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Show : . : , , , , , . , . : 4th Spectacular Parade, Horse, Boat Races To Offer Many Thrills mm 'i'ti(i(iv-n-t-f-"''--""' T FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 5 PRQVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS July to ' - . . a j : ; I I j) P in II II I II I vvs- U Army, Navy and Marines To Participate in Biggest Parade in Provo History; City Assumes Carnival Spirit With a spectacular parade and horse-racing program as headline events, Provo will become Utah's entertainment capital Saturday when its annual Fourth of July celebration reaches its zenith. Success of the horse races Thursday and today, this afternoon's activities for children, and the carnival attractions attrac-tions in the city, augurs a great day Saturday, according to John Krier, president of the celebration committee. : Saturday's program opens at 10 n ft ym CHAT w MX THE BDITOfft July 4, 1941, found the United States celebrating its independence. July 4, 1942, finds it fighting fight-ing to preserve that independence. inde-pendence. To gain the victory that will insure future celebrations celebra-tions of Independence day, America needs every ounce of manpower and every scrap of vital war material she can muster into service. This year, of all years, the nation cannot afford the huge toll of life and property that Fourth of July accidents invariably in-variably bring. This year, of all years, every American must be alive on the Fifth -alive and able to do his part in speeding victory. vic-tory. It has been the ironic custom cus-tom of the United States to celebrate Independence day by turning it into a day of horror and bloodshed through wholesale disregard for common com-mon sense, care and caution, This year America cannot afford the luxury of this annual an-nual jamboree of carelessness. This year manpower and materials ma-terials must be saved for the all-out victory drive. Traffic will be heavy over the week-end holiday. Public officials, traffic officers and the public must unite in preventing pre-venting accidents that delay victory. The preservation ojt American independence de- mauds it. Those who drive should remember re-member that oft-repeated injunction: in-junction: If you drive, don't drink ; if you drink, don'i drive. Remembering this might prevent many a headache head-ache on the Fifth. Short Quips Being mao at the world in general tells on you quicker than a sm. brother. . . . Putting youi best foot forward is okay but you make progress c . if you pull the other one along, too. . . A bitter grudge battle is very likely to nu the sweetest prize fight. HOPKINS TO WED N.Y. SOCIALITE WASHINGTON, July 3 (UJ?) Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's closest adviser, will marry Mrs. Louise Macy, socially prominent promi-nent New Yorker, "at an early date," the White House said today. to-day. White House Press Secretary Stephen T. Early made Hopkins-marriage Hopkins-marriage plans public in response to Jiewspaper inquiries. "If Mr. Hopkins were In Washington Wash-ington today," Early said, he would be very happy to tell you in person of his engagement to Mrs. Louise Macy of New York. "He and Mrs. Macy will be married at an early date. As yet neither time nor place has been decided." MAN FOUND DEAD BOZEMAN, Mont., July 3 (HE) Authorities here today were investigating in-vestigating circumstances surrounding sur-rounding the death of Tom Landers, Lan-ders, 42, whose body was found near the gate of his home in Logan this morning. Acting Coroner James Seifert said the body has been taken to Three Forks, where an inquest will be held tonight a. m. with the historic and patri- otic parade. The parade, featuring beautiful floats and a large military mili-tary unit, will begin at Fifth West and Center streets, move east on Center to University avenue, then go north on the avenue to Twelfth North. At 1:30, the Provo Timps will play Salt Lake's Pinney Beverage nine in a league baseball game at Timp park. The final horse-racing program is booked at 5 p. m. at the Utah county fair grounds track, South if J Attention is called to the I change In starting time of the horse race program today to-day and Saturday. The races start at 5 p. m. both days, instead of at 4 p. m. as announced in the official of-ficial celebration programs. University avenue. The official celebration dance will be at 9 p. ra. at Rainbow Gardens. The celebration will be concluded con-cluded Sunday with boat races at 2 o'clock at the Utah lake and the mouth of Provo river, and a ball game between Provo and American Ameri-can Fork at 2:30 at Timp park. The boat races will feature the fastest racing craft in the inter-mountain inter-mountain area, according to Berlins Ber-lins M. Bills,' chairman. Today's children's activities at Pioneer park featured vaudeville acts, sports, prizes, etc. Jackie Averill, child dancing and singing star who has been featured in several movies, performed in a specialty number. He is a eon of Mr. and Mrs. Bud" Averill' of Los" Angeles. Between engagements in Hollywood he is studying at the Rubins Musical Workshop in Beverly Hills. Blake Dallin of Provo, outstanding out-standing boy soprano, sang selections. selec-tions. In observance of the holiday, all banks, stores, local, state and federal fed-eral government offices, and other such buildings will be closed Saturday. Sat-urday. The Provo post office, however, will be open until 1 o'clock as usual. There will be one mail delivery in the city, but no rural deliveries. other and Three Children Perish In Burning Wreck NEPHT. Utah, July 3 (U.R) Three Iowa children and their mother were fatally burned last night when they were trapped in their flaming car after it overturned over-turned two miles north of here. The victims: Mrs. Louise Huffman. 38, Sheldon, Shel-don, Iowa. Barbara Huffman, 9. Raymond Huffman, 7. Richard Huffman, 5. Four other occupants of the car escaped with minor Injuries. They were William A. Huffman, brother-in-law of the victim and driver of the car, Mrs. William Huffman, and John Huffman, 2, another son of Mrs. Louise Huffman. Huff-man. The eight Iowa residents were driving toward Los Angeles, where John Huffman, Mrs. Louise Huffman's Huff-man's husband is employed. As the car rounded a curve, a tire blew out and the machine overturned. over-turned. The occupants of tne front seat escaped. Mrs. Louise Huffman was thrown from the car. But when she saw it had caught fire, she dashed into the flames in an at- tomnt tr rpsnip her three children. I She was trapped with the children, British, Canadian Naval Units Assist U.S. Navy In War Against Submarines WASHINGTON, July 3 UJ British and Canadian naval units are cooperating with the V. S. navy in the east coast submarine subma-rine hunt to cut the mounting ship losses over United Nations supply routes. The navy, disclosing last night that combined operations have been in effect for "some time," said allied destroyers, corvettes and anti-submarine vessels had joined U. S. Atlantic convoys and were sweeping the sea in search of enemy submarines. The announcement came but a few days after President Roose HENDERSON PLEADS FOR MORE FUNDS Anti - Inflation Program Faltering In Congress WASHINGTON, July 3 (U.R) The administration's anti-inflation program is faltering fal-tering today and heading the nation toward a spectacular showdown on domestic economic eco-nomic policies. At the moment the show is being ballyhooed al a contest between be-tween Price Administrator Leon Henderson and the administration on one side, and congress on the other. But that is not a fair representation. represen-tation. Instead, it is a battle royal no holds barred in which meet the special and superficially conflicting interests of politicians, farmers, wage earners, employers, housewives, manufacturers, motorists, mo-torists, oil leaders, bond holders and the rest of us, if any. Returns To Capitol Henderson Teturned today to Capitol Hill to continue his effort to convince a senate appropriations appropria-tions subcommittee that his, office should have in" "his" fiscal year $161,000,000 instead of $75,000,-000,000 $75,000,-000,000 with all the additional employes and scope the greater sum would provide. He also believes be-lieves the government must adopt a subsidy program to enable some manufacturers and growers to maintain their operations under the price ceilings imposed in May. Yesterday's subcommittee meeting meet-ing was a noisy engagement in which the voices of Henderson and committee members boomed thru closed doors to reveal the vigorous and fundamental character of the differences under discussion. The price ceiling was badly holed yesterday when Henderson was compelled to authorize an increase in-crease of 15 per cent perhaps more in the price of the 1942 crop of canned and dried fruits. Henderson's announcement and a supplemtntary address by Budget Director Harold D. Smith were interpreted in-terpreted by some persons as having hav-ing charged to congress blame for (Continued on Page Two) Springville Tops Utah Rubber Drive SALT LAKE CITY, July 3 U.R Several Utah communities were praised today for their enthusi astic response to the national rub ber salvage drive. M. J. Greenwood, Utah salvage director, cited Springville, Oakley and Moroni as examples of com munities doing more than their share in the campaign. He declared declar-ed that if other localities would do as well the state would have little difficulty meeting its increased in-creased quota of 10 pounds per person. SprlngVille produced 80,000 pounds of rubber, or more than four times Its quota, indicating an average of 17 pounds per person. Moroni collected 13 pounds per canita. Oakley averaeed 20 pounds per capita. velt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a joint statement state-ment pointing out the gravity of submarine sinkings, and hoping that plans for cooperation by the "respective navies will further reduce re-duce the toll of merchant shipping." ship-ping." The toll of announced sinkings of U. S. merchant ships in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea, had reached at least 351 today. Three were announced yesterday, in addition to a small Brazilian vessel which fell prey to a submarine off the coast of South America. 'Over There' Is Ireland in This Case Here's the first picture of U. S. warships destroyers In this cas: at new base at Londonderry, Ireland. Members of a ship's crew chat in the foreground on another destroyer while standing between depth bombs. (y . . British Cruiser, Four Destroyers Lost in Battle LONDON, July 3 (ir:P--The ad miralty said today that the Cruis er Hermoine and four destroyers nad been lost in the Mediter ranean in recem convoy opera tions. The Polish destroyer Arp Ku jawiak also has been lost, the Polish admiralty said. The British destroyers sunk were the Bedouin, Hasty, Grove and Airedale. Scalding Burns Prove Fatal PRICE, Utah, July 3 (U.fi Walter Christensen, 58, Price carpenter, died in a hospital here last night from burns suffered when he spiUed boiling water on nimseir. Soldier Killed In Jeep Crash OUDEN, Utah, July 3 (U.R) Funeral services were pending today to-day for Corp. Freeman Bradley, y, negro soldier attached to the Hill Field air base, who died from injuries suffered in the crash of 8n army "jeep" near the Ogden air oepot. Slayer Awaits Verdict of Jury SALT LAKE CITY, July 3 (U.R) Roy O. Erbcn. charged with the slaying of Walter Fife. 21. today awaited the verdict of a jury after testifying that he shot Fife when he boasted of being the father of Erben's child. The state had contended that Erben's action was premeditated. since he was alleged to have purchased pur-chased a erun and threatened to kill Fife. Utah Bicycle Quota For July Set At 720 Utah's quota in the bicycle ra tioning program for July is 720, with 85 additional machines in reserve for use where valid ap plications exceed county quotas. (NEA Teler.. itoi Roosevelt Blames Pressure Tactics For Controversy BY GEOKGE E. REEDY, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 3 (U.n President Roosevelt today blamed "pressure group tactics" for the current congressional controversy over whether the government shall be permitted to sell grain surpluses sur-pluses at below-parity prices for feed purposes. Intervening in the dispute which has held up passage of the 1943 farm appropriation and left the agriculture department without funds since Tuesday, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt sent identical letters to seven leaders of farm, labor and religious re-ligious organizations vqho had written him previously deploring congressional failure to complete action on the legislation. The house and senate are deadlocked dead-locked over a proposal to authorize author-ize the sale of surplus grain, for feed purposes at 85 per cent of the parity price for corn. Mr. Roosevelt, in his letter made public today, said that the 85 per cent authorization is essential es-sential "if the armed services and the civilian population are to be assured adequate supplies of pork, beef, milk, chicken and eggs at prices that will neither break through the " ceiling nor require excessive subsidies." "The only real issue involved here is whether the government should be free to use its feed re sources, to produce food for the wartime effort," the president, said. "When this fact becomes clear, I am certain that pressure groups tactics will not prevail and that the action taken by the congress will reflect the nation's needs. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston, 'night. Philadelphia at Washington, night Detroit at Cleveland, night. Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE - Boston at New York, night. Brooklyn 001 1 Philadelphia ... 000 0 Wyatt and Owen; Hoerst and Livingston. rvi UlU U. S. BOMBERS FIGHTING IN EGYPT BATTLE American Planes Cooperating Coop-erating With RAF At El Alamein By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Hard - hitting Allied air and land forces fought back perhaps the most powerful Axis onslaughts of the war today on , the Egyption desert front west of El Alamein, and on the rolling Russian front from Kursk to Kharkov. American airplanes were co-operating with the RAF in non-stop bombing attacks against the armies arm-ies of Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel Rom-mel in the still undecided battle for Egypt, and Axis dispatches asserted the United States troops also were fighting with the British Brit-ish at El Alamein. This lacked! any confirmation, but it was known that reinforcements had reached the British from the Near East. The outcome of the enemy , offensives of-fensives toward the Nile river and into the Russian Ukraine a gigantic pincers operation against the -Near East was still far from decided. Smashed Back In the swirling desert sands west of El Alamein, the Axis forces were smashed back in Thursday in their main assault and a British counterattack from thf south forced Rommel to retire several miles to the west, where he re-formed for a quick new assault. as-sault. London and Cairo military spokeshmen were encouraged by the results of the fighting, and said the British position was "not bad" today, but they warned against over-optimism as to the outcome of the battle which still was in progress. Rommel's strength was not known, but there was no question that he would keep on striking with everything every-thing he could muster. About the same situation existed ex-isted on a greater scale on the south-central front in Russia, where the Germans have aimed three strong spearheads at the Red army in the Kursk-Kharkov sector, rin an effort to break through toward the Caucasus, he re-formed for a suick new as-the as-the direction of :Cursk," where a five-day air and mechanized assault as-sault on a strategic, river left thousands of German dead and (Continued on Page Two) V Savage Battle In Progress At Kursk MOSCOW, July 3 U.R) One of the most savage battles of the war is raging on the Kursk sector of the southern front, where German tanks forced a strategic river barrier after losing thousands of men and hundreds of tanks and guns, the army newspaper Red Star said today. The enemy tanks were attacked ly Russian armored forces ana the engagement is still in progress, prog-ress, the Red Star said. The banks of the river "already were strewn with thousands of German dead, hundreds of tanks and the wreckage wreck-age of many guns," the newspaper news-paper said. The newspaper said fighting in the streets of Sevastopol continr ued but the "whole situation on the southern front is growing more tense and the magnitude of hostilities is mounting daily." Heavy fighting also was reported report-ed on the Kharkov front in the Volchansk region, where the Red Star said that "Ceaseless Ger man attacks succeeded in piercing pierc-ing the soviet defenses at a few places but ultimately the enemy was driven back with high losses, including several dozen tanks and armored cars wrecked on a field littered with German corpses." (The German communique claimed that & ISO-mile hole had been hammered Into the Russian southern front and that 60,000 (Continued on Page Two) Counterattacks Beat Back Axis AU-Out Assault Rommel Re-forms Strong: Forces For Another An-other Onslaught Toward the Nile Delta; British Position Reported "Not Bad" CAIRO, July 3 (U.R) British counterattacks beat back the all-out Axis assult on the El Alamein sector of the Egyptian Egyp-tian desert front, but heavy fighting continued today as the enemy re-formed strong forces for another onslaught toward to-ward the Nile delta. The British position was "not bad" as the third day of the major battle for Egypt started, advices from the front said, and American and British aerial squadrons were pressing press-ing battering attacks on the front- and rear concentrations of Nazi i Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. (Axis broadcasts withdrew claims of a break-through at El Alamein, but said strong British positions south of that town and 2,000 prisoners had been taken despite "robust" British counterattacks. counter-attacks. ) Rommel reformed hi3 main con? centrations about three or four miles west of El Alamein after two days of hard fighting iri which the British clung desperately to their positions and then struck at the. enemy' south flank so hard that he was forced to retire. Fighting Off Fatigue-Both Fatigue-Both sides were fighting off fatigue and trying to hold the initiative in the struggle to land a knock-out blow that would decide de-cide the fate of Egypt and Alexandria Alex-andria ' naval base. The battle still was undecided, and at a stage Where anything might happen. (London military commentators warned against over-optimism as a result of the repulse of Rommel's Rom-mel's first big attack, warning that his strength is uncertain and that he certanly will put every ounce of power into an attempt to break hrough to the open des-j ert toward Alexandria. j (A Swedish press dispatch from j Berlin reported that America troops were fighting with the British Brit-ish at El Alamein.) Fighting side by side, the troops from England, Scotland, Wales, South Africa, New Zealand and India, held their line against the terrific impact of the attack. Then the Imperial mobile forces, racing into action, smashed at the enemy's right flank south of El Alamein. , They advanced through the advanced ad-vanced Axis screen, hit the German Ger-man flank, and led by the 15th and 21st armored divisions, 'at-(Continued 'at-(Continued on Page Two) American Troops Fighting in Egypt STOCKHOLM, July 3 UJ!V American troops are fighting with the British imperial army at El Alamein in Egypt, the Berlin correspondent of the newspaper AUehanda reported today, "quoting German advices from Egypt. The dispatch said the troops were members of the "first Amer ican expeditionary corps" and were, several thousand strong and excellently equipped. (There were rumors several days ago that U. S. armored forces had landed in the Middle East and would shortly go into battle against the axis in Egypt but they never were confirmed. Today's reports originated in Berlin' Ber-lin' and conceivably were dissem inated by the German military in hopes " of drawing enlightening comment from a United Nations source.) Attempt to Wove French Warships From Alexandria VICHY, July 3 (UP) S. Pink-ney Pink-ney Tuck, United States chare d'affaires, conferred with chiej of government Pierre Laval toda? and it was understood he present ed a British proposal to move tha French warships interned at, Alexandria Alex-andria to another port. The British, it was believed, want to move the demilitarized warships to another naval base, possibly Diego Suarez on the island of Madagascar, which British Brit-ish forces captured last spring. The axis heretofore has refused to consent to any change in tv status of the French ships. Plan Hearings on Silver Situation WASHINGTON, July 3 UJ Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev., announced an-nounced late yesterday that the special senate silver committee will hold a series of hearings in western states to determine "why the volume of silver production is not greater." At the conclusion of a meeting of silver state senators, McCarran McCar-ran said he had formulated a plan for hearings in Reno, Nev., July 16 and 17, Salt Lake City, July 20 and 21 and Denver July 24 and 25. "These dates, however, are only tentative and subject to change," he said. "We are going to inquire into the methods of taxation to determine de-termine whether the regulations surrounding depletion may be responsible re-sponsible for the lack of critical metals associated with gold and silver,',' he said. The committee will try to meet with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., this week, he said. He added that the group had resolved that one member of the committee could constitute a quorum to conduct ihe western hearings. Traffic Injuries Fatal to Utahn SALT LAKE CITY, July 3 (U William S. Johnson, 79, died, in a Salt Lake hospital today from injuries suffered Thursday when he was struck by an automobile at a street intersection here; Johnson, retired farmer and pioneer pio-neer settler of Alberta, Canada, had just alit from a bus and started to cross the street when he was struck by a car driven by Jack W. Jennings, Salt Lake, it was said. .. Im Jennings told police he had been driving about 30 miles Per hour and that he did ncft see Johnson until it was too late. The Weather Provo and vicinity: Continued warm today and tonight. "Watch your tires carefully la warm weather driving." Temperatures: High ...................... 88: Low 48 |