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Show - i - The Weather Provo and vicinity: little change in temperature today; fcllghtly cooler tonight. Temperatures: High 67 Low 80 Call The Herald if you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 can 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be cent to you. ,,, . FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. aiOgB Tlll PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY HOCTH OP SALT LAKK PRICE FIVE CENTS Who Wants These Shipyard Workers? . ' - " - ' , Trps Rcptolsc Japamicse Ion a . . n i? n n n n n K Au Eft. " i 1 S I W i I I uiMiiaiMW : ::: ,tkMlHM44flEHHWMHWMMW:::;:: Their jail sentences for intoxication suspended, these men line up at Los Angeles while Major Fred I Coggin, Salvation Army, signs them up for work at the Henry J. Kaiser shipyard at Richmond, Cal. Richmond Police Chief L. E. Jones, however, commented, "We have plenty of drunks ol our own. and I don't see why Los Angeles has chosen to increase the problem." DESK CHAT There are many differing theories theor-ies as to the measurement of this country's manpower crisis. They range from the theoretically ideal the ratio-of-workers-to-soldiers idea to the pessimistically practicalthe prac-ticalthe that's - all - there -is, we've-got-to-stop thesis. E. A. Locke, Jr., Donald Nelson's Nel-son's assistant, sums it up this way. Normally, there are about 53,000,000-- gainfully - employed workers. Next year we shall need a minimum of 50,000,000 for essential es-sential industries and services, plus he says "perhaps up to 12,-000,000" 12,-000,000" in uniforms. That calls for nine millions of new workers. Mr. Locke says that the normal 12 or 13,000,000 women in industry must be stepped step-ped up to about 20,000,000, which would leave about 2,000,000 men to be provided. We hope Mr. Locke is not over-optimistic. over-optimistic. We would hate to have any large bet that we shall get "by as easily as that. The filthiest gutter in town Is right in the heart of the business district, west side of University Avenue between Center street and First North. We haven't heard of any water shortage, but one look at this gutter makes you wonder if there is one. Geneva Works influx brings changes more women on the streets wearing slacks . . . Shortage Short-age of hired help compels closing of cafes one day a reek. . , . More women smoking . . . the housing shortage (you've heard about that one before) . . . more money in circulation and less stuff to buy. CITY APPROVES SEWERDjSTRICT A motion adopting the recommendation recom-mendation of E. A. Jacob, city engineer, for establishment of a new sewer district. No. 27, was passed by the Provo city commission commis-sion Thursday. Thr commission authorized I. G. Bench, city recorder, to have published the notice of intention and notice to contractors. According to Mr. Jacob, the proposed district covers 15,400 front feot, mainly in subdivisions in northeast and northwest Provo.- Total estimated cost of the district dis-trict is $36,000. Cost per lineal foot to the property owners will be $2.35, which is considerably morr expensive than previous sewer projects, constructed by WPA labor. There 4s no WPA labor available now, Mr. Jacob said. The sewer will average about nine frt deep, and the pipe will be six to 12 incrnes. MAY POOL BUSSES WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 UJ Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman said today that ODT may find it necessary to transfer idle busses, and possibly pos-sibly taxicabs, from uncongested cities to war-boom areas.- S - f , 1 w ALLIES MASS FOR ACTION AT LAKE CHAD By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Allied offensive plans today to-day held the center ,of world interest with the foeus of attention at-tention fixed on Africa. The Russian front was heavily ..bogged bj autumn rains and mud, and Stalingrad Stalin-grad winter snow'3, were sweeping the frigid steppes and increasing the hardships of Nazi troops already Close to exhaustion after nearly two months' stubborn stub-born fighting. , In the Far East the Solomon islands were the center of the heaviest battling, but there was no fresh news of the progress of the "effort of American forces to fend off the heaviest Japanese attack at-tack yet launched. Darlan At Dakar From both Allied and Axis sources a steady stream of news and rumors emanated concerning Africa and the possibility that the initial phase of the comhi; Allied attack would strike there. Admiral Jean Francois Darlan arrived at Dakar by plane after a hurried air trip from Vichy, the Nazi radio in Paris reported. He was expected to inspect French defenses at the West African Afri-can base where considerable army and navy reinforcements have recently re-cently arrived. It also was reported re-ported that he planned to make a speech to reassure the populace. A British newspaper report from Vichy, by way of Madrid, asserted that a major American and fighting French force had assembled at Lake Chad in French equatorical Africa, fully equipped with tanks, planes and tractors for a push across hundreds of miles of desert into Libya. May Push North The central African force was said already to have surveyed desert tracks for a possible push to the north. The Tokyo radio suggested that an Allied ofensive into Burma alight also be in preparation now that the rainv season in that pat of the world has come to an' end. American Flying Fortresses were reported to have destroyed nine Nazi fighters in their daylight day-light attack on Jthe Nazi submarine subma-rine base at Lorient and an airdrome air-drome near Cherbourg yesterday, ia, which three of the big Boeing bombers were lost. Nazi aircraft made a series of (Continued on Page Three) Hearst, McCormick, Coughlin Dlamed For Obstructing Second Front Plans MOSCOW, Oct. 22 U.R Vladimir Vladi-mir Krushkov, secretary of the Soviet information bureau, today accused William Randolph Hearst and Col. Robert H. McCbrmick, American newspaper publishers, and Charles , E. Coughlin, radio priest, of obstructing the opening of a second front. Writing in the fortnightly publication, pub-lication, "The Propagandist," Krushkov bitterly attacked the "Munich Party" in the United States and Great Britain, which, he said, was opposing the second front. In the frankest Russian dis now PROVO FLIER IS IN ACTION Dean Mendenhall, U. S. Bomber Pilot Lost In Alaska Lieutenant Dean Mendenhall, Menden-hall, of 259 South Fifth Bast street, Provo, bomber pilot in the u. S. air corps, is missing in action since October 16 somewhere in the Aleutians, according to information contained in a telegram received from the adju tant general this morning by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mendenhall. Lieut. Mendenhall participated in a raid by long-range bombers on Kiska, Japanese-held "base in the Aleutians, about October 12, sinking two Japanese destroyers. In the newspaper account of the raid it is stated that "one of our bombers failed to return." It is surmised that this plane, a B-26, Martin bomber, was the plane piloted by Lieut. Mendenhall. Missing In Action , The telegram from the war de partment reads as follows: "The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regrets that your son. Second Lieutenant Dean Men-denhalL-Airr Corps, ,Jaaa - been, reported re-ported missing in action in Alaska Alas-ka since Oct. 16. Additional in formation will be sent you when received. The Arjutant General." Lieut. Mendenhall was considered consid-ered one of the best of the young fliers to enter the air corpst and possessed a remarkable aptitude for flying, according to his instructor, in-structor, who called him "a natural." natur-al." He graduated far ahead of most of his classmates, and was assigned to action three weeks after his graduation. He was a first pilot aboard his bomber at the time of his last flight. Forced Landing Possible There is still hope that his plane could have been forced to make a forced landing somewhere on one of the uninhabited islands in the bleak Aleutians. In that case it might be weeks or even months before he and his crew would be heard from. This theory is supported by the fact that the dispatch telling of the raid, stated that the fliers met no enemy opposition, op-position, although one of our planes failed to return. He was born in Payson, Sept. 2, 1919, a son of Harvey and Sarah' Alexander Mendenhall. The family fam-ily moved to Springville in 1926, and Dean attended oublic schools (Continued on Page Eight Californian Dies In Auto Accident Near St. George ST. GEORGE, Utah. Oct. 22 (UJ?) Louis Wensel, 58, Bell City, Cal., was killed last night when his automobile went out of control con-trol on Black Ridge, 28 miles north of here on U. S. highway 91, and plunged over a 125-foot embankment. embank-ment. Oren Squires, Utah highway patrolman, said the car overturned over-turned twice. Wensel's body was found 90 feet from the car. The patrolman said Wensel was returning to Bell City after a deer hunting trip in southern Utah. S cussion of the second front to date, he named Lady Astor, American-born member of parliament, and Capt.1 Bernard Acworth, naval correspondent for several British newspapers, -as leaders of the British wing of "the Munich Party." Par-ty." "We must note that the American Ameri-can press speaks more, energetically energetic-ally for a second front than the British," Krushkov wrote, "but in the United, States there are also people who sympathize with the Munich, men in England.- People like Hearst, Coughlin, McCormick (Continued on Page Three) MISSING wi els mi muadallcainian UslJg I 4 ; . : . Missing LT. DEAN MENDENHALL ' Stimson Reveals After Tokyo Raid WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 UJ4-Secretary UJ4-Secretary of War Henry L. Stim son revealed today that four- U. amen. were tmiss bombing raid on Japanese cities led by Brig Gen. James H. Doolit- tle last April 18. The names given by Stimson corresponded to those broadcast by Radio Tokyo in a report that captured participants in the raid were being punished for "inhumane" "inhu-mane" conduct. The secretary of war recalled announcements by the war department depart-ment and Doolittle a month after the raid that no American planes were downed in Japan. He added, however, that he understood un-derstood some of the planes encountered en-countered bad weather after leaving leav-ing Japan and were forced off their course. Some, he said, may have been forced down in Japanese-controlled territory by lack of gasoline. "One landed in Siberia," Stimson Stim-son recalled, and "several others made forced landings at night in China." Doolittle led 79 other airmen in the raid, the objectives of which included Tokyo and other large Japanese cities. The bomber crews, Stimson said, were instructed to attack only military objectives and subsequent reports, he continued, indicated they did so thoroughly. Stimson gave the following list of American fliers missing after the Tokyo raid: Corp. Jacob D. Deshazer, Mad-res, Mad-res, Ore. Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kan. 1st. Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex. 1st. Lieut. William Glover Farrow, Far-row, Washington, D. C. FOUR INJURED IN RAIL WRECKS Four trainsmen were slightly injured and at least three train cars were damaged in two Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad accidents at Lehi and American Fork, respectively, early this morning. Oddly enough, the accidents occurred oc-curred within three minutes ot each other, the one at Lehi occurring occur-ring at 3:25 a. m. and the one at American Fork at 3:22. At Lehi, passenger train No. 12, going south, headed onto a siding, striking some idle cars, damaging the engine and baggage car and injuring Engineer D. J. Rowe slightly. Another engine and baggage car were transferred to the passenger pas-senger train, which went on after a delay of some time. At American Fork, two freight trains going north were pulled onto a siding to let other trains pass. The second train pulled in a bit too far and hit the caboose of the first train. The caboose was smashed and it caught fire, being practically demolished. Slightly injured were W. R. Wright, conductor: F. D. Hoffman, engineer; and D. J. Attaway, brakesman, all of Provo. J '-'-" ' ' 'S I , - - M - v"J. ' "- ' : Four Hen Hissing REDS PIERCE 2ND GERMAN DEFENSE LINE Timoshenko's Forces Capture Important Hill Today By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Oct. 22 U.R) Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's Timoshen-ko's forces, driving through the first blizzard of winter on the desolate steppes northwest north-west of Stalingrad, captured an important hill today and penetrated the second German Ger-man defense line, battlefront dispatches dis-patches said. The Soviet noon communique, not mentioning a single German advance, said that Timoshenko's men had stormed Into enemy trenches and killed 200 Germans in hand to hand battle. Snow now was drifting on the steppes northwest of Stalingrad, frontline dispatches said. Normally Nor-mally the blizzards that roar over the steppes Which are among the coldest areas in Russia, do not begin until late November. The roads inside Stalingrad had turned into bogs by days of continual rain. A bitter wind. whipping across the Volga, num-bad num-bad the Germans whose attacks against an industrial sector in northwestern Stalingrad were becoming be-coming weaker and weaker. Nazis Near Exhaustion Red Star, the Soviet army organ, or-gan, said the Germans were hearing hear-ing exhaustion at Stalingrad, and had only enough strength left to attack on narrow sectors one at a timr. Another resounding Russian succesa was reported from the western Caucasus. There, after 10 days of hard fighting, the Russians Rus-sians had stopped 45,000 Germans trying to brraJc through on a mountain road, and killed at least 4,000 of them. Every attack the Germans delivered de-livered inside Stalingrad was beaten off with heavy losses. The Russians, seizing the initiative yesterday, had swept the Germans Ger-mans from several houses near a vital factory fortress in the northwest north-west part of Stalingrad. More than 72 hours have passed pass-ed without the Germans making a gain. This was the 59th. day of the siege of Stalingrad, which thf Germans believed they would take six weeks ago, and Which (Continued on Page Three) Utah Ace Honored At Jaycee Dinner "This certainly is a proud moment mo-ment of my life ... I can't thank everyone enough for treating me so royally . . It is a genuine thrill to come back to Utah . . ." These comments typified the brief address of Chesley Gordon Peterson of Santaquin, major in the United States air corps in England and former commander of the famous Eagle squadron of tlhe R. A. P. at a banquet given in his honor Wednesday night by the Provo junior chamber of commerce. com-merce. Speaking with characteristic sincerity, the 22-year-old blond Utah county youth who has made 110 sweeps across the English channel, downed nine enemy planes and probably six more, and ihas moved into the international spotlight as a war hero, said he had been greatly honored in having hav-ing the opportunity to serve with men of the caliber of those fighting fight-ing overseas. He epoke of meeting many Utahns in England, mentioning, especially G. Ott Romney, former B. Y. U. athletic director and now chief supervisor of club and recreation rec-reation work on the British Isles for the Red Cross; and P. W. Madsen Jr. of Provo, now with the U. & air force in England. Clyde R. James, president of the junior chamber, who was master mas-ter of ceremonies, presented to Major Peterson a Jaycee pin and a "key man" award "fior the international service you have rendered.' 4TrtfW Mr. Peterson's parents, Mr. and (Continued on Page Three) Two U.S. Destroyers Sunk By Japanese In Solomons Battle Battle Raging: For Control of Air in Guadalcanal Guadal-canal Islands; Jap Cruiser and Destroyer Reported Damaged By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U.R) American fliers today-were today-were harassing small Japanese naval task forces prowling near supply lines in the southern Solomons, as both sides were revealed to have suffered new naval casualties, including includ-ing the loss of two American destroyers. The big enemy counter-offensive for Guadalcanal has not started, but the main Japanese invasion fleet remains menacingly in the northern Solomons. The empnasis Jn the battle of Lee Going Ahead With Prohibition Rider, Draft Bill WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 (U.R) Sen. Josh Lee, D., Okla.. today told the senate that defeat of his amendment to the 'teen-age draft bill to ban sale of alcoholic beverages bev-erages to army and navy camps would "fan the flame for national prohibition." "This ..,.. a-, varymikl aaasure and yet its passage would take away the best argument the so-called so-called "'dry' forces have," he said. "To refuse its passage will, I feel sure, result in fanning the flame for national prohibition." Lee spoke during debate on the bill, to lower the draft age to 18, after having the clerk read his amendment, although it was not formally before the senate. He said he had stricken out a prohibition against . vice in the vicinity of army camps because this authority author-ity already has been voted in a previous bill. "Either there is a consumption of liquor in and around the military mili-tary camps or there is not," Lee said. "If there is, it should be prohibited pro-hibited in the interest of military efficiency as well as health and morals. If there is not, then there should be no objection to the passage of this amendment." Lee denied that introduction of the amendment was "a suddenly ill considered move." He served notice of it last June 4, he said. Furthermore, he added, the language lan-guage of the amendment is almost identical with part ofthe first draft law passed by congress following fol-lowing the declaration of war in 1917. s- fa 4- MAJ. CHESLEY G. PETERSON " . I " - ' ) ' V G 1 the Solomons still remains on the fight for control of the air over Guadalcanal. Japanese and American Ameri-can airmen are exchanging daily blows over the vital airfield there. The navv disclosed last night that the United States lost two comparatively pew destroyers the Meredith and O'Brien "within "with-in the last few days as a result of enemy action." Jap Ships Damaged It also announced that a Japanese Japan-ese cruiser and a destroyer were damaged by American bombers. The cruiser was 'stopped by at least one bomb hit." American ship losses in the &oiomons now stand at 12 war ahlns and auxiliaries sunk. Japanese Jap-anese losses are 10 sunk, three Drobably sunk, and 46 damaged. Damage to American ships has not been announced. It was not disclosed how the destroyers were sunk. The only action of American surface vessels ves-sels reported in more than a week was on last Saturday (Solomons' time.) Then U. S. surface vessels shelled enemy positions on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal Island, scoring hits on ammunition ammuni-tion dumps. There was no indication indica-tion that the O'Brien or Meredith (Continued on Page Three) CHILE TO BREAK WITH THE AXIS SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 22 (U.E) President Juan Antonio Rios completed his new cabinet today and issued a manifesto indicating that Chile would break relations with the axis soon. Chile and Argentina are the only South American nations maintaining diplomatic ties with the axis powers and the cabinet's resignation was forced Tuesday after newspapers and political parties, following a recent speech of United States Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, demanded demand-ed that Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's policies.be repudiated. repudi-ated. ' The new . cabinet, completed early today with the selection of Joaquin Fernandez as foreign minister, min-ister, was marked with a decidedly decided-ly more liberal hue than its predecessor. pre-decessor. Observers believed it would have a definite tendency to vote an immediate break with the axis. War In Brief DURBAN: South African press predicts Africa will be battleground battle-ground of next Allied offensive against Axis. VICHY: Admiral Jean Francois Darlan flies to Dakar, where French garrisons have been- tripled. trip-led. LONDON: King George signs proclamation calling 18-year-old Britishers to colors. MOSCOW: Soviet . official cliarges American and British elements with obstructing second front efforts;' continued rain and snow aids Red army to strike back strongly against Germans at Stalingrad and in Cacuasus. PEARL HARBOR: Marine fliers returning from Solomons voice confidence in ability of U. S. forces to hold out against Japanese attack. GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS: HEAD-QUARTERS: Australians in New Guinea advance on Owen Stanley mountain trail; bombers attack Japanese bases in southwest Pacific. NO CHANGES REPORTED IN SOLOMON WAR American Fliers Continue Con-tinue Bombardment Of Jap Troops WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 U.P.) American troops repulsed re-pulsed a minor Japanese attack at-tack against our western flank on Guadalcanal, the, navy announced today. The action occurred on Oct. 20 (island time), the navy said in a communique, adding that it had received no report of any change in the military situation situa-tion in the Solomons. Meanwhile, American fliers continued con-tinued their relentless bombardment bombard-ment of enemy troops and supply concentrations on GuadalcaaL On the nightof Oct. 20-21, an enemy bomber believed to have been on a reconnaissance mission. was shot down over Guadalcanal by anti-aircraft fire. The communique gave no other details on the Japanese thrust gainst our western positions on Guadalcanal, but it was believed to have been in the nature of a "feeler." The communique made no mention men-tion of any naval or other aerial I activity in the Solomons. - ;-- , Ts The destruction of the Japanese bomber raised to 353 the number of Japanese aircraft blasted by our forces since the Solomons campaign began on Aug. 7. Hitler Campaign Has Failed in Chief Objective BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE Of the United Press War Desk The news from the Solomon Islands still is highly inconclusive - hilt from Russia it- to HaflnltnUr o It now can be stated flatly that Hitler's 1942 campaign has failed fail-ed in its thief objective, that of crushing the Russian army. Further, Furth-er, it seems that he may not even be able to take Stalingrad, nor the Grozny oil fields, nor the Black sea ports. The latter, of course, is not certain. Hitler is going to have to win or lose the war in Russia and maybe he senses that if he doesn't do it this yea.r he is finished. fin-ished. The time Is cettinc short. Th rain and mud which precedes the Russian winter already have arrived ar-rived in the Stalingrad area and Soviet dispatches indicate that the force of the German attack has been slowed. It is possible that Hitler will take the desperate desper-ate resort of throwing in the last of his reserves in a win-or-loae throw of the dice. Hitler is estimated to have put about 200 divisions, or approximately approxi-mately 3,000,000 men, into Russia this year. About half of them are in the south. He has, according to American Amer-ican military sources, 25 to 30 divisions di-visions in 'reserve in southern Germany. If Hitler brought up these , reserves, re-serves, he might have a chance of tipping the scale and accomplishing accom-plishing his Volga and Caucasus urrklllri hflVd tr Hurrv anH tVi 41t ance and transportation difficulties difficult-ies are great, ' V.-If V.-If Hitler settles down for static winter in Russia, he is faced with the ' virtual certainty of an alliMf nffpnmvi aarlv in IMS ' if not beore. VI 111 U 1V111CU 111 Truck Accident KAYSVTLLE, Utah, Oct 22 HUPS Funeral services will be eon-ducted eon-ducted in Ogden Saturday for four . and one-half year old David Da-vid Katsuji Nlnomiya, wio was crushed to death beneath t2ie wheels of a truck her Tuesday. The youngster fell from the; running board of a truck being operated; on the family farm by Ms parents. Mr. and Mrs. Tom T. Ninomiya, Kaysville. |