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straight night as American units, already holding one-third of the ruined town, fought to dislodge the| while American artillery traded heavy fire with the Germans west Allied and German guns massed | of Cisterna. tn the hills above Cassino rocked the town with shellfire, while both gides exchanged mortar and gunfire in the streets at close range. Fighting from house to house

American and Nazi combat patrols mepeatedly broke into the opposing lines in an effort to smash each

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‘Na-] New Zealand gunners outside the P.) ~Savage night town, meanwhile, launched a heavy ‘broken out in. the|cannonading against the enemybuildings of | held Cassino railway station a mile, BE was disclosed today, as{to the south and set the German On New Britain Near the Anzio beachhead|positions ablaze with direct hits.

ew Fi sree Cassino Fight; Foresee End of Anzio Lull DRIVE IN PACIFIC

. Headquarters spokesmen said abe thrown back after a brief enflerce flared inside | gagem Other N and allied | scattered sections of the Pacific Sifts utile x ot = with U. S. marines effecting a new landing on New Britain while other allied forces were gaining control of Los Negros in the Admiraltys and expanding a new foothold on New

patrols clashed along the beachhead perimeter without effecting any change in the battle lines,

ENGLAND STUDIES ARGENTINE REGIME

LONDON, March 8 (U. P.).—For- i through the blacked-out town,|eign Secretary Anthony Eden told|and the Marshalls, commons today that Britain was Make 110-Mile Jump confining its communications with the Argentine government to routine matters “in view of the obscurity surrounding the circum-

there had been no decisive change in the battle lines inside the town, but it was indicated that fierce fighting still was in progress.

regime is operating. “This attitude will be maintained pending developments in Buenos Aires,” Eden said.

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the” German high| On the embattled Anzio beach- Rabaul Base. begun moving upihead, German skirmishers atarmor for a fourthitempted to infiltrate British posi- r By UNITED PRESS : ve. tions southwest of Aprilia, only to| Increased allied ground offensives

Guinea.

establishing positions less than 170 miles from Rabaul. On the southern coast of New Britain, other marine units pushed their lines to Amgoring, 24 miles east of the original landing point at Arawe, In New Guinea, allied troops operating from newly-won Yalau plantation, reached the villages of Bibi and Ganglau in the Ral coastal area. t American dismounted cavalrymen won control of Los Negros in the Admiralty islands after securing the beach on the west coast at Seadler harbor and occupying Porlaka west of Monote airfield, which already was prepared for flight operation. Air and naval units also joined

Marines Make New Landing

were reported today from three

‘The land drives were ‘co-ordinated with the ever-growing aerial of-

| fensive, focused on Japan's big base = 3 at Rabaul and the enemy's central] . J0S¢Ph W. Musser, 71-year-old

Pacific holdings in the Carolines leader of “The Fundamentalists”

The marines made 2a 110-mile

tJ = = jump from thelr Cape Gloucester base to land near Talasea on Wil- SET POLYGAMY

Headquarters spokesmen said stances” in which the new Farrell | laumez Peninsula Monday morning

and husband of four wives and father of 20 children, runs afoul of federal law. y

TRIAL MARCH 20

20 Being Arraigned Today After Federal Roundup

In 3 Western States.

SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 (U. P.).—Trial of 20 fundamentalist leaders, members of a group of selfstyled “saints” who practice and preach polygamy, arrested yesterday in a three-state roundup, will be

| Russ Fear U. S. Development of Petroleum.

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Senator Brewster Says

WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P.). —Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.) said today that the special senate petroleum committee would review the proposed - division of the Italian fleet and its relationship to the entire question of petroleum development in the Mediterranean : Many congressional observers believed that Russia demanded & third of the Italian navy because she “viewed with alarm” rising Anglo-American strength in the Mediterranean area, where the United States is proposing to cons struct a 1200-mile oil pipeline. «Tt would appear that the Bahren, Arabia-Alexandria, Egypt pipeline is primarily a navy program,” Brewster sald. “Both Britain and we have been strengthening our fleets in that area until the Mediterranean is becoming an AngloAmerican sea.”

See Fear Motive

The observers who attributed Russia's demand for the Italian ships to her fear of Anglo-American strength expressed the opinion that Russia was determined to create a powerful naval force in the Black sea. They pointed out that Russia now was receiving much of her lend-lease material through Basra at the head of the Persian gulf, some 750 miles from the nearest Soviet _ territory. “All these things points to Rus-

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American planes ranging as far as Lorengau, while naval units bombarded Hauwel island, west of Los Negros. Rabaul Raided

Solomon-based planes continued their assaults on Rabaul, dropping 98 tons of bombs which destroyed five parked enemy planes, wrecked six barges and hit two small merchant vessels. The Wewak base on New Guinea was hit again by allied airmen who shot down three enemy bombers, while U. S. naval vessels sank four enemy barges in an attack on Ambitle island off the Madang coast. . In the Central Pacific, American fliers completed two months of nonstop operations with new attacks on seven enemy bases in the Carolines and Marshalls, Planes from the seventh army airforce and fleet airwing two dropped 65 tons of bombs on ‘Ponape and Kusale in the Carolines, Nauru, 400 miles west of the Gilberts, and four unidentified eastern Marshall atolls,

YANKS AND CHINESE ‘TIGHTEN BURMA TRAP

{ WITH CHINESE FORCES IN

{THE HUKAWNG VALLEY, Burma,

{March 6 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Chi-

“} nese troops, fighting beside Amreri-

can infantrymen for the first time

in this war, captured the village of Shinghan today in a push southward along the main Hukawng road that tightened the trap they and the Americans have closed around mor than 2000 Japanese. ’ The Chinese, trained by Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, advanced eight miles along the jungle road from Maingkwan, largest village in the Hukawng yalley which they captured last Sunday in one of the stiffest battles of this campaign. Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's Amer{icans wthdrew meanwhile from the

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small village clearing of Walaw{bum after capturing it in their first {cttack and took up positions where {their guns could cover Japanese | | posts still occupied in this area.

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‘RUSS SCORE BALTIC | | DIPLOMATS TO U. S.

| MOSCOW, March 8 (U. P.).—The {three Baltic diplomats to Wash- | ington were accused today of being | “agents of Hitler” by the Russian | publication War and the Working | Class, which said it was surprising | they were able to continue to take | advantage of diplomatic immunity | “to carry on activity hostile to the { Soviet Union.” {| The publication singled out Dr, A. | Bilmanis, Latvian minister to the

| “Nazi and Bolshevik atrocities in | Latvia,” which devoted one page

| to German atrocities and 27 to al- | leged Russian atrocities.

VALLEE, BETTYJANE CANCEL SEPARATION

HOLLYWOOD, March 8 (U. P.). |

going to end their three months’ marriage, although they were “very

| Diego and confirmed the report by telephone. . But yesterday Vallee came home, and the two decided to continue

girl,” said Vallee, who originally met Bettyjane after seeing her picture on the cover of a national

OFFICER KILLED IN CABARET HOLDUP

EMERYVILLE, Cal, March 8 (U, P).—~Two men armed with a submachine gun shot and killed a special-.police officer early today while attempting to rob the opera-

The two gunmen, who had forced

Officer| The Japanese cabinet met

in the Admiralty fighting = with held March 20, Federal Judge Till

| U. 8, for circulating a booklet on| press.

“She's still my favorite pin-upeygovernment monitors reported to-

man D. Johnson said today. The men, two of whom were reported to be the father of “at least 33 children” each, were seized in widespread raids in ‘Arizona, Utah and Idaho following their indictment by a federal grand jury which charged them with violating the Mann act and the Lindbergh kidnap law, and for conspiracy and mailing obscene literature, They will be arraigned today. Seized with the 20-leaders were 30 other members of the sect who face prosecution on state charges of conspiracy and: cohabitation with as many as six women. ¥

Charch Ties Severed

The fundamentalists once were members of the Mormon church but they now have no connection with the organized Latter Day Saints church which outlawed polygamy more than 50 years ago. “Polygamy is a hard thing to live and anyone who thinks it’s fun ought to try it,” one of the leaders declared. “Polygamy is the only path to celestial glory; without it, many women are driven into prostitution.” : Included among those arrested were farmer John Y. Barlow and salesman Charles F. Zitting, each reported to be the father of 33 children; Joseph W. Musser, sect leader and editor of “Truth,” the sect’s monthly publication, and Rulon OC. Allred, “naturopathic physician.” ‘Musser was the only one of the .group named In four separate compi¥ints. He was charged with conspiracy by both the federal and state governments, and with mailing obscene literature and cohabitation with five different women. The white-haired and soft-spoken Musser said his people “did not fear persecution” and that their cases would be carried to the supreme court of the United States, if nec-

of worship.

53 MORE FRENCHMEN

By UNITED PRESS

Fifty-three more Frenchmen have On the War Fronts |

been killed or executed and 46 have been arrested in continuing clashes between French patriots and Nazi controlled police forces in occupied France, according to German and, Vichy press and radio dispatches! reported to the OWI, Forty-one of the Frenchmen were killed in a fight between police and the patriots in the district of Peri-

guez in central France, the Nazi| PACIFIC—U. 8. marines leapfrog

DNB agency said in a wireless dispatch to thé controled European

Three -more Frenchmen were slain and five were arrested at St. Marie de Chignac when patriots ambushed German soldiers in an automobile, the. Vichy domestic radio broadcast. *~ In a second wireless dispatch, DNB reported nine Frenchmen described as‘ “Communists” were ex-

essary, on the grounds of freedom |MAJOrity in yesterday's primary. |

seven of ‘the eight council seats and | KILLED OR EXEGUTED ews iii =

sia’s pressing interest in the Near East and when viewed in the light of probable implications, the Russian demand for Italian naval ships, indicate clearly the developmént of a situation that bears watching,” they said.

RATION FOE FILES IN CONGRESS RACE

T. Ernest Maholm, Indianapolis criminal lawyer, who has announced that he wanted to be known in the campaign as “anti-rationing Matheholm,” today filed with the secretary of the state his declaration of candidacy for the Republican nomination for congress from the 11th district. Among those filing late yesterday were Forrest W. Littlejohn, 750 W. 25th st., for the Democratic nom-

NAPLES, March 8 (U. P).~—A

Italian political parties said ‘today a mass meeting to .be held here Sunday would challenge the right of Premier Pietro Badoglio’s government and King Victor Emman=

Fascist Italy, The mass meeting was called to protest British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's statement that the Badoglio government is the only organization which presently can command the loyalty of Italians.

tive to a 10-minute general strike which the three parties canceled. under pressure from the allied control commission 12 hours before it was due last Saturday. 1

By UNITED PRESS

Radio Rome has acknowledged

3 lalian Parties Protest Badoglio, Emmanuel Rule spokesman for the three left-wing

uel to pose as the leaders of anti-|g

It was scheduled as an alterna-|

that 208,540 workers struck in Ger-

ination for state senator; Paul G. Moffett, R. R. 2, Indianapolis, for the Republican nomination for sen-| ator; Mrs. Margaret L. Wyatt, 4500 Allisonville rd., for the Republican nomination for state representative, | and Congressman Charles M. La Follette, for renomination on the) Republican ticket in the.8th district. | State Senator Robert G. Miller] of Bloomington, manager of Homer | E. Capehart’s senatorial campaign, | also filed for renomination on the Republican ticket.

CITIZENS’ SLATE WINS KANSAS CITY VOTE

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 8 (U. P.).—The: citizens’ ticket, headed by| Mayor John B. Gage, who was swept into office in the cleanup elec- | tion of 1940 when the Pendergast machine ‘was defeated, headed | toward the March 28 run-off elec- | tion today on the crest of a 2-to-1|

Gage led his slate with 34,000; votes compared with 16,382 for A. J. Stephens, Democratic “draft” candidate, In addition to the mayoralty | post, the ‘Citizens’ currently hold |

(March 8, 1944) By UNITED PRESS i

AIR WAR-—Yanks attack Berlin in one of greatest fire raids of war.

RUSSIA—Red army outflanks Tar- | nopol, closes in on junction town

against stiff German Tesitiance,

ITALY—Germans reported regrouping - for new assault on! Anzio beachhead under constant

ecuted at Lille.

By UNITED PRESS Radio Tokyo has issued" .an “urgent” warning to the Japanese people that all air raid defenses in the home islands must be strenghthened immediately, U, 8.

day. The Tokyo announcement, coming in the wake of a series of jittery Japanese broadcasts suggesting that ‘American bombing raids may be imminent, said new air raid defense regulations are being distributed to the public and must be put into practice this month, fe “As you well know,” the broadcast said, “a part of our land has already changed into a battlefield. We, making the hearts of the officers and men on the fighting front as our own, must prepare our determination, without the slightest slackness, to meet the enemy planes whenever they come.” Ls

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allied fire; sharp patrol and ar- | tillery duels in Cassino, |

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ing to a Tokyo broadcast recorded by U. 8. government monitors, The meeting lasted four hours, Tokyo radio said, during which the cabinet approved the application of the student mobilization “in accordance with the outline of the decisive wartime . measures.” The ‘cabinet meetings recently were transferred to the imperial palace from the ‘official residence of Premier Hideki Tdjo. The Tokyo radio warned that the U. S. navy was “planning further for the next advance with vigilant hostility.” The warning noted the allied air attacks throughout the Pacific and acknowledged that “the increasing of the strength of the American air force in China is progressing,” - . “In ‘this way,” Tokyo said, “the ambition of the enemy, who is trying to erase Japan from the map of the world, ‘relying only on tre-

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