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Show THE WEATHER irre n:::su CUYECTJtt UTAH Clear hls afterneen -. tonight and Tuesday, very slowly . rislnx temperatures: CO:: TODAY! Temperatures; High Low 43 22 -FIFTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 130 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKK PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1944 - COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Individual BondSsIes FellCsIiind Solas Are $12X004)00 Short of Goal To Be Beached By Dec. 7 SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4 UJ0-Utah's individual war bond sales total stood at $6,-711,721 $6,-711,721 today, an increase of nearly one million dollars ov er Saturday's figure, but still nearly $12,000,000 short of the $18,000,000 quota which war finance officials hope the state will attain by Thursday night. Corporation sales, 'which began Friday, far outstripped other sales to reach a total of $8,239,461. The corporation sales quota is 919,000,000. , C C Bintz, chairman of the banking and investment division Of the war finance committee, said these sales were comparable to those of the last drive. "It is quite apparent," he said, '"fthat corporation executives appreciate ap-preciate the shrewdness of investing in-vesting in war bonds and are buying them for that reason. - "It is hoped that enough citizens citi-zens of Utah also appreciate the investment merit of these securities secur-ities to make attainment of our individual quota a reality by December De-cember 7," he said. With the Pearl Harbor anniversary anniver-sary only three days away, war .finance officials were bending all -efforts to make the drive a success suc-cess by them. A special war bond show in commemoration of the Pearl Harbor debacle will be presented t the University of Utah by personnel of the overseas replacement re-placement depot at K earns Wednesday Wed-nesday night in a last minute efforts to .push individual sales over the top. Tvoltovocns Arr Reported Wounded In France, Italy Two Provo servicemen were reported wounded during campaigns cam-paigns in France and Italy Nov. 16 and 18, according to reports from the war department received by relatives today. Pvt. Arthur Penrod of the infantry, in-fantry, was seriously wounded in action in France, Nov. 18, according to word received Saturday night by his wife, Velma Denhal-ter Denhal-ter Penrod. The message stated that the family would be kept informed inform-ed as to his condition, who was in France only two weeks when he was injured. He has been in the lerviee since Pvt. Penrod March 18, and was sent overseas in October. Pvt. Penrod is a son of Mrs. ,rah G. Penrod of Provo and j Sarah W E. Penrod of Springville. He j has two brother, in the service Virl, seaman first class, on an airolane carrier in the south Pa- cific, and David Penrod, seaman second class, on a repair boat in the south Pacific. St. William S. Love was wounded wound-ed Nov. 16. in Italy, according to word received Saturday by his wife, the former Irene Christen-son. Christen-son. Overseas since March. 1944. Sgt. Love is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Love. 528 North Fourth East. He entered the army - ' . . in Oct., 1942, and was with the infantry division at the time he was wounded. No indication as to the seriousness of his condition was given in the war department telegram, Mrs. Love saw. National Drive Ahead of Schedule WASHINGTON. Dec. 4 (UJ! The $14,000,000 Sixth war loan drive went into its third week today with subscriptions more than SI. 000.000.000 ahead of schedule. The Treasury reported that sales for the first two weeks totaled $5,364,000,000, or more than 38 per cent of the goal. Of the total, individuals have purchased $1,691,000,000, more than one-third of their $5,000,-000.000 $5,000,-000.000 goal, while corporate investors in-vestors have purchased $3,673.-000,000 $3,673.-000,000 some 40 per cent of their quota of $9,000,000,000. The weekend football game between the Army and Navy teams in Baltimore helped the individual bond campaign to the extent of $58,637,000. If Duchesne Fighter To Return From Three-Year Stay tn Philippines By FRANK HEWLETT United Press War Correspondent AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS. HEADQUAR-TERS. Leyte, Dec. 3 CU.R) First Lt. Elwood Royer wants his wife, Doris, to know that he's on his way home to spend Christmas with her in the little town of Duchesne, Utah that he's not much the worse for dodging Japs in the jungles of the Philippines ever since organized American Am-erican resistance ended there. Royer was a corporal when he kissed his wife goodbye in the summer of 1941, and she hasn't, heard from him for three years. So he wants her to know he's on the way back and, God willing, will be with her in Utah on Dec. 25. I met him in the mountains of Samar shortly before he received his furlough or Bonus Plan Urged For Steady Workers WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 0J.R) War Production Chief J. A. Rrug and Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the army service forces, today urged adoption of some form of bonus plan to reward workers who stay on war jobs. Somervell, appearing before the senate war investigat Budget Estimates For 1946 Worked Out For Congress WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U.R) President Roosevelt's budget ex perts are preparing a 1946 finan-1 cial program which may fall somewhat short of the $100,000,-000,000-a-year rate of expenditure expendi-ture scheduled for the fiscal years 145 and 1944. The TMo budget 'win be sub mitted to congress in the latter part of the first week of January, a day or so after the new 79th congress meets for the first time on Jan. 3. It will be Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's 13th consecutive deficit budget. Belief that the 1946 fiscal year budget may go below $1,000,000,-000.000 $1,000,000,-000.000 is based on the fact that spending of that sum during the current fiscal year is lagging somewhat behind schedule. Secretary Sec-retary of Treasury Henry Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, Jr., added up the figures as of Nov. 30 for the first five months of the current fiscal yearisibIy need. however. we are Ap and found: Total expenditures so far. $37,559,000,000 Total receipts so far, $15,000,000,000 The difference between those figures represents the sum by which the treasury has gone in the red since midnight last June 30. The deficit figure for the month of November alone was $5,587,000,000 but the biggest figure on Morgenthau's books is the public debt, a little item of $216,537,000,000 for which it is estimated es-timated that in this fiscal year the taxpayers will have to dig up $3,750,000,000 just to pay interest. When Mr. Roosevelt submitted his current 1945 budget last Jan- 'l L f frJi, a"" s TflLU, 7 7 ' " ' I j ... T . . VY . ,40 jW.000 hT proposed to k-.-. fK ,k, nAww, ! V .r TT'jr?;'' and that is about the way it is working out. Kearns Corporal Shooting Probed FT. DOUGLAS. Utah, Dec. .wv-umtj, wan, lili. i (U.R) Officials of the Ninth Serv-1 U. r- I i....JL,i . " .viiniiaiiu IVUOJ "til 111 V 1311 . gating the shooting of an army: corporal here last night by mili tary police. Victim of the shooting was I cpl. Jasr Maxwell, stationed at!EDITOR DIES me .fvfr overseas replacement depot at Kearns. He was shot in a ft a a V a . I the heel while running away from military police who had arrested him for alleged drunkeness. Utah County People Expected To Keep Geneva In Production Will the "now Geneva's here. Imunity life if there Is a question now. Geneva's going to be pulled up, crated and shipped to Russia kicking around which has been going on long before election, and persists now, be a deterrent to manning the west's key to empire?" em-pire?" That's a question which is being studied very carefully by W. L. Mildenhall, manager of the Provo Pro-vo office. War Manpower Commission, Com-mission, USES, and his group of experts. "Men with families the most desirable people that we would like to see settle in the newly-built newly-built projects adjacent to the steel mill receive little impetus to buy homes and enter into the com- ders where he was a guerilla gueril-la fighter and doing valuable intelligence work for our army. We travelled to Leyte together and his eyes bulged when he saw the American naval shipping in the Leyte gulf. His longing for real American Am-erican bread was satisfied on a navy crash boat where the cook gave him a thick slice of white bread smothered with butter and jam. When the war started, Royer Roy-er was an M. P. at the Flying Fly-ing Fortress base at Delmonte on Mindanao, but was transferred trans-ferred to a machine gun outfit, out-fit, which was -all the Americans Amer-icans had to defend the field. With his crew, Royer shot down four planes. The base commander recalled Royer to his M. P. job as one of the guards when Gen. Douglas ing committee. couDled his an- vocacy of such a plan with a warning that unless critical manpower man-power shortages in war-vital industries in-dustries are solved within a month, "we shall be back here asking for national service legislation." legis-lation." Krug told the United Press he hoped to present to congress within two or three weeks a concrete con-crete plan for offering induce ments to war workers for stick to their Jobs. He said he had not yet decided what form such a, plan should take, but that the Important thing is to do something some-thing for the worker who resists temptation to switch to a peacetime peace-time job. Somervell explained that there are no materiel shortages at the moment, but that because of the exceedingly high rate of expenditure expen-diture in current campaigns they will develop if present manpower shortages arc not solved. Most critical items, he said, arc small arms and heavy artillery ammunition, ammu-nition, tires, assault wire, radar, batteries, bombs and heavy textiles. tex-tiles. "No one so far has suffered from a lack of supplies, he said, contradicting some reports. The boys on the front have harl StVArvfhlnif thav ssm 1 r vna prehensive that we're not going to' be able to keep up." The study was started at request re-quest of Sen. Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., a committee member. who said the Bremerton inquiry might "compel" the group to look into all phases of the manpower question to find out why workers quit war-essential jobs. Ferguson turned over to the' omm . ,..1 wiiiiiutici: m luui-uoKc icucr from Ben. M. Blount, discharged ,on experts remained in China Bremerton yard worker, who saidit,nUC toclr WOrk with that 27.500 employes quit the yard during the year ending last Juiv l i ,::;T-, u.' " au VVMUIIIV1I9. Blount charged that reasons for i the turnover high cost of i "ving in the Bremerton area: costly and poor transportation for yard workers; collusion between the navy and the U. S. chamber1 of commerce to keep the govern- I ment out of competition with "private enterprise": and misrep-' rcsentation of living conditions! by Bremerton yard labor pro- curement representatives. Blount said an army-navy sur- vey board found Bremerton to be 'civilians, it was revealed offlcial-the offlcial-the fourth highest defense area i,yi?dav- in cost of living. Althm.h thn1 The target of the raid was the - --- - nflvy has had authority for the ! nast two vear to octaHllch ,. 2 . . . " . w 1 1 . - miseries ior workers, ne said, it lias sipani v nan re n-- steadily resisted" requests for them. t niLAUKLr til a , Lcc. 4 iU.R) John Revor Custis. 68, editor of a, -M. o . . j the Philadelphia Inquirer, died ; last night at his Chestnut hill 'home of heart disease. of whether Geneva is here only as an overgrown war baby," Mr. Mildenhall pointed. When construction started on Geneva Steel all the workers except ex-cept a few engineers and other mechanical personnel were recruited re-cruited from Provo and surround ing towns, until approximately 3.9000 men ana women were on the job. Mr. Mildenhall said. "It then became necessary for the importation of an additional 5.500 from Utah and surrounding states. These workers were of the highest type, and it looked as if Geneva, when finished, would be very easy to supply with the (Cen tinned mu Page Two) MacArthur took off from Del-' monte in a fortress for A us- -tralia. ' When American resistance! in the Philippines ceased, Royer refused to surrender and instead escaped to the mountains with two companions, com-panions, who have since died.' Doris your husband has had malaria six times but is O. K. right now and he weighs as much as when he told yoU-goodbye. yoU-goodbye. He is one of the few' remaining members from thei 250 personnel of the head-? quarters squadron, 5th air. base group, which at the' outbreak of war was commanded com-manded by another Utah man, Ray T. Elsmore, Salt Lake-City, Lake-City, who is now a full colonel and directs all air', transport activities in the southwest Pacific theater. Grew Nominated Undersecretary Of State Today ! WASHINGTON, Dec. (U.R) Joseph C. Grew, who was U. 5 ambassador to Japan at the time of Pearl Harbor, was nominated today to be. Undersecretray of State. He will move into the spot that was held by Edward R. Stet-tinius Stet-tinius until he was promoted into the secretaryship, vacated by Cor- dell Hull President Roosevelt also nominated nom-inated three new assistant sec retaries of state William L. Clayton, Texas cot ton broker, who is retiring as sur plus war property administrator; Archibald MacLeish, now con gressional librarian Nelson A. Rockefeller, now co ordinator of inter-American affairs. af-fairs. Grew s promotion will put a veteran career diplomat in the key post under Stettlnius, but se- mil l 0CICM1IC0 I11SS4 t0 m J UIVI I fusion of new blood into the State Department. They are replacing three present assistant secretaries. Simultaneous with the nominations, nomina-tions, the white house announced resignation of assistant secretaries Adolf A. Berle. Jr.. G. Howland Shaw, and Breckinridge Long. "I have accepted these resignations resigna-tions with great regret," President Presi-dent Roosevelt said in a message to the senate which accompanied the nominations of Clayton, MacLeish Mac-Leish and Rockefeller. Donald Nelson Leaving China CHUNGKING, Dec. 4 (U.R) Donald Nelson, President Roose jvelt's personal representative, has left China after a 19-day stay during which he aided in the establishment of the new Chinese war production board Howard Coonley and more than a dozen American oroduc- .. . : Chungking dispatches did not1 indicate in indicate the destination of the former chief of the American 'war production board.) Belgrade Bombed Accidentally By American Forts ROME, Dec. 4 U.R Flying Fortresses accidentally bombed the center of Belgrade last April 16. killing between 1.200 and 2.000 iH , u ,ni .kraus A.lrcra'!r factor.v' tnree. .toi 'nree and one-naif miles from Uie,., . " , , hnnrl rw 1 nmH. Th rrrniin "V"- V--i thi: Belgrade. , 1 fiv uvtus uvivi. forts rcavhed the Urget area and they inaccurately dropped 348 bombs of 500 pounds each over a wide area. i Photographs showed that 130 , bombs were scattered across the heart of the Yugoslav capital, and not hits were scored on the factory. fac-tory. A Swiss Red Cross representative repre-sentative reported 1 .200 ctviliais were killed, but residents of Belgrade Bel-grade said the figure was closer to 2,000. Osmena's Family Detained by Japs CHUNGKING. Dec. 4 (U.R) Reports from Manila said today the Japaaese have detained the wife and children of Philippines President Sergio Osmena as hostages host-ages because of Osmena's "anti- (Japanese activities." GERMAN CRUISER SUNK IN CRASH STOCKHOLM, Dec. 4 (U.R) Datfish sources said today the German cruiser Leipzig was sunk after colliding with the Nazi cruiser Admiral Leutzow at a north German port about two weeks ago. Martial Law Proclaimed As Greefis Eliot Left-Wingers Coll. For General Strike; All Utilities Paralyzed LONDON. Dec. 4 U Athens dispatches said today that the Greek martial law to strengthen the positions of authorities dealing with a general strike call and riot-bus riot-bus demonstrations which carried Greece to the brink of civil war. At least 16 persons were killed and more than 150 injured in Athens, Ath-ens, and defiant left wing leaders called for a country-wide general strike. All public utilities were para lyzed In Athens, leaving the city without street car or electric service, when a group of workers walked out prematurely. Even before the invocation of martial law, reported in an exchange ex-change telegraph dispatch from Athens, British tanks and troops stood ready to support the government gov-ernment forces, and a tight mili tary curfew was clamped on the capital last night. Official sources nere saia tnai British policy in Greece was to stand firmly behind the Papan-dreou Papan-dreou government. They said the British forces so far naa not oeen involved In any shooting incidents In Athens, although they were standing by during the bloody demonstrations yesterday. Lt Gen. Ronald Scoble, com mander of Allied forces in Greece, issued the proclamation of martial mar-tial law in Athens and the nearby harbor of Piraeus. He said the steo was taken because certain minority elements were bent on sacrificing the interest of Greece as a whole by fomenting internal strife. ' . He said he stood with the vast majority of Greece behind the constitutional government, and hrould support the government to Filipino Guerillas Capture, Taf t, Oras In the Philippines ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, Dec. 4 (U.R) A barefoot, straw-hatted Filipino guerilla army has captured Taft and Oras, two of the most important import-ant towns on the east coast of Samar, a front dispatch revealed today as rains stalled American operations on Leyte, to the southwest. south-west. Apparently taking over offensive offens-ive operations on Samar from American troops who liberated its capital, Catbalogan, more than a month ago, the guerillas surged surg-ed down from the inland hills last week and liberated Taft after af-ter a two-day battle. Taft, with a pre-war population of 5,000, lies at the eastern junc- won . ma... -w - E 2" 38 , . . i . . i The story of the liberation of I Taft and Oras. 17 miles to the north, was told by Frank Hew- lett. United Press war corres-I corres-I pondent with the guerilla army, i in a delayed dispatch from Sam- !ar. Oras, Hewlett said, was cap ' tured by some 35 guerillas just before Gen. Douglas MacArthur : invasion forces landed on Leyte Oct. 20. The 27 riflemen, four tommy gunners and several reservists, re-servists, some of them armed with captured Japanese rifles, were credited with killing 137 ! JaDanese in the battle for the town. RurmMt hv hi Amprlram thr guriuuu iiiuiiAcu ian iuv. 4w nnrf r-netratd tho villa mi in guerillas attacked Taft Nov. 26 IlprcC ft L I IT L I1KI111I1K. X lie JHLJ nese drove the Filipinos out but At !tl . . A 'it the guerillas captured the village CAPTURE PORT LONDON, Dec. 4 (U.R) Yugoslav Yugo-slav Partisan forces have captured captur-ed the inland port of Knin, 25 miles northeast of Slbenik. Diary Reveals How Nerves of Nazis Dry Up By JACK FRANHUSn United Press War Correspondent HURTGEN, FOREST. Germany, Dec. 4 (U.R) The diary of German medical man told today how the nerve of the Nazi soldier dried, up inch by inch. The diary told too of the AMI, the German term for the Amer- J n- How brave these two are. lean doughboys, who came on and I nP to God a11 this is not in on and on over the bloody field, vain. across the fallen bodies of his "X X X if we only had muni-comrades muni-comrades cut down by the mer-jtions and heavy weapons that the ciless enemy fire. American has he would have gone "The hours nass slowly and. the German wrote, "as I peer out of my hole, the first dim light shows in the east. We expect the AMI to attack at 7:30. Then our fate will be decided. "It's Sunday! My God, today is Sunday. "With dawn the edge of our cn2 n a ii n n II kw M Pisolite Bias YanltsGain In Push On Saarbrudten Troops Wipe Out All But Scattered Enemy Pockets In Saarlautern With U. S. ARMY. France, Dec. 4 WJJ) American troops pushed within six and a half miles of Saarbrucken and within seven miles of Sarre-guemines Sarre-guemines today in advances up to four miles. PARIS, Dee. 4 U. American Ameri-can armies threatening Germany's Ger-many's two greatest industrial indus-trial areas wiped out all but scattered enemy pockets in flaming flam-ing Saarlautern on the far bank of the Saar river today and massed mass-ed farther north for a companion smash across the Roer toward the Ruhr valley. The British Second army in southeast Holland also aimed a spearhead toward the Ruhr with a breakthrough to the Maas river in the western suburbs of Venloa half mile from Germany and 25 miles west of the war production center of Dusburg. A Brussels broadcast said the Ninth army had struck across the Roer river at Julich and was fighting through the street of ed there had been no crossings as yet. The western half of Julich on the west bank was entirely in American hands except for a single enemy pocket (A Blue network broadcast from Paris said Julich was "entirely "en-tirely in American hands.") Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton's American Third army rapidly was nearing complete conquest of its first German city at Saarlautern Saar-lautern five miles inside the1 Saar basin, second in importance only on-ly to the Ruhr as an industrial center geared to Germany's war effort. Front dispatches reported the western half of the town on the near bank of the Saar already had been completely cleared of enemy resistance, and other troops were mopping up scattered scatter-ed enemy pockets on the east bank. The thrust across the Saar at Saarlautern gave the Americans a springboard for a drive into the heart of the Saar basin with its huge coal mines, blast furnaces and war factories on which Germany Ger-many must depend for arms and other supplcis for her last months' and weeks of battle. Saarlautern also was one of the anchors of the Siegfried line, whose guns were laying down heavy artillery fire on the American-held portions of the city and (Continued on Page Two) i Germans Launch Counter-Attacks ROME, Dec. 4 (U.R) German I troops launched a half dozen local attarks against Fifth arr.iv k. luons below Bologna but sue- ppwih nniv in anirina km 1 feature near Bombiana, 22 miles ncaiurc near oomoiana, in lies . - - " . oh,!f r,r thn riiv hnHo,.r4.lin 20 miles of Lake Balaton and I .. . " PrS Xaifl IDnflV. crs said today Other attacks including strong thrust at Mount Belmonte.i eight miles sovth of Bologna were repulsed with losses to the 'enemy. The Mediterranean Allied air force reported seven aircraft missing mis-sing after more than 1,100 sorties yesterday. forest receives a barrage. The earth trembles. The concussion takes your breath away. "Two wounded are brought to my hole, one with a torn up arm and the other with both hands shot off. I consider where to cut off the rest of the arm. I'll leave 'i" " av ln tune ago. "But as it is, there is only a silent holding to the last man. Our people are overtired. "The artillery Is still coming in. In the afternoon the Jabos (American (Am-erican fighter bombers) appear. They are circling looking for targets. tar-gets. Then all hell breaks loose China Chief -:v--'w - 7X .1 Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure. above, of Palo Alto, Calif, is the new chief of staff of U S. forces in the Chinese theatre, succeeding Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Hearn. now assigned to a U S. post. General McClure formerly headed Army psychological psycho-logical warfare branches in Algiers Al-giers and London, later commanded com-manded an American division in the Southwest Pacific Russian Forces 50 Miles From VI LONDON. Dec 4 (U.R) A thundering battle that German strategists predicted would seal the fate of Austria was joined along the eastern shores of Lake Balaton today as Cossack flying columns smashed headon into a powerful Nazi defensive screen thrown across the "invasion sate." barely 50 miles from Austrian soil. The German DNB new agency said "major" Soviet tank forces broke through to the northeast era rim of the lake, but asserted that German reserves were attacking at-tacking them on both flanks and that the penetration had been sealed off. Farther to the south, DNB said the German center and right wing were holding firm, although it conceded the Nazis had "evad ed a decision" yesterday and were picking their own ground for a counterattack A round about concession that the Germans Ger-mans still were falling back on the lake shores Alarmed German spokesmen warned their people that "breath taking military events are im minent," and indicated that the Soviets were hurling everything at their command into a two-fold attempt to break open the gate way to Vienna and .outflank Budapest from the west. An equally-critical situation faced the Nazis along the Hungarian-Slovak border northeast of Budapest, where other Red Army forces finally shook their armored divisions loose on the flatlands about 190 miles due east of Vienna, after breaking through the twin German strongholds of Miskolc and Satoraljaujhely. Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian army overran more than 80 towns and villages j 111 wwciu nmndij rv ! a sweep that carried his main forces lorward 14 miles to wnn- Ir milos of h Austrian frontier 1 - - - CHINESE CAPTURE BHAMO AIRSTRIP NEW DELHI, Dec. 4 (U.R) A field dispatch said today that Chinese troops have captured the Bhamo airstrip, two miles northwest north-west of Bhamo in north-central Burma. not on us but on Grosshau 200 yards to the left" The German medic wrote his last entry in the diary the next morning. "We hardly get any sleep. This morning the artillery is worse than ever. I can hardly stand it. And the planes are here again. . "There are only a very few of us left. And there he is again. There are only five of us now. . we have got to go back. "Maybe I will get out of this alive. If so I can tell the story myself. If I remain in these torn up woods then perhaps a comrade com-rade will find this book and send it to my wife. ..." No one will have to send the diary to his wife. The writer decided de-cided not to risk his life after all. He surrendered. . K -.. ST jT j J ' WW u " A svfklm ,VaiU ft oreira 6-29rsFrom Saipan Stage Fourth Raid Giant. Raiders Lay Their Bombs In Per fect Strings Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 A major portion of the big. Musashina aircraft works in the western suburbs of Tokyo Tok-yo was believed in smoulder ing ruins today following yesterday's heavy attack by upwards of 100 B-29 superfortresses. super-fortresses. Striking at the Japanese capi tal for the fourth time and the Musashina works for the second time in nine days, the giant raiders laid their bombs in per fect strings across rectangular factory buildings and saw eight to 10 fires burning as they head ed back to their Saipan bases. Near-gale winds probably turned the fires into more than one conflagration. The raid was consiflered one of the most if not the most successful' yet made by the 20th air force on Tokyo. The attack came simultaneously with an admission by Japanese. Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso that the war situation was "critical" for Japan with her most urgent need, for .an increase in planes arm and other "material fighU; 4iM mmmck inm.." . . 0 g "Conditions of our material fighting do not permit any optimism optim-ism whatsoever and are "far from reassuring," Tokyo radio quoted Koiso as telling a conference confer-ence of government munitions superintendents. su-perintendents. The broadcast was recorded by FCC monitors. The B-29's ran into heavy fighter opposition over Tokyo yesterday and returning crews told of battling enemy planes for o m Inn tf f m inniac of al i i n4s up to six miles. They told United Press War Correspondent Mac R. Johnson at Saipan that single and twin-engined fighters dived on them with blazing guns in groups of three and six. But the crushing superiority of firepower of the big four-engined bombers proved conclusive. Four and perhaps 12 enemy fighters were destroyed, while only one B-29 was lost to fighter action over the target. Antiaircraft fire was described as "moderate. Tokyo radio acknowledged the loss of six Japanese planes and boosted earlier claims of five, then 15 superfortresses shot down to a final total of 21. The weather favored the B-29s and they bombed visually from sunny skies. One squadron reported re-ported that 75 per cent of its bombs fell within the Musashina plant area. "We saw the target very clearly," clear-ly," 2nd Lt John lid of Ogden. Utah, who flew as tail gunner on one B-29, told Johnson. "As we were going away from -the target. I saw eight to 10 fires and lots of smoke in the building area." The Musashina plant of the Nakajima aircraft works produces pro-duces components for a number of different Japanese planes and is a key cog in Japans aircraft industry. War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: American armies, threatening Germany's two greatest industrial areas, clear all but scattered enemy pockets in Saarlautern on far bank of Saar river and mass farther north for smash across Roer toward Ruhr valley. EASTERN FRONT: Cossack flying columns smash into powerful power-ful Nazi defense screen on east shores of Lake Balaton 50 miles from Austrian soil. PACIFIC: Huge aircraft works in western suburbs of Tokyo believed be-lieved in ruins after raid by more than 100 B-29 superfortresses. superfort-resses. ITALY: Germans launch halt dozen attacks on fifth aYmy positions posi-tions but win only one hill feature, fea-ture, 22 miles southwest of Bologna. Bo-logna. How Far To Berlin The distance to Berlin from advanced ad-vanced Allied lines today: WESTERN FRONT 296 miles ( from point southeast of Nijmegen. unchanged.) EASTERN FRONT 315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged.) ITALY 532 miles (from point south of Ravenna. Unchanged.) |