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Show .. - - . - ' s ' j . . i r -'." T . - i- iV or Victory,,, Bmy " Matte mmps f ' r U. S. DEFENSE Mr ?ONDS "5 -S-T:- STAMPS . . . FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR NO. 173 gj" UTAH'S ONLT DAILT SOOTH OF BAtT I.AKB PROVO, - UTAH COUNTY; 1 UTAH THURSDAY, MARCH . 12,: 1942 V COMPtiBTB v tTNITBO PRESS - TEt,BQRAPH NKWB gSRaCB PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Thumbs Up' Sdys U. S. 'Down Under' ft - , , ,, . - 5 0 1 3 I! In one of the first pictures to reach the United States from "somewhere . In Australia" since the U. 8. entered the war, a crew member of an Army "flying fortress" wears his oxygen' mask and gives a "thumbs up" before taking oil on a high-flying mission over enemy territory in the South - ' Pacific. -. Allies, Axis Communications Lines By JOE ALEX MORRIS - : United Press Foreign Editor The Allies and the Axis headed into show-down struggles strug-gles today for control of the sea approaches to Australia and India, and the Atlantic routes from America to Britain and Russia. ' .': - .. ' . -' - ' The battle for communications BT TUK . KDITOB We can see a great deal of merit in the proposal to recognize outstanding production pro-duction effort of war industry indus-try workers by official citation. cita-tion. It is excellent psychology, psychol-ogy, as well as an altogether fair appreciation of service. We want to nominate for such a citation, the crew at the Columbia Steel company's Ironton plant, who set a world record for speed in re-lining re-lining a blast furnace not so long ago. These men did the job in 31 days, knocking some 20 days off records previously established by eastern . plant crews. A man's pride in his work is a natural and admirable thing. And an appeal to that pride is a stronger spur to activity than prods and threat It's time we realized real-ized that there are heroes in the machine shops and on the production lines as well as on Bataan and the Pacific and over the Burma road. Skill and resourcefulness and long hours of work will keep 'em rolling in this war of production. These are contributions that might well be recognized and rewarded. oOo . In a Lighter Vein What we'd like to see is one big .appropriation to handle the German and Italian subs. Sort of a sinking fund. . . . If you've got more work than you think you can do with two hands, double your fists. . . . It's a good thing hens don't know how much masons get. for laying bricks. . . . . Our expert opinion is that the man who calls sweat perspiration, perspir-ation, doesn't know much about it. . . . At least kids keep out of more trouble than they get into. MORE AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVING WILLEMSTAD. Curaco. D; W. I., March 12 U American troops are arriving in "more and more" force -In Curaco and Aruba, giving the residents of three Caribbean Carib-bean islands "a feeling of se-' se-' curity,', 'the '.'official Netherlands news agency Anetaaid today. fry , M'4i, - . - ' - Battle For lines raged most fiercely north of Australia, where American flyihgr lTZ9' .Austraiiaa ndother, Alliea airplanes reported a total of 13 enemy troop transports and one or two warships blasted by aerial bombs in the New Guinea fector. These blows were described de-scribed in dispatches from Australia Aus-tralia as slowing' down, although apparently not' halting, the enemy ffenslbe -, toward Port Moresby and Australia, where the United Nations are ' massing their strength. , But the conflict extended over a huge area in the southwestern Pacific as well as in the north Atlantic, where Germany apparently appar-ently was trying to mass the bulk of her naval power against Allied communication lines. Dispatches from the fighting fronts showed: Australia American and Allied Al-lied planes sink or bomb 13 enemy transports and hit at least one warship in several days of heavy raids on Japanese invaders pf New Guinea, but fate of reported enemy armada headed for Port Moresby is uncertain. India British remove women and children and some other civilians civil-ians from Island of Ceylon in preparation for coming battle for India. Indian factions await details de-tails of new British plan designed to solve independence problem and mobilize native power agaiiut Japanese. Burma British and Chinese brace for big land battle on northern north-ern front defending Mandalay and Lashio, after evacuation of south Burma. RAF bombs Moulmein. Thailand reports Chinese invasion thrust repulsed. China Japanese reported attacking at-tacking Chinese guerillas in Shantung Shan-tung province and attempting to take - Siangshan harbor, on the coast of Cheklang province, with sea invasion forces. Tokyo Japanese government leaders tell diet that Japan will .(Continued on Page Two) .Sh First Machinery Steel Plant First machinery for construe tlon of the vast Geneva Works steel project arrived Wednesday a huge pile driver which occupied three railroad cars. Actual construction is expected to get under way April 1. There will be no ceremonies on account of the war emergency. Three major construction, com-, panies uian (jonsirucuon company com-pany Of Ogden, Morrison and Knudsen of Boise, and J. H. Pom eroy of San Francisco have the contract for excavation and foun dations for the plant. R. C. Talbot of Salt Lake City, resident-engineer for the Columbia Colum-bia Steel plant, which , is designing design-ing ' and constructing 1 the plant for the Defense Plant corporation, told Clayton Jenkins, secretary of of-the Prpvo chamber of commerce, com-merce, that the work ' of these - fW nQTTRAf PAH flHWAnH ATTfbhlfDf- 1 : r : : ' ; rp! " ' : ' ' 1 ' ! : - '.. , : BRAZIL MOBS SMASH SHOPS OF GERMANS Tear . Gas " Used- By Milk tary Police In Rio dV Janeiro ' RIO DB JANEIRO, March 12, (UPJ PoUoe discharged . tear gas tn Rio Ie Janeiro's main business . district tote today to disperse a menacing crowd of demonstrators in front of the Banco AKmao Transatlantico at the height of anti-axis rioting. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12'U.R) Special police de tachments equipped with tear gas, .and military police with rifles, deployed in front of Axis commercial establishments estab-lishments today after - angry Brazilians entered several stores, smashed furniture and attacked at-tacked several Germans. . Mobs of demonstrators thronged through the streets. Police at times were unable to control them.'. , Finally ; " special detachments were ordered out and stationed in front-of mA Yin onamirciaWestab-lishments onamirciaWestab-lishments td halt the rioting. ' Among the establishments attacked at-tacked were the Casa Lochner, a photographic house; The Bir-raria Bir-raria Alema, : a book store, and the Casa Alema, a furniture store. r The interior, tf. the stores were smashed ' in each Instance. The manager of the Casa Lochner Loch-ner was pummeled. A huge crowd assembled In front of the firm of Hermstoltz, shipping agents, and threatened to break into the establishment. Police occupied ..the building, running tip 'the Brazilian flag. . The crowd then began to sing the Brazilian national anthem. The mob was . so large and - Its singing so loud that it was heard throughout the central part of the city. . ' The demonstration, the . first since the Axis sinkings of Brazilian Brazil-ian shins , began -. on . Feb. 15," followed fol-lowed today's, promulgation of a decree- confiscating a substantial portion of Axis funds in Brazilian banks and Axis real estate and other property in retaliation for the sinkings. The confiscation of Axis property prop-erty and funds came as Brazil appeared preparing for an outright out-right declaration of .war against the Axis. BERLIN BROADCASTS AXIS CLAIMS BERLIN, March 12 (German broadcast recorded by U. P. In New York) Axis forces destroyed or captured 4,243 enemy airplanes air-planes between Dec. 7 and March 7, radio Berlin said today. The total, it said, included 1,-547 1,-547 British, United States end Dutch planes captured or destroyed destroy-ed by the Japanese . in the Far East and 1,841 Soviet and 855 British planes destroyed by Ger many and Italy. . Arrives For Construction Job : . , ;. - : three contractors wilt include clearing the site, grading, excavation excava-tion for foundations, building the cement foundations, and construction construc-tion of all roadways and all railroad rail-road works. 1 Work will begin about March 16 on a temporary office building, Mr. Jenkins was advised. In the meantime, the old store building on the Axel F, Andreason farm Is being used for temporary office quarters. - . , -'. Most off the men for construction construc-tion work win be employed right on the site by" the contractors. While ' the contractors will naturally nat-urally bring in key men," they will give, preference, to local labor, It is' understood. . ;' - - . Mr. Talbott 'stated architects are busy working put .the vast plans for the many' units of 'the steel plant. ' . - Nirie-PoiriiProfrsam Planned &b Develop' Stra tegic Minerals Switch Planned Frou Silver, Gold Mining i To Critical Minerals Under Department -of Interior's fa-Point Program wwvu Akv - aaic Abtubiiiwiib vi a interior in-terior today issued a call to the colors for the west'sxcritical mineral resources.:' . i . ; -v Assistant Secretary of-tho Interior Oscar Chapman called on a conference of western governors and mining men to give the government, on a confidential basis, their.records of past drilling and exploring for magnesium, chrome, tungsten, tungs-ten, zinc, copper and manganese, so the United States can develop war metals "faster than the Japs." The U. S. Bureau of Mines os Geological Survey will undertak to explore and test strategic mini erals throughout the west. Chap- Lman told the miners assembled to hear the part they are expected to play In switching 'the west's mining from gold and silver to war metals. "We are being forced back on our own resources as we never were in 1917 and 1918. We need to get into action. We can't af ford the too-little, and too-late policy in regard to minerals," Chapman warned. Need Copper " He -outlined gram to marshal the west's light metal and cheap hydro-electric power resources to win the war 1. More exploration work for copper, lead, zinc, iron and other ores, "if we obtain the 250 additional addi-tional geologists and engineers' needed." 2. The interior departmeat will easier to execute than a front-undertake, front-undertake, upon request of the ,al assault. war production board, an ore- buying and stockpiling program. The purpose of this program is to get out the production of small companies and small deposits. It would require a congressional appropriation.- Purchasing centers would be established. Payment would be on a grab-assay basis up to 60 per cent. 3. More engineering service to small mines . which have no en gineers. Federal engineers would aid small operators. 4. More RFC loans to mining men. secretary or interior Harold Har-old Lvlckes has proposed that he be authorized to certify to the RFC persons who : should have loans to develop their mines. After Af-ter Ickes is convinced the mines have enough minerals to justify a loan and have access to benefica tlon plants, he would certify them to the-RFC. More Pilot Plants 5. More work on processes ana more pilot plants. "This work, will make an enormous difference in the fortunes of the -west.". 6. The Interior department, if need be, will design, build and, if (Continued on Pag Two) House nejests Elimination Of WASHINGTON, March 12 OLE) The House by overwhelming voice vote today rejected "an amendment to eliminate all sugar benefit, funds from the 1943 agriculture ag-riculture supply. The amendment offered by Rep. Joe Hendricks, ; DV" ' Fla., would have cut the appropriation by 14,062.910. . . Opponents of the amendment argued ar-gued .that It would result in no economy, since the funds from a special tax on sugar processors would make up the difference. . , They Insisted that the - funds, which originally were authorized to pay bounties for reduced sugar su-gar production, were essential to pay bonuses for increased production. pro-duction. . . Hendricks told the House It was paradoxical to pay benefits for sugar when there is "a shortage and the government is trying to increase production. ; . Rep. Ross Collins, D., Miss, contended that If the, sugar section sec-tion of the bill -was stricken It would cost American consumers approximately 1200,000,000 a year.- Sugar Benefits ALLIES TO TAKE OFFENSIVE IN i PACIFIC SOON BY SANDOR 8. KLEIN TJnited Press Staff Correapondent - WASHINGTON, March' 12 (ttB When the United Nations .take the offensive In the Pacific ' the tee-pOintprXWTwsrd through the mandated lsianas ana across Japane's supply sup-ply lines rather than northward from Australia, it was indicated today. ; That was the interpretation placed on Admiral Thomas. C. Hart's brief but significant state ment that a flank attack is usual i Hart made this: remark at Secretary Sec-retary of the Navy Frank Knox's press conference yesterday. A reporter re-porter had asked: ; "What is your viewpoint on the possibility of a frontal attack against the Japanese; gaining back step by step what they have taken? What do you think is tin best strategy? , Hart replied: "The frontal attack is always most difficult and a flank attack is usually easier." -' He said that after issuing a prepared statement covering his views on the war in the Far East. Hart recently was relieved of his command as commander-in-chief of the united naval forces in the southwest Pacific because of illness. ill-ness. He returned to Washington this week. -His prepared statement said the Japanese won the initial campaign cam-paign not the war largely because be-cause of their air superiority. He referred to that superiority, several sev-eral times and once, when .referring .re-ferring to the American submarine submar-ine campaign from Manila Bay, said: 'This period was much ' shortet than had been ' expected because of the same old thing: enemy con trol of the air." . But Japanese victories, he added, were gained at great Cost to them, while much of the American; Amer-ican; Asiatic fleet,, with what is now ; veteran personnel, remains to carry on. : Hart conceded that the American: Amer-ican: Asiatic fleet which ; did hot possess a single battleship- has been involved In the loss of a campaign.. But, he added, a campaign cam-paign is not a war. "Many .wars' have been 4 won after the loss of several campaigns," cam-paigns," he said. ' , Senator Thomas Says Alaska May Lose Her Schools . i WASHINGTON, March 12 OJO Chairman Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, of the. senate labor and education edu-cation committee, said today that Alaska "may be without a school system next year" because of Insufficient In-sufficient funds; w J: ' J-"t J-"t will be very serious: tf children chil-dren Jin the territory -have -to lose a year of school, he said. ThoinaV- 'committee Is now working on a federal "aid to education"- bin,' which ' would grant some funds to Alaska for continuance continu-ance of Its. public school system. REDS CLAIM BIG VICTORY OVER NAZIS Nearly 50,000 Germans Lose Lives On Kalinin Front MOSCOW, March 12 OJ.RX-The OJ.RX-The Soviet army revealed to day that it had won a brilliant bril-liant victory on the Kalinin front, killing' 49,700 Germans, capturing 161 1 villages and hamlets, hundreds of guns, tanks and trucks, and breaching breach-ing the heavily-fortified line Generalissimo Gen-eralissimo Adolf Hitler had commanded com-manded his men ' to ; hold '. at all costs.. . : ; . . -.- ' ' : (Reports reaching London indicated indi-cated that the Russians ' oh . the central front had cut the main road between Vyazma , and Smolensk, Smo-lensk, 1S5 and 240 miles, respectively; respect-ively; southwest of Moscow, . perhaps per-haps isolating the Germans in those localities from their main forces.) ., -i Reach Strauss Line A special . communique .- on ; the Kalinin . front fighting said ' the Germans had been' killed and the booty taken from Feb. 5 to- Mar. feEvidently-'.-the' communique covered a drive ' that culminated in breaching the "Strauss .line," which the Red army organ, Red Star, announced yesterday. . There was no Indication where the Russians, broke through.-. The Kalinin : front extends' as far west as Vetlikle Luki,- 280 miles west and' a ' little north . of : Moscow. Rzhev, by-passed by the Russians in their drive west, is the eastern-' most position of .the Germans on the Kalinin front: : - - ;.f The size of the victory was indicated in-dicated by. the communique, which said: - 1 : "During the period from Feb. 5 to March 8, troops of the Kalinin front captured . from the enemy the following trophies: "Seventy-eight tanks, 172 guns of various calibers, 209 mine throw ers,' 824 machine guns and submachine sub-machine guns, I 181 anti-tank rifles. 568 automatic rifles, 4,432 ordinary rifles, 1,117 trucks 300 carts, eight field kitchens, 30 wireless wire-less stations, - two locomotives, 9,- 000 grenades! 10,500 mines, 7,000 shells, 2,000,060 rifle cartridges, two railway trains with ammuni tion, two ammunition dumps and two Supply depots. "During , the same period 277 German aircraft were shot down in. air .-combat: and, by the fire of anti-aircraft artillery, and one airdrome destroyed, bur troops also ' blew up one - armored train with an - automatic riflemen ' detachment; de-tachment; destroyed 39 tanks, 142 guns, 70, machine guns, 2,629 trucks, 27' motorcycles, 1,374 cars, two locomotives 104 railway cars, 17 petrol - tahk cars, one' petrol dump , ;and seven ammunition dumps. ' , "During the same period from Feb. 5 to March 8 the Germans (Continued on Page Two). ,; Lull Continues On Oataan Front WASHINGTON March .12 (HE) A war department communique today reported that the lull in fighting on Bataan continued and that there waa nothing to report from other; areas. . v: - i Three Jap Planes Launched From ' 1 Submarines Caused L A. Raid Scare i ST. ' LOUIS, March 12 OLB Rep. Laurence F.! Arnold, D., of Illinois, said; today Sthat ft had been fairly well established that three 'Japanese Z planes launched from submarines- caused the coa-troverslal coa-troverslal raid scare i in -Los .Angeles .An-geles on Feb. 25.1 4 - ' Arnold, who has ' been " in Lbs Anftles Investigating national de fense migration as a. member of the -Tolan- committee, . said, that on the west coast people - were AirXHiefinlndiQ Mi'.r;'';-. , Britain's new air force cruet for threatened India is Air Marshal: Sir Richard Peirse, former bead of the RAF bomber command. am To Be -. Doubled In Size WA HJN TON, March 12 eB) -The ' war department, announced today that the civil aeronautics administration pilot: training program-will -be more . than doubled in size and its facilities devoted f lly40r thwajt- effort under; plan worked out with the army air forces. v The program, calling for a large expansion of present CAA faculties facul-ties throughout the nation, envisages, envis-ages, the training, of 45,000 stu dents, in elementary flying instead or zo.uuu a year. . In addition, the secondary course will train 80,000 youth Instead of the present 10,000. The . plan also calls for ; the" training of 31,000 ground technicians annually. The CAA at present does ' not train such technicians. First priority in CAA training will be granted students able to meet army, requirements for appointment ap-pointment -as aviation cadets. .To take this training, the students must become . members of the air corps enlisted reserve. ' The new plan is expected to furnish an additional reservoir ot manpower .to fiU.out the army's air expansion program, which envisages en-visages an air force of 1,000,000 men by the end of the present year. The ultimate, goal is 2,000,-000 2,000,-000 men. The department said that appli cants for training as ground technicians tech-nicians ,under the new . program must be able to meet the requirements require-ments for entrance into air corps technical schools. Like the pilots, they must, be, members of the enlisted en-listed reserve. . - U.S. Submarines Sink Four Ships WASHINGTON, March 12 EE Three enemy freighters and a passenger-cargo ship have been sunk by a U. S. submarine. In Japanese waters, a navy communique communi-que announced today. The -communique also reported that' navy fighter planes shot down one of two large Japanese four-efngined seaplanes west . of Midway Island in the central Pacific. Pa-cific. ; The. communique . gave no details de-tails of the sinkings but it -revealed that U. S. submarines again were operating in Japanese home waters. " - "Pretty certain" that the raid was no false alarm as described by Secreary of .Navy Frank. Knox. " "It is pretty certain there were three: Japanese planes . launched from submarines off the coast and that they flew over; Los Angeles at an altitude of 18,000 feet," he said. ' . ' -'- V : - -7 -- ' "I cannot divulge the sourcs of my information except to say that is. what actually happened in the best opinion of Intelligence and military, authorities." Pilot Training Progr AIR ATTACKS TO INCREASE IN SEVERITY A m e r i c a rx, Australian 1 Bombers Continue : Heavy Attacks . . - . MELBOURNE, March 12 , (U.R) -Australian reports esti- " mated today, that heavy- air attacks by - American and Australian bombers; on Jap- . anese invasion forces in the ,-New ,-New Guinea area have cost the enemy at least "13 troop V' transports. v ; 1- ' Australian planes were' reported to be smashing almost' constantly at the Japanese bases at Sala-maua' Sala-maua' Finschhafen and RabauL to dislocate Japanese preparations r for a move against Port Moresby. . Federal sources ' said that eves-heavier eves-heavier and more effective air ' blows at the Japanese can be ex- -pec ted "when the time comes." It was regarded as plainly , evi- dent here that the Japanese hope to - make ' Port Moresby a- chief . base for their assault on northern Australia.' sv ';-l.'"."v,'.' . ' However,' the continuous air attacks at-tacks of - the Australian bombers ' wera.aaid.tO; be.jpauatPX thi, Jajn ; anese increasing -losses. . . . ., A Royal Australian Air Force ' communique said - ' Australian -planes raided : the enemy landing areas at Salamaua and Lae, on the New Guinea ' north coast, where' the Japanese '- had ;' established estab-lished invasion bases, and on the Huon Bay invasion area, generally.' ' Japanese f planes,- perhaps ' trying try-ing - to prepare the way for an invasion fleet, bombed Port Mores? by yesterday the air - force7 communique com-munique said.-- " - ; -" Government sources refused 'to ' comment on reports that the Japanese Jap-anese were heading a fleet - to- . ward , Port Moresby, , but it was known that such a move had been expected as the next step after the Huon Gulf landings. The - government - - announced that as a war measure it had de- -cided to impose drastic restrictions restric-tions on the sale and distribution of beer ' and ' spirituous liquors -The manufacture and sale of beer is to be reduced to 33 1-3 per cent of normal, ' and wholesalers- were ordered to reduce the supply of liquors to retailers. ; 1 - . . . v '; :. -. TOKYO, March 12- TXE (Jap-anese (Jap-anese 'Broadcast. Recorded by (EE) ' (Continued on Page Two) , , TWO SHIPS SUNIC IN! CARIBBEAN WASHINGTON, March 12 OJJa . A medium sized British tanker, and a small Swedish freighter have been torpedoed in the Caribbean' Carib-bean' area, the navy" announced today.v'; ' ' - ;; - The navy announcement did not say - whether these , ahips were sunk. 1. .V:? A v-;-'1- The names of the ships - were withheld in conformity with the navy's new. policy not, as a general gen-eral rule, to . disclose - identity of ships sunk. "-t - !: If the two vessels were sunk, it would raise to 73 the unofficial total of vessels sunk, by U-boats in . western Atlantic waters since the submarine . campaign ; began early in January. . ; . . . " . . 1 ; At a rough- average - of 6,000 tons, thai 73 ships would v total 438,000 tons. This gives the De to German claims that Nazi and Italian submarines, have . sunk. . a total of 823,200 tons of shipping off the American coasts.: - ; . TimEK-CENTS PAYS -INOOJIE TAX BOISE, Ida, March 12 A money order for 1 three cents, covering the tax payment , pf an Idaho resident on : 1941 Income, was- teceived ; today by John R. VUey, -etate collector- of internal revenue.':';---.,i ''.uv: -.".C" The - tax- payment .,waa the smallest made here, Viley said. Cost of the money order was five cents. |