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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy tonlgal' aod tomorrow with scattered showers along- the mountains io morrow . afternoon. Clearer tonight; to-night; continued cool with little' change In temperature tomorrow. Temperatures High M Low S3 Precipitation 45 CALL THE HERALD If you don't receive your Herald fcefora 6:30, call 495 before 8 O'clock and a copy will be sent to you. riFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. Utah County's Red Cross Fund Over the Top The Utah county Red Cross war fund drive was today closed for this year when Bob fcullock, drive chairman, announced an-nounced that donations had oared the final figure to the $68,343.24 mark, more than $9,000 above the $59,300 (Quota set for the county. "The drive has been a huge success," suc-cess," Mr. Bullock said, ' due to the marvelous support of the chairmen and all their workers." Among those drawing his special commendation were county co-chairmen co-chairmen John O. Beesley and C. It. Van Winkle, Mrs. Rose Goates, Psidential solicitation chairman; rs. Alex Chrlstopherson, Lchi fhairman; E. T. Ball, American 'ork chairman; Calvin Walker. Pleasant Grove chairman: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pinegar, Sharon chair-ltha pen; faux Miner, aprlngvuie Chairman : Arthur McKell, Span- fsh Fork chairman; Ret-d J. jloney, Payson chairman ; and William O. Johnson Santaquin Chairman. 5 "The people of Utah county have shown by their most generous gener-ous support of the drive,'' Mr. Bul- juvn Dm, Lu.r uul uvar ii-u iu- ;;:."u;. . . ...i . , 1 ly is with the boys in the service." serv-ice." He expressed his utmost ap- preciauon io citizens ior voiun - laruy coming lortn with uieir donations, in spite of the added expenses everyone is incurring uring the wartime period, and extended his admiration and thanks to the workers who volun-ttcered volun-ttcered to aid in the collection of the donations through all types of Weather. He also thanked com pany officials for their cooperation coopera-tion and support, pointing out iuoh great aids to the drive as the canvas of workers carried on at the Geneva Steel plant. ' The drive, opened throughout the nation on March 1, was forced! Into an overtime period in the county when the goal had not fceen reached at the March 31 Closing of the campaign. At that time Mr. Bullock, expressing confidence con-fidence in the people of the county coun-ty to support the mercy drive until un-til its successful completion. Voiced his assurance that the goal Would be teached. The amounts collected throughout through-out the county by cities, with donations do-nations from companies which Will be evenly allocated back to i individual branches, are: Lehi. $3432.35: American Fork, $4148.30; Pleasant Grovr, 2952.65; Sharon, $6040; Springville, 18084.75; Spanish Fork, $6591.20; , Fayson, $5167.28; Santaquin $1156; and Provo, $30,770.71. Robinson Certain Of Re-election Of Roosevelt PftMHtiAti t Vi a P r d a I rl o ti t Roosevelt will be drafted for a'YorJc State committee. s u v,.. .v,. Farley was scheduled w- , Democratic party and re-elected was expressed bv Congressman J. Will Robinson. Tuesday night in an informal address a,t a dinner-meeting dinner-meeting of a group of prominent Utah county Democratic workers at the "Radar club. With the repudiation of Wendell Wen-dell Willkie and his views favoring International cooperation, it is - D;t even more urgent that President Roosevelt make the race, the con rressman averred. As itand today, the isolationist i trouDs are in the saddle in the Republican party, he said. ' j The nation will face a test .in Conducting the first election dtir-' ing war-time in its history, he said, but expressed confidence that we are strong enough as a people to weather the test. : Rep. Robinson gave a resume Of some of the congressional work In which he is engaged. As chair- man of the public roads highways , R jngs on a proposed bill to provide for an ambitious program of postwar post-war road construction to provide a network of modern high-vays in ill directions. - He also has been associated With a small business committee jvhlch has been endeavoring to decentralize the huge army and jiavy contracts and give the little Kllow a chance to bid on some of s contracts and the surplus supplies, sup-plies, to be available after th War. He also referred to the jjiovement now on foot to safeguard safe-guard water rights to the states In navigable streams. Le Roy Johnson of Provo, county coun-ty chairman, was in charge of the affair. Remarks were also made ly R. J. Murdock, chairman of the county commisison and Judg? Abe W. Turner. l KILLED IN PERM AN AIR RAIDS LONDON. April 12 (CP) The ministry of home security announced an-nounced today that 279 persons were killed and 63 injured In Ger-nan Ger-nan air raids on - Britain last Jnonth. f 221 MacArthur, Stassen Stock Boosted In Illinois, Nebraska By UNITED PRESS Presidential stock of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, was boosted today by incomplete and unofficial returns from yesterday's preferential primaries in Illinois and Nebraska. Ne-braska. Three of every four Republican votes cast in the Illinois Illi-nois election were for MacArthur, whose only opposition was Riley A. Bender, a former pugilist not considered seri ously as a candidate. Nebraska Nebras-ka Republicans made Stassen their 2-to-l favorite over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, a write-in candidate. Dewey, who would not permit per-mit his name to be entered in the primary, polled less than half as many votes as Stassen, but ran far ahead of Wendell L. WUlkie, who withdrew last Wednesday,; too late to have his name removed! rrom me Danoi. The voting yesterday provided second test for Stassen andDe nominated on the first ballot. --"-r mur. won f ou" A weeK ago, Stassen Of Wisconsin's GOP! Governor Maw Named Keynoter For Democratic County Convention Here Governor Herbert B. Maw will! .Jrlivcr the key-note address at the Democratic countv convention to be held Saturday. April 22 inuv .,'thoilrn tn 6st- wpr- the Provo high school auditorium. :je Roy Johnson, countv chair man, will call the convention to order and announce the temporary officers. Elmer Terry, Provo city chairman, chair-man, is chairman of the arrange jIif county vice chairman and Mil ments committee; Mrs. Algie Bal- lie Greenwood, vice president of the Young Democratic organization, organiza-tion, will be in charge of the convention con-vention program. Temporary officers for the convention con-vention will be named later. Meanwhile, ward precinct and district organizations were being Tammany Leader Issues Call For 4th Term Draft By LYL.E C. WILSON Lnited Press SUff Correspondent , WASHINGTON, April 12 (HE) Tammany leader Edward V. 't -..o.hiin rt call for a fourth term draft probably will be climaxed 'lodav bv a completion of pro- Roosevelt slate of New York State delegates to the Democratic na- tional convention Laughlin issued his draft-Roosevelt draft-Roosevelt statement here last nigh through the Democratic national na-tional committee which in a ses sion last January "solicited" the niesident to seek another term. TIip 96-vote convention slate will be completed in New YorkjLinford; distrct 12, Emil K. Niel-City Niel-City today by selection of 20 dele-sen iconise Palmer. Elmer L. Ter gates-at-large. each with one half;ry Marv h. Bennett, D. R. Rice, vote, at a meeting oi me i James a to be re -J -U..1 - K nnmmit.;3 17 " bv' Tanner. Stella Da vis. Stanley. ,i.cr, uic ...-...v...v - the Albany county Demorcauc mn chine having been dropped. As leader of Tammfiny Hall, the! New lorK .mannawaiw Democratic organization, iaugu - hn said: j. - "There can be no compromise 'Vh t h. VZn Td bv our blood that has been shed by our boys on the battlefields must noi . : 11, T-nHAMnt In KTaIE, ne in vain, w r Dnimn in orK ,8UPPrl wT..7m. President Roosevelt and his poli-j . .. . "e uAshes,w" na'nef1 chairman with Marie "? "I 1,"", h. t Lewis, vice chairman; and Olive '" ""?, -"F'- ' ' "VI : soliders, sailors and marines need; him as commander-in-chief, and a graveiy iroumeu onu ..crv .... . . I t 1 1 1 LIB wisdom and experience in planning of an enduring peace. "It is appropriate that New York should take the lead in the movement to draft Franklin D WOLXO-BE-ASSASSIN DIES FROM WOUND MEXICO CITY. April 12 (V) Antonio De Lama Rojas, 32-year-old Mexican artillery lieutenant who tried Monday to kill President Presi-dent Manuel Avila Camacho, died today from peritonitis which developed de-veloped from a bullet wound in his abdomen. The staff surgeon at the Mexico cuy Military nospuai reponea that Rojas died this morning. Retailers Seek 'Quality Control' Yith Price Control SALT LAKE CITY, April 12 UE - Salt Lake retailers claiming that "you can't have price control without quality control," were to present recommendations for revision re-vision of the emergency price control con-trol act to Utah's congressional delegation here this afternoon. Retail merchants meeting this morning agreed that they and the public suffered from, the OPA order restricting higher price lines. They explained that a new store PROVO, convention delegates and Mac- Arthur three. Stassen definitely is in the presidential race "to the end," Sen. Joseph H. Ball, leader of the proStassen forces, said last night. The former Minnesota governor now on duty in the Pacific fleet, will not withdraw before the national na-tional rnn vpn 1 1 nn tn rlimh nhnnrH DeWey bandwagon. Ball said, Bir attpmnt nninnHM with prediction by Sen. John Thorn - R Idaho, that Dewey would Thomas declared his nersnnnl sur- l( onllnord on I'kkf 'I noi rapidly completed and delegates to the county and state ronven itio1f w,?r,P Hng t pri- incomplete at noon today, accord ing to Mr. Terry A partial list of Provo delegates follows: Ward One, District One. Mrs. Hyrum Baird, Minnie Farrer, Mable Kirk, Carl Hope, Mrs. Earl Strong and Eva Thorsen; district 2, Alton B. Giles, Jessie Johnson, Donna T. Giles, Minerva Karren, Norma Giles and Wanda Kirk-wood; Kirk-wood; district 3. William Connell. Dean Terry Vilate Strong, T. A. Thurman, Lola D. Thurman. and Grace Spencer; district 4, Bessie Ward, Grace .Williams, Rhoda Hudson, Ines Menlove, Grace Gib-bey Gib-bey and Maude Peterson. Delegates to the state convention, conven-tion, to be ratified at the county convention: District 1, Leo Thurman, Thur-man, district 2, Alton B. Gi'ed.j district 3, T. A. Thurman and Vilate Vi-late Strong: district 5 Aln Van Wagenen; district 6. W. L,. Mitchell; Mitch-ell; district 8, A. J. Morley; district dis-trict 9, Parley Linford; district 10, Le Rov Johnson; district 11 Dwight Billings; district 12, Emil . dMrlct 24 Delia Ioverldge; district 25, R. J. Murdock. Ward two, county convention delegates district 5, Alma Van Wagenen, Mrs. J. H. McDonald, Lucille W. Jones, and Mrs. Mer- line R. Turner: district 6, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blerregaard. L. W. Mitchell. Beatrice Mitchell, Ray Watkins and Olive Reeve; district 8, Hilton A. Robertson William Stanley Dunford and Mrs Eloise Morley; district 9, Parley Linford. Marie Lewis. Mrs. Blaine Larsen. Blaine Larsen. H. D. Whatcott, lEnos Brimhall and Mrs. Parlev and Beth Urie Ward Four District 10, Geore;eWttr in Europe could be liquidated !S. T111J ( U 1 I . . - ' i ;Pnx. Thelma Weieht anfl Mrs Edward McArthur district 11,! Mr. nd Mrs. IrA'ing Pratt. Wil j iliam F. Hanson. Mrs. Laura Bon- ;nett. Lamar Williams and Mrs. j Bruce Hawg. dLstrict 24 Elmo ! iLoveridge and Delia Lovcridcc; 1,. , v,t I 'D - Sumner, R. J. Murdock, D. D m0,i hpv,i Reorganization of ward and dis- . ,,, ...DV but lists were still incomplete to- dav. In ward five. U w. Mitchell Reeve, secretary J. Claude Knell was named chairman of ward four. Dean Ter- chairman of ward one witli vuaie hirong, vice chairman, Norma Giles, secretary District officers have been named as follows, chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer in the order listed: District 1, Hyrum Baird. Min-1 nie Farrer. Eva B. Thurman. and I J. Ernest Farrer; district 2, Alton B. Giles. Jessie Johnson. Norma D. Giles and Minerva Karren; district dis-trict 3, T. A. Thurman, Vilate Strong, Shara Cummings and Mrs. Eva Mildenhall; district 14, A. R. Hudson, Nance Moe, Agnes Gib-bey Gib-bey and Ines Menlove. District 5, Abe W. Turner, Mrs. Mary Clark, Mrs. Merline R. Turn- er Frank A. Van Wagenen; tcootinard ! moi may open up with a high price line while established businesses must maintain the lower price lines they have been following. The retailers said the public suffered because manufacturers could easily put a new style number num-ber on an old product, selling the "new" product at a higher price even when they have reduced the quality. Therefore, they said, price con UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL Record Navy Appropriation Wins Approval WASHINGTON, April 12 tu-Kj xne house appropria tions committee today ap proved a record $32,647,134,-336 $32,647,134,-336 navy appropriation bill, after hearings in which Admiral Ad-miral Ernest J. King urged that the United States accept ac-cept no victory in the Pacific short of Japan's destruction. The commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet told the committee that "Tokyo is the ultimate objective of all these operations" conducted and planned in the Pacific. "Whatever the cost," King said, "wo know the Japanese well enough to realize that we cannot regard victory in tho Pacific as anything short of the destruction of the Japanese empire. To accomplish ac-complish that destruction we must deliver the heaviest attacks of which we are capable, as soon and 1 as oie as Possible, where it will hurt "ie most The committee's bill, slight ly larger than this year's, covered appropriations and contract authority totaling $31,566,134,336 for the 1945 fiscal year beginning next July 1. It also provided $1,-081,000,000 $1,-081,000,000 for the rest of the current fiscal year. The new appropriation bill would increase to $102,205,441 the total of direct appropriations - exclusive of contractual authorityfor auth-orityfor the navy since the start of the national defense program, on July 1. 194f). The largest single category pro- tumci a K.S IV2U 11(1(111(1(1 fnr now s)ljp COIlslrucUon. Next m slze is $3,229,919,172 for naval personnel, person-nel, followed by $4,600,640,000 for aviation. Here are some of the things the new funds are intended to support or buy: Navy personnel Navy, 3,006,-000; 3,006,-000; marine corps, 478,000, and coast guard, 173,467. Planes 24,230 new aircraft, virtually all combat types. To bring the navy's air strength to its authorized number of 37,785 useful, up-to-date fighting craft. Ships 807 combatant types and 30,151 in other categories, largely large-ly landing craft. Rear Admiral E. L. Coch- rane, chief of the navy's bureau of ships, told the committee com-mittee that by the end of the ew fiscal year the navy will have 10,244 self - propelled vessels, aggregating more than 10,000,000 tons, as compared com-pared with 7,789 vessels totaling to-taling nearly 7,000,000 tons in fiscal 1944. In fiscal 1941 the figures were 954 and 2,-000,000. 2,-000,000. In addition, the navy will have 74,925 non-self - propelled craft. small landing rraft under 100 feet: ni oim nuiaii ouu ovviai uuduj, as compared with 53,937 this year and 2,072 in 1941. Vice Admiral M. J Home, vice chief of naval operations, told an j northwest to clear enemy snipers appropriations subcommittee thatlfrom tne hiehwav running from , ,V i rr fiscal 1945 took into account the possibiliy of war ending in Eu - - rupt; una year. oui win ivuigie and Hornc expressed pessimism in that connection. King and others in the high command were confident six months urn that the UllS VeBT Motor Inspector Fatally Injured At Geneva Plant Percy Wittwer, 32, moto ..i-spector ..i-spector in -the rolling milr' maintenance main-tenance department at Geneva Steel, and a resident of Christeel Acres, in Orem, died at the Geneva Ge-neva hospital Tuesday at 9:10 p. m.. from a fractured skull. Wittwer was found in an unconscious un-conscious condition at 5 p. m. near the stairs in the slabbing mill area. Apparently, lie had slipped and fallen to the floor. Born in Salt Lake City, March 28, 1913, he was a son of Joseph and Ellen Stuckl Wittwer. He lived in Hurricane and attended ( school there. Also, l)e worked In j Las vegas. for two years. He nad been employed here since November, Novem-ber, 1943. He was married to Lavell Gutoler in Kanab, November Novem-ber 23, 1922. Surviving are his wife and four children, Susanna, Paula, Elaine and Deloy Wittwer, his parents, of Hurricane, a brother Sylvan Wittwer Witt-wer and a sister, Mrs. Elna Bullin of Columbia, Mo. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Valley mortuary'- trol is useless without quality control. J. H. McKibbeny, secretary of the chamber of commerce retail merchant's bureau, listed other recommendations as fallows: Reduction of the number of rationed ra-tioned articles; granting of more authority to local rationing boards; abandonment of food store classifications, classi-fications, and transfer of authority from regional OPA officers to district dis-trict or state offices. f America Division Storms Bloody Bougainville Hill Mr Cil M WNcW ' 'c "5".- ' : (HEA TeUphoto) Infantrymen of Americal division, under command of Lieutenant Renalto Rocco (arrow) of Brooklyn, N. Y, . warily prepare to storm the banyan tree atop bloody Hill 260 on Bougainville. Japs were entrenched around tree's base and from there resisted terrific barrage for days. Armed with flame-throwers, bazooka rifles and grenades, these men pushed to hilltop, were repulsed and linally counter-attacked to' take the bill. Signal . . Corps photo. Jap Invasion Drive Stalled By Imperials NEW DELHI, April 12 u.ra Stiffening British resistance resist-ance has temporarily stalled the Japanese invasion of In dia in the Imphal and Kohi-ma Kohi-ma areas, a communique said today, while Allied forces in central Burma gained fur ther ground in their drive on the Dl enemy base at Mvitkvint n AllleO. COmmUfl OUe reDOTted that Japanese attacks on Kohima slackened yesterday, and British 1in)f. ,re friuino- nut tholHouse of Savoy. Kohima to Dinapur. gjxty milrB tQ tnp souUl ac. ;vanced elements of three Japan- - coumrl, movinir on Tmnhnl from the northeast, southeast and southwest, were held in check by British patrols operating in the hills .bordering the Imphal plain. One British hill position northeast north-east of Imphal was captured by the Japanese, but the communique said heavy casualties were inflicted in-flicted on the enemy. A strong Japanese road block on the Tamu-Palel highway southl east of Imphal the last enemy'thir trip hammer blows against block on that road was cleared l reating Axis forces in tne Cri-the Cemauti-Bucharest railroad yesterday, the communique said . .niea and on the mainland. 1 4 1 miles east of Iasi, which was On the north-central Burma! On the Russian front, Red army j being steadily flanked. The Third front, Chinese troops drove fur-! forces swept into the Crimea inrniy mopped up thousands of ther down the Mogaung valley in j three columns which swiftly j Germans and Rumanians in the the face of stubborn enemy re- broke down the enemy's key de-; reconquered Odessa area and drove sistance, capturing the vUlage of jfenses in the first rush. The col-' to the outskirts of Tiraspol to Tingring and wiping out a Japan-jUmns which came down the nar-, clear the last of the enemy from ese pocket sout:i of Kpaduyang.j row Perekop isthmus linking the; the east bank of the lower Dnes-on Dnes-on the west bank of the Mogaung! Crimea with Uie mainland was de-j tr. river. Simultaneously, British raiding parties In the jungles to tho south were reported spreading havoc along the Japanese line of corn- municauon around inaaw anuiana iianned uie mils ot tne east, threw in enough reinforcements Mawlu, and the. communique said The third column, drove west- j to break thb Russian encircle-the encircle-the Japanese had thrown armored: ward into the peninsula from its . ment of the Skala pocket, where unus inio aeuoii on mis eecior in an attempt to disperse the raid- ers. (Chungking newspapers dis- closed that a Chinese force has started a drive on Burma from China's western Yunnan province, apparently coordinated with the Chinese thrust down the Mogaung vallev. Tho new offensive began Sunday and has penetrated almost to the China-Burma frontier.) Hitler Seeks Aid From the Japr LONDON, April 12 V.E Adolf Hitler has summoned his European Euro-pean puppet chieftains, including Benito Mussolini and Pierre La-Val, La-Val, to an extraordinary council of war at Berchtesgaden. Swiss dispatches to London morning newspapers said today. Gen. Hirochi Oshima, Japanese ambassador to Germany, also was reported to have been invited to the meeting, and the Swiss reports re-ports said Hitler would .ask for a stataement on the extent of the aid Germany can expect from Japan. Ja-pan. . 12, 1944 History Art! i ' '-4l l 11 i tUi rl I M -Mk i -"Twin. immt . m i. r--m -bi. . .is. - - i v- ...:-.. . King Victor Emanuel Agrees to Withdraw By ELENOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent NAPLES, April 12 u.R) Kin? Victor Emmanuel, after a reign of 43 years as King of Italy, announced in a broad cast today that he will withdraw from public affairs the day Rome falls in favor of his son. Crown Prince Humbert. "This decision, which I and i - .. ... , my family believe furthers national unity, is final and irrevocable," the king said. The 73-year-old monarch ex- J plained that upon his retirement ! ' win set a. iieuinmiii-KCiirr alcy under the crown prince to carry on the duties of the Royal "Putting into effect what I have, sPKested to Allied- authorities' and to my government, I have de-jcouncij. which has expressed a decided de-cided to withdraw from public af-isirf to see "the democratization fairs by appointing my son, Lh'of the Italian government." Russians Maintain Trip Hammer Blows Against Retreating Axis in Crimea Allied bomber fleets carried the j the stronghold of Kerch and ad-preinvasion ad-preinvasion offensive against Ger- vanced 18'i miles. . . i-r.t. . 4 i On the mainland, the second many into its fifth day today Ukraine army made another cross. while the Russians maintained w Gf the Siret river in Romania layed by the- defense positions in j On the northwestern part of the Ishun hills, but the second ! the front, the Germans were mak-column mak-column which crossed the shal- ing a desperate effort to block the low Sivash sea drove down to; First army's drive through old the rail junction of Dzhankhoi Poland towards Galicia. Thev i pnageneaa on Keren strait across from the Caucasus, knocked out Jap Submarine Penetrated to Within 20 Miles of Hawaii, tlimitz Reveals HONOLULU, April 12 (UJ?) A I Adm. Chester W. Nlmltz,- corn-Japanese corn-Japanese submarine penetrated tomander of tne pacific fleet, testi-within testi-within 20 miles of Oahu island.!-, . at Jananes- carri er force site of Pearl Harbor, only a month tnal a JaP1"1" carrier lorce, ago and Japan is still capable of'ukinS advantage of clouds from carrier-bortie air attacks andcertain weather conditions and re-command re-command raids on Hawaii, army jmaining outside searchable zones, and navy commanders testified at! could approach Hawaii without a habeas corpus hearing yesterday. yester-day. Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Hawaiian army commander, said the enemy submarine was "contacted" "con-tacted" near Oahu March 10 and also disclosed that Japanese planes reconnoltered Pearl Harbor Har-bor while U. S. task forces were being organized in October. 1943, to attack the Gilbert Islands. He said the reconnaisance plane probably also cai.ie from a submarine, sub-marine, but did not mention the fate of either submarine or the plane. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Air 10 7: i Prince of Piedmont, general of the realm lleutenant-the lleutenant-the king said in a brief address. ''This appointment will become effective by the formal transfer of power on the day on which Allied troops enter Rome." Tho announcement followed two days of discussion between repre- sentatives of the royal family, members of the government un der Marshal Pietro Badoglio, and officials of the Allied advisory j to capture Pascania junction on more than 24.000 Germans had . been killed in the last week. being detected, despite scientific detection methods. "We are in no mood for another 'Pearl Harbor'," Nimitz said. "Our successes in the western Pacific do not lessen the danger of attack. at-tack. I cannot realize this too much." ; Both Nimitz and Richardson contended that modified martial law must be continued in Hawaii for security reasons and opposed the habeas corpus petition filed in behalf of Lloyd Duncan, a civilian civil-ian worker sentenced to jail by a military court. PRICE FIVE CENTS Assay Progress Rail Junction Of Aachen Hit With 1680 Tons By PHIL AULT LONDON, April 12 The greatest air assault in history passed the 100 - hour mark today as miles - long processions of bombers streamed out toward Europe in the wake of RAF night raiders that ripped the invasion inva-sion defense railway junction of Aachen with 1,680 tons of explosive explo-sive and fire bombs. German radio broadcasts reporting re-porting that Allied bomber formations forma-tions also were over southeastern Germany, today Indicated that American Flying Fortrcses or Liberators from Italy may hare joined in the heavy pre-lnvasion aerial bombardment of the Reich.' American and British bombers bomb-ers from Britain alone sine Saturday have dropped more than 11,200 tons of bombs on German aircraft plants and key communications centers In Germany, France, and Bel-glum, Bel-glum, both of which must be knocked out or at least severely se-verely damaged In advance of the opening of . a western front. More than 10,000 planes participated partici-pated In the four days and nights of attacks, which left a trail of ruin " across Europe from the French Atlantic coast to East Prussia. Targets of the daylight raiders taking off from Briatin were not announced Immediately, but they, presumably lay along the French invasion coast. Heavy explosions echoed across the Straits of Do ver from France soon after the Allied formations crossed the coast. , While hundreds of British heavy bombers concehtrated their block busters last night on Aachen, ono of the most important railway junctions serving the French and Belgian invasion coasts, a smaller force of heavy bombers slmuU taneously hit Hannover, another i German Industrial and comraunl cations center. Objectives In western Germany also were bombed during the night and mines were laid. Nine RAKJ planes were lost in all operations A German broadcast warning warn-ing that Allied bomber formations for-mations were approaching southeast Germany late this morning indicated that heavy bombers from Italian bases might be taking over the offensive of-fensive against Axis Europe after four days and nights of heavy attacks from Britain. Brit-ain. First reports indicated that th RAF attack on Aachen, 45 miles west of Cologne near the junction of the Dutch, Belgian and Ger man borders, was "well concern trated," the air ministry an nounccd in a communique. Allied Varplanes Bomb, Burn Nazi Communications ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 12 (UJ!) Allied war planes bombed and burned German comunications lines across the center of the Italian oot from dawn to dusk yesterdayJ5tad RAP night raiders followed through In the early morning hours today with a blockbuster assault on the Monfalcone submarine and torpedo boat yards in northern Italy. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS AIR WAR Greatest air war i.t history passes 100-hour mark aa long processions of Allied bomb ers stream toward Germany in wake of RAF night raids that saturated Aachen, invasion defense de-fense railway junction, with 1,680 tons of explosive and fire bombs. ' RUSSIA One of three Soviet columns, clamping stranglehold on Crimea, drives into central plaims after splitting stranded garrison of 150,000 by capture of Dzankohl in spectacular 37-mile advance. PACIFIC American forces seize five more bases in Marshall islands while U. S. destroyers join in almost continuous aerial bomb ardment of supply ports on north ern New Guinea coast. ITALY Allied warplanes bomb and burn German communication lines across Italian boot and RAP night raiders follow with clock buster assault on Monfalcone sub marine and torpedo boat yards in northern Italy. |