OCR Text |
Show fa Ifl If era I dU TVre Weather For Provo and vicinity: Light nhowen over mountains during afternoon and early evening:. Not much change In temperature. Temperatures: High 88 Low At Call The Herald It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before S o'clock and a copy will be aent to you. VOL. 20, NO. 11 COMPZJCTB UNITBD PRC8S TILBORAPH NEWS 8KRVICB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY,- SEPTEMBER 6, 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY fcOUTH OF SALT LA KB PRICE FIVE CENTS Rubber Committee to Recommend Government Buying of Tires, Gars National Speed Limit of 35 Miles-An-Hour, Expansion of Synthetic Rubber Pro- gram To Be Recommended Also By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 U.R The special rubber committee com-mittee headed by Bernard M. Baruch will recommend to President Roosevelt government purchase of "extra'1' tires find automobiles, a 35-miles-an-hour national speed limit, and expansion of the synthetic rubber program, it was learned authoritatively Saturday night. The committee, appointed by Mr. Roosevelt Aug. 6 to survey the entire rubber situation, is putting the finishing : touches on its report and expects j it r . a. a t . iiM. ii i aBaaaBi m iMi I uKIUrll l-UIUKb PREDICTED FOR STEEL INDUSTRY SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 5 (U.R) The post war steel industry in Utah appears to have a bright future. Dr. J. R. Mahoney, of the University of Utah, in a recent magazine article, compares the large steel plant in Utah county with Pittsburgh, Gary, Birmingham Birming-ham and other large steel mill centers. In his study he says "the facts seem to warrant the conclusion con-clusion that the cost of production. produc-tion. . . for Utah is less than in either Gary or Pittsburgh and about the same as. for Birmingham." Birming-ham." Mahoney points out that Utah industry is more strategically located lo-cated for the ' entire Pacific coast market than is anv one of I the . Pacificxoast . consuming cen- ever, the -committee will propose ters. He says further that Utah conversion of numerous oil refiner-can refiner-can serve as the focal point for ,es ln0 P1 'or production of steel mills to supply semifinished ! butadiene, the chief cmponent of steel to all Pacific coast regions , synthetic rubber. Such conver- ot o tnn.mUe rat that would be; less than would be possible for a steer mill located in any of the Pacific coast regions. Larger Amounts Of Scrap r.letal Sought in Drive Provo's new drive for scrap iron and steel and other salvage materials has been launched, with a goal of obtaining tons and tons of vital water materials, according accord-ing to J. Rulon Morgan, chairman chair-man of the salvage committee. The drive is part of a nation-wide campaign. Mr. Morgan declared that while collections of various types of! salvage materials have already been made, the expanding requirements re-quirements of the war program have necessitated collection of larger amounts. Mr. Morgan said that many local civic organizations will be called upon to assist in the drive. "An increasing number of boys from this city are already seeing active service. We on the home front must see to it that industry shall not lack the materials needed need-ed for adequately arming and equipping them," said the chairman. chair-man. "Every housewife can play an important part in the drive. She should carefully inspect all her house furnishings, to find out what equipment she has that has outlived its usefulness. "An old iron Dot or a knife- in the kitchen, the steel springs of an old upholstered chair in. the attic, some discarded pipe or heating equipment in the cellar, unused wire clothes hangers in the closet there are a few of the items that will provide pounds and pounds of scrap. ' 'Waste kitchen pots and rub- i ber are also needed." I Collection depots at which I scrap iron and other salvage may ! be left are located as follows: J. W. AhJander lot at Fifth South and University avenue at any of the service stations, gar-; ages, or tire snops, accoraing . to E. L. Hansen, inter-industry committee chairman. KIDS THOUGHT DEAD FOUND HIDING - SEATTLE, Sept. 5 (U.P) Two boys' at first thought to have died of "black damp" gas in an' abandonee: mine near nenton to-. day had been found not far distant dist-ant from the scene of the tragedy. They were hiding in the woods. lo uenver u 10 me wmie nouse soon, it was said. Gas Rationing Out The report will not, it was un-derstod. un-derstod. recommend nation - wide rationing of gasoline as a rubber conservation measure. Instead, it will propose these curbs on private pri-vate use of automobiles, designed to forestall the necessity of such a step: ' 1. Establish a nation - wide speed limit of 35 miles an hour. 2. Limit each automobile to five tires. 3. Limit each family to one automobile. 4. Provide for government purchase, pur-chase, at 'a fair price, of all tires and all automobiles above the fixed limits. Baruch and his associates Presidents James B. Oonant of Harvard University and Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology will recommend recom-mend increased production of synthetic syn-thetic rubber from farm and forest for-est products, it was said, but few details concerning this phase of the report could be obtained. In connection with manufacture of rubber from petroleum, how- sion, ii was said, couia De accom- plished in about two months at a relatively small cost in critical materials. v Such converted plants, the com- i mittee believes, could add as much as 300,000 tons of butadiene to the annual production of about 1,000,000 tons thus far envisaged, without using up enough petroleum petro-leum to make further gasoline rationing necessary. All recommendations by the committee would be carried out by executive order. Baruch recently has been closeted with Attorney (Continued on Page Twoi Local Unions To Stress Buying of War Bonds In Labor Day Parade Labor day this year will carry a new significance in Utah as organized labor treks to war bond buying booths Monday to reaffirm in a material way their patriotism and loyalty in helping their country in the war effort. In the biggest patriotic demon- stration in the state, members of the various labor groups will pa rade through downtown Provo, then participate in an all-day bond-buying1 program at North park, designed to carry out the slogan, "All organized labor buy war bonds at least 10 per cent." The parade will form at Pio- ft All stores, banks and of- flees wUl be closed Monday in Provo. The Daily Her- j I aid - will issue an e arly ! afternoon edition. v Y neer park at 9:30 a. m. Starting at 10 o'clock it will move east in Center street, north to University avenue to Fifth North, then west to North park, where the post office of-fice will have bond booths sot up, Ralph H. Peters, publicity chairman chair-man for the celebration, estimates between 4000 and 5000 men Will march in the parade. Each local union will carry appropriate ban- ners. Thousands of dollars in bonds are expected to be pur- chased in organized labor's cur rent war bond drive here. Labor day will be celebrated here generally, and a large crowd is expected on the streets to watch the parade of men, Stores, banks, city, and eounty offices and other government offices of-fices will be closed. At the Provo post office, windows will remain open until 12 noon. There will be one delivery of mail. Rural car riers will not deliver. Special de nVery service will be carried on and outeoine mail will be dis patched as usual. One of the day's highlights is (Continued on Page Two) Roosevelt Prepares New Economic Plans For Labor Day Talk President Nears Completion of New Anti-Inflation Anti-Inflation Program Expected To Limit Wages, Profit Increases i By MERREVIAN SMITH , United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U.R) -President Roosevelt, paying pay-ing the way for stringent economic controls which he will announce on Labor day, told the nation Saturday night to expect new "sacrifices of wage increases, crop price increases, profit increases, bodily comforts.' "All this is little enough for free men to sacrifice in a world where freedom is imperiled," he said in a Labor day statement of appreciation "to the working people x x x for the energy and devotion with Hew Injunction Against Kaiser Issued by Court . CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 5 (U.R) Federal Judge Robert H. WiLkin issued a permanent injunction Saturday Sat-urday against the Kaiser Co., Inc., west coast shipbuilders, ""preventing ""prevent-ing it from paying prices for steel above ceilings set by the office of price administration. The injunction was issued under un-der a consent decree entered into by the Kaiser company and the OP A which stipulates that the' complaint does not charge the shipbuilding concern with "profiteering "pro-fiteering or with any waste of public funds or critical materials." Issuance of the injunction was announced in a statement of Leon Henderson, OPA administrator, admin-istrator, which said that the suit against the Kaiser company "has been settled by stipulation, resulting re-sulting in the issuance of an in junction under a consent decree. Workers to Stay At Their Posts Over Labor Day BY UNITED PRESS Workmen in American war industries in-dustries arranged to spend Labor day at their machines producing arms for the nation's fighting forces while millions of other Americans planned "stay-t-home" activities. Organized labor in many cities cancelled customary Labor Day parades and substituted Shorter celetTations, some of them during brief rest periods that would not interfere with production. The Labor day observance was arranged to avoid injury to the war effort in response to an appeal ap-peal from War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson. He asked William Green, president of the AFL and Philip Murray, CIO president, to keep war production pro-duction humming. Nelson authorized local representatives repre-sentatives of the armed services to designate industries in which operations should continue through the holiday and said that, in all other cases, observance would be desirable. The naval vessels will include an unspecified number of destroyers, destroy-ers, submarine-chasers, motor torpedo boats, minesweepers, coastal transports, tank landing craft, seaplane tenders and otn-ers. ill. JoMMA which they have met the demands of the present crisis." The statement was issued as the president neared completion of a new anti-inflation program that is expected to limit wages and salaries, and impose tighter controls con-trols on farm, wholesale and retail re-tail prices. .The plan will be outlined to congress in an explanatory message mes-sage Monday, and then explained in greater detail in a speech which Mr. Roosevelt wij address to the nation Monday nighU. . Speculation centered, meantime, mean-time, on the identity of the man Mr. Roosevelt will name as "economic "eco-nomic czar" to administer the new program. It was reported by one source in close touch with the forthcoming program that Su preme Court Justice William O, appeared to have the in side track But other possibilities also men tioned included Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York; Bernard M. Baruch, financier and head of the president's special rubber investigating in-vestigating committee, and Supreme Su-preme Court Justice James F. Byrnes, whose persuasiveness on Capitol Hill, during his senate days, served the New Deal well. As to the probable form of the program itself, it appeared likely that it might follow alog these lines: Wages Generally, these would be controlled in accordance with the war labor board's "Little Steel" formula that permits raises totalling not more than 15 per cent above rates on Jan. 1, 1941, with room for adjustment of inequalities in-equalities wherever they may exist. ex-ist. The new controls would not affect the payment of overtime for work in excess of the 40-hour work week. Salaries Increases above certain cer-tain levels would be prohibited, with the limit being fixed possi bly between $5,000 and f10,000. tj,!ci r,,n.r.A ka i. ' ever, for salary raises for actual ! Demotions. I Farm Prices Present levels (Continued on Page Two) COLUMBIA STEEL WORKER KILLED PRICE, Utah, Sept. 5 (U.P) Clyde T. Evans, 20, Columbia defense de-fense industry worker, was fatally fatal-ly injured in an automobile-truck collision near Wellington, Utah, yesterday. Wallace Straight of Columbia, driver of the car in which Evans was riding, suffered probable internal in-ternal injuries and shock. He is in the Price City hospital. The accident occurred as the two men driving toward Wellington Welling-ton crashed into the side of the truck which was parked at the side of the road. Raids Staged by Soviet Bombers LONDON, Sept. 5 0J.E) The Moscow radio today reported that Soviet bombers last night started 33 fires at Budapest and 24 at going to be up against the prob-Koenigsberg, prob-Koenigsberg, East Prussia. lem of drafting married men with Only one bomber was lost dur- ing the widespread raids which I were made under most difficult weather conditions, the radio said, Mucho Mocha v t 'V vrr Margaret Elston, above, nas no worries wor-ries about coffee rationing. She srows her own coffee. In Los Angeles, from seeds obtained in South America three years ago. The plants re now beginning to produce coffee, uid Just In time, with rationing Just around the corner. 0. S. DESTROYER TRANSPORT SUNK BY JAPS WASHINGTON, Srpt. 5 U.P The Navy announced late today that the five-year-old destroyer Blue and the auxiliary transport Colhoun were sent to 'the bottom by the Japanese in the south Pacific within the past two weeks. Although the announcement gavo no details, it was assumed that the ships were sunk while attempting to reinforce the Marine occupation force in the Solomons when the Japanese were making their all-out attempt to retake the seized islands. The Colhoun was one of the old World War destroyers which were converted into fast transports for marine landing forces. The sinkings brought to 48 the number of American vessels lost in this 'war through enemy action and other causes. Text of communique No. 119: "South Pacific: "1. The U. S. destroyer Blue and the small auxiliary transport Col- ,hn"" hT been unk d"r f,h ??.8t tW wef.ks ,,n tnc I"!, " ....jr cit. nun. "2. There were few casualties and the next of. kin of those lost will t3 notified as soon as reports are received." The Navy did not amplify the communique and there was no indication in-dication as to how the two sinkings sink-ings occurred whether by enemy submarine, plane or vessel. The Sinkings occurred since the occupation of the Solomons, started on Aug. 7, and the raid on Ma kin Island Aug. 16. X I S . J v f J ML. ".' f! YFt Al ' Vs. J C v " v 1 I " J V 1MI,.JI '11 I '' Senator Predicts Drafting of Married Men With Children Unless Service Age Is Lowered to 19 By SPENCER KLAW United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 ttJJi) Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., predicted pre-dicted tonight that aftrr July 1, 1943. the army will have to draft married men with children unless the selective service age limit is lowered to 19. He made his prediction in an interview after a conference with Col. Francis V. Keesling, Jr selective se-lective service legislative officer. "I don't think the nation is children, or drafting 19-year-olds I until next July 1." Ifcft said, "but I think it will be up against that problem then " LI FORTRESSES STRIKE NAZIS HEAVY BLOWS BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 5 (U.R) The Berlin radio went off the air tonight to-night at 10:05 p. m., British time (5:05 p, nr., EWT), the usual sign of airraids In Germany. By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 5 (U.R) American flying 'fortresses struck at Nazi Europe today with the strongest U. S. air attack yet delivered in a record-breaking round-the-clock Allied air offensive that has rocked Bremen, Vienna, Budapest, Koenigsberg, Breslau, Rouen and Le Havre. It was the ninth mission that the United States bombers had carried out from their British isles bases, and for the ninth time every bomber got back to its home grounds. Target of the flying fortresses was Rouen, the second time that this important French communications communi-cations center has felt the weight of American precision bombing. Three Squadrons Three squadrons of Fortresses made the assault, centering on the big railroad yards and scoring direct hits on the target area. Just before the attack on Rouen, Rou-en, a squadron of American air force Bostons bombed Le Havre, the French channej port which has been reported half in ruins from persistent Royal Air Force bombing. bomb-ing. The Flying Fortresses and Bostons Bos-tons were protected by clouds of American, British and Canadian fighter squadrons which carried out diversionary sweeps at the same time. None of the American fighters and none of the Bostons was lost in the operation. However, six Allied fighters presumably British and Canadian were reported missing and two Nazi fighters were shot down. The attack on Rouen was made from the favored high level range of the Fortresses, and the official communique reported "many bursts on the target." The fhitial Fortress attack on Rouen was made August 17. Today's raid followed a" nieht of Allied aerial activity which" spread damage, and terror on an. unprecedented scale across central Europe. The RAF concentrated I an estimated 200 to 300 bombers, on Bremen, while Russian craft were blasting Budapest, Koenigs - berg, Vienna and Breslau. Tho aii minlafwff tfkHHAaAJ a. i a. the Bremen raid lasted ha? an nour. "It was another of those attacks at-tacks in which bombs fell every second," the ministry's account said. "Visibility was particularly particular-ly good. The docks were easily seen, and skillfully placed flares lit by the first bombers showed crews who followed where to aim. Many four - thousand pounders burst among concentrated fires north of the river." Eleven British planes, were missing after the raid on Bremen, i the 99th nf th war $6 & H At the same time Taft urged enactment of legislation facilitating facili-tating allocation of manpower between be-tween war industries and the armed services on a voluntary basis, lowering the draft age to 19 or 18, and providing that no married men over , 30 who has children should be drafted until all fathers below that age have been taken. Taft said his discussion with Keesling was only "preliminary," and indicated he would not actually actu-ally begin framing legislation to accomplish these ends until the pending tax bill has been acted i on by congress. Taft is a member lof the senate finance committee. of the senate finance committee, n l JL i r Russians Exact Terrible Toll From Germans Approaches to Volga Industrial City Is Littered With Thousands of German Dead, and Burned-Out Tanks BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sunday, Sept. 6 U.R) The defenders of Stalingrad are beating back countless German assaults northeast and southwest of that "Red Verdun" but 430 miles to the southwest Soviet forces have been driven back to new positions nortnwest of the great Black Sea naval base of Novorossisk, the Soviet high command announced today. The approaches to Stalingrad were reported littered with thousands of German dead and wrecked and burned-out burned-out tanks as Soviet artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire mowed down enemy forces who were reported re-ported to have been ordered by Adolf Hitler to take the city at all costs. The Soviet high command's midnight communique said that northwest of Novorossisk "large enemy forces, after intense bomD-ing, bomD-ing, wont on the offensive." Destroy Infantry The forward line of the Soviet defenses destroyed -"large nunrjij bers" of German infantry and a squadron of Rumanian cavalry and "only after the Germans brought up reserves did our troops withdraw to new positions," the communique said. Southwest of Stalingrad German Ger-man tanks and infantry, supported support-ed by a large number of planes, launched a "number of fierce attacks at-tacks on our positions," the high command said. Despite the enemy's en-emy's numerical superiority "the Germans did not succeed in advancing." ad-vancing." In the area nortnwest of Stalingrad Stal-ingrad Soviet troops "repulsed enemy attacks and the Germans suffered heavy losses," said the high command's midnight communique. com-munique. Southwest of the city other Red troops held back the massive enemy assault. How long Soviet forces could (Continued on Page Two) Nazi Casualties In Russia Placed Near 4,200,000 BY UNITED PRESS ' (Undated) A report from I European sources Saturday night Aofimaf Arl HArmofi noeiiolfiaa In Russia up to August 1 were 4, 200,000 killed or permanently put out of action. The report, said to be based on information from within Germany, Ger-many, said that 1,700,000 Germans had been killed in action on the eastern front. From Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 Nazi casualties were said to have been 710,000 killed, wounded and missing, miss-ing, including 215,000 killed. Since Aug. 1, it was said, Ger man losses have risen sharply in the bitter battles on the southern 1 Russian front. currently engaged in writing the revenue measure. Selective Service Director Lewis Lew-is B. Hershey has asked congress to authorize the drafting of youths 18 and 19, but house and senate leaders have indicated a desire to postpone action until late fall. Sen. Chan Gurney, R., S. D., however, introduced a bill earlier this week which would lower the draft age to 18. Taft said he was inclined to favor drafting lt!-year-old before married men with children but though that boys in the former group ought to be deferred long enough to finish out the school year on which thev had started when called up. U. S. BOMBERS BLAST NAZIS IN DESERT BATTLE By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO, Sept. 5 (UJ?) .United States army fighter planes and medium bombers, operating with the RAF, blasted concentrations of enemy transport vehicles in the desert today as front dispatches dis-patches reported the enemy was being driven back in a spreading battle on the southern and central sectors of the El Alamein front. A communique said that the medium bombers scored several direct hits, starting fires among the enemy vehicles that have taken a terrific pounding in the new battle for the Nile now in its sixth day. Fighter planes ground-strafed enemy troops and vehicles. Front dispatches said that the first major infantry clash of the current campaign occurred yesterday yes-terday when New Zealand troops, supported by strong artillery barrages, bar-rages, hurled back three German counter-attacks and inflicted heavy -casualties. Determination of the enemy to capture the central front strip of ground taken by the New Ze slanders sl-anders on Thursday night was indicated in-dicated by the strength of the counter-attack, front reports said. The first, from the west, was repulsed re-pulsed by a tremendous artillery barrage; the second and third attacks at-tacks from the southeast were even more intense but they were hurled back. The ground was left littered with German dead and wounded, many of whom were gathered up between 4:30 p. m. and nightfall night-fall Friday by allied stretcher bearers. As a result the New Zeal-anders Zeal-anders now hold positions from which they seriously threaten the enemy west of the El Alamein , line. The RAF fleet air arm waa out again last night for the fourth successive night, bombing enemy armored concentrations in the south and one encampment of several hundred vehicles was reported re-ported to be a "complete shambles. Enemy losses of tanks and motor transports were reported mounting hourly. One British of ficer at the front said they were "greater than we ever dreamed. The heavy allied air attacks were said to be forcing the enemy en-emy to withdraw to safety the quantity of arms he had massed on the southern tip of the front. Worker Killed . In Trestle Fall SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 5 (U.P) Injured when he fell 14 feet from a trestle at the Mid-vale Mid-vale smelter of the U. S. Smelting and Refining company, Victor G. Hyde, 61, Salt Lake City, died in a hospital here Saturday. Hyde was dismantling the trestle at the time of the accident. |