Show - - ' itulo1w 4 - - 's Ii ? r 1 4otttiltp ' - 1 tiBuy Avarbonds more often riit Mr Jap in his'collin" ' - I 1 1 I I the war labor board:said Tuesday that effective controls or governmental voluntary must be placved over wartime wages to curb inflation and he revealed that establishment of a " yardstick" pay standard is tinder consideration i 1 :' !- 1 '' : 1 : I A - I I 1 1 1 Under the Canadian plan workers earning more than $25 weekly get no raises unless extraordinary circumstances justify it Davis not prepared to say what the Iwas American standard would be but he said he did not believe it should 4 I - V '1 I I I ' 1A6':':4t ''':"1 7 '''':' : ': :' Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle 4 view:' Working wfth Davis are PaW McNutt chairman of the man power mobilization commission Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and Price Administrator Leon Henderson The committee will A 1" L President 'WU confer larn Green C I 0 President Philip Murray and other leaders and then report back to the intercomcommittee departmental posed of representatives of the war navy man power labor war production board and price administration agencies Committee to Decide "This committee is to decide whether any further directive order from the president is necessary and if so in what form to handle wage disputes that never come before the war labor board" !H: li k 1!: 74 ' I :' 7 4 i ::: ' ::: '' th : f ': - t 2 " ' - z '' ' i' ::::::: -' '' ' :: ::' i f t : :" t' ': ''' 7 '' t f'-::- i A t :: ‘:' : I I ' ::''''' t ' '' CHUNGKING sT '' ': I ':: i- :'::: ::::: 'i '::::::::::: :i::i::: - : ':i:: - :?::: ' t ::: :':i::7:::: :::4 ::::: :' ' ' 4 - :::: 1 : :: :t''5± '''::' !1::::::f::i:z::::1:7:::1::::2:::::::::: r: :'':' ' ::'i::z '::::::::::i::i'::: '' i:::::7-'- !::::f : :i::::::: :i: ) ' i -- I 4 i' i) t 4 - ' -- 5'':' Q ipoponr ' ' 1'4'-- : : :: ::::::::i::!::::: ::::!::i''''i':'' 3 :i 4 '1 :i:--:- ! ::i::::::::: ?'::': :': :::::-- : :: r: '''' I'l ?:::''' - 1:- 1 :1:::''' ::::::--::::::- :: : :::::::::::: ::::: t :: ''' :'3'I T- - :' :: i '': '':' :::: I ': : - i: l'i- : A : t- - ' i:: WPB Ponders Doolittle Led Raid on Japan Nation-Wid- e Without Loss U S Reveals Gas Rationing Famed Speed Flier Announces Nipponese Failed to Bag Plane --:- L:4-1mutt- t -- itautatakesta :— — s SingleAmerican Reports Hits on Warship s Aircraft Plant Drastic Program Utah and Idaho arose Tuesday as a distinct Fliers Took bility President Roosevelt indicited at press conference that Part in Raid rationing was being ered and immediately after possi- - his wide antiinflation program But beyond this recommendation that congress entrust this responsibility to the war rabor board he has not Indicated publicly how he wants the program enforced Possibility that the job may be left to the man power commission or to the department of labor was sdvanced in some quarters It also was suggested that a provision could be written into all war contracts banning wage in creases for the better paid work ers without government approval Labor Firmly Opposed Organized :tabor is adamantly irpposed to any general freezing ef wages It prefers to make the stabilization program a voluntary one Murray warned in Cleveland Ohio Tuesday that the fundamental principle that atmen to labor or- tracts working 4417 collective bargainganization'' ing and when you take out of the realm of collective bargaining questions affecting wages you actually destroy collective bargaining itself" On another front War Shipping Administrator Emory S Land reported to President Roosevelt that seven 'unions representing seagoing maritirte personnel had pledged a policy for the duration He said the unions had signed agreements with either the maritime commission or the war shipping administration promising discipline in their ranks and no strikes in return for union maintenance He said the unions were assured their existing contracts would be observed and that their right to collective bargaining would be recognized in the expanding government owned and operated merchant marine 1 3 I countryconsid- he had spoken came word from war production board sources that the board had directed Joseph B Eastman's office of defense transportation in consultation with Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes Leon and Price Administrator Henderson to draft plans for such a step Logical Date WASHINGTON (in—Two young D C OCD Clarifies Raid Authority I May 19 army officers from the intermountain west—one from Utah and one from Idaho— were aboard U S bombers during their recent devastating raid on Japan the war department announced Tuesday The two were Lieutenant Chase J Neilsen of Hyrum Utah and Lieutenant Clayton J Campbell of Orofino Idaho Other members of the expedition and their next of kin Include: Brigadier General James H Doolittle—Mrs J H Doolittle wife Washington D C Captain C R Greening — Mrs Dorothy W Greening wife 5181i Simpson avenue Hoquiam Wash Captain David M Jones—Mrs D M Jones wife Winters Texas Lieutenant T H Blanton—Mrs J M Russell mother 604 South Denton street Gainesville Texas Lieutenant William N Fitzhugh —J G Fitzhugh 2906 Avenue Q Galveston Texas Lieutenant Robert M Gray — James M Gray father box 215 Killeen Texas Lieutenant Everett W Holstrom —Mrs E W Holstrom 3807 North IColumn Two Thirty-nint- h street Tacoma Wash Lieutenant Frank A Kappler— George F Kappler father 2992 Johnson avenue Alameda Cal Lieutenant Harry C McCool— Mrs O S McCool mother 2520 West Pike Peak avenue Colorado Springs Colo CHICAGO May 19 Ian—During Lieutenant E E McElroy—Mrs any emergency created by enemy E E McElroy 100 Young street action against the United States Longview Texas the commander of the citizens deLieutenant J H Macia—Mrs J fense corps will be in command of (COntinnect on Page Four) (Column Four) all required services a joint statement by the office of civilian defense and American Red Cross announced Tuesday Designed to clarify the lines of authority and !unctions of the agencies the statement was prepared for publication in the journal of the American Medical asWASHINGTON May 19 (P)- -sociation by James M Landis diAn increase in the normal in- derector of the office of civilian come tax rate for individuals fense and Norman H Davis chairfrom 4 per cent to 4 per cent man of the American Red Cross by the house ways "It is the responsibility of local and approved means committee Tuesday defense councils to see that adesur- quate provision is made for all along with to two the yield designed of event in the services required 2750000000 in pew revenue bombing or other attack" the Members said 'that the Bur- statement said taxes had been accepted pend- but ing Screen Actor Dies Dough4on (D) North HOLLYWOOD May 19 UP) — Carolina announced only that Hale Hamilton 59 veteran screen the committee had voted on the actor And brother of John D M normal tax rate and had agreed the goal Hamilton former chairman of the It was reported that the low- Republican national committee eat surtax rate would be either died Tuesday q for the historic achievement that represented a substantial return payment for Pearl Harbor Zealously Guarded Still zealously guarded however was information as to the number of planes that participated in the attacks where they came from and where they went after dropping their lethal loads upon five big Japanese cities The White House took the lid off when President Roosevelt personally bestowed upon Doolittle a military honor reserved only for great soldiers who perform great feats—the congressional medal of honor Doolittle's companions distinguished service crosses This marked the first official disclosure that Doolittle led the ed raiders- - Official Statement Then in an official stalement and later at a press conference Doolittle gave a graphic account of the attack in which he and his comrades were revealed to have: 1 Scored a direct hit on a new Sap cruiser or battleship which was left in flames at a navy yard south of Tokyo just 2 Set fire to the largest airplane factory in Japan—the Mitsubishi plant at Nagoya 3 Doolittle instructed his men that the imperial palace in Tokyo was not to be bombed 4 The medium bombers were especially equipped for the task and their crews practiced the plan of attack for weeks before it was carried out 5 Members of the bomber crews did not know what their mission would be until they were ready to take off 6 Japanese antiaircraft fire was (Continued on Pfige Four) Column Two) 4 ! 1— I i st41 6 For Salt 1rho City and vicinity: warm Wednesday with little change in temperature Maxi- mum temperature Tuesday 70 degrees: minimum temperature 43 degrees (Issued with permission of military authorities) Continued d - - a Priee Five Cents z (— per cent on the first net income compared with the present 6 per cent in the same bracket with the high-wa- s est rate either 80 or 85 per cent The committee spent many hours studying work sheets taming several sets of rates and estimated yields and probably will vote finally Wednesday Members also reported that they probably would decide nesday on Secretary Morgenthau's request for discretionary authority to order up to 10 pern cent of a person's taxable come withheld from each pay envelope as a credit against the regular March 15 tax bill 11 or 12 $2000 of con-tax- Wed-Chairm- in-o- es an Roosevelt Hints Expansion Of U S Force in Ireland Allies--(Officia- WASHINGTON May 19 UP) — President Roosevelt aroused new conjecture as to the purpose of concentrating American troops in northern Ireland Tuesday with a statement strongly implying that more are to be added to the S l) 'Associated Press An unhalted Russian advance on the front before Kharkov— an advance that appeared to be thousands already there threatening major German Speculation centered upon the much discussed possibe used to for are reforces there the that communications—was ultimately bility nazis the second continental a front against opening ported early Wednesday by the Contingents of American troops started arriving in but it was a soviet command northern Ireland in January Monday it was announced that acknowledged that the nazis had a force larger than the previous ones had arrived et afelY was Mr themselves taken the offensive Roosevelt At his press conference Tuesday asked for comment and replied that the operation was about 80 miles southeast of that successfully carried out He hoped he said that there key Ukrainian city would be more in the future This development which the "Does that mean more troops?" a reporter asked soviet noted only with the bare Mr Roosevelt laughed and conceded that his words did observation that in the vicinity of the Donets valleY towns of Izyum contain such and implication and Barvenliova the invader were said Australians Another correspondent reported the initiative indicated that tofeel the dispatch of a large force of men to Ireland meant the German command was striking the south Pacific was being ignored Mr Roosevelt said with considerable power in an effort to relieve the situation above he had not heard of such reports Since the arrival of the first contingent the assumpCrisis Approaches continent tion has been that an invasion of the German-hel- d In the Kharkov arena of Russia would ultimately be attempted the soviet command's early morn- ing communique reported continualing enemy counterattacks all been had that though saying beaten off and all in all it appeared that a crisis for this first soviet offensive was now spring approaching How near the soviet forces were to the city itself still was not 250 miles trheemcohviende sferomma he efsuer batknown but British information intlefields dicated an irregular battle line progress in clearing out the Japathat had been extended to a length nese on the west side of the Sal120 miles and there were some of ' Lost Own Members Lives 33 ween putting to rout a force at of that the red Marshal Timosigns 35 near Lungkiangchiao Tengyueh shenko was as intent upon attriAttack In Attacks by miles west of the river and 351 Party tion as he wascupon the relief of miles north of Lungling on the ' the city RaiderChurchill Burma road Policy Prowling In the fighting in the Crimea In Chekiang the reinforced some 400 miles to the south the was drive developing Japanese LONDON May 19 On—Dominsituation was in utter dispute 11'4' U southward along a portion of the R Attlee Clement ions still in Chekian Secretary Battles Continue Say Reds Press By Associated aChinese ghandsgand also along a 'inquisitive sharply promised The Russian war bulletin reNEW ORLEANS May 19—Axis house of commons highway paralleling the coast adTuesday that ported battles continuing about the submarines prowling in the Gulf allied offensive action The Chinese communique would be city of Ketch on the peninsula of mitted the Japanese had captured of Mexico have torpedoed two f taken against Germany "in due that name—which is across a narChuki about 40 miles south of more d States row from the Caucasus— strait Hangchow and about 55 miles merchant vessels with the loss of course" but insurgent members but the Germans claimed that they northeast of Kinhwa the Chekiang a called this "schoolboy angrily had reached the Kerch strait "in 33 lives capital after a battle in the essay" and demanded that Prime all its extent" and had destroyed— streets However the Chinese deBoth ships were sunk May 13 Minister Churchill appear to face three soviet armies clared they were counterattacking by undersea craft 20 men being their criticisms of war policy They likewise claimed 149256 fiercely southeast of Chuki and killed on one vessel and 13 on the of Churchill's own con- Russian prisoners the destruction Members that they had driven the Japanese other the navy disclosed Tuesday servative party joined in the at- of 16 Russian ships a mine back some distance tack The of these first sweeper 23 small coastal vessels Many Chinese positions in Che- occurred at 2:50 p m torpedoings One torand 323 planes as Slackness bombed were severely kiang All this would of course pedo from the unseen submarine Charge Pag Five) (Continurd The war debate which started an enormous victory and imply (Column Five struck the engine room killing 12 for a of a storm men in the explosion The Eighth mildly and ended with of reasons including the variety naval district's inshore patrol charges of slackness in the ward assertion that three separate socame just as victory-starve- viet armies had been involved in 'picked up the survivors and effort Britain was encouraged by the restricted area of the Kerch brought them here One man died arrival in Ulster of tens of thou- fighting did not look very plausiIn a lifeboat of additional United States ble sands Gunners on Watch soldiers with all the weapons of Seek to Destroy One torpedo struck the other war A reliable military observer said vessel amidships about 10:45 p m As to the Kharkov front soviet the fatalities resulting either from the allies now had the balance of dispatches emphasized the grindthe explosion or from burns which military power in western Europe ing down of German mechanized French--(Offici- al) prevented the men from leaving but the vigorous debate in com- power as a major aim reporting the ship Five members of a gun- mons brought out only hints as to that more than 400 German tanks Press United By ner crew were on watch at the when and how it will be used" had been destroyed while the nazis VICHY May 19 — British and of the surprise attack but were claiming 477 Russian maFrench air and naval forces time Possibility din Minds' beno could countermeasures take chines knocked-ou- t Such an aim clashed Tuesday off the French cause of the the for governAttlee darkness speaking was suggested moreover by the African port of Algiers and two refused The torpedo struck this latter ment in lieu of Churchill that all Russian accounts picBritish ' planes a n d one French front might fact ship just below the waterline tear- to say when a western tured the major action as Against an official down were shot plane asserted: ing a large hole in the hull and be opened but highways in the German network communique said Tuesday night "You may be sure that pos- across the vessel afire Survivors the Ukraine The clash began the communi- setting minds and our that in is crew all life of the with sibility Moscow it was reported From que said when a British seaplane belts abandonedequippedin of German minds the in is the ship orderly it main force was that flew over Algerian territorial Timosmko's manner high command one such highway waters at 9 a in approaching our increases month "Every his Cossacks were cutting A patrol of French pursuit Hide in Water Tank In due coursewe shall while strength at the German flanks and occupyplanes "charged with the security Chief Engineer Petro T Walder- change from the clefensiv'e which of the coasts" headed off the marsen ing a town described as large but hold in many areas not to we have N still and Lebanon of J otherwise identified and disseaplane to force it down the Pumpman He lmár Martin of New to the offensive" to London stated that it communique said and the British York both 55Y patches Attlee cautioned that "every years old told at had got a footing there actually plane opened fire conditioned is board on move the of their West Fla saving The German commander Von "The British seaplane having Key said and vesin lives the by transport problems" taking refuge was said to be employing opened fire our aviators returned sel's by fresh d water tank while the "with the best will in the world Bock his the fire and forced the seaplane for defensive parachutists we we cannot always get the force ship burire-- about them to land" the communique said 12 hours in the tank they want to the place we desire at the rather than offensive purposes— After Then a British torpedo boat made dropping them in an effort to re- their Way over hot decks to time we wish" lieve small detachments of en- began firing on two French ships the gun platform min(Arthur Greenwood former where they were which the communique said were circled ground troops—and to be Coutinued on Page Two) on Page Five) (Continued (Column Three) (Column Four) "proceeding to the scene of the accasting out powerfully with tank tion to rescue personnel" counterthrusts Without reporting whether the One of these Involving 120 GerBritish airmen were saved the man machines was acknowledged to have burst through a sectionvf communique said that the torpedo boat's cannon then "destroyed the the 'soviet line although Moscow wreck of the British sealilane" said that it subsequently was thrown back by red artillery and antitank fire OTTAWA May 19 (P)—Men I ers have darkened and despoiled Balance Shifts to Allies vicare a united nations" with 14 the united nations heard of ' The This great continuing struggle uniformed repfrom colorfully tory message Tuesday resentatives of many languages on the most vital of all Russian President Roosevelt at the openwas accompanied durLONDON Wednesday May 20 ing of the allied air training conand customs came here to dis— battlefronts the ing day long-ranbombof allied cuss air a reliable by the declaration of coordination here but the chief execumilitary informant in ers resumed their offensive against ference in in and power particugeneral told them the road would that considering the arlar to consider a vast man London Germany during Tuesday night tive rival- of tens of thousands of addi- - be hard with the first raids on reich terripower pooling plansuch as the fional troops in Northern Ireland 11 nawas announced in it in of united has the British "The nights tory people empire already and other factors the allies now Wednesday operation through its Canadian held the balance of tions can look forward confipower in westIt was the first time since devair training system dently along the hard road of Mr Roosevelt who converted ern Europe and probably could astated Rostock and the near-bhis own nation into "the arsenal mount an offensive with 300000 port of Warnemuende both On the victory" the president said "The Baltic coast were blasted the hopes of free men and women of democracy" had high praise or more men And in a similar connection 8 of the air of those the that for Canada's vast training proMay hopes night royal everywhere Roosevelt implied that President force's bomber command has been who are awaiting liberation in "The gram calling (Coutiffiled on PRge Two) in action over Gertnany the countries the savage invad Airdrome on Democracy" (column Two) 1 - By had-seize- 4 a et"-- -- - d - Subs Sink Two British House More U S Clamois for Ships in Gulf War Offensive - - - - ( I - - I - medium-sized-Unite- French British Clash in Sea And Air Battle - - - I Men of Fourteen Nations Hear Roosevelt Victory Message R A F Resumes Raids on Nazis 1 - (UP)--Brita- ge in's '- y -- n ‘ - — t - s ! I ii Reds' Advance Threatels to Cut Foes' Lines I House Group Boosts Surtax And Normal Income Levies steeply-increase- 19 ut :: 1 l:::i::'-':':k- May Suddenly announcing to the world that the "future is very grave" and that help is urgently needed a Chinese government spokesman declared Tuesday that many signs attempt point to an early all-oby Japan to knock China out of the war This indication of Chinese alarm was given as the military spotlight alternated swiftly from China's backdoor in Burma and Yunnan province to her eastern seaboard where the Japanese were developing a new offensive in Chekiang province despite bitterest Chinese resistance Battle Fiercely With the British hanging on to only a small strip of Burmese territory along the Indian frontier the Chinese battled fiercely against forces which seemed to be increasing their pressure from Burma along the southwestern China frontier and the spokesman declared that area "will witness during the next few weeks fighting on an even larger scale than we have seen so far" A battle of several days near the Thailand border between the Salween and Mekong rivers continued fiercely with heavy casualties on both sides as the Japanese tried to batter past Mong Hal and Mong Lin to Kengtung and attempted to advance across the Salween at Kongkum and Taikao Further Progress To the north of the Burma road 1 I 't of ''' N H ': ' ts: k '!' —: ''':'::-: ' I t t ' I ::: --- - i' i:!:i721:i--4r:::::::::::::::::-::::::":j- 4: :: -- k :': :''' I ' r ::': ::i II ":::-"1i- i 1 ' ::r-:- - :':-:- k 4 I I 1 '!i:''" ii k :T:': t 1::71:: nt I 1Z I 01 I ri :::::- ' - : - Nii:-:- ::::‘:-- 1 tt‘ 4- ' :: '' '!:'' ' ':--- ::::'-- 4 ! ::: 4- - 47''-'1- : :t '' 'it '' - - ":': ' s: '''' :: : ' :i':-1' Chungking Sees War As 'Very Grave' ‘: l : t :': ' I ' - ! :a i' 4:- ? :: ::' ' t '::k77'-H :':- ' "E'4 :: - l':: ' 4 c'' :: A ': '' ? v-- ' - :i : ::: !:::: ' '''' 14 c7 ' :::::: 'i::: ? i :r 7-- 'J-''i::::- :t ? ' ' :::::::i::::::-:::- ::1 '''L: ' I i''1 I '':::::::::'ii:::::::::::::!:::'::':i::i':(:::::::!:'1‘r' g' ': ' : ' : :'::'!::s:-- :''': ' :'l 't' : :j: !: K: Davis said The president included wage stabilization as one of the essential provisions of his seven-poi- I 1 1111 The Weather Soviet Offensive Faces AidasJaps Extend Gains Crisis as N zis Ope Drive in Iiew Sector Future rii : I i 77' - ' 3 !':: t 'IX 4 ' '''''''' 4 1 ::- ''! watches ri t : : '''-- 't ':: Mrs Doolittle : flu-ir- )11 ' ' Chinese Ask t:' ' : t k ': raidas on Tokyo I : 's '':'-:'-''- 0 - - - congratulates ' ' orf Looms to Save be below $25 WASHINGTON May 19 (UP)—Brigadier General James H ' Oppolftelit General Freezing On Vital (Jimmy) Doolittle famed speed flier who led 79 intrepid Amereican He reiterated his opposition to a general freezing of wages say'volunteers in a highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland By William R Spear ing it would be "very tragic" for WASHINGTON May 19 (11')— April 18 revealed Tuesday night that not a single American plane the lower paid workers He sugbe e Nation-widit might gasoline rationing by was shot down in the audacious attack gestd instead that possible for the government to July 1 to slow down automobile Numerous details the spectac- say to employera: "You can't raise wheelsI estimated to be wearing were ular raid revealed for the now of workers wages receiving 325 or whatever the standard out irreplaceable rubbers at the time after Doolittle and his first comrades-in-glor- y were decorated might be without government re- - rate of 250000 pounds a day no-stri- ke k k - Rubber t t ' t 4 ' -j : wth i 1 r!r—-- gewsrovrweAfrmmrprel ': ':: g l' ' 7 President Roosevelt He said he and three other high rove rn m en t officials are considering whether to ask President Roosevelt for a directive under ceilings could be imposed over 95 per cent of wage increases which are settled by direct negotiations and thus never reach a g o v e rn m e n t a I agency Fimilar to Canada Plan The government now has no rnethod of stabilizing these wages at present levels' beyond- public appeal to negotiators Davis said he is "thinking about the possibility" of imposing a wage standard sirrular to the one operating in Canada where $25: a week has been set as a guide 1 ' !: 7 I ' - By United Press 'WASHINGTON May 19— Chairman William H Davis of ' f t - : 1111 'Roosevelt Congratulates Audacious Flier —'' 91 Larger Earners i : 4 1:: : 0 iI ifill ft i ' t1 or 4 Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning May 20 1942 Yardqick Would Curb Ilikes to 1 : - ' 1 I f dippr'411614tio Labor Board Head Urges Wage Ceiling 1 H1: 113 No 36 N't)I 1'3 1)' (2 --- 1 ir I t 't P "Ark ' Harold II Hills Construction Engineer Ii t c Eays - ''' - I I Nk 1 |