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Show PAGE EIGHT PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1942 U. S. Wins First Round In Battle Of Midway Island WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.E) The United States today appeared to have won at least the initial round of the battle to keep Midway Mid-way . Island out of the hands of the Japanese. Three weeks ago today was the last time the tiny island was mentioned in official American communiques. The last actual fighting' was reported in a navy .communique four weeks ago tomorrow. to-morrow. The silence indicated an absence of further Japanese attacks. Midway, 1,600 miles west of Honolulu and considered ty geographers geog-raphers as the easternmost of the Hawaiian islands, is probably garrisoned by the twin of the marine detachment Which wrote a new chapter of American gallantry gal-lantry at Wake. The Wake garrison was forced to fight an heroic but losing 14-day 14-day battle without reinforcements. The Midway island forces appear to have defeated the first Japanese Jap-anese efforts to blast them from their sandy stronghold. On Dec. 22 three days before Christmas at the peak of the battle of Wake--the navy issued its last word on Midway "there ha sbeen no enemy activity in the vicinity of Midway island re- rantHr " On Dec. 16, the navy reported the last actual ighting in a ' communique that said Midway was "countering the blows of the enemy." There has been no official revelation revel-ation of how the Japanese attack was beaten off. Because of Midway's Mid-way's comparative closeness to American air and naval support at Hawaii it seemed possible that the reinforcements which time and distance denied to Wake were available for Midway. Midway comprises two small Islands and several sand bars surrounded sur-rounded by a cora lreef. Administratively Ad-ministratively they are part of the city of Honolulu. The largest of f the islands comprises only 850 acres. Its highest point is 43 feet above sea level. Its name. Sand island, aptly describes it. Eastern island, the second of the group Is. lss than half the size of Sand island. Midway has a naval air station, sta-tion, a cable station and little else. There has never been any of- ticial statement of What forces are defending Midway. It is likely that they are comparable to the Wake garrison of 13 marine officers of-ficers and 365 men plus medical detachment of seven men. Wake also had 1.000 civilians engaged In construction projects. The Wake defenses included 12 -fighter planes, , eight of which were shot down by the Japanese in the opening days of the battle, six 5-inch guns, 12 3-inch antiaircraft antiair-craft guns and a few machine guns and smaller weapons. Parent-Teachers Discuss Hygiene PHEASANT GROVE Health and hygiene in the school were . discussed by, experts at the Monday Mon-day evening: meetine of the local P.T.-A. organization held in the high school auditorium, according to Mrs. Lena Pearson, president. Heart ailments were , explained by Dr. William R. Young, a specialist in thfis field. Other speaker on the program was Miss Ruth Munford of Salt Lake City, one of the state visiting nurses. Her subject was eye care and examination. Music was under the direction of Miss Betha Storrs, teacher at the Central school. if your hose C10SESUP TONIGHT Put 3-pui ps Va-tro-nol up each nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation. (3) relieves transient nasal congestion con-gestion . . . and brings greater breathing comfort! as wens incite. VA-TD0-M0L GASH to pay your INCOME TAX At PERSONAL we make loans credit-worthy folks single or signatures, or on rural- ture or auto. We make loans $25 to $250 or more, so don't hesitate to ask for as much as you need. If you can repay small monthly installments, come In or phone today. GLOUE-FITTING SLIP COVERS AT BARGAIN PRICES! If Ordered During January or February Select Now Delivery Later W WL Co. HORSE MARKET IS LOOKING UP CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (Vi The horse market Is fattening on the rubber shortage and transportation transporta-tion companies , from coast to coast are preparing to turn back the clock to "the horse and buggy day." Wayne K. Dinsmore, executive secretary of the horse and mule association of America, said tonight to-night that two developments in the "rubber and automotive 'situation" 'sit-uation" indicated that more and more "rubber shot gas burners" are going to be displaced by "Iron shod hay burners." The developments were: 1. The asking price for horses has risen .$15 per head since the war opened. 2. The Horse and Mule association associ-ation has received hundreds of inquiries in the last 10 days from transportation companies seeking information on delivery and draft horses - and on horse-drawn vehicles. ve-hicles. Roosevelt May Appoint Willkie To War Position WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.R President Roosevelt is considering consider-ing the appointment of Wendell Lt. Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential presi-dential candidate, as a member of a supplemental board of "umpires" "um-pires" to assist the new national war labor board, the White House said today. Willkie conferred with Mr. Roosevelt this morning, but White House Secretary Stephen Early said he thought the possibility of Willkie's appointment to the supplemental sup-plemental body was not the pri mary purpose of the conference. Mr. Roosevelt created the war labor board by executive order yesterday. The order abolished the national defense mediation board and made William H. Davis chairman chair-man of the new board, as he had been of the old one. Early disclosed that Willkie was one among several persons on a list yet to be completed by the president for assisting " the new labor board as "umpires or arbitrators." ar-bitrators." In most important cases that come before the war labor board, Early said, the board members will sit as a panel with selected umpires um-pires from the supplemental list. WarlnBrief Philippines MacArthur's artillery artil-lery bests Japanese guns in duel. Batavla Dutch garrison on oil-rich oil-rich Tarakan island surrenders; Dutch planes bomb Japanese fleet; Japanese air forces attack central Celebes coast and Ternate island. Singapore British abandon Port Swettenham on Malacca Strait as Japanese intensify drive on Singapore; 11 Japanese planes reported shot down in Singapore area. Cairo British capture Axis stronghold of Solum on Egyptian-Libyan Egyptian-Libyan frontier, advance on El Agheila. Berlin Continued fighting reported re-ported on Moscow and Leningrad fronts; claim British attacks repulsed re-pulsed at Solum. London Governments in exile promise retribution against Axis for torturing population of occupied occu-pied countries; claim Hitler flees Smolensk headquarters as Russians Rus-sians drive westward; unofficial reports claim Russians capture Orel; Germany reportedly opens new recruiting campaign and seeks new leaders- to replace purged generals. Tokyo-Japanese claim capture of Kakas airdrome on Celebes Island; Is-land; report 16 British-planes shot down in southern Malaya. The color yellow, which in ancient an-cient times denoted glory and fortune, for-tune, now is the symbol of infidelity, infidel-ity, treachery, and misfortune. 1 for this purpose to employed, married on Just their own FINANCE CO. Room 207 IS East Center St. Phone 621 Provo, Utah (Over Walgreen Drug) John Van Wenten, Mgr. Jury Guilty of Harder In Utah Shooting . ST. GEORGE. Utah. Jan. 13 (TLB) Seventeen-year-old Vae Monroe ffonlev todav faced death before a Utah state firing squad for the $21 robbery-murder of a south ern Utah rancher. Fenley was convicted of first degree murder by a district court jury that deliberated less than four hours. The jury of farmers made no recommendation. Under Utah law, a death sentence sen-tence is mandatory. The sentence will he nassed Thursdav bv Judce Will L.. Hoyt Fenley will have his choice of death on the gauows .or before a firing squad but most condemned men in this state have taken the blazing rifles. Fenley admitted that he . shot and killed Royal Hunt, 29-year-old Central, Utah, rancher last November. No-vember. Hunt had befriended the former CCC enrollee and given him a job. Fenley shot him through a window, robbed him of $21, saw he wasn't dead, shot him again, tried to drag his body away with a horse then fled into the hills. Fenley was captured less than 24 hours after Hunt's murder. During the five-day district court trial, Fenley"s counsel pleaded plead-ed for leniency on the grounds the boy was insane. His mother testified her son "hasn't been normal" since he was hit by a baseball when seven year old. Freighter Sunk By Torpedo Off Jova Scotia Coast OTTAWA, Jan. 13 (U.R) The torpedoing of a freighter 160 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia was revealed today with the arrival ar-rival here, of 79 survivors. They said 91 persons aboard the vessel lost their lives. The torpedo hit the freighter about 7 p. m. Sunday night, the survivors said. The name of the 10,000-ton freighter was not disclosed. Two torpedoes struck the vessel, ves-sel, the survivors said. The survivors sur-vivors drifted for several hours in an open boat before they were rescued. Thirty-two of them were taken to a hospital for treatment. The others were ordered to bed by doctors who treated them for shock and exposure. Japs Shoot Down 16 British Planes TOKYO, Jan. 13 (Broadcast recorded re-corded in San Francisco' by U. P.) Imperial headquarters announced announc-ed today that 16 British war planes were shot down over Singapore Singa-pore and Johore during Monday's raids by Japanese aircraft. Japanese air squadrons encountered encount-ered 16 Buffalo type British planes at noon Monday over Johore and in a spirited combat, 10 of the Buffaloes were shot down, it was announced. Following the raid, the airfield at Tengah was severely bombed, and a Blenheim was brought down over the airfield there. Later the same day, powerful formations of Japanese planes encountered en-countered another formation of Buffaloes and shot down five of them over Senetar. Imperial headquarters head-quarters added that all the Japanese Jap-anese raiders returned to their base. A dispatch from the Philippines war front declared that with the fall of Olangapo, the remaining American forces resisting on the Bataan peninsula are on the verge of wholesale collapse. "These troops now are forced to the choice of continuing their resistance re-sistance in the mountainous areas of Maraveles, or fleeing to Oor-regidor," Oor-regidor," the dispatch said. "However "How-ever reconnaissance over Cbrregi-dor Cbrregi-dor by Japanese planes reveals the remaining troops appear to be trying to flee in transport vessels gathered along the coast." Cranium Answers Questions on Page Three 1. "Lighthorse Harry" Lee was a cavalry officer in the Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War and father of Robert E. Lee. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, Confederate commander, was known as "Stonewall," Gen. Wil-Tiam Wil-Tiam Henry Harrison was dubbed "Tippecanoe" for hi victory in the battle of that name. 2. President Andrew Jackson was "Old Hickory"; Theodore Roosevelt, "Rough Rider"; William Wil-liam - Henry Harrison, "Tippecanoe.'' "Tippeca-noe.'' 3. Edgar "Special Delivery" Jones of Pittsburgh; Harold "Galloping "Gal-loping Ghost" Grange of Illinois, better known as "Red"; and Jack "Rabbit" Crane of Texas were football players with famous nicknames. nick-names. 4. Congressmen with nicknames included Senator Theodore G. The Man" Bilbo of Mississippi; Rep. John N. "Cactus Jack" Garner Gar-ner of Texas; Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina. Caro-lina. 5. Lord Beaverbrook, minister of supply, is known as "The Beaver"; Beav-er"; Prime Minister Winston Churchill is affectionately known as "Winnie. ' - - - ' Chinese Claim Battle Victory CHUNGKING, Jan. 13 (HE) The Chinese Central; news, agency said ' today that Chinese troops lashing. Into the remnants of the Japanese army retreating from Changsha have killed 8,000 men In a 24-hour battle and routed the remainder. The agency said the engagement-took place 30 miles northeast north-east of Changsha, from which the Japanese were thrown back in heavy fighting after their third failure to capture- the Hunan province capital. They lost upwards up-wards of 60,000 men in that fighting. fight-ing. The , Chinese captured artillery, radio equipment, important doc lal Satin omit ITS 36: LteV sort- rUe lie 1.49 49c A 11 16 TWO;1 "?rd 49 , Fancy f F i Bed PILLOW I .wn V .. ; IV GiteS "For Thrifty Shopper?' uments and Japanese officers who were wearing Chinese clothing in the new engagement, the dispatch dis-patch said. a She Found Out 'Something Wrong' ; FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 13 HIE) Mrs, Verna V. Ballard told police she" thought "there was something wrong with my engine. en-gine. She knew, she said, that she had backed into another automobile automo-bile as she maneuvered her car out of a parking place, but she didn't know bumpers of the two vehicles had locked. 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