Show 4 I'- MMOINMENUMMIOMOMMIWMFOMINOMMIMME1011 i' '''i- ' - ' : ' ' - l'?- 16 H: Fars il ' t ' ) Harry A Johnson Railroad Brakeman: : LI "Make your money count' for victory—Buy Bonds" ' -- it ( i ri f is"4' i i ? I ' 1' aii i'-- '' " 1 kI ' ) z t t i i i D :n :1 1 : Local Metal Markets ! t jid 1 Gold Silver 1 : I 7111a (domestic) Silver (foreign) 35123c Copper electrolytic deliv12o ered Connecticut valley Lead 650c Zinc 8251 J ": - $35 00 Leveal Lead 6500 Settlement Pelee Copper (cathode) F l 1165e 6- 141912 Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning March 141 No 118 Vol Price Five Cents P Nelson Calls For All-O- ut Use of Plants White House Hits Unified Army Navy House Committee Kills Aid for War Jobless - W4SHINGTON March 10- tin—President Roosevelt's workers was request for federal aid to help refusea by a house committee for a second time Tuesday conceded that "it's dead" now and two sponsors By a vote- of 7 to 5 the deficiency appropriations subcommittee refused to approve a special $100000000 W P A appropriation which: the president recommended last Wednesday to provide jobs for persons temporarily unemployed while factories are convertedfrom peacetime to arms prowar-displac- Warns Labor 31anagement of Pith lic Wrath By Associated Press WASHINGTON March 10- -Donald M Nelson declared Tuesday night that this country's output of military supplies could be doubled if all existing war production machinery were 'used 24 hours a day seven days a reek Unless produetion is brought to victorious levels the war production board chairman warned In an address to the nation neither manarement nor labor "could survive the public wrath should that wrath be turned against them: nor could e here on the war production boa rd Nelson said hP had become convinced of the depth of the public demand for production from a flood of telegrams and letters received after his broadcast last week demanding a 25 per cent pro- ail-o- ut duction upturn Tuesday night's second address was prepared for broadcast over the Mutual netwOrk Conmes Open The production chief Mentioned two ways of arriving at the necessary production level — "the American way" and the way of bondage or force" "If therefore we are to achieve ictory for the ideals we free men have Always 16ved" he continued 'then we on the production lines must abandon every other consid"-ratioT14 1 Roosevelt Turns WASHINGTON OPA Fixes Ceiling Sugcrestion for To Prevent Gouging of Public Retail Sales Levy (— re- -- ed ' OPA Freezes Prices on Pork To Halt Advancing Market (AP)----Pric- e 16-ye- ar r J — set-up- n long-expect- ed -- 1 tveiliry 1 I 1 q g i es e - here-i—her- - March 10 t k t ‘ gested consolidation unmistakable So long as the various military branches were working well together he said it made little difference whether there Was a single department or several Dismisses 'Supreme Command' The president also discouraged discussion of the possibility of establishing a supreme command A reporter mentioned that Senator Chandler (D) Kentucky had said such a step was imminent Mr Roosevelt asked the correspondent what was meant by the term supreme command The correspondent said he did not know The president added then that neither did anyone else who was writing on the subject Mr Roosevelt explained the reorganization of the naval command announced Monday as a move toward simplification and streamlining equivalent to recent changes in the army In Monday's shake-u- p Admiral Ernest J King heretofore chief of the United States fleet the world around was made chief of naval operations as well Admiral Harold R Stark formerly chief of operations was assigned to command American warships in European waters The chief of operations Mr Roosevelt said had been in charge of planning the movement of ships (Continued on Pare Is1s PAGAN Li - —"MANDALAY cx‘ B AKYAR 'iJ :? 14 14 lir ( ( p pay r o' k:1 J4 :Ezz Benga - TAUK KYAN — t N GOON R t1 BA I NJ r -i - Aq1-----1- ("° ) I ' THAI- I LAND S h- Three Mileis Off N - ? '11F3AAN I f 41 tA ARTABAt4 ' MOULMEIN I ikiIIIIiL o 0 — 100 0 I - I ECghfeen 31issing 1e 'United Press E An 'axis submarine tame in three Old a half miles of the New Jergey coast Tuesday blew in twO the 6776-to- n tanker oWned by the Gulf Oil corpoati9n then sailed defiantly betvven tir broken halves of the vessel Witin rt:he last 24 hours allied with- 1 ‘ I Gulf-trad- i Mit FS found ruined it by (1) largely Rangoon Japanese invading ads of retreating British said dispatches demolition Tuesday Meanwhile Nipponese pushed into Taukkyan and Bassein (2) was Tharawaddy one force nearing Prome also being destroyed by the British leaving Akyab (3) the only effective port for water communication with India e' I naval autborities have revealed the s nkiht of the Gulftrade the torpeiloing' of the Standard Oil tanker Hapseat off the eastern end c f Ctiba the torpedoing of the sinking of the Gulftrade the 5152-tot Brazilian liner Cayru also off thl New Jersey coast the carthe Lykeirothers 5104-to- n go ship Ciardonia off northwestern Haiti and the torpedoing of the Brazilitin cargo ship Arabutan the latter probably an attack by an Itallast pubmarine off the coast of North All shtps sank none without the loss bt life Pl anes Sink Sub British Slash Through Trap Join Chinese Defending India n Withdrawal North Improves Position of Battered Imperial Army Churchill Readies Statement on Empire Successful os- St iorarine Mows riltnkiv in Two 1 I - Jj - 0 I 1 I 1 I ' 'oat Sinks U-1- 1 - r - ' u ‘ Iv( — ft t-N ADDY o10E R2 q- - 'The 11ipanese invader extended his beachheads on the outer Australian defense belt Tuesday with a third landingon New Guinea Aliisone at the town of Finschhafen less than 400 miles from the Mainland and an apparent improvement in the British positiontit the gates of India made it strongly appear that Aus- Itralla wafi next on the list for major assault 9 : Allies—MUNRO By Associated Press left TOUNGOO PROME ? 'AA k - so f: zei' ti a6--- tes vpi cro 1!' - sTArts A R (hi I A uba'newspaper reported tanker uni- dentigedwas attacked by a sub- - - British—(Official) By United Press that a nottler allied March 10—The British imperial forces abandon-U- s plaues sank the ing the southern tip of Burma have slashed through a Japanese navy Meanwhile an unidentified altrap and were driving Tuesday night into etntral Burma toward ilied merchant ship went to pieces a storm-ofthe Atlantic coast their Chinese allies in the Shan in their first mass rendezvous with A warshlri rescued all but nine of India states for the supreme defense of the crew The captain was Four) (Column Three) among th't missing These maneuvers were an The Cayru owned by the Lloyd nounced almost simultaneously 1Th iine was sunk Sunday IBrasileri4 with official disclosure that Prime members of her night: Minister Churchill would make a crew and: six passengers were statement at the next session of syd- feared dead Twenty--missing commons probably on Wednesday' si"x sqrvivors including four of the government's intentions passengers: were landed at New toward India's demand for conces-York 1 sions toward independence as the it all-oin 18 Missing cooperation price for her 10 Oct LONDON the war - Captain2 MOSCOW Wednesday March indicted British government Japan torpedoed GTZrlfgterradeOleetnhe c'flattehset Moslems Restive 11 (UP)—Front dispatches re' at Hong the axis undersea war- ported 'Wednesday that two more The construction of this policy Tuesday for barbarities which those fare was brought to New York paralleling companies of the encircled Sixwas by the threat Kong 1937 with 1members of his crew the world shocked the during teenth German army have been utteredcomplicated by Mohammed All Jinnah y rescue vessels The of Nanking and accused picked annihilated in the battle of dethat the Moslem minority of India- sack - attack outi such of off Barnegat forces the Oqcurred struction on the Staraya Russa would revolt if the plan were opoccupying as the bayoneting of 50 lighthouse: about 60 miles south front rages to Interests its particularly posed - of NfW York harbor helplessly bound officers and Poiif it denied :Moslem autonomy and 40- indiscriminate Olsen said 18 members of the and diers rape British— (Unof ficial ) Operations on the Burma front 'murder of Asiatic and European crew were missing and other sur- Britain meantime that indicated By Associated Pre‘s iciontintlfri tm Falg Two) Column ' staking everything on the be-of- women secLONDON March 10—Haunted was Eden the foreign Anthony lief that the battered army commons by the muddy specter of spring Burma could with Chinese aid retary told the house of 1'' 'Ir T the charges were based on state- - ri" resistance thaws and fearful that a soviet make a i from Leningrad might pene- Extricate push trate- German soil Adolf Hitler 1 'colony and its Signaling the total loss for the the islandofcrown was reported Tuesday to be calli and British empire of extreme southern garrison time being ing up his ultimate reserves for last Christmas an offensive in Rus- Burma American engineers and troops capitulated out of withheld were LONDON March 10 Lri—A condrillers were carrying out great day They sia as soon as possible - regard for the victims' relatives voy carrying United States techniat Bassein the demolitions imporReliable sources described as 90 miles west of Ran- - until they were "confirmed beyond cians for the bases in north "almost certainly accurate" con- tant port which itself already had been any possibility of doubtl" he said land reinforcements for the fidential advices that the nazi Now Eden assured the nation dian- army in Britain and of military forces am' fuehrer had abandoned earlier the "widest publicity in all Ian- - I-AinOd of all of military value troops of Norwegian a for defensive plans campaign to these Belgitit and Polish armed forces be will ltarGeneral given Lieutenant Afield :guages in the north while concentrating old R L G Alexander's forces atrocities" In reply to a question has airiqa at a British port on a big drive in the south (Continued on Pe ize Four) (Continued on Page Four) crossing Incdentp to enliven-thCot urnn TAo Instead they said he evidently rollinin Four were I brieh with and an had determined on attacking all emer) encyl operation for appendialong the line citis 13evth charges dropped from AT This was said to be due to his escort lng ildestroyers apparently fear that defeat of a defensive disPoi ed of the submarines since force on the Leningrad front would ' A no further alarms cthaenraetliA4re let the red army into the Baltic airman was the victim – states behind the German army & of ap appcndicitis attack and the and with a clear path to invade see- said the T The operation4 was performed by a air liMilst ministry itself Germany British—(Official) Toronto in on surgeon works end the raid Krupp Red army successes around A num5er of Canadian nurses By AssOclated Press Monday night proper a Russa Germany and of Staraya(Continued on Paleweakening wereAbdarct the transports along LONDON Wednesday March Two) wrought such havoc that (Column Four) with the 1ihting men who were slowed be would duction there explosions echoing in un fcrrrps'representing infantry for some time across the English channel TuesordnEOce engineers artillery for100 miles visible for Fires day night told that the R A F estry and medical and dental units rapidly multiplied participating still was battering German obeven and before related pilots the attack reached its climax jectives for the third straight the target was a beckoning Anyway No Excuse two blows after powerful night beacon to succeeding waves of SOUTHEAST BRITISH COAST Not to Be Ready at the giant IKrupp munition e bombers March 10 (11'1—The German Essen at works corn-Th- e in Nez Gris German the GIBSONEURG Ohio March 10 high guns Cape Tuesday's area of the French coast began mand: communique from Berlin (2P1 Paris radio also went off asked a governthe air during the 9 p in news firing Tuesday !night and exploacknowledged the attacks on ment agency to provide some air Mona shook the Kent coat broadcast and that development western Germany and said there rsid prolosAltion information were civilian casualties but The egeney sent 30000 pamphExpiosions were heard from the could mean that the R A F WPS French coast a f ter the German again raiding Gerninn factories omitted its usual claim that no lets ' in the French industrial belL The bopulation here is 2300'0 guns bean firing military damage was dtrne LONDON U-bo- at - i Britain Indicts Japallese fol at Atrocities Nazis to Stake AM on Giant Push Say Russ ' ut - 1 UP)--T- 11 : victf up-b- SelVes i ( I Rea III Br itain ' ' i ) e i ts RAF Batters oal Objecitres For Third Consecutive' Night pro11--H- - Nazi 'Guns Rock Kentish Coast S Commonisekdth Fliers Blast Vessels AS 'Nipponese Land More Men At Strategic Bas-e-' on New Guinea SHWEBO 1 - be abolished Mr Roosevelt said he had not heard of the Clark bill but he made his opposition to the sug- WASHINGTON March 10 U11— WASHINGTON March 10 The house unanimously approved a 711 government imposed a price $60000000000 hike in the statu- ceiling Tuesday on used tires and its tubes effective after March 16 tory debt limit Tuesday whileconcommittee means in answer to widespread comand ways tinuing hearings on a new $7- - plaints of "price gouging" 000000000 tax program heard a The 'order uses prices existing suggestion for a retail sales tax between October 1 and October 0 By a roll call vote of 367 to the house passed and sent to the 15 as a guide in establishing the senate legislation increasing the ceilings It also sets up a complex debt limit from $65000000000 to schedule of prices based on the $125000000000 after Chairman size and condition of the used Doughton (D) North Carolina of tires It affects tires for both pas- Ty ! J During the day Senator Clark (D) Missouri long an advocate of combining the war and navy departments in a "department of national defense" introduced a bill to carry his plan into effect Under his measure the head of the new department would under the president be in command of the land sea and air forces The present posts of secretary of war and secretary of the navy would the ways and means committee senger cars and trucks Price 4dministrator Leon Henported that the treasury was only $1400000000 short of the old derion said the ceiling is intended to maintain reasonable prices in ceiling at the end of February "the only remaining market for Current Estimates tires and tubes open to the ordiDoughton said that current esti- nary citizen who cannot satisfy mates indicated the debt would rationing regulation requirements reach $110400000000 by June for purchase of new or retreated 1943 He and a dozen others called tires" for economy in nonmilitary expenDealers in many instances he ditures asserted had seized upon the rubThe sales tax proposal sub- ber shortage to sell used tires at mitted by the New York state prices considerably higher&than chamber of commerce contem- the maximum prices allowed for plated that the tax program be new tires trimmed temporarily to $5000- - Four Categories 000000 Of this $4000000000 car tires ate divided would be obtained from a sales tax cert Passenger 2 per cent on into these four categories based from about ranging In Idle Too Aid Hitler food to 10 per cent on other items on the amount of wear evident: 1 "This as you can readily under- and $1000000000 more would be Tires which retain ittand means that thousands of taken from individuals and dorpo- - of an inch or less of tread design machines needed for war produce rations through higher rates depth 2 Tires retaining more than :ton row stand idle part or all of Cites Opinions of an Inch but less than every week end and from eight tn 16 hours every day The National Association of And I of an inch of tread derolght add idle tools work for Manufacturers announced in New sign depth 3 York however that it favored tax1:tler" Tires that have been Nelson named as two industries ation of all corporations and indior which retain having considerable unused facili7 viduals "to the maximum of their of an inch or les sof tread 'design ties the 31 aircraft engine and pro- ability to pay for the terrific bur- depth 4 Tires worn smooth but peller plants and the 153 plants den of this war"nn Its detailed plan Pare Five) (Continued (Continued on Page Five) manufacturing machine tools (Column 11e) Three) (Column If all the facilities of the aircraft engine and propeller plants were utilized to the same extent ps the three with the best recnrdsthe total output of the induFtry- could be boosted 25 per cert Nelson estimated And if P:I 151 machine tool plants were ererating at the same utilization CHICAGO March 10 advances in the hog marlevel PS the best three "we could increase machine tool output 45 ket which had carried swine to peaks were halted Tuescent per immediately" day whPn Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced temTellit of Next Step porary wholesale ceilings for most pork proaucts Nelson said the production wholesale froze Henderson drive which he launched prices of 90 per cent of the na- the company's policy "to carry speed-u- p ast week was one step in the tion's porktproducts at the high- - out the order in its entirety and B's effort to boost armament et level prevailing between to cooperate fully with the govI March 7 The order production and that the next was March 3 ernment departments concerned: the integration of the army navy becomes ective March 21' George A Eastwood president and maritime commission procureto Hen- of Armour and company said prior Early trding s ment into a "hard hitting derson' s was "stabilization of wholesale pork aTinouncement unified supply system" will tend to stabilize h'igher but packers and prices slightly This was the first official dis- shippers their bids after also the prices which consumers lowereq a closure that such procurement word reached the market that the pay for pork cuts and the combini-Aiowas in the making ceilings had been prices producers obtain for live although it had ben learned imposed Closing quotations were hogs at levels fair to both" earlier that Douglas C Mackea- off 10 to 15 cents a 100 pounds Walt Reaction chip W P B purchasing director from Monday vas being transferred to the war Livestock men waited anxiousIII '37 Peak dPnartmert where he presumably Equal ly for the producers' reaction to wfll exercire considerable author- Before issuance of the freezing the order They pointed out that procurerrient po- l - order best hogs sold at $1375 a In recent weeks whenever there Ines 100 pounds This equaled the peak was talk of imposing ceilings Emphasizing that "yryu can't get on August 6 1937 The previous farmers promptly reduced their This maximum production by presshigh was established October 25 shipments to major centers Henderson predicted In Washing a button" Nelson asserted 1926 at 31380 Average price that "in s'Irne cases there is a Monday at $1352 was the highs ington that the regulation would reluctance to increase the num- est in 16 years be an important factor in "holdber cf shifts: in others there is a Up to this week hogs had ad- ing down the cost of living" The fulty flow of materials in still vanced for seven consecutive temporary price schedule will be others there is what you might weeks one of the longest sus- - replaced within 60 days by a describe as a lack of imagination tained upturns in market history permanent price ceiling 0 P A ofin seeing how prod'Uction can be On December 5 1941 before ficials Indicated "Pork is particularly important increased with the equipment at America entered the war top hard price was $1020 and average in the budget of families with "None of us can solve one of price $992 under WO per annum and ttf-sOfficials of leading meat pack- of persons with fixed incomes problems individually:: he continued "We have been on the ing companies generally approved both of whom will be hit hardest dpfen5ive long enough' The attack Henderson's action by rising living- costs" he asexpressing at home—here confidence that there was no in- serted "Therefore any justified bgTh rn the'7)iproduction line It ilk a tention to interfere with the in- complaints of price gouging will offensive we must have dustry's manufacturing and !wry be followed by prompt controls before we can carry the war to a icing processes at the retail source even though s'Icessful eftensivt- against the John Holmes president of Swift such 'policing' would require the ernx" and company said it would be services of a large field force" except increasing production and increasing it every day If we fail in that we shall burn in the flames of a public wrath so intense that in its heat it might consume the very standards have set for free men to live by" When I say we can increase production substantially by greater use of existing machinery" the NV p B chairman said "I am of the 20 per cent of war troking Tart s operating only 5 or 5 days a week I am thinking of the many plants closed Sundays I have in mind the second shifts using only 40 per rent of plant capacity Fl n d the third shifts using only 20 per n A of storm" Bill Proposes Merge - siwl 151rir rCHITTAGO'NG y House Okeh s U S Restricts Sixty Billion Used Tire Hike i n Deb t Tube Price' s Committee Hears 11 INDIA President Roosevelt dismissed proposals for Ft merger of army and navy under one department Tura-(lawith a remark that the services seemed to be working well together under the present system At the same time Chairman May (D) New York of the house military affairs committee urged that agitation for a unified comHe said the promand cease ponents of such a consolidation should not "rock the boat in time The majority of the subcommittee was understood to have taken the view that the problem is localized in an area surrounding Detroit that federal aid would involva special treatment for one class of workers and that state unemployment compensation funds are adequate to meet the situation The ways and means committee three weeks ago refused 16 to 8 to authorize a $300000000 fund for the same purpose ir the form of supplementation to the usual state unemployment compensation benefit payments Representatives of many states opposed the plan t' 0 s t s - - Thumbs Down On Merger Idea duction 0 eavy - long-rang- r EIRaM Ire-goo- Cana-evacuate- Canadian-I- Australian fliers in one of their heaviest attacks of the war on Japanese shipping off the invaded New Guinea port of Salamaua scored 'direct hits on a warship four others in flames the said Wednesday Two of the shipvv ere observed to be in al Pinking condition and a third was beached the communique saki The warship which was hit vvas believed to be 'either a cruiser or a large destroyer The Australian air arni had been strengthened in personnel by arrival in the homeland of men who were veterans of action on other far scattered fronts Return Cheers reople ek The return of these Irrepressible and able Aussies appeared to have cheered the home people but it of course did not in itself suggest that Australian ale power would be able to fight more than a delaying action There was every belief in Australia that the Invader wig going to spring in heavy force once he was able to gather sufficient power in New Guinea front that is in The outer-Indi- a Burma seemed to present no opportunity for an early and all-oThe Imenemy drive on India perial British army giving up for lost all the southern tip of Burma was said in official accounts to have broken a dangerous Japanese maneuver of encirclement and to be successfully withdrawing into central Burma for a junction with - - 1 t ut the Chinese Tactical Success This was in a sense an Immediate retreat but in a larger sense it was by all the available information a tactical success In the first place southern Burma had already substantially lost its usefulness with the fall of Rangoon In the second place there had appeared earlier a grave question ais to whether the bulk of the British forces could get out of the southern tip The was accomplished the imperial British com- mand announced by heavy frontai assaults that cut the enveloping Japanese lines in two areas The first of these was by a relatively small British body which had been isolated around Pegu 40 miles north of Rangoon This group cut its way through for a junc(ion with the main British force which itself smashed through the enemy's position on the road running northward from Rangoon to Prome British-Chines- e Force The withdrawal to central Burma was depended upon in London to confront the Japanese flank with such a relatively right strong e force as to check any major enemy lunge into India proper until such time as some arrangement can be made to get the Indians' ungrudging support in the defense of their country Toward such an arrangement it was announced in London Prime Minister Churchill would deliver at the next sitting of parliament —possibly Wednesday — Britains answer- to Indian demnaondesxpfeocr great political There was tation that the immensely complicated Indian question would be settled in the Immediate future It had become in fact more vexing during the day with the declaration of the leader 'of the Moslem minority in India that there would be a Moslem revolt if Britain accepted any plan not affording Moslem autonomy Japs at Madagascar Speculation arose in London of the possibility of an allied move to occupy the Vichy French Island of Madagascar In the western Indian ocean lest it fall into axis hands and be used as a great dagger against the allied supply lines It was reported that Japanese agents 'already were in Madagascar seeking bases In the Philippine theater there was again no major actiori break-throug- h British-Chines- 1 |