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Show f Gbe Su wife .MeialdU "A..-"-j -.---.-.-- ---------- . . ...... . ..... -...-. V " JP1 . 0 Help Red Cross The American Red Cross needs the help of every American to provide aid for our fighters and their families, and to guard our nation against disasters. 77ie Weather Forecast for Provo and Vicinity! little change in tempearture. Temperatures : High Low 38 16 ::&i: VOL. 20, NO. 37 COMPLETE UNITES PRKS8 TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVIC- PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY 80UTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS f5) - Mir L Governor Maw Charged With Misspending Of $105,000 State Fund Legislative Rebellion Against the Governor , Spreads To the House; Lobbying Against Finance Bill Charged SALT LAKE CITY, March 6 (U.R The legislative rebellion re-bellion against Utah Governor Herbert B Maw, started Friday Fri-day with a violent attack in the state senate, spread to the house Saturday. Rep. Quayle Cannon, Jr., R. Salt Lake, arose in defense of earlier statements made in an appropriation committee hearing, and charged the governor with mis-spending of -105,000. -- - e SENATE PASSES BILL TO RAISE TEACHERS' PAY SALT LAKE CITY, March 6 u:.I.) The Utah senate late . Saturday Satur-day passed a bill granting salary raises to teachers in Utah schools. The raises will total $3,290,000, to be paid part in bonuses upon renewal, of contracts in the coming year and the .balance as regular salary increases for the 1943-45 biennium. The senate decided to reduce the original $1,316,000 request for increases for the 42-43 school year to $658,000. These increases will not be given the individual teachers teach-ers until renewal of individual contracts. It now goes back to the house for concurrence. aw Declines to .Ill esubijiit Hyde For Confirmation SALT LAKE CITY. March 6 (U.li Gov. Herbert B, Maw today declined tp resubmit" the name of Gordon Taylor Hyde to the Utah state senate for confirmation as chairman of the state finance commission, com-mission, contending. Hyde's 1941 appointment had in effect already been confirmed. In a communication to the senate, sen-ate, Maw reviewed the Hyde case, recalling his appointment at the first special 1941 session and the appointment of 'two other finance commissioners at the second special spe-cial session at which no further action on Hyde was taken. The governor said "it seems to me, therefore, that the 24th legislature legis-lature confirmed Hyde by implication impli-cation during the second special session by appropriation money for his salary, etc., even if it failed to do so properly during the first special session." Maw also pointed out that 14 members of the present senate werp members of the 24th legislature legis-lature which he contended approved approv-ed Hyde. In closing, the executive said "I have therefore concluded that the action of the senate in merely forwarding to us their committee's com-mittee's report, instead of requesting request-ing me to resubmit Hyde's name, is evidence that the majority of your honorable body concur in the conclusions pointed out. Atty. Gen. Grover Giles had advised ad-vised the senate that he thought it would be proper for the governor gov-ernor to resubmit Hyde's name on the grounds Hyde actually was appointed to an office that didn t 1 appointed exist because the law creating the office was not then in effect. N Had the governor resubmitted Hyde's name, at the current session, ses-sion, there would have been considerable con-siderable senate opposition to the confirmation. Eight in Family ; Burned to Death GERJNG, Neb., March 6 (U.R) Eight members of. a Mexican family, were bfmed to death today to-day when fire destroyed their one-room one-room dwelling. ; Mrs. Jesus Garcia and seven of her children, ranging in age from two to 19, were .killed. Garcia escaped, es-caped, clutching a seven-month-old baby, but both suffered burns so severe they wer not expected to survive. ' ' , Rep. Erastus Gardner, D., Pine Valley, brought Cannon to his feet by indicating that the Salt Lake representative had misinformed misin-formed him that the governor had spent this fund for political purposes pur-poses in Washington, Emery, Millard, Iron and Uintah counties. coun-ties. Gardner also refuted press dispatches dis-patches saying that Maw had maneuvered Thursday to defeat the finance department reorgan ization bill in Ihe house. Gardner 1 said that ' there was never blacker lie told." Cannon jumped up and, continuing con-tinuing his personal privilege debate, de-bate, said: "My name has been brought before be-fore the house and I will defend myself." Distributed To. Chairmen He then told members of the house he had statistics to show the transfer of $150-000 from the motor vehicles registration fund to the state works projects fund, headed by Director W. J. Eustice. Presenting evidence that Eustice had distributed this money among Democratic county chairmen, Cannon Can-non said, 'T charge right now that the governor has mis-spent these funds." Then, turning to the finance bill. Cannon charged that "the men and the women who sup ported the governor" in defeating the bilt in the house "violated the law." Cannon then quoted a section of the Utah state law defining crimes against the legislative power, and again declared: "I charge that the men and women who supported the governor violated vio-lated the law." " Trading Votes The law quoted provides a felony penalty for any legislator convicted of trading his vote in return for a promise of certain action by the governor. Cannon said transfer of money from the motor vehicle fund to the state works project started June 4, 1942. When Cannon sat down, Rep. Joseph Reese, R., Morgan, said it was doing "no good" to continue bickering and suggested the house "get on with legislative matters-" Earlier in the day, Maw asserted as-serted that the senate charees Lmade against him yesterday. mainly by Sen. Lynn S. Richards. D.. Salt Lake, were "so obviously incorrect that they refute themselves." them-selves." "It often happens," Maw continued, con-tinued, "that people, when they become disappointed, become (Continued on Page Two) -- Surplus Foodstuffs Shipped To Alaska Reported Going to Waste SEATTLE, March 6 (U.E) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said to-dav to-dav that enoueh cof f ee and but- t t ve each of the 400 resi. ... . , dents of Nome, Alaska, thousands of pounds apiece was landed there last Ocober by the civilian reserve re-serve food supply officer. The coffee and butter, the paper said, was part of an unexpected and unneoded shipload of foodstuffs food-stuffs for which there was no storage stor-age place in the community. Much of the shipment the article said, already has spoiled on the beach. "Alaskans charged the stuff was purchased and drdered sent by Washington, D. C and Chicago Chi-cago government officials to whom Nome was only a place on the map, and -who do not realize that its present civilian population numbers only about 4 00 persons," the paper said. Included in the, alleged 6"hip-ment, 6"hip-ment, the paper said, were 350 tons of biftter, 173 tons of coffee, 78 tons of salad oil, 59 tons of soap, 503 tons of canned milk, 70 tons of canned pears, 78 tons of HOUSE OKEHS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL BILL Appropriations For Operation Oper-ation Left Out Of Measure SALT LAKE CITY, March 6 (U.R.X The Utah house late Saturday passed, 35 to 5, and sent to the senate, a bill to establish a vocational school at Provo. All amounts were stricken from the measure, pending consideration by the appropriations appropria-tions committee. As originally drawn, it specified $275,000 for buildings, $20,000 for equipment, struction and maintenance for and $380,000 for supervision, in-the in-the 1943-45 biennium. Rep. Delia A. Loveridge, D., Provo, explained the entire measure meas-ure to the house and after minor amendments submitted by Rep. Quayle Cannon, Jr., R., Salt Lake, and Rep. S. W. Ellswood, D., Og-den. Og-den. the bill passed. The senate passed a bill waiv- K inner, lance tax on in- I non-residents who liv in states granting Similar wavers to Utah residents. Germans Prepare Surface Raiders Against Shipping LONDON, March 6 u.I. Germany Ger-many is preparing to throw her biggest warships into an all-out campaign to disrupt Allied sea routes and knock the impending Anglo-American invasi on of Europe off schedule, advices from the continent said today. Surface raiders are expected to be used to augment the greatest fleet of U-boats yet sent into the Atlantic in preying on Allied convoys carrying men and supplies sup-plies to Britain and tanks, planes and munitions to Russia. Germany already has massed a sizeable fleet of warships along the western coast of' Norway, spearheaded, by the battleship Tirpitz, officially listed as of 35,000 tons but believed tq be among the most powerful warships war-ships in the woVjd. The Tirpitz is known to nave beeji on practice, cruises in Norwegian waters recently. re-cently. - Other warships now anchored in Norwegan fjords between Trondheim and the North Cape at the northernmost tip of Norway were reported to be the 10,000-ton 10,000-ton pocket battleships Lutzow and Admiral Scheer, two cruisers of the 10,000-ton Hipper class, several light cruisers and destroyers destroy-ers and probably the new 19,250-ton 19,250-ton aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. Zep-pelin. A further indication was Doenitz's newly-revealed purge of conservatice, old - line German naval commatnders and their replacement re-placement with younger, more offensive-minded officers. toilet tissue and 78 tons pf dried eggs. T he paper said lack of a warm storage space caused the brine in which the butter was packed to freeze, bursting the barrels and wasting much of he shipment. Canned pears also burst their containers, con-tainers, the article .said, and the rest of the shipment is expected to deteriorate with the arrival of spring thaws. The papor said Alaskans had expressed rist disbelief and then amazement. "This thing has become a joke the length and breadth of Alaska," one Alaskan businessman was quoted, "it Is incredible, so unbelievable unbe-lievable it's funny." ' Another Alaskan, the paper said, charged that similar occurrences occur-rences had happened before. "This is only one instance," he was quoted. 'Do - you know the government sent 150 cases of canned salmon "to Nulato on the Yukon river? If there is one thing Nulato doesn't need it's salmon. Catching Salmon is Nulato's sole industry." - . Americans in 7 x i p v r ;,., mT,rrrrrsn miirTciiTiiii.r.n'--. . .. - ' - ' M-' t , . ,. ri .. J Ms , ' jJ ft n - - fir- -?XrtI , 2i t I - , - I AfA.f - - -v r- t 3., ft i7ft - "5; w $ It looks like osr own southwestern dosert country, but it's actually the warfront in central Tunisia where these American tanks, top, are in action. Here U. S. forces moved out of the hills in a hit-run raid on axis positions at Sned in early February. A wounded Nazi captive is given first aid at the desert town, left, by American medical, troops an d a Red Cross field worker. Maj.-Gen. Lloyd Freden-dall, Freden-dall, who commands U. S. forces now again attac king Nazis in this area, studies a military map, right, while French officers look on. Krupp Plan t Bombed In British Attack By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press iStaff Correspondent LONDON, March 5 U.R) Britain's biggest bombers smashed at Essen in one of the heaviest raids of the war Friday night, and the German arsenal city spouted a 1,000-foot 1,000-foot column of fire and a tower of smoke almost 10 miles ; & high under a hail of more than Searchers Find Body of Missing Provo Resident Funeral arrangements were being made today for Charles O. Dixon, well known Provoan, whose body was found Saturday afternoon after-noon in the fields south of Provo, Pro-vo, ending a four-day search that followed his disappearance Tues day night. The body was found near the fence at the Hans Peterson property prop-erty about a mile west of the Utah county infirmary by his brother, Arnold Dixon, and nephew, Douglas Dikon, 10, members mem-bers of a large searching party. Previously the search had been concentrated west of Provo with crews probing the fields and Provo river, but the searchers, under direction of the Provo police po-lice department and other officers, shifted to the south section Saturday Sat-urday morning and scoured the area. Mr. Dixon had died of exposure, officers said. His body was found about 1:15 p. m., shortly after his coat was found by hi3 nephew. Mr. Dixon had been in very ill health for some time. He left the home Tuesday night and apparently appar-ently lapsed and wandered into the fields, officers stated. He was born November 22, 1875 in Provo, son of Henry Al-dous Al-dous and Sarah DeGrey Dixon. He. married Virginia Beckstead (Continued on Page Two) Cedar City Added To Critical Area WASHINGTON. March 6 UJ0 Ihe ; war production toard announced, an-nounced, today that Cedar City Utah, has been added to the critical criti-cal housing list, Action on the Tunisian Warfront kS,.i.ij. i.x&i., tSS v.31-54St. . x V j. JolM.-'" I i rtfifrrr r - .y tmr . iiniminrl M " - - r - . ' "'--.,. . -v ,r - v --' -. . ..'-. v0-w; v v.y- . :..- lf Hill ll ,jj.ZvwV . I 150 block-busters and thousands of incendiaries. First details of the pulverizing bombardment in the home of the Krupp armament works, which LONDON, Sunday, March ! 7 (U.R; Flying Fortresses and i Liberators pounded the U- j boat bases at Brest and Lor- j I rent by daylight Saturday, ; continuing the allies mighty j air offensive which left Eh- ; sen spouting a 1,000-foot col- j unm of fire after an RAF j I raid Friday night. i ; carried the Allied war offensive through its 10th straight night, were revealed by the air ministry Saturday. While the RAF was not specific regarding the objectives at Essen, a statement of the Royal Canadian Canad-ian air force, which took part in the raid, said the Krupp plant almost al-most certainly was blasted, adding: add-ing: "One bombardier saw his 4,000-pound 4,000-pound cookie explode in the northern north-ern part of Essen, just about where the big armament and munition plant is located." At the same time Britain served notice that bombers which (Continued on Page Two) Low-Priced Shoes To Stay Rationed WASHINGTON, March 6 UJ: A spokesman for the Office, of Price Administration today described de-scribed as "purely wishful thinking" think-ing" rumors that shoes in low-priced low-priced brackets were to' be taken from the ration- list. . . : t Reports 'have "been circulating here that shoes in the $4 and $5 lines were" not selling and - there- ( fore would ' be released by OPA for unrestricted sale.- - - Yank Doughboys Take Pichon On Tunisian Front By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, March 6 (U.H) American doughboys have driven into Pichon to give the allies a straightened front line morn than 100 miles long through the heart of central Tunisia, from which they can begin a "crusher" campaign cam-paign against axis forces operating oper-ating narrowly along the east coast. (Radio Algiers announced that French troops had occupied Ous-seltia Ous-seltia village and the region north of Pichon without encountering axis resistance.) (Radio Algiers said also that the British, Eighth army was consolidating con-solidating its artillery positions along the Mareth line in southern Tunisia after the heaviest bombardment bom-bardment of the enemy since its drive began at El Alamein. This was taken as an indication that the axis lino was being softened for the big scale British attack against the fortified line. (The radio said that the axis supply problem had become so grave that submarines were1 being used to supply its armies in Tunisia. Allied naval units and air forces harve hammered at the supply line from southern Italy day in and day, out for months. (A dispatch from the northern front to the United States re- ( Continued on Page Two) rickard, criutt Agree on Four-Point Program for Farm Workers Deferment BY FRED B ALLEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 6 (U.E) Secretary of Agriculture CJaude R. Wickard and War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt agreed tonight on a four-point program for draft deferment of essential farm, workers.. The agreement, designed to halt the drafting of skilled farm" workers, work-ers, become effective immediately. Wickard, has said that continuation of the drafting' ' ofV farm workers would' seriously endanger the nation's na-tion's food , production program. As the first' step in putting the program - into operation, Wickard has instructed' state and county agricultural - war boards to seek .... jcv . . ey Anchor Of Ge Man Falls More Than a Regiment of Germans, 3000 to 4000 Killed in the Storming of Gzhatsk After Being Flanked . BY SAMUEL D OALES V'nited Press Staff Contrspondcnt LONDON, March 6 U.R Russian troops smashed a key anchor of the German salient on the central front today to-day by capturing Gzhatsk; 92 miles west of Moscow, the closest Nazi base to the capital to weather the Red Army's 1941-42 winter offensive. A special Soviet communique announced the capture of Gzhatsk, major German base on the Moscow-Vyazma-Smolensk trunk railway along the historic invasion route of Napoleon aftr two assaults bys .. Russian forces. The victory was fe greatest scored by the Red army of the central front since the seizure of Rzhev, 40 miles northwest of Gzhatsk at the upper tip of the salient now dwindling steadily under the impact of a broadside Russian drive toward Smolensk. The midnight Red army communique com-munique -recorded here said more than a regiment of Germans 3,000 to 4,000 were killed in the storming of Gzhatsk after it had been flanked on the north and south by the capture of dozens of neighboring communities. Listing new Soviet gains on several fronts, the second bulletin bul-letin said several dozen towns and villages were captured wst and southwest of Rzhev and more than 1,000 Germans killed; many localities lo-calities were overrun west of Kursk and several hundred Nazis slain; and the garrison of a German Ger-man base was wiped out west of Rostov. Earlier reports from Moscow said the Russians fanning out below Rzhev through a wasteland of blazing communities, wrecked bridges and mined roads in the wake of the German retreat and captured 30 more villages for a total of 133 in 36 hours. Among them was Osuga, on the Rzhev-Vyasma railroad 16 miles south of Rzhev, which fell to Soviet So-viet assault forces who stormed across the Osuga river. Attack Twic "As a result of a twice repeated repeat-ed attack, our troops occupied the town of Gzhatsk," the special communique said. "The captured booty is being counted." Gzhatsk is 35 miles northeast of Vyasma, the next apparent objective ob-jective in the series of northern Soviet offensives. A Nazi desire to hold Gzhatsk at all- costs was indicated by the failure to pull out last winter when it was outflanked outflank-ed by the capture of Dorogobuzh on the Dnieper, 80 miles to the southwest and 12 miles from the only railroad along which the base could be supplied. Military observers said t'ne obvious ob-vious German purpose in chnging to Gzhatsk and Vyasma was to (Continued on Page Two' Big Sevier County Ranch Is Sold SALT LAKE CITY. March 6m .J! A ranch that was started from two car lots of heifers in 1907 and developed into probably the largest ranch in Utah, today was sold to the Landes Tractor and Equipment company of Salt Lake City. The 16,128-acre Sevier county ranch had been owned by the Manti Livestock company for the past 36 years. deferment of workers whom they believe essential to the war food program. The four points of the program are: 1. State and county war boards will appeal from local draft board refusals to defer a farm worker when they believe an appeal justified. justi-fied. 2. Wheiiever local draft boards find a registraht is not producing a sufficient number of agricultural units to warrant placing him in class II -C or m-C deferred classifications class-ifications they will refer the registrant reg-istrant to a war board and allow 30, days for his placement where Urf (Continued on Page Two) 1 7rt ' Salient In D rive U.S. WARSHIPS SINK 2 JAP DESTROYERS American Ships Blast Japanese Bases In Solomons By SANDOJK S. KLKIN , United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, March 6 (U.R. U. S. warships blasted two Japanese bases in the Solomons Friday night, island is-land time, and sank two large destroyers when an enemy ' force sought to drive them away, the navy revealed today. to-day. It did not disclose extent -of the damage wreaked on the enemy ene-my bases at Munda on New Georgia island and Vila on nearby near-by Kolombangara island ' but said merely that "light surface -; units bombarded Japanese instal-lations" instal-lations" at those points. " , 4 "Light Japanese surface forces -attempted to drive off our bom- bardment group and two large;" enemy destroyers were sunk," it." added succinctly. Attack Munda, Buin A'' I The communique also disclosed new air . attacks on Munda and1' Buin, on the southeast coast of . Bougainville island. It was the :. 84th raid on Munda, where the'', enemy's air field has been, pounded so relentlessly as to be of little or no use. No details of the raids were given. The navy also confirmed destruction de-struction of five out of seven , enemy torpedo planq which attacked at-tacked an American convoy in the ' south Pacific Feb. ,17, as reported previously in press dispatches'; from that area. The navy said s "the . sucessful completion of the convoy mission of a U. S. task force in the south Pacific" made possible publication of news of the action. "On Feb. 17," it said, "a forma- tion of seven Japanese torpedo' planes located and launched an . attack against the task force. -Five of the enemy planes were f shot down and no damage to UrjSC vessels was suffered." : C Tokyo radio, in its usually-tin- J reliable fashiin. had reported that r two American destroyers and a : large transport were sunk during : the Feb. 17 attack. STALIN TAKES MARSHAL TITLE LONDON, March 6 UE) Pref mier Josef Stalin has been award- r ed the military title of marshal y of the Soviet Union by the presi- v dium of the Supreme Soviet, the Russian parliament, the Moscow'--radio announced Saturday night. . , In his capacity. as Soviet cfc-i fense commissar, Stalin has been commander-in chief of , the Red j firmy, a rank which he only re- cently has used in such documents as orders of the day. Stalin's new rank of marshal was regarded in military quarters 'here as emphasizing his active " participation in the shaping of the strategy -in the great Soviet drives against the Germans. 1 . ... |