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Show Help 'Win the War arose hofzavd m Atom's FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 165 a ONL.T DAILY PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1942 COMPLBTB ITNITKn pnvii HALT LAKH TELEGRAPH NBWg SERVICE) ' PRICE FIVE CENTS mm 11 0; . " . ' . t .i . . x v 1 1 - " 1 . . .v Ill III 111-. Ill H!fi . ' ; ' 1)11) : : 0 .... - . - ..- TFTY JL1L LL oL NAZI PLANES AID JAPS IN PHILIPPINES Use Of Reserve Planes .May Indicate laps Hard Pressed BY EVERETT B. IIOIXES WASHINGTON, March 2 . (U.R) Strange planes which 'may have been German-built" German-built" have carried out bombing bomb-ing attacks behind Gen. Douglas Doug-las MacArthur's new battle line stretching across Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, the war department said today. The Japanese are believed to have some of these German-made warplanes in . reserve, a communique com-munique said, and their use may indicate that the Nipponese invaders in-vaders are hard-pressed for aerial strength. Recent communiques have indicated in-dicated that Japanese air squadrons squad-rons had been withdrawn from the Philippines for the battle of Java and the Dutch East Indies nearly near-ly 2,000 miles to the southwest. The planes' suspected of being German and which bombed Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's rear-line positions without with-out inflicting damage were three twin-engined , bombers with "unusual "un-usual markings," it was said.' -"They were painted black with white crosses on the wings," the communique stated. "They may have been German-built planes, some "of 'which Japsrar 'Hr believed to have had in reserve." The usual Nazi planes are (Continued on Page Three) BE BY TBOt EDITOR The pensions-for-congress-men matter is now out of the way; and it turns out that the whole thing was a slight mistake, probably; due to ac-coustical ac-coustical defects in the Capitol Capi-tol building. When the congressmen con-gressmen decided to grant themselves pensions they adopted the measure by a voice vote; and it was the impression of everyone present pres-ent they had voted for pensions pen-sions by a loud and overwhelming over-whelming majority. But when the bill came up for repeal it developed that scarcely any of the legislators had called "aye" on the original measure. meas-ure. Or maybe the majority of congressmen actually did vote themselves pensions and hastened to repeal the measure meas-ure after hearing another "voice vote" - the voice of the people. oOo It's gratifying to know that the- anticipated- influenza influ-enza epidemic has so far failed fail-ed to develop on national epidemic epi-demic proportions. The Census Cen-sus bureau already points to a lowered death rate and an indicated saving of 17,000 lives so far this year. oOo Small stuft Chief Claud Hawkins says being an air raid warden has advantages. You can stay out late at night and it's a military secret ... we have to thank the Japs for one thing they certainly have helped us appreciate the Chinese . . . the Japs have large teeth but it's possible for-myone to bite off more than they can chew . -. . it's almost time for spring house-cleaning. house-cleaning. Put on the suit that you want to keep . . . .too many peonle get their marriage mar-riage and drivers licenses 'mixed tup. SK CHAT Wage-Hour Chief "WW - if. L. Metcalfe Walling, Labor Department De-partment contracts administrator, administra-tor, succeeds Philip B. Flem-. Flem-. ing as federal wage-hour administrator. ad-ministrator. KAISER SLATED TO CONSTRUCT PIG IRON PLANT WASHINGTON, MarCh 2 (HE) The war production board today announced, that Henry Kaiser west coast contractor, had been granted permission to construct a pig' iron blast furnace with a daily capacity of 1200 tons. Exact location of the new plant has, noJ!;eep determined, but, it will bein Southern California, WPB officials said. Kaiser's application also included in-cluded right to use Iron deposits de-posits from Eagle Mountain and coal from Utah. A further application appli-cation for a steel plate plant is pending and is expected to be acted upon favorably soon. The WPB approved Kaiser's application, ap-plication, it was understood, because be-cause of difficulties in obtaining steel production facilities on the west coast through existing steel companies. FARlSuTTO ALTER PLANS WASHINGTON, March 2 UB Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., said today the farm bloc would drop its plans to write a parity-price parity-price limitation into the pending 132,000,000,000 (B) war appropri ation bill but would raise the issue again when the annual agriculture supply bill reaches the senate. This decision, Thomas said, was made at a meeting attended by farm senators. The group agreed, he said, on the following program: 1. To make no request to confer con-fer with President Roosevelt, as had been considered earlier. 2. To permit passage of the $32.-000,000,000 $32.-000,000,000 (B) war appropriation without attempting to write in a parity price limitation. 3. To raise the parity -price issue is-sue again when the annual agriculture agri-culture department appropriation on which house action begins today reaches senate. Thomas said that the agriculture agri-culture supply bill carries some $450,000,000 for soil conservation payments', and has certain contractual con-tractual authorizations that may mean S200.000.000 or 1300,000,000 in parity payments funds designed de-signed to increase the income of farmers producing basic crops. -s- ML "Food for Freedom" Train Attracts Throng In Provo Two thousand farmers, farmerettes, farmer-ettes, and others Interested In agriculture ag-riculture viewed impressive exhibits exhib-its of the Denver &Rio Grande Western railroad food for freedom" free-dom" train stationed at Secontf West and Center street here today. The Provo stop was the tenth-in tenth-in Utah for the train, which moves to Heber Tuesday and. returns to Spanish Fork Wednesday, stated P. K. Yonge, director of agriculture agri-culture for the railroad, in charge of the train. . . : , The' seven-car train 'epitomizes the-slogan that food will win the war" and write the peace.' Through facts and figures, charts, graphs, 96,000 NAZIS ENCIRCLED ON RUSS FRONT Germans Fail To Get Supplies To Encircled Troops By M. S. HANDLER ' , MOSCOW, March 2 LE Russian Rus-sian forces have captured a key village straddling eight roads near Staraya Russia, where 96,000 Germans Ger-mans are encircled, and are pressing pres-sing forward on the southern front despite spring thaws and heavy rains which have transformed trans-formed that sector into a quagmire, quag-mire, dispatches from the fronts said today. The newspaper, Izvestia said the Germans were forcing civilians at Staraya Russa and 35 surrounding surround-ing places to construct fortifications fortifica-tions to resist the relentless Soviet assaults. . Belief was . general gen-eral here that the fall of the strategic stra-tegic city would be announced soon. Supplies to the beleaguered Germans Ger-mans there were cut off even by air despite German aerial reinforcements rein-forcements which may have amounted to 1,800 planes, military mil-itary dispatches said. The 16th German army was known to be trapped at Staraya, Russia, and scouts have identified the Nazi 82d and 123d divisions among the encircled en-circled enemy. ' The snow fields on the southern front were becoming mire and slush following- heavy, rains- and motorized units and heavy artillery artil-lery were bogging down. Horses were replacing the motorized men straining at the wheels, the equipment, Izvestia said, and with artillery was being moved up in the midst of heavy , land and air fighting. The Soviet air force dispersed many German reserve units before they could reach positions on the battle lines. Two Nazi divisions the 257th and 85th infantry succeeded suc-ceeded in getting through to the front - lines, dispatches said, but only after they were badly mauled. Near Leningrad, a Russia cavalry caval-ry unit had taken a toll of 500 Germans kiUed in an assault on an important position defended by battalions of the German "Northwest" "North-west" and "Netherlands" reg iments. Heavy fighting has been going on there for the last three days. On the important Kalinin front, 1,400 Germans have been killed and the Russians have captured 96 pill-boxes in the last few days' fighting. On the central front, the Soviet fighters have destroyed two battalions of a German artillery artil-lery regiment and have captured two regimental staffs, 16 cannon can-non and 15 mine-throwers in one sector. Marshal S. K. Timoshenko was advancing on a 50-mile front between be-tween Kharkov and the Sea of Azov. The Russians Tiave taken an important fortified point in the Kharkov area and are pummel-ing pummel-ing German divisions brought up from the rear. Ceaseless fighting was in progress pro-gress in the "Crimea, where the Russians attacked before Sevastopol Sevasto-pol and on the Kerch peninsula. JAPS REACH KBAWANO NEW YORK,' March 2 U. Radio Vichy reported late today that Japanese forces have reach ed Krawang, a point about 50 miles east of Batavia, in an apparent: ap-parent: pincers drive on the Java capital. ; illustrations and exhibits It drives home, the importance of agriculture agricul-ture in the defense program and tells the farmers how they can meet their increased , production goals. , , . -. Car No. 1, the auditorium car, features a moving: picture, The Fann Front". The next car gives national, state and county production pro-duction goals, that will enable the United States to feed its own pie well and furnish food-to Great Britain in 1942. - .... . Devoted to .livestock, 'the third car -emphasized - importance of good .feeds, improved ; bi (Continued on Page Eight) Stimson Three9 To 'Stream Senate Passes Record Breaking Army Appropriation Ap-propriation Bill; Presidential Reorganization Reorgan-ization j of Army failed Vital Step WASHINGTON, March 2 J.R) Secretary of War Stimson Stim-son today appointed three veteran officers to head the three reorganized, streamlined divisions of the U. S. army. At the same time, the senate by voice vote passed and returned to the house a $32,762,737,900 army appropriation bill the largest yet in the series of record breaking war bills. It raises to $142,000,000,000 the amount provided for the military since June 1940. : ; ' : Stimson termed the president ORE CARRIER TORPEDOED BY 3 SUBMARINES NORFOLK, Va., March 2 (UJE) Three enemy submarines strik ing at midnight torpedoed, shelled and sank the 8,215-ton American ore carrier Marore off the Atlan tic coast on the night of Feb. 26, it was revealed today. The Marore, 27th ship attacked and 24th sunk off the United States coasts since-the ' beginning-of beginning-of the Axis assaults on Jan.. 14, was sunk after the three enemy submarines apparently had stalk ed an oil tanker which outdistanc ed them. . Publication of news of the at tack was authorized today by the' navy department in Washington pJone of Marore a crew of 39 was lost. All escaped injuries and the survivors showed little effect from exposure although they were adrift from 12 to 14 hours. Twenty- five were adrift for 12 hours be fore arriving at the naval oper ating base here aboard ' a coast guard cutter. The " other 14 suiv vivoro reached Cape Hatteras, N. C, in a lifeboat after being 'adrift 14 hours on a calm but cold sea. The Marore withstood the im pact of one torpedo before- the three submarines opened fire with deck guns at a range of less than a mile. Of the 24 ships sunk off the U.S. Atlantic coast, 13 have been tankers. tank-ers. The loss of -the Marore brought to 176,042 the total tonnage ton-nage lost A total of 65 ships have been attacked and 64 sunk by submarines submar-ines off the United States and Can ad lan coasts and in the Caribbean since January 14. . k ; AN EAST CANADA PORT1, March 2 () At least four and possibly eight United Nations merchantmen, mer-chantmen, apparently from a convoy, con-voy, have been torpedoed in the Western Atlantic, it was disclosed today. rv A total of 11 survivors from three tankers and a freighter have been landed, here. They said at least 58 seamen were dead or missing, miss-ing, but they believed some might have been picked up by .vessels bound for the United States' or Newfoundland. The attacks occured at night and withoutxwarning. The crewf of two tankers Were rescued without with-out loss within an hOu. after thej were torpedoed. . Thlrty-etgbt men were missine from a third tarrttep. from which 11 survivors were land ea, ana zo . apparently perished when a freighter sank so quickly it capsized a lifeboat which had Just been- launched:; Nineteen, In- eluding five passengers, were res cued. - .. j The four known sinkings brought the tolj of submarine 'warfare off the Canadian coast to 22. since mid-January, when . u-boat activity activ-ity was intensified. DEPUTIES NAMD Upon recommendation , of -the Strawberry Water Users" association associa-tion and the High tine Canal company, com-pany, the Utah county commission .Monday appointed three deputy sheriffs to. serve without pay from the county. - - f : - The three were J. Elmer Ewel Leonard G. Hansen and Alma L. Jones. . They . were aworo in by County Clerk C. A. Grant,' . and Sheriff Theron S. Hall. Names 'Bis1 I If a I Command lined 'Army ial reorganization a "striking re-vitalizatlon" re-vitalizatlon" to eliminate cumbersome cum-bersome procedure and promote efficient direction of army activities. activi-ties. Big Three Named H appointed the following "big three" commanders under Chief of Staff f George C. Marshall: Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, now deputy chief of staff for air, to take, over the consolidated job Of commander of all the army air forces; - X.ieut. Gen. Lesley J. Mcxsair, present chief of staff of general headquarters, to command all ground forces; . MaJ. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, present assistant chief of staff in charge of supply, as commander of the new consolidated services of supply. -rEfech wot-'the-t three basic units will be under a commanding gen eral, who will be directly responsible respon-sible to the chief of staff. This new setup, it was hoped, will eliminate elimin-ate overlapping of duties and make for better cooperation between various component units. To the army ground forces were transferred all the operational functions hitherto handled by the chiefs - of infantry, cavalry, fjeld artillery and coast artillery.gach of these had been a separates di vision in the war department. The air forces command will take over, the duties of the chief of the present combat command and chief of air corps. Effect of the order, according to military experts, is that the general staff now will deal only with the three major groups whereas under the old set-up it dealt with several. It was said this will tend to unify control and make for greater efficiency. The order also delegated to Secretary of War Henry I Stim son broad authority to create otner units which he deems necessary for the national security, such as task forces, overseas . departments and . special commands for individual indi-vidual theaters of operations. Mr. Roosevelt provided that the changes set forth in his order should .become effective March 9, 1942, and remain in force until six months after the end of the war. The president acted under au thority of the first war powers act of 1941 and as commander-in-chief of the army and navy. DONALD NELSON SPEAKS TONIGHT WASHINGTON, March 2 (HP) Production chief Donald Nelson delivers what promises to be. a "tough," speech tonight to out- Tine a - new victory - production drive and put workers and management man-agement of war plants in a fight ing mood. ' The speech wUl be short from 0:4,5 .to 10- p. m .EWT, on the Blue metwrks-?Fr iAmericaWe Sing" progranfcJBut his associates" hinted i that t it ""would be packed with a "wallop." va - The Industrial blueprint for victory vic-tory that we will stress Includes the 168-hour week for plants-full plants-full 24 hour, seven days production produc-tion and ways for the "soldiers of production" to accelerate Cthe manufacture of war materials. PRESIDENT CLARK ' . TO SPEAK .TUESDAY ) . J.. Reuben Clark. Jr., member of the .first' presidency of the I, D. S. church.-will be speaker at the '"regular Brigham Young -university a Baemblyv Tuesday at .10 nv in -the Joseph Smith building. . Mi Estimated 100,000 Japanese Invade Stronghold BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American and allied air planes,, armored units and warships smashed furiously at strong Japanese invasion forces today in an all-out battle for Java. The last island stronghold of the . United Nations in the East Indies was attacked by an estimated 100,000 Japanese landed at three north coast points and followed up by sea-borne reinforce ments which were running into a deadly hail of allied bombs and shells. Hard-fighting Dutch troops, bearing the brunt of the enemy attack, were aided by British, Australian and American ' forces in counter-attacks which London dispatches said had now become full scale counter offensive in flicting tremendous losses on the Japanese. Late United Press dispatches from allied headquarters report ed Dutch armored cars, trucks and private automobiles rushing troops against the Japanese landing land-ing Xprces and American, flyinxt fortresses pounding at enemy transport reinforcements. Japs Lose SO Ships The enemy already was reported to have lost more than 30 ships sunk or' damaged, including cruis ers and destroyers knocked out by allied air and naval attack. The United Nations sea forces,' especially the Dutch, also suffer ed losses which have not yet. been fully revealed. Japanese air sup port for landing forces was weak er than had been expected, accord ing to United Press Correspond ent W. H. McDougall after a tour of one fighting sector, but, there was little definite information to indicate the trend of fighting. McDougall said that the Jap anese were using jungle tactics as they did in Malaya, that .they were accurate shots, and. hard to find suggesting that the pene tration of the island was con tinuing. The Japanese were known to have occupied Soebang, 40 miles in . from . the coast and . only , 60 miles from Dutch headquarters at (Bandoeng, , and today they pushed forward toward Bandoeng, avoiding avoid-ing the main highway and trying to flank the defense forces. On other fighting fronts: BURMA British imperials strike' at Japanese offensive patrols pa-trols on the Bittang rivejr front north of Pegu, as enemy drive" on Rangoon appears slowed down. , NEW . CALEDONIA U. . S. co -operating with Free French In de fense of southwest Pacific - island where Berlin radio said American troops landed on New Caledonia, rich in nickel. . PHILIPPINES German-built airplanes aid in Japanese operations opera-tions but Gen.. Douglas MacArth-ur MacArth-ur reports no - change in ground fronts. , RUSSIA Red army closing in on 100,000 Germans at Staraya (Continued oh Page Three) Americao Flying Fortresses ; Battle "lap Invasion Fleet , .' . ; BYW. H. McDOUOAIX V United Prefw Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, JAVA, March 2 9 pi in. (9:30 A. MTvBWT) -(By Transpacific Radiotelephone) (U.R)American flying fortresses and other heavy bombers at this moment ;have,roared off to attack a new JananeSe in vasion fleet' heading for the north Java coast to reinforce enemy forces ' holding-:: three bridgeheads em tfcl. lalan1. .V. ? The U. S. planed report, that the Japanese appear': to be in great force 'off the north coast , of central' cen-tral' Java. The fleet .consists of s large number , of," transports . pro- ttected .by, many .warships, v: They are' headed.:. toward Java, possibly to deliver the main attack fon this last . TTnited ; Nation's stronghold in the Dutch Indies, v The initial Japanese v invasion , . . j ' u-roops 9 Defends India General Sir Alan Fleming Hartley Hart-ley heads Britain's new unified command for the defense ol Burma and India. Fall of Rangoon Expected dourly; Riots in Burma . By KARL ESKELCND ' AVUT HELAD-QUXRTER-y 80UTH- WEST CHINA, March 2 (TLB)" Authoritative military ' quarters believed today that the fan of Rangoon was pherhaps but hours away. Reports brought back by American Amer-ican airmen indicated that terror, was sweeping lower Burma. ' Natives in "many places" were in rebellion, attacking and killing British civilians, they said Ran goon was described as "a horrible place." "Foreigners risk their lives in walking in the city, which is completely in the hands of looters and killers who are running amok," a pilot said. "A state of lawlessness is existing in the majority of Burma cities. "The natives in many districts have rebelled, killing unarmed Britishers. The Burmese are assisting as-sisting the advancing Japanese in every possible way. Some armed Burmeses have Joined the Japanese. Japan-ese. , "All over Burma it is dangerous for foreigners tto move around unarmed." un-armed." The airman asserted that "the Britishers are feverishly evacuating evacuat-ing all large Burmese cities, including in-cluding Prome and Mandalay." They are being evaculated fcy planes and cars, . he said, but some have had to walk. "I am unable to estimate the number of Britishers killed by the Burmese but I believe it is not a few," he asserted. The -British civilians were reported re-ported moving toward India and China. "Until yesterday they bad not blown up gas and oil installations in the different cities,' but r hope they'll do it soon," the airman said. He reported that food was practically prac-tically unobtainable. It was announced here that all radio communications with Rangoon Ran-goon had been "broken. S) : : - . ; lorces won inree criageneaas i on the island one near Beta via, one on the coast opposite,' mountainous mountain-ous . Bandoeng and - one not far from the naval base of -Soerabaja. . The Japanese are taking .terrific losses butt they vstiH ' are moving forward. "V'-'i'7- - A. blistering attack" by. United Nations' planes ; on th'eip landing barges and sloops sank or damaged, dam-aged, a' score of these light craft, spilling - Japanese troops. equip-- equip-- ' (Continued on Page Three) -. - ' 7' . " " " " .-b'' V."' u. s; PARTICIPATE IN DEFENSE raps Believed Trying To Reinforce Own Landing Units ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, JAVA (Via telephone) Tuesday,' Tues-day,' March 3 (U.R) Allied armed forces, including Amer-. ican airplanes, Dutch armor- ed wedges and British imperials, imper-ials, struck crushing offensive offens-ive blows against Japanese invasion forces, today in a fierce battle for Java. Official information was meagre and failed to make clear the trend of battle admittedly . grave for the defenders but early this morn ing the Aneta news agency dr culated an authoritative, state- ment that faction is proceeding' -satisfactorily. - . YAteerlcaanflyinr?v- fertresswe- PLANES which had damaged heavily the -Japanese .invasion fleet -in th first phase, of fighting, swept out over the Java sea again today to bomb a new force of enemy ships reported headed for this island. . Dutch official 'sources said that the enemy was believed 'to be attempting at-tempting to reinforce troops land- . ed at three points on Java but there was no information . early this morning as to whether the U. S. bombers had succeeded in locating a new Japanese armada.''. The Aneta agency sal dthat no new landi - ngs had been made and that no word had been - re- t ceived to a new Invasion fleet reaching these shores. t ' Up to a late hour no new land-, ing had been reported and resistance resist-ance was continuing strongly.. The word "resistance, was a misnomer, however, as the Dutch-ground Dutch-ground troops, bearing the ' brunt of the enemy onslaught, were de-" cidedly taking offensive action in opposition." f- ' ' It was- an all-or-nothing battle ' in whic hthe watchword uttered, by Gen. Sir Archibald Wave&V United Nations', supreme com- . mander, was: - " "Attack, not defense. SALE-OF NEW : CARS RESUMED SALT- LAKE J CITY, March 2 . (TIE) Sale Of new-model automo-. bUes was resumed in Utah today, but under strict, rationing. ?.V The WPB ban on new. car sales imposed., several weeks .' ago rwaa relaxed to : permit persons whose business was essential to the communities com-munities to obtain .hew machines if they .secured the .proper permission per-mission .. from ther . ration! n g boards A quota of ,425 new cars,' with 84 in reserve pool for equalizing equal-izing county demands, was established estab-lished for. Utah for March, April and May. , ,vr ' At the ; same time, : the. State Highway ",tatrl- and.; dty .and county: officers warned- motorists they, would be subject to 'arrest -if they, did : not i have . 1942- licenses' li-censes' on their, cars now. The. deadline for. use . of t the .'1941 plates was. . midnight . Saturday. Tax commissioners believed regis- ' tration. this year would set a new record, despite tire . and car nv tiohlng jrestrictions. . . . . . ' rw - . ... T" - t f TRAPPER -FOUND DEAD - PHIUPSBURO, MonL, March 2 (K&Tht body of Emit Jarvi, '49-year-old trapper and woodsman, was being brought here for fun-eral. fun-eral. service. tv.-M-tar : i.i Jarvi, who Jbur months "ago took , part in the hunt for "Moose .Lake Johnson, another trapper, apparently appar-ently died of a heart attack while ' tending trap lines. . - r '. 3 |