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SUNDAY, 'FEBRUARY 1, 1942 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEW8 SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS i Mi r s" Complete Evacuation Of All Axil Nationals From California Begun Sixty-nine Areas Designated As Prohibited Territory for Axis Nationals; Re-Registration Re-Registration Begins Monday By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U.R) Complete evacuation of Axis nationals, particularly Japanese, from California, appeared ap-peared possible tonight as the justice department completed plans to designate 17 more western defense command areas from which enemy aliens will be. excluded. ' Sixty-nine areas, principally covering the vicinity of strategic airports, defense factories, dams, power stations and aqueducts, were designated as prohibited territory by DESK CHAT . BY THE EDITOR Is it a good idea to pension congressmen? With affecting unanimity, congressmen have agreed "that it is. Frankly, we- don't know. The whole thing has been sprung so suddenly, without public discussion or "generally "general-ly reported hearings, that almost al-most nobody had thought of it until the bill lay on the President's desk, where it was signed-the other day. The idea may have merit. -But it cames wrapped up in a bill providing changes in the existing retirement provisions provis-ions for federal . employes, which - is something else again. At a time when evefy bodyrsf uture'fs ' oK-' scure, this sudden concern of congressmen: for their own pulls -a blanket over whatever merit the idea may have in itself. Few would have rebuked President Roosevelt if he had sent the bill back - with his veto. It would at least have required enough consideration considera-tion for the country to learn what's going on. oOo Mondav is Groundhog day. A recently completed survey of New York City's subway system and its patrons reveals re-veals that the subway rider Dends an sveracre of ten hours a month underground. Another species of ground hogs. Listening in at the radio the other niht. the thought struck us that this war is getting pretty serious they must be rationing jokes. oOo We eard of a New York man who holds 1000 oatents, but we'lk bet some of his faucets fau-cets leak. oOo Maybe, it would help if someone would figure out a way to save enough daylight to last all. night. Treasury department has received erifts totaling $70,-000 $70,-000 to help win the war. Folks are more willing to give 'till it hurts, if it hurts the Japs. Civilian Defense Schools Slated . Local civilian defense schools patterned after the one held last week at American Fork will be held In other communities of Utah county, it was decided-at a meeting of the county civilian defense de-fense council Friday afternoon. " v C. A. Grant of American Fork, county coordinator, said a schedule sched-ule of dates for the classes Is being be-ing arranged, with the mayors of the various communities asked to recommend the most convenient conveni-ent dates. The civilian defense schools will be conducted by the council officials offi-cials and division chairman, with everyone registered to serve under un-der -the council being invited to attend, ; according to R. J. Murdoch Mur-doch ? of Provo, chairman of the county commission. Attorney General Biddle during the day, while two others in San Francisco and. Los Angeles were designated two days ago. The 17 additional areas will be announced Monday, and it was learned they would comprise rural areas in which Japanese have been truck-farming for decades. Revocation of their business licenses by California authorities already has forced three Japanese out of business. Other States Next Once the California problem is settled, the justice department, acting on recommendations of the war and navy departments, will begin ousting the enemy aliens from strategic defense points In the seven other states comprising the western defense -command. Meantime, Rep. Martin Dies, D. Texas, recommended that some plan be devised for dealing with naturalized Germ and and Italian citizens on the east coast. In all, there are approximately approximate-ly 186,000 Axis aliens in these western defense commands- California, Cali-fornia, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Mon-tana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona but the number that eventually will be affected will not be known until the re-registration scheduled for German, Japanese-And. Jtaiian. nationals .is completed a week hence. The re-registration, ordered by Biddle for purposes of identifying the enemy aliens, begins Monday in the eight states. Once it is completed, all enemy aliens in the remaining 40 states will be reregistered. re-registered. Biddle addresses the nation by (Continued on Page Two) Registration of 18-19-Year Olds Planned in April By SANDOR S. KLEIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 OLE) Some 13,000,000 men and boys of non-military age 18 and 19 years old, and 45 to 64, inclusive probably will be registered during dur-ing the months of April or May, national selective service officials offi-cials said tonight. The registration, designed to produce an overall diagram of the nation's non-military manpower, is part of the general enrollment program of the revised selective service act approved by congress after outbreak of war in the Pacific. Unlike the registration of men of. military age, the non-military enrollment will be a leisurely affair. af-fair. Chances are, officials said, that it will extend over as much as a month. Draft officials reported, meantime, mean-time, that everything is in readi- ( Continued on Page Two) -e- Axis Agents In U. S. Tip Off Nazi U-Boats By RICHARD A. BLACKBTRN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 ports may he tipping off German submarines to the movement move-ment of American and allied ships in Atlantic sea lanes, according to reports which tonight reached Chairman Martin Mar-tin Dies, D., Texas, of the house committee on un-American activities. ' Dies said he could not vouch for the accuracy of the reports, some of which stated that secret Axis sympathizers were communicating with sub-S ; marines off the Atlantic coast by means of "flares and by code mes sages" of an undisclosed nature. However, Dies added, the committee com-mittee will investigate the reports promptly. He said that German-American German-American Bund posts are active in several Atlantic . port cities, which he did not name, and that pro-Nazi activities have been carried car-ried on in some of these communities. communi-ties. Dies said that in the light; of these reports ; and the toll of American and . allied . shipping taken by Nazi . underseas raiders, the justice department might well consider banning Axis aliens from n (An a oi fni o) nn rr ' ' : ' " 1 - PHILIPPINE DEFENDERS STAND FIRM Mac Arthur' . For ce Welded Into Great Fighting C crps WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur's battle-grimed battle-grimed veterans of eight weeks of war tonight stood firm against new Japanese attempts to undermine under-mine their fox hole and fortress positions at the entrance of Manila Man-ila bay. For more , than a month Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's slim American and Filipino Fili-pino forces have fought off Japanese Jap-anese assaults in never-ceasing' waves. The troops U. S. regulars and Filipinos of various degrees of training have .seldom had more than a few continuous hours of respite from Japanese ground fire, bombing and strafing. Yet tonight it appeared that MacArthur had welded his men into a fighting corps un equaled in American military history. Since the fall of Manila Jan. 2, MacArthur's forces have been under un-der virtual siege on the smaU but rugged peninsula of Bataan province which juts out at the mouth of Manila bay only three miles from the Keystone of Cor-regldor Cor-regldor island. Capture Prisoners - But MacArthur's men still packed pack-ed a punch tonight. - - Their commander reported that a new. anddAtermined -Japanese 4 attempt to infiltrate' the Bataan lines had been smashed and that the heavUy outnumbered Americans Ameri-cans had succeeded in capturing an unstated number of - Japanese prisoners. - Fighting on Bataan was not on a large scale and Japan's air arm was almost completely inactive in-active apparently too heavily engaged en-gaged against Singapore and the Indies to back up the attack on MacArthur. On land, the Japanese face Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur with their entire 14th army, commanded , by Lieut. Gen. Masaltaru Homm This force is estimated at between 200,000 ana 300,000 men with supporting personnel and reinforcements. But, because of the difficult Battan terrain it seems doubtful that the Japanese can utilize more than a fourth or a third of this army in frontal operations against Mac- Arthur at one time, u,r.,,Q, ,,. gnn.rnHtv'.ntfhi tm mi troops constantly and bring fresh forces to bear against American and Filipino men who are unable to withdraw from the fighting lines for any rest. DOG DIES BESIDE HIS MASTER, 3 POMFRET, Conn., Jan. 31 (U.E) Rodney H. Kimball, 3, and his dog, perished today when fire destroyed de-stroyed the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kimball. The dog, refusing to leave his young master's side, died with him. Their bodies were found lying ly-ing together when the flames were extinguished. U.R) Axis agents in east coastf certain east coast areas as is being done on the west coast. "Reports have reached us that German submarines off the coast have' been receiving from Axis agents in port cities Information on the movement of American and allied ships in order that they might be torpedoed," Dies said. j "Justice department consideration considera-tion of possible removel of enemy aliens from vital east coast areas might prove farsighted at this time." Dies discussed the enemy submarine sub-marine activities as German U- ( Continued on -Page Two) Step Lively Lieutenqrit-Generql i On .the double-quick, Bill Knudseri, 1 aenjsjMCturexL amvicg jtha34t;Hfluaev KhjOdaeh production chief f ov.the ....War Department.; -o- TESTING MADE ON PLANTSITE Meagre details available indicated indi-cated little progress Saturday toward to-ward getting the $126,000,000 piff iron and steel project under way. Drilling of test holes reportedly continued in the Vineyard area, although no further progress toward to-ward consummation of negotiations negotia-tions for land for the site was reported. re-ported. Holes drilled and pits dug have proved the territory is satisfac tory lor building the heavy plant equipment, it was indicated. Approximatefy 1500 acres of fund ndftrthe proj- ect site. The tract of land in Vineyard Vine-yard being favored is owned ty approximately 30 owners, with about 24 residences. With government representatives representa-tives and property owners having difficulty in agreeing on a "fair price" for the land, many persons believe proceedings will become necessary to secure the land. Seattle Shipyard Welders Join in Tacoma Strike SEATTLE, Jan. 31 (TIE) Seattle shipyard welders today joined 1,-180 1,-180 striking" Tacoma welders In a jurisdictional dispute with the American Federation of Labor that constituted the first major defense industry strike since the nation went to war. The United Welders, Cutters and Helpers' union (independent) said all welders at the Tacoma plant of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Shipbuild-ing Corporation were on strike. Dave Basor, executive secretary secre-tary of the union, asserted that 75 per cent of the day shift welders weld-ers in five Seattle shipyards joined join-ed the walkout, and that the others oth-ers would follow suit Monday. He said no figures on the actual number of men on strike here were available. A meeting of strikers was called call-ed tonight. Picket were ordered about the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard, the Associated As-sociated Shipbuilders and the Todd-Seattle drydocks. Basor said the Alke Washington ' shipyard would be picketed tomorrow, but indicated none would -be placed about the Lake Union Drydocfc and-.Machine company. - . Vi A. if if1 " now Lieut-Gen. William .S. Knud Rules Announced For Rationing; of fleiv Antomobiles WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 0IE Rationing of new passenger automobiles auto-mobiles to eligible users certified certifi-ed by local boards will not begin before Feb. 26, OPA Administrator Adminis-trator Leon Henderson said today. to-day. . Henderson . said he expected plans for gradual release of 524,- 000 "frozen" cars to eligible users wm oe issued in the near future. The OPA administrator an nounced a procedure for releasing passenger cars that were . pur chased,- but. not delivered, before the government . froze all auto sales on Jan. 1. Deliveries of cars in this category wUl start Feb. 12. The two-week period Feb. 12 to Feb. 26 was set aside, the OPA administrator said, to permit lo cal rationing .boards to work out problems which arose over these "transfer cars" before they undertake under-take the responsibilities of fuU scale automobile rationing. For an individual to obtain a car which he ordered before Jan. 1, he must establish one of the three following as evidence: 1. Certificate of title or registration regis-tration of car from state or local authorities having jurisdiction, issued is-sued in his name on or before Jan. 1. 2. A sworn statement from a state or local agency that such an application, had been filed on or before Jan. 1, accompanied with a certified copy of the registration registra-tion or, j 3. A; written contract, bill of sale, cancelled check, receipt from . a dealer, . certificate of title or registration showing this car was traded in for a new auto- or proof that the -particular car involved was in the dealer's hand or in transit on or before Jan. 1. -- Utah Figh ting Men In Camp On Sight Of Mormon Battalion Near San Diego -- . ; ' SAN: DIEGO, CaL Jan. 31 CE) History repeated Itself today when a contingent of soldiers from Utah moved Into the Presidio Pre-sidio Hills area and pitched tents on the very ground where some of their Mormon forebears were garrisoned nearly & century .- ago. An announcement, by the Eleventh Elev-enth naval district revealed that the Utah fighting men had established estab-lished headquarters on the original orig-inal site of Fort Stockton, where 94 years ago to the day the fa mous Mormon ; Battalion - moved To Hold UritilHe British Imperials Yield Mainland Of Malaya By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE, JaU 31 (U.R) Britain's battle-weary imperials im-perials stood off the Japanese Japan-ese at point-blank range across the narrow strait guarding besieged Singapore island tonight after giving up the Malaya mainland to a crushing enemy army. Singapore's defenders were mobilized mo-bilized to ."hold ; this fortress until un-til help can come as it assuredly assured-ly will come." The battle of Malaya had become be-come the siege of Singapore, the greatest naval base in the Far East. Defenders Fall Back Australian, Indian and British defenders fell back across the Strait of Johore under cover of darkness, and Royal engineers blasted a yawning gap in the mammoth stone and concrete causeway, the only link between the island and the mainland, r (The German-controlled Paris radio reported without substantiation substantia-tion from any other source that the Japanese has established a bridgehead on Singapore island, "according to reports just receiv ed from the Pacific" In London authoritative ourcesir.-d-taiey'fwesr-of tnfej"wMe-Salween -rtver,4Fnlsev,yri doubted the J?aris report) Up to late afternoon the Singapore Singa-pore front was relatively quiet. A tour of investigation indicated that the Japanese across the strait were pausing to look for hidden pitfalls. Certainly their tactics in the first hours of the siege were not those of a victoriously victor-iously advancing army. Newspapermen called on Maj. Gen. Henry Gordon Bennett, commander com-mander of the Australian Imperial Imper-ial force, who appeared surprised at the ease with which the withdrawal with-drawal from the mainland had been carried out: It appeared tonight that the Japanese were going to have much greater difficulty in attacking attack-ing Singapore island than they expected. The defense forces are on their toes and express confi- ( Continued on Page Two) JURY CONVICTS CULT LEADERS LOS ANGELES, Jafi., 31 UJ Mrs. Edna W. Ballard, white-robed white-robed leader of the "I Am" religious reli-gious movement, and her son, Donald, were convicted today of federal charges they bilked followers fol-lowers of an estimated $3,000,000 by using the mails to defraud. Four other leaders of the movement move-ment were acquitted by tha 12-man 12-man jury after a lengthy second trial that began December 2, 1941. The jufy, which began deliberating deliber-ating yesterday morning, found Mrs. Ballard guilty on six counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy. conspir-acy. She was acquitted of four other counts of mail fraud. No recommendation for leniency was made by the jury. Donald Ballard, known as the "Crown Prince" of the movement, was found guilty on two counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy, conspir-acy, but the jury recommended to Judge J. F. .T. O'Connor that len iency be granted him. in after an unprecedented 2100-mile 2100-mile march from Council 'Bluffs, Iowa. : ' - '.. One of the men stationed here, Capt. Edward T. O'Brien, .of Pro-vo, Pro-vo, is a direct descendent of A member of the Mormon Battalion that marched from - Iowa to San Diego In the winter of 1846-47 and helped to establish the United States , government In this territory. terri-tory. ' ! " Within a stone's throw of their tents is a monument commemorating commemo-rating a, the v achievements of the Mormon Battalion and' dedicated III 4- Naval Ease Ip Ban Come Battle for Singapore Comes to Its Critical Hour as British Imperials Abandon Aban-don Malayan Peninsula By UNITED PRESS The battle for Singapore, a tense moment in the Pacific like that which faced . Britain when Adolf Hitler followed Dunkirk with an attempt to bomb the British Isles out of the war, came to its critical hour Saturday. Imperial forces abandoned the Malayan peninsula to the Japanese and awaited assault from across the Strait of Johore. Their task, as defined by Lieut. Gen. A. E. Percival, commander of Singapore, was to - "hold this fortress until help can come, as it assuredly will come. It was a job which had in it more of hope than that which existed ex-isted for the similarly beleaguered forces of Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's American troops on the Philippines' Bataan peninsula, for no help can come to MacArthur's men across Japanese-dominated seas. . Even aid for Singapore Is a perilous undertaking, as disclosed I by announcement in Melbourne qus P. Backman, executive vice that Allied reinforcements bound : chairman of the Utah state de-f de-f or the island fortress escaped , fense council, said today Utah destructive assault by 60 Japanese j has been removed .from the of-planes of-planes only because of a sudden, , ficially -designated combat zone by violent rainstorm, which screened a ruling placing the line mark-the mark-the convoy from the raiders and , iner the zone ..along points 300 permitted it to : arrive safely at an unnamed port. In Burma, Moulmein was evac uated and new lines established about 92 miles from,- Rangoon. The Japanese now have won important im-portant air bases for stronger assaults as-saults against Rangoon and the Burma Road, China's vital supply route. With what supplies they now have, after months of more efficient effi-cient operation : of the Burma Road, the Chinese were reported giving a good account of them selves. Chungking announced that the Japanese had been forced to fall back on the Canton-Kowloon railroad, near Canton. It was announced an-nounced further that a division of Nanking government soldiers, who had been equipped by the Japanese, had deserted to Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, apparently ap-parently because of the United States entry into the war. This was a blow to the prestige or Wang Ching-Wei's puppet govern ment, on which Japan had counted count-ed to hold sections of China while it diverted Japanese troops to other points of the far eastern battle area. . . Dutch soldiers battled superior Japanese threes which attacked Amboina, between Celebes and New Guinea. The attack on Amboina, Am-boina, the second most important naval base of the East Indies, began. Friday with aerial bombardment bom-bardment and increased in intensity inten-sity until the week end saw the' base being tombed from the air and shelled from : the sea while fighting raged on land. Melbourne reported new Jap-( Jap-( Continued on Page Two), Orem City Names Zoning Committee The Orem city council has ap pointed a zoning committee . to set up and enforce building .regulations .regu-lations in the city. Orral DeLange, two-year councilman coun-cilman on the "city council, heads the committee, with members including in-cluding Charles - Robbirik, Frank Wbffinden, Orson Prestwich, Harold Har-old Harward, Ivern Pyne, Samuel Kitchen and A. H. Lowe. a year ago by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Also in the nearby Sierra museum are many rare volumes and documents and diaries diar-ies which tell the story of the early Mormon fighters, v ! f The soldiers who arrived today are r a .rugged, veteran combination, combina-tion, according to the announcement, announce-ment, most of whom have been on active duty for nearly -a -year, having formerly, .been national guardsmen. They "are here to "assume "as-sume .- their part In the Pacific coast, defensive : framework," the announcement said.. RULING TAKES UTAH OUT OF COMBAT ZONE SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31 (HE) miles from the, Pacific coast. . .. Backman,' who has just returned return-ed from a regional conference of civilian . defense officials in San that, gas masks and. other civilian , defense equipment will be allotted ; only to cities inside the zone. He said that an effort will be made to place Utah back in the zone on the theory that any attack, on the Pacific coast would Include token attacks at least on - Salt Lake City and Ogden. Russians Clear Germans Out of Ukraine Country BY M. S. HAXDER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (UP) Russian Rus-sian rifle squads, dashing in horse- ; drawn sledges through the German Ger-man lines and spreading havoc In the rear, were reported today, to be bulwarking the frontwide . So- ' vlet offensive which has cleared a vast industrial region of the Ukraine and put its mines and plants back to work. The Soviet radio, reporting a continued advance on the southern south-ern front, said the evacuated-population evacuated-population was returning to the ' liberated Donets industrial arr and already 16 reopened coal mines were turning, out 1,200 tons a day. " -. . (The London radio quoted a Stockholm report that the Red army vanguard, in the Ukraine , was within 37 miles of Dnepropetrovsk, Dnepro-petrovsk, which would represent an advance of about 25. miles since the recapture of Lozovaya was announced Thursday.) . i ' " ("Not a single German shall leave, the Ukraine alive,", the So- viet army organ Red Star was quoted by the British radio in a . broadcast heard by the National Broadcasting .. company.) . . . ' Hard-riding Cossack cavalry taking part In Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's southern 3 drive were credited with crushing - the 257th German Infantry division In a three-day battle, v The Germans were', reported . throwing a stream of reserves Into - strong counter-attacks ' on both the southern front and the Valdai region northwest of Mos- ' eow, where the Red ; army : had driven a , salient) more than 60 ' miles : Into ; the German ; line. Re- -pulsing- all assaults, the Russians maintained .the, steady pace, mill- . tarv dispatches, said. , The Red", army newspaper said -r the Germans -were even resorting to night attacks in desperate efforts ef-forts to stem the Soviet push all along the battlefront. . -..; NEW SI HP LAUNCHED . BY BETHLEHEM FIRM QUTNCY, Mass., Jan. 31 (CO The destroyer Barton, sister ship of the U. S. S. Bancroft, slid down the ways of the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s yard today, the first local launching of 1942. - v " , V: : 1 1 |