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Show Help Red Cross The American Red Cross needs the help of every American to provide aid for oar fighters and their families, and to guard our nation against disasters. For Provo and vicinity: Little change, in temperature;' light rain showers late tonight. Temperatures: High 60 Low 23 VOL. 20, NO. 38 SSSAa sD8IS PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LA KB PRICE FIVE CENTS ml - 17 Legislators Approve Appropriation Bill To Complete 1943 Session Utah County Senators Obtain Senate Approval Qn Bill To Revamp Water Adjudication Suit Procedure In Utah SALT LAKE CITY, March 13 (U.R) Both houses of the Utah legislature Saturday completed ' action on the state's 1943-45 biennial appropriation bill amounting in direct expenditures from the general, fund to $7,562,000, paving the way for sine die adjournment. ad-journment. However, an appropriation of $3,290,000 provided pro-vided for in another house measure to increase school teachers and employes sal DE CHAT BY THE EDITOB It is pretty late now for the Nazis to bemoan the ghastliness 1 of bombing civilian communities. AjThey should have thought of that before their raids on Coventry, Tendon. Plvmouth. Rotterdam and other Allied cities. Now they have the effrontery to call raids Dn German cities 'inhuman" and appeal to the Pope of Rome for intervention to stop them. It's a grand "crtf-habyMi act; fart" tt comes too late. Technically, the Germans are suggesting that "open cities" be spared. What are open cities? Those in which no single factory is engaged in war work; where there are no soldiers, no antiaircraft anti-aircraft defenses, no enemies of Nazism? History would suggest that in Berlins eye any Axis city is "open" and should be spared; any Allied city is military and should be devastated. The Nafcis can dish it out, but they hate to take it. oOo Every grocer now has a hobby he doesn't particularly enjoy stamp collecting. -oOo The state legislators woke up a few days ago to discover that the statutory! 60-day legislative session limit Had expired with a ' huge mass of unfinished business, including the all-important appropriations appro-priations still to be acted upon. So they resorted to the time-honored expedient of stopping stop-ping the clocks for the next few days end craming all remaining action into an extra long 60th legislative day. oOo The federal budget bureau is planning to thow yards of red tape about Washington's favorite pastime. the promulgation of questionnaires. ques-tionnaires. The public is advised hereafter to ignore such pestiferous pestifer-ous queries as do not bear the imprimature of the budget. This is one administrative order and one use of hureaucratic red tape which will arouse no protest. It will save money, manpower and the time of hard-pressed executives. It may even help to save that institution beloved of every politician, the American home, which has survived sometimes some-times with difficulty the raw nerves brought home every night by harassed business men. Things are about even the thin man has more to laugh about but the fat man more to laugh with. A Nebraska man divorced his wife and then hired her as a cook. That's one way to make sure she'll leave him. , ' LONDON HAS GRIEF A IB ALARM LONDON. March 13 OLE) Some districts of the London , area had a brief air alarm to night. But no bombs were drop- ped. SK aries already signer by the governor gov-ernor will run the general fund expenditures up to $10,852,000 for the biennium. Appointees Confirmed Total state expenditures for the coming biennium, including direct appropriations and fees and other sources of income used to run the state government and institutions will amount to $16,000,000 for the biennium. Following passage pt three house bills during the afternoon, line senate approved the remaining remain-ing names submitted by Gov. Herbert Her-bert B. Maw for state offices, including in-cluding that of Lawrence A. Johnson John-son as state liquor commissioner for tho term ending July 1, 1945. Other appointments approved included Qra Bundy, Weber county, coun-ty, as publicity and industrial development commissioner for the term ending in 1949, and Oscar W. -Carlswr.-SAlt "take; -as" COW missioner of the- business regulation regula-tion commission for the term ending end-ing in 1949. Tempers grew hot and the debate de-bate waxed eloquent during the afternoon in the senate when Sen. Lynn S. Richards, D., Salt Lake, attempted to have the house controversial con-troversial labor hill brought' before be-fore the senate. In the course of the heated argument, Sen. J. Arthur Bailey of Salt Lake, charged that some Democrats and Republicans had attended a dinner sponsored by lobbyists of the measure. Sen. Mitchell Melich, R., Moab, charged that certain members of the senate, whom he did not name, were doing everything in their power to avoid voting on the measure. Withdraws Motion Bailey later apologized for his remarks. Richards had previously withdrawn his motion. The house acted on numerous senate measures before striking the enacting clauses of the remaining re-maining bills on the calendar or in committee. Racing Bill Killed After coming out of the house sifting committee a bill by Sen. June Kendall, D., Nephi, to permit per-mit horse racing in the state in order to promote the livestock industry in-dustry was killed by a vote of 17 to 38. Supporting the measure were Reps. Henry C. Roberts, D., . Go-( Go-( Continued on Page Two) BOMBERS BLAST JAP CONVOY By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, Marcr 14 (U.E American Flying Fortresses pounded another Japanese Jap-anese convoy attempting t6 reinforce re-inforce New Guinea by a roundabout round-about route Saturday, scoring direct di-rect hits on, an J,000-t6n troopship troop-ship and & 4,000-ton cargo vessel, it was announced today. An allied reconnaissance plane spotted the enemy's formation of five merchantmen and three destroyers de-stroyers off Wewak, on the north coast of northeast New Guinea, .in the same Bismarck Sea where a 22-ship Japanese convoy was blasted to oblivion earlier this month, a United Nations .,. communique com-munique said.' : . ( The , Flying Fortresses made two attacks one late - in the af t-t ernoon as the enemy circled, apparently ap-parently waiting for darkness ' so landings could be attempted, and - again during the early evening by the light of a half moon. The Fortresses were opposed by escorting r r Japanese , fighter planes, the communique said, and their attack was also hampered by bad weather. KRUPP WORKS BLASTED HEAVY RAID Flying Fortresses Hit Nazi Communications In New Raid BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON UnitedPress Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 13U.K -American . flying fort-Tesses fort-Tesses smashed at Nazi communications in France again today, as British reconnaissance over Essen revealed great fires still roaring through the Krupp Arms Works more than 12 hours after, the RAF had plastered the city with better than 1,000 tons of bombs. An indication that Allied bombers bomb-ers were over Europe again Saturday Sat-urday night was seen in the interruption inter-ruption of a .German broadcast. The DNB sender went off the air in the middle of a news item "for technical reasons." Attack Railway Yards The fortresses, out for the second straight day, attacked the railfway yards of the important junction five miles out of Amiens, Striking in strong force at the Nazi aail network- behind the French coastal defenses. All the fortresses returned from the attacks on Amiens, the nearby near-by junction of Longueau, and Abbeville, Ab-beville, 30 miles- to the northwest, 3MMmmwgm, olM United States army air force and the British air ministry said. An undetermined un-determined number of German fighters were shot down in clashes with the raiders. The air ministry, announcing first details of the paralyzing night raid on Essen, said the damage dam-age "certainly was heavy," and ventured the hope that it "finally wiped out the Krupp works." The crushing impact of the bombardment bom-bardment was made evident by the flames still crackling through the heart of the Krupp factory at 3 p. m. Saturday, as well as the disclosure that the raid was heavier than that of exactly a week earlier, when 450 acres of Essen were' devastated and 53 Krupp shops knocked out. The RAF lost 23 of its bombers. - Preliminary reports of the nignt raid on Essen indicated that it might have been the most ' crushing crush-ing blow otie war against Nazi arms. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair so described the attack a week earlier, and the return engagement en-gagement evidently bore at least an equal weight. The city may have received a (Continued on Page Two) North, West Africa Asked to Join Fighting French LONDON, March 13 !) The French national committee has adopted and transmitted to Gen. Henri Giraud a resolution calling for incorporation of North and West Africa in the Fighting French organization, it was revealed re-vealed tonight. " The proposal was revealed on the oven of an important address by Gen. Henri Giraud, political and military commander in French Africa, in which he was expected to announce acceptance of a less drastic but basic plan for his cooperation co-operation with, the "Fighting French" organization of General Charles DeGaulle. Some quarters believed the French national committee issued its memorandum as a "fire check" in order to publicize their own aims before Giraud discloses his course of action. A resolution adopted Feb. 23, said this arrangement would be the "most efficient and most justified" jus-tified" . solution ,of the present political muddle in Africa. . It said the national committee had been seeking: ; all means of obtaining unification of all Frenchmen tut that certain . conditions con-ditions are "indispensable to obtain ob-tain unification." " . - The, resolution" asserted that the "so-called armistice .concluded against the will of France by the pscudo government . must be ixeld. in French North, Africa- and West Africa as null and void and not engaging the nation." Career Ends f V v J. P. MORGAN French Guerillas, Italian Troops In Blood v Combat LONDON, March 13 (U.R) French patriots and Italian soldiers are locked in bloody comba in in Bill :i :Syfkla?fni.?nSl ayandlthe J&scount Corpora-district Corpora-district of Haute-Savoie, reports fti0n of New York. from Switzerland said today, Several thousand entrenched guerillas, supplied with arms and ammunition by Allied planes,' were reported engaged in heavy fight-ing fight-ing which began yesterday, and the rumble of guns could be heard in peaceful Geneva, some 25 miles away. The French-Swiss border was reported re-ported entirely controlled by Italian Ital-ian troops, and the' Garde Mobile, which was first called into action against the guerillas, is being constantly reinforced . Swiss reports said the patriotic forces are being led by .a General Cartier, former French army officer. of-ficer. Several other guerilla bands were reported going into action in the region as radio Algiers continued beaming broadcasts to France, telling the people to organize or-ganize an underground front. Press reports from Lausanne said visiting Frenchmen estimated that more than 100,000 partisans are taking part in . the revolt against the Axis throughout France, which began in protest to the Nazi program of conscrip ting French youths for labor details de-tails in Germany. The partisans form no "rabble in arms," but are eficiently organized, organ-ized, armed with modern weap-bns, weap-bns, and led by professional officers offi-cers and non-commissioned officers offi-cers ,the Lausanne reports said., The rapid spread of the insurrection insur-rection throughout the country indicated in-dicated its careful organization. JAPS CLAIM ALLIED TRANSPORT SUNK SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (IIE Japanese naval air forces sank a 3,000-ton -allied transport and heavily damaged another off the eastern coast of New Guinea March 8, the Tokyo radio claimed claim-ed today in a broadcast recorded by United Press. riauy Reveals U. S. Lost 32 Ships Sunk In Solomons Campaign; Japs Lost 61 WASHINGTON. March -13 0J.R) The navy, graphically stressing the heavy toll paid by the Japanese Japan-ese for their vain attempts to drive U. S. forces out of the Solo mons, reported; tonight that 64 enemy ships have been sunk durr ing the islands campaign, against only 32 U. S. vessels Sunk. Total Japanese ship losses in the Solomons area since the campaign cam-paign began Aug. 7 included 10 vessels probably sunk and 108 damaged, in addition to - the 64 sunk, for a total of 182, the navy said. It reported U. S. losses as five ships damaged .and two overdue over-due and presumed lost, as well as the 32 sunk, for a total of 39. Other U. S. vessels, however ito-doubtedly ito-doubtedly have suffered damage of varying degrees. ! ... . The navy's recapitulation of ship losses in the Solomons cam-. ; paign showed that enemy vessels J.P. MORGAN SUCCUMBS TO AILMENT Financier, Reputed To Be World's Richest . Man Succumbs BY H. EARL BARBER United Pres Staff Correspondent .. BOCA GRANDE Fla., March 13 U.R John Pier-poni Pier-poni Morgan, called "the younger" thoirgh 75 years old, international financier, finan-cier, head of a famous financial dynasty, and one o f the world's .wealthiest men, died at 3:15 a. m. Saturday. "The president of J. P. Morgan and Company, Inc., a name prominent promi-nent in the financing of empires through the life-times of two John Pierpont Morgans and creator of such industrial giants as United States Steel corporation, succumbed succumb-ed to a heart ailment aggravated by a cerebral stroke in a small cottage on the grounds of the exclusive ex-clusive Gasperilla Inn where he had been ill since Feb. 25. Because of his advanced age, Morgan had divested himself of many of his responsibilities in the world of industry and finance, and 'at his death he held few corporate cor-porate offices, notably chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan1 and Co., Inc. and director of United States Steel, the Pullman com tion of New York.' To" Be Crentated- J !'t , , The body will be; sent to New York by the 6:15 p. m. Seaboard train for private funeral services. Friends here said ? It - would be cremated. His daughter, Mrs. Paul C. Pennoyer and his son, Lieut. Cmdr. Henry S. Morgan of the navy, were at his bedside. Morgan was stricken by a cerebral stroke Feb. 25 when he arrived here by train from . his princely estate at Glencove, Long Island. A heart attack, the third in the past two years, followed. The first the public knew of his illness was March 9 when his New York office announced that he was seriously ill and his associates, associ-ates, because of his age, were anxious over his condition. On March 10, Morgan rallied and the three doctors in constant attendance in the cottage were encouraged, but soon he suffered a relapse and lapsed into the coma from which he never emerged. Morgan was one of the world's wealthiest men. The total of his wealth was, of course, unknown, but in 1929 estimates were that it ranged from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000. In 1933, a senate committee heard testimony that his firm, holding directorships in 89 corporations, at one time controlled con-trolled assets valued at $20,000,-000,000. $20,000,-000,000. His father, J. Pierpont Morgan, was an international financier, of eual stature, and" the man who died early today bears the designation, desig-nation, "the younger," in the history his-tory of the dynasty which will now be carried on by Lieut. Commander Com-mander Junius S. Morgan, the eldest eld-est son, who in peace time, is a partner in Morgan and company, and Henry S. Morgan, whose civil-( civil-( Continued on Page Two) sunk Included 40 warships two battleships. 12 cruisers and 26 destroyers. de-stroyers. U. S. ships sunk included 40 warships two battleships, 12 cruisers and 26 destroyers. U. S. ships sunk included two aircraft carriers, four heavy . cruisers, three light cruisers and 13 destroyers.- ; At the same time,, the navy also bestowed official designations designa-tions on the six major naval .and sea-air engagements fought .in the Solomons -area up to Feb. 7. Here7 areN the names officially assigned as-signed to the batqes, with a summary sum-mary of losses by both sides in each battle: L Battle of Savo island, night surface actions of Aug. 8-9 U. S.r three, cruisers sunk; Japanese, unknown. r., ' -. . , . ' 2. Battle of the eastern Solo mons, air-surface actions of Aug; ; ( Continued on Page Two? Anthony Eden Meets Roosevelt to Talk On Allied Problems British Foreign Secretary Calls On United Nations For Closer Collaboration To Win War and Stable Peace BYEO. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 13 U.R British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden today called on the United Nations for closer collaboration to win a war in which they still "have a long way to go." Speaking out strongly 'at a press conference before be-fore calling on President Roosevelt tonight, Eden said such collaboration was "pretty we'll indispensable indispensa-ble if we are going to have a stable peace after the 1 Swar." Eisenhower Ready For Big Push in Tunisia Campaign ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 13 (U.E) An early grand scale campaign by the allies in Tunisia was indicated in-dicated Saturday nigrt by General Gen-eral Dwight D. Eisenhower's promise to push the Axis "into the sea and to destruction," and by intensified air blows at en-"eray en-"eray supply lines. : Eisenhower, allied commander-in-chief for North Africa, issued ari orderoT the day, dated' Mafclr 8, in which he asserted that "for the immediate future I know that each one of us has no other thought than to do his full duty and more in clearing Tunisia of the enemy." He spoke of the allied ring encircling en-circling the enemy. This steel ring, bristling with big guns and tanks . and covered by swarms of bombers and . deadly fighter planes, is formed by British armies arm-ies in the north and south, Americans Am-ericans in central Tunisia; and supporting French units all along the line. There was . speculation tonight that the big push would begin very soon' because the weather is, more f avorable now than it will later. One dispatch from the front quoted military; leaders as saying that there would be five or six more weeks of weather suitable suit-able for a drive by the British Eighth army, now drawn up along the Mareth line in the south. Eisenhower's statement pointed out that the German and Italian armies had attacked all along the front and that they had been "once frustrated and twice defeated'.' defeat-ed'.' He said however, that the enemy en-emy might try again. "Possibly he will make further and desperate efforts, but I know that the troops of the field armies will ,with the continued and effective ef-fective support of our naval and air forces, inexorably push him back into the sea and to destruction," destruc-tion," he declared. Eisenhower said that he was proud to command the Eighth Army which joined thec Tunisian campaign after sweeping the Axis from Egypt and , Libya. The Allied Al-lied forces, he said, "will continue con-tinue to typify the unified purpose pur-pose of the British, French and Americans and the unified effort of our naval air and ground contingents con-tingents to force the Axis to unconditional un-conditional surrender." ; Land fighting yesterday was confined ' to patrol activity. U. S. SUB SINKS JAPANESE SHIP WASHINGTON, March 13 (TIE) A small Japanese patrol vessel ves-sel was sunk in mid-Pacific by an American submarine in a 37-minute 37-minute gun duel that cost the life of one of the sub's gunners, the navy announced today. The vessel, apparently engaged in anti-submarine patrol, was of slightly less than 1,000 tons. Date of the - attack was not revealed. It has not been reported: previously previ-ously in navy communiques. . The lone American casualty was Motor Machinist's Mate First Class e Herbert , A. ; Calcaterra, - 22 of Stoneyford, Calif.,! -who was awarded the silver star medaL Eden came, here for conferences with President Roosevelt so broad in scope that, he said, "nothing is excluded." They and other American and British leaders, he indicated, will discuss not only the means to victory against the axis but also the roads to a safe and durable peace. War Not Won Yet The allies, he said, will take many anguishing blows "before we can hope to win the war or the peace." But when the war has been won, he added, the victors must "make sure that Germany and Japan are never able to start this business again." Refreshed after a .23 hour flight from London, he arrived last night, Eden stressed collabora- WASmNGTO! Marcff TSTf1 U.R The White House an- nounced today tnat a committee com-mittee of senators headed by Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., of the senate foreign relations committee, will meet with President at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. Later the group will confer con-fer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the state department, de-partment, it was said. tion between Britain, the United States, Russia and China but added that "I don't mean we should be exclusive about it." "But with that as a foundation," he explained, "I would like to see our' collaboration extended to other members of the United Nations." Na-tions." In connection with post-war problems to be anticipated, he mentioned air transportation specifically spe-cifically and said it should be approached ap-proached "in the spirit of bringing bring-ing us closer together rather than as a matter of rivalry." Eden seemed to emphasize two aspects of British policy in his discussion of collaboration: 1. The "most important contribution" con-tribution" of Great Britain's 20-year 20-year treaty with the Soviet Union. 2. The Britsih view that all French elements opposed to Germany Ger-many should be firmly united with Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud and their followers fol-lowers "together in the struggle." (Continued on Page Two) May 16 Proclaimed 1 Am An American Day' by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, March 13 OJ.PJ President Roosevelt today proclaimed pro-claimed May 16 as "I Am An American Day," under" a custom established by congress in 1940. The proclamation said that in the last year the country "has been strengthened through the voluntary association with us, by naturalization, of the many thousands of tnen and women from other lands and through our youth who, y coming of age, have attained full citizenship." Designating' Su!ndr Mav 16, as the date,' the president added: t "I urge that that day be set aside as a public occasion for the recognition of all our citizens who have attained their majority or who have been naturalized during the past year; and I call upon federal, state, and local officials, in patriotic, civic and educational organizations to take part on or aboht May 16 in exercises designed de-signed to assist our citizens both native-born . and naturalized, to understand more fully the duties and opportunities of , citizenship and its special responsibilities in a nation at war." NAZIS MASS TANK UNITS IN NEW PUSH Outnumbered Russians Inflict Big Losses On Germans BY SAMUEL D. HALES United Pre Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 13 (U.PJ -The Red army acknowledged acknowl-edged its fourth setback' in two days in the critical' battle for Kharkov today,-reporting today,-reporting that massed German armored forces attacking repeatedly from the west had succeeded at high cost in pressing back the Soviet defenders. After taking up new"-positions athwart the western approaches to the city, the overwhelmingly outnumbered Russians held fast against attack after attack, in- ! flicting enormous losses on the German tank arid infantry legions, le-gions, the midnight communique broadcast from Moscow said. The Soviet high command reported re-ported that big German tank and mobile infantry forces were at-tacking at-tacking heavily north of Kharkov, Khar-kov, and repeated assaults by an infantry regiment led by several dozen tanks were beaten off south of the city. Earlier reports from Moscow indicated that the plight of Kharkov Khar-kov is critical and said the de- lendeeeaejaxorted - to fight ' to the death as superior forces spearheaded by hundreds of tanks pounded at the gates of the Ukrainian stronghold. Jj fc Nazi broadcasts said elite assault as-sault forces had smashed through the Streets of Kharkov to the main railway station and captured it, while bloody struggles at close quarters went on in other parts of the city. The Red army offensive aimed at the big central front base" of Smolensk moved rapidly westward from Vyazma, the late communique communi-que said, with several towns and villages occupied yesterday. Westerners Ask Continuation of Reclamation Work WASHINGTON, March 13 OLE) Senators from the western reclamation rec-lamation states will ask Secre-' tary of Agriculture Claudo R. Wickard to join them in appealing appeal-ing to the war production board to lift the construction ban on nearly finished reclamation projects proj-ects in ,the west, Sen. Dennis Chavez, D., N. M., said Saturday. The reclamation state senators met Saturday to discuss plans for completing reclamation proj-ets. proj-ets. John C. Page, commissioner: of the reclamation bureau of the interior department, told senators what action is nrcessary. Chavez said Sen. Carl Hayden, E, Ariz., would appoint a five-man five-man committee to call on Wickard Wick-ard to explain that completion' of the reclamation projects is' "absolutely necessary from the production of goods standpoint." Hayden and Rep. J. W. Robin- son, D., Utah, said a letter to Wickard asking hig help had been drafted. The meeting was attended attend-ed by 12 western" senators and Robinson. War In Brief LONDON Royal Air Force delivers one of war's heaviest blows against Essen, home of Krupp arms works. ALLIED . HEADQITARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in order of- the day, calls for "destruction' of Axis armies; big push, appears imminent. MOSCOW: Germans smash closer to -Khakov; Red Army told to defend city "to last drop of blood." . . v V PLAYWRIGHT RECOVERS . EXETER, ETigrMarch 13 EE- Noel Coward, playwright and actor, recovering" from Influenza, was able to leave his bed today. |