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Show Call The Herald If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. HOTS wmnmMM UJ fcJ-Ji'MJ1' -- .. . w ''-V - ; The Weather . ;. ( Forecast f or Provo and Vicinity i. Copier today and little change In temperature. ;'-. ' TEMPERATURES High ...... 64 Low .... ... ....SO - VOL. 20, NO. 50 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, : MAY 16, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF 8 ALT LAKH PRICE FIVE CENTS . g(m - mm AIR FORCES STRIKE BLOW NEAR ROME Mediterranean Reopened Reopen-ed to Allied Shipping Alter Three Years BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. HEADQUAR-TERS. North Africa, May 15 (U.R) The Mediterranean has been reopened to Allied shipping ship-ping after nearly three years, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder announced today as IT. S. Flying Fortresses, smashing 38 miles north of Rome, struck one of thrir deepest blows against the underside of Europe. "Convoys now ceui pass through the Mediterranean, although there may be losses," Tedder, commander comman-der of al'.ied air forces in the Mediterranean area, declared. "I can't guarantee that there won't be losses, but the Mediterranean is open to us again." That means a saving of one-third one-third of the previous distance allied al-lied convoys have had to cover around the tip of South Africa with supplies for India and other far eastern points as well as Russia Rus-sia through Iran. The American flyers were re vealed to have hit Civitavecchia, one of the most important ports in central Italy, during a series of raids Thursday night and Friday Fri-day which also saw Sardinia and Sicily hit and a total of 11 axis Bhips " sunk cr dmaged "and 19 planes destroyed. Three allied planes were lost. The big Boeing bombers reached gome 400 miles across the Mediterranean Medi-terranean to give Italy its heaviest heavi-est pounding since the Tunisian . campaign ended. It appeared that allied airmen, striking from what Tedder said I was the best springboard in the V. .entire Mediterranean area for offensive of-fensive operations against the axis, were attempting to cut supply sup-ply lines leading from the Italian mainland to the Mediterranean islands. It was said they now had brought Sardinia and all its sea approaches ap-proaches under their domination. At Civitavecchia the Americans (Continued on Page Two) Lewis Playing waiting in Goal Mine Dispute NEW YORK, May 15 (U.R) With a new strike deadline in the nation's na-tion's soft coal fields scarcely 43 hours away, it appeared tonight that John L, Lewis" once more was playing a waiting game and not until the . last minute if at all would he reply to a WLB demand de-mand for a resumption of wage negotiations. The mine leader, who consistently, consist-ently, has replied "no comment" to all queries regarding the war labor board order, said he would have a press conference at 4:30 p, m. tomorrow, but even then there was no indication he would attempt at-tempt to re-outline . the miners' Stand. " Meanwhile, there were some indications in-dications that the miners themselves them-selves were awaiting Lewis' attitude at-titude and would follow him in any course he chose," even if it ran counter to President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's plea that they continue in the pits1 as a part of patriotism and a vital part in the war effort. At Haza rd, Ky.f 6,000 miners voted practically unanimously to cease work Tuesday night unless a new contract is signed between the United Mine Workers union and the coal operators. At Ta- maqua, : Pa., the Tamaqua colliery Roosevelt : that its 1,000 members would v suspend work at midnight iTuesdaV unless terms are reached. . Similar sentiments were . re-ported re-ported from other districts. . Lewis : declined today "to say - whether he would attend ' the WLB's meeting Monday, in New York to work out arrangements for negotiations-Spokesmen negotiations-Spokesmen for the. coal operators, operat-ors, . however, have J announced they would comply fully with the WLB'a order and would be pres- ':i "officials of the United Mine v4l Workers admitted' only that they had received the WLB's directive yand were "studying it." . . . House Awaits Vote On Ruml Plan Bill As Senate Approves Senate Approves S-kip-a-Year Tax Bill By Vote of 49 To 30; Opponents Fear House Passage, Hope For Veto By TONY SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 15 (U.R Democratic leaders conceded con-ceded tonight that the Ruml plan may win approval when it comes up in the house Tuesday, and pinned their hopes'for ultimate defeat of the skip-a-year tax proposal on a possible presidential veto. They reiterated their opposition to the plan and expressed ex-pressed "keen disappointment" over the senate's 49 to 30 vote approving it. Ruml supporters, however, jubi-3) I 11.. 1 X 1 A. 1 A. 11. . ianuy preaicieu mat uie senate uussian nanes Batter Jazi-IIeld Gomel and Orel Carrier fahd Chi Id bill would be accepted when it is called up in the house Tuesday, and that President Roosevelt would not veto it. They foresaw approval of a motion for the house to concur in the senate changes without sending the bill to conference. The Ruml plan, which the senate sen-ate substituted for the Robertson-Forand Robertson-Forand partial abatement bill passed by the house, would cancel all of 1942 or 1943 income taxes, whichever is lower,": for all taxpayers. tax-payers. It was rejected by the house twice before the Robertson bill finally was approved. Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okla., who fought the Ruml plan in the house ways and means committee and on the floor, described de-scribed the senate's action as "a nice little boost for inflation." chance for Dassaere on with senate amendments oeiore the bill is sent to a conference committee," he added. "Anything can happen." Another Democratic member of the ways and means committee, Rep. Milton H. West of Texas, also said he thought the Ruml plan ''might" go to the -president without a senate-house conference. confer-ence. ' But, if it does," he emphasized, "I think the president will veto it. He is asking us to raise $16,-000,000,000 $16,-000,000,000 in new money. By forgiving for-giving $10,000,000,000 it would raise the total of $26,000,000,000. It will just be a case of giving the taxpayers something you are going go-ing to take away again." Republicans felt they could push the Ruml plan through the "house even if the bill goes to conference. Rep. Harold Knutson, R-, Minn., floor leader for the house Ruml advocates, pointed out that if it should reach a conference com-mitee com-mitee andsbecome deadlocked the conferees would have to return to the house for instructions. Dead Pilot at Motor Car Control CEDAR FALLS la., May lSXlLP.) A runaway railroad motor car with a dead pilot at the controls was overtaken after a 12 mile chase today and after" a train had been side tracked hurriedly to avert a wreck. C. E. Ball, track foreman for the Rock Island lines, saw the motor car go whisking by him at shell rock. He boarded his own car and started in pursuit, catchy ing up with and stopping the runaway run-away at Norris. ' The operator, Amil Werle, Manly, Man-ly, was dead from a heart attack. at-tack. He had been ordered to take the car from Manly to a section crew somewhere along the line. r ' v'- if 4 ! x' A i I LONDON, Sunday May 16 (U.E Soviet planes, maintaing their heavy offensive against bases for probable German offensives, have battered the enemy-held strong points of Gomel and Orel, Radio Moscow reported ' today while Axis sources indicated that- the Red army had made a successful landing at Novorossisk in the Caucasus. In the central reaches of the front, a special radio Moscow broadcast reported that Soviet XI mignt nave lknevrAnfl bombers Fridav- aiahfei a motion xo tcw ..r" . i. -7- Gomel and Orel, destroying many suddIv dumps and a number of trains carrying military equip ment to the front. At Gomel, a major point on the Kharkov-Minsk railroad and lying midwav between Smolensk and Kiev on a north-south line, more than 30 fires and a number of ex plosions "were started by the Rus sian raiders while at. Orel, be tween Moscow and Kursk, am munition trains were. hit and sev eral fires started. One .bomber was lost, The Soviet midnight com munique broadcast by Radio Mos cow, made no direct refrence to either the air operations over Gomel and Orel or the reported landing at Novorossisk, It said, however, that 33 Ger man planes had been destroyed by the Soviet air force In air combats and seven more enemy aircraft were wrecked on the ground during the period covered bv the communique. Nine Soviet planes were reported lost, More than 30 German pillboxes and dugouts were destroyed by artillery fire as the Soviets closed in on the Kuban bridgehead northeast- of Novorossisk, the communique reported. The Ger mans sent a company of infantry out behind seven tanks on J one sector and on another, two . infantry in-fantry battalions supported, by 19 tanks, attacked. "In both sectors," sec-tors," the , communique said, "Soviet units inflicted heavy losses on -the Hitlerites and threw them back to their original pos itions. destrovine five German tanks Governor Maw Goes?? To jCljJcagp Meeting SALT LAKE CTTY, May 15LE Gov. Herbert B. Maw left - at 6 p. m., Saturday night for Chicago, Chi-cago, UW to attend a meeting of governors' executive committees commit-tees this month. ' The governor., will return to Utah about May 25. First offllais Furnaces Compbtod in 11 Months FONTANA; Calif May 15 (U.R) Henry J. Kaiser, who builds big things fast, got a.kick out of gettfng the jump on himself. , - " V He was talking to reporters yesterday before ceremonies ceremon-ies to celebrate the pouring of first steel from the first of his six open hearth furnaces. . - - t? . - He had just completed Jri 1 months tinie construction of the first integrated iron and steel mill we$t of the Rockiesl The plant cost 10 million dollars. . -: . As Kaiser . began his talk to the reporters, someone yelled : "There' she goes !" A roar blanketed Kaiser's words. Without benefit of formalities.: the white hot .steel rwas flowing. w - . , . ' - " :4 -'" . " 11111 : 1 ' .in H .i in II i, -..r -1 OUSTING OF JAPS FROM ATTU SEEN M A' ' ,' ' ' ' yr XT ' ' 't ' J i Biggest and newest of Britain's aircraft carriers is the Indomitable, j a veiitable floating airbase that has seen action and suffered slight . damage in the Mediterranean. Landing on the Indomitable's deck, ; bottom. Is a Sea fire fighter sister plane to the Spitfire. oseveit CnurcntU, Continue Conferences WASHINGTON, May 15 (U.R) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill today continued their war-planning war-planning conferences in an atmosphere of deepest secrecy. No inkling of the nature of the planning has been given but it is assumed that both the "5 ; uovernor uenies tie Ever Asked for Blanket Increase U. S. Invasion Forces Believed Successful In Ousting Japs WASHINGTON, May 15 U.R Early ousting of Japanese Jap-anese forces from Attu, westernmost west-ernmost of the Aleutiah islands, is-lands, seemed assured tonight to-night and U. S military leaders lead-ers already were believed mapping the next step in their campaign to drive th enemy completely out of the north Pacific. Pa-cific. Axis' radio broadcasts were obviously paving the way for admission ad-mission that United States army forces which landed on the island Tuesday have overcome the Japanese Jap-anese garrison there. The navy maintained silence about the situation, but there was a general feeling that radio Tokyo was correct when it said earlier today that the American soldiers who stormed the island's beaches "greatly oiTtnumber the small number of Japanese defenders." Radio Tokyo, ' acknowledging "heavy fighting" on the island, sought to minimize its importance by declaring that the J. S. attack on Attu "was launched merely as a matter of prestige . . . in order to pacify the American people who are growing restless and very downcast that the .landing (Japan's, (Ja-pan's, presumably) was effected." Radio Berlin broadcast a DNB Roval Air jrorce MitJioiis and dispatch f roiir-Tokyttrstatlng that f Bbstons "Joinetr m ' the daylight" the war are under discussion. That view is given credence by the presence here of Sir Alan BroOke, British chief of staff; Sir Dudley Pound, first sea lord and admiral of the fleet, and Chief Air Marshal Sir. Charles Portal, as well as the top British commanders command-ers in India, Field Marshal Sir. Archibalt P. WaveH and Sir James Somerville. The latter commands com-mands British naval forces in Indian In-dian waters. President Roosevelt told his press conf erencfc yesterday that the American opposite numbers of Brooke and Pound are sitting in on the conferences. The president commented that he wouldn't have to name the Americans because everybody knows who they are. Gen. George C. .Marshall is chief of staff of the TJKKS. army; Admiral Ernest J. King. is commander-in-chief of the? U. S. fleet, and Gen. Henry H. Arnold Is chief of the army air forces. ' 1 Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, commander of IT. S. forces in China, Burma and India, and Maj. Gen. Claire Chejmault, commander command-er of the 14th V. S. air force in China, were in Washington recently re-cently but it is not known whether they still are, . here.. - v : The president also made it clear at his press conference that no" news, about the discussions could be expected: until jthey draw to a close. Presumably, that would be some ; time next week. 26 PERISH IN FLOOD WATERS SALT LAKE CITY, May 15 tLE Action by county welfare boards in Utah in approving payments, to aged and needy on a budgetary need basis does not conflict with state approved $40 minimum budgets, bud-gets, Gov. Herbert B. Maw reported re-ported today. Maw denied that he had asked for a blanket increase, and 'said that he approved the action taken by Salt Lake and Utah county boards to make payments to aged on an individual need basis. The governor said, however, that the $40 minimum is needed in defense de-fense areas -to provide a budget "necessary for ; decency and health' Both county t boards had . announced an-nounced that the costs of making a, flat $10 , a month - boost in welfare payments would impose a heavy financial burden on -the counties, and that they . would prefer to make additional payments pay-ments .where ver necessary, - in recdgnitlon of the increased cost of living. r f "All - Incendiary" American Attack ets New Record S fighting on Attu was "very fierce," and quoting Japanese Gen. Baron Sadao Araki, former war minister, as saying "our grateful thoughts are always with i Continued on Page Two) 22 JAP PLANES LOST IN RAID United Press Staff Correspondent; GEN. Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, May 15 (Uj. Allied filers turned back a renewed Japanese aerial onslaught on-slaught at Oro Bay, on the New Guinea coast, shooting down 16 and probably 22 of a raiding force of 45 aircraft, a communique communi-que announced today. The attack was the first in force since the 100-plane raid on Milne Bay, April 14 and was no more successful. Only slight damage dam-age and a few casualties resulted, result-ed, while not an Allied filer lost his life and Allied plane losses were small. The intercepting Klttyhawks and Lightnings rising, to defend the Allied outpost near Buna shot down seven of 20 enemy bombers and nine of their 25 escorting es-corting Zeros. In addition, tHSy probably got one more fighter and five bombers. The attackers' strength was equaled by the number of Allied fighters, a spokesman said. ,In their previous attack at Oro Bay the Japanese lost 23 planes. That Was on April 11, at the height of a series of strong attacks .which were blunted by the Alllejd, defenders de-fenders of Australia. ; ! ; t A force of B-25's t and .. long-range long-range Beaufighters for; the ', second sec-ond straight day battered Gas-, mata, Japanese air baso on New Britain, and this time they wrecked wreck-ed the runway completely,; .The jetty also was destroyed, while the planes, meeting no opposition .from enemy planes, silenced 1 sev eral anti-aircraft -positions. Largest Force of Heavy Bombers Sent Over Germany to Date Attacks Harbor Installations at Emden BY JAMES ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 15 (U-PJ Flying Fortresses, smashing American bombing records for the third straight day. today sowed fire bombs "like grain ' in an all-incendiary ;! aiiacK uii cum: n aiiu uiasieu omer nazi military targets with high explosives. Flying through anti-aircraft fire so thick that one pilot said "you could get out and walk on it," the Americans delivered de-livered what was officially termed the heaviest United States raid of the war on Ger-5- man soil. 150 Bombers Used (The force of the bombers was estimated on the basis of previous previ-ous raids at around 150. The previous pre-vious record against Bremen on April 17th was made by a force estimated at more than 100 bombers. bomb-ers. ) The raid on Emden, in which hundreds of tons of fire bomto were dropped, was the first American Am-erican "all incendiary" attack of the war and it carried into its fourth day a mighty prelude-to-invasion air offensive in which nearly 3,000 tons of bombs have been rained daily on Axis Europe since Wednesday by fliers operating oper-ating from Britain, Russia, North Africa and the Middle East offensive, bombing the air fields at Caen and Poix in France without with-out loss. Escorting fignters, of which six were missing, shot down seven German fighters. As the tired Yanks tumbled from their planes after the third straight day of hitting Europe, one spoke for all when he said, "It's tough but this is what we've been waiting for and now that it's here w're glad." One flier whose plane met considerable con-siderable enemy fighter opposition opposi-tion said the Nazis "had everything every-thing with an engine on it in the, air today." Six bombers were lost from the approximately. 650-mile round-trip round-trip flight which was made without with-out benefit of fighter escort. "The largest forqe of heavy bombers dispatched to date over Germany by the United States eighth air force attacked the large water-borne terminal and harbor installations at Emden and other targets in northwest Germany by daylight today," an, American communique announced. Good Results Achieved The bulletin said that "good bombing results" were achieved, and that American gunners de-, de-, (continued uu ra,o iwui Italy Mobilizes In Defense of Allied Invasion .V r4-. 3H- Von Arnim to Be , Flown to England LALINEA, Spain, May 15 (UJf Col Gen Jurgen Von Arnim, seven other German and three Italian generals captured in North Africa have arirved at Gibraltar and probably will be flown to England, reports reaching reach-ing here today said. - Von Aminm was reported in satisfactory physical condition, but appeared tired and nervous. Three hundred prisoners, mostly young Axis officers, also have arrived, ar-rived, weary and. battle-scarred. The -Germans asked news . from the Russian front and the Italians sought the- latest news Regarding . bombings of Italian cities. V. - , : : . . ; MUSKOGEE, Okla May 15 OIEV The worst flood in Oklahoma's history was nearing an end Jto-night, Jto-night, and it appeared that the. death toll would stand -finally at-2$.'"f- Crop, and property damage was! estimated in the . millions of dollars. dol-lars. , ... J S. . , Latest victims of the "week of floods 'were "two 'occupants of a truck which dropped through; a flood-weakened - bridge near, here today. One. of. the. men. had been ldentif led , as Orville . Allred, " of Fort; Worth, .Tex., but the second man. 'also believed drowned, had not been identified. - . ; pons' for cannfng sugar. Still missing were 18 persons, Full , details , of 'the latest plan including six soldiers from Campr J are not yet available. The OPA G ruber. Okla, -. . " s - advised consumers who do not G?A Devises Prccsdare by Uliish Gpnsamcrs Are to Gst Sugar LONDON, May 15 (UHJ Pre- , mier Benito Mussolini mobilized allj the forces of fascism today ' to'j withstand an invasion as Italy's f military and naval leaders blunW i ly warned their jittery country-men country-men that their defenses may not vi be . strong enough to prevent allied al-lied landings. ' A . communique issued byrthe'vt Undersecretary of Interio Mus- ' lor ordered fascists of all ranks to consider themselves for the dttr- 1 ation "at the immediate and. complete com-plete disposal of the fascist party- for whatever tasks may be entrusted en-trusted them" Following recent changes in the " fascist party directorate, the com- : munique was believed to Indicate Mussolini has delivered the whole country over to his fascist OkL guard the men who once ruled the country by beatings and castor '. oil. In any event, the move 'was regarded as prompted by Ihe " fear of impending invasion. SixHour Session Rome Radio revealed that a six-hour six-hour senate session Friday the undersecretary of the navy admitted ad-mitted "we have not at our disposal dis-posal a naval force such as would ' (Continued on Page Two) Italians Urged To Throw Germans Out of Country BY JOHN A. P ARRIS . United Press Staff Correspondent - LONDON, May 15 (HE) A clandestine station identifying itself it-self as Radio Milan of the truth called upon the Italian people to- , day to throw the Germans out of Italy before - an allied invasion hits the nation. - "Here speaks1 the free Italian people," said the station in lt ilrst broadcast heard here. "Throw the Germans out ... away with agents of - foreigners." - , The call ; came amid new re- ' ports of Italian preparations to guard the country's long shoreline, shore-line, and of killings, arrests,' riots, . and resistance to Nazis throughout through-out occupied ; Europe. ' Radio Rome, in a broadcast' ' -heard by- Exchange Telegraph,', said the-Italian senate held a six-. , hour session yesterday, to figure , out ' how to defend . the country ' and received- reports that nine . (Continued on Page Two) . .. . -J WASHINGTON, May 15 UE) need home canning; sugar immed The ' office .of orice administra tlon today, revised the procedure by which . consumers .are to obr tain sugar for home 'canning.. ' .Consumers- will use certain sugar stamps in ,war ration book One ; for. obtaining part of their canning allotment,' the OPA said. Previously, the . OPA had announced, an-nounced, that consumers were to apply T to - local . ration boards , for special "sugar allowance cou- iately to wait f or a 1 few days until final plans are completed. The OPA . said that', under' the new plan two stamps irt Book One will, be designated as ."canning sugar, stamps each stamp to be worth five ? pounds. Constrmersr who require more than 10 pounds per person for canning will apply to their local ration; boards for additional allowances. - The new -plan, is expected to relieve ration boards of much of the burden of handling sugar' ap plications, and .at the same time make It easier; for consumers to obtain the -needed sugar. t , j The'.OPAsaTd consumers who ; require home canning sugar immediately im-mediately - should , apply to their local . boards for 'sugar - allotment coupons. . In these cases, boards will tissue 10 .pounds less sugar than the 4 total . canning requirement require-ment since the remaining ;10 pounds will be bought with the designated sugar stamps in Book One."In , no case will the board issue more than 15 pounds, . the OPA added. The, OPA recently announced that the maximum allotment al-lotment of sugar for home can-rung: can-rung: purposes is 25 pounds per person., I. . , - J Two Killed in Colorado Crash , j., . ' LOVELAND, Colo May 15 0IE -U. S. army officials were expected ex-pected today to launch an inve- v ; tigatlon of the crash of a FlyinS i Fortress on. the rocky face' of a mountain in the' Dead Man's gulch -area,' 21 miles northwest of Love- , land. Two : filers 4were KilledL , . Thefortress," whichrit '.fWS . understood was being ferried fronx Denver to Great FallsV Mont, burned inimediately after crash- . ing into the rocky slope. Its crew, -. whose names have not been, released re-leased for1 publication pending' -notification of next of Ida, .Was eomposedt of ; pilot . and an en- |