Show Local Metal Markets Say Hi (iorppral Richard Allen U S Army: 1? i llii i t Silver (domestic) Silver (foreign) Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut valley Lead 650c Zinc a "Beat the barbarians Buy defense bonds" Vol 1 14 No Ld 170 Strategy in Pacific Fight WASHINGTON April 1 war production board wishes all production workers "who do not intend to spend Easter Sunday as a day of religious observance" to put in a full day on April 5 at their machines the office of Chairman Donald M Nelson said Wednes- Purchase Plan By Associated Press WASHINGTON April Roosevelt Leads First Session Of Seven Nations day 1— Senator Vandenberg (R) Michigan put into the Congressional Record Wednesday a letter in which ChairmanM S Eccles of the federal reserve system indorsed a proposal to repeal the government's silver purchase program "My own views are generally In accord with those expressed byj the secretary of the treasury at m press conference last month when he was quoted as favoring repeal of the silver purchase legislation and as advocating the sale to Industry of the silver accumulated by the treasury during the past seven years" wrote Eccles "In view of the war situation It is all the more urgent that the Inflationary effects of the silver program be removed and that so far as possible the materials machinery and labor now devoted to silver production be utilized in the war effort" Law's Requirements Under the silver purchase program the treasury is required to buy domestic and foreign silver until it reaches a value of $129 cents per ounce or until the treasd ury's holdings of silver equaf the value of its gold stocks The market price of silver currently is 35 cents Der ounce and 1 the treasury's silver stocks equal S Ami vUU nKmt n J WASHINGTON April 1 (UP) The newly created Pacific war council held an "informal and very Noting that Easter is a day of "very great religious significance" Nelson said he thought it "entirely proper" that workers desiring to spend part of the day away from their jobs for devotional reasons should do so comment was contained in a letter written to August H Tuechter president of the Cincinnati Bick-for- d The Tool company Cincin- nati Ohio Senate Votes Bill to Aid Small Plants Okeh 100 Million Agency Within Structure of W P B WASHINGTON — The $100-0000- 00 hard-presse- one-thir- £ 1 -- - U S Senate Okehs Billion for Navy WASHINGTON April 1 UP)— The senate authorized Wednesday without objection a $1000000000 program of public works for the ' navy Chairman Walsh (D) Massachusetts of the senate naval committee said that the projects included numerous storage facilities aviation projects including lighter than air housing training hospitals research and radio facilities ' The house has yet to act Slav Guerillas Ask US Aid War Contract Price WASHINGTON April 1 UP)— The war department announced Wednesday that Continental Motors Inc of Muskegon Mich had agreed to a $40000000 reduction In the price of its ordnance and aircraft contracts The proposition of the total price which this represents was not disclosed but officials said it was substantial Company officials said the reduction was made possible by increased efficiency plant economies improvements in methods ed "the wholehearted cooperation of its tmployea" - all-Ind- ia ( Continued on Paee-Fou(Column Five) Part of Rubber Data Withheld Farish Admits WASHINGTON April 1 UP— president of Standard Oil company (New Jersey) acknowledged Wednesday that the com pany failed to give all informa- tion about its synthetic rubber processes to a navy representative in 1939 but contended that the company did furnish "everything the government could make practical use of" W S Farish Standard president made this statement after Senator O'Mahoney (D) Wyoming had challenged his testimony that Standard gave "full information" to the army and navy "covering Standard's synthetic rubber activities" "When you testified that you were making full disclosure" O'Mahoney asserted "as a matter of fact you were not" The Protests Conclusion Farish protested O'Mahoney's asserting that the comhad pany given the navy's representative "everything that he was interested in" "The navy was not as I underit" Farish told the commitWASHINGTON April 1 UP)— stand "interested in the manufacEleven husky Yugoslav airmen tee the product but in its filled with a burning desire to ture of use possible of their invasion nazi the avenge "The idea was to see if this country have just arrived here to rubber had such properties that seek American aid for the Serbian would be interested in the navy axis forces still chetniks harassing it" by periodic raids from mountain using "It was your Judgment and not hideaways in Yugoslavia Colonel Dragutin Savich acting the government's judgment that the disclosure" O'Macommanding officer of the Yugo- governedasserted during the exslav air forces and head of the' honey d mission told re- change porters Wednesday that the Raises Point reguguerilla warriors and loyal O'Mahoney raised the point in lars under General Draja Mahailo-vi- c in south Serbia and Bosnia connection with a letter taken were in an "anemic state" and from Standard's files and read into the record last week by Thurman needed a "blood transfusion" Colonel Savich said supplies Arnold antitrust chief indicating could be flown to Yugoslav resist-er- s that a navy department civilian whom he placed at 100000 employe identified only as Mr e men by planes taking Werkenthin had visited Standoff from Syria and dropping food ard's plant in 1939 in search of and war equipment by parachutes information Farish said that Werkenthin He added that it was not only visited the plant "at the request to get supextremely necessary our of people who were working to Mahailovic whose yearplies the with he navy" invasion stand long against In the letter an unidentified likened to General Douglas resistance on Bataan but Standard representative reported given the united nations should "proceed that Werkenthin was not meth-( on a fixed plan of development of any complete picture of the Continued on Pniit Eight) the war in all theaters" (Column Four conclusion newly-arrive- Motor Firm Slashes satisfactory" meeting at the White House Wednesday and will take up next week the vital problem of allocating supplies and munitions to' the' far eastern front President Roosevelt presiding at the first session of the council which is to sit in Washington as a major consultative board of allied strategy In the Pacific presented a general review of the war situation as it affects all of the united nations India Envoy Afterward he conferred with Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai India's agent general to the United States and that country's first diplomatic envoy to Washington White House Secretary Stephen T Early said he knew of no connection between Sir Girja's visit and dispatches from New Delhi reporting the congress was preparing to reject a British offer to give India full dominion status after the war if India aligns her might with the allies some observers Nevertheless did not regard the development as unrelated It was pointed out that Sir Girja's last conference with Mr Roosevelt took place on March 11 the day it was announced in London that Sir Stafford Cripps would go to India in an attempt to win her support No Public Statement The president has made no public statement concerning the British offer but it is no secret here that military leaders would like to see the Indian problem solved quickly so that Indian ocean strategy can be devised (Dispatches from New Delhi said the possibility of unfavorable reaction in the United- States reportedly was delaying completion of the congress statement on rejection of the British offer) Sir Girja spent nearly two hours with the president He said afterward that the discussion was devoted almost entirely to an ex- all-Ind- ia April 1 (UP) senate today unanimously approved a bill to create a smaller war plants corporation within the war production d board to assist "little businessmen" in converting their facilities to arms production iThe measure which now goes to the house was the first concrete legislative proposal to aid thousands Of small manufacturers holdings Thirty-fiv- e cents is the price who because of priorities on raw currently paid by the treasury materials have been deprived of for foreign silver but under an- stocks for normal operation and other congressional act of a few lack funds to convert to war work years ago the treasury buys silver Stop-Ga- p Move in this country at 7111 cents per President Roosevelt by execuounce tive order last Thursday directed three government agencies — the Repeal of the silver purchase army navy and maritime commisprogram as proposed by Federal sion — to make or guarantee loans Reserve Chairman Marriner S to small enterprises to speed up Eccles would hamper the war ef- the nation's productive capacity fort by eliminating a large part of The order was interpreted as a lead zinc of and the production stop-ga- p enactment of the pending Utah and other Pocky mountain senate bill states A G Mackenzie manager The drafted by the of the Utah Metal Mine Operators' senate legislation small business committee association said Wednesday headed by Senator James E Mur"Everyone here knows and Mr ray (D) Montana is designed Eccles ought to know" Mr Macto meet charges that war orders kenzie continued "that silver is are concentrated in the a very important economic factor handsbeing of a few large firms and in the production of our nonferrous that small businessmen are being metals 1 can't understand why left out of the production drive men in public office do not inquire Into the economic facts of the sit- entirely s uation before making such state- Could Make Loans ments :The new WPB corporation would be authorized to accept war Would Hit Production from government proto contracts "Evidently Mr Eccles wants curement branches and to farm on the them out among small businesses throw domestic silver back world price That would cut $3 It also would be empowered to per ton from the value of the ores nfake loans to small firms needing which produce all the lead and funds to take part in the war zinc in Utah And the result would effort be the immediate elimination of Senate approval came after a large part of the state's lead Josiah Bailey (D) North Carolina are which reserves ore and zinc to restrict unsuccessfully sought now being worked loans to those enter the proposed "Another effect would be to prises reporting a gross turnover eliminate largely the siltceous ores of not more than $400000 a year which are vital to- copper smeltHe argued th t such a proviso was necessary to avoid "a rush on ing "Any plan which contemplates the treasury" in which deserving cutting the price of silver in half businessmen would find themselves should also contemplate some lost and to prevent creation of means of increasing the value of a "W P A program" for industry the ores comparably if the produc- After protracted wrangling he tion of vitally needed base metals (Continued on Page Six) (Column Five) is to be maintained" — 12c 82oO nfllontrnl l"rp Covptr (eamuue) 11 61 Council Maps UP) — The Backs Treasury Head to End liral ooo B 7111c 35123o Price Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning April 2 1912 Eccles Calls WPB Makes For Repeal Request for Of Silver Act Easter Work $3300 Gold long-rang- Mac-Arthu- r's nnffisnes iiiiiemy: Hardest Fighting! Bataan Defenders Clieek Foe's Push In Months Battle After Rages in Islands 22 Nipponese Warehouses Destroyed Cripps Galls New Parley To Salvage Indian Plans lland-lo-llan- d — " NEW DELHI April X (UP)— Sir Stafford Cripps opened congress party leaders Wednesnegotiations with to stave off failure of his effort in a day night mission to swing India fully into the war against Japan and hopes arose that a compromise might be reached Cripps invited to his residence Pandi Jawaharlal Nehru most influential member of the party and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad its Moslem president Cripps had said that there would be no negotiations that India must accept Britain's plan for dominion status after the war or reject it as it stood but it was apparent now that he was making a desperate effort to break the deadlock arising from India's demand to be able 'to name its own defense minister Outcome of the conference was secret but there were indications that Cripps believed transfer to Indian hands of at least some measure of responsibility for India's defense during the war might turn the tide" Informed quarters said earlier that Cripps was understood to have sent an SOS to the British war cabinet indemand forming it that a concession to the Indians on theirexecutive for their own defense member of the viceroy's council might still save his mission all-Ind- last-minu- Bayonet-w- hand-to-han- Titanic Battle Navv Reveals Three More Takes Shapte On Russ Front Sub Sinkings m U S Flvinyr Hero U j These reports state that the German force WASHINGTON April 1— America's toll of axis undersea raiders was raised to at least 28 Wednesday with announcement by the navy that three more submarines had been sunk — two in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific Donald Francis Mason old naval flying hero whose terse "Sighted sub sank same" radio report recently typified the thoroughness of the nation's answer to the submarine menace was credited with one of the Atlantic which originally numbered 100000 men has been cut in half by methodical Russian bombing and artillery fire SOOO Nazis Slain Wednesday night's Moscow communique told of a number of successful operations on the Leningrad front in which about 3000 German officers and soldiers were annihilated during the past two days j A Russian drive t a close a pincers movement on the strategic town of Vyazma from the north is believed to have advanced further with a soviet announcement that 12 villages on this northwestern front had been recaptured within 24 hours r- I WASHINGTON April 1 (JP) preceding months A lottery determining the order of their liability for service was conducted on March 17 The intent of the army regarding this group was made Orders All Land Forces Into Immediate Training — Allies— (Official) By Associated Press Successive war department com muniques told of the defeat of & major enemy attack on General Wainwright's main line on Bataan peninsula Luzon and reported two 3 audacious and highly successful American-Filipin- o raids on the of Mindanao far island Philippine to the south There one body of troops struck a Japanese supply base near Digcis and burned 22 enemy military warehouses to the ground whilse native Sulus thrust to the very center of the Japanese-occupie- d city of Zamboanga destroying machine gun nests and other enemy positions killing mary Japanese and withdrawing without losses to j themselves i ! lts hand-to-han- ga ral w 1 ' The navy said be' sighted submersible while it lay on surface swooped down and released his depth charges All them struck home it said and raider was blown up scattering wreckage "over a large area" Mason a native of Rochester Minn was ' promoted to ensign and awarded his second decoration for his latest exploit Gains Award for Feat ' Ensign William Tepuni naval reserve pilot of San Francisco bagged the second Atlantic raider receiving a distinguished flying cross for his feat The navy said Tepuni badly damaged the submersible by bombing leaving it helpless on the surface and destroyers moved out the next day and sent it to the bottom The Pacific sinking was credited to First Lieutenant James V Edmundson an army flier of Santa Monica Cal who sighted and dein the Hastroyed a submarine waiian area on January 26 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has commended him for the exploit The department said "There is evidence of additional sinkings of axis underseas craft" aside from the three listed No announcements will be made however "until full reports have been received in the navy department and absolute and surety of claims is determined not then until the confirmation is of no possible use to the enemy" An indication that there have been many other sinkings was given at Elizabeth City N C Wednesday by Rear Admiral Man (Continued on Pace Five) (Column Twoi plain in selective service order to all local draft boards They were told to start classifying the new registrants immediately and prepare to fill the June call and possibly the May call in part from them an This clarified uncertainty as to whether these men would be lumped with the earlier registrants and become subject to early call or whether the army would exhaust the first group before tapping the second The method of coordinating the two groups is to be exanplained in detail in a later outnouncement As recently lined the plan is as follows: After the men have been classi ve " Fleeing Norse Ships Sunk - Early Army Call Faces Feb 16 Registrants — Draft headquarters served notice Wednesday that some of the men who registered on February 16 may be summoned to the training camps in May and that June most probably would see a portion of them in the service Those who registered on that date were men between 35 and 44 inclusive and those who had become 20 and 21 in the recently Australia Calls Up Nation's ' Full Strength British Break the the Trap oh of Burma Front the vic-tims- his second - holm S— (Official) By United Press 28-vea- - MELBOURNE Thursday April —All Australia's land forces were Check Advance brought up to full war strength On Bataan some American outThursday and ordered into imme- - posts had to withdraw a short miate battle training of the most 4distance under heavy enemy intensive type so they may resist which were subsequently with maximum endurance the Jap- checked in violent a anese invasion which daily threat- fighting with the loss ©f no mateens this continent rial American position Single men between 18 and 45 as the accent re Moreover and all married men between 18 mained on American military acand 35 were directed to report tion the navy announced that U S immediately for military service naval and army forces had now in an order issued on recommen a total of 28 axis sub dation of General Sir Thomas destroyed bulk of them in the the marines heart of Japanese-occupie- d chief of all allied ground Atlantic Three of these sinkings inflicted heavy casualties Blarney comand damage and withdrew with- forces under the supremeMacAr- - were announced during Tuesday All single Australian men from out suffering a single loss They mander General Douglas 18 to 45 and the married as well destroyed several machine gun thur nests and other military installa Blast Airdromes between 18 and 35 were called up immediate military service and for tions The order a product of Aus the toughest kind of war training Second Raid command tralia's newly regrouped was put into effect under the gen--eS second ana perhaps more came after a day ofin Uwhich and a supervision of Generalissimo the destructive raid was carried out Australian air attack MacArthur and the perDouglas allied tropiplanes flying through of his right hand sonal direction by a small band of American-Filipin- o cal storms resistand stiff enemy or all the allied ground forces troops on a Jap supply ance Timor-Neblasted the base near Digos in the Gulf of Guinea airdromes which menace General Sir Thomas Blarney Davao In this thrust 22 enemy ware Australia from two sides and Allied Fliers Ride Skies toll houses — containing huge stocks of brought to 33 their three-da- y While these determined of enemy aircraft put out of ac- rations went forward allied prepa continued on pase tour) bomb- (Column Four) tion ers skies southern rode the again War Minister Francis M Forde in a continuation of their strong said the total mobilization ordered and thus far successful counter-offensishortly after midnight applied to the enemy's in against milimen already earmarked for to the north on bases Timor vasion previous west of the mainland and New tary duty but who under been called not have would plans Guinea to the north and their X up for some time enemy aircraft General Blarney said every Aus successestheagainst last three days were tralian officer and enlisted men within in all units now would be required thus tabulated: Four planes shot down for cer to take part in the new period of 18 destroyed in all probabil tain — British— (Official) trainintensive supplementary 11 known to have been damity ing By Associated Press for a total of 33 Blarney and all other senior of- aged NEW DELHI India April 1 In Burma the enemy held com to their defend now back ficers Forward British units previously control of the air over the cut off 10 miles below Prome the homeland after the hard battles in plete allied right manned by the British they have taken part in the and was right anchor of the allied line in which by all signs in substantial have east elsewhere and middle Burma have broken through command along the Chinese-hel- d need for the upon Japanese road block and cut their been insistent well as left to almost and training way back to rejoin the main hardening had Afield the allied bodies but heavy enemy forces the limit of the troops' endurance been Improved but position in the only were increasing their pressure up Revised most relative sense and it reFigures the Irrawaddy basin Wednesday On the air front revised official mained most grave and the invader was in utter com figures gave this tabulation of al Pressure Grows mand of the air The enemy's trap was broken lied successes since Monday: Four On the right where the allied at Shwedaung just 10 miles south enemy planes certainly destroyed of Prome stands athwart anchor 11 and of Prome by regular English and IS nrobablv destroyed the routes to the central Burmese Scottish troops — Gloucesters West known to have been damaged English and Yorkshires Cameronians and Wednesday morning royal Aus oil fields the forward troops which previously Duke of Wellingtons — aided by tralian air forceon bombers blasted Scottish had been isolated by aji enemy Pane Four) (Continued two Indian battalions which struck thrown in at the town roadblock from the north But while these had by heroic of Shwedaung forces thus by gallant attacks cut their way back counterattacks enemy through greatly superior through to the main bodies but numbers had beaten off the dis the invaders pressure upon Prome to aster that had appeared envelop itself was hourly growing them the British position m de Large enemy forces strongly fense of the oil fields north of held Shwedaung which is just 10 Prome remained grave miles below Prome and other col Copyright New York Times A British communique saiden 1 umns were astride the railway Sweden STOCKHOLM April held in force still emy troops The 10 Norwegian ships which some 30 miles southeast of Prome Shwedaung itself on the banks of — of Norway in the vicinity of the town of the Irrawaddy while just to the since the invasion east and some 20 miles farther to sought harbor in Sweden and over Paungde The whole of the allied the south other Invading columns whose fate a bitter fight occurred right was thus facing crisis On the anied left after the were astride the railway above the in the courts between the British town of Paungde Mstill having government and Premier Major bloodiest battle yet fought the Chinese had Vidkun Quisling of Norway es complete control of the air before were losses ago and at least some 12 miles north of Toungoo heavy caped a few dayswhile Enemy Scottish battalions three were sunk running the the important town on the road the English and on to Mandalay that now was wholly Pas Four) (Continued blockade German (Column One) The Norwegian government req in enemy hands This juncture was effected by uisitloned these ships at the time of invasion by Germany and when the survivors of a Chinese Tounministers goo garrison originally estimated King Haakon and his left for Britain they were put at at 8000 to 10000 men which-undethe" disposal of the British gov the imperturbable command of the fied a local board determines ernment Incited by the Germans American General Joseph Stilwell are how many from each group Premier Quisling compelled some had crossed the Sittang river under If It has for example sixty of the Norwegian owners to re terrjble enemy fire and rejoined men from the first group and 40 from the second all quest the Swedish government to the main Chinese forces while calls from the army for new men return the ships to Norway Extricates Forces government demanded are filled 60 per cent from the the British be For five days with forces beatallowed to proceed they first and 40 per icent from the that to Britain While awaiting tne ae ing down from the north Stilwell second "Local boards" the selective cision of the court ships were se had sought in vain to relieve At last outnumbered service headquarters announcequestrated despite British pro Toungoo and lacking air support he sent ment said "were instructed to tests The case came at the beginning a considerable force southwest-war- d start classification at once of to divert enemy pressure of last month before the supreme the several million men who enrolled on Febuary 16 and to court which decided that the ships while the British on the allied were similarly fighting di prepare to fill the army's June were at the disposal of the British right call for men and possibly the government This ruling indirect version actions and thus extri- ly confirmed that the Swedes rec catrd the Toungoo forces by givMay call with these registrants and registrants from the first ognized King Haakon's London ing them opportunity to break out to the northeast government age group" Zam-boan- 4 By Associated Press LONDON April 1— Bitter fighting now under way in the Donets basin on Russia's southern front was reported Wednesday night to be gradually developing Into a titanic clash which ultimately may determine the outcome of 194 2's warm weather operations on the battlefront entire Russian-Germa- n Dispatches from both Moscow and Berlin indicated that the en tire front from Leningrad to the Black sea now is locked in a seesaw strug- - le with both the Russian and German high commands into moving masses of reserves the central and southern zones Pivotal Fighting In view of this London observers find it difficult to predict that either side could develop any lightning spring offensive Rather they preferred to view the current action In theDonets basin where the roads are now drying steadily as pivotal fighting holding the key to the entire warm weather situation for the remainder of the year - The side winning the advantage here Is expected to prevail Incessant German counterattacks to recover lost ground and relieve the encircled nazl Six teenth army in the Staraya Russa sector on the northwester! front are stressed In reports from Stock- American resistance was rising Wednesday night in the Philippines Australia's mobilization was reaching the peak cf urgency and only in the Burma theater was the Japanese enemymaking progress of consequence flat-foote- Bags Another Undersea Vessel Allies— (Official) - Allies — (Official) By Associated Press WASHINGTON April 1— ielding defenders of Bataan halted another large- peninsula scale Japanese attack Wednesday while their comrades in the south-er- n Philippines carried out two raids that destroyed 22 enemy warehouses and military installations The actions were reported in war department communiques which told of the heaviest fighting in two months Activity burst forth from one end of the archipelago to the other on land at sea and in the air Japs Suffer Heavily Biggest battle occurred on the right center of Lieutenant General Jonathan M Wainwright's Bataan line where the Japs sought ta break through only to be stopped with "heavy casuaities" in savage d and sanguinary Loss of some advance fighting positions was acknowledged but the "heavy" assault was stopped at bayonet point before it reached the main defense line Most spectacular action how ever was on the southernmost Philippine island of Mindanao There native Sulu units fighting under the Stars and Stripes carried out the most daring of two In an audacious thrust forays that caught the enemy completely d they stabbed into the te : U S— (Official) By United Press ia Outcome May Settle Result of Entire Summer Campaign oase supply r 1-- A 1-- A j |