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Show SilM ' '"" " 1 ' v v Call The Herald The Weather Forecast for Provo and vtcUdty: tittle cluinse In temperature today to-day and tonighU '" f' It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 O'clock and a copy will be sent a, you. i J Temperatures: ' High ;....-. 83 Low ....... v . i 18 FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 164 teleoraph K.fc8, ' PROVO UTAH COUNTY., UTAH, JFRID AY. JANUARY 8, 1943 UTAH'S ONLT DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKKt PRICE FIVE CENTS y r " .vii i . ii i ,ii i . a in 'ill iii .. ,:-.. - . ii i : , ii i ,. f o- ill M : rm LEGISLATORS , ARRIVE FOR 1 943 SESSION Party Caucuses To Be Held Saturday In Salt Lake Bv JAMES O. McKINNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 8 (U.R) Vanguard members of the state's 25th legislature arrived here today to take part in the Democratic caucus cau-cus and Republican meeting to be held tomorrow. Gov. Herbert B. Maw has completed work on the text of his message, and indications were that he would deliver it before a joint session Monday afternoon. Organization of both houses election of new officers and selection selec-tion of employes will be completed com-pleted Monday mornine- before Maw makes his address. To Organize Monday Thev senate is composed of 17 Democrats and six Republicans, while in the house there are 38 Democrats, 21 Republicans and one vacancy. In view of the large Democratic majority in both branches, election elec-tion of officers on Monday will be a mere formality, as nominees selected at the caucases are usually usual-ly chosen. Political circles here believed that Grant MacFarlane, D., alt Lake, had the greatest support tor the senate presidency, while Rep. Val H. Cowles, D., Carbon, W. R. White, D.. Weber, and Grant Midgley, D., Salt Lake, were prominently mentioned for speakership speak-ership of the house. Maw, in his message, is expected to defend his state reorganization program adopted in 1941, ask for new legislation deemed necessary to smooth out unforeseen problems prob-lems and difficulties that the reorganization re-organization program has come up against since the last legislature, nnd urge the adoption of. needed tvartlme 1egislatl6h.' T ' - Among early arrivals In Salt (Continued on Page Six) DE HAT BY THE EDITOR Uncle Sam has received about eight million tires under the rationing-purchase J?lan that otherwise other-wise would have remained hoarded. hoard-ed. About half are in usable condition con-dition and can be resold to persons per-sons whose motoring contributes to the winning of the war. The others will supply reclaimed rubber. rub-ber. An interesting it not Important Import-ant sidelight is the wide range in productivity among different sections sec-tions Of the ' country. Around Denver and Omaha, almost every car owner had a spare tire. In Atlanta, Detroit, Jacksonville, about one in five had a sixth casing. In New York, where storage space is at a premium, only one in 14 had an extra tucked away. oOo Gasoline rationing, reduced mileage and slower speeds saved morethan 1900 lives in the month of October alone. With travel off something like a quarter, automobile automo-bile facilities dropped by 49 per cent. 4 , The nation-wide, extension of gasoline rationing to save rubber should bring even greater Improvement, Im-provement, though not proportionately., propor-tionately., Strangely enough, of 11 states in ' which deaths have been reduceH by more than 35 per cent in the- first 10 months of 1942, only five had gasoline ration ing. ' . . . -oOo , " Following a bombing in London, two storekeepers facing each other on a street . found their . store fronts blown ' out." . Next mgrning one of -them - had a large sign in - front" reading;' "Open as usual." , . '' t " v Shortly afterwards . the store owner on the opposite' side put up a still larger sign reading:, "More open than usual.! 1 - " C :When a girt sneezes it's a 'sign she's catching' a cold. When she 'VyVawns, it's a sign she's growing L cold. t . 'J - -' Nazis Menaced By 2-Pronged Russian Drive In Caucasus German Position Becomes Increasingly Desperate; Des-perate; Suffer Enormous Losses in Men and Material On Lower Don By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW, Jan. 3 (U.R) Russian forces smashed forward in two directions in their Caucasus offensive today, driving one spearhead to within 60 miles of Rostov- and the other 56 miles from Salsk, important Axis defense point. Gen. Nikolai F. Vitutin's two-pronged offensive was advancing ad-vancing from Bolshaya Orlovka, 73 miles due east of Rostov on the Sal river. One arm reached Strakhov, 63 miles east of Rostov, and the advance continued. The other drove into Martinovka, 16 miles east of Or-- lovka and 56 miles north of Salsk, the junction of the Stalingrad-Caucasus Stalingrad-Caucasus railroad and the Salsk-Rostov Salsk-Rostov line. Rostov Threatened i The German position was becoming be-coming increasingly desperate. Rostov, the gateway to the Caucasus, Cau-casus, was threatened by both of these drives, while a third Russian Rus-sian force was driving southward on the city, and another pushed in from the northwest. Northwest of Rostov, between the Stalingrad-Linkhaya railroad the staungraa-JUinKnaya raiiroaa radios broadcast reports of big-jkT big-jkT theJ s6trlnei arm of the' blfefH 'scale allied attacks Tth fri 1-1 Don bertd, small but strong enemy garrisons were being mopped up swiftly. The army newspaper Red Star reported particularly fierce fighting at the Valkovo rail station, sta-tion, 120 miles northeast of Rostov. Ros-tov. The re-occupation of 12 inhabited in-habited points in this sector yesterday yes-terday released Soviet strength for intensification of the Red army drive southward and westward. Soviet reports said the Germans were suffering enormous losses in men and material along the lower Don. A captured commander of a German infantry regiment said only 200 men of his unit survived, and that many of those were frostbitten. frost-bitten. A German regiment normally nor-mally includes 3,000 to 4,000 men. Lose All Equipment The commander said his regiment regi-ment had lost all its artillery and mortars. Although the Axis troops encircled en-circled in the Don offensive appeared ap-peared doomed, the enemy showed no inclination to surrender. Instead he was battling fiercely and frequently fre-quently counterattacking in a vain effort to halt the Russian advance. The Russians on the Don and the south-southwest . of Stalingrad Stalin-grad front were reported within less than 60 miles of Rostov, gateway gate-way to the Caucasus, and 40 miles from Salsk, junction of the Stalingrad-Caucasus railroad and the Salsk-Rostov line. Great German armies were fighting desperately agai n s t threatened destruction below the Don bend and in the Caucasus they were burning vilages, blowing blow-ing up bridges and mining roads, dugouts and block houses in a futile attempt to stop the Russians, Rus-sians, leaving picked men behind thm as sacrifice units. Capture 18 Stations The midnight communique announced an-nounced the capture yesterday of 18 railroad stations,, district centers cen-ters and other populated place-in place-in the lower Don and 40 inhabited places of various sizes in the northern-Caucasus. In the lower . Don region, the Russians took two towns during the night, the noon communique (Continued on-Pag Six) Drive Opens for Good Oopks For the Lien in the Service v Di J. C. Mof f itt, chairman of the Provo books for service men committee, today caUed for" cooperation co-operation of the public in the drive for new, ' good books for the' boys in camp. The ''victory book campaign' wiU continue throughout' January. . VThe Provo' ; library, will act as a depository on this renewed effort ef-fort for better books -new books, and bundles of "them the'- kind you would want - you son,- dad, brother,' or , sweetheart i to read if today or tonight he had an hour to relax, perhaps after an all-night Wf M TO? Big-Scale Attacks Started by Allies In Tripolitania By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 8 U.E) Axis nisia and Tripolitania today. Radio Vichy, controlled toy the Germans, said there was "exceptional "excep-tional activity" by Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's British Eighth army, near Misurata, 120 miles east of Tripoli. Radio Pans quoted German reports re-ports that British troops had contacted con-tacted Italian and German forces at several points along the Gulf of Sirte, just below JVIisurata, and said "it may mean the beginning begin-ning of a new offensive ty Montgomery-" The middle eastern command and Royal Air Force communique today, however, said there was no ground activity yesterday in Tripolitania. Tri-politania. But Alliedplanes of the middle eastern command were busier than they had been in days. Heavy bombers, fighter - bombers and fighters attacked targets in 'Sicily, off the coast of Tunisia, the ports of Tunis and Sousse, in Tunisia, and the retreating. Afrika Korps 40 miles east of Tripoli. Palermo Bombed Hits were cored on the harbor at Palermo, Sicily, and bombed sulphur factories at Licta, Sicily, blew up with heavy explosions.- Allied bombers scored hits on a depot at Tunis' during the night Wednesday and Thursday, and started big fires at Sousse, Where an Axis ship was reported hit. Lampedusa island,-between Malta and Tunisia, was attacked by bombers seteking. to knock out the airfield. Inasmuch as Allied fighters machine-gunned the Afrika Korps 40 miles east of Tripoli, it seemed evident tKatTMarshal Erwin Rommel Rom-mel t would not try to make a stand anywhere to the east. The London Daily Mail said the 'Axis had reported a large-scale British attack in Tunisia, but the Axis : claimed, as usual, ' that it was "repulsed." . Allied forces in Tunisia were expected to open an immediate drive to hurl the Germans and Italians from a pass that dominates domin-ates the approaches to Mateur, (Continued on Page Six) " devastating flight- over Germany," said Dr. Moffitt. Dr. Moff itt has sent . a letter to leaders of the service clubs asking their cooperation. . The men in the service have asked, for books. But . they want real honest-to-goodness books and not books so antiquated, they are of no value,' the chairman declared. "The soldiers are great . Americans. Ameri-cans. They'll give their life if necessary. ne-cessary. Will you give a good book?"-.- ' i" Books to be donated during the drive may be left at the. public library. Siiinik Gunner Gable Gets 7i v "- ' - - ' - v , '.. .-- X ( . $ Sl.' :sW 0 Q - - -f . -vwnf ..J-- - - Mai Lieutenant Clark Gable, lot. is prepared to receive his aerial gunner's flings tie -tahds at trttentfein MltH femted-iynj at-the Arniy Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Panama City, Florida. Roosevelt Receives Approval By UNITED PRESS President Roosevelt's state of the union address to congress con-gress was received with almost unanimous approval in the United States, with jubilation in the countries of our allies, because of its revelations of mounting American strength, and with amazing misinterpretations and distortions in the countries of t our enemj.es. A summary of world . reaction follows: e United St The Press: New York Times: "The message mes-sage left no doubt that complete victory, complete disarmament of the Axis powers, nd maintenance of the United .Nations' front to prevent any attempt at aggression is the central aim of the administration." admin-istration." New York Daily News: "The gist of the 1943 message was that the union is in as good a state as could be hoped for, all things considered." con-sidered." Baltimore Sun: "With his assurance as-surance that victory in the war is our first goal, and that victory in the peace ' is second, President Roosevelt stated the case as his countrymen in general must wish it stated." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The conciliatory attitude which the president displayed toward congress con-gress should help to promote national na-tional unity, x x x " The Scripps-Howard Newspapers: Newspa-pers: "His message, in content factual, held to the achievements and broad purposes that unite us all a people." Congress Republicans 4 House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr.: "It is very encouraging to realize that we have passed from the defensive de-fensive to the offensive x x x;" Sen. Robert A. Taft: "It was conciliatory and that ought to add to unity and create no dissension;" Sen. Warren R. Austin: "It was a great speech which will go down in history;" Senate Minority Lead-(Contmueu Lead-(Contmueu on rage Six) ; ' li; ..... . . " : . .. t - Five Children Die ImFarm House Fire EAST PALElSTTNE. O Jan. 8 ILE Five children were burned to death today ' when fire destroyed de-stroyed the farm house of Frank Boyle. - The children were trapped in a bedroom v by., the blaze which started from an .overheated stove, according to reports." The mother, and a 16-year-old son were burned-severely, burned-severely, when they attempted to rescue the victims. , ftfl w His Silver Wings I S.. - ' (NBA- Telephoto) Address n . m Americans uomD Japs in Solomon, Aleutian Bases WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 UJJ) American airmen again bombed Japanese bases in the Solomons and x Aleutians, the navy announc ed todax, but results of these lat est attacks were not reported A communique said that on Wednesday,' a force of Liberator heavy bombers attacked shore installations in-stallations at Kiskain the Aleu tians. Clouds prevented observa tion of results. In the Solomons, a Marauder two-engined bomber attackedxthe Japanese air base at Munda New Georgia island on Thursday (Island time). Results were, not reported. . I Munda is 180 nautical mile's northwest of our Guadalcanal airfields air-fields - : The attack on. Kiska occurred on the same day tthat a" Liberator bomber', scored a' direct and' twq near hits on a Japanese ship -185 miles southwest " of Kiska. This latter attack was reported Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The .day, before, North American B-25 bombers bombed and sank an enemy cargo ship 110 miles northeast of Kiska. , War In, Brief " PEARL HARBOR,: Major battle bat-tle appears to be in the making in southwest Pacific as Japanese mass one of the largest ship concentrations con-centrations of the war in Solomon Islands area. 'r GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEIAD-QUARTERS: HEIAD-QUARTERS: U. S. planes attack Japanese convoy in Huon gulf; sink two transports," damage a third - and - down or damage 27 planes.. . "' CAIRO: Allied 'Planes attack retreating Afrika Korps only, 40 miles east of Tripoli; raid Sicily and attack . Tunis . and ' Sousse . in ,uia. . , , . LONDON: British bombers raid Ruhr for - fourth time - in nine days. ' '. . . - , " . . All JAP CONVOY BLASTED BY ALLIED RAID Two Big Troop Transports Trans-ports Sunk In Air Attack By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia Jan. 8 (U.R) Allied planes from all over the New Guinea area hammered today at the remnants of a Japanese convoy, con-voy, after sinking two of its big troop transports, damaging damag-ing a third, destroying thousands of enemy troops and downing or damaging 27 protecting planes in a ferocious 24-hour attack. A communique announcing the attack implicitly confirmed Australian Aus-tralian assertions that the Japanese Japan-ese were massing ships and troops for a desperate offensive operation opera-tion somewhere in the southwst-south southwst-south Pacific zones. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported re-ported that one 14,000-ton transport, trans-port, fully laden with troops, and a second big transport had been sunk, and a third big transport hit direct with a 50-pouhd bomb In an attack which started Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon in the Huon Gulf off the north New Guinea coast, on a convoy comprising two cruisers, cruis-ers, four destroyers and four transports. 15,000 Wiped Out In his communique, one of the longest of the war, Gen. ' MacArthur MacAr-thur announced that the last remaining re-maining Japanese stronghold in Papua New Guinea, around San- aanda Point, 2 miles from Buna, had been completely enveloped by American and Australian troops and its garrison was doomed. Summing up the Buna cam paign, he said an army of 15,000 Japanese troops had been wiped out and 539 Japanese planes had been destroyed or damaged since the start of the fighting July 23. In addition, untold thousands of Japanese were killed in ships at tacked off the coasts. These in cluded six cruisers, 13 destroyers, one destroyer tender, two seaplane tenSers, two gunboats, 83 mer chantmen, and up to " 200 barges sunk, destroyed or seriously dam aged. Allied planes had destroyed nine Japanese transport, supply and warships for certain, and prob ably 10, in an attack Tuesday on Rabaul harbor, New Britain is land, 375 miles northeast of the Huon Gulf, which in turn is 150 miles up the New Guinea coast from Buna. Wednesday morning a lone American reconnaissance plane sighted the new convoy off Gas-, Gas-, (Continued on Page Six) DeGaulle Wants To Meet Giraud LONDON, Jan. 8 U.R) - General Charles DeGaulle, Fighting French leader, has demanded an immediate immedi-ate meeting with Gen. Honore Giraud, chief of the French political poli-tical and military forces in Africa, reliable informants said today. Replying to a proposal . by Giraud that the meeting be -held late this month De Gaulle inforpn ants said, insisted that th; discussions discus-sions on French supreme i leadership leader-ship should be discussed atbnee in view of 4 the urgent political problems, involved. Free Theater Tickets Offered to Children in Copper Scrap Drive Every school child . bringing a pound or more of copper to his school during the emergency cop per drive . .sponsored - January -Ills , by the theatres . will receive a free : ticket to , attend .a ; show" at the '. Paramount, Academy Scera, .Uinta or Strand theatres during the, week.. ; " IThe tickets will be distributed, by 'the teachers at the - schools after the copper has been brought in, according to John Krier, chair uu u lazuli uvy & & & TlTilODSp? ; Battle Equal In Size to Seen Dev One of the Greatest Concentrations of Jap Ships Since the War Started Now Gathering North of Solomons By FRANK TREMALNE United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES PACIFIC . FLEET, Pearl Harbor, Jan 7 (Delayed) (U.R) Japan is -concentrating a big naval-transport force in the south Pa--cific, and a battle equal in size and importance to Midway is developing, well informed quarters reported today. Unofficial reports said that one of the greatest concen trations of Japanese ships since in the northern Solomon islands New Guinea. The Japanese already had large forces in these areas. An informant said of the situation situa-tion today: "Both sides have been pumping up their tires and getting ready to go again. . (This dispatch was filed before Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced an-nounced a ferocious Allied plant attack, still continuing after 48 hdurs," ort an tenehiy convoy off New Guinea.) It was believed most likely here, on the basis of logic, that the Japanese Jap-anese were massing for a new blow against Guadalcanal island in the southern. Solomons, where the United States marines and army men . have now enlarged their area to more than 90 square miles, 18 miles along the beach and five inland. in-land. It was conceded that the enemy might be strengthening their New Guinea-Timor line, stretching westward from the northeastern to the northwestern Australian zones, in view of Gen. MacArthur's successes in Papua. A new thrust against Guadalcanal Guadal-canal would lead to a. repetition of the Nov. 12-15 engagement, and possibly might be of larger scale in view-of reports of the size of the Japanese force and the fact that the United States is constantly con-stantly increasing its forces throughout the world from its fast-moving production lines. In the Nov. 12-15 Solomons battle Japan lost 23 ships sunk, including a battleship and five cruisers, and . seven ships damaged, dam-aged, including a battleship and six destroyers. United States losses were two cruisers and six destroyers. (Though it was not . officially claimed, United Press dispatches from the scene left no doubt that the second battleship sank.) ' The navy would welcome the arrival in a battle zone of another crack Japanese fleet, as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander- in-chief in the Pacific, made it plain when he said: "So long as the Japs come down and offer themselves as targets we will be glad to accommodate them." Delta Resident Reported Missing Washington, Jan. 8 ujd The navy department reported to ll day that Seaman Second Class Preston J Lewis of" Delta, mah, listed as; missing in a navy casualty cas-ualty list Sept. 17, is now reported re-ported safe. &.... J I man of the war , activities committee com-mittee for the-motionplcture industry in-dustry in Utah county. Mr. Krier. listed a- few : of the Items made of copperas follows: Faucets;: iidor knobs, l armatures, electric ; wire . radios and tubes, copper ( cooking utensils, ash trays, door : ; knockers, flower pots, soap trays, copper etchings. electrotypes,' copper i toys, copper gaskets; v;:copperv.,,pipe, ';,- copper hammers, copper r flush balls. ; .' Midway eloping the war started is gathering! and at Rabaul northwe British Announce Destroyer Loss in north Sea Battle LONDON, Jan. 8 U.P Britain ' lost one destroyer and had a-sec-' . ond damaged in a blazing sea battle off tho northern tip ofV Norway in Which a German pocket battleship was believed to have been involved, the admiralty announced an-nounced today. " " The action occurred on the morning of Dec. 31 when a force of British destroyers was convoyt ing supplies to Russia over, the northern route. The destroyer Achates was sunk, the admiralty said, and the destroyer Onsldw ' suffered damage and casualties.' , The communique pointed out-" that the Germans have admitted that one of their destroyers of 4:. the Maas class was sunk in Hie ' battle. It added that damage had v bern done to a larger enemy ship. , , Despite the severe attack by what was described as superior enemy forces, the supplies destined des-tined for the Red army got safely safe-ly through to Russia, it was said. In addition to a pocket battle- -ship, it was believed that the axis fleet included a cruiser and sev-' eral destroyers. PAY-AS-YOU-GO. TAX FAVORED WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 U.fe President Roosevelt today expressed ex-pressed approval of putting ther country on a pay-as-you-go tax basis, but cited as a serious problem prob-lem any change-over which would involve the forgiving' of taxes al-: ready owed.. , . '. Asked at a press. conference for comment, on congressional discus- -sion , of some.- form of a pay-aa you-go: income tax plan,, the presi- dent said he thought we 'all favor . getting: on a pay-as-we-goibasisi particularly to Void the difficult- ies of accumulating i m on e 3f throughout a year, to pay,.; taxes on income being earned - at the -same time; . . - . - v The real problem, he said,' in changing over to such a' basis : is deciding whether to omit entirely the payment of a certain portion df; the present taxes owed the ' government. ' - . ' - " , To forgive a portion lOf.'. the taxes owed on the 1942. income,- her r said, would result in an. ultimate loss to the treasury. . , C ! -: " Newspapermen asked when. such a loss would become .evident' if the pay-as-you-go system were con- tinued indefinitely. Mjv Roosevelt replied that . the , loss would not show immediately, but thatr'ultl-mately, thatr'ultl-mately, sayjin a ; period of ; ten yeaiit.woiild4'-rvi: -V Tire -six newADemocratlcCxnem- ; bers, of the house, ways, and mean's committee 'expressed: at willingness and. desire, to investigate the" Various Vari-ous pay-as-you-go proposals soon. ! None voiced - opposition y to ine idea i ' 7,f, |