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Show fTOEWErtTH vTo ifcsv Coy " Hi About 6,C53,C0 peeplemay bo ;ectedte?lesv tha country's r 'l- force -when victory -cones V .;e there are only about 4,000,-c:) 4,000,-c:) veteran ready to step Into tclr places. ' i President Carry 8. Truman UTAHMostty1 clear today nfl tonights partly cloudy Wednesday; rising temperatures.; Temperatures High 49 Low 29 -vFlOTMUNTH YEAR, NO. 225 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OT SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY; UTAH; TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1945 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRir'P PTVP fFMT TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE rtUXsIU IlVCi . f ft.' liinan Makes Good j j- .... J- Esiuression mst rress vonrerence Says He Will Run the Government For the prime! Being From His Desk in the White t House; Won't Attend San Francisco Parley p7$lYLB G WILSON halted Press Staff Correspondent Jt WASHINGTON, April 17 A poised and confident iiiny o. lruman told his -jETOvernment for the time being from his desk here. ii IJe said he would not attend the San Francisco conference con-ference because this country had a competent delegation j,Jt the conference. He said he would back up its members rfom Washington where he belongs. Head of the delega- , . r . Churchill Pays itarm Tribute To Roosevelt r .V-r"'.-. ' LONDON, AprU 7 OJJDPrlme Minister, ChurchUl told commons . oythat he noticed President joosevelt mi ailing at Yalta. , . -tod; left him at Alexandria with --"indefinable sehse of fear that his health and strength were pnaeebo." 'At' th Crimea conference, Churchill caid in a tribute to lr. 'Ro9evelt,VMhis captivating vnme mna ma .gay, charming ' xnanner-had not deserted him, but hia 'face had a transparency, an air f purficatlon even. There . was a faraway look in his eyes, i.Churchill spoke in commons of . his "personal regard and affec- 1 uon beyond my power to ex- press" for Mr. Roosevelt after attending at-tending memorial services at St, Fai&s, where he wept openly. ChurchiU aid he received his "messages from Mr. Roosevelt st Thursday. They "showed no jniagett in bis accustomed . xarvJsloa and vigor upon per 'nieartng and complicated mat i tors.;"-'- Although, he said, he and Mr. ooseveuiiad exchanged more i ah'UOO messages. On the bas- I r of ;these and his personal asso- IaUon with the president, he Afconceivtd an admiration for him aistatesman, a man of affairs, 4Jat-0 war leader. I felt the utznost confidence in his upright. inspiring character and outlook. flt is loss, Indeed a bitter loss, to humanity that these kheartbeats are stilled forever," he laid. "There is no doubt the - resident foresaw the great dan- er closing in upon the prewar world with far more prescience than most well informed people on euner srae 01 the Atlantic v Churchill moved a resolution "expressing the deep sorrow with u toico commons 1 ya loosevelf s death. vnicn commons learned of Mr, Lindon Soldier ibiesofWounds Philippines ..Ert Newell C. Wright, 23, son inrar. ana Mrs. Clarence C, I Wght, and the husband of Thel- I VGilUes Wright, of Lindon. was Mlled in action in the Pacific, according to word received Monday Mon-day from the war department-j department-j The young man died of wounds received on Luzon, March 13, the Jreessage stated. gV Wright, whose family had jiot seen him In 31 months, enter-f enter-f :dlhe service in March 1941. He received his basic training with the Utah National Guard at San X41.' Obispo, Calif., and was tnoved to several different camps .tot runner training before being ent ioverseas in September, 1942. IS-was in. the Pacific theater un '1 the time of his death. f Jam was born Dec. 4, 1921, in Lnidon. and received his educa tion; at the Pleasant Grove high school, where be graduated in Mite. Surviving besides his parents ndu wife are a two-year-old ' ivjI4ai filiamn Ann itrKAm tta .iad never seen. Two brothers. $ Grant wngnt, American Fork; I Ken Wright, Lindon, and two sis-I sis-I ieirsMrs. Ardath Lewis, Layton, j And, JMrs. Cleora Maxfield, Port-I Port-I land, Maine, also, his grandmoth-i grandmoth-i Mrs. Anne Wright, Lindon. ' . The last word heard from i ifewellVwas a letter to his wife, xaatea xnarcn 9. X-ib River Dam fCcsndment lost 1 i ' WASHINGTON, AprU 16 0J JO f ?The senate today rejected a res. J rrvation to the Mexican water f treaty-;which would have re-I re-I wired the United States to build Aa.danum the Gila. river in cen-! cen-! tral Arizona. J Offered by -Sens. SheridawJ i powney, Cal.fand Hiram W.fcoast from the rest of the coun-I coun-I Johnson, R, Cat, the reservation try. I ; was rejected by a vote of 68 to The Stockholm; newspaper Dag- At His xirst presidential-news conxer- won la Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., whose ultimate place in the new administration has been in some doubt. Faced 348 Reporters The new president faced a rec ord number of reporters 348 in the same circular room where Franklin D. Roosevelt met the press twice weekly. Re took their questions as fast as they came, answering promptly and pithily, and twice drew applause a rarity at White House press conferences. Mr. Truman: 1. Wholeheartedly endorsed all items of Roosevelt foreign and domestic policy about which he was asked. 2. Said he would not lift the horse racing ban and that the midnight curfew and the brownout brown-out had been good for the nation's na-tion's morale. Asked if he would lift these restrictions on V-E day, he said: Let's wait till V-E day. 3. Asserted he would try to carry out Mr. Roosevelt's - public power programs and intentions wherever possible and necessary. Mr. Truman stood throughout the press conference. The crowd overflowed from the conference room out to a side terrace. The room became almost unbearably hot but the resident: slaved' his - troie with complete east and good oumor. He preserved Mr Roosevelt's news conference rules such as no direct quotations unless especially es-pecially authorized but announced an-nounced he would hold only one conference each week, whereas the late president normally held two. Questioned Extensively Mr. Truman was questioned extensively about foreign policy. He endorsed the Bretton Woods international monetary program that had been sent to congress by the late President Roosevelt for approval. He also voiced full support for the reciprocal trade , program, with its accompanying export-imoort export-imoort bank. He disclosed that be planned to see Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov while the Russian Rus-sian leader is eri route to the United Nations meeting in San Francisco. Mr. Truman said Molotov Mol-otov was going to stop in Washington Wash-ington tov pay his respects to the president of the United States. And, Mr. Truman added, he should. The president would . not , discuss dis-cuss any official appointments involving the cabinet or other top government personnel. Tonight at 10 o'clock EWT he will address the armed services in a broadcast beamed through-continued through-continued on Page Two) Idaho Man Lost In Tokyo Raid Lt Robert L. Owens,, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jensen, 169 South Third East, has been missing miss-ing in action over Japan since March 10, according to official word from the war department Navigator and bombardier of a B-29 plane based on Sal pan, he participated in many of the raids over Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Owens. Iona. Idaho. He attended the Brigham Young university for two years, taking a degree in 1942, before entering service in January, Janu-ary, 1943. His wife, who resides in New Mexico, and a brother in the navy, are also awaiting further word. Mutiny Is Reported to Have Broken Out in German Navy By W. R. HHSGINBOTHAM United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. AnrU 17 OLE) Stock holm dispatches today carried the first authentic reports of mutiny in, the German navy, whose revolt in World War I led to the reich's capitulation. The mutiny apparently was on a comparatively small scale for the moment,-but, observers believed be-lieved it mayt spread as Allied armies move to cut off . the Baltic m s S6S Fosta Fleet Off 1,191 Ships Personnel Policy Is Criticized; Too Many Commissioned Officers WASHINGTON. Aprl 17 OJJD A tentative navy plan for a postwar fleet of 1,191 combat ships almost three times the size of the pre-war fighting fleet was presented to congress today. The public was given its first glimpse of the navy's postwar blueprint as the house appropriations, committee recommended1 recom-mended1 a $24,879,510,546 navy department budget for the 1946 fiscal year, starting next July 1. This was a slash of $432,655,104 from estimates previously approved ap-proved by the budget bureau. Vice A dm. Frederic J. Home, vice chief of naval operations, was revealed to have told the appropriations ap-propriations committee that the navy expects to end the war with 1.528 combat ships, ranging down in size to destroyer escorts and submarines. Of these, 337 obso lescent craft would be scrapped or used as target vessels. Use Rotation Plan Of the combat ships remaining in the postwar fleet, 482 will be on active status and 709 in an in active state. Skeleton crews would be retained on the inactive ships to maintain them and keep them in immediate readiness for service. It was also understood that the navy would follow a ro tation plant in its use of available ships. The contemplated post - war fleet of 1,191 combat ships com' pared with a force of 364 com parable craft in service on June 30, 1939. While the committee recom mended approval of most of the navy's requests, it sharply criti cized personnel policy and expressed ex-pressed the belief that there was "entirely too mucn commissioned commis-sioned and enlisted personnel in lobs normally filled by civilians. roth' In Washington and throusn- w.3t;U.3."- -r - VUt IU6 HIUUUJTi It urged Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal to "take immediate immedi-ate measures to effect such cur tailment both of white-collar and service personnel as would bring the number of each within essential essen-tial bounds." . In connection with the size of the postwar fleet, Forrestal told the committee that present plans could . be only tentative, since 'they were based on probable policies poli-cies and commitments which were not .yet accurately defined.. Truman Names Federal Loan Administrator WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.R) John W. Snyder, St. Louis banker, bank-er, was nominated by President Truman today to be federal loan administrator. This was the first major appointment ap-pointment made by Mr. Truman since he - became president last Thursday evening. Snyder, vice president of the First National Bank of St. Louis, has been a friend of the president more more than 25 years. As head of the mutil-billion d o 1 lar Reconstruction Finance Corp. and other lending agencies, Snyder will fill the place left vacant by Fred M. Vinson's transfer trans-fer to the post of war mobilisation director. Vinson served as loan adminis trator for a few weeks after President Roosevelt removed Jesse Jes-se H. Jones from the dual posts oz loan administrator and commerce com-merce secretary. Henry A. Wallace Wal-lace was put in the commerce post Nazi Commander Reported Suicide WITH U. S. NINTH ARMY, GERMANY, April 17 (U.R) There were unconfirmed reports today that Marshal Walter Von Model, German commander on the west ern front, had committed suicide in the Ruhr pocket. ors arrived at the Swedish port of Stroemstad on the Kattegot board a naval patrol vessel and surren dered for internment. The- sailors told Swedish authorities auth-orities they had overwhelmed their two officers, locked them up and fled from a Norwegian harbor, har-bor, Dagens Nyheter said. The Swedish telegraph-agency, said another German navel vessel, a niinesweeper, had .arrived at a Swedish south coast harbor and its crew of 17 also asked to be interned. in-terned. There have been several previ-(Contlnocd previ-(Contlnocd on Page Two) Hovyrropo 0 A Russians Tear New Holes In Nazi Defenses Red Army oi 2,000,000 Thrown Into Battle To Capture Berlin By ROBERT MUSEL United Press War Correspondent LONDON, April 17 k Red armies perhaps 2,000,000 strong: tore new holes in the eastern defenses of Berlin along a 150-mile front today and one column was reported only 17 miles from the Nazi capital. While armored forces fought near Eberswalde, 17. miles nortneast oi Benin, two morel tank-supported Soviet divisions plunged through the Nazi lines of -Letschin, 26 miles to the southwest and 30 miles from the capital, the Germans said. Another German broadcast said the "Soviet attack at the southern end of the new assault front had "assumed the Character of a large-scale offensive" in it self, apparently aimed at linking up with the American Third army 80odd miles to the west Soviet paratroops dropped ev en closer to Berlin, but were en circled and wiped out, Nazi broadcasts said. A Paris report said the Red army already had linked up with the Americans in the Elbe valley, .seutheastjof JQresdejEU. hut latest official dispatches placed the Soviets nearly 50 miles and the Americans 40 miles from the purposed junction point. Berlin said Premier Marshal Stalin had thrown nine infantry, five tank and two air armies into in-to the last great push from the cast, now in Its second day. Nazi broadcasts listed penetra tion after penetration in the Ger man line all the way from Schwedt, 45 miles northeast of Berlin, to Muskau, nearly 75 miles southeast, despite Adolf Hitler's order to hold fast and drown the offensive in a "sea of blood." The Soviet high command, as was its custom, remained silent on the offensive, but Soviet His torian Eugene Tarie said In .a talk over the Moscow radio that the attack on Berlin had begun "from the east and west." Berlin said the Russians made their deepest penetration in the EbertswMde area, 17 miles northeast north-east of Berlin and 13 miles beyond be-yond the big bend in the Oder river. - Soviet amphibious tanks rush ed across swamps and canals on a nine-mile front as far as Eberswalde Eb-erswalde and Bad Freinewalde, where they were meeting stiff resistance from German assault guns, the Nazis said. Eberswalde lies only four miles from the Stettin-Berlin ' superhighway super-highway and 76 miles northeast of American Ninth army spear heads in the Stendal area. Due east of Berlin, other Sov iet forces merged their bridge heads across the Oder river on a 20-mile front between Kienitz, 32 miles east of Berlin and Le bus. five miles north of Frank fort, then drove on to within 27 miles of the capital. Skeleton Found Near Goshen The skeleton of a man which was found in a wash on Easter day by several boys, about two and one-half miles southwest of Goshen, today was in possession of County Sheriff Theron ,S. Hall. Sheriff Hall and Walter Dur-rant, Dur-rant, deputy, today were investigating investi-gating at the place the skeleton was found, and have so far determined deter-mined that it has been at the place it was found from 15 to 40 years. Sheriff Hall said that he is going go-ing to take the skeleton to Brig- ham Young university in order tlat Dr. George A. Hansen may determine, whether the bones are those of an Indian or a Caucasian. The boys found the skeleton in the bottom of the wash and the water had gouged out the gravel and silt and lay the bones open. When found, there was a belt and part of a shirt with the bones. In talking to residents of Goshen, some remembered of an Indian burial 40 years ago in that vicinity, vicin-ity, but it has not been; deter-! mined whether lt is the-bones ofj thet Indian. Neither has it been determined whether it was a natural nat-ural death or foul play. 9m I? Yanks Capture Reich Celebrities I 5 Mv mm. 44 l. -l.r.:;.-!.- -. .- On the roster of - big-name Germans In "Allied hands are Prince August Wilh'eJm of Prussia (upper left), son of the Kaiser, and his helm of worla war L Captured also were Marshal August von Mackensen (lower left), fli-year-old . Grman army commander of world,. war i, and pr. Mannfred zapp (lower ngnt), cmei wazi propagandist ih the U. S. from 1938 to 1941, - Japs Staged Reign of Terror To Massacre Manila Filipinos WASHINGTON, AprU 17 (U.R) Hundreds of men, women and children were massacred by the Japanese in Manila in an . in credible wave of terror during the first two weeks of February, the war department said today. The Japanese killed their. vic tims by shooting, bayoneting, burning, starvation, suffocation Outlook For Western Steel Held Favorable WASHINGTON, AprU 17 U.R- H. Foster Bain, consulting engineer en-gineer ' for the bureau of mines, reported today that the outlook for continued steel. production in the west was favorable, although he doubted postwar economic conditions con-ditions would - sustain the wartime war-time rate of operations. "There will be periods of slack demand and probably shut downs will be necessary' in the west, as in the east, but more arid more steel wUl be made in the western states," Bain reported. - "If local manufacture of products made from steel is pushed vigorously the employment situation may be materially helped." He said adequate' raw. material was available and markets existed to support a western steel business busi-ness and permit expectation of growth. To maintain the business, Bain said, an aggressive marketing program must be undertaken and radical adjustments made in freight rate structure. His report, "a pattern for west ern steel production,"' has been published by the bureau of mines, department of the Interior. J New Japanese By ALAN RAVENHOLT United Press War Correspondent KUNMING, CHINA, AprU 17 (U.PJ Reliable sources said today that the Japanese have begun large-scale production of a new type suicide plane which may nrove more darning in some re spects than Germany's vaunted V- bombs. The planes wUl ,. replace - the pianes ww. rcpura- mora expensive regular corneal planes which Japanese suiciae pUots have been loading with explosives, ex-plosives, and crashing into 'American 'Amer-ican warships. The' new planes, now under construction in Manchuria,, carry' a long ton of explosives 240 pounds bjiBt into their nose like a torpedo warhead. IS', AJ Y 4 ! v I , w V 13 t & and beating, the . department said. The war department released .sworn first-hand accounts of American army officers and en listed men who saw and examined hundreds of victims, sworn state ments of mutilated survivors, and captured Japanese documents ob tained by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters. "This evidence proves a Jap anese campaign oz terror in Manila Man-ila so incredible by all civilized standards that the most thorough verification and documentation were necessary," the war depart ment said. . - Brig. Gen, Carlos P. Romulo, resident- commissioner, of the Philippines to the United States, described the massacres to con gress as the war department was releasing its. information. A captured Japanese . battalion order dated Feb. 8 said: "When Filipinos are to be killed, they must be gathered into one place and disposed of with the consideration that ammunition'' ammuni-tion'' and manpower must not be used to excess. Because the dis posal of dead -bodies is a troublesome trouble-some task, they should be gathered gather-ed into houses. which are scheduled sched-uled to be burned or demolished. They should also be thrown into the river." . Sucff orders "unleashed wanton savagery 'upon defenseless. Man lla," the war department said. "Men between the ages of 15 and eo were ordered seized and shot down," it said. "Execution parties moved from house to bouse with lhand grenades, bayonets bay-onets and torches. Hundreds were packed into! dungeons to perish of starvation and suffocation. "Japanese soldiers massacred without mercy at Concordia col lege and De-Lasalle college and at the Red Cross buUding, where aoctors ana nurses and patients (jonunuea un rage' two). Suicide Planes Like V-Bombs The pilot sits in the center of the plane, which, is a pusher type with propeller in the rear. It was designed to have a cruising speed of 400 miles an hour and a diving speed of 600 miles an hour. - The planes exploda when either the nose or a wing touches a solid object. The suicide ts normally are tfanahese. a few Chinese - . puppets' also being trained They are gi six months' train- ing and a f three-month leave before 'mission off on their final ''The pilots are locked Into the cockpit from t the outside before the takeoff and, carry, no parachute. para-chute. The wheels automatically Mmdebmg Yanks Storm Leipzig, Nuernberg in Powerful Power-ful Bid To Block Nazi Death Stand in the Bavarian Alps; Early Juncture Looked For BULLETIN PARIS, April 17 " American Ninth army tanks and infantrymen broke into Hagdebnrg from three sides today to-day in a savage battle for the last fior river bridges still standing on the road to Berlin, 60 miles to the northeast. " PARIS, April 17 'American armies closed swiftly on the Elbe river valley for an apparently imminent juncture junc-ture with the Red army today and stormed Leipzig and Nuernberg in a powerful bid to block a Nazi death stand in the Bavarian Alps. The American and Russian1 battle lines already were barely 70 miles apart on the blazing Berlin front where U. S. Ninth army troops were upo and across the Elbe on an ou-mue irom racing wiinin 40 1 nt . I . 1 . a , - - miles of the city, limits nea army lorces mere were only 17 mUes northeast of the capital and the two converging armies' planes and artUlery were battering the same targets at the core of the Hitler's dying third reich. American First army units on the Ninth army's left flank were on the .Elbe some 70 mUes from the center of Berlin and were onlv 2 mues west or tne river line in the Colditz area beyond encircled Leipzig. Still farther south, Lt Gen. George S. Patton's American Third army rammed ahead within 30 mUes of the Elbe fortress of Dresden which, with Leipzig, represented rep-resented the main escape route into Bavaria for the remaining oerman iorces soutn of .Berlin. Nasi SpUt-Up Seen ' Both the First and Third arm ies were only 80-odd miles from a link-up with the oncoming Russians Rus-sians and their tactical air forces were (Working over the enemy, unes ui ciose coorainauon - wiin the Soviets. ; The German flight across! .the Elbe in front of the advancing British and reports of a wholesale exodus southward in the Elbe Oder corridor below Berlin ap parently confirmed earlier indi cations that the Nazi high com mand finaUy had ordered the split-up of its forces for the last great battle of the war. American First army troops as saulting Leipzig and fanning out east,- northeast and southeast of that city were rapidly closing off the main enemy escape roads south of the capital. U. S. Third army forces on their right flank were menacing the Germans' last big line of retreat through Dresden and Czechoslovakia, Czechoslo-vakia, advancing within SO mUes of Dresden and up to the German Czechoslovak border. Far to the south, -the American Seventh army laid siege to Nuernberg, Nuern-berg, northwestern outpost of the Bavarian redoubt, and drove strong infantry spearhead into the city itself. . There the Americans were lessi than 90 mUes from Munich, birth place of the Nazi party, 150 miles from Berchtesgaden. and less than 50 mUes from the headwaters .of the Danube. Unconfirmed and seemingly premature reports' broadcast '' by radio Paris said the .flight "into Bavaria already had been halted by an American-Russian juncture in the Elbe river valley between Pima, 11 mUes southeast of Dresden, Dres-den, and the Czechoslovak border city of Tirschen, 18 m'iles to the southeast. , . The site of the reported junc ture .which headquarters spokes men indicated actually had-been chosen for that meeting, was almost al-most 50 miles west of the last reported Red army positions and about 40.8 east-of the American lines. I Both the American .Third and First armies were pounding nara toward the link-up, however, with the First army apparenUy weU out in front after surrounding Leipzig and racing more than 22 miles beyond that city. ' ' Doughboys of the First army's 69th infantry division battled up into the southern outskirts' of . Contlnued en Page Two) drop away after the plane leaves the ground. Unable either to bail out or land the plane without exploding it, the pilot is doomed even be-' fore he dives on his assigned ob- After the takeoff, reliable sources said, a suicide pilot circles the field three times whUe the entire en-tire personnel of. the base stands at attention and salutes. The pUots usually are sent against battleships and aircraft carriers. Though the suicMe fliers normally nor-mally are volunteerSv the high command of the Japanese air force is said i to have earmarked certain pilots as a reserve to be locked, fcv the torpedo planes in the event of a shortage. Benin . American Fliers Destroy 105 German Planes LONDON. AnrU 17 (U.PJ Am r- lean-war planes roared over Germany Ger-many again today, following up the crippling blows which yesterday yester-day shattered the dwindling luft-waffe luft-waffe by destroying or damaging at least 1,305 German planes. The U. S. strategic air forces, having. officially completed their strategic bombing mission, sent the. 8th air force into action over Germany again, presumably following fol-lowing up yesterdayls devastating smash at German planes on the ground and other tactical targets. They administered the coup de grace to the ' German air force yesterday by destroying at least 932 'German fighter planes and damaging at least 373 more for the biggest day's bag of the war; Mosrr were destroyed on -the ground in raids from Munich to Prague. . . . . . i ,f Patron, Hodges to Be dominated to 4-Star Generals WASHINGTON, AprU 17 U.R Lt Gens. George S. Patton and Courtney H. Hodges, respective commanders of the spearheading Third and First armies in Germany, Ger-many, were nominated today to be full generals in the first list of nominations sent to the senate by President Truman. They were the First army commanders com-manders to be promoted to four-star four-star rank. The rank heretofore has been reserved for army group commanders and highest staff officers. ' Mr. Truman also nominated nine major generals to be lieutenant lieuten-ant generals: Joseph L. Collins, Oscar W. Griswold, Lucius Clay, Georfrey Keyes, Edmund B. Greggory. Walton H. Walker, Levin H. Campbell, Wade H. Hai-sUp Hai-sUp and Eugene Reynold. All of these ranks were temporary tem-porary wartime promotions. ! Yanks, British Step Up Attack ROME, AprU 17 (U.R) American Fifth army troops smashed with- . in eight miles of Bologna today, and long-range artUlery began sheUing the outskirts of the transport trans-port hub and keystone base of the German' defense line across Italy. The U. S. Fifth and British Eighth armies had forged an as sault. arc almost half way around Bologna. They were closing in from -the southwest and northwest and aU intermediate sectors. War In Brief WESTERN FRONT: American troops storm Leipzig and. Nuernberg Nuern-berg in bid to halt German flight from central Germany for death stand in Bavarian redoubt. EASTERN FRONT: Red armies rip holes in German defenses of Berlin along 150 mile front; one column reported within 17 mties of capital. v t ITALY: American Fifth army smashes within eight miles of Bologna Bo-logna and artUlery begins shelling outskirts. . AIR WAR: American and British ' air forces throw lull weight behind be-hind ground campaign .after knocking out luftwaffe and completing com-pleting strategio bombing of reich. . ' ' PACIFIC: B-29's blast six air- fields on Kyushu; American troops seize, small island off Oki-, nawar Japanese counterattack Americans closing in on- Bagulo on northern Luzon. CHINA: Chinese troops recapture recap-ture two dUes in northwest Huleh orovince and clear Japanese from former U. S. air baseat Lacokow. |