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Says lit Itev 31gr Patrick F Kennedy: '") - At !meal Metal 3Iarketsr - 40 Aik - A y 44 Gold 3500 Silver (domestic) 71110 Silver (foreign) 351'23c Copper electrolytic dellv12e ered Connecticut vallay 4444 Help smooth the road to victory—Buy bond& Lead Lead Lotat KetileM1111 ertPP11 50a Copper (cathode) I 138 No 111 Vol Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning March 1 1912 Zinc 61)0c el ty - —11 65-- ' rice Test Cents - - 256 - I L umilimAAhmo Nelson Calls On Nation to Speed 'Arms Must Face U S Orders British Raid Courts-Marti- al eA!: Kimmel 02 May Delay Cases !1 16 pk' Till War Ends Retired on Pay eletLINVI:itesct C) me for establishment of joint laborroa nagement war plant committee to consider all suggestions for increasing production use of machines awards to employers and workers for outand sanding acccmplishment to of factories conversion faster war needs Exchange Letters An exchange of letters made public b3 the White House that the chief executive wrote D6nald Nelson chairman of the war production board Friday that the months just ahead were the "critical months of the war" that present output schedules must be exceeded and that "to win we must fight" "This is total war" the president said -- We are all under fire and civilians alike No one is a spectator we are all belligerents : 1 die-clos- ed Bloat EesIze rrging "The urgency of today must be felt in every shop and factory producing war goods in every home and on every farm Then we IShall achieve the spirit and rooterative action that carries a ' team to victory I therefore direct you to take every possible step to raise production now to bring home to latxr and management alike the supreme importance of war production this crucial spring" Replying Nelson said he had discursed the rnatter with war ravy and maritime commission Ott licials and received pledges of their "hearty cooperation" in a "continLing national drive designed not merely to increase production at once but to keep stepping it up further as the war continues" The principal aims he added would be to increase production immediately in plants having war contracts and to convert other plants to war production "as speedily and ai completely as -- - - perss:ble" Expect Nazi Drive Mr Roosevelt 'did not say why he tonsidered the next few months to be particularly critical ones Some military experts however have predicted that the Germans open a supreme offensive in the Mediterranean in the spring with the aim of :driving to India and joining forces with their Japa- rese allies There were heartening indications that production already was reaching record tpeed The new 120fAk000 light cruiserSan Juan Was commissioned Boston at uschedule and in months ahead New York a submarine combat as launched just 63 days srp alter the keel was laid Nelson outlined this general program for achieving- still faster production: of utilization "I Greater now war goods producing plants at bringing us as close as possible to the theoretical maximum of 168 hours work per week for every machine in those plants '2 Lecognition and awards tor cLtEariding Industrial accomplish rient both by management and labor "3 Establishment of a plan for war plant joint committees which will consider Kuggestions from all quarters for Increasing production and which wU help demonstrate the importance of our soldiers of produc: aed labor-manageme- nt tion" Talk Monday Night Ne'Ort said he would start Pn rday night a se rie s of weekly tsctisFions -- of th4-- part each one rsf us will play in this drive" His fritt radio address is expected to be addressed to labor and managerrert 'Three others will follow in nailing weeks ‘ 0411kIL 0 program calls speed-u- p ' WASHINGTON Feb (UP) Rear Admiral Humband E Kimmel and Major General Walter C Short were ordered Saturday to stand trial by courts martial on charges that their "dereliction of duty" at Pearl Harbor made possible the succes!5of the Japanese attlicks on that bastion last December 7 Pending their trials which may be delayed until after the war the two former commanders of the defense establishjoint army-nav- y ment in Hawaii were retired on salaries of $6000 tt year each Kimmel and Short previously had applied for such retirement Ordered Simultaneously Court martial proceedings were ordered simultaneously but in separate announcements by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox in Kimmel's case and by Secretary of War Henry L Stimson in Shorts The charges on which they will be tried were contained In the report of the special presidential comnitssion headed by Associate Supreme Court Justice Owen J Roberts which investigated the circumstances of the treacherous Japanese assault on the fortress The report charged Kimmel and Short with "dereliction of duty" and cited evidence that from November 27 until the day of the attack December 7 the two commanders had failed to consult on preparations for defense in the event of such an attack Trials to Be Delayed Both Knox and Stimson specified that the courts martial were not to be held "until such time as the public interest and safety will permit" That was teken as an indication that the trials may not start Iirtil after the war since many of the officers and men who would he subject to call as witnesses are now serving at scattered stations on the various war 'fronts It was recalled that in several eases of a lesser nature during World War I court martial proceedings were delayed until after the conflict ended Vithout Consideration In granting the applications of Kimmel and Short for retirement on pay the secretaries of war and navy specified that they were acting "without condonation of any offense or prejudice to any future disciplinary action" It was not diaclosed whether Kimmel and Short both of whom were relieved of their commands after the December 7 attack had applied for the trials by court martial They are technically entitled to do so in an effort to clear their names What punishment mht be meted to them in the event they mere found guilty as charged in Maki! General Waiter C Short left and Rear Admiral Husband E Kimmel army and navy commanders at Hawaii during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor ordered Saturday to stand trial by courts martial for dereliction of duty OPA Restricts House Awaits Prices on Trea'sury's Canned Ctiods Tax Hike Plan 27 Billion Dollar Clamps Ceilings On List- of 25 Fruits Vegetables Bill Will Be - Outlined Tuesday - WASHINGTON Feb 2 8 (UP) Feb 28 UPI— will learn next Tues—Americans 'r damped price how and 25 the administration fruits On canned day just reilings vegetables Saturday in the first which is urging congress to pass application of such regulations the largest tax bill in history to any food other than sugar wants to boost their taxes to raise Announcing simultaneously fur- $27000000000 annually in war ther details of sugar rationing revenues plans the office of price adminSecretary of the Treasury Henry istration said ration books would be denied to persons having more Morgenthau Jr will outline the administration's program at a pubthan two months' Supply hearing of the house ways and The 0 P A's canned goods order lic committee which origiforbade canners and wholesalers means to charge more for a aelected list nates all revenue- measures in con of items than the highest price gress Randolph- pall! special tax adviser to Morgenthau later will they received in the period between explain the treasury proposals in 27 23 and February February Retailers will be responsible for detail Treasury experts were revising stabilizing their own prices Adthe final draft of the administraministrator Leon Henderson de- tion clared adding that "should this end tax proposali over the week and did not expect to comresponsibility prove too much 0' P A will take steps to control plete it until Monday Seven Billion Increase prices at the retail source" Commodities Listed Informed officials said that baBlanketed under the ceiling ef- sically however the administrafective Monday were canned ap- tion anproposals probably will calloverall increase of $7000ples applesauce apricots cher- for ries fruit cocktail fruit salad 00000 a year in these categories: Tax Increase peaches pears pineapples plums Corporat1on4 $3000000000 dried all lima beans asparagus 2500000000 beans snap beans beets carrots Individual income 750000000 corn peas pumpkins sauerkraut Plugging loopholes Excise 750000000 tomatoes sweet potatoes spinach tomato juice and tomato catsup Congressional Work on this giHenderson said the action to gantic tax bill will start aftet be superseded within 60 days by treasury officials have offered a permanent price schedule was their program and there is little necessary to halt speculation prof- prospect that a bill will be eniteering and price increases which acted for weeks or even months If the treasury program in its since last August have amounted to about 20 per cent at the can- present tentative form should be nere level and about 10 per cent enacted individual income tax at the retail level payments would soar to an estimated $7300000000 during the Sets Registration fiscal year beginning July 1 At the same time Henderson and would be nearly six times the housewives cautioned against amount collected in fiscal year hoarding canned goods declaring 1941 that present supplies are adequate for "reasonable consumer needs" Payments Estimated Enactment of the new treasury despite heavy demands of the e rearmed services and proposals would result in the following jumps in tax payments quirements that a regis- by fiscal years: 0 P A announced g books tration for Corporation income and excess WASHINGTON The government 19-1- lend-leas- - sugar-rationin- On t Column (Continut-- Page Two NI114) (Continued on Page Eieven) (Column Six) House Passes Bill to Expand Government's War Powers WASHINGTON Feb 28 (Tir) —The house late Saturday passed by voice vote and returned to the senate the second war powers bill providing drastic penalties for violation of priorities orders and expanding the government's power to seize private property needed in war production It was expected that the bill will go to conference for ironing out of differences in thr house and senate versions A major difference is a house provision limiting to $5000000- 000 the amount of goverrment bonds the federal reserve banks may purchase in any manner The war powers bill proviles a maximum penalty of one year imprisonment and a $10000 fine for violation of priorities orders and extends the government's power to adze private property to include commandeering of machinery that may be essential to operation of an ordinary industrial plant if the machinery is needed for war production mid-Pacif- three-quarte- ic rs (Continued on Page Six) leolumu Four) British--(Official- Fliers Batter ) Jam (It te Rangoon Gate - sea-born- e- 1 Luftwaffe Fails To Save In Soviet Trap nazi-attempt- s air-ferri- the-stro- ng : Senators Map Japanese Fill Employe Probe MOSCOWVOSt WASHINGTON Feb 28 (2P) — specia I senate investigating committee seeking to determine how many federal employes can be transferred from normal peacetime activities to war work completed its blueprint Saturday for the most extensive survey ever made of government personnel Chairman Tydings (D) Maryland said the committee on Monday would begin distributing comprehensive questionnaires to every group head in every government department agency and bureau From theenswers he said the committee will try to determine by "intensive analysis" not only the number who can be converted to war work: but also where the government can eliminate duplications of effort avoid unnecessary expenditures and conserve office space and personnel The survey will not cover the war navy and post office departments and purely war work agencies Tydings said General instead of ' soecific questions would be asked One of the most comprehensive portions of the survey will deal with information government public relations and publicity agents A 1 !! rhoa Enemy Takes Areas on Both Sides 01 Dutch Island Capital Fleet Blasts Four Nippon Warships - By Associated Press LONDONFeb 28—British parachutists and infantry with the cooperation of the R A F arid royal navy set foot on French soil in a major thrust SatL6NDON Feb 2 8 (UM— urday for the first time since the fall of France British imperial forces aided Setting what London 'quarters by American volunteer fliers believed was the pattern for a were officially reported satnew style of Britiah offensive actirday night to be waging a tion the surprise invasion was terrific battle and inflicting viewed as the beginning of a turn appalling losses On the ento the strategy of attack which emy in defense of the fire- may bring a major smash at Gerscarred Burmese capital of many from the west before the Rangoon end of 1942 The military situation Ir s' Burma guarding southern Float Out of Night the approaches to India is The parachutists said to:numgrave The British have ber part of an entire division of fallen back west of the shalsuch British troops floated outof low Sittang river and the the night over northern France Japanese probably have cut from a fleet of big air transports the Rangoon railroad north and with machine precision- - gathr of Pegu a military ered into formations for the fierce mentator explained attack upoTi the surprised Ger- But the fight is going 6n mans desperately with American inSimultaneously and British air squadrons of fantry under the protection enemy taking a heavy toll ofhard German-hel-d at and striking warships rushed the planes beaches and soon were beginning and bases positions Japanese a concerted drive in the delta area leading to Demolition squads went to work Rangoon Strong Japanese and while the battle ragedcarrforces ars reported pressing ied out extensive destruction of the offensive in south radio location stations' Burma the commentator said H A I' Protect4 Departure Then before the Germans could rally sufficient forces to put up formidable opposition the raiding British took to their ships and under a canopy of R A F fighting planes began their return home Military Spokesmen supplementing a joint navy army and air force communique which told of the attack said it could not be assumed that the raiding force wax small and said the possibility Russian—(Official) thnt a niajor air battle took place By Associated Press wit 'l German bombers 'attacking MOSCOW Feb 28—Desperate the iTturning expedition "cannot to save the trapped be denied" Sixteenth army by rushing up Late this afternoon the return of the expedition had not been anreinforcements drawn from nounced the spring offensive 'reserve have The communique specifically listed the seeneQf the attack as been frustrated by Russian antithe "northern coast of France" aircraft gunners and fighter a phrase which limited it to the planes dispatches from the Sta! 400 miles between Dunkerque and raya Russa front declared Satur Pointe de St Mathieu day night Perhaps at Brest Shoot Down Planes Since so many hours passed be— raid They reported shooting down tween announcement of the and return of the expedition the- big German supply and troop the at- planes and capturing prisoners suggestion was strong thateast end tack took place near the who said they were sent to the of the peninsula of Brittany -- front from camps in Germany of perhaps in the Rneighborhood Brest where the A F made more where they were being trained for ' than 100 attempts in 10 months to the spring drive: Southwest of Moscow on the destroy or cripple the battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst before front extending through the and into the Crimea they esceped to bases in northern Donets basin were Germans the reported lashing Germany A sizable body of opinion be- - out fiercely in counterattack's pos(on Page Eight) Centintled sibly intended to divert Column Three) Russian pressure in the north- west ermans Drive The red army a ck n'owl edged that at one place on the southern front the Germans drove a wedge four iniles wide and six miles deep TOKYO' Feb 2 R (Japanese into the Russian line but said JtusBroadcasts Recorded by ITF in sian countermeasures straightened f New York) —Nantaka Sato one the front and wiped out the force sault astute most diplomats Japan's On another part of the same was named ambassador to Russia were reported Saturday and Premier General front 900 Germans y Hidekt Top warned that Japan's killed in a fight On the southwestern front the northern defenses are so strong have atthat they provide "absolute se- - Germans were said to counteratsix successive curity" against any threat from temptedtContittued on Page Two) that direction (Column Three) 4) Sato replaced Lieutenant Gen- era! Yoshitsugu Tatekawa who resigned because of "ill health" (London said the change was "significant" particularly in view of the fact that the Russian am- bassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin is in Moscow having returned some weeks ago because WITH TUE A E F of "illness") NORTHERN IRELAND Feb The premier said Japans- war 28 tin—Husky American troops aims were twofold: strathrough Belfast Sat- 1 paraded and securing Occupying east bases throughout tirday helping the citizens of tegic enemy Asia and north Ireland Inaugurate war 2 Getting important resources- savings week during which they under Japanese controL'' and enhope to raise $22000000 to larging and increasing' Japan's- "adopt" an aircraft Carrier The Irish cheere&the paradfizilting strength "thereby cooperand ing troops stepping behind their ating closely with Germany miliown band to military marches Italy and developing positive tary operations in order to achieve- rather than "Over There" or the final end that will cause Anglo"Keep the Home Fires Burning" of the last war America to surrender" split-minu- ' II:'72hte'Pohits iii: ajorc011flièt Forces Wreck Nazi Radio' Locater Station — 28 the war production board Saturday ordered a fresh national drive to quicken the present rate of output: The new France by Short Tried ShipsThute Crucial Period Faces Allies Roosevelt Warns By Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb: 28 — Told by President Roosevelt that victory depends in large measure on increased arms production this "crifcial spring" ti e-- 'ó6:-:'Gaii'$Be- ' as-o- one-da- NEW YORK Sunday March 1 tAP)—There is continual' air activity over the whole front in Java and the allied defenders are putting up "fierce resistance" to the' Japanese Invaders William Dunn Columbia Broadcasting system correspondent in Java reported today in a telephone report from the beleaguered island - al) day) March 1—Japanese invasion forces crossing the Java Sea and fighting off heavy allied air attacks effectedthree landings on the north coast of Java Sunday and w4re attempting to land troops at at least two other points The landings were made in Bantam province the Bay of Indramaju and 30 kilometers east of Rembang in the eastern control area the official Dutch news agency Ancta reported Beachheads were established in the Bantam and Indrama—ju landings There was no definite indication where the Japanese were attempting to effect additional landings but Aneta reported that "two other landing fleets have been attacked during the night by our air force and losses have been inflicted on the enemy" After Naval Battle e landing in Bantam province probably near the town of Bantam on the Sunda strait:14 miles from the southern end of Sumatra apparently was effected following a naval battle t 4 Aneta reported the landingrwas opposed by allied forces but added "No news is available so far concerning this naval --M- engagernent" By landing in the area of the Bay of Indramaju about 100 miles east of Batavia the island capital the Japanese placed troops both east and west of Batavia the island capital The area is about 100 miles east of Batavia Bantam province is about 65 'miles west of the capital The landings near Rembang placed the enemy between that port and the big naval basè at Soerabaja the last naval base in the archiiielago still held b3 the united nations Seek to Close Pincers By beginning the long expected attack on the richest island Of the Dutch East Indies the Japanese were attempting to close the pincers movement which they began by first seizing Sumatra and thenthe island of Bali Aneta said tnat early reports indicated allied forces already were resisting the landing forces but gave no details on where this resistance was centered The landing in the Indramaju bay area if successful would put the Japanese in position to fight their way inland to the railroad running east from Batavia to Samarang and on to So6rabaja There also is a rail line running from Rem-ban- g east through the coastal plains to the big naval base Planes Not Evident There was no indication that Japanese warplanes were playing an important role in the invasion scheme such as they took in their successful march down the Malayan peninsula that culminated in the quick seizure of airports and the final capture of Singapore with British planes virtually driven from the skies In a great naval engagement announced Friday night an invasion fleet of possibly 40 transports heavily supported by warships was driven off with heavy losses but it apparently reorganized off the Borneo coast and came steaming back Risk Many Lives As in other invasions the Japanese seem willing to lose great numbers of met- - to gain their objectives In Bali all but one ship of a great invasion armada was sunk or damaged but enough Japanese were landed to seize the airport - - Belfast Cheers U S troops iit 'War Savings Parade - - ' By United Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Somewhere in Java (Sun Allies--(Offici- Major General Russell P Hartle United States commander In northern Ireland took their salute beside Prime Minister John Andrews the lord mayor and other government find city officials "They're big fellows" one Irishman said—and they were Frisking alongside the marchwas "Hawkeye" ing Americans mone-re- l dog that adopted the x'hen they landed Captain O H Naberle of Waterloo Iova said Hawkeye now WAS a member of his unit full-fledge- d at Denpasar and eventually take control of the island There were no details as to the damage the allied forces were inflicting on the Japanese (A navy communique Issued at 4Wa5hington late Saturday said that four Japanese ships had been put out of action in fighting 'off Java) Aneta said its correspondent leaving "for the front at once" indicating the news agency added that allied forces were tak— ing strong countermeasures Soerabaja the last naval base of any consequence left to the allied nations undoubtedly was the object of the landings east of Ilembang and Batavia the island the focal capital W I probably PaR was ( Contintipqi iCoitima six) - 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