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Show ... i - J T The Weather. : : ;Sv Call The Herald Provo. and viclnty; Colder, today. Occasional scattered snow. ou don receive your Her&ia o ciocK and a copy wflr- to you. Low ... .V.-.T26 VQL. 20, NO. 28 COMPLETE UNITED PRBSS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY. JANUARY 3, 1943 UTAH'S ONLT DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS m v .a Ha m bm m .bm ahbsbi - bbbv . - - .te. 1 bi - - m . .bbt m w - bi b .bbb. bi b b i r f b9 sent VV I I f'7 VsX IVXU III III VV V t l I I Vs VI II . II V II X-X III vJmII I .11 U WMV J '. -f , --yjfejfijjSftfiii .. 1.. ....... . i.n.i.. ' .". '"" 'l',WyTWMTT, W"I''''' irillWIIIIHIMH rnn...l .1 " 1 ' I K li J 4 : f V v X X lit 4' GENEVA STEEL WORKS ' . ? ' I ; ' '''' ' - ' f 1 i , ' - 1 : Ir- r4 Nine open hearth furnaces with towering smoke stacks rising- from the landscape are underconstruction underconstruc-tion at the $150,000,000 Geneva Steel Works, which is being built by Columbia Steel Company, subsidiary subsidi-ary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, for the Defense Plant Corporation, near Provo, Utah. Thisl recent photo shows two of the smoke stacks near completion. The beginning of a third stack can be seen on the riglit Numerous lofty smoke stacks, like stately sentinels guarding a great fort, will eventually form the' Geneva skyline. hCH'AT ( ,BOTC EDIXOB Workmen on the GenevWorks construction gangs who worKlO-hour worKlO-hour 'graveyard shifts, coningoff "W the lob at 3 o'clock in morn- ing, have . a 'gripe' because it s practically i'impossible to get anything any-thing to eat in Provoat that time, they say. Many of the men ho have worked at OgdenLas Vegas-and other defense1 industry centers, de clare Provo Is far benma tnese towns in providing eatingccom-modations eatingccom-modations for the workerjt night. Where Las Vegas and Og-den'have Og-den'have ten or more restaurants pen all night to take careof the -vorkers, it's difficult to finSheven rne hamburger joint operating all night, in Provo, the workerscom- plain. "T Dyrihg'the jQhxistmas and New" liars' holidays, when most of the tating houses here closed up, jcores of workers went XunSry. Others were ableto keep, from "starving by getting some groceries grocer-ies out f a store that stayed oppn in spite of the holiday. Any number of men have quit the j6b here and gone back, to California because of the difficulty diffi-culty to get a meal after they get of f work, one of the carpenters said Saturday. While there is a D P C commissary com-missary at the west end of the Geneva Works site, it is too remote re-mote -at night, for the men who work at the east encL ofLthe plant,-the plant,-the workers' spokesmanjleclared Many of the men teefthat Provo Pro-vo as a city has failed in keepiag abreast with the growth:- of the defense industry in our midst in several ways, but the one which has caused the loudest uproar, is the eating situation here, according accord-ing ;to the men. In some wayst thisj is even worse, if such a thing is possible, than the housing .shortage, bad as it is. It seems that, the complaints of these workers should be consid- I cred, carefully by local business men and . steel company officials who are more conversant with the needs of the workers. -v . Xfnnt nf . th ' rhn nn thesft, rnn. I struction jobs work hard' and when they get off their shifts, no matter what time of the night it might be, they are hungry and Jgome arrangements should be worked cut to provide them with A hot, nourishing meal. That's not asking too much.- f How about it? i v , PALERMO RAIDED (Enemy origin, not filed, by a V. P. Correspondent ROME, Jan. 2 r (Italian broadcast broad-cast recorded by U. Pv in New York) -A high command . communique com-munique said - today - that allied planes raided Palermo, chief axis base in Sicily, during : the night but that damage was not heavy. Six persons are known -killed and ' four wounded, the communis (jae said. . "',a r ' t : . . : i . w w . 1 . . j.iauan pianes oumuca Aiaita, it was added. , - Worlds Leaders Give New Year The world leaders gave the following messages on the occasion of the start of a new year: President Roosevelt (At a press conference) The United Nations have a thnee-fold task ahead at the start of 1943. First, to press on with "the massed forces of free humanity tin resent bandit assault upon civilizatiolTls--completely crushed; second, so to organize the relations rela-tions among nations that forces of barbarism can never again break loose; third, to co-operate to the end that mankind may enjoy in peace and in" freedom the unprecedented unprece-dented blessing which divine providence pro-vidence through the progress of civilization has put Within our King George VI of Britain To President Roosevelt) I and all my peoples deeply appreciate all that the United States have achieved in the common cause under your inspiring leadership. We feel confident that the recent victories of the United Nations are but forerunners of heavy blows which irithe coming year, they will j togetner strike at tne enemies oi i civilization. , Adolf Hitler (To the German People) The war was started by international Jewry, Roosevelt's Jewish braintrust, the "Jewish . . t 1 . ,1 press or America, jewisn oroau-casting oroau-casting systems which are nothing else but an equally Jewish framework frame-work of the. leadership of the Soviet So-viet Union, x x x The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle , will collapse. col-lapse. That it will not be Germany, Ger-many, we know. . Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, leader of the French in , North Africa (To French troops) In this fight, all France has eyes turned on us. Let us never forget that millions of prisoners in Germany, Ger-many, and France o are awaiting salvation from us. As I already have said to you, we are inspired by only one aim Frarice and heV empire. We have only one watchword watch-word victory. Gen. Serge Ingr, Czech Minister of . defense fin broadcast' to Czech people) Germany's mili- rtary de?eat is sealed. It now is only a matter of timev Germany -iias lost her offensive war and is now on the defense. Decision Held Op On Late Monday Hight Closing Failure to obtain reactions from all local store managers Saturday Satur-day in-regard to a reconsiderar tion of an earlier decision to discontinue dis-continue the late Monday night shopping lumrs, was reported by HenryJ. Heisch, chairman of the retail merchants committee of the chamber? ofoommerce. 4 In view of the inability to obtain ob-tain a tiecisi(wi on the matter, Jt appeared Saturday . night that most of hey stores would close this Monday at 6 p. m., in accordance accord-ance with the decision made, by the merchants several weeks, ago. However,, a number of stores will definitely be open Monday night untll-9 p.' m., it was revealed reveal-ed late Saturday, and others may decide to join the late- shopping group before, Monday night, it appeared, r", ' ;"Several o thejarger business establishment, managers, express-ed express-ed themselves in favor of the late Monday closingEo accommodate steel . plant construction workers and - their families," ; said f Mr. Heisch, intimating that after next Z.y (Continued ' bn-Pige. Thre) STACKS UP i Messages s Budget 11ins Approval At $483,121.40 Total - Utah rmmty 's - 1 943 budget stands at $433,121.40, following official adoption by the county commission Thursday night; The budget is $5,251 less than the tentative budget of $488,-372.40, $488,-372.40, the commissioners making several slashes in the figure since the public hearing. ' However, the 1943. budeet is still $4632.77 higher than .the 1942 revised budget of $478,488.63. The estimated revenue for-the year is $452,336.16, or $30,785.24 less than the appropriations. The county's present surplus is expected expect-ed to be sufficient to take care of the deficit, officials said. The budget includes an unappropriated unap-propriated surplus of $6000. Slight increases in practically all departments are shown in the 1943 budget, these being due partially par-tially to increased salary increases. increas-es. Two requests for budget boosts presented at the public hearing were granted. The appropriation for county fires was increased from $6000 to $9000, and an allocation al-location -for the public nursing program was boosted from $3030 to $4130. The 1943 . budget appropriations for all funds as compared with the 1942 budget with the 1943 figures first arc) as follows : Commissioners, $9650, $8500; treasurer, $16,838.15, $15,116.05; assessor; $19,050, $14750; clerk, $9140, $8120; auditor, $8325, $7155; recorder, $12,125, $10,-840.80; $10,-840.80; attorney, $6775, $5910; surveyor $3260, $3000; snerff, $28,100, $20,000; jail, $7940, $8575; board of -prisoners, $3500 $3000; agricultural agent, $3340, $3300; inspection $21251 $2065; juvenile court, $2520, $2340; court house and grounds $13,784;25, $13,278.39. . City and precinct court, $4000, same; civil' court, $3000, same; criminal court, $2000, same; registrar reg-istrar vital statistics, $1000, same; insane hearings, $500, same; elec tions, $3000, $17,000; advertising (Continued on Page Three) County Representatives, . Senators Drifting Back for Opening of New Congress BY SPENCER KLAW United Press Staff Correspondent: WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 U. Representatives and senators were drifting back to the capital tonight for the opening of a new congress expected -t to ; claim a more direct share in - the formulation of war policy. The 78th congress whose predecessor prede-cessor wound up its business Dec. 16 after a flurry of filibusters had made . further, legislative - progress impossible faces the problems of the new year with Democratic majorities ma-jorities in both houses cut to their lowest , point v since President Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, . -J. .,: J . . ; : Mr. Roosevelt is expected to de- Ryssia-ODS Cniiy(g t Score Hsavy Onions on Five Powfts OREGON, OHIO FLOODS WREAK HUGEJ1AMAGE Log Jam on Willamette Threat to Shipyards r At Portland fcJNITED PRESS (Undated) A million feet of logs riding the crest of the swollen Willamette river threatened an industry-filled harbor at Portland, Ore., tonight, to-night, while the flood crest of the Ohio river raged downstream down-stream from Portsmouth, O., toward the Mississippi. "A fleet of tugboats, hastily mobilized by the coast guard, strung booms across the Willamette Willam-ette in an effort to halt the logs, released by collapse of a wing dam at Oregon City Falls. The worst .Oregon"" flood in 50 years already had taken six lives, left 2,500 homeless and caused damage dam-age estimated at $5,000,000. The Ohio left many thousands homeless in its wace and caused damage estimated at $2,500,000 to cities on its banks as the crest swept throuerh Portsmouth. Thousands Return Thousands of refugees upstream from Portsmouth returned to their homes, but other thousands downstream evacuated lowlands as the flood crest of about t feet moved toward Cincinnati. The Ohio visited destruction on the valleys of West Virginia, Indiana, In-diana, Kentucky and threatened southern Illinois. Coast guardsmen worked frantically, fran-tically, meanwhile, to clear the course of the Willamette river just obOve its confluence with the Columbia. If jams of logs occur at Portland bridges vital war in- ( Continued on Page Three) Green To Propose Silver-Sale Bill At Coming Session WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UJ A new congressional fight over proposals to permit the sale of Unpledged treasury silver at lower prices was threatened today as Sen. Theodore; F. Green, D., R. I., announced that he will introduce his controversial silver-sale bill early the new congress. Senators from silver-producing states promptly denounced the measure as an unjustified attempt to subsidize manufacturers of jewelry and silver plate, and indicated indi-cated they would again resort to a f Uibuster if necessary to defeat de-feat it. . Green's bill was blocked duriner the dying days of the 77th cong-M ress by a silver bloc filibuster headed by Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev. Green indicated he was prepared to make some changes in his bill; but emphasized that it would still permit the sale of free treasury silver at a price lower than the; 71.11 cents an ounce the treasury is required to pay for all domestic silver offered it. . . V liver his annual message on .the state of -the union to congress, on Thursday and on ; the following day will send up a budget message expected to call , for expenditures in the neighborhood of $100,000,-000;000 $100,000,-000;000 in the 1944 fiscal year which begins July .1. ; ' Congressional committees grinding grind-ing out the 'huge supply bills necessitated ne-cessitated by all-out war, effort will be under greatly increased bipartisan bi-partisan pressure to pare non-war expenditures to the none, scrutinize scrutin-ize direct war appropriations carer fully with an eye to. effecting economies, and calL a . halt to blank-check grants to executive agencies. N . The joint congressional economy Naval Battle Germans Cruiser, Destroyer Britain Concedes Sinking of Corvette in Naval Engagement After Germans Attack Ships in Allied Convoy LONDON, Jan. 2 (U.R)The story of a naval bajttle in European waters began to 'take form tonight as Germany admitted loss of an auxiliary cruiser and a destroyer, while Britain conceded the sinking of a corvette. The German high command had issued a communique giving the first Axis version of a naval battle which previously prev-iously had been described vaguely by the British. The Germans said the engagement took place Thursday near Bear Island, 315 miles south Allies Continue Raids on Axis in Tunisia Harbors By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff eP??ni LONDON, Jan. 2 (U.R) Allied air' forces, maintaining their around-the-clock offensive against ports through which the Axis is striving to push reinforcements and supplies into Tunisia, started fires among harbor installations and railroad yards in another at-nn at-nn Tunis, vesterday, Alliea The Axis sought to counter with an attack on the -Algerian port of Bone, but Allied fighters intercepted inter-cepted and turned back two waves of raiders, the communique said. Four Axis planes were destroyed and a number damaged, while six allied planes failed to returned from all operations, tl was added. The communique said there was nothing to report on ground activity activ-ity Mn Tunisia, where continual rain continued to prevent large-scale large-scale operations by both sides. The axis was feeling the weight of allied air power based in Libya, Tunisia and Algeria and pilots of the middle east command. reporveu a particularly successful raid on the east Tunisian port of. Sfax. The Berlin radio claimed German Ger-man planes shot down 10 enemy aircraft in aerial combat over Tunisia Tu-nisia today and that ground defenses de-fenses destroyed, an additional seven. A United Press dispatch from Cairo said reconnaissance revealed reveal-ed the important railway running north from Sfax to the port of Sousse had been cut at 11 places and that numerous' freight cars and sidines had befin destroyed. Serious damage was reported to railroad buildings, warehouses and harbor facilities. Meanwhile, patrols paving the way for the advance of the main British Eighth army in Tripoli- tania were reported fighting rear ctiards of the fleeinsr Afrika Korps west of the Wadi Bei El Chabir and were within 180 miles Tripoli British radio reports said Field Marshal Erwini Rommel had re ceived reinforcements and apparently appar-ently would make . a stand before Tripoli, but the Cairo communique said Axis vehicles and guns began to withdraw as soon as the Brit ish patrols engaged them. London - observers f. saw little chance of a quick- allied victory (Continued on Page "Four) comimttee, headed by Sen. Harry F.-Byrd,rD., ,Va. is scheduled to make detailed recommendations this week for further cuts in non-war non-war spending. - "z The treasury r has r announced it will - ask for another, revenue blU in 1943, ' and Economic Stabilization Stabiliza-tion Director James F. Byrnes is known to be taking an active part in formulating tax proposals.. : But no specific administration tax recommendations are expected until March or : April, and Sen. Robert A. Taft," R., O., and others already are demanding that congress con-gress proceed immediately to write its own revenue bill without waiting" wait-ing" for the treasury.' Enactment of some form of pay-as-you-go tax collection appears ' probable. ' ". V Casts Of of Cape South, Spitsbergen, that it lasted several hours, and that German cruisers damaged several Allied cruisers anddestroyers. The communique, broadcast, by DNB, admitted loss of one destroyer, de-stroyer, and claimed destruction of one Allied destroyer. The British admiralty, which declined de-clined to comment on the Gernutn communique, , previously had announced an-nounced merely that a battle was underway, and that considerable damage had. been done to a German Ger-man cruiser and destroyer. The latter was left in a sinking condi tion, the admiralty said. The de stroyer admitted lost by the Germans Ger-mans possibly was the same vessel mentioned ni tne admiralty bulle tin, but there was no Indication thai the auxiliary -cruiser admit ted lost was the same ship which tne British claimed to nave dam aged. The German high command said merely that the auxiliary cruiser was lost in an engagement with a British cruiser of the 9,850-ton Devonshire type. The high com mand' said the auxiliary cruiser was of the Atlantis type, which is not listed in available shipping handbooks. The British admiralty also an nounced in a communique that a 10,000-ton enemy merchantman had been intercepted by Allied patrol vessels while trying-to run the Atlantic blockade, and that its crew was captured after scut tling the ship. The admiralty announced loss of the Corvette Snapdragon, but gave no further details. Loss of the destroyer Blean was announced last night. VICTORY QUOTA OVERSUBSCRIBED WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 U.R) Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., announced today that December's ' victory fund drive netted a record-breaking total to-tal of $12,906,000,000. The $12,906,000000 of borrowing borrow-ing is a reflection of the scale on which the war is being carried to the enemy in our growing offensives," of-fensives," Morgenthau said. "It is a measure of the productive and military might of America. There is comfort for all of us in this grand response by the people -to the war. needs of the treasury. Some hundreds of thousands of individual investors were able to purchase the securities, and thus rolled up the total to the largest figure in history for any single borrowing operation." The final figures showed that the original $9,600,000,0000 goal was exceeded by $3,C06,000,OOQ. Of the total, $7,834,000.000 . was loaned by non-bankirsrces. RECORD INCO TAX EXPECTED SALT LAKE CrTY'Jan," 2 (&E A- record Utah , income tax collection col-lection for 1942 incomes had been predicted today by J. Lambert Tibsort, chairman of the state tax commission. . ; " Although the. total. -income of Utah people was greater in 1942 than ever before, Gibson 'pointed out that the tax rates have not changed and said that no unusual difficulty is expected in imakimj collections.. . ' " The taxes arc. due March 15, and cannot be paid quarterly ." Loss SUBMARINES SINK SEVEN JAP SHIPS 1 121 Enemy Vessels Sunk to Date, Says Navy WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (U.R) U. S. submarines have sunk seven additional Japan ese ships and U. S planes have carried out destructive new raids upon Japanese bases at both ends of the Pa cific front, the navy .an nounced today. The newest report of submarine activity in Pacific and far eastern waters brought the total of enemy vessels sunk by U. S. submersi-bles submersi-bles to 112, with 22 others probably prob-ably sunk, and 29 damaged. In the air, the most important news was from the Aleutians, where American planes intensified assaults against the enemy's submarine sub-marine base at Kiska, following the sudden strengthening of the island's fighter plane defenses. Bomb New Georgia- In the south Pacific sector U. S. bombers from Guadalcanal pounded pound-ed enemy troop headquarters on the island and ranged 150 miles northwest to bomb the Japanese airbase on .New Georgia island strain. in audition to sinking seven enemy ships, including, two large cargo vessels ad a medium-sized transport, American submarines damaged a Japanese destroyer, the navy reported. Other ships sunk were a medium-sized passenger-cargo ship, a medium-sized cargo ship, a medium-sized tanker and a small cargo craft. The Kiska raids indicated the seriousness with which the navy views the recent augmentation of enemy air strength there. In the third raid in as many days American four - engined Liberators, escorted by twin-motored Lightning fighters, fought off six enemy Zeros yesterday and dropped their bombs in the target area.. ' One of the Zeros was shot down. All U. S. planes returned to their base. Although clouds prevented complete observation of results, one bomb was seen to fall near a small Japanese surface ship. The navy called it a "near hit." Japs Strengthen Kiska That the Japanese had strengthened strength-ened their air defenses at Kiska r a fact possibly portending increased in-creased operations kfrom that base (Continued on Page Four) lOrem Man Missing; Since Last Friday Provo police were asked Saturday Satur-day to' assist in locating Dale Young, 26, of Orem, missing since he left home for a grocery store Friday. Young was described as 'being, five feet 10 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, dark complexion, and wearing a blue suit with pinstripes, pin-stripes, and brown oxfordn. 'Huron ito, Is Sk6rt!4Idiseiy By WILUAJl F. TYREE ; United Press Staff Correspondent- - v . WrrjLtTHE U. S, FLEET IN THE SOOTH ; PACIFIC,' Dec. 31t (Delayed) Admiral William J. Halsey; commander-in commander-in chief of the IT. S. naval forces in theouthwesPadfito. day predicted complete victory for, the United Nations over the axis in 1943, and directed thlg : warning to Tokyo : : "Hirohito.. your time is short!" . The fighting admiral, who won smashing naval victories'' over the Japanese - in the Solomons . campaign, cam-paign, promised - the, enemy that the distant rumbling of the 1943 allied offensive will grow : into a shriek of bursting bombs ' and falling she Jls. upon Japan proper; "We have the initiative," the grim-jawed, grey-haired ; veteran pounded home in an Interview. ? "Hirohito, your time is shortl ' ' "Admiral (Isoruku) Yamamoto iA.icommano.er oi me jsd iieeti German Attack Repulsed , -r G e r m a n Garrison Wiped f)ut in Velikieuki AfOSrnW Tan fRnrl. day) (UP.) The Red army continued its offensive yes- terday on the middle Don, southwest and south of Stal ingrad, on the central front ' northwest of Moscow and in the northern Caucasus, a So viet communique said today. In the Stalingrad area, the communique said, artillery exchanges ex-changes and reconnaissance occupied oc-cupied the belligerents. In the hard-fought northern factory area of the Volga city. Soviet storm troops cnarged and captured several sev-eral enemy defense points, Jkilling more than 200 Germans. Northwest of Stalingrad, the Soviets dislodged the Germans from 25 dugouts and trenches, the announcement said,, capturing three field guns, three mortars, -six machine guns, 50 rifles, 500 mines and quantities of cartridges. cart-ridges. Eighty enemy troops were killed there and some prisoners were taken. , . . ; The . middle Dvn ofensiv, spearheaded tbward Rostov, the gateway to the "Caucasus, vpro-gressed. vpro-gressed. One Russian unit cut a road linking two large German-occupied German-occupied places, and more than 300 enemy troops were slain in me fighting. "In a neighboring sector;" the ' midnight communique said, "an enemy counter-attack was repulsed repul-sed and 16 Gorman tanks were disabled and burned. Our scout, detachment smashed' the head-: quarters of a German infantry-regiment infantry-regiment and wiped out a group of officers, including the colonel commanding the regiment. Staff documents were captured." The fighting in the -Caucasus district center of Elkhotovo was fierce and bloody. . "In street fighting, more than 400 enemy officers and men were wiped out," the communique said. Toward the end of the day, Soviet troops occupied Elkhotovo. On another an-other sector . . . as result of the fighting, Soviet troops occupied a defense line of great importance. impor-tance. The Hitlerites lost several (Continued on' Page Three) OtahialSter ned Again SALT LAKE CPTY. Jan. 2 U.P A meeting to discuss plans for an out-of-court settlement of the Utah lajce water adjudication suit, has been indefinitely, postponed post-poned today by Gov. Herbert; IS. Maw. The. action resulted' from a special committee 4 request advising advis-ing that more time was .needed to prepare a report recommenduig1 specific .procedure; for the settlement. settle-ment. .. . ' ' " i - Yo ur lime you will be present at a dictated peace in the White House, but 'it will not be as you envisage. ; -"To Hideki Tojo (Japanese war Vord premier) when ypvt unleashed your attack on Pearl Harbor, ; you v started .somettBhs' which will - make ydu wish - you had died when you were a baby,' Adm. HaUey declared. ; 'To Uie Japanese people --you are hearing, the distant rumbling', now of. .the vhahdwriUng oni -the wall. This rumbling . win ; grow; ,:V- (Continued on Page -Three) - Meeting Postno c- y." - -j '1 L |