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Show 3M I, 'Call The Herald If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. FIFTY-SIXTH .YEAR, NO, VI M House Committee Shelves Proposal For Income Limit Ways and Means Committee Adopts Motion to Defer Proposal for Limiting Income To $25,000 Per Year, Single Men WASHINGTON, June 16 U.R The house ways 'and means committee today shelved the administration's proposals pro-posals to limit the annual income of single Americans to $25,000 and of married couples to $50,000. The committee adopted a motion to "defer the proposal for further study." Members interpreted the action as killing kill-ing the proposal so far as original house action on the tax bill is concerned. : - They explained that the post- - uu uompanies, Boy Scouts Aid Old Rubber Drive Responding to the nation-wide plea for every possible ounce of scrap rubber, Boy Scouts, civic organizations and citizens in general gen-eral are joining in Provo's drive to get all available rubber to the collection centers. Major service stations, where the rubber is being taken and sold for a cent a pound, already had piles of old tires and other scrap rubber as the drive entered its second day this morning. Boy Scouts, who have carried a large share of the brunt of salvage campaigns since the war began, are responding admirably in forming a bridge between the homes and the yards where rubber rub-ber is being sorted, graded, packed pack-ed and shipped, according to Roy Passey, chairman of civic service for the Utah National Parks council, coun-cil, B. S. A. Civic organizations are joining in the drive, and the Provo junior jun-ior chamber of commerce today announced that a scrap rubber matinee, sponsored by the Jay-ceea Jay-ceea in cooperation with the In-termountain In-termountain Theatres, will be staged Saturday at 10 a. m., at the Strand theatre. Ten pounds of old rubber or an old tire will be required for admission, ad-mission, according to Eyan Hansen, Han-sen, committee chairman for the Jaycees. The junior chamber is holding a committee meeting tonight at 6:15 at the Jaycee office to plan cooperation with the service stations sta-tions in the rubber collection. Forming the rubber drive committee commit-tee are Mr. Hansen, J. Elmo Lar-sen, Lar-sen, director in charge, John Moore; Ray Murdock, Pete Fack-ler, Fack-ler, Ralph Simpson, Harry Olsen, Lynn Moulton, Arthur Adamson, H. E. Nicholson, Jack Vick and Clyde James. As 97 per cent of the crude rubber rub-ber producing areas of the world are now Axis-controlled, Mr. Passey Pas-sey urges that all citizens scour their homes for scrap rubber, then call the Boy Scout office if they would like a scout to make the collection. Residents may take their own scrap rubber to a service station and receive a cent a pound for it; or they may turn the rubber over to a scout who will deliver it to a service station, the proceeds pro-ceeds going to the scout troop; or, as a third method of disposal, the residents may call the cham-( cham-( Continued on Page Bight) Piano Needed at Army Camp for Use of Soldiers w 1 A call for the loan of a piano for the duration to one of the Utah county army camps was sounded today by the camp and hospital hos-pital council of the Red Cross chapter here. Mrs. J. E. Goates, , chairman, chair-man, said there is an urgent need for a piano for use by soldier musicians at the camp. Anyone who will either loan a piano for the duration - or donate one should call Mrs. Goates or members of the committee. 240 COMPLETE) UNITED TELEGRAPH NE.W8 ponment came at a time when except for disposal of the sales tax Issue, the new tax bill is about ready for the floor. "The committee," announced Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C, "felt it could not take the responsibility of passing the proposal at this time. "I felt the same way." The limitation originally was proposed by President Roosevelt. Yesterday the treasury submitted to the committee a recommendation recommenda-tion for carrying it out, in modified modi-fied form, through a 100 per cent war "supertax." In addition to the $25,000 and $50,000 personal supertax exemptions, exemp-tions, the treasury proposal would allow these deductions from the income ceiling: 1. Charitable contributions in the amount of 15 per cent of income in-come remaining after federal and state taxes are paid. 2. Debt liquidation of 15 per cent on this net income. 3. The taxes now being paid on 1941 income. If the taxpayer is not in debt he could apply his 15 per cent debt liquidation allowance to payment pay-ment of insurance premiums or purchase of government securities, securi-ties, such as war bonds. Only current cur-rent incomes taxes would be de ductible. After this, the treasury said, the taxpayer would be warned warn-ed to lay away the money to meet his obligations to the government. All income, including that from federal securities issued before 1941 and from state and municipal securities, which is now exempt from ordinary federal income taxes, would be subject to the supertax. Meantime, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., by implication withdrew from his campaign to push the new tax bill up to the administration's figure of $8,000,000,000 without adopr tion of a sales tax. The treasury is still opposed to a sales tax, he told a press conference, con-ference, but was not "sweating" because the committee's bill is still $2,000,000,000 short of the administration goal. ' The treasury only makes recommendations, recom-mendations, Morgenthau said. CARLOAD OF NAILS ALLOTEU TO UTAH SALT LAKE CITY, June 16 uXK A carload of nails to be used for construction of badly needed grain bins has been, allocated to Utah and Idaho, the war production board office here announced today. Twenty tons of the nails will be used in Idaho, while the remaining six tons will be doled out to Utah farmers on certification that they are to be used for grain bins Filing Deadline For Utah County Posts Set July 22 Although nary a candidate has yet filed nomination papers for candidacy for county offices at the fall election, the filing deadline dead-line July 22 is only slightly over a month away, C. A. Grant, Utah county clerk, reminded today. Offices coming up for election include all elective county offices except the four-year commissioner's commission-er's post held by R. J. Murdock; all five state representatives, the two state senators, and justices of the peace and constables in all precincts, Mr. Grant said. The office of U. S. representative representa-tive now held by Congressman J. rfi 'mow"'' 'W PRESS SERVICE rn JV VESSELS HIT BY AIR Alaskan Delegate Urges Japs Be Driven Out Of Islands By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Pres Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 16 (U.R) A third great naval-air battle in the Pacfic within six weeks is in progress today to-day off the Aleutian islands. American airmen both army and navy already have damaged at least six Japanese Japan-ese vessels, maybe seven, and sunk another. One of the damaged vessels was an aircraft carrier. The battle apparently has been going on intermittently since Japanese Jap-anese bombers attacked the naval base at Dutch Harbor on June 3. Admiral Ernest J. King said on June, 7 that a battle was going on in that area but that the situation sit-uation was obscure. Last week the Japanese landed on one of thf Aleutian islands. Fragmentary Reports-Only Reports-Only fragmentary reports on the Aleutian area have been released re-leased and they are confused now by different versions by the army and navy of the damage inflicted on the enemy. Nhe navy version Army and navy airmen have damaged at least three cruisers, one destroyer, one gunboat and one transport, 'some of them severely." The army version Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, air corps chief, said in a telegram to the Glenn L. Martin Co., aircraft manufacturers, manufac-turers, that army medium bombers bomb-ers attacked the Japanese task force in the Aleutians three times, sinking a cruiser and scoring three torpedo hits on an aircraft carrier . t,qt There was no attempt as yet by either the army or navy to reconcile these two versions, but a navy spakesman, commenting on Arnold's message, said the full extent of the navy department's "accurate information" to this time was contained in its communique. com-munique. There was a possibility that the sunken cruiser Arnold referred to was one of those reported re-ported damaged by the navy. Despite the confusion and lack of information, these things stand out in a recapitulation of official (Continued on Page Eight) GARFIELD MAN DIES IN CRASH SALT LAKE CiTY. June 16 UJ! While their wives watched from another automobile, one man was killed, and another gravely injured in-jured today when the machine in which they were riding smashed into a slowly moving freight train at a crossing on the Bingham and Garfield Railroad company tracks where U. S. highway 40 intersects with the railroad. Dead was Archie R. Taylor, 48, of Garfield, and suffering serious head and chest injuries was Meade Gillet, 44, of Magna. Will Robinson will also come up for election. The primary election will be held September 1, the run-off primary pri-mary October 6, and the final election November 3. Registration days, according to Mr. Grant, will be August 11 and 15, September 8 and 15, and October Oc-tober 6, 13, and 27. Under the election regulations, the official register of voters must be in the hands of the respective registration agents by July 11, and the registration supplies by July 31. Registration agents have (Continued on Page Eight) SIX JAPANESE PROVO, UTAH .COUNTY, (7B !YI Second Siege Light Briaada charasd hare in Criwon Worf 1 854 Kiv -3 ' f I BV . v.it-.V AT AT A pg-'n y Y A V 1 ,.'"t YALTA. , , v .' I Milt SOViETRUSSIA Dnepropetrovsk UKRAINE man,aUHH f? ; BUUiARIAjf stJJy 4ry5Fd7nH TURKEY IRAN Since last October, German troops have cut Sevastopol, Soviet naval stronghold on the Black Sea, from land communication with the rest of Russia. Sevastopol underwent an even longer9 siege once before, holding out 11 months in the Crimean War of 1854-55, when Britain, France and Turkey were fighting Russia. It was here that Florence Nightingale founded a nursing tradition tending the wounds of British troops; and here that the "six hundred" immortalized im-mortalized by Tennyson charged "into the valley of death" at Balaklava. Today the Sevastopol approaches are a "valley of death" for attacking Nazis, as the besieged city's people live, work and return the fight under almost constant bombing, artillery fire and enemy troop assaults. Nazis Halted Dead In Their Tracks MOSCOW, June 16 (U.R) The Red army has halted the Germans dead in their tracks around Kharkov and Sevastopol, official Soviet advices said today. The official Tass agency, in a front-line- dispatch from Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Chicago, night. Washington at Cleveland, night game, postponed. Boston at St. Louis, night. First game New York 021 0 Detroit .... 100 1 Donald and Dickey; Benton and Tebbetts. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 011 0 New York 010 1 . Pollet and W. Cooper; Hubbell and Dajining. Cincinnati 000 000 Boston 000 000 Vander Meer and Hemsley; Javery and Kluttz. Pittsburgh 000 0 Philadelphia . . . 020 0 Hamlin and Lopez; Podgasny and Livingston. Only games scheduled. NEW STAMP COMING WASHINGTON, June 16 TJJR) The maritime commission announced an-nounced today that a new three cent postage stamp, bearing the maritime eagle, will go on sale in post offices on July 4. ( 11 Biliii"'itrji"TH-ijfW-"l,W''1111' ' 'y1- UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE m of Sevastopol Mil j o To! Te Mokow 750miUt KaratwBasar Nails thrust down railroad from Ukraine SIMFEROPOL CRIMEA T.&tW (RUSSIA) ov,-" i am, MlfXtif Black Sea 1 RutM- German Front 0 100 the Kharkov battle zone, said that the Germans in the last 24 hours had been able to advance only a quarter-mile in one small sector "from which they were soon hurled back." "The attacks of .the enemy have been shattered by the resistance of our troops," it was stated. On the Sevastopol front, Tass said, the Germans are being held at a standstill on the 13th day of the savage siege of the Black Sea fortress but it was acknowledged that' "the situation remains tense." MOSCOW, June 16 0TJ;)r-Ger-many hurled even artillery regiments regi-ments and her famed "Big Berthas" Ber-thas" against Russian defenses before beleaguered Sevastopol today, to-day, while other Soviet forces awaited anew enemy push by at least 500,000 men on the Kharkov front. Dispatches from the Crimea ?aid the Germans were blasting at the central Soviet defense line with artillery of higher calibre than that which shelled Paris from long range during the first World War. Following this artillery barrage, bar-rage, the Germans were said to have thrown 100 tanks in a frontal fron-tal assault designed to widen a small gap. Russian defenders, however, were reported countering counter-ing every German move with all available weapons. Dispatches emphasized that the situation around the key Black Sea naval base rapidly was ap proaching a climax, and that the Germans were bringing reinforcements reinforce-ments from other fronts. The garrison was said to be making a "last ditch," defense and (Continued on Page Eight) 16, 1942 U. S. FLIERS TAKE PART IN BATTLE American Army Air Corps Engaged In Four Day Battle BY WALTER COLLINS CAIRO, June 16 (U.R) American army air corps units took part in a four-day battle between allied and axis air naval forces in the Mediterranean Medi-terranean scoring hits in operations that resulted in sinking of a 10,000-ton Italian Ital-ian cruiser and damaging another cruiser and two destroyers. It was said that in one engagement, engage-ment, a number of hits were made on an Italian battleship, one cruiser of the 10,000-ton Trenton class was sunk by aerial torpedoes, torpe-does, and one six-inch gun cruiser cruis-er and one destroyer also were known to have been hit. This toll of four enemy ships sunk or damaged was boosted to five or six in a second engagement engage-ment with another Italian naval force near the Fascist island base of Pantalleria, where one enemy cruiser wag- hit-and set afire and one destroyer was probably bit. The British preliminary reports of the engagement .followed Italian Ital-ian and German claims that from 20 to 30 British warships and merchantmen in two convoys headed for Malta had been sunk or damaged. Axis dispatches said that American warships "probably" "probab-ly" were involved in the fighting. The Italian fleet . on Monday morning was attacked by allied planes, most of which were Consolidated Con-solidated B-24 four- motored bombers, known to the British as Liberators. A number of hits were made at that time on enemy en-emy battleships, presumably by the American fliers. (Dispatches from Stockholm said that the main Italian battle fleet had gone out from Taranto in an effort to bring about a decisive de-cisive engagement with the British Brit-ish Mediterranean fleet. A special bulletin issued tonight from Adolf Hitler's headquarters claimed that German air-naval forces in the; Mediterranean battle had sunk four cruisers and destroyers, two patrol ships and six merchantmen, merchant-men, while another destroyer and eight merchantment were so badly bad-ly damaged they are "regarded as lost." Six other warships and six other merchantment were reported report-ed hit and 33 British planes shot down, the Berlin radio said.) Carbon Man Faces Manslaughter Count PRICE. Utah, June 16 U.E) Joseph E. Redford, 26, Spring Canyon, was held in jail today in lieu of $500 bail after arraing-ment arraing-ment on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Redford was accused of hitting Christopher Day during a card room altercation. Day died short ly after the fight. -0- Fight ing High BY JOE ALEX MORRIS 'United Press Foreign Editor American bomber squadrons smashed at the axis in foggy Aleutian island outposts and in the Mediterranean today. Dispatches from Cairo disclosed that United States army bombers of the four-mo- . tored B-24 type had aided 1 in ' peared to be over-lapping and striking heavy blows at the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean, where one fascist heavy cruiser was sunk and probably half a dozen other war ships, t including includ-ing battleships, were hit. The Axis claimed in special communiques that-it had won an important battle against ' Two British Mediterranean convoys," asserting that about 29 allied warships and merchantment were sunk and possibly 30 others damaged. dam-aged. These claims, however, ap- UTAH'S ONLT DAILY BOUTH OP SALT LAKE Italian Cruiser, Two Destroyers Sunk By Allies Big British Convoy Reaches Malta, Tobruk With Supplies After Escaping" From Heavy Attacks by Axis Forces BY SYDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 16 U.R) A big British convoy has reached Malta and Tobruk with supplies after escaping from "very, heavy attacks" by superior axis naval and air forces in a Mediterranean battle in which units of the American army air corps participated, it was announced tonight. The British warships and United States and RAF planes protecting the convov sank a 10,000-ton Italian cruiser of the Trento class anc - at least two enemy destroyers, it was stated in a joint admiralty ana air ministry communique. "Heavy losses have been imposed im-posed upon the enemy air forces," the communique said. The communique said: "The Fantastic enemy claims of having sunk cruisers, and damaged dam-aged a battleship and an aircraft carrier are without- any foundation." founda-tion." The conyoy, running the gantlet of attacks in the central Mediterranean Mediter-ranean with support of U. S. and British planes, was said to have delivered supplies to Malta and the besieged stronghold of Tb-bruk Tb-bruk on the Libyan coast "in the face of very heavy attacks by superior enemy and naval forces." Although the axis claims of the sinking or damaging of between 20 and 30 British warships and merchantmen were described as "fantastic," the communique said that "the operations were not completed without loss." The Italians had acknowledged the loss of three Italian warships sunk or damaged, including a heavy cruiser, and it was said in axis broadcasts that . "United States warships probably participated" partici-pated" in the battle. Tonight's British communique, issued after more than 24 hours of silence by the admiralty while the axis radios made victory claims, did not mention American warships being involved in the battle, and spoke only of United States army air corps units. Advices from Cairo said that probably six Italian warships were sunk or damaged in the grea four-day naval and air battle, some of them probably by United States B-24 Consolidated bombers the big four-motored planes which last Friday attacked axis objectives in the Black Sea region. The axis broadcasts said that two allied convoys had been broken brok-en up by the attacks and .that both were forced to turn back. Tonight's communique, nailingr tills report and the axis claims of 20 to 30 allied ships sunk or damaged, said that the ships had gone through to both the island fortress of Malta and to Tobruk which is under attack after the British abandonment of El Gazala on the Mediterranean coast, 40 mues westward. Reaches Peak of War exaggerated. American airplanes also led efforts ef-forts to oust the Japanese from their foothold on the outlying Aleutian Islands. . " Mediterranean Units of the American army air corps took part in a great four-day naval and air battle in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean where Axis communiques claimed that 20 to 30 allied warships war-ships were sunk or damaged. Italy acknowledged the loss of a heavy (Continued on Page Eight) The Weather Trovo and vicinity: Cool this afternoon aft-ernoon and early tonight. Temperature Monday: High, Low . PRICE FIVE CENTS i m mu More u. s. rianes At Secret Base? It Is Revealed ANKARA Turkey, June 18 tt Vichy French sources reported today that big Allied planes had been bombing Axis targets in southeastern Europe for several weeks tefore four United States , army bombing planes landed in Turkey Friday. Informants asserted that 'the raids had been made intermittently intermittent-ly but that the allies had remained re-mained silent regarding them and the Axis commands in turn had decided to say nothing. Allied ' military sources said there was but one clear point regarding re-garding the United States plane raid that there were plenty more big United States bombers where the four which landed in Turkey had been based. They said the bases would be kept secret in order to keep the Axis guessing. Opinion here was stUl that the American planes had bombed the Rumanian oil fields from middle eastern bases and military sources said the attack or attacks-meant attacks-meant the opening of a new aerial front which might force the Germans Ger-mans to spread their air force atill thinner. Persons on the spot when three American planes landed at the Civil airport here said that the hands of one airman were nearly frozen. Maps in - the planes revealed their course, it was asserted, but Turkish authorities now in charge of them refused to disclose it. House Completes To Aid Dependents WASHINGTON, June 16 (HE) The house today completed congressional con-gressional action on a bill providing provid-ing financial assistance for dependents de-pendents of enlisted men of the four lowest grades in the armed forces and authorizing deferment of married men with legitimate home ties. ... The measure was sent" to the White House for presidential approval ap-proval when the house adopted the conference report on.it. The legislation, sets up a ached-,ule ached-,ule of allowances and allotments, including S50 a month for the wife of one of the lower rank service men $22 from the man's pay and $23 from the government. I , The government also would contribute con-tribute $12 a month toward support sup-port of a child, plus $10 a month for each additional child.: Smaller allowances ' would be , made for other, dependents such as parents or brothers or sisters.' - The bill is effective as of June 1 but the first payments will be delayed until Nov. 1 because of administrative difficulties. ; Dependents De-pendents of men now in service will receive ' payments for : the full five month period on the latter date.. 4 |