Show The United Pwi The Associated Press Year— No 22 Seventy-thir- d OGDEN U 'A Gooc£ Loser' By SrENCER RICHARDS Standard-ExaminStaff Walter Robert Avery convicted murderer of Hoyt L Gates Ogden city police detective died today at eight a m before a twenty-fiv- e firing squad at Utah state prison just as he wished “a N bellied good loser” Four s” vote came on an amend-imto the $1202007320 treasury-s- t office appropriation bill which mid prohibit use of any treasury nds during the 1944 fiscal year &t calibre rifle slugs fired by a Weber county firing squad directed by Sheriff John R Watson piercdt his heart a m Dr at Rich Johnson prison physician pronounced him dead just two minutes later Guns Loaded Secretly Only four of' the five rifles spat death-dealin- g slugs One of the weapons loaded secretly by Sheriff Watson contained a blank cartridge but none of the executioners knew which drew the rifle loaded with a blank From a ‘range of 22 feet the fira ing squad pumped bullets into heart-shape- d target pinned over the heart of the condemned slayer by Father Joseph Moreton chaplain The victim was strapped into oaken office-typ- e an chair by J C Hutchins Ogdenity police detective The chair was on & raised wooden platform and had leg and arm straps attached Behind the chair was a wooden box placed there to catch any ricoheting bullets Crudely scrawled ion the box with white chalk was 'the inscription "Crime does not pay" Then coming from around the corner walking with a firm step appeared Avery escorted by Sheriff Watson and prison officers His head was already covered with a 'black sateen sack He was wearing striped overalls and someone had thrown a khaki coat over his shoi ders which covered a eight-twenty-thr- mine-owner- 30-3- ed 0 ' ee old-fashion- ed pin-stri- -" shirt Avery Stumbles The only sound from Avery was when he caught his toe on thjplat-jno- r I believe he cursed Hihands did not tremble as he was strapped in His shirt was undone eyd when everyone was clear the shots rang out unexpectedly much Jlo the aur- (Contlnued on Pagefjwo) PAYS PENALTY Five powered rifles barked froijs doorway in the Utah state on yard at daybreak today' Walter Robert Avery above) paid with his life for the 1941 murder of Hoyt L dates an Ogden detective whaysurprised the confessed narcotf addict in a grocery store robbery attempt here BILLIONS ASKED FORA S NAVY $2 19000000 Contract persons engaged in fishingyOOOOOO are Japs pot-bellie- job-switchi- ITALY VIEWED AS WEAKENING 00 i t navy The breakdown of uses the intends for the additional fundsnavy included: Miscellaneous expenses $7500-00- 0 research laboratory $350000 operatiqn and conservation of naval petroleum reserves $2900000 naval reserve- $48000000 training education and welfare $4845000 maintenance for the bureau of ships $850000000 ordnance and ordnance stores $1000000000 pay subsistence and transportation $494968000 medicine and surgerv Mussolini Sends Ex-Env- oy To U SyOn Visit to Neutral City A' third of the world’s fishing' fleet is owned by Japs and they take from the sea annually ppo tons of fish The total sunt caught is 17000000 tons 00 iVith rice the Japs need noth--g more than fish to give them he essentials of subsistence ' In going to war the Japs are j not heavily encumbered With a little rice and sun cured fish they trudge along the roads to battle "News & Views: I am a constant reader of your column and enjoy it Last Sunday I took the family to Morgan and saw ' a strange sight In a farm just this side of Morgan owned by Hyrum Smith where cattle are feeding a visitor has come to stay with the stock A cow elk has joined the party I am of the opinion the elk is out of a herd which has been in Cottonwood canyon for a number of years (Signed) Norman Kendall 2263 Tyler avenue” This wild life is one of the attractions of our great open spaces When I was a small an old timer invited me to go boy on ft buf falo hunt And I dreamed of the adventure but was denied the experience ) At that time I was in the hills of Nevada and the journey to the hunting grounds in would have been a longWyoming one “ i m In those days I am told a trip 0 th® Yellowstone Invited adventure with wild life I recall-thstory of the trip Lawrence Boyle and his boy companions took in a wagon e They shot sagehens and caught fish in Ogden valley They met up with deer and antelope on the (Continued on Pag Tw6) (Column Six) - HINTS Y HITLER IS DEAQ NEW YORK Feb 5 (AP)-Jos- eph E Davies former ambassador to Russia suggested last night on the "March of Time” radio program the possibility that Adolf Hitler is dead “Yhese days of mourning and grief in Germany supposedly because of the Stalingrad defeat and the fact that Hitler did not make his tenth anniversary speech last week suggests the possibility that Hitler is dead” he said “But suppose Hitler is dead” Davjes added “The nazi party with its industrial fascists and military leaders is still alive” Leaves for Ankara Ankara reported yesterday that the Turkish minister to Rumania who left Bucharest suddenly for Ankara was believed to be carrying peace feelers from Marshal Ion Antonescu Rumanian dictator Stockholm advices quoted reliable diplomatic sources as saying that an Italian delegation headed by a high army officer had left for Paris with proposals designed to be the basis for a peace agreement with Pierre Laval of Vichy On African Colonies would renounce its claims Italy to the Nice area of France and be content with minor "frontier corrections” the advices reported It proposes instead of its specific (Continued on Page Two) (Column Eight) Mrs Houdini Gives Up Ghost Communication Impossible HOLLYWOOD Feb 5 (UP) had made her doubtful about life after death But if there is a here- said the dead cannot f if1”’tos?e the living “After trying fruitlessly once a year for 10 years to pull down a message from Im convinced tne dead can’tHarry communicate with the hvmg” She said room with a rDiSa in a dark burning in front of Harry’s piocure on every anniversary of t0T 10 yeara Nothing ever duath happened” Mrs Houdini had her hair mar- JfHfi PUt °n a bri&ht new bed propped herself up on the pillows and invited reporters to her room for what she said may fee her “last interview” "I gave the spirits their chance “L marn theIr move” began YU make mine” -Sh aid seences that produce slatewriting and ghostly voices are "not only phoneys they’re fakes” Anyone who claims to receive a message from her after she j dies said will be "fibbing tor say she the Small white-haire- d Mrs’ Harry Houdini who for 10 years spent the anniversary of her husbnd’s death in a darkened room beside his candle-lighte- d picture said today that communication between the living and dead is "impossible” Mrs' Houdini confined to a rest home with heart ailment said she wanted the world to know her convictions before she died With her friends "the newspaper boys” gathered at her bedside the magician’s widow said: "Harry could escape from anything on earth If he can’t slip through a message to me from Heaven then the whole deal is off” She recalled the pact she had made with' Houdini before he died Thy gave each other messages in sealed envelopes she said and the one who died first promised to try to send the message back Mrs Houdini who' helped her husband into ts chained his hands locked trunks For him and sealed barrels said her failure to receive a message least” table-knocki- straitjac Guadalcanal Beyond ng I bell-ringi- ng i ed 5 non-ag-ricultu- activities” 3 Put workers in jobs "on sthe basis of their qualifications and without discrimination as to race color creed sect national origin or except as required by law citizenship” Excluded from the requirement that all hiring in shortage areas be done under WMC supervision were: 1 Small establishments which "in general” were defined as nonmanufacturing establishments employing less than 25 persons and firms employing manufacturing less than eight 2 Employment of domestic servants or "casual” (temporary) employes 3 State county or local govern- ments unless they "voluntarily request” that they be put under WMC regulations TWO DIE IN CRASH Ariz Feb 5 (UP) — James H Nickerson 46 and his son Harold 21 were killed late yesterday when light planes they were flying collided in midair and crashed in the desert near here it was learned today TUCSON Soviets Divide Germans Then Slay Groups In Caucasus Tassafaronga al ng commission Ordered into operation “as soon as practicable” in 32 widely-scat-erareas of "critical labor shortage” the program will tie millions to tasks deemed essential unless thir eemployers or WMC agents approve their transfer to other work WMC in Control The WMC will take control over all but small-scal- e hiring in the 32 shortage areas — and perhaps in nearly thrice as many areas where shortages are threatened— furnishing workers to employers under a priority system based on the employers’ importance to the war WMC Chairman Paufc V McNutt said the program would be carried out as a series of community operations set up by WMC area directors working with management-labo- r committees with broad national regulations adjusted to local conditions The order provides guarantees that "in so far as it will not interfere with the effective prosecution of the war:” 1 “No worker shall be obliged to accept or continue in employment which is not suitable” 2 "No employer shall be ob a worker who is liged to retain or who fails to con incompetent form to reasonable shop rules or standards of conduct” McNutt’s order directed that Except where agriculture is represented on the area management-labo- r committee control over hiring of farm workers should be exercised only to curb transfers to work The U S employment service a WMC unit is to be the main hiring agency but the order directed “maximum utilization of all existing hiring channels” which would work under WMC rules Specified as such channels were private employers labor and professional organizations schools technical institutions and government agencies The employment agencies were directed to: 1 Place workers in jobs which "will utilize their skills most effectively in the war effort” 2 “Accord priority to employers engaged in essential activities in the order of the urgency of their He Heads Yanks Yank Troops Advance on s” WASHINGTON Feb 5 (API-Resi- dent Roosevelt asked confess today for an additional 000000 cash and $210000000 contract authorizations for the EX-ENVO- I rs LONDON Feb 5 (UP)-It- aly is showing new signs of weakening under the strain of war and Benito Mussolini is trying to reach a secret peace agreement with (Column Two Vichy France in an attempt to present to his discouraged people' some profit to set off against the $67000000 Yards and docks $800000000 loss of the entire Italian empire aviation $562000000 armor arma- dispatches from Stockholm reportment and ammunition $417000000 ed today “ At the same time Ankara pointThe budget bureau said the funds werejxeeded to “provide for addi- ed out that Augusto Rosso who tional requirements for the prose- has been ordered to 'Turkey as cution of the war” and "to pro- new Italian ambassador1 was amvide for contingencies which have bassador at Washington for four Those' Japs will never go hungry arisen since the transmission of years and has an American wife the budget for the fiscal year In a neutral capital he! will have while theijart fish in the sea 1943” contact with united nations’ diplomacy if he wishes Our lastRotarian estimates that of 300Qp00 As Reds Menace Rostov TJS-Jap- s in Showdown war workers was launched today by the war manpower Authorizations $4-’0- Nazis Face Liquidation War Industries Come First In Rationing of Manpower ed F R Lauds ‘Stalih-U-p-p n Red Victory By The Associated Press American troops on Guadalcanal island have advanced to a position a half mile beyond Tassafaronga the navy reported in Washington today indicating that Japanese-hel- d village had been captured However official secrecy continued to shroud developments in an expected showdown battle between the American and Jap fleets By United Press The region around the Caucasus city of Rostov appeared to be turning into a vast trap today with between 50000 and 100000 German troops being surrounded by Russians or pushed back to the Sea of Azov ress were false At sea a communique said sporadic encounters between U S and enemy air and surface forces are continuing There was no amplify cation from naval authorities as to whether the engagements at afca between American and Japanese planes and ships were slackening or approaching a final show down The communique statement on the sea fighting was substantially the same as that issued yesterday and for two days previously in which the navy said that "recurrent engagements” or “a number of United States ground forces on Guadalcanal island advanced along the north coast to a position one-ha- lf mile northwest of Tassafaronga "Sporadic encounters between U S and Japs air and surface forces fn the Solomons island area ’ conConsiderable significance was attached to the advance beyond Tassafaronga because the Japs had on many occasions used the beach at that place for bringing in barge or shiploads of troops and supplies In today’s communique Gen MacArthur reported that United N atto n s aiV m Vn uni o'a d e d bo mbs for three solid hours on Jap airdrome at Buin 300 miles northwest of -j- - Borrowing from the Germans’ blitzkrieg technique of cutting the enemy int small groups and then each systematically liquidating was the red group army pushing toward the Sea of Azov and there appeared to be little hope for the escape of the main axis force There were indications that the Russians were getting ready to storm Bataisk a city that is only 10 miles from Rostov Rostov Fall Hinted ' The fall of Rostov wouldf unhinge the entire southern part of the German defense line It is the city that the Germans were count- - In Washington the navy reported "recurrent engagements” by opposing naval and air forces in the Solomons islands theatre but declared that Tokyo radio reports of big naval fight already--- n prog To intensify bombings ANDREWS HEADS EUROPEAN FORCE I Exponent of Air ' War Now Is Firm Being Waged J ! LONDON Feb 5 tenant General Frank j I sent-promptl- Traffic Sergeant C L Pettit of the Ogden city police department will always have a reminder of the Walter Robert Avery tragedy In his files is a traffic ticket issued against Avery for overtime parking the day before the fatal shooting pf Hoyt L Gates police officer in a thwarted grocery hold-u- p atwho paid for his crime tempt BOMB before a firing squad at the state penitentiary today - Avery’s car was parked on Washington between Twenty-thir- d ITALYNORTH street and Twenty-fourt- h Feb 10 and received the ticket when he left the car too long LONDON Feb 5 (UP)— British in one spot long rangp bombers maintaining a "I always figured it wmuld be non-sto- p allied aerial offensive atan if anything tacked Turin and Spezia in northever happened that would free western Italy the German war inhim” Pettit said today with dustrial 'center of the Ruhr and a grimSgtsmile ' the great German sub base of By the turn of events the on the French coast during ticket will now remain in the the nightj officer’s files a bitter reminder At a cost of only three planes of the night of February 11 the giant British bombers heavily attacked Turin key of Italy’s northwestern industrial triangle and made a thunderbolt raid of major weight on Lorient Chief Naval Base Spezia Italy’s chief naval base on the Guf of Genoa got its share CHICAGO Feb 5 (AP) — There of the bombs and selected war inwill be revolutionary changes in the dustry targets were attacked in the course of offensive reconnais- style of men’s clothes this spring and summer say the leaders in the sance flights over the Ruhr giving men relief from the The raids which took the R A F crews jover a European front severity of conventional attire of 550 miles from north to south They described the new styles prepared for themasculine and at the farthest point a distance of around 660 miles from trade as “rugged “practical com- clothes— known in the their bases were the night shift male contribution to an allied night and apparel world as “active day offensive as part of which a wear” Manufacturers distributors and major force of U S army flying fortresses attacked northwestern retailers at the ? men’s and boys’ Germany yesterday in their second wear clinic here say the “new big daylight raid of the war on aristocracy” — the iations workers German soil in wrar industries — are responsible As the R A F resumed its British-- for the change-ovThey believe based raids on Italy allied planes were making steady attacks of shattering power on Sicily and occasionally British fighters were ranging over the southern Italian mainland' bombing and machine-gunnin- g railroads and bridges Weather Excellent The air ministry reported that good weather contributed materially to the success of the Turin raid GENERAL ANDREWS MAJOR tinues” 5 WASHINGTON Feb President Roosevelt (UP) told Premier Josef V Stalin last night in a personal message that the "brilliant victory” of the soviet armies at Stalingrad would inspire new determination to allied achieve “the final defeat and unconditional surrender of the common enemy” It ws the second message the president has sent to Stalin within the past fortnight At the conclusion of the Casablanca conference Mr Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent Stalin a joint message Stalin’s reply — — has not been revealed Last night’s message paid glowing tribute to Stalin as supreme commander to the soviet armies and to the Russian men and women behind the lines (AP)— LieuM Andrews assumed command of U S forces in the European theatre today and announced that "my first job Is to increase and Intensify the bombing of the enemy” Andrews came to London from the middle east where he was in command of U S forces to succeed Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower now' commanden-in- chAef ofNorth African operations Himself a veteran airman An Arrter-- rews said be woiald see ican air forces in the United King dom were increased in order! to step up the aerial offensive against Germany “We intend to go all out in intensifying the air warfare” he 3aid The general added that "there will be no night bombing by American planes immediately” indicating that U S flying fortresses and Liberators would continue daylight assaults while the R A F concentrated on night bombardments He said he w’as a firm exponent oT strategic bombings such a the fortresses and Liberators have been carrying out with great success -- L A Builds More s Planes Than Nazis LOS ANGELES Feb 5 (U£) — Theodore C Coleman aircraft official today said the Los Angeles area alone is building as many planes as Hitler boasted his nazi slaves would produce during 1942 and will double that record next BRITISH - year ! Coleman urged extensive planning and construction of airport facilities and increased aid next year to small aircraft companies Coleman new chamber of commerce aviation committee chairman added that local airplane plants prodqced twice as many planes last yeat as did Japan and predicted a doubling of that figure in 1943 ace-in-the-h- Lo-rie- nt er ’ LONDON Feb 5 (AP) — A roundabout report from Stockholm today fcaid that Russian forces undner General Yeremenko had captured Bataisk 10 mile south of Rostov and the last raiduay station before the strategic city on the Salsk-Rosto- v railway ing on as a big base for what they hoped would be a march into the Russian oil fields Instead it has' become a defensive position periled by Russiancolumns from the" south southeast and northeast Russian communiques carried no confirmation of a German admission that the red army had forced a bridgehead near the Black sea naval base of Novorossisk Germans said yesterday that three landing attempts were made by the Russians and that two were repelled The third succeeded according to Berlin but the Germans insisted that the Russians had been pressed back into a narrow sector pt the coast Today the highcommand said “such battalions as succeeded in landing are encircled and face annihilation” Soviet gains were made on two- other important fronts — Kursk and Kharkov The red army captured 1485 prisoners during the night bringing the total since the start of the offensive to 31000 Seventeen thousand axis troops have been killed since Ihe Russians started their drive from Voronezh on January 27 In fighting around Kupyansk 65 the red miles east of Kharkov army stormed an important German position killing 600 of the Prisoners were taken and enemy three tanks were destroyed Yankee Fliers Active Meantime on the African front Associated Press news of a smashing aerial victory in which American flying fortress bombers and Lightning fighters destroyed 26 enemy planes and damaged another 26 with a loss of only 10 of their own number was tempered somewhat today by the disclosure that U S armored forces had withdrawn from the Sened railway station in central Tunisia 65 miles northwest of Gabes activity” was reportbored from the Tunisian-Libya- n der area where the British Eighth army is following Marshal Rommel’s rearguards into Tunisia The air battle in which American planes scored theif- most decisive triumph of the Tunisian campaign so far occurrecLwhen the fortresses with their fighter escort made a heavy attack on German airdromes and auxiliary fields at Gabes Thursday and in subsequent sweeps by Lightning fighters over Only-“patr- ol - Ne iv Male Styles to Be Rugged Practical for More Active Wear (ConUnued on Pa ft frwo) (Column five) FINAL EDI1ION 20 PAGES— TWO SECTIONS NE A Service starts July 1— for the purchase of silver under the 1934 or 1939 silver purchase acts The amendment — sponsored by Celler— was adopted tentatively 166 to 103 on a teller vote with Republicans lining up solidly behind it Celler told the house that under the silver purchase acts 3000000-00- 0 ounces of "silver have been accumulated in government vaults at West Point N Y where it is "useless and tarnishing” “Silver is a slacker metal— I want to put silver in uniform and make it fight” Celler shouted He said continued government purchases of silver at Iftn "artificial” price of 7111 centi an ounce will benefit "only 60000 miners and mine-ownein six or WASHINGTON Feb 5 (AP) — A program for rationseven western states” "It’s about time to puncture those of manpower to give war industries first call on the he roared as the house ing labor supply and to clamp restraints on applauded by —Which pot-belli- Roosevelt Also Requests P Feature 1943 non-essenti- ury silverpurchases after (D-Rep Emanuel Cellar Y) protested that their continence would benefit “onlv$50000 miners and pot- -- FEBRUARY 5 WASHINGTON Feb' 5 (UP)— War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V McNutt was ready today to effect priorities on labor in 32 shortage areas a move that will virtually “freeze” essential workers in war industries The labor shortage areas designated by McNutt included Cheyenne Wyo Ogden Utah Portland Ore San Diego Calif and Seattle Wash and Las Vegas Nev Hiring practices endorsed by McNutt in a policy statement last night would prevent workers in the shortage areas from moving from essential to work and permit movement from job to job only of war workers who have a “release” from their employers or from a representative of the WMC The priority plan is the principal feature by which regional and area WMC officials will carry out McNutt’s order to establish hiring controls in the 32 areas where intensive recruitment efforts failed to provide workers for essential activities Under policies set forth by McNutt workers will be referred to jobs which will utilize their skills most effectively in the war effort McNutt said hiring controls can be established in areas other than the 32 designated if the regional director after consulting with the local management-labo- r policy committee decides that they are needed for effective prosecution of the war and to avert or relieve threatened manpower shortages Feb 5 WASHINGTON -- The ten(UP)— htmisetoday vote to stop treastatively er steel-jacket- S SILVER Continuance Would! Aid 'Only 60000 Miners And Owns' Death as He Wished FRIDAY EVENING Qygden Among Cities Named r'Where War Workers Fro zert BUYING HALT Convicted Killer Meets UTAH 7L Hooded Avery Shot HOUSE VOTES Strapped in Chair Behind Prison Walls CtV favor the trend toward active wear includes sportswear and work-wemanufacturers report Sportswear is becoming conserva-trad- e live and no longer is associated with high class country clubs while work-weis becoming more g ish Clothiers said the most notlce-fortablable break-awa- y from mer’e long subduea tqnes fidelity to all-oof grays blues and browns will be by w'ay of slacks and jackets of contrasting colors Many rainbow hues will be seen but the type expected to have the strongest appeal will be relatively plain slack suits — “casually comfortable” Leather jackets will be in streig demand The trend In shirts is toward button-dow- n collar attached And In accessorconvertible collars ies striped belts many with cowboy motifs are coming in as iare all types of knitted sweaters knd waistcoats New ties and hose jvill have more than the ordinary dash of color while sports models pqrk-pi- e shapes and cloth hats are expected to gain favor in headgear w'hich ar ar styl-bein- e” ut j J j r L axis-hel- d territory said the American forces withdrew from Sened which was captured last Tuesday after "accomplishing-- the purpose of their session” The heavily-gunne- d flying fortresses accounted for 24 German running battle planes in a after they had dumped their explosives Only one fortress was reported lost but nine Lightning fighters were missing Six or seven fires were started at Gabes airdrome and nearby fields Auxiliary landing grounds five miles west of Gabes were left wreathed in smoke the allied spokesman said Little ground action was reported from the long front line in Tunisia with both sides apparently conserving their strength for the main battle ahead An allied spokesman 50-mi- le twin-engin- ed ANKARA Feb 5 (UP)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s conference with President Ismet Inonu had resulted in a wave of anxiety and fear throughout the Balkans reliable reports said today ‘ |