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Show -if'-, v - 8 . THE WEATHER UTAH: Partly cloud? this after noon, fought and Saturday, be coming- cloudy west portion Saturday Sat-urday afternoon. Little chance In temperature. Temperatures: Hi-h 50 Low S hTCET CITE TnEID FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. Seven filled In trash Of Crash Occurs As Ship Comes In For Landing; 16 Aboard Survive LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1U. A New York bound Transcontinental Trans-continental and Western Airways Air-ways airliner plunged suddenly sud-denly to earth today as it glided toward Burbank airport, air-port, killing seven of the 23 passengers and crew. Mayor Hartley Knox of San Diego, least seriously hurt of the passengers, said the ship appeared to be coming in for a normal landing from San Francisco Fran-cisco at about 3 a-m. Then I felt it start to go down too steeply," he said. MI grabbed my pillow and put it In front of my face. Then we hit A similar story was told by John Dillard, seaman 1-C. "I woke up Just before the crash," he said. "My memory Isn't clear but it seemed at the time as though the plane was skimming over water. I guess they were pulling over ov-er the tops of the trees. I think we might have missed the trees or Just hit them and then slam med down In tne open xieia. The ship was due to stop here tufiif nirninff usiwaro. ana naa . . , . . . : . , . resorted by radio a few minutes earlier that everything was in, order. Cans Still TJaeerUln l t . A - .U I WvUiu dox DC aDie u (urinue ure of the crash pending an in- vestigatlos. Lee Flanagin, acting regional ODeranons manager of TWA at Burbank issued the following statement: "Flight 18 enroute from San Francisco to Los Angeles was involved in-volved in. an accident about 3 a.m., while approaching the Bur-7 Bur-7 'bank terminal. Aboard were 20 passengers, mostly military personnel, per-sonnel, and a crew of three. rrWA officials are at the TVA Airliner conducting an tavestigAinje Price Country. Club tedJlJbori but It is of course "Impossible To say now- what may have been the eiuM of the accident. Un to the i las mntart with the rantain. the jdcht was proceeding normally." Piree Bro. Mortuarv Van ' Nuys, identified ' the dead as John V. FrankenthaL address unknown. BULie Jack Powers, U. S. navy, on leave and reportedly enroute to-Joplin. Mo. Coorado Lee Brinkman, Wellington. Well-ington. Mo. Waiter W. Cooper, city manager, man-ager, San Diego. Cal. Howard Muller. American Paper Pa-per Stock Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Capt. John Pollard Snowden, North Hollywood, Calif., pilot. First officer Thomas Bamberger. Bamberg-er. Jackson Heights, N. Y., copilot co-pilot The crash sheared off the wings and nose, grinding the wreckage into a heap under the tail. It lay on its side, with pieces strewn for hundreds of feet The cabin was broken off at the door, exposing the two rear seats, still In place. A TWA spokesman said army authorities had reported . seven military personnel dead and nine injured. Extent of Injuries to the remaining re-maining service personnel and civilian passengers and crew members had not been determined. determin-ed. The giant, silver-winged craft plunged to the ground a few minutes before it was scheduled (Ceatinaed en Pare Two) A. F. L Re-Elects Villiam Green To Conclude Parley NEW ORLEANS, La.. Dec. 1 (UJD William Green began his 21st year as president of the American Federation of Labor today, to-day, pledging himself to meet the problems of labor, including modification of the Little Steel formula. The convention, which ended Testerdav following unanimous reelection of Green and ail other officers, named Green to a committee com-mittee to take the War Labor Board's decision to uphold the Little Steel formula directly to President Roosevelt. Before disbanding, the membership mem-bership voted to call a world trade union conference of the free trade unions at the earliest possible time. This followed a flat refusal of the AFL "to attend the forthcoming forth-coming British trade union congress con-gress in London to which both the Congress of Industrial Organizations Organ-izations and the Soviet Trade Unions have accepted invitations. The committee adopted a resolution reso-lution requesting- President Roosevelt to appoint a national committee representing the armed forces, labor, management, and farm and educational groups to study the problem of conscription of youth. I The membership set Chicago as site for the 1943 convention. i 129 UTAH'S ONLY SOUTH Or SALT Flood Control Bill Passed to Include Reclamation Work Bill Passed Over Opposition of Montana Senator Who Sponsored Missouri Valley Authority, Supported by Pres. Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 un The senate today ap proved by voice vote and sent back to the house for confer-ence confer-ence a billion dollar flood control bill authorizing hundreds of post-war flood control, power, and irrigation projects. The bill was passed over the opposition of Senator James E. Murray, D., Mont who sponsored an amendment providing for a Missouri Valley Authority to supervise the development of the Missouri basin. President Roosevelt Bond Sales Still Lagging Behind Scheduled Rate SALT LAKE CITY. Dee.' 1 (U.R) Sales of other-than-E-bonds this morning swelled Utah's Sixth war loan drive total to $4,713,000, a gain of $690,124, and drive officials of-ficials said the trend was encouraging, encour-aging, but still not quite satisfactory. satis-factory. Morgan ( 123 percent) and Sum mitt (127 oercent) counties were':r? " first over the too in this cateaory.:!" . r..Tn...5rV?y Tn '"'..flnnrnximntelv 15 miles inside . n Hnu.-0 ivinfrat oviitiv man- . . aeer. said. Salt Lake county, he added, came throuch with 22 tcr cent of its quote, or $804.934. Weber county, though well up in . YTl.U 1 1 pcnxni, wiui uuiu nu counties showing a more encour 'aging 17 and 44 percent, respect- ively Let's follow Morgan and Sum-! mit over the top n nhr than iE's," the committee urged in an w"". . appeal to the remaining 27 coun ties. The lagging drive for individual sales, meanwhile, was spurred on by the tours of blonde motion picture star Anita Louise, who spent the day visiting Carbon county under the sponsorship of theatre rally Wednesday night, it was reported, garnered $100,000 ifor the drive. Former star John Sutton, now sailor, spoke in Salt Lake City today, and was scheduled to ap pear at Clearfield ordnance depot tomorrow morning. One of the great B-29 superfortresses super-fortresses is scheduled to stop in Salt Lake City tomorrow morning morn-ing to give bond-buyers a glimpse of what their money is going for. Boy Accidentally Shot, Near Death SALT LAKE CITY.. Dec. 1 (U.P Doctors today fought to save the life of Donald Thirlot, 14, victim vic-tim of a shot from a .45 automatic auto-matic which he and a school friend found in an unoccupied home they entered yesterday. Police questioned his companion, compan-ion, Gordon Fiame, who said he was examining the pistol while Donald was going through a trunk. The gun went off acci dentally, be told them, and the slug tore through Thiriot's chest beneath the left armpit, emerging emerg-ing through the jaw. Surprisingly, the police said. Thiriot was not made unconscious by shock. A trail of blood showed where the boys ran frantically through the house, climbed through the window by which they had forced entry, and run three blocks before they summoned sum-moned aid. One Utah County Man Killed, 2 Reported Missing in Action Killed Pvt. Wilford Miller, Provo. Missing Ray Reynolds, Spanish Fork, chief yeoman, U. S. Navy. SSgt Karl C. Smith, Sant-aquin. Sant-aquin. Pvt. Wilford Miller 27. with the 36th division. 141st infantry, was Kuiea in action in France October 26, according to word from war department received Thursday night by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Miller of 558 West Sixth North street. His wife, June Willoughby Miller, Mil-ler, and their two children, Rene, 8. and Steve, 6, live at 626 West First North street. Pvt. Miller, whose only brother. broth-er. Tech. Sgt. Stanley Miller, is serving with Uncle Sam's air corps boys in England, entered the service January 6 of this year. and was sent overseas in July. He was stationed In Italy before going into France. Last word from Wilford waa in a letter to his wife, written three days before he was killed. In which he mentioned Christinas and his strong desire to be with his family and that he hoped the children would have a good Christmas. Born April 17, 1917, in Provo, a (Continued en Page Twe) DAILY LAKE has announced his support of an MVA. The proposal will be con sidered further in the next ses sion. Only after two weeks of debate did the floor manager of the bill, Sen. John H. Overton, D., La agree to accept amendments in the present measure which give the Bureau of Reclamation auth ority to construct irrigation and reclamation works in the upper Missouri basin. The senate auth orlzed $30,000,000 for flood con trol works on the Connecticut river basin. The senate adopted two policy amendments of vital interest to the west: All future projects r 1 1 1 1 i i jt rrviii i'n nv IMS . . . " fore submission to coniros- anriime awviuiuw piuvuitwi uuiu - V. ?i a?a ! .r . . ,w"i OI. V,e, used for! it t h 1 s' LaTJLiaia ".n ' 06 ,d , n th present uscsi of slich waters for domestic, Sao Tang Pao, which at the same: others In the harbor Wednesday J2SP& f'Jj' sk v e municipal, stock water, irriga- time called on the Allies for, night and Thursday. Tokyo also , trZjLfTrf' SltV-" SltV-" tion. mining and industrial pur- emergency relief landings on the claimed that Japanese planes L1,rV W poses. "Zl '" Z" . r r -"o -t i I nt.rlnr m..Knf ... A nA . IIWIWI BUUJU1 M WllBllUVl and acquire transmission lines from the projects approved in the bill to facilities owned by public bodies, cooperatives, and private concerns. Preference in the sale of such power is given the public bodies in cooperatives. Earlier Democratic and Remib- licaa-leaders In the senate said th - proposed ' Missouri valley authority would get a complete hearing in congress next year, Death Toll Rises To Three In Blast At Tooele Plant TOOELE, Utah, Nov. 30 The death toll stood at three today from Wednesday's blast at the lead plant of the International Smelting company here, and a fourth worker lay in critical condition. con-dition. Company officials said it was Impossible definitely to fix the Meeting with department heads i ,"Zl cTuseof tteSSSton which oc! Thursday afternoon. Provo city ranging the enemy's Ormoc cor-cmtmtoa cor-cmtmtoa commissioners cut the 1945 bud-! fIdor ntained patrol Initiat-drawn Initiat-drawn from a Wast f urSS ' et retuest of various depart- ive-.4Arti"ery pounded Japanese SSS JSpirenS? wet nf $87 300, and stUl may gjjjon. on a 24-hour-a-day pot. lower another $75,300 from the scneauie. Rule Green 39 was killed in-' total requests of $595,544.45 to! Japanese air activity slackened stantly Charles 'Berry 52 diedlmeet 1945 estimated reveue onf further, but patrolling American in the L. D. S. hospital at Salt $4765- J A L, , , ghters shot down six enemy air- Lake City yesterday afternoon.! J1 budget problem will be; craft to be followed a few hours later! by Leonard Ayers, 30, Green's brother-in-law. The fourth mem ber of the unlucky crew to suf fer severe burns. Carl Lindholm. remained in critical condition early today. BARTER SYSTEM MURPHYSBORO. III. (U.R) The cigarette and shotgun shell shortages short-ages have given -birth to a barter system in Murphysboro one shotgun shell brings three cigarettes. ciga-rettes. f PVT. WIFORD MTT.Tfy ll'K?! "IT ;-r r - - S . At 3 0 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, FRIDAY, .DECEMBER 1, 1944 n n e. n szz mm Jap Gains In South China Alarm Press Alarmed Chinese Press Expresses Anxiety As Japs Continue Gains By GEORGE WANG United Press War Correspondent CHUNGKING, Dec. 1 OJPj The alarmed Chinese press today expressed popular anxiety anx-iety over the enemy's speedy advance in south China, which Tokyo radio reported had carried Japanese columns i t . . . . . i i "There is no denying that the situation is most urgent," a ck - m,M - nowledgcd the army newspaper' coast of China to divert the Jap- ' anese drive. The Communist newspaper "New China Daily" said the only way to avert the dangerous military mili-tary situation was to speedily improve im-prove relations between the Kuo Min Tang and the Communist party. "Every Chinese and ally is wondering whether we will be able to halt the enemy's continual continu-al advance ap4 keep secure a limited lim-ited number of remaining air bases," the newspaper said. Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemey-er, Wedemey-er, commander of U. S. army forces in the China theater who yesterday promised "remedial action" ac-tion" against the Japanese drive, reported today that adverse weather had grounded a large part of the 14th AAF. Budget Requests Slashed By City Commissioners "ken up again next week. Mayor! Maurice naraing saia. ine ma- 83 tons of bombs on two air-jor air-jor cut was made in the public1 dromes on Negro and also bomb-safety bomb-safety department, where $42,000' ed two airfields at Davao on Min- 1 was taken from the request of,danao Wednesday, destroying 1 r Ire -niei iwiri 1. riniayson. eliminating purcnase 01 a new, aerial ladder truck and construction con-struction of a new fire substa- tion, Mayor Harding said The )Planes 8ank a freighu;r and ive fire chief's request was for $101.- barges, probably sank another llt'o 2l00 fUtH reijhterand dinad . toSt $59,264, with the revised budget. American fighters struck ail appropriation. Dut one of the six vessels in the nouier major cui in uie terworks department was $20,000, pared from $40,000 set up for construction of another link in, uie ou-mcii main waver mic ui Provo canyon. This makes the' proposed appropriation $96,000, or $20,000 less than in 1944. Other proposed cuts follow: Street department operations from $52,724 requested to $46,224, or $6500; shop department, $6800 to $3700, or $3100; planning board, $3000 to $2000; or $1000; park department operations, $28,860 to $25,860, or $3000; recreation department, $13,000 to $10,000, or $3000. and library, $15,960 to $13,960, or $3000. Germans Continue Attach in Italy ROME,. Dec. 1 (U.R) A German attack launched against the Fifth army front soutn ox isoiogna moved into its second day today with "extremely heavy" fighting reported south of Mount castei-laro, castei-laro, which the Nazis captured yesterday, 10 miles southeast of the city. During the eight the Germans made a small attack, supported by artillery and mortars, in the vicinity of Mount Belmonte but were repulsed, headquarters said East of Faenza Eighth army troops gained some ground between be-tween the Lamone and Montone rivers. Elsewhere on the Italian front it was generally quiet. U. S. Planes Wipe Oat Seventh Jap Convoy Bound for Ormoc 4 Transports Sunk by American Planes in Attack On Japs By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent ALLIED' HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUART-ERS, PHILIPPINES, Dec. 1 (U.R) American planes searched search-ed Philippines waters for more victims today after wiping wip-ing out their seventh convoy in a month bound for Ormoc with reinforcements and. sup plies for the declimated enemy ' garrison. , m iuhju uiujuluji, iiiiiiiuk at . nru, AmtHmn mWar rirt n t a i t l ki.n- shipping In Ormoc harbor, said Japanese planes sank two tor- - ..u pedo boats and damaged four cortlr tart Amnrlan fronennrte i j A a ii mm a. ana namagea anoiner on uie:a east coast of Leyte Sunday. Still another transport was said to have been sunk in Leyte gulf Wednesday.) Lightning. Thunderbolt, and Warhawk fighters sank four transports a 9,000-tonner and three small freighters and set fire to a 5,000-ton freighter, and a destroyer in the latest attack off -the west coast of Leyte late Wednesday and early Thursday. All six vessels were wrecked before they couM reach the en emy stronghold of Ormoc on the west coast at Leyte and at least 5,000 Japanese troops were believed be-lieved drowned or killed. The attack boosted enemy losses in seven attempts to force Leyte by sea to 26,000 29 transports totalling 103,750 tons and 18 escort vessels. A small percentage' of reinforcements reinforce-ments reached Ormoc before their vessels were sunk, however. and the number of troops at pres ent on the embattled island was placed at 45,000 to 50,000. Heavy rains continued to stale- 1 t w... A American Liberators dropped iour pianes parked in dispersal areas. Elsewhere in the PhiliDoines and east Indies waters, American latest Ormoc-bound mnvnv n convoy mast height dive-bombing. The sixth, a small freighter, was sunk by a night patrol plane. IDAHO HUNTER SUFFERS BAD WOUNDS HOMEDALE. Ida., Dec. 1 U.R Robert Corlett, manager of a local department store here, was in Mercy hospital in Nam pa today to-day receiving treatment for a gunshot wound suffered in a hunting accident near Homedale yesterday. Corlett was reported to have been with a party of hunters when a shotgun held by the Rev. H. W. Sorenson, pastor of the Homedale Nazarene church, accidentally acci-dentally discharged shot striking Corlett in the knee. The leg will have to be amputated. Ex-Marine, Bride Steal Child in LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 QUO A medically discharged Marine and his bride of two weeks were in police custody today after confessing confes-sing that they "borrowed" a four-year-old child as a shield fori a daring bank robbery presumably to finance a "deluxe" honeymoon. Found living In the luxury of a swank Wilshire Blvd. hotel, assertedly on the $3,000 obtained at gun-point from a branch California Cali-fornia bank, were Thomas Henry Loritz, 26, Denver, Colo., and his wife June, 22, whom he married two weeks ago at Yuma, Ariz. Loritz said he had been dis Death From the Air E "" '"' , 1 - 1 fc - ' - m . v J-' tt Hi . . . .. ijt. m tint . -:..v. . ,i b.. ' -- sair firl-A if fSfjz'K! 'tfLi &Sjr&r BtsP8T I "Bi !!'. P r-m 100.-,- CTtimhmg through the Philippine Mitchell bomber comes in for a bomb , cort in Ormoc Bay, Leyte. Seconds on the vessel, literally blew the "V . ... One Superfortress Returns On Two and a By MAC R. JOHNSON .to get below the clouds for a United Press War Correspondent; clear view of the target. SLAP AN, Dec. KU.R) One Su- One engine cut out sundden-perfortress sundden-perfortress returned from the, Iy as they broke through the strike on Tokyo yesterday on i overcast, and ice began to form I "twond.a. half ,.enis' ft?r! a wua, iouu-mue nigm iiigm we aumpea our oomos on that threatened to end at any1 Tokyo and climbed 2000 feet on moment in a crash landing at sea. ' three engines." recalled Second The bomber's troubles started . Lt. William H. Cristwell, Seat-over Seat-over Tokyo itself, when the pilot' tie. Wash., the freckled, red- tpok his ship down to 8000 feet Nazis Dwindling Oil Supplies Hit By Allied Raids LONDON, Dec. 1 (U.R) RAF 1 A W MJiuln of tons of explosives and fire bombs into the RhineRuhri transportation center of Duis burg last night, rounaing out a week of punishing. non-stop' bombardment aeainst the Ger- man army's forward lines of they sighted Saipan. Even then supply. j they didn't think they could A smaller, diversionary force, make nKeJf stabbed at Hamburg, while RAF,fngjnes u,Jfd e night' fighters and intruder for-' J3" . y bht matlons supported the big bomb-i bo.mer down:, ... . . ers and carried out a number of ' We ,uld" 1 wet ,Vie end v,f 2 harassing attacks on Nazi f ight- j f ?!S-Se- er stations in western Germany. lef'. Cre. . ?k - At least two German planes Ab2fdT ,toeflpp!edn B'29 were shot down. Four British1 we! Second Richard Burns, planes were lost. Returning fliers reported that their . bombs started huge fires in Duisburg, a major inland harbor har-bor and communications hub at the westerfi end of Germany's industrial Ruhr valley. The American formations ran into a terrific concentration of' flak over the Leipzig area and 56 bombers and 30 fighters failed to return from the mission, one of the 8th air force's heaviest losses. Most of the fighters were believed to have landed safely in friendly territory, however. charged from the Marine corps three months ago. Police traced the pair on in formation provided by Mrs. Mildred Mild-red Gray who told officers a young couple had "borrowed" her, son Douglas Glenn, 4, for 50 minutes at the time the robbery was committed. "All I can say Is that I am sorry this happened," Mrs. Loritz said as she faced Mrs. Gray at police headquarters after she and Loritz confessed." After getting the idea of the robbery, the pair said they de cided to "borrow" the child in stead of kidnapping one. They COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Dim )- - it' t.A W '---mm " :' I"1'"! liarnSH ""8 air at mast-head level, this B-23 run on this Japanese destroyer es- later, two oombs scored direct hits ship apart. U. S. Navy photo. Half Engines' " He , . . . haired co-pilot. "We wet along for over 600 miles on three engines when another an-other engine started going out and finally setled down to half power. We started losing alti tude fast at 1000 feet per min-. ute." 1 111c puui, vtfiu ociiiaiu i. Mulloy, Detroit, Mich., ordered all unnecessary equipment thrown out the bomb bay. Flak suite onH Viol rfiof e i-ont ntror. board, and the crew fired off all their ammunition to lighten the ship. They wallowed along after that at low air speed, barely 600 to 800 feet over the water, until Chinook, Mont., flight engineer. and Elmer L. Donaldson, Jr., of Fowler, Ind., and San Antonio, Tex. Other superfortress pilots reported re-ported that the heavy overcast interfered with their first night raid on the enemy capital, al though ttiey hit their targets by instruments. Lt. Donald G. Thorburn. Bur-lingame, Bur-lingame, Calif., came back with two bullet holes in the cowling of one of his plane's engines. Three or four Japanese night fighters attacked his bomber over Tokyo, he said. Crime Spree told Mrs. Gray they just wanted to buy the boy a soda. The couple drove to the bank and while Mrs. Loritz waited in the car Loritz flourishing a gun and carrying the child in front of him, handed this note to the assistant as-sistant manager: "Give me $3,000 quick and don t notify anyone or both you and the baby will die. The kid is not mine and. his life. depends solely on your willingness to do as I tell you and refrain from sending any kind of alarm." The attendant said he was afraid for the baby and handed over the money. a i .,.. h PRICE FIVE CENTS Batt Troops German Ving Bent Bach In U. S. Assault Yanks Expand Their Toehold On Banks oi Saar and Roer Rivers PARIS, Dec. 1 c Ameri. can First army troops slug-gred slug-gred eastward 400 yards on a four-mile front southwest of Duren today, bending back the entire south wing of the German forces defending the Rhineland in perhaps the most violent battle of the war. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges doughboys set the slow pace for three Allied armies locked in two df the toughest struggles of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowers grand offensive. The armies expanded their toeholds on the shell-plowed shell-plowed banks of the rivers Roer and Saar in preparation for a knockout blow at Germany. Veteran First army assault forces broke the stalemate on the rim of the Hurtgcn forest, and. battered forward to within 1.009 yards of GeL four miles southwest south-west of Duren, and less than a mile from Brandenberg, four miles below Gey. PARIS, Dec. 1 (U.R) Three American armies, locked in one of the grimmest battles since bloody Ypres of World War I. fought ahead today to expand, their toeholds on the shell-plow ed banks of the rivers Roer and Saar in preparations for a knockout knock-out blow at Germany's war-making might. They measured their advances in yards rather than miles, but had hammered out nearly a 10-mile 10-mile hold on the west bank of the Roer, and an eight-mile grip on the west bank of the Saar springboards for the attack on the Reich's industrial vitals in the Ruhr and the deep Saar. .German broadcasts admitted Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army was closing in irresistibly upon. Saarlautern, a key Saar bastlan six miles inside the Reich, from three sides, and Patton's forces now held nearly one-half the Saar area. Three of Patton's crack divisions, divis-ions, the 10th armored, the 90th and 95th infantry, shouldered forward a mile to a mile and a half to form a solid front on the river Saar from just north of Merzig, which is southwest of the corner where the Saar joins Luxembourg to a point southwest south-west of Saarlautern. The 95th infantry was only two miles west of Saarlautern's coal and coke Industries within easy artillery range, which already al-ready was believed to be robbing many of the Saar industrial towns of their war-making' capacity. The 3rd army overran a series of small Saar towns, including Fremesborf and Buren. midway between Merzig and Saarlautern, Hilbringen, Fitten and Ballern. all just west of Merzig. and (Continued on Pace Two) War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: Patton'B armored forces hurl Germans back across Saar river along eight mile front opposite Siegfried line bastion of Merzig while 9th army seizes two villages at outskirts of Linnich on Cologne plain. EASTERN FRONT: Red armies battle through breaches in German Ger-man defenses at both ends of 250 mile Hungarian front in offensives offen-sives that carry to within 100 miles of Austria in the south and broaden hold on vital Ta mow-Budapest mow-Budapest railrofcd in north. PACIFIC: American planes search Philippine waters for more victims after wiping out seventh Japanese convoy in month bound for Ormoc with reinforcements for Leyte garrison. ITALY: German attack south of Bologna moves into second day with heavy fighting reported 10 miles south of city. AIR WAR: RAF heavy bombers bomb-ers pour hundreds of tons' of explosive ex-plosive and fire bombs in Rhfne-Ruhr Rhfne-Ruhr transport center of Duis-bergw. Duis-bergw. How Far To Berlin The shortest distances to Berlin Ber-lin from advanced Allied lines today: WESTERN FRONT: 296 miles (from point southeast, of Nljme-gen. Nljme-gen. Unchanged.) EASTERN FRONT: 315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged.) ITALY: 532 miles (from point south of Ravenna. Unchanged. |