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Show w . , ... Grain Range The Weather Open High Low Close Wheat: -- 1.70'La 1.72 1.67.i .1.66 ijav july 1.631 1.65 1.62'S 1.634 jjjpt 1.T2 1.70 1.651', 1.67 1 .63 V 1.64 1.62's 1.63 UTAH: Intermittent light rain today, tonight and Tuesday with snow higher levels; little change in temperature except slightly warmer northeast portion tonight. Number 301. Volume 34. LOGAN, UTAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, re ;Tripfe'Thredtt -- 191.' Price Five Cents. SOVIETS RIP j NAZI NORTH IN T preparations Proceed Yank Bombing Fleets Blast Europe For Second Front Targets 3 A Dec. 20 U.R) LONDON, powerful force of United States fighting off a ors, running attack by nazi fighter and target wreathed In flames smoke. At nightfall, German longwave radio transmitters in the Berlin area suddenly fell silent, suggesting that the RAPs raiders might be following up the American attack with a night Mow against the continent The daylight raiders hammered their unannounced target in three waves, a formation of Flying Fortresses striking at the eastern sector of the nazi objective, followed by a second wave of Fortresses and a third of Liberators that bombed the northern sector. LONDON, Dec. 20 (L'Jb Prepara- tions for the opening of a second if tbi l tt deni fin lront in western Europe were re. ported in full swing today and radio Vichy said Gen. Dwight D. whom Washington Eisenhower, will have predicted dispatches command invasion forces, has arr- Ganging up on the birthday cake whos hree candles celebrate second birthday, triplets Diane Janet, Dennis James and Dean Janice Downey make short work of their objective, as lower photo testifies. The young are ''Children of Mr. and Mrs. .George Downey of .Toledo, Ohjo.f-os Twicc 'Dead Hundred More and from Algiers shortly, the raci controlled Vichy station said. It asserted that Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, allied commander in Italy and deputy Mediterranean commander, would succeed Eisenhower as supreme Medi-- Daily said it Vinson Disliked As Rail Wage Leader WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 (l'.E e house interstate commerce wmmittee today voted tentatively stnp Stabilization Director Fred Vinson of ilroad wages, action until The house all authority over but postponed fin- Jan. 10. committee decision as indications increased that president Roosevelt's conferences n rail management and of 350,000 employes, might rasult in a blanket solution of all grievances. The presi-iT.- ,, effo'ts, begun at a White im,Je .Conerence yesterday, wore to center on an over-- e )imerBt(H,d proposal to boost earnings, rae threatened strike of the set for Dec. 30, Vinson approving a frm wo se increase of only four cents an hour for them. repro-wntativ- Vo Shake Pneumonia Dec. 20 JON. a' bulletin said f. m (lU'.i A brief today that Minister Winston Churchill hSar progress satl-sfactr- ...... 11R1t against Nialed that pneumonia. Arthur Lance, above, of East Ind., has twice been "dead, but, as seen above, is still lively enough to work in a war plant on the graveyard It Rail Chicago, Soars shift, of course In an auto wreck eight years ago, he was taken to a morgue, as dead, but when attendants prepared to embalm him. he snapped out of it Recently he collapsed after eating canned pickled herring. An inhalator rescue squad believed him dead, but his wife persuaded them to continue working and sure enough, he came to. soldier-passenge- Utah In liberator Christmas Party The Logan Soroplimixt club enjoyed its Christmas program at the Bluebird Friday evening, with Mrs. Ora J. Lewis, president of the club presiding. of the Miss Una Vermillion USAC faculty was toastmistress. Dr. Chester J. Myers of the USAC gave a reading "Precious Jeapor-dy- " by Lloyd C. Douglas. The program was under the direction of Miss Vermillion and Miss Beth Hardy. Through an error this program Herald-Journgiven in Saturday's as that of the Business and Professional Women's club instead of the Logan Soroptimist al club. ago. Young Army Officers Make Sudden Coup LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, Dec. 20 (C.E) The pro-all- y Bolivian government of President Enrique was overthrown today In a bloody four-horevolution of young nationalistic army officers who announced at once that they would continue to suppoix the united nations in their fight against the axis. tt of- for adults other than students. All presentations are free. The program consists of music from the chorus and orchestra groups, and picturizations of famous paintings dealing with the life of Christ. A choral reading group will also be featured. In charge of the production are Principal George S. Bates, Frank Bpugh Jr., A. T. Henson, Oreta Hall, Hattie Morrell, Durell Erick-seMarilyn Carter and Arit. Lawrence, n, Pen-aran- Anglo-Americ- da Arrests An idea of the "suicide terrain over which our airmen must sometimes fly to get at the foe is given by the photo above. It shows half a dozen Boeing Flying Fortresses of the 8th Alt Force winging d across fjords on their way to bomb Nazi bases In Norway. rock-walle- Leading Sugar Beet Yields In Cache County Reported sugar beet producers In Cache county grew crops yielding more than 20 tons per acre ill 1943, it was revealed today in zfCttetlcs' released- - by-E. Smith, manager of the Lewiston factory, Amalgamated Sugar company. Average yield of Cache beet farms last year was 11 tons per acre. This fall, the average was 14.25. Seldom do Cache beets yield more than 20 tons, but 68 producers exceeded that mark in 8ixty-eig- ht 1943. The Lewiston factory has just completed slicing of 100,500 tons of beets. '"Even though the acreage grown was the smallest in the history of beet production in Cache valley, it proved to be one of the best so far as yield and returns to the growers are concerned, Mr. Smith stated. The sugar manufactured will provide the yearly ration for more than a million American citizens which is a real contribution to the nation's 'ood supply. Top ten growers of the county, and the yield per acre, are as iollows: Rolan Downs of Smithfiekl, 30.62 tons per acre; L. M. Cardon of Smlthfield. 28.39 tons; Moses P. Olson of Logan, 27.55 tons; B. J. Read of Smithfiekl, 27.12 tons; Lester Traveller of Richmond, 26.13 tons; M. E. Mathews of Millville, 25.85 tons; Parley Jcs.sop of Millville, 26.64 tons; Alex Archibald of Wcllsville. 25.59 tons; Norman Stauffer of Logan, 25.21 tons; LeRoy W. Hall of Wcllsville, 23.01 tons. The top receiving stations, based on average of all growers, are: West Spur of Nibley, 18.43 tons per acre; Glenn stution of Millville, 17.90 tons; Litz station of Smithficld, 16.63 tons. Stations averaging more than 16 tons per acre are Baugh of Richmond, Hodges, Jones, Tangent, Winn, Litz and Cardon. , District Governor To Address Lions Bryant Stringham of Vernal, Utah district governor of Lions International, and prominent Vernal civic leader, will bo principal speaker at the Logan Lions luncheon-Tuesday noon in the Bluebird, it was announced today Club President L. D. Naisbitt Confer With Allies byThere will also be Induction of new members and selections by a mens trio, composed of club memCAIRO. Dec. 20 (I'.E) A military bers and including H. M. Petermission from Marshal Josip (Tito) son, Lothaire Rich and Ray NelBrozovich's headquarters in Jugo- son, accompanied by Gilbert slavia has been in the Middle East for the past week, negotiat- Thorpe. military ing with WRONG DECISION leaders for supplies and the orBalLANGLEY FIELD, Va.. Doc. 20 ganization of an inter-allie- d it was learned l.E The army air base public kan command, relations office here announced totoday. A spokesman for the partisan day that an army flyer was killed mission said full agreement had and that two other air force perbeen reached with the Americans sonnel were injured or missing and British on the question of after parachuting last night from full allied military support for all a bomber that subsequently manforces resisting the axis in Jugo- aged to land with other crew members safely aboard. slavia. Jugoslav Leaders Logan High School Presents Christmas Program Tonight he had sue-i- i This afternoon, the fourth, fifth nU..y wethered the crisis and lt way to recovery. and sixth grades of Logan elementary schools were guests at I'Ll Fits DIE Nibley hall for the first presentaPOCATELLO, Ida., Dec. 20 O'.Ri tion of Hark, the Herald Angels airmen from the Pocatello Sing" Logan Senior high school s Were klUert yesterday Christmas offering. our engined heavy him,? tu'1 Tonight at 8 o'clock, high school craf!hed and burned at a students will attend. Any of the ton a lava rock summit 30 general public who prefer to at-north of Hurley. Only one nd this evening is hIso invited, m ... r ber of the, crew survived although the Wednesday night performance is particularly intended Parachuting to safety, JL 73 al Womens Club Holds was Churchill Continues 50-mi- le -- to come could be disclosed that British railways were engaged In the movement of troops, equipment Md supplies to base points for the invasion of western Europe, the most gigantic transport operation they ever have undertaken. winter long-promis- fensive had been in progress for the past five days on a front below Nevel, rolling toward the Polish border and the Baltic states at almost four miles a day. More than 50 towns and villages were engulfed in the soviet advance and Swiss reports said the nazis bad ordered the evacuation invidinner When servicemen of all civilians from the Polish Saturtations were counted up and Baltic border regions in the day evening, it was found that path of the onrushing red army inapproximately 100 additional now only 61 miles from northeastvitations are needed to provide ern Poland and 70 miles from for the uniformed men 'stationed Latvia. on USAC campus. Berlin, admitting its forces were Cache in retreat before the new Russian In Families living county who would like to have offensive, said the red army had hurled 250,000 men and huge tank servicemen as guests at Christmas dinner are invited to phone forces into the Nevel front. either Mrs. Carl Frischknecht Many Prisoners Moscow reports said 20,000 Geror Mrs. V. H. .Tingey at 1287-mans had been killed in the five-da- y 4 at 195. advance and that the soviets The response to this project and dehas been gratifying, commented had taken 2,000 prisoners Mrs. Frischknecht today. But stroyed or captured 106 tanks, Gerwe still need invitations for along with huge quantities of man materials. war 100 men. Thus far, nearly about The soviet tanks and infantry have offered to 350 families (Continued On Page 8) entertain servicemen Christmas day. Also, 373 other Logan families have made arrangements with men in uniform stationed Collision Toll here with wnom they are personally acquainted. ' The county towns have reMark To sponded especially well, and are to be commended. Later this week, the Herald-JournRENNERT, N. C., Dec. 20 TO) will publish a list of The death toll of the crash of central meeting places in each north and southbound Atlantic community where the bus will coast line trains near here Thurstake the servicemen. Then, day stood at 73 today following r. families playing host to the the death of a men can pick them up at these His name was not revealed pendplaces. ing notification of next of kin. Transportation is being arranged by the Cache Red Cross chapter, of which Prof. Evan B. Airman Killed Murray is chairman. County school buses will be used to carry the men to each comCrash munity. , If you have not yet arranged to entertain a serviceman at N. M., Dec. Christnms dinner, you may 20ALBUQUERQUE, U.E Army searching parties phone cither Mrs. Frischknecht have completed the task of bringor Mrs. Tingey tonight. ing the bodies of nine fliers down from lofty Mount Taylor after their bomber crashed on Dec. 0. TORPEDOING RESUMED officials of Kirland Field revealed Dec. 20 (I.Et WASHINGTON, today, at the same time announcA new foray by a German submarine into the Gulf of Mexico ing the death of an officer, killed was revealed today when the navy in another crash near the field. The public relations office said announced that a medium-size- d United States merchant vessel was they have notified the next of kin Lt. Wright Thurston, of Mantl, torpedoed and sunk there early in of Utah, killed in the crash of his December. Liberator. Five other airmen In the crash escaped although officials reported the condition of Cpl. MORE ACRES William H. Nelson, of Battlecreek Dec. 20 TO WASHINGTON, The agriculture department re- Mich., critical. The names of the men involved ported today that farmers planted 47,127,000 acres of winter wheat in the first crash were not yet for 1944 harvest, an Increase of available. nearly 10,000,000 acres over a year Sought liberation, also will come to Engl- now that the Invitations if the invasion Is to begin within the next thrve and a half months, as anticipated. Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, commander of the French army of terranean commander. The London Mail ern flank of the long Russian front today and American troops ant tanks burst out into the broad Liri valley on the main road to Rome, while converging American bombing fleets from Britain and the Mediterranean blasted enemy targets deep In western and southern Germany. Toward Poland A Russian communique revealed their collective said tremendbeen piling American troops into Britain for the past six months. In some places, it said, whose English vilevacuated to lages have been make space for the thousands of troops, while the huge concentration of equipment, landing is tanks and planes barges, "obvious to the most casual dock-sid- e observer.) The Vichy broadcast could not be confirmed otncially, but it was obvious that the second front have gi BY UNITED PRESS (A CBS broadcast ous convoys have would u A massive red army winter of' fensive ripped through the north- ived in Britain. commander here soon S' evacuated their southern Ukraine stronghold of Kherson, on the west bank of the Dnieper river estuary. Kherson wss the southern anchor of the German defense line in the Dnieper bend. Its fall was foreshadowed earlier today when the Berlin radio announced that German troops haq abandoned their bridgehead on the west bank of the Dnieper opposite the city, explaining that the river had frozen over, rendering the bridgehead useless. Gerplanes, raided northwest many by daylight today and enemy left a heavily-defende- d ;, NO HAPPY LANDINGS HERE y Dec. 20 U.R The LONDON, German DNB news agency said today that nazi forces have and Liberat- flying Fortresses t . meeting Two Collisions In Logan Involving 3 Automobiles Each Committee Studies Stouter Citations When the Silver Beaver award selection committee of the Cache Valley Boy Scout Council meets this evening, it will select two scooters who will receive the citation this year, according to Preston W. Pond, executive. Frederick P. Champ of Logan, past president of the council and recipient of the award last year, is chairman of thf committee. Other members are Dr. A. R. Cutler of Preston, A. A. Savage of Hyrum, J. I. Williams of Evanston, Wyo, and Dr. G. L. Rees of Smithfield. The awards are presented annually to two adult leaders who contribute the most valuable service to boyhood. Harvey Munk of Benson received the Silver Beaver last year, along with Mr. Champ. He Was Innocent Of So Many Charges! LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 TO) Pvt. John Halpin, 25, waa leaning contentedly against a lamp post yesterday when he was struck in the collision of two cars, scooped along on a bumper for 150 feet, accused of being a hit-ru- n driver, and then 'arrested on a drunk charge. With a quart of whisky under one arm, Halpin picked himself off the bumper unhurt and began an argument with a marine passenger in the other car about his "driv ing." In the ensuing fight he dropped his quart and was arrested by military police. "And all I was trying to do was cross the street, he moaned. Had one more trio of automobiles staged a collision in Logan over the weekend, there would have been a trio of accidents, each involving three cars. From the two collisions came six cars badly damaged but no serious injury to occupants. The first accident, which occurred Saturday at Sixth East and Seventh North streets in Logan. Involved machines driven by Mrs. Jewell L. Van Orden, 36, of Smith-fielReed Nelson, 16, and Gayle Johnson, 18, both of Logan. According to police office reports, Mrs. Van Orden was driving west on Seventh North street. She was just turning out into the street to proceed into a driveway when her car was hit on the left frontside by one driven by Mr. Nelson. Just as these autos struck, an old model car driven by Gayle Johnson, which was following the Nelson machine, crashed into it from the rear. The Johnson auto rolled over several tmes. The driver was bolding a disconnected steering wheel when tho car stopped. The Nelson machino was telescoped by the crash, and the Van Orden machine was damaged extensively on the left front. Ronald Goff of Logan, passenger in one machine, received a tooth laceration of his d; lip. wreck hapThe second three-ca- r pened Sunday at 3:30 p. m. at th3 corner of Fourth North and Third East streets, when Reed Davis, 17, of Logan, was entering tho intersection from the south and the rear end of a car driven by Carma Nielsen, 33, of Logan, who was going east on Fourth North street. The Nielsen auto swung around and crashed into a parked car owned by John Christiansen of Logan. Damages approximating $300 to the autos resulted. his auto struck Logan Woman Has Half-Doze- n Sons In Military Proud and justifiably no of her family of eight sons Is Mrs. of 128 North Ellon Hemsley Fifth East street, Logan. Six of the boys are serving Uncle Sam in the military forces, while the youngest son, Gay-lecares for the yard and does the chores about home. H i is 13 years of age. The oldest? son, Merle, is married and father of He is holding three children. down two positions at present, and resides in Ogden. The military list includes: Staff Sergeant Sharman H. Jones, who enlisted in the air corps three years ago last September. He is inspector of airplane engines at a California air field. Corporal Vertice Hemsley is stationed in Louisiana. He has oeen in service almost two years. n, Service and is in the air corps communications division. Corporal June L. Hemsley is stationed with a hospital platoon on overseas duty. Staff Sergeant F. Stewart Jones enlisted in the air corps three years ago this month and is supervisor of an office force at George Field. His plans include becoming an aviation cadet. Twins Glen and Gene Hemsley went to Salt Lake City before the close of school last spring to enlist. They were not yet 18 years of age. Gene was found to be underweight, but in eight months time has raised the necessary poundage, and will leave this month for training. Glens present station is the college training department, East Central States College, Ada, Okia, Penaranda, his brother Jorge, and seven of the ousted presidents cabinet officers and political and military aides were arrested 1 m m e d i ately, the revolutionary leaders announced. Indicating that the overthrow of the Penaranda government left Bolivias relations with the united nations unchanged, the central revoluntionary command proclaimed by radio: The new government, which has the sympathy of a majority of the nation and the army, will respect the international situation, supporting the united nations in their fight against the axis The spark plug of the revolution was Victor Paz Estensoro, lawyer and politician who became chairman of the committee which took over from Penaranda. The outgoing government signed a pact with the united nations last May and declared war against the axis two weeks ago. Major Alberto Taborga was given the post of interior minister, a powerful position. (Earlier dispatches said a major Arturo Taborga was a member of the revolutionary committee.) Casualties Unknown The full extent of casualties in street fighting in the capital was not available at once. An announcement said only that some fatalities occurred. Estensoro told the press later that the new government would continue on the side of the united nations, respecting all of Bolivias international agreements, including adherence to the Atlantic charter. He said Major Alberto Villarvoel had been named provisional pres. ident The battle of machine gun fire awakened the city at 3 a. m. A radio announced that a revolution directed by nationalist leaders and young army officials had been effected. A proclamation signed by General Penaranda, who was elected president on March 10, 1940, was broadcast. It said: "I have resigned the presidency in obedience to the will of the people and the army, which is resolved to remove me from the leadership of the nation. At 9 a. in. the revolutionary committee took possession of the presidential palace. Groups of demonstrators paraded the streets cheering the revolutionaries. Redemption Promised In a brief manifesto the revolutionaries affirmed that a regime of political and economic oppression" had ended, and the succeeding movement constituted tho "economic redemption of the Bolivian people. Augusto Cespedes, secretary (Continued On Page 3) . Rescuing The Pooch Cost His Life! CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (TO Albert Fesl, 37, saved his wife and two children from their burning apartment last night, but was injured fatally when he returned to save the children's dog. Fesl dashed back Into the builddaughing when his ter, Mary, said "we forgot Trixie. Dont worry, he assured her, I'll get Trixie. Inside his apartment, he found his retreat cut off by flames and leaped from a third story window. He died from a fractured skull. Firemen who extinguished the blaze found the dog cowering under a bed, unharmed. j i |