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Show April Goiif eiferice Called ;L.:Di:S. Limitations Upon Travel Bring About Can - cellation of General Conference For Second Time in 112 Years ' SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 28 U.R The L.D.S. church Saturday, cancelled for the second time in its. 112 year his tory, one of its general conferences r meetings that have usually brought 20,000 church members to the famed Mormon Mor-mon tabernacle pn temple square here. 'j : General authorities,' of the church, led by 84-year-old President Heber J. Grant, decided to call off the spring conference con-ference this year, because of difficulties imposed by wartime - BT BX XDnOB ; -. There's a new "back to the farm" movement - sweeping the country in which every householder can share, even if his ."farm" is no more than a rug-sized back-yard plot of ground. Start planning, plan-ning, that-: war garden now, and gather your harvest next summer, in fresh vegetables costs for yourTudget. Cities; too, can join : this war garden effort, utilizing all the vacant backyard areas to a useful and profitable venture. A successful garden re- quires gardening : experience, - fertile, well-drained soil, sunshine, sun-shine, adequate i water sup-4 ply garden tools and proper kind of seed. If you haven t all of these, better leave they nrdenincr to someone else; sr. .r v, .- 1 Hut it you ao possess or out 4 acquire these, , you can aid America s war campaign materially ma-terially by a little back-bending and elbow grease. Buy Defense Stamps with the money you save. oOo Small Stuff Nostradamus predicted the fall of Hitler in April,. 1942. Which would be the best fall we ever had in the spring. . . . We'll tell you more : about lady defend workers in uniform when we hear what Mrs. Jones says upon discovering her uniform is exactly Iike,J Mrs. Smith's. . . New York celebrities nave lots of fun fighting m the night spots. Why don't they join the Marines? . . . London disoatch says soap , rationing .has . brought n. narasnips to .rJngiana. Almost any 8-year-old could tell you that; . . . The national com huskintr chamnion was rpr- feet physically in his draft examination. Bad news for Axis ears, i . . Save that old automobile. In 50 years it M M A A. A. 1 - t may ue.. -j, pretty vaiuaDie 'heirloom. - Duke of Windsor Returns From U.S. ' MIAMI, Fla Feb. 28 UE The Duke , of Windsor ..'returned to Nassau today after a "very satisfactory satis-factory conference : with United States and British Officials here regarding- measures for defense of the Bahama Islands, crown colony,' off the southeast Florida coast. - ' - ' ; ITie duke was all - business on this visit of less than 2' hours, traveling with only two aides as a passenger on a regular airplane flight from Nassau. - CHAT QffSJBy; Eeader& conditions. The conference was t6 have been held April 4, 5, and c. Earlier,, the church had suspended sus-pended possibly for the duration of the war most conferences of the subordinate stages, or church divisions. Scheduled conferences of the Women's Relief Society, which this year celebrate tho 100th anniversary of its establishment estab-lishment 1 by Prophet Joseph 8mith, and the auxiliary Primary and Mutual Improvement associations associa-tions were also called off.' In explaining: , the cancellation. President Grant and His two counselors coun-selors J. "Reuben dark, Jr., former for-mer ambassador to Mexico, and David O. McKay said they had in mind "the limitations upon travel now imposed by reason of the national emergency' ! : They ; also said they realized the : necessity' for economizing dcr that they may be better pre pared to . meet: the financial demands de-mands which will be made upon them by reason of the emergency. emer-gency. . . As a third reason for calling- off the -. April confer:nce, the presidency presi-dency pointed out the hazard, even though remote,4'-that is incident inci-dent to. large gatherings in the highly militarized area of Salt Lake City.". , . As a , substitute, the general authorities and stake president will hold priesthood .meeting at tunes and places to be announced pater. The only other time a general conference was cancelled was during dur-ing the 1919 influenza epidemic,' when the April meeting was also suspended. Grant became president presi-dent of the church in that year. The April conference and the semi-annual October , conference, almost identical in program, were always the highspots of the church year of- the 1,000,000 adherents ad-herents of the L. D. S. faith. Judgment Granted To Crippled Boy MARTINEZ, Cal., Feb. 28 CE Edgar Gould, crippled 11-year-old Berkeley school boy, today held a court order awarding him a $40,000 default jugment from the Richmon unified school district, dis-trict, Contra Oosta county. ' Gould, assertedly crippled for life when he stumbled over a sprinkling head at the Kensington Kensing-ton Park grammar school in 1938, was released from a hospital after a convalescence of more than three and a half years. Physicians Physici-ans said he is suffering from a bone disease and will probably be an invalid .for life. Associated Civic Clubs Form Organization at Pleasant Grove PLEASANT GROVE -.' Formation For-mation of the Associated Civic dubs of Pleasant Grove was effected ef-fected at a meeting held in the city building here Thursday evening. eve-ning. This organization is a combination com-bination of the Lion's and Commercial Com-mercial clubs, ; the chamber of commerce and; the city administration. admini-stration. With Wesley Jense. Lion club president, as chairman the club pledged ; Itself to ' hasten a plan for. civic betterment.5 Among the projects under consideration. are proposals calling for 'a new sewage sew-age system, a , zoning ordinance. sttreet and pavement improve ment. Elected to - work with Mr. Jense - as - other members of the general committee were - Fred C i - Superintendent 1 V 'dssMMsisa : if ' ' '-.-::- .:;:.:- DR. OWEN P. HEN1NGER Ileninger Assumes Superintendent's Post at Hospital Da. Owen P. Heninger today assumes as-sumes duties as permanent superintendent sup-erintendent of the Utah state hospital hos-pital at Provo, following his appointment, ap-pointment, ; effective March 1, by the stat welfare commission Friday, Fri-day, -r- -r . ' ' v . Dr. Heninger, whose appoint- edition of Friday's Herald, has been acting superintendent since the dismissal of Dr. Garland H. Pace January 10 and prior to that time had been assistant superintendent superin-tendent for three years. t Makes Statement . The new superintendent, following- his appointment,-made the following fol-lowing statement:. "Whether the choice of the commission com-mission is wisely or unwisely made will be shown by time. However, there is more to the successful operation of a state hospital than the selection of a superintendent. The responsibility rests with, each citizen of the, state, who, through the legislature and state executives, execu-tives, tell the. superintendent how well he shall feed the patients, how much medical attention they - (Continued on Page Two) SENATOR HATCH STILL SERIOUS ALBUQUERQUE. N.M., Feb. 28 OLE) Doctors said tonight It will take at least another 24 hours to determine definitely how seriously U. S. Senator Carl Hatch, New Mexico Democrat : and author of the "clean politics" law, was Injured In-jured in yesterday's automobile crash. ; Physicians said the senator was in "serious" condition but did not list his condition as either grave or critical. Dr. W. R. Lovelace said first x-rays showed Hatch has a fractured frac-tured vertebra, internal chest injuries, in-juries, a broken rib and abdominal abdom-inal injuries. . - The senator was injured when a car in which he was riding overturned over-turned yesterday near Lucy, N. V, when it hit a stretch of new road. Shoell, chamber of commerce president; H. W. Jacobs, manager of the . Pleasant l Grove Canning company; Harvey ' Smith ; of the Commercial club and Mayor X S. Duane , Harper. Vilace Radmall was ; chosen secretary-treasurer. This committee will organize various auxiliary groups such as the r advertising committee which has las Its -members. Vera Cul-limore, Cul-limore, Lewis Olpin, Karl Banks, Burton H. Adamr - and Mayor Harper. . - , - Also discussed at the meeting was the new trailer camp ordinance ordin-ance - passed by the city council which calls for the licensing of all tourist, ' trailer, automobile houses, or other cabins. .y Plans were - made to hold another an-other session Thursday. : - '. - FARM BLOC DELEGATION TO MEET FDR Senators - To ; Find Out r. What the Trouble Is. ' Says Solon v s; ; . ' WASHINGTON; Feb. 28f-(U.P 28f-(U.P The selllte, firm . bloc today: appointed- a seven-man delegation to s discuss farm prices policies with ' President Roosevelt and "find out, what the trouble is.T V; '. . ' Following; a session of the senate :' agriculture -committee, which some members described as stormy. Sen Elmer Thomas, ' D., Okla., said the situation "is not clear." - "We hope to present the facts to the president as we see ' them and we hope to reach an agreement agree-ment on the facts," he said, Thomas dcelared that no agreement agree-ment had been reached on whether wheth-er to insist on an amendment' to the . pending $32,000,000,000 war appropriations bill which would require that cotton : purchased with funda in the measure be bought at parity prices. ' The delegation appointed to talk to the president comprises Senators Thomas, John H. Bank-head, Bank-head, D.t Ala.; Guy M. Gillette, D., Ia.; Allen J. Ellender, D., La.; Scott W. Lucas, Dn 111.; Charles L. McNary, R, Ore., and George A. Aiken, R.. Vt -.s . obvious reference to . farm- Dtocl tactics, termed the legislative technique of attaching - riders to non-vetoable bills as reprehensible. reprehensi-ble. , ; ; "Since this issue developed, we have decided to appoint this committee,'' com-mittee,'' Thomas explained, v The agriculture committee met with representatives of 12 farm organizations, ' including ' ' the Grange and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Thomas said ho understood that all the organizations organ-izations favored a senate approved bill by Bankhead to prevent the Commodity. Credit Corporation from disposing of its stocks at below parity prices. Henderson Sets Price On Canned Goods WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 UE-. Price Administrator Leon Hender son, seeking to . prevent food costs from rising to new high levels, . today . fixed temporary wholesale price ceilings for 25 varieties var-ieties of canned fruits and vegetables vege-tables and warned that retail ceilings ceil-ings might become necessary. Henderson specifically said he nao feen advised by the agriculture agricul-ture department that the temporary tempor-ary orler effective for 60 "days beginning Monday would not affect growers, and would not interfere in-terfere with the department's program pro-gram for all-out 1942 production of fruits and vegetables r . The order fixes the top wholesale whole-sale prices charged between 'Feb. 23 and Feb. 27; inclusive,' as the celling at 'which ' sales may be made .by canners and wholesalers. Henderson said that with the or-. or-. (Continued. on Page Two) War Production To Be Stepped Up Assures Nelson WASHINGTON. Feb.. S8 rtIE Chairman - Donald M. . Nelson of the war 1 production- board today assured President Roosevelt that every effort would 'be made-to speed- up production, of war ma terials "in ' the crucial . jnonths ahead." ' . ." ' ': Nelson's , assurance was . In re sponse to a letter from the pres ident in which Mr. Roosevelt asserted as-serted that "Victory depends tt' large 'measure on the lncreasea war. production we are ' able to get from our factories and; arsenals arsen-als in the spring and summer of 1&4Z.".: -. f - ..s , ! - The war production board. Nel son told the president, is undertaking, under-taking, "a continuing national drive, designed not merely to in crease production at once but to. keep stepping it up further as tho war continues. : .. .... . v Ceilings Tanker Another Victim of Submarine - - ;v"' I 'I r " xt x A beautiful, but terrifying sight is the burning Standard Oil tanker, R. PARe8ort after being torpedoed by an enemy submarine off Ashbury, N. J. A heavy . loss of lives was feared as the fire burned furiously while .the water washed over'the blasted center portion of of the vessel. U. s. Army Air Corps photo. (NEA-Telephoto). v -oj For Sugar Rations WASHINGTON, Feb. ; 28 U.R) A national registration for war ration book No. 1 -necessary to "obtain 'sugar when, ratjonins: . becomes effective -will be held over a four-day; period; probably not earlier than the last week in March the 1 . ',' ' Office of Price Administration an I Options Oh. Steel Plant Site t . .. v Final option on private land needed rfor - the - 133,000,000 i pig iron and steel , plant at vmeyara has been taken by the government, it was understood Saturday. Latest property " owner to sign " T'r. Af options were 'taken here by Wil liam J. Hickey. - Defense Plant Corporation specialist. : Mr. Andreason signed up when approached by G. L. Leaver, spe cial R. F, .C. -represenUtive," and Calvin Rawllngs, attorney, a day or two ago. . . ' With all the property owners reportedly signed up condemna tion proceedings apparently nave been averted. As yet no definite agreement for - purchase v of the . Church- and church property has been reached. The .Vineyard ward made, the government gov-ernment two propositions, one based on ' construction of another site, and one 'being a cash consideration.. consid-eration.. . 3 " ' - :, . yAUof '. the "options taken by the government' are.' to be .exercised by March 15. To date the property owners, have received only a small fee to 'make the options legal. X; ' - A- report '-which could not be verified was ..circulating Saturday that - the contracts for . the first construction, unit at the new steel plant ; had been offered . to , three big construction outfits: Utah Con struction company and tne Con-roy Con-roy - company, - of ; San ' Francisco, and? the : Morrison-Knudsen company com-pany bt Boise, Ida. The work. amounting-to -approximately $27,-000.000 $27,-000.000 "includes the grading and concrete work- tor : ail the structures struc-tures . in the plantl An . immense amount " of dirt must r be , moved before,, site is ' levelled off; and 1 a big-tune concrete construction is also -in the plans. . ; . ' . ,' i i . - r- i . TRUCK: BAN' EXTENDED .; WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 UE Thevwar producuon board today extended untu narcn a cne : oan pn sales and 'deliveries of 1S42 model light,? medium and heavy trucks and " truck ; trailers. ; The ban would . have, expired tonight. i A- rationing program, now being worked tout, goes - into effect . - v s nounced today.- - . Approximately 1,400,000 teachers teach-ers will serve as registrars, using- the facilities - of 240,000 elemen tary schools.' - i ; . They will - enroll every person in the United States except mem bers of the armed forces, , inmates- of institutions, and persons tem porarily or . permanently 'in hos- pitals, convalescent homes and other ' institutions for the sick. ; Mufct Declare Hoards-- OPA officials jsaid ration books will not be given to any individ ual, wno has, more . than eirht ho Each" to i n Vt.rnf tTkI to sign astatement declaring the amount of sugar he has, and each ounce over, two pounds per person will be considered above the "nor- mal inventory- ,:: Stamps will be torn fron the ration 'book to compensate for the excess,' but if . that excess constitutes consti-tutes : a ration for eight ' or more weeks the ration book will be withheld. s Late-comers who fall to register regis-ter during, -the first four-day period, will have to wait at least 'two , weeks for .another, opportunity opportun-ity to obtain their ration books- ' One adult ' may register' for an entire family unit, but a separate ration ..book will- be. issued for each member. Servants, lodgers and ."others living in f the ' household, house-hold, but ' not . members of ths family unit,; must register individually. indi-vidually. ' :v ;. - 1 ' Announcement t of the registration registra-tion plans followed; disclosure 'by war production- board ofridaU that . the weekly ration will be a half pound .for' each Individual, Instead of 12 ounces. ' "? " .' Morgentnau, to tx Plans at WASHINGTON,- Feb. .28, (TiE-f Americans win - learn - next Tues day just how the administration, which is urging: congress to pass the largest tax bill in .history, wants to boost their taxes to raise S27.000.000.000, annually in war revenues..;-';- (k. t"; .7 i Secretary of toer Treasury Hen ry ; Morgenthatt Jr, wUl outline the administration's program &t a v public hearing of the house ways and means committee, which originates '.an .' revenue ; measures ; : : . . - . - Four Japanese Ships : Put Out of Action In Major Naval Encounter Allied Forces, Greatly Outnumbered, Inflict Resounding: D e f e a t. 'Forcing: Jap Transports to Flee to the Northward By H. O. THOMPSON 4 . , - United .Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U.R) The navy announced late today that American naval forces,-with other United Nations warships, had repulsed an attempted large-scale Japanese invasion of Java , and put out of action a heavy Japanese cruiser and three destroyers. - .' . The naval engagement, described as a "major action' occurred when 40 Japanese transports, covered by a large force of combatant vessels, appeared off the north coast of Java yesterday for the attack ... on the hearth of the Dutch East. .V - ' .1 .L . indies. . ' The allied forces, although greatly outnumbered, inflicted a resounding defeat upon the Japanese Jap-anese . and forced the transports to flee northward, abandoning for the . time being their landing' attempt. at-tempt. Reports of the Java engagement en-gagement were sketchy but -the navy said that "further action can be expected from this area," indicating that new fighting already al-ready may i be in progress. The navy announced simultaneously, simultane-ously, that -American submarines operating in Far Eastern waters had torpedoed and 1 probably, sunk five enemy ships this week.- The ships included at least two transports trans-ports and one "large" vessel. ' In regard to the Java battle. we-tmvyeakr : the -none -f ft American vessels suffered heavy damages, and that our. forces are f 'still Intact despite the overwhelming over-whelming superiority in numbers of the enemy naval forces." . 1 The extent to which airplanes participated in the fighting . was not disclosed. . The "size of .the enemy armada indicated , that Japan was launching, launch-ing, her full-dress attack upon Java, coveted, prize of the southwest south-west Pacific. The Japanese fail ure to - get - their troops ashore was a serious set-back to their plans to overrun the , islands by sheer force of numbers and equip ment. ' The navy communique ldentifi ed the crippled Japanese cruiser as of the - Mogami class. - This group consists of four - cruisers of 8,500 tons with a length of 640 feet and a beam of 60 feet. The Mogami cruisers . were equipped with 15 6.1-inch guns and eight 5-lnch anti-aircraft guns. They carry four . catapult with twelve 21-inch torpedo tubes, ,ryim Ht, The Ships were built between 1934 and 1936, have a speed of about 33 knots and each carries a-complement of 850 men. The American naval units which engaged the Japanese off Java were believed to have consisted of one heavy cruiser and five destroyers. - 'The "large'' vessel ; torpedoed and probably sunk by an Ameri can submarine on Feb. 23 may have been an airplane carrier, a large . transport. ; or possibly a cruiser. Two hits were scored. . On the following may, ' two torpedo tor-pedo hits were effected on a large auxiliary-' vessel. ; ! . " On- Feb. 25 an - enemy transport trans-port was - torpedoed and another torpedo found its mark on a type of enemy ship- that was not identified. iden-tified. On the same day another transport was hit.; and - believed sunk, -a . . .,---r: j While the battle for Java was raging. Gen.! Douglas Mac Arthur's hard-fighting men on Bataan were holding tenaciously to the advance positions won by. this week's surprise sur-prise attacks against the numeri cally-superior Japanese forces. iOtitljne "New, . Tuesday Hearing in 'congress. Randolph Paul,! special spe-cial tax . adviser, to Mbrgenthaut later, will explain the treasury proposals in detalL .v ' Treasury -experts ' were ; revising the final draft of the administration administra-tion tax proposals over the week end and did not expect to complete com-plete it tmtttJMonday. " ? v: Informed officials said - that basically,' however, . the adminis tration proposals probably . will call for ' an overall . increase - of $7,000,000,000 a year in four cate- KlianEL, SHORT I TO BE HELD FOR COURTHARTIAL By SANDOR S. KLEIN . United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb, 28-i (U.R) Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and jMaj. 'Gen. Walter C. Short were ordered tdday to stand trial by courts j martial on charges that their Iarbor made' possible tho success of the Japanese attacks on that bastion .last Dec. 7. t . J Pending their trials, which may be delayed until after the war, the two former- commanders of the joint -army-navy defense establishment estab-lishment in Hawaii were retired on salaries of $6,000 a year each. Kmmel and Short previously had applied for such retirement. t Court martial proceeding . were ordered simultaneously, but . in separate announcements, by Secretary Sec-retary of Wavy Frank . Knox in Kimmel's case, and - by Secretary of. War - Henry , L., Stimson, In Short's. ' -I; -. The charges on which they will be . tried were contained in the report re-port of , the special presidential clmmission, headed by. Associate Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, j which Investigated - the circumstances of the treacherous :- (Continued oh Page Two ) dditioii nnin ! uniiioii iiHiui FRENGHCOAST i BY WHX2AM B. DICKIXSON United Press Staff Correspondent i LONDON, Feb. 28 U0-British paratroops and black-hooded commandos com-mandos - have "successfully" i at-: tacked the north coast of France in what was characterized tonight as the possible start of a spring offensive ' against Nazi-held . Europe Eu-rope in which - the American expeditionary ex-peditionary force wiU' participate. Informed military quarters . reported re-ported that .Germany' in coming months may be confronted with dozens ' of similar attacks, slashing slash-ing by night and stealth along the meandering.- Nazi,' coastline from the- warm .waters of the Bay - of Biscay to the1 Arctic ice of ' Nor-way,if Nor-way,if jjvuv1 vivi;i . ;. . ; . America's troops, described as etching for action,? are expected to play a major role in the . of fensive. - - f r - - - ----- - J Air Secretary . Archibald -; Sin-. clair defiantly set , the 'keynote for the new. attacks with the assertion as-sertion .that tfwe. must take Ger many . by the k throat and shake tne strengtn out ox ner. we must sum noi in lvtt or iu out in 1942.". He - said the united nations have" two main weapons for 'the 142 offensive the Royal Air Force and tho Red army. ' The .commando offensive, - mili tary sources aaid. will force Ger many, to face dozens of secondary fronts and the almost impossible task of shifting her forces day by day over, hundreds, of. miles to. meet attacks which at any. mo ment could mushroom into a major western front. ' : ' -t, ' ' ; - '.' The first British parachutist operation in history on the French coast was directed against. Man Important radio location post on |
