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Show . 1 , Call The Herald If you don't receive your Herald before 6j30, call 495 before 8 o'clock and a copy will be sent to you. The Weather Forecast - for J Prove- and" vicinity S Showers this ; afternoon. . Warmer . today.. Little change in temper ature tonight; Frost tonight. ; , 'Tmr'- High ... ..... SI - Low . . . . ... ..... . . . . . . ,.. 37 - 0 ' FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 255 B.g?S : PROVO, ' UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1943 . ; V ' . ogWtaSi PRICE FIVE CEl" ttyy f 1AM vx$AhMJkm aZaU LLU Us UJJ Lr . "..-"- . -. - ! - . , . . " . : i . , : War Labor Board Denounces Lewis For His Defiance Lewis' Defiance Declared To Be Only Thing Standing in the Way of forking Out New Contract For Mine Workers By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 17 U.R The war labor board today to-day denounced President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and said his defiance was "the only thing that stands in the way of working out a new contract for the mine workers.'' The board issued a statement after a one-hour meeting with bituminous coal mine operators. Lewis, still contending contend-ing that the board has no jurisdiction over the dispute, re- fused to attend. The meeting was called to arrange for resumption Nazis Fortify Themselves For Invasion DE CHAT BY THE EDITOR V ii . If OPA Administrator Brown wants to create public good will for his price regulating and rationing ra-tioning agency we will offer a suggestion: Repeal the absurd requirement that motorists must write their car license numbers on the backs of gasoline gaso-line coupons. There isn't a person in the country who feels this is necessary; neces-sary; in fact, who does not feel that it is a piece of hokum, that nobody ever classifies, catalogues and counts 'em. "Some say it is hypocrisy; others that the great Federal Government Govern-ment of U. S. regards them as saps. If Mr. Brown accepts this suggestion, we'll make another an-other one. 0O0 SDeakUig about gas, one ra tion board was studying renewal renew-al applications for supplemental gasoline, when they ran across the following reason affixed to one of them: "Spring brings more hustling around for vari ous things which, is impossiwe to say just what." By the way, which is the correct cor-rect pronounciation of the word "ration" which five years ago was virtually unknown. Today it bobs ap a cozen times in an evening's eve-ning's conversation and you find it pronounced two ways. Some people pronounce it to rhyme with nation, some rhyme it with fashion. Strictly speaking, both forms are correct, and most dictionaries dic-tionaries give you free choice. The present swing, however, seems to be to give ration the short A,x as in fashion, when it is used in thei modern sense of gas rations, sugar rations, etc. - -0O0 Before the' OPA set a ceiling price on alarm clocks some people peo-ple Were reported to have paid as high as $9. And they're supposed sup-posed to wake you up, not put you to sleep.' It's nice to be the head of the house except for the headaches that go with it. 0O0 The Germans' defeat in North Africa is their worst since 1918. of direct negotiations between Lewis and the operators. "The issue now confronting the nation in this dispute is whether Mr. Lewis is above and beyond the laws which apply to all other citizens of the United States," the board said. The statement said that, the coal controversy, like all other wage disputes, came under the jurisdiction of the war labor board by order of the president Applies To All "This law applies to the coal miners and coal operators, as -well as to every other citizen of the United States," the board said. "In demanding a wage increase and at the same time refusing to seek the approval of the national war labor board, Mr. Lewis is defying' de-fying' the lawfully established procedures of the government of the United States. l -"Thjs-i!r-.no.-only'deflance-o our laws, but it is also the only thing that stands in the way of the working out of a new contract for the mine workers by orderly, peaceful procedure in accordance with the order of the national war labor board of May 14, 1943, and the national stabilization policy under the act of congress of Oct. 2, 1942. "This defiance challenges the sovereignty of the United States in time of war and gives aid and comfort to our enemies." The statement was issued 36 hours before expiration of the truce which Lewis ordered to keep the mines in operation after they were seized by the government May 1. The board offered no apparent ap-parent solution to the crisis. In its order of last Friday it had asked the miners and the operators to reopen negotiations. Lewis said he wanted to resume negotiations but he refused to do so under the jurisdiction of the WLB. Lewis had made good his promise prom-ise not to have a representative at today's meeting of the board with mine operators. By this action he again refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the board and left hanging over the dispute the threat of a strike at midnight tomorrow when the truce arranged with Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes two weeks ago expires. He refused re-fused despite the fact thajt the board ordered what he himself had been asking resumption of negotiations .with the operators. The stumbling block appeared to be th,e board's insistence that (Continued on Page Three) 2Z&zy&, vj I ,S Allies V, cJ?&. rfe lg f v4 ,rj si i mliiiiril r- v (NEA Telephotoi This picture of the Nazi "Atlantic Wall," taken by noe of Herr Goebbels photographers and published to boost the morale of mans who fear an Allied invasion shows Nazi soldiers carrying mining equipment through anti-tank fortifications and. mine fields. The "wall, " built under direction of Nazi arms production director Albert Speer, is supposed to extend 5000 miles along the channel, and Atlantic coasts of Europe. FIVE DIE AFTER IDAHO ACCIDENT Sugar Stamp 13 To Yield 5 Pounds WASHINGTON, May 17 OLE) The Office of Price Administration Administra-tion announced today that sugar stamp No. 13 in War Ration Book One will become valid on June 1. and will be good for five pounds of sugar through Aug 15. This will maintain the current ration of .? five pounds of sugar for a , period of two and a half months. Stamp No. 12, also good for five pounds of sugar, expires on May 31. .The ; OPA explained that the early announcement xt the next sugar ration period is being made to enable the sugar trade to plan its .operations well ; in. advance, and thus 4 make "the best possible use of plants,; labor, and trans portation facilities. : This is par ticularly important now, the OPA said, because cf the ; anticipated additional- demands for sugar for home canning on and ; after May 15. ' ' - ' ' . BLACKFOOT, Idaho, May 17 (IIP) Five persons today had died of injuries suffered Saturday night when their speeding passenger pas-senger car crashed head-on into a truck near here. Latest victim cf the crash was Keith Singleton, 17, St. Anthony, who died yesterday. yester-day. The four other passengers were killed instantly. They were Staff Sgts. Conrad Lyman, Boulder, Utah, and Richard E. Mason, Johnstown, Pa., both, stationed at the Pocatello Air Base; Charles Harris Parke, 29, and Morris Claude Angell, 21, of St. Anthony. An-thony. ' Ray Chaffee, Pocatello, driver of the truck suffered shock and minor injuries. Peputy Sheriff W. G. Jones said the passenger car, driven by Parke, was speeding south and went out of control. Chaffee, in attempting to avoid the oncoming machine, swerved his truck but it swung across the highway where tha speeding passenger machine ma-chine crashed into it, Jones said. 2C0 Delegates to Attend World's 5 Food Conference DENIES By H. O. THOMPSON United Press . Staff Correspondent Ropsevelt's Son In the Hospital l SAN DIEGO, Calif., May. 17 OLE) Lt. Col. James Roosevelt, USMC, son of the president; will arrive at the naval hospital here this week fi-om the South Pacific, marine officials announced today. Roosevelt will receive medical care for a "slight case of malaria,", which he contracted in the Solo mon islands, officials said. Geneva to Start Plate Production Late In November WASHINGTON, May 17 U.E Sen. Abe Murdock, D., Utah, said today he had received word from the ,War Production Board confirming; con-firming; reports .that the Geneva, Utah, steel plant would start rolling roll-ing mill production late in November No-vember and , structural steel fabrication fab-rication -one month later. Highland G. Batcheller, director direc-tor of the steel division of the WPB said in a I letter to Murdock Mur-dock that 91,000 tones of steel for the plant had been delivered and that a large portion of , this had already been erected. - & , The letter added that the Iron-ton Iron-ton pig iron plant .; with a capacity capa-city of , '700,000 pigs a year would start production soon. Killing Frost Dclieucd to Have,' . : : Damage j Friiii Grpp and Gardens Farmers, '-. fruit growers; and i today, but . indications were that victory gardeners today surveyed the damage donfr ,by this morning's morn-ing's frost and" at " the same time brooded over the weather bureau's forecast of another frost tonlghU ' The mercury, dipped to 27 degrees, de-grees, flye: below freezing-point, this morning. Accurate estimates as to the damage wrought in fields, orchards orch-ards and gardens were unavailable the loss will be heavy. : Considerable damage was v reported re-ported by fruit men In some localities. local-ities. Strawberries were hard hit in spotted, areas although . some growers said their loss won't; be heavy if additional frosts are hot forthcoming. - " ' ' ' Tomatoes, beans and many oth er such plants which weren't Cov-' ered were - badly damaged wherever wher-ever the frost hit. -, -' arrive HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 17 U.R) The first , effort of the United Nations to work together on peaceful projects as Well as in the grim business of war be gins tomorrow with the conven ing of an International -Confer ence on post-war food problems. Some 200 foreign delegates will at this mountain resort tonight with their technicians and advisers, swelling to about J carve handholds 500 the number who will engage officially in this historic attempt to substitute internatioiial team work for narrow self-interest after the war. A mountain village which has become accustomed to fashionably fashion-ably dressed visitors from the cities of America was frankly excited ex-cited about this gathering of strangers from the far corners of the earth. The tongues of distant China and India, of Russia and Egypt, mingled with the soft cadences of the Latin countries in surroundings sur-roundings more - accustomed to the drawl of the American south. Forty-five nations will be represented rep-resented at the conference -the 32 United Nations and 13 associated asso-ciated delegates. The conference is being held at the Homestead, luxury resort hotel taken over by the government govern-ment for the next three weeks, exclusively- for this meeting. Steel-helmeted soldiers carrying sidearms but no rifles and bayonets bayo-nets are guarding the hotel, permitting per-mitting none to enter without the proper credentials. . ? Forty-five btr-of-town newspa permen are here, assigned to cover the proceedings. Original-lythe Original-lythe plan was to bar them from all contact with the conference except at the opening and closing sessions. That ruling has been softened, although newsmen are not permitted inside the hotel ex cept under proper escort. " The broad subjects to be discussed dis-cussed are, ( ) 1 food consumption levels and requirements, (2) possibilities pos-sibilities for expansion of production produc-tion and. adaption to world consumption con-sumption needs, and (3) Improvement Improve-ment of distributional facilities. c NAVY POISON GAS USE AT ATTU No Word Received Of "Progress Made In Attu Battle JBv JOSEPH L. MYIJCR United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 17 (U,R The navy today emphatically em-phatically denied Japanese broadcast claims that American Ameri-can forces have used poison gas in their attacks on Attu. A navy spokesman, commenting com-menting on the Japanese claims, said: "Enemy claims that the U. S forces in the Aleutians have used gas are absolutely untrue.'. Although army troops are making mak-ing the attacks on Attu, the navy is responsible for the operation and the spokesman's comment on the poison gas charges was presumed pre-sumed to represent the views of both services. Broadcast Makes Charge-There Charge-There still was no word here of progress of the battle on the westernmost west-ernmost of the Aleutian string of islands. But Radio Tokyo, apparently appar-ently preparing the Japanese people peo-ple for news that the Americans have captured Attu, said American Ameri-can reinforcements are landing there steadily, supported by naval guns and airplanes. The poison gas charge was made in the same broadcast, which quoted Maj. Gen, Nakao Yahagi, chief of the Japanese army press section, as stating that "a pitched battle is now in progress" on Attu. :;; XJB- f orces wereexpected to attack Gissa after or perhaps even before Attu is taken. An official spokesman for the war department made that plain in his weekly radio review of the war in which he said that the battle bat-tle on the rocKy, barren island of Attu was another step in "the progress of sweeping into the sea the Nips on both Attu and KisSTST' He also confirmed that the long-range long-range plans behind the Attu of-1 f ensive envisage striking at Tokyo over the noitnern island route. "Here (at Attu)," the spokesman spokes-man said, -some 600 miles from Japan's northern springboard of Paramushiro in the Kuriles, American Amer-ican bayonets today not only dispute dis-pute the invaders who had occupied occu-pied Attu, but by the same token preliminary to the assault which will one day bring the war !home to the Nip mainland. Tokyo is but. a scant 2,000 miles from Attu." There has been no communique on the action since the brief announcement an-nouncement that American soldiers sol-diers had attacked the island last Tuesday. There was no evidence of concern con-cern here. Confidence stemmed from these Known factors: 1. The navy's original announcement announce-ment that details would not be divulged di-vulged until the situation clarifies clari-fies presumably until victory Is clinched and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox's subsequent assurance, that the Americans arc "doing very satisfactorily." 2. defeatist tone of Tokyo reports, re-ports, which appeared to be preparing pre-paring the Japanese public for bad news by saying that the Americans "greatly outnumber the small number of Japanese defenders." Italian Base Near Rome, Berlin Heavily Bombeii RAF Fliers Blow Up Two Big Power Dams In Raid On Germany u Daring: Blow To German Production Reported Re-ported To Have Resulted in Damaging: Floods With Heavy Casualties LONDON, May 17 U.R The Royal Air Force, in one of the most darinp; and damaging single blows of the war, broke two great German dams supplying; power for the huge Ruhr and Eder industrial sectors last night, and loosed 336,-000,000 336,-000,000 tons of water that swept in great waves down the two valleys. Eight big four-engined Lancaster bombers and their ;rews were 'sacrificed in the "superbly, daring and skillful 7 attack" that carried the Allied aerial offensive against Axis Europe into its fifth day of relentless, re-lentless, big-scale attack, but Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair described the breaking of the dams as a "trenchent blow" of a new kind against the enemy. Heavy Casualties The Nazi high command, admitting admit-ting that two dams were dam- Guadal ! aged, said the resulting floods caused heavy casualties among the population. The attack on the power dams was made while ,RAP Mosquito Corsair Fighter Planes Destroy 16 Jap Planes Italian Seaplane Base 15 Miles From Rome is Hit SMASH JAP INSTALLATIONS NEW DELHI, May 17 (HE) Mitchell medium bombers of the Tenth United States Air Force smashed Japanese railroad instal lations in the Ehwebo' area of Burma yesterday and started fires which sent up columns of smoke visible 50 miles, a communique said today.. ' AMERICAN BASE, canal, May 13 (Delayed) U.E The Navy's new Vought?Sikorsk Corsair, high altitude fighter planes made a debut in the Southwest Pacific today, dstroying all but one of 17 Japanese Zeros that were downed in a running battle. "They are "better than anything we" or the Japs have from every angle," Maj. Robert S. Fraser, of the United States Marine Corps and Genesee, N. Y., a squadron leader, said enthusiastically after the dogfight ' which ranged from the Russell Islands to Savo. Pilots said the Corsairs came up fully to advance predictions that they would outfight any pursuit pur-suit plane in the Pacific. "The American losses were four corsairs, some of the pilots being saved, and one Lockheed Lightning. Lightn-ing. The battle lasted 20 minutes, and the Zeros never had a chance because of the speed and fire power of the heavy, high-altitude, long range Corsairs which are credited generally with a speed of around 400 miles per hour. The Japanese came down in two waves totaling 25 Zeros. Their purpose was not clear, unless un-less it was to scout the results of a morning bombardment of Mun-da Mun-da and Vila. . They were intercepted at alti-teudes alti-teudes of 15,000 to 27,000 feet by Corsairs, Warhawks, Airacobras, and Lightnings. The Corsairs numbered less than half of the total force but accounted for 16-17th of the bag. spectacular bombers were slashing at Berlin for the third time in four nights, and while Allied Intruder planes attacked small enemy vessels, freight trains and airfields in strong night" raids in western Europe, including the Bolulogne area of France and the Belgian coast. Fighter sweeps in which five enemy planes were destroyed continued con-tinued the aerial offensive in daylight day-light today. The breaking of the two dams in the face of tremendous antiaircraft anti-aircraft fire was described by Sinclair as an outstanding feat of the aerial offensive. "The walls of the Mohne river (in Westphalia) and the Eder valley (in West Prussia) were broken and the waters descended on the valleys of the Ruhr and Eder in huge waves," Sinclair said. The Eder iam is near Hem-furth, Hem-furth, two rrnles south of Wal-deck, Wal-deck, and ise biggest reservoir dam in Germany. The Mohne- dam is near Soest, 26 miles east of Dortmund, and is the biggest water supply for the Ruhr valley, heart of the Nazi war industries. The air ministry announced today to-day the Royal Air Force lost nine bombers in the night s operations Payson Hospital Suit Under Way ' The suit filed by Payson city and three physicians operating the Payson hospital to collect approximately ap-proximately 51500 from Wayland R. Wightman, former hospital manager, was in progress in Fourth district court Monday. Mr. Wightman unlawfully appropriated ap-propriated the money for his own use,, writing two checks for the amount on hospital funds, the plaintiffs allege. Mr, Wightman claims the money was due him under a promised salary increase. By. UNITED PRESS A growing Allied air offensive of-fensive against Axis Europe slashed at Berlin, hammered in Italian seaplane base within with-in 15 miles of Rome, and broke two of the .greatest dams in Germany, unleashing hundreds of millions of tons of water in huge waves on the Ruhr valley industrial area. The breaking of the dams on the Eder and Mohne rivers was one of the most spectacular aerial blows of the war, and one of the hardest struck against the heart of Nazi war strength. Eight biff Lancaster bombers were lost. Another three-ply attack by the Royal Air Force battered Nazi targets in the Ruhr and Rhine-land, Rhine-land, as well as the German capital capi-tal in the pre-invasion air campaign cam-paign aganist the European citadel cita-del now roaring through its fifth straight day. A bomber force from conquered con-quered Africa hit Lido Di Roma in the closest swipe of the war at Rome, the "Holy City" so far un scathed in more than three years of war. British Wellingtons attacked at-tacked the Italian seaplane base 15 miles southwest of the Italian capital. An Italian communique, admitted the bombing of Ostia, the Port of itome, and said Allied planes were over the capital itself.. The bombing of the environs of Rome coincided with persistently rumored crisis in Premier Benitoy Mussolini's Fascist regime. Italy (Continued on Page Three) Germans Massing Tanks For Hew Drive In Russia By M. S. HANDLER United Prews Staff Correspondent (MOSCOW, May 17 (U.E Large concentrations of German Mark, VI 'Tiger' tanks were reported in the Orel and Belgorad sectors to-cay, to-cay, supporting the belief in Russian Rus-sian military "quarters that !Adolf Hitler is planning a lightning offensive of-fensive in the hope of paralyzing the Red army before the Allies open a second front in Europe. Belgorad is 42 miles north of Kharkov and Orel is 166 miles miles north of Belgorad, It was believed that the German high command intended to rely on its heavy tanks and 88-millimeter cannon to drive wedges in the Soviet line for the German armies to drive through. Tt wa said here that the Rus- ..n rrrt manH iirpariv had worked It was the 64th raid ot the war out a method Df dealing with the tanks. RiiRNian artillerv oounded at not specified in the communique. 1 German defenses of the Black Sea on the German capital. Targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland were U Dr. Franklin S.1 Harris, president presi-dent of the Brigham Young university, uni-versity, will attend the conference as a representative from Iran (Persia) - having been designated by hat country for the post, because be-cause n of ; his understanding , of thaL; nation's ; problems, gained from an extended residence there several years ago.) , ' American Submarines Sink Six More Japanese Ships WASHINGTON. May 17 (TIE) American . submarines, thrusting: deep into Japan's Pacific supply arteries, nave 'sunk5 six , more enemy ships arid damaged another, the navy announced today. : . The navy also reported continuation continu-ation for the third consecutive day of the.U. S. aerial assault on Japanese Japa-nese shipping concentrations t in the northwestern Solomons. . if Torpedo bombers attacked s formation for-mation of four enemy cargo ships in the. Buin area and left one of them burning.; -.. . The communique; contained no news about progress of our at tack on Attu, in the Aleutians, which began last Tuesday. " , The latest aaul by U. S. submarines sub-marines included: ; Sunk a ; destroyer, & ' large cargo ship, a medium-sized cargo ship, ; a - medium-sized transport, a small v passengejr-f reighter and a smalr escort , vessel. . Damaged a large tanker. 1 ': - These sutmarine successes raised' rais-ed' to 232 the total, of 'Japanese ships hit by -our underseas raiders raid-ers sinco the "outbreak of 'War in the Pacific- 162 sunk, 26 probably sunk, and 44 damaged. i . As their part in the big Allied assault, American planes have been attacking by day, with the British taking up at night. American Ameri-can fighters raided occupied countries coun-tries Sunday and a record number num-ber of U. S. bombers to attack Germany rained bombs on Emden Saturday. naval base .of Novorossisk as front line reports told of new Soviet air attacks on rail centers and of renewed activity in the Donets river basin. It was announced that 370 German Ger-man planes were destroyed ' last week against the loss of 104 Rus siar. aircraft. King of Italy To Abdicate, Report By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent . - LONDON, May 17 (U.R A clandestine radio station rolling itself "Free Milan ' appealed to the Italian people. today to-day to fight side by side with the Allies in ousting Premier Benito Mussolini as reports circulated that King Victor Enit manuel III,V 73-year-old nominal ') : ruler of Italy, had abdicated Rumors said that .the king had been replaced by his son. Prince Humbert, in an Italian' internal crisis arising from the defeat in Africa and the danger of invasion. The broadcast urging Italians tp '.. arm themselves "in order to help the Allies in their task:' The announcer blamed Mussolini for Italy's plight. . Hide Discontent " . 'There is only one way. out- immediate peace with, the Allies," he said. : "Mussolini and . his gang have plunged otu country in utter misery. The people must not regard re-gard the enemy, as the enemy of Italy but: the enemy of our own enemy Mussolini and his gangsters." gang-sters." . .. -..--;' . - . ' V The announcer said that discon tent was "deep rooted" in Italy and extended to the countiya armed forces. . "The enemy is powerful, tmt we can prove to him our true be-v lief, in -'justice; if we lend him a helping hand the, day he appears on our shores, and thati day; is . approaching," he ' declared. -? ; Well informed sources In London Lon-don caid there was no evidence to support reports that the- Germana were withdrawing :-troops . from. Italy. -V-'-:' 1 f. Observers said - the 'Italian air force counted on to defend Italy was v outclassed ' In v both quality and quantity of its aircraft Italy, it. was said, had no night fighters (Continued on Page Three) . . i |