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Show Help Win the War America . needs men, materials, money and yon. most furnish the , money. Buy defense bonds and stamps every payday. 77ie TVeafter Newly-established military regulations regu-lations prohibit the release, of any farther weather information, Including In-cluding temperatures. mi i. -i i fYr?''?--'"--" -j - - ' 3- FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 131jj UTAWS ON1.T DA1LT-WOTTTH DA1LT-WOTTTH OF WATT LAK PRO VP, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942 COMPLXTtt U KIT ED FRK8S PRICE FIVE CENTS UUvl JV -3- "ffnl ) fp f? e) in r - A- I n i Freighter Sunk By Submarine Off Nova Scotia Eighty - nine Survivors Reach Canadian Shore, While 91 Lost Their Lives, Closest Attack To U. S, Since War Began AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT, Jan. 13 (U.R) In the closest attack, to the Canadian shore since the war began, a submarine torpedoed and sank a 10,000-ton freighter 160 miles off Nova Scotia, it was revealed today with the arrival here of 89 survivors. The attack was made within the last 36 hours. Ninety-one persons among the 180 members and crew, including four whites, lost their lives. Most of the victims 1 ? were believed to be Chinese crew DESK CHAT BY THE EDTTOB s. Possibly it was part of the strategy of the Japanese attack at-tack onPearl Harbor to intimidate in-timidate and terrorize the American people. If so, it had some interesting byproduct by-product proofs of our terror. One of these is that it frightened 40,000 young Americans right into the Navy, 60,000 into the Army, and thousands more into the Marine Corps, during the re--mainder of the month of-December, an all-time high record. rec-ord. If the Japanese can frighten fright-en us enough more, they are going to frighten us right into in-to winning the war. Other groups might equal the example of the Provo city 'teachers and other employes of the school- district in buying defense bonds, but . it's hard to see how they can surpass it. Pledge cards have been signed by 141 individuals in-dividuals on the school district dis-trict payroll, authorizing a deduction of $18.75 every month, which is equivalent to a $25 bond. oOo That isn't all the teachers also made a substantial contribution con-tribution to the Red Cross. And don" forget, nobody ever accused a school teacher of beimf overpaid. White mice came from Central Asia centuries ago and a lot of yellow rats from ' Japan just recently. Heavy Fighting Seen in Crimea LONDON, Jan. 13 l'.R) The Moscow radio reported tonight that despite bad weather and poor visibility heavy fighting continued In the Crimea. Russian infantry, artillery and planes were reported report-ed causing heavy German casualties casual-ties and preventing Nazi troops from digging in. The radio reported that several Nazi leaders, including Maj. Gen. Gert Braus, Maj. Gen. Richard Helmar, commander of the sixth division elite guard regiment, and Herman Grosse, leader of the Hitler Hit-ler youth movementin the Duis-berg Duis-berg region, had been killed on the Russian front, .y' State Welfare Commission to Discuss Pace Dismissal With Medical Group From a meeting of the Utah welfare commission and the council coun-cil of the Utah State Medical association as-sociation tonight at Salt Lake City, is expected to come a complete com-plete understanding in the matter of dismissal of Dr. Garland H. Pace as superintendent of the Utah State hospital, members of the commission indicated today. Chairman David R. Trevi thick of the commission said a general discussion of the whole matter men. Thirteen of the survivors were suffering so badly from exposure they were taken directly from the Canadian vessel which rescued res-cued them to a hospital here. Other survivors were ordered to bed and treated for shock and exposure. The name of the freighter was not disclosed. Two torpedoes struck the vessel. ves-sel. The naval gunner, survivors said, was hurled overside by the force of the first torpedo and was swimming near the ship when the submarine fired the final torpedo. This torpedo struck him and then crashed 'into the freighter. "Most of us got away from the ship In five lifeboats and three rafts long before the ship went to the bottom," William Shedd, 23. Greenoch, Scotland, said. Dennis Carroll, 18, Southampton, Southamp-ton, England, said crew members saw the U-boat pass earlier, but mistook it"" forTan" allied suo because be-cause it did not attack at that time. "Only the conning tower was showing and it was barely visible," visi-ble," he said, "one torpedo crashed into the . staorboard side and a few minutes later another went into the port side." The first jtorpedo smashed the propeller shaft and flooded the engine room, making it impossible impossi-ble for, the freighter to elude the second missile. L. J. Hughes, 19, Vancuver, said 28 men in his lifeboat died of exposure. The sinking so close to the Canadian Ca-nadian shore recalled, the warning issued last fall by Naval Minister Angus MacDonald and Vice Admiral Ad-miral Percy Nelles, chief of staff, that enemy submarines were operating off the north American coast. There had been reports' of merchant shipping encountering hostile U-boats in the vicinity of Newfoundland, and one allied ship eluded a pursuing sub which began be-gan stalking it 30 miles from the coast. State Road Cop Draws $45 Fine CIRCLE VILLE, Utah, Jan. 13 (U.E) Justice of the Peace Clyde Anderson today announced he had fined State Highway Patrolman Armond A. Luke $45 on his conviction con-viction of assault and battery against State Senator McKinley Morrill. Anderson said he had granted Luke 30 days in' which to take an appeal to the district court If he desires. Luke and Morill reportedly were engaged in an argument over employment of defense guards at reservoirs around Junction Junc-tion at the time the offense was committed. In Salt Lake City, P. L. Dow, superintendent of the patrol, said he was making an investigation of the incident to determine if disciplinary dis-ciplinary action should be taken against Luke. will ensue. "We hope to explain the whole set-up as it exists in our eyes and the folly of our respective re-spective groups being at odds." The medical association had declined de-clined the request of the commission, commis-sion, to submit names of three qualified persons from among whom a successor could be named, because it had concluded that politics played a part in the removal re-moval of Dr. Pace, who was relieved re-lieved of his duties Saturday at midnight, Women Traffic j i i minim ii in ii linn ii in ii , ii Hi n jm,'""'" ff f 1 is " V " f Mst T7 8J2 : 1 1 Cr " ' tr ' ' I) &r-ir& M it) " p- 11 1 C -s n " s y . ' " " - J " - S s " " -s ? In Oakland, Calif., a few of 200 volunteer women go on traffic duty around schools, relieving regular officers needed for national defense wort An additional 200 are being trained in the Women's School Traffic Reserve. . Argentina Rupture By EVERETT R. HOLLES RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 13 (U.R) Argentina may be forced into isolation from its American neighbors if it opposes op-poses a joint severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers at the third consultative meeting of American for4 4 ""' ' "- - "S Roosevelt Fears Farm Bloc Change Will Stir Unrest By JOHN R. BEAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UE President Roosevelt today described describ-ed the senate price control legislation legis-lation as a bill to compel inflation, because it would permit farm prices to rise to 120 per cent of parity before any ceiling can be imposed. The president met earlier today with house conferees and asked them to reject the senate bill. He said he told the legislators that an overwhelming majority of farmers throughout the nation didl not want to be accused of starting start-ing a price spiral that In the JOng run would be expensive and costly cost-ly to them as well as the' rest of the country. The five who njet with Mr. Roosevelt will represent the house in the conference to compromise differences between the price legislation passed by the chamber and the senate. It was understood that the house conferees were generally impressed with the president's views. One conferee forecast that the house group would seek to reject re-ject the senate amendments which would permit farm prices to rise higher than they could under, the house bill and which would place control of farm prices in the agriculture department. "It probably won't be difficult to get an agreement in conference confer-ence committee," a house con-, feree said. "But it seems questionable ques-tionable to me whether the senate sen-ate or the house will adopt the report the conference committee returns. "The house is as agriculture-minded agriculture-minded as the senate and the administration ad-ministration is going to have to exert tremendous pressure to get its program approved." Mr. Roosevelt was said to have told the house conferees that . if farm prices Were to rise about 25 per cent, the resultant increase in the cost of living would bring from labor renewed demands for wage hikes which employers might refuse to meet. Japanese Push Through Malaya TOKYO. Jan. 13 (Official broadcast broad-cast recorded by United Press in San Francisco) A news dispatch from Malaya said Japanese motorized motor-ized units "in pursuit of the beat en enemy," crossed the border be tween Selangor and Negri Sem-blaing Sem-blaing provinces at 5 p. m. today. "Unable to render further resistance re-sistance the defeated British forces are fleeing further toward the Malacca district," the dispatch said. Police Go on Duty Around Coast Schools Opposes With Axis elgn ministers, beginning Thars-- day, reliable sources said today. A formal break between all American nations with the exception excep-tion of Argentina, and Germany, Italy and Japan, was almost certain cer-tain of approval at the opening session of the conference in Tira-dentes Tira-dentes palace. Sumner Welles, United States under-secretary of state, and head of the U. S. delegation, predicted pre-dicted that the conference would create a solid American front against the Axis. "I am confident that success will be achieved at this conference," confer-ence," he said, "and, by the same spirit, the solidarity of the hemisphere hemis-phere will be rendered impregnable impregna-ble from attack. "Certain powers, seeking td dominate the entire earth by the sword, have committeed aggression aggres-sion against a nation of the new world and are today menacing the security and future independence independ-ence of the western hemisphere." The Chilean and "Uruguayan delegations disclosed that military mili-tary leaders of the western hemisphere probably would meet after the plenary sessions to discuss dis-cuss common defense measures and establish permanent military committees. Argentina was the only dissenter. dis-senter. Ten of the 21 American republics have declared war against the Axis and eight have taken a strong stand on the side of the United States. Chile and Uruguay yesterday expressed the "need for American unity," dispelling dis-pelling reports that recent conferences con-ferences at Buenos Aires had resulted re-sulted in the formulation of a bloc of South American nations against joint action. Welles was ' expected to confer with Argentine Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu upon Gui-nazu's Gui-nazu's arrival today. YELLOWSTONE TO BE OPEN AS USUAL YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., Jan. 13 (U.E) J. W. Emmert, act-in act-in gsuperintendent of Yellowstone park, said today the national playground play-ground would be open as usual next spring and summer. , - ; ) Hitler Faces Serious Reverses BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE Of the United Press War Desk A barrage of reports from Swiss, Swedish and other sources indicates indi-cates that In addition to his military mili-tary reverses pn the Russian front. Hitler is having trouble at home, within his army and in the occupied countries. All these reports cannot be taken at face value, but there are so many of them, and from such varied sources, that they cannot be entirely ignored. If it is true that Hitler has lost 25 of his generals gen-erals in the wake of the dismissal of Field Marshal Von Brauchitsch, there must be considerable dls-senion dls-senion in the German command. At a time when leadership' and Red Army Driving Deep Wedge Into German Positions BY ILYA EHRENBOURG Soviet War Co rers pendent Written for die United Press MALOTf AKOSLAVETS, BEHIND BE-HIND THE CENTRAL FRONT. faanv 13 W A..M.Vhe,du iir large force is driving adeep wedge into Uie enemy positions on the central front, outflanking the main . axis centers of resistance and leaving Maloyaroslavets far behind the advance lines. . The bodies'of Germans lie frozen froz-en along the roads and the enemy has fallen back so rapidly that he had had no time to bury his dead. Sometimes the red army has advanced through snow that is waist deep, through blizzards and intense cold, covering six to 10 miles a day. There are cities ahead which the Germans are trying to hold a high price but they may be expected ex-pected to fall any day. They have been surrounded or are caught in pincers operations. (The main German-held cities west of Maloyaroslavets are Lyu-dinovo, Lyu-dinovo, which the Russians already al-ready have taken, and Vyazma, which is the' main objective of the southern arm of the Russian pincers pushing westward from Maloyaroslavets. ) I am writing in the ancient Russian Rus-sian town of Maloyaroslavets after having returned from the front. Ten days ago there was fighting hereout now this town is far behind the lines and life has resumed its course. The electric elec-tric lights are on again and the power station is working. Our troops are advancing far to the west. I witnessed the offensive in bitter bit-ter cold. The snow was blinding when the sun shone. Red army men marched over snow fields in which they sank to their belts. In the forest I saw Germans frozen to death. One was sitting (Continued on Page Three) AUSTRALIA TO DEAL WITH U. S. DIRECT MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 13 (OR) Australia will conduct direct negotiations with the United Unit-ed States, in a radical departure from empire policy, as part of the allied discussion of grand strategy in : the ' Pacific, authoritative sources said today. energy are needed - to halt the Russian advance and save the German armies from a winter rout, this would be important news. Moreover, divided leadership would have a bad effect on the morale of the troops, already reported re-ported deteriorating The bitter cold, the lack of proper clothine and shortage of rations because of transportation difficulties, are bound to have a bad effect on morale. The German transoceannews agency carried a dispatch, saying the dally transport of food, clothing cloth-ing and equipment to Roumanian troops , east of the Dnieper - had been "temporarily" discontinued. If thia means the troops are ex- MAC ARTHUR'S BIG GUNS WIN FIRST ROUND 11 Japanese Batteries Knocked Out In Artillery Duel By HARRISON SALISBURY WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R) . The war department reported s today that Gen. Douglas . MacArthur's big guns won the opening round of the battle of Bataan, shattering shat-tering Japanase tank and infantry in-fantry concentrations, knocking knock-ing out 11 Japanese batteries and forcing the enemy to fall back. The silencing of 11 Japanese batteries probably means that between be-tween 40 and 50 Japanese guns were knocked out. The usual artillery artil-lery battery comprises about four guns. The . American communique claimed a major success for Mae-Arthur's Mae-Arthur's men in the vital artillery duel in .which the Japanese had hoped to soften fJ. S. positions in preparation for a grand assault. Battle Rages 24 Hoars For 24 hours,' the department said on the basis of reports' from MacArthur, the battle raged without cessation with the boom of heavy gunfire rolling like thunder over twisted jungles and mountainous peaks of Bataan province. pro-vince. "Columns of enemy tanks and other' armored units, as well as infantry concentrations, were shattered and dispersed ny our Japanese, losaef,? the communique said. Eleven Japanese batteries were smashed out-of action by the accurate ac-curate fire of the American guns. The Japanese were forced to withdraw their batteries "well to the rear of the positions formerly occupied. Mac Arthur's featxin besting the. Japanese in the artillery duel was regarded as spectacular evidence evi-dence of his intimate knowledge of "Philippine terrain and tactics. Despite the numerical inferiority inferior-ity of the American and Philippine Philip-pine forces, and the fact that the Japanese rule the air over the U. S. positions, MacArthur was able to emplace his guns and direct di-rect their fire so successfully that' the Japanese superior weight of men and metal was more than compensated for. Even with the aid of dive- bombers, the communique said, the Japanese were able to inflict relativelv little damage on the American positionsfurther proof that these previously-prepared positions were well-selected and well-camoufluaged. "Losses to American and (Continued on Page Three) Woman Injured In Freak Mishap SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 U.R Hospital attendants said today the condition of Miss Wilda Hot-tinger, Hot-tinger, 20, Injured in a peculiar accident ac-cident yesterday, was "fair." Miss Hottinger was hurt seriously when a truck and car collided and then careened, across a sidewalk where she was standing. Meanwhile, funeral services were planned for Virginia NeiL 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Neil of Centerville, who was killed yesterday while coasting. Her sled shot under a car driven by Amasa Clark of Farmington. The death was the 8th in Utah this year attributable to traffic. In 1941, only two persons were killed in the same period In German High Command pected to live off the country, they will find it next to impossible. impos-sible. . From the military standpoint, the German positions remain bad. The Russian advances continue all along the line and Hitler is reported re-ported reliably to have abandoned aban-doned his headquarters at Smolensk Smo-lensk in -face of. the. Russian threat. There seems to be - no questions of a" German counter-, offensive this 'winter,- but only of how far the army win withdraw before it- finds positions it can hold. The : increasing difficulties of winter transportation over the extended German lines may make that withdrawal deep. Allied East Needed Re Intensified Aerial Action Begins Against Japanese Invaders of Dutch Islands of Tarakan and Celebes, Malay a" By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The allies united fighting forces engaged the Japanese offensive on all, fronts in the Far East today, and smashed at the axis in Russia and North Africa. In the Philippines, beleaguered American defenders of Bataan peninsula scored a triumph in a heavy artillery duel that drove back the enemy, smashed armored columns and broke up infantry concentrations attempting1 to mass foran all-out assault. - - In the East Indies, allied air reinforcements appeared to have arrived, probably from America, and intensified aerial action was beginning against Japanese invaders in-vaders of the Dutch islands of Tarakan and Celebes, as well as enemy sea and land forces in the western Pacific and Malaya. Dutch. Bombers Busy- w Putch bombers, using some of the 50 secret jungle airdromes prepared against the Japanese, roared eastward over Borneo to strike at the enemy naval and land forces on Tarakan and Celebes. Cele-bes. Dutch officials said a program pro-gram of heavy, systematic bombing bomb-ing of the enemy was starting. An official statement said the scorched earth program had destroyed de-stroyed all oil resources on Tarakan Tara-kan island before it surrendered to the Japanese. Increased allied air forces appeared ap-peared to be te -action 4a- Malaya, where the Japanese made their most severe night and day air raids on Singapore, but suffered losses of almost 10 per cent of the attacking bombers. British defense forces were reported fighting bitterly on the peninsula about 150 miles north of Singapore, Singa-pore, but there was no word of any Important change in positions. Northward in Burma, there was another air alarm at Rangoon, Ran-goon, and Indications increased that military operations were impending. im-pending. Axis sources have reported re-ported that the Japanese were moving against Burma, while allied al-lied reports have indicated that the British, with the help of Chinese Chi-nese troops, might strike at Japanese Jap-anese rear bases in Thailand. Axis claims of triumphs were less vigorous today, although the Berlin official news agency broad- , said atabatUeship re ported sunk off Egypt last No vember by a German U-boat had now been identified as Britain's 31,100-ton dreadnaught Barham. London made no comment on the Barham. Hitler Moves South-In South-In Russia, Adolf Hitler was reported to have abandoned his headquarters at Smolensk and moved southward as the Red army offensive hammered forward southwest of Moscow, south of Leningrad, on the Arctic coast, in the far north and in Crimea on the Black sea. In Egypt, the British Imperials captured the Axis fortress of Solum, So-lum, on the Egyptian border, and took 350 prisoners while advance forces far across the Libyan desert des-ert renewed pressure against the enemy in the El Agheila sector. On all war fronts except Russia, the allies still were forced to distribute dis-tribute their strength to vital sectors sec-tors in an effort to oppose concentrated concen-trated Axis strength, but there were indications that' the new united high command in the Pacific was getting results. In Australia, it was disclosed that Prime Minister John Curtin had opened direct negotiations on (Continued on rage inree; Reports from Berlin say that Germany is calling up army reservists re-servists and starting a recruiting drive. This is explained by a Berlin Ber-lin spokesman as advance preparation prepar-ation for a spring campaign. However, How-ever, it seems' more likely that it would be to reinforce the sagging German lines and majke v up Tor the dwindling support of the Roumanian Rou-manian and Hungarian allies. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 13 (EE) A high German military source in Scandanavia said today that Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock, who had been in command of the middle sector of the Russian front, had haan TaM nnrfm HhnilM arrest" in : his. villa at Dahlem,, suburb the .war fund drive and the de of Berttn' - ' vense bonds'- buying, program Air Forces In Indies Receive C m nrorcement HITLER FORCED TO MOVE NAZI HEADQUARTERS BY ROBERT DOWSON LONDON, Jan. 13 (HE Adolf Hitler has fled from his new headquarters head-quarters at Smolensk, 230 miles west-southwest of Moscow, before the relentless counter-drive ; of Russia's red army, Swiss reporta from Berlin said today. A Zurich dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph, quoting unquestionable un-questionable , Berlin sources, , said Hitler had left Smolensk, " key town of the Moscow front, for a, new headquarters somewhere , in southern Russia. Russian forces were known to have . been within 110 miles of Smolensk, on the tragic road upon which Napoleon's grand army died after capturing Mosalsk. It was plain that the new headquarters head-quarters which Hitler established establish-ed . there just before Christmas, -when he assumed the ' supreme command of the army in pursuit of an "inner call" were now threatened. threat-ened. ; ... A United Press dispatch from Kuiybyshev said the Russian ad-vance ad-vance had been acclerated "all along the Moscow front and that 157 inhabited places had been recaptured re-captured in 'three days. The advance was said to be especially strong on the southern flank, aimed at Smolensk, where one red army unit had advanced nine miles in a single day. . Kuibyshev reported that the Germans had started to abandon some fortified positions after the Russians threw a big force of ex- ' pert ski troops into the front lines to harass communications and in swift marches through-the snow bound woods .by night, to sur- ' round and cut off German strong points. . Stockholm dispatches reported that the Russians had surrounded Orel, 200 miles south of Moscow, trapping at least two German regiments, number 6,000 men and 250 tanks. - Berlin reports had told of ferocious fer-ocious Russian attacks in vaves " on OreL A United Press Kuibyshev dispatch dis-patch intimated that Kharkov, the great Donets river industrial center cen-ter 210 miles south of Orel, might soon be in Russian hands again. TEACHERS BUY DEFENSE BONDS New impetus was given Provo's campaign, for purchase' of defense bonds today when it. was announced announc-ed 141 teachers . and other em- -ployes of,the Provo. city school district have agreed to participate partici-pate in a large-scale bond buying' program.-'-''- The , 141 have signed cards agreeing to purchase .one -118.75 bond ($25 maturity value) each, month -, apiece beginnings with January 15. This would - mean a total of $2643.75 would -be spent each month by the i group for bonds. -V- ? - ' " The same group of teachers and other school . district employes voted a contribution totaling S5U to the Red Cross war fund.. This. ' group . is - the . largest - as yet to announce mass- support- of |