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Show -J 77ie Weathpr ' Provo and vicinity: Intermittent light rains today and early this evening; cooler today and tonight with local frost above 6,000 'feet. Temperatures: Thursday's High f7 Today's low . 10 OF INCOME mm IS OUR QUOTA I'l WAR BONDS . 'rti'-'-''fy:'f''rTiV"" FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 228 i COMPI.ETB UNfTED PRESS TEUCaiUPB NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH. COUNTY, . UTAH, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE- FIVE CENTS r5, i-''r" i :'r1 liii'm t'fiiiim iittiVri"riV-rii) r i -ri'r-V Vliirtfrfo Um Memorial Day Rites To Be Carried Out In Saturday Appropriate Exercises Eulogizing Departed Soldiers Planned At Cemeteries; Stores, Offices To Be Closed In memory of departed loved ones, a nation sobered by war times Saturday will trek to burial parks and cemeteries to observe one of the most significant of American holidays, Memorial day. Graves of countless thousands of men, women and children chil-dren who have passed on will be decorated, with special homage being paid to soldiers who died in the service of their country. DESK JL BY THE KtyCTO When you have to sit at home for lack of gas, and your coffee tastes bitter, and you hear there may be a shortage of golf balls, and life seems hardly worth the living, don't envy the War Production Board That group's latest under- taking is to standardise cos metics. They propose to ban some as non-essential and curtail others. Ye gods! Think of the howl that will go up when a thousand women who have doted each on her distinctive perfume to go to the store, and find let us say only two dozen different odors to be had. We'd hate to be in the WPB's Division of Industry Operations on that terrible day. . ' oOo . It Isn't Always Easy . . To apologize To begin over To take advice . To admit error To f ace a sneer To be charitable To be considerate To avoid mistakes To endure success To keep on trying To be broadminded To forgive and forget To profit by mistakes To think and then act To keep out of the rut To shoulder deserved blame To maintain a high stand ard But it always pays! oOo This and That A doctor says green is a soothing color. Maybe that's why getting money never makes anyone mad. . . Spring rains are here but the verse is yet to come. . . . "Girl Weeps Eighteen Hours headline Wonder if she got the dress? . . America uses 3,000,000,000 pounds of soap yearly not including the soft variety you hear. Six Killed in Crash at Greeley GREELEY, Colo., May 29 (U.R) Seven army airmen died today when their bombing plane crashed crash-ed and burned near Peckham, about 15 miles south of Greeley in northern Colorado. Six fliers were killed instantly, . according to witnesses, and the .seventh died shortly after the crash in a Greeley hospital. Bodies of five of the six who died instantly in the burning: plane, were recovered and four identified. Lowry Field officials say they were Corp. James O. OFlourney, Pvt. Louis H Garcia. Pvt. Alec Chavarro and Edwin P. Kelly, a civilan employe at the Lowry Field sub depot. Home addresses were not available immediately. The other victim was believed still in the smoking wreckage. Thomas Returns To Washington SALT LAKE CITY. May 29 U.Pi Satisfied with negotiations leading lead-ing up to selection by the navy department of Clearfield, Utah, as the site for a $35,000,000 naval supply depot, Senator Elbert D. Thomas left Salt Lake City for Washington, D. C CHA Observance Memorial Tributes This will be the first Memorial day since the United States entered en-tered the war. Soldiers who have died for their country in the present pres-ent conflict, as well as departed soldiers of other wars, will be extended ex-tended tributes. In Provo, the Disabled American Ameri-can Veterans of World War will conduct their annual program "in memory of departed soldiers who will live forever" at the city cemetery ceme-tery at 10 a. m. Dr. A. C. Lambert of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university faculty will be speaker of the day, building his address around the w&r situation situa-tion and the significance of Memorial Mem-orial day. W. L. Mildenhall of the DAV S." ii" ices. A B. Y. U. brass trio, consisting con-sisting of Moyle Dor i us, Ballard Christensen and Wayne Skeem will play two patriotic numbers. Invocation will be offered by Bishop J. Earl Lewis. Nathcle King will sing a vocal solo, as will Earl Callahan, "Flag Without a Stain." Taps and the salute by a firing: squad of U. S. war veterans will be under direction of the American Ameri-can Legion. Memorial day will be observed by Provo merchants and business men, with stores, banks and business busi-ness offices closed throughout the day. Government offices will also be closed. General Closing The Provo post office will close its windows at 12 noon. One delivery de-livery will be made in the city, but there will be no rural delivery. deliv-ery. The parcel post department will deliver all packages. Outgoing Outgo-ing mail will be dispatched as usual. Recreation seekers will engage in various activities. Thousands are expected to trek to the shore of Utah lake to witness the Pro vo Boat club's annual Memorial day regatta. The races open at 3 p. m., starting and finishing In ihe Provo river channel. PLEASANT GROVE Henry McNiel. district commander of the American Legion, will deliver the Memorial day address Saturday at 10 a. m. in the city cemetery, it is announced by E. A. Beck, councilman coun-cilman who is directing arrangements arrange-ments for the event. Remarks will also be made by Mayor S. Duane Harper. American Legion post members in Pleasant Grove, led by Burton H. Adams, will conduct special ceremonies commemorating scrv-(Continued scrv-(Continued on Page Eight) RICHFIELD MAN CRASH VICTIM RICHFIELD, Utah, May 29 U.r -Wilson Cox, 24, Richfield, died in Sevier Valley hospital here yesterday of injuries received Wednesday night when the car in which he was riding overturned in Monroe canyon. Cox companions. Bill Lewis and Bill Peterson, both of Rich field, were uninjured. The death brought to 55 the number of fatalities caused by traffic mishaps mis-haps in Utah this year. Cox is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cox, and four sisters and two brothers. Hitler Takes Personal Command of German Army on the Kharkov Front LONDON, May 29 (L'J!) Adolf Hitler has taken personal direction direc-tion of the strategic operations on the Kharkov front, a German high command spokesman announced today over the BerMn radio, as heard by the Daily Mail here. "We look to his genius as a strategist to bring about full vic tory, the spokesman said There was as yet no indication whether Hitler had assumed command com-mand because of a dispute with the high command as the : result Of German reverses, or because he hoped to grab the glory for some success. Nazis Tlhireafceim td Czechs BETTER ROADS SOUGHT FOR STEEL PLANT Group Plans Means Of Avoiding Tie-Up In Traffic Steps toward securing road improvements in Utah county that have become important in view of the new defense developments, de-velopments, were taken at a meeting of representatives of all sections of the county with state, federal, army and local highway officials in the county commissioners' room Thursday afternoon. George Smeath, director of the Utah County Planning association associa-tion which called the meeting, presided, and explained that good roads are basic to the county's development. He said improve ments should be made with a view to solving present problems, as well as to fit into a long-range highway improvement program. Recommendations Made Representatives .of all sections of the county outlined road needs. Afterwards, the meeting adopted resolutions requesting the proper authorities to complete the highway high-way from Camp Williams into Lehi, to improve the Vineyard road, highway 114, and"" TmprOve access roads to the Geneva Works. The .Utah county commission was named as a committee to meet with the steel project officials of-ficials to determine the most feasible access roads and then seek the proper avenues lor improving im-proving them. Practically everyone at the meeting agreed that the Vineyard highway presents a serious prob lem, with traffic increasing tremendously tre-mendously since the steel project was launched. One speaker estimated the Vine yard road traffic is as heavy now as that on highway 91, what with gravel trucks, buses, cars of em ployes, and other motorists. Hazards Feared The heavy traffic win create a great hazard to the farmers with their livestock, to school children who must traverse the road, and to the users of the road in general unless It is greatly improved. Widening of the road, and elimination elim-ination of several curves was gen erally favored. The group favored improvement of the old Geneva road running from the steel plane site northerly to American Fork, and it was voted to urge contractors at the (Continued on Page Tnrce) Barrymore Loses Ground in Fight HOLLYWOOD. May 29 (U.R) John Barrymore weakened in his fight for life today and his physician physi-cian reported that "the picture 1s grave." A late morntng bulletin said that "Mr. Barrymore's condition is not good. His usual response to medication was not so apparent The picture is grave." Barrymore, 60, entered Hollywood Holly-wood Presbyterian hospital nine days ago for treatment of a complexity com-plexity of ailments including liver and kidney trouble, cardiac weakness weak-ness and hypostatic pneumonia. Last Dec. 21, Hitler assumed personal command of the armed forces and the high command at about the lowest ebb of the German Ger-man cause on the Russian front. At that time, the Germans announced. an-nounced. Hitler "with the consciousness con-sciousness of an inner call" had decided "to influence to the utmost ut-most the operations and armaments arma-ments of the army and, following his intuitions, to reserve for himself him-self personally all essential decisions de-cisions in the field." It was. then that Field Marshal Walther Von Brauchitsch lost out as commander in chief. A Tribute to Men wmiininiimmi nmnijim-n mi man 'WI"''J " m I. mum m i.jhii i . -jinmw mm imwi, I .') '. ' . v r -V -- c ft . , -t i ' " V ; v - li x - J' . t's'' ' ' i ?i li - , . ri u . II - itr,"' t'-'iiymK : : it If v u:v''-i:'f-h'-u7T i ' It ' - ' 2 j4 SUd ui a ii-.u l v.Miiu icp4w-..i inv-n on Uie field of battle in this big service flag at Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa. Two cadets look up at tbo banner honoring com 500 format Valley . - Forge cadets now in the U. S. armed forces. Escaped Prisoners Captured In Emery SALT LAKE CITY, May 29 U.R Warden John E. Har ris of the Utah state prison left today for Greenriver, Utah, to take into custody Patrick O'Reilley and Theodore Waters, both 31, prison escapees whose freedom was terminated yes- sterday afternoon when they were Tpiini nRllFR inUUlVUrllJCn prison farm at Point of the Moun-10 Moun-10 flvTuflMLn tain ear,v yesterday after binding A rlltjIrlJlltU and Sagging the lone guard on W I WWII VllkV rilltv I VfnrnlH Vnntt nnri steal WASHINGTON, May 29 T.R The office of defense transportation transporta-tion today postponed from June 1 to July 1 the effective date of orders requiring long-distance trucks to load to 75 per cent of capacity on return trips. The restriction, along with curtailment cur-tailment of local truck deliveries, has been ordered as a rubber- saving plan. Director Joseph B. Eastman of the ODT, who said that the post ponement would give industry more time to work out plans before be-fore the orders became effective, also announced relaxation of the local-delivery restrictions. Newspapers, which had been ordered to cut deliveries to one a day to each delivery point and also reduce mileage, were given an alternate alt-ernate plan whereby deliveries could be maintained at the pres-( pres-( Continued on Page Three) Baseball Today NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 00 Chicago 00 . Philadlphia ... 010 000 Boston . '. 000 000 Mlton and Warren! Errickson and Kluttz. , New York 000 000 Brooklyn 000 000 Sunkel and Danning; Head and Owen. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago .... 1 - St. Louis 1 Cleveland 000 002 Detroit 001 310 Smith and Hegan; White and Teb- betts. Washington , . . 000 00 New .York 424 00 Wilson, Cathey and Evans; Gomez and Rosar. Mass of Vall'ey Forge The two prisoners fled the state ing his automobile. O'Reilley was captured first, after he and Waters had held up a California motorist, whose car was stalled on the highway a few miles from Greenriver, and robbed him of $15. According to the motorist, a Mr. Van Sickle, O'Reilley went to sleep in his car and left Waters to guard him (Van Sickle). But Waters apparently tired of guard duty, the Californian said, and wandered off into the desert toward to-ward the Greenriver jungles. As soon as Waters was out of sight, Van Sickle walked into Greenriver, got Deputy Sheriff Jess Powell and the two men returned re-turned and arrested O'Reilley, who was still sleeping. Posses were organized to surround sur-round the area where Waters was believed hiding, but after seven hours of wandering in the desert he surrendered to Powell. Warden Harris said the two men were "trusted prisoners" and that this was the first "black mark" against their records. O'Reilley was serving a five-years to life sentence for robbery,, and Waters was completing an indeterminate inde-terminate term for embezzlement. Army Rejects 250,000 Men Because Of Illiteracy, Director Discloses WASHINGTON, May 29 (U.R) Approximately 250,000 physically fit men "enough for 15 divisions" have been rejected . for army service because of illiteracy, Dr. John W. Studebaker, director of the TJ. S. Office of Education, disclosed dis-closed today. Studebaker made the disclosure shortly after Fiesldent Roosevelt Roose-velt had told a -press conference that a startling number of Americans Am-ericans lacked the necessary literacy, liter-acy, education or mentality for service with- the army and navy. The education director, who had conferred with Mr. Roosevelt on NAZI DRIVE IN LIBYA SLOWS DOWN German Armored Units Are Repulsed In First Clash CAIRO, May 29 (U.R Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's Axis drive across the Libyan desert des-ert is "losing its striking power ' under the hammering attacks of British tank forces and air squadrons, after piercing the British main line outside Tobruk, military quarters quar-ters said late today. The Axis armored forces are splitting up into small units under the British attacks, front line advices ad-vices said, and there are definite indications that Rommel's drive 'is not going according to plans." A fierce tank battle wad reported re-ported underway near Acroma, 18 miles southwest of the British stronghold of Tobruk, where British Brit-ish armored units and bombing planes attacked tho Axis spearhead. spear-head. A British communique earlier acknowledged that the enemy armored forces, joining up two columns, had driven, to the Sldi Bezegh area far Inside the British defense zone. Inflict Losses Xroundfilr Hachcm74 fmrte5 south of Tobruk where the Rommel Rom-mel forces first struck at the British Brit-ish flank Wednesday morning after a 90-mile night-time advance ad-vance from the west, Free French forces were said to have inflicted heavy losses on the I talo-German forces. The Free French were reported to have destroyed 35 Italian tanks in the fighting around Bir Hacheim. A force of about 250 German and Italian tanks were reported thrown against the British on the blistering desert sand outside Tobruk, To-bruk, after the Axis assault drove to the Sidi Rezegh area, far inside the British defense zone. An RAF communique said that squadrons of bombers and fighters fight-ers were in action throughout yesterday against enemy columns of tanks and motor transport, between be-tween Hlr Hacheim and Acroma. Other British planes attacked Axis airdromes at Martuba and i supply columns moving up to the buttlefront behind Rommel's ad vance. ' One Junkers-87 dive-bomber and two fighters were shot down, and it appeared that Axis air activity ac-tivity over the desert battlefront has been on a "reduced scale" since yesterday, the RAF said. Far west of the battle line, near the frontier Jf Cyrenalca and (Continued on Page Three) Doughboys Capture 'Dancing Girl' Who's Female Impersonator CHUNGKING. May 29 (UP) Several American youths, apparently appar-ently looking for romance and excitement, entered a Chinese theater where a beautiful "dancing "danc-ing girl" was performing in a-stage a-stage play. The Americans "kidnaped" the "dancing girl", and went for a moonlight ride in a jeep. They soon discovered that the kidnapee was a female impersonator. In China, according to ancient custom, cus-tom, male actors often play the role of females. -5- . Wednesday, said that a program is being worked out with War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt to give the "functionally illiterate," basic training in reading, read-ing, writing and arithmetic The program is designed to Improve Im-prove the situation as rapidly as possible, Studebaker ifiaid. He said that 433,000 men who would have been placed In class A-l have been deferred because of Inability to meet the army's literacy liter-acy requirements. At least 280,000 of these men are physically fit fo active duty, . he added, eyfc&n Hsafes Prominent Czechs To Be Shot Unless Assassins Found Government Officials Among Those Seized As Hostages; Report Says Heydrich Died, Confirmation is Lacking By JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 29 (U.R) German authorities in Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia were reported tonight to have seized 200 prominent Czechs, including several government officials, as hostages who will be shot unless the would-be assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, No, 2 leader of the Nazi gestapo, are captured. A report originating in Vichy said that Heydrich was understood to have died in a Prague hospital late today from his wounds following an emerrncy operation for the removal of three bullets, but the report - uuuiu nvi ins tuiii.irint.-u m ucui quarters here. The German radio made no mention of his dying. (The German radio reported at 1:50 p. m.. EWT, that "the condition con-dition of Deputy Reich Protector Heydrich on whose life an attempt was made, was still serious today.") to-day.") The gestapo, which already has executed six persons of one family, fam-ily, including two women, in the Na?i reprisals fpr the attack on Heydrich, was said to have converted con-verted all of Czechoslovakia into a concentration camp within fjyed frontiers. Reports from Stockholm, de - scribing Heydrich's condition as serious, said that he had been shot at least three times and also was wounded by the splinters of a bomb thrown at him - in the attack, at-tack, which occurred Wednesday. A famous surgeon was said to have performed the emergency operation and extracted three bullets. German armored cars were re ported patrolling the streets of Prague. The 200 prominent hostages, hos-tages, it was said, were seized in various pajts of the country, where thousands are being round ed up and questioned in the search for the Heydrich attackers. The hostages,, seized on orders of Kurt Daluege, new deputy reich "protector" of Czechosto vakia, were described in the Stockholm accounts as including several high officials of the gov ernment of President Emil Hacha professors of Prague university and other leading men. A deputy chief of the gestapo was reported to have been slain by Norwegian patriots near Bergen. Ber-gen. The nazis, in swift reprisal. burned and sacked the entire vil (Continued on Page Three) Inquiry Ordered In 'Chute Death BOISE, Ida., May 29 lE The army ordered an inquiry to day into the death of 2nd Lieut vernon u. Hall, who died in a mistaken parachute jump from an army bomber in the Little Smoky mountains near Mountain Home Hall's parachute had opened properly, but in directing the chute so he .would land atop a cliff, the air was spilled and he fell about 100 feet, searchers reported. The officer was one of three members of tho crew who jump' ed Wednesday night because of a mistaken signal. The plane was en route from Gowen Field. Boise, to Salt Lake air base in command of 2nd. Lieut. G. J. Kuhn. "This is enough men for 15 divisions," di-visions," Studebaker said.v He said the government considers consid-ers literacy important, not only In the armed forces, but also in. industry. in-dustry. The 1940 census disclosed that 13.7 per cent of the nation's total population over 25 years of age had not passed fourth grade. The army requires fifth grade or better for induction. During the last war, however, this rule did not exist and approximately 25 per cent of the American army could neither read nor write, Studebaker aid. . m M American I roops May Go to France Marshall Reveals WEST POINT, N. Y., May 2 (U.R) Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, declared here today that American troops are "landing in England and they wlU T15" " Trance. Addressing the graduating class of the U. S. military academy, Marshall said that Americans are fighting in all parts of the globe, and then made his cryptic reference refer-ence to future action in France. His statement seemed especially significant in View of the U.. S.British S.-British military talks now going on in London. These talks -have Riven rise to strong speculation that a second European front is being planned when the time is ripe to ease Russia's war bur den by diverting German forces somewhat In western Europe. This is not expected to be for some time, however. The first phasa doubtless wtl lbe American air attacks at-tacks on Germany in cooperation with the British. Marshal also disclosed, for the, first time, that the army had raised rais-ed its goal for 1942 and that thero would be nearly 4,500,000 soldiers under arms by the end of the year, rather than the 3.600,000 planned at the start of the war. He revealed that during the past four weeks alone the army's strength has been increased by 300,000 men. The largest part of the army's expansion is taking place .within the air forces, he said, praising American airmen as among the finest in the world. Jap Troops Meat Further Reverses Against Chinese CHUNGKING. May 29 U.E Japanese-forces that have failed to crack the stout Chinese defense de-fense of Kinhwa, have met further fur-ther reverses at Lanchi, a few miles away to the northwest, leav ing several thousand dead on the field after beinr twice rrnnlaprf the Central News agency reported today. Official Quarters said Kinhwa almost completely surrounded bjc the Japanese and sounded for days by artillery fire and aerial lomba still remained in Chin. hands. Unable to take the town, which is the capital of the east- em province of Cheklang, the Japanese left a force of tO.OOO to continue the siege while the remainder re-mainder of an estimated force of-100,000 of-100,000 by-passed if to attack Lanchi, Taneki and Kienteh. aTT In the same area, The fighting around Lanchi an- parently was on the same furious furi-ous scale as that at Kinhwsu. where the Chinese met Japanese columns moving from three dlrec-v tions and killed an estimated 13.-200. 13.-200. Central News had little detail of, the fighting, saying only that "several thousand Japanese dead were left on the field" when unsuccessful un-successful attacks were made on. Lanchi Tuesday and Wednesday. |