Show i ' 7V J - - v 7' 7: - )7Xf V The Weather ' m UTAII: Cloudy with intermittent rain or snow west portion today occasional snow tonight and Saturday warmer west portion today warmer east portion tonight colder Saturday in northwest portion $ T—rmm Total 8436 2982 In Weber County Help Speed Goal $ mm F ? 4' ' : — WW- - £ "? Sale of extra bonds to individuals has climbed to $1423596 but the quota to be attained by Februf:-ary 15 is $3104800 The sale to- - corporations has reached $2939386 against a quota of $3104800 which reveals how the I Senator II C Lodge division is climbing in contrast with the sales to individuals ' Individuals are urged to obey that impulse and buy their bonds at once to press the total in the division more closely to the goal Reminder was made today that in- J dividuals have a wide choice of types of bonds to purchase and can buy the negotiable bonds- if they desirg More firms went over the top They are Anderson Jewelry John Farr Coal Superior Shoe Shining WASHINGTON Feb 4 (AP) Coffee Mug O P Skaggs Moun- Hefiry Cabot Lodge Jr resigned tain States Implement and West today as senator from Massachu Ogden Feeding and Milling setts to return to active service as an army officer -In a letter addressed to the sen ate'a presiding officer and read bf a clerk tne Lodge who holjls a reserve commission as a major said he felt that in view of impending "large scali ground fighting" and his age he could best serve his country as "a combat soldier overseas" Accordingly he wrote: "I here with thorough ' preparation be- - by fresign from the United States fore the assault the invasion of senate the Marshalls has not been attend-- 1 Appointment of a successor rests ed by the shocking losses sustained in the hands of Republican Gover- nor Jjeverett Saitonstall by the marines in the Gilberts The Boston Post said it had excuses leafned offered the of authoritatively that Salton- Regardless by the commanding officers the- stall will resign and casualties at Tarawa were exces- tenant Governor Horace T Cahill Islve compared with those at will step into the chief executive's Kwajalein position The Post article added that Cahill Having an overwhelming naval will then immediately appoint Sal force the atolls in the Marshalls were shelled for days before the tonstall to the senate — Lodge namesake and grandson assault was made The reconnaissance at Tarawa 01 a famous unueo spates senator must have been hasty and not well nrf t was eiectea to the senate No — vember 3 1936 and was reelected worked out term in 1942 Of our forces only 100 were killed fori another HeJ served Earlier in this war with and 400 wounded in the initial an I American tank detachment in landing in the Marshalls The cas- Libya ualties at Tarawa were over 4000 57 - Lj)dge to Enter Active Service - As Army Officer - FMNK Mustering-Ou- - Wendell Willkie is to be in Ogden — on Mondav evenine Within the last few days the ) distinguished visitor has been instrumental in forming the "Na tional Committee Against Nazi Persecution and Extermination of life Pacific Airmen the Jews" In the committee's declaration of ' principles the following is set — — — —— forth: - O - "To recognize and combat hateful propaganda against American citizens of Jewish descent as a powerful secret weapon of the nazis "To brine the power of publicreopinion to bear in cases Where commit sponsible officials condone or rail to oppose persecuuou vi Jews old or young" Willkie is vigorous In his opposition to those who are laboring to inject racial and religious hatred In the affairs of this country 'I Oscar Jacobl Swedish paper Ing one of the bombers He describes iUi IUC Ch9 ± corresponaen oi was in Berlin dur- raids by the allied the scenes of wv ter- - " the city of which has been de- — f l fires raped throughout two-thir- ' ds - — ? stroyed' He estimates 40 to 50 per cent ar Marshal Lauds —— Willkie Has Nerve y i uurmg the same period 64 more WASHINGTON Feb 4 (UP)— were uruoaoiy ' ue- - President Roosevelt admitted to stoyed six enemy ships were sunk day that Wendell L Willkie had two' more ships probably sunk and more nerve than he Mr Roosevelt 10 1 others damaged by U S army Zealand aircraft Marshall reauested that his warmest reearda h na ai elements or the south Pacific J ai forces saying their work would have a bearing on future operations" For the entire month of January records show 509 Jap planes destroyed in the south Pacific a loss of 80 allied nlanes against T ( J Jii! xnauiuon 'Mtour jap cruisers eight destroyers one gunboat and more tnan 125000 tons of auxiliary ship-oI PiS h&ve been sunk or damaged I I 1 — najvy and marine planes and New 5 — had when It came to calling for nigner taxes Asked during his press and radio conference for comment on Will kie s recent speech calling for high er taxation the president said that he did not have the nerve to ask for $16000000000 in new taxes as wniKie did with a smile the president remarked that he had asked only for $10000000000 He added that as far as Willkie's statement and his own position were concerned he thought they were thinking a little bit more about the next generation and not just this one ' of the capital is completely wiped 25 per cent of the rest is devastated and the entire city Is windowless Men women and children made for the shelters in utmost alarm Then when the sirens stopped screeching the thousands huddled In the subterranean refugees came out of the dark places to be faced ROCKFORD El Feb U (UW—lMlng-hou- r by entire streets in flames and and juvenile-deli- n the at nappy nour tavern: wid- - quency laws It all was in fun were appalled sight °Pf " gambling denwhere juveniles However the cleaning woman In one haven 10000 DeoDle were I could get all the drinks thw nnnf who found the discarded petition n assembled by theleif vanished1: today and two sets thought it was genuine She showed off mayors and aldermen breathed it to a detective and he summoned sounds of bursting bombs collective sighs of relief the city's legal mayor C H Bloom The "Happy Hour" fhv hA Mayor "When reached Jacob! says the I Bloom had not heard of seblter my clothes were in rags pr4 ved was mythical but during the public speaking club so he tevf days of its supposed exist-loo- turned the soles of my shoes had come over to State the matter e it shook the my overcoat was lost my very foundations Attorney Max Weston and Rock-for- d government oody was DiacK ana mue but I police had saved my life H"8 trouble began Wednesday Weston traced the Eventually Public speaking club led notary seal on the imitation "Now and then we heard the 7e? affiby John V Burl end a high school davit and et a faVlintr Klrwlr'Kif t(rprh Imithe farce exposed most chilling sound in the teacher set up an imitation mayor tation Mayor Ed Ziener and the woman tries and city council An imitation af- imitation council apologized but Othe rushA outhysterical into the street At- - fidavit was presented charging an said they had learned more about imitation tavern called the "Happy ( Continued oo P— Two) work and city government police (Comma Tbret) Hour" with violating gambling than they had expected ut Speech Club Upsets City With 'Happy Hour Farce terror-stricke- se j WASHINGTON Feb 4 (UP) — President Roosevelt today announced that he has signed the bill The bill signed by Mr Roosevelt provides $300 for all discharged veterans who have served overseas For discharged veterans who have served only within this country payments would be $100 for those who served Jess than 60 days and $200 for those with longer service Payments would be made at the rate of $100 a month "It is an important first step in the program of demobilization" the president said "The other measures recommended in the program however should also be adopted "Through the prompt enactment of this program of veteran benefits we shall furnish those who have served their country in the armed services with the sense of security which they have richly earned and which is so necessary to a high fighting morale" The rest of the president's pro gram includes provision for fed eral funds to enable members o the armed forces to resume inter rupted education and for provision of social security credits covering the period of military service He said the country also must "establish now suitable machinery for the of reasonable unemploy payment HEADQUARTERS SOUTH PA- ment allowances those veterans AIR CIFIC FORCES Feb 4 (UP) who are unble to to obtain jobs with General George C Marshall army in a reasonable period after their chief of staff has congratulated discharge" e Vif Admiral Aubrey W Fitch's south Pacific air forces for their outstanding record of destroying 27 Jap planes durine the last! 10 Roosevelt Admits das of Januarv ifc was announced six-ye- - - R providing mustering-ou- t pay for members of the armed forces At the same time he renewed his request for enactment of the rest of his' program to ease the period of transition from military to civilian - V N - "i y The Germans hurled fresh re serves into counter-attack- s against General Kyril A Meretskov- - forces west of Novgorod at the southern end of the exit from the bulge but all were repelled with more than 800 enemy troops being killed On Central Front On the central front the Second Baltic army advanced through Abovo 10 miles west of Novosokol-nltoward Latvi after killing more than 5000 Germans in the first three r days of their new offensive The First and Second Ukrainian armies pressed a battle of annihilation against nine German infantry and one tank divisions encircled In an area of about 1000 square miles backed by a stretch of the Dnieper river between Cher- kasi and Kiev Nearly 9000 enemy troops have been killed so far in fierce but futile attempts to break through the soviet lines Sixty tanks were captured or destroyed ki - 23-mi- le Woodring Backs Hull as leader - : r ) fc £Z slci YAI1INOMR -- V KWAJALEIN ATOLL Pope Warned to Go to Germany LONDON Feb 4 (UP) — v— v German reinforcements Yugoslavia from Bulgaria Greece today as Marshal T "S (Tito) Brozovlch's partisan- up activity on all fronts The partisan commininn their forces had occupied th eastern Croatian towns of Perusie also 7 attacked German earrfsn-- Fiume indicatinz that if erating in strength between Fiume Fighting raged all AVAW chopped-u- p Yugoslav front as Germans and partisans battled for control of a vital network of communications Tito reported his forces W m aged a railway line in western Bosnia and repulsed German to clear and repair the line efforts t" stress shot and killed a prominent whom she acPittsburgh physician her when she cused nt assaulting patient city de went to faim a tectives said late inursday The woman Martha Ashear fired two shots into tne Dody or tne physician Dr7 Louis L Schulman 42 as he emerged from1 the medical arts building in PJdd-As the doctor fell Miss Ashear hailed a taxicab and rode to Central police station GELLINAM NELL ONEMAK ELLEMt Ambo Channel 1 i rMECK 1 IIGEJ i'GUGEGWE A Lt At CIVJ A U S lrni) Builds War Staged in f Cassino Streets By United Press Allied Fifth army troops smashed four heavy German against their beachheads south of Rome it was disclosed today while American tanks and infantrymen fought their way through the streets of ruined Cassino counter-attack- s in battle bloody house-to-hou- se Rear Admiral Richmond K Tur Headquarters spokesmen revealed ner commander of the amphibious that the nazis powerfully reinforces ordered all troop transports forced by troops and armor rushed and most of the supporting war down from northern Italy had counter-ships into the lagoon— the world's launched their blow on to the Rome approaches largest— In the heart of the Mar 7 shall islands so that the surround during the past 48 hours the Three of them would reef enemy's protect onslaughts ing fell upon the British holding the against Jap subs Leif Erickson representing the northern end of the beachheads while the fourth combined allied press on the joinbl iui i tata American a said force flagship expeditionary troops on me the ships entered the lagoon on southern flank Wave on wave of German tanks the second day of the invasion assault troops crashed against and Tuesday while marines and army the lines but official rewere jallied still troops battling desper — said the Americans and Brit-i- s end either at ports ately resisting Japs rolled back the nazis and piled of the Kwajalein atolL up heavy casualties on the enemy The dispatch did not mention Yanks Driven Out whether the vessels encountered A forward command post near any opposition but It was presumed that the terrific preliminary Cassino reports American troops bombardment had wrecked any Jap werel driven from the streets of ships still in the lagoon and Cassino this morning after a terrorknocked out enemy coastal batter- -filled night fight against over ies whelming- - odds but they surged back into the ruined town this aftThey May 'Starve ernoon and now are locked in a Erickson Indicated ' that the death battle with the nazi garrison Twice in the past 12 hours the Americans blight not bother to inIn Marthe vade the other atolls village has changed hands and the shalls Cut off from their main battle isurging back—and forth supply base at 1Kwajalein the en- through the streets to the accom emy garrisons may A be left to paniment of a thunderous barrage and Gerfrom massed American starve ISrickson said x r ' An American army regiment has man guns American gunners are hurling overrun the air field of Kwajalein v tons of high explosive shells into island the last airi strip in the atoll remaining in enemy x hands the German positions in the south and overwhelmed a tank trap posi- ern end of the town and the nazis tion to the east Erickson reported are j countering with a continuous (Tokyo radio broadcast tan im- bombardment of our troops in the perial headquarters communique norfliern end Between them they are beating early today but it contained no stone buildings of this town the of the Marshall islands) mention into dust This afternoon the Amer Conquest Completed icans went back to Cassino and The Fourth marine division un- are hacking their way into the der Major General Harry Schmidt southern end of town with bayonets completed the conquest of Namur and hand grenades and island ravaged by bombs French and Dutch warships bom shells in probably the most concen- barded the German lines in the trated bombardment in history at Formia area adding to the disorthe northeastern corner of the atoll ganization of the enemy communiat one p m Wednesday after- - wip- cations between the northern and M hours southern fronts ing out the defenders in 24 With troops and equipment re The adjacent islands of- Gagan Edjell Debu and Edgijen also were ported still pouring ashore to re overrun by the invaders with over- inforce the Fifth army beachhead forces threat all American losses in the north- the ern part of the campaign totaling ened momentarily to break across the main enemy supply roads beonly 100 dead and 400 wounded On Kwajalein island at the south- tween Rome and Cassino which ern tip of the atoll the Seventh would split the German armies in army infantry division under Ma- Italy In two The Germans still were believed jor General Charles H Corlett was progreported making "satisfactory holding open- a narrow supply ress" with tanks flame throwers route into the town along the Via and possibly' secret weapons never Casilina but American and French before employed in the Pacific troops driving down from the north methodically annihilating the rem- were within striking distance of nants of the trapped garrison that highway On the British Eighth army Main Jap Base front 7 veteran imperial troops Kwajalein island 2 miles long launched a strong attack against was the main Jap base for the nazi hill positions about 20 miles atoll of the same name and the inland from the Adriatic coast A enemy had massed a huge concen communique said the British captration or miiitarv stores in 50 tured the enemy strong point oflarge buildings in the northeastern Torricella 22 ' miles west of Ortona (Continued on Page Two) long-expect- ed "Perfect" Ship - ' ( j LONDON Feb 4 (AP)— A thinly- LONDON Feb 4 (UP) — The veiled warning that the Germans European theatre of the United intend to defend Rome step by step States army announced proudly to- whatever the destruction entailed is reported to have been conveyed to Pope Pius XII by the nazis who apparently have been trying for some time to persuade the pontiff to go to Germany The Ankara radio said the warning had been handed the pope by Baron Ernest von' Weizsaecker German ambassador to the Vatican in the form of a statement' from Field Marshal Albert Kesselring declaring that the ultimate fate of Rome necessarily will be "subject to military consideration" The Vatican radio made it plain that the pope has no intention of leaving Rome come what may In a broadcast recorded last night by tne Associated Press the Vatican rsaidt 7 7" :y "Pius XIL since ' the very beginning of the war has refused to abandon his Rome always wishing to be present and I partake in all the moral and material sufferings of the world bleeding from the e House-to-Hous- Anzio-Net-tun- oj : - (UP) — V MARSHALL WITH MARSHALLS LEADERS (Reviewing the Seventh infantry division veterans of the Attu campaign who are now engaged in the Marshall islands invasion drive are (left to right) Major Gen Charles II Corlett commander of the Seventh Gen George C Marshall chief of staff U & army and Lieut Gen Robert C Richardson Jr commanding army forces In the central Pacific ' ' — from —: (A' P Wire 'photo — U S army) — h-- Yugoslav Forces 4 — thtUSeitockhere Germans Reinforce Feb sf VI0GGEN tpeorheoded - PITTSBURGH I i I ROIAMUI4lOiViosl$AC 1 mails iMutiimkfm Dmvonmttontot Aleutian 'M Aitovtttniuot Army'7thllonity botthotAttvMtth Pacific Ocean ' ' XI - After waiting for nearly three hours seamin a snowstorm a ? ' Cf ine Physician Shot By Seamstress r V : ' A v s CHICAGO Feb 4 (AP) — Harrv H Woodring former secretary of war proposed today that the Demo crats nominate someone like Sec retary Hull for presidentand an nounced he would call a national convention of "loyal" party mem- oers to consolidate their forces In a speech replete with denun ciations of what he termed "the e Kansas palace guard" the governor also suggested that Hul —If elected— could appoint Presi dent Roosevelt chief of the Ameri can delegation to the peace con ferences j The erstwhile Roosevelt cabinet member conferring with associates here on plans to bring together great torture 7 "The pope has always wanted party members opposed to a fourth term denned his views in an ad- Rome to be in the front line of dress prepared for the executives' spiritual resurrection He has givclub en the mostXtangible proof of his Woodring reported he planned to profound pastoral charity during summon "all loyal Democrats" to tne raias on itome bringing to the an early April meeting in "a geo stricken inhabitants words of faith graphically convenient city such as and of resignation as well as maSt Louis He stated there was terial ' aid profuse with sovereign an increasing demand for a gather generosity" Whether this broadcast was in the state of our ing "to party" among "millions of Demo tended as a response to the mes crats" who were out of sympathy sage said to have been given the with the "palace guard" and who pontiff by Von Weizsaecker was preferred the 1932 type of leader not clear The tone of the stateship exemplified by James A Far ment however seemed to confirm recurring reports that the German ley former national chairman He said a "determined- bloc" of 'have been trying to prevail upon loyal Democrats could approach wib pupe io go to uermany the forthcoming campaign with a spirit of cooperation might hold the balance of power and could join "any movement that has for its purpose the repudiation of the palace guard and its philosophy of government one-tim- IL S Fleet Takes PEARL HARBOR T H Feb 4 (UP)— The biggest invasion fleet ever assembled in the Pacific has sailed into and occupied Kwajalein lagoon Japan's main naval base east of Truk a front dispatch dis closed today as U S army troops mopped up the last battered enemv troons on Kwajalein island - 'V V7 - : j Beloye D — Over Lagoon and Wipes Out Nippons The new drives put the Soviets on the march along almost the entire lengh of the eastern t front from the Ukraine1 to the Gulf L of Finland Push Into Estonia General Leonid A Govorov's northern forces pushed up to five miles into Estonia on a broadening front and the fall of Narva historic railroad and highway junction was reported imminent One 7 soviet column slashed across the tElAOON Pskov-Narv- a railway at the Estonian border isolating Narva from all hope of reinforcement and supply from south Govorov also narrowed the exit from the German bulge below Len ingrad to 24 miles with the capture of Lugi 24 miles northeast of 750-mi- le FINAL EDITION 20 PASES— TWO SECTIONS AP Serrlce — -rr-T Feb 4 (UP)— Russian Ukrainian armies tightened their ring of encirclement around 100000 to 150000 Germans below Kiev today and resumed ' their southward drive toward the Dniester in an effort to trap hundreds of thousands of additional enemy troops Pay Measure Signed By F NEA Service MOSCOW t that-Lieu-- f-x — ' Into Estonia On Wide Front 3-- A 24-ho- ur Yaiikees ftepmlsb German Attack Oil Beachheads Near Romaib liwaj alein Marshall Me9 ©ecu pied Soviets Slash draft in 1941 Edward Merlin Sheridan pondered the registration blank section headed "dependents" Finally he put down "(1) wife'? and "(2) Mary Ann Sheridan female born Sept 12 1941" His draft board placed him the group deferred in for dependents Yesterday the automobile mechanic was arrested by FBI agents on an indictment charging failure to report for induction and making false statements to "his draft board "Mary Ann Sheridan" said Assistant U S Attorney Huntington P Bledsoe "turns out to be a' horse" "A draft horse at that" he quipped "she kept him out of the draft" Said Sheridan? "I iust filled oiif listing dependents — and the way that horse has been eating oats— well she was certainly a dependent Why the oats that mare eats Up keep me broke" Humming "Airzy Doats and Doats" FBI men Doazy packed Sheridan off to jail in lieu of $2500 bail S: m i OSDEN CITY UTAH FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4 1944 LOg ANGELES Feb 4 (AP) — Signing up for the State Are Urged Weber county's total sales in the fourth war loan drive had reached the sum of $4- 362982 at the close of business Thursday night but the spurt was caused far more by corporate than individual investments according to a report today by George S Eccles Weber county cam7 paign chairman YwT Temperatureoat (For period ending today ) MinMax MlnMax i 27 42lNew Tork 34 43 Ogden SOiOlcla 41 53 City Albuquerque 3a 42 52!Omaha 29 49 Atlanta 34FortlanI Or 44 52 Biamarck4 18 31 48 32 45Proro Boise 2T 43 30 45IRno Butt - 28 45Roc Spring 14 33 Chicago 26 33 35 52! Salt Lake Denver Grand June 28 441 San Antonio 42 63 30 50 Vegaat 45 59 St LouU Ln 42 54 Seattle o Angelea 50 58 18 37 Minneapolis 22 38! Sheridan 32 48 New Orleans 55 66Waahlngto& a w m k& Board Rules Russ Endrcle Draft Horse 150001) Nazis No Dependent In Kiev Drive He Quits Senate Individuals in W®c5rF — 5r" v x The United Press The Associated Press ?Extra Bond Sale s 0 mm UaJ5X 1 Year—No 226 Seventy-fourt- h — i day that the perfect ship at last has been built— by the army of course Etousa reported the christening n —with lemonade— of the vessel "Fubar" built in five weeks by a crew of army engineers who never had built so much as a row-bobefore and had nothing to go on but a stack of blueprints 300 steel plates and 170000 bolts The Fubar which already is in service ferrying supplies not oijily floats but does not leak Etousa said Local shipbuilders who inspected her said it was impossible to build a ship that didn't leak but Staff Sergeant Bill Iseli Salt Lake City Utah said his men didn't know that The name? Is army slang for "Fouled up beyond all recognition" ! 230-to- at j j '''' Public Works Urged WASHINGTON Feb 4 (UPi Industrialist Henry J Kaiser told a house committee today that after of public the war "a stop-ga- p works will- be essential" to maintain employment Failure to maintain "full employment" he said will result in "the greatest depression ever known" - 1 ( - x' Anglo-Americ- an - 1 Column One) In! Sight of Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN -ITALY Feb 4 (AP) —Marshal Er-- f Win Rommel master of "don't get was reported trapped" tactics back in Italy directing nazi strategy today and allied headquarters disclosed that the patrol which In su retreat the face of evitable By George E Jones for moprobed behind the German linescame marine firepower Light Kwajalein perior ISLAND NAMUR once and two bile artillery flame throwers and days and nights atoll the Marshalls Feb a (UP)— bazookas thundered and rocked within sight of Rome itself has Scattered - snipers and unseen en- against the crumbling concrete pill- returned successfully to our - lines - ' and then the Japs were sur- without a single casualty emy wounded remain on this shat- boxes was whose mission The patrol tered stinking island but the f rounded determine the enemy's strength end of sustained combat came' Most remained in hiding waiting to the end which came quickly in mdst and secondarly to cut communicaat one p m yesterday in a little on the way back was headed corner near the northwest tip of cases Only a few tried to break tions Lieutenant Frank GreenlSecond by and they could Namur island as the marines the encirclement v ee" a veteran Fifth army patrol not make it pressed in for the kill leader on was battlefield with this was I Organized enemy resistance Greenlee a former paint salesHanson Arthur WashingCaptain ended and even the toughened said the patrol had several man staccato chatwhen the battle-hardenmarines were dis- ton D narrow resescapes' and machine the of guns gusted with' the task of wiping but ter 71mortars of j onant marine thumps on the Jap troops who hovered borderline of insanity as the re died away Killed For more than four hours I had sult of the allied bombardment" and sniper bullets as I SALT LAKE CITY Feb 4 (AP) the ensuing hopeless retreat across been dodging the ruins and the si- Leo N Jones 37 of Salt Lake City poked among the island was fatally injured today in a seemed unnatural lence V S casualties have been very two-daaccident at a resy battle the Japs In their moderate although they include Police said Intersection few idential to a of favorite their one of the most popular officers: in resorted the truck He was some Jones struck the by tactics night During the marine corps died a in into back wrecked crawled hospital pill Only a few score Japs of the Police Patrolman Owen Farley force who garrisoned Na- boxes and bad to be killed yesteroriginal Jones was blind and was besaid ' mur and the adjoining island of day morningambitious maneuver of dog "InThe most ing led by a "seeing-eye- " Roi were left as a ring of marine half-doze- n rithe revealed dog evikind involved a vestigation gunfirf tightened about their de- this a made a sneaked into quick leap toward dugout dently fensive position which probably flemen who saw the truck" she until rear when echelons harassed safety and 7 was a command post inshe wasn't able said J'but walked unidentified sergeant Farley an Their fight was hopeless from the far enough Jones Mr to drag very beginning It was a mur- side alone with a Garand and killed was The injured dog away" derous bombardment then an in every living Jap Near Insane Japs Wiped Out Bv Marines on Namur Isle s ial C ed - - Pedestrian truck-pedestri- " an |