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Show - The Weather - .. - - - UTAH: Fair tonight and Sunday, little change in v temperature. Bias, tempi, Saturday . . .... ... 89 Mln. temp Saturday 47 CALL 495 If feu Do Not Receive Tour Fapet by 7 O'clock, OH 495 and One WCi Be Sent To You by Mieamgffr. Thone your Want Ada to the ad taker beforo 19 a. m. 3 ' 1 4: VOL. 19, NO. 10 ; S5m! orONe PROVO; UTAH COUNTY;. UTAH; ; SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1941 COMPLETE UNITBD PRKS TELEGRAPH NEWS SBRVICS PRICE FIVE CENTS ! DESK. GHAT BY THX , EDXTOK To read the stories of the great bombing raids on London, Lon-don, to see the pictures of the roaring; fires and crumbling walls, gives an impression that most of the city must be leveled.- Yet we know that this is not the case. How much actual damage is being done by .these ferocious fero-cious bombings? The Econo mist, British financial journal, jour-nal, estimates that; damage to British property from German Ger-man bombing in the first two .years of the war comes to $480,000,000. They reached the estimate from the actual figures of an insurance company com-pany which found losses to its London holdings had reached 3V& per cent. -If this estimate is anywhere any-where jnear corect - (and of course no one can know) the surprising thing about it is that it is not greater. The really great losses of this or any other war are not those which can be measured in dollars. dol-lars. . . ' ' . oOo - Wise and Otherwise With school opening, dad can swing back into Tielping son get his arithmetic lessons wrong. ... The Russians' scorched earth policy is far-reaching. far-reaching. It's burning up the Germans. - . . You never know what you can't do until you don't try. ... As a man thinks, so he is if he can persuade his wife to agree with him. ... It would be a lot more fun walking for exercise exer-cise if you could do it sitting down. . , , --000-r- '. . ' '" Today's Quote" If you hear such a (wild) rumor, gay to the person who tells you, "Would you be wiping wip-ing to put that in writing so .Lean check it ?"-Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, American Red Cross. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON ROBERT 8. ALLEN Injury to Japan of U. S. Embargoes Em-bargoes Places Konoye in Critical Spot; Business Demands De-mands He Desert Axis, Fascists May Kill Him If He Does; Stimson Presses Russia to Let Army Observers Ob-servers See Fighting at Front; Navy Hides Statistics Statis-tics in Row with Army to Get War Materials First. WASHINGTON Uncensored diplomatic dispatches from Japan reveal that the White House conversations con-versations with Admiral Nomura have put Prince Konoye on the spot not only politically but as a matter of life and death. Japanese military and civilian groups are so divided over U. S. appeasement proposals that the Black Dragon, a potent society of Buddhist priests and army officers, offi-cers, has actually threatened Prince Konoye with assassination If. he accepts the American offer. On the other hand Japanese merchants, farm leaders, and the middle class in general are demanding de-manding that ' Japan make peace with the United States at all costs. They 'ask the question: "What chance does Japan have against the United States, Great Britain and Russia all combined?" They point to the fact that Germany has not yet reached one-half the Russian objectives she so confidently confi-dently expected by September 1; and they ask what help German armies can give Japan from their present position thousands of miles away. The middle class has also; complained com-plained that American embargoes against Japanese oil, gasoline, etc. have come close to bankrupting the island empire.' Japan is now forced to conserve "everything for the army and . her ordinary business busi-ness activity is practically niL -Therefore, .the middle classes urge acceptance of the American proposals, which include lifting of all. embargoes, resumption of purchases pur-chases of Japanese silk, credits to - (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) Eliminate Prowler TELIMINATE' $ - - '' V rVl Telepkoto) Btern words came from President Roosevelt after an unidentified submarine attacked the U. 8. destroyer Oreer in the Atlantic off Iceland. American naval forces are hunting: the submarine, he said, with orders to "tilminate it," if found. Lower, the u. S. S. Oreer. -s- Var Department Announces Huge Defense Orders WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 rUK) The war department today placed record orders totaling $347,156,-674 $347,156,-674 ' with Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, and Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., presumably pre-sumably for a fleet of 1,000 new SOrton" . ;long.. range , flying fortress fort-ress -bombers. The, Boeing concern received a 1337,447,057; contract the largest larg-est individual order placed by the army during the current defense program. Douglas received a $9,-709,616 $9,-709,616 award. The . war department announcement announce-ment did not specify the number or-vtype of planes called for, in conformance with an established policy. But , other . quarters said the contracts, presumably covered construction of the newly developed de-veloped B-17-E. Earlier,-the army had announced announc-ed that Boeing, Douglas and the Vega , Airplane " company, Bur-bank, Bur-bank, Calif., would shortly begin "mass production" of the new B-17-E, whitfx will weigh approximately approxi-mately 30 tons when loaded eight; tons more than the current models. It will be about five feet longer? Decision to build , the bigger bombers on a mass scale was said to have been reached because of the RAF's successful use of current flying fortress models in daylight raids on Germany. "They were flown at such high altitudes that they were virtually virtu-ally beyond the range of sight or sound by hostile ground crews," the department said. "The first warning of the aerial attack came when bombs screamed down out of an apparently clear sky." Advocates Fair Rent Committee SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 6 UH Louis E. Scarbrough, assistant regional coordinator for defense housing, today advocated formation forma-tion of a fair rent committee for Utah to prevent profiteering: on rents during the emergency. Arter conferring with state housing authorities, Scarbrough forecast that existine facilities here would take care of the influx of workers to jobs in the Salt Lake small arms plant, but said a committee should be acoointed to persuade property owners to maintain fair rents. If persuasion failed,' he recommended thorough publicity. BRIDGE COLLAPSES UNDER TRAIN 1 MARION, Kan., Sept. 6 (UJ?) A bridge over the Cottonwool river between hee and Aulne collapsed col-lapsed today as a Rock Island freight train was passing over it ana id cars plunzed into the river. Recent flood water had weakened the bridge. Th is Day . . BORN Boy, . to George W. and Anne Oliveto Kay, Saturday. LICENSED TO MARRY , Jay Walter. Roberts, 31, Provo, and- Dorothy Mauser, 20, Provo. " 1 Hyrum D. Jones, - 22, Pleasant View." and Elva Bateman, 22, Al pine. - - . Says F. D. R. After fTHE SUBMARINE THAT ATTACKEp THE U;,S. DESTROTERICREER Schools of County Open Doors Monday - if School bells will ring Monday, calling1 15,000 Utah court ty youngsters back to readin'. Summer vacations will end for most school-Age youngsters, although registration will continue in many of the junior ; and senior high schools. While most of the 4000 youths in Frovo will be back" to - school Monday. Frovo high school will continue registration until Tuesj day evening, with classes to stair Wednesday morning. . Farrer and Dixon junior hig'h schools will complete class assignments assign-ments Monday and start- class work Tuesday. Grade schools will begin classes Monday. 200 Regteter More than 200 seniors registered regis-tered at Provo high school Thursday, Thurs-day, according to Kenneth' E. Weight, ' principal.; Eleventh grade students or juniors will register Monday, following a brief assembly assem-bly at 9 a. m. in the high school auditorium. V Tenth grade students or sophomores sopho-mores will register ' Tuesday. An assembly is planned at 9 a. m. Classes will begin Wednesday following fol-lowing a get-together assembly at 9 o'clock, he said. All fees must be paid at the time of registration. registra-tion. Weight pointed out. Dixon junior high school students stu-dents . will get class assignments Monday and start school Tuesday, Tues-day, according to J. F. Mower, principal. At the Farrer -junior "high school, assignments will .be made to seventh graders at 9 a. m., Monday. Eighth grade students will report at 10:30 a. m., and ninth graders at 1:30 p. m., J. W. (Continued on Page Eight) Demo Women Set L. A. Meeting A national conference of the women's division of the national Democratic committee will be held in Los Angeles September 12-13, according to Mrs. George S. Bal-lif, Bal-lif, Utah county vice chairwoman. All western states will participate. Delegates from Utah - are urged to attend, Mrs. Ballif . said. Anyone Any-one from Utah county interested In going should contact Mrs. Ballif. Interest Develops In Provo Election; Many Mentioned as Likely Candidates With the municipal primary election only six weeks in the offing, " the Provo citizenry Is beginning to develop Interest in the impending political races in which candidates, will vie for the positions of mayor and city commissioner. com-missioner. The primary election is scheduled sched-uled October 21 with the final vote two weeks later November 4. Those elected will take office January 1, 1942. , Two Positions Offices to be filled -at the Provo election .are: Mayer, the position now held by Maurice Harding, recently advanced ' from commissioner commis-sioner to mayor to fill the unexpired unex-pired term of Mark Anderson who resigned, to accept a state- appointment; ap-pointment; and: commissioner, the Destroyer Attack ir: writm , and 'nthmetic. and actual class work start WALKER NAMED "V V v. .... . . f TO OREL? BOARD! Orem city council Saturday accepted the resignation of Le-Grand Le-Grand Jarman from the council and - appointed Murvel Walker to succeed him. Jarman resigned to accept a position with the Farm Credit administration. y - Four American Pilots Drowned GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept 6 (UB Four American airplane pilots, pi-lots, on their way to Britain to join the royal air force, drowned when their ship was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic, it was announced today. . Seven others were rescued by a Polish warship and landed at a Scotch port. Those rescued: ' Tom Griffin, Mississippi; Jack Gillilend, Kansas; Kan-sas; Rivers Grove, Georgia; Norman Nor-man Achord, Missouri; James Jordan, Jor-dan, San Francisco; B. F. Hays, Texas, and Robert Poroshin, California. Cali-fornia. Survivors said only one life boat escaped from the sinking vessel, but that some passengers and sailors sai-lors managed to climb oh rafts to be picked up by the Polish warship war-ship 12 hours later. GERMANS NEAR LENINGRAD, REPORT BERLIN. Sept. 6 (CPVr A German Ger-man propaganda company reporter re-porter said in a radio, dispatch tonight to-night that German troops had fought close enough to Leningrad to see from a hill top the tall radio masts and factory chimneys of the city. incumbent being Clarence H.Harmon H.Har-mon who succeeded Mr. ' Harding and is completing, the 'term of the late Commissioner Jesse Haws. . The mayor is elected for two years, the commissioner for four years. John P. McGuire is the holdover commissioner. Thus far there have been no official, announcements of candidacy candi-dacy either for the mayorality or commissioner's, post, although a number of men ire definitely considering, throwing'-their hats in the ring soon. . , -- - While any t list of possible candidates can-didates at this date at best could not be complete, a check-up Saturday Sat-urday revealed: that several men are definitely considering throwing throw-ing their hats in the ring." ; -. if . J 'At ran BILL APPROVED BY I). S. SENATE Meetings Planned to Com-Vi Com-Vi promise Variances of if Senate, House 'WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 U.R) House ways and means committee members said to day they expect informal con ferences, seeking to compro-m compro-m i s e ; differences between senate and house versions of the, $3,583,900,000 tax bill to start next week. ' The Senate passed the record-breaking record-breaking revenue measure yesterday, yester-day, 67, to 5 after three days of debate. Biggest ' variation between the present bill and the house-approved house-approved -version is a senate provision pro-vision to reduce Individual income tax exemptions from $2,000 to 1,500 for married couples, and from $800 to S750 for single persons. per-sons. y ,1 No ' formal conference action can start until the house meeting' meet-ing' every, day, three days under-a strict "no business" agreement ends its vacation Sept. 15. But (Ways and means committeemen plan to; meet with senate conferees con-ferees and try to work out a tentative agreement which could be ratified when official house conferees formally are named. - The senate, on motion of Democratic Demo-cratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, started a series of Similar three-day recesses when it passed the tax bill yesterday. There -was not the strict rule against conducting business which is in effect in the house, however, and the senate can approve a con ference report any time agree ment 13 reached. The reduced income tax exemptions exemp-tions would draw millions of low 1 Income families into the federal tax structure for the first time, and would boost the tax bills of Fall those who already pay. ;The Provision's yield was estimated at fVi n I rm a n Ryturf T.. TViuchton. D.t T.4 C, of the ways and means committee, was not in town, but Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, R., Mich., a high-ranking committeeman, predicted the house conferees would fight the reduction. There is , a slight ' difference between be-tween house and senate surtax rates on individual incomes,' but it amounts' to only a fraction of one per cent, and no trouble is expected ex-pected in compromising it. House conferees are expected to approve the senate amendment permitting taxpayers with incomes of less than $3,000 to figure their taxes from a simple, standarized chart prepared by the treasury. Corporation taxes are virtually identical in the two bills and both houses were in agreement on excess ex-cess profits taxes. There are numerous differences in excise taxes. The house voted a 5 per cent levy on monthly telephone tele-phone bills and the senate increased in-creased it to 10 per cent. But some items like continuation of the 1 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax without change, doubling the present automobile excise tax to 7 per cent, and the $5 a year "use" tax on automo biles are riveted into the bill be cause both houses approved iden tical language. The senate eliminated elim-inated a house provision to tax radio time .sales and billboards. Roosevelt Will Address Nation On Monday Night HYDE PARK, N. Sept. 6 U.R) The White House secretary announced tonight that President Roosevelt will make a radio address ad-dress of "ma lor importance" to the nation and the world from the White House at Washington next Monday night at-9 p. m. (EST). - Among these are the two incumbents,: in-cumbents,: Mayor Harding and Commissioner Harmon. Others reported re-ported to date' as seriously considering con-sidering entering . the race are: For mayor John W. McAdam, retired Provo assistant postmaster; postmas-ter; Harley J. Corleissen, oil man and member of. the north Utah county draft board; Denzil A. Brown; : real estate man. For comm i s a i o n e r J. . A. Owens, former publisher and state road commission public relations director;, Oscar Garrett,, former school teacher and grocer; and E. J, Hall, retired railroad man. ; All of these men ' reportedly have been urged by friends and (Continued on Page Eight) U.S., Britain Plan New Aid To Red Army Supplying More Aidv Held Best Strategy For Defeating De-feating Nasi Army WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U.R)The United States and Great Britain are expected to arrange for substantial assistance as-sistance to Soviet Russia -; even to the extent of cutting their own armament requirementsduring require-mentsduring the forthcoming forthcom-ing conferences of their military supply missions to Moscow, authoritative quarters said today. A tentative decision to provide more aid than had been anticipated antici-pated originally was said to have been reached by the two nations because of the surprisingly strong resistance of the Red armies and to belief that assistance to them is now the best strategy for defeating de-feating Germany. A pledge of aid to Premier Josef Stalin of Russia was given by President Roosevelt and British Brit-ish Prime Minister Winston Churchill after their recent meeting meet-ing in the north Atlantic. The five-man American mission composed of army, navy, air and industrial experts is headed by W. Averell Hariman, lend-lease expediter. A similar British mission mis-sion is, under Lord Beaverbrook, minister of supply. Informed sources aaid the military mili-tary high commands of both the United States and Britain are making a last-hour survey of the amount of aid that can be spared from existing armaments and future fu-ture production schedules. In this country, such material will be referred to President Roosevelt, who will instruct Harriman to speed it to Russia. A similar procedure pro-cedure is being developed in Britain, Brit-ain, it was said. The tentative plan is for the American mission , to leave sometime some-time next week, if technical work is .completed. The group probably will meet with Beaverbrook's mission, mis-sion, in London before going on to Moscow, in xaxier'. to-.rrange final details of the program, determine deter-mine what each will supply, and iron out differences which may develop. U. s, Increases DEFENSEOUTPUT BY UNITED PRESS The United States increased its defense production today with the launching of two light cruisers and the laying of the keel for a third in eastern shipyards. The two new units aded to the navy were the light cruiser San Juan, of unannounced tonnage, launched at Quincy, Mass., and the 6,000-ton Atlanta, launched at Kearny, N. J., the keel for the 10,000-ton cruiser Wilkes-Barre was. laid in Philadelphia. Dram Plans for Raids LONDON, Sept 6 U.R) A plan for a program of British raids on the coastal areas of France and Belgium, instead of formal invasion in-vasion for which the British army is not yet equipped, was made today to-day by Gen. Sir John Duncan, veteran vet-eran of campaigns in Asia, Africa and Europe in which raid tactics were used. "It should be possible to land specially trained mobUe troops to carry out raids at various points in France and Belgium," he wrote in The Daily Sketch. "It would be the duty of these men to disorganize communications communica-tions and withdraw." Solon Hits Cuba For Holding Sugar WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (V) Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., charged today that Cuban and offshore sugar producers are "conducting a strike against American t consumers" by withholding with-holding their product from markets mark-ets to force higher prices or. reductions re-ductions in tariff. He said that ""not a single sale of Cuban sugar" has been "made to this country since the office of price administration, on Aug.- 14, established-ceiling prices for raw sugar of $3.50 .per hundred pounds. ' "Cuba and other offshore producers," pro-ducers," he added, are taking advantage ad-vantage of emergency conditions and the shortage of shipping to; "force" prices upward and tariffs down. - - - ' ..,' Sen. Prentiss If. Brown, pJ, Mich., observed: "That's what caused 25 cent sugar in the year immediately fol- ' -lowing the World war.Tt U.S. Navy Denies Nazi Charge That Started Attack On Sub Attack Made to Incite America Into War, Germans Declare By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, JR. BERLIN, Sept. 6 ttJ.R) German official quarters charged today the United States destroyer Greer ha4 attacked a German submarine southwest of Iceland on orders or-ders of President Roosevelt in an effort to "incite America Ameri-ca toward war with Germany." The Germans, in an official statement distributed by the DNB news agency, said there had been an uncounter between a U-boat and a destroyer on Thursday, about 125 miles southwest of the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik. German Version ' The destroyer was officially described as "unidentified," but the statement was issued in connection con-nection with the Greer incident. The German charge was that the Greer initiated the encounter by attacking the submarine at 12:30 p. m., that the submarine later returned the fire, and-the American destroyer continued to drop depth bombs until midnight but faUed to hit the U-boat. This . incident, the German statement charged, provided "proof" that Mr. Roosevelt, contrary con-trary to his assertions, actually had ordered United States destroyers de-stroyers not only to report the positions of German ships in the Atlantic, but also to attack them. Citing official quarters, the news agency charged Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt was seeking by all means at his disposal to provoke incidents and Incite. the United States-toward war, against Germany. . The American navy department's depart-ment's charge that the U-boat attacked the destroyer was Issued (Conunued on, page Eifhtl Mexican-Canadian Relations Spurred WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UP) Reliable quarters said today that Mexico is engaged in preliminary negotiations to establish direct diplomatic relations with Canada a move closely paralleling re cent improvements of relations be tween the United States ana its southern neighbor. "Feelers'' regarding reciprocal establishment of legations at Mexico Mex-ico City and Ottawa have been mutually well received. While there was no indication that this country had. anything to do with the plan, Mexican-Canadian relations , would be a step toward the hemispheric unity ad vocated by the United States. -sr Violent Soviet Thrusts Rout Nazi War Machine' MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (U.R) Violent onslaughts by the Red . army that drove back the Germans so rapidly that theyi sometimes left "piles of unburied dead" on the battlefields, were reported in war dispatches today to be in progress on the Leningrad, Kiev, lower Dniep : er and central fronts. Although the official war communique com-munique said merely fightingcon-tinued fightingcon-tinued on the entire front, official reports from the front Indicated the Russian counterattacks were gaining momentum on aU of the vital sectors from Leningrad to the Black sea, while guerilla units were slashing at German rear lines deep in the occupied zone. The dispatches gave this picture: pic-ture: Leningrad Violent battles continued, con-tinued, with the peoples' guard taking a leading role in counterattacks counter-attacks that held the Germans everywhere and pushed tffem back through several more villages. One popular guard regiment of factory workers using ordinary rifles was credited with stopping a German tank column until. Russian Rus-sian artillery fire destroyed it. The Red air force destroyed two German airports and 74 German planes of the Rlchthofen corps, the Red Star said. (The German radio reported German long-range artillery had effectively shelled war factories and power, plants in Leningrad and Helsinki said Finnish Fin-nish dispatches reported smoke from big fires hanging over the city.) . Kiev A Russian counterattack, launched after a series of vaih German assaults in the last month, was reported to have driven back the Germans and routed three divisions. di-visions. Russian troops said by the official news agency to have found "piles of unburied German (Continued on Page Eight) . Destroy er Berlin Statement Confirms Belief Sub Was German BY LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Sept. ,6 (U.R) German charges that the U. S. destroyer . Greer ;. initiated the attack in its encounter en-counter with a submarine, were met todawith reitera-' tion of the navy's original statement that the Greer had. . reported that submarine had ' attacked" her and that she counterattacked. coun-terattacked. No Official Comment There was no official comment from the navy on the Berlin t . charges, -but spokesmen called attention at-tention to the first announcement .Thursday, night. Berlin's statement confirmed what everyone here had taken, for granted but had not said officially offi-cially that the submarine in' question was German. It also indicated in-dicated the Greer and other Amer- lean warships had been unsuccessful unsuccess-ful in their efforts to "eliminate"' the submarine. The search was presumed to be continuing. However, there was no indication whether American' warships would venture beyond' Iceland waters in seeking, their, quarry.' The submarine by this', time may have proceeded toward a continental " base. As the encounter en-counter occurred on Thursday. Keep Lanes Clear The navy's standing orders since the American occupation of Ice-; -land in July are to keep the sea' lines' between this- country ' and Iceland clear of any lnterf erence. Officials never -have said specifically spe-cifically whether that means": American warships woald go into, action, automatically against, any axis submarines or warships that weraralghtedottithat-route. But-in But-in the Greer case, they pointed to the announcement that it was the submarine that attacked first,' - : At Hyde Park, N. Y.. William D. Hassett, White House secretary, secre-tary, said today comment was unnecessary un-necessary on the German charge-that charge-that the. U.' S. destroyer - Greer attacked a German U-boat off Iceland "considering its source.". The president is at Hyde Park. "It carries its own commentJH;-he commentJH;-he said. "Considering its source, I don't think any comment is necessary. ne-cessary. I think it's a typical state- - ment considering Its source." . When a reporter suggested that in revealing a German sub was . Involved in the incident, Berlin -quarters had made available.' knowledge which this government wished to confirm, Hassett re--plied: "Your interpretation is as good as mine on that." Germans Shoot 3 French Hostages VICHY, Sept. 6 UB German troops shot three French hostages this morning in reprisal for the shooting of a German non-commissioned : officer by an assassin on Boulevard Sebastopal in Paris Wednesday. (In- Berlin, the official news agency said 'the three executed were Communists). . : . ' The German soldier was - said . to have been wounded only slight- ' ly. "-.-' ' German -military authorities in Paris had announced two weeks ' ago that French prisoners, mostly . , Communists, Jews and suspected saboteurs and agitators, would be shot in numbers corresponding to . the gravity of any more crimes; against the German forces. The lives of thousands of French pris- , oners thus were' placed In pawn for the German soldiers' safety. - CR ASH KILLS - . TWO OFFICERS .. : SAN ANGELO. Tex ,SepL ' 6 (HE) An army investigation of an air crash that brought death to two officers was underway .today. : ' Lieut. -Austin T Heffelman, 25. ' Beloit, Wis, and 2nd Lieut, Allen R Bailey, San Diego," Calif were killed, yesterday when their basic training plane crashed and burn ed 60 miles east of Fort Stockton. Texas. , - ,' ' |