OCR Text |
Show Tfce Weather Forecast for Provo and Vicinity: Little change in temperature this afternoon and tonight. Call The Herald It you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. Temperatures v v 28 ZS High Low FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 167 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE BROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILT SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS aw Proposal To Transfer Funds eets Objections M F D) Aw F oeirs M S w i Ire Atae Odd k Purchase of Government Securities To Retire Re-tire State Bonded Indebtedness Runs Into Legal Objections By JAMES O. McKINNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 (U.R) Legislative events marked time here today as both houses of the Utah legislature legisla-ture prepared to complete their organization, but Governor Herbert B. Maw's proposal, present in his biennial message, to purchase $1,695,000 in securities to retire the state debt, had met unforeseen difficulties. "I am hapvy to advise you that I have this date transferred trans-ferred the sum of $1,695,000 to the board of loan commission- ' &ers to retire those bonds," Maw BE HAT BY THE EDITOR A New York policeman arrested i World War veteran for sitting on a park bench and criticizing President Roosevelt and, the conduct con-duct of the war to another man in private conversation. A magistrate magis-trate sentenced the offender to 30 days in the workhouse. The appeals ap-peals court reversed the decision. That is good news. It proves vhat we still have the free speech for which, among other freedoms, we are fighting. So long as we are loyal to the United States and do not assist her enemies, we still -r.re privileged to express our dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with our hired men in public office and with the way they are carrying out our instructions instruc-tions to beat Hitler. We don't even have to be right. We have merely to be honest, patriotic and orderly. Which is as it should be. oOo A worried Negro walked into .the office of Frank Sturm, area J rent control officer, and asked if - anyone could tell him who his landlord was. "Your landlord," a clerk told him. "is the man you pay rent to." "I don pay no rent," the Negro said. "You see, 'bout nine years ago I found me a house, vacant and moved in. I been there ever since, and ain' nevef paid no rent." "Well, then,' 'said the clerk, "what are you worrying about? Yow have no complaint." "Yassuh, I knows dat. But if ' somebuddy don fix dat roof I'm gonna move out." oOo Out. of the Wise-crack Bag: Women may be smarter than men, but you never see a man buttoning button-ing his shirt up the back. ... A dancing master says many modern mod-ern dancers are too heavy on their feet. And not only theirs! . . . The people closest to you are hardest -to touch. . . . When you give folks who owe you money too much rope, they're liable to skip. OPA Director to Meet Retailers SK C Justin Stewart, head of the Utah OPA consumer division, will be at the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce Wednesday, January 20, to explain the wartime economy program pro-gram recommended by OPA for retailers. He will 'meet with the various TVrovo retail groups during the Stey, according to Clayton Jenkins, Jenk-ins, chamber of commerce secretary. secre-tary. The OPA economy plan calls for curtailment or elimination of certain services, such as .free deliveries, de-liveries, sales on approval, gift wrapping, lay-away and "will call privileges, style shows, etc. Mr. Stewart will meet with the retail groups , on the following schedule: ; ". " ' 9 :30 a. m. grocers ; 10 :30 a. m., clothing group, including men's, ladies', end dry' goods stores; 1:30 p. m., furniture stores, hardware hard-ware stores, tire shops, electrical stores,., paint , and sporting goods tores: 3 d. m:. sundry, including drug stores, jift stores, office sufp- ply stores; jewelry stores, and au others. . - , " ; '. ' said in his message Authorizes Transfer However, the state auditor and Oliver G. Ellis, state treasurer, seemed to agree that the funds could not be made available for this purpose without specific legislative leg-islative action. Ellis said the funds were to be made avalable from surpluses that had been acquired ac-quired in the state's liquor commission com-mission fund. The governor, in his message, authorized the transfer of these funds to the board of loan commissioners. com-missioners. Ellis said transfer of the funds would have to be made by first transferring the necessary amount of money rrom the liquor commission commis-sion surplus to the general fund and thence from the general fund for the specific purpose of purchasing pur-chasing these securities. Section 26 of the Utah Laws states as follows: "AH moneys received by the commission in the administration of this accounts including advertising, adver-tising, shall be paid to the state treasurer and credited to a special fund to be known as the liquor control fund." , Ellis said that this section of the law does not empower him to make any transfer of any liquor commission funds without specific legislative authorization. In addition to the $1,695,000, (Continued on Page Three) DUKE'S FRIEND IS IN CUSTODY WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 U.E Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that Charles Bedaux, friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, had been placed under arcegt in French North Africa. Hull made his statement in response res-ponse to a question at his press conference. He said he di.d not know the details. It was not clear whether he had been arrested by the Allied military mili-tary authorities or by the French civil authorities. No official information in-formation was available as to the charge. One report was that it was alleged he ,had traded with the enemy. Bedaux had been living- in France. It was assumed that he had gone to Africa at the time the Germans went into previously unoccupied France. Bedaux, in 1938, had attempted to arrange a tour of the United States for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Various labor ele-' ments were so critical of Bedaux, the inventor of a so-called labor efficiency system, that the tour never took place. Windsor did not visit the United States from the time of his abdiction of the British Bri-tish throne until a year ago last fall, after he had been appointed governor of the Bahamas. Legislators Voice Agreement With Governor Maw's Proposals SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 (UK) Utah senators and representa tives today were generally in agreement with proposals advanced ad-vanced yesterday by Gov. Herbert Her-bert B. Maw in his biennial message mes-sage to the Utah legislature. Without exception, comment by ; the legislators was favorable, although one or two did say the speech was too general in its, scope and they couldn't form a definite opinion until Maw presented pre-sented .legislation covering his points. Grant MacFarlane, D.. Salt Lake, president of 4 the j senate, said -"The ; governor's message contained a , complete interpretation interpreta-tion ! of acts and departments for the. past two . years. 1 5 except a great deal of senate- debate on the reorganization "program and Maw's legislative proposals and many . will approve ' of the need STEEL PLANT WORKER DIES FROM HURTS St. Louis Man Dies At Hospital Following Ironton Accident One of the four workers injured in-jured in a 40-foot fall from a scaffold at Ironton Tuesday was dead today and the three others wre reported resting as well as can be expected at the Utah Valley Val-ley . hospital, although in serious condition. Dead was Andrew E. Marchi, 34, formerly of St. Louis, living at a SpringvilJe cabin. He passed away Tuesday afternoon of severe se-vere head and body injuries and burns. The injured men are E. W. Bricker, 33, of Midvale; Arthur Bird, 18, of Mapleton; and Call Hanson, 23, of Denver. It was reported they were working on the outside of the boiler room of the powerhouse for the new blast furnace being installed in-stalled at Ironton when a portion por-tion of the scaffold gave way. They fell on a salamander being used to keep the bricks dry and two of the men suffered severe burns. The men were employed by Child Construction company. Mr. Marchi was born in May, 1908 at Buckeye, Ohio, a son of Leo and Antonette Cucelli Marchi. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary VirginO Marchi of St. Louis, Mo., his mother and two brothers, Leo . and Dory Marchi, Mar-chi, also of St. Louis. The body, under direction of the Claudin funeral home, will be shipped tonight, to St. Louis for funeral services and burial. Goal Miners Vote On Ending Strike WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 13 (U.R Nottingham local 311 of the United Mine Workers voted today to reject the war- labor board's order to end the 15-day work stoppage stop-page in the anthracite fields which has caused a severe shortage short-age of heating fuel along the eastern seaboard. The action, rejecting proposals that the miners resume work pending adjustment of grievances, was voted at a mass meeting at Plymouth. The local is made up of Miners employed in the Nottingham- mine of the Glen Alden Coal Co. The sub-district office of the United Mine Workers reported, however, that Repplier miners of the St. Clair Coal Co., the only mine struck in the southern fields, had voted to return to work. The mine employes about 500 men: SINGLE MAN NAMED TYPICAL FATHER JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 13 (U.R) George Natusch, 29, and his fiancee went to a party at the Young Men's Christian association and submitted their names in a drawing for Jersey City's typical father, typical mother, and typical child. Natusch, unmarried, was advised today that he was "Jersey "Jer-sey City's typical father." for the administration of relief on a need basis." W. R. White, D , Weber, house speaker, said "It was a very fine resume of the past two years, the governor's recommendations will be very carefully considered. Abel S. Rich, rx. Box Elder: "His speech as a whole was very well done." George Mi Miller, D., Carbon "It is impossible to determine the value of the reorganization program . at this : time. .However, the governor's speech, was. very pertinent to current probems and very much to the point. ' His welfare program is very commendable, com-mendable, and, I hope the legislature legis-lature gives' it very careful ,con-, sideration. , ' ' . House Minority-Leader Clifton Gw'M. Kerr, R., Box Elder: "It sounded fine like one of Presi- s (Continued on Page Three). - Tighten Your Belts: 1 0AL PftPENO'i $100,000,000,000 $100,000,000 onn r v.'.-:v:v:r.-:sv.v:-;-:v'-:v:-:v . .. ..v.v " ' 1 fiOtl l942 1943 1944yV v BILLIONS OF --r1 NONA , 'M Wfck WAR Am V I Inreretf. Etc.) '&f&V.' RECEIPTS PROPOSED NEW TAXES DEFICIT. (Adds ro Public Debt) (NEA Telephoto) Here's the biggest budget in U. S. history for the fiscal year of 1944. The chart shows where the nation's money will go. More than 100 billion bil-lion dollars will go for war expenditures and less than nine billions for non-war items. Below is shown where the money will come from taxes, other receipts and deficit. The deficifr may go to 100 billion before the year is over. STEEL PLANT ENGINEER DIES Clarence Burnham, 57, prominent engineer for Columbia Co-lumbia Steel company at Geneva, died this morning at the Utah Valley hospital of a heart ailment. . He came here from Chicago October 1, and. resided at 318 North Second East. He was born April 10, 1885, in Chicago, the son of Edward and Mary McGee Burnham. He received re-ceived his education in the Chicago Chica-go schools and Yale university, from which institution he .was graduated in 1906 as a civil engineer. engi-neer. He was marred to Edith Leonard, Leon-ard, June 14, 1916, in Chicago. He resided at Chicago until coming here. In 1926 he established the firm of Burnham and Burnham civil engineers, and had done engineering engineer-ing work in may parts of the world. He had been with Columbia Steel since last July. Mr. Burnham is survived by his widow, two sons, Clarence Jr., with the U. S. Marine corps overseas, over-seas, and Leonard, with the U. S. Navy, here at present on leave; one daughter. Sister Mary Hilde-garde Hilde-garde of Milwaukee, Wis.: six brothers, Raymond, Gerald, Nor-bert, Nor-bert, Harold, Julia and Donald Burnham, all of Chicago; two sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. Thomas McNally of Winnetka, 111., and Mrs. John S. Connors of Mansfield, O. He was a devout member of the Catholic church. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary this evening." On Thursday the body will be taken by his wife and son to Chicago for services and burial. aw to Uisit ; Japanese Camp .SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 13 UPJ GoVj. Herbert . Maw will visit the Japanese relocation center near Delta, Utah, . tomorrow and will attend a banquet and an organization or-ganization meeting for governing officers of the camp. He, will return re-turn tomorrow night. ' i Here's New Budget " . 4 4 $35,000,000,0001 $16,000,000,00(8 $58,000,000,00o! Marshall Remains As President Of School Board A precedent of many years standing was shattered when Dr. Milton Marshall, professor of physics at Brigham Young university, uni-versity, was re-elected president of the Provo board of education at the initial 1943 meeting of the board Tuesday night. For many years the presidency has. rotated each year, going to the board member serving the, last year of his term of office. However, Vernard Anderson, who ordinarily would have been elevated to the presidency, moved mov-ed from Provo and resigned last fall, and Merrill Christopherson was appointed to the board to complete his term, which expires at tlie end of this year. Mr. Christopherson was elected vice president to Dr. Marshall at Tuesday night's meeting. Dr. Marshall, who was re-elected a member of the board in December, De-cember, is beginning his sixth consecutive year. The board of education approved approv-ed appointment of Gwen Warner, Edna Culmsee; Laura Kump, Alta Christensen, Libby Hayward, Cleo Heavener, LaRue Jefferies, Mary Rogers and Leah Calder as new teachers. Releases for army services were granted Sherman Wing, LaVar Kump and Dale West, teachers, and Archie Chadburn, custodian. Dr. J. C. Moffitt, superintendent of the Provo district, reported on prices listed for land considered as possible sites for future school buildings. He also reported to the Jboard that the city commission has turned turn-ed over to the school board the costume house formerly operated jointly by the city, school, and WPA. A report by the superintendent showed enrollment is constantly going upward. ENGLISH TOWJf BOMBED LONDON, Jan. 13 (HE) Two enemy planes: bombed and machine ma-chine gunned a southeast coast town at dawn today. Many persons per-sons were injured. Rescuers are' digging out those trapped in debris. FOOD COST BOOMS . WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 U.R Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Per-kins announced today that; 1. the food : cost: index of the- bureau of labor statistics on Dec. 15, 1942, was 42, per, cent, above that of August; 1939, the month .before World War II began. -00 RUSS DRIVE TO 25 MILES OF SMOLENSK Powerful Thrust South From'Velikie Luiri Is Reported By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 13 U.R) Russian forces, in a powerful power-ful thrust southward from Velikie Luki, have advanced to within 25 miles of Smolensk, Smo-lensk, anchor point of the German defense system on the central front, dispatches reported today. Correspondents of the official Tass. News Agency reported that Soviet forces had captured Slo-boda, Slo-boda, 25 miles north of Smolensk. Sloboda is nearly 100 miles southeast south-east of Velikie Luki, major town near the Latvian border which' the Russians won two weeks ago. The Red army now was in position posi-tion to offer serious threat to Smolensk, ancient fortified town, 230 miles west of Moscow. While Red army forces advanced ad-vanced on the central front, other Soviet columns closed in on Salsk, key point in the Caucasus, 100 miles southeast' of Rostov. Driving down, the north Caucasus Cau-casus railroad from Kotelnikovski, Soviet troops were in contact with the Germans "at the last natural defense position" protecting the northeast approaches to Salsk, front report said. (Stockholm observers, believed the Russians had .reached high ground on the north bank of the Manych river, about 15 miles north of Salsk.' The Soviet noon communique reported that Russian forces swept through more villages and towns on the Caucasus and Don fronts during the night and battered back the Germans within Stalingrad. Stalin-grad. The Red army appeared gathering momentum to drive the enemy out of Stalingrad. Soviet shock troops, smashing German defenses in the northern industrial settlement of the Volga city, reached the western outskirts out-skirts of Stalingrad, while rear units, intensifying their pressure (Continued on Page Three) YANKS ISOLATE JAP POSITIONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 U.E i j ;T7lthe growing effectiveness of the eported today that I A1 . n 0 , The navy r several minor Japanese positions on Guadalcanal have been isolated by American forces engaged in small-scale offensive operations. The operations, aimed at eliminating elimi-nating enemy outposts, were described des-cribed in a navy communinue as "progressing satisfactorily." American bombers meanwhile continued their almost daily aerial assaults on Munday, hitting that Japanese central Solomons air base again on Wednesday (island time)!" On Monday (island time), an enemy plane dropped five bombs on American positions southwest of our Guadalcanal .airfield, killing kill-ing one man and wounding several. sev-eral. This was the first appearance appear-ance of Japanese aircraft over Guadalcanal in almost a month. -5- Six Americans, Broadcasting From Italy, Germany, Face Indictments WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (IIP) The justice department soon will indict for .treason six Americans who are broadcasting regularly from Germany and Italy, it was learned , today. They are Constance Drexel, Fred Kaltenbach, Douglas Chan-dler, Chan-dler, Jane Anderson, Ezra Pound and Robert H. Best who .has said he would be a presidential candidate. can-didate. They may never be brought to trial, but the indictment indict-ment will warn them , against trying try-ing to come back . to .the ' United States: '' --"'!-.V: -.' ' . ' Pound is a native of Halley, Idaho. . . - " A spokesman for the justice American War Planes Patrol Desert Trail Of Rommel's Forces Allies Catch Af rika Korps in Vast, Aerial Nut-Cracker, To Show Effectiveness of New Allied Air Command By DONALD COE United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 13 U.R American war planes, dogging the desert trails of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, destroyed 19 Axis aircraft in a lightning attack on Gastel Benito, 10 miles south Tripoli, today. The Allies had caught Rommel's forces in a vast aerial nut-cracker. From the west, big Flying Fortresses based in western Tunisia and Algeria flew to Tripolitania to blast the Axis troops, supply lines, and communications. From the east, planes attached to Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's British eighth army attacked repeatedly. Bomb Airdrome In the second day of heavy raids, the Allies bombed an important airdrome at Castel Benito. Flying Fortresses destroyed an entire row of buildings and at least five aircraft on the ground. Roaring away from this raid, the powerful bombers proved their toughness in a 75-mile running battle with German Messerschmitt fighting planes. Fourteen Mes-serschmitts Mes-serschmitts plunged to earth. Not a single American plane was lost. Long after his comrades had landed at their base, the pilot of one Fortress brought his limping ship home on two' of its four motors. Its armor had been pierced in several placee.' American pilots estimated that between 20 and 30 Messerschmitts attacked them. Some of the German Ger-man planes got through the escort of 0-38 fighters to shoot at the bombers. 0 Bombers of the Royal Air Force joined the American forces in attacking at-tacking Axis concentration points along the coast road running south from Tunis. Bisley bombers hammered at important road junctions along the coast south of Tunis during the night. These attacks were aimed at Axis supply lines that have been moving men and materials southward south-ward to join hard-pressed Italian and a few German troops in southern Tunisia. American B-26 Martin bombers attacked one very important objective ob-jective the high road bridge at La Hencha. between Sousse and Sfax. Today's operations demonstrated MitVVI A . VVlllllllAIiVI UllUVl Map. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, who was named chief of over-all air operations in North Africa last week. ENGLISH NEWSPAPER BLAMES EISENHOWER LONDON, Jan. 13 ILE The News-Chronicle said today that Lieut. Gen. DwigTit Eisenhower was responsible for public confusion con-fusion as to the. situation in French North Africa. Referring to the delay in the assault on Tunisia and the obscure ob-scure political situation in Algiers, it said, "This deplorable situation has been aggravated, if not actually provoked, by General Eisenhower." department admited that the in dictments are being considered. It was learned that one of the delays thus far has been whether, legally, the s six have committed acts of treason through broadcasts broad-casts In contrast to overt acts. Should the six ever be tried, the supreme court would have to decide de-cide that point The federal bureau of investi gation officially went on record as saying the six had been "under investigation, for several years," but there " was no ? comment from that source on ; the4 indictment. ' The, six broadcasters for 1 the axis are somewhat well known in the United States. t . Fierce Battles Waged to Seize Mountain Passes LONDON, Jan. 13 U.P Two fierce battle raged in south central cen-tral Tunisia today over mountain passes vital to the whole Allied campaign in Africa. ,-- . rr - In one, French units, strongly supported by the Royal Air Fqree. were trying to extend substantial gains made earlier at Karachoun, In the other, the French had surrounded sur-rounded Italian forces in a valley-and valley-and were exterminating, them.' '. The outcome was a strong indi' cation that the Allies had opened a determined campaign to take all the passes. If the Germans can win . control, con-trol, they can use the mountains, running north and south, .as, a cover for reinforcements and supplies sup-plies moving between Tunisia and Tripolitania. If the Allies 'win them, by a thrust to the southeast, they can prevent a junction of the Afrika Korps, in Tripolitania, and Col. Gen. Hans Arnim's Axis forces in Tunisia. The British Eighth army was ready for the climatic drive against the Afrika Korps. In fact, exchange telegraph agency heard radio Morocco broadcasting yesterday yes-terday that British tanks had al-already al-already opened attacks against enemy positions at Wadi Zem Zem, 165 miles southeast of Tripoli. BRITISH RAID RUHR VALLEY LONDON, Jan 13 (U.P.) The RoyaL Air Force struck at Nazi-held Nazi-held western Europe today with large formations which presumably presum-ably included bombers and fighters, fight-ers, after a bomber force blasted Germany's great war industries in the Ruhr valley last night. . British planes began heading across the Straits .of Dover.. in brilliant sunshine this afternoon and the first formations were seen returning from the direction of the French port of Boulogne. : " v Most of the aircraft flew so high it was impossible to -determine their types, but a number of low flying craft were identified as spitfires. The attack on the Ruhr was the seventh in 10 nights. Although the air ministry did not immediately reveal details, the raid - presumably presum-ably again was made by a small force of four-motored doubles. ' War In Brief By Uni ted Press 1 ' MOSCOW: Russian a rai l e s sweep through towns on Catt- casus fronts; troops smash to Stalingrad's western outskirts,."1 LONDON; Two battles rage in south central Tunisia . over ' Vital mountain passes.; ;. .. NEW DELHI: : Royal air force bombs Burma again. C ' I, HEADQUARTERS, ; SEVENTH U. S. AIR- FORCE, Hawaii ; Brig. Gen., Xa Verne . G. Saunders promises to blast Jap bases with Fortresses.,- . . t f y |