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Show PAGE TWO PROVO. (UTAH) DAILY HERALD; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1942 S. F. BLACKOUT WORKS BETTER SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (HE) Residents of the San Francisco bay area agreed today that great improvement in civil defense organization or-ganization wasshown in last night's 19-minute blackout, the region's seventh of 'the war. ' An air raid alarm was sounded after listeners for the Fourth interceptor in-terceptor command heard an unidentified un-identified airplane," later found to be "friendly." The warning fol-Towed fol-Towed a 46-minute "alert" period, during which civilian defense workers scuried to their posts and army anti-aircraft crews prepared for action. The blackout was effective between be-tween Santa Cruz, 80 miles to the south and Hamilton Field, 25 miles north of San Francisco. The area included San Jose, Berkeley, Richmond, Oakland, Alameda and the vital defense area around Valiejo and Contra Costa county. Authorities considered the blackout fairly successful in San Francisco, where lights twinkled out within two or three minutes after the sirens sounded at 9:01 p. m., (PWTJ. BURMA ROAD (Continued from Page One) detachment aiding the Japanese, i The Thailand forces were said to : be retreating toward ChiengMai, 80 miles inside Thailand. Further south, however, there ; was no check in the Japanese advance ad-vance against British, Burmese and Indian troops along the Bilin river line. At this point the Japanese Jap-anese were only aoout 40 miles from the Rangoon railroad connections con-nections which feed the Burma road. The American success was - scored by the men of Gen. Douglas Doug-las AlacArthur in a hard-hitting counterattack on the left flank of their Bataan province lines. i The U. S.--. attack, in which : American regular, - Philippine " scouts and raw Philippines levies seasoned by two and a half months of jungle fighting participated, parti-cipated, was reported by Frank Hewlett, United Press staff correspondent cor-respondent &rith MacArtnur, to have wiped out a Japanese regi- - ment. . The i, finiintfitgattftflr. .-Hewlett said, seriously disrupted Japanese offensive plans. Washington reports re-ports indicated, however, that the setback was only temporary and that the Japanese, with the aid of additional aircraft, are preparing tor a tresn assault on MacArtnur s lines. In London a government spokesman spokes-man in a partial answer to the storm of criticism against the government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, claimed that a big force of parachute and air invasion troops is being built .up for eventual use against the European Euro-pean continent. He said that Britain must be maintained inviolate as a bridgehead bridge-head for allied operations against the Axis in Europe, and in a grim analysis cf United Nations' pD&i- tions around the world, insisted that the invasion threat to the British Isles remains grave. The address was the opening gun in a two-day parliamentary war debate which Churchill authorized. Churchill's advisers, concerned by the persistence of criticism despite the prime" minister's statements, were 'said to be advising him to make changes in his cabinet rath . er than risk aggravating the political poli-tical crisis. . tJ ,eM1 THIS In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets, there are no chemicals, no minerals, no phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are different dif-ferent cl different Purely fegetablt combination of 10 vegetable ingredients formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated or candy coated, their action is dependable, depend-able, thorough, yet gentle, as millions of NR's have proved. 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Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's "air force" a solitary P-40 pursuit plane-sighted plane-sighted approaching barges off the west coast one night and flashed a warning. American artillery and bombs from the plane smashed and fired the barges, stopped them all short of shore. In the morning there were dead Jap soldiers and smoking ruins of barges on the beach. Safety Films Available at 'Y' In cooperation with the Provo city police department, Brigham Young university is offering free to the public a program of defense de-fense and safety films, according to Thomas L. Broadbent of tne department of visual education. For a two weeks period be sinning sin-ning March 1 and ending March 15, the university will furnish to service clubs ..schools, churches, and other organizations which may be interested three new sound films on safety and defense. The films are "Fighting the Fire Bomb," "Horse Sense in Horsepower," and "Bicycling with Complete Safety." Arrangement for the showing of the films can be made by contacting con-tacting the Extension Division at Brigham Young university , according ac-cording to Professor Broadbent. Fiery Itching Skin Gets Quick Relief Simple Home Treatment Eases ( Soreness Distress Thcrp Is one simple yet Inexpensive nay to etse the itrhlnn and torture of Eczema. Rashes aiul niRny other externally ex-ternally causer! Kkin eruptions unci thnt ia to apply Moones Fmeralil Oil nitsht and nioriiint?. People who suffer from 1'ieh Mnil.arraBsinK or vinsinhtly skin trout. les woulil be wise to Irv it. Just ask any first -cl;is.s druffirist for an original bottle of Moone's Kmeraltl-Oil. Kmeraltl-Oil. If this elean, powerful, penetrating oil fails to dive complete satisfaction you ran have your money refunded. --ad v. Disappointment Later SADDLES 4 Ftli SSifi UVW InT BARRIER of Jap bases and seized . y TOi?,"- yt,wq rr - areas-rtogtet-Bataatt-has-kept M- , r v i.t'.U nil . r v, ;v .from reachlnc Philippines, "doomed llnaT-? , 'I Wted" defenders. , , - - 1 1 ty v 1 : .... II i i ON BATAAN PENINSULA, a mountainous, jungled. region half the size of Rhode Island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur has commanded, American and Filipino troops in a stand rivaling any battle . in VUNS. history for intensity and heroism. MacArthur's men have stood oft land, sea and. air assaults with continued tenacity, slowly retiring toward the rocky fortress of Cor-regidor Cor-regidor Island, supply and communications base protecting their rear. Bond Presented Essay Winner SPANISH FORK Willis Hill, popular principal of the Central school was awarded a $25 defense bond at the Americanism meeting of the Junior chamber of commerce com-merce held Wednesday night at Sutton's Dutch vGrill cafe. The award was for? the best essay written in the Spanish Fork district dis-trict on the subject "Why I Am Glad I Am An American", and was selected by the Ladies' Literary Lit-erary club of Spanish Fork as the best. The award was made by President Marvin Arnold of the Spanish Fork Jaycees. Sherman Sher-man Christenson, Provo attorney was the guest speaker of the evening and gave an eloquent address on "Americanism and National Na-tional Defense.'' A musical program pro-gram was , also featured. Members Mem-bers of the Spanish Fork Kiwanis club were the compliment e d guests of the younger organization organiza-tion at the meeting. President Arnold was the master of ceremonies. cere-monies. CITY COURT Pleading guilty in Provo police court to faliure to comply with traffic signs, Earl D. Hales, 30, of American Fork was sentenced by Judge M. B. Pope to pay a $50 fine or repair a city semaphore. sem-aphore. The truck driven by Hales knocked down a semaphore post at University avenue and Third South February 12 after colliding, with a CCC truck, according ac-cording to Provo police. According to the judge's ruling if Hales chooses to repair the semap hore he must pay only a $2.50 fine. Minor traffic violations resulted result-ed in forfeiture of bail by several motorists in city court today. Kenneth B. Hansen forfeited $5 fof speeding, and Kermit Anderson, An-derson, Paul White, and E. C. Barton each forfeited 52.50 for running a stop sign. "A BRAVE LOT. not afraid of death." one chronicler called the men with MacArthur. Pressed by 200,009 Japs, they have battled blitz in the jungles of Bataan with the strategy of American frontiersmen. When the enemy charged with planes, tanks, troops, U. S. forces have retired to prepared shelters in the mountain forests, only to emerge, make a stand, then counter-attack and drive the wearying foe back. Anti-aircraft units have bagged many a Jap plane, asked for more; accurate artillery fire has blasted out enemy positions before the attackers, could get moving; and plucky Americans and Filipinos still asked to go on the offensive after two months of pounding. Pension Repeal Move Bogs Down WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 UJ) The senate drive to repeal the pensions for congress plan bogged down today in a parliamentary muddle revolving around effort of some senators to obtain consideration con-sideration of a general old-age pensions measure. The general pension legislation was offered by Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Cal., former associate of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, as an amendment to the congessional pensions repealer sponsored by Sen. Harry F. Byrd. D.,,Va, . ... "This is an attempt to use this repealer measure as a rider to enact en-act the Townsend plan,"- Byrd shouted. He declared he would vote against his own resolution if the general pensions plan were adopt eJ. The Downey bill, worked out by a special senate committee, he headed last year, would grant wholly federal old-age pensions to needy (persons above 60 years of age. He estimated the plan would cost a little more than $1,000,000,-000 $1,000,000,-000 a year. Stocks firm in dull dealings. Bonds higher; U. S. governments govern-ments lower. Curb stocks irregular. Silver unchanged. Cotton futures off. Wheat closed up 1-4 to 1-2 cent; corn was up 1-4 to 3-8 cent. Metal Prices NEW YORK, Feb. 19 UJD Today's To-day's custom smelters prices fbf delivered metals (cents1 per lb. Copper: Electrolytic 12; export f.a.s. N. Y. 11.75n; castig f.o.b. MARKETS at a Glance - "IfSHi 4wwi PORT DARWIN (Continued from Page Ona) that a number of bombs had been dropped. Curtin said ' he would make a full announcement as soon as he had received detailed news. "Australia has now experienced direct physical contact with the war," he said. "The policy of the government is total mobilization for all Australia. Until we have put the necessary machinery into motion, all Australians must voluntarily vol-untarily answer the government's call.' Everything must be given, completely, to the nation.' An Australian air force com-munqiue com-munqiue said Australian planes had encountered Japanese fighter opposition over the Bismarck islands, is-lands, northeast of the continent, in their reconnaisance flights yesterday. yes-terday. Japanese attempts to interfere in-terfere with the Australian planes were unsuccessful, it was added. Japanese planes made reconnaissance recon-naissance flights over New Guinea, Gui-nea, between the Bismarcks and the continent, the communique said, but dropped no bombs. ExtendwAerial Front-In Front-In TOtacking Darwin the Japanese Jap-anese had extended their aerial offensive 1,100 miles to the west from New Guinea. The government urgently sought details, including the type of planes used and their starting point an aircraft carrier in the waters north of Australia or one of the Japanese-occupied airdromes air-dromes in the Australian defense zone. A total of 44 Japanese planes had made a one-hour attack Mon-. day on allied ships in the Timor sea- northeast of Darwin, without scoring a hit. Darwin had had a three-hour air raid alarm, its third of the war, on Feb. 8. Fighter planes from the reinforced Darwin air base went up to intercept Japanese Jap-anese attackers, but no planes were sighted. Similarly, no planes had been refinery 11.75n: lake, delivered 12. Lead r New York 6.50; East St. Louis 6.35. Zinc: New York 8.64; East St. Louis 8.25. GUNS of Corregidor and other U. S. forts dueled with Jap artillery across Manila Bay near Ternate blasted -"barges lined up for invasion -t - ?r- - 1 """ I 'i . r ; . irhmn-ia sighted in two previous alarm periods early in January. During the Feb. 8 alarm, it was reported that a Japanese aircraft air-craft carrier had been sighted several hundred miles off the north coast, making toward Darwin. Dar-win. Japan's, first direct aerial attack at-tack on Australia came while the government prepared the country coun-try for total mobilization, believing believ-ing a Japanese invasion of the continent was not possible, but likely. Parliament meets tomorrow in secret emergency session, and political quarters reported that the government would outline to it full plans to mobilize all human hu-man and material resources of this nation of 7,000,000 people to meet attack. Complete HURRY! THE SUPPLY IS LIMITED! mttp tovk rim wrtTr-)o box or ritn fooo 13 C0M ONEI COME All! IUT COME NOW! ; J i icji t f . 1 , t Roosevelt Unemployment Compensation Plan Voted Down By House Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) The house ways and means committee today voted down President Roosevelt's request re-quest for a $300,000,000 unemployment compensation appropriation ap-propriation for workers who lose their jobs through the con version cf peacetime industries to war production. The committee voted 16 to 8 against the appropriation, after less than an hour's deliberation. The rejection had been expected following: the overwhelming opposition oppo-sition of state governors, who feared that the legislation might be the first step in federalizing the unemployment compensation system. Committee members disclosed that efforts by adminsitration supporters to modify the program so that it would be acceptable by a majority of the committee, were over-ridden. The committee action effectively effective-ly killed any chance of getting such legislation to the floor unless un-less house leaders con muster enough votes to handle the program pro-gram in a direct appropriation. That, however, involves obtaining obtain-ing of a special rule which must be voted on by .the house, since under present rules the objection of a. ' single member can block house consideration of an appropriation appro-priation that has not been authorized auth-orized by legislation. The administration reversal was one of the worst which it has suffered since start of the war. Mr. Roosevelt has proposed the $300,000,000 program to supplement supple-ment state unemployment com pensation aid for war displaced workers, many of whom are in such industrial centers as Detroit. These people are rendered temporarily tem-porarily unemployed by the change over in their plants from peacetime output to munitions production. Under the proposed plan, the federal government would have guaranteed such unemployed persons per-sons 60 per cent of their normal wages, with a maximum of $24 a week. The treasury would have made up the difference between the state unemployment rate and the proposed minixnuma. MAC ARTHUR (Continued from Page One) Elm, Minn., was an officer in reserve. re-serve. . , Bianchi. carrying a rifle, voluntarily volun-tarily took part of the company into action. Early in the fighting, he was wounded in the left hand. He threw away his rifle, drew his pistol whicli he could handle with one . hand, and continued to lead his platoon. It was not long before Bianchi and his men were advancing into the fire of a Japanese machine gun nest. Bianchi's men located the nest and he disposed of it with a hand grenade. Later he spotted another machine ma-chine gun and directed fire against it. As he d;d so, he was wounded again. The platoon kept on, Bianchi in the lead. It reacheCr an American tank which had t been abandoned the previous day when a land mine disabled it. Bianchi climbed, despite his two wounds, into the (tank and with its gun wiped outthe second ma chine gun nest. He was wounded-a third time, this time seriously The officer who 'told me this story said he had just heard from a field hospital that Bianchi had passed the crisis and was expected to recover. In the same action. First Lieut. R. K. Roberts, of -Bisbee, Ariz., led his infantry platoon and himself him-self wiped out an enemy machine gun nest with a hand grenade. He reached his objective with only two of his men. The rest had fallen before Japanese machine-gun machine-gun fire. This counter-attack, the largest and mcst successful of the war, was proved by captured Japanese documents to have spoiled Japanese Jap-anese plans for a big drive. ONE TO A CUSTOMER Modernistic ffah towl IS Two HoroV OoMfUh 20 AqworkHN jowoU . . . lO and Oroon flams... JO Tmi wmtm 55 fciyiUAPxiuri FOR iJ - ' T . . : ; I Ct-Ll nJ 1. OU11UU1 UUdlU IU Aid Farm Labor SPANISH FORK Cooperation of the Nebo district board of education edu-cation in solving the farm labor problem - was pledged to a com mittee representing various farming farm-ing communities Tuesday night. The board has already taken steps to help the situation by operating op-erating schools on Saturdays to effect an earlier closing in the spring so that school students can participate in farming. The board is also making plans in pnnrwrato in thp fall horvAet and the majority of students of age to participate in this type of work are anxious to render all assistance possible, it was pointed out. The delegation representing the farmers consisted of Harvey Nielsen, Niel-sen, Jack O'Bryant, Sterling Jones and Ray Peay. The delegation also asked cooperation co-operation of the board in permitting permit-ting students to visit the Rio Grande railroad "food for freedom" free-dom" agriculture demonstration to be in Spanish Fork March 14. The board indicated, favor with the plan. TOO LATE FOR 1 CLASSIFICATION I . . FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS JERSEY cow, 6 years old, tests 6 per cent. $60. Box 48, Route 2, Phone 071J1. f22 FOR RENT UNFURNISHED 4 ROOM apartment $16.50. Call 739W. 170 East 1 South. f28 WANTED TO BUY 5 ROOM modern home. Cash will be paid. Box 14 Herald. f22 FOR SALE OR TRADE 5 ROOM modern home, full basement. base-ment. Will trade for small acreage acre-age with fruit. Phone 328J. 633 West 5th North. f22 8 HEAD, young work horses, 1 young saddle horse. See-LyverJ Johnson, West Drive. f26 FOR SALE CARS 1941 CHEVROLET 6 passenger coupe, 16,000 miles. Excellent condition, good rubber $850 cash. Owner leaving for army, must sell. 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