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Show 17 FOR VICTORY MAKE YtoUROWDri Soon thepeil rex. 7 Buy UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. Jap Missiles Taken '- ' v v v, . ' V : - ' : : . . t e a x. . v v-.v-:. a - . a :'V ;-:r ? X y v - ' 4 X V ' ' i 'I X5 , - - X- x f ' ' ? ' j - - ' x ' J At a "West Coast naval hospital," Dean O. Darrow, In bed. lire control" man third class, and James B. Barker, seaman first class, talk ever a "heart alfalr" they had in common. Both men, who were wounded at Pearl Harbor recently, had Jap missiles removed from their hearts, a Machine gun bullet Irom Darrow's and a shrapnel lragment Irom Baxker's. Official U. s. Navv onoto. Anti-Inflationary Plans Take Shape WASHINGTON, April 23 (U.R) The scattered threads of anti-inflation measures were being woven into a definite pattern today. Executive and legislative departments of the govern- 3 ment were working on the pieces D ESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR The president of a Brooklyn Brook-lyn savings bank has taken a step which must meet with general approval. His example exam-ple may appeal to bankers elsewhere. President Edward A. Richards Rich-ards of the East New York Savings bank has asked every holder of a safe deposit box in his vault to remove any "slacker dollars,' and either deposit them or invest them in war bonds. In either ca"se the government would have the use of the money to help finance the war. Any company or individual planning a violation of rationing ration-ing regulations should stay out of the jurisdiction of Federal Judge Robert C. Blatzell of Indiana. Expressing Express-ing the sentiment of a people united to smash anything retarding re-tarding the war effort, Judge Blatzell sentenced at Evan Seville, Se-ville, Ind., two men to 18 months and a year and a day, plus heavy fines for concealing conceal-ing .and storing large quantities quanti-ties of new tires. The cdm-pany cdm-pany they owned was fined $1000. One of the men was castigated casti-gated by the jurist as "an enemy of the war effort and lacking in essential patriotism.'' patriot-ism.'' The rubber they hid for their own personal profit might have spelled the difference differ-ence between success .and failure fail-ure for a mechanized regiment. regi-ment. The nation is jniore than ready to back Judge Blatzell and other officials in such actions. oOo In a Lighter Vein Have you noticed the steady crop of drunken drivers? About the only excuse a drunken driver can offer is that he didn't know he was loaded. . If you think women can't take a joke, you should see some of their husbands. . . . The successful man makes hay from the grass that grows under some other fellow's fel-low's feet. 202 yKfe' yrtS?5S From Their Hearts x- ,X -x- ..y-X- xj or an over-all program to produce the -greatest" changes in American economic life in history. Here are the actions and proposed pro-posed actions designed to put the country on a rigid war-time economic eco-nomic footing: The Presidential Program President Roosevelt delivers a message to congress early next week, probably Monday, outlining an anti-inflation program which is expected to include: A 99 per cent excess profits tax on corporate corpor-ate earnings in excess of six per cent of capitalization; a limitation of $25,000 of $50,000 on individual incomes; a general price ceiling; eventual rationing of all consumer goods; endorsement of a voluntary war bond sale campaign, and a directive to the war labor board banning further wage increases for workers in the higher brackets. brack-ets. The Price Fixing Program Immediately after the presidential presiden-tial message is delivered, the of-fit-. of price administration will issue a blanket order fixing maximum maxi-mum retail and wholesale prices at the highest levels of last month. The order will take effect ef-fect on or before May 1, and all prices not now operating under ceilings will be included, with the exception of two agricultural commodity com-modity classifications. Most farm products are now sold under a parity price order, and the OPA is expected to exempt seasonal products which would require a great enforcement machinery. Sugar Rationing War-time distribution of sugar begins May 5, each person to receive re-ceive a half pound a week for the first eight weeks of the program. The plan will initiate the use of rationing books in this country, with sugar becoming the first of possibly dozens of products eventually event-ually to be doled out because of shortajes and transportation difficulties. dif-ficulties. All retail sales of sugar will be halted Monday, April 27, in pre- ( Continued on Page Three) Retailers To Register For Sugar Quotas On April 28-29 Retailers and Institutional or industrial users must submit certain cer-tain definite information when they register for sugar quotas April 28 and 29, states W. Lester Mangum, chairman of the Provo rationing board. The registration will take 'place at the provo high school bdUding, between the hours of 1 and 8 p. m., with teachers acting as registrars. The registration for families will be a week later, May 4-7 at the elementary schools. Retailers will be required to ! show their gross sales of ail com- modities for the week ending April 25, 1942. The applicant will FDR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS SET MONDAY Congress Marks Time On Legislation Until Un-til Monday WASHINGTON, April 23 U.R) Congress, jolted by the economic control program under un-der consideration, marked time today until President Roosevelt reveals how he plans to make the effects of the war effort felt in every home, market basket and pocket-book. pocket-book. , Tax, labor, profits and price bills were all but pushed aside until the official word of those important import-ant subjects comes from the White House, probably next Monday. Mon-day. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early today said that the president presi-dent almost definitely would have his anti-inflation message ready for congress Monday. His fireside fire-side address to the nation, explaining ex-plaining the proposed measures, will be delivered on some later date. Early indicated. He told reporters that the president presi-dent was "really going to get under un-der way today on the message." New Angles Develop-Slow, Develop-Slow, the over-all program to put civilian life on a war footing was . taking shape. Although the general picture must await Mr. Roosevelt's message, these other angles were developing: Price No more increases. A general price-freezing order will be announced next Tuesday and will become effective before May 1. After that the highest price charged in March will prevail on all items except for a few food products such as perishable vegetables vege-tables and fruits. Rationing No more "Joy-rid-ing,r in eastern states. Rationing Ration-ing of gasoline between 2 and five gallons per week per car begins May 15. Sugar rationing starts May S one half pound per week per person. Mr. Roosevelt is expected to propose eventual rationing of all consumer goods. Taxes The house ways and means committee's experts are preparing a new corporation tax plan which may boost the treas-(Continued treas-(Continued on Page Three) 43 Indiciments Brought by Jury SALT LAKE CITY, April 23 UJ? Forty-three true bills of Indictment, ranging from routine criminal cases to charges of kidnaping, kid-naping, today had been handed up by the grand jury of the federal district court. James J. Quillen and Jack Pepper Pep-per were charged with violation of the federal kidnaping act, growing out of the alleged abduction abduc-tion of two Ogden, Utah, garage employes. Quillen and Pepper were said to have kidnaped Ira Gour-ley, Gour-ley, Ogden garage owner, and his youthful assistant and transported trans-ported them In a stolen car from Utah to Cheyenne. Wyo. Also among the indictments were nine secret cases cases in which arrests have not yet been made. Dyer act and selective service act violations comprised tne majority of the indictments- also be required to show the amount of sugar, in pounds, received re-ceived during the month of November, No-vember, 1941, and the amount of sugar on hand at the date of registration. reg-istration. Certificates to purchase may not be Issued until this information in-formation is filled in on application applica-tion blanks. Institutional and Industrial users will be required . to submit the following information when they apply April 28-29 for May and June quotas: (l) Founds of sugar received In each calendar month for . the year . 1941; and (2) the inventory of sugar on hand, date of registration. ' PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. Short Gas, Rations Opposed By Ickes; 1 7 States Affected - t - OPA Quota of 2V2 To6 Gallons Per Week is 'Unfortunate; Ickes Would Include 4 States of Washington, Oregon .1 WASHINGTON, April 2$ U.R) Petroleum Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes today told a press conference he "refused to believe that people will be put on any such short rations" as the 212 to 5 gallons of gasoline per week announced by the Office of Price Administration. ; He described the OPA statement regarding the May 15 rationing in 17 eastern states as "very unfortunate." Quota Undisclosed , All ftormnn Boys, nil nvi iiiuii uwj y 10-18 Mobilized For War Program STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 23 (U.P) A Berlin dispatch to the newspaper Tidningen said today that all German boys between 10 and 18 years of age would be mobilized mo-bilized for war effort and that those of 17 and IS would be put under military training. Boys under 17 will be put oa. home front service, especially in agriculture, the dispatch said. The ymeve emphasized Germany's Ger-many's urgent shortage of man power. Heretofore only the SS" Nazi storm troop organization had been permitted to recruit boys as young as 17 years. Utah Leads in Home Ownership SALT LAKE CITY, April 23 UJ? Statistics on home ownership, owner-ship, provided by the Utah Savings Sav-ings and Loan Association, revealed re-vealed today that Utah heads the west in percentage of home ownership. own-ership. Idaho ranks second highest in this respect. The percentage of people owning homes in Utah is 61.1; in Idaho 57.9; in Washiijg-ton Washiijg-ton 57; in Oregon 55.4; in Montana Mon-tana 52, and in Wyoming 48.6. The compilation also demonstrated demon-strated that rural areas have more home-owners than urban areas. 50,000 Utahns to Register Monday SALT LAKE CITY, April 23 (UJD Utah's fourth draft call, with men in the 45 to 64 age group signing up for possible non-combatant duty, will be conducted Monday from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m., Lieut. Col. H Arnold Rich, state selective service director, announced announc-ed today. Approximately 50,000 Utahns will be affected by the registration, registra-tion, Rich said, emphasizing that men In this group would not be called into the armed forces but later may be assigned non-combatant duties essential to the war effort. Japanese Can't Curb Curiosity SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (U.E) Tokyo radio, apparently unable un-able to restrain its curiosity any longer, today indirectly asked for information from allied sources on last Saturday's air raid on Japan. The United Press listening post recorded the following Tokyo broadcast: "The American papers are talking big, but not a whisper from the army or navy. "We will be very interested in knowing .just how many planes came from and escaped to their bases. "We will be very interested in knowing their claims of damages, which according to them no doubt will be great." UTAH, -THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1942 (g ickes refused, .however, to speculate on the most likely quota which will be allowed "non-essential" motorists when the OPA rationing order becores effective May 15. He said speculation already al-ready "has caused considerable misapprehension" on the part of the- public. Ickes also disclosed: 1. That he sees "no immediate need,r . to extend the rationing program to aU parts of the nation. na-tion. 2. That he already has asked Price Administrator Leon Henderson Hender-son to authorize price increases to compensate for additional costs of production and transportation of petroleum products. 3. That the OPA's card rationing ration-ing program "might as well" be extended to include Oregon and Washington, whiclt were not 'in cluded in the original order. '"A 33 per cent cut in filling station deliveries now is in effect in Oregon Ore-gon and Washington, as weU as in 17 eastern states. 4. That emergency movement of oil into the east coast by tank car replacing coastwise tankers which have seen sunk by submarines subma-rines or diverted elsewhere reached a new high of 600,000 barrels daily during the week ended April 18. Ickes said he was not sure whether this volume can be maintained, main-tained, since there already have been reports of shortages in railroad rail-road rolling stock and locomotives. locomo-tives. He disclosed that 10 coal mines in West Virginia were shut down for one day last Friday as a result re-sult of a car shortage. Ickes said he was unable to guess the extent of any petroleum price increase, but he said it would be applied when ordered by Henderson to industrial fuel and home heating oil, as well as gasoline He said he hoped this would act as a new incentive for consumers to convert to coal wherever possible. possi-ble. Not From Henderson Ickes pointed out that the "un fortunate" report that motorists would be limited to 2 Mi to five gallons of gasoline weekly did not come from Henderson, but from "some poor prophet who went be (Continued on Page Three) Baseball Today NATIONAL. LEAGUE Brooklyn 100 0 Boston .... 100 0 Kimball and Sullivan; Salvo and Lombard!. . New York ..... 200 21 Philadelphia ... 000 00 Schumacher and Panning; Pod-gajny Pod-gajny and Livingston. Cincinnati . . 000 000 Pittsburgh .... 100 100 Vender Meer and Hemsley; Lan-ning Lan-ning and Lopez. St Louis 0 Chicago ....... 0 - AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago ....... 000 000 0000 Detroit ........ 033 010 20x 9 Lyans and Tresh; White and Teb-betts. Teb-betts. Boston 000 1 Washington .... 320 1 -Terry and Conroy; Leonard and Early. , Philadelphia ... 000 ,04 New York . . ... 010 20 Knott and Hayes; Borowy and Dickey. " Cleveland ...... 0 St Couia I, SHIPBUILDING DELAY BLAMED TO AGITATION Steel Plate Delivery Delayed By Shipyard Ship-yard Lagging WASHINGTON, April 23 U.R) Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission com-mission charged today that "infernal agitation" among shipyard workers and delays in deliveries of steel plate are retarding; the shipbuilding program. "This infernal agitation is going go-ing around in everybody's head about whether it should be a closed qr open shop, or whether they should join this or that union," Land told the senate committee com-mittee investigating the war program. pro-gram. He called for "stabilization of labor relations sometimes known as freezing relations." When asserted that the shipbuilding ship-building program could be 50 per cent ahead of present production, Sen. Harold H. Burton, R., O., asked whether "loafing" was responsible re-sponsible for the lag. ; "It certainly has a bearing on it," Land replied. "One of jny pet peeves is loafing in the yards. We have got to build . up morale and that includes everybody from management to labor.?--Jc;T; . "That brings up the question whether morale should be built up by legislation or whether , we should go to other factors," Burton Bur-ton said. "I don't 'care how It is done as long as we stabilize relations," Land said. "I want ships." He presented 10 points bearing on the problem of increasing production pro-duction : 1. Maximum production should be the test of any program. 2. Strikes are not serious now. 3. Slowdowns "may be serious" seri-ous" now. 4. "Loafing is serious now." 5. The 40-hour week has "serious "seri-ous implications for inflation" which should be considered by congress. 6. Machines should work seven days a week and men six days a week. 7. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays should be considered work days. 8. Double time pay should be abolished for the duration of the war. 9. The war labor board "should hold labor relations at a standstill." stand-still." 10. There should be some agreements to determine whether there should be three eight-hour shifts or two 10-hour shifts A day. Land expressed confidence "shipbuilding "ship-building workers are patriotic" and would be willing to give up the 40-hour week. Wife of Envoy To Be Put In.Vault VICHY, April 23 OTJI) The body of Mrs. William D. Leahy, wife of the United States ambassador to Prance, will be placed in a vault tomorrow and funeral services probably will not be held until it is returned to Washington. Admiral Leahy will . depart for home, Via Lisbon, about May 1, it is believed. 5- Quota for Spanish Fork Sugar Plant Reopening Is Lowered to 7000 Acres Reopening of the Spanish Fork plant of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company appeared to be a step nearer realization today with the announcement from Douglas E. Scalley, general manager, that the requirement for the reopen ing had been lowered from -.the 8000-acre sign-up previously re quired of the farmers In the factory district to 7000 acres. However, even the lowered ' re quirement has not yet been met, since there have been. but 6600 acres contracted for to date, according1 ac-cording1 to W. J. O'Bryant, . district dis-trict mana2?r of the conipany. Only a; few more days remain UTAH'S ONL.T DAILT SOUTH." OF SALT UKB Germans Concentrate Nine-Tenths Of Their Troops Against Reds Nazi Plans Upset Because Red Army Has Kept On Attacking- Despite Spring Thaw; Also Fear Allied 'Second Front By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Adolf Hitler was reported in Russian dispatches today to' be calling for another 1,500,000 troops to wrest the initiative from the Red army on the eastern front, despite mounting hints of an allied invasion of Axis-held Europe. The Soviet spokesman at Kuibyshev told reporters that the Germans now had concentrated nine-tenths of, their, fighting, strength on the Russian front, and that Hitler urgently urg-ently was demanding, but not always getting, additional soldiers sol-diers from Axis satellite states in addition to calling up 900,000, youthful German reserves. Nine-tenths of the Nazi strength would be probably ,000,000 men, in view of Axis losses in Russia, but any estimate of such manpower man-power figures is largely guesswork. guess-work. Flans Disrupted . In a gepleral way however, British sources agreed with the Russian estimate of Axis strength on the eastern front reporting that Hitler' had planned to use about 85 per cent of his strength in the Soviet union this summer, while maintaining 15 per cent in the .west lo guard agjalnst alljed attacks from Norway to France. Two factors, however, have apparently ap-parently disrupted the Nazi plans. First, the Red army has kept on attacking despite the spring thaw, and the Soviet spokesman said that "immense" Russian reserves re-serves were moving into battle in a' campaign to break up offensive plans of the enemy's armies from the Arctic to the Black Sea. A German order of the day, captured cap-tured by the Russians, was said to warn the Axis troops of impending im-pending Soviet offensive action on a big scale. Second, the Axis appeared to be taking extraordinary precautions precau-tions against an American-British invasion of Europe this summer one London dispatch suggested (Continued on Page Three) COPENHAGEN HIT IN AIR ATTACK STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 23 OLE) Two waves of bombers swept over Copenhagen shortly after midnight in the first attack at-tack on the Danish capital since July, 1940, and were met by antiaircraft anti-aircraft fire which sent 50 t persons per-sons to hospitals, it was reported here today. The raiders, flying at high altitude, alti-tude, twice sent residents to air raid shelters where one . aged, man died of apoplexy but so far as could be learned here, no bombs were dropped on the city. Alarms also sounded at many other points in Denmark. Hundreds of anti-aircraft guns kept up a steady "barrage, but apparently none of the planes was shot down. Shell duds . and splinters crashed in the streets and on roof tops, however, and injured 50 persons. The gunfire was so heavy that watchers on the Swedish coast nearest Denmark believed that heavy bombs were falling. in which to obtain the necessary 400 acres. The quota could be attained in a- short . time, he pointed out today, if every farmer Would sign up for an additional acre or two at once. Operation of the factory at Spanish Fork would be of great advantage to Utah county, providing pro-viding a substantial payroll through the fall and winter months, . and also affording the farmers a . supply of, beet pulp for feeding stock. ' In the meantime planting is going ahead, aided by the fine spring weather and over 5000 acres have bo far been planted. ?e a lot IE5S HfTLEf? - fl PRICE FIVE CENTS 80 FRENCH HOSTAGES TO BE EXECUTED LONDON, April 23 (HE) Eighty -French hostages are to, die at dawn tomorrow before German firing squads, - bringing to some . 200 the number of innocents executed ex-ecuted within the last v wK 'te--. -cause other Frenchmen had committed com-mitted acts of terrorism or sabotage, sabo-tage, v . - - ' The - 80 Frenchmen, the Ger- -mans announced, are to face firing fir-ing squads unless the patriots who wrecked a German leave troop train near Rennes are ar-, rested today. Thirty hostages already had Ijeen executed for the wrecking,, twenty had been shot V at St. . Nazaire because Frenchmen aided British commandos in the recent raid on that submarine base. Thirty-five had been shot at Calais because others had engaged in acts of sabotage. In Paris, an unknown number of hostages had been shot because a German sentry had been killed , and a bomb thrown at a German-occupied German-occupied building April 2. Five had been shot, because a German soldier was attacked In Paris April 8; 10 had been shot, because a German soldier w.i shot in front of a Paris subway station last Monday. Fifteen more hostages arS to be executed for the April 8 attack at-tack unless the attackers are arrested by Sunday. " Lieut. Gen. Ernest Schaumburg, deputy military governor of oc- ' cupied territory, announced last , night that "French civilians". had "arrested and surrendered to' po-lice" po-lice" men who made the April 2 attacks, and that therefore 20 ' hostages held for the April 20 killing would not be shot. Tby were to have been executed unless un-less the men who did the April 20 killing were arrested by next : Wednesday. The Berlin radio indicated that Vichy Chief of Government Pierre ; Laval already had started his expected ex-pected campaign to weed out and punish ruthlessly elements suspected sus-pected of even moral opposition to the Axis. - in- f Area SPOKANE, Wash., April 23(TJX An army ' pursuit ship on a' routine training flight crash(l In a residential district near the outskirts of Spokane today, lining lin-ing the pilot, public relations office of-fice at Geiger Field announced .4 today. . The pilot was Identified as 1st Lieut Milton E. Connelly, Chi- . cago. - " Capt Joseph W. Bush, public relations officer said the plane ' struck a garage and caught fire. The pilot apparently died In the , flames.-';-...;' ' Eyewitnesses said ' the plane flew low over the residential dis- ; trict, apparently headed for : a cleared space two blocks beyond . a fuel yard, in an attempt to land. The ship appeared to strike ft high tension wire, plunging1 it ' Into the building, witnesses said. I |