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Show '' x&r- Issued by the Salt Lake Weather Bureau for publication only! Salt Lake ancirvicimty: Slightly warmer today and tonight. Yesterday! - maximum. 74; minimum, normal, 58. 18; .mean; 61; Diiterence ower Chief Issues Plan 8-Poi- Former President Would Allow Sixth Column More Services 21. WASHINGTON. May (AP) The War Manpower Commission. today directed the Service System to Instruct local ' boards to consult with Federal Employment Service offices before drafting any ' We must start our thinking " with a disagreeable," cold. hard factThat. .is, tne economic measures necessary to win total war are just plain fascist eco- . " " nomics Hoover addressed the National Industrial Conference Board, a research organization, on the topic ;'The Limitations of Free.-, ' doin' In War"' and while stressing the need of "Fascist, measures in mobilizing the nations economy declared an equal need to guard against their being frozen into American life alter ' the war, FOR FREER SPEECH Pleading for the retention of civil liberties by which the country could so stand guard, he asserted that from a philosophical viewpoint" he would like to see the sixth columnists given a little more liberty." They are defined as the ones who discuss the war or speculate or even criticize in private t ... hob-naile- d - umnists." From the same platform came raids a forecast of by thexAxis on American war that the . plants and a prediction end of 1943 would see 22,500,000 war additional soldiers and workers in action. "I predict, said Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson in discussing, possible enemy attacks, that the first attack which is made directly from the air or otherwise will bring out in Us the same qualities that were shown so splendidly by the English at the first bombing raids." The prediction of the increase of 22.500,000 in soldiers and war workers was made by war manMcpower Commissioner Paul V, Nutt, who hinted there would be some sort of a labor draft. "Compulsion may be necessary from time to time were his words in describing how workers this year and next year 7.500,000 another Would be shifted into war. pro. ' duction. We shall still need 3,000,000 from the unemployed and from ... other groups such as women who are not now on the labor market, he said. "For every skilled tool designer now available we need 51 y . . and so on down a long list of key jobs. In the armed forces. McNutt declared, 2.000,000 men will be added in 1942 and 2,500,000 MeasureWould Gather Taxes By Installment n BY DONALD A. YOUNG e brackets. Hardly the committee its new individual completed tax program by raising the range of surtaxes from per cent to per cent than it turned to. Secretary Morgen-lhau- s proposal to collect up to TO per cent of taxable income from salaries and wages. That plan would authorize the ; Treasury Department, perhaps in September, to make regular deductions from paychecks which would be used, as a credit against the tax hill due nextMarcii 15. The committee's new income tax proposals would add an $2, 750,000000 to the Ttow "corrected, with " heavy emphasis on incomes be- jectives, to become effective June"l, as follows: 1. The United States Employment Service shall prepare and Lmainlain a list of those skilled occupations essential to- war production in which a. national shortage exists. Such occupations as critical will be designated war occupations. 2. The War Production Board shall classify war plants and war products in the order of their urgency in the war program. 3. The Employment Service shall make preferential referrals of workers to employers engaged in war production in .the order of thejr priority before making referrals to. other employers. 4. The Employment Service shall proceed immediately to analyze and classify the occupational questionnaires distributed by the Selective Service-Systeto interview those individuals with skills in critical war occupations. and to refer them to job in war production openings low $5,000. The program would be based on $500 exemptions for single persons and $1,200 for husbands and wives, a normal tax of 0 per cent instead of 4. and minimum Group Proposed 21. (AP) NEW YORK, May Donald M. Nelson, head of theWar Production Board, disclosed.. today that Secretary of Agricul-ture Wickard would probably Food Rehead a new "over-al- l the under Committee quirements - WPBr announcement was Nelsons contained in a telegram read at a luncheon of the Associted Grocery Manufacturers of America. where Wickard spoke and cautioned against a possible nation-a- l food shortage. , ... Baseball work. 5. The Selective Service System boards located in a. community served by the United States Employment Service to secure the advice of the local public em-- ' ployment office before classifying or reclassifying an individual skilled in a critical war occupation, 6. The Employment Service shall increase its activities and facilities necessary to provide ad- - See DRAFT On Page 6 had 12-8- New Food Needs ,i . 21. WASHINGTON, - May (API The House ways and means committee sought today to work out a system of installment .payments of income taxes to soften the blow of steeply increased rates in the 1943. . a -- critical individual "skilled .in N wa'r occupation." The "directive included Tn an program announced by V. Manpower Chairman Paul McNutt to promote the fullest utilization .of the, manpower of the nation. Commission A Manpower spokesman said the action was intended to bring about closer draft between coordination hoards and employment offices in the deferment of workers ii replaceable in war industries. .McNuit outlined the eight oh-- : - To said Hoover. "conversation, a person who is reminiscent oi American life it wmuld seem that. particular restraint is too dras-ticThe American people have always been a debating society. . They get immense satisfaction out of gossip. And all this cannot be stamped out of them by a boot. It is not sedition. It comet from concern to win the war, and they ought to be allowed to- grouse and gossip a, little without being sixth col- , nt Draft Boards To Confer Work NEW YORK, May 21. (AP)Dictatorial eeonortfic powers for President Roosevelt in pursuing plain Fascist economics are urged by Herbert Hoover as necessary for the United States to triumph in total war. "There must be no hesitation in giving them to him and upforholding him in them. the mer pfesidehrdeclared ' last ex night Moreover, we must pect a steady decrease in economic freedom as the war goes ' surtax rates starting at double the present leveh of 6 per cent on the fiqst 82.000 of net income. The committee, rejecting a treasury suggestion, decided to retain the present 10 per cent earned income credit Tip to $14,-- . 000 in- - computing normal taxes only ahd also kept the present $400 exemption for dependents. would Thus, the committee bring into the income lax fold ihe for first time single persons earning as little as $10 a week, would increase the hVqtage a year- congressmans tax from abouf $1,200 to about and would increase the tax of a from about $20,000 to $25,000. $10,-00- $2.-00- $50,000-a-year-ma- n Congressmen Asked Not To Join Service WASHINGTON, Mav 21. (AP) Speaker Rayburn of the House disclosed today that both .Secretary of the Navv Knox and Secretary of War Stimson had expressed opposition to Congressmen leaving their lawmaking duties to enter the armed forces. Mail Busses Cut to Save Rubber Joseph B. Eastman. ODT diwould estimated this save more than,. 100,000 pounds of crude rubber a year. He added that and sightseeing charter buses traveled 21,000,-00miles last year and used up about 126,000 pounds of crude rector. rubber. y Local and state police authorities and the general public were asked to assist in enforc ing the order, which applies to all rubber-tired- vehicles seating ten or more persons and, primarily . used for sightseeing' o'r chartering. EXCEPTIONS MADE Exempt from the charter bus order are those .used for . transporting members of the armed forces, persons participating in organized recreational activities at military posts, selectees travor eling to or from Induction ' students, points; examining teachers and school employes going to and from school, em-- , ployes going to and from work, from and persons going to . . Set RATIONS Fnchs, Manders and Tebbetts. NEW, YORK, May (AP) Axis and dios asserted today that United- - States troops had arrived at Gibraltar,; although they ""differed somewhat bri dMa"ils!" There was no confirmation of these reports, all of which were presented as emanating from Spain, near Gibraltar. Vichy said one transport caran rying 5,000 troops' followed aircraft carrier and two cruisers into Gibraltar Roadstead Wednesday night. TheGerman DNB agency said Transportation Lack that there were 5,000 soldiers escorted by three British destroyBlamed For Last ers, that they arrived WednesYears Failure day afternoon and had not de-- . barked, so that it was not known (BY PAUL GHALI BERN. May 21. (CDN) Locowhether they would stay. motives, cars and tenders specialThe German Transocean agency bely adapted to Russian cold are said there were 3,000 on transing built in Reichsbahn (German ports escortedTsy three British railway) shops in preparations for a second winter campaign in destroyers which still were at Russia less costly in men and Gibraltar thi morning. material than the first, it is reported in newspapers throughout Germany. This revelation, as seen"here, goes far to explain why German rail -- transport-Ur the east' front for the proved so disastrous Reichs rotling stock during the Difficulfirst wither campaign. ties arose primarily when the , brakes of coachcompressed-a- ir es and locomotives froze In low particularly betemperatures, CLEVELAND, May 21. (AP) cause of the cheap quality of The CIO United Auto Workers lubricants in the cylinders. Tenders often burst when the President R. J. Thomas told the CIO United Steelworkers of water froze and expanded. Water stations of the Russian railAmerica today their unions had been mostly would "battle the forces which way network scorched-earttacdestroyed by try to break up the labor movetics and, in any case, were too far distant from one another ment from without or from withwiien they were usable. This forcin, and lauded CIO President ed the German transport authoriPhilip Murray as a man who "Is twm to ties water tenders attach to troop and other trains. . I not sitting in Washington in a In many cases, Nazi , trains and nursing grouch griping were compelled, to halt midway sores. on frozen rivers and the crews Thomas speech came as many had to get out, break the-icand of the steelworkers Convention refill the tenders. With the terrific Russian cold, pumps and pipedelegate? guessed that Murray, lines got otlt of order too freexpected to be named head of the for quently safety. union, was headed ' toward a showdown with John L. Lewis, miners' chief and Murray's predecessor as CIO president. 21. ra- Germans Plan For One More Russ" W inter Auto Workers Chief Lauds Philip Murray Bulletin - Mexico Chief Demands War " ; .- Three Ships Sunk ROME From Italian broadcasts), May 21 (AP) The high rommand announced today that Italian submarines had sunk three merchant ships totaling near the American 29,000 Tons . " To Army, For Making Smokeless Powder xxx xxx Tresh. WashingeOxx - and Hrgan. xx . NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati oio 000 xxx x x x - Phllndelph. OOO 002 xxx Derringer and Lamanno; Johnson and Livingston. . All other games postponed. xxx . BY Anyway,--the-moth- X x x xxx xxx x ' x x" St. Louis . Ahtx xxx xxx Hudson and Early; Muncrief and Swift. tox xxx xxx s Boston x x x OOx xxx xxx Cleveland Hughson and Peacock; Harder - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS are going to get a berak. out of this war. - With blackouts and dimouts; there arent so1 many bright lights on which moths can 'singe their -- commit suicide.- - - and wings-o- r now the War Production Board bad slapped a conservation order on naphthalene. Naphthalene is the stuff used to manufacture mothballs and make stored woolens unpalat-abl- e tomoths. Fortuhungry nately for the moths, naptha-lene- is also used in the production of smokeless powder. . Even so, fashion restrictions may leave a smaller dinner' for the moths banquet table. Government wartime style are contemseriouslyperts plating - chopping part of the tails" off men's shirts. The "proposed order also would restrict the length of collar points and reduce the number of buttons on - A' ''spirt, even before the Washington wringer bn the machine squeezed .them off. ! Maybe they don't" all know it, but the women who sew their own clothes are not bound WPBa edict making by the ex- - Chief feminine clothes a little shorter, tighter and more revealing. Thl order applies only' to retailers, manufacturers, dressmakers and others making clothes for sale The home seamstress can waste yardage to her heart's content, with longer skirts, peplu ms, fuller blouses, fancy' sleeves and even flounces. But federal stylwont ists are confident this happen, because such cloth wasting garments would be out of style before they are completed and every woman likes to keep up with the mode. Japs Hoard Bombers For Drive p leads Marshal Timoshenko Ked drive on Kharkov. Nippons Make 2 Landings In Eastern China " THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Japanese invaders landed at a new point on the east coast of Tiling today, - giving strength to the belief that the Niponese warlords we're intent at knocking the Chinese out of the worldwide struggle. At the same time invasion forces seeking to advance In Chekiang Province along a front were declared halted at BY . 150-mil- e some places. on Japan's backdoor drive China, via the Burma Road, appeared stalled, too, with drenching monsoon rains aiding the stalwart Chinese defenders. Japanese troops landed from a dozen transports near chief port and capital of the Ch inese east coast province ef Fukien, Chinese Army " Fo6-cho- -- head-quarte- reported. a city of 400,000, Is the biggest port between Shanghai and Hong Kong. Dispatches said the invaders were engaged in heavy lighting with Chinese'defense forces. Fighting continued In Burma. Reuters reported in Indon that Chinese troops were" attacking PRAISES RECORD terminus of Myitkvina. northern the Burma ' railway and other Mentioning no names, Thomas declared: , Chinese were reported roneen-tartinat Katha, 160 miles north "Our unions will be the ones of Mandalav. ' to battle the forces which try to The RAF resumed bombing of break up the labor' movement Japanese communications jn effrom without or from within the forts to prevent the Japanese labor movement I know there from consolidating their posiare some in the union who would tions in Burma. like to detract from Philip MurIn Chekiang Province can but be it said of ray Chinese troops were Philip he never Murray gave his suprenorted to have routed or, checked a to Wall Street broker who port Japanese advancing southhad aspirations for the presidenfront in an ward on a neverbeand until recently cy attempt to win uut snv Cheki" ' ' came a friend of labor. ang air bases which might be us"Philip Murray was not out ed for bombing attacks on To- Philin kyo. preaching Isolationism. has not set himself Murray Chinese artillery Mazed Into .above the president of the counaction near Chanclochen. about is try. Philip Murray not' today 63 miles southwest of Ningno, northeastern Chekiang, as the undermining our great president In this war. Chinese launched a counter-attacHITS .AT FRIENDS- against Jananese trytng 'PhillD Murray-Inot sitting to push along a highway to the In Washington in a grouch-grip- ing south and forced the enemy to and nursing sores. Philin fall back to Changlochen. does not have himself On the right wing of the CheMurray surrounded by a bunch of ves kiang offensive, some 40 miles men afraid to speak their own southwest of Hangchow, a battle minds. was raging at Tunglu which the f not subject Japanese were trying to take by Philip Murray 4o fits of anyer. - phllio Murray would do nothing to wreck the union, Philin Murray does not regard the union as a plaything 550-Poun- d for an Individual." The auto workers leader also said he, had traveled around the country the.lastl.wo weeks and, found great supoort-fo- r Murray. Announcing that, an unsnecified union had termed him (Thomas) a Fascist. 'Thomas declared: VICKSBURG, Miss., May 21 "If supporting Philin Murray . (AP) It wasn't- - an- - engineering Is Fascist, then I plead guilty. problem exactly, but United If auonorting the war effort is States engineer provided the Fascist, then I plead guilty. solution of getting Anna Craig, d negro woman, into court to face internal revenue Would Boost Output charges. Foochow, g MEXICO CITY, May 21. (AP) President Manuel Avila Camacho was reported authoritatively late today to be preparing a manifesto to the nation demanding war against the Axis as a result of the recent sinking of a Mexican tanker off the U. S. coast. The president, It was reported, will deliver the manifesto to the nation personally in an address before a special session of Congress within the next few days. Thcse developmcnts followed the reported receipt of an unsatisfactory reply from Berlin to Mexicos note of protest over the sinking, in which 14 lives were lost. Midnight- - tonight-(- 2 a. Friday) had been set a the deadline for the reply. " BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Russias battling Red armies broke through main German' lines at Kharkov, key industrial city of the Ukraine, and-- stnrm" ed on into" open country, Soviet dispatches "said "today, Only .Nazi troops and pillboxes barred the way of the Soviet troops, who, had breached the principal Nazi defenses, - . It was said!" A key German stronghold was -engulfed and repeated German tank attacks crushed In the new All-Ou- t Russian advance. L In the Far North, picked SoviAction Of Invaders Tn et troops, wading waist-deeicy water, and holding their Hints Preparations weapons overhead, were said to For Offensive have cut 12 miles around a Fin nisn flank, severed a main highALLIED .HEADQUARTERS,' way to the north and inflicted Australia, May 21 (AP) Amid casualties and German on 3,000 indications that the Japanese are Finnish soldiers taken by surstriving to conserve their bombprise. er forces for a attack But the main battle surged In the future, Australia moved around the great Ukraine intoday to draft . an additional dustrial city of Knarkov. 35,000 men into the Civil con-- . Soviet dispatches said Russian structlon corps which Is prepartroops wiped out the Nazi strongholds garrison in a fierce ing this country as s base for struggle. B greaUAllied offenslvs A Red Army communique' said Tlie probability that the Japfive villages had been captured anese were hoarding and build-in- g in the battle area and "enorinflicted on the mous losses up their bomber power was , enemy. raised raid, . Far behind the lines, Soviet on Portby yesterdaysNew53rd Guinea Moresby,, guerrillas wre reported to have It was conducted exclusively by ! recaptured an important city of several thousand inhabitants, r fighter planes. Their driving out the Germans who was to attack have dona ' reported had held the point . for four little but dropped-smaldamage, they months and routing a strong balloons 1ti:an apparent attNazi force which attempted to batk regain it in a empt 'to determine prevailing tle. winds. (This Would bs of imSLAY 1,300 NAZIS Soviportance fo parachutists and Dispatches to Red Star, et Army newspaper, said tha planes attempting to land.) German stronghold captured on Meanwhile Allied Airmen the Kharkov front was one the newed their assaults on Japanese! Nazis had sought to hold at any advance bases, blasted yesterday cost- - apparently a major link in at both Koepang and Dili, capKharkovs isring. itals of the were More than 1,300 Germans of Timor. land in killed to have been declared The raiders destroyed two the last 24 hours, while Nazi grounded planes at Koepang, rose fo nearly 650. tank losses damaged the runway and started On the southern wing of the fires fn airport buildings. the Russians large huge "bat General MacArthurs headquarsaid they had blocked German ters announced. Field Marshal Fedor von Bocks Four other Japanese planes and flanking counter-thrustwere officially reported damaged See RUSSIAN On Page by Allied pursuit planes which a formation of 12 zero fighters when they attempted to strafe the airdrome at Port Moresby, on the southern coast of New Guinea. : six-mil- e " Par- - and " Picked Red Soldiers Wade ley River To Surprise Finns Spanish Radio Broadcast Tells Of Arrival Of Convoy . ' sons. ... v New York OOx xxx xxx . .00x xxx xxx Chicago Bonham and Rosar; Smith . : to coast. On Page 6 92nd Year roil Of Germaiis Taken By Soviet Troops American Troops e 21. WASHINGTON, May is (AP) The rubberneck bus going to be put to more essential war use to save rubber. Effective June 1, the Office of" Defense TransportffUorf ""'de-- ' creed last night, all sightseeing bus services will be prohibited and buses will be ehartered 'reduced to such essential operations as the moving of troops, war workers, and school children. No. 58. ease h Rubberneck Val. 366. .' mas. i. AMERICAN LEAGUE x x x 030 241 xxx PMIadelph x x x . .101 001 xxx Detroit Marchlldon and Wagner; Trout, - ui time tones onnguie newi trom world capital for today's Deseret New Salt Lake City, Utah, ThursdayMay 21, 19,42. Needed To Win War V' EWS "TODAY. . Price : Five Cents on. i g 150-mti- - s : - BOMBAY, May 21 (AP)-T- he preliminary report of an American technical mission headed by Henry F. Grady, submitted today to Viceroy Lord Linlithmeasgow. suggests ures to boost India's war production and establishment of a war cabinet to handle supply, defense and transport problems. The woman lived In Greenville, distant. Internal Revenue agents had received a num-- ' her. of complaints. They had .been unable to bring her Into court because she was too large to get in an automobile, train or bus. So, when Judge Sidney C. Miza opened federal court, yesterday; 100 miles e : . . half-hoq- dawn-to-dus- . -- Dutch-Portugucs- e tie-zo- ne, WendoverPilot Hunt Goes On WENDOVER, Utah, May 21. (AP) The search for missing First Lieut James H. Payne of East St. Louis. 111., pilot of an army bomber that .crashed Frl- day .night continued today but , with little hope of finding him v alive. Capt. Frank E. Rowers, public relations officer of the "army air base here, said no other clues had been found since Paynes openSat. ed parachute was located urday in the desolate country 10 miles north of the base. Three other men. members of the bomber crew, parachuted to safety, but none of them saw anything of Payne after bailing out There was a possibility, Powers indicated, Payne may have been injured in the fall but managed to travel some distance from where he reached the collapsing. earth-"befor- Negro Woman IsBroughtTo CourtliyArmy . larg-scal- he put the problem up to the engineers. with characteristic efficiency, Col. S. D. Sturgis, district engineer, handled it this ", way: He dispatched a ton and a half A deputy truck to Greenville. marshal directed loading of the woman, bed and all, into the truck. A daughter accompanied her in a " rocking ,chairsi--Thcargo was wheeled onto a loading platform here, then Into a freight elevator. A. half dozen men finally brought the woman-intthe presence of the court. - She pleaded guilty and was sent tenced to two years. e " - ' ' Hull Denies De Gaulle Deal WASHINGTON. 21. May (AP) Secretary of Stale Hull said today that conversations on Martinique are progressing so- sattsfactorily-th- at those dealing with military matters probably would be concluded within five or six days while those dealing with economic matters ;ely would take jnore time The secretary said that the State Department had made no. appeal to General Charles De Gaulle the free French leader, to aid in dealing with a local condition in New' Caledonia, in which had been reported some quarters. Hull said that United States occupation of French or free French territory was for one aim only, to advance the cause of the United Nations and win' the war, and that it was done w ith the definite and solemn undertaking to return, such terri- French au thorlties when the war ends. -- - Terrorist Explosions Felt In South Africa Union of JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,- May 21 (AP) Terrorist bomb explosions extensively damaged three postoffico department buildings in the Johannesburg prea last night'Detonation of a bomb concealed In a telephone booth damaged premises of the Alberton station. Others were hurled through windows of buildings at Benol and Boksburg. Two men, one of them injured, were detained after the explosion at BenoL ? k |