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Show 3 FORVICTORY Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR "NO. 'South of rhe Border' Go U. S. Troops if n Jim. . 1---- - . 1 -a-3 R ilfA .-t r - -"aihni ,r-,iiTi.'sfflurii&. 1 :. i a .: .. '" " i Bands play and colors fly as U. S. troops march back into California after they had crossed the Mexican border and paraded through Mexi-ealL Mexi-ealL The international parade was sponsored by the War Departments of United States and Mexico as a gesture toward Pan-American unity. DESK Although Bataan has fallen, fall-en, American and Filipino forces arv3 continuing- staunch resistance against the Japanese Japan-ese invaders in Cebu and other parts of the Philippine Islands. If the Japs can complete com-plete the conquest of the islands, is-lands, they will be able to release re-lease some 200,000 picked Japanese shock troops for service against Australia, India, In-dia, or perhaps Siberia. When and if Corregidor falls, war-craft, war-craft, transports, and supply ships will be freed to initiate or support some other invasion. invas-ion. The bombers and fighting fight-ing planes which have been harrying Wainwright's gallant gal-lant band can add to Japanese superiority over our air forces elsewhere. We are impressed with the lesson of Bataan that every day we can tie up. axis men and equipment is another day in which the machine that will save democracy can be geared to higher speed and increased efficiency. Robert Heilferty is 95 years old. He is a Civil war veteran. He has his idea's about how we should win this war. lie expressed them the other day watching an Army day parade for almost four hours. : "It is my belief," $aid Robert Rob-ert Heilferty, "that we gather gath-er all those who are able to shoulder a gun, secure ships enough to send them over in a bodv and then rip the life but of them." The strategy maybe faul-ty, faul-ty, but the sDirit is right.-V right.-V Apostles of defeatism with- America please take note. J Berlin and Tokyo papers, lease copy. . oOo ' .f' lbout all that really s to him who waits is a f-Ji? t to move on. . . . Mak-t'lfirVu Mak-t'lfirVu write home is one p. tod thing that being broke does. pTLM STAR XAKS DIVORCE ,j. HOLLYWOOD, April 15 U.R) -Ann Southern, wise-crackingr, fprde film star, asked a divorca tn Roeer Pryor, actor and band " Vier. today in a suit chareine Vlty.' ! CHAT 196 sg COMPLETE 1 UMfTES TELEGRAPH XEW8 i"- -... - . ...... ij!Wl'''''''y'-': ft : . ; -1 - Italy Disturbed Over Nazi Hold .OiLfrenchJlfrica BY UNITED PRESS Confidential reports from Eui-ope Eui-ope said today that as the result re-sult of Pierre Laval's return to power Germany might soon attempt at-tempt to take over French Mediterranean Medi-terranean ports and the railroad which extends from Germany through unoccupied France to Marseilles in order to strengthen its communications to Africa. In restoring Laval, it was said, Vichy gave in to a German ultimatum, ulti-matum, expiring tomorrow midnight, mid-night, for fuller co-operation. Germany in the ultimatum made a series of demands, it was said, which were not believed to include the turning over of the powerful French fleet- Italy was believed disturbed by the situation, the advices saifl, fearing that its own' demands on France might be sacrificed by Adolf Hitler, and a sudden revival of Italian press attacks on France was noted. The advices said the Vichy crisis had come at a critical time when misery and famine were spreading in Greece, Jugoslavia, France, Belgium and parts of French North Africa, and in fact extended throughout German occupied oc-cupied and German dominated Europe. It was assured that Germany was taking nearly 90 per cent of the food which France imported from its African colonies by seizing seiz-ing as much as 80 per cent at Marseilles where the Germans have no right to be and half the remainder in occupied territory. terri-tory. Germany has requisitioned 52,-OOO 52,-OOO horses, more tnan 1,000 railroad rail-road locomotives, thousands of railroad cars and many ra'ils, it was said, and has even obliged (Continued on Page Two) -s- Wallace Assumes Supreme Command of War Economy WASHINGTON, April 15 (UJ? the board of economic warfare Vice President Henry a. Wallace today assumed supreme command of the economic war offensive In a move' that takes several economic eco-nomic warfare activities away from Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones., Jones ' las been criticized recently re-cently for his handling of the rubber situation and also has been under fire in his capacity as head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Under the new executiverder, Wallace will have charge of the accumulation of stock, piles of strategic war materials 'and will have the power to buy in foreign neutral countries needed materials or those that should be kept from the. Axis, The new powers were given to UV"CS''' ll,lf fini1 " in.i"n r 111 !r., w " 1 ''ii'f'T'n-riiT-1 I -il .ill PRESS SERVICE u. s. To To Shake-up in Vichy Leads To Cancellation of Earlier Plans; U. S. Policy To Await Next Step By Vichy By H. O. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent ',v WASHINGTON, April 15 U.P.-Plans to send America food and clothing to France and French North Africa hav been cancelled because of the government shake-up in Vichy) Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said today. Welles was asked at his press conference whether th new developments in France, highlighted .by the return of Pierre Laval to power, would have any effect on the anA nounced plans for sending two ships to North Africa and a (?Red Cross vessel with milk and Laval Pledges Middle Course In U. S. Relations BY" RALPH ItEINZEN-- United Press Staff Correspondent VICHY, France, April 15 U.P) Pierre Laval, prospective full premier with full power over a cabinet of '. his own choosing, pledged himself today to a middle of the road policy between the United States and Germany and sought, at Paris, an immediate emergency agreement with Germany Ger-many on the immediate future of Nazi-Vichy relations. ' It was revealed that Laval was brought back to power more power than he had wielded before his political eclipse 16 months ago by a German threat to set up a puppet government in occupied France with its "capital" at Pari. Laval was called back only after the failure of a dramatic attempt to organize a compromise compro-mise government under close aides of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, it was disclosed. Now he plans, it was understood, under-stood, to form a cabinet most of whose members are in favor of collaboration with Germany. Well informed quarters said, however, that neither Jacques Doriot, French Fascist leader, nor Marcel Mar-cel Deat, Paris editor who is the chief collaborationist spokesman, would be included. A day of drama was climaxed at midnight when the outgoing government canceled its previous cancelation of a bitterly worde3 rejection of a United States note on American consular recognition of the Free French government at Brazzaville, West Africa. It was reported that the rejection rejec-tion was cancelled at the behest of German authorities and it was finally released only after Laval, in Paris, had been assured by Vichy that it was not intended to complicate his position as regards re-gards the United States at the (Continued on Page Two) which Wallace - heads. As newly constituted the board will have threepowers: 1. To control, the export of important im-portant materials to friendly nations na-tions such as those of Latin America whose goodwill it is desirable de-sirable to maintain. Exports of them would cushion the effect of the war on their normal economic life. 2. To control imports from other nations. BEW would send agents to foreign countries holding strategic stra-tegic supplies and ascertain " the amount available and the amount the United States could take. 3. To prepare analyses of vital economic weak spots in the Axis to guide the armed forces.-That includes information which tells the armed forces , where to . strike in bombing and other raids. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, fffiDfllfllo foinn" K)V o U o) C wm i llSl III "I ?1'L"?J Cancels Plans Send Supplies French Africa clothing for the children of France. He replied that the ships had not sailed and would not be permitted per-mitted to leave the country pending pend-ing clarification of the situation involving the return of Laval to government leadership. i Welles said that some preliminary prelimin-ary ; reports, had been received from- the American ambassftdbTrjto Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy. He added that the reports were not complete enough for a detailed discussion of this government's' policies in the light of the Laval development. According to the ambassador's cables, Welles said, the composition composi-tion of the new French govern ment will not be announced for' another . two days. The vice-premier designate, Laval, is in Paris, where he is discussing the selection selec-tion of his cabinet colleagues. Until the composition of the new government is announced and until it has taken over control, Welles said, there would not be a basis upon which to announce the American policy. Welles declined to say whether Leahy would be recalled to Washington Wash-ington for consultation. He said he had not received the Vichy reply to the American rejection re-jection of the French protest over establishment of an American consulate general in Brazzaville, equatorial Africa. But, he said, the French ambassador, Gaston Henry-Hey, had asked for an appointment ap-pointment for tomorrow. It has been announced in Vichy that the government there considers con-siders the American reply "injurious" "in-jurious" in tone and apparently intended in-tended as propaganda directed at the people of France. It was decided last month to resume food shipments to North Africa. They had been suspended since February, when a previous crises developed in IfJ. S.-Vichy relations. Boise Pilot in Forced Landing SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 UJ William Bogard, 49, Boise, Idaho, civilian pilot who flew off his course yesterday while en route from here to Burley, Idaho, and landed his two place monoplane mono-plane on the Great Salt Lake desert 75 miles southwest of here, today took-off again On his delayed de-layed journey back to- the Gem State. Bogard, who was feared to have crashed when he did not arrive at Burley on schedule, left Salt Lake City Monday night and headed north. For some reason, which Bogard himself doesn't attempt at-tempt to explain, he flew 100 miles off his course and after landing in the desert, was forced to walk 15 miles for gasoline. Tuesday morning, four civilian craft searched the area between Burley and the Idaho-Utah border v until word was received that Bogard had been found. The itinerant Idahoan had flown. Mrs. Herschel Cobb, da,ug hter-ln-law of baseball's famous 'Ty Cobb, from Twin Falls, ' Idaho, here Monday so she could board a commercial com-mercial airliner f or . Los Angeles, 1 where her father is ilL UTAH; WEDNESDAY, GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON Hugh S. Johnson, Ex-Chief of HRA Dies at Capital WASHINGTON, April 15 U.P Hugh S. Johnson, colorful leader of the NRA in early New Deal days whose request for a renewal -of his commission as a reserve Brigadier General was denied by President Roosevelt a year ago, died early today of pneumonia. He was 59 years old and had been ill for several months. He was confined to Walter Reed hospital until recently when he was moved to his apartment in the Wardman Park hotel. . Pneumonia Pneu-monia developed and he succumbed succum-bed at 4:45 a. m., today. Johnson's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Johnston and his son, Kil-bourne, Kil-bourne, a lieutenant colonel in the army, were at the bedside. Since 1934, after disagreeing with new deal policies and after the death of NRA, . Johnson has written a daliy newspaper column. His caustic and often salty remarks re-marks have generally been critical criti-cal of the administration, and in recent years, critical of the administration's ad-ministration's foreign policy. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAUUE Philadelphia 000 000 Boston 000 001 Wolff and Wagner; Dobson and Conroy. Cleveland 000 000 0 Detroit .. . ... 020-200 O Poat and Denning; Trout and Teb-betts. Teb-betts. St. Louis .000 Chicago 000 Auker and Swift; Humphries and Tresh. New York 000 34 Washington ... .100 02 Chandley and Dickey; Newsom and Early. NATIONAL LJSAUUIQ Brooklyn 000 000. New York 000 080 Hlgbe and Sullivan; McGee and Danning. k Boston 003 030 1 Philadelphia ... 000 000 0 Tobin and Masi; Blanton andWar-ren. andWar-ren. Pittsburgh . 500 000 Cincinnati ...... 110 000 Dietz and Lopez; Riddle and Hem-sley. Hem-sley. v . Chicago 1 St. Louis. 0 , Mooty and McCullough; Gumbert and Mancuso. BETTER ROAD SOUGHT i " A delegation of American Fork citizens Tuesday afternoon urged the, Utah county commission , to bend efforts toward repairing and. widening tbe. - Geneva road running north to American Fork. I Career Ends slL V -f, A mm APRIL 15,' ' 1942 REDS STRIKE HEAVY BLOWS AT GERMANS Soviet Troops Battle At Gates Of Strategic Stra-tegic City KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Apr. 15 U.R) The Red army was reported battling at the gates of a large strategic city today after breaking two German defense lines, killing 20,000 troops, wounding probably 40,000 others, and destroying 466 enemy airplanes in a week. The Russian dispatches failed to specify the exact sectors in which the fighting occurred or the city (believed to be Bryansk or Kharkov) under attack. They said, however, that the enemy was "sustaining the most heavy losses in order to extricate himself from precarious positions." (German broadcasts and other dispatches said that the spring tnaw had turned part of the Ru- tation, but the Soviet dispatches said these reports were "exaggerated.") "exagger-ated.") The Germans are increasing their aerial attacks and also are stepping up their counter-attacks on various sectors, including the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow. Mos-cow. A number of heavy attacks supported by Nazi dive bombers have - been reported repulsed. Col. N. Zhuravlev, writing in the Moscow News, said that the Germans lost 2,500 men killed, on April 1 in a single action that illustrated il-lustrated the intensity of fighting. In a week, on two central front zones, he said they lost 20,000 dead and 40,000 to 9 60,000 wounded. Zhuravlev said that the Germans Ger-mans . lost 221 airplanes on April 4th and 5th, compared to 33 lost by the Russians, and that in one week they lost 466 against 86 Russian air force craft. Authoritative reports said one Russian unit in 1 days fighting had killed "thousands" of. enemy soldiers and recaptured ' "many points." Reports from abroad that the Russian . front already has been transformed into a vast quagmire by spring thaws have been greatly great-ly exaggerated, Soviet v military leaders- said. They admitted that heavy rains on the central front have reduced much of the snow to slush, but" said that surfaces still were frozen froz-en sufficiently for a continuation-of continuation-of the Russian drive. In northern sectors of the 1,-800-mile front, rivers and fields still are reported frozen and snow covered. (Continued on Fag Two) Allied Forces Hit Axis On Two Fronts By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor . Allied- armed forces hammered at the Axis on two European, fronts today, keeping up a heavy hour-by-hour aerial offensive in the west and cutting into German offensive offen-sive bases on the Russian front in the vital Bryansk sector. enspatcne from both London and Moscow emphasized belief that return of Pierre Laval to power in Vichy France as a result of Nazi threats, was closely con. nected with the expected .German spring offensives in Russia and the Mediterranean areawhich the British air attacks in ' the west and Red array blows , in the east were designed to offsetT "- , London said that Vichy now was like a Nazi-ruled "five-cent Balkan Balk-an state." and Moscow suggested that Laval might use ' the French fleet and the Vichy air force (recently (re-cently built ' up4 again with Berlin's Ber-lin's consent) .to aid; the Axis, in addition to cooperating with Hit UTAH'S ONL.T DAILY 8Qi;TH OF SALT UKE v J lu Long -Distance Raid First Blow ' Promised By General Mac Arthur . ..... 4 American Bomber Squadrons Bring: "Dis may and Destruction" To Cebu Docks, Airfield Near Manila, Other Places GENERAL MacARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Aus-tralia, Aus-tralia, April 15 U.R) American bomber squadrons, including three flying forti esses, brought "dismay and destruction" to Japanese bases including an airfield near Manila on three , Philippine islands, a communique disclosed tonight. . The first of many blows In the counter-attack promised by Gen. Douglas MacArthur was led thousands of miles through the air by Brigadier General Ralph Royce of Michigan, whose bombers dumped huge loads of explosives on Nich - ols field, near Manila, Batangas port on southern Luzon island; Cebu and; the Important port of Davao on ; Mindanao island. . . Much damage was done and an enemy supply ship was sunk. One American plane was lost but its crew was saved. Revealing that t leat nm nf pines, MacArthur's headquarters said that they brought back a number of evacuees from the Philippines to Australia. Commander Decorated-Major Decorated-Major Gen. Rush B. Lincoln of Ames, Iowa, chief of the air corps in Australia and representative of Lieut. George, H. Brett, the deputy depu-ty supreme commander, awarded the distinguished service cross to Royce in a dramatic ceremony in a hangar when the squadron returned. re-turned. Royce had volunteered to lead the successful - attack . in which 13 heavy and medium bombers participated. The American raids on Monday and Tuesday - followed the Japanese Japan-ese conquest of Bataan peninsula and the landing of 12,000 enemy troips on Cebu island. The communique issued at Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's headquarters said: "Considerable damage was done to the Cebu docks. "At Batangas, one enemy cargo vessel presumably carrying military mili-tary supplies was sunk. "Our losses were limited to one plane, of which the crew was saved." Brett said: "General Royce volunteered and was selected to command this most important mission. "His accomplishment undoubt edly win oe toia-ui aetau at a later date, but I now desire to point out that he typified again the . tremendous importance of the air arm. "He demonstrated to the highest high-est degree the spirit of offensive action so vital to the winning of anv military conflict. "He took the flight Into enemy territory, created dismay and de-(Continued de-(Continued on Page Two; ler by using French military forces to protect the German rear against allied invasion - threats during the coming showdown in Russia. :v Break Seems. Likely - - . There was increasing agitation by such Fascist leaders as Marcel Deat, in Paris, for use of French armed forces to aid the Axis and a break. In American-British relations rela-tions with Vichy was increasingly Jlkely.v s - . t - On the Russian fighting front, the Red army continued powerful attempts to break up Hitler's ex-(Continued ex-(Continued on Page Two) Weather Forecast UTAH "Much colder; with winds reaching 35 to 45 miles per hour in west and north portions; snows, above 5,000 feet late this afternoon and tonight," . v . PRICE RYE CENTS 1 - . . . Merchant Marino Merger With Nauy Meets With Favor "Vi - -'- WASHINGTON, April 15 (HE) The house naval affairs committee com-mittee today attributed the .fire" that capsized the former French liner Normandie in New York harbor to "issuance of unreasonable unreason-able orders" and "carelessness," and -at the same time urged immediate im-mediate transfer of the merchant marine to the navy. The committee I unanimously adopted the report of a subcommittee subcom-mittee on the Normandie disaster and directed that copies be sent to President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and the heads of aU naval bureaus involved involv-ed in the Normandie incident. Chairman Carl Vinson, D.,'Ga., told 'members of the subcommit-' tee he was glad that it : had recommended merger of the merchant mer-chant marine into the navy. He disclosed that Admiral Emory. S. Land, chairman of the maritime commission, was . discussing 'such a move with President Roosevelt today. : He predicted that the merger wiU be ordered by the president shortly. Twa ships ; TORPEDOED MOREHEAD CITY, N. C Apr. 15 UXE - Two more : American ships have been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast, with the presumed pre-sumed loss of three lives, the navy revealed today. V J Thirty-five survivors from medium-sized merchantman' were landed here Friday. Two crewmen, crew-men, who ' jumped . overboard to escape .a : rapidly-spreading' fire, were believed lost. One sailor was presumed I lost from the second ship, a small merchantman. mer-chantman. The victim. Identified as Earl Chamness Jr., of Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Fla., dived overboard when, the torpedo exploded. The rest of the 29-man crew 'was 'rescued. . - An axis submarine fired two torpedoes at close' range to sink this small vessel. Killing of 23 in : Maneuvers Probed LONDON, April 15 OJJD . The war office today ordered an inquiry into, the-accidental killing , of 23 British soldiers and home guards-' Sen during military , maneuvers south England, Monday; . v -The. deaths occurred when - a Hurricane pilot, diving at ':-" 500 miles an hour, strafed an enclosure when the victims were standing. The pilot was believed to ' have mistaken . the enclosure for his target. Thirty men were hospital ized with critical wounds. 11 3 |