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Show 77ie Weather' . . ' Forecast for Provo and vicinity: Intermittent light rain today and tonight; little change in temperature, tempera-ture, i j. Temperatures: ,r . High ; 52 Lowv sz y il Help Red Cross The American Red Cross needs the help of every American to provide aid for our fighters and their families, and to guard our nation against disasters. mm FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 205 ??Sh D..Smc5 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILT 80UTH Or SALT LAKH "7 PRICE FIVE CENTS Lawmakers Faced With 'f Many Important Tasks Prior to Adiournment lb voi n n n n V V 1MU UIIgDuu MMu U Lru mImJIj ( Governor Maw Denies Accusation of Misspending Mis-spending $105,000 Fund; House Kills Attempt To Levy Ad Valorem Tax By JAMES O. McKINNEY United Presn Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY March 8 (U.R Five important developments de-velopments highlighted, events 'today as the 25th Utah legislature legis-lature entered the last week of is session. The lawmakers found themselves still faced with many important tasks before be-fore they could adjourn. Today's developments : 1. Gov. Herbert B. Maw denied the implication of Rep. Quayle Cannon, Jr., R. Salt Lake, that he had misspent DESK CHAT IiV THE EDITOR During the first 14 months of American participation in his-s tory's most deadly war, more more than five times as many workmen were killed by accident as fighting men by . bullets and bombs. The number of workers injured almost equaled the total strength of the greatest army this nation ever put together. It's an old story isn't it ? . ibout the tragedy and wastefulness wasteful-ness of accidents. You're getting get-ting pretty sick of hearing it. 3o are we. But there were 109,-000 109,-000 accidental deaths in the 14 months after Pearl Harbor, of which half were of workers needed to supply men in uniform. oOo Price Administrator Br o w n says that "not asingle OPA restriction, re-striction, is going to last one minute longe than is necessary. On the other hand, I think in all fairness I should say that no essential OPA measures will be relaxed prematurely if the result re-sult would be to impede the winning of the war." If Mr. Brown does that and nothing more he will find most of the dead cats flying in the Dther direction. See that no re-jtriction re-jtriction is imposed until it has been thoroughly considered and Its application has been adequately adequate-ly planned. v -tf , oOo- ' : Uncle Sam always wants prom-sing prom-sing young men and by March 15, paying ones, .too! oOo At least it breaks the monot-any monot-any when a business man, after giving dictation allj days long, takes it all evening. THREE DIE IN FATAL CRASHES SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 (U.PJ Three fatal Utah accidents were reported during the weekend. week-end. Curtis G. Fortner, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Fortner, died in a Salt Lake hospital from. injuries received in a two car col- lision late Saturday. Charles O. Dixon, 67, Provo, was .found dead on a farm near Provo. He was believed to have died of exposure. Grant Bringhurst, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bringhurst, Salt Lake Cityr was drowned when he fell into a stream near his home. Axis Raiders Hit Tripoli Harbor By UNITED PRESS German planes have raided Tripoli harbor, hitting two . merchant mer-chant vessels with powerful bombs radio Rome said today, quoting the. official Italian communique. com-munique. - Nine Allied planes were reported re-ported shot down by Nazi fighters. fight-ers. REDS TAKE .SYCHEVKA LONDON - March 8 . IE)The,L Red army tonight usmnouncea me capture s of Sychevka., on the Rzhev-Vyazma railroad 110 miles northeast of Smolensk. state funds tor political purposes in several counties. 2 -The house killed an attempt to introduce an appropriations committee bill to permit the levying levy-ing of an ad valorem tax. 3 Rep. Val H. Cowles, D., Price, obtained h6use consent to introduce a bill to prohibit corporations cor-porations from deducting federal taxes before figuring their Utah franchise tax. 4 Sen. Lynn S. Richards, D., Salt Lake, received senatoriaUap-proval senatoriaUap-proval and introduced a bill to transfer the warrant power of tne state auditor to the finance commission. 5 Sen. Dexter Farr, D., Og-den, Og-den, arose on the senate floor and defended the honesty and integrity, integ-rity, of Senators Richards and Alonzo F. Hopkin, D., Woodruff, who last week bitterly attacked gubernatorial control of state government. Maw denied that any of the $105,000 which Cannon had claimed was distributed by Democratic Demo-cratic organizations had been handled or disbursed by members of the political organizations of these counties." "Every cent went through county or city oficials and was distributed by them," Maw said, "and they selected the personnel to work on the projects." 'He -also- recalled ttfe fttct that! in most counties where the money was spent, the county commissioners commis-sioners were Republicans. "The only limitation placed on local officials," the governor said, "was that only those in need of financial assistance were to receive re-ceive the work and, in addition, no relief was to exceed $25 per month." . . - The house defeated the attempt to introduce the ad valorem tax (Continued on Page Eight Thomas Studies 48-Hour Week in Sugar Industry SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 U.P--Effect of the 48-hour work week order on the sugar processing process-ing industry in critical Utah work areas today was being studied by Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, and officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Thomas said he expects a labor department decision that will not force the payment of time and a half for over 40 hours work to employes in the industry. Meanwhile, Eric W. Ryberg, executive ex-ecutive vice president of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, announced an-nounced that these workers have not been, payed time and a half for more than 40 hours a week because the beet sugar processing process-ing industry has been classified as wholly agricultural. He said further that by agreement agree-ment with the workers the work week during the processing season nal been designated as 56 hours and that longer periods of work were payed on the thne and a half basis. . During the remainder of the year, he said, the 40 hour week is adhered to. -S- Supreme Court Sets Of Two Jehovah's WASHINGTON, March 8 (UP) The supreme court, apparently reversing re-versing a long line of past decisions, de-cisions, today set aside the con viction in Texas courts of two members of the Jehovah's Witnesses Wit-nesses religious sect on charges of distributing literature in violation viola-tion of municipal ordinances. The court held both convictions convic-tions infringed on constitutional guarantees of -freedom of jvorship and of freedom of the press. In one case, the court invali dated the conviction in uanas, Tex., of Mrs. Ella Jamison, a mem ber of the sect who was arrestee while she was distributing leaflets leaf-lets advertising a public religious Married Men Call to the Announces Hershey Pool of Single Men Capable of Military service "rracucany Jtxnausrea in February, Says Director By LYLE C. WILSON : United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 8 U.R Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, has told a senate appropriations ap-propriations sub-committee that the pool of single men capable of military service was "practically exhausted" in February, and that "several mil Reclassification Ordered Of Men Over 37 Years Old By FRED MULLEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) A selective service directive di-rective ordering reclassification reclassifica-tion of over-age men indicated indi-cated today that the present draft age maximum of 37 may later be lifted to obtain men for limited service and tv force-athemnto -essential occupations oc-cupations and agriculture. The broadest hint was found in the order that all 4-H registrant regis-trant who have no claim to deferment defer-ment other than age are to be classified 1-A os that they will be "the first men over 38 inducted in-ducted if and when the armed forces determine they can be used in the military establishment." establish-ment." By using the term "military establishment," selective service gave the inference that the present pres-ent line of thinking is that these men could be used at desk jobs and for types of service other than fighting. That would release younger men for combat. Ease Farm Problem v Selective service and war manpower man-power commission officials would not comment on the full meaning (Continued on Page Eight) II OF THIRD WAR DELAWARE, O.. March 8 (U.R) Vice President Henry A. Wal lace declared- today that a third. World war would be probable . if the Allies should "double cross" the Soviet union and inevitable if the Soviets should again embrace em-brace the idea of fomenting world revolution. Another .war also would be certain, he said, if we permitted Germany to rearm again. Unless there is a close and trusting trust-ing understanding between Russia and the United States, he said, "there is a grave probability of Russia and Germany sooner or later making common cause" after the war. Wallace expressed these views in an address entitled "Practical Religion In the World of Tomorrow" Tomor-row" delivered at the' Ohio Wes-leyan Wes-leyan university. The speech was broadcast over the blue network. Aside Conviction Witnesses In Texas service. , The second decision set aside the conviction in Paris, Tex,, of Daisy Largent, another menv. ber of the sect who was convicted of violating an ordinance' banning the sale of books in a ' residential district. Both decisions ; were unanimous except that Justice Wiley" Rut-ledge, Rut-ledge, who joined the court only three weeks ago, ' did - not participate. par-ticipate. Justice , Hugo L. Black wrote ? the "'opinion in Mrs. ' Jami son's case. Justice Stanley Reed wrote the other. - In both cases the court held that, as applied - to the two' wit nesses, the ordinances, ' abridged freedom of the press and of re ligion. t. ; . WALLACE WARNS Face Colors lion" married men face a call to the colors, it was disclosed today. Publication of testimony given the sub-committee, which investigated investi-gated the manpower problem particularly as it affects food production, revealed that Hershey in February said "this month will finish up the source of single men not in essential occupations or otherwise deferred or exempt." Virtually the only single men now available are some 400,000 high school students who will become be-come eligible for induction this summer, Hershey added. Publication of Hershey's testimony testi-mony followed disclosure that President Roosevelt has established estab-lished an informal five-man committee com-mittee headed by economic stabil ization Director James F. Byrnes to- explore the manpower situaT'anjr part of the20-per-centwlth- uwi ana to auvise nim on -a course of action. The other members mem-bers are Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, Mr. Roosevelt's personal person-al chief of staff; Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier; Harry L. Hopkins, confidente and special assistant to the president; and Judge Samuel I. Roseman, New Deal trouble shooter No. 1. The shortage of civilian manpower man-power is not expected to be relieved re-lieved materially by a war department depart-ment plan t6 release approximately approximate-ly 546,000 men this year for service serv-ice in industry and agriculture. The senate hearings also disclosed dis-closed that war manpower commissioner com-missioner Paul V. McNutt estimated esti-mated that only half of the 22,-000,000 22,-000,000 men in the 18-38 draft age bracket are physically fit. After allowing for essential services in industry, agriculture and for other reasons, he added, 3,300,000 more of this group may expect induction. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard said that we are "ap proaching pretty rapidly a level of nutrition in this country" comparable to, though not yet equal to, Canada and Great Britain. Brit-ain. Wickard told the sub-committee that airplane plant executives have attributed lack of production in some instances to meat shortages. short-ages. Increase Seen in Coffee Rations WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) An office of price administration spokesman indicated today that there will be increase in the coffee cof-fee ration when the next period begins on March 28. He said it would be an "intelligent" "intelli-gent" guess that the one-pound ration period would be shortened to five weeks when the present six-weeks period expires. The first two periods of coffee rationing were of five weeks duration. du-ration. The six-weeks period was deemed necessary, early in February Febru-ary because of a shortage in coffee cof-fee in some parts of the country and a surplus in others. The industry in-dustry has reported that that situation has been corrected. PILLOW CASES HAVE APPEAL FOR THIEF SALT LAKE CITY, March 8 (HE) Richard Thomas Kelley, Si, St. ; Paul. Minnwas In jail here today after a drug store employe had apprehended him in three attempts at-tempts to take $7 . worth of pillow cases. Kelley appealed for mercy after the first and - second- attempts and ' was ,- freed by' ; the employe. But,'' when '-'two' hours Mater he again had' the same pillow cases under his arm; the employe called police. ; . . " . ' AS - YOU - GO TAX OKEHED TENTATIVELY Full Ways And Means Committee Favors 20 Percent Cut WASHINGTON? March 8 (U.R, - The full house ways aa&Hneans committee today tentatively approved a 20 per cent withholding tax on all income taxpayers except men in the armed services, domestics, farmers, and certain cer-tain others. Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. C, said the approval was tentative because "slight modifications" modifi-cations" in the paycheck deduction deduc-tion plan devised by a subcommittee subcom-mittee may be madei when an agreement is reached on the tax abatement question. Two members of the committee Reps. Bertrand W. Gearhart, R., Calif., and Donald H. Mc-Clean, Mc-Clean, R., N. J. voted against the plan. Gearhart said the plan to start withholding at the source July 1, as proposed by the ways and means sub-committee, was "too indefinite and too incomplete" "There are certain other mat ters that must be decided before holding plan is placed in effect," he said. The principal question is what to do about the four quarterly installments due this year, beginning begin-ning March 15, on 1942 income. Unless some abatement were made, taxpayers would be paying double levies in the last half of the year. Doughton said the committee would take up this problem this afternoon. BAN LIFTED ON SLICED BREAD WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) The Agriculture department decided de-cided today to lift the ban against Bakers' slicing bread that is sold for home consumption. The department prepared an order, expected to be issued later today, relaxing the no-slicing order or-der that has been in effect since January 18. Officials said the decision to lift the ban was made after assurances assur-ances from the war production board that the paper and wax supply sup-ply situation "looks O K." for the next few months. The no-slicing order was issued primarily on the grounds that waxed paper could be saved, since sliced bread requires considerably more protection than unsliced to keep it from drying . Many grocers and housewives had appealed to the department to lift the ban. $10 Chemical Set Proves Costly SALT LAKE CTT, March 8 U.R) A $10 chemical set had proved a costly investment today for Keate Ehrenburg, 13-year-old Salt Lake youth. He was seriously burned when he' dropped a bottle of chemicals in an improvised laboratory in. the family garage yesterday. The chemicals burst , into flame that also caused $2000 damage to the garage, the family automobile and several household furnishings stored in the garage. FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY REDEYEF LONDON, March 8 (EE) A French communique broadcast tonight to-night from Algiers said French troops had occupied Redeyef , about 31 miles west of Gafsa in south Tunisia. . PREDICTS FOURTH TERM WASHINGTON; March 8 (ttEV Sen. . James M. iMead, D N. Y., predicted. today? fthat President Roosevelt either will be drafted for a fourth term or will head the American peace delegation, jae- pending -on - whether the war, is ' ended by '1944. - ,. Prelude to a r v - - t - 4fl rr.. , , (ISEA Telephoto) This was only the beginning, as the Japs later discovered, of one of Nippon's Nip-pon's greatest naval defeats. Made in action juA previous to the recent smashing of a 22-ship Jap fleet in the Bismarck Sea, this photo shows bombs bursting around an enemy ship during U. S. air attack near Lae, New Guinea. Official U. S. Army Air Force photo. . : . - - - Australia Sees Continuing Heed Of Reinforcements By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Mar. 8 (U.R) Australia was gripped today to-day with4 apprehension lest the brilliant Allied victory in the battle bat-tle of the Bismarck sea crippled her demands for increased aid in the southwest Pacific area. The utter destruction of the 22-ship 22-ship Japanese convoy did not remove re-move the threat of enemy occupation occu-pation of New Guinea or the possibility pos-sibility of assault upon Australia, authoritative quarters said. Meantime, Mean-time, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique told of a double blow early Sunday by Royal Australian air' force Hudsons and Dutch-manned Dutch-manned B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on Toeal, in the Kai islands is-lands between -Dutch New Guinea and Australia. Hudsons led the raid, blasting buildings and leaving flames and smoke in the harbor area. The B-25's came over 30 minutes later, bombing and strafing in low-level attacks. Revenge -hungry Dutch pilots, many of whom saw their homes destroyed by the Japanese in Java, said that all bombs hit in the target area. An authoritative spokesman declared that numerous appeals for increased aid were not intended in-tended to enable MacArthur to launch a large-scale offensive, (Continued on Page Eight) Allied Chutists Reach Objectives LONDON, March 8 (U.R) Official Of-ficial . radio France, broadcasting from Algiers, said today that Allied parachutists had destroyed objectives along; the Gafsa-Sfax railroad in central Tunisia. Having destroyed all their objectives, ob-jectives, the parachutists returned to their lines, radio Algiers - said. It said Allied forces were within with-in less than two miles of Gafsa, former American base 50 miles south' of Kasserine. Rommel's Repulse Brings Decisive BY UOUIS F. KEEMLE " United Press War Analyst Marshal Erwin Rommel's re-oulse re-oulse at the Mareth line. bringe the hour for the decisive battle in Tunisia appreciably closer. . According to the -allied com-munlque; com-munlque; the Afrika Korps is'with-drawihg is'with-drawihg to the hills towards the coast If- this , move! develops, it would mean . that Rommel is preparing pre-paring his stand, "not . along the Mareth line, 'but ..In the narrow corridor between Gabes and the Fed jadj salt barrier.- , , -...-.' . Whether Gen. B. L.. Montgomery, Montgom-ery, commanding . the-f British eighth army, will press forward to J8 Jap Disaster Red Army Takes 100 Towns In Smolensk Drive By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent Moscow, March 8 (U.R The Red army captured more than 100 towns and hamlets in three converging drives on Smolensk in the past 24 hours, the Soviets announced today. (The official German news agency DNB announced in a Berlin Ber-lin broadcast that Axis troops j have evecuated Sychevka, 42 miles north of Vyazma on the i railroad from Rzhev, "according to plan." Sychevka is 110 miles northeast of Smolensk and 33 miles northwest of Gzhatsk.) (A Rome dispatch to a Swedish newspaper reported that the German Ger-man high command has transferred transfer-red three Panzer and nine infantry infan-try divisions, totaling 340,000 men and 1,000 tanks, from France to the Russian front in an effort to stem the Soviet advances.) The Russians were smashing through crumbling Axis defenses froft newly-captured Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow and 121 miles northeast of Smolensk; from Osuga, 16 miles, south of Rzhev on the railroad ti 'Vyazma, 'Vyaz-ma, and from Olenino, 32 miles west of Rzhev. The capture of 74 villages west of Gzhatsk and in the general Osuga area was reported in the Soviet midnight communique, and the mid-day bulletin announced that a number of additional settlements set-tlements had been seized. These two forces were expected to join in an assault on Vyazma, 35 miles west southwest of Gzhatsk, 54 miles south of Osuga and 93 miles east of Smolensk. Russian forces composing the third arm of the offensive seized 20 hamlets and six strongly-fortified points in a thrust south from Olenino aimed at the Vyazma-Smolensk Vyazma-Smolensk railroad in an effort to cut off the-Vyazma garrison from the rear, the high command said. The Russians thus were rolling forward along an arc north, northeast and east of Smolensk, at a better' than four-village-an-hour pace, despite blizzards and deep snow. at the Mareth Line Battle Much Closer the assault immediately depends largely on how far his preparations, prepara-tions, for attack have progressed. It is certain that r Montgomery Will have massed enough tanks, guns, p?anes, and men for t an overwhelming assault before-'he strikes. These preparations explain ex-plain his protracted v halt at the Mareth line after his swift, 1,-,400-mile . advance across the desert des-ert from Egypt . . Montgomery's 'supply lines are long and Rommel's comparatively short. It has taken "time to bring up needed equipment for the eighth army, but the task may be Continued on Page Eight) MM AXIS CONVOY BLASTED BY U. S. FLIERS British Chase A f r i k a Korps Back Toward Coast Bottleneck By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent The British eighth -army has scored a cleancut victory over the Afrika Korps in reported chasing it back toward to-ward the coastal bottleneck flanking the Mareth line on th,e northeast. American Dlanes also delivered a stinging blow against the Axis forces in Tunisia, smashing : a supply convoy off" the coast, bombing seven ships, and shooting shoot-ing down five enemy planes with no losses. Marshal Erwin Rommel, once' more coming off second best in a tilt with the eighth armv. was' falling back toward the hills north and northwest of Meden-ine. Meden-ine. He had suffered a stinging setback in a short but sharr. Hat- He, losing 33 tanks Saturday to none for the British. Rommel's armor struck six times from the Mareth positions Saturday,.. Everv blow failed nnH yestel-day afternoon he gave up the venture nad started pulling uuck inio the hills. British pa- -trols set out in pursuit. Delaying Tactics-Rommel's Tactics-Rommel's tactics appeared plainly to be to continue whirling inside the small Tunisian perimeter peri-meter thrusting first at the central cen-tral front, then the north, then the south. By that means he was able to extract the utmost value from his interior communications and numerically inferior forces. Bv , . cunt i nlanes quickly from front to front he obviously hopod to delay the Allied offensive and also presumably presum-ably expected he may locate soft spots in the Allied lines ever. t was not believed that Rommel's, strength was sufficient suf-ficient to cause the eighth army any great difficulty, although the Nazis might penetrate its lightly held forward positions, For the second night in succession suc-cession Royal Air Force action was on a small scale compared to the forays during the 10 days of record-breaking bombardment ending last Friay night The Rap " . . living t C V on mine 'aving m -enemy waters during" 5 MnighjTan activity which, should not be underestimated, as" the coastal mining constantly impedes the Nazi task of main-taimner main-taimner the movement of supplies' over Europe's battered communications communi-cations lines. However, reports frnm nA1.f..i Eureopean sources are beginning to reveal the heavy damage in flnnebv Allied air offSiiive, 6000 Homes Destroyed JSi revelation that more than b.OOO homes had been destroyed In Cologne, an equal number ln' Genoa, and extensive damage' caused in Berlin, makes it clear that the Axis is smartinc' arutlv under the new bombing attack. ine interruption of the air offensive of-fensive was not expected to last long. The Iulil was presumed to have been caused by the weather, 'Continued on Page Eight) War In Brief AFRICA British Eighth army defeats Afrika Korps in battle before Mareth line, chase Germans Ger-mans back toward coastal corridor flanking line to northeastfjAmer-ican northeastfjAmer-ican bombers smash axis supply convoy. , LONDON: Royal air force mines Ann 4- r 1 4- . 1 . 1 a. brings lull in allied-offensive against continent. . , MOSCOW: Russians ' capture more than 100 towns arid- villages in converging drives on, Smolensk. Germans admit -evacuation. " of Sychevka, .base 42 miles north , of Vyazma. , ::rr, r .' NEW JDFXinr'ThreeJapaneso merchant ships 'sunk' or damaged ' on Rangoon river of , south Burma. Allied, planes start." fires - in , raid . on Moulmein. " - ' IV' |