhibit of military equipment equip-ment was on display in down-town down-town Salt Lake City to stimulate , ! I Starting Saturday at the Paramount theatre looby, service mothers will have charge of the bond booth. Each mother will sell bonds ' for her boy or boys in serv- ' ice for specified hours every j day. As a bond Is purchased i the boy's name is entered f upon a plate in the lobby, i Mrs. Frank Gardner is chair-! chair-! man of this phase and an-' an-' nounces that Mrs. Joel T. j Brown and Mrs. Eugene Lid- j ' diard will have charge Sat- ' urday afternoon for the first ; show. Mrs. Brown has two ! I boys in service, .Lt. Ralph S. Brown and Corp. Lawrence ! A. Brown. Mrs. Liddiard will i sell for her son, Sgt. Gerald I Liddiard. I Scheduled for the remaind- ! er of the afternoon are Mrs. Mlna Lee for Pfe. Clinton I ! Lee, 2nd Lieutenant Garth ! Lee, and Private Sterling j Lee. For the evening, Mrs. I ; I H. R. Merrill will be selling j j for Pfc Paul Merrill and j I her daughter. Ruby Merrill, I i ! who is In the Marines. ! the purchase of bonds and to impress im-press on individuals the necessity tor buying more bonds to finance the. war. I Meanwhile. Cache county an-' nounced that Benson. Ltah, had the count v to exceed its quota. Citizens tere subscribed for ?18, - 700 worth of bonds. T frnfl c-ill,. f,i'A.Hav ... ....,,w.. . . homecoming celebration t-ill Yir "... devotel to tne sale of bonds, January 27 and 2S. Officials said that other com- inunities throughout the Mate also, were pb.n(1mg various celebrations and exhibit.-; to stmulat the sale of the individual bonds. The drive. Will conccrtrat"- on thr-pc sates until Feb. 2, then will shift to business firms. ; ...e ,'ruvo committee on the ous'rto ur?0;"-! of loci'r ous 10 urc pic tures or local - men ann w onipn in the. various the house-to-house canvas. Fourth Term Wins Approval By Midwest Parley WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 OlD The midwest Democratic confer- encc today unanimously approved a. resolution endorsing President JOOSet'll lor a lourui term. The resolution also recommend - branches of I ncle S im's fnreps . " .iwwcicih .iu. i uvit, iuiu inr iwn columns prcsumsDiy, pramn'S )l K. U. 1C fl.im 8 inrceS, ,.,QK- ,.il ,1 a ,1 , . . . . .... ... ' . . . I Tn, air'o r.r.mmlininnr said cot these to he hunsr in the theiters r""a" .-.o iptii-rai Knu jury iwiay irai met, at MlKnaloVKa, nine nines' " - , w,,h, thV "! fwl" lnealer' ;fats. but would order liquidated the famous 'Hopkins' letter." south of Leningrad, and also cap-' -pressure was maintained on. Hie plant, located in a fashion-1 ncMire are tr . he tiken to the ,,y npxt J,,I1P 30 vir,ua,,y a11 purporting to involve h.m with ! tured th , railroad junHion ' of h" Oerman lines all across the; able Wilshire boulevard office i ltuiu. 11 " u,KPn ' 3 ,np other subsidies, includinsr those wnH.n r. Willi,!.'. mi ir.... wJ. . :. . ...... ttaii..!, nminsnla with Allied buildincs. was almost destroyed. Victory House I niibhc library j , v l'K"i , jriin, nree mues west oi ienin- " t- --, . L: on butter, coffee and meats. -for the Republican presidential -md- strein n,n ,ti,. 1 Planes nnd artillery battering re-; Georre W Wat kins chair nan of ne uf the arguments against nomination, was a. forgery. west, and' Nikkorovu, S3 mile? . lentlcssly at the Nazi fonvard po-. ed the selection of Robert Hanne-1 program cannot work without the! fan nf Missouri commissioner nficnhuiHv n fnternal revenue, to be chairman ' of thc Democratic national coni-imore likely to occur wtihout such j mittce. Frank C. Walker is ex-'a program than with one." pected to resign as chairman at' j tomorrow's national committeel IJ la ., D S . ' meeting. The text, or tne resolution adopted at a two-hour meeting of party letters from states, dur-; !can people" again as Republican ing which the administration's, SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 21 fU.Hi i presidential candidate, handling of farm and patronage Willis W. Ritter, regional rent Sparks said publication of the problems were "frankly" dis-' official for the office of price ad-j letter was "instigated" by Sec-cussed, Sec-cussed, said: 'ministration in Denver, announced j retary of Interior Harold L. "Resolved that it be the eon-'today that he had resigned hlSlckes, out of enmity for Hopkins, census of opinion of this group position to resume law practice rand said he believed that if the that President Roosevelt be se- here. He had been associated with letter was forged, "it was done lectcd bv our national convention I as its candidate for re-election1 Ritter said he felt justified In and that it be the concensus of .leaving OPA inasmuch as the opinion of this group that Robert; rent control program had been Hannegan of Missouri be selected' organized in his region of Ltah. as chairman of the national com-j ldho. Colorado, Montana, Wyom-jniUee Wyom-jniUee ." j mg and Is ew Mexico. Naval Officer Is Found Dead OGDEN. Utah. Jan. 21 fUP- Lt. (.ig H. A August L. S. naval firmed appointment of Mar-reserve, Mar-reserve, was found dead in his;rlner s Eccles o ogden, Utah, apartment here today of what ln-jto a i4.year term aa a member vestigators said they believed ;cf the board of governors of the was a self Inflicted gunshot J federal reserve system, wound. August was atached to the, Eccles, now chairman of the Clearfield naval supply depot. His board, will begin his new term home was in Massachusetts. February 1 U. S. Steel Chief Urges Prompt Disposal of DPC Steel Plants PITTSUBURGH, Jan. 21 In order to reduce the nation's war-expanded steel productive capacity capac-ity to that required for peacetime needs, the government gov-ernment should "dispose of its plants and facilities as promptly as possible after the end of the war," according to Benjamin F. Fairless, president of the United States Steel Corp. The government "should not attempt to set itself up in business in competition with private ... industry," Fairless said in an address before the Pittburgh chamber of commerce last night. "Any such course would be in the direction of state socialism." "In disposing of these plant3," he continued, "it should be recognized that their cost is not government gov-ernment investment; rather it is a war cost of the same general character as that of a battleship or a destroyer, or some other instrument of warfare brought into existence solely for the purpose of defeating the Axis." Fairless condemned wartime strikes or work stoppages and warned indirectly that continued labor troubles may bring legislation "with teeth." "In this crucial period of a war being fought for our nation's survival as a democratic state, strikes or work stoppages in plants connected with - our war efforts should not be tolerated," he said. Battle Looms Over Soldier Vote Bill WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 (Ui!) . ward an inter-chamber battle to- ,uay over soioier vote legislation; Sen. Scott w Lu D m lr?-Hmt,B0n tPPonfnt-'' Proi author of the compromise with fessed to see fourth term propa-1. Theodore F. Green. D.. R I., ganda in administration support of pajd the meMure probably Uin be" S men maChtnery for presented to the senate on Mon-service Mon-service men. j ay taVlfpt""1 Wemnwhllca widely divergent i ,y aPProxa Dv measure approved by the house to-2 vote the Green-Lucas com- elections committee, leaving sol-promise sol-promise designed to meet protests, ,.: , w--. 7l' OVv.v..v... v...wv.. Administration Fears Collapse Of Farm Prices WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 One of the administration's ma- Jor arguments for continuation of the food subsidy program when Ithe issue comes ur in the senate ... - nxt weoJ w,j De aimed at farm, ...1 1 " aDour. a posi-war couapse or larm prices, it was learned today, prCe administration officjals arc conrrrnod about wjrh a rol. "T8- to' b,lt tha- thp clangor will be multiplier! many times if tne subsidy program i killed and prices allowed to spiral. d bf on Xh ankhPad blll ,Vhirh would ir- .. . . . subsidies is that farm prices will drop sharply after the'war when subsidies are withdrawn. But administration supporters itry to turn that ,irfiim"nt will into their own weapon in defense of subsidies Price officials have pointed out t,nat sudskjics win not no wntn-; . . . ... ... drawn after thc war until all ... ,n 1 j: .udiivi ui uiuaui'fi nas uiffiputrar- , ,.., ....11 ..i.. v. . n. nt.ji a viu a tj ifv nn.c.ki , ,.. ...1 ;i. puociuic lu it:iiiuc Clan tvilllici. 0 "Rllt if .I'.- nr-T-ni it .infltirtn . n rt.nlnn .. a ffi '."1 V-Y ,..a .h,'' . x" a sham nosf-war fall 'eultnral nrires is xirti.llu IpcvII. 1 r r able. Since the Price stabilization in sh'aVrf "r 'I - nHnF.- I, ! nillCI rV9lll9 As OPA Rent Chief the OPA since Sept. 16, 1942. Senate Confirms Eccles Nomination ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 O I T1 4- . 7 .A4 J r, mm ;80ldier-vote legislation. .states, was before the k..o rules committee. Rep. Calvin D. Johnson, R.. 111., j capture around Novgorod, which in a speech prepared for delivery! fell yesterday, in the house, charged that admin-! The toll of enemy dead on the istration interest in the soldier, two fronta already was spproach-vote spproach-vote and President Roosevelt' "in- ing 48.000. More than 40,000 were sincere suggestion' that the n- slain fn the first six davs of the tional service legislation be enact-, co-ordinated offensives, all but e-d were motivated by the hope, i SriCe.f"r L'i'1" ; port the administration for fourth term." He lumped national service and the 'blank-ballot soldier voto pro 'gram' 'together as "a shrewd piece of political chicanerv" evolved bv . . - . . . ',n "ri a group or pouiicai sinemrra scnemers as ever perneiuaiea. as ever perpetuated themselves in office." Hopkins Brands Vi Ikie Letter ' As Pure Forgery WASHINGTON. Jan Ha,rv r. iinntin. :i (T.n- president - . Hopkins, but recently recover- ed from an attack of influenza, spent 10 minutes before the in- vestigating body which is try-i mg to find out who wrote the mysterious missive, a. cony of . ..w ; u w.:. , i , .'.i-i. t puuula in tne DWK, "ne Man Wendell r' ,Picnn .sniri:s "--i'i iuiij building from the Naval hosnit.nl i ----- - r and said he would return there . for further rest and observation. 1 . - : i Hnnkins told rnnnrlvm after, ' ' I ,ea"n? the grand jury room that 1 ,tnp letter is a forgery and 1 n in if ifnovir wnr ins forger j i 13 He refused, however, to tell reporters whether he had named man he suspects to the grand jury. Sparks, former mayor or Akron, O., told reporters yester day that even if the letter is a forgery, the "real underlying" issue in the case is whether Hopkins Hop-kins is scheming "to put Wendell Wen-dell Willkie over on the Ameri- at Ickes' suggestion or request." Geneva Steel Establishment Most Signi Establishment of the Geneva steel plant at Provo is the most significant economic event ever to occur in utah, and for the entire en-tire west this mill will hold far-reaching far-reaching consequences, in the opinion of Br. J. R. Mahoney, director, di-rector, bureau of economics and business research. University of Utah, in an address before the Provo Kiwanls club Thursday noon. If one adds all the invested capital of all Industrial plants in Utah together, such aa smelt ers, sugar lactones, canneries, etc., the sum total is less than, a a is) a w Mniifii?f) oiTOf foiY7 loi foi n v n fin m rrn r?n rvi n na n rn re if i i 1 1 ii z vs r v .a r-v mU IMJUuU U UGJUU coj IMJ 12J UUUZAiUWU i . ; Soviet Armies Break Througfi German Lines Reds Fan Out Through Tremendous Gaps On Leningrad Front it., ijirxn? V Si IT TI R f United Tress Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 2 aE tied armies ianned out through tremendous ?gaps ill the outflanked 110-njile Nazi . , ... . . -r . ueieue;iine ueiweeu ueiuu- grad and Lake Ilmdh today, massacring ten of thousands of panicky Germans in the greatest battle of extermination since Stalingrad. The strongest German defenses In Europe appeared to "be crumbling crumb-ling away as the Russians advanced ad-vanced with irresistible momentum momen-tum south of Leningrad and west of Novgorod in twin drives to kill I or capture 300,000 Nazi troops on! the northwestern front. Thousands of Germans, cut off from their mairi forces in the snow-covered red forests bvthe speed a t t ttfin' HVAnofARTFTW let thrust-. surrendered ALLID HEADQUARTERS. an faCr certain Tath1Jan- 21 '-British ground forces of the Sov ' rather than more than 3.000 submitted to 15,000 of them south and south - wc'8t of LSrad. o-vcjriiui ui rvi'u .iir lon e Dnmu- ers. fighters, and attack nlnnrs . . . a T J : m joined in the campaign of annihila- tion' blast'nK ancl trafmp s! ronp PointJ' transport, and columns of rni n f iim 0 m frt t ahpn i T nf II, r. n . 1 - - '"'".'"""-." "'' " " . "' . - ' ult ....... . i Gen. Ltnoid-A. Govurpv's two; ; Leningrad columns Joined forces L. . " T ' (. . 1 ., i to controlling all lines running into Russia's second city from thc southwest. west southwest. i Front '.rt,-n)1.r,,r. Hair, hp Rll..l sians had. cleared the entire Gulf of Finland coast from 'Ordinen- baum, 15 miles west of Leningrad, - i l uiii v , i uuuii; -fi iiuao j , . ... . 5. s Ul "ias)e "'"'"""ginnw bevond range ot tne oerman : workers and critically burned enemy troops remaining in the1 nrtillerv.) 'four others. Gulf of Finland beachliead west. fThfi- broadcast suggested' "ITie shavings had accumulated of Leningrad, and smashed south- weicht of tlm British : yesterday beneath a dice shaving ward in a drive that lhte,.d J.it J.r J'f ' Vonslderab-: machine m the Nolle & Co. plant, momentarily to engulf Krasnog- ,f fr "a,,.h JIn w.Hhd on 'Manufacturers of a deluxe aJid vardisk. five-way railwav tunc ' ,lcl'r rH,n " ,,hdl aHJ' "ieconomv line of furniture. ' whose wiHkie,-byiY - -th -rmnn,i 'nin . . . . . . . w.- . ..v. . v ....... evacuated b' ff j s0 . A Clearfield Depot Largest Anywhere CLEARFIELD. Utah. Jan 21 j L'.P) The huge naval supply depot here today had been designated the a 1 i-milr rcttmn alient reaching east of Lenin-' najfpr, of the desert air force' of their Provisional r tZ 1- from Kolpino. completing nlm -ttacked in ereat strength ! government, a communique n-;Tr VT"" ! he lifting of the siege that began , aHvanee of the British 8th I nounced today. I iZ'J ug. 21, 1041.) i;;,v n HWin i i -T senarate' Other Parltisan units have clear-' '" ""L r4.. .u'.i ' at my. striking in J. separate. , A, rs. ....... expected to be severs times that largest of Its kind in the world. CHUNGKING, Jan. 21 U.P -Depot officials made this obser-(Ljberatora of tft 14th UnUed vation while noting a sharp in-;States army! air force sank a 1,-crease 1,-crease in activity at the depot nnd70(Mon passenger-freighter and a a 50 per cent increase in civilian; j .ton tanker irt a soa sweep personnel there. j off the southeast coast of China Despite the rapid increase "i; yesterday, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. employes and activity, officials re ported that the increased tempo of the Pacific war made it manda- tory that still more workers be ; fore they sank as their crews employed to facilitate the west-! abandoned them, the communl-ward communl-ward movement of supplies. jque said. All aircraft returned. the peace-time normal cost of construct-ion of the Geneva steel mill, declared Dr. Mahoney. Had private industry constructed construct-ed this mill, he believes, the undertaking un-dertaking would have been piecemeal, piece-meal, gauged to suit conditions, and finished only If and when markets and other factors were proven, but the needs of the government gov-ernment have been such, "due to restrictions in ocean freight and long overland hauls, to force the Issue and Utah and the west stands on the verge of a tremendous tremen-dous development, as a result, for the .plant is already here. Great Fleet of Allied Planes Smash French Invasion Coast-Berlin Coast-Berlin Struck With Heavy Raid LONDON, Jan. 21 (UJ! A great j j fleet of Allied planes paced by the clouds last right, swarms ofjcapital last night. The bomb ton-Ampriron ton-Ampriron imavv hnmhpr. mnhed ' raiders ranging through all cate- nage, however, was believed to at the French invasion coast to after the Roval alr force 8cnt a recora numDer 01 nigm raiaers at Berlin and pounded the heart Qf Nazidom with 2000 to 2500 tons of bombs at a rate of more than j 10,. tofns, minute. United States and British w ar- riancs boosted their pre-invas'.on 'offensive to unprecedented peaks of intensity, slugging Germany and occupied territory in drumfire order by night and by day. While Berlin still blazed with flames visible 150 miles through Allies Push On Along Appian Way From Minturno advanced Northward along the Annian Wiv from cantured Min - . "' m - J indicated tne Germans were pre- paring fror a general withdrawal on the Anted 5th army front. A terse headquarters communi 1 ports that the Rome-bound British I troops on the western wing of the que comirmca earnej merman . ... ...... I, .1 r Vfin oin army juic xii wnui turo. coastal anchor of the Nazi: front, afteV a bitterly-contested 4X-hour advance north of the Garigliano fiver. ' . . . . i . u-T i (Lapiure 01 winiurno I'ui uic; i ,,rlll;.(1 niorc man nvo nines w ; British more man two miles oe - vond the (.angliano, and a rnaiOi Cairo broadcast said the 5tJi ;irmy bridcehcads across that river were; ... V,e l n. the hradmiqriers communique. which covered operations tnrougn : Thursday. iaitions Furhtcrs and f irhter-bombers' 'bombed and strafed enemy com-, munications and gun positions al along the battle line, and one. l'i Hid nun tacj ui. ii. ... i ... , . .. .,,;.!,,. Partisans under Marshal rr,"?yh(:" uZ?zr,in ; , "sr)Wrh hav; re. l( . '. J t. WTTiUilVA l.. V.,t.l!ICl.. HJILO waves against the junction n, : of Popoli, on the lateral highway ! from Pescara to Rome. Liberators Sink Two Jap Vessels Stilwell's communique announced tonight. Both vessels were set afire be- ficant Economic Event In Utah History j almost completed, except for cer- i tain changes which will have to U. , . V. - iiiaue lj ill. iuiu lite jjcotc- time demands for the nation's markets, he said. Two major factors determine the future of this steel Industry: first, raw materials; second, markets. mar-kets. Dr. Mahoney discussed both at some length. Vast Coal Deposits Utah has vast coal deposits, but not all of them are of the coking vaiietj', but two factors here Improved this situation-First, situation-First, improvement in coking processes increases the amount gories from U. S. four-motored bombers to fighters returned to tne assault, on me i'as ie caiais area of the French coast the so- called "invasion coast." The U. S. eighth air force threw its fortresses, Liberators, medium bombers, and thunderbolt snd lightning fighters into the assault. They were flanked by RAF medium med-ium bombers, light and fighter bombers, and Allied fighters. More British bombers than ever struck at Berlin before were understood un-derstood to have caried the knockout knock-out offensive back to the Nazi Japan Rushes Reinforcements To Her Southwest Strongholds By DON CASWELL United rress War Correspondent! ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-' j QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 21 j (U.D Japan was reported rushing ! strong aerial reinforcements to hoi t hero rA ntithurAnt Tnri f lr a -1 1 j a 1 ; .r bhwijsmviuo iuuoj oo an auk communique announced the sinking sink-ing of 10,000 tons ef enemy shlp Three Workers Die In Explosion In Coast Dice Plant jqc; ANGELES. Jan fC.D- . j . .ho- int.-. nUr of I l lll'l.- 1 . . . . . - . ...v t .-. - --.....-.j ,h.vin wan blamed to- dny for tnp explosion in a loaded riirV fnrtorv which killed three ' u . . Icatalogue lists trans ilnciia 1 i t k traninaTPttt - ... . ot nn , .'.tt.ui)p imhimr 'lavotits- at S2H.M and " Partisans Retake Jajce Stronghold LONDON. Jan. 21 OI.E) Jugo- " " ' t - " captured the Bosnian stronghold n in tirm i .itih h n aiiuite iivi.miiiii ! and motorized division - " r j- uiof the present in the near future.") area between Glam'oc, 28 miles southwest of Jajce, and Mer konicerad, reducing the enemy; ; threat to Jajce from the routh. j German units fought their way, ! into Prozor. 40 miles southeast of j ; Jajce, but were driven out after. suffering heavy losses. Contractors Open State Convention SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 21 (U.D The Intermountain branch of the General Contractors of America Amer-ica opened its annual two-day conference here today with a discussion dis-cussion of post-war problems facing fac-ing the construction industry. of other coal which can be used profitably for coking. Secondly, discovery of new deposits has been made, and surveys are under way to discover additional deposits. de-posits. Absence of any coal west of central Utah is a striking feature fea-ture of the basic factors shaping shap-ing the pattern of western industrial in-dustrial development, Dr. Mahoney Ma-honey asserted. Abundance of Ore-Iron Ore-Iron ore is the second basic raw material needed, and again Utah has an abundance of it. (Contl ued on Face Klght) j have been short of a record 2,576: tons delivered last Nov. 22. I inc size 01 me previous recoru fleet attacking Berlin never had' been announced. But in a double : header attack on Berlin and Lud-wigshaften Lud-wigshaften on Nov. 18, the British j press estimated that nearly 1.000 j bombers were used. On that basis last night's force was believed to have numbered around 900. The Royal Canadian air force announced that its units participating partici-pating in the Berlin raid dropped their heaviest bombload of the (rontlnnrd on Tugr EtfchO ping and the destruction or dam-, aging of 49 aircraft in new. raids on Wewak and Rabaul. A warning that Japan con stantly was reinforcing her air t rnct h nvr TsTnw Rriffltn anrl . t t . j v... x a - ' j. ahiom o.0 tw Gen. Ralph J. Mitchell, aircraft commander on the Solomons, after the new Allied successes were disclosed dis-closed in the dHily communique from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters. "There is every indication that Japan considers Rabaul and Kavieng very important and that she is going to do everything toj hold them," Mitchell, speaking at an advanced air base said. Mitchell revealed that since ; Nov. 20 .lanan lias lost nlanes ' - , t defenrfinir Rabaurn airdromes and j shipping, but added that enemy intprcpntion fnilrH tn rfprrmsp. 1 He said that each time Amer ican planes ventured toward the 1 big New Britain base, they meet! from "0 to 100 intercepting fight-j ers despite the fact that the Allied airmen often knocked down as many as 31 of the planes. j "The Japanese definitely are bringing in replacements and wi,h regularity." Mitchell said. 1 e indication they! "There is definit are going to make a stand on Rabaul.' We know they are flying, in planes front Truk. and undoubt-; cdly they are bringing in others' by converted carriers." J He said it was possible the Jap-' anese were flying planes Into New Britain by the Philippines and1 New Guinea. (A Tokyo radio broadcast, recorded re-corded by the United Press in! San Francisco, said that Prime Minister mkedi toJo tow the 84th f"sion of ,ne imperial diet today iWar in Brief nirnsU Russians smash ahead on no-mile front south and west of Leningrad, massacring thousands thous-ands of Germans in biggest battle of annihilation since Stalingrad. Western Europe RAF resumed blockbuster offensive against Berlin Ber-lin with what may have been heaviest raid against thc Nazi capital; lost 35 planes. Italy British advance north from Minturno on Appian way: Germans reported preparing general gen-eral Withdrawal on Fifth army front: U. S. bombers raid four Italian airfields. Paclflc--Japanese believed rushing rush-ing air reinforcements to threat ened south Pacific strongholds;; British submarine sinks Japanese 1 eraser few hundred miles from! Singapore; Allied planes revealed! to have sunk 10,000 tons of ship-; ping ana aesiroyea or aamagea 49 enemy planes in latest raids on Rabaul and New Guinea. BANGKOK RAIDED NEW DELHI. Jan. 21 CP) American and British heavy bombers bomb-ers teamed Wednesday night in a smashing raid on Bangkok, capital capi-tal of Japanese-controlled Thailand, Thai-land, a communique disclosed today, to-day, while other Allied planes struck heavily at enemy troops and communications throughout northern and western Burma. WW British Fleet Operating In Eastern Area Sinking of 5,100-Ton Cruiser Occurs Near Singapore Navy Base By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Ja. 21 A British submarine, penetrating penetrat-ing to within a few hundred miles of Singapore, sank a 5.100-ton Japanese cruiser in the northern approaches to Malacca Straits, the admialty announced today in a com- comunique that in effect proclaimed pro-claimed this country a full partner part-ner in th3 Pacific sea war. The cruiser, of the 24-year-old Kuma class, was blasted to the bottom of the Bay of Bengal with, two torpedo hits from a subma-marine subma-marine operating under the command com-mand of the "chief of the eastern fleet," the admiralty said. The same submarine also sank" three large Japanese supply ships, the communique added, but did not specify the locale of these sinkings. The communique provided th first official mention in recent months of the British "eastern, fleet" or of British naval units operattng as far afield as th northern approaches to the Ma lacca Straits, which separate Singapore and the Malay stajtea from the Dutch island of Sumatra, Suma-tra, with the exception of a few Australian warships cooperating with the U. 8. navy. Shift Revealed The action bore out unofficial reports of the shift of considerable British naval units to the eastern theater, where they presumably will operate under the overall direction of Admiral Lord Louia Mountbatten, supreme Allied commander com-mander for southern Asia. The sinkings increased to 247 the number of Japanese warships, and to an even 1,000 the number of all types of Japanese ships. simU Hv tVin Allien ine inn iitart of the war. The Kuma class warship war-ship was the 55th cruiser to be sent to the bottom. The Kuma class originally comprised five cruisers. aJl built in 1920 and 1921. but some presumably pre-sumably have been sunk by American planes or naval units. Each had a normal complement of 439 officers and men. The admiralty said the cruiser was sighted in company with a destroyer, presumably between Mayala and Sumatra on the northern approaches to the Ma lacca Straits. "Proceeding at maximum speed, his majesty's submarine closed to C ontinued on Parr Klghtl U. S. Submarines Sink 12 More Japanese Ships WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 KT.) V. S. submarines, whittling tenaciously tena-ciously away at Japanese supply lines, have sunk 12 more enemy vessels nine freighters, two transports a large tanker the navy announced today. These sinkings bring to a total of 408 the number of Japanese ships sunk by U. S. submarines. In addition, 36 have been probably prob-ably sunk and 114 damaged for a total of 55. News of these latest American submarine successes followed closely a London announcement that a British submarine had penetrated pene-trated to within a few hundred miles of Singapore and sunk a 5.100-ton Japanese cruisers in the northern approaches to the Malacca Ma-lacca Straits. The British communique com-munique was Interpreted as proclaiming pro-claiming that country's full partnership part-nership in the Pacific sea war. The latest victories of the U. S. submarines, together with the British success, brought to at least 1.012 the total number of Japanese Jap-anese ships sent to the bottom since Pearl Harbor by Allied forces. These include at least 247 warships. UTAirV KILLED GUNNISON, Utah, Jan. 21 UE. Funeral services for Ed Oberg', 63, Mayfield, Utah, who died here yesterday of injuries suffered in . a truck collision the day before, be-fore, win be conducted Sunday in Mayfield.