| Show z k ' - 4- - N - i - - Wintedze 1 - -- ' NOW! 1 - c 4(6r Right now with the summer ahead is the time to think of next winter Coal stored during the summer will relieve mine and rail facilities just that much next win- - ter ' 1 117 No' 48 Vol 1 i 1 1 ! ' 100) -- C !' g t A11 11 - 'I i k4:' t j 1i1 krt 4 16 11 J zir i ( 1 :1 : 1 l 1 t c ' k '' : N ----- - i The Weather 1 ' 1 '4 — ' I t 1 f For Salt Lake City and vicin- ity—Cooler temperatures with In- ) i i I 1 k :v — ! ' ' 0 fillen""'N ! i - U -- i -- 1 (-:- : : -- -r I I t 1 i 1 i - J ' - io ryo g ii a- it 1 i 1 t - I -I 11 1 1 1 I 0 n - 1 &amigos goL-9- Nk " k i s r t ytnps 1 tir 1 i I : I I Las 1 1 7 '"'" (4r-- '4'1'1 ::öf: C (r I- 4‘'''' ' 201-1- Fortresses Strike in Biggest Daylight Attack 1 - -- New Mobilization Chief Declares : U S Can Hit on Many Fronts- - - : By VAssciated Press - : : ' 1: - a - : ' s'' with ' 31-1- - 3 t I- -- - : The director of war mobilfiation making his first address since President Roosevelt named him chief of America's home front pledged himself to do all possible 'to bring about the same coordination of efforts" in civilian government that exists on the military fronts" Government officials he said must work as a team even as the armed forces- do His address to a home town audience was packed "with bad news for the man Mr Churchill calla 'Corporal Hitler' " and "for the' Japanese too" He disclosed that: !'"I"he 100000th plane manufacNred since we began production program came off the as aembly line Monday "During this year- we Will double the size of our fleet "In the month of May this year we produced three times as many pieces of artillery for ground 'troops as we did in all 19 months of the last war our-tva- Far Outstrip Sinkings we are building merchant ships four times as fast as they are being sunk" America has turned out 2223- 011t) machine gunssince it began to rearm In 1943s first five- months 100 fighting ships were finished—one every 36 hours "We have‘at length caught up with the axis in our preparations rid are forging rapidly ahead" Byrnes said l'We a re now girding ourSelvesnot for 'a single attack on a single front but for many attacks on many fronta both in the European theater of war and in the-- Pacific Those attacks will proceed when and where the enemy least expects them And they will not tease unt1 the last vestige of Japanese treachery and nazi tyranny are blasted from the earth" Warning "we have a long hard road ahead" and "the hardest fighting is yet to come" Byrnes (1clared: "We must act with greater dispatch and greater efficiency than everWe must learn to work to fight to sacrifice together as we have never done before Your government has no right to call upon you to work as a team If it is not going to demand of government officials that they work Iaft a team I admit that officials the government have made mistakes That is to be expected of human beings "But the people have a right to expect government officials to sacrifice all pride or opinion and Cooperate just as officers of the army and navy are ruired to to operate Cites Exaggerations must be just There have been controversies in government But that these controversies and their effect upon the war effort have been exaggerated is clearly demonstrated by the statement —that I have made of our progress'1 e creation 'of the Byrnes said-thoffice of war mobilization is part of the president's new and resolute acticm to unify and solidify our war efforts here on the home front" He said he could make no statement of plans by the war mobilization committee until it meets later this week but--"I pledge you that I shall do all In my power to brinz- about the same cooperation of efforts among civ'Lans in government aZencies that exists on the military fronts" Byrnes declared the striker in war industry is almost as rare as the slacker in the army" Speaking- on a prozram built around the theme that "textiles go to war" the 0 IV lkt chietNsaid textile workers "with few exentions have patriotically refused to rountenance the right to strike in time of war" and added have had some stoppages of work in industriea producing- weapons of war They have justly ' 'e - - Continted e“1 Pete Five) t Coiumn One) y at lis Chas e d 1-- I Exclusive N Y Times-Sa-- lt Lake Tribune By Drew Middleton ALLIED FORCE HEADQUARTERS North )Africa May 31— Naples chief supply port for It outnstiVirt the Mediterranean and t4e - !center of Inf )kar industry in seutheYn ItaZy a s heavily and successfully boinbc1 Sunday by more than 100 Flying Fortresses in the biggest daylipyt raid yet directed against this city Widespread damage was done to objectives in Naples and its immediate vicinity The airplane factory at Pomigliano near Naples was so badly wrecked that it is believed it will be unable to operate for some time A merchant ship 320 feet long was sunk in the harbor of Naples where ships were hit Freight yards adjacent to the harbor were badly damaged Many aircraft on the Capo di Chino airfield were destroyed and smoke covered its landing ground when the Flying Fortresses returned Flying Fortresses made the major attack of the day but Lightt- diraud Andt will taleeturni at prtsiding—Giraud De-Gau- Down Jap Attu Snipers Experts Scan Use - Of Island in Future War Moves WASHINGTON May 31 (T) — The battle of the Aleutians settled down Monaay to a campaign to eradicate scattered nests of enemy snipers on Attu pending disclosure of where the next offensive moves will be made Two major possibilities exist in the north Pacific a move against Kiska or a campaign to the west aimed at the Kurile island chain reaching north from Japan Each became highly feasible with the annihilation of principal Japanese forces on Attu near the tip of the Aleutian island chain which reaches west and south toward Japan In the event the next Move should point to the west it appeared highly probable that Attu where the Japanese have been vanquished after 20 days of fight- ing would play a large part As a weather station if —) g else it would provide advance information on conditions expectable by either air or surface units heading toward the west Also Attu's airfield which the Japanese started presumably can be readily completed and with a bit of additional effort could be enlarged to accommodate even the largest of Amercan bombingplanes If that were done with the Japanese base at Paramushiro only 630 nautical miles away it would be possible for bombers to roar out from the Aleutians to hit that enemy sea base just south of nussia's Kamchatka peninsula Attu too controls the fate of the big Japanese garrison on Kiska Either an attack in force can be launched with the use of the newly conquered island or forces there can take the slower but no less sure method of starving out the enemy on Kiska This could be accomplished readily for forces on Attu could prevent shipment of foodstuffs and supplies to the enemy base Meantime on Attu itself the navy reported only that army forces are continuing the mopping up of remaining Japanese pockets I of resistance NV Paze Two) (Column Three) nn - did ao Monday itiapparentdefer- ence 'to his senior iinilitairy posibe 4ionl—but all actions swill— taken by the committee as § wbole and there will be joint'' aly's-Nlan- Continlart lle ' May 31 tr) — French naval units at Alexandria lave cast their lot with the allies after negotiating with General Henri Giraud it was of tidally confirmed here Monday but doubt wils expressed that the somewhat antiquated fleet would prove of much value liner being immobilized for three yeari The Getman radio made the first announcement that the squadron had joined the allies yesterday and the Vichy government charged it had been starved into submission Sources here said that the Vichy charge was "quite untrue" and said the action had been completely voluntary Getting the fleet in shape even to go to sea again promised to be a long tedious job After being landlocked for three years and partially dismantled the warships must be cleaned repaired s fivit"pperny divisions-- vi triempst 'shaltering joint air victory over "the Onvad'brs ever wereclalmed achievediwerChltui --: in a smm i and - CôTc-- - - all-fro- nt y assaults "Chinese forces are continuing their mopping-u- p operations and the enemy is still being surrounded in a big encirclement "The enemy troops left behind a large number of corpses and a WASHINGTON May 31 (la—The navy's lowering of phys- large quantity of supplies in the reregions as ical standards for draftees may slow up slightly the induction mountainous treated Chinese troops they are exof fathers Man Power Chief McNutt said Monday pected to make further gains" This development will delay to extent whatever calls father!' it permits thed induction of men who otherwise-Woulhave been rejected But McNutt told a ipress conference this v111 result in "only WASHINGTON May 31 (1Th— a delay" at most in taking the WASHINGTON May 31 (A'— The federal government made family men Ickes urging that gasoSecretary to funds available Monday first The general induction of fathers line use be cut to the absolute miniand food shelter give emergency has been scheduled to begin about medical attention to homeless August 1 but the time is mum said Monday night the eastfamilies in the midwestern flood dependent in part precise on the rate of ern states face a "tight situation area and then to rebuild roads and rejections of other men because of for weeks to come" on gasoline and bring crop lands back into war physical defects These rejections declared that while effect of the food production in recent weeks have been reported The war foods ' administration by reliable sources to be running fuel drought now are felt directly announced that the farm security more than 50 per cent hastening only on the Atlantic seaboard administration has set aside $235- - the time when the supply of child- "There is no assurance that they 000 for immediate needs and in- less men will be exhausted not inland" may spread structed F S A county supervisors McNutt said Secretary Knox had For if we can bring in additionto make small loans usually $30 advised him that the navy's physior less to distressed farm families cal requirements have been low- al gasoline from other parts of the When these families return to ered "slightly particularly on eye- country to relieve the situation their farms F S A- loans will be sight" No details were available here that is what we are going to made to put in new crops if other at the navy department he in a said do" over radio address h'i've credit sources are Unavailable The navy's action will some About $780000 is available for effect on the army which takes the Mutual network such loans most of its men now at the navy's be some consolation to "It The F S A coincide with a presi- level of requirements although know may the level of that our east aid dential directive that federal minimum standards for the army coast won't stocks imdrop any more" road funds which have been are much lower 191t be he since said late released no can't decision "It It has reached had McNutt said pounded to help repair damaged highways been made yet on the 1944 require- the bottom" and bridges in the flood area ments of the armed forces but he "Let us get something else Release of the federal aid funds !indicated that if inductions conwhich must be matched by states tinue then at anywhere near the straight" he continued "The man 0 on a basis was on recom- ' present rate of about 300000 a who tells you that this is a 'fake' mendation of Major General Philip month steps will have to be taken shortage and that we 'could bring Fleming federal works adminis- to enlarge the pool of eligible men in plenty of oil if we were not trytrator Stephen Early presidential be said could ing to make people war conscious Enlargement secretary said about $7500000 come only in three ways: By fur- is dangerous He is a kind of false was available 'from these funds in ther lowering physical require- profit who has gotten us into real Illinois Oklahoma Arkansas i In- ments by congressional lowering trouble before and will again if we diana Missouri Kansas Nebraska of the minimum draft age from listen to him" 18 by raising the maximum age and Mississippi Ickes who is petroleum adminisfor induction above the present trator7 said that "unprecedented floods" had temporarily crippled figure 37' years "If I were guessing" he said "I efforts to bring oil to the east would guess it would eome in the overland—"They simply brought it order in which I put it" to a head sooner than would have Earlier indicated that been the case otherwise" Mciitt about 22 of when 1943 "We have run dry" he said d 100 fathers will "and we are going to every have a tight and befitted and their crews redebe of deferred because still situation for weeks to come And stored to strength and efficien(Contintied on Ptige Five) what are we going to do about it? (Column Five) cy Trained men are particularly I :suggest that one thing that scarce everyone can do about It Is to shut Repairs could be made in his ears to the babblings of those Alexandria -- in Great Britain or who either do not have the facts or the United States There was no who choose to ignore them" comment on German reports that the fleet would join the 35000-to- n WASHINGTON May 31 (11')— battleship Richelieu which reached the United States The treasury announced Monday a for repairs in February new campaign beginning June 15 Certainly there is no naval to increase the sale of war bonds prize at Alexandria to compare through pay roll deductions LONDON Tuesday June 1 (P)— with the new and formidable Individual quotas will be fixed Richelieu The battleship Lorfor the first time for each of the An air raid warning sounded in raine was built In 1913 and has 180000 firms in the nation in London ahortly before 2 a in been very little improved All which pay roll savings plans are Tuesday 8 p m m-- t now operating arid in no case will four cruisers the Duquesne Gunfire was heard immediately Tourville Souffren and Duguaythe established quota be less than There followed an incessant Trouin are between 16 and 20 10 per cent of the gross pay roll barrage in the heart of London With the slogan "Figure It Out from where at least one enemy years old All except the last named are of the heavy 10000- - for Yourself" families will be plane was clearly visible ton class dropped by Great Britasked to estimate the maximum The was given within ain in favor of lighter faster amount of bonds they can pur- half an hour No incidents were chase craft reported Flood Victims Get U S Cash Ickes Urges Gas Saving - 4 -- 50-5- : - ' e 31any Ifca(lers able-bodie- Treasury Sets New Bond Sales Drive Gunfire Follows London Alert - all-cle- ar 1 ' 'S' WASHINGTON May 31 (UP) —Chairman Harrison E Spangler of the Republican national committee Monday night announced creation of a Republican postwar advisory council to develop a :realistic" peacetime program folp U S progress founded on an economy of abundance rather than the ''new deal philosophy of scarcity" He said in a statement that the committee will consist of 49 members—five senators 24 state governors 12 representatives and eight officials of the national committee All outstanding Republican leaders including former President Herbert Hoover and the two most candidates recent presidential Wendell L Willkieand Alfred M Landon will be consulted on the program he said Entry of the Republican party into the postwar field on a broad scale appeared to signify its intent to wage the 1944 presidential campaign on both war and postwar issues and to check any effort by Democrats to assume unchallenged leadership on plans for a peacetime world 'Although the winning of the war is our first concern" Spangler said "the Republican party is intensely interested in the tremendous problems both foreign and domestic which will fate us when victory comes They will arise as art aftermath of the war accentuated to our debacle under the reactionary new deal They will call for the 'wisest statesmanship and the best and most patriotic efforts of all our citizens" Spangler said the council would hold'an early organization meeting to plot a course of inquiry and action during the coming year The group's recommendations will be submitted to the national committee prior to next year's national convention and presumably will serve as raw material in the drafting of the party platform Subcommittees will be designated to study important segments of the postwar economy with the goal of accomplishing a swift and successful change-ove- r from war to peace he said The detailed work will be furtheredby research and clerical aids Indications that the inquiry would look toward international cooperation rather than the isolationism that characterized many Republicans' prewar outlook were seen in Spangler's statement that "we must approach this in a spirit of friendly cooperation with the other nations of the world keeping 10-ye- ar (Continued on Pnge Seven) (Column Five) o ! ' - k - - 4 (21))--Ttiou- sant v t nighti'lhe of coal' 'rnintri v midnight dead- -' ' - gegan '13:trikel:IOridityring i gettled line loexpiration of an 'existing ' '''''' ''' '" in controvirs ment of the lonewage sigbt-JohnL Lewis and the elperators failed to reach an agree- ment aRcl the negotiations werewricessed untit TuesdayWhat the government which is operating the coal mineS‘inow would do remained undisclosed The situation by states: :' Kentucky—All soft coal mines in' northeastern Kentucky were ' forced to shut down when 12000 miners‘ of the Big Sandy area failed to report at the pits for the night shift Earlier Monday more than 800 miners walked out of four southeastern Kentucky diggings KenilworthCrews Pennsylvania — Minors began quietly checking in their tools as vs r orders were flashed shortly before Accortt ' midnight from district headquar- Of New Contracts - ters of the United Mine Workers that "there 'will be no work to-morrow" KENILWORTH Carbon County West Virginia—The 130000 Un- confidence that"this ion miners who work West Viz-w—Expressing all be SettlOd in a day or two" ginia's 600 coal mines indicated coal miners at the Kenilworth their determination to lay down their tools at midnight mine completed at 11 p m Mon- Indiana — Unofficial reports day "thheavlaestbsehenift augnrteieldneuwpocn7- were that the state's 7000 miners would not show up for work W officials said Their actions typi fi e thos e at it Alabama—UM was the their understanding Carother mines throughout the miners would not work without bon an agreement earsr"a're Aaffected leoy u5ntocry teColorado—Harold H Knott at the Kenilworth mine Most regival federal bituminous coa1 mines will be kept in readiness for- mine' manager for the western resumption of activities by main- United States and Alaska said that he felt "reasonably sure" that tenance crews ''We hope to go back to work a large number of toal miners in west will not report for work soon" was the consensus of min- - the t Illinois—Fred S Wilkey secre- ers "this is no time to strike" tary of the Illinois Coal Operators' association said it appeared mines DFNVER May 1 (UP)- 18000 coal miners in in Illinois would "be idle absence of an exten- Colorado Wyoming day" in the of states the truce of a sion Mexico New Utah and probably Ohio—Tom Starks field reprewill not return to the pits for the sentative for 'district 6 United midnight shifts it was indicated Mine Workers said most eastern Monday night Ohio miners expect to remain away Unless the miners of the two from their Jobs Tuesday unless a United Mine Workers districts— new wage contract is signed or the 22 and'Utah No for Wyoming truce is extended and No 15 for Colorado and northtfter a day of conference's the ern New Mexico—are given the United Mine Workers' leadership "green light" to go ahead and work announced it had no statement to who from their executive officers make That meant it was up to were reported in Washington or the individual soft coal miners to from John L Lewis their interne- - decide whether to work Tuesday tional chief the miners asserted The United Mine Workers it they would not report for work was learned had not budged from Tuesday their demand for an increase of Executive heads of the two dis- - S2 a day to settle the portal to tricts were attending the interne- portal (underground travel) issue tional policy committee meeting in Bargaining conferences with the Washington and no word had been operators recessed at 5:30 p m received from them at a late hour subject to resumption at the call Monday night Without word from of the chair the leaders by midnight—mountain Word was passed informally to war time—the miners automatical- - members of the union's negotiatly will accept it as meaning the ing committee to stand by for a truce has ended it was disclosed possible return to the bargaining Maintenance men however werse table at 8 P in In Pennsylvania meanwhile the expected to enter the mines inAl-f- Rock Springs field one of the prin- Buckeye Coal company reported Union that 900 miners failed to cipal sources of coal for the report ' Pacific railroad for day and night shifts yt its - s'1 Nemacolin mine and an oiiicial of district 5 of the United Il!ne Workers said every mine in his ' - t I'‘ 6 - ( 1 1 ! - ' - ' ' Coal Miners In Carbon Stop Working i N I V ' - latt A ill - -- -Ap- Tuts-proximat- - U S Director itnnounces ' district would close down at Director James M Landis an nounced Monday night teams Working In three-mawith pump tank extinguishers one team to each city block approximately '1500000 guards will be needed Landis estimated The new force will be built around and merged with the fire civilwatchers a 342000-stron- g ian defense unit already in service Fire guards will wear the by the insignia previously fire watchers—a r flame in a white triangle baked up by a n blue circle I "Such a forck has become Lansti expla)zied necessary" "1 43 meet the increaSing fire hazard to homes and lives resulting from new bombing tactics of the enemy Fire and fire bornba are the major weapon of air attack They have accounted for more -- -- ' mid- night unless some word was ' ceived from the U M W's interna- tional board More than 800 men out of southeastern Kenwalked than 80 per cent of total damage mines earlier in the day tucky and the enemy is using every de- About 5 p m- 11 -4 W President vice to increase the deadly ef2- John 1 Lewis left the hotel where fectiveness of these weapons"Z the conferences and similar : said he would beare being held and back later bombs with frightful destructive Wait not are as great a threat' Hurried Call power aS fire Landis declared and Members of the unions policy "thousands of incendiaries are committee stood around 'LIM V' used to complete and make cerheadquarters and nearby hotels tain the chaos of ti estruction which has been started by the waiting call to meet on short notice Most of them informally exhigh explosives" pressed the opinion tha the mine The fire guarda-wil- l not supworkers in their would plant the auxiliary firemen who not work tomorrowdistrict unless they work with the regular fire dereceived word from thl union leadpartments Landis emphasized to do so on raid air "Becausean any ership Ickes of the Secretary given city probably would cause mines in the name operator of' thegoverna greater number of fires than ment appealed earlier in the day the regular fire departments and for quick agreement the auxiliary firemen Vould consald Ickes trol it is negessaryt to have int It is Imperative" telegrams to John L Lewis neighborhood teams of fire president qf the United Mine guards throughout the city to Workers and Ezra Van Horn handle minor fires promptly" of the joint wage con- chairman also check ran larger ference "that an They agrePment fires until the regular fire fightne Pat Tour) (Conostpeol ers reach the scene he added tcoluma r1) Defense Fire Guards WASHINGTON May 31 Un— A new civilian defense organization—the fire guards—thas been created to handle minor fires and stem larger ones temporarily 1 ' - tL ' d 'wAsHiNGT0taya out on ' - - ' - - Government Gives No Indication Ofituat Alove in Situation-- c ' U 11 wjeadel's--' ljellialli Silent r fr'''' For Special Task - I "44vwkaaa4440fttrowompetkearstmlso It'! 'Chairmall 'Names 0 1111 ' - i- - : - ' -- fd t e 4 ecess 7-- ' Phlis 1s ! — ' !i t- - P6ANvdti: i - a - 1 victorie-- '''4 e- ' 1 I t -- se Of 1 1 i Creates GOP Tuesday June the biggest for Chinese ares in' the whole' war—the complete' 'Groilp for routing incl 1 1 11 ial) - S -- - CHUNGKING UP)—One of 4't 2- TegotLators C al I - Lowering Navy Standards Delays Drafting of Fathers 1 '':I - - r e Great Air Victory Sino-Japane- (1' L i 31 Enemy Planes Accounted for in China--(OffiC- I animkadeloo j) - 0-- 4- 1 Thousan d s Leanve 0 on1 Deadline our 1 1 I iii ' Chinese Rout Force of 75000 Japs I French Naval Units in Egypt Join Lot With Allies LONDON ' Tunique Tuesday Each member' The five JapaneseAlvisions per respcn'sibility i will head a ministry sirnilar to haps 75000 troops were "com- that of an established govern- pletely- routed with heavy losses ment southwest of Ichang on the YangThe members in this first tze and 31 enemy planes were marshaling of a unified' body accounted for-- 23 shot down and of the leaders of France were eight more probably destroyed— seven two places being left open in an allied raid on Ichang Monfor others who may day headquarters said Allied come from France: bombers presumably Giraud and his two designees American and Chinese fighters General Alphonse Georges and joined in the assault on Ichang Chinese forces are besieging Jean Monnet De Gaulle and his designees Changyang 12 miles below Ichang the special announcement said Rene Massigli And Andre Philip General George Catroux who and surrounding enemy remnants was accepted by both De Gaulle "The route of retreat of the and Giraud enemy's Third and Thirteenth divisions has been cut" the comThe meeting began as a conference among a group of munique declared "Our forces Frenchmen it ended as the started an counterattack (Continued on PAKe Two) May 30 By noon on May 31 the Column Six enemy's five divisions had been completely routed as a result of the vigorous Chinese 'encircling 1 '' - F creae - ' a siim:h bristling irtx141xNu1174c S 'C May' 4n the hard figntei of ovcrydielining arm' a:tilent' proPat:'clion Jamesi-r- ) imes declared Monda'ro‘''-nighttlat tilaqy attiCk3on ana7y 7 t 'Critical and the Ahead" "we afrItrOav!entering frontsqie periid-' LN — ' of the Var" t - - - Calls for Complete Cooleration - - t- ALGIERS May 31 (21)-- -A new governing body for France under the joint presidency of i and General Henri Giraud l CharleopPoCaulle Monday In a historic first assembly to administer French territory already liberated and to lead the French at the side of the allies until victory frees ' the homeland Min' 6 -- French Sign Accord in Algiers Meet S K- i ' - 4 Raiders From Africa Blast Naples UitrettASIII agnitude1 1 k! ' t ) 21Apek0 t - -- 77 e rifi I TI 71 ft t - 1 1 - Price Five Cents 1913 1 1 - r - Salt Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning June - : termittent light showers Tuesday Maximum temperature Monday 67 Isdegrees minimum 53 degrees ausued by permission of military thorities I "1ycvL10H r I - "Block-busters- '? - - - - ' 4 t 52titTP4IMtiqVitogMt |
