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Show ED W CE if PlQJfTifWfui Hi The Weather For Provo and vicinity: Continued cold this afternoon and tonight with minimum temperature to night near -S degree. Temperatures: High 29 Low 1 Call The Herald 11 you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before vclock and a copy will be sent to you. . . liH FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 170 COMPLETE UNITED PRSS3 TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS J , S ILJI - r 9 Yanks and ; jrTiu-'iT' r'M A v- ;-' -x' ' --; ?A'r &S&fiy3K - - ' " W MP : v ' m" 1 American solHiers somewhere in China are as great an attraction to the Chinese as are the sights of that ancieat land to the Yanks. Trim Chinese policeman, upper left, is object of interest to both U. S. sergeants and native tot. Uncle Sam's boys in jinrickshas, upper right, draw big crowd as they roll down a village street. Bomb shelter carved out of solid rock at the base of a hill, lower left, is a top attraction for sightseers. And there's a touch of the old China in the pagoda being passed by another group of soldiers, lower right. DE HAT BY THE EDITOB There is a theory that unionization unioni-zation promotes war production by making it possible for government govern-ment and management to deal with responsible leadership on behalf be-half of labor. Organized labor, through its officials, should have a bigger voice in government for this reason, the argument runs. , Well, some 23.000 hard coal miners are out on strike at a time when oil shortages threaten hundreds of thousands of northeastern north-eastern householders with bitter hardship. A major cause is an in-side-the-union battle over a dues increase, although the union already al-ready has millions in its tills. The miners' union is headed by the most forceful of all union "leaders," John L. Lewis. What is he going to do on behalf of the public and the war effort? What can he do? Colonel Nakao Yahagi tells Japanese farmers that 1943 will determine "whether we eat our enemies or our enemies eat us." The colonel is correct, technically. This year has somewhat the same significance in the Orient that 1942 had in Europe. Hitler had to win last year or never. He did not. Now he never cah. Hirohito must win this year or never. He will not. The difference is that 'Hitler might, possibly, have won the war in his critical year, but that Hirohito Hiro-hito cannot. It is only a matter of time before the United Nations totally destroy Nippon as a factor in world affairs "Congress Buried in New; Tax Plans" headline. We'll be righ with them starting March 15 . .; . plenty of friends are glad to cling to you for all you are worth ; . ' SK G China Look Each Other Over ,V V- ti2S Provo Population Jumps to 23,500 The tremendous influx of steel project workers has boosted Provo's population more than 5000, increasing the number of residents from the 18,071 of the official U. S. census in 1940 to approximately 23,500, according to an estimate by Clayton Jenkins, sec- & i c tin y oi uie rruvu uiiauiuei ui CMrne Jenkins, who worked out his estimate after careful study. i C A 1- V- t takes exception to an estimate by the department of employment se- curity of the state industrial com- mission at Salt Lake City which lists the population gain for the whole county at only 4396. The 4396 figure is too conservative conserva-tive even for Provo city, not to mention the whole county, Mr. Jenkins declared. Mr. Jenkins prepared his estimates esti-mates for inclusion in the national magazine, Sales Management, published at New York City. The figures were ' forwarded to the magazine today. He presented two estimates of Provo's population. One of these, based on school census figures, was 23,492; the other based on number of dwelling units, was 23,677. "I suggest you take the first figure, 23,492, or a round number of 23,500" Mr. Jenkins wrote Sale Management. The secretary, in arriving at his first estimate, showed that the school census gained 1013, or 20.2 per cent 1942 over 1940. "Many single and unattached men (work ers at steel plants) and families without children have also moved into Irovo. Therefore, the estimated esti-mated I total population increase 1942 over 1940 is 30 per cent," Mr. Jenkins said. This would mean, an increase of 5421 and would bring the total to 23,492, as already stated. . Using dwelling units as another basis, Mr. . Jenkins, taking official offi-cial reports in most cases, figured figur-ed as follows: The iU. S. bureau of census showed 4617 dwelling units in Provo in 1940 of which 274 were vacant. New residences built in 1941-42 as per building permits issued by Provo city totaled 283. The 274 plus 283 totals 557 addi-tional addi-tional units all now occupied, and this multiplied by 3.98 (medium size all families in Provo) -totals 2216 people. , ' . . , t Mr, -Jenkins estimated ' an in-( in-( Continued on Page Three) i 3 t t II a I t I It I L U U M I U I R L ft I TO IM PIOT lllr'A HKH U1LU 111 IIIIIb LOGAN, Utah, Jan. 18 (U.R) A 14-year-old girl was killed and her father and sister severely burned in a fire which consumed the second floor of their two-story two-story home yesterday. Dead was Lillian Evelyn Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas CL Jones of Logan. She was trapped trap-ped in her bedroom by the flames. Treated at the Cache Valley hospital for severe burns were her father and a younger sister, Genevieve Mary, 11. The younger girl also suffered severe bruises when she landed face first on the frozen ground after jumping out of her second story bedroom window. Jones was burned wlrile attempting to make his way up "a flaming staircase to rescue the two girls. Jones told Cache county firemen fire-men that the fire apparently started from an overheated stove pipe passing through the ceiling of the first floor to a brick chimney chim-ney above. He said he made a fire in the stove nearly an hour earlier and had returned to bed. -S- First Gold Snap of Season Brings One Above irr Provo Central Utahns, who for weeks have been enjoying . "spring ; in January" weather, . today donned overcoats as a frigid wave gripped grip-ped the valley and sent temperatures tempera-tures plummeting. , Ihe .mercury dropped, to - one degree above zero In Provo early this morning the " coldest by several sev-eral degrees yet registered this Winter. - - v Sunday's " maximum a1 meagre 29 degrees was a tip-off to this Ask itsVlte MeirviSGne Ion 20 Day Ca! Mioie Strike YANKS TAKE KEY RIDGE ON GUADALCANAL Height Dominating Air Field Captured By , U. S. Forces BY ROBERT MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent WITH AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL, GUADALCAN-AL, Jan. 16 (Delayed) (U.R) ; Maj. Gen. Alexander' M. Patch's headquarters today announced the successful conclusion con-clusion of the first American army offensive on Guadalcanal Guadal-canal with the capture of Mount Austen, 1,800 foot ridge dominate ing Henderson leld. Troops commanded by Col. Alexander George of Chicago at tacked .. the ; ridge simultaneously f from three sides and drove the Japanese " from ' well fortified positions po-sitions and pill boxes, killing at least 267, and wounding hundreds more. American losses, although heavy, were called "relatively light by comparison to those suffered suf-fered by the enemy" in the headquarters head-quarters statement. ' Army and Marine planes and artillery of both services helped with continuous strafing and bombing attacks. The capture of Mount Austen last Japanese position dominating Henderson Field, makes the United Unit-ed Nations' position in the Pacific war more favorable than at any time since the Marines first splashed ashore here five months ago. The occupation of the position by army troops removed the last immediate threat to American positions on Guadalcanal and drove the enemy further westward and closer to eventual annihilation. annihila-tion. The skies have been cleared of Japanese aviation which has not attempted a daylight raid on Guadalcanal in nearly two months. Several enemy artillery pieces, mortars, machine guns, and small arms of all types, as well as ammunition, am-munition, were captured in the drive, A headquarters spokesman es timated several hundred more Japanese than have been counted were killed by artillery fire or bombs. He said the official count to date includes only the bodies found on the battlefield and that many, fatally wounded, had been able to drag themselves to the rear. Seven enemy counterattacks to recapture a, hill which dominates the ridge were thrown back with heavy losses. The America attack was made under the most difficult conditions, condi-tions, through dense jungles and against prepared positions. In spots the terrain was so rough that three days were required to get out the wounded. . All but the most serious cases were forced to walk to the rear many jgetting off their , litters over the worst spots of the trails. This action was the first all- ( Continued on Page Five) morning's new low. Frozen-up automobiles were common today, and topcoats were strictly an essential piece of apparel. ap-parel. ' , In Salt Lake City, this . morning's morn-ing's low was five above. The mercury reached the v zere point at Ogden. But: these new lows were nothing noth-ing .compared with Bismark's S3 below, Sheridan's 24 below, and ..Omaha's 10 below. . Husky Thief Takes Washing Machine SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 18 (U.R)A thief with big ideas and apparently large muscles today to-day had been at work in Salt Lake's residential district. Working with that certain amount of finesse, although somewhat noisily, 'he made off with a washing machine belonging to Helen Swasey. She told police she heard a noise in the hallway of her apartment while entertaining a friend. When she went to investigate, the machine was missing. Russia Announces Heavy Gains on 5 Battle Fronts By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 18 (U.P) Russia Rus-sia announced new gains today on five major battle fronts along the 550-mile Red army offensive line between Voronezh and the thm Caucasus-: Om the South Voronezh , front. Red- army men were within 110 miles of Kharkov; on the Donets river front, they captured the railroad junction of Millerovo; in the Stalingrad area tanks, infan try and cavalry were ripping into the remnants of 22 German divisions di-visions now numbering only about 70,000 men; on the Lower Don front Russians were within 25 miles of Salsk Junction and in the Caucasus they were only 80 miles from Armavir, whence a railroad leads through the Maikop oil fields to the Black sea. Driving ahead throughout the. night south of Voronezh, the Russians took several new inhabited in-habited places, wiping out almost the entire garrison of one fortified forti-fied town and capturing 1,255 Germans including a colonel in storming another, the noon communique com-munique said. On the Donets front, the Russians Rus-sians took three populated places in a single sector. They killed about 1,000 Germans, the noon communique reported; knocked out seven tanks and 20 field guns and captured 300 prisoners, two tanks, 20 field guns, 50 trucks and two war supply dumps. In the Stalingrad area, where the resistance of the trapped Ger-( Ger-( Continued on Page Three) Changes Asked to Help Tide Over Small Business WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 .(U.Er-The .(U.Er-The senate small business committee com-mittee today called for "fundamental "funda-mental and far-reaching legislation" legisla-tion" to tide smaller firms over the war period and to prevent giant corporations from dominating domin-ating post-war economy. In a report submitted to the senate by Chairman James E. Murray, b., Mont., the seven-man committee said that "over- 70 per cent of all prime contracts are still in the hands of 100 of the large companies," while sub-contracting is proceeding at a "snail's pace," "It will take forthright measures," meas-ures," the committee said, "to prevent the pattern of .concentration .concen-tration developed in war production produc-tion from becoming the pattern of concentration for all manufacturing manu-facturing after the war."' The existence of idle factories and machines in the i hands-.''..of small 1 business "men, the committee commit-tee said, "lis hampering the war production drive. "If we ; allow: the concentration of war contracts tq. continue in the hands of a few large corporations,", corpora-tions,", the .report continued, "we are " thereby tolerating the i continuance con-tinuance of ;many production bottlenecks aha of acute., shortage short-age of manpower, transportation, and housing that have developed in the communities - where these Xs. large companies are located." Nazi Planes Make Weak Retaliatory Attacks On London Many Tons of Heavy Explosives Land On Berlin LONDON, Jan. 18 (U.R A large fleet of Royal Air Force heavy bombers dumped many tons of explosives on Berlin for the second time within $4 Kburs last night while Nazi planes, coming in by twos and threes, made two weak, . retaliatory raids on London. Lon-don. That last night's raid on the German capital was much heavier than the one Saturday night was indicated by the loss of 22 British planes. Only one plane Was lost im the previous raid. . Report - reacbeduStoekheUnj capital of heutral Sweden that the British planes were over .Berlin .Ber-lin for more than two hours, appearing ap-pearing not long after dark. The comparatively few planes the Germans sent over Britain during the night in an effort to convince the home front they were giving as good as they received, re-ceived, met the heaviest antiar-craft antiar-craft barrage of the war. The barrage bar-rage and night fighters brought down 10 planes in all, a much larger percentage, it was indicated, indicat-ed, of the total number of planes involved that the German antiar-craft antiar-craft defense achieved. The air ministry's communique announcing the second attack on Berlin said: "Berlin was again attacked by a strong force of our heavy bombers bomb-ers last night. A great load of bombs was dropped and at the end of the attcak large fires were burning. Over the target area there were some clouds, but for the most of the way our bombers few in bright moonlight. "There were many combats with enemy fighters and one was destroyed. des-troyed. "Aircraft fighter command in truder patrols attacked enemy transport targets in France, Bel gium and Holland. "Twenty-two of our bombers are missing. Observers believed that the great difference between the num ber of British planes last night and lost Saturday night 22 against one-had been at least partly due 16 the weather. Saturday Sat-urday .night the British bombers flew all the way to Berlin above heavy cloud banks. Last night a bright moon created the condition condi-tion most favorable for the operation opera-tion of night fighters. A non-stop Allied aerial of f en sive was now in its sixth day. British fighter planes raided France, Belgium and Holland (Continued on Page Three) i . Maw's Budget Message to Call for Salary Raises for State Employes By JAMES O. McWNNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 18 01E) A two-point request for strict economies in state government and salary raises for all employes em-ployes will be included in Gov. Herbert B. Maw's budget message mes-sage to the Utah legislature, he announced today. ; , v Maw. said, however, that there will be no effort on the part of the state to compete with - war industries and added that all state employes who quit their jobs will not l replaced. r The governor said : he hoped '! this manner to reduce, or at least maintain at a minimum, increases in f the state's salary i expense: . , r:-'X resolution by A. Sorenson. T Salt' Lake,' recommending to Maw that increases be made in salaries of state employes , was ready for 5- 8th British Army Gains 80 Miles in arch on Tripoli BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 18 (U.R) Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's eighth British army, after an 80-mile gain in western Libya, is only 90 miles southeast of Tripoli and is continuing con-tinuing to advance, a Cairo communique com-munique announced today. Allied planes, paced by fighters and fighter-bombers, maintained a night and day offensive far ahead of the main army, shattering shat-tering retreating enemy transport I A joint communique issued at Cairo by the middle, eastern command com-mand and the Royal air force announced an-nounced that the eighth army had advanced yesterday from the Bir Tala-Sedada line to a line based on Beni Oulid, Bir Dufan and Tauorga, which meant a 40-mile gain in a day. It took a number of prisoners. From Beni Oulid a road leads on to Tripoli, capital of Libya, 90 miles away. At the positions given in the Cairo communique, as of yesterday, yester-day, the British line ran northeastward north-eastward 40 miles from Beni Oulid to Bir Dufan, then 30 miles eastward to Tauorga, on the main coastal road only 25 miles south of Misurata, the great German base. It was believed that at any moment the eighth army, with its tanks and armored cars ranging miles ahead, might effect actual contact with the Fighting French column that had advanced north-( north-( Continued 6n Page Three) Elobinson Gains Hew Party Honors WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 Representative Rep-resentative J. W. Robinson of Utah Saturday had further honors heaped upon him when he was named chief assistant whip of the house. His chief is Representative Ramspeck of Georgia. It is the duty of the whip and his assistants to see that members of their party are present in the house when important votes are to be taken and on other important impor-tant occasions and to line up absentees. The duties are the more important this year because of the close party division in the house. introduction into the house. The resolution would provide an Increase of frve per ceJit for salaries above $250 per month, 10 per cent for salaries above S200, but not exceeding S249 per month, 15 per cent for salaries above S100 per month, but not exceeding $199, and 20 per cent for salaries under $100 per month. Meanwhile, a joint resolution directing the governor to carry out all policies necessary to safeguard safe-guard Utah waters, had been prepared pre-pared for introduction by Sen. George M. Miller, DV Price. - Miller's joint resolution- followed follow-ed on. the heels of Tiis water control con-trol bill -introduced several days ago. This bill provides for the creation of a water control com-, com-, mission in the state and the appointment1, ap-pointment1, of a commissioner or r '(Continued on Page Three,) WAR LABOR BOARD PLEA IS REJECTED 10,000 Strikers Vote To Reject Plea To Resume Work BULLETIN WILKES-BAKKE, Pa., Jan. 18 (U.R) The South Wllkee-Baxre local, lo-cal, one of the key locals In the strike of PennsylvmalV 15,000 anthracite miners, voted 230 to 226 today to return to work tomorrow. to-morrow. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 U.R) The War Labor Board today asked President. Roosevelt Roose-velt to intervene in the 20-day 20-day strike of Pennsylvania hard coal miners. The board asked the presl- tfehT" to demand r that ' the miners return to work immediately. immediate-ly. The board's request, .drafted at a brief emergency session; W" taken to the White House this afternoon by six WLB members. The "WLB decided to ask for presidential action after lOjOOO strikers voted at weekend meetings meet-ings to reject a WLB plea that they go back to work. . ' When the president will act is uncertain. Board members be-leaved be-leaved that if a White House appeal ap-peal to the men to resume -production of vitally needed anthracite anthra-cite is ignored, the army may ' take over the mines. WLB Public Member Wayne Lu Morse said he considered ' the - situation sit-uation a show-down between the government and the miners which, if not settled now, would lead to prolnoged wrangling and much more serious difficulties when, the the UMW contract expires April 30. "The vote of the anthracite miners min-ers to continue on strike," he said, "will be enthusiastically received in Berlin, Rome and Tokyo., It. will be a shock to the people of this country. "I believe that the joy such action brings to the Axis should be stressed to the striking miners." min-ers." J. Challenge To Lewis Union President John L. Lewis refused to make any statement after yesterday's voting.. Last Friday, Fri-day, however, he told the strikers to "cut out this foolishness" anil return to work without, delay. V That the strike's continuance is a direct challenge to Lewis' leadership was indicated when Louis Novitsky, president of ; a locaiU. M. W. chapter at Tama-qua, Tama-qua, Pa., said: "I'd rather work . under the soldiers than under John L. Lewis. The miners defied the board despite a loss in anthracite production. pro-duction. Solid Fuels Coordinator Harold L. Ickes said that anthra-eite anthra-eite production for the weekending week-ending Jan. 9 . was only 888,000 tons 450,000 tons less than might . ave been produced if the entire industry had been maintained ; on a six -day week basis. The strikers contend that neither the WLB nor their international union has taken steps to eliminate a " 50-cents-a-month increase ? in (Continued on Page Three) : War In Brief LONDON RAF raids Berlin second consecutive night, starts large fires; Germany retaliates with weak attacks on London,' 1 - CAIRO British - eighth . army within 90 miles of Tripoli as Rommel's Rom-mel's Afrika Korps retreats. .' MOSCOW Russians . gain . ' on five fronts and, "drive to within 110 miles of Kharkov.- -. . 1- GENERAL a MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, v Australia -American flying fortresses sink or damage five Japanese ships in attack on ttabauL - ' |