Show i Don't 11iss Today The Weather on the editorial page Columnist Washington 'getting the comment on nubber Czar D 1 C: David Lawrence's tribute to the private industrialist who set a precedent for job don"— a timely the Iresignation of ' Jeffers C Vol 117 No 148 k e I - 1 Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning September 9 1943 044 IrIAT 77nr7 - p' t fr t3 Surrender of ItaliaEts f fie 1 II Retreating Germans May Be Trapped Eisenhower Grants Military Armistice On 'Unconditional' Terms People Rejoice ' N:::''''''':-:::::::-: t 'r 74 cr 'A p as4i44 OW 111110 $i eittatrt ul" 44 0 41 trltrOrJAPIP 't4 47-1 faial"414 4 polow vam 'it 6 14v011P's' ' AN "I """-- 4 - 1 aro rcl 41 tal 7i X:t 4111116"-I11- 1 de t - 24' F J 1 1 'i Allies (Official) By Edward Kennedy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA Thursday Sept 9 (AP)— Allied troops landed early Thursday in the Naples area a third of the way up the Ital ian boot a few hours after the surrender of Italy was announced d The occupation of the area presumably places allied forces behind at least some of the German troops retreating from southern Italy The allied announcement said merely that "further operations have started on the Italian mainland in the vicinity of Naples" General Dwight D Eisenhower granted Italy a military armistice on terms of unconditional surrender Wednesday and Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio read the announcement to his people on the Rome radio bomb-battere- st 4 r vuo 4 I 700RIEN -- Price Five Cents 11'owerful Force Sm shes huland FolloN:ving omel ANDO® :flfl ID Ne For Salt Lake City and vicinity: change in temperature Thursday widely scattered thundershowers in mountains Maximum temperature Wednesday AS degrees minimum temperature 50 degrees (Issued by permission of military authorities) Little- - Makeup of Troops Not Indicated 7A (This dispatch did not indicate the makeup of the landing parties Al Tunis radio broadcast reported by the OW I however said powerful British American and Canadian armies participated Naples in peacetime a city of almost 1000000 population is a vital link in Italy's (t1000R0-)ç:çlt'':M4north-sout- h railway communications and a major supply'port Rising from the shore in of an amphitheater it has been pounded long and bard by allied bombers the form As '::': 'seeking to check its use for military purposes of the axis WASHINGTON Sept 8 The announcement of the new operations came just 12 hours after President Roosevelt Wednesday New Drive Designed to Sell 'People Allied Leaders Prepare to Press that of the Italian surrender No details were immediately available night hinted that new invasion Not Banks Each Person About be under and Advantages Brought operations may way (The Swedish papers reported allied landings at Naples Genoa Gaeta land Civithailed the capitulation of Italy as to Bond Extra Stalin Predicted avecchio as well as on the island of Sardinia The Stockholm Dawns Nyheter said there $100 Buy Expected Early Parley With a "great victory" but grimly warned there must be no were rumors that parachute troops had dropped at the Calabrian town of Pizzo on ' As the united natioits cracked "Festung Europa" with the until allied troops march into BerWASHINGTON Sept 8 (UP)—Italy's unconditional sur- the instep of the Italian boot The Tunis radio said "powerful British American and lin and Tokyo fall of jaly America Wednesday mobilized a gigantic civilian render to vast blow hasten the death opened up opportunities Canadian armies are landing at various poirits in the heart of Italy") Launching the nation's $15000loan campaign against Germany and Japan and found allied leaders army to "back the attack" on Hitler's own with the $15000000- - 000000 third war to ready The war between the united nations and hey officially ended at 6:30 p in the president in a radio address t'1)0 third war loan drive opening Thursday the which the press advantages raised the possibility of new incapitulation implies T) Wednesday (12:30 p in E The campaign will reach into vasion thrusts by referring to President Roosevelt and British — is a powerful German army in Italy giving prospect of a gigantic there But men in was obvious that he had known fighting landing barges Prime Minister Winston Churchill every county city and home in battle and no hope that Italy itself willfall like a plum to the allies moving against enemy coasts at already are together and there was about it" Americo' It is designed to sell "to - e A 4 444 'I Gigantic Civilian AnnY Girds President Says To 'Back the Attack' on Axis Btir Bonds' Strategy :Italy Falls one-senten- ce let-u- p I the people and not the banks the total loan amount" And cross the continent military forces will participate in of the campaign cpcning':days In bring home to civilians the tremendous coat of war as well as a mighty display of what bonds are buying ' Actually objectives of the third war loan drive are twofold: 1 to finance the next'phase of the War effort attack: and 2 to help stem the inflationary pressure of high wa tea Each American man woman and child will be expected to purchase "at least a MO bond" Ob- viously few children or aged-arable to purchase this amount so it in up to "those who can to excee4 - WO by as much as they e canNVith a Wave of optimism sna- scrwa the continent following the wake of Ilaly's surrender naleadrra have been quick to that the road head is "still girr long and expensive" b1y Clarence Ilamberger executive vire chairman of the Utah war Irian drive in a formal statement said: tk'ednesda" -The faI of Italy is grand news Put don't let it fool any of us that it means the war is 'about Reover and will end quickly rnember while it's one down there are still two to go ' "Next comes the attack on Hitler himself And don't forget attack is the costliest phase of artare1 Both in casualties and NIV m(i ney "So let none of us forget to 'back the attack' with war bonds If we at home fail our soldiers over there will fail And they Will and must win Today bonds to- morrow victory" Meantime with burets of military and civilian activity the war bond campaign will get under way throughout the nation Thursday continumg until October 2 In Salt Lake City hundreds of trew-pfrom near-b- y military posts roll into th city in Jeeps and trucks about 9 a m and- will nn rate six) (Coriti-iw- a e ICooima rout) County Quotas In Bond Drive this moment" The phrase "at this moment" was interpolated in the prepared text as distributed earlier to the press National goal—$15000000000 Must Not Delude Selves Intermountain For those fighting men the chief executive said the war "does 000 State qu8tas—Utah $41000- - not and must not stop for one single instant" Appealing for sup000 Idaho $25000000 Nevada port of the loan drive the presi$12000000 Wyoming 12000- - dent said it is now up to American citizens to prove to the soldiers 000 are contributing your Utah counties—Beaver $145- - that "you more share and than your share" 000 Box Elder $992100 Cache "We must not delude ourselves" $1581200 Carbon $1103900 that the Italian armistice means theend of the war in the MediterDaggett WO Davis $1139000 Duchesne $121000 Emery $38- - ranean he said because the Germans still must be driven from 700 16600 Grand Garfield Italy from France and all other $122200 Iron $302500 Juah captive countries "And we must strike them on $181100 Kane $25600 Millard their own soil from all directions" $261800 Morgan $108200 Flsaid ute $31400 Rich $13800 Salt he The ultimate objectives in the Lake $22208400 San Juan war the chief executive said continue to be Berlin and Tokyo $60500 Sanpete $487500 Sevier $581700 Summit $349300 Makes Appeal Tooele $351200 Uintah $218- "I ask you" he said to "bear 700 Utah $4192100 Wasatch these objectives constantly in mind —and do not forget that we still $198500 Washington 239500 have a way to go before atWayne $40900 Weber $5910- - taining long them 300 "The great news you have heard Wednesday from General Eisenhower does not give you license to settle back in your rocking chairs and say 'Well that does it We've got 'em on the run Now we The 'United States treasury can start the celebration' The time has not come for celewar finance committee of Utah bration the chief executive deannounced late Wednesday that clared and the war must not stop because of "military exigencleg" for a single instant The president referred to the the scheduled "bombing" of the state Thursday morning by conferences which he and Prime Churchill of Britain have Wendover air base bombers "is Minister been holding in the past few weeks uncertain" and said they had made "new exHowever if the scheduled tensive plans for the future" they never lost sight of flight planned to inaugurate the theBut fact war Joan drive with a graphic become he saidandthat the war will bigger tougher rather ' portrayal of aerial strength than easier during the months to does not take place the action come The president compared the will in nowise affect other activunited nations' war effort to the ities in the third war loan cam(Continum on Pare am) paign (Column One) goa11-490000- -- - No Bombing! - immediate speculation that they soon will meet with Russian Premier Josef Stalin so the united nations can capitalize on the biggest break of the war The president and Churchill were in separate rooms at the White House whOn the news of Italy's surrender was flashed from General Dwight D Eisenhower's north African headquarters There was no immediate statement from either but there was no doubt they were fully apprised in advance It was evident that Churchill's extended stay here was predicated on the imminence of Italian capitulation Mr Roosevelt was talking with Manchester Boddy publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News when Press Secretary Stephen T Early Informed him Italy had laid down her arms "The president seemed very pleased" Boddy said afterward "It Both he and Early congratulated the chief executive The pufriend had blishera long-tim- e gone to the White House on a "purely personal" visit While highest officials withheld comment some responsible sources close to them felt there now is a good chance the European phase of the war might end this year This was based largely on the belief the Italian withdrawal will have a profound psychological effect on German troops and the home population But this hope was tempered by the realization that Germany still has intact 300 divisions capable of putting up a stern defense within the inner fortress of Europe Only last Saturday an indisputable authority predicted momentous developments in the Mediterranean but made it plain that German colbarring an internal on Pe (Contintien Nine) (Column Three) Navy Reveals 80 Per Cent Damage on Marcus Raid U S (Official) By Associated Press PEARL HARBOR Sept 8— Eighty per cent of Japanese military installations on Marcus island 1200 miles southwest of Tokyo probably were destroyed by an aircraft carrier task force IT) the attack September 1 Admiral Chester W Nimitz announced Wednesday Admiral Nimitz commander In chief of the Pacific fleet issued this communique: "A task force commanded by Rear Admiral Charles A Pow-na- il attacked Marcus island at dawn the first of September east longitude time The first wave of the attack apparently caught the enemy completely by surprise It is estimated that the attack made in several waves --1 throughout the day destroyed SO per cent of military installations on the island "Our losses totaled two fighters and one torpedo plane "Some antiaircraft fire was encountered by the initial wave but it was eliminated by succeeding attacks "Fires started throughout the Island were still burning the day following the attack "No enemy planes left the ground Seven twin - motored bombers which were parked on a runway were destroyed by our fighters Installations destroyed Included hangars fuel and ammunition storage shops and living quarters The two landing strips were severely damaged by heavy bombs An trawler was enemycaught near the island and was sunk by our planes" - Nazis Threaten Desperate Struggle to Stay There is every likelihood the nazis will fight desperately to hold the country and that oneof the most critical phases of the battle of Europe is about to begin Badoglio in a proclamation called on Italian soldiers to cease fighting the British and Americans anywhere' but to "oppose attacks from other quarters"—to fight Germans if they attack Italians He read it over Rome radio at 7:45 p in (1:45 p m E W T)—a signal to allied chieftains here that up to then the Germans had not molested him nor attempted to keep him from notifying his people Possibility of German seizure of power in Rome was considered in arrangements for putting the armistice into effect and siince the allied command chose Wednesday night as the propitious moment for it there may be swift and decisive developments in the coming hours The military armistice approved also by Russia actually was signed in Sicily last Friday on the day Italy was invaded with the stipulation it would "come into force at a moment most favorable to the allies" "That moment has now arrived" headquarters asserted Thus was Hitler's continental bastion breached and the war shortened by this greatest of allied triumphs Eisenhower Pledges Aid to Oust Nazis Eisenhower pledged the aid of the united nations to Italians who help to "eject the German aggressor" nation dropping pamphlets Allied bombers immediately roared over the declaring that "backed by the might of the allies Italy now has the opportunity of taking vengeance on the German oppressor and of aiding in the expulsion of the eternal enemy from Italian soil" It called on workers to prevent the movement of German troops or iupplies- by ship rail or road and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham allied naval commander broadcast an appeal to seamen to save their vessels from Germans who "have become the open enemy of the Italian people and intend to seize your ships" Official statements here did not specifically say allied forces would occupy Italy but the assertion that they would smash at the Germ ans in Italy made this seem obvious Italy accepted all he terms imposed by the allies—they were not disclosed—and will be obliged to "comply with political economic and financial conditions"'which will be imposed later The surrender was announced simultaneously by allied headquarters and by Mar war-wea- ry - 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