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Show The Weather " 1 Call The Herald For Provo and vicinity: Cooler today; to-day; not much change In temperature tempera-ture tonight. Temperatures: High 86 Low . . . . S7 If you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 485 before o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. 1FTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 80 COMPLETE UN1THD PRESS TBUBQRAPH NEWS SKRVICB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942 UTAH'S OXLT DAILY SOUTH OP SALT UU PRICE FIVE CENTS (Annrxni? mi aw7 ffii ro)rr?n fo)W innroiroirc'fo) rnrfn if M u y Ui 11) l)u m luJ oj l) S in Mil 'N , ; r : Roosevelt May Outlaw Wagi e Increaees Above 'Little Steel Formula President Has Prepared Orders Prohibiting War Contractors From Increasing Wages Beyond 15 Percent By JAMES It. SHEPLBY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept 10 U.R) Members of the house banking committee were informed today that President Roosevelt may outlaw in war ncrease that exceed the "Little Steel ' formula. The committee, which will handle the new anti-inflation egislation, has been insisting on a clear-cut statement of the administration's wage control ceilings on farm products below 110 per cent of parity. Hitler Demands Petain Turn Over The French Fleet LONDON. Sept. 10 l.E The British Press association reported today that Germany again Is at tempting to obtain control of the IFrench fleet. The Press association said that pome reports were in circulation that Adolf Hitler has demanded the fleet in a personal message to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. The British agency said that the German effort to obtain the IFrench fleet was renewed after fhe Dieppe attack and that Hit-er Hit-er wished to use the fleet as part bf his coastal defense system hgainst future allied landing at tempts. The French, according to these reports, also are under nazi pres sure to provide food for Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika corps. In return, said the press asso ciation, Hitler would liberate "a handful of French prisoners'' and Iwould return nominal control of the city of Bordeaux to Vichy. Bordeaux is now in the nazi occu pied zone of France. Thr report said Hitler was pre pared to confer personally with Petain "in order to bully the laged marshal." , 'AGGIE STAR NOT ELIGIBLE LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 10 U.P ICannon Parkinson, Utah State (Agricultural college football play er, today was declared ineligi ble for the 1942 season. Dean R.E. JMcWhinnie of Wyoming univer-. pity announced. McWhinnie, secretary or tne Big Seven conference, said faculty fac-ulty members had deadlocked 3-3 on a vote taken to decide if con ference members would waive the Jclause which says that a year s residence is required before a transferee can compete in varsity bthletics. Youths Receive Navy Booklets The story of the navy is being told to 1700 Utah county youths of 17, 18 and 19 years of age Iwho have received copies of an illustrated booklet, "Men Make the Navy the Navy Makes Men," mailed out Wednesday under tne auspices of a civilian navy recruit- lug wiuiiiillcc, ucaueu uy aiayui Maurice Harding of Provo. Extra copies of the interesting booklet are available at the Herald Her-ald office for any youths who failed to got a copy through the mail. Young men of the 17-19 year age group are urged .to investi gate the advantage offered by the navy in its program of teaching 49 different trades and rapid promotion pro-motion as a result of the expansion expan-sion of the navy with the launching launch-ing of new ships every day. industries all wage and salary plans before agreeing to allow O Banking committeemen have been told, however, that Mr. Roosevelt has prepared orders prohibiting war contractors from increasing the wage or salary of any employe voluntarily or under un-der pressure -beyond 15 per cent more than the job paid on Jan. 1, 1941. The war labor board has been following the formula since setting it up for the "Little Steel" industry, but . it does not reach voluntary wage increases. (Unless there is a subsequent change, tie president's far-reaching wage edict will not apply to wages and salaries in industries not working on government war contracts. Thus, a -department store clerk, a street car conductor, conduct-or, or a worker in a plant making civilian products would not be subject to wage "freezing," the banking committeemen were told. A presidential executive order issued last night abolished the payment of '"penalty double-time" double-time" pay for work on Sundays, Saturdays, and holidays. But since the total double time paid is tiny compared with total wages it could not be considered an anti-inflation anti-inflation move. The White House explained that the order was designed de-signed in some cases to eliminate interefernce with "abound . the-clock" the-clock" operation of war industries. indus-tries. An order outlawing raises in war industries beyond the cost-of-living increase since Jan. 1941 would impose the first wage ceiling ceil-ing in American history. It would be enforced by the government's power to withhold funds from war contrctors or sub-contractors to pay the outlawed wage increases. in-creases. The administration's program is based on the premise that the great increase in purchasing pow er the increase which is threat ening disastrous war inflation lies with the workers in industries indus-tries which are the direct recipients recipi-ents of war spending expected to reach $100,000,000,000 annually. Salt Lake Man Dies From Hurts SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 10 (L'.E) Injured when a horse fell on him yesterday at 6 p. m., John M. Pepper, about 60, died three hours later in a Salt Lake hospital. The accident occurred in Salt Lake City. -S- Norwegian Patriots Remain Indoors Tonight Protesting Nazi Terrorism LONDON, Sept. 10 U.E Throughout Norway, in cities and villages," men, women and children chil-dren patriots will remain indoors after 7 o'clock tonight in a silent national protest against nazi ter- rorism, secret advices to Norweg- ian sources said today. The mass protest was organized to commemorate the first anniversary, anni-versary, of a ruthless German terror campaign as part of which more than 100 Norwegians have been executed and many among the thousands sent to prisons or concentration camps have died under German torture or because of sub-human conditions. Ten Norwegians have been sentenced sen-tenced to death this week. So far the Germans have been able to conscript only about 20,- 2 CANNERIES IN BOXELDER FACE CRISIS Schools May Have Close To Save Tomato Crop To SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 10 U.R) No dictatorial action ordering closing of the Brig-ham Brig-ham City schools and designed de-signed to release hundreds of students for harvest and cannery work is planned by the Utah Council of Defense, Gus P. Backman, vice chairman of the council, said today. A report circulated here that Backman would decide today on the necessity of closing the schools after information from Brigham City disclosed that two major canneries can-neries there had advised farmers not to rush the harvest of crops as the canneries "are swamped at the present time and cannot process and can the foodstuffs as fast as you bring them in, unless additional labor is obtained' Immediately.", Im-mediately.", Circulars were delivered on every doorstep in Brigham City today, appealing for help to solve the labor shortage. The circular, printed in big, bold type, read : "Worst crisis yet. "Wages are way up for cannery workers, peelers, field workers. "You must save the tomato crop. 'This Is a real emergency. "Crops mut not rot in the field. Boys, girls, men ami housewives, house-wives, enlist now. "Call the Box Elder Packing corporation, the Perry Canning factory, the U. S. Employment Office." It was signed "Uta"h State Council Coun-cil of Defense," but was issued by the Brigham City chamber of commerce after a conference with Hervin Bunderson, superintendent of the Box Elder county schools. Mathew Compton, president of the chamber of commerce at Brigham City, said his organization organiza-tion would "wait two days and see if the circular brings results." If it does not, Compton said the problem would be taken up di-( di-( Continued on Page Two) Minnesota Flyer Wins Nomination MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 10 (U.R Henry L. Olson, a former Flying Tiger who wants to "redeem "re-deem Minnesota of its reputation for isolationism," won the Demo- cratic nomination to congress from the ninth Minnesota district, near- ly complete returns showed today. Olson, as a member of the American voiumeer gruup m wurai and Burma, was shot down twice and wounded once. Several weeks ago, he returned to his home at Beltrami, Minn., after failing to pass a physical examination when the army took over the Flying Tigers. 000 Norwegian workers for labor in Germany instead of the 70,000 they wanted, because the workers work-ers prefer prison to slavery. More than 1,000 workers were arrested at the important Lista airdrome in southern Norway recently re-cently for opposing their nazi taskmasters, and 75 were arrested arrest-ed on sabotage charges at the Vaernes airdrome near Trond- heim. Advices to Norwegians here said that "go slow" tactics among men forced to work in Norway for the Germans had brought production pro-duction to the point of paralysis. British advices said a general strike was spreading among workers of Luxembourg, ., one of the world's 10 largest steel producing pro-ducing countries, despite nazi threats to execute those who refused re-fused to work. Yanks Look at London t ' &f ... V It a P? ' V. S. soldiers in the British Isles Once there, they do the things "visiting firemen" do the world over. Popular pastimes include feeding the animals at the London Zoo, above; singing their favorite songs at the Washington Red ' . Cross Club, below. - DU PONTS FACE INDICTMENTS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U.R) Two indictments, charging companies and 14 officjihl,with violating the ShernTrtanti-trust act in the manufacture and sale t a fedora, d ju at New. ark N j Attorney General Francis Biddie announced. The persons indicted included Lammont Du Pont, chairman of E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. Biddie said that at the request of the secretaries of war and navy, trial of the cases will be delayed until after the war. One indictment charged that the Du Pont Co., and the Rohm & Haas Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, engaged in a world wide conspiracy conspir-acy to suppress competition in and to monopolize the manufacture manufac-ture asid sale of acrylic products in the United States and in other countries. It alleged also that they were members of an international inter-national cartel which included I. G. Farbenindustrie, of Germany, Rohm & Haas, also of ""Germany, and Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of England. The foreign companies com-panies were not indicted. American Bombers Attack Tobruk CAIRO, Sept. 10 (U.R) United States middle eastern headquarters headquart-ers reported today that American heavy bombers have carried out another - attack on Tobruk, disrupting dis-rupting axis commiunications and damaging supplies. American headquarters said the attack was carried out in daylight yesterday. i head for London when on leave Baseball Today NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 330 100 Brooklyn 002 000 Warneke and Hernandez; Hig-by, Hig-by, Casey (1) French (2) an &wrn. Vauehn. homerun for Brooklyn in 3rd: one on. 1st game: Cincinnati 110 001 201 6 Boston 101 0-0 000 2 Derringer and Lamanno; Salvo and Lombardi. lsl game: Pittsburgh ...000 000 100 00 1 Philadelphia ..000 000 001 01 2 Hamlin, Dietz (11) and Phelps, Lopez (9). Podgajny, Hughes (9) and Livingston. St. . Louis 300 010 0 New York 000 000 1 Pollet and W. Cooper; Schumacher Schumach-er and Mancuso. 2nd game: Cincinnati 000 00 Boston ... 000 00 Starr and Lamanno; Sain and Masi. 2nd game: Pittsburgh . Philadelphia . .0 .0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston ... 001 001 1 Detroit 300 000 0 Hughson and Petacock; New-houser New-houser and Riebe. New York 0 St. Louis 2 WORKERS RETURN SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10 (U.R) An estimated 750 workers returned to their jobs in five war projects today after "quickie" walkouts called in protest against working on a state holiday , without with-out time and one-half overtime pay. JAPS WITHIN 44 MILES OF PORT MORESBY Still Advancing After Flanking Defenders At Two Points By DON CASWELL United Press Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia Sept. 10 (U.R) Japanese forces in their biggest land operation of the. War in New Guinea are only 44 airline miles from Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast, and are still advancing after flanking the defending Aus tralians at two points, it was an nounced today. At the moment the enemy troops, using their favorite infiltration infil-tration and envelopment tactics. are driving southward through the remainder of the Owen Stan ley mountains after crossing through the highest pass in the range, Immediately before them ; if they have not already reached It is the terminus of a road which ends in a mountain trail and leads direct to Port Moresby. Still Making Progress Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced an-nounced in a communique that the enemy were still making progress in a drive which appeared ap-peared now to have committed them to a frontal attack on strongly defended Port Moresby, which is only 375 miles from the northeast tip of the Australian continent. In an advance which started Aug. 27 from the Kokoda area just north of the mountains, the Japanese had broken through the high gap in the Owen Stanley range. They were now sneaking forward for-ward in infiltration tactics seeking seek-ing to envelop and overwhelm Australian detachments holding the formidable hills on the south side of the mountains. The enemy troops had outflanked out-flanked the Australians under Lieut. Gen. Sidney Rowell in the Myola lake district in the gap area. Then they had driven their way another 12 miles along the tortuous tortu-ous mountain trail to execute another an-other successful flanking movement move-ment at Efolgi. Efolgi is 8 miles from the Port Moresby side of the mountain moun-tain gap, and 44 airline and 53 road miles from the Allied base. Between ' them and the lower coastal country still lay several ridges rising to 4,000 feet or) rising to 4,000 feet or- I more. Allied planes were doing les were doing all to aid the ground they could forces, bombing and machine-! gunning troops supply lines and i.iiaUUu " " V1 1 Min river in Kukien province the mountains. Aug. 28 But only about three-quarters ' of a mile from Efolgi there starts The agency said the trans-a trans-a road which will take the enemy Ports were steaming south when steadily toward Port Moresby. . they were sunk, each carrying They had passed the most diffi- 2,000 men and supplies. The na-cult na-cult stretch of the mountain trail I tionality of the submarines was leading to it. ot specified. 9 Eye-Witness Describes Solomon Island Victory Editor's Note: The following United Press staff correspondent fleet, is the first revealed, martne'air-Vrces' victory over Islands area announced in a navy By ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent MARINE HEADQUARTERS, Solomon Islands, Aug. 28 (De-laved) (De-laved) UR At sunset today an American air patrol sighted four Japanese destroyers steaming full speed toward Guadalcanal. By dark one destroyer was at the bottom of the ocean, a second was burning, a third was heavily oam-r aged and the fourth was aueiuH in to pull struggling Japanese sailors from the water. For the 'second time within four days land-based navy and marine planes decisively smashed attempts by the Imperial Japanese Japan-ese navy to raid their recently lost Solomon Islands bases. Today's victory brought to nine Reorganization Of U.S. Agencies Is Recommended Baruch Submits Report Sharply Critical of Government Program; More Synthetic Rubber Production is Urged United Press Staff Correspondent By MERRIAM SMITH WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt's rubber investigating committee, headed by Bernard M. Baruch, Ba-ruch, today recommended national gasoline rationing as a means of conserving rubber. The committee also recommended "a complete reorganization reorgan-ization and consolidation of the government . agencies concerned con-cerned with the rubber program." The report, prepared at the request of Mr. Roosevelt, was sharply critical of government handling of the nation's supply, saying that "'consistency, cooperation between governmental gov-ernmental agencies, and adequate management have been lacking.' Committee Praised ' : : As the president transmitted the report to congress, he said in a statement that "recommenda tions made by the special committee com-mittee will be put into effect as rapidly as arrangements can be made." "It is an excellent report," the president said. The government owes a debt of gratitude to the committee members for the time, labor and efficient handling of this most important work." The committee recommended a substantial increase in the annual synthetic rubber production ca pacity, but said that there should be "no further substitutions in the plans for synthetic processes already laid down. It also recommended that Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board appoint a national rubber administrator who would have "full responsi-1 bility and authority for all as pects of the rubber program." Directly affecting civilian motorists, mo-torists, the committee recommended recom-mended : 1. A national speed limit of 35 miles an hour for all passenger cars and trucks. 2. A new gasoline rationing system based on an annual average aver-age mileage of 5,000 miles compared com-pared with the present average mileage per car of 6,700 miles. 3. Nationwide restrictions on gasoline and mileage. 4. Compulsory periodic tire in-( in-( Continued on Page Two) Allied Submarine Sinks Two Ships OHTTMnVTW! ?nt in IVPS The Chinese central news agency nn-ti tndav that allied sub- marSnp nk two Tananese trans- outside mouth of the dispatch by Robert C. Miller. assigned to the U- S. Pacific eye-witness account oi me navai nu Japane .warships in the Solomon - communique Aug. the number of enemy ships sunk or damaged by U. S. planes operating oper-ating from their new base at Henderson Hen-derson Field. Two transports, a Jintso class cruiser and three destroyers de-stroyers were damaged by hits or near-misses in a series of ,at- tacks Aug. 25. The Japanese air force also was (Continued on Page Two) RUSSIANS HOLD AS RAINS FALL AT STALINGRAD BY M. S. HANDLER Unltod Preas Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 10 (U.E The Germans opened a general attack on all sectors of the west and southwest approaches to Stalingrad Stalin-grad yesterday as the first of the autumn rains fell, but the Russians, Rus-sians, after giving up two occupied localities at the 'outset, were holding hold-ing today. The, first of the fall rains, after a summer that had baked tha steppes to the barrenness of a desert, gave hope to Stalingrad's tired defenders, because, if they I rnntinup Arinlf Hitlor'a VinrirvMia of may soon bound by muj. . The general attack opened early yesterday, dispatches said. The Germans began hitting on every sector with great tank units and with greater frequency. The biggest battle developed on a sector west of Stalingrad where the Russians repulsed two attacks and forced the enemy to retreat. Covered by dive-bOml2rs and fighters in groups of six and eight, the Germans resumed thefr attacks, with infantry and tank reinforcements. Russian fighter planes intercepted the German planes attacking Soviet positions and a village-1-the focal point of the attack. Again the Russians repulsed tank thrusts. Germans Regroup The Germans regrouped and threw 40 tanks against the narrowest nar-rowest point. Seven tanks broke throug'n, followed by infantry, but the Russians closed the breach, and cut off the Germans. Tanks again broke through, again followed fol-lowed by infantry. Although the Germans were subjected to violent vio-lent flank attacks, they forced the Russians to abandon two villages vil-lages and retreat to new positions. posi-tions. Fighting for the villages, however, how-ever, had been going on for sev-( sev-( Continued oa Page Two) War In Brief MOSCOW: Russians concede ---uu; new withdrawals on Stalingrad , south; nazls storm. into Novoros- sisk. Soviet bombers rata Budapest, Buda-pest, Germany. CAIRO: - British patrols . harry Rommel's ' still retreating army. Action relatively light, LONDON: Norwegian patriots schedule stay-in strike against nazi terrorism. LONDON: Churchill hints at Japanese fifth column in India; pledges keep Gandhi locked vp until trouble ends. MacARTHUR'S HEADQXJAR TERS: Japanese smash mountain barrier in New Guinea to advance within 44 miles of allied base at Port Moresby; - 477 Jap planes downed in seven months. |