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Show Send The Herald to the boys la the service or . to relative for ONLY 50 CENTS month, postage paid (la the United States or possessions) and let them know what's happening In Utah county. i Tlie Weather Haxlmnm Temperature ; Sunday ;.. 21 Minimum 4 Temperature Monday. ..-11 Below iwii-wsss-artnniinfni MrTBil'-Mrl t rwm A mm Mart w 11 ifefta FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 126 UTAH'S ONLT norm of mait t,akh PROVO. . UTAH COUNTY. UTAH.' ? MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1942 COMPLKTB UNITED PRESS TWt,IWHA1W KWW4 OWR vir-w PRICE FIVE CENTS' Aboard ore U y 1 1 I III I I l Vi 1 -w ri ;... n r n . I , 1 u. V I I I ( ' i ' - , , 5 . . ' . - , ' - - ' - ' - i k '- , . , ' "; .'"''' i s'' : i - ' v C , - -vV'j ii : l - , i j -h iiH 0 Pi I j ' A civilian technician chats with life-belted soldiers, who spend their time on decks watching some of the other troop transports and a convoying vessel in background, as the first American Expeditionary Force of - World Wax II goes to a Pacific front. Photo by Acme Staff Photographer Jonathan Rice, passed by U. S. censor. DESK CHAT BY THE XDITOB When will it end ? . Well, what difference does it make? Wearisome are the discussions, discus-sions, tiresome the learned calculations on "When will victory come?" Will it be six months? A year? Two years or three ears or five? We do not" imowrKobody knows. Not the wiseacre who talks knowingly "of 20 years-40 years. Not the optimist opti-mist (growing fewer daily) who sees the Axis breaking in six months. Nobody. It will end when the enemy has been beaten, thoroughly and conclusively beaten. The sooner that is done, the sooner soon-er it ends. Whether that be six months or 60 years, we do not know. But the United States will be in at the end, and on the winning side. That is all we need ta know about "When will it end?" As near as we can remember, remem-ber, the Rising Sun has never failed to set. oOo We like winter better" than summer, even when its 13 below, be-low, because flies and mosquitoes mos-quitoes don't. oOo There's always a bright side the price of 1941 calendars cal-endars has dropped. oOo Take a tip from your Uncle Sam! Keep your shirt on but rotf up your sleeves. oOo A friendly tip: There's no scarcity, and the price remains re-mains the same on defense bonds and stamps. HOME DEFENSE AID REQUESTED Financial assistance from Utah county in purchasing ammunition for use by special deputies for home denfense in case of emergencies emerg-encies asked of the county commission com-mission Monday by Sheriff Theron S. Hall of Springville and Fred Newell of the Provo defese alert unit. Approximately $7500 will be necessary for adequate reserve ammunition, Mr. NeweU said. The incorporated cities and towns will also be asked to help in the financing. A large number of special deputies have already been sworn in, and it is planned to bring the list up to 1500 men in the county, it was stated. The commission took - the request re-quest under advisement. .S) ' Roosevelt to Deliver Message to Congress WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U.R) President Roosevelt will deliver his annual message to congress in person at 12:30 p. m. tomorrow. This was announced by Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley after a White House conference shortly before the second session 1 of the 77th congress convened with perfunctory per-functory meetings of the house and senate at noon. - J3e ..president will . deliver, his J message to a joint session in uie house chamber tomorrow. It, is expected to be a fighting message, revealing the headlights of the strategy and supply arrangements worked out in his conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Barkley said also that the senate would take Up the price control bill Wednesday,, and that' both houses would speed consideration con-sideration of daylight saving time legislation in their respective committees. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack said the present plan for daylight saving would give the president authority to advance or retard the clocks two hours at his discretion. Also present 'at the legislative conference today were vice President Presi-dent Henry A. Wallace and Speaker Sam Rayburn. The president's annual budget message will go to congress on Wednesday. The president scheduled no other conferences today, keeping his schedule open to complete his state-of-the- union message and to make last minute changes in (Continued on Page Two) VICHY OFFICIAL ASSASSINATED BERLIN, Jan. 5 UJ) Official German broadcast recorded by the United Press in London) An official of-ficial news agency dispatch reported re-ported today that Yves Parin-gaux, Parin-gaux, 43, chief of staff of the French interior ministry, has been found dead apparently murdered. The agency corrected an earner report that Pierre Pucheu, interior minister, also had been killed. The report of Pucheu's death, it said, was false. Paringaux' body was found on the railroad line between Melun and Troyes.'the dispatch said. An Italian broadcast heard in London said Paringaux body was found on the rails but the man ner of his death was not immedi ately determined. Little Tourist Business Expected for War Duration PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3 (HE) The Pacific . northwest wrote off its third largest industry the $173,000,000 - annual tourist business busi-ness for the duration of the war today. Faced with tire rationing, suspended sus-pended automobile production, and possible ; gasoline rationing, leading tourist agencies in the summer playgrounds of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington . ; ' uongress upens Its Hew Session .f-.-- -v-. -.-- r - WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 (ILeL-t The senate opened its new session today with a prayer by Chaplain Barney T. Phillips that the president presi-dent and congress face the coming com-ing year unperturbed. Majority Leader Alben Barkley immediately asked for a quorum call. Fifty-four senaters answered the roll. Sen. Ed. C. Johnson, D., Colo., presented the credentials of Eugene Eu-gene D. Millikin, R., Colo., who was seated in the place vacated by the death of Sen. Alva B. Adams. The senate named Barkley and Republican Leader Charles L. Mc-Nary, Mc-Nary, Ore., to inform the president presi-dent that congress had reconvened. recon-vened. Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va-, called attention to the fact that his colleague, Sen. Carter Glass, D.. Va., celebrated his 84th birthday birth-day yesterday. Byrd paid brief tribute to Glass, who sat two desks away, where senators came by to shake his hand and congratulate con-gratulate him. The roll of the house showed 347 members present for the start of the new session. Speaker Sam Rayburn administered admin-istered the oath to a new member, mem-ber, Rep. Robert R. Rockwell) R., Colo. YOUTH KILLED IN SLEDTGRASH SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5 UP Utah's first traffic casualty of 1942 had been recorded today in the death of Thomas Lund, a 15-year 15-year old Salt Lake youth whose sled skidded beneath an automobile on a steep residential street. The car driven by O. T. Stuard. passed over the - youth's body. Stuard had no chance to avoid the sled, which veered - sharply after unhooking from another machine. The death marred a record &U the more remarkable for the icy road conditions - which have prevailed pre-vailed since new years. were relaxing their campaign for the tourist dollar. The tourist business ranks next in importance to lumbering and agriculture in the northwest, - - Oregon's $100,000,. tourist advertising ad-vertising ' budget was suspended "in the public ; fnterest," and the balance of Washington's quarter-million quarter-million dollar tourist-seeking appropriation ap-propriation was held up. Montana and Idaho tourists "groups ; eyea the coming season gloomily. . JipipfslJ.ini Ichi TIRE RATION SET-UP GOES INTO EFFECT u t a h Administration Awaiting Arrival Of Forms WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U.R) The first war rationing pro-gitam pro-gitam in the United States begins be-gins today when thousands of state and local tire rationing boards open for. business. They will determine whether wheth-er doctor, veterinary, : nurse, or ambulances, fire trucks, and the black Maria get new tires and tubes. Only a comparative . handful of the American driving public which has-been purchasing new tires at the rate of 4,000,000 a month will be able to buy the 141,191 aavilable for sale this month. Only 95,580 tubes will be available for essential passenger cars, motorcycles and light trucks and but 242,783 new tires and 202,966 tubes can be sold to truck i and bus operators this month. Replacement Difficult It is not going to be easy for those motorists who do fall within, the eligible groups to get a new tire or tube for their vehicle. Ac-; cording to the government ration-' ing regulation, the equipment, practically win have to be ih-tatf tera before replacements are granted by certificate to would-be would-be purchasers. .' For example, the doctor on your street may think he needs a new tire. First, he must fill out an application giving his own pedigree pedi-gree as well as the car's. Then, a recognized inspector will take, a look at the tire-keeping tire-keeping in mind the possibility that the casing may be retreaded or recapped. Then the Inspector states on the application that he has inspected the tires and tubes and lists their condition. The local three-man board then may or may not determine that the doctor needs a new tire. If approved, a certificate is issue (Conttnued on Page Two) City Officials Sworn In At Brief Ceremony Mayor Maurice Harding and City Commissioner Joseph H. Swapp were sworn into office at brief informal ceremonies in the city commission chamber today noon. City Judge LeRoy Tuckett officiated of-ficiated at the ceremonies, attended at-tended by a number of citizens. Mr. Harding and Mr. Swapp. elected for two and four year terms, respectively, at the November No-vember election, spoke very briefly. "The administration will carry on as administration has in the past in doing its best for the inhabitants in-habitants of Provo city," said Mayor Harding. "We will continue with the progressive program now under way, and will try to give efficiency effi-ciency to city1 government as weU as operate as economically as possible." Commissioner Swapp said he would work hand in hand with Mayor Harding and the holdover commissioner, J. P. McGuire. He stated he has no changes in mind at present, but as time goes on if any changes are deemed necessary ne-cessary they may .be made as advisable. Assignment of duties to members mem-bers of the . commission likely will be made at tonight's city commission com-mission meeting.. ,, .. Mayor Harding said no change in the present set-up is, contemplated. contem-plated. Under this arrangement, the mayor would continue as commissioner com-missioner of - public affairs, finance fin-ance and public safety; Mr. Swapp would be commissioner of waterworks, water-works, parks, and recreation,' the responsibility held by the outgoing commissioner, Clarence H.' Harmon; Har-mon; while Mr. McGuire would continue as commissioner : - of streets, ' public -- improvements and irrigation. - - - - : - - - Mercury Drops To 13 Below V-"Frozen water pipes and automobile radiators were quite, common occurrences this morning in Provo when V the mercury dropped to 13 below, coldest weather to hit this section for a number of years. .The . coldest temperature . previously recorded this winter win-ter was seven below, January Janu-ary 2, and eight below Sunday Sun-day morning. The weather forecast, is for continued cold for several days yet. DEPORTATION OF BRIDGES IS CANCELED WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U.R) The immigration, appeals board today unanimously reversed re-versed the order by examiner Charles B. Sears for the deportation de-portation of CIO Leader Harry Har-ry Bridges. : The board held : there was no evidence that Bridges, a subject sub-ject .of ustraliaad. Jjn member at any time of ah organization organi-zation advocating the overthrow of the -United States government by force or violence. Sears had held that Bridges had been . affiliated . with Communist organizations ' which advocated such overthrow and that, as an alien, he was, therefore subject to deportation: " The Appeals board's decision was submitted1 to Attorney General Gener-al Fran eta Biddle - in a 99-page pamphlet It recommended, that the warrant of arrest - against Bridges be cancelled and proceedings proceed-ings closed immediately. The west coast maritime labor leader had been accused of being a Communist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. The four-man board, however, found that he never had been affiliated af-filiated with the Communist party par-ty after entering the United States and that during the time he was a member of the I. W. W. the organization "did not advise, advocate or teach the unlawful damage, injury or destruction of property or sabotage . . . Did not circulate or distribute written or printed matter advising, advoca-ing advoca-ing or teaching the unlawful damage, dam-age, injury or destruction of .property .prop-erty or sabotage." Bridges' record in the United States has been one of the most turbulent chapters in American labor annals. He entered the United States in 1920. A year later la-ter he filed application for citizenship, citizen-ship, and. again in 1928, but both times he allowed them, to lapse. He rose. to prominence as a west coast waterfront leader between be-tween 1928 and 1934 and on May 9, 1934 .led the bloody strike of San Francisco Longshoremen. NEWiBISHOP IN FIRST WARD Reorganization activity continued contin-ued in the Provo L.D.S. stake Sunday Sun-day with the First ward sustaining sustain-ing a new bishop and several of the other wards naming auxiliary heads. ; George ' S. Collard, prominent livestock man, was sustained First ward bishop, succeeding Walter P. Whitehead, who has served in that capacity for many years. - Aura . C. Hatch , was sustained as first counselor to Bishop Col lard, and F. Vernon Nlcholes was named ward clerk. A second counselor coun-selor likely wul be sustained next Sunday, according to Stake President Presi-dent Charles E- Rowan. Bishop GoUard has - been engaged en-gaged in", some 'type of church activity as an officer or teacher almost an his life. -T He was born in Fountain Green February - 20, 1893. He attended the Fountain Green : elementary (Continued on Page Two) - o n u u u y -3 20-44 OLDS TO REGISTER ON FEB. 16 Younger Men, Above 18 To Register At A Later Date WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 U.R) President Roosevelt to day set Feb. 16 as the date for registration of men between be-tween the ages of 20 and 44, inclusive. Although jcent changes in the selective service act vermit registration of men from 18 through 64, the president called for the registration now of only those eligible for military service men in the age brackets of 20 through 44. Men who had registered register-ed under the previous 21-35 law need not register again. . Mr. Roosevelt by proclamation ordered the registration in the United States and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico on Monday, Feb. 16, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. The proclamation ordered all unregistered men" who were born on or after Feb. 17, 1897, and on on before Dec. 31, 1921, to present themselves for registration. ' ' 4 The new registration will be required,' re-quired,' the president said, "to ensure en-sure victory final and "complete; over the enemies of the United States." He urged private employers and government agenda to give those in their charge, sufficient time in which fo fulfill the obligation of registration. Exempted from the. proclamation, proclama-tion, in accordance with the selective selec-tive service act, were officers and enlisted men of the armed forces cadets of the military and naval academies, members of the federally feder-ally recognized active national guard, the various reserve corps and diplomatic representatives. The registration will be conducted con-ducted by duly designated registration regis-tration officials or local selective service boards. Persons subject to registration but prevented from registering on Feb. 16 by Circumstances beyond their control: may present themselves them-selves as soon as possible thereafter. there-after. The president called on governors gover-nors of the states and territories and local; draft "boards to carry out the provisions of his order.. The first registration under r the 21-35 law took place Oct 16, 1940, more than a year before first actual ac-tual American participation in the present conflictThe second registration regis-tration was held July 1, 1941. EMPIRE TROOPS SURPRISE JAPS SINGAPORE, Jan. 5 UJ! British empire commandos, led by an Australian officer, struck' at the Japanese behind the front lines in Malaya 'today following a withdrawal, or defense forces under enemy pressure on the west coast. The commandos went into ac tion in Malaya for the first time when they trekked far behind the enemy lines in small groups and gathered at a rendezvous near a main motor road used by the Jap anese as a supply line. . Dispatches said that their first attack wiped.. out. a small enemy convoy, including three trucks and a staff car. carrying several offi cers. .- CAIRO; Jan. 5 U.R) The Royal Air Force announced today to-day that American-made Kitty hawk; planes went into action in the near; east: for the first time New .Year's Day with Australian pilots. ' - - During theii' first day they destroyed five enemy aircraft air-craft and damaged six others, it was announced. , . LONDOCJ, Jan. 5 U.P Radio Moscow reported tonight that Soviet, forces reocciinied several more towns and vil lages in their of fensive against o Lisi u u u 700 Japs y Luzon Americans Eng Biff-Scale Enemy Pincers Attack Frustrated By MacArthur's Forces ' Fighting In . The Batan-Pampanga Sector BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American, Chinese and Russian armies hammered home . telling blows against the Axis today. , Fighting doggedly in the hills of Luzon Island in the: Philippines, the American defense forces under Gen. Douglas Doug-las MacArthur killed at least 700 Japanese, frustrated a big-' scale enemy pincers attack and inflicted on the invaders one of the most serious reverses of the war, Operations apparently were in the Bata&n-Pampanga sector, northwest of Manila, where 9 "j . . action continued, according to an American war communique. Japanese airplanes continued bombing attacks on the American Island fortress of Corregldor, at the entrance to Manila bay, where 15 enemy planes have been shot down so far. Fifty-two Japanese craft attacked the fortress oti Sunday Sun-day for more than three hours but four of them were brought down and four others were damaged. dam-aged. Actien Imporant ' .The. action in the Philippines was particularly important be cause it was aiding a sturdy Allied fight to prevent encirclement of the great British naval base at Singapore. Axis sources reported that American warships, cooper ating, in the defense operations in the East. Indies,. had been. bombed by Japanese planes off Java, but that was not otherwise confirmed. . On the Malaya front, about 200 to 250 miles north of Singapore, the Japanese claimed to have taken Kuala Lampur, according to Axis, reports, but this was not confirmed by British dispatches, Chinese Rout Japs In China, the armies of Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek reported a great victory over the Japanese in fighting fight-ing at Changsha, where the enemy was estimated to have lost 50,000 dead as a result of a Chinese counter-attack that crushed their drive into Changsha. In Russia, the Red army reported report-ed that heavy casualties about 4,000 in three engagements had been -inflicted on German, Ru manian and Italian troops in the Crimea and that perhaps 100,000 other Axis forces were doomed in the Mozhaisk sector of the central front, where a Russian pincers drive is aimed at Vyazma and Smolensk. - . The broadcast field of Allied operations, however, was in the far east, where air reinforcements apparently had arrived to aid in blocking the Japanese efforts to consolidate positions for envelopment envelop-ment of Singapore. Expresses Confidence-Gen. Confidence-Gen. Sir Archibald Wavel, entrusted-with supreme command of the crucial southwest Pacific, admitted the situation probably would grow worse before it grows better but expressed full confidence confi-dence in Japan's eventual defeat. One bright spot in the complex picture was the heavy losses being be-ing inflicted upon Japanese planes in .a series of air combats over Burma. A half dozen times in the last eight, days the Japanese have sent planes over Burma In force in an obvious attempt to knock out Allied Al-lied air power to . protect their rear and probably as a preliminary prelimin-ary to all-out bombing of Rangoon Ran-goon and other bases. -. . . - In each ' encounter, British and American pilots of the special Burma Bur-ma : road . volunteer detachment have heavily defeated the Japan- - , (Continued on -Page two) SSfSSSSaSJSjSSSSSSSSSSSSSJBJSSSSSI the Germans. ; MOM In ; ; agement JAPS REPULSED IN PHILIPPINES; LOSE 700-M WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 ; (TUB United ' States and Filipino forces entrenched in a corner of Luzon northwest trf Manila-have rfeteaV" ed a frontal attack oy the 'Japanese 'Jap-anese in one of the outstanding American operations of the' war thus far,-the war department announced an-nounced todays - - - The invaders lost. at least ,,700 killed against relatively small losses on our side. ' This was one of the most serious, seri-ous, reverses suffered by the' Jap anese invaders since the' war began," be-gan," a war department ; com- munique said. This good news raised hope here that the forces of Gen. Doug las MacArthur now consolidated in advantageous territory" and their lines short may be able1 to -hold out for a long time in the Batan Peninsula and adjacent : areas. It is realized that they will, face continued pressure, but - it appears that they may be able -to fight' more than a delaying action. : ; , - - The communique covering : ad-' vices received' up ' to 9:30" a. mi EST. today, also told of another' . air raid on Corregldor, the island . bastion astride the entrance " to Manila bay which forms the an-5 : chor of' the defending . lines. -- V our Romberg Shot - f ' ' It said that 52 enemy bombers . swept "over -the island for1 three"' hours Sunday but inflicted only . "slight" - material , damage ' and' casualties. Anti-aircraft fire shot -down at least four enemy bomb-; ers and hit four, others. . , It was the third successive ' day that Japanese bombers ' had attacked, the island. In those four attacks, the 'Japanese- definitely lost 15 planes . , , ' Revealing y the . unsuccessful -frontal attack on. Gen. -Douglas MacArthur's defending forces, the communique -said tactics pursued by the Japanese in invading Luzon contemplated - Crushing . MacAr- thurs'.. troops in .a , pincer move- - ment in which one Japanese col umn advanced from the north, an- -other from the south.. - -"The Japanese ; trap closed, , but the - American S and Philippine troops were not . in . the jaws," . it said. tTo this extent, the Japan- -ese strategy failed, necessitating . yesterday's frontal attack, which ' likewise failed." - - ; : Disclosure of - the unsueccessful frontal accaca . louuWou c- - day's communique. telling of ;. JP-j JP-j anese ; discrimination against ail white ' persona in 'Manila and, of "especially harsh" -treatment accorded ac-corded --American civilians.' 'The reports aroused anxiety for.: the , considerable group of U. . S. citi- -; (Continued on Page Two) ; ; ' BEHOVES SLOGAN ' FROM MASTHEAD - ' KUEBYSHEV, Jan. 2 (Delay- ' ed) HEThe army - ; newspaper j Red Star removed from its mast- ' head today 'the Marxist slogan, w "Workers of the Wtorld,' Unite,"! ' It replaced it with the war. slogan, slo-gan, "Death to German Invaders.' |