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Show tin Call The Herald The Weather For Provo end vicinity: Colder, today. It yen don't recelYe your HeraM before 6:S0 caU 49S before o'clock and a copy win be sent to you. VOL. 20, NO. 27 Drafting Men, Women For War Work To Be Proposed By Senator Voluntary Methods of Solving Nation's Critical Manpower Problem's Will Never Work, Avers Vermont Senator By A. SHIRLEY BROWN United Prm Staff Correspondent , WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 U.R) Sen. Warren R. Austin, It., Vt., insisting that voluntary methods of solving the nation's na-tion's critical manpower problems will never work, said tonight to-night he will press for early enactment of a national service act to permit drafting of men and women for war work. Austin said he plans to confer "very soon" with Gren-ville Gren-ville Clark, New York attorney, on the form of such legislation. legisla-tion. Clark, author of the original selective service act, re- ; cently .submitted to administra DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt calls women the "unappreciated "unap-preciated sex." He is speaking, needless to say. of industry's reluctance re-luctance to hire women for plant work. The British, says McNutt, have demonstrated that women are capable of doing four out of five war Jobs, some better than men. In two years American industry has octupled its use of woman-nower. woman-nower. from less than half a mil lion to about four million. McNutt predicts that before the end or next year the figure will reach six million. Is the small number of women workWtflffectories Tldenc4hat they were the "unappreciated sex?" Or does it suggest that tmoriran men aDDreciate their womenfolk when they home? so much, they like, can, to keep them at oOo Speaking about women in war plants, there is the story of the girl worker in a huge plant mak ing vital nl&ne Darts who didn't ... - - know about the union's production celling, and doubled it her first day on the job. She was told by the union's representative to take the excess parts home overnight, bring them in the next day, and machine them over again. But on the way out the inspectors caught her and induced her to tell the story. The union representative was discharged without protest by his associates. Has the ceiling been lifted? No. Production still, lags far below whj.t a new girl could turn out on her first day. Rickenbacker. coming home after his miraculoaa rescue from death at sea, declares if all the workers in the defense plants could trade places with the men on the front lines, production would be doubled in no time. oOo What a showing this country could make, if everybody would pitch in and do his durndest. Out of the Wise-Crack Bag For the duration guests should bring their own sugar. Which won't be anything new to unmarried un-married men . . . Hirohito has ordered a fight to the last Jap which is the same idea our armed forces have ... the only nice 'thing about having a bad cold is everyone you meet knows just What to do for it .. . some people have so much to their credit they can't pay . . .. Penns y 1 v a n i a man left a large share of his estate to his lawyer. Maybe he figured o save his relative's a lot of trouble. . . Boxers who are dulled during training often get polished off in the ring. ... A surgeon says the brain of woman is equal to man's. Mn likely will gladly accept that if the ladies will. COMPLETE! UNITED PRBSS . TXLKORAPH NEWS SERVICE tion officials a draft of a proposed national service bill. Austin told reporters he has conferred with Clark twice, but that he plans to discuss with him soon a proposed revision of the bill. Controversy Predicted Austin, who introduced a "work c;- fight" bill during the last session ses-sion of congress, predicted that the campaign for a national service serv-ice law will touch off one of the most heated controversies to come up during the new congress. Such legislation, he said, is bitterly opposed op-posed by some members of congress, con-gress, who look upon it as authorizing author-izing "involuntary servitude." Declaring flatly that "while we in America have performed many miracles since the beginning of the war, voluntary methods of solving the manpower problems have not and can not work," Austin Aus-tin said in an interview that a "waste of manpower" already is prevalent in many war industries, including shipbuilding. "If we are to win the war, we must organize the working class of men and women," he said. "We can theorize and experiment all we want to, but in the end we absolutely abso-lutely must have a national service serv-ice act to equalize the liabilities "of 'Americans' for war. ;- "This is a total war," Austin continued, "and the only way to win it is to do things in a total way." The proposed legislation drafted by Clark and submitted to the war manpower commission declares de-clares that "an obligation rests upon every person to render such personal service in aid of the war effort as he or she may be deemed best fitted to perform." It provides pro-vides for registration of men from 18 to 65 years, and of women from 18 to 50 years of age. The president would be authorized author-ized to assign persons to any war work, "including the production of war materials of every sort, transportation trans-portation and Agriculture, and training for the performance of all such work." As the first step for obtaining needed workers for a particular industry under Clark's proposal, the president would call for volunteers; volun-teers; if an insufficient number answered the call within 40 days, the president would be authorized to draft the remainder. BURNS FATAL TO MECHANIC Dcyle Shepherd, 24, Springville mechanic, died at 12 noon at the Utah Valley hospital Saturday of burns suffered while cleaning a motor in his own garage Friday. Gas fumes ignited from a stove in the garage, and Shepherd ran out of the garage enveloped in flames, it was reported. A neighbor came to his aid, smothered the fire in a blanket, and secured aid in getting the man to the hospital. The garage burned down and (Continued on Page Two) Two Military Policemen Beaten, Four Civilians Shot in Road House Riot GREAT FALLS, Mont., Dec. 26 (U.R) Four civilians suffered gunshot gun-shot wounds and two military policemen po-licemen were severely beaten early this morning in a riot at the Oasis road house near here. A fifth civilian, Charles Kir-wan. Kir-wan. 18-year-old Great Falls high school, basketball star, was reported re-ported clubbed senseless by the two M.P.'s. The other injured civilians, all of whom were hit ' when bullets started to fly in the crowded night club, are: Miss Irene Dotseth, 18, Great Falls, whose right arm was shattered. shat-tered. Mrs. Peggy Mitchelotti, 28, Great Falls, who suffered a bullet bul-let wound in her leg. Walter Parks, 26, Great Falls, a bullet wound in the shoulder. Harold Smith, 28, Great Falls, PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, ' UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1942 Director of Food FOOD FOR trHOUGHT. Roy H. Hendrickson has plenty of it now that he has been named director di-rector of food distribution under Claude Wickard U. S. Fliers From Guadalcanal Raid Jap Rabaul Base By RICHARD A. BLACKBURN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U.R) American airmen in flying fortresses, fort-resses, demonstrating the growth of U. S. air power in the Solomons flew from Guadalcanal on Christmas Christ-mas day to plaster sniping at the big Jaanese naval base at Rabaul, 560 miles away, the navy revealed today. A communique said a flight of fortresses scored three direct hits on a large transport or cargo ship at Rabaul and "several near hits fell close to three small cargo ships." Enemy fighters took to the air but they did' not attempt to intercept the deadly four-motored bombers. The raid marked the first time that planes from Guadalcanal have gone outside the. Solomon islands area to raid enemy installations, instal-lations, and came as concrete proof of the full use to which vital Henderson field on Guadalcanal is being put by U. S. forces. Rabaul, on New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago, is one of Japan's biggest naval bases. It has been a frequent target tar-get for bombers from Gen. Douglas Doug-las MacArthur's southwest Pacific Pa-cific command, but never before had it been raided by planes from Guadalcanal. The most recent raid on Munda occurred the day before Christmas, Christ-mas, when American f 1 i e rs achieved the remarkable record of destroying 24 enemy planes without with-out losing- any. or our. aircraft. A navy communique issued yesterday yester-day revealed that in a second. attack at-tack on Thursday, landing-barges attempting to reinforce the Munda garrison were bombed by U. S. planes and the airfield '"was bombed from low altitude in the absence of any enemy resistance." It was the 14 th successive day of raids on the Munda field. Navy communiques have listed 30 enemy en-emy airplanes destroyed there, as against only two U. S. planes lost. Two Killed, Two Injured in Crash TAMPA, Fla.. Dec. 26 ftl.fi) MacDill Field officials today announced an-nounced that two men were killed and two others injured when an army bomber crashed near Avon Park, Fla., early Thursday. The dead were Lieut. Ralph E. Morrison, of Helena. Mont., pilot, and Pvt. Ralph E. Thomas, Brook-er, Brook-er, Fla. Thomas was a member of the ferry command at Long Beach, Calif. The injured were Lieut. Robert A. Broan, Pueblo, Colo., and Staff Sgt. H. La Vance, Avon, N. J. Lieut. Fred A. Meier, the fifth flier aboard, was not hurt. , creased in the forehead by a bullet. M. P.'g m Hospital The two military policemen, both of whom are in the army hospital at the Great Falls air base, are Corporal Joe Campbell. 26, a former Georgia State policemen, police-men, and Pvt. John Mac Millan, 23, formerly of New Jersey. Approximately 100 Christmas night celebrants were endangered, police said, when the M.P.'s started start-ed t hooting to protect themselves from a mob which attacked them as they were beating KIrwan. About a dozen shots were fired, causing a panic in the crowded tavern. One other man, Gina Miche-lottin. Miche-lottin. a bartender, was listed on the police report as injured, but he was not taken to tiie hospital. The riot broke out at midnight (Continued on Page Two) t ... f - y I I lirYil ;i ;SI.-lil ill I MM f 7y imi uj lu mm m toki a a ii ill wm M im wwwiiwmmwwwmiiiiiiiim ii 'umiw i mmiiiwwww MM ni-Miir m REDS SEIZE Threaten Annihilation For 22 Divisions In Middle Don By M. S. HANDLER V United Pre Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (U.R) Russian forces smashed forward for-ward with increasing momentum momen-tum tonight on the central Don front and southwest to Stalingrad, threatening annihilation an-nihilation for 22 German fli-visions fli-visions trapped between the Don and the Volga. j A special Soviet communique issued shortly before midnight said Red army units had driven forward nine to 12 miles in their 10-day-old middle Don offensive, capturing "several dozen" more inhabited localities,. The new Soviet gains brought to 812 the number of places recaptured re-captured from the Germans since the powerful offensive from the central reaches of the Don river was started. Three hundred more prisoners were taken, the communique com-munique said, making the total for the last 10 days 56.000. Casualties Run Heavy German casualties were funning heavy on the central Don 'front. The special communique said the enemy lost 3,000 men in the fierce and relentless fighting today. At one point on the Don, it said, 300 Axis aircraft were captured. Meanwhile, Soviet forces ad vancing southwest of Stalingrad moved forward six to 12 miles, recapturing re-capturing eight more inhabited localities, the special communique said. The successful offensives were tightening the encirclement of an estimated 300,000 German troops in the Don-Volga area, and the army newspaper Red Star urged the Soviet fighters to "rout and completely annihilate". the.Axis divisions. "' - :---:.?;.-v The special communique appeared ap-peared to indicate that the middle Don offensive had all but enveloped envel-oped Millerovo, important rail junction on the Moscow-Voronezh-Rostov line. It listed a number of points recaptured re-captured by the Russian troops. . Among these were Verkne-Tar rassovka, 23 miles south of Millerovo Mille-rovo on the Rostov line, Krivoroz-hie, Krivoroz-hie, 16 miles southeast of Millerovo; Mille-rovo; Efremovo-Stepanovka, 24 miles southeast of Millerovo, and Sharpaevka, 18 miles southeast of Efremovo-Stepanovka. Other points recaptured included includ-ed Katsinskaya, an important railway station; Kashary, JCas-kovka, JCas-kovka, Mikalskaya, Ikyinka, Kos-trino, Kos-trino, Bystriansky and Gruzinov. (Although the communique described de-scribed these as large inhabited localities, they did not appear on available maps.) "During the fighting between the 16th and 26th (of December), our troons captured 361 aircraft, 178 tanks, 1,927 guns, 85Q trench mortars, 370 flame throwers, 690 anti-tank guns, 56,000 rifles, (Continued on Page Two' War In Brief ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA French imperial im-perial council meeting to name Darlan's successor; General Giraud likely choice. African radios report re-port Darlan's assassin executed at dawn. Giraud organizing 300,000-man 300,000-man French army. MOSCOW Russians open fifth offensive, inside Stalingrad, and continue to throw Germans back on other fronts. LONDON Allies firmly hold strategic positions northeast Tunisia; Tu-nisia; both sides increase patrol activity for big battle expected soon. GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia American troops threaten cut Japanese New Guinea beachhead in two after significant advance. NEW DELHI Britsih beat off two Japanese attacks aimed at retaking Chin hills position in Burma. Street Argument Ends in Murder SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (HE) An impromptu street debate over the war left Henry W. Bowers, Bow-ers, 42, dead today, and Augustus Olson, 63, in. the city prison charged with murder. Police' said Olson, street rail-way rail-way inspector, fired at Bowers, a former streetcar, comparer employe, em-ploye, during a heated argument in which Bowers assertedly assaulted as-saulted Olson and called him a dirty Nazi." Olson told police Bowers had knocked him down. He was found to have two fractured ribs. MET0V FROM NAZIS . t l I mwm nros on ASSASSIN OF If SPEEDY DEATH Giraud Mentioned For Likely Successor Of Dalran i t By C. R. CUNNINGHAM I United Pms Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, NORTH AFRICA Dec. 26 (U.R) Admiral Jean Francois Darlan's murderer, a French citizen whose Italian mother lives in Italy, died at dawn today before a French army firing squad, approximately approxi-mately 40 hours after the No. 1 political assassination of World War II. The French imperial council of which Darlan was high commissioner, commis-sioner, announced that the assassin assas-sin had been convicted and sentenced sen-tenced by a court martial of the 19th French military district, which met at 6 p. m. yesterday. Today the council meets to name a successor to Darlan. Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, commander-in-chief of the French African figling forces, was the man of the hour, and it was accepted ac-cepted ..that all jiex had . to , do , to take leadership in whTcn'Tie undoubtedly un-doubtedly would have the full support of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's Gaul-le's Fighting French who considered consid-ered Darlan a traitor to France was to say the word. But there were strong indications indica-tions that Giraud, a soldier with an abhorrence of politics, would elect to retain military leadership without the complications of other office. Noguea Mentioned Most prominent among others mentioned for leadership were Gen. Auguste Nogues, governor (Continued on Pa?e Two) lYlacArthur Closes Vise on Japanese At Buna Mission GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Dec. 26 (U.R) American and Australian troops were closing a steel vise rapidly on the Japanese stronghold strong-hold at Buna mission today as part of the alliod plan to weaken enemy fortifications in the Buna area of New Guinea by breaking them up into segments. After being held up for several days along Sinemi crerk, allied forces established a bridge across the creek and blasted out Japanese Japan-ese pill boxes, mortar emplacements, emplace-ments, machine gun nests and fox holrs with the aid of heavy artillery fire. The allies gained control of forward parts of the flying strip and American troops made a significant sig-nificant advance at the western end of the Buna beachhead, driving driv-ing toward the coast through the government gardens southeast of the mission. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said that this action was important because "it secures se-cures a bigger bridgehead across the entrance of the creek and threatens to cut off Japanese positions po-sitions at Buna missioon from those at Gairopa Point and the cocoanut grove and dispersal bays at the northwestern ' end of the main airstrip." General Stuart tanks have played play-ed an important part in the allied al-lied advance in this section. In some casos, crews remained in their tanks for 12 hours at a stretch which they described as "tough going" because of the tropical heat. The allies, after destroying nine pillboxes, found that a tenth still held out. It finally was taken by forces which crossed a swamp that the Japanese apparently though was impassable. The military spokesman said that the-main Japanese centers of resistance were at the northwestern north-western end of the main air atrip, at Gairopa Point, at the mission itself, and in triangle about 1,-500 1,-500 yards south of the mission which was by-passed by the allies temporarily. DARLAN MEETS (Mil British Submarines Sink 2 Axis Ships, Possibly Destroyer Allied Forces Capture Important Hill North east of Medjez-Al-Bab; Afrika Korps Continues Flight Toward Tripoli By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 26 (U.R) An Allied communique announced an-nounced Saturday night that British submarines have sunk two Axis merchant ships and possibly a destroyer on the supply sup-ply route to Tunisia, where British troops strengthened the Allies' positions by capturing a strategically important hill northeast of Medjez-El-Bab. The sinkings and the land victory coincided with further success by the British eighth army in Libya, which was driv- . ?ing the fleeing Afrika Korps re- I II n lentlessly toward Tripoli, the last huh uenounces Assassination As 'Cowardly9 Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U.R) Secretary of State Cordell Hull describing the assassination of Admiral Jean Darlan as "an odious and .cowardly -act," .said today that the all important consideration now "is that we be not diverted for a moment from the supreme objective" of gaining control of the African continent. Asked at his press conference for comment regarding the Darlan assassination, Hull said: "The all important consideration considera-tion is that we be not diverted for a moment from the supreme objective of the United Nations in the present battle against the Axis forces for conrol of the African Afri-can continetn and the Mediterranean. Mediterran-ean. "This battle is still at a cru-coal cru-coal and critical stage. The fullest full-est measure of unified support is needed by Gen. Eisenhower and his associates. "Of Admiral Darlan, it may be repeated that the part he played in North Africa related primarily to the military situation and was of incalcuable aid to the alUed armies in the battle which is still raging. His assassination was an odious and cowardly act" Departing from usual custom, Hull permitted his remarks to be quoted directly. Hull was asked if he could confirm con-firm reports which have been heard hen. that Gen. Charles De Gaulle, . head of the Fighting French forces, is going to visit Washington. Hull replied that this siaution was not definite enough for comment and that he would prefer to take it up later after obtaining further information. . "Hull declined to answer further questions on the North African situation. It appear not unlikely, however, that Gen. Henri Honore Giraud's assumption of authority In French North Africa was planned as a temporary measure. The question ques-tion of Darlan's political successor was still open. Navy Sends Production Line Submarine to Salt Water CHICAGO, Dec. 26 U.R The sleek black form of the U. S. S. Peto, first submarine built for the navy on the Great Lakes, slid through the Chicago river tonight enroute to the sea and battle service against the Axis. The Peto cruised down Lake Michigan to the mouth of the Chicago river from the Manitowoc, Manito-woc, Wis., shipyards and was towed through the Chicago metropolitan met-ropolitan area early today while city residents slept. Naval authorities auth-orities exercised every precaution against any attempt to sabotage the craft. Navy engnieers had a huge floating dry dock waiting for the Peto at Lockport to carry the undersea boat through the Illinois Illi-nois waterways and Mississippi river to the gulf. Built at a cost of $7,500,000, the Peto is the first of 10 submarines sub-marines ordered from the Manitowoc Mani-towoc Shipbuilding, company and the first submarine ever launched sideways ' instead of stern-first? ictu UTAH'S ONLY DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE - major Axis base in Libya. There was mounting evidence the Afrika Korps would not offer a stand before be-fore Tunisia. A brigade of British guards, despite bad weather, attacked the summit of a hill northeast of Medjez-El-Bab, 27 miles southwest of Tunis, Christmas eve, the communique com-munique said. Batteries of artillery artil-lery gave strong support to the guards, who successfully stormed the enemy positions and captured the Test of the-hill "in nearly all -places"."" -' But the Axis troops received reinforcements re-inforcements and, in a counterattack counter-attack six hours later, scored some initial successes, the communique com-munique reported. The British fought back determinedly and regained re-gained the ground lost except for the highest ridges, it was added. The enemy stUl was not ready to admit defeat and launched a strong counter-attack at dawn on Christmas, winning the crest of the hill. "Then our troops carried out a successful counter-attack and restored re-stored the. situation." the communique com-munique said. French forces holding Pichon, 48 miles inland from the easter Tunisian port of Sousse, inflicted casuatlies on an enemy force which atacked without success yesterday, the communique added. Allied planes meanwhile attacked at-tacked troops at Sfax, on the northern tip of the gulf of Gabes and objectives near Gabes to the south. Escort Merchant Ship In connection with the British submarine success, the communique communi-que said the destroyer which was attacked was escorting a merchant merch-ant ship. Since the destroyer was not seen again, "it is possible that it was sunk," the announcement said. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was protecting his main German-Italian German-Italian force, estimated at about 45,000 troops with perhaps 100 tanks, with steady rearguard resistance, re-sistance, heavy mine fields and countless booby traps. But the British Eighth army, after capturing cap-turing the coastal town of Sirte, about 225 miles from Tripoli and 315 from the Tunisian frontier, (Continued on Page Two) She was laid on the ways in June, 1941, launched April 30. 1942, and commissioned Nov. 21, 1942. . The Peto is a full fleet type submarine which can cruise at aea for months without returning to base for 'supplies. Charles C West, shipbuilding company president presi-dent called, the Peto a "300-foot Swiss watch." Fifteen months before Pearl harbor whon West secured a contract con-tract to build 10 submarines of the 1.500-ton class for the navy, most of his employes had never even seen a submarine. He had to hire thousands of men and women who a few months ago were farmers, lumberjacks, barbers, housewives or ferry boat builders. The Manitowoc yard had never turned out anything 1 more complicated com-plicated than freight vessels and car ferries. But these corn belt workers completed the Peto so fast; and so weU that . they were awarded the Navy E" for excellence excel-lence in production. --; Temperatures: High Low 46 25 PRICE FIVE CENTS COUNCIL If! SESSION TO FILL VACANCY Eisenhower Returns From the Front to Name Successor LONDON. Dec. 26 U.R) The French imperial council met todav in North Africa to choose a successor to Admiral Jean Francois Darlan a few hours after a firinir sauad had executed his assassin. Darlan was given a mili--tary funeral in Algiers, with Am- erican, British and French lead-" ers in attendance. The Algiers Cathedral was decorated with the flags of tho three nations dur- ing the services, while crowds -thronged about the building, radio broadcasts said. The council met at 3:15 p. ra.,-(10:15 ra.,-(10:15 a. m., EWT), to choose v. Darlan's successor as high com-. " missloner of French North Africa. Af-rica. ; It was believed the post would-be would-be offered to Gen. Henri Honore , Giraud, military commander of French troops in North Africa, but no reports on the result of the conference"'' had "beerf 1road-r ' cast. Some quarters believed that Giraud would refuse to accept the-position the-position because of his distaste for politics. He had expressed a desire to devote his full efforts to direction of the French army. Others mentioned as possible appointees were Auguste Nogues, governor-general of Morocco and Pierre Boisson, governor-general of French West Africa, both , of whom had joined Darlan in collaborating col-laborating with the allied occupation occupa-tion forces. , Radio Berlin said that Gen. Charles DeGaulle, whose Fighting Fight-ing French forces regarded Darlan Dar-lan as a traitor to France and were somewhat estranged fronv the allied cause because of the North' African set-up, had flown to attend the imperial council meeting. Radio Paris said De -Gaulle would be represented at the meeting by an aide. Some quarters believed that Darlan's death would inspire more unity among all Frenchmen resisting re-sisting the axis. Giraud already had expressed a desire to co-operate with DeGaulle and Fighting French quarters here issued a statement today deploring the assassination. ' "Fighting French officials consider con-sider that the punishment of a man who had taken a leading part in the policy of capitulation and . collaboration with the enemy en-emy (Darlan) is a question which should have been settled properly by the justice of the nation and that his punishment should not have been left to individual initial tive," a DeGaullist ' spokesman said. Christmas Holiday Accidents Claim Lives of Four SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 29TZE Christmas holiday accidents today to-day had claimed the lives of four Salt Lake City residents. Three of the deaths resulted from automobile auto-mobile accidents, the third from. & fall. Tess Saville. 16, died Christmas Christ-mas morning from injuries suffered suf-fered in a two-car collision' five hours earlier. Simeon WaUwork, 62, was fatally fa-tally Injured in an automobile bus collision which 'also injured six other persons. He died early; today. In another two-car coUIsIone early today, A. H. MVhels, ; B4 was injured and died four' hours later. William W. Bowen, 54, tfiefl this afternoon: of ' a fractured skull, suffered when he fell down the basement stairs yesterday at the home of a son. The traffic deaths raised the Utah toll for 194-2 to 145, compared compar-ed with 202 for a corresponding period of last' year, h MM |