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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Fair this atternoonV increasing cloudiness tonights Tata, west portion early tomorrow mor nlng and tomorrow; wanner west, portion tonight and cooler west; portion, tomorrow;, strong. wes winds west portion this afternoon. Temperatures: Hih n Low sa HERALD FEATURES Consistently ahead of the news, the Washington Merry -Co-Round, daily column by Drew Pearson, appears every day on the Herald editorial pate. FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 78 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY POLTII OF SALT I.AKB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELERAPH NEW8 SERVICE) PRICE FIVE CENTS! Remember Pearl Harbor ncm Mi mi AlnnlC L Off n. 1 lilt . ' . t, - 4m. Arm ... mm Two Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers have proposed a "Shrine of Pearl Harbor," to tower above Honolulu's famous Diamond Head so that it will be visible for many miles at sea. Draftsman R. C Berg designed this suggested memorial, and Tony Todaro, machinist, has started a campaign to attract public interest in the project. Dewey Swings Into California Today SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 CE);land, Ore., at the 16th street sta- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Repub-Jtion In Oakland and were greet-Ucan greet-Ucan presidential nominee, today (ed by Gov. Earl Warren of Cali-opened Cali-opened a two-day campaign for.fornia and other state Republican California's important 25 electoral j leaders. Votes. j Dewey will make two major The New York governor and! speeches In California. One at San Mrs. Dewey arrived from Port-1 Francisco (8 d. m. PWT. NBC) to Royal Theatre In Lehi Destroyed In $55,000 Fire LEHI The Royal theatre, located lo-cated on state street in upper Lehi Le-hi was completely destroyed by firtt earlv Wednpsdav mornine. The loss is estimated at $55,000 ie s 25 electoral college votes-only votes-only particially covered by insur- i fourth largest bloc at stake in the juice. November election. The theatre, one of three in ' For a state where personal in the north section of the county : popularity usually means more owned by John H. Miller of Am-1 than party organization, the Re-erican Re-erican Fork Is the second to be publican presidential nominee destroyed by fire within a period of eight months. In January the Cameo theatre Of American Fork burned down,f the customary single appear- witn a ao.uuu loss 10 wr. .miner, This theater was reopened Apnl 20th. Smoke was seeri issuing from persons in an eating place Hose,""uvu -- " by. The Lehi and American Fork!citie8, and towns surround.ng the fire departments were soon at the P"PU,0"s San Francisco bay and scene but the flame had Buch lun-'h witJi GOP leaders from headway that the building was : neighboring counties, as well as soon enveloped. The place was gut- private conversations with Gov. ted no machinery or equipment Earl Warren, who took himself out beingaved. One of the walls , of the Republican presidential race caved in. :at tnc Chicago convention last Clifford Miller of Lehi. son of'Jurie n the lace of the mounting Mr. Miller who operated the! Dewey landslide, theater said he closed the build-1 Dewey reached California, after ig at 12:30 a. m. after his usunl a swing down the Pacific coast ,1nal inspection to make certain from Washington, in a fighting that all the patrons had left and, everything seemed alright. With the hour the alarm was sounded. The fire apparentely originated in the forepart of the building. Mr. Miller estimated the loss Thursday morning at around $30,000. ' A report by Mr. Miller that he found a rear door broken openlnew approach to the relationship when he arrived after the fire had ; between the government of the broken out, was being investigated by officers today. House, Senate Adjourn Today WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 UP) The house and senate today adopted adop-ted a resolution to adjourn when they complete their business today, to-day, until Nov. 14 or until congressional con-gressional leaders summon them back into session, whichever is earlier. SIONGREL UTNS BATLE WITH TRUCK NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (CP) Brownie, a mongrel weighing only Six pounds won a decision over a Six-ton trailer truck laden with foodstuffs. The truck rolled down j the street as the dog was forag- Ing. The driver had to swerve toled janese cave fortresses on the avoid Brownie. The truck turned ridges of western Peleliu under Over, the food spilled out and .battle conditions even worse than Brownie got his meal. BOOSEYZXT WIDOW RECEIVES AWARD l ! 21 a.P i WASHINGTON, Sept. Secretarv of War Henrv L. Stinv 1 Son today presented to Mrs. TheJ- 1 dore Roosevelt, Jr., widow of the brigadier-general son of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, the congressional medal of honor in recognition of the generals "gallantry "gal-lantry and interpidity" on D-Day in. France. ill KwJi mwmxs night from the civic auditorium. and a second tomorrow night In Los Angeles. By JOHN L. CUTTER United. Cress. Staff Correspondent WITH THE DEWEY CAMPAIGN CAM-PAIGN TRAIN, Sept. 21 (U.E) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey swung in to California todav. prepared to devote the rest of this week and two major speeches to the mostSimo Chiang Kai-Shek, after the i . . . - . - n ; . presidential campaign tour for the scheduled major addresses both at San Francisco tonight and Los Angles tomorrow nieht. instead ance Party organization was not ignored, however. The New York governor's first day schedule in- mood He promised that if his bid for the White Houso is successful the nation will witness 'the biggest. I fu r.r-aaf i ; the finest and most complete housecleantng" of the government in history. national He proposed, instead, "a whole United States and its people." That is the subject of his speech to be broadcast from San Francisco Francis-co at 8 p. m, PWT tonight. That was th e measure he had for crowds which greeted hia special train at Eugene and Klamath Falls, Ore., enroute southward from Portland. At Klamath Falls, Dewey told a trainside audience of approximately approxi-mately 2,500, that "all you need is a government that will say to you. "we believe in this country' and you will g0 ahead to the ' (Continued on Page Two) aeitrmmca anve or nis B,w-mue!i'u"ii na aanuuea inai Jap Cave Fort reses On Peleliu Offer Tough Resistance to American Marines BY UNITED PRESS Clawing their way across sheer, jagged coral, marines are assault mo- a chain of suoerblv-construct those at Tarawa, Guadalcanal and Saipan, front dispatches reported today. Richard W. Johnston, United Press war correspondent who went in at the beach at Tarawa and scaled Mt Topotchau on Saipan, reported from Palau: "Peleliu ridge surpasses them both." He disclosed that the first and seventh marines had suffered "considerable "con-siderable casualties." and said "it 1 should be obvious to the Amer mm United States To Give More Aid To China Greater Cooperation In War Against Japs To Be Extended By ROBERT J. MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 The United States and China are about to embark upon up-on a belated but major effort to harness Chinese military and industrial power for the final blow against Japan, it was learned today. American officials hope that despite the current crumbling of Chinese resistance inside China, the cooperative American-Chinese project will not be too late. Reports Re-ports of the loss of Allied forward air bases in China hint that the aerial protection the navy might have counted on for the landing of amphibious forces on the China coast has been temporarily lost. Details of the American-Chinese industrial and military plans are not known here, and probably will not be until Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production bosTrd returns here and reports to President Roosevelt. The president presi-dent and Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered Nelson's directive di-rective in .Quebec last week in planning the end of Japan. Nelson and MaJ. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, the president s personal representative, went to China for I secret conferences with QeneraHs - n I J . 1 j.... t. .1 i situation in China was not good. Nelson, seeking to increase China's economic and industrial lina's economic and industrial contribution to the war, announced an-nounced in Chungking yesterday that he would return to Washington Washing-ton shortly, but would come back to China later this year when "the operational phase of the joint program pro-gram is getting into full swing." Hurley, concerned with efforts I to increase the eficiency of the Chinese military, will stay on in Chungking. More is known here at the present pres-ent time of the possible joint efforts ef-forts of the two countries to improve im-prove the Chinese military effort than the problems on which Nelson Nel-son has been working. Officials have been outspoken in their criticism criti-cism of the Chinese military setup, set-up, and have placed most of the blame for military reverses on the inexperience and incompetency of the Chinese military commanders. They point out, however, that the Chinese soldier fights admirably admir-ably considering his condition. He is underpaid, underfed, ill-equipped and poorly trained. His war lord commander in many cases is more interested in keeping his unit in Li eLy " the cost is his own troops. There a. V. i rl i- J Is no overall coordinated strategy among the various commanders, and the central Chinese govern-ment govern-ment under Chiang has only tenuous tenu-ous control over the various T3ii-nese T3ii-nese armies. DEATH PARTS TWINS 85 YEARS OLD MUNCIE, Ind.. Sept. 21 E) The life-long companionship of Thomas P. Murphy and Joe Murphy. Mur-phy. 85-year-old twins, was ended end-ed today. Thomas died last night The twins, who were born in Philadelphia and came here 59 years ago, shared a common house and even a common pipe. Neither was married. They were boxing fans and claimed personal friendship friend-ship with John L. Sullivan. ican people that such positions cannot be neutralized without some losses." From connecting caves equipped equip-ped with steel doors, Japs were reported pouring a cross-fire of small arms, mortar and artillery at heroic leathernecks inching their way over the cruelly-sharp coral. The surface was so rough that men injured themselves merely mere-ly by falling down. From the standpoint of territory terri-tory captured, the marines appeared appear-ed near the end or "the Peleliu campaign because they hold two-thirds two-thirds of the island. Farther west, land-based Liberator Lib-erator bombers. Intensifying the two-way drive on the Philippines, (Continued on page two) ' Red Army Campaign To Liberate Baltic States Almost Won v Four Russian Armies Wheeling Through Baltics On a 200-Mile Front Threatening 200,000 Nazi Troops With Imminent Death Bq HENRY SHAPIRO United Press War Correspondent , MOSCOW, Sept. 21 kj.) The government newspaper Izvestia said today that the Red army campaign to liberate the Baltic states is almost won. Four Russian armies were wheeling through the Baltics on a 200-mile front, riding down the rear guard of an estimated 200,000 German troops threatened with imminent death or capture. Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian stormed the suburbs of Riga. Marshal Leonid A. Govorov swept toward Fallinn. Gen. Ivan Mas lennikov deepened his thrust toward to-ward the sea northwest of Valga. Gen. Andrei I. Yeremenko pushed into Riga from the east. Writing against the backdrop in sarcastic vein, Izvestia's military commentator said that "The Germans Ger-mans soon will be compelled to announce an-nounce the 'successful' conclusion conclus-ion of the Baltic campaign." i w -Ty inui A main barriers in the path of Go- vorov s two-way thrust through Estonia already had been hurdled, leaving before him a relatively clear coastal plain stretching to "1 P1"" iy r Taumn. Sl a i ine veteran Leningraa under Govorv wag revealed last' i n,nt nave Jre.a m nc t,ai"c ' u uii; 1" . rW" Irom lnOUIf , Dl . e B"DurD "'8a ...... . . o . . iwi wowi t L V Ol CI 1 1 jl Mt I II mil i uu w rtve" ana wampiana nuggmg the ,vlore -aKe ieipus was smashed by a massive air and ar tillery bombardment. Then Govorov's assault forces broke through west of Narva and north of Tartu and swarmed through the flattened German po- which the president will open his sitions for advances up to 44: fourth term campaign, mites. The talk will be broadcast on (Radio Berlin said the Soviets 'all radio networks from 9:30 to also launched their big assault on Warsaw, rorcing several crossings cross-ings of the Vistula river and winning winn-ing a foothold 500 yards deep in the streets of the capital. Berlin said the bridgehead was sealed off after a wild battle that jammed: the quarter-mile wide river with dead.) The Germans still held a narrow nar-row corridor along the Gulf of icijiu vroi.ua- tlon of the Baltics to the south anH tvia nnrf r Tiiin . and trie port of Talinin for a try at escape by sea. The Riga corridor, already was under heavy Russian shellfire, however, and the Sovi - eta were established by their Fin- nish armistice terms on the north coast of the Guf of Finland, mak- IS a oea-Dome Wimarawal all; but impossible. Allied Planes Drop Polish Parachutists LONDON, Sept. 21 CJ? The German DNB news agency reported report-ed today that Allied planes dropped drop-ped Polish parachutists in Warsaw. War-saw. "On the fifth anniversary of the unconditional surrender of War saw, a large formation of Anglo- American bombers carried out a demonstrative rs',d for the purpose 01 encouraging remnants of the underground movement in its desperate des-perate struggle." DNB said. "They dropped a number of Polish Po-lish shock troop leaders who were all shot down in the air. The dropping drop-ping of Polish parachutists took place in midday." Cardinals Clinch League7 Pennant KKAVES FIELD, BOSTON, Sept. 210J.R) The St- Louis Cardinals Cardin-als clinched their third consecutive consecu-tive National league pennant today to-day when, after losing eight, of their last nine starts, they defeated the Boston Braves, 5 to 4. In the first game of a doubleheader. FATALLY INJURED UNDER TRUCK POCATELLO. Ida., Sept. 21 (HE) Lloyd Winn, died here yesterday as the result of an accident on highway 30 three miles west of Pocatello. He was fatally injured when the jack on a truck he was repairing slipped. Winn was pinned pin-ned between the radius rod and the steering rod. Roosevelt Bach From Conference; Works on Speech WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (TIE) President Roosevelt has returned ifrom his war conference with Prime Mlnlstcr Win8ton Churchill Lt and has begun work on L j,itical 8pecch he wiU make nere Saturday night, the white nouBe dlscload toda. White HoU8e secretary Stephen Early said the president -wouldfed in the line fast week. fhft nnh hirh tHii h. .rt- i dressed to members of the Inter- national Teamsters Union (AFL) it a meeting in a Washington ho- itel. M r. Roosevelt announced some;Nazi artiiiery pounded the Ameri - igo that it would be his first can.held narts stronenoint de - .... (, ... . 1 1 m a 11 n .-!(. IV ifnulrl tw Mia . 1 0 T , Doiiticai sneecn 01 me Dresiaeniiai . campaign The president's only scheduled conference today was with Under secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. Pat-terson. Nearly 1,000 union officials are expected to attend the meeting at 10 p. m. E. W. T. Joint Legislative Budget Committee To Meet In Provo runner consiuerauon or wit - move to incorporate the CentrWl ... . r. . . . .1 Further consideration of the Utah Vocational school into the state school system will take i r.iar t a merino- of th loint i j legislative budget committee, to be heid jn Provo, Monday. Quayle ! Cannon, Jr., secreary, announced today T, ..owimUfeo mnvenA at the school, county fair grounds, at 10 a. m., in a general business session, to be followed by a tour of the plant at 11:45. Luncheon will be served to the members of the committee at the school dining din-ing hall at 1 p. m. Before leaving Provo, the members mem-bers of the committee will meet with officials of the Utah State hospital, probably at 3 p. m., at the institution. Senator Grant MacFarlane is chairman of the committee. Additional Ad-ditional members from the senate are Ira A. Huggins, James A. Kelly, Mitchell Melish and Alonzo Hopkin. Members of the house of representatives, in addition to Rep. Cannon, are Adrian W. Hatch, W. R. White, Grant Midgley and G. A. Staples. Socialist Fears U. S. Imperialism NEW YORK, sept 21 (HE) Socialist So-cialist candidate for president Norman Thomas told American troops overseas in a short-wave broadcast last night that their government was in grave danger of losing the peace they were fighting for. He asserted that the government's govern-ment's proposed establishment of an international police force and permanent military conscription inevitably must result in a "militarism "mili-tarism and imperialism into which no nation ever has embraced and escaped war." "It is the most ominous sign of the times," he said, that before a war which were were told was to deliver us from the curse of militarism mili-tarism is completely won the drive for conscription and militarism nd the Imperialism that must accompany ac-company them already is upon tis. Sieg fried German Troops Repulsed In Counterattack Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties Northwest Of Trier; Lose Tanks SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, AEF, Sept. 21 u.e Counterattacking German troops were thrown back with heavy casualties by the American Am-erican 1st army in an hours-long hours-long battle northwest of Trier today, while to the southeast Nazi tank losses mounted past the 100 mark on the third day of a great armored battle on the 3rd irmv front. Violent fighting flared up in number of sectors scattered from the Rhine valley of Holland to the German border area of eastern France. Tank-riding American doughboys dough-boys and British mobile forces raced northward from the Nijmegen Nijme-gen area of the lower Rhine toward to-ward an imminent Junction with allied airborne troops clamped in a pocket at Arnhem, 10 miles to the north. Supreme headquarters revealed that Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' P. S. 1st army had struck out southeast of Aachen in a new Offensive against the Siegfried de- fenses abuttlngthe breach knock - Hodges' shock troops were slug-, Ued air formati0ns continued I Fighting In a driving rain which ging house by house through Stol-'ujg strength into Holland. ; hampered ground forces and re-berg, re-berg, miles east of Aachen, in-! supreme headquarters disclosed stricted aerial support, the U. S. dustrial city of 17.000 in which not I n 5oo sorties had been flown 5th army troops captured ftv a hous remained undamaared. and .i ,..v.iv. , mountain dmIcii and nuahed near I can-neia pans sirongpoini ae ... . . . ; rt . - - - - in front dispatches as a "Little Cassino. United Press correspondent.es' 1st army had struck outl Other 5th army units of the Henry T. Gorrell, in a dispatch : through the dark, mine-strewn Ligurian sea coastal sector ap filed from 1st army headquarters! Hurtgen forest south-east of proached the outskirts of the town at 6:30 p. m., said the Germans , Aachen in a new drive on Ger-of Pietrasanta, on the Lucca-Mas-counter-attacked in force in the man soil. !sa highway, three miles Inland and Wollendorf area north of Echter-nach, Echter-nach, on the Luxembourg frontier fron-tier northwest of Trie. Massed artillery supported the counterblow against the right wing of the 1st army in Germany. Ger-many. For hours the battle raged. The Nazis lost neavily. The lines remain unchanged. Then the Germans fell back.!1"08.3 leaving a covering force. It was "entirely wiped out," Gorrell said. The costly undertaking has checked, but not reversed, the American Am-erican drive. 1 n.n'i,r nn ii 1. rrm-n cUvitv w LfT-d I t-reiTTian acuMiy was conrinea ity largely to restricted patrol stabs. In an evident effort to boost tiie sagging morale of the Siegfried line defenders, the Germans stepped step-ped up the use of flying bombs. Several exploded at widely separated sep-arated points in the last two days. Late today Allied medium bombers bomb-ers struck hard at German-held towns in the Aachen area, including includ-ing Duren, on the way to Cologne. They also attacked Bitburg, north of Trier. At Eschenweiler, northeast of Aachen, troops of the front line said they had seen the Germans dismantling an entire factory and loading equipment to a waiting train, which was wrecked by our bombers. NEW COMMANDER AT WEN DOVER BASE WENDOVER, Utah, Sept 21 (CJf) Lt. Coi. Charles E. Trowbridge, Trow-bridge, former Sioux Falls, la., and Great Bend, Kan., base commander, com-mander, today had assumed command com-mand of Wendover army airfield. He succeeds Lt. Col. A. W. Kel-lond, Kel-lond, who has been transferred to an undisclosed assignment the base public relations office reported. Eisenhower's Campaign Over Month Ahead of Schedule Now LONDON. Sept. (HE) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign is well over a month ahead of schedule, and his next camp probably prob-ably will be established in Germany, Ger-many, Merrill Mueller said today in a pooled broadcast from Paris. Mueller, National Broadcasting company correspondent broadcast on behalf of the American networks net-works after his return from Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's new command post in' eastern France, He said Eisenhower drove him self so hard that his health suffered suf-fered and he was Instructed not to leave camp for several days. But "he is in top form again to Allied Forces Race Beyond the Rhine to Join Airborne Troops Nijmegen Road Bridge Captured in Battle For Gateway To Northwest Germany; War Against Nazis a Month Ahead of Schedule SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, Sept. 21 The American 1st army opened a new offensive against the Siegfried defenses southeast of Aachen today while, to the northwest, Allied mobile forces raced beyond the Rhine toward an imminent junction with airborne troops encircled in the Arnhem area of Holland. Berlin in effect reported that skytroopers at Arnhem had been relieved by American and British forces pouring overs the Rhine on a Nijmegen a!" caPlu rea, "? i . . . . . . . a... through the streets of the strage gic Dutch town which is a gateway gate-way to northwest Germany. The Allied campaign in western Europe is "well over a month ahead of schedule, a broadcaster reported from Paris on his arriv from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's new command post in eastern France, adding that. "So now it is forward to Berlin." Hammer Ilhlneland -r, it ? cfh air fnrr inl j b t 0f its Flying Fortresses and Liberators to the Rhineland:ma pass tnrougn we Appen-to Appen-to hammer the- strongholds of i nines, today amid signs that the Mainz, Coblenz. and Ludwigshaf-j Germans were shifting troops 4irrtiv in front nf th i nt and f rom the west to meet the threat !, 'A armiP.- . . .th.r Ai.iltaly. ' b--.an Sundav not including the the village of Santa Lucia, a half i .-"f. "0t includ,n Uiernli(. oth of Fut Pass and it- Eiiutrs unuivtu. ueHm.rtr ndvipo- di-rind ,riiHpr involvpH " . that Lt. Gen. Courtnev H. Hoder-;101" Details were few regarding the, six miles north of Viaregglo. Pie-scale Pie-scale and-progress of the new at- trasanta is four miles northwest tack In the sector where a few! of Camaiore, which was captured days ago Hodges drove a wedge by Brazilian expeditionary force through the Siegfried line. troops operating with the 5th The battle was reported going army, on in the area south and east ofi As the Americans approached Stolberg, 6 'i miles east of Aaach-lFuta Pass, 28 miles south of. Bo-en, Bo-en, with the Doughboys making jlogna on the main Florence to against stiffening re - The imminent link-up of the.nian"T aivision. wmcn naa oeen armored column speeding up fromjstationed nCar Pistoia. the Nijmegen area and the air- In their drive towards Bologna, borne force at Arnhem 10 miles toth army troops took at least five the north will clear the way for a. strategically important mountain , uu- nui -u wm ticai me j -i anoicgiv-onj vuuvu. ' further swinS around the Sieg-peaks. British unit with the fth . ...... w . .-,. 10 i, v.- vaiimtn ,i. with fried line, which ends at Kleve, IS, miles southeast of Arnhem. 1 The German DNB news agency ,20 miles northeast of Florence; reported that the Germans had 1 Americans captured two key captured the staff headquarters I points. Mount Montale and Mount of the 1st airborne division north jFrena, only a few miles apart, of Einhoven, but there was noj while slightly south of that area, confirmation in responsible quar-j other Americans captured Mount er Of three bridges across the Rhine which were attacked by massed Allied tank forces, DNB said, the Germans blew up two and held a third. However, dispatches from the Allied front told of the capture of the Nijmegen road bridge by the'ing paratroopers shoot way British 2nd army with the aid of U.S. airborne units who crossed the river northeast of Nijmegen and advanced alone the northern bank At Arnhem the Allied position was unchanged, with the heaviest fighting going on around the town, - United Press War Correspondent Corres-pondent Ronald Clark reported. He said the British had strengthened strength-ened the flanks of their north-south north-south Axis in Htlland and "there now appears no chance that the! enemy will be able to cut across the Axis." The Nazis were throwing their jealously hoarded tanks Into bat-(Continued bat-(Continued on page two) day," the broadcaster said, "and the sparks are flying about getting get-ting this thing over with." "We are well over a month ahead of schedule, which Is wonderful won-derful for the tactical operations but a first class headache for the strategic planning." Mueller said. "For the past two weeks the fullest concentration has been given giv-en the supply line and servicing parts up to the stage line of the present operations. This Herculean task has been accomplished only by the most concentrated effort of each individual in those seldom heralded but vitally necessary organizations." American Troops Hear Futa Pass ''In Appennines I B ciJNTON B. CONGEB UlUted Press Wfcr Corresponden 1 ! ROME, Sept. 21 (UE) Amer. ican troops advancing north of j Florence approached the famoua lagainst the gateway to northern self a part of the German defense P88- .Bologna highway, they encounter- icd a part of the German 362nd took the Valdicroto feature with other hill masses attached to it. earco ana mourn, acuio. War In Brief By United Press WESTERN FRONT Tank rid- through Nazi death battalion in Nijmegen. break across Rhine and speed north with British armor t9 relieve encircled airborne fore holding out 10 miles away at Arn hem, gateway to Reich. RUSSIA Soviet government newspaper announces campaign to liberate Baltic states is nearly won as four powerful Red armies sweep forward on 200 mile front AIR WAR German radio reports re-ports small formations of bombers over western Germany but bad weather restricts heavy daylight aerial offensive. ITALY American troops advancing ad-vancing north of Florence, ap proach famous Futa pass through Apennines. PACIFIC ' Two way drive against Philippines Intensified, by new air raid on Davao as landing; forces virtually complete occupa tion of island stepping stones to south and east How Far To Berlin ' By United Press Iin from advanced Allied lines to oay: Western Front 300 miles (from Nijmegen. Gain of 15 miles in week.) t Russia 320 miles (from Pragat Unchanged in week.) Italy 551 miles, (from point north of Florence. Gain of three; miles in week.) t |