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Show -. . . ... - So They Say THE WEATHER UTAH Partly elondr4hls afternoon, after-noon, tonLrht and Wednesday, but becoming cloudy with Urht snow Harries north portion Wednesday; Wednes-day; warmer west portion tonight; to-night; colder north portion Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Temperatures: High ....40 Low ....18 every reason to hop that the San Francisco Conference Confer-ence wW nark ane of the really .BcjrB in man King erioru ereaw (or lUeU s world of law and order. ' : "-Undersecretary of State Joseph C Grew. TIFTYrNINTH YEAR, NO. 190 UTAH'S .ONLY DAILY SOUTH Or SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE .CENTS Ink Ac Ulm re y F F Ruhr Va Legislative Croup Vcttes to Strip Maw . Of Financial Power Anti-Maw Democrats, Republicans Combine Com-bine To Deal Governor Double-barreled Blow; Line-type Appropriations Approved By JOHN HESS ' United Press Staff Correspondent . SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 27 In a double-barreled blow, the joint appropriations committee of the Utah legislature legis-lature today voted to strip Gov. Herbert B. Maw of most of his state financial powers. Anti-Maw Democrats and members of the Republican minority combined to win a 16 to 12 vote to take the state emergency fund from the governor's use and to place emergency emer-gency financial powers in the hands of the state board of Roedl Sentenced To Die For Hammer Slaying James J. Roedl. 27-year-old Oklahoma City transient, today took his place in death row at the Utah state prison to await execution execu-tion by a firing squad April 6. Roedl was sentenced yesterday by Fourth District Judge Joseph E. Nelson for a hammer slaying of Mrs. Agnes Abigail Williams, San Leandro, Cal., school teacher, Oct 12, 1942. Roedl previously was sentenced to die, but Imposition of the sentence sen-tence had been stayed pending an appeal to the state supreme court. The conviction and sentence were upheld. Under Utah law, -a condemned person has a choice as to how he should die a choice between hanging and death by a firing squad. Roedl, however, left the choice to the court. Roedl' s admitted partner in the crime, Roy JL Ritchey, 25, Gowrie, la., is serving a life sentence. Mrs. Williams was clubbed to death with a hammer near Vernal, Utah after giving the pair a ride. Provoan Suffers Injury In Action S-Sgt. Verlin Hatch, 23, who Is in Germany with Patton's Third army artillery, has been wounded in action, according to information received by the family fam-ily in Provo from the war department, de-partment, and letter from Sgt. Hatch. While the telegram received re-ceived Sunday did not state any particulars, a letter was received Monday from Sgt Hatch, stating that his left eye was injured by shrapnel. He is in a hospital in Luxembourg. His injuries were sustained on Feb. 10. He is the son of Mrs. Lila Hatch Gardner of 48 East Second Sec-ond North street His step, father is S. A. Gardner, and bis wife is the former Bessie Carter, who lives here with the seven-month-old daughter, Karen, Kar-en, whom he has never seen. Sgt. Hatch entered the service in 1941. Sgt Hatch Spanish Fork leaving with the battery of the National Guard. After a short period in Hawaii, be was sent to Fort Ord with a cadre to train new recruits. He went overseas in May, 1944. He is a graduate of the B. Y. high school and attended the B. Y. U. before enlisting. Mining Man Found Dead NELSON, Nev.. Feb. 27 (U.R) The coroner's office today investigated inves-tigated the death of Raymond Spilsbury, former general manager man-ager of the Cerro De Pasco Cop-p. Cop-p. r Co., of Peru, whose body was found yesterday in shallow waters wa-ters of the Colorado river. Spilsbury 'disappeared five weeks og when he walked away from a hunting and fishing camp below Boulder Dam. His companions compan-ions found evidence that he had tumbled into the Colorado. After retirins from Cerro De Pasco, he moved his family to Doulder City a year ago. I I Ju 'j , examiners Following up the staggering blow, the committee also adopted a policy committee recommendation recommenda-tion that appropriations be made on a line-type basis, thus refusing' the governor's request that lump sums be given to each department to be used as department neads saw fit ' Members Polled . Administration forces immediately immedi-ately began sounding sentiment of other members in what obviously obvi-ously was an attempt to determine deter-mine the likely outcome should they carry their fight to the floor of the legislature. Success of such a procedure, however, admittedly would . depend de-pend greatly upon how soon the appropriation committee decides to bring out the appropriations bill. If it is brought out in the last days of the legislature, it is believed members would avoid a fight in an effort to end the ses- tun vu wure. i The appropriations fight began I i this morning-when Sen. Tra -A.lTalsIhs and a large quantity of Huggins. D.. Ogden, said, in half hour argument that the contingency con-tingency fund as provided by the last legislature with no strings attached was unlawful. Maw had asked for use of the unspent balance of nearly $300,-000 $300,-000 from the previous fund, plus an extra half million dollars this year. Sen. Grant MacFarlane, D., Salt Lake City, said the contingency fund was not unlawful, pointing out that any laws passed in this legislature would supersede those of a past one, including one cited by Huggins which would prohibit contingency funds under control of the governor. Under terms of the policy committee's com-mittee's recommendations for line-type appropriations, subcommittees sub-committees would prepare departmental de-partmental budgets divided either into expense items such as salaries, salar-ies, transportation and supplies or into divisions such as accounting, enforcement and supervision. Liquor Bill Due In addition to the appropriation developments, it was learned on reliable authority that the house sifting committee has placed the Holbrook resolution for a legislative legis-lative investigation of the liquor commission on its agenda for tomorrow. to-morrow. The resolution passed the senate sen-ate after Sen. Ward C. Holbrook. D., Bountiful, made a series of sensational charges of widespread violations of the liquor control act by the commission, chiefly in the sale of liquor in bulk to pri-vite pri-vite clubs and individuals. Two bills to make salary increases in-creases of judges effective immediately imme-diately were killed by the senate, buMacFarland obtained unani-( unani-( Continued on pare two) Missouri Votes On Constitution JEFERSON CITY. Mo.., Feb. 27 (U.R) Missouri citizens go to the polls today in a special election on the adoption or rejection of a new constitution written last year by an 83-member convention. If adopted, the new code will replace the present constitution which, although often amended, has been effective since 1875. Approval by the voters would give Missuori a new constitution which, despite several new provisions, pro-visions, would be 10,000 words shorter than the present 37,000-word 37,000-word document State Sponsorship of Vocational School Is Defeated; $50,000 Appropriation Approved SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2T (UJ9 The senate of the Utah leg. islature Monday unanimously passed the Nielsen-Warner bill after adoption of an amendment to strike out a Drovision that the I state would take over the Cen- tral Utah Vocational school at Provo. As passed, the-uneasure provides an appropriation of $50,-' Food Stocks Handling Hit In Congress Jones Denies Charges Of Food Spoiling Due To Improper Handling WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (t-H1 Long-standing1 congressional congres-sional grumbling at the government's gov-ernment's handling of food stocks blew wide open today amid charges of "scandal" and sloppy management." War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, while expressing doubt that there was any widespread wide-spread waste or spoilage due to negligence, announced that he had nevertheless asked the house appropriations committee to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation Investiga-tion to look into the matter. Rep. John Taber, R., N. Y., differed sharply with Jones. He charged he had evidence that the WFA was guilty of mismanage ment so flagrant that it would "make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a piker." Taber said "unsavory" evidence about the management of the agriculture department and Commodity Com-modity Credit Corp., as well as the WFA, was uncovered by congressional con-gressional investigators during routine spot checks of departmental depart-mental requests for appropriations. appropria-tions. WFA officials said that loss of government food stocks through spoilage had been 2100 of one per cent Most of that they said, resulted from "acts of God" weather, rodents, normal spoilage and similar causes. Taber did not estimate the amount of spoilage. But he said i . i . a pcraonai invsusauon uncov- ered one case where 450 tons of grapefruit Juice spoiled only be cause. of "improper care." The inefficient management, Taber said, has been found both in the purchase of food for lend-lease lend-lease and the armed forces. White House Aide Dies WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U.R) Maj. Gen. Edwin M. (Pa) Watson, Wat-son, White House secretary and military aide to President Roose velt, died last 'week while en-route en-route home from the Crimea conference, con-ference, it was learned today. Watson, artillery officer in World War I, and former West Point football player, had been 411 for some time. It was reported he died of a heart attack. Syria and Egypt Declare War By UNITED PRESS Syria and Egypt were formally at war with Germany and Japan today. Their declarations of war followed fol-lowed a "big three" ultimatum that no nation could expect a seat at the peace table unless is formally for-mally joined the war against the Axis. President Shukri El Kiwatly of Syria announced his country's declaration to Allied displomats at Damascus yesterday. It was scheduled to be ratified by the chamber of deputies today. Lebanon Le-banon was expected to follow with a similar declaration soon. Both the chamber of deputies and the senate in Cairo approved Egypt's declaration of war yesterday, yes-terday, and simultaneously gave a vote of confidence to the new government under Premier Mah-moud Mah-moud Norkrashy Pasha. ACTRESS WINS SUIT LONDON, Feb. 27 (U.R3 Vivien Leigh, British actress, was- free of legal entanglements today that for a time threatened to prevent her from playing in the show "Skin of Our Teeth." The high court refused last night to grant David Selznick, Hollywood producer, an interlocutory inter-locutory injunction to restrain Miss Leigh from taking part in the show. 000 to help the school continue for the next two years. Considerable argument preceded preced-ed the motion to amend the bill, with Sen. Stanley N. Child, D., Salt Lake, contending that it was improper for the state to take over what properly should be the function of the city and county. Other senators particularly Poland to Receive German Territory Churchill Reveals Upper Silesia; Danzig, Greater Part of East Prussia To Be Given To- Poland, Says British Premier in Report To the Commons By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 27 i Prime Minister Churchill said today that Poland will be given Upper Silesia, Danzig, the greater part of East Prussia, and a "long Baltic Sea front." To compensate for territory yielded to Russia in the east, Poland also will receive such additional German territory terri-tory east of the Oder river as may be decided at the peace conference, Churchill told a packed commons. He said Poland would be granted the "greater part of East Prussia to the west of Koen igsburg," indicating that Russia may retain the capital of the Junkers Jun-kers province. In the important German industrial in-dustrial province of upper or southernSilesia which Churchill Church-ill said would go to Poland lie such manufacturing centers as Hindenburg, Gleiwitz, and Beu-then. Beu-then. Curson Line on East Poland's mtcrn frontier, he reaffirmed would be the Curzon line as drawn by an Ainea com- mission in 1919 and "including, oi course, tne exclusion oi lwow positions. from Poland." i A German communique said a . Churchill said he had received Russian penetration northwest-"perfect northwest-"perfect assurances" from both ward in Central Pomerania had President Roosevelt and U. S. 1 carried to the towns of Bublitz, 29 Secretary of State Edward R. miles from the Baltic coast, and Stettlnius that the United States . Rummelsburg, 17 miles to the had no objection or complaint to steps Britain has taken in Italy. "I am not prepared to accept suggestions from any quarter that Great Britain has fallen behind other victorious powers in taking generous view toward Italy or that we nourish any design of power politics," he said. Everything is ready for the surrender sur-render or collapse of Germany, he said, but he gave no hint of when either might be expected. Churchill defended the Curzon line fixed by the Crimean conference con-ference for the Polish-Russian boundry as "Just and right." He denied that "force or fear" played play-ed a part in American and British Brit-ish concurrence in the Soviet proposal for the boundary. He broke his speech at 1:15 p, m. for lunch and was scheduled to resume and hour later. Calling for a strong vote of confidence in his government's commitments at the Crimean conference, con-ference, Churchill also said: 1. Poland's future is in its own hands "with the single limitation limi-tation that they (the Poles) must honestly follow in harmony with their Allies a policy friendly to Russia." 2. Britain will continue to recognize rec-ognize the Polish exile government govern-ment in London until Britain considers con-siders the new provisional government gov-ernment provided for in the Crimean declaration has been formed properly. 3. The Allies intend to take steps against Germany far more drastic and effective than those which followed the last war, including in-cluding total disarmament, destruction des-truction of Nazism and militarism, militar-ism, swift punishment of war criminals, and elimination or con- (Contlnued on page two) Executive Departments Scored For Bad Spending Practices By RAYMOND LAIIR United Press Staff Corerspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (U.R) The house appropriations committee com-mittee accused executive depart ments of objectionable spending practices today and asserted bluntly that they "must be stopped." The committee voiced the critl cism in recommending deficiency appropriations and new contractual contrac-tual authority totaling $2,453,177,- 125 for the current fiscal year. It said it had discovered instances 'which indicated either a lack of knowledge or an utter disregard of the so-called anti-deficiency law." That law requires executive agencies to apportion expend!- the sponsors contended that the curricula of Utah universities are "overbalanced with academic courses." They cited that out of every 1000 college students, only 370 graduate, indicating "a definite defi-nite need for expanded vocational training facilities to provide stuT dents with the training they pre- iiex. ' Red Army Breaks Through Defenses Central Pomerania LONDON, Feb. 27 (U.R) The German high command reported : tnriav that th UmA armw K,i j broken through the defenses of central Pomerania and advanced 1 23' miles from the last reported east Bublitz is 17 miles north of Nenustettln, turntable of the Ger. man defenses in central Pomerania. Pomer-ania. It is a big rail and high way junction, as Is Bummelburg to ua asi The Nazi command said its forces were locked In heavy de fensive fighting against Soviet mobile forces which had struck to the fringes of Bublitz and Rummelsburg. Moscow has not announced this drive, apparently by the right wing of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army. A Soviet spurt to the Baltic Bal-tic in that sector would cut off tens of thousands of German troops in northeastern Pomerania, the old Polish corridor, and the Danzig free state. The Germans also reported that the Russians had seized a bridgehead bridge-head across the Neisse river, the last major water barrier 'southeast 'south-east of Berlin. Two regiments at least 6,000 troops of the First Ukrainian army, stormed across the Neisse and fought into Gross Gastrose, 53 miles southeast of Berlin, in fierce street battles yesterday, Berlin said. The thrust wedged into Berlin's southeastern def e n s e triangle based on Guben, on the Neisse four miles northeast of Gross Gastrose; Forst, also on the Neisse Neis-se 13 miles south of Guben, and Cottbus, 13 miles west of Forst. How Far Berlin? EASTERN FRONT 31 Miles (from Zaeckerick). WESTERN FRONT 294 Miles (from Rhine northeast of Kleve).j ITALY 530 Miles (from north) oi itavenna). Itures over a fiscal year to cover all except unforeseen emergency demands. The committee said agencies were reporting over-obligations over-obligations during the first half of the current fiscal year to an ex tent which places the congress in the position either of granting ad ditional funds or forcing the cur tailment of operations which in some cases would be unwise and harmful." "That sort of practice cannot be continued, particularly when the congress is in continuous session," the report said. "It must be stopped." stop-ped." The committee also scolded the administrative departments for a too-liberal attitude on reclassifying reclassify-ing federal employes under the civil service system and thus per mitting them to qualify for higher salaries. In its recommendations, the committee cut budget bureau re quests by $293,298,336 in addition to S22.500.000 slashed from the $136,800,000 request for new navalJ cunuacuuu uuioniy. The navy will receive most of the money recommended by the committee. It was provided Sl,-875,047,488 Sl,-875,047,488 besides $114,300,000 in new contractual authority. xno committee denied a S1Z8,- 00 request for re-establishing the office of high commissioner of the Philippine islands. Raids Affect Jap Aircraft Production Ota Aircraft Plant Reported 75 Per Cent Destroyed in Raids By Frank Tremaine United Tress War Correspondent GUAM, Feb. 27 'Amer ican carrier aircraft struck a heavy body blow at Japanese aircraft production Sunday and Monday, destroying or damaging 233 aircraft and 31 vessers and small craft in attacks at-tacks on the Tokyo area. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz report ed today. He reported that the great Ota aircraft plant 40 mides northwest north-west of Tokyo now has been about 75 per cent destroyed as the result of this second raid in a second series of carrier-based at tacks against the factory. It also has been raided by Superfortresses. Superfortres-ses. In addition to the Ota raid, the ; Keizumi airplane and assembly , plant was heavily damaged. The communique did not report : damage done by the more than! 200 Superforts which hit Tokyo In conjunction with the carrier: strike Sunday, but it was believed , that their bombs which were dumped on the industrial . heart of Tokyo wrought heavy additional addi-tional damage. The carriers hit a new target Monday when they hit the island of Hachijo, an important warning station and air base 170 miles south of Tokyo. (Radio Tokyo said 150 U. S. carrier planes bombed Hachijo, in the Izu Shichlto group, 680 miles north of embattled Iwo, and that 17 of them were shot down or damaged.) Although it was the second time in eight days that Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitcher sent his planes roaring in over Tokyo in low altitude attacks, the Japanese failed to challenge his great carrier car-rier task force and they offered only slight resistance over the target areas. Two of our light units were damaged during retirement, Nim-its' Nim-its' communique stressed, presumably pre-sumably by air attack. We lost nine fighter planes in combat and four pilots. Against this loss, American planes wrapped up a ratio of better bet-ter than 17 to one in the destruction destruc-tion of enemy aircraft. Our pilots destroyed 111 Japanese planes on the ground and shot down 47 in aerial combat, a total of 158. In addition, about 75 Jap planes were damaged on the ground. Our planes sunk five small enemy vessels, including one pocket craft, probably sunk five coastal vessels and seven small craft and damaged nine coastal vessels and five small craft. Mitscher's fighters and bombers also destroyed two trains in the Tokyo area and radar installa tions and hangars at nearby airfields. air-fields. The Japanese offered surprisingly surpris-ingly little resistance to this second sec-ond series of carrier attacks on their capital. Political Crisis Shakes Romania Rv UNITED PRESS Reports from Europe indicated .T tut litUol orl.u today that a severe political crisis had developed in Romania. Several bloody clashes were said to have occurred in the provinces. pro-vinces. A' Soviet Tass agency dispatch, recorded by FCC, said the tension ten-sion reached a new height last night when members of the national democratic front demonstrated demon-strated through the country. The demonstrators, Tass said, demanded the resignation of Premier Gen. Nicolae Radescu Land the formation of a "govern ment of the national democratic front." MacArthur Restores Civil Government to MANILA, Feb. 27 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur restored civil administration of the Philippines to the Commonwealth Govern ment today and solemnly proclaimed pro-claimed "My County has Kept the Faith." He thus fulfilled a pledge given to the Filipinos when he withdrew with-drew his troops- from Manila three years ago. Standing among the ruins oz burned and sacked Manila, Mao Arthur reviewed those three' years of "bitterness, struggle and sacrifice, and vowed that "by these ashes" the enemy "has wantonly fixed the pattern of his own doom." Entire Battlefront West of Rhine Broken Open By Yanks' Blow Americans Reach Cologne Outposts in Advances Ad-vances Up to Nine Miles; First and Ninth Armies On the Move On the Western Front PARIS, Feb. 27 Speedy American mobile forces charged into the rim of the Ruhr valley and the outposts of Cologne today in advancees up to nine miles through the staggering German defenses of the Rhineland. Front dispatches said the entire German battlefront west of the Rhine had broken open under the impact of a bold onrush by the American First and Ninth armies. The troops of Xt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges and Lt. U. S. fc turn, x ; S. VMfc S sj AjH-a (NEA Telephoto) Four Allied Armies sweep ahead on 150-mile sector of Western Front, reaching points within 14 miles of Cologne. Important towns seized included in-cluded Golzheim, Stelnstrass, Rodin-gen, Rodin-gen, Gran te rath. Bltburg and Witt-linger. Witt-linger. Air Force Hits Nazi Rail Hubs LONDON, Feb. 27 (U.R) Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle sent nearly 2,000 planes of his Eighth air force against the great rail hubs of Leipzig and Halle in central Germany today. More than 1,100 flying fortresses fort-resses and liberators crashed almost al-most 3,000 tons of bombs on Leipzig, 85 miles southwest of Berlin, and the neighboring town of Hallem the rail networks of these two cities control the transport trans-port of most of central Germany. Upwards of 700 mustang and thunderbolt fighters accompanied the heavy bombers on the 15th straight day of bombing Germany In a record winter offensive. The : - Nazi transport system nas oeenj under assault ever since last week when it was crippled as a preliminary pre-liminary to the Allied offensive in the west, VOTE TO END STRIKE DETROIT. Feb. 27 (U39 The United Autonfobile Workers (CI O) union local 3 executive board today voted to end a strike of 13,-500 13,-500 members at the Chrysler corporation's cor-poration's Dodge main plant. Mike Novak, local 3 president, said the board's decision will be presented to the membership at a meeting tonight. Philippines MacArthur's historic action, broadcast throughout the world over the voice of freedom radio, was hailed by a cheering throng of civil and military officials gathered in the liberated capital. President Sergio Osmena, in accepting restoration of the civil government, appealed to all duly-elected members of the congress who "have remained steadfast to their allegiance to return to Manila and reestablish the legislative branch. "I ask all my people to help reestabUsn law and order for a formal return so that in 1945 our "request for Independence wul be granted," Osmena said. I Gen. William H. Simpson were storming the Erft river line less than eight miles from Cologne. The momentum of the drive appeared ap-peared to be swamping that last i natural barrier before the Rhine. Nine Miles Advance From Simpson's headquarters United Press Correspondent James McGllncy reported that Ninth army pace setters raced forward nine miles to the area northwest of Muenichen-Glad-bach, westernmost factory city of the Ruhr, and clamped an assault as-sault arc against that stronghold with simultaneous advances southeast of it Shock troops were fighting in Rheindahlen, five miles southwest south-west of Muenchen-Gladbach, while the wings of an enveloping maneuver swept around the larger larg-er city. Maj. Gen. L. S. Hobbs' 30th "Old. Hickory" division on the right flank of the Ninth yarmy overran Koenigshoven, nine miles southeast of Muenchen-Gladbach and 16 miles northwest of Cologne. Col-ogne. The village is only a few hundred yards from the Erft river. riv-er. Supreme headquarters reported that elements of the Ninth and llth German Uanzer divisions reinforced re-inforced the five divisions manning mann-ing the Roer river line when the Allies struck last Friday. The Germans show signa of disorganization dis-organization and panic despite the reinforcements, SHAEF sources said. Capt Ludwig Sertorius, .German .Ger-man military commentator,' admitted ad-mitted that the Allies had driven to the Erft river, and said the river valley north of Elsdorf , due west of Cologne, was a scene of an "embittered struggle." Town after town on the shell-torn shell-torn Rhineland was falling to the -advancing Yanks without a struggle strug-gle and thousands of stunned, thoroughly-beaten Germans were laying down their arms in defiance defi-ance of their high command's orders to stand and die in the Roer-Rhine corridor. Vanguards of the Ninth army on the northern flank of the of fensive lines wept forward six miles in a few hours this morning, on top of a five-mile gain in the proceeding 24 hours. Armored and infantry units pacing the drive fought their way to within five miles of Muenchen-Gladbach, Muenchen-Gladbach, westernmost factory city in Germany's industrial Ruhr valley. Their big guns already were pounding the city in the first land bombardment of the Ruhr since the war began, and the bewildered bewilder-ed Germans appeared to have little lit-tle or nothing in the area to stem the American advance. At the center of the assault front, giant 155-millimeter long Toms of the First army poured i i trrv& u K.no w i rxi xa i m w nfiiirwi - V - jT: into the iris of Colore ?Peu mx9 e rLuns 01 w,ws! Germany's fourth city, and fast- rolling tank columns were probing prob-ing the Erft line in preparation, for a thrust across to the Rhine. The Germans were known to have strong defensive positions along the east bank of the Erft, but it was becoming increasingly questionable whether they could pull back enough of their demoralized demor-alized units from the river's west bank to make a major stand there. War In Brief By UNITED PRESS Western Front German flee across Erl river, less than eight miles from cologne, before sweep of two Allied armies. Eastern Front Russians seize bridgehead across Neisse river, last major water barrier south east of Berlin. Pacific Tokyo reports American Ameri-can carrier plane attack on Had hijo island, 120 miles south Of Japan; marines knock out half of 20,000 Jap garrison in battle across Iwo's airfields .to within, mile and half of north coast; Americans seize Verde island off . , southern Luzon. - ' tj Air War RAF drops block busters on Berlin in wakCjief big American raid. ; ' - ; Italy Fifth army- repulses fur ther counterattacks in- Belvedere sector. |