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Show - i J 7 ;?v J P . '.---;.; 'Tl..- V.- THE YVEATHER :t UTAH Clear this afternoon and tonight, partly cloudy Berth portion. Friday continnde mild. Temperatures -1 Rich 4 v" Lew lt i Her Dog Bef or Sen J?'- DZTSOTTiT Jan. 4 0JJ3 A pet! tlon for probate ef the latevMrs. 2argaret Myers will revealed to- day t&at she left her $2MM estate . to her Fox Terrier Jack and dis-w dis-w f Interhertted her sen. Joseph B. ; VTtlte, AbUene, Texas. PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945 COMPUCTB UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH MEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS inFTy-NINTH YEAR, NO. 152 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE l?thCongrpss Starts Its tWCMOob ee lies t ' ' r I 'First Araw (Gains Thr .5?--;- .1 it- .- : A As the Rer. James Sbera Montgomery dellrers the opening prayer, 'the infant 79th Congress begins a two-year two-year existence during which It will hare to shoulder huge legislative burdens of war and peace. Congress wia wait tor-President Roosevelt to set the pattern of its legislation In his annual message on state of the union. Provo, SLURR Agree To Track Removal Machinery was set in moiton today for the removal of the Salti , Lake and Utah railroad tracks on University Avenue and Center street to Twelfth West street, when, officials of the railroad and the city -entered into an agreement agree-ment for removal and reconstruction recon-struction of the streets. Represented by Joseph S. Quin-ney, Quin-ney, attorney for the railroad, Theo Schneider, traffic manager and William R. Thomson, road master, the Salt Lake and Utah . railroad end frovo City mutually agreed to: 1 S. L. U. agrees, subject toJ proper authority first had and obtained from appropriate public authorities, to abandon its Pro-tfr'depof Pro-tfr'depof on Center streeVProvo, and the trackage and power lines serving and connected with the same and laid and constructed in the streets beginning at a point near the viaduct on West Center Street and east on Center Street and south on University Avenue to a point where the tracks connect with the main line of the SLU near Fifth South. 2 Provo and S. L. U. agree to use their best efforts to obtain ob-tain from the State Road Com mission of Utah and any other public authority having Juris diclton of said streets, proper authority for S. L. U. to abandon and or remove said tracks and wvnrriina free and clear of any and all duty to restore and repair and maintain said streets ' 3 Within five months after obtaining the authorizations re-, f erred to S. L U. will Remove all Its poles then in place along! ld streets, except poles being! used by Provo City; remove all), a money bag containing belts be-lts overhead then in place along, tween three and four hundred said streets; remove all its steel ; dollars was turned over to the rails and ties ... except its steel unidentified man and Henrickson rail and ties on Center street beginning on the east side of Tenth West Street and extending extend-ing on Center Street to its main line connection a s T II ... shall not restore or renalr said streets or any of them as part of such removal or abandonment. 5 S. L. U. shall surrender and cancel all its rights to use said (Continued on Page Two) ' Death Toll In Rail Wreck Rises to 50 OGDEN, Utah The death toll in the tragic wreck of the Pacific Limited in Utah has risen to fifty. Latest victims are Pvt. William . J. Gabriel and Pvt. Joseph G. Gabriel, identical twins, who died in the Reno Army Air Base hospital. hos-pital. Identification of those killed In the wreck of the mall-express and passenger train at Bagley Sunday morning has been corn s' nleted with the announcement that the last of the unknown dead ha been named as Mrs. Mary A. Peavy, of McCrea, Georgia. Only three Japs Return to Coast LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (UJD lifting of the mass exclusion order ord-er which sent the coast's Japanese population to relocation centers after Pearl Harbor, lured only three permanent residents back o to this area on the first effective -day of the changed regulations, war relocation authority officials aald today. . "There is a strong reluctance to relocation on the west coast, and . particularly to Southern Calif or-Cilk or-Cilk Sa." Paul G. Robertson, war re- -location authority area director, Administration Meets Defeat In First Tilt With Congress WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 OJJD The administration today emerg ed from its first battle of the new congress with a major defeat that pointed clearly to continued clashes between President Roose velt and capitol hill during the next two years. Administration hopes for easier sailing in this congress, based on increased Democratic strength in the house, were Jolted yesterday when a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats pushed throuch a nroDosal to create a I "permanent Dies committee" over administration opposition. It was such a coalition that de- Store Manager Kidnaped, Robbed By Armed Holdup At the noint of a gun, N j. Henrickson, manager and co-owner co-owner of Allen's Market, 71 No. Fifth West, was robbed of nearly $400 Wednesday night, it was reported re-ported by Provo 'police today. Mr. Henrickson explained that upon locking up the market at 1 10:10 p. m. he went to his car, which was parked near the store, snd entered. When his motor was started and lights switched on ,a man raised up in the back seat and poked a gun into mr Henrickson's back, forcing him to "drive around town" for awhile. The thug was apparently trying to locate the nightwatchman and police patrol cars before telling Henrickson to returnjo the store, park the car ,and enter. re-entered his car at the thugs order. Thev drove toward Salt Lake City to a point just east of the state oenitentiary. where Henrickson was ordered out of the car and tne cuipm arove on in the same direction. a telephone call to the Provo 1 police department was piacea ; from Lehi by Mr. Henrickson l after walking two miles and re ceivine a ride to that town. The holduD man was described to be about five feet 10 inches in height, 160 pounds in weight, 40 years of age, with a southern ac cent, thin face, and wearing ; gray color cap and light top coat. Provo Youth Killed in Action 1 fev 7 st-; feated the New Deal on num erous occasions in the last con-cress. con-cress. And the 207 to 188 vote on the Dies committee question indicated that a similar combination combina-tion could again be expected, especially on the Democratic issues where there is greatest cleavage between the White House and southern Democrats. With one battle already out of the way, congress began marking time awaiting Mr. Roosevelt's annual messase Saturday and the! to ierisUtkn: I luaran uies, u., a ex., wuu headed the committee on unAm- who erican activities since it was originated, did not seek re-elec tion and hence will not serve on the permanent new commit tee. Three of the . remaining seven members were defeated in the past elections and also will be missing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.PJ Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, R., Ind., has re-introduced into tne new congres his bill to set up a permanent fair employment prac tices commission and "serve no- tice to the world that we intend to practice at home the policies of qual economic opportunity we preach abroad." WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.R) Republican Sens. Alexander R. Wiley, Wis., and Styles Bridges, N. H., today won coveted places . . . m t 1.11 on tne senate ioreign xeiauons imnr role m snapmg the ty W.!leCbUieIc.mp Restriction- Remiblican senate conference, which f illed minority vacancies on various committees various commiuces. ..I The conference re-elected its officers, headed by Sen. Arthur K. Vandenburg, Mich., as chairman. chair-man. Others retaining their conference con-ference positions were Sens. Wallace Wal-lace White Jr., Me., floor leader; Harold H. Burton, O.. secretray, and Kenneth S. Wherry, Neb., whip. , FDR Welcomes Turkey's Action WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (U.R) President Roosevelt today welcomed wel-comed Turkey's severance of relations re-lations with Japan as "further evidence of Turkey's desire for the rapid and complete victory of the Allies." Sgt Keith H. Smoot, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Smoot oi Provo, has been killed in action on the western front in Germany, according to word received from the war department. He wasj with the American First army, assigned to duty as a scout sniper 1 at the time of nis aeatn. He was inducted in the army May 7,-1943. He was first assigned as-signed to the Quartermaster divis ion and took his basic training at FL Warren. Wyo. He later quail fled for the army specialized nrosram at the University of North Dakota, where he complet ed his basic engineering course, and won advancement to cadet maior and company commander, When the program was closed, he was transferred to tne eetn m vis-inn vis-inn at Camn Rucker. Alabama. H and left for overseas in Septem ber, 1944. wnue ne was ai an embarkation point in England his brother, Tech. Sgt. Ted Smoot was able to get in touch with him and they had a short visit together. Keith was born in Ogden, May 7, 1923. He attended Provo schools and graduated from Provo high school, and also graduated from Henager's Business College. At the time of his induction he Sirprfee Attack on- the Firm Leaders See Critical LoborOuflooli Two Prisoners of Wear Camps To Be Sought For Utah County Use By LINCOLN THOMSON Possibility of bringing one or two prisoner-of-war labor camps to alleviate the serious farm labor shortage in Utah county came up for discussion at the all important Utah county farm labor board board meeting held in Provo last night. Approximately 1,000 farm la borers above those who will be available from Utah county will be needed at peak periods of the 1945 planting and harvest seasons. seas-ons. It was announced today in estimates made by S. R. Boswell, county agent and labor director. and Lee R. Taylor, emergency farm labor assistant. Clark. Carpenter Speak At the meeting last nignt ways and means of outlining a suitable labor program .for 1945 were tak- en up. James uiarx, cnairman, ' An a z. am ivin smanrpr idhh . state supervisor assistance, were of farm labor the principal speakers. According to fr. Taylor, it was agreedJto fencouxage every farmer farm-er to make Immediate arrangements arrange-ments to house imported laborers labor-ers on his own farm, and if he desires de-sires Japanese labor there are no restrictions. The fanner enters into an individual contract with Japanese laborers, as they can now go where they can obtain the best Jobs v.mor. cai,i mMipf : the nearest relocation camp, he said If Mexican- nationals are desir ed on indivadual farms, it will be necessary to list the number 4v,a 1 kavA jan 20. 'ated for several hours that they Possibility of having one or i cannot reach a verdict. -two prisoner of war camps in The jury was above average in Utah county was discussed at j intelligence, the Judge said, leneth. Some directors seemed i "The division is fairly close to favorable providing Utah county is able to meet conditions and re- . Puirement. set up by the mill- The Orem and Spanish Fork labor camps would have to meet such requirements as being made nfir,t .re. with hrh,ir. fences, they must be certain dis- tances from nignways. It was further explained that the county coun-ty labor committee would have to put up a $5,000 guarantee for each camp and agree to a minimum mini-mum of 200 prisoners at each camp. The money, Mr. Taylor said, would be refunded when the agreements had been fulfilled. "Farmers need not fear that when hostilities end prisoners will be released and throw their farm work out as it will take a year after the war ends before that would take place," he said. Prevailing wages must be paid to the prisoners. Each prisoner, Mr. Boswell said, is given 80 cents per day, and the rest of the money is turned into the United States treasury. Prisoners must be at mess morning and night, and farmers must be prepared to furnish transportation, and no groups may be smaller than five. Therefore, because of grouping by the army, farmers who will (Continued on page two) Outstanding Shoe Stamps Will Not Be Cancelled Out WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 U.R The ofifce of price administration moved today to halt a serious run on the nation's shoe supplies by promising unreservedly that no outstanding shoe ration stamps will be cancelled. Airplane stamps number one, two and three are now good for a pair of shoes apiece. Aroused by reports that panic-buying panic-buying of shoes had set in all over the country for fear some of the stamps might be cancelled, Price Chief Chester Bowles declared de-clared emphatically that there was "not a chance in a million." "We are not going to cancel any outstanding shoe stamps," he said flatly. A nation-wide United Press survey showed that the rush to use up valid: shoe ration stamps began on the west coast immediately immedi-ately after the OPA cancelled all food stamps validated before De Jury Deadlocked 3fc CHARLES CHAPLIN Chaplin Jury Discharged On 7-5DeadIock HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 4 OUO Superior Judge Henry M. Willis today discharged a Jury of seven women and five men who had deliberated de-liberated a day and a half on Joan Barry's paternity charges and then reported themselves In permanent per-manent deadlock at 7-5. He would declare a mistrial, he Mld- . "I believe the Jury knows Its own minds. I am inclined to accept ac-cept the opinion of Jurora who have deliberated several hours, and reported they cannot reach a verdict." Miss Barry's attorney said he-would he-would move tomorrow for a retrial. re-trial. The Jury took six ballots, and the vote on every one was seven to five, for cnapiuu Foreman ireroinana j. w iu. "X can tv utis uiumcuk sw reason to deliberate further," Judge Willis said. "I feel inclined in-clined to accept the opinion of lurors who have calmly aeUDcr ! what we commonly call 50-50 To keen the -iurors in custody longer would be just a little smacking of judicial pressure and not proper judicially." Chaplin was at home and was not talking to reporters. The Jury poll revealed that they had been only two away from a decision from the start. In such a civil question, a vote of nine to three is sufficient. Six of the seven women were for Chaplin, and so was one of the five men. Rundstedt Keeping Reserves Ready For Another Punch WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 U.R Secretarv of War Henry L. Stim son said today that Field Marshal Von Rundstedt was keeping enough troops in the area of his recent break-through "to make another nunch nossible." He warned at a news comer- ence tnat despite ine eariy uc ipm at the American counter- measures, the Germans still have the power to launch new often lives. Thouffh anv new attacK proo- ably would not be comparable to h Ardennes assault, the Ger mans are determined if possible to prevent Gen. Dwlght u. a.isen hnwer from regaining lost ground The German counterattacks along the Saar are designed to this end, he said. "Having made his gamble the enemy is not yet puuing obi, Stimson said of the Ardennes h..i "He la not willing to retire from his temporary advantages He has dug in at certain point-on point-on the perimeter and maintained enough troops in the center to miiV. another nunch Dossible. SHmann said that dCSPite the speed and power of the German Jamtmt which started Dec. 16, U. S. tank losses were only six per Mnt heavier than tne norma monthly attrition rate. SEC. WISKAED SOUNDS WARNING wictmiRTON. Jan. 4 (UJD Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard warned today that the tremendous producing power pow-er of the nation's farms might prove disastrous, once war needs Hviitw unless agriculture, labor. and industry cooperate to main 1 4--.- , ., J v ; - Yanlis Blast 25 Jap Ships In Philippines American Forces Surge Inland From Two New Beachheads on Mindoro Bv WILLIAM C. WILSON United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, PHILIPPINES, Jan 4 0JJD pThe Pacific war blazed with new fury along a 1, 100- mile front southwest of Japan today, as American forces surged inland fron two new beachheads on Mindoro, counted 25 ships wrecked around Luzon, and 'pressed a carrier-based carrier-based assault against Formosa and the Ryukyu islands. (A Japanese communique heard by the United Press in San Francisco Fran-cisco said 500 carrier planes participated par-ticipated in attacks on Formosa and Okinawa in the Ryukyus yesterday. yes-terday. The Japanese also reported re-ported that 60 American planes attacked Clark field. Manila, yesterday.) yes-terday.) On Japan itself, the big aircraft center of Nagoya still w smouldering smoul-dering from a large-scale Superfortress Super-fortress raid yesterday. Large fires were started, a ; Washington communique said, and bombing results were described as "good. Qxve.Bn2& was lost over the target tar-get area and perhaps 10 enemy planes shot down. - All Mindoro, strategic Philippine Philip-pine island Just southwest of invasion-marked Luzon, was expected ex-pected to be under American control con-trol within a matter of days as result of new landings on the east coast Monday and the west coast Tuesday. There was no indication in-dication that any formidable resistance re-sistance had developed, and the Americans were expected to seize the remaining airstrips and other installations on the island in quick order. The amphibious thrusts on Mindoro coincided with a marked intensification of the air offen- (Continned on page two) Her Government At Helm in Greece ATHENS, Jan. 4 (U.R) A new government took up the task today to-day of attempting to bring peace to hungry, revolt-torn ureece. Among first problems on tne agenda was the demand of the left-wing revolutionist ELAS that the Greek gendarmarie and na tional guard be disarmed as a precondition pre-condition for its own disarmament. disarma-ment. ELAS leaders already have sig nified their willingness to cease resistance against the British and other Greek forces if that demand is met. They contend that the gendarmarie and national guard actually are a private rightist y- Resent Arcbbisnop Damasxinos swore in tne new government Yesterday. Headed by Gen. Nich olas Plastiras, Who retained four other portfolios, it comprises six more ministers and five "worx-ing "worx-ing undersecretaries." (A BBC broadcast said the cab inet was liberal, but likely to be uncompromising in its attitude to the extreme left) Roosevelt May Renew Request For National Service Act WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.R) Having told congress a year ago that national service legislation was a necessity which would shorten the war and reduce the toll of blood. President Roosevelt is confronted today with a decision decis-ion whether to renew his request for such a law. .His annual message' on the state of the union goes to the new congress Saturday. One year ago, in the annual message, he asked for a national service act covering cover-ing every able-bodied adult in this nation men and women. But he made the request conditional condi-tional and it was ignored, along with some of the conditions imposed. im-posed. Today the manpower situation is more acute than it was a year ago. The president has jolted congress and the nation with plans to reclassify farm-workers 18 through 25, for military serv ice Insofar as existing legislation will permit. There Is a desperate shortage of army nurses. New Allied Push Might Trap Nazi Troops In Bulge Yanks Attack North Salient in Bitterest Weather of Winter Ttt Make1 Good Gains On a Six-Mile Front PARIS, Jan. 4 (UJD The American First army smashed Into the north rim of the Ardennes salient yesterday la the Bitterest mM h mW Oi flnun h marnrlse. a.naV rained thve and a half mllea an a six-mile treat. It was announced today. Today's delayed disclosure ef Lt. Gesw Ceanrtney H. Hodges new offensive covered only Its initial phase, to which massed armoW and infantry snrced across the front dispatch said the posh might trap thousands of Germans 19 the nose ef the Belgian bulge. PARIS, Jan. 4 American First army troops struds through a snowstorm into the northern flank ox the aj dennes salient today in a grand-scale counteroffensive which Berlin said had been joined by Field Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British Second army on a front of almost 50 miles from Monschau to Marche. Twentv-four hours after the iumn-off. Allied head quarters still was withholding the new drive. except that tnei Allies were "progressing satis factorily" all along the line. A communique said only that American units launched the counterattack below Qrandmenil, at the center of the German line. The Nazi Transocean news agency, ag-ency, however, broadcast a German Ger-man high command communique reporting thai - the Americans, supported by British tanks, were striking against the entire northern north-ern wall of the salient Transocean added later that elements of the American Ninth army also had swung from their positions along the Roer river to join the assault. Spearheads Advancing The enemy accounts said one spearhead was attacking in the Kesternich sector five miles northeast of Monschau at the base of the German salient. Other Oth-er spearheads were said to be driving into the Nazi defenses at Kalterherberg. three miles south of Monschau, Basse-Bodeux. three miles southwest of Stavelot, Vil-letes, Vil-letes, seven miles southwest of Stavelot, Grandmenil, 13 miles southwest of Stavelot, and Marche, 14 miles farther to the southwest. Heavily-censored field dispatches dis-patches reported heavy tank and infantry fighting on the Allied attack front, and United Press Correspondent Jack Fleischer said the. First army vanguard below Grandvenil had captured important high ground at at least one Belgian village. The drive began at 8:30 a. m Wednesday morning after a week of relative inactivity on the northern front during which the Americans were massing men and supplies for the decisive battle of the Ardennes. A rigid security blackout obscured ob-scured all details on the fighting, fight-ing, but censored field dispatches dispatch-es said the Germans were reacting re-acting furiously with tanks and infantry to prevent a breakthrough break-through that- could turn their great gamble in the Ardennes into in-to a first-class disaster. At the same time, the Germans hurled ten full divisions, totaling total-ing perhaps 150,000 men, against the southern wall of their bucking buck-ing corridor where Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American Third army was striking in equal ( Continued on page two) The president's manpower plans and discussions of foreign policy as it relates to the rapidly chang ing European situation, are the most anxiously awaited passages in the message to be sent to tne new 79th congress. Political Washington is espec ially eager to learn whether Mr. Roosevelt will make a national service recommendation that stands on its own this tune, on Jan. 11. 1944. be proposed na tional service but made its en dorsement condition upon enactment enact-ment of four other projects In a flve-Doint program. Few here (xnected the president's condi tions to be met, and they weren't loCT live mwDUio winuHi hev told congress one year ago. "form a-just and equitable whale. I would not recommend a national service law unless the 'other laws were passed to keep idown the east of 11 vine, to share equitably the burdens of taxation, to hold the stabilization line, and to pre vent undue profits." Rim of the Ardennestl new - blanketed Araennes nius. a ! all details of the progress oj Germans Fail To Raise Siege Of Budapest tONDON. Jan. 4 0JJDA pow erful German bid to raise the) sieae of Budapest was reported! checked by Red army guns witb in 29 miles of ; the capital today as Soviet forces inside the city compressed the bulk of the enemy ene-my garrison into two shell-swept pockets on both bamu ox tne Danube. Moscow said the Germans were being beaten to a standstill in aV great armored battle northwest I of the capital, where the enemy had thrown at least two tank divisions di-visions and strong infantry for mations against a narrow sector sonth of the Danube. . After two days and nights "of" I a tack, the German armor admittedly admit-tedly had punched through the Russian siege lines for gains of as much as six miles, but today's Red army communique said the Nazis were taking terrific losses that slowed or stopped their drive all along the front. The communique indicated that j the German advance had carried -through the Danubian towns of Naszmely, Sutto and Pi&zke, the last only 29 miles northwest of Budapest. Soviet artillery, tank destroyers and infantrymen brac ed in that area, however, after an all-day fight that Moscow said cost the enemy "several thou sand" dead and more than 40 tnnfc- At the same time, part of the German garrison in tne western half of Budapest lashed out to-the northwest in a desperate attempt to break through and reach the rescue column, only to be hurled back with heavy losses. War In Brief By UNITED PRESS Western Front Grand-scale-1 counteroffensive, spearheaded by First army, bursts through north flank of German salient below Grandmenil. . Eastern Front German bid to lift siege, of .Budapest is checked 29 miles from capital as Russian. forces inside city compress ene-U my garrison into two pockets oa both banks of Danube. Pacific Action flares on 100-H mile front as American forces I surge inland from new beam- heads on Mindoro, count 25 ships. wrecked around Luzon, and press carrier - based air offensive against Formosa and Ryukyu UK' lands. Air War RAF Mosouitoes many. Italy Canadian troops hammer out further gains northwest of - Ravenna after repulsing four I German counterattacks. ..--fl Gorman Forgo Papers m- NEW YORK. Jan. 4 U. Two German spies, caught by the Federal Bureau of investigation investiga-tion after they were landed on the coast of Maine from a sub marine, carried forged identifica tion papers dated aneaa to iso, indicating that the Nazi expect the war to last tint long at least. the FBI revealed today. .aatd. - SGT. KEITH H. SMOOT (Continued on page two) cember i. tain a high level ox aemano. (0 -j. ... t |