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J UTAH Cloudy Pwlth ; . scattered : showers, principally sionr tha CALL THE HERALD tf ycnVdon't receive your Herald before 6:30i cat! 495 before S 'j twit copy win ne Bent vo you FIFTY EIGHTH YEAR, Livestock, nee bntrol of Denou E Return to System of Free Enterprise Urged by PrmrBef ore Sub-committee of three Republican Governors at Salt Lake Hearing te ,; SAP LAKE CITY, 'April 24 M a Republican national sub-committee of three GOP governors -today ' heard, western livestock anixoolgrowing industry leaders urge d return to a system of f re enterprise and an end of strict government management as a means of securing American post-war Drosnerity. - j The requests for abandonment of federal control were made at the opening hereof a western reeional hearinirs bv Roosevelt Orders Ward to Work C33E10AGO, April 24 tT.R a speedy end . to th 12-day-old strike at j Montoimery Ward and Cto., which has tied up delivery of vital farm machinery, repajr parts and electrical equipment, was promised today following President Presi-dent Roosevelt's Order that the workers return to their Jobs and the company comply with a war labor board directive. Mt- Roosevelt gave" both, sides until rtomorow noon to Comply and preefdent Samuel Wolchok of the CjO'l united retail, wholesale arid department store employes union, collective bargaining agents for the workers, advised the president oy telegram mat hewas Instruct- tag the strikers to return to their" JODS.' i Sewell Avery, president of Montgomery f Ward and Co., was ' not available for comment. ' Wolchok rtoUfled the president that a mass meeting of company employes wilt be -held here today at which tlje the-workers will be given a report of the order and faistructlonto return to work. your order wjM y:jst: ,wtt3l! . complete compliance with the workers," Wolchok promised the president. "We hope that the company com-pany will see the Justice of your . request, will respect your authority author-ity and obey, too." Even though the company refuses, re-fuses, he added, the workers "Stand ready to cooperate m any Steps which you may find necessary neces-sary to take." In his order to the workers and company, Mr, Roosevelt warned that unless both sides complied with his order by noon tomorrow, further action presumably government gov-ernment , selzHre- would be taken to end wHat hesdescribed -as conditions con-ditions '"which ' cannot be permlt-' permlt-' ted to continue in a nation at war." Fortress Gunner Reported Missini In South Pacific Sgt. Ernest J. Sheen, 22, right gunner on a B-17, has been reported re-ported missing in action since March 30, over Tryk, in the south Pacific, according to a telegram from the government received by his parents,, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sheen of 442 West Fifth South street. Further details will be' forwarded forward-ed to the parents as they are received re-ceived by the. government from the Truk area, it was announced. The family last heard from Ernest Er-nest in a letter dated March 29 just the day before he was missing. miss-ing. He reported he was fine and enjoying "the place" and that he was gathering relics in his spare time. ' He had ban overseas since February. He enlisted in the air corps October 30, 1942, and trained train-ed in Colorado and Kentucky , and .received his wings at Meridian, Miss. He took additional training for eight months in Florida, Idaho and atWendover. Utah, before leaving for overseas duty4 The family moved to Provo from Bingham Canyon in Sept., 1642. Ernest was a graduate of Bingham high 'school in 'AO. A brother, Glen Lamar Sheen, seaman second class, U. C. coast guard, is on a sub-chaser in the south Pacific, In a recent letter to his folks, Glen wrote that he had just missed seeing Ernest by three days as the two passed through, a "certain point" in- the middle of March. Woman Escapes Death In Blaze SALT LAKE CITY, April 24 (IXft) MTs.' Dexter Johnson, 31, was in "fairly good" condition in the LI2S hospital here today, following a fire Saturday .in her apartment. City firemen rescued her after fire had partly damaged her apartment home; She was found unconscious oh her bed in the smoke-filled room land was sent to the hospital after first aid treatment. Montgomery NO. 229 IndtisfiV; trovs. isourne K. Hickenloop- fer of Iowa, Edward J. Thye oi Minnesota and C A. Bot- tolfsen of Idaho, on problems that are to be presented to Ihe Republican national, conven! uon in jntcago in June, for settlement settle-ment by blanks in the GOP 1944 platform. The bluntest statement of the opening discussion came when H. A. Staples, veteran central Utah livestock grower and feeder, said that when it comes to floor, celling cell-ing and subsidy1 prices "the whole mess is screwy we want to 1 get back to free enterprise and run our own business." , y Hickenlooper, presiding, stres' ed that the hearing was to be 'as non-political as possible, because tne ; problems of agriculture are oasic to our entire national econ omy, regardless of politics,, with the result that the entire discus sion, in the meeting hall and in the corridors, so far has centered on problems of the farmer. W. J. Gorsfc Worlshd, Wyo., president of the National Beet Growers association, . blamed an "unfriendly" administration of the federal sugar act, which he said favored foreign islands and pos sessions as a sugar . source ? be cause of heavy U. S. foreign in-vtstments, in-vtstments, foy the faUurV c-f the sugar beet Industry to shW any greater 40WmU GOrst admitted that the industry indus-try was receiving beneficial treat ment in the form of price subsi- dies. He said this mean the Itfr ,crv in effort lrotecty - custodv although I'm in favor of more protection and less custody" cus-tody" Roscoe Rich. Burley, Ida., past president of the Idaho Woolgrow-ers" Woolgrow-ers" association and representing the National Woolgrowers. recommended recom-mended that the Republicans favor retention of an adequate protective protec-tive tariff on American . agricultural agricul-tural and livestock products as a rontlurd oa Paare Turret County Re-Zoning Plan Comes Up For Public Hearing The county commission today, held a public meeting to-hear argu ments for and against proposed amendments to the Utah county zoning map, which would, if passed, pass-ed, reclassify properties presently present-ly located in the residential-agricultural zone to permit commercial commer-cial uses; The two areas are located on the east side of the state highway high-way immediately north of the Utah county infirmary, extending 1000 feet along thehighway and to a. depth of 200 feet, and on the north side of the state highway at the eastern limits of American Fork. Although the hearing was advertised adver-tised for 10 a. m. this morning, no action was taken due to the commission's desire to allow everyone every-one adequate ' time to appear to present arguments. Several persons per-sons were present at the morning session, but no arguments for or against were offered. Sheepmen mm I ; I rederal -- Production of Steel Plate at Geneva Held Down By Shortage of,7orkers Reduction of the available manpower man-power supply by the selective service serv-ice and inroads by competing war industries has created a serious condition at the Geneva steel plant curtailing production. The present operating force at th$ huge plant numbers x only 2000 men aS Compared Com-pared with a requirement for. full production of 4,500 men. Production, Produc-tion, could be stepped up lmmedi- Jately if the workers were avail able, It is reported. As a result of the shortage, company officials .will .employ more than 600 women to fill jobs for which men workers cannot be found, C. T. SplveyV idustrial relations re-lations director saidv "Shortages of workers for coke ovens, blast furnaces and tn general gen-eral maintenance, amounting to about 750 men. make it impossible to speed plate production a fast as we would like to do. working; conditions are being vided in the plant for women we can have between euo ana jproper PROVO, King Reveals Of U.S. Fleer 20 Battleships, More Than 50 Carriers Now Operating In Fleet By 8ANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent tTT A flttiitimniT A ! r 1 w Aoniix u , April A An early speedup in the tempo of the war aaramst Ger many and Japan was promised prom-ised today by Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-inhief. of the S. fleet and member mem-ber of the Allied high command, com-mand, as he revealed that 20 bat tleships arid more than 60 aircraft 'carrier of al) tvnea nr nnW operating in the fleet: t j Im lit. n wi V.Asf..A .. V. I Jio report to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox on the war's progress, King declared that "the encirclement of Germany is in sight," that Japan's intermediate defenses have been penetrated, and that the Allies are noW "determined "de-termined . to travel far and fast to victory." Long, Rough Road-King Road-King warned, ; however, that both In Europe and in the Pacific long and . tough roads still must be traversed before victory is achieved. ."But we are now fully entered, on .those roads." Here is urppean rone "As of March 1, 1944, the situation situa-tion in the European theater is dMPefate for the i and correspondingly encour- aging for Us. "The German .structure of satellite states is crumbling. Italy has fallen and is a battlefield in which 20 German divisions are taking heavy punishment. Romania, Ro-mania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and LFinland are weakening. The .Balk- ans are aflame with guerilla war, and other occupied await only the signal. countries; 'The Russian armies continue to - advance, a massive invasion: threatens in the west, and with all this, Germany Is scientifically and remorselessly being bombed on a scale whose "magnitude and increasing . tempo have flattened, her cities, wrecked her factories. and cannot but be a major factor in her eventual collapse."" Pacific theater "The war against Japan has rone increasingly well of late. From their posts of maximum advance in the Pacific, the Jap anese have 'been driven back progressively by a aeries of of fensive operations. Irnpottant as our own advances toward Japan are, they do not fully represent the improvement in our position. Japanese capacity to maintain the war' at sea and in her advanced areas has suffered increasingly, due to the- loss of vital shipping, while the growth of our power in the Pacific enables us to- threat en ' attack on the Marianas and Carolines and Kuriles, which may be called the intermediate zone of defense of the empire "Jipan will not be directly un der attack as Germany is row, until the citadel area of that em-Dire, em-Dire, island and continental, is un der our threat or control, but the prospective circumstances lri the Pacific theater present a situation (Coatlnnrtl on Pair Turret at once. Over the next two to three months we. will need more than 2500 workers to ,get the plant Into full production," Mr. Spivey said the "tendency now to confine recruiting to dis tricts approximate to steel plants emphasizes how necessary it is for local people to fill these Jobs." He added, "those lacking in skill can be trained right at the plant to qualify for bettey Jobs." ; Utah metal mines and plants expect : to lose some 1,000 more men to the armed "forces within the next five months and are already al-ready short- 900 workmen according, accord-ing, to A. G. McKenzie, manager of the Utah Metal Mine Operators' association. - Women were also employed In Utah, Idaho and Nevada mines, McKenzie reported, Commenting on the fact that Utah's neighboring states were faced with similar work shortages. However, he said, the women employed In intermoun-tain intermoun-tain mines were: all engaged in surface work. . Ainnieiriciliiii Rapid Growth UXAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, . APRIL Australian Wives Arrive in U. S. It ptrM ff When America's fighting men marry of the eipp II this latest contingent m l I ?; - r I if s : mX-k as vney arrivca m aan rrancwco, is a lypicai example, xne women entered en-tered the country as non-qifota immigrants and most of them will be come U. S. citizens under the Cable Act as wives of citizens. Red Army Completes Regroup Sevastopol; Nazi Resistance Growing MOSCOW. April 24. (KE) Front dispatches indicated today that Rd armies have completed regrouping- on several sectors of the vast Russian front and stand ready to launch powerful new ofcr fensives, perhaps coinciding' with an Anglo-American inv'asiofi of western Europe, Soviet week-end communiques, reported -no essential changes ' Nazi Supply Ports n Italy Blasted By RAF Bombers ALLIED' HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, April 24 (UE'f RAF night bombers struck heavily at Nazi supply ports and railroad objectives ob-jectives in central and northern Italy e-arly today, climating 24 hours of widespread 'aerial blows against the enemy's battered communications com-munications lines leading to the battlefronts below Rome.: An Allied communique reported no major action on the land fronts, although both sides tradcid heavy artillery fire on the Anzio beachhead beach-head aid in the Cassino sector and patrols were active in all sectors. sec-tors. ' British four-engined Halifax bombers spearheaded the pre-dawn aerial offensive today; ..unloading tons of blockbusters on the rau-wcy rau-wcy yards at Parma. key junc-t"c:i junc-t"c:i en the Turin-Bologna line. Simultaneously, waves of Liberators Lib-erators and Wellingtons 'bombed harbor installations at Genoa, San Stefano and Piombino three of the main ports of entry for enemy blockade runners from southern France. The night attacks followed a daylong series of attacks by Allied Al-lied medium bombers and fighter-bombers fighter-bombers on rail and road targets in the , Florence and I Rome areas. Bridges - at Attigliano and Cecina were attacked, along with Ancona harbor and the Rjetti,- Foligno and UerUgia airfields, while other raiding formations struck at enemy en-emy ammunition and supply dumps in the battle areas below Rome. t- Girl Killed By Rolling Boulder KAMASt Utah, April 124 Funeral services today were pending pend-ing for Claud Thacker, 15, of Kamas, , who was crushed to death by a boulder here yesterday. yester-day. ... The girl was flaying with a companion beside the boulder., at the bottom of a small hill. A rock from the top Of the j hill rolled ' into the boulder, toppling it over on the girl, fehe was rescued res-cued by four, men within ten minutes min-utes but died' while being taken to a hospital. r : w A ?vV 'V (NEA TeUnhotol Australian girls, they pick the cream of Aussie 'Wives and fiancees, shown on any of the various sectors. Supplementary bulletins disclosed disclos-ed that German counterattacks were continuing in Estonia and in the southwestern Ukraine, but apparently on a reduced scale. Reinforcements and supplies were reported pouring into the Russian lines all along the front. Intervals between the summer, autumn, and winter phases of the nine-month offensive proved the Soviet command can regroup its forces within & relatively short lurae and it therefore was believed here that the present lull will be short. , LONDON, April 24 UR The German high command said today that the Red army had completed regrouping at Sevastopol and strong Soviet tank and infantry forces were attacking in several sectors, A supplementary high com mand report broadcast from Berlin ! said thf Russians were attacking! north of Sevastopol bay and the j Hi.rn.v, river .V.h flnura Intn 1 it from the southwest. "Confinuojis break-through attempts, at-tempts, supported by numerous battle planes failed in the face of stubborn German resistance," the broadcast, paid. Liberators Sink Six Enemy Ships CHUNGKING, April 24 ME) Land-based Liberator bombers of the 14th airforce, striking for the first time in. the Saigon area of French Indo-China, sank six enemy ships including a naval vessel in a surprise attacn Saturday off Cape Saint Jacques, it was announced today. The ships, totaling approximately approximate-ly 20,000 tons, included three 300-foot 300-foot tabkers; one 300-foot freighter; freight-er; one 350-foot freighter -and a small naval vessel. Ford, Lindbergh To By .AffN IIICKS ' United Press Staff Correspondent . WASHINGTON, April 24 (HE) Attorney James J. Laughlin today filed a motion in district court to subpena Henry Ford and Charles A. Lindbergh to testify in the sedl-. tion trial, while the two-dozen odd defense attorneys argued anew about the status of prospective jurors, the judge's views and other matters. Laughlin, counsel for Edward disappearance last week delayed proceedings for two days, filed his motion with the court clerk but 4t was not acted upon imme-mediately. imme-mediately. " . In the" small courtroom itself, attorheys sought to persuade Judge Edward C Eicher thit he should dismiss some 70 prospect- 24, 1944 l-bM :lJik i I w'lltYCSivil Aerial Blows Hit Luftwaffe Two-Wcjy Raids Blast Romania and Aircraft Plants In Germany By PHIL, a4tLT United Press War Correspondent LONDON, April 24 W An estimated 3,000 American warplanes swarmed over Eu rope today in mighty proces sions, paced by four-engine bombers which struck heavy brows at Munich and Friejd- nchshafen in ,G e r m a ny, Bucharest and .PUtestl in Romania, and the Yugoslav capital .of Bel grade. . - The five-pronged main assault oy united states air forces striking strik-ing from Britain and Italy, car ried the unbroken pre-invaslon offensive against the . continent through its eighth straight day. ad probably to a new, peak of in tensity. Meet Resistance About 1,000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators based in Britain hit German aircraft factories at Friedrichshafen and airdromes around Munich. Up to ?$0 of the big bombers lashed out from Italy at rail yards "in Bucharest and Ploeatl and key targets in Bel-arrade. Bel-arrade. , The bombing fleets . were corted by powrfunterof flght er planes, and early reports indicated indi-cated that resistance was encoun tered over bo. Germany and th Balkans. Swiss dispatches re-rnrtid re-rnrtid U. S. bombers crashine in flames and safd at least 10 landed in Switzerland. While very strongvforces" 01 heavy bombers were striking at southwest Germany; Forts and Liberators of the 15th, air force 'In great strength" swept ove the Balkans for .a " three-way assault as-sault on transport centers vital to the- German war effort. Returning to Bucharest for 'the third time in 10 days. Liberators attacked the main rait yards of the Romanian capital in . clear weather. Fortresses swung northward north-ward to the Romanian oil center of Ploesti and hit the rail yards there for.&i(e fifth time. Other Fortresses attacked the nllnard Pnitr Thrust, Hershev Insist On Drafting All ; II J A WOrKIX 11110 ZO II VI llWIti WIIUVI AaV . WASHINGTON, April 24 U.R Maj: Gen. Lewis' B. Hershey,-selective service director, has emphasized em-phasized anew that despite any threat to war production, physically physi-cally fit men under 26 must be drafted to meet army-navy demands de-mands for 1,400,000 men this year. He said in a radio address last night that the number of men reaching 18 years of age every month : about 60,000 is enough only tftr fill ,a fraction of each month's requirement of 150,000. Thus, he said, "it is essential to draw up the 1,000,000 under 26 now deferred, of whom 600,000 probably will pass examinations Meanwhile, there were indica tions that only a few pre-Pearl Harbor fathers over 30 and employed em-ployed in essential activities will be inducted this year, unless the western European jfroiJt or other future military operations .cause unusually . heavy, drains on the fighting forces. Be Ashed to Testify ive jurors who were waiting in a corridor outsideJ They began : de bating as soon as Eicher dismissed dismis-sed another group of veniremen who had been present on Thursday Thurs-day when Prosecutor O. John Rog-ge Rog-ge mentioned'' previous indict ments against some of -the. 30 defendants. The judge held that this remark might have prejudlc- One attorney wanted all Jurors! still available counted out because "they have been reading the' pa pers and they know about the other indictments too." Another attorney wanted all jurors aervlng for the Apm term cusquamrea. Attorney Henry H. Klein commented com-mented glumly, frery prospective juror . in the city knows about it how." Attorney Harry A. Grantil925 and that Lindbergh made asked that all government emtanq-Semitic utterances la 1937. COMPLETE UNJTEIJ PRESS-TELEORAPH PRESS-TELEORAPH NEWS SERVICE riple Landing Ooerat ions 60,000 Jap Three Airstrips Captured, Closing in Oil-the Oil-the Big Holiandia Air Base in Butch New Guinea, in Biggest Invasion of Pacificf By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON j United Press Staff Correspondent ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GLjINEA, April 24 K largest American Invasion army 6f the southwea'acific war has captdred thiree air- strips and is closing won the big Hollandfa air base itf" Dutch New jGuirtea, follolwins a triple, landing thai carried Gen. Douglas tyacArthalr's forces 500 nriles closer to thai Phillipines, it was revealed today. : 1 . . i ' The main invasion force cap tured the town of Holiandia and its emergency airstrip only a few hours after landing in Humboldt Bay oh the north coast of New Guinea Saturday, then joined an other column that pushed aahcfre at Tenahmerah , Bay, 20 - miles, to the west, in a pincers drive inland toward the Holiandia air base. A front dispatch reported the Tenahmerah.1 column had sent patrols pa-trols out to within five to six miles of the air base, keystone of Japanese "air strength in this theater. Seize- Airfields- Some 129 miles southeast, of Holandia, the third Invasion force was revealed to have I seized the es-JtWo Tadii airfields only 6i hours aiCer'lahdlng aft-TRape.1 - Wyt Auscrauan air rorce engmeers already al-ready were readying the ' Tadjl airstrps, and t was expected that they soon would be used by Australian warnawKs, wmcn can take off the land under worse conditions than most other war-planes. war-planes. . Renorta reaehinef headauarters Indicated, that operations in- the Hollandia-Tanahmerah .area were continuing s - satisfactorily and authorities here- expected . that th three airfields comprising thf Holiandia air base soon would he in American hands, MacArthur, who landed at the Holiandia jtnd Tanahmerah beachheads beach-heads only a few hours after they neaas omy u iv uvuia had , been secured, said theysur-t,, prise invasion- had "completely isolated'1 the Japanese 18th. army rof 60,000 men dispersed as far to the southeast as Madang, more than 400 miles beow Holiandia. The heavy air and sea bombardment bombard-ment that preceded ; the three landings scattered the Japanese garrisonp and no organized enemy resistance has feeenf reported yet at any of the beachheads. However, How-ever, some of he , Japanese cut off at Wewak were understood to be working their way along coastal coast-al trails toward 7 Titape, and strong counterattacks were anticipated antici-pated against all three, forces In the near future; Jap Night Raid- . Headquarters sources said, there probably already had been some air reaction against ; the Tanah-taerah Tanah-taerah and Holiandia beachheads from, the yest, probably from bases at Manokwari. .A Japanese night raid in the flrset two' or three nights after the landings easily might cause heavy damage and considerable casualties' should hits be scored pn newly -.- landed ammunition and vehicles before they can' be dispersed, properly. MacArthur said the landings, in which scores of thousands of troops participated ''throws a loop of envelopment"- around the Japanese . 18th army in j northern New Guinea, A "'Time and combat will be re-' quired to accomplish the annihila tion, but their uiamats f1 18 arentlnnral nm I'tHf t mrrrt in Sedition trial ployes be dismissed from the panel Eicher overruled all Amotions about the jurors, one after the other. f Defendant . Lawrence Dennis, New York publisher of the yeek ly foreign letter, dismissed his at torney, Floyd Lanham of Chicago, and told Eicher he would represent repre-sent himself f romi how on. . Laughlin had announced his plan seek tosubpena Ford and LindM HCTKU, ' 1 i V He also said he planned to write tb the president pointingout that it "'Mr. Roosevelt weref wise he vould have the prosecution stopped stop-ped now because, when the facts art brought out, they will create lUghun said that Ford waged a "campaign against the Jews" in nins at the lower level; snow ta , , the moaataln toidght'and 'toiDor' row. Little change In temperature' ; this afternoon, cooler west portion por-tion tonight and coWer tomorrow High.. ;.;....... Low ......... ..v. ........ 81. PRICE FIVE CENTS anese Continent Yarned i.-i-- By Axis Radios Of Allied Invasion LONEiON, April'. 24 CE AxUl radios warned the occupied contt net that .the invasion of Eurbpa will come this weK. j In an apparent attempt- to drawj some inforrdative statement trtwnj the Allied commanders, enemx propagandists, hammered out ref peated warnings of an imminent- assault iahd hinted that the WOW- is expected to fall on France - 'lhid an the Medlter- ranean The German radio, after appraising ap-praising the war situation In Rus sia. Italy and western Europe, su ed flatly that "we are on vx eve of the invasion. e Nazi broadcast said Ger man observers are on a it-nour alohe the? French coast' re rting every move of Aiuea snipf ng in the icngiun cnanneu lashes beween light German and Allied patrol bokts are occurring with increasing frequency, German reconnoiterine raids over British coastal areas, the Droaa- cast Said. The Nazicontrolled Paris radio. commenting on the Spanish news ipapar Artba's zorecast xnac usera ts 8jated for this week, paper Ariba's forecast that tke to mitted that "we are at the begin- nincr of weeks of extreme gravity.' All Nazi Dropaeanda report emphasized the posibility of equal- ly strong Aineu atiacxs veins - . . ... . J m. a. . m m. launched on France, from ; ln north and south, and asserted that a steady stream of An'glo-Ameri can troops ana equipment w anu-ln anu-ln North Africa and Italy Tuck Nominated Minister to Egypt WASHINGTON. April 24 RXh President Roosevelt today nominated nomin-ated S. Pinkney -Tuck of New York, former charge d'affaires-of the' U. S. embassy at Vichy,: to be minister to Egypt. Tuck recently returned aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm fta a Nazi interment camp. In Ids neW post . he will succeed - Alexander Kirk, now u. S. representative H the Allied council m ltaiy. The White House also sent to the senate the- nomination of R. Henry Norweb, now minister to Portugal, to be ambassador. - '. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS J .. ,'V Pacific Largest American , to vasion army of southwest Paciflo captures three airstrips and closing in on large . Holiandia. air 1 base in Dutch New Guinea. Air War Anglo - American borhbe'rs 'and fighters stream into Germany j starting second'. week of non-stop offensive designed toi Soften up western Europe for" In-i vasion. . . Russian-Red armies complete regrouping: on Several sectors of vast Russian , front and prepared! to launch powerful new offensive j Italy RAF night : bombers trme heavwy at Nazi , supply arts and railroad' objectives - to itrai and northern Italy cli ng 24 hoar air blow at Ger communications lines to bat 'ront below' Rome. ' - ;....' .ft. Liberator bomber t of S. Air Force, striking, for e in Saigon area of Ldo- six enemy vessels, , . ' I r ap IS cei maxu man tie I China iMtn v. first tun China, sink v - - i V ': |