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Buy Bonds!" -1 I - A ti -- I'l 11 e I 1 tit 11 2 4 1 : ) - 4 n 1 k k k The Weatlier e 1' 'mh):wnrprsalitn At hhee an Wed- Maximum temperature 45 degreea and miniTuesday mum 34 degrees (Issued with permilosion or military authorities)) I I Pelee Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Wednemlay Morning May 13 1912 Vol 145 No 29 I 1 nesday - I : i vicinity: cm7u atnIldifew lighti W Jap Forces Surge Back Into Yunnan Will Buy Retreating British 'rove Tires From Mettle in Burma Jungle Auto Owners U So By Daniel Deluee CALCUITA India May 12 (AP)—Drunk with weariness slogging afoot in both desert dust and the oozy slime of dank teak forests and swimming muddy swollen streams the last companies of the British and Indian armies of Burma are fighting on toward the mountains of Assam in the toughest withdrawal of this war Thirteen hundred miles and 13 days back I left them and drove a U S army jeep from Schwebo to Calcutta over trails fit only for goats mules—and jeeps No other type of motor vehicle in Burma could have made the trip The exhausted remnants of two imperial divisions which have been continually in action during the whole Burma war must walk n Their American tanks with cheery red desert Earmarks Fund Of 150 Million For Purchases 1 By Associated Press WASHINGTON M a y The government established a S150000000 fund Tuesday to purchase new and used tires from American motorists but withheld for the present the de tails of the program Secretary of Commerce Jones said the plans would be disclosed after they had been Worked out by the office of price administra tion and the reconstruction finance There was no imcorporation rnediate indication that automobile owners would be compelled to sell any tires to the government although this has been suggested in some congressional quarters Tires for Resale Jones indicated that some of the tires purchased by the defense supplies corporation R F C subsidiary would be held forby county resale at tire rationing boards A topfersons P set 0 by prices reeding them for essential transportation His announcement preceded a statement by the office for emergency management warning that motorists were 'riding themselves off the roads" at an average rate of 312 per cent a month OEM explained this was the rate at which rubber was wearing from automobile and truck tires and commented: -When that rubber is gone there will be no more for a long time" synthetic Supply Inadequate OEM in the first of a series of four statements dealing with the rubber situation predicted that production of synthetic rubber this year "may reach as much as 28000 tons" For the calendar of 1943 the statement coof buna n'tinued actual production rubber "cannot be ex- pected to be much more than 350- Jillill:6717):elidcti)' f1KOic 'attle tot Running Battle Rages Across Upper Burma TEitilli:1-Drie- N-84- 4 207--- I I FINLAND China—(Official) By United Press CHUNGKING May 12 — Two Chinese and two Japanese columns fought a running battle of encircle- :::::: i!::iF::: :ii!iii ' i ':: AO lioner ::::::tologa' c) I Et Vol NGa iRtAT 1DK Hv N 1 : Germans Throw Meithanized Forces Infantry Into Caucasus Push 102 Reich Planes nagged Says Soviet By Associated Press MOSCOW May 13 — Heavy fighting raged Wednesday i the Germans through the night in the Kerch peninsula with throwing masses of cavalry tanks and infantry against formidable Russian forces defertding that narrow gateway to the Caucasus front-lin- e dispatches reported early WedneSday Russian--(Offic- ial) VOLOGDA ::::: l 1 ::i:ii:I!!eit : ment across northwest Burma and the fringe of China's Yunnan prov144 R Peipus91:::: cb ince Tuesday night with the loser d rat insignia their and trucks their Hi PSKOV facing a disastrous entrapment i:iiiii: ::4-il mobile ack-ac- k and field artillery simply cannot be manGORKI It was a melee that extended for handled over 150 miles of sandy waste and jungle morass op s ir 200 miles east from Mandalay Red army troops under Genetill s de' to the closest motorable Assam pass through Lashio and along the Kozlov who recaptured the Port BurmA road into China and from e?)11nAlie rtMOSCOW Harassed by enemy fighters and bombers which for of Kerch from the Germans last 180 miles north to MyitLashio seven :: weeks have been completely supreme in the December were battling the nazi : nearly kyina 1SM9LENSI2 onslaughts In the eastern CrimeanBurma sky knifed from ambush by blood-craze- d bands of vica Tit Reinforced Jap units were back but results of the fightstruggle in Yunnan province after having native traitors the haggard British riflemen tank crews TULAw was not learned here imme- ing a in out cleared been o virtually MINSK and wiry Sepoys from the Indian units are now approachdiately Informants here said the week-en- d battle at Chelang It i CO:: 4' be apparent in a few a score within miles Assam of the border ing rugged was believed that their goal was days':may (Continued on Page Four Column Five) of eastern the terminus Kunming 1 oREL Axis Claims Successes Burma road 400 airline miles from iiiiin:::::::iir::::::: ?Diii:iiiii:iili the Burma border Air Force (The Rome radio broadcast a German Columns Join at Rear dispatch from an Italian newsNI agency correspondent on the eastBlasts Destroyers But at the rear of the Yunnan ern front which claimed "impor-!:::::: Invaders two columns of China's o iiii:i:iliii I tant successes by German-Rumani- a In Mediterranean Burma troops one from the SalXHARKOV KIEV troops on the Kerch peninween and one from the Irrawaddy This account said the axis sula" 0 4 river sectors had joined 'east of British--(Offici- al) forces were "well beyond" posion were and driving Mandalay tions from which they launched Lashio base of operations for the By Associated Press their attack ::: :::::: ::: GERMAMS ArrAcK LONDON 2Vtay 12 — The GerJap troops in Yunnan The fighting on the peninsula NERCIlt As explained by a Chinese mili-man air force broadening its cam- wax resumed Tuesday in a renewal IM WHAT MAY 8E START "1" Hull Makes It Plain tary commentator the laps used the giant struggle in which the Proposes Lowered OF MAJOR OFFENSIVE 75paign to drive the British navy of :LfpANR0P ROSTOV three full divisions (60000 to " Russians already announced offisea from the middle 000 men) in their drive through liniii: Laval's Reaction 77:1777:7'i:i- ::::: 4::24--i destruction of 102 nazi the cially Exemption at eastern and central Burma and :: 6:iii7 and sank three powerful new Brit- planes in two days ort v e more in two divisions S U House Hearing Will have No Effect they kept ::"5::::7 ::::::::: ish destroyers Monday in the eastAfter a Monday night lull in the AO reserve at Rangoon ready to renazi drive toward the Caucasus oil ern Mediterranean KEACH inforce any sector that needed wells across the narrow Ketch Cat f: :':': tto'1 Loss of the ship's the 1920-to- n WASHINGTON May 12 WASHINGTON May 12 LP)— help One division went up the strait the soviet's midnight comftrit V and the Kipling and Jackal munique said: suggestion that single Secretary Hull made it plain Tues- Salween one up the Mandalay Lively ::: I persons who earn between $9 and day that so far as this government railroad and one up the Irrawaddy aLAcpc —Ike of 1650 tons each was announced SEVASTOP01501 iiiii TUAPSE "During May 12 on the Kerch SEA $10 a week be asked to pay fedjjj river by the admiralty which peninsula severe battles took pltce Tuesday eral income taxes was presented is concerned Vichy's reaction has said 500 officers and men—all but with the enemy to the house ways and means com- no bearing upon the current nego- Seek to Close Trap Russia's embattled Herch peninsula jumping off place in Hitabout 100 men of the total com"On other sectors of the front mittee Tuesday as the members tiations at Martinique to prevent The Salween division captured in the shown is new of drive Caucasus riches for the plement of the sunken vessels— there were no significant changes" ler's to vote soon on the quesprepared Lashio and pushed on 18 miles to rescued this map The reds claimed the nazis were beaten back in were tions of lowering personal exemp- axis use of that island or other take Myitkyina The two other A fourth destroyer picked up Beat Back Foe to French Caribbean tions raising rates or choosing possessions their thrust and lost 102 planes in two days columns apparently joined forces the survivors carrying out its galto this commuA a combination of both menace America now are and at mission in seas littered with nique supplement lant driving Mandalay 0 said reinforced German that - Colin F Stam head of the joint in an with blazing units counterattacking The Washington government he northeast splashed wreckage orr the on committee internal revenue oil and rent with exploding bombs Kalinin front northwest of Moscow to reporters is inter- attempt to close a trap around the proposed informally that if ex- indicated whole had been beaten off by soviet Malta Defenders Busy emptions were to be lowered the ested only in the actual discussions triangle enclosing all the Chinese with heavy casualties to troops action apply only to normal taxes with Admiral Georges Robert the troops left in Burma Avenging the naval losses Ma- the nazis with present exemptions retained French high commissioner at MarSalThe Chinese forces fvm the lta's defenders Tuesday boosted to Red commanded so far as surtaxes are concerned by 128 their four-da- y total of axis Comrade troops tinique He said the government ween and Irrawaddy sectors which "drove the Demenyuk 000 tons" to follow not was or over had the to endeavoring Start Voting Hopes Japanese joined damaged planes destroyed Germans into a bog and almost U S—(Official) By United Press Contrasting this figure with the any other phase of the Martinique up east of Mandalay during the the island fortress The day's bag completely annihilated them" the Just before Chairman Dough-to- n situation "766000 tons which 0 E If said was week end They continued east reenemy fighters de-- 1 communique said in describing that An enemy submarine has sunk a freighter in the St Lawrence included five (D) South Carolina expressed the annual rate of rubber conone last and bomber three provisioncapturing Maymyo stroyed Meets With Laval hope publicly that we sumption in the nation the state- the al Burma capital and continued river in the first such attack in history it was disclosed Tuesday fighters probably destroyed four action The bag of 102 nazi planes ocstart voting tomorrow" on might indion ment said bluntly: was Marshal Petain (Continued In Page Four) Vichy fighters and three bombers dam- curred Sunday and Monday off of vessels united nations other three with the taxes vidual and Two) not was (Column Stam along sinking is rubber going reported in consultation with Synthetic aged most of them were presumably to keep our automobiles on the to have suggested this alternative of States e shores the United Laval chief Pierre Timing this attack with large-scal- knocked out on the Crimean front a previous program he recomroad Long after existing stocks to raids on Malta swarms of government after interrupting a mine tentatively a Meanwhile mended to and The soviets announced the first deAmerican of the wheels on the treasury of tires vacation on the Riviera to return Heinkel and Junkers bombers as- big nazi as of out officials worn identified scheme: the been by partment's city spring offensive inThee-damotorcars have to the 3 saulted the flotilla just after capital on y area the personal exemption Kerch then floatwas found Monday well still need all our production of Lower mai(e" reasons "foreign for Petain's action The o'clock Monday afternoon a single person from $750 to afternoon said that a water few in shallow tersely of synthetic and more to keep yards were not disclosed and under the ing The Lite ly was hit with four "no off the beach at Fort Lauderdale important changes" had ocour military machine moving for- $500 and of married couples from circumstances there was much in the first assault and sank curred—an bombs to $1500 $1000 retain the present official indication that 'Florida ward" within a few minutes according to red I $400 credit for each dependent conjecture that it was motivated were holding their The St Lawrence river attack infantrymen in the situation Berlin of Bunch of Tripe' version by the Martinique Tuesday's and the earned income credit and a Monday night lull after mine and Lauderdale positions the Fort rethe with combination battle perhaps Paul Had lick counsel for the raise the normal tax from 4 per cent British seizure of Madagascar OSAGE W Va May 12 ()EP— should it prove of enemy origin British Beaufighters repelled a in that vital sector of most two be would Pena te agricultural subcommittee Cent to 6 per cent 'retain the the flagrant The discussms at Martinique second attack shooting down one First Lunge Broken a By United Press said the 0 E M tatement sounded present personal exemption in were begun Saturday when Ad- A terrific blast deep in big West instances to date of enemy activIleinkel and damaged seven other surtaxes Red infantrymen were said to Cl of F the rates coal I mine of NERA MacARTHUR'S tripe put computing to him "like a bunch Virginia apparently ity off American shores H Hoover miral John bombers After this check have broken commanding enemy which were not disclosed immedi53 lives three with took the first German Melbourne out to scare the people unneceriver Lawrence In St the Tuesday the HEADQUARTERS naval officer in the area and bodies recovered and the word of the Germans returned a third time lunge and to have sent the nazis ately Ca- May 12—Japanese air bases northraider announced ssarily" by enemy state to Reber the Samuel two the assault bomb depart- rescue workers there was almost nadian to their original posiback "It is the most depressing pic- Various Proposals Minister Angus Mac- east of Australia are believed to hits each on scoring' reeling diNavy of ment's chief the assistant the Kipling and tions in all but one sector of the no hope for 50 others trapped Donald was operating virtually in havo received substantial reinture of the rubber situation I've The treasury department has vision of European affairs arrived h e Queensland Jackal front and deseen he told the committee durforcements t U of underground the heart French-owneThe island went down at once proposed $600 and $1200 exemp- at the The estimate of 53 caught In fenses Sixty-tw- o of the destroyed Gercoast is preparing for possible but theKipling 1rg a hearing at which a midwest- tions with the a formula under Jackal They presented stayed afloat and man plane a were identified as bein an official was blast a dispatch from the torgiven ern senator declared that efforts cut from $400 to dependent credit Which raids air one of of three the Survivors heavy Robert would guarantee announcement at the mine the fourth destroyer towed her out $300 elimination to include farm alcohol plants in of the earned income pedoed ships a Dutch merchant an advanced allied base said Tues- of the battle area It was neces- longing to the Seventy-seventcredit and that Martinique Guadeloupe and men escaped death nazi air squadron Red airmen the synthetic rubber program had Seventy Miami Fla said day night landed at sary however for the British to swooped down increasing the present minimum French Guiana would not be used when they fled from the workings vessel on the nazi airside of the been "given the On other the died when 14 of their comrades ledger or in 6 menace surtax wounded sink the of any way per cent on the first by the axis destroyer Tues- dromes camouflaged in the prairie One crew late Tuesday reported the The statement was made by Senbecame a -- flaming torch" Army Minister F M Forde an- day morning of net income to 12 per cent the cause of the united nations at reached the scene aftership had last It of the peninsula with conferences ator Norris veteran Nebraska in- $2000 nounced a after two from pair torpedoes The attack carried out in an interior Sena- on the first $500 of the explbsion and discovered of axis The Black sea correspondent of Official the allied officials that fightGoverning struck it dependent and seconded by high to effort Stem last week had suggested insure passage of sup- the The members ten more bodies tor Gillette (D) Iowa who as- retention newspaper Red Fleet said that All of the crew of 35 escaped ing services of the United States plies to Marshal Erwin In return the French flag would saki another crew would bring of present personal exRommel's German ' medium-size- d and "will the serted that every effort to obtain form a Australia when without planes attempting to raid injury over to colonies continue those a in axis forces 6 tax normal of fly Libya per and apparently an unnamed them out shortly a share of the rubber progrgm for emptions force ever as- was made southern front line was united nations striking greatest freighter a be would and Admiral Robert Cent surtax 11 cant of from on d by planes rescuers comper newly city presumably Kerch: were resur- sembled in the Pacific" the farm states had met with an the first $2000 of net income Indies West off the torpedoed as in bases their reinforced ikltimate gov- ing out of the mine reported the Greece recognized official "cold shoulder or even a American and Australian air- and the Dodecanese Crete to New York repulsed and that 20 enemy planes vivors Members reported that the ret erning official islands shattered near the vealed brought Minwere brought down by red ground operation Air badly described were kick in the pants" men by No mention was made of alter- center of the explosion and said vised treasury schedules would e "confias nners e S A 44 Drakeford Ku all crew Romberg a of ister of Twenty-ninPlans emFarming Group's produce about $3400000000 in natives and the department be many hours before of whom were saved of a it in zero might hour the antitank Using awaiting dently large Both the Heinkel Ills and Junk- "stormer"their low flying first Stam phasized that the 'Conversations more bodies were brought out they ex- additional revenue the lie Farming interests Australia" the northern Russians of Panamanian pointed planes registry ers ship 88s were which in a in and the $1300000000 alcohol S U ce T on of bureau E plan Griffith participated proceeding Pa friendly Tuesday's Four) (Continued Couttuned on Page Two) said to have destroyed at plained want to produce Column Seven) assault are medium bombers with were Column Four) mines engineer who acted as spirit from grain crops as a step to program $1547000000 least 34 nazi vehicles streaming up considerable The Heinkel of range spokesman for the Christopher making butadiene a component can carry 4200 pounds of bombs to the Kerch front Coal company said the disaster tynthetic rubber a distance of 2140 miles while the Pin Down Land Troops occurred about 2:30 p m Arthur B Newhall war produccan handle a d Junkers were rubbodies whose The three tinn board coordinator for Tass dispatches direct from the load for 1340 miles The Junkers recovered by members of four mine bcr told the committee that he front said that it was these planes on on (Cont)nued page Page Two) Five) (Continued xinderstood 300 miles of copper as One well (Column Five) as clouds of fighters which Column were pinning down the German tubing alone would be needed to build grain alcohol plants capable mechanized land columns Germans were reported in Lon BERN SWITZERLAND May WASHINGTON May 12 (JP)- -The present base pay of first of making 82000 tons of butaGer(London sources also said thP the to have don prompted 12 nations which GerA big: raise for buck privates class privates and second class diene a year had attacked in the Germans in all forces to mans 'police -put That wouldmake a lot Of bulseamen is $36 and apprentice seamen to bring many conquered and her satelCrimea in an effort to remove a under French occupied territory letshe remarked to $50 a m9nth was While the major goal of the their lites too provided new turmoil the direct control of Henrich dangerous position from their He added that he also thought- voted pay flank and most informed military the axis arto Himmler's gestapo is bill care house of the take 350by Tuesday night for Adolf tentatively privates it would be "a miracle" if the sources predicted the main GerHitler chitects of what (Free French headquarters In NEW YORIC May 12 um and other service men in the 12 WASHINGTON tons of synthetic mentioned Tuesday but final ' passage of (UP) man blow at the Caucasus would May announced that despite "new order in to call London i the like to of the first attempt Smashing brackets it also would the measure increasing the pay by 0 E Nt was produced next year new stern repressive measures —Military experts Tuesday night be launched in the last week of sell Europe" people bogus benefit officers by increasing war the American of the fighting forces was put acute unrest was sweeping the viewed the German drive on Xerch May Nazi firing squads took the was claimed stamps savings off until Wednesday the their rental and subsistence al(A British commentator deoccupied French capital and as an action preliminary by secret service agents Tuesday lives of 24 more Hollanders U S clared radio announced the Russians hurled back that in 14 days 17 new clan- peninsula lowances As passed by the senate the It affects the army with the arrest of six men on Netherlands destine leaflets had gotten into to a general offensive rather than the German divisions after four bringing to 96 the numbercon-of bill would have raised the pay charges of conspiring to counternavy marine corps coast guard the start of the offensive itself hands of the gestapo days of fierce fighting into which alleged secret feit stamps worth $52500 coast and geodetic survey pubof privates and apprentice sea On the basis of information the Germans threw tanks dive the spirators accused of plotting to T w o of those arrested (Among the hundreds of dodglic health service and nursing ers men to $42 a month but the distributed by night brothers Abraham and Joseph pave the way for an allied inWASHINGTON believed the Germans bombers and low flying fighters May 12 AM- -one was here they Paris He said' the Germans suffered service throughout house adopted 102 to 40 an Perkes accused of originating the vasion The treasury Tuesday set Thurswere striking for a tactical adAs a "warning to all" the It provides base pay boosts scheme were held in $25000 bail ' quoted as saying: for amendment by Representative heavy casualties day midnight as the 2deadline cent to a salient open hoping Germans announced officially ("There is no milk for our vantage for men up to and including seceach Rankin (D) Mississippi boost20the purchase of its per In Progress Since May 8 Which could with be plugged children but Von Stuelpnagel's the execution of 16 persons in ond lieutenants and ensigns the Bail for Harry Horowitz ac-25 ing this figure by $S The year bonds which reinforcements a strong bath Polish takes friend Vilna the former every to of the not cused a increase these for officers also girl of city amendment being These securities (In Berlin the German high agreeing type provided that print widen the breach for the command for plotting with Russian sewas fixed at S20000 Abalso announced the bat$300 annually in pay and a small morning in 50 liters of milk and would World war second and class first the stamps since first sold privates start of an offensive 1 cream" cret agents to sabotage nazi tle has been in full swing since boost in allowances raham Glickstein an alleged saleswere placed On sale May 4 with class seamen should receive $54 destate to close the Sources ( General Otto vonStuelpnagel 8 )' man for the ring and Morris supply lines This group killed circles in GerChairman May (D) the statement that any investors a month $6 more than the also doubtect "the big May wereMilitaryto call arIs the military administrator of partment in one man comcontact as Rubin named the said as the resisting ate policeman version as loath of the action them military many many buy finally had started They the beginning of a spring ofoccupied France and the man push" mittee would follow up the pay each were held in $7500 bail The rest Buck privates now receive $21 then they desired up until a time show a as local too saw the to who has tried by an iron hand campaign boost bill with the proposal for other person arrested Louis Sa(In France the bombings of a a month to start $30 after four but the indefinite Latest figures spokestmanifestaoperation pointing the wax to a fensive"Coutinned nn military mouski was released on his own number of famous Paris hotels Pace Two) quell government payments to dethat S718478950 worth: were sold months and $40 after their first BIZ scale drive copiAl2an tions the for as grand Frenchmen) among headquarters serving recognizance pendents of fighting men year apprentice seamen get 30 through last Saturday :::: 12-to- four-wheele- six-wheel- ed - liii: I -- B onibers Sink ( - - - - ! Threel British Naval Vessels - i: -- I Expert Would U S Ignores Tax Incomes Vichy in Deal 01 $10 Week At Martinique l'r --- i - : : dive-bombe- rl - ODESpi"4: ' lic:' : last-minu- i i te : :ir i ---- - toward-Myitkyin- Enemy Sub Sinks Freighter In Si Lawrence River Mandalay-Lashio-Myitkyi- -- by-pass- - nazi-dominat- Blast Takes Lives of 53 In Coa Mine 61-I- Allies Bolster Aussie Coast As Raids Loom Allies--(Offici- al) 12-mi- le - d h run-aroun- i ts I Oxygen-helmete- Long-Rang- ( House Ba cks $50Month Pay For Soldiers 'Prentice Seamen U S Seizes Six I - ) European Uprisings Shake Hitler's Vaunted Nen) Order 4400-poun- U S Eyes Nazi (IP)--- The Crimea Drive In Stamp Fake low-pa- y Sets Deadline On Bond Issue anti-Germ- ' 1 - pen-cou- ld Ken-tuck- anti-Germ- ! ' - I i if 4 i 1 I - i g I ha el t it t 1 - '' |
