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Show yT Call The Herald If you don't receive your Heralfl before 6:30 call 495 before O'clock and a copy will be sen to you. VOL. 20, NO. 33 3'. The W&lKer For Provo and vicinity: Probable light snow. Temperatures : High .......... Low S5 12 COMPLKTBS UNITED PRBSS TELEGRAPH NXWI BERVICJI Justice Murphy in S. F. Visit V PROVgfc UTAH COUNTY, UTAH; SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS 51 After a hurried trip to the Pacific Coast, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, above, is shown in San Francisco to visit his brother, Lieut. Comdr. George Murphy, who was seriously injured in a fall and. suffered "several fractures." accordine to the Navv. (7l) Ao) Mm 3, . Ltd L, o) A if A DE CHAT BY THE EDITOR lumber at the Legislators Take Holiday From Labors No longer is waste scran being burned up Geneva Works. That's good news to a lot of people in this locality. .4ndrnew bvi the Columbia Steel company acting for all the contractors at the plant site, all waste lumber is stored and classified, and everything every-thing that can be used again is turned back to the stock piles. The final residue; made up of jplit and broken board ends and crap, is piled up and offered for sale to the public as fire wood, at the west gate, at $5 per truck load. This kind of fuel finds a ready sale in these days of oil and coal- shortages, according to the officials of the company. However, How-ever, those who expect to find any usable lumber in this scrap pile are due for disappointment, if the sorting crews have done their job. It's only good for firewood. fire-wood. 'All metal scrap is likewise sal vaged in the same manner for industry. Nails are pulled out and straightened to be used again in construction work. 0O0 Provo isn't the only place in the United States where the housing situation and apartment restrictions are tough, judging by this classified - ad. from the Brownwood (Tex.) Bulletin: "Wanted to Rent $5.00 reward for furnished house or apartment for officer's family. Has twin boys, aee 3, but will drown them if you insist. Dial 6634." oOo Every, single strike on the home front might mean three strikes on the boys at the battle front. . - . Some folks play dumb and others aren't playing. Russians are getting more pleasure pleas-ure out of their slaying parties this winter than ever before. . . . Some borrowing neighbors will take everything but a hint. . . . Words can be used to express a lot, -but around March 15 figures are going to mean a lot more. By JAMES O. McKINNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 6 (U.E) - Many Utah senators and repre sentatives returned to their homes Saturday to enjoy the week end houses aa- HIGH SALARY CONTROL PLAN VJIUS FAVOR Committee Determined To Afagjish $25,000 Salary Limit By EDWARD V. ROBERTS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 U.R) Democratic members of the house ways and means committee claimed support tonight' for a plan of high salary control a proposal propo-sal to fix upper bracket salaries salar-ies at their Dec. 7, 1941, level. The plan was brought forward by Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okla., at a time when the committee com-mittee appeared determined, despite de-spite the objections of President Roosevelt, to attach as a rider to the public debt bill an amendment amend-ment abolishing the present $25,-000 $25,-000 iimit on net salaries. Action was postponed until next Saturday on the rider, proposed pro-posed by Rep. B. W. Gearhart, R., Calif., after a brief committee session today in which Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C, read a letter from the president expressing the "earnest hope" that the debt bill would be passed without irrevelant amendments. Democratic members considered the Disney plan more acceptable to the administration than the Gearhart amendment, which would abolish provisions of the Drice control act in! which the found authority t spar which provides for openings of the fishing and hunting seasons. Amended by the senate, tne measure now would permit the discretionary opening of the seasons sea-sons on any day of the week except ex-cept Sundays. A similar amend ment offered in tne nouse was voted down. Should the house members . refuse to accept the senate amendment a joint committee com-mittee would attempt to work out a compromise. Senate Reverses Stand On a motion to reconsider, the upper house reversed its stand of the previous day and passed the measure sponsored by Sen. J. Arthur Bailey, D., of Salt Lake, changing residence requirements for divorce in Utah and adding new grounds. The divorce bill would reduce residence requirements for divorce di-vorce in Utah from one year to three months and would increase grounds for divorce in cases where decrees for separate maintenance have been in force for five years. The anti-labor bill by Senator George A. Christensen, D., Salt Lake, to require all labor unions and organizations to file financial statements was tabled on motion of the author. -Christensen said he wished to make a further study of the bill (Continued on Page Two' holiday after both taxes and' certain fixed obliga tions Under the Disney proposal, salaries of $25,000 or more on the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Har-bor would be held or cut back to their level on that date. "Since we have consolidated wages, it is plain that we cannot iei salaries gu unwuuvtucu, -nev said. "I do not think that salaries should be confiscated, but I do feel they should be controlled." con-trolled." The committee is working under un-der pressure to enact before April 1 the bill to boost the public debt limit from $125,000,000,000 to $210,000,000,000. Final action on the salary limit rider probably will be taken at the Feb. 13 meeting. Disney 'said many taxpayers affected af-fected by the $25,000 ceiling order ( Continued on Paee Two) Axis Radios Say Churchill, Franco Elold Conference Eisenhower Named Allied Commander Over Noith Africa Appointment Grows Ojut of Casablanca Conference, Con-ference, Belief; North Africa To Be Springboard For Operations ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 6 (UR Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today became commander of the newly-created North African theater pf operations, with authority over Allied troops m Tunisia, Algeria and French Morocco, . Eisenhower s appointment, it can be said, was a direct consequences of the Casablanca ; conference between President Presi-dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The extension of his authority ; was expected to lead quickly to utilization of North Africa as sf springboard for the promised Allied Al-lied attack against Europe. . His appointment was disclosed in a special announcement at Allied headquarters. , Appointment of Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews as commander-in-chief of American forces in the Europetan theater, and announcement an-nouncement that Elsenhower had been named commander of the African theater of operations, was regarded here as preliminary to announcement of a unified command in the Mediterranean zone. To most observers, it has been obvious for some time that Eiswn-ohwer's Eiswn-ohwer's position as commander-in-chief of American forces in the European theater of operations could not be expected to include both Europe and Africa. Andrew's An-drew's appointment seemed, tQ jmrtfife tt cleainat senhfw airia in niDrfeme fcdWniana W Africa, directing all Allied forces in this area. j However, as commander - in- j chief, he could not be expected to direct personally all details of the British and American armies, navies and air forces, and the joining of the British eighth and first and American armies which now is in ts preliminary stage?. A shake-up of subordinate commands com-mands under Eisenhower was expected ex-pected to follow. With an American at the head of forces which still are predominately predom-inately British, it was expected that British leaders would take over active command of the three fighting arms. Alexander Leads Troops Gen. Sir Harold R. L G. Alexander, Alex-ander, British middle, east commander, com-mander, was the most obvious (Continued on Page Two) YANKS, JAPS TRADE BLOWS IN SOLOMS Red Troops Seal Doom of German Caucasus Flynn Acquitted By Nine Women Jurors LONDON, Feb. 6 (HE) Allied quarters tonight discounted reports re-ports that momentous developments develop-ments were impending in Europe and Africa and there was no confirmation con-firmation of axis radio reports that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was meeting Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco. . An air of expectancy had been created by flood of rumors broadcast broad-cast by axis propagandists. These rumors included: 1. That Churchill and Franco would meet. 2,-iThat Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was poised for a -JV&tScal attack-in nlsla. ;v ; urc prominently In the war news. 4. That 50,000 Brazilian troops were going to North Africa to relieve American soldiers. 5. That military action in the Balkans impended. A German-controlled Swedish news agency reported that Franco Fran-co had left , Spain and that' Dr. Antonio De Ohveira Salazar, Portuguese Por-tuguese premier, had left Lisbon, presumably to meet Churchill. It added that troops and police were en route to the Spanish bordrr in southern Portugal where "some thing unusual is happening. Churchill was reported to have Tripoli, where he reviewed allied troops, but his destination was unknown here. The United Press Lisbon bureau reported at noon today that "Salazar was in Lisbon Lis-bon this morning." . Observers believed that the axis had published reports of a meet ing among Churchill, Franco and Salazar in an effort to tease tne British into disclosing the prime minister's whereabouts or to cause them to divulge impending allied military moves. : If all the laws were enforced, half of us would be in jail and the other half out 'on. bail. oOo . Inflation doesn't help anybody, not even a person who is a flat tire. Postmaster Named At Pleasant Grove PLEASANT GROVEl President Presi-dent Roosevelt has nominated Arnold C. Richins for postmaster at Pleasant Grove, according to word from Washington," D. C. Jugler Resigns; Scores Regime Of Governor Ylaw SALT LAKE CITY, Frb. 6 (HE) Frank A. Jugler, Utah's in-again, in-again, out-again industrial commissioner, com-missioner, today climaxed a long political feud with Gov. Herbert B. Maw by resigning because he did "not want to be a part of the Maw regime." Jugler, who collected $6000 back salary when reinstated as a member of the commission, said ne was resigning because of the governor's "dictatorial powers." "It is common knowledge that the entire thought behind the gov-so-called reorganization program was the granting to the rf dictatorial powers. I do not believe that such powers ah rutin ranted to any man. Although a Democrat, I opposed the imvomnr'i . nomination and election an unforgiyable sin, 'h said. TmriAr asserted that the gover nor wmte to him in 1941, saying tv,ot hMmiM Jtieler had "rather r-nnsiRtentlv" ODDOSed Maw'S gOV ef omental philosophy and had sup ported the program; the governor was trying to ; reform, .he would not be appointed to succeea mm self.;- ' .. r :. ;' , I 'To continue to hold this office wniiirv- rtPrAssitate upholding: the entire nroarram v- of . the adminis tration and I cannot consistently endorse or -piiUicly defend the (Continued on rage awoj BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 6 (U.R) Nine conscientious housewives house-wives acquitted, Errol Flynn of statutory rape charges today to-day and left him free to re sume his place as one oi Hollywood's Hol-lywood's reigning movie stars. , Thfr were three men on the jury, too, but they didn't count. The ladies, all comfortably mar- rii wpnt into a huddle ana con sidered all the intimate medical j testimony concerning the pnysicsu condition of Betty wanaenw and Peggy Satteriee, ad, aiw their evenings with Flynn. "And we decided," saia m.rs. Ruby Anderson, tne iorenuwi, "that Mr. Flynn could not possibly have harmed . these girls. Then we told the men, delicately of course, and they, agreed witn us. Followed Bv Admirers That was that, and the jubilant Flynn struggled from the court-hous. court-hous. like a reluctant pied piper, wHth a swarm of his feminine ad mirers clutching at his pin-striped coat tails, tugging : on his lapels and fighting among themselves for the nrivileere of touching them. "Thank God.'' said Flynn. for American lustice. And am I glad now can call myself an Ameri can! Am I glad!" The hero of a score of million dollar movies, none : so exciting or as nerve - wracking as his own mnnth-loner trial, said he still was a 4-F man insofar as his draft board was concerned, and that he Intended to take a long rest, prob-nhiv prob-nhiv in Mexico, in hope of regain ing his health. He has long? been ... :S::S:s;.,' - v.v-:-. :o,-:i-:i::-:-r.:v.;i.w,;;:..'j:' - , t . . iimw ill m1'i'i I,,, i u ii miii "" ir B' Errol Flynn No Report (ri Actual Losses Suffered Given by Knox By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. & (U.R) American and Japanese Japan-ese sea and air forces in the Solomons are trading, heavy punches preliminary to "an engagement of some size," and both sides have suffered moderate losses in warships and planes, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said today. Knox told a press conference that widespread naval and aerial encounters which started a week ago were continuing, but have not yet "developed into a battle." "They are still in a preliminary stage trying out their footwork," foot-work," he said. "There has been no major clash as yet. "There is every indication, however, how-ever, that they're getUng ready to do something. These various moves would ordinarily precede an engagement of some size." Neither Knox nor a navy communique, com-munique, issued shortly after his press conference, threw any light on actual losses thus far nor on the size and kind of naval vessels ves-sels involved. Knox first said "minor" losses had been suffered by both sides. word Troops Russians Dash Into Yeisk On the Sea of Azov To Seal Doom of German Troops Trapped in the Caucasus BULLETIN MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (Sunday) U.R) The Red army has isolated German troops in the western Caucasus, with a lightning thrust to the shore of the Sea of Azov and has captured six more towns in twin drives toward Kharkov, center of nazi resistance in the Ukraine, the Soviet midnight mid-night communique reported today. Mosmw. Feb 7 (Sunday) (U.R) Soiet troops have captured Bataisk, southern key to the German anchor point of Rostov, and have iurtner seaiea xne aoom oi wie aais Caucasus armies by dashing into Yeisk on the Sea of Azov, a special Russian communique disclosed today. The Red army simultaneously intensified its thrust toward to-ward Kharkov, taking the important rail points of Lishich-ansk, Lishich-ansk, Barvenkovo and Bala Kleia. it was announced v Controls Railroad " Bataisk. less than 10 miles from Rostov, controls the railroad leading into the gateway city from the south, and its occupation put the Soviets in position for a grand assault against Rostov, one of the major objectives of - the winter campaign. (The fall of Bataisk had been reported previously in advices reaching London, and Russian troops were said to have pushed on beyond the suburb. Rostov's IIDuceO rders All Italians to War Plant Jobs LONDON, Feb. 6 U.R Premier Benito Mussolinia, moving swiftly to intensify Italy's war errort xn the wake of a cabinet shake-up but;; later fuoeOf orf itfcat repoiedlxv nipped-a kepart$fndW:;5W raoaeravc ws cv fc"?"voeace lot. omerea an aDie-uouicu ,-jiear xne roar or nussian suns ap- STEEL CHIEF TOURS PLANTS Irvine S. Olds, chairman of the board of the U. S. Steel cor poration, W. A. Ross, president of Columbia Steel company, and their party Saturday toured the $150, 000,000 Geneva Works steel plant under construction at Vineyard. With Mr. Olds and Mr. Ross were Edward H .Hart, New York attorney, personal friends of Mr. Old; j. H. Osmers, general as sistant to Mr. Olds; E. M. Barber, vice president of Columbia Steel in chargre of the defense plant division; and CV T. JCeigley of Provo. superintendent" of Utah operation for Columbia Steel. Mr. Olds declared the Geneva plant will be a permanent indus try here. was 'toothing signif ican noth ing of a major character" in the losses to date. The navy pommunique disclosed that U. S. airplanes had shot down five more Japanese planes in far-ranging raids from the Solomons to the Aleutiant, and that ground forces on Guadalcanal Guadal-canal 'were pushing ahead steadily in the face of weakening enemy risistance. Some American patrols drove to points Vi miles beyond Tassa-faronga, Tassa-faronga, which is 10 miles west of Henderson field, the navy said, adding that "enemy resistance was weak." In the air, American . fliers bombed Japan's submarine base at Kiska in the Aleutian islands, destroying four enemy planes. The raid was in reprisal for an ineffectual in-effectual Japanese attack on American positions in the western Aleutians. In the Solomons, American planes twice raided Munda, Japanese Jap-anese air base on New Georgia island, and attacked enemy posi tions on nearby Kolombangara island. is-land. Japanese night raiders attacked at-tacked Guadalcanal two times in what Knox called "washboard Charley" tactics td disrupt the sleep of U. S. soldiers. As for the fighting between American and Japanese naval forces, supplemented by air blows, Knox said there was nothing as yet to indicate what the Japanese objective was "or when they in tend to press it." ' Both sides are on the alert, however," he added. Knox did not appear impressed by recent reports of heavy enemy warship concentrations in the Shortland island area northwest of Guadalcanal.' "There have always been ships there and at RabauV he said, adding that he know of no great concentrations at either place "as yet." reported suffering from incipient tuberculosis. Accusers Absent-There Absent-There was no word from Miss Hansen, the movie-struck waitress who wanted to be a movie star, after the verdict. She remained fax custody of juvenile court, which is expected soon to send her home to Nebraska. v Miss Satteriee, 16-year-old hot-spot hot-spot show girl, was in Sacramento Sacramen-to enroute to the home of her parents in a mountain village, when she heard the news. She wept. , ' 'H knew those women on tne jur would acquit him,' she cried, dabbling i at her eyes. "They sat there . and just looked at nini adoringly, rjust like he: was their son, or something." Mere I am . (Continued on Pa?e Two) BRAZIL JOINS UNITED NATIONS RIO DE JANEIRO. Feb. 6 UJ! Brazil joined the United Nations Na-tions today, the government announced. an-nounced. Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy--rrat not on Japan on Aug. 22, 1942 after axis submarines subma-rines had torpedoed and sunk six of her coastwise ships, with a heavy loss of life. She is i the only South American Ameri-can country at war, although all the American republics except Argentina have severed relations with Germany, Japan and Italy. Brazil severed relations with the axis. Including ""Japan," last" January. Jan-uary. '.. oeace lot. ordered Italian men and women today into war factories. All men 14. to 70 years of age and all women from 14 to 60 came under Mussolini's industrial decree, radio reports said. The decree was similar to that issued earlier this week in Germany. The report that Mussolini's cabinet cab-inet shake-up smashed a plot to take Italy out of the war came from Swedish diplomatic sources, and well-informed British observers observ-ers were inclined to give it credence. cred-ence. Thr Swedish report said that Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law Count Dino Grandi. long-time fascist, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio had demanded that Mussolini withdraw from active ac-tive politics to enable them to "pave the way to peace." The Germans reportedly got wind of the plot, however, and threatened immediate military occupation oc-cupation of Italy. Mussolini yesterday yes-terday removed Ciano as foreign minister, Grandi as justice minister, min-ister, and ousted seven other cabinet cab-inet ministers. 14 Fliers Killed In Bomber Crash GREENVILLE, S. C, Feb. 6 (U.E) Fourteen fliers from the arym airbase here were killed yesterday yester-day when two B-25 medium bombers bomb-ers crashed near Newberry, S.C., the public relations office at the base announced today. The planes were returning to Greenville from Tampa, Fla. Wreckage was scattered over a Wide area of the Beth Eden section sec-tion of Newberry county, 15 miles from here.' None of the victims was from the intermountain west. S- prdaching the larger city,-and the advancing Soviet troops. reported- . ly were able to see houses within Rostov.) ' ' The Red army, driving its wedge into Yeisk, pinned n a narrowing trap the German effectives still in the eastern edge of the Caucasus. Cau-casus. Yeisk, to which a rail spur runs from Kuschevka, the junction taken this week by the Russians, is 70 miles southwest of Rostov. The peril of Kharkov' was in creased by the capture of the railroad rail-road towns announced by the special communique, and by a Soviet So-viet break across the Donets rivet ' into . the flatlands that form the southeast approach to the "Ukran ian Pittsburgh." Close To Kharkov The fall of Bala Kleia brought the Red army to within 44 miles of Kharkov on the southeast. That town is 37 miles southwest of Kupyansk, and is situated on the , Kharkov-Voroshilovgrad railroad. Barvenkovo's capitulation enhanced en-hanced the Russian drive on Kharkov from the' south'. Barvenkovo Barven-kovo is 82 miles southeast of Kharkov, but its capture represented repre-sented a 22-mile advance from Izyura, strategic point taken ty the Red army yesterday: It is on the Kharkov-Crimea railroad. Lishichansk is a strong point on the Donets which Jiad been hotly defended by the Germans." At Lisichansk, the Kupyansk-Mariupol Kupyansk-Mariupol railroad crosses the Donets river, making possession -of the town of great strategic -value to either side. The hard - driving Caucasus armies of CoL Gen, ' Andrei I. Yeremenko and Lieut. Gen.- Ivan Maslennikbv had swept aside German Ger-man resistance as they closed in rapidly on the southern approaches ap-proaches to Rostov. War Food Production Meetings Planned For Six Communities A three-day war food produc- farmers and their wives secure tion leadership conference for farm men and women of Utah county will be held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with I sessions ses-sions at six communities of the county, announces S. R. Boswell, Utah county agent. " - Directing the conference ; will be William Peterson . of Logan,' head of the U. S. A. C. extension service. ? . i f Mr. Peterson will bring with him Lyman Rich, dairy specialst, Carl Freschknecht, poultry specialist; special-ist; Myrtle Davidson, assistant extension ex-tension service director, and 'others 'oth-ers to participate in the confab. . ; Purpose of the ' conference; according ac-cording to Mr. Boswell, is to help important information that will aid them in increasing food -production in 1043. The food will be thoroughly explained. ' The meetings will be as follows: Wednesday 2 p. m., Spanish Fork junior high school: 8 p. m., American Fork city hall. Thursday 2 p. m., Payson junior high school; 8 p. m., Lincoln Lin-coln high school. : Friday 2 p. m., Goshen junior high; 8 p. m.,' Mapleton ward church. ' The meetings will also serve as a convention of the extension service serv-ice neighborhood leaders, Mr. Boswell said. 41 JAP PLANES BROUGHT DOVJtl . GEN. Mac ARTHUR'S HEAD- ' QUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 7 (KE) "Forty-one Japanese ; planes were shot-down or dam-aged dam-aged over Wau, New Guinea.- to day, a communique announced.: ' Dogfights raged throughout the day when-Japanese attempted, to raid the Wau airdrome. Thirty-three Japanese fighters and eight bombers were hit Our losses were negligible, headquarters headquar-ters said. , - ' A headquarters spokesman said: . "A total , of 26 Japanese planes : was destroyed . and 15 damaged. We lost no fighters in these dogfights." dog-fights." ; ? |