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Show 1 TTfe Weather Call The Herald : : . . . . ' : . If you don't receive your Herald before , 6:30 . call 495 before 8 o'clock , and a copy will be sent to you. Provo and vicinity: Slightly wanner today and tonight. Temperatures: High 81 Low 43 . ijiuifi TSi&''i''''''''''''' r'"" 8" i "mill ii mii,ltriiiiti mi FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. ,2 r !&?h w, PRES8 PROVO. UTAH - COUNTY, UTAH;. ."TUESDAY, JUNE 30 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LARS PRICE FIVE CENTS .... 1 1 - v,1 . g 8ERVICK , STEEL WAGE RAISE GIVEN I mSUPFUKI 1 MMMBtaM Public lie anng bet un r average nepori y . By FRED BAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON,1 June 30 UJ?) The war labor board holds a public hearing tomorrow to-morrow on a three-man panel report that supports union demands for a wage increase and a maintenance of membership mem-bership formula for 157,000 Tittle 8teel" workers. If adopted by the full board, the report may influence the wage and security demands of 1,000,000 war workers in the steel, automobile and aviation industries. One of the little steel companies rlnland Steel has indicated it would make a court test of any form of union security imposed. Any wage increase granted in the case almost certainly would be extended soon to 450,000 other steel workers under the Industry's Indus-try's policy of maintaining comparable com-parable wage standards. No Rewmmftfidation- The panel report made no specific speci-fic recommendation as to the amount of the wage Increase, leaving the size of one, if approved, ap-proved, to the full board. But it said the four companies Involved Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube could well afford af-ford to meet the United Steel Workers' (CIO) demand for a 51 a day wage boost, i The union asked -for a union shop. The panel recommended (Continued on Page Two; D IE X. A few days ago we told you a "once in a million years" incident in-cident of a welfare office worker who asked that her salary be cut 50 per cent because be-cause the volume of worn handled had been materially reduced. She didn't think it was fair to the taxpayers to continue the same salary with less work. Well today we ran across one that's almost as hard to believe. This one is about a woman over in 'Colorado who called the county assessor's office with a report that the valuation valua-tion of her furniture and other personal property, placed by the field deputy at $275 was erroneous, end that the assessment should have been at least $600. The assessor, after he had been revived by the office personnel, declared that .it was the first time he had ever had such an experience in all the years that he had held office. It seems that wonders will never cease I oOo- Leading chemists are of the opinion that we will never return re-turn to natural rubber, no matter how abundant it may become after the war. ; Evidently, Evi-dently, the artificial product has advantages that make it more desirable for production and use. - Even the eraser on the lead pencil has joined up, we are told. We consumed 180 tons of rubber to erase our mistakes mis-takes last year. This year those erasers will be 200,000 gas masks. . , . oOo ' : Here and there Bad. news always looks a lot worse coming com-ing than going. . . . Always finding fault with others indicates in-dicates that you have at least one fault of your own. . . . June' reminded us marry in haste and miss out on the wedding presents. GRAND PARADE HORSERACES Army Bill Approved By Senate Record Army Appropriation por m2 passcg By Voice Vote By JOHN R. BEAL United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 30 (U.R Moving swiftly against the fiscal year-end deadline, the senate today approved the $42,820,003,067 army appropriation ap-propriation for 1942 by a voice vote and returned the bill to the house for concurrence concur-rence in minor amendments. The house promptly agreed unanimously . to the amendment! written Into the army bill by the senate and sent the measure to the White House for President Roosevelt's signature. The senate considered the record measure for only about 35 minutes. min-utes. On this bill ,it thus acted at a rate of more than l,oOU,-000,000 l,oOU,-000,000 a minute. Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., chairman of the senate military appropriations subcommittee, explained ex-plained Its provisions and revealed that rt Includes money for "nearly "near-ly 100.000" tanks. The measure is the largest single sin-gle appropriation in history and house concurrence is expected today. to-day. The largest item for the domestic domes-tic establishment in the bill is 111,316,892.910 to build airplanes for - the army, air corps. But the measure also includes $12,700,-000,000 $12,700,-000,000 for lend-lease. The bill would grant the war department gl0,379,o59,342 for pay and subsistence of an army which is expected to top 4,500,000 mark before the end of fiscal 1942. . .The only changes made by the senate In the .house bill were minor.. One was an, amendment eliminating a house provision permitting per-mitting army camp newspapers to solicit advertising. The other, added just before passage, .would validate army spending from the start of the new fiscal year tomorrow. to-morrow. This would take care of the Interim before the president signs the bill, . .The senate also completed con-gression con-gression action on the $425,000,-000 $425,000,-000 appropriation bill for the state, Justice and commerce departments de-partments and the federal Judici ary. It also sent to the White House the 1943 appropriation bill for the Interior department, . totalling $178,099,713 atar agreeing to several house amendments. 1 ' These measures were three of five major supply bills awaiting final congressional action before the start of the new fiscal year at midnight. A sixth, the $283,000,-000 $283,000,-000 work relief bill for 1934, was passed by the senate just prior to consideration of the army bill, and sent to the White House. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE 1st Game New York 300 002 000 5 Philadelphia ... 300 003 02x 8 Borowy, Murphy (6) and Kearse; Besse and .Swift. 1st game Washington 210 030 002 8 Boston ........ 010 111 41x 9 Wynn and Early, Evans; H. New-some, New-some, Ryba (5) and Peacock. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 020 1 Brooklyn 102 O Donovan and Lombardi; Casey and Owen. Salt Lake Water. Board Approves Contract for Geneva Plant Water SALT LAKE CITY, June 30 OLE) The board of directors of .the Metropolitan Water District today revealed that official reclamation bureau confirmation has been received re-ceived of priorities which would make it possible for the Weber-Provo Weber-Provo canal to be completed this year. . .. ;". The canal is a vital segment of the Deer Creek reclamation project, proj-ect, and it was pointed out by the board "that the reservoir iniProvo canyon, would be supplied with 74,000 acre-feet of water next year because of it. : - . i According to board members, priorities '-were- granted, owing to the fact that the Geneve Steel plant needed some of. the water. CELEBRATE STEEL -OUR NO. 1 The article below Is the first of two analyzing the critical steel shortage America' bottleneck of bottlenecks. BY S. BURTON HEATH NEA Service Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 30 Steel is the bottleneck of bottlenecks in our war production program. With a single exception skilled manpower there is no major bottleneck bot-tleneck which can not be traced back to steel. Nevertheless, paradoxically, experts ex-perts in both government and Industry In-dustry agree that we have ample steel capacity for all foreseeable needs, and that this is being utilized util-ized skillfully and efficiently. STEEL SCARCITY BOGS SHIPPING There Is a shipping bottleneck. Because of it we do not have enough capacity to bring in the raw materials .we need. Badly needed implements of war are piling pil-ing up at factories, for lack of vessels to carry them overseas. We're rationed on sugar, we're going go-ing to be rationed on coffee and tea, for lack of carrying space to bring them in. ' We can't invade Europe right away, because we do not have enough craft .totransport the necessary nec-essary armies and service them in action. The Axis is sinking ships faster than we can build them. Why? Steel. The eastern seaboard, with about half of the nation's population,- is strictly rationed on gasoline, gaso-line, although mldweatern and southwestern petroleum wells could pMdtieeartd-extoting facilities facil-ities could refine more gasoline than we and our allies can possibly pos-sibly use. Why? Lack of enough tanker ships, tank cars, locomotives to haul tank cars, pipelines, barges (Continued on Page Two) HOUSE REFUSES FUNDS FOR CCC WASHINGTON, June 30 U.R The house, standing firm in us opposition , to the administration on the issue of continuing the Civilian Conservation corpe, re fused again today to vote funds to keeD the CCC in existence for the 1943 fiscal year beginning at 12:01 a. m. tomorrow. By a roll call vote announced as 229 to 121, the chamber reject ed a senate amendment to the labor-federal security supply bill to grant the CCC approximately $76,500,000. The house previously had voted to abolish the agency but the senate, by a margin of one vote, sought to continue the agency. Rep. Malcolm C. Tarver, D., Ga., who led the hopeless house fight for continuance of the CCC, conceded con-ceded that the house's insistence on abolishing the agency undoubtedly undoubt-edly meant its end. There was little prospect that the senate, which divided so closely on Che issue, could not put up a hard enough fight to win a reprieve for the agency. In rejecting the senate amendment, amend-ment, the house voted, however, for liquidation of the CCC. . It orig-. inally had voted $500,000 for., that purpose. Monday they approved a contract to furnish water for the plant, .but Salt Lake's city attorney, E. Ray Christenaen,! announced an opinion opin-ion whereby he declared the agree ment was not binding upon either party. Christensen said ' the contract makes it impossible for the Metropolitan Metro-politan Water district to compel the ' defense plant corporation to take any water, and the DPC cannot can-not require the district to deliver any water. . He advised the board to reach an agreement with the city commission, owing to the lat-ter's lat-ter's desire to keep Deer Creek water .shares free from incura brances, as to the administration of Salt Lake's share of the water. Hem Shortage Of Lags In F; ' THESE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE VITAL WAR o warship. PRODUCTS BOTTLENECKED BY THE STEEL SHORTAGE . w . Nazi Saboteurs May Be Court-Martialed By PIIEO MULLEN United Pit Hlaff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 30 U.R There were increasing Indications today that tho eight Cierman saboteurs who were J captured in New York and Chicago would be court martialcd. Justice and war department officials continued consulta. . S lions on the case for the second Weber Withdraws Support From 1942 State Fair OGDEN, Utah, June 30 C.E W. R. McEntire. Web;r county commissioner and president of the Utah Association of County Officials, Of-ficials, announced today that he had been instructed to contact other county commissions to determine de-termine their attitude as to whether a state fair should be conducted this year. Weber county commissioners had previously indorsed a resolution resolu-tion of the farm bureau, pledging pledg-ing cooperation in the war program. pro-gram. Support was withdrawn from the 1942 Utah state fair, and the county fair. BREMEN SUFFERS ITS THIRD RAID LONDON, June 30 (EE) A strong force of Royal Air Force planes estimated at 300 or more bombed Bremen, Germany's second sec-ond largest port, heavily during the night, the air ministry announced an-nounced today. It was the third raid on Bremen since Thursday night, when more than 1,000 heavy bombers unloaded unload-ed explosives and incendiaries on its docks and war industries. Other objectives In northwest Germany, enemy airdromes : in occupied territory, railway . target tar-get in France and German shipping ship-ping off the French coast were attacked, the . air ministry said, but Bremen bore the brunt of the . raids. ; : r: :v'i-; IN Muss BOTTLENECK Causes Vicious Circle war Goods Production day but declined to discuss the possible type of prosecution that will be followed. They emphasized that there was no precedent. Court martial was foreshadowed, foreshad-owed, however, by the discussions, engaged in by Attorney General Francis Biddle, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, MaJ.-Gen. Myron My-ron C. Cramer, judge advocate general, and other officials of each department. The only statement forthcom ing was a brief one by Biddle who said last night that the two departments de-partments were "in substantial agreement upon the steps to be taken in . the prosecution of the eight German saboteurs who were apprehended by the Federal bu reau .of Investigation shortly after landing on our. coasts from Nazi submarines." He said a "further and more detailed announcement concerning this, matter may be expected within the next 48 hours." There are several complicating factors in the case: 1. Whether all eight can be tried by a military court, inasmuch inas-much as two are American citi zens Ernest Peter Burger by naturalization, and Herbert Haupt by the naturalization of his lather. lath-er. ...... 2. Whether Burgur and -Haupt can be "denaturalized" on the ground they transferred their allegiance al-legiance to Germany, thus placing them in an enemy - alien status and subject to' court martial, rather than civil court trial. Regardless of the type of trial given Burgur and .Haupt, , they would face the penalty of death just as certainly as .their fellows in the sabotage mission. If tried in a civU court, they probably would be charged with treason, which carries the supreme penalty of death: - ' ' : ' ; Denaturalization of Burgur and Haupt so they would . face trial before a military tribunal alorjj .(Continued on Page Two) 9 O ewasDoim Churchill Meets Critics of War Conduct Debate BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Vrtmn staff Correspondent LONDON, June 30 !,!! Prime Minister Winston Churchill revealed re-vealed In commons today that Gen. Sir Claude Aucklnleck, com-mander com-mander In chief of the Middle East, had relieved Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie of the eighth army command and himself assumed the Job of stopping the German drive through Egypt. Preparing to defend himself in a two-day full-dress war debate In the commons, Churchill entered the house for the first time since his return from his visit to President Presi-dent Roosevelt, and was greeted by cheers from all sides of the house. As he revealed the change In command, and said that it had the government's full approval, it also was announced that Sir Miles Lampson, British ambassador to Egypt, had been authorized within with-in the last few days to give Egypt "additional assurances" beyond those given last week, when Britain Brit-ain pledged its determination to repulse axis aggression in Egypt. Faced with the new development develop-ment of the fall of Matruh, following follow-ing immediately on the disaster of Tobruk, Churchill appeared in his usual confident mood.' Entering into action as soon as (Continued on page two) -O- Wake Island Raid to Be Followed . By Others Against Japanese Bases By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUART E R S, Hawaiian Air FOrce, June 29 (U.E) (Delayed) (Delay-ed) An army bombing raid which put- the Japanese - air base . on Wake Island out of commission is but the first dividend on the Midway island naval victory, well informed quarters said today. It was forecast that, as the result of the shattering blow dealt to the Japanese fleet, the Wake raid would be followed by others against even more important en emy bases in the vast Pacific area west of Hawaii Due to Wake's position west of . the International, date line Y 2 JU L Allies Fighting Delaying Action Against Rommel Decisive Battle For Egypt Approaches As Reinforced British Armies Regroup For Defense of Alexandria Bulletin: CAIRO, June 30 (U.R The forces of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel rolled through El Daba today, pushingjjack the British mobile units which it had been expected would make a stand at the little coastal point only 80 miles west of the great British naval base of Alexandria, authoritative sources said here. f By LEON KAY United Pres Staff Correspondent LONDON, June 30 U.R) Messages from Europe today reported that thousands of German parachute troops had bn rushed from Sicility to Greece for a possible air invasion invas-ion of the Near East if the Axis offensive in Egypt is halted by unfavorable weather or British reinforcements in the desert west of Alexandria. The parachutists, supplementing Axis air-borne troops already in Crete and Greece, could strike at Palestine and Syria in event the Egyptian campaign is delayed, it was reported. re-ported. . ,. - - These troops have been concentrated in Sicily since last winter awaiting a favorable opportunity to invade Malta, according ac-cording to- the reports, Uut-hey have been -closing- the Vail-roads Vail-roads of Italy and Jugoslavia enroute to Greece for the past few weeks. CAIRO, June 30 U.R British mobile units, supported by powerful RAF and American bomber attacks, fought a bitter-end delaying action against Axis armies in the Egypt, ian desert today, while the reinforced eighth army rapidly regrouped for defense of El Daba, only 80 miles west of Alexandria naval base. "Allied air forces in the battle area continue t afir enemy ground forces day and said, disclosing that United States army corps bombers again had Joined in heavy raids Sunday and Monday nghU on the Axis supply case at Tooruk and tno area west of Matruh. , Allien ItecNve Aid "Numerous flrea were started among motor transports, armored vehicles, enemy planes, harbor In stauations and supply ships." But more Important, front line dispatches said, Allied reinforce ments were reaching the front to oppose the columns of Nazi Field pushed eastward 40 or 50 miles from captured Matruh to the Fuka air base sector, despite intensive rear-guard action by the British Fresh Allied tanks, stretching out across the desert, were reaching reach-ing the front, according to a dls patch from United Press correspondent corres-pondent Richard D. McMillan, and fresh New Zealand troops already have gone Into action, repulsing the Germans west, of Fuka in a local engagement. , Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck .ap peared to be bracing for the main battle, west of El Daba, where the Qattara depression narrows the coastal front to about 50 miles. (London newspapers reported that thousands of American troops, additional American air planes and enormous amounts of (Continued on Page two) from which various zones of time are computed, , the United States army planes left their operations base last Friday, bombed Wake Sunday morning and returned to base Saturday. 5 - Island Crippled , I believe we pretty well crippled crip-pled Wake's efficiency as an operations oper-ations base, at least temporarily until it can obtain replacements to : repair the heavy damage," Col. Arthua W. Meeban, 38, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, who led the raid, saV. Meehan praised the crews, especially espe-cially the navigators who took the planes on an over-water flight of more than 2,000 miles one of (Continued on Page Two) r 3 4 txwmmt night, " an RAF communlau . w.muuuiqMc KUo'S W CUT OFF HUNDREDS OF NAZI TANKS BULLETIN MOSCOW. Jane 80 (UJ!) Russian Rus-sian defenders and axis siege troop battered furiously a.t dose quarters la the northeast sector of the Sevastopol defense today and although the Soviet troops gave some ground, they were counter attacking, front line dispatch dis-patch said. BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 30 (U.R The Soviet army newspaper Red Star reported from the Kursk front today to-day that the Russians had cut off hundreds of German tanks leading lead-ing a Nazi infantry advance. Presumably, the Russians now were engaged in destroying the tanks. Red Star said "several infantry, motorized and panzer divisions" apparently upwards of 75,000 men were increasing their pressure on the Kursk front, 275 miles southwest of Moscow, in an offensive of-fensive that began Sunday. After initial defeats and S'enbr-mous S'enbr-mous losses' the hundreds of German . tanks attacked again. The Russians let them through, then drove a wedge between the tanks and infantry. unless. they can retreat or the Germans can break through and supply them, the tanks are doomed." The first Russian communique today said the Germans lost 240 men on one sector of the Kursk front, and on a second sector lost 15 tanks to Russian artillery and mortar tire and 500 men in sub sequent, hand-to-hand fighting. ? "Last night our troops battled with the enemy in the directions of Kursk and Sevastopol," it said. On other fronts there were no changes." 4 The Germans,, by throwing still (Continued on Page Two) BOAT RACES Children's Sports |