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Show page eight PROVO '(UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, " APRIL" 25,. 1943 Davis Seeks to Stem Angry Tide For Jap Reprisals WASHINGTON. April 24 oih Director Elmer Davis of the Office Of-fice of War Information appears to he tryin to stem the angry congressional demands for reprisals repri-sals against loyal Japanese-Americans as payment for the execution- of some of the Doolittle fliers. In his weekly radio review last night, he answered not only demands de-mands heard in congress to strip American-born Japanese of their citizenship, but the recent statements state-ments of military officials on the west coast that "a Jap's a Jap." Davis said that thousands of Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States and educated in American schools are as aroused as the rest of the country about -the executions. He read the following passage from an editorial of a Salt Lake City newspaper called the Pacific Citizen, Citi-zen, the organ of the Japanese American Citizens' League: " 'We know today the nature of the brutal enemy we face across the Pacific, and this knowledge should serve to intensify our efforts ef-forts to achieve a speedy and complete victory. The American, people will not brook a negotiated end to this war. There can be no peace with murderers. We must and will gain the unconditional surrender of our Axis enemies. The enemy will give no quarter, and the salvation of our way of life rests or complete and irrevocable irrevo-cable military victory.' " Davis pointed out that at Camp Shelby .Miss.. 3,000 American Ameri-can soldiers of Japanese ancestry put the better part of a month's pay into war bonds the day after the executions were announced "to show what they thought of the Tokyo performance." Squish! ran js wr- A Pair of boots in the sticky, gooey mud of Tunisia gives an idea of how the terrain is over there. Heavy GI socks cover trouser bottoms to keep them rlean. Increased Feed Production Need Tax Units To Get Reimbursed for Loss WASHINGTON. April 24 l'Ji The National Housing Agency said todav that more than $16,-500,000 $16,-500,000 will be paid into local tax treasuries in lieu of 1942 and 1943 taxes on government - financed war housing projects. The sum is equal to the amount which would have been paid had the government-owned housing projects been privately owned, the FHA said. ESCAPED CONVICTS AKE CAPTURED FOLSOM PRISON, Cal.. April 24 r.r: Warden Clyde Plummer today announced the capture of two escaped convicts near Mather Field, east of Sacramento. The convicts were Frank Pedri- ni, 31. life termer and William J. Smith, 3'. They wore hiding in tall weeds and still were wearing wear-ing their prison clothing.' AE . . MONEY TIME and BOTHER! 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Davis placed added emphasis empha-sis today on increased feed production pro-duction to meet demands for a record number of livestock. Asserting that the United States may have reached the maximum livestock production possible under wartime cpndi-tions, cpndi-tions, Davis said a "leveling off" of the rate of increase in livestock live-stock numbers will be necessary to keep them in line with feed supplies. He estimated that the number of grain-consuming livestock this year will be from 10 to 12 per cent above last year, while the prospective production of feed grains this year is about 10 per cent less than last year. Seagulls Devour Precious Goldfish SALT LAKE CITY, April 24 (U.R) The mystery of the disappearing disap-pearing goldfish from the LDS temple square has been solved. Seagulls have been preying on tne goldfish in a shallow pool at the bottom of a monument which was erected by grateful Utah pio neers to the memory of the seagull. Four Burned to Death in Boston BOSTON, April 24 OLE) Four persons were burned to death, 40 other occupants escaped over rooftops or were rescued, and seven firemen were felled by smoke early today when a two-alarm two-alarm fire swept a south end tenement house. The dead: Mrs. Margaret McAuliffee, 35. Joan, 2, her daughter. John Boyajian, 38. John Jr., 8, his son. 34 Women Pass First Aid Glass SPANISH FORK Following an intensive 11-weeks' training in first aid for the Rrd Cross, sponsored spon-sored by the Palmyra stake Relief Re-lief Societies and the Spanish Fork Red Cross chapter, 34 women wo-men successfully passed their ex-aminations ex-aminations Wednesday night and will be given certificates at a meeting to be held next .Wednesday .Wed-nesday night at the junior high school auditorium. Certificates will be awarded to Mosdames Faye Lewis, Alice Randolph, Ran-dolph, Harriet Griffith, Helen Jackson, Hilda Cornaby, Ethel Wood, Ruby Allred, Ora Dixon, Arthella Robertson, Mary Alice Rosenbaum, Blanche Nielsen, Mae Thomas, Maud Lewis, Mary Clay-son, Clay-son, Alberta Aitken, Vay Huff, Elizabeth Ferguson, Margaret Dart Fuller, Rachel Dart, Teressa Johnson, Hazel N. Thomas, Grace Beck, Harriet Snell, Louise Hansen, Han-sen, Leona Sorenson, Eva Dur-rant, Dur-rant, Rhoda. Thomas, Reva Nelson, Nel-son, Lois Nash, Etta Money, Nr Larson, True Dfxon, Miss" Bertha Bearnson and Dallel Dixn, ' the latter the only man to complete the course. Owen Rowe, who holds a life certificate in Red Cross first aid, has taught the class free of charge. More than 60 women enrolled en-rolled but only these were able to complete the course. Three Killed in Montana Crash BILLINGS, Mont., April 24 (HE) Three persons were killed early this morning when the car in which they were riding was struck by a westbound Burlington Burling-ton train near hero. Killed were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Johnson, both 39, and their grand daughter, 6-year-old Jo Ann An derson, all. of Anaconda. They were on their way to visit Mrs. Anderson's brother, Earl - Mitchell, Mitch-ell, farmer, , living : eight , miles east of Billings, when the accident acci-dent occurred. . i The car burst, into flames soon after it struck the train and all three were burned to death before they could escape from the wreckage,, wreck-age,, the Yellowstone county sheriff's sher-iff's office reported, t . - ? . Jeffers on Tour Of Tien Synthetic Rubber Plants WASHINGTON, April 24 (U.R) Rubber Director Willim M. Jef r fers, spurning a request to discuss dis-cuss shortages of aviation gasoline gaso-line producing equipment allegedly alleged-ly caused by the synthetic rubber program, today was on an inspection inspec-tion tour of synthetic plants. Jeffers turned his back on the request of war production board chairman Donald M. Nelson to sit in on a council with undersecretary undersecre-tary of war Robert M. Patterson and try to mediate the gasoline-rubber gasoline-rubber dispute. He said only that Patterson's charges were "the most violent and unprovoked attack which a public servant has ever had to sustain." Patterson had said that Jeffers held up the output of 10O-' octane gasoline for badly-needed fighter planes and bombers by wrangling "super-priorities" on scarce materials for construction S of the synthetic rubber plants. ! Flatly refusing to cancel a planned plan-ned trip to these plants in Louisiana. Loui-siana. Texas and California, Jeffers Jef-fers left Washington late yesterday yester-day "toiling mad the boiling maddest Irishman in the country," according to his associates. There was no indication whether he , will be back in time for a congressional congression-al investigation of the row next week. Patterson attended Nelson's-session, Nelson's-session, along with Deputy Oil Administrator Ralph K. Davies and WPB's Director of Scheduling Ralph Cordiner. It was at earlier conferences here, the army charges, that Jeffers used the club of "protect the home front lest it crack" to divert valves, gauges and other equipment which the high octane program, the navy shipbuilding program and the rubber program needed.. BURNS PROVO FATAL TO MURRAY GIRL SALT LAKE CITY, April 24 U.P Ethel Mary . Harvey, 4, of Murray, died Friday m a hospital here of burns suffered when her clothing caught .fire while watching watch-ing a grass fire. Roosevelt Scion Held as Deserter SAN FRANCISCO. April 24llEr A distanct cousin of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, George Emlen Roosevelt, Jr., was today7 awaiting trial before a court martial as a deserted from the navy. He is a seaman 2nd class. Navy shore patrolmen arrested Roosevelt yesterday at the Bohemian Bo-hemian club. Since Feb. 27 he had been sougnt as a deserted from the Treasure Island naval base. His father a wrll known New York investment broker, is a second sec-ond cousin of Mrs. Roosevelt. The 24-year-old seaman was one of - Manhahttan's youngest p'ayboys. He is remembered there for mopping a restaurant floor- in evening clothes when he found he could not pay his bill, for being arrested after arguing with a cab driven over a 50-cent fare and for being barred at his mother's request from his favorite night club because 'she believed he was too young to be going there "night after night." MORGENTIIAU ON WAR BOND TOUR WASHINGTON, April 24 (U.R) Americans are avenging the Japanese Jap-anese execution of United States aviators who bombed Tokyo, reports re-ports to the treasury from all over the nation indicated today. States and cities advised treasury treas-ury officials they were staging "revenge days" and "bomb Tokyo days" in speeding bond buying in the second war loan drive. One federal reserve district reported raising 20 per cent of its total quota the day after President Roosevelt announced Japan's barbarous act. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is on a western states tour as a "one-man bond selling team." He was at Cedar Rapids, la., today, from which he will fly to Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash, his tentative schedule sche-dule will put him in San Francisco next Wednesday. Bourbons to Name State Chairman SALT.lAkE CITY, April 24 -r 0IR) The state Democratic party central committee will meet May 2 to elect a new chairman, Mrs. 4 Scott P. Stewart .state vice chairman, chair-man, announced today. ' - The vacancv was created when Chairman Allen G. Thurman resigned re-signed recently after it was held his anointment as special assistant to the u. S. district, attorney made him ineligible for the post. 1 GIFTS FOR SERVICE MEN SEWING KITS MONEY BELTS HANDKERCHIEFS SHOE POLISHING KIT We Make Belts and Cover Buckles, and Buttons HEMSTITCHING Singer Sewing Machine Co. 268 WEST CENTER PHONE 399 ND Jj YOU o o . o For. VICTORY! To Raise What It Takes To Pay For What It Takes To Win The War For LffiffiW IIIIIIIIIH AVENGE THE TOKYO MURDERS LET'S HOT STOP AT $13,000,000, FTCHTTNG DOLLARS Dollar That Can Only Come From Yo More Dollars-Than Ever So . .. ' J4 We Ve Never-Been Licked Yet! . . . Lets Not Start How! y 000 (9 v This is an awful big war. . But, like everything else, it has to be paid, for.. We get a tremendous kick -r-a real J tnrill-H3ut of news like 4he African of f en-sive en-sive when we read that the United Nations put over the biggest troop movement: ever before attempted in history. Lots of us have boys already scattered through all parts of the globe. More will undoubtedly be going soon,' again1 and again, till : Victory is. won. So that's the simplest way for us to look at this problem prob-lem of-paying for the war. ' See it in terms of what ;-r it means to the boys who are doing, the fighting. I)o ; r ; we want .that :paratrboper to have the best possible y-M parachute money 'can buy when he drops, out of a plane over Africa? Of course we do. Do. we want to be certain there will always be another round of ammunition for every machine gun facing the Japs? You bet we do. All right, then. Let's start where everything starts Z with money. And let's remember remem-ber that it's a mighty poor American .who will set himself up as the one to decide whether his responsibility responsi-bility to the American soldier his-obligation is f ul- tation on the amount we owe for Victc ry. That limitation limi-tation is, simply, the maximum we c m possibly afford af-ford to invest. During this great drive, millions of dollars will be invested from many sources. But, probably, your interest will continue to be in Warx Bonds and Stamps. The sale of War Bonds and Stamps is being counted upon to help raise the 13 billiorigoal required by this second great financing drive. I)o your part filled by 10 per cent or 12 per cent or any other self-- by putting all the, money you possibly can into. War determined limitation. There can be only one limi- ; Bonds and Stamps, regularly. HjmifHWHWMifmnmiir iiiililUIIIIIIIMtlHitllltil E13THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES '.1. . v - .,- ' f . .1 - - 7 . i. , '. . v jt - V. . . ; - ' . YOU LEND YOUR MONEY III 'it- |