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Show UVU, UTAH UUUN1Y, UlAri THUnoDAY, APRIL 13, 1944 CALL THE HERALD If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 3 o'clock and a copy will be Beat to you. FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 222 THE WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy tonight and Friday With Increasing cloud Iness In west portion Friday; little, lit-tle, change in temperature tonight and warmer Friday. nigh 50 Low so Precipitation j9 5300,000 Fire Destroys San Francisco Warehouse UTAH THURSDAY, APRIL COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICES PRICE FIVE CENTS : ;. J; : -, 1"' ' a its I I i M e Trf-WSS-e jit' -' ! . i. (NEA Telephota) Ban Francisco firemen throw tons of water on stubborn flaze, fed by tarpots used In laying insulation slabs, which broke out in an Army quartermaster warehouse under construction on the San Francisco Bay than-aet than-aet Seventeen persona5 were injured lighting the blaze, which completely destroyed the block-long $300.. two structure. Utah Retailers Ask For Changes In OP A SALT LAKE CITY, April 13 (UP) Spokesmen for Utah businessmen today had given the Utah operations of the Office of Price Administration a fairly clean bill of health at a state capitol conference, called by Gov. Herbert iB. Maw and attended by Sen. Abe Murdock, D., Utah, and Rep. J. Will Robinson, D., Utah. Grand Jury Called To Investigate Bramwell Case Host speakers said they ap- j predated the work the OPA was doing in controlling prices in Utah. They recognized the neccs Plannes LONDON, April 13 OLE) Red armies speeding through the Crimea Cri-mea toward Sevastopol hurdled three main barriers in their path today by capturing Simferopol, the capital city, and the west and southwest coastal strongholds of Yevpatoriya and Feodosiya Converging Soviet drives mov ing at almost unprecedented speed pinned the German and Romanian Hundreds Forced From Their Homes By Rising Floods EAST ST. LOUIS. April 13 U.E The Mississippi river poured from its banks at Grafton, Mo., today and threatened to flood on area extending 200 miles south ward to Cairo, IU., as hundreds of families were forced from their homes by rising waters of the: base white and Wabash rivers in Indiana. In-diana. The Mississippi was 19.1 feet at Grafton, 1.1 feet above flood level and was still rising. It was 39.6 feet at Cairo less than half a foot below flood level, after rls- OGDEN, Utah, April 13 (C.E war for sity for the controls during the ing a foot and a half, and vas'ress below Imphal for more than Japs Driven Back In Battle Before Imphal Enemy Driven From Strong Position In Hills After Battle BY UARKELL BERKIGAN L'nited Press War Correspondent .r xxxx, it, defenders against the sea in the (UP) Counterattacking Al-(southern part of the Crimea and i.,,..nc i, ., i, cleared the way for a qulcK as-licd as-licd tioupb hae dm en the lIt nn Rt,vaJnnn, Mnt R1arV Japanese ironi a strong position posi-tion in the hills southwest of Imphal after a bitter, hand-to-hand battle, a communique reported today. Simultaneously, It was revealed that an American infantry col-, uinn, striking suddenly through! tho Kumon mountains in north-central north-central Burma, had driven to within with-in 20 miles of the main Japanese at Myitkyina, imperilling the entire enemy position on that front. (A Japanese Dome! news ag ency Droaacast recorded by the United Press in New York said heavy fighting has been in pro Reds Streaming Through Crimea At Will Headed for Sevastopol sea naval base. Premier Josef Stalin announced the Crimea victories in three orders or-ders of the day broadcast from Moscow In quick succession the first time of the war he has issued three Orders of the day in a single day. Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin'of the lower Crimean mountain sent one spearhead of his fourth Ukrainian army careening down through Simferopol in the heart of the Crimea and another into Yevpatoriya, 40 miles to the northwest. Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko's independent in-dependent coastal army poured out of the liberated Kerch Denin- aerial barrage, after sula to seize Feodosiya, which j advance of 35 miles range. Yevpatoriya Is the last Important Import-ant port on the west coast above Sevastopol, which is 40 airline miles south. Soviet tanks and infantrymen in-fantrymen broke into the town to day under a heavy artillery and a one-day from the changed hands for the fourth time during the war. Feodosiya, famou medieval Black Sea port known as Kaffa Genoese, first was taken by the Dzhankoi-Sevastopol railroad line running down through the center of the Crimea. The fall of the two coastal strongholds gave the Red army Germans Nov. 4, 1941. The Rus- firm control of more than 5,000 sians recaptured it Dec. 30, only to lose it again a month later. Swift tank and infantry attacks drove the invaders out of Sif-feropol, Sif-feropol, 35 miles northeast of Sevastopol, on the northern slopes square miles of the peninsula, in which German and Rumanian forces had been entrenched since last November when they were bypassed by the westward sweep of the Russian armies. a short time after irisine steadilv A grand Jury was called today to t armistice during which time, The river was a foot and a half gyr:lt ""J a-i jic.to- utfJUW 11UUU U V t 1 cl I 31, IjUUlS UI1U rour ieex. Deiow iiooa siage ai Investigate circumstances rounding the recent resignation of Ogden mayor Kent S. Bramwell. The grand Jury Investigation was ordered by 2nd judicial district dis-trict Judges Charles G. Cowley and Glenn W. Adams. The county 36 hours and claimed that "Indo- Japanese" units had broken through a corner of the British defenses to reach the Imphal plain, almost within sight of the town. ( Dome! said the Japanese of- Major suersrestions for OPA pro- Cape Girardeau, Mo. cedure revisions centered around j Several hundred army trucks reilinc nrirps It wna Kiip-crostoH ! were moveel into the area to evacu- n..r .... ; r. 1 .. . . ..i .1 i ; j..: 4 that all grocery stores be put in,ate residents as army engineers l jhuiimkih. one class with one ceiling price 1 predicted that all of the lowlands1 Tuesday on the west short of schedule so "competition can take' between Grafton and Cairo not Ldktak Lake, and said the British v. ji . t- i. :i : nmtopto,) vw lot.ooe ho tiiin- naa DC en ur yen irom tne viuazc i . .... v a t c ul uic uiiicrci lk. rn)f Ul-l f vi.u u ' uuiu u, .nun - riapif urge r vr a wn . , . . w . . . - i- 7X . " I Ji?'""iUons against merchants shiftingi dated .I,., ...10 l"!JUT J1ose!to higher price lines of merchan- crcjctcu were to duuear utiure i ji.. ., .u tu i j ,, . . li . o uioc cvcji wjicii uic iuwer price Judge Adams here May 2. lincs are nQ onper availale Attorney General Grover A. J were also attacked, while it was Giles and Weber County Attorney recommended that judicial duties M. Blaine Peterson earlier re- of the OPA be transferred to reg- quested that a grand jury be cal led in the case. j The attorney general's office submitted to the two judges a report re-port of its recent investigations, adding that it would be "to the public good" to call for a grand jury investigation j Bramwell resigned after serv-i lng only three months in office. I He is now a private at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. A new mayor, David S. Romney, was installed in office yesterday, j ular state or federal courts and that appeals be expected. Martial Law In Hawaii Ruled Out HONOLULU, April 115 T.P' Federal Judgr Delbert K. Metzger todny ruled that tv.iirtu! !:iw nn longer exists in Hawaii, that the military have no lawful authority over civilian attains, at the conclusion con-clusion of a lengthy habi-as corpus hearing which challenged martial law here. Dog Helps Solve Mystery Around Missing Boy CHICAGO, April 13 (U.P The mystery surrounding the disappearance dis-appearance of four-year-old Leonard Lampley was solved today, thanks to a neighbor's dog that often plavld with the buy. " K When polieoni'-n learned that the boy was last seen with the dog, they enlisted the mongrei's aid in the search. The dog ran down the street and across a field to a swollen creek. Then it ran along the creek to a small foot bridge without a railing, walked out to the middle of the span and looked into the water and whined. The child's body was found a short distance down stream. Republicans To Meet Friday In County Convention of Tolbong, just north of Moirang and less than 25 miles below Imphal.) Im-phal.) The Allied communique Indicated Indi-cated that tho main Japanese in vasion forces striking across the Burma frontier from the south Turkey Warned by British Government Against Shipping Chrome to Germany By JOHN A. P ARRIS United Press War Correspondent LONDON. April 13 (EE) The British government has made strong representations to Turkey against the continued shipment of chrome to Germany, authoritative sources disclosed today, amid in creasing indications that Britain is ready to "crack down" on neut- Cartridge Cases To Be Made From Brass, Not Steel aid to Demands Made For Courtmartial Of Kimmel and Short WASHINGTON, April 13 (CP.) Prominent senators today renewed renew-ed demands for an early court-martial court-martial trial of Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. tral states that provide the reich. Turkey has been Informed unequivocally un-equivocally thai the Allies regard deliveries of chrome "to Germany in a very unfavorable light and may also have been warned that steps will be taken to halt this traffic unless the Turks do so voluntarily, these informants said.: Gen. Walter C. Shorten charges The British government is un-,of negligence in connection with derstood to have obtained evidence Japanese sarprise attack on to prove that shipments of chrome pear Harbor an essential material used for, Secretary ot navy Frank Knox hardening steel-from Turkey -to tod rcporters earlier in the week Germany and Hitlers satellite that Kimmel-Short situation countries have been increasing , was -confused'. and that he had lately. asked the iustice deDartment to Big Bombers Strike Plants On Wide Front Luftwaffe Blasted In Sixth Straight Day Of Destructive Raids LONDON, April 13 (UP)- More than 2,000 American warplanes struck from Bri- tain and Italy today at Nazi aircraft and component factories fac-tories along a 400-mile front through Schweinfurt and Augsburg in south Germany. to Hungary. Flying- Fortresses and Liberators Libera-tors of the United States Eightli and 15th air forces clamped a destructive pincers on fountain-heads fountain-heads of the Luftwaffe in one of the most staggering of the blows) struck in the pre-invaslon bombing: campaign now In its sixth straight day. Up to 750 heavy bombers escorted es-corted by nearly 1,000 fighters swarmed out of Britain and lnt southern Germany to blast aircraft air-craft plants at Augsburg, ball bearing works at Schewinfurt, and targets at Lechfeld, 12 miles from Augsburg, and Oberpfof-fenhofen, Oberpfof-fenhofen, 15 miles from Munich SimulfSheously the 15th air force sent its fort reuses and Liberators against Hungary a few hours after British bombers had pounded Budapest, Buda-pest, the capital, by night. They hit aircraft factories at . Gyor, 65 miles west of Budapest, Buda-pest, Tokol, 10 miles south of Budapest, and other objectives. The Berlin radio, giving th first tipoff on the two-way attack. said the American planes were cn- WASHINGTON. April 13 (UJR) The army is discontinuing use; means death for American of steel for making artillery cart-jdiers lonlr i ?i t r i if TIi r armv nnH navv aereed that the situation is serious ,. ' , ,,:, , u and one American source pointed but hag fc opposition in" ! gaged by Nazi fgihtera in violent rtufr that "rthwwviA fnr fiprmnnv rF hnttlpa nvpr HllTiffflrv. Hit Messerschmltt Plant sol"i Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Thom as C. Hart, retired former com- ridge cases and is going back to Until 1943 all Tnrkish chrome; mander of t'nc y s Asiatic Fleet Italian headquarters announce ed that 15th air force fortresses attacked a plant making Messer- i c begun had reached ' thP X of the Irn !brass move expected to boost was delivered to Great Britain, arrived i a Honolulu to begin 1 attackcd a p,ant mWnT Mes8"-nhal Mes8"-nhal nl?r and fhat the lone ' Paction by about 30 per cent but in that year Turkey agreed ."nV testimony phal plain and that the long- ' f VM r.ormonv with on nnn ihB resumony irom anous ra iDanubft anrf northwestern border xpected battle of Imphal had " " i nf' Z,, 'nn Ial 0"lcer8 m connection mui tne.. HunMn, "V. rff"1". l, ",?u" Pea" Harbor debacle. Hart was ; . . The exact locaUon of the Allied I. J- yen., ura n mpoeii assigned by Knox to this task to " " "VT The county Republican conven-; counterattack was not disclosed. nea? or e. ortmance aeparxment. V ,U,M t11,cu "B,u,tV obviate the necessity of officers ' " 1:,,:. .7 tion will be held Fridav night at i but the Briish apparently were fxpiainea mat m army original-; u"u. t , the Pacific travelling here to ' ",,.7 8 o'clock in the Provo high school, battling to prevent a Japanese "PP1 U8in Dr? 1. in A, tel1 what th knovv- Man-V of' auditorium. The program is under breakthrough into Bishenpur, i6!a,,shore f ingredients for the, Anglo-Turkish discussions in An-, offit.ers are on hazardous the direction of the Provo Wo-; miles southwest of Imphal alloy hi e , "severe manufactur-j kara early this year, however,. duUes and Knox explained he , . . . .. ... ... . f ... inc difficultiM wr an ticinated i snnnlies of chrome have been flow- . ., . . , , , mens nepuoiican iuo oc wnicn Meanwni e, Krillsn forces noia- : , 7 , u 7i j 7 , , i u m ru. 1 waniea io nave meir siones avail- nthpr fr.rtreieB from Ttjilv t ,-.15. xr ui .. 4 .dn use of steel, he said, the in- ine Into the reich more freely. : ., ... . . , utner fortresses irom liaiy ai iviia. mih iu-wfu i uiairniaii. mtr uie aimosi-encircieu lown oi . , - ., , , , ; . , , , rr,.i,,, auit-, n om J. Bracken Lee, prominent Re- Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal, anu L . , , m,Ki;, o,i i.,.;.. ,.,;n . ' ... u i ,i mination of the technicians and now faces k tho ;i,- D,,v,ii '.u; a .u iproductlon men of American in- .1 1 r riimtftr r--M aH ttia I'Antnrft a our', mncr u rtoclHoH immafl ATP V Klnc! lung uic iujuina-i-iiiapuv . ,, th capital. The Americans reported their targets in Hungary were 'well , covered'' with bombs. a cruicai propiein in ,her international relations which can stale cnairman David j. wii-and a son of Ogden, vice Chairman highway to the northwest. Manti, David Moffatt, state sec-! front, the communique reported, the arm supply program cess. But about the first of this year, the point where a vast fin1 1 1 i t j am it-ab mada BiiihlA Im T. Hansen, national Republican American Marauders had fought;"? "r.r. J." committeeman, and Mrs. G. A. their way into the Kumon moun- :jtv;" " n Marr, national committeewoman tain village of Nhkum. 15 miles '"IVmaT lfl Briet both of Salt Lake City will be j north of the Mandalay-Myitkyina present. The Republican mayors of Utah county will be honored guests at the convention. railroad and only 20 miles north-i to bras hJBy UNITED PRESS iinct nf Muitlrv na I . . ... ... ' .' PTTCCT A Snviot ar west of Mvitkvina. The surprise overland thrust, A county chairman, vice-chair-! coupled with the Chinese advance man, secretary and treasurer, and i down the Mogaung valley and the 60 delegates to the state and con- i British drive through the Malikha said, will- boost production and Most observers believed Turkey ' 1 " "'Yrjr '"Stacked rail yards at Brod, YUgO ; Sav junction southeast or .agreD. " ! f ennurViiln lichter American and British planes shuttled across tho channel for hours for attacks ; on transport targets behind the j invasion coast of western Europe. Boston and Mitchell medium, bombers from the RAF's 2nd SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (C.E) tactical force started the parade. -Fortv-four members of the crew! from British bases at dawn. They and naval armed guard of an ; hit military objectives along tho American oil tanker were reported , French invasion coast and return- r 'missine todav after the 12th ea w'LJl "e ios ui one pinne. RUSSIA Soviet armies, closing sHlBfV iar.ir,B thar thpl Next were Marauders from tha there is no doubt that present and future relations between that country and the United Nations hinge on the chrome situation. Utahn Missing As Tanker Torpedoed Your Bundles of Old Papers, Magazines, Books Will Be Collected Here Monday Waste paper salvage collection date in Provo is Monday, Mon-day, April 17. That's a day for everyone to remember, because right now, no salvago in the war effort is more desperately needed than waste paper. There are three kinds of waste paper wanted, and no Other kind will be collected during the drive Monday. First, newspapers; second, magazines, and third, old books with covers removed. They must be tied firmly in bundles with strong cord, in each case, to facilitate handling. Be sure this rule is observed ob-served ! Don't place the bundles out on your nearest comer in advance of' Monday, because they might get scattered and litter the neighborhood. Place the bundles on the nearer! street corner early Monday morning. The trucks will begin their rounds for collection soon after 8 a. m. Railroad cars located by the Tri-State Lumber company yards will be loaded by the trucks during the day. Practically every city in the county is cooperating in the drive, and trucks from these towns will bring their bundles to the railroad cars in Provo for loading. Credit will be given for the weight of waste paper turned in and drivers from outside towns are urged to have their loads properly weighed and weigh slips presented at the cars. Arrangements for the collection drive are in the hands of Clayton Jenkins, and Blake D. Palfreyman, county and city ealvage chairmen. gressional conventions to be held in Salt Lake City on May 20, will be chosen. The credentials committee is as follows: Ed Tuttle, American Fork, chairman; George Bahr, Salem; Lyean Johnson, Pleasant Grove: B. M. Jolley, Orem; John E. Booth, Spanish Fork; Sid Cory, Payson; Claude G. Salisbury, Springville; I. E. Brockbank, Pro-1 Falling rock in vo; Mrs. Evelyn Williams, Spanish Span-ish Fork. The committee on order of bus iness is as follows Ed. M. Rowe, Provo, chairman; F. C. Packard, Springville; Nobel Evans, Lehi; Jack Swenson, Span ish Fork; George Chase. Payson; Ray Davis, Salem; J. Gilbert Shumway, American Fork; Mrs. Mabel Jense, Pleasant Grove and Mrs. Virginia Oldroyd. Provo. The following comprise the res olutions and platform committee: George w. V orthen. Dr. v ern Greenwood and Luke Clegg, Provo; Pro-vo; J. Albert Page, Pleasant Grove; A. V. Watkins, Orem; Joseph Jo-seph E. Nelson, Spanish Fork; R. W. McMullin, Payson; Mrs. Rin-tha Rin-tha Christensen, American Fork; Mrs. Pearl Bigler, Payson and Mrs. Orin Jackson, Provo. river valley east of Merrill's col umn, poised a tnree-pronjfea save money because brass requires trap on 100,000 to 150,000 fleeing. wag torpedoed and sunk by,9th U. S. air force, which attacked fewer manufacturing operations; Axis troops in Crimea, reach out- &n enemv 8ubmarine in the ia number of additional military and yields lower scrap losses. jskirta of Simferopol, the capital, Arabian sea last month. targets in northern France and INCREASED EGG threat to Myitkyina, the principal j CONSUMPTION ASKED Japanese base in northern Burma. and Feodosiya, south coast port, in drive toward Sevastopol AIR WAR Heavy Anglo-Am- Japanese Worker Killed In Mine PRICE, Utah, April 13 CUE) the Sweet mine near here late yesterday killed Kinzo Yoshido, 58, who left a relocation center eight months ago SALT LAKE CITY, April 13 (UJ!) Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager of the Utah Poultry Tl 1 . , . J I rruuukers twperauve usuwia- war. tion, today urged increased egg consumptidn in Utah during the current egg surplus to prevent prices from being forced down. Edmonds said that lowered prices, in the face of hUrher costs of op eration, would force poultrymen The ship was identified as the wgium. incruaing me juncuon 05 Standard oil tanker H. D. Collier, INamur on one of the main supply a medium-sized ship operated by ani reinforcement routes to the f-v ,-. iroh on1 wi istandard of California. The ship, invasion coast. KAr fepitiires es- Rian coast and possibly southeast Earned for the company president, . sorted and covered the bombers. Germany usher in sixth day of .carneo a complement ox i '".V' l greatest Allied air offensive of Thirty-three members of the; (ship's complement and 11 mem-jOlUU JQD U60CI !bers of the exin crew were listed j m PACIFIC U .S. bombers strike )as missing. Ten officers and men Counted ReCentlV personnel! to reduce their flocks, an action south of Paramushiro; and cen in Kuriles at northern end of Jap-'and 16 armed guard anese empire; Liberators from were rescued. Aleutian bases raid Matsuwa is- Albert S. Youngberg, 18, son land, 1069 miles north of Tokyo -of Mrs. Sigrid Youngberg, Route and Onmekotan island, 100 miles il (Box 292) Midvale, Utah In the Pacific WASHINGTON, April 13 (CJ?) to become a Carbon county coal that would cause an egg-shortage! tral Pacific airmen blast Truk in Warner, 26, husband of 1 miner. later. Carolines for 17th time in month. 'Warner. Fillmore, Utah. American Bombers Sweep Japanese Air And Naval Bases Along 4000-Mile Front By WILLIAM F. TTREE 1 In consecutive attacks Monday explosions in the town of Dub-, and Ulu. 150 miles northwest of TTnltjri Trifts Wn r VirrMnnnHnt. - - j rr 1 t i 1 a iv Un.n .r.trln ' TTUk. r ajlu xucouajr, wuetaiut r . rrn.. avv anr1 marlne homh. PEARL HARBOR, April 13 CT.) American bombers, demonstrating demonstrat-ing the growing Allied power in from Aleutian bases hit Matsuwa island, 1069 miles north of Tokyo, twice for the third raid in a the Pacific, swept Japanese air mon ; Onnekotan island, 100 miles LONDON, April 13 OLE) Capt. Don Gentile, Piqua, O., leading fighter ace of the European theater the-ater of operations, cracked up on his home field today when he returned re-turned from a flying mission but he was not seriously injured. and naval bases along a 4,000 front from northern Japan to New Guinea in a two-day offensive offens-ive that carried to within 1100 miles of Tokyo, it was revealed today. Attacking from three sides of the Pacific. U. S. airmen struck the enemy from the Kurile islands at the northern end of the Japanese Jap-anese empire, to the Carolines and the central Pacific, to New Guinea and New Britain in the southwest. ' south of Japan's big naval base at Paramushiro, and Shumushu island between Paramushiro and the Kamachatka peninsula of Siberia. Si-beria. Liberators from "forces under both Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Gen. Douglas MacArthur combined com-bined in attacks on the Carolines. Central Pacific bombers raided raid-ed Moen and Bublon islands In Truk atoll Monday for the 17th raid in a month on the Carolines Among those rescued was Ward1, More than 26,000 Japanese dead 26, husband of Mrs. Mae nave Deen counted in recent months in the southwest and central cen-tral Pacific fighting, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced today. The secretary said at his news conference that 5,370 dead Japanese Jap-anese were counted on Bougainville Bougain-ville alone between March 8 and April 8. On New Britain, 4,379 enemy dead have been counted and 232 prisoners taken, and en- witn direct nits, uniy one 01 a:ers continuing the non-stop at-enemy at-enemy planes sighted attempted tacks on isolated Japanese bases to intercept the raiders but caus- in the Marshalls, hit four enemy emy forces on New Guinea up to ed no damage I positions Monday and blasted April 8 have suffered 1,053 count- ", , . , ! three more Tuesday. The targets !ea aeacj Ponape, 4O0 miles east of TTuk, I , icentified and the same I , th. Arimlntltv HUnd. was hit three times in two days positions may have been attack- 2,962 Japanese dead were counted bv navv Liberators and army led on both days. A fighter pilot Mitchells to complete the 18th 1 was forced down Monday near attack in 11 days. MacArthur's Liberators struck oil, but was rescued by a destroy-Nomoi destroy-Nomoi atoll, 150 miles southeast er. of Truk, on Monday, dropping ex- In the southwest Pacific, ap-plosives ap-plosives on Satawan airdrome, proximately 2,700 miles due while similar type bombers from 1 south of Tokyo, Billy Mitchell the central Pacific returned to medium bombers and Liberators the Carolines the next day to hit 'swept a 150-mile stretch of the bastion, starting large fires andjOroluk, 225 miles east of Truk, ! northern New Guinea coast. while in the Central Pacific campaign cam-paign 11,000 to 12,000 Japanese an American base at Majuro at- i have died, the secretary said. "These figures include only tha Japanese who have died within the American lines," the secretary continued. "They do not include the dead who have perished In the jungle, died on ships or fallen under bombs in Japanese instil" lations." T |