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Show c Weather Forecast Temperatures Salt Lake a ad vicinity, partly cloody today and tonight becoming dearer tomorrow. Cooler today and ; tonight, little change In temperatnre- - tomorrow. Yesterday's maxn temperatnre, S3; min., 27; mean, 40; normal, 33. Sunrise, 8:38 a.m, MWT; sunset, p.m., MWT. Denver Price Fire Cents. fia-leaz- was shot in executed thi morning the back bv jr'firing squad according txr unconfirmed reports reaching here from the Swiss border.' This latest ironic twist to the Italian upheaval was ""reported both by Reuters and the Swiss telegraph agency, which said the former Italian foreign minister, whose meteoric career was upset when he had a falling out with his father-in-lahad been sentenced to death by a special court of Mussolims Republican Fascist government sitting in northern Italy to try traitors. A DNB broadcast today from said "compeBerlin, '.however tent Italian quarters deny reports spread abroad that Count-Ciano has been executed. - The life of the count of - a risr was a to right-hanman- - to Mussolini of of Fascism, In the' hey-daand PAYS PRICE Count Galeazzo great popularity, prestige rewealth, and then.whcn-'th- e of Mussolini gime was tottering, a break with Ciano, and former powerful member his father-in-laof Fascist party, has been ex By last October, Mussolini's former affection for his esteemed ecuted by the Northern Italian had changed until "his X? EJ hi ACCOr ding..tarepart. only fppling fnr. lu hate," Marshal Pietro Badoglio ' There was another reason for reported. .JPor. Ciano, attke lant and - Cw no1 s- a - from gra ce Germ a n fateful meeting of the Fascist ytipathyfor him At the time 'of his dismissal as grand council on thenight of" last July 24 was one of 19 foreign minister apd appointment of as ambassador to the Vatican members who,voted In favor Mussolini's resignation. Five-vot- ed lastrFcbruary, it was widely refor the ducr. ported that the Nazis, partlcu atory-book-ta- le -- y son-in-la- son-in-la- -f Willkie Decries London's Policy 11 V gossip had' it that Hitler called Ciano to Diplomatic On Program To Crush Hitler o By Pierre J. Hwu CAIRO '( IN.SJ A history making declaration signed by President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin X i YORK CAP) Wendell NEW L. Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential nominee,, said today that if recent speeches of Alf M. Law-do- presidential Republican nominee m 1936, represent the thinking of the Republican party, someone other than Willkie should lead the party n 1944. Commenting on published reports that Landon predicted Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, would be the Repub- iican presidential nominee next year, Willkie said: "Predictions are hazardous. This much, however, is certainLan-doly true that if Governor recent speeches, particularly one last Saturday on the Moscow agreements, represent the thinking of the Republican par-ty- , then certainly someone other than myself should lead the par- ty For the statements, inferenc- eg and implications of the governors speech would - take the party In a . differentin direction my judg- from that in which, Counter-Attack- s ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al(AP) The American giers Fifth army, German strong points, has captured new heights commanding the road to Rome west of Mignano, while the British Eighth army drive has carried to the Moro river, 30 miles beyond the Sangro, allied headquarters announced to-- , day. The Nazis launched strong counterattacks against American and British Infantry storming the heights in bitter battles, and threw in new reinforcements, Including mechanized hand-to-nan- d Australian Brides Of Yanks Neglected in 1944i r nt -l- ge Rooeevrlt-Churrbill-Stali- n BIG-THRK- - - their Informers' 4-- 4 Mag-giore- i ), - Terializing Battle Slavs Nazi Reserves of ' -- 2-- Soviets Gain Carriers Attack Marshalls In White Russia i NipsMakeFeebleAttack OnTarawa Guadalcanal By The Associated Pres American bombers struck at Japan's defense perimeter along line of aerial an attack which included a raid by 100 carrier-baseallied planes on isMatshali the Japanese-hellands in the Central Pacific. The Nipponese, in turn, carried out their first bombing mission against Tarawa and Makin islands since American capture of the Gilberts. They wounded three men sod inflicted minor damage'on Tarawa. There was no damage on Makin, the navys report said. On the ground, too, the Japanese failed in counters Hacks seeking to throw back advancing Australians on the Huon peninsula In northeastern New Guinea. In China, the Chinese high command said Japanese forces in northern Hunan province had been defeated. Prime Minister John Cnrtin of Australia declared, however, that the. offensive against Japan must not only be maintained, but Increased in tempo. Otherwise, he warned the enemy will have the time to develop the rich natural resources of its conquered empire, and exploit the huge pool of slave labor. Big American Liberators made their deepest recent strike at guardian bases of that empire in three raids on Hare island in the Kapinga-Marang- i atoll 800 LONDON Smash- .UP) ing ahead northwest of Propoisk, miles northwest of the Red army today was threatand only 4po miles south by , one of the last east of Truk, Japanese bastion In ening Mogilev-German-helimportant raii, centhe Pacific. - The latest attack, ters in White Russia, as other Dec. 2. smashed seaplane base in- Russian units squeezed the Nazi stallations of the. little banana-shapedefense lines and island. Rogachev in the Gomel area- Mill bombed Liberators Army A Soviet said the in the Marshalls and Nauru, 500 Red army communique hurled back German miles west of the Gilberts, Sat- counterattacks and swept forurday w'ithojt encountering any ward northwest of Propoisk to enemy opposition. The Tpkvo capture the heavily fortified radio asserted that 20 or the strongholds of Varodol, Bahkl 300 raiders over the Marshall and Zabluka. islands were shot down. It quot-eFront dispatches, telling of the Japanese imperial head- dpep Russian penetrations virtudamsome quarters as' admitting ally from one end of White Rusage. sia to the other, said the Germans were beginning to show signs of a lack of teserves and Allied Planes wer-usiengineers line troops in some sectors of Strike France snow-swethe front. LONDON (AP) Allied air To the south, in the Kremen-chu- g might, apparently changing tacthe Russian war bularea, tics to confuse Nazi defenders, letin said, Soviet units captured turned from shattered German several strong points after fierce cities yesterday to occupied which often develFrance, loosing heavy and me- engagements into fighting, oped and bombers dium fighter planes ljirge losses were declared inin a smashing blow at enemy flicted on the Germans. targets. The communique said the American Flying Fortresses were continuing to attack concentrated on unspecified tar- Nazis In the Cherkasy area, between counin the gets and Kievbut all Kremenchug more in time first for the try their assaults were repulsed. than two months. and U.S, bombers and Thunderbolt Four hundred Germans' were and Lightning fighters also play- killed at one point, the bulletin ed a prominent part in the day- said, after a tank and infantry smash was beaten back. J light assaults. The Eighth Air Force lost 11 heavy bombers against the de British Subs Sink struct ion of 11 Nazi fighters during the dav, but the crews of Sixteen Vessels bombers two of the LONDON. (AP) An admiralwere known to be safe. One A- ty said today that communique llied, fighter was lost submarines of the British Mediterranean fleet, continuing their ofInfluenza Kills 376 fensive against German shipping, LONDON Influenza had sunk 16 vessels, including two (AP) and 14 small supclaimed 376 lives in Ixmdon and medium-sizeother large cities in Britain dur- ply "vessels, In forajs into the Sea. ing the week ending Nov. 27, Aegean warehouses on In addition, h was disclosed today, more than Naxos Inland off Greece were tripling the number of fatalities the previous shelled, and a seaplane and a recorded- during w eek. floating dock were sunk Health authorities, describing nearbv, the bulletin said. Another submarine ranging the the current influenza wave as th worst since that of 1937, western Mediterranean sank a which caused 2,000 deaths week- landing craft loaded with motor transDort in the Gulf of Genoa, ly at-i- ts tanker was that the number of cases was add a medium-size'torpedoed off Toulon. rising steadily. d g d d near-Zhlobi- d n d at'flrst ng At hand-to-han- d d T - No Herods Here, Declares Hero Introduced BOSTON (AP) as one of the marine corps heroes of Guadalcanal at a disabled American Veterans Pearl Harbor memorial service, Pfc. Harry Woolward of Newton demurred. I object to that hero tag, sir. not he said. The heroes did d come back." - 300-fo- South American Bandits Slay Americans QUITO. Ecuador (AP) Two Americans were reported killed yesterday by bandits raiding the roingo de Log Colorados region, where offices of the V, S. Rubber Reserves Co. are situated. The owner of the plantation, Is Changed' Eduardo Henriquez, also was Names of the killed. that the local board has not ap- reported Americans were not available in to the president and that pealed reports. the young man has never had early Supplies of the berRubber ' the to on appeal any hearing tap-president. pers In the nearby jungle were Th8 petitioner assert that the Rtored on the Ila and classification had been arbitrar first reports said- plantation, that the ban- -on altered orders from Uuhad-raldet-thNatlom. ese ily stores. al Director 0 Lewis B. Hershey, Reinforcements of federal poacting by presidential authority lice were .sent to the region. and that the action was in vlola-tioof the act of Congress. Dow-Jon- es Before Judge Johnson the backcase of is the not expectTarnished bir J A. Hogle A Co. ground members of tho New York Stock Es ed to h an issue. The court will chance. n decide whether or not the Hurh Low Lwt Churn propeily and legally Industrials . . 133 (ft 131 71 133 45 - 5 - .10 33 61 33 16 33 37 made by the board- of appeal" Rail 11J1 31 46 4 .06 .vp.. 3166 may be changed by- presidential IHiltUf 03 . . Ronds . . M M order. .71 .. 9661 CommodHiee RightTo Draft Farmer Taken Before Utah Court deter-minc'- for-rttb- " n Averages classi-ficatio- 8 4- 4- ed d An Important Notice Because of stringent newsprint rationing inflicted on all newspapers by government restrictions, there will be absolutely NO extra copies of the 1943 Christmas News "available for sale or mailing this year. The Deseret News regrets this curtailment but will only be able to deliver The Christmas News to people who ore regularly taking this newspaper, For thislreason this year we are unable to accept single orders sent in for this edition from people .desiring to have this affice mail copies to relatives in distent citietv However," all bona fide subscribers Mill receive The Christmas News as part of their regular subscriptions. ' . The Deseret News suggests that parents of service men read their copy of Tha Christmas News and then forward it on ta their sons ardaughtersr V. cT vr V v , S 1!'t t - eap-ture- o. - countries as Rumania, and Finland from Adolf Bulgaria chariot wheels, the Allied Hitlerg leaders of the world three foremost powers proclaimed their wel- comi to such- - peoples as may choose to come Into the world family of democratic nations, , The official announcement left no doubt that the Teheran talks which brought President Roose-ve- lt face to face with Marshal Stalin for the first time and constituted the first meeting of the American, British and Soviet government heads a completed streamlined blueprint of colossal, new blows against Germany. It was apparent, moreover, that the synchronized convergent offensives thus- mapped for- - the first time in common consultations among th three government leaders and their key will not be long In ma- - -- r- head-quarte- ts such- mentgtha.t;..mlght..lear-4wg- y MEET Two world leaders Premier-Jos- ef Stalin of Russia andPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt of the for the United States--nie- rt first time (upper). Photo at right shows historic pictures In the making. Premier Stalin, President Roosevelt and Prime Churchill Winston Minister meet on the portico of the Russian Embassy at Teheran, Hurled Back moIran, following grenadiers, against the Eighth mentous conference. These, Asarmy nr a desperate attempt to sociated FrewT wirepholos are halt the smashing allied drives. d the first pictures to come out A tank was of the historic meeting. by the British. A counterattack west of Vena fro W'ag hurled back by the Fifth army with severe losses. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's announced that tire enemy, who is fighting stubbornly for every inch of ground, had Bitter IQNDON (AP) been driven from three more commanding elevations by the fighting raged along almost the Americans who are smashing into entire 4 length of Yugoslavias lr, Nazi fortifications in the area of regular front today as fresh re. the rugged slopes of Mount British Infantry of the serves of German and Bulgarian Fifth army are rooting out Nazi troops were thrown into the defenders Ms th equally rough struggle to' smash guerrilla oparea of Mount-Caminposition, a communique from the From their newly wo posiforce iJMl. tions, the. - Allied troop could said. gaze ont arrosg the valley to The broadcast announcement Casslno, and beyond it to the said reinforcements being rushed valley which leads northwest to Yugoslavia included two diinto Italy's capital. British warships, steaming bold- visions from Austria. It assertFrench and Russian ly within range of enemy shore ed Polish, were being used to batteries, were disclosed to have prisoners the Nazi ranks, and repeatsupported the Eighth armys plug drive up the Adriatic coast in ed the charge that Chetnik guerrecent days with bombardments rillas of Gen. Draja Mihailovic of German supply routes, bases were fighting alongside the invading armies. and shipping. Particularly biller fighting was Aerial support of the allied reported from Slavonia, where ground forces was limited by bad weather, but the enemy-hel- d the communique said the enemy failed to break through into libYngoslav port of Split waa erated territory after achieving bombed yrsterday by medium local successes in the capture of bombers and a floating dock a tow n on the Zagreb-O- s at Orbetello, on Italys west Cacini, ek- - railw-ay- . coast, was hit and left burnAnother guerrilla success was ing. reported from Bosnia, where Titos forces said they captured Fire-ProTrnovo, near Sarajevo. Beard At other points the mountainous defensealong For Santa Urged positions held by the guerrillas in the BOSTON (A P ) Fla hinterlands, Titos forces said ed whiskers for Santa Claus are they had repelled all enemy at- among the Christmas suggestions tacks. of the National Fire protection Association. Army Air Force Others are- - keep Christmas trees standing in water in Numbers 2,300,000 the house, have each tree secured at the basejway from all . WASHINGTON now(AP) y- The army..air forces, numbering Sources' bf "heat, and aw ay from more men than all U. S. branchL doorways:' use electric lght es were able to move into Eu bulbs instead Of candies for lightin .the first World War, have ing; be sure -t-he- wiring is in rope destroyed or damaged 13,500 engood order; dont allow old Christmas wrappings to accumulate: emy planes since the Pearl "Harattack two years ago. and if fire does start call the bor - Swelled to 2 300,000 men, the first department at once. air arm has flown more than 225,000 individual plane flights, tWars Held Proof fired 41,000,000 rounds of ammunition and chewed up 2,000.000,000 Of Isolation Falsity gallons of gasoline in that time. General H. H, Arnold disclosed QUEBEC-- X AP) Ray Afher- ton, U. S. ambassador to Can the magnitude of the air operaada. said today that these two tions in an article written for world wars have established for- the army and navy journal issue ever the falsity of anv attempt dedicated to the second anniverby anv nation to live a selfish, sary of PearLHarbor and he summed tip the .accomplishments with isolated existence- ."In international affair there the assertion: is no such thing as building your Today in every (heater of comown barn,-- he declared in an bat the enemy Is reeling from unaddress prepared for delivery to ceasing pressure. Target after the Canadian Club. "Our perils target is being demolished. The are --mutual, our responsibilities Offensive will continue to mount are mutual in this modern world until the Axis- - has neither the and our peace must be mutual. will nor the .ability to resist ADELAIDEAustralia. AP) Dorothy Tangney, Australia's only woman senator, said tonight she proposed to take action on behalf of Australian wives who their have been deserted by if--it deserves American ment. it must-go- of this to assume the leadership she "I have been amazed, country. said, "by the number of marriages that have foundered. In Perth, eight Suit or nine girls came to see me and others rang me up. Some had Again Dismissed babies and were without mainBy tenance of (AP) WASHINGTON any sort from their a vote, the Supreme Court rehusbands." 4. its reconsider to fused today Miss said that under Xo-- r action orN&vrSTmilsmiss-- ' present Tangney laws none of these wives suit informer's seeking an ing could obtain redress or divorce more than 40,000,000 damages unless she went to America or of accused Two from companies could afford to retain an Americonspiring to sell the United can solicitor: nonat instruments States optical The senator - said there were competitive prices. faults on both sides and it would A rehearing was sought by the be recriminations wrong to make -Justice Department and by the at this stage." Brensilver Murray informers Most of these were and Emanuel Thabner, New York contracted beforemarriages June 1942, was The litigation attorneys. when the American she said, against the Bausch & Lomb Op- laws on the marriage abroad of New York of tical Company servicemen were tightened up. and C8rl Zeiss of Jena, Gertnany, ento have were alleged They tered into an agreement to diSubsidy Decision market for the world vide the sale of military optical instru- At Once Demanded ments. WASHINGTON War (API- Justices 'Blaclc, DouglasrMur-ph- y Food Administrator Marvin the and Rutledge thought Jones asked Congress today ...to petition for rehearing should be decide now whether government not Jackson did Justice food subsidies are to be continugranted. ed or abolished so that price conparticipate. an was under Suit trol agencies and the farmerg-ca- n brought statute which 1863 informers map their 1944 programs without rewho provides that persons delay. cover from anyone Jones objected to a Democratic making fraudulent claims against tha move in the Senate to postpone double collect a showdown on subsidies for 60 United States may damages and penalties and retain days, declaring this might disamount obtained. the The half of rupt next years food production other half goes to the United plans. States. Nothing is as upsetting as unhe told the Senate certainty, banking Tommlttee.. I want to 150 Left Homeless know what the program for 1944 is going to be. . . . It takes time By $500,000 Fire and planning to produce food 1 ATLANTIC CITY, N. Senator Bankhead J. (Apf A beachfront block, was in farm bloc leader, said he was to hear Jones urging glad charred 'ruins and 350 persona were homeless today after a 500, action now and Senator Taft also remarked he thought 16 000 fire which destroyed boardwalk buildings, including th subsidy issue should be decided at once. two apartment houses. Fireman Harry Yard. 60, died at t Atlantic City Hospital , of heart ailment aggravated by exertion in fighting the flames, Fire Chief Rex Parley said. Father Obtains Writ When Boy's Classification Coast guards from a training station here helped prevent furFor the first time in Utah, as an agricultural worker), he ther damage by dousing sparks of Individuals "under the was inducted into th armed on the roofg of other buildings rights selective service acts wdl be giv- forces. In the qtea. a en it Is Mr. judicial interpretation, Bingham not reported to be 6Uv Authorities had became certain today whenmili-tar- y one oflh largest food and live- -' the cause of the blaze. authoritiesaccepted a writ stock producers of Utah. He has of habeas corpus signed by Fed- 320 acres of intensively cultivateral Judge, Tillman D. Johnson. ed land under Irrigation and Tries To Pull Under the writ they will bring 9,000 acres of pasture and grazOne On Censor Brigham Reed Bingham, 20, of ing land. He said he has a large ABOARD A CARRIER OFF Brigham City, before the court family of boys in the army, on. Wednesday to determine MAKIN. Gilbert Islands (AP) th After the occupation of Makln whether or not he has been il- case. The Utah board of appeal, the Island, one seaman tried vainly legally Inducted into the army. The parents, B. A. and Eva R. court of last resort so far as an to get this one bv the censor. inductee is concerned except a Dear Mom: Ship censors woni Bingham, are petitioner on th direct appeal to the president, Jet me tell you what were do- writ. The They contend' that while their fixed young Bingham in ing, but we sure are makln history. P S.: How are Gilbert and son was and Is properly and le- petition asserts that the classifiMarshall makln' out In school? (deferred cation has not been changed and gally classified as soldier-husband- n. Anglo-America- n ment in Rome. But last October it was from Switzerland that he had been located, disguised .by a heavy beard, living in near Verona. German troops took him in custody ,andhe-wa- s brought before Mussolini who fn a stormy wen " reused""!! fin if de se'rf- in of her the hour ing Italy trial." Ciano was born March 19, 3903, at Livorno. He w as the son of Admiral E. Costanzo Ciano, Conte di Corteliazo, -- an Italian naval hero and early-daFascist. He was in the Italian diplo- See CIANO On Page. 2- flame-throwin- g to the German people' and thoae of the Reich's satellite countries to topple their Nazi rulers and sue for unconditional eapit-Ioif they Uh to avoid the close of a four day conference total disaster. The doom Hitler conference in Teheran confronted Germany (Persia), today with the grim alternatives in the capital of Iran 28 and of mammoth nw assaults from which began Sunday,-Nov- , ran unor east the west, south and through Wednesday, Dec. 1, until the final drafting of the. conditional surrender. also produced communique, An ironclad Jnutual of postwar collabguarantee of a second front in- oration. pledge vasion of western. Europe, w ith In this solemn undertaking,-Presidethe exact time and , sector defiPrime Roosevelt, nitely agreed upoji, as well as inMinister Churchill and Marshal tensification or a thud front, preStalin bound America, Britain sumably somewhere In the Medand th Soviet I nlon to assume iterranean theater, were foreJoint responsibility in the fashshadowed in the dramatic anioning of a peace which, J nouncement issued in Cairo toth language of the declaration, day. will banish - Marking" one of the great and terror of war for many generaturning points of history, the tions. declaWith an eye. to popular move- -' ration embodied a implied bid his apart- - Reach Full Agreement Big-Thr- ee V In 1938 Salzburg and told him the German army would march into Poland and he believed the 9 war could i be confined to .the east. Ciano, speaking for Mussolini, warned Hitler the war could not be localized, that he couldnt get away with another aggression. . You ass," Hitler was reported to have stormed. Thereupon Ciano delivered Mussolinis meswould not come that sage Italy Into the war immediately, because she was not prepared. Hitler never forgot or forgave. Ciano's movements after the resignation of Mussolini, yere obscure. lie variously was Reported to have escaped from Italy with prisoner in , " Yanks Take Italian Points German 94th Year i hiswifq6ndchildren.afterbe-- - 37 38 Allied Chiefs Fix Time For Invasion larly Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, disliked and distrusted him. og-held D, C. No. 57. Vol. 372. Once PowerfurFriend Of Duee Comes To T ragic End LONDON (AP) Count Ciano, the of Benito Mussolini, ... 30 Washington, Silt Lake City, Utah, Monday, December 6, .1943 Execution Of Count Ciano Reported In-la- 83 . 38 48 .. Chicago 88 ., 44 Low Los Angeles 3 hew York ,.A... 3t 38 49 Portland . . i 44 San Francisco 48 54 High Atlanta . . t. W B These coordinated the declaration furtheronslaughts, promised,will be rained upon Germany by land, air and sea with a mount- ing tempo calculated to bring about an Hitlerian collapse In the shortest possible time. That Germanys downfall is expected new year of during 1944, thus permitting - America and Britain to concentrate their forces for the promised destruction of the Japanese Empire, at-s-o was indicated, though not a word -r- egarding-Japan emerged from the Teheran meeting. No power on earth, declar- ed th l. in etatemenf, can prevent oar " destroying the German aries by land, their by sea and their war plants from the air. . Our attacks will be relentless and increasing. This virtual ultimatum, however, was not accompanied by any announcement as to 4Hiat the Allies propose to do with Germany after the war. It was plain that all the Nazi occupied countries will be torn from Hitlers clutches and restored to their freedom. But there was no threat of dismemberment of the Reich Itself such as the promise Roosevelt,-Church- ill and Generalissimo Chi-an- g had made the pre- vious week from North Africa to dismantle the Nipponese Empire. The conference at Teheran set a new record for speed, unity and cordiality. The Stalin, v o Bolshevik who rose to il ;i . Rooeevelt-Churchili-Sta- Kai-she- k el-e- ra head a Communist-governe- d of tho surface, was described by official aources as the life of the party." He engaged In e two private with nation covering one-sixt- h earths tete-a-tet- Americas-president,-who- he m tousled as Roosevelt, my fighting lrlend, at a dinner party -celebrating Churchill's 69th birthday last Tuesday. was revealed. Churchill, it toasted the Soviet leader as "Stalin, the Great. This followed a moving ceremony In the conference room. Monday afternoon at which Churchill presented Stalin with a jewelled sword of honor from King George VI to the people of Stalingrad In behalf of the British people. The predominantly military character of the Teheran meeting was apparent from the overwhelmingly military complexion of the retinues that accompanied both Roosevelt and Churchill to the Iranian capital from the North African site of their meeting With . Chiang - The American " party included Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of staff; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces; Lieut. Gen,, Brehon - H. Somervell chief of the army set-- -. Sc IRAN MEET On Page 8 Kai-She- Japs Again Claim U. S. Navy Sinking 1 LONDON. (INS) The Tokyo radio today broadcast extravagant -new claims of Japenese naval successes in the southwest Pacific, again annihilating the U. S. , i navy. dispatch bv Domei, official Japanese agency, said that Nipponese torpedo planes sank three aircraft carriers, a battleship or large cruiser and a cruiser and demaged a battleship and large ciuiser off Bougainville Island in the north Solomons Friday. . A Tokyo spokesman was quoted a saying that the Allies lost twentv-twaircraft carriers in and Gilberts the Bougainville theaters in recent battles. . A o U! |