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Show PAGE AKShS52n5 EyerWitness Tells Of Rabaul Battle ? (Continued from Jhey bored down to iOOO and 2.600 feet before letting theiri pombs go at a group of light truiser and destroyers for several damaging hiis. . . '?... C-, f Decker said Japanese Zeros' harried the-retirement. ... f "I don't know how. many there were," tie said. "They Just kept pecking at us nearly all the way out to. Cape St George and about two-thirds, of the way down it. Purine the retirement we lost our only plane. It was a. lucky hit because the Zeros couldn't get . in .close. They Just kept lobbing shells " Into our' formation, hoping 10 Knock something down." . i Our torpedo planes were making mak-ing the best use of the diversion furnished by dive bombers. The weather was very heavy just outside out-side the Babaul harbor .and the trpedO planes were saving their fish for a sure-thing target, pidn't Wait Long I They didn't have long to wait j.t Simpson harbor, the torpedo farriers soared over the narrow neck of land between there and the' ocean and emerged over Cape iTavui. Awaiting them there were the belching guns of several war-Ships war-Ships just under the outer edge fef a rain squall. Lieut. Comdr. Donald M. White ef Baltimore. Md told how the torpedo planes avoided the Zeros. 5 "Their fighters intercepted us While we were coming down," avhite said. "We ducked into the squall and lost them. They never picked us up again until we come put of the storm." The first torpedo hits blasted p. Mogaml type heavy cruiser about two miles off the island. -Three torpedoes were hurled Into lier . - "Her bow went straight up in the air and she went down," White Said. 2 Lt (jg) James J. Taylor, Jeanette, Pa,, and Lt ( jg) George . 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FURNISHED 312 South Uni nl4 1 WANTED TO LEASE TT 8 TO 85 acres, good ground with Z plenty water. Vegetable garden. t Harry Moye, 80 West Center. : Phone 183. .: nl9 .r. SUNDAY HERALD Page One) slammed . a torpedo Into another heavy cruiser in Simpson naroor, They reported a tremendous ex plosion. "But we couldn't wait around to see if she sank." White said. Lt (jg) Fredericko, Fox, Jr., Lebanon, Ps, made a run on a destrover and hit her broadsides with his torpedo four miles off crater peninsula. . r .i "She rolled right over,"1 Fox said.- - - lAt the same time a big ex plosion was observed on a war ship, which had been torpedoed by White. Southeast of the harbor, three .torpedo carriers ran into another warship two mues oxr rraea romi and dumped tneir cnargea. vine hit was scored. Two torpedoes were hurled Into the side of another warship five mile seast of the harbor. One struck forward, the other aft Lt Cmdr. Philip H. Torrey, Long Beach. Cal., in charge 'of the fighters, reported that 13 enemy planes were snot down ror sure and several others were probably destroyed. Torrey said some of the Zeros used bombs and they came ia swarms up to 40 planes, but Tor reys group lost only one plane. Burglars Loot Furniture Store The Dixon-Taylor-Russell com pany store at Provo was bjirglar ized early Saturday morning, with the loot consisting of around 31000 in currency and silver, it I was reported. Provo. police, who indicated they found but meagre clues, said the burglary apparently had been ex tremely well planned and executed. The burglars entered , tnrougn the rear by springing a big freight door. They punched out the dial of the safe in the office, and stripped the cash box of cur rency, police sata. cnecKS ana war bonds in the safe were left. The burglary was discovered when Night Watchman L. J. Bran of the building was open. The doors were all locked when the watchman had checked them Fri day at midnight Police first announced the loss had amounted to approximately $2000. However, after further checking, company officials said it appeared around taken. 31900 was Bremen 7 Continued from Page One) range. More than 100 German fighters tried to ward off the at tack in a series of battles fought in the thick clouds, where the weather was so cold some bomber instruments froze. The opposition on the whole, the fliers said, was "sporadic," although some bomber groups reported they had "tough going." Maj. Kenneth S. Steele, a squadron squad-ron commander from Santa Rosa, Calif., said: "The Lightnings were- an over us. About 5Q jerries hit us when we reached the coast. I called up the fighters and reported the enemy ene-my was on us.' I asked the Lightnings Light-nings where they were and they replied, "right above you. Just at that moment zoom the Germans Ger-mans dived for the deck. That was the last we saw of them. It was the first time I ever saw them actually run." ' American Continued from Page One) along the entire Italian line at a cost of "fairly heavy casualties" in the past few days. Allied troops were reported fighting against Nazi machine-gun and mortar emplacements hewn out of the rock walls of the mountains. In the Air American and British bombers and fighters fanned out over Albania and Jugoslavia Friday Fri-day and also battered targets behind the fighting lines. The Germans put up strong fighter plane resistance, losing rive planes. Three Allied planes were lost. ' , CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank all those who so kindly assisted us during me Hiness ana aeatn or our beloved be-loved wife and mother,! Marguerite Marguer-ite Sherbondy Woodland. To those taking part in the funeral services, for the use of cars, the beautiful flowers and to those who prepared lunch for the family on the day of the funeral, we are Indeed grateful. grate-ful. D. B. Woodland and family. V. E. Ryan and family. Mrs. J. E. Fredrlcks and family. Open To The PublicX GiAnbini the Great Soprano of the Metropolitan MONDAY Nov. 228:15 Tabernacle Tickets now1; at Hoyle's Radio and Song Shop 81.50Tax Included kites Submits : New Vcge Formula for-, Coal Agreement ; WASHINGTON. Nov. IS tUHk Coal Administrator -Harold L. Ickes. In a move today to com mete the new coal ware agree ment, submitted to the war labor board a wage formula to be used ra-paying 250,000 miners employ ed on a piece work . basis. He also called on the United Mine Workers and private opera- tors tO negotiate an Immediate settlement of the Miners' retroactive retro-active claims under the wage- hour law. The WLB approved 944 lump sum settlement of those claims in an agreement between the WWW and Illinois operators. When the board approved the wage - agreement negotiated by ickes and UMW President John L. Lewis last week, it asked clarification clar-ification of the wage scale for piece workers and said the proposed pro-posed scale would have given those employes proportionately higher wages - than the . rates approved for day workers. The day rate workers received an additional 1.50 dally for a longer work i day ' which . included an estimated one-hour more of pro ductive ' time. o The entire wage system was revised to include travel time in the miners' basic work day. The piece work formula follow ed the pattern used for day rate employes and assumed that the average miners' travel time was 45 minutes a day, It provided that the piece workers would be paid at a rate based on their existing average hourly earnings for the first seven hours and on rate and one-half for the eighth hour. . Provoan Leaves On Buying Trip Evan Thomas, manager of But ler's store, has left for a buying trio to Los Angeles and San Fran cisco. Calif., and expects to be away for todays. Mr. Thomas will attend the spring market now on in Los Angeles, An-geles, and will purchase a wide line of sportswear for Provo women and girls. Lyman Continued from Page One) ment referring all queries to the Desert News, Theron Liddle, city editor of the Deseret News, said the official notice was all that the News would print about the action. Lyman had been a member of the Council of Twelve for 25 years since he was sustained for the position on April 7, wnen the late Joseph F. Smith was President of the church. Previous to this, he had played a prominent promin-ent role in Mormon, activities holding such assignments as president presi-dent of the church's. European mission from 1936 to 1938. Prominent Lineage . His father, Francis M. Lyman, was president of the Council of k Twelve for IS years, and a member mem-ber for 36; his grandfather. Ama- sa M. Lyman, was on the council for 28 years, and was one of the main colonizers under the direction direc-tion of famed second President Brigham Young; his maternal great grandfather, John Smith, was an uncle of Joseph Smith, the prophet founder and first president presi-dent Lyman was married on Sept 9, 1896, to Amy Brown Lyman of Pleasant Grove, herself a prominent promin-ent church leader, and wall the father of two children, only one of whom Mrs. Alexander Schrelner, wife of the organist at the famed Mormon tabernacle here is still living. in private life, Lyman is a prominent civil engineer, a graduate gradu-ate of the Unvlersity of Michigan and of Cornell University, and formerly was a professor of en gineering af the University of Utah and at the Brigham Young university at Provo. He also is president of a Salt Lake City motor mo-tor car company. Lyman, a member of the board of trustees, has been especially prominent In B. Y. U. alumni affairs, af-fairs, and has served as president of the association, besides being founder and president of the Emeritus club, consisting of alumni alum-ni who attended the church insti tution 50 years or more ago: YOUR .'is? V Liquor Shorten To DePrqbed By i Senate Committee WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 (HE) The senate' judiciary committee today planned to investigate the uenior snonage. ? , ' Chairman Frederick, Van Nuys. D Ihd, said he would ask a sub committee to make a preliminary inauiry to determine whether the shortage is real, or artificiaUv created by monopolistic interests Tee utue nrms are nemg bought up by the big distilleries until lit appears there may.be monopoly," he said. "Unless something some-thing is done about it, the, increas ed prices are going to make mil lions for somebody' , Sen. James G. Scrugham, D. NevJ proposed the investigation yesterday, charging -that large quantities of whiskey are being hoarded for profiteering purposes. He afso declared that public health is menaced because of widespread tampering with the content 01 thatfbeing sold. He said present prices' are clear evasion of office of price administration regulations. "Tas liquor scarcity question is largely a matter of mass psycnoio gy" h stated. "Theft.don't put up the pjrtce right away; They, have to create the knowledge of scar city. One senator .who declined use of his Itame, said "It is a damned outrage to have to buy a lot of rot gut;, that's all you can get and you have to pay 36 or 38 a quart for it"' Meanwhile a move began in congress to limit the number of years whiskey may be kept in bond.1 At present liquor in bonded warehouses is tax-free until bottled. bottl-ed. ' Such a limitation, it was claimed, claim-ed, would force onto the market stock being withheld to command higher prices. Russia (Continued from Page One) reeling back to Poland and Rumania. Ru-mania. Vatutin's next immediate objective ob-jective appeared to be Novograd-volinsk, Novograd-volinsk, 49 miles east of Zhitomir, controlling rail 1 communications to Brestlitovsk and a lateral line running from the Rumanian border bor-der to Korosten, north of Zhitomir. Zhito-mir. . Also under . Immediate threat were korosten, 45 miles north of Zhitomir, Berdichev, 24 'miles south, ' and Vinnitsa, 65 miles south. ? Korosten. Berdichev and Vinnitsa, with Zhitomir, are the most important railheads on the Ukraine section of the Odessa-Leningrad Odessa-Leningrad railroad. Also significant In view pf reports re-ports Sf unrest of panic proportions propor-tions in Rumania, was Zhitomir's location only 126 miles north of the Rumanian border. The battle of Kerch continued with mounting intensity; and Swiss dispatches, quoting informed in-formed - Berlin military circles, said Germany had converted the Crimea Into "a gigantic Jiedge-hog" Jiedge-hog" and ordered it held to the last matt because of the strategic Importance of its air bases. Berlin reported continuing Soviet So-viet attacks In the Chernigov Rechitsa area, 140 miles above Kiev, and above Gomel, southernmost southern-most of the Nazis' White Russian bases, but claimed the Russians were thrown back with "unusually high losses." ; DNB also reported new Soviet attacks north, of Smolensk and near Nevel, but said thejf failed. POTATO CROP DOWN I IDAHO FALLS, Ida., Nov. 13 (EE) Idaho's 1943 potato crop has fallen 1,930,000 bushels below the Oct 1, estimate of 45,355,000 bushels, bu-shels, Ralph G. Riaser, Idaho Falls War Food Administration repre-sentatlve, repre-sentatlve, said today. OPEN HOUSE Wasatch Gardens Furnished Model Home Sunday, 1 to 7:30 p. m. Dally, 8:30 to 7:30 p. m. These homes have: 1 Full basement (arranged so extra bedrooms bed-rooms can be completed or recreation room; 2 Hot air fur-ace; fur-ace; 3 Automatic gas water-heater; 4 Best of hardwood; 5 Tile bathroom with tub and shower; 6 Large kitchen with tile finish; 7 Breakfast nook; 8 -Large lot; 9 Immediate occupancy; 10 Near school, park and church! Gas stove and electric refrigerators available. 8300.00 down. F. H. A- payments, 334.85 per month. Wasatch Gardens entrance en-trance at 4th South and 7th East (Sprlngville RoadJ Provo. " Exclusive Sales Agents I ROWAN REALTY, INC. , 176 West Center Phone 235 I CHILD . in the fog or Has the schoolbook fuzzy, blurred letters, hard to see, harder to understand, as your child tries to study it 7 Or does clean-cut black type lead him effortlessly along, to- absorb with ease the knowledge the book holds? The answer isn't in the book itself. It is in your child's eyes. Faulty "vision is a bad enough handicap for anyone.. But it's tragic for a sensitive child in schpol, who is in daily competition with others of his age. If poor eyesight remains uncorrected, his standing is likely to slip, bis grades sink. The teasing of his mates can mike school' life a torture for him; Don't take chances on your child 'having ' ; this hardship retard his progress. Have his eyes examined, or reexamined if it hasn't been done very recently. - And give him the benefit of the best In scientific professional service. For 83 cf everything your child will learn during his life will reach him through his eyes. As the-most basic, vital step in his education, you should make certain through experts that his eyes have the ability to receive this knowledge. . . - DR. JOHN F. JAYNES OPTOMETRIST .. 163 W. Center St tt Provo . Provo Nfavy-Man Motor Machinist' Word has" been received by Mrs. Delpha Williams Forsyth that her husband, Victor Cox Forsyth, seaman ; secona - class, nas ar rived at (Ames, Iowa, where he will enter Iowa State college as a motor mach lnist- Since enlist ing in the navy a year ago, -Vic" has at-l tended the vocational vo-cational school at Provo, . and since January, has been .sta tioned at the U. S. naval base at Farra g ut Idaho. Forsyth He is a nephew of Miss Mary E, Forsyth, of 269 West Fourth North -street of Provo, who has reared him from Infancy. His wife has been living at Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, but re turned to Provo recently, where she is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Rees J. Williams, on Milton avenue. ' Japs Efforts To Hold Philippines To Fail Says Hull WASHINGTON, Nov. IS (CLE) Secretary of State Cordell Hun said today, that Japan granted "independence" to the Philippines In order to hold the Filipinos to Nippon's purpose of empire, and added, "they will not remain. They will be driven out." In a statement Issued to commemorate com-memorate the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the Philippine Philip-pine Commonwealth Nov. 15, Hull said that the islands 'enjoyed the "true -substance of freedom" after Nov. 15. 1935. "Filipino officials elected by the Filipino people carted on the internal in-ternal affairs of the Philippines," he said. "American authorities remained re-mained in the islands on a tem porary basis and enjoyed happy and harmonious relations with the Filipino authorities and people." He said President Roosevelt's pledge to redeem the Philippines is certain of fulfillment adding that the president's request for a congressional con-gressional grant of authority to proclaim the islands' independence was a step in that direction. Dairymen To Meet Here On Monday A meeting of Utah county dairy men will be held Monday at 8 p. m. in the county commissioners' room, city and county building, announces an-nounces S. R. BosweH, county agent T" S- f 1. I h. C. will be present to discuss various problems. A. representa tive of the AAA will explain we dairy feed Payments program. Provo dairymen. Mr. Bo swell said, are considering a proposal to organize a producer-distributor committee. All dairymen are invited in-vited to come and discuss the proposition. prop-osition. Hodson Takes Post At Mountain Horpe Captain Robert G. Hodson of Provo has recently been assigned to duty as acting squadron commander com-mander of the Mountain Home, Idaho, bomber base. He has spent a month at Hill Field, after returning re-turning home from England where he participated In more than 25 bombing missions over axis-held Europe. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hodson, 57 North Fourth East street. in the clear? I V Hospital Board Studies Purchase Of More Lands Utah welfare commissioners, Molding their monthly meeting at the Utah SUte hospital here Fri day, considered possibility of pur chasing 820 acres of land for agricultural purposes west of Lehi. - .Dr. Owen P. Heninger, hospital hos-pital superintendent stated the institution pays out 323,000 annually an-nually for hay, chicken feed" and other products, and additional farm land would help reduce this expenditure. Cost of the land considered con-sidered would amount to about 320,000. . v A report of farm nroduction on the hospital properties, given at the meeting showed 85,000 No. 10 cans of food had been canned this year compared with 41,000 in 1B4Z. in addition, 2000 No. 10 cans were processed for the state sanitarium. - The commissioners approved an appropriation or saw for furnishing fur-nishing homes of resident employes em-ployes at the hospital. Dressers. chairs, tables and lamps are 7u:cid for the employ quarters, it was pointed out. Zoot-Suit Hoodlums Attach Two Marines LOS ANGELES. Nov. 13 (HE) Four soot-suit clad hoodlums were held on assault charges today after setting upon two marine veterans of the Solomon Island campaign in a renewal or last spring's "root wars." The new outbreak of .violence occurred less than 24 hours after dedication of club Los Pachucos, ra recreational center where zoot- suiters may settle their arguments with boxing gloves Instead of ra zors and broken beer bottles. The two marines, Chester Kow- alski and Harvey Swarmer, were attacked by seven soot-suiters who said "we don't like the looks of your uniforms." Kowalski and Swarmer, released recently from a hospital after treatment of battle wounds, fought back until police arrived. Four of the assailants were captured, and their guns and knives were seizzed. The Marines were treated at a hospital for minor Injuries. B. Y. High Plans Concert Program A free concert will be' staged in College hall, Wednesday night by the B. T. high music depart ment under the direction of Prof. William F. Hanson. More than 50 students will participate in the concert the program to colsist of choruses, solos, and featured by a string ensemble, directed by Prof. LeRoy J. Robertson. The concert is free to the public. Hi MOUNTAIN TAf IS 66TTfF Quezon To Retain WASHINGTON, Nov. IS UE) Manuel L. Quezon is to be president presi-dent of the Philippines for the duration of the war. The White House announced today that President Roosevelt Join the men who boy quality because quality is the beet buy. These Manhattan shirts have a look and feel to them that say "quality" instantly. You'll marvel at the way the collar graces your neck and the Man-formed tailoring flatters your figure. Elect yourself to the quality club gef some of these shirts today. 2.45 Up dDRTILlf" "SEE THUDS If you could tee them just once lined tip each night to telephone home ybir wouldn't make another unnecessary call as long as this war lasts. For your twnecessary call may be the one that tie up a line and keeps their call, from gong through- . Remember there are only so many Long Distance drcnita and no way to build more. $o please try not to use Long Distance in the only hours most boy are off after ?odock at night? - TIIIFMOMI. TltlOIAFN COttFANTj Post1 For Duration had signed resolution adopted by congress earlier this week extending ex-tending hJ term until the restoration restor-ation of "normal functions of government" in the inlands. SHIRTS (DODIITILIID DBdDTTS' |