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Show r: - - !g? . Red Ctess Serves AH Tvnlral mt Anmin. iha 9m THE WEATHER UTAH Clear today, tonight and Tuesday, .but becoming partly part-ly cleady is north portion Toes day. Slowly rising temperatures. Temperatures: High Sz Low IS p tess does not serve only those ? serves alL without distinction f r color. tien. Joseph SUwcIL FIFIT-NINTH YEAR, NO. 189 o?1 CTOVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26,I945 tShSwFsi PRICE FIVE CENTS - ' zzzz 5 ' " " kmbv f Tk M mmng Rulm Afeir Twin Aor Raid DsferiusnisOf WPB Calls on AU War, Industries to Submit Lists ol Deferments WASHINGTON. Feb. 26 & The war production board undertook today to determine de-termine what industrial workers work-ers in the 18-29 age group are so vital to war production 10.2?6rcHpTo Be tlevieved W that they ought to have draft deferments. In its role of draft certifying agent, the WPB called on all war industries to submit lists of their occnpationally-deferred employes in that category. The agency's 01 aim is to prevent the drafting of what it called the "vital hard core" of war workers. Meanwhile, local draft boards were under orders to start drafting draft-ing a large number of the 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 deferred men In the 30-33 . age bracket Selective service Sr announced on Saturday that men in that bracket will be deferred henceforth (Only if they are "necessary "nec-essary to" as well as "regularly engaged In" essential work. In the past the deferment test for this age group was, merely a whether a man was regularly en- gaged in an essential activity. The WPB's program to save war industry's most essential young men from the draft was outlined at a press conference by Gustave Peck, chairman of the agency's committee on certifi-V certifi-V cation of deferment requests. He said the WPB hoped to obtain deferment of the 780,000 men 18 through 29 now in 2-A and 2-B. Industries using WPB as their manpower claimant agency include in-clude makers of steel, aluminum. tire, and components for import- ant munitions. WPB is several aeencies authorized to certify draftable men through 29. Peck said WPB would "evaluate "evalu-ate the irreplaceabillty and in-dispensability in-dispensability of workers only if WPB is the proper certifying agent, and if no duplicate request re-quest is made to the army, navy, maritime commission, the war food administration, or any other agency authoriged to handle deferment de-ferment certifications." Peck said employers would submit names of young employes for whom deferment is sought, along with complete information about them, to WPB field offices. The WPB district manager in turn will certify men considered absolutely essential and irreplaceable irreplace-able to local draft boards "where final deferment authorization rests." Peck said his committee would assist field offices. To qualify for certification, an employe must: 1. Be doing work included within WMC'i list of essential activities. ac-tivities. 2. Be irreplaceable from within the plant or by recruiting from without. 3. Not be considered replaceable replace-able by a recruit or transferee who can qualify to perform his - work by three months of intensive inten-sive training. 4. Not be engaged in planning, research, development or production produc-tion for postwar purposes. Appropriations Committee Fails To Reach Accord SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. 28 (U.R) The be-leaguered joint appropriations appro-priations committee issued a call for help from the senate and house today after it failed for the third time to reach agreement on whether or not to strip Gov. Maw of is financial powers in the contingency fund. Members said they hope by an Interrupted session Tuesday morning to be able to come up with presentable recommenda-tions. recommenda-tions. They asked that both the house and 'senate postpone their Tuesday meetings until 2 p.m. Personalities again figured in committee discussions this morning, morn-ing, with Sen. Lorenzo Elggren, D.. Salt Lake, taking the policy subcommittee to task for submitting submit-ting recommendations which would have violated the constitution constitu-tion on at least two points. The policy sub-committee,. Elggren Elg-gren said, contains two lawyers (Senator Ira A. Huggins, D., Weber, and Zar E. Hayes, assistant assist-ant attorney general). "Yet they were forced to admit their recommendations recom-mendations misinterpreted the law on the matter of suggesting that deputies could be appointed to represeant the secretary of state and attorney general in meetings of the state board of examiners; ex-aminers; and in sugegsting that state officials be paid on a bimonthly bi-monthly basis." Whether to allow the governor (Continued on page two) Rock's Boy taw C -V ? John Vincent Rockne. 18. young est son of Knute, immortal Notre Dame football coach, is sWorn into Marine Corps in Indianapolis. Utility Board Agrees to Pay More On Rent Only one minor change was recommended by the Provo Utilities Utili-ties board after it had carefully reviewed the service it (the department de-partment of utilities) receives from Provo city in line with Commissioner Palfreyman's motion mo-tion of Jan. 11, it was brought out in a report which will be submitted to the city commission tonight. The report, which was revised and sent back to the city commission com-mission after last Wednesday's meeting, recommended that rent al of the office space at 17 South university Avenue should be -3 m orized tollw P" monui, insieaa oi me present rale of 81 12.50 per month Commissioner Blake D. Pal-freyman Pal-freyman submitted a motion Jan. 11 which was tabled and later sent to the utilities commission for study and recommendation. Mr. Palfreyman's motion read: "I move that due to the fact that Provo city is compelled to raise its tax levy for the year 1945, and for the purpose of keeping the tax levy at the lowest low-est possible amount, that the utility department of Provo City pay to Provo City, since its beginning, begin-ning, the portion in lieu of' taxes based on the valuation of its property holdings, to pay Provo City a reasonable monthly rental on the offices, garage, warehouse and irrigation water and on any other benefits it receives from Provo City. At the time Commissioner Pal-freyman Pal-freyman submitted his motion, he said that Provo city could in- crease its general revenue ap- pnixunaieiy ?u,oa per year uy collecting, in lieu of taxes, 50 per cent of the total valuation of the power plant, which is Sl,-302.682. Sl,-302.682. At the present time the utili-J ties department is paying $7,500 to the general fund and to Provo City schools. In answering Commissioner (Continued on page two) Higher Ration Values In Vogue On Shortening WASHINGTON. Feb. 26 (U.R) Housewives found high ration values on margarine, lard, shortening short-ening and cooking oils when they went out to do their shopping today. to-day. v Because of a tight supply situation, sit-uation, the Office of Price Administration Ad-ministration ordered these increases in-creases over the weekend: Margarine from three red points to five. Lard, shortening, salad and cooking oils from two points a pound to four. Butter was not affected. It remains re-mains at 24 points a pound. Legislators Predict It Will Be Necessary to 'Stop the Clock' SALT LAKE CITY, Frb. 26 (UK) Utah lawmakers today predicted pre-dicted that when the 60th and final day of the 26th session rolls around March 7, it wif Ibe necessary neces-sary to. "stop the clock" for several sev-eral days to finish necessary work. Chief among the chores which must be done before the legislators legislat-ors can go home is the 1945-47 budget bill. The appropriations committee has not decided a single one of nine policy clauses, and only one of scores of budget items. No claim has been acted upon. Another must job is senate action ac-tion oh some 20 gubernatorial appointments. ap-pointments. Sen. Alonzo F. Hop-kin, Hop-kin, chairman of a special senate committee, explained that his group has been permitting the re r l rl Benin Diasrea wun 1,250 Tons of Bonpbs In 2000 - Plane Raid At Least 500,000 Incendiaries Dropped on Na,zi Capital in Greatest Daylight Raid of The War; Three Railway Stations Hard Hit -a LONDON, Feb. 26 & Almost 2000 American planes dropped more than 1250 tons of high explosive bombs and at least 502,000 incendiaries' on Berlin today in the greatest daylight raid of the war on the German capital. Upwards of 1200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators shepherded by 700 or more strafing fighters cascaded a great weight of explosives and fire bombs onto three big railway stations near the heart of Berlin. This was the 14th straight day of a record aerial, offensive against Germany. The Berlin blow was struck In sup port of the Red army. It was de signed to disrupt communications vital to the German troops in the front lines 30-odd miles from Berlin. The great air fleet pounded Berlin for an hour In what Nazi propagandists called a terror attack. at-tack. The Royal air force joined In the daylight offensive against the Reich. A big force of Lancaster bombers escorted by Mustangs smashed at a synthetic oil plant in the Ruhr industrial center of Dortmund. The American onslaught was aimed primarily at Berlin's rail yards, the core of all German transport. The attack was aireciiy in sup port of the Red army forces massed along the Oder river line 30-odd miles east of Berlin. Berlin's railway lines are con sldered vital to the Nazi armies braced east of the capital against the oncoming Soviets. Virtually all the supplies and troops moveo from other sectors to the eastern front must pasa through .BarUa. w The size at the raiding fleet tar dicated today's attack was prob ably even heavier than- the last hi American strike on Berlin last Feb. 3- when more than 1.000 heavies dropped about 2,500 tons of explosives on tne cny. , RAF Mosquito bombers rocaea nriin with two-ton block busters last night for the sixth straight night The air ministry saia uie Mosquitos had dropped 400 tons of explosives on the capital in the past week. Second Three-Car Accident Injures Provo Girl, 14 Dorothy Reid, 14. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Reid, 234 East Second North, received a severe cut on her forehead Monday morning at 8:45 o'clock, when the automobile in which she was riding was involved in a three-car collision at Third East and Second North, police reports show. She was taken to the Utah Valley Val-ley hospital for emergency treatment treat-ment and then removed to her home, it was reported. Police said the accident occurred occur-red as an automobile driven by J. B. Campbell. 277 East Third North, traveling south on Third East, collided with a Yellow cab. traveling west on Second North and driven by Gerald Sunderland, Sunder-land, 410 North Ninth West. The cab was spun clear around and crashed into a .car driven by Bud Nilsson, Canyon Road, and traveling east on Second North. The Reid girl, along with three other persons, was a passenger in the Nilsson car, it was reported. The other passengers, none of whom were seriously injured, were Maxine Claudin, 14, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Claudin, 240 North University, and -J. C. Bement, 14. 88 West Fifth North, and Nannette Nilsson, 14, Canyon Road. spective state party committees to study the appointments. He added that no formal opposition had appeared ap-peared against Hiny nominee, and that approval would probably be just a formality. Third amongthe major unfinished unfin-ished or rather, unstarted business busi-ness is school financing. Still to be acted upon by either house are the three bills submitted by the governor's committee on equalization equali-zation of school financing, 'the bin for a state property levy up to 2.4 mills, and several other school revenue measures. Also, there is the governor's postwar industrial development program, and some 400 other bills in the hopper -today. There are only nine more working days left. . I i -.I & V Pay-Off Battle k Jen FRANCE (NEA Telcohato) Paced by U. S. Ninth Army, a great offensive opens toward Cologne. U. 8. First and British Second Armies were said to be aiding. U. S. Third to south and Canadian First to north continue to gain. Soviet Forces Push 60 Miles From Baltic By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 26 (U.R) Soviet armored forces pushed to within 60 miles or less of the Baltic today to-day . in a powerful drive to split Germany's northern defenses. Tanks and infantry struck out through Pomerania for the Baltic after breaching the Nazi line based on the Danzig-Stettin railway rail-way at a point midway between those two big seaports. A thrust to the sea in this area would slice of the northeastern tip of Genmany, along with the Polish corridor and the free state of Danzig. Tens of thousands of German troops in the area would be cut off from all escape except by sea. On the Berlin front, the Germans Ger-mans appeared to have thrown in their 'serial reserves in an attempt at-tempt to break up Soviet preparations prepara-tions for a frontal assault on the capital from their bridgeheads on the Oder, 30-odd miles to the east. The army organ Red Star said German and Soviet fighter planes were engaged in major battles over the bridgeheads, as well as deep over rear areas on both sides. The Nazi attacks appeared designed to throw Soviet offensive offen-sive plans off schedule and gain time for the German command to complete Berlin's defenses. Red Star said Soviet fighters and antiaircraft batteries were taking a heavy toll of the enemy planes. In one sector alone, the newspaper said, 93 German planes were shot down while hedge-hopping over Soviet positions. Soviet forces in East Prussia captured another cluster of towns around Zinten, 17 miles below Koenigsberg. in reducing the Ger man pocket in East Prussia to approximately ap-proximately 320 square miles. In encircled Breslau, capital of Silesia, the first Ukranian army cleared several more blocks. fought a violent street battle in Hlndenburg square and captured another northern suburb. ?i7rs- Y Or: r NFTrlN Tx ! " n V- - mmj W H M V W Wif . . . U.S.1A- f u. via. JfiK xf leliniU CV ' t ' 1 .tL. KM m mlS?H Four Allied Armies Blast Nazi Defenses Enemy's Rhinelemd Line Itelled Back To 14 Miles of Cologne PARIS, FeU 26 & Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges plunged an American first spearhead through the Rhine- land town of Blatzheini today to within miles Long Tom artillery range of Co logne. Front dlnathM nnnliH h Vint army staff officer as saying that ine "uerman defense situation is deteriorating, ranjdly" on the broad offensive arc bulging deeper deep-er by the hour into the Rhine-land. Rhine-land. Blatzheim, west-southwest of Cologne, fell to U. S. armored forces racing up the highway from uueren, seven roues irom maiz heim. Ma J. Gen. Terry Allen's 104th "TImberwolf" infantry division plunged eastward five mllesJ through German defenses that ap peared to De crumbling. Germans Surrenderins United Press reports from the blazing Rhineland front said the nearest approach to Cologne was made by the forces wheeling through Blatzheim. "Germans are surrendering on ail sides," a First army dispatch saia. it added mat Hodges' men had counted upward of 4,000 pris oners today, and the Germans were complaining of their' lack of support by artillery, air forces. and armor. Indicative of the swift pace of ine American advance, the village of Buir, five miles northeast, of Dueren, was assaulted by U. 8. armor at 11 a. m. By noon it had been captured and the last Ger- man i sniper liquidated. , . ., Tank-riding troops stormed into the village of Golzhelm. within sight of Cologne, and broke German Ger-man resistance in short order. The area south of Dueren was being cleaned out rapidly. Americans took Eschweiler and Soller, and drove into Boich and Rath. The big stronghold of Erkelenz was penetrated by an armored force which sent a spearhead on beyond it to wihin 17 miles of Duesseldorf. Far to the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's rampaging Third army tanks began to roll through the German flank in a broad end run that threatened to sweep down the valley of the Moselle to Coblenz on the Rhine. Patton's armored and infantry forces reached the Nims river line 20 miles west of the Moselle and about 55 miles southwest of Co blenz. Forward patrols reached the approaches to Bitburg. last great German road center west of the Rhine in that sector, and found the town practically de serted. The entire German defensive system guarding the Ruhr and Rhine was buckling under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's battering ram attack and tne merciless pounding of thousands of Allied war planes. Field dispatches reported in creasing signs of German demor alization, particularly on the southern wing of the offensive front where Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American Third., army was beginning to roll in a wide end run toward the Moselle valley val-ley and Foblenz on the Rhine. The American First and Ninth armies, estimated by German propagandists to number 600,000 men, were believed to have captured cap-tured well over 6,000 Nazis in the first three days of their offensive. Coupled with enemy losses in killed and wounded, the prisoner bag indicated that the six Nazi divisions originally facing the Roer ofefnsive rapidly were approaching ap-proaching disintegration. All Allied armies in the west were disclosed officially to have taken 40,000 prisoners thus far in February, about 12,000 of them on the Canadian first army front Patton's advance and a renewed re-newed drive on the Ruhr by Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's Canadian first army in the north poised a deadly threat to the flanks of the hard-pressed hard-pressed Nazi divisions falling back across the Rhineland on Cologne There the American first and ninth armies were swinging out (Continued on page two) Forrestal Appeals for More Munitions Supply GUAM, Feb. 26 (U.R3 Secretary of Navy James E. Forrestal appealed ap-pealed to the American people at home today for more and, more munitions to save the lives of their men fighting on the far-flung far-flung battlefronts of the world. Just back from a tour of the American beachhead on bloody Iwo. where he saw the Stars and Stripes raised triumphantly, For- restal made his appeal in a radio broadcast from Admiral Chester Marines Hold Firm Grip On Nearly Half Bloody Iwo Island Bloody Battle for the Island Springboard Grows Brighter Every Hour; Marines Hold One Runway; Two-Thirds of the Other One GUAM, Feb. 26 American Marines have a "firm Grip" on nearly half of Iwo and their situation in the bloody battle for the island springboard 750 miles south of Tokyo "grows brighter every day," a ranking officer said today. The Marines held the east ox the north-south runway of Iwo s central air field. They were battling tirelessly to complete the conquest of the base and vein more high ground over looking , the northern half of the island. (Tokyo claimed that Japanese defenders on Ml Suribachi counter-attacked he Marines there, recapturesr the commit and haul ed domt the American flag fly ing at the peak.' ("The rising sun has been, planted over this mountain," Tokyo To-kyo said in a broadcast recorded by United Press, San Francisco. Tacitly acknowledging the prospect pros-pect of eventual defeat, Tokyo said the Japanese "will fight to the very last man.") The most optimistic official pronouncement of the week-long invasion came today from aboard Admiral Richard Turner's flagship flag-ship off Iwo. The Marine officers' assertion that the situation was becoming brighter by the day re Yanlis Cleaning By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON VatteaV Presa War" Correspondent MANILA, Feb. 28 (u.R) Trapped Trap-ped Japanese -in Manila ignored a surrender ultimatum today and American troops immediately began be-gan an annihilation drive against the enemy remnants holding out in three government buildings. The final assault on the last enemy pocket in the capital came as other American forces pushed into the foothills of the Sierra Madres mduntains east of Manila in an attack on the 25-mile long Kobayashi line. An estimated 1000 fanatical Japanese, believed commanded by Rear Admiral Iwabuchi, were lodged in the three buildings and faced certain doom. They had been given three Gary Men Vote To End Strike GARY, Ind., Feb. 28 (UJO Workers at the coke plant of the Carnegie -Illinois Steel Corporation Corpor-ation voted today to return to their jobs at 3 p. m. The 450 strikers had forced 730 other workers into idleness and threat ened to shut off the city's sup ply of cooking gas. After conferring with army and navy conciliation experts, the workers and their union, representatives repre-sentatives agreed to further arbitration arbi-tration after work was resumed. If the strike had not been ended end-ed promptly, cooking gas sup plies would have been shut off to Gary's 130,000 residents. How Far Berlin? The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT 31 miles (from Zeeckerick). WESTERN FRONT 294 miles (from Rhine northeast of Kleve). ITALY 530 miles (from north of Ravenna). BIONTANAN KILLED COLUMBUS, Mont., Feb. 26 (U.R) Norman Holmgren, 22-year-old Columbus farmer, was fatally injured and four other farm youths were hurt when their coupe was struck by a nortnern Pacific transport truck on a highway high-way intersection east of here early yesterday. Holmgren died yesterday after noon, nine hours after the acci dent. . W. Nimitz advanced Pacific fleet headquarters. . The marines are fighting valiantly vali-antly on Iwo .and have exacted a four-to-one toll in death from the Japanese, he said, but they need an increasing flow of munitions to maintain their fighting edge. Forrestal explained how the tiny island, only 750 miles from Toxyo, was DomDeo xor u sue rcessive days, shelled for three straight days by battleships, cruis On rapped Japs In Manila - west runway and two-thirds flected the confidence that the Marines were over the hump In the hardest fight of their 168- year history. The officer said the Marines had won some of the high ground around the central air field, and now were concentrating on seizing seiz-ing more elevated positions for use in the drive northward on the island. When the Marines win peaks farther north, they will have excellent ex-cellent observation of the entire northern part of the island, the officer said, and spotters can direct di-rect artillery and naval gunfire. (A Tokyo broadcast heard by the united press in san Francisco said American casualties on Iwo had reached 22,000 "Three Ma rines a minute." Tokyo also (Continued en Page Two) Out Remnants choices In the ultimatum ul cide, a fight to death, r honorable honor-able surrender. Their only reply was sniper fire while the edict was being read over the public addres system. When the deadline passed at daybreak. American guns opened fire and the troops prepared for an assault on the buildings to clean out the last resistance in Manila. With the city virtually clear, other American troops resumed their drive toward Luzon's east ern coast with an offensive against the Koba-Yashl line. Units of the first cavalary and sixth infantry divisions were at tacking the Japanese line from Taytay. two miles north of La- guna bay, to Norzagaray, 19 mites northeast of Manila. At the same time, the 11th airborne air-borne division continued its rapid drive southward along the west coast of Laguna bay and crossed the Juan river. 15 miles below Muntinlupa. The thrust brought the airborne units within five miles of Los Banos, where an other sensational liberation of Allied internees was carried out Friday. In resuming the drive toward Luzon's east coast, the sixth infantrymen in-fantrymen captured Montlban, 11 miles northeast of Manila, and pushed on through San Isidro, a mile to the north. Fighter-bombers and diva- bombers steadily supported the troops as they gained as much as five miles at some points in the thrust through the Mariklna watershed. The cavalrymen, bitting the southern end of the Japanese line. encountered considerable opposi tion especially around Antipolo, three, miles northeast of Taytay, where the enemy defenses were described as the "cleverest and most ffective" on Luzon. A communique disclosed that the 33rd infantry division had joined the Luzon forces and were fighting in the hills north of Ro-sario, Ro-sario, nine miles above- San Fabian Fab-ian on Lingayen-gulf. The 33rd is a former Illinois national guard unit and commanded by Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson, San Antonio. Other troops of the first corps advanced three miles from Panta banga north to conversion in the Caraballo mountains and seized new high ground covering the Villa Verde trail. In Manila, the final enemy re sistance .was reduced to three government' buildings Just outside the southeast corner of conquer ed Intramuros. . ers and destroyers, and hit inter mlttenuy by carrier planes. "Let me stress here that the tremendous storm of metal thrown on Iwo Jima sharpens again the necessity for the continued output of munitions in- our plants at home." the secretary said. "Only because ox that rain of metal could, the Island be reduced at alL Because of it, our ratio of losses is far less than it otherwise would have been. Palace Estate Of Hirohito Smouldering 200 Superforts, 1,000 Carrier Planes Join In All-Out Assault. By FRANK TKEMAINE United Press Correspondent GUAM, Feb. 26 cb Much of the center of Tokyo w&6 believed in flaming Tuina today to-day following yesterday's pfeo ord one-two air assauKc by-more by-more than 200 Suerfort-resses Suerfort-resses and 1QP5 carrf planes. Some fires mXy be smouldcrlx on Emperor Hirohito's palace froimdsv Sombs fell neaVtha stable . bureau of the Imperial household ministry on the palaca grqands, as well as near Omiya palace, residence of the emperor's pother, mile and a half away, Tokyo said. (The American broadcasting tatlon in Europe amid about 23,-p00 23,-p00 square yards in the heart of TOryo was la flames following fha double raid, NBC monitors reported. BBC. heard by Blue network, said part of the Imperial guard barracks was demolished by a bomb which fell in the pal-ace pal-ace precincts.) Night Bombers. Toe-Radio Toe-Radio Tokyo said "enemy igt bombers' following op the daylight day-light raids crossed the Japanese ' eoast In the direction of the capital capi-tal at 8 p. m. yesterday (Tokyo time), but did not say whether they had dropped any bombs. It was expected that plaaaa from Vice Admiral March A. Mltcher's task force 68, the world's greatest concentration of aircraft carriers, would aead the attack Into a second day today. Howovar, there was no word to this effect from either PmrtfU fleet headquarters or radio Tokyo up to mid-morning At least 1000 and probably more tons of demolition and flro bombs were cascaded on -Tokyo in the twin raids yesterday. To- -gether, they constituted the heaviest heavi-est assault ever made on Tokyo, one twice as heavy as the heaviest German raid ever made on London Lon-don during the height of the 1940-41 1940-41 blitz and approaching in weight those now being made on Germany by the Allies. Crewmen who manned the greatest armada of B-29s ever sent aloft said they laid their bombs "right down the main street' of Tokyo. The B-29s did most of their bombing .with precision instruments instru-ments through clouds that obscured ob-scured the ground. No fighters and only light anti-aircraft fire was encountered. All - returned safely. Some of the giant bombers became be-came separated from the main (Continued on page two) WhyDidnHe Apologize For Pearl Harbor? By United Press Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso formally apologized to Emperor Hirohito today for damage done to Imperial property in the Am- . erican raids on Tokyo yesterday, -the Japanese Dome! agency reported. re-ported. He went to the Imperial palaca on behalf of the cabinet Dome! said. Koiso issued a statement yes-. terday in which he said that he was "filled with trepidation" over the damaging of Imperial prop- ' erty, but he insisted damage was slight. t , He expressed anger over the "enemy's arrogance and lawless ness." . Tokyo said bombs fell in areas - 3 adjacent to the stable bureau of the Imperial household ministry oh the palace grounds and to the Ornlya palace, residence of the . emperor's mother. The broadcasts x were recorded by the FCC War In Brief i WESTERN FRONT Fo Allied armies advancing on 150; mile front push German Rhine-' land defenses back , within li , miles of Cologne. j EASTERN FRONT Russians drive within 60 miles of Baltic- . in offensive to split German norW , them defenses. I PACIFIC U. S. Marines mop-up mop-up last tew yards of Iwo's central . airfield; American troops artnibi- la ting last Japanese defenders in ; Manila. - J- AIR WAR Almost 2000 Amer-: lean bombers blast Germany to ; ; possibly the heaviest aerial blow nf in war. ! 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