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Show Oldsters Get Rough SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 2 U.R John G. Wanner. Salt Lake City, today was awarded a divorce di-vorce from his bride of a year, Annie J. Wanner, because she Allegedly Al-legedly beat him with her fists. Wanner is 74; his ex-wife is 73. THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloud? this after neon and tonight, partly cloud? east, cloudy west portion toraor row; light rains northwest pot-ties' tomorrow afternoon: cooler nortk portion today; little change 14 temperature tonight. Temperatures: High Lew 59 29 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 108 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKSJ PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TCLERAPH NEWS SERVICS) PRICE FIVE CENTS Dewey Asks Democrats To Vote Republican Ticket In Election GOP Candidate Calls For Defeat of New Deal; Assails Alliance of Communistic Elements Ele-ments With Roosevelt, Democratic Party By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent BALTIMORE, Nov. 2 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today to-day called upon Democrats to vote the Republican ticket in next Tuesday's election or lose their party to "a coalition of subversive forces" which seeks "to change our system of government." The Republican presidential nominee came into this border-line. state which has been on the winning side in every presidential contest since 1892 to bid for the sup- Roosevelt Set For 6th Major Talk Of Campaign Tonight By MERKIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 (U.R) President Roosevelt delivers his sixth major campaign address tonight to-night in an effort to correct again what he has called Republics Repub-lics 'misrepresentations." The president speaks from the White House over a radio program pro-gram (NBC) from 9 to 9:30 p. ni. His address will last 15 minutes and the rest of the program will be taken over by the Democratic national committee. The address tonight was obviously ob-viously a substitute for a trip to Ohio. Democratic leaders had urged him to go to Cleveland and make a personal bid for Ohio's 25 electoral votes, but he told them his wartime duties were too tiMvv to nermit both that trio l and the one scheduled for this week-end in New England. .ZZ XZL.Vm h nr(Hrnt wa. Bavins; vetoed the Ohio appear ZL to riitvr n I .aT.. .wi nmu,tat for audiences in that region of the ! ,n. Mr. Roosevelt will hold a news conference tomorrow, then start on his last major campaign swing which will find him Saturday in two of Connecticut's majer voting vot-ing centers Bridgeport and Hartford and then into Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. There he stops at Springfield and proceeds later to fVtttnn for full address and ex- -trflv bare-knuckled blast at the Republicans from Fenway Park at 9 p m Mr. Roosevelt's week-end trip will take him to Boston three days after the personal appear- ance there of his Republican op- ponent. Gov. Thomas . Dewey. Speaking from Boston Garden last night, Dewey attacked what . i ..i- i h t"i?-Itv eIemT! ni" the Democratic party. He may receive a reply from Mr. Roose- Velt On batUTtlay. Massachusetts, which has 16 votes in the electoral college, is listed by many polls as a doubt ful" state in this election. Mr. Kooseveu carnea in three campaigns Registration In County Is Heavy Estimates of at least 5000 new registrations in Utah county were made today by county officials and nartv workers who are checking the situation closely. One of the districts which reported re-ported unusually heavy registrations, registra-tions, was Orem No. 2, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence York, with 226 new names added to the poll books in the last two registration days. The special junior chamber of commerce registration booth in Provo registered nearly 600 voters vo-ters in the two day drive, W. R. Firm age, chairman reported. In addition there were at least 100 registered by the jaycees at the Geneva plant. Voters . who have moved recently, re-cently, were again reminded today, to-day, not to attempt to vote in i.. li.i f.,ntu n.rk Clarence A. Grant. Under the Tlf G ntsville Speake rs new state election laws, a voter wm include Rep. J. W. Robin-who Robin-who has moved may obtain a!fn; Governor Maw, secretary of transfer front his old district re-lftate E. E. Monson and Ferrell gistration agent right up to the H- Adams, candidate for state last day before the election. Even auditor. if a voter moves the day before ,hor,eVK; Failure to observe mis rule may cause complications in case " " V ,V V I of a close election, and may putlP18114 Roosevelt today pro-such pro-such voter to endless trouble and j claimed Thursday, Nov. 23, as complications in court. Thanksgiving day and urged Am- stitf nnn ericans to observe it with pray- PFPnorrn er" o thanks for "the preservation ST LAKE CITY, Nov. 2 (U.R) , threat of destruction" and for "the The Utah State Road commission j promise of an enduring peace." ZiTP01 ePendlture f, Calling on the people to back $8,372,345 for road construction Up their prayers "by bending between July 1, 1941, and Nov. every effort to hasten the day of 1, 1944. Of this amount, $836,561 final victory." Mr. Roosevelt sug-was sug-was supplied by the state and Rested a nationwide reading of $7,533,784 from federal funds. I holy scriptures during the period l port of old-lice Democrats. "The only way for the real membership of the Democratic party to win this election, the only way for Democrats to recapture recap-ture their party, is to join with the Republicans in defeating the New Deal, the Political Action Committee, and the communists," he told a Republican rally in the Lyric theater. He addressed the rally after a mid-day parade through crowded downtown streets. The throngs cheered lustily as his party drove slowly by. In addressing the theater rally, Dewey carried forward the anti-New anti-New Deal attack he launched in Boston last night with an accusation accu-sation that President Roosevelt is selling out his party to commun- i ists. The old rule of two-party election elec-tion contests does not apply this year, he said here, and "the two- party system stands in danger." If the Republican party loses the coming election, he said, the Democrats would Irrevocably lose their party." "This is not a contest between Democrats and Republicans," Dewey insisted. "It is a contest between, on the one hand those who believe .In our system of government Republicans and Democrats alike, and on the other those who have kidnaped the I Democratic party in order to WBBunwu on pie two; Republicans Say Democrats Backed Price Vice Expose 'By United Press The new political issue of 'Morals and the Mayor," inde- pendently published pamphlet charging that vice conditions arc prevalent under the admlnistra- :,on ' FW Mayor J. Bracken HfiV, backuln "JI,"6 This time, it is being used by "DRePulici,n.- At Tooele, the GOP nominee for attorney gen- eral. A. Pratt Kesler. charged last Atorney Generil Gro- v A Gi,es .onUKled and atrrtA wifh rvrrnnr Herhort R M ( . . . virinu nrf ,defamatory ppt, attacking -lp,.ice morals - Kesler added that , pre8ent attorney general should know that the pamphlet was placed in the mails in viola tion of federal laws. Meanwhile, Chairman J. Lambert Lam-bert Gibson of the State Tax commission announced that three women employes who operated addressographs on state time for mailing political literature are be- ing docked for the time they worked In Salt Lake City. Leland Olds chairman of the Federal Power Commission, said the present administration ad-ministration must be supported next Tuesday if westerners wish continuance of the present national na-tional power and reclamation program. Political rallies slated for today include the appearance of major Republican candidates at Bingham Bing-ham this evening and an address ad-dress by Lee at Mount Pleasant at 8 p. m. The Democrats have planned a rally this afternoon at Price at which Grant MacFarlane, president of the Utah State senate sen-ate will speak. Rep. Walter K. Granger will be guest at a rally this evening in Delta. Simultaneous Democratic rallies will be held at 7 and 8 d. m. in Roosevelt Proclaims Nov. 23 Thanksgiving Day WASHTNr.TAV ni D Yanks aos Rush More Planes to PhilioDines Nip Reinforcements Gathered For Final Stand On Luzon Yanks Shoot Down 131 Nazi Planes, Report LONDON, Nov. 2 (U.R) American Ameri-can planes fought one of the biggest big-gest air battles of the war over Germany today, and a preliminary prelimin-ary check at eighth air force headquarters showed that its fighters shot down 131 Nazi fighters, fight-ers, an all-time record for a single escor mission. German planes rose in strength to challenge a fleet of more than 2,000 United States heavy Bombers Bomb-ers and fighters attacking synthetic syn-thetic oil plants and rail targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland. 13.1,1. U V.nmW.-. j daylight attack on Ger- many, also hitting targets in the Ruhr and farther north. The Americans fought their heaviest combat in the area of Merseburg, where strong formations forma-tions of Flying Fortresses bombed the Leuna synthetic oil plant. Cerman jet-propelled planes at tacked the bombers, and crewmen said they shot up from the ground ' almost vertically, like rockets Five Killed In Crossing Crash GOODING, Idaho. Nov. 2 U.R Five men were killed at 8:05 a. m. today when a Union Pacific light engine struck their 1940 sedan se-dan at the crossing west of the Gooding depot. The dead are: Oscar Mai, 32, son-in-law of C. A. Nettleship, Gooding chief of police. Tom Trees, about 55, long-time Gooding resident. Patrick Johnson, 18, Salmon. Everett West, 20, Gooding. Harold Burr, 17, Gooding. The five men, employes of the Sam Savage potato cellar, were enroute to work when the locomotive loco-motive struck their machine and dragged it a quarter of a mile. Officials of the railroad said the warning signal was in operation and the engine sounded its whistle. whis-tle. Everett Middlesworth, 2 0 , Gooding, who saw the accident, said the men drove directly onto the tracks Into the path of the engine. He said the machine was not speeding at the time, but was unable to say which of the men was driving. Assessments For Politics Halted HOLLWOOD, NOV. 2 (U.R) The screen office employes guild today was under Injunction to halt assessments for political use. "A political belief is one's own," Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson said in granting the injunction, in-junction, "and any assessment levied for political action is unlawful un-lawful and illegal." Four union members brought the suit on grounds that members mem-bers who refused to pay were barred from studios and funds were used for the candidacy of Hal Styles, admitted ex-Ku-Klux Klansman seeking a congressional congres-sional seat. Only 223 members approved the levy, but 2800 were supposed suppos-ed to pay from $1 to S2 apiece, the quartette said. from Thanksgiving day until Christmas. "In this year of liberation, which has seen so many millions freed from tyrannical rule," the president said, "it is fitting that we give thanks with special fervor fer-vor to our heavenly father for the mercies we have received individually individ-ually and as a nation and for the blessings he has restored, through the victories of our arms and those of our allies, to his children chil-dren in other lands. "For the preservation of our way of life from the threat of, to en New Drive Against Germai Japs Attempting To Delay Liberation of Philippines by U. S. BT WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUART-ERS, PHILIPPINES, Nov. 2 (U.R) Japan, her navy crippled crip-pled in a futile attempt to smash the American invasion, invas-ion, rushed air reinforcements reinforce-ments into the Philippines from her dwindling reserves in the Homeland today The Japanese command obvi ously was gathering all available aircraft to support a final, desperate des-perate stand on Luzon, site of the capital city of Manila, In an attempt at-tempt to delay as long as possible possi-ble American libertion of that stepping stone to Japan itself. One Japanese pilot who parachuted para-chuted Into the Leyte area and was captured said be had left Japan only six days before. Enemy En-emy aircraft were known to be shuttling into Luzon from Japan, presumably by way of Formosa and other intermediate bases. Front reports said terrain difficulties dif-ficulties were slowing construction construc-tion of American airfields on liberated lib-erated sections of Leyte in the central Philippines, but it was expected strong forces of land based planes soon would be In operation. Fighters already operatins from land bases Joined carrier planes in enforcing an aerial blockade on the west coast of Leyte. sinking a small freighter I 1 ... .1 . - F fu A vtiavi vvuiijm eivivsa me vain otes sea from Cebu. Torpedo boats boosted the toll of enemy shipping for the past 48 hours to 25 small craft sunk or damaged by sending a troop-laden troop-laden barge to the bottom off the west coast at night. Japanese prisoners reported only a lew hundred troops had been able to run the blockade successfully and land at the west coast air and sea base of Ormos. where the enemy is expected to maxe nis final stand on Leyte. Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported in his daily communique mai Japanese air attacks on American shipping and troops at ieyte continued "light and ineffectual." in-effectual." American ground forces on Leyte tightened their assault arc around the north coast town of cangara, key to an escape route to Ormoc for an estimated 2,000 Japanese in the northwest portion por-tion of the island. The 24th division advanced another an-other two miles up the Leyte valley val-ley to within six miles of the north coast against stubborn enemy ene-my rear guard resistance, while the 1st cavalry division was hammering ham-mering at the eastern approaches io uarigara itself. The southern column already had cut all east-west roads and trails on Leyte with the tlon of that running from Cariga-ra Cariga-ra to Ormoc, 21 miles to the southwest. Advancing behind thundering artillery, tanks and flame-throwers, men of the 24th division cut a trans-mountain trail to Ormoc yesterday, captured the town of Tunga and forced the Nallualan river, the fourth water barrier encountered in their six trek from Jara. mile South of the Carigara front, other American troops completed complet-ed the annihilation of isolated enemy pockets on Catmon hill. destruction; for the unity of spirit which has kept our nation strong; for our abiding faith in freedom; and for the promise of an enduring endur-ing peace, we should lift up our hearts in Thanksgiving. "For the harvest that has sustained sus-tained us and. In its fullness, brought succor to other peoples; ior me Douniy oi our aou, wnicni has produced the sinews of war for the protection of our liberties; and for a multitude of private blessings, known only in our hearts, we should give united thanks to God. Ready to Clear Last N azi Antwerp Resistance ! i I c . CT, rrr-? fv ft: MH.h .Mil ranadlan trooDS landlns! "Ducks lined up along south shore of Scheldt, prepare for lnva-Sonf lnva-Sonf ncleTosnXm to Antwerp. Berlin radio reported Allied lsnd- slon of norm Dans cihlnfl walnat last big pocket of Nazis guarding the estuary. Soviet Columns HiUastlarrleL South of Budapest BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press War Correspondent MOSCOW. Nov. 2 (U.R) Soviet armored columns, slashing north . , ' , through flimsy German defenses 'in Hungary, today hammered at the aDDroaches to Orkenv. 24 miles south of Budapest and last major barrier before the capital. The enemy bastion was brought within easy range of artillery fire 1 "J " by the advance units of Marshal y!Rodion Y. Malinovsky s Ukrainian army, which was pushing a three way drive against Budapest from the south, southeast, and east. Advancing at a pace of more than 10 miles a day, the tank-supported tank-supported Soviet troops moved against Orkney after sweeping through the highway junction of Lajosmizse, nine miles to the south, and it appeared the rumble of heavy Russian artillery soon would be heard in Budapest. (The clandestine radio Atlan-tik Atlan-tik reported that the Germans were preparing to blow up all bridges across the Danube, which bisects the capital. The city at one time had separate divisions known as Buda and Pest, and the broadcast said the Germans planned plan-ned to hold Buda on the west bank of the Danube and yield Pest.) Elsewhere on the long eastern front, a communique disclosed that Gen. George Zakharov's 2nd White Russian army had established estab-lished a bridgehead on the west bank of the Narew river below Pultusk, 30 miles north of Warsaw, War-saw, while in the northern Arctic region other Soviet forces cleared the entire Pctsamo area, site of rich nickel deposits in northern Finland. The communique said the Germans Ger-mans carried out vicious counterattacks counter-attacks against the Soviet bridgehead bridge-head over the Narew but were repulsed. More than 300 enemy troops were killed in the futile assaults. There were no further reports from East Prussia, the communique communi-que blng confined almost entirely to the campaign in Hungary, where Malinovsky's forces liberated liber-ated more than 140 inhabited places, captured an additional 1500 prisoners and killed upwarus of jooo Germans and Hungarians in one day. Ask Grand Jury To Investigate Liquor Set-Up SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 2 U.R) a request for a grand Jury investigation in-vestigation of asserted "irregularities" "irregu-larities" in the state liquor control con-trol commission today was referred refer-red to the state district attorney's office here for consideration. The request was made by N. A. Hav-ercamp, Hav-ercamp, Salt Lake realtor, who was told by presiding Third District Dis-trict Court Judge A. H. Ellett that such a request could not be acted upon until the January court term. n-4 - ' Nazi Ruhr Valley, Borlin Bombod In Allied Raid LONDON, Nov. 2 (U.R) Hundreds Hun-dreds of British four-engined bombers raked the Ruhr valley factory and railway town of Oberhausen last night while Bfdy RAF Io"u2. ,df struck Berlin and heaped two-ton blockbusters into the still-burn- ing rubble of Cologne, ThunHorlnir out thmush thick cloud formations blanketing the Ruhr, some 500 giant Lancaster and Halifax bombers cascaded a great weight of high explosive and fire bombs on Oberhausen in a swift, concentrated assault that set great fires leaping through the city's war plants and railway yards. Swarms of German night fighters fight-ers rose to challenge the raiders and i communique said three of the enemy planes were shot down in a furious gunfight over the target. Seven bombers were lost in the Oberhausen assault and .the diversionary di-versionary raids on Cologne and Berlin. The raid on Cologne was the tenth since last Saturday in a sustained offensive that Allied air commanders have promised will destroy that Rhineland city as a forward base and communications communi-cations center for the German armies of the west. Returning Mosquito pilots said a towering pall of smoke and flame still hung over Cologne last night from the 2,500-ton blow struck at the city 24 hours earlier. Huge sreas of the city have been reduced to smoldering rubble rub-ble heaps under the incessant Allied Al-lied bombing, but air ministry spokesmen said a much greater weight of bombs will be needed to knock it out completely. FAVORS COURSES IN CONSERVATION SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 2 (U.R) The future of America depends de-pends on the conservation of natural resources, C. J. Olsen, regional forester at Ogden, said today, following an address yesterday yes-terday before the Utah Elementary Elemen-tary Supervisors' conference here. Japs Claim Blasting 14 U. S. Ships In 'Suicide' Attacks BY UNITED PRESS Japan claimed today. In a series of announcements unsupported by any Allied source, that its army air force and special suicide "at tack units sank or damaged 14 American warships, including battleships and cruisers, in heavy raids on the United States invasion in-vasion fleet in and near Leyte Gulf yesterday. The first claims were contained in a Japanese imperial headquarters headquar-ters communique, broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by United Press, San Francisco. The communique asserted that Japanese Japa-nese planes sank "one enemy battleship bat-tleship or cruiser and three cruisers cruis-ers and damaged three enemy battleships" in Leyte Gulf Wednesday. ly - n I (MA TeUpkoto) 2000 U. S. Planes Bombard German II, Rail Targets By LEO 8. DISFIER United Press War Correspondent LONDON, NOV. 2 (U.R More than 2,000 American warplanes bombarded Nazi oil and railroad targets from the Rhur and Rhine-land Rhine-land to central Germany today in a smashing follow-up to the RAF's triple night strike at Oberhausen, Ob-erhausen, Cologne and Berlin. A half-a-dozen aerial task for ces, numbering well over 1,100, Flying Fortresses and Liberators! and 900 Mustang and Thunderbolt Thunder-bolt fighters, fanned out over the Reich for the great daylight assault- j Synthetic oil. refineries in the, Ruhr valley and at Merseburg in central Germany, the Bielefeld freight yards on the Rhine, and other targets in the western half of the Nazi homeland all came. unoer uie American oomo signxs. Cldnds Obscure Targeta Dense cloud formations obscured obscur-ed most of the targets, forcing the raiders to drop their bombs by instrument, but it was indicated indica-ted that the attacks were concentrated con-centrated and highly effective. The huge Leuna plant at Merseburg Mer-seburg apparently was the major target for its 12th attack of the war by the U. S. 8th air force. The Leuna refineries, sprawled out over an area two miles long and 3.000 feet wide, form one of, tile biggest synthetic units in Germany. They produced more than 50,000 metric tons of syn thetic oil products monthly before be-fore the start of the American bombing offensive. The -widespread davlleht at tack came as the battered Ruhr and Rhineland still smoldered from fires stoked during the night by hundreds of RAF heavy DomDers and Mosquito raiders. IDAHOAN KILLED IN FATAL CRASH MOSCOW, IDA.. NOV. 2 (U.R) Funeral services were pending here today for Arthur Tate, 31, Whitman and Latah county farmer, far-mer, who was killed Tuesday night when his car plunged off the road at Mens tehee grade 33 miles west of Anatone. A later unofficial announcement by Tokyo reported that the Japanese Japa-nese "special attack corps," supposedly sup-posedly consisting of explosive-filled explosive-filled planes manned by suicidal pilots, had sank or damaged seven additional American warships approaching ap-proaching Leyte Gulf. "On Wednesday, the special attack at-tack corps assaulted an enemy task force heading toward Leyte Gulf and blasted oie battleship or cruiser and probably sank another an-other cruiser and destroyer by ramming." the enemy propaganda report said. Another cruiser and destroyer were sunk in additional '"suicide" attacks, and a battleship was left afire and listing, Tokyo said. Smash Ahead To Vosenack Near Cologne Hodges' Troops Break Out oi Forest Onto Plains in New Advance PARIS, Nov. 2 J.B The United States 1st army op ened a new offensive today in the sector of its deepest penetration pene-tration of Germany southeast of Aachen and smashed for ward nearly two miles ta Vosenack. 28 miles south-west south-west of Cologne. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodge? troops broke out of the Hurtgen forest onto the Cologne plain under un-der cover of a thunderous artil lery bombardment in the firsl major action on the 1st army front since the fall of Aachen. The new American offensive opened coincident with tho last phase of the battle of southwest Holland as British forces storming storm-ing through Walcheren island almost completed the conquest of Flushing and expanded a four- mile beachhead on the west coast Hodges' attack in the sector 12 li miles southeast of Aachen hit one of the most vulnerable points in the German defenses .ftlj the Rhineland. At vossenacJc tne advanced elements were 9i miles east-northeast of the frontier fron-tier at Rotgen. Once out of the Hurtgen forest, for-est, where the Doughboys and Nazis have skirmished sporadically sporadi-cally since the initial invasion of Germany, the first army was in the clear 82 miles southwest of Duren for a drive through the secondary fortifications of the Siegfried line. Hodges sent his men over the top despite unfavorable weather which prevented the closa sup port of dive bombers, but massed artillery had prepared the way for the first major action on that front in two weeks. The Americans advanced a mile and a half to nearly two miles in the initial phase of the attack, front dispatches said, To the south. Lt. Gen. George s. Patton's 3rd army drove the Germans from the Seille river bend 12 miles northeast of Nan- cy. The 80th division, striking out against moderate resistance, seized control of the west end of a number of crossings of the river. riv-er. The U. S. 7th army farther south mounted attacks east and south-east of Luneville this morning. Advancing between the Meurthe and Vezouse rivers, the Yanks overran the towns of Fre- menil and Ogeville on the rail- J1" f tac " TVM 9MO - VlWl V III:, UVD miles north of Baccarat. War In Brief BY United Press WESTERN FRONT Com plete liberation of Walcheren island, is-land, last obstacle to sea approaches ap-proaches to Antwerp, appears near as British Commandos hurl Germans back in Flushing on west coast and extend bridgehead on west coast. PACIFIC Japan rushes air reinforcements to Philippines to support desperate stand against liberation of stepping stone to ' her homeland. RUSSIA Soviet forces, slashing slash-ing through flimsy German defenses de-fenses in Hungary, hammer at approaches to Orkeny, 24 miles south of Budapest AIR WAR Hundreds of British Brit-ish four-engined bombers rake Ruhr valley factory and railway town of Oberhausen and RAF Mosquitoes hit Berlin and dropped drop-ped two-ton blockbusters on still burning rubble of Cologne. ITALY Armored forces of 8th army storm across Ronco river and Reach airfield at Fori' Lehi Soldier Among Wounded LEHI Word was received thL week by Mr. and Mrs? Charles Turner, that their son Pfc. Henry Turner, has been wounded with the U. S. Infantry in France. He' has been moved to a base hos- ipital ta England. |
