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Show 1 1 The Weather l For Provo and vicinity: contln- '. ued cool with little change la temperature todarp Temperatures: Illrh 48 Low 20 Call The Herald It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be cent to you. VOL. 20, NO. 19 PRICE FIVE CENTS egj COMPLETE! UNITED PRESS TEU30RAPH NfWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER I, '1942 VTAH'8 OSLY DAILT SOUTH OF SALT UKE JV Ml Liu HeialdU tt?r'":;?r:? r??y RT n n n I BOTH PARTIES SEE VICTORY 111 ELECTION Robinson Given Edge Over Vetterli in . Vote Battle - SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 31 (U.R) -J- Despite an optimistic and emphatic prediction by State Chairman David J. Wilson Wil-son that the Republicans will elect both congressmen, political po-litical observers today believed be-lieved that Reps. J. W. Robinson Robin-son and Walter K. Granger will be re-elected. Hnu,'pvpr there is no doubt but that the Republicans will gain many thousands of votes in utan s general election Tuesday. Rnhinson seeks re-election from the second congressional district against the opposition Dy rceea n.. Vetterli, Republican nominee and former agent for the federal bureau bu-reau of investigation. Granger meets formidable opposition op-position from J. Bracken Lee, mayor, of Price and Republican candidate in the First congressional congres-sional district. Observers, however, predict that Utah will continue to show its Democratic leanings, evidenced in the past decade. And in so doing, do-ing, it is predicted that David W. Moffat, incumbent Democratic chief justice of the state supreme court, will be renamed to the 10-year 10-year term on the high bench. Dilworth Woolley of Manti is the Republican aspirant for the supreme court post. Because of the -nature of - the -office.- the -cam-: paigns of both candidates have been quiet. Two referendums are on thej 1942 general election ballot. No. I I is the constitutional amendment dealing with increasing the pay of legislators. No. 2 is the widely publicized issue of the chain store tax bill. The constitutional amendment, (Continued on Page Three) FAIRLY HEAVY VOTE PREDICTED A. growing list of absentee voters, vot-ers, good attendance at campaign rallies, and vigprous campaigning by many of the! candidates these are indications which point to a fairly heavy vote at Tuesday's general election. Party leaders Saturday predicted predict-ed the total vote in Utah county would triple that of the two primaries, pri-maries, which was around the 5000 mark. C. A. Grant, county clerk, announced an-nounced that tabulations following follow-ing the pre-election registration days show there are approximately approximate-ly 28.000 registered voters in the county. A check-up of the records showed 23,839 ballots were cast at the 1940 presidential election, and 17,271 at the off-year election in 1938. Most observers predicted this year's vote will be comparable to that of 1938. The past week has seen vigor-uos vigor-uos campaigning by both political politi-cal parties. Newspaper advertising, advertis-ing, distribution of literature, radio ra-dio talks, rallies, and personal contact work these have been the principal means of campaigning. One of the most Interesting races to be settled is that for U. S. representative. J. W. Robinson Rob-inson of Provo, who represented the second congressional district in congress the past 10 years, is seeking reelection on the Democratic Demo-cratic party, with Reed E. Vetterli, Salt Lake police chief and ex-F.B.I. ex-F.B.I. agent as his Republican opponent. Many observers figure the closest contest on the county ticket tick-et will be for state senator. Emil K. Nielsen, Provo school principal, and Elisha Warner, Pay son newspaperman, news-paperman, are the Democratic candidates, while Mark Anderson, former Provo mayor and John E. Booth, mayor of Spanish Fork, are running on the G.O.P. ticket. This is only one of the many interesting races the Tuesday ballot bal-lot has to offer. A glance at the sample ballot, published elsewhere in today's issue of The Herald, substantiates this. Three Democrats will ride into office without a contest, there being no Republican candidates for these particular offices. La-Vern La-Vern D. Green, Bourbon nominee for county surveyor, ia unopposed, as are Robert Elliott and Mrs. Delia Loveridge. nominees for state representative from the second end third legislative districts, dis-tricts, respectively. Jap Landing Barge . " " A Japanese landing bargo wrecked on the beach at Guadalcanal during recent efforts of the Japs to dislodge American forces there is inspected by U. S. marinrs. Note that barge is equipped with control tower and guns. NEA Telephoto. - ; Flying Ace, Former Student, Guest of Honor at Homecoming Old grads and former Y students joined with the Provo citizens and Y students in the Brigham Young university Homecoming celebrations Saturday to culminate three days of activities. Major Chesley Gordon Peterson, RAF and U. S. Array Air Corps ace, and stu Bond Refunding Ordinance Passed By City The Provo city commission at a special meeting Saturday adopt ed an ordinance for refunding $1,037,000 in city electric reve nue bonds to John Nuveen and Co. of Chicago. Mayor Maurice Harding said the action will save the city $30,- 000 over the life of the bonds, which were issued to Nuveen for construction of the municipal steam electric power plant. The new rate of interest will average 1.98 per cent, while the old rate averaged 2.78 per' cent, The refunding date will' be December De-cember 1. The complete ordinance adopted by the commission will be published pub-lished in today's issue of The Daily Herald. Nazis Plan To Deliver Denmark To German Party LONDON. Oct. 31 (I'D A Nazi move to deliver Denmark into the hands of the infant Danish Nazi party was underway Saturday night apparently as part of a German move to tighten control over an increasingly restive Europe. Eu-rope. Simultaneously word arrived in London of a new reign of terror 'ncluding the summary execution of 55 hostages in the small Polish town of Palmiry, 15 miles from Warsaw, in an effort to bring an end to spreading Polish sabotage. Other developments included: A short-vave appeal by British Labor Minister Ernest Bevin warning warn-ing French workers that if they go into German war factories the Nazis will place them in concentration con-centration camps rather than allow al-low them -to return to France. Republicans Claim Six Large States NEW YORK, Oct. 31 0J.R) The 1942 general electioons campaign cam-paign endrd tonight and on Tuesday Tues-day the electors will express national na-tional political sentiment after nearly 10 years of President Roosevelt's administration of government gov-ernment and 11 months of war. Substantial Republican gains in state and national officesare forecast, fore-cast, but the G. O. P. itself is not loudly claiming that it will win control of the house of representatives rep-resentatives this year. There literally are thousands of political jobs to be filled. But the nation's interest centers largely lar-gely on election of senators, representatives rep-resentatives and state governors. In its traditional jump-tho-gun polling on Sept 14, Maine elect- Wrecked On Guadalcanal Beach . - dent at B. Y. U. during 1937-38, 1938-39, was the guest of honor. Major Peterson had the place of honor m the parade, Immediate ly preceding the queen's float. HeU was accompanied by Dr. Thomas L,fBroadbent, who is in charge of bureau of visual instruction at the Y. Seated on a white Y-throne, Miss Lucy Bluth of Mexico, Homecoming Home-coming queen, with her two attendants. at-tendants. Miss Elaine Grow of Og-den Og-den and Miss Mary Robinsonjt American Fork, occupied the queen's float, the center of attraction attrac-tion at the Homecoming parade Saturday morning. Led by four sea scouts carrying the Y flag and the Stars and Stripes, and followed by the White Kev girls, honorary service sorority, in their new blue and white uniforms, the parade began at Fifth North and University Avenue. "Symbols of Strength" was the theme of the winning artistic and original float entered by Val Norn social unit. Atop a white satin model of the Maeser buidling, the symbol of knowledge and strength, flew a miniature Stars and Stripes, the symbol of the strength of the nation. The float was designed by Jean Stoddard of Oregon. The Gold Bricker social unit obtained first prize in the humorous division. divis-ion. A tall drawing of a Cougar wearing the feathers of the Indian, and below the grave of the buried Aggies bore out the theme of the flot, "The Farmer in the Dell Like Hell." "Scrap the "Aggies," winner in the theme division, depicted de-picted the crash of the T formation forma-tion play of the USAC Aggies by a thoroughly wrecked models T Ford. Head down, one foot caught in the scrap, hung a football player, play-er, an Aggie. The float was entered en-tered by the Tausig social unit. The $25 war bonds for the first prize winners in each of the three divisions were donated by the junior chamber of commerce arid presented to the winners between halves at the USAC-BYU game Saturday afternoon. Honorable mention for floats in the artistic division was obtained by O. S. Trovata social .unit, with the theme "AllYed Victory," and (.continued on P,age Five) : ; ed a Republican governor, a Re- publican senator and three Re publican members of the house. Next Tuesday other states will elect 31 senators for the full, six-year term, four senators to short terms, 432 full-term members mem-bers of the house, two short term members, and 32 governors. Although Republican spokesmen spokes-men generally have not claimed that they would win the 52 house seats necessary to gain control of that body, they insist that they will win the big six states Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Illinois, Ohio and California Cali-fornia and get an even break or better elsewhere outside the south. - S y -, U ' 1 "IS ---JS Nelson Reports Sharp Gains in War Production WASHINGTON, Oct 31 U.E War Production Board Chairman Donald ' M. Nelson -Saturday rg4neiv -a-mucn, equipmentiaml. so ported an overall seven per cent increase in munitions production in September over August with sharply hig'her output in four categories, including a 10 per cent rise in airplanes and a 22 per cent gain in fighting ships. He said the rate of production has approximately quadrupled since Pearl Harbor. War spending- in September was at the rate of $200,000,000 a day. Nelson's figures were contained in the fourth of a sories of war production reports. In addition to the gains in plane and naval and army vessel production, output out-put of ordnance showed an increase in-crease of seven per cent while merchant ship production was up 10 per cent. WPB officials, in analyzing the report, said there has beon considerable con-siderable improvement in the entire en-tire production picture. But they emphasized that there are still many spotty places and that September Sep-tember gains do not justify uncritical un-critical optimism. Hig'h spots of the report: AIRPLANES: Four-en gined bombers rolled off the assembly lines nearly on schedule. Measured Measur-ed by total value, which takes into account the difference between be-tween large and small craft, plane volumno in September was up 10 per cent, compared , with an increase in-crease of seven per cent in August Aug-ust over July. Propeller production produc-tion remains a sorious problem. Plane production in the months ahead may exceed propeller output out-put unless the latter is increase ORDNANCE: Production continued con-tinued uneven. Tank output was up three per cent, production of tank guns was aVieau of schedule (Continued on Page Two) THREE MILLION WOMEN NEEDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 UE The recruiting of 3,000,000 more women for the nation's industrial labor force within the next 13 months was called for today by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Per-kins as a partial answer to pres -ing manpower problems. She told a press conference that the women would be needed not only in war industries but also in other jobs, as more and more men are drawn Into the armed, services. She addedd there are no ground for fears that home life would lose some of its attractiveness attractive-ness for women going into factories, fac-tories, shop and business for the duration. Asked ,how she proposed to solve the problem of getting such women back into home routines after the war, she replied laughingly laugh-ingly that she would "mary them to the soldiers." Then she added more seriously. "As a matter of fact nature will take care of that problem, as 90 per cent of our women want to live in homes and engage in normal family relationships." RED ARMY'S STAND SPOILS HITLER PLAN Plan Supposed To Take South Russia In Three Weeks M0SCQW, Oct. 31 U.R) A Communist party spokesman spokes-man declared Saturday that the Red army's stand at Stalingrad Stal-ingrad had shattered Adolf Hitler's strategic plan for 1942, which called for seizure of the whole of south Russia in a whirlwind three weeks campaign. cam-paign. Not a single change in positions posi-tions on the 1,000-mile battle line was reported in the mid-day communique. com-munique. It said the Russians smashed two assaults inside Stalingrad, Stal-ingrad, breaking the back of a Nazi battalion and knocking out three tanks at one point, and killing a company (200 men) 'of Nazi infantry at another. On the northwest front above Moscow several attacks were beaten back and 700 Germans slain, the communique said, and in the other two active sectors northwest of Stalingrad and northwest of the Caucasus naval base of Tuapse the Russians were on the offensive, consolidating consolidat-ing thoir positions at the former and sending out combat patrols to raid a Nazi headquarters at the latter. . Grigori Alexandrov, the Communist Com-munist Party's propaganda chief, wrote in Pravda that regardless of future developments, . the Ger man already has lost so many much time that Hitler's 1942 strategic plan has been shattered and that the Qermans have abandoned aban-doned it. Latest Stalingrad front dispatches dis-patches said the Germans lost 100 men in six futile attacks on a workshop in the. north suburbs and that the Russians routed the Germans from one building nearby. near-by. Russians counter-attacked on several streets, captured 69 guns and destroyed four tanks. The Moscow radio said the rail line to Stalingrad was still clear, despite constant German air attacks, at-tacks, and that the government ordered work to continue on the Nov. 8 holiday celebrating the anniversary of the Red revolution. revolu-tion. (The Berlin communique said German and Rumanian troops crossed an important river near Nalchik and destroyed one group of Russians. German shock troops gained further ground at Stalingrad Stalin-grad and forcod the Russians to (Continued on Page Two) VJillkie Supports Republican Ticket In New York State NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UJi) Wendell Willkie said Saturday night that he expects to vote the Republican state ticket in Tuesday's Tues-day's elections and for Rep. Joseph Jo-seph C. Baldwin, Republican congressman con-gressman from Willkie's home district. "Those Republicans who sincerely sincere-ly subscribe to the party's recent declarations of principle on questions ques-tions of the war and the peace and have a liberal approach to our domestic problems, I support," Willkie said. "As far as I personally am concerned, con-cerned, I expect to vote for Joseph Jo-seph Clark Baldwin, the Republican Repub-lican congressman from my own district, whose record on labor, and on other domestic as well as international questions, has been liberal and farsighted. "And I of course expect to vote the Republican state ticket, anticipating an-ticipating from the state platform and from their statements, that Mr. Dewey (Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidae for governor) and his fellow candidates will give New York a liberal government." govern-ment." The s statement, issued from Willkie's law office, was his first public utterance on the elections. He was abroad during most of the campaign. Political observers have said he did not favor the nomination of Thomas E. Dewey for governor on the New York state Republican ticket. In the statement Willkie asserted as-serted that "it is inappropriate even to suggest that patriotism resides exclusively in any one party." Canterbury Target In Nazi Attack; 11 Raiders Shot Down German Planes Attack Southeast England Day and Night in Heaviest Raids Since Battle of Britain By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Pres Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 31 (U.R) German air raiders bombed and machine gunned southeast England throughout the day and into the night in the biggest attacks since the battle of Britain Brit-ain two years ago, concentrating on the cathedral city of -Canterbury, which had been viB- Overseas Troops Number 800,000 Marshall Reveals WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (U.R The United States army now has 800,000 troops overseas, it was disclosed Saturday. This was revealed when the navy made public a letter from Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, praising the naval forces for safely escorting that number of men abroad. The letter was addressed to Admiral Ad-miral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the U. S. fleet, and read: "In this war, as in no other in our history, the army and navy are fighting together, .sometimes under navy command and at other times urider an army commander. "Our soldiers are acquiring first-hand knowledge of the cour-agewAkiUi cour-agewAkiUi and . loyalty . j3t- Ihe American sailors. They are deeply deep-ly grateful for the skillful seamanship sea-manship that has escorted 800,000 of them safely across the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic At-lantic and the Pacific." The last previously published figure on the number of men overseas was 600,000, which Undersecretary Un-dersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson mentioned in a speech last month. Lost Plane Found; Crew of 7 Killed FT. MYYERS, Fla., Oct. 31 OLE) An army bomber which had been missing since Wednesday af-teroon af-teroon on a training flight from Page field here, was found early Saturday half buried in mud near Moorenaven, with all seven crew members dead, the army announced. an-nounced. The crew was identified as 2nd Lieut. Thomas H. Dunbury, Jr., of West Medford, Mass.; 2nd Lieut. David Furman, New York City; Sgt. Lloyd V. Wyatt, Berlin, Ber-lin, Md.; Sgt. Emory D. Barton, Waxahachie Tex. ; Sgt. Douglas G. Johns, Horseheads, N. Y.; Sgt. Vernal Skarison, Maryville, N. D., and St. . Charles Schwamberg, Rice's Landing, Pa. NEW SLOGAN (Enemy origin Not filed, by a U. P. correspondent). ROME, Oct. 31 (Italian broadcast broad-cast recorded by U. P. in London) Radio Rome said today that Benito Mussolini had personally formulated a slogan for his troops fighting in North Africa: "For ward! We will kick them in the pants." ' : Essential-Usefulness in Civilian Life to Determine Draftee Status WASHINGTON. Oct. 31 UJ?) The army's need for men has reached the point where continued deferment of physically fit men will be based increasingly on essential usefulness in civilian life, selective service officials said Saturday. Sat-urday. Married men who have children remain at the bottom of the draft lists regardless of the nature of their jobs, but those with wives only are being, rapidly re-classified on ah occupational basis and many of them soon will be called. This classification is based on a list of 34 essential industries issued in July. Selective service headquarters has urged local boards to speed the reclassification reclassifica-tion because pools of single men are virtually exhausted. Married Men Reclassified Married men who have any job in one of the 34 essential industries indus-tries are tinr reclassified as 3-B. This signifies deferment ited 24 hours earlier by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. High explosives and incendaries were still raining on one coastal district tonight, and anti-aircraft guns were throwing up a tremendous tremen-dous barrage. Nine raiders were shot down during the day, six by RAF fighters fight-ers and three by ground gunners. Two British fighters were lost. Fifty planes attacked Canterbury, Canter-bury, swooping down from a cloud to strafe crowds of shoppers just before dusk. London had a short alarm but was not attacked. Nine of the raiders were shot down, six by RAF fighters and three by ground defenses. Two Britisn fighters were lost. Two more raiders were destroyed destroy-ed early tonight. All nine Nazi planes were shot down in 30 minutes near Canterbury. Canter-bury. A squadron led by a "fighting Frenchman" got five of them. The total of 11 was the largest number of raiders brought down over Britain in any one day since May 5, 1941, when 12 were shot dOWBiij.-cs-i v'"V' . . Canterbury, the cradle of Anglican Angli-can Christianity, has been singled out for reprisal raids several times in the past and few of its ancient monuments are without bomb scars. The Nazis last attacked at-tacked it in June, admittedly in retaliation for the RAF's 1,000-plane 1,000-plane obliteration raid on Cologne. Col-ogne. On that occasion 50 planes attacked the city, wrecking the modern librray near the cathedral, the Deanery and other landmarks. The cathedral's stained glass windows win-dows and other relics had been removed re-moved to safety when the war began. The air ministry announced that British losses for the day were three bombers, shot down in at-( at-( Continued on Page Five) STATE AUDITOR REPORT DELAYED SAL TLAKE CITY, Oct. 31 (U.R) State expenditures for the fiscal year ending last June was nearly $7,000,000 higher than for the preceding pre-ceding year according to figures released by the state auditor's office of-fice to the Republican state committee. com-mittee. Th total was $37,066,906.61 compared com-pared with last year's figure of $30,328,026.85. It was pointed out that this year's total includes several "million "mil-lion dollars in liquor revenues and bond investments not included in totals of. previous years. State Auditor Reese Vt. Reese said that because of the changeover change-over of certain accounts in the reorganization program the report has been delayed. It is expected to be made public after Tuesday's election. both dependency and occupational reasons. Married men who do not work in these industries remain in class 3-A, deferred for dependency only. Calls for induction of these men are expected to begin in November. Novem-ber. The draft of 3-A men will be interrupted to take in the expected ex-pected class of 18 and 19 year olds, but it will be resumed in the late winter or early spring. To build up the army to. the 7,500,000 goaf set for 1943 will require all the 3-A men who are physically suited for the army and who do not have children. Tt also is expected to require a great many of the 3-B men. Drafting of this class probably will start by the middle of next year, although variable factors might advance or retard the time. A man reclassified now as 3-B is not assured of permanent de- for (Continued on Page Five) U. S. SUPPLY LINES MAY BE TARGET Marines On Guadalcanal Stand Alert For New Attacks By UNITED PRESS (Undated) Washington naval circles believed Saturday Satur-day night that Japanese sen forces in the south Pacific, still powerful despite repeated battering by American bomber bomb-er planes, were regrouping for a possible surprise assault as-sault on United Nations supply lines flanking the Solomons. There were no new reports from the Solomons, where the first round of the battle has ended and the second is expected to be-. gin momentarily. Stalingrad Firm In Egypt, the British 8th army., supported by British and American Ameri-can planes, was reported driving home a major attack' against Axis anchor positions near the Mediterranean. Medi-terranean. x In Russia the defenders of Stalingrad Stal-ingrad stood firm as dispatches reported Adolf Hitler's great 1942 offensive definitely has been wrecked. German planes bombed and machine ma-chine gunned southeastern Emr , a . . . isuia uirougnout ine aay ana night in their biggest attack since the battle of Britain two years ago. In the Solomons, it wa reported some .Japanese warships Jw4r. turned to bases in the northern part of the Archipelago, but the position of the others remained a mystery. There appeared to be reason to believe that recent blows against Japanese warsmps were more de- VfUttfltinp- than now AAWI w 1 M 1 O w J VVlllUtUlU- ques have stated, but there was no disposition in Washington to minimize the relative strength of the enemy fleet. On . Guadalcanal, reinforced American troops and marines stood alert to beat off any new land thrusts. It was disclose") meanwhile in Washington that the New Zealand army has 'been placed under U. S. command and New Zealand's fliers were fighting fight-ing with the Americans in the Solomons. Nine Planes Lost The latest toll in the air war over Egypt was nine eneniy planes shot down at a cost of three Allied Al-lied planes. Many other Axis 1 planes were destroyed on the ground raids on Daba. El Adem, Bagush and Fuqa. American pursuit nilots baered one German plane, shot down a "probable" and damaged four others. American bombers attacked at-tacked Malme airdrome and Ca-nea, Ca-nea, Crete, leaving fires visible for 30 miles. Maleme is the chief landing point for German troop-carrying troop-carrying planes and glider trains.' The British ground drive In Egypt was launched under cover of rolling artillery barrages in an effort to straighten out the right flank of their 40-mile line extending extend-ing down from the Mediterranean to the Qattara depression. Berlin even admitted the British had opened a powerful attack after drawing reinforcements from the center and southern sectors of the line. . The Russian mid-day communi-( communi-( Continued on Page Five) Damaged Carrier Sinks, U. S. Navy Communique Say WASHINGTON, Oct. S1.U The unidentified aricraft carrier, reported damaged by Japanese forces on Oct. 26, -later sank, the Navy announced Saturday night. The Navy said in a communique that reports indicate there where few casualties. K The carrier is thought to be either the Hornet, Saratoga, Ban ger or Knterpnse, aitnougn ine Navy did not identify it. . The vessel was twice attadced planes on Oct. 26 near the Santa Cruz Islands in the south Pa cific, the communique said. Later, a second attack caused further damage below the water line and she began to list. |