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Show Help Win the War America needs men, materials moneyand yon most furnish the money. Bay defense bonds and tamps every payday. VOL. 19, NO. 29 EIGHT KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER Eight Office r s And Men Meet Death Near Pendleton SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 17 U.R) . An army bomber crashed 2 V miles north of Pendleton, Ore., today, killing; kill-ing; eight officers and men, second air force headquarters announced. Details were not released immediately.) The air command said only that the plane crashed about 11:30 a. m. Dead were: 2d Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot. 2d Lt. R. C. Shows, co-pilot. 2d Lt. L. E. Grindle, navigator. Staff Ggt. A. B. Spiers. Sgt, D. Clark. Corp. V. A Learman. Private G. T. Vrable. Private L. Fagan. Home addresses were not given. RIVERSIDE, Cal., Jan. 17 UE An army pursuit plane from MarcTfi tied crashed and burned today in the Santa Ana river bottom bot-tom five miles west of Riverside, killing the pilot. Army authorities authori-ties withheld name of the pilot of the single-seater craft pending further investigation. DESK BY THE EOITOS Now, after the complacency with which we exported scrap iron to Japan for the past several years, we find that some American steel mills are actually on the point of shutting down for lack of scrap-iron. No use to weep for past folly, no use to gloat, "I told you so!" Here we are, and every pound of scrap metal is badly needed. There's another an-other place where every man can help. Round up all the scrap metal around the place, and get it into the hands of the junkman or scrap collector. collec-tor. Aluminum, copper, brass, iron, steel, paper don't let any of these things accumulate accumu-late around the place, put them to use. So we lack scrap-iron, no matter why. The American way is to go out and get it, and not sit wailing about what we should or should not have done two years ago. 0O0 The government is conserving conserv-ing the supply, of lead. Ought to get a pretty good pile of it' just from people who have it in their shoes. 0O0 When the Japanese finally get smart to their ABCD's (Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch) they'll find themselves them-selves at the foot of the class. 0O0 Wonder if the army couldn't use some of the wife's old hats in the camouflage camou-flage division? Mike Jacobs donated $500 'toward a bomber. We know of one bomber that hasn't done so bad by Mike Jacobs. h rri r? to) n a An . fifprvl Ifinnn ;ll MNP TPpRR vV ' ' ,' ' ' . 'f-ijS'"' ' ' ''' ' ' ' " ' : '.'5,- ; . T) , .... i CHAT Cb :Ivwit diati IWleialctU y iiw)ULi.uii.ijiji.i.igJi,ii.i,ii,i,ii.'M,i hi M hi "J 'U'.'L' Jiwj.li.l.li.1,11 'iiiiiijViiiiiii oxiiii ii i in mini nun u urn i " ' win nmmi inimi . iywvifraj wnnAruito'rmr'i: :Wl'i'i i n tiWV' ' ' ' " '''''''''''''''-r-'- - ,.,.. r. r ... Jt ftJU iisimmmliil!liliiiiii UTAH'S ONLT south or Carole Lombard, 21 Others Killed In Airline Crash 15 Army Men Among Dead Passengers; Plane Burned By ROBERT C. MILLER LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 17 (U.R) Carole Lombard and 21 others, including 15 army men, were found dead today by a searching posse which reached the scene high up rugged Spring mountain where a giant TWA Airliner crashed last night. The wrecked plane had landed at Las Vegas last night to refuel, re-fuel, TWA headquarters in Kansas Kan-sas City said. Although all planes do not land there, the extra ex-tra fuel was needed because the plane was carrying three extra passengers, TWA said. Wreckage Burned The plane was found burned to charred wreckage, with the bodies strewn about it. The crash, one cf the nation's worst aviation disasters," dis-asters," killed all aboard the big shlp . . f, . -;-.; i w,....,, , Searchers reached the site as broken-hearted Clark Gable, Miss Lombard's husband, was struggling strug-gling up the. mountain side with another party. A member of the leading posse scrambled down from the mountain moun-tain to report that his party had reached the plane and found everybody dead. Authorities immediately im-mediately started organizing an expedition to bring the bodies down. Possemen stumbling up the craggy sides of the mountain not far from Crystal Springs found the mighty ship broken in two and doubled up, like a folding ruler, in a gully about 600 feet below the summit. Wisps of smoke still were rising ris-ing from the wreckage. Plunged Into Gully The plane appeared to have plunged squarely into the almost sheer side of the mountain after first striking a glancing blow against an outcropping of rock. A black smudge was left on the rock where the plane had struck, burst into flames, and then fallen back into a small gully. Searchers who had started on (Continued on Page Two) Flames Destroy Plywood Plant TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 17 ttE A three-alarm fire today destroyed destroy-ed the plywood section of the Wheeler-Osgood Sale Corp. on the tideflats, throwing 850 men out of work. N. O. Cruver, general manager of the company, said the loss would run into "thousands of dol lars" but explained he could make no definite estimate of damage until the ruins cooled sufficiently to permit a personal survey. . Lewis Proposes Resumption of CIO and A FL Peace Talks WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 U.R President John L. Lewis of the United Mine.. Workers union, asserting as-serting that a successful rapprochement rap-prochement between the CIO and AFL. may be possible at this time, tonight unexpectedly proposed pro-posed resumption of the peace talks which the two rival groups broke off two - and a half years ago. In identical letters to CIO President Philip Murray and AFL President William Green, Lewis said that the "sequence of events since the last (peace) meeting some two and one-half years ago, have enfeebled certain obstacles and factors of control which then existed." "It is my opinion that under conditions existing at present, there Is Justification for the belief, that a further effort could DAILY satt lakh CAROLE LOMBARD Allied Destroyer Seizes 3 Axis Merchant Ships United Press Staff Correspondent MADRID, Jan. 17 AXE) An Allied destroyer steamed into the harbor of Santa Isabel on the Spanish African Island of Fernando Fernan-do Po, seized three axis merchant ships seeking refuge and made off with them to sea, it was as serted officially tonight. One of the ships was Italian and the other presumably were German, Ger-man, according to Arriba, official organ of .the Spanish Falangist party, which presumed that the destroyer was either British or Free French. Officers of the Axis ships were ashore when the raid was made but the crews were captured, the newspaper said. (In allied sources there was no confirmation of the reported raid, which Arriba presented from a pro-Axis viewpoint as an attack on Spanish .territorial waters. In Berlin, Ber-lin, a foreign office spokesman said the raid was "an unheard of attack" on Spanish sovereignty by British naval forces," although the Spanish reports did not indicate indi-cate the nationality of the raider. Arriba said the destroyer appeared ap-peared suddenly in Santa Isabel harbor, where it dropped depth charges, cut the nawsers of snelter- ing axis shiips and took them in tow. achieve success," Lewis said. "I accept full responsibility for the expression of this opinion and the request which I herein make for a resumption of the conferences." confer-ences." Pointing out that he was acting in his capacity as a member of the standing negotiating committee of the CIO, Lewis said: "The importance of this request, re-quest, and the meetings herein projected, can scarcely be overestimated, over-estimated, labor's task in the effort ef-fort to overcome the enemies of our nation is greater than that which bef alls any other segment of our population. "If labor can compose its major internal problem, then the government govern-ment will be aided in the operation opera-tion of its war economy and. the membership of labor appreciably benefited," -:-- ' k - - v fki iT i -Y- m. v ., x j v t PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. CHURCHILL HOME FROM U. S. VIS Prime Minister Returns To Face Inquiry? 1 Over Losses By NED RUSSELL I United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 17 (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill, an old yachting cap cocked on his head and his fingers spread apart in the V-for-Victory signal, returned re-turned from America ahead of schedule in a flying boat today to solve perhaps the gravest grav-est governmental crisis of,.-the war. The results of vital allied war conferences in Washington -- on which Churchill will report to the nation and parliament in the next few days were overshadowed by expectations that the prime minister min-ister would immediately shake-up his cabinet to combat mounting criticism of military reversesJn thrmr Bast:-- rr- Flies From Bermuda 5' Churchill, who may speak on the radio as early as Sunday night, landed at Plymouth in an American - built Boeing 314-A four-motored flying boat, after a flight of 3,287 miles from Bermuda Ber-muda in 18 hours. He was- accompanied by Lord Beaverbrook, minister Of "supply, who may be shifted in the anticipated antici-pated cabinet changes; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound; Air Chief Marshal Mar-shal Sir Charles Portal, and Sir Charles Wilson, president of the Royal College of Physicians. Cheered everywhere by crowds that had not expected him to return re-turn until next week, the prime minister was welcomed home by his wife and son, Maj. Randolph Churchill, and by many dignatar-ies, dignatar-ies, including United States Ambassador Am-bassador John G. Win ant, For- Jeign secretary Anthony niaen, Soviet Ambassador Ivan MaisKy, and others. He came ashore quickly from the flying boat, was welcomed by Lord Astor, lord mayor of Plymouth, Ply-mouth, and Sir Charles Forbes, and then drove through the city. Churchill seemed extremely im patient to get on to London, and (Continued on Page Two) Contractors End Annual Meeting SALT LAKE CITY Twentieth Twen-tieth annual convention of the Intermountain Branch, Associated General Contractors of America was completed at Salt Lake City Saturday night with a banquet at Hotel Utah, following business sessions at which the contractors' duties in the defense program were outlined. Governor Herbert B. Maw was principal speaker at Saturday's business session, who stated Utah's highway construction program pro-gram this year probably would be about normal. It has averaged about $7,000,000 in federal and state expenditures. Other speakers included Ralph E. Bristol, district manager of OPM and priorities division, and Dr. Adam S. Bennion, assistant to the president of the Utah Power and - Light company. Officers elected Friday include Paul Paulsen, president; J. P. Gibbons, vice president; and J. H. Tempest Sr., secretary-treasurer AU are from Salt Lake. GERMAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY EL. PASO, Tex., Jan. 17 Department of Justice agents reported re-ported today that Rolf Tietgens, nationally known German photographer, pho-tographer, had been taken in cus-today cus-today at Sante Fe, N. M., as a "dangerous enemy alien." L m V SUNDAY; JANUARY IT umpeoai AUSTRALIANS FACE TASK IN HALTING JAPS Tokyo Claims Japanese Within 50 Miles Of Singapore By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent WITH EMPIRE FORCES IN WEST MALAYA, Jan. 17 (U.R) Imperial armies grappled grap-pled hand to hand today with powerful, tank-led Japanese invaders of Johore state in a supreme bid to turn the tide of battle for Singapore. Abandoning the delaying tac- Hoji Fit A rilinnl rtrt hunriliMta of miles down the peninsula. - the 1 powerfully reihf oroed -British , 1m J penais paced ty Australians, were turning on tne enemy with everything every-thing they had under orders to' "hold and destroy him." "The Australians' biggest task was to wipe out a Japanese bridgehead bridge-head on the south bank of the Muar river 90 to 100 miles northwest north-west of Singapore. It bore the potential . menace of a flanking maneuver around the west end of the reorganized battle line. (Axis broadcasts claimed the Japanese had broken through the Muar and were within 60 to 70 miles of Singapore.) Good Fight Coming "A good fight la coming," Maj. Gen. Henry Gordon Bennett, commander com-mander of the Australian imperial force told me Friday night. "Thus far things are going our way, but we must expect heavier assaults with tanks, planes and artillery backing up the Jap infantry." Bennett said that by conservative conser-vative estimate 800 Japanese were killed Thursday in the main action so far by the Australian troops whose own casualties were slight. The main Jananese forces have not shown up since then, he added. He said also that imperial bombers and fighters "played havoc" with a Japanese column in which more than 1,000 trucks were creeping along 32 miles of roadway leading up to the fighting fight-ing zone.,., (Tokyo reports said Japanese troops pushing down the west coast were In the Batu Pahot sector on the Slmpang river, 70 miles from Singapore and "will probably knock at the doors of Singapore island Sunday." (On the central front the Japanese Jap-anese claimed they had capture Batu Anam, 10 miles southeast of Gemas on the Johore border. The same sources said the British Brit-ish were erecting defense lines SO miles north of Singapore.) As the decisive battle shaped (Continued on Page Two) Leadership Week Called Off by L D. S. Officials Because of Uar Emergency To help conserve transportation" facilities and otherwise assist citizens cit-izens to save in the national emergency, emer-gency, Brigham Young university has postponed Leadership Week until the war crisis is over." A statement from the office of President Pres-ident Franklin S. Harris follows: "In harmony with the statement issued by the First Presidency of the Latter-Day Saint church in regard - to aiding in the national emergency by reducing the number num-ber of conventions which people of the church might attend, officials of-ficials of Brigham Young university univer-sity have decided to postpone the holding of Leadership Week until such time as ' this emergency ceases to exist. All facilities of the university are geared to the war effort be-" cause this is the most Important 18, 1942 o Tl A o Armies World's Champion Jap Haters -vi H ' iTTX rid This tough visaged group of Koreans, known as the world's champion cham-pion Jap haters, would like nothing better than to line up some Nippies in their gun sights. They are some of 100 Koreans drilling ' under supervision of California state guard at Los Angeles. Nazi Field Marshall Meets Sudden Death BERLIN, Jan. 17 (Official German Broadcast Recorded Re-corded by the United Press in New York) Field Marshal Walter Von Reichenau died today of apoplexy, an official announcement an-nouncement said. Roosevelt Asks $11,000,000,000 For Use of navy WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 OIR President Roosevelt today asked congress for an additional Jll.OOO,-000,000 Jll.OOO,-000,000 for the navy, the budget bureau disclosed. ' The bureau gave no details except ex-cept that $7,000,000,000 would be in addition to the $5,932,000,000 Mr. Roosevelt requested in the budget bud-get which he submitted to congress con-gress Jan: 7. The other $4,000,000,000 of the request is to supplment $7,000,000,-000 $7,000,000,-000 already appropriated for the current fiscal year which ends June 30. national need at present. President Presi-dent Harris believes. Special courses of particular value for defense activities are being offered offer-ed In Increasing numbers. Also, the plant of the institution is available for 12 months of study each year so that students may gain in three calendar years the technical training which ordinarily ordinar-ily is taken In four years and which is in great demand for defense de-fense activity. For 20 years Leadership Week-has Week-has held a high place in the thoughts of many thousands of religious, civic, and social leaders in many-parts of the continent. Spanning most of the interval between be-tween the two world wars, the ambitious adult education project served a . registered total attendance, atten-dance, of more than 60,000 persons. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS Battl 5 1 1 i V $ Until recently Von Reichenau was in command of -an army group operating on the southern sector of the Russian front. The marshal, who had been re ported seriously 111, died while be ing transferred to his home, the announcement said. Adolf Hitler ordered a state funeral and instructed that he be represented at the ceremony by Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt. Sudden or mysterious deaths of German ranking military commanders com-manders have been reported from time to time since Adolf Hitler began his march to conquest. They include, besides Von Reichenau: Reiche-nau: - Gen. Ernst Udets, famous German Ger-man aviation expert, reported killed in the crash of a transport plane. Col. Werner Moelders, Germany's Ger-many's foremost air ace, announced an-nounced killed while testing "a new weapon." Col. Gen. Ulrich Grauert, air force general, reported "killed in action." Gen. . Kurt Von Brissen, reported report-ed killed on the eastern front. . Gen. Werner Von Frits ch, artillery artil-lery general killed mysteriously outside Warsaw while "leading a squad on reconnaissance.' Maj. Gen, Karl Bitter Von Webber, Web-ber, tank commander, reported slain on the Russian front. Maj. Gen. George Braun, listed as "killed on the eastern front." Maj. Gen. Felix Verra, fortifications fortifi-cations chief reported killed while inspecting defenses on the French coast. Lieut Gen. Van Prlttwitz Und Graff ran, reported killed in action. Col. Gen. Eugene , Bitter Von Schobert,; killed on the easttrn front. - ". , v'-. Vice Admiral Lothar Von Ar-nauld Ar-nauld De La Perrier. killed in occupied oc-cupied France (perhaps in a British Brit-ish air raid.) Lieut. Gen. Erie Boernecker, artillery commander killed on the eastern front. - The Weather . Newly-established military regulations regu-lations prohibit the release of any-further any-further weather lnformaUoo, ln- eluding temperatures. PRICE FIVE CENTS 0 U S. NAVAL REVEALS FEAT Daring Feat Performed In Guarded Waters Near Yokohama By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. . 17 (U.R) An American submarine subma-rine has invaded ; the most 1 1 3 S X .1 Japanese empire those off Tokyo Bay w and, has sunk-three sunk-three JarjAJiesA vessels" th" navy, revealed tonight. ' " . - The navy announcement came as Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur and, his American .-. Md , Filipino v troops fought valiantly against a storm- Bataan . peninsula positions. The navy communique revealed the most daring- American. naval operation of the war a feat rivalling rival-ling that -of Army Capt. Colin Kelly In sinking the Japanese battleship bat-tleship Hiruna. . Close To Yokohama The submarine, presumably one of those attached to Admiral Thomas C Hart's "Asiatic fleet, slipped into the closely-protected waters off Japan's greatest naval base, Yokosuka, . within a few miles of Yokohama, heart of the vast Japanese sea empire. The American underseas craft attacked and sank three Japanese merchant ships and managed - to flash a report of " its success ' to American naval headquarters. Whether it is still operating ia. the dangerous Japanese water, was not revealed. . . ' It was the first time in nearly 100 years that an American naval craft had entered Japanese waters wa-ters on a mission of war or war like nature. The successful attack was carried car-ried out in the same waters where- Admiral Matthew Peary sailed nearly 100 years ago, his guns ready for action, in the his toric . voyage : which opened up Japan to contact with the western, world. . -; ... T The attack by the American submarine was comparable to the action of Japanese submarines in preying upon TJ.: S. commerce close off shore along the Pacific coast, or . of German U-boats in attacking shipping off Long Island. Is-land. ' . Although the navy communique mentioned no date when the attacks at-tacks occurred, it was recalled that more than two weeks ago the Tokyo radio broadcast - warnings (Continued on Page . Two) . PoKearing! For Lost Youth RAWLINS. Wyon Jan. .17 HE) A posse of 25 men searched the rugged country around Rawlins Raw-lins for a trace of three youths, missing since last night when they started out to hunt rabbits. The youths, Alva Edward, Richard Rich-ard Seith and High Thornton, left here-, last night and when, they had nor returned today, a searching' party, most of them volunteers from - the- fire department, depart-ment, started out to look for them. - - COAL-TAR FITCH BEST - FOB INCENDIARY FIRES -:' - WASHINGTON JakV EEV The bureau of mines tonigbt recommended rec-ommended granulated coal-tar pitch as "the beat known way" to extinguish incendiary : bombs. -' The bureau said frequent explosions ex-plosions and fires in plants using magnesium,, plus the interests of civilian, defense, led to a special investigation of extinguishers. . COMMUNIQUE |