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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy south and east portion, and west portion tbia afternoon. Cloudy tonight and tomorrow to-morrow with light rain tonight in west portion. Scattered showers over the state tomorow with snow in the mountains. Much colder tonight to-night and tomorrow. CALL THE HERALD If you don't receive your HeraJd before 6.30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. High. Low. .72 .40 T FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 216 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE -FIVE CENTS JO uvi I J UYM Dewey Leads In Wisconsin Vote; Willkie Fourth By LEONARD SCHUBERT United Press Staff Correspondent MILWAUKEE, April 5 " Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, emerged today from 1944's first major test of Republican presidential sentiment with a wide lead over Wendell Willkie, 1940 GOP nominee, in the Wisconsin presidential presi-dential primary contest for delegates to the Republican national na-tional convention. Candidates pledged to Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur were oifenng the principal competition to the Dewey supporters, while in most in stances the Willkie-pledged delegates trailed in fourth place. Incomplete returns from yesterday's yester-day's election showed supporters of Dewey leading in most of the 15 races they had entered for election as delegates to the GOP convention at Chicago next June. Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, Zimmer-man, who as a Dewey delegate piled up a wide margin in the contest for election as delegate-at-largc, said it was certain the Dewey forces would have at least 12 delegates to the convention, "which will be enough to control the delegation." The state has 24 seats in the GOP convention. Willkie Only Campaigner Willkie was the only one of the four possible GOP presidential candidates to campaign actively In Wisconsin before the primary on Senator Truman Inspects Geneva On Tour of Utah War Industrial Plants Senator Harry S. Truman. D.Jlitlcal reasons" as one of the Missouri, head of the famed in- nimn.r.ti(. n . vestigating committee, today visit-if f! . eftains, allaying ed the Geneva Steel plant as one fears that the hu&e new Pnt, stop in a whirlwind- tour of Utah lately the subject of many rumors war plants and military installa-and investigations over the possi- "ciuic .-iiLiuuiug on lu ule - Pacific coast to conduct a senate investigation. The senator emphasized that he was in the state purely "for po- Bribery Charge Faces Ogden Man, Machine Operator SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 U.P Although the state's investigation investiga-tion into the recent resignation of Kent S. Bramwell as mayor of Ogden has already netted one ar- rest. Attorney General Grover A. 'mored Soviet purchase of the mill, Giles said today that the investi-isPent several days in Utah prob- gation definitely was not com- "?e "VTl by . tor Abe Murdock of Utah, member pleled- !of McCarran's sub-committee, who Giles said that present plans 'came to the state empowered to provided for the calling of a investigate the rumored visit of a grand jury investigation but that ! R"ssian Purchasing commission to the state's investigations werei " 1'ant- still hard at work on the case. ! However Senator Truman Meanwhile, a writ of habeas corpus was filed today in Ogden to determine whether J. C. Meyers was being illegally detained. being illegally detained. Meyers was arrested yesterday af- ter being charged with offering a ; $500 bribe to Bramwell Feb. 12; "with intent to influence" Bram wen in respect to me eniorce-1 At 7,7 , t -f . Y,6":11"1 tlme ne inspected sucn Committee" in opposition to the iir ana we biate or tan ,a repair station and he expressed move. Markham said that he had rhis was the first official ree- gratification at the manner the!volced the same opposition as was ord to support rumors circulated Utah field handled the job. feit by many of the city's popula- at the time of Bramwell s resig-; Following today's visit to the tion, and was only "trying to nation, suggesting that the resig-iSteel plant the senator returned to'hrin'e the matter before the nation was connected with "diffi- cultles" concerning operation of : dress a Jefferson Day Banquet to-gambling to-gambling machines in Ogden.! night at t: e N'ewhouse hotel, after .Bramwell denied the rumors. Meyers, proprietor of the Play-dium Play-dium amusement center in Ogden, was to appear before Judge Glenn W. Adams tomorrow for a hearing on the habeas corpus writ, which was filed by Meyer's wife. However, Weber County Attorney At-torney M. Blaine Peterson said today to-day that Meyers might be ar raigned this afternoon, in case oona wouia oe set ana tne Habeas Corpus hearing would be unnecessary. Peterson added that his office had asked for a grand jury in- vestigation but that any action rn tho mattpr unniH h Hia vi . o mnit Qtt eral's renort was turned in. Bramwell resigned nearly a-as voted by the county commis-month commis-month ago after serving less than I sion Monday, providing the vet-three vet-three months in office. He is nowiera,n organizations get together a private at the Fort Douglas reception re-ception center. Asked of any more complaints -ni 1 ! M ha f' Ion in tho roar ruriiro would be filed in the near future in connection with Ogden gambling gambl-ing operations, Peterson replied that he could not say definitely but that "we are taking care of the case as it develops." delegate slate In contrast to Willkie's vigorous campaign, Dewey asked the delegate dele-gate slate pledged to him to withdraw; with-draw; MacArthur made no comment com-ment on the delegate candidates who pledged themselves to him; and Stassen announced he would not actively seek the nomination but would accept if it were offered of-fered to him. Dewey supporters sought only three of the state's four delegate-at-large seats to the Republican convention, but they were one, two, threo In the voting with a MacArthur candidate leading for the fourth seat. Late returns from approximately approxi-mately three-fourths of the state's 3,075 precincts, gave Dewey 15 convention delegates with two more nnlnstructed delegates dele-gates leaning In His favor, Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, 5. and uen. Douglas MacArthur, 2 bilitv nf a shipping of the struc tural steel mill to the Soviet union was in for another probe. He was accompanied through the plant by Utah Democratic Committeeman Stewart P. Dobbs of Ogden, Democratic Chairman Roscoe Boden and Assistant U. S. Attorney General Scott- Matheson of Salt Lake City, and several other Democratic party 8Jid Geneva Ge-neva Steel company officials. Truman's visit marked the third tour by a member of the senate in the past several weeks. During March, Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, head of the senate subcommittee sub-committee investigating the ru- suiLeu eany in nis trip mat nis tour was in no way connected with a senate probe, and emphas- Z Sa e Citv yesterdav the senator visited the Hill field B-24 rehabilitation jline, where war-worn bombers are repaired. The trip marked the Salt Lake Citv, where he will ad which he will Pacific coast. continue on to the I behalf of the pledged to him. Veterans' Memorial Home Purchase Meets Tentative Approval of County Purchase of the L. A. Hedquistlwill be made and a joint organi- which;home at Third East and Second North for use as a veterans mem-ti UJd d b count orial home, by the county, hasj J Ibeen recommended by all veter-jCOmmission. ans' organizations, it was revealed! The call is issued by Fred today. The county already has.Adamson, commander of the Pro- an option on the properly, wnicnjvo r-osi rso. id, American jgioii will nrobablv be taken up betoreifc.. w. Bentiey, Jthp pxniratinn date. A minute'erans of Foreism Wars; Albert order, agreeing to the purchase. . ana appoini a represeiiiauc .vm- mittee authorized to take over a 1 lease from the county and provide; for the managrement and mainten- ance of the property. A meeting of all members of the veterans' organizations has been caller for Thursday at 8 p. m. in the Women's clubhouse, at which a report of action already taken Deferments of Men Over 26 To Be Checked WASHINGTON, April 5 am Selective Service Director Direc-tor Lewis B. Hershey an nounced last night that all occupational deferments of men 26 years of age and older will be reviewed as soon as the present review of those under 26 is completed. In addition, he revealed that as a means of Inducing 4-F's to take jobs In essential Industry, all 4-F's and 1-AL's men physically fit for limited service but not inducted in-ducted would be placed in occu-pationally occu-pationally deferred classes immediately im-mediately if they take Jobs in war industry or agriculture. Legislation is now being pre pared to force 4'Fs Into war jobs, possibly by drafting them into the army for use as labor corps. Speaking on a nationwide broadcast, broad-cast, Hershey said that military demands for an estimated 1,008,-000 1,008,-000 men by July 1 could not be fully met by induction of 1-A's, those reaching 18 and men under 26 whose occupational deferments are now being reviewed. He Indicated that the next age group to be reviewed would be those "less from 26 to 30. He said stringent requirements" would be established for men of this group to retain their deferments defer-ments than the criterion of abso lute indispensability set up for those under 26. But there still will not be men in all these groups to meet all needs by July 1, he declared, and "the balance must come from those over 30 years of age." The men drafted from this group would be those "not making substantial sub-stantial and material contribution to the winning of the war." Bus Depot Site Controversy Aired At City Session The still-smouldering question of the new Burlington Trailways bus site at the corner of University Univer-sity avenue and First North street gained additional sparks last night when Commissioners Blake Pal-freyman Pal-freyman and Joseph Swapp, who voted last week for the change, appeared before the Provo City planning board in an effort to clarify their position on the much-debated much-debated issue. The board had recommended that. the city commisison "request ile Dus company to secure a otherwise situated, pre proper Ly ferably near Fifth West or Third South." Mayor Maurice Harding, agreeing with the board's recommendation, recom-mendation, cast the lone opposing vote to the move. Commissioner Palfreyman branded such a location as a "cow pasture" and predicted that were a bus depot to be situated "so far" from the center of town the 'thousands of busriders would leave town with a terrible opin-1 ion of Provo because of the I "shantytown joints (hot-dog I stands and similar establishments that would spring up around such J a site. One highlight of the meeting! was the admission of Fred Mark-ham Mark-ham under the questioning of Commissioner Palfreyman that he had authorized press quotations under the label of a "Citizen public." Commissioner Swapp and Pal-frevman Pal-frevman based their support for the move on the fact that "we (Contlnnrrf on I'axr Thrw U. tion effected to meet the condi- W. Bentley, commander Vet- Edwards commander, Disabled I Veterans and S. J. Cunningham, commander, S p a nl s h-Amerlcan War Veterans. The procurement of a memorial home for the use Of au service men has been a dream of the vet erans of World War 1 wnicn now appears to tbe near realization. It is planned that all veterans' organizations or-ganizations will establish head quarters in the home which will oe used for business as weu as social and recreational purposes. Not Guilty w"M....-,w. I,,, .i.u .pmmmi .ji-ju. ...u.t.j...n life - -i)4 Comedian Charles Chaplin, who was acquitted by a jury on "white slave" charges.ils caught by the photographers in a characteristic mannerism while listening to the testimony during the trial. Chaplin Found Not Guilty On Mann Act Charges HOLLYWOOD, April 5 fOEl Heartened bv a Jury's decision i that he was no white slaver, not even technically, Charlie Chaplin prepared today to battle two more charges filed by Joan Barry, his one-time mistress, who claimed she was a woman scorned transcontinental. A federal court jury, which disagreed dis-agreed last night with the government's govern-ment's story that she was taken to New York by the silver-haired hcomedian for immoral purposes, found Chaplin "blameless." He rushed home to Beverly Hills for his first happy evening in two weeks with his bride, the former Oona O'Neill, who exclaimed: exclaim-ed: "I am so happy I can hardly talk." Then he went into conference with Jerry Giesler, the veteran lawyer who defended him, con cerning Miss. Barry's further charge that Chaplin conspired with six others to deprive her or her civil liberties. Chaplin and his co-defendants Will be arraigned April 11 before Federal Judge J. F. T. O Connor, who heard the Mann Act case. The lawyers said they would not bother about the paternity suit of Miss Barry, who claims Chaplin is the ' father of her in fant daughter, until the conspiracy caes is settled. The verdict of the seven women and five men an the jury caught Miss Barry speechless, but she -e-covered quickly"; and said: "Well. I can't say much one way or another. I was just a gov ernment witness. I have no emotion emo-tion in my heart, neither hate, revenge, re-venge, sorrow or love. Emotionally Emotional-ly you might almost say I'm dead. "I'm happy with my baby, whOj keeps me going from day to day. Some of the feminine jurors were Ditter in tneir aenunciaiion of Miss Barry. Comment of Mrs. jLydia Hussey, one of the five. housewives who helped judge the caes , was typical. She said: "Joan Barry is the type of girl; that Christ died for. It was a red- headed girl who put her head at . Christ's feet before he died. May- be the coming Easter season will teach her a lesson. poured a sieaay The housewives, plus two spin- shellfire into the Allied-held sec-sters sec-sters and five elderly men, reach- tion of the town all last night ed their verdict six hours and 45 The barrage, coupled with official siminutfs aiier Judge O'Connor livered Chanlin's fate into their hands. Immediately after their decision de-cision was announced, bedlam prevailed pre-vailed in court Women spectators specta-tors surged around Chaplin and hureed him. One feminine admir er even leaned the rail in her haste and exclaimed breathlessly: "Oh, Charlie, I think you are the niost wonderful man in the world. It was the only verdict you deserved." Some of the women by now were weeping in their excitement, while the frenzied pnotograpners carpeted car-peted the floor with their discarded dis-carded flash bulbs and Chaplin sought to make a coherent statement state-ment to the press. Between shaking shak-ing hands and attempting to repulse re-pulse kisses, he managed to say: Fire Demolishes Salt Lake Hotel SALT LAKE dlTY. April 5 (UR)ea or from alr Gen. Lelos a X2 400 fire earlv this mornine' partly destroyed, the Normandy hotel here and chased a score of hotel guests out Into the street Firemen reported that a rubbish fire behind tiie hotel had spread to the building, burning out part of the floor and several partitions. One man, Nick Pappas, was sightly Injured When he Sell down a flight of stairii after becoming confused by the smoke. Jap Invasion Forces Push British Bach NEW DELHI, April 5 u Strong Japanese invasion forces were reported firmly astride the Manipur valley road north and south of Im- pahl today, and a communique communi-que acknowledged that Brit ish frontier troops south of the town were falling back along the highway under heavy enemy pressure Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast Aasia headquarters revealed re-vealed that two Japanese Invasion columns striking westward across the Indo-Zurma frontier toward Imphal had been halted for the moment, but lt was Indicated that the enemy thrusts from the north and south were gaining momentum. momen-tum. The northernmost enemy forces has extended and strengthened its roadblock on the Manipur road about 30 miles north of Imphal and about the same distance south of Kohima, the headquarters communique com-munique said. There was no immediate Indication Indi-cation as to whether the Japanese Japan-ese were moving down on Imphal or northward toward Kohima and the Assam-Bengal railway line at Dinapur. Far to the south, British Im perial forces fought through a Japanese road-block across the highway below Imphal In an effort ef-fort to establish a new line on which to meet the strong enemy forces moving up from TiddJjru.. Italians Repulse German Attack In Hills of Cassino BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Corerspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, April 5 (UP) Italian units of the Allied fifth army have beaten off a uerman attacK on uieir newiy won positions in the hills above Cassino, it was disclosed today, but action on the other major battle sectors again was confined to patrol clashes and heavy artillery ar-tillery exchanges. As the war in Italy went into its eighth month, front reports indicated indi-cated that the Allied and German artillery had taken command of the battle, pounding with increasing increas-ing violence at the opposing rear-line rear-line areas, while the ground troops braced for another major effort on the Cassino and Anzio fronts. Headquarters spokesmen revealed reveal-ed that Nazi infantrymen attempted attempt-ed a strong counter-attack against Italian positions atop Mount Mar-rone, Mar-rone, 16 miles northeast of Cassino, Cas-sino, in an attempt to smash the Allied flanking threat to their defense de-fense line above that town. The Italians held their ground, however and 110 broke heavy art llery cone e"atn broke up the attack and 'cted J' siderable cuuitowon the enemy, Malete Contlri . The Stalemate inside Cassino coniinuea, amiuugn vjchucwi "- de-jreporis or enemy iroop muvciu nonnwesi 01 (.assuw, "6Sl that a Nazi counter attack mignt be devolping in that sector, but there was no MixfictConfirmation of that speculation. Santaquin Officer Missing in Action The war department has announced an-nounced the name of Second Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Douglas A. Smith, son of Willard H. Smith of Santaquin, as missing in action in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean area. Japan Still Capable By ROGER JOHNSON United Preas Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. April 5 (L'.P) Japan still is capable of attacking attack-ing the coastline of California. Washington and Oregon from the Emmons, commanding general of the western defense command, warmed today In urging western communities to maintain civilian defense. In a letter to the Ninth regional office of Civilian Defense, Gen. Emmons said that under the existing ex-isting military situation in the Pacific, "the enemy has the following fol-lowing capabilities, and it is possible pos-sible an attack on Pacific coast 238 Japanese Planes Knocked Out In Raid On New Guinea Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFJC, April 5 (UR) A fleet of nearly 300 Allied bombers, in one of the major blows in this theater, was believed today to have temporarily neutralized Hollandia, Japan's main supply port on the northern New Guinea coast. The heavy raid, which concluded destruction of 288 planes known to be at Hollandia, came as American Liberators Libera-tors from south and central Pacific bases continued the campaign against Truk, Ja pan's outlying bastion in the Carolines. The big four-engined bomb ers 01 tne soutn racitic s 13th air force hit Dublon island in Truk atoll at noon Saturday and Liberators from the 7th airforce in the central Pacific blasted the target again Sunday night, strik ing Dublon and Eten, to complete the 12th raid on Truk In a week. U. S. ground forces also tight ened their hold on the strategic Admiralty islands in the northern Bismarck sea by seizing Rambut-yo, Rambut-yo, 30 miles southeast of Manus, Sunday without opposition. Occupation Occu-pation of Rambutyo gave the American troops control of 10 is-ands is-ands in the Admiralty group. American Liberators opened the attack on Hollandia Sunday, blast-lng blast-lng a path through anti-aircraft Effective German Fighter Opposition To Allied Raids Driven Behind Rhine BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE ' United Presa War Correspondent LONDON, April 5 EE) Effect ive German fighter opposition to Allied bombing fleets has been been driven behind the Rhine, and the overall strength of the Luftwaffe has been diminished 30 per cent, authoritative sources said today. This source said the massive as sault on German fighter plane factories fac-tories with its twin aim of smashing as many German planes as possible in the skies and on air fields already had justified itself. Allied air power not only is able to maintain the tempo of attack against German fighters but also to give direct support to the Russian Rus-sian army by bombing key targets tar-gets like Budapest and Bucharest. The German military position in the east already is so weak that these attacks are a serious threat, it was said. The Germans have been driven Heber Boys Can't Wait Until They Are 18 To Enlist FARRAGUT. Ida., April 5 (U) It was a short war for Kenneth and Merlin Horrocks, 14 and 15 year old cousins from Heber iCty, Utah. After the two boys had been in recruit training for three weeks at the Farragut naval training station, inquiries from their anxious parents revealed that the new Navy "boots" were under-age. The minimum age for enlist-men enlist-men in the Navy with consent of parents Is 17. "We just couldn't wait until we were 17, said Kenneth. 14, son of Russell P. Horrocks, of Heber City. Merlin, 15, his cousin, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Horrocks, of Heber City. The boys were In junior high at Wasatch county high school, Kenneth in the eighth grade and Merlin in the 9th when they enlisted. Kenneth will celebrate cele-brate his 15th birhtday May 20 and Merlin will be 16 next Oct-tober. Oct-tober. A recommendation that the two be discharged has been forwarded to the Navy's bureau of personnel. of Attacking the Pacific Coastline targets may be made In any of the following manners or combinations combi-nations thereof: "1. Sabotage of vital Industries, Indus-tries, communications and public utilities. "2. Submarine attacks by shelling of vital coastal installations. installa-tions. "3. Limited air attack of Pacific Pa-cific coast by carrier-based planes, possible targets the vital production produc-tion and congested areas. "4. Nusiance bombing and incendiary in-cendiary attacks by submarine-based submarine-based planes on forested and congested con-gested areas. "5. Commando raids by land defenses for Lightning-escorted Mitchell and Boston bombers which followed in wave after wave to rake and bomb the base's airfield air-field installations. The raiders dropped 400 tons of bombs, leaving a mass of flames and destruction at the New Gui nea bastion, which lies 1,000 miles southwest of Truk and 1,200 mies southeast of the southern tip of the Philippines. The attack on Hollandia was the second largest of the southwest south-west Pacific warfare, being exceeded ex-ceeded only by the 414-ton raid Allied bombers made In a pre-in-vasion assault on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the Bismarcks. Only 30 Japanese fighters vainly vain-ly attempted to intercept the big Allied aerial fleet, and the bombers bomb-ers and Lightnings shot down 26 of them, losing one plane in the entire raid. off the forward fields in France- much farther from their coastline than the RAF ever retreated dur ing the battle of Britain. During the worst pressure in August and September, 1940, the RAF still took the Germans on at the coastline coast-line and fought tbem tooth and nail back to France. Today our bombers get little or no reaction from the German fighter force until they are beyond be-yond the Rhine. Even then tfrey meet a full, head-on attack only when their presumed targets are of first class importance and If they have visual bombing conditions condi-tions which the Germans know will make the assault devastating. If the weather is bad enough to diminish the effectiveness of the American bomb sight or the target tar-get is rated secondary by the Germans, Ger-mans, the Luftwaffe just "sits that one out." , The Germans still are capable of staging a furious air battle when ever they believe conditions justi fy, because there were enough planes between factory and airfield during the past weeks of intensive inten-sive atack to bring fighter squadrons squad-rons practically back to full strength. That was shown in the surprisingly-strong fighter defense of Steyr in the last attack by the 15th air force based in Italy. It was shown by the fact that the RAF lost 94 planes the other night. Nevertheless, air officials here looke hopefully at an estimated Luftwaffe loss of 2.700 planes to the 8th and 15th air forces since January. This figure does not include in-clude planes destroyed by fighters on the ground nor those caught in the rain of demolition bombs showered on fields around the big assembly plants. The Germans are believed to be in no position to replace those losses in the future and jA-ith the real Allied air effort still to come, they must conserve their strength. 8HEEPHERDEB KILLED BY LIGHTNING GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 5 (HE) Carl Jacobsen, 59-year-old sheepherder, was found dead on a ranch near here yesterday, the victim of lightning. The badly burned body was found on a mountainside where Jacobsen had taken 1000 head of yearling ewes. Coroner L. R, Mac-Bumey Mac-Bumey said the man was killed by lightning, probably on Friday when a thunder shower was reported re-ported In the vicinity. ing parties in vital areas. Emmons said demands of the armed services and war industries indus-tries have depleted the personnel of regular police and fire departments. depart-ments. These losses, combined with congestion resulting from housing shortages, have made the Pacific coast extremely vulnerable vulner-able to damage from fires, Emmons Em-mons said. He based these conclusions on a survey recently completed by representatives of the Western Defense command, Ninth Service Command, Fourth Air Force, office of-fice of Civilian Defense and governors gov-ernors of the three Pacific coast states. Key Ukrainian Rail Junction Falls to Reds By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, April 5 " Russian infantry, cavalry and armored forces captured the key Ukrainian rail junction of Razdelnaya today, cutting cut-ting the main line of flight for tens of thousands of German Ger-man troops all but isolated in the Odessa area of the Black Sea coast Premier Josef Stalin issued an order of the day announcing tha seizure of Razdahaya, 55 miles northwest of Odessa, as the result re-sult of "an Impetuous blow" by Soviet forces closing an assault arc against the pocket enclosing up to 100,000 German troops. The fall of Razdelnaya virtually sprang a Red army trap on tha Germans, leaving them only secondary sec-ondary byways and hazardous ferry crossings of the Dniester by which to fall back into Rumania. Stalin's order revealed that tha strategic victory at Razdelnaya was scored by Gen. Rodion T. Mallnovsky's third army of tha Ukraine, which was approaching Odessa from three sides in a battle bat-tle of annihilation against tha mauled German divisions holding out along the Black Sea. Mallnovsky's triumph set tha stage for one of the greatest battles bat-tles of encirclement since Stalin' grad unless the harried Nazi command com-mand could muster enough craft of the tiny Black Sea fleet to undertake un-dertake a Dunkirk escape front Odessa. A synchronized assault by Infantry, In-fantry, cavalry and mechanized units crushed German resistance at Razdlenaya, which Stalin called "an important German defensa base on the approaches of Odessa," Odes-sa," and thus cut "the main lines of retreat into Rumania for tha Odessa grouping." The Moscow radio reported fierce fighting in the encircled German stronghold of Tarnopol in pre-war Poland, most of which, was in Russian hands. A broadcast said some streets of Tarnopol were changing hands several times a day as the trapped trap-ped Germans struggled desperately desperate-ly to escape. The struggle was described as a bitter one at close quarters, with the Nazis bitterly defending the upper floors of houses which they had converted Into miniature forts. LDS Mission Heads Await Sessions SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 All but one of the LDS north American mission presidents today to-day had arrived in Salt Lake City for tomorrow's opening sessions of the 144th annual church conference. con-ference. Elijah Allen, California mission president, was delayed because of illness. Tomorrow marks the 114th an niversary of the founding of tha church by Prophet Joseph Smith. The conference will continue Friday Fri-day and Sunday. All sessions except ex-cept the priesthood conference Friday evening will be broadcast over Radio Station KSL. The conference this year will be open only to general, mission, stake, ward and priesthood qupr-um qupr-um leaders. Highlight of the conference is expected to be the sustaining of a new member of the councU of twelve apostles, to replace the. vacancy left by Richard R. Lyman, Ly-man, who was ex-communicated several months ago. The mission presidents yesterday yester-day met here with church leaders to report on conditions in the field. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS RUSSIA Soviet tanks and cavalry, cav-alry, sweeping Into outskirts of Razdelnaya, expected momentarily momentar-ily to cut last major rail line out of Odessa, all but trapping teas of thousands of Germans In southern south-ern tip of Ukraine. AIR WAR RAF Mosquito bombers drop blockbusters on Cologne Co-logne in first air assault on Europe Eur-ope from British bases in three days. PACIFIC Allied bombers believed be-lieved to have neutralized Holland-dia, Holland-dia, important Japanese supply base' in north New Guinea, as American airmen continue campaign cam-paign against Truk and other bases in Carolines. ITALY Italian units of Allied Fifth army repulse attacks on newly-won positions in hills above Cassino; action on other Italian fronts still confined to artillery exchanges and patrol clashes. |