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Show r The Weather Provo . and vicinity: Continued hot today; little change In temperature tem-perature tonight. Play safe! Drive slowly and aav your tires. Temperature High ; 95 low as if Call The Herald If you don't receive your Herald before 6:80 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be aent to you. FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 19 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TBLKQRAPH NEWS 8ERVICB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LA KB PRICE FIVE CENTS 111 111 mW III ll III 111 V I t " - rrfT 1 1 i ii - U t i Let's Find Out What's What, Boys . ;y vs. ; Andrew Jackson Hlggins, left. New Orleans jihlpbullder, whose contract for 200 "liberty" cargo ships was canceled, gets down to business with Louisiana representatives, Hale Boggs, center, and James Domengeaux, as the announcement was made that the House would open an inquiry into the cancellation. Shipbuilder Charges Official Favoritism For Bethlehem Steel WASHINGTON, July 24 (U.R) Andrew J. Higgins, New Orleans shipbuiller, said today he had been advised that employes em-ployes of government war agency had been told to "build up the Bethlehem Steel Co." and "to soft pedal and play down" his Higgin's firm. DESK. T There is merit in the suggestion, sug-gestion, contained in a clipping clip-ping whose source is not apparent, ap-parent, that we concentrate upon the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner. . "Does the Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave?" Indeed it does. Not over Corregidor or Guam or Wake, unfortunately. unfortun-ately. But over the homeland home-land it does, and over Hawaii and Midway and Alaska and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone and Samoa. To the victims of Japanese treachery and brutality in the Philippines and Guam and Wake, could we give better pledee than the final words of the last verse of the anthem an-them : "And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave o'er the' land of the free and the home of the brave." oOo Benjamin Franklin had a way of saying homely things so they stuck in the memory, f the sage of Philadelphia were alive toty, we can imagine that he might modernize mod-ernize one of his more famous fa-mous parables something like this : For want of a tire workmen work-men were absent ; for want of their labor a p!anewas delayed de-layed : for want of that plane a ship was sunk, being waylaid way-laid and tornedoed by a submarine, sub-marine, and 60 lives were lost; all for want of a tire worn out in pleasure riding. oOo Gems of Wisdom A young man may select a solitaire by himself, but some girl always al-ways has a finger in it. . . . Now would be a swell time for folks to start returning the cups of sugar they borrowed in the past few years. . . . It's .nice to have little things running run-ning around the house if they aren't leaking faucets. . . We can all be thankful that barbers bar-bers don't illustrate their funny stories with cuts. . . . A phone gal has to make both ends meet in order to hold her job. . . . Love usually finds a way but often by a very expensive route. CM A , p - , ,1 yox'.tt :v:;:-.-::: , v4v ,. I f i X , X rYfcl Telephoto) The maritime commission last week cancelled a contract for construction con-struction of 200 Liberty ships at Higgins' yards. (Testifying before the house merchant marine sub-committees, Higgins said "a member of their staff the war agency's staff called him last night and told Kim that six weeks ago employes had been called In "and advised ""to soft pedal and play down Higgins, Hig-gins, to soft pedal Kaiser, and build up Bethlehem." West Coast Builder By Kaiser, Higgins meant Henry Hen-ry J. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder ship-builder who, like himself, has utilized mass production methods in ship construction. Higgins .did not say specifically what agency his informant referred re-ferred to, but he had been discussing discus-sing the maritime commission and left the impression that it was the agency in question. Higgins said he had "known for 60 days' that the yard in which he expected to build the 200 Liberty ships never would be completed. The maritime commission ordered or-dered the contract cancelled on (Continued on Page Eight) YOUTH DROWNS IN RESERVOIR HYRUM, Utah, July 2V U.P Robert P. Bucklin, 20, Rugy, N. D.. student at the Utah State Agricultural college at Logan, was drowned in the Hyrum reservoir early today when he stepped off a ledge into deep water. Bucklin, unable to swim, had waded out onto the ledge to watch six companions swim. Rescue Res-cue attempts failed. The body was recovered this morning by authorities. ELECTRIC MOTORS ARE RESTRICTED WASHINGTON, July 24 (U.R) The war production board announced an-nounced today that new electric motors "will be released only for the mcst important war and civilian civil-ian requirements." S mm Stimson Reports Jaundice Epidemic In Army from Yellow Fever Uaccine WASHINGTON, July 24 U.D Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson Stim-son told his press conference today to-day that 28,585 cases of jaundice jaun-dice developed among army men between Jan. 1 and July 4, apparently ap-parently from the use of yellow fever vaccine. The secretary revealed there had been 62 deaths, a Tatio of orie in 461 cases. He aded that "there has been a change in the form of yellow fever vaccine now used which the surgeon general thinks wil eliminate the whole trouble." "The surgeon general reports a diminishing incidence Is indicated indi-cated by information from a group of large hospitals," Stimson Stim-son said. He said the peak apparently Capture Of aaMBBBBB Gamed B HULL SOUNDS WARNING TO AXIS FOES Post - War Policing Is Held Necessary For Peace WASHINGTON, July 24 (U.R) Secretary of State Cor-dell Cor-dell Hull warned last night that every one of the 28 United Nations, including the United States, must sacrifice "time and substance and life itself to an extent unprecedented unprece-dented in past history" to defeat the Axis powers. He voiced the grave warning in a 45-minute radio speech his first since this country's entry into in-to war and one which President Roosevelt had recommended to every man, woman and child in the world as a summary of what the world faces now and in the future. "Fighting as we are in self-defense, self-defense, in self-preservation, we must make certain of the defeat and destruction of the world-invading forces of Hitler and the Japanese war lords," Hull said. "To do this, our people and the peoples of every one of the 28 United Nations must make up our minds to sacrifice time and substance sub-stance and life itself to an extent unprecedented in past history. "International desperadoes, like individual bandits, will" not abandon aban-don outlawry voluntarily. They will only be stopped by force." Hull devoted most of the talk which has carried over all domestic domes-tic radio networks and short-waved short-waved in 11 languages to all parts of the world to a summary of the administration's ideas of the post-war world-to-be. That world, he said, probably must include some form of international police force to maintain peace. "Liberty is truly won only when it is guarded by the same watchfulness, watch-fulness, the same courage, the same willingness to fight far it which first secured it," he said. Outlining in the requirements for a post-war world which would ensure safety, equality and a full and peaceful life for all, Hull said that continued association of the United Nations in peace as well as in war is essential to a satisfactory satis-factory aftermath of the present desperate struggle. He predicted that prosperity, instead in-stead of depression, will follow the war if the nations of the world work together on a program such as he set forth. PORT OF MATRUH MADE USELESS ALEXANDRIA, July 24 (U.R) The Axis-held port of Matruh on the north Egyptian coast, has been wrecked and made useless to the enemy, British naval sources disclosed today. British warships, which enemy propoganda broadcasts , once described de-scribed as fleeing through the Suez canal, have attacked Matruh repeatedly and hurled more than 2,000 shells into the harbor. was reached during the week ended June 20, when 2,997 hospital hos-pital cases were reported, compared com-pared with 2,575 cases for the week ended July 4. The secretary said 24,057 of the cases occurred at home and 4,528 abroad. Stimson explained there apparently ap-parently was a long period of incubation in-cubation before jaundice developed. develop-ed. Thus it was considerable time after the first inoculations before the source of the malady became evident. The change in the serum was made some time ago but cases of jaundice continue to develop kom the old inoculations. Otherwise, Stimson reported, the health of the army is excellent. U.S. Raid On Tokyo Killed 600 Workers Reporter Reveals Two High Army Officers Commit Hari-kari Because Plane Flew Over Imperial Palace; 780 Technicians Lost By ROBERT T. BELLAIRE Former United Pre Manager In Tokyo (Copyright 1942 by United Press) LOURENCO MARQUES, Portuguese East Africa, July. 22 U.R) (Delayed) United States army bombers caught the Japanese napping in their April 18 raid on Tokyo's industrial center. Flying low over a capital that had never heard the crash of a bomb, they concentrated their attack on the factories and killed an estimated 600 workers. Arriving here under the agreement for exchange of nationals after six months of in- I ternment in Japan, I am able to rioneers honored At Dedication of Provo Monument Honoring the small hjuadAf. courageous pioneers who arrived to settle Utah valley 95 years ago, Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of this region are sponsoring day-long activities at 'Sowiette park today. Opening the day's activities Was the program in the Pioneer museum hall at 10:30 this morning. morn-ing. The building was decorated with a profusion of flowers, with a bevy of flags as a background. With Professor Ed M. Rowe and Edith M. Powell in charge, the program consisted of the following fol-lowing numbers: Opening prayer, William R. Snow; a poem by a pioneer, Albert Jones, presented by his daughter, Nellie Jones Olsen; vocal solo, Sarah Ramsey; patriotic Reading, Arta Ballif; song composed by Florence P. Billings, sung by Carlo Stone, ac-companier ac-companier by Mrs. Done; tribute to the Pioneers, J. M. Jensen; presentation of corsages to each pioneer, Eliza Fillmore and Katie P. Mitchell. At 12 noon, the pioneer monument monu-ment west of the museum building build-ing was dedicated at brief exercises. exer-cises. The program included opening open-ing prayer, Howard Scott; monu-( monu-( Continued on Page Eight) MAN-MADE FOG IS TRIED OUT SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 24 (U.P) Army authorities today checked check-ed Results of their first large scale test of man-made fog, designed de-signed to obliterate entire cities from the air. For nearly two hours last night, the west side of San Diego was covered by a thick layer of white chemical smoke sent up from hundreds of flame pots spotted throughout vital areas. Civilian defense ofifcers called the test "complete" and "effective" "effec-tive" while army men withheld comment. The test came as a complete surprise to civilians. The lower section of the city was blacked out at 9:30 p. m. and all traffic into the aea was halted. Civilian defense workers and police patrolled the area. Even pedestrians were barred from designated areas. From the top floor of the El Cortez hotel on a hill overlooking overlook-ing the business district hundreds of light flashes could be seen as soldiers touched torches to the huge smoke pots which resembled orchard heaters. Located every few yards throughout the bay and airport districts, the pots shot up deep billows of smoke that soon changed chang-ed into a grey mist and became thicker and thicker. Planes flying overhead were not visible through the fog, although al-though army serchlights spotted them from points outside the blanketed area. report the following 1 Japanese army censors 'held up the last appeal for peace by President Roosevelt to the Emperor Em-peror of Japan at ' the eleventh hour, making it impossible for our ambassador to see the Emperor oerore tne Japanese war lords had arranged the declaration of war. L CounnUteti Uari Karl There were rumors that at least two high army officers committed com-mitted hari kari because one U. S. plane flew over the palace of the emperor, without, however, attempting to bomb it. The cabinet cabi-net members hurried to the palace and apologized to the emperor immediately after he emerged from his air raid shelter, it was reported. 3 It was rumored that when Gen. Hideki Tojo, the war lord premier, was inspecting a Tokyo factory late in April, a hammer was thrown at him by a worker, who blamed him for the deaths of 100 Workers in the air raid. The hammer was said to have grazed Tojo's head. z4 A United States submarine sank the Japanese liner Taiyo Maru, 14,457 tons, with loss of 780 Japanese technical experts of the Mitsuhi Industrial company. With the. majority of American correspondents, I was imprisoned for six montns. After six months of investiga- uon, some Americans were convicted con-victed of espionage and sentenced to prison terms of up to three years, but these were suspended so that we all could be repatriated by the liners Asama Maru and Contl Di Verdi, which now have arrived here on the coast of Mozambique, Mo-zambique, Portugal's southeast Africa colony. With us here are the Japanese sent from the United States to be exchanged for us, including Japanese Ambassador Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura and Special Ambassador Saburo Kuru-su. Kuru-su. Caught Japs Napping Tne story of the bombing I obtained ob-tained from eye-witnesses who (Continued on Page Eight) 4-Year Medical School Approved By U. of U. Board SALT LAKE CITY, July 24 (U.P.) The University of Utah board of Regents today had voted vot-ed to expand the institution's school of medicine ffom a two year to a full four-year unit and appointed Dr. A. Cyril Callister, a Salt Lake City physician, to be dean of the school. Dr. C. B. Freudenberger, who has been acting dean of the two-year two-year units since the death of Dr. L. U. Dairies, was named Cat-lister's Cat-lister's assistant- The two educators edu-cators will organize and select personnel for the new medical school. DIANA BARRYMORE TO WED ACTOR HOLLYWOOD, July 24 U.P Dark-haired Diana Barrymore, actress-daughter of the late John Barrymore, and Bramwell Fletcher, Fletch-er, Broadway stage actor, today applied for a marriage license and announced they would be married within, a few weeks. y Germain -S) RHINE, RUHR ATTACKED BY RAF BOMBERS British Planes Sweep Out In Force Over German Area LONDON, July 24 (U.R) Strong forces of RAF bombers bomb-ers attacked objectives in Germany's industrial valleys of the Ruhr and the Rhine last night, while their supporting sup-porting aircraft bombed airdromes, air-dromes, railways and other targets in the occupied lowlands, an air ministry communique said today. At dawn British planes still were sweeping out in force over northern France. As the RAF was active on the continent, German planes ranged over England in one of their most extensive operations this summer, sum-mer, and radio Berlin, unconfirmed uncon-firmed by other sources, said that Soviet 'bombers raided East Prussia Prus-sia again. "A strong force of bombers last J2lght.att&cked jabjectivea' in the Ruhr and Rhineland," the air ministry communique said. "Airdromes "Air-dromes in the low countries also were bombed. "Railways and other targets in the occupied territory were attacked at-tacked during the night by aircraft air-craft of the fighter command on intruder patrol. These operations bombers destroyed two enemy aircraft. "Seven or our bombers are missing." The British said that their night fighters shot down seven of the German planes which scattered scat-tered over the east and northeast coasts and the east and west midlands, mid-lands, taking advantage of low-hanging low-hanging clouds and a bright moon to bomb a number of localities. The Nazi raiders made no attempt at-tempt to concentrate their bombing bomb-ing on a single objective. An air ministry and home security se-curity ministry joint communique said that the enemy 'dropped bombs on a number of places in East Anglia and the Midlands." Some damage and a small number num-ber of casualties were caused, it added. News Scarce at Roosevelt Parley WASHINGTON, July 42 (UJ?) News was scarce at President Roosevelt's press conference today. Asked about new steps to control inflation, the president presi-dent said he had no news. Asked about his reaction to the senate voting to take the synthetic rubber program away from the War Production Pro-duction Board, the president said no comment. Asked whether he planned to see Andrew J. Higgins, New Orleans shipbuilder, the president said he didn't know. Asked whether he planned to see Hery J. Kaiser, California Cali-fornia shipbuilder, the president presi-dent said he didn't know. At this point, the newspaper news-paper men chorused "thank you, Mr. President," and filed out of his office. Italians Stage Mass Bombing On Slav Towns In Reprisal LONDON, July 24 (U.R) The Italian air force, exacting re-pYisals re-pYisals for the successes of Gen. Draja Mlkhailovltch's guerilla forces, has ruthlessly bombed and wrecked at least four towns in southwestern Jugoslavia in the vicinity of Sarajevo, according to private advices reaching London today. The Italian mass bombing an improvisation upon the ' German razing of the Czechoslovak town of Lidice following the May 27 Rfoy Russians Make Their Main Stand South Of Don Waves of Axis Assault Troops Thrown Back in Heavy Fighting Along the River Northeast of Gateway City Rostov By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The Red army battled for the northern Caucasus ..oday but the Nazi high command claimed capture of the gateway city of Rostov on the north bank of the river Don. Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoshenko appeared to be making his main stand, as indicated by Moscow dispatches on Thursday, south of the Don. Waves of Axis assault troops were thrown back in heavy fighting along the river north--east of Rostov, where the Germans said that operations were in Droerress on both banks. . The loss of Rostov would be a I heavy blow to the Russians, but it had been obvious that Timoshenko Timo-shenko decided against a last-ditch battle there and had succeeded In withdrawing his main forces for protection of the supply route for oil and for American war material and for defense of Stalingrad. Striking Back These forces apparently were striking back with the aid of reinforcements, re-inforcements, American - built bombers and "tank busters' which Moscow said stemmed the enemy onslaught with large casualties. On the southern end of the twin Axis drives toward the Near. East supply routes, British Imperial forces in Egypt were reported holding gains made in heavy fighting this week on all three sectors west of El Alamein. Dispatches from the desert front said that the Allied attacks, .supported by heavy air bombing of front and rear sectors, had dents but not cracked the Axis lines, and that the enemy's crack 88-millimeter cannon had proved effective against the advancing British tanks. British losses were not indicated, except by a statement state-ment that reinforcements had made it possible to sustain some losses without weakening defense of the Nile valley. The European air front was (Continued on Page Eight ROAD CLOSING MEETS PROTEST Numerous protests again3t giving the Defense Plant Corporation Cor-poration a quit claim deed to the road bordering Utah lake to the west of the Geneva works site were taken under advisement by the county commission Thursday. Formal protests were received from the metropolitan water ids-trict ids-trict of Salt Lake City, the Provo River Water Users' association, and five Salt Lake associated canal companies. They complained complain-ed that if the road is closed, muh of the territory where vital water measurements are taken will be closed. The measurements, they said, have been taken over a number of years and must be continued. con-tinued. Several Informal protests were also filed by Provo sportsmen, who claimed the awarding of the deed would make the hunting ground in the concerned territory inaccessible. assassination of Relnhard Heyd-rich Heyd-rich were reported as Axis firing fir-ing squads spread terror across the occupied countries with at least 35 new executions and death sentences. . The Italian bombers were said to have been ordered to punish Villagers accused of aiding Jugoslav Jugo-slav guerilla troops which "ambushed "am-bushed an Italian column in the vicinity and killed two high officers. Russians Asked To Stand .Firm H&dlllM lllVclUUI By HENRY SHAPIRO United Prens Staff Correapondent MOSCOW, July 24 niE) The4 Russians stubbornly fought off the Germans pounding at the gateway of the Caucasus today, killing them by the hundreds, while front-line reports indicated that the Soviet counter-drive at Voronezh, 290 miles to the north, was pushing 'the enemy slowly back. (A communique from Adolf Hitler's headquarters today said that Rostov had been stormed and captured). (Radio Moscow, in an appeal to the Russian people to stand firm at any cost, said: "The enemy has mustered all reserves for a deep penetration of our territory. We call on all patriots to halt the enemy. The enemy must be stopped and destroyed.") de-stroyed.") Soviet "armor busters," avia- l tion, tanks and men were massed in an attempt to stop the Germans Ger-mans on the lower Don river front around Tsimlayaiufk&ya, Novocherkassk and Rostov, gateway gate-way to the Caucasus and its vital oU, the Soviet noon communique com-munique reported. "In the Novocherkaask area, heavy fighting continues," it said. "Soviet units repelled attacks by numerically superior' enemy forces. forc-es. On one narrow sector ,17 German tanks were destroyed and 800 of the enemy killed." "Tank busters," a weapon not otherwise described, advanced on the Germans at Tsimlayanskaya, and set three German tanks on fire, the communique said. Soviet forces there repulsed two attacks at-tacks by German tanks and automatic auto-matic riflemen and in hand-Co-hand battles killed 400 Germans. It was not determined how close the Germans were to Rostov. Ros-tov. Novocherkaask is 32 miles northeast of it, and the Russians have made two withdrawals in that area In two days. The Germans Ger-mans may be In sight of it. Timlyanskaya is. - 115 miles southeast of Stalingrad, on the Volga and 100 miles east of Novocherkassk. At Voronezh on the Don, the. story was different. The Communist Com-munist party organ Pravda said the Red army continually was counter-attacking on the west bank of the Don, had cleared more ground on the east bank and had improved its positions on all sec tors of that front. FIRST NAVAL UNTT ' NEARS COMPLETION COEUR D'ALENE. Ida., July 24 DJ) The first 5000-man unit of the $45,000,000 Farragut naval training station Lake Pend Oreille Oreil-le will be formally turned over to the navy on Aug. 2, It was an nounced today. ' , ' ' . -; Completion of the initial unit one of six, will be marked by a day-long program to which the public and officials of northwest states have been invited. |