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Show 0 UUvl A JV -S Mi M " , -. S Lack of Planning Blamed ! ForlLagging Production In Coast Aircraft Merits : nil" '. .J- DES What does it take to dent , the brass hats? The American inventor of the submarine, Simon Lake, - got the door slammed in his ." face when he offered his sea scourge to the Navy department depart-ment in 1901. Later he was told by the same group, "Don't be silly," when he designed de-signed a two-man, submarine. The Japs used them effectively effec-tively at Pearl Harbor. Now the same Mr. Lake gets the same brushoff from the Navy, the maritime commission com-mission and Washington dignitaries dig-nitaries in general with his plans for a big cargo-carrying submarine. Designed as the answer to axis sinkings of allied shipping, the cargo submarine reportedly is used oOo There is alreadv a Dro- CHAT BT THX KDITOB . . nounced .trend , toward jpedaM ing to work ana run on a bicycle, saving tires and gasoline. The release of the new Victory bike is expected to put more and more Americans Ameri-cans on wheels under their own power. But tody. in modern traf-, traf-, fic. the cyclist takes his life in his hands if he ventures into arterial traffic ways, streets he must use if he is to pedat to his job. If cycling is to become generally popular, popu-lar, cities must enact traffic ordinances regulating and protecting the cyclists. Wise and Otherwise The closer a man is the more distant dis-tant his friends are Neighbors are people who come over when you are sickj and tell you how sick they used to be. ... A new father knows what "to have and to hold" -really means. . . . The cheapest .alarm clocks really are the best. Maybe they won't ring. SHIPS FAIL IN BREAKING THRU STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 2 (HE) Ten Norwegian steamships making a desperate attempt to run the German blockade of -the Baltic a and reach Britain have been intercepted by the Germans, dispatches from coastal points reported re-ported today. Two of the ships, the 12,358-ton 12,358-ton whaler Skytteren and the 6,-222-ton tanker Buccaneer, were believed to have been scuttled by their crews when German armed .trawlers intercepted them. A third ship, unidentified, was reported to have been run aground on the Norwegian coast and a fourth, of about 4,000 tons, was ablaze In the Skager Rak, between be-tween the Norwegian and Danish coast. It had nearly won its way out to the North' Sea. The six remaining ships, ' sighting sight-ing the trawlers, turned and raced back to the safety of Goteborg. TEACHERS TO MEET IN SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY, April 2 U.E ' Alton B. Poulsen, president of the Salt Lake Teachers' association, associa-tion, - announced today the second annual western regional convention conven-tion of the department of classroom class-room teachers of the National Education association will be hT? In Salt Lake City on Thursday and Friday. . War Production Board .Lacks Top-Notch Aircraft Production Man, Says Report By Senate Investigating Committee WASHINGTON, April 2 U.R) The senate committee investigating the war program charged today that a lack of "over-all" planning by the armed services and the now defunct de-funct office of production management, is responsible for the faliure of west coast airplane plants to operate at full capacity. t In a formal report to the senate, based -upon the study of a special sub-committee from March 9 to AJarch 25V the group absolved labor and man--' agement from blame for not reaching full production. It added, moreover, that output is "several times greater than it was a year ago" and is increasing monthly. The committee said the present war production board has hot a "single top-notch aircraft production produc-tion man" in its organisation. It called for a special WPb. airplane section headed by a "trained aircraft air-craft production executive drafted from industry." Many Subjects Covered A number of subjects were covered in the report Including a lease agreement between the Defense De-fense Plant Corp, and a private firm for obtaining ore for a magnesium mag-nesium plant at La Vegas, Nev. It described the agreement as "one of the most flagrant attempts at-tempts at war profiteering to come to its (the- committee's) notice." . ... . . The' plant will be operated by Basic Magnesium, Inc., a company- that, also wilt supply the. ore from 600 acres of deposits. The company, the committee said, is asking a royalty of $1 a ton on ore, which would mean an annual return of $280,000 compared to a total investment "of not over $50,000." . "Basic Magnesium, Inc., is also to receive a fee for the operation of the plant, which at maximum production will equal $560,000 a year over a possible period of SO years, although it is not even sufficiently financially responsible to warrant, the leasing of . the property to it," the report said. The report, signed by members of the sub-committee headed by. Sen. Mons C. Walgren, D., Wash., and by committee chairman Harry Har-ry S. Truman,- D., Mo., contained the following conclusions and recommendations: 1. Aviation Reports that workers are staging "slow-downs" seem to have little basis. Actually, Actual-ly, the lack of fuU production can be traced to failure to co-ordinate the various plants and sub-con-( Continued on Page Two) . Lewis Associate Resigns From CIO SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 2 (EE) Ray S. Edmundson, Illinois head of the United Mine Workers and close, associated of UMW President John L. Lewis, resigned today as regional director and Illinois Il-linois president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The first prominent - UMW official of-ficial to break with the CIO, Edmundson Ed-mundson said in & letter 'to CIO President Philip Murray that he waa resigning because he "disagreed "dis-agreed with the fundamentals and principles under which the CIO is now being directed.' R Asked If his resignation couia be interpreted as a forerunner of a break between Lewis forces in the ' CIO' and thoss supporting Murray, Edmundson answered "1 can't predict what may happen." of Oct. 18, 1926. - ; : - Army Day Observance Awaited in Utah County Utah county defense council leaders today drew plans for observance ob-servance of Army day in communities com-munities of the county and nearby near-by army camps. " , The day, Monday, ; April 6, will be observed with ' appropriate ceremonies, including programs, window decorations, etc, according accord-ing to C. A. Grant, executive director di-rector of the county defense council. coun-cil. Dr. J. C. Moffitt, superintendent superintend-ent of Provo schools, will have charge of; the "Trovo celebration, consisting of a radio broadcast, REDS BATTER GERMANS ON WEST FRONT LONDON, April 2 (EE) The Russians steadily ' battered the Germans on the Leningrad front today, having killed 3,000 of them, demolished 22 blockhouses and captured or destroyed huge quantities quant-ities of supplies in 48 hours of fighting. ' Dispatches from the front said the trapped German 16th army in the. Staraya Russa region, below be-low Leningrad, had lost 1,800 in a new attempt to break out. and that Russian artillery was blasting: blast-ing: them from all sides, and Jo one sector, Cat point-blank range. The Russians, according to advices ad-vices from Moscow, had cleared the enemy, from large areas in the Vyazma district on the central front, though. reinforcements had arrived to relieve the weary Germans Ger-mans who had been resisting continuous con-tinuous attacks.. A British military commentator said the . Russians had driven "deep salients'! into German positions, posi-tions, but the Germans had operated oper-ated "similar deep .salients" in certain Soviet positions. "The question is . now . who can cut off the other,", he said. Regarding the situation in the Staraya Russa region where the Russians have trapped the 16ttt German army, . the commentator said the Soviets were operating over a long area, and "everything will depend on whether the Russians Rus-sians can reduce the Germans before the Nazis can bring up reinforcements." re-inforcements." Heavy German reinforcements also were moving into the Crimea and Donets Basin in preparation for a supreme drive they were expected ex-pected p begin soon with 1,250,000 men. A dispatch from Moscow said many German soldiers and tanks had been withdrawn from Frande and dispatched to the Crimea in an attempt to seize Sevastopol, now in its 151st day of siege. Hog Prices Hit 15-Year Record CHICAGO, April 2 G) Hogs sold for $14 a hundredweight on the Chicago market today, the highest price in 15 years. ' Continued demand for pork products, for civilians, the armed forces and lend-lease shipments, was beUeved responsible for the price rise. Hog prices have continued con-tinued upward since a four-year peak of $13.10 was reached Feb. 16. Today's $14 price equals that window decorations, flags on, the streets, banks, etc. Towns To Join ; Similar programs are planned in other towns, with David R. Mitchell; superintendent of Alpine schools, in charge of the north end of the county and Owen L Bar-nett, Bar-nett, superintendent, ' of Nebo schools, in charge in 'the south end. The mayor: in each town will be responsible for the; programs. Adding a' military touch to the celebration an invitation to the public to inspect the' army troops and facilities ' at ; Camp Williams (Con tinned on Page Two) INDIA ASKS BRITAIN FOR FULL FREEDOM Congress Is Ready To Take Responsibility 7 For Defense NEW DELHI, India, April 2 U.R) The dominant All-India All-India congress was reported to have informed Sir Staf ford Cripps tonight that India In-dia must be granted "full freedom" without awaitirig the end of the war, and that Britain's offer of post-war domin ion status cannot be accepted. ; The reply said the congress Is ready to accept responsibility for the defense of India if Britain will grant "real power and responsi bility" to the Indian people. ,The congress' reply to the Brit ish plan, handed to Cripps by President Maulana Abul K&lan Azad of the Congress of Jawahar-lal Jawahar-lal Nehru, was believed, however, to carry an ..implied Invitation to the British cabinet to alter its proposals and prevent collapse of the negotiations. Compromise Suggested The British were understood to be willing to offer India an immediate im-mediate voice in control of home defense, a major stumbling block, in an effort to head off a breakdown break-down in the talks. Cripps was said to have suggested sug-gested the compromise in his talk with Azad and Nhru when they handed him the reply of the working work-ing committee of the All-India congress. . The next jnove appeared to be up to the British war cabinet In, London and it was said by observers ob-servers that unless Cripps is authorized au-thorized to negotiate on a' com promise formula particularly regarding demands for Indian control con-trol of defense policies his mission mis-sion is "almost ended.'' Cripps was believed to hare cabled the congress-reply to Lon-. don immediately. Whether Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British commander In' chief in India and Burma, is to meet with Nehru tomorrow to discuss a possible compromise formula for-mula on defense, was said to depend de-pend upon the nature of London's Lon-don's reaction to the congress statement. It appeared evident, since the British and Congress leaders talked for an hour, that both sides were striving to escape responsibility re-sponsibility for a breakdown. The congress' reply to Cripps was not released, for publication (Continued on Page Two) KILLER OF 3 IS SENTENCED PONTIAC, Mich, April 2 (U.PJ Dominick Piccone, 20-year-old ex-convict, ex-convict, was sentenced to life imprisonment im-prisonment today for killing three men to . satisfy a long-standing grudge against one of them. The youthful killer pieaded guilty guil-ty to murder charges before Judge H. Russell Holland. ."Anyone who has committed the crime you have is not likely to profit by anything I might say to you," the judge said. "Therefore I have no comment." ' Thus, less than 48 hours after he began his cold-blooded killings, Piccone was ordered to return to Marquette state prison from which he was released March 17 after serving 3 ft years for assaulting a Highland Park, Mich., school teacher. Sentence '. came swiftly after Piccone had related calmly and In differently how he killed three- Michigan farmers one for revenge re-venge and two others "because they got in my way" and1 held another hostage during an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful 30-hour flight to avoid capture. CATTLE, HORSE GROWERS TO MEET SALT LAKE- CITY, April 2 C& The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers'- association will hold a meeting In Salt Lake City on Saturday. The ., several hundred delegates . who ' are expected to attend the ; meeting: have cut the convention ' time to one day because be-cause of the war. " - " Principal topics to be 'discussed at the meeting will be grazing, taxation and big game.- An old-time' old-time' cattleman's luncheon ' will be the closing event of. the meeting. meet-ing. . . " I . , X -'slit r : Vlv- Upon these members of the newly organized Pacific War Council rest- the task of working out strategy of the United Nations against Japanese forces. Shown at their Initial meetings at the White House are, from left, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, .Walter Nash, New Zealand minister to the United States; Dr. Herbert V.. Evatt, Australian minister of external affairs; British Ambassador Lord Halifax; President Roosevelt; Canadian Legation Counselor Hume Wrong; Alexander Loudon, minister from the Netherlands, and Harry Hopkins, special assistant to the President. McNutt Is Favored To Direct Mobilization Of Nations Manpower Labor Cabinet Tentatively Agreed On Plan For Total Mobilization of Manpower By JAMES SHEPLET .United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 2 LLR) President Roosevelt's labor' 'cabinetwas repofttnnrinieTesBional 'sources today t.be tentatively agreed upon manpower for the war effort Dynamite Blast On Fisher Ranch at . (Special to .The. Herald) HEBER Evidence of some hos tility against, the settling of Jap anese evacuees from the Pacific coast on -the George A. - Fisher ranch near Keetley in Wasatch county lias been revealed with a case . of dynamite throwing at that place Sunday. Accorduur to . Sheriff Charles McPhie " of Wasatch county, a single stick of dynamite was thrown from -a passing car to explode harmlessly near the main building in a tourist camp on the Fisher ranch. It is believed that the dynamite was thrown in resentment re-sentment over the migration to Wasatch county, and may have been . the -work of some miner coming off shift -who wanted to start some excitement. A number of Japanese families began arriving at the ranch late Monday night. About 20 evacuee families are quartered at the tourist camp- preparatory to planting plant-ing of -crops. ' They are all of American birth and most of them young. ' An incident with a comical angle is that of a small: boy in the seventh grade who got out a small handbill on his toy printing print-ing set,' with the inscription: "If George Fisher likes the Japs let him go . to Japan." - The state highway patrol is investigating in-vestigating and two officers have been . assigned to patrol the district, dis-trict, according to Superintendent Pete L. Dow. Mr. Fisher, former. . secretary of the state land board, recently offered to lease sections . of his ranch to certified American-born Japanese evacuees. Ex-Governor Blood Leaves Hospital SALT LAKE CITY,, April 2 U Former Governor Henry H. Blood today .. had returned to his home following an operation at' . the LJXS. hosptial here. .-: . . Blood is president of the California Cali-fornia L.D.S. mission. ALLIES SINK , " ITALIAN PATROL , ROME, April .2 (UP : (Italian broadcast" recorded by United Press at London) A - high com mand communique said today that an allied submarine had sunk a light Italian - patrol ; craft ; in the central Mediterranean. ,. Japs Pacific War Council Chieftains Meet . , K $ v? i' $ A . ' nil "" " t ' -- a plan for total mobilization of under the direction of Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt. .... . Labor spokesmen would not comment on .the report. But Mr. Roosevelt meets the labor "cabinet" "cabi-net" tomorrow and a final determination deter-mination is expected to be made then. That group consists of organized or-ganized labor representatives, headed ' by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, and President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations. Others Considered Since the subject was first discussed dis-cussed by the president and his labor advisers, one source told the United Press, the selection of a man to head the manpower organization organ-ization has been on a touch-and-go basis. "McNutt has had the job at lease seven times," this source said. Two other men have been considered con-sidered for the job, it was revealed re-vealed Sidney Hillman, labor director di-rector of . the war production board, and John G. Winant, American ambassador to Great Britain. McNutt's recent ascendancy,, it was-learned, came at the last meeting of the labor group. Hill-man's Hill-man's name was brought up and (Continued on Page Two) , J . , i Jap Forces Strike Near India Border By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign. Editor . Japan appeared to be throwinjr maximum strength into the Burma war today, pushing: a powerful naval squadron to within 75 miles of threatened India and launching heavy air attacks on allied lines near thecentral Burmese towns of : : -Prome and Toungoo. Older Men to Register April 27 WASHINGTON, April 2 (H More than 13,500,000 ' men . from 45 to 65 years old must register April 27 for -selective service, according ac-cording ,t an estimate made, today to-day by the census bureau. ; - Men in this ' age bracket . total 13.589,800 12,516,400 - white and 1,073,400 non-white--the - bureau estimated. Vv ":":"-'" Those born during the period April - 28,- 1877-Feb. -18, 1897, inclusive, in-clusive, must register. Their ages on registration day will range from 45 years and 70 days up to 65 years exactly.; A small proportion of. this age group, such as men already - in the armed forces, wQI not have to register.' " ' ' j BRISTOL GETS NEW ORDERS ON PRIORITIES SALT LAKE CITY, April 2 UE : War production board rulings on fast movement of copper scrap, production of fluorescent lighting fixtures, trucks for "of f-the-hlgh-way" use and on canning machinery machin-ery were received today by Ralph E. Bristol, district prioritieffTnam ager. . One order prescribed that a scrap dealer should accept delivery deliv-ery of scrap copper, copper- base alloy or brass fill; scrap only if the dealer, during the precedirfj 60 days, had sold or otherwrise disposed of scrap to an amount at least equal in weight to the inventory of the dealer on the date of delivery of the new scrap. The second order limits production pro-duction of fluorescent lighting fixtures to those needed to fill orders requiring a priority rating of A-2 or higher. The WPB enlarged a previous preference rating order (P-54) for trucks to inoude "off-the-highway motor vehicles." Bristol said this meant a truck, truck . tractor or trailer operating off the . public highways, normally on rubber tires and especially designed to transport materials, property or equipment on mining construe tions, logging or petroleum development de-velopment projects. Another order prescribed that canners who lease machinery are entitled to the same preference rating for repair and maintenance mainten-ance ' as if they owned the machinery. ma-chinery. Under the order, the highest possible priority rating is granted for. emergency repair to avert spoilage of fruits or vegetables, vege-tables, with a rating of A-3 for other repairs and maintenance or expansion. The concentration of armed forces on the Burma front indicated indi-cated that the enemy was hoping to strike at that Unied Nations sector immediately in an effort to prevent alignment' of India, as a full partner in the allied front, or to attack India before such an agreement can materialize. A fleet of 16 Japanese ships, including, four transports and 12 warships, landed - at least 1 5,000 troops at the west Burmese port of : Akyab, an important' base on the Bay of Bengal, only 75 miles from the Indian border and ,310 miles from Calcutta.' Akyab prea-iously prea-iously had been' abandoned by the British and its seizure completed Japanese occupation of all Burma portSv ? " 'yyy- The seizure of Akyab gravely increased the Japanese threat to India at a time when Sir Stafford Cripps was ' struggling' ' against formidable odds to overcome the " (Continued on Page Two) . ATTEMPT TO TRAP ALLIED TROOPS SEEN 12 Warships Protect Landing Of Troops " ! On West Coast By ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGING, China, April-2 April-2 U.R) Thousands of Jap- anese troops, protected by at : least 12 warships, have land-' ed at the Burmese west coast '. port of. Akyab, o,nly 75 miles' from India's border, in . an attempt to entrap allied troops in southern Burma, a Chinese I spokesman said today. - . The landing gave the Japanese possession of Burma's test- port,- through Which supplies for - the 4 British-Chinese forces in central : Burma have been moving: , ; An estimated 5,000 Japanese ; troops were , disembarked , in the first landing, made on March 27 from four large tanaporta, the . military spokesman said. -At least " sixteen enemy ships were involved in the operations. .-. ; The surprise landing constitutes consti-tutes not only a new threat to the ' already serious allied positions on ; the Prome and Toungoo fronts In Burma, but to nearby India-at .a time when British and Indian . na- tlonalist -. leaders are - striving . to avert a breakdown. in negotiations"! on India's defense. ? - The spokesman said the Japan-i ese warships protecting the land . ing forces included two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers,' five L destroyers and ,twa -jauxiliaiy - ehipsT - Akyab is Burma's chief port oh the Bay of Bengal, about75 miles from India's Bengal border - and less than 350 miles by direct lines across ' the Bay .of Bengal from Calcutta. The British some time ago abandoned this sector of southern Burma. Akyab is approximately' 185 ' miles southwest of Prome on the Irrawaddy river, key allied defense de-fense point on the western flank in Burma, . where British - forces are digging in to meet -an anticipated antici-pated strong . , Japanese assault . aimed at Yenangyaung. ; The Japanese - occupied port" lies about 300, miles northwest of Rangoon; around which Japanese naval forces previously have been reported after seizing the Andaman Anda-man islands astride the Bay of Bengal approaches to India. At Akyab the Japanese were barely ,200 miles - from Burma's main trunk railroad, and' in a position to strike at the rear of the allied defenders. ' The Chinese spokesman said that the landings evidently were ' designed to outflank the entire western flank of the British and Chinese forces in Burma. ' The landing, he said, may have influenced the British withdrawal on the Prome front. ess Hall llitby Plane; Two Killed PAINE FIELD, Wash, April 2 OLE) A pursuit plane crashed on a take-off today and hit a mess hall, killing two mess attendants and seriously injuring the pilot who was trapped in the wreckage an -hour and a half while flames threatened to . engulf him. - ' One wing of the 1,000-man mess hall was. partiaUy destroyed by the crash, and x fire damaged another an-other part of the building. , - ; If the crash had occurred ten minutes later the mess hall would have been filled. The men were outside engaging. - in caUstenio drill when the plane felL Col. A, C. Strickland, commandant, comman-dant, said the dead enlisted ' men were : Pvt. r James R. Hanley v of Little Rock, Ark., and Pvt. Henry Robertson of Elk City. Okla. ' The pilot was 2nd. Lt Oscar L. Morse of McCook, NebW alone in the plane. The crash occurred at 6:45 a. m. y- . DARWIN SUFFERS 11TII RAID -.: : ; ' MELBOURNE April" 2 (UE--A force of seven Japanese bombers bomb-ers - escorted by . .fighter planes raided Darwin for the 11th time this afternoon, but caused neither damage nor , casualties, Premier John Curtin announced. |
