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Show VOL. 20..NO.-22 COMPL.KTK UNITED PRESS , TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1942 UTAH'S ONI..Y DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE- CENTS .' UVJ Li VT - "ol TPTi ? L.D.S. Head Observes 86th Birthday Today r f . - ' ,f V v. HEBER J. GRANT DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR If a youngster has 36 pennies In a toy bank, he is hoarding mough copplr rorntaRtlig-'anothef " Garand rifle with which to shoot Japs and Nazis. Let the kiddies save their pennies, pen-nies, by all means. Encourage them to do so. But as fast as they have enough, let them buy war stamps, or at least, exchange the coppers for coins made from less critical metals. 0O0 Four Oklahoma youngsters, promised the privilege of christening christen-ing the Liberty Ship Will Rogers in reward for scrap collection achievements, were disappointed because the WCTU objected to their smashing bottles of champagne cham-pagne on the hull. Let's see didn't Carrie Nation smash bottles of even stronger liquor? oOo The Washington experiment in using tire casings without inner tubes proved a flop. One of the major tire companies, on the other hand, is making casings specifically specifi-cally designed for such use, which are successful. Up to now,, they work only in the case of big truck and bus tires. , It is regrettable that the other stunt did not work out. But Washington's city officials of-ficials deserve credit for having tried. ' The Wise Guy Says: We're hoping against it, but don't see how the song writers can miss observing ob-serving that Halsey is our palsey-walscy. palsey-walscy. ... Skating and skiing are two sports that offer excellent opportunities to "sit this one out.'' . . . The bes't news we could expect from Germany would be revolting. . . . Aircraft plant executives report that beauty operators make excellent factory workers Glad to hear they don't curl up on the job. ... There's nothing like age to develop a woman's sense of rumor. . . The' main reason one can't marry and live happily ever after is that It takes two. . . A patriot is a man who whistles "My Country 'Tis of Thee" while making out his incdme tax. , DRUGGIST DIES HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 21 U.R) Dr. Louis Rodis, 46, of Washington Wash-ington D. C. president of the District of Columbia. Druggists' association was round dead today in a downtown hotel -room by W. G. Tubbs, hotel manager. li 1-0 I President Grant To Be Honored Today On Anniversary By JEAN IIUBBER United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 21 (U.R)Feeling "better; today than I did yesterday," Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesugr Christ of Latter-day Saints, today prepared pre-pared to celebrate his 86th birthday Sunday with a quiet dinner at home with his -family. " "For two and a half years now I've been saying 'I feel better today to-day than I did yesterday,' and I intend to go on saying it," the first native of Utah to. become Mormon president said today, as he stood In line with other church members waiting for his lunch at the Lion House, a Mormon social center. During the past week messages and gifts from all parts of the world have streamed into the church office to congratulate President Grant on his birthday. Receive Greetings He planned to spend this afternoon after-noon receiving the greetings of more than 40 grandchildren. The only grandchildren who will not be present will be those now serving with the armed forces in the United States and England. After his family dinner tomorrow afternoon, after-noon, he will attend a sacrament; meeting in the chapel of his home. While hoping that his doctor will permit him to work three and a half hours a day in his of- JiceJejOdisoJuGj devoting two and a half hours each morning to church affairs. He is partcularly interested in welfare work and the activities of Mprmon chaplains now stationed in service groups. In previous years. President Grant j has compiled lists of his favorite quotations in booklet form tpr distribution at Christmas time. One year he sent 10,000 of these booklets to f riends throughout through-out the world. Last year he sent 6nly three. This year he does not expect to send any, but his friends will receive a copy of his personal message to them. President Grant assumed his present office in 1918 upon the death of Joseph F. Smith. During his administration membership in the church has increased many thousand and now totals almost one million. Coroner's Jury Brings Verdict of Accidental Death A coroner's jury Saturday returned re-turned a verdict of "accidental death", in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Ella May Hadlock Bulkley, 34, at her two-room home on the Springville road early Wednesday morning. The verdict, rendered following a two-day inquest in Proyo city court, releases Paul Collett, 38, Geneva Works employe, who was in the room at the time of the shooting, as far as charges growing grow-ing out of the woman's death are concerned. Minor Charge Planned However, District Attorney W. Stanley Dunford said charges of adultery will be filed against Collett. Col-lett. Jurors at the inquest were Parley Par-ley Linford, Andrew Hartley and Alma T. Madsen. City Judge M. B. Pope acted as coroner, with Mr. Dunford and Elmer L. Terry, deputy depu-ty county attorney, examining the witnesses. Witnesses to testify during the inquiry were Mr. Collett, who declared de-clared Mrs. Bulkley shot herself following a quarrel; Dr. J. J. Weight, who was called to the scene following the shooting; c O. Claudin, mortician; Billy Lloyd Jolley, son-in-law of the deceaf-ed; deceaf-ed; and Mrs. Margaret Miller of Hansen's cafe, all of whom testified testi-fied Friday; and Deputy Sherijf fs George W Loveless and 'J. J.' Mercer; .Lois Carver, 12-year-old daughter of the deceased; Reed LaMar Carver, a son; and Franklin Frank-lin Hadlock, the woman's father, who testified Saturday. Principal witness at Friday afternoon's session was Collett, who frankly admitted he had been living in "common law marriage" (Continued on Page Two) Congratulations . .. . v1 ' G 1 Admiral Ernest J. King, left, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, tenders ten-ders congratulations to Captain E". J. ''"Mike" Moran of .San Francisco, ekipper of the light cruiser Boise, which Just arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard after sinking six Japanese vessels in recent Solomon Island engagements. Eastman Tightens School Bus Rules By RICHARD DEBROWN ' United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 4U.R) Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman Saturday night promulgated a set of strict rules' which- must be followed by school bus operators if they, wish to obtain gasoline, tires and spare parts for their vehicle After. FftbJB? 1, 1943. Banned were all school-bus trips to athletic contests and other special events. Furthermore, East man ruled, school bus transportation transporta-tion should, be provided only for those students,, teachers and other school employes who otherwise would have tq walk more than two miles to school or more than a mile and a half to a school bus trunk route. His regulatibns cover operations of the 90,000 school buses more than half of the nation's entire passenger bus fleet which normally nor-mally carry some 4,000,000 children chil-dren to and from school. Trips to. and from home for lunch were ruled out in Eastman's dictum. Students are to be compelled com-pelled to use ' available common carriers regular bus or car lines "where such use would permit a reduction in the number of school buses or 'Jus miles." Bus-stops Bus-stops are to be spaced at least an eighth of a mile 'and preferably one-fourth mile" apart. Eastman ruled that exceptions should be made "for the physically physical-ly handicapped or those who otherwise other-wise would be subjected to; extreme ex-treme danger or serious physical hardship." He also called or ex-( ex-( Continued onJPage Twb Christmas Mail Deadline Dec. 1 Bulk of Christmas mail must be in the post offices by December 1 if deliveries on time are to be assured, J. W. Dangerfield, Provo postmaster, emphasized Saturday. Unprecedented wartime demands de-mands on the postal and transportation trans-portation systems, plus a prosperous pros-perous record volume of Christmas mailings were cited by Mr. Dangerfield Dan-gerfield as necessitating earlier mailings than ever before. "It is physically impossible for the railroads and air lines, burdened burd-ened with vitally important war materials, to .handle Christmas mailings as rapidly as in normal times," Mr. Dangerfield said. "If the bulk of parcels and greeting cards "'are held back until the usual time the period of about December 15 to 23 they simply cannot be distributed in time, and thousands of gifts will reach their destinations after Christmas." In 1941, about 21,950 mail cars were required between December 12 and 24 to deliver Christmas mails in the United . States. This year, the extra cars needed to move holiday mails are largely being used by the armed services and a severe shortage is in prospect. pros-pect. -The postal service usually borrows bor-rows about 2500 trucks from the army and other government agenj cies and rents about 10,000 from private owners to . handle Christmas Christ-mas mails. This ' year it will be extremely difficult to obtain these vehicles. " to Boise Skipper V o mi Action Started To Reduce Long Distance Tolls WASHINGTON, NovJ 21 U'.i; The Federal Com munications Commission today ordered the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph Co. to show cause why its long distance toll charge should not be "substantially reduced." The order requires the company to submit an answer by Dec. 1 and to appear at a hearing, on Dec. 16. At this hearing, the commission commis-sion said, testimony will cover not only rates but all charges classifications, classif-ications, practices and regulations at A. T. & T.'s long lines department. depart-ment. The FCC said the order was issued on the basis of the company's com-pany's own reported figures indicating indi-cating that the department is earning on net book investment at the rate of 24.37 per cen annually before federal income taxes, and at the rate of 14.92 per cent after the new 194"2 federal normal taxes and surtaxes. "Company figures as to net operating income of the long lines department for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 1942, on an annual an-nual basis, indicate excess earnings earn-ings ranging from $47,000,000 to $62,000,000, depending on what rate of return and what federal tax rates are allowable," the announcement an-nouncement said. The order said the department's current earnings win increase, or in any event, remain high. 'Women At War' Week Is Expected To Set kvi Record In Bond Sales The greatest single week's volume vol-ume of war bond sales since the week following Pearl Harbor, is expected to be racked up during the seven-day drive,starting to- day, and known as 'women at war week," a nation-wide effort of tne 43,000,000 women in th United States to support the sale, purchase pur-chase and promotion of .war bonds. The administration of the drive locally rests with the. women's section of the war savings committee. commit-tee. National heads are Mrs. Henry Hen-ry Morgenthau, Jr., wife of the secretary of the treasury. State chairman is Mrs. Otto A. Weisley of Salt Lake City and Mrs. H. B. Mensel of Provo is the local chair-man. chair-man. ' "The success of the week does not depend on "the woman next door," Mrs. Morgenthau said, in EIGHTH ARMY It) PURSUIT OF ROMMEL British Pounding Toward " El Agheila to Bring Rommel: to Bay CAIRO, Nov. 21 (U.R) The Imperial 8th army's advance guards pounded, toward El Agheila- Saturday night, in hopes of bringing Marshal I3rwirr Rommel to bay for a fmal stand on the Gulf of Slrte, 475 miles east of the Tunisia frontier. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery was bending every effort to move forward the main -elements of his 8tJ army, together with supplies and ammunition sufficient to crush Rommel's battered Afrika Korps for all time. The main body of this force was passing through Benghazi in long lines of truck transports, as the advance guards engaged a small Nazi rear guard force at Ageda-bia, Ageda-bia, 70 miles northeast of El Agelia, where the big battle is expected to be fought. Roaring far in advance of the British ground forces were the planes of the Royal Air Force and the United States army air force. Despite the handicap of bad flying weather, the big bombers heavily attacked the Nazi airdromes air-dromes on Sicily and dealt further fur-ther blows to Axis shipping desperately des-perately attempting to bring supplies sup-plies and reinforcefiients in to Rommel. Off the Tunisia coasKa 2,000- I tan supply ship was set afire and Tleft smkmgrana a lafgfi sTilp; wa'sl raked with cannon fire by planes off Cape Bon. - . (In London the admiralty reported re-ported on the effective British submarine campaign against axis Mediterranean supply lines, reporting re-porting the sinking of a banker and a destroyer, and probable sinking of a destroyer and a supply sup-ply ship.) On the two previous occasions when the Axis forces have been driven back to the Gulf of Sirte, they have been able to make a comeback because the British reached the coast exhausted, out of supplies and with equipment too worn to join in decisive battle. bat-tle. This time, despite the advance which has approached 100 miles per day, Montgomery has made plain that he will not repeat the error of past British commanders. (Continued on Page Four) TENSION KEEN IN GERMANY STOCKHOLM, Nov. il (U.R) The newspaper Allehanda reported from Berlin today that tension in Germany "is mounting hourly" regarding: re-garding: the outcome of the battle j of Tunisia. The Berlin report said that "big events" are believed imminent. The Germans were reported to be most curious regarding the morale and fighting ability of American troops which they have heretofore tended to deride. German sourcea said, that the North African battleground should prove of "historic importance since it provides a test of the quality of , the new American soldier." . - 7 1 V- : ' . a special appeal broadcast to all the women of the United States. "It depends on the woman we face in the mirror each morning." Since it is the women who control con-trol the nation's spending, the seven-day drive is expected to set new records in war bond sales for a single week. Provo women anticipated the drive by several week's by staging stag-ing a war bonds luncheon at the time of the Charles Kullman concert con-cert here when several thousand dollars in bonds were purchased, and autographed by the celebrated cele-brated Metropolitan Opera tenor. Local women are urged to concentrate con-centrate the family's war bond buying for the month this week in order that the women's drive may get the credit for the purchases. U,S. Troops Step Up Move to Drive Japs Out of Guadalcanal American Forces Advance Their Lines in Area West of Henderson Airfield, After Annihilating 750 Japs x By 8ANDOR S. KLEIN ITnited Tress Staff Ccfrretipondeiit WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U.R) United States troops on Guadalcanal are stepping up their drive to expel the Japanese Japan-ese from that most important of the Solomon islands and, in a land-fighting followup of last week's shattering naval victory, vic-tory, have advanced their lines in the area west of vital Henderson Hen-derson airfield, the navy announced today. The land advances west of the airport followed the annihilation, an-nihilation, announced yesterday, of 750 Japanese east of the field and the "dispersal of at)- like number into the man-killing jungles of the interior. Win Another Advance-Striking Advance-Striking against enemy patrols on Wednesday (island time), army troops and marines drove west ward beyond Point Cruz, five miles beyond Henderson field, Thursday they achieved another "advance of our outpost line," but the navy did not make it clear in what sector sec-tor this second advance was made. The communique also disclosed new raids by U. S. air forces, in attacks on Buin, important Japanese Japan-ese base on Bougainville Island to the northwest, American fighter planes added three Japanese Zeros to the toll of enemy air losses in that area, announced yesterday, making the total 17. This brought the total number of Japanese planes destroyed since" the Solomon islands campaign started Aug. 7 to 613, according to unofficial tabulations. Total U. 8. kwseshav not been' aimotmced but, according to the navy, they have been relatively light. The communique reiterated Sec-reary Sec-reary of Navy Frank Knox's announcement an-nouncement yesterday that naval losses inflicted upon the Japanese in a filrious slugfest between battleships bat-tleships last Saturday night were in addition o losses announced for two preeedihg days of surface craft fighting That announcement brought enemy naval losses, for the three-day three-day fighting to 28 snips sunk including in-cluding Hwo battleships (one per-hans per-hans a heavy cruiser), six large cruisers, two light cruisers, six destroyers, eight transports and four cargo transports -- and10 damaged, including -two battle ships, one cruiser and seven de stroyers. American losses have beert announced an-nounced as two light cruisers and six destroyers sunk. The number num-ber of U. S. ships damaged was not disclosed. In addition to carrying out at-' tack missions against Buin, U. S-aircraft S-aircraft delivered devastating blows against Japanese positions and installations on Guadalcanal, the navy said. On Saturday (Island time) no less than7 11 attacks against enemy ene-my land forces were carried out by U S. aircraft, while soldiers and marines fought "minor" engagements en-gagements on the ground. In patrol fighting on Friday, the communique said, "abiut 35 Japanese Jap-anese were killed," but the Americans Ameri-cans "suffered few casualties." The communique said nothing (Continued on Page Two) Retail Sales Of Coffee Stopped For One Week WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 u.n, Retail sales of offee stopped at midnight Saturday to give storekeepers store-keepers one week to stock their shelves in preparation for start of rationing on Nov. 29. Thereafter the greatest coffee- drinking nation in the world wiU limit itself to one pound every five weeks for each person over 15 years of age approximately a cup a day. - Rationing will mean a 38 per cent cut in sales of, coffee to the SO per cent of the adult U. S. population who drink it and have made it the national beverage. But Americans will still drink much more coffee than Europeans who generally get only an ersatz concoction of acorns and grains. . Coffee experts figure that careful care-ful brewing and measuring should get 40 cups out of each pound. Restaurant coffee suplies will also be cut ' under rationing so that their patrons will be limited to one cup per meal. . Red Army Holds Initiative Along Russian Front By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Nov. 21 (U.R) Front reports Saturday said the Red Army held the initiative along virtually the entire Russian front, except for minor German attacks in the Stalingrad area, and indicated in-dicated the Russians may have stalled for the winter the German Ger-man offensive in the Caucasus. "The German high command communique reported sharp Russian Rus-sian attacks and "defensive' German fighting on no less than five Soviet fronts; the Terek riv er. sectr..ihje Klmuk,, Steppes the area just south of Stalingrad, the lower Don and the Neva river.) r. German attacks, the froh dispatches dis-patches said, are rapidly7 ebbing and even at Stalingrad the latest German offensive appears to be petering out inconclusively after 10 days fighting limited to one narrow industrial quarter. Russian dispatches said the Germans Ger-mans had r.ot7yet recovered from the severe plow dealt them in the Ordzhohikidze region where a Soviet counter-attack cost tSem 20,000 to7 25,000 men. The Red Army continued to mov(K forward in that area and cleared the" Germans from a stubbornly stub-bornly held heights, killing 600 Nazis. In the adjacent mozook area 100 Germans were reported killed in hand-to-hand fighting. The Germans were said to be making every effort to hold their lines iiK these sectors but Were falling back sjowely when counterattacks counter-attacks byGefman and Rumanian troops proved unsuccessful. Sev1 eral Rumanlari battalions were said to have suffered heavy losses of men and material,including 22 tanks. In the western Caucasus the Russians were consolidating and fortifying newly-won positions. Northwest of Tuapse they taught several sham battles with Ger man and Rumanian patrols n the mountain passes. A dispatch to Red Star revealed re-vealed that although Novorossisk, the Black Sea naval base, fell to the Germans more than a month ago the Nazi position there is not yet secure. LEHPMNMlED RELIEF CHIEF WASHINGTON, Nov, . 21 (U.R) Gov. Herbert H. Lehman will direct a gigantic program of American relief to nations liberated lib-erated by force of arms from the Axis yoke, the white house announced today. Lehman, thewhite house said, will resign as: governor of New York on Or about Dec. 3 to take charge of foreign relief and rehabilitation re-habilitation operations under the state department. His work, it was said, will be to supervise distribution of food, clothing, medical supplies and other necessities in North Africa and other areas from which the Axis has been or will be driven out. JAPS OFF BUNA GENERAL. MAC ARTH UR S HEADQUARTERS, A u s t ral ia, Sunday,. Nov. 22 UJ?) Japanese naval forces again are maneuvering maneuver-ing off Buna, where Japanese ground forces are fighting a last-ditch last-ditch stand to keep General Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's Australian and American Amer-ican forces from driving them into the sea, a communique "said today. NAZI TANKS KNOCKED OUT IN ASSAULT Outnumbered A x is To Make Final Stand At Two Points By EDWARD BEATIE ITnltol Praaa Staff rVtrrooiwinilMlt LONDON, Nov. 21 U.R-4 British and American armed might, greatly superior on, land and with a clear advantage advan-tage in the air, pressed hard against the Axis in Tunisia Saturday night where an Allied communique reported advance units were "maintaining contact" with the enemy. a mm or wnac mis comae mean was disclosed in a porti of the communique which said that during one engagement on Wednesday the allied forces' destroyed des-troyed 11 out of 30 German medium tanks. jWb,1', reinforcements poured into Tunisia and Bizerte by air from Sicily, the Axis forces vero drawn up for what appeared to be little more than a delaying action against arv. onrushlng sweep w'hich, two weeks after the first American troops landed land-ed in Algeria, was becoming an all-out cleanup of the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. . Cn a " preimeter extending about 30 miles out from the Tunisian ports which guard the narrow sea lane . between North Africa ' and Sicily, Allied "troops were isolating and destroying German outposts. The Germans were reported landing shock troops, tanks and guns in Tunisia, Tu-nisia, so that the final fighting for the two cities was expected to fcc severe despite the superiority super-iority of the approaching Allied forces. t British reoccupation of Benghazi, Ben-ghazi, . reportedly without opposition, op-position, left Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery moving info position pos-ition for an attack on the El Agheila line, w'hich Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel bf the Afrika Korps presumably intends in-tends to defend. Moslems Rejoice In United Nation African Invasion WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 U.R The vast Moslem world whose sympathies are important to allied military operations in many strategic world areas is "full of rejoicing" as a result bf v the United-fations invasion of North Africa, Iraquian Prime Minister Nuri Es Sadi told President Roosevelt Saturday. NuriPasha's letter was ah unsolicited-testimonial since as far as is known Mr. Roosevelt had not -as in the case of some near eastern political leaders -given him any personal message or at. surarce of United Nations' alms. In the words of the white hosue, which announced the message Nuri Pasha is a "devout Moslem and a distinguished Arab soldier statesman, as well as an outstanding outstand-ing personage in the islamic worm.' Hp has been Drime minister Iraq six times and was "intimately "intim-ately associated with Feisal, late king of Iraq, as well as with Lawrence of Arabia, in the battlea for Arab freedom in the last world war," the white house aaid. With the Axis presing toward the middle, east and in India, the attitude of the Moslems is no less important in this war than it was 25 , years ago. It also may prove important in India, where they may make up the next Important Im-portant group after the all-India party congress. The Nuri Pasha's letter emphasized em-phasized that news of the United Nations landings in Morocco and. Algiers "certainly came as a tremendous surprise to all of us, In Iraq and. in the great exhul-tation exhul-tation which overwhelmed us we did not realize the magnitude of the operation .involved. "it . ia oniy now, .. aaaea. 'vhon the full rtats.il have been revealed that we can appreciate it the the full |