Show c - Don't Miss Todav On page five The Tribune's military expert Colonel Conrad H Lanza analyzing the possibility of a invasion this fall cross-chann- el despite the approach of the rainy season OP Vol 117 No 117 The Weather k For Salt Lake City and vicinity —Little change in temperatura Wednesday Maximum temperature in Salt Lake City Tuesday 85 degrees minimum 49 degrees (Issued by permission of military ‘‘i authorities) Five Railway Wrecks 100 Persons Deaths Reach ' War Enters Final Stage Tlith Victory Assured Declares Gen Marshall Rentové Twisted Coaches Where 79 M et Death - 79Hlitark : : At Philadelphia By United Press The 'IDIlickest week" In the history of the country's rail transportation ended Tuesday tight with a toll of at least 100 persons dead and more than 200 injured in five wrecks includ- AlliesTurn lap Field fp ToOwnElse r : 1 V Each of the accidents was on a dIfferent railroad line and all inlolved passenger trains Thewrecks all within a period of eight nights began on the night of August 30 at Wayland N Y when the Lackaanna Limited traveling from Hoboken N T to Buffalo was derailed The death toll was tl injured 75 At 6:08 p rn Mondaynight the Pennsylvania's crack flier the Limited f rom Corgressional Washington to New York was derai:ed in northeast Philadelphia At least 79 persons were killed 150 Injured ' At about the same time a Long Island railroad commuters' train u as derailed at Hempstead N Y on Long Island - Four passengers injured Early Tuesday morning the 'Twentieth Century Limited New York Central's extra fare train from Chicago to New York was wrecked at Canaatota N Y Three members of the locomotive crew were killed: tight other railway employes injured many passengers shaken up To Injured The fifth rail accident also occurred early Tuesday when art Erie railroad passenger train at Port Jatvia N Y Two members of the locomotive crew xvere injured At Philadelphia the death' toll rove to 79 as federal agents sought to establish whether the tragedy —worst rail accident in the nation since the first World war— was caused by saboteurs F B I agents seized a burned journal box and twisted axle ofe cne of the wrecked cars an day coach believed to have been the first of nine cars to derail and pi!e up The death toll rose as workmen found additional bodies buried in the wreckage During the 'day three of the injured died in hospitals The last body was removed from the wreckage at 6:40 p m more than' ZI hours after the derailment Among those known to have -- 4 arnitA e i was-deraile- old-typ- - PtId been Ida of 14 were Daniel Brock-"- a rrieat Inver Idaho and 1Villnian 45 of Palo Alto Carrying a merry Labor day crowd nine coaches of a Pennsylvania railway special train ran Into disaster Monday night as this scene shows As the train broke in the middle the 16-c- two-secti- : - Backs U S io Prevent Wars MACKINAC ISLAND Mich Sept 7 (P)—With all outward signs of perfect harmony the Republican postwar 'advisory council wrote a foreign policy charter Tuesday pledging its party to foster "responsible participation" by the United States in an organization among sovereign nations to halt future Military aggression That done this organization of 49 federal state and party office holders gave speedy approval of a revised domestic front statement condemning the new deal for what it termed t'fascist" tendencies and of adjourned to onawait the verdict its attempt to lay the country the groundwork for the 1941 Republican platform Although representatives of Wendell L Winkle the 1940 presidential nominee were conspicuously absent divergent elements of the party stamped their approval on a declaration which urged: "Responsible participation by the United States in postwar cooperative organization among sovereign nations to prevent military aggression and to attain permanent peace with organized justice in a free world" Suits All Sides d The full declaration evolved by a committee headed by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan seemed acceptable to all sides here as a document which gave comfort to both those who wanted a specific commitment for international collaboration and those who wanted no infringement on American freedom of action in the postwar ar on men perished HOUSTON Texas Sept 7 UP) — Forty-si- x ' a small ancient hotel Tuesday when fire swept r of them never got out Forty-fouI of Gulf hotel at the three-stor- y Preston and Louisiana streets in midtown Houston Justice of the Lend-Leas- e Peace W C Regan said evidence indicated that nearly all of the ied victims screaming By Wade Werner in structure the burning 7 trapped WASHINGTON Sept ()— were or suffocated asphyxiated turned HulL Secretary brusquely down Tuesday night an Argentine before they were burned e aid on the bid for It was Houston's most deadly ground that Argentina has failed fire and the costliest disaster in to do its share in protecting the the state since the New London new world from aggression In a note delivered to Foreign schoolhouse explosion which took Minister Segundo Storni in Buenos 294 lives March 18 1937 Aires Hull bluntly pointed out that "It was the most horrible thing the United States is at war and I that I have ever seen in my must allocate military supplies career" said Assistant Fire Chief where they will be used most ef- George Richardson 50 years a fectively for the defense of the fireman western hemisphere The attitude an eyewitness Lloyd Brown of the government of President said he heard men scream in Pedro Samirez he suggested "has agony indicated clearly that the Argen"I saw men crawling down the tine armed forces will not under fire escape" he related "Some of present conditions be used in a them didn't have clothes on I saw manner designed to forward the others run down the stairway and out into the street Many of those security of the new world" Hull based his refuse' on the were unclothed also" failure of the Argentine governCity Detective H R Blanchard ment to fulfill its commitments to told of a man leaping from the break relations with the axis and second floor to land on an awning sever all financial and commercial and pitch out onto the sidewalk dealings with axis countries and "He was burned and crushed" pointed out that Argentina by this Blanchard said failure also was excluding herself The old building had many from participation in vital postwar wooden partitions accounting for plans affecting the western hemi- the fact that itburned so quickly sphere said H L Matthews deputy city He stressed that Argentina fire marshal alone among all the American reCause of the blaze had not been publics had failed to sever trade determined trade and diplomatic relations with The hotel located on the second the axis in aceordance with the and third floors of the three-stor- y resolution unanimously adopted at building was used mostly by tranRio de Janeiro last year that it sients but a number of was "notorious that axis agents in tenants also were registeredregular there Argentina have been and are en- Some were old 4nen9 some were in gaging systematic espionage which has cost the united nations cripples Few of the dead men had been ships and lives" that "vicious identified propaganda" against the united nations is published in Argentina: that such publications not only are subsidized from axis sources but are enabled by government decree to obtain newsprint supplies at favorable prices that ArSEATTLE Sept 7 LiPl—Earl N gentina alone of all the American republics still iDermits radiotele- Mu Ilan Seattle fireman was "fully COMjustified" in the slaying of Marine phone and radiotelegraph on Po'o Two) Private Jack Le Favour a coroner's (ContionI (Coitimn Two) jury held Tuesday at an inquest into the shooting which occurred last week in a West Seattle home The jury found that Mu Ilan was "protecting his home his family and himself when he fired the fatal ArLrentina Gets No' terrif lend-leas- Fireman Cleared In Marine Killing Nation Waits Official Order For Fluid Milk Quotas 17-c- - Fire Ravages 420000 Nazis Since Sind 11 Hotel in Houston Slain Russ 500-wor- oil-soak- coaches crashed and striking steel poles became death traps As crews removed the debri s bodies were found until the total deaths stood at 79 OP Council 46 Die as hospitals held approx60 seriously injured 'peritately sons and 46 others were :discharged after) treatment of 'less An undeterserious injuries mined number of passengers were treated at the scene for minor injuries and resumed their journey to New York Fix Cause as 'Hot Box' Cause of the wreck railroad of ficials said was a "hot box' or journal packed with cotton waste which for an undetermined reason became dry heated bearings to a white heat and burned them out One end of car No 7 dropped to the roadbed world The latter' found satisfaction in and napped nine cars behind it The sev- the "sovereign nations" provision like a?t unwieldy whip train con- and further qualification that this enth car of the tained the most fatalities country's interest must be protectA blistering sun followed by a ed first in any world league and heavy shower coated the mixture its participation limited by observcf steel flesh wood and fabric ance of its constitutional forms Those who have favored a wider while sweating railroad workmen cut their way through the sides intervention in world affairs apand roofs of the steel cars to plauded what they regarded as an advance position for the party as reach bodies buried inside The Express first section of the expressed in the following recomtrain was wrecked in mendation: a Philadephia industrial area Adds Qualification which railroad officials said 'lim"Prosecution of the war by a ited speed to 45 miles an hour At Canastota N Y a three united nation to conclusive victory wa y investigation was begun here over all our enemies including (A) into the cause of the derailment of disarmament and disorganization (continued on Peep Two) the Twentieth Century Limited: Five) (Column which killed three persons and in-jured eight AD those dead were members of the crew of the train's steam locomotive which exploded after it had left the rails and turned over Thcre were some reports that the locomotive exploded before the WASHINGTON Sept 7 (UP) derailment but railroad authorities said it was more likely that —War Food Administrator Marvin Jones is expected to sign an the boilers blew up after: the engine was derailed The cause of order this week establishing a the wreck has not been learned quota system for control of fluid milk distribution to civilthey added train ians Five cars of the were derailed Authoritative s our c e s said The accident occurred shortly Tuesday night that the order after 4:30 a m Tuesday and prepared by officials of 'the food brought hundreds of persons of distribution administration prothis farming community to' the vides for a system of quotas scene to aid in rescue work Many giving preference to fluid milk of the passengers unhurt but for home consumption A system of quota allocations shaken Up were taken to near-bfarm homes Injured were taken governing milk sales through to2 bospitals in near-b- y home deliveries stores ane4pub towns City Allies (Official) By Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC Wednesday Sept 8 lied reinforcements already are being flown in to an airstrip seized by paratroopers 20 miles behind Lae New Guinea and Australians who landed previously from the sea east of that enemy air base now have moved within less than five miles of it General MacArthur's headquarters disclosed Wednesday that only 24 hours after the paratroopers poured out of a fleet of heavily escorted sky transports Sunday the Nadzab airstrip which they captured had been cleared of grass 10 feet tall Swiftly increasing the tempo of land and air assault in a sector where an estimated 20000 Japanese have been trapped and cut off from supply the paratroopers brushed aside enemy outer guards to push on southeastward down the Markham valley the Australians defeated a Japanese force 10 miles from Lae then approached the mouth of the Busu river which is only four miles east of that air base: the constantly covering allied air force dropped 145 tons of bombs on Japanese troop bivouacs and supplies and allied routed an fighters decisively on 41-- ing three major tragedies 5 Price Fhe Cents Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning September 8 1913 ar y - lie eating places is planned to become effective as speedily as possible in areas where the sup- ply is insufficient Although the program likely will be announced on a national basis it will be put into effect gradually in areas where demand already is exceeding supply In areas where the supply is adequate it might never be placed into operation The quotas are expected to be based on sales in Individual areas and to individual consumers during some base period perhaps May or June shot" The shooting followed investigation by Mu llan of a telephone call received shortly after midnight at a precinct fire station advising him that a man was in his home with Mrs Mu ilan July 00-- 4 Say Russia (Official) By Associated Press LONDON Wednesday Sept 8— The Russians announced in a spe- cial statement Tuesday night that more than 420000 Germans had been killed at least 1080000 wounded and 38600 captured in the first two months of the red army's big summer offensive which swept on Wednesday une checked along a front The red army also took a great toll in material from the retreating Germans Including 5729 planes 8400 tanks 5192 guns and more than 28000 trucks Moscow's announcement Bald Indicating perhaps pie haste of the German retreat ah well as its extent the Moscow statement listed among the captured material 1041 tanks 2018 guns 5382 machine guns and 7953 trucks Unefficialcalculations based on the Russian advances as recorded In the daily communiques show that the red army in the offensive begun last July 12 has recovered approximately 30000 square miles 600-mil- of territory Keep on Advancing The Russians advanced gener- ally Tuesday the soviet daily comm unique reported Wednesday driving through the Donets basin despite increasing German resistance to cut an important railway behind embattled Stalin° A total of nearly 6000 Germans were listed as killed on the various fronts in Tuesday's fighting alone Both Berlin and Moscow in their accounts of the day's fighting stressed the ferocity of the battles Moscow's special announcement of the two months of summer warfare was issued over the signature of the soviet information bureau Russian losses were not mentioned in the statement which covered from July 5 to September 5 It was on July 5 that the Germans launched the summer's heavy fighting with a drive in the OrelBarea This blow elgorod-Kursk was absorbed by the Russians who just a week later opened their own offensive a steam roller drive still under way Gains Continue Tuesday night's daily communique recorded continuing gains on four active fronts—the Donets basin the northern Ukraine the Bryansk front and south of Kharkov —with advances up to 12 miles tContinued on Poem Seven) (Column Five) Canadá Seeks Big Victory '1oan arrAwA Sept 7 (Canadian fifth Victory Press)—Canada's loan campaign will open October WASHINGTON Sept 7 UP- )-- 18 with a minimum cash objective The office of price administration of 1200000000—the largest ever announced Tuesday that raisins set for any Victory loan—it was announced Thursday packaged in small machine-mad- e cardboard cartons of less than The objective in the fourth Victwo ounces are not rationed be- tory loan last spring was $1100- cause they are ordinarily market- 000000 and like all previous war ed and used as confections rather loans it was heavily oversubthan as yrocessed fruits scribed Raisins? They're Candy! -o Pnge Seven) (Column Four) Nazis Weaken In France ALGIERS Sept 7 VP)—Since last spring the Germans have moved many of their best troops out of France to Italy and the Russian front Francois Dementhon new commissioner of justice of the French committee of national liberation said Tuesday Dementhon who started the residence movement "Ulnae" escaped from France a month ago "The German army we have in France today is not the same German army we knew in 1910" Dementhon said "It has many very young soldiers many soldiers wearied by the Russian campaigns and it has been reduced" He said the Germans had however built extensive fortifications along the channel and Atlantic coast The Todt labor organization which built the Siegfried line constructed them The French council of resistance has 16 members he said eight representing regional underground movements which have merged One represents the general labor federation and one the Catholic labor federation and one each represents the following political groups: The socialist committee of action a reconstituted radical socialist party the popular democratic party the democratic alliance the republican federation and the communist party "Its authority is recognized by all the French underground" he said Allies Poised for Delivering Knockout Blows to Axis Chief Reports to Stimson By Associated Press WASHINGTON Sept 8 (Wednesday) —General George Marshall chief of staff of the army reported Wednesday that the war has entered its final phase with the allies mounting a series of offensives which will end only with the absolute defeat a Planes Score Vital Hits Over Naples Land Forces Move Steadily With Little Fighting Allies (Official) Exclusive New York Times-Sa- lt Lake Tribune By Milton Bracker ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA Sept 7—The tempo of the battle of Italy remained sluggish on the land front Monday but continued to quicken in the skies over the vital Naples area where for the second straight day the northwest African air force stepped up its shattering attacks on air fields and communications While British and Canadian ground troops in the south moved up nearly eight miles along the road northeast from San Stefano or by spur from the coast other forces were turning southeast at Bagnara and following the zigzag transpeninsula road by the way of Sinopoli and Casoieto The exact nature of this operation was not detailed here but opposition remained regardless negligible with demolitions and the rugged terrain supplying the main difficulties ' prong of the clamp the allies have affixed to the Italian toe remained fixed near Melito according to best information here while the process of reinforcing and supplying General Sir Bernard Montgomery's army continued On Sunday the British destroyer Quilliam provided the "necessary gun support" on the left flank of the land forces in the Bagnara area southwest of Palmi but aside from this flurry progress to the present line has apparently been accomplished wtih little trouble The allies have now landed tanks in Calabria but no armored engagements have been reported save unconfirmedly by the Germans on the second day of the campaign But the comparative lull on land had no parallel in the storm of air activity initiated by allied heavy medium bombers around Naples Ranging 'far beyond the quiet land front Flying Fortresses Mitchells and Marauders pounded and blasted the chain of air bases and rail centers around - Italy's greatest southern city The Fortresses had five of the day's targets These were the iono- -o The-souther- struck Lend-leas- e 4 aid to Britain and Russia continued throughout America's great crisis (Russia so far has received over 3000 airplanes 2400 tanks 109000 submachine guns 16000 jeeps 80000 trucks 7000 motorcyc)es 130000 field telephones and 75- 000 tons of explosives) 5 Immediately after Pearl Harbor reinforcement of garrisons on the "uncoverair west territory "In brief the strength of the enemy is steadily declining while the combined power of the united nations is rapidly increasing more rapidly with each succeeding month There can be but one result and every resource we possess is being employed to hasten the hour of victory without undue sacrifice of the lives of our men" The war has entered its final phase says Marshall—a phase which "involves the launching of allied military power against our enemies in a series of constantly Increasing offensive blows until they are beaten into complete submission Plans Long Completed He leaves no doubt that the plans are drawn and eventual Ruecess certain for this series of offensive blows Without so much as a hint at the nature of these plans he writes that decisions reached as long ago as the Casablanca conference still cannot be disclosed —presumably because the operations have not yet occurred Concerning Russian demands for a second land front in western Europe Marshall has nothing to say specifically but he nasserts' that the combined bomber offensive against the continent "gives promise of being a decisive factor in the ultimate destruction of the German citaBritish-America- del" By July 1 this year he writes the Eighth air force had more than 1000 heavy bombers based in Britain Missions were averaging better than 300 bombers each and the greatest tribute to the heavy bomber was "the enemy's recognition of its importance" The says Marshall forced Germany to increase fighter production at the expense of bombers allocate new production largely to the western front withdraw experienced pilots from the Russian' and Mediterranean fronts and to withdraw even fighter planes from on PR c Four) Column Four) in the axis Avoiding any prediction of how long the war will last but "with complete assurance of the final victory to come" he submitted to Secretary of War Stimson his biennial report sketching dramatically the nation's transition from perilous unpreparedness in the summer of 1941 teunprecedented military power certain of triumph In the midst of victories on every front and sweeping plans for great new offensives the chief of the mightiest army this country has ever known—an army created equipped and trained under his leadership—d isclo ses that two years ago he watched the ominous aggressions of the Japanese never in doubt of their purpose but helpless to reinforce the Philippines because the soldiers and the machines did not exist Cites Great Strides Marshall says- that two years ago he feared- disintegration of his army of 1500000 men had to plead for extension of the selective service period beyond a single year Today commander of an army of nearly 8000000 which has proved itself in battle he can report that the enemy has lost the initiative in every theater is being inexorably crushed by the tightening rings of allied air land and sea strength "Strategically the enemy in Europe has been reduced to the defensive and the blockade is complete" Marshall writes "In the Pacific the Japanese are being steadily ejecte or rather eliminated from their conquered n Highlights of Marshall's Gains Report on War coast Panama Hawaii WASHINGTON Sept 8 (Wednesday) UP — General George C Marshall in an extraordinary narrative of America's change from military helplessness to confidence of victory makes these main points: I In two years the army has grown from 1500000 men to nearly 8000000 many of whom have proved themselves in battle 2 The enemy now is on the defensive and the united nations grow stronger month by month 3 The soldiers and machines simply did not exist for adequate reinforcement of the Philippines before the Japanese la at-Jac- ks and Alaska were given first priority Detachments were sent to guard the South American coast as far as Chile n 6 The unity of command has had as powerful perhaps the most powerful effect on the war as anything that has happened 7 American victories at Midway and in the Coral sea restored the balance of sea power in the Pacific and the resulting offensive at Guadalcanal marked the beginning of the last phase of the war S The Japanese made two major miscalculations: That the Russian army would collapse and that capture of the Philippines would not delay their time table against Australia 9 Bombings of Germany are wrecking its war potential and at sea the appears to have lost its power 10 The viefbry in north Africa demonstrated a unity of allied effort "which will sweep the enemy out of control of the European continent" - Russia" Anglo-America- U-bo- at 1 ' Germans Hampered "The net result" he adds "was that the Germans were unable to conduct any sustained offensives this summer in Russia or build up sufficient strength in the central Mediterranean to oppose the allied offensive" The report covering the period between July 1 1941 and June 30 1943 contains 58 pages plus 38 pages of footnotes and maps and charts It includes Marshall's summary of the events comprising the last three of five phases into which he divides the war The first two he treated in a previous report—first phase the fall of France and the period of national uncertainty' of the war's effect on the United States sec- - ' end phase—beginning with the battle of Britain and marked in this country by limited peacetime touct on c Nine (Cont P-- (Column Two) )‘ - |