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Show THE WFSTHETT Forecast for Salt Lake and vicinity for publication Scattered showers today; not much change In ' temperature todav; cooler tonight. . only: - Difference Price: Five Cents. Salt Lake City, Utqh, Saturday, August u Russians Hurl ans Back On Two Fronts Nazis Make New Advances In Third BY EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Aug. (AP) Soviet troops have hurled back German attacks both above and below Stalingrad by vigorous Counterattacks, but enemy tanks and infantry are wedged deepcity's defenses in another sector and the Nazi comly into the moved two fresh divisions into action, the Russians mand has said today. Dead men clad In the greyish green of Adolf . Hitlers legions were reported piled high on the sandy steppes before Soviet trenches and the government described newspaper Izvestia almost and as hungry prisoneis tanks were reported halted because of a gasoline famine and Russian bombers destroyed many of them. (The British- radio said the Russians in their great counter-attapon the central fiont had captured the Rzhev airdrome and cut an irppprtant road linking German positions. Fighting in Rzhev was said to be proceeding from house to house) CRISIS APPARENT Nevertheless, a major defense ensis was apparent. A Nazi tank division and one more infantry division maneuvered into position after a forced march from the Don bend bridge- k V heads and aerial transports, plying the skies with flgnters and Stukas, brought up hundreds ot other Germans. Some of these dropped as parachutists behind the Russian lines, automatic gunners duelled in the areas between fortified Smoke spiraled up positions. from bombed areas of Stalingrad sprawled on the west bank of the Volga. The government declated 2.S00 Germans, Rumanians and Italians dead in a vain attempt to hold one wedge under Russian counterattacks northwest of the city. Red Army men were declared bearing up under mass bombings and their sharp' flanking blows southwest of Stalingrad were reported to have put the Germans on the defensive. The sector of the deep German penetration was not identified, but the implication was that it was west or the towm. The y Vol. 367. No. 52. 93rd Year communique .said that in this engagement also the Germans suffered neavy losses- in men and equipment." One incident was cited from the southwestern theater, in which a Soviet unit threw back an enemy attack, destroyed two German tanks and killed 150 Germans. t RETAKE VILLAGES Russian forces were reported to have struck heavily at Axis columns driving into the Caucasus and recaptured 13 addi- tional villages during increased assaults upon German fortifications in the upper Volga hog lands near Rzhev, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. Soviet companies still hold the section of Rzhev, a northern Pravda dispatch" said,, and are striking at the Germans behind smoke screens. plane-laiThe Red Navy and supporting warplanes were credited with the destruction of four more Axis vessels, a submarine In the Black in the Baltic Sea, a transport and two transports totaling tons in the Barents Sea. were Numerous prisoners declared by the army newspaper Red Star to have been captured on the central front, where Field Marshal Model was reported in charge of Nazi defenses as commander of the ninth army. Seized documents of a subordfresh troops must inate said show reliance and stubbornness so that Adolf Hitler would not have to remove divisions from the southern offensive, Red Star said. Model himself was quoted as advising his officers that Hit-le- r was thinking about them, although he was'busy in the south. 12,-0- 00 Walkout Ends PATERSON,. N. J Aug. 29. (AP) An authorized walkout of between 1,200 and 1,500 .employes of the Wright Aeronautical Corporations No. 3 plant ended today, less than 12 hours after it started, when the worke. . agreed to discucs their grievances with the management. 29 CAIRO, Aug. CAP) Axis planes raided both Cairo and Alexandria last night. An Egyptian communique said there were four deaths in Cairo and no casualties in Alexandria. Egyptian officials were seeking for civil de50,000 volunteers r fense work in the event of attacks. RAF attacks on Continued Axis motor vehicles in the central sector of the Egyptian front were accompanied by a slight increase of enemy air activity yesterday, a British communique said today, but there , was no sign of a break In the lull in land fighting. The communique said British patrols had been active by night along the entire front, skirmishing with enemy patrols ' and harassing working parties! in Minor artillery exchanges the southern sector, however, was the only other activity re' ported. tur-the- Reconsider Rurnl Plan Mich., Aug. 29. (AP) production dispute closed the new core - department of tle aluminum foundry operated by General Motors Corporations Buick division here today, and General Manager Harlowe W. Curtice of Buick said it was a wildcat strike climaxing a definite attempt on the part of the union to restrict production. A SANTA MONICA, Calif, Aug. h. drivers for (AP) Fifty-threthe Santa Monica Municipal Bus e Lines walked out today, and thousands of workers in aircraft and other warplants were left to reach their, jobs' as best they could. Ship Burns At Delaware Pier PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. merchant (AP) A medium-siz- e ship tied up at a Delaware River pier burned for almost four r.ours early today, then d from the weight of water sprayed into it by feur fire companies and a fireboat. Five crewmen were burned, one was cut and four were made ill bv smoke. Ten firemen also needed hospital - upply Ships In Mass Raid F oi Solon ons Disaster 18, 19 Year Old Boys Needed , Conference On Bombers Strike Saar Yallev Centers Says Veteran Pay-As-You-- Idea Slated CINCINNATI, Immediate A lag. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (AP) Chairman' George said todav the Senate finance committee probably would reassess the Rurnl plan for collection of individual income taxes before voting on a provision of the new revenue bill levying 5 per cent on wages, interest and 'dividends beginning Jan. 1. said Senator Byrd after a conference with George and Senator Clark that Beardsley Rurnl, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, would be available next week for testimony before the committee if it decides to reconsider two previous votes rejecting his plan. Rurnl recommended erasing 1941 income liabilities and apthis made year plying payments on the 1942 income, with adjustments at the end of the year if the taxpayer's next receipts were either more or less than his income for 1941. Payments thereafter would be made weekly or monthly on the current ) ear's income. said he Senator Taft expected the committee to .reconsider the Rurnl plan rsyct week after voting, probably Monday, on corporation tax rates. the treasury proposed a complicated new corporation schedule to the committee yesterday, with an over-al- l limitation on taxation of 80 'per cent of the net income of any company. It post-wa- r a rebate, suggested credit of 12 per cent of tax liabilities. The committee quickly accept, ed a portion of the treasurys proposals and voted to eliminate the capital stock tax of $1.25 valuation per $1,000 declared and its attendant declared value excess profits tax. House-approve- (D.-Va- (D.-Mo- (R.-O- .) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29. J. (AP) Shipbuilder- - Henry Kaiser defies OPA officials or evidence anyone else to produce supporting the charge that his company purchased steel' on the black market. The charges were made recently by OPA Attorney James C. Gruener in obtaining a temporary restraining order in Cleveland forbidding Kaiser's firm from violating price ceiling orders. Kaiser, In a statement through Russell Birdwell, his public relations representative here, said: Upon investigation I find that neither I nor anyone connected with me has at any time bought steel on the black market. We have not at excess any time paid prices.-iof those established and approv-- . ed by Leon Henderson- -I hereby defy anyone tq try and prove to the contrary: I am interested only in winning the war ?and winning. It as quickly as possible. J cao-size- Live Bomb ScTapped FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 29. (AP) Fayetteville conducted a scrap metal drive and somebody unwittingly brought in a live bomb from nearby Fort Bragg. 29. t (AP) mobilization and- - IS- - BY JACK BELL Strike Forces Kaiser Denies Foundry Down OPA Charges FLINT, t VFWlIead Would CaliMAF Blasts Younger Men At Once Nuernberg (D.-Ga- 29. exhausted. Red Star said the Germans werb having difficulty supplying their tanks with fuel. At one place, along the Don front, 700 Solons To ' Stalingrad Sector mid-da- 1942 , Planes Blast 3 Japanese J'- - S in time tones bring late news from world - " capitals for today's Deseret News vouths was urged todav bv Max Singer of Boston, national com niander of the Veterans of For cign Wars opening their forty third national encampment here, these boys of the -- If we give age of IS and 19 at least two years of training, we can be more certain a greater number of them will come back home to us when the "war is oyer not only as survivors, but as men w ho are and physically fit, he declared. need the active serll vice of boys who are 18 and 19 today, Singer added. We will most certainly have, to call them when tliev get older. For their mobilize own protection, dot's them now and give them the benefit of the extra training they LONDON. able-bodie- Urges Youth (Ml We-wi- Max Singer, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who declares youths of 18 and 19 years should beJrafted for training Immediately purposes. wdll receive. BY NAT A. BARROWS A UNITED . STATES BASE. Jamaica, Aug. 29. (CDN) At many, of .the same observation posts and gun positions used by Henry Morgan during his piratical forays upon treasury ships plying the Spanish Main, United States naval aviators. Marines and soldiers are firmly base established at this topside of the Caribbean .defense area, contributing an important part to the protection of the naval convoy system through these trade routes. The naval air station at Portland Bight and the army base at Sandy Gully set down for a are now fully commissioned and operating on a busy schedule. Army engineers, in plotting positions, surveyed the island extensively and found no better gun and observation posts than those established by Morgan. Portland Bight reportedly was Morgans headquarters. American visitors enjoy particularly excellent relations with lend-leas- e to Aug. 1. Sir Arthur and the local Higher Silver Price May Reach Consumers ernment are vigorously implementing plans for Increased agriculture among .the natives as the inevitable answer to food shortages. The kerosene shortage and the restricted use of automobiles are still the source of much discomfort among the natives slight relief In WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (AP) The navy announced today that American planes operating out of the Marine-helSolo--' mon Islands had attacked a squadron of four Japanese destroy ' ers, sinking one large destroyer, probably sinking another, and leaving a third badly damaged and burning. The destroyers, the navy said, appeared to be loaded with Supplies and equipment for Japan-- , ese unit on Santa Isabel . Island, which lies northwest of Florida Island and Guadalcanal which are occupied by American Marines. The navy communique,1 Number 114, based on reports ' received up to noon, Eastern War Time, today said of this China Opens New Drive In Canton Area silver-linin- g 29. (AP) It began to look today like might costMr. and Mrs. America more, be- cause of the war. The Office of Price Administrator-sellers of authorized Brief Items Of Late News d silver products , to pass on to customers their increased costs resulting from the use of domestic silver, at 71.111 an ounce, instead of the government-require- newly-m- d ined cheaper 33 cents silver. LONDON, Ang. 29. Es- (AP) tablishment of a officers' training school for enlisted turn in the Europran theater of" war was ordered today by the U. S. Aimy commander, Lieut. Grn. Dwight D. Elsenhower. ROME. (From Italian Broadcasts), Aug. 29. (AP) A communique issued in Budapest tonight said Hungarian casualties on the Russian front sinre April were 154 officers and 2,250 tarn 405 officers and 11,09.1 killed, men wounded, and 30 officers and 530 men missing. This is effective Sept 3. An OPA spokesman said this would increase the metal costs of silverware and jewelry manu- factures. and ultimately might result in higher retail prices for silver. Howarticles containing ever, there now-- is a price celling on such articles, and despite the squeeze on the manufacturers, the retail quotations cannot be changed without OPA approval. OPA also authorized a maximum price of 71.111 cents an ounce for standard commercial domestic bars of newly-minesilver for sellers who were unable to use March dealings to determine their maximum prices. "The prevailing price for silyer during March, 1042, was 71.111 cents per ounce, OPA said. It was emphasized that the only silver which may be sold at 71. 111 cents is that which the director of the mint finds to have been .mined since July 1, 1939. from deposits in the United States or a. .place subject to its jurisdiction. The WPB on .July 29 restrict-e- d commercial uses of foreign silver and provided that after Oct. 1 none of this lower-cos- t metab may be used for , VICHY. Aug. 29 (AP) The Vichy government announced it had protested to the British via Madrid over the aerial of a passenger train bombing jesteday at Menars, near Blais, In which 2(1 persons were killed and 56 wounded. In addition French sources asserted 17 French railway men hud been killed and 58 wounded In at- tacks by British planes since May 1. d LONDON, Aug. 29 230. to States Army Air Force flying fortresses bombed a German airdrome at Wcvrlghem, near Cnurtrai, Belgium, today. The fortresses were escorted by fighters, a joint communique - said. aircraft in the operations, included diversionary sweeps by American fighters, turned safely. All which Japan Claims 43 U. S. Ships Blasted 4 L ; ably mink. DESTROYER BURNS 4. During this attack the striking force observed that the destroyer previously hit bv,the patrol planes was crippled and burning. action 5. No further has been reported in this area." The successful attacks on the destroyer squadron boosted toward a sppre the total number of ships Which the Japanese have had sunk or damaged since the American naval and Marine forces began their Invasion of Solomons' the area on August 7. In addition the navy hjs reported that the Japanese have lost 69 .Tulagi-Guada-lcan- aircraft , Baseball Officers Fire On Crowd AMERICAN LEAGUE . R. H. E. 1 2 000 200 000 Chicago 4 6 0 040 000 OOx Boston Wade. Dietrich and Turner; Wag' ner and Conroy. Clevrland. '103 200 000 X' x x New York ..300 000 Oil .Smith, Bagiry and Hegan;. Bon. ham, Lindell and Rosar. St. Louis at Philadelphia, postponed. Detroit . . .100 OOx XXX X X X xxx It is significant that it has not been necessary thus far for the government at Kingston to invoke the use of flogging for violence acts The passage of the law the last part of July had ah immediate and salutary effect upon hooligans and lawless prowlers Air raid precautions and night patrols, supplementing the local constab-ulaiare still operating but on reduced basis. Jamaica still faces the problem, of the rest of the Caribbean islands in keeping ahead of requirements for food and fuel. Subsistence and truck farming is one answer for a program. But meantime, the British Government and the United States War Shipping Administration are seeking desperately to find enough shipping to keep the supply line operating adequately. The problem of Cari'j-bea- n food supply is still a big headache. Coypright, 1942, by the Chicago Daily News, Inc. , y, Washingt. 300 0()x- - xxx xxx Bridges and Richer; Newsom and Evans. - NATIONAL LEAGUE , (Secrmd game) x New York lxx xxx xxx Pittsburgh Oxx xxx xxx x X X x x Carpenter and Danning; Klinger and Lopez. (First game) New York ..002 000 000 S 5 0 0 3 and Mancuso; Dirti Pittsburgh .. 000 000 000 Kchumneher and . Boston - . . . . 000 000 000 0 . 5 " 0 Cincinnati. . 100 000 OOx 1 S Salvo and Lombardi; Derringrr, and Lantanno, Lakeman. Brooklyn 300 OOx xxxx x x x Chicago . . .100 Olx xxx Allen and Owen; . Worneke, Mead and McCnllough. Philadelph. 000 lxx xxx Xxx xxx St Louis . x.x x Pearson and Bragan; M. Cooper and IV. Cooper, xxx xxx BOMBAY. Aug. 29. (AP) Officers fired on a crowd of Indians rioting- around a. police station In Patna Province and killed six and Injured 38, a government communique reported today. . , planes. Against this damage Inflicted on the stubbornly resisting and the enemy, counterattacking navy to date has reported one American cruiser sunk and two cruisers, two destroyers and one Four damaged. transport American planes have been reported lost. while Todays communique, "limited to one action of ..last Thursday, Indicated that the general situation in the Solomons was still quiet following the withdrawal on Wednesday of the Japanese jiaval forces which had appeared off the southeastern Islands. Chinese Urge Ex-Preside- Treaty Scrapping 29. CHUNGKING. Aug. (AP) On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese-Britistreaty of h which Britain rights in China, the influential . news-pap- Nanking, under received extra-territori- er Ta Kung Pao urgedto-da- y the abolition of this and all subsequent unequal treaties forced on China by different powers In the last - century." The Tide Of Battle Solomons Breaking a silence of more .than a day, the Navy disclosed that U. 8. planes have .sunk one Jap d:stroyer and two in others the damaged Solomons. (Page 1, Col. 7, 8). attacking Chinese troops have launched a new offensive 46 miles north of Canton and have captured two new bases from which Japan can be bombed by American Flying Fortresses. . (Page 1, Col. 7.) . European Carrying out their "around-the-clock- " bombings of Germany, RAF plane blasted Nuern- berg, great, war Industries center. Objectives In France Iso wer bombed. (Page 1, Col. 6).- - , nt Of Panama Dies At Age Of 85 , PANAMA, Panama," Aug 29. Porra. (AP) Dr. BelUsario three times president bf the Republic of Panama, died here last night of chronic chitls. Dr. Porra s, affectionately known by his countrymen as the grand old man, had been active in politics and diplomatic' circles throughout both the Americas and Europe for many years. Between 1908 and 1932 he served Panama as ' ambassador or minister in the capitals of the United States, Great Britain. .France, Italy, Brazil, Cuba and 85, -- . Egyptian Axis planes raided bases of the Allies In Cairo and Alexandria as officials of Egypt -called - for volunteers." - No ground activity was reported. (Page 1, Col. 2.) China Viciously ... - Siemen-Schucke- BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 29 (AP) DNB reported from Rome today that 43 persons were killed and 110 Injured in the northern Albanian earthquake Aug. 27. Another 1200 were homeless. The count of casualties was termed preliminary. TOKYO, (From Japanese Broadcasts), Aug. 29. (AP) A Japanese spokesman said dodav .that 43 United States ships had been sunk or damaged in the battle of the Solomon Islands, the Tokyo radio reported. Included in this list, the spokesman said, were three large warships, seriously damaged. e 250 THIRD THIS WEEK The assault was the third this week against German Industrial renters On Thursday night a force of approximately the same strength smashed at the former Polish port of Gdynia, only a few miles west of Danzig on the Baltic Sea, and at Kassel, a locomotive-building center. MonWiesbaden and day night Frankfurt were the targets. Nuernberg Is the home of the Nan tank factory and has a large aluminum' works manufacturing piston rods and eastings. The Factory there makps heavy electrical equip--, ment. The quaint old German city Is also an Important railway center and has large repair shop? for locomotives' and rolling stock. It is on the Ludwig Canal, connecting .the main and) Danube River. ited (API-Un- ( , THE COMMUNIQUE South Pacific: 1. During the late afternoon of Aug. 27 (Washington date) a United . States aircraft patrol based on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Archipelago, sighted one small and three large Japanese destroyers. These ships appeared to be loaded with supplies and equipment for Isolated Japanese patrols believed to be operating near the eastern end of Santa. Isabel Island. 2. After reporting contact, the patrol planes attacked and secured one hit on . the small destroyer. 3. A striking force of "Doug-la- s' dive bombers from Guadalcanal answered the contact report by proceeding to attack the three large destroyers. The attack resulted In the following damage to the enemy: (A) One large destroyer sunk as the result of a heavy explosion following bomb hlta. B) A second large destroyer severely damaged and prob- e . A action: d WASHINGTON, Aug. .that long-rang- gov- American Operate From New Land Bases Established By .Marines s Forces Use Pirates Observation Posts. In Jamaica the local colonial government Sir Arthur Richards, the governor of Jamaica, recently made an informal inspection of both bases, accompanied by his staff and members of the Jamaican Privy Council and Legislature. Sir Arthur from the outset, has shown a spirit of complete cooperation with the United States Army and Navy authorities. Compared with a month ago, 'the general situation in Jamaica Itself has eased Under the Impact of measures taken 'byt the local government. The situation is still considered serious but not as grave as was indicated prior Nuernberg, tries center and the rally ground of Hitler's Nazi party, and thei Saar steel center of Saarbrueck-ewere attacked heavily by a strong fores of British bombers which left large fires burning In both cities. last night.. The heaviest assault was on Nuernberg, the air ministry said. Thirty bombers were lost from the large force of perhaps several hundred, many of which packed eight tons of explosives each. Objectives in northern France were raided by the smaller and swifter fighters during the night. Bfitlsh Boston bombers also attacked the docks at Ostend, Belgium, and power stations in the Lille-Lenarea of France this morning, an authoritative British statement said. Two German lighters were destroy-eand two of the American built bombers and a fighter are missing. In the overnight Nuornherr said the heavy bombers used x The heavv Domoers used the saturation technique of at. tack bv which great number? of bombers crowd into the air space over their targets. The sktent of British losses was ascribed by British observers to tie brilliant moonlight and cloudless skies, highly favorable to .and night fighter defense. While the strength of the raiders was not officially disclosed, R was understood to have run well Into three figures hut not to have been near 1, proportions. The RAF bombers flew nearly 500 miles to reach Nuernberg, deep in southern Germany, once a peaceful old city and now a center of Nazi war production, Saarbruecken, on the French border and only about 35 miles from Metz, Is a riCh coal and center. An Air Ministry icommuhlque said 30 bombers failed to return from the mission. On the basis of average five per cent losses on similar large-scalraids In the past, this would put the number- - of participating planes at 600. The Germans estimated the force was composed of n U. S. Exclusive 29. (AP) a great war- - indus- Aug Russian Costa Rica. , t He also represented his counConference the Hague in try atand-i1907 the League of Na: tions m 1933. ; German hordes were hurled : bark In two sectors of their advance on Stalingrad, but ! reported rolling on in a third. In the north, IhA tide of bat. tie was faring better for Rns-si29. WASHINGTON, Aug. (Page 1, Cols. 1 and 2.) (AP) Farm" prices today stood A Russian woman at 1$3 per cent of the sniper who killed 309 Germans ties-- , War level. cribed her deeds today In ' The Agriculture Department Washington. (Page 3, Col 2) reported that higher 'prices for, meat animals, livestock prod-Second Front ucts, tobacco, and truck crops int Two ace CDN foreign corhad resulted In a respondents' debate over the crease in the general level of readiness for a second front. farm products In the month , ended Aug.TK (Page 3,' Col. 1, 2, 3- - Farm Prices Now Far Above Parity ' pre-Wor- nine-poin- . f a w - |