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Show Olh Army Troops DrivsAViihiii 0 Milss of Bologna By J. ED WABD MURBAY United rress War Correspondent JtOME, April 18 lUJO Eighth army 2 forces drove within ten miles of Bologna from the southeast, south-east, today ind another column .outflanked the city from the northeast--" . American Fifth army units pre viously -had driven within eight miles of Bologna, due south of the city, a In new sains they cleared the rugged peaks of Mt. Moscoso and jat. Davtgo, lz rouea soutn west f the city The best new gain was by Pol ish umu ox the Eighth army which smashed forward two miles along the i superhighway running into Bologna from the southeast, putting; th .ten miles from, the 'Meanwhile, British troops sur rounded Argenta, 24 miles to the northeast, creating a new threat to the Bologna defenders, already lacing drives from south, south' east and southwest Allied airforces pacing the ground assault, yesterday dropped 1600 s' tons of explosives on the German positions fronting Bologna. Bolog-na. Fortresses and Liberators led the show. Allied forces were .pushing slowly toward Bologna, gaining painfully across terrible terrain against a foe fighting fanatically. A front dispatch reported one American division had taken only eleven prisoners in two days, tes tifying to the stubbornness of the raemy defense. Li Rusan, hiniese for First Time, V - ' - $ , , 5 - 1 2. .. :. ... . .... , jg. Something of a precedent was set when the Russian and CSunese ambassadon ,Sftto first taM at m with p- r - . id the British ambassador. Picture above, left to St. British : AmbMsador Earl of Halifax, Secret jy etettinlus. Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Jap Suicide-Plane Bases Hit . Second Time by the Superf orts Truman Gets Laugh On Gen. Marshall i ' . WASHINGTON, April 18 (U.R) -President Truman can have himself a good laugh today at the expense of Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff. According to the president's military aide. Col. Harry H. Vaughn, Mr. Truman tried to get) bacR in the army two years ago but was turned down by Marshall. Mar-shall. Vaughn said Marshall told the senator that "this was a young man's war and we did not need any old goats like Mr. Truman." v "Mr. Truman told Gen. Marshall Mar-shall that he was no older than the general and Marshall agreed but said, 'I'm a general and you "would be a colonel," Vaugh related. re-lated. Today Mr. Truman is Marshal's commander-in-chief. He's letting the general stay on. By FRANK TREMAIN United Press War Correspondent GUAM, April 18 (U.R) More than 100 Superfortresses ripped Japan's six main suicide-plane bases in southern Kyushu before dawn today for the second time in less than 12 hours. . . The Superfortresses' fastest one-two punch yet against Japan was designed to knock out airfields air-fields from which enemy suicide pilots have been taking off to I FBI Men Reveal Threat to Blow Up White House NEWARK, N. J., April 18 (OR) . A federal detainer against Charles Porter Kimbal, Jr., 30, Chicago - born friend of Edda Mussolini Ciano, charged today that Kimball said before his re patriation from Germany last February that he was going to America to blow up the White House. S. K. McKee, New Jersey Fed eral Bureau of Investigation chief, said Kimball, held at Ellis Island since his arrival aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, told German friends he was returning re-turning to America as a gestapo agent. Kimball, grandson of a former U. S. consular official at Stuttgart, Germany, admitted saying he would blow up the white House but denied that he planned any sabotage in the United States. McKee charged that Kimball, who left Chicago in 1924. made false statement in a repatriation Questionnaire. McKee said he ad mitted later that his story of be ing Interned in Germany from September 1943 to January 1945 was fabricated. McKee said Kimball concocted and rehearsed the story during a brief internment in 1944 but actually lived freely in Vienna Vien-na in 1943, working in a German Ger-man war plant. Takes Monkeys for Japanese NEW CASTLE, Ind. (U.R) Monkeys may be all right, but to Pfc. William H. Gordon they are Just a worry. He wrote home that he stayed awake all one night after noticing a rustle in the trees on Bataan fearing ne would awaken, to find Japanese snipers had infiltrated. When daylight came, there were three monkeys rustling and jibbering above him. crash their explosive-laden planes against American warships off Okinawa. Today's raid marked the third anniversary of Lt. Gen. James M. Doolittle's historic carrier-based raid on Tokyo, now nearly one tenth destroyed as result of B-29 fire raids in the oast; six weeks. A Japanese broadcast said American troops have landed on tiny Menna-island, 'just south of nearly-conquered Ie island, and three miles off Okinawa's em' battled Motobu peninsula. The invasion, like that ot Ie, was designed to gain additional airfields for the Americans,- the broadcast said. It indicated the landing occurred simultaneously with that on Ie Monday. Pacific fleet headquarters was silent on the purported landing, but announced that two-thirds of Ie already had been cleared against moderate resistance. On Okinawa, marines battled 1,300 to 2,200 Japanese entrench ed in the hills on Motobu peninsu la in the northern sector. The Japanese counter-attacked four times yesterday, and an important hill changed hands twice in the vicious fighting. ; Three hundred enemy dead were found when the marines finally won a firm hold on the hill. The 24th army corps front above Naha, capital of Okinawa, was quiet. Truman Signs Lend-Lease Act WASHINGTON. April 18 (U.R) President Truman today signed the Lend-lease extension act. He said the lend-lease program "will be carried on untilthe uncondi tional surrender or complete de feat of Germany and Japan." The president signed the legislation leg-islation shortly after he had conferred con-ferred briefly with members of the American delegation to the United Nations conference at San Francisco, The signing produced a his torical novelty Mr. Truman's name appeared on the bill twice He signed it originally as presid ing officer of the senate and then again today as president. " Mr. Truman in his senate role broke a tie vote to kill an amendment to the extension act that would have tightened restrictions res-trictions on postwar use of lend-lease lend-lease goods. The legislation extends ex-tends the lend-lease program until un-til June 30, 1946. Yanks Destroy 204 Jap Planes ABOARD ADMIRAL TUR NER'S FLAGSHIP OFF OKI- 1NAWA. April 18 (U.R) American pilots and gunners destroyed at least 204 Japanese planes Mon day in. an all-day battle fought in the skies between Okinawa and the Japanese home island of Kyu shu, it was announced today. American battleships, cruisers and destroyers, supporting the in vasion,- delivered every shell called for as 10th army troops smashed ashore against initially light resistance and captured the wree strips ui Koniini sir uctu. The invasion troops occupied three-fourths of the island which is five miles long and two and one-half miles wide. It has an area of 12 square miles, slightly larger than iwo J una. it lies three miles west of Okinawa. The enemy garrison was driven into the eastern one-fourth of Ie, where it concentrated its forces and resistance around Iegusugu Yama, a hill 600 feet high with a base of about the same breadth. Chief's Wife Defies Law, Wins' BOBBINS, BL, April 18 em --As chief of the village police force, William Marsh's word was the law to all except ex-cept his wife. Mrs. Marsh defied the law and won. Marsh was pursuing his duties as head of the police force of this all negro village yesterday when his estranged wife, Addle, accosted him out side the village hall. She wanted money. Marsh refused. re-fused. Mrs. Marsh slapped the law in the face. Marsh carried his wife to a jail cell and locked .her up. While , he was outside telling an 'assembled crowd that he probably would charge her with disorderly , conduct, his grandson, Lionel Williams, 13. sneaked into the jail. With a crowbar. Lionel forced open the cell door, and he and Mrs. Marsh skipped out the back door. Mrs. Marsh got in the final ' word by summoning deputy sheriffs whv arrested the police chief on a disorderly conduct charge. DAILY HERALD PROVO. tTAH COUNT. UTAH . WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18. 1945 Freed Slaves V-:- page 5Will Rogers, Jr. Vargas Announces Amnesty Decree RIO DE JANEIRO, April 13 (U.R) President Getulio Vargas decreed amnesty today for all political prisoners. The Vargas measure would grant amnesty to 148 prisoners 130 Communists and 18 members of the Integralistas who were detained in the years from 1935 to 1938. , Among those who will benefit by -the decree were Luis Carlos Prestes, leader of the Commun ists, and Belmiro Valverde, lead er of the Integralistas. ' r :.TX"-x;::-.w;:;S . a -mm ft r - . 7'-r- ' WASHUs First mer Uemoc Wouhdedin Action GTON, April IS (UiD Lt- Will Rogers, Jr., for- ttic member of the house from California, apparent ly has been wounded in action, relatives here said' today. ' A' telegram from Rogers, dated April 16, and sent to a member of the family here disclosed that ne was in a nospitai, ana saia 'injury not serious.'' Rogers, -who has been - with a -yitank destroyer unit of the First aim ui yre n ioiij, a cvciimj w awarded the bronze star for gal lantry at St Vith when his outfit out-fit held off a much larger Ger man force. (NEf Radio-TeUphoto) A Oerman flour warehouse proprietor at Lmgo, Oermany (center, with arm upraised), is beaten to the ground as he vainly attempts to stop plundering of horde of hungry slave laborers liberated, by U. SNinth . nro.M.,.nrfa man artr) ttnmpn nnce Bffaln tasting frUitS Of free- dom throughout Reich, are turning on their formeRcaptors and v-i-Ins warehouses, trains and supply depots. Stenal Corps radio-telepHoto. B-2VfOMBER PRODUCTION TO CEASE WILLOW RUN, Mich., April 18 (U.R) The army air forces announced an-nounced today that the already-curtailed already-curtailed B-24 bomber program will be further reduced this week and the output of Ford Liberator Pope Encyclical Epistle Warns of Just Peace Need ROME, April 18 (U.FO Pope Pius XII, 'acting on the eve of the San Francisco conference, to day issued a special encyclical epistle warning the makers of the peace uui coin victors ana van duished will face a hew war un less a fair and just peace is established. estab-lished. The Pope addressed his message mes-sage to the episcopacy throughout through-out the world, inviting all to increase in-crease their prayers in order that God may grant peace. He had a particular word for tne men who will have to decide de-cide the destiny of all peoples." They, said the Pope, "should carefully consider before God that anything surpassing the limits of justice and fairness certainly sooner or later would enormously enormous-ly damage both the victors and the vanquished because this would carry the seed on new wars." The Pope's 1,300-word epistle carried an urgent apepal in behalf be-half of prisoners of war and in ternees. It asked that prayers be offered in their behalf and that all cooperate in every possible way in order that they soon may return to their home. AIM&aS! 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