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Show wilt " TKe Weather 1 WEATHER FORECAST ' . . ... For Provo, and vicinity: showers and thunderstorms todaj; and early evening; Little change la temperature. Temperatures . High ,...V.. 9S Low 53 'Precipitation .23 Call The Herald If you dont receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be aent to you. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LA KB PRICE FIVE CENTS fir 1 I-onV.lNin IE.rn, nw. i tbleqraph news sbrvich am Capture Eostoy ive Thwarts A. o 9 6T trnn - mm Government Steel Chief Inspects Geneva, Ironton Production At Geneva Works Expected To Begin About June, 1943; Ironton Production To Be Doubled Capacity of the Ironton plant of the Columbia Steel company com-pany will be more than doubled in about four months, with the completion of the additional blast furnace, now in course of erection by the Bates and Rogers company, according to H. A. Hauck, chief of the steel section of the war production board, who inspected the Ironton and Geneva plants Monday, on a flying trip from Washington. Mr. Hauck confirmed the previously announced report of the addition of a structural DESK CHAT As our humble contribution to the lexicology of this war, may we explain how the verb "to scrimgeour" and the adjective ad-jective "scrimgeouring' may come Into everyday use ? The Scrimgeour family ' William, his wife and his sons, Maxwell and C. Bailey averaged only 420 a day each during 1941 as sales engineers en-gineers in connection with war contracts. Horace Ward averaged $780 per day for 18 months and F. C. Nichols, A. P. Shirley and F. D. Olcott averaged $1150 each day this iA 11 year in similar acuvny, an perfectly legal. But there isn't much color to "warding" or 'nicholing" or "shirleying" or "olcot-ting."" "olcot-ting."" The Scrimgeours happen hap-pen to have a name that few will remember how to spell, but most will recognize when they see it again. So from now on, when we hear of "sales engineers" making fortunes out of military mili-tary contracts, while soldiers die all over the globe at $50 per month "and found," what could be more natural than think of "scrimgeouring." oOo Wisecracks from the Grist Wasps are affectionate, says a scientist. Wouldn't you just love to have one sit in your lap? . . . The rubber situation may lead to a lot of autos being paid for before they are worn out. . . . Battling Bat-tling the mob of buyers is what takes the wind out of bargain sales. . . . Some people peo-ple take advantage of the fact that it isn't human to be per feet. . . . Anger dies quickly with a good man, except when he is good and angry. MAW MAKES NO REPRIEVE MOVE SALT LAKE CITY. July 28 (U.P) Gov. Herbert B. Maw said today to-day that he had taken no official action, nor had he been requested to take any, that would reprieve Donald Lawton Condit, 24-year-old San Pedro, Cal., youth, scheduled sched-uled to be shot Thursday as the slayer of a Salt Lake grocery salesman. Maw's statement refuted reports re-ports that an "unofficial" hearing hear-ing had been conducted in the state capitol to consider a reprieve re-prieve for Condit until the September Sep-tember meeting of the Utah board of pardons. The young California ex-convict is scheduled to stand up before be-fore the south wall of the Utah state prison-here and face a firing fir-ing squad between 6 and 6:30 a. m. Thursday. steel mill to the Geneva Works plans. The plant will turn out steel for ship construction on the Pacific coast, including ship shapes, but production there is not expected until June, 1943, he said. He expressed himself as well pleased with the progress being made at both plants, and complimented compli-mented the contractors who are located here. With 14 outstanding outstand-ing construction firms on the job, each one a specialist in its particular par-ticular line, there should be no cause for fear about the construction construc-tion progress and the ability of the contractors to tackle the problems, prob-lems, he averred. There has been little trouble In getting workers, he reported, although the housing shortage has made it necessary to build 10 100-unit dormitories to house part of the workers. A cafeteria is also under construction construc-tion to feed the workers who reside re-side in the dormitories. Mr. Hauck was accompanied through the Ironton plant by C. T. Keigley, general manager of the Utah properties of Columbia Steel, and at Geneva by R. C. Talbot, resident engineer for Columbia Co-lumbia Steel. He expressed little fear that the work will be held up from now on through shortage of material, since priorities for the steel plant program have been perfected. Mr. Hauck left today for California Cali-fornia to inspect the Kaiser plants and from there will proceed pro-ceed to Texas to continue the inspection in-spection tour. 48-Hour Week in War Industries Is Recommended WASHINGTON, July 28 U.E Adoption of a six-day, 48-hour work week in all war industries as the "best working schedule for sustained efficiency" was recommended recom-mended today in a statement of policy issued by eight government govern-ment agencies, including the war and navy departments. The policy statement also was signed by 'the maritime commission, commis-sion, the public health service, the war manpower commission, the war production board and the labor and commerce departments. It was drafted to help bring about the most efficient war production. The policy statement emphasized empha-sized that the recommendations in no way affected the wage-hour act provision requiring time-and-a-half pay for all work in excess of 40 hours a week. Other items included in the recommendation for maximum war production were : A 30-minute meal period. One day of rest in approximately approximate-ly every seven. Staggering of vacations over the whole year. Rent Ceilings In Utah Held Inconsistent, Discriminatory SALT LAKE CIJCY, July 28 (U.R) The Apartment House association associ-ation of Utah today lodged a complaint against federal rent control regulations in the Salt Lake-Ogden and Provo areas, charging that the rent ceilings were "inconsistent" and "discriminatory." "dis-criminatory." The association, at a meeting here, said the regulations would create a condition whereby landlords land-lords who abided by a fair rent code earlier this year would suffer suf-fer while profiteering landlords would prosper. The office of price administration Issued the rent control con-trol orders for Utah areas last week, adjusting rents at March 1, Sf v. " " t? - , ,,. . -aam - : . ' x 1 - H , - .v.?M l t a r..it . 1 limn I It m-TSi i WMsWl -mmmtk rl niiii inn-ii n - - - --rar Throwing away $20,000,000 in federal funds, the Maritime Commission canceled an order given the New Orleans Shipbuilding Co. Pictured are a few of the $2,000,000 worth of logs, part of the material ma-terial ordered but not to be used, because construction oX the company's plant addition has been halted. Electrical Storm Starts 3 Fires In the Mountains Three fires were started by lightning during the severe electrical elec-trical storm which struck this region Monday afternoon, bringing bring-ing heavy Showers for a short time in some places, while some spots in the mountains where the lightning struck, received no moisture, according to George Larson, supervisor of the Uinta national forest. One bolt of lightning struck in the Hobble TCreek canyon area, starting a fire which burned over a small area. The damage was reduced because of the fine work of the Springville fire department which responded quickly to the alarm and extinguished the blaze. The other two fires started by lightning further south, on the Mt. Nebo side of the forest. Both blazes happened to occur on areas easily accessible and they were both put out before , they had burned very long, reports Mr. Larson who points out the need Of eternal vigilance at this time of the season when the ranges are exceedingly dry and thunder storms are frequent. The storm brought .35 of an inch moisture in Provo, according accord-ing to the official weather observers. ob-servers. He again emphasized the importance im-portance of campers who use picnic pic-nic grounds on the forest areas, exercising redoubled caution against leaving fires burning in the fireplaces, as well as against the use of matches for any purpose, pur-pose, or the use of firecrackers. The Provo fire department responded re-sponded to two alarms within 45 minutes, both of them being put out with minor damage. The first fire at 2:15 p. m., burned away part of a coal house at the home of Mark Kerby, 609 North First West street, according accord-ing to Fire Chief Earl Finlayson who estimated the damage at $25. Hot ashes dumped too close to the coal house was ascribed as the cause of the blaze. The second fire, at 2:55 p. m., damaged a woodshed at the home of Dean Jasperson, 65 East Third North street. The cause was uncertain un-certain but a boy and some matches was the probable reason, according to the fire chief. The damage in this case was about $35. FIVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION PADUCAH, Ky., July 28 U.P At least five men and possibly eight were killed today when an oil barge on the Ohio river exploded, explod-ed, hurling wreckage of the shattered shat-tered craft for more than a thousand thou-sand yards. 1942 levels. They are effective Aug. 1, Richard F. Harding, executive vice-president of the association said in many instances dwelling unit owners' would find it difficult dif-ficult to give maximum service and still maintain a fair margin of profit under the regulations. "Plumbing, repairing paper-hanging paper-hanging and other costs are up 25 per cent," he said, "and the cost of coal is now 20 per cent higher than it was a year ago." Harding added that landlords should not be allowed to charge exhorbitant rentals, "but neither should they be subjected to unjust un-just discrimination." Where Government Wasted y.MA-:JW Ship Cancellation Case to Be Probed WASHINGTON, July 28 (U.R-r-hairman Frank Boykin, D., Ala., of the house merchant marine and fisheries subcommittee sub-committee investigating the steel shortage, promised today to "get the interested parties together, lock the doors and throw the key away until the Hig-3 gins shipyard controversy is solved." "If we cbuld get Admiral Emory Em-ory S. Land, J. W. Powell anB Mr. Higgins before the committee, lock the door arid not tell anybody' what happened, I believe we could work this out in about two hours," Boykin said. Land is chairman of the maritime mari-time commission, Powell is special assistant to secretary of navy, and Andrew Jackson Higgins is a New Orleans shipbuilder whose contract to construct 200 Liberty ships was cancelled by the maritime mari-time commission because of lack of steel. Boykin said that practically the only material necessary to com plete the Higgins yard was steel j plate, Previously, J. S. Knowison, chairman of the requirements committee of the War Production Board, had told the subcommittee that there was no shortage of steel plate. Knowison said he believed the WPB allocation committee would review the Higgins case. "'In two or three months we will be in the place whero there will be plenty of casualty lists, and the thing that haunts me is a picture of the boys not having everything they need," Knowison said. Earlier, Higgins charged that cancellation of his contract would mean an eventual loss of at least $75,000,000 to the nation. He asserted as-serted that he had reduced the time required for building a Liberty Liber-ty ship to 300,000 man-hours, while other yards were requiring a minimum of 600,000 man-hours. Land testified after Higgins anJ reiterated his agency's contention that lack of steel, high production produc-tion costs, and the New Orleans housing and transportation stiort-(Continued stiort-(Continued on Page Eight) Baseball Today NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 110 001 011 5 New York 600 110 lOx 9 Olsen, Erickson (1) and Mc-Cullough; Mc-Cullough; Hubbell and Danning. Chicago 0 New York 0 Schmitz and Scheffing; Schumacher Schu-macher and Mancuso. St. Louis 101 022 000 6 Brooklyn 500 100 Olx 7 White, Pollet and W. Cooper; French, Davis and Owen. Cincinnati 003 000 320 8 Philadelphia . . . 100 000 000 1 Vandermeer and Lamanno; Johnson, John-son, Nahem (3)and Livingstone. Cincinnati 0 Philadelphia ... 0 Starr and West; Melton and Warren. War-ren. Pittsburgh 000 000 0 Boston .... 000 001 0 Butcher and Lopez; Sain and Kluttz. . AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 2 Chicago 0 Bonham and Herasley; Smith and Turner. Only game scheduled. Millions ' '!?' ".L" ",7",'-,'" in'' I Supreme Court to Rule On Saboteur Writs Petitions WASHINGTON, July 28 U.E The supreme court convenes in an unprecedented special session tomorrow to-morrow to receive petitions for writs of habeas corpus for seven of the eight German saboteurs who have been on trial here -before a military commission. The llth-hour appeal by counsel coun-sel on behalf of the prisoners, in effect constitutes a challenge of President Roosevelt's right as expressed in a proclamation issued is-sued when the military commission commis-sion was created to deny them access to civil courts. The court will have to decide first whether it has the power to hear the saboteurs' petitions. If it decides affirmatively, the court then will weigh the merits of the habeas corpus appeal. Supreme court members scattered scat-tered all over the country for their summer recess were flying back to Washington for the special spec-ial meeting which Chief "Justice Harlan F. Stone announced last night through the clerk of the court. It was understood that the petitions peti-tions would involve all the prisoners prison-ers except George John Dasch, leader of the four saboteurs who landed from a German submarine on the Long Island shore. He has been represented before the commission by a separate counsel and is believed to have turned government witness. If the court rules unfavorably on the appeal of the other prisoners, prison-ers, Dasch will be affected, too. If it decides to hear the habeas corpus plea, a petition probably will be filed for Dasch. If the court decides that the prisoners should be granted access ac-cess to civil courts, it was learned, they will be bound over for trial in the federal district court. Such a decision would bring to an end the military trial which has been in progress for three weeks. FALL FATAL TO RAILROAD MAN SALT LAKE CITY, July 28 U.E John N. Eichers, 60, died here today of injuries suffered when he fell from the top of a motor car at the Salt Lake terminal ter-minal of the Bamberger Railroad company, where he was employed. Witnesses said he fell when he lost his oalance while changing a trolley. ROOSEVELT MAY VETO RUBBER BILL . WASHINGTON, July 28 (U.E President Roosevelt said today the chances are he will veto the bill passed by congress last week to create an independent agency to promote production of synthetic rubber from agricultural products. REDS RETREAT IN FACE OF NAZJJRIVE Germans Push Deeper Towards Stalingrad and the Caucasus MOSCOW, July 28 (U.R) The Red army retreated stubbornly stub-bornly today across the flat steppes south of the Don wsen heavily reinforced German Ger-man armies, dropping aid-borne aid-borne Whippet tanks behind the Russian lines, pushed deeper into the Caucasus and sent powerful forces smashing toward Sealingrad. The official army Red Star, describing de-scribing the northern Caucasus as in grave danger, said that the Russian ' withdrawal was becoming becom-ing increasingly more difficult because be-cause of the Germans' great superiority in men and tanks. Savage Fighting ' Savage fighting was reported underway all along the 250-mile front where the Germans, reinforced rein-forced by 11 divisions (probably 165,000 men) from the Holland and France, pounded forward in a drive toward the key railroad communications and oil pipelines of the Caucasus and into the eastern east-ern bend of the Don oly 40 miles from industrial Stalingrad on the Volga. South of Rostov and Novocherkassk, Novocher-kassk, abandoned to the Germans yesterday. Marshal Semyon Timo-shenko's Timo-shenko's Red army forces fought desperately to stem Nazi mechanized mechan-ized forces threatening to widen their northern Caucasian front, btrtHhe Russian were compelled to give ground. In one important sector, unidentified un-identified In advices reaching Moscow, Mos-cow, the Germans succeeded in pushing the Russians back after rushing up large reniforcements to widen a gap forced at the Don. Near a small village the Germans Ger-mans landed Whippet tanks from big planes behind the Russians, but the tanks were said to have been knocked out by the fire of Red army guns. From captured Rostov at the mouth of the Don the Germans were headed toward the Maikop oil area, and near Tsimlyanskaya midway between Rostov anl Stalingrad on the Don they were trying to reach the important Tikhoretsk-Stalingrad railroad. Farther to the northeast at the big bend of the Don, the Germans pushed toward Kalach, only 40 miles from Stalingrad. Front advices said that "power ful enemy forces" were pressing along a road leading to Stalingrad on a narrow front where, in the space of one day, a force of 8,000 Germans was decimated. The Russians were lashing back in counterattacks wherever possible, possi-ble, and it appeared that they were achieving their best success in slowing down and halting the German push across the Don Into Caucasia in the Tsimilanskaya region. In other places the Russians, unable to cdpe with the Germans' great numerical superiority, were falling back southward. A urasn injuries Fatal to Boy, 5 OGDEN, Utah, July 28 (U.E) Five-year-old Frank Van Cleave, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Van Cleave of Ogden, and today from injuries suffered yesterday afternoon when he darted out into the street and Into the side of a car. The boy's death raised Utah's 1942 traffic toll to 79 21 less than had been recorded a year ago. President Prepares to Meet Threat Of Inflation By Executive Action WASHINGTON, July 28 ttE) President Roosevelt prepared today to-day to meet the threat of inflation, infla-tion, by employing his broad wartime war-time powers to bar further general gen-eral increases in wages or salaries, sal-aries, farm prices or rents. Mr. Roosevelt conferred yesterday yes-terday afternoon with Speaker Sam Rayburn. The speaker left the White House with plans to spend most of August at his Texas ranch. He said little for the record but the fact that no change was ordered for the informal congressional congres-sional recess which began yester 11 Fresh Divisions From Holland, France Thrown Into Battle Germans Use Air-borne Whippet Tanks To Drive Towards Oil-rich Caucasus With Vastly Superior Forces By 40E ALEX MORRIS United Pres Foreign Editor A reinforced Axis offensive, using air-borne Whippet tanks, battered into the oil-rich Caucasus and toward the Stalingrad industrial center today in a spreading campaign: to isolate the Red army from supply routes for Allied war aid. ' - For the time being. Hitler was throwing everything, including 11 1 fresh divisions from Holland and France, into the onslaught. The Russian army newspaper. Red Star, acknowledged that the battle bat-tle was becoming increasingly difficult due to enemy superiority in tanks and men. The German high command was facilitating the Caucasus drive by fighting a holding battle in North Africa, where new British attacks took prisoners and inflicted heavy casualties southwest of El Ala-mein, Ala-mein, but failed to make extensive exten-sive gains. Weak Nazi Attacks In the air warfare, the Nazis countered RAF devastation raids with comparatively weak attacks on England. -Eight of 50 to 70 Nazi planes were brought down in 'he last night's attacks, apparently centered on Birmingham. Thus the Germans were following follow-ing their usual method of massing strength on one front. Their prime objective "was to smash through to the Caucasus oil fields and move eastward to the Volga before the United Nations can invade in-vade Europe. On the fighting front, the Germans Ger-mans had pushed southward through Rostov on the railroad leading to the west Caucasus oil fields and reported that they had widened their front south of the Don river to the east of Rostov, where they may have reached or made unuseable the railroad line on which Stalingrad depends for (Continued on Page Eight) JAPS ADVANCE IN NEW GUINEA GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. A u s t r alia, July 28 (U.E Japanese patrols advanced today through interior New Guinea, apparently intent on establishing a base only 55 air-line miles from the great allied advanced base at Port Moresby on the south coast opposite oppo-site Australia. A communique issued at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters headquart-ers revealed that allied patrols had clashed with enemy forces at the native village of Oivi, only five miles from Kokoda in mid-New mid-New Guinea. Kokoda, on a plateau at the eastern base of the formidable Owen Stanley mountain range which forms the backbone of that Papuan end of New Guinea, is 55 miles from Port Moresby. In one day, since the first clash between the allied jungle patrols and the Japanese from the New Buna-Gona base on the north coast, the enemy forces had advanced about 30 miles. Anxiety over the new enemy activity increased ' throughout Australia. Though no immediate threat was foreseen to Port Moresby, the Japanese had again seized the initiative in ground fighting and they had suddenly intensified their aerial activities. day was interpreted at the capitol capi-tol as the final decision against moves for anti-Inflationary legislation legis-lation at this time. Rayburn planned to start for xexas lonigni. House uemocrauc Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts leaves for Boston tomorrow. The president, it was learned, will probably report to congress in some fashion after he has taken the measures he" thinks necessary to combat the present trends toward inflation. That report was not expected for several sev-eral weeks. P'tt191 ifAlflPfC IIHIHVIV Beaten Off With Secret Style Gun BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS v United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 28 (UP) A new. secret antiaircraft gun aided British night Tighter planes in beating off a strong German vengeance attack upon London-and London-and the British isles last night while an American pilot of the RAF knocked out two of many, Nazi trains disabled in northern -France. t The night fighters and the. fire of the new-type antiaircraft" guns brought down at least eight and damanged many more of the" 50 to 70 German planes which: ranged over Britain and northern Ireland where American troops are based. The Germans appar; ently sought vengeance for the RAF's damaging attacks on Ham burg, Essen and other Nazi war centers. While two German planes approached ap-proached the English southeast coast today to be driven off by Spitfire fighters British light naval forces sank an enemy trawler trawl-er and badly damaged another trawler off the French port of Cherbourg. German bombers attacked at-tacked and slightly damaged - a British patrol boat. The American flying with the RAF in the attack on German" trains in northern France during' the night was Pilot Officer C' was credited by the air ministry, with attacking three trains near Lens and stopping two of them. There was heavy antiaircraft fire in the London area during the early morning hours when . the German planes swept in. "The night fighters had a field' night in the brilliant light of the full moon," the air ministry said; But in the London area at least, the new guns played their part in smashing at least of an enemy plane fleet estimated to have totaled between 50 and 70.- How many planes, crippled by night fighter or ground gun fire. body could say. In ' the greater London area, where scattered fire bombs were droDDed without doinr serious damage in country areas, (he roar of the new secret gun could be distinguished plainly by those who had heard them in practise. BOARD REJECTS WAGE INCREASE WASHINGTON, July 28 (TIE) The war labor board today appealed ap-pealed for quick application of all phases of President Roosevelt's anti-inflation program to prevent the undermining of its new wage stabilization formula. The board warned that its come fully effective if other factors fac-tors in the cost of living prices and rents are not xigidly controlled. con-trolled. The board, which last week set up tne formula in a aecision granting a wage increase to "little "lit-tle steel" workers, used it today to relect demands for a wage increase in the first case to be decided since then. It turned down demands of 1.200 Remineton Rand company employes at Tonawanda, N. on the ground that two wage increases in-creases totaling 18 cents an hour for men and 11 cents an hour for women already have brought the wnrltem' nav above tha 15 Mr cent ; maximum ooosi caiaonaneq in the "little steel" formula as necessary to meet the Increased cost of living since Jan. 1, 1941 |