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Show Iv. r . I f ' ..... THE WEATHER Cloady tills afternoon and to night with liaht rain or snow beginning be-ginning northwest portion early Tharsday and spreading over the state darter the day; considerably wanner this afternoon and tonight: to-night: cooler Thnrsday. Tempera tares: High 45 Low 19 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 127 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1944 coMPi-icrr tTAinxn PRFSS PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTH OP SALT LAKK TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Movie Star, To Promote - I?'',., ANITA LOinSE Personal appearances in Frovo of Miss Anita Louise, beautiful Hollywood movie star, and Major Martini, pilot of a B-17, and holder of the world record as "ace of aces," will add attraction to Thursday's activities in connection with the Sixth War Bond drive. They will be presented at the weekly Kiwanis club luncheon-meeting at 12:15 o'clock, at Keeleys, and again at 3:45 p. m. at Geneva Ge-neva SteeL Miss Louise's appearance in Utah is for the purpose of fostering labor-management cooperation in the Sixth War Loan drive. Her visit was made possible pos-sible through the Hollywood Victory committer, - m Bond Caravan to Bring Display of Army Equipment In the Interests of the Sixth War Loan drive, an army caravan cara-van Is being sent out from Camp Kearns and will be in Provo Thursday. The caravan, to be headed by Captain Donald C Todt, will appear ap-pear at the Provo high school at 11 a. m, the B. Y. high school at 1:30 p. m. and the Dixon junior high at 2:50 p. m. Included in the caravan are an exhibition truck with arctic and south Pacific uniforms; one scout car which will take bond and stamps buyers for a ride, 12 persons per-sons at a time; one armored car; a 37mm anti tank gun, weighing 14 tons; and other equipment. A veteran from Bushnell hospital hos-pital will be on hand to speak and to show combat films furnished furn-ished by the army and navy. Persons making up the caravan cara-van will attend the luncheon at Keeleys, at which Miss Anita Louise, movie star, and Captain Martini, famous air ace, will make their appearances. Cigaret Shortage Probe Fails To Yield Explanation By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UJ9 Canvassing the nation's capital today for an official explanation of the cigaret shortage is like reading a mystery thiriler without with-out an ending. The quest yields myriad facts and clues and an occasional gift of a stray cigaret, but no solution. solu-tion. A check of treasury tax receipts re-ceipts shows that 10,000,000.000 (B) fewer cigarets were released for purchase in this country in 1944 than in 1943. while 40,000.-000,000 40,000.-000,000 (B) more smokes were shipped abroad to fighting forces, this year than last Records of the house agriculture agricul-ture committee, now conducting hearings into the subject, reveal testimony that the 1944 tobacco crop is the largest in history and that, in addition, warehouses contain con-tain 18 months reserve supply of cigaret tobacco. Committee chairman John W. Flannagan, Jr., D., Va.. a cigaret smoker himself knows the bite of an unfamiliar brand, is now studying testimony given his group yesterday to determine whethefthe inquiry should be pushed -pn. Flannagan pointed out, too, that the testimony refutes charges that the agriculture department's acreage restrictions on tobacco the only 'crop still restricted (Continued en Page Two) Air Ace Coming Here 6th War Loan Drive MAJOR operation with the U. S. treasury, the Utah War Finance committee, and the labor section of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor. Fullmer H. Latter, president presi-dent of the Utah State Federation Fed-eration of Labor, is chairman chair-man of the committee in charge of her appearance, and co-chairmen for her appearance in the Provo region are Irvan Cary, representative of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, and Aura C. Hatch, vice chairman of the Provo War Finance committee. Hall Baetz, motion picture chairman chair-man of the Utah War Fin-an-ce committee, is in charge of the Anita Louise itinerary. Mark Anderson, county war finance chair-- President's Wed Film Nelson Sounds Blunt Warning To the Chinese CHUNGKING, Nov. 29 (U.R) Donald M. Nelson, President Roosevelt's special representative in China, bluntly warned the Chinese today that their plight will become "very precarious" unless they immediately triple lagging war production. "We cannot realistically expect the military position of China to improve very much until China wins her battles of production and supply," Nelson said in an address ad-dress to the people's poltical council in Chungking. Action Expected On Steel Formula NEW ORLEANS, La.. Nov. 29 (UJ0 Delegates to the 64th an nual convention of the American Federation of Labor hinted broadly that more action was ex pected today in the AFL s steam roller efforts to modify the little steel formula, desipte the War Labor Board's refusal. President William Green, in a resolution adopted yesterday, was named to a committee to take the matter directly to President RosevelL Two other resolutions asked for a modification of the little steel formula, and a raise in wage scales. ' Canadian Government Takes Action to Prevent Outbreaks OTTAWA, Nov. 29 (U.R) Can adian army authorities took urg ent measures today to prevent further demonstrations and possible pos-sible mutiny by home defense forces protesting overseas conscription, con-scription, as parliament prepared to resume open debate on the issue, which threatens the government gov-ernment of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King. Aroused by the action of a Saskatchewan Sas-katchewan unit which prevented another unit from boarding a train in Terrace. B. C, to take up garrison duty at a west coast defense de-fense zone, officials ordered all beer parlors and liquor stores in Terrace closed, while R.CAJ. personnel at a nearby station were confined to barracks. Maj. Gen. C. R. Peakes, of the Pacific command, announced that the Saskatchewan troops left Terrace Ter-race later and that disciplinary r-5xv., '"v-v ALLEN V. MARTINI man, Is in charge. Major Martini has an unparalleled un-paralleled record that of knocking out 22 Nazi planes in 15 minutes without the loss of a single man. Also he is the only major in the air force who received personal per-sonal challenge from the German air force, by Herman Her-man Goering, to come back -r-and he went baok, not once, but 15 times. He shot out 64 planes without the loss of a man. Major Martini holds the silver star and the air medal med-al with three oak-leaf lusters. lus-ters. Washington says of his speaking ability that he is without parallel in relating re-lating experiences of all war personnel throughout tKT?DUTrtry. - " a- Son to Actress HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29 (U.R) Col. Elliot Roosevelt and Actress Faye Emerson will be married "sometime this week," they dis closed today. After dodging reporters all morning, Miss Emerson finally called her studio and said: "Yes, it's true. We planned to be married within the week, but we don't know exactly when." Col. Roosevelt, second son of the president, likewise was not speaking to reporters. His roommate room-mate at the Beverly Hills hotel. Col. David Brooks, relaying a telephonic conversation, said Roosevelt confirmed the announcement. an-nouncement. Brooks said the couple had not set a definite day or hour. It will be the second marriage for Miss Emerson, 27, and the third for Roosevelt, 34. He was divorced in April from Ruth Goggins Roosevelt of Fort Worth, Texas, and she was given custody of their three children. He previously had been married mar-ried to Elizabeth Donner Roose velt, whom he divorced in 1933.' miss cmerson, xormeriy was wed to William W. Crawford, now a naval flyer, and has custody of their four-year-old son, William W. III. Miss Emerson, a curvaceous blonde, entered movies in 1941 after appearing in little theater productions in Carmel, Calif., and since then has had 17 film roles under contract to Warner Broth-, ers. The colonel's three children were with him on his visit here, and returned with him yesterday from a trip to Santa Barbara, Calif., on which they were accompanied accom-panied by secret service men. measures against the armed draftees draf-tees who had threatened them would be decided by the local commander. The House of Commons ended an eight-hour closed session early today after defense minister A. G. L. McNaughton was questioned on the government's intentions of conscripting 16,000 men to rein force overseas troops. King's motion for a vote of confidence was brought by charges by leaders of the opposi tion progressive conservative party and the cooperative commonwealth com-monwealth federation that his government's position on the draft and their demands for unlimited conscription for overseas duty was not sincere. Demonstrations by youthful members of the home guard, still insisting that they not be sent into fighting zones, continued as the closed session ended. f mk A Destroyers Shell Japs In Ormoc Bay Japs Begin Heavier Counter-Attacks In Leyte Island Battle By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. HEADQUART-ERS. PHILIPPINES. Nov. 29 (U.R American destroyer and other naval units sailed bold-lv bold-lv into the Ormoc bay. heart of the Japanese pocket in northwest Leyte, and bombarded bom-barded shore installations for an hour and a half without draw-in draw-in answerins fire, it was an nounced today. ! The naval forces also searched a wide area of the Camotes seat off northwest Leyte before and after the bombardment Monday night for enemy ships attempting attempt-ing to reinforce the doomed Leyte Ley-te garrison, but none was found. Meanwhile Tokyo radio claim ed the Japanese have begun heavy hea-vy counterattacks against American Ameri-can forces in northern and cen tral Leyte. (Japanese broadcasts recorded by United Press in San Francisco anBrted the CaDoocan-Colasian highway running near the shore of Carigara Bay was "severea Monday night and that American forces were -"trapped" in the Tllanagasnasand" Limon" sectors. (In the Caridad sector soutn of Ormoc bay, the unconfirmed enemv broadcasts claimed. Jap anese troops were "hammering"! the second battalion ol the sev enth division's Third regimen after af-ter forcing the Americans into a 12-mile retreat from Bavbay harbor to the "outskirts" of Cari dad. United Press War Correspondent Correspond-ent Ralnh Teatsorth. who was aboard one of the participating destroyers, said large nres were kindled in the sea and air base of Ormoc by the bombardment. American artillery fire raking Ormoc targets from inland ridges also was visible, he said. No air opposition was encountered encount-ered during the entire foray, Teatsorth added, though several planes were spotted in the vicinity. vicin-ity. Drenching rains continued to stalemate ground activity on Ley- te. However, ground patrols nrobd Jananese lines for weak points to be exploited when clear weather returns. Japanese planes made their (Continued on Page Two) y Post-War Cooperation Urged By Halifax at Bankers Meet CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (U.R) A policy of cooperation in post-war international trade, rather than cut-throat competition that would give rise to another Hitler "to exploit the miseries of the people and to multiply them tenfold by another war," was advocated last night by Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States. "We have two alternative policies poli-cies from which to choose," the British diplomat told the International Interna-tional Bankers association of America. "We can turn the'economlc life of the world into a wild scramble, leaving the less fortunate or less well-equipped to go to the wall or national bankruptcy in whatever what-ever way they choose," he said. "That is one policy. The other policy is one of international cooperation." co-operation." Great Britain's stake in postwar post-war international trade is high, he said, because "our prodigious No Extension Of Time This Year On Tax Payments There win be no extension period per-iod on taxes beyond the 30th of Nov., as there has been in the past, Frank T. Bennett, county treasurer, declared today. In urging county citizens to be prompt, he said that all 1944 taxes in Utah county must be paid by Thursday, if they are to be considered not delinquent. Those taxes which have not been received by Thursday will be put on the delinquent lists and advertised ad-vertised as such. Two per cent of the original amount of the tax and a 25 cent ..publishing charge will be added to the tax as penalty, pen-alty, Mr. Bennett stated. Out D Churchill Warns Against Let-Down LONDON, Nov. 29 0J.P3 Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned today against "any Indulgence in the feeling that the war will soon be over." "It may be," Churchill told the house of commons, "but do not indulge in that feeling." Recalling that he had forecast that the war against Germany would last until early summer, Churchill said he now would be willing to change this forecast by leaving ou the word "early." Stettinius Wins Unanimous Support From Committee WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U.R The senate foreign relations committee com-mittee today unanimously endorsed endors-ed the nomination of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 44-year-old "freshman" "fresh-man" in international politics, to be secretary of state. Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., said he would ask the full senate to confirm the nomination, as well as the designation of Maj. Gen. Patrick A. Hurley to be ambassador to China, later this afternoon. Connally said both nominations were approved by the committee commit-tee without debate. He said the only reason for speeding them through the senate was that "there is no occasion for delay." The committee considered but delayed a decision for one week on a resolution which would put the senate on record as favoring unlimited Jewish immigration and colonization of Palestine. The resolution, sponsored by Sens. Robert A. Taft, R.. O., and Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., has been pending before the committee since Feb. 1. The committee also heard Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic administrator, ad-ministrator, give what Connally described as "a general review of the situation in lend-lease." Discussion over a new undersecretary under-secretary has touched upon a dozen or so top American diplomats, diplo-mats, including such men as William Phillips,, Joseph C. Grew, W. Averill Harriman, John C. Wlnant, Laurence Steinhardt and George S. Messersmith, the ambassador am-bassador to Mexico. The four men now serving as assistant secretaries Adolf A. Berle Jr., Dean Aecheson, G. Howland Shaw and Breckinridge Long also are being mentioned. (war) efforts have imposed a strain on our financial position which in normal times would have been judged quite intolerable." intoler-able." He thanked lend lease for enabling en-abling the British to forget about her export trade during the war and concentrate on the production produc-tion of fighting equipment. "The prosperity of the world depends upon the prosperity of all," he said. ' Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the General Motors corporation, speaking at the same meeting, told the bankers that the Achievement Achieve-ment of proposed goals of 60,-000,000 60,-000,000 jobs in the post war era would necessitate creating jobs for approximately 10,000,000 more persons than were employed in 1940. He predicted three to four years of high industrial activity due to the backlog of war-created purchasing power. Capital Housing Shortage Hits By. FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 CU.R) I keep telling my bride the secretary secre-tary of the treasury is In the same boat He makes the stuff, himself, but he can't spend it, either. He runs the world's biggest factory, with branch assemblies from coast to coast, for the exclusive ex-clusive manufacture of money, he produces it in numerous styles and guards it with his life and what happens? Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., can't find himself a place to live. His lease ran out (he didn't think FDR would run again when he signed lt), he's being evicted and money won't rent him an owe German Oil Refinery Hit In Big Raid Shattering Blow Hits Misburg, Freight Yard At.Hamm, Other Targets LONDON, Nov. 29 u More than 1,000 Flying Fort resses and Liberators, escorted escort-ed by an equal number of fighters, attacked the big oil refinery at Misburg, freight yards at Hamm, and other targets in northwestern Ger many today following a heavy British bombardment of Nura berg, Ansen, and Neuss. The attack on Misberg was the tenth and possibly the final shattering shat-tering blow to the vital oil works, one of the largest in Germany. The swarms of Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Lightnings were sent along in the expectation expecta-tion the Nazi Luftwaffe would offer another desperate defense against increasing assaults at the heart of the German war ma chine. A few hours earlier Halifax and Lancaster bombers hit the arms, industrial and rail centers of Essen and Neuss after one of the strongest Mosquito bomber forces ever sent out had attacked the Nazi party shrine city of Nurpberg. Te Mosquito jajders. . struck Numberg Vftsrtry after T p.m., sending a great weight of two- ton blockbusters crashing down into the Nazi shrine city. Returning Re-turning pilots said their first bombs went down in a tight con centration and touched off a tre mendous explosion on the ground. Marine Ace Equals Richenbacker's World War I Mark KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Nov. 29 iUJPJ Famed U. S. Marine Major Joseph Foss, the first American flier in this war to equal Capt Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One record of 26 enemy planes downed in combat, today said he expected to be ready for combat duty again in about three months. Major Foss, holder of the con gressional medal of honor, was stationed at the Marine rehabilitation rehabili-tation center here after two at tacks of malaria in the South Pacific. The Sioux Falls, S. D., marine major downed 26 Jap planes while he was operating as a fighter fight-er pilot from Henderson field on Guadalcanal. 54 New Airports Proposed in Utah WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U.R) Congress had before it . today Civil Aeronautices Administration recommendations for construction construc-tion of 3050 new airports and improvements im-provements of 1625 existing fields at an estimated cost of $1,-250,000,000. $1,-250,000,000. The CAA's airport plan, if adopted by congress, would increase in-crease the nation's total number of airports to 6305 under a federal-state joint financing plan, similar to the public roads program. pro-gram. Construction would be completed over a period of five to 10 years. Included in the projects were 54 new airports In Utah at a cost of $8,822,510 and improvements to 19 existing fields at an outlay of $3,298,380. . other bouse. The secretary of the treasury could, of course, use one of his new dollar bills to light a smoke, but I defy him to buy a cigaret anywhere in Washington today. That's well and good, my bride aays, but what's she going to do with 8,328 pounds of beds, China-ware, China-ware, kitchen stove and rocking chairs, now en route by fast freight from California? That's a lot of goods and chattels and my bride's living in a room-and-a-half furnished apartment. Washington's Wash-ington's biggest storage company said it would be glad to help out, except that it hasn't any more storage space. What's she to do, my bride asked, sew some of Morgenthau's GiBons Fir Reach Roer (SEA TeUphoto) The American Ninth and First Arni hammered their way to Roer River, last water barrier before the Rhine, in fighting advances that car- ried Ninth Army to the river St two points only 21 miles west of Cologne. Other Allied Armies advance on western front as huge RAF bomber fleet smashed Freiburg and other points. Japs Report 3rd Raid on Tokyo by Superfortresses SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 (U.R) Tokyo radio said today a minor formation of enemy planes, presumably pre-sumably B-29 superfortresses based in the Marianas, appeared over Tokyo area shortly before midnight Nov. 29, Wednesday, (Tokyo time), in what appeared to be the third attack on Japan's capital city within a week. Tokyo radio, in a broadcast recorded re-corded by United Press reported the apparent raid at approximately approximate-ly 8:12 a. m. PWT) while the planes were overhead but there was no immediate confirmation from official American sources. Tokyo said the B-29's dropped both incendiaries and flard bombs but were "immediately repulsed by our effective interception." The Japanese said the fires were put out by "the timely action of our fire fighting units." , At the end of a routine news broadcast shortly after midnight, Japan time, the Japanese announcer an-nouncer said: "A minor formation of enemy planes penetrated the Tokyb area a little before 12 o'clock on Nov. 29th. Japanese interceptors are now giving a hot reception to the enemy raiders." Both previous B-29 raids on Tokyo were daylight missions. The Japanese report of a. new raid on their imperial capital city came shortly after a Dome! .news agency commentator warned that "American savages" who bara-chute bara-chute from B-29's onto Japanese soU will be "killed on the pot" by "angry Japanese people." Today's Tokyo radio raid alarm was recorded by United Press, San Francisco. The enemy s prellmin-( prellmin-( Continued on Page Twe) Morgenthau dollar bills together and make a tent? Are they waterproof, Mr. secretary? Furthermore, Mr. Morgaiithau, if you did have a house to live In would you have a pillow for your head? My bride managed to spend some of your money for sheets, but in all the capital she couldn't buy a pillow case. It isn't Morganthau's fault that Othman ration book number three somewhow got packed with the phonograph records. I've pointed out to my bride that this is good for her hips, but she insists in-sists she likes her oatmeal with sugar. She's getting no cooperation coopera-tion from the OPA, which says if you know where your ration (Continued on Page Two) V r.. t..x - V y? 'xww4 , . vwmm" 1 OSAMtRUCX AtNHEM ' SShSs- MUNSTOt JlS J CSIW 'jTl MAMMMSJM Mfrz X. "" JuauavHt nncy ssjarnrrr: FRANC A TYttWAtT mi Cologinis Anchor Towns Fall As Nazi Lines Retreat First Ninth Annies Complete Mop-up of Three More Nazi Towns PARIS, Nov. 29 un American forces captured Langerweh, biggest German-held German-held town west of Duren, and five other anchor towns of the yielding Nazi defenses-before defenses-before the Roer river line today to-day in slow but steady gains along a 16-mile front aimed at Cologne. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' first army tanks, tank destroyers, and bazooka-armed doughboys routed the last German troops from the fortress-like cellars of Langerwehe, five miles west of Duren. On either side of already bypassed by-passed Langerwehe, the Americans Ameri-cans seized Koslar, Frenz, Jun-gersdorf, Jun-gersdorf, Kleinhau, and Hurtgen in violent fighting that now posed direct threats to Duren and Julich, main strongholds of the Roer river lme. Slugging Thro Saar To the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's third army was within with-in sight of the end of its drive across France, with the left wing already slugging through Ger many's Saar, and the center and right swinging in against the wJfw? , "Jj Bordcr ,wtnJn 2ht artery of Saarbrucken. supreme n e a a quarters an nounced that the U. S. Third, Seventh, and Ninth, and French First armies had captured 53,561 i prisoners since Gen. Dwight D. 1Ticnhriwr tmmhrl rttt Hie nrunH 'offensive. Altogether the Allies have taken 734.216 prisoners since D-day, with 451,434 of them in American hands. Farther east and south, the American Seventh army cut the Germans' supply road between Saarreguemines and Haguenau and pushed 14 miles north of Strasbourg to within three miles of Hagenau itself. French First army troops punched to within five to 10 miles from the Alsatian stronghold strong-hold of Colraar and began chopping chop-ping up German units cut off in the southern Vosges by their speedy dash, to the Rhine last week. At least two enemy pockets pock-ets were encircled. In the past two weeks alone, the Seventh and French First armies have cleared 3,600 square miles of east France, liberated 1,140 towns, and captured 22,530 prisoners. , Far to the north, Canadian First army forces were revealed to have joined in the battle inside Germany. A spokesman said the Canadians had moved into positions posi-tions seized two months ago by the British in the Reichwald forest for-est southeast of the Dutch town of Nijmegen. Action In Prospect Large-scale action appeared to ,be in prospect on the British-Ca nadian sector. Front dispatches (Continued on Page Two) War In Brief BT UNITED PRESS WESTERN FRONT: American armies widen their toehold on west bank of Roer river, Germany's Ger-many's projected winter defense line before Cologne, and drive to within eight miles of Saarbrucken, Saar-brucken, key to Saar basin. EASTERN FRONT: Red army columns, slashing across Danube 100 miles below Budapest, battle bat-tle toward Hungarian stronghold of Pecs in flanking sweep toward Austrian border. PACIFIC: American destroyers and other naval units steam into Ormoc Bay, heart of Japanese pocket on Leyte and bombard shore installations. AIR WAR: RAF bombers strike 1 at German industrial and rail i centers of Essen and Neuss in wake of concentrated night as sault on Nurnberg. ITALY: Eighth army, troops MiahlfK MA4k 1 1 af inann T n mn rtsa age resistance in Alberto area How Far To Berlin ; The distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: WESTERN FRONT: 296 miles (from point southeast of Nijmegen; Nijme-gen; unchanged.) EASTERN FRONT: 315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged.) ITALY: 532 miles (from point south of Racenna, Unchanged.). .4rVC |