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Show RATHER For By Hoars News-Journ- al A Direct Etch li Wire brigham, box elder county, utah, Friday morning, January NUMBER 16 23, 1912 Japanese Throw 300,000 Men Into Pacific War ft Entire Japanese Army Battles Gen. McArthurs Lines, Who Faces Darkest Hour In 47 Days ap Troops Invade (An ustralian Territory t Outpost Rabaul ISLAND ATTACKED BY JAP BOMBERS; WOMEN AND CHILDREN WITHDRAWN 1ELBOURXE, Japanese UP) strong j Friday, Jan. troops, The Brigham Volunteer fire was called out department Thursday morning at 4:43 to save the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood from destruction, However, flames had already gained considerable headway when the firemen arrived promtly. The fire was thought to have started in the basement of the home at the rear and part of the house and the roof was burned. Most of the contents, including cothes and personal belongings of the family, were reported to be burned. The blaze was first seen by Eatl Tiller, a neighbor, whose bedroom faces the Wood home. Mr. Tiller called the fire dethe partment and awakened Wood family, it was reported. The damage was covered by insurance, it was said. nland. bis island continent was in ate of alarm. Air Minister ,ur S. Diake"prd and Army ,ster F. F. Forde issued a at midnight that after two at-i- s Japanese bombing fighting planes yesterdav, Rabaul garrison sighted a ; of 11 ships, including war-)s- , off the coast at 3:30 p. and that 30 minutes later ) communications with the communique nincing by 40 failed. e Japanese ships were 30 miles from Watum island, ch is 13 miles northwest of aul, when sighted by Aus-.a- n scout planes, ) abaul, frequent target for anese air raiders in the past th, suffered further dam-t- o installations in Junior Police two attacks yesterday, Officers Named h came at 9 and 10 a. m. ad been apparent for sever-cay- s Regular and extra Junior Pothat the Japanese lice from the Lincoln and Cene the city tral schools, softening up numbering 35 an Invasion, and Drakeford were sworn into office at boys, announced ... that thesea-. noon Thursday by Chief of Poe attack probably would lice Howard Call. with-wao on l Wednesday. The Mr. Call, in an interesting of women and children talk to the youngsters on points r. the city was announced to remember regarding civilian erdav. stressed their importdefense, rly extension of the Jap ance as defenders and protec-- I fcing operations ftom New tors of lives and property, lain island to New Guinea, Principal Douglas Gunderson fcse important bases are only of the Central school and Nor-- i miles southwest d Rabaul, man Anderson, of the Lincoln was feared. Thiee Japa-- r school faculty, were present and aircraft carriers 6uppor-b- made brief talks to the youngother naval vessels, sters out their responpointing vi-e known to be n the sibilities. David H. Maim, edof New Guiria, Forde was itor of the iosed. also present and lauded the vo coastal cities vf New for their attitude hea, Lae and Salarrluai and youngsters toward their work and the fact inland mining centt- Bulo-werthat no injuries have occurred . bombed this and last year under their Tie midnight communique districts, respective fi it wasthenot know definite-tha- t Followingpatrol is a list of appoinJapaie troop tees: fosports be presume to Grant BradLincoln school 11 the long ships (rhted near shaw, captain; Leonard Neilson, Yum island, off ibaul, had k attempted lands. it was first lieutenant; Gordon Shirts, , second lieutenant; Clark Jepp-sonSerally believe'' however, Saporu Tawatari, Max tu a landing,! not already Jack Butler, David Bull, Fryer, HL0, was imjncnt. Kent Peterson, Vernon Jensen, The air and"',my ministers MOLigrht it posse that the patrolmen. Paul BenCentral school forcAhad evacua--- nion, Don first Forest, captain; Rabaul. 'The army minis! declared 'lieutenant; John Zalzaree, second lieutenant; Sheron Thor-son- , never befor in history Dan Davis, John Reeve, Australia faesuch a Croft, Morris Ornand, nd that no Raymond An--I vds can be rong enough Bruce Nelson and Donald derson, patrolmen. drive home,' full of the station. defense j y y News-Journa- l, c Wen-sday- i j d , Box Elder Plays At North Cache Tonight AP FJHTERS ; 5PRED ATTACK 22 ,UP) ,Ra- Lai,ls Corcor ky U. P.. New r, "k at San Francisco) y jT0KY'Jan- Malaya said today were troops 'coHttacking the British all along the jin-.oref'ntbw the Muar river and !' re ivancing south toward ,ga o jn a rubber 0f sec. j Jane.se s fr's J he British troops in Payong area, while detachment reached a miles northwest of ,oL'on the Singapore f kn foth rail-Gema- p peng area the said t0 be at" Rish troops armed Svs k guns, while Bri- lch?rS armPd with guns were corner-i- ( ae Labis sector. a apaiv-snqxirt from a r;la,'0 Yong were The Box Elder Bees have ah-other tough game on tonight when they meet the Bulldogs of the North Cache at Richmond. North Cache is always hard to beat in their own small gym-- I nasium. To date they have won from Bear River and lost by three , points to Ogden. They will un-doubtedly be in a fighting mood tonight. Box Elder will be handicapped again this week without the services of Reed Jensen and forwards. both Lee Hansen, The Bees won a thriller last Friday from South Cache and will have to be at their best to beat North Cache tonight. 1 . Plans or the President's Birth 3. Ton.., r gapore. Imperial navy headquarters said Japanese planes had shot , 31, be.!?e d Saturda at the high school fL?nSuUmVare!10WJngP'r SHELLS IN CORREGIDOR As Japs pushed toward Manila they bombed Corregidor, heavily fortified Island at entrance to Manila Bay. Perhaps Japs will attempt to run battleships past island, with ensuing naval battle. Here are shells deep in Corregidors magazine, awaiting action. Increased Interest Shown In Civilian Defense BRITISH TURN JAPS BACK AT SOVIET ARMY RECAPTURE An increased interest in problems of civilian defense was SINGAPORE Five Jap Bombers Knocked Out Of Sky Over Singapore SINGAPORE, Jan., 22 (UP)-- , Strong British counter-assault- s on all the main land and air fronts in Malaya eased the Jap aerial seige of Singapore today, shattered an invasion spearhead groping down the east coast, and slowed or stopped the enemy drive in northwest Johore. Hurricane arrived Newly five Jap knocked fighter planes bombers out of the sky over Singapore where 287 were killed and 529 were wounded in yesterdays raids and helped turn back a second fleet of about 30 raiders before they could do any damage. At least one Japanese fighter was damaged in today's raids. Imperial troops ambushed a Japanese column striking down from Endau toward Mersing, 70 miles northeast of Singapore, and decimated its ranks while suffering only slight losses. Sanguinary combat, probably the heaviest sustained fighting of the whole Malaya campaign, and churned the swamps jungles around Payong hill 68 miles northwest of Singapore, where strongly entrenched and ferociously battling Australians were holding fast and threat-pninthe whole Japanese west flank. Mountain aerial defense activity bespoke welcome reinforcements in planes, tersely acknowledged in an official announcement that Hurricanes now are in action in the Singapore area." The speedy and heavily armed fighter planes helped win the aerial battle for Britain in the fall of 1910. g NEW TOWNS noted here last evening in the at several large attendance meetings held by county civilian defense workers under the general supervision of James E. Halverson. At the court house, where members of the planning and other committees met, 35 were present. At this meeting, it was decided by those present to complete a questionnaire to circulate the same in a nearby the community to determine possibility of taking care of evacuees from the Pacific coast should the occasion demand. Committees will work out the details of the questionnaire this week. At the high school 80 people of the protection division gathered to hear William L. Jensen. chairman of the Brigham City protection division, speak on communism, espionage and sabotage. Mr. Jensen spoke for one hour and his talk was well received. According to reports from other parts of the state, Box Elder is well ahead of any other county in perfecting its civilian defense organization.-- . Russ Troops DENOUNCE Continue Westward Advance county-chairma- j ARGENTINA MOSCOW, Friday, Jan. 23 (UP) The red army reported . troops today that Russian charging 14 miles westward from Mozhaisk had captured Uvarovo in a drive hat ow menaces Vyazma, the Uvarovo lies four miles west Borodino, and a communt- que announcing its recapture implied that the Russians had also taken that historic town when the grand army won a victory but lost an empire In r . of op-th- Chris-tofferso- ugi2. jna, 70 miles distant, another column was reported pushing in from the Rzhev sector an equal distance north, in what seemed to be a two-dadrive to seize the town before the Germans e had a chance to get a hold in it. The soviet radio announced he capture of the unidentified and resultant village of F clearing of the way to the town cf R possibly Rzhev, in the region of which the red army has been fighting for .several days. The night communique of the soviet high command said the Russian troops continued their s westward advance and pipd a number of populated places, including Uvarovo. Utah To Go On Daylight Saving Time d y saving has been Daylight a law of the land Presi- dent Roosevelt signed the bill which pushes all clocks in the nation ahead one hour on the morning of February Sth, to stay there until after the war. Jt is estimated the measure will save five hundred thousand kilowatts of power pen jear. This marks the first time since World War I that the entire na'ion has adopted the measure although some eastern have had daylight sav- time during the summer ing months for a number of veats. The law specifically provides L.D.S. Church that clocks governing interstate transportation and all. Worker Dies federal activities must be moved SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 22 ahead one hour. Thus, when -- One of the (UP) ! inter-bus railroads, lines, and of the L. D. veteran workers ob-statp trucking lines begin of injurS. died church today serving tile n"W' schedule men- - ies suffered in a fall Monday. tinned in the law, the public Jacob He was must gear themselves accord- Gates, husband of the late Susa inglv. Gates, a daughter of This will be the pictme after Y'oung Young. Brigham February 9 Gates was the oldest alumnus The man v ho has been going of the University of Deteret, to work at 8 a. m. will still go and the oldest missionary to acto work at 8 a. m. but will Hawaii. He was born in Utah, tually be going to work at 7 and married Susa Young in a. m., and the person who' 1880 in the St. George L. D. S. goes to bed at 10 o'clock now, temple. will go to bed at 9 p. m. solan Eleven children were born to time. the couple, and four survive. These include Mrs. Emma Lucy ! an Gates Bowen, formerly opera star: Harvey H. Gates, a noted Hollwood scenarist; accepted as a member of the Franklyn Y. Gates, a radio en-Lions club at the meeting held gineer; and Mi's. John A. Widt- night at the Howard soe, wife of the L. D. S. apos- tie. Iliilel banquet room. foot-mad- er j j occu-state- rat-port- s. pas-Sang- best-know- n 1 Program Planned CITY COURT NEWS Delbert Waltcis was fined S3 city court Thursday on a down or destroyed on the ground charge of operating an automo10 planes of the Dutch East bile without plates. 82 of the Indies and seven British Hur- fine was suspended providing Watteis pay M, which he did ricane fighters ove Singapore. in men has been thrown into the battle for Luzon and the whole Bataan peninsula front has blazed into action in a re- newal of the Japanese attempt to crusb American and Filipino defenders, the army said dav Particularly heavy fighting ls ,n Progress on left and cen- Gen. MacArthur's line, pr wap department communl JU0 said without giving any in- Nation of how the heavily out- numbered defenders were with- standing the onslaught. But even as the men of Mac- Arthur faced their darkest hour in 47 days of savage fighting there came from a high govern- ment spokesman here a shining nows that large ray of hope troop redispo6itions have paved the way for U. S. reinforce- ment of the general southwest Pacific area where the United Nations are fighting with their backs to the wall. The nature of the reinforcements and the specific defenses being bulwarked are a mili- County Chairman, Abel S. Rich and Brigham City Chairman, Glen M. Bennion. Compton and the members of Assisting the two men named the board of directors of the are the following chairmen Box Elder chamber of com-- , from nearby communities: Nebeker and Wavne merce, Van Stewart was named Woodandi Norman Willard; vice president and Carroll B. jpppson jilantua; Douglas Williams sustained as secre- - Quayie, Perry; Mrs. Bosley, Co- rinne; Delmar Whitney, Brig- tary. were named to ham Jaycees; Earl Madsen, chamber of commerce; Mrs. f carry out the v,,, s Norman Jeppson, Civic Im- provement club; Mrs. Wayne ap- - Woodland, club; Kindegarten George Mason, Lions club; Van Tolman The following committee as- - Stewart, Rotary Club; Leonard Burke, Honeyville; ' signments were announced last pjorce. Harper Ward; Mrs. Mis. Austin evening by Secretary Williams: Robert Gardner, Aeronautics Eugene C. Johnson and Mis. Aaron Christensen Boar Rivcr aiy Howard chairman: Wixom, Call, Chas. Whitworth, Harold B. Felt, director member. WOOL GROWERS tary secret. Lee Holst, Advertising This much was made clear, S. C. Walter Mann, chairman; however; Van Stewart, director Hamilton, Moves to strengthen the member. southwest front have been O. A. Christen-- , Agriculture made possible by continental sen, chairman; Alfred N. Olsen, redistribution of 600,000 AmeriNorman Jensen, P. C. Knudsen, can troops and other vast miliLloyd N. Davis, director memtary steps which powerfully ber. Woolmen Gather In bulwarked Hawaiian and west II. II. Kilroy, Atihletics coast defenses from California D. Milton Peters, Salt Lake At 77th chairman; to Alaska. Jarvis Koford, R. L. ThompThe spokesman did not dis Annual Convention son, director member. close the details or scope of B. C. Stratford, Auditing SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 22 'American reinforcements in the chairman; Glenn Bennion, Geo. (UP) Denunciation of Argen- - southwest Pacific. But he did diA. Anderson, R. V. Wixom, as pro-naand the en- - reveal that months before the tina rector member. dorsement of past federal tar--, outbreak of the war, the army Mont Harmon, Education A. F. chairman; F. Joseph Law. 77111 annual convention of big bombers to the Philip- Nelson at the TJinrktev Norman of the National Woolgrowers as- - pines and that they are . do- jjr sociation here today. ing good work. J. Elmer Brock of Kaycee, Reinforcements have been jeyf chairman; A. Elwyn Seely, former president of the such, he continued, that they Wyo., ;w. H. Griffiths, Platte Clark, American Livestock already are restoring some of National director member. e Ross C. association, told delegates that- the balance between the Federal Projects United States good neigh- posing forces, Bowen, chairman; Nello bor policy has been wasted on However, hordes of fresh Will Morrell. th? ArSentlne. emy troops are spilling into Fish and Game termcd the government of Luzon through Lingayen Gulf Petersen, chairman; Earl G the South American nation and Subic Bay, rolling down Ole Anderson, Vanoz T. Wilson, un- - to mountain-studdeand Bataan opportunist Spierman, R. L. Thompson, di dependable he was province and pounding against and said rector member, told the mayor of Buenos MacArthurs constricted lines House Dan Peterson, chair- - Aires by summer last that the 13 which some miles stretch W. S. man; Marvel Dunn, would "go nazi un- - across the waist of the penln Beecher, Not man Nelson, direc- Argentine less meat import bans were sula. tor member. This was revealed in army Alfred N. Olsen, lifted. Irrigation no meat communique No. 70 which said has Argentina Wm. chairman, Reynold Reeder, T. Davis, Lloyd N. Davis, di- problem. They actually have the entire Japanese 14th army a domestic shortage. They want together with a number of rector member. access to our markets because other units Mar-rinperhaps as many Laws and Legislation our prices are slightly higher,, as 300,000 in all now are M. Morrison, chairman; rock declared. Their Luzon. ashore on profits W. E. Davis, J. W. Peters, already are exorbitant, and are Platte Clark, director member, distributed a feudal NFW TIRF among RasS. Martin Membership class of 2,200 large land- ruling V. mussen, chairman; Earl owners. QUOTAS TOLD Madsen, J. Leo Nelson, Harold The Wyoming livestock leadB. Felt, director member. er recommended a senate in- - SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. Merchants Ray Grant, Utah motorists who of propaganda for! (UP) Orville chairman; Merrell, lifting of restrictions on im-- , have the necessary priority Thayne Jensen, Otto Kofoed. are going to get a few He said such a move ing New Industries Clarence would reveal the "alien morp tires in February than origin Smith, chairman; David H. of the propaganda. theyre getting this month. Mann, J. Leo Nelson, Vosco The state defense council reDr. John Lee Coulter, WashCall, director member. that a quota of 528 ports ington economist, agricultural Roads George Tiller, chair- addressed the afternoon sescartires has been set man; John W. Howard, Oscy an and praised tariff policies for Utah for February sion, Jensen, Abel S. Rich, Emery which, he have not per- jncrease of 37 over January-Fo- r Reese, R. V. Wixom, director mitted the said, these tires there will be woolen and leather member. new tubes available in Febindustries to languish, but have maintained them, on a parity ruary, an Increase of 31. Will Hold Scout with other branches of agriculOwners of light trucks, moture and the development of torcycles and busses wont do Court Of Review our modern industrial life. so good. The February quota of tires for these vehicles is A court of review will be held Monday night at 7:30 p. Idaho Car Dealers only 862, compared with 1,159 m. in the city hall and this Jseing issued this month. The will be the last time a scout Meet Federal Trouble tube quota for trucks, however, can be reviewed before the BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 22 (UP) ,is increased from 969 in Janucourt of honor to be held SunState officials are investigat- ary to 1,479 for February. The quota for Box Elder day night, at 7:30 o'clock Feb. ing reports that two Idaho au1 in the tabernacle at Brigham. tomobile dealers violated pro county for February is 16 tires This court of review will take visions of the federal ban on and 13 tubes for passenger cars tires and 75 tubes for care of all scouts from Brig- car and truck sales by dispos and light trucks. ham, Corinne, Bear River City, ing of their stocks. The dealers, whose identity Honeyville, Mantua, Perry and Willard, who have passed tests was not disclosed, reportedly WILL NOT HOLD of UNION MEETING for which they have cards and sold their entire stocks There will be no Sunday the autos and trucks, from examiners claiming signed slips vehicles were "demonstrators School Union meeting In this and scoutmasters, it was nounced last evening by Dr. and did not come under the city Sunday, Jan. 25, stake officials announced last evening. R A. Pearse. government freezing order. ' The Ogdon office of the national forest service will bring a program to the Business and Professional Women's club at the commercial club rooms on February 6. it was announced Thursday by Lenora Romer. Box Elder chamber of commerce will cooperate in sponsoring the meeting, which will Malaya base said the British stress national forest conservawere rushing up Australian tion, namely, trees, soil and .troops and new fortifications erosion. for a desperate defease of Sin- ns. Vistches said Japanese col-tsuashed across the Muar iwr Wednesday and were WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 (UP) An entire Japanese army perhaps as many as 300,000 COMMITTEEMEN Fire Loss fleet of 11 ships invaded e believed to have straiian territory today at outpost of Rabaul, on northern New Britain island, 800 the s from Australian borne in a j AGAINST JAP THREATS CHAIRMEN AND Wood Family Suffers led aerial vanguard U.S. MOVES TO BULWARK THE ENTIRE PACIFIC AREA C. OF C. NAMES 40 Klf Th With the United Press Room Is New York City. tlti i)LOjjJ d) Eighteen Dj Served will not perTht government to be given mit weather reports of the war. duration the for j j 4--1 1 j f ,v. |