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Show - 'V HI 111 . :.:cy: : The Weather. Provo and vicinity: light snow this afternoon and tonight. Little Lit-tle change in temperature. Temperatures : High 42 Low 22 Call The Herald IS you dont receive your Herald before :30 call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. ' 1- V FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 179 m Ifnll PROVO, . UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943 YTrAH8 ONLT DAILY SOUTH 07 SALT LAKE) PRICE FIVE CENTS II II 1 i V RETIREMENT ACT BEFORE UTAH HOUSE Rep. Loveridge Introduces Intro-duces School Act In Legislature By JAMES O. McKINNEY United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 29 (U.R) Creation of a school employes' retirement act today to-day was proposed-, in a measure to be introduced in the state house of representatives. represen-tatives. Sponsored by Mrs. Delia Loveridee, D., Pfovo, and others, the bill would provide annuities and disability benefits for all em ployes of the state public school system. The act would exempt "all teachers who are members of the Utah State Teachers' retirement system and all school employes who hold a retirement annunity contract with the Teachers' In surance and Annuity Association of America," or with any private insurance organization or company. com-pany. Another measure sponsored by Rep. J. W. Reed, D., Salt Lake City, would correct the existing faults in present workmen's compensation, com-pensation, occupational disease and state insurance fund statutes. The measure would empower the commission of finance to cancel any insurance in the state insurance insur-ance fund on account of the as-sured's as-sured's failure to make any payroll pay-roll report or pay any premium when due or comply with any other -requirement of this title." No new bills were ready for introduction in-troduction in the senate. The senate yesterday passed a measure authorizing the statu board of agriculture to seek advice ad-vice of agricultural organizations. And by a 9 to 13 vote killed a bill to permit county commissions commis-sions to rent road equipment. Qt CiXienu a erne Meanwhile the house passed the Continued on Page Two) U. S. Bombs Turn Axis Base Into lazing Inferno ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 29 (U.E) The heaviest American bomber formation ever assembled in North Africa made a devastating, four-wave four-wave attack on the axis base of Sfax yesterday, it was announced an-nounced here today. Great fires were started in the harbor and railroad yards of the Tunisian port in what appeared to be a major aerial attack against axis bases preparatory to the big land, push to drive the German-Italian German-Italian forces into the sea. ' Flying fortresses, B25a and B-26s, escorted , by Lockheed Lightnings, struck at Sfax and for a half hour from 2:30 to 3 p. m. turned the city into an inferno. (The Italian high command communique reported today that tremendous damage was done at Sfax. and said that the number of persons killed and wounded had not yet been reported.) . Six enemy planes were shot down attempting the defense of Sfax, and there were indications that the U. S. 12th air force, after weeks of bad weather that hampered hamp-ered operations, finally had firm control of the Tunisian skies. The axis retaliated last night, however, with ah air raid oh the Algiers area the second, in three nights and three enemy bombers were shot down. There was dam-5 dam-5 age and casualties in the city of v-Algiers, the communique saw. Navy Seeks to Cut War Costs WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (HE) The navy has undertaken a new drive ! to reduce war costs. It announced - that henceforth it will, whenever possible, enter into fixed-price -contracts ior war : materials and supplies." It will discourage dis-courage cost-plus-fixed-fee con- . tracts. . Only recently, the navy , an . A nounced that " through -renegotia uon vi conixucuj - post, yicocuw and future it will save the gov ernment an estimated 67u,ooo, 000. , . Reds Captwe S Red Army Springs Second Great Man Trap On Germans -8 Controversy Over Wage Policy Puts WLB on "Hot Seat" By SERRELL HILLMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 2D (U.E) War labor board sources conceded today that the sudden outburst of labor criticism of the board's wage policy puts WLB on the "hot seat" These sources described the attacks at-tacks on the board's cost of living liv-ing wage policy the "little steel" formula as "an open invitation" to unions to demand wage increases in-creases far in excess of the 15 per cent allowable increase over Jan. 1, 1941 levels. Demands for an upward revision re-vision of the formula may become so pressing that the WLB will be "blackjacked" into action, these sources said. Expansion of the formula, they contend, would disrupt dis-rupt the WLB's entire wage stabilization program. WLB Chairman William H. Davis Da-vis vigorously defended the board's wage policy last night in a reply to a charge of John L. Lewis, president of the . United Mine Workers of America, that the "little steel" formula "is an outrageous out-rageous breach and violation of the no-strike agreement between labor, industry and government, made in Dec, 194J." In an article written for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, Lewis, Lew-is, longtime foe of the WLB, inferred that the wage formula amounted to wage freezing. A toard official pointed out, however, that the board frequently frequent-ly has ignored its own ceiling to award higher increases justified by what the WLB terms "maladjustments" "mal-adjustments" or "inequalities." Davis asserted that the board's policy "follows the clear mandate" man-date" on wage stabilization given it by President Roosevelt and congress. . Meanwhile, a clash among board members themselves on the issue appeared likely. Employer Member Harry L. Derby contested contest-ed a demand by R. J. Thomas. president of the United Automobile Automo-bile Workers of America (CIO) and a WLB labor member, for abolition of the "little steel" formula. for-mula. At the same time, an informed in-formed hoard" source revealed that labor members are divided on whether higher increases should be allowed to combat rising living liv-ing costs. SPECIAL DEATH TAX PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (ILEV Congressional advocates, of the 'skip-a-year" plan for placing in come taxes on a current basis today are proposing a special death tax to prevent loss of revenue reve-nue to the government. The proposal is designed to meet treasury objections to pay-as-you-go plans that involve cancellation can-cellation of taxes on 1942 income. in-come. TheV death tax would be levied in addition to present inheritance in-heritance taxes and would be designed de-signed to recover at death the amount of taxes forgiven now. This new development came as the house ways and means and the ' senate finance committees began consideration of ' bills to raise the legal ' debt limit from $125,000,000,000 . to $210,000,000,-000. $210,000,000,-000. The ways and means committee com-mittee expects to complete action on it this week. - BEARD CLIPPERS GO TO SOLDIERS JEBiJECTTxy N. J., Jan. 29 COLE) The army .quartermaster corps ? revealed .. today that; it was shipping beard clippers to American Amer-ican soldiers in Arctic regions. Shaving is difficult and sometimes dangerous in extremely low temperatures, temp-eratures, the r corps revealed, but beards must be cut, lest ice form in them. 5- Germans Continue to Surrender, Die at Stalingrad By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (U.R) Picked Russian units, starts ing to turn the Voronezh front into a second great man trap, have captured 6,000 men, including three generals, and killed 3,000 within a few hours, a high command communique announced today. Surrounding the enemy force, one of many threatened with dis aster on the Voronezh front midway mid-way between Moscow and Rostov, tank formations, troops of the famous guards regfiments, and cavalrymen drove in to the at tack. Axis Forces Liquidated The noon communique said the entire Axis force of 9,uou men was liquidated. , One Russian unit, the noon com munique said, had liberated 33 in habited localities, village and district centers, within , two days in -an advance westward toward Kursk, on the Kharkov-Moscow railroad from Coronezh. This unit took more than 300 prisoners and captured a large quantity of war spoils. The grim work of cleaning out the first gigantic Russian man trap, at Stalingrad, continued relentlessly, re-lentlessly, and it was indicated that there could hardly be more than 5,000 men remaining of the .220,000 encircled and smashed there. Division Liquidated (The Moscow radio, heard in London, said German Lieut. Gen. Repke had surrendered at Stalin grad with all that remained of the entire German 297th division (Ilya Ehrenbourg, famous Russian Rus-sian war correspondent, wrote in a special dispatch to the London News Chronicle that Gen. Fred (Continued on Page Two) MAJOR NIPPON DRIVE HINTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U.E) Continued Japanese ship concentrations concen-trations at Rabaul, New Britain island, indicated today that the enemy soon may undertake another an-other major drive in the Australian Austral-ian area. Reports that the enemy has been cencentrating a large fleet at and near Rabaul have been received re-ceived here for several weeks. Latest information is that as many as 60 naval vessels and auxiliaries are In the vicinitv. The ships are . to be widely dispersed to avoid , - concentrated air. attack. What objective the .Japanese now have in-mind is a matter of conjecture. From Rabaul, the enemy could strike out in several sev-eral directions eastward against the allied supply lines between Australia and the. United States; southeastward - against Guadalcanal Guadal-canal in the Solomons and against Papua; or south and southwest- ward against Australia -itself. Goabbsls, Goering to Make Nazi Anniversary .''' BY ROBERT DOWSON' United . Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 29 . UE) Berlin radio announced today . that Paul Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda propa-ganda minister, - would address a public meeting tomorrow 10th anniversary an-niversary of the Nazi accession to power, and that Field . Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2 and air force chief, would - address the German i armed forces by" radio. m . It was announced that Goebbels at : the end of .his own speech at 4 p. m. (11 a, , m. EWT) , would read a proclamation by Hitler, who in the. past made '.the anniversary 000 Modern Knight of Old r 'A My K TMiJ$ J- x j JlJt'nfm immmmnin inn inimiii Jniniif ..Jilhlfllhi i mi n 1 1 in ifltt While learning to parry attacks and lunge at the Axis . for a decisive de-cisive victory, Pvt. Albert Cavens, . fencing master of the Hollywood picture colony, gives lessons to officers and men at Camp Callan, California. Roosevelt Confers With Pres. Vargas of Brazil Ry MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 U.R) President Roosevelt's itinerary home from Casablanca may. have included a stop at the strategic African port of Dakar, as well as a visit to Liberia and a conference in Natal, Brazil, with President Axis Submarines Sink Fou r U.S. Merchant Ships MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 29 U.P) Four United States merchant ships in convoy were sunk with the apparent loss of 53 crewmen in the largest single loss of allied merchant shipping in the western Atlantic yet to be announced by the navy. An axis wolfpack, striking at midnight off the northern coast of South America early this month, torpedoed the . ships in quick succession. Twenty-five of the men are known to have died. They were aboard . a small merchantman which was first to fall prey to the undersea raiders. Twenty-three Twenty-three of them perished when unable un-able to abandon the vessel, while two others died after reaching a South American port. The fate of the other 28 is not known. They are listed on navy records as "missing." The small ship exploded when a ' torpedo crashed into its side. Flames from the wreckage, as it swiftly sank, lighted the area and made the other ships in the convoy con-voy easy targets for the submarines.' subma-rines.' . Addresses: Hitler's , the. occasion of one of the most boastful of his yearly speeches. Adolf -May Not Speak- ; Thus , the - inference was u left open; that unless by surprise as had happened Once before during the k war Adolf Hitler confronted by an inexorable advance of Russia's Rus-sia's Red army, and the imminent-liquidation imminent-liquidation of an army of 220,000 men sacrificed to his glory at Stalingrad, would not speak. But always before ; Hitler had used - the occasion to bluster ; and- boast in 1940, the first war year, that he' was going to crush . Britain and France, and with them old Nazis At Voiroinezlhl Getulio Vargas, it was believed here today. Some of Mr. Roosevelt's movements move-ments since he left Casablanca, the site of his historic 10-day conference con-ference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, were revealed late last night by the White House and- by an official announcement an-nouncement in Rio De Janeiro. Conference Surprise The president's conference with Vargas came as a big surprise to officials here, although they Conceded Con-ceded after the announcement that it was logical that the heads of the two largest belligerents in the western hemisphere should confer on the conduct of the war. His visit to Liberia came shortly short-ly after the Cacablanca conference confer-ence had ended. Basis for the belief that Mr. Roosevelt stopped at Dakar was a phrase in the White House announcement an-nouncement of the president's Liberian visit, which said: "President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, upon conclusion conclu-sion of the Casablanca conference, confer-ence, had motored to Marrakech, some 150 miles to the south. They, spent the night in that very old Berber and Arab town nestled at the foot of the Atlas mountains.. moun-tains.. The two leaders parted the following day, President Roosevelt then flew to Liberia with but one intervening 'stop." There, was ho confirmation, of course, but informed sources believed be-lieved that the "one intervening stop" was Dakar, on the bulge of French West Africa, and only recently re-cently made available to the (Continued on Page Two) w- : : Boasts " Chamberlain," as he called the late British prime minister,-, and Edouard Daladier of France; in 1941 that the United States had better be good or he would sink all - Its ships, and that Germany would defeat Britain within the year;, in 1942 that, though he did not know whether the war . would end that year, Germany would win. , - ....... -. In the 1942 speech, he said s also that though-Germany was on the retreat 'at that pioment: in , Russia Rus-sia "now that the peak of winter rigors has, passed they-(the Rus siahs) shall- soon see what 1t May U. S. FLIERS DAMAGE 5 JAP SHIPS Americans Renew Aerial Activity Oif Solomon Solo-mon Islands WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U.R) American airmen, in a new burst of aerial activity in the Solomons, damaged two Japanese destroyers, two cargo vessels and a tanker, and downed 10 enemy planes. Six more enemy planes were probably destroyed. One of the enemy cargo ships was left sinking. Four American planes are missing. Captures Post Meanwhile, American ground forces on Guadalcanal largely army troops cautured a well established es-tablished Japanese command post, wiped out two other pockets pock-ets of resistance, and killed 36 more Japanese. The first of the series of .air engagements reported in today's communique occurred on the morning of Jan. 27 (island time). U. S. fighters at that time engaged en-gaged a fighter-escorted forma tion of enemy dive bombers and high level bombers approaching Guadalcanal. , .......... The enemy planes did hot succeed suc-ceed in dropping their bombs. It is from this action that the four American planes are missing. That evening; a force of Doug las Dauntless dive bombers and Grumann Avenger torpedo planes, protected by Grumann Wildcat fighters, attacked an enemy de stroyer and a cargo ship in Vella Gulf, which separates two islands in the New Georgia group. Two direct hits were scored on the cargo vessel, which was last seen sinking. Bombs were seen to fall close to the destroyer, which was left, smoking and was scored as damaged. . The next afternoon, a force of Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger, torpedo carriers, this time escorted by Lockheed Light ning fighters, struck at Japanese ships about 15 miles northeast of ' Kolombangara island. A torpedo hit was scored on an enemy de stroyer and a large explosion re suited. A bomb hit and several near hits were made on a cargo ship and near hits on a tanker were observed. The tanker was scored as damaged because it was last seen smoking. It and the cargo ship were left dead in the water, the attacking fliers reported. Crash of Plane Hills 5 Persons COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 29 (U.E) Five persons were killed in the crash of an army Mitchell B-25-C plane near Look-eba, Look-eba, Okla., about 60 miles west of Oklahoma City, the Colorado Springs air . base announced to-' day. The plane crashed at 5:05 p. m., CWT yesterday, Lieut. H. C Harmon, field public relations officer of-ficer said, while on a routine navigational flight The . tomber was about three hours out of its base at Colorado Springs. Names of the' victims were withheld. - means to taste the German steel." Reports came from "continental Europe that Hitler might declare martial law throughout Germany, despite Berlin radio denials, t that despite the' decision at Casablanca that " unconditional " surrender. ; of the axis powers was - the . pre-dequisite pre-dequisite ; to peace he. might, try in some, way; to. put out peace feelers.. 1 . There was general, agreement that whatever Hitler :did he - would have no reason to - celebrate the day and that for;' Germans, genr eraUy it would not be a happy celebration. Be Lacking British Army Crowds Axis From East; U. S. Pushes From the West Allies Seek To Trap Afrika Korps in Narrow Strip Bv UNITED PRESS The hour appeared to be approaching today for a showdown in Tunisia, with the British eighth army crowding the Axis forces from the east and Lieut.-Gen. Lieut.-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's army posed along a 250-mile front on the west. Radio Algiers indicated that the American; forces, advancing in an attempt to cut off the retreat re-treat of the Afrika Korps, might already have4 started a local offensive offen-sive with limited objectives. The radio broadcast that jtJ. S. troops had reached Maknassy, about 34 miles from the Tripolitanian border. bor-der. Force Into Bottleneck There is a bottleneck along the line of the Afrika Korps' retreat re-treat a strip 14 miles wide with salt marshes on one side and the sea on the other just north of Gabes. Part of the Allied strate gy might be to force the Axis troops into that narrow sector and then attack by land and air. An Allied headquarters com munique said Allied planes made an attack on Sfax and started large fires in the harbor and rail road vyards. Six enemy, planes were destroyed. The Axis re taliated with a raid on Algiers the second in three nights and caused damage and casualties in the city. Three enemy bombers were shot down. A middle eastern command communique reported that there Was a sharp artillery duel between be-tween eighth army and Axis artillery artil-lery near Zuara, 32 miles from the Tunisian frontier. .That indicated indi-cated that Marshal Erwin Rommel Rom-mel may have ordered a delaying action there, although it was regarded re-garded as unlikely' that he would attempt a serious stand anywhere east of the Mareth line. Allied planes from the middle eastern command attacked railroad rail-road communications in southern (Continued on Page Two) Allies Decide on Single Commander For African Front ALLIED HEADQUART ERS, North Africa, Jah. 28 (Delayed) (U) One of the decisions made at the Casablanca conference, it was reported today, was to place a single commander in charge of combined African operations from the Atlantic to Suez immediately after the Axis is driven from Tu nisia. The name most often mentioned for the post was that of Bernard L. Montgomery, conquerer of Marshal Erwin Rommel and tactical tac-tical genius of the British Eighth army's brilliant,' 1,400-mile march to TrjpolL VThe choice of Montgomery was said to be likely because his Eighth army is considered by military mil-itary nen to be the finest striking strik-ing force in the world. In addition, ad-dition, he has had three years of experience fighting Germans and Italians.' ! It was taken for granted here North Africa Would be a stepping step-ping stone for the invasion of Europe and that one of the biggest big-gest air assaults of history would be launched against southern Europe as a softening up operation oper-ation tot the land action. ;. , The fact that" Gen. George C. Marshall, U JS. chief of staff, and Gen. Sir Harold. R. L. G. Alexander, Alex-ander, British commander for .the middle east, received up-to-the-minute i reports on the Tunisian military- siuation was taken as an Indication here ' that extensive operations op-erations might not be far away. TOTAL COOPERATION NEEDED FOR VICTORY . WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 C- Lend Lease Administrator ' Edward Ed-ward . R. Stettinius Jr., told 'the house foreign affairs ; committee today; that the lend-lease principle the principle of total cooperation coopera-tion among nations in the waging of warT is the only one on .which a war of alliance can. be; waged successfully. - EIGHTH ARMY, AFRIKA KORPS EXCHANGE FIRE LONDQN, Jan. 29 (U.R). The British eighth army crowded the rear guard of the Afrika Korps near the Tunisian Tu-nisian frontier today, as signs multiplied that the zero houiV was near for the supreme su-preme Allied offensive to throw the Germans and Italians remaining on the African continent contin-ent into the sea. Despite bad weather. Allied planes of the middle eastern command com-mand swept low over southern Italy and Sicily Wednesday night and yesterday to blast railway communications and "other targets." tar-gets." They were maintaining a steady offensive against the railroads rail-roads over which supplies 'and reinforcements re-inforcements were rushed for shipment to the Axis' narrowing African bridgehead. Artillery Exchanges A communique of the ' middle eastern command reported artillery artil-lery exchanges between the eighth army and the' Afrika KoTpa" , rear. guard-.ysUrday near -Zuara, 32 miles from Tunisia and -64 miles west of Tripolf. The relatively Blow progress of the eighth army since it took'" Tripoli , and the use of artillery suggested that Marshal Erwin Rommel had ordered a spirited rear guard defense, to give him time to prepare the Mareth' line, in lower .Tunisia, fgr at least , a temporary stand. But dispatches from . Allied . North African headquarters said the stage had 'been set for a final, stunning offensive against, all Axis forces remaining in Africa. Axis radios5 sounded alarms, . of attacks and impending .big-scale action, and one Allied report in- 1 dicated that American .forces were already delivering the ' first great blow. . . Radio Algiers said advancing American troops had reached Makassy, 75 miles north of the Mareth line, near the Tunisian-Tripolitanian Tunisian-Tripolitanian frontier. Axis radios sounded other alarms of a bi Allied drive. Radio Paris said Allied forces below be-low Maknassv were testing defenses de-fenses the Axis was preparing between be-tween Chott Djerid and Gabes. " Swamp Chott Djerid is just above Gabes, and there is only 14 miles of passable land between it and the coast. ' "Considerable Allied troop movements are continuing in the Medjez El Bab-Bou Arada. sector." sec-tor." radio Vichy said. "It ia op- -vious that the Allies are . preparing prepar-ing for larsre-scale action." 4 Medjez Et Baba Is 20 miles southwest of Tunis'. Bou Arada . is 20 miles south of Medjez El Bab. The Axis radio Vichy said patrols pa-trols of the British eighth army had infiltrated the southern - sector sec-tor along the frontier, , although ' "attempts to encircle Italian and German forces in western Tripoli tania have hot succeeded." An American drive to the Tunisian Tu-nisian east coast : would be calculated calcu-lated to Dinch off the retreating' Afrika Korps ' and grind ; it "to pieces between the Americans and -the British eighth" army, pushliig; toward the frontier. ' ' War In Brief By UNITED PRESS . , , LONDON: Hour approaches, for showdown fin Tunisia; 5 .British Eighth army, crowds axis forces from east and allied troops from west - , - " : .. . , '. MOSCOW; Red army, captures 6,000 .men staV, Voronezh , area; another an-other disaster, looms-: for Germans. Ger-mans. ' l - - s T ,'- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA Planes ' raid axis base of Sfax; . Germans "hit back with raid on Algiers. .; . LONDON; Stockholm reports Germany, is"- strengthening de- ienses;u southern Norway, |