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Show Reservoir ED The Weather Provu and vicinity: Occasional thunderstorms near mountains this afternoon and-evening; slightly slight-ly wanner today, little change la temperature tonight. Temperatures : High 83 Low 54 Call The Herald If . you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be aent to you. mm FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 22 COMPLKTH UNITBD PRESS THLEQRAPH NHW8 BERVICB PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OP SALT LA KB PRICE FIVE CENTS , JULY 29, 1942 Two Drown In Attempt To Swim From Boat; Third Man Is Saved Lake .View Men Meet Death in -New Reservoir .Clarence Lloyd, 48, and Kenneth Scott. 34, both of Lake View, drowned in the Deer Creek reservoir Tuesday night, when the row boat from which they had been fishing, overturned. Howard Johnson, 35, their companion, also of Lake View, was rescued by other fishermen, while still clinging to the capsized cap-sized craft. Volunteers Aid Search Volunteer workers with a dozen boats were still dragging the bottom bot-tom of the reservoir early this afternoon in an attempt to locate the bodies of Lloyd and Scott. The workers were assisted by Johnson, who spent the entire night at the dam. The deplorable accident, first of its kind to take place on, the Deer Creek reservoir, occurred about 10 p. m. while the three men were fishing. Whatever happened hap-pened was not clear early today, because Johnson could not be reached, whether the boat .filled with water and had to be abandoned, aban-doned, or whether it tipped over while the men were changing places, could not be definitely learned. At any rate, Lloyd and Scott left the boat and started to swim for shore, admonishing Johnson, who was unable to swim, to cling to the boat, Johnson is said to have lmplofedThis companions to stay with the boat, as the two jumped into the icy waters of the reservoir. He saw them for a minute or two, but a little later they disappeared. - The mishap occurred in' the middle of the reservoir in about 20 feet of water, according to some of the other fishermen who ivere -attracted by Johnsons cries for help. Scott, who had been employed by the Concrete Pipe company, recently re-cently had suffered a crushed foot, and he was using a crutch to get around, because his foot was encased in a cast. The crutch floated to shore early this morning, morn-ing, thus giving the searchers an additional clue as to the location where the boat overturned and the men went under. The dragging of the reservoir was under the direction of Sheriff McPhie of Wasatch county, in whose jurisidiction the -reservoir and project is located. He was assisted by J. J. Madsen, deputy fish and game warden,. and others from Lake View and Vineyard. Kenneth Scott was born May 1, 1908, in Provo, a son of L. C. (Continued on Page Five) 'INDEPENDENTS' NAME OFFICERS SALT LAKE CITY, July 29 U.Ht Utah independent retail merchants merch-ants today had drafted articles of . Incorporation and elected officers of-ficers for an organization designed design-ed to "preserve and promote the welfare of individual enterprise" In the state. -., George Jefferson, Milford, Utah, merchant and banker, was named president of the corporation to be known as "Vote for Independence.. Independ-ence.. William D. Wood, Ogden, president of the Utah Pharmaceutical Pharmaceu-tical association, and J. J. Bowman, Bow-man, Kaysvilte, were elected vice presidents; Sherman P. Lloyd, secretary-manager of the Utah Retail Grocers association, secretary, secre-tary, and W. Leonard Beers; treasurer. The retailers' action had been anticipated for many months and foreshadowed a bitter fight in the November elections on the chain store tax issue, passed by the 1941 state legislature but prevented pre-vented from becoming law when petitions were filed forcing a public referendum. The bill now will be on the November general election ballot. Jefferson said "We are fight-in; fight-in; the people's fight in this matter." mat-ter." The one issue of this controversy, con-troversy, he added, "Is whether individual enterprise is to be preserved pre-served in. Utah." Our non-profit corporation will assemble and distribute accurate and constructive information on the bill, its purposes and its possible pos-sible effects,'' Jefferson said. s- Victims CLARENCE LLOYD ,9 "7 ''V: KENNETH SCOTT Taken from an early family photograph. Cartels Charged By Arnold With Patent Misuses NEW YORK, July 29 IT.P Assistant Attorney General Thur-man Thur-man Arnold charged last night that Cartels has misused the patent law to "sabotage" science, creating shortages of essential war materials. In answer to "special interests" who had accused him of undermining under-mining the patent system, he said : "We believe in the constitutional constitution-al purpose of the patent law to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. Our purpose is only to strike and strike hard, not against the patent law, but against those who pervert the patent privilege to control and restrict the production of things that are essential to the production in peace or in war." Arnold, speaking before the American Business Congress, said many shortages in basic war materials ma-terials were caused by the restrictions restric-tions of private groups who would use the war to enhance their own positions. "Never before was there a greater need to free industry in-dustry from the domination of a few powerful minorities whose policy has been to 'restrict production pro-duction and raise prices," he continued. con-tinued. Arnold jsaid the domination of domestic markets by secret international in-ternational patent cartels had "been disastrous' 'and allowed America's enemies to use American Ameri-can patents to stifle production of explosives, magnesium, plastics, plas-tics, drugs, chemicals, dyes, machine ma-chine tools and synthetic rubber. .... ': "v ' . J r ' '.-,' "(--'.-. ' " " 9 V. f t - - , - - Mffl SLAYER FACES FIRING SQUAD AT DAYBREAK Last Chance of Escaping Escap-ing Death Lies With Governor By JAMES O. McKINNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, July 29 (U.R) Donlad L. Condit, 24-year-old former California convict and convicted slayer of a Salt Lake City jam salesman, today apparently resigned himself to the fate of being shot at daybreak tomorrow. to-morrow. Condit's only chance of escaping death before five blazing guns lay in an appeal to Governor Herbert Her-bert B. Maw for a reprieve. - Up to noon today, the governor had received no such appeal. Condit declined to be interview ed but his- attorney, Alonzo- Wat son, said that no request for a reprieve would be made "unless something unforeseen develops between be-tween now and dawn tomorrow." Any " reprieve the governor would grant would only hold until the September session of the state pardon board. Maw Visits Condit Maw visited Condit in the death row of the state prison here earlier earl-ier this week the first time a Utah governor has gone to the prison to talk to a condemned man. After talking with Condit, the governor said that he was satisfied satis-fied that Condit's conviction was legal and that any voluntary action ac-tion he mig"ht take in the light of known evidence would only prolong Condit's date with death. Watson said that Condit was "taking things fine." His attractive, attrac-tive, youthful wife was a frequent visitor to the death cell. Watson said she, like her condemned husband, hus-band, "is feeling it keen but holding hold-ing up remarkably well." The execution is planned for (Continued on Page Five) SECOND RAID HITS HAMBURG LONDON, July 29 (U.R) Royal Air Force planes raided Hamburg, Germany' greatest port and submarine sub-marine building center for the second time in three days during the night in 600-plus strength. Bonyb equipped British Hurricane Hurri-cane fighters and American Douglas Doug-las A 20 and A-20A light bombers flown by British fighter pilots made one of the most damaging raids of the entire war on communications commu-nications in occupied France, Holland Hol-land and Belgium during the Hamburg Ham-burg attack and the air ministry said that at the cost of three planes they damaged well above 20 German night fighters down and attacking targets including shipping off the coast. Great four-motored planes, some carrying eight tons of bombs rained the great 4,000-pound "block busters" on the smouldering- ruins of Hamburg buildings, crippled public utilities, submarine yards and war factories within a few hours of the warning of their chieftain air marshal Sir A. T. Harris that British and American planes were gong to scourge the third reich from end to end. The great bombing planes dived through hem clouds like dive-bombers dive-bombers ttHiurl their bombs on selected targets in the sprawling Hamburg- war area along the Elbe river. Air ministry announcement that 32 bombers were missing: indicated that the bomber fleet numbered well above 600 planes on the basis of official disclosure that in their Annihilation raids on Germany the British air forces were losing less than per cent of their craft. mm JviLLU Martin, Aroff Linked in Courtmartial r -v- r U a? -' ,- v "jf .-- r'1 I Mil Jt- h, I As a general courtmartial was opeped by the 12th Naval District lnves-tlgatlng lnves-tlgatlng msatlsractory eOflcDfions,& the office of director of Naval Officer Procurement in San Francisco, the Nary charged that Lieut. Comdr. Maurice N. Aroff received an automobile from Tony Martin "as and for a fee, c ?. .n " .Wen end roward for facilitating the enlistment" of the movie : . . :.: u. C. I I Reserve. Martin, right, is shown &l, iu Ww wWu.a in ii u chief specialist by Aroff. Utah Power & Light Co. Original Costs Ordered Reduced by 31 Million SALT LAKE CITY, July 29 (U.R) A group of state and federal accountants, the public service commission of Utah, and the. federal power commission today had completed a survey of Utah Power and Light company finances, showing SINKINGS GUT SUGAR IMPORTS WASHINGTON, July 29 U.E The outlook for getting sugar from Caribbean producers has "taken a turn for the worse," due to submarine activity in gulf waters and further diversion of ships to fill war needs, the office of price administration announced announc-ed last night. So critical has the shipping situation become that shortages in Louisiana and Texas refineries have caused the OPA to order a shutdown in shipments from those points to Indiana, Illinois and Ohio until at least Sept. 1. The "drastic drop" in gulf refinery re-finery stocks, the OPA said, may be delivered by imports from Cuba and Puerto Rico during August, and the refineries allowed to reenter the midwest markets. Present sugar stocks in Louisiana Louis-iana and Texas refineries are approximately ap-proximately 60,000 tons, the OPA said, compared to a normal supply sup-ply of. 200,000 tons, needed to meet market demarttfs. The closedown close-down in shipments will not affect af-fect contracts already in effect. The OPA noted an improvement, improve-ment, however, in the sugar situation sit-uation in the northeastern states and ordered beet refiners to discontinue dis-continue shipments, effective today, to-day, into the six New England States, New Jersey, Delaware and the eastern portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. The Defense Supplies Corporation, Corpora-tion, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance Corporation, had been subsidizing the excess cost of transporting sugar into the northeast, and the OPA added ad-ded Kentucky and Tennessee to the subsidy areas. ... ; ;v iUWlujiv i wwKrOi lu i iwuj r c, - -wthat the original cost of the util ity's electric plants was $52,552,- 860.91 The figure fixed by the investigators investi-gators was $31,041,458.38 lower than an original cost figure submitted sub-mitted by the company. Findings of the investigating group have been compiled into a 54-page manuscript, containing a complete resume of the power company's financial structure. The document will be used in rate proceedings against the utility. Started In 1937 The investigation was launched in 1937 after the public service commission and the federal power commission adopted a new uniform uni-form system of accounts for the power and light company. Simultaneously Simul-taneously the utility was prdered by the commission to reclassify its plant account as of Jan. 1, 1937, on basis of original cost. In accordance with the order, the power company made study and issued its original cost reports re-ports in July, 1940. The report issued by the investigators summarized sum-marized information gleaned from the 1940 report and books made available by the company. The commission, announcing completion of their investigation, said the power company had been served with the joint report July 25 and requested to make its books conform to the figures !xed by the commissions' document. Principal evidence in the case will be the 54-page document, consisting con-sisting of balance sheets, charts and figures revealing the power ana light company's financial structure, according to George S. Ballif of Provo, chairman of the Utah commission. Rate proceedings will be started against the company ' within the immediate future, according to Mr. Ballif, who pointed out that the report reveals a wide disparity dispar-ity between book costs and original orig-inal costs of the power company's property. The excessive book costs carried car-ried by the power and light company com-pany were quoted frequently by Mayor Mark Anderson of Provo during the fight which preceded the establishment , of a municipal power system here. 7 SABOTEURS DENY GUILT AT HEARING Extraordinary Hearing Is Opened Before Supreme Court By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 29 (U.R) Seven of eight gestapo-trained gestapo-trained Nazis who armed with explosive and incendiary devicest landed upon American Ameri-can shores last month from German submarines, denied before an extraordinary session ses-sion of the U. S. supreme court today that they came to this country coun-try to commit sabotage. Through their counsel, the accused ac-cused men denied publicly for the first time since their capture that! their mission here was to spread devastation and death, as charged by the government." "The alleged' agents of Adolf Hitler were not present at the supreme court hearing. Challenge Validity The seven defendants challenged chal-lenged the validity of their secret trial before a military commission appointed by President Roosevelt. Specifically, they sought the right to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus which, if granted, would automatically nullify proceedings pro-ceedings before the commission thus far. Answering defense counsels' briefs, prosecution attorneys contended con-tended that: "Those whom. the enemy sends to destroy our industries and lives and the very existence of the nation na-tion can hardly be in a position to claim constitutional rights, privileges and immunities from the nation they seek to destroy. One privilege they seek is the freedom of our courts to help them now that they are caught" In opening the proceedings promptly at noon, Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone suggested that he might be disqualified because his son, Maj. Lauson H. Stone, had assisted in presenting the defense case before the commission. He decided to sit, however, when Attorney At-torney General Francis Biddle, chief of the prosecution staff, informed in-formed him that both sides wanted him to remain. Major Stone had not participated in the proceedings before the court. Seven Justices-Only Justices-Only seven justices took their (Continued on Page Two) Provo Rent Chief Assumes His Duties j C. Halbersleben, newly-appointed rent director and attorney for the Provo defense area, comprising all of Utah county, returned to Provo yesterday from Denver, where he conferred with regional rent officials in regard to his new 0 duties. Baseball Today By UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE 1st game: Chicago 200 000 200 4 New York .010 000 0102 Bi thorn and go, Feldman Danning (8). McCullough; Mun-(8) Mun-(8) and Mancuso; Nicholson homrun. Chicago, 7th). 1st game: Pittsburgh 000 000 0123 Boston .... ..... .000 000 000 0 Sewell and Phelps, Lopex (9); Javery, Donovan (9) and Kluttz. 20 Nazi Armored Divisions Thrown Against Russians Axis War Lords Shoot the Works in Supreme Attempt To Break Red Army's Fighting: Power Before Second Front Set Up By JOE ALEX MORRIS .United Press Foreign Editor The Axis war lords are shooting the works in a climactic attempt to break the Red army's fighting power before they are smashed from the rear by an Allied air or land onslaught on western Europe. The aerial second front aganist the Germans already is striking telline blows, including another 600-plane RAF raid with bloc-buster bloc-buster bombs on the Nazi submarine subma-rine base and port at Hamburg last night in addition to attacks that dumped 1,200 tons of explosives explo-sives on Hamburg and Duizburg over the week-end. These attacks far exceeded the worst that the luftwaffe could heap on England's war centers during the battle of Britain, but experts1 still were divided on whether anything short of a big-scale big-scale invasion would help the Red army. Critical Phase Moscow dispatches, renewing calls for a second front, left no doubt that the war had reached its most critical phase in southern Russia, with the Na.is reported using 20 armored divisions of possibly pos-sibly 10,000 tanks, in an effort to force a decision. The decision which the German high command seeks is now clear. They want to reach the Caucasus oil fields and the Stalingrad industrial indus-trial region on the Volga river in order to cut off the main routes for Russian oU, interrupt supplies from America, and split the Soviet fighting foces. But these are means to an end. The ultlmade objective is to weaken the Red army and push it back toward the Urals until it no longer can be the main military threat against the Axis in Europe. If that goal is achieved it would be possible for the Nazis, even if they had to keep many second-rate second-rate divisions on a Russian front next winter, to swing their greatest great-est striking power back to the west against Britain or to the Near East against the key Allied communications lines. On the Don river fighting front the Russians still were resisting, but retreating in continued heavy battles south of Rostov, and in (Continued on Page Five) Mr. Halbersleben revealed that he will open an office in the Farmers and Merchants bank building in a few days. His staff will consist of a rent examiner, a rent appraiser, a stenographer and two; typists, all civil service appointments. ap-pointments. The first big job to be done under his supervision is the registration regis-tration which it is estimated will Include some 8000 registrations. Every home, apartment or room which is offered for rent will have to be registered. The registration Dianxs are not expected here for a week or" two, and in the meantime mean-time Mr. Halbersleben will organize organ-ize his staff. Under the rent control act, all rents are frozen as of the March 1 level, effective August 1. Rents which have been higher than the (Continued on Page Five) - Germans Making Supreme Did to Crack Red Army ; MOSCOVvV juiy 29 (HE) The German high command was mak ing a supreme now-or-never effort ef-fort today to crack the Red army. The Axis drive apparently was aimed at slicing off the Caucasus and its oil, the capture of Stalingrad Stal-ingrad and control of the lower Volga to the Caspian Sea. Into this big battle the Germans Ger-mans threw 20 panzer divisions presumably about 10,000 tanks of all sizes. The Red army was retiring re-tiring steadily under the weight of the enemy's superiority in men and weapons tout fighting in good order. The masses of Axis troops, tanks and planes pounded eastward east-ward along the south of the broad Don for a decisive blow against Stalingrad and the Volga that would cut off all of Causasia. Demand Second Front-In Front-In the hour of gravity the Moscow Mos-cow press today called again for a second front in western Europe where, it was said, the Germans have been forced to strip their French garrisons of all except atxrut 10 effective divisions for the struggle in the east. The ofticial Communist party organ Pravda, in an article by Eugene Varda, a leading Soviet publicist, called upon the allies to repay the 28-year-old debt of the Marne by opening up a second sec-ond land front. Russia's offensive against East Prussia in 1914 forced the Germans to transfer big forces from France and enabled en-abled the allies to win the battle of the Marne, Varda said. The Russians said that Hitler is Continued on Page Five) ROBINSON MEETS WITH GOVERNOR SALT LAKE CITY, July 29 OlfH Rep. J. Will Robison, D., Utah, had an extended, informal conference confer-ence today with Gov. Herbert B. Maw. It was the first time Robinson met with the governor since the congressman returned from Wash-ingon Wash-ingon last week for a month's visit home, presumably to complete his campaign for renomi nation and reelection. re-election. Rep. Robinson will speak in Provo Thursday at the joint meeting meet-ing of the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, scheduled , at 12:15 p. m., at the Hotel Roberts. Lightning Strikes Tree During Storm ; ' A' large tree located In front of the Fred Cornell residence, 547 East Center, was struck Wednesday Wednes-day morning at 1 .m. by a bolt of. lightning,:' splitting - It down the center. The tree was struck during dur-ing the heavy electrical : storm which passed over the city during the night. |