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Show yb Says m aero Boy War Bonds Every Fay Day Our Quota war i UOND DAY stop srtxom SAVt nuns FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 209 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TEtEM RAPH NEW8 BERVJCB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. MONDAY MAY 4, 1942 UTAH'S O.NL.T DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS til 1ft 1? 7 a w i 'it m - - ' - Atlantic Fleet Admiral Wants Naval Offensive Submarine Menace Off Atlantic Coast Being Beaten As U. S. Builds Up Superiority Superi-ority in Merchant, War Ships BY EDWARD W. BEATTTE United Prm Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 4 (U.R) Admiral Harold R. Stark, commanding com-manding United States naval forces in European waters, said .today that the submarine menace off the American Atlantic coast was being beaten and expressed hope that the British and American navies would soon be able to strike offensively at the Axis on the principle of calculated risk. "We can't win the war fighting defensively," Stark said. : "Reckless and unprepared ac DESK CHAT BY THK EDITOR Organized gambling racket rack-et operators have their eyes on Provo, if reports coming in from the Pacific coast can be believed. The following item was carried recently by a columnist in a San Francisco Fran-cisco newspaper: "The gambling clique in Reno and Las Vegas figures Provo, Utah" will be" the next boom town, acct. a $90,000,-000 $90,000,-000 (roughly) .steel project the U. S. is building there; the smooth boys with the double shuffle are already heading in that direction, so watch it sucker." oOo Things we'd like to know: 1. Why U. S. armed forces will not accept non-citizens as volunteers, while, as draftees, draf-tees, they are taken. ' This is in contrast to policy of Canadians and Britishers, who welcome enlistment of American citizens in their armies, ar-mies, navies and air forces. But a British or Canadian citizen (and we have a lot of them in this country) can't be a volunteer soldier or sailor sail-or for us. 2. Why the government will fix most food prices, but not restaurant prices. To many people, there is a dearth of logic here. , 3. Why some banks urge more deposits in saving accounts, ac-counts, while the government says buy war bonds and stamps. The average person cannot can-not do !xth. oOo Small stuffA small town is where the jail is full when they catch a crook ... an optimist is a man who plants a garden and then throws away his wife's can opener. ... the girl of today is more interested in bonds than in bon botis ... the only reliable sign of spring is when winter goes away and fails to come back ... if every day was Sunday we'd all soon be killed or injured. Brazil Freighter Torpedoed, Sunk tuu uta jaiveiro. May 4 ( -The 6.692-ton BrazUian freitrhtr Pamahyba was sunk "by an enemy submarine" May 1 off the British isiana or Trinidad near Venezuela, ah official announcement said today. to-day. The announcement, which was made tnrougn the news agency, Agenda National, said that 23 ot those, aboard the vessel were rOAruri hv th Smniah steamer Cabo De Homos, but that efforts to locate other . survivors were fruitless. . - tion only loses wars. ".The strategy of calculated risk, in which we strike the enemy and strike him hard, will produce vie tory." He said that the United States had been producing two merchant ships a day for the last month and that while 30 American war ships were produced last year, the coming year would see 100 new American naval units afloat. Greater Next Year "And the following year will be even greater," he eaid. Stark declined to define the limits of hia new command of United States naval units in European waters. But it was believed be-lieved it would include American Vessels operating in the Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, as in the last war. Pralamg. Anglo-American naval co-operation he said; ''The admiralty and the American Ameri-can naval command have been trading Information, including everything we know and every, thing we think. we know." : Stark expressed conviction that the German submarine' threat along the American Atlantic coast was surely, if slowly, being beaten. ' . Rising American naval con- i struction would combine with anti submarine devices, he said, to put the situation under control soon. "Defeat of the submarine threat is as vital to victory in this war as it was in the last," he. said. Then, expressing optimism regarding re-garding the outlook, he said that though ship sinkings had increased increas-ed during the last two months, mostly off the Atlantic coast, the losses of tonnage in the last eight or 10 months showed a much bet. ter situation compared with the previous period of strength. i it i -"" Stark said he hoped, by adherence ad-herence to the principle of offensive offen-sive strategy, the Allies by superiority super-iority in both warships and mer. chant ships would soon be in a position where they would not only be able to match loss for loss but would be able to strike and take even greater loses to achieve their objectices. REDS WIPE OUT 2000 GERMANS MOSCOW, May 4 (UJ! The Red army was reported today to have wiped out 2,000 Germans in three days of fighting on the Leningrad front, and to have killed another 300 In driving the enemy from an important communications line northwest of Moscow. ' The actions were reported in today's to-day's communique. r The Official news agency Tass also that 19 German planes were destroyed by the Russian air force in two days of operations in the Crimea. Sugar Rationing Registration Now Under Way At Elementary Schools Housewives throughout the nation na-tion today, flocked to the elementary element-ary schools in their neighborhoods neighbor-hoods to sign up for themselves and their families in the largest mass registration in the history of this state. The event marked the beginning of food rationing for this country in World War n, and sugar is the . first commodity - to be rationed. ra-tioned. . . The . registration will continue through Thursday, and by that ft Ml U 2 GENERALS GO OVER TO FREE FRENCH Opposition To Laval Growing; Sabotage Outbreaks Persist BY UNITED PRESS Two French generals, unable un-able to support the Vichy government longer because of Pierre Laval, have arrived at British Gibraltar, presumably presum-ably to join the Free French cause, Spanish sources reported report-ed today. The report, which was unconfirmed, uncon-firmed, came from La Linea, on the border which separatos Spain from Gibraltar. It said, also without confirmation, confirma-tion, that Gen. Charles DeGaulle. Free French leader, had arrived at Gibraltar to confer with the general. gen-eral. . .. Vichy itself reported a new outbreak out-break of sabotage and terrorism against . the Nazis, and ruthless German repression in occupied France. Vichy said 15 German soldiers were killed when a train was wrecked near Caen, in the Havre area of the channel coast not far from the scene of a recent sabotage sabo-tage wreck in which 44 German soldiers were killed. Second Train Wrecked A second - train was wrecked, with an unspecified number of casualties, at Bretigny, south of Paris, Vichy said. It was asserted also that 55. French hostages had been executed exe-cuted at Lille, which is . near the Belgian border, In reprisal for the killing of two German soldiers. The embarrassments of Laval, the arch collaborationist who is now "chief of government" of the Vichy regime, were increased by i the presence in Vichv of Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. a irreat hero of the French people, who had escaped from a German fortress for-tress and returned homo via Switzerland. Switz-erland. Laval, Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, chief of Vichy defense forces, and Fernand De Brinon, Vichy envoy to German authorities authori-ties at Paris, and Giraud himself conferred Saturday at Moulfns, on the border between occupied (Continued on Page Seven) U.S. Gunboat Sunk Near Corregidor WASHINGTON, May UU' The 360-ton river gunboat Mindanao Min-danao has been sunk by Japanese bombing attacks near COrregidor island, the navy announced today. There was no loss of life. The Mindanao was the 32nd naval vessel sunk since the war started. " The Mindanao, commissioned in 1928. was built by the Klang-maiTDock Klang-maiTDock and Engineering Works at Shanghai, China. She was one of eight gunboats built for service serv-ice on the Yangtze . river and coastal Chinese waters. The Mindanao Min-danao was flagship of that fleet, -O - . time it was expected nearly every man, woman,' and child would either have . a ration book, or be signed-up for one. In Provo the ' registration is being carried out at the four elementary schools, Joaquin, 550 North Sixth, East; Tlmpanogos, 415 North Fifth .West; Maeser, 485 East Second -South; and 'the Franklin, 351 South Seventh West Gus P. Backman' state rationing ration-ing . administrator., declared that the adults of each ousehold . in II COIf ifl El WE TO RUSSIA ie german fouces in toe arctic These'll Keep the They're Just a pile of discarded water heaters in a Los Angeles Junk yard cow, but these old tanks will soon be converted -into war materials to I whip we , : SIX ARMY MEN DIE IN CRASH BOISE, Ida.. May 4 u:.l! Six fliers were reported killed in the crash of a two-motored army plane in hills one and a half miles south of Pleasant Valley, Ore., the Gowen field public relations office announced today. Bodies of two officers and four enlisted men, whose names were withheld pending identification, were found in the wreckage by a Union Pacific railroad train crew. The plane, on a routine training flight, apparently crashed soon after leaving Boise for its base at Spokane, Wash., Capt. R. S. GlbbS, public relations officer, said reports received from the section crew which located the ship indicated the plane was badly bad-ly wrecked when it struck the hillside. Scene of the crash was near Baker, Ore., about 125 air miles northwest of Boise. The wreckage wreck-age was found near the railroad tracks. Gibbs said the section crew had found the bodies of all men aboard the ship. Weather conditions had hampered hamp-ered search by air. A civilian searching plane was sent from Boise at dawn to cover the first leg of the ahip's flight. ' . , the state must shoulder the responsibility. re-sponsibility. "If any family does not register in the next four days," he said, "it win be impossible for that family to purchase sugar supplies." sup-plies." i For any who may, have ample sugar supplies or might realize no need for sugar purchases, the duty is equally important This because the sugar ration-1 iicguuauun la ina regis r (Continued on Page Three) f Japs in Hot Water japs. Royal Air Force Stages Bomb Raid On Hamburg Port By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Prem Staff Correspondent LONDON. May 4 U.P) Royal Air force planes resumed their spring offensive on a round the clock basis today with powerful sweeps over occupied France after a night in which they set great' fires in Hamburg. Germany's second sec-ond city, greatest port and most bombed target. Watchers on the Dover coast, saw big fleets of Royal Air Force planes heading for the French coast for hours this morning. Great long range bombers raided Hamburg in force during the night, concentrating on the battered bat-tered dock and shipbuilding yards. Night raiders also bombed the St. Nazaire submarine base on the French Toccupied coast, and coastal command planes damaged two enemy ships off the Norwegian Nor-wegian coast. Bomber and fighter planes attacked at-tacked German air fields in north ern France, Belgium, and Holland (Continued on Page Seven) Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 000 10 Boston 204 00 Milnar and Desautels; H. New-some New-some and Peacock. Chicago 000 00 New York . 105 00 Humphries and Turcfer; Candler and Dickey. Detroit ....... 000 1 Philadelphia ... 000 0 Fiichs and Tebbetts; Besse and Wagner. St. Louis poned. at Washington, post- NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 010 00 Cincinnati 000 (12)1 McGee, East (4) and D arming; Starr and Lamanno. Boston 000 000 Pittsburgh ...... 000 001 Tobin &nd Lombard! ; Klinger and pneiDs - (Only games scheduled). LASHIO HIT BY CHINESE, U.S. BOMBERS Jap Airdrome Heavily Bombed By American Volunteer Group BY ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, May 4 UJ?) Chinese and American bombers, blasting savagely at Captured Lashio, signalized a Last-ditch Allied stand in northern Burma today against Japanese drives toward to-ward the Chinese frontier above the ruins of Mandalay. With one enemy spearhead reported re-ported only 3 miles from. China's Yunnan Province, the "flying tigers" of the American Volunteer Volun-teer group 'joined a ( Chinese bomber squadron in a raid on a Japanese airdrome at Lashio yesterday, yes-terday, afternoon. , A communique from the headquarters head-quarters of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Channault, the AVG commander, said the target was "heavily bombed." sweeping low over the airdrome, the raiders d)trafjed grounded planes, shrwered the ticld with bdmbs, left barracks ablaze and blew up a large fuel storage dump. In its first .blow against the Japanese since the bitter Chang-sha Chang-sha campaign of last December and January, the Chinese air force suffered no loss of planes or personnel, the communique said. The heartening news of the Lashio raid came at a time when the position of British and Chin, eae ground forces was critical, pushing northeast along the Burma Bur-ma road, one Japanese mechanized mechan-ized unit was attacking Chinese positions at Kweichleh, 58 miles north of Lashio, according to a Chungking communique. Military observers believed this enemy column was dangerously (Continued on Page Seven) Supreme Court To Review Utah Case WASHINGTON, May 4 0LE) The Supreme court today granted the petition Of the Utah Tax commission com-mission for review of a state supreme su-preme court decision denying the state the right to tax a portion of the estate of the late Samuel Unter- myer, New York lawyar and philanthropist. phil-anthropist. Executors for the estate paid under protest a tax of $8,059 on 2,100 shares of Union Pacific Railroad Co. stock. The Utah high court ruled favor ably on their' suit for refund. The commission levied the tax on the basis of the fact that the Union Pacific is a Utah corporation. Beach Comber Finds Parcel With $1,000,000 In Diamonds Melbourne, May 4 (U.E) A $1,000,000 packet of diamonds, lost when a plane flying from Java was Shot down by the Japanese Jap-anese off the Australian coast, was found by an unidentified beachcomber af te r official searches failed it was -announced today. It was turned over to authorities auth-orities at a northwestern town. The beach comber, who walked into the town to enlist in the Australian imperial, forces, said he found the parcel while searching search-ing for sea food. Destined for the commonwealth bank of Australia, the Darcel had been' handed to the DUot of one of the last planes to take off from Java after " the Japanese had landed on the - island, ' early In Germans Claim Seven Vessels unk In British Cruiser Torpedoed, Germans Claim; Admit Nazi Destroyer Damaged In Major Engagement At Sea BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The battle of the Atlantic swung into an intense summer sum-mer phase today with the Germans reporting they had sunk seven Allied vessels in battles with a convoy en route ta Russia and the United States navy preparing to launch heavy blows in European waters. According to a German communique, the Nazis sent warships, submarines and airplanes against a strongly-protected strongly-protected Allied convoy in the arctic, probably carrying American, and British supplies to a Russian port of Murmansk for use by the Red army this sum mer. NOfflcla Comment- A British cruiser of 10,000 tons was torpedoed twice by a U-boat and later sank and six supply ships, one carrying moni. tions, was sent to the bottom in a series of battles in stormy seas, the Berlin .radio reported. One German destroyer, several British destroyers and two other Allied merchantships were reported damaged. dam-aged. London had no official comment on the Axis reports, but it was said unofficially that intensified operations in the north were ex- pected as a result of the breaking up of arctic ice floes and that a statement mijht be forthcoming forthcom-ing within 48 hours. " Although the British reported the Big German ships Prinz Eugen, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau damaged dam-aged so badly that they are out of action for some time, the Nazis have a number of destroyers and perhaps other surface ships to supplement their operations from Norwegian bases against the supply sup-ply line to Russia. The last previous pre-vious battle on that route result, ed in the sinking of a Nazi destroyer des-troyer and the safe arrival of the convoy, at Murmansk. U. 8. Ships Assist American as well as British ships have been in the convoys to Russia and probably were in the one reported today by the Germans. Ger-mans. The German report coincided with a statement at London by U. S. Admiral Harold R. Stark, commander in European waters, that blows against the Axis would be on the basis of "calculat ed risk." Stark made it clear that the Allied strategy would be based on hitting the enemy as hard and as often as justified by the losses that might be expected but he em phasized hope that American and Continued on Page Three) 9 March. As it noared the Australian coast, the . plane was attacked and shot down by Japanese aircraft. The pilot made a crash landing near the beach but the plane was wrecked and partly submerged. Four members of the crew were killed and were . buried on the' beach by the others. Forced to wait for many days tofore wandering natives rescued them, the survivors searched among the plane's wreckage but couldn't find the precious cargo; Later, an official, party .returned to. the scene but its search, too, was fruitless. .". The - beach comber, whose reward, re-ward, has not yet been determined, said he found the parcel partially-burled partially-burled "in a mud , bank while be was looking for seafood. Battle Hew Jap Thrust Test of Strength GEN. MCARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia, May 4 U.n A new Japanese thrust into Markham valley and a steady intensification in-tensification of aerial warfare in New Guinea zone' were believed today to foreshadow an early test of strength between Japanese invaders in-vaders and allied defenders. Word came from an advanced allied base that the Japanese had moved back into the Nadsjab area, about 25 miles inland from Lae on the north New Guinea coast, in an attempt to find new airdromes in the Markham Valley, Val-ley, and that another Japanese force had marched 15 miles southward south-ward from Salamaua. In loth zones Australian guerrillas guer-rillas were reported to be in contact con-tact with the Japanese, harassing their communications. i It was believed that as in their original advance, before floods drove them back, the Japanese were being guided by German missionaries whom Australia had permitted to remain in what had been German territory. - United States army bombing planes, attacking twice within a few hours at the dangerous Japanese Jap-anese base at Rabaul ' in New Britain island, have scored direct di-rect hits on two enemy transports trans-ports and damaged a third. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. to-day. MacArthur revealed that two (Continued on Page Seven) UTAHN FACES MURDER CHARGE SALT LAKE CITY, Ui5 First degree May . 4. murder charges were asked by police here today against Roy Ott Erber, 30, Salt Lake City, confessed slayer of .Walter Fife, 21, also of Salt Lake City. Announcing that their Investigation Investi-gation of the case was completed, police said Erben confessed that he shot Fife last Saturday night after the two .men allegedly had quarreled over liberties Erben charged Fife had taken with his (Erben's) wife - ' Erben, an. employe at the Utah Ordnance . plant, said he had warned Fife on several occasions to stay away from his home and was. quoted by police, as saying he "didn't care" -what he did to keep him away. . -' ' A medical- examiner reported Fife was shot' four times with a small . calibre gun twice . in the head, once - in - the abdomen- and once in the shoulder, police found his body lying on the kitchen floor of Erben's apartment. . A native of -Evanston, ' Wyo- Fife is survivedby his parents. three brothers and a sister. Indicates Early |