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Show THE WEATHER UTAH: Contlnaed low cloudiness west of Wasatch mountains. Ota erwlse, partly cloudy this- after noon, tonlfbt and tomorrow. Cooler Cool-er this afternoon, silently waiter tonight southwest portion. Littlo change in temperature In remainder remain-der of the state. Temperatures: High .... 50 Low . ... 21 Precipitation ,9Z Lock Ammunition PARIS, Nov. Zt dm Gen. Dwtxfet D. Eisenhower, pleading Cor Increased monitions production, produc-tion, revealed yesterday that ta redaction of Aachen, largest city yet captured la Germany, was delayed de-layed lut month by a shortage of ammunition. FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 120 trrAtri fltn.v nATT.v PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1944 mupr.fn irtrrrwn eiiTce PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTH OF SALT LAKE TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Roosevelt, Eisenhower Urge Nation to Back Fighters With Bonds President Opens Drive with Address From The White House; Eisenhower Says Capture Of Aachen delayed by Ammunition Shortage By ALBRO B. GREGORY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 U. The Sixth War Loan drive got underway today with President Roosevelt and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower urging the nation to back the men on the fighting fronts by buying bonds and still more bonds until the $14,000,000,000 goal is met and oversubscribed. oversub-scribed. Mr. Roosevelt officially opened the drive in a radio address ad-dress from the White House last night, calling on every 'Stampede' BY ERNIE PYLE (Distributed by United Press This little piece comes more in the blood-bank category than in the bond-buying one, yet if you'll apply it to your bond buying, it may help save a great deal of blood. This fall I came home from France on a ship that carried 1000 of our wounded American soldiers. sol-diers. About a fourth of them were terribly wounded stretcher cases. The rest were up and about These others could walk, though among the walking were many legs and arms missing, many eyes that could not see. Well, there was one hospitalized soldier who was near death on this trip. He was wounded internally, intern-ally, and the army doctors were trying desperately to keep him alive until we got to America. They operated several times, and they kept pouring plasma and whole blood Into him constantly, until they ran out of whole blood. I happened to be in the head doctor's cabin at noon one day when he was talking about this boy. He said he had his other doctors at that moment going around the ship typing blood specimens speci-mens frort several of the ship's officers, and from un wounded army and navy officers aboard. They were doing it almost surreptitiously, sur-reptitiously, for they didn't want It to get out Uiat they needed blood. And why didn't they want It to get out? Because if it had, there would have been a stampede to the hospital ward by the other wounded men, offering their blood to this dying comrade. Think of that a stampede of men themselves badly wounded, wanting want-ing to give their blood! If they, who had already given so much were willing to give even more for their fellowmen. isn't a stampede to the bond counter the least w-e can do for those fellowmen still fighting? Retail Clerks Launch Drive At Opening Rally "The boys 'over there think of only one thing, to come home again. They need equipment, equipment costs money. This war must be supported by everyone buying bonds." declared Lt Henry F. Marcum. Fort Douglas veteran of World War II, to employees and employers of retail stores of Provo, gathered in the Paramount theater for the initial rally of the Sixth War Loan drive, Monday morning. Lt. Marcum told of the hardships hard-ships of the Normandy invasion, in which he participated for 31 days. He was later wounded and aent back to America. lie told of the extreme hardships the fight-frig fight-frig men of his division underwent under-went during actual combat fighting fight-ing for the towns of Cherbourg and St. Lo in France. "The amount of money expended in one hour of concentrated artillery tin' cosu over ouuwii uuuais, unstated. un-stated. Gregory Austin, publicity manager man-ager of the retail merchants committee, com-mittee, explained the system of promotions to be received according ac-cording to bond sales in the "Third Army." Each worker left the building with the rank of buck private, but "we expect as many as possible to become four-star , generais wiui auw oona w their credit during the drive," he said. Mark Birkheimer. chairman of the program committee, acted as master of ceremonies and introduced intro-duced Lt. Marcum. A movie short, "Marines at Tarawa" was shown through the courtesy of the Paramount Para-mount theater, to encourage third army workers of Provo to make (Contlnaed on Page Two) MORE ONIONS TO BE PURCHASED CALDWELL, Ida., Nov. 20 (U.R) The War Food Administration announced today it will purchase an additional 45 cars of onions in Idaho. 45 cars in Oregon and 15 in Utah. The WFA previously has i purchased 80 cars in Idaho to help strengthen the market for the record onion crops. man. woman and child to sacri- f ice some' of our comforts to the needs of the men in service and yes, even some of our needs to their comforts." Elsenhower, reminding the nation na-tion that the capture of Aachen was delayed by a shortage of artillery ar-tillery ammunition, said that although al-though much has been accomplished accom-plished in war production a "new and even greater miracle" will save counties lives and shorten the war. More than 6,000,000 volunteer workers are enrolled in the sixth war loan which seeks 19,000, 000,000 from individuals and $d, 000,000,000 from non-bank In vestors by Dec. 16. They will at tempt to boost over the $100,000,-000.000 $100,000,-000.000 B) mark the total of $87,- 815,000,000 raised in five previous loans. Director Ted R. Gamble, of the treasury's war finance division, said that newspapers, magazines, radio stations, the advertising In dustry, war plants, schools, state committees and local organizations organiza-tions have rallied behind the drive's slogan: "My thinking, my money and my time will stay in this war to the finish." Mr. Roosevelt warned that many a costly battle Is yet to be fought and added: "There is- an old saying about! sticking to the plow until you have reached the end of the furrow. fur-row. Every rule of common sense and patriotic thought makes that maxim applicable to our conduct in this war. In the name of our wounded and sick, in the name of our dead, and in the name of future fu-ture generations of Americans, I ask you to plow out this furrow to a successful and victorious end." Eisenhower, counting the cost of the struggle in ammunition alone, said that artillery and mortar mor-tar shells are fired at the enemy at the rate of 5000 pounds every minute. "Expenditures have raced ahead of our receipts from home, but I know that you do not want us to give the enemy one second's rest," he said. "You do not want the leaders of American soldiers to substitute additional cost in lives for the ammunition that could so surely save those lives." Revealing that more than 1.-000,000 1.-000,000 German troops have been eliminated since D-day. he told American workers that "your toil and skill share with the courage and stamina of the front line soldiers the credit for the stun ning successes." At Minneapolis. Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal told a bond rally that Navy expendi tures since July 1. 1940 totaled: c,ooo.0O0,O00. The major share. he said, has gone for 71,000 ships ana ez.uoo planes that have made the U. S. fleet the most powerful in the world. In three years, he said, the Navy has sunk 1400 enemy ships, shot down or destroyed 10.000 enemy planes, cleared the Japanese Japa-nese from 8170 square miles of the Pacific, landed 1,200.000 assault as-sault troops on enemy beaches, and convoyed in the Atlantic and Pacific 61,000 ships carrying troops and supplies. WAno WOMAN TO CHRISTEN SHIP TWIN FALLS, Ida.. Nov. 20 (U.R) Mrs. J. M. Pierce of Twin Falls was en route to Houston, Tex., to christen Wednesday the Liberty Lib-erty ship. S. S. I. B. Perrine. named for the pioneer founder of the Twin Falls tract. Mrs. Pierre carrier! with Yir a bottle of water from one of the ,Blue lake on the Perrine ranch with which to christen the vessel The ship is sponsored by the 4-H clubs of Idaho. Farmers Union DENVER, Colo., Nov. 20 The first national conference of the farmers union in two years opened open-ed here today as farmers from more than 30 states gathered for the sessions which were designed to bring about stronger affiliation among progressive groups for a "short and victorious war and a people's peace." A warning that farmers, labor- ers. and other progressive pe re sons must work together to con tinuc the "great victory won by the people'' in re-electing Presi- Tirpirz Striker Wing Commander J. B. Tait, above, led the RAF Lancasters in their successful attack upon the German battleship, Tirpitz, which was sunk In Tromso Fjord, Norway. Two Utah Towns Already Over Top In 6th War Loan SALT LAKECITY, Nov. 20 (U.R) To College Ward. Cache coun ty, and Bicknell, Wayne county. go the honors of being the first Utah communities to exceed their quotas in the Sixth War Loan drive. State war finance committee offices in Salt Lake City announced an-nounced early this afternoon that College Ward has sold $16,160.75 worth of bonds, compared to its quota of $12,500. Bicknell reported its quota oversubscribed within a few hours after the drive opened. Meanwhile Utah s sixth big push" is on. Aiming their efforts towards raising $18,600,000 individual purchases pur-chases of "E" bonds by Dec. 7, an army of volunteers today launched launch-ed solicitations in the Sixth War Loan drive. The state's total quota is $24,000,000 but the "E" bond quota is the most important, say state war finance committeemen. 4a Salt Lake City, Ogden, Lo gan, Provo, Bingham and cedar City, an army of nearly 3000 "privates" In retail stores were being sworn in to serve in the bond drive. Promotions for the ' bond salesmen will hinge upon the amount ox bonds they sell. A four-star generalship will require $500 in bond sales. Charles L. Smith, state war finance committee chairman, urg ed particular effort in the "E" bond drive. "We have not always al-ways reached this goal in previous previ-ous drives," he said. "I appeal to everyone now that we work hard to finish this home front mission in a big way." Two military caravans with war combat films and displays of military equipment began tours of the state today that will include 47 cities and towns. Northern pre miere of the caravans was in Bountiful. The southern caravan opened its tour in Fairview and Mt. Pleasant. Committee officials reported the state's total of subscriptions to 2 p. m. today was $156,892. AFL Convention In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 20 (U.c. of The American Federation Labor opened a two-week OP- vention today prepared to attack! thfc Smith-Connally anti -itru.e law, the new Florida and Arkansas Arkan-sas anti-closed shop law and what some delegates characterized character-ized as stiffening federal control of labor relations. Hunter Killed In Freak Accident COEUR D'ALENE. Ida.. Nov. 20 U.R White canvas gloves he was wearing today were believed to have been responsible for the fatal shooting of Leo Orr. 41, of; Big creek, iaa., in a nunting accident ac-cident at Folsom ridge near here yesterday. Dean Thibadeau, Kellogg, Ida., a member of the same hunting party, said he saw the flash of the white gloves and mistook it for a deer. Orr was shot in the groin and died on an improvised stretcher before he reached the highway about a mile away. He is ! survived by his widow and several I children In Belg Creek near Kel-I logg. Backs Missouri dent Roosevelt was sounded in a p re-meeting statement by James G. Patton of Denver, president of the union. Patton announced that one of the major goals of the union was the "passage of a Missouri river authority act by congress. Seven state and regional farmers union, located throughout the Missouri river valley has passed resolutions resolu-tions endorsing an authority," Patton said. He charged than any criticism of a MVA made at a meeting of y mm Of American Troops Land On Asia Islands to Hit Jap Warning Post Completion of Occupation of Mapia Islands Is Followed by New Invasion on the Bombing Route to the Philippines; Little Resistance By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. 20 U.R) American landing parties, completing occupation of the Mapia islands off northwest New Guinea, have jumped 215 miles to the west and invaded the Asia group to knock off anotner Japanese warning post on the bombing route to the Philippines, it was announced today. The four-day conquest of the Mapias and new landings in the Asias were disclosed as other American forces on JLyte in tno central Philippines tightened their encirclement of the remnants of a Japanese force or 3000 in the Limon pocket. American troops on Leytee already al-ready had killed or wounded 53,-000 53,-000 Japanese on Leyte in the first month of their campaign there at San Juan Man Killed In Hunt MONTICELLO, Utah, Nov .20 (U.R) H. Lloyd Hansen, former San Juan -county superintendent of schools and high school teacher teach-er was killed Saturday when he apparently fell from his horse while on a hunting trip, and suffered suf-fered a broken neck. He and D. B. Perkins left Montlcello on horseback Saturday Satur-day morning, and about eight miles west of town Mr. Hansen got off -his horse and the animal bolted. He borrowed Mr. Perkins' horse to track down his animal. When he failed to return, Mr. Perkins walked Into town where he found both horses. A search party was organized and about 10 p. m. Saturday, Mr. Hansen's body was found. He had apparently fallen off the horse and suffered a broken neck and hip, which killed him Instantly. He was born Feb. 11, 1887, in American Fork, a son of Parley P. and Melissa Hansen. He taught school in Montlcello for the past 30 years, and was president of the Blue Mountain Irrigation company com-pany and a member of the Montlcello Montl-cello LDS ward bishopric. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Kate Wood Hansen; four daughters, Mrs. Alene Barlagd, Farmington; Mrs. Frances Peterson, Peter-son, and Mrs. Catherine Hansen, Salt Lake City. Tokyo Reports Raid On Manila By 300 Navy Carrier Planes PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 20 (U.R) Tokyo reported today that about 300 American carrier planes attacked Manila and several other sectors of the Philippines Phil-ippines last night (Philippine time) in the second aerial bombardment bomb-ardment of the capital within 24 hours. The night raiders hit "various sectors of the Philippines, including in-cluding Manila, Clark Field, Lipa, Batangas, and Aparri" on Luzon, a Domei news agency broadcast recorded by the FCC said. Domei claimed that Japanese antiaircraft batteries shot down nine American planes, including one listed as "probably destroyed." destroy-ed." and damaged another. The Manila radio reported earlier that U. S. carrier olanes sirucK ai jnanua yesieraay mom- na and other reports said that ing ana ouier reporu saia inati . m i - i American air and sea blows left"erg or damaged. Tokyo radio also reported that 10 liberator bombers raided Da- vao, on Mindanao, yesterday and that a total of 37 liberators, and River Set-Up the National Reclamation association associ-ation in Denver last week 'sprang either from ignorance of the opposition op-position or selfish Interests that would be affected." "Irrigation rights would be on a far more solid basis under an authority than they are now," he said. Principal speakers at the far- imers union conference wiu ne Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wlckard and Jonanthan Daniels, an assistant of President Roosevelt. s Complete flVflZ 3 a cost of 5691 casualties of. their own, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported re-ported in his daily communique. (A Japanese communique said Japanese planes sank three American Am-erican transports Saturday and damaged and set afire four other Friday and Saturday in actions in the Leyte gulf.) Only slight resistance was encountered en-countered by the small American landing parties which pushed ashore Sunday in the Asia islands, is-lands, 130 miles north of northwest north-west New Guinea and 800 miles southeast of Leyte, a supplement to MacArthur's communique said. A British warship was revealed reveal-ed to have commanded the naval forces which covered trie-Ameri can landings in the Mapia group last Wednesday. Though there were many pillboxes and other fixed defenses on Pcgun, first: Island invaded, none was manned and only very light oppoistion was encountered. The landing force went a mile inland on Pegun without firing a shot, a spokesman said. Then 13 Japanese suddenly appeared and committed suicide with grenades gre-nades a few yards in advance of the American without even at-tcmoting at-tcmoting resistance. The Americans moved to Bras island, also in the Mapias, next day and, though resistance was stiffer. occupation was completed complet-ed within a couple of days. On Leyte. the Japanese moved tip additional tanks and artillery for new attempts to break through the American road block south of Limon to relieve their trapped forces. One counter-attack Friday was repulsed "bloodily" "blood-ily" after n three-hour battle. While elements of the 24th and 1st cavalry divisions beat off enemy coupter-nttneks south of Limon. the 32nd division struck deeper into the center of the (Continued on Pate Two) lightnings hit Cebu island, west of Leyte. Week-end communiques from Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters In the Philippines listed six vessels sunk and 21 damaged, including a battleship and two other warships, war-ships, in air raids last Wednesday through Saturday. The Japanese-controlled Manila Man-ila radio said American carrier planes had raided the capital Saturday (Sunday, Manila time), but had been driven off before they could cause any damage. It was the first reported raid on Manila since other carrier planes sank 16 Japanese ships and damaged 158 to 168 planes 7 : 7.,' --- r w uuiKa unk on that nemilnn r,t1I(jj ww. , occ"101 included a jgnt cruiser and four destroy - A Tokyo broadcast heard by FCC monitors said Japanese planes had caught an American task force In waters east of the Philippines Saturday and Sunday (Sunday and Monday, Tokyo time) and had sunk two cruisers. An aircraft carrier and a battleship battle-ship were set afire, the broadcast broad-cast said. A Tokyo broadcast heard byi United Press in San Francisco reported raids on Thursday and Saturday on Paramushiro island in the northern Kuriles, and claimed two B-34's accompanied B-25's on one of the flights. (Tokyo also claimed that Jap- anese naval air units sank four.?" flowing through the conduit "enemy ubmarines" Saturday lnl'rom Ccutta. P the Brahmapu-the Brahmapu-the western Pacific ) i va"ey nto Assam, and thence Admiral Chester W. Nimitz be-'across the. Patkal bills to supply 1atHlv uiunrnMH tK.t .kina nf the Pacific fleet had steamed up (Contlnaed on Page Two) sinnman Soviet Shock Troops Crack German Lines Red Armies in North About to Explode Last Greatest Offensive By ROBERT S. MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 20 u.R) Reinforced Soviet shock troops, perhaps a half-million strong, cracked through the 80-mile German flank north east of Budapest at a half dozen points today, as Axis and Allied sources hinted that Russia s northern armies were about to explode their last and greatest winter offensive of the war in Poland and East Prussia. The German high command said the Red army opened a powerful pow-erful new offensive in southwest-eern southwest-eern Latvia below Liepaja (Li-bau), (Li-bau), preceded by strong artillery artil-lery fire and violent air attacks. It said the first Soviet attack "broke down" but violent fighting fight-ing was going on against Russian Rus-sian forces brought up from the rear. Berlin, apparently paving the way for news of a smashing Russian Rus-sian triumph, reported that fresh Soviet troops were pouring into the battle for Budapest hourly, swelling Marshal Rodion Y. Mal- inovskv's 8nd Ukrainian army to 85-infantry divisions and- sevenl mobile corps. Stalled at the southern gates of the capital by ferocious German and Hungarian resistance, Malin- ovsky shifted the main weight of his assault to the northeast in a great enveloping sweep that crushed through a maze of Nazi tank-traps and pillboxes extending extend-ing up across the plains and rolling roll-ing foothills to Miskolc, 80 miles away. Moscow dispatches said the Soviets forced at least six breaches breach-es In the enemy line, cutting direct di-rect communications between Budapest and Miskolc and driving driv-ing to within less than 19 miles of the upper Danube at one point. Meanwhile, Berlin spokesmen said the ground in East Prussia and Poland, bogged down in mud for weeks, was hardening rapidly under the first blasts of winter and that the "decisive" battle of the north was imminent. Both in the German radio and Moscow dispatches quoted by "Absie," the American broadcasting broad-casting station in Enrope. said vast Russian hordes. In greater strength than at anv time since. vis;on and mobile units of a mo-the mo-the war began, were wheel lng;torized colonial infantry regiment into line for the final driv . I speared to the Rhine late yester- tlmcd to coincide with the Allied offensive in the west. Moscow's early morning communique, com-munique, however, centered on the fighting for Budapest where more than 6000 Germans and Hungarians were killed and 500 raptured yesterday in a vain attempt at-tempt to stem the Soviet envelop ing thrust. Malinovsky's hard-driving hard-driving veterans routed the en-j emy from town after town on the; looping front northeast of the; capital, forcing the Nazis to abandon aban-don a number of ammunition dumps and great quantities of equipment In their retreat. Thirty-six miles northeast of' Budapest, the Soviets captured Gyongyos, a heavily-fortified road center and one of the four major bastions of the enemy's flanking line. Vecs and Tofaly, 12 and 14 miles east of Gyongyos, also were taken in the Russian advance. ALLIES CROSS RHINE yu. uwo Be LONDON, Nov. 20 (U.R) The , ,,, Tv ST observers saw Allied troops throw ' - k- tjki . nwiu nan in sua in rnno v thbt m a mm i mm ass aua eavs voo V I V auiiilv American Engineers Complete 1,800 Mile Pipeline to China MYITKYINA, Burma. Nov. 20 (U.R) One of the war's greatest engineering triumphs was revealed reveal-ed today in an official announcement announce-ment that American army engineers engi-neers have completed the major part of an 1,800-mile pipeline to feed oil and gasoline into China for the coming grand-scale bombing bomb-ing of Japan. Thousands of gallons already vie Allies in noruern surma The final lap of the pipline. probably the longest in the world. is being rushed to completion as CGTiqy French Mobile Units Sweep to the Rhine As Defenses Collapse Six Allied Annies Slug Forward Along 400-Mile Front British Drive Germans From Dutch Salient West of the Maas PARIS, Nov. 20 u.R) American troops virtually completed com-pleted the conquest of Metz today when German resistance collapsed suddenly, and French mobile units raced down the west bank of the Rhine after a 28-mile lightning thrust through the Belfort Gap to the frontier of Germany. Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny's sweep to the Rhine,- outflanking Belfort and leaving some elements behind to drive into its outskirts, was spurt of the Allied winter offensive. offen-sive. Six Allied armies waging Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's greatest offensive of the war slugged forward for-ward along a 400-mile front against opposition ranging from a desperate Nazi stand on thee Cologne plain to a headlong re treat In some sectors. Advance .Two Miles Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1st army advanced up to almost two miles on a broad front east of Aachen, driving a spearhead through neighboring villages of Wenau and Heistern, 26 miles from Cologne. Northwest of Aachen the Brit ish 2nd army drove all the Ger mans, except a sacmiciai rear guard, from the Dutch salient west of the Maas- above Roer- mond, and the American broad casting station in Europe said Lt Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's forces had burst across the Maas near Venlo. The Germans threw a stiff counterattack against 2nd army forces fighting alongside the American Am-erican 9th and 1st armies above Aachen, and some Nazi units reached captured Suggerath, two miles northeast of Geilenklrchen, but a front dispatch said the enemy was beaten back. From Metz, United Press correspondent cor-respondent Collie Small reported that the siege of perhaps the strongest fortress in western Europe Eur-ope was nearly over, with all German resistance crushed save for snipers and a crumbling core in a small barracks in northwestern northwest-ern Metz. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's assault as-sault forces were in "almost complete control of the city," Small said. The German stand in the encircled fortress collapsed like a punctured balloon after a bitter two-day battle. The French 1st motorized dl- :da: and late reports said they had captured a number of towns along a three-mile stretch of the (Continued on Page Two) CIO Convention Held In Chicago CHICAGO. Nov. 20 (U.R) The CIO's seventh annual constitutional constitu-tional convention opened here today to-day with the War Labor Board as the nrineirjal target of eritie- ism by President Philip Murray who advocated a change in either the board s policies or its personnel. per-sonnel. In a 73-page report to the convention, con-vention, Murray charged that the WLB has "refrained from making any contribution to the improvement improve-ment of labor relations or meeting meet-ing the basic wartime problems of labor." "The only effective joD that Jiar been done by the WLB in the past year is to freeze wages." Murray said. swiftly as Allied troops can clear the Japanese from its path. Ma! Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, commander of American forces In the India-Burma theater, predicted predic-ted that the' pipeline would play an important role in reviving China for the final phase of the war against Japan. When completed the line will be more than 1,800 miles long, considerably longer than America's Amer-ica's famous "Big Inch" from Long View, Texas to the New York area. Officers connected with the project include Captain Walter Qingo, Cut Bank, Montana. Foirfcire the most sensational single.. Chiang Kai-Shek Removes Six In Cabinet Shake-Up BY WALTER BUNDLE United Press War Correspondent CHUNGKING. Nov. 20 0J.RJ Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek removed six of his top ranking cabinet members from office today, to-day, including the war and finance fin-ance ministers, in a governmental, shake-up apparently aimed at silencing si-lencing the recent barrage of criticism directed against bis regime. Chinese government censors prohibited amplification of tho reasons behind the reorganization, reorganiza-tion, permitting correspondents to say only that it was undertaken to meet the objections of the people's peo-ple's political council, which is headed by Chiang. (The shakeup, however, appeared appear-ed to stem directly from U. S. Gen. Joseph W. StUwell's recall from China last month, following a disagreement with Chiang on the prosecution of the war.) Major victim of the wholesale cabinet "purge" was Gen. Ho Ying Chin, who was ousted as minister of war. Ho, whose direction direc-tion of China's armies long has been the butt of criticism from the people's political council as well as American quarters, retained re-tained his post as chief of staff of the army, however. His war ministry was taken over by Gen. cnen uneng, xor- mer commander of the 1st war zone and for years a confidential adviser to Chiang. He is regarded here as one of China's "strong men." H. H. Kung, a brother-in-law of Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, was replaced re-placed as finance minister by O. K. Yui, formerly his assistant in that ministry. Yui also assumed concurrent management of tho four national banks administered by Kung in his capacity as finance fin-ance minister. Minister of education Chen Li-Fu, who had repeatedly been under fire from the foreign press, Minister of the Interior Chow Chung-Yueh, and Information Minister Liang also were dropped in the cabinet re-shuffle. (The still-incomplete dispatch did not immediately identify the sixth ousted cabinet member.) War In Brief By United Press WESTERN FRONT AUIed armies slash to within 26 miles of Cologne outskirts, push four miles into Saar basin on 13 mile front, capture one third of encircled en-circled Metz and sweep across Alsace Al-sace to within 13 miles of Rhine. EASTERN FRONT Reinforced Rein-forced Soviet shock troops crack through 80-mile German flank northeast of Budapest at half dozen doz-en points as Axis and Allied sources hint Russia's northern armies are about to launch their greatest offensive of war in Poland Po-land and East Prussia. PACIFIC New American carrier aircraft attack reported on Manila as landing parties move into Asia Islands off northwest north-west New Guinea to knock out another enemy warning station. ITALY German troops recapture re-capture Monte Fortlno, five and half miles south of Faenza. PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION BOISE, Ida., Nov. 20 UJ0 A new plant for manufacture of cargo gear for ships now is under construction hero by the A. Fris-toe Fris-toe Nelson company of Seattle, Clarence Call, Boise branch manager, man-ager, said today. |
