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Show Grain Range ' High Low 146 145 x Open i'Vhfat' ..Hfi i Jjl' .'SeP1 47 'n 1.45 147 1.48 151 1.49 1 47 i ,s' H' m iol vliT 1.45 146 147 1 The Weather rlera. Close 49 Number 161. LOGAN, UTAH, Forecast for Provo, Logan, Og-dand vicinity: slightly cooler en this aturnoon and tonight. b Kll U 1'MI .11 , Price Five Cents THEY WERE VERY PLEASED Cr-v- and Floors Collapse 1 J Stairway In Chicago Building Objective of Yank March Through New Georgia I (JuKV1 July 9 4L.Pt Nino buried under a pile when a f smoldering debris today In collapsed floors and stairway building. t burning the acciNearly 11 hours after removed the dent two rescue crews Seven were jgst of the bodies. and two were alive but in CHICAGO. 'iremen were BATTLE FOR m s, Scanning the list of new Logan junior chamber of commerce members a list that increased by 211 per cent in the current condition. membership campaign -- are, left to right. Ray Richards of worst tragedy It was Chicago's state Jayece president; W Bennie Degn, Logan Springville, in 20 years. club president, for the fire department and Jay Brockbank, national director. inTo bring out the dead and crews had to dig jured the rescue rubble through tons of smoking which had entombed the men. The dead were: Wei-ce- l, 1 1 Thomas McCarthy, Harry Richard Jablinski, Lt. Edward Moffett, Oapt. Henry Worthman, Robert Walsh, and Battalion chief With a membership that has inArthur Barcal. FDR-Congre- ss creased by 211 per cent during the The injured were Capt. Matthfcw and Joseph Strenski. current enrollment campaign.' LoMcDonough and McDonough, Strenski, gan junior chamber of commerce Tug-of-W- ar came out of the wreckage outlined for the dead, serious Logan Junior Chamber Ups Per Cent Membership 2 irged T. only ' ISK 1 PI Harold P. Sullivan, who led a rescue squad through a hole cut wall of an adjin the basement had kept the inbuilding, oining jured alive with hypodermic and with oxygen. The rescuers were able to feed coffee to Strenski, but they found him more difficult to free than the other. A few minutes after they arrived at Henrotm hospital Walsh and Jablonski died. The men could not be removed until other firemen were able to pick cartons, charred wood, and pieces and brick and broken glass from the pile which pinned them near the basement floor. The work of the rescuers was slowed by the. fear, jtbat-- too. rapid removal of the debris might cause a fresh avalanche of charred cartons to crush them as well as the w.ipped do bagft rookhn with iroimd rs th U with i ury lor. amatur in al ss u.--u ns of Yi styles i ue of It tml find Mlli,' J h' men. injured The Injured men were able to talk with their rescuers and direct them in removing the debris. hilanor. i the 1 firemen were injured slightly in seeking to effect the rescue. The fire caused an estimated J5.000 damage. Three who escaped earlier were John Celia, Morns Geary, and George Wabol, who leaped to the roof y of au adjoining Several USA throug1 wi.h or Logan t July the I't - today alive. Dr. about or .md of ; two-stor- building. The fire evemr. mi You: iv July ! o his Nile ar agt he Metf next sft was the second in the in seven hours. building Cache Is 100,000 Igllt v 8- war bond sales July is 1100,000 and asn suming sponsorship of the is the women's unit of the Ciche Victory War Bond Comratt- -' under direction of Mrs. D. A. quotd for orii .ll s pc nor ipliies no h i il is i cam-Pmg- be Burgoyne. re is pn Yarious projects and contests to stimulate bond sales are now bc-m- g formulated by the committee announced in the near m orisir lit phr r For July Qu.he county's - and wdl be future. e state quota for July is according to Mrs. O. A. nieslley, director of the women's division. The money to meet this quota jwuld not be difficult to find," ated Mrs. Burgoyne. "It is vacation money It is the money that c'tiens of Utah and Cache cunty might normally spend for rvl, hotel rooms, extra food, sPrt clothing and luxuries." Logan High ROTC Gains Honor Rating For coming year which include support of a campaign to recruit women into the U. S. marine corps, assistance in child welfare work and By JOHN I- - CUTTER support of the Red Cross recreation United Pres Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 9 (Uli fund. home mad today. Thirty-eigh- t new members were Congress went It is the first congressional vawelcomed at the annual membercation since Germany invaded evenheld ship banquet, Thursday Poland in September, 1939. ing in Hotel Eccles. Curtis Minor The first congress in 10 years was in charge of the program, to seriously challenge President while President V. Ben me Lcgn Roosevelt's leadership wound up presided. its first six months with bottling of 62 A total cop!c, including better than a tic on both domestic representatives from the stale and international issues. The "mad" was a carryover from junior chamber organization, new and old members, and guests, heard the final test in which the ad a won by objectives of junior chamberism ministration during wartimes explained. margin on tts insistence that food of Springville. price subsidies are an essential Ray Richards stapresident of the state Jaycecs, part of the price and wage praised local committees and Pres- bilization program and the fight ident Degn for the superb job done against runaway inflation. The issue was settled late yesterIn increasing membership rolls from 18 to 56. New Jaycee officers day. The senate withdrew, by a to out and directors were introduced by vote of 34 to 33, its attempt k of Mr. Degn, who also named past law the subsidized meat and coffee presidents as follows: Phillip Car-do- r, retail butler, Reed Bullrn, Douglas Larsen, prices. a few hours It was Jack Sorensen, Arthur D. Smith later when both the senate and and Kenneth Longhurst. house approved without a record Speakers who discussed aims and (Continued On Page 6) benefits of junior chamber affiliation besides Mr. Richards were Russell Hanson, president of LoSEARCH gan senior chamber of commerce; OFFICIALS Bill William Evans, Jr., Mayor Ketchuni, president of Salt Lake City junior chamber; Harold Mueller, Harold B. Felt of Brigham City, state vice president; Jay Broik-banPo9 (UP past national director; Mark liceNEW YORK, July investigated four, meager Lindenbergf of Tooele, national diclues today in their search for the rector of the state organization. Past President Longhurst was assailant who crept into the apartment of two women, beat them presented the club's past prcsi-ueon the head and fled, leaving one s pin. dead and the other so severely injured that she was not expected to recover. Festival diBetty Fitleson, vorcee, was killed In Lie Jewish of the hospital, her companion same age, Alice Clai field, lay near death of a fractured skull. Police found them lying on the The first rehearsal for the Loof their first floor apartMinbed Club's and Golf gan Country strel Vaudeville, to be presented ment after they failed to report been the first week in August, is sched- for work. Miss Fitleson had Clar-field dead about six hours. Miss uled for this evening at 8:30. was unconscious. The womJack Taylor, Jr, who is the executive chairman for the affair, en, roommates for the last six desires a full attendance of all months, were in bed clothing. The injured woman recovered members of the complete cast, as the ground work for the opening only once for only a moment, choruses will be rehearsed. Also, when she murmured "man, man. and members of specAlongside their bed, police found all plank, ial novelty numbers must be pres- a bloodstained wooden about two feet long and two by ent, Mr. Taylor states. The rehearsal is to be held in four inches thick, apparently used the Chamber of Commerce rooms by the assailant to beat the womand is to start at 8:30 p. m. sharp. en as they lay sleeping. Declared a Tie one-vot- roll-hac- nt Golf Club Rehearsal Tonight end-me- Slth n, Mrs. Jack Braunagel Succeeds ' ,be projects FOR MURDERER Bond Quota Husband As Theater Manager successive year, E O T C has achieved of "honor school in the Mrs. DeLon Braunagel was apaccord- j , Service command, received by pointed today to replace her husI ' Klllan, professor of band, Jack Braunagel, as manager ml !'lence and tactics at the of tho Capitol, Roxy and Lyric school theaters in Logan it was anbe classified an nounced today by Tracy Barham, honorrfI!r ' ,he R O T C unit vice president and general managmuit , nk 90 Pcr cent or better er of Intcrmountain Theatres lom tri'ning and discipline. cated In Utah and Idaho. Mr. i as I ' r i Braunagel is leaving for the armed services next Friday. War Chest The new Logan theater head is Names the second woman to become a manager of a theater in the Executive group. Pauline Nelson of Preston was appointed to take charge of theaters there two for HertLHKE TY. Juy t'P months ago. Mrs. Braunagel been ten months has tke Schiller past of Salt Lake City hK1' named executive acting as assistant city manager cret f She has ,ttle Utah war chest. of the Logan theaters. ,t was in USO work as also active been rpvealed toda,y. The well as being one of Logan's lead"tatewidVbwm "? ,n ing woman golfers, this week copin wtah, signed n u , loc&1 achieve organizations ping the Logan city championship. tlonnl Knl of 125,- Mrs. Braunagel stated the same 000.000, (Continued On Page 6), JoilKer w , In r to col- li Re1! iNUSA'LAVATA' v rare r ..... w " rrMai-.-sKfe?- x ' $ BAANGA ''x Vi . MRS. JACK BRAUNAGEL i Reds Make Gains In Worlds Greatest Struggle (U.P) Southern dispatches reported today German that hundreds of Tiger tanks were ablaze in the Belgorod sector, reflecting a growing belief that the red army was gaining the upper hand in the biggest armored battle of all time. Every Ounce We have tamed the terrible Tiger was the war cry ringing through the field reports which said Russian tahks had stormed into the titanic battle to reinforce Soviet artillery, armor-- b u s t e r s, and grenade-throweagainst the nazis' steel monsters. The great armored battle swirled through penetrated Soviet defenses in the Belgorod region at the southern end of the thundering battle line, where the red army was throwing in every ounce of available strength to stem the nazi onrush. (The British radio said Moscow correspondents expected a climax in the battle within 48 hours. A Stockholm report of the National Broadcasting company said the Germans admitted that "rivers of. blood" had been drawn from both MOSCOW, July 9 BY BUY DON U. TAXES 'nited Press Staff t orrespoiident .7 .A. iPq, V ALLIED HEADQUARTERa Southwest Pacific, July 9 (U.P) A GEORGIA showdown battle for Munda, main ifo t im wiii Japanese base in the central .4 Solomons, was believed imminent, if not under way. today as U. S. RuB AN jungle troops closed in for the kill after routing a Japanese patrol in a skirmish only two miles from the base. iVIRU HARBORl RENDOVA&f Their Report I I 35 iFIVEMlLESt (A Japanese communique broadcast by the Tokyo radio said allied forces into Guibiana moving island, south of Munda, were atL tacked by Japanese planes that (U. 6. Aaup Photo from NtA) shot down 31 allied planes supThis airview of the Munda area slajws clearly the jungled growth through which U. S. troops from the porting operation. Another Viru Ihubor must fight to reach tlieir goal on New Georgia. The landing strip at Munda is still Japanese broadcast acknowledged smoking hcie after a bombing attack (the point has been bombed more than 100 times). Around it that the Americans have won a are scutes of .small islands that Americans might use as stcDning stones in seaborne assault. foothold on New Georgia, but asserted that their casualties totaled "well over 11,000 men.") Field reports indicated that the . Japanese have all but abandoned -s n their other positions on New Georgia Inland for a last stand at Munda, site of an air field 150 miles southeast of the enemy naval anchorage at Buin-Faiin the northern Solomons. The Munda garrison may have received some reinf orcements from among troops believed to have been landed at Vila, on Kolombangara island northwest of New Georgia, Monday night by I the Japanese cruisers and destroyers sunk or damaged a few hours later by American naval forces in the battle of Kula gulf, a det) layed front dispatch said. Pushing four miles through the Is w A jungles along the south coast of l New Georgia from their new i beaehhead at Zanana, American soldiers and marines engaged and dispersed a Japanese patrol yesterday at Elelo, only two miles east of Munda, a communique vxs : c- --T" from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of the south m and southwest Pacific offensives, : icported. . y I Warning 4 , Authorities warned, however, against assuming that the early Headed into baltle on the double, a patrol ol Soviet soidieis storms German - held buildings in a Rus-- ! euccess of the New Georgia operSian village m offensive artion of the typo the Red Armv may display rnuih of this summer, Front ations necessarily presaged quick sold iris cariy Tommy guns while pair in rc.u bring up small artillery piece. conquest of Munda itself, sin. c the main defenses of the air base have not been engaged. American troops who landed at Camp Hunt To Begin Rice anchorage, on the northeastern coast of New Georgia, may have cut the Japanese supply line Activities from Bairoko harbor, four miles to the southwest, to Munda, disCache Valley Coum il's summer patches hinted. No further fightEditor's Note: The following ing has been reported from that program fur scouts will Salt Lake campaign Dies dispute h, predicting a possible area and the troops were said to Boy allied invasion of Burma this be consolidating their positions begin Monday when ('amp Hunt, located on the shores of Bear Luke, rapidly. and outlining the problems From Rifle Wound fall Quiet also prevailed around Am- opens a months activities. involved in such a campaign, erican bridgeheads in southeastDirector of the program will be was written jointly by Darrell ern New Georgia. Executive Preston W. Pond. Other Berrigan. United Press New In a purely diversionary raid. officers are Folkman D. Brown, SALT LAKE CITY, July 9 d pi Delhi manager, and Robert P. 20 Japanese troops crept ashore field executive who will be in - Funeral services were pending Martin, United Press Chungking on Dugiri, a small island off the charge of activities and assistant M. Wnitehcnd, manngcr. Berriga 1 covered the northeast coast of Rendova, five directors; Sherman Hansen, crafts today for Richard first Burma battle with Lt. Gen. miles south of New Georgia, but and nature studies, and Frank 4. Union boy who died yesterday Stilwcll and subsequent Joseph incurred of injuries accidentally were easily repulsed by American Smith, water activities. e border fighting; Martin is tho a at with the while ntle . playing twenty-fivOne hundred boys patrols. correspon Jent who covered Aside from the Japanese naval have enrolled at the carnji for the home of his grandfather. C. G. only both the Salween river front Whitehead force virtually wiped out a border by the opening day. Most troops havo The boy reportedly was playing and the destruction of nine to 11 cruisers indicated a desire to remain live of the a fighting. Whitehead backroom in and destroyers in the battle of days, however any length of time 'u. me with Donald Whitehead, 6. Kula gulf early Tuesday, the Jap- is granted. when a 39 calibre bull'd, was BY DARRELL BERRIGAN' AND snlendid a have we believe "I anese have made no major atand tile two hoys forced It ROBERT I. MARTIN tempt to contest the American program of activities for tho sum- (mind, The gun acci- United Press Maff Correspondents invasion of the central Solomons mer camp, explained Executive into the magazine. CHUNGKING, Pond. "YVc will emphasize physical dentally discharged and killed July 9 (I'Pi -Richard. Allied military le tilers probably fitness and toughening up" He was the son of Mr. and Mis. will announce soon the man apFood rationing will rnnko advance registration necessary, tend Mixfield U. Whiteheal of Union. pointed to lead Chinese. Bnti.su and Indian troops into Japanese-occuptc- d troops must obtain hedlth ccitifi-cat- e Burma an Invasion blanks at scout headquarter's. Services which possibly may tako place this autumn Raisers Lt Gen. Joseph (Ytnegar Joe) American Legionnaires of Logan Stilwcll is mentioned prominently Post No. 7 will hear an address Funeral services for Francis in current speculation as the by Chief Don Coombs of the Logan candidate for the job Earl McCann, 54 of Smithfield foremost naval training station when they hold their regular meeting tonight All of Cacho who died Wednesday following a because of Ids knowledge of the poult at 8 o'clock In the Legion canyon county arc invited to attend a long illness, will be conducted Chinese country, his long relation with tho Chinese army, and his borne. special program to be held this Monday at 2 pm. in Smithfield in Burma. the In announcing program. evening at 8.30 in Logan chamber Fourth ward chapel, with Bishop experienre Gen. Stilwcll is known as a man G. L. Rees in charge. Commander Frank Neuberger of commerce. Professor Carl Frischknecht of Friends may call at the home of who never shirked e difficult Job. pointed out that Chief Coombs has And the tremendous task of movseen several months of service in the U S A C will discuss feeding a brother, L. W. McCann of Smith-fielSunday evening and Mon- ing supplies and men to the the Pacific war theatre, and was of poultry during wartimes and theater of aboard a battleship in Pearl Harbor other pertinent subjects. Sponsor- day until time of services. Burial be war Is a basic problem that must when the Japs attacked that base. ing the meeting is the Cache in Smithfield cemetery will under direction of the Kenneth be solved before a major offonss All Legionnaires are urged to County Poultry Breeders' Lindquist mortuary, attend the meeting, j Continued On Page 6) .j :i'tlNEW im i ISLAND! mu I V Russians Rush the Enemy si S, w S: 0 - Allied Invasion of Burma Monday May Be Launched This Fall India-Burm- To McGinn Set In Smithfield d, P11 ' iASMUNDA P0,NTl Hear Vital Address T imms Blow Poultry Inter-mounta- in ' U. S. Jungle Troops Close In For TATAPURAKA Logan Legionnaires Meet This Evening Secretary .ounce-- ABLAZE IN 4. -- front 60-t- ' i l i I, rs t ; -- : i 5 sides. As the Soviets threw their arm- ored forces into a concerted effort to close the Belgorod breaches in their positions and stop the long delayed German summer offensred army counterattacks ive, steadily improved the aituation to d the north in the Kursk-Belgoro- region. The Russian 'Tiger-huntehave averaged a daily bag of roughly COO German tanks so far in the battle, and the Tiger is (Continued on Page 6 1 rs Richmond Flier In Mediterranean Raid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Two North Africa, July 9 fl'Pi Utah men were in the thick of tho allied plane raids over axis Mediterranean bases yesterday. Staff Sgt. Leonard R. Hardy, Salt Lake City, & Fortress waist gunner was on his second mission. When he returned he reported: "I m breaking in easy. It was the first time I saw enemy fighters. One stood off 2,000 yards and threw cannon Bhells at us. Lieut. YV. D. Hendricks, RichMitchmond, Utah, pilot of a 5 ell on the Oomiso raid, smd: "It looked like an ammunition dump went up. B-2- -- Old Child Is Taken By Death Rex Lloyd, son of Staff Sergeant L. Ray and Ruth Pond Lloyd, died today in Lewiston where the mother is living. of death was acute Cause Jeffrey lymphatic leukemia Sergeant and Mrs. Lloyd have been residing at Clianute Field, 111., for the past two years. He was recontly transferred to Keeslcr Field, Biloxi, Miss., for aviation cadet training, and Mrs. Lloyd roturned to Lewiston to make her home with her parents. Funeral services will be announced later by the Kenneth Lindquist mortuary. Advice To Children: Leave Dogs Alone children were Cache county warned today by Officer Alfred Gnehm not to bother strange dogs, and to be careful when playing with their own. Five Instances of dogs biting children have recently been reportof rabies ed, and with cases having been determined in counties adjacent to Cache, there is even greater need for being careful. Dogs are more irritable in hot weather," explained Mr. Gnehm. They are more apt to bit kiddies who play with them, yn fT1 v 1 ? t , i i: r ui ' |