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Turn them in clean and 1 - 4414 mated to a Salt Lake school for some child to wear '- ' J4 ??I'-- L's(111ttit&i- The Weather For Salt Lake City and vicinity' Little change in temperature Mon temperature Sun day Maximum day 39-- degrees minimum tern perature 25 degrees (Issued by permission of military authori- - ties) L Vol 146 No 61 Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning December -- 77 -- - 141942 Price Five Cents ' MID I S 1hr New Session 1 Has 'Gifts' in Store for Axis Air Leader War Finance Job Fa"ces Henry H Arnold chief of army air forces who By Associated Press announeAts surprise weapons - WASHLNGTON of development in store for the axis and holds aUId aerial firepower to be reaching its peak Dec 13 -Tinancing the war will be problem No 1 of the new congress convening next month—a congress in which Republicans will speak up in the loudest tones they have been able to utter since the new deal began 'Lawmakers who will stay over for the Seventy-eight- h congress while viewing money matters as the big job ahead were hesitant Sunday to speculate about new tax actions pending the president's budget message There was talk however of a compulsory savings program of ways to put taxpay- coincidentally with enemy sky strength starting on the down grade r4 CleMaWM1 equities Leading Republicans ' Republicans in both houses will have stronger representations on important committees as a result of their party's gains in the No- Democrats Protest 130 Others Taken Apppintmerat Of Home State Foes To Hospitals In Newfound) d ST JOHN' S Newfoundland WASHINGTON Dec 13 (2D—A committee of senate Democrats may carry to President Roosevelt this week an appeal for a greater voice in the selection of local administrative personnel of some of the burgeoning war agencies A decision to take the matter up with the president was reported to have been reached at recent conferences of administration supporters arranged by Senator Gut-fe- y (D) Pennsylvania after protests to Democratic party officials failed to bring any appreciable change in the attitude of agency vember elections Democrats retain control of both the house and senates but the division is more nearly in balance than the first election it ha a been since of President Roosevelt The new senate will have 57 Democrats headst Republicans and one ProgresDernocratic senators complained sive The house will list 222 DemoProto two National Chairman Edward 209 crats Republicans Farmer-Laborit- e e n o J gressives Flynn—and more recently to and one member of the American Secretary-Treasure- r Ed Pau ley of Labor party the Democratic committee and Presidential Secretary Marvin McCall for Adjournment not only had they Intyre—that Leaders called for final adjourn- been ignored in the selection of ment Wednesday of the current local personnel for agencies in decision dooming their states but that in many congress Their important bills was decided upon instances men openly hostile to when it became apparent them had been appointed attendance made furBecause of this situation some dv-indli- that ther legislating impracticable Bark- Senate Majority Leader ley said he believed theofpresident's the war recent reorganization man power commission had eliminated any need for législation on that subject In the new congress but Senator Pepper (D) Florida and others still hold the opinion that congress should provide statutory controls Senator Kilgore (D) West Virginia and others intend to press for establishment of an office of technological mobilization The administration wants a law which would permit the government to establish ceilings on commercial rents and another grantthe R C $5000000000 ad d ing t on al lending authority Oppose Measure Mr Roosevelt's request f o r power to suspend immigration and tariff restrictions during wartime met rough sledding in the present session and may find the going equally difficult in the next A czable number of members of the house ways and means committee oppose granting the executive such blanket authority Lawmakers from farm states plan to continue their fight or inclusion of farm labor costs in the formula - for parity or "fair exchange- prices of agricultural products A bill to that effect passed the house recently but apparently "will die on the senate calendar at the session's end Other controversial issues likely to pop up next year include authorization for the sale to industry of nonmonetary government silver a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax a proposed S300000000 a year appropriation to aid public schools and legis- lstion providing government benefits for civilian victims of enemy strong administration supporters in the senate protested that they were having to bear the burden of public reaction to various price control rationing and labor di- recting programs without having any hand in determining how national policies should be carried out locally ' : '5 attacks B-1- least 110 persons lost their lives Saturday night in a fire which spread with incredible speed through the Knights of Dec 13 ()11-- -At Columbus lodge here where 500 persons were attending a barn Most of the bodies were dance found piled up near the exits where dozens were trampled to death in the rush to escape - hundred thirty other persons were taken to hospitals Many of the dead and injured were One service men Searchers still were combing the debris this afternoon for more bodies believed buried in the h Brooks and Honda fields—Arnold eptimozied his disclosures with this statement: "We'll soon put on a special demonstration for Hitler and Hirohito We don't think that they are going to like it either" Keeps Weapons Secret The general did not amplify his references to secret weapons but it was made in connection with his discussion of new bombers and of present fighters and bombers "steadily increasing in range speed firepower and bomb loads" The standard 80 caliber machine guns of the army planes are "terrific weapons of aerial destruction" and one of the outstanding successes of the war Arnold said but they will "seem like peashooters compared With the fireInto power that we are our newest big ships"putting New developments in cameras and photographic technique he remarked have resulted in increasingly effective photographic reconnaissance on the combat fronts —"our pursuit planes can take good pictures at 300 miles an hour Cram 30000 feet accurately enough to show up individual railroad ties" Axis Heading Downhill Arnold said that preaent production of planes is more than 4000 a month the expansion program will double that rate and that United States production alone is more than the combined output of Germany and Japan "1 tell you now that both the German and Japanese air forces are on the down grade" Arnold continued "They have passed their We are just approaching peak - ruins Anguished relatives and friends area and crowded the roped-o- ff awaited the results of attempts to identify the charred bodies The identity of only a few of the recovered bodies had been eson Page Two) tablished by Sunday afternoon (contlwpd (Column Three) The first warning of the blaze was heard by townspeople at 11 o'clock Saturday night when a radio broadcast from the hall said fire had broken out but was under control Shortly after however the blaze sprang up again and swept RANDOLPH F1ELDTexas Dec through the structure with such speed that by the time firemen 13 bombs which arrived from their station only explode with deadly effectiveness on Pate Five) (Continued (Column Three) just above the ground were first developed and used by the IL S army air forces Lieutenant General Henry H Arnold disclosed Sunday The commanding' general of the air forces told of the bombs in a speech to the graduating classes from four army flying schools mained open to sell magazines "Recently" he said 0 "in the and Sunday papers demanding southwest Pacific light bombers and 8 medium bombeither their favorite newspapers ers attacked Japanese antisiror satisfactory explanations craft positions at Soputa Our The News and Mirror buildplanes roared in at an altitude of ings were thronged by readers 75 feet barely skimming the tree was tops The Jap antiaircraft guns when an announcement made that the papers would be were hidden among those trees but that didn't stop our pilots sold on the premises----tanyone from dropping their parachute but dealers Buyers were limited bombs with deadly effect "Parachute bombs as you know to one copy-eac- h The last time Manhattan are terrifying things They take more time to hit the ground but newspapers were kept out of all of the fragments are thrown general public reach by labor into the air when they burst—few strife was in September 1923 are buried in the ground" when a pressmen's strike halted publication of papers except for combined morning and evening editions which bore the mastheads of all papers Publishers and their representatives declined to comment LONDON Dec 13 (AI — The Immediately on the matter of a Moscow radio said Sunday night strike and officials of the union that more than 100 German offiof which Joseph Simons is presi cers and men were killed when a dent could not be reached The union's contract with the time bomb exploded in the Rex theater in the Boulevard Montcity's dailies expired last July 1 marte In Paris and negotiations have been The broadcast said the theater under way for a new One since The matter of wages was the had been taken over exclusively for German use Issue 'Chute Bombs Useq on Japs Strike Keeps N Y Newspapers From Hands of Readers NEW YORK Dec 13 (iP) — For the first time In nearly two decades the millions of New Yorkers who rely on early editions of the city 's newspapers for their diet of current events were confronted Sunday night by a strike that kept those newspapers out of their hands The first editions of the 'Times the Daily the Herald-Tribun- e News and the Daily Mirror were kept from the newsstands and i- - By Associated Press RANDOLPH F1ELDTexas Dec 13—Lieutenant General Henry H Arnold chief of army air forces disclosed Sunday that "we have a secret weapon or two up our aerial sleeves that will deal paralyzing blows to our enemies" Moreover "entirely new 'battle-wagon- s' are on the way" he reported and recalled that be already had said the present day big bombers of the 7 and B-- 4 type (the Flying Fortresses and Liberators) "were perhaps the last of achools-—Randolp- Senators Seek 110 Revelers Voice in Perish in for Agency Jobs Lodge Blaze think congress and the ReconFinance struction corporation should have firmer control over such agencies as the board of economic warfare headed by Vice President Wallace and Milo Perkins Arnold Predicts Paralyzing Blows to Axis ' the 'small' bombers" Addressing graduating classes of four army flying :o and ing on a of possibly $6000000000 in new taxes Disputes Impend There were prospects too spirited disputes over appropriations Price Administrator Leon Henderson may be caled upon to explain some of his rationing programs to congressmen who believe the restrictionahave brought In- other regular outlets by a strike voted earlier in the day by members of the Newspaper and Mall 1 Deliverers' union an independent organization The union voted to strike at a meeting attended Sunday afternoon by some 2000 men While executives of the publications whose combined daily circulation soar close to the 4000000 mark conferred in an effort to get their papers out throngs of Sunday night revelers rode home on the subways with nothing in the spot news class to read Throngs crowded about the stock-les- s stands which still re - Announces Secret krrilS Lt General Forced Savings Added Taxes Loomon Docket TT77 A-2- B-2- 0 71 ' mo! J Raids on Axisstleld Ports of Bizerte Tunis and Sousse Sink lap Destroyer Associated Press V WASHINGTON Dec 13—American dive bombers and warships sank one Japanese destroyer damaged at least four others and presumably killed hundreds of enemy troops the navy reported Sunday when the Japs undertook last week another desperate sally to strengthen their forces on Guadalcanal island One United States torpedo boat was lost bombed and strafed shore instal-Furtha communique dis- - lations closed army Flying Fortresses The main fighting of the up their offensive against day period in the Solomons began new Munda airfield on at 8 p m Friday when the JapaJapans New Georgia island only 150 miles nese task force consisting of 11 from Guadalcanal was drawing close to destroyers In two days the big planes Guadalcanal Normally the Japs splattered the enemy base with load each destroyer on such a more than 27500 pounds of bombs mission with about 150 men plus that supplies Reports made no menIncluding four tion of transports and the Japs squarely on the flight strip evidently expected as many ships Ship Bombed at Kiska as possible to fight their way The outburst of intense activitly through on their own if necessary around Guadalcanal — unusual since Japan's greatest bid to re- Japs Long Isolated Whether any actually reached conquer the island was smashed in northwestern hump Friday the enemy-hel- d (Solomons island time) At the of the island—where the Japasame time there was a brief flurry nese have been virtually isolated of action in the winter-locke- d north since early November—was not Pacific The communique said known here a naval spokesman three army medium bombers said bombed an alGuadalcanal's Douglas "Daunt(Martin with either ready damaged enemy ship less" dive bombers (Continued on Page Two) aground at Kiska island and (Column One) er two-stepp- ed rs B-26- s) Allies Shell Russians Hurl Back Nazi Jap Bases In Buna Area Counterblows Soviets Report Units Mop Up 250000 Nipponese Stragglers Losses in Drives -10 Allies--(Offi- cial) - By Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Monday Dec 14 —Allied forces poured a continuous torrent of artillery and mortar shells into enemy positions in the Buna area of New Guinea Sunday the high command said Monday American and Australian patrols meanwhile were mopping up Japanese stragglers west of Gona which the allies occupied several days ago Fighting planes bombed and strafed the enemy throughout Sunday the Monday communique said and an allied reconnaissance unit shot down two Japanese fighters which attempted an interception Installations at Salamaua Jap- anese base some 125 miles north of Duna were attacked in a night raid The text of the communique: Northwestern sector: Activity limited to reconnaissance only Northeastern sector — New Guinea — Duna area: Continuous artillery and mortar fire maintained on enemy positions Our patrols are mopping up enemy stragglers west of Gona Our air force bombed and strafed the enemy throughout the day An allied reconnaissance unit shot down two enemy fighters attempting an in- terception Salamaua: Our medium bombers raided enemy installations during the night 0-- - Axis Russia—(Official) By Associated Press MOSCOW Monday Dec 14 — Powerful and repeated counterattacks by a "considerable force" of axis soldiers south of Stalingrad were hurled back Sunday t h e Russians announced early Monday as the red army drove forward its twin winter offensives which in 25 days have cost the axis nearly 250000 men killed or captured Northwest of Stalingrad where 300000 German solapproximately diers are now reported trapped by the soviets the Russians said their men have captured "several impor- tant strategic heights" On the central front the midnight communique acknowledged a German battalion in the Velikle Luki area had pressed the red army back "slightly" but said that the enemy was surrounded by a skilful maneuver and "fighting now is proceeding for its annihilation" West of Rzhev the Russians said three counterattacks by a German regiment with a large group of tanks were hurled back and 400 of the enemy were killed The going admittedly had become increasingly difficult because of the weather and violent counterattacks by heavily reinforced and nazi units rushed up by air transport and over the numerous rail lines held by the enemy Frontline dispatches presented a grim spectacle of Russians advanc(well-equippe- Conttrued d it Pane Two (Column Five) In Paris Bombing General Arnold Releases Aerial Combat Box Score RANDOLPH FIELD Texas Dec 13 (UP)—Box scores of aerial combat as reported Sunday by Lieutenant General Henry H Arnold commander of the U S American-axi- s army air forces: (All theaters of war from Feb 1 through Dec Probably Missing Destroyed Destroyed 104 130 U S army planes 928 276 All axis plums (European theater from Dec 7 1941 to Nov 32 IL S army planes 192 150 293 German planes 5 1942) Total 234 1204 SO 1942) 32 635 Allies--(Official)- --By Petain Agrees To Raise French Army Move Ties Vichy Still Closer To Third Reich LONDON Dec 13 CIII—Marshal Henri Petain has agreed to Hitler's proposal to raise a new French army the Vichy and Berlin radios announced Sunday as the Fighting French in London reported the nazi fuehrer had ordered 400000 French workers conscripted for war work in Germany Both steps indicated further and closer cooperation between Germany and the French government of Petain and Pierre Laval The Fighting French here said that in return for the workers Hitler promised to free an unspecified number of French prisoners of war The Vichy radio said that Petain in a letter to Hitler declared: "My first duty Is to reconstitute an Army capable of- insuring the safety of France and her colonial empire" and that retain could o 100 Nazis Killed Associated Press LONDON Monday Dec it—Marshal Rommel has been driven from his positions at El Agheila under a smashing British offensive' and is in headlong flight to the west it was announced early Monday after a week end in which American Fortress bombers unleashed the heaviest aerial assaults of the entire Tunisian campaign on the axis-hel- d harbors of Bizerte Tunis and Sousse A brief announcement in Cairo ow-- 4- 100- 6- Australian I "only bow to the decisions" that forced the German occupation of all of France Petain's letter replied to one Hitler wrote him November 27 when the Germans seized Toulon and the French scuttled part of their fleet At that time Hitler said: "I sincerely hope it will be possible to give back to France an army whose officers at least obey the chief of state" Petain the broadcasts said n agspoke of the North AfFrench gression against rica and the treason of certain commanders" that caused the occupation of all of France and disarmament of the remainder of the French army "Anglo-America- Darlan Asks Moslems' Aid ALGIERS Dec 13 UPI—Admiral Jean Dar lan appealed by radio' to the Moslems of north Africa Sunday to join the allies in teeir fight against the axis and to help deliver Tunisia and Libya from "hated Italian domination" "After hard fighting of which the issue now is certain the allied armies will deliver our friends in Tunisia from Italian domination and throw them and their German masters into the sea" said the former chief of the French navy LONDON Dec 13 (A'—Laborite Emanuel Shinwell who had been one of the most vociferous parliamentary critics of Admiral Jean Dar Ian's regime in north Africa indicated Sunday that Price Mind ister Churchill's explanation of the situation during secret sessions of the house of commons last Thursday was satisfactory "Dar Ian is not going to reign in north Africa nor anywhere else— he is an expedient" he said : -- IN t 4' disclosed that Rommel's meia were forced out of their stronghold at El Agheila less than-40miles south and east of Tripoli Rommel's main African base Tripoli itself is about 500 miles along the coast from Tunis one of the objectives of the British and American armies in Tunisia The official announcement in Cairo said: "Rommel has been driven out from his strong positions at EL Agheila afid is in retreat to the west" Timed to Coincide The tremendous American bombing assault in Tunisia apparently was timed with the resumption of the British drive in Libya It was noted that the British and American aerial chieftains on the Libyan and Tunisian fronts conferred 'several days ago The fortress bombers put on the pressure in Tunisia Saturday with raids on Tunis German accounts said the British launched their awaited offensive against El Agheila Saturday Then the Fortresses teamed wills Billy Mitchell bombers Sunday and raided Bizerte and Tunis again and brought Sousse under their bombsights dispatches from north Africa saki One enemy ship was sunk and roaring fires were set amidst the docks and warehouses of the three ports The bombing force Sunday was the largest ever to participate in a raid on the axis in Tunisia Many flits Scored "Many hits" were scored on docks and warehouses at Bizerte by the Fortresses an allied spokesman said Other Fortress bombers sank a supply ship and blasted the waterfront at Tunis while t h e Mitchell bombers raided Sousse harbor 75 miles south of Tunis in the face of heavy antiaircraft fire In another raid Martin bombers attacked a raaroad bridge northwest of Sfax Allied headquarters reports earlier said that in the terrific assault Saturday Fortress bombers scored telling blows setting aflame an area 10 blocks long and two blocks wide in the dock and warehouse district of Tunis which was again raided Sunday CAIRO Egypt Monday Dec14 GP—The British Eighth army tuts resumed its big western offensive and driven Marshal Erwin Rom- me! from his strongly-hel- d bastion at El Agheila and the axis forces in Libya are in flight to the west it was officially announced Monday The British smashing toward Tripoli and Tunisia to meet alliod forces driving eastward from Algeria thus for the first time in the fluctuating campaigns in Libya have pushed beyond El Agheila The axis twice before has halted Its headlong flight there rested and thrown back the British An official announcement said: "Rommel has been 'driven out from his strong positions at El Agheila and is in retreat to the - west" Long Lull Broken Other than this bulletin rasued 1 a m there was no news available here of the action which broke the three-wee- k lull on the Libyan front at The official announcement was the first British confirmation of German broadcasts Sunday that the British Eighth army had begun its expected offensive against Rommel at El Agheila LONDON Dec 13 Later the Berlin radio reported who were interned In Belgium when the United States entered the that the British had penetrated war have been transferred to Ger- positions "far to the south" in the Agheila line many's internment camp No 7Bel-an El Rommel thus was fleeing once ancient Episcopal chateau the the stand he 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