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Show 1u If Buy Wer Bonds Every Pay Day Ut'$ DovbU Our Quo fa 1TAKK EVERY raw PAT DAT . WAR i XtBOND DAY STOP SfENDiNSSAVl DOUAU m FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. He Led Gen. MacArthur Off Bataan , - r " j " . ' ' : t, i f - y v 5 1 I ' f - ' ; : -s. ' -1 Alii'. f "'.V .A - -s'v V I - , The Navy's No. 1 torpedo boat hero, Lieutenant John D. BuUceley, on, arrival at San Francisco from Australia, revealed that it was his mosquito mos-quito boat fleet which ran General Douglas MacArthur through Japanese Japa-nese blockades to a rendezvous where he boarded a boat for Australia. Score for Bulkelcy's squadron off Bataan: Four planes downed, five ships, including a light cruiser and two landing boats. DESK CHAT BY THIS EDITOR Manpower Mobilizer Paul McNutt says we shall need 10t500OOQ nyre . war workers plus 2,000,000 more recruits to the armed forces this year. In February, there were 4,-000,000 4,-000,000 unemployed in the United States. The problem is to get 12,-500,000 12,-500,000 for the war out of 4,000,000 available, without major overtime and without knocking: the spots out of civilian production. How are we going to do it? President Roosevelt's program pro-gram to save the national economy against ruinous inflationary in-flationary trends will hurt a lot of people in a lot of places, something that we can expect ex-pect from thestart. It's entirely en-tirely possible that the program pro-gram will not en-able the workers' pay envelope to catch up with higher living costs. Tho jdea which a lot of people peo-ple miss entirely, is that wartime war-time exigencies demand that our national standard of living liv-ing must come down. All consumers will find less in the stores to buy. Without nviior adjustments there still will be more money than goods so much more that: Uncle Sam is going to raise taxes Just to get the filthy lucre out of our possession. Why not invest more in war bonds and stamps? oOo War rationing registration Is oyer now, let's hope sugar' rationing applies to writers of those sticky radio dramas. . . . We have heard no complaints com-plaints about the impending shortage of coffins. . . . that new amphibian auto just a jeep. in the deep. . . Now that Japan threatens China from two sides, her leaders are calling it the "Chinese Coincident." Coin-cident." Meeting Tonight f j j JO AlCl Kill Initio I The necessary procedure to follow in building a new home or remodeling an old one wUl be explained ty Gordon Weggeland, state FHA director, at n Pmvn chamber of commerce-sponsored meeting tonight at 7:30 in the citv courtroom. Mr. Weggeland will explain variqua government orders pertaining per-taining to housing construction and remodeling. 213 COMPLETE UN f TED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE 18,138 Persons Sign Up Under War Ration Plan A total of 18,138 persons were registered in Provo during the four-day sugar rationing registration registra-tion at the four elementary schools. W. Lester Mangum, Provo rationing board chief, announced today, following completion of the sign-up Thursday night. The number exceeds Provo's population of 18,071 as listed in the 1940 census, giving an idea as to the growth of the city in the past two years. It is reasonable to believe many hundreds residents resi-dents of the city failed to register during the sugar sign-up, Mr. Mangum said. Of the 18,138 registering, 15,214 received war ration book No. 1. Those not receiving books were in families having quantities of sugar on hand. They cannot purchase pur-chase sugur until all their supply on hand has been used at the rate of one-half pound per person per week. Registration figures at the four elementary schools are as follows, the first figure being the number num-ber of persons registered and the second figure the number of war ration books issued: Joaquin. 4958. 4005; Franklin, 4382, 3720; Maeser, 4173, 3545; Timpanogos, 4625, 3854. Persona who luiled to register during the four-day sign-up cannot can-not purchase sugar until after May 21 when they will be given opportunity to register at the iocal lationtng board office, it was pointed out. The Provo teachers did a fine job in conducting the registration, registra-tion, working wtthout pay after their regular shifts, Mr. Mangum said. Quezon Arrives In United States SAN FRANCISCO. May 8 U.K President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines commonwealth has arrived in San Francisco from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian Aus-tralian headquarters, it was dis closed today. -5r Salt Lake City Officials Hear Stormy Debate on Dogs SALT LAKE CITY, May 8 U.H A dog is man's best friend and vice versa. . Four hundred Salt Lakers and one aog snowea up yesieraay at a public hearing on this city's re- strlctive new dog ordinance. The measure would require that dogs be kept within the boundaries boundar-ies of their owner's property and on leash while on the streets and it also would make it unlawful for a dog to disturb the peace by barking and howling. It would provide the death penalty for dogs that are picked up for violation of the ordinance, if the dogs are not reclaimed from the city pound within five days after the offense. N f . V a , MINING MEN HAIL CHANGE IN PRIORITY Revocation Recommend ed Oi Recent Order About Mines WASHINGTON, May 8 (U.R)-Dr. Wilbur Nelson, chief of the mining branch of the war production board told the senate silver committee today he bad recommended revocation of a recent priority prior-ity order, which some mine representatives contend has affected af-fected gold and silver mines adversely. ad-versely. He referred to order P.56, which denied blanket priorities on mining min-ing machinery to mines where 30 per .cent or more of the dollar output values is in gold or silver. Nelson said he had made the rec ommendation to WPB Chairman Donald. M. Nelson. Even with revocation of the or der, he wiid, mines otlll would have to seek priorities on machinery, machin-ery, on the basis of the merits of their individual cases. Doesn't Change Anything "The modification doesn't change a thing," Nelson said. "It will not affect in any way the ad ministration of this order. The mining branch will continue to administer it as it has in the past." Mining industry witnesses, however, how-ever, described the change as be ing of great "psychological benefit. bene-fit. Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colorado said he "rejoiced" in the projected modification of the order "My only regret is that it wasn't done two months ago," he said, adding that "hardship and suffering" had been caused in the raining industry because of uncertainty un-certainty over the order. 'But I am not satisfied with this change," Carr said. "I favor a more definite statement. There should be some substitute whereby you could say to the mining industry: in-dustry: 'If you produce in proportion pro-portion to some fixed standard, then you will get priorities. "I feel there is no reason why that could not be done, and I think that the attendance psychological psycho-logical boost which the modification modifica-tion of the order will have on the mining industry in Colorado will show immediately." Praises Falmwwi Carr and other witnesses praised the "fairness with which WPB officials have dealt with the mining min-ing industry." David P. Strlckler, Colorado Springs, president of the Cripple Creek Mining and Development Co., said that "remarkable consideration con-sideration has been given the mining min-ing industry" in view of the fact that the WPB differed with it as to the importance of gold and silver sil-ver in the war effort. George W. Malonc. Reno, Nev., director of the Industrial West (Continued on Page Two) The "400" got out of hand at the hearing and Mayor Ab Jenkins Jenk-ins cautioned them not to hiss and boo. Now the city commission has discreetly "postponed" action on the ordinance pending "efforts to effect a compromise." Miss Virginia Farmer brought her pooch. Dopey, to the hearing. He acted bored. There were irate property owners own-ers there, also. One exhibited, a box of "dog-borne" rubbish and said "housewives should not have to clean up lawns and flower-beds cluttered by neighborhood pets." (pests?) PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, House Committee Fails To SupporfiMorgenthau: On Tax Exemption Cutsl Reduced Exemptions Would Hit Married Men With ChildreK the Hardest; Early Showdown On Sales Tax Foreseen WASHINGTON, May 8 U.R) The house ways and means committee's staff of experts today proposed an individual Income In-come tax increase that would yield less than half the $4,300,-000,000 $4,300,-000,000 sought from this source by the treasury. The staff plan was presented to, the committee this morning by Colin E. Stam, who said it would raise $1,900,000,000. Stam proposed, committee members mem-bers said, retention of the present individual income tax exemptions of $1,500 for a married couple, $750 for a single person and $400 for each dependent. The difference in taxes between the Stam plan and the treasury program on a $10,000 salary would amount to about $1,000. Committee members said that a married man earning $10,000 a a year would pay $2,400 in taxes under the treasury's March 3 pro posal, and nearly $3,000 under the new treasury program submitted; yesterday. Under the Stam pta-y he would pay sdoui i,buu. Stam lnHK)al Made- Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., proposed yester day that present exemptions be lowered to $1,200 for married couples, $600 for single persons and $300 for each dependent. In the last few years the ways and means committee has leaned heavily on Stam and his staff in writing its tax bills. This year, it rejected the treasury's proposed 55 per cent corporation surtax and adopted Stam's 40 per cent rate. Details of the Stam plan of in dividual income taxes were not made public immediately. Prior to the submission of his proposals, committee members appeared to be entirely out of sympathy with Morgenthau s revised program. Both administration supporters and opponents shared that view. The former argued that the in come tax schedule has been moveo (Continued on Page Two) Columbia Steel Workers Election Slated On May 12 PITTSBURGH. May 8 lT.P The CTO Steel Workers Organizing Organiz-ing Committee and nine subsidiaries subsidi-aries of the United States Steel Corp., .have agreed to consent elections on the question of exclusive exclu-sive bargaining rights for 175.-000 175.-000 steel workers, it was announced an-nounced today. John F. Lebus, regional director direc-tor of the National Labor Relations Rela-tions Board, said the balloting,-to balloting,-to be held beginning May 12 and continuing into June, will constitute con-stitute the largest series of elections elec-tions ever undertaken by the labor board. Fifty plants in 13 states will be Involved. At the present time, the SWOC has contracts with the steel subsidiaries sub-sidiaries covering its members only. Several months ago it asked that NLRB elections be held io an effort to win exclusive bargaining bar-gaining rights. Apparently as a preliminary in its campaign to obtain a union shop in the steel industry. Negotiations are still underway for arrangement of elections at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp largest operating subsidiary of U. S. Steel. In the voting, a majority vote in each plant will determine whether the union will win exclusive ex-clusive bargaining rights In that plant. After the election, the labor board may group several plants together for bargaining purposes Lebus said. On May 12, the balloting will be at the Columbia Steel Co. plants at Pittsburg, Cal., Terrene, Ter-rene, CaL, and Provo, Utah. f UTAH, . FRIDAY; MAY Hitler Appoints 'Police Fuehrer' in Occupied France BY UNITED PREJSA Adolf Hitler deputized a brigade bri-gade of his vaunted storm troops as "police fuehrer" of occupied France today to suppress increasing increas-ing terrorism and sabotage of the German war effort. With Relnhardt Heydrich. depu- - LnrX"T VLf f .7 " " r- rr ing of the occupied territory, three more hostages were shot yesterday at Romorantin, which was an American army base in the last war. The executions brought to 93 the number of reprisal re-prisal killings In Franco during the last few weeks. Heydrich, appointed "protector of Bohemfa and Moravia' 'to suppress sup-press unrest In Czechoslovakia, arrived unexpectedly in Paris this week. Because he had ordered the execution of 500 persons in Prague, his presence was intended to strike fear in the hearts of French patriots. pat-riots. Only last week, he ordered 34 more reprisal executions. The importance attached by Berlin to sabotage in occupied France was indicated by Heydrich Hey-drich 's presence, on orders of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm-ler, Himm-ler, to install Oberg, who is ranked rank-ed also as a general of a police division. There had been several reports that a police chief would be named for occupied France, Prince Jasias Von Kaldeck having hav-ing been mentioned. It was understood in Vichy that Oberg was charged with suppressing suppress-ing terrorism among the French people while Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstcdt policed the coastline coast-line to prevent repetitions of the British commando raid on St. Na-zaire, Na-zaire, where French civilians were said to have aided the British. The Germans published a military mili-tary decree threatening to impose a state of siege on the entire district dis-trict surrounding Brest and any citizens found in the streets after ah invasion, alarm has been sounded sound-ed will be shot on sight. Sabotage continued on Europe's chief "underground fronts." Two major explosions were reported in Belgian war factories, the latest lat-est occurring at Kortrljk, Flanders, Fland-ers, near the French frontier. Baseball Today NATIONAL LEAGUE St, Louis 000 02 Cincinnati 010 00 Warneke and O'Dea; Riddle and L amanno. New York ...... Brooklyn - Pittsburgh 0 Chicago (I - Sewell and Pholps; Mooty and McCullough. (Only games scheduled). AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 000 10 Philadelphia 002 00 C. Wagner and peacock; Marchll-don Marchll-don and H. Wagner. (Only game scheduled). EX-SHERIFF DISAPPEARS BUTTE, Mont., May 8 u7.E A statewide search is under way today for Lawrence Weir, 43, former sheriff of Silver Bow county, who disappeared from his home here April 20, Butte police announced today. The search was undertaken, at the request of Mrs. Weir. 8, 1942 E attle Whole Strategry of the Southwest Pacific May Hinge On Engagement Now in Its Fifth Day; Australia Apprehensive GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 8 (U.R) United States and Allied naval and air forces have sunk or damaged 17 Japanese ships, General Douglas McArthur announced today, in a knockout battle, now in its fifth day, on which the whole strategy of the southwest Pacific Pa-cific war may hinge. S The greatest naval battle of Naval Battle May Smash Attempt to Invade Australia GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, May 8 United States and allied warships tonight were believed to be pressing a fight to the finish against a strong Japanese fleet after sinking or damaging 17 enemy ships in the greatest naval battle of the war. The battle of the Coral Sea, Which may decide he whole strategy of the southwest Pacific Pa-cific war, is being fought out "mercilessly" by an allied air and naval force of "considerable strength'' striking at a Japanese attempt to advance "in force," according to allied sources. The belief was expressed that the allied warships would make every effort to prevent breaking off the action which United Nations Na-tions forces apparently have been seeking for weeks. The safety of Port Moresby, allied advance base on New Guinea island, off the northeastern northeast-ern Australian coast and the supply sup-ply line to America probably will hinge on the outcome of the five-day five-day sea conflict. DEATH CLAIMS J. C. John C. Graham. 76, promin ent Provo printer, died carfy this morning at a local nospttai fol lowing a short illness. Mr. Graham was born in salt Lake City October 7, 1865, a son of John C. and Eliza Morris Graham. Gra-ham. He received his education in Salt Lake City, and came to Provo in 1895. He was associated with his father, who was editor and manager man-ager of the Provo Enquirer, one of the leading early newspapers of Irovo. On December 27, 1808 he married mar-ried Annie Strong In Provo. In 1900 he organized the New Century Printing company of which he was owner and manager at time of his death. From 1897 to 1919 he was associated with the late Edward L. Jones in the mortuary business. He had been a member of the Provo Odd Fellows lodge the past 4n years, and was a past member mem-ber of the Provo Rotary dulj. Also he was an active member of the Provo Conservation association. asso-ciation. Surviving are his widow, one son, and one daughter, J. Arthur (5rahaf.i and Mrs. Marian Jarvls, all , of Provo; one full brother, Arthur E. Graham of Salt Lake City; two half-brothers and two half-sisters, Leyland Graham tff Salt Lake City. Earl Graham and Mrs. Sadie Haws of Provo, and Mrs. Maud Taylor of Ggden; also one grandchild. Funeral services will be Monday Mon-day at 1:30 p. m. In the Fifth ward chapel, with Bishop Hilton A. Robertson of the Eighth ward presiding. . Friends may call at the Berg mortuary Sunday evening eve-ning and at the family home, 461 East Center, Monday prior to services. Burial in the Provo city cemetery. GRAHAM UTAH'S ONLY DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE Raging outfawest the war, one which bade to bo historic, was being fought 1,000 miles off tne nortneast Australian Austral-ian coast. Thousands of American soldiers, sol-diers, ready for battle, and 7,-000,000 7,-000,000 Australians who jubilantly jubilant-ly read reports of American successes, suc-cesses, became tense as the hours passed and warships and plane of all types remained locked in battle. Heavy Cruiser Sunk-One Sunk-One Japanese aircraft carrier and one heavy cruiser were sunk and ' on ff' aircraft carrier and on heavy cruiser were damaged in the second phase of operations, MacArthur announced in a special spe-cial communique today. The damaged aircraft carrier was expected to be a total loss. "Heavy naval and air fighting continues," the communique said. " . . . Our own losses have not been reported." In the first phase, which was fought last Monday, a Japanese light cruiser, two destroyers, and four gunboats were sunk, and a 9.000-ton seaplane tender and a light cruiser damaged, in addition addi-tion to transports and cargo vessels ves-sels sunk or damaged. Members of the 'Australian house of representatives. who cheered widely when Prime Min ister John Curtin at Carfcerra (Continued on Page Three) Allies Knock Oat 1 7 Japanese Ships! By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American and Allied warships and airplanes fought the greatest naval battle of the war against the Japanese in the gleaming coral sea off northeastern Australia today, with 17 enemy ships already knocked out and a major turning point In the Far Eastern conflict possi- bly at hand. But the outcome of the coral sea battle, now in Its fifth day, was not yet decided, and there was no tendency in official allied sources as yet to take an optimistic optimis-tic viewpoint of the bitter fighting fight-ing that may well decide the immediate im-mediate safety of the supply line from America and the vulnerability vulnerabil-ity of Australia to threatened in- vasion. Tone Is Grave The tnnp nf nfflriHl ntntomnntji J4n Australia was grave and re strained, pending official information infor-mation on allied losses, which the Japanese claimed were an American Ameri-can 32.600-ton battleship, two American aircraft carriers, a British battleship and a British or Australian cruiser. These Japanese claims were generally regarded as inaccurate and exaggerated. The British, for instance, positively denied in an admiralty communique that any British battleship had been sunk or damaged in the Coral sea engagement en-gagement But . in a battle of the scope Indicated by sketchy communiques from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, the allies would be likely to suffer severe losses in their drive to come to grips with the enemy and to continue the engagement en-gagement as long as possible. Course Not Clear The communiques covering action ac-tion that began on Monday failed to make clear the course of the battle except in a general way. (Continued on Page Two) PRICE FIVE CENTS In Pacific MADAGASCAR NAVAL BASE SURRENDERS LONDON,- May 8 (U.R) American units and huge reinforcements re-inforcements of South African Afri-can troops are pouring into the Madagascar navel base at Diego Suarez along with mases of artillery and airplanes, air-planes, reports reaching here said today. The naval base was understood to have been handed over practically prac-tically intact by the Vichy defenders de-fenders alter UxeJlgl&Uxiff J3rilih. conquest. Authoritative sources said Brit ish casualties in the Madagascar campaign might be considerably less than 1.000. There was no official comment on a Daily Mail dispatch from Madrid, quoting Vichy reports, tha tAmerlcan units had landed at Diego Suarez. The London Star published a radio Vichy report re-port that an American expeditionary expedition-ary force had landed at Natal, South Africa, near Madagascar. The Daily Dail said the South African and. American forces had been dispatched to Diego Sua rex to "make it impregnable against possible Japanese attacks and to consolodate it as a British bastion." bas-tion." The naval base has little mod-( mod-( Continued on Page Two) ssBiei UUHHhUIUUH STILL SILENT WASHINGTON, May 8 (CJ" Initial reports of successes of the United Nations forces now battling bat-tling a Japanese fleet off the Solomon islands today softened somewhat the blow of the loss of Corregidor. r But there still was no official word about the fate of the estimated esti-mated 11,500 persons on Corregidor Corregi-dor and the other Manila bay forts, now surrendered to the Japanese. The war department lacked official of-ficial confirmation of Japanese claims, broadcast from a Manila radio station, that Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright agreed to the surrender of scattered guerilla forces as a condition to the cessation of attacks on Corregidor. Cor-regidor. The American-Filipino fighters have been carrying out hit-ancVrun attacks at many points In the Philippine islands. Wainwright, according to the Japanese, accepted the terms to avoid unnecessary sacrifice of his men. The Japanese claims . were made public in a war department communique, which emphasized that .no official information has been received here. ( |