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Show Call The Herald It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. w "3wwmm, Mem 1 ctU The Weather, -. Forecast ror Provo and vicinity:,-continued vicinity:,-continued wartn today. Temperatures High 70 Low 31 VOL. 20, NO. 41 COMPLETE UNITED PRBSS TSLEORAPH NEWS BXRV1CB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKH PRICE FIVE CENTS VI ICS rvn IS I) vi imj Submarines DOW Fyir Snips Utah County Doubles Red Cross Quota With $48,349 Subscription Workers At Geneva, Ironton, Alone, Contribute Con-tribute Enough To Meet Chapter Quota of $23.600, Bullock Announces Exceeding all expectations, Utah county's American Red cross war fund campaign netted the amazing total of $48,-349.62, $48,-349.62, drive officials announced Saturday. This figure will be swelled even more by scattered amounts yet to come in, Bob Bullock, Provo drive chairman, said. Fifty-nine per cent of the total receipts go to the na-tional na-tional Red Cross organization ; 41 per cent is retained by the " local chapter. More Than Doubled SK DE CHAT BY THE EDITOR Congratulations, Utah county! The way you went over the top, and oversubscribed your quota for the Red Cross war lund by more than double, was simply magnificent. Although your quota in the mercy drive was only $23,600 you have already raised $48,-MP.62 $48,-MP.62 and it's not all in yet, according to Chairman Bob Bullock. Bul-lock. Considering that the quota this year was almost doubled over last year, and the drive was staged during income tax payment month, the showing you made, is really remarkable. The Utah country drive is believed be-lieved to have been one of the most successful in the country, thanks to the splendid work of tl e volunteers and those who contributed s.- liberally. Congratulations, first of all, to Mr. Bullock, chairman of the drive, who organized the campaign cam-paign and kept the drive going when there were signs of lagging lag-ging in the ranks. Particular congratulations are also due George Putnam, project pro-ject manager of the U-P-M at Geneva who went down the line to get over $11,000 from the workers in his own company lone. Others who devoted a lot of time to thr drive who were instrumental in the fine, showing show-ing made wore Garfield "Anderson "Ander-son of the Tj-P-M, John Beesley of the general committee and "C R. Van Winkle, coordinator of union labor, at Geneva and Parley Corleissen of the Bates and Rogers company at Ironton. The unions really came through with a bang. We want to take our hats off to the lad- workers, too, particularly part-icularly those who canvassed the residential district in Provo. All the workers turned in fine Jobs, reporting to a man on 100 per. cent of the names on their lists and every one of them deserves de-serves congratulations. Too bad, there isn't room to name every one of them. Congratulations, above all, to every one who contributed so handsomely to the cause. You were wonderful oOo , Housewives may wonder what becomes of the kitchen fats they turn in for the war effort! Twenty-one days after you turn in your bacon grease to the butcher, it's on its way to the lighting front in the form of war essential products. That cught to make you feel better ohout doing your part. The county's quota of $23,600 was more than doubled as an avalanche of funds flowed in, bespeaking be-speaking the high regard the people peo-ple hold for the Red Cross and its manifold services, and the untiring untir-ing efforts of the campaign workers. work-ers. Contributions from employes at Geneva Works alone totaled $22,-918.60. $22,-918.60. The plant itself will practically reach the county quota when all receipts are in, Bhllock said. Other industrial plants, business busi-ness houses, professional men, wholesale dealers in fact everyone every-one approached donated freely, he pointed out. "The enormous total collected shows that employes em-ployes of most firms followed the recommendation to give a half day's wage. Many employes gave more than that." U-P-M Leads List-Largest List-Largest single contributor, according ac-cording to Mrs. Ben E. Lingen-felter Lingen-felter of the campaign publicity committee, was Utah-Pomeroy-Morrison at Geneva, with 3400 employes. The UPM contribution totaled $11,267.98. Other large Geneva Works contributions mentioned by the committee included George A. (Continued on Page Five) YANKS BLAST JAPS AGAIN OVER KISKA American Airmen Score New Successes On Pacific Front 7 ; If you are fond of watermelons, water-melons, don't be surprised if the supply is somewhat curtailed this season. Reason is they t aren't considered essential war I crops, the farm effort will be v concentrated on beans and , similar simi-lar food crops .for the fighting men. ' TOKYO DIFFERS ON AIR BATTLE By UNITED PRESS (UNDATED) Tokyo radio's version of the air battle in the Solomons" area Thursday had a s mewhat different slant from the official U. S. version today. In a broadcast recorded by Ui ited Press in San Francisco, Tokyo quoted an Imperial headquarters head-quarters announcement which claimed 47 American planes were shot down with the loss of only nine Jap aircraft. The U. S. Navy department dis-dosed dis-dosed 16 Zeros out of a force of :.0 or 40 were destroyed. Six An.erican planes were lost but two pilots were rescued. WASHINGTON, April 3 (U.R American submarines have sunk four more Japanese Japan-ese ships including a destroyer de-stroyer and a large transport and American airmen have scored new successes on the Pacific front from the Aleutians Aleu-tians to the Solomons the navy announced today. In addition to the new submarine subma-rine sinkings, far-ranging U. S. submersibl.es also probably sank a freighter and damaged a destroyer destroy-er and a cargo vessel, the navy said. These victories raised to .207 the number of Japanese ships thus fa sunk or damaged by American submarines In the Pa cific. The total included 143 sunk, 24 probably sunk, and 40 damaged. Blasted Four Tiroes-American Tiroes-American airmen,' the navy said, began the third month of a furious aerial offensive, against the Japanese in the Aleutians by blasting Kiska four times on Thursday. Four-engined Liberators and Mitchell medium bombers, accompanied accom-panied by Lightning fighters, participated par-ticipated in the latest of the almost al-most non-stop series of forays against the enemy's base. Hits were observed in the main camp area. Enemy bases in the Aleutians already have been subjected to two months of continued pounding pound-ing from the air. During Febru ary, when the air offensive was launched, there were nine attacks on Kiska which was the target for approximately 500,000 pounds of bombs. .The attacks were sharply sharp-ly accelerated in March, when 34 raids were made on Kiska and two on nearby Attu island. To the south, U. S. fliers on Friday (island time) set fire to a small Japanese cargo ship anchored an-chored in Vella Lavella harbor, 225 miles northwest of Guadalcanal.' Guadal-canal.' Low Level Attack It was in this general vicinity, a few days ago, that American bombers made a low level night attack on an enemy force of five destroyers and a cargo ship. Results Re-sults of that attack were not observed, ob-served, but it was believed to have interfered with another Japanese attempt to reinforce their bases in the central Solomons. Solo-mons. The attacks at both ends of the Pacific battleline evidently were in line with the apparent American strategy of keeping the (Continued on Page Five) OLDER DRAFT REGISTRANTS FACE ORDERS Work-or-Fight Orders Planned to Obtain Labor For Farms - -4 They Crashed the Mareth Line 1 - "Hollywood Colonels" Blasted by Missouri Senator at War Inquiry WASHINGTON, April 3 UIE) Chairman Harry ,S. Truman, D., Mo., of the Senate War Investigating Investi-gating Committee .asserted today that Cql. Darryl F. Zanuck, of the Hollywood Zanucks, has no more right to be an army colonel than Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York 'has to be a Brigadier" Genet Gen-et al." At the same time, however, Truman criticized Zanuck who has completed a training film mission mis-sion for the signal corps for ask ing the War Department to place him in inactive, status. Addressing- Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, who ap peared oh his own request at a committee hearing on the subject of "Hollywood Colonels," . Truman said: . . '' " ' "I don't believe in these fellows backing out., Why don't you send him to school and make a real tirmy officer out of him." Patterson sal he shared the feeling- that in wartime officers should stay on the job. Sen. Ralph O. Brewster, Me., rerftarked that Zanuck's experience in taking tak-ing action: films in Tunisia, and the Aleutians should make him valuable to the army In the forthcoming forth-coming invasion of Europe. "I don't think he would want to retreat," Brewster said. -Patterson said the War Depart mcnt had not passed on Zanuck's application and added that the committee members views would be considered when it did. : Patterson testified that he thought it was "unwise" for Zanuck Zan-uck to retain his movie' jobs while (Continued on Page , Five) By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 3 U.R) Selective service headquarters head-quarters tonight announced what amounted to a work-or-fight order for all draft registrants, including 4-Fs and men 38 through 44. In a lengthy communication to local draft boards, selective service outlined steps designed to expedite the "Hack to the farm" movement promulgated by President Presi-dent Roosevelt on Tuesday. At the same time, selective service informed the nation that not even men heretofore deferred for physical disabilities or men in the 38-through - 44 age group would be absolved from liability to military service unless they are performing essential work or have taken steps to get into essential es-sential jobs by May 1. Changed In Status The announcement meant that 4-F's and overage men will be subject to the same qualifications qualifica-tions for deferment, regardless of dependency, as those in the present induction-age bracket of 18 through 37. Melt whose dependents would suffer hardship or whose physical disability unfits them for military mili-tary service or work other than the kind in which they are now engaged, however,, .r jwilL . Jaejeaeti empted from strict application of the order, it was said. A hint of a change in the status sta-tus of the overage group had been given last month when draft boards were instructed to reclassify re-classify all 4-H men according to occupation and dependency. Boards were ordered to reclassify reclassi-fy those engaged in agricultural occupations first and all others beginning May 1. Registrants in ' the 18-through-37 group had been given until April 1 to take steps toward getting get-ting out of designated non-deferrable jobs. Those in the 38-through-44 category who are in the non-deferrable occupations will, under the new order, have until May 1 to do the same thing. They will, however, be given a further 30-day period of grace provided they have registered with the U. S. Employment Serv ice for a farm or other essential job and have notified their draft board of the registration. Other-continued Other-continued on Page Eight) M i,Miiiirii,iA.iMrl.iiliMJ f - -fr-if-T .nr -W JtT'Vil (NEA Radio-Telephoto) A few wounds didn't stop these British Eighth Army soldiers from grinning grin-ning haopily after they'd helped crack the Mareth Line in Tunisia and put Rommel and his Axis forces on the run. Photo radioed Cairo-New York. Republicans Demanding Immediate Action on Pay-as-you-go Tax Bill Martin Declares Congress Owes Jtjto. Nation - To Enact Tax Bill On Current Basis WASHINGTON, April 3 (U.R) House Republican Leader Lead-er Joseph W. Martin, Jr., tonight demanded immediate action on a pay-as-you-go tax plan to prevent "financial chaos." 113th Conference Awaited Today by L.D.S. Officials Labor Dispute at Utah Copper Mills Hear Settlement MAGNA, Utah, April 3 0J.E Dispute in LTtahs vital copper in dustry between the Independent Association of Millworkers and the government agencies today appeared headed for settlement by mediation boards at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. The union last night rescinded its strike . vote after a meeting here of union officials with Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, commanding com-manding general of the ninth service command. "We do not desire to be responsible respon-sible for the loss of life in our fighting- forces by reason of curtailment cur-tailment of the production of copper," cop-per," said the motion rescinding the strike order previously adopted unanimously by 100 union members. Asking for a "fair and, honest consideration of our cause," the millworkers rested their case upoit the integrity of the war (Continued on Page Eight) Japs Have Trouble In the Philippines BY UNITED PRESS The Japanese appear to be having hav-ing trouble suppressing discontent in .the conquered - Philippines and banishing the hope that United States ..troops will retake the islands, the Office of War Information Infor-mation said today. . OWI reported hearing broadcasts broad-casts by the Japanese-controlled L Manila radio telling the people to give up the idea that America would, come back. SALT LAKE CITY, April 3 President Heber J. Grant is expected ex-pected to open the 113th annual conference of the L.D.S. church Sunday morning at the 10 o'clock session in the tabernacle here. The address which has been prepared pre-pared by the 86-year old church leader, will probably be read by President David O. McKay, his second counselor, who will con duct the session. The first meeting will be broadcast broad-cast over Columbia's nation-wide "church of the air" program and will go over KSU First the regular regu-lar weekly tabernacle choir broadcast broad-cast will be given from 10:30 to 11 a. m. Joseph Fielding Smith, member of the council of twelve apostles, and church historian, will then liver the "Church of the Air ad dress from 11 a. m. toHt30 a. m. His subject will be "Blessed Is That 'Nation Whose God Is the Lord" (Psalms 33:12). Second Counselor McKay will follow with a keynote address of the conference. The tabernacle choir will furnish the music for the opening session. , Mr. McKay announced that L D S service men who have budget cards will be allowed to attend at-tend the conference meetings during dur-ing the three days. Service men who are eligible to attend the meetings and are able to obtain time to do so are asked to -contact Hugh B. Brown, church coordinator coordi-nator for L,.D S service men, 41 lorth State "street. The temple grounds will be closed to tile public Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday. Only those with properly signed admission cards which are not transf errable. will be admitted through the temple grounds gates to go to the tabernacle. taber-nacle. Grant to Preside President Grant will preside at the sessions, which also will be held Sunday at 2 p. m.; Monday at 10 a. m.,,2 p. m. and 7 p.m. and Tuesday at 10 a. m. i The closing session Tuesday will mark - the 133th anniversary, of the founding of Mormonism by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Fayette, Seneca county. New York, on April 6, 1830, with only six members in attendance. . .. . Tanks, Infantry assed to Break M Through Defenses General Eisenhower Inspects Front Lines On the Eve of American Attack; Gen. Patton's Men Face Bitter Fight BY; EDWARD W. BEATTIE TTnited Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 3 U.R American tanks and infantry struck at the main German mountain defense lines on the south central Tunisian Tu-nisian front today in an effort to break through to the coastal plain and smash Marshal Erwin Rommel s Strong rear-guard forces defending the Wadi Akarit, about 20 miles north, of Gabes. Soon after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had returned from a perilous but encouraging e) wwv. A WAV 11 Ullb IMlVtS. a. uio . loyal Air Force Strikes Ports of Abbeville, Brest "The congress owes it to the nation to see that a tax bill on a current basis is formulated promptly," Martin said in a state ment. "If it is not done the American, people will know wherp place uie Diame upon iifffuemo-cratic) iifffuemo-cratic) majority who control the legislative problem." House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts made a similar appeal this week, but heads of divergent tax camps in the house apparently have done nothing toward drafting a compromise com-promise bill acceptable to a majority ma-jority of the chamber. Doughton Is Home-Rep. Home-Rep. Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C. chairman of the house ways and means committee, and spon sor of the administration tax Dlan which was re committed on Tuesdayls at his home in Laurel Springs, N. C. Ret). Harold-lCnutson, R., Minn., who ledm equally unsuccessful Republican battle for the Ruml p-a-year plan, is relaxing at Treasure Island, near St. Petersburg, Peters-burg, Fla. Rep. Aime J. For and,' D., R. I., sponsor of the only compromise plan thus far presented, said that both Republicans and Democrats on the ways and means commit-tee commit-tee birthplace of all tax legislation legisla-tion are being "bullheaded" about it. "There is plenty of sentiment in the house for my bill to for- . (Continued on Page Five) a patch from a United Press correspondent corre-spondent with advance forces 15 miles east of El Guettar said that the American attack had been opened near the junction of the roads loading southward to Kebili and southeastward to Gabes. Strength Not Indicated The dispatch from C. R. Cunningham Cun-ningham did not indicate the strength of the American thrust or its progress, if any, but it was obvious that the troops under Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., were facing a bitter fight against experienced enemy forces holding favorable mountain positions. The American thrust against the main enemy line followed a counter-attack on Friday by 32 German tanks of which three were knocked out. The new United States action apparently was de signed to hit at Rommel's flank in order to assist the British IJighth army in southern Tunisia, which has been in contact with the Afrika Korps rear guard at the formidable Wadi Akarit front. On the Tunisian front generally general-ly there was only minor action elsewhere, but one American general gen-eral summed up the situation by remarking that "we are now in the position of a football team with 10 yards 10 tough yards to go for a touchdown." In brief, developments included: 1-. The British First army in northern Tunisia made further progress, according to today's communique, on the road from Sedjenane toward Bizerte. The (Continued on Page Eight) LONDON, April 3 (ILE) The Royal air force, taking advantage of improved weather to put its resumed offensive on a day and night basis, raided Abbeville and Brest today a few hours after DomDing lonent and St. Nazal re the biggest U-boat bases on the French coast. WA Farm Bill Veto To Be Overridden Bankhead Claims SHTNGTON, April 5 (HE) 'en. John rl. BanKneaa, u., aw., predicted today that the senate will vote "overwhelmingly" Tuesday Tues-day to override President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's veto of his bill to exclude farm benefit prices in computing the parity formula. Barikhead's forecast was made after a series of conferences with President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Fed-eration, representatives of several sev-eral land grant colleges who have interested themselves in the agricultural agri-cultural situation, and senators determined to write the measure into law. Debate on the veto should not take long, Bankhead said. "The issues are too well known," he added. "I don't intend in-tend to take up much time myself my-self and none of the other sen-continued sen-continued on Page Five) Chances of a Tunisian "Dunkirk" by The Axis Declared Practically Nil BY ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. April 3 IE The chances of a Tunisian "Dunkirk" by the Axis are practically Nil, an expert Who knows thoroughly how the BritisTi worked their 1940 channel "miracle,"; said today. - This source gave several reasons rea-sons why Nazi Field (MarshalEr-win (MarshalEr-win Rommel may have to "give up at . the Tunisian coast. THey included: , X .-''' ?- 1. The distance across the Mediterranean Medi-terranean to safety is 150 miles, compared with the 70 hiiles which the British had to take out their men. - :2-. The Axis would face rough; uncertain weather while; the Dunkirk Dun-kirk evacuation was accomplished in the calmest possible . English Channel conditions. -M ; , ; 3. In the last few, years of war the Allies have learned the art of fighting and with the forces they have in Tunisia, they'd tear to pieces Axis forces trying to reach ships. ,4. The Axis hasn't the shipping available and the gallant small boats and merchant mariners which the seafaring British used. "It is -almost impossible" this source concluded, "for Rommel to transport even a moderate part of his '150,000 or so soldiers to Sicily. Saving any equipment, of course, is out of the question." "The Italian navy is a question mark," the expert said, "but our navy is all set to annihilate it if it creeps out. to sea. "Even should the navy escape our guns, it could take away but a small fraction . . . There'll be few living" Axis troops td wade out from the Tunisian beaches." The Berlin radio ceased broadcasting broad-casting Saturday night "for technical tech-nical reasons," a possible indica- nil: J the continent for the sedond straight night. British fighter-bombers attacked attack-ed the German airdrome at Abbeville, Abbe-ville, base for Nazi planes striking strik-ing at .England, and American-made American-made Ventura light bombers blasted blast-ed the dock area of Brest at the tip of the Breton Peninsula, the air ministry announced. Five German Focke-Wuif 1908 were destroyed and another damaged dam-aged by a wing of Canadian Spitfires Spit-fires escorting the fighter-bombers to Abbeville, and only one British plane was lost. Not a single German fighter was encountered by the Venturas and their escort of Spitfires. Seven or eight German Focke-VVulf Focke-VVulf 190's bombed and machine gunned a town on the south coast, killing at least 12 persons, wounding wound-ing many more, and causing considerable con-siderable damage. The raiders scored a direct bomb hit on a surface shelter, and all persons in it were believed killed. Another shelter containing 40 persons per-sons collapsed under a bomb hit, but there were no casualties. War In Brief Sy UNITED PRESS TUNISIA American tanks and infantry smash at German mountain moun-tain defenses east of El Guettar, British First army in north drives closer to Bizerte; Algiers radio says Axis forceaare destroying all installations at Sfax preparatory prepara-tory to abandoning port without a fight; American and British planes bomb ports in Sicily and artnthoTTi TfaKan malnlnnl BRITAIN Royal Air Force makes daylight attacks on Abbeville Ab-beville and Brest in German-occupied France after night raids on U-boat bases of Lorient and St. Nazaire. RUSSIA Red army smashes through defense line north of German-held Port of Novorossisk, on Caucasian coast of Black Sea; no important activities on other fronts. PACIFIC American submarines submar-ines sink four Japanese ships In Jap-dominated waters, including a destroyer and a large transport, probably sink a freighter, and damage; two other ships; Ameri ?an fliers make four raids cox Kiska in Aleutians Thursday, r CHINA Chinese forces encircle encir-cle thousands of , Japs in Central T T t TkA..2 a , - nupeu . - rruvmte miu repulse enemy drives in southern Honan and Shansi; American fliers shoot down seven- Jap planes. over Kiangsi Province.- BURMA U. I S. planes blast Japanese railroad centers . and communications' lines to central Burma and British airmen attack enemy positions northwest , of Mandalay and in western Burma. |