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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Cloudy this afternoon, partly dandy tonight and Friday; colder tonight. Temperatures: My MoMyMMy TIaM I - High Low At .22 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 128 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKX PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1744. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS nit to 16 Yanks Smish 6th Atte Iteiiforce Leyte Sfar Boosts BomiSaleAt , Gsneva Charming Film Actress Makes Impressive Plea For More Bond Buying "Bonds we buy in this war loan wui end the war sooner. An extra effort, ah extra bond today will help to end the .war which took my husband hus-band and your sons and brothers to the fighting fronts," declared lovely Miss Anita Louise, Columbia film actress, ac-tress, who appeared at the Ki- wanis luncheon - meeting today tnrough the courtesy of the American Federation of Labor and Hollywood victory committee, commit-tee, to "pep up" bond sales in Utah. Miss Louise mentioned that ammunition to our fighting forces is rationed in some places, a fact which Sgt. McEwan, who poke on behalf of the armed forces, confirmed from personal experience on southern Pacific beachheads. Evan Thomas, former club president, took charge of the program and introduced Capt Todt, head of a group of seven army air force men who attended attend-ed the meeting from their Salt Lake base: Cpl. Pickett, Pvt. Fisher, CpL Gunther, Cpl. Daniel, SgL Procter, and Sgt. McEwan. The latter spoke briefly on his experiences, both comical and serious, in Actual battle. Hal Bates, representative of the motion picture industry, was in attendance to introduce' Miss Louise, and to make the promise that in a bond "auction" following follow-ing the program, the highest bond bidder would receive an autographed picture of the charming star. Major Allen V. Martini, hero of the air corps, scheduled to appear ap-pear with Miss Louise, failed to put in an appearance on the Provo tour. Guests of the meeting included Dx. J. G. Jones, recently elected president of the Utah National Parks council, Boy Scouts of America; Second Lieutenants De-los De-los Bown, with 35 combat mis sions over Germany to his cred it, and Eldon Clark, reported missing in action over six months; Rev. P. M. Luker. St. Mark's church; LL Jack HaUiday, with the navy, and Joseph A. Couch, petty officer first class, Miss Louise closed the meeting with a plea for business men to "please buy that extra war bond, it win help very much." Irvin Carey, American Federation Federa-tion of Labor representative in the Provo area, and Aura C. Hatch, vice chairman of the Provo Pro-vo war finance committee, cooperated co-operated in making the local arrangements ar-rangements for the visit of Miss Louise, who paid a visit to the Geneva Steel plant at a war bond rally staged there, later in the afternoon before returning to Salt Lake City. Utah Bond Sales Up to $4,023,476 SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 (ILPD Utah bond sales pushed to $4,023,476 here today behind the urging of three notables. Actress Anita Louise, war Hero aiaj. Al len V. M1"1! and Kngmn Actor Act-or John Sutton. War bond officials reported that Miss Louise's appearance at a bond rally here last night, alone, accounted for sales of nearly $100,000 worth of bonds, She was scheduled to continue her appearances today, primarily in Utah county. She will visit the Geneva Steel plant and then move to Provo for her remaining bond rallies. Sutton spoke at the Murray high school this morning and will peak at the Davis high school in Farminxton this afternoon. He will return here tomorrow for appearances at west nigh school and the Ladies' Literary club. Miss T meanwhile, will continue to Price, Helper and Draggerton for additional rallies before leaving tne state oatur day morning. War finance officials were gratified at the increased activ ity in bond purchases. Child Smothers To Death in Crib SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 30 CJJ0 Funeral services were being arranged here today for Alan Ray Teroctra. four-months-old son of jHf, Sou SOT ub ciua. The child was found smothered to death In its crib yesterday. Provo Senate Passes Dill to Extend Silver Purchase WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 (MB The senate has passed and sent to the house bill to extend the wartime silver .purchase act to Dec. 31, 1948. The act authorizes the President Presi-dent to purchase silver and sell or lease it for war purposes on terms set ny tne secretary of the Treasury. Vote Delayed On Flood Control Bill In Senate WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 0JJ0 Hopes of an early senate vote on tne 1970,960,000 flood, conrtol bill appeared fading today after introduction in-troduction of an amendment to transfer water conservation reservoir res-ervoir projects in 17 western states from the army engineers to the interior department. Some senators felt that the amendment, sponsored by Sen. James E. Murray, D., Mont, might make it impossible to pass the flood control bill in this session ses-sion of congress. Leaders hoped to recess Dec 45 for the Christmas Christ-mas holidays. Murray's amendment, which provoked immediate .opposition from western and southern senators, sena-tors, was introduced 'as work on the bill appeared nearlng completion com-pletion after seven days of heated heat-ed debate. . The amendment would: 1. Transfer all "functions, powers, duties, and projects' of the army corps of engineers relating re-lating to the "examination, survey, sur-vey, construction, operation, and maintenance" pt federally owned western water conservation reservoirs res-ervoirs in the western states to the bureau of reclamation of the Interior department. 2. Transfer all engineers corps records, property facilities, contracts, con-tracts, and assets to the reclamation recla-mation bureau. 3. Apply to all projects now authorized, and all those which may be authorized in the future for conservation, storage, flood control, and reclamation in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Mon-tana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla noma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The amendment was expected to revive the long-standing fight between the engineers and the bureau, with partisans of each lining up in the senate. . . A - t 1 1 , western senators in parucvuar favor the engineers, maintaining that their interest is solely in flood control and irrigation. Strikers Sent Back to Work by Union Official CHICAGO, Noc. 30 (UJ0 Thirty-five crewmen who walk- h off thoir inh flt nnnn vMtor- ed off their jobs at noon yesterday yester-day at the south Chicago plant of Carnegie-Illinois Steel com pany returned to work today on orders of George Alischeaur, sub-district sub-district director of the CIO. A company spokesman said the workers' objections . to transfer of several workers would be discussed. Production loss during the 20- hour strike totaled 325 tons of! high-grade aircraft steel, company com-pany officials said. Meanwhile, the strlKe of 14 cranemen in the same plant went into its fifth day forcing 350 workers into idleness and caus ing the loss of steel production totaling 4168 tons or equivalent to 1,250,400 steel helmets. JUDGE APPOINTED WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 (UJD The senate has confirmed ap pointment of Joseph W. Kehoe as judge, for the second judicial district of Alaska. Gl Brings a Baby PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 30 QUO Pfc. Arthur E. Whitehouse. 30. was home today with the laughing laugh-ing baby a Newfoundland nurse bore htm, but it wss not certain that his wife, childless In their nine years of marriage, would accept ac-cept the child and its father. The baby's mother didn't want her. Whitehouse -explained, so heJsbout the child before it ap obtained a furlough to bring her nome to his mother, and his wife if she would take her. - Ten-month-old Geraldine Mary played with her toes st the home of Mrs. Anna Whitehouse. who said she was happy to have granddaughter, "I didn't expect this kind ct a German Line Sags Before U. S. Onslaught American 1st and 9th Armies Capture Two Towns on Nazi Front PARIS, Nov. 30 0J.BGer-man 0J.BGer-man troops withdrawing toward to-ward the Roer line blew up the Inde river bridges at In-den In-den and Lamersdorf today as the battle of the Cologne plain went into its third week and two' American armies hammered out gains measured by feet instead of yards. Lt Gen, Courtney H. Hodges' First army doughboys were thrown out of Lamersdorf, five miles northwest of Duren, by a counter-attack, but swarmed back in and held firmly to captured cap-tured Grosshau, nine miles to the south. About 3,000 American and British bombers and fighters, sweeping on ahead of the hard-fighting hard-fighting armies, loosed a broadside broad-side of bombs on threatened Saarbrucken, benzol plants in the Ruhr, and synthetic oil factories in the Leiptiz area of central Germany. The German line appeared to be sagging back toward the Roer' river along the entire sector' sect-or' beyond Aachen despite fanatical fan-atical resistance by Germany's best troops under orders to "stand or die." Front dispatches said Germany was throwing her choicest reserves re-serves into action in the west to replace an estimated 100,000 troops killed, wounded, or captured cap-tured in the first three weeks of the Allied "victory" offensive along a 400-mile front from Hol land to the Swiss border. Matching the American gains in the north, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American Third army advanced up to a mile and a half deeper into Germany's Saar basin and seized high ground within two miles of both Merzlg and Saarlautern, Siegfrid line strongholds on the Saar river. Sixth army group forces in the south drove 14 miles south of Strasbourg along the Rhine river riv-er highway toward Colmar to tighten their ham-shaped trap around 20,000 to 50,000 troops in Alsace. Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First army doughboys on the Col ogne plain captured Grosshau, five miles southwest of the Rhine river stronghold of Duren, and (Continued on Page Two) One Vorfrer Killed In Explosion At Tooele Smelter TOOLELE, Utah. Nov. 30 (U.R) An explosion which killed one worker and seriously burned three others at the International .Smelting and Refining Co. zinc and lead reduction plant here, k.in inMs..H v,J was being investigated today byj we uian mines inspector and company officials. Rule Green was killed instantly instant-ly when a giant zing slag pot exploded ex-ploded last night while he and other employes pressed produc- Ition to the utmost to make up for time lost during a three-day strike which had ended only a few hours earlier. His co-workers, Leonard Ayers, Charles Berry and Carl Lind holm, were seriously burned in the explosion. They were treated at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City. Details on the blast were vague, but workers said the acci dent occurred when hot zinc ex ploded over the rim of the slag pot into which it was being poured. Tne striae, a wildcat, was caused by 14 workers who walked walk-ed off the Job in protest against working with a certain non-union employe. It affected 100 em ployes. Home; Meets Christmas present," the grandmother grand-mother said, as she bounced the wide-eyed child on her knee and worried about how to lay in a supply of elothlng with the pres ent shortage of infants' wear. The soldiers wife, Mrs. Rose Whitehouse, was not talking about the matter. She had known peared in the City of Brotherly Love. Pfc; Whitehouse -told her about the child in a letter, and asked permission to bring the baby home. His wife, Whitehouse said, did not answer his letter. Mrs. Whitehouse's family said she had not made up her mind about the matter. Superfortresses Strike In Night Raid Without Losses Tokyo Radio Admits Uncontrolled Fires Rage Over An Hour By FRED SCHERFF United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. SO 0J-R Giant American Superfortresses, Super-fortresses, carrying out their first night raid on Japan's teeming capital despite unfavorable un-favorable weather, bombed "industrial targets" in Tokyo last night and completed the 3,100 mile round trip to their Sal-pan Sal-pan bases without loss to enemy action, the war department announced an-nounced today. The Japanese radio admitted that fires "raged" uncontrolled for nearly an hour after the last of the big four-engined B-29's had left from the third attack on Tokyo within six days. A 20th airforce communique issued here said the latest bombing bomb-ing was "accomplished by precision pre-cision instruments and results were not observed because of a cloud cover." Tokyo's antiaircraft defenses put up only "meagre and inaccurate inac-curate resistance, the communique communi-que said, and "none of our aircraft air-craft was lost from enemy action." ac-tion." It was both the first night mission mis-sion for Brig. Gen. H. S. Hansell's Saipan-based 21st bomber command com-mand and the first night attack third largest city and site of some! WAwSHmGTN' NoY; ? UR of Japan's most vital war plants.! house military affairs com-The com-The communique did not identify ,niittee reported todtfy that Amer-the Amer-the exact targets, says only that'icans heJd m German -and jap. "industrial targets" were hit nfe Prison camps generally Neither did th mmm.min... being treated in accordance with indicate whether the attack was carried out in one sustained sweep by the B-29's or, as Tokyo radio indicated, in two separate waves. The frankest Japanese communique com-munique yet issued on the results of a Superfortress attack said fires "that continued to rage in part of the areas affected . . . were put under control by 5:30 a.m.," but insisted that no damage dam-age had been caused to "important "import-ant installations." The communique said casualties casual-ties were "extremely slight." Radio Tokyo reported that waves of B-29s, hitting by night for the first time, thundered over ov-er the capital dropping demolition demoli-tion and incendiary bombs from 11:50 p.m. to 2 a.m. (10:50 a. m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, EWT), then returned for a second attack at-tack from 4:15 a.m. to between 4:30 and 5 a.m. Tokyo Belittles Raid Tokyo, seeking to belittle the assault, asserted that only 20 planes participated and dropped their bombs through heavy clouds in a drizzling rain. A German Transocean dispatch from Tokyo said, however, that the "present situation" had forced forc-ed authorities to close the city's schools at 11 a.m. daily and quoted quot-ed Premier Gen. Kuiaki Koiso as appealing to the population for i f es Planes Te.v n Cn . I nes leaving Saipan at energetic, cooperation to put out (Continued on Page Two) Food Points To Remain Unchanged WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U.R) The Office of Price Administration Administra-tion today announced that present pres-ent food point values will be con-. con-. i . i . - . unueu uncnangea ior uecemDer.i despite expected slight Increases! 1m 4k. k.1t.. . M I 11 1 ! meats The supply of creamery butter for civilians next month has been estimated by the WFA at 87,000,- 000 (M pounds, compared with 85,000,000 M) pounds in November. Novem-ber. Beginning Sunday three new red stamps worth ten points each become good for the four-week ration period. The stamps are Q5, R5, and S4, Cold Reception The paternal grandmother said it didn't matter because she intended in-tended to quit her job in a war plant to take care of the child. Whitehouse. husky and rather handsome, who proposed to his wife while she was a salesgirl. was sent to ivewzounoiana in 1942. He said his attachment for the nurse was nothing, "only an affair" growing out of the monotony monot-ony of inactivity, until he learned she was to have a baby. Then he wanted to do the right thing, he said. "She didnt want the baby, and she didnt want me," Whitehouse said. British Keep A Lodestar aircraft of the British Overseas Airways Corp. is shown silhouetted above the buildings of colorful Cairo. Egypt, just before it comes in for a landing, proving that war has not hampered the work of the British Imperial Airways. Planes continue to traverse the Empire's great air routes as usual. Survey Shows No 'Coddling' Of Axis Prisoners In U. S. the 1929 Geneva convention, and Steps Favored To Avert Threatened Sugar Shortage WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U.R) food industry Officials told the: government today that the nation war becomes less good the far-faces far-faces a serious sugar shortage ther the camps are romeved from in 1945 unless steps are taken 'Japan proper." now to prevent it I Japanese prison camps closed warnn was ounded by to visitors are located In the the food industry war committee, 'Philippine islands, Dutch East composed oi representatives or the food processing and dlstribut lng industry, which said U. S. sugar stocks totaled 465,000 tons on Oct. 1, 1944, "an amount much lower than on any corresponding date during the past 10 years." It attributed the shortage to i-to! smpping u ormg in sugar from outside the country and lack; oi suiiicieni proaucuon nere. prescribed by the Geneva prison-To prison-To correct the situation the L of war convention," the corn-group corn-group recommended that more!mittee said. snips oe diverted to . oring in sugar from other countries, that local refiners be given manpower and priorities aid, that the present pres-ent rationing program be revamped re-vamped to avoid 'loose and illegal" ille-gal" distribution and that no sugar should be used for making alcohol. It also suggested that the arm ed forces "study their require- menu careiuiiy bo iney wui avoid building up a needlessly high stockpile" and that government govern-ment agencies "measure our already al-ready curtailed domestic sugar needs carefully before assigning sugar for . distribution to our allies, UNRRA and lend-lease." Japs Accused Of a . n AItOCITIGS DV The Australians CANBERRA. Australia, Nov. 30 (U.R) The Australian govern ment today formally accused the Japanese military of torturing and murdering Australian serv ice men and civilians on New Guinea and declared that every possible step will be taken to track down and punish the re sponsible parties. Evidence of Japanese atroci ties, compiled after an investiga tion lasting nearly two years, will be forwarded to London for action by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Attor ney-General Herbert Evatt told the house of representatives. Evatt said the investigation had uncovered proof that the Japanese massacred, tortured and maltreated New Guinea natives na-tives as well as Australia Nationals Na-tionals during their occupation of the island. No specific instances in-stances of the atrocities charged to the Japanese were cited. Evatt made it clear, however, that the government is deter! mined to leave nothing undone to insure the punishment of the Japanese responsible for these atrocities. Tokyo 'Em Flying that therels no "coddling" of Axis prisoners in this country. In a carefully documented 87- psgf report, the committee pointed1 point-ed1 out- that while the Japanese government .did - jtot ratify- theH Geneva prisoners of war convention, conven-tion, it was undertaken to apply it sprinciples "insofar as its pro- vlalona or nriantahl It added, howeved, that ials of both the Swiss govern ment, who represent American interests in the Far East, and the International Red Cross, have not been permitted to visit all Japanese Jap-anese prison camps, and that "it is reliably known that the treat- men t accorded to prisoners nf Indies. Malaya. Borneo. Thailand. French Indo-China, Burma, and the Hong-Kong area, the report said. Those which have been visited are in Japan proper, Manchuria, Man-churia, Formosa, and Shanghai. "In general, the German government gov-ernment has endeavored to ac- cord to American wa- the standards prlsoners of of treatment Allies Forced To Retreat in Italy ROME, Nov. 30 (U.R) German attacks all along the fifth army front south of Bologna forced American troops to yield two im portant mountain positions as unproved weather over the Italian Ital-ian battle front brought a flurry of local engagements, headquarters headquar-ters announced today. The heaviest attack occurred in the vicinity of Mount Belve dere, -31 miles southwest of Bo logna, where the Germans made two assaults strongly supported by i armor, artillery and self-propelled guns. FDR Intervenes to Remove His Assistant Attorney General WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 uR President Roosevelt intervened today In the latest intramural squabble to plague his administration adminis-tration by dismissing assistant attorney at-torney general Norman M. Littell on grounds of 'insubordination" to attorney general Francis Bid-die. Bid-die. The president's action was dis closed by the justice department which made public a statement by Mr. Roosevelt revealing that the chief exteueive also had suggested to Littell that he re sign "for bis own career. utters dismissal climaxed a auarrel with his superior as a result of which Biddle asked him to resign. The quarrel reached; the stage of an exchange of charges in communications from the. two men to the senate war investigating committee. Biddle had asked Littell to resign because be-cause of "incompatibility between be-tween them, but the assistant attorney at-torney general refused. He said 13 Ships, 4000 Troops Sunk in 2-Day Battle In the Camotes Sea Heavy Downpours Continue To Stymie All Ground Activity On Leyte; Jap Losses in Leyte Campaign Total 21 Ships, 21,000 Men ByWILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Wsr Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES. Nov. SO ce American planes have smashed a sixth large-scale Japanese attempt to reinforce the doomed Leyte garrison, sinking 13 ships with at least 4,000 troops in a two-day battle in the Camotes sea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced an-nounced today. Two of the 10 transports sunk reached the enemy stronghold of Ormoc on the west coast of Leyte and had unloaded partially before they.' were sent to the bottom, but the remainder went down with virtually vir-tually all hands. Three escorting destroyers also were sunk. The victory boosted the enemy's ene-my's losses in six attempts at re-, inforcement of Leyte to 21,000 men, 26 transports of a total of 92,750 tons, and 17 escort vessels. Heavy downpours continued to stymie all ground activity on Leyte except minor patrol action. MacArthur said an unprecedented unprece-dented 23 inches of rain had fallen since the beginning of No vember, nearly twice the normal rainfall. Front-line troops were being supplied in part by air. Thunderbolts, Lightnings, War- hawks, and a small number of Mitchell bombers caught the latest lat-est Japanese convoy well out in the Camotes sea Tuesday and bombed and strafed it without let-up until the last of the 10 transports and three destroyers naa Deen sunx, yesieraay alter soon. The transports were believed carrying nearly a full division of troops. Japanese prisoners captured cap-tured in recent days said another offic-l1"""" a pec ted at Ormoc. Returning pilots said the Japanese Jap-anese air cover for the convoy was not very determined, and was beaten off easily. Seven planes were shot down during the two days, with the famed 49th fighter group of the Fifth air force gaining its 100th victim since it reached the Philippines Oct. 27. Langer Charges Stettinius Held Up Defense Plans WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UJD The senate today confirmed the nomination of Edward R. Stettinius, Stettin-ius, Jr., to succeed Cordell Hull as secretary of state over the objection ob-jection of Sen. William Langer, R., N. D. ' WASHINGTON Nov. 30 (U.R) Sen. William Langer, R.. N. D. charged today that Acting Secret ary of State Edward R. Stettlnus, Jr., delayed the national defense jr., delayed the national deiense program in 1940 in the interest ",vww t ' A .. . . . , .7 , ' "Merlcan representatives in wasn- I imuvinu um ui w am Stettinius was in charge of the law luduriuus yrvgi am ui uic National Defense council. By 1940, he said, it had become evident that this country would need expanded ex-panded steel production but that the Morgan firm and "big steel" interests were opposed to building build-ing steel plants in western states. "Stettinius didn't do anything," Langer charged. "He would not authorize plants for more steel production." Biddle was under the 'influence' of Thomas Corcoran, former brain truster, and that "good1, government' rather than personal incompatibility was at stake. President Roosevelt said Lit-"tell's Lit-"tell's statement to the senate committee left him no alterna tive but to remove the assistant attorney general from office. "When statements made by Norman Littell first appeared in the papers," the president said, "I wrote to him that it was primarily pri-marily an executive matter and that I hoped for his own career he would resign. "Since then he has volunteered a long statement, thus substan- tlatine what the attorney general has said about his insubordination. insubordina-tion. "This is inexcusable and under tentative is to remove him from tenia tive is t oremove him from office, which I have done today.' 1250 U.S. Bombers Attack Oil Plants In Leipzig Area LONDON. Nov. SO 0J.R) A fleet of more than -1,250 American heavy bombers and 1,000 fighters attacked synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area and the big rail. yards around Saarbrucken today to continue the non-stop aerial offensive against Germany. Following RAF Mosquito bomb ers which made a concentrated attack on Hannover, the armada of Flying Fortresses and Liberators Liber-ators hammered oil refinery tar gets st Bohlen Zeitz, Lutzkendorf, and Merseburg and the vital Ger man rail supply lines leading through Saarbrucken, just behind the xzouL. . . . - - The welsht of bombs dropped by the American bombers was the greatest .for a single day in at least two months by the Eighth air force and one of the heaviest single day's loads of the war. For the first time In weeks, the heavy bombers got an unobstructed unobstruc-ted view of the oil targets as they added another phase to the almost uninterrupted aerial assault as-sault Germany has been getting day and night for six days from American and British planes. All the refineries, including the giant Leuna at Merseburg, are clustered In an area within a few miles of Leipzig, which has been hit several times this fall. New Lend-lease Plan Arranged LONDON. Nov. 30 CU.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that a new lend-lease arrangement has been planned with the United States which will enable Great Britain tsssume a full share in the war against Japan after Germany has been defeated. The new reciprocal aid program, pro-gram, he said, will enable Britain to maintain in the far east the same relative fighting power, in proportion to the United States', m the European theater. I Churchill said British and Am- , j 4 haft .vfitnlnJVl in OfUll BU military and economic ques- tions involved in the Lend-Lease program and that he expected Britain's requirements under that plan would be halved when the European war ends. War In Brief Western Front American First and Ninth armies capture Lamersdorf 'and Grossmau, and hammer Germans back through four other villages in savage fighting along 21 mile front on plains before Cologne and Dus-seldorf. Dus-seldorf. - Pacific American B-29 Superfortresses Super-fortresses hit Tokyo again while other American planes smash sixth Japanese attempt to reln- force Leyte, sinking 13 snips. la.W M AAA li gMim Mm av sviss - army bursts across Danube and fans out through southern Hungary in offensive that carries to within (40 miles of Lake Balaton, gate- waT to Austria. Italy American troops of Fifth army yield two important mountains moun-tains under German counterattacks. counterat-tacks. How Far To Berlin The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: to-day: WESTERN FRONT 298 miles mint ayrftiMit nf Nit. UV1M rtMr.. . megen. Unchanged.) EASTERN FRONT 315 miles-(from miles-(from Warsaw. Unchanged.) TTAL 532 miles (from point south of Ravenna. Unchanged, |
