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Show V' '1 1 V BACK UP YOUR BOY , Buy an Additional Bond Today FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR. NO. 235 - --w m 1 " iii r y w ? . . . " , - . ,UJl . . . . . n ' The Weather Forecast for Provo and rlcln-l iiiy: continued warm; little changfe in temperature today; warmer tonight; to-night; light rain late tonight. TEMPERATURES High Low lW'cl PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, -MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OK SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS -4 BOND SHOW SLATED FOR TABERNACLE Caravan Of War Equipment Equip-ment Due In Provo Tuesday Night P r o v o tabernacle and grounds will be scene of the highly-lauded entertainment program and display of military mili-tary equipment of the "Big Parade War Caravan" which appears here Wednesday as a feature of j:he second war loan drive. The program, which will feature fea-ture the crack 50-piece Kearns band, the outstanding Kearns entertainers, en-tertainers, and other talent, will be in the tabernacle at 10 a. m., according to Earl T. Oss, chairman chair-man of the Provo war bond committee, com-mittee, which is handling local arrangements. . The military units greatest asemblage of war equipment ever to appear here will be displayed on the grounds. A large crowd is expected for the occasion. War bond booths will be established. Mr. Oss and H. B. Shriver, head of the retail merchants com-miteee, com-miteee, met with city and county officials, who agreed to split the cost of breakfast and luncheon to be fed the 135 soldiers present Wednesday. The meals will be prepared, by the Canteen corps of the Red Cross. The caravan will arrive Tuesday night and the men will be housed at the armory. According to Mr. Oss, the women's division of the war bond committee, under direction of Mrs. H. B. Mensel, will have 100 women at the stores Wednesday selling war stamp corsages. The Central Utah Life Underwriters Under-writers are contacting prospective mond buyers in an effort to spur the sales, of the large size bonds sought in the second war loan drive. nzrn I LIVJ Tn WW MM. o) J PA i ii i ' rr rmn urn rn i AGREEMENT NEARER ON PAY-GO TAX Tentative Plan Provides "Forgiveness" Of 50 Percent Allied Generals Cooking Up Bad News for Axis in Tnicin DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOB .WASHINGTON, April 16; (U.R A ne ar - agreement among leaders of the- house j ways and means committee j on a pay-as-you-go plan pro- j viding 50 per cent forgive- j ness all but collapsed today j because of objections from j other Republicans and Democrats. Demo-crats. Despite its forgiveness feature, ; the plan on which the leaders had ; worked would cost taxpayers more in the next few years than j they normally would pay if they j remained a year behind. The part j of the 1942 tax not forgiven j would have to be paid off over a , period of years. For example, in , addition to regular taxes on 1943 income, the taxpayer under the compromise would have to pay perhaps 10 per cent of his 1942 tax during the 1943 calendar year. Some elements of the Republican Republi-can group which i backed the Carlson Carl-son - RumI "skip-a-year" plan ,urcred their representatives on 58 Transports Shot m Down In Greatest Battle In History Ground Forces Await Outcome of the Great Aerial Struggle; Allies Lose Only 11 Planes in Air Encounter T, (NEA Telephoto) Here is as tough a group of "customers" as the Allies have to send against the enemy on any front. They are, left to right, General Harold Alexander, deputy commander of all Allied forces in Africa; General Dwight Eisenhower, African commander-in-chief, and Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., U. S. armored, expert, conferring con-ferring recently on the North African campaign. JOB FREEZING NOW IN EFFECT WASHINGTON, April 19 C.E A majority of the 52,000,000 American -wage earners began a new work week today under rules which make it virtually impossible to change employment in order I -to increase earning power. Henceforth, a person can change employment to get higher wages onlv if he" is going from a rioh- Tokyo Bombers Used Aircraft Carriers up for a greater percentage of cancellation. essential activity to a job in one the compromise committee tojaqk I 0 the 35 essential Activity groups. or if he is going with war manpower man-power commissions'' approval from Democrats who supported the j one job to another in an essential Accepting Congress' repealer of his $25,000 salary ceiling, because he cpuld do nothing else, President Roosevelt tried to stick a last barb into the legislators by accusing them of discriminating against $600-a-year draftees. Congress, he said, refused to. reduce the salary sal-ary of men not drafted, however how-ever high their incomes might be. That is not so. Through taxation Congress has cut away all the fat and most of the flesh from big incomes. Through taxation Congress can strip off the rest of the flesh and most of the bone. The issue was and is whether the executive, against the expressed ex-pressed will of the people's representatives, rep-resentatives, can order and. enforce en-force a. revolution in the nation's na-tion's established philosophy i and. that to the detriment of the war effort. Congress has answered that he can not. oOo If it were not. tragic it would be humorous to see how. all at once the powers - that-be in Washington have awakened to .'the fact that farming is an essential es-sential industry. Those who are writing: the regulations for farmers I should have more practical -knowledge of the sources of food supplies than is furnished by Washington, Washing-ton, restaurants. Leading dairy organizations have long pointed oufi what was going to happen to our milk, cheese and butter supply. May-X'. be if few of the white-collar boys in Washington had had to, shovel manure and milk cows for three months as training for their regulatory jobs, there "would be more dairy products , today. v- oOo Y s Marshall Rommel now real izes that fulle equipment for his troops should- have included bathing suits. If the neighbors'- chickens get in next-door." gardens this . year, some people will be foolish fool-ish enough, to chase 'era back home. ' ; y ' Hobertson-Forand plan tor approximately ap-proximately 75 per cent forgiveness forgive-ness say they expect an opportunity oppor-tunity to vote on, their original proposal. Numerous rank ana file house i members held informal conferences confer-ences after -a special meeting of the ways and means leaders yesterday. yes-terday. Participants in yesterday's yester-day's conference said the group was closer to agreement than at any time since .the pay-as-you-go question became a major - congressional con-gressional issue. A meeting this morning between be-tween House Speaker Sam Ray-burn, Ray-burn, D., Tex., and Chairman Robert Rob-ert L. Doughton, D., N C, of the ways and means committee, apparently ap-parently did little to clear the air Rayburn was to meet with the activity where he can use his highest skills or gain full-time employment. The regulations, which principally princi-pally affect the 27,000,000 persons in essential activities, were, posted by WMC Chairman Paul V. Mc-Nutt Mc-Nutt Saturday night and became effective yesterday. They were promulgated with the approval of Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes arid were designed, design-ed, to effectuate President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's April 8 order to "hold the line" against inflation. By UNITED PRESS American and British fighter planes were disclosed today to-day to have shattered a great fleet of German aerial transports trans-ports over the Mediterranean, shooting down 58 of the big Junkers which apparently were ferrying key Axis personnel out of-Tunisia. In one of the greatest single air engagements of all time the Allied fighters knocked out 74 German transports and escorting planes headed northward. Eleven enemy planes destroyed in operations else-":)" where brought the day's total bag to 85. So far this month at least i 177 of the transports have been I destroyed in combat and scores of j others damaged. j Loaded With Troops I Cairo dispatches said the Junk- ! ers 52's destroyed Sunday ap- I peared to be loaded with troops, I reviving recurrent reports that I the Nazi command was prepared to evacuate certain elite person- RECORD TOLL SUFFERED BY AXIS FORCES Toll Not Equalled Even During the Battle Of Britain BULLETIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS NORTH AFRICA, April 19 (U.R: Allied fighter planes renewed re-newed their attack on German Ger-man transport planes today and by 10 a. m. had destroyed 10 Junkers 52's and one escorting Messerschmitt 1 09. American Planes Blast Jap Bases In the Pacific By UNITED STATES The "Shangri-La" bases from which Ma.j. Gen. James nel from the hard-pressed Tunis- H. Doolittle and 79 other American fliers took off in U. S. ian bridgehead. But the Paris army bombers to raid Japan one year ago Sunday were air- radio said the Germans stm were disclosed today. 'fl ' The dispatch, passed by censors t - - r E9 I CI at Allied North African head-1 flf Alf1IA llllltlll quarters, dealt with the present .gj Vi I U J V.&JUUlfJ activities of Doolittle's raiders and was the first report from authentic Allied sources as to the place or places from which the historic flight began. Written by United Press War Correspondent Donald Coe from a North African strategic air force base, the dispatch began Crew In Africa WITH THE NORTH AFRICAN STRATEGIC AIR FORCE, April 11 (Delayed) (U.R) Eleven of the men who flew Mitchell bombers Eleven of the men who -flew I from aircraft carriers to bomb Mitchell bombers from aircraft I Tokyo a year ago tomorrow are carriers to bomb Tokyo . . . That told the story. The rest of Coe's dispatch, dated April 17, concerned speculation whether the fliers would be able to get together from various North African airfields for an anniver- ! sary celebration. McNutt expects the order to j The dispatch appeared to spike solve one of his greatest man-1 a widespread "belief that Doolit- power problems, the huge turnover turn-over in employment in essential, activities which he attributes to the higher-wage motive. 'For the first time in McNutt's administration of the manpower ranking committee members and 1 commission he referred specifically Republican Leader Joseph W. ! to penalties which will be imposed Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, at i on convicted violators of the regu-4 regu-4 p. m., in another attempt to lations. He said that prosecution bring about an agreement. . would be brought against em- The situation produced renewed re-newed demands that the house be given another opportunity to decide de-cide the question under an open-rule open-rule which would permit reconsideration recon-sideration of the Carlson-Ruml plan and a vote on the Robertson-Forand Robertson-Forand compromise. Cong FOIIR DIEIN . TENEMENT FIRES BOSTON, " April 19 (IlEV Four persons died today in fires in a west end tenement house and a south end lodging house. Three oc cupants were injured critically and 20 escaped unharmed. , y - ressman Goes Back to Capital SALT LAKE CITY, April 19 U.r.h Rep. J. W. Robinson, D., Utah was en route to Washington D. C, today after conferring with Utah governmental, business and industrial leaders during the past week. While in Utah he spent several days in Provo investigating the OPA rent control situation. ployers and workers under the economic stabilization act of Oct. 27, 1942 which provided criminal penalties of $1,000 fine, one year imprisonment, or both. In addition, an employer would be barred from charging to the government under a war contract wages illegally paid and from deducting such wages as a business busi-ness expense in his income tax report. ' . . 14 Convicts Still . Lost After Break , REIDSVILLE, CJa., April 19 UJ! The capture of four more escaped escap-ed convicts at a road blockade in Soperton, Ga., today reduced to 14 the number of desperadoes at large from Friday's prison break here, but leaders of the . group were still free. : : Two Jump From Plane Together In One ParachEitc; Survivor TJins Flying dedal LONDCTs, -April 19 (UP) RA1 Smith ordered Salway to lump SgL Dennis Smith, a prisoner of on him "piggy-back" and they left war In Gci many, ; was awarded the the plane together. They fell so iistinguis;od flying medal today rapidly, however, they bost, lost for attempting to save the life of a flight companion by letting him ride on his back and they shared "rn oaroJmte.Y - The RAF said" Smith took a "million to one chance to try to save himself-and his buddy." Smith and Flight Sgt. Ernest Salway were in a Lancaster over Germany last . June, returnlnff from a raid on Emden, when flak consciousness ' and Salway fell to his death when he let go. Smith regained consciousness on the ground and was taken to a prison comp suf ferine - from - a . broken ankle.. ... ' He described the incident in a formal report to the RAF from his prison . camp The RAF In i presenting the award, said the air . ministry" had crippled their ship and destroyed no records, of. any, successful jump Salway parachute. . "of two men on one paracnute tie's fliers took -off either from the Aleutian islands off the western- tip of Alaska, or from bases in China, More accurate apparently appar-ently was a Japanese naval statement state-ment made several days after the raids on Tokyo,N Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe . that the planes came from two or possibly three carriers car-riers in a U. S. task force in the north Pacific, The Japanese estimated the size of the task force at "more than 10 ships" and suggested that jthe North American Mitchell bombers took off from the carriers car-riers at a point about 1,200 miles east and slightly north of Yokohama Yoko-hama about half-way between Yokohoma and Dutih Harbor in the Aleutians. The plan was said to have been for the planes to fly over Japan at dawn, drop their bombs and land on Chinese air fields in Che-kiang Che-kiang province, southwest of Shanghai. The fact that the raid was staged at noon instead of dawn was attributed to the sighting sight-ing of the task force by Japanese fishing ships. Japanese naval authorities suggested, sug-gested, that the American commander com-mander believed the fishing boats might have radioed word of the task force's presence to the Nipponese Nip-ponese high command and decided to launch the planes immediately rather than risk action against superior Japanese forces. Subsequent Japanese statements state-ments asserted that all the American Ameri-can planes were lost, most of them in . forced landings along the China coast in extreme bad (Continued jrn Page Three) LUMBER SHORTAGE . GROWING WORSE Y WASHINGTON, April 19 (HE) The lumber shortage has grown progressively worse over the past four months, J. Philip Boyd, director direc-tor of the lumber and lumber products division of the war production pro-duction board, said today. ' He attributed the production slump to loss f of manpower bad weather, and lack of equipment. ready to mark the first anniversary annivers-ary of their flight with the commander, com-mander, now Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle. Just how and when the event will be celebrated, or for that matter mat-ter how many of the 11 will be able to attend, was still undecided late tonight. Most of the fliers have moved up in rank in the year since their historic flight and the group itself has shifted from Mitchell ' bombers bomb-ers to Martin Marauders. Maj. William. M. Bowen of Ravenna, Ra-venna, O., assistant wing operations opera-tions officer at this, base, told me he would like to leave right now to bomb Tokyo .again. He identified the other 10 members mem-bers of the flight now in North Africa as Majors Charles Greening, Green-ing, Tacoma, Wash.; Travis Hoover, Hoov-er, Riverside, Calif., and Rodney R. Wilder, Taylor, Tex.; Captains Henry A, Potter, Pierre, S. D.; James M. Packer, Livingston, Tex.; William R. Pound,- Jr., Al-hambra, Al-hambra, Calif.; Howard A. Sessler, Arlington, Mass; Jack Sims, Kalamazoo, Kala-mazoo, Mich.; C. J. Ozuk, Chicago, Chi-cago, and T. C. Griffin, Chicago. EXTRA GASOLINE RATIONS DENIED WASHINGTON, April 19 (IM)- The Office of Price Administration today banned extra gasoline rations ra-tions for rummer commuters in the eastern shortage area coincir dent . with release of statistics showing , that the honor system on pleasure driving was a complete failure. ; The, new gasoline ' orders, effective effec-tive next Saturday, apply to both! automobiles and boats in the; eastern area. They virtually eliminate pleasure plea-sure motor boating and probably; 'Will result in closing' of, thousands of summer homes along .the - eastern east-ern seaboard ; But .OPA said that "no vacation and summer , hotel travel can be encouraged while the rubber and gasoline shortages are making it necessary to curtail severely many types of jiassenger car use. including, includ-ing, driving In many occupations," ' Non-occupational boating is -be- i Ing' denied gasoline, .it said, be- Pon ' Inur mnnllag Via va ' fnrpfti nisia by air. The tremendous toll taken by the Allies from the Axis communication com-munication lines to Tunis was emphasized em-phasized further ""by a London report re-port that in the last five weeks British submarines and Allied planes have sunk 45 enemy supply ships in the Mediterranean. Nazi Propoganda Minister Paul Goebbels gave the world a new insight on the German attitude regarding the war when, in a broadcast speech on the eve of Adolf Hitler's birthday, he said: ''The war has reached its hardest hard-est stage, and the way out of its trials and sufferings, or its end, can nowhere be discerned." Await Outcome-Aground Outcome-Aground in Tunisia the campaign cam-paign awaited the outcome of. the great aerial struggle. The only activity reported around the battle bat-tle arc was a local advance by French forces in the region some 30 miles west of Tunis. The Allied victory . over the transport fleet off Tunisia capped a week of record-shattering performances per-formances by the American and British air forces based in Britain and North Africa. For the second time in a week the Royal Air Force applied tne northern arm of the Allied aerial pincers against Italy last night. A powerful force of home-based bombers raced 700 miles across Europe to blast the Spezia naval base. Only one British bomber was lost in the concentrated attack on Spezia, -which the RAF had pounded Tuesday night. The raid was synchronized with the batter ing of Italian bases, and island outposts by heavy bombers striking strik-ing from northwest Africa and the middle east command. Non-Stop Offensive-British Offensive-British fighter - bombers and fighters joined in the non-stop offensive against the European fortress. During the night they attacked communications in northern north-ern France and the Nazi U-boat base at Lorient, after striking (Continued on Page Three) By VIRGIL PINKLEV United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUAR- -TERS, NORTH AFRICA April 19 (U.R) Allied fighters shot down74 Axis planes, 58 of them transports, in a single engagement off the Tunisian coast yesterday, while French ground forces pressed deeper in to the enemy' Tunisian line, a communique -an nounced today. The destruction of 74 plane ( in one engamement was a record in this war theater. As far at known here, that toll was not equalled even during the battle of Britain during a single combat. ..: , The initial anonuncement of the smashing allied air victory over the Sicilian narrows gave- no clue as to whether axis transports were By UNITED PRESS American planes continued lightning attacks on bases where the Japanese appear to be concentrating con-centrating shipping for a new offensive of-fensive in the southwest Pacific, with raids during the last 48 hours on the Shortland island area of the Solomon islands. A navy communique disclosed 5? ZtirFLlt bringing supplies and reinforce- ments to Tunisia or evacuating been heavily damaged and another 1 of f cinlririfr Amorinan oirmpn also attacked Munda and Kahili j key Persnnel- airdromes in the Solomons and i Swift Curtiss WarhawKs and made nine more raids on Kiska, j British Spitfire fighters ripped main enemy base in the Aleu- ' apart what was described official-tians. official-tians. Jy as a "very large formation" of vvhil this air fighting was in three - engined Junkers 52 and progress, Chinese troops recap- : their strong escort of fighters. The tured two towns in the Ichang i Junkers, with a fixed landing gear sector along the Yangtze river j and a cruising sped of only p75 and broke up a new Japanese ad- j miles per hour, were almost "sit-, vance north of Hong Kong. i ting duck" targets for the allied A spokesman for Gen. Douglas j fighters. MacArthur in Australia said the i 85 planes Downed Allies are harassing the enemy's j The destruction of 11 other, attempt to build up an air force j enemy planes in other operations for an offensive. ; boosted the day's total bag to 85 A communique from MacAr- planes, excluding an undetermined thur's headquarters described 1 number wrecked on the ground in He also' cited the increased use of cause ' low 'supplies have forced JumDer ,ior many purposes ana r-drastic cuts in .the oasic rations its widespread substitution for of automobiles virtually eliminate metals. . - . -- y '. . ting pleasure dlvlng,, v Y damaging raids yesterday at Pen-foe Pen-foe airdrome on Timor, Cape ; Floucester, New Britain, and Finsch harbor, on the New Guinea coast, besides armed reconnais-; sance over a wide area. A bomber dropped explosives at a 10,000-ton ; merchant ship at Kavieng, New 1 Ireland, but results could not be seen. Another bomber shot down an enemy fighter. widespread raids on enemy airfields. air-fields. Only 11 allied planes were lost in all operations. . Strong formations of American Flying Fortresses started large fires in heavy attacks on the railroad marshalling yards and airfield at Palermo, Sicily. Numerous Num-erous hits were scored on hang- ars and other buildings and bombers bomb-ers were seen to Durst among The anniversary yesterday of ; enemy fighters which just had the American raid on Japan led by Maj. Gtn. James H. Doolittle, brought the revelation that the raiders were dispatched from aircraft air-craft carriers. It came as the Japanese continued to issue pro- landed after an attack on, a pre ceding formation of fortresses. One merchant vessel was sunk and another was left in flames by Mitchell bombers which attacked harbor installations at Porto Tor- paganda apparently designed to res Sardinia. Other targets in the relieve the ememory of that raid A Tokko claim broadcast by radio Berlin, but not substantiated elsewhere, said a Japanese army in the Malu peninsula of Burma had met a 'superior British-Indian army of 20,000 and defeated it, killing 500 men. Continued sizable air attacks on Japanese Burma positions were reported by U. S. and British air forces in India. Jap Surrenders to Marine to Get a Ride In American Jeep By SGT. CHARLES J. GLEESON s) would you like to have a Jap , TJ. S. Marine Corps Combat - Correspondent (Distributed by the United Press) SAN FRANCISCO, April . 19 Japanese soldiers like American jeeps, and some have even surrendered sur-rendered to get rides in them. Cpl. Ersate J. Johnson, U. S. M. C, 22, of Basile, -La., revealed that one such surrender gave leathernecks on Guadalcanal a laugh. ; ' y "One of our ,budides . was cleaning clean-ing his rifle," he said, "when a Jap in a marine's uniform walked up beside him. The Jap spoke good English ( and the marine , wasn't paying much, attention. . ? "Finally ' . the Jap ; said : ,'Hbw dock area also were hit and many fires were started at a nearby airdrome, air-drome, where oorabs fell among parked aircraft. (British-based bombers made a heavy and concentrated attack last night on Spezia on the Gulf of . (Continued on Page Three) War In Brief sniper?' "Boy, I d love to. I'd shoot him!" him!' " 'Well,. here's one.' "When the " marine turned around, and saw what was standing stand-ing beside him, did he get excited! He kept trying to get the bolt back into his rifls, and he was jumping up and down hollering: 'He's a Jap, he's a Jap!' "Finally, someone took - the Jap off to a concentration Camp in a jeep. He later asked us to get him a job as a jeep, driver." Johnson now is recovering In a naval hospital from wounds suffered suf-fered last Decembera short time before he was to leave Guadalcanal.'-'. ,s . ' Bv UNITED PRESS AFRICA: Allied fighters shot , down 74 Axis planes, 'Including &4 transports, in one of the greatest t aerial battles in history off Tu . nisfa. and bag 11 more in other operations for Sunday toDal of 85 against the loss of 1L French forces score local gains west of. Tunis. f ' EUROPE: Royal Air Force home-based bombers raid Spezia, Italian naval base, for second time in week and fighters and, fighter-bombers attack German." communications and U-boat base of Lorient. Y t , '. RUSSIA: Germans lost 1,400 more men in developing battJtle for the Kuban Y bridgehead : of the northwest 'Caucasus: Red' Army . captured strategic line . in the Ukraine. , AUSTRALIA: ADJed planes? raid Japanese airdromes on 2,000-mile 2,000-mile arc above Australia and 10,000-ton enemy merchantman off New Ireland. . . 1 . v v . . - ' . t? - |
