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Show THE WEATHER UTAH Cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday. Light rein or snow north and west porttonu this afternoon, tonight and Satorv day. taming to snow north parties par-ties Saturday. Continued mild" this afternoon and tonight. Cooler north portions Saturday. 'Temperatures High .... 54 Low U &NOTHER JAP ADMIRAL Tbm death mt another Japanese stfintraVtae tfth reported sine. May 17, yn disclosed today In a Japanese. Domel dispatch recorded record-ed by FCC. The dispatch tald tho Kara bats! station bad reported to death of Sear Admiral Toko- fir FIFTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 144 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKX PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. FRIDAY. DECEMBER ?2. 1944 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Services Set For Christmas Observances Churches Lodges To Observe Traditional Christinas Observance Christmas 1944! . Not the gayest of Chris t- mases, rather, one on which to reflect with deep gratitude the many blessings to be en-joyed, en-joyed, in spite of world conflict con-flict and the separation from loved ones. The hustle and bustle of Christmas Christ-mas preparation appears much the same as in the old days the shopping crowds are the same pushing mob the stores are full of desired presents gay parties are going on gift exchanges for young and old but it is NOT the came. To be sure the Yuletide spirit is as ever but .... Provoans will pause from the festivities to meditate in the churches throughout the Christmas Christ-mas week-end, special pageants, carols and masses having been planned. Services in the Catholic church will commence with the singing of carols by the choir Sunday at 11 pm. The procession of altar boys carrying statues of the Infant In-fant Christ will enter the church at midnight and annual midnight mass will be sung by the pastor, the Rev. Father Henry. O .F. M., who will also preach the sermon. Admission to the mass will be by ticket only. Second mass will be at 9 a. m. Monday, with the third mass, a high mass, sung by Fr. Marcellus at 10:30 a .m. The church will be open Monday so visitors may see the decorations and Christmas manger and crib erected by men of the parish, Father Henry announces. an-nounces. Christmas eve will be celebrated cele-brated in the Community church at 7:30 o'clock with the pageant An American Christmas." Mrs. . O. Orr, director, announces that more than 50 persons will participate. Santa Claus will distribute gifts to the children during the evening. Sunday's service, opening open-ing at 11 a. m., will feature a special Christmas anthem by the church choir. The Rev. Edwin F. Irwin's sermon will be "The Light and Shadow of Christmas." Midnight mass will be cele-celebrated cele-celebrated Sunday night at St. Mary's Episcopal church, commencing com-mencing at 1150, by the Rev. W. J. Howes. Rev. James W. Harl-wood Harl-wood will preach the sermon. (Continued on Page Two) Servicemen To Have Christmas If It's Possible WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 (U.R) Though the rumble of guns may again blot out the traditional message mes-sage of "peace on earth," the nation na-tion will do its utmost on this, its fourth consecutiv e wartime Christmas, to carry the customs and spirit of the holiday to millions mil-lions of servicemen around the world. Thousands of tons of turkey have been purchased for holiday dinners. Unless actually pinned down by gunfire, servicemen everywhere are due for a turkey dinner with all the fixings. If they spend Christmas in the front lines they will probably get their turkey as soon as relieved. Even American prisoners of war, at least those in Germany, will also have turkey canned turkey. The quartermaster corps Started canning and shipping the traditional Christmas bird via international in-ternational Red Cross six months go-American go-American home folks have showered G. L Joe with gift. At latest count some 50,000,000 holi-( holi-( Continued on Page Two) Wallace's Post Remains Mystery in Capital Circles BY JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Stalf Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U.R) It's less than a month now until Henry A. Wallace loses his present job as vice-president of the United States but the new post he will be offered in the Roosevelt administration ad-ministration is as much a mystery today as it has ever been. Friends of the retiring vice president expect him to be offered cabinet post. Some report that he has his heart set on the job now held by his bitterest enemy within the administration Secretary Secre-tary of Commerce Jesse J. Jones. Wallace and his successor, ben. Henry S. Truman, p.. Mo, visited President Roosevelt at the White House this week on successive, day. Neither was very helpful to re- porters who hare been trying to ibid out. ever since Mr. Rooee- vert dumped Wallace from thelfer Jones' commerce department vice rrntrfry t the Democratic Jvb. Roylance Denies His Instructions Favored Maw In Vote Count Election Judges Were Instructed to Throw Out All Votes For Either Candidate Where Scratching: Voter Failed to Cross Out Name County Attorney Arnold C. Roylance today denied that he had instructed election judges to count ballots for Gov ernor Maw that had a cross under the rooster and a cross after J. Bracken Lee's name without striking out the name of the democratic candidate for governor. "When I instructed the judges on the counting of the ballots, I told them that where such attempt at scratching occurred, the vote for the governorship be thrown out. They were told specifically that the vote should not count for either Maw or Lee," Mr. Roylance said. Asked concerning the affidavits affida-vits signed by two election judges that he had instructed them to give the vote to Maw when such scratching occurred, Mr. Roylance Roy-lance said: "I deny that I ever instructed the judges to give Maw the vote. I can get a hundred affidavits, including one frum the secretary of the Utah County Republican party, to the effect that those were not the instructions. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (U.R) Capitol observers today said Here's the Chaplin Case If You Want to Read It By VIRGINIA MacFHERSON United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 22 U. The trial of Joan Barry's paternity pater-nity suit against Charlie Chaplin was recessed today until next Tuesday when the comedian's former drama protege will return to the witness stand to relate more of the intimate details of their romance. Court adjourned yesterday Just in time to prevent Miss Barry Worst Cold 7ave Of Season Grips Northern States BY UNITED PRESS The season's worst cold wave gripped the northern tier of states from Iowa to the Atlantic coast today with the mercury dipping dip-ping to 25 degrees below rero at Black Moshannon, Pa., and the weatherman promised little relief before Sunday night at least. Temperatures will rise slightly throughout the midwest today and tonight, but will drop below the zero mark again Sunday morning, the federal weather forecaster at Chicago predicted. Although the coldest weather was reported along the northern tier of states from Iowa east, the weatherman said below freezing temperatures prevailed as far south as the Texas Panhandle and the Ohio river. Black Moshannon was the cold est spot in the nation but a season record of 15 degrees below zero was reported at Cadillac, Mich., and Waterman, 111., reported 12 below. Rockford, 111., reported 12 degrees below and Chicago tem peratures dipped to two below. Binghamton, N. Y., reported five below and in Washington the mercury dropped to 20 degrees above. Sub-zero temperatures were reported re-ported throughout eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, Illinois, northern Indiana, lower Michigan, Michi-gan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New England, but Minnesota, the Da-kotas Da-kotas and Nebraska experienced slightly warmer weather than yesterday. However, colder temperatures tem-peratures were predicted for those areas tonight. national convention in Chicago last July, what job would be offered of-fered as a reward for his graceful retirement and vigorous support of the fourth term campaign. In their quest for a hint as to Wallace's future job, newsmen turned to the vice president's close friends in the senate. While none would talk for quotation, all stories agreed on these points: 1. immediately after the Chicago Chi-cago convention President Roosevelt Roose-velt promised Wallace an Important Impor-tant assignment when his term as vice president expires. 2. Cabinet jobs were discussed and Wallace got the Impression he could have any one exccDt the state department, then headed by aging Cordell Hull. 3. Wallace doesn't want to go back to heading the agriculture department where he served from 1833 to )940. is lukewarm on the labor department, but would pre- that the petition for a recount by supporters of Mayor J. Bracken Brack-en Lee of Price, defeated Republican Repub-lican candidate for governor, was the first such contest for a major post in Utah election history and the first to call for a state-wide, or nearly state-wide, recount The last important contest, Evans vs Reiser, in 1931, gave rise to legislation aimed at preserving pre-serving the "full intent of the voter." Previously, ballots contained con-tained the admonition that they would be voided if the voter made any mistake in marking them. Later interpretations have voided (Continued on Page Two) from collapsing In hysterics on the stand, after a day of gruelling c r o s s-examination, punctuated frequently by her tears and hysterical wails that she couldn't go on with this thing any longer." When she returns to the stand next week, Miss Barry will be questioned by her own attorney, 77-year-old Joseph Scott. . , . Twice during yesterday's questioning ques-tioning by Attorney Charles E. (Pat) Millikan, Miss Barry collapsed col-lapsed and buried her head in Scott's shoulder, crying hysterically. hysteric-ally. She dissolved Into tears w,hen Millikan asked her about her association with other men, turning turn-ing to the judge pleadingly. "All this means nothing here," she wailed. But the judge ruled otherwise. "The entire life of the party j in any relations resulting in preg- nancy is open to question," he said. J Neither Miss Barry's mother, nor little Carol Ann, the child j Miss Barry claims Chaplin, fathered, were present during j yesterday's proceedings. The red-haired witness, tears! streaming down her freckled face, admitted she swallowed iodine and sleeping tablets in aj suicide attempt on New Year's: Eve of 1943, the night after Chap- lin dropped her off at the Beverly Hills police station when she toldj him she was broke and homeless. home-less. Sobbing convulsively, she said j she went to the apartment of j Hans Reusch, a writer, undressed, and donned a pair oi his pajamas. "Did you telephone the news-(Continued news-(Continued en Page Two) War Production To Be Maintained At the Peak Rate WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 U.R Amercian industry put aside its planning for the postwar world today and prepared to maintain for another full year the peak rate of war production achieved in 1944. Upsetting all plans for partial recoversions in 1945, Production Chief J. A. Krug told newsmen late yesterday that production must be expanded to proportions large enough to enable Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied i armies to continue fighting a tough war for another year or longer, if necessary. His blunt statement focussed new attention on the production crisis which has been increasingly increas-ingly emphasized by government leaders since the assault on the westwall began two months ago. It served also as a stern reminder re-minder that civilian production must remain on the order books as long as the German army continues con-tinues to fight WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 (U.R) The government appealed to war workers today not to Jeopardize production of munitions at this critical stage of the war by beins guilty of absenteeism over the Christmas and New Year s weekends.' week-ends.' Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production Board gave his blessing to workers taking off Christmas but warned that ab senteeism on other days during the holiday would be a fatal, thing" to December production. 4 Hiked Greece Civil War Spreads To the North Left Wing ELAS Force Reported To Have Captured Cap-tured 8 Rightist Towns ATHENS, Dec. 22 U Reports circulated today that the civil war had spread to northern Greece and that left wing ELAS forces had captured cap-tured eight villages from the rightist EDES followers of Gen. Napoleon Zervas. Northern Greece was reported re-ported seething with unrest, accentuated ac-centuated by an infiltration of hot-blooded elements from Bulgaria Bul-garia and Albania. Open warfare between the ELAS EL-AS and EDES factions threatened or already had begun. Reliable information reaching British sources here said the ELAS men. sympauuzers, were moving toward to-ward the Dhriskis ridge, a dominating dom-inating height east of Ioannina, . , l . A. 1 site of EDES headquarters. Other ELAS forces were reported re-ported massing along the border territory. nd Zervas sources claimed that the ELAS men had attacked the EDES near the town of Arta, 40 miles south of Ioannina. Ioan-nina. The reports said that 300 Bulgarians Bul-garians who were supposed to be deserters from the Bulgarian army ar-my had been counted in the area northeast of Salonika, big port in northeastern Greece. A number of Albanians were reported moving through LLAS territory toward zones co'-tro'.led by Zervas followers in Epirus. Coinc'dent with the mounting unrest, German broadcasts were reported to have begun a propaganda propa-ganda campaign to "Free Macedonia." Mace-donia." The Greek government was described as fearful that Bulgarians Bulgar-ians and Albanians were planning plann-ing some kind of coup to split Macedonia from Greece. Quoting information from Salonika, Sa-lonika, the official Hellenic news agency claimed that "open persecution" per-secution" prevailed In Phlorina and Kastoria. near the Albanian and Yugoslav frontiers. It said a Bulgarian had been appointed orefect of Phlorina and had said in a speech that Macedonians of Bulgarian extraction must adhere ad-here to communism In order to obtain autonomy for Macedonia. On the Athens "front." British troops and tanks crossed Piraeus harbor in assault craft, landed on the northern nm, and drove Inland, bringing the er.tlre port under British control. The landing in the former ELAS EL-AS stronghold was carried out virtually without orrjobltlon. but resistance stiffened everal hundred hun-dred yards inland and fighting still was going on hi noon. Left-wing ELAS troops seized the northern part of the harbor with its main docks and warehouses ware-houses in the early stages of the civi1 war some two weeks ago. Piraeus is the main port for Attn, At-tn, five miles to the northeast, ind the bottleneck thrdusb which most supplies for the capital pass. E-Bond Sales Show Increase SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (U.R) A half-million-dollar-day in E-bonds today cheered Utah Sixth War Loan drive leaders, who expressed hope that the state might respond to the bad news from the western front by putting the state over the top in E's by Saturday night At midmorning, official returns had reached $10,650,643. The quota for E's Is $12,000,000. Atlantic Charter Principles Still Valid Says Roosevelt WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 (U.FD President Roosevelt today termed term-ed the Atlantic charter an objective ob-jective toward world betterment and said that its principles "are as valid today as they were in 1841" when he and Prime Minister Minis-ter Winston Churchill issued it Mr. Roosevelt was asked at his press conference if he would care to say something further about the charter in the light of discussion dis-cussion that followed his earlier disclosure that It does not exist as formally signed document Tte-president in reply re By 1 kirru y Amy tt vSv ' uret V V x f BELGIUM Csevsy Luxembourg 1 Meassheje-! .y.f sXvWY? UlfliSiia T -K' 4 Wre3v V,i -t 'ICaV LUXEMBOURG WWJT t Z7 HP; i7 U 1 (RE A TtUphoto) Security blackout on western (root was lifted to reveal four main Nasi thrusts on First Army front, t&ough progress sines Monday noon i etui secret (1) Prom Echternich. en Luxembourg border nacpdJiKftinUes southwest Indications today were that all southeasT Luxembourg was overrun. (2) Two-pronged drive from 6t Vith, reaching Maspelt to southwest and also pushing straight west. Some American troops were trapped In this area. (3) Thrust through Malmedy. which passed Stave-tot Stave-tot and branched out to reach Butgehbach. This thrust may be hitting toward Liese. (4) Drive through Monsehau Forest to reach Monschau, on Belgium frontier. Red Army Massing Forces For Expected Winter Offensive By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (U.R) Unof ficial reports said today that the Red army was massing the greatest concentration of men, ar tillery, tanks, and aircraft yet seen on the eastern front for a War In Brief Western Front German armored arm-ored offensive across Belgium and Luxembourg halted on north flank, reported still surging forward for-ward in center and south within 40 miles of French frontier. j Pacific B-29 Superfortresses i bomb aircraft manufacturing cen ter of Nagoya and possibly other targets on Japanese main Island of Honshu. Eastern Front Berlin reports Red army has hurled 27 divisions flffftlnlt vstl l thorn tlm rf Cl a tm a n ; pocket in northwest Latvia and concedes Soviets have broken into in-to Nazi lines at several points. Italy Canadian troops capture Bagnacavallo and extend line Into In-to eastern Po Valley. Legislators to Get Higher Pay SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 22 (U.R) Members of the 1945 Utah legislature will enter their two-year-terms of office under the new pay-scale adopted as a constitutional con-stitutional amendment Nov. 7, according to an opinion written by Attorney General Grover A. Giles. Giles said the amendment goes into effect Jan. 1. It abolishes the old $4 a day scale, and permits per-mits the payment of $300 a year. Since the legislature sits about 60 days of the two-year period, the solons may average $10 per day for their services. marked that certain documents had been presented to the world for a good many thousand years looking to betterment of life itself. One of these, he said, is the Atlantic Charter, but somebody some-body will come along In the future with something better. The President departed from usual press conference custom to permit direct Quotation on one phase in his charter discussion his assertion that its principles "are as valid today as they were 4 to 1M1." y mk I 0 'SfrSx :, InnMU. v . x -,v. winter offensive that Soviet observers ob-servers predict will break through to Germany and end the war. Military commentators he re suggested that the Germans launched their counteroffensive in the west In an effort to throw the Allied timetable off schedule sched-ule and gain time to face the Russians alone when the eastern front flames into action. Soviet sources confidently expected ex-pected the Red army to break through the German fortified lines from East Prussia to the Carpathians in successive, fast op erations. The Russians hope to knock out almost 200 German divisions arrayed along the eastern front before they can break off contact con-tact and retreat to Germany. With knowledge of their own plan, Russian observers appeared unperturbed by the temporary German successes in the west and were confident that the Allies soon regain control of the situation. sit-uation. The Russian army organ Red Star said today that the German offensive on the western front already al-ready showed signs of beginning to peter out . LONDON, Dec. 22 U.R) Berlin said today that the Red army, launching a new offensive at the northern end of the eastern front hurled 27 division possibly 400.000 men against the south ern rim of the German pocket in northwest Latvia and conceded that the Soviets had broken into the Nazi lines at several points. The offensive. If confirmed would aDDear an all-out attempt to liquidate tens of thousands of German troops trapped against the Baltic and thus release ad ditional Russian forces for the Soviet winter offensive in East Prussia and Poland. A United Press dispatch from Moscow said the Russians were believed massing the greatest con centration of men, artillery, tanks and aircraft yet seen on the east ern front for a 'campaign that is expected to conclude the war. "Observers confdently expect that when the Red army hits the German fortified lines from East Prussia to the Carpathians, it will break through to Germany hi successive, fast operations," the dispatch said. Ernst Von Hammer. German military commentator, reported the Latvian offensive in a Ber lin broadcast. He said the Soviets had attacked along a 22-mile front southwest and south of Saldus, S3 miles east of the Baltic port or uevaja (Llbau), yesterday with strong air, artillery and una; support. Eisenhower Calls On U. S. Troops to Rout the Enemy Maximum Nazi Penetration Into Belgium Held at 40 Miles; No Word hom Luxembourg Luxem-bourg Battle Front For More Than 3 Days By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press War Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 22 (U.R) Field dispatches said today that the German counteroffensive had been stopped in Belgium with a maximum penetration of less than 40 miles. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a dramatic order of the day, proclaimed that the enemy "will completely fail" and called on his troops to turn Adolf Hitler's "greatest gamble into his greatest defeat." But while front reports revealed the halt of the German Ger-man drive in Belgium, an ominous silence now extending back three days blacked out the Nazi progress in the dangerous dan-gerous push through Luxembourg. "The Maximum penetration into Belgium is under 40 miles, and the long German salient sal-ient reaching out toward the Meuse would be particularly vulnerable to heavy counterat tacks or to air assault should the ' weather clear," United Press: Correspondent Ronald Clark re- j ponea irom me zisi army group sector m the low countries. This was the first disclosure apparently up to date as of 5 p. m. (noon EWTT toSaybf how far west the left wing of Mar shal Karl Von Rundstedt's breakthrough break-through force had pushed in Belgium. Bel-gium. Supreme headquarters announced an-nounced yesterday that 48 hours earlier a Nazi mobile column had spread about 30 miles into Belgium, Bel-gium, cutting the vital Liege-Bastogne Liege-Bastogne supply highway 14 miles below Liege. Clark said the Germans drove within 20 miles of the Meuse at one place, an unrevealing figure since the river, which angles across Belgium, flows through Liege. However, the German high command claimed that several bridgeheads had'been established at unspecified points across the Ourthe river in Belgium, which flows on an irregular north-south north-south course from 13 to 21 miles beyond the Liege-Bastogne highway. high-way. "The crisis is not yet past, though the enemy now is believed believ-ed to have committed a substantial substan-tial part of the forces held for the operation." Clark's dispatch from Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Mont-gomery's sector above the broken First army front said. Clark said that after the westward west-ward rush of the Germans in the first three or four days of the counteroffensive, they'Tjad advanced ad-vanced a maximum of 10 miles in Belgium, an ' heavy fighting continued con-tinued around a number of key points and bastions that the Nazis obviously had hopes to overwhelm over-whelm in the first onsurge. Eisenhower, in an order of the day to all American troops, left no doubt that the great battle bat-tle of the west is the crisis which will determine whether Germany can be crushed quickly or whether wheth-er the war must be prolonged rcusny months. As his dramatic order was flashed to grim-faced American GI's, the first encouraging report re-port since the Nazi thrust was launched six days ago was wirelessed wire-lessed by United Press War Correspondent Cor-respondent Jack Frankish from U. S. army headquarters. Frankish reported that the Germans Ger-mans had been stopped cold in their forward progress in Belgium for the first day since the attack started Frankish reported that "the (Continued en Page Two) Allied Intelligence Blamed For Being Caught Off Balance BT JAMES McGUNCT saying terribly underestimated United Press War Correspondent the strength of the enemy's too PARIS. Dec 22 OI.PJ Military ! bile reserves. r? ' observers believed today that the! German offensive and Belgian and Luxembourg caught the Allies off balance to a greater extent than any development since the tidefvisions in the Eifel mountains ea of war turned at Stalingrad two years ago. It would be difficult and pos sibly undesirable to delineate the Allies' failure at the present stage of the offensive, but the progress of the Germans makes it obvious that they scored an outstanding surprise. The finger of blame seems to point at Allied military intelll gencc, which critics already were $i unfit Nazi Propaganda Turns to Mildly Pessimistic Tone LONDON. Dec. 32 (U.R) German Ger-man spokesmen ,seerted that tbm American Third army was) abandoning its bold on the Siegfried Sieg-fried line east of the Saar river today, but Stockholm dispatches said the Nazi propagandists were switching to a mildly' pessimistic, tone in connection with th Wehrmacht's week - old western offensive. The German DNB news agency said Lt Gen. George S. Patton'a troops were pulling out of tha forefield of the Siegfriend line all along the Saar front because of the flanking threat posed by th new Nazi drive against the First army. South of Saarlautern, DNB, said, the American already hava abandoned their Ensdorf bridgehead, bridge-head, while the North they art) moving troops and material back to the west bank of the river, permitting per-mitting the Germans to re-occupy all their former strongpoints There was no confirmation og the enemy report, which contrasted contrast-ed strongly with the somewhat gloomy propaganda line suddenly sudden-ly adopted by Berlin last night. Swedist correspondents in Berlin Ber-lin said the German press and official of-ficial spokesmen were beginning to show anxiety over the stubborn stub-born stand of the American First army on the northern flank ot the Belgian salient where the American recaptured Stavelot and Monschau. The elaborate press and radio fanfare picturing Adolf Hitler as the guiding genius of the offen sive also appeared to have been abandoned, suggesting that the Nazis were becoming doubtful of the drive's ultimate success. At the same time. German newspapers began p u Wishing warnings that "several thousand Allied bombers may shortly be thrown against the attacking Nail columns and that American resistance re-sistance has stiffened in Belgium with the arrival of fresh rev serves. One Swedish account relayed! to the London Dally Express quoted quo-ted -a German spokesman as saying say-ing that the drive against Lux embourg, previously regarded as perhaps the focal point of the offensive, was "not in the sam strength as the one between Trias" and Monschau." Intelligence would appear tl .have neglected completely p"i was ignorant of an enemy con t centra tlon of no less than 15 4W Similarly, either air reconnals-, sance over the Eifel mountains); was neglected or Its reports disregarded disre-garded by the Allied high com, mand out of belief that a German, .: attack in its present strength was impossible, observers theorized. The only alternative explanation explana-tion of the thinness with which the 60-mile line between liop i (Centlnaed cm wtf tve) |