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'Fite' Weather ' ' t‘ i gi I it k I I I No ' Lake City and vicinity: in teniperatum Thunsday :A temperature Wednesday 75 degrees minimum tern'perature 44 degrees (Issued by permission of military authort:" l''' '' c 1::-::- I dorAt - ties) - ' 1 N 113 No 37 ol Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning May 21 i Bill' Drafters Hoover Backs Vast Power Russ Advance Hike Rate For President in War Over Savage Of Surtaxes Says People Must Recover Liberties Nazi Defense : 1 ' With Return of Peace Stresses Need for Public Criticism Joint iRt eturns By 11114)1111dS Wives Decreed NEW YORK May 20 (UP)— Former President Herbert Hoover asserted Wednesday night that President Roosevelt must be given dictatorial economic poweis to defeat the axis but warned that the nation must i 'By United Press 7 ' WASHINGTON May creased individual income surtaxes ranging Ifrom 12 per cent ' tin secure recovery of all suspended liberties after the war "if liberty is to live" Mr Hoover addressing the twenty-sixt- h annual assembly of the first $2000 to81 per cent on taxable earnings exceeding $200000 were written into the the National Industrial Conference Board which also was addressed by Under Secretary of War Robert P Patterson said that a steady decrease in economic freedom must be expected as war goes on and there must be no hesitation in giving the president great economic powers "and upholding him in war Wednesday by the $8700000000 pending revenue bill house i and means ways com- mittee The rates were less drastic than those proposed by the treasury and they constituted indirect rejection by the committee of President Roosevelt' 's request that it limit net incomes of iindividuals to 25- ft00 annually for the duration No estimate of the increased from the higher surtaxes was ma3 de by committeemen Seeks More Billions The treasury called for an additional $1200000000 in individual i'ncome taxes and $3060000000 for corporations It proposed that the present $2000 surtax bracket Income on which 6 per cent is levied be abandoned and that the rev rates be 12 per cent on the first S500 of taxable income 15 per cent on between $300 and $1000 18 per cent between $1000 and $1500 and 20 per cent between I 1I - ' them" 'Fascist Economics' Economic measures necessary to win total war he asserted are "just plain fascist economics" The former president defended the right of all citizens to criticize conduct of the War without being called "sixth columnists" and asserted that criticism "is necessary if we are to win the Three major tasks face the nation he asserted—winning the war to preserve liberty recovering surrendered liberties when war is done and securing lasting peace to keep liberty alive LIMA Permits Restricted Subparity Sale Of Corn Wheat The committee refused to divide To accomplish them he called for: the-Germ- I - g Montana Idaho Wyoming Need 10000 Hands Colorado "" Douglas Takes Over Cargo Ship Problem WASHINGTON May 20 UP— To tackle the problem of making the available supply of cargo ships do the biggest possible job of hauling war supplies overseas Lewis W Douglas Wednesday was ap- pointed deputy war shipping administrator At the same time Rear Admiral Howard L Vickery was named deputy administrator for new ships Douglas left congress in 1933 to become President Roosevelt's first director of the budget Later he resigned because of personal disagreement with the president's monetary and spending policies Recently he had been chief adviser to Rear Admiral Emory S Land war shipping administrator and particularly concerned with working out transport problems with the British war transport ministry "He has however had no administrative responsibility and with this appointment Mr Douglas will join with me in not only planning but directing the use of our merchant marine" Land said "Mr Douglas' administrative capacity is well known and I am convinced that his agreement to become deputy administrator will efassure a vigorous and all-ofort to use our ships for the one and only purpose of winning the ut war" Douglas' duties are to assist in making best possible use of available tonnage This involves the complicated task of routing vessels or assigning particular ships to carry particular cargoes between specific ports as the need for the supplies may dicate g I fr - - tier But the Chinese press said Japanese forces in Burma had been raised-tsix or seven divisions— close to 150000 men and about o 50000 higher than previous estimates In Chekiang the Japanese who had gathered a surprising force from the garrisons of Hangehow Nanking and Shanghai for a new offensive continued to sweep southward 4pmbers Blast Jap Planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Australia Thursday May 21 UP)— Allied bombers destroyed (wo grounded Japanese planes damaged the runway and started large fires Wednesday in an attack on Koepang Dutch Timor and also attacked military objectives in Dilii harbor iin the Portuguese half of theoccupied island A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters also said four of 12 Japanese fighter planes were damaged when intercepted by allied planes during a strafing attack on the Port Moresbry New Guinea airdrome 7: I I - nesday He made no predictions as to the duration of the war but suggested that any one inclined to revise previous estimates as to its duration had some rather encouraging facts on which to base cal- culations Cites Increasing Power Hull was asked at his press conference whether recent developments at home and abroad had encouraged him to hope that victory for the united nations might come sooner than had been expected at the beginning of this year In reply he cited the steadily increasing acceleration of the war He effort of the United States said our powers and facilities of going forward first in offensive-defens- e operations and then in outright offensive war were mounting steadily toward a climax It was only natural he suggested that any new calculations as to the duration of the war should be made in light of those facts Reports From Europe Hull's optimistic remarks were made against a background of reports from Europe indicating that German nforale was deteriorating that shortages of food and strad tegic materials in Europe were increasing that the rising fury of British air raids on German objectives might soon hit a pace of 1000 bombers a night dumping bombs on the enemy In reply to questions on the situation across the Pacific Hull likewise avoided any sweeping predictions lie rejected however any pessimistic interpretation of reports that Japan was about to launch an all-odrive to crush Chinese' resistance If the Chinese continue to as they have fotught in the fight past five years he said and continue to show the same splendid spirit there is reason to be confident that their resistance will continue to be successful - planes across the south Atlantic and Africa in daily increasing mumbers the weight of which is beginning to be felt effectively both in the rnideast and India If the present rate of increase is maintained and there is every indication that it will be American air power may be expected to tip the scales and give the allies air superiority in India and China as they now have in the western desert On a 13000-mil- e flight across the ferrying route from New Delhi to America I had opportunity to see at first hand the scale on which deliveries are being made The outlook is definitely encouraging Numbers of course cannot be given but it can be said that not a day passes but what some effective unit of the air arm' is delivered at the fronts ready to go into action Maintenance and overhaul are kept up to date as the bombers and fighters progress The latter are flown eastward from the coast carrying reserve tanks which are dropped into the jungle when emptied Parallel with this and just as vital is the service being run on regular schedule by Pan American airlines carrying the more urgent supplies and war materials half way around the world The expansion of this fleet now taking place and the added capacity made possible by recent curtailment of domestic airlines for air-armay spell supply air-freig- ht m Hitler-dominate- ut LOS ANGELES May 20 County Registrar William M who was credited with finding ah adding machine error that cost Charles Evans Hughes the presidency in 1916 died Wednesday He was 64 Kerr then chief of the division of voting registration in Los Angeles county spent hours rechecking the complicated tabulation system and discovered a mistake of 10000 votes f WASHINGTON May 20 (UP) —Senator Torn Connally (D) Texas said Wednesday that the United States has 'made an awith Admiral rrangement (Georges) Robert to immobilize French warships and merchant vessels in Martinique" Connally told a press conference that the negotiations were "carried on direct with Admiral Robert without reference to Vichy" Robert is high commissioner for French possessions in this hemisphere with headquarters at Martinique Connally said that Robert "presumably" took up the proposals with Vithy' The state department did not comment immediately on Connally's statement 1 - I thee raiders said the destruction in big chemical armament and eni gine building center reminded them of Germany's ruined Baltic port of Rostock h raid on It was the Mannheim a city of 283000 and the first against Germany since the Weather forced a lull in Britain's air offensive 11 days ago Lifting the curtain on the plans for thi14 offensive authoritative quarters said they were building up to the point where 1000 bombers would be sent against Germany any night the weather permitted United States planes would fly with the British it was indicated Not Fantastic Figure "A thousand planes is not a fantastic figure" the source said "At present we have the facilities for sending 800 planes on raids and these can be expanded" The informant added that most British bombing now is being done by planes with a minimum bomb load of four tons each Thus he said a thousand such planes could carry 4000 tons of or enough "to blow explosives anything in Germany apart" The submarine base at St NaZaire France also was strongly attacked Monday night but the British said three-fourtof the bbmbers were sent against Mannfour-engin- War Worst Yet Say g Goering LONDON May 20 (INS) — (British) news agency Wednesday night circulated the purported text of an address by Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering admitting that Germany's winter campaign had been "terrible" and that the Hitler regime had to fight a war on the home front "This war is the hardest Germany has had to fight" Goering was quoted as saying "There are' two fronts — the external front and the home front "The winter campaign has been terrible "There is no question of giving up our front positions" exhorted armament Goering workers to strain every nerve and continue working Reuter's ed hs heim Fourteen planes from the raiding forces failed to return By contrast only about 20 planes attacked a north coast English town Hunt Nazi Cruiser Reconnaissance planes also cruiser Prinz sought the 10000-toEugen the "clay pigeon" of the German fleet but authoritative sources said they did not know where she had gone Disclosing new details of the attack off Norway Sunday night in which at least two torpedo hits on the Eugen were claimed authorized quarters said more than 50 planes swarmed down upon the cruiser Acknowledging the loss of nine of their planes the British said the cruiser was screened by 40 Messerschmitts Britain intends to make "a carefully planned attack" against the nazi-hel- d continent the government assured the house of commons Wednesday but until such an attack can be prepared it ricgards the continuedbombing df Germany as its beat' contribution to the commoh'war effort n RA Pact Completed for Stripping Britisk Airmen French Senator Ships Says (— Attack Convoy Kerr Finder of Error Costing Hughes Presidency Dies 1 fifty-fourt- WASHINGTON May 20 L'Il — Victory is not so far away as it seemzd a Ow months ago Secretary of State Hull indicated Wed- - By H A Peters NEW YORK May 20 (UP)— The United States army is rushing bombs" - I Indicates End 3lay Come Sooner Than At First Believed Plane Flow To China India "heav- explosive shoot-a- t Warl-liesav- U S Increases 4emgesoiamps---'—'77- Hull Sees Hope for the succeeding waves of Ha Lancasters Manchester' of Speeding faxes Wellingtons with their iest high to Destruction Victory in Intelligence reports quoting and k cy - li- along hastily strengthened to the stem and south Japanese offensive on the eastern fought coast in Chekiang The Chinese looked to the rain as an ally which might fill the roads with landslides wash out bridges ravage Japanese camps with malaria and hold up for months the invaders' advance through the Mountainous sparsely populated southwestern zone No military action was reported at all Wednesday from that area where at last accounts the Chinese had thrown back the Japanese along the Burma road at the Salween in Yunnan and fought a series of bitter battles 250 miles' to the south along the Thailand fron- Air ministry quarters said the four-motore- - ' -4 40000 fire bombs were dropped by d one detachment of Stirlings leaving hundreds of fires Indo-Chin- (Coutinued Page Two) (Column Five) ''‘ ar --- Heavy Rah in Yunnan Raises Hope of Checking Japs - es deal-Sug- - May 20—Forty thousand incendiary bombs and of loads" the biggest explosives fromhundreds of bombers "great were showered upon the German industrial center of Mannheim Tuesday night the British said Monday and even greater attacks employing up to 1000 R A F and American bombing planes a night were promised for the aerial offensive against the reich J : ''' - British—(Official) By Associated Press z vvtsell (Continued on Page Four) (Column Four) 61)717ole- LONDON IENMVier 01' - - Lool N4GERMANY Fqcsyti z ctl RANCE A an 111 1000-Plan- e Associated Press The Russian offensive against 0 Kharkov and its Ukrainian hintertland appeared Wednesday night r 1 still to be slowly and ponderously BASE lillt were rolling forward and there 0 indications FRANCE ec-that accumulating Marshal Timoshenko had caught Il Hitler seriously off balance in this iiNdLAND first great test of the spring cam7 ep paign 11" This was suggested not alone oth LONDON 54 by the apparent fact that never in BERLIND I 4zp nine days had the nazi command : been able to beat the red armies Ckaz iish down to a halt but by the strong BUG effort of Berlin to focus all attention not on the Kharkov front o MANNHEIM but 400 miles to the south down in PARIS the Crimea Si: Nazis Repeat Claims krZZZZZZZZZZZZZZA This was attempted by high command's repetition of its previous extraordinary claims 1TZ - slip 6"1 that not one but three soviet armies had been "annihilated" on the narrow Kerch peninsula in the 412 Crimea and by its apparently "oplip e Colostudied announcement that nel General Baron von Richtofen SPAIN t one of the most pitiless and imb joilitsvoitttoodeisittil placable of all German air officers k was now on that front Mannheim German industrial city and St Nazaire shows Map This was in turn accompanied French port being used as nazi base both of which places of reports by the circulation ' were paid visits in the RA F's latest raid At Mannheim through Europe that Von Richtofen might try to hurl a parabig German plants were described as being reduced to ruins chute force of 100000 men—this agstin a seemingly fantastic figure —across the Kerch strait into the Caucasus Moscow Denies Stories The view that Hitler had lunged in the Crimea more for propaganda than for strategic reasons was put forward with considerable Chinese Rely on Downpour to Wreck plausibility by the Russian Major General Nikolai Shuravlev who Roads and Bridges Ravage Camps contended that the German leadership was in the most urgent need of some sort of early spring vicNipponese Reinforce Army in Burma small" tory—"however Nazi claims to occupation of the Chinese--(Offic- ial) By Associated Press whole of the Kerch peninsula were meantime sardonically denied in CHUNGKING May 20—A heavy downpour perhaps the beMoscow summer rainy' season drenched the Of the Kharkov front Russian ginning of the months-lon- g battlefields Wednesday as China dispatches reporting a continued southwestern Burma-Yunna- n red advance were supported by an a border to the the defenses on I from organized objective research and public debate" 3 Preparedness f o r peace "the setting up of moral economic and political ltectual over the whole world IS Hundreds of Craft Hain Incendiaries On German Industrial Center British Promise Attacks I RAF LAUNCHES' HEAVYATTACK ON MANNIEM GERMANY AND ON SUBMARINE A I 1 Zoom" The creation of a "more definite war council embracing in its members the civilian heads of the great war agehcies" to meet with the president as often as necessary to coordinate policies necessary to the furtherance of the war 2 Advance preparation for economic reconstruction and recovery of freedom in the postwar era which "can come only 1 it I cJJ11- E OPA Plans Staff of 90000 As Wider Rationing Looms ' I: - Arsz-NAZAIR- R put-pos- 0 17 By its WASHINGTON DENVER May 20 (Al—ThouMay 20 (UP) per —The 680000000 agricultural sands of acres of sugar beets and the ock y per appropriation bill embracing a other crops will rot in-exmountain region fields a U S partial triumph by President conRoosevelt over the badly-splceed $6000 employment service spokesman dein a bloc farm dispute gressional Variation in Figures over parity prices was approved clared Wednesday night unless The 81 per cent maximum sur- by the senate Wednesday night by 10000 farm workers can be Otax would apply to taxable income vote and returned to the house btained "Farm communities must go out of 15000000 as well as $200000 Passage came after two days The treasury's graduated increases of acrimonious debate over restric- and beat the bushes for laborers" would have levied at the rate of tions to be placed on the sale of said John E Gross employment E6 per cent on income in excess government-owne- d grain surpluses service regional representative re- -for feeding hogs and cattle of porting a shortage of 2500 work— $100000 ers in Colorado 3000 in Montana Surtaxes are paid on income Demanded Free Hand 2500 in Idaho and 2000 in Wyowhich remains after ali legal deMr Roosevelt demanded a free ming ductions have been made including "Women and children will have surpluses as he personal exemptions contribu- hand to use these tions bad debts etc The 10 per saw fit under his price stabiliza- to go to work on farms and some earned income up to tion program The farm bloc re- business houses may be obliged to cent credit-obelled The house banned below-parit- y close part time so that even bank $14000 which is allowed for of computing the normal price sales of any surpluses clerks can become berry pickers" tax is not allowed for sur- except for a few restricted com- Gross declared mercial purposes tax purposes F K Reed federal agricultural Under While the surtaxrates approved strong administration statistician said beet workers imare not as steep as those proposed opposition the senate agriculture ported from New Mexico and Texwould add committee sponsored a comproas are inadequate to handle thinby the treasury they millions of dollars to the nation's mise which was adopted Wednes- ning and blocking Income tax burden This load day by a vote of 62 to 18 It would would be further increased by two authorize the Commodity Credit 20 UP) SAN FRANCISCO other committee decisions—reduc- corporation to sell surplus corn —Rich farm lands ofMay west the tion of personal exemptions for and a maximum of 125000000 chore of feeding the Amerimarried couples from $1500 to bushels of wheat at 85 per cent whose can family has been threatened by Slav() and for single persons from of the parity price for corn the agricultural labor shortage to and 3750 $500 mandatory filing Two Amendments Lose were given a new reservoir of exhusreturns of joint income by The amendment sponsored by perienced workers Wednesday bands and wives Senator Richard Russel (D) night The army announced the Other Decisions Japanese first by voice first group of voluntary Georgia was adopted (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Priv? Eight) In other decisions Wednesday Six) (Column (Column Two) the committee increased the pertax from sonal holdingcompany 7112 per cent on the first $2000 of income to 75 per cent and from F23 per cent on all over $2000 to S5 per cent The tax on mutual investment companies was increased from 31 to 40 per cent WASHINGTON May 20 (AP)—Shortages of certain goods The nonresident foreign corporation income tax was raised from available for civilian consumers are expected to result in ration271 to 36 per cent 15 major items within a year well Informed officials said Meantime the treasury revealed ing of the American people poured more Wednesday night however The hint was than $15000000000 into its cofTo administer these programs that some of the dropped catenine general 15 1 to from May fers Ja4uary would enforcement be affected to as the well as job big likely gories from it said government receipts for universal price con- - include many types and subclassi'taxes borrowing and all other- necessary trol the office of price adminis- - fications of goods bringing the sources amounted to $15797000tration contemplates a staff of war home to civilians with comall for 000 a record collection 90000 persons pelling force time a growth necessarily a On the other hand it was cerSuch 53117of Voluntary purchases be- - tam n that some scarce articles 000000 of war savings bonds and rough estimate but one that is budget would not be rationed despite stamps contributed largely to the ing used for preliminary would make Price ing supplies Among these are 1 heavy influx it was stated Administrator Leon Henderson's most of the agency the third largest in the items the production of which has NEW YORK May 20 MP) — government outranked only by been halted to convert plants Mayor F H LaGuardia suggested army and navy workers and materials to arma- to congress Wednesday that any ment production—such things as increases in existing federal taxes 7500 on Payroll radios refrigerators and washing P A now has about 7500 on machines which can be spared for imposed to avoid inflation be made 0 returnable to the taxpayer in post- its payroll in addition to some the war's duration war yearly installments 20000 volunteers on local ration The suggestion was contained in boards Officials said it is not con- - Stoc k s t o Dwindle a letter to Chairman Doughton templated to increase the number These and perhaps certain food ((D)) North Carolina of the house of unpaid workers items like tea probably will be The 15 scarcity items mentioned allowed to dwindle and possibly ways and means committee and members of the committee in were said to include the six al- - disappear entirely from shelves he also expressed feat that ready rationed or about to be: and sales floors Tea sales to which -lasting and irreparable damage" gasoline tires typewriters era have been cut in half a and bicycles trol measure expected to make might be caused if the federal government should reach into present The other nine were kept se- - the large stocks on hand last for sources of municipal revenue cret for officials fear that pre- - many months to come LaGuardia proposed that the mature disclosure of any one of 0 P A does not consider it percentage increase of any exist- them might touch off a buying worth while to set up expensive ing tax imposed to forestall in- wave which would complicate con- - and complicated rationing maflaion "be offset by a return to servation efforts vastly besides chinery for nonessential or luxury the'taxpayer of a nontransferable thwarting the purpose of ration- - items and has contented itself nonassignable nonattachable and ing—which is to guarantee that with price controls which insure remmterest-bearinc erti ficate all shall share alike in the avail- - that a supplies of scarce necessi- - ply situation would not skyrocket payable in yearly installments say twoor three years after the war" ties prices the first bracket but raised controlling tax from 6 to 12 cent Under the revised rates surtaxes would not reach 22 cent until taxable earnings 1 LI Allies--(Officia- l) Methods Price Five Cents rr OHS 0 46HALT Fire Itom - war" Senate Adopts Labor Dearth Compromise Perils Four On Farm Bill States' Crops $1300 and $2000 - Red Army Rolls Slowly on Toward Kharkov f14 1912 F Can Help Most Speaking in the absence of Prime Minister Churchill Sir Stafford Cripps lord privy seal and government leader in the house said that bombing Germany is the best way of assisting Russia "until such time as we are able to make a carefully planned attack upon the continent of Europe which we intend to do" war deConcluding a two-da- y bate Sir Stafford wound up 15 hours of oratory coveHrig almost every aspect of the war and In reply to critics who assailed what they termed Churchill's domination of the nation's war directorate Sir Stafford praised the prime minister as the possessor of unsurpassed experience in his tasks as defense minister Ready to Face Vote The government Sir Stafford said was ready to face a vote of confidence if "any substantial body of members" desired it To critics of Churchill's absence he added that "if any specific case was put down involving a question of confidence in the prime minister then he would take part In the debate" The critics covered a wide field renewing many old grievances laborite Emanuel Shinw el summed up by saying: "I doubt whether any government in 'history has been more often and regularly excused for its war-planni- ng VALLETTA Malta May 20 (Irl —British naval aircraft attacked an axis convoy in the Mediterranean Tuesday night and probably hit a merchant vessel and a destroyer it was announced here failures" Wednesday night Sir Stafford said that Churchill Malta's antiaircraft guns shot he had nothtdown one axis bomber during the was absent because CoutIntaert on Phoze Two) Twos day and damaged tWo others (Column 1 "S W : - 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