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Show THE WEATHER CTAH Clear tonight and Increasing: In-creasing: cloudiness Friday; cooler In the east portion this afternoon and cooler tonight, warmer Friday. Fri-day. Temperature High 68 Low 30 CALL THE HERALD If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. Grant Prays For Service Men At LDS Conference Newsman Sustained As LDS Apostle SALT LAKE CITY, April 6 (UP) Mark E. Peterson. 43. general manager of the Deseret rsews, today was SUS" tained a member of the LDS Council of the Twelve Apostles at the opening session ses-sion of the semi-annual conference con-ference of the church in the Mormon Mor-mon tabernaclo. The new appointee who fills the j vacancy caused hy the release of Elder Richard R. Lyman, is one of the youngest members of the council, but has, been actively engaged en-gaged in LDS church work for many years. l'eterson was seated in the conference con-ference audience when the news of his selection was read by Second Sec-ond Counselor David O. McKay, at the end of the list of apostles who were being presented for approval. ap-proval. When the list was sustained, Petersen was directed to come to the rostrum. Trying to suppress a grin, Peterson rose from his Btav. an i.icuc mi. "oj i u jua uiS a iiuiuuvr ui aci v ice! i icn, s) 1 1 1 cant step toward party rame as a surprise, but he paid place at the end of the bench re- joined in the singing. I unity aimed at defeat of the New, tribute to Willkie for "freely and erved for members of the coun- j Orval W. Adams, chairman of Deal next November. courageously discussing his con- Cil. j the church auditing committee, I Democrats available for com" ' eeption of the issues that are fac- At the time of his appointment ' read a financial statement which ; ment said it meant the Republicans ing us in this very serious situa-he situa-he was first counseor to the preai-i8f,d th "hurch ,"ls "?w " the. were going back to "the old guard tion." j dent of the newlv organized Su-:" member of the board of directors 1" "l0, rnrZr' ... , . , 0 , . . gages on any church property, of the Genealogical Society of lean-faced Utah, a position he has held for and barded presideni of the past iu years. Council of the Twelve said that Petersen also had served in the he "marveled at the financial Liberty stake presidency for statement." He smiled as he said, seven years and for several years ..an(J a few days ago a certaln as a member of the Liberty and citizen called a friend. In confer-Highland confer-Highland stakes high counsel. ence, that the Church was tre- During the early 1920's Peter-jmendously in debt." sen served a three year mission in President Grant's address coun-Nova coun-Nova Scotia. Prior to that andjselled LDS Service men to, get immediately following he was down on their knees and pray God choir leader in the LDS Firstito help them lead a clean life." Ward. ' "Virture is more valuable than In the business world, Petersen life," he said. "I hope and prayj has been associated with the news- that every boy will feel in . his DaDer industry for nearly zu years, being employed by the Deseret Des-eret News, official LDS church1 organ. Petersen advanced to general manager of the paper three years, ago. He started on the Nev a as i a cub reporter. j The re.v npostle vns hor'i in Salt Lak City. Nov. 7. 1000. a son of Mr. and Sirs Christian Petersen, early LDS church con-, verts from Denmark. He hns lived in Salt Lake City praetienlly hip entire life. Tie married Ivniun Miirr Me-r,,i--(!,i in !;: Si.lt !.:i!- LPS t-ni.:. i:: l!'-". Tii- y i',"V tv-. dauclit- rs . Production Job Not Over Yet By Any Means-Mayer , .1 j.r. S. M .- :; .!.r.- t .1 of tl'"' .it M - .!(. . - r ..,),!,,!.-!!,:, ..,),!,,!.-!!,:, .it '.::. "th. u.ir Cf j r ! i ' ' t . . 1 1 ,'- : ;-i i ;! I" i ; : l ! : or. till' .:. , t.!.M ' I '! i! 'i that ... ;.-.,.!. !. fc.-ui'y i'u i.'V the ord 'cut back'." "Within the past few days we have found that there are people in this state who believe tint the production war 1:; over and that a!i we have to dc now is coast along on the home front until the fighting men can get their job done," Mr. .Meyer said. "That is about as tar from the truth as anything could be. "Our production job," he emphasized, em-phasized, "is just as heavy at the present time as it has been and it will be even heavier in the immediate im-mediate future. "Too many people have been sadly misled by the word 'cut- back'. We haven't had any actual cut-backs. State Approves Geneva Contract With Utah Power SALT LAKE CITY, April 6 T.F A contract between the Geneva Steel plant and the Utah Power & Light Co., to furnish each oth er with emergency power up to 10,000 kilowats. was approved today to-day by the Utah Public Service Commission. Under terms of the contract, power will be sold on demand at five mills per kilowat hour. Other power' may be sold in accordance with schedules of quantity and time and at rates to be agreed up-ion up-ion between the jarties in advance. 217 BY E. G. VALENS United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, April 6 (UP) Praying for "more that 50,000 young Latter Day Saints in the armed forces, Hebcr J. Grant, 87-year-old president of the Latter-Day-Saints church this morning opened the church's 114th annual conference in the famed ! Salt Lak tabernacle here. before l0h limited conferen SShS read by Joseph Anderson, srere- tary to the church first presiden cy. Grant himself, who has been seriously ill, was prohibited from speaking by his physician aiicflefti ine morning session at 11 a. m supported by two close friends. Petersen New Apostle Sustained today as a new mem bcr of the church council of twelve Apostles was Mark E. Petersen. 43, general manager of the church-controlled newspaper, The "Deseret News." J. Reuben Clark. Jr., first counselor coun-selor to -President Grant, opened the conference, stating that thej church membership had grown! from 6 members 1H years ago to; a congregation of nearly one million today. A t- f Irpinr, nn,itlnn ... ( U u: tw Th.l r ''"m.u, . . ...auv,. smash at German military tar-hymn. tar-hymn. We Thank Thee, O God. -and candor in withdrawing as a ri.- T,,nn v ftHekor of Ob n n ;. .... t. I i For A Prophet," followed. The en - , tire, all-male congregation, inelud - ."""J 1U'"U1,.U1 entire history -the church is not; neari, i want 10 Know wnai is (lontlnurd on Int JfVfn) Three Dead, Five Missing In Blast At Munition Plant HASTINGS, Neb., April 6 UP Three persons were known dead and five were missing and pre-j sinned drad after nn explos: t h..-( h..-( Musti: .':iv;il Amniu.'i'.t ion F d.p.l MM-, the dead -S Of Til. ,: o v 1 ..- Krc irh !!. id : liar'es Curti". Lv- a M : Mis Ma: K.-.-d prcsum-d dead: MeCLun d. Vera Connant. Teiv.phins I'S Adorns. .1 e I' Vr th- .: lei i HIT-' a.l.-d A : ins .--hed, filled w.th miiies and depth charges, blew up with a blast heard at Hastings, 10'i miles away. Th-- eoohng shed, 100 feet by! 100 feet, was built of concrete and was heavilv barricaded. I Throe emploves, CJeorge Arm- strong, Mable Wise, and Leona'many factors that prevent it. Passieux. were in the shed at the j "If .1 spoke of what's on my time of the explosion but escap-'mind I would make too great a ed death, Patterson said. jcastigation of American politics.'' L'amage to the cooling shed He then began his prepared ad-was ad-was estimated at $50,000. ! dress. Lt. (J.G.i Charles F. Foster, of-j Mrs. Willkie sat in the audience fieer in charge of the bomb and i and hardly took her eyes from her mine filling area, was looking out husband as he made his farewell, of his office window at the time; "Are vou relieved?" a reporter 0f the explosion. "The box car exploded," he said.' "and then in a flash the cooling, shed followed." i Utah Declared Grand Prize Winner In 1943 Traffic Safety Contest i CIIICAGO, April 6 (LP) The National Safety Coun - cil today named the state of Utah and the city of Aberdeen, S. D.. as erand prize winners in the council's 1943 traffic , safetv contest Ahpvppti with n nnnnlMtlnn nf 17 000 xvns rifprl fori, ..u.uvu, ...v.. its record ol tive years without a tratiic tatality. It also was adiudtred the leading city in the 10,000-25,000 popula- tk'Il "luliti" " T'i 1 -iu 1 1 1 Sa ce- ifU-'the v LlJ- ) illl iwiv j irom liv in lyiz to iui m.iu-j.i, led all ol the states in addition ad-dition to winning the western division prize. Other division winners included Connecticut, Oklahoma, and Minnesota, PROVO, Willkie Withdraws From Race; Leaders Hope He Won 't Bolt BY LVLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 6 (UP) Wendell L. Willkie's sharply worded withdrawal from the 1944 contest for Republican Re-publican presidential nomination today challenged the GOP with the possibility that he may bolt the party's nominee. But organization and congressional Republicans generally gen-erally waived him out of the contest with some cheers and few misgiving. The consensus seemed to be that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's chances of being drafted for the presi dential nomination steadily were improving. Martin Confident Rep. Joseph' W. Martin, Jr. Mass., house Republicari' leader, apparcnty was confident Willkiej elected at next Tuesday's prim-would prim-would stand by the Republican! ary. Willkie's only Nebraska op-party op-party to which he went from the position was from Lt. Cmdr. Har-Democrats Har-Democrats after President Roose-jold E. Stassen, former governor velt's first election in 1932. Fromiof Minnesota, who evidently will his Massachusetts home, Martin, expressed hope and confidence; that Willkie would continue to help th' GOP lick the Roosevelt administration this year. Willkie withdrew last' night from the Republican presidential G. 0. P. Sees Party Unity In Yijlkie Move; Democrats See Something Else WASHINGTON. April 6 (IT.), iRepublican congressmen, praisingby far the leading candidate forif, , ilul. TT-C,w , i, 11 II,.: r : . . jG. o. P. presidential candidate. i regarded his decision today as a isoiauomsm -a 'P .""! thr- 'boa.es" and the "Republican machinery. Many Republicans felt that Willkie's withdrawal made Gov. Willkie Stunned By Defeat, Heads Back to the East By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press Staff Correspondent OMAHA. Neb., April 6 a"J? His "one world" crumbled by an overwhelming defeat in the Wis- i consin primary election Tuesday, Wendell L. Willkie headed east to- day after a dramatic withdrawal, from the race for the Republican presidential nomination last night. The 1940 GOP nominee, who polled more than 20,000,000 votes when he ran against President Roosevelt four years ago. ma his exit at the conclusion or a 45-minute speech in which he bit- terlv attacked the administration's foreign policy. .-jt js obvious now that can- v :t!l llli- ."''i.;.-e t "i . , t i nur to ii-K thv.-c jir 1 . ..-j ! -. .;-,d 'l- 1. in 1 li I h-i- fought dur-inu dur-inu the !n.-1 f .e years.'' he threw in tlie to - c'.. Unlv the reporters in the ;iu- iIicitc of 4 0o0 pers"iis knew that Willkn- was to niaite his farewell .iddress as he walked into the stage of the Omaha C'.tv auditorium. auditor-ium. He had summoned them to his hotel room vesterd.iv after- noon at four 1 tol, them n' 'Ph.- W 1 -e;sive. tn- a . i.J.'.l w I ii i 1 I thai th ; a'eU and nsu?llv h r: l t' rir VoI' V. ;' ! tl:.' he . h'.t !! - 'hii.T.i d- de- St- an- had tlv nounecnu i.t 111 .til alter his speech. He walked half hour late the crowd in onto the stage a and blew a kisrf to response to the cheers. "I wish I could speak to you from my heart tonight," he said. "I cannot, because there are too asked afterward. "Yes," she replied softly, "I am if Wendell is. Whatever he does is 1.000 per cent all right with me." .. ...v., . 1110 1111; CUULCU liaiiiv. j UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. THURSDAY, APRIL nomination contest in a statement state-ment made in Omaha, Neb., where he arrived after his campaign for Wisconsin's 25 delegates to the Republican national convention. The Nebraska delegates will be get the Nebraska delegation by default. The withdrawal, followed imme- diately upon announcement complete but unofficial returns from Wisconsin's April 4 Presi- Xontinurd on 'roar c.ui Thomas E. Dewew of New York Uu. fi r , l contender for the G. O. P. title! a f France across Uil Straits roie said Willkie's withdrawal;", nPr -This campaign transcends in atians, Bricker ad ded. "The national welfare is at stake." s Dewey hlmsef had no Immediate comment.. f i Alf M. Landoni 1936 Republican nominee, said hewas surprised by Willkie's action jand added: "Last December I predicted that Dewey would be the nominee and that Willkie woild not be much of a factor at the convention. The results in Wisconsin speak for themseves. The ipeople are determined deter-mined to draft Governor Dewey." Sen Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb,, party whip in the new Re- puoncan comiiun.ee in u,e u, Keous statement by a man who " 7. , sion, I sincerely hope he will continue con-tinue to fight for those principles within the Kepublican party, lor. it will take a unified Republican . partv to win this most important i election in the 160 years of the nation's existence.' Representative Democratic comment com-ment came from; Reps. Joe Hendricks. Hen-dricks. Fla., and! Herman P. Eb-erharter. Eb-erharter. Pa. Hendricks saidj 'This action by W ill'-! menus that the Republican Republi-can party is froin l.aek to the old trmrd a'-d ipoationism Willkie is tlT"- only Republican candidate who has offered any program for world cooperation." i Kberharter: "Wilkie had no chanc from the! beginning be- cause the bosses had greased the Republican machinery for their favorite bov- IJew-v. w e 11 laKt Dewey without even breathing. Artillery Duel Breaks Out On Italian Front By REYNOIJ5S PACKARD I'nlted Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEAL'QUARTERS, NAPLES, April :6 r.I! Violent artillery duels have broken out Ktl r.e v, ot rtv, on both flanks of the main 5th, army front in southern Italy, a communique sad today as ofnc -. ial reports revealed a sudden in- ' I crease in German, troop and sup-1 ply movements around Cassino. ' 1 , ., n A 1 1 : . J n A . 1 11c ludi 01 milieu aou unman cannonading rose to a furious. of some of Hollywood's fanciest pitch in the hills around Cassino automobiles where they expect and on the coastal sector 16 miles to find expensive and illegal gad-to gad-to the west as both sides sent gets to make them run on hundreds of shells into the oppos- 'countrvfield stove gas. without ing battle lines. ! Allied shellfire particularly wasi heavy on the Cassino sector, and headquarters spokesmen said the 5th army gunners "successfully engaged" big German motor col- niMS ana targets inside the town. There was no official expiana- ' tion for the new activity in LH" Imj" . t:. L";buretor conversion were installed large-scale transport movements suggested the Nazis might have been moving in troops and equip- ment for a counterj-thrust against Allied positions' in and around town ?Headquarters reports said thejGarv Cooper, producers William bombardment inflfcted consider-1 Goetz and Leo Spitz, Barbara able casualties on the Germans. iHutton, richest girl in town, and Ryssiaii Army Ready to 8th Air Force Liberators Hit Invasion Coast LONDON, April 6 (UP) c,;,v'u u a:- r.,... t :i a I attacked the French invasion1 coast for the second straight day today and Berlin reported report-ed bombers over southeast Germany, indicating a two- orday assault by American planes striking from Britain and Italy. Heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force put the Allied offensive back on a full-time basis last night with a destructive blow at German aircraft repair plants at Toulouse, in southern France near the Spanish Frontier. Fighter Escort Thunderbolt fighters escorted in the daylight "iv ".v. o Liberators and Thunderbolts encountered en-countered light antiaircraft fire but no German fighter opposition, and all returned safely. Inclement weather presumably had grounded the RAF's heavyweights heavy-weights following their costly raid on Numberg and western Germany Ger-many last Thursday night, though twin-engined Mosquito light bombers made several nuisance attacks on the Reich - during the lull. The night assault followed by only a few hours a heavy attack by 200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators from Italy on railway targets and a refinery at Ploestl in the rich Rumanian oil fields and an American fighter sweep from Britain over the Berlin and Munich areas in daylight yesterday, yester-day, j Reconnaissance photographs taken after the Ploesti raid show - ed considerable damage in the railway yarus, a DomenecK on mej C.ermn aimnlv nnd reinforce- ment line to the fighting front ini northeastern Rumania. Tank cars were shown n roundhouse was blanketed bv j ,HfnH hit. romrri. ed on repai'r shops and a muni - 1 tions factory. Damage to railway tracks was described officially as "extensive." Rail Junction In Poland Surrounded By Russian Forces LONDON. April 6 (U.P Berlin reported today that Kowel, five- way rail junction in prewar Po- land, had been surrounded for; neauy mree weeics. ana sources nere said i-onsn unaergrouna ae-ltrov 15 plan-s at Wcwak: Aus-tachments Aus-tachments were cooperating ef-, tralian forces advance within nine fectivcly with the Red army in'mileR of Bo-adjim. in norther:- 1 that an--. 'New Guinea. Official sources said the Poles i occupied Turzysk, 12 miles south jof Kowel, and covered the flank ;of Soviet troops who attacked the i Turzysk railway station. Another Polish unit cooperat- ling with the Russians northwest iof Kowel cantured 100 Germans!vvno werr killed when pinned un- and considerable booty, inform - ants reported. The German high command, ac- knowledging the encirclement of Kowel, claimed its Nazi garrison now had been relieved. it Hollywood s Fancy HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (U.E) ! G-men put on their overalls to- j c look under the hoods uiiy ior a iook unuer uie nooasi coupons "A", "M" or 'C". I Lawrence W. Zonker, an auto-1 auto-1 motive tinkerer, was held on charges of the war production board that violated regulations in selling butane conversion units takes no more gas coupons tnan not available lor comment, out ; Allied infantry to signal their posi-without posi-without priorities. 'cooking a pot of beans, and most Grant spoke for his wife, Miss tion by panels or pyrotechnics. The Butane gas tank, the sameof the purchasers said they Hutton. ; Apparently it had been thought 19 ncd in nlnre of natural ras in Vino-Vit it wa inst as leral "The charge is ridiculous." he tho it-ithrirau-nl of AllioH fnrne n,.n V. . .. n n . 1 C 1 OA .a-. rural hompa and a S400 mr- conversion were installed t 600 cars in the Holly- on about wood area. James E. Harrington, head of the justice department's war frauds unit, said. Among them he listed Bob Hope, Errol Flvnn. Carv Grant. Eddie Cantor, 6, 1944 Fruits of the Gasoline Shortage MIjiiiKiMijium in p ! , n., 1 1 mmwiwi iini key Tim ; 'At net vJ.T kr-' I LW-I PI:! Scenes like that above may become more common all over the country as the gasoline shortage becomes more acute. Southern California is rapidly going dry of gas, and more and more gas service ser-vice stations, like the Los Angeles one above, are becoming roadside road-side fruit and vegetable stands. Japanese Troops Striking Into Main British Defenses North of Imphal NEW DELHI, April 6 fC.E) Japanese troops were reported striking into the main British defenses de-fenses on the Manipur road north of Jmphal today, while Allied 1 forces in north-central Burma gained further ground in lBeir! iwu-pruugvu unve on aiyiiKjma and destroyed 33 to 36 mpitiv: : SiWar in Brief j BYTrJlIITEDr,PRESS RLSSIA Russia s third Uk rainian army drives within artil lery range of Odessa, nf nriQsa Hnnminc or uaessa, aooming most of garrison to death or cap-'the hTghw.y. the communique said !E' re were no nw re-toorthwn,f re-toorthwn,f eW r0UtPiand aimilar road block caught pJtTof the Sovfet advice in other enemy troops attempting to Rumania or of the battle for en-ITALY en-ITALY Violent" artillery duels move up the road south of Imphal. Cjrce(j Tarnopol in old Poland, flare on both fanks of main fifth On the central Burma front. Lt.-; Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st army front in southern Italy as Gen. Joseph VY. StiUvell's Chinese; Ukrainian army was revealed to increase in movement of German troops and supplies around Cas- sino noted. AIR WAR RAF heavy bombers, bomb-ers, in first raid since losing 94 nlanes over Oermanv last week. wreck aircraft repair plants at Toulouse 111 southern France. TACIFIC Allied bombers dos TWO MINI-: US Kil l I l AT WOKK PRICE, t'tah. April Funeral rcrviccr wee 6 V.V. ! 1 Bnstu iouay ior iv.o coai miners ! der a fall of top coal while at j work Tuesday in the c. s. Fuel Co., mine at Hiawatha. The victims were James Stokes, 44, and Simone Simons, 43. Four I other miners escaped injury. i 1 : 1 Automobiles Run On 1 Louis B. Mayer, head of M-G-Mj and recipient of the nation's high - est salary. Some of the asserted purchasers! Gary Cooper said he thought; reached Cassino, but the error oil said they wouldn't know a Butane iButane was a waste product and the part of the other' crews was unit if it bit them. certainly didn't know it was il- understandable. The Fl-T investigation came at legal. If it hadn't been for the The path of the attack lay di-the di-the personal instigation of Pe-jgas. he said, he couldn't have rectly over Venafro, which had troleum Administrator Harold L. driven to work. the same general layout as Cas- Ickes. who toured the west re- Goetz said he informed his ra-sino and bore the same relation to cently ana wanted to know why tion board of the installation Feb. j the surrounding terrain, even to Butane consumption was up 3.000- 8 after clearing it with Southern ja railway in a corresponding lo-000 lo-000 gallons a year. j California ration headquarters. jcatian. j Driving a Butane-operated cari Thor iaa som doilht nn that rr--i . . , . I , , , i V- f , . iliat .in' . j point. John H. Hamby, war prod - juction compliance chief, said it j point. John H. Hamby. war prod - was entirelv possible that buyers! would be prosecuted. Tt wasn't : there was such a gadget and Er- rlear what statute would apply in'rol Flynn concurred. their case. I "I or rather my automobiles Zonker was accused of diverting: run on gasoline." he said, strategic materials from the war! "Apparently somebody just effort. thought it was about time Hope's brother Jack said theshowed up In court again." COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TKI.EORAPH NEWS SERVICE .planes caught aground on a Jungle airfield. A communique from Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's southeast Asia headquarters said Japanese units st rHridlint" the Mnnintir road between Imphal and Kohima, 60: miles to the north t H n rt-t V 'rrvn tirm t n ' : "exert pressuree" on the British ,e.8' ... 1 t , .Baden and brought Malinovsky'a It was indicated that at least 'forces to the head of swamplands part of the invading column had reach to the Dniester lagoon- turned south on the highway and, Tne 3rd army a,so seized 10o a large-scale battle for Imphal' -HriiHnnai lomlitips in ronvercin? may be imminent, i Some advanced Japanese e!e" dis- ments were ambushed and . ler normwcsi ui uucssa iu Uiia n H 1)V Rritish natro ann?.. . n troops fought their way south throuch th" Mogaung valley to capture the river villages of Mih- loigarlang and Marangahtang. two miles south of Laban and IS miles north of the enemv-held r(-:1ti at Kamaing. From Kc.maing, a winding moto road runs south and east to the enemy's main B'irma base at Myitkyina. 40 airline miles away. Less than 60 miles east or the advancing Chinese column, a force of Pritish-led kaehin levies was rcvrnV ! !o h-.ve fouu'ht its way 'o v ti;n al '':' 40 mile-? due no- ih of ' iti:yina. ! The destruction of the Japa-f-'nej.1 planes was credited to Col. Philip Cochran s hard-hitting air- commando fighter planes. In two, !ow-fl ving strafing attacks on the Aungban airfield Tucsdsfy. Coch- ran's fliers smashed 33' grounded enemy bombers and fighters, prob- ably 'destroyed three others, and damaged eight planes. . 1 r ! . n I i - f Bootleg Butane Gas " comedian investigated the Butane: ! arrangement, found it illegal, and ,siu(.k 10 gasoline. Mayer was on a train east andj said. Barbara and I are having odiH ''Rarhara an1 T art harinD .'ii iu, ' i. u.. .u..ifc,,i ;our troubles with gas j just like anybody else." ; our troubles with gas coupons Car.tor said he never knew PRICE FIVE CENTS Nazi Garrison Trapped; Face Death, Capture BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April 6 (UP) Russia's 3rd Ukranian army drove to within artillery range of the Black Sea fortress fort-ress of Odessa today after dooming most of the garrison garri-son to death, capture or an attempted "Dunkirk" by cutting cut-ting across its main escape routea to the northwest. Gen. Rodin Y. Malinovsky'a guns, tanks and artillery were expected ex-pected to lay siege to the largest Soviet city remaining In German hands within a matter of hours. Latest front reports placed the Russians within 10 miles north, i 1 5 northeast, and 15 east of Odes-isa. Odes-isa. which fell to the Germans in 1941 only after a two-month siege. Malinovsky's forces, some of them veterans of Stalingrad, virtually vir-tually sealed the fate of the garrison gar-rison yesterday by cutting both the highway and railway running from Odessa to Chisinau in Bes-rarabia Bes-rarabia and pushing on another three miles to the head of trackless track-less swamps that extend down to the Dniester lagoon. The only land escape route remaining re-maining in German hands was a single-track coastal railway that hurdles the five-mile-wide Dniester Dnies-ter lagoon by ferry. Only a trickle of Germans could escape from Odessa by this route. A month ago, the remnants of the German 6th and Sth armies remaining in the Odessa pocket were estimated unofficially at more than 100,000, but tens of thousands of the enemy since have fled westward to Rumania as the Russians converged on the port. The Russians cut the Odessa-Chisinau Odessa-Chisinau railway with the capture cap-ture of Razdelnaya, 38 miles northwest of Odessa, and severed the Odessa-Chisinau highway by 010. iip, .oiithwMt . ... a I " ft-ucnurgaii. Muur uuwmun nnsh tn th southwest enarulfeu 'drives around a 70-mile aro 1 stretching from the lower Dnies- . e t x -J u . army nave killed nearlv 2,000 mora Germans in tiehtenine its eioose around the remnants of 15 sur- rounded divisions in the Skala pock.et northeast of Cernauti. Americans Drop Bombs On Wrong City In Italy By Clinton B. CONGKR T'nitrrt Prrss War Corr i-;ondont U. S. EOMBER BASE, Italy, March 15 Delayed by censorship) fl'.Pi Eight to 10 American Lib erators participating in the mighty aerial assault that all but leveled Cassino today dropped their bombs H mitou AHifrf-hld Vena. J fro' 12 mlles to tne cast; I Bombs tumbled accidentally fronl the borr!b Day of one Liber- ator when its bomb bay doors "r 1 . 1 bomoloads. I witnessed the bombing from another Liberator whose bombar- dier refused to be stampeded into unioaaing ms Dom ds unui ne nau There were no arrangements for fmm f'guinn u-aa Blifftripnt " . mi 1 KNOX WARNS OF U-BOAT RAIDS U. S. NAVAL BASE, BERMUDA, BERMU-DA, AApril 6 il'.H) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox warned today to-day that Ihe Allies may expect I ; German U-boats to come out j again "in mass soon.'' V |