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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Mostly cloudy tonight, with scattered showers northwest' portion late this afternoon; part ly cloudy Saturday; slightly cooler cool-er tonight and in the south portion por-tion Saturday. Temperatures: High 62 Low.. 27 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. f ii i n rr q ysr j i v m tj bj uv rr ' r ?2vn. ii in ii i i-ri s ri ustx-v . j E3 u . tonn PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. TTTAK FRTDA Y flPRTT 7 'QAA rOMPT.RTF: UNITED PRESS nnTir t-tt r-n ntnnn ; - ' ' TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICES miC tl V . 1 FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 218 Current Marital Practices Scored By LDS Speakers SALT LAKE CITY, April 7 An attack on current marital practices and a survey of juvenile delinquency today to-day highlighted the second day's session of the 114th annual an-nual Mormon church conference. Heber J. Grant, 87-year-old church president, remained through the entire morning session, which included a lengthy report on LDS European missions. Grant's attendance at-tendance was an encouraging sign to the 2,300 male church leaders present. He had been in- poor health and was thought to be too ill to remain at any conference .session for more than one hour. High point of the session was an address by Stephen L. Richards of the Council of Twelve Apostles. He claimed the LDS church had the "only leadership on earth adequate to bring the people of the world back to the way of truth." Virtues Lacking Asserting that America t.oday does not represent the best virtues of a democracy, Roosevelt Report Shows Reduction In Cost of Living WASHINGTON, April 7 UJ! President Roosevelt, at the close of the first year of his "hold-Incline'' program of economic stabilization, sta-bilization, made public today a re port showing that the cost of liv Richards said the world "must return to the gospel of Jesus Christ." Our own living and ac- com m ine actually is lower now than it ".vwuod is the pictorial represent;! lion or America, then our nation is not likely to be chosen as a was a year ago. The report was prepared for Mr. Roosevelt bv Stabilization Di- Armed Forces M 11,000, 000 Peal: Strength By PAUL HARRISON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 7 ue) The army was revealed today to have reached its peak strength of 7,700,000 sending the combined size of the armed forces to about j ' 11,000,000 but officials warned that induction rates cannot be reduced materially before be-fore July. The office of war Information, in a report based on information from the war and navy departments, depart-ments, gave this picture of the armed services and their future needs in manpower: Army Now has reached peak strength of 7,700,00. officers and enlisted personnel, but wll require from 75,000 to 100,000 more men a month throughout 1944 or a nine-month total of from 700,000 to 1,000,000 for replacements to maintain that strength. The cm- I.OUJ ijuaiuifcu IUI tile iij,uis, Ul combat duty." Navy Now totals over 3,200,- I Ann inl,,JI 1 I k ' A tV V guard will need 300,000 in new vfr! B ratC dem0cracy 8 'personnel and replacements to lus' reach 3.500,000 by Julv 1; and will When lawlessness becomes a reach its peak strength ol 3,600.-sign 3,600.-sign of the United States," he 000 bv .Sept. 1. .said, "and when the nuditv of Hoi-' Thl JL'Or (If'TVjrf mi nt t'Jlrl that . . ' - - - w a a r u Wl'Vtvwttt'Hv kill I ' VllUk army would acttialy surpass its planned strength this month, but Jap nvacaers Reach Eighth Air Force Prepares 'Easter Egg' for Hitler leadership of the nation," he said. Richards added that democracy had little chance in the forthcom ivrwte yk 1 , tr&2k f lit . i I. V,..,,,,,.:;. , . . Sir3 .... . British Stronghold In India Threatened By Strong Nip Forces s (SEA Radio Telrphmo) Ground cr?wmrn of Eiphth Army Air Force In England, prepare something ypecial in the line of an "Faster e" addressed to the personal, attention of Adolf HiUcr. Let's hope It scores a direct hit. USAAF photo, radio-lelephotoed from London- prime example of the best in government." emphasized that this was necessary neces-sary "to start training: of men who will be reuuned to meet an- rector Fred M. Vinson, Price Ad- Hiohards said he felt "out- tieipat; d losers" - a reminder that minlstrator ChesUr Bosl.s, Vari8lu oy.ine uisgraceiui prosii-1 gigajuic new opcratiuns. involving are mi pending in turope Food Administrator Marvin Jones I tutiori of carriage in the case of unprecedented casualties, . , T . . , 'imany so-called celebrities who 'pending in Europe. and War Labor Board Chairman .William H. Davis. It was on April 8, 1913, that Mr. Roosevelt Issued his "hold-the-llne" order directing that the stabilization program be strengthened strength-ened and held. . The four economic chiefs reported re-ported to him that "the task of stopping the rise in prices has thus far been carried out. Statement of Fact "As a result, the cost of living, which before the marry five, six or seven times in Ogden Railroad Accident Fatal To Two Brother. OGDEN, Utah. April 7 O fhe second of three Ogden boys 'hold-the-line'iwho were struck by a bamberger order was rising three-fourths per locomotive on an Ogden overpass cent a month, has for a solid year 'yesterday died in a hospital here been held without change of any! today. consequence," said the report, The victim was Gordon Jorgen-which Jorgen-which the president read to his sen, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs Ar-press Ar-press and radio conference. : thur L. jorgensen. His brother "The general level of the costDonaid Baird Jorgensen. 5, was of living has not been permitted killed instantly in the accident, to rise. Indeed, the cost of living .., ... , as a whole is slightly lower then! A ir Vlct,m- Larry Olsen, 4, it was a year ago today. This!?0" of Mr- and Mrs. Harry G. record-one year of stable living' lsen was seriously injured. He costs-is unprecedented either in w." rePrted ln satisfactory con-this con-this war or in the last war." I?lt,0n todav at the Thomas D. Dee Asked whether the report was;Memonal hospital, a reply to demands for removing; The boys were playig on the the "Little Steel" formula limita-j overpass when the accident oc-tionuDn oc-tionuDn wage increases. Mr. Roose- curred. velt shot back that it was not anj While enrote to the hospital answer to anything; that it was a the two younger boys were in-statement in-statement of fact. ivolved in a second arHrient whn The president, reading the re-:uie ambulance in which they were ii i, eLi'peu iu say inai ne riding era The army made it clear that it needs, and expects to get, hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of new men under the age of 26, despite any hardships it may work on industry. indus-try. "There can be no diminution of the efforts of local selective service serv-ice boards to deliver the maximum possible number of men in the lower age groups within the army's call," Ur statement said. "This will require continuous pressure on industry and agricul ture to eliminate all but the vitally day that the "last despertae hope'' of the axis to .avert defeat by creating suspicion and distrust anong the United Nations had ";igii:-'ly failed. ' Mtttinlus issued his statement rm Aihed unity to the res soon essential deferments between the', lZtlPf2 apes or is ana o. rf i nrnv,. T-v n or a a "'""H1"1" rt'iKi.. jmii ,Ur,1r-,U nttprP quotas is likely before July be-; ?J L . ar. rer cause of the navy's primary needs .r' now because we have nnn t n o nna rv-i onr 1 1 va-, a D , - - r, t7rw1.r " "ileamcd to plan, and ui uvi.il uranenes oi Liie service. High Octane Gas Stolen From U. S. Army, Navy Bases LOS ANGELES, April 7 tP Thousands of gallons of scarce fight to- gether," he said. "We of the United Nations will not relinquish the cooperation and unity which has broueht us so far along the road to victory.' Stettinius conferred at length this afternoon with United States Ambassador John G. Winant. but had no other appointments immediately. imme-diately. . t hia stntpment. the under- 1 1 1 ..to . . J t . , , Allied Campaign In Italy Sized Up By United Press War Correspondents Editor's Not- - Four United Press war reporters collaborated to present the following dispatch on the Italian campaign, a military enigma which after seven months still leaves the public asking soch questions as: What were the Allied objectives? Why do they advance so slowly? Why was the British 8th army stopped at OrtonaT Why was General Clark's 5th army halted at Cassino? What went Stettinius Hails Allied Unity In London Statement By J. EDWARD MURPHY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 7 (U.E Edward R. Stettinius Jr' TTnited States undersecretary of state, : said to-l-wxong at the Anzlo beachhead and what are the Allies trying to uo mere now c Reynolds Packard, who has covered the Italian campaign from ;the beginning, has consulted from Naples with his men in the field - James E. Roper on the Cassino front, Robert Vermillion at the Anlo beachhead and Clinton B. Conger, presently with the 15th U. S. air force and formerly attached to the 8th army's Adriatic front. Tis is their Joint report. BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples. A p. 7 a'.Pi This is a Frank description of the Allied campaign in Italy by correspondents who have been in the field with the troops. It is not a cheery, optimistic report because that isn't the kind ,or a war American. British r. ladian. African, Indian, French and NEW DELHI, April 7 Japanese invasion forces driving westward through India's Manipur state have reached the Imphal area and are engaging the defenders of that British stronghold, a communique disclosed today. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-ten's Mountbat-ten's southeast Asia headquarters reported that "small' enemy columns col-umns were attacking British posi- Reds, Germans Begin Battle For Odessa By IIARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, April 7 O!) Th Red army began the battle fo tions around Imphal, but assertediOdcssa today, driving through th that all these intial thrusts had j last German defenses at a paca be" repulsed. that promised early liberation of The atacks apparently were the big Black seaport and destruc made by Japanese flying columns tion of its Nazi garrison. moving aown uic j mpnai-tonima Soviet tank and infantry col highway in the van of the main enemy force. The communique also disclosed that the Japanese had consolidated consoli-dated their 15-mile road block on the highway north of Imphal and umns neared the outskirts cf Odessa along three main high ways east, northeast and north west of the city while Soviet pianes ranged over the sea ap PushedKZaicrnoss the roaSTo the to My , i. evacuation attempt, west, in the direction of the As- Th snp(1H n( th. n.io sam-Bengal railway some 90 vance bved to hav miles away. smash. rt nnv r.rmin hr.no. rxt - tricating more than a portion of the nearly-trapped garrison Allied troops have made contact with the enemy forces west of the highway, the communique said, adding that the Japanese thus far have made only "slight" progress toward the raiway. Cutting of the Assam-Bengal railroad, which also is menaced by another enemy column moving westward above Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal, would sever the main Allied supply line to Lt.-Gen. Lt.-Gen. Joseph W. Stiwell's Chineso and American forces ln north Bpurma. Meanwhile, an Allied announce ment revealed that the veteran estimated a month ago at mor than 100,000 men or of making a protracted stand in the city. The defenders literally wer jammed against the Black Se4 tand were being squeezed eve tighter by Russian forces relent, lessly bearing down on them from a solid "belt of base less than 13 miles from the center of Odessa. Rain Hampers Germans-German Germans-German air and naval forcesj could offer little help to the be. leaguered garrison because they Fighting Flares Up Along Anzio Front In Italy crrptnrv sain ne as 1 i run and frank dlSCUK Ol I I C 1H. IS J ii"J ii uii l, a. unique ic jui ALLIED HEADQUART E R S, Naples, April 7 (HE) Fierce patrol pa-trol fighting flared along the An- uiui iiuiiil: crasnpn mm n rirv nmhioh . " r .-.i...... ...... thous-ht it was vpi-v imnnrtant ni. ..i, v... r,, . J : been stolen from armv and navv'nianv subiects of eurreni lmpoi l though the fight "against infla-(j4 1JKl",L llebs' . bases by truck drivers who with- !ance," emphasizing that the pur- tion had been soft-pedalled in the! Both machines were nearlv de- h,'d -partL of their dveries for jpoS. of his visit was not to con-last con-last two or three months. molished bv the irnact ttesa suf S in the bla0k mfcet, Assis- chide agreements. The government's stabilization ! ?IT?Z kLTkJ Vtl" -?nt. u- S. . Attorney Charles S. I He recalled that two years ago policy, he said, was succeeding in !DUfancc driver renortedivV, . today- I 'when nP waS '"i1",? iiYted ' keeping prices from going through 'Sun reportedlv escaped The hard-to-get Wl brings ;,.as administrator, the United , ho - r ,i ... v.,. lnJur. fancv Drices from sen-ire station : vi,r,a forces were on the cie- i-i i, i wui anil au lui at lallv liM II n i 'TV,,.,. : t i a . i a t i - - - : - rupting most evervbodv in theUr "V .i "7" . . "" operators wno use it to bring today, while Allied field guns and armored tank destroyers joined in a shattering bombardment of German Ger-man artillery and mortar nests around the beachhead perimeter. Italian troops have been waging against the Germans in this thea ter. The war in Italy is a matter of slogging ahead in some places a few hundred yards in a week and in others of just digging in and trying to hold firm at a stiff cost of lives and limbs. It is a war of mud and booby traps, of hopes and disappointments. It is war that is most undramatic and unpleasant. un-pleasant. Tough Goinjr The men at the front want ih DeoDle hark hmno t,-, itenance areas t - ..w. -' j 1 1 v v liiai, I have been at the main 5th army front and more recently at the Anzio beachhead, and at both piaees i was impressed bv the 17th Indian division had fought nave no major support basse! its way out of a Japanese trap cioser man uonstanta, itumania, on the Tiddim-Imphal highway and reached Imphal to aid In the defense of that city. The Indians were disclosed to nearly 200 miles to the south. Heavy rains turned the Terrain to mud, but it appeared to b hampering the German retreat heavy casualties on the enemy at a cost of about 10 per cent of their strength. have broken through repeated Jap-; more than the boviet advance, anese road blocks along the 160- Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky'a 3rd mile stretch of highway, inflicting Ukrainian army swept up mora than 100 towns and villages oil the near approaches to Odessa yesterday, severing the last ves. tiges of the enemy's escape route except for a single inadequata coastal railway that depends oji a Ferry line to ford the five-mile wide Dneister lagoon. Some .250 miles to the north, west, the battle of annihilation against the 400-square-mile Ger. man Skala pocket appeared to b entering its final phase with tha enemy attempting to evacuate high-ranking officers from the en. Wake Island Kit By Liberators In 44-Ton Assault WASHINGTON, Apiil 7 (I'.D Armv Liberators rooked .TaDanese- held Wake island on Wednesday .circled area by transport planes, night with a 44-ton bombing as- Rod air force fighters blockad- sault on storaee and aircraft main-, mg tne snrinKlng pocKel sno5 lne,the rest of the way to the hos pital in a passenger car. Jessie Schofield Named Recreational Director for Provo; To Begin Monday United States Mr. Roosevelt read with emphasis empha-sis portions of the report which said "we must not jeopardize these gains by any change of policy or I relaxation of effort in the critical ! months ahead." j "All the underlying conditions; which could cause a sharp rise in prices are still present," the report re-port said. "The best estimates now-available now-available indicate, for example, that the gap between the Income of the American people after taxes and the volume of good avail-1 recreation director last night at a able for them to buy will be even , meeting of the recreation board, greater this year than it was iniDr. J. C. Moffitt, chairman, an-1943. an-1943. Pocketbooks and checkinei nounced todav. jup octane ratings of jferior gasolines. their in- while "today which are Headquarters spokesman indi cated that the tempo ol battle in-. aougnboy's wish that the home creased on all the Major Italian folks know that their task in Italy fnts vterHv. with both sides!13 "tou&h going." Some of them .u i ,-icrht r.f J . "ic LU write liUUVWUK an uu.icoii.'S "-'tj'-r I now rnncrh th. imln i u -m Ti- n.. o "o in uie : mountains around Cassino and on beachhead where sol iiKe eocKroaenes in a accounts are bulging: with monev which would make it difficult to hold prices down if we went on a nationwide buying spree. "The need for continued restraint re-straint and continued cooperation with every phase of the stabiliza tion program is evident. Obvious nsiv evervwnere it is th axis armies falling hack.-' -The enemv has learned to its sorrow what misrhtv blows we can strike when mr men. our nd our leadershin are cabined in common cans..'' he said . He said his trio was f'"bh,f cr.trv of State r.nrdell HU . - i j. iir.lhle to coe Jessie Schofie!d. for six years N. J.. for one vear. suoerintendent I IT"U 'nV to I repay the visits " l"1"1 "" Seven months of struggling up superintendent of recreation in nf th sait t,,w a'". trir Secretary Anthony i ,a, ' r1isnntrhe renort- tnc "allan boot through mud and Salt Lake City, and at present on I .... xta anH other feriUah officials. . . . th. nffiee of War Informa-Imoultains and across bloody Lie recreation staff at Bushnell u.v..o oi K.n. anu accomPanying Stet-;:r ' " "nf, , "A vis RnIirrps ,nl Reaches leave the Allies today still hospital., was appointed Provo citywomen for four years, and served I ,K,d(d pfeeman Matth-ws.in ... savin? that the!?l?ort of Rome, the glittering witn tne American Ked Cross, dlrector the U. S. office i a h - bpen pouring ma cnristmas objective of the arm- mCs SchL?xA mmM to Pmvo 'of European affairs; Wallace ;Mur- , jcked t into tnejcha,r strategists at home but with Miss Schofield comes to Provo, dlr!;ctor Df the office of near beachhead or the past month and tnese , considerable advantages with the highest recommendations anH African affairs of the ,. . o TT,n:or rirlv Rom was,won: 1. The Mediterranean clear- t:aov.-.. - : V. I ..--j . : I w. , ,,.tpH to ho launched simul-,cu ""llu omuuping io tne Miss Schofield, who is to as sume her new duties Monday, wil be given a "free hand" in the running run-ning of the city's recreationa program, pro-gram, members of the board said. Her recommendation will be acted upon by the members in the general gen-eral forming of policy, with the ly, too, we should cling to the poli-lcity commission having the final cies and machinery which have j say on any far-reaching moves, served us so effectively thus far. j The appointment ends a two-The two-The report acknowleged that (week search for a suitable direc-there direc-there had been some increased j tor, begun when the board was prices, such as in clothing, but j named by the commission for these rises were "fully offset" bv 11944. Lact week's meetinr. last- aecreases in prices of other items, particularly in food. Antiaircraft In Italy Bags 80 Planes In March ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples. April 7 aP Allied antia-aircraft antia-aircraft gunners destroyed 80 enemy en-emy aircraft on the 5th army front during March and probably hot down another 56, it was announced an-nounced today. Since the 5th army landing at Salerno last September, antiaircraft antiair-craft gunners have accounted for S94 enemy planes definitely destroyed des-troyed and 253 "probables." ing over four hours, was spent considering several applications that were turned in for the post. Miss Schofield, a member of the LDS church, is a graduate of Salt Lake's East high school, and received re-ceived her degree from the University Uni-versity of Utah, majoring in physical phy-sical education and speech. She t'arilCUiariy violent smiuuaiuuf; tho flat and shelling again were reported I dlers fee in progress on ine v,lf.? 'bathtub" when the Hermans shor.t .rJ n at them from the surround- i i ii,r tot r, i lnfe neignts. I strength. I (Swiss press dispatches report ed to the Office of W?.r Informa tion quoted Axis sources from former employers. Among! j.tmpnt and Dr. Isaiah comments, they term her as "a Bowman president of Johns Hop-very Hop-very efficient woman" with a!.. umversity and one of Amer-brilliant Amer-brilliant mind good character-! geographers, well informed on recreational: T. ,Q rliipH that the original anu nas a work' ord." tan.oi,slv with the invasion ofim,aa,e easi; - taiy knocked out western Europe.) jof thc war except for a Fascist Strong German combat patrols remnant scarcely holding propa-stmrk propa-stmrk out ae-ainst the Allied line ganda value to its Nazi masters; sccessful rcc- announcement of Stettinius' pro-one and one-Hilf miles south of, 3. The great network of air fields ii oniinnrd on Pn. Toi I April ia Thursday evening, but.oi toggia nesting Allied planes were driven off with heavy cas-jthat fly dally to pound German ontiuurii on Par? Tmi targets in southern Europe and the Balkans now hammering enemy en-emy communications centers just ahead of the onrushing Red army. These are substantial achieve- Continued on Paire Tnul the navy announc ed today. The raid was the 18th Amerlcna air attack on the former U. S. mid-Pacific base and the second this week. Wake was last raided on Monday when a small Japanese cargo ship was sunk. American airmen meanwhile delivered their 25th attack on Ponape, in the Carolines, where they started a large fire on one of the airfields. down 19 German planes in dog. fights yesterday while ground forces captured 29 big transport planes on airfields overrun in theif advance. Nearly 4,000 more Germana were killed inside the poeket yes. terday, boosting the toll since th encirclement was completed to 12,200. Four towns were seized, including the main center of re. sistance, Skala, 38 miles northeast of Cernauti. Critical Labor Problem Confronts Canning Factories in Utah County In an effort to provide an ade-'cured from other .areas if the need quate solution for the critical; warranted. labor problem confronting canning 3. That employers were to make companies end poultry processors immediate arrangements to see of Utah county this season, W. L.jthat adequate living quarters were Miiaennall, manager or tne rrovo m readiness tor any in-migrant workers who might be recruited. 4. That the United States em ployment service and processors War in Brief office of the United States em ployment service, meeting yester day with representatives of those industries, outlined a four-point j work In close cooperation witn is also a graduate of thc National Recreation school. labor program for 1844. jthe farmers and agriculture or- The new director was with thei Mr. Mudenhall assured tne oi-ieials of the area in the use of ficials that: camps and fully utilize workers 1. Youth of the county would and cooperate in all other mat-not mat-not be over-recruited for other ih-jters that may arise. dustrial plants, and farm boysj Because "the manpower problem would be required to remain in ag-is becoming greater every day," riculture or, by agreement, placed 'Mr. Mildenhall said, all civic and in food processing plants during professional clubs, churches and any spare time they might have schools should assist in every way available outside agricultural possible to recruit workers young work. or old "who will be needed to 2. That workers would be se' complete this vital war job." Salt Lake playground department for seven years, with thc Ogden physcial education department as a high school instructor for three years, a girl's worker at a New York children's aid school for one year, served as recreational director direc-tor of a New Hampshire summer camp for one year, superintendent of the girls' and women's recreationa recrea-tiona department at Moorestown, By UNITED PRESS RUSSIA: Red army opens battle bat-tle for Odessa, smashing through last defenses with, speed that promises early liberation of big Black sea port and destruction of its Nazi garrison. AIR WAR: Swarms of British Mosquito bombers raid Hamburg, Germany's largest port, and tar gets in industrial Ruhr and Rhine- land. ITALY: Fierce patrol fighting flares on Anzio beachhead while British Planes Believed to Have ' Knocked Tirpitz Out of the War 1 By LEO DISnER .company. Each of the ships max United Press War Correspondent ing up thfe force was cheered afl (Representing the Combined it filed into the anchorage. U. S. Press) The Tirpitz was hit at dawn ABOARD A BRITISH WAR- Monday as she lav in Alten Fjord SHIP, April 6 (Correct) (C.K) ,in northern Norway by Barra- The British naval force whose cudas from ,the largest force of planes knocked Germany's super-Jaircraft carriers ever concentrated battleship Tirpitz out of the war against a single ship, and was left for months perhaps for good returned to its home base today to be greeted by resounding salutes sal-utes from other warships already at anchor. Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, corn- blazing fiercely. Reconnaissance photog raphl showed at least 24 direct hits with bombs totalling eight tons, but officials said the scarcity of wa ter spouts from misses indicated mander in chief of the British, that actually the number of hits home fleet, stood on the quarter-1 was "far greater." It also wa deck of his flagship waving his: pointed out that no photograph cap with those of the entire ship's Promise of Tehran Now Beginning To Unfold in the Balkans Says Writer BY EDWARD BEATTIE United Press War Correspondent LONDON, April 7 (CP) Military Mili-tary sources said today that the promise of Tehran was beginning to unfold in the Balkans, where Am. i.irf crnn. anH tank d-'Allied bombers have battered stroyers join ln bombardment of German artillery and mortar nests on beachhead perimeter. PACIFIC: Allies continue aerial campaign against Japanese bases in southwest and central Pacific with another raid on Hollandia ln strategic targets in cooperation with the Red army in the great "battle for oil" which may turn the tide of the war.? No one here will make an offi cial admission that close strategic contact between the Russians and niUI OJIUUIC1 OIU VJ livuwiwa - - -. . w.-w north New Guinea and new aa- the Allied air leaders was behind saults on Truk In Carolines. 'the pounding of Budapest, Bucha rest and Plesti, but the fact remains re-mains that this is the sort of common com-mon effort which popularly has been expected to batter Germany beyond hope this year. It has been accepted since the meeting of President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Minis-ter Churchill at Tehran that the Anglo-American western front would be timed to coincide with Russia's supreme land effort this year. In giving the Red army direct dir-ect assistance as the American forces, and to a lesser extent the (CoBtlnacd ea Pas Tkrcc were taken after the final wrav of bombers attacked. The bombs silenced the Tirpitz' guns and wrecked the ship witii terrific inner and outer explo. sions, at least four heavy armor, piercing bombs hit the forepart of the ship and between the bridga and turrets and 20 medium bomb were scattered along the deck Set adrift, the Tirpitz was be. lieved to have grounded by tha stern. Carrier-based fighters also shot up an anti-aircraft posts and set fire to a tanker. The captain of one carrier Big nailed the flagship of the force that he believed the Tirpitz to ba useless . as a warship for months, perhaps for the rest of the war. The fleet generally hailed the vie. tory aa decisive as that scored over the 26,000-ton Scharnhorat, sunk la artic waters earlier thia year. 0 |