Show M 4' Don't Misx Today The Weather L 4 Constantine Brown's article on the editorial page in which he effect discusses the the current Lebanon crisis may have on the general war situation For Utah: Cloudy with widely scattered showers Thursday ar4 Friday Little change in tempersture Thursday and Thursday night Slightly cooler Friday : far-reachi- Vol 118 No 33 Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning November 18 1913 nweepmg w 11 Preside tit Says Allies Hold 41 - Subsidy Plnri N Y Forum Ilyars Slated to Cost Nine MIllion Program - Month Waits Vinson's Name Kansas Senator Leads Opposition A- Nov 17 (10—The broadest food pi ice sub-tid- y plan to hold down the program yet—a $9000000-a-mont- h cost of bread—ran head on into specific opposition on Capitol Hill Wednesday while the storm of congressional and farm protest against food subsidies in general 'rose to new fury Kansas Senator Reed (R) tackled the break price issue aheadof its formal announcement saylug he understood tile subsidy to Millers was planned at about '14 cents a bushel and adding: -1n still opposed to it It's just part of the subsidy program to which congress is overwhelmut that doesn't ingly opposed WASHINGTON Nov 17 seem to make any difference to house those birds" (UP)—Ohio's It was learned that the bread Republican delegation including a ceiling price nesday gave resounding inort hard wheat awaits only the dorsement to the G 0 P signature of Fred M Vinson ecopresidential candidacy of nomic stabilization director ex- Governor John W Bricker in a move that firmly estab- pected this week lished him as a favorite son Subsidy Attacks Grain The delegation threw its Meanwhile opponents of pay- full strength toEricker in Pv2nts to cut consumer prices add- a resolution adopted unaned new force to their attack with imously at the banquet at a parade of state agriculture corn- the Continental hotel praisg misaionera and farm leaders him as "one of the ablest fore the senate agriculture corn- chief executives in the narnittee tion" and pledging to work E H Everson South Dakota untiringly for his nominasecretary of agriculture led the tion and election drive contending that the end re- Not actively participating suit of consumer price subsidies is in the move were Ohio's publican senators Robert A Subsidy supporters call the pay- Taft and Harold Burton but rnents antiinflationary arguing Taft himself a potential that they are necessary to hold candidate previously had costs as a bar line dorsed the governor to demands for compensating wage increases Everson Republican former president of the farmers' union AJaNsr recalled President Roosevelt's Comparison on a little Inflation and the first shot of opium "In asking for a continuation and broadening of subsidies is not the president asking congress for more opium?" he asked the committee "Has he not already been Gordon Taylor Hyde recently giving too many such shots?" He contended that the $800000- - ousted from the finance commissubsidy program is the "prin- - sion by the supreme court wai cipal source" 'of excess purchasing power and that the failure to hold reappointed Wednesday by Goverthe line on living costs has been nor Herbert B Maw in spite of in defense plants—not on farms an attorney general's opinion that Farm Leaders Oppose Plan he is not eligible for the position The reappointment for the pebuilt up their Subsidy opponents senate case while administration riod ending March '1 1947 was strategists conceding defeat in the made on the last day for the filhouse based their plans on hope of a presidential veto such as blocked ing of a petition for rehearing in antisubsidy legislation last sum- the ouster case which also was mer The antisubsidy men how- Mr Hyde's last day as a de facto ever expressed belief that they member of the commission He was removed by the court may be able to override a veto The house takes the question up di- because of a legal technicality court holding that his appointrectly Thursday beginning two the extend-in- s ment and confirmation early in on bill of a debate days the life of the Commodity 1941 were invalid because of their Credit corporation and at the having taken place before the act same time forbidding the subsi- creating the finance commission became effective dies which that agency finances The opinion of Attorney GenIt was learned meanwhile that eral Grover AGiles prepared reis on the bread subsidy prog-r4the desk of Carl It Vinson cm- cently in response to a verbal reromic stabilization director await- quest from the governor held that Mr Hyde had never legally occuing only his signature and issuance expected this week The of- pied the office and the governor fice of price administration the lost his chance to reappoint him war food administration and Vin- when he failed to submit the name son 'Were reported to have agreed at the 1913 session of the senate The governor is not bound by an that it offered the only alternative to an increase of from one to attorney general's opinion as he would be by a court decision and Contarm4 of) PAge Eight) t Column Four) whether he or the attorney general is right in this cese from a will not be legal standpoint known unless the reappointment should be contested in the courts "Your power to nominate someone for confirmation of the senate" the attorney general advised the governor "expired with the adjournment of that senate and excellency cannot now make your Nov 17 WASHINGTON a valid appointment either of Mr (U1')—An overall reduction Hyde or of any other person to fill of 23 per cent in the use the office of commissioner of of newsprint during the first finance and the duties of that ofquarter of 1944 Itas been fice will of necessity have to be recommended by the war on by the other two comcarried production board's newsmissioners after the writ of ouster paper industry advisory is issued by the supreme court rommittee it was announced against Mr Hyde until the next Wedncsda V meeting of the senate" The supreme court's opinion beHarry M Bitner director W P B's printing and pubcame effective Wednesday at lishing division said the midnight when no petition for rerecommended cut was InThis means hearing was filed tended to save 191000 tons that a writ of ouster will issue imof newsprint He said the mediately cut would range from nothThe attorney general said at the outset of his opinion "it is believed ing for smaller newspapers to as high as 28 per cent we should state that there can be for larger publications no doubt but that Mr Hyde has The committee's resolubeen a de facto officer and that as tion said the first quarterly such his official acts have been valid during the period he has ocQuota for each paper should be "100 per cent of the the office and performed cupied of paper used amount the duties of commissioner of fiin printing its net paid cirnance" culation in the correspondGovernor Maw said his reaping quarter of 1911 plus pointment of Mr Hyde was bafsed 3 per cent for waste on practical grounds He believes Mr Hyde to be the man best fitted plus the percentage of increase of its net paid cirthe job and that it would crefor culation in the fourth quarate an almost impossible situation ter of 1912 over the fourth to have the finance commission in quArter of 1911" the hands of only two men one a WASHINGTON Bricker Gets Start as Favorite Son 20-m- an Wed-progra- m be-in- on in-t- he on-livi- Renames ilyde Despite Giles' Opinioil -- q ff'PB mWA1NO Bio-Adva!ltag-e Stirs 3roadsi 13- Price Five Cents Views Nelvsprint Cut in 1944 (Continual on Pito Six) (eotumn Your) Messages From Leaders of World onlwamo - NEW YORK Nov 17 (A'— President Roosevelt said Wednesday night that the united nations now had the "supreme aavantage of initiative" and their progress could be measured by the fact that they were producing "the important events of the war" "We must not lose this advantage—the supreme advantage of Initiative" he said in a message to the closing session of the New York Herald-Tribun- e forum on current problems Vice President Wallace and Wendell Willkie addressed the session in the Waldorf-Astori- a ballroom Messages also were read from Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden of Great Britain and General Charles De Gaulle president of the French committee of national liberation AVork Together Churchill observed that the forum was meeting "in the glow of one of the most cheering developments in international affairs the Moscow conference" and referred to the pledge of the United States the United Kingdom Russia and China "to work together not only in winning the war but in building the structure of a lasting peace" Wallace said that loans made abroad after the war if properly' Invested could increase jobs in the United States and furnish mil- lions of jobs for the whole world Certain private interests he said must not be "allowed to high pressure congress into higher tariffs while other private inter- ests are financing unsound loans abroad at the expense of the small American inVestor" He said that "by lack of planthe ning and the selfishness'-11-hardheaded men we can turn peace 11 into World war III" 'tails A greement Male hailed the Moscow agreement as "a sound foundation on which we cn now build" and urged that it be enlarged to "economic as well as political and moral objectives" and participation by all the united nations and eventually all nations Eden's message said the declaration at Moscow "Made it plain that there was and there would be no attempt to impose a sort of great power dictatorshin on other statea" President Roosevelt said tivt "in the years---an- d perhpps ths c?nturies of peace—that pre to folri-r(Contimied Where War RagesinMediterranean in-du- de four-pow- ro91 teniumn One er Five QP A Reduces Pork Points WASHINGTON Nov 17 (UP) —The office of price administra- tion Wednesday night announced a temporary reduction in the ration value of ell cuts of pork after the war foods edministration had announced a um program intended to stabilize the price of live hogs The cut which also applies to 100 per cent pork sausage Li at 12:01 a m E W T Friday and will be continued "for a limited period only" 0 P A Administrator Chester Bowles said The move is intended to prevent a jam of storage facilities resulting from the heavy run of hogs to market in recent weeks which is expected to continue next month W F A Administrator Marvin Jones said the price stabilization program effective November 29 will apply at all major markets assuring producers a price of $1 per hundredweight below 0 P A ceilings Every power of the government will be used to prevent a threatened price collapse and gluttinvz of markets he said The support price of good to choice hogs weighing 200 to 270 pounds will be $1375 per 100 pounds at Chicago $1 below the current $1475 0 P A ceiling The price at other markets will be somewhat lower but are intended to reflect the customary differential between those markets and two-poi- nt zs : ' r41tRA Go no marsillo Vt- Ftorenvi - 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'''4--- Ba $t4 I k COCA 4 ( :)Als ' :CasIlatilf -- - -- it ' d i sof la S-A- ' -- gz4evtt F- 11--'- ' 4 : - PritoF ": e At tfS4k 16 7ut OlefIZ$ GREEC Palermo Marsalar'Z'741 SIzerta Done i p$4c SICILY '::7-74'-3':- s r C8tbrtiat E7: LILL1 VSA MO' imt Athr1 :i tIttt:"Lsi1e4t4 ::: Pylos PANTELLERIA:-H:::- 444 4MALTA - LAMPEDUSA r:::s04t Mediterranean Sea TU41SIA Announcement is made of bomber attacks (arrows) on two nazi airfields at Marseille harbor at Sibenik Yugoslavia and an airport at Athens Wednesday British announce loss of 0 S'TATtfit By United Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Nov 17 ()P) —Attacking on a front of more than 1000 miles 1?)mbers of the northwest island of Leros to nazi invasion troops Italian front (black line) where allies (arrow) are thrusting northward was comparatively quiet the official word said Alter Overwhehninp Leros Defenders os valiant garrison has gone down fighting againzt overwhelming odds and Wednesday night the Germans were believed preparing to move on the last allied Aegean bases in a drive to secure their 13alkan flank and impress the Turks in case they are wavering in their neutrality The end came on the tiny Dodecanese island of Leros late Tuesday when 'after very severe fighting and in spite of the most determined resistance in the face of fres:i enemy reinforcements" the battered and weary British and Italian defenders ceased organized resistance Cairo announced It had been a hopeless battle from the beginning due to the distance of fighter bases from which to combat the divebombing of the Leros garrison and the difficulty of getting reinforcements and supplies past the German island strongholds to the south Making capital of their victory achieved only 20 miles off the shores of Turkey German communiques asserted blatantly that 3000 British troops and 5000 Italians laid down their arms with the fall of Letos and that a great quantity of 4var equipment was seized Observers here expected the Germans to follow through swiftly with art attack on Samos 40 miles iThrth of Leros and they held out little hope that it could be defended successfully even though the British garrison has been reinforced with tough Greek para-- 1 troopers They pointed out that local German air superiority will prevail over Samos as it did over Coo and Leros and over Crete in 1941 German broadcasts said the British also held Ikaria island 17 miles west of Samos The British have never reported occupation of karta The only other remaining Briish possession in the area is tiny -- - bombers - Russ Lose Ground Aromid Kiev Smash to Outposts of Gomel 00-- Rugs la (Official) ' By United Press' 10NDON Thusday Nov 18— The red army in its first admitted withdrawal since the start of its summer offensive announced the loss of several places on the front west of Kiev Wednesday but 170 miles northeast it encircled the German garrison at Rechitsa and broke into the outpost of Gomel Acknowledginn a latent threat to Zhitomir and korostishev Moscow's operational and supplementary communiques reported that the red army had abandoned several towns and villages in the area of those points and consolidated themselves in new positions under the pressure of desperate German counterattacks But though they fell back near Zhitomir and Korostishev the Russians scored impressive gains on other fronts They poised for the kill at Reehitsa made their first gain in weeks west of Zaporozhe drove to within five miles of Korosten in a liquor situation has asserted that big distilling interests are creating a scarcity 'by holding good liquor off the market He said taxes are evaded thereby and consumers are compelled to resort to black markets George did not relate his tax an- nouncement to the current reports of hoarded whisky but imposition of the tax would have the effect of driving at least some liquor out for consumption At present liquor may be held In a bonded warehouse for eight years before the federal tax of $8 a gallon applies Van Nuya said part of the shortage resulted from holding liquor in bonded storage in the The tax hope of higher prices d pg On Eight) (Column Two (C9nlin-111- advance and brought immediate pressure on the northern outskirts of aornel The battle of the Dnieper valfront ley raged along a from Rechitsa on the north to the Zaporozhe area on the south The Germans indicating that Adolf Hitler is not yet resigned to the loss of his "Dnieper line" massed men and material on the front west of Kiev where they achieved their first minor success in months The towns and villages regained by the Germans in the Zhitomir- Korostishev area were won at a cost of 73 armored units and up wards of 1500 men Moscow dis10-mi- 1e 400-mi- le closed "The enemy concentrated large tank and infantry forces in a narrow sector of the front and regardless of his heavy losses threw these into battle" Moscow's midnight communique said "Units of x formation waged stubborn bat- tles destroying 50 German tanks and armored trucks and killing 1500 Hitlerites In another sector seven fierce counterattacks were repulsed by the fire of our gunners and tank busters During the battle 23 enemy tanks were ' burned or destroyed" While Germany enjoyed its unusual success in forcing the Russians into retreat also for the first time in months was able to announce the definite encirclement of a sizable German garrison At Rechitsa 25 miles west of Gomel on the escape railroad to Pinsk soviet troops under General Markian M Popov stormed through the township of Ozershchina and reached the Dnieper north of Rechitsa thus completing an arc about he town anchored at both ends on the Dnieper With the German garrison at Rechitsa encircled and its retreat cut off soviet tank units and machine gun outfits broke into the town's westerhputskirts and engaged the Germans in street fighting First reports published by the soviet command said 1200 Germsns were killed yesterday at Rechitsa African air force struck their heaviest blow of recent weeks at the nazi Or force Tuesday when they smashed enemy airdromes near in southern France and in the Athens area in Greece Blistering onslaughts by Flying Fortresses and Marauders against fields at Istres le Tube and Salon near Marseille were aimed the destruction primarily at Dornier-217 of fleets of and other German long range The communique added that severalfires resulted in the attack on Mille east of Jaluit while cloud conditions over Makin prevented accurate observance of the darn Marseille Castelrosso just off the Turkish ning Standard calling the41oss of south coast which is flanked by Leros a seHous blOw said War German-occupie- d Rhodes Secretary Sir James Grigg would As long as the allies are es- be confronted in the house of tablished north of Rhodes how- common S with many pointed quesever they lie athwart the Ger- - tions concerning the Aegean commans Dodecanese comMunications paign There is no doubt- the newspaand the speed and power with which the nazis movedto regain per said that the German offenthe islands proved they intend to sive was launched in order 'to improtect their Balkan flank with press Turkey at a time when "it all their resources it was said was suspected she was contemAt the same time German re- plating giving facilities to Brit- conquest of the Dodecanese is- am" and "if indeed such a thought lands would tend to slow any was in the minds of Turkish swing Turkey might be making statesmen the German success on toward the allies from her pres- Leros will undoubtedly make them ent rigid neutrality The Eve think again" OP A Says 'Gangster Element' Complicates Liquor Problem complicating the liquor price and supply problem and Chairman George (D) Georgia of the senate finance committee announced that his group will consider a plan to impose excise levies on liquor held in bonded warehouses more than four years Senator Van Nuys (D) Indian chairman nr a judiciary pubcommittee named to investigate the land-base- Allles—(Of ficial) i5(0 Nazis Threaten Last Allied Aegean Isles (UP)--Ler- four-motor- ed CRETe-'5-- -' di LONDON Nov 17 - Forts Marauders Batter Big Nazi Airfields eK4 No" 0: gl headquartters in the southwest- Pacific announced that airmen- had dropped 39 tons of bombs on Sspan's Kara airarome on the southern coast of Bougainville Elsewhere in the Bougainville section allied air patrols destroyed 10 barges- damaged seven others in addition to a small cargo ship and set fire to two fuel dumps In the Marshall-Gilbe- rt raids th bombers in the deepd est penetration yet by planes of Japan's eastern defense perimeter blasted at Jaluit and Mille etas lateMonday afternoon Score Vital IlitaT At Jaluit the raiders scored heavily against Japaiese seaplane bases hangars shops and dump areas on Imeiji and Jabor islands which are part of the atoll the communique said Of five ships anchored in the lagoon one was left burning and three others were reported possibly damaged Allies Hit Athens Marseille S!dott ik a ALBANIA Tyrrhenian :-- i N BULGAR IAC 1 Titslia)Cc (Official)—By United Press PEARL HARBOR Nov 17 (UP)—Heavy Liberator bombers of the U S Seventh army air force struck at the Marshall and Gilbert islands for the third time in less than 48 hours Monday wrecking enemy ships and installations a United States Pacific fleet communique announced Wednesday II Meanwhile reports from allied - - - :::01 tN By Associated Press WASHINGTON Nov 17—Twin moves to drive liquor out of warehouses and the "gangster element" out of the whisky business developed here Wednesday rationed meat picture" of senate approval of a On The point reductions will mean $10000topfund for a committee inthht a number of items including vestigation of the business the fat backs hocks and bacon ends office of price administration said may be purchased ration free a growing "gangster element" is WASHINGTON Nov 17 (NYT) —Robert McClintock second secof the American legation in retary Helsinki- and at present charge d'affaires who has been in Finland for four years is being transferred to the legation In Stockholm the state department said Wednesday - t4Scoilmivc Ne Chicago Bowles emphasized the reduction in point values is only a temporary expedient and should not be interpreted as meaning a "sudden improvement in the over-al- l Diplomat Transferred arest tau :the ittvvYUGa20S1AVIAD--'1 - SARDINIA- - TA 12t'eet— - ome - i za5 siti - let -- c2tTlic:---Igrstio5 UMANIA - '44 -1- 41 Atv t - rrAtAk ' ' so-call- ed Third Raid in' 48 Hours Leaves Ships Installations Wrecked Japs Fail to Nog Any Resistance ' that have age As in the case of the two previous raids on the Marshal's arid Gilberts last Saturday night and Sunday the Seventh air fore bombers met no Japanese interceptors although they were sub jected to sharp antiaircraft fire No planes were lost or personnel injured in any of the three attacks Possibly pointing up the recent statement by Admiral Chester W Nimitz commander In chief of the Pacific fleet that "the time has come for us to attack" the raids marked an intensification of aerial warfare Distances Given Jaluit in the Marshall islands is- 2500 miles southwest of Honolulu 1200 northeast of Guadalca--- naL and ft 00 miles southeast of Tokyo Makin is 300 miles southeast of Jaluit and Mille is 125 miles been harassing allied shipping in the Mediterranean Many grounded bombers were left flaming at the two enemy bases and a tremendous explosion indicated an American bomb found an ammunition dump Another force of Mitchell medium ' bombers whipped eastward from their Italian bases to blast the Elevsis airfield near Athens for the second straight day in futile support of allied ground troops defending Leros is- land in the Aegean sea Ten fires were started at Elevsis In hopes of reducing the nazis' striking force in the Aegean While the allies' Mediterranean air activity fanned out on an ever broadening front ground operations in Italy were cursed by dismal weather with high winds rain and snow hampering the movements of men and supplies Several brisk patrol actions were reported from the various sectors The most important resulted in Americans of the Fifth army regaining some high ground on Monte Santa Croce north of Venafro which had been lost the preceding day to two strong German counter- mid-Pacif- ic - east - The series of attacks which on Page P01111 (COitilTin One) Contpued ap(- France Draws Raid Wanting By Associated Press The 0 IV I overseas branch and B B C joined Wednesday night in a special warning to the French that the allies were going to unleash new and massive aerial assaults on nazi war plants in France Thirty-M- x places including the Paris area were listed as liable to be attacked and the fact that many are deep inland tacg suggested that tics involving north African squadrons aa well as those based in Britain would be used Among the areas listed aside from Paris were Gennevilliers Colombe 5 Nantes ArgenteuilLC Ivry M Courbevoie Toulouse Lill e Strasbourg Metz and Clermont Lyon whip-sawin- attacks Near the Tyrrhenian coast British forces intercepted a German patrol that had crossed the Garigliano river and shot it up badly Eighth army troops improved their positions north pt Atessa Denain 6 Typhoons Plaster Nazi Channel Ports in Day Raid 4ollAF LONDON Nov 17 UP) — Tychannel ports phoons hit nazi-heWednesday following up the U S ll heavy bomber attack Tuesday which probably knocked out the highly important molybdenum plant at Knaben in- southern Norway and a night action against continental targets was indicated A large fleet of outward-boun- d bombers crossed the southeast night English coast RWednesday that A F heavy bombindicating ers idle since Armistice night were aiming another blow in force at nazi targets The German and Paris radios went off the air—often a sign that the R A F is blasting the continent A Reuters dispatch from Zurich Switzerland said an air raid alert was sounded at Basel Wednesday night In the past such Swiss alerts often have signaled allied attseks on southern Germany or Inorthern Italy made during U 3 on the molybdenum min- ing installations at Knaben a power station at ftjukan about SO miles west of Oslo and other war industries in Norway Tuesday indicated that heavy damage was - I done Two minesweepers a trawler and a motor launch were damaged F TyWednesday by the swift Et Aantiairphoons despite intense craft fire A pilot said their cannon shells hit minesweepers lying' at a dockside at St Peter a pert on the channel island of Guernsey Other planes encountered heavy flak as they hit a trawler and a motor launch moored in at Lezardrieux FrInce 11 miles northeast of Brest 'Two fighters were missing R A F Mosquitoes attacked westa ern Germany Tuesday night with out loss the-estuar- S - |