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Show I PAGE 2 rVSiB5:irSYTli.rA DAILY HERALD Allied Campaign In Italy Sizetl Up By United Press War Correspondents (Continued From Pasr One) ments, but the limited nature of Allied investment of forces has sometimes resulted in spectacular disappointments such as at Cas-sino Cas-sino and Anzio. Correpondents at those fronts believe that Allied leaders have learned many lessons which will be applied to the forthcoming forth-coming battle in western Europe. Here are the front-by-front reports re-ports of the correspondents: James E. Roper, Cassino front The Allies' latest attempt to overrun over-run Cassino was an example of trying to do too much with too little. They over-estimated the ability of Allied bombers to destroy des-troy the dug-in German garrison and under-estimated the amount of infantry needed to take the town after the bombardment. Cassino offers lessons that every Allied General will study before the opening of the western front, along which the Germans probably will be dug in even deeper than they were at Cassino and will resist re-sist even more methodically. Insufficient Infantry The failure to use more infantry infan-try seems to have been due primarily pri-marily to miscalculation, although Allied generals have not had unlimited un-limited resources at their disposal. The have been far short of the 3 to 1 superiority an attacking force is supposed to have in four major assaults the Americans' bloody failure to cross the Rapido river, three miles south of Cassino, Cas-sino, in mid-January; the Americans' Ameri-cans' first thrust into Cassino with 38 men and two tanks in early February; the New Zeal-anders' Zeal-anders' attempt to capture the Cassino railroad .station Feb. 18 with two companies and the latest lat-est New Zealand and lindian assaults as-saults on Cassino. On Feb. 8 the Allies came close to capturing the Monte Cassino monastery, which would have cut off the Germans and provided a dominating height to fight from. I watched that attack from a dugout dug-out 400 yards from the Abbey and saw Allied troops get within 75 yards of the walls. If a French regiment of infantry had been thrown into the fight that night, I believe the mountain would have been taken. The failure to provide more infantry in-fantry for the latest attacks on the town itself was partly the result re-sult of the high command's belief the terrific bombardment would leave the Germans in Cassino dead or "bomb happy." This was a tragic mistake. Bombing Inaccurate Part of the failure must be attributed at-tributed to inaccurate bombing. I watched the bombing for three and one-half hours from Cervaro, two miles from Cassino, and saw sticks of bombs sown across the valley and town and up the nearby near-by mountains. Perhaps 45 per cent hit the city, a mile long and two-thirds two-thirds of a mile wide. One stick of bombs fell two miles from Cassino, and another dropped from a Liberator a mile behind my vantage point, which I shared shar-ed part of the time with Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark. Pilots blamed these wild misses on defective bomb racks. Cassino was turned into a cauldron caul-dron of fire, smoke and rubble, but the Germans came up out of tunnels to resist the infantry. Allied Al-lied intelligence apparently had not considered the possibility of the Germans utilizing the ancient tunnels under Cassino, although labor groups were known to have been working in Cassino as far back as January. Robert Vermillion, Anzio Beachhead Beach-head The beachhead south of Rome has been quiet for the past 30 days, and everywhere in the 90 square miles of American and British-held soil there is an awareness aware-ness that the curving front is likely like-ly to expand in tne direction of Rome. Neither side holds the initiative in-itiative at the moment, but the balance is so delicate either may seize it with brief preparation. Both sides have powerful artillery ar-tillery concentrations and armored armor-ed forces ready to spearhead an attack. This situation has prevailed Strange Doin's! -r f (Signal Corps photo from NEA) Bushy-haired natives of New Guinea watch with amazed amusement amuse-ment as Lieut. Lillian Lang, of Mcintosh, S. D. subjects herself to a torturous-looking machine which will merely make her hair curly but not half as curly as theirs. The permanent wave is beinsr riven by Richard Tarsai, a technical sergeant, in the new beauty parlor wnicn is run Dy me u. s. quartermaster Corps at Port Morsby. GLOBE TAILORS vL. 4 IMi GLOBE TAILORS Have Amazed the Public By the Daring of Their UNPRECEDENTED INTRODUCTORY OFFER! 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Interment was in the Provo City Burial park, where the grave was dedicated by Joseph H. Taylor. Conference Allied Bombers Hit Japanese Base ALLIED HEADQUARTE R S , Southwest Pacific, April 7 (ILK) Allied bombers, sweeping over debris-clustered airflieas at Hol- landia, blasted the J apanese northern New Guinea supply base again Wednesday in the wake ot new double-pronged attacks on Truk, big enemy Dastion 1,000 miles to the northeast in the Car olines, it was disclosed today. A fleet of more than 25u Lib erators, Mitchel mediums, and Boston bombers from Lt. Gen George C. Kenney s Fifth Air forces assaulted Hollandia with 320 tons of explosives and over a quarter million rounds of ammunition, ammu-nition, leaving fires that still burned the next day. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's com munique said many buildings and gun positions were destroyed, and smoke from flaming fuel dumps rose 15,000 feet Into the air. The raid, coming three days after Sunday's Sun-day's big attack whtch temporarily temporar-ily wiped out the enemy's air power there, was carried out with out interception, and all the planes returned safely. Bricker Seeks Support of Viilkie Faction of Republicans By JOHN L. CUTTER i United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 7 (U.PJ The scramble for the Republican presidential support cast loose by Wendell L. Willkie was underway today, with Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio the first in the field. Bricker, the only remaining announced candidate among the top contenders, told the Indianap olis Press club last night that Willkie's withdrawal would intensify inten-sify his own campaign for delegates dele-gates to the GOP national convention conven-tion at Chicago late in June. Whether Bricker can assemble enough strength before the con- Fighting i Continued From r(. One) FIVE BOY INMATES STILL AT LARGE MILES CITY, Mont. April 7 UF j Five boys who escaped from the Montana industrial school here ' during the past week were still at j large today. School officials have i enlisted the aid of state, county and city law enforcement agencies agen-cies in search for the youths, whose ages range from 16 to 18 years. since the last German attack in March between Carroceto and Cisterna, which was beaten off with heavy losses to the Germans in men and armor and not without considerable American casualties. Both sides have repaired the damage, dam-age, and now each waits for the other's next move. Both sides ' have reached the highest point of defensive strength. The Germans are laying minefields, stringing barbed wire and erecting- strong points all around the Allied perimeter. The Allies also lie behind wire and mines. Become Attack Minded The beachhead commander is confident the Anglo-Americans can withstand another attack as great as the Germans launched in mid-February. American soldiers on the beachhead, beach-head, fighting for the first time in flat land where movements by day are suicide and by the bright Itanan moon are almost equally dangerous, are becoming increasingly increas-ingly "attack-mided." They are tired of lying all day in slit trenches or crouching in foxholes exchanging a few shots with the enemy or engaging him in inconclusive incon-clusive "combat patrol'' action. Many of the Allied Soldiers express ex-press a desire to attack, take the losses "at one crack" and "get somewhere." CINTON B. Conger. 8th army front Since Montgomery's San-gro San-gro offensive last November expired expir-ed two miles above Ortona with a counterattack by German paratroopers, para-troopers, the rain has kept the 8th army almost st-'t'c -p. ils Adriatic Ad-riatic coastal positions. The only offensive action was the New Zealanders" gallant but unsuccessful charge against Or-zogna Or-zogna in December. The right flank of the Sth faces almost insurmountable in-surmountable obstacles in a series of river crossings between its present line and Pescara. To the southwest the Germans are anchored an-chored to the snow-covered Maiel-li Maiel-li mountains, ranging from six to ten thousand feet high. Frequent rains are melting the snows, but mud and mire still rule this battlefront. (Continued From Fa One a few years It is not marriage but an 'arrangement' for mimeses which forbid description." Following an opening prayer for President Grant's health by President Irvih L. Warnock of the Sevier church stake, the session was addressed by Ezra T. Benson, newly-sustained member of the council of twelve. Benson reviewed a recem. FBI report on juvenile aelinqaency which he said, "has reached proportions pro-portions which should shock us." He stated that rape cases among young boys had increased nearly 40 per cent and that "offenses against common decency" on the part of young women had increased in-creased 57 per cent in the past two years. Benson said that 65 per cent of I the delinquency cases could be i traced to broken homes and that i various youth programs of the L.DS church "are an answer to the problem of Juvenile delinquency'." delin-quency'." Reports On Europe Thomas E. McKay, a cting president of European missions and assistant to the council of twelve, reported on European missions mis-sions today. He said that saints in Denmark were now walking as many as eight or ten miles to attend at-tend LDS services and that all meetings had be held during the day. Swedish missionaries, he he said, were sharing their bread with some 35,000 refugees and tithing payments in Sweden had increased steadily every year since 1939. McKay announced the successful success-ful conducting of three LDS conferences, con-ferences, for servicemen in England, Eng-land, one of which featured a basketball game between LDS soldier-teams from northern England. Eng-land. He also reported on missions in Palestine, Syria, Finland and the "French-Swiss" district. John A. Israelsoh, former president presi-dent of the Norwegian mission, told how he had journeyed to Norway in 1939 to find all of his missionaries gone because of the war. He himself remained as long as he was able. He said he met two German LDS soldiers who "bore humble and fervent testimony test-imony to the divinity of the work of the Latter Day Saints." Other speakers were President Antoine R. Ivins of the council of 70, who talked on repentence, and Elder Clifford E. Young, assistant to the council of twelve, who attested at-tested to the growth of the church and the "doubling of the number of stakes during President Presi-dent Grant's administration." The conference was to continue this afternoon and Sunday. ualties under grenades and rifle fire. Nazi mortars, firing from hidden hid-den positions in the dry watercourses water-courses honeycombing: that sec tor. attei.)ted to lay down supporting sup-porting tire on the Allied defenses, de-fenses, but were silenced quickly by heavy shellfire. Eenemy mortar mor-tar and machine gun nests near the center of the beachhead two miles northwest of Carano also were put out of action by Allied posed trip to tank destroyers that moved into! speculation ciose range 10 mast, uerman gunners. Maw Completes Bill Signing Job SALT LAKE CITY, April 7 LE Gov! Herbert B. Maw today had signed the last bill passed by the special session of the Utah legislature legis-lature The bill provides appropriation appro-priation of $15,000 for advertising advertis-ing two proposed constitutional amendments that will appear on Utah ballots next fall. One amendment, passed by the last regular session of the legislature, legis-lature, would provide for taking the judiciary out of politics. The second, passed by the special session, would provide for raising legislators' pay from $4 a day to $300 a vear. vention to outstrip Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, generally acceped as front runner at the moment, remained problematical. Meanwhile, the name of Eric A. Johnston, president of chamber of commerce of the candidate and drafting of the party platform. Some believed that Willkie, Instead In-stead of accepting Dewey, might pet behind the candidacy of some- the I one with a foreign policy mora the 'nearly like his own, such as Lt. united States, was projected intoCmdr. Harold E. Stassen, who the picture as a possible dark t was his 1940 convention floor horse contender. j manager, or a dark horse such as Johnston's name was suce-ested i Johnston. by a New England senator, a supporter sup-porter of Willkie's policies on international in-ternational affairs. He told the United Press he had been sounded JAP PLANES BLASTED CHUNGKKING, April 7 (CJ?) P-40 fighters of the United States out recently by influential personsjmh air force destroyed or dam-on dam-on his attitude toward the cham-l . . " , , ber of commerce president. How-la?ed nearly half of a force of 52 ever, he had not made up his!jaPane5e pianes wnicn aixacnea mind. Leading: Republicans were cau tious and divided in their apprais als of what effect Willkie's withdrawal with-drawal will have on the GOP nomination. nom-ination. There was a strong feeling feel-ing that he still may exert considerable con-siderable influence in selection of Stettinius GRAND COULEE SETS RECORD COULEE DAM, Wash., April 7 (UP)-The Grand Coulee dam produced more than 621.000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity last month, breaking all records for power production by a single plant, dam officials said today. The output broke the Grand Coulee's two-month-old record by 17,000,000 kilowatt hours. NEW SUPERINTENDENT POCATELLO, Ida.. April 7 a'D George Norman Green, Poca-tello Poca-tello high school principal, today was appointed by the city school board to succeed E. Norman Vaughn as superintendent of schools. Charles H. Bond, elementary school supervisor, was appointed tto succeed Green. -now: IaTTI ENDS SAT. an airdrome at Nanning Wednesday, Wednes-day, a communique reported today. NIGEL sWlocfc Holmes rflifatson k'3 wim I I (Continued From race One) London prompted in Washington and New York that he might break the ground for another meeting of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Min-ister Winston Churchill, and Premier Pre-mier Josef Stalin. This suggestion was strengthened strength-ened by the parallel between his visit and the Moscow conference of foreign ministers which preceded preced-ed the Tehran meeting. Among the subjects considered likely for discussion were the Polish Pol-ish question, the status of the Atlantic At-lantic charter, Anglo-American recognition of the Badoglio regime in Italy, the status of the exiled Greek and Jugoslav governments, and the position of the axis satellite satel-lite governments in case of breaks with the Nazis. DINN1S NOFY VltNON DOWNING MAIY GORDON ti GALE S0NDERGAARD Hit Syioar Wmn -feature:- ROGERS UNDA AYES now: ENDS SAT. 1 RITA nooor ftutoH JOEXSCI-KcDOWAtl-rOSTEt Co-Feature! 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