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' Truman Applauded At Press Confab Will Stay on Job -i To o Coast Confab On Radio Tonight WASHINGTON April 17 '(UP) —A poised and confi- dent Harry S Truman told his first presidential news $38-0000- Committees to Soon Be Formed By Arthur Gaeth conference today — a session — that he SAN FRANCISCOCorrespondent April would run the government Here in San Francisco the united conference of international for the time being from his nations' called UNCIO for organization desk here short is slowly taking form jam-pack- ed Standard-Examin- Post-iva- r On WASHINGTON April 17 (UP)— Survival of the naval supply depot at Clearfield Utah will depend on the postwar strength of the U S fleet in the Pacific Clearfield a supply depot for extensive navy installations in the San Francisco up for discusbay area came sion during house appropriations subcommittee hearings released today Vice Admiral Ben Moreell told subcommittee members Clearfield's fate had not been decided "It all depends on how much of the fleet is kept in commission" Moreell said The navy asked for a $78-00- 0 appropriation for a gymnasium at the barracks to accommodate the 1128 enlisted men and 200 officers stationed at Clearfield United Nations er 17-- U t 00 San-Franci- " sco Dhas lin D Roosevelt met the press twice weekly He took tbeir questions as fast as they came answering promptly and—pithily and twice drew applause a rarity at White House press conferences Mr Truman: endorsed all items of Roosevelt foreign and domestic policy about which he was asked 2 Said he would not lift the horse racing ban and that the midnight curfew and the brownout had been good for the nation's morale - Asked if he would- - lift these restrictions on V-- E day he said: Let's wait till V-day 3 Asserted he would try to carry Mr Roosevelt's public power programs and intentions wherever possible and necessary Ease and Good Humor Mr Truman stood throughout the press conference The crowd overflowed from the conference room out to a side terrace The Whole-hearted- ' ly - E Decame aimosx unDearaDiy but the president played his Oroom with complete ease and good humor He preserved Mr Roosevelt's news conference rules— such as no direct quotations unless especially he authorized — but announced Its opening session in the opera house is only eight iays away but it is still difficult to find out what the program will be We do not yet know what the agenda or order of business is There will be an opening meeting of all the delegates on April 25 They call such a meeting ja plenary session It was at such ja meeting that President Roosevelt would have spoken setting forth the purposes and ideals of this gathering of the united nations But President Roosevelt passed away and the word here is that President Truman because of the tremendous responsibility which has so quickly fallen upon him will not attend He may be represented personally by James F Byrnes who will assume a new place of importance in Washington but Edward R Stettinius Jr will probably welcome the hundreds of delegates and make the opening address after which the foreign ministers of the major countries Anthony Eden fox Great Britain Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia T V Soong for China and George Bidault for France wi make replies Post-wa- r By Elmont Waite GUAM April 17 (AP)— Six separate groups of Superfortresses blasted enemy airfields on Kyushu island today with the avowed purpose of neutralizing southern Jap bases which have been hurling suicide planes against American naval and land forces around Okinawa for a week ar navy department budget for the 1946 fiscal year starting next a slash of July 1 This was from estimates previously by the budget bureau approved Vice Admiral Frederic J Home vice chief of naval operations was revealed to have told the appropri ations committee that the navy ex pects to end the war with 1528 combat ships ranging down in size to destroyer escorts and subma rines Of these 337 obsolescent craft would be scrapped or used as Of the combat ships remaining in the postwar fleet 482 will be on active: status and 709 in an inactive state Skeleton crews would be retained on the inactive ships io maintain them and keep them in immediate readiness for service It was also understood that the navy would follow a rotation plan in its use of available ships The contemplated postwar fleet of 1191 combat ships compared with a force of 364 comparable craft in service on June 30 1939 While the committee recom mended approval of most of the navys requests it sharply criti cised personnel policy and ex pressed" the belief that there was entirely too much" commissioned and enlisted personnel in jobs normally filled by civilians both in Washington and throughout the country $452-6551- To Organize Groups After this opening day of speeches the conference will spend several days organizing into committees where most of the worfc will be done No one yet seems tp know how many committees there will be but because this conference will be guided by the Dumct barton Oaks proposals we can committees to discuss the assembly the security council the secretariat the international court of justice and the social and economic council which make up the frame-wor- k "for this international organization Then there will be such important questions to decide as what to do with colonies and mandates how to amend the would hold only one conference each week whereas the late pres ident normally held two Mr Truman was questioned ex or charter which this conference writes and many similar vtensively about foreign policy He endorsed the Bretton Woods issues Not until after committees have been: organized and thesis (Continued on Page Two) (Column Seven committees have gone to work will there be any more gatherings of the whole body or plenary called again to accept or re ject the findings of the different committees What About Colonies It may take one of these comi mittees two or three weeks to del cide what to do with the colonies of Italy and Japan because when Weather fair today with- warm they once discuss the question of - colonies they will have to take er tomorrow into consideration the German and we be the ' spring This may Turkish colonies of the last war! have been waiting for and the colonies of all the other na To the public many of these Strange men are on their way tions to the San Francisco conference sessions will be somewhat dull on - FMNK sesi-sio- ns May Ask More Personnel WASHINGTON April 17 (UP)— The navy department may ask for increased manpower to meet requests for 400000 additional personnel it was disclosed today The house committee revealedappropriations that Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs chief of naval personnel had testified that there had been requests for 400000 additional men but that no decision had been made by Secretary James V For-rest- al or Admiral Rmot JT Trin " - o On last Wednesday five delegates to the conference arrived in New York from Saudi Arabia All of them were dressed in robes and were gorgeous in jew els and head adornments i i V i Some of these outsiders should be passing through Ogden in the next week Many may seek to speed up their journey by plane I would not trade this part of America for much of the Orient that land of plagues XXTa ia 414 41£ ah 4tnAne fn Okinawa fear the nests inflictine that island! more than they do me japs The nrst night the marines slept in dwellings on the island they awoke In the morning to discover produced by fleas which are thought to be tropical rat fleas blood-swellin- gs With the fleas were mosquitoes that carry dengue fever and ma laria Hookworms are said-Rand- I Mion-Wid- e (Column Six) NEW YORK j i (Column Four) 'Phone 17 (AP)— April nation-widThe possibility of e a wort stoppage by long distance telephone operators which would tie up long lines communications was sounded by Henry Mayer attorney today for the New York branch of the Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers A strike by 18000 operators In the New York Metropolitan area was in prospect as the result of a vote by members of two unions to leave their jobs in protest against a $3 weekly wage increase ordered by the war labor board 1 - Capital Sees Ukusual Sightr-President Walk ing to Work 17 (UPH at the Waiting for the White House doorpresident was Bennett Clark former Missouri senator The president greeted Clark enthusiastically and they walked in toMr Truman's office together Clark had a short visit with the President saying as he left Mr Truman's office "I Just he would like to see an thought old friend who did not want to recommend anyone for a job or give him any advice" The Truman family will live In oiair house — used the war to house visiting during dignitar-leT-unt- U foreign late this week or possibly early next week when the Koosevelt family will move out he capital meanwhile was1 get used t0 an early-bir- d president who goes to work when most of official Washington secret service detail walked with reaching for the orange juice It was the third day of American air raids on Kyushu airdromes 325 miles north of Okinawa Carrier aircraft destroyed 109 Nipponese planes and damaged 60 in sorties over Kyushu Sunday and Monday contributing to a total of 1674 Nipponese aircraft destroyed in a month around Kyushu and the Ryukyu islands Many of them were downed in suicide attacks Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima also 'raided Kyushu yesterday "Large Task Force" Today's blow was struck by "a against large task force" of six airfields five of them on southern Kyushu It was the fourth Superfortress blow against Japan's southernmost home island in three B-2- is 9s weeks ' The Jap Domei news agency said "some 80" Superforts raided airfields for an hour and a half in midaftemoon In what was "believed to be a tactical bombing attack aimed at destruction of our air strength' Today's targets included airfields at Tachiarai Kanoya east Kanoya Izumi Kokubu and Nittagahara The last five are in the southern a sector of Kyushu around bay The attack was made without escorting r Elevenfighters were reported missing from yesterday's 400 plane incendiary raid on Tokyo which re kinded the enemy capital after fighters last Saturday burned out 10s square miles of the industrial area Yanks Press for Isles' Capture American doughboys pressed for Kago-shim- - B-2- 9s quick conquest of Ie island only three miles west of Okinawa so its (Continued on Page Two) (Column Five) 4 17 — KEA Service AP Service 1945 Bologna Circled In Italian War ROME April 17 (UP)— American Fifth army troops smashed within eight miles of Bologna today and long range artillery began shelling the outskirts of the transport hub and keystone base of the German defense line across Italy The U S Fifth and British Eighth armies had forged an assault arc almost half way around Bologna They were closing in from the southwest and northeast and all intermediate sectors Fifth army forces captured several peaks dominating roads into Bologna in a bitter battle south and southwest of the threatened city A front dispatch said big guns were wheeled into position and began lobbing shells into the outskirts of Bologna German antiaircraft batteries were the main targets of the artillerymen A number were knocked out Other tactical targets near the city were bombarded but no shells were fired into the city itself Troops of the Fifth army's tenth division captured Mount Mosca 12 miles southwest of Bologna and the hamlet of Tole ' 17 miles southwest of the city The Germans counterattacked 10 times at Mosca but were repulsed Americans Bisect Japs lash Back PARIS April 17 (AP)— The Germans launched a heavy attack today on the Ninth army's Elbe bridgehead pointing towards Berlin but the Americans beat off the attack without losing ground - To the southi the Third army captured the big Saxony rail center of Plauen in effect bisecting Germany and beat down the last six miles to the Czechoslovak border More than half of Germany was 101000 square miles conquered under allied and Russian banners and 84000 sou a re miles remaining to the Germans In Sight of Leipzig The First army cracked the de- fenses of Leipzig and fought within sight of the city and also linked up with the Ninth army at Bern-bur- g 12 miles southeast of Barby WITH U S NINTH ARMY Germany April 17 (UP)— There were unconfirmed reports today that Marshal Walter Von Model German commander on the western front had committed suicide in the Ruhr pocket where the Elbe bridgehead is being strengthened British armor drove to within 30 miles of Hamburg and 15 of the lower Elbe against resistance so rapidly that "a deteriorating to the river quick break-throug- h on a broad front can soon be expected" AP Correspondent - Robert Wilson reported The British- - also besieged Bremen The Germans attacked Lieut Gen William H Simpson's five-mideep Elbe bridgehead in the Barby sector 52 miles southwest of Berlin with 2000 infantrymen and 30 tanks The Second armored and 83rd infantry division beat back the Germans — drawn from front —inBerlin and the eastern lossesand serious destroyflicting ing 15 to 20 of the tanks In the center of the western front First army troops crashed belt of through a crumpled ft levelled guns to within sight of the ruined towers of Leipzig Germany's fifth city German military mental cases and uniformed nazi women auxiliaries were among the captured gunners The First army knocked out 324 flak guns bringing the total for four days to 732 The Indian Head (Sec) division cleared Ranstadt a suburb less than five miles west of Leipzig The 69th division completproperthree-day ed a clamp on Bonsdorf moving to within heavy mortar range of its southern limits Some 4437 prisoners were seized from the Leipzig garrison yesterday 'Jibbering Imbeciles" First army officers said some of the defending troops were "jibber-in- g imbeciles and screaming maniacs" Some wore uniforms some civilian clothes Some of the sullen girls at the defense guns were killed as they fired on American troops After cracking the chief Leipzig defense belt First army infantry was reported meeting "only negligible small arms fire" The doughboys moved slowly In to envelop the bomb - shattered rewhere a million civilians arecity ported in cellars hungry and le 00 frightened Prisoners Captured The prisoner bag on the western front for April ballooned fast— 750000 when 144000 more Germans were captured yesterday The Ruhr pocket was all but erased and 200000 of its troops were captives The American ' First army captured an amazing total of 97118 prisoners yesterday of them from the collapsing Ruhr pocket The total for the Ruhr pocket rose to 263000 and must be nearly drained dry by now The Third army took y breaking its previous record 32-2- In Hi mines JL MANILA April 17 (UP) —Jap troops were reported today heavily counter-attackin- g American forces closing in on Baguio former enemy headquarters in the Philippines The desperate Jap assaults were concentrated mostly in the rugged mountains around the Monglo-M- t Bilbil area eight miles northwest of Baguio Gen Douglas MacArthur's communique said the enemy forces were making repeated counterattacks at night before Baeuio and front reports described the attacks as "intense" Stubborn resistance and the tom?h terrain also was reported slowing the drive of two other American columns approaching Baguio former Philippines summer canital from the southwest and southeast Tactical air forces continued steady support of the American and Filipino forces throughout the Philippines Headquarters disclosed that more than 700 tons of bombs and incendiaries were dumped on Jap positions ia at least 800 sorties f Saturday and Sunday PAGES 12 Spring 52 Salt Lake San Antonio 80 58 San Fran 69 40 St Louia 59 42 Seattle 42 24 Bhertdan 57 98 Waahington 40 19 34! 50 33 38 47 - ' : FINAL EDITION 44 69 one-da- 1000 Bombers Used Approximately 1000 American heavy bombers ripped German the railways at Dresden and along Czechoslovakia frontier to the south today while the destruction of the Luftwaffe was continued by fighter pilots who knocked out 1116 planes yesterday Revised totals showed that during the first 16 days of April 3699 German planes were deshot stroyed ' of which 485 were losses down in air combat Allied for the same ' period totaled 485 ' planes Enemy plane losses represent about half of the estimated reserve strength of the German at the time of the Rhine " air-for- ce crossing Shoots Two Sons Self 70-year-- old lt i matters" - - 9 Soviets Tear New Holes In German Front By James F King LONDON April 17 (AP)— In deeply emotional terms Prime Minister Churchill today eulogized Franklin D Roosevelt as "the greatest American friend we have ever known and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the new world to the old" British premier said in His death the commons was a "bitter loss to humanity" but coming on the eve of victory it was "an enviable death" Earlier at a memorial service in St Paul's cathedral attended by the king and queen Churchill had burst into tears He said hie had noticed at Yalta that President-Roosevewassailing and that when they parted at Alexandria he "had an indefinable sense of fear that his health and strength were on the ebb" The British premier disclosed that the correspondence between himself and the late president had com& prised "more than 1700 messages" and said that mesH sages he received from Roosevelt on the day of hisj death "showed no falling off in his accustomed clears vision and vigor upon perplexing and complicated j By United Press Marshal Stalin in an order of the day today announced the red army has captured Zistersdorf Austrian oil producing center Zistersdorf is 29 miles northeast of Vienna Red armies perhaps 2000-00- 0 strong tore new holes in the eastern defenses of Berfront tolin along a day and one column was reported only 17 miles from the nazi capital 150-mi- le While armored forces fought near Eberswalde 17 miles norteast of Berlin two more soviet divisions plunged through the nazi line east of Letschin 28 miles to the southeast and 30 miles from the capital the Germans said ''Another German broadcast said tank-support- ed LONDON April 17 (AP) — Russian spearheads have cut the Seelow-A- lt Friedland road less than 20 miles from Berlin and penetrated the deeply-stagger- ed a German defenses beyond broadcast declared tonight the soviet attack at the- southern end of the new assault front had "assumed the character of a large-sca- le offensive" in itself apparently aimed at linking up with the Amerd miles to ican Third army - MacArthurPoints No V-- Hii v E Until Accusing Finger Reich Overrun : At Jap Barbarian Eisenhower Avers " WASHINGTON April 17 (AP) The Japs were accused of "barbarous and appalling atrocities" during the defense of Manila in a report by Gen Douglas MacAr-thu- r released today by the war de- PARIS April 17 (UP) — Gerik Dwight D Eisenhower will proclaim V-- E day only after the last important German pockets on the western front have been wiped out 80-od- 'west the - Soviet' paratroops dropped even closer to Berlin but were encircled ':"'""I' and wiped out nazi broadcast aid Link-u- p Reported v A Paris report said the red army linked up with the had already Americans in the Elbe valley southeast of Dresden but latest official dispatches placed the Soviets nearly 50 miles and the Americans 40 miles from the purported junction He served notice to this effect point at an interview at his Berlin said Premier Marshal yesterday partment field headquarters with a group of Stalin had thrown nine infantry A summary of the report which visiting American radio corres- five tank and two air armies into said it was based on documented pondents the last great push from the east now in its second day evidence and sworn testimony Complete Occupation To Fight Side by Side jenarged tnat babies were "re Thewar in Europe is nqt likely ocwith! to have end slashed allied until and troops Russian peatedly stabbed and Germany completely he armies when they meet will fight bayonets even in their mothers' cupied doubted there ever would side by side rather than as a sinarms women and young girls said!a He nazi surrender formal be gle unit to push the Germans into " were violated "Nazi units "including divisions the north and Faltic seas and wipe The report was issued as Brig corps armies and finally army out nazi resistance in the south obGen Carlos P Romulo Went be groups will give up separately as servers at Washington believed tofore the house to recite a grisly they exhaust ammunition and gas- day account of Jap atrocities in the oline or find themselves hopelessly Rapid progress of allied forces he said rhiiippines encircled" with Germany's estabtogether Hundreds of persons J the Mac and government lishment of separate northern and (Military Arthur statement declared were sources in London warned there southern commands suggested that bound and soaked in gasoline "or probably would be serious fighting allied' forces from east and west encircled with blazing fuei " in "for many weeks" would link up long before Gerrtiah Survivors report that the Japs afterGermany Berlin has been captured The resistance ceased j mocked and laughed at their vic- announcement of even day tims" the state added be held up until German reAir Thrill ' The report was issued by the war may sistance has been cracked in Nor- Biggest U S NINTH TACTICAL AlR department with the explanation way and Denmark it was said) that such heinous "acts are norFORCE Germany April 16 (De(UP)— American fighter mally considered improper for de- Russians Praised layed) Eisenhower praised the size and pilots got their biggest thrill of the tailed disclosure but thai the department had a duty to reveal to skill of the Russian armies as weH war today when they made their the American nation and the world as those under his command Asked first contact with Russian fliers these deliberate atrocities" which allied army would win the And the soviet airmen must have Many instances of alleged atroc- race to Berlin he said his single been just as excited over the event purpose only had been to crush for they put on one of the greatest ity were cited "Manila is dead" Romulo as- the German aYmed forces aerial exhibitions ever seen the The contact occurred when serted "and Tokyo must die— He was not interested in geo Russian " pilots not in reprisal but as a defense graphical points he said American and measure necessary to inrure PaHe praised highly the way the "bumped into each other" while at- cific peace" allied forces in the west had tacking the same German railway "No human dignity is left to worked and fought under "one train 18 miles northeast of DresWhen the Russians saw the den the piled carcasses that sicken the completely unified command " air over the ruins of a city that Gen Eisenhower s statement in- Yanks coming the soviet planes the pride of the Orient" dicated that the formal end of the went Into a vertical bank so the Romulo said "They are but evi- war in Europe may be weeks if big red stars on their wings were dence rotten and indivisible in not months away according to the visible Then the Russians zoomed death of loyalty between two Associated Press into a tight circle at tree-to- p level worlds The men and women and an and intricate flewv figure eight statement might Eisenhower's the babies who died with them mean that no V-- day proclamawth each plane's propeller almost were butchered under orders of tion will be i issued until after taking the paint off the one in the Jap supreme command beand his fanatical nazi front of it cause as Filipinos they represented Adolf Hitler (Continued on Page Two) Aerial Sky Dancing (Column Five) loyalty to America" Lieutenant Robert L Freeman Anglo-Americ- an : i V-- E j l: was-onc- e - E Japs Reportedly Building By Alab Ravenholt United Press Staff KUNMING China April 17 (UP) —Reliable sources said today that the Japs have begun large-scal- e production of a new type suicide plane which may prove more dam-agaiin some respects than Germany's vaunted The planes will replace the more expensive regular combat planes which Jap suicide pilots have been loading with explosives and crashing into American warships The new planes now under construction in Manchuria carry a long ton of - explosives — 2240 pounds —built into their nose like a torpedo warhead The pilot sits in the center of the plane which is a pusher type with propeller in the rear It was designed to have a cruising speed of 400 miles an hour and a diving speed of 600 miles an hour The planes explode when either the nose or a wing touches a solid 4-Ja- ng bs 1 sky-danci- though a few Chinese puppets also are being trained They are given ' six months' training and a final three-mont- h leave before taking off on their final mission The pilots are locked into the cockpit from the outside before the take-of- f and carry no parachute The wheels automatically drop away after the plane leaves the ground Unable either to bail out or land the plane without exploding it the pilot is doomed even before he dives on his assigned objective - Alter the take-of- f reliable sources said a suicide pilot circles the field three times while the entire personnel of the base stands at attention and salutes The pilots usually are sent against battleships and aircraft car- riers Cattanooga Tenn who was leadsaid the ing a flight of five sight of the 10 Russian planes was "biggest thrill of the war for me" "They put on the hottest exhibiI ever tion of aerial saw in giving us the recognition sign" he said P-3- 8s Special Suicide Bombers 111 EAST PEORIA April 17 (UP)— Ray Hudson 29 shot and killed his two young sens and took hi nwn liffi hprsuKe he was wor ried about leaving them with his divorced wife when he went into object The suicide pilots normally are the army?- - police said today i 2000000 Churchill Bursts into Tears As He Eulogizes Roosevelt Germany By Capturing Plauen 88-1- iIii — S3 71 32 62 38 42 30 24 29 46 43 Russians 17 Miles From Berlin Oil City Capture Aes Kepmlse Nazi Attack:' anti-aircra- A the president and chatted with him f aiong the way d This capital sawj Liver flukes are In the salt and something seen for! hadn't it today xresn waters — the president! a many years great Our medical men with the armv of the United States walking to are kept busy warding off these work enemies President Truman walked toil Tn that mmalf rrrfn a n f Ifarlram this morning striding at a work 100 miles southwest of iuunj) Berlin rapid pace from house where where the Germans cached their he and his familyBlair moved last night millions in enld wcri art trnciTr across avenue and Pennsylvania more valuable than their gold down the long broad driveway to the executive wing of the White Hundreds of boxes of paintings House iand other objects of art were Mr Truman came out of Blair: i found by our troops who discov-- I house about eight-thirt- y am! ered the hiding place smiled broadly at a group of wait- ing photographers and then Germans had thought that walked 1The over to the White House If they buried their treasures in flanked by a group secret servan old salt mine the Yanks would ice agents Michael of F Reilly su (Continued on Page Two) pervising agent of the White House i all Strike in Prospect on Page Two) (Continued - limousine-infeste- r navy commander-in-chie- f most of the requests have been for fleet personnel he testified that naval personnel was expected to total 3376-31- 5 next June 30 and 3385401 a year later The personnel ceiling set last September 7 was 3389000 but the future world security will depend on how well some of thes$ fundamental questions are solved and then how wholeheartedly the nations of the world accept the rei suits The press and radio will be im portant at this conference because much of the work of UNCIO wilt become apparent to the public only as the correspondents and comf mentators are able to find out what discussions have gone on in the "behind the scenes" meetings of the national delegations For example! when the American delegation! which is made up of eight mem bers votes to accept or reject a recommendation at a meeting it will have one vote That vote will be cast the way the majority of the eight members of our delegaj tion will have decided it should be cast They will have reached their decision in one of their own ' com-- ! mittee meetings But before ouif delegation will have made up its) mind it will have discussed the everywhere waiting an opportunity to enter the body through bare feet - But the most offensive of the scourges are mites that burrow into the skin causing scrub ty- By Merriman Smith phus which takes thousands of United Press Staff WASHINGTON April lives In the Orient i 04 - exj-pe- cori-stituti- Period WASHINGTON April 17 (UP)— A tentative navy plan for a post-— war fleet of 1191 combat ships almost three times the size of the pre-wfighting fleet — was presented to congress today The public was given its first glimpse of the navy's postwar blueas the house appropriations print committee recommended a $24879-51054- 6 j Ip Mainland Wreck 109 Enemy Aircraft Over Japan Navy Plans Fleet Of 1191 Ships in i ' 50 33 ! U S Carrier Planes j He said he would not attend the security conference because this country had a competent delegation at the conference He said he would back up its members from Washington where he belongs Head of the delega- -' tion is Secretary of State Edward R Stettinius Jr whose ultimate place In the new administration been in some doubt new president facec' a record of reDorters — 343 — in the same circular room where Frank- ' OGDEN CITY UTAH TUESDAY EVENING APRtt Six BFleets Naval Utah's Base Fate Up Hit Airfields President to Miss K - 50 83 25 Rock Grand June SI C - 24-ho- ur Though the suicide fliers mally are volunteers the high mand of the Jap air force is said to have earmarked certain pilots as a reserve to be locked in the torpedo planes in the event of a shortage norcom- ng Bulletins - WITH FIRST ARMY Aoril 7 (AP)—Spearheads of the "Fighting 69th" division smashed Into the eastern suburb outskirts of Leipzig today LONDON April 17 (AP)— Six R A F" Mosquito bombers attacking at rooftop level scooted high explosive bombs through windows and doors of thexges-tap- o headquarters building at Odense on Flyn Island in Den- mark today r Nature Rolls Her Own GREELEY Colo April 17 (AP) —Mother nature rolled count! of this sretirn snowballs Some were a foot in diamctrr :--j carefully rolled as cotton tztti: A rare combination of tcrrprrrtv- soft snow and wind prcrr:J 1 phenomena few people hxi in-fiel- ' |