Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - January 14, 1945, Ogden, Utah The Weather OGDEN AND Cloudy Sunday and Monday with occasional sprinkle Sunday not much change In temperature Seventy-fifth 205 CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 14 1945 For period ending at rix Saturday 32 29 Or 52 56 29 49 27 55 30 43 Lake 32 53 Antonio 47 64 Fran 45 Albuquerque 29 28 36 34 3 36 Boise Butte Chicago Denver 36 Fran 45 Grand June 24 27 50 Lst 31 49 54 Los Angeles 54 71 26 45 Minneapolis 10 38 42 New Orleans 61 38 73 New York 35 38 Okla City 40 37 32 SECTIONS PRICE 10 CENTS U S First Launches New Assault on Bulge Maw Puts Final Touches on Economy Budget Governor to Leave For East Monday Message Will Be Read By John Hess United Press Staff SALT LAKE CITY Jan 13 UP Governor Herbert B Maw Saturday put the ishing touches on the my budget he will present to the Utah Monday as solons rested from first week's skirmishing Maw Saturday that he woulf leave to side a meeting of the of state governments in St but that the message would oe read for him before the ary 18 deadline Requests Slash The lawmakers waited with in- terest to see to what extent the budget would follow the economy note sounded in the governor's message Tuesday Last week-end they recalled the governor said that early departmental requests exceeded the previous biennial de- mand by He instructed them to slash from the requested totals While the legislators jockeyed for strategic committee jobs and tossed 50 bills and several joint resolutions into the hopper heads of various administrative were busy all week conferring preparing reports and with the Attorney General Grover A Giles meanwhile studied tive rules and statutes to prepare an opinion for Utah county lators as to the legality of the con- functioning of the tive budget committee set up by the 1943 legislature Challenge Committee Mrs Delia L Loveridge J Boyer and Burton H Adams all representative of Utah county led a floor fight Thursday and Friday to challenge the committee headed by Tom Livingood and ing until Friday former Quayle Cannon Jr and Grant Midgley now a senator among its members Speaker W R White replaced the latter two at Friday's sessions Real issue at stake was the on Page Two Column Fleet Secrecy Veils Details On Indo-China Naval Silence Suggests Attack on Jap Convoy Entering Important Phase I Without Bringing End to Critical Stage By Morrie Landsberg U S PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS Pearl bor Jan 13 secrecy Saturday drew a curtain over the U S Third fleet's heavy assault on Jap convoys assembling off the French Indo-China coast and the silence suggested perhaps a new and important phase of the ation The regular fleet communique made no mention of the attack I which began Thursday U S time with carrier raids which sank 25 j Jap warships and damaged 13 others Friday night Admiral Chester W Nimitz in a special re- port said the attack had gone into its second day The fleet silence indicated the attack had gone through its ond day Friday without bringing an end to its critical stages or at least without winding up the op- Japan's industry will not survive Japan Industry Doomed Arnold WASHINGTON Jan 13 AP U.S troops had on first dor batiks Nips at tor Samor MINDANAO MALAY STATES hit Singapore for second Japs Gather Forces Apparently the Japs had been trying to put together a huge force to sail 1.000 miles across the China sea and strike at the Luzon island positions of General Douglas Arthur's forces Saturday's communique reported only that Liberators and Mitchells from Aleutian island bases at- tacked Jap installations on Para- at Torishima Retto to the southeast Wednesday and Thursday U S and small marine air raids on and in the lau group Of the 25 ships sunk in the first day's operation off Indo-China 12 were transports and one was a light cruiser Planes Torch Saigon While the shipping was under attack other Third fleet planes pressed inland 40 miles or more setting off large fires around the city of Saigon They found only 18 enemy planes over Saigon and shot down 10 of them Another 50 enemy aircraft were tered at Thanh Son Nhut an air base at north of Saigon island and eight were destroyed Twenty enemy flying boats and seaplanes at Camranh near Saigon and at harbor Continued on Page Two Column Five The Bay region of San Francisco has a population of cording to the chamber of com- merce of San Francisco San Francisco has a per capita income of highest in the nation for cities over half a lion Seven members of the Hislop family of Huntsville are in the armed service Henry Hislop and his wife work at the Utah Army Service Forces depot Their seven sons are in the ice and they Fred 31 infantry Q P 29 in the army in John 26 rines in the Pacific Dean 24 air corps has been on 25 missions over enemy LeMoyne 22 cadet in air corps Lowell 20 at- to Halsey's fleet Wendell 18 in merchant marine No more all-embracing devotion to country could be given by er mother and seven sons 4 Cotton grown three miles north of Utah Hot Springs has been sent to News Views by Allen Nicholas whose garden produced the cotton last summer The bursted bolls are attractive and should be grown for tal purposes if for no other use That reminds me bamboo is be- ing grown in Cornwell England now that the supply of the cane has been cut off by the war If Cornwall can produce bamboo northern Utah should yield cotton At present British dealers are going to the fields of bamboo in Cornwall to buy the entire crop More than 72 airplanes a day are flying over the Atlantic to force our air command Since July 3940 we have made a total of planes More than are bombers and are fighters The average plane produced in Continued on Two Column four I the bombardment in store for it General H H Arnold declared The attacks on the Jap home islands in the past few weeks have been mere he said We'll make them wish the plane had never been invented we'll make them wish they'd never heard of Pearl Harbor Arnold a general of the army and commander of the air forces in an address prepared for the an- meeting of the National Master Masons who are members of the armed forces out- lined the pattern of strategic air war against Japan in this We will hit their factories their oil fields their harbors and cities first with our then as our bases draw closer with Fortresses and Liberators and even with our lighter He recalled how the perimeter already has closed in on Japan through the Palau Leyte and Luzon The general advised however that he anticipated a long hard and bitter struggle against Remember Japan is not a group of moderately small islands covered with inflammable paper houses as some people seem to think Japan seized a matchless combination of resources and the Dutch East Indies tin manganese bauxite rubber and oil She has now had a chance to build up reserves Her inner empire the islands plus Korea and Manchuria covers an area of more than square miles This area comprises a highly developed almost industrial and agricultural unit three times the size of many And this industrial unit has now had a chance to disperse Farm Income at All-Time High WASHINGTON Jan 13 UP Soaring war prices and a record volume of food production com- in 1944 to pad farm books to their plumpest size in history an agriculture department report showed Saturday of the national in- come found its way into farmers hands last year as agricultural cash receipts rose to the all-time peak of This exceeded the previous high of 1943 by six per cent Government subsidies and di- rect cash payments swelled farm income by nearly the department said Cash returns for crops in 1944 reached or 11 per cent above the previous year This i j included a 29 per cent rise in re- been turned mto huge dust Sheep Die in Australia CANBERRA Australia Jan 12 than producing sheep have perished due to Australia's worst drouth since being settled by whites and the country's most productive areas from food gains and a 35 per cent jump in tobacco income Farmers received a total of for livestock ings a two per cent increase over 1943 However income from try and eggs declined more than seven per cent Actress Marine Wed HOLLYWOOD Jan 12 AP Screen Actress Joyce Reynolds 20 and Marine Lt Robert Lewis 21 were married Friday night in at nearby munity church wood bowls About square third of the ly the southeastern portion is Heavy rains are now falling but continuous rainfall will be necessary to make the re- covery substantial Nazis Quell Milan Riots BERN Jan 12 AP Nazi troops were reported moving ly Saturday to quell strikes and rioting in Milan and sons were said to have been ar- rested TOWARD MANILA of one of the most spectacular weeks of action on the Pacific front are dramatically depicted in this map review of the week's activities American planes battled Jap forces off Indo-China 500 miles west of Luzon where General MacArthur s troops were slashing toward Manila Advance Continues Unchecked By Ray Cronin A P War Editor The advance of American forces toward Manila from Luzon island's Lingayen gulf area continues unchecked by Jaup resistance General Douglas MacArthur reported day Yank motorized patrols have ad- to two roadside towns 20 miles south of their gulf heads and are aout 90 miles from MacArthur's chief Philippines capital The general reporting Jap sition only on the northern front in the foothills of the Benguet mountains said the enemy yet Is either unable or unwilling to challenge our drive into the central Luzon plains This sibly indicated that the Japs were experiencing great trouble in ting troops northward from the Manila area because of shattered bridges and consistent hammering by Yank airmen along all 30 Towns Liberated The American motorized patrols reached the vicinities of tondo and To the north the doughboys occupied Santa Barbara and adding them to more than 30 towns pre- liberated is but six and a half miles north of the border of Tarlac province where bloody fighting took place in Dec 1941 as MacArthur's American and Filipino forces stop the Jap J gulf Yank drive southward from the men-of-war shelled the Japs at Rosario also on the ern front That town is 14 airline miles from Baguio summer capital in the heart of the guet mountains MacArthur said Jap airmen in- minor damage as they Continued on Page Two Column Five lazi Convoy Hit Swedes Report STOCKHOLM Jan 13 Allied planes Saturday attacked a German convoy in the Kattegat off Sweden's west coast in the heaviest such battle yet observed Swedish press reports on the coast reported seeing a great many allied German vessels and said they could see bomb hits the ships The sky was alight on with tracer shells At the same time several waves of foreign planes were reported ing toward Germany through fog at low altitudes over southern Sweden south of Goteborg Whether they were German or allied was not known here You're Due ior Tax Jolt if Wife Had Income By Max Hall WASHINGTON Jan 13 AP Congress changed the income tax rules in the middle of the game for husbands and wives who both receive many couples are finding it out with a jolt In some instances they are ing to pay a lot more 1944 tax than they expected Last April when a large group of taxpayers were filing tions of estimated tax for 1944 the law gave a husband and wife a joint exemption of and permitted them to divide it anv way they pleased Many husbands with working to apply the whole and thus stay out of higher surtax brackets But the very next month con- gress passed the individual income tax act of 1944 This law abolished the joint exemption and substituted individual exemption of apiece It said that if husband and wife both have income and file separate returns each has to take his own exemption Thus April estimates have gone haywire The law doesn't punish couples for following the old rules before the law was passed But it dow I now or in filing their income tax returns In such cases the wife gams a exemption and her tax is re- She can apply for a re- UBut especially if the couple's income is wife s won't be as much as the husband's tax increase and the net result is a larger 1944 income tax for the couple There's an additional The husband's larger tax has to be paid at least before March the wife's refund may be several months coming back Bomber Attacks Hike Allied Bridge Scores Gerr Luzon Weakness Traced to Leyte SIXTH ARMY TERS Luzon Jan 13 tenant General Walter commander of the Sixth army and General Douglas MacArthur's top field officer in the Luzon believes that Japan's futile attempt to reinforce her Leyte island forces has weakened the defense of Luzon The general pointed out in an interview that men General yuki Yamashita expended in the hopeless defense of Ormoc were drawn in part from Luzon Others escort dumped a concentration of were sent from Formosa and the bombs on railway yards at Jap homeland Jap losses in the Leyte are estimated at more than The veteran New Guinea cautioned however that he did not underestimate his foe and that it still is too early to draw conclusions from the lack of heavy enemy resistance in the first phase Lingayen gulf invasion By William Fry e LONDON Jan 13 can heavy bombers struck at seven Rhine river bridges to south of Saturday in the first blow of a systematic sault designed to wreck every span over the stream and make it impossible for the enemy to supply or to rescue his armies on the western front Swarming over western many again after two days of ness forced by the weather more than 900 and Flying Fortresses protected by more than 400 Mustangs and Thunderbolts pounded vital railway spans at Rudesheim Worms Mannheim and Karlsruhe and two at Mainz Simultaneous assaults blasted railway freight yards at scheim and Kaiserslautern Concentrate on Later in the afternoon a force of RAF Lancasters with a Mustang concentration of heavy bombs on Saarbrucken immediately behind the nazi aimed at Alsace and Lorraine Bombing through clouds except at Karlsruhe where the bridge presented a visual target U S Eighth air force heavies hit all but one of the eight Continued on Page Two Column Eight Nazis Retreat Under Impact First Army Scores Gains Up to Two Miles In Grand Attempt to Cut Off Reich From Von Rundstedt's Withdrawing Armies By Austin Bealmear PARIS Sunday Jan 14 Marshal Karl von I Rundstedt's German armies continued to fall back through their Ardennes salient last night as the U S First in a grand attempt to cut off from the reich these ing enemy gains of up to two miles In a eral assault against the mans northern flank I The First army struck dawn from south of Malmedy and I Stavelot toward St Vith town four miles from the border where von Rundstedt expected to make his next standl against the mounting allied drive I To the southwest tanks a village only a milel from the last good escape Russians Open Combat Patrols Jab 9 lies of Bologna ROME Jan 13 Fifth army combat patrols jabbing deep into the enemy's the center of the Italian front have struck less than nine miles from Bologna industrial metropolis and gateway to the central Po valley and encountered vicious resistance the allied command announced This penetration at just west of the main Bologna highway and another by a patrol which attacked San An- sano a mile southwest of vetta both ran into blazing man rifle grenade and mortar fire The company assaulting ta withdrew under cover of allied artillery after an exchange of fire The San Ansano group attempted to cross river a stream which runs northward almost into the Bologna city limits before curving eastward but as they reached the shore the doughboys were greeted by a strong mortar barrage and were forced to return to their own lines At the eastern extremity of the Italian front Eighth army forces after several days of relative clashed with the Germans fierce engagement on of land separating the goon from the Adriatic sea The allies captured 40 prisoners and counted 20 German dead Head Injuries Fatal Thomas Guthrie about 50 ad- dress not known died en route to the Dee hospital about midnight Saturday apparently from head injuries Witnesses told Police Of- Virgil Crow and L C sen that Guthrie was intoxicated and was injured when he fell on The address 409 East Lincoln ton Kas was found in one of the dead man's pockets and officers are making further investigation Letters to Missing Might Cost GI Lives WASHINGTON Jan 13 AP The war department warned day that sending letters through Winter Offensive By Richard Kasischke LONDON Sunday Jan 14 AP Stalin announced last night that the red army had opened its winter offensive on the eastern front breaking through 25 miles toward the heart of Germany on a mile front in southern Poland Striking powerfully beyond the Vistula river the Russians swept to within 69 miles of industrial German Silesia reaching river last big water barrier be- fore the Reich frontier A decisive soviet barrage from massed cannon paved the way across the frozen plains in a special der day Berlin reports said sian troops were on the move The new blow put Germany in a giant vise with more than a dozen allied armies striking con- from east and west Entire Front Threatened Overrunning more than 350 places in two days the Russians drove to within 3 miles northeast of Krakow and to within 11 miles southeast of Kielce threatening collapse the entire German front between Warsaw and Krakow The northern end of the Russian front was 100 miles south of Warsaw and 45 miles west of Sandomierz Vistula fiver bridgehead base Berlin reports describing the lish offensive as the greatest of all said that two other major soviet offensives had German and southern Czechoslovakia accompanied by smaller attacks at intervals along a front from Memel m the north down to stricken est in Hungary where the man garrison appeared to be on its last legs Move to Crush Reich The German high command termed the Polish offensive launched by Marshal Ivan S Konev's massive First Ukraine the long-expected winter army on Pale Two Column Three the International soldiers listed as missing in action may endanger the lives of those j soldiers A soldier listed as missing in tion the department explained may have escaped capture by the enemy But again a letter may only serve to that he is still at large in their tory While censorship regulations for- bid sending mail to such soldiers through the Red Cross directory service the department somt letters pass ship Normally the letters are re- turned by directory service whose only function the said is to forward mail to soldiers reported as prisoners Scribes Get Cold Facts Red Cross to j Qn jruel Conservation WASHINGTON Jan 13 AP D Harold Oliver has handled many a hot story as White House for the Associated Press but Saturday he phoned m the cold fact that he has a chill seems that someone turned It the heat on in reverse English from Houffalize German which once was the center of shrunken Belgian German resistance was light atl first but stiffened during the The enemy used tanks against then advancing Yanks and supported infantry with heavy artillery especially in the area north northwest of St Vith which Germans apparently mean to as long as possible Planes Attack Columns As fair weather enabled allied j air forces to strike hard at withdrawing Germans pilots reported heavy enemy ments eastward Among the attacked was one on Page Two rwo after reading news stories that the in th White House room was well above 70 ShS War Mobilizer Byrnes 68 degree fuel conservation the temperature balur suddenly and reporters in coats the s ostat did no good The en- eS had fixed it so that when ft was turned above 68 degrees nothing happened Pig's Signature Necessary For War Bond Promotion MARION 111 Jan 13 to let King Neptune go on Chief Petty Officer Don Lingle of the navy has a unique to complete a pig's signature on a check He's not dealing with'an nary is King the navy's No 1 porker 000 hog and an honorary member of the Marion Elks club Since King Neptune given to the navy Dec 5 by man of West 111 for war bond has been auctioned 25 or 30 times for a about in war bonds Once the state of Illinois bid for r But each successful bidder de- selling war bonds instead of giving up his choice pork chops and hams to the butcher Recently O L Norris of Marion sent S a check to help out on his board and keep But the bank of Marion wouldn t without the hog's Chief Lingle of the Marion re- won W chief's rating through the King to get the pigs foot marks on the check Tomorrow Lingle witnesses will go to a farm near Anna where the hog Is wintering and under- take the assignment Massacred Yanks Found in Field WITH THE S FIRST ARMY I SOUTH OF MALMEDY Jan frozen bodies of more than 100 Americans who were captured and then c-l slaughtered in cold blood by the Germans were found Saturday in a field near the lage of a mile south of Malmedy L slaughter which was first disclosed by a handful of A was confirmed by an in- fantry patrol which went at night located the field and dug into the snow There the bodies were found many still with their hands over their heads The bodies of the Americans members of an artillery tion battalion had lain in the field since they were mowed down after being captured by Germans who overran their positions in the breakthrough of December 16 The American infantry patrol from the regiment of the Thirtieth division counted more than 100 bodies Because they were working in the dark they were unable to give a more exact figure The field still was part of no- man's land Saturday The Germans were laying down an artillery rage against a nearby highway intersection and the was heavily mined so that the going was slow for the engineers clearing the way to the field where the massacred cans lay The enemy outrage was by Lieutenant Colonel Harold of Oconto Wis Jo an armored reconnaissance outfit ot the first SS panzer division That s the same unit which has been charged with numerous murders of London Advances War LONDON Jan 13 government announced Saturday it nad hold full dress de- bate on the general war situation a earlier than previously planned and this led to speculation that a date already had set for the impending conference of the Big Three Prime Minister Churchill will open next Thursday with his report to commons reviewing the war and the Greek the debate will continue through With President Roosevelt's January 20 there is little or no chance of the Big Three meeting before then but there u- a general feeling here that the president Churchill and Marshal Stalin of Russia will meet either late this month or early in Britain's whole military and position faces a full after the return of from the holiday recess Tuesday
