Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - November 15, 1944, Ogden, Utah The Weather cloudy this after- noon tonight and tomorrow with tog and smoke in Salt Lake valley continued cool with little change in temperature For 24-hour period m today Ogden 30 Albuquerque 35 Atlanta 58 Bismarck 24 Boise 26 Suite Chicago Denver Grand June Las Vegas Los New York Okla 40 32 28 48 50 43 41 40 Or no Lake Antonio Fran Louli Seventy-fifth 145 TIM FnM OGDEN CITY UTAH NOVEMBER 15 Af 16 SECTIONS FINAL EDITION U Wreck 14 Jap Ships Aircraft Manila Blow Seen As Prelude to Landings on Luzon PEARL HARBOR Nov 15 or ing of 14 more Jap ships and 158 to 168 planes in and around Manila bay by ican carrier aircraft Sunday was hailed today as another major preparatory step for an ultimate amphibious in- vasion of Luzon capital island of the Philippines Fighters torpedo planes and dive bombers from carrier task groups of the Pacific fleet blew up two destroyers severely damaged a and left 11 cargo vessels and oil tankers sinking or in flames Admiral Chester W itz announced Second Raid Reported Tokyo reported yesterday that carrier planes also attacked the Manila bay area Monday but this was not confirmed immediately by Pacific fleet headquarters The carrier task force raid on the Manila bay area of Luzon was the second this month Planes from Admiral William F Halsey's Third fleet destroyed 448 Jap planes and sank or damaged 30 ships in a two-day strike November Rear Admiral Frederick C man commanded the task forces which carried put Sunday's at- tacks In addition to sinking or damaging 14 ships the carrier planes torpedoed a floating dry dock and scored direct hits on many docks in Manila bay and at the Cavite navy yard IS Interceptors Downed Eighteen of 20 intercepting en- emy planes were shot down over Luzon and 10 others in attempts to attack the task groups er 130 to 140 and or damaged in strafing attacks on- Legaspi Manila and Clark strips One American surface ship was damaged but aerial losses if any were not detailed in the ment of the attacks Air attacks on the Manila area main Jap base in the Philippines were regarded as part of the ess of softening up Luzon for an eventual American landing The Continued on Pace Two Column Five He Urges Unity Anthony Eden Briton Predicts Peace Era If Allies in Harmony LEAMINGTON England Nov 15 Warwickshire Secretary Anthony Eden said day that if Britain sia and France can work together a long period of peace may come out of this war as it must if all civilization is not to be destroyed Eden speaking to his con- said that if the allied big our had been in close harmony before the war the Germans aunch their offensive against the world and if we are together they will never be able o start this business again It is imperative for the cans British Russians and French to work together understand each other and resolve their problems after the war Eden said Congress Expects Yanks Seize Three More Forts at Metz To Renew U.S War Powers Act Post-War Highway Crop Insurance Plans to Be Studied Nov 15 AP Democratic leaders in congress discussed an ab- legislative program for the short session of con- gress President velt today Afterwards they said the session could end by mid-December Speaker Rayburn re- ported the president offered no suggestions and had nothing to add to this Renewal of the second war ers act Passage of a post-war highway gram and crop insurance law in the house Action on rivers and harbors and flood control legislation in the ate Controversial Rayburn Majority Leader kley of the senate and Vice President Wallace met with the president in the first tive conference of the congress which returned to the capitol Rayburn said there might be one or two other little things taken up at this session but he expects nothing controversial The senate Barkley stated may get work Monday on a river and harbors which will be- come a vehicle for a renewed fort by Senator Aiken to win approval of the St Lawrence seaway Rayburn announced later the house would begin consideration of crop insurance next Tuesday He predicted this item would pass easily pointing out that both ty platforms indorsed revival of the insurance program which con- gress last year Over the opposition of ents a committee agreed Once more they are asking if Hitler is insane or dead Not a word of late has come from the man millions hope is dead for his death would do much to hasten the end of the war One editor suggests that Hitler may be hiding in the Bavarian Alps where he is employing plastic ery to change features in aration for country Sight to a neutral That disguise would not save him as there would be leaks his place of refuge which would guide the allies to his hiding place The sanctuary of a neutral try could not save him Our armed forces would resent such a neutrality and proceed by force to drag the war from his lair In his most interesting column Charles B Driscoll gives a up of Al Smith in his last days The Happy Warrior became most unhappy when his wife died and thereafter seldom smiled Back of this mental attitude was the gout which nagged him to the utmost afflicting him to the extent of making walking difficult This gout has long been ered an ailment of the well-to-do British high livers but Americans of the leisure class are in the same There are scores of men in Ogden who suffer of gout and quite often in the spring come down with in- of the big toe It is not primarily a disease of rich living but is due to tion which causes the liver to duce an excess of uric acid which if not thrown off by the kidneys lodges in the joints where the culation is poorest Driscoll discloses that he edited the weekly articles Al Smith con- to the McNaughton syn- That columnist has been a busy man in his day He also edited the O O Henry offerings Through the courtesy of Hugh F O'Neil I have received the biennial report of the vada State Historical Society O'Neil Mr I am sending you a copy of the Continued on Page Three Column Two Maw Lead Stands At Votes SALT LAKE CITY Nov 15 Herbert B lead over his Republican opponent J Bracken Lee stood at 1088 votes today with official canvasses com- in all but one of Utah's 29 counties Salt Lake county canvassers worked until nearly midnight checking the vote of Utah's est county It gave Maw a ity of compared with the unofficial margin compiled by the of John A Boggs Lee's campaign manager asserted yesterday dis- in the Salt Lake county vote canvass had trimmed lead to less than 200 votes and said a recount would be demanded Millard is the county without an official tabulation reported Bulletin WASHINGTON Nov 15 AP Attorney General Biddle an- that 18 steel tions and six of their officers were indicted in Trenton N J today on charges of to fix prices on stainless steel St Lawrence seaway project re- quires a formal treaty between U S and Canada In Closed Session Senator Overton said the commerce sub-committee of which he is chairman decided ly in a closed session to conduct hearings Aiken a leading cate of the deep waterway has opposed this course favoring im- mediate action on his own to sanction the development as an agreement and not a treaty President Roosevelt voiced a plea at a news conference day that congress take action on the project without delay Trio Returned to State School Three girls ranging in age from 15 to 17 years who escaped from the state industrial school about o'clock Tuesday night were back in the institution today Absence of the girls was dis- covered following a routine at seven-thirty They effected their escape school officials reported by out the of a window ground by a and fire climbing reaching escape Apparently they struck out across country and came out near the mouth of Ogden canyon about three miles from the school One of the girls was apprehended day night near El Monte golf course the other two were re- turned to the school this morning after spending the at the home of one of the girls officials said Cigaret Shortage Blamed on Yank Victory Speed-up SPOKANE Wash 15 to fee current cigaret Joe Albi president of the Spokane Athletic Round for many a good gag in- bundles for said today the problem of what caused the cigaret shortage is ele- mentary Some time ago the Round Table began addressing cigaret shipments to points in enemy territory for delivery to allied troops when they arrived Many of the packages ready have been claimed and rent shipments are consigned to Berlin and Manila with Tokyo on deck Like most of our Albi explained this cigaret business just grew and grew boys go so anxious to collect those Round Table weeds that they speeded up operations on all fronts We've been forced to plan ments to almost every burg in axis territory said Albi the bacco factories just can't keep pace with the Round Table the doughboys WASHINGTON Nov 15 Sane Price Administrator Chester Bowles holds age Inasmuch as there is no tion of rationing Bowles said in a statement last night those who pursue hoarding ods are only hurting their own interests With sane buying there should be enough cigarets able Bowles described cigaret ing as completely impractical He said War Food Administrator Marvin Jones from whom any order must come shared this view Acknowledging a bad tion of cigarets in this country as a result of Bowles said fears of shortages rather than actual shortages have contributed largely to the present situation BOSTON Nov 15 type of on thp sale level has been instituted by at least one distributor it was announced today plan provides a purchase card listing both a quota and a record of previous purchases for each retailer The retailer uses this card in obtaining x fair ment of from his dis- i British Forces in Holland Near Maas V-2 OUTSTRIPS SOUND The above chart graphically shows how Germany's new V-2 rockets travel 60 to 70 miles than man has ever they descend at 1000 miles an than explode in England Because travel noiselessly the do not have the psychological effect stirred up by the noisy and slower V-l robots England guesses the missiles may have come from as far as 200 to 300 from the vicinity of Utrecht Holland London today reported at least 15 persons were killed last night when fired salvo-of flying bombs against southern England and the metropolitain London area in their heaviest robot attack in some time Hems in lips J On Leyte Island fighting men day were on three the Jap Leyte island spearhead thrust north from the port of Ormoc and threatened to cut the spear from the shaft In a strategic maneuver of the Twenty-fourth di- vision swung wide to the west of the Jap front line regiment near Limon while other units of the Twenty-fourth maintained pressure along the line from the north First cavalry dismounted units closed in from captured Hill 1525 and Mt to the east in a move Menaces Yamashita Line In his communique today eral Douglas MacArthur spoke of the movement as a wide ment and declared it is ening the Yamashita line below mon He said American artillery was giving the infantrymen ly effective close support and de- numerous Jap gun tions At the same time American long range guns were raking the Jap supply line twisting up through the mountains from Ormoc ing reinforcement of Nip troops at Limon costly and uncertain Elements of the Ninety-sixth American infantry division gained a mountain crest looking down ward Ormoc 14 miles to the west in the vicinity of Alto peak The American Seventh division at on the west Leyte coast near the mouth of Ormoc bay repulsed a small enemy force attempting to land from barges General MacArthur reported This was the first news of the Seventh in more than a week Japs Kept Off Balance MacArthur declared that along the Ormoc corridor American troops slashing out with constant offensive punches have kept the Japs off balance prevented General gathering enough force in his for- ward areas for a strong counter- attack Elements of five Jap divisions are hemmed in by the Americans high ground on three sides of along the east narrow valley leading south On the west side of the valley are more high tains and an abrupt slope to the sea WFA Chief Hikes Fan Goals For Coming Year Jones called upon farmers today for another all-out production year in 1945 Assuming continuance of the war in Europe until next summer or next fall and consequent heavy military and lend-lease Jones set production goals closely resembling We must make Jones said that we have plenty for our armed forces for civilians for our allies and for relief needs We cannot risk the possibility of a shortage Jones recommended about the same total crop acreage as planted this year but with -some changes as to individual crops His livestock goals call for slight increases in the number of pigs farrowed in milk production and in beef cattle slaughtered but a 16 per cent reduction in egg duction The 1945 goals and the 1944 planted acreage or production re- Weat and acres Corn and acres Oats and acres Barley and acres Dry Beans and acres Dry peas and acres Soy beans for beans and acres harvested Sugar beets and acres Potatoes and acres Hay and hay seed crop on Page Two Column Iwo FIR James Board For Utah Dipte WASHINGTON Nov 15 President Roosevelt named a board to investigate a dispute between the Bingham and Garfield Railroad company in Utah and the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and Authority for the board by a tial proclamation on Nov 8 Those Richard F Mitchell justice of the Iowa supreme Walter Washington lawyer and Dr H G Crane for- mer president of University of Wyoming The authorizing the board said pute threatens to interrupt inter- state commerce in Utah Assist Boys District Gov G P Peacock of Rotary International a resident of Price made his official visit to the Ogden club today He addressed a meeting at noon in the Hotel Ben Lomond The speaker suggested that every club foster and support a project of being a big brother to boys who have lost their fathers the war He said Rotary clubs can be com- for the support given in voluntary If you stop and review the fine things that have come to Ogden since the club was organized it wouW book his wou a id thing that makes us feel proud of the country in which w live The Rev George H pealed for support of the ity war chest fond President LeHoy B Young said the club extends deepest sympathy to two members whose sons have been reported the armed Arthur B Foulger whose son Ralph was killed in- an airplane crash and S Dilworth Young whose son is reported killed in action in Belgium given by Miss Donna Peterson of Bngham City with Glenn L Hanson as piano Russ Penetrate Suburbs of Hungary Capital Fleeing Hitlerites Are Cut Down By Cossack Sabers LONDON Nov 15 Russian storm troops drove into the suburbs of Budapest today and Moscow dispatches said the assault on the Hungarian capital to have entered its final decisive stage Soviet front reports said Marshal Y Malinovsky's forces were pushing in over the northern and eastern approaches of Budapest to join in the full control of the entire corridor be- tween the Danube and Tisza south of the capital The Russians were reported swarming across the Danube be- low Budapest to invest the city from the west Moscow reported adding that the days of Budapest again seem numbered East Prussia Fights Flames A front line dispatch relayed by Moscow reported the resumption of violent fighting in East Prussia where the earth is quaking from explosions and the sky is aflame Farther north the soviet newspaper Izvestia re- ported the remnants of 30 man divisions pinned against the Baltic in Latvia and Lithuania were being finished off rapidly Soviet accounts of the close in on Budapest said Cossacks of the Don and Kuban steppes hammered at the heels of units chopping down the laggards with sabers throwing the survivors with the bodies of hundreds of Germans and Hungarians who sought to escape to the west A siege line already was on the southern outskirts to the Danube where the sians apparently held firm control of the river's east bank for the entire 268 miles to the liberated Yugoslav capital of Belgrade Danube Cleared While Malinovsky's main forces appeared to be concentrated on the eastern drive Berlin reported that soviet troops had forged across the big ditch around the capital and claimed that heavy street fighting was taking place in three miles east of Budapest In clearing the east bank of the Danube south from the gates of Budapest the red army the river towns of Solt and haza four miles to the northwest in a vicious battle that cost the Germans and Hungarians hundreds of dead The Soviets also cap- tured enemy raising their six-day bag of prisoners to Capture of the two towns gave Malinovsky's forces control of the approaches to the first highway crossing of the Danube 42 south of Budapest miles C L Forsling Calls Grazing Council SALT LAKE CITY Nov 15 L Forsling federal ing director called today for grazing service officials and stockmen advisory board council members from 10 western states to meet here Nov 16 to 25 Problems of grazing district ad- ministration and of the livestock industry will be discussed he said New Nazi Chief Metz No Fortress Germans Say as Evacuated PARIS Nov 15 Gen George S Patton's shock troops closed in on Metz through crumbling German defenses for the hill seizing of its key outposts and whittling down to seven miles the escape corridor out of the city The British Second army oping its new offensive in Holland at a whirlwind pace plunged ward five miles from the line against light resistance ing the Germans back to the last canal line covering the approaches to the Maas On the American Third army front where dispatches the early capture of the doughboys slugged it out to with in a little more than a mile o the city from the south and abou two miles from the west or formidable outlying forts Germain chateau due wes of Metz was cleared and the Americans pushed on to win Forts Hubert and Jussy against morta and small arms fire Civilians Evacuated Nazi broadcasts suggesting tha the high command had written off Metz said the of civili ans began several days ago anc Metz is no fortress least of all the strongest in the world Dispatches from Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery's Twenty first army group headquarters re that less than 24 hours aft er British forces mounted their attack in southeastern they seized the village of five miles southeast of Neder weert where they started and reached Granthem four miles be low and nine miles wes of the German border Altogether four allied armies on the march to the eas of Hitler to pacing along Heinrich Himmler Heads Reich Hitler Mad Say Reports LONDON Nov 15 ports from the continent said day that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler had become undisputed leader of Germany Adolf Hitler was a raving madman at gaden and an incipient revolt had been halted at Cologne Informed sources in Madrid said apparently had seized the party reins irom the hands the floors of his Berchtesgaden re- treat like a mad raving with tear-filled eyes that many will win the war Non-Spanish diplomatic sources in Madrid believed Hitler's mind was gone and his nerves shot as a1 result of the crises in the war and the reported Himmler to power A welling -tide of reports ing Hitler's infirmities and the change in leadership of the nazi party lacked official confirmation and German propagandists gave no definite hint of critical ments in the reich Travelers reaching Switzerland from Germany said that part of the residents of heavily bombed Cologne came out Germany continuing the war The gestapo struck swiftly and banged 31 persons yesterday alone as a warning The authoritative British Press association said official circles in London were convinced that con- trol of Germany had Hitler's faltering hands into those of Himmler with the result that the reich will fight to the last regardless of the cost Officials who have seized all re- liable evidence reaching Britain from Germany see little or no chance of a revolution within the country and no prospect of any early surrender such as occurred in 1918 to preserve the reich from destruction Frank King cy's diplomatic correspondent said The diplomatic correspondent 01 frequently used as a sounding board for government opinion also said there no longer seems any doubt that Himmler is acting leader of Germany The Times said Hermann Goering Hitler's successor also may be ill land to the Belfort gap the Vosges mountains in eastern France Retreat Toward Rhine Nowhere was more than erate resistance encountered The Germans appeared to be ing all along the line to conserve their dwindling manpower until they could fight along a line more to their liking probably on the east bank of the Rhine The capture of forts un the inner defense perimeter of Metz gave Lieutenant General George S Patton's Third army possession of five of the nine mam bastions ringing the city Fort lUange north of Metz rendered unconditionally to the Ninety-fifth division early this morning after the commander pre- had refused to come to terms Also the division were Forts Hubert and Jussy due north of famed Fort on the west side of the Moselle west of Metz The Fifth division stabbing through the southern suburbs of Metz captured Peltre two miles southeast of the city proper and was approaching the outskirts of Magny only one south Other front reports said the Third army bad narrowed the man escape corridor east of Metz to eight miles Watch Your Coward Brooklyn's Gunning for Joan Younger Untied Press Staff NEW YORK Nov lyn where that tree grows had Noel Coward out on a limb today An angry uproar gathered mounting strength as parents wives sweethearts buddies and borough officials swore vengeance upon that Englishman for his description of their wounded men The outcries began S overseas as lyn boys mournful little A proposal presented to congress by New York's Samuel Dickstein late yesterday to henceforth deny the author entry to this country brought widespread approval as did a resolution introduced in city council to boycott his book Mid- dle East but there were many who also favored more action Five brothers of a wounded eran of the battle of Naples to meet Coward just once all we'd need The in-law of a dead hero said Bring him here we'll show him A mother said he makes me boiling An ian father of three servicemen overseas said I think I kill him er the Brooklyn DaUy Eagle der a banner the front page printed a quotation from the Coward book referring to his glimpses of the mournful little Brooklyn boys lying there in military hospitals -in tears amidst the alien corn with ing more than a bullet wound in the leg or a fractured arm Twenty-four hours later the paper announced it had been be- sieged with phone calls from friends of men who voiced incensed indignation and more comments were made de- scribing attack as a just like a and ridiculous Yesterday the paper came up with a letter from Cor- poral Joe Lee former Eagle sports writer now in reporting a commendation for his battalion from General Mark W Clark LONDON Nov 15 Coward who opens a performance for British troops in Paris today does not having made any reference to troops from Brooklyn especially the phrase mournful little Brooklyn according to dispatches from the French capital Cologne Discouraged ZURICH Nov 15 elers from Germany said today that the gestapo publicly hanged 21 persons in Cologne yesterday after some inhabitants of the ily bombed Rhineland city came out openly against Germany con- the war Long pent-up resentment against the ordeals they were undergoing erupted in the defiant declaration by the logne residents that they had had enough of the war said The gestapo and SS elite guards moved in fast however and halted the incipient revolt with public hangings Weak Ail enemy positions west of the Maas were found to be weaker supposed The abandoned Meijel 12 miles west of Venlo without a fight but the British did not enter the town imr mediately because of extensive mining and South of Third front in eastern France Lieutenant eral Alexander M ican Seventh army east toward gateway to the Saar valley on a front and registered gains of Tip to a mile and a half on a line ning southeast from through to Montigny ROME Nov 15 troops of the Eighth army battled through increasing German oppor sition today to reach within five and a half miles of Faenza the next important junction point the main to Bologna The British were moving on both of the in a converging drive on Faenza and nique noted that the stiff resistance they backed toward the road 30 miles east of Bologna In the Adriatic sector Eighth army still were fighting in the pine woods southeast of
