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Show Call The Herald U you don't receive- your HeraM before J:30 call 495 before i o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. VOL. 20, NO., 26 V Sales Ordered Resumed Monday Value of and C Cards in the East To Be Cut to Three Gallons; 'A' Cards to Remain At Four Gallons By JOSEPH W. GKJGG, Jr. United PresH Staff Correpondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U.R) Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced Saturday night that sale of gasoline gaso-line to private motorists in 17 eastern states, suspended at noon Friday, will be resumed at 12:01 a. m. EWT Monday. Thenceforth, however, the value of "B" and "C" gasoline ration coupons will be only three gallons each, Henderson said. The value of "A" coupons, to the surprise of many, will remain three gallons each. (J, Henderson's announcement, in DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR General Parran ex Surgeon presses the opinion that room iemperatures of 55 degrees would not seriously impair public health and that temperatures as much as 10 degrees lower would result in only slight dangers. Without venturing to set lay opinion against Dr. Parrans skill, this is startling and unbelievable. Given time and opportunity adjust Itself gradually, much oi the public eventually might find .men temperatures neaiuuui raw er than otherwise. But the ad justment period wouia oe j f disabllne sickness which Ihe nation's depleted iorce vn-,.. vn-,.. miiirf find difficult to handle. iUi a w There is a great deal of merit . t niiptViflflo trio .... ik. -ro m Ho-ht PTOVO IS wine and large areas for com- unitv use are becoming hard to in a ciose in. u o io. will he nracticallv impossible n e-et. A community center pro viding recreational and instruc- Jtlonal activities would be a won-Iderful won-Iderful asset to Provo. and would tp rove an mvesimeni umi. wuv. bay dividends for generations u come. oOo ' The teacher was irritatel ,by fche noise made by the class. "Sil- ;e!" he roared. "I want this kom to be so still you can hear a lin drop." There was a deadly quiet for a noment; then an irrepressible Lronth piped up, "Let 'ei drop." oOo Out of the Wisecrack Bag: fob freezing seems to mean that f you try to skip from one war ndustry to another, you're skat- hg on thin ice. . . Yoir can stiU et all you want from the best illing station your dining room. Russians destroyed 68 German ransport planes the best ferry tory we've heard in a long time. . Now we're told that horse heat may become common. Which lay mean the passing of the old orse laugh. . . It would be much icer if winter came during the heap seasons for overcoats. . . . iM long as Mussolini rules, the kalian people don't have to worry bout a shortage of applesauce. war In Brief NEW DELHI British march ack into Burma; penetrate 30 ilea along Bay of Bengal as apanese withdraw without oppo- tion. LIBYA British eighth army aches point 90 miles west of El ghcila; occupies port and air hse at Nofilia. NEW GUINEA Gen. Douglas acArthur's forces open drive fcainst Japanese beach head at una mission. MOSCOW Germans make an ther attempt to relieve their apped army at Stalingrad; reused re-used after hard fighting. LONDON Continental reports y Adolf Hitler's new demands i France are so severe that even erre Laval is shocked. df Sum dan COMPLETE UNITED TEUEORAPH NEWS which he revealed a new, eight- point program for conserving motor mo-tor fuel supplies, came Shortly after Economic Stabilization Director Di-rector James F. Byrnes disclosed that an overhauling of the entire gasoline and fuel oil ration program pro-gram was in prospect. Byrnes summoned Henderson. Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, and Defense Transportation Transpor-tation Director Joseph B. Eastman East-man to his White House office where he functions as a sort of "deputy president" for a conference confer-ence on Monday. Akn for Report Noting that all three agencies have a finger in he gasoline and fuel oil program, Byrnes said he had asked them to submit "quickly "quick-ly as possible reports indicating: "1. In what respects our existing exist-ing policies and machinery may not be effective, and "2. What remedial action should bo taken for the present and the future." Henderson's announcement said the value of "A" cards would be reduced to three gallons throughout through-out West Virginia. "A" coupons have been worth four gallons in parts of that state. Resumption of gasoline sales will end a suspension of all but "T" cards for commercial vehicles vehi-cles which was imposed because of an eastern gasoline crisis precipitated pre-cipitated by diversion of motor fuel supplies to North Africa to answer a hurry call. Eight Points Listed Asked for comment on Byrnes' summons, Henderson said that for the moment "this is solely a matter mat-ter between Mr. Byrnes and myself." my-self." The eight points of Henderson's new conservation program were: 1. Cutting of "B" and "C" coupons cou-pons from four to three gallons. 2. Stricter enforcement of all gasoline rationing regulations. 3. Immediate suspension of dealers and withdrawal of ration books from consumers caught violating rationing regulations. 4. Now OPA controls over inventories in-ventories of gasoline refineries and importers. 5. Thorough review of existing system of delivering gasoline to bulk tanks, arid tighter control if abuses are disclosed. 6. A request to military authorities author-ities to exercise greater care in use of passenger cars they operate. oper-ate. 7. Special Instructions to gasoline gaso-line dealers to exercise utmost .caution in sales,, for which they will be held strictly accountable. 8. A request to Tckes to instruct in-struct the petroleum industry to report any indications of black market transactions. As surprising to many observers observ-ers as the failure to cut the value of "A" coupons was the omission of any mandatory order against pleasure driving. With a 17-state daily consumption consump-tion goal of 331,000 barrels of gasoline in January, 1943, Henderson Hen-derson estimated holders of "A" books alone will consume approximately approx-imately 106,000 barrels daily. Any further cut in "A" rations, ra-tions, he said, would merely dislocate dis-locate public transportation facilities fa-cilities and hinder war production. produc-tion. "With the country running at (Continued oh Page Two) Car Owners Urged to Sha With Others to Help "The Office of Civilian Defense is asking local defense councils and block or neighborhood leaders lead-ers in urban areas to promote effective ef-fective car sharing programs all over the United States," said James M. Landis, OCD director in a prepared statement, Saturday. "The best way that a car owner can be sure of getting to work on time and still save rubber rub-ber for war uses is by joining a car sharing group. We must keep private cars rolling, because throughout the country 75 per cent of the workers in war production pro-duction cannot get to work by bus, or train, or any other way than by private automobile. At PRBSS 8EHV1CH PROVO, UTAH rn GENEVA PLANT BUS SERVICE STARTS TODAY Transportatio n To Be Provided For All Central Utah The Geneva Transportation company will start tonigh to supply bus service between Provo and the Geneva Works steel plant and within a short time will be serving the entire area from Geneva to Salt Lake City, Heber and Nephi. Gronway R. Parry, owner of the company, who was granted the Geneva area bus franchise by the public service commission, announced that hourly bus service serv-ice for the general public will begin tonight at 11 p. m. Three New KouteH In addition, two routes between Provo and Geneva will be launched launch-ed Monday designed to take care of the working shifts at the plant, Mr. Parry said. A third route will be inaugurated soon. Under the general schedule, buses will leave Provo every hour (24 hours a day) "on the half hour." They will leave Geneva Ge-neva every hour "on the hour." Starting from Center street and University avenue at- every- half hour, the bus will go north on University to Twelfth North, then west to Fifth West and north to Fourth South at Orem, then west to Geneva. The bus will return via Lincoln road to Highway 91 then south to provo's Center street and Fifth West, then east to University and Center. This bus will make a return re-turn trip, leaving the Walgreen Drug store going west to Fifth West, then north to Lincoln road on Highway 91, then west to Geneva. On Monday, the following two routes, designed to meet the plant shifts, will go into operation: Route 1 Start at Third South and Seventh East at 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. daily except Sunday. Go west to Fifth West, north on Fifth West and Highway 91 to Lincoln road to Geneva. Return via Fourth South road to Orem, south to Provo on Highway 91 to Center, then east to Seventh East. Route 2 Start at Hotel Roberts Rob-erts 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. daily except Sunday. Go north on Uni-versity Uni-versity to Twelfth North, then (Continued on Page Four) Vatican Wants Rome Declared An Open City LONDON, Dec. 19 U'.K) A dispatch. from Berne Switzerland, Switzer-land, said today that the Vatican Vat-ican had nearly completed negotiations nego-tiations with the United States and Great Britain to declare Rome an open city provided King Victor Emmanuel, Benito Mussolini, the Italian cabinet and military and other similar authorities withdrew. British sources said t h ey could not confirm the report. - the same time, we certainly must keep a steady supply of rubber going into the production pf life-rafts, life-rafts, tank linings, and gas masks, as weU as tires for jeeps, army trucks, and flying fortresses. There is only one supply of rubber rub-ber to which we can turn with the assurance that it can solve this dilemma. This supply ia not in storerooms, the flasks of chemists, chem-ists, not in the farmers' soil." It is on the wheels of 27.000.000 automobilesthe auto-mobilesthe largest stockpile of rubber in the world, every American Ameri-can with a set of tires is a custodian cus-todian of this rubber supply. Share and Spare "When four car owners share COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, rn Wavell Leads Forces Into Burma; New Drive Opens at Buna Mission British 8th Army Reaches 135 Miles West of El Agheila; British Fleet Moving Into Both Ends of Mediterranean By UNITED PRESS The United Nations were on the offensive on three fronts today. Gen. Sir Archibald WavelPs Imperial army marched into Burma and penetrated 30 miles down the Bay of Bengal toward to-ward the Japanese base at Akyab. The British eighth army reached a point 135 miles west of El Agheila, and there were reports that advanced units of the retreating German-Italian forces had reached Tripoli. - Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunning Allies Breach Jap Lines; Capture Cape Endaiadere GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, Dec. 20 (Sunday) l.R) Allied forces have captured Cape Endaiadere after breaching the Japanese beachhead fortifications between the cape and Buna mission, a communique reported today. The breakthrough occurred at the southeastern end of the thin Japanese line, which, though narrow, nar-row, has been strongly defended. Heavy bombers sank a Japanese Japan-ese cruiser Friday near Vitiaz Strait, at the northeastern end of New Guinea, the communique said. By BR Y DON C. TAVES GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. HEAD-QUARTERS. Australia, Dec. 19 (l 1) Two American infantry (Continued on Page Two) Erwin Released From County Jail SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19 Ul.Pt Former Salt Lake City Mayor E. B. Erwin, 53. was released tonight from the county jail where he served eight months of a one-year sentence on vice conspiracy charges. Erwin's sentence was terminated termin-ated by the state board of appeals. ap-peals. Indicted with three other men in 1938 for conspiring to permit vice establishments to operate, the former mayor was the last of the group to receive his freedom. free-dom. A four-year legal battle marked mark-ed proceedings from 1938 with frequent appeals by Erwin and his associates to quash the indictments. in-dictments. The case was carried to the state supreme court which upheld lower court findings. Erwin Er-win was sentenced to the county jail in April of this year. Those indicted with Erwin were Harry L. Finch, former chief of police; R. O. Pearce, attorney, and Ben Harmon, restaurant operator. oper-ator. Finch received a reprieve from Gov. Herbert B. Maw because be-cause of 111 health. Pearce served a six months' sentence. Harmon committeed suicide the week the indictments were returned. re Rides Save Rubber cars, they spare 12 tires. "Share and spare," is the effective American Ameri-can solution to the rubber shortage. short-age. I urgre civilian defense block or neighborhood leaders in communities com-munities everywhere to make house-to-house canvasses to explain ex-plain the details of cooperation of every car owner in this program to conserve vital material and help win the war." "Effectiveness of civilian defense de-fense organization the 800 defense councils of the Ninth region will be tested by the ability to put into operation the car-sharing plans made necessary by mileage ration- ( Continued on Page Two ham said in a press conference at Allied headquarters in North Afri ca mat tne British tieet, now moving freely in both ends of the Mediterranean, was supplying the eighth army from the sea. The third front was in New Guinea, where Allied troops opened open-ed an attack on the Japanese defense de-fense position at Buna mission, after laying down a barrage. New Guinea Front Wavell's front in Burma covered 20 miles between the Mayu river and the Bay of Bengal. It was uncertain whether this i waaLlhe start of a major offensive with the objective of breaking the ) Japanese grip on the Burma road. life line of supplies for Chinese armies, or whether Wavell merely was improving his positions for major action in the future. But it was the first fulfillment of Wavell's Wa-vell's pledge to drive the Japanese from Burma eventually and open the way to establishment of air bases in China from which the Allies could bomb Japan. In Libya, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British army pressed press-ed 90 miles west of El Agheila and occupied the port and air base at Nofilia. ' West of Nofilia. Allied planes ranged out in long sweeps 10 narass ine Atrma K.orps' re treat toward Tripoli. Radio Morocco reported that flying columns of Montgomery's army had reached a point 180 miles west of El Agheila and now were only 300 miles from Tunisia, (Continued on Page Two) BREAKS HOLD UP POWER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 19 U.i: Power and light service to most points served by the Utah Power and Light company was interrupted inter-rupted Saturday by a series of breaks on main transmission lines. Officials of the company warned warn-ed that there was a possibility all domestic service may be curtailed tonight so power may be provided to essential industries. The interconnecting lines of the company were first hit by a unique weather condition shortly before noon today. The lines connecting con-necting Cutler, in extreme northern north-ern Utah, with plants at Oneida, Grace, Soda Springs, Cove and with the Montana Power company have been broken. They were still broken at 2 p. m. All power for central Utah points serviced by the company was then coming over a connecting connect-ing line with the Idaho Power company at American Falls, from small hydro plants in Utah and from the steam plants at Orem and Jordan. However, company officials feared fear-ed that late Saturday afternoon when use of lights 1 was needed the demand may be greater than the supply, unless the major transmission trans-mission line breaks can be repaired repair-ed by then. If such is the case, public appeals would be made for users to cut down their use of electricity to the barest minimum so that essential industries may continue operations. George M. Gadsby, company president, said that if it became necessary to decide between "power for Christmas shopping and business as usual in the cities, or power for vital copper mining, the power will go to the mines and the cities will be blacked out if necessary." MgrtM 1 d!U 1942 SUBMARINES SINK SEVEN JAP SHIPS Japanese Shipping Hit By Latest To 1 b Total 105 Sunk WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U.R) The score in the relent-1 relent-1 e s s submarine p campaign against J a p a n's already sharply depleted shipping today to-day stood at 105 enemy ships sunk, 22 probably sunk and 28 damaged. Latest toll if seven ships sunk two tankers, three cargo vessels, ves-sels, a transport and a trawler. Almost every fortnight for the past several months, the navy has reported destruction of or damage to at least a half dozen enemy ships by far-ranging American Am-erican undersea craft. The steady chipping away at Japan's merchant tonnage was believed to be affecting the enemy's en-emy's campaign in the Solomons. Very few enemy transports or cargo ships have appeared in recent weeks and the Japanese have relied largely on destroyers in futile attempts to aid .their beleaguered forces on Guadalcanal. Guadal-canal. , . . . V-.... . m ' American airmen are continuing continu-ing their one-a-day assaults on the enemy's new airdrome at Munda, New Georgia island, 150 miles northwest of Henderson field. Flying Fortresses and cannon-firing Airacobra fighters hit the Munda area Thursday (island time) for the seventh consecutive day. Results were not reported. Jap Installations In Kiska Attacked By Yank Bombers WASHINGTON. Dec. 19 n.l?-The n.l?-The navy repotted today that American planes attacked Japanese Japan-ese shore installations on the island of Kiska in the Aleutian in the first raid there since Dec. 11. Heavy explosions and fires were observed by the force of army Liberator heavy bombers which made the attack. The operation occurred on Dec. 17. Army flying fortresses with fighter escort continued their daily assaults against enemy installations in-stallations in the Munda area of New Georgia island in the Solomons Solo-mons F'riday. the navy reported. Two bombing attacks were made in this area where the Japanese Jap-anese have built an airdrome 150 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. Results were not reported. TWO SPIES SHOT LONDON, Dec. 19 U.P The Rome radio announced today that two Italians had been -shot at dawn as spies of a ring oper ating in Genoa and Sardinia. Reds Smash German Lines, Kill 20,000 By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec. 19 U.R) Russian troops, battering German Ger-man lines in the middle reaches of the Don river, 185 miles northwest of Stalingrad, have captured 200 inhabited points, killed 20,000 Germans, and captured 10,000 others in, four day's fighting, a special Soviet ' communique disclosed tonignt. The Russians scored their break through with a drive from two directions. One force attacked from the southwestern front while another launched its drive simultaneously simul-taneously from the Voronezh area. They broke through on a front about 60 miles wide after four days of bitter fighting, the special communique disclosed, and drove from 30 to 55 miles, overcoming enemy resistance. UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE Mm, re WOW At Work ' '4,1 V WOW AT WORK. After a - - A tC si o J I ?.Z : 0 m--.- t(..tr--,, afcirr i.r ii ' mn i i in 1 i i Sherman tank, Lois June iwaxwen, iB-year-oia www v Ordnance Worker), checks the treads on the big war machine. She -works at -a- 4ok-making plant somewhere in the Paciitt uirtnwest. Rickenbacker Tells Story of Miraculous Escape From Death By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Doc. l!) (U.R) Death-cheating Bddie Rickenbacker, who with six conipanians was rescued from the Pacific after 22 days adrift, told today how an hour after he and his starving fellows prayed for food, a seagull lighted on his shoulder. Telling- the full story of his latest escape from death to reporters at a press conference arranged by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Rickenbacker said he and the other sur- BRITISH SUBS SINK 3 SHIPS LONDON, Dec. 19 H'.l'i British submarines have sunk three more Axis supply ships in the Mediterranean and hit a fourth with ow torpedoes, the admiralty annuonced tonight. "Attacks by his majesty's sulimai'ines on the enemy's sup-y sup-y lines to North Africa con-tonue con-tonue to be carried out with success," suc-cess," a comumnique said. i ri gM j wiie reared in Husband's Death BISBEE, Ariz., Dec. 19 U.P Pretty Margaret Herlihy, 21 -year-old expectant mother was found not guilty tonight of the murder of her secret husband, Capt. David Carr, after 33 minutes' deliberation delibera-tion by an all-male jury. ITire Weather Forecast for Provo and vicinity: little change In temperature today. Temperat ures : High Low- So PRICE FIVE CENTS UVJ ' - 50-mile inspection ride on a General . . i tirNiif - vivors could not have lasted an- other 48 hours if they hadn't caught that, seagull. Attired in a powder-blue suit and gray shirt for he is serving the army in a civilian capacity the tanned World war ace was escorted into the conference room by Secretary Stimson, who gave the flier the seat he usually occupies. occu-pies. "Kick" Takes the Chair Stimson reminded the reporters that he had promised he would produce Rickenbacker. "He's back and I think there's more of him here than went away," Stimson said. "Capt. Rickenbacker, the chair is yours." Rickenbacker began by expressing express-ing his gratitude to the newspapers newspa-pers for the interest they showed in "our case." He spoke slowly at first, but as he went on with his recital, his words flew. He had been dispatched to the south Pacific on a special mission for Stimson. " We arrived in Hawaii by clipper. clip-per. We were going to leave that evening for the south Pacific," Rickenbacker said. "As we were going to take off the hydraulic equipment didn't work and we had to ground-loop to avoid hitting hanjfars. 'We were told another plane would be available and that we could go on at 1:30 a. m. the next morning. I went to sleep in the tail-end of the ship, a B-17 (Flying (Fly-ing Fortress). After the take-off I went into the cockpit and found everything serene. We were du to land at this (unidentified south Pacific) island at 9:30 a. m, . "At 10:30. we hadn't seen it. In the meantime. I became a little worried. So did the navigator and pilot. We decided to call for bearings bear-ings and then found we had difficulty diffi-culty with our radio." Cftmpaw Is Off The compass was checked and, (Continued on Page Two) 1 |